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Thomas Paine

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Sunday, March 4, 2012

4 March - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Tuesday 6 March Stop the War Students Public M ...
    Summary: Public Meeting: Don't Attack Iran Tuesday 6 March 6.00pm Room 3E  University of London Union (ULU) Malet Street London WC1E 7HY Speakers: • Tony Benn, • Lindsey GermanConvenor Stop the War • Shirin Saeidi PhD student Cambridge University, CASMII • Shadia Edwards Dashti SOAS Stude ...
  • Join us at the AIPAC Conference in DC to deman ...
    Summary: Sunday, March 4 at 11am at Mt. Vernon Place (between 7th St and 9th St NW in front of the Convention Center) Initiated by Occupy AIPAC source: Answer Coalitionread more
  • Iran Questions IAEA's Resolve and Impartiality
    Summary: Kaveh Afrasiabi According to a source close to the Iranian nuclear negotiation team in Iran, during the two-day visit on February 20-21, the IAEA team headed by Herman Nackaerts, the Deputy Director-General for Safeguards, was informed that even though the purpose of the visit was f ...
  • Russia to try its best to ward off war in Iran ...
    Summary: Russia will do its best to prevent a war in Iran, prime minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin has said. source: The Nationread more
  • Stop War, Sanctions, Intervention and Assassin ...
    Summary: Friday, March 2nd - 7pm An Evening of Music, Food, and Politics A fundraiser featuring Duo Orfeo and Vijay Prashad Plus special presentation on Iran by Dr. Jamshid Marvasti Jamshid A. Marvasti, MD, is a child and adult psychiatrist who has practiced for more than 30 years in the U ...

The Daily Galaxy

Natural News

  • Low GI foods may improve eating habits for typ ...
    A new study carried out at Ohio State University and published in the journal Patient Education and Counseling shows that consuming a number of foods with low glycemic indexes (GI)each day can improve long-term dietary habits for type-2 diabetes patients. The study...
  • Nori is a high-protein plant source of vitamin ...
    Nori, also known as purple laver or Porphyra yezoensis, may be the most popular seaweed in the United States. Nori is the seaweed most widely used as a wrap for sushi. It is usually sold in large, thin, dried sheets. Traditional Asian cultures have known for centuries...
  • Little-known herbal remedies help wtih asthma ...
    There has been a resurgence of asthma and other lung issues, especially among children, over the past few decades. Whether from chemtrails, outrageously increased vaccination schedules, or both - and more - is undetermined. But the suffering is the same, and the mainstream...
  • Judge Naomi Buchwald's dismissal of lawsuit ag ...
    After many months of hopeful anticipation, a preemptive, class-action lawsuit filed by farmers seeking protection against Monsanto's predatory patent enforcements has been thrown out by U.S. District Court Judge Naomi Buchwald. And in response, a group of food freedom...
  • The top 10 worst sources of aspartame
    If you think you are making a healthier option because you chose to have diet soda over a regular soda drink, its time to think again. Crafty advertising may have given the term "sugar free" an impression of healthy alternative, but the truth of the matter is that chemical...

Threat Level

  • Cable-Modem Hacker Convicted in Boston
    Cable-modem hacker Ryan Harris has been convicted of helping users steal internet access that authorities say involved a $1 million scheme to defraud cable companies of business.
  • Tiny Antennas Don’t Prevent Copyright Suit
    Fox Television, PBS and Univision Television and others Thursday asked a federal judge to halt an impending subscription service that enables the streaming of broadcast television to any internet-enabled device. The suit targets Aereo, a $12 monthly subscription service set to debut in New York ...
  • Report: Hackers Seized Control of Computers in ...
    Hackers seized control of networks at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory last November, gaining the ability to install malware, delete or steal sensitive data, and hijack the accounts of users in order to gain their privileged access, according to a report from the National Aeronautics and Space A ...
  • DHS, Not NSA, Should Lead Cybersecurity, Penta ...
    In the midst of an ongoing turf battle over how big a role the National Security Agency should play in securing the nation’s critical infrastructure, a Defense Department official asserted on Wednesday that the military’s controversial intelligence agency should take a backseat to the Department ...
  • Constitutional Showdown Voided: Feds Decrypt L ...
      Colorado federal authorities have decrypted a laptop seized from a bank-fraud defendant, mooting a judge’s order that the defendant unlock the hard drive so the government could use its contents as evidence against her. The development ends a contentious legal showdown over whether ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Netanyahu Comes to Romney's Rescue
    GOP White House hopeful Mitt Romney and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu go way back. Their friendship dates back to the 1980's when, as Governor Romney pointed out during a December GOP debate, "We worked together at Boston Consulting Group." And from his aborted campaign for state p ...
  • The GOP's Dynamic Deception on Debt and Tax Cuts
    You can fool some of the people all the time, and that's our target market. On no issue has that time-tested Republican strategy been more consistently applied than the impact of tax cuts on the national debt. But even after oceans of red ink washed away George W. Bush's bogus contention that ...
  • Obama's Affordable Care Act to the Rescue for ...
    By almost any measure, Texas has one of the worst health care systems in the nation. Its 26 percent uninsured rate - no other state is even close - put its dead last. Overall, health care in the Lone Star State is ranked 44th by America's Health Rankings and 46th by the Commonwealth Fund. Two ...
  • Two Headlines Say It All About GOP Field's Eco ...
    Everything you need to know about the economic plans of the Republican White House hopefuls is conveniently contained in two headlines. In October, the McClatchy Newspapers revealed, "GOP presidential candidates' tax plans would benefit the rich." Last week, the Washington Post bookended that ...
  • Romney Crashes and Burns Pandering at NASCAR's ...
    Just two days out from the all-critical Michigan primary, Mitt Romney headed to Florida Sunday to make a pre-race appearance at the Daytona 500. But for Romney, the trip wasn't just an obligatory pilgrimage to woo the conservative fans who booed Michele Obama and Jill Biden at another event las ...

Blackspot News Feed

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Global Crisis Wrap-up (Global Crisis Series)
    There are many causes that could create a global crisis, from food shortages to financial shortfalls to the effects of global warming and climate change. But the biggest concern is what effect a crisis could have on humanity. When a crisis occurs, it is usually followed by [...]
  • Agent Orange Needs Banned (Now in Weed and Fee ...
    Seeking Ban The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) reports that it is seeking a ban from weed and feed products which are using what has notoriously been known as “Agent Orange.” What? You mean after the flurry of reports for decades identifying agent orange as increasing the a ...
  • Solar Power Plants Can Stabilize the Grid
    When faced with the option of electricity from renewable sources such as solar or wind, one of the first objections is always the erratic nature of power generation – the sun and wind can’t be controlled or depended on to generate power at all times of day. There are solutions to this, and one s ...
  • ‘Green Wash’? Tar Sands Companies Form Allianc ...
    In what  some enviro groups are calling a ‘nice gesture’, but others, such as Greenpeace, are calling ‘green washing’,  twelve Alberta Tar Sands developers — the largest oil sands producers in the world — including Royal Dutch Shell PLC, Cenovus Energy Inc. a ...
  • Using Eco-Friendly Branded Bags
      One of the biggest environmental issues these days is the overuse of plastic bags. Shoppers face this dilemma every day at the checkout when they are asked, “Would you like a plastic bag?” While most would like to say “No,” there are still a large number of people who do use ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Rage: Wake Up!! - Global Empire
    RESIST THE POLICE STATE. BRING DOWN THE MACHINE. Lyrics Come on! Uggh! Come on, although ya try to discredit Ya still never read it The needle, I'll thread it Radically poetic Standin' with the fury that they had in '66 And like E-Double I'm mad St ...
  • What Are Iran's Intentions? - Iran/Persia
    The January/February issue of Foreign Affairs featured the article “Time to Attack Iran: Why a Strike Is the Least Bad Option,” by Matthew Kroenig, along with commentary about other ways to contain the Iranian threat. The media resound with warnings about a likely Israeli attack on I ...
  • Financial markets demand sharper crackdown aga ...
    3 March 2012 The Middle East Ratings and Investor Service (MERIS) has threatened that renewed political upheaval in Egypt will result in further credit downgrades. Amr Hassanin, the head of MERIS, told the Egyptian daily Al-Ahram on Monday that Egypt’s credit rating could plunge two grades t ...
  • The case for public ownership of the oil indus ...
    Statement by Jerry White, Socialist Equality Party candidate for president 3 March 2012 The sharp increase in the price of gasoline during the first two months of 2012 has dealt a blow to the living standards of working people in the United States, already hard hit by four years of...
  • ¡Pa'lante Comandante! - Bolivarian Republic o ...
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They Gave Us a Republic

  • Songs to Fight the Plutocracy By: "Boll Weevil"
    By @KYYellowDog Included in the folk music collection "Songs for Political Action." Uploaded by RagtimeDorianHenry on Apr 15, 2009: " Boll Weevil " (1940) BLIND WILLIE McTELL
  • It Wasn't Joplin, But It's Bad
    By @KYYellowDog Twelve people died here in Kentucky from Friday tornadoes. Central Kentucky was mostly spared, and my family and friends are fine. But the mountains, where they have no margin for error, and where tornadoes are rare compared to western Kentucky, got hit hard. From the Courier: Tw ...
  • Oh, My...
    By @BGinKC I've lived through some depressing political cycles -- I turned 18 and registered as a Democrat on a military installation a month after Ronald Reagan was elected and a month and a half before he was sworn in. My first two presidential choices were Mondale and Dukakis. When Clinton ca ...
  • Right Wing Tears Page From Communist Playbook
    By @TedFrier Oh great. The Republicans lose their only sensible senator after Maine's Olympia Snowe shocks the political world by announcing she's retiring, and suddenly "moderation is dead" in Washington while centrist politicians "no longer have any meaningful role to play, as the Washington P ...
  • Songs to Fight the Plutocracy By: "I Don't Wan ...
    By @KYYellowDog Uploaded by Fabliau92 on Apr 22, 2011

Care 2

  • Sign the Pledge to Be Down-Free ACTION
    The cruelty behind every down industry product is chilling. In order to produce down clothing, pillows, and comforters, birds are often pinned down or lifted by their necks or a delicate wing and have their feathers painfully ripped out while they are... Submitted by Nancy C. to Animals  | ...
  • Many drugs 'non-vegetarian and need better lab ...
    People who choose not to eat animal products may be unaware that common medicines could contain them, a study suggests. Submitted by Agnes N. to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • reaches $7.8B settlement over Gulf spill claims
    BP agreed late Friday to settle lawsuits brought by more than 100,000 fishermen who lost work, cleanup workers who got sick and others who claimed harm from the oil giant's 2010 Gulf of Mexico disaster, the worst offshore oil spill in the nation's Submitted by Agnes N. to Business  |&nbsp ...
  • Reviving Sariska's tiger footprints! VIDEO!
    Baghani, a young tigress from Ranthambhore, has been trans-located into Sariska. She is not alone: Rathore, a male tiger has been separately introduced into the park by the reserve officials in a hope that the two cats will meet and succeed Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   N ...
  • Investigate "Lion Burger" Butcher ! PLEASE SIG ...
    Following a controversy of the restaurant in Mesa, Arizona that serves "Lion Burgers",(ll Vinaio), we ask the USDA to launch an investigation into the source of that meat- both of the supposed free range lion farm Fallows Farm in Illinois and of the Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |  ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Palin’s a “Cunt,” But Fluke Ain’t a “Slut?”
    The hypocrisy on the left about Rush Limbaugh’s inept attempt at humor in discussing Sandra Fluke’s condom fetish is not unexpected, but is worth noting. Remember when Sarah Palin was called a “Cunt” by a parade of lefties? The list includes Bill Mahrer and Howard Stern a ...
  • Today’s WA State Caucus Results
    BELOW the fold, don’t miss some fascinating excerpts from Politico‘s WA state caucus prognostications. Fox’s Bret Baier will be cutting into Fox programming as results come in; at 10 p.m. ET, Baier will have a full program on WA results. CLICK this image to get The Seattle Time ...
  • Obama, Losing Afghanistan
    Barack Obama will try to milk every ounce of credit for being drug against his will to sign off on killing Bin Laden, but his real accomplishment will be the loss of Afghanistan. Since the Obama Administration decided to go on its Qu’ran apology tour, U.S. military operations in Afghanista ...
  • Weekend Open Thread * Limbaugh? Must We? Really?
    Do we have to discuss the latest Rush Limbaugh idiocy? God I hope not. But … we should remind ourselves of Limbaugh’s blathering on and on without an iota of fact-checking. We know the man isn’t a journalist, but he is on “news radio,” which creates a false assumpti ...
  • Less Glum
    Spoke Binyamin Applebaum, NYT, re the Bernanke testimony on the Hill on Wednesday 29 February, and learned that the outlook is less glum than ever. The caution relates the similar moment in March 2010 and March 2011, when the economy stalled an obliged the Fed to move by buying MBS. The jobs rep ...

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 ...

Therapy News

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • Ky. Voices: Denial of climate change dangerous ...
    Lexington Herald Leader Ky. Voices: Denial of climate change dangerous political stand Lexington Herald Leader And because the causes of climate change are so directly linked to strip mining, and because both crises make some people rich, we often see the same disregard for science and dishonest ...
  • Novelist/activist Kingsolver talks about prese ...
    Novelist/activist Kingsolver talks about preserving the mountains she loves Knoxville News Sentinel The two artists are particularly hoping to let more people know about their work against mountaintop removal coal-mining, and about the Scenic Vistas Protection Act, a bill proposed by the Lindqui ...
  • Mountaintop Removal Ban Forges Ahead in Tennes ...
    Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) Mountaintop Removal Ban Forges Ahead in Tennessee Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) Now the full Tennessee Senate will, for the first time, consider a ban on mountaintop removal mining in the state. But the coal industry is hardly backing down and ...
  • March down Broad Street calls attention to Pa. ...
    March down Broad Street calls attention to Pa. education funding Temple News Participating groups included Occupy Temple, Temple Community Against Mountaintop Removal and Temple Democratic Socialists. CHRIS MONTGOMERY TTN | Evan Hoskins, president of Temple Democratic Socialists, speaks to the c ...
  • Ramsey says bill stops mountaintop removal; no ...
    Nashville Scene Ramsey says bill stops mountaintop removal; not so, advocates say The Tennessean Ron Ramsey has praised action taken on a bill that he said now clarifies Tennessee's prohibition on mountaintop removal for coal mining. While advocates for banning the blowing up of the state&#3 ...

Memeorandum

  • Big win in state propels Romney into Super Tue ...
    Seattle Times: Big win in state propels Romney into Super Tuesday  —  Mitt Romney posted a double-digit win in Washington's Republican presidential straw poll Saturday.  —  Mitt Romney shook off his Republican rivals to win Washington's Republican caucuses Saturd ...
  • Where are all the libertarians coming from? (A ...
    Anton Howes / The Independent: Where are all the libertarians coming from?  —  There's a silent revolution happening on campuses across the world.  Libertarian activism is on the rise.  Political figures like Ron Paul have started to draw huge support from younger vote ...
  • 'SHOCKED' LIBYAN AUTHORITIES 'EXTREMELY APOLOG ...
    Daily Mail: ‘SHOCKED’ LIBYAN AUTHORITIES ‘EXTREMELY APOLOGETIC’ OVER WAR GRAVES ATTACK  —  The Libyan government has been ‘extremely apologetic’ about the desecration of British war graves in the eastern city of Benghazi, a Foreign Office Mini ...
  • Three Occupy Oakland protesters charged with h ...
    Emmett Berg / Reuters: Three Occupy Oakland protesters charged with hate crimes  —  (Reuters) - Three Occupy Oakland protesters accused of surrounding and taunting a woman before stealing her wallet were charged on Friday with robbery and hate crimes, authorities said.  &md ...
  • Santorum backs nullifying existing gay marriag ...
    Bob Egelko / San Francisco Chronicle: Santorum backs nullifying existing gay marriages  —  There are 18,000 married gay and lesbian couples in California and at least 131,000 nationwide according to the 2010 census, conducted before New York state legalized same-sex marriage in ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Central Asia’s dam debacle
    Grand engineering schemes have failed to address the political problems of water management. As climate change dries up the rivers, regional tensions will escalate, warns Eelke Kraak.The Toktogul Dam in Kyrgyzstan is an imposing structure. The dam guards the largest and only multi-annual water r ...
  • Briefing: greener driving
    Why do governments want us to buy them? What’s on the market? And where are the road-bumps ahead? Paul Carsten looks at the state of play for electric cars.Since Japanese auto giant Toyota introduced the second-generation Prius in 2004, perceptions of “eco-friendly cars” have e ...
  • Could China redefine the car?
    Beijing’s plan to flood the nation’s roads with electric cars has hit a bump: consumers don’t want them. But e-bikes – already a success story – could trigger a transport revolution, argues David Tyfield.One of the most significant single developments for the global ...
  • Lonely death of the river pig
    Students in search of the endangered finless porpoise found indifference to its future on the banks of the Yangtze. Wang Tao reports.Despite earning the nickname “river-pig” for its rotund appearance, the finless porpoise is also revered as a river god. When a storm is brewing, these ...
  • Drunks, lampposts and champions
    When celebrating responsible business, media and campaign groups focus too narrowly on a small group of big brands. Their horizons must expand to match the new world order, writes John Elkington.Enthusiasts for corporate-responsibility rankings will have no doubt spotted the same names routinely ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • Cable-Modem Hacker Convicted in Boston
    Cable-modem hacker Ryan Harris has been convicted of helping users steal internet access that authorities say involved a $1 million scheme to defraud cable companies of business.
  • Tiny Antennas Don’t Prevent Copyright Suit
    Fox Television, PBS and Univision Television and others Thursday asked a federal judge to halt an impending subscription service that enables the streaming of broadcast television to any internet-enabled device. The suit targets Aereo, a $12 monthly subscription service set to debut in New York ...
  • Report: Hackers Seized Control of Computers in ...
    Hackers seized control of networks at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory last November, gaining the ability to install malware, delete or steal sensitive data, and hijack the accounts of users in order to gain their privileged access, according to a report from the National Aeronautics and Space A ...
  • DHS, Not NSA, Should Lead Cybersecurity, Penta ...
    In the midst of an ongoing turf battle over how big a role the National Security Agency should play in securing the nation’s critical infrastructure, a Defense Department official asserted on Wednesday that the military’s controversial intelligence agency should take a backseat to the Department ...
  • Constitutional Showdown Voided: Feds Decrypt L ...
      Colorado federal authorities have decrypted a laptop seized from a bank-fraud defendant, mooting a judge’s order that the defendant unlock the hard drive so the government could use its contents as evidence against her. The development ends a contentious legal showdown over whether ...

Equality Trust

  • Act Local = Reduce the Gap
    Find out more about our new campaign: Act Local = Reduce the Gap
  • We work in partnership with One Society
    Visit the website of One Society which works in partnership with The Equality Trust. One Society draws on a wealth of research which shows that large divides in income at the top and bottom of society – beyond ‘proportional rewards’ – are damaging to our economy and society, not just for those ...
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    Read the latest edition of our supporter newsletter  
  • Action for Happiness
    Action for Happiness is a new movement for positive social change, founded by Richard Layard, Geoff Mulgan and Anthony Seldon.   They aim to bring together people from all walks of life who want to play a part in creating a happier society for everyone. Their vision of a better future inc ...
  • Traduction des preuves en Français
     Les preuves en Français Preuves à l’appui: une introduction Preuves à l’appui: la santé physique Preuves à l’appui: la santé mentale Preuves à l’appui: la toxicomanie Preuves à l’appui: l’éducation Preuves à l’appui: la population carcérale      

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • Why Some People in Michigan Drink Raw Milk - V ...
    Apparently today all charges were dismissed against Vernon Hershberger of Loganville, Wisconsin, who leases his cows to a "food buyers club," and had been charged with operating a retail food establishment without a license, operating a dairy farm as a milk producer without a license, operating ...
  • 74 Shigella Lawsuits Filed Against Subway in I ...
    Seventy-four people (Marler Clark clients) have filed lawsuits claiming they got Shigella infection, also known as dysentery, from a suburban Subway sandwich outlet. In one of 41 complaints filed this week in DuPage County Court, Tania Lesus sued Neel Subway dba Subway Restaurant, its owner Dah ...
  • Victims of Listeria Outbreak to be excluded fr ...
    Appalling seems to be the right word. I was hopefully reading Joan Murphy’s article in Produce News Daily, “Dates set for industry meetings on new cantaloupe guidance document,” until I read the last line of the article: The meetings are open to growers, buyers, auditors, aca ...
  • Hey, would you like some Salmonella and Campyl ...
    Well, for Ground Beef and Pork Chops, not so much, but for Chicken Breasts and Ground Turkey, not so good.  And, there is E. coli too, but they do not say what kind. The 2010 NARMS (National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System) Report (FULL REPORT PDF) fell into my inbox today. Ac ...
  • The Family Cow now Linked to 80 with Campyloba ...
    From the Pennsylvania Department of Health 80 total cases 70 in PA 5 in MD 2 in NJ 3 in WV

AutoblogGreen

  • Report: GM shutting down Chevy Volt production ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Sedan, Hirings/Firings/Layoffs, Plants/Manufacturing, Chevrolet, GM, Electric Even with the new HOV-eligible 2012 Chevrolet Volt models heading to California and sales up in February, General Motors has reportedly decided to shut down production of the plug-in hybrid for ...
  • Official: Ford Focus Electric officially rated ...
    Filed under: Ford, Electric Coming soon to select Ford dealers, at least those on the coasts, is the most efficient five-passenger car in America, the 2012 Ford Focus Electric, which the EPA has certified gets 105 miles per gallon equivalent, combined. This is better than what the Blue Oval w ...
  • Official: Nissan Leaf available nationwide in ...
    Filed under: Car Buying, Hatchback, Nissan, Electric The wait is over. After the initial launch in limited markets at the end of 2010 and a methodical rollout in 2011, the Nissan Leaf will finally be available to order all around the U.S. starting pretty much immediately. Nissan recently sent ...
  • Mazda under fire for "crass commercialization" ...
    Filed under: Budget, Etc., Marketing/Advertising, Videos, Crossover, Mazda Over on Twitter, we recently had a discussion over whether or not it was fair for the cinematic version of Dr. Seuss' Lorax to be out shilling for the Mazda CX-5. Turns out, we're not the only ones who question the log ...
  • Report: Newt Gingrich: "You cannot put a gun r ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Etc., Government/Legal, Videos, Hatchback, Chevrolet, Electric Looks like Newt Gingrich is getting into the right-wing, "let's-all-hate-on-the-Chevrolet-Volt" bandwagon. During a campaign stop at Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, OK, the trailing Republican candidate s ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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  • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
  • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
  • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
  • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

Democracy Now!

