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Scoop - NZ

• Saudi Arabia’s free pass
  Saudi Arabia’s record is no better than Iran’s when it comes to respect for human rights. Yet the international community always manages to overlook the Wahhabi monarchy. Could this be connected with Saudi Arabia’s status as top oil-producing country and trusted ally of the US? Saudi Arabia can ...
• Coalition requests return of Obama's peace prize
  The signers of this petition include an array of peace groups and peace activists based in the United States.   The undersigned wish to endorse and support the investigation that Stockholm’s County Administrative Board has reportedly begun based on it supervisory role over the Nobel Foundation a ...
• Stratfor credibility takes a hit
  Papic is still Stratfor’s expert on Russia (for the BBC, he is the expert on all of Europe). In addition to his broadcasts and byte-sized commentaries in publicly accessible sources, it is now possible to read Papic’s internal reports to Friedman on what has been happening inside Russia. Here is ...
• Nth. Korea agrees to curb nuclear work
  North Korea announced on Wednesday that it would suspend nuclear weapons tests and uranium enrichment and allow international inspectors to monitor activities at its main nuclear complex, a step that raised the possibility of ending a diplomatic impasse that has allowed the country’s nuclear pr ...
• Saudi Silent Spring
  Real journalism does not take sides. But it does try and accurately cover everything that is going on—not just those examples that serve one particular agenda. Some time back, we told you about the uprising in Saudi Arabia that the media ignores. That continues. Another is in Bahrain. And ano ...

Independent - London

• 15 killed after trains collide in Poland
  Two trains collided head-on in southern Poland, killing at least 15 people and injuring 54, in one of the worst rail disasters in the country in recent years.Related StoriesItaly erupts over plans for high-speed rail linkPolitics in Russia are no longer wholly predictableCosta captain not wearin ...
• Italy erupts over plans for high-speed rail link
  The fight goes on. For more than 20 years, the people of Val di Susa, a spectacular Alpine valley on the Italian border with France, have been campaigning to prevent the construction of a high-speed train track under their mountains to France which they claim would cause vast environmental dama ...
• Politics in Russia are no longer wholly predic ...
  Ever since 24 September last year, we have known the name of the winner of today's Russian presidential vote. That was the day when Vladimir Putin ended long-running speculation and instead of allowing his protégé, Dmitry Medvedev, a second term in the Kremlin, announced to Russia and the world ...
• Costa captain not wearing glasses, says first ...
  The captain of the wrecked Costa Concordia cruise liner was not wearing his glasses on the evening of the accident and asked his first officer to check the radar for him, the officer's lawyer said yesterday at a hearing held in the Tuscan city of Grosseto. Related StoriesItaly erupts over plans ...
• Train 109 reveals a Russia resigned to Putin's ...
  From the comfy cabins of first class to the crowded, smelly third-class bunks, passengers travelling to Moscow from a remote Arctic boomtown show why Vladimir Putin's almost certain return to the presidency in today's election feels less than triumphant.Related StoriesItaly erupts over plans fo ...

Rogue Government.com

• Ben Bernanke Makes Insane Comments On Gold
  Ben Bernanke who today was testifying in front of a Congressional Committee made the assertion that gold is not money during an exchange with Congressman Ron Paul.  He even went as far to say that central banks only hold gold because of tradition
• UK Energy bills ‘to double in five years’ as ...
  Energy bills are likely to double within five years as the Government drives a move to green power and building nuclear power stations, it is claimed.
• ATF’s Fast and Furious Seems Colored With Sha ...
  The acting head of ATF (the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) has seemingly blown the cover of both DEA and FBI informant operations in order to spare his own neck and to deflect blame away from a badly flawed operation undertaken by his own agency.
• Blackwater’s New Director: Bill Clinton’s Law ...
  Blackwater’s rebranding continues at a torrid pace. Danger Room has learned the latest Washington greybeard hired to spruce up the image of the world’s most infamous private security firm is Jack Quinn, a top Washington lobbyist and former White House counsel to President Bill Clinton.
• China aims high with space program ambitions
  As the U.S. winds down its space shuttle program, and with the International Space Station set to shut down in 2020, eyes are turning to China and its ambitious yet mysterious plans for the final frontier.

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

• Dillinger Case Showed Hoover at His Best and Worst
  The movie J. Edgar is once again focusing attention on Director J. Edgar Hoover and the imperious way he ran the FBI for almost 48 years. Nothing illustrates that better than the case of John Dillinger.
• Proof the Media is Lying About Syria
  Al Jazeera and other private media channels are lying through their teeth about people killed, detained and missing at the hands of the government forces in Syria. The UN reported that 5,000 people had been killed... the following Syrian investigative report found it to be complete BS, fabricati ...
• Terrorism and Manipulation in the Syrian 'Revo ...
  The following documentary exposes the myth at the heart of the West's narrative in its war against Syria. Part 1
• 10 things you didn't know about the Syrian rev ...
  Who hasn't heard of the peaceful uprising in Syria that was supposedly suppressed by the Syrian government? We've heard it everywhere; from social networks, news...even TV shows have a spin at it. Do you really know what's happening in Syria or are you being lied to? Here are 10 things you m ...
• Fascinating Simple Mathematics & Think for you ...
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The Galloping Beaver

• Amara's perspective . . .
  — Great flick —“WE ALWAYS OVERESTIMATE the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten.” — Roy Amara Methinks Roy has a point. That's one reason you see postings about what's comin' at ya from Muppet Labs and other research outfits. ...
• Points of disappearance
  The problem with tracking moving targets is, if they're any good at all, is that they're not exposed for very long. The same targets keep popping up in different places. In its own way, that seems to be happening amongst the Harper Conservative war room crowd. Saskboy brought up an interesting ...
• Bye-bye, Vickie . . .
  Sex, Lies & Judicial Appointments - Part I HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! H/T — Lee
• Dramatis personnae . . .
  Who ya gonna trust? Give 'em hell, Justin.
• Talking point: It's Elections Canada's fault
  This was almost inevitable. In today's Ottawa Citizen a letter appeared in which the author suggests that Elections Canada and flawed voting lists are to blame for the entire mess surrounding the misdirection of voters to far distant or non-existent polling places. So, to clarify that theory a ...

Media Matters for America

• Young Women's Health Care Needs Are No Laughin ...
  Right-wing media are now resorting to mocking female college students' health care needs and their call that religiously affiliated colleges and universities provide access to contraceptives. But studies have found that numerous benefits (medical, social, and economic) exist in providing colleg ...
• John Bolton's Default Setting: When In Doubt, ...
  Fox News contributor and former Bush administration official John Bolton has used Fox News and print media to relentlessly push for first-strike military interventions in Iran. His advocacy of force is only the latest attempt by Bolton to push for the United States to engage in military operati ...
• Conservative Media Promote Bogus Chart On Nati ...
  Fox News and right-wing blogs have promoted a chart that purports to show the "alarming" fact that national debt per person is higher in the United States than in several crisis-stricken European countries. This comparison is flawed because these countries' economies are fundamentally different ...
• Against Innovation: Right-Wing Media Mock Obam ...
  Following their long tradition of attacking renewable energy, right-wing media have mocked President Obama for supporting production of algae biofuels. Yet several companies already produce biofuel made from algae, recent scientific advances have increased the fuel's potential, and the industry ...
• Conservative Experts Say That Obama Was Right ...
  Several conservative foreign policy and military experts have agreed with President Obama's decision to apologize to Afghanistan for the burning of Qurans by U.S. military personnel. Ignoring these experts, Fox News' conservative hosts and pundits have tried to flame outrage over Obama's apolog ...

Global Research.ca

• WAR PLAN IRAN: Dispelling the Lies, Telling th ...
  GR ONLINE NEWS READER. The region is on a hair-trigger for a conflagration that would involve nuclear weapons and the collision of global powers...
• SYRIA: NATO's Next "Humanitarian" War?
  ONLINE INTERACTIVE I-BOOK. The insurgency in Syria is based on the "Libya Model": it is integrated by mercenaries and Al Qaeda affiliated paramilitary brigades supported by British, French and Turkish Special Forces...
• The Globalization of War: The "Military Roadma ...
  The Pentagon’s global military design is one of world conquest. The military deployment of US-NATO forces is occurring in several regions of the world simultaneously.
• The Globalization of Poverty: Deconstructing t ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• The United Nations Accuses Syria of "Crimes ag ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.

TPM Cafe

• Obama's Peace Speech At AIPAC
  I was happily surprised by the President's AIPAC speech. I say this as someone who absolutely opposes the use of force to stop Iran's nuclear program and who favors containment, not war, if the Iranians develop nuclear weapons. I understand that Obama did not deliver a traditional "peace" spe ...
• But What Exactly Is Green Manufacturing?
  When most people think of green manufacturing jobs, they think of multi-billion-dollar investments in plants making lithium-ion batteries for electric cars or photo-voltaic panels and wind turbines for smartening grids. They fear, not without reason, that jobs in such plants will star ...
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• In Afghanistan, American Conservatives Threw P ...
  The stunning murders of two senior American officers within the high-security command and control center of the Afghanistan's Interior Ministry, followed by the wounding of other American soldiers by a grenade thrown into a camp in Kunduz, is a bitter disgrace for the counter-insurgency strategy ...
• The Unapologetic Republicans
  I'm sorry, but the apology controversy is a sorry-**sed sorry affair (latest coverage here and here). If this is going to be taken seriously as campaign issue, it needs to be looked at from both directions. The Republicans shouldn't get a free pass to put the president on the defensive. We need ...

Institute for Middle East Understanding

• Army Prevents Medical Committee From Visiting ...
  The Israeli Prison Administration prevented a medical committee from visiting hunger-striking detainee, Hana’ Yahia Ash-Shalabi, 30, who has been on hunger-strike for the eighteenth con ...
• Israel's "New West Bank" (The Real News)
• EU's Ashton says Israeli TV station raids brea ...
  The EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton warned on Saturday that Israeli raids of two Palestinian television stations breaks international accords, and threatens Palestinians state- ...
• US must seize opportunity to support Palestini ...
  In nearly each and every high profile act of Palestinian non-violent resistance the official Israeli response has been demonisation of the protesters while the American response, more o ...
• One state for Palestinians and Israelis (Ahme ...
  It was awareness that there will never be a viable Palestinian state that prompted me to work with other Harvard students to organize a one-state conference this weekend. Our work has b ...

Water - AlterNet

• Royal Dutch Shell Launches Pre-emptive Legal S ...
  Shell's twisted tragedy to get to drill in the Arctic involves launching an attack against an environmental and indigenous human rights organization.
• Successful Anti-Fracking Organization Damascus ...
  The grassroots organization is widening their scope in order to help the watershed of the Susquehanna River.
• Successful Anti-Fracking Organization Damascus ...
  The grassroots organization is widening their scope in order to help the watershed of the Susquehanna River.
• How Private Water Companies Are Fleecing Their ...
  Private companies are aggressively trying to expand their share of the water service market, and too often we're getting a raw deal.
• How Private Water Companies Are Fleecing Their ...
  Private companies are aggressively trying to expand their share of the water service market, and too often we're getting a raw deal.

Public Citizen in Texas

• Texas Pardons Pollution (Again!) – Public hear ...
  Get tough on environmental crimes Texas law requires that the our state environmental agency, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), consider a facility’s past compliance when making decisions regarding permits or inspections.  In fact, a facility’s Compliance History score affect ...
• Tar Sands by Any Other Name
  This post was reprinted from a press statement by Trevor Lovell in response to TransCanada’s announcement yesterday, February 27th regarding their plans to pursue the building of a pipeline from Cushing, OK to the refineries on the Texas Gulf Coast while pursuing a new application for the ...
• 2012 Tornado Season: Fasten your seat belts bo ...
  While March is generally considered to be the beginning of tornado season, this year the season got an early and deadly start in late January when two people were killed by separate twisters in Alabama, and just yesterday, dozens of homes were damaged by a tornado in Georgia that knocked out pow ...
• A temporary victory for private property rights
  Citizens gather on the steps of the Lamar County Courthouse in support of Julia Triggs Crawford before the TransCanada suit to dismiss her Temporary Restraining Order is heard. Last week, local citizens from areas bordering the path of the proposed Texas leg of the TransCanada tar sands pipeline ...
• TransCanada Continues to Bully Landowners Desp ...
  Earlier this week, a new statewide coalition of groups and advocates for private property rights announced its support for landowners along the path of the Keystone XL pipeline in Texas. The groups charge that TransCanada, the company proposing to build the pipeline, has used eminent domain to b ...

Unexplained Mysteries

• Medium clears haunted house in Scotland
  A medium has allegedly cleared a house of ghosts after two failed attempts by a church minister. Single mum Vicky Dann and her family had been experie...
• Girl eats diet of sponges and soap
  Kerry Trebilcock likes nothing better than tucking in to a washing up sponge with hot sauce or mustard. Kerry suffers from a rare eating disorder know...
• Archaeologists rebury Greek artefacts
  Experts have been forced to rebury archaeological finds due to the financial crisis in Greece. Without the funds to properly analyse and house the dis...
• Brain-to-robot downloads within 10 years ?
  A Russian entrepreneur is developing a means with which to allow a human to inhabit a robot. Dmitry Itskov has hired over 100 scientists to work on th...
• Tyrannosaurus bite was world's strongest
  Scientists believe Tyrannosaurus rex had the strongest bite of any creature that ever lived. Researchers used a laser scan of a Tyrannosaurus fossil t...

Grassroots

• Why We Must Occupy Our Food Supply
  Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:  Anna Lappé is author of Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork (Bloomsbury USA) and a board member of Rainforest Action Network. Willie Nelson is founder and president of Farm Aid ...
• Successful Steps toward Food Sovereignty
  mozambique200811-small.jpg From all corners of the world, small farmers, indigenous peoples and human rights activists have been percolating solutions upward to advance their rights to land, water and food. With 2011 behind us, Grassroots I ...
• Haitian leaders call for land and housing rights
  639335205_b0a485eaf0_m.jpg Two years following the earthquake, community-based organizations in Haiti are still advocating for the same changes and considerations as they did last year, namely land and housing rights, respect for national s ...
• Ex-Haitian Dictator will not be tried for huma ...
  2785349288_8fd8b11a14_m.jpg Since returning from exile last year, former dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier has been treated like an old friend by Haitian President Michel Martelly, rather than a brutal dictator responsible for the de ...
• Violence continues in Honduras, agro-fuels pla ...
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Climate

• Oceans Acidifying Fastest in 300 Million Years ...
  (Bloomberg) The Earth's oceans may be acidifying faster than at any point during the last 300 million years due to industrial emissions, endangering marine life, researchers said.
• Va. Supreme Court Likely to Rule Today on Glob ...
  (AP) The Virginia Supreme Court is expected to rule on the attorney general's demand for documents related to the work of a former University of Virginia climate change researcher.
• Governments Embrace Carbon Voluntary Market: R ...
  (Reuters) A growing number of national and regional governments are likely to use voluntary carbon credits to meet mandatory climate targets, a report by U.S. research company Ecosystem Marketplace said on Thursday.
• Another Indiana Company Abandons Electric Vehi ...
  (Chicago Tribune) Bright Automotive, based in Anderson, Ind., announced this week that it will wind down operations after withdrawing an application for a loan from the DOE's Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing program.
• Gingrich Calls for Energy Secretary Chu’s Resi ...
  (The Hill) Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich is again calling for the resignation of Energy Secretary Steven Chu, saying that the president’s support for Chu signals a commitment to "his radical ideology, which wants to ...

GreenBiz

• Are Green Buildings Also Safer Buildings?
  Looking for shelter from a storm? Head to a green building. Greener buildings can be more resilient, according to a new study, which includes tips on how pros can make them even safer.
• How eBay's Data Center Makes e-Commerce More E ...
  By building its new data center for energy efficiency, eBay hopes to ready itself for larger data loads while reducing its future power bills.
• How eBay's Data Center Makes e-Commerce More E ...
  By building its new data center for energy efficiency, eBay hopes to ready itself for larger data loads while reducing its future power bills.
• Helping Social Intrapreneurs Enhance Their Imp ...
  Ford Motor Company's manager of Social Sustainability explains why his work has expanded beyond not just environmental issues, but to reach out far beyond the company's own factories and into the community.
• The Benefits of Building Efficiency Go Far Bey ...
  Today, improving buildings' energy efficiency is a rapidly growing industry blossoming with new business ideas and models. Here are some ways business can profit.

Duly Noted

• Greeks on the street
  Greeks smashing windows and setting fire to shops and banks in a fury of opposition to yet more austerity is gripping, but not unique. There are underlying elements than make such uprisings more common in Greece than elsewhere.
• NFL Superbowl live blog – New England Pa ...
  Join our Superbowl liveblog where will you bring you all the latest from one of the biggest sporting events on the planet.
• Winning the battle, losing the war; the US and ...
  After the NATO airstrikes, the political discourse within Pakistan is narrowing as religious nationalism gains ground
• Capturing the Punjabi imagination: drones and ...
  A short work of fiction about drones may tell us more about the way these are imagined than how they are experienced in Pakistan's tribal areas.
• India-Afghan strategic pact:the beginnings of ...
  A strategic pact between India and Afghanistan has drawn muted response from Pakistan. If anything Islamabad has pressed on with peace moves with India.

Booman Tribune

• Fixing Citizens United
  The Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling in the Citizens United v. the Federal Election Commission case removed all restrictions on corporate spending on electioneering communications. The Court said that the First Amendment protected corporations' speech. In other words, "corporations are people, my fr ...
• Mirror Image
  Here's how I feel about this. Buying a home that costs over a million dollars and then making zero mortgage payments for five years while using ever tool in the book to avoid and postpone foreclosure is not a socially responsible thing to do. But look at their excuse: It was never our inten ...
• Remember When Pop Was Great
  I remember when pop music was really good and the people producing it were incredibly talented, from the singers (who could also dance), to the front musicians, to the string and horn arrangements, to the costume makers. Here's a reminder: I just watched Heatwave do this on PBS. It was ...
• This Is Who They Are
  It's almost funny to watch how hard it is for Republicans to criticize Rush Limbaugh. Instead of calling him a misogynist and a bully, they say he is being "absurd" and chose the wrong words. Rush's sponsors, on the other hand, are getting a little skittish. He's lost at least six advertisers ...
• Anecdotes
  So, are you hearing normally apolitical people in your life make comments about the attack on birth control, the government-mandated vaginal probes, and the unhinged attacks on Sandra Fluke? Is your social media blowing up with outrage from normally quiet quarters? Have you overheard conversat ...

Environmental Graffiti

• The Harrowing Lives of Child Miners in the Ear ...
  Coal mining in the early 1900s was backbreaking and dangerous work, and mine bosses didn't shy away from employing young boys down in the pits. Far from it. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• 11 Coolest Links of the Week
  This sunset smacks of baking heat – but that's no reason why it shouldn't kick off this week's collection of the coolest links we could find! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• 10 Hottest Links of the Week
  Men flying through the treetops, arboreal-minded artists, crabs that cluster to form their own galaxies, and much, much more! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Walkway Over the Hudson Park: Repurposing on a ...
  Centuries of transportation infrastructure intersect at the Walkway Over the Hudson. This engineering marvel is an ecotourism attraction in the Mid-Hudson Valley. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
• How Las Vegas's Survival Depends on Its Water ...
  Las Vegas is an atypical American city. Built in the desert, it depends on water and tourists to survive. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

• Iran Tries to Take the Moral High Ground on Nukes
  Supreme Leader Khameini and Iran's Foreign Minister Salehi say all the right things about nuclear weapons.
• Questioning Intervention in Syria: A Response ...
  Anne-Marie Slaughter, former Director of Policy Planning for the Obama administration, advises bypassing the U.N. Security Council and intervening in Syria.
• How The Media Got The Parchin Access Story Wrong
  Access to an Iranian military test facility wan't explicitly denied to nuclear inspectors, just subject to bargaining.
• To the Valley in the Morning with Blood and Gu ...
  When there's war all the time, there's no such thing as after the war anymore.
• Review: Cuba Since the Revolution of 1959
  A new book on Cuba is a thoughtful treatment of a topic that has usually generated more heat than light.

Global Elite

• Fear, Intimidation & Media Disinformation: U.K ...
  Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 20, 2009 An official UK government report –quoted extensively in Britain’s tabloid media– is warning the British public that there will b ...
• President European Commission Advocated World ...
  Jurriaan Maessen. Infowars. July 24th, 2009 On September 7, 1992, two term President of the European Commission Jacques Delors gave a speech to the Royal Institute of International A ...
• Billions of People Expected to Die Under Curre ...
  Barbara Minton, Natural News, July 21st, 2009 Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in th ...
• Bioweapons, Dangerous Vaccines, and Threats of ...
  Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 7th, 2009 Although international law prohibits the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons, America has had an active biological warfare pr ...
• Today we’re all prisoners in the USA
  Papers, Please! June 2, 2009 As of today, June 1, 2009, even U.S. citizens are officially prisoners in the USA, or exiles barred from entering our own country without the government’ ...

Al Jazeera

• Putin claims victory in Russian election
  With tears rolling down his cheeks at victory rally, he thanked supporters for helping to foil plots against country.
• Obama warns Iran he will use force if needed
  US President says he prefers to use diplomacy against Iran to stop it developing a nuclear weapon.
• World War graves smashed in Libya's Benghazi
  Interim leadership apologises after armed men attack two cemeteries in eastern city.
• Australia flooding turns deadly
  Floodwaters kill 43-year-old man in New South Wales as towns are evacuated due to heavy rainfall.
• Many Yemeni soldiers killed in fighting
  At least 35 soldiers have been killed in the south of the country in clashes with fighters linked to al-Qaeda.

Green Inc. - NYT

• With Reef Ecosystems, It May Be All or Nothing
  The most strictly enforced no-take areas in the Mediterranean have the highest fish biomass, researchers found. But they noted no significant differences between areas that allow only limited fishing and those that permit unfettered access.
• Surviving Without Indian Point: Is It Doable?
  The most pressing question posed by a potential closing of the plant is whether its energy output could be replaced by other sources. In a panel discussion, experts took opposing views.
• Pace of Ocean Acidification Has No Parallel in ...
  The current rate of release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere is far more rapid than anything researchers can detect in the paleontological record for hundreds of millions of years.
• For Pollution Monitors, Some Cash Incentives
  The E.P.A. plans to award volunteers a total of $125,000 for five to 10 New York City projects involving pollution monitoring.
• Virginia Court Rejects Climate Skeptic's Deman ...
  The state Supreme Court says that the Virginia attorney general does not have the authority to demand records of a climate researcher's e-mails or grant applications.

Dot Earth News

• An Economist Rebuts The Wall Street Journal "1 ...
  A Yale economist expands on his critique of climate skeptics writing in The Wall Street Journal.
• Alan Alda Asks, What is a Flame?
  A master science communicator unveils a competition to explain fire to kids.
• A CO2 Warning Etched in Stone and Sediment
  Geologists find ample evidence etched in rock of momentous environmental changes driven by carbon dioxide.
• A Fresh Scientific Defense of the Merits of Mo ...
  A round in a scientific debate over the climate implications of shale gas.
• Songs of this Fossil Age: A Coal Miner's Death ...
  A contemporary ballad recalls a mining death foretold.

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

• Let them eat cake! Republican State Representa ...
  IN an astoundingly offensive display of casual Malthusian freestyling, Representative Mary Franson compared supporting poor people with food stamps to feeding wild animals. The Republicans pulled the YouTube once the magnitude of their irresponsibility hit the intertubes. But the usual suspects ...
• EXCLUSIVE: Cointelpro Gothic II: Midwestern Po ...
  EARLIER: October 13, 2010: Cointelpro Gothic: Docs prove Iowa FBI's Wild Rose Rebellion a pretend RNC "Terrorism Enterprise" for great "statistical accomplishment" BY DAN FEIDT -- Another level of the seemingly endless, unregulated Midwestern law enforcement campaign against political activists ...
• New Filez! BuStEd: I sense Astroturfing in the ...
  BuStEd: I sense Astroturfing in the Occupy! http://the99spring.com/letter.html ~ LEAKED FILEZ! Got a nice tip. Pass it along, its all on the google! A bunch of groups which are mostly dedicated to Democratic electioneering are doing a "99% Spring" campaign soon. This is no secret, but the fil ...
• Rise of the Facebook Killers! SocialNetwork-in ...
  Rise of the Facebook-Killers by Nick Pinto- New York - Village Voice: .... Moglen said, Mark Zuckerberg had harnessed the energy of our social desires to talk us into a swindle. "Everybody needs to get laid," Moglen said. "He turned it into a structure for degenerating the integrity of human per ...
• Thank you for supporting Minneapolis productio ...
  It has been a wild month in NYC. Our work in New York City to help bring you live footage from the Occupy movement, as well as help get other occupation livestream teams set up and rolling, would not have been possible but for generous small contributions from some folks that stepped up basicall ...

Daily Censored

• The War on Terror: How it is Affecting Our Pol ...
  by S. Paul Forrest AmericaRevealed.org Retrospect is an amazing thing.  Decisions rendered in the past can many times be looked at with this tool of reason in order to protect against future mistakes. It also gives one the opportunity to recognize the motives for decisions made by others in situ ...
• A powerful argument for blocking Wisconsin’s v ...
  The following is from Larry Miller’s blog.  You can go to: http://millermps.wordpress.com/2012/03/03/a-powerful-argument-for-blocking-wisconsins-voter-id-law  and see the video presented as well as read the entire article.  There is also information about how you can weigh in on the crimin ...
• Geithner arrested? 116 major bank resignations ...
  video live at source. Judge Napolitano testifies of Treasury Secretary and Federal Reserve-insider Timothy Geither’s arrest in this 4-minute corporate news show. American Kabuki list the daily-increasing bank resignations. David Wilcock and Benjamin Fulford explain and document history and decei ...
• How to Choose a Book
  You’re better off choosing a book by its cover than by using the Common Core State Standards exemplary text system. And here’s why. MetaMetrics, inventor of the Lexile readability formula, has “realigned” its Lexile ranges to match the Common Core State Standards’ text complexity grade bands. Me ...
• The Education Games: Reform as Doublespeak
  Although we currently live in a world informed by George Orwell’s dystopian unmasking-as-novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four, we seem unable to acknowledge that the Ministry of Peace is actually waging war. In our current education reform debate, educators must come to terms with Orwell’s re ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

• Limbaugh Loses Advertisers After Calling Woman ...
• Obama: Fuel-Efficient Cars to Help With Rising ...
• Report Finds Black Families Greatly Overrepres ...
• Limbaugh Unfairly Attacked By Dems?!
• Why Virginia's New Mandatory Ultrasound Law St ...

Institute for Policy Studies

• Crikey! Australia Shocks Corporate America on ...
  U.S. corporate lobby groups bash Australia for refusing to give foreign investors powerful new rights in the Trans-Pacific trade deal.
• North Korea's Pivot
  North Korea is executing a pivot of its own.
• Is Now the Time for Countries to Legalize Stre ...
  In the last edition of the Latin American Advisor, Sanho Tree lent his opinion to the ongoing hemispheric debate over drug legalization.
• Corporations Commit Atrocities, My Friend
  The Supreme Court is weighing a case with major ramifications for corporate accountability.
• Another Wealthy Executive Seeks To Dodge Prison
  Last week, in a New York courtroom, memories of a forgotten tragedy edged back onto the public stage.

IntelNews

• News you may have missed #689: NSA edition
  Ex-NSA Director calls Stuxnet a 'good idea'. NSA develops secure Android phones. Senior US Defense official says DHS should lead cybersecurity.
• News you may have missed #688
  StratFor email leaks offer frightening view of government intelligence. US still using U-2 to spy on North Korea. Thin line separates cyberspies from cybercriminals.
• CIA joins hunt for white British woman who joi ...
  American intelligence officials are said to be actively cooperating with Kenyan authorities in the hunt for a white British woman believed to have joined a Somali group that is part of al-Qaeda in East Africa.
• News you may have missed #687
  Is Obama abusing the US Espionage Act? Ex-head admits IAEA does work with spies. Afghanistan arrests diplomat on spying charges.
• Israel ‘not to warn US’ on Iran attack, says U ...
  The Israeli government has reportedly decided not to forewarn the United States if and when it decides to launch military strikes against Iran’s nuclear energy program.

