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Thomas Paine

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

Saturday, March 31, 2012

31 March - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

IranIran (Photo credit: pixelatedsass)
Kharanaq old city, Iran. Ελληνικά: Παλιά πόλη ...Kharanaq old city, Iran. Ελληνικά: Παλιά πόλη Καρανάκ, Ιράν. Français : La vieille ville de Kharanaq, en Iran. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Cycle of pulsed gamma rays from the Vela pulsa...Cycle of pulsed gamma rays from the Vela pulsar. Constructed from photons detected by Fermi's Large Area Telescope. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Rebels March Into New Libya With a Hangover
    A few hundred police cadets in ad hoc camouflage uniforms march up and down the grounds at a training centre in the coastal town Zawiyah. "You are the people protecting the revolution and symbol of our pride," proclaims the scrawled writing on the wall behind them.
  • Caribbean Private Sector Lags in Exploiting EU ...
    When Europe signed an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the Caribbean Forum countries in 2008, the intention was to boost trade and services between the two regions.
  • New Generation Protests Crimes of Brazil's Dic ...
    Outside the Military Club in Rio de Janeiro, where a commemoration of the anniversary of the 1964 coup d'état was being held, hundreds of demonstrators, many of them teenagers, shouted slogans and threw eggs at arriving members in protest.
  • U.S.: Forming Coalitions, Tea Party Continues ...
    In the three years since its inception, the Tea Party has cemented its place in U.S. politics, routinely making waves in political races of national interest. At the same time, some local Tea Party groups are beginning to build post-partisan coalitions that are both surprising and counterint ...
  • Displaced Guatemalan Peasants Demand Answers
    "We want land where we can live and grow food to feed ourselves," said Pedro Ichich, one of several thousand indigenous farmers who marched to the Guatemalan capital to demand solutions to the ageold conflict over land.

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Could bombing Iran push it to build the Bomb?
    Summary: Pre-emptive military strikes aimed at forcing Iran to abandon its nuclear activities may end up having the opposite effect: convincing the Islamic Republic's leaders they need an atomic arsenal to secure their hold on power. source: Reutersread more
  • Qatar opposes attack on Iran: PM
    Summary: Qatar's Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem Al-Thani has said his country, which hosts the US Central Command, would oppose any military attack against Iran. source: AFPread more
  • BRICS refuses to side with US in showdown with ...
    Summary: India and China have defiantly declared their intention to continue trading with Iran, rebuffing US attempts to force them and other countries to cut economic ties with Tehran over its nuclear programme. source: The Economic Timesread more
  • OIL FUTURES: Crude Falls In Asia; Iran, West A ...
    Summary: Crude-oil futures fell Wednesday in Asia as the U.S. dollar strengthened and concerns about a supply disruption eased after reports that Iranian and Western leaders will meet for negotiations next month. source: The Wall Street Journalread more
  • Iran says nuclear talks to resume on April 13
    Summary: Long-stalled talks between Iran and world powers are to be revived on April 13 at a place yet to be agreed, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi announced on Wednesday. source: AFPread more

The Daily Galaxy

  • Today's Hot Tech News Video from IDG--Top Righ ...
    Today's hot tech news from IDG News Service (publishers of PC World, MacWorld, and Computerworld). 'The Daily Galaxy' content on the discoveries, people and events changing our planet and our knowledge of the Universe is brought to you daily by...
  • NASA: "Goldilocks Planet Will Be Found Within ...
    Certainly you remember the story of Goldilocks and the tree bears told to you as a child by a knowing adult? What does a fairy tale have to do with Space exploration? As the numbers mount, it seems to be...
  • The Earth Before Oxygen --Bacteria Thrived
    Microfossils found in Australia show that more than 3.4 billion years ago, bacteria that fed on sulphur compounds to survive, thrived on an Earth that had no oxygen --a finding that boosts hopes life has existed on Mars and elsewhere,...
  • NewsAlert: Physicists Gain Insights Into New S ...
    Physicists at the University of California, San Diego discovered the phenomena that underlie the formation of spontaneous coherence of excitons is certain to produce a better scientific understanding of this new state of matter. It will also add new insights...
  • Cosmic Rays Zapping South Pole -- "From the Ne ...
    The stunning image above from the orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory is the Vela pulsar -- the collapsed stellar core within the Vela supernova remnant. The Vela pulsar is a neutron star. More massive than the Sun, it has the density...

Natural News

  • The cycle of stupid: How it is destroying huma ...
    Day in and day out the inhabitants of lonely planet earth kill, maim, conspire, steal, abuse, violate, destroy, poison, fight and, well, hurt each other's feelings. It is a wonder that we - a socially constrained pack of wild animals - survive. We may not survive in...
  • Juicing cannabis miraculously saves lives afte ...
    At 16, Kristen Peskuski was suffering from joint inflammation and an array of autoimmune conditions which made her organs and other tissues swell, including interstitial cystitis and lupus. She was prescribed over 40 different anti-inflammatory, antibiotic and painkilling...
  • Florida mom suing hospital after nurse severs ...
    When Veronica Olguin brought her then three-month-old daughter Selena to the hospital back in October to be treated for a high fever and bronchitis, she had no idea that the young girl would end up leaving with nine fingers instead of ten. WTSP 10 News in Tampa, Fla...
  • With grocery prices rising faster than restaur ...
    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...
  • Confirmed: Michigan pig ban will eliminate all ...
    As many NaturalNews readers now know, the state of Michigan's Department of Natural Resources (DNR) recently issued a final ruling on its invasive species order (ISO) for swine that targets destructive "feral" species for elimination across the state. But what many people...

Threat Level

  • Megaupload User Demands Return of Seized Content
    An Ohio man is asking a Virginia federal judge to preserve data on the 66.6 million users of Megaupload, the file-sharing service that was shuttered in January due to federal criminal copyright infringement indictments targeting its operators.
  • Hackers Breach Credit Card Processor; 50K Card ...
    Global Payments Inc, an Atlanta-based processor, has been breached by hackers, leaving more than 50,000 card accounts potentially compromised.
  • Megaupload Drops Universal Lawsuit to Focus on ...
    Embattled Megaupload is dropping its lawsuit against Universal Music accusing the label of unlawfully removing from YouTube a four-minute video Megaupload produced featuring Kanye West, Mary J. Blige, will.i.am and others praising the notorious file-sharing service. In dropping the suit, Megaupl ...
  • Politically Motivated Border Searches Could Be ...
    An outspoken supporter of WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning has won the right to sue the federal government over a border search-and-seizure that agents conducted in 2010 after his return to the U.S. from a Mexico vacation.
  • Satellite-TV Hacking Allegations Return for Mu ...
    It's been four years since Rupert Murdoch's NDS Group was largely cleared in a civil lawsuit charging that the company employed satellite-TV hackers to sabotage rival companies. Now the allegations have surfaced again, this time with internal e-mails allegedly documenting a coordinated scheme to ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Republicans Forget When George Loved Vladimir
    Following their mid-term landslide in late 2010, emboldened Senate Republicans led by leaders Mitch McConnell and Jon Kyl almost scuttled the START treaty with Russia, a pact which enjoyed overwhelming support from the public and every living Republican secretary of state. So, when President Oba ...
  • Will the Supreme Court End Republicans' Privat ...
    After another bad day for the Affordable Care Act at the Supreme Court, voices across the political spectrum are already pondering life after death for health care reform. Conservative Ross Douthat and liberal James Carville agree that overturning the ACA will help President Obama get reelected ...
  • Romney's Number One Enemies List is a Long One
    On Monday, GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney blasted President Obama's open mic comment to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that he'll have more "flexibility" to deal with issues like missile defense after the November election. Predictably, a "disturbed" Romney denounced Obama's remark as "alarming ...
  • Mitt Romney, Cowardly Lyin'
    That Mitt Romney will lie about anything - no matter how major or mundane - is virtually taken for granted by the press and the public alike. Steve Benen has created a cottage industry cataloguing Romney's lies, an encyclopedic task now up to Volume XI. As Jonathan Chait explained, there's eve ...
  • Ryancare and Obamacare Both Require Individual ...
    As the Supreme Court this week begins to consider the fate of the two-year old Affordable Care Act (ACA), ironies abound. For starters, while health care is worst in Republican red states, its improvement will be underwritten by blue state taxpayers. The virtually identical law in Massachusett ...

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TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Fracking Update: Two Investigations Give ‘OK’ ...
    Two Separate Investigations: A  major review of hydraulic fracturing studies, completed last month by UT researchers, found “no direct evidence” that the natural gas drilling process known as ‘fracking’ contaminates groundwater. A second investigation by the EPA of sites ...
  • Rhino Crisis Round Up: South Africa Death Toll ...
    The latest figures released by the South African Government Department of Environmental Affairs are grim: 150 rhinos have been slaughtered since the beginning of 2012. According the statement, more than half (87) of the rhinos were killed in South Africa’s famed Kruger National Park, and ...
  • Congressman Gets Climate Activist Placed in So ...
      This is one of those absurd stories that make you wonder what planet you live on. The injustice and cruelty in this story is mind-boggling. Here’s what I’m talking about, from the folks at Tim DeChristopher’s organization, Peaceful Uprising: (Download a PDF of our press ...
  • New IPCC Report on Managing the Risks of Extre ...
      The IPCC has a big new report out. Given that we have locked ourselves into some pretty concerning weather and ‘natural disasters’ for the decades to come, and also don’t seem real gung-ho about stopping even more considerable human catastrophe from global warming and c ...
  • Carbon Bubble = $20 Trillion (According to For ...
      “Randy Wray has described the current state of the commodities market as the biggest speculative bubble of all time, but the carbon bubble is even greater. In order to avoid catastrophic global warming, the Carbon Tracker Initiative found, we need to keep 80 percent of known carbo ...

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Axis of Logic

  • FDA Deletes 1 Million Signatures for GMO Label ...
    While the Food and Drug Administration has seemingly reached the limit for unbelievable behavior, the company’s decisions continue to astound and appall consumers and health activists alike. In the agency’s latest decision, undoubtedly amazing thousands of individuals yet again, the FDA v ...
  • Eurozone crisis live: Violence in Barcelona am ...
    8.45pm: With Spain (and London!) now in darkness, it's time for a summary of the day's events. Spain's first general strike for 18 months has been well-supported, as citizens protest against the government's labour reforms and austerity plans. Protests began early, with demonst ...
  • Global civilization: The options - How do we r ...
    Reporter: “What do you think of Western civilization, Mr. Gandhi?” Mohandas Gandhi: “I think it would be a good idea.”   The quote is probably apocryphal, but if the Mahatma didn’t say it, he should have.   Now we have something close to a global civilization: most of the world’s...
  • China's impending crash - World News
    Nobody knows what will happen in China when growth stops, and unemployment soars, but the communist regime is clearly frightened of the answer. Building a skyscraper is the ultimate expression of economic confidence, and more than half of the 124 skyscrapers under construction in the world ...
  • Alain Juppé accused by his own Administration ...
    Editor's Comment: It's rather obvious that Eric Chevallier, French Ambassador to Syria, has been reporting the truth of what he sees happening in the US/Euro assault on Syria under the pretext of "another Arab uprising for democracy." It's also obvious that Sarkozy's minister, Alain Juppé, is wo ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Go Dark for Earth Hour Tonight
    By @KYYellowDog C'mon, it's just an hour. Turn it off, go outside, and count the stars. For the fourth consecutive year, Governor Steve Beshear and First Lady Jane Beshear have pledged to participate in the international "Earth Hour," sponsored by the World Wildlife Federation. Earth Hour is in ...
  • Seeking Health Care Earns Death By Taser
    By @KYYellowDog The latest taser outrage via @by PZ Myers: Here's how it's going to work. You're a 68 year old black man with a serious heart condition, and a medic alert bracelet, just in case. You accidentally press it one night. Don't expect an ambulance with EMTs. The police will come to you ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    By @BG & @YD We've long suspected that common sense was a punishable offense. A video posted to YouTube shows a Texas cop moonlighting at a Wal-Mart brandishing his TASER at a group of black men then threatening to arrest them for cowering from the weapon. The more we learn about George Zimmerma ...
  • "We the People" and other things that aren't true
    By @TedFrier According to a recent study by the University of California, 93% of income growth since the economic collapse of 2008 has gone to the wealthiest 1% of American households, while everyone else has had to fight over the remaining 7%. As early as the early 1990s, the amount of national ...
  • Songs to Fight the Plutocracy By: "Days Like T ...
    By @KYYellowDog Because if the repugs prevail in even one house of Congress this fall, the Reagan/Thatcher years will seem like paradise in comparison. Uploaded by greatprotestsongs on Feb 26, 2011 From Great Political Songs: This is a most poignant critique of the Thatcherite right-wing Conserv ...

Care 2

  • Pollution threatens South America's Lake Titicaca
    Growing urbanization is threatening Lake Titicaca along the Boliva-Peru border, and endangering those who depend on it for agriculture and drinking water. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • U.S. tightens oil sanctions on Iran
    President Obama ratcheted up the pressure on Iran Friday, deciding to implement previously announced sanctions that will be the toughest to date. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • TAKE ACTION NOW! Indonesian Oil Palm Fires ...
    The Tripa swamp rainforest in Aceh, Indonesia home to one of the most densely populated remaining groups of wild orangutans in the world is ablaze as palm oil companies rush to clear forests before a court case stops their plantation expansion. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals  |& ...
  • Live Web Cam Humminbirds!
    Link to Phoebe Allens web cam where there is a new chick and an egg ready to hatch! Submitted by Nancy C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Rainforest Action Network ACTION
    Action Page with Today's Action:Stop the fires in Indonesia and save Sumatran orangutans Tell the president of Indonesia to stop palm oil companies from burning the Tripa forest of Sumatracritical habitat for endangered orangutans. Submitted by Nancy C. to Environment  |&nbsp ...

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No Quarter

  • Did Obama Sandbag Israel’s War Plans?
    Let’s hope so. The media and blogosphere are alive today with speculation that the Obama Administration leaked information about Israel’s covert efforts to use Azerbaijan as a staging base for an impending attack on Iran. The Christian Science Monitor reports on the story that first ...
  • Keith Olbermann, Fired Again! [Updated] + Open ...
    So reports Fox News. And Eliot Spitzer is taking Olbermann’s time slot on Current TV at 5 p.m. ET, which I like since Spitzer is a brainy guy whose prosecutor background makes him an aggressive reporter. [Update: Read Olbermann's post below.] “Current TV said Friday afternoon that it ...
  • If Not Now When?
    Now that most people seem convinced that Mitt Romney will be the nominee for the GOP there is lots of talk circulating/speculating about who he will choose as a running mate. The consensus seems to be that it will be Marco Rubio. I like Senator Rubio.  I think he will do well in the Senate [...]
  • An Obama Second Term? What of Romney’s Challenges?
    On Thursday, Fox’s Special Report panel proclaimed the primaries in effect over as they analyzed the endorsements of Mitt Romney by Florida’s Mark Rubio and President George H.W. Bush. The panel noted the endorsements came on the heels of Obama’s “hot mic” gaffe &#8 ...
  • Obama’s Economic Malaise
    Bad news for PPAA, Win43 and all of the other Obama Zombies–the weak economic recovery is faltering and worse is to come. Let me start with a personal anecdote. A friend of mine who still lives in the People’s Republic of Maryland is having a very difficult time trying to refinance h ...

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • Mark Ruffalo Addresses Fracking On 'Colbert Re ...
    Mark Ruffalo Addresses Fracking On 'Colbert Report' Interview (VIDEO) Huffington Post Appearing on the "Colbert Report" this week, Ruffalo discussed what he sees as one of the biggest problems associated with fracking, mountaintop removal coal mining and the extraction of Canad ...
  • Bo Webb: Fed court ruling on MTR mining danger ...
    Bo Webb: Fed court ruling on MTR mining dangerous Charleston Gazette But, as a witness to the consequences of mountaintop removal, I can only view this ruling as a cold shoulder, a failure to acknowledge those who live (and die) in mountaintop removal communities. In spite of present and growing ...
  • EPA should appeal federal decision to allow MT ...
    Charleston Gazette EPA should appeal federal decision to allow MTR in Logan County MU The Parthenon By The Parthenon Last week, a federal judge in Washington, DC ruled that a permit issued by the Environmental Protection Agency in 2007 to not allow mountaintop removal in Logan County was unconst ...
  • Big setback for mountaintop mining critics - i ...
    RollingStone.com Big setback for mountaintop mining critics iWatch News A mountaintop removal mining site at Kayford Mountain, W.Va. with Coal River Mountain, left, in the background. Jeff Gentner/AP file By Jim Morris In a corner of Appalachia where the tops of coal-rich mountains are lopped of ...
  • Mountaintop removal ban killed in Tennessee Ho ...
    Deseret News Mountaintop removal ban killed in Tennessee House Elizabethton Star By AP NASHVILLE (AP) — A House subcommittee Tuesday killed a bill seeking to ban mountaintop removal coal mining in Tennessee. The House Conservation Subcommittee voted 6-4 to send the measure sponsored by Rep. Mike ...

Memeorandum

  • Obama Campus Fervor Losing to Apathy as Studen ...
    Andrew Theen / Bloomberg: Obama Campus Fervor Losing to Apathy as Students Sour on 2012  —  On election night 2008, freshman Meagan Cassidy left Lake Forest College and hopped a train to Chicago to celebrate Barack Obama's impending victory.  —  “There was ...
  • Federal court strikes down parts of collective ...
    host.madison.com: Federal court strikes down parts of collective bargaining law  —  MORE (2)  —  A federal judge on Friday upheld most of Gov. Scott Walker's controversial collective bargaining law, but struck down key parts of it by ruling that the state cannot ...
  • General Motors Decides Climate Change Is Real, ...
    The Huffington Post: General Motors Decides Climate Change Is Real, Pulls Support From Heartland Institute … FOLLOW:  —  Climate Change, Cars, Cars, Cars, Heartland Institute, Dan Akerson, Daniel Souweine, Forecast The Future, Heartland Institute Leaked Documents, Busi ...
  • California state colleges weigh asking student ...
    Larry Gordon / Los Angeles Times: California state colleges weigh asking students about sexual orientation  —  The voluntary poll would come in response to a law that seeks to gauge the size of LGBT populations and whether they are being adequately served.  But some questio ...
  • Copyright stagnation - Paul Heald demonstrated ...
    Eric Crampton / offsettingbehaviour.blogspot.co.nz: Copyright stagnation  —  Paul Heald demonstrated the effect of the stagnant US copyright wall in seminar at Canterbury last week.  —  Recall that books published through 1922 are in the public domain in the US; ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Why true leaders make us uneasy
    Creative solutions come when we are forced outside our comfort zones. The trick is to learn to force ourselves, writes John Elkington.You know the feeling. The elevator doors are closing behind you and suddenly you are alone with someone you have long wanted to meet and influence. How to connect ...
  • New nuclear spring for China?
    One year after Fukushima stalled its nuclear programme, the Chinese government is preparing to restart the engine. Feng Jie reports. During China’s parliamentary season this month, the government put out a number of signals that the moratorium on approving new nuclear-power plants may ...
  • Behind Myanmar’s suspended dam (2)
    China’s resolve not to interfere in its neighbour’s “internal affairs" rings hollow: the country has played a formative role in Burmese history, writes Qin Hui.Everything I heard in Myanmar pointed to a failure to consult as the key issue in the furore surrounding the Myit ...
  • Behind Myanmar’s suspended dam (3)
    In a region scarred by violent conflict and rife with distrust of China, the investment risks are plain. Qin Hui concludes his three-part analysis of the fate of the Myitsone dam.Members of the Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO) and many other Kachins – including former communists &nda ...
  • Behind Myanmar’s suspended dam (1)
    After the decision to shelve a China-funded hydropower plant on the Irrawaddy River caused uproar in Beijing, Qin Hui set off south to learn about the project and its opponents. He opens a three-part article.On a recent trip to Myanmar – also known as Burma – my eyes were opened to t ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Racial and Religious Profiling: What will be t ...
    By Priya Murthy, Policy Director of South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT), The last ten years have been needlessly difficult for South Asians living in New York. South Asians, and in particular, Sikhs and Muslims, have faced ten years of profiling, ten years of negative encounters with ...
  • George Zimmerman, the Murder of Trayvon Martin ...
    If there is a version of Godwin’s law for discussing African American slavery and the Black Holocaust I always try to step delicately around it. Far too often words such as “lynching,” “racism,” “field negro,” “house negro,” “plant ...
  • Exposed: Massive New Spy Center Built to Track ...
    An investigative reporter reveals that the NSA has established listening posts throughout the nation to collect and sift through billions of email messages and phone calls.
  • How Activists Are Striking Back Against Drone ...
    An excerpt from Medea Benjamin's new book, "Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control," published by OR Books.
  • Bob Casey Versus the Rights of Women
    Written by Kate Michelman for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. It seems a lifetime ago that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Griswold v Connecticut that a Connecticut law prohibiting the use of c ...