  • Wikileaks vs. Stratfor: Pursue The Truth, Not ...
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan WikiLeaks, the whistle-blower website, has again published a massive trove of documents, this time from a private intelligence firm known as Stratfor. The source of the leak was the hacker group “Anonymous,” which took credit for obtaining more than 5 milli ...
  • Redefining Black Power: Pacifica Archives & Ci ...
    In this web exclusive interview, Amy Goodman interviews Joanne Griffith, editor of the new book, Redefining Black Power: Reflections on the State of Black America, a new which was inspired by historic recordings preserved in the Pacifica Radio Archives. She also speaks with Archives directo ...
  • Democracy Now!'s Sharif Abdel Kouddous Wins Iz ...
    Democracy Now! correspondent Sharif Abdel Kouddous , along with the Center for Media and Democracy, are co-winners of this year’s Izzy Award for Special Achievement in Independent Media . The Izzy Award is named after legendary maverick journalist I.F. Stone, who launched I.F. Stone’s ...
  • Jazz Legend Randy Weston: The Complete Democra ...
    Our full 78-minute interview with pianist and composer Randy Weston. Includes extended performances of many of Weston’s most famous songs: "High Fly," "Blue Moses," "African Cookbook," "In Memory Of," "The Healers," "African Lady,&quo ...
  • "New Obama Campaign Co-Chair: 'The President I ...
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan “The president is wrong.” So says one of the newly appointed co-chairs of President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign. Those four words headline the website of the organization Progressives United, founded by former U.S. Sen., and now Obama campaign ad ...

Suzie-Q

  • Fluke: Obama Told Me My Parents Should Be Proud
    Raw Story By David Edwards Friday, March 2, 2012 16:12 EST Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke on Friday choked up as she recalled an encouraging phone call from President Barack Obama after conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh smeared her as a “slut.” “You were in our green room get ...
  • Obama Campaign Slams Koch Brothers: Americans ...
    The Huffington Post | By Leigh Owens Posted: 03/02/12 02:56 PM ET The Obama campaign has started a petition aimed at forcing Americans for Prosperity, the conservative group backed by billionaires Charles and David Koch, to release its donor lists to the public, proving the group’s cl ...
  • Just A Question…
  • Rush Limbaugh’s Attack On Sandra Fluke Was Hat ...
    Posted at  12:27 PM ET, 03/02/2012 The Washington Post   By- Jamila Bey Radio host Rush Limbaugh is so keen on pornography, he’s suggested an entirely new genre of it. In an attack against the Georgetown University law student, Sandra Fluke, who House Republicans wouldn’t let testify at a hearin ...
  • Andy Is No More
    I am assuming that this isn’t one of Andy’s lies. If it is, I apologize in advance for falling for it. Those of us who have watched Breitbart for a long time have seen his personal appearance worsen noticeably over the last year or so. He’s also been much more lunatic in his pu ...

Solari

  • Tornadoes Hit Homes, Schools Across U.S. Midwe ...
    By Brian K. Sullivan and Lynn Doan Dozens of unusually strong tornadoes cut a path across five states in the U.S. Midwest and South, smashing houses and damaging schools. A least 15 people were killed, the Associated Press reported. The storms, the second swarm this week, hit hardest in southern
  • Oceans
    “I have a feeling that my boat, has struck, down there in the depths, against a great thing. . . –nothing happens? Or has everything happened, and are we standing now, quietly, in the new life?” - Juan Ramon Jimenez Related reading: Juan Ramón Jiménez From Wikipedia
  • Quote du Jour
    “Be watchful — the grace of God appears suddenly. It comes without warning to an open heart.” - Rumi Related reading: Rumi From Wikipedia Mowlana, Poet of Life’s Dance (1 Dec 11)
  • Morgan Stanley Details Effect of Possible Down ...
    Source : Reuters Morgan Stanley said it will have to post another USD 6.52 billion in collateral to counterparties and clearinghouses if Moody’s follows through on a warning that it might cut the Wall Street bank’s long-term debt rating by up to three notches. A one-notch downgrade ...
  • Super-powerful Rail Gun in Development for U.S ...
    By Brock Vergakis A super-powerful gun that shoots rounds more than 160 kilometres away — at several times the speed of sound — is being developed for Navy warships. YouTube (27 Feb 12) The weapon is known as an electromagnetic rail gun. It consists of parallel rails and uses a [...]

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • A Destiny of Failure – Germany’s p ...
    Summary:  Our history consists to a shocking degree of myths, which means we stand on sand — not rock.  This weakens us, diminishing our ability to clearly see the world and prepare for the future.  Our cousins across the Atlantic share some of these myths about WWII. Today we look at one ...
  • History helps us learn from the past and overc ...
    Summary:  One cause of our dysfunctional foreign policy is that we’ve lost our past, and substituted myth.  About the great American expansion (stealing land has a high return on investment).  About the Civil War.  And about the Vietnam War, whose grim tale has become lost in myths told ab ...
  • Ask the mineshaft: what’s gone wrong wit ...
    Summary:  We have reached the point in the “s” curve where the trend — the decay of our political regime — accelerates.  When the decay spreads throughout the system.  When the cancer metastasizes.  The cure does not lie beyond our grasp.  But first we must understand whe ...
  • A note from Athens: Feeling on the ground has ...
    Summary:  The Greek people have locked themselves into a no-win dilemma since the first bailout in May 2010.  They want to stay in the Eurozone, but hate the pressures applied by EZ leaders as the necessary price for the aid that keeps them in the Eurozone.  Eventually the resulting damage will ...
  • The end nears for our expedition to Afghanista ...
    Summary:  After writing over 100 posts since September 2003 about our war in Afghanistan, I faced the grim task of writing about its ugly end.  Fortunately, here are two articles that do it better than I could.  They deserve your attention, as we walk away from a project for which we borrowed so ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

  • In Defense of Particularism in American Foreig ...
    I’ve just finished reading John Lewis Gaddis’s terrific biography of George Frost Kennan, a towering figure in American foreign policy after World War II whom Henry Kissinger described as “one of the most important, complex, moving, challenging and exasperating American public ...
  • The Monopoly on the Use of Force
    Why should academics and policymakers prioritize a state's acquistion of  "... the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory"? Obviously, this monopoly is fundamental to masking the violence of the state in daily domestic affairs, but what about in areas wher ...
  • Haiti: Open for Business, or Business as Usual?
    This guest post by Johanna Mendelson Forman, a senior associate with the Americas Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. It was re-posted from CSIS's blog. It started as a rumor.  President Michel Martelly was going to sack his Prime Minister, Garry Conille, after four m ...
  • The Atlantic's Interview with Obama on Iran
    Congratulations to the Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg for his extensive interview with President Obama about Iran and Israel, on the eve of the Netanyahu visit and AIPAC meeting. Congrats to him too for making the most of the opportunity with a series of appropriately tough questions. Quick follow ...
  • Note to Obama: Puffery and Pandering on Israel ...
    My Atlantic colleague Jeffrey Goldberg just scored an extensive interview with President Obama in which Obama says to Iran and Israel, "As President of the United States, I don't bluff." Goldberg's preamble is important and must-read, but the interview itself is vital and gives one a good sense ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • This Station is Non-Operational
    I’m actually way more excited about Windows 8 than I am about anything Apple is doing right now. This interview with the female stars of Community is hilarious and adorable. Thomas Brand gives us an in-depth preview of the “new” Mac OS 9. This one is strictly for Apple nerds. Kevin Conroy, the ...
  • Faster-Than-Light Travel Just Got That Much Harder
    Of the theoretical means for achieving faster-than-light travel, the most plausible one is the “warp” drive, where a ship travels at superluminal speeds by creating a bubble of space behind it, while compressing the space in front of it. The ship would not move inside of the bubble, but would b ...
  • A Social Network of One's Own
    I initially visited Pinterest after hearing its praises sung for being a remarkable organization tool with a social component, but all I saw at first were pictures of clothes, interior-design ideas, and cheesy photography coupled with “inspirational” mottos and prayers. Few things make me hit t ...
  • Why Android is Important
    Via Horace Dedieu (by way of Matthew Yglesias) comes this chart showing the explosive growth of Google’s Android operating system over the last several years: In describing the chart, Yglesias makes an important point that’s worth repeating: The wide availability of a free, solid mobile operat ...
  • The Emerging Sotomayor-Muppet Axis of Evil
    Can’t you take a joke? In the time and place where I grew up, as I have written before, Federal judges were figures of awe. They were men (all men) of rather severe probity, following unpopular mandates from the Supreme Court even when those decisions cost them friends and put their lives in da ...

Buzzflash

  • Mitt Romney Has More Positions Than the Kama Sutra
    WILL DURST FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Odd week for Mitt Romney. The roller coaster candidate was on the receiving end of more mixed messages than a basement bulletin board at the United Nations on Take Your Schizophrenic to Work Day. While cruising to an easy victory in the Arizona primary he bar ...
  • Global Intelligence Gate: From Confessions of ...
    NIKOLAS KOZLOFF FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUTread more
  • The Buying of Democracy: the Citizens United C ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT When it comes to elections - particularly ones at the presidential, senate and house levels - it is extremely vital to remember the relationship between campaign contributions and the mainstream media.  As noted in the Fiscal Times, "between primary ...
  • FOX News is Rooting Against the Economic Inter ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT FOX is rooting against the United States. Jon Stewart made a pretty air tight case proving that Roger Ailes's FOX propaganda channel is basically a 5th column cheerleading for economic failure in America - as long as a Democrat is president.read more
  • Who Should Decide Your Health Care Choices, Yo ...
    MARC PERKEL FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT It just blows my mind that the Republicans thing the your employer should get to choose what kind of medical coverage you should get based on the boss's religious or moral beliefs. Does one have to defer one's own religion or morality to your boss? I can't b ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Rebooting research: “J. Errol.”
    Check out this intriguing new publication, the Journal of Errology. An experimental online research repository that enables sharing and discussion of those unpublished futile hypotheses, experimental errors, iterations, negative results, false starts and other interesting stumbles that are all p ...
  • The Sciencebase Twitter Spike
    Twitter Counter tracks statistics of more than 10 million Twitter users, it’s always interesting for us uber-geeks to take a look at such stats and having made The Independent’s Top 100 British Twitter users (at #73 this year, down from #47 in 2011), I thought I’d show you the ...
  • Social X-ray specs
    You’ve heard of rose-tinted spectacles, red lenses as it were., but how about a pair of glasses that gives you the edge on assessing a person’s inner emotions or helps medics work out who is truly ill. A rosy blush or the sickly green colour of one’s skin can reveal different a ...
  • Twitter Top 10 of science by The Independent
    1. Brian Cox 2. Ben Goldacre 3. Richard Dawkins 4. Neil DeGrasse Tyson 5. David Bradley 6. Robin Ince 7=. Andy Lewis 7=. Mo Costandi 9. Roger Highfield 10. Tim Berners-Lee You can subscribe to them via my Twitter list. via The Twitter 100: Top 10 science – News – People – The I ...
  • Sardines for fertility, a red herring?
    Odd search phrase popped up in the Sciencebase logs today. Unfortunately, there isn’t an item in the archives that’s particularly relevant other than a story about a baseline analytical study that looked at arsenic, cadmium, lead and mercury content of tinned sardines using spectrosc ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Protesters to Rally Outside of AIPAC Conferenc ...
    While President Obama and Israeli President Shimon Peres are speaking at the AIPAC Forum, some 400 Occupy AIPACers and local occupiers will demonstrate outside AIPAC Policy Conference urging Obama to engage in diplomacy with Iran. Visuals: Giant letters to spell out “NO WAR ON IRAN”, ...
  • ACLU Adds to Charges in Suit Challenging Wisco ...
    An American Civil Liberties Union suit that challenges Wisconsin’s voter ID law was amended today to include charges that the law illegally blocks minorities and veterans from accessing the ballot box. The suit, which was filed in U.S. District Court with the American Civil Liberties Union ...
  • ACLU Adds to Charges in Suit Challenging Wisco ...
    An American Civil Liberties Union suit that challenges Wisconsin’s voter ID law was amended today to include charges that the law illegally blocks minorities and veterans from accessing the ballot box. The suit, which was filed in U.S. District Court with the American Civil Liberties Union ...
  • Contraception Controversy Would Be Irrelevant ...
    AP reports: “In an election year battle mixing birth control, religion and politics, Democrats narrowly blocked an effort by Senate Republicans to overturn President Barack Obama’s order that most employers or their insurers cover the cost of contraceptives.”read more
  • Contraception Controversy Would Be Irrelevant ...
    AP reports: “In an election year battle mixing birth control, religion and politics, Democrats narrowly blocked an effort by Senate Republicans to overturn President Barack Obama’s order that most employers or their insurers cover the cost of contraceptives.”read more

Common Dreams-Views

  • Iran, Threats and the UN Charter
    Glenn Greenwald The Washington Post‘s David Ignatius [on Saturday] persuasively argues that President Obama, in his interview with The Atlantic‘s Jeffrey Goldberg, issued his most absolute and inflexible threat yet to attack Ira ...
  • Who, Me? Limbaugh Regrets Not Slurring America ...
    Amanda Marcotte After spending three days on his radio show calling Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown law student who testified in front of Congress about the importance of health insurance coverage, names like “slut” and “prosti ...
  • Our Co-Owned Future
    Gar Alperovitz The explosive force of Occupy Wall Street—and more than a thousand other local efforts—offers hope that a movement committed to long-term change might one day achieve a fundamental transformation of the American p ...
  • Challenging the Self-Made Myth
    Katrina vanden Heuvel Over the last thirty years, anti-government arguments by conservative pundits and politicians have gained prominence, and the rhetoric this 2012 campaign season seems more toxic than ever.read more
  • Why Obama Is Wrong About Natural Gas
    Jeff Goodell Speaking in New Hampshire yesterday, President Obama signaled that he will not go wobbly on energy during the upcoming campaign (climate is another story).   He made a strong case for his commitment to the clean-power ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • House Passes Bill to Reverse Water Diversions ...
    Farmers have been fighting water shortages in the valley as a result of water diversions to the San Francisco Bay to protect the endangered minnow the Delta smelt with the Endangered Species Act.
  • Chinook salmon run on Klamath River expected t ...
    The once-legendary salmon streams of the Pacific Northwest have been battling steep declines in the celebrated fish for years, and nowhere has the challenge been tougher than on the Klamath River – with the fish struggling to survive the perils of dams, drought and water wars as the river flows ...
  • Big fall salmon run forecast for Klamath River
    Nearly 1.6 million chinook salmon are expected to try to make their way into and up the Klamath River during the fall 2012 run, a sixfold increase over 2011. The once-legendary salmon streams of the Pacific Northwest have been battling steep declines in the celebrated fish for years, and nowhere ...
  • Big fall salmon run forecast for Klamath River
    Nearly 1.6 million chinook salmon are expected to try to make their way into and up the Klamath River during the fall 2012 run, a sixfold increase over 2011.
  • In The UK, A Terrifying Glimpse Of Future Wate ...
    It seems that Welsh politicians have begun demanding that Wales be paid better by England for its greatest natural resource — water.

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • Detaining Africans latest step in making Israe ...
    Sophie Crowe Tel Aviv 2 March 2012 The African asylum-seekers have been greeted upon arrival in Israel with a hostile government that offers them no support or protection and wants them out.
  • New book deconstructs myth that the Zionist le ...
    Jimmy Johnson 2 March 2012 Anti-Zionist scholar, writer and longtime activist Tikva Honig-Parnass’s new book False Prophets of Peace: Liberal Zionism and the Struggle for Palestine critically analyzes Israel’s left.
  • Gaza gears up for Israeli Apartheid Week
    Rana Baker and Joe Catron Gaza Strip 1 March 2012 Students across the occupied Gaza strip prepare for the third consecutive year of Israeli Apartheid Week events, structured around strengthening the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement and bridging global struggles for liberation.
  • Interview with Addameer's Mourad Jadallah: hun ...
    Asa Winstanley London 1 March 2012 Mourad Jadallah discusses the case of Khader Adnan, the hunger striking Palestinian political prisoner who made administrative detention an international issue.
  • Interview: Palestinian rights defender banned ...
    Adri Nieuwhof Geneva 1 March 2012 For most of the past six years, Israel has forbidden prominent human rights defender Shawan Jabarin from leaving the occupied West Bank. On exception, he was allowed travel to Geneva this week.

The Wonk Room

  • George Will Blasts GOP Candidates’ Meek ...
    This morning on ABC, prominent conservative columnist George Will blasted the Republican leadership’s meek response to Rush Limbaugh’s sexist attacks on Sandra Fluke. Will mocked Speaker John Boehner for calling Rush’s language “inappropriate ” as comically weak, no ...
  • Tornadoes, Extreme Weather And Climate Change, ...
    “The most prolific 5-day period of tornado activity on record for so early in the year”? NBC: “It’s as if a huge chunk of the country has suffered a deep, deep scar.” National Weather Service Warnings for Past Week The unexpectedly fierce and fast tornado outbreak s ...
  • Obama Warns ‘Loose Talk Of War’ Is ...
    In recent weeks, hawkish conservatives have ramped up their rhetoric on Iran, leading to concerns that a war is on the horizon. For example, Newt Gingrich said, “they should expect to get hit, and it will be their fault for having caused it.” Daily Caller editor Tucker Carlson wildly ...
  • Gingrich Bets Big Oil Will ‘Crater The E ...
    Appearing on CNN, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich bet that oil companies will ruin the economy, getting President Obama out of office. Asked by Candy Crowley why he is so confident of a Republican landslide in the November elections, Gingrich predicted that gasoline prices &#8212 ...
  • Virginia Police Arrest 31 At Women’s Rig ...
    Police arrested 17 women and 14 men at a march outside of the Virginia Capitol while officers in riot gear held the hundreds of demonstrators back with shields. The crowd was protesting the Virginia General Assembly’s approval of a controversial bill on Thursday to require women to receive ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Hey harper! If It's Just a Smear You Got Nothi ...
    Dear stephen harper, You must admit that it's a serious thing that so many ridings have reported confusing or misleading phone calls from people claiming to represent one or the other of Canada's leading political parties right? This smells like widespread voter suppression efforts. You can, ...
  • Quick Thought on Harpercon Sense of Entitlement
    Idiot right-wing trolls (is there any other kind?) occasionally resort to the Godwinist-like accusations of "Stalinism" against me because, ... um, ... well, I'm not exactly sure really. Something about saying we should enforce environmental legislation or supporting public health care causes th ...
  • Two Great Posts
    Impolitical has a valuable contribution to make. After describing the latest harpercon's stammering attempt to explain evidence of their sleaze and the RCMP's unsurprising total failure to do anything about it* she sets her sights on useless fuckwad John Ibbittson who first spoke out of turn abo ...
  • Tell Everyone
    I just wrote an email to my MP. He's a Conservative but he's one of the non-entities and in all honesty, seems like a decent enough guy. I've asked him his explanation for the electoral fraud and for him to repudiate such disgraceful behaviour. I'm going to write a letter to every national news ...
  • There is NO Justification for Voting "Conserva ...
    You are either stupid, ignorant, deluded or greedy. Here's why ... Across the board -- whether it's using dirty tricks to get elected in the first place, smear attacks on opponents and critics, or legislation that will completely undermine human rights and civil liberties -- the Conservative ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Criminal Trail Going Cold At MF Global
    February 13, 2012 Reuters By Grant McCool and Nick Brown When commodities brokerage MF Global imploded, the FBI and federal prosecutors were quick to launch an investigation to pursue what seemed obvious to outspoken regulators and lawmakers: laws were broken and crimes were committed. More than ...
  • Congress OKs 30,000 Flying Drones Spying On Am ...
    February 13, 2012 Natural News By J.D. Heyes “What ever happened to the land of the free?” –KTRN It’s the most benign thing in the world. In fact, it’s a concept whose time has come and it will only help protect us and keep us safe. Naturally, there’s nothing ...
  • To Everyone Feeling Screwed Over By The Economy
    February 13, 2012 Permaculture Research Institute By Kyle Chamberlain We are told that our problem is that there aren’t enough jobs. This message is everywhere. The media gauges our plight with regularly updated unemployment statistics. Politicians debate theatrically over who can create more wo ...
  • Bell Rings for Bond Bubble
    February 13, 2012 321 Gold By Michael Pento They always tell you no one rings a bell when a market top or bottom is reached. But a bell is now ringing for the end of the thirty-year bull market in U.S. debt. And ironically, the bell ringer is our very own U.S. Treasury! The U.S. [...]
  • DARPA Set to Drop Computer “F-Bombs” to Spy on ...
    February 13, 2012 Activist Post By Nicholas West It’s bad enough that drones have been welcomed by Congress into American skies, as well as already being used around the planet to conduct surveillance and bomb select countries from remote locations. The latest proposed addition to the dron ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Racist ‘sleeping Mexican’ proposed mural draws ...
    SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) – A proposed mural of a sleeping, sombrero-topped Mexican man has created a cultural minefield in South Texas, where supporters say it’s a tribute to a classic image and opponents say it’s offensive. The image of a man sleeping with his back against ...
  • Russians vote as Putin seeks return to presidency
    Russians voted on Sunday in presidential polls likely to return strongman Vladimir Putin to the Kremlin for a record third term amid a wave of protests unseen for decades. Voters in the world’s largest country, spread across nine time zones, will cast their ballots in a marathon election s ...
  • Limbaugh apologizes to Sandra Fluke
    In what could be seen as an attempt to head off the backlash he is currently facing, Rush Limbaugh has posted a statementon his website apologizing to Georgetown University Law Student Sandra Fluke for his vicious, personal attacks on her this week. Talking Points Memo‘s Livewire blog quotes tha ...
  • Geithner arrested? 116 major bank resignations ...
    Geithner arrested? 116 major bank resignations? What The Finance is this? By Carl Hermanwashingtonsblog.com 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 ...
  • MN GOP lawmaker compares food stamp recipients ...
    One Republican lawmaker in Minnesota expressed a peculiar but existing belief in GOP circles Friday afternoon, claiming that food stamps recipients are virtually similar to feeding wild animals. State Rep. Mary Franson released a Youtube video describing her hopes of reducing the amount of time ...