War is a Crime.org

• Companies Profiting The Most From War: 24/7 Wa ...
  HuffingtonPost Global sales of arms and military services by the 100 largest defense contractors increased in 2010 to $411.1 billion, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. The increase reflects a decade-long trend of growing military spending. Since 2002, total arms ...
• Lies, Damn Lies and Major Media Scoundrel Jour ...
    Lies, Damn Lies, and Major Media Scoundrel Journalism   by Stephen Lendman   Merriam-Webster's defines journalism as involving "writing characterized by a direct presentation of facts or description of events without an attempt at interpretation."   In other words, the ...
• Prospects for May Palestinian Elections
    Prospects for May Palestinian Elections   by Stephen Lendman   Last December, Fatah and Hamas agreed on forming a unity government and holding May presidential, parliamentary, and Palestinian National Council (PLC) elections.    read more
• The Witch-Burners are Alive and Sick in Kansas ...
    By Dave Lindorff   A few hundred years ago in colonial Massachusetts, the theocratic fascist men who ran that society had a way of dealing with free-thinking women in their midst: they burned them at the stake or drummed up hordes of frightened and unthinking neighbors to stone them ...
• Who was behind the Delhi bombing?
  By Gareth Porter, Al Jazeera Washington, DC - The magnet bomb that exploded on an Israeli Embassy diplomat's car in Delhi on February 13 seemed on the surface to be consistent with an Iranian-sponsored action.  It was carried out with same method by which Israel's Iranian proxy, the Mujahed ...

Grist - News

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

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Time - Top Stories

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• Why You Won't See Saudi Women at the Olympics
  Is there a nation in the world that would single out a male minority for similar treatment and not face diplomatic complaints or sanctions?
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Digg Green

• Orion Nebula's Young Stars Offer Glimpse of St ...
  Infrared observations of the Orion nebula show young stars as they mature into adulthood.
• Why So Many Tornadoes Are Striking the US
  A low-down jet stream combined with warm, soupy air has been fueling monster storms.
• NASA Image - Merging Galaxy Cluster Abell 520
  This composite image shows the distribution of dark matter, galaxies, and hot gas in the core of the merging galaxy cluster Abell 520, formed from a violent collision of massive galaxy clusters. The natural-color image of the galaxies was taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and with the Can ...
• The Weird Physics of New Theories of the Origi ...
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• Saving desert tortoises is a costly hurdle for ...
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Invisible Opportunity

• The ‘Shit Happens’ Department of C ...
  By Les Visible Deals make the world go round with less consistency and order, than if it were just sorting out itself. Our world at present is floundering in the midst of anti-human deals, which breaks up the internal harmony and balance of what would have been far more possible and far more bea ...
• Andrew Breitbart Just Another Weird Death
• The great government hoax of public safety
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• Aspartame withdrawal and side effects explaine ...
  by: Aurora Geib (NaturalNews) If you have been drinking diet soda and chewing gum, chances are you have been enjoying aspartame in generous quantities. Aspartame is a popular sugar substitute that can be found in diet soda drinks, chewing gum, fruit spreads and sugar-free products to name a few. ...
• Murdoch Jr flies away from trouble – but it ma ...
  By Ian Burrell James Murdoch severed ties with his father’s stable of British newspapers yesterday as he resigned from News International following fresh revelations of a corporate cover-up of the company’s involvement in phone hacking and bribery of public officials. Mr Murdoch gave ...

Global Insights

• Less Than a Week Away
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• The Georgia Guidestones
  On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
• The Creation
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• The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...
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• About George Green
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AlterNet - DrugReporter

• Federal Judge: Obama's Crackdown on Medical Po ...
  A federal judge in Sacramento dismissed the NORML Legal Committee's lawsuit against the Department of Justice, Attorney General Eric Holder, and DEA Director Michele Leonhart.
• Pope Leo XII Had a Coke Habit? 10 People You P ...
  A mix of modern and long-deceased, these actors, musicians, and prominent thinkers challenge stereotypes surrounding addiction.
• Rep. Jared Polis Brilliantly Mocks DEA Agent's ...
  Polis scoffed at the Denver, Colorado DEA chief's ridiculous statement that medical pot is dangerous because growing it inside can cause "mold and water damage."
• The Truth About Drug-Testing the Unemployed
  The law has many problems, including Constitutionality. And while proponents say tax money should not fund drug use, opponents see more sinister stereotyping at work.
• Kentucky and Oklahoma Reject "Anti-Meth& ...
  This week, prescription-only bills were killed in Oklahoma and withdrawn in Kentucky, and unhappy police and prosecutors are blaming the over-the-counter industry.

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

• HOW TO: Go Geocaching with Your Kids
  Looking for a fun activity to get your kids engaged in the outdoors? Give geocaching a try. Geocaching is basically a 21st-century treasure hunt, but instead of using an old map where X marks the spot, you use a GPS device and a set of coordinates that offer clues to where the booty is hidden. [...]
• This Jacket Made From Pen Caps by Maison Marti ...
  It’s no secret that here at Inhabitat, we’re fans of repurposing old materials into new, useful pieces. Maison Martin Margiela took those hunks of excess plastic that sit at the end of our pens and turned them into a gorgeous jacket, currently on display at Museum Rotterdam. Hit the ...
• GREEN GUIDE TO PREFAB: Finding a Prefab Home T ...
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• 7 Sexy, Sporty Hybrid Cars Hitting the Streets ...
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• Revolutionary Sphelar Spherical Solar Cells Ca ...
  Japanese company Kyosemi has developed a revolutionary spherical micro solar cell that is capable of capturing sunlight from all directions. Called the Sphelar, the cell shuns the traditional flat substrate photovoltaic design and opts for much more efficient shape – the sphere. While trad ...

Pogue's Posts

• A Review of the Windows 8 Beta
  Microsoft has made a test version of its new Windows 8 operating system software available to the public. It's an imaginative and successful rethinking of an operating system. The Start screen, for example, is like a Lego kit for your life's control panel.
• More on OnLive Desktop – Readers' Questi ...
  Following Thursday's column, more information about OnLive Desktop, the app that turns an iPad into a blazing-fast Windows machine.
• What Cameras Inside Foxconn Found
  ABC's "Nightline" was invited to visit Apple's production lines at Foxconn, giving Americans a chance to see how iPads and iPhones are made in China. A note from a man born in China gave another perspective on jobs in that country.
• Apple's Mountain Lion Makes the Mac More Like ...
  Apple's Mountain Lion operating system software for the Mac brings even more of the iPhone/iPad features to the Mac. The juiciest payoff here is the suite of Mac apps that now mimic what's on the iPhone/iPad. Through your free iCloud account, all of these apps are synced instantly and smoothly a ...
• The Dilemma of Cheap Electronics
  If consumers want cellphones and other gadgets to be made under decent working conditions, they will also have to reckon with higher prices.

WIRED Magazine | Science

• Watch Live Now: Mars Makes Close Approach To Earth
  Catch a live feed of Mars opposition, as the Red Planet makes its closest approach to Earth in more than two years. The event will be broadcast by the Slooh Space Camera, a consortium of public telescopes around the world, on March 3 starting at 8 p.m. PST.
• 10 Years of Gorgeous Images of Earth From Space
  To celebrate the Envisat satellite's 10th anniversary, we've selected a few of its most beautiful images for this gallery. Good luck deciding which one to use as wallpaper for your computer desktop.
• Galactic Pile-Up Leaves Behind Mysterious Dark ...
  Astronomers have found an enormous and strange clump of dark matter left behind following a violent collision of galaxy clusters.
• How to Watch the Mars Close-Up This Weekend
  February's spectacular planetary show continues. After Venus and Jupiter lined up in the night sky last week, the distance between Earth and Mars is now shrinking to its smallest amount in more than two years.
• Ocean Acidification to Hit 300 Million Year Max
  The current rate of ocean acidification puts Earth on a track that, if continued, would likely be unprecedented in last 300 million years.

PakAlert

• They Love Death
  Have you ever known someone that loves death? When someone truly is in love with death, it can take that person to a very dark place. Unfortunately, there are a growing number of scientists, politicians and global opinion makers that believe that we must reduce the size of the human population ...
• Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide found to destroy ...
  A recent study published in the Journal of Toxicology in Vitro has found that, even at very low levels, Monsanto's herbicide formula Roundup destroys testosterone and ultimately leads to male infertility. The findings add to the more than 25 other diseases known to be linked to Roundup, which in ...
• Cities blacked out for up to a year, $2 TRILLI ...
  There is a one in eight chance of a solar 'megastorm' before 2014, according to a Californian scientist - and other space weather experts agree that Earth is facing a burst of violent activity that will peak within two years.
• New smartphone app ushers in the digital age o ...
  The West Virginia Department of Homeland Security released an app for mobile phones they have called the “Suspicious Activity Reporting” application.
• Iran war will bring US to its end: Turkish pol ...
  A senior Turkish politician has warned that any US war against Iran will bring an end to the United States, Press TV reports.

Andy Worthington

• How to Leave Guantánamo: Via a Plea Deal, or I ...
  Guantánamo briefly emerged from the shadows on Wednesday, when Majid Khan, a Pakistani national described as one of 14 “high-value detainees” when he arrived at Guantánamo in September 2006, after three and a half years in secret CIA prisons, appeared in public for the first time sin ...
• Save the NHS: The Battle Is Not Yet Won, But t ...
  So much for promises. David Cameron and his government are notorious, to those who are awake and paying attention, for implementing policies that they never mentioned on the election trail two years ago, and for not having a mandate for their swingeing cuts to the British state that are dispropo ...
• Lying Bully David Cameron Hails Passage of Wel ...
  Ever since the Tories sneaked into power nearly two years ago, having failed to convince a majority of voters to trust them, and having had to construct an unlikely coalition with the Liberal Democrats, my country has become an unrecognisable place: mean-spirited above all, as the tiresome David ...
• Justice Denied: The Unacceptable 10-Year Deten ...
  Originally posted on the “Close Guantánamo” website. Last week, the attorney Tom Wilner and the journalist Andy Worthington (the steering committee of the “Close Guantánamo” project) were in Kuwait to raise awareness of the ongoing detention of Fayiz Al-Kandari and Fawzi Al-Odah, the ...
• To Mark 10 Years of Guantánamo, Stern Magazine ...
  Last week, when I cross-posted an article written for the 10th anniversary of the opening of Guantánamo by my friend Todd Pierce, I also noted that when I visited the US in January to campaign for the closure of Guantánamo Bay, I was so busy that I did not have time to cross-post other articles ...

Environment _ National Geographic

• Rare Night Tornadoes This Week Fueled By Warm ...
  The unusual nighttime outbreak of tornadoes in the U.S. Midwest Wednesday morning may have been triggered by a warm winter.
• Estimates Clash for How Much Natural Gas in th ...
  As U.S. policymakers contemplate a new era as the "Saudi Arabia of natural gas," a new government analysis slashes estimates for unproved shale gas reserves.
• Shrinking Arctic Sea Ice Linked to Snowier Win ...
  Rapidly shrinking Arctic sea ice could be behind unusually snowy winters in the Northern Hemisphere, a new model suggests.
• Huge Swarm of Gelatinous Sea Creatures Imaged ...
  Scientists have created a new 3-D picture of a giant swarm of tiny gelatinous sea creatures off Australia.
• Concern Over Rare Rhino Rouses Clean Energy Dr ...
  After a fight against a coal-fired power plant that threatened one of the last sanctuaries of the Sumatran rhino, a struggle for cleaner energy continues in east Malaysia.

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

• Pot, Meet Kettle: JBS Rips Sovereigns as &#821 ...
  A note to right-wing extremists: When the John Birch Society (JBS) condemns your movement as a “fringe group” whose followers are “paranoid” “conspiracy theorists” who “occasionally go off the deep end … when confronted with reality,” it’s time for some serious soul-searching. An article publish ...
• Alabama ‘Sovereign’ Kingpin Loses Land, Prompt ...
  Not even antigovernment “sovereign citizen” James Timothy Turner, who has made a living teaching people sovereign tactics he claims will allow them to beat the banks, can save himself when it comes right down to it. On Feb. 22, Hatewatch has learned, the People’s South Bank in Ozark, Ala., ...
• Nevada Neo-Nazis Charged in Double Murder of A ...
  Contents of a cell phone found two years ago by federal investigators may have provided key information to the unraveling of a racially motivated, brutal double murder that took place 14 years ago in the Nevada desert. Melissa Hack, 37, her brother, Ross Hack, 40, and Leland Jones, 31, are charg ...
• Anti-‘Genocide’ Protests Around Nation Were Or ...
  Small protests against the “genocide” of white South Africans took place in 11 states Monday, drawing a smattering of media accounts that noted that some leftist counter-protesters accused the demonstrators of being white supremacists. But the Sacramento (Calif.) Bee quoted Michael Myers, a coor ...
• Mental Exam Ordered for Arizona ‘Soverei ...
  Arizona officials say a murder suspect who used language reminiscent of that employed by antigovernment “sovereign” citizens during court appearances must undergo a mental competency exam before returning to court, the Arizona Republic reported yesterday. Michael Lee Crane, 31, of Mesa, Ariz., p ...

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

• Spain Wilts in Driest Winter for 70 Years
  Recent social unrest in Spain, including mass demonstrations against austerity programs and cuts to education, is not the only thing fanning flames in the European nation. As Spain experiences the harshest drought in nearly 70 years, farmers fear a terrible growing season and the number of wildf ...
• Fire, Spill Shuts Down Enbridge Oil Pipeline i ...
  Enbridge, whose pipeline networks carry the majority of Canadian oil exports to US Midwestern states, shut down a pipeline on Saturday after an automobile accident caused a fire and a spill at a pumping station.  The Chicago Sun-Times reported two men were killed, including a firefighter, a ...
• US Navy's 'Sinktex' Program Pollutes Ocean, Ha ...
  A US Navy program that takes decommissioned battleships and sinks them by using them in live-fire excercises far out to sea has come under fire from environmentalists for the pollutants it introduces to the sea, according to report by the Associated Press. The program — called "Sinkex ...
• Obama Speaks to AIPAC
  US President Barack Obama addressed the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference Sunday morning to affirm his commitment to Israel and once again tell the world that the US would take 'no option' -- including military force -- 'off the table' when it comes to I ...
• 'Port Huron' Turns 50 as Occupy Turns 5 (Months)
  The New York Times marks the upcoming 50th anniversary of the the famous 1960's treatise of the US left, The Port Huron Statement, with a profile in its weekend edition. read more

Lifehacker

• This Week's Top Downloads [Download Roundup]
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• Repurpose an Ikea Napkin Holder Into a Macbook ...
  The Macbook Air is a paragon of portability, but when not on the road many users like to use a larger keyboard, pointing device, and monitor. Twelve South sells a great stand for your Air to facilitate this, but at $40 it can be a bit pricy fo ...
• What Are Your Rules for Purging Clothing? [Clu ...
  For most of us, new clothing comes in but not much clothing goes out. I still have t-shirts from high-school band events and stuff even older than that I haven't worn since our years started with a 1. Some, more disciplined clutter assassins h ...
• Build an Expandable Dining Table that Can Seat ...
  If you like to host large dinner parties but don't have an especially large family you may be interested in this project. Instructables user falk designed and built a formal dining table that can comfortably seat ten but folds down to the size ...
• Use Coca Cola to Help Start a Compost Pile [Cl ...
  Coca Cola's sweet and acidic properties can come in handy when you're building a compost pile for your garden. Household weblog Stylelist Home recommends that you wait for the can or bottle to go flat and then pour it over your compost pile&md ...

Water Privatization

• Bottled water costly for us and the planet
  I have to thank The Record for highlighting the issue of bottled water (Trustees failed both students and the planet, Our View, Feb. 26).
• Aquino’s planned privatization of 38,000 fores ...
  By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA — The fisherfolk alliance Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) recently protested against reports that President Benigno Aquino III’s public-private partnership (PPP) schemes have included the privatization of 38,000 he ...
• Bottled water costly for us and the planet
  I have to thank The Record for highlighting the issue of bottled water (Trustees failed both students and the planet, Our View, Feb. 26).
• League of Women Voters to Hold Forum on Privat ...
  The League of Women Voters of Falls Church will hold a forum on March 13 to explore issues that may arise when governments choose to privatize government services. The forum, another in the league's "Lunch and Learn" series, will begin at 11:30 a.m. in the Art Room of the Falls Chu ...
• SGA Bill Supports Plastic Reduction
  The Student Government Association (SGA) voted to support a water coalition initiative calling for the reduction of plastic bottle sales on campus, particularly at Cox Hall, during a legislative session Monday evening.

Guardian

• Syria: Red Cross tries again to enter Baba Amr ...
  • Aid parcels delivered to survivors of the shelling • Paul Conroy recounts tunnel escape on a motorbike • China proposes ceasefire and talks • Read the latest summary2.39pm: Syrian children who have fled to neighbouring Lebanon are showing signs of post traumatic stress, according to Simine A ...
• Congo-Brazzaville arms depot explosions leave ...
  Series of large explosions kills at least 200 people in Brazzaville and shatters windows across the Congo river in KinshasaAt least 200 people have been killed and many more injured in a series of explosions in the capital of Congo-Brazzaville, according to a senior presidency official."Accordin ...
• Salmond: Scottish independence campaign will b ...
  First minister says yes campaign will start two years before referendum so all voters' questions can be answeredThe Scottish independence campaign will be launched in May, more than two years before the yes campaign's preferred referendum date, Alex Salmond has announced.The first minister, who ...
• Libya apologises for desecration of British wa ...
  Officials condemn destruction of second world war graves in Benghazi filmed in militia videoThe Libyan government has been extremely apologetic about the appalling desecration of British second world war graves in the eastern city of Benghazi, a Foreign Office minister said on Sunday.The stateme ...
• Israel 'not rushing into Iran war'
  Shimon Peres to tell Aipac conference what analysts also suggest is the case – that Israel is in no hurry to attack IranIsrael is not rushing towards war with Iran, President Shimon Peres will say on Sunday as he emphasises the value of the Israeli-American relationship in an attempt to smooth t ...

McClatchey

• Commentary: In my Havana childhood, cosmonauts ...
  If you were in elementary school in the early 1960s, it was impossible not to be captivated by the dawning space age. You'd hear about new triumphs and new firsts…Click to Continue »
• Commentary: Franklin Graham isn't following in ...
  On my way to a luncheon speaking engagement at a Fort Worth church last week, the Rev. Franklin Graham was on my mind, so much that I changed the opening…Click to Continue »
• Romney wins Washington state's Republican caucus
  KENNEWICK, Wash. ? Mitt Romney decisively won Washington's fiercely contested Republican caucuses Saturday, according to network projections, giving him an important boost on the eve of Super Tuesday, when 10…Click to Continue »
• Rebels in Syrian city are surrounded, braced f ...
  QUSAYR, Syria ? This city of 35,000 is largely empty. Seven miles from the Lebanese border, it is the last rebel stronghold in this part of Syria.Click to Continue »
• Santorum needs Ohio win for best shot at overt ...
  COLUMBUS, Ohio ? If Rick Santorum is ever going to be president, he's probably going to have to show it in Ohio.Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

• Taliban leader killed in Afghanistan
  A Taliban leader was killed by the security forces in northern Afghanistan Sunday, police said.
• Afghan woman stabbed to death after she refuse ...
  New Delhi: A 22-year-old Afghan woman was murdered allegedly by her fiancé in a south Delhi guest house after she refused to marry him, police said today.Paimana Khanjar was stabbed to death ...
• Afghan army chief warns against another NATO b ...
  Afghan riot police stand guard during a protest against Koran desecration in Kabul on February 24, 2012. Four people were killed on February 24 when anti-U.S. protests turned violent in the western ...
• Another witness points toward Baitullah Mehsud ...
  Magistrate Ahmed Mansoor Janjua has said Abdul Rasheed, the main accused behind the October 8 suicide blast on Benazir Bhutto's rally, has told him that the attack was planned and orchestrated by Tali
• Blunt and Jenkins' Afghanistan show cancelled
  Singers James Blunt and Katherine Jenkins have been forced to return to the UK after technical problems blighted their trip to Afghanistan. The You're Beautiful hitmaker and the opera singer ...

Futurismic

• 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 ...
• Hang All The Critics: Towards Useful Video Gam ...
    The Problem It does not take a genius to realise that the world of video game reviewing is completely and utterly fucked. Their reputations sullied by an endless cavalcade of scandal and stupidity, video game reviewers routinely find themselves in the impossible position of having to bala ...
• Out of Destruction, Transformation?
  Most of my columns this year have been about change, from climate change to twitter. Well, this is a start-of-the-year post, and it seems appropriate to take on change in a big way as the year changes. We’re in an unstable moment. Climate change is here and it’s affecting us all. The economy is ...
• Better Writing Through Writing About Writing
  My life is fairly crammed, and writing time is hard to come by. Today I got one of those precious blocks of time in which I could write for several hours almost without interruption, yet as I fired up the computer, I felt not excited about the prospect, but worried and on edge.  I also [...]Foll ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

• FBI's PSA Excludes Key Information for Whistle ...
  This week, the FBI released a public service announcement by actor Michael Douglas encouraging the public to report financial fraud. On its face this sounds like a good thing. However, the FBI left out some key information, namely other avenues of reporting that are likely better for whistleblow ...
• Supreme Court ducks conflict on Garcetti
  This morning, the Supreme Court declined to hear two cases that raise a conflict among the circuits about whether the First Amendment protects government employees who refuse to make false statements.  The Court denied petitions for certiorari by David Bowie, a former official of the Distri ...
• No SOX protection for contractor's employees, ...
    On February 3, 2012, two judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit dismissed the SOX whistleblower claims of Jackie Lawson and Jonathan Zang. The case is Lawson v. FMR, LLC, Case No. 10-2240 (1st Cir. 2012). To justify this dismissal, the two judge majority held that the ...
• NWC amicus brief urges broad protection under SOX
  Yesterday, the National Whistleblowers Center filed an amicus, or fiend of the court, brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in its case of Wiest v. Lynch, Case No. 11-4257. The main issue is whether the Court should adopt the ARB's broad "reasonable belief" standar ...
• New York Times editorial supports FDA whistleb ...
  In today's editorial, the New York Times expresses concerns about the targeted surveillance of whistleblowers at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The editorial recounts the claims made by six scientists and physicians who raised concerns about the safety and effectiveness of devices appro ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

• Josef Anvil's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week
  We've come to the end of another week at Techdirt, and I have to say that for once, I'm not completely outraged about "the system." The reason for my renewed sense of optimism comes from stringing together my favorite Techdirt posts for the week. Hmmm. I just reread that and it didn't s ...
• Dear Big Newspapers: Keep Putting Up Silly Pay ...
  Apparently it's a week of paywalls for a bunch of big newspaper websites. Newspaper giant Gannett announced that all of its newspaper websites with the exception of USA Today, will go paywall by the end of the year. The system will allow between 5 and 15 article views before you're locked out. ...
• Something's Not Right: German User Has To Use ...
  We've been writing about German music collection society GEMA's bizarre fight against YouTube for a few years now, in which all major music videos are blocked from YouTube in Germany because GEMA is suing YouTube and refuses to even discuss a potential license until the lawsuit is over. As we n ...
• Yet Another Court Says Illinois 'Eavesdropping ...
  We've covered in great detail the ridiculous law in Illinois that makes it a crime to record police, even while they're on duty, without their knowledge. This seems crazy to us, and it appears the courts are agreeing. Last fall, we noted that a state court had ruled the law was unconstitutiona ...
• DailyDirt: Who's That Kid With The Oreo Cookie?
  We've seen a variety of Japanese Kit Kats that are localized with numerous limited-edition flavors, so it shouldn't be too shocking to see that other snack-makers have adopted similar strategies for their products. Here are just some interesting takes on the Oreo cookie. Chinese Oreos are ...

VacTruth

• Patricia Finn – “I will not, under ...
  If you have difficulties exempting your child from dangerous vaccines, you could look to someone like attorney Patricia Finn for help. But, not if it was up to the State of New York - they want her license and her client list. Why?
• The Public Is Kept in the Dark About Many Medi ...
  There is no issue that the public has been kept in the dark about more than vaccines, the ‘sacred cash cow’ of modern pharmacology—not medicine.
• ‘Legal’ Kidnapping By The State To ...
  Vaccine injured children are being taken from their parents. Authorities take the children under the pretense of child abuse.
• Horse Contraceptive Vaccine: Is Human Immunoco ...
  Several entities began working on a contraceptive vaccine to control wild horse populations. Is human immunocontracption Next?
• Autism – and a Different Vaccine
  If a relatively uncontroversial vaccine like the rabies vaccine can cause autism, isn’t it just possible that shooting tiny babies and young children full of vaccines—many at the same time when no one has ever conducted a study to prove that it’s safe to do so—could also cause autism?

BroadSnark

• More Revolutionary Than Thou
  On one of the videos from the recent Occupy4Prisoners action in DC, somebody spots a guy on the roof of the jail. At first they think it is a sniper. But when they zoom in on them, they see that it is someone working on the camera. The protester starts to heckle the guy, telling [...]
• Things You Might Have Missed
  The video is now up from our protest for the National Day for Prisoners. You can check it out here. Last Friday, anonymous took down The Geo Group’s website and replaced it with a picture of Mumia. I am so incredibly creeped out that corporations have been patenting the human genome. Excel ...
• On Porn Stars and Seamstresses
  I know Chris Hedges has been blowing up the internets lately because of that piece he did on the black bloc. But I’d like to take him to task for something he said back at the beginning of January in this C-Span interview.  It comes about 12 minutes into the second hour when he starts talk ...
• Things You Might Have Missed
  Holy crap. How have I not put up a TYMHM since January 10th. I seem to have lost a month of my life somewhere along the way. As you must have gathered from the couple posts I have put up, one of the things keeping me busy is the Criminal INjustice Committee of occupy. We [...]
• Natl Day in Support of Prisoners
  Apologies for falling off the map again. I have just about dug myself out of a hole and should be back on a posting schedule (fingers crossed) next week. In the meantime, one of the things keeping me busy has been the Criminal Injustice Committee of Occupy. Our Wells Fargo boycott website is up ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• LaRouche Slate Fights To Reverse ‘Clinton’s Te ...
  By Matthew Ogden Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, March 2, 2012, Vol. 39, No. 9
• Libya: The First Skirmish in the Empire’s Driv ...
  By Nancy Spannaus Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, March 2, 2012, Vol. 39, No. 9
• Obama and al-Qaeda: Partners in Promoting Ther ...
  Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, March 2, 2012, Vol. 39, No. 9
• The Obama-al-Qaeda-Mujahideen Connection Unveiled
  Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, March 2, 2012, Vol. 39, No. 9
• Time To Break Up the United Kingdom
  EIR News Service press release.

War in Context

• Obama speaking at AIPAC conference: ‘there is ...
  President Obama: Moving forward, I would ask that we all remember the weightiness of these issues; the stakes involved for Israel, for America, and for the world. Already, there is too much loose talk of war. Over the last few weeks, such talk has only benefited the Iranian government, by drivin ...
• It’s just a matter of time before U.S. tires o ...
  Gideon Levy writes: An elephant and an ant will meet in Washington on Monday for a critical summit. But wait, who here is the elephant and who the ant? Who is the superpower and who the patronage state? A new chapter is being written in the history of nations. Never before has a small country [. ...
• Hamas rattles the Resistance Axis
  Rami G Khouri writes: The decision last week by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas to abandon its external headquarters in Damascus and support Syrians demonstrating for the removal of Bashar Assad’s regime is noteworthy on several levels. All of them affirm the vulnerable and changing natu ...
• Video: Inside Syria – Can Syria’s opposition u ...
• NYC’s anti-profiling law: ‘Not worth paper it’ ...
  Justin Elliot writes: In July 2004, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg presided over a celebratory signing ceremony at City Hall for a new law that banned the NYPD from racial or religious profiling. Advocates gushed. The mayor hailed the new law. “Racial profiling will not be tolerated in o ...

Watts Up With That?

