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Thomas Paine

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Tuesday, March 6, 2012

6 March - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • The legal case against attacking Iran
    Summary: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to Washington has provoked a broad debate over the military and political wisdom of an attack on Iran. But so far, there has been little attention to the legal issues involved, which are crucial. American support for a preemptive stri ...
  • Obama Meets Netanyahu
    Summary: Obama distances US from Netanyahu's rhetoric and prepares for 2012 elections source: Real Newsread more
  • Pakistan warns against aggression on Iran
    Summary: Any aggression against Iran over its nuclear programme will have “disastrous consequences” for the whole region, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar has warned. source: FIRSTPOSTread more
  • Are we headed for a Bay of Pigs in Iran?
    Summary: About 15 years ago, when the United States was first experimenting with wide-ranging sanctions against Iran, an Iranian acquaintance remarked to me, “I certainly hope Iran doesn’t become another Cuba.” source: CNNread more
  • Activists Occupy AIPAC with message to Congres ...
    Summary: Washington, DC—An AIPAC Policy Conference panel titled “Stopping Iran” had some unexpected speakers: activists with Occupy AIPAC who stood up and “mic checked” Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Israeli Ambassador Jeremy Issacharoff. At about 2pm on March 5, four activists called ...

The Daily Galaxy

Natural News

  • Coriander oil (cilantro) can be used to treat ...
    (NaturalNews)Food-borne illness outbreaks and the growing prevalence of antibiotic-resistant "superbugs" are two very serious societal problems for which researchers say they are actively looking for viable solutions. But one such solution found right in nature is coriander oil,...
  • U.S. Army dietician promotes mess hall labelin ...
    If you've ever known anyone who's been in the military, no doubt you've heard horror stories about how bad the chow is. In fact, one of a service member's favorite pastimes is joking about the food. But in the new age of military cuts, some in the nation's armed forces...
  • Woman reverses Lyme disease with raw milk fasting
    A woman reports that she has reversed Lyme disease by fasting with raw milk. This is not a suggestion for Lyme disease suffers, but a confirmation that raw milk from grass fed cows does have health-promoting properties. Most Lyme disease sufferers clamor for antibiotics...
  • Common pesticides double children's risk of ADHD
    Many people think organic fruits and vegetables are too expensive to buy for family meals. But those who have a hyperactive child should think again. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately 4.5 million children ages 5 to 17 in the US...
  • Amazing facts about psychiatry revealed by psy ...
    I can't think of a more fitting first guest for Mental Health Exposed. Our mission is to expose the fraud, abuse and incompetence in the mental health industry, as well as promote natural and effective methods of healing. Peter Breggin, MD and I discuss all of the above...

Threat Level

  • LulzSec Leader Was Snitch Who Helped Snag Fell ...
    A top LulzSec leader turned informant last year after he was secretly arrested, providing information to law enforcement that led to the arrests Tuesday of other top members of the hacking group, including one alleged to be deeply involved in December’s Stratfor hack, federal authorities s ...
  • Uncle Sam: If It Ends in .Com, It’s .Seizable
    The U.S. government says it has the right to seize any .com, .net and .org domain name because the companies that have the contracts to administer them are based on United States soil, according to Nicole Navas, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman.
  • Feds Move to Extradite Megaupload Founder Kim ...
    Federal authorities have moved to extradite Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom, who was arrested in New Zealand in January in connection with what authorities called one of the largest criminal copyright infringement cases ever. The New Zealand Herald said Monday that the paperwork, which the Justice ...
  • Sony Hackers Stole $253M Worth of Music Files
    It appears that hackers who breached Sony’s networks last year absconded with more than just the personal information of millions of Sony Play Station users. They also stole more than 50,000 music files, including Michael Jackson’s entire back catalogue of published music, as well as previously ...
  • 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.

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Ronald Romney Forgets Iran-Contra
    For the second time in four months, Mitt Romney has penned a tough-talking op-ed on the Iranian nuclear program. But this time, the almost certain GOP presidential nominee has introduced a new riff to his constant refrain that "If we re-elect Barack Obama, Iran will have a nuclear weapon. If yo ...
  • Conservatives Silent About Romney-Alinsky Link
    Barack Obama was 10 years old when legendary activist and organizer Saul Alinsky died in 1972. Nevertheless, right-wingers are frothing at the mouth at the discovery posthumously unearthed by the late Andrew Breitbart that then Illinois State Senator Obama was part of panel discussion after a 1 ...
  • How Can Mitt Romney Sleep at Night?
    Less than 24 hours after refusing to take hate radio host Rush Limbaugh to task for slandering Sandra Fluke , Mitt Romney reached a new low on Saturday. During an exchange with an Army mom yesterday in Ohio, Romney asked of the President who killed Osama Bin Laden, "How in the world can the com ...
  • 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 ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • Stephen Cohen on Vladimir Putin, Russia's Oppo ...
    Thousands of people took to the streets of Moscow on Monday protesting alleged fraud in Vladimir Putin's return to the presidency. An estimated 500 were arrested in parallel rallies in Moscow and St. Petersburg after initial results gave Putin a 63 percent victory in Sunday's vote. Putin previou ...
  • Anti-Nuclear Groups in Georgia Seek to Block F ...
    On this Super Tuesday in Georgia, one issue where the Republican candidates fully agree with President Obama is nuclear power. The nation's first reactors since 1978 recently won federal approval. Atlanta-based Southern Company is attempting to build two new reactors at the Vogtle plant in easte ...
  • Freedom University: Undocumented College Stude ...
    As Georgia votes in its Super Tuesday primary, the State Senate has voted to ban undocumented immigrant students from all public universities. Undocumented students from Georgia are already barred from the state's five most competitive schools and must pay out-of-state tuition at other state sch ...
  • Attorney General Eric Holder Defends Legality ...
    Using armed drones, President Obama has overseen the targeted killing of at least three U.S. civilians overseas — more than President Bush did in office. Are the killings legal? Hina Shamsi, director of the ACLU’s National Security Project, says Attorney General Eric Holder’s defense on Monday o ...
  • Headlines for March 6, 2012
    Iran to Allow Nuclear Inspectors into Secret Military Complex, Obama Urges Netanyahu to Back Off on Military Threats Against Iran, Retired Generals Sign Open Letter Opposing War with Iran, Holder Defends Killing of U.S. Citizens Overseas, Death Toll in Attack on Yemeni Troops Tops 185, Voters He ...

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

  • Book Lorax’s Opinion of Movie Lorax
    More on the Lorax Movie From WaPo: The Lorax helps market Mazda SUVs to elementary school children nationwide From HuffPo: ‘The Lorax’ Movie: Environmental Message & SUV Spokesman From The Stranger: The Lorax: A ThreeD Is a Thing Dr. Seuss Shouldn’t Need Joe’s
  • Create Car-Free Streets in Your City or Town ( ...
      Ever wish you had some car-free streets in your city or town? At least once or twice a week? More and more cities across the U.S. and across the world are getting them, with the temporary street closings (i.e. once a week or once a month) commonly referred to as ciclovias. In the [...] ...
  • Wooden Bikes from Urban Trees
      Salvaged urban trees, to be specific. Masterworks Wood and Design takes on the fun, creative, and totally green work of turning salvaged urban trees into wooden bicycles — sweet-looking ones! More via a video from Masterworks Wood and Design: “The story of these bikes goes ...
  • Top 6 Countries Using Solar Energy
      Using solar energy has numerous advantages, and that’s why many countries have decided to use more renewable energy rather than rely on other forms of energy that are running out. Not only is solar energy much cheaper but it’s not as harmful to the environment since it doesn& ...
  • Warming Will Continue Even with Immediate Erad ...
    Even if we somehow managed to restore our planet’s atmosphere to zero greenhouse gases, temperatures would still continue to rise by a few tenths of a degree over the next 10 years. That is the best case scenario discovered by researchers who have written a paper to be published online in ...

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Axis of Logic

  • NAS Recognizes Global Warming as Established T ...
    Last year marked an important event for people fighting against global warming and climate change. The US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) acknowledged the validity of theories related to the two phenomena, and put them on par with such theories as Earth's age, the Big Bang and evoluti ...
  • UK Secretly Helping Canada Push its Tar Sands ...
    A European proposal would designate fuel from tar sands as resulting in 22 percent more greenhouse gas emissions than that from conventional fuels. But not if the UK has its way. The UK government has been giving secret support at the very highest ...
  • 39 dead in US tornado outbreak - World News
    5 March 2012 A spate of tornadoes Friday across the Midwest and South left 39 dead, hundreds injured, and entire towns demolished. Worst hit was eastern Kentucky, where at least 21 were killed, and southern Indiana, where 13 people died. Three others died in Ohio; Alabama and Georgia also ...
  • Chávez: I am recovering rapidly - World News
    VENEZUELAN President Hugo Chávez had a teleconference yesterday with Minister of Energy and Oil Rafael Ramírez, during which he expressed satisfaction with the achievements of the Grand Housing Mission Venezuela and informed him about his recuperation. Chávez assured Ramírez that he is ...
  • Zionists Attack Chavez - Bolivarian Republic o ...
    Chavez took the first round of hammering over alleged antisemitism at the early phase of his presidency in 1999 for his association with Argentinian political scientist and Peronist Norberto Rafael Ceresole who, in the early 1990ies, introduced the future Venezuelan leader to his Caudillo, Ejérc ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Has Herr Rush Lardbaugh Finally Overreached?
    For the first few days since the scandal broke, I wasn't inclined to post about it for one simple reason. Herr Lardbaugh has pulled these kinds of stunts before, and after initial firestorms has consistently gotten away with them. This time, it looks like he may not. Or might he? As of the lates ...
  • Songs to Fight the Plutocracy By: "Corporate ...
    By @KYYellowDog From Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns and Money: It is with great sadness that I have to write this obituary for the great Alaskan songwriter Buddy Tabor. It was only with my link to his song "3 Strikes You're Out," pointing out the hypocrisy of Rush Limbaugh that commenters notifyin ...
  • Missouri To Honor Racist Misogynist Hatemonger
    By @TomBales1 Amanda Peterson Beadle @ Think Progress: Radio host Rush Limbaugh will soon be honored in the Missouri Statehouse with a bust in the Hall of Famous Missourians. Limbaugh, a Missouri native whose show is losing advertisers after he verbally attacked Georgetown Law student Sandra Fl ...
  • Every Repug Loss Today is a Conservative Victo ...
    By @KYYellowDog Stop it. Stop smirking about the giant anti-sex stick up Rick Santorum's ass. Stop snorting and hooting over all the advertisers and stations that have dropped Rush Limbaugh. Stop emailing the list of the hundreds of lies Mitt Romney has told today. While you're high-fiving and p ...
  • Quote of the Day
    By @KYYellowDog To the extent that the repug War on Women has become a War on Sex for Pleasure, it is also a war on men. But this does not seem to have sunk in for even the most enlightened males. Sexual freedom is a two-way street. Bon the Geek at Zandar versus The Stupid: What would happen if ...

Care 2

  • Fleeing Homs with tales of slaughter
    People fleeing the Syrian city of Homs have accused the security forces of committing atrocities, including summary executions and cutting the throats of prisoners. Submitted by Agnes N. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Miracle Dog Survives Tornado (HEARTWARMING!)
    After all the sad news following the tornados, I just had to share this news. A little light during this dark time. Alabama man reunites with his dog he thought was lost during tornado. PHOTOS Submitted by Lindsey Williams to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Tell Congress to help increase global access t ...
    Lack of safe drinking water and sanitation is the single largest cause of illness in the world. The Water for the World Act, a bipartisan bill introduced in both the Senate and the House of Representatives, would improve America's ability to provide Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |&n ...
  • Utah - Stop Big Ag's Push To Hide Animal Abuse ...
    This so-called "ag-gag" bill is a violation of free speech rights and an attack on brave activists and journalists who risk their personal safety to expose the horrible cruelty of factory farms. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Co ...
  • SAY NO to SKYROS ROAD DOGS ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
    A number of shepherds on Skyros Island Greece have a cruel habit of using dogs as a tool to restrict the movements of goats and sheep in open spaces meaning that the dogs act as "fences", "scaregoats" or commonly known "alarm dogs". Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |  ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Unknowns of Trash Talk
    The Republican party is skittish enough with the muddy primaries so that the Limbaugh flap has quickly turned to a panic. The Democrats hold a large advantage with women voters in the recent polling, and the ad hominem attack on a single woman does not move the needle back toward 50-50. Am told ...
  • Doin’ It Like Bunnies Open Thread
    Boy, I tell you! The Republicans have obviously not gotten any for a while because they’ve been doin’ it with nearly every candidate. Hopping around the candidates like bunnies! There were a lot of one-night stands, a few relationships that lasted weeks, but most Republicans behaved ...
  • The Humane Side of Romney Shines Through
    Fox panelist Steve Hayes tweeted, “The best moment in the campaign for Romney … Compassionate, sincere and tough. And authentic.” Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com It is my sincere belief that Barack Obama would find similar words but is incapable of expressing the sa ...
  • Iran Busters
    Fresh brief on war warning. PM Netanyahu sits with POTUS Obama for a few hours Sunday 5. The subject is Iran. The skies are clearing over the target. Smile. The first priority is the back door of Gaza, where Hamas has stockpiled the missiles and weapons from Libya. Good ground to ground and grou ...
  • Centrist or Not, I Just Don’t Like Him
    As a centrist, you might think the current administration would be somewhat to my liking. But you’d be wrong. It’s easy enough to cherry-pick issues from both ends and call yourself a centrist. For example, suppose a politico supported gay marriage, but wanted to repeal Roe-Wade. That’s centrist ...

Futurismic

  • Censorship: I’m guilty as charged
    So, I stand accused of censorship by someone whose comment I declined to approve on this post. I figure anyone willing to throw around accusations of censorship is probably a big fan of radical transparency; hence, by way of amelioration, here is the digital papertrail for the full exchange. (Em ...
  • The Future Always Wins
    Soooooo, yeah – I’ve been busy. Did you miss me? New job, Masters degree… doesn’t leave a lot of spare time, so it doesn’t. But it’s been quiet here too long, so it’s time to dust down the soapbox and run a mic-check. One-two, one-two. The Future Always ...
  • New Economies
    Last month I pondered the extent to which the Arab Spring and Occupy Everything are socially-driven acts of creative destruction. Creative destruction is defined as a “process of industrial mutation that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Governor Tomblin Visits Morgantown - WBOY-TV
    Governor Tomblin Visits Morgantown WBOY-TV They wanted to know about the future of the state's natural resources, Tomblin's thoughts on mountain-top removal mining and state spending on education and research. "That's good," Tomblin said. "That means that they're p ...
  • SPEAKER: MATT WASSON DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMS APPA ...
    SPEAKER: MATT WASSON DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMS APPALACHIAN VOICES Utility Products Appalachian Voices is a member of the Alliance for Appalachia, which is an alliance of 13 grassroots organizations working to end mountaintop removal coal mining and bring a just and sustainable future to Central Appal ...
  • Amendment Ruins Tennessee Bill to Ban Mountain ...
    Amendment Ruins Tennessee Bill to Ban Mountaintop Removal, Sponsor Says WFPL by Erica Peterson on March 6, 2012 A measure in the Tennessee Senate to ban mountaintop removal coal mining in the state has hit a roadblock. The original Tennessee Scenic Vistas Protection Act would have prohibited new ...
  • Current energy sources are outdated, time for ...
    Current energy sources are outdated, time for new ones MU The Parthenon Mountaintop removal has been an on-going disaster for the Appalachian region, especially West Virginia. The Keystone XL Pipeline has been postponed but it is likely we will see something very similar to it erected. Why is al ...
  • Blowing up Mountains: Bad for Business in Tenn ...
    Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) Blowing up Mountains: Bad for Business in Tennessee Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) Momentum is building around the Scenic Vistas Protection Act, a state bill to ban high-elevation strip mining, also known as mountaintop removal coal mining, in T ...