Dandelion Salad

  • New State Bank Bills Address Credit and Housin ...
    by Ellen Brown Featured Writer Dandelion Salad webofdebt.com February 26, 2012 Seventeen states have now introduced bills for state-owned banks, and others are in the works.  Hawaii’s innovative state bank bill addresses the foreclosure mess.  County-owned banks are being proposed that would tac ...
  • An Empire of Poverty: Race, Punishment, and So ...
    by Andrew Gavin Marshall Featured Writer Dandelion Salad http://andrewgavinmarshall.com February 26, 2012 NOTE: The following is a brief sampling of some of the concepts, ideas, issues, and events that are to be thoroughly researched and written about in two chapters of The People’s Book Project ...
  • Exclusive: Nationalism separates us by Shawn S ...
    by Shawn S. Grandstaff Guest Writer Dandelion Salad February 27, 2012 I believe the problem is it’s just very difficult for some people to grasp the concept that there is only one race and that is the human race. I think our battle with the powers that be which is in the hands of a [...]
  • Impotence in the face of impunity? By William ...
    by William Bowles Featured Writer Dandelion Salad williambowles.info 29 February 2012 A fellow writer tells me that she feels overwhelmed by events and I feel the same way. An awful sense of deja vu that we have as much chance of stopping the march to total war as they had in the 1930s. Except t ...
  • “… on Earth as it is in Heaven” by ...
    by Philip A. Farruggio Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Feb. 27, 2012 It matters not if there is the heaven as our religions describe it. Yet, there must be something more vital and more sustained than what we now exist in. Why? Well, look around you, and study history. All we find is that there ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Not quite “ordinary human beings” – anti-imper ...
    While perhaps well-meaning, operating under the assumption that any opposition to Zionism is to be welcomed, progressives who promote the work of Atzmon are in fact surrendering the moral high ground... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Haneen Zoabi’s Channel 2 TV [Israel] interview
    Haneen Zoabi in a highly biased interview with Israel's Channel 2 TV. Her courage stands out, rising above the abrupt Israeli interviewing style: she keeps to her principled positions. (Hebrew with... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • Arab justice’s refusal to sing Israel’s nation ...
    Israeli-Palestinian Supreme Court Justice Salim Joubran refused to sing 'Hatikva' at retirement ceremony of Supreme Court President Dorit Beinisch, prompting calls for his removal. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fift ...
  • Ali Abunimah: Finkelstein, BDS and the destruc ...
    Norman Finkelstein: "They don't want Israel... They think they're being very clever. They call it their three tiers... We want the end of the occupation, we want the right of return, and we want... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Wallace Shawn: Why I Call Myself a Socialist
    On Thursday, 8 March 2012, Barnard College [New York] will be hosting the event "Why I Call Myself a Socialist: A Reading and Book Signing" with playwright, actor, and essayist Wallace Shawn. The... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...

Ria Novosti - Military

  • Ukraine Spring Military Draft Will Not Affect ...
    The Ukrainian Defense Ministry has reassured worried parents that high-school students graduating a month earlier this year, due to preparations for the Euro-2012 football championship, will not be drafted straight into the military and will not be hindered from going to university in 2012.
  • Upgraded Il-76 Plane to Make Maiden Flight in ...
    Russia’s modernized Ilyushin Il-76MD-90A aircraft, also known as the Il-476, will conduct its maiden flight by the end of June, Ulyanovsk-based Aviastar aircraft maker said on Friday.
  • Russian Warship Visits Seychelles
    An Udaloy class destroyer from the Russian Pacific Fleet has arrived at the port of Victoria in Seychelles on a goodwill visit, the fleet’s spokesman said.
  • Putin Blames U.S. for Failed Missile Defense Talks
    Washington’s talks with Moscow on European missile defense failed because U.S. negotiators were unwilling to put their oral proposals to Moscow on paper, Russian prime minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin has said.
  • Russian Defense Ministry to Buy 92 Su-34 Fighters
    The Russian Defense Ministry has signed a deal for 92 Su-34 Fullback fighter-bombers from the Sukhoi aircraft maker, the ministry said on Thursday.

NewsWise

  • GW Celebrates the First Step in the Process of ...
    The George Washington University hosted a celebration March 2, 2012, marking the first step in the construction of the new School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS) Building. The event was a held at the site of the Warwick Memorial Building located at 2300 K Street, NW, which will be d ...
  • Heart-Powered Pacemaker Could One Day Eliminat ...
    A new power scheme for cardiac pacemakers turns to an unlikely source: vibrations from heartbeats themselves.
  • Anthropologists' Work Prompts Republic of Cong ...
    Research by WUSTL anthropologist Crickette Sanz, PhD, and colleague David Morgan, PhD, has spurred the Republic of Congo to enlarge its Nouabale-Ndoki National Park boundaries to include the Goualougo Triangle. The Goualougo Triangle is a remote, pristine forest that is home to at least 14 commu ...
  • DNA to Be Sequenced for Patients with Rare Dis ...
    Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis are reaching out to patient advocacy groups and offering to decode the DNA of 99 patients with rare diseases to help find the genetic alterations responsible for their illnesses.
  • Video Publication Goes Viral
    A scientific method paper and video by Loyola researchers has gone viral. The video, which demonstrates a laboratory technique used to study Alzheimer's disease and many other disorders, has been accessed by more than 14,000 scientists worldwide.

Natural Health News

  • Germany Decides Genetically Modified Foods Are ...
    Science News by NewsLook In Germany, massive resistance to genetically modified foods, both among politicians and the general public, has caused chemical giant BASF to close its German biotech division.  Opponents of GM foods are jubilant.
  • 'Natural' -- The Most Meaningless Word on Your ...
    When many people see the word “natural” on a food label, they perceive it as being equivalent in meaning to “organic” or “healthy”.  But it isn’t.  “Natural” has no regulatory meaning. The FDA has even stated that it is difficult to define any processed food product that could still b ...
  • Why Do Pediatricians Now Recommend HPV Vaccina ...
    The American Academy of Pediatrics is now recommending that all boys between the ages of 11 and 12 should receive the HPV vaccine -- the same vaccine that has already harmed so many girls.  Last October, the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices made a similar recommendation. ...
  • Can Fasting for Two Days Each Week Stop Dementia?
    Fasting for two days a week could prevent age-related brain shrinkage, heart disease, diabetes, and possibly even cancer.  New research suggests that fasting triggers a variety of healthy hormonal and metabolic changes.  Fasting -- consuming somewhere between 500 and 800 calories in a ...
  • This Vitamin Might Ease Menstrual Cramps
    A small study has suggested that vitamin D3 could provide relief for women suffering from menstrual cramps.  The treatment examined in the study involved large doses of the vitamin. The current most common remedies for menstrual cramps are over-the-counter painkillers and oral contraceptiv ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • AG Holder to Address Al-Awlaki Targeted Killing
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Bobby Chesney reports: In late January, Daniel Klaidman reported that the administration was inclined to have Attorney General Holder give a major speech specifying additional details regarding the legal framework governing the use of lethal force agains ...
  • Human Rights Litigation in State Courts and Un ...
    by Roger Alford by Roger Alford Kudos to Chris Whytock for a wonderful conference yesterday at UC Irvine addressing the topic of human rights litigation in state courts and under state law. The timing of the conference could not have been better, coming on the heels of the Kiobel oral argument ...
  • One More Kiobel Post: The Importance of Sosa
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Here is the final post in my conversation with Prof. David Weissbrodt on Kiobel and corporate liability under the Alien Tort Statute. It is worth emphasizing why I think the “choice of law” question is so crucial to resolving this case (and why Justice Bre ...
  • The ABA Journal on Addressing the Problem of S ...
    by Chris Borgen by Chris Borgen The ABA Journal has a cover story about the threat posed to island states by climate change. This is a topic we have discussed on Opinio Juris at various times. Duncan wrote at length about the Maldives; I had a shorter piece here, and there are various referenc ...
  • Sovereigntism (Straight-Up), Courtesy of John ...
    by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro The Hudson Institute’s John Fonte has a new book out, Sovereignty or Submission: Will American Rule Themselves or Be Ruled by Others? (Encounter Books).  From the title you don’t have to know John to know what his answer would be.  Fonte is an unabashe ...

Public News Service

  • Many Rural Arizonans Find Themselves Living in ...
    Many Rural Arizonans Find Themselves Living in a "Food Desert" PHOENIX - If your weekly trip to the grocery store is quite a trek, you are not alone. A new study finds that Arizonans often experience "food deserts" - meaning residents have to travel 10 miles or more to find a supermarket. The ...
  • Consumer Alert: Beware of Rapid Tax Refunds
    Consumer Alert: Beware of Rapid Tax Refunds PHOENIX - The April 17 tax deadline is looming over the heads of hundreds of thousands of Arizonans. The silver lining to that cloud for many is their tax refund - and every year, businesses offer rapid refunds or refund-anticipation loans. While it ma ...
  • More Arizona Kids Growing up in Poor Neighborh ...
    More Arizona Kids Growing up in Poor Neighborhoods PHOENIX, Ariz. - A new KIDS COUNT Data Snapshot from the Annie E. Casey Foundation released today shows the number of children living in high-poverty communities has increased by 25 percent over the last decade. ...(Read More)
  • Consumer Groups: Medical Devices Need More Ove ...
    Consumer Groups: Medical Devices Need More Oversight PHOENIX - People might be surprised to learn that the medical devices surgically implanted in their bodies are subject to almost no government regulation, testing or monitoring. The Consumers Union is one group looking to change that. Patient ...
  • Would You Consider a Final Resting Place Below ...
    Would You Consider a Final Resting Place Below the Sea? PHOENIX, Ariz. - It's a long way from their home, but ocean-loving Arizonans may want to consider a final resting spot three miles off the coast of southern Florida. Forty feet below the surface is a man-made, pristine reef where several ti ...

Center for Food Safety

  • Food Safety Update: A Budget Cut Only the Prod ...
    By Michele Simon, JD, MPH, Food Policy Consultant with the Center for Food Safety You’ve probably never heard of the Microbiological Data Program (MDP) but if you eat fresh produce, you should, because it’s currently on President Obama’s budgetary chopping block. The MDP is a small ($5 million a ...
  • USDA To Decide Imminently On Novel “Agen ...
    UPDATE: Today (2/22/12), the USDA extended the public comment period on this issue until April 27, 2012. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is currently deciding whether or not to approve an application by Dow Chemical for its controversial genetically engineered (GE) corn crop that is re ...
  • USDA To Decide Imminently On Novel “Agen ...
    Toxic Herbicide 2,4-D Linked to Cancer, Lower Sperm Counts, and Parkinson’s Disease 2,4-D Drift Causes More Crop Injury than any Other Herbicide, Threatening American Farms  Biotech Companies Only Winners in Chemical Arms Race as Herbicide Resistant Crops Fail The U.S. Department of Agriculture ...
  • Senator Barbara Boxer (CA) and Representative ...
    In the U.S., we pride ourselves on having choices and making informed decisions. Under current FDA regulations, we don’t have that choice when it comes to GE ingredients in the foods we purchase and feed our families.  This led the Center for Food Safety to submit a legal petition to the F ...
  • Consumer Groups Petition FDA to Ban GE Salmon ...
    Groups say fish couldn’t pass proper review Today consumer groups Food & Water Watch, Consumers Union, and the Center for Food Safety submitted a formal petition asking the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to classify and evaluate AquaBounty’s “AquAdvantage” genetically engineered (GE) sal ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • More on Khader Adnan: Video from “Democr ...
    Originally posted on the “Democracy Now!” website
  • Palestinian Prisoner Khader Adnan Stops Hunger ...
    Ma’an: The Palestinian Authority minister of prisoners affairs said Tuesday that Israel intends to release hunger striking prisoner Khader Adnan after he completes his current administrative detention term. In return, Adnan agreed to end his strike, according to Issa Qaraqe, the prisoners ...
  • Palestinian Prisoner Khader Adnan Stops Strike ...
    Ma’an: The Palestinian Authority minister of prisoners affairs said Tuesday that Israel intends to release hunger striking prisoner Khader Adnan after he completes his current administrative detention term. In return, Adnan agreed to end his strike, according to Issa Qaraqe, the prisoners ...
  • A Plea to the World from the Principal of a Pa ...
    In November we reported with joy about the new school structure at Susiya (Susya). (see also an earlier report here). Only a few weeks later, the Occupation regime’s fraudulently named “Civil Administration” handed down demolition orders to the school. In a rare direct expres ...
  • Israeli Occupation Builds Villas for Carmel Se ...
    Miyaser Al-Hatheleen is a 45-year-old woman living in Umm al-Kheir, South Hebron Hills. Her house was first demolished by the Israeli Occupation authorities in October 2008, together with other dwellings belonging to her relatives (see our original 2008 report about these demolitions). In July ...

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 ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • This Day In History – March 4
    51 – Nero, later to become Roman Emperor, is given the title princeps iuventutis (head of the youth). 1461 – Wars of the Roses in England: Lancastrian King Henry VI is deposed by his Yorkist cousin, who then becomes King Edward IV. 1493 – Explorer Christopher Columbus arrives back in Lisbon, Por ...
  • Movie Review: ‘The Lorax,’ cuddly cartoon agit ...
    From “Illumination” Entertainment Co.   “The Lorax,” the animated 3-D feature based on the Dr. Seuss book, is a movie the Unabomber would have loved. Washington (Mooney) Times While the film’s marketing makes it look like a feel-good parable teaching responsible environmental st ...
  • Libyan rebels cage black Africans in zoo, forc ...
    Where is CNN. Hitlery Clinton, and cousin Obomba now?   A shocking video has appeared on the Internet showing Libyan rebels torturing a group of black Africans. People with their hands bound are shown being locked in a zoo-like cage and allegedly forced to eat the old Libyan flag. ­“Eat the ...
  • Who Would Want Breitbart Dead? Its a Loooong L ...
    Note: MIKE MALLOY fill in and Major Breitbart nemesis BRAD FRIEDMAN will join us on “THE JACK BLOOD SHOW” this Monday AM. He will most certainly provide several motives, if indeed Mr Breitbart was murdered by leftist / globalist agents. Brad was very respectful in his Obit, and is a ...
  • Paypal, Credit Cards and Government Censorship ...
    As you all know, I am an independent author. It is my way of trying to make a living in a slow jobs market that shows no sign of ever getting any better as the powers that be continue to exercise the policies that brought about the financial disaster in the first place. I work [...]

The Air Vent

  • Gaggle of Giggles
    The Guardian is stooping to new lows – if that is possible.  With recent news that Mann’s emails won’t be released from the University of Virginia , you know the ones they claimed originally didn’t exist, the Guardian has taken this time to produce an article.  About Mann ...
  • The Concentric Blackbody Problem – Nick ...
    I have not had a chance to see Tallbloke’s guest post but Nick Stokes wrote a nice rebuttal to it.   It discusses basic equations for a sphere in a sphere for blackbody calcs.   I’ve been arguing over at Tallbloke’s. It’s one of those posts where a sceptic does an el ...
  • Sea Ice Annual vs Polar
    No time to write much but these plots are of the Northern Hemisphere sea ice above and below 72 latitude.  The split between the area is 50/50.   My anomaly timeframe is from about 1988 to present, I think I will address that in future posts. Reader Chuckles linked to a register article which li ...
  • Single Year Global Sea Ice Shows Minimal Trend
    As regular readers know, we have been using daily gridded sea ice data from satellite microwave sounders published by the NSIDC to discover what we can learn both from and about the data.  With Layman Lurker’s help we recently discovered that nearly 100% of the sea ice to the South of 72 d ...
  • An Interview with Dr. Curry on the Fat Cat&#82 ...
    James Stafford contacted me by email to ask me to call attention to his interview with Judith Curry. The IPCC May Have Outlived its Usefulness – An Interview with Judith Curry “The IPCC might have outlived its usefulness. Let’s see what the next assessment report comes up with. ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: ...
    The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities across social and mobile application platforms. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at SponsorPay, GREE International, Inc., Nickelodeon Games Group, Play ...
  • Facebook roundup: IPO, Caffeinated Mind, hacka ...
    Facebook seeks larger credit line, adds more banks for IPO - Reuters reports that Facebook is set to increase its $2.5 billion credit line ahead of the financial blow the company will suffer after employee stock awards vest. As such, it has hired Deutsche Bank, … Continue reading →
  • Fact Check: News Feed ads, Reach Generator, pr ...
    It was a busy week for anyone following Facebook. The company overhauled pages and introduced a number of changes to its advertising platform. All the new terminology and features are easy to mix up so we wanted to clarify a … Continue reading →
  • Facebook to create different levels of access ...
    Facebook announced it will give page owners an option to assign different privileges to admins, but it did not explain what type of access and restrictions will be available. During a breakout session at the Facebook Marketing Conference on Wednesday, … Continue reading →
  • Romney back on top this week on Inside Faceboo ...
    Mitt Romney is once again gaining more new Facebook fans per day than any other Republican Presidential Primary candidate, according to our Inside Facebook Election Tracker. Romney won the Michigan and Arizona primaries on Tuesday and has since pulled ahead … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Craven Liberal Democrats dump human rights cha ...
    Stuart Littlewood argues that the sacking of Jenny Tonge - one of Britain's most committed campaigners for human rights - from the Liberal Democrats' parliamentary party after criticizing Israel highlights the hypocrisy of the UK's Liberal Democrats, the cowardice of their leader Nick Clegg and ...
  • On the claim of US exceptionalism
    Lawrence Davidson proposes an alternative to military power as a measure of a nations greatness or exceptionalism, and that is a nation's ability provide its citizens with adequate food, decent education and housing, good healthcare and productive work at a living wage.
  • What nasty surprises await our warmongers in t ...
    Stuart Littlewood looks at the tinderbox that is waiting to explode in the Persian Gulf as the USA and Britain contemplate doing Israel's bidding and attacking Iran, and suggests that if Britain's Israel flag wavers love Israel so much, then they should "don uniform and flak-jacket" and go play ...
  • The not-so-hidden limits to freedom in the West
    Ziad El-Hady argues that although superficially Western societies are free, in reality people in the West are enslaved to debt through a relationship with financial institutions that "mirrors many of the attributes of an oppressive master-slave relationship: ownership, obedience, burden and seve ...
  • A vision of harmony in Palestine
    Gilad Atzmon outlines a vision of Palestinian-Jewish reconciliation in Palestine where Jews, freed of their Zionist state and its ideology of oppression, exclusiveness, exceptionalism, and racial supremacy and segregation, live side by side with Palestinians as citizens of one state with equal ...

Amazon Rainforest

  • Plastic eating Fungi discovered in Amazon Rain ...
    The group of students, part of Yale’s annual Rainforest Expedition and Laboratory with molecular biochemistry professor Scott Strobel, ventured to the jungles of Ecuador. The mission was to allow “students to experience the scientific inquiry process in a comprehensive and creative way.&#8 ...
  • Justice for 8year girl burned alive by loggers ...
    Loggers in Brazil captured an eight-year-old girl from one of the Amazon’s last uncontacted tribes and burned her alive as part of a ‘campaign’ to force the indigenous population from its land! Sign Petition and share: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/813/288/541/ The ...
  • World’s largest beef company signs Amazo ...
    The world’s largest meat processor has agreed to stop buying beef from ranches associated with slave labor and illegal deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, according to the public prosecutor’s office in the state of Acre. The deal absolves JBS-Friboi from 2 billion reals ($1.3 bill ...
  • World’s largest beef company signs Amazo ...
    The world’s largest meat processor has agreed to stop buying beef from ranches associated with slave labor and illegal deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, according to the public prosecutor’s office in the state of Acre. The deal absolves JBS-Friboi from 2 billion reals ($1.3 bill ...
  • Peru suffers an environmental tragedy!
    The rising price of gold has multiplied by six the pace of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in the Peruvian region of Madre de Dios in recent years.  Illegal gold searches using primitive techniques in the years 2003-9 led to the destruction of 7,000 hectares of virgin and extremely divers ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Chaka Khan The reason for this 8th BFP/Jamiol music pick is pretty succinct…I love Chaka Khan! So kick back and enjoy “Ain’t Nobody” by Chaka Khan. This site depends exclusively on readers’ support. Please help us continue by subscribing .
  • Podcast Show #79
    The Boiling Frogs Presents Peter Van Buren This is Part VII of our interview series on the Makings of a Police State. You can listen to previous segments here. Peter Van Buren joins us to discuss the Obama administration’s unprecedented persecution and prosecution of government whistleblowers, a ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- March 2, ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “After a war, a hero is just a man with one leg.” — Anonymous International Newsworthy Iran: Scapegoat for a Bankrupt Empire US to Refuel Israeli Planes Striking Iran India Cancels Iran Oil Shipment Due to Sanctions Iran Votes in Test  for Ahmadinejad Afghanis ...
  • Impotence in the Face of Impunity?
    The Phenomenon of the ‘Red Tops’ By William Bowles A fellow writer tells me that she feels overwhelmed by events and I feel the same way. An awful sense of déjà  vu that we have as much chance of stopping the march to total war as they had in the 1930s. Except that this time [...]
  • What the Heck is a “Prevailing Wage,” and Why ...
    Getting Out the Vote, at Public Expense Prevailing wage laws govern worker compensation on government-funded construction projects.  They direct that workers be paid “prevailing wages.” This may not sound like such an evil thing, but these laws end up boosting construction costs significantly, a ...

Afro Spear

  • sat’day riddymz
  • A piece of heaven in a world of hell
    As I was watching this documentary on Liberia, I though to myself: “here we go again, white people showing the worst of Africa, disease, death, crime, corruption, prostitution, cannibalism, civil war, dirt, filth, despair, hopelessness etc.” I almost turned it off but as I continued ...
  • A Thought on Abortion
    “America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe v. Wade has deformed a great nation. The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. It has sown violence and discord at the heart of the most intimate human relationships. It h ...
  • “Africa needs to sign a new social contr ...
    Jean Russeau wrote in Social Contract, “Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.” To free himself, Russeau suggests that man must gain security and a measure of freedom from action, in exchange for surrender of rights and property to the general will. This is not the language of complian ...
  • Happy Valentine’s Day

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • Justice on Trial: Lynne Stewart's Appeal
    Lynne's case highlights American judicial unfairness. Her wrongful indictment, prosecution, conviction, sentencing, and harsher re-sentencing sacrificed her on the alter of upholding wrong over right.
  • Hana Shalabi: Hunger Striking for Justice
    Israel administratively detains hundreds of Palestinians indefinitely without charge lawlessly.
  • The NDAA: a clear and present danger to Americ ...
    The NDAA grants the president the power to kidnap any American anywhere in the United States and hold him or her in prison forever without trial. The president's own signing statement, incredibly, confirmed that he had that power.
  • Senate Resolution 380: Advise Your Senator Not ...
    An emergency plea from FCNL to oppose Senate Resolution 380, which recommends attacking Iran once it reaches "nuclear capability."
  • Worth
    All our commotion about jobs ignores what unemployment does to us. Not just loss of income but loss of "worth." That can be a serious source of PTSD. We forget our worth as humans. Isn't that what Arab Spring and the Occupy movement is about? Ultimately our worth is our ability to survive. What ...