• Global annualized temperature – “f ...
  Guest Post by Dr. Robert Brown, Physics Dept. Duke University [elevated from comments] Dr. Brown mentions “global temperature” several times. I’d like to know what he thinks of this. Dr. Brown thinks that this is a very nice piece of … Continue reading →
• Sea Ice News Volume 3 #1 – The “Ar ...
  It is that time again where attention turns to Arctic Sea Ice because it is approaching maximum extent. There’s really only two periods each year that garner intense interest, and that is the times of maximum and minimum extent. We … Continue reading →
• New Study Shows A Clear Millennial Solar Impac ...
  Key Points High resolution SST and SSS reconstruction off Cape Hatteras Low salinity anomaly (3.5-5.2 ka): absence of Labrador current influence Millenial NAO pattern and solar variability Emphatic Blow To CO2 Warmists – New Study Shows A Clear Millennial Solar … Continue reading →
• Fundamental questions on Isostacy and Mean Sea ...
  Guest post by Andi Cockroft Firstly, let me declare that I am not a current student of Geology or Geophysics. I studied Mathematics, Computer Science and Geology at University way back in the 60’s and I have focused my entire … Continue reading →
• Why William D. Nordhaus Is Wrong About Global ...
  Guest post by David Middleton William D. Nordhaus is an economics professor at Yale University. He recently published this essay in the New York Review of Books… Why the Global Warming Skeptics Are Wrong March 22, 2012 William D. Nordhaus … Continue reading →

treehugger

• Ford Focus Electric Officially Beats Nissan Le ...
  Ford beats Nissan on electric car efficiency.
• Plastic Bag Makers Challenge San Francisco's P ...
  The Save The Plastic Bag Coalition Brings a Lawsuit against the San Francisco Baord of Supervisor's for its Plastic Bag Ban
• Vaute Couture Opens Flagship Vegan Fashion Bou ...
  Vaute Couture is opening the doors to their flagship boutique today with a sample sale boasting up to 70% off vegan winter coats.
• New Research on Ocean Acidification and Warmin ...
  New research projects around Puget Sound in Washington are looking at the complicated effects of warming waters and ocean acidification on marine ecosystems.
• Melbourne's Bikers are Victims of Artist's Gue ...
  A newly-arrived Melbourne resident thanked the city's cyclists by attaching hand-written notes to bikes.

Biosingularity

• Why aren’t the oldest living people gett ...
  Last month, a 114-year-old former schoolteacher from Georgia named Besse Cooper became the world’s oldest living person. Her predecessor, Brazil’s Maria Gomes Valentim, was 114 when she died. So was the oldest living person before her, and the one before her. In fact, eight of the la ...
• Antibiotic Fails Sinus Infection Test
  Anyone who has felt the pressure of a weeklong sinus infection won’t be happy to hear it, but a study finds that a commonly prescribed medicine doesn’t clear up such attacks any better than the body does on its own. The findings, in the Feb. 15 Journal of the American Medical Association, don’t ...
• How Interval Training Can Improve Health
  While many of us wonder just how much exercise we really need in order to gain health and fitness, a group of scientists in Canada are turning that issue on its head and asking, how little exercise do we need? The emerging and engaging answer appears to be, a lot less than most of us [...]
• Freeze-tolerant Flies
  Organisms that live at the frigid poles of our planet have evolved strategies to withstand temperatures that would kill most species instantly. Some secrete ice-nucleating substances that control the freezing process, for example, while others accumulate anti-freeze proteins that allow their cel ...
• Successful human tests for first wirelessly co ...
  About 15 years ago, MIT professors Robert Langer and Michael Cima had the idea to develop a programmable, wirelessly controlled microchip that would deliver drugs after implantation in a patient’s body. This week, the MIT researchers and scientists from MicroCHIPS Inc. reported that they have su ...

CFACT

• CEI's Chris Horner on White House lawsuit
• Eco-Lifestyles becoming a regular part of campus
• Interview: House Resources on Healthy Forests
• NY Times supports use of DDT in developing nations
• Adam Smith tackles America's landfill crisis

Ria Novosti Online News

• Putin Gets Some 64% With Over Half of Ballots ...
  With more than a half of all ballots counted, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin received about 64.4 percent of the vote in Russia’s March 4 presidential elections, the Russian Central Election Commission (CEC) said.
• No Serious Violations Registered at Russian Po ...
  Russian police reported on Sunday they had not registered any violations which could affect the results of the country’s presidential elections.
• ‘We Won in Fair and Open Fight' – Putin
  Russian Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin said he “won” the Sunday elections in a “fair and open fight,” calling the vote a “test” for Russians citizens’ “political maturity.”
• ‘We Won in Fair and Open Fight' – Putin
  Vladimir Putin told tens of thousands of supporters at a rally in downtown Moscow that he had won Sunday's presidential elections in a “fair and open fight."
• Vladimir Putin: The Man, the State, the Destiny
  It was a handover of power more unexpected than most and one that would shape Russia’s destiny for the next decade and beyond.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• ‘We Won in Fair and Open Fight' – Putin
  Russian Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin said he “won” the Sunday elections in a “fair and open fight,” calling the vote a “test” for Russians citizens’ “political maturity.”
• Dancing, Nude Scenes and Heart Attacks at Russ ...
  Chess tournaments, traditional Caucasian dancing, half-naked voters and five heart attacks were among the memorable highlights of Russia’s presidential polling day on March 4.
• Next Space Station May be Based on Other Plane ...
  A future international space station (ISS) could be built on another planet rather than in the Earth’s orbit, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Friday.
• Space Station Orbit Readjusted for Progress Do ...
  Russian Mission Control specialists on Wednesday readjusted the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) by 2.1 kilometers to ensure the best conditions for the docking of Russia’s Progress M-15M cargo spacecraft.
• Russian space programs

Pruning Shears

• Francis - This Must Be Blood EP
  Petter from Francis let me know that their new EP This Must Be Blood is out.Have a listen to the single “Traktor:”
• Concerning violence advocates and nailing jell ...
  This was published with considerable feedback from several bloggers at Corrente: DCblogger, affinis, lambert and okanogen. My sincere thanks to all of them for their help.When writing about violence at Occupy there seems to be a great deal of controversy over what the word itself means, so I&#8 ...
• Concerning violence advocates and the Black Bl ...
  This was published with considerable feedback from several bloggers at Corrente: DCblogger, affinis, lambert and okanogen. My sincere thanks to all of them for their help.The issue of violence at Occupy flared up last week when Chris Hedges used violent rhetoric to make the case for nonviolence ...
• Diversity of tactics - and uniformity of outcomes
  Economics is a closed system; internally it is perfectly logical, operating according to a consistent set of principles. Unfortunately, the same could be said of psychosis. What’s more, once having entered the closed system of the economist, you, like the psychotic, may have a hard time ge ...
• Weekend Wrapup
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims. This report (very graphic) on the effects of depleted uranium (DU) is absolutely horrifying. Reports on the effects of DU from other sou ...

Organic Consumers.org

• Launch of the Pandora's Box Report
  Today, Wednesday 29th February, marks the launch of our new report Opening Pandora's Box - A New Wave of Land Grabbing for the Extractive Industries and The Devastating Impact on Earth.Click here to read this article
• Who is the Biggest "Corporate Fool" of 2012?
  WASHINGTON, DC -- With April Fool's Day a month away, the nonprofit Green America is launching its annual "Corporate Fools' balloting today on Facebook to name the U.S. company with the worst corporate practices. The winner will be determined by votes from the general public as tallied at https: ...
• Every Last Bite: Why Wasting Animal Protein is ...
  This is not about the guilt-ridden question: Should I eat meat? That personal dilemma has already been debated thoroughly on Grist and elsewhere. Instead, here's another dose of angst for us meat eaters, just in case we needed one: If we're going to condone the killing of animals, the least we ...
• 8 Reasons I Won't Shop at Whole Foods When it ...
  Over the last 5 or 6 years, I've been hearing the question, "why doesn't Whole Foods come to Boise?" Before I knew much about food and nutrtion, I too thought this would be a great thing, to have such a pillar of whole foods and health in our city.Click here to read this article
• Victory: Grassroots Pressure Leads to Closure ...
  Marking a grassroots victory, Midwest Generation, a subsidiary of Edison International, will retire two of the oldest and dirtiest coal-fired power plants in the nation. Activists have been working for the past ten years to close the two plants located in Chicago.Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

• Public Health Reports on Antibiotics in Food A ...
  The good news is that the journal Public Health Reports has published a review article that acknowledges (not in so few words) that agriculture is one of the major drivers of the antibiotic resistance crisis that is unfolding.
• Art Is the Answer
  Metaphors are models that help us understand how different parts of the world fit together. I view novels as models. And they are models that have four dimensions because there is a temporal dimension to a novel, as you are sitting there reading it, you are moving through it, you are watching it ...
• How Do Economics Shape Food, Faith and the Future?
  Last week, Sylvia Nasar, author of Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius, addressed the issue of economics as it relates to food systems and the future, at the sixth session of the Baltimore Food and Faith Project’s Enoughness series. Complex and massive, the topic garnered a number of div ...
• ‘Superbug’ Transfer: The Jump From Humans, to ...
  News media outlets throughout the nation were abuzz last week with the report of new scientific research showing, for the first time, how a strain of infectious Staph began life in humans, then spread to livestock where it became MRSA, and then jumped back to humans. The study was published Tues ...
• On the Horizon: The Future of Biofuels
  What are the greatest opportunities and challenges right now in moving toward a more bio-based economy? A conversation with Donna Perla, senior advisor at EPA.

Investigate - Breaking News

• Medical ethicists now admit abortion is a form ...
  Medical ethicists now admit abortion is a form of child abuse. Medical ethicists now admit abortion is a form of child abuse
• Critics of ‘post-birth abortion’ guilty of ‘ha ...
  Critics of ‘post-birth abortion’ guilty of ‘hate speech’. Critics of ‘post-birth abortion’ guilty of ‘hate speech’
• Another new female witness steps forward in Ta ...
  Another new female witness steps forward in Tamihere case today. Another new female witness steps forward in Tamihere case today
• David Tamihere Swedish tourists case blown ope ...
  David Tamihere Swedish tourists case blown open by new witness. David Tamihere Swedish tourists case blown open by new witness
• Review: Roger Waters concert in Auckland
  Review: Roger Waters concert in Auckland. Review: Roger Waters concert in Auckland

My Care2 Picks

• Judge Throws out Organic Farmers Case Against ...
  Between 1997 and 2010, 144 lawsuits were filed by Monsanto against American family farmers, with an additional 700 being settled out of court.The Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association was hoping that the judge would disallow the use of Monsantos see Submitted by John Farnham to Science &amp ...
• Monsanto's Bt GMO corn to be sold at Wal-Mart ...
  Most of the genetically-modified (GM) corn products forced on American consumers today are hidden in processed foods in the form of high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS), corn oil, corn starch, and various other corn-based additives. But soon to be available at Submitted by Walter L Bradley Jr to Heal ...
• Political Climate
  You likely know climate change is a political football, even if only from ridiculous seeming pronouncements. And scientists are respected - so they make good cover for politicians to use them as sock puppets. Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!   ...
• Thirst
  I was thinking of our drinking water shortage ever increasing and reflecting on an old story about CIDA drilling wells in the Sahel and causing desertification. So I explored as the muse led. Submitted by John Farnham to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• American Airlines Exposes Bushs Big Lie: Fligh ...
  American Airlines itself is the source for information that AA Flights 11 (North Tower) and 77 (Pentagon) did not fly on 911. ( Len Hart posts at OpEd News, guest blogs at Bluebloggin,: his own Existentialist Cowboy is filled with scholarly research ) Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics &am ...

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

• GMO Krispies – Graphic
  GMO Krispies Graphic - Extra Glyphosate in Every Bite!
• Dairy Farmer is Ready to Go to Jail Over Food ...
  "I am proud of what I am doing. There is nothing wrong with peacefully providing food to members of my community who want it," claims Hershberger. "The state might put me in jail, but they cannot stop people from feeding their neighbors."
• Glyphosate Kills Rat Testis Cells
  A new study finds that Monsanto’s glyphosate-based herbicide Roundup Bioforce® as well as glyphosate alone reduced testosterone levels in testicular cells at very low concentrations; and at higher concentrations - still 10 times below agricultural use – the cells died in 24-48 hours.
• The Power of RAW Cannabis
  This is a must-watch video featuring some of the top researchers on the healing effects of Cannabis (Marijuana) in it's raw form, eaten or juiced.
• 2012 Seed Lady Calendar
  Download a free, printable 2012 Seed Lady Calendar to help keep track this growing season!

True/Slant Headline Grabs

• The stupidity of crowds helps kill a planet - ...
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• Sex, death, and the noble American toad - Scot ...
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• How to save a fishery: owning, renting, and ex ...
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• ‘Gossip Girl’ unethical because of threesome? ...
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Citizens for Legitimate Government

• Pentagon commander says US special forces in India
  ShareThisPentagon commander says US special forces in India --US special forces are present in five South Asian countries 02 Mar 2012 US special forces are present in five South Asian countries, including India, a top Pentagon commander has revealed. US Pacific Commander Admiral Robert Willard s ...
• US government ultimately paid bail for Egypt NGOs
  ShareThisUS government ultimately paid bail for Egypt NGOs --Amount of bail paid for US citizens was set at about $330,000 each 02 Mar 2012 The bail paid for U.S. 'pro-democracy activists' facing charges in Egypt ultimately came from the U.S. government, the State Department said on Friday. Egyp ...
• Pakistan criticizes US for rights abuses
  ShareThisPakistan criticizes US for rights abuses 03 Mar 2012 Pakistan's Ambassador to the United Nations Zamir Akram has criticized the United States for committing numerous human rights violations including those against detainees held in the US's Guantanamo Bay prison facility, Press TV repor ...
• Anonymous Members Infected by Trojan DDOS Utility
  ShareThisAnonymous Members Infected by Trojan DDOS Utility 03 Mar 2012 Victims of the various cyber-attacks by members of the hacktivist group Anonymous are undoubtedly enjoying a bit of schadenfreude this weekend, as a new report from Symantec indicates that some Anonymous members have been tri ...
• Romney Wins Washington GOP caucuses
  ShareThisRomney Wins Washington GOP caucuses 03 Mar 2012 Mitt Romney rolled to a double-digit victory in Washington state's Republican presidential caucuses Saturday night, his fourth campaign triumph in a row and a fresh show of strength in the run-up to 10 Super Tuesday contests in all regions ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

• MEDEVAC Momentum: Senate Armed Services Commit ...
  01 March 2012 The MEDEVAC issue continues with increasing seriousness.  Numerous Generals, the Secretary of the Army, and the Secretary of Defense (through General Dempsey, the Chairman of Joint Chiefs) have all weighed into the fight.  Seventeen members of Congress have joined, and m ...
• Sisters at War
  29 February 2012 This is a small tribute to our women in harm’s way. We constantly argue about whether or not women should be allowed in combat.  Reality is that they have been in combat for longer than anyone reading this has been alive, and they were in combat before any of our great gr ...
• Tigers, Crocodiles, Korans and Superstitions
  Tiger eyes of man with fresh scars “The Sundarbans lies in the massive delta between India and Bangladesh. This is one of the most beautiful but most dangerous places in the world, a place of tigers and crocodiles and dangerous seas and canals. Mamata is just one of about 3,000 ‘tiger widows’ i ...
• Our Weak Government Must Stop Apologizing for ...
  27 February 2012 The recent Koran-burning in Afghanistan has again inspired lunacy and murder.  And while the US civilian and military leadership burdened by their oleaginous apologies tumbles down a moral stairwell, Afghan security forces continue to murder American and Coalition troops.& ...
• White Birds in a Red War
  25 February 2012 An Army Dustoff pilot studying his art ran across some interesting passages.  The book DUST OFF: ARMY AEROMEDICAL EVACUATION IN VIETNAM mentions machine guns, missiles, Geneva Conventions, and painting MEDEVAC helicopters white so that the enemy could identify them. Excer ...

The Killing Train

• Professionals and Torturers
  The key moment in many revolutions comes when police and militaries refuse to fire on crowds. But what is difficult to explain about those moments is their infrequency. Soldiers and police come from the same society as the crowds. Why do they kill them? Why are elites and authorities able to res ...
• The regressive politics of the Iranian-Canadia ...
  [This article, by Shourideh Molavi and myself, was first published in The Bullet - version with links is there]. The regressive politics of the Iranian-Canadian Khevari petition Shourideh Molavi and Justin Podur November 11, 2011 On October 12, members of the Iranian-Canadian community sent a pe ...
• An interview for occupy Toronto
  Activist and comedian Jesse Owens interviewed me for the #occupyto.org website, way back in ancient occupy toronto history (ie., October 26). For posterity, I am also reproducing it here. Thanks Jesse... --- read more
• Some thoughts on Whiteness and the 99%
  I have some disagreements with Joel Olson's article, "Whiteness and the 99%", but I will start with some agreements. I agree that "biologically speaking, there's no such thing as race." read more
• The Logic of Occupy Wall Street for Canada
  The Occupy Wall St. Movement and the Occupy Together movements that are inspired by it actually have a simple premise: society shouldn't be run for the unrestricted benefit of the wealthiest. The immediate grievance is the 2008 banking crisis, in which the US banks engaged in fraudulent and crim ...

treehugger

• Ford Focus Electric Officially Beats Nissan Le ...
  Ford beats Nissan on electric car efficiency.
• Plastic Bag Makers Challenge San Francisco's P ...
  The Save The Plastic Bag Coalition Brings a Lawsuit against the San Francisco Baord of Supervisor's for its Plastic Bag Ban
• Vaute Couture Opens Flagship Vegan Fashion Bou ...
  Vaute Couture is opening the doors to their flagship boutique today with a sample sale boasting up to 70% off vegan winter coats.
• New Research on Ocean Acidification and Warmin ...
  New research projects around Puget Sound in Washington are looking at the complicated effects of warming waters and ocean acidification on marine ecosystems.
• Melbourne's Bikers are Victims of Artist's Gue ...
  A newly-arrived Melbourne resident thanked the city's cyclists by attaching hand-written notes to bikes.

Democratic Voice of Burma

• President ‘must go beyond words’: Ko Ko Gyi
  Activist says rule of law will not be realised in Burma until government educates citizens and rids characteristics of former junta
• Work to resume on Death Railway: reports
  Ceasefire deal with Mon rebels could pave the way for work to resume on the infamous route designed to link Bangkok to Rangoon
• Suu Kyi hails effects of sanctions
  Opposition leader says sanctions from western countries have pushed Burma's rulers along the path of democratic reform
• Investing a dubious future in ASEAN
  Allowing ASEAN monitors in for the April by-elections will be a test of how much the government trusts its neighbours, and a key step in Burma's rocky road to democratic transition
• Burma conflict due to ‘misunderstanding& ...
  President says government wants equal rights for minorities 'so our ethnic youths who held guns stand tall holding laptops'

Telegraph - Climate Change

• Oceans acidifying at 'unparalleled' rate
  Scientists have warned of the risk to marine life as climate change causes the oceans to acidify at the fastest rate for 300 million years.
• Grey squirrels blamed for decline in woodland ...
  Grey squirrels could be causing a decline in woodland song birds, according to a new study by the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust.
• The Gleick affair is further proof of the warm ...
  Dr Peter Gleick provides more evidence that the supporters of the Cause will stop at nothing, says Christopher Booker.
• Foreign aid cash spent tackling climate change
  Nearly £1.5 billion has been spent tackling man-made climate change by Government department responsible for fighting poverty abroad, it can be revealed.
• Windfarms: An ill wind of change?
  As the world's biggest windfarm opens off Cumbria, Christopher Middleton investigates the turbine boom.

National Geographic | Environment

• Rare Night Tornadoes This Week Fueled By Warm ...
  The unusual nighttime outbreak of tornadoes in the U.S. Midwest Wednesday morning may have been triggered by a warm winter.
• Estimates Clash for How Much Natural Gas in th ...
  As U.S. policymakers contemplate a new era as the "Saudi Arabia of natural gas," a new government analysis slashes estimates for unproved shale gas reserves.
• Shrinking Arctic Sea Ice Linked to Snowier Win ...
  Rapidly shrinking Arctic sea ice could be behind unusually snowy winters in the Northern Hemisphere, a new model suggests.
• Huge Swarm of Gelatinous Sea Creatures Imaged ...
  Scientists have created a new 3-D picture of a giant swarm of tiny gelatinous sea creatures off Australia.
• Concern Over Rare Rhino Rouses Clean Energy Dr ...
  After a fight against a coal-fired power plant that threatened one of the last sanctuaries of the Sumatran rhino, a struggle for cleaner energy continues in east Malaysia.

Jurist - Legal Research

• UN commission reports war crimes by both sides ...
  [JURIST] The UN International Commission of Inquiry on Libya submitted its findings [report, PDF] on Friday, reporting that war crimes and crimes against humanity were committed by both sides of the recent Libyan conflict [JURIST backgrounder]. Established in February 2011 by an emergency sessio ...
• BP reaches settlement agreement with Gulf oil ...
  [JURIST] British Petroleum (BP) [corporate website] on Friday announced an estimated $7.8 billion class action settlement [press release] to resolve the majority of claims [materials] filed by individual and business plaintiffs after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill [BBC backgrounder; JURIST ...
• Egypt appoints new judges in NGO trial
  [JURIST] Egypt has appointed new judges to hear the trial of 43 non-governmental organization (NGO) workers just days after six Americans among those charged left the country after a nearly $5 million bail was paid by the US government. The suspects, including 16 Americans and 27 other foreigner ...
• Fifth Circuit rules Army Corps of Engineers li ...
  [JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit [official website] on Friday affirmed [opinion, PDF] that the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) [official website] is liable to a number of Louisiana property owners for its inadequate work on a shipping channel that caused billions of doll ...
• UN rights chief urges states to protect rights ...
  [JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Thursday called on all nations [press release] to ensure that people with disabilities are given equal "enjoyment of all civil, cultural, economic, political and social rights." Pillay's statements came at the Human Rights Council's a ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

• Obama Announces Reelection Bid
  The 2012 election is underway
• 5 Advantages for Obama in 2012
  The president's path to reelection
• Obama's Reelection Report Card
  The president's political strengths and weaknesses, as he opens the 2012 campaign
• 5 Disadvantages for Obama in 2012
  A tough economy could make him a one-term president
• Bin Laden's Death: A Pivotal Victory for Obama ...
  The president silences his national-security critics heading into 2012, and the CIA stands tall after the damage of 9/11

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

• [COAT] WikiLeaks on Canada in Iraq War - coat
• [COAT] CANSEC Arms Bazaar Protest, June 1, Ott ...
• [COAT] Put a SNAG in CANSEC: Spring Nuremberg ...
• [COAT] WikiWeapons Cda Exposes 18,888 Export C ...
• [COAT] Latest on Cda's Arms Exports & CANSEC r ...

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

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• SKorea on alert after ship hit by mysterious b ...
• Obama administration may send U.S.-Russia arms ...
• Energy Secretary Steven Chu on the nation's en ...

Tikun Olam

• Congressional Pro-Israel Supporters Tell Obama ...
  Bibi Netanyahu is a corrupt, anti-democratic, ultra-nationalist Israeli leader.  But one thing he is indisputably good at is political manipulation both of his own population and world opinion.  In the run up to his coronation in Washington where he arrives shortly, he has superbly laid groundwo ...
• Obama Protects Pro-Israel Right Flank, Beating ...
  Pres. Obama is attempting to steal a march on Bibi Netanyahu, who will be arriving in Washington in four days, by giving pro-Israel journalist, Jeffrey Goldberg, an interview heavy with martial overtones: President Obama…stiffened his pledge to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, ...
• Polls Indicate No Israeli or U.S. Consensus Fa ...
  As Bibi Netanyahu heads to Washington for yet another in an endless series of consultations of dubious utility with Barack Obama, followed by yet another appeal to the worshipful multitudes at Aipac’s national conference, it’s important to note that opinion polls both in the U.S. and ...
• Israeli Justice Minister Exposes Shin Bet Offi ...
  In Israel, the intelligence apparatus is sacrosanct.  Among the many things you can’t do is publicly name a current or former officer (even after death).  Justice Minister Yaakov Neeman seems to have forgotten that.  Chaim Levinson reports in today’s Haaretz (see accompanying story) ...
• Republican Branch of Pro-Israel Lobby in Attac ...
  The Emergency Committee on Israel published a full-page ad in today’s New York Times denouncing the Center for American Progress and Media Matters for using allegedly anti-Semitic stereotypes in debates about the Israel-Palestine conflict and Iran.  The ad is displayed here for you to judg ...

If Americans Knew

• Stealing Success Tel Aviv Style
  And there is another aspect of Israel's growing high tech sector that he understandably chose to ignore because it is extremely sleazy. That is the significant advantage that Israel has gained by systematically stealing American technology with both military and civilian applications. The US dev ...
• New Booklet: Stealing Success Tel Aviv Style
  International security and counterterrorism expert Philip Giraldi argues that Israel's flourishing high tech industry is built on widespread theft of American research. This has undermined American companies and endangered American security.
• How to Contact the US Government and Media
  Contact information for the U.S. government and media.
• Remember Rachel Corrie
  On March 16, 2003, Rachel Corrie was killed by Israeli soldiers driving a bulldozer. Please help us keep Rachel's memory and message alive! Order materials to distribute to your friends, family, neighbors, and community.
• US Media and Israeli Military: All in the Family
  Recent exposes revealing that Ethan Bronner, the New York Times Israel-Palestine bureau chief, has a son in the Israeli military have caused a storm of controversy that continues to swirl and generate further revelations.

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

• Triangle Wiki Day a Win for Open Source in Raleigh
  This post is a guest column by Jason Hibbets, chair of Raleigh's South West Citizen Advisory Council (SWCAC). A version of this post first appeared on southwestraleigh.com. Almost 50 people collaborated on Saturday at Red Hat headquarters, currently located on Centennial Campus in Raleigh, ...
• Journo-Coders Take NICAR 12 to a Whole New Level
  I spent a rapid-fire 23 hours in St. Louis this weekend at the NICAR 12 conference. For those who don't know, NICAR stands for "National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting," and, as the slightly antiquated name might suggest, was founded long before the commercial Internet, back in 1989. ...
• As TriangleWiki Gets Ready to Launch, LocalWik ...
  Hey friends! Whew! A lot has happened since our last PBS Idea Lab blog update! Our first focus community, DentonWiki, has been doing great, and several of our other focus communities are close to launching. Just recently, nearly 50 people came together in Raleigh, N.C., to join a mass ...
• How Spending Stories Fact Checks Big Brother, ...
  This piece was co-written with Eric King, human rights and technology adviser at Privacy International, and comes as Privacy International launches a new data release about companies selling surveillance technologies. Today, the global surveillance industry is estimated at around $5 billion a ...
• Knight Lab's Election Project Mines Social Med ...
  CongressionalPrimaries.org, the first major initiative of the Knight News Innovation Laboratory, went live officially this week. The site demonstrates several technologies that enhance coverage of this year's congressional primary elections in Illinois -- while also providing components that pub ...

Cutting Edge News

• Edge on Biology - Lineage Trees Reveal Cells’ ...
  In recent years, a number of controversial claims have been made about the female mammal’s egg supply, including that it is renewed over her adult lifetime (as opposed to the conventional understanding that she is born with all of her eggs) and that the source of these eggs is stem cells that or ...
• Iran's Nukes - The Need for Consistent U.S. an ...
  Iran seems certain to be the main topic of discussion during Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu's March 5 White House meeting with President Obama. Whatever the substantive content of their conversations on the Iranian nuclear program, they need to address their public messaging, which ha ...
• The Digital Edge - Tech Boost Arms Citizens To ...
  Russia's parliamentary elections in December were characterized by the opposition and observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) as seriously flawed. Few were surprised. But what did raise eyebrows was the response of tens of thousands of ordinary Russians who ...
• Chine on Edge - China Boosts 2012 Military Spe ...
  China is planning a double-digit rise in military spending this year, an increase authorities say is in line with the country's economic development and defense needs. Li Zhaoxing, the spokesman for the National People's Congress, announced on Sunday the overall figure for China's 2012 military ...
• The Edge of Film - Documentary Looks Into Ugan ...
  Two U.S.-based filmmakers have made a riveting documentary looking into the struggles and activism of Uganda's embattled gay community. The film is called Call Me Kuchu. Kuchu is the name used in Uganda to describe members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. The film's trail ...

High Country News

• A fresh focus on frack attacks
  In all the fuss about fracking, the many other problems caused by rampant oil and gas development are being overlooked.
• Our nuclear legacy should have taught us something
  Utah considers building a nuclear power plant despite the fact that it's still cleaning up the mess left over from the last uranium boom.
• A conversation I look forward to having with t ...
  A lifetime member of the NRA is skeptical of the group's paranoia about President Obama’s gun-control plans.
• This is a winter of snowy owls
  Big, beautiful snowy owls are showing up far outside their usual range, much to the delight of Western birdwatchers.
• Some politicians turn public lands into a poli ...
  The West's vast public lands are under attack by politicians in the U.S. House of Representatives as well as by several of the Republican presidential candidates.