Memeorandum

  • Iran Agrees to Limited Inspection of Secret Mi ...
    New York Times: Iran Agrees to Limited Inspection of Secret Military Site  —  BRUSSELS — The global powers dealing with Iran's disputed nuclear program said Tuesday that they had accepted its offer to resume negotiations broken off in stalemate more than a year ago &mdas ...
  • The Islamic Solution to Stop Domestic Violence ...
    Qasim Rashid / The Huffington Post: The Islamic Solution to Stop Domestic Violence … Islam , Scripture Commentary , Domestic Abuse , Domestic Violence , Gender And Religion , Quran , Scripture Study , Women , Women In Islam , Religion News  —  Critics incorrectly allege ...
  • LulzSec Hacking Suspects Are Arrested (Somini ...
    Somini Sengupta / New York Times: LulzSec Hacking Suspects Are Arrested  —  An outspoken member of a loosely knit group of hackers that calls itself Lulz Security pleaded guilty to breaking into the computer systems of several prominent American companies, according to federal c ...
  • White House to Host Group of 8 Meeting at Camp ...
    Jackie Calmes / The Caucus: White House to Host Group of 8 Meeting at Camp David  —  President Obama has boasted for months about hosting the annual summit of the Group of 8 industrialized nations this May in his hometown of Chicago, but on Monday, the White House without explan ...
  • Six Hackers in the United States and Abroad Ch ...
    FBI: Six Hackers in the United States and Abroad Charged for Crimes Affecting Over One Million Victims … Five computer hackers in the United States and abroad were charged today, and a sixth pled guilty, for computer hacking and other crimes.  The six hackers identified themselves a ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • How China can decarbonise by 2050
    China needs a long-term emissions reduction goal. Ajay Gambhir introduces one such target and how the country could reach it.The recent “breakthrough” at UN-led climate negotiations at Durban, in South Africa, involved all countries, developed and developing, for the first time agree ...
  • Sham victory for China’s pandas
    Progress breeding giant pandas in captivity masks a conservation failure: the species’ natural habitat is vanishing, writes Wang Dajun.Images of a dozen or more baby pandas being shown off to the public by researchers or reserve staff is a common sight in the media these days, giving the i ...
  • 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 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Drones in Texas and Tanks in Tampa: Inside the ...
    Government budgets at every level now include allocations aimed at fighting an ephemeral “War on Terror†in the United States.
  • How FreshDirect Delivers Misery Along With You ...
    The upscale grocery delivery service pays less than $9 an hour, has faced discrimination complaints, and is a union-buster--so why is New York giving it a handout?
  • Gingrich In Video Which Claims Constitution Ba ...
    [Introduction: Newt Gingrich's ties to the religious right go to back to the 1980s, and the Former Speaker of the House has worked hard to line up evangelical backing in advance of the 2012 election. As detailed in a February 27, 2012 article in The Nation, Gingrich has cultivated leaders of the ...
  • Wisconsin Republican Senator Proposes Bill To ...
    Written by Michael Hayne for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. Not a day goes by in this topsy-turvy, mad-max eschatology that Republicans have created where a Republican politician isn’t ...
  • What I Learned Today in Virginia: Orwellian Lo ...
    Written by tlcasey for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. Early this morning, I learned that Governor McDonnell had ordered a SWAT Team to cover a Candlelight Vigil I attended the night before at ...

Threat Level

  • LulzSec Leader Was Snitch Who Helped Snag Fell ...
    A top LulzSec leader turned informant last year after he was secretly arrested, providing information to law enforcement that led to the arrests Tuesday of other top members of the hacking group, including one alleged to be deeply involved in December’s Stratfor hack, federal authorities s ...
  • Uncle Sam: If It Ends in .Com, It’s .Seizable
    The U.S. government says it has the right to seize any .com, .net and .org domain name because the companies that have the contracts to administer them are based on United States soil, according to Nicole Navas, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman.
  • Feds Move to Extradite Megaupload Founder Kim ...
    Federal authorities have moved to extradite Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom, who was arrested in New Zealand in January in connection with what authorities called one of the largest criminal copyright infringement cases ever. The New Zealand Herald said Monday that the paperwork, which the Justice ...
  • Sony Hackers Stole $253M Worth of Music Files
    It appears that hackers who breached Sony’s networks last year absconded with more than just the personal information of millions of Sony Play Station users. They also stole more than 50,000 music files, including Michael Jackson’s entire back catalogue of published music, as well as previously ...
  • 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.

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

  • Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Mon ...
    Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Money Out of Politics By Carmen Yarrusso There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”–Henry David Thoreau Clearly, our government ...
  • 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

  • Food Safety Lawyer Bill Marler On Sprouts, Raw ...
    By Blisstree’s Hanna Brooks Olsen: Based on the cases he’s tried and the amount of blogging he’s done on the subject, it’s amazing that Seattle-based food safety lawyer Bill Marler can eat anything he hasn’t grown or raised himself. But instead of being repu ...
  • They need to hear our stories - A Broken Syste ...
    Over the weekend I penned for Food Safety News, “Excluding Consumers a Bad Idea.” It was based upon reports that the cantaloupe industry was planning a series of meeting across the United States to develop a “new cantaloupe guidance document.” The report also made it cle ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Obama News Conference: President Holds First F ...
    By JIM KUHNHENN 03/ 6/12 11:00 AM ETAssociated Press WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is aiming mortgage relief at members of the military as well as homeowners with government-insured loans, the administration’s latest efforts to address a persistent housing crisis. In his first ...
  • George Will Blasts GOP Candidates’ Meek Respon ...
    Think Progress   By Judd Legum  on Mar 4, 2012 at 1:54 pm 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 “inappropr ...
  • Operation Chaos – Proof That The Two Parties A ...
    March 4, 2012 Addicting Info   By Wes Bishop It is often heard in political discussions that there is very little difference between America’s two political parties. The declarations are common that they both are corrupt, that they both lie, that they both represent what is wrong with the countr ...
  • Limbaugh Advertisers: We Still Won’t Spo ...
    First Posted: 03/ 3/2012  8:34 pm Updated: 03/ 4/2012  6:13 pm Huff Post As the controversy grew over Rush Limbaugh’s latest incendiary comments — he called law student and birth control advocate Sandra Fluke a “slut” on Wednesday — his show’s advertisers bega ...
  • 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 ...

Solari

  • Precious Metals Market Report – 3.8.12
    By Catherine Austin Fitts I’m in Southern California and Franklin is at Top of the World Farm in Tennessee. One of the reasons I love doing the Precious Metals Market Report when I am on the road is enjoying quality time with Franklin. Given the markets these days, we are mighty pressed to find ...
  • Tornadoes Kill at Least 39 in Five States
    March 3, 2012, in Henryville, Ind. Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images. By Daniel Politi and Abby Ohlheiser Angel Babcock, the 15-month-old found alive in an Indiana field, died on Sunday, bringing the death toll from the tornadoes that hit 10 states on Friday up to 39. As the Associated Press r ...
  • This Country Defaulted, And Now It Has One Of ...
    By Joe Weisenthal [click on the image for a larger version] Continue reading the article . . .
  • NY Times Lets Walker Todd Denounce Fed For Cod ...
    By Gretchen Morgenson Stop your bellyaching. That was the message delivered last Thursday to Americans who today make almost nothing on the savings in their bank accounts. It came from Sarah Bloom Raskin, an insider at the Federal Reserve. Ms. Raskin, one of the governors on the Fed board, mad ...
  • Mortgage-free, Tiny Home on a Housekeeper&#821 ...
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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

  • Preparing for the Evacuation of Israel
    Summary:  This article by guest author Franz Gayl (Major, USMC, retired) looks ahead beyond Israel’s current moment in the sun.  They face a divided Arab people and even more fragmented Islamic societies, which they overawe by their massive military strength — exercised in the shadow ...
  • How to Fund an American Police State (aka Weap ...
    Summary:  America fades away before our eyes while we snooze.  What can we do to reawaken our fellow citizens?  Perhaps we can do no more than warn our fellow citizens, so that’s what we do.  Today we have “Weaponizing the Body Politic” from TomDispatch, 4 March 2012, reposted ...
  • 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 ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

  • The Russian Elections: Promises, Promises
    Vladimir Putin’s win on Sunday ensured that the ex-KBG officer was reelected to the country’s presidency by a wide margin. One large enough – by nearly 63.4% - that Putin will not have to stand for the office in a run off. Having re-secured the office and crowned himself president again a pos ...
  • DOD Comptroller: Fielding One Soldier in Afgha ...
    Recent violence in Afghanistan has led to the deaths of six U.S. troops and politicians and pundits are insisting that U.S. troops stay longer.  But isn’t this a sign that the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan isn’t working?  Their solution is to leave twenty or thirty thousand troops behind—but how ...
  • The Obama Administration and Targeted Killings ...
    Over the past few years, I have been fortunate to speak with a number of dedicated and thoughtful officials in the executive branch about U.S. targeted killing policies. Due to the highly-classified nature of these policies and operations that involve intelligence collection and analysis, these ...
  • Q&A with Former Member of IRGC: Guards Could N ...
    Editor’s Note: Amid the escalation of tensions between Iran and the West and the upcoming parliamentary elections, InsideIran’s Reza Akbari conducted an interview with Dr. Seyed Ahmad Shams, a former IRGC political adviser. This is the second part of the interview. Click here to read the first p ...
  • A Liberal Case Against Military Intervention i ...
    The Syrian state is continuing to murder its own citizens, and the pace of that killing appears to be picking up. In a pensive blog post that made its way onto my screen recently, scholar and writer Jillain York observed: From opinionators on Syria, be they Syrian or foreign, there are two domin ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Self-Driving Cars Can't Come Soon Enough
    So how long will it be before this whole "driving ourselves around in cars" thing is done with? Atrios predicts that "a whole lot of public money will be spent setting up a 'driverless car' system that will never actually work." Kevin Drum is much more optimistic — he predicts that "There will ...
  • The Reactionaries Were Right!
    When it comes to the Obama administration’s contraception mandate, progressives minimize the extent to which this is actually about a woman’s ability to have sex without pregnancy. Despite right-wing crowing about her sex life, Sandra Fluke’s congressional testimony was about the medical need f ...
  • Is Roe v. Wade Really Still the Law of the Land?
    The Los Angeles Times has a devastating article about one woman’s reluctant quest to replace Dr. George Tiller, the murdered Kansas abortion provider. The woman’s name is Dr. Mila Means: After his killing on May 31, 2009, the decision to step into his place did not come as an epiphany but rathe ...
  • Halftime
    At Mother Jones, Tim Murphy and Andy Kroll have the goods on Rick Santorum’s first Senate campaign, where he warned that single mothers are “breeding more criminals.” Here at The Prospect, Abby Rapoport reports on the crazy notion that a state might encourage voting, not work to restrict it. Th ...
  • Europe Teeters on the Edge
    This week's a big one for the future of Europe, as Germany debates supporting the fiscal pact agreed to in Brussels on March 2 and investors sign onto a Greek bond swap that could write off half of the country's €177 billion debt. The success of the fiscal pact—which demands that the 25 signato ...

Buzzflash

  • The Passing of Andrew Breitbart: Know Thine En ...
    STEVEN JONAS, MD, MPH FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT "Andrew Breitbart, the conservative blogger and journalist, died suddenly on Thursday morning, according to his website Big Journalism. He was 43. The site said that Breitbart died of ‘natural causes' shortly after midnight on Thursday." So the H ...
  • The Best Reason for the Very Rich to Pay a Lot ...
    PAUL BUCHHEIT FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Before getting into the best reason, here are some of the usual - and always good -- reasons. First of all, for every dollar the richest 1% earned in 1980, they've added three more dollars. The poorest 90% have added ONE CENT. The richest million families ...
  • Sen. Bernie Sanders Demands Regulators Stop Ec ...
    SENATOR BERNIE SANDERS FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT WASHINGTON, March 5 - Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and more than 60 other members of Congress said federal regulators should curb speculation in crude oil markets which has artificially pushed up gasoline prices to nearly $4 a gallon. The lawmakers ...
  • Mitt Romney's Bain Capital Own's Half of Rush ...
    MARK KARLIN FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUTIn the book "Game Change" about the 2008 election, John McCain is depicted as having utter disdain for "gasbags" such as Rush Limbaugh.  McCain is quoted as saying that Limbaugh and others "are going to destroy the f**king [Republican] party." Such was McCa ...
  • Hypocrites Who Pretend to Stand on Principle i ...
    ANN DAVIDOW FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Have you ever noticed how people keep suggesting verbal opponents should move somewhere else, most specifically to another country? It's an old, meaningless ploy they think will silence opinion that diverges from their own, as mindless as the stands they ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Rock on @GulliverTurtle
    Gulliver Turtle was checking out my guitars and stuff yesterday, making sure I’d turned everything up to 11…there he is, third shelf up, on the right, next to my wife’s copy of Streitwieser & Heathcock “Introduction to Organic Chemistry” (2nd edn 1981) and just ...
  • Making scientific peer review open
    Scientific reputation is essential to researchers for their academic advancement, tenure, research grants and fellowships. It relies, most of the times, on quantitative metrics such as the H Index, citation counts, article counts etc. And, of course, getting published in a journal in the first p ...
  • 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 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Unemployment Rate Does Not Tell the Full Story ...
    Overall unemployment has ticked down slightly from the peaks of the recession, but long-term unemployment remains historically high, threatening the long-term economic security of workers and the country as a whole. A new report from the Center for Economic and Policy Research sheds light on the ...
  • Deadly Expansion of Shark, Swordfish Fishery P ...
    The federal Pacific Fishery Management Council voted on Saturday to pursue the expansion of California’s devastating drift gillnet fishery for swordfish and sharks into an area that is currently off-limits to that fishing to protect critically endangered Pacific leatherback sea turtles.rea ...
  • Azerbaijani Youth Activists Beaten and Detaine ...
    The Azerbaijani authorities must launch an immediate investigation into the beating of four youth activists by police officers during and after a peaceful protest in the capital Baku today, Amnesty International said. Jabbar Savalan and Dayanat Babayev were beaten as they were arrested along ...
  • Rich Americans Are Not Overtaxed
    Today a new analysis by the Center for American Progress debunks the conservative talking point that the richest 1 percent of Americans are overtaxed because they pay a higher share of taxes.read more
  • NRC Needs a More Comprehensive Approach to Pos ...
    The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is jeopardizing reform by failing to heed its post-Fukushima task force’s top recommendation to clarify its “patchwork” of regulations for “beyond-design-basis” events that reactors are not intended to withstand, according to ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • So, Eric Holder, We Should Just Trust that the ...
    Jonathan Turley Attorney General Eric Holder was at Northwestern University law school Monday explaining President Barack Obama's claimed authority to kill any American if he unilaterally determines them to be a threat to the nation. Th ...
  • Five Million Voters May Lose Rights in the 201 ...
    Brentin Mock Today’s Super Tuesday primary involves 10 states and 437 delegates at stake for the Republican Party’s presidential prospects. There are two states among that crop that are worth taking a look at: Georgia and Tennes ...
  • Can Rush Keep It Up?
    Peter Dreier The response to Rush Limbaugh’s latest tirade about college women having too much sex suggests that he may be growing impotent, politically at least.read more
  • Banks and Congress Grapple with Stubborn, Stup ...
    Michael Winship Facts are stubborn things, said founding father John Adams, a basic truth Ronald Reagan famously mangled at the Republican National Convention in 1988, when he tried to quote Adams and declared, “Facts are stupid thing ...
  • The More Violence, the Less Revolution
    George Lakey In the discussion within the Occupy movement on whether violence is necessary for making change in the United States, the debate has so far conflated three of the movement’s possible goals. Are we talking about using viol ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • Sharon Kleyne Hour Power of Water Celebrates M ...
    Steven Solomon, Author of, Water: The Epic Struggle, Talked with Sharon Kleyne, founder of Bio Logic Aqua Research and host of Sharon Kleyne Hour, on World Water Day 2010.Grants Pass, OR (PRWEB) March 06, 2012 "United Nations World Water Day (March 22) offers an opportunity become educated ...
  • Financial woes shake the DRBC
    The financial noose is tightening for the Delaware River Basin Commission, the arbiter of whether natural gas drilling will occur in the watershed.
  • 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 ...