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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Most Prominent Politicians (XVII): Ohio
    After 4 months, I figure it’s worth getting back to the Most Prominent Politician project, particularly since all the other things I have to do this fine Sunday afternoon are either drudgery or intimidating. Ohio is a very difficult state to rank. It has had a large amount of prominent pol ...
  • Is the Gender Gap Killing Santorum?
    There’s a lot of speculation that Santorum’s emphasis on crackpot anti-contraception positions hurt him greatly among women, perhaps costing him the Michigan primary. The evidence for this is actually more mixed than you might expect. In the Michigan exit polls, Romney’s margin ...
  • You Can Play
    It contradicts the very core of my worldview to have anything good to say about anything associated with in any way with the Maple Leafs, but obviously I can have nothing but praise for this. Hopefully another year out of the playoffs will give Burke, Phanuef, and Lupul more time to make an actu ...
  • Marriage Equality Plank
    22 Democratic Senators are calling for a marriage equality plank in this year’s Democratic Party platform. Can you imagine such a thing even 4 years ago? Or 8? 20 years ago, would you get 1? I don’t think so. 22 isn’t a majority and that’s too bad. I’m disappointed ...
  • Lowered Expectations
    Gordon Lafer has an important piece in Radical Philosophy exploring 2011′s widespread attack on working-class and union rights in so many states. Lafer rounds up the massive damage done to the working-class and points his finger at the expected suspects–ALEC, the Koch Brothers, the C ...

Desert Research Institute

  • DoE/NNSA Contract Extension
    DRI secured a new Technical Research, Engineering, and Development Services contract with the U.S. Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration. The contract extends until October 31, 2016 and has a ceiling value of $35,926,593. DRI supports the nationally important missions of ...
  • DRI Researcher Featured in Scientific American
    The February Edition of Scientific American features the work of DRI’s Joseph McConnell, Ph.D. The article includes interviews with several scientists whose research examines how dust influences climate and cloud formation—and the fertilization of oceans and rain forests.
  • Experience of a Visiting Scholar
    What began as a scientific collaboration turned into so much more when Prashant Gargava, Ph.D. applied to work with his colleague Judith Chow, Sc.D. through the Fulbright Scholarship Program.
  • DRI Scientist Earns Fifth Patent
    Dr. Hans Moosmüller is busy, always thinking about his next invention. This is evident as he currently holds five patents and has four more pending. His most recent patent offers a simple way to help quantify the aerosol contribution to climate change.
  • Radiation Levels in Real Time? There's an App ...
    Gamma radiation levels in the southern Nevada area will soon be accessible around the world at the touch of a finger. Makers of the cell phone application EcoData: Radiation are expanding their global network of radiation monitoring stations to include up-to-date readings from the Community Envi ...

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • New State Impact PA App
    Since I now live in south central PA (I moved south from Tioga County; north central PA) and have less access to the center of the gas drilling, I frequently use State Impact PA as a resource as well as tune in to WITF radio on my commutes to work, when I’m not pedaling my [...]
  • OilandGasHelp.com
    I happen to be looking for the location of a specific Northwest Savings Bank in PA and when I pulled up their website I found the below link. http://www.oilandgashelp.com/ It looks like Northwest Savings Bank has put together a section of their website to answer questions or help folks who are c ...
  • The Passage of House Bill 1950…
    I thought I’d highlight a few of the items that I find horrifying that passed with house bill 1950 during yesterdays vote. Municipalities will no longer be safe from drilling and the acceptable distances of drilling pads and compressor stations from homes or public spaces, such as schools, ...
  • Update on PA Roads Effected by Gas Drilling fr ...
    From the DCNR website: In recent years there has been a marked increase in natural gas activity in state forests in north central Pennsylvania . Visitor experiences and road usage can be impacted by this activity. Loyalsock State Forest Bodine Mountain Road: Heavy gas activity is to be expected ...
  • A Letter from the Responsible Drilling Allianc ...
    Responsible Drilling Alliance Newsletter Fooled Again Februrary 2nd, 2012  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dear RDA Members,   Minus a last minute miracle, an incredible shift in the course of the future of Pennsylvania is about to occur. With the Governor set to unveil his vers ...

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Some Scandinavian Conifers Survived the Last I ...
    A new study has found that some Scandinavian conifers were able to survive the harsh conditions of the last Ice Age, a finding that upends the long-held view that the region’s landscape was wiped clean by a massive blanket of ice. While scientists have long believed contemporary University of ...
  • Ocean Acidifying Faster Than Any Time in 300 M ...
    The world’s oceans may be acidifying faster today than during any period over the last 300 million years, a phenomenon that could have dire consequences for many marine species and ecosystems, according to a new study. In a review of hundreds of paleoceanographic studies, a team of scientists fo ...
  • NASA Images Depict Rapid Loss of Thick Arctic ...
    A new comparison of satellite images from 1980 and 2012 vividly depicts the rapid disappearance of thick, multi-year Arctic Ocean ice in winter. Over the past three decades, the extent of the Arctic’s thickest ice has declined by 15 to 17 percent per decade, according to Click to enlarge NA ...
  • How a Gold Mining Boom is Killing the Children ...
    It is a pattern seen in various parts of the world — children being sickened from exposure to lead from mining activities. But the scale of the problem in Nigeria’s gold-mining region of Zamfara is unprecedented: More than 400 children have died and thousands more have been severely poisoned by ...
  • Chinese Leaders Impose New Rules to Reduce Air ...
    Bowing to increasing public concern about poor air quality, the Chinese government has approved strict new air pollution standards, including tougher rules for ozone and for particulate matter smaller than 2.5 micrometers in diameter. The new rules, approved during an executive meeting of the St ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Fake Meat Grown In Lab: Recipe For Disaster?
    The quest to grow meat in a lab rather than on an animal is due to reach its climax this fall, with the first-ever culture-dish hamburger served to a celebrity taster after a $330,000 development effort. [It] will be created by growing bovine stem cells in a vat, transforming them into thousands ...
  • The U.N. Threat to Internet Freedom
    On Feb. 27, a diplomatic process will begin in Geneva that could result in a new treaty giving the United Nations unprecedented powers over the Internet. Dozens of countries, including Russia and China, are pushing hard to reach this goal by year’s end. As Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin s ...
  • Free Robert Green
    Robert Green was sentenced to 12 months in prison. This is Robert Green’s last interview before being sentenced to one year in prison with no jury. Please write to Robert to show him your support.
  • Massive European network of Stone Age tunnels ...
    Evidence of tunnels has been found under hundreds of Neolithic settlements. That so many tunnels have survived after 12,000 years shows that the original network must have been enormous. Stone Age man created a massive network of underground tunnels criss-crossing Europe from Scotland to Turkey, ...
  • Pentagon’s Project ‘Avatar’: Same as the Movie ...
    Soldiers practically inhabiting the mechanical bodies of androids, who will take the humans’ place on the battlefield. Or sophisticated tech that spots a powerful laser ray, then stops it from obliterating its target. If you’ve got Danger Room’s taste in movies, you’ve probably seen both ideas o ...

Russia Today

  • Putin to win presidential election with 58% - ...
    Exit poll data gives Vladimir Putin 58.3 per cent of votes in Russia's presidential election, with his closest rival Gennady Zyuganov getting 17.7 per cent of the vote. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Won't hesitate to use force to defend US - Oba ...
    The US President said his country will do everything it takes to defend national interests, and that a military attack to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons is possible. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • ‘I’d rather be a dictator than gay’: Lukashenk ...
    The Belarusian president made this shocking statement in response to German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle’s report that Berlin is recalling its ambassador from Minsk. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Congo arms depot blasts kill up to 200, injure ...
    About 200 people have been killed in a fire and a subsequent series of blasts at an arms depot in the east of the Republic of Congo’s capital, Brazzaville. Up to 1,500 have been seriously injured. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Naked attempt on Putin’s vote (VIDEO, PHOTOS)
    The Ukrainian activist group Femen have staged a protest at the Moscow polling station where Vladimir Putin cast his vote. Three semi-naked activists covered with protest slogans disrupted voting just 20 minutes after... Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

  • Russian nationalism wins presidency in Russian ...
    Vladimir Putin wins the presidential election again in Russia while getting 60% of the vote. Efforts of the US government and its European allies to discredit Putin’s opposition to their imperialist expansionism coming to much of naught, as other Russian candidates currying favor with the ...
  • Four Occupy tormentors unmasked
    Occupy Colo. Springs held a NO WAR ON IRAN demo today, counter- protested by some soldiers who think any antiwar criticism of their mission fails to Support The Troops. (Horrifyingly curious don’t you think, that US soldiers would already consider war with Iran as their mission?!) Joining ...
  • Pardon Tanya McDowell- a decent education is a ...
    Five years in jail for registering a child in a different school district from where Mom and child were Homeless? Only in America does such a thing happen. It’s Time to Pardon Tanya McDowell — and to End Zip Code Education
  • Insurance companies in the US treat conditions ...
    …The essential absurdity of what Big Business run medical care in the US is actually like can be seen in the following Reuters report… Unnecessary cancer treatment in men on the rise Meanwhile, many people needing screening for cancer and even essential treatments for cancer will be ...
  • The “War On Women” is a Wedge Issue
    I’ll say this with the sensitivity I know White Males of Privilege have in spades: I’m sorry, isn’t the War On Women an obvious wedge issue? To me it’s the usual progressive ideals versus religious brick wall, meant to divide voters during an election year. Submitting to ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Reflecting on the Verinage demolition method
    I recently came acrossdebunker vids on YouTube, such as this that boast of the Verinage demolition technique used to bring down buildingswithout explosives. According to Wikipedia, “The technique. . .is used in France to weaken and buckle the supports of central floors promoting the collaps ...
  • Kurt Haskell's Awakening
    http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBF2F6AA5408C443F
  • Debunking the REAL 9/11 Myths: Why Popular Mec ...
    I am happy to announce that my latest article is finally available online! My newest work, titled Debunking the REAL 9/11 Myths: Why Popular Mechanics Can't Face Up to Reality, is a point-by-point refutation of Popular Mechanics' weak arguments regarding the controlled demolition of the three WT ...
  • Evidence Based "Conspiracy Theories" Beat Auth ...
    Considering the documentation of corruption in political, corporate and military (intelligence) circles it is irrational to exclude the consideration of high level conspiracy when evaluating the causes of recent conflicts. To a priori exclude a conspiracy hypothesis is naive and illogical. Inde ...
  • "Strange Sounds" DEBUNKED and EXPLAINED

Fooducate

  • More on Meat Labeling
    Yesterday we wrote about the new mandate requiring nutrition labeling for 40 popular cuts of meat. There was quite a discussion in the comment thread and over at our facebook page. Below are some comments and our answer. “I am confused.  Why are there trans fats in there??” Thanks fo ...
  • New: Nutrition Labels, Now on Meat
    Nutrition labels are now available on 40 cuts of meat at your local grocer’s. The USDA mandated labeling came into effect this week, almost 20 years after the FDA mandated nutrition label appeared on packaged foods. There is no need for an ingredient list, as the product is itself a single ...
  • Everyone Needs 3 Ds: Doctor, Dentist, and Diet ...
    March is National Nutrition Month (NNM) . The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (formerly known as the American Dietetic Association), created this holiday month to: .. focus attention on the importance of making informed food choices and developing sound eating and physical activity habits. NN ...
  • Two Healthy Games for School Kids
                  This is a guest blog post by Emily Kleiman, University of Maryland Seventeen percent of children are currently obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control, and childhood obesity has become a dangerous national epidemic. Mission:FITPossible ...
  • 9 Ways to Reduce Your Salt Intake
    There’s a war going on now in the food/health space. In the last few years, excess salt consumption has been identified by leading health organizations as a contributor to various diseases including hypertension, stroke, heart failure, kidney failure, stomach cancer, and osteoporosis. The ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • 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 ...

Greg Palast

  • Billionaire Ballot Bandits
    They're stealing it again. In 2000, my team uncovered how Katherine Harris illegally purged thousands of African-Americans from Florida's voter rolls. In 2004, for BBC, we uncovered the Karl Rove GOP "caging scheme" that swiped that election. In 2008, we uncovered, for Rolling Stone and BBC, ...
  • Romney's Auto Bail-out Billionaires
    Top funders made billions from US Treasury by Greg Palast for NationOfChange [Thursday February 23] Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney called the federal government’s 2009 bail-out of the auto industry, “nothing more than crony capitalism, Obama style... a reward for his big donors t ...
  • The Billionaires' Brokered GOP Convention
    by: Greg Palast, Truthout | Op-Ed The Plan is working. Mitt Romney's biggest backer didn't want him to win. We know that Paul "The Vulture" Singer, Romney's Daddy Warbucks, organized the "grassroots" campaign to replace Romney with Gov. Chris Christie back in September. That flopped, ...
  • Queen of Angels' Condoms
    by Greg Palast for The Huffington Post I arrived into this world at the Queen of Angels hospital in Los Angeles into the hands of Dr. Sidney Kolodny. Queen of Angels, judging by the number of nun-nurses running about, is a Catholic hospital. Dr. Kolodny was Jewish. Last night, I heard Sena ...
  • Romney's Billionaire VulturePaul Singer, the G ...
    The untold story of the sources of the loot controlled by Paul "The Vulture" Singer and why he needs to buy the White House by Greg Palast for TruthOut/Buzzflash - update Greg Palast has been investigating Singer and other finance vultures for BBC Television's Newsnight. His new book is Vultur ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • What green product do you wish someone would i ...
    We’ve had an email from Mel asking for a bit of help with a university assignment about green things and I thought it might make an interesting discussion: I have a uni assignment where I need to market an ‘imaginary’ green product – I believe my time would be better spent marketing an ‘ac ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle poker/betting chips?
    Inma has emailed us about betting chips: Hi! I’ve found a lot of chips to bet, and I wonder if anyone has some use for them. There was a fad for playing poker with betting chips a few years ago and all the shops were stacked full of them as cheap/easy Christmas presents – so [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle a unwanted solid de ...
    Kathryn has emailed us asking about reuses for a solid deodorant bar: I recently bought a solid deodorant from Lush (this one). It smells nice, but it’s not right for me. Other than using it to keep my sock drawer fresh, could I do anything else with it? The ingredients are listed as inclu ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle old PVC pipes?
    We’ve had an email from Madhvi asking : how can I creatively recycle old PVC pipes? We’ve covered some reuses for guttering and drainpipes – which are increasingly plastic these days – but I thought it was worth asking Madhvi’s question because PVC pipes come in all ...
  • Reduce This: How can I revamp an old kitchen s ...
    Yesterday, I posted a question from James, asking for ways to reuse or recycle a whole kitchen, because he’s getting a new one. Thanks to everyone that has commented about that! At the bottom, I mentioned reducing is the most important part of the recycling triangle. James already seems qu ...

Age of Autism

  • The Three Minute Minder
    By Cathy Jameson A quarter of a room vacuumed. Half a lunch downed. A portion of laundry sorted, washed or folded (but never completely put away). A full head swivel. In those spurts of activity, that’s what I can get...
  • AofA Science Summary: Autism behaviors may be ...
    Autism behaviors may be eased by gluten-free, casein-free diet: Penn State College of Medicine Posted on February 29, 2012 by Stone Hearth News A gluten-free, casein-free diet may lead to improvements in behavior and physiological symptoms in some children diagnosed...
  • My Mood Ring: The Joy of Being Spared a Medio ...
    By LJ Goes Recently my daughter Mads and I headed off to the neighborhood mani pedi place for a day Fancy Nancy would have considered the ultimate in posh (that’s a fancy word for ritzy!). The Daddy Daughter Dance sponsored...
  • LeRoy, PANDAS, Autism and EL - Will the real " ...
    By Teresa Conrick I have always thought that the best research looks not only at the evidence in front of you but takes a look back into the past to see if history holds a key. It is true with...
  • Party in Long Beach!
    Join us! When: Friday, March 2, 7:00 - 10:30pm Where: Hyatt Regency, 200 South Pine Avenue, Long Beach, CA Attire: Casual Come mix, mingle, eat and drink with old friends and new, along with leaders in both the autism and...

Global BDS Movement

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!

Open Your Eyes News

  • Three Occupy Oaklanders charged with hate crim ...
    NBC – Three Occupy Oakland protesters accused of surrounding and taunting a woman before stealing her wallet were charged on Friday with robbery and hate crimes, authorities said. Michael Davis, 32, Nneka Crawford, 23, and Randolph Wilkins, 24, confronted the woman on the streets of Oaklan ...
  • Child motor neurone disease treatment clue
    BBC – Scottish research has shown it could be possible to reverse the muscle damage seen in children with a form of motor neurone disease. Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) – “floppy baby syndrome” – is the leading genetic cause of death in children. It affects one in 6 ...
  • We are seeking volunteers – Would you li ...
    We are currently looking for 2 new editors, Environment and Finance & Economics. CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT MORE
  • Iran: Poll turnout ‘slap’ to West
    BBC – Speaking on state TV, Mr Najjar said: “The Americans, the Zionists, and the enemies of the system made some claims. People slapped them by this action.” On Friday state TV broadcast pictures from several polling stations in Tehran and the provinces, showing long queues. A ...
  • Overfishing Leaves Much of Mediterranean a Dea ...
    National Geographic – Centuries of overexploitation of fish and other marine resources — as well as invasion of fish from the Red Sea — have turned some formerly healthy ecosystems of the Mediterranean Sea into barren places, the National Geographic Society said in a news release. Citing r ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • More Americans now believe in global warming
    After several years of finding that fewer and fewer Americans believed in man-made climate change, pollsters are now finding that belief is on the uptick.
  • California wolf trek shows importance of wilde ...
    The incredible ramble of California’s only wolf shows more than determination, as OR7 has trotted more than 1,000 miles to look for a mate and a new home. It also demonstrates the necessity of wilderness areas that serve as safe corridors for migrating wildlife.
  • Organic farmers' case against Monsanto thrown ...
    U.S. Federal Dist. Judge Naomi Buchwald ruled Friday to dismiss the case brought by organic farmers to stop patent infringement lawsuits brought by seed giant Monsanto. The suit, called OSGATA et al. vs. Monsanto , was brought by the Organic Seed Growers and Trade Assn. (OSGATA), as well as 82 ...
  • Enviros petition to protect wolf as endangered ...
    Environmental groups petitioned the California Fish and Game Commission on Monday to protect the gray wolf as endangered under the California Endangered Species Act. If determined to have merit, it would require the state to put together a recovery plan for the wolves.
  • Global warming feeds bark beetles: Are they un ...
    Hear the sound of chewing out in our vast forests of lodgepole pine, spruce and fir, the chewing that’s already destroyed half the commercial timber in important regions like British Columbia? That’s the sound of climate change, says biologist Reese Halter. Global warming in the form ...

water.org

  • Gearing up for World Water Day
    For the past few years, these 20,000 women have come together from all over rural India on March 22 to celebrate water. As their colorful saris fill the giant tents, they spend World Water Day listening to speakers, watching dancers, and talking about the importance of water in their lives.
  • Conference Call: March
    Hear about India and World Water Day
  • Loan Buys Time with Family
    With the encouragement of a local self help group, Mrs. Laxmi has gained the confidence to take out a loan for a water connection. Little did she know how much her whole family would benefit.
  • Sanitation Eases Burden for the Family
    Managing without access to personal sanitation is humiliating to say the least, but for people living with disabilities, it brings a whole cascade of problems. Now, one courageous family has improved their situation, and their new household toilet brings dignity and health.
  • Luxury with an ecosan toilet
    Sudha, her husband, and three kids are happy with their new ecosan toilet. They no longer have to use the restroom out in the open, and instead have the safety, health, privacy, and dignity that a toilet brings.

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • American Decline in Perspective, Part 2
    Favored dictators are supported as long as they can maintain control (as in the major oil states). When that is no longer possible, then discard them and try to restore the old regime as fully as possible (as in Tunisia and Egypt). Submitted by Margaret Mayer to US Politics & Gov't ...
  • Apple's Unethical Innovation
    Apple's major supplier in China, "have needlessly suffered lifelong injuries, and even died from avoidable tragedies, including suicides, explosions and exhaustion from 30- to 60- hour shifts." Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • The Heroic Myth And The Uncomfortable Truth Of ...
    The poor, flak-jacketless people they leave behind with pariah passports, no foreign visas, desperately trying to stop the blood splashing on to their vulnerable families are the ones who need "help". Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a ...
  • What Are Iran's Intentions? | Noam Chomsky
    The media resound with warnings about a likely Israeli attack on Iran while the U.S. hesitates, keeping open the option of aggression--thus again routinely violating the U.N. Charter, the foundation of international law. Submitted by Judy C. to World  |   Note-it!  |  & ...
  • | ThinkProgress
    Limbaugh has crossed the line. He isnt just attacking Sandra Flukehes attacking all women. Use the form on this page to let Sandra Fluke know that you are on her side. Submitted by Robert S. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • 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 ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • The Longform Guide to Missing Persons
    Every weekend, Longform shares a collection of great stories from its archive with Slate. For daily picks of new and classic nonfiction, check out Longform or follow @longform on Twitter. Have an iPad? Download Longform’s brand-new app . ...
  • Sitaras Fitness, Where Business Titans Work Out
    Many of the business world’s titans stay in shape at Sitaras Fitness, a Midtown Manhattan gym that is the brainchild of a bodybuilder. He — and his software — track the members’ progress.
  • Internet Archive’s Repository Collects T ...
    As society embraces all forms of digital entertainment, a latter-day Noah is looking the other way. Brewster Kahle, who runs the Internet Archive, a nonprofit, hopes to collect one copy of every book.
  • Meteor witnessed across Britain
    Police forces say they have received a number of calls reporting what is believed to have been a meteor streaking through the night sky.
  • Two-year-old 'Robotot' fitted with titanium ri ...
    Jessie Plumpton, two, from Runcorn in Cheshire, has a rare form of dwarfism that has stopped her rib cage developing properly putting huge pressure on her lungs.