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

• Obama Should Apologize for the Burning of Amer ...
   by Barry Rubin “Don’t apologize. Your enemies won’t believe it and your friends don’t need to hear it.” — Bumper sticker. It should be obvious by now that President Barack Obama and his administration don’t know some basic things about the conduct of international relations. Th ...
• Newbusted: Obama Claims to Have Magic Beans To ...
  Eyebrows were raised earlier this week when President Obama announced that he finally had a way to reduce gas prices, thanks to Jodi Miller of Newsbusted we now know his idea involves some magic beans which he purchased buy selling the family milking cow. Along with that story other news i ...
• Is “Drill Baby Drill” a Big Lie or is Presiden ...
   I thought you folks might enjoy my column in this week's Jewish Star: In making his energy speech in Miami last week, President Obama declared, "anyone who tells you we can drill our way out of this problem doesn't know what they're talking about -- or just isn't telling you th ...
• The New Middle East: Arab Versus Non-Arab Musl ...
  By Barry Rubin The new Middle East strategic battle is heating up and this is only the start. It has nothing to do with Israel and everything to do with two more serious lines of battle: Arabs versus Persians and Sunni versus Shia Muslims. The Arab-Israeli or Israel-Palestinian disput ...
• David Frum is a Low-Life Scumbag
  Warning: There will be cussing in this post so if you are the type of person who is easily offended please click the next post button at the bottom of this page. Anybody who saw the old Muppet show will remember the two cranky old men (Statler and Waldoff) who safely sat in a balcony critic ...

The Real Agenda

• BP Oil Spill: A Planned Mega Disaster Part III
  There is no way BP would not know they were misleading everyone,” Matt Simmons had said. “They would have to be deaf, dumb, and blind and they’re not. These are smart guys.” by Micheal Kollmann Newsvine.com March, 2012 Part I   Part II   Part III The little pin that prick and burst the 2008 Oil ...
• BP Oil Spill: A Planned Mega Disaster Part II
  There is no way BP would not know they were misleading everyone,” Matt Simmons had said. “They would have to be deaf, dumb, and blind and they’re not. These are smart guys.” by Micheal Kollmann Newsvine.com March, 2012 Part I   Part II   Part III Does the story fit in so far? Alan Greenspan incr ...
• BP Oil Spill: A Planned Mega Disaster
  There is no way BP would not know they were misleading everyone,” Matt Simmons had said. “They would have to be deaf, dumb, and blind and they’re not. These are smart guys.” by Micheal Kollmann Newsvine.com March, 2012 Part I   Part II   Part III Has the BP-Macondo Blowout-Mega Oil Spill in 2010 ...
• Was Breitbart Silenced?
  by Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda March 2, 2012 Anytime someone dies suddenly in an accident or due to natural causes such a death creates a tsunami that shocks relatives, friends an others. When the person who dies is well-known, the shock extends to the public, just as it happened to Whitney ...
• Sheriff Arpaio Confirms it: Obama’s Birt ...
  by Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda March 2, 2012 It wasn’t necessary but Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s investigation has added more salt and pepper to an issue that only the marginalized “birthers” used to talk about. Them and the alternative media were called kooks and conspiracy ...

Wind Watch

• Lawmakers push to end all energy subsidies
  WICHITA – U.S. Rep. Mike Pompeo has joined a Republican push in Washington to end all energy tax credits. The Republican congressman from Kansas is sponsoring legislation in the House seeking to end all energy tax subsidies, including the production tax credit for electricity produced from ...
• ‘Wind turbines will destroy landscapes&# ...
  US billionaire Donald Trump has thrown his full weight behind a campaign to stop wind turbines being erected in north-east Fife and beyond. Mr Trump, who has already voiced his opposition to proposals to erect 11 turbines off the Aberdeenshire coast, near his golf resort, has now turned his atte ...
• David Cameron says countryside wind farms have ...
  Wind farms built across the British countryside have been “over subsidised and wasteful of public money”, David Cameron has said. In his strongest ever criticism of green energy, the Prime Minister suggested too much taxpayer cash has been given to on-shore wind farms, which are now highly profi ...
• State will consider turbine health concerns
  LEE — Facing a barrage of criticism from wind-turbine opponents, state officials promised to take into account citizens’ concerns as they form plans for the future of the contentious alternative energy source in Massachusetts. Anxieties about how sounds produced by wind turbines affect the ...
• Study group rejects wind power plans in Lenox
  LENOX — With nearly perfect harmony, a panel assigned to report on the merits of a proposed municipal wind-turbine installation atop Lenox Mountain has issued its verdict: A near-unanimous rejection of the project on grounds of adverse financial, environmental and health impacts. Following ...

Tippers News

• Three men helped starve kids, court tol
  Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
  The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...
  Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note- ...
• About Us,,,You may want to lisent...interesting!
  Interesting Information that you may find interesting With Love... Evelyn (: Submitted by Evelyn J. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Tiger killing 'a crime against nature'
  Three people have been sentenced to a total of eight and a half years in prison for trying to smuggle tiger skins and bones across the Russian border. And for the first time in this kind of case, a charge of 'ecological damage' might be brought for the Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals &nbsp ...

The Freeman

• End Oil Favors, Obama Says
  “President Obama reiterated his call for Congress to repeal federal subsidies to the oil industry Thursday, escalating a political skirmish with Republicans over rising gasoline prices amid evidence that much of the public remains uncertain about who is to blame.” (Washington Post) T ...
• Gasoline Price Heads toward $4
  “Pump prices continued to march toward $4 a gallon Thursday, as signs of a stronger U.S. economy helped push benchmark oil past $108 per barrel.” (Christian Science Monitor) And the peak driving season is still to come. FEE Timely Classic “The High Cost of Misunderstanding Gaso ...
• Oil Sanctions and the Pretence of Knowledge
  "The best laid schemes o' mice an' men/ Gang aft a-gley."
• Bernanke Says Low Interest Rates to Continue
  “Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said elevated unemployment and subdued inflation mean interest rates are likely to stay low, without offering any sign that the economy needs an additional monetary boost.” (Bloomberg News) Artificially low interest rates have high future cos ...
• FDA Cigarette Labels Knocked Down
  “A federal judge on Wednesday declared unconstitutional a Food and Drug Administration requirement that tobacco companies prominently display graphic warning labels on cigarette packages. Judge Richard J. Leon of the United States District Court in Washington ruled that forcing the compani ...

Teaching Online Journalism

• Definition: Social media
  I’ve been working on this for a few days. Trying to make it as simple as possible. Digital systems that enable people, identified by profiles, to share information. Now, please let me unpack that a little bit: Digital systems is another way to say media. I specify digital because I do not ...
• Resources for learning about social media
  I have been collecting posts, articles, tutorials and general how-to materials that relate to how journalists use social media. I started about two weeks ago, as I prepare for a workshop in Singapore. They are curated here: Social Media and Journalists. The collection is housed at Scoop.it, a cu ...
• Resources for learning about social media
  I have been collecting posts, articles, tutorials and general how-to materials that relate to how journalists use social media. I started about two weeks ago, as I prepare for a workshop in Singapore. They are curated here: Social Media and Journalists. The collection is housed at Scoop.it, a ...
• People see value in curation
  I think it’s very cool that 1,126 people visited this blog yesterday. The number of retweets on the link to my post about social media tools for journalists really drove the traffic. What’s even more encouraging is that a lot of links in my post were clicked. That’s wonderful, ...
• People see value in curation
  I think it’s very cool that 1,126 people visited this blog yesterday. The number of retweets on the link to my post about social media tools for journalists really drove the traffic. What’s even more encouraging is that a lot of links in my post were clicked. That’s wonderful, ...

Facing South

• INSTITUTE INDEX: The hidden costs of the 'Newt ...
  In the run-up to the Georgia primary, GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich has been promising to bring the country $2.50-a-gallon gas -- what he's calling the "Newt Gallon. ...
  
• Art Pope investigation honored by NC Press Ass ...
  A joint investigation into Art Pope's political empire wins an Investigative Reporting award from North Carolina's leading newspaper association, who call it a "fasci ...
  
• Undocumented protesters arrested at NC immigra ...
  Members of the youth-led immigration advocacy group NC DREAM Team interrupted a North Carolina legislative meeting yesterday, shouting "I am undocumented, unafraid and unashamed!&amp ...
  
• Creative organizing at Walmart
  A new strategy to advocate for workers' rights at Bentonville, Ark.-based Walmart is utilizing what has been called "pre-New Deal unionism" -- and it is showing some ...
  
• Will BP go on trial?
  After the expected court date for BP's trial for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill was delayed this week, rumors have grown about a settlement that could close the case. But will G ...
  

Worldpress - Africa

• Global Fund Fights AIDS, TB and Malaria
  The Global Fund has been fighting disease for a decade in 150 countries, but the time is ripe for reform and reassessment of its operations.
• Global Fund Fights AIDS, TB and Malaria
  The Global Fund has been fighting disease for a decade in 150 countries, but the time is ripe for reform and reassessment of its operations.
• Investment in African Renewable Energy Ramps Up
  International efforts are being made to address Africa's energy deficiencies by developing renewable energy sources on a grand scale.
• Investment in African Renewable Energy Ramps Up
  International efforts are being made to address Africa's energy deficiencies by developing renewable energy sources on a grand scale.
• Development Challenges for Africa in 2012
  With economic malaise in the West and a growing population of young people at home, Africa faces significant challenges and opportunities in the coming year.

Telegraph UK - oil

• David Ross loses shareholder vote to take Cosa ...
  David Ross, the multi-millionaire entrepreneur, has lost the vote to take Cosalt private and declared the company will remain publicly listed following a shareholder revolt.
• BP trial: in numbers
  As the "trial of the century" gets under way in New Orleans, with BP and some of its suppliers in the dock over its Gulf of Mexico oil spill, here are some of the numbers.
• London-based oil executive linked to 9/11 hija ...
  A Saudi Arabian accused of associating with several of the September 11 hijackers and who disappeared from his home in the United States a few weeks before the attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon, is in London working for his country's state oil company.
• September 11: A Saudi family, a Florida villa ...
  Whether the September 11 hijackers acted alone, or whether they received support from a network of co-conspirators in the United States, remains one of the unanswered questions of the world's most devastating terrorist attack.
• Charles Hendry: North Sea oil industry in inde ...
  The North Sea oil industry will be at greater risk of "unnecessary and harmful" interference by Europe if Scotland becomes independent, the Government has warned industry leaders.

Ian Welsh

• On Stratfor
  Wikileaks has dumped a bunch of internal Stratfor documents, which they presumably received from Anonymous.  Years ago I used to read Stratfor’s briefs.  After a while I stopped, because their economic analysis was absolutely awful, straight up cookie cutter consensus macro, which missed t ...
• Justified Pessimism
  is not, in fact, pressimism.  It is realism. I find the “be happy” crowd odd.  We have, in the past few years, seen millions of Americans and Europeans impoverished and lose their homes.  We are seeing a wave of austerity in the 1st world which has and will impoverish many millions m ...
• Justified Pessimism
  is not, in fact, pressimism.  It is realism. I find the “be happy” crowd odd.  We have, in the past few years, seen millions of Americans and Europeans impoverished and lose their homes.  We are seeing a wave of austerity in the 1st world which has and will impoverish many millions m ...
• Sewage
  Why is Francis Fukuyama considered an intellectual?  Why is he considered an intellectual worth of praise, his opinion important? I ask this not because I don’t know the answer, I do, and I’ll get to it, but because so many people seem to believe he is an intellectual. Let me quote F ...
• Sewage
  Why is Francis Fukuyama considered an intellectual?  Why is he considered an intellectual worth of praise, his opinion important? I ask this not because I don’t know the answer, I do, and I’ll get to it, but because so many people seem to believe he is an intellectual. Let me quote F ...

Media Consortium

• New Voices: What Works
• The Media Consortium » The Big Thaw
• Corporations Are Not People -- In These Times
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• Private prison company’s growth went hand-in-h ...
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• Montana AG warns of return to rampant corporat ...
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Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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

new geography

• Shale Revolution Challenges the Left and the Right
  In his State of the Union address, President Obama invoked the 30-year history of federal support for new shale gas drilling technologies to defend his present day investments in green energy. Obama stressed the value of shale gas—which will create thousands of jobs and billions in profi ...
• Is Energy the Last Good Issue for Republicans?
  With gas prices beginning their summer spike to what could be record highs, President Obama in recent days has gone out of his way to sound reassuring on energy, seeming to approve an oil pipeline to Oklahoma this week after earlier approving leases for drilling in Alaska. Yet few in the ...
• Will Millennials Still be Liberal When They’re ...
  The Millennial Generation (born 1982-2003) is the cohort most in favor of using the federal government to promote economic stability and equality since the GI Generation of the 1930s and 1940s. The attitudes of Millennials were heavily shaped by the protected and group-oriented way in which ...
• Don’t Bet Against The (Single-Family) House
  Nothing more characterizes the current conventional wisdom than the demise of the single-family house. From pundits like Richard Florida to Wall Street investors, the thinking is that the future of America will be characterized increasingly by renters huddling together in small apartments, liv ...
• Housing Affordability: St. Louis’ Competitive ...
  Things are looking better in St. Louis. For decades, St. Louis has been slowest-growing metropolitan areas of the United States. Its historical core city has lost more than 60 percent of its population since 1950, a greater loss than any other major core municipality in the modern era.  Non ...

GM Watch

• Open letters to India's Prime Minister
  1.Open letter to the Prime Minister on his statement regarding foreign funded NGOs 2.A message to India's PM from a Chennai housewife COMMENT by Rachna Arora: The media has widely reported and followed up on the Prime Minister's statement on foreign-funded NGOs in the context of nuclear power a ...
• Open letters to India's Prime Minister
  1.Open letter to the Prime Minister on his statement regarding foreign funded NGOs 2.A message to India's PM from a Chennai housewife COMMENT by Rachna Arora: The media has widely reported and followed up on the Prime Minister's statement on foreign-funded NGOs in the context of nuclear power a ...
• Massive cuts in pesticides without GMOs
  NOTE: While GMOs have largely - and sometimes spectacularly - failed to cut agrochemical use or improve yields, other approaches are showing that massive pesticide reductions are possible while preserving or, in some cases, even improving yields. COMMENT from Kavitha Kuruganti: While this model ...
• Massive cuts in pesticides without GMOs
  NOTE: While GMOs have largely - and sometimes spectacularly - failed to cut agrochemical use or improve yields, other approaches are showing that massive pesticide reductions are possible while preserving or, in some cases, even improving yields. COMMENT from Kavitha Kuruganti: While this model ...
• Labeling GM foods should be a no-brainer
  NOTE: A day after this superb comment piece from Marion Nestle, Monsanto's home town paper ran the headline, "Push to label genetically modified food gains traction". It reports among other things that, at least 18 U.S. states "are now considering laws that would make the labels mandatory, inclu ...

spiked

• In defence of the Luddites
  200 years after Lord Byron’s tub-thumping speech about the Luddites, let us distinguish those radicals from today’s eco-miserabilists.
• Why the FA loves gay footballers
  A new campaign against homophobia is more about lecturing footie fans than tackling discrimination.
• Politics and TV: the odd couple
  No modern political chat show, including ITV’s new one The Agenda, has a patch on The Wright Stuff.
• A cult film that won’t be a cult film
  Slow thriller Martha Marcy May Marlene – lauded at Sundance, ignored by the Oscars – isn’t challenging, just vague.
• Smoker or non-smoker, your freedom is at stake
  It doesn’t matter if you’ve never lit up in your life - you should still be agitated by the paternalism of the plan to put fags in plain packets.

Cryptogon

• South Korea: Dr. Smartphone?
  Not The Onion: Check. Not April 1: Check. Via: Reuters: Tired of long waits at the hospital for medical tests? If Korean researchers have their way, your smartphone could one day eliminate that — and perhaps even tell you that you have cancer. A team of scientists at Korea Advanced Institu ...
• James Cameron Buys Farms, Plans to Move Family ...
  Good idea. Via: Stuff: Hollywood movie mogul James Cameron is coming to live in Wairarapa – and he is bringing his family with him. The director of blockbuster films Titanic and Avatar has purchased two large plots of land along Western Lake Rd in south Wairarapa, where he is expected to a ...
• Pay Fee to Jump to Front of Line at San Franci ...
  Via: San Francisco Chronicle: Frequent travelers who use San Francisco International Airport once again will be able to get through security a little faster with the return of a fee-based pre-screening program approved by the Airport Commission Tuesday. The CLEAR program, operated by a private c ...
• Surveillance Video Becomes a Tool for Studying ...
  Via: Technology Review: Software mines security footage to help business owners see what people do once they’re inside the store. The huge success of online shopping and advertising—led by giants like Amazon and Google—is in no small part thanks to software that logs when you visit Web pag ...
• Reconstructing Speech from Human Auditory Cortex
  Via: PLoS Biology: How the human auditory system extracts perceptually relevant acoustic features of speech is unknown. To address this question, we used intracranial recordings from nonprimary auditory cortex in the human superior temporal gyrus to determine what acoustic information in speech ...

The Economic Collapse

• 10.7 Percent: Unemployment In Europe Is Worse ...
  The unemployment rate in the eurozone is now 10.7 percent.  That is the highest the unemployment rate has been since the introduction of the euro.  The unemployment rate in the eurozone never got any higher than 10.2 percent during the last recession.  This is very troubling news ...
• Inflation Is A Tax And The Federal Reserve Is ...
  Ronald Reagan once famously declared that inflation is a tax, but sadly most Americans did not really grasp what he was talking about.  If the American people truly understood what inflation was doing to them, they would be screaming bloody murder about monetary policy.  Inflatio ...
• 20 Economic Statistics To Use To Wake Sheeple ...
  The Dow has closed above 13,000 for the first time since 2008, and the mainstream media is declaring that a strong economic recovery is underway.  Barack Obama is telling anyone who will listen that his economic policies are a huge success, and U.S. consumers are piling up astoun ...
• 20 Signs That Dust Bowl Conditions Will Soon R ...
  For decades, the heartland of America has been the breadbasket of the world.  Unfortunately, those days will shortly come to an end.  The central United States is rapidly drying up and dust bowl conditions will soon return.  There are a couple of major reasons for this.  Number o ...
• America 1950 vs. America 2012
  Would you rather live in the America of 1950 or the America of 2012?  Has the United States changed for the better over the last 62 years?  Many fondly remember the 1950s and the 1960s as the "golden age" of America.  We emerged from World War II as the wealthiest and most powerf ...

Desertification

• Halting desertification in Europe (SEMIDE / EMWIS)
  Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.semide.net/topics/WaterScarcity/halting-desertification-europe/halting-desertification-europe-2011 Halting desertification in Europe – 2011 call Open call for proposals in the framework of the Preparatory Action on development of pr ...
• Deszertification in California (Google / USC)
  Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://dornsife.usc.edu/enst-320a/water-and-soil/?p=239 California Desertification: Too Dry or Not Too Dry dginsbur Desertification is defined as the deterioration of land in typically arid areas due to changes in climate and human activities. In th ...
• Chicken peas varieties that can survive long s ...
  Read at : http://icardablog.wordpress.com/2012/03/01/freeze-resistant-chickpeas-offer-higher-more-stable-yields/ Freeze-resistant chickpeas offer higher, more stable yields Winter-planted chickpea crops can be severely damaged by cold spells. New genotypes can survive temperatures as low as –24° ...
• Homegrown food is tastier (Science Daily / Edr ...
  Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070418163652.htm Children Eat More Fruits And Vegetables If They Are Homegrown ScienceDaily (Apr. 18, 2007) —  If you are looking for a way to encourage your children eat their fruits and vegetables, search no further than your … Conti ...
• Malnutrition : Hide-and-seek play ? (Science D ...
  Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120301180910.htm Should We Play Hide-And-Go-Seek With Our Children’s Vegetables? ScienceDaily (Mar. 1, 2012) — Pass the peas please! How often do we hear our children say this? According to the Centers for Disease Control and Preventio ...

The Paper Trail

• Venezuela emerges as new source of ‘conflict’ ...
  Crouched near a mound of rocks and dirt, Ramón swings a short-handled pick at a shallow hole, showing off the technique he uses to mine what he calls “black pebbles” — stones laced with minerals important to high-tech manufacturers worldwide.Over the last couple of years Ramón has labored at sma ...
• Colombia’s black-market coltan tied to drug tr ...
  On a narrow trail muddied by rain, a slight man in a thin T-shirt emerges from the thick of a remote jungle, down where Colombia ends and Venezuela and Brazil begin. He’s striding quickly, despite nearly 50 pounds of rocks inside a woven basket, anchored to his back by a white cloth wrapped arou ...
• Five things you need to know about coltan:
  What is coltan used for? Where does it come from? How can it be tracked?
• About this story
  That smart phone in your pocket contains a bit of coltan — a prized mineral that helps move electronic signals across ubiquitous microchips and controllers and allows devices to work well in extreme temperatures.
• Long-delayed diesel study published
  A much-anticipated government study of more than 12,000 miners — whose publication was delayed by litigation from a group of mining companies — has found that exposure to diesel engine exhaust significantly increases the risk of lung cancer.For the most heavily exposed miners, the risk of dying ...

backofthebook.ca

• Robocalls, Vikileaks: One of these things is n ...
  By Montreal Simon When I hear Vic Toews howling that he’s being victimized. WAAAAAAAH !!!! Because he can’t do his job after being “anonymously degraded” by Vikileaks.  “I take strong issue with the idea that House resources would be used to attack secretly a member ...
• More gravy on my Poutine, please
  By Montreal Simon You know it takes a certain kind of mentality to pay cash for a disposable cellphone, like criminals do,  and call the phony owner Pierre Poutine. A telephone number used to place automated calls directing voters to the wrong polling station in Guelph, Ont., in the last federal ...
• A Modest Opinion – Nathaniel Moher&#8217 ...
  All right, it’s been about three months since I offered up my first batch of suggestions on how we can fix the world, and it appears none of them have been implemented. (Seriously ABC, Charlie’s Angels is the next … Charlie’s Angels. It’ll spawn five seasons, two movies, and a reboot series if y ...
• Coren vs. Boteach: let’s go to the tape
  By Frank Moher A passel of Michael Coren supporters have emerged over the last day to defend his “interview” of Rabbi Shmuley Boteach on the SUN “News” Network. (I always keep a pile of ironic quotation marks beside me when I write about SUN TV.) Some of them arrived here ...
• Harper’s implausible deniability
  By Alison@Creekside In writing about the Cons’ dirty tricks robocall election fraud, John Ibbitson muses whether the Cons might just bear some “measure of responsibility” for creating a political climate in which their “rogue” campaign managers impersonate Election ...

libcom

• A rally against the elections in Moscow live b ...
  161979_382708068424764_1893775011_n.jpg Make sure to keep track of what is happening in the very centre of Moscow and St. Petersburg in real time! Our reporters will follow left-wing activists collect ...
• Valsusa in every city: NO TAV updates (Italy)
  images.jpeg The last 10 days or so have seen a massive shift in the NO TAV struggle, with the state now trying to repress the movement more openly than ever: evictions, police beatings, and the govern ...
• Betrayals and Outbursts in Barcelona
  manifestants-trencat-Banco-Popular-AFP_ARAIMA20120229_0131_20.jpg On the transport strike, the student strike, and the riots, protests, and sabotage carried out in Barcelona in the month of February, ...
• Barcelona student strike against austerity met ...
  barca.jpg A report for libcom.org from Barcelona, as thousands of young people march in cities across Spain to protest austerity measures for the 29F: Vaga General d'Universitats ...
• 100,000,000 workers grind India to a halt in o ...
  india3.jpg One of the world's largest ever strikes began at midnight on Monday 27th Feb and will end at midnight tonight. Up to 100,000,000 Indian workers from different sectors and industries ar ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

• Mitten’s Massive Mormon Myths – My ...
  In the immortal words of Sir Walter Scott:  “Oh What a Tangled Web We Weave, When First We Practice to Deceive!!” Indeed!  I would submit that the biggest problem with promoting a massive lie to millions of trusting people, is the need to employ a full time Public Relations firm (the ...
• The EXTRAORDINARY Properties of Water! Viktor ...
  What was the REAL REASON for the Allied fire-bombing of Dresden Germany in February, 1945?   Could it have been due to the fact that Dresden was the planet’s research heart of Homeopathy and Naturopathy/Cellular Nutrition?   Could it be that during the 30′s Dresden was unlocking the ...
• The Biggest Hidden Problem of Election 2012
  Wake Up America!!!! Why is the Controlled Media so quiet about discussing what will happen in 2013 if Obama is still in the White House?   Do you realize that Mittens Romney will implement OBAMACARE COMMUNISM as well? Instead of harping about the NDAA (of which the final version was sanitized of ...
• Are Mormons “Christian”??
  Are Mormons (aka Latter-day Saints) Christians?   According to the standards set by The Holy Bible – they absolutely are not!! I know, I can hear the screaming now from the LDS faithful – of COURSE we are “Christians” – we are the “Church of JESUS CHRIST of La ...
• USS Liberty – OPERATION CYANIDE – ...
  This BBC documentary on the USS Liberty attack BY EDOMITE ISRAEL in 1967 is incredible.   It is a must-watch, for if ever there was a “high crime” of treason against America – this was it!!!!! As you watch this video, take note.  This was not an American-made documentary.   As ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

• Life in a carbon neutral world…
  There’s a great Story from the New York Times / International Herald and Tribune about a 28 year old product designer from Luxembourg attempting to live a carbon neutral life in Barcelona, Spain. Her story is at certainly inspiring, although sometimes uncomfortable to read about… who ...
• BPA, Phthalates, Toxic Plastic Bottles, Sippy ...
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• Green Spring Cleaning!
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• Food Miles – how far your food travels & ...
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• Getting real about energy production & reduction
  Here’s a great video from a Cambridge University Physicist David Mackay. He’s discussing practical ways of measuring domestic power consumption, ways of producing energy, and he debate about replacing traditional fossil fuels based methods of producing electricity with more sensible ...

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

• Ken Dryden, NHL Hall of Famer (Jan 7, 2012)
  Hockey and the hits: it's been a season where a lot has been said about headshots, concussions and suspensions. How much has the game really changed, and what is at stake for its future? One of the games great players of the past, one of its most passionate observers of the present, takes on tho ...
• Malcolm Gladwell (Dec 31, 2011)
  Renowned author wraps the critical events of 2011.
• The Mansbridge Conversations 2011
  Highlights of Peter's interviews of the year, including conversations with Jack Layton, Olivia Chow, Nicole Williamson, Malcolm Gladwell and others.
• NAGUIB SAWIRIS
  Peter sits down with Egyptian businessman and politician Naguib Sawiris ahead of the country's first free elections about his hopes for and disappoinment in Egypt's Arab Spring
• Shawn Atleo - National Chief of the Assembly o ...
  In the wake of the crisis in Attawapiskat First Nation, Shawn Atleo discusses the future of Canada's Abroiginal communities.

Scotts Contracting

• Saving a Deck from the Landfill – Part 1
  Deck Repair by Scotty-Scotts Contracting, St Louis Renewable Energy Because the Deck was not built to current Building Codes the St Louis Building Code Department required: Structural Site Inspection and Documentation of Needed Repairs of the Deck by an Architectural Engineer, Obtain a Repair Pe ...
• Roy Blunt R MO Dirty Energy Voting Record
  Dirty Energy Voting Record for Roy Blunt aka:"Big Oil Roy Blunt" Roy Blunts Dirty Dollar Image via:http://dirtyenergymoney.org While searching for what company (Big Oil and Big Coal) was giving to the Politicians from Missouri aka: "Big Oil Roy Blunt", who is also in favor of the ...
• Adding Support for Deck Rail
  Fixing Deck Rails on Porches, Decks, etc One of my latest repair projects: The 2nd Floor deck support rail was leaning away from the building creating a Safety Issue for anyone who leaned on the Support Rail. I used a Ratcheting Tie Down Strap to pull the deck support rail straight.  (In the fol ...
• Spray Insulation~Deal of the Week
  If you have ever wanted to super insulate your home or business against the cold and heat and protect the bank account from the rising costs of our Electricity Rates – Ameren UE and New Gas Rate Hikes – Laclede Gas. The following offer I received from a couple of my Spray Insulation ...
• Rock Wall Foundation Repair and Waterproofing
  Rock Foundation Repair Suggestions for Water Proofing a Stone Foundation Always Inspect for Mold Growth on the Foundation Wall Close Up View of Mold Growth After Treatment See Photo Below Find the Bad Spots Gently Remove any loose materials. Paying close attention to leave any Structural Rocks i ...