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • Stealing a moment in a stolen land: the photog ...
    Jonathan Cook Nazareth 5 March 2012 Katie Ramandan’s collection of photos currently on exhibition in Nazareth explores the meaning of home and the boundaries between private and public space.
  • 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.

The Wonk Room

  • Obama Releases Housing Plan To Help Military V ...
    With the housing crisis still acting as a drag on the nation’s economic recovery, the White House announced a plan today to assist struggling homeowners and address improper foreclosures. The plan, which requires no Congressional action, will reduce refinancing fees for homeowners with gov ...
  • Georgia Senate Votes To Ban Undocumented Immig ...
    The Georgia Senate passed a bill 34-19 that would ban undocumented immigrants from attending any of Georgia’s 60 public colleges, even though state college officials have already said the bill is unnecessary. The measure now goes to the House for consideration, where another bill targeting ...
  • Cory Gardner Does Another Favor For Big Oil
    By Tom Kenworthy, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress Action Fund Rep. Cory Gardner (R-CO) is only in his first term as a member of the U.S. House. But he’s already collected nearly a quarter of a million dollars in campaign contributions from oil and gas interests. It’s by far the numbe ...
  • From Bridesmaids to Enlightened, 2011 Was a Be ...
    I was looking through the acting nominations for the Comedy Awards, and it really struck me that in a lot of ways, 2011 was a richer year for women in comedy than it was for men. In movies, Jason Bateman got a nod for Horrible Bosses, Steve Carell was nominated for Crazy, Stupid, Love, Jean [...]
  • POLL: Texas Voters Want The State To Keep Fund ...
    Fifty-nine percent of Texas voters oppose a new rule that cuts off funds from the joint state-federal Women’s Health Program to Planned Parenthood, while 38 percent of voters approve of it, according to a new survey from Public Policy Polling. About 130,000 women could lose their access to ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • "Wayne"
    You know, in some respects, "Wayne" or "L. Wayne Mathison," would be the gift that keeps on giving. Like most right-wing shit-heads there's a lot of unintended comedy in his comments. The beauty of consistency though is that I never have to waste time thinking: "Is this comment from the banned r ...
  • I Love the Smell of harpercon Fear in the Morning!
    Hah! You know, the funniest thing about this whole subversion of the democratic electoral process is that harper might have had his majority, albeit a smaller one, without all the desperate, sleazy, anti-democratic vote-suppression and fraud. But now, even though witless harpercon trolls like S ...
  • Notice How the harpercon Cheaters are Calling ...
    No shame and no brains. stephen harper doesn't respect the institute of Parliament. He doesn't respect the electoral process. But he expects us to respect his authority? What a fucking twisted fantasy-land that piece of shit lives in!
  • March 11th, the Old "In-Out" and A Truly Usele ...
    First up. I've heard there was a protest in Vancouver calling for an independent inquiry into the possible election fraud that gave harper his majority. On March 11th, two further protests are being called for Ottawa and Toronto. I'll be at the Toronto rally: TORONTO – A Canada-wide protest agai ...
  • 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, ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Documents show SeaWorld waited 27 mins to call ...
    In Feb. 2010, SeaWorld trainer Dawn Brancheau was killed during a show by the orca Tilikum. Official documents from the Orange County Sheriff's office, showed that SeaWorld dispatchers waited 27 minutes before dialing 911 for help. Why?
  • Ontario KI Natives protest against mining sacr ...
    Dozens gathered across the street from the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, where one of the world's largest mining conventions is being held, in protest of God's Lake Resources "desecrating sacred burials" on Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug homeland.
  • Drugs are in the mail? Ontario man charged wit ...
    A London, Ontario, man has been charged with several drug-related offences after the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Drug Section intercepted a package mailed from Turkey.
  • NBA: Howard powers Magic past Raptors
    With all the speculation swirling around the NBA about whether Dwight Howard will be traded before this season’s trade deadline, the powerful centre looked unaffected in the pre-game shoot around moments before tipoff against the Toronto Raptors.
  • NHL: Maple Leafs grab Grabovski with 5-year co ...
    The Toronto Maple Leafs signed star forward Mikhail Grabovski to a five-year, $27.5 million contract extension, the team announced March 6. In doing so they avoided having one of their best forwards reach unrestricted free agency this summer.

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

  • Call for nuclear divestment
    Each year, the nine nuclear-armed nations spend a combined total of more than US$100 billion on their nuclear forces – assembling new warheads, modernizing old ones, and building ballistic missiles, bombers and submarines to launch them. Much of this work is being carried out by private companies.
  • Be Heard – No Stealth Fighters!
    Tell Stephen Harper, other party leaders, and your own MP that you do not support the F-35 Stealth Fighters. Send your letter, right away.
  • Toews: Send info to torturers
    The Harper government has given CSIS the go-ahead to provide information to foreign agencies even when there is a "substantial risk" it will lead to torture.
  • “No Stealth Fighters” ads run in V ...
    Readers of the popular websites Now Toronto and The Tyee and being invited to “Be Heard on March 3rd” as part of Ceasefire.ca’s new advertising campaign.      
  • Staples: Scrap the submarines
    Steven Staples, Ken Hansen, and Rob Huebert discuss the future of submarines in the Canadian navy on CBC's Radio's the current.

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Eisenhower And The Aliens: Former US President ...
    February 15, 2012 Huffington Post By HP “It has been reported for years that Eisenhower knew more than he was letting on. If aliens are visiting us, it’s not a crazy idea that they would want to meet with the leader of one of the most powerful countries on the planet. If only the ETs ...
  • Widely Popular Nanoparticles Could Be Giving Y ...
    February 15, 2012 Activist Post By Mike Barrett “This is why it’s so important to cleanse and detox.” –KTRN There is a bit of controversy revolving around nanoparticles, which involve the manipulation of elements as well as other matter on an atomic and molecular scale. F ...
  • Washington’s Insouciance Has No Rival
    February 15, 2012 Activist Post By Paul Craig Roberts Is Obama a hypocrite or merely insouciant? Or is he an idiot? According to news reports Obama’s White House meeting on Valentine’s day with China’s Vice President, Xi Jinping, provided an opportunity for Obama to raise “a sensitive human righ ...
  • Crazy Anti-Drug Ad Tells Kids to Do Parkour In ...
    February 15, 2012 Activist Post By Scott Morgan “The war on drugs is a miserable failure. It’s surprising that the (coke addicted) politicians in Washington don’t get it.” –KTRN As I’ve discussed previously, Drug Czar is just one of the worst jobs you can have ...
  • Meat Glue and Pink Slime. What Evil is Lurking ...
    February 15, 2012 Activist Post By Gaye Levy “Go ahead – keep eating conventional meat from factory farms.  We triple dog dare you.”  –KTRN Some things simply defy my senses. This is especially true when it comes to food. After all, you might remember the saying among us ...

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

  • Super Tuesday exit polls: Romney wins Virginia ...
    Underscoring the continuing contentious and divided nature of national Republicans, the remaining GOP presidential candidates split the Super Tuesday contests amongst themselves, once again denying Gov. Mitt Romney (R) the decisive wins he would need to officially clinch the 2012 nomination. Tex ...
  • ‘Ignore the intelligence reports, let’s make war’
    By Stuart LittlewoodTuesday, March 6th, 2012 Mission Impossible! Let’s shred and vaporize a few million more innocents But first we ll strangle them with sanctions, say our elected leaders. by Stuart Littlewood Is this what we voted for? Is this what Western diplomacy has come to in the 21 ...
  • Thomas Edison, Thomas Jefferson on monetary reform
    Thomas Edison, Thomas Jefferson on monetary reform By Carl Hermanwashingtonsblog.com This is my paper for The Center of Process Studies conference, Money-Creation in a Finite World (free and open to the public, April 10-12, 2012; Claremont Colleges, CA): Money and credit as public services for f ...
  • Leaked Email: Pentagon Admits Plan To Direct T ...
    US is preparing to “commit guerrilla attacks, assassination campaigns” to topple Assad Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planetcom Tuesday, March 6, 2012 A shocking email leaked as part of the Wikileaks Stratfor data dump reveals that the Pentagon is planning to direct terror attacks and ass ...
  • The Great JFK Non-Debate: Jim Fetzer vs. Gary ...
    By Jim FetzerTuesday, March 6th, 2012 by Jim Fetzer "Badge Man" as discovered by Gary Mack and Jack White As those of us engaged in research on the death of JFK are well aware, Gary Mack has the position of Curator of The 6th Floor Museum in Dallas, which most of us regard as functioning ...

Dandelion Salad

  • The Saga of Bradley Manning, Julian Assange, a ...
    by William Blum Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.killinghope.org Mar. 5, 2012 The Saga of Bradley Manning, Julian Assange, and Wikileaks, to be put to ballad and film “Defense lawyers say Manning was clearly a troubled young soldier whom the Army should never have deployed to Iraq or gi ...
  • Inequality, capitalism and socialist revolutio ...
    Dandelion Salad By Fred Goldstein www.workers.org Feb 29, 2012 9:09 PM The Occupy Wall Street movement has made the inequality in capitalist society an issue that has put the rich on the defensive, at least in public. The growth of inequality in the last 30 years, and especially in the last deca ...
  • Minimum Wage: Catching up with 1968 by Ralph Nader
    Dandelion Salad By Ralph Nader The Nader Page February 29, 2012 How inert can the Democratic Party be? Do they really want to defeat the Congressional Republicans in the fall by doing the right thing? A winning issue is to raise the federal minimum wage, stuck at $7.25 since 2007. If it was adju ...
  • Syria: One Country, Two Stories By William Bowles
    by William Bowles Featured Writer Dandelion Salad williambowles.info 3 March 2012 I read a lot of news stories every day as I munch my way through the BBC News, VOR, RT, Dissident Voice, Strategic Culture Foundation, Global Research, countless RSS feeds, and so it goes… A lot of news sourc ...
  • Losing Constitutional Competition by Joel S. H ...
    by Joel S. Hirschhorn Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.foavc.org March 2, 2012 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 significan ...

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

  • Antarctica Threatened by Alien Seed Invasion
    Antarctica hosts ever-increasing numbers of scientists and tourists, and these visitors are bringing some unintended baggage: the seeds of potentially invasive plants. What's more, climate change is projected to render the frigid continent more hospitable to such plants in coming decades.
  • Building Blocks: Awesome Lego Science Models
    There may be no better way to engage kids of all ages in learning about science than with a Lego-based DNA molecule, robot or rocket. We've scoured the internet for the best, quirkiest, most innovative examples of science-inspired LEGO creations. We're featuring some of our favorites here, alon ...
  • Saturn’s Largest Moon Seen in Unprecedented Detail
    A massive collection of new studies about Titan, Saturn's largest moon, describe the frigid mini-world in unprecedented detail.
  • Sunspot Shoots Powerful Solar Storm Toward Earth
    Magnetic disturbances on the sun hurled a colossal burst of charged particles into space overnight. The edge should reach Earth between late Tuesday night and Wednesday.
  • Watch Live Now: Mars Makes Close Approach To Earth
    Catch a live feed of Mars opposition, as the Red Planet makes its closest approach to Earth in more than two years. The event will be broadcast by the Slooh Space Camera, a consortium of public telescopes around the world, on March 3 starting at 8 p.m. PST.

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Norman Finkelstein on BDS, Palestinian rights, ...
    IOA Editor: Finkelstein's treatment of Palestinian rights reflects the limitations of relying exclusively on international law in the defense of Palestinian rights. Rather than forcing 100 years of... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • 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 ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Fish Exposed to SSRIs Exhibit Abnormal Behavior
    Fish exhibit abnormal behavior and lower levels of anxiety when exposed to Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRI), which are common drugs used to treat depression, among other disorders. The study, by Baylor University researchers and online in the journal Environmental Science & Techn ...
  • Student Innovation at Rensselaer Polytechnic I ...
    Zepu Wang has developed a new advanced material to coat electrical components and allow the transmission of higher voltages across national power infrastructures. This new nanocomposite material holds the promise of enabling smarter, more reliable, and greener power systems. The technology could ...
  • Circadian Nitrogen Balance Impacts Survival, S ...
    Researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine demonstrated that nitrogen balance, the process of utilizing amino acids and disposing of their toxic byproducts, occurs with a precise 24-hour rhythm - also known as circadian rhythm - in mammals.
  • iPads Help Hospital Rethink the Textbook --and ...
    On Wednesday Apple may introduce a new iPad that's faster and sharper than previous models, and the University of Michigan is part of the wave of users who've made the devices so much a part of life. Rather than flip through a magazine, families in the surgical waiting areas at the U-M Cardiovas ...
  • New Pediatric Research Institute Launched in D ...
    Children's Medical Center is partnering with UT Southwestern Medical Center to establish a unique $150 million venture that will bring together the finest scientists to pursue research with the potential to change scientific fields, as well as the way disease is treated in children and adults.

Natural Health News

  • FDA Official Sent to Prison for Five Years
    Cheng Yi Liang, a former chemist for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), was sentenced to 5 years in prison for engaging in insider trading based on non-public information he obtained in his capacity as an FDA scientist.  Liang was also ordered to forfeit $3.7 million, the proceeds ...
  • Why is Drug Experimentation Consistently Condu ...
    In increasing numbers, U.S. drug companies are outsourcing clinical trials to foreign countries in order to save millions of dollars and avoid regulatory scrutiny.  Investigations have raised questions about lax regulatory oversight in these studies, and also the reliability of the data the ...
  • Is This FDA-Approved Sweetener Causing Brain D ...
    A new study investigated the effect of long-term intake of aspartame (NutraSweet) on the antioxidant defense status in the rat brain. Male rats who were given a high dose of the artificial sweetener exhibited a lowered concentration of reduced glutathione, and reduced glutathione reductase activ ...
  • Lifestyle Choices Made in Your 20s Can Impact ...
    Making healthy lifestyle choices during young adulthood and beyond is strongly associated with a lowered cardiovascular disease risk in middle age.  A new study is the first to show an association between a healthy lifestyle maintained throughout your 20s, 30s, and 40s, and low heart diseas ...
  • New Study Confirms Simple Tip to Prevent Heart ...
    Even just an hour of any physical activity a day will benefit the heart health of children, according to new research.  The study found that children and teens who engaged in at least that level of moderate to vigorous physical exercise had better cholesterol levels, blood pressure, and wei ...