Threat Level

  • Megaupload User Demands Return of Seized Content
    An Ohio man is asking a Virginia federal judge to preserve data on the 66.6 million users of Megaupload, the file-sharing service that was shuttered in January due to federal criminal copyright infringement indictments targeting its operators.
  • Hackers Breach Credit Card Processor; 50K Card ...
    Global Payments Inc, an Atlanta-based processor, has been breached by hackers, leaving more than 50,000 card accounts potentially compromised.
  • Megaupload Drops Universal Lawsuit to Focus on ...
    Embattled Megaupload is dropping its lawsuit against Universal Music accusing the label of unlawfully removing from YouTube a four-minute video Megaupload produced featuring Kanye West, Mary J. Blige, will.i.am and others praising the notorious file-sharing service. In dropping the suit, Megaupl ...
  • Politically Motivated Border Searches Could Be ...
    An outspoken supporter of WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning has won the right to sue the federal government over a border search-and-seizure that agents conducted in 2010 after his return to the U.S. from a Mexico vacation.
  • Satellite-TV Hacking Allegations Return for Mu ...
    It's been four years since Rupert Murdoch's NDS Group was largely cleared in a civil lawsuit charging that the company employed satellite-TV hackers to sabotage rival companies. Now the allegations have surfaced again, this time with internal e-mails allegedly documenting a coordinated scheme to ...

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    Visit the website of One Society which works in partnership with The Equality Trust. One Society draws on a wealth of research which shows that large divides in income at the top and bottom of society – beyond ‘proportional rewards’ – are damaging to our economy and society, not just for those ...
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PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • Flushing New York Tofu Linked to Two Botulism ...
    The New York City Health Department is investigating one confirmed and one suspect case of botulism, a rare but serious foodborne illness caused by an extremely potent toxin. Both patients are Chinese-speaking Queens residents and had recently purchased unrefrigerated fresh bulk tofu from the s ...
  • Beware of Little Turtles with Salmonella
    CDC reports today: • A total of 66 persons infected with outbreak strains of Salmonella Sandiego, Salmonella Pomona, and Salmonella Poona have been reported from 16 states. • The number of ill persons identified in each state is as follows: Arizona (2), California (8), Georgia (1), I ...
  • Botulism, Listeria and Scombrotoxin Risk at Bl ...
    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, in a complaint filed by the Department of Justice, is seeking to stop the processing and distribution of fish products at Blue Ocean Smokehouse because of a risk of botulism and other food hazards. If granted, the permanent injunction against Fujino Enterp ...
  • Easter Warning - Watch Out for Chicks and Duck ...
    Ready for Easter our feed store is well stocked with chicks and ducklings for the Easter Bunny to deliver. They should come, however, with a warning. If you touch them, wash your hands. Remember, that back in October 2011, a total of 68 individuals infected with the outbreak strain of Salmone ...
  • Easter Warning - Watch Out for Chicks and Duck ...
    Ready for Easter our feed store is well stocked with chicks and ducklings for the Easter Bunny to deliver. They should come, however, with a warning. If you touch them, wash your hands. Remember, that back in October 2011, a total of 68 individuals infected with the outbreak strain of Salmone ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Spy Shots: Fisker Nina caught peeking out befo ...
    Filed under: Spy Photos, Hybrid, Sedan, Paris Motor Show, Fisker, Electric Who wants to wait until the official unveiling of the Fisker Nina plug-in hybrid next week when we can see spy shots right this second? Neither do we. So, what do the shots reveal? For starters, we can see that the ...
  • Motorsports: Monster Tajima to tackle Pikes Pe ...
    Filed under: Motorsports, Electric This year, Pikes Peak will, once again, be crawling with electric vehicles. Mitsubishi will be there with its i-MiEV-based racer, and the Pikes Peak EV Challenge Committee has just announced it will bring a new all-electric car to scale the 14,110-foot peak in ...
  • Despite rumors, Volvo not ceasing electric C30 ...
    Filed under: Plants/Manufacturing, Hatchback, Volvo, Electric Dutch website NU recently reported that Volvo expects low demand for its C30 Electric, and therefore it decided to stop building the mostly electric car (it has a small, ethanol-burning heater to keep passengers warm). The original ...
  • Teased: Fisker teases Nina plug-in hybrid, ful ...
    Filed under: New York Auto Show, Hybrid, Sedan, Fisker, Design/Style, Electric, Luxury There's not a whole lot to say about the Fisker Nina teaser image that the company just dropped into our inboxes, it's largely just a way to say the real thing will be unveiled at the New York Auto Show in a ...
  • Miami Toyota dealer tacks $7,000 onto price of ...
    Filed under: Car Buying, Budget, Hybrid, Hatchback, Toyota, Earnings/Financials A Twitter user with the handle miami4me2c discovered something interesting at a Toyota dealer in Miami and thankfully shared pictures of this unusual Prius C Two window sticker. Remember, the base Prius C starts ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • General Strike in Spain: Report From Madrid On ...
    Workers in Spain staged a general strike Thursday, shutting down factories and parts of the transportation sector and holding massive marches. The strike was called by two major trade unions to protest labor rules that make it less costly for employers to hire and fire people in a country where ...
  • Part 2: Ousted Maldives President Mohamed Nash ...
    We continue our interview with ousted Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed and ask him if he plans to seek office again. "I will contest the coming elections," Nasheed says, noting that, "if the coup was so popular, we would have seen people coming out, rejoicing with the military. ...
  • Listen: 1997 Interview with Poet Adrienne Rich ...
    Poet, essayist and feminist Adrienne Rich died on Tuesday at the age of 82. Rich drew widespread acclaim for her many volumes of poetry and prose, which brought the oppression of women and lesbians into the public spotlight. She was a key figure in the women’s movement and an uncompromisi ...
  • Forget Fear of Flying, Fear Airport Screening
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan There was terror in the skies this week over Texas, caused not by a terrorist but by a pilot—a Flight Standards captain, no less. JetBlue Airways Capt. Clay Osbon, flying Flight 191 from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport to Las Vegas, began m ...
  • Part 2: Ahmed Rashid on U.S. Relations with Pa ...
    We continue our discussion with veteran Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid, whose new book details clandestine talks between the U.S. and the Taliban, the Obama administration’s expanded use of drones and the accompanying rise in civilian deaths, and how more "physical harm is now com ...

Suzie-Q

  • Obama Campaign Seeks Romney Tax Returns
    WSJ POLITICS Updated March 29, 2012, 9:42 p.m. ET BY MARK MAREMONT President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign called on Republican front-runner Mitt Romney to release his tax returns dating back to the 1980s, to see if they contain information about an uncommon investment arrangement at ...
  • George Galloway wins Bradford West byelection
    Respect candidate takes seat from Labour with 10,140 majority, claiming ‘the most sensational victory in British political history’ Patrick Wintour, political editor | The Guardian | Friday 30 March 2012   George Galloway, the leading figure in Respect, has grabbed a r ...
  • Mitt Romney Thinks Closing Michigan Factories ...
    By Eclectablog on March 28, 2012in Michigan, Mitt Romney Oh, now THAT is funny. Not. Mitt “I’m-a-Michigander-through-and-though” Romney barely got his foot out of his mouth before he stuck the other one back in today. This time it was to have a good belly laugh at the expense of — wait for it — ...
  • Bain Gave Staff Way to Swell IRAs by Investing ...
    WSJ Updated March 28, 2012, 10:09 p.m. ET By MARK MAREMONT Just after Philippe Wells took a job in 1998 at Bain Capital, then run by Mitt Romney, he recalls hearing an unusual boast from a partner. The man’s individual retirement account had jumped tenfold in five years. Mr. Wells soon lea ...
  • Romney Wants Insurance Companies To Be Able To ...
    3/28/12 Last night on the Jay Leno show, Mitt Romney said he wants insurance companies to be able to deny coverage to people with pre-existing conditions. http://www.nbc.com/the-tonight-show/video/mitt-romney-part-2-32712/1393112 Before the Affordable Care Act: Insurance companies could deny cov ...

Solari

  • Newborn Seized in Hospital by Police, Social W ...
    By Michael P. Farris, Esq. I am not content to sit on the sidelines while the government gradually usurps the very essence of parental rights. I hope you share my determination. We need to stand with people like Scott and Jodi Ferris (obviously no relation to someone named Farris). Here’s their ...
  • Quote du Jour
    Forest Wander
  • Transcript of the 3.22.12 Solari Report &#8220 ...
    A transcript of the March 22, 2012 Solari Report on Creating Liquidity in Your Neighborhood & Networks with Thomas H. Greco, Jr. is now available to Solari Report Subscribers! From the transcript: Catherine: We entitled our discussion tonight “Creating Liquidity in Our Neighborhoods and Netw ...
  • New Jobs Act Offers Substantial Regulatory Rel ...
    By Attorney Michael T. Dunn On March 27, 2012, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to approve the version of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (the “JOBS Act”) that was passed by the Senate on March 22, and President Obama has confirmed that he will sign the JOBS Act into law. The new ...
  • SCOTUS Mulls Striking Down All of Obamacare
    By Philip Klein Justices on the U.S. Supreme Court this morning considered what to do with the rest of President Obama’s national health care law if its individual health insurance mandate is struck down. Though it was difficult to get a clear read on their thinking as they asked tough qu ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • What every American needs to know about the Fe ...
    Summary: The Federal Reserve has become one of the most powerful government agencies, operating almost free of checks and balances.  Worse, it represents one of the most outrageous examples of regulatory capture, private interests taking control of agencies intended to supervise them.  Today we ...
  • God and the Tea Party Movement
    Summary:   Religion has always been a powerful factor in American politics.  So it has been, and so it today.  Today’s we have an excerpt from the always-interesting Foreign Affairs looking at the Tea Party.  At the end are links to other articles about the tea party, and about the green r ...
  • What will replace the Constitution in American ...
    Summary:  America moves steadily along a dark path, as we refused to see the obvious.  Here we again attempt to awaken ourselves, by showing what we become.  Nothing is written, as we have to power to choose a different future.  Otherwise we’ll learn that the great national evils, like fas ...
  • A status report about the US economy (we party ...
    Summary:  We have the best economic recovery that a trillion dollars per year of Federal borrowing can produce, with enthusastic cheering from Wall Street.  Some people look at the data and believe the great boom has begun.  Some look at the data and see a patient on life-support, slowly fading ...
  • A status report about the US economy (perhaps ...
    The secret about our universities (seldom even whispered among Professors)Summary:  We have the best economic recovery that a trillion dollars per year of Federal borrowing can produce, with enthusastic cheering from Wall Street.  Some people look at the data and believe the great boom has begun ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

  • Security Council; DRC; Pakistan; India; and more
    Security Council: On Monday the UN-Arab League Special Envoy for Syria, Kofi Annan will brief Council members in consultations by videoconference on his mediation efforts. Council members are likely to be interested in Annan’s recent visits to Moscow and Beijing and his plans to visit Tehran and ...
  • Will Iran's Quest for Nuclear Weapons Bring a ...
    "SHOWDOWN" is splashed in large red letters across the cover of Newsmax, the April issue of the conservative monthly. Followed by, in smaller letters, "Iran's Plan for a Second Holocaust Must Be Stopped." And, in parentheses, in still smaller type, between the twin grim-looks ...
  • Pushback on North Korea as Poster Child for Iran
    Yesterday I quoted a reader in Texas, who said that even if Iran's leaders weren't so suicidally irrational as to launch a nuclear strike on Israel, their sheer possession of nuclear weapons would change political dynamics in a profound way. He used the example of North Korea: a "failed sta ...
  • You Might Have Missed: Drones, Afghanistan and ...
    Chris Woods and Emma Slater, “Arab spring brings steep rise in U.S. attacks in Yemen,” Bureau of Investigative Journalism, March 29, 2012. At least 26 US military and CIA strikes involving cruise missiles, aircraft, drones or naval bombardments have taken place in the volatile Gulf nation to d ...
  • China’s Counter to the Asian "Pivot": Korea, India
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TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • The Prodigal Son Returns
    Barack Obama’s visit to Burlington today was a welcome surprise for Vermonters, who haven’t hosted a president since 1995. There’s a political reason for the visit: If there’s a state for liberals to call home, it’s Vermont. So why did Obama take a pit stop in the Green Mountain State instead o ...
  • State of the Week: The Wisconsin Recall
    This week's state of the week is ... Wisconsin! Well folks, it's official: Wisconsin's Scott Walker is the third governor in history to face a recall election. It's hardly shocking news.  After all, anti-Walker forces turned in more than a million petitions—almost double the number they needed. ...
  • Paul Ryan's "Smoke and Mirrors"
    Paul Ryan, the supposed champion of fiscal restraint among right-wing Republicans, has put his colleagues in an awkward bind. His budget includes a host of unpopular provisions, and if implemented, would eviscerate almost every part of the government except defense, health care, and Social Secu ...
  • Today in Reasons to Be Killed If You're Black
    If Trayvon Martin showed us that wearing a hoodie and walking in a gated community is enough to get killed as long as you’re an African American male, then Kenneth Chamberlain will shows us that death is also a fitting punishment if you’re an elderly veteran, sitting in your home, who had the m ...
  • Don't Wish For Judicial Overreach
    Given the hostility the Republican appointees on the Supreme Court showed to the Affordable Care Act during oral arguments this week, some progressives are seeking a silver lining. At least, some have argued, striking down the ACA would substantially undermine the legitimacy of the conservative ...

Buzzflash

  • Riddled With Cancer and Facing an Election, Wh ...
    NIKOLAS KOZLOFF FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT read more
  • We Cannot Kill Our Way to Peace
    ROBERT C. KOEHLER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT I'm far more interested in forgiveness than justice. I say this just to calm myself down after a morning of media overkill, so to speak. There are so many murdered mothers and children in the news, some with names and faces, so many just adding anonymo ...
  • Unlike Trayvon Martin, Gun Lovers Can Carry Mo ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The National Rifle Association (NRA) never misses a beat on capitalizing on paranoia or profiting from the gun industry. Call it utterly tasteless and macabre, but as Think Progress points out, the NRA sells hoodies in its online retail store that are ...
  • Limbaugh, Santorum, Sex, and the Origins of th ...
    STEVEN JONAS, MD, MPH FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT In the year 312, the Roman Emperor Constantine saw some kind of a religious vision at some time before a battle in which he defeated his major rival at the time, Maxentius (1). Just what the nature of the vision was is unclear, but it did lead to ...
  • Rick Santorum Tells Boy Not to Use Pink Bowlin ...
    THE HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN ON BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT This is not satire! Washington (HRC March 28 News Release) - At a campaign event at a bowling alley in Wisconsin today, GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum told a boy who reached for a pink bowling ball: "You're not gonna use the pink ball. W ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • A German-English dictionary for chemists
    The Beilstein Dictionary (German/English) was compiled by the Beilstein Institute’s scientific staff to help users of the Basic Series and Supplementary Series I to IV of the well-known Handbook. It has about 2100 entries and contains pretty much all the German words occurring in the Beils ...
  • Double slit experiment with molecules
    The formation of a wave-like interference pattern when photons, electrons or other particles pass through two narrow slits and impinge on a screen or detector on the other side is the ultimate demonstration of quantum reality: individual particles behaving like waves. This experiment, Young&#821 ...
  • Ph Diva and the Mystery Band
    We already had Ph.Diddy…now we have Ph.Diva – Three weeks left to the conference deadline but on the gel is total mystery band… Related Posts:The evolving, revolving of the Moon Still, lifeless, unchanging...how did the Moon get so boring? Here's what a few billion years of vol ...
  • BBC versus RSC Sherlock Holmes
    The Royal Society of Chemistry once again hits on a novel way to capture media and public attention by drawing attention to a flaw with a recent episode of BBC forensic drama Sherlock. In the episode, a periodic table is seen hanging on Sherlock Holmes’ wall, but it’s a dusty ancient ...
  • Liver disease kills
    Given my slightly worrying feedback from the Fenland Study, my neurotic brain latched on to the headlines today in which male 40-somethings seem to be dropping like flies, jaundiced and with failed livers. The BBC reports: “Deaths from liver disease in England have reached record levels, r ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • FDA Keeps Toxic Plastic Chemical in Food, Infa ...
    Once again, the federal agency charged with protecting the public from tainted food has ignored a mountain of scientific research and decided to allow a toxic chemical to remain in food packaging. The federal Food and Drug Administration announced today it would not take immediate steps to bar b ...
  • NAACP to Host March & Rally for Trayvon Martin ...
    It has been more than a month since Trayvon Martin was shot and killed. In the weeks since this tragedy, evidence of racial bias, investigative mishaps, and the true nature of the circumstances surrounding Trayvon's killing have shaken us to the core. The routine mishandling of similar cases ...
  • National Geographic's New TV Show 'Wicked Tuna ...
    A new National Geographic Channel show, Wicked Tuna, focuses on a group of fishermen trying to catch one of ocean’s most majestic and imperiled fish, the bluefin tuna. The program comes at a time when key fisheries for bluefin tuna — highly migratory, warm-blooded ocean predators tha ...
  • Mississippi Public Service Commission Violates ...
    In a closed meeting lasting less than one minute, two Mississippi Public Service Commissioners voted to issue a temporary authorization to Mississippi Power Company to continue spending $3 million per day building the Kemper County coal plant, with no opportunity for public comment. This authori ...
  • New Bill on E15 Gives Big Oil Companies 'Get O ...
    Legislation introduced yesterday in both the U.S. House and Senate would provide liability protection for oil companies, gas retailers and engine manufacturers against any engine damage resulting from consumers' use of E15, a gasoline blended with 15 percent ethanol. The bill, known as the & ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Push to End Too-Big-To-Fail Goes Mainstream
    Matt Taibbi Wall Street is buzzing about the annual report just put out by the Dallas Federal Reserve. In the paper, Harvey Rosenblum, the head of the Dallas Fed's research department, bluntly calls for the breakup of Too-Big-To-Fail ba ...
  • Participatory Democracy: From the Port Huron S ...
    Tom Hayden This is the fiftieth anniversary year of the Port Huron Statement, the founding declaration of Students for a Democratic Society, issued as a “living document” in 1962.read more
  • On Land Day, Palestinians Remember the Price o ...
    Shahd Abusalama “We didn’t cry during farewell! For we didn’t have time, nor tears, Nor was it farewell We didn’t realize that the moment of farewell was farewell So how could we cry?”read more
  • Mega Millions: Do Lotteries Really Benefit Pub ...
    Valerie Strauss State lotteries that participate in games such as Mega Millions were sold to the public as enterprises that would benefit schools with millions of dollars in proceeds a year. So has public education really received a windfal ...
  • Iraqi Immigrant’s Killing in California Horrifying
    Amitabh Pal An Iraqi immigrant woman’s recent murder in California is a warning of the dangers of Islamophobia.Shaima Alawadi, 32 and a mother of five, died after being taken off life support following a brutal beating which evidence ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • Water Wars
    When Nevada State Engineer Jason King ruled in favor of the SNWA, allowing it to pump water from nearly 84,000 acre-feet in Spring Valley, Cave Valley, Dry Lake Valley and Delamar Valley, the response
  • US Intelligence Report Warns of Future Water Wars
    Water. It’s essential to life, and according to a U.S. intelligence report, it may soon be a cause for war.
  • Water Wars Cost $18.7 Million
    The state of Georgia and the Atlanta Regional Commission have spent about $18.7 million in outside legal fees during two decades of legal battles involving Florida and Alabama over access to drinking water. read more
  • Ga. Agencies Spend $18.7 Million on Water Wars
    Ga. Agencies Spend $18.7 Million on Water Wars
  • Ga. agencies spend $18.7 million on water wars
    ATLANTA (AP) — The state of Georgia and the Atlanta Regional Commission have spent about $18.7 million in outside legal fees during two decades of legal battles involving Florida and Alabama over access to drinking water. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports (http://bit.ly/GRelSy) that the t ...