The View From Abroad

• Just Who is a Threat to Whom?
  If you look beyond the war propaganda against Iran, it is clear who the real threat to peace is.
• Romney is Focusing on the Wrong Mechanism
  To help the working poor Mitt Romney should propose something other than indexing the minimum wage for inflation.
• Is Obama Attempting to Buy Votes from College ...
  The president is playing politics with the high cost of college.
• Ron Paul is Nibbling at Romney’s Heels
  The Republican race for president is a two man contest between Romney and Paul.
• We Can't Afford the Payroll Tax Cut Extension
  It is crazy to extend the payroll tax cut at this time.

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

• Iran Tries to Take the Moral High Ground on Nukes
  Supreme Leader Khameini and Iran's Foreign Minister Salehi say all the right things about nuclear weapons.
• Questioning Intervention in Syria: A Response ...
  Anne-Marie Slaughter, former Director of Policy Planning for the Obama administration, advises bypassing the U.N. Security Council and intervening in Syria.
• How The Media Got The Parchin Access Story Wrong
  Access to an Iranian military test facility wan't explicitly denied to nuclear inspectors, just subject to bargaining.
• To the Valley in the Morning with Blood and Gu ...
  When there's war all the time, there's no such thing as after the war anymore.
• North Korea's Pivot
  North Korea is executing a pivot of its own.

Law.com

• Latest Chevron Outtake: 'They're All Corrupt!'
  Donziger muses 'The judicial system is so utterly weak' in Corporate Counsel's latest release of outtakes from the documentary Crude.
• Minus Kagan, Supreme Court Lets 'Don't Ask' Po ...
  In an order Friday, the Supreme Court denied a motion aimed at allowing a worldwide ban on enforcement of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays in the military to take effect.
• MGA Loses Effort to Stall Trial in Fee Fight W ...
  A Los Angeles judge issued a tentative ruling Friday denying toymaker MGA Entertainment's efforts to stay a lawsuit that was filed by its former lawyers at O'Melveny & Myers.
• Proskauer and English Firm End Their Merger Di ...
  Proskauer Rose and SJ Berwin said Friday they had decided against merging, putting to an end months of speculation about a possible trans-Atlantic tie-up between the two law firms. The firms in a joint statement said "we recognized that the timetable necessary to reach the agreements that would ...
• IRS Throws In Towel on Closely Watched Interna ...

Iranian.com

• انتخابات در قم مشت، نمونه خروار بود!
  رهبر با قدم گذاشتن در این مسیر یک‌طرفه، تمامی راه‌های نجات خود را از دست داد و امروز (دیروز) این سقوط بر همه آشکار شد.
• Starving Iran Won’t Free It
  In Iran, political change cannot be brought about by coercion, sanctions or exiles and their enablers, despite what American politicians might think. Instead, it will come slowly — too slowly for an American election cycle, to be sure.
• انتخابات نبود، انتصابات بود چه خاتمی رای داده ...
  شایعات مختلف و متناقضی در شبکه های اجتماعی آنلاین منتشر شده است
• Russia & Islamic Republic, The Incredible Para ...
  Please listen to this unbelievable Audio Interview! Masha Gessen is definition of true professional journalist and a brave true intellectual! The Parallels in which both Russian Regime under Putin has been operating is unbelievably similar to Islamic Republic's under Khamenei!!  No wonder they ...
• Consequences of an Attack on Iran are no Joke
  No one is talking about the harm that “surgical air strikes” against “suspected Iranian nuclear facilities” with GBU-28 “bunker-buster” bombs, which derive their ability to penetrate concrete and earth from depleted uranium, would inflict on 74 million Iranians, No worries are being expressed a ...

Most Revolutionary Act

• The FBI’s Misadventures in New Zealand
  Kim Dotcom There is growing suspicion in New Zealand that this country, like American Samoa and Puerto Rico, has become an American colony. Sadly, the unfolding Kim Dotcom[1] saga seems to confirm this. On January 20th, a New Zealand assault team consisting of helicopters and special defen ...
• The People Under the Black Masks
  Pink black bloc (This is the third of three posts regarding the “diversity of tactics” debate raging in the Occupy movement and Chris Hedges inflammatory February 6th article on Truthdig entitled The Cancer in Occupy) As Nihilo Zero, Don Gato and others point out, the major problem w ...
• Demonizing the Black Bloc
  Greek black bloc (This is the second of three posts regarding the “diversity of tactics” debate raging in the Occupy movement and Chris Hedges inflammatory February 6th article on Truthdig entitled The Cancer in Occupy) Nearly all the on-line critiques (rightly, in my view) accuse He ...
• Debating Violence in the Occupy Movement
  Occupy Oakland protestor (This is the first of three posts regarding the “diversity of tactics” debate raging in the Occupy movement. Contrary to the myth promoted by the corporate media, the Occupy movement is alive and well and engaged in a multiplicity of creative movement buildin ...
• The Industrial Hemp Farming Act Bill
  (This is the last of three posts about the Industrial Hemp Farming Act Bill sponsored by Texas congressman and Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul.) Hemp as a Tobacco Replacement Crop With recent the recent anti-smoking movement and declining cigarette use among Americans, many tobacco f ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

• Michael Moore Tweets About Rush Limbaugh's "Ap ...
  Rush Limbaugh issues a rare (if ever?) apology: mmflint.me/zvDYzY I didn't know there was anyone on earth who had the power to tell Rush what 2 do. But then there's Bain Capital, financiers of Clear Channel I guess Romney knew that Rush, who made the mistake of saying what most Republicans thi ...
• Q&A on New Rules for Best Documentary Academy ...
  Thank you for your feedback on our new rules for Academy Award voting and eligibility. We are pleased so many of you have welcomed these changes. Some of you, though, still have some questions. Due to some stories in the media that did not explain the new rules correctly or fully, there is a li ...
• THOUSANDS OF NURSES & SUPORTERS TO MARCH AT G8 ...
  RNs to be joined by Occupy, Global Community Reps, Union Activists to Stop Demise; Speculation Tax is Starting Point to Address Economies in Demise, say Nurses and Allies   Nurses from across the U.S., joined by union, healthcare, Occupy Wall Street and other community activists, as well as ...
• 'Gratitude'
  Excerpted from Here Comes Trouble: Stories From My Life by Michael Moore I knew nothing about making a movie, and I wish I could tell you some cool story about how I started shooting films when I was six on my dad's 8mm Bell & Howell, or that I went to NYU film school with Spike Lee, and th ...
• 'Gratitude' Audio

Salon

• What’s the matter with white people?
  One of the burdens of blackness, W.E.B. DuBois famously wrote, was facing down an omnipresent question from the wider society: "How does it feel to be a problem?" I've been wondering lately if white people might soon understand what he meant.Both the right and left suddenly have a lot of complai ...
• Springsteen in the age of Occupy
  Bruce Springsteen is 62, a little old for a pop star but a good age for a presidential candidate. He was born in the late 1940s, a child of the very first years of the baby boom, as were both Mitt Romney (who is two years older than him) and Rick Perry (who is one year younger). A number of time ...
• Oil prices: Not Obama’s fault
  For substantive, non-partisan reasons—really!—I like this poll result.  It’s just a snapshot and I’m sure these sentiments are volatile, but it shows that fewer people blame the president for the current spike in gas prices, and more people just don’t know why prices spike like this (or refused ...
• Fukushima: Chaos reigns
  FUKUSHIMA, Japan — A visit to the scene of Japan's worst nuclear accident, almost a year after the area was struck by a powerful earthquake and tsunami, is a study in contrasts.Elsewhere along the vast stretch of coast hit by the March 11 tsunami there are palpable signs of progress. Almost all ...
• Obama’s OSHA: Improved but still weak
  After three years of the Obama administration, the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) finds its ability to police the business community is extremely limited, even with a Democrat in the White House and legitimate health and safety experts leading the agency.Almost every new re ...

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

• Prime Minister Stephen Harper should set scien ...
  Ottawa’s gagging of federal scientists has come under attack from a prominent journal urging Stephen Harper to quit his oppressive ways.
• Mayor Rob Ford’s “Save Our Subways” campaign d ...
  Funnelling money into subways requires hiding essential facts from the public — and that’s bad for commuters and the TTC.
• Native education must be funded equally with p ...
  MPs voted unanimously this week to properly fund native education but unless there is money in March 29 federal budget for it their resolution will change nothing.
• Elections Canada fails to prove it is doing it ...
  Elections Canada does not provide evidence that it is upholding electoral laws in an unbiased way.
• Alberta needs to earn national support for oil ...
  Premier Dalton McGuinty sounded ungracious about Alberta’s success, but he was right to bring the Ontario perspective to Alberta Premier Alison Redford’s demand that everyone jump on ...

Energy Collective

• Follow-up to Alan Colmes’ Interview: Gasoline ...
  During my interview last week with Alan Colmes (embedded below), a few points were discussed that warrant some elaboration. Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com
• Combining domestic coal with nuclear energy to ...
  As a South Central Virginia resident, I have something in common with the people in the Pacific Northwest who are concerned about the impact of coal exports from the US. Numerous coal laden trains pass through Lynchburg every day, many of them headed to the large coal terminal in Newport News. I ...
• Efforts to Promote Energy Storage Should Look ...
  Many of the barriers to deploying distributed energy storage arise, not from a lack of federal policy, but from inconsistent and antiquated state regulations that restrict how storage and other assets located on the distribution portion of the grid can be owned and used. While local regulation ...
• Energy Efficiency Finance 301: The Growing Pop ...
  The promise of energy efficiency investments to boost the overall economy and to create and sustain jobs
• Suck It Up: A book about climate change, geoen ...
   Editor's note: Marc Gunther is a long-time advisory board member and contributor to TEC. Congratulations to Marc on the publication of his new book!

EU Times

• US preparing plans for possible Syria attack
  The Pentagon has prepared “detailed plans” for a military strike against Syria in case President Barack Obama issues an attack order. According to an unnamed senior US official, the plans include several different kinds of operations, number of personnel as well as the type of military equipment ...
• China reduces holdings of US government bonds
  China has made the first annual reduction in its holdings of US Treasury bonds in a decade. Experts are viewing the move as a sign that the country is accelerating the move away from dollar assets in search of more diversified investment channels. According to the latest monthly figures from the ...
• Obama threatens Iran with military attack over ...
  The United States has once again threatened Iran with a military strike over the country’s nuclear energy program while warning Israel of the unintended consequences of attacking the Islamic Republic. In an interview with Atlantic magazine on Friday, US President Barack Obama said the US is “not ...
• Australian paper says Euthanizing Babies shoul ...
  A paper published in the Journal of Medical Ethics argues that abortion should be extended to make the killing of newborn babies permissible, even if the baby is perfectly healthy, in a shocking example of how the medical establishment is still dominated by an vicious mindset. The paper is autho ...
• Syrian rebels executing people in the streets ...
  People have been left without water or electricity as rebels destroy water pumps and power converters. Civilians are forced to stay inside as snipers shoot from the rooftops. ­RT in Damascus managed to contact an eyewitness in Homs, who says gunmen are killing civilians in the streets. Galina sa ...

Stonecipher News

• Symptoms and Treatments of Diabetes Insipidus
  Diabetes Insipidus ( or DI ) is a health condition that is often distinguished by extreme thirst along with excessively diluted urination . DI is similar in characteristics to untreated Diabetes ( or Diabetes Mellitus) but without the onset of blood glucose elevation. One of the major differ ...
• Natural Acne Remedies
  There are several health conditions that hinder many people’s lives and outlook everyday. Acne is a condition which can affect your self esteem and your life. I’ve known several friends and family members with terrible cases of acne. They would purchase expensive remedies prescribed by docto ...
• Linguistic Observations: Mendoza's Gang Girls ...
  Homegirls by Norma Mendoza Denton is a fascinating, and yet, perplexing, view of gangs in the San Francisco Bay area. Over the course of the next few weeks, I'll be providing you incites on the inner workings of the gangs, symbolism of certain material items, and other such related details. ...
• Normal Structure and Function of the Musculosk ...
  Mr. Ghaz says: Muscular dystrophies refer to a group of more than 30 genetic diseases which are characterized by progressive weakness and degeneration of the skeletal muscles..Studies and estimation show that after sustaining a hip fracture (as a result of osteoporosis) 20% of patients die withi ...
• Reasons to Donate Blood
  Have you ever donated blood? If you have why did you do it? It may have been for a loved one or a friend. It could have been for the free coupons and gift certificates blood centers provide for donations. Maybe you’re required to donate blood being that you’re in the medical field. In actua ...

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

• On Grapefruit opener, McCann’s next deal, and more
  What would have happened if the Braves last month had offered Brian McCann a five-year deal worth $75 million? Would he have taken it? Maybe. I have no idea. But we’ll probably never know now. McCann isn't going to win a Gold Glove anytime soon, but he's the best hitting catcher in the National ...
• Shelling in Syria as Red Cross appeals for access
  BEIRUT (AP) â Syrian forces renewed their bombardment Saturday of rebellious areas of Homs, activists said, as the Red Cross vowed to try again to reach thousands of people stranded in a district overrun by regime troops after a monthlong siege. Conditions in the western neighborhood of Baba Am ...
• Bobbi Kristina Brown’s First Interview On Opra ...
  SHOCKING: Photo Of Whitney Houston In Open Casket On National Enquirer Cover Whitney Houston’s daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown gave her very first interview to Oprah Winfrey on Friday (March 2), after the tragic death of the legendary singer. Jennifer Hudson “I Will Always Love You” Tribute To Wh ...
• Watch Goals: Van Persie Double vs Liverpool
  Arsenal made an impressive comeback at Anfield against Liverpool in the early kick off thanks to someone very familiar to the Arsenal score sheet this season, Robin van Persie. The Arsenal captain managed to haul Arsenal back into the game having seen his side concede an own goal through Lauren ...
• Mail: Liverpool 1 Arsenal 2: Robin van Persie ...
  Mail: Liverpool 1 Arsenal 2: Robin van Persie scores double in late win Robin Van Persie scored an injury-time winner as Arsenal enhanced their chances of finishing in the top four. Liverpool had taken the lead after Laurent Koscielny inadvertently put through his own net. View the full story h ...

Groklaw

• Massachusetts Gives Bloggers Covering Trials S ...
  The Supreme Judicial Court in Massachuisetts issued a ruling this week that will expand the definition of journalist to include bloggers when it comes to covering trials and other court proceedings. Like many states, Massachusetts grants special privileges to journalists covering trials, includ ...
• Quantum man: Richard Feynman's life in science
  This lecture will be based on Lawrence M Krauss' new book Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science. Krauss will present a scientific overview of the contributions of Feynman, as seen through the arc of his fascinating life. Tuesday 6 March 2012, 4.00 p.m. GMT / 11.00 a.m. EDT - Physics World
• Facebook and many other sites also bypass Inte ...
  Not mentioned in the Microsoft article is that Facebook are also setting an invalid header ('invalid' may not be the right terminology here, but they are setting a header that does not contain valid privacy policies). This results in Internet Explorer (pre version 9) accepting the third-party co ...
• Googles Web Search Quality. A picture is worth ...
  To anyone who thinks Google hasn't been innovating in web search. - Jake N' Bake
• Assessing ACTA: Video of My Talk at the Europe ...
  Yesterday I appeared at the European Parliament's INTA Workshop on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. I have written a commissioned report for the committee on ACTA that should be released in a few weeks. In the meantime, my prepared remarks provide a good overview of the main arguments ...

WideShut

• Cancer Patient Told He Can’t Have Liver ...
  Cancer patient who takes medically prescribed Marijuana is rejected liver transplant because of "substance abuse".
• Lockerbie Bomber Was Innocent; New Documents S ...
  New documents and a re-examination of the case prove Lockerbie bomber was innocent, the evidence was fraudulent, and he was released under a secret deal.
• Psychological Trauma Coming To A Primary Schoo ...
  Children across the UK being subjected to fake alien invasions, shootings, teacher assaults and holocaust simulations, leaving them upset and traumatized.
• Debunking Iran Nuclear Threat: Feb 27, 2012, W ...
  On this week's WideShut Webcast Keelan systematically debunks the alleged Iran nuclear threat.
• UK Recognise Syrian Opposition As Sole Represe ...
  Despite hundreds of thousands of vocal pro-Assad citizens, UK now officially recognises Syrian Opposition as the only representatives of the people, an opposition that houses Al Qaeda terrorists.

Politics in the Zeros

• Technophobia and GMO crops
  GMO crops are sometimes demonstrably safer, since they prevent mold.An excellent example is corn that is crafted by splicing into commercial varieties a gene (or genes) from a harmless bacterium. The bacterial genes express proteins that are toxic to corn-boring insects, but that are harmless to ...
• LNG trucks doing long distance hauls now
  Dillon Transport LNG truck. Source: Dillon Transport Inc. via BloombergCarriers like Ryder System Inc. are buying long-haul trucks that run on natural gas, around $1.50 a gallon cheaper than diesel.Using natural gas could cut fuel costs by more than $20,000 for a truck traveling a typical long-h ...
• Spherical solar power cells get sunlight from ...
  Sphelar spherical solar cellsCalled the Sphelar, the cell shuns the traditional flat substrate photovoltaic design and opts for much more efficient shape – the sphere. While traditional flat solar cells are easy to design and produce, their main problem is that their efficiency relies on their r ...
• If you’re happy and you know it, clank your chains
  HR 341: One more step towards Neo-Feudalism In feudal times, you could be put to death if you didn’t kneel when the carriages of the nobility passed by. This is a step in that direction (although very few people care). ‘A new biil, about to become law, makes it illegal to be around [...]
• TSA, TSA, TSA
  The Federal Theater, Works Progress Administration presents "Blind Alley," 3 act drama by James Warwick at the Waterloo Theater, 1937. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.)Now that the folks at TSA are back on track with their Week at a Glance report, her ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

• One dead in truck crash in Hawke's Bay
  One person is dead and another is in a serious condition after a truck accident tonight.
• Power cut to thousands in Christchurch after s ...
  Around 12,000 Christchurch households were plunged into darkness tonight.
• Gun held to employee's head in Wellington arme ...
  Wellington police are hunting two men who robbed an Indian restaurant and held a gun to an employee's head
• Aussies outraged after Kiwi tourist throws bri ...
  A New Zealand tourist almost killed a crocodile after he threw bricks into its enclosure at an Alice Springs reptile centre, the centre's owner says
• Dozens evacuated in Hawke's Bay as wild weathe ...
  Dozens of people have been evacuated as the North Island continues to be battered by strong winds and rain.

Just World News

• Powerful, intimate memoir from Israeli peace a ...
  The countdown clock is now ticking fast, toward the publication of Miko Peled's amazing and powerful memoir, The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine. The book traces Miko's journey from being born, in 1961, into a family that was part of the core of the Jewish-Israeli elite to, now ...
• Quick notes from Penn BDS conference
  The conference was an outstanding success! Everyone involved in organizing it-- and most of us who spoke at it-- have all been extremely busy; so I'm really sorry that we don't have much more, and richer, reporting on the events out already. But expect more great reporting of the conference to c ...
• What's new in the publishing biz!
  ... is Just World Books's new webstore, which gives us global reach for distributing books from, as of now, three different print/distribute hubs... I am really excited about this development. I've been trying for a while to figure out a way to escape Amazon's large and greedy clutch, and I thi ...
• Pro-Israeli discourse suppressors desperately ...
  It is almost amusing to see the lengths to which the pro-Israeli discourse suppressors here in the United States have been going to try to rebuild the long-crumbled "Bar-Lev Line" with which, over decades past, they sought to protect Israel from being the subject of any free, fair, and fact-base ...
• The use of web-based disinformation by the 'west'
  Patrick Cockburn has an extremely important piece at the Independent today, in which he takes to task the major organs of the 'western' media-- including, crucially, today's Al-Jazeera-- for the extremely uncritical and often openly inflammatory use they make of unsubstantiated or highly exagger ...

frogblog

• General debate, March 4, 2012
• Students struggle with housing and living costs
  Students are the only group routinely expected to borrow for living costs. The rationale is that they will earn more when they graduate, but when it's increasingly hard for graduates to find work, that argument doesn't fly.
• Justice for the Jayapura 5
  This week I went to Canberra to join the Greens at the Australian launch of the Internationals Parliamentarians for West Papua. We were joined by Ralph Regenvanu Mp from Vanuatu, Jen Robinson from International Lawyers for West Papua(and lawyer for Wikileaks) and a number of West Papuan leaders. ...
• Conservation staff banned from participating i ...
  I’m heading down to the Denniston Plateau this weekend for Forest and Bird’s BioBlitz of the area, as part of their wider campaign to Save the Denniston Plateau. The Denniston Plateau is a upland wonderland of wetlands, streams and ancient rock, home to many unique native species including the g ...
• Ports of Auckland workers and their families s ...
  There has been a lot of disinformation put out by Ports of Auckland Ltd and its sychophantic right wing bloggers over the last few weeks. In this video, Maritime Workers’ Union members and their families talk about how the company (wholly owned by the Auckland Council – give Mayor Le ...

Patronus Analytical

• Greek aid worker kidnapped in Pakistan
• Aid worker killed in Iraq
• Update on kidnapped Greek aid worker
• NGO worker beaten to death in Dhaka
• Canadian aid worker murdered in Honduras

J Kozy

• Economic Models and the Apologetics of Greed
  Economists build models by subtracting from reality the characteristics they deem unessential to the economic situations they model. The result is a bare bones description consisting of what economists deem economically essential. Everything that is discarded (not taken into consideration in the ...
• The Crisis of Education in America: "How to Be ...
  Educational systems now train workers to fulfill the needs of companies. A society in which people exist for the sake of companies is a society enslaved. But there's a deep problem with the notion that education should equal vocational training. To paraphrase a very famous and renowned pers ...
• Instruments of Repression
  For a society to be well governed, it's laws must be just and moral. The Ancients knew that "Those who are rightly governed . . . do not fill their porticoes with written statutes but only cherish justice in their souls; for it is not by legislation, but by morals that states are well direct ...
• The Why of Not Doing the Right Thing: The Amer ...
  The unfairness of American society is being recognized by many. Eighty-nine percent of Americans say they don't trust their government; Congress has a mere 9% approval rating; America's financial institutions are widely considered to be corrupt; the Occupy movement has emerged, some are seek ...
• The Triumph of Capitalism: Jobless Nations
  The Obama administration is intent on applying supply side principles to get the American economy out of the present recession, but supply side principles are based on the belief that if the government cuts taxes on the wealthy, they will invest their savings in new factories, that newly hired w ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

• Bill Gates: One of the World's Most Destructiv ...
  video platform video management video solutions video player By Dr. Mercola Above, ABC's "Nightline," Bill Weir talks with Microsoft founder Bill Gates about his charitable endeavors. Gates' latest plan is to try to end world hunger by growing more genetically modi ...
• Your Greatest Weapon Against Breast Cancer (No ...
  By Dr. Mercola According to the National Breast Cancer Foundation, 200,000 new cases of breast cancer will be diagnosed each year in the US, making it three times more common than other gynecological cancers. Breast cancer will claim the lives of 40,000 people this year. In fact, the only ...
• 10 Amazing Plants
  Take a closer look at ten botanical oddities.
• How Can Sunscreen Cause Alzheimer's?
  By Dr. Mercola Alzheimer's disease is currently at epidemic proportions, with 5.4 million Americans -- including one in eight people aged 65 and over -- living with Alzheimer's disease, according to the Alzheimer's Association's 2011 Alzheimer's Disease Facts and Figuresi. By 2050, this is ...
• 300mg of This May Reduce Pain and Stiffness in ...
  By Dr. Mercola More than 1.5 million Americans suffer from inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), which includes both ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease. To put it simply, IBD is an autoimmune condition that involves inflammation in your digestive tract that can cause cramps, bloody diarrhea, ...

JAMA

• Principles and Practice of Geriatric Psychiatr ...
• Risk of Febrile Seizures and Epilepsy After Va ...
  Context Vaccination with whole-cell pertussis vaccine carries an increased risk of febrile seizures, but whether this risk applies to the acellular pertussis vaccine is not known. In Denmark, acellular pertussis vaccine has been included in the combined diphtheria-tetanus toxoids-acellular pertu ...
• Association of Age and Sex With Myocardial Inf ...
  Context Women are generally older than men at hospitalization for myocardial infarction (MI) and also present less frequently with chest pain/discomfort. However, few studies have taken age into account when examining sex differences in clinical presentation and mortality. Objective To examine t ...
• Cost-effectiveness of Adult Vaccination Strate ...
  Context The cost-effectiveness of 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13) compared with 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPSV23) among US adults is unclear. Objective To estimate the cost-effectiveness of PCV13 vaccination strategies in adults. Design, Setting, and Partici ...
• Cirrhosis [JAMA Patient Page]

Survival - tribal peoples

• Official report confirms presence of “hiding t ...
  Ayoreo woman. Her uncontacted relatives are under threat from logging. © Survival In an official report, Paraguay’s Department of Indian Affairs INDI has confirmed that an uncontacted tribe is living on farmland in the northern Chaco region owned by a controversial ranching company. Signs ...
• Spread of ‘human safaris’ threatens Peru’s unc ...
  Uncontacted Mashco Piro Indians have been seen in the area on several occasions. © G. Galli/uncontactedtribes.org Peru’s uncontacted Mashco-Piro tribe is facing the very real threat of being exploited by ‘human safaris’, according to British newspaper The Observer. Last month, Survival rel ...
• Guard post to protect Peru’s uncontacted Mashc ...
  Today's photos are the closest sightings of uncontacted Indians ever recorded on camera © D.Cortijo/uncontactedtribes.org Residents living close to the uncontacted Mashco-Piro tribe – whose photos went viral last month – will build a guard post to protect both the Indians and locals fr ...
• Clampdown on sacred ritual as Vedanta mine app ...
  A Dongria boy stands in front of Niyamgiri, where the tribe will hold its festival. © Lewis Davids/Survival Security forces are cracking down on the Dongria Kondh tribe as they prepare for a religious festival this weekend at the top of India’s most contentious mountain. Hundreds are deter ...
• Survival uncovers shocking human rights abuses ...
  Two Karo by Ethiopia's Omo River. It is crucial to their way of life. © Survival Survival has uncovered shocking new evidence of human rights abuses against tribes in Ethiopia’s Omo Valley, as government efforts to develop lucrative sugar cane plantations in the region intensify. Bull ...

Montreal Gazette

• Bridging the solitudes, with music and laughter
  There were two shows in town this week that together made for a refreshing sign of the times in what was once the city of two solitudes.
• Editorial Cartoon
  Want more Aislin? Go to montrealgazette.com/aislin
• Giving veterans their due is the least we can do
  In 2006, when Canadian soldiers were in the thick of the Afghan conflict, Paul Martin's Liberal government revamped the regulations governing veterans' pensions and compensation for injury.
• No sympathy for student strikers
  " The vote at Dawson College on whether students should go on strike is not a fair, democratic vote.
• Hail to the police chief for standing up for o ...
  Since his appointment the year before last, Montreal police chief Marc Parent has shown an encouraging preoccupation with improving relations between the police and the public they serve.