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

  • The ATS and Extraterritoriality
    by Anthony Colangelo by Anthony Colangelo [Anthony J. Colangelo is an Assistant Professor of Law at SMU Dedman School of Law] I suspect the extraterritoriality issue has taken on renewed significance after the Supreme Court’s decision in Morrison v. Nat’l Aust. Bank, which, as many readers kno ...
  • The ATS, Incentives, and Tradeoffs
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Yesterday was a busy day in International-Foreign-Relations-Law-Land, between the Eric Holder speech on national security and targeted killing at Northwestern University and the quite unexpected announcement that the Alien Tort Statute case of Kiobel wil ...
  • What If Federal Courts Close Their Doors to Hu ...
    by Donald Childress by Donald Childress [Donald "Trey" Childress is Associate Professor of Law at Pepperdine Law School.] Let me begin by thanking my dear friend Roger Alford for inviting me to post on Opinio Juris. As Roger noted here Chris Whytock, Mike Ramsey, and I co-hosted a symposium on ...
  • So Professor O’Connell, Tell Us What You Reall ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku I leave it to Ken and others to weigh in on US Attorney General Holder’s speech today at Northwestern.  I did want to point out one early reaction from Professor Mary Ellen O’Connell of Notre Dame, who didn’t exactly pull punches in her assessment of ...
  • AG Holder’s National Security Speech – Text
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Below the fold is the written text of AG Eric Holder’s national security speech today at Northwestern University Law School.  It can be divided into two basic parts – detention and terrorist trial issues, and then targeted killing, including ...

Public News Service

  • One of the Last Big Battles Over Global Warmin ...
    One of the Last Big Battles Over Global Warming Rules? PHOENIX, Ariz. - This week, a federal appeals court has been hearing a consolidated lawsuit led by large coal companies such as Arizona's Peabody Energy and some energy-producing states. It is one of the last remaining legal challenges to an ...
  • Report: Wilderness "Under Siege"
    Report: Wilderness "Under Siege" PHOENIX - A vast area of the United States, totaling a half-billion acres of federal lands, is at risk of losing federal safekeeping from development, according to the new report by The Wilderness Society, titled "Wilderness Under Siege." The report finds that Co ...
  • Study: Spanking May Do More Harm than Good
    Study: Spanking May Do More Harm than Good PHOENIX, Ariz. - Arizona parents who struggle with difficult behavior in their children may cause more harm than good by resorting to spanking. A new report in the Canadian Medical Association Journal analyzed 20 years of research. ...(Read More)
  • Forum Finds Rural Arizona Hurting for Health Care
    Forum Finds Rural Arizona Hurting for Health Care PHOENIX – Obtaining health care is increasingly difficult in rural Arizona, and state budget cuts are making the situation worse. That was the conclusion at a community health forum in Marana. Tara Plese with the Arizona Association of Com ...
  • Report: Consumer Info At Risk in Overseas Call ...
    Report: Consumer Info At Risk in Overseas Call Centers PHOENIX - A new report links overseas call centers with a lack of protection for the personal information of American consumers. The report from the Communications Workers of America (CWA) calls for new federal legislation to address overse ...

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?

  • Why/ Who Died?
    By David Grossman, Translated by Sol Salbe All said and done it is merely a minor story about an illegal alien who stole a car, was injured in an accident, then released from hospital to have cops dump him, still injured to die the by the roadside. What are the building blocks that lead to such ...
  • 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 ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Decentralized groups and security. Anonymous h ...
    Hackers, quite possibly from the government, replaced Anonymous DDOS software available for download with a version that steals passwords.What we’re learning here is that there’s a serious flaw in how Anonymous works. By being so amorphous and disparate, there is no control over the members of t ...
  • LulzSec leader informs on Anonymous
    Usually the authorities infiltrate a group by starting with low-ranking members then moving their way up the food chain. This time they apparently began with the head of LulzSec “the de facto King of Anonymous” and he sang like a birdie to save himself from prison.That’s right— ...
  • Military drone crashes into SWAT vehicle
    Bonus quote:“The beautify of having something unmanned is you’re not putting any humans in harm’s way,” Buscher said.Except when the drone shoots at or falls on you.
  • All drones, all the time…
    Model planes being tuned up for a competitive meet at Modelhaven Airport near Baltimore, Maryland, 1944? (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.)Micah Zenko at Foreign Policy has a link-filled post up titled 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Drones. (Actually if ...
  • Loose talk of war
    Backing a nation into a corner can humiliate its leaders.It’s better that most of your negotiating be out of the public spotlight.Secret negotiations have led to a new accord with North Korea. There was no “loose talk of war.” Had there been, negotiations might have failed.

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

  • Blood Bytes World # 5 – Jack Blood Inter ...
    Researcher, author, speaker: David Icke joins Jack Blood for Part two of this fantastic epic interview… David tears into Jesse Ventura, Bill Maher, and Jon Stewart. David then goes deep down the rabbit hole to discuss Saturn worship, Satanism, and his own latest awakening to facts that has ...
  • The Jack Blood Show – March 6 2012
    Tuesday – Rise Up and Shine with Jack Blood. Get the latest news and analysis you won’t find anywhere else. Jacks’s Special guest in the second hour was Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com.
  • Jordan Page Live (entire concert) – Aust ...
    WE WERE AT THIS SHOW – JORDAN IS AMAZING! IT ROCKS HARDER AS IT GOES!   The incomparable Jordan Page performing for an enthusiastic crowd at Brave New Books. Jordan’s Official Website http://jordanpagemusic.com/ YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/jordanpagemusic Facebo ...
  • Syrian Activists Caught Lying, Syrian Rebels C ...
      Syria: Game Over for Western Propaganda by Tony Cartalucci March 6, 2012 – Why should the West intervene in Syria when it turns out “activists” giving daily body counts, the sole source of “evidence” for the UN’s ever climbing grand total, are caught no ...
  • Lies and disinformation regarding troops at th ...
    3/05/12 To ‘Jack Blood’ From a listener:   Last Sunday, at the Texas Kite Festival, there were Texas State Guard troops assisting the event organizers at the parking lot. The event took place at the popular Zilker Park, in Austin, Texas.   The following day, the story broke out on ce ...

The Air Vent

  • Taminos Trick
    Tamino has his crowd all whipped up about sea ice.  He has done two posts now declaring how stupid I, Anthony Watts, and by association, all of you, are.   Sorry folks, it was a drive-by incident! For him, I’m not enough of a believer and for others, I’m too much. Is it is a [...]
  • 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 ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook puts social game score stories in New ...
    Facebook users will now see their friends’ scores and achievements in social games through three new News Feed story types: achievement stories, high score stories and passing stories, the company announced in a blog post. Another unannounced item, “Play It … Continue reading & ...
  • New Facebook platform industry hires: Kontagen ...
    Kontagent hired a senior designer, and BranchOut and Involver hired marketing staff this week. If your company is hiring new people or making a notable promotion, please let us know. Email mail (at) insidefacebook (dot) com, and we’ll get it … Continue reading →
  • Facebook to restructure preferred developer co ...
    Facebook plans to soon change the way it structures its API partner program, assigning “preferred” status to developers in four verticals: page management, ads, insights and custom app development, according to TechCrunch sources. Currently, Facebook has two tiers, an Ads API partner ...
  • Announcing Inside Virtual Goods: Spending and ...
    If 2011 is remembered as the year that games on mobile platforms grew quickly and games on social networks continued to mature, 2012 is quickly becoming the year that mobile games ecosystems are beginning to mature as well. Given massive changes … Continue reading →
  • Adele, PlayStation, Mercedes-Benz, Disney, Gui ...
    Singer Adele topped our list of the fastest growing Facebook pages by Likes this week, although there were plenty of media, tech, game, movie and brand pages that kept her in good company. Pages on our list this week grew … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Ignore the intelligence reports, let's make wa ...
    Stuart Littlewood argues that, with the USA's intelligence agencies concurring that Iran has no nuclear weapons programme, Washington's and London's clamour for ever tighter sanctions and war with Iran appear to be motivated not by national interests, but by loyalty and obedience to Israel and i ...
  • Israelis rejoice at the death of Palestinian c ...
    Paul J. Balles considers the mentality of Israelis who openly rejoiced at the death of nine Palestinian kindergarten children and one adult in a bus accident in February.
  • 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 ...

Amazon Rainforest

  • European energy corporation plans to flood Rai ...
    Spanish energy cooperation Endesa (subsidiary enterprise of the Italian Enel cooperation) is builiding a giant hydro-electric power plant next to the River Magdalena, Colombia- The construction work has started today- the protest camps of the local farmers and fishermen have been evacuated by fo ...
  • Plastic eating Fungi discovered in Amazon Rain ...
    The group of students, part of Yale’s annual Rainforest Expedition and Laboratory with molecular biochemistry professor Scott Strobel, ventured to the jungles of Ecuador. The mission was to allow “students to experience the scientific inquiry process in a comprehensive and creative way.&#8 ...
  • Justice for 8year girl burned alive by loggers ...
    Loggers in Brazil captured an eight-year-old girl from one of the Amazon’s last uncontacted tribes and burned her alive as part of a ‘campaign’ to force the indigenous population from its land! Sign Petition and share: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/813/288/541/ The ...
  • 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 ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Soothing the Beast: Saturd
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- February ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.” – Charles Mackay International Newsworthy Azerbaijan Claims More Iranian Terror Plot without Citing Evidence-D ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- February ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.” – Adolf Hitler International Newsworthy Iran Ready to Face ‘Worst Case Scenario’ in Defense of Nuclear Progr ...
  • Torture, Assassination & the American Way of Life
    As most everyone knows, the CIA has been assassinating people practically since the time it was formed in 1947. By and large, however, the CIA kept its assassinations secret. Americans, for their part, had a feeling that such things were being done but didn’t ask any questions. The system was al ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- February ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “Look at the tyranny of party — at what is called party allegiance, party loyalty — a snare invented by designing men for selfish purposes — and which turns voters into chattles, slaves, rabbits, and all the while their masters, and they themselves are s ...

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

  • Is sharing the key to an advanced society?
    After we take back our democracy - what sort of new economy do we want to build? What are we going to replace corporate capitalism with? For an answer to that - we have to look inside ourselves - literally inside ourselves - into our DNA. New research in the journal "Science" pin points one o ...
  • Angry Over Rising Gas Prices? It's Just The Ti ...
    Why is it that America, a nation that has often has been associated with the term exceptional, is so very resistant to change and so hesitant to deal with its most critical problems? America is heading directly into an energy crisis of massive proportions and nothing of any substance is being do ...
  • Murder Is Legal, Says Eric Holder
    Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday explained why it's legal to murder people -- not to execute prisoners convicted of capital crimes, not to shoot someone in self-defense, not to fight on a battlefield in a war that is somehow legalized, but to target and kill an individual sitting on his so ...
  • New Mexico photo-journal
    some photos from a recent trip, all taken with an iPhone
  • With Estimates That Gas Might Hit $5 a Gallon ...
    Here's the truth: high gas prices have nothing to do with lack of available gas in America.

Switchboard

  • Cutting the Cost of Gasoline: It's About Gallo ...
    Deron Lovaas, Federal Transportation Policy Director, Washington, D.C. Everyone is fixated on the numerator in the price-per-gallon equation, especially the media and politicians. I would argue, fellow consumers, that they are dead wrong to turn a b ...
  • Empty Promises, Empty Gas Tanks
    Rob Perks, Transportation Advocacy Director, Washington, D.C. This afternoon President Obama will host a press conference and the price of gasoline is bound to be a big topic. Lately the president has been talking a lot abou ...
  • Why Senator Collins' Boiler Amendment Guts the ...
    John Walke, Clean Air Director/ Senior Attorney, Washington, D.C. This week the Senate could vote on a deadly amendment to the transportation bill that will abolish clean air standards for the 2nd largest source of industrial toxic air pollution in ...
  • Stay thirsty, my friends: Whisky power is disp ...
    Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC   I’ve been following the whisky power story with great interest.  Didn’t know there was one?  Do read on: Last year, I reported an announcement by Scotla ...
  • Bi-Partisan and Broad Regional Support for Mor ...
    Pierre Bull, Policy Analyst, Air & Energy, New York City The bi-partisan NY Solar Jobs Act continues to gain momentum in the New York State legislature with over 100  legislators signing onto to the bill (33 Senators and 74 Assembly M ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Uppity Women
    Say this for Rusty, he’s consistent. Meanwhile, his advertisers continue to violate his Republican First Amendment right to maintain advertising revenue in perpetuity whether or not being associated with his show benefits the advertiser. …Pollitt is great on this.
  • Lawrence, Gideon, and Legal Storytelling
    I’m still waiting for my copy of Dale Carpenter’s book, but Dahlia Lithwick’s review is a beautifully written and important piece in its own right.    Lithwick’s piece focuses on a central irony of the case.  Kennedy’s opinion famously focused on the importance of r ...
  • More on Holder
    Some additional thoughts on the Holder speech: 1. I’m generally in agreement with Adam/Marcy/Scott/ et al regarding the question of due process and judicial oversight in the targeting process To be sure, there could be contexts in which a situation is so critical that the executive cannot ...
  • Reproductive Freedom Links
    A pro-choice awakening? Which is certainly necessary, because when you meet the new Virginia bill, it’s nearly as bad as the old bill. The economic benefits of the pill. One of the most inequitable of the common regulations, mandatory waiting periods, keep getting longer. Are you a slut?  ...
  • On the Holder Speech
    I recommend both Kevin and Adam. The standards laid out for when a targeted killing can be justified are not, in themselves, unreasonable: First, the U.S. government has determined, after a thorough and careful review, that the individual poses an imminent threat of violent attack against the Un ...

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.

  • 1st Circuit weighs whether marketer should be ...
    May an individual sue a marketing company for violating a data privacy law when the company acted based on its contract with a state, and the state can't be sued because of sovereign immunity? That was the issue before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit.
  • Bratz manufacturer settles litigation insuranc ...
    Bratz doll manufacturer MGA Entertainment Inc. has settled with a key insurance company that denied coverage for legal fees and costs in its case against Mattel Inc.
  • Lawmaker takes another swipe at Maryland law c ...
    The political wrangling over a University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law clinic's involvement in environmental litigation against a local chicken farm does not appear to be settling down.
  • D.C. Circuit speeds review of Iranian group's ...
    A federal appeals court in Washington has agreed to expedite a dispute over an Iranian dissident group's official U.S. State Department designation as a foreign terrorist organization.
  • Litigator O'Donnell's birthday gift: Judge OKs ...
    A federal judge has approved a deal under which noted trial attorney Pierce O'Donnell will serve 60 days in prison for campaign finance violations but retain his California bar license.

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

  • Campbell’s To Stop Using BPA in Linings of Sou ...
    Bowing to pressure from consumer and health advocacy groups, Campbell’s Soup Co. says it will stop using the synthetic chemical bisphenol A (BPA) in the lining of its cans. The compound, which is found in thousands of everyday products, has been shown to interfere with hormone product ...
  • Alien Seed Invasion Poses Threat to Antarctic ...
    The tens of thousands of tourists, scientists, and support personnel who visit Antarctica every year are carrying with them large numbers of seeds from alien plants that could one day pose a threat to Antarctica’s limited array of native plant species. A team of scientists vacuumed the clothes a ...
  • U.S. to Invest $180 Million in Innovative Offs ...
    The Obama Administration will invest $180 million in innovative offshore wind projects over the next six years as part of an initiative to promote a renewable energy sector that in the U.S. remains largely untapped. The Kim Hansen/Wikimedia Commons Department of Energy will select four pr ...
  • Protected Mediterranean Reefs Show a Large Gai ...
    A study of rocky reefs in the Mediterranean Sea shows that those accorded the highest protection, with all fishing prohibited, not only had a greater abundance and diversity of fish, but also demonstrated robust ecosystem health all the way down to the level of marine algae. Enric Sala, a Nation ...
  • Linking Weird Weather to Rapid Warming of the ...
    The loss of Arctic summer sea ice and the rapid warming of the Far North are altering the jet stream over North America, Europe, and Russia. Scientists are now just beginning to understand how these profound shifts may be increasing the likelihood of more persistent and extreme weather. BY JEN ...