Common Dreams

  • 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

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

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!

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Losing Constitutional Competition
    Losing Constitutional Competition Joel S. Hirschhorn Among Americans there remains strong pride about the US Constitution, even though there is widespread support for creating reform amendments to it. Globally, however, what should surprise Americans is a significant loss of respect for it ...
  • Targeting Free Expression
    by Stephen Lendman Free expression in all forms is fundamental in democratic societies. Without it, all other freedoms are at risk. Included are free speech, a free press, freedom of thought, culture, and intellectual inquiry. It also includes the right to challenge government authority peace ...
  • Israeli Torture: Accountability Denied
    by Stephen Lendman The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PACTI) "believes that torture and ill-treatment of any kind and under all circumstances is incompatible with the moral values of democracy and the rule of law." Yet it's systematically practiced by Israel's Police, Israel Secu ...
  • Israel tests international patience on Jerusalem
    by Khaled Amayreh Israeli police forces used tear gas and rubber bullets against Palestinian demonstrators in the east Jerusalem neighbourhood of Issawiya (photo: AFP)The results of the Likud leadership elections and continuing provocation at the Haram Al-Sharif signal growing extremism in ...
  • THE INAUGURATION OF POLICE STATE USA 2012: Oba ...
    By Michel Chossudovsky With minimal media debate, at a time when Americans were celebrating the New Year with their loved ones, the “National Defense Authorization Act " H.R. 1540 was signed into law by President Barack Obama. The actual signing took place in Hawaii on the 31st of Decembe ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Bill C-10: The Truth About Consequences
    Today, March 1, 2012  at 1:30 at the John Howard Society of Manitoba (3rd Floor, 583 ElliceAvenue), The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Mb. and the John HowardSociety of Manitoba, Inc. will release their report: Bill C-10: The Truth About Consequences. This report was produced wit ...
  • New Brunswick needs to change direction
    A new study from UNB-SJ economist Roderick Hill and CCPA-NS researcher Jason Edwards outlines why New Brunswick should move toward a more progressive tax structure.  The report, titled New Brunswick at a Crossroads: Progressive Income Tax, a Clear Choice, estimates that the province could g ...
  • America or Sweden: Which would you choose?
    Ask Americans, as Micheal I. Norton and Daniel Ariely did in this study, to build their ideal system of wealth distribution and they choose something that looks very different than the United States. They build a system that looks a lot more like Sweden. See this interactive infographic. Perhaps ...
  • Deconstructing Drummond
    In response to the February 15 Commission on the Reform of Ontario's Public Services report – widely referred to as the Drummond report after its author, retired banker Don Drummond – the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives hosted a public meeting, entitled Deconstructing Drummond, in Toro ...
  • Iglika Ivanova dissects BC Budget 2012
    The BC budget was released today, and Iglika Ivanova posted her analysis on Policy Note as soon as she got out of the budget lockup. The government claims it had no choice but to present an austerity budget. Iglika begs to differ.

World Wide Hippies

  • Psychologists and Torture, Then and Now
    by: Laura Melendez-Pallitto and Robert Pallitto, Foreign Policy in Focus| News Analysis - History repeats itself, Marx famously warned, first as tragedy and then as farce. In the case of U.S. torture psychologists, the ” tragedy” occurred half a century ago when CIA-funded psychological res ...
  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Sunday.
    Twister slams same area hit by killer storm in ’11 HARVEST, Ala. (AP) — Cody Stewart is done owning a home for a little while. He has lost his house to tornadoes twice in 10 months. A killer twister wiped out his neighborhood in the epic Alabama storms April 27, causing Stewart $40,000 wor ...
  • Free Market Health Care: True Stories
    By Michael Parenti,zcommunications.org - I recently wrote an article about my personal experiences in dealing with the medical system while undergoing surgery (“Free Market Medicine: A Personal Account”). In response, a number of readers sent me accounts of their own experiences trying to get we ...
  • The Diet Industry: Profiting from Anxiety
    By Alex Doherty, Sharon Haywood, Susie Orbach,sacsis.org.za- Psychotherapist Susie Orbach and writer and editor Sharon Haywood are two of the main organisers of the Anybodyinitiative. They spoke to New Left Project’s Alex Doherty. Commercial slimming clubs such as Weight Watchers and Slimm ...
  • My Two Worlds – also known as – Ac ...
    By Linda Wolf,WorldWide HIppies- With the Academy Awards having come and gone, the Oscar talk is still going strong. Who won or shouldn’t have won the best picture. ‘The Artist’ was the first ‘silent’ movie to win an Oscar in over eighty years. From all the talk I hear, though, ‘The Help’ ...

FourWinds10

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

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Follow-up to Alan Colmes’ Interview
    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 The first is the conversion from winter to summer gasoline, which I have written about in more detail at Why Summer Gasoline Mea ...
  • Natural Gas Liquids and Algae as Fuel — R-Squa ...
    In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer questions about natural gas liquids and algal fuel. Some of the topics discussed are: The difference between natural gas liquids (NGLs) and crude oil How NGLs and “all-liquids” contribute to oil supplies How “double- ...
  • President Obama’s Role in Current Gas Prices
    Newt Gingrich — Gas Price Fairy If you have been following the news at all, you know that President Obama is catching a lot of heat over rising gas prices. He used his weekly radio address this week to talk about the issue: Obama calls GOP gas price plan “a bumper sticker” Most ...
  • Why Bill O’Reilly’s Gasoline Price Solution Do ...
    Today’s column was supposed to be about what has happened with ethanol exports following the expiration of the ethanol tax credit. That is an interesting story (and exactly what I felt would happen once the credit expired), but it will have to wait until next week, because there is a story ...
  • How To Kill The Global Warming Cause
    First There Was Climategate, Now There’s Gleickgate In 2009, shortly before the Copenhagen summit on climate change, a server at the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in the U.K. was hacked. Numerous communications from climate scientists were released to the public, ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • 3 Reasons Pesticides Are Making Teachers' Jobs ...
    Today's teachers are dealing with student problems that were unheard of half a century ago, creating unique challenges for educators and students alike. Scientists and leading doctors are increasingly linking environmental chemicals, including many pesticides, to lower performance levels in sch ...
  • Could You Give Up Your Car for Lent?
    Consider this: Half of all car trips in the United States are for distances of less than 2.5 miles. That's a short bike ride skipped for the sake of circling the parking lot to find an open space. Cycle those trips instead and you don't have to get religion to see the benefits, including weight ...
  • Prevent Pet Poisonings: Eliminate the 10 Bigge ...
    In many ways, our pets are like little children—curious, adventurous, and sometimes even mischievous. The difference is, we wouldn't leave our kids home alone all day, the way we do our pets. Just as we baby-proof our home to keep little ones safe, pet parents need to take steps to protect our ...
  • Want Healthy, Safe Seafood? Consult the Superf ...
    In his book Oceana, Ted Danson, the actor and oceans advocate, writes that one-third of the world's fisheries are currently in collapse, "unable to regenerate their populations fast enough to keep pace with the rate at which they are being caught or killed." In an interview with Rodale.com, he ...
  • Why Women Shouldn't Eat Factory Farmed Chicken
    Tests from the nonprofit Consumers Union have found that grocery store shelves are littered with contaminated meat. Their tests regularly show that as much as two-thirds of grocery-store chicken contains bacteria resistant to some of the most common classes of antibiotics. While those tests hav ...

big think

  • How Often Are Your Memories Incorrect?
    What's the Latest Development? Researchers in the UK have just completed one of the largest ever studies of human memory and preliminary results indicate our recall of even basic events is quite fallible. In the study, individuals were shown pairs of words like CUPCAKE and CARDBOARD. Lat ...
  • Is Emotion Smarter than Rationality?
    What's the Latest Development? The uncanny processing power of the subconscious has been brought into further light. A survey conducted at Columbia Business School, which asked people to make predictions about events ranging from a political election to American Idol results, found that ...
  • Scientists to Build a Virtual Brain
    What's the Latest Development? A team of Swiss researchers believe they can build a virtual human brain using advances made by neuroscience over the last decade, from modelling the structures of ion channels to the mechanisms of conscious decision-making. "First the scientists must decid ...
  • How Well Does Your Brain Know You?
    What's the Latest Development? Determining how well the brain can judge its own behavior is a tricky matter because it requires thinking about thinking—in other words, introspection. Dr. Steve Fleming of New York University has been designing experiments to measure the difference between ...
  • How Many Words Do We Have For Coffee?
    In this guest post, David Bellos, director of Princeton's Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication, demolishes the Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax. New Yorkers have more words for coffee than Eskimos do for snow, he says. The number of New Yorkers who can say "good morning" in ...

Information Liberation

  • 30 Stupid Things The Government Is Spending Mo ...
    If you want to get paid for doing something stupid, just turn to the U.S. government.* The U.S. government is paying researchers to play video games, it is paying researchers to study the effects of cocaine on Japanese quail and it has spent millions...
  • Don’t Snoop: The Government Hates Competition
    The State owns among its characteristics a hypocrisy as stunning, fatal, and over-the-top as its double standards. And both are on horrific display in New Jersey this week. We first survey the trial of Dharun Ravi, formerly a freshman at...
  • Banker Bonuses: Wall Streeter Who Complained A ...
    After being cited in a Bloomberg article about the impact of falling Wall Street bonuses, Andrew Schiff is feeling the heat from Americans outraged that someone (anyone) who makes $350,000 a year could complain about their lot in life. The story has ...
  • Family Says Chicago Cops Peed on Their Mail
    CHICAGO (CN) - A family claims Chicago police broke into their house, urinated on their mail, spit in the coffee maker, stomped and slapped them and told them "You've been punk'd," while searching for someone who had not lived there for at least a ye...
  • Shocking video: Libyan rebels cage black Afric ...
    A shocking video has appeared on the Internet showing Libyan rebels torturing a group of black Africans. People with their hands bound are shown being locked in a zoo-like cage and forced to eat the old Libyan flag. *"Eat the flag, you dog. Patienc...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • The Darkest Debate
    In this thread, LibertyGibbert will look at the topic which, more than any other, divides Libertarians. It’s a topic I have been reluctant to raise on this forum till now; indeed, I have been advised by some of you that … Continue reading →
  • A Servitude Of Convenience
    Quite often while I’m explaining the meaning of Libertarianism to friends or acquaintances, I’m met with a response which runs along the lines of but Ozboy, government can do so many things for us more efficiently than we can do … Continue reading →
  • And So Say All Of Us
    I’m currently looking at GE’s recent thread at the DT, lamenting the rise of the Welfare State and the normalization of welfare dependency, helplessness, and self-righteous mendicancy; a subject LibertyGibbert has previously visited in detail. The general tone of the comments … ...
  • Ugly Australia
    This isn’t the thread I had planned to write. Actually, I had planned to put out an essay last Thursday—Australia Day, commemorating the 224th anniversary of the arrival of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove. I had planned to tell … Continue reading →
  • A Very Selective Blindness
    What if a journalist had asked JFK this sort of question in 1960? Or Clinton in 1992? Of course, none would have. The press pack half a century ago was fully aware of Kennedy’s proclivities; but he allowed them such … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Shy showoffs sitting on the social spectrum
    I’ve always thought of myself as a shy showoff…others may disagree. But, to my mind it explains why you’ve probably never seen me give a lecture a science or journalism conference but you may have heard me sing and play guitar in front of 600 people at West Road Concert Hall in ...
  • Rebooting research: “J. Errol.”
    Check out this intriguing new publication, the Journal of Errology. An experimental online research repository that enables sharing and discussion of those unpublished futile hypotheses, experimental errors, iterations, negative results, false starts and other interesting stumbles that are all p ...
  • The Sciencebase Twitter Spike
    Twitter Counter tracks statistics of more than 10 million Twitter users, it’s always interesting for us uber-geeks to take a look at such stats and having made The Independent’s Top 100 British Twitter users (at #73 this year, down from #47 in 2011), I thought I’d show you the ...
  • Social X-ray specs
    You’ve heard of rose-tinted spectacles, red lenses as it were., but how about a pair of glasses that gives you the edge on assessing a person’s inner emotions or helps medics work out who is truly ill. A rosy blush or the sickly green colour of one’s skin can reveal different a ...
  • Twitter Top 10 of science by The Independent
    1. Brian Cox 2. Ben Goldacre 3. Richard Dawkins 4. Neil DeGrasse Tyson 5. David Bradley 6. Robin Ince 7=. Andy Lewis 7=. Mo Costandi 9. Roger Highfield 10. Tim Berners-Lee You can subscribe to them via my Twitter list. via The Twitter 100: Top 10 science – News – People – The I ...

RFF Library

  • 2010 Toxics Release Inventory National Analysi ...
    US EPA http://www.epa.gov/tri/NationalAnalysis/index.htm [From Press Release]  …The 2010 TRI data show that 3.93 billion pounds of toxic chemicals were released into the environment nationwide, a 16 percent increase from 2009. The increase is mainly due to changes in the metal mining secto ...
  • Critical Materials Strategy
    US DOE http://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/DOE_CMS_2011.pdf [From a Climate Wire story by Joel Kirkland] “In general, global (rare earths) material supply has been slow to respond to the rise in demand over the past decade due to a lack of available capital, long lead times, trade policies ...
  • EPA Needs to Manage Nanomaterial Risks More Ef ...
    US EPA Office of the Inspector General http://www.epa.gov/oig/reports/2012/20121229-12-P-0162.pdf [From a Greenwire story by Jeremy Jacobs]  U.S. EPA lacks an effective program to collect information and monitor the possible health risks posed by nanomaterials, according to a new report by the a ...
  • Saving a National Treasure: Debunking the &#82 ...
    Chesapeake Bay Foundation http://www.cbf.org/document.doc?id=1023 [From a story in the Suffolk News-Herald] Extensive government regulation of Chesapeake Bay pollution would create jobs, rather than kill them, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation claims in a new report… In December 2010, the U.S. ...
  • Phase 1 Report: Formation of Stakeholder Proce ...
    Eastern Interconnection Planning Collaborative (EIPC) for DOE http://www.eipconline.com/uploads/Phase_1_Report_Final_12-15-2011.pdf [From an E&E Daily story by Paul Behr]  Utility executives and state regulators from 39 states will study three widely different scenarios for the future of the ...

Scientific American - News

  • Japan's Post-Fukushima Earthquake Health Woes ...
    After the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami crippled Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, worry about the unfolding nuclear accident quickly commandeered international headlines. Even after the situation was brought under relative control over subsequent days and weeks, public c ...
  • Nine Flying Robots Play 007 Theme
    Check out this video, where nine palm-sized  flying robots  work together to play a keyboard, drums, maracas, a cymbal and a "couch guitar" made by stretching guitar strings over a wooden couch frame: [More]
  • Caffeine Disrupts Sleep for Morning People But ...
    Caffeine will get you going during the day but could leave you tossing and turning at night unless you're  a "night owl" to begin with, a new study suggests. [More]
  • Structured Unlearning: Marijuana May Impair Me ...
    In a 2006, season 2 episode of The Office entitled "Drug Testing," Dwight Schrute interrogates his fellow employees about the partially smoked joint he found in the parking lot. Dwight is determined to identify the culprit, but Jim Halpert turns the tables: [More]
  • It's Not Just Fukushima: Mass Disaster Evacuat ...
    On March 11, 2011, Japan suffered a massive earthquake and subsequent tsunami that destroyed roads, bridges, and buildings; killed nearly 16,000 people; and critically disabled three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. By March 12, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Gentrification Storm Warning!
    This poster image was originally posted on the DNC homepage. Click here to download the full sized version of the poster.  *NOTE: This is map is updated from the one printed in the DT East paper because three days after printing we found out about another development application for a condo ...
  • High school students set for 'class' war
    VANCOUVER - More than 1,500 high school students braved the rain today to support their teachers. The students rallied outside Christie Clark's office and the Vancouver Art Gallery to back teacher demands for a fair contract from the provincial government.  The students called on the BC ...
  • High school students set for 'class' war
    VANCOUVER - More than 1,500 high school students braved the rain today to support their teachers. The students rallied outside the Vancouver Art Gallery to back teacher demands for a fair contract from the provincial government.  The students called on the BC Liberals to return to the barga ...
  • We've Been There, Halifax: Reflections on the ...
    By Doug Nesbitt Winter in Ottawa is not always friendly. And it’s just not the weather. In early December 2008, the global economy was in tatters, Harper had prorogued parliament to prevent a majority coalition of “separatists ...
  • We've Been There, Halifax: Reflections on the ...
    By Doug Nesbitt Winter in Ottawa is not always friendly. And it’s just not the weather. In early December 2008, the global economy was in tatters, Harper had prorogued parliament to prevent a majority coalition of “separatists ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • What has the Republican Party come to?
    David Seaton's News LinksIf Mitt Romney takes the nomination and then loses to Obama, the extremists who’ve taken over the party will surely say the problem was Romney’s lack of ideological purity.  Joe Nocera - New York Times Here’s what I think may happen. Romney gets the nomination and ...
  • Are we looking at a possible intellectual and ...
    David Seaton's News LinksBank concentration: Graph - Mother Jones, (click though to view)Low genetic variation can make a species less resilient to changes in its environment, and place it at increased risk of extinction. BBC NewsEcologists say that when the gene-pool of a species is reduced be ...
  • The Darkest Hour Is Just Before Dawn
    David Seaton's News LinksBetween the civil war in Syria, for that is what it is, and the threat of an Israeli attack on Iran, which would set the region -- at the very least -- ablaze, and probably start off a chain of events that could tip the whole world into full-scale depression, we have ple ...
  • Meditations on America and the the Flight of t ...
    David Seaton's News LinksJust the other day I saw a well-known documentary, "Food Inc", which shines a light on the physically and morally toxic American food industry. I found myself getting very depressed about all the young people, especially poor, young people developing diabetes. Full ...
  • Homage to the people of Greece - Αφιέρωμα στου ...
    David Seaton's News LinksWolfgang Schäuble, German finance minister, on Wednesday went so far as to suggest Greece might postpone its elections and install a technocratic government free of all political parties, similar to Italy, to ensure that the bail-out programme is implemented. Financi ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Chart of the Day: What We Pay for Healthcare
    Via Ezra Klein, who has interesting things to say about this, the chart below compares the cost of various medical procedures in the United States and several other countries. By a mile, we pay more for pretty much everything, and this is a big reason that our overall healthcare costs are the h ...
  • Obama Asks AIPAC to Trust Him a Little While L ...
    Barack Obama gave a speech to AIPAC this morning and once again announced that when the chips are down he has Israel's back. "I have a policy to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon," he told them to applause. "And as I've made clear time and again during the course of my presidenc ...
  • "Return of the Jedi" is the Best Star Wars Mov ...
    Have you ever had the experience of blurting out a secret shame and then discovering that other people shared your secret? None of them were willing to talk about it either, and you all thought you were alone. But it's not true. It turns out you have friends after all. No, I'm not confessing ...
  • Mitt Romney's True Believer Problem
    Ed Kilgore comments on a New York Times piece highlighting Mitt Romney's willingness to do and say anything to win the Republican nomination: If that's true, then Romney's efforts to pretend he's the "true conservative" in the campaign have been something of a waste of time. All he really n ...
  • Quote of the Day: Romney on Rush
    From Mitt Romney, missing out on his chance to use Rush Limbaugh's "slut" remarks as his very own Sister Souljah moment: I'll just say this, which is it’s not the language I would have used. And even that was only after dodging reporters all day before finally deciding he could ris ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 308: The World’s Fattest Cockblocker
    Topics: Mass Effect 3 launch trailer Recognizing the complexity of video games Fuck Chris Brown and fuck Rihanna too Fuck this dirty ass cunt Andrew Breitbart was a piece of shit, don’t white wash it Respect is earned not given Rush Limbaugh doesn’t understand how birth control works ...
  • IC 307: Getting It In Like Stephen Hawking
    Topics: The New Avengers Trailer Stephen Hawking likes to get it in Crazy bitches Being a loner doesn’t give you the right to shoot up a school Parents gotta do better Fuck Virginia The 2012 election Share with your friends:
  • IC 306: Ratchet
    Topics: UFC commentary Making racial jokes around white people 2 racist white girls make a Youtube video There are no blacks in the north Standing in line for shoes Jaheim gets roasted Share with your friends:
  • FacePalm of the Week: Lou Dobbs Thinks The Lo ...
    Lou Dobbs has a long history of being an idiot.  From race-baiting to flat out bigoted statements, particularly aimed at Latinos to his ridiculous attacks against the “Liberal media” and Liberals “War on America”.  I mean he’s become a cornucopia of ratchet rightwin ...
  • IC 305: Team Rick vs Team Shane
    Topics: Kriss & Kev take sides on The Walking Dead Team Rick vs Team Shane Poor Worf Ben Sisko, one of the greatest starship captains ever Lent and what we’re giving up Sharing too much on the Internet Don’t want your grieving judged, don’t put your grief on display Frankl ...

Simple Climate

  • Melting sea ice plays critical role in winter ...
    Georgia Institute of Technology's Jiping Liu and colleagues have revealed evidence that shrinking Arctic ice is allowing more water into the atmosphere and slowing the jet stream so the moisture can move southward and fall as snow.
  • Climate change causes chipmunks hidden damage
    By comparing DNA from alpine chipmunks preserved for 96 years with samples from those living today Emily Rubidge from University of California, Berkeley, and her colleagues reveal a threatening, climate-change driven, shrinking of their gene pool.
  • Population and climate raise tropical cyclone ...
    Higher population will mean more people and property are in the way of tropical cyclones made more intense but less frequent by climate change, say Bruno Chatenoux from the Global Change and Vulnerability Unit at the United Nations Environment Program and colleagues.
  • Volcano cloud over tree-ring temperatures clears
    Sudden cooling caused by volcanoes stopped trees growing, introducing error into tree ring temperature records, find Michael Mann from Pennsylvania State University and his colleagues, which could impact estimates of how sensitive the world's temperature is to CO2 emissions.
  • Building climate adaptation on flooded fields
    Emma Tompkins from the University of Southampton, UK, and Hallie Eakin from Arizona State University have found examples where people and organisations are helping their communities adapt to climate change without financial support. They hope to discover how more of us can be encouraged to follo ...

e!Science News

  • The future of plant science – a technology per ...
    Plant science is key to addressing the major challenges facing humanity in the 21st Century, according to Carnegie's David Ehrhardt and Wolf Frommer. In a Perspective published in The Plant Cell, the two researchers argue that the development of new technology is key to transforming plant biolog ...
  • Unexpected crustacean diversity discovered in ...
    Freshwater ecosystems in northern regions are home to significantly more species of water fleas than traditionally thought, adding to evidence that regions with vanishing waters contain unique animal life. read more
  • New study will help protect vulnerable birds f ...
    Scientists from PRBO Conservation Science and the Department of Fish and Game have completed an innovative study on the effects of climate change on bird species of greatest concern. This first-of-its-kind study prioritizes which species are most at risk and will help guide conservation measures ...
  • Energy squeeze
    A polymer is a mesh of chains, which slowly break over time due to the pressure from ordinary wear and tear. When a polymer is squeezed, the pressure breaks chemical bonds and produces free radicals: ions with unpaired electrons, full of untapped energy. These molecules are responsible for aging ...
  • AGU: Gasoline worse than diesel when it comes ...
    The exhaust fumes from gasoline vehicles contribute more to the production of a specific type of air pollution -- secondary organic aerosols (SOA) -- than those from diesel vehicles, according to a new study by scientists from the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIR ...