Food World Order

• #Video: Episode011 - Nukes, Books, Syrian Seeds
  On Thursday nights, Media Monarchy joins Corbett Report Radio live on Republic Broadcasting to go over all the latest stories from the world of food, environment and health. This week's menu features nukes, books, Syrian seeds and more... Episode011: MP3/Feed\Archive Previous Audio ...
• #Audio: Episode011 - Nukes, Books, Syrian Seeds
  On Thursday nights, Media Monarchy joins Corbett Report Radio live on Republic Broadcasting to go over all the latest stories from the world of food, environment and health. This week's menu features nukes, books, Syrian seeds and more... Episode011: MP3/Feed\Archive Previous Audio ...
• #BingeAndPurge: Official Dismissal, Doomsday, ...
  Food Safety Official's Monsanto Ties Spur Petition for Ouster* Help stop former Monsanto VP from attaining top position at the FDA* Judge Dismisses Organic Farmers' Case Against Monsanto* Syria Crops Sheltered in Arctic Doomsday Vault* Calif. Food Truck Ban Cooks Up Growing Oppositio ...
• North Korea to Freeze Nuclear Work, US to Give ...
  from nytimes.com: North Korea announced on Wednesday that it would suspend its nuclear weapons tests and uranium enrichment and allow international inspectors to monitor activities at its main nuclear complex. The surprise announcement raised the possibility of ending a diplomatic impasse that ...
• Church-Turned-Restaurant Leaves Diners In a St ...
  from faithworld: A passerby seeing the imposing church building with its massive, red doors bearing the word “Grace” and a mysterious triangular logo could be forgiven for thinking they had stumbled upon some kind of new-age congregation. In a way that’s true, for Grace – the restaurant, house ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

• 10.7 Percent: Unemployment In Europe Is Worse ...
  The unemployment rate in the eurozone is now 10.7 percent.  That is the highest the unemployment rate has been since the introduction of the euro.  The unemployment rate in the eurozone never got any higher than 10.2 percent during the last recession.  This is very troubling news ...
• Inflation Is A Tax And The Federal Reserve Is ...
  Ronald Reagan once famously declared that inflation is a tax, but sadly most Americans did not really grasp what he was talking about.  If the American people truly understood what inflation was doing to them, they would be screaming bloody murder about monetary policy.  Inflatio ...
• 20 Economic Statistics To Use To Wake Sheeple ...
  The Dow has closed above 13,000 for the first time since 2008, and the mainstream media is declaring that a strong economic recovery is underway.  Barack Obama is telling anyone who will listen that his economic policies are a huge success, and U.S. consumers are piling up astoun ...
• 20 Signs That Dust Bowl Conditions Will Soon R ...
  For decades, the heartland of America has been the breadbasket of the world.  Unfortunately, those days will shortly come to an end.  The central United States is rapidly drying up and dust bowl conditions will soon return.  There are a couple of major reasons for this.  Number o ...
• America 1950 vs. America 2012
  Would you rather live in the America of 1950 or the America of 2012?  Has the United States changed for the better over the last 62 years?  Many fondly remember the 1950s and the 1960s as the "golden age" of America.  We emerged from World War II as the wealthiest and most powerf ...

CASSE

• Economic Growth, Obesity, and the Creed of Greed
  Society has reached a tipping point where further economic growth is causing serious health problems.
• Cheater Economics
  They say cheaters never prosper, but the cheaters seem to be doing just fine in an economy that condones their fraudulent ways.
• Rescuing Obama from the Slippery Slope
  Is anyone else ready for some refreshing honesty from the President regarding economic growth and the environment?
• Growth and Free Trade: Brain-Dead Dogmas Still ...
  Of course, it's better to be rich than poor, but the conventional approaches for making us rich -- GDP growth and free trade -- no longer apply.
• The Fallacy of the Tragedy of the Commons
  Garrett Hardin seems to have made the some incorrect assumptions about human behavior -- assumptions familiar to students of economics.

The Talking Clock

• Sunday Paper Review: 4th March 2012
  Telling a few home truths about the EU in The Observer? Again? Why yes! And they don't hold back today. Warning the British people about the consequences of EU regulations on hen cages, the newspaper tells of the grim prospect that: "Britain's supermarket shelves could be empty of key prod ...
• Hello Helmer... welcome to UKIP
  It's hardly shocking news, that Conservative MEP Roger Helmer is now UKIP MEP Roger Helmer. Already up and running under the party banner, here is his first outing as a member of UKIP at the party conference... and Helmer is one UKIP face one who is certain to be high profile: Helmer's d ...
• Nigel Farage: Social Unrest could spell the en ...
  UKIP's Nigel Farage has clearly been watching the same news reports as us - social unrest, all over Europe, and it seems to be spreading week-by-week. Nowhere is this unrest more painful to watch than in Greece - which is now clearly the ground zero of the bankster-led, EU-jackbooted take dow ...
• Viral Video: Irish journalist takes down EU ba ...
  Remember the days where journalists did some actual journalism? Where they investigated, interrogated and reported rather than - as is the case today in Britain - merely repeated what was on an official press release? Take a look at this. This is Irish journalist Vincent Browne, taking on ...
• Cor Blimey, Guv'nor! The BBC give broadcast ti ...
  Well, I never! This will fuel suspicion. In a classic case of damned if you do, damned if you don't as far as they're concerned, the BBC today gave a platform to the English Democrats leader, Robin Tilbrook, who discussed his belief in the need for an English Parliament o ...

Facing South

• INSTITUTE INDEX: The hidden costs of the 'Newt ...
  In the run-up to the Georgia primary, GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich has been promising to bring the country $2.50-a-gallon gas -- what he's calling the "Newt Gallon. ...
  
• Art Pope investigation honored by NC Press Ass ...
  A joint investigation into Art Pope's political empire wins an Investigative Reporting award from North Carolina's leading newspaper association, who call it a "fasci ...
  
• Undocumented protesters arrested at NC immigra ...
  Members of the youth-led immigration advocacy group NC DREAM Team interrupted a North Carolina legislative meeting yesterday, shouting "I am undocumented, unafraid and unashamed!&amp ...
  
• Creative organizing at Walmart
  A new strategy to advocate for workers' rights at Bentonville, Ark.-based Walmart is utilizing what has been called "pre-New Deal unionism" -- and it is showing some ...
  
• Will BP go on trial?
  After the expected court date for BP's trial for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill was delayed this week, rumors have grown about a settlement that could close the case. But will G ...
  

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

• Darkness visible in galactic train wreck
  It looks like classic Star Trek meets golden-era disco dance floor, but actually we're looking at dark matter and hot gas
• Today on New Scientist: 2 March 2012
  All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: the android head in the overhead compartment and the worm that looks like a tree
• Mutant bird flu virus still as deadly as first ...
  The researcher who made an easy-to-catch form of bird flu claims his virus is not really as virulent as reported – but a close look at his evidence suggests it is
• Today on New Scientist: 1 March 2012
  All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: lifelogging, a quake-proof megatower, a swarm of robot helicopters and suspending a raindrop in mid-air
• Quake-proof megatower tops out in Tokyo
  Tokyo's 634-metre-high Sky Tree incorporates some of the most advanced earthquake and typhoon-resistant technology

Tech Drive In

• TSF Shell 3D Released: Lots of Surprises in Store!
  Surprise No.1: Jaw-dropping price tag. I mean, how often do you see an app in Android Market priced at a staggering $17 USD apiece! I have been very eagerly waiting for the release of TSF Shell 3D Android launcher ever since it was officially announced nearly 2 months ago. So I decided to gi ...
• Android Makes Huge Inroads in the Indian Marke ...
  About an year ago, I went to a local retail store and asked about the availability of Android phones. He said they don't have 'Android' phones, but they have LG, Samsung, and Nokia phones (he also referred me to a barrage of local brands like Karbonn, Maxx and what-not). That's right ...
• How to Install Elementary Luna OS in Ubuntu 12 ...
  Elementary OS Luna is far from a finished product. The final release is going to happen only after the official release of Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin since Luna is supposed to be based on Precise. Just yesterday, I found out that there is a simple script to install latest development ...
• Unofficial VLC for Android Ready to Download
  Let me be clear, VLC for Android has NOT yet been officially released. VLC for Android is an open source project and is licensed under GPLv2 License (like all other VLC projects). This means, you can build VLC from source and use it the way you want. And that's exactly what XDA Forum mem ...
• Unofficial r/Linux Distro Survey 2012 Puts Ubu ...
  'Which is the most popular Linux distro' is a question that has been raging like for ever. Ubuntu remained on top of the charts ever since its official launch in 2004. But the resurgence of Linux Mint as DistroWatch's most popular distro has stirred up a lot of debates. Redditor TyIzaeL conduc ...

Case About Bird Flu

• The relevance of Stauffenberg to our problems ...
  IT IS JULY 20th, 1944. Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg makes his way through the labyrinthe of the Wolf’s Lair to assassinate Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, launch a coup, end the Second World War and liberate the concentration camps. Read the first chapter of this book of fiction based on his ...
• FOREIGN POLICE CALLED IN TO INVESTIGATE KAMPUS ...
  *AUSTRIAN PARLIAMENT TO CALL IN FBI AND GERMAN POLICE TO INVESTIGATE KAMPUSCH KIDNAPPING CASE * TOP AUSTRIAN POLITICIAN CONFIRMS OVERWHELMING EVIDENCE OF ACCOMPLICE *SWISS MEDIA ACCUSES AUSTRIAN MEDIA OF COLLUDING IN COVER UP *POLICE INSPECTOR WHO TRIED TO FIND OUT THE TRUTH ABOUT KAMPUSCH CHILD ...
• Irish fury at bankster bailouts grows ahead of ...
  Irish journalst Vincent Browne has become an unlikely hero after he dared stand up to ECB, EU and IMF Troika  officials at a press conference and tell them to their face the truth, namely, that their bankster bailouts were causing huge damage to ordinary people. “Ireland’s favourite ...
• Irish health authories in swine flu vaccine co ...
  Ireland’s health authority, the HSE, claims that it cannot find out how many people have narcolepsy after taking the swine flu vaccine because vaccination data which should have been entered onto computers is incomplete, reports The Irish Examiner. http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/hse- ...
• Sleeping Pill Death Toll In The USA In 2010 Ma ...
  Taking sleeping pills significantly increases the risk of dying, a new study published by BMJ Open has shown.  The authors correlated deaths with sleeping pill intake and uncovered a shocking association. Daniel Kripke, a co author, said that between 320,000 and 507,000 people could have died fr ...

Invisible Opportunity

• The ‘Shit Happens’ Department of C ...
  By Les Visible Deals make the world go round with less consistency and order, than if it were just sorting out itself. Our world at present is floundering in the midst of anti-human deals, which breaks up the internal harmony and balance of what would have been far more possible and far more bea ...
• Andrew Breitbart Just Another Weird Death
• The great government hoax of public safety
  by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger (NaturalNews) As the tyranny of destructive government envelops our once-free society, have you noticed how oppression, censorship and government aggression against the people is always defended as somehow protecting public safety? Consider these astonishing cont ...
• Aspartame withdrawal and side effects explaine ...
  by: Aurora Geib (NaturalNews) If you have been drinking diet soda and chewing gum, chances are you have been enjoying aspartame in generous quantities. Aspartame is a popular sugar substitute that can be found in diet soda drinks, chewing gum, fruit spreads and sugar-free products to name a few. ...
• Murdoch Jr flies away from trouble – but it ma ...
  By Ian Burrell James Murdoch severed ties with his father’s stable of British newspapers yesterday as he resigned from News International following fresh revelations of a corporate cover-up of the company’s involvement in phone hacking and bribery of public officials. Mr Murdoch gave ...

Veterans Today

• Let Your Life Be a Friction to Stop the Machine
  Now is the first day of a new beginning. Each one - Reach One- Each One - Teach One
• Examining The 911 Script Is Not Inappropriate
  In the extraordinary Don Juan in Hell scene in Act III of George Bernard Shaw’s “Man and Superman”, following what may be his best-known oration, Juan exclaims, As you say, they are mere words, useful for duping barbarians into adopting civilization, or the civilized poor into ...
• The Atzmon Defamation League (ADL)
  This bunch of Anti Zionist Zionists attempt to block any possible criticism of Jewish identity politics and Jewish history.
• Targeting Free Expression
  Free expression in all forms is fundamental in democratic societies. Without it, all other freedoms are at risk.
• When War is Promoted as a Remedy for Terror
  by Anthony J. Hall   [There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit the blog entry to see the video.] The You Tube of my San Francisco presentation on the tenth anniversary of 9/11 is being presented to the public here for the first time in early March of 2012.   The [...]

electric politics

• It Takes A Generation To Raise A Prophet
  In theory, churches should be more active than they are these days in pursuing Justice and Peace. So why aren't they? Where were they on Iraq? Where are they now, on Iran? What do churches have to say about universal health care? Or income and wealth inequality? Or, for that matter, out of contr ...
• America Agonistes
  The best way to fix fundamental political problems — sometimes the only way — is first to talk about them. In other words, to act like human beings instead of lab rats. Of course it isn't easy to wrap our minds around our problems, let alone articulate them, but that's what struggles ...
• The Color of Authority
  We use money all the time. We talk about money a lot. Some people even love money — some so much they seem to think, like the Egyptian Pharaohs, that they'll be able to take it with them. But does anyone really understand what money is? If we actually did understand it, then, in theory, we ...
• How To Think About Iran's Nuclear Program
  Like some predatory colonial power of the not-so-distant past the U.S. seems to think that war might solve our problems with Iran. But it couldn't. Instead, we need the imagination, and courage, to find a compromise. To help us make our way we're extraordinarily lucky then to have Ambassador Pet ...
• Whither Korea?
  The North Koreans aren't stupid. Nor are they brainwashed ideological zombies. Their main problem is that for the past sixty some years they've been at war with the U.S., a war the U.S. either doesn't want or know how to end. But might a changing of the guard in North Korea lead to an improvemen ...

PR News

• Kaplow promotes Richeson to chief digital officer
  NEW YORK: Kaplow has promoted David Richeson to chief digital officer and managing director, a newly created position at the agency, six months after hiring him as SVP.
• Jaguar to take 'Feel Alive' effort social at SXSW
  MAHWAH, NJ: Jaguar Land Rover will boost the consumer outreach and social media components of its global "Feel Alive" initiative at the annual South by Southwest music and film festival.
• Newegg selects Finn Partners as AOR
  CITY OF INDUSTRY, CA: Online electronics retailer Newegg has named Finn Partners its AOR as it expands its media-outreach strategy to include consumer outlets.
• Public transportation group to make its case t ...
  WASHINGTON: The American Public Transportation Association is hosting a legislative conference beginning March 11 to give senior transit officials the chance to explain to Congress the important role the industry plays in the US economy.
• KGBTexas tabs Johnson as creative director
  SAN ANTONIO: KGBTexas Communications has hired Scott Johnson as creative director.

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

• Summer Student Positions with the Red Deer Riv ...
  Position:  Watershed Education and Stewardship Outreach Assistant Organization:  Red Deer River Watershed Alliance ...
• ELC comments on Proposed Recovery Strategy for ...
  Environmental Law Centre The Environmental Law Centre has posted their comments on Recovery Strategy for Woodland Caribou (Rangifer terandus caribou) Boreal Population, In Canada to the ELC website. ...
• Conservation groups take Environment Minister ...
  Ecojustice Alberta Wilderness Association Pembina Institute 23 Feb 2012 EDMONTON — T ...
• Pembina Institute backgrounder on the proposed ...
  Pembina Institute In advance of the February 23 European Commission vote on the European Union's proposed fuel-quality directive, the Pembina Institute has released a backgrounder to answer "some frequently asked questions about ...
• Alberta Government Kills 145 Bears at Oilsands ...
  No Charges Laid Alberta Wilderness Association 22 Feb 2012 Last year, the Alberta government killed 145 garbage-habituated b ...

Stop NATO

• Syria: Western Bloodlust Unleashed In Service ...
  RT March 3, 2012 Western bloodlust: Assad days ‘numbered’, ‘day of reckoning’ for ‘disgraceful’ regime Statements from Western leaders on Syria have grown harsh, if not menacing, as criticisms of the Bashar Assad government are unleashed and regime change becomes a common theme. ­The fury a ...
• Stop NATO news: March 3, 2012
  ==== U.S. Increases Naval Buildup In Persian Gulf Russian Border: U.S. To Provide Missiles To Finland Report: U.S. Special Forces In Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka NATO To Sign Global Hawk, Allied Ground Surveillance Contract Georgia Extends Military Service Term ==== U.S. Increas ...
• Syria And Beyond: Most Serious East-West Confr ...
  The Hindu March 3, 2012 The cold wind from Russia Vladimir Radyuhin Putin’s election-eve attack against Washington and its western allies for exporting “rocket-bomb democracy” indirectly targets India too ==== The veto Russia slapped jointly with China on two United Nations Security Counci ...
• Top NATO Military Commander Mulls Partnerships ...
  Press Trust of India March 2, 2012 Worth exploring NATO partnership with India: Pentagon Edited by RR ==== “I would look first and foremost at building on the coalition in Afghanistan. Twenty eight NATO nations, but we have 22 other nations who are partnering with NATO in Afghanistan. This are m ...
• Syria: U.S. Regime Change Plans Threaten Stabi ...
  Jiefang Daily March 2, 2012 U.S. solution to Syria issue doomed to failure ==== Faced with Syria’s divided opposition, the basic approach of the United States is to integrate the various opposition groups and establish a unified body centered around the Syrian National Council to replace t ...

Before It's News

• Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner: American ...
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• Arkansas Storms: Tornadoes Wreak Havoc Across ...
• Eats on Feets
• Introducing "Canadas Alex Jones", Dr. Judy Janzen

Intel Hub

• Adding Insult to Injury: Fined For Not Cutting ...
  Madison Ruppert | Police State Mayhem: A man was fined for not cutting the grass on his foreclosed home.
• 1,500 Voters Turned Away From Caucuses in Wash ...
  Madison Ruppert | A stunning 1,500 voters were told to go home when they went to the pooled Benton County caucuses at the Three Rivers Convention Center in Kennewick, Washington yesterday. The local GOP claimed that the convention center reached capacity, adding that they expected around 2 ...
• TSA Asked Woman to Prove Breast Pump Real
  Newsroom America March 4, 2012 A Hawaii woman says she was humiliated by Transportation Security Agency officials when they asked her to prove her breast pump was real at Lihue Airport. “I asked him if there was a private place I could pump and he said no, you can go in the women’s b ...
• Bio-Weapons Launched to Promote New Vaccines? ...
  Chris Geo & Sheree | Norovirus may have been launched and spreading throughout the country.
• Fracking: Answer to Our Energy Crisis, or Coul ...
  The Guardian March 3, 2012 Fracking – the extraction of shale gas – was halted last year after it was linked to a series of tremors in Lancashire. Drilling companies hope a decision due soon will allow them to restart operations. But protesters say fracking can lead to water contamination, metha ...

FRS

• Israel’s apologists for ethnic cleansing ...
  Counterpunch, March 01, 2012 Hucksters for Israel attempt to make up for in chutzpah what they lack in facts. On opening night of the eighth annual Israeli Apartheid Week at NYU — at an event featuring Omar Barghouti and Noura Erakat, leading Palestinian figures in the boycott, divestment and sa ...
• Oops! Was he supposed to say that?
  [Things slip--sometimes by accident, sometimes on purpose, sometimes as a trial balloon ("Run it up the flagpole and see who salutes.")  But when these relations are more deeply exposed, it's a good time to watch whether the embrace continues, unbroken, and who tries to cover their face.  Here, ...
• Palestinian political prisoner on hunger strik ...
  Hana Shalabi vs Israel by Allison Deger, Mondoweiss March 2, 2012 Today Hana Shalabi entered her 16th day of hunger strike against Israeli administrative detention. This is Shalabi’s second round of administrative detention; she was held without charge from 2009-2011 in Israeli administrat ...
• Philippines: President and Politicians Stir a ...
  PNoy: Joma may run in 2013 polls by Joyce Pangco Pañares and Maricel Cruz, Manila Standard Today Sunday March 4 2012 PRESIDENT Benigno Aquino III on Friday confirmed that Communist Party of the Philippines founder Jose Maria Sison will be returning to the country. However, Sison, who has been on ...
• The imperialist threat and the Islamic Republi ...
  27 February 2012,  A World to Win News Service. By N. Peyman The threats against Iran, the sanctions and other economic pressures and the military movements and manoeuvres all testify to the intensification of the contradictions between the US and Iranian regime, 33 years after its foundation. T ...

Ken O'Keefe

• For Love
  I just want to say, need to say, for the record, that I want what is best for all people, and I mean all people. I want no retribution, I feel no hate, I want truth and justice. When I see my children, who deserve a good father, just like all children, I only hope that they, like all other chi ...
• The Criminal UK Police Looking to Arrest Me fo ...
  The mass murdering criminal UK Government and its equally corrupt police, the ones who are happy to protect Israeli war criminals in the UK by destroying universal jurisdiction. The same UK that is home to the worlds biggest fraudsters and financial terrorists, otherwise known as the banksters. ...
• Lecture at Middlesex University – Israel ...
  Here is my lecture last week at Middlesex University. The one with our friendly Zionists. Watch the video to see what they reckon I should be jailed for; 'incitement' they call it. I would have to agree that telling the truth is the mostrevolutionary activity of our time and the UK police have a ...
• Lecture at Middlesex University – Israel ...
  Here is my lecture last week at Middlesex University. The one with our friendly Zionists. Watch the video to see what they reckon I should be jailed for; 'incitement' they call it. I would have to agree that telling the truth is the mostrevolutionary activity of our time and the UK police have a ...
• Memo to all Christians – The Heretic & M ...
  This is so worthwhile for every Christian to consider. Especially supposedly patriotic American Christians; think about what this short video is saying. Imagine that you, unwittingly or not, are paying for the murder of Jesus Christ's blood relatives. Actually, do not imagine it, know it, becaus ...

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

• 'Hugo,' 'The Artist' Tie at Oscars
  At this year's Academy Awards, "Hugo" and "The Artist" bring home the most Oscars at the celebration.Contributor: Cicely A. Richard Published: Feb 27, 2012
• Cadillac Becomes a Romney Nightmare
  Mitt Romney may want to speak off-the-cuff but, once again, he drew attention to his considerable wealth. Will his Detroit folly haunt him for the remainder of the race?Contributor: Robert Watkins Published: Feb 26, 2012
• Joe Biden Kicks Off Presidential Campaign in N ...
  Vice President Joe Biden, making his fourth trip to New Hampshire in the past three months, officially kicked of the 2012 Obama presidential campaign in a speech in ManchesterContributor: Jon C. Hopwood Published: Feb 26, 2012
• Baby Boomers: Testing for Hepatitis C Virus Co ...
  Hepatitis C viral infection is causing more deaths than HIV in the United States. Fifty percent of the cases arise in the Baby Boomers age group. Screening the Baby Boomer age group would reduce deaths significantly.Contributor: Dr. Sharon A. Takiguchi Published: Feb 23, 2012
• Fellow Deliverymen Struck Silent by the Death ...
  Kimbrough was killed by the reckless actions of a drunk driver, affecting the lives of other deliverymen, and reasserting the dangers of roadside labor.Contributor: David Meents Published: Feb 23, 2012

Popsci - Science

• Images of the Week, February 27-March 2, 2012
• The Most Amazing Science Images of the Week, F ...
  This week's image roundup includes laser rainbows, cars exploding, a bat with the weirdest nose we have ever seen on an animal we didn't drunkenly draw ourselves as part of a board game, edible silk, and a moth that (if we irresponsibly exaggerate to the point of sheer fiction, abandoning all pr ...
• PopSci Q&A: Kate Findlay Talks About the Confl ...
  How a quilter ended up in the pages of a particle physics publication We first became aware of Kate Findlay's work thanks to Symmetry Magazine, which publishes articles relating to particle physics. Kate isn't a particle physicist; in fact, she's not even a scientist. She works as an art teacher ...
• Gallery: The LHC, Quilted
• Storm Watch: Driven By Warm Air, Massive Torna ...
  A storm system brewing in the Rockies today might trigger an outbreak of deadly tornadoes in the nation's midsection on Friday, according to meteorologists. In case you missed it, read PopSci senior editor Seth Fletcher's piece about how tornadoes form — and how climate change may be making them ...

Veterans Today

• Let Your Life Be a Friction to Stop the Machine
  Now is the first day of a new beginning. Each one - Reach One- Each One - Teach One
• Examining The 911 Script Is Not Inappropriate
  In the extraordinary Don Juan in Hell scene in Act III of George Bernard Shaw’s “Man and Superman”, following what may be his best-known oration, Juan exclaims, As you say, they are mere words, useful for duping barbarians into adopting civilization, or the civilized poor into ...
• The Atzmon Defamation League (ADL)
  This bunch of Anti Zionist Zionists attempt to block any possible criticism of Jewish identity politics and Jewish history.
• Targeting Free Expression
  Free expression in all forms is fundamental in democratic societies. Without it, all other freedoms are at risk.
• When War is Promoted as a Remedy for Terror
  by Anthony J. Hall   [There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit the blog entry to see the video.] The You Tube of my San Francisco presentation on the tenth anniversary of 9/11 is being presented to the public here for the first time in early March of 2012.   The [...]

War is Business

• Americans In Afghanistan Likely Causing More C ...
  Even the most cash-strapped, podunk county prosecutor's office would be embarrassed by these numbers. Three audits completed. Two bribery convictions. Three million bribes a day.
• Obama To Sidestep Rules In Bahrain Arms Deal ( ...
  Sell formalities Sell formalities • Read more at Foreign Policy
• New U.S. Nuke Facility Shows One Way Military ...
  Aren't nuclear weapons, after all, the constant preoccupation of all foreign and national security thought—not just within the U.S., but around the world?
• U.S. Military Manufacturers Move South Of The ...
  Buy maquiladora Buy maquiladora • Read more at The World
• U.S. Activists Sue For Info On Private Drones ...
  Buy private registration Buy private registration • Read more at EFF

Hudson's Weather & Climate

• Winter 2011/2012: The final verdict
  Winter this year has confounded most long range forecasts issued last autumn, turning out to be mild, averaged over December, January and February (Climatological winter). Talk of huge snowfalls, and the likelihood of another severe winter which were lapped up by an ever eager media, were wide ...
• February's huge temperature contrast
  Warm air from the sub-tropics is affecting Yorkshire and Lincolnshire today and has led to some exceptionally mild temperatures for February. At the old Finningley Met Office site, which is now Robin Hood airport, along with Donna Nook outside Cleethorpes, 18C (64F) has been recorded. These te ...
• Drax axes plans to build new biomass power sta ...
  The company which owns Drax power station in North Yorkshire, which is the largest single producer of electricity and carbon dioxide in the country, has announced that a £1.4 billion plan to build 2 of 3 new dedicated biomass power stations have been shelved. The third of the planned power sta ...
• Risk of drought restrictions spread
  Large parts of the UK are at risk from serious water shortages this summer if rainfall in the next few months continues to be low. Since June 2011, drought has affected Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, parts of Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire, and west Norfolk. Now, much of South East England ...
• Met Office global forecasts too warm in 11 out ...
  Global temperatures fell quite sharply in January, according to the UAH satellite measure. The anomaly of -0.093C below the 30 year running mean equates to approximately +0.16C above the more standard 1961-1990 time period. As regards 2011 as a whole, according to the Met Office, 2011 was ...

Internat'l Political Economy

• 'The DNA of Human Rights'
  Here's an interesting counterpoint to the "Asian values" argument that prioritizes collective well-being over individual rights. While I to a certain extent buy into that argument, it is at this point in time largely due to objections to how Western nations that are usually loudest about blather ...
• German Apprenticeship vs US/UK Uni-Jobless System
  It is no big secret that youth unemployment is especially high in Anglo-Saxon economies at the present time.* As I have illustrated, wages for US college graduates have been on a steady downward trend. At the same time, tuition fees are rising at a rate far outstripping the rate of inflatio ...
• Government Motors, Peugeot's Would-Be "Saviour"
  Here comes a knight in rusted armour. It is unfortunate that GM Europe--the only part of General Motors whose vehicles I would remotely consider buying--is also unprofitable. Let's just say that the European auto market is quite competitive aside from being stagnant. Take, for instance, French a ...
• Thou Shalt Obey Thy Lord Mandy on Globalization
  On paper, I am not supposed to favourably regard Peter Mandelson, the third architect of the UK's third way along with Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. While I regard the latter two as rather odious at this point in time, I have yet to definitively suss why I remain a Lord Mandelson fan. Perhaps it' ...
• I [Heart] Empire: "Hong Kong Better Under Brits"
  Niall Ferguson probably cemented the fashion of extolling the virtues of British empire with his bestselling book from a few years back. While the British empire had its downsides alike slavery earlier on and occasional massacres of various peoples supposedly under the crown, it was, on the bala ...