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

  • Iran lifts a veil: Tehran gives IAEA access to ...
    Iran says it will allow the UN nuclear watchdog to inspect the facility where the West suspects work is under way to develop nuclear warheads. Meanwhile, the world’s major powers have agreed to a new round of six-party... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Stratfor leaks: NATO commandos in illegal spec ...
    Undercover NATO troops are already in Syria despite denials from their parent governments, according to a leaked brief from a highly-placed analyst. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Anonymous turncoat Sabu faces 124 years in pri ...
    Hector Xavier Monsegur, aka Sabu, has plead guilty to several counts of computer hacking conspiracy, access device fraud and other crimes. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Confirmed: FBI charge LulzSec, Anonymous hacke ...
    Top members of the infamous computer hacking group LulzSec have been arrested and charged by the Federal Bureau of Investigations. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Eastern Libya declares autonomy
    Cyrenaica, the eastern region of Libya, has elected a regional congress and declared semi-autonomy from the capital Tripoli. The “blatant call for fragmentation” of the country was condemned by Libya's ruling NTC. Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

  • Divide & Conquer- the US strategy in Libya
    Everywhere the US Empire goes, the Pentagon uses a colonial strategy to divide and conquer in order to better keep the US 1% dominant over the rest of the world. Here is the latest from Libya… Eastern Libya seeks semi- autonomy. Dividing and splitting up Libya is the same plan that the US ...
  • US Occupation troops starve the children of Af ...
    ‘More than half of Afghan children under the age of five are chronically malnourished, according to the joint report by the World Bank and the government.’ The full responsibility for this lies with the US military Commander in Chief, Barack Obama. See AFP report Afghan child hunger ...
  • Anti-Gay hatred splits local Presbyterian cong ...
    Isn’t this so sad, when people claiming to be motivated by love instead only seem motivated by hatred? …Local Presbyterian churches in Colorado split away from main church body over Gay issue
  • Tea Party soldiers attempt military coup of OC ...
    ONLY IN COLORADO SPRINGS! (SPOILER: OCCUDRAMA ALERT)– Not satisfied with heckling the OCS antiwar rally on Saturday, some “berserkers” from Fort Carson’s 4/4 2/12 regiment thought they’d march on the Occupy events committee meeting Monday and vote to make OCS more l ...
  • Reuters poll says that 2/3 of Americans want t ...
    Unfortunately, many if not most of these same Americans would easily buy into the US going to war with Iran if the new war was presented by the US propaganda machine to them all nice and properly…. More than half of Americans back Obama's Koran apology. …An apology is not near e ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Some initial thoughts on Dr Millette's study...
    The red/gray chips are not nanothermite! So say Chris Mohr and Dr James Millette. I've had a quick look at the study, and here are my initial thoughts. Adam has informed me that Harrit et al are preparing their own response which I'm sure will be available shortly. I'm not interested in Dr Mil ...
  • 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 ...

Fooducate

  • Eating, Seen Through Your Child’s Eyes
    This is a guest blog post by Dr. Dina R. Rose Sometimes I think parents and toddlers come from different planets, and speak different languages. That’s why we interpret the world so differently. It’s the parenting version of Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus. You see foods: applesauce, yog ...
  • The FDA (Sort of) Approves Industry’s Front of ...
    Food Navigator reports that the FDA is supporting the food industry’s rollout of the Facts Up Front nutrition labeling scheme (formerly known as Nutrition Keys).  This front of pack (FOP) system was seen by many, including Fooducate, as a preemptive move to undercut federal initiatives. Th ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Vedanta’s PR campaign backfires as Bollywood c ...
    The Dongria Kondh reasserted their pledge never to leave the Niyamgiri Hills, at a festival in February. © Bikash Khemka/Survival A bid by British mining giant Vedanta Resources to repair its tarnished international reputation has backfired after two major Bollywood celebrities withdrew fro ...
  • 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 ...

Greg Palast

  • BP Settlement Sells Out VictimsDeal buries evi ...
    by Greg Palast for TheMudflats Following the Deepwater Horizon explosion, Greg Palast led a four-continent investigation of BP PLC for Britain's television series Dispatches. From 1989-91, Palast directed the investigation of fraud charges in the Exxon Valdez grounding for Alaska Native villag ...
  • Billionaire Ballot Bandits
    They're stealing it again. In 2000, my team uncovered how Katherine Harris illegally purged thousands of African-Americans from Florida's voter rolls. In 2004, for BBC, we uncovered the Karl Rove GOP "caging scheme" that swiped that election. In 2008, we uncovered, for Rolling Stone and BBC, ...
  • Romney's Auto Bail-out Billionaires
    Top funders made billions from US Treasury by Greg Palast for NationOfChange [Thursday February 23] Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney called the federal government’s 2009 bail-out of the auto industry, “nothing more than crony capitalism, Obama style... a reward for his big donors t ...
  • 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 ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • What food packaging & other household waste do ...
    It’s seed-starting time here in the northern hemisphere and my Twitter feed is full of exciting stories about what fruit & veg people are going to be growing this year. I’ve added half a dozen more fruit bushes to our garden this year but I’ve not sown any seeds yet &#8212 ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle an acrylic sweater/ ...
    We’ve covered wool jumpers/sweaters on the site before now – what to do with them when you accidentally shrink your most favourite jumper ever in the wash. But what about acrylic jumpers? They don’t get ruined in the same way but cheaper ones tend to lose their shape and look a ...
  • 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 revamp some plain curtains with recy ...
    Following on from my recent “how can I revamp a kitchen so I don’t need a new one?” question, Janet has asked a similar (smaller scale!) question about curtains: I have ordinary plain curtains that need to look snazzy. I like the “wacky” type of design,whether it&#8 ...
  • 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 [...]

Age of Autism

  • Gabby Giffords and Autism
    By Katie Wright Like all Americans, I’m sure, I am in awe of Congresswoman Gabby Giffords. It is easy for ASD parents like myself to get bogged down in frustration and disappointment with government agencies and officials. However, a congresswoman...
  • The Battle to Defend Non-Medical Vaccine Exemp ...
    By Barbara Loe Fisher Non-medical exemptions to vaccination in the U.S. have been under public attack for quite some time in opinion articles published by doctors in the medical literature. Now, medical trade associations and legislative NGO's generously funded by...
  • 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...

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

  • Mystery disease devastates northern Uganda
    Reuters – Most mornings, Michael Odongkara takes his daughter Nancy Lamwaka outside and ties her ankle to a mango tree. Lamwaka suffers from nodding syndrome, a disease of unknown origins and no known cure, which Ugandan authorities estimate affects more than 3,000 children in the country. ...
  • After Election, Putin Faces Challenges to Legi ...
    NYTimes – While Mr. Putin was still celebrating his win, he received a slap in the face from observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. While finding less of the ballot stuffing and other flagrant violations that they said had marred parliamentary elections in ...
  • Secret Army Bomb Jammers Stolen in Afghanistan
    Wired – On Jan. 7, someone strolled into a supply room at Camp Eggers, a coalition base near the U.S. embassy in downtown Kabul, pocketed two sets of car keys and walked out undetected. Sometime over the next 24 hours, the thieves drove away with two black-painted, armored Toyota Land Crui ...
  • California becoming more dependent on foreign oil
    San Francisco Chronicle – California is growing more and more dependent on imported oil – including crude from the volatile Persian Gulf – even as the rest of the country becomes less. And if the standoff over Iran’s nuclear program breaks into open conflict, that relianc ...
  • Syrian rebels say battles continue around Deraa
    Reuters – Amateur video purportedly shows battles continuing between rebels and Syrian army in Deraa, while cleanup efforts begin in embattled Homs. Jessica Gray reports.

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Animals: Iowa, first state to criminalize unde ...
    On Friday, Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad signed into law a bill designed to thwart activists who go undercover to report animal abuse. This makes Iowa the first state in the country to pass such a law; Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New York and Utah are considering them.
  • Federal court rejects delay of N.M. power plan ...
    A federal appeals court has ruled that the owners of the San Juan Generating Station, a huge coal-fired power plant near Farmington, N.M., must continue with plans to install strong pollution controls. Several California cities purchase electricity from the plant.
  • 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 ...

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

  • The Story of Obama and Israel
    The Porkies of the POTUS Submitted by Tommy S. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Noam Chomsky - What Are Iran's Intentions?
    The January/February issue of Foreign Affairs featured the article Time to Attack Iran: Why a Strike Is the Least Bad Option" ... one purpose of Israeli nuclear weapons, not often stated, but obvious, is their use on the United States ... ME-WMDFZ... Submitted by wolf a. to US Politics & Gov ...
  • Pitts: There's nothing to fear in Girl Scouts' ...
    Bob Morris is scared of Girl Scouts. Fear the Girl Scouts. They are trying to conquer America one cookie at a time. Submitted by Robert Tomlinson to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Olympia Snowe delivers rebuke in decision to l ...
    Olympia Snowe, a moderate Republican senator from Maine, won't seek another term in the US Senate because intense partisanship has made her question how 'productive' it would be. Submitted by Jae A. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • How Coyotes Dwindled to Their Modern Size
    In ancient times, when woolly mammoths and cave bears roamed Earth, coyotes boasted bigger bodies, rivaling the size of wolves, only to shrink to near modern size about the same time these megafauna went extinct. Submitted by Jae A. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |  &n ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • Llorente wary of Rooney threat
    Athletic Bilbao striker Fernando Llorente has singled out Wayne Rooney as Manchester United's main threat ahead of their Europa League last-16 tie. The...
  • Discount drives iPad 2 sales ahead of new ...
    Dubai: Apple aficionados are clamouring to buy iPad 2s despite a new launch by the company on Wednesday — rumoured to be the third generation of the tablet computer. Apple has lowered the prices of the 16GB and 32GB iPad 2 by $50 (Dh184) to $449 and $549, respectively, encouraging buye ...
  • Wall Street: Dow slumps at open as Greece ...
    Tweet NEW YORK: US stocks opened sharply lower on Tuesday, following steep losses in markets in Europe two days before a critical deadline in the Greek debt crisis. The Dow Jones industrial average suffered its biggest decline during a trading day this year. Just before 10:30 a.m. (1530 GMT) ...
  • Soccer: Abramovich's short-lived gamble m ...
    Amid mounting criticism after the firing of the seventh Chelsea manager in nine years, the job is increasingly becoming an unstable and unattractive proposition. Andre Villas-Boas was let go yesterday after only eight months in charge, a short-lived gamble that could turn out to be a US$100 ...
  • Art exhibition listings
    According to Aki Gallery, the characteristics that gave rise to Leonardo da Vinciâs curiosity, Michelangeloâs obsession with perfection and Dante Alighieriâs profound understanding of humanity can all be found in Yes Taiwan IV, the fourth instalment of its Young Emerging Stars series of exhi ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • Top 1% Enjoyed 93% of Economic Recovery in 201 ...
    In the wake of the financial crisis of 2008 and the recession that followed, huge numbers of US workers lost their jobs, homes were lost to foreclosure, and most found themselves in the most precarious economic shape of their lives. Now, in a new report, evidence shows that as an economic recove ...
  • "This Is Our Land:" Lakota Form Human Blockade ...
    Lakota members yesterday formed a human blockade to stop trucks carrying tar sands equipment through the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The action resulted in the arrest of 5 protesters. Brenda Norrell reports: PINE RIDGE, S.D. -- Lakotas on Pine Ridge Indian land in South Dakota were arrested ...
  • Vermont Town Meetings Model People-Driven Demo ...
    Voters in ten states take to the polls today for a 'Super Tuesday' focused mostly on the Republican race for the presidential nomination. As they do so, the national media busies itself cataloging the now requisite speculative horse race play-by-play while giving audience to uninvited st ...
  • Super Tuesday: If Dennis Kucinich Loses, What ...
    US Rep. Dennis Kucinich is fighting a tough primary battle in Ohio to stay in the US House of Representatives. Redistricting forced Kucinich and Marcy Kaptur, also a progressive Democrat, to battle it out for Ohio's reconfigured 9th District. Pundits predict that Kaptur will win but it's ...
  • Thousands Protest Soaring Education Cuts in Ca ...
    Thousands of students railed against soaring education costs and cuts at the Capitol building in California yesterday, where 72 people were arrested. read more

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • ‘Ignore the intelligence reports, let&#8 ...
    Stuart Littlewood Let’s shred and vapourise a few million more innocents... But first we’ll strangle them with sanctions, say our elected leaders. Is this what we voted for? Is this what Western diplomacy has come to in the 21st century? Thank heaven for Dr David Morrison’ ...
  • Insanity Bubble: America and Europe - the Lead ...
    Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD “There are the times that try men’s soul”, noted Thomas Paine in his famous “Common Sense”, the lifeline to American independence. In situations of adversity and crises, leaders represent optimism and hope for change, not egoistic agenda and ...
  • Gaza Gripped by Crisis
    by Stephen Lendman Punishing years under siege, Cast Lead's devastation, and regular IDF air, land and sea attacks took a terrible toll on Gazans physically, economically and emotionally. In 2010, Doctors Without Borders (Medicine Sans Frontiers) said over half of children under age 12 need me ...
  • Irresponsible Anti-Iranian Fear-Mongering
    by Stephen Lendman Irresponsible anti-Iranian political and pack journalism rhetoric sound ominously like spurious Iraqi WMD threats in the run-up to the 2003 war. In his January State of the Union address, Obama said: "Let there be no doubt: America is determined to prevent Iran from getting ...
  • Khader Adnan Ending Hunger Strike
    by Stephen Lendman Ma'an News said Adnan will stop hunger striking following a deal to release him on April 17, according to PA Prison Affairs Minister Issa Qaraqe. Adnan didn't confirm it, and so far his lawyer didn't comment. The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has no information to repo ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Nova Scotia doubles number of temporary foreig ...
    The number of migrant labourers working in Nova Scotia has doubled over the past five years.  While such rapid increases benefit the Canadian economy, they pose difficult questions for policymakers.  Recent immigrants are often  used as an exploitable working population and are si ...
  • 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 ...

World Wide Hippies

  • Wikileaks: Bin Laden Body Not Buried at Sea &# ...
    By Jon E. Dougherty,.newsroomamerica - Obama bin Laden’s body was not buried at sea, as claimed by the Obama administration, according to leaked emails from private intelligence firm Stratfor by the WikiLeaks Web site. One email by Fred Burton, the firms’ vice president of intelligen ...
  • When Weird Going Gets The by Mikel K ...
    Friggin’ hippy communist left wing liberal poet…get a friggin’ job…so u can think like the other guy…he’s got a job and stays in line…what the hell is wrong with you…why u gotta think for yourself… that don’t do the company any good; no ...
  • Niagara Falls to ban hydrofracking; anti-hydro ...
    By Mark Scheer,Niagara Gazette – NIAGARA FALLS — City lawmakers received something on Monday that they don’t receive very often, if at all — not one, but two standing ovations. The first applause followed the council’s unanimous vote in favor of a new law that bans hydrofracking-related ac ...
  • Only Women Bleed
    By Diana May-Waldman, Worldwidehippies – Sometimes, it piles up. Sometimes women get tired. Tired of fighting. Tired of bleeding. I heard him call my name.. it whispered with each wave that crashed to the pier, cool on my feet that dangled above the water. I needed this solitude. I needed ...
  • Hippie Health Digest Tuesday
    Weighing the benefits of balance training By Dorene Internicola,Reuters – Dick Sandhaus, a healthy and fit 62-year old, says he never gave his balance a thought until he lost it. A wicked sprained ankle was the result. Now he practices balancing for a few minutes each day and urges his fel ...