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Brave New Climate

  • The Fukushima Question How close did Japan rea ...
    I think The Breakthrough Institute guys, led by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, are doing great working in environmental policy and thought leadership, which is why I was delighted to become a 2012 Senior Fellow. Below I reproduce an important article published today in Slate.com, on Fuk ...
  • 100% Renewable Electricity for Australia: Resp ...
    Guest post by Dr Mark Diesendorf, Institute of Environmental Studies, UNSW. Click here for a printable 6-page PDF version of this response. ——————– This is a personal response to Lang’s (2012) article critiquing the peer-reviewed paper Elliston, Diesendo ...
  • IFR FaD 10 – Metal fuel and plutonium
    Over the next few months I will publish four extracts from the book Plentiful Energy — The story of the Integral Fast Reactor by Chuck Till and Yoon Chang. Reproduced with permission of the authors, these sections describe and justify some of the key design choices that went into the making the ...
  • The Grattan Report on low-emissions energy tec ...
    Guest post by Dr Ted Trainer, University of NSW (http://ssis.arts.unsw.edu.au/tsw/). Wood, A, T. Ellis, D. Mulloworth, and H. Morrow (2012) No Easy Choices: Which Way to Australia’s Energy Future. Technology Analysis. Grattan Institute, Melbourne. This report is a valuable addition to the litera ...
  • 100% renewable electricity for Australia – the ...
    Download the printable 33-page PDF (includes two appendices, on scenario assumptions and transmission cost estimates) HERE. For an Excel workbook that includes all calculations (and can be used for sensitivity analysis), click HERE. By Peter Lang. Peter is a retired geologist and engineer with 4 ...

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

  • Psycho CPAC Anyone?
    Man, I watched clips of the freak show at this year’s CPAC. Why don’t they just call it the Obama hatefest? Where is Politifact anyway? I don’t think one single fake conservative said one single thing that was true from all the coverage I watched. Man, what a bunch of lying cry ...
  • Romney Zero % Tax Rate? Really?
    Mitt Romney may have a good reason to not release his 2008, and 2009 tax returns. He may have made millions and paid zero income, or capital gains tax. Isn’t being filthy rich great! ‘Ol Mittens claimed in a Univision interview he gives 15% to “charity” too. You mean you ...
  • Smeagol Gives Tonight’s Republican Respo ...
    How did they pull it off? Getting Smeagol all taped up to give the response. I am sure it was Smeagol. All the things he was talking about any orc would love, and any Hobbit would hate. Giving the rich and corporations they own more tax cuts while cutting services for the poor. More of [...]
  • Met A Wonderful Republican Yesterday – Not!
    Parked in downtown Seattle, a gentleman in a nice shiny Cadillac saw the “Republicans Are A Disease” sign in the back of my car, and the 99% sticker on my coat, and yelled at me to wash my car. My car wasn’t really dirty…. He went on to tell me that Obama has been a [...]
  • The Answer To America’s Problems Is Simple
    No, I am not kidding. America is a rich country and can easily solve most major problems. The main  problem is simply the fact that most of America’s  wealth and power is in the hands of a few individuals. The system is currently set up to where only they profit from “our” labo ...

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

  • Mic Check! The People Speak – Part 1: Tom More ...
    Editor's Note: The following is the first of a new seven-part series featuring statements from occupiers, organizers and supporters of the 99% Movement. The statements are excerpted from the new book, "The Economic Elite Vs. The People: 99% Movement Call to Action." In this installment, we featu ...
  • Hot List 3.3.12: Wall Street Plunder Continues ...
    AIG Still Robbing US Taxpayers; Fed Lets Banks Pay Shareholders Billions; Costs of Extreme Weather; War with Iran; Global Insurrection Roundup; Occupy the SEC; Occupy Food Justice; More
  • Russell Brand Calls US Presidential Election & ...
    Russell Brand will have a new Occupy-friendly comedy show on FX this spring/summer. Here we feature excerpts from a recent Hollywood Reporter article on it and Russell's report after visiting OWS.
  • Code & Flesh: Why We Need a ‘Rights of t ...
    The internet, as a living being which is part human, should have rights of its own. Larry Downes eloquently describes the January 18 events as “the dramatic introduction of bitroots politics”. In case the leaks, springs and occupations of 2011 left any room for doubt, the recognition of th ...
  • Government for the Super Rich: Top 0.01% Contr ...
    For the top one percent of the one percent (that’s the top .01 percent), donations buy an incredible amount of influence with elected officials. Just how much influence do they have? Check out our handy infographic below: Source: United Re:public

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  • Israel should stand by Syrian rebels
    Israel’s Foreign Ministry recently recommended that the government denounce the killing of Syrian civilians, and call for Bashar Assad to be removed from power. According to a report by Barak Ravid in Haaretz, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has adopted this position. At the time, Prime ...
  • East Jerusalemites appeal to UN for help with ...
    Palestinian residents of Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem, which is grossly lacking in municipal services, are looking elsewhere for help with garbage collection. Mynet (Hebrew) reports that residents of Qalandia and Kfar Akab are “drowning in garbage.”  The two Palestinian neighborhoods are with ...
  • Boycott movement about Palestinian rights, not ...
    Noam Wiener’s post against the BDS movement once again fails to understand the movement and the general plight of Palestinians. I am really not sure how I missed this guest post by Noam Wiener on the boycott movement, and the flurry of comments it generated, but I wanted to add a few of my ...
  • J Street choice of Olmert as keynote speaker i ...
    Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert – who was the chief in command during the 2008-9 military onslaught in Gaza and who is indicted on various corruption charges – is to provide the keynote address at the 3rd annual J Street Conference in Washington, D.C. at the end of March. It’ ...
  • Airport security turns citizens into lumps
    The following op ed in Haaretz [Hebrew only] revisits the theme of how unpleasant it can be for an Arab citizen, native-born in Israel, to use his or her national airport to travel freely. Many people have heard this theme before; my colleague Aziz Abu Sarah has written about it thoughtfully, an ...

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Matt Weidner Blog

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

  • I Earned Them
    The call came from one of those trendy American magazines that have found their niche and built a solid base …Continue reading »
  • Right to Community – Perils of Political ...
    I learned in my five years in politics that most MPs are privileged to see the best of our communities …Continue reading »
  • Right to Community – Against Our Wishes
    The American Revolution didn’t start out as anything of the kind. Its eventual leaders were believers in the principles that …Continue reading »
  • Right to Community – Our Turn
    It wasn’t expected. Just returning from a meeting, my cellphone rang. The caller ID was blocked, but upon answering I …Continue reading »
  • Are We Channeling Lincoln or Darwin?
    Note: Below is a piece I wrote for the Huffington Post about the growing philosophy of right-wing government. You can …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

  • Building a sustainable future: World Economic ...
    “Technology doesn’t just happen” – people must be sick of hearing me say this.  Yet as chair of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Emerging Technologies, it’s something I seem to end up saying rather a lot as we strive to help decision-leaders maximiz ...
  • Nanotechnology – what web resources do you fin ...
    Over at the Risk Science Center blog, I have posted a request for help on web-based nanotechnology resources. Given that 2020 Science has such a nano-savvy readership, I thought I would cross-post the request here. If you have any suggestions on useful websites dealing with nanotechnology &#8211 ...
  • Davos 2011: Desperately seeking Google
    It’s that time of year again – 2000+ of the worlds top movers and shakers are beginning to descend on the Swiss ski town of Davos for this year’s Annual World Economic Forum meeting.  Political heavyweights like Clinton, Annan, Sarkozy and Cameron will be intermingling with the ...
  • Obama spotlights innovation, but how do we get ...
    Technology innovation was front and center of Obama’s State of the Union speech tonight.  This is extremely good news for those of us who believe more needs to be done, and done better, to ensure science and technology translate into effective solutions that enable economic and social grow ...
  • Asking smart people dumb questions – the new r ...
    Cross-posted at ForumBlog.org – the World Economic Forum blog My high school physics teacher used to tell me there’s no such think as a dumb question.  It’s a lesson I’ve carried with me through my professional career as a scientist.  But it’s a philosophy that might be just about to come ...

Reader Supported News

  • Occupy Wall Street Calls for May Day General S ...
    Schneider reports: "At the General Assembly meeting last night, Occupy Wall Street's dreamer contingent got a very special valentine: the GA endorsed the Direct Action Working Group's proposal to call for a general strike on May Day - May 1, 2012." An Italian worker participates in a general ...
  • Occupy Wall Street Calls for May Day General S ...
    Schneider reports: "At the General Assembly meeting last night, Occupy Wall Street's dreamer contingent got a very special valentine: the GA endorsed the Direct Action Working Group's proposal to call for a general strike on May Day - May 1, 2012." An Italian worker participates in a general ...
  • Poor America: 'Some Kids Are Making Ketchup Soup'
    Intro: "Panorama's Hilary Andersson travelled to Whitney Elementary School in Las Vegas to meet some of America's youngest poor. Children told of going to bed hungry and worrying about their families, while school officials said some children were resorting to eating 'ketchup soup.'" Leslie, ...
  • Poor America: 'Some Kids Are Making Ketchup Soup'
    Intro: "Panorama's Hilary Andersson travelled to Whitney Elementary School in Las Vegas to meet some of America's youngest poor. Children told of going to bed hungry and worrying about their families, while school officials said some children were resorting to eating 'ketchup soup.'" Leslie, ...
  • The Right to Be Healthy
    Chen reports: "In many industrialized countries around the world, taking time off from work to deal with a medical issue isn't just a benefit; it's considered an entitlement, as much as an eight-hour day. But in the world's richest nation, a worker who claims that right has had to appeal to the ...

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

  • 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.

k2p blog

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Feds To Stop Punishing Chase, Bank of America ...
    Since the Treasury Dept. began releasing quarterly report cards on big banks' efforts to improve their mortgage modification processes, Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase have consistently received subpar marks, leading the feds to withhold a total of $171 million in incentives. That money is n ...
  • Now You Can Buy An Entire IKEA House For $86,500
    Not content with merely furnishing every room of your house with IKEA stuff? Well, if you have a bit of land and $86,500 to spend the home furnishings chain could provide you with an entire (albeit small) house in which to put your Ektorps and Malms. The 745 sq. ft., 1BR/1BA Aktiv is actually ...
  • If You're Going To Dine-And-Dash, Don't Do It ...
    We certainly don't condone the act of dining-then-dashing. It's illegal and, more importantly, just plain rude to the people that prepared and served your meal. It's especially rude when the servers are law enforcement officers working a fundraising event for the Special Olympics. And yet, a m ...
  • FCC Wants To Know If It Sometimes Might Be Oka ...
    Chief among the reasons given by the Federal Communications Commission for outlawing the practice of using signal-jamming devices for cellphones is public safety. With 70% of 911 calls now made on wireless devices, the FCC has argued that deliberately blocking cell signals could put people at r ...
  • City Officer Discovers Woman's Home Hasn't Had ...
    A woman in Fort Worth couldn't handle her expensive water bills or fix the leak that was causing them, so she simply turned her water off. And then she left it off, for six years, using jugs of water collected from elsewhere and bathing at her daughter's home. The issue wasn't discovered until ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Health Concerns in BP's Own Manual Raise Questions
    Anonymous Whistleblower Provides Document; Groups Send Letter as Settlement Looms (Washington, DC) – Today, GAP and the Louisiana Environmental Action Network (LEAN) sent a joint letter to British Petroleum (BP) America's Ombudsman Program, seeking an explanation for a resource manual provided ...
  • Petition: No International Bank Bailouts witho ...
    Dear GAP Supporter: Last December, while US taxpayers were doing their holiday shopping, Congress quietly approved more than $35 billion in bailouts to international development banks. These multilateral development banks (MDBs) are immune from national oversight and laws, both here and abroad. ...
  • The USDA's Terrible Food Industry 'Self-Polici ...
    Westside Gazette: The USDA Has a Dirty Little Secret, and It Can Literally Make You Sick Summary: The USDA's plan to expand HIMP – a poultry inspection program that would enable the industry to "monitor and ultimately regulate itself" – is heavily, and rightfully, critiqued in this piece. GAP ...
  • Manning Charged with Espionage, Leaker of SEAL ...
    Thanks to Jane Hamsher of Firedoglake, we have another example of hypocrisy and disparate treatment associated with the Obama administration's unprecedented war on whistleblowers. Hamsher analyzes an e-mail exchange that suggests that former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) official Ja ...
  • OSHA Sues Postal Service for Whistleblower Ret ...
    Government Executive: Labor Sues Postal Service over Whistleblower Mistreatment Summary: The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has filed suit against the Postal Service for retaliating against a safety specialist who urged a colleague to file a safety complaint with OSHA. Th ...

UK Progressive

  • No Longer Home Sweet Home: The Ongoing Housing ...
    Economic cheerleaders on Wall Street and in the White House are taking heart. The US has had three straight months of faster job growth. The number of Americans each week filing new claims for unemployment benefits is down by more than 50,000 since early January. Corporate profits are healthy. T ...
  • GOP 2012: The Pro-Fiction Campaign
    This campaign season can be summed up by one interview on conservative talk radio last August. It was with Iowa Straw Poll-sweeper Congresswoman, Michele Bachmann, in which she proclaimed: “What people recognize is that there’s a fear that the United States is in an unstoppable decline. They see ...
  • Bahraini ‘Reformers’ in Washington, Courtesy o ...
    by Justin Elliott, ProPublica Earlier this month, a group of three young Bahrainis arrived in Washington to talk about reform in the small Persian Gulf nation, which has been rocked by Arab Spring protests for the last year. The delegation, including an NGO worker and a tech entrepreneur, both W ...
  • Stop Starving Public Universities and Shrinkin ...
    Stop Starving Public Universities and Shrinking the Middle Class Last week Rick Santorum called the President “a snob” for wanting everyone to get a college education (in fact, Obama never actually called for universal college education but only for a year or more of training after high school). ...
  • Another California Knightmare
    In July 2011, SB 48, The FAIR Education Act (Fair, Accurate, Inclusive and Respectful) was signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown. The bill compels “the inclusion of the political, economic, and social contributions of persons with disabilities and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Monbiot — Steal things and be a “d ...
    Showing the intellectual depth we’ve come to expect from progressives, Monbiot argues that the public debate on atmospheric dynamics would be improved by knowing who-funds-those-who dare speak against the government experts. It’s as if the truth of future tropospheric warming comes n ...
  • The Moons influence on the atmosphere over Aus ...
    We know the moon changes our tides, but can it also change our rainfall? Could the moon also cause tides in the atmosphere? Some researchers have found such periodic movements in air above 3000m. Some have suggested that the moon drives the cyclical shifts in the Length of Day (LOD) that occur o ...
  • FakeGate beats DenierGate in google war: DeSmo ...
    In the big battle for the meme-of-the-moment, Fakegate has won. DeSmog can’t be too happy about this. Google “DenierGate” and get 67,000 results, but google “Fakegate” and get 168,000. What do you know? Stealing things, breaching privacy, and exposing nothing but ti ...
  • The Guardian: CO2 Apocalypse Now! Volcanoes, e ...
    The Guardian “Climate change will shake the Earth” (parroted by the SMH)  is feeding the pagan masses who worship The God CO2. Which would be fine, except they pretend that it’s science when it’s the “hell” part of any religion. If you drive your SUV too far y ...
  • Australian teachers — pick up your free ...
     The Education Department and the CSIRO push their propaganda and scare our children with apocalyptic, unscientific scenarios. They are even trying to target pre-schoolers. The ABC has accepted grants from the Climate Change Foundation to work the Climate Change message into ‘DirtGirl’, an ABC4 ...

ReNew America

  • Sheriff Joe: 'Probable cause' Obama certificat ...
    (WorldNetDaily) - An investigative "Cold Case Posse" launched six months ago by "America's toughest sheriff" -- Joe Arpaio of Arizona's Maricopa County -- has concluded there is probable cause that the document released by the White House last year as President Obama's birth certificate is a com ...
  • Breitbart's last investigation? Obama
    (WorldNetDaily) - Andrew Breitbart, the influential founder of BigGovernment.com, BigJournalism.com and other innovations in reporting whose sudden death Thursday stunned the world of journalism, had been investigating President Obama...
  • Farewell to Bo Diaz (aka Andrew Breitbart)
    (Joseph Farah) - You don't expect to wake up in the morning to learn that a friend, colleague and fellow co-conspirator -- 15 years your junior -- has died. It's just not right. That's the news I got today about Andrew Breitbart, someone I have known and admired for nearly 15 years. I still can' ...
  • Obama's infanticide votes
    (Patrick Brennan) - In last Wednesday's debate, when the Republican candidates were asked about their positions on birth control, Newt Gingrich parried with one of his usual tactics, a fusillade against the mainstream media. He told CNN's John King, "You did not once in the 2008 campaign, not on ...
  • Killing babies no different from abortion, exp ...
    (London Telegraph) - Parents should be allowed to have their newborn babies killed because they are "morally irrelevant" and ending their lives is no different to abortion, a group of medical ethicists linked to Oxford University has argued...

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

  • Doomsday Bunkers
    Doomsday Bunkers is a new 3-part TV series that will launch on Discovery Channel in the USA on Wed March 7. A GLP forum member saw an ad for it: it’s about what the title implies… awesome doomsday bunkers, people who build them, how they build them, what they put in them… etc ...
  • No Rise in Earthquakes
    Massive earthquakes are no more likely today than they were a century ago, despite an apparent rise in recent years of the devastating temblors, US researchers said on Monday. The deadly 9.0 earthquake this year in Japan, an 8.8 quake in Chile last year and the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake t ...
  • Futuristic Mayan Imagery
    This is a bit like steam punk – where something is old and futuristic at the same time. Raul Cruz from Mexico City has envisioned a distant future where Aztec / Mayan stylings are applied to technologies more akin to Japanese Anime. More images are at the excellent io9 and they link to hi ...
  • A New Type of Portable Charger
    Your survival equipment might include something that charges over USB. For example, an iPad with hundreds of survival books stored on it. When the SHTF and there’s no electricity and/or you are on the road, how will you recharge your device? You’ll be OK if you have a car and the rig ...
  • NASA: Catastrophic Floods Happen
    When NASA say catastrophic floods they are not talking about Hurricane Katrina. Check this out: Geologists would learn that the waters could have drowned a 40-story skyscraper, making them 20 times deeper than the Hurricane-Katrina-triggered flooding that destroyed swaths of New Orleans and the ...

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 ...

One News Page

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • US Media Rigged Ahead of Russian Elections
    In the spirit of recognizing mobs of terrorists as legitimate national governments before a sovereign nation’s true leadership is murdered by US-led NATO operations, as was the case in Libya, the Western media is already decrying Russia’s upcoming elections as “rigged” be ...
  • A “Democratic” Scenario for Syria
    On February 26, 2012, the Syrian Arab Republic held a referendum to adopt a new constitution that is reasonably democratic. It was proposed that the president be chosen in a general election (previously this was done through a referendum), that his time in office be limited to two terms, that th ...
  • BRICS Flame Continues To Shine
    Just as the fizz seems to be going out of the BRICS grouping, the member countries have scrambled to put their act together. Apropos the crisis in Syria, which is arguably, the “hottest” issue in international politics today, the BRICS showed up worrying signs of an identity crisis of its own. R ...
  • Russia and the Changing World
    ORIENTAL REVIEW republishes the latest article by Vladimir Putin, Russian PM and front-runner of the presidential campaign due to culminate next Sunday, March 4, 2012. The article focuses on different aspects of the Russian foreign policy. In my previous articles I have discussed some of the key ...
  • Russia and US Clash Over Afghan Drug Trafficking
    This month Washington whose commitment to fighting drug production in the US occupied Afghanistan is widely called into question rolled out a new plan of coordinating the activities of Central Asian republic’s anti-narcotic agencies. The initiative was, however, promptly blocked as potenti ...