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • Palestinian Authority jails journalist for pub ...
    Asa Winstanley Ramallah 30 March 2012 The Palestinian Authority imprisoned journalist Yousef al-Shayab Wednesday because of something he wrote, and because he insists on protecting his sources, say his colleagues
  • Israel threatens to demolish German-funded sol ...
    Jillian Kestler-D'Amours 30 March 2012 At least 500 Palestinians face total electricity cuts after Israel issued stop-work orders on solar panel and wind turbine systems in the South Hebron Hills, while illegal settlements in the area are provided with electricity and water.
  • New book shows how the PA enriched an elite an ...
    Mayssun Sukarieh 28 March 2012 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 will of the majority of its compatriots.
  • South Africans recall their own history during ...
    Adri Nieuwhof Geneva 26 March 2012 Israeli Apartheid Week in South Africa aimed to reach a wide audience and strengthen the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement.
  • 8,000 West Bank children arrested since 2000, ...
    Jillian Kestler-D'Amours Beit Sahour 26 March 2012 A new report examines the impact of Israeli arrests and detention on Palestinian children living under Israeli occupation.

The Wonk Room

  • Cautious Optimism For ‘The Dictator’
    I’m a tad tired of Sacha Baron Cohen’s wacky antics, and thought Hugo was a nice showcase of what he can do if he’s trying to be something other than utterly outrageous. But is it me, or does The Dictator look…kind of good? It’s Baron Cohen’s boldness applied ...
  • Fox News Contributor Thinks ‘The Blacks& ...
    While the controversy over the killing of Trayvon Martin largely skirted partisan politics in its first month, some conservative media outlets apparently saw an opportunity in the case and have spent the latter part of the week alternately smearing Martin, defending Zimmerman, or screaming about ...
  • Island President Mohamed Nasheed Talks To Andr ...
    Ousted Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed, the subject of the new climate documentary “Island President,” told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell about the challenge of saving his nation from extinction by the effects of greenhouse pollution. “Climate change is a very real issue to ...
  • Reality Check: Effective U.S. Corporate Tax Ra ...
    Republicans have been kvetching today about the fact that, as of Sunday, the U.S. will have the highest statutory corporate tax rate in the world following a scheduled cut in Japan’s corporate tax. “The United States is a world leader in countless ways. ‘World’s Highest Taxes&# ...
  • Why Arizona’s New Anti-Abortion Bill Is ...
    The Arizona Senate approved a measure that bans abortions in the state after 20 weeks, joining a handful of states that have passed the same measure. Republicans argue 20 weeks is the point in gestation at which a fetus can feel pain — a widely disputed claim — but Democrats argue th ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • The Globe & Mail and the CBC
    So yesterday I'm walking past a Globe & Mail newspaper box and there's a headline: "Harper's Modest Revolution" (or something like) that and I thought: "I'm completely uninterested." The only commentary that really interests me about stephen harper is debate about how long his prison senten ...
  • Budget? Electoral Fraud!
    Big surprise. The imbecilic Flaherty has cooked up another demonstration of his blinkered incompetence. I mean no disrespect to Dawg. I'm actually glad to have read his account of Flaherty's latest stupid budget. But for me, the big deal is still the fact that Flaherty's party has an illegitima ...
  • Shorter Anti-Democratic harpercon Trolls: "It' ...
    That's something else I've heard, and I'm sure that I will hear again. These shameless, lying pieces of shit.
  • More Stuff Like the Quebec Students' Protests ...
    You GOTTA love it! (Either that or you're a 1% scum-bag or a stupid chump!) Tens of thousands of students filled the streets of Montreal Thursday in a mass protest against a planned hike in tuition fees that they say will undermine Quebec's long-standing commitment to keeping university educa ...
  • $5,000 AND Five Years in Prison
    Ahem:The maximum penalties for violating these sections of the Elections Act are severe: a fine of up to $5,000 and imprisonment for up to five years, or both. Moreover, a person convicted of such an offence may also be ordered to compensate anyone who has suffered damages as a consequence ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

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

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • FDA To Make Many Prescription Drugs ‘Over the ...
    March 13, 2012 Natural Society By Mike Barrett “Thanks, FDA – for helping big pharma ruin more people’s lives. You are doing a great a job.” –KTRN The same organization which deems walnuts to be illegal drugs is in the process of deciding whether or not to make some ...
  • NYPD Officer Thrown In Psych Ward By Superiors ...
    March 13, 2012 Activist Post By Madison Ruppert “Here is just one more example of the blatant police corruption in the United States. When and how are we going to get police offers under control?” –KTRN Adrian Schoolcraft of the New York Police Department’s (NYPD) 81st precinct ...
  • Taliban Promise Revenge for Civilian Murders i ...
    March 13, 2012 Info Wars By Kurt Nimmo “Doesn’t anyone think the US deserves some kind of punishment for the brutality that this soldier committed? Wasn’t he supposed to be trained by the very best? If the US military were not in Afghanistan to begin with, none of this would ha ...
  • Ron Paul Tells Reporters He Is Suspicious Abou ...
    March 13, 2012 Info Wars By Steve Watson “We should all be suspicious about the caucus results. Ron Paul wins almost every on-line poll and straw poll, (not to mention getting way more people showing up at his events than all of the other candidates) yet he keeps losing caucuses? Something ...
  • Why Is The US And NATO Backing Extremist Musli ...
    March 13, 2012 Info Wars By Paul Joseph Watson A shocking video appears to show Libyan rebels desecrating Christian and Jewish graves at a cemetery, further evidence that the same forces who helped NATO overthrow Gaddafi and are now carrying out attacks in Syria are extremist Muslims who care li ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Saudis slammed for usual rights abuse, never f ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRussia Todayyoutube.com While some Saudis enjoy the trappings of immeasurable wealth and privilege – the majority of the population struggles with daily oppression. And while ignoring issues in their homeland, Arab ...
  • FDA Discounts More Than a Million Signatures O ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comKurt Nimmo Infowars.com March 31, 2012 The FDA is with Monsanto and agribusiness. They don’t want you to know what’s in the food you eat. On Tuesday, the FDA reached a deadline for the “Just Label It” petitio ...
  • Point Break: ‘Spain last nail in Euro-co ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRussia Todayyoutube.com Eurozone finance ministers have agreed to boost the EU‘s rescue fund to 800 billion euros, to help countries like Spain recover from their crippling debt woes. Spain‘s financial crisis ...
  • The Problem Isn’t Cholesterol … It’s the WRONG ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comThe Problem Isn’t Cholesterol … It’s the WRONG KIND – and OXIDATION – of Cholesterol By WashingtonsBlogwashingtonsblog.com Cholesterol Itself Isn’t the Problem While doctors have assum ...
  • The Zionist cuckoos in Christianity’s nest
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comBy Stuart LittlewoodFriday, March 30th, 2012 What does Hagee’s CUfI believe in? By Stuart Littlewood If you are as puzzled as I am how a true Christian could possibly be taken in by Zionism, a short paper on the ph ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin: Trayvon was s ...
    Dandelion Salad SEPupload on Mar 28, 2012 In this video, Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, the parents of Trayvon Martin, speak to the World Socialist Web Site about their son’s death and legacy. Parents of Trayvon Martin speak to the WSWS see Dick Gregory at Trayvon Martin Rally DC Filed u ...
  • Syria Peace Plan: West Moves To Kill Off &#822 ...
    by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Ethiopia 28 March 2012 No sooner had Kofi Annan, the special United Nations envoy to Syria, announced scoring “an important first step” towards implementing a peace plan in the war-torn country, the US and Western powers were scrambling to scu ...
  • Is US Sanctimony on the Wane? by Sean Fenley
    by Sean Fenley Guest Writer Dandelion Salad The Anything and Everything March 23, 2012 For certain segments of the global population, the United States has, of course, virtually always represented little to nothing good. No doubt, however, many have given credence to the idea of liberal, and dem ...
  • John Pilger: Real Journalism
    Dandelion Salad with John Pilger Abirproduction on Mar 19, 2012 Researched, Produced and Directed by Abir Alsayed A part of Asdekaa Al Arab series http://www.facebook.com/pages/Asdekaa-Al-Arab-%D8%A3%D8%B5%D8%AF%D9%82%D8%A7%… John Pilger: Real Journalism see John Pilger: Palestine Is Still ...
  • In a feverish state of mind, Gulliver enters a ...
    by Helen Cox, used with permission © All rights reserved. by Joseph Natoli Guest Writer Dandelion Salad 22 March 2012 My thoughts were feverishly gestating. I here pen a précis of that to which I refer, attempting to bring to reasonable account what in fact was veiled by dark derangements brough ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • 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.

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Israel Defense Ministry plan earmarks 10 perce ...
    The state has argued before the Supreme Court and the International Court of Justice in The Hague that the route of the separation barrier was based on Israel’s security needs. But Civil... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in ...
  • Israel cuts contact with UN rights council, to ...
    Israeli Arab MK Ahmed Tibi (Ra'am-Ta'al) criticized the move, saying that it amounted to a "boycott of the UN," and asked what "Lieberman and Yisrael Beiteinu have in common with human rights." MK... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • Lia Tarachansky: Palestinian on hunger strike ...
    After more than a month on hunger strike, Hanaa Shalabi is in "immediatemortal danger" and at "risk of coma" according to a Physicians for HumanRights doctor. Shalabi's strike came at the heels of... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
  • Dear Mr. Tzabar
    A short film about the late, celebrated Israeli journalist, poet, artist and satirist Shimon Tzabar and his last public protest against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, made shortly... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • Jamie Levin: Israel’s economy will pay heavy p ...
    Economic war of attrition: "Each Iron Dome system costs $50,000,000 and each Tamir interceptor it employs has a price tag of no less than $62,000. In contrast, each of the Qassam rockets that the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Organics Probably Formed Easily in Early Solar ...
    Complex organic compounds, including many important to life on Earth, were readily produced under conditions that likely prevailed in the primordial solar system. Scientists came to this conclusion after linking computer simulations to laboratory experiments.
  • Weill Cornell Medical College Establishes Cent ...
    Weill Cornell Medical College announced today the establishment of the Center for Healthcare Informatics and Policy (CHiP) to improve health and healthcare through informatics and technology. To commemorate the official opening, New York State Commissioner of Health Dr. Nirav R. Shah gave the ke ...
  • "Sugar on a Stick" Helps Kids Learn How to Learn
    Many children are exposed to technology at an early age, but few are taught how to harness the power of technology to drive their own learning and their future. A team of North Dakota State University students works with elementary school students, using a free, open-source software platform cal ...
  • U.Va. Expert Available to Comment on College S ...
    Dr. James Turner, executive director of U.Va. Student Health and past president of the American College Health Association, is available for interviews on college students' health issues, from the flu to vaccines to depression.
  • Images Capture Split Personality of Dense Susp ...
    Stir lots of small particles into water, and the resulting thick mixture appears highly viscous. When this dense suspension slips through a nozzle and forms a droplet, however, its behavior momentarily reveals a decidedly non-viscous side.

Natural Health News

  • Nearly 89% Increase in Autism Reported by CDC ...
    The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has announced that 1 in 88 children in the U.S. are now diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The number represents a 23 percent increase in the last two years and 78 percent in the past five years. But that was just the average—the numbers were ...
  • Bacteria Could Be Significant Cause of Obsessi ...
    The National Institute of Mental Health is launching a study to see whether Streptococcus bacteria, which cause strep throat, scarlet fever and other infections such as pneumonia, may also be responsible for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in children. For many people, the condition begins d ...
  • State Confiscates Newborn over Vaccinations
    A Pennsylvania mother who went into labor early and gave birth in an ambulance on the way to the hospital faced a nightmare when she questioned a vaccine hospital officials were preparing to give her baby. Like any new parents, Jodi and Scott Farris wanted to know exactly what was going on when ...
  • Commonly Used Herbicide Found to be Toxic to Y ...
    New research finds that glyphosate, an ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup Ultra Max, causes both cellular and DNA damage to the cells inside your mouth and throat. The damage includes chromosomal abnormalities that ultimately kill cells at higher concentrations. Importantly, DNA damage occurred at ...
  • FDA Eliminates 1 Million Signatures for GMO La ...
    In another brazen example of how the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) totally ignores the very people it’s supposed to listen to and protect, this rogue agency has decided that over a million U.S. citizens’ signatures and comments count for nothing. NOTHING. That’s the results of a campai ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • ASIL Cables: Interview with James Crawford
    by An Hertogen by An Hertogen Recent guest-poster, Professor Tai-Heng Cheng, has an interview on ASIL Cables with Professor James Crawford, this year’s recipient of the Manley O. Hudson Medal: Tai-Heng Cheng (THC): Congratulations on receiving the Manley O Hudson medal, Professor Crawfor ...
  • Statement Regarding Syria
    by Harold Hongju Koh [Harold Hongju Koh is the Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State.] Statement Regarding Syria Harold Hongju Koh Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State American Society of International Law Annual Meeting March 30, 2012 It is my honor to speak here again at the ann ...
  • Statement Regarding Syria
    by Harold Hongju Koh [Harold Hongju Koh is the Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State.] Statement Regarding Syria Harold Hongju Koh Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State American Society of International Law Annual Meeting March 30, 2012 It is my honor to speak here again at the ann ...
  • Comment Thread to Legal Adviser Harold Koh&#82 ...
    by Chris Borgen by Chris Borgen We thank Legal Adviser Harold Koh for guest posting the statement on Syria that he delivered earlier today at the American Society of International Law Annual Meeting.  As this posting is a release of a speech text and Legal Adviser Koh will not be online to res ...
  • Comment Thread to Legal Adviser Harold Koh’s S ...
    by Chris Borgen by Chris Borgen We thank Legal Adviser Harold Koh for guest posting the statement on Syria that he delivered earlier today at the American Society of International Law Annual Meeting.  As this posting is a release of a speech text and Legal Adviser Koh will not be online to res ...

Public News Service

  • Complaint Claims Felony Filing Violations by S ...
    Complaint Claims Felony Filing Violations by Southern AZ Copper Company PHOENIX – The long-delayed plans for a large open-pit copper mine southwest of Tucson hit another potential snag Thursday with the filing of a formal complaint with the Arizona Corporation Commission. It alleges that R ...
  • Bill Limiting Employee Contraceptive Coverage ...
    Bill Limiting Employee Contraceptive Coverage Defeated in Arizona Senate PHOENIX, Ariz. - About 100 women rallied Wednesday at the State Capitol against a bill allowing any employer to opt out of providing contraception coverage for religious or moral reasons. Shortly thereafter, the bill was de ...
  • Pain at the Pump? New Fuel Standards Could Eas ...
    Pain at the Pump? New Fuel Standards Could Ease the Burden PHOENIX - Soaring gas prices are hitting drivers in Arizona and across the nation, and little relief appears to be in sight. Zoe Lipman, senior manager for transportation solutions at the National Wildlife Federation, says part of the l ...
  • AZ Wind Energy Industry in a Holding Pattern?
    AZ Wind Energy Industry in a Holding Pattern? PHOENIX - The American wind energy industry is waiting for a favorable forecast from Congress. The wind-production tax credit is set to expire at the end of this year, and delayed decisions on its renewal have some sectors of the industry in a holdin ...
  • SCOTUS Takes Up Affordable Care Act
    SCOTUS Takes Up Affordable Care Act WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court today begins hearing arguments on the constitutionality of provisions of the Affordable Care Act, the national health care reform law. The justices will look at two provisions of the ACA: the mandate that everyone must have insur ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

  • Prima Ballerina
    These elegant creatures look like ballerina's balancing on one leg. They appear mostly in South-America and Africa. The reason that they often stand on one leg is not really clear. There are a few different theories about this, and one of them is that the flamingos have the ability to let a part ...
  • What's on 30 January 2012
    If you're wondering whether yoga might be right for you, or even if you are a yoga ethusiast, then you should definitely check out the FREE Living Yoga Urban Retreat Days at BodyMindLife’s new Surry Hills (Sydney) studio this weekend!
  • Registrations now open to help Clean Up Australia
    “Everyone can do their bit for Australia, individually or as part of a team. Clean Up Australia Day is a simple way you can clean up, fix up and conserve our greatest resource – Australia.”
  • Top surfers, skaters and musicians coming to M ...
    World's best surfers, skaters and musicians converge on Manly Beach for nine-day action sports and music celebration.
  • What's on 23 January 2012
    Come and enjoy a truly spectacular night of hilarious comedy this wednesday. For one night only some of the nation's most talented comedians will sharpen their wits and have some fun at the expense of 'greenies'. All proceeds will go to The Wilderness Society campaigns to protect the env ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • 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 [...]

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • Another Santorum Slip: Obama an Anti-War &#821 ...
    Anti War? You must have the wrong Nig… ahhh, guy.   Crooks and Liars Failed former junior senator from Pennsylvania by way of Virginia, turned presidential hopeful, Rick Santorum speaks to a crowd at The Armory in Janesville, Wisconsin on March 27th during a campaign stop. In this spe ...
  • Don’t You Dare Try to Feed the Homeless ...
    This month Alabama lawmakers were itching to make it a criminal offense to annoy people online (isn’t that what the interweb is all about?), and a national poll exposed the split personality of Americans who pretend to support individual responsibility, all the while cheering bans on smoki ...
  • The Department Of Homeland Security Is Buying ...
    Ban on Hollow points coming?   Business Insider (Buffet) EnforcementThe Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office is getting an “indefinite delivery” of an “indefinite quantity” of .40 caliber ammunition from defen ...
  • The National Tragedy of Violence and the Oppor ...
      BlackCommentator.com “They asked if our own nation wasn’t using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted. Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghet ...
  • This Day In History – March 30
    1822 – The Florida Territory is created in the United States. 1842 – Anesthesia is used for the first time, in an operation by the American surgeon Dr. Crawford Long. 1853 – Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (d. 1890), was born. 1855 – Origins of the American Civil War: Bleeding Kansas – “Bo ...