FourWinds10

  • SYNTHETIC SEA -- OCEANS OF PLASTIC
  • Nigerian author Helon Habila mixes oil and wat ...
    For all the public outrage directed at government agencies and BP over last year’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Americans and others across the world have largely remained silent when it comes to the environmental destruction wreaked by the oil industry in the Niger delta. The United State ...
  • California may ban takeout food in foam containers
    (06-02) 15:25 PDT Sacramento, Calif. (AP) -- Getting takeout food in foam containers would be a thing of the past under a bill approved by the state Senate. The bill by Democratic Sen. Alan Lowenthal of Long Beach prohibits vendors from providing prepared food in expanded polystyrene containers. ...
  • China gives bleak assessment of its battered e ...
    (Reuters) - More than half of China's cities are affected by acid rain and one-sixth of major rivers are so polluted the water is unfit even for farmland, a senior official said on Friday in a bleak assessment of the environmental price of the country's economic boom. The environmental d ...
  • Oil Spill Gulf of Mexico 'Everything is dead o ...
    Oil Spill Gulf of Mexico "Everything is dead or dying"- Kindra Arnesan, Louisiana. September 2010 - IT IS NOT OVER. THE WELL CAP IS USELESS. Sealife is contaminated. Oil is continuing to show up daily.

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

  • Ethanol Exports and the Future of the Ethanol ...
    Were U.S. Taxpayers Subsidizing Ethanol Exports? Over the past couple of years, U.S. ethanol exports have soared. Last year a news article in Financial Times charged that these exports were being subsidized with U.S. tax dollars. The U.S. ethanol industry strongly denied this, but I wrote severa ...
  • Study: Eliminating Coal-Fired Power is Worth 0 ...
    Who could have dreamed solving climate change would be so easy? A new paper in Environmental Research Letters called “Greenhouse gases, climate change and the transition from coal to low-carbon electricity” concludes that replacement of all of the world’s currently operating coal-fired pow ...
  • 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 ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • The New GMOs: More Chemicals, More Dangerous
    A global pesticide company announced last week that it plans to start selling a new type of GMO, AKA genetically modified crop, to farmers as early as the 2014 growing season, a move weed scientists have been predicting for years since weeds have been growing increasingly resistant to the chemi ...
  • The Hidden Cancer Threat in Soda
    Pay any attention to a soda label and you'll find questionable ingredients like sugar in excess amounts, high-fructose corn syrup, or dubious artificial sweeteners. But a new analysis from the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) has detected a cancer-causer that you won't ever find ...
  • 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 ...

big think

  • MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan Answers Your Questions – ...
    Dylan Ratigan, the host of MSNBC's highest rated non-primetime show, will be here in our studio this Wednesday to talk about his journalism career and his new book, Greedy Bastards: How We Can Stop Corporate Communists, Banksters, and Other Vampires from Sucking America Dry . We want to kno ...
  • Romney Can Lose Ohio And Still Win GOP Nomination
    I’d like to tell you why Rick Santorum’s extreme religious views should be blamed for hampering his campaign’s performance on Super Tuesday, but I don’t believe that to be true. What will be hampering Rick Santorum’s campaign is the same thing that has caused major problems for every Republican ...
  • How Would We Contain Dangerous AI?
    What's the Latest Development? Computer scientists at the University of Louisville, Kentucky, are working on solutions to contain potentially dangerous artificial intelligence. Professor Roman Yampolskiy warns about unforeseen problems which advanced AI could cause: "It can discover new ...
  • Homophobic Neighbors can be Bad for Home Values
    Prejudice is a difficult concept to measure. One possible way is to ask people the question, “Who would you not like to have as a neighbor?”  When the World Values Survey (WVS) asks this question the order of the most popular responses goes like this: drug addicts, heavy drinkers, and homosexual ...
  • Watch the President of Kosovo LIVE from Dartmouth
    Kosovo President Atifete Jahjaga will give a speech today at Dartmouth College about her country's difficulties and accomplishments since its fight for independence from Serbia 13 years ago. Kosovo, a land of 1.8 million people, has been under United Nations protection since 1999 after ...

Information Liberation

  • USA #1? 40 Embarrassing Things That America Is ...
    Is the USA still #1?* Well, there are many things that America is still the best in the world at, but unfortunately a lot of those categories are nothing to be proud of.* Once upon a time the United States was the greatest nation on earth, but now we...
  • Government Is Not Civilization, It Is Slavery
    One of the most pervasive misconceptions in our culture is the idea that *government* has anything to do with the structure or organization that we see in our society. This is one of the primary reasons why people have such a difficult time consideri...
  • Off-Duty Police Beat Man At Bar So Severely He ...
    The District Attorney investigated the beating and found the police committed "no wrong doing." In other words, the government investigated itself and found itself not guilty. Via The Union Leader: CONCORD - A Manchester man, injured when ...
  • The "Uniformed Sexual Predator Deterrence Act"
    Sarah Smith was driving to work when her car was sideswiped by a man on a motorcycle. Like many people in straitened financial circumstances, she had let her liability insurance lapse. To make matters worse, her driver's license had expired. So she w...
  • Holder To Justify Killing Americans On Foreign ...
    Attorney General Eric Holder will today attempt to justify the Obama administration*s policy of state-sponsored assassination, as he prepares to give a speech explaining how the U.S. government can arbitrarily kill U.S. citizens on foreign soil. *...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Agree Or Else Part II – The Silencing Of ...
    Our God-Emperor beat me to it. The Australian Government’s Finkelstein Report, released last Friday, is the stuff of all freedom-loving people’s nightmares. It proposes the establishment of a new bureaucracy, the News Media Council, to “regulate” all forms of print &#8230 ...
  • 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 →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Rock on @GulliverTurtle
    Gulliver Turtle was checking out my guitars and stuff yesterday, making sure I’d turned everything up to 11…there he is, third shelf up, on the right, next to my wife’s copy of Streitwieser & Heathcock “Introduction to Organic Chemistry” (2nd edn 1981) and just ...
  • Making scientific peer review open
    Scientific reputation is essential to researchers for their academic advancement, tenure, research grants and fellowships. It relies, most of the times, on quantitative metrics such as the H Index, citation counts, article counts etc. And, of course, getting published in a journal in the first p ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Raise It or Raze It?: How Will the Stranded It ...
    At more than twice the size of the Titanic, the Costa Concordia was the largest passenger vessel ever to sink when it capsized off Italy's northwest coast on January 13. So far, Italian authorities say of the more than 4,200 passengers and crew on board, at least 18 are confirmed dead and 1 ...
  • Could a Penny Dropped Off a Skyscraper Actuall ...
    City-slickers: Have you ever worried that, at any moment, you could be struck dead by a penny flung off the roof of a nearby skyscraper? [More]
  • Industrial Chemicals Linked to Attention Probl ...
    When Deidre Ramos moved with her infant son to the Parker Street section of New Bedford, Mass., little did she know that her new neighborhood was toxic. [More]
  • 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]

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

  • Discussing the Dalhousie Strike
    Strike is a symptom of corporatization of education, say students and faculty With members of the Dalhousie Faculty Association voting 83% in favour of a strike last month, professors are set to walk off the job on March 10th. Asaf Rashid s ...
  • KI Film, Event and Protest
    On March 5th a large crowd gathered at Steel Workers Hall in Toronto to watch the release of a new film on from Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) First Nations looking at ...
  • KI Film, Event and Protest
    On March 5th a large crowd gathered at Steel Workers Hall in Toronto to watch the release of a new film on from Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) First Nations looking at ...
  • Cool Off
    Bahamian Minister of Labour Meets With CEWU and Sarah MacDonald of Emera-GBPC. Two weeks countdown to strike date. The Bahamian Minister of Labour, in an attempt to avert a strike situation by the Commonwealth Electrical Workers Union, has ...
  • Cool Off
    Bahamian Minister of Labour Meets With CEWU and Sarah MacDonald of Emera-GBPC. Two weeks countdown to strike date. The Bahamian Minister of Labour, in an attempt to avert a strike situation by the Commonwealth Electrical Workers Union, has ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • What has the Republican Party come to? - III
    David Seaton's News LinksObserving the pantagruelian expense and listening to and reading about the nauseating, sociopathic babble of the seemingly endless Republican primaries in the United States; people all over the world are questioning the democratic process and wondering if China's authori ...
  • What has the Republican Party come to? - II
    David Seaton's News Links"Melancholy" Domenico Feti We are living in quite special times. The crisis in the system hasn’t been this evident to “everyman” since the 1930s. The United States is rather special in one respect in facing the crisis. The idea of personal responsibility for everyth ...
  • 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 ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Quote of the Day: War is Not a Game
    From Barack Obama, on the casual bellicosity toward Iran that's overtaken the Republican Party: This is not a game....If some of these folks think we should launch a war, let them say so, and explain to the American people. On a related note, Paul Waldman has a question: "When Do Reporte ...
  • Mitt Romney Hates Mandates, But He Loves Mandates
    This is yesterday's news, but I just now got around to reading Mitt Romney's USA Today op-ed from 2009 in which he criticized the way healthcare reform was being designed and recommended that Obama look instead to Romney's healthcare reform in Massachusetts: With more than 1,300 health ...
  • Iranian Sanctions Look Like They're Biting Hard
    So how are those Iranian oil sanctions going? Stuart Staniford took a crack at figuring it out yesterday, but luckily for me I got busy with other stuff and didn't link to his post. "Luckily" because he's now spent several hours obsessing even more over Iranian production data and has what he ...
  • New Frontiers in Nasty Book Reviews
    I see that the hounds have been let loose on Amazon today. Matt Yglesias has a new eBook out, The Rent is Too Damn High, and according to the chart accompanying the Amazon page it's already garnered 24 one-star reviews. Not bad! This reviewer explains what's up: If you purchase this book, y ...
  • Driverless Cars Will Be a Boon to Pedestrians
    Atrios: My prediction is that a whole lot of public money will be spent setting up a "driverless car" system that will never actually work. ...adding, I'm sure such a thing would be quite possible (near future if not now) if we built up such a system from scratch. That's not going to happe ...

Insanity Report

  • What Was More Offensive Than Limbaugh’s “Slut” ...
    Another day, another offensive Rush Limmbaugh segment from his radio show. By know you’ve heard that advertisers are leaving Rush’s show and Rush Limbaugh has even done something I’ve never heard him do before:  “Apologize”. I have “apologize” in quotes ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Space weather: Explosions on Venus
    In the grand scheme of the solar system, Venus and Earth are almost the same distance from the sun. Yet the planets differ dramatically: Venus is some 100 times hotter than Earth and its days more than 200 times longer. The atmosphere on Venus is so thick that the longest any spacecraft has surv ...
  • Study jointly led by UCSB researcher supports ...
    A 16-member international team of researchers that includes James Kennett, professor of earth science at UC Santa Barbara, has identified a nearly 13,000-year-old layer of thin, dark sediment buried in the floor of Lake Cuitzeo in central Mexico. The sediment layer contains an exotic assemblage ...
  • Smart, self-healing hydrogels open far-reachin ...
    University of California, San Diego bioengineers have developed a self-healing hydrogel that binds in seconds, as easily as Velcro, and forms a bond strong enough to withstand repeated stretching. The material has numerous potential applications, including medical sutures, targeted drug delivery ...
  • The Blue Planet's new water budget
    Investigating the history of water on Earth is critical to understanding the planet's climate. One central question is whether Earth has always had the same amount of water on and surrounding it, the same so-called "water budget." Has Earth gained or lost water from comets and meteorit ...
  • Miniature pressure sensors for medical touch
    A new kind of flexible, transparent pressure sensor, developed at the University of California, Davis, for use in medical applications, relies on a drop of liquid. read more

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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

  • So Rush Limbaugh Is A Piece Of Slime
    Who knew…. How dare anyone testify that doing stuff that keeps people from dying might be necessary! How dare they. They should just sit down, shut up, and let Rush’s friends run the world.
  • 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 [...]

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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  • The worst defense of Zionism in history
    An op-ed on Ynet, Israel’s most popular news site, explains how to address anti-Zionism: Zionism will only cease being demonized in the politically correct corners of the West once our schools and film industry cease to demonize colonialism. The politically correct depiction of the colonia ...
  • In East Jerusalem, only Palestinian property s ...
    To this day, Palestinians are being legally evacuated from their properties in East Jerusalem due to the application of a racist 1950 Israeli law.  By Moriel Rothman My parents moved to Jerusalem from San Francisco in 1986. They bought a house in Baq’a, and my older sister and I were both ...
  • Netanyahu speech before AIPAC targets Iran, ig ...
    WASHINGTON – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has addressed the 2012 AIPAC Policy Conference, focusing exclusively on Iran. Given the events that have transpired over the past 10 months since Netanyahu last spoke at AIPAC — namely: a diplomatic standoff between Israel and th ...
  • WATCH: Jewish activist disrupts AIPAC breakout ...
    WASHINGTON – Liza Behrendt, a 22-year old Jewish-American activist, accused the American pro-Israel lobbying group AIPAC and its supporting organizations of stifling debate on Israel and particularly on settlements.   On Sunday, the first day of the 2012 Annual Conference, Behrendt attende ...
  • Are Israelis boycotting Palestinian goods?
    Although Israelis spend hundreds of millions of dollars on Palestinians goods each year, these products are usually sold under Israelis labels, since Palestinian-marketed goods are a tough sell. A video item on the Media Line today tells of a Tel Aviv trade fair designated to help open doors for ...

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Matt Weidner Blog

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

  • With Respect
    Try as hard as I might, I just can’t seem to get out of politics. Strange, considering that I lost …Continue reading »
  • Right to Community – Not As We Had Hoped
    Canadian communities are presently struggling through a process never endured before. We have already recounted in these posts how governments, …Continue reading »
  • 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 »

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

  • 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 ...
  • Davos 2011 – physics superstar meets music sup ...
    I don’t usually write about personal interactions here, but this is one I couldn’t resist – physics superstar Lawrence Krauss talking cosmology with music superstar Peter Gabriel. I was with Lawrence at a World Economic Forum dinner when he bumped into Peter – as one does ...
  • Davos 2011: Global Risks permeate conversation ...
    Cross-posted from the Risk Science Blog. Take a metaphorical slice through this year’s annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, and Global Risk would be writ large through every part of it.  Hot on the heels of the sixth Global Risk report, this year’s meeting saw the launch of ...