BlogHer

  • Nie Asks: How Do You Get Kids to Bathe?
    How do you get your children to bathe? Claire (above) thinks about taking the plunge. Your turn: Do you have any special tricks to get your kids to embrace bathtime? Tell me in the comments: I want to know!
  • Polenta Tart with Lime
    [Editor's Note: This is a beautiful and unusual dessert that puts polenta to use in an ever-so-sweet (yet tangy) fashion, rather than its usual role as a not-so-sweet side dish. Best of all, whether you can tolerate gluten or not, there's a version of this dessert for you. Give it a try before t ...
  • [UPDATE] ‘Game On’ for Jewish School Basketbal ...
    For the first time ever, the Beren Academy’s boys basketball team is headed to the Texas state championship.The Orthodox Jewish school  advanced Friday afternoon with a 58-46 victory over Dallas Covenant in a semifinal that was rescheduled only after parents sued to ensure it wouldn’t confl ...
  • Blogging Questions
    Change is inevitable – except from a vending machine. ~RobertSince I started this blog in December, I've been running a marathon to learn all I can about current blogging tools, marketing, themes, security methods, resources, and whatever else seemed necessary. It's a challenge, and I'm not an a ...
  • Roadmap to Self Employment - How Do I Get There?
    People often say to me - Wow! You made the leap to being your own boss... how did you even know where to start? The answer is - I didn't! In fact I never had any dreams about being my own boss. I was not one of those kids who sold lemonade. I was not the teenager who did small jobs or tried to c ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Meat Grown in Lab Poised to Enter Food Industry
    A scientist in Maastricht University has grown the world’s first synthetic meat in hopes to keep animal protein accessible and inexpensive in the face of growing demand.  Dr. Mark Post explains: “Meat demand is going to double ...
  • Be Reminded of What it Means to Resist!
    This speech from Charlie Chaplin comes from a movie created at the end of the Nazi era as a satire against the evil regime.  A comedian for all intensive purposes, Charlie Chaplin was also wise, the ...
  • Occasional Fasting Offers Boost in Mental Heal ...
    Longevity is not only rooted in what we put in our bodies but also how we regulate our intake.  There is a Japanese proverb, “hara hachi bunme” or “Stop eating when you are 80% full”. ...
  • Get Dirty to Get Joy- Bacteria in Soil Acts as ...
    A bacteria found in soil called Mycobacterium has been found to effect the same neurons as Prozac, offering people a natural lift in mood.  This is just one more great reason to get out in ...
  • Why do 53% of autistic children have rh negati ...
    One of the most misinterpreted terms out there is “rhesus disease”. It is not a disease, but rather an incompatibility causing danger to the rh positive child in the rh negative mother’s body. The common remedy ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Friday roundup, March 2, 2012
    Midwest Generation’s Fisk Generating Station, a coal-fired power plant, is seen in the background Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012, in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood. The city’s two coal-fired power plants will shut down early under a deal between the operator, city officials and enviro ...
  • Alpha hit with another ‘imminent danger& ...
    This just in from Alpha Natural Resources: On February 27, 2012, Cumberland Coal Resources, LP (“Cumberland”), a subsidiary of Alpha Natural Resources, Inc., received an imminent danger order under section 107(a) of the Mine Act due to methane levels detected at the Cumberland Mine (the “Mine”), ...
  • IG report questions MSHA disaster team’s ...
    Howard Berkes has a bit of a scoop over on NPR’s website, with a story describing some of the conclusions of a previously secret Inspector General’s report on the way the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration handled its investigation of the Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster. Un ...
  • Let’s be clear: Gov. Tomblin’s dru ...
    The West Virginia mine safety legislation being promoted by Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin and the legislative leadership is making its way through the Senate now. But supporters of the bill and the statehouse media seem intent on not being clear with themselves or the public about what the bill does &#8 ...
  • Why coal miners die on the job
    Earlier this week, the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration issued the report of its investigation into the death of Richard Coots, a 23-year-old repairman/miner who was killed on October 7, 2011,at Owlco Energy LLC’s Mine No. 1 in Letcher County, Ky. Here’s how MSHA summari ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Give it five minutes | 37signals
    There are two things in this world that take no skill: 1. Spending other people’s money and 2. Dismissing an idea. Dismissing an idea is so easy because it doesn’t involve any work. You can scoff at it. You can ignore it. You can puff some smoke at it. That’s easy. The hard thing to [...]
  • The Advancements of Arial Robotics
    via arstechnica.com Phenomenal, only all I can see is terrorism. Sometimes I hate being security-minded. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related ContentSword & Sworcery for iPadPirate Peg Leg | An Unpublishable Dilbert ComicAirbnb is Social TimesharingWhat You ...
  • Neil deGrasse Tyson on the Meaning of Life | R ...
    The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, the ...
  • Disqus vs. CloudFlare: Comments Fixed
    It appears commenting has been broken here for quite some time and I finally found time to track the issue down this morning. It was a particular beta-level feature of CloudFlare (RocketLoader) that was the culprit. Everything should be fine now; let me know if that’s not the case. Related ...
  • Life Correction | Reddit
    When I arrived at her wedding, her mom greeted me. “Oh, are you THE Conc?” she said. I was a bit shocked. “I don’t think so” I replied. Her mom said “Yes, you’re her friend from college. She talks about you all the time! She would LOVE to see you before ...

Fitwatch

  • Questioning the tactic of “questioning t ...
    The following article, originally posted on the Vancouver Media Co-op website, has been reproduced here by FITwatch as we believe it is of relevance in the ongoing debate around the wearing of masks on demonstrations. FITwatch always has, and always will, encourage the wearing of masks on demons ...
  • ‘Extremist’ policing of Leicester ...
    The remarkable ambivalence with which the police treat right wing groups was clearly evident in the policing of the EDL demonstration this week in Leicester. Leicestershire constabulary were clearly happy with facilitating the EDL demonstration, while being equally clearly committed to clamping ...
  • HMIC report into domestic extremist units disg ...
    Well, we always knew HMIC’s ludicrously named ‘review of national police units which provide intelligence on criminality associated with protest’ was going to be a farce, and we haven’t been disappointed. The 48 page report published today fails to address any of the concerns addressed by activi ...
  • Student Centre Branded Terrorist
    London students who occupied a space in the run-up to the November 30th public sector strike were under the jurisdiction of the Met's SO15 Counter Terrorism Command, FITwatch have learned today. Bloomsbury Social Centre - which aimed to be a "hub of organising for students, workers and residents ...
  • No justice for Kingsnorth Fitwatchers
    Fitwatch regularly get asked what happened to the cops who assaulted members of the group during Kingsnorth climate camp. The case received a large amount of publicity when it was front page of the Guardian in June 2009, and many thousands of people viewed the footage of officers using excessive ...

Worldwide Hippies

  • Psychologists and Torture, Then and Now
    by: Laura Melendez-Pallitto and Robert Pallitto, Foreign Policy in Focus| News Analysis - History repeats itself, Marx famously warned, first as tragedy and then as farce. In the case of U.S. torture psychologists, the ” tragedy” occurred half a century ago when CIA-funded psychological res ...
  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Sunday.
    Twister slams same area hit by killer storm in ’11 HARVEST, Ala. (AP) — Cody Stewart is done owning a home for a little while. He has lost his house to tornadoes twice in 10 months. A killer twister wiped out his neighborhood in the epic Alabama storms April 27, causing Stewart $40,000 wor ...
  • Free Market Health Care: True Stories
    By Michael Parenti,zcommunications.org - I recently wrote an article about my personal experiences in dealing with the medical system while undergoing surgery (“Free Market Medicine: A Personal Account”). In response, a number of readers sent me accounts of their own experiences trying to get we ...
  • The Diet Industry: Profiting from Anxiety
    By Alex Doherty, Sharon Haywood, Susie Orbach,sacsis.org.za- Psychotherapist Susie Orbach and writer and editor Sharon Haywood are two of the main organisers of the Anybodyinitiative. They spoke to New Left Project’s Alex Doherty. Commercial slimming clubs such as Weight Watchers and Slimm ...
  • My Two Worlds – also known as – Ac ...
    By Linda Wolf,WorldWide HIppies- With the Academy Awards having come and gone, the Oscar talk is still going strong. Who won or shouldn’t have won the best picture. ‘The Artist’ was the first ‘silent’ movie to win an Oscar in over eighty years. From all the talk I hear, though, ‘The Help’ ...

reference frame

  • Supersymmetry: transformations of superspace
    In a November 2011 article, I discussed the Grassmann anticommuting numbers that satisfy \[ \theta_1 \theta_2 = -\theta_2 \theta_1 \] My goal was to convince you that this new kind of abstract numbers is, in some sense, equally natural if it is employed as the basic number that Nature may a ...
  • Selling your soul for a narrative: understandi ...
    by Eric Dennis The author holds a PhD in physics from UC Santa Barbara and is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Industrial Progress. Within the green movement, Peter Gleick is a renowned environmental scientist specializing in the negative impact of global warming. He was elected to ...
  • Rush Limbaugh, contraception costs, and Sandra ...
    America is entertaining itself with Rush Limbaugh's reaction to the political discussion about contraception subsidies. All kinds of people are attacking Limbaugh – and he probably enjoys it because he depends on publicity. However, I find these attacks weird and kind of scary because Li ...
  • Hubble: decoupling of dark matter, stars
    Alan Boyle of Cosmic Log discusses an amusing picture of the merging galaxy cluster Abell 520 which is 2.4 billion light years from us, as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. The positions of the colors are mystifying. The blue color on the picture depicts the mass density (as obta ...
  • Asteroid collision in 2040: 1 in 600 odds
    Years ago, we would discuss a potential collision of the Earth with the 2004 MN 4 asteroid – also known as 99942 Apophis – on Friday, 13th of April, 2029. The estimated diameter of this rock was 270 meters. The collision was first delayed to April 13th, 2036, and then it was deemed very unlik ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • Heist The Movie – Who Stole the American Dream?
    Please watch the newly updated trailer for “Heist: Who Stole the American Dream?,” the new, explosive documentary from Frances Causey and Donald Goldmacher exposing the roots of the American economic crisis and the destruction of the American dream. Visit Heist-TheMovie.com for more ...
  • The subtle art of mind control in the media: T ...
    So I have been listening,watching, and reading with fascination, intrigue, and disgust at how the media is conditioning the minds of the masses by reporting on Andrew Briebart’s death by stating that ‘he was ‘known to have heart problems’ or ‘he was known to have a ...
  • Bilderberger Brzezinksi: USA will not support ...
    These are strong words coming from Bilderberger, Council on Foreign Relations, and Trilateral Commission Mouthpiece Zbigniew Brzezinksi. I am sure that Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu will be soiling his depends over this bold statement. Brzezinksi pulls no punches in this short rant, clai ...
  • Anticipation of a fail – White Hats Report #37 ...
    The much anticipated and hyped pending release of The White Hats Report #37 in terms of stud or dud, was a dud, a stinker, a real let down. They said on numerous occasions that the wait would be worth it and then when I read it I said WTF. They released a scanned document as [...] Related posts ...
  • Wikileaks Announcement: The Global Intelligenc ...
    Via BNO News Wire Service: WIKILEAKS PRESS RELEASE EMBARGOED EMBARGOED EMBARGOED DO NOT DISCLOSE THE EXISTANCE OF THIS RELEASE OR ANY INFORMATION DERIVED FROM IT BEFORE Monday 27 February 00:01 GMT 2012 The Global Intelligence Files [link to wikileaks.org] Twitter tag: #gifiles OFFICAL PRESS CON ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

Enviroblog

  • Concerned about Drilling in New York? So are s ...
    By Leeann Brown, press secretary New York is considering lifting its moratorium on hydraulic fracturing, an oil and gas drilling technology in which large volumes of water, sand and chemicals are injected into the ground at high pressure. Drillers... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...
  • Study: Toxic Chemicals Play Are Lowering Child ...
    By Alex Formuzis: Vice President of Media Relations I spend more time than most people reading about scientific studies on the environmental and public health effects of exposure to toxic chemicals. Last week I came across one report that I... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my web ...
  • The Enemy Within: EPA's War with the White House
    By Alex Formuzis, Vice President for Media Relations Since she assumed the position of administrator of the federal Environmental Protection Agency early in 2009, Lisa P. Jackson has done more than any previous EPA chief to reform how the government... [[ This is a content summary only. Vis ...
  • Don't Let Your Child Be a Back Seat Smoker
    By Alex Formuzis, Vice President for Media Relations Many parents who don't smoke - and have raised their kids to do the same - might be surprised to learn that their offspring could be secondhand-smoking a pack a week. Roughly... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full ...
  • Pesticide Defenders Say the Darndest Things
    By Alex Formuzis, EWG V-P for Media Relations In an interview last week (Jan. 16) at the pesticide lobby's D.C. headquarters, Washington State University Environmental Toxicology Professor Allan Felsot told Energy and Environment News (subscription... [[ This is a content summary only. Visi ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Stoltenberg seeks historic third term
    Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg confirmed over the weekend that his political ambitions match those of the late, legendary Labour prime minister Einar Gerhardsen. Stoltenberg was met by thunderous applause from party colleagues in Rogaland, western Norway, when he told them he intended ...
  • Foreign aid doesn’t meet peace goals
    Norway sends huge amounts of foreign aid to developing nations and consistently ranks as one of the biggest contributors to the United Nations on a per capita basis, but its donations don’t necessarily lead to the peace and prosperity Norwegians want to create. A new study shows that aid c ...
  • Northern Lights rival Midnight Sun
    The prospect of seeing the Northern Lights is drawing increasing numbers of tourists to northern Norway in winter, making the phenomenon almost as popular as the Midnight Sun during the summer. Thousands are arriving regularly, from as far away as Japan and Taiwan. The coastal voyage line Hurtig ...
  • Former spy boss let off the hook
    The Norwegian agency that investigates possible criminal offenses by on-duty police has dropped its case against Janne Kristiansen, the former head of state police intelligence unit PST (Politiets sikkerhetstjeneste). She had faced fines and a jail term for revealing that Norway has intelligence ...
  • Fighter jet base landed at Ørland
    After months of rivalry and lobbying, Norway’s defense ministry will set up new bases for the country’s new fleet of F35 fighter jets at Ørland and Evenes instead of at Bodø, where the F16 fleet has been based for years. Bodø will continue as the F16 base at least until 2020, but cit ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Permaculture to the White House – Please Take ...
    Further to the last post on our UMass Amherst Permaculture project potentially being spotlighted by the White House and MTV, here’s the latest — we were leading the race but another project unexpectedly gained 20,000 votes today and has taken over first place due to their project be ...
  • Innovative New Irrigation System Could Help So ...
    Measured irrigation at Prospect Community Garden In developed nations, at least in the cities and most towns, we take it for granted that when we turn on a tap, water will flow…. When we flip a switch, electricity springs to our command. However this is not the reality for many communit ...
  • Grow your own Drugs
    Pharmaceutical companies have been raiding nature’s larder for years and isolating ingredients to make high cost, patented, chemical drugs to cure our ails. My friend Florence who is 99 tells me that there is a plant for every ailment and James Wong agrees. An ethno-botanist and gardene ...
  • Gold Coast Permaculture Workshops, March 2012
    Mental Health First Aid Course There will be a mental heath first aid course run over two Saturdays on 10 and 31 March from 10am — 4pm on 10 March, and 10am — 3pm on Saturday 31 March. It is sponsored by Gold Coast Permaculture and will be held at Griffith University Gold Coast Camp ...
  • Stabilizing the Climate with “Permanent Agricu ...
    Trees are one of our most powerful tools to pull carbon from the atmosphere and sequester it in the soil for long-term storage. This is why reforestation and protecting intact forests are such important parts of plans to address climate change. Conventional climate change science tells us that t ...

Pointman's

  • The Climate Wars.
    If you’ve ever fought someone much bigger and stronger than you, then you learn some lessons quickly or you perish. If you stand your ground, they’ll destroy you, because they’re just so much more powerful than you, so you give ground. You’ve still got to fight them, so you jab at them as you gi ...
  • Fakegate claims its first scalp.
    The prominent climate alarmist Peter Gleick, has just admitted obtaining by identity theft the Heartland material and emailing it anonymously to journalists sympathetic to “the cause”. There are some things to be noted when reading his confession. It was obviously drafted with legal help and a v ...
  • Fakegate and post-modern journalism.
    Fakegate has been a very public reverse for climate alarmism. Instead of being a successful smear of the Heartland Institute and other parties, it’s likely to be viewed in retrospect as a turning point in the manner in which the mainstream and online media covers dissenting institutions and voic ...
  • Fakegate.
    I’ve been watching the developments following the publication of the Heartland documents, what’s now very appropriately become known as Fakegate. As usual, the propaganda organ of climate alarmism, otherwise known as the mainstream media, has been very quick off the mark to circulate any materia ...
  • Being you.
    We all have this need to fit in. It’s natural and it’s a good thing. We’re encouraged to do it from the year dot. Nobody wants the “doesn’t play well with other kids” label, so you sort of go along with the thing and anyway, you get to play a few games of football if … Read more

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Bradley Manning, Solitary Confinement and Occu ...
    Today US Army Private Bradley Manning is to be formally charged with numerous crimes at Fort Meade, Maryland. Manning, who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by members of the Icelandic Parliament, is charged with releasing hundreds of thousands of documents exposing secrets of the US ...
  • Message to Occupy Prisons Protests, By Robert King
    The below message, from Robert King, a former New Orleans Black Panther and member of Angola Three, was recently published in the International Coalition to Free the Angola Three newsletter. First of all I would like to applaud and salute those in the Occupy movement for focusing on the hideou ...
  • Report From Resistance in Alabama to Racist An ...
    I arrived in Alabama 2 days before HB 56 went into effect with the original plan of being here for 2 weeks. That turned into 3 months. I have just returned for 6 more months to work with the Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice. I learned about the incredibly egregious law HB 56 and I l ...
  • What Does Gender Have To Do With Housing? By S ...
    From the Bridge The Gulf website: This article is adapted from my comments on the panel “Laying the Groundwork: Why do we need to understand gender to understand the major housing issues of our day?” with Gary Perry of Seattle University, and Charmel Gaulden with the Gulf Coast Fair Housi ...
  • For Volunteers in New Orleans: Principles of P ...
    More than six years after Hurricane Katrina, volunteers are still coming to New Orleans from across the US. We appreciate the solidarity, but we also think it is important to be conscious of the limits of volunteerism. In that spirit, we believe it is useful to republish this 2007 letter, origin ...

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    http://www.eju.org/news/eju-events/firs ... d-brussels 17 February 2012 - Last updated 08:35AM The inaugural meeting of the 120 elected members of the first ever European Jewish Parliament (EJP), described as a new and innovative forum to voice the thoughts, beliefs and ideas as well as conce ...
  • History and Philosophy of Zionism/Judaism/&quo ...
    . Political Ponerology - The Study of Evil in Politics “In the author’s opinion, Ponerology reveals itself to be a new branch of science born out of historical need and the most recent accomplishments of medicine and psychology. In light of objective naturalistic language, it studies the caus ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    "Talmud Timmy" you are just pissed-off because I fully-support Charles Giuliani, a man who was going to become a priest before he realized the incompatiblities of everything that he was reading, especially the ABSOLUTE incompatibility of The Old Testament and The New Testament. I am p ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Looks like this is indeed the bogus article. It is still up at #infowars. Jones is so busted.Statistics: Posted by Timothy_Fitzpatrick — Sat Mar 03, 2012 11:59 pm
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    LordLindsey wrote: Just awful, it is; the ignorance of critically important back-story information explaining what is happening NOW is just in-excusable. I am here sitting on my bed in my under-wear wearing a holed-up t-shirt, and I am fully-aware of the news from the past and present and try d ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Some Scandinavian Conifers Survived the Last I ...
    A new study has found that some Scandinavian conifers were able to survive the harsh conditions of the last Ice Age, a finding that upends the long-held view that the region’s landscape was wiped clean by a massive blanket of ice. While scientists have long believed contemporary University of ...
  • Ocean Acidifying Faster Than Any Time in 300 M ...
    The world’s oceans may be acidifying faster today than during any period over the last 300 million years, a phenomenon that could have dire consequences for many marine species and ecosystems, according to a new study. In a review of hundreds of paleoceanographic studies, a team of scientists fo ...
  • NASA Images Depict Rapid Loss of Thick Arctic ...
    A new comparison of satellite images from 1980 and 2012 vividly depicts the rapid disappearance of thick, multi-year Arctic Ocean ice in winter. Over the past three decades, the extent of the Arctic’s thickest ice has declined by 15 to 17 percent per decade, according to Click to enlarge NA ...
  • How a Gold Mining Boom is Killing the Children ...
    It is a pattern seen in various parts of the world — children being sickened from exposure to lead from mining activities. But the scale of the problem in Nigeria’s gold-mining region of Zamfara is unprecedented: More than 400 children have died and thousands more have been severely poisoned by ...
  • Chinese Leaders Impose New Rules to Reduce Air ...
    Bowing to increasing public concern about poor air quality, the Chinese government has approved strict new air pollution standards, including tougher rules for ozone and for particulate matter smaller than 2.5 micrometers in diameter. The new rules, approved during an executive meeting of the St ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • 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 ...

Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Prisons to give special consideration to inmat ...
    The Justice Ministry has issued a new guideline for handling prisoners with gender identity disorder that allows them to bathe alone and wear the underwear of the gender they identify with, sources said Saturday. The guideline was issued after some prisoners who were born male but identify the ...
  • Blind presumption of atrocities
    Regarding Shai Greenberg's Feb. 23 letter, "Unbearable cost of Iranian oil": How does Japan's purchase of Iranian oil lead to the government in Tehran continuing "its atrocities against the Iranian people"? Is it not a case of blind ignorance to write this — as if atrocities do indeed take ...
  • Maple Leafs dismiss Wilson; Carlyle takes over
    Even Brian Burke had seen enough. After watching his Toronto Maple Leafs crash out of playoff position under coach Ron Wilson, the general manager finally decided to fire his college roommate.
  • Ministry hid data on fallout from public
    Former science minister Yoshiaki Takaki and other top ministry officials decided to withhold radiation forecast data from the public four days after the March 11 disasters triggered the nuclear crisis, an internal document shows. Takaki, lawmakers serving as top ministry officials and senior b ...
  • Reysol capture Xerox Super Cup
    J. League champion Kashiwa Reysol handed newly promoted FC Tokyo a reality check ahead of the new season with a 2-1 win in the Xerox Super Cup on Saturday. Tokyo went into the curtain-raising match at National Stadium full of confidence after winning its first-ever Emperor's Cup on New Year's ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Santa Claus Delivers a Positive Quarter Despit ...
    The Month: Christmas Gift Canada’s economy was buoyed by Christmas cheer as a December bounce more than offset slight declines in October and November to turn the fourth quarter positive. Unfortunately, one month does not make a trend. The key question is whether December’s strength continued in ...
  • What Obama’s Corporate Tax Proposal Means for ...
    The following commentary also appears on The Globe and Mail’s Global Exchange blog: Last week, there was much consternation in Canada’s business press that some modest reversals of provincial corporate tax cuts and President Obama’s proposed corporate tax changes could erode our competitiveness. ...
  • Debunking Drummond
    The Drummond report claims that Ontario is headed for a $30-billion deficit. This figure has been widely and uncritically reported. For example, The Globe and Mail printed four articles featuring this number in its February 18 edition. The Ontario government projected a balanced budget with a $1 ...
  • Québec Students Strike Over Tuition-Fee Hikes
    This morning, there are more than 65 000 students on strike in Québec. University students, but also college-level students, are walking out of classrooms to reverse the 75% raise in tuition fees over five years announced in the last provincial budget. In the space of a single week, the number o ...
  • New Generation of Thinkers Link Inequality, In ...
    This guest blog was written by Mike Marin and Anouk Dey. It originally appeared in the Toronto Star on February 24. The authors are part of a team that produced the report Prospering Together (in English http://bit.ly/z4GQx5  and in French http://bit.ly/yabiK2) What do the Occupy Movement and Ca ...