The Air Vent

  • Roy Spencer finds Scientific Proof of UHI, Cho ...
    McKitrick & Michaels Were Right: More Evidence of Spurious Warming in the IPCC Surface Temperature Dataset How can one explain such results, other than to conclude that there is spurious warming in the CRUTem3 dataset? I already see in the comments, below, that there are a few attempts to di ...
  • Extreme Opinions
    From a Bob Ferguson email, here is a collection of links to today’s great denier story.   A key theme expressed at skeptic blogs including this one is that the climate extremes predicted for so many years doesn’t exist.  It seems that the IPCC was forced to admit that non-alarmists h ...
  • Icicles in my livingroom
    This is a repost from Luboš Motl’s blog, the Reference Frame, with permission.   I read this when it was originally posted and believe that its message is far too often overlooked in the midst of the global warming alarmism.  In all likelihood, we will be working into an ice age in the nex ...
  • Rational Environmenalism
    I’ve had quite a bit of time to consider what I call rational environmentalism. There is a lifestyle that we live that I don’t believe we need to give back even one bit of comfort on. For instance, not showering when you want in order to save energy, cannot save enough energy to be w ...
  • Green Climate Fund
    Does anyone here really think that annually handing four times the GDP of North Korea to a bunch of unelected individuals, who exist completely outside of the law, could cause any problems at all? It sounds like something straight from a science fiction novel. WUWT is covering this now.  — ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook roundup: platform updates, trading, I ...
    New platform policy more mindful of developer schedules – Facebook updated its policy to make any breaking changes to the API on the first Wednesday of every month. Previously, changes were pushed on the first of the month, which sometimes … Continue reading →
  • Romney leads, Gingrich loses fans, plus new in ...
    Apart from a few single-day dips this month, Mitt Romney leads the Republican presidential primary candidates in new Facebook Likes per day, according to our Inside Facebook Election Tracker. This week Newt Gingrich had several days of negative fan growth, … Continue reading →
  • Why Timeline engagement ‘studies’ should be ig ...
    In the lead-up to today’s mandatory switch to Timeline for pages, a number of companies released so-called studies about how the new design affects fan engagement rate. However, these reports — and many news outlets that covered them — completely … Continue reading →
  • Price Is Right, Pose, Change.org, Amex, hi5, m ...
    Games were popular on our list of emerging Facebook applications this week, led by The Price Is Right Slots. Other types of apps that made our list included mobile fashion app Pose, a few video apps, Change.org, RockMelt social browser, … Continue reading →
  • Local Facebook pages outperform corporate page ...
    Facebook pages for local branches of a business generate greater reach and engagement than their corporate counterparts, according to a study by Mainstay Salire in collaboration with Hearsay Social. On average, a Facebook post from a local division reaches five … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Marwan Barghouti: Palestine's Nelson Mandela
    Uri Avnery views imprisoned Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti's message to the people of Palestine, which he has sent from his prison cell, in which he calls for an end to the "peace process" smokescreen for continued Israeli land thefts and a total boycott of Israel.
  • Israel's occupation: who is most "out of touch ...
    Alan Hart argues that while the UN Human Rights Council may well be a hypocritical body because it chooses to ignore numerous human rights abuses in Africa and Asia, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's attack on it for its decision to investigate the impact of Israeli colonies on the Pal ...
  • Who is normal? The case for "universal standar ...
    Lawrence Davidson argues for the adoption of universal standards of civilized normality based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. On that basis, he says one would find Israeli society chronically abnormal.
  • Ali Abunimah and Gilad Atzmon at the OK Corral
    Roger Tucker debunks recent accusations of "anti-Semitism" made by a group of self-styled Palestinian solidarity activists, led by American academic Ali Abunimah, whom he argues are driven not only by economic and professional self-interest, but are arguably shabbas goyim, non-Jewish elements of ...
  • Israel preparing for war with Iran
    Neve Gordon argues that recent Israeli raids on Gaza were not just about allocating more money to the defence budget but about preparing for war with Iran.

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Behind Oil Price Rise: Peak Oil or Wall Street ...
    ‘The Key Oil Derivatives Insiders are Laughing All the Way to the Bank’ By William Engdahl Since around October last year, the price of crude oil on world futures markets has exploded. Different people have different explanations. The most common one is the belief in financial markets that a war ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- March 15 ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “But the most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly and with unflagging attention. It must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.” – Adolf Hitler International ...
  • 9/11 in the Courtroom: Heads or Tails?
    What Will Happen Today? A hearing is scheduled today in a federal district court in New York City in a 9/11 case still winding its way through the court system.  The case was brought by thousands of relatives of people killed on 9/11, as well as insurance companies exposed to heavy losses.  The ...
  • Afghan Heroin & How to Add Up the Numbers
    The Big Guys’ Share vs. the Little Guys Share’ According to news reports the Turkish government seized 4.6 Tons of Afghan heroin and 46 Tons of Hashish in the year 2011 alone: Turkish police seized 46.9 tons of hashish and 6.4 tons of heroin in 2011, the semi-official Anatolia news agency report ...
  • Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
    The Road to Tehran The Western imperial powers seem intent on regime change in Iran. It has been said that, “the road to Tehran is through Damascus,” and such sentiments have been expressed by the King of Saudi Arabia, a ruthless tyrant who represses his own and neighboring populatio ...

Afro Spear

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • Student Photographer's Arrest: Snapshot of Sys ...
    The arrest of a student photographer in Philadelphia for simply photographing police in public again highlights disturbing issues of police abuse and prosecutors condoning that abuse -- also evident in the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin.
  • Founding the Justice Party: You can help!
    I received this from the Justice Party USA this morning. If you wish to help turn our country around, here's a chance.
  • John Feffer: Islamophobia, Obama, and the Art ...
    When, in the last years, Marine Corps Intelligence put together a report on the practice of "cultural Islam" in Afghanistan, it noted that "Afghans are a traditionally superstitious culture," specifically referencing the weight given to dreams and symbols as well as "practices"such as the evil e ...
  • Supreme Court Might Decide Their Second Election
    It was a similar crew of conservative justices on the Supreme Court that decided that their long-held beliefs on states' rights were irrelevant and made George W. Bush our next president in 2000. Now, they're back!!! And they might decide yet another presidential election.
  • Why We Should Outgrow "Diversity of Tactics" B ...
    Diversity of Tactics is deadly for our movement.

Switchboard

  • From "Earth Hour" to "Earth Summit": Let's Ig ...
    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 the awesome video below, ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • By the Time You Get to Phoenix
    Your uterus will belong to the state.
  • The Ballad of Peter and Peggy, Redux, in &#822 ...
    (It goes without saying that this is another one of those posts.) Poor self-defeating Pete, trying his best to become the very Draper whose misery’s invisible to him. Remember when Pete had hope, and director John Slattery hammered the possibility of it home via reverse shots? How Pete saw ...
  • Sometimes A Devastating Defeat Is Just a Devas ...
    Given the amount of pushback, I decided to make my argument about legitimacy and the ACA at much greater length. A lot of people seem to think that this particular politically controversial decision with substantial elite support will somehow be different than the many other politically controve ...
  • Can We Raise Our Standards A Bit?
    I’ve been around the intertubes long enough not to be surprised by the fact that many people are happy to feed trolls whenever an interesting discussion threatens to break out. But I’d like to think that around here it would at least take some moderately clever trolling to stimulate ...
  • The Slippery Slope Argument Against the ACA: ...
    Akhil Reed Amar is making sense: I start with the Constitution here. It’s the power to regulate interstate commerce. Is this a regulation? Yes. It’s just a regulation like regulating a well-regulated militia with a mandate. Is this interstate? Yes. And I’ve given you reasons why. Third, is it co ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

  • US Leads Efforts to Ensure Long-Term Sustainab ...
    From a national perspective, the United States recognizes the importance of preventing collisions between satellites and/or orbiting objects, due to the resulting debris creation.
  • Is Returning Arizona to The Spoil System Not i ...
    Bottom line, the merit system provides due process, eliminates across the board political patronage and corruption, and saves the taxpayer money in an open process.
  • Judge Denies Preliminary Injunction in Sheen v ...
    Federal Judge James Otero today denied the plaintiffs' motion for preliminary injunction in Sheen v SAG clearing the way for Screen Actors Guild's merger referendum ballot counting to go forward as scheduled on Friday, March 30.
  • Transcript of Remarks on Republican Budget
    I rise today in opposition to the Republican Budget, which eliminates the Medicare guarantee as we know it, particularly the Medicare guarantee for my constituents in Rhode Island, our seniors,
  • Is Climate of Insecurity Engulfing Latin America?
    The persistently high homicide and crime rates throughout Central America, the Caribbean, and the horrific reports of violence inside Mexico, are symptoms of a broader climate of insecurity throughout the region, Mr. Brownfield reported.

environment 360

  • Shell’s Spill Response Plan Is Approved by U.S ...
    The U.S. Department of the Interior has approved Shell Oil’s plan to respond to an oil spill in the Arctic’s Beaufort Sea, clearing the way for exploratory drilling this summer. The decision follows similar U.S. government approval for a spill response plan in the Chukchi Sea, and Shell said tha ...
  • New EPA Rules Will Limit CO2 Emissions from Po ...
    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expected to impose a limit on greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants, a strict new regulation that could prevent conventional coal-fired power plants from being built. In new rules to be announced as soon as Tuesday, the EPA will require ...
  • Auction of Ivory in China Spurring Illegal Mar ...
    A new report says that the illegal trade in ivory has risen sharply in China in recent years, with nearly 90 percent of the ivory purchased at “legal” auctions obtained from illegal sources. According to the report, published by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), a decision by the Con ...
  • Denmark Aims to Achieve 35 Percent Green Energ ...
    The Danish government has approved a series of goals to significantly reduce its carbon emissions and increase its use of green energy by 2020, an “ambitious green transition” officials say will affect all levels of society. The agreement, which was approved by parliament last week, targets cutt ...
  • Shunning Nuclear Power Will Lead to a Warmer World
    A physicist argues that if we allow our overblown and often irrational fears of nuclear energy to block the building of a significant number of new nuclear plants, we will be choosing a far more perilous option: the intensified burning of planet-warming fossil fuels. BY SPENCER R. WEART

Red Ice Creations

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

Russia Today

  • US dollar dead? NY has its say
    As the global economic crisis continues to take its toll, the US dollar seems to be losing its positions as the world's leading currency … or not? Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Australia calls WikiLeaks ‘irresponsible,’ del ...
    The Australian government has blamed WikiLeaks for a “reckless, irresponsible and potentially dangerous” disclosures of secret information. It is also delaying the release of diplomatic cables on the matter after the US... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Afghan massacre investigation blocked by US – ...
    The defense lawyer for Robert Bales, who is accused of killing 17 Afghan civilians, is blaming the US for blocking his team’s fact-finding mission into the Kandahar incident. He says he can’t interview witnesses and... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Bin Laden widow’s testimony shames slack Pakistan
    For the most wanted man in the world, Osama Bin Laden was able to spend the decade after the 9/11 in relative comfort – that’s the story that emerges from the testimony of his youngest wife. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Minority report: Era of total surveillance zoo ...
    Ever evolving high-tech gadgets and the Internet have given Big Brother a peep hole into the lives of everyday Americans. Now, without the hassle of planting bugs or breaking and entering, the government can monitor... Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

  • Who are these Fort Carson soldiers? The real ...
    The following letter appeared today online in what is really most often the daily Colorado Springs local military propaganda sheet called The Gazette. We reprint it here because it underlines the rather common type of thugs that the Pentagon has stationed in our city out at Fort Carson, and quit ...
  • Thumbs up!
  • Cops taser to death a Black vet in his own home
    ‘”Please leave me alone. I’m 68 with a heart condition. Why are you doing this to me? Can you please leave me alone?” Officers allegedly responded by calling Chamberlain a racial slur while urging him to open the door. The audio recording of the incident has not been made publi ...
  • Pentagon-loving corporate media says to pay no ...
    The news report yesterday, hidden away for the most part, was that Child witnesses to Afghan massacre say Robert Bales was not alone and read that the Afghan reporter who was reporting for the Australian press had also reported being impeded by the US military in her access to the war crime witn ...
  • Where there’s smoke and no fire, there&# ...
    I doubt if “where there’s smoke there’s fire” is a firefighting principle. It seems more suited for WMD witch hunt rumor mongering, failing to find fire, you decide smoke’s enough. Well it holds true for a smoking gun, but not smokers, hence, blowing smoke in the hy ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Two criticisms of the Harrit et al paper that ...
    The vast majority of debunker responses to the discovery of active thermitic material over the past three years have been one of the following mantras: "Paint!", "Peer-review!" and "Chain of custody!". Dr James Millette's report on the red/gray chips has apparently given the "Paint!" mantra new ...
  • Oystein's Contamination Denial
    The MEK test in the Active Thermitic Material ... paper was important in that it established that the aluminium in the red/gray chips is in elemental form consistent with the thermite hypothesis, rather than aluminosilicate form consistent with the paint hypothesis. JREFer Oystein is skeptical. ...
  • Tangled Webs - NIST and WTC7
    ------------------------------------------------ According to the official explanation the collapse of WTC7 came about from the expansion of a steel beam leading to the progressive failure of the entire structure. However, analysis of the building plans show that this already dubious explanati ...
  • Project Truth (WTC) - Sip 2.5 Cognitive Dissonance
    Related: Cognitive Dissonance Meets 9/11 Truth AE911Truth - Psychologists on coping with 9-11 truth. Many people subconsciously make the mistake of only seeing the issues concerning 9/11 in black and white, as opposed to shades of gray. This is known as the black-or-white fallacy. In this c ...
  • Reflecting on the Verinage demolition method
    I recently came across debunker vids on YouTube, such as this that boast of the Verinage demolition technique used to bring down buildings without explosives. According to Wikipedia, “The technique. . .is used in France to weaken and buckle the supports of central floors promoting the collapse o ...

Fooducate

  • Healthy Apple Crisp: Cute & Yummy
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! This is a guest post by Lisa Cain, PhD, a.k.a Snack-Girl Many of us are on the hunt for a dessert that is both satisfying and healthy. I’ve been asked for a redo of creme brulee (which isn’t gonna ...
  • Studies: Popcorn, Chocolate Good for Health
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! Snackers of the world – rejoice. Two recent studies are telling us Fooducate’s favorite snacks are healthy! Woo hoo! Research conducted at the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania has found that ...
  • Allergies, Warning Labels, and Dilemmas
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! Food allergies affect about 10-15 million Americans today. Interestingly, a similar number of people believe they have an allergy as well! How could this be? To answer, first let’s understand what a foo ...
  • Kids Eat Q&A: Puree Pouches
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! This is a guest blog post by Dr. Dina R. Rose Puree pouches are all the rage right now. And not just for little kids either. My almost 11 year old daughter squeezes one into her mouth for snack at least twice ...
  • How Your Nose May Help With Portion Control
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! The LA Times Booster Shots blog reports on an interesting study by a trade journal called Flavour. Researchers wanted to see if they could affect the bite size people take, based on a food’s aroma. They ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

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

Greg Palast

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle large (catering siz ...
    Sam has emailed asking about large food cans: I have a number of large metal food cans, some zinc lined, which are called #10 size. They hold about 5 or 6 lbs (just under 3kg) of beans, or other foods. Now that they’re empty, they are open on one end, with no plastic lid to [...]
  • She recycled that! Upcycling novelty hats into ...
    Last September, Karen emailed us about the vast collection of novelty jester hats that her boyfriend had collected at various carnivals and festivals over the years. She wanted to know how she could reuse or recycle them as she hadn’t had much success giving them away. Lots of people made ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle wallpaper samples?
    Following on from the paint tester pots the other week, I’ve got some wallpaper samples that have served their purpose too. I really can’t wait for our renovations to be over! Like the paint, the samples were to check out ideas/colours/designs in-situ. Some of them were torn from rol ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle medical plastic tubing?
    We’ve had an email from Janette asking about medical plastic tubing: I need to know how I might reuse/recycle medical plastic tubing. My husband uses an oxygen tank and the cannula (clear plastic tubing) needs to be changed every two weeks. After the nasal clip is removed, biowaste/garbage ...
  • What can I reuse or recycle as moulds for maki ...
    We asked about stuff to reuse/recycle as homemade soup moulds not too long ago but Danell has messaged with a variation on that theme: I want to melt old crayon stubs together to make new crayons for kids. I know I could use old muffin tins or ice cube trays, neither of which I have, [...]

Age of Autism

  • Rebecca Estepp on Fox News "Autism Is an Epidemic"
    Please click Fox 5 San Diego to hear Rebecca Estepp discuss the shocking 1 in 88 autism numbers, 1 in 54 for boys. Having a boy? Light it up blue might mean far more than just the color of your...
  • NOTICE - Wanted at FDA: Public Health Experts ...
    Managing Editor's Note: Lest you think the FDA or any government agency has your or your children's health before the pharmachemical industry, read the following. This is the goverment that bends over backwards to convince you injecting mercury in your...
  • CDC Announces 1 in 88 Autism Numbers: Safemind ...
    Managing Editor's Note: From SafeMinds: Awareness Isn't Enough - We Need Action Today the Centers for Disease Control issued the long-awaited autism prevalence numbers for children born in 2000 - 1 in 88 children. When I first heard the news,...
  • Best of Age of Autism: Why Tom Insel Must Go!
    CDC repor ted that the autism rate is at least 1 in 88 yesterday. And IACC announced new members. Dr. Insel wrote on his NIMH site yesterday, Autism Prevalence: More Affected or More Detected? and still questions, from the zenith...
  • House of Cards by Kim Stagliano on Sale for $.99
    Yes, you can "make it mine for $.99." CLICK HOUSE OF CARDS HERE to download your copy. Lord knows we need to laugh. (Eye roll.) House of Cards is a romantic suspense novel on sale for $.99 through Sunday! You...

Global BDS Movement

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 ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Climate Change Skepticism a Sickness That Must ...
    University of Oregon – Resistance at individual and societal levels must be recognized and treated before real action can be taken to effectively address threats facing the planet from human-caused contributions to climate change. That’s the message to this week’s Planet Under ...
  • FEATURE PAGE – U.S. Military Interventio ...
    It may be “The Land Of The Brave And The Home Of The Free” but damn it’s military has been very busy over the last 120 years bringing democracy to the world down the barrel of a gun. To find out just how busy CLICK HERE
  • News Archive In Focus – North America (6 ...
    With the USA referred to as the global superpower, we look at the news coming out of that region. Perhaps the most telling statistic is the number of news releases involving the US military and their campaigns overseas. To read our North America news archive of 6,728 articlesCLICK HERE
  • The Spoils of War – BAE Systems win £446 ...
    Independent – Defence giant BAE Systems has received a five-year, £446 million contract to provide a range of engineering support services for the fleet of Typhoon jets. The order will help to sustain around 600 jobs at BAE Systems’ Warton and Samlesbury sites in Lancashire focused o ...
  • Australia: Too much sitting linked to shortene ...
    Reuters – Australians who spent a lot of time sitting at a desk or in front of a TV were more likely to die of any cause during a three-year period than those who were only sedentary a few hours a day, according to a new study. Read article

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • GM pulls support for Heartland Institute
    Citing its corporate stance that climate change is real, General Motors announced Wednesday that its General Motors Foundation would no longer be funding the Heartland Institute, a free-market think tank that has attacked human-caused global warming as “junk science.”
  • Ex-Obama green advisor Van Jones to address Oc ...
    Former Obama administration environmental advisor Van Jones will address an Occupy-related art show and protest training event in L.A. on Saturday titled " All in for the 99% ."
  • Hunters, anglers report warming winters bad fo ...
    The exceptionally warm winter of 2011-12 might be a nice respite for everyone, but the rising average winter temperatures are not a good thing for North American wildlife. In a new report released this week by the National Wildlife Federation, fishermen, hunters and other sportspersons discuss ...
  • Film 'Who Bombed Judi Bari?' shows at Laemmle ...
    The Sunday Los Angeles Times featured my story about the new documentary film, "Who Bombed Judi Bari?" which plays Wednesday at the Laemmle Monica in Santa Monica. Not only a gripping story about a campaign to save the last stands of coastal old-growth redwoods in California in the 1980s and ' ...
  • Obama limits carbon dioxide emissions from new ...
    As reported on the Los Angeles Times Politics Now blog, the Obama administration on Tuesday announced stringent rules to limit carbon dioxide emissions from new power plants. Most climate scientists say that carbon dioxide is the principal gas responsible for global warming.

water.org

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

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Study: 400 Afghan women jailed for "moral crimes"
    In this Jan. 19, 2003 file photo, Zarghona, who is in prison because she left her first husband who abused her and forced her into prostitution, holds her seven-month-old son Balal and looks out through their cell window, at the Kabul Women's Prison in Submitted by Maria V. to World  |&nb ...
  • Tibetan singer detained and tortured
    25-year-old singer, Ugyen Tenzin, was detained last month soon after the release of his album titled, An Unending Flow of My Hearts Blood,.Unconfirmed reports said that Ugyen Tenzin has been beaten in custody and disabled a month after album released Submitted by Red Thorvenkiold to World &nb ...
  • Special Report: Intel shows Iran nuclear threa ...
    The United States, European allies and even Israel generally agree on three things about Iran's nuclear program: Tehran does not have a bomb, has not decided to build one, and is probably years away from having a deliverable nuclear warhead. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World  |  &n ...
  • rocked by St. Patricks Day riot near college
    Beer bottles, bricks and other debris rained down on police and firefighters in London, Ont., Saturday when St. Patricks Day celebrations turned ugly. London police Chief Bradley Duncan, speaking to reporters Sunday, said he had never seen the level of Submitted by Agnes N. to World  |&n ...
  • U.S. Faces a Tricky Task in Assessment of Data ...
    And today, despite criticism of that assessment from some outside observers and hawkish politicians, American intelligence analysts still believe that the Iranians have not gotten the go-ahead from Ayatollah Khamenei to revive the program. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World  |  ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

  • US Leads Efforts to Ensure Long-Term Sustainab ...
    From a national perspective, the United States recognizes the importance of preventing collisions between satellites and/or orbiting objects, due to the resulting debris creation.
  • Is Returning Arizona to The Spoil System Not i ...
    Bottom line, the merit system provides due process, eliminates across the board political patronage and corruption, and saves the taxpayer money in an open process.
  • Judge Denies Preliminary Injunction in Sheen v ...
    Federal Judge James Otero today denied the plaintiffs' motion for preliminary injunction in Sheen v SAG clearing the way for Screen Actors Guild's merger referendum ballot counting to go forward as scheduled on Friday, March 30.
  • Transcript of Remarks on Republican Budget
    I rise today in opposition to the Republican Budget, which eliminates the Medicare guarantee as we know it, particularly the Medicare guarantee for my constituents in Rhode Island, our seniors,
  • Is Climate of Insecurity Engulfing Latin America?
    The persistently high homicide and crime rates throughout Central America, the Caribbean, and the horrific reports of violence inside Mexico, are symptoms of a broader climate of insecurity throughout the region, Mr. Brownfield reported.