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

  • Field Trip Day
    We empathized with the human side of these hard-working distributors just trying to make a buck in this tough economy like the rest of us. But, of course, we also challenged them with difficult questions about sustainability and their role in the future of our food system.
  • The Other Side of the Chicken
    I recently had my first in-person experience with one of the hurdles in promoting a healthy change in food production. It was a major eye-opener to see how great of a hurdle the legislative process can be.
  • 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 ...

k2p blog

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • FCC Reminds Everyone That Cellphone Jamming & ...
    Even while the Federal Communications Commission is asking for comments on the temporary blocking or disabling of wireless signals by law enforcement, it wants to stress to everyone that there is no legal gray area when it comes to cellphone jamming and jamming devices. The issue has become a ...
  • How Much Have The Big Banks Been Penalized Ove ...
    The last few years have seen numerous settlements between the nation's biggest mortgage lenders and various federal and state authorities. And while we hear numbers like "a total of $25 billion," exactly which banks are responsible for the biggest chunks of these settlements? The folks at ProP ...
  • Let's Celebrate 100 Years Of Eating Entire Pac ...
    Raise a glass of milk to toast those always dunkable chocolate wafers filled with vanilla creme -- Oreo cookies turn 100 today, marking decades of afficionados gleefully consuming row upon row in a variety of favorite ways. CNNMoney spotlights the iconic cookie today, 100 years from when the f ...
  • Here Are A Few Important Things E-Book Sellers ...
    Glancing at your bulging bookshelf and then over at your slim reader might make you wonder if paper books will someday go the way of the dinosaur in favor of e-books. For a few reasons at least, hang on to those paper copies, as there are still some drawbacks to reading electronic fare. SmartM ...
  • Southwest Confuses Rabbits With Rodents, Won't ...
    Southwest Airlines allows passengers to carry-on Emotional Support Animals, so long as the passenger provides the required documentation, the animal is trained to not freak out on a crowded plane and the passenger isn't seated in an emergency exit seat. But at least one Southwest staffer not on ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • IDB Whistleblower Case Leads to Shady Dealings ...
    So ethics guru Bernardo Kliksberg is back in the news. On March 1, FOX News' George Russell published a detailed piece about Kliksberg’s peculiar departure from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in January 2007, just before the Social Capital and Ethics Initiative “coordinated” by h ...
  • Mets Could Pay $83M in Madoff Suit: Daily Whis ...
    Daily Beast: Noreen Harrington – The Mets’ Madoff Whistleblower Summary: A Wall Street employee alleges to have told the New York Mets team owners in 2003 that the ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff’s impressive returns could be explained by illegal trading. Now, she has testified before a judge abou ...
  • Assassinating U.S. Citizens: Holder says "Yes ...
    Yesterday, Attorney General Eric Holder said: The American people can be — and deserve to be — assured that actions taken in their defense are consistent with their values and their laws. I agree, Mr. Holder, but if you really cared about informing the American public more than silen ...
  • Holder to Speechify on “Existent or Non-Existe ...
    The Washington Post reports: Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Monday plans to provide the most detailed account to date of the Obama administration’s legal rationale for killing U.S. citizens abroad, as it did in last year’s airstrike against an alleged al-Qaeda operative in Yem ...
  • Utah 'Ag Gag' Bill a Threat to Public Health: ...
    Salt Lake Tribune: Utah's Misguided 'Ag Gag' Bill Summary: GAP's Food Integrity Campaign Director Amanda Hitt authored this op-ed on why Utah's proposed "Ag Gag" bill – which would outlaw undercover video at agricultural operations – silences whistleblowers and poses a threat to public health. ...

UK Progressive

  • Demographic Time Bombs Explode – The GOP’s His ...
    A FOX News(!) poll shows the bombshell effect of the USA’s Hispanic vote’s cumulative enmity towards the Republican Party. The three front running GOP candidates trail President Obama among Hispanic voters by 54-56 points! President Obama trumps front-runner Mitt Romney by 70%-14%! Statistically ...
  • What Good Is Black History Month?
    I was going to let Black History Month pass without contributing an article this year. Nothing worth writing came to mind, but then I got a call from Sandra Moura, the LGBT Liaison for the Los Angeles Police Department. Officer Moura was sending a press release for the LAPD’s upcoming Lesbian, G ...
  • Washington’s Fight Against The “Mubarak Doctrine”
    The Arab Spring challenged former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s strategy, which is referred to by one prominent Egyptian diplomat as the Mubarak Doctrine. For a long time, Mubarak had convinced the United States of the existence of only two political forces in Egypt. On the one hand, was hi ...
  • Bye Bye American Pie: The Challenge of the Pro ...
    Here’s the good news. The economic pie is growing again. Growth in the fourth quarter last year hit 3 percent on an annualized rate. That’s respectable – although still way too slow to get us back on track given how far we plunged. Here’s the bad news. The share of that growth going to American ...
  • Harry Reid Hits the Trifecta
    Hello, Bob Kerrey; farewell, Olympia Snowe; goodbye, Senate GOP war against women It was a banner week for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), who is brilliantly leading the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. The GOP continues its war against birth ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Finkelstein — Yes please. Just try it…
    Welcome to Australistan. I haven’t read the whole 400 page Finklestein report, but Mark Steyn tells me that the Chinese government likes it. What more do you need to know? As Steyn says, this is not a left-right thing, it’s a free-unfree thing. Tim Andrews at Menzies House launches ...
  • 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 ...

ReNew America

  • Ohio robos hit Romney on gay issues
    (MMD Newswire) - One day before Ohio's delegate-rich GOP presidential primary election, Super Tuesday's biggest prize, national frontrunner Mitt Romney is getting hit hard on his gay rights record with millions of robo-calls, emails and videos...
  • Romney denounced by 850+ Rabbis
    (Rabbi Levin) - At a special Chanukah conclave, The Rabbinical Alliance of America, a 70 year old organization of over 850 Orthodox Jewish Rabbis in the United States and Canada, serving approximately one half-million religious Jews, has condemned the decades long pro-homosexual record of former ...
  • The Obama deception on Israel
    (America Stands With Israel) - As the contours of the American national election battlefield begin to fully emerge, U.S. policy towards Israel enters a period of intense scrutiny. With a bellicose Iran, an unstable Middle East, and an emboldened Palestinian Authority, the stakes for the survival ...
  • The liberal pursuit of a redistributionist age ...
    (Patrick Garry, RA analyst) - The Obama administration has been preaching the language of social redistribution ever since it assumed leadership of the federal government. Indeed, President Obama's re-election campaign will center around this message -- of using government to carry out a redistr ...
  • BOOK REVIEW: 'The Secret Weapon'
    (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - The 2008 market crash was an (unofficial) act of war on the United States. That is the thrust of Kevin D. Freeman's carefully documented "The Secret Weapon: How Economic Terrorism Brought Down the U.S. Stock Market and Why it Can Happen Again." He does not dismiss a th ...

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

  • Seed Bank Insurance / Korean Doomsday Movie
    Seed banks are incredibly valuable resources, and an acknowledgement that sometimes there SHTF events that require emergency backups. Seed banks can help restart horticulture in the event of a natural disaster or spread of a disease. But what if harm comes to the seed bank itself? Wars have dest ...
  • Asteroid 2012 DA14: Earth Impact in 2013?
    An article has been appearing in blogs and at forums. It says, in part: To avert a possible catastrophe – this time set for February 2013 – scientists suggest confronting asteroid 2012 DA14 with either paint or big guns. The stickler is that time has long run out to build a spaceship to carr ...
  • XRay Flare Alert
    Earth orbiting satellites detected an X1-class solar flare at Mar 5, 04:13 UTC. Radiation storms and radio blackouts are possible. X-class flares are much more significant that the C-class and M-class flares that other doomsday sites make mention of. X1 is still pretty small, but if any X-class ...
  • 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 ...

Facing South

One News Page

  • Obama, Republican candidates clash over Iran n ...
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama clashed with Republican presidential contenders on Tuesday over how to thwart Iran's nuclear ambitions, accusing them in the harshest terms yet of 'beating the drums of war' while failing to consider the consequences. Reported by Reuters India 2 hou ...
  • Man dies after being chased by cops
    A 35-year-old man died after jumping into a drainage canal while being chased by a detachment of police team from Tamil Nadu. Reported by IndiaTimes 3 hours ago
  • Film on Indian women, Israeli drama in Tribeca ...
    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Films about the treatment of women in India and a gay man in Israel will open the competitions at the upcoming Tribeca Film Festival among a range of foreign stories and dozens of movies starring James Franco, Abbie Cornish, Kate Bosworth and others. Reported by Reuters Ind ...
  • VUSACOM prepares roadmap to increase tourist f ...
    In a bid to increase tourist flow to the US, the Indian chapter of Visit USA Committee that started functioning from Mumbai four months back, is branching to cities like Pune. Reported by Indian Express 5 hours ago
  • After failing to act on his report, AIIMS turn ...
    A day after Newsline highlighted that the AIIMS administration had not implemented most recommendations of the Sukhadeo Thorat Committee that probed allegations of caste discrimination on the campus, the institute re-appointed Thorat, a former chairman of the UGC, to evaluate the status ... Rep ...

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • Russia’s National Interests and Foreign ...
    On February 27, with Russia’s presidential poll already in sight, Moskovskie Novosti daily featured an international politics opinion piece by Vladimir Putin, which came as the seventh in a series of programmatic papers by the Russian prime minister and March 4 elections front-runner. The ...
  • Russia’s New President And the Transforming World
    Many events of the year 2011 have explicitly demonstrated that the world has entered a phase of profound change and transformation with regard to politics, ideology, finance and economy. As the economic situation and social standards in the United States and Europe continue to deteriorate, the N ...
  • 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 ...

BlogHer

  • Feminine Style: LC Lauren Conrad
    I'm not ashamed to admit that I love Lauren Conrad's line for Kohl's. She has found a way to capture my feminine style and make it effortless and affordable. Check out my favorite pieces in this Spring's lookbook below! Which looks are your favorites? I love this dress! I tend to wear dresses ...
  • Kaplan University Faculty Interviews: Dr. Bett ...
    Going back to school as an adult requires support and dedication. As the Dean of Students at Kaplan University, Dr. Betty Vandenbosch offers that support to thousands of students each year. In fact, she went through her own midlife career change, moving from technology and business to education ...
  • Kaplan University Faculty Interviews: Dr. Drew ...
    Technology and education are a powerful combination, for students and educators alike. Online learning is expanding our educational horizons every day, and Dr. Drew Ross is at the forefront of that expansion as the Dean of the School of Graduate Education at Kaplan University. In this blog, Dr. ...
  • Getting Smart About Your Family's Food Budget ...
    Even though I'm not a mother myself, I know all too well how hard it is to stick to a budget, particularly when it comes to my grocery bill. In fact, just last night, at the checkout counter at the grocery store, when the clerk told me my total, I shook my head and wondered how people feed an en ...
  • Finding Community in a New Town
    Back in September of last year, after selling our house in Victoria, my husband and I flew to Windsor for a one-week whirlwind house-buying adventure in our soon-to-be new city. During the days that followed the accepted offer on what was to become our next home, we were tasked with several resp ...

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

  • UBB ‘internal review’ finds seriou ...
    We’ve just posted on the Gazette’s website our first story about the release of the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration’s “internal review” of agency enforcement and other actions at the Upper Big Branch Mine in Raleigh County, W.Va., where 29 miners were kil ...
  • Another coal miner killed in Kentucky
    Bad news from the coalfields of Kentucky, where the Herald-Leader reports: A mine foreman died early Saturday while fixing a canopy in a Harlan County mine. James A. Bailey, 32, of Loyall was pinned by the protective covering that he was installing on a mine shuttle car, according to the state E ...
  • Will Joe Main be clear about MSHA failings at UBB?
    At about this time tomorrow, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration will make public its “internal review” of MSHA’s enforcement of mine safety and health laws prior to the April 5, 2010, explosion that killed 29 miners at Massey Energy&#8217 ...
  • 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”), ...

Daniel Miessler

  • iOS-based Square Headed To New York City Taxi ...
    As we heard last week, mobile payments platform Square pitched the New York Taxi and Limousine Commission to replace the current taxi TVs and payments technology in 50 cabs. The company says today that the pilot has been approved, and Square will be tested in up to 30 cabs in the test. AllThings ...
  • Dunning-Kruger and the End of Democracy
    The research, led by David Dunning, a psychologist at Cornell University, shows that incompetent people are inherently unable to judge the competence of other people, or the quality of those people’s ideas. For example, if people lack expertise on tax reform, it is very difficult for them ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Protesters claim victory as G-8 moved from Chi ...
    By TAMMY WEBBER,chicagotribune – CHICAGO (AP) — Protesters who’ve been planning for months to converge on Chicago for a pair of important world meetings this spring say they have a message: No G-8? No problem. The decision by the White House to move the Group of 8 economic summit to ...
  • Wikileaks: Bin Laden Body Not Buried at Sea &# ...
    By Jon E. Dougherty,.newsroomamerica - Obama bin Laden’s body was not buried at sea, as claimed by the Obama administration, according to leaked emails from private intelligence firm Stratfor by the WikiLeaks Web site. One email by Fred Burton, the firms’ vice president of intelligen ...
  • When Weird Going Gets The by Mikel K ...
    Friggin’ hippy communist left wing liberal poet…get a friggin’ job…so u can think like the other guy…he’s got a job and stays in line…what the hell is wrong with you…why u gotta think for yourself… that don’t do the company any good; no ...
  • Niagara Falls to ban hydrofracking; anti-hydro ...
    By Mark Scheer,Niagara Gazette – NIAGARA FALLS — City lawmakers received something on Monday that they don’t receive very often, if at all — not one, but two standing ovations. The first applause followed the council’s unanimous vote in favor of a new law that bans hydrofracking-related ac ...
  • Only Women Bleed
    By Diana May-Waldman, Worldwidehippies – Sometimes, it piles up. Sometimes women get tired. Tired of fighting. Tired of bleeding. I heard him call my name.. it whispered with each wave that crashed to the pier, cool on my feet that dangled above the water. I needed this solitude. I needed ...

reference frame

  • Supersymmetry at CMS: some multilepton excesse ...
    The Moriond conference offers us updates on many searches in particle physics although the most interesting findings may be stored for later and larger conferences. Matt Strassler has mentioned an interesting new exclusion plot based on the newest CMS multilepton events. It shows an exce ...
  • LHCb: dimuon branching ratio of B decays match ...
    In November 2011, we were informed about a result of the LHCb experiment, an experiment using a smaller detector at the LHC that focuses on aspects of particle physics associated with the bottom quark i.e. the second-heaviest quark flavor. Four months ago, the result was telling us that ...
  • How hormonal contraceptives cause infertility ...
    Translated from zena.centrum.cz ("woman.center.cz") by L.M., hat tip to Dr Mephisto MD You may be surprised When it can't be done. The number of infertile men in the population keeps on increasing – the group is already almost as large as the set of infertile women. Scien ...
  • 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 ...

Tatumba 2.0

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

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

Enviroblog

  • California: The Wild West of Fracking
    In some states, oil and gas companies have begun to face (gasp!) some basic regulations, such as required reporting of where and when they hydraulically fracture (or "frack") wells, and even disclosure of the chemicals they use. But in California,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...
  • California: The Wild West of Fracking
    In some states, oil and gas companies have begun to face (gasp!) some basic regulations, such as required reporting of where and when they hydraulically fracture (or "frack") wells, and even disclosure of the chemicals they use. But in California,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Northug may be out for the season
    Petter Northug won’t be taking part in the upcoming Nordic skiing World Cup competition at Holmenkollen in Oslo this weekend, nor would he race in Wednesday’s sprint competition in Drammen. The rest of the skiing season is in question, mostly because of tummy trouble. His managers re ...
  • State auditor confirms violations
    Fully 16 of Norway’s 19 government ministries have broken the rules for making extra funding allocations, State Auditor General Jørgen Kosmo told Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) on Tuesday. Failure to publicly announce availability of funding was the most frequent violation. That’s what ...
  • High-tech terror tops threat ranking
    Norway’s military intelligence unit known as “E-tjenesten” has handed over its latest open evaluation of threats to national and international security, with high-tech terrorism now ranking as high as traditional military threats. Radical Islamists and right-wing extremists con ...
  • Wolf killed dog in Oslo
    Wildlife authorities believe a wolf killed a dog that was found dead on Monday in a residential area bordering on Oslo’s eastern forest called Østmarka. Oddbjørn Rosendal, who owned the elk hound named Wendy, found her badly mauled cadaver near the high-rise apartment buildings at Lindeber ...
  • Opposition calls for investigation of all gove ...
    Opposition politicians in the Norwegian Parliament are calling for an investigation of all government ministries, following Audun Lysbakken’s resignation as minister for family and equality issues. Revelations of funding irregularities and conflicts of interest in his ministry have sparked ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Re-imagining Urban Design and City Life
    by David Bollier I have been asked to address what the commons might have to say about urban spaces and urban life. The short answer is, a lot! First, the language of the commons helps us assert a moral entitlement to public spaces again. It lets us challenge the unholy alliance of politicians ...
  • UMass Permaculture Wins White House Campus Cha ...
    We did it everyone! It is now official. The UMass Permaculture team will be heading to the White House on March 15! This has been an amazing and inspiring week to see the voting results unfold and be in the center of it all. I can’t thank everyone enough for the support you’ve provid ...
  • Getting Kids Into Gardening, Part II: Create a ...
    Pizza making with home grown produce Gardening can be an invaluable tool for helping children explore all kinds of things — from chemistry to botany, healthy eating to interactions within a natural system. It also promotes a connection with the earth and an understanding of where fo ...
  • A Manifesto for Psychopaths
    Ayn Rand’s ideas have become the Marxism of the new right. by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist, United Kingdom. It has a fair claim to be the ugliest philosophy the post-war world has produced. Selfishness, it contends, is good, altruism evil ...
  • Getting Kids into Gardening, Part I: Creating ...
    Involving our children in hands-on explorations of the natural world is essential if we are to create a generation who are able to undertake the vital tasks of re-establishing a resilient life on this planet. What better place to start nurturing this than in our gardens! Butterflies are magica ...