Economic Collapse Blog

• 10.7 Percent: Unemployment In Europe Is Worse ...
  The unemployment rate in the eurozone is now 10.7 percent.  That is the highest the unemployment rate has been since the introduction of the euro.  The unemployment rate in the eurozone never got any higher than 10.2 percent during the last recession.  This is very troubling news ...
• Inflation Is A Tax And The Federal Reserve Is ...
  Ronald Reagan once famously declared that inflation is a tax, but sadly most Americans did not really grasp what he was talking about.  If the American people truly understood what inflation was doing to them, they would be screaming bloody murder about monetary policy.  Inflatio ...
• 20 Economic Statistics To Use To Wake Sheeple ...
  The Dow has closed above 13,000 for the first time since 2008, and the mainstream media is declaring that a strong economic recovery is underway.  Barack Obama is telling anyone who will listen that his economic policies are a huge success, and U.S. consumers are piling up astoun ...
• 20 Signs That Dust Bowl Conditions Will Soon R ...
  For decades, the heartland of America has been the breadbasket of the world.  Unfortunately, those days will shortly come to an end.  The central United States is rapidly drying up and dust bowl conditions will soon return.  There are a couple of major reasons for this.  Number o ...
• America 1950 vs. America 2012
  Would you rather live in the America of 1950 or the America of 2012?  Has the United States changed for the better over the last 62 years?  Many fondly remember the 1950s and the 1960s as the "golden age" of America.  We emerged from World War II as the wealthiest and most powerf ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

• Fifth Estate's Spring 2012 issue (#386) now av ...
  The Fifth Estate has always proudly displayed the FBI’s description of this publication as “supporting revolution everywhere.”...
• Radical Online Magazine Launched: The Precarious
  When we set out to launch the online magazine The Precarious, we saw so many of us ...
• October 2011 Kate Sharpley Library bulletin online
  KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 68, October 2011 has just been posted on the site. You can get to the contents or read the full p...
• New Issue of Ireland's anarchist paper Workers ...
  June last saw another massive Pride in Dublin with approximately 25,000 people taking part. While Pride has very much become more of a social an...
• November issue of Freedom anarchist newspaper out
  Freedom newspaper, the only regular anarchist newspaper published in the UK, has recently changed to a monthly publication, giving us the opport...

E U Times

• US preparing plans for possible Syria attack
  The Pentagon has prepared “detailed plans” for a military strike against Syria in case President Barack Obama issues an attack order. According to an unnamed senior US official, the plans include several different kinds of operations, number of personnel as well as the type of military equipment ...
• China reduces holdings of US government bonds
  China has made the first annual reduction in its holdings of US Treasury bonds in a decade. Experts are viewing the move as a sign that the country is accelerating the move away from dollar assets in search of more diversified investment channels. According to the latest monthly figures from the ...
• Obama threatens Iran with military attack over ...
  The United States has once again threatened Iran with a military strike over the country’s nuclear energy program while warning Israel of the unintended consequences of attacking the Islamic Republic. In an interview with Atlantic magazine on Friday, US President Barack Obama said the US is “not ...
• Australian paper says Euthanizing Babies shoul ...
  A paper published in the Journal of Medical Ethics argues that abortion should be extended to make the killing of newborn babies permissible, even if the baby is perfectly healthy, in a shocking example of how the medical establishment is still dominated by an vicious mindset. The paper is autho ...
• Syrian rebels executing people in the streets ...
  People have been left without water or electricity as rebels destroy water pumps and power converters. Civilians are forced to stay inside as snipers shoot from the rooftops. ­RT in Damascus managed to contact an eyewitness in Homs, who says gunmen are killing civilians in the streets. Galina sa ...

Voiceless Victim

• Catholic Church has no business policing itself
  Below are some excerpts from this week’s Report of the Inquiry into Protecting Victoria’s Vulnerable Children (Australia) demolishing some of the Catholic Church’s favourite excuses for its appalling record on child endangerment. Thankfully the inquiry refused to be fooled by t ...
• How Many Dead Children Are Too Many?
  An average of 50 children die from drowning in Australia every year. This figure is considered unacceptably high. Generously funded multi million dollar public education campaigns called Swim and Survive and Swim Kids aim to teach children about water safety in order to bring that shocking numbe ...
• Italy acknowledges Vatican unworthy of unfair ...
  The new Italian Prime Minister, Mario Monti, has responded to a petition by 130,000 citizens to end unfair tax-free perks for the Catholic Church’s commercial enterprises. Promising to reverse the trend which in the past saw anti-competitive and possibly illegal special privileges for the ...
• Aspiring Aussie PM Sacrifices Truth and Church ...
  Kevin Rudd, former, and aspiring future Australian Prime Minister demonstrated on Friday that he is prepared to prostitute himself, the truth, and the victims of church violence against children in order to deliver a minor political miracle and shore up his hopes to oust Julia Gillard from the P ...
• Even Thief Gives Pope Lesson in Morality &#821 ...
  Are the media actually picking on the catholic church over child sexual abuse, as petulantly claimed by the Vatican’s propaganda machine? Or are catholic church leaders truly the last people in the world any responsible parent would want to have anything to do with their children? Last yea ...

WL Central

• 2012-03-03 #WikiLeaks News Update: #GIFiles co ...
  Tweet WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 455 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 452 days. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 649 days. WikiLeaks News: Image from WikiLeaks The G.I. Files have been dominating the he ...
• 2012-02-29 Anonymous & WikiLeaks Unite to expo ...
  TweetOffense Monday, February 27th, 2012 WikiLeaks and Anonymous collaborate in releasing The Global Intelligence Files of the global intelligence company Stratfor. This is huge, like another Cablegate dump, Stratfor is known as the private CIA. From the WikiLeaks site: On Monday February 27th, ...
• Global Intelligence Gate: From Confessions of ...
  TweetAuthored By: Nikolas Kozloff I have always been a bit skeptical about some of the more salacious claims made in John Perkins’ Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, the story of one man’s life working for the secretive National Security Agency or NSA. When he was a young man, NSA interrogator ...
• Global Intelligence Gate: From Confessions of ...
  TweetAuthored By: Nikolas Kozloff I have always been a bit skeptical about some of the more salacious claims made in John Perkins’ Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, the story of one man’s life working for the secretive National Security Agency or NSA. When he was a young man, NSA interrogator ...
• 2012-02-27 African Spring continues in Senegal
  TweetWhen Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade was booed by hundreds of voters as he cast his ballot Sunday in an election the controversial incumbent hopes will elect him to serve a third term in office, it capped more than a month of popular protests by opposition candidates and their supporters ...

U N News

• Guatemala: UN welcomes judge's decision to den ...
  The United Nations human rights office today welcomed the news that a Guatemalan judge rejected the claim that a former dictator is protected under an amnesty law from being tried on genocide charges.
• Haiti: First mobile phone cash transfers facil ...
  Survivors of the 2010 devastating earthquake in Haiti have this week started receiving cash subsidies through the first-ever mobile money transfer system in support of post-disaster housing reconstruction, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) reported today.
• UN launches new guidelines in fight against ch ...
  United Nations health officials have unveiled new guidelines to help countries throughout the Americas detect and prevent transmission of the mosquito-borne chikungunya virus - a disease which has already infected more than two million people around the world.
• Drug-related violence has reached alarming lev ...
  Escalating violence involving drug trafficking organizations in Central America has reached "alarming and unprecedented levels," making it one of the most violent areas in the world, the United Nations anti-narcotics panel stressed in its annual report which was launched today.
• Haitian premier's resignation sparks concern f ...
  The chief of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) today expressed his deep concern following the resignation of Prime Minister Garry Conille, just four months after his appointment.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

• Best New Restaurant in Singapore
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Our Wandering Palate finds his comfort zone in Luke's Oyster Bar and Chop House of Singapore
• Myanmar's Leaders face a New Environmental Dilemma
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Protesters want to shut down the Shwe gas pipeline, the potential source of vast revenues
• India's Delayed Trilateral Highway
  • (http://twitter.com/share) New Delhi’s highway plan to draw Southeast Asia into its orbit hits snags
• Vietnam's Communist Party Ponders Change
  • (http://twitter.com/share) The party is living on borrowed time as it drifts aimlessly
• Indonesia Scandal Snares Another Top Official
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Head of SBY’s party accused of being behind a shell company to win government contracts

We Know the Lies

• CIA Whistleblower Exposes Heart Attack Gun
    CIA whistleblower talks about a gun that shoots a frozen dart of poison that mimicks a heart attack in the unfortunate victim. See for yourself how many witnesses died of heart attacks in cases involving the US government. Start off with the JFK assassination. read more
• Was Andrew Breitbart 'Murdered' By a Heart Att ...
    The high cost of exposing our corrupt government... Real NSA-CIA-MOSSAD covert murder techniques... ~ William Wallace, 3rd Armor Div. ~ Video links read more
• Healthcare Workers... How to Refuse Manditory ...
    At our local Weston A. Price chapter meeting last week, a woman named Becky came up to reintroduce herself.  A while back she told me that the hospital she works for was now making flu shots mandatory, and she didn’t know what to do.  She wanted to let me know how that all ...
• Euthanasia Squads Offer 'Death by Delivery' to ...
    A highly controversial mobile euthanasia programme launched in the Netherlands yesterday, sending six specialised roving medical teams door-to-door to help patients end their lives free of charge in their own homes. ~ Jenny Stevens read more
• NASA Lost Command Code for International Space ...
    Four dozen high-tech computing devices disappeared from the offices of NASA over a two-year span, including one laptop that contained the code needed to command the International Space Station. read more

Tarpley

• Reactionary Republicans and Wall Street Democr ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. Atlantic Television News February 27, 2012 — recorded on February 15, 2012 [download video] [download audio]
• One-Candidate Presidential Election Mockery in ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV February 27, 2012 [download video] [download audio] Press TV has interviewed Dr. Webster Griffin Tarpley, author and historian from Washington about the potential for real change and stabilization in Yemen now that UK-trained army officer Abd-Rabbu Mansour Had ...
• Russia, China Confirm Boycott of NATO’s ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV February 25, 2012 [download video] [download audio] Top US officials have called for the urgent provision of weapons, intelligence and funds to the Syrian opposition for use against President Bashar al-Assad. Press TV has interviewed Dr. Webster Griffin Tarpl ...
• Hillary Clinton’s “Enemies of Syri ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV February 24, 2012 [download video] [download audio] A political analyst says the Friends of Syria conference expected to be held in Tunisia’s capital Tunis aims at creating a scenario in Syria similar to the one, which materialized in Libya. What follows is a ...
• FALSE FLAG ALERT – Syrian Sources Warn: ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net February 23, 2012 A reliable Russian source in Syria warns that al Jazeera is about to launch within hours a major false flag provocation. Al Jazeera will allege that 17 children have been killed by Assad’s forces. These children are already dead, and ...

Modern Survivalism

• Pepper Spray For Dogs
  Even though we love animals, dogs, and pets, we must face the possible reality that you may one day have to fend them off. Let’s say an emergency or disaster scenario happens and you live in a populated area. Do you have a firearm to protect your family? No. If ‘no’ is your ans ...
• How To Make Garlic Syrup
  Guest post: by ‘Halfkin’ GARLIC SYRUP I learned to make this from the book, Elementary Treatise in Herbology by Dr. Edward E. Shook. My first batch was in 1978. I have made it the same way for over Thirty years and it has not failed me. I altered the original recipe from day one, rep ...
• A Weather Radio To Save Your Life
  Given the recent weather headlines of incredible numbers of tornadoes, tornado warnings, and severe thunderstorms, it is appropriate to mention once again the importance of having a weather radio. Imagine going to bed at night knowing that your region is under a threat of severe weather. How wel ...
• Baja Earthquake Gash While Sea Rushes In
  Could it happen? There have been an extraordinary number of earthquakes occurring at the southern California border and across into Mexico at the north end of Baja California and the Gulf of California, an active continental rift region that is transitional between the San Andreas fault system t ...
• SHTF Security is a Family Job
  Security will no doubt be an issue in a SHTF scenario. People will be panicked and looking for food. Looting will begin. Protecting your supplies and your home should be a job that your family is prepared in handling. Yes, things like motion lights, door locks, and dogs are a type of security.  ...

Fast Company

• The 10 Most Popular Stories Of The Week
  Catch up on the stories people were clicking, reading, sharing, tweeting, Facebooking, pinning, and more--from the Fast Company network.This week readers go to work with useful insight on how to put business cards to use, how not to put social media to use, and how to find all kinds of happiness ...
• With At Bat 12, MLB Pitches New Features And N ...
  For the hard-wired and digitally wired baseball fan, the season doesn't start when pitchers and catchers report to spring training. It starts when At Bat reports to the iTunes store. The wildly popular app, made by MLB Advanced Media (BAM for short), puts live game video, live stats, and the lat ...
• When Loyalty Programs Are A Waste Of Money
  In times like these, cost cutting and streamlining are compelling business strategies. Business executives sometimes have second thoughts about their loyalty programs and ask our consultants whether it’s really worth the cost.  The answer, however, depends on how well the program is aligned ...
• When Loyalty Programs Are A Waste Of Money
  In times like these, cost cutting and streamlining are compelling business strategies. Business executives sometimes have second thoughts about their loyalty programs and ask our consultants whether it’s really worth the cost.  The answer, however, depends on how well the program is aligned ...
• Knight News Challenge Gives Away $5 Million On ...
  The 2012 Knight News Challenge is looking for a few good journalism projects to receive $5 million in funding... but applicants have to share their ideas with Tumblr's user base.The Knight Foundation, one of America's best known journalism non-profits, is holding their sixth annual Knight News C ...

Jadaliyya

• Witch-Hunt Against CAP & Media Matters Escalates
  A few weeks ago, I wrote about the smear campaign launched against two progressive groups, the Center for American Progress (CAP) and Media Matters, for the crime of permitting criticism of Israel to occasionally appear in their analyses. That “crime” is then grossly exaggerate ...
• The Left and the People: Extending Hamid Dabas ...
  “The overall anti-imperialist sentiment remains strong among the Syrian population and the attempts by parts of the Left to smear the entire uprising as a stand-in for imperialism belies a Manichean worldview that badly misunderstands the country’s history. I don’t see any contradiction ...
• أين المثقفون السوريون من الثورة؟
  سؤال ما فتئ يطرح طيلة شهور الثورة السورية يخصّ دور المثقفين فيها! يطرح السؤال أحياناً من باب الاستفسار، وأحياناً أكثر من باب الاستهجان والتخوين، خصوصاً وأن التطورات المتعاقبة للثورة جعلت دور المثقفين ينحسر أكثر مما كان في بداياتها لأسباب كثيرة يمكننا النقاش حولها. ولئن كانت الأصوات التي ...
• Singular Legal Regime Necessitates One-State S ...
  This weekend, the Harvard University community will host its conference, "One-State Conference: Israel/Palestine and the One-State Solution". The conference promises to be an invigorating discussion on the likelihood of the two-state solution, the benefits of the one-state solu ...
• The End of Taking the Syrian Revolution at Fac ...
  Those interested in a revolution that would be considered a significant step forward from the existing Syrian regime, might want to take pause as they steadfastly support some of its main anchors. In particular, months after its establishment, the Syrian National Council (SNC) has failed ...

mediagazer

• The newsonomics of crossover - The signs are e ...
  Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab: The newsonomics of crossover  —  The signs are everywhere — the signs of crossover.  We're not there yet, but publishers are starting to sense that the time when their business models become more about digital and less about print g ...
• The Hot Dog Shooter & the Takeout Bag: A Porta ...
  Mark Armstrong: The Hot Dog Shooter & the Takeout Bag: A Portable Content Manifesto  —  Read It Later users keep content on their tablets and phones for an average of 96 hours after they've saved it.  What does that say about the lifespan of content and how we value it? ...
• In the age of big data, data journalism has pr ...
  Alex Howard / O'Reilly Radar: In the age of big data, data journalism has profound importance for society  —  The promise of data journalism was a strong theme throughout the National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting's (NICAR) 2012 conference.  In 2012, making sens ...
• Crowdfunding journalism: How one project secur ...
  Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk: Crowdfunding journalism: How one project secured $50,000 in 38 hours  —  The co-founder of Matter discusses how the project used Kickstarter to test whether there was an appetite for a digital project dedicated to in-depth science and technology ...
• Bearing Witness in Syria: A War Reporter's Las ...
  Tyler Hicks / New York Times: Bearing Witness in Syria: A War Reporter's Last Days  —  It was damp and cold as Anthony Shadid and I crossed in darkness over the barbed-wire fence that separated Turkey from Syria last month.  We were also crossing from peace into war, into t ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

• Taiwan official quits over 'bird flu cove ...
  A top Taiwan agriculture official has stepped down amid allegations he covered up bird flu outbreaks, a day after authorities said they had culled thousands of chickens. Hsu Tien-lai, the...
• Sea otter found in Pismo dies at Monterey ...
  A sea otter described by officials at the Monterey Bay Aquarium as the most important animal in the history of the aquarium's otter research program has died. A female otter named Toola died in the aquarium's veterinary care center early Saturday, said aquarium spokesman Ken Peterson. More p ...
• Klitschko’s left-right combination floors ...
  Dusseldorf, Germany - Vladimir Klitschko knocked out Jean-Marc Mormeck of France with a stinging left-right combination in the fourth round to retain his world heavyweight titles at the Esprit Arena on Saturday. The Ukrainian, who holds the IBF, IBO, WBO and WBA versions of...
• Mitt Romney cruises in Washington state c ...
  WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney rolled to a double-digit victory in Washington state's Republican presidential caucuses Saturday night, his fourth campaign triumph in a row and a fresh show of strength in the run-up to 10 Super Tuesday contests in all regions of the country. Late Saturday, former ...
• Mitt Romney cruises to 4th victory in Was ...
  Washington: Affirming his frontrunner status, Mitt Romney cruised to victory in the Washington state caucuses, his fourth straight win ahead of the 10-state 'Super Tuesday' contest for the party nomination for November Presidential polls against incumbent Barack Obama. With 60 per cent of pr ...

no frakking consensus

• Explosive Pachauri Profile in Australian Magazine
  Five years before Rajendra Pachauri became chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a judge ruled that he had "sworn to false affidavits" - and that a non-profit organization was "not safe" in his hands.
• Where Do Gleick’s Apologists Draw the Line?
  If it's OK for scientists to lie to advance the fight against climate change what other bad behaviour is acceptable?
• Peter Gleick – Then and Now
  Eleven years ago Peter Gleick was declaring that the debate is over. Now he says other people are preventing it from taking place.
• Opinion Disguised as Science
  Iowa scientists have signed a letter about climate change. News reports don’t mention their activist leanings.
• Gleick Speak
  Peter Gleick issues a statement about the Heartland documents.

Anna's News

• Now it's 4D film: The high-tech cinemas which ...
  Hollywood is converting blockbuster films into 4-D because cinemagoers are shunning pricey multi-dimensional 3-D versionsBut the experience has left some fans feeling sick, damp and pummeled after watching movies like Kung Fu Panda 2 and the latest ...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & ...
• 10 Best British Open Performances
  Rory McIlroy's Tiger-esque performance at Congressional has many golf fans wondering what the 22-year-old has in store for Royal St. George's, one of the most difficult courses in the Open Championship rotation. Past winners Walter Hagen, Sandy Lyle and.. Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...
• Tiny snails survive digestion by birds
  Snails are able to survive intact after being eaten by birds, according to scientists.Japanese white-eyes on the island of Hahajima, Japan feast on tiny land snails. Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• National Parks at Risk: Photos
  National parks represent our country's last stronghold of wilderness. But the large majority of parks are suffering, too.Ninety-five percent of parks assessed in a recent study have lost key species that once helped define them. Meanwhile, 91 percent .... Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals &nbs ...
• Suicide rates in Europe 'linked' to financial ...
  The financial crisis "almost certainly" led to an increase in suicides across Europe, health experts say.The analysis by US and UK researchers found a rise in suicides was recorded among working age people from 2007 to 2009 in nine of the 10 nations...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Well ...

Medical Marijuana

• 2/28/12 - What is the Israeli fence/wall/barrier?
  israelipalestinian.procon.org - What is the Israeli fence/wall/barrier? - Learn more about the history, route, and construction status of the roughly 440 mile Israeli fence/wall/barrier.
• 2/28/12 - Is the Isreali fence/wall/barrier go ...
  israelipalestinian.procon.org - Is the Israeli fence/wall/barrier good for the Israeli-Palestinian peace process? - Read pro and con arguments from the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs (pro), Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (con), Editor in Chief of US News and World Report ...
• 2/28/12 - NL MVP Ryan Braun Successfully Appea ...
  sportsanddrugs.procon.org - Ryan Braun Becomes First MLB Player to Successfully Appeal a Positive Drug Test - National League MVP Ryan Braun's 50-game suspension was overturned on Feb. 23, 2012 because of a delay transferring his sample to the testing lab. His testosteron ...
• 2/17/12 - "Did You Know?” Little Known Facts a ...
  2012election.procon.org "Did You Know?" Little Known Facts about US Presidents – Did you know that eight US Presidents have died while in office? (Four were assassinated and four died of natural causes.) Did you know that the shortest presidency in the history of the office lasted just 31 d ...
• 2/17/12 - Embargo against Cuba
  2012election.procon.org - Should the US continue to support the embargo against Cuba? - Read the 2012 presidential candidates’ positions on this issue. Paul is Con. Gingrich, Romney, Santorum, and Obama are Pro, and Johnson is Not Clearly Pro or Con.

Truth About Our World

• Notification
  This blogs entries have been moved to http://worldtruthtoday.wordpress.com/ I will no longer post anything here, although site will remain open for a while. Thanks Grace
• Trudell Documentary
• Occupy Wall Street “Beware The Zeitgeist ...
• The Dirty Fucking Hippies Were Right
• World War 3 (III,Three): September 11, 2001-20 ...

Gyrovague's Raves

• Evolutionary Mystery of Female Orgasm
  David Barash Believe it or not, there may be a connection between the mating behavior of grizzly bears and the evolution of the human female orgasm … In his poem “Of the progress of the soul,” John Donne once eloquently described a young lady he admired (one Elizabeth Drury), by observing that “ ...
• Night in Arzamas
  How Tolstoy’s obsession with mortality became a teachable moment. Jordan Smith In 1869, just after he finished War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy experienced a profound spiritual crisis as the result of an incident during a journey through the city of Arzamas, which is on the Tyosha River about 250 mile ...
• WHICH IS THE BEST LANGUAGE TO LEARN?
  Once a mark of the cultured, language-learning is in retreat among English speakers. It’s never too late, but where to start? Robert Lane Greene launches our latest Big Question …   From INTELLIGENT LIFE magazine, March/April 2012 For language lovers, the facts are grim: Anglophones s ...
• Fields Apart
  By Sam Kean “Shut up and calculate!” As physics became more mathematical and abstract during the past century, that phrase—first uttered by physicist David Mermin—became its mantra. Indeed, the more that physicists stopped worrying about what their complicated equations meant and simply ran the ...
• Why Are Men So Violent?
  Why Are Men So Violent? Jesse J. Prinz It will not have gone unnoticed that men are more violent than women. Men perpetrate about 90 percent of the world’s homicides and start all of the wars. But why? A recent article in a prominent science journal contends that evolution has shaped men t ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

• Neuroscience, conflict and security: a dual us ...
   The Royal Society has launched the final report of the Brain Waves series, which investigate developments in neuroscience and their implications for society and policy.  Brain Waves 3: Neuroscience, conflict and security examines the potential applications of neuroscience in a military and law ...
• Revolutionary science
  This week marks the first anniversary of the popular uprising in Egypt that resulted in the overthrow of the then president, Hosni Mubarak. Yesterday, as new rounds of demonstrations were taking place in Egypt, I attended the launch of an Institute of Development Studies bulletin on The Pulse of ...
• Martin Rees looks back to understand why ‘scie ...
  In what might be described as the science policy Christmas lecture, former Royal Society President Lord Rees offered a tour de force of recurrent issues in science policy. Speaking at the Cambridge Centre for Science and Policy, Rees navigated issues from energy supply to food security, with a n ...
• Digital tools for the scientific endeavour – o ...
  FROM CLAIRE COPE IN THE SCIENCE POLICY CENTRE Scientists collect data; analyse it; try to make sense of it all; and publish their findings in a scientific journal. Right? Well yes, but it’s not always as simple as that. The way in which science is conducted has changed dramatically over the past ...
• Transparent Government, not Transparent Citize ...
  The Index on Censorship held a debate asking if transparency is bad for science on Tuesday evening. Two of the Royal Society’s ‘Science as a Public Enterprise’ working group were on the panel: Sir Mark Walport FRS and Baroness Onora O’Neill FRS. Onora mentioned a useful  report by Kieron O’Hara ...

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

• Silencing The Critics
  In 2010 the FBI invaded the homes of peace activists in several states and seized personal possessions in what the FBI--the lead orchestrator of fake “terrorist plots”--called an investigation of “activities concerning the material support of terrorism.” Subpoenas were ...
• The $28m pantomime of airport body scanners
  No cost-benefit analysis was conducted before the government’s decision to impose body scanning on international passengers departing the country, the government has revealed. On Sunday Transport Minister Anthony Albanese announced that a $28 million program to install scanners at intern ...
• Debunking the real 9/11 myths
  Editor’s note: This is Part 1 of an extensive report by researcher Adam Taylor that exposes the fallacies and flaws in the arguments made by Popular Mechanics in the latest edition of Debunking 9/11 Myths. We encourage you to submit your own reviews of the book at Amazon.com and other plac ...
• We Will Not Be Scanned requests your feedback ...
  Announcing the launch of WeWillNotBeScanned.org! Naked body scanners are an affront to human dignity with the sole purpose of training human beings to supplicate before the supreme authority of the state. We pledge to resist this attack on democracy and human rights using all legal means ...
• The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
  Anti-ACTA protest in the Polish Parliament Just when you thought you could relax, after the defeat of the SOPA/PIPA bills in the US, another freedom-crushing legislation rears its ugly head. It's an international treaty called ACTA, which Australia signed back in September 2011. From the Dep ...

Beacon

• Fishy Business: Can You Trust Your Seafood?
  Can you trust that the seafood you bought is actually what it claims to be? In a new report titled, “Fishy Business: Do You Know What You Are Really Eating?” Oceana explains how seafood mislabeling and species substitution can have dangerous consequences for public health and ocean ecosystems. ...
• A Carbon Footprint that Isn’t Shrimpy
  Image via Wikimedia Commons. According to new estimates, farmed shrimp from Asia may have one of the highest carbon footprints of any food. More than half of all shrimp farms are located in Asia, primarily in areas that used to be mangrove forests. Mangroves are trees that grow in salt water ...
• Protecting Penguins and More in Antarctica
  Penguins hunting. © John Weller Oceana has joined the Antarctic Ocean Alliance, an international collective of environmental organizations and high-profile supporters that have come together to call for the world’s largest network of marine protected areas and no-take marine reserves to be es ...
• Oceana Wins TravelShark Charity Hunt
  We have been selected as one of three charities winners for the TravelShark Charity Hunt -- and we owe you a huge thanks for nominating and voting for us!  Thanks to your effort, the online travel network TravelShark will support Oceana – along with the Cheetah Conservation Fund and People ...
• House Introduces Bipartisan Bill to Fight Ille ...
  Congress took a strong step forward today in the fight against illegal fishing, as Congresswoman Madeleine Bordallo (D-Guam) introduced legislation to fight this growing global problem that threatens our oceans, honest fishermen and seafood consumers worldwide.  The bill is cosponsored by ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

• Dr. Tina Strobos Who Hid More Than 100 Jews Fr ...
    Today would have been my mother’s 88th birthday. In her honor, I post this story about a Dutch hero who foiled the Nazis. Dr. Tina Strobos, a fearless woman who hid more than 100 Jews in a gabled attic in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam just a few blocks from the hideout where Anne Frank wa ...
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• Every Once In A While, An Incredible Artist De ...
    I discovered these watercolors on a BBC website. These are the sketches of Matthew Cook, UK Soldier in Afghanistan, in 2009               Source: BBC  

Taylor Marsh

• Mitt Romney Minute: Just a Couple of Cadillacs ...
  Art offers his perspective as a movement progressive activist. I think we can use Britney Spear’s anthem “Oops I did it again” as Mitt Romney’s theme song. Mitt was declared the “winner” of the nasty Wednesday debate but as usual Mitt creates a self-inflicted ...
• Queer Talk: Obama administration and “gay righ ...
  Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. Before getting to the Obama administration: Thursday, the Maryland Senate followed the House’s earlier approval of a bill making marriage of same gender couples legal. From Keen News: The Maryland Senate … gave ...
• Dash of Dan: Mini Chocolate Oreo Cheesecakes
  Cheesecake. One of my favorite shows (ever) is the “Golden Girls.” Whenever the girls reminisce or have a group pow-wow, cheesecake is the immediate vicinity. And just like that, problems were solved and good times ensued. But you don’t always have the time to make a cheesecake ...
• Political Junky Fun, with Amy and Seth
  How was your week? Have some fun this weekend. Anyone planning to watch the Oscars? I fell in love with “Hugo.” …out of the love between a father and his daughter, quite lovely.
• SuperPACs and “dancing with the devil”
  Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. After all the words written and spoken about “Wall Street” and the “1%,” and the ties between those at the top with DC Insiders, the 2012 campaign season clearly shows that the power of that relationship remains intac ...