Worldnews

  • '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 ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • 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

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • FRACKING: Pennsylvania Gags Physicians (Part 1 ...
    by Walter Brasch A new Pennsylvania law endangers public health by forbidding health care professionals from sharing information they learn about certain chemicals and procedures used in high volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing. The procedure is commonly known as fracking. Fracking is the c ...
  • Legislating Greater Wall Street Theft
    by Stephen Lendman Political Washington is Wall Street's best friend. Whatever crooked bankers want they get. Their business model features grand theft. Wealth’s amassed through fraudulent double-dealing. Lawmakers facilitate their racketeering. They're rewarded in kind. Only fleeced ...
  • Ray Adams is the man in the lastest Murdoch sc ...
    By Michael Collins Ray Adams is a name you will hear more frequently as the latest and perhaps most fatal Murdoch - News Corp. scandal emerges. When Murdoch was setting up his BSKYB cable network in England, he had some serious competition. ITV had a digital service called ITV Digital. The ...
  • The Criminal Class in Washington is Bipartisan
    by Stephen Lendman Inside the Beltway, it's evident daily. The political news website Capitol Hill Blue says "Nobody's life, liberty or property is safe while Congress is in session or the White House is occupied." Electoral politics also highlights its clear and present danger. It involves ro ...
  • American Morlocks: Another Civilian Massacre ...
    Nima Shirazi The bodies of Afghan civilians loaded into the back of a truck in Alkozai village of Panjwayi district of Kandahar (AFP) "Great shapes like big machines rose out of the dimness, and cast grotesque black shadows, in which dim spectral Morlocks sheltered from the glare...th ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Federal budget commentary and analysis
    The federal budget will leave Canadians peniless in more ways than one. Read CCPA's news release in reaction to the budget here. The following CCPA staff and research associates have posted their budget analysis on our blog (watch this space—we'll be posting links as they come in): Marc Lee: ...
  • Just Like Mike: Ontario Budget Analysis
    Over on our blog, Behind the Numbers, CCPA Research Associate Hugh Mackenzie shares his devastating critique of the Ontario budget. He suggests that Premier Dalton McGuinty’s ninth Ontario budget completes the job of cutting government down to size—a job started by the Mike Harris Conservatives ...
  • Brad Wall's Wonderful World of Laissez-Faire
    With the elimination of the Saskatchewan Film Employment Tax Credit and the certain demise of the film industry in the province, Premier Brad Wall asked: "If an industry cannot survive at all without a permanent taxpayer subsidy, should the taxpayers subsidize indefinitely?" The Saskatchewan Off ...
  • Tuition fees and accessibility to higher education
    This week, three hundred thousand students from 178 associations are boycotting their classes in Quebec to protest the provincial government's decision to raise tuition fees $325 a year for the next five years. CBC radio in Quebec City interviewed Erika Shaker, director of the CCPA's Education P ...
  • Jets and Jails or Jobs and Justice?
    Saskatchewan Director Simon Enoch discusses the upcoming federal budget and the CCPA's Alternative Budget with Prairie Dog's Gregory Beatty. Read more here. 

World Wide Hippies

  • A Worldwide Hippies CITIZEN DISPATCH March 30
    Welcome to CITIZEN DISPATCH. News and Commentary from Citizen Journalist around the globe. This Edition; Glenn Simpson Leeds, United Kingdom To find out how you can become the voice from your spot on the globe. Contact; joe@worldwidehippies.com News for the People by the People!
  • Play Hippie Trivia!
    A new Trivia Question will be posted every Friday at 6:00 pm (EST). Trivia is open all week so enter often. You do not have to be correct, even a comment gets you in! Win a Worldwide Hippies Bumper Sticker. You can post your answer in the comments section.   Answer to last question – ...
  • Americans fear for privacy as CIA expands spyi ...
    By freevideo.rt.com,New York, USA – Ten years ago biometrics, robotic spies and state surveillance were the makings of a sci-fi film starring Tom Cruise. Today many scenes from the Hollywood blockbusters have become an American reality. “You’re walking down the street and the camera that t ...
  • NYC Department of Education Bans Words Deemed ...
    From LeakSource – What are your children learning, or rather not learning, in the classroom? The New York City Department of Education is looking out for the feelings of its students by banning words they deem offensive. No, this isn’t the list of “Seven Words You Can Never Say ...
  • Worldwide Hippies Digest Friday: Natural remed ...
    Celebrating ‘Nights in White Satin’ How a Mellotron and a song put The Moody Blues on the charts. By Tad Dickens,roanoke.com – When Justin Hayward joined the Moody Blues about 45 years ago, he was joining a band that was trying — and failing — to be a rhythm and blues act. But ...

FourWinds10

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

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Vinod Khosla, Cellulosic Ethanol, and Biomass ...
    In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer a few questions about pathways to biofuels, cellulosic ethanol, and Vinod Khosla. I have to apologize this week, because the microphone was a bit away from my mouth, so the volume is lower than normal. Some of the topics discussed thi ...
  • Setting the Record Straight on U.S. Oil Reserves
    The Difference Between Oil Shale and Oil from Shale Formations There has been some confusion lately about the overall extent of U.S. oil reserves. Some claim that the U.S. has hundreds of billions or even trillions of barrels of oil waiting to be produced if the Obama Administration will simply ...
  • Are You Looking to Invest in the Google of Bio ...
    The Big Names in Biofuels So you’re hoping to strike it rich by investing in LanzaTech. Or Solazyme. Or KiOR. Or Gevo. After all, these companies have all recently had high-profile IPOs, and they are clearly “hot” given all of the press coverage devoted to them. So perhaps you ...
  • Oil Dependence — Tom Friedman’s False Narrative
    Twisting Facts to Support an Agenda Thomas L. Friedman, a New York Times Op-Ed Columnist, frequently writes on the topic of energy and the environment. One persistent habit he has is to omit certain important facts from a story — facts so important that they would greatly undermine the poi ...
  • Global Warming Primer & Natural Gas Vehicles — ...
    In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer questions about compressed natural gas (CNG) vehicles, and talk a little bit about global warming. Some of the topics discussed are: The environmental footprint of a CNG vehicle versus an electric vehicle operating on natural gas-deri ...

Discovery Educator Network

  • How Infographics Accelerate Learning | Edudemic
    Tags: infographics, learning, infographic, statistics, edudemic, visualliteracyby: Dean Mantz
  • Wonderopolis » Blog Archive » Do Llamas Really ...
    Comments:Every day Wonderopolis posts a question one might wonder about. There is a picture with the question and sometimes a video. You can read further to find the answer to the question. A great discussion starter and then practice reading skill by reading the answer then maybe do a summar ...
  • Make Your Images Interactive - ThingLink
    Comments:Take a picture and icons and make them interactive links.  - Dean MantzTags: interactive, ThingLink, engagement, creativity, linksby: Dean Mantz
  • Home | City Technology
    Comments:Partnership between college faculty, elementary teachers, and students.  Based on National Science Foundation  - Dean MantzTags: science, technology, elementary, exploration, learning, creativityby: Dean Mantz
  • Historical Movie Trailers with iMovie - HCSMobile
    Comments:Great use of Discovery Education videos and student creativity for student assessment.  Create video trailers to assess learning.  - Dean MantzTags: history, trailers, socialstudies, imovie, iPadby: Dean Mantz

Rodale News

  • Autism Rate Soars Nearly 80 Percent
    Autism rates are nearly 80 percent higher than they were just a decade ago, according to a new U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report released Thursday. The drastic increase is largely credited to improvements in detection, although mounting research suggests interplay between g ...
  • FDA: We Won't Ban BPA (For Now)
    Two weeks after a landmark study found hormone-disrupting chemicals like bisphenol A (BPA) are unsafe even in tiny doses, the Food and Drug Administration announced it would not ban the substance in food packaging, at least for now. Since the FDA BPA ban is not happening, food manufacturers wil ...
  • Major Clue Points to Farm Chemical's Role in M ...
    Italian researchers are the latest to identify a common chemical coating applied to corn seeds as a possible culprit in the colony collapse disorder epidemic that has been wiping out honeybee populations around the world. If the suspicions of more and more researchers prove true, chemical farm ...
  • Everyday Chemicals: What You Need to Know
    It seems like not a week goes by without a study linking a common household product—or its ingredients—to one serious health problem or other. Whether it's BPA in cans causing heart attacks and cancer or fake fragrances in personal care products inducing early puberty in girls, the deluge of wh ...
  • The One-Pot Herb Garden
    Sure, there's a science to growing herbs, but it's not hard to learn. Herbs are probably the easiest foods to grow if you've never gardened before and don't require much attention or space. If you have a sunny window or a small patio, you can grow multiple varieties and use them in your cooking ...

big think

  • Financial Instability as an Energy Source
    What’s the Big Idea?  When last we heard from him, experimental philosopher Jonathon Keats was building a celestial observatory for cyanobacteria. From their petri dishes, billions of these microorganisms would study images from the Hubble telescope, coming to conclusions unavailable to ...
  • The Eastern European Way: Childhood Independen ...
    Slovenia Donald Reindl, an Assistant Professor of English Translation in Slovenia, told me that one thing that Americans can learn from Slovenians is to give young children more independence. He said,  “The independence of Slovenian children at the primary level and the confidence that t ...
  • How to Bring Up Bébé, Not a Brat
    Former Wall Street Journal reporter Pamela Druckerman had one of those "Aha! moments" shortly after she moved to Paris in 2003. When Druckerman was sitting in a restaurant she realized "it was only my daughter who was throwing food and running around the restaurant and whining and just generally ...
  • Mega Millions and the Decline of the Casino State
    With the Mega Millions jackpot now at the $640 million mark, it’s no wonder that everyday people without any prior interest in playing casino-like games of chance are willing to plunk down a few dollars for the chance at the single biggest payday in lottery history. Despite nearly impossible ... ...
  • Booming Brazil Opens Its Doors to Foreign Exec ...
    What is the Big Idea? Felipe Leonard moved to Brazil from Argentina two years ago. He didn't speak the language and knew very little about the Brazilian market, but he managed to find a job as a general manager for a firm called Group Gamma.  “This country really intrigued me,” h ...

Information Liberation

  • Iran Like You've Never Seen It [Pics]
    "Some pictures from my homeland, Iran." Via r/pics...
  • The U.S. Military and Massacres
    The murderous rampage of U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales in Afghanistan has received much deserved media attention. Sgt. Bales*s shooting spree, killing 17 Afghan civilians, was quickly condemned by the Obama administration as a horrible incident a...
  • Felony Charges Dropped Against Man For Filming ...
    A North Port man arrested on a felony charge in January for taking video of police working a traffic stop will not be prosecuted, the State Attorney's office announced Thursday. Steve Horrigan, 57, was charged with felony eavesdropping and misdeme...
  • Army Officially Reprimands Soldier Who Spoke A ...
    The uniformed solider who endorsed Ron Paul during a rally in Iowa in January has been officially reprimanded by the US Army. After being cut short during a CNN interview on January 3, Reserve Corporal Jesse Thorsen, who has served two tours in ...
  • Judge acquits Hutaree militia members of consp ...
    DETROIT * A federal judge Tuesday acquitted seven Hutaree members of all conspiracy charges, concluding the government didn't have enough evidence that the group plotted a violent revolt that included killing a police officer and bombing a funeral. ...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

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

RFF Library

  • Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disas ...
    Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change | WHO | UNEP http://ipcc-wg2.gov/SREX/ [From a Washington Post article by Juliet Eilperin and Brian Vastag]  Scientists are increasingly confident that the uptick in heat waves and heavier rainfall is linked to human-caused greenhouse gas emiss ...
  • Carbon Pollution Standard for New Power Plants
    US EPA http://epa.gov/carbonpollutionstandard/ [From an EPA Press Release] Following a 2007 Supreme Court ruling, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today proposed the first Clean Air Act standard for carbon pollution from new power plants…The rulemaking proposed today only con ...
  • The Economic Impact of a Regional Low Carbon F ...
    Report title:  “Analysis of the Economic Impact of a Regional Low Carbon Fuel Standard on Northeast/Mid-Atlantic States: Final Report” From the Consumer Energy Alliance http://bit.ly/H4LJoL (report) http://bit.ly/H9oX1Z (press release) [From a Greenwire article by Amanda Peterka, sub ...
  • EPA Power Plant Standards: A Powerful Catalyst ...
    Union of Concerned Scientists / by Rachel Cleetus http://www.ucsusa.org/clean_energy/solutions/big_picture_solutions/epa-regulations-electicity-reliability.html [From a Climate Wire article by Tiffany Stecker, sub. req'd] The economic viability of coal is steadily eroding, as low natural gas pri ...
  • Poll: Americans Split on Energy vs. Environmen ...
    Gallup http://www.gallup.com/poll/153404/Americans-Split-Energy-Environment-Trade-Off.aspx [From Website]  Americans are about as likely to say production of energy supplies (47%) should be prioritized as to say environmental protection (44%) should be, a closer division than last year, when ene ...

Scientific American - News

  • New Images of Titanic Wreck Revealed
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  • Radioactive Iodine from Fukushima Found in Cal ...
    LONG BEACH, Calif. – Kelp off Southern California was contaminated with short-lived radioisotopes a month after Japan’s Fukushima accident, a sign that the spilled radiation reached the state’s urban coastline, according to a new scientific study. [More]
  • 'Earth Hour' Pauses at U.S. Border
    Consider an hour without power, from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. Saturday, local time. Organizers say as many as 1.8 billion will join in the symbolic environmental event worldwide. But if you live in the US, your neighbors may think you just blew a fuse.   [More]
  • Fossil Free: Microbe Helps Convert Solar Power ...
    A new " bioreactor " could store electricity as liquid fuel with the help of a genetically engineered microbe and copious carbon dioxide. The idea--dubbed " electrofuels " by a federal agency funding the research--could offer electricity storage that would have the energy den ...
  • Microbial Mules: Scientists Experiment With En ...
    Tiny robots that swim through our blood vessels attacking viruses and malignant cells have not quite crossed the line that separates science fiction from science--but there might be a way to jump-start their development. [More]

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Budget 2012 Reaction Round-Up
    Have other reactions to the 2012 federal budget to add to this list? Post them in the comments below. Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives: Federal budget drags Canada into age of austerity: Think tank: "This budget fails to addres ...
  • When Pomp Meets Circumstance
    Halifax - Worlds seemed to collide today outside the Nova Scotia Legislature, as the Nova Scotia Government and General Employees Union (NSGEU) local 22, the IWK Health Care Workers, staged a protest over recent cuts to youth-car ...
  • COMMUNIQUÉ - Des canadiens préoccupés perturbe ...
      29 mars 2012   POUR DIFFUSION IMMEDIATE   Des canadiens préoccupés perturbent le discours sur le budget Ils demandent aux conservateurs: « Où sommes-nous dans votre budget? »     Ottawa, ON – Des gens de divers horizons ont perturbé la lecture du&nbsp ...
  • Tony Tracy is the Media Co-op: Join him today ...
    As a co-op, our strength is our members. Over the next few weeks, we'll be sending our profiles of some of the people who support the co-op, from readers, to contributors to editors. Know someone involved with the co-op who we should profile? Send it to: info@mediacoop.ca. Tony Tracy is a bu ...
  • FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Concerned Canadians Di ...
      March 29, 2012   Ask Conservatives: “Where are we in your budget?”     Ottawa, ON - Concerned people from various walks of life disrupted the Minister of Finance’s reading of the Conservative budget today. The group stood up in the House of Commons gallery ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Conservatives or neo-fascists?
    David Seaton's News LinksI would think it important to separate this new "conservatism" from the traditional variety. Remember the American vice is to use language to hide meaning. I’ll quote myself from an earlier post:One of the most disturbing things about America is the incoherence of ...
  • Why are the Republicans so weird?
    David Seaton's News LinksThis blog post, by the excellent Thomas Edsall, makes some very interesting points about the make-up of the Republican electorate. In the GOP’s South Carolina primary, 98% of those who voted were white: this in a state where nearly 28% of the population is black. Rep ...
  • Mohammed Merah, the monster of Toulouse
    David Seaton's News LinksThe  question we must ask is; was Mohammed Merah really a trained terrorist or simply a nut?We know practically nothing about Mohammed Merah. As far as we can see he acted totally alone, with only a handgun: nothing complicated like explosives was involved.Right n ...
  • When is a conservative not a conservative?
    David Seaton's News LinksAt a Tea Party rally in Troy, Michigan, the GOP presidential contender Rick Santorum said this: "President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob!" To rapturous applause, Santorum went on: "There are good, decent men and women who go ...
  • China: capitalism, democracy and sovereignty
    David Seaton's News Links China is an authoritarian state, run in Leninist fashion by a communist party and at the same time a vital player, perhaps, alongside the United States, the key player in the international capitalist system. We wish it were more democratic. Perhaps we should be ca ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Maybe We Really Do Have the Government We Deserve
    I just turned on the TV for a few minutes and switched to MSNBC. Where I found Rachel Maddow going on and on about the fact that Mitt Romney once called the residents of Afghanistan "Afghanis" instead of Afghans. That got tedious after the fifth or sixth bit of snark, so I switched over to Fox. ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging - 30 March 2012
    On the left we have a cat and her shadow. On the right, we have a shadowy cat. Or, more accurately, a snoozing cat who wants to know when I'm going to put my stupid human toy away and let him get back to his nap. Need more cats? Coming right up. Here's the story of Vincent, a homeless stray w ...
  • Why Are American Conservatives More Anti-Scien ...
    Chris Mooney has a new book out, The Republican Brain, which I haven't read yet. But he has a long piece over on the right which says, basically, that conservatives are wrong about a lot of stuff, and they're wrong because their brains are wired differently than liberal brains: As I began t ...
  • My Lottery Fantasies Shattered
    Since I live in California, you're probably all wondering whether I've bought a lottery ticket yet. Answer: no, I haven't. But I tried! Marian and I wandered up to our local drug store last night to get some Easter stuff, and I figured it would be a good night to buy my first lottery ticket ev ...
  • How Saving Obamacare Could Rein In the Welfare ...
    The Supreme Court will be voting today in the Obamacare case (though we won't hear the results until June or so). One possible outcome is that they'll buy into the argument of the critics that Congress can regulate activity but not inactivity (i.e., it can't penalize you for failing to buy hea ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 312: How to be THE Black Friend
    Topics: April Movies and upcoming Trailers Kev & the born again virgin No blowjobs for life Why Jesus won’t let Kriss win the Mega Millions The Pope & why we let religious leaders get away with bigotry Religion isn’t an excuse for bigotry Pat Robertson’s greatest hits ...
  • The Roast of Joe Oliver
    After eviscerating the stories being passed through the media about Trayvon Martin by the Sanford Police department, the Orlando Sentinel and Craig Sonner, George Zimmerman’s lawyer, you would think any Zimmerman supporter would think twice about going on and confronting Lawrence.  Well, J ...
  • Lawrence O’Donnell Dropping Ether
    I have a general dislike for most of the media, particularly 24 hour cable news networks.  24 hours of non-stop coverage and yet I feel like we’re getting even less real information and becoming less informed the more we watch.  The same stories rehashed from hour to hour, the same guests recycl ...
  • IC 311: More Great Moments In White Privilege
    Topics: Bioware Mass Effect 3 update Michael Bay and the Ninja Turtles Extra raunchy & sexual comedy isn’t funny Dane Cook sucks President Obama Comments on Trayvon Martin The Trayvon Martin Case & White Privilege George Zimmerman’s friends defend him Racist don’t kil ...
  • IC 310: The Stop Michael Bay Foundation
    Topics: Movie news Disney bombs with John Carter Why John Carter was doomed from the beginning Michael Bay looks to rape the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles legacy Crazy lady goes nuts in class over evolution How to deal with crazy Trayvon Martin updates Larry Elder is a sad excuse for a man Toure ...