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 ...
    Many have supposed is that Wikileaks is a false opposition set up by the government to entrap whistle-blowers. Assange said that he is tired of hearing 9/11 conspiracy theories; therefore Assange is a LIAR/IDIOT and possibly government informant. Wikileaks has been widely promoted by the mains ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Max Fisher sounds "Irish" to me...as Irish as Alex jewns' wife, who "looked Irish to me" according to Texe Marrs. If you can't see that this is a damage-control article trying to soften the blow from the release of these correspondences, then I don't know what to tell you. ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    And another thing... Immediately after Jeff Rense was exposed by Henry Makow, David Icke put a video on his Headline News with him and Rense discussing Pike’s three world wars, presumably to restore some credibility to Rense. Now, since Alex Jones has been outed as an agent of the same ‘Elite’ ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Scotty wrote: Wow! He's really showing his true pro-Jew colours now... verbal attacks, slander, insults, threats and profanity and all because Prothink offered a different opinion and description of AJ's "Elites" - what a fucking tosser! My disgust at this fool is now TOTAL. Yep, a ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    From the crash of 1929, what sticks in my mind was that the jewish owned FED let the people suffer for several years, not quite there yet, but it's coming via Zio-FORBES http://www.forbes.com/sites/afontevecch ... ed-market/ Gold prices continue to break down, falling for a fifth consecutive ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Campbell’s To Stop Using BPA in Linings of Sou ...
    Bowing to pressure from consumer and health advocacy groups, Campbell’s Soup Co. says it will stop using the synthetic chemical bisphenol A (BPA) in the lining of its cans. The compound, which is found in thousands of everyday products, has been shown to interfere with hormone product ...
  • Alien Seed Invasion Poses Threat to Antarctic ...
    The tens of thousands of tourists, scientists, and support personnel who visit Antarctica every year are carrying with them large numbers of seeds from alien plants that could one day pose a threat to Antarctica’s limited array of native plant species. A team of scientists vacuumed the clothes a ...
  • U.S. to Invest $180 Million in Innovative Offs ...
    The Obama Administration will invest $180 million in innovative offshore wind projects over the next six years as part of an initiative to promote a renewable energy sector that in the U.S. remains largely untapped. The Kim Hansen/Wikimedia Commons Department of Energy will select four pr ...
  • Protected Mediterranean Reefs Show a Large Gai ...
    A study of rocky reefs in the Mediterranean Sea shows that those accorded the highest protection, with all fishing prohibited, not only had a greater abundance and diversity of fish, but also demonstrated robust ecosystem health all the way down to the level of marine algae. Enric Sala, a Nation ...
  • Linking Weird Weather to Rapid Warming of the ...
    The loss of Arctic summer sea ice and the rapid warming of the Far North are altering the jet stream over North America, Europe, and Russia. Scientists are now just beginning to understand how these profound shifts may be increasing the likelihood of more persistent and extreme weather. BY JEN ...

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

  • When Did Our Presidents Get So Rich?
    Following up on my post below about our out-of-touch candidates, a question for historical researchers:
  • 20 Million Limbaugh Listeners? Hardly.
    Andrew Sullivan posted a letter today from a reader disputing the oft-heard statistic of 20 million Rush Limbaugh listeners. In terms of actual human beings with addresses and voting registrations, the true number is probably quite far south of 2 million—and dropping fast.
  • James Q. Wilson's RINO Phase
    Helen Rittelmeyer's obituary for James Q. Wilson not only talks about the work he did and the books he wrote, it also points out that he nearly wrote a book that could have prevented him from gaining the acceptance of the conservative movement:
  • Romneycare Vs. Obamacare
    Romneycare and Obamacare differ hardly at all. Josh Dzieza parses the differences.
  • Hey Romney, Don't Forget to Pander to Moderates
    Conservatives remain skeptical about Mitt Romney, but he is still the only candidate who even has a chance of winning the general election. The key is that Romney is the only candidate who can potentially appeal to moderates. A new study released by Third Way shows how critical moderates will be ...

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Toyota Prius hybrid remains top seller
    Toyota Motor Corp.'s Prius hybrid topped the February sales rankings in Japan, retaining first place for the ninth consecutive month, with its sales nearly doubling from a year earlier to 35,875 units, industry bodies said Tuesday. Honda Motor Co.'s Fit subcompact came in second with sales of ...
  • Diver Nakagawa to compete in London
    The Japan Swimming Federation on Wednesday announced plans to send only Mai Nakagawa to the diving program of the London Olympics this summer. The 24-year-old Nakagawa will make her second consecutive Olympic appearance after finishing 11th in the 10-meter platform at the Beijing Games.
  • Wages crept up 0.3% in January
    The regular monthly wage for workers crept up 0.3 percent in January from a year earlier to an average ¥261,074, climbing for the first time in 13 months on pay raises in the welfare, medical and manufacturing sectors, the health ministry said Tuesday. The average base wage inched up 0.3 ...
  • Foster, Texans approve five-year deal
    Arian Foster got what he wanted from the Houston Texans, agreeing to a new five-year contract. Foster's agent Mike McCartney said Monday that a deal was done, though Foster had not yet signed it.
  • Volcker rule may 'harm' sovereign debt markets
    Bank of Japan Deputy Gov. Kiyohiko Nishimura has voiced concerns that Washington's plan to introduce the so-called Volcker rule could negatively impact the liquidity of sovereign debt markets. "If the Volcker rule were to be strictly implemented as proposed, it could adversely affect the liqui ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Increasing number of migrant labourers in Nova ...
    According to a Citizenship and Immigration Canada report, the number of migrant labourers in Canada increased from 177,781 to 432,682 between 2000 and 2010.  Immigrant Settlement Integration Services says the number of foreign workers entering Nova Scotia has almost doubled in the last five year ...
  • Tilting at Windmills: What to do about Dutch D ...
    In response to Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty’s complaint about oil and the exchange rate, several (conservative) commentators argued that this “Dutch disease” is not what ails Ontario manufacturing. Andrew Coyne took a different tack yesterday, agreeing that petroleum development drives up the ...
  • 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 ...

ReDress

  • Ignore the intelligence reports, let's make wa ...
    Stuart Littlewood argues that, with the USA's intelligence agencies concurring that Iran has no nuclear weapons programme, Washington's and London's clamour for ever tighter sanctions and war with Iran appear to be motivated not by national interests, but by loyalty and obedience to Israel and i ...
  • Israelis rejoice at the death of Palestinian c ...
    Paul J. Balles considers the mentality of Israelis who openly rejoiced at the death of nine Palestinian kindergarten children and one adult in a bus accident in February.
  • 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 ...

Physics Today

  • Bumblebees change flight paths to avoid predators
    BBC: Although a physicist might be tempted to treat bumblebees as randomly moving objects hitting randomly distributed targets, they actually fly in the proverbial beeline and travel systematically from flower to flower unless predators are nearby. To study how the presence of predators might al ...
  • Asian emissions affect US ozone levels
    Nature: The phenomenon of pollution crossing the Pacific Ocean has been documented since the 1990s. Using chemical modeling to distinguish between locally produced and imported pollution, Meiyun Lin of Princeton University and colleagues analyzed air-quality data from satellites and ground measu ...
  • Moon may have helped sink the Titanic
    PhysOrg.com: Although the Titanic disaster 100 years ago has been much studied, astronomers at Texas State University have now proposed that the notorious iceberg may have had an accomplice—the Moon. Donald Olson and colleagues point out that on 4 January 1912, four months before the Titan ...
  • Humans are polluting Antarctica with alien seeds
    New Scientist: In a study published online yesterday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Steven Chown of Stellenbosch University in South Africa and colleagues discuss the potential risks for Antarctica's plant biodiversity as more people visit the continent. During the Internati ...
  • Committee formed to advise Homeland Security c ...
    Chronicle of Higher Education: A new commission, which will advise the head of the Department of Homeland Security on security-related topics that affect academe, will hold its first public meeting 20 March. Comprising 19 university presidents and academic leaders, the Homeland Security Academic ...

Revolutionary Politics

  • Americans Blame Wasteful Government Spending f ...
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Peakwater

  • Cotter rerouting tainted creek near leaking ur ...
    “The owners of a leaking uranium mine west of Denver have begun a bold project to reduce contamination of a creek that flows into a metro drinking-water reservoir: physically rerouting the creek so that it no longer flows over toxic waste. “Nobody wants Cotter Corp.’s re-routin ...
  • U.N. says 2 billion more get safe water to drink
    “More than 2 billion people have gained access to better drinking water sources, such as piped supplies and protected wells, between 1990 and 2010, U.N. officials said on Tuesday. “The figure means the world has met the internationally agreed Millennium Development Goal (MDG) to halv ...
  • World Rivers Review: Dam Greenwashing Flows at ...
    “The stated goal of this year’s World Water Forum- the world’s largest meeting devoted to water- is to create solutions to the water, energy, and food challenges presented by climate change and economic growth. However some of the “solutions” being presented will do ...
  • Water Wars: The ‘Why’ of Desalination for Sant ...
    “To Desal or not to Desal, that is the question. The Santa Cruz Water Department and the Soquel Creek Water District believe that is the most rational option to ensure an adequate, consistent water supply for the future. They have formed a partnership known as scwd2 to pursue a regional se ...
  • In Patagonia, Caught Between Visions of the Future
    “A short drive outside town, a $10 billion hydroelectric dam project, known as HidroAysén, is being planned, stirring a national outcry against what critics call the destruction of one of Chile’s most pristine ecosystems. Last year, thousands of protesters opposed to the dams took to the s ...

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

  • …OMG … how did “we” in ...
    …OMG … how did “we” in Arizona allow Alabama to usurp our #1 position as leader in racial prejudice … … What will Az Gov Jan Brewer and “teapublicans” state legislature dream up next …   …Alabama’s Anti-Immigrant Law Will Cost Billions and Allow Bosses to Abuse Workers Freely … ...
  • abused and cheated were part of the WAL-MART
    … Now is anyone really surprised to learn those employees abused and cheated were part of the WAL-MART empire…?   I know I wasn’t…!   State Investigators, Workers Cite Labor Abuses in Warehouse Empire   READ COMPLETE ARTICLE HERE … http://www.fairwarning.org/2012/03/law ...
  • America is great at wagging its finger at others
    … Oh … wow … where were these OBSERVERS for America’s 2000 Presidential election … talk about the pot calling the kettle black … America is great at wagging its finger at others …     Russia Elections: Observers Report ‘Serious Problems’ In Russian Vote   Read co ...
  • government “cock and bull’ story
    …All of those who actually believe the US government “cock and bull’ story about the daring military “killing” of Osama bin Laden please raise your hand…   Yet Another Federal Lie Exposed 03-04-2012  •  Lew Rockwell blog Osama bin Laden was not buried at sea in an Islamic ce ...
  • … Bring it on “big-sis” …
    Just what don’t you understand bucko … “W” Bush with his Patriot Act decreed you and me as the terrorist against his  and Pappy’s neo-con now “teapublican” nation …   Drones in Texas and Tanks in Tampa: Inside the Out-Of-Control Weaponized Homeland Security State   Government budg ...

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 )

  • Some toilet paper production destroys Indonesi ...
    American consumers are unwittingly contributing to the destruction of endangered rainforests in Sumatra by purchasing certain brands of toilet paper, asserts a new report published by the environmental group WWF. The report, Don't Flush Tiger Forests: Toilet Paper, U.S. Supermarkets, and the Des ...
  • Big trees, like the old-growth forests they in ...
    Already on the decline worldwide, big trees face a dire future due to habitat fragmentation, selective harvesting by loggers, exotic invaders, and the effects of climate change, warns an article published this week in New Scientist magazine. Reviewing research from forests around the world, Will ...
  • Rainforests need massive finance, but REDD mus ...
    A proposed mechanism to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by protecting tropical forests has evolved considerably since it started to gain momentum during the 2005 climate talks in Montreal. Known then as 'avoided deforestation', the concept was simple: pay tropical forest countries to keep their ...
  • The dark side of new species discovery
    Scientists and the public usually rejoice when a new species is discovered. But biologist Bryan Stuart has learned the hard way that the discovery of new species, especially when that species is commercially valuable, has a dark side-one that could potentially wipe out the new species before pro ...
  • Matt Miller: don't oversimplify issues in envi ...
    Matt Miller is director of communications for The Nature Conservancy in Idaho, a position he’s held for ten years. He is responsible for the chapter’s publications and digital media. He writes for the Conservancy’s blogs Cool Green Science and Idaho Nature Notes. He has also co ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Team back on 'emotional' search for lost terraces
    A team of scientists has resumed an "emotional" mission to digitally resurrect New Zealand's long-lost eighth natural wonder of the world - the famous Pink and White Terraces.By the end of the week, the team from GNS Science, Niwa...
  • 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...

Truth Survival + RSS

  • 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 ...
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      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

  • Reason Staff Live Tweets Super Tuesday! Now!
    Super! It's Tuesday! And not just any Tuesday! It's the day a bunch of Republicans vote on stuff! Join the Reason staff as we watch the results roll in and tweet about it. Right here. Right now. <a href="http://www.coveritlive.com/mobile.php/option=com_mobile/t ...
  • It's Like Totally Different When a Liberal Blo ...
    You've probably heard the recidivist jackass Rush Limbaugh called a Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke "a slut" and "a prostitute" after she testified before about wanting the Jesuits who run her college to pay for her birth control pills. Just to make sure that nobody but nobody ...
  • Virginia Republican Not Worried About Democrat ...
    Earlier today we discussed several ways in which Ron Paul could upset Mitt Romney in Virginia, a state where Willard is predicted to take most, if not all, of the delegates. One theory was that Democrats could hamstring Romney by voting for Paul in the state's open primary.  But acc ...
  • Super Tuesday Overrated But Candidate Eyes Are ...
    Super Tuesday! Ohio is still a big deal! But today is still not going to decisively resolve this freaky GOP race.  Also, Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney are neck-in-neck for something Gallup calls "Positive Intensity." Obama had a press conference. The president to GOP can ...
  • Eric Holder's Definition of