Hudson New York

• President Obama Turns a Corner on Iran
  President Obama has turned an important corner in his efforts to persuade Iran not to try to develop nuclear weapons, and in his efforts to persuade Israel to allow his combination of punishing sanctions and tough talk to work. In his recent interview
• The Hate Business
  The fact that thousands of Palestinian patients receive medical treatment in Israeli hospitals each year did not stop Palestinians from voicing opposition to a visit by Israeli physicians to Ramallah last week. The Israeli physicians arrived in Ramallah
• Turkish, Azerbaijani, Iranian Foreign Minister ...
  The Turkish, Azerbaijani and Iranian foreign ministers are planning to meet on March 7 in the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic in Azerbaijan as part of a series of meetings regularly held between the three states. Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu,
• The "Apartheid State" That Minorities Keep Str ...
  Prominent PLO spokeswoman Hanan Ashrawi is demanding that the international community declare Israel an "Apartheid State." Her demand was included in a statement she published in Ramallah this week: she accused Israel of incitement against Arabs and of
• Tunisia: From One Dictatorship To Another
  Voices of concern have been growing louder in Tunisia as the Islamist party, Ennahda, which won a relative majority and is presently leading the interim government coalition, is acting as though it is planning to stay a while longer than its allotted one

Urban Survival

• Nervously Waiting & Watching
  With Libya arguably taken down for that rabble-rouser talk of backing an African gold-back currency, several readers have noted that leave only a couple of countries not hooked up to the corporate life support system: Central banks.  Since those two … Continue reading →
• Coping: Riding the DigiDollar Juggernaut
  Got an interesting email overnight, from a dude in the bankstering biz who is not pleased with how things are going in his field… “I wrote you maybe 6 months back after attending a conference put on by BAE Systems … Continue reading →
• Cold Case Posse Report on Obama Due
  Is this economics?  Well, sort of, if the president has anything to do with the economy, since later on today unconventional Sheriff Joe Arpaio (Maricopa Country, Arizona) will hold a press conference to report on what his “cold case posse” … Continue reading →
• Coping: Wok on Buy
  Sometimes it’s revealing to go through the inbox around here.  Take our discussion of building a wok station: “George, Instead of spending all that hard earned money on woks, make one. Go to the farm store and get a disk … Continue reading →
• The One Number that Matters
  Conspiracy types are not particularly trusting of government numbers, particularly, when like this morning’s Durables report, which we will get to next, they don’t seem to square with reality, most of the time.  Especially when it comes to reports like … Continue reading & ...

Trends & Forecasts

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Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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

NRDC Switchboard

• Wildlife Roundup: the Good News
  Andrew Wetzler, Director, Land & Wildlife Program, Chicago Ready for some good news?  I sure am.  Particularly when it's about conserving the wild things that share this planet with us.  From one of the biggest cats in world to the wo ...
• Mann Bites Dogged Attorney-General
  David Doniger, Policy Director, Climate and Clean Air Program, Washington, D.C. The Virginia Supreme Court today called off the witch-hunt against climate scientist Michael Mann by the state’s attorney-general, Ken Cuccinelli.  A staunch ...
• NRDC in the News 3/2: Celebrating The Lorax, d ...
  NRDC News, NRDC News Team, NRDC Offices Worldwide Peter Lehner was interviewed by Marketplace about the release of ‘The Lorax,’ a film adaptation of Dr. Suess’ children's book, which chronicles the Lorax’s fight to protect th ...
• Bear charges tourists in Katmai National Park ...
  Janet Barwick, Research Associate, Montana A video showing a charging grizzly in Katmai National Park has gone viral, giving people the world-over a chance to safely experience a terrifying encounter with an Alaskan grizzly.  This video to me ...
• Researchers to Navies: Stop Using Sonar Near P ...
  Michael Jasny, Senior Policy Analyst, Vancouver, B.C., and Santa Monica Last month the Canadian Navy ran an active sonar exercise in one of the worst places in the world for it: the straits and channels outside Puget Sound, Washington.  Not o ...

Injustice Everywhere

• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 12 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Friday, March 2, 2012: Lodi CA settles suit for $197k to man badly bitten in the face by police dog after arrested and down on the ground [0] bit.ly/z2LJN3 Lake City SC cop arrested on assau ...
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 16 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Thursday, March 1, 2012: St Louis MO police sued after 9 witnesses claim cop shot an unarmed man and continued to shoot him to death while he laid on the ground bleeding then planted a gun [...]
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 20 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Wednesday, February 29, 2012: Milwaukee WI settles suit for $2mil to man badly beaten by cops at a cop party in a high profile racially-charged case. [0] post.cr/yPjNmj Baltimore MD settles ...
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 12 reports of police misconduct we were able to track in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Tuesday, February 28, 2012: US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent is accused of opening fire on an unarmed innocent man without warning in front of a school in an allege ...
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 16 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Monday, February 27, 2012: Providence RI cop ordered by jury to pay $17k civil judgment to gas station clerk he assaulted while on duty [0] bit.ly/wrZqxa Denver CO sheriff’s dept sued ...

Total Collapse

• Netanyahu announces Israel’s plan to ‘wipe Leb ...
  Israel what was that about MAPS? For years, the paranoid Israelis have been screaming bloody murder that the President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, said that “Israel should be wiped from the map.” Of course, the man said no such thing, it was a deliberate mis-translation meant to se ...
• War On: Russia Green-lights Invasion, Abandons ...
  Russia turns its back on Iran and Syria, giving the green light for a military invasion while freezing Iran embassy accounts. Russia has backed away from is hardline stance of standing behind Iran and Syria against a western military invasion, following weeks of warnings to respect the sovereign ...
• Obama Promises Israel Use Of Bases For Iran At ...
  There have been endless recent visits to Israel from high-ranking U.S. officials regarding the Iran issue, including Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and most recently National Security Advisor Tom Donilon. The AP reports that during the last set of meetings the Israelis defiantly told the U.S. th ...
• Putin Offers to Save Europe From Decline and I ...
  If Vladimir V. Putin, as he claims, seeks a closer relationship with the rest of Europe, he is going about achieving it in a funny way. The Russian prime minister, apparently headed for a return to the presidency according to polls ahead of the first round of elections scheduled for Sunday, has ...
• China: US has no moral right to ‘protect’ Arabs
  China says the US has no right to “protect” Arab peoples, questioning “the sincerity and efficacy of US policy.” The country’s top newspaper replied to Hillary Clinton after she called China’s and Russia’s veto of a UN Syrian resolution “despicable”. The People’s Daily commentary say ...

Daily Dose

• TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
  Twitter gives over user information of an account associated with the Occupy Movement. Apple is pushing forward with its plan for TV. VEVO logins are about to be through Facebook...
• TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
  Chrome loses market share while IE gains for the 2nd month in a row. A new Apple TV could come right after the iPad 3 announcement. Japan warns Google about...
• TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tech news in 5 ...
  Microsoft releases the Consumer Preview of Windows 8, Facebook begins rolling out Timeline for Pages, and ads are coming to your timeline in Twitter’s official iPhone and Android apps. It’s...
• TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
  Apple’s iPad 3 announcement is coming next week. Once you snag your new iPad, you need to get TNW Magazine. Users are spending a mere 3 minutes per month on...
• TNW’s Daily Dose – Mobile World Co ...
  Today we bring you a round-up of all the biggest stories from Mobile World Congress so far. So, press ‘play’ below and catch up in 3 minutes. You can read...

Beyond Zero Emissions

• Hans-Josef Fell at ANU
  German member of parliament Hans-Josef Fell, the key architect of the world's most successful renewable energy policies (feed-in tariffs) spoke at the Australian National University in Canberra last week. Below is a recording of his talk.  
• Brace for an electric shock
  Germany's 37 million households will soon be paying half as much on their annual electricity bills as Australian households. An average German household pays just $1060, or about $88 a month, for electricity to run their computers, lights and other household appliances, while an Austral ...
• House swap: I’ll take wind turbines over a coa ...
  Wind turbines. You either love them (like 75 per cent of us), or hate them (15 per cent). Or, you couldn’t care less. Coal mines: you either love them, like those who reap their profits (20 per cent), or you hate them (80 per cent), like those who have to live near them. The problem of differing ...
• Zero Carbon Australia Stationary Energy Plan n ...
  The award-winning Zero Carbon Australia Stationary Energy Plan is now available on your iPad! This complete blueprint for powering the Australian economy with 100% renewable energy contains fully hyperlinked references which take you directly to the web-based sources. To download the app click h ...
• Alcoa: seeing through the carbon tax doomsday ...
  When Alcoa's Point Henry workers met the Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Monday they should have advised her to call the aluminium company's bluff and dismiss its blatant rent seeking tactics. Just over 12 months ago, the company's majority owner, Alcoa Inc of the US, declared the Australian ope ...

Monga Bay ( News )

• Madagascar lifts rosewood ban. Or does it?
  Madagascar's transitional government lifted its ban on exports of rosewood, ebony and other precious wood last month, but the decision is now under review due to concerns about foreign dominance of the trade, say local sources. Environmentalists are nonetheless concerned that a loosening of res ...
• Possible embezzlement halts WWF-run REDD proje ...
  Two conservation and community projects in Tanzania have been halted after the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) reported possible corruption. WWF is running the projects with funds from the Norwegian government. One of the projects is a pilot REDD project, a program to reduce greenhouse gas emis ...
• Over 450 wolves shot dead in Idaho, Montana to ...
  Less than a year after being pulled off the Endangered Species Act (ESA), gray wolves (Canis lupus) in the western U.S. are facing an onslaught of hunting. The hunting season for wolves has just closed in Montana with 160 individuals killed, around 75 percent of 220-wolf kill quota for the state ...
• Cute baby animal photos of the day: twin slend ...
  Twin grey slender lorises (Loris lydekkerianus) were born in the Zoological Society of London's (ZSL) zoo in London this month, a notable event since lorises rarely give birth to twins. Found in India and Sri Lanka, these nocturnal, big-eyed primates scour trees for insects. Although listed as L ...
• Scientists recommend marine protected areas fo ...
  With the government of Madagascar planning to increase marine protected areas by one million hectares, a group of researchers have laid out flexible recommendations in a new study in the open access journal PLoS ONE. The researchers employed four different analyses in order to highlight a number ...

Sierra Express

• Sierra Leone’s Ambassador Stevens brings messa ...
  For a decade, civil war ripped the West African country of Sierra Leone apart, ravaging the people and infrastructure of the country.   (Photo by Christopher R. Vinn, Tyler Paper): Bockari Stevens, Sierra Leone ambassador to the United States, answers questions at Mercy Ships International headq ...
• Bad culture… pursuing the defenseless
  As constantly discussed, bad cultures, retributive justice etc., have had timeless and unending occurrences from within the confines of chiefdoms, towns and villages in Sierra Leone – a small, but highly rated country in the region of West Africa. Local chiefs, on countless occasions have ...
• Craig Bellamy Foundation to launch Girls’ League
  The Craig Bellamy Foundation (CBF) Youth Development League, established in 2009, with the support of UNICEF, initiated a nationwide football structure whilst tackling the country’s urgent social development priorities – education, health, youth exclusion and gender inequality. Now in its fourth ...
• Chinese company to invest in Sierra Leone’s media
  With comprehensive Digital Television in over 8 African countries, StarTimes Communication Network Technology, established in 1988 in China and which has also been playing the role of the most influential system integrator, technology provider and network operator in China’s broadcasting and tel ...
• Security commentary by APC NA Chairman
  As a Sierra Leonean and the current Chairman of the APC North America branch, I want to once again share with you all some security issues regarding our beloved country Sierra Leone.  Since my teenage days to present, I have seen the same security lapses, previous Presidents/heads of state have ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

• Smaller investors sought for dairy farms
  The balance between the cost of buying a dairy farm and how much it can earn is the best that Pastoral Dairy Investments chairman Malcolm Bailey says he can remember.Pastoral Dairy Investments (PDI) is looking to raise a minimum...
• Commodity prices hold steady in February
  The ANZ commodity price index of New Zealand exports was unchanged during February, with declines in some areas balanced by gains in others.Dairy prices in aggregate fell 1 per cent, seafood dropped 4 per cent and the price of skins...
• Flood of European milk to hit market
  Billions of litres of extra milk are expected to hit the global market once restrictions on European production are fully lifted, says Rabobank.It said its forecasts indicated when dairy quotas were fully lifted in 2015 an additional...
• The lousy summer that saved NZ
  It put a dampener on the holidays but all this rain is pumping much-needed millions into the economy. From his office window, Bruce Wills sees the ears of sheep poking above a paddock of grass growing faster than it can be eaten....
• Dairy investors seek $25m to buy big SI farms
  Pastoral Dairy Investments, a specialist investment fund led by New Zealand's dairy industry and investment figures, launched an initial public offer yesterday aimed at raising a minimum of $25 million for the purchase of South Island...

The Bovine

• Civil Rights / Food Rights: Vernon Herschberge ...
  From Joe Orso in the Lacrosse-Tribune: “The raw milk debate is not primarily about raw milk — even though those of us who drink it feel strongly about its nutritional values. Nor is the debate primarily about food safety and … Continue reading →
• Vernon Herschberger on the TV news
• Raw milk farmer Vernon Herschberger passes go, ...
  Tessa Rachel writes about the rally on her Proverbs31wannabe blog: “….The rally garnered over 300 supporters (which was a lot for our small town and small courthouse), the holding room in the court was filled to overflowing with rally attendees.  … Continue reading →
• Does raw milk help with Lyme disease?
  From the Healthy Home Economist blog: “This amazing story was sent to me by Melanie, a Mom who has been drinking nothing but raw, pastured milk for over 100 days to heal her Lyme Disease. Nothing else has worked for her over the … Continue reading →
• Big food must go — or why we need to rad ...
  From Christopher D. Cook on AlterNet: “February 26, 2012  Editor’s note: Find Christopher D. Cook’s book, Diet for a Dead Planet: Big Business and the Coming Food Crisis, here. “It is no longer news that a few powerful corporations have literally occupied the … Cont ...

Mish's Global Economic Trends

• Super Tuesday Delegate Rules and Preview; Brok ...
  On Monday February 27, I laid out the Mathematical Case for Brokered Convention. Since then, Michigan, Wyoming, and Washington have posted results. The table below reflects those results. I made additional changes to my super Tuesday estimates based on new information regarding delegate ru ...
• Brazil Declares New Currency War on US and Eur ...
  In hope-against-hope scenario, countries with balance-of-trade surpluses struggle to maintain it. Put Japan, Germany, Brazil, and China in that group. In that group, Japan is losing the Balance of Trade Battle. Japan’s trade deficit widened to a record level in January, as falling ...
• Vancouver B.C. vs. Donegal Ireland Real Estate ...
  Inquiring minds seeing new data on Vancouver's massively overpriced real estate just might be seeking new comparisons to other places. First, Let's take a look at what $890,000+- will buy in Vancouver. Vancouver Real Estate 2119 East 3rd Ave, Vancouver MLS® Number V934050 Li ...
• Eurozone Wrapup: Unemployment Rate 10.7%, High ...
  There was lots of Eurozone news this week outside of the typical Greek default fodder. Nearly all of that news was not pretty. Let's take a look at the key stories. Eurozone Unemployment Rate 10.7%, Highest Since 1999 The Telegraph reports Eurozone unemployment hits record high of 10.7 ...
• Bank of America Clash with Fannie Mae Intensif ...
  Taxpayers are already on the hook for $180 billion in losses at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. That number is going to rise, perhaps significantly. The clever synonym for more taxpayer losses is "treasury Advance". With that understanding, please consider Fannie Mae's Losses Narrow but Treasu ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• US Media: Washington’s Prostitutes Tell & Sell ...
  Paul Craig Roberts on Silencing the Critics I just finished reading Paul Craig Roberts’ latest commentary on silencing the critics. It is a must read- maybe not for the already-vigilant minority who’ve been saying and writing about this for years, but for those still in denial. Here are a few fi ...
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- February ...
  BFP Nightly Quote “Look at the tyranny of party — at what is called party allegiance, party loyalty — a snare invented by designing men for selfish purposes — and which turns voters into chattles, slaves, rabbits, and all the while their masters, and they themselves are s ...
• Podcast Show #77
  The Boiling Frogs Presents Jon Eisenberg This is Part V of our interview series on the Makings of a Police State. You can listen to previous segments here. Jon Eisenberg joins us to discuss al-Haramain v. Bush/Obama, the only case against the government’s illegal wiretapping that was permitted t ...
• Fixing Your State Budget — With a Steady ...
  If a state were to liberalize its drug laws where will it come up with needed inmates? By Bill Bergman State and local government finances have been sorely tested by the worst recession since the Great Depression.  The recession’s effect on tax revenue and expenses amplified longer-term structur ...
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- February ...
  Every weekday evening we bring you a comprehensive collection of news and views that are carefully selected from reliable sources. Every day we spend hours researching the most significant developments around the world, weeding out the propaganda elements, taking out those sourced to long-known ...

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

• Neptune Orient Lines Gains Nearly 10 Percent, ...
  SINGAPORE -(Dow Jones)- Singapore shares ended higher Friday, led by gains in cyclical stocks as investors’ optimism over the global economy got a shot in the arm from some positive [...]
• Blueseed: Floating City Could Harbor Next Sili ...
  We’ve covered seasteads — or floating cities — here on gCaptain in the past, but this latest idea from a company called Blueseed is slightly different. Not just a place [...]
• BP to Pay $7.8 Billion in Gulf Oil Spill Settl ...
  BP PLC (BP, BP.LN) has agreed to a no-cap settlement with thousands of individuals and businesses affected by the Deepwater Horizon disaster, but the oil giant estimates its costs will [...]
• New Uses for Shipping Containers in a Postmode ...
  - By Lauga Oskarsdottir, MTS Logistics There are over seventeen million shipping containers in the world. Have you ever wondered where they go when their time is up? There are several amazing ways [...]
• The Voith Linear Jet: Combining the Best of Tw ...
  By Kevin Sorbello, Chief Engineer Voith Turbo announced their first Voith Linear Jet (VLJ) order by Turbine Transfers UK in February of this year.  The Voith Linear Jet drives will [...]

Blogging Canadians

• TVO's The Agenda: A Meritocracy Worth Fighting For
  Throughout our history, Canada has grown through the toil of generations of Canadians who were inspired by the belief that our country is free of the rigid class systems of the Old World, that Canadians' success or failure depends on our own efforts and our own abilities...But in recent years, ...
• Akaash Maharaj: A Meritocracy Worth Fighting For
  On tonight's TVOntario's The Agenda with Steve Paikin, I express concern that Canada's meritocracy is in grave peril.
• The Conservative Party Of Canada Requests Ever ...
  "Mr. Del Mastro stood and begged for everyone’s cognitive dissonance", “Mr. Speaker, the Conservative Party of Canada does not place intentionally misleading calls to voters. We simply do not.” Dean Del Mastro MP Parliamentary Secretary To The Prime Minister -Macleans.ca
• Are The Conservatives Being Devious or Incompe ...
  "OTTAWA — As debate over the sustainability of the country's Old Age Security system continues, new figures show the Conservative government has overestimated the cost of the system by hundreds of millions of dollars in three of the past four years. While the government says the differences are ...
• "The Established Order"
  Anonymous Promises Hacks Every Friday! As originally posted on: International Business Times February 26, 2012 There has been a visible increase in hacking attacks after Anonymous made an announcement on Feb. 10, warning the world at large to expect attacks every Friday. "Each and every Fri ...

Press TV - Middle East

• Turkey supports arming Syrian rebels
  Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu says Ankara supports supplying arms to rebels in Syria fighting against the government of President Bashar al-Assad.
• 'Tariq al-Hashemi may flee Iraq'
  The Iraqi Interior Ministry says Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi is likely to flee Iraq from the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region.
• ‘Iran war Israel’s decision to make’
  The Israeli foreign minister says the decision to attack Iran is one that Israel will make regardless of what course of action the US decides to take.
• 'Saudis arm terrorist gangs in Syria'
  Saudi Arabia has reportedly provided the rebels in Syria with a great number of weapons and military equipment.
• ‘Hezbollah will continue resistance’
  Hezbollah Secretary General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah says the Lebanese resistance movement will continue until the liberation of al-Quds (Jerusalem).

CUNY SPS Community Blog

• Silently Waiting
  The ruthless brutality which humankind has been known to unleash upon their fellow humans throughout history seems unrelenting and in fact almost unbelievable when considered in hindsight. For example, the Holocaust, the Trail of Tears, the Middle Passage, and the Great Purge – all events of his ...
• Choices and Trade-offs…Why I Chose CUNY ...
  Hi everyone, my name is Coy. The year 2011 was a year of opportunities, challenges, and new experiences. My first semester as a CUNY SPS student greatly expanded my perspectives as I found myself introduced to the vast amount of resources we – students, workers, and citizens of a digital world – ...
• Get ready, get set, go!
  2011 is behind us and now we’ve embarked on a new year, 2012. Last year was a pretty good year, especially for me in academia.  As many students can attest, the beginning of a new semester can bring with it, new challenges, fresh perspectives and even elevated stresses. In my experience, as a mo ...
• Those Crazy Chain Emails and Those Who Believe ...
  I had a different blog post almost completely written, but then a friend of mine forwarded an email to me entitled, “WHERE ARE ALL THE GIRLFRIENDS OF OBAMA?”. I replied, “Are you serious?” and thus began yet another crisis in our friendship since high school and my scrapp ...
• What Do Economics, Marketing and Glee Have In ...
  One of the liveliest Discussion Boards this semester in my ECO course was “What about all my stuff?” It concerned supply and demand, why we buy goods and services, the satisfaction derived from those goods and services and whether the owner of the greatest amount of stuff is the winner. Is happi ...

Dissident Voice

• Who was Behind the Delhi Bombing?
  The magnet bomb that exploded on an Israeli Embassy diplomat’s car in Delhi on February 13 seemed on the surface to be consistent with an Iranian-sponsored action. It was carried out with same method by which Israel’s Iranian proxy, the Mujahedin-e Khalq, had assassinated an Iranian ...
• Crisis of Democracy: Virginia Hunger Strike
  On March 1, 2012, a hunger strike consisting of 26 students at the University of Virginia came to a close. The Living Wage Campaign made an unprecedented decision to initiate a hunger strike to achieve its goals of raising worker wages from the federal minimum wage of $7.25/hr to to $13/hr. Thou ...
• What’s the Matter With Norway?
  The beautiful thing about the internet is that whenever you write an essay on a topic you imagine is new, some wonderful person contacts you within about an hour who’s written a whole book about it.  This is different from writing a book about something new (or old) like the Kellogg-Briand ...
• Veterans for Peace Supports Occupy Oakland
  statement from Veterans for Peace East Bay Chapter 162 The members of Veterans for Peace, East Bay Chapter 162, have been watching the increasing repression against the Occupy Movement here in Oakland, CA, which has included repeated use of chemical agents, concussion grenades, and other “ ...
• Some Advice to Ms. Hicks against Judging Parents
  Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. – Matthew 7:1-2 Today some ultra-right-wing fluff arrived in my email from someone I know well, and I don’t know if was a big joke ...

Destructionist

• New World Order: Blueprint of Madmen (Full Film)
  Here is the new documentary New World Order: Blueprint of Madmen. It starts off with a dramatization of how paranoid some Americans have become about the threat of terrorism. Very interesting film:
• In Washington state, Ron Paul has a shot at fi ...
  Reporting from Spokane, Wash.— He has the organization. He has the fired-up base. There are just two questions aboutRon Paul‘s performance in Washington state’s Republican caucuses. Can he win? And will it matter? The congressman from Texas may have a shot at declaring his first victory ...
• Nigel Farage: Mass anger could trigger Euro’s ...
  As another nervous week lies ahead for Greece, Nigel Farage, MEP and leader of the UK Independence Party, says the sacrifices it’s being forced to make only drag the country deeper into trouble. Nigel Farage "...The people that constructed the European treaties from the very beginning were ve ...
• Corporate Media Officially Stops Covering Paul ...
  Only one news organization has an “embed” reporter covering Paul full time.
• Explosions Destroy Saudi Oil Pipeline, Sends O ...
  A massive explosion has destroyed Saudi Oil pipelines sending an uncontrolled source of fuel on fire and crude oil prices soaring. Among the many factors responsible for the jump in WTI to just shy of $109 over the past hour, and Brent to new records in various currencies, is the following ne ...
  
  

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  Use of renewable energy in GCC

  Oman Daily Observer

  By Haider bin Abdul Redha al Lawati - There is great desire by many countries in the world to own renewable energy projects, especially as the technology and modern industries have succeeded in exploiting various types of the energies.

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  Investments in renewables seen as fuel prices rise

  BusinessWorld Online Edition

  INCREASING OIL prices are seen to spur investments in renewable energy as consumers will look for lower-cost alternatives, an economist said. "Over the medium term there is motivation to look into oil prices. Renewable energy will take on more ...

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  Fluor Receives Contract From Joule To Build Renewable Fuel Production Facility

  NASDAQ

  (FLR) announced that it received an engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) contract from Joule to design and build a renewable fuel production facility in New Mexico. Fluor booked the undisclosed contract value in the fourth ...

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  Vermont governor upbeat about renewables

  NECN

  Peter Shumlin says he's optimistic that federal tax credits for renewable energy scheduled to expire at the end of the year will be renewed. Shumlin says there's support for the tax credits from governors of both parties, which should help their ...

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  ecology water energy

  Ecology set to provide Bellingham $1.77M for Squalicum Creek project

  Bellingham Herald

  BELLINGHAM - The state Department of Ecology is set to provide the city $1.77 million in loans and grants to reroute and improve habitat on a segment of Squalicum Creek. Ecology recently announced it would give the project $787500 in funding and loan ...

  Ecology awards $2.2 million to help local stormwater programs

  Access Washington

  OLYMPIA – The Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) is finalizing grant agreements with 12 local governments that will share $2.2 million to support stormwater programs. Polluted runoff – or stormwater – is the leading pollution threat to urban ...

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  Fight in Olympia over solutions for toxic runoff

  The Seattle Times

  (March 4, 2012, by Morning Wood) MORE Any chance the legislature's skepticism is due to Ecology's ridiculous overstatement of... (March 4, 2012, by malby) MORE SEATTLE TIMES: How about some analysis? Such as: what portion of toxic wastes.

  Fire Ecologists Speak on Fighting Fire With Fire

  Firehouse.com

  By Staci Matlock Fire ecologists met with fire and land managers from several Western states to share their thoughts on lessons learned from last year's historic fire season and talk about what's to come. Plenty of Southwestern forests and grasslands ...

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  300000 in Miri hit by water contamination

  New Straits Times

  By DESMOND DAVIDSON 0 comments MIRI: Water supply to the city's 300000 residents was cut yesterday when a major diesel contamination was discovered at its main water treatment plant. The plant was shut down at 8.30pm on Saturday immediately after the ...

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  Lincoln tomb will undergo $700000 renovation project to fix water damage

  Washington Post

  The tomb will undergo $700000 in structural repairs to fix water damage and other interior damage, Illinois Historic Preservation Agency spokesman Dave Blanchette told The State Journal-Register (http://bit.ly/yOmWJo ) Saturday.

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  Victorian town evacuated as flood waters rise

  The Age

  Photo: Angela Wylie Residents of the small Victorian town of Walwa in the upper reaches of the Murray were evacuated in the middle of the night as flood waters rose faster and higher than expected after 160 millimetres of rain was dumped on the region ...

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  Green Planet Water Rolls onto US Turnpikes at HMS HOST Motorway Plazas

  San Francisco Chronicle (press release)

  Green Planet's 100% Plant-Based bottled water keeps thousands of travelers hydrated at HMS host Motorway Plazas. Chicago, IL (PRWEB) March 04, 2012 Category innovator Green Planet Bottling has won an enormous share of the retail travel market with ...

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