Simple Climate

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

e!Science News

  • Some corals like it hot: Heat stress may help ...
    A team of international scientists working in the central Pacific has discovered that coral which has survived heat stress in the past is more likely to survive it in the future. read more
  • Volcanic plumbing exposed
    Two new studies into the "plumbing systems" that lie under volcanoes could bring scientists closer to predicting large eruptions. read more
  • Images capture split personality of dense susp ...
    Stir lots of small particles into water, and the resulting thick mixture appears highly viscous. When this dense suspension slips through a nozzle and forms a droplet, however, its behavior momentarily reveals a decidedly non-viscous side. University of Chicago physicists recorded this surprisin ...
  • Titanium paternity test fingers Earth as moon' ...
    A new chemical analysis of lunar material collected by Apollo astronauts in the 1970s conflicts with the widely held theory that a giant collision between Earth and a Mars-sized object gave birth to the moon 4.5 billion years ago. read more
  • Honeycombs of magnets could lead to new type o ...
    Scientists have taken an important step forward in developing a new material using nano-sized magnets that could ultimately lead to new types of electronic devices, with greater processing capacity than is currently feasible, in a study published recently in the journal Science. read more

unEarthed

Brave New Climate

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

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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  • Mass Land Day demonstrations sweep Israel, Pal ...
    Tens of thousands of people participated in Land Day demonstrations in East Jerusalem, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, the Negev and the Galilee, as well as in Jordan and Lebanon. One person was killed, many were injured – several critically – and several were arrested in clashes with ...
  • A microcosm of ‘the Cause,’ Land D ...
    What could have been an inspiring display of purposeful collective action turned out to be the opposite. The Land Day commemoration at Qalandia checkpoint between Ramallah and Jerusalem was indicative of the state of the Palestinian cause, as supporters of different factions turned on each other ...
  • Scores injured at Qalandia in Land Day protest
    Some 1,000 Palestinians and internationals gathered outside the Qalandia checkpoint today to mark Land Day and to protest Israeli occupation, continued settlement of Palestinian land, and restrictions on freedom of movement. Israeli forces used rubber-coated bullets, tear gas, skunk water, and & ...
  • Why we refuse to believe certain abominations ...
    Why people have a hard time believing the abominations of religious edicts – and why Qarim retracted his My post dealing with Rabbi Colonel Eyal Qarim and his implied justification of rape during wartime received a large number of shocked and enraged comments, and for a simple reason. Most Jews ...
  • Tzipi Livni, another moral casualty of the Gaz ...
    This week she lost the leadership of Kadima, but Livni lost her voice when she supported Operation Cast Lead – and she wasn’t alone. In the euphoria immediately after Obama’s election night in 2008, and with Israel’s own election four months away, I wrote that “if t ...

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Matt Weidner Blog

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

  • Managing Poverty
    After 25 years you’d think we’d be used to it. But by the time I walked into the food bank …Continue reading »
  • On Protest and Power
    The rush to the middle is killing the historical political construct – Thomas Mulcair’s victory as the new leader of …Continue reading »
  • Public Defacement
    Our town hasn’t been used to such exposure in a long time. The ElectroMotive plant closing of a few weeks …Continue reading »
  • Right to Community – Breaking Out
    It’s in the nature of living that we grow accustomed to thinking of our daily activities in cyclical fashion. Given …Continue reading »
  • Right to Community – From Manipulation t ...
    Canadian democracy, like most advanced democracies around the world, displays the strong tendency to be concerned over what people believe …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

  • Tenure track faculty positions in risk science ...
    Just thought I’d circulate this on the 2020 Science network – please feel free to pass on the information to anyone who might be interested. We have finally started the process of looking for two junior faculty to join the Risk Science Center at the University of Michigan School of P ...
  • Risk Science – A personal perspective
    As Director of the University of Michigan Risk Science Center, it’s probably not surprising that I’m constantly being asked “what on earth is risk science?”  What is surprising is how hard it is to come up with a clear and concise answer.  Which is why I decided to spend ...
  • Emerging technologies at the World Economic Fo ...
    In an interconnected world, global issues demand integrative solutions.  It’s a statement that many people would agree with – in systems where associations between cause and effect are complex, you ignore synergistic inter-relationships between factors at your peril. But when it come ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    As you’ll have gathered from last week’s Lost in the Maize, I’ve been on the road this week.  In fact, I am writing this on the plane back to Detroit, looking forward to a quick wash, shave, sleep, and catch-up with family, before heading off to the Society for Risk Analysis annual meeting in Sa ...
  • Small gods and the art of technology innovation
    There’s something rather liberating about being asked to give a no-holds talk on your perspective on life, the universe and everything.  So when the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center asked if I would speak as part of their “Where do we go from here?” series, I jumped at it. N ...

Reader Supported News

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

War Resisters League

  • كفى دموعا!
    كفى دموعا! بمناسبة يوم الارض الفلسطيني 2012, تُنشر النسخة العربية للكاريكاتير”كفى دموعا!” الذي يربط حركات للتغير حول العالم من خلال تحليل من ابرز الاسلحة التي تُستدخدم ضدها: الغاز المسيّل للدموع. بشكل سهل التناول, يسمّي “كفى دموعا!” الشركات التي تربح من … Continue r ...
  • A Story and a Book
    by Matt Meyer [This article was originally published on 'New Clear Vision' on February 15th, 2012.] On the Nature of Violence and Nonviolence Amidst a bombardment of Black Bloc commentary, questions about the militarized nature of tear-gas toting police, and … Continue reading →
  • “Exigent times call for very strenuous r ...
    [The WRL blog is excited to feature a film review by Jeanne Strole, co-director of the A.J. Muste Memorial Institute, with which the War Resisters League shares a long history, as well as the building at 339 Lafayette St. in … Continue reading →
  • More Deaths and Injuries from US Tear Gas in P ...
    [This piece by Adalah-NY: The New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel was originally published here on January 15th, 2012.] US-made tear gas, manufactured by companies like Combined Systems Inc. (CSI), Defense Technology, and NonLethal Technologies, continues to be … Continue reading & ...
  • What does justice for Danny Chen look like?
    by Esther Wang [This piece first appeared on December 22nd as a note on Esther Wang's Facebook page.] In October, news broke that 19-year-old Danny Chen – a US Army private who was born and raised in Chinatown – had … Continue reading →

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 ...

k2p blog

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • FDA Decides Against Banning BPA In Food & Beve ...
    Bisphenol A -- better known as "BPA" -- is a chemical used in the epoxy resin linings of a lot of food and beverage containers. Studies have linked BPA to everything from increased risks of certain cancers to diabetes, reproductive abnormalities, and heart disease. But the Food and Drug Adminis ...
  • Third-Place Worst Company In America Winner To ...
    Last year, when Bank of America lost by the narrowest of margins to BP in the Final Death Match of the 2011 Worst Company In America tournament, we listened to readers who called for the creation of the first-ever Silver Poo trophy. That honor will remain in place for the 2012 tourney, and will ...
  • If Earth Day Is Too Much To Handle, Just Turn ...
    We know, you're too addicted to keeping your phone/tablet/laptop charged to go for an entire day without using any electricity, but how about for just 60 minutes during Earth Hour tomorrow? Come on, you can do it. We believe in you, and the world will be ever so grateful. Over at Consumer Repo ...
  • MasterCard, Visa Payment Processor Says Violat ...
    Earlier today, we wrote about how MasterCard and Visa had begun notifying banks about a possible data breach at a third-party company that processes credit card payments. Now more information has come out regarding when the breach occurred and how many people may be affected. The payment proce ...
  • Netflix Proves That It Still Cares About DVDs, ...
    In spite of the fact that Netflix has done an awful lot in the last year to distance itself from the disc-by-mail service that made it a household name, the company apparently still wants to be associated with the shiny discs. Earlier this week, Netflix purchased the URL DVD.com, which now re ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • World Bank Advocates Public Financial Disclosu ...
    Here at GAP, we were both shocked and pleased this morning to see that the World Bank advocates the public disclosure of financial assets by public officials as an effective anti-corruption measure. Disclosure by public officials of their income, assets and interests should be mandated if the f ...
  • A Flawed Process Can Produce a Flawed World Ba ...
    World Bank headquarters in Washington, DCOnce again it’s time to debate who should be the next World Bank President. By tacit post- World-War-II agreement, the World Bank President has always been an American, while European governments are entitled to produce the Managing Director of the Intern ...
  • Bradley Manning Supporter's Search-and-Seizure ...
    Wired: Politically Motivated Border Searches Could Be Unconstitutional, Judge Rules Summary: David House, an outspoken supporter and friend of Bradley Manning had his belongings searched and some of his electronics seized after returning from a vacation in Mexico in 2010. The ACLU filed suit a ...
  • Whistleblower Tour Stop at Mt. Holyoke Wrap-up ...
    Daniel Ellsberg, Jesselyn Radack, & Thomas Drake at the American Whistleblower Tour Mt. Holyoke stopLast night, a packed auditorium of nearly 300 people listened to the stories of three courageous human beings whose heartfelt belief in speaking the truth led each to become something they nev ...
  • Intelligence Whistleblowers Speak Out on Tour: ...
    Daniel Ellsberg, Jesselyn Radack, and Thomas Drake at the Mount Holyoke stop of the American Whistleblower TourThe Republican (MA): Whistleblowers Daniel Ellsberg, Thomas Drake and Jesselyn Radack Denounce Obama Administration’s Secrecy Crackdown Summary: GAP’s American Whistleblower Tour ...

UK Progressive

  • Three Things We Don’t Know About Obama’s Massi ...
    by Lois Beckett, ProPublica President Obama’s re-election campaign is reportedly building a massive database of information about potential supporters. The database seems to bring together information about supporters gathered from all branches of the campaign — everything from an individu ...
  • 5 Days in Denver: Rage Muted
    5 Days in Denver, an impressive film by first-time film producer and director Todd Cassetty, follows a small group of activists, young and old, as they attempt to disrupt the Democratic Party’s 2008 national convention. Calling themselves “Re-create 68,” these deeply committed political organize ...
  • Trayvon Is Everybody’s Son
    The killing of 17 year-old Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida, is shocking. Another young man, another teenager, killed senselessly. I cannot imagine the grief of Trayvon’s family. How does a family deal with this? Another young American family subjected to a horrendous act. I believe that the P ...
  • Why the Pentagon’s New Fighter Jet Will Now Co ...
    by Cora Currier, ProPublica The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is the Pentagon’s big plan for future warplanes — it’s slated to replace nearly all of the other tactical jets in the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps. But getting there is going to be slow and expensive, as a new government report detail ...
  • Why Mitt Won’t Be Able to Hide From His Primar ...
    Romney spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom couldn’t have said it better – or worse. When asked by CNN Wednesday morning whether Mitt was being pushed so far to the right by Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich that he’d be handicapped in the general election, Fehrnstrom said “you hit a reset button for the fal ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • In ice-ages, CO2 hides in the oceans (yes we k ...
    It comes as not even a tiny surprize that when someone asks “Where does all the CO2 go in an ice age?” that the answer is “The Ocean“. We already know temperatures rise 800 years before CO2 levels (Caillon 2003), and we know the oceans contain 50 times as much CO2 as the ...
  • Flannery admitted to Australian Academy of Sci ...
    What does it take to be a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science? Apparently, making wildly exaggerated predictions that are already known to be wrong, calling people names, and having a thin grip on the scientific method is just the stuff the Academy is looking for. Who knew? Science used ...
  • The Hour of Power: Celebrate Human Achievement ...
    Hello Earthians! It’s time to say thank you to Edison, to Faraday and Maxwell, it’s time to celebrate the Gift of Light. Saturday night at 8.30 – 9.30pm this week is the Hour of Power (Don’t confuse this with the splinter group celebrations called Earth Hour, where people ...
  • There go those gravy trains in Queensland & Vi ...
    Australia is stepping back from the cliff At last, some real progress. Both Queensland and Victoria are peeling back the warmist bureaucracy. I’m happy. The new premier of Queensland Campbell Newman, is scrapping many state carbon reduction schemes. Who knew that the head of Queensland&#82 ...
  • The people fightback against the ABC (re: Wend ...
    The voice of The Ben Bernank debunks the ABC. This was posted in Sept 2011. I don’t know why I didn’t see it til this week (h/t Jennifer Marohasy’s). “They want to regulate every aspect of your life, and they are prepared to lie to do it…” Great job here from ...

ReNew America

  • Media ignore longtime investigator's bid for C ...
    (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - The voters of Maryland's Eighth Congressional District have an opportunity in that state's primary next Tuesday (April 3) to help send to the House of Representatives a candidate who -- metaphorically speaking -- knows "where the bodies are buried" in this town. He has ...
  • The spiritual suicide of Postmodernism
    (Fred Hutchison, RA analyst) - This essay begins with a brief outline of the rise and collapse of Modernism. In the aftermath of that collapse, a number of disillusioned modernists committed a peculiar form of spiritual suicide. This may be responsible for some of the odd qualities of contempora ...
  • WP-ABC poll: Romney support continues to erode
    (Newsmax) - GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney's rating with the American public continues to erode, with just 34 percent viewing him favorably and 50 percent holding an unfavorable opinion, a new Washington Post-ABC News poll found. That's the lowest level for any leading presidential candida ...
  • Justices poised to strike down entire healthca ...
    (Los Angeles Times) - The Supreme Court's conservative justices said Wednesday they are prepared to strike down President Obama's healthcare law entirely. Picking up where they left off Tuesday, the conservatives said they thought a decision striking down the law's controversial individual manda ...
  • Scalia likens reading Obamacare to cruel and u ...
    (Free Beacon) - Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia humorously invoked the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution, which forbids cruel and unusual punishments, when discussing the Obamacare legislation during oral argument today at the Supreme Court...

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

  • 2012 Solar Storm = Long-Term Power Blackout
    Lawrence E Joesph, Patrick Geryl and myself would probably be the 2012 catastrophists that have reached the most people. Something we all proclaim is that our Sun is the most likely source of a 2012 disaster: Geryl: convoluted math and ancient texts prove that a 2012 disaster is certain Jose ...
  • Fermi Bubbles – Proof of Galactic Core Explosion?
    These two things are certain: Nothing has completely eradicated life on Earth (so far) Natural catastrophes may vary in size, type and location – but they always repeat An explosion from our Galactic Core is certainly survivable, although you might need a bunker and supplies to last ...
  • Mexico City Earthquake: Predicted!
    “State System for Civil (public) Protection Mega Simulation Setting: Presence and effect of an earthquake of 7.9 on the Richter Scale. Participants: General Public, Schools and Hospitals, both public and private, businesses, social and private agencies, as well as those dependents of ...
  • Australia: Biggest Quake in 15 Years
    As reported by news.com.au: The earthquake’s epicentre was recorded at shallow depth near Ernabella, 415km north west of Coober Pedy and about 320km south west of Alice Springs, just before 8pm. Geoscience Australia reported the quake could have been felt by people up to 500km away and d ...
  • Homeland Security Tracking Preppers?
    Survivalist and Prepper websites have been reporting that the Department of Homeland Security has been paying them a visit – for example Off Grid Survival: So of course I went and checked some of my sites, here are the totals since Jan 1, 2011: 2012 Connect   16 2012 Base    21 Survi ...

Facing South

One News Page

  • Plot to attack Pak Parliament foiled: Rehman Malik
    Pakistani authorities foiled a terrorist plot to attack Parliament during an address by President Asif Ali Zardari to a joint sitting of the National Assembly and Senate, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said today. Reported by Firstpost 3 hours ago
  • Gauri Khan attends Zarine Khan’s store opening ...
    The star wife, also an interior designer now, turned up alone at the opening of Zarine Khan’s designer clothes store for women. Reported by Firstpost 3 hours ago
  • Jayalalithaa demands entire power from K'kulam ...
    Chennai, Mar 31: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Saturday, Mar 31 demanded the entire 2000MW power to be generated by two units of Kudankulam Nuclear Plant (KNNP) be given to the state in view of massive power shortage.The state Reported by Oneindia 3 hours ago
  • Army chief names retired Lt Gen in his bribery ...
    Gen VK Singh has named retired Lt Gen Tejinder Singh in his complaint to the CBI on the alleged Rs 14 crore bribe offered to him to clear tranche Tatra trucks. Reported by IndiaTimes 4 hours ago
  • Uninor 2G plea echoes Sibal’s no-loss; Raja’s ...
    Uninor's review petition will embarrass P Chidambaram, but seems to agree with Kapil Sibal's zero-loss theory. It says Raja's actions made no difference. Reported by Firstpost 5 hours ago

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • US Missile Shields Demand a New Tough Response
    Wrapping up the “sidelines” meeting at the Seoul nuclear summit, Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama acknowledged by mutual consent they failed to get ahead in finding a common stance on the most acute but still unsolved issue of global dimension – the creation of some kind of “cooperative” Russia ...
  • Active Endeavour and Drug Trafficking
    We all are aware of the basic frameworks of the US response to barbaric 9/11 terrorist attacks. The Bush’s administration and NATO launched unprecedented media, diplomatic and military campaigns aimed to suppress the adversary inside its haunt in Afghanistan. But few remember that the US Operati ...
  • Useless ‘Secrets’ of the US Missiles in Europe
    The European component of the US Missile Defense System is one of the major irritants in the US-Russian relations. The American administration insists it is aimed to counter threats coming from Iran and North Korea. The Russians respond that geography, laws of physics and irrefutable facts clear ...
  • Mali Coup a New Step towards Global Resources Grab
    A coup erupted in Mali, a landlocked West African country, on March 22. The presidential palace, a number of the country’s state institutions, and the premises of the national broadcaster were seized by a mutinous group led by Capt. Amadou Haya Sanogo, and at the moment, authority in Mali ...
  • The Dangerous Mess In Syria Grows Murkier
    Syria’s murky, multi-level conflict continues to grow worse. So does public confusion here in the west as the US, British and some European media keep depicting Syria’s civil war as a simple passion play pitting the evil Asad regime in Damascus against mostly unarmed democratic protestors. We sa ...