ReDress

  • Craven Liberal Democrats dump human rights cha ...
    Stuart Littlewood argues that the sacking of Jenny Tonge - one of Britain's most committed campaigners for human rights - from the Liberal Democrats' parliamentary party after criticizing Israel highlights the hypocrisy of the UK's Liberal Democrats, the cowardice of their leader Nick Clegg and ...
  • On the claim of US exceptionalism
    Lawrence Davidson proposes an alternative to military power as a measure of a nations greatness or exceptionalism, and that is a nation's ability provide its citizens with adequate food, decent education and housing, good healthcare and productive work at a living wage.
  • What nasty surprises await our warmongers in t ...
    Stuart Littlewood looks at the tinderbox that is waiting to explode in the Persian Gulf as the USA and Britain contemplate doing Israel's bidding and attacking Iran, and suggests that if Britain's Israel flag wavers love Israel so much, then they should "don uniform and flak-jacket" and go play ...
  • The not-so-hidden limits to freedom in the West
    Ziad El-Hady argues that although superficially Western societies are free, in reality people in the West are enslaved to debt through a relationship with financial institutions that "mirrors many of the attributes of an oppressive master-slave relationship: ownership, obedience, burden and seve ...
  • A vision of harmony in Palestine
    Gilad Atzmon outlines a vision of Palestinian-Jewish reconciliation in Palestine where Jews, freed of their Zionist state and its ideology of oppression, exclusiveness, exceptionalism, and racial supremacy and segregation, live side by side with Palestinians as citizens of one state with equal ...

Physics Today

  • US researchers convert wastewater to energy
    BBC: Researchers at the Pennsylvania State University have developed a prototype device that can simultaneously treat wastewater and generate electricity. They employed reverse electrodialysis (RED), which is commonly used to desalinate seawater. In that process, fresh water and salt water are p ...
  • Spiral radio waves could transform broadcasting
    Nature: To relieve congestion on radio bandwidths caused by the ever-growing number of smartphones and laptops, researchers at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics in Uppsala and the University of Padua in Italy are developing methods to create and detect spiral radio waves, which twist around ...
  • North Korea agrees to suspend nuclear testing
    Nature: North Korea will suspend uranium enrichment, long-range ballistic-missile development, and nuclear testing in exchange for 240 000 tons of food aid from the US. North Korea will also allow inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to enter the Yongbyon nuclear ...
  • Urban coconut plantation wins European student ...
    Guardian: As part of his final course work for the UK's Sheffield Hallam University last year, Jacob Szikora designed a coconut growing facility for Sheffield's London Road. His Concrete Orchard went on to win the EDUCATE Prize, an international award that recognizes students for innovative idea ...
  • Canada renews its support of the International ...
    Huffington Post: Canada has decided to extend its commitment to the International Space Station from 2015 to 2020. It's the last of the five ISS partners to commit to supporting the station through its current projected life span. The announcement came as the heads of the major space agencies we ...

Revolutionary Politics

  • Americans Blame Wasteful Government Spending f ...
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  • The great fuel fail: ethanol from corn
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  • The Charts That Show Why the U.S. Is ‘Screwed’
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Peakwater

  • Native Indian tribes facing ‘extinction& ...
    “The push to exploit natural resources is having a huge impact on native Indian communities across Latin America. All too often, they say, their interests and preserving their way of life end up coming second to energy companies and the pursuit of profits. Serving as the most notorious exa ...
  • USDA Unveils New Conservation Program
    “The U.S. Department of Agriculture unveiled a program Friday that will offer financial incentives for farmers to enroll up to 1 million new acres of grasslands and wetlands into the conservation reserve program. “The government pays farmers to idle about 30 million acres of erodible ...
  • Desal Opponents Vow To Press On With Ballot Me ...
    “SANTA CRUZ – Despite a move by the city to let voters decide the fate of a proposed seawater desalination plant, opponents pledged Thursday to charge “full-speed ahead” on gathering signatures for a November ballot measure also designed to give voters a say. Paul Gratz, ...
  • Encroaching Deserts Threaten Life Along Tibet& ...
    “Rising temperatures, reduced rainfall and excessive numbers of grazing animals are worsening desertification and drying up grasslands in western Tibet, says a Chinese geologist who has explored one of the region’s uncharted rivers. Yang Yong said he had observed desertification in parts o ...
  • Thailand Defies Neighbors on Contentious Xayab ...
    “Bangkok, Thailand – As the governments of the Mekong region continue to deliberate on the proposed Xayaburi Dam in Laos, the Thai government has defied the regional decision-making process and pushed ahead with the project’s implementation. Recent oversight hearings by the Thai Senate and ...

D. Kucinich

  • Kucinich Calls for Stronger Rules to Protect C ...
    Fifteen to thirty dollars in the price of a barrel of oil is attributable to oil speculators.  At $106 a barrel, the price of oil is leading to increased gas prices for consumers.  Consumers in the Cleveland area are now paying $3.74 a gallon for gasoline and the price is expected to r ...
  • Kucinich to Clinic: Cash Needed at Home
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), the leading advocate for a fair distribution of uncompensated care in Cuyahoga County, released the following statement in response to Cleveland Clinic CEO Toby Cosgrove’s “State of the Clinic” address: “Though poverty in and around the Cleveland area is d ...
  • Kucinich: No More Excuses: Justice for “Underw ...
    Washington D.C. (February 29, 2012) -- Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH), today reiterated his call to Edward DeMarco, the Acting Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (F.H.F.A.), which oversees Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, to write down principal amounts for struggling homeowners. Kucinich, who ...
  • Kucinich Addresses Great Lakes Day
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today addressed a gathering of more than 100 at the Great Lakes Commission’s Great Lakes Day in Washington D.C. Kucinich discussed the need to protect federal funding to strengthen and restore the Great Lakes. He also called attention to the threat to the Great ...
  • Kucinich Delivers Results: Local Communities E ...
    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers today unveiled its Section 205 Flood Risk Management Project Status Update for Independence and Valley View in Ohio's 10th Congressional District.  The study was requested by Congressman Kucinich (D-OH) on behalf of affected communities after major floods in ...

Authentically Wired

  • glass highwqy
    … Glass highway … now that’s thinking outside the box …   The price of asphalt pavement made from petroleum has escalated to 10 times its price 4 years ago.   The Solar Roadways project is working to pave roads with solar panels that you can drive on – and which not only pay for ...
  • … WOW … wow
    …You Don’t Want this Flying in Through Your Window…   The Brookings Institution predicts that robots on the battlefield will be a paradigm-shifting "revolution in military affairs."   They expect to see future wars fought by the descendants of today’s drones, ...
  • Can sewage reuse help solve
      … Reclaiming sewage can be very beneficial … what is objectionable is water regulators proclivity to anoint this reclaimed sewage as SAFE without providing to us full disclosure and transparency on precisely how they arrived at this determination …           Recla ...
  • creators of Agent Orange
        … DOW CHEMICAL … trust us … creators of Agent Orange … and now OK so our herbicide hurt some trees … it was just a few .. Come on now … USDA … FDA … AMA … ADA … CODEX … all give a big thumbs up to GMO crops … come [...]
  • … Remember whose watching your back
    … Remember whose watching your back … Mon$anto owned USDA … FDA … CODEX … Congre$$ … $upreme Court … Monsanto’s New Sweet Corn, Another Unregulated, Unlabeled Frankenfood Government regulation of genetically engineered crops, already weak, is increasingly non-existent. The latest example o ...

Popular Technology

  • Mastering the Firefox Search Bar
    As a veteran online searcher, data miner, researcher, and computer scientist, I have in the past shied away from using in-browser search bars... instead preferring to use the search tools available on individual sites. This is for practical and functional purposes, as: [1] in-site searches t ...
  • The Truth about SourceWatch
    SourceWatch is a propaganda site funded by an extreme left-wing, anti-capitalist and anti-corporate organization, the Center for Media and Democracy. Just like the untrustworthy Wikipedia the content can be written and edited by ordinary web users. Users who all conveniently share an extreme lef ...
  • Correcting misinformation about the journal En ...
    A frequent source of contention in the global warming debate is the existence of skeptical peer-reviewed papers. These have been overwhelmingly proven to exist. Once confronted with this inconvenient truth, alarmists have desperately tried to discredit the journals that dare publish these papers ...
  • Origin of the Popular Technology.net Peer-Revi ...
    There are various myths floating around online about where the Popular Technology.net peer-reviewed paper list originated, falsely giving credit to people who copied earlier versions of my list and published it as their own. The following is a brief history,Back in February 2007 I began compilin ...
  • 900+ Peer-Reviewed Papers Supporting Skepticis ...
    WARNING: Do not accept any criticisms of this list without reading the notes or emailing, populartechnology (at) gmail (dot) comRead: The following papers support skepticism of AGW or AGW Alarm defined as, "concern relating to a negative environmental or socio-economic effect of AGW, usually exa ...

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Model airplane used to monitor rainforests - c ...
    Conservationists have converted a remote-controlled plane into a potent tool for conservation. Using seed funding from the National Geographic Society, The Orangutan Conservancy, and the Denver Zoo, Lian Pin Koh, an ecologist at the ETH Zürich, and Serge Wich, a biologist at the University ...
  • The year in review for rainforests
    2011 was designated as "Year of the Forests" by the United Nations. While there was relatively little progress on intergovernmental forest protection programs during the year, a lot happened elsewhere. Below is a look at some of the biggest tropical forest-related news stories for 2011. We at mo ...
  • Our top nature pictures of 2011
    My reporting for mongabay.com took me to six continents in 2011 and I managed to take photos on many of the trips. Overall I added more than 10,000 new photos to the travel section of the site. Below are some of my favorite pictures from 2011. Thank you for reading mongabay.com in 2011 and I wi ...
  • Herpetology curator: behind-the-scenes of 'new ...
    Bryan Stuart’s mission as a curator of amphibians and reptiles at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences is to understand the diversity of life on earth. For that, he documents what species occur where and why. He’s particularly attracted to areas where there’s a dearth ...
  • Is the Russian Forest Code a warning for Brazil?
    Brazil, which last week moved to reform its Forest Code, may find lessons in Russia's revision of its forest law in 2007, say a pair of Russian scientists. The Brazilian Senate last week passed a bill that would relax some of forest provisions imposed on landowners. Environmentalists blasted th ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • University's death toll - 25,000 animals in tw ...
    More than 25,000 animals including fish have died during research and teaching at the University of Otago since 2009, and the figures are expected to increase significantly when statistics are collated for 2011.About 53,334 animals...
  • Diesel exhausts increase cancer risk: Study
    There is new evidence that exposure to exhaust from diesel engines increases the risk of lung cancer.Diesel exhaust has long been classified as a probable carcinogen. But the 20-year study from the National Cancer Institute took...
  • Recession forces plant and food research cuts
    Up to 25 scientists are likely to lose their jobs at government-owned Plant and Food Research and another 18 could be forced to move cities to keep their positions.The Crown Research Institute has struggled in the last year because...
  • Mighty fossil fleas nearly 25mm long
    In the Jurassic era, even the flea was a beast, compared with its minuscule modern descendants. These pesky bloodsuckers were nearly 25mm long.New fossils found in China are evidence of the oldest fleas - from 125 million to 165...
  • Enhancing human mind raises six million dollar ...
    Forty years ago, the first bionic human featured in the hit United States TV science-fiction series The Six Million Dollar Man. Today, he has become science fact.New technologies that "intervene" in the brain, building superhuman...

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  • NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS AND VISITORS
    As of today this website will be inactive by webmaster. there will be no further reports or updated information of any kind. however all information that is currently on the website will remain as an archive for the purpose of … Continue reading →
  • AARON MCCOLLUM’S FINAL MESSAGE
      http://www.blogtalkradio.com/universaltruthevolution/2011/07/07/a-special-announcement-by-aaron-mccollum-on-ute Exist Free…. Thank you Aaron Filed under: Black Projects, Common Purpose, Current Events, Dis-Information, Economic Collapse, Elite, Extraterrestrial, Festival of Enlighte ...
  • SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FROM AARON MCCOLLUM ON UT ...
      This Thursday I will be the guest on Universal Truth Evolution Radio to discuss some extremely important information and make a special announcement. I ask that everyone who takes the information provided on Truth Survival tune in to this … Continue reading →
  • WHY WE WON’T CELEBRATE THE 4TH OF JULY * ...
    Simply put…The celebration of a holiday that we see as now dead is pointless. Think of this what you will but can YOU honestly say that the people of this country are still truly free? Should we as a nation … Continue reading →
  • DISARMAMENT OF THE ELITE
    Report written by Roma AKA A2B           The Elite want to disarm us, they don’t want us to use our tools and weapons against their tyrannical selves. How about turning the tables… we disarm them, what … Continue reading →

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Romney Leads by Mile; Paul, Santo Fight for Se ...
    With a little under half precincts reporting in the Washington State caucus, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is in first place with a double-digit lead. Ron Paul and Rick Santorum are in a tight race for second place. Newt Gingrich's flatlining campaign will most likely get ...
  • Cathy Young on Islam, Free Speech, and Democracy
    The story that flew around the blogosphere last week was guaranteed to cause an uproar: A Muslim assaults an atheist for mocking Mohammed, and a Muslim judge dismisses the charges and berates the victim—and it all happens here in America. Suddenly, warnings about the threat of Sharia ...
  • Do-Nothing Congress Ignores Threat from the Sun
    A Slashdot contributor gazes up into the firmament and is frozen with horror at the madness dwelling in the deep skyey voids:  A privately employed solar scientist named Pete Riley estimates there's a 12 percent chance of a massive solar storm comparable to the Carrington Even ...
  • The Wiki Stratfor Dump
    The world seems united behind the idea that Wikileaks hacked dump of Stratfor emails was uninteresting or an embarrassment, and I myself have not spend extended time studying the raw stuff out there. Jack Shafer thinks the emails "underwhelm" and Talking Points Memo thinks the main ...
  • Sheldon Richman on Oil Sanctions and the Prete ...
    The sanctions imposed by the U.S. and the EU on Iranian crude oil exports were not supposed to cause a spike in oil prices. Yet as Reuters analyst John Kemp reported this week, “the policy has backfired.” This is despite the fact that President Barack Obama, a smart guy advised by a s ...

Mercury Rising

  • Right-Wing Nutjob Jerome Corsi Works The Racis ...
    Despite the fact that Jerome Corsi’s new book Where’s the Birth Certificate? was rendered moot by Obama’s OKing the release of his long-form birth certificate, that hasn’t stopped Corsi from energetically working the Birther Grift: Retired detective and volunteer Maricopa ...
  • Abusive debt collection: your war, too
    I wrote up my experience with people trying to collect a non-existent debt: Fraudulent collection is often not directed against genuine debtors–they don’t have any money! Fraudulent collection is being deployed against people who do have money, and therefore don’t have any debt. Yes, they are co ...
  • Nixon’s Treason
    Treason is very specifically defined in the Constitution: Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same ...
  • Finally someone figures out how to respond to ...
    I have taken a certain amount of flak over my criticism of NOW President Terry O’Neill for what I regard as a weak response to Rush Limbaugh’s abuse of Sandra Fluke as a “slut” and “prostitute” because she wanted to have insurance pay for birth control for her ...
  • Why we fight?
    Via Alyona on RT, George Zornick of The Nation: According to a Defense Department spokesman, the most recent operation that killed an Al Qaeda fighter was in April 2011—ten months ago. However, there was an “Al Qaeda foreign fighter” captured near Kabul in May 2011, and an “Al Qaeda facilitator” ...

Reality Sandwich

  • This Week on Evolver Planet Radio
    Evolver Planet Radio, where world-changing ideas come together:  this weekly show talks about the shift in consciousness, models and practices for change, experiences with spiritual awakening and how the practical can create the ideal. Evolver Planet Radio is the perfect frequency at which to tr ...
  • Truth in Labeling
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  • Druids On Film
    This March, the Druid Beat's psychedelic new film, "One Thousand Chemical Hypotheses Concerning The Subterranean Realm," screens at Space 15 Twenty in LA. If David Lynch and Willy Wonka grew offspring out of a DMT-infused egg, this would be it. read more
  • Checkmated by My Love
      The following is excerpted from The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic: The Parallel Lives of People as Planets: Keeping the Seeds Alive by Martín Prechtel, published by North Atlantic Books. read more
  • Ancient History Rocks - Again!
    Can a revised, more accurate and imaginative view of ancient history help us expand our consciousness, rewrite our modern global myths and kickstart the earth into a brighter cycle in 2012? read more

Desertification

  • ARGENTINA: Three-Quarters of "Breadbasket" Is ...
    How has Argentina managed to maintain its image as one of the world's breadbaskets when a full three-fourths of its territory consists of drylands? This was one of the questions raised by the scientists who decided to create the National Observatory on Land Degradation and Desertification this year.
  • MAURITANIA: Ravaged by Drought - the Number of ...
    Mariem Mint Ahmedou sits cross-legged on a worn-out carpet in a basic tent built with mud bricks and layers of sewn-together fabric. Her eight-month-old twins, Hussein and Hassan, lie weakly against her body. Both of them have been malnourished since birth, because Beydar, undernourished h ...
  • Cloud Seeding - Uncertain Solution for Mexico' ...
    As half of Mexico endures one of the most severe droughts in its history, cloud seeding appears to be a promising way to bring desperately needed rain, although it remains a source of controversy.
  • 2011 - A Year of Weather Extremes, with More t ...
    The global average temperature in 2011 was 14.52 degrees Celsius (58.14 degrees Fahrenheit). According to NASA scientists, this was the ninth warmest year in 132 years of recordkeeping, despite the cooling influence of the La Niña atmospheric and oceanic circulation pattern and rela ...
  • ARGENTINA: Drought Threat Looms Again
    The low humidity in Argentina's most agriculturally productive region has already caused a decline in grain yield - in particular corn and soybean - with ensuing losses for producers and the government.

Automatic Earth

  • The Automatic Earth on the move
    At around 6 PM EST, Sunday, February 5, The Automatic Earth will move to its new site, TheAutomaticEarth.orgThe Blogger site, where you are right now, will eventually be closed. The comments section will be closed immediately.After 4 years at Blogger, we feel it's high time for us to widen our s ...
  • January 31 2012: Goal-Seeked Analyses for Gold
    Unknown Dreaming of great fortunes 1858California gold miner joining the British Columbia goldrush Ashvin Pandurangi: After the Fed’s latest announcement on January 25, in which the central bank said very little more than the obvious ("exceptionally low" fed funds rate at least through late 201 ...
  • The Report That Will Blow Up The Eurozone
    Jack Delano Hot Sugar January 1942Guanica, Puerto Rico. "Burning a sugar cane field. This process destroys the leaves and makes the cane easier to harvest" Ilargi: No, I’m not talking about the fact that Germany and Holland want to take over as the de facto government in Greece, as Noah Barkin ...
  • January 25 2012: Occupy Your Own Space
    Dorothea Lange PlantationJune 1937"Wife and child of tractor driver. Aldridge Plantation, Mississippi" Ilargi: For today’s global financial problems, there are no solutions that are favorable to either incumbent politicians or wannabe leaders (unless they’re extremists, perhaps), let alone to t ...
  • January 22 2012: The End is the Beginning is t ...
    Tyne & Wear Archives and Museums Just watch me June 9 1902Fron album of prisoners brought before the North Shields Police Court in England between 1902 and 1916. Time has stopped before us The sky cannot ignore us No one can separate us For we are all that is left The echo bounces off me Th ...

Press TV

  • 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.
  • Psychotherapy helps end stage patients
    A psychotherapy technique including spirituality and finding meaning for life and death may improve quality of life and well-being of terminally ill patients.
  • ‘World must slam Pakistan Shia killings’
    A senior Iranian cleric has condemned the international organizations’ silence over a deadly attack in northern Pakistan that left at least 18 Shia Muslims dead last week.
  • New imaging detects tiny brain damages
    Scientists have developed a new MRI-based technology for pinpointing damages that traumatic injuries may leave in the deep brain wiring.
  • CIA set to control Afghanistan after 2014
    Pentagon may put the US special forces under CIA control in Afghanistan after 2014, allowing the Whitehouse to claim troops have been withdraw as they will be considered spies.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

  • Reducing Cancer Risk Factors
    The biggest study so far into cancer risk factors confirms our understanding of the lifestyle choices that may lead to cancer... Kat - For my day job I work for Cancer Research UK and we put o...
  • Voyager Casts off the Hydrogen-Tinted Spectacles
    This week a team of researchers in France, Russia and the USA have reported that Voyager Spacecrafts 1 2 - launched 34 years ago - have made it far enough out of the solar system to detect Lyman...
  • Spooky Diamonds a Step Towards Quantum Computing
    This week, researchers from the UK, Canada and Singapore have accomplished quantum entanglement on the macro scale, entangling two millimeter-sizeddiamonds. Typically we think of objects movin...
  • Gauging photo fakery
    A technique to quantify the perceptual impact of photo-manipulation on fashion shots has been developed by US scientists. On a daily basis, billboards, magazines and websites dish up a deluge of wri...
  • Antibody-based vaccine for HIV
    A modified virus encoding an anti-AIDS antibody can protect animals from HIV infection. An estimated 7000 new cases of HIV occur each day, the majority of them in developing countries where access t...

Nick Turse

  • Syrian soldiers who defected to join the Free ...
    Syrian soldiers who defected to join the Free Syrian Army (FSA) pose for a photograph at an FSA base outside the town of Qusair January 8, 2012. Picture taken January 8, 2012. REUTERS/Stringer
  • Syrian soldiers who have defected to join the ...
    Syrian soldiers who have defected to join the Free Syrian Army, sit in a car as they hold their rifles as they secure the area during a funeral of a protester Mazen abou Dhahab in Saqba, January 27, 2012. REUTERS/ Ahmed Jadallah
  • A Syrian soldier displays weapons seized from ...
    A Syrian soldier displays weapons seized from what officials say were gunmen, during the tour of Arab monitors in Damascus countryside Harasta January 26, 2012. Syrian authorities are holding ceasefire talks with rebels who have seized some areas near Damascus, a local official said on Thur ...
  • An activist from Ukrainian feminist group FEME ...
    An activist from Ukrainian feminist group FEMEN stands near barbed wire during a topless protest on February 1st, 2012, in Zurich against the Hockey world cup in 2014 in Belarus. Getty
  • Winners and losers: The US Army’s top soldier ...
    Winners and losers: The US Army’s top soldier talks victory in Iraq In my latest article at Al Jazeera English, I ask the Army’s top soldier whether the U.S. won the Iraq War and receive a tortured response that made me cringe on his behalf.  You can read it here.  In a piece published earlier ...
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