BlogHer

  • No, Liberals Don't Hate Conservatives.
    Don't you just hate Republicans? Um...no. By the way, it's reallyignorant to think I'd hate someone just because they subscribe to different politics. It's akin to you asking if you hate me just because I'm Black. Sure, there are some racist pricks out there who see the world in terms of black ...
  • Game Changer: Jessica Moore
    Bio Jessica Moore, 26, is the co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of left brain / right brain, LLC. While earning a BFA in photography from NYU, she had several internships in the fashion industry, including in the Vogue fashion closet and photo department. After graduating, she joined the art ...
  • Balance and the Work-at-Home-Mom: Can It Be At ...
    [Editor's Note: I work from home. Most days, the balance works well. Then there are days where nothing goes right, including the balance of kids-and-work and my four-year-old will come to me and say, "Why are you still working? I want to play!" Me too. Old School/New School Mom has been dealing ...
  • What is Your Why and Who?
    So you’ve determined that you want to be self-employed and that you’re cut out for the entrepreneurial journey. Now what? The decision to be your own boss can come with a big rush.  Like a YORK Peppermint Patties commercial of the days gone by.  That’s fine for a while (like maybe an evenin ...
  • Vegan Borscht
    [Editor's Note: This Eastern European vegan soup is packed with nutrients! It's a great way to nourish yourself as Spring gets really cranking—all that bright red goodness will put color back in your cheeks. --Genie] Borscht Borscht Borscht! This version of borscht (there are many variati ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Milk Man Faces Multiple Felony Charges for Foo ...
    After destroying Rawesome Foods (which is being physically deconstructed right now), the Ventura County Health Department is now targeting other raw milk distribution centers in California. As Gumpert writes:
  • Here’s The Real Truth On Homework
    Research reveals primary school homework offers no real benefit – and only limited results in junior high school. Only senior students in Years 11 and 12 benefit from after-school work, associate professor Richard Walker said. “What the ...
  • Justice Scalia to Obama’s Solicitor Gene ...
    While Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr. made the Obama administration’s case for the constitutionality of the individual mandate in the health care law Tuesday, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia interrupted and lectured Verrilli about American ...
  • Too Much Sitting Can Kill You, Study Suggests
    For better health, try standing up more, a new study suggests. Those who spend 11 or more hours a day sitting are 40 percent more likely to die over the next three years regardless of ...
  • Our Right to Know: Organizations Take Action f ...
    This past month I’ve found myself neck deep in thinking and talking about genetic engineering. Not about the science, but about the current state of affairs. Recently the unrestricted approval of Round-Up Ready alfalfa, the ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Another day in West Virginia’s coalfield ...
    In this March 13, 2012 photo, a coal barge makes its way to the Bruce Mansfield Power Station in Shippingport , Pa.  (AP Photo) As I’ve read, listened to and watched the reactions the last two days from West Virginia political leaders reacting to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency&#8 ...
  • Sen. Rockefeller on EPA greenhouse gas proposa ...
    While the rest of West Virginia’s political leaders are busy bashing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, here’s what Sen. Jay Rockefeller had to say about the EPA’s proposed greenhouse gas emissions limits: We have known since the 2007 Supreme Court ruling that greenhouse ...
  • NY Times to Obama: Appeal Spruce Mine ruling
    The New York Times is urging the Obama administration to appeal last week’s ruling that overturned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency veto of the Spruce Mine permit: The Obama administration’s decision last year to revoke a permit for a huge mine in West Virginia inspired hope that m ...
  • Another weekend, another coal miner killed
    There’s bad news early this week out of the coalfields of Alabama, as the Birmingham news reports: Harold Ennis, 37, from the Nauvoo area of Walker County, died in the approximately 9:30 p.m. Friday incident, Walker County Coroner J.C. Poe said this morning. Poe said the reports he receive ...
  • Main defends MSHA performance at UBB mine
    This morning’s House committee hearing on the Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster didn’t exactly come at an easy time for MSHA chief Joe Main. Just four days ago, MSHA was forced to release highly critical findings of a NIOSH review that found Labor Department officials and inspectors cou ...

Daniel Miessler

  • The Free Will Argument You MUST See
    This is the single best presentation of Harris’ argument that I’ve ever seen him make. He finally addresses common counterarguments, such as: Well, I can decide to do x right now—and then I can change my mind–or even change my mind again! This proves I have free will. Thi ...
  • Quotations | The Browser
    We can study cars and all their physical relationships and know exactly how they work. It in no way prepares us to understand traffic via thebrowser.com Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related ContentURLs vs. URIs: Differences and ExamplesThe Posterous BookmarkletChrome ...
  • Monday
    via lh6.googleusercontent.com Ouch. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related ContentDucks in WaterThe First Result When Googling SantorumYouTube Downloader | Chrome Web StoreWho the Hell is AirSage?The Happiness Process
  • Robots and Jobs
    This fascinating article explores the very real issue of the rise of robotic technology and how it will effect the job market in coming years and decades. I feel the content rambles a bit, and fails to properly summarize, but it’s great stuff overall. Here’s my summary of the current ...
  • Selling my Previous MacBook Pro
    I am currently selling my previous MacBook Pro that is in great condition with the following specs: 2010 Model 2.8 GHz Core 2 Duo 8GB 1067 MHz DDR3 256GB SSD Drive I just reformatted it, put 10.7.2 on it, and it’s ready to go. Between the memory upgrade and SSD I put around $3,000 into [...]

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

  • A Worldwide Hippies CITIZEN DISPATCH March 30
    Welcome to CITIZEN DISPATCH. News and Commentary from Citizen Journalist around the globe. This Edition; Glenn Simpson Leeds, United Kingdom To find out how you can become the voice from your spot on the globe. Contact; joe@worldwidehippies.com News for the People by the People!
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    A new Trivia Question will be posted every Friday at 6:00 pm (EST). Trivia is open all week so enter often. You do not have to be correct, even a comment gets you in! Win a Worldwide Hippies Bumper Sticker. You can post your answer in the comments section.   Answer to last question – ...
  • Americans fear for privacy as CIA expands spyi ...
    By freevideo.rt.com,New York, USA – Ten years ago biometrics, robotic spies and state surveillance were the makings of a sci-fi film starring Tom Cruise. Today many scenes from the Hollywood blockbusters have become an American reality. “You’re walking down the street and the camera that t ...
  • NYC Department of Education Bans Words Deemed ...
    From LeakSource – What are your children learning, or rather not learning, in the classroom? The New York City Department of Education is looking out for the feelings of its students by banning words they deem offensive. No, this isn’t the list of “Seven Words You Can Never Say ...
  • Worldwide Hippies Digest Friday: Natural remed ...
    Celebrating ‘Nights in White Satin’ How a Mellotron and a song put The Moody Blues on the charts. By Tad Dickens,roanoke.com – When Justin Hayward joined the Moody Blues about 45 years ago, he was joining a band that was trying — and failing — to be a rhythm and blues act. But ...

reference frame

  • OPERA experiment spokesman resigned
    Tommaso Dorigo was minutes ahead of Reuters and Fox News or AFP when he told us that signore Antonio Ereditato resigned from his chair of the OPERA experiment's spokesman. The decision was apparently sparked by the superluminal blunder but there's no explicit quote available tha ...
  • Record temperatures and female Fields medalists
    A few days ago, the media were obsessed by a paper by Dim Coumou and Stefan Rahmstorf trying to hype hypothetical links between the increasing global mean temperature in recent decades and the increasing dominance of record hot temperatures relatively to record cold temperatures. The two ...
  • Czech president Klaus regrets declining presti ...
    According to the Prague Monitor, Czech and Polish president Václav Klaus spoke at a meeting of the Union of Czech Mathematicians and Physicists (which was founded exactly 150 years ago) and regretted the declining prestige of maths in the Czech society. The trained economist whom y ...
  • All interactions in the Universe
    This essay is a natural continuation of Masses of all objects in the Universe. However, to classify all forces in the Universe isn't quite as easy and straightforward as to enumerate all allowed eigenvalues of \(m^2\) – and even the latter task had a lot of subtleties, as we have seen. A ...
  • Echo JS-Kit fast comments will disappear on Oc ...
    Echo, the company that bought Haloscan a few years ago and runs the fast comments on this blog, the main platform for discussions on this blog, will stop the service on October 1st, 2012. They have been focusing on some fancier projects involving big consumers for quite some time. ...

Tatumba 2.0

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

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

  • Can't Stop the Big Mo
    Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
  • Merck: More Agony from Its Painkiller
    The costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either
  • Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
    Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
  • No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
    The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
  • Why Qualcomm Has Its Wallet Out
    The Elata and Flarion acquisitions reflect the outfit's need to keep abreast of tech's latest trends. Expect more of the same

Enviroblog

  • "You Can't Find What You Don't Look For"
    Our California fracking report continued to gain fantastic coverage this week with three large stories in Santa Cruz Weekly, Sacramento News and Review and Wines and Vines. Our president, Ken Cook, posted in Huffington Post on BPA in food packaging... [[ This is a content summary only. Visi ...
  • Toxic Chemicals in Food Packaging Must Go
    By Kenneth A. Cook, EWG President and co-founder Under mounting pressure from consumers, scientists, advocacy groups and lawsuits, the Food and Drug Administration is about to decide whether to ban the ubiquitous industrial chemical BPA (bisphenol-A)... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...
  • Ohio Regulators: Link Between Recent Quakes an ...
    By Thomas Cluderay, Assistant General Counsel Polluted water resources. Compromised housing values. And now, earthquakes? As companies increasingly rely on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to expand U.S. oil and gas operations, regulators are finally... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
  • Diapers, Pacifiers, Hazmat Onesies -- Parentin ...
    Last week, the New York Times ran a D-1 story titled "Is It Safe to Play Yet?" on parents working to detoxify their homes, featuring EWG. On the same day, the Los Angeles Times ran a story on fracking in... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, a ...
  • Diapers, Pacifiers, Hazmat Onesies -- Parentin ...
    Last week, the New York Times ran a D-1 story titled "Is It Safe to Play Yet?" on parents working to detoxify their homes, featuring EWG. On the same day, the Los Angeles Times ran a story on fracking in... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, a ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Annual Easter exodus gets underway
    The annual Easter exodus from Norwegian cities started on Friday but it may not be as extensive as in earlier years. Warm weather in recent weeks has resulted in a lack of snow for traditional spring skiing in the mountains, and there was lots on tap for those staying in Oslo. The week between P ...
  • Police ran budget surplus
    Norway’s state police system cut costs before lost year’s terrorist attacks to meet strict budgets, part of the reason why preparedness proved inadequate when the attacks hit. Now it’s emerged that the police ended last year with a budget surplus of NOK 227 million, setting off ...
  • Jets collide at OSL Gardermoen
    Two jets from Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) and one from Norwegian Air were involved in two separate collisions within the space of 40 minutes at Oslo’s main airport at Gardermoen Thursday evening. Norwegian is blaming SAS for one of the collisions, claiming that the SAS jet started backing ...
  • Støre drops controversial book plans
    Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre has been in hot water during the past two weeks over some alleged conflicts of interest. Now he’s decided to drop a ministry-financed book project that featured himself, after realizing it violated government purchasing and competition rules. Støre told No ...
  • Labour mayor indicted for assault
    The mayor of the scenic community of Vågå in the mountains of Oppland County was indicted Thursday on charges he sexually assaulted a girl under the age of 14 several times over a period of two years. Rune Øygard of the Labour Party faces a prison term as long as 15 years. Øygard, who’s be ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • The Permaculture Path to Sustainability
    by Emma Crameri The Permaculture Path to Sustainability illustrates the steps we can take to transition to a life with a smaller footprint on the earth. When I was completing my Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC), I wanted a simple way to plan the future of our house and garden. I was feeling ...
  • Bonus Features
    Click for larger view Courtesy: Marc Roberts
  • Trellises For Your Summer Food Crops
    If you are thinking of planting tomatoes, cucumbers, winter squash, peas, beans or any vining plant, it’s worth considering growing them vertically to save space in your annual garden area. Permaculture principles urge us to create no waste and to find multiple functions for whatever we d ...
  • Calling for Before/After Site Photographs for ...
    Many of you know of the excellent work of the filmmaker, John Liu. Amongst other projects, John documented, over many years, the amazing transformation of China’s massive Loess Plateau from being a significantly degraded, and dangerous land (the vegetation-free landscape made for seriously ...
  • Permaculture Research: The Reality of Food Forests
    A newly established swale food forest at PRI Australia, backdropped by an 8 year old food forest. Photo: Fraser Bliss We have heard about the wonders of permaculture food forests, whereby nature does all the work and we can simply walk around harvesting more food than we can possibly eat. B ...

Pointman's

  • Political fracture points and power vacuums.
    A political fracture point is a sudden and radical change in the political landscape. In classical times, it would be the collapse of an empire, such as the Roman Empire. In the last century, World War I resulted in the outright destruction of several, such as the German Empire, and ultimately f ...
  • Job opportunity, with lots of money to be made.
    You know those Huey helicopters that you see in all those old Vietnam war movies. They had this single bolt sticking out of the cabin, connecting it to the rotor blades. The troopers used to call it the Jesus Bolt, because if it failed, everyone on board was going home to Jesus. Well, the equiva ...
  • Job opportunity, with lots of money to be made.
    You know those Huey helicopters that you see in all those old Vietnam war movies. They had this single bolt sticking out of the cabin, connecting it to the rotor blades. The troopers used to call it the Jesus Bolt, because if it failed, everyone on board was going home to Jesus. Well, the equiva ...
  • The Climate Wars revisited or No truce with kings.
    This is a quiet little island of the internet. I write an article and it floats off into the blogosphere to end up Lord knows where. Some pieces sink without trace, foundering even before they’ve cleared the reef but others seem to take on a life of their own. There’s no way of predicting their& ...
  • The Climate Wars revisited or no truce with kings.
    This is a quiet little island of the internet. I write an article and it floats off into the blogosphere to end up Lord knows where. Some pieces sink without trace, foundering even before they’ve cleared the reef but others seem to take on a life of their own. There’s no way of predicting their& ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • The End of Sex Offender Registration for Louis ...
    Judge Rules That Sex-Offender Registration for “Crime Against Nature by Solicitation” Convictions Is Unconstitutional From Center for Constitutional Rights: Yesterday, one day after attorneys from the Center for Constitutional Rights argued that individuals convicted prior to August 2011 unde ...
  • OUR WIN – Letter from Women With A Vision Exec ...
    Yesterday, US District Judge Martin Feldman ruled that the Louisiana law that required sex workers to register as sex offenders is unconstitutional. Lawmakers had already changed the law last year, but this ruling is expected to help remove from the registry hundreds of women (and some men) who ...
  • From NYPD Spying to Trayvon Martin, By Jordan ...
    A version of this article originally appeared on The Progressive website.When I heard that my name was featured in a New York City Police Department report, I should have been outraged. I had followed revelations of NYPD spying, but it hadn’t occurred to me that they would come to New Orleans t ...
  • Crime Against Nature Court Hearing This Wednesday
    From our friends at Women With a Vision: As many of you know, last June we had a huge legislative victory in our work to challenge Louisiana’s Crime Against Nature statute, which mandated fifteen years or more of sex offender registration for women who would have otherwise been charged with s ...
  • Eight Anti-Nuclear Activists Arrested at Enter ...
    From a press release from the Safe And Green Energy (SAGE) Alliance: Group demands: “No Nuke Business as Usual for March 22nd” and "Shut Down Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant" An affinity group of eight anti-nuclear activists with the New England-based Safe And Green Energy (SAGE) Alliance, ...

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/mar/3 ... us-denmark The English Defence League (EDL) wants to build 'stronger ties' to other European far-right organisations. Photograph: Mike Kemp/In Pictures/Corbis Far-right groups from across Europe, including members of the English Defence League (EDL ...
  • Zionist Personalities We Should Know About • R ...
    Micheal K. wrote: I don't know what threshold event got him banned, but it seems as if he has a pattern of ad hominem attack and a tendency to selectively ignore major elements of the argument he is engaged in. Maybe he is not capable of playing well with others for personal reasons. YoMomma ...
  • Zionist Personalities We Should Know About • R ...
    Ok, I just want to make a point about Giuliani.... I think he is going kinda overboard with the Christian bashing. However, he has an excellent show and I have been listening too him for about a year. I love how he picks a historical topic and discusses it rather then doing the typical paytr ...
  • Zionist Personalities We Should Know About • R ...
    Ognir wrote: Scott he was banned several times already, not sure why If he behaves himself, let him back for a week and we'll see I've lifted the ban on Yo Mama.Statistics: Posted by sullivan — Sat Mar 31, 2012 5:24 am
  • Zionist Personalities We Should Know About • R ...
    Michael K. wrote: Some of ZCF's pre-ban (not his first ban, but his second or third) highlights: viewtopic.php?f=25&t=15147&start=195 checkitb4uwreckit: I bet you're a wrinkly 65 year old geezer Titzpatrick. That's why you cling so desperately to your Christ-cult....That the best insu ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Shell’s Spill Response Plan Is Approved by U.S ...
    The U.S. Department of the Interior has approved Shell Oil’s plan to respond to an oil spill in the Arctic’s Beaufort Sea, clearing the way for exploratory drilling this summer. The decision follows similar U.S. government approval for a spill response plan in the Chukchi Sea, and Shell said tha ...
  • New EPA Rules Will Limit CO2 Emissions from Po ...
    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expected to impose a limit on greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants, a strict new regulation that could prevent conventional coal-fired power plants from being built. In new rules to be announced as soon as Tuesday, the EPA will require ...
  • Auction of Ivory in China Spurring Illegal Mar ...
    A new report says that the illegal trade in ivory has risen sharply in China in recent years, with nearly 90 percent of the ivory purchased at “legal” auctions obtained from illegal sources. According to the report, published by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), a decision by the Con ...
  • Denmark Aims to Achieve 35 Percent Green Energ ...
    The Danish government has approved a series of goals to significantly reduce its carbon emissions and increase its use of green energy by 2020, an “ambitious green transition” officials say will affect all levels of society. The agreement, which was approved by parliament last week, targets cutt ...
  • Shunning Nuclear Power Will Lead to a Warmer World
    A physicist argues that if we allow our overblown and often irrational fears of nuclear energy to block the building of a significant number of new nuclear plants, we will be choosing a far more perilous option: the intensified burning of planet-warming fossil fuels. BY SPENCER R. WEART

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

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

Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Nankai quake scenario menaces Pacific coast
    Wide swaths of the Pacific coastline stretching from Honshu to Kyushu may be hit by tsunami over 20 meters high if a newly feared megaquake occurs in the Nankai Trough, a Cabinet Office panel warned Saturday. The new warning comes after the panel revised its 2003 estimate to reflect new findin ...
  • SDF gets orders to intercept missile
    Defense Minister Naoki Tanaka ordered missile units Friday to intercept a rocket expected to be launched by North Korea next month if it flies over through Japanese airspace. The interception order came as defense officials in South Korea said the same day that North Korea on Wednesday test-fi ...
  • Don't dance to U.S. tune on World Bank presidency
    There is an old English expression condemning people who rush in where angels fear to tread. So very sad — Jun Azumi, Japan's finance minister, pushed past the angels in declaring that "it is quite possible to consider" supporting Jim Yong Kim, President Barack Obama's nominee for presiden ...
  • Okuda tapped as new JBIC president
    State-owned Japan Finance Corp. said Friday it plans to appoint former Toyota Motor Corp. President Hiroshi Okuda as chairman of Japan Bank for International Cooperation, which it will spin off Sunday. By tapping the 79-year-old Okuda, a well-connected and internationally known industrialist, ...
  • Murakami in 2nd after short at worlds; fall pu ...
    Mao Asada botched her trademark triple axel to place fourth Thursday in the women's short program, leaving her with an uphill task in her bid for a third gold medal at the world championships. Russia's Alena Leonova topped the program with 64.61 points, while teenager Kanako Murakami took seco ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Federal budget worsens inequality, high unempl ...
    The 2012 federal budget, which purports to deliver “jobs, growth and long-term prosperity,” does nothing of the kind. Make no mistake, this is an austerity budget— spending cuts outpace new measures 7:1— that worsens income and inter-generational inequality, destroys jobs and locks in a slow gro ...
  • Budget 2012: Pennywise But Pound Foolish
    Marc, Andrew and Toby have posted substantial analyses of yesterday’s federal budget, but here are my two cents about its economic forecasts. Table 2.1 envisions a 7.5% unemployment rate this year, slightly above last year’s rate of 7.4%. That seems like an admission of failure from a budget ost ...
  • Lockouts Almost Derail GDP Growth
    Statistics Canada reported today that economic growth dropped to a bare 0.1% in January. The New Year began with Rio Tinto locking out former Alcan employees at Alma, Quebec, and Caterpillar locking out former Electro Motive employees at London, Ontario. Closing these major facilities contribute ...
  • OAS, the Budget, and the Baby Boomers
    The Budget justifies raising the age of eligibility for OAS and GIS on the grounds that  the long-term fiscal sustainability of the program is being undermined by rising life expectancy. No estimates of savings are provided. They will be very modest. Given that average life expectancy at age 65 ...
  • CLC Analysis of the 2012 Federal Budget
    Introduction Budgets are all about choices. With unemployment and underemployment still at very high levels and a shrinking middle-class, the federal government could and should have laid the basis for a sustained and broadly shared economic recovery. The federal government should be taking a la ...

ReDress

  • Marwan Barghouti: Palestine's Nelson Mandela
    Uri Avnery views imprisoned Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti's message to the people of Palestine, which he has sent from his prison cell, in which he calls for an end to the "peace process" smokescreen for continued Israeli land thefts and a total boycott of Israel.
  • Israel's occupation: who is most "out of touch ...
    Alan Hart argues that while the UN Human Rights Council may well be a hypocritical body because it chooses to ignore numerous human rights abuses in Africa and Asia, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's attack on it for its decision to investigate the impact of Israeli colonies on the Pal ...
  • Who is normal? The case for "universal standar ...
    Lawrence Davidson argues for the adoption of universal standards of civilized normality based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. On that basis, he says one would find Israeli society chronically abnormal.
  • Ali Abunimah and Gilad Atzmon at the OK Corral
    Roger Tucker debunks recent accusations of "anti-Semitism" made by a group of self-styled Palestinian solidarity activists, led by American academic Ali Abunimah, whom he argues are driven not only by economic and professional self-interest, but are arguably shabbas goyim, non-Jewish elements of ...
  • Israel preparing for war with Iran
    Neve Gordon argues that recent Israeli raids on Gaza were not just about allocating more money to the defence budget but about preparing for war with Iran.

Physics Today

  • Recycling plastic waste into carbon fibers
    New Scientist: Amit Naskar and coworkers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee have found a way to convert the polyethylene in used plastic bags and other plastic waste into carbon fibers that can be fine-tuned for specific applications. Published in the journal Advanced Materials, their ...
  • Chilean astronomer publishes first ALMA findings
    BBC: Cinthya Herrera, a doctoral student from Chile, is lead author on the first science paper to be based on observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope. In their paper published last month in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics, Herrera and coworkers ...
  • Telescope images yield largest-ever portrait o ...
    BBC: A colossal picture of the Milky Way galaxy, 10 years in the making, has been created from thousands of individual images captured by two ground-based telescopes developed by the UK. "There are about one billion stars in there—this is more than has been in any other image produced by s ...
  • Environmental conference addresses global sust ...
    New York Times: This week the Planet Under Pressure conference in London brought together nearly 3000 people to discuss humanity's impact on Earth. "Without urgent action, we could face threats to water, food, biodiversity and other critical resources," wrote conference cochairs Lidia Brito and ...
  • Lightning produces neutrons, according to new ...
    Arstechnica: Russian scientists have found that as many as 5000 low-energy neutrons per cubic meter are produced every second by lightning strikes. The results of their research were published last week in Physical Review Letters. Based on research begun in 1985, the new experiment used three de ...

Revolutionary Politics

  • Norway massacre is a false flag
    by Sung (Posted Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:54:46 GMT) 686. Camp Utoya and Camp Casey (9/15/2011) The tyrant of the NWO hate peace loving people that much that they put them as hitting target in their plot. We saw it in Norway killing (7/22/2011) and Hurricane Katrina event. (9/24/2005, a failed plot) ...
  • CIA Spy Captured Giving Nuclear Bomb To Terrorists
    by Sung (Posted Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:50:35 GMT) 693. Eric Holder and Operation “Fast and Furious” (11/14/2011) In last article, I said, “The nuclear disaster hadn’t developed further because their main case failed to go through.” The main plot is to kill Kat Hak Sung in a framed case. In recent ...
  • Ron Paul names US internal Enemies
    by Sung (Posted Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:45:15 GMT) href="#">href="#">href="#">href="#">Ron Paul says U.S. is turning into a 'fascist system' dominated by government and businesses By Associated Press Last updated at 7:02 AM on 19th February 2012 'We've slipped away from a true Republic,' Paul said. ...
  • News media won't report
    by Sung (Posted Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:37:51 GMT) In 2010, as the nation slowly ground its way from Great Recession to recovery, 93 percent of national income gains went to the richest 1 percent of Americans. As Reuters's David Cay Johnston pointed out today, this makes the 2010 recovery quite diff ...
  • Media suppress Ron Paul
    by Sung (Posted Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:30:23 GMT)

Peakwater

  • Farmers urged to undertake rainwater harvesting
    “Farmers are advised to undertake rainwater harvesting in agriculture lands as it would dilute the fluorosis content in the ground water and would improve the ground water table. Presiding over the farmers’ grievances meeting, Mr. C.N. Maheshwaran, Collector said that to encourage the farm ...
  • China to flood nature reserve with latest Yang ...
    “China’s Three Gorges Corp. on Thursday marked the beginning of construction for a dam that will flood the last free-flowing portion of the middle reaches of the Yangtze, the country’s longest river. The 30 billion yuan ($4.75 billion) Xiaonanhai dam is decried by environmental ...
  • Zimbabwe: Govt to De-Commission Boreholes
    “The typhoid outbreak has affected more than 3 400 people who have been treated at council clinics. In an interview, Harare health services director Dr Prosper Chonzi said some of the boreholes likely to be sealed off include those situated near graveyards in Warren Park. He, however, said ...
  • Re-mapping the Amazon
    “Brazil’s River of the Dead is teeming with life, tropical birds, fish and turtles. The river is one of the hundreds of tributaries of the mighty Amazon. But even this remote region is being developed. Not far from this part of Brazil construction has begun on the huge and hugely con ...
  • Coastal California Fog Carries Toxic Mercury, ...
    “Yet over time, the researchers’ analysis suggests, significant amounts of methylmercury could be deposited along the coastline, nearly all of it from fog during the rainless summer months. “This toxic form of mercury is basically raining down in a place where redwood forests, for example, ...

D. Kucinich

  • Davis-Besse News Alert: Kucinich Responds to N ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), who has consistently fought for stronger oversight of Davis-Besse to protect the people of Ohio, released the following statement after the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) overturned a decision made by the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board to accept testim ...
  • Kucinich: Supreme Court Ruling will be the Nex ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), who provided the pivotal vote in the House to pass the Affordable Care Act, today explained the Supreme Courts’ ruling will simply be the next step in the inevitable path towards single-payer health care. Today, the Supreme Court began hearing arguments as it ...
  • Kucinich Calls for SEC Investigation of Potent ...
    Provides Detailed Analysis of Discrepancies Which Could Constitute “Material Misrepresentations” Washington D.C. (March 22, 2012) -- Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), the Ranking Member of the Regulatory Affairs Subcommittee, today requested that Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair ...
  • Kucinich Analysis: Fast-Tracking Southern Segm ...
    Upon reports that the Obama Administration will “fast-track” the southern segment of the Keystone Pipeline between Cushing, Oklahoma and the Gulf Coast, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following analysis: “Americans need relief from high gas prices. However, approval of th ...
  • Kucinich Welcomes Cleveland, Midwest Steel Ind ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), a member of the Congressional Steel Caucus, today welcomed the President and CEO’s of Cleveland’s ArcelorMittal and Cliffs Natural Resources at a hearing examining the state of the steel industry in the United States. Kucinich discussed the importance of ...

Authentically Wired

  • You didn’t think any elected official an ...
    …HELLO … You didn’t think any elected official anywhere is willing to subject themselves to the same rules, regulations, penalties, injustices they inflict upon us… did you …? (Update) Oklahoma legislators exempt themselves from drug testing   Posted: 27 Mar 2012 03:26 PM PDT..Posted ...
  • … For him YES … For you if the Sup ...
    … For him YES … For you if the Supreme’s repeal the health care act … NO     Did the US Taxpayers Foot the Bill for Cheney’s New Heart? – - – Yes   Submitted by BuzzFlash on Tue, 03/27/2012 – 9:07am. …RICHARD A. STITT FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT…http:// ...
  • we” automatically accept and believe eve ...
    Think about it … “we” automatically accept and believe everything government informs us they have power to control or demand of us or from us … It’s past time “we” stop being passive and authoritatively demand of them show us the proof and some simple piece of paper they dreamed up in the back r ...
  • … Look what Mon$anto has cooked up just ...
    … Look what Mon$anto has cooked up just for you …   Is This More-Dangerous-than-Aspartame Sweetener Hiding in Your Food?     READ COMPLETE ARTICLE HERE … Posted By Dr. Mercola | March 28 2012 …http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/03/28/ ...
  • “we” have yet to put our foot down
    … What do “we” expect … “we” have yet to put our foot down and in a clear concise understandable manner tell them … HELL NO … AZ legislators again say yes to free game tickets By PAUL DAVENPORT Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A year after the Fiesta Bowl scandal embarrassed legislators, at ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Beyond Bigfoot: the science of cryptozoology
    Anyone who doubts cryptozoology, which in Greek means the "study of hidden animals," should remember the many lessons of the past 110 years: the mountain gorilla (discovered in 1902), the colossal squid (discovered in 1925, but a full specimen not caught until 1981), and the saola (discovered in ...
  • Some toilet paper production destroys Indonesi ...
    American consumers are unwittingly contributing to the destruction of endangered rainforests in Sumatra by purchasing certain brands of toilet paper, asserts a new report published by the environmental group WWF. The report, Don't Flush Tiger Forests: Toilet Paper, U.S. Supermarkets, and the Des ...
  • Big trees, like the old-growth forests they in ...
    Already on the decline worldwide, big trees face a dire future due to habitat fragmentation, selective harvesting by loggers, exotic invaders, and the effects of climate change, warns an article published this week in New Scientist magazine. Reviewing research from forests around the world, Will ...
  • Rainforests need massive finance, but REDD mus ...
    A proposed mechanism to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by protecting tropical forests has evolved considerably since it started to gain momentum during the 2005 climate talks in Montreal. Known then as 'avoided deforestation', the concept was simple: pay tropical forest countries to keep their ...
  • The dark side of new species discovery
    Scientists and the public usually rejoice when a new species is discovered. But biologist Bryan Stuart has learned the hard way that the discovery of new species, especially when that species is commercially valuable, has a dark side-one that could potentially wipe out the new species before pro ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Oyster is the world for honoured NZ scientist
    Home education, a love of the sea and a passion for the famous Bluff oyster have brought a New Zealand marine biologist to Paris, where she is being feted among the ranks of leading young scientists.Zoe Hilton, 33, has been honoured...
  • Pesticides sting life out of bees
    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 huge question mark over the...
  • Scientists hope pest-repelling GM wheat will w ...
    The world's first genetically modified crop that has been engineered to emit a repellent against insect pests is now growing in a small patch of land in the Hertfordshire countryside.Scientists have created the "whiffy" wheat in...
  • Sir Paul Callaghan farewelled in Wellington
    It was Sir Paul Callaghan's favourite word, resonance - which he used to describe his life-long work in physics - that was also used to describe his life and legacy, a friend told a packed church at his funeral today.Sir Paul died...
  • Sir Paul Callaghan to be farewelled today
    High-profile New Zealand scientist Sir Paul Callaghan will be farewelled at a funeral in Wellington today.Sir Paul died at his Wellington home on Saturday, aged 64, after a long battle with bowel cancer.The New Zealander of the...

The Bovine

  • And in-depth look at raw milk through the stor ...
    Brittany Devanyi has written one of the most extensive articles on Michael Schmidt and raw milk that we’ve seen for a long time. It’s just been published in the quarterly journal Maisoneuve: “AS I DRIVE down a muddy, narrow road, past acres of … Continue reading →
  • A new Canadian raw milk consumer advocacy grou ...
    A guest post from Margo McIntosh: A new consumer group has formed to coordinate the efforts of many across Canada to make headway with raw milk legislation.  There is a working group consisting of consumers from various walks of life … Continue reading →
  • Sean McGivern and Michael Schmidt are forming ...
    From Jim Algie, in the Owen Sound Sun Times: “It’s worth noticing that Grey County farm policy reformer Sean McGivern prefers to talk these days about a “readjustment” in agricultural supply management. Considering the direction from which he has come, … Continue re ...
  • Michigan wants to kill outdoor pigs but is Can ...
    You’ve no doubt read the stories in recent days about how Michigan’s Natural Resources Department has mysteriously concluded that most if not all of the free range (non CAFO) pigs in the state are an “invasive species” and therefore need … Continue reading →
  • Growing threats to human life on earth
    Alex Jones thinks GMO foods are part of a “soft kill” solution: From Willie Nelson and Anna Lappe on Reader Supported News: “Why we must occupy our food system Our food is under threat. It is felt by every family … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Violence, Firebombings Erupt as Spain Announce ...
    My friend Bran who lives in Spain writes ... Hello Mish Here are thoughts from the last couple of days on the strikes, protests, and violence in the wake of more austerity plans by Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy. Pro-government news played down the strike to a virtual non-event, givin ...
  • Canada Eliminates The Penny
    In a welcome, albeit long overdue attack of common sense, Canada Eliminates Penny Costing Penny-and-a-Half to Make. Canada will withdraw the penny from circulation this year, saving taxpayers about C$11 million ($11 million) annually and forcing retailers to round prices to the nearest nickel, ...
  • Question on Jobs: How Many Does It Take to Kee ...
    John Mauldin pinged me with a question on jobs and demographics from one of his readers. Hello John. In past letters you have cited the need to create 125,000 jobs per month to stay even with the growth rate in the labor force. Dick Hokenson of ISI Research has recently published reports sug ...
  • The Dating Game: Michael Pettis Challenges The ...
    The Economist says "China’s GDP, measured in nominal dollars, will be the world’s largest by 2018". Michael Pettis at China Financial Markets disagrees and says I would like to make a bet with The Economist. I recently read in The Guardian an article by enthusiastic orientalist Martin Jacques ...
  • Obama Budget Defeated 414-0; Obama vs. Ryan Bu ...
    Not a single Democrat endorsed the budget proposed by president Obama. The scorecards reads as follows Obama budget defeated 414-0. President Obama's budget was defeated 414-0 in the House late Wednesday, in a vote Republicans arranged to try to embarrass him and shelve his plan for the rest o ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- March 14 ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “In your reaction to an imagined attack on your country or an insult to its government, you draw closer to the herd for protection, you conform in word and deed, and you insist vehemently that everybody else shall think, speak, and act together. And you fix your adoring g ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- March 12 ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “When there is change, it must not alter the content of what propaganda is driving at, but in the end must always say the same thing. For instance, a slogan must be presented from different angles, but the end of all remarks must always and immutably be the slogan itself. ...
  • Insiders ‘Out’ Al Jazeera Propaganda Machine o ...
    Time to ‘Out’ Others as Well During the last few days I have been watching events unfold on the Al Jazeera front, and I must say, despite the exposé coming out way too late, I am delighted to see this propaganda machine exposed. The headlines read: Key staffs from Al Jazeera’s Beirut Bureau have ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- March 9, ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to. Consequently, the greater the mass it is intended to reach, the lower its purely intellectual level will have to be.” – ...
  • Economic Warfare & Strangling Sanctions: Punis ...
    Punishing the Population into Hunger The economic sanctions imposed upon Iran are having the desired effect of punishing the population through hunger and economic strangulation, making life miserable for the many. As tensions increase between the “international community” (the West) and Iran, t ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

  • Diana Shipping Continues Buying Spree
    Hot on the heels of yesterdays announcement from NYSE-listed dry bulk shipowner Diana Shipping (NYSE: DSX) calling for the constructing of two ice class Panamax dry bulk carriers, the company [...]
  • Ships Mix With Politics in Navy Plan
    By Nathan Hodge, WSJ Washington Wire Blog The Navy’s long-term shipbuilding plan is usually an item that’s only of interest to budget wonks. But in this year’s election campaign, it’s [...]
  • Pushing the Boundaries of Offshore Technology ...
    Very few films really portray what it looks and feels like to work in the offshore industry, but Maersk clearly put some effort into this and did an amazing job [...]
  • TEEKAY’s Global Tanker Business [INFOGRAPHIC]
    This might be the most substantial infographic we’ve ever seen from the shipping industry, and it gives an interesting top-down look at what a global shipping company like TEEKAY looks [...]
  • West Africa Waters Receive “High Piracy Risk” ...
    In response to the escalating number of pirate attacks off the coast of West Africa, the International Bargaining Forum (IBF) – the body involving the International Transport Workers’ Federation and [...]

Press TV

  • Britons mark Palestinian Land Day
    Hundreds of British people have gathered outside the Israeli regime’s embassy in London to mark the Palestinian Land Day as Israeli forces killed one Palestinian and injured over 300 others in Palestine.
  • 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.
  • 99-percenters hold demo in NYC
    Occupy Wall Street protesters have staged a rally in front of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) to decry economic inequality in the United States.
  • Cairo protesters tear down junta's wall
    Egyptian protesters have brought down a security wall in central Cairo, constructed by the military rulers in December last year to keep demonstrators away.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

  • Fred Flintstone's bed uncovered
    Writing in this week's Science, University of Witwatersrand palaeontologist Professor Lyn Wadley and her colleagues describe an excavation they have carried out in a cave site called Sibudu in South A...
  • Gauging photo fakery
    A technique to quantify the perceptual impact of photo-manipulation on fashion shots has been developed by US scientists. On a daily basis, billboards, magazines and websites dish up a deluge of wri...
  • Antibody-based vaccine for HIV
    A modified virus encoding an anti-AIDS antibody can protect animals from HIV infection. An estimated 7000 new cases of HIV occur each day, the majority of them in developing countries where access t...
  • Nerve transplants wire themselves into host brains
    Embryonic nerve cells transplanted into a recipient brain survive, wire themselves up and can even correct a metabolic disorder in vulnerable individuals, scientists have discovered. Successful brai...
  • First seafaring fisherman
    The world's oldest tackle, together with evidence of deep-sea fishing 40,000 years ago, has been unearthed in East Timor. Early human migrants, including those who first set foot in Australia 50,000...

Nick Turse

  • A female inmate at a Mazar-e Sharif prison has ...
    A female inmate at a Mazar-e Sharif prison has just been released, prompting Maida-Khal, 22, to cry out because she is still trapped in her cell. When Maida-Khal was 12, she was married to a man of about 70 who was paralyzed. ‘I was so young, I couldn’t carry him because he was so heavy, so his ...
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  • npr:Climate, Controversy And Strangers On A ...
    npr: Climate, Controversy And Strangers On A Plane He looked like a former linebacker, tall and solidly built. After stowing his wife’s luggage in the overhead, he squeezed past me, sat down and looked straight at the astronomy textbook I was reading. “You’re a scientist?” he asked. “Are you i ...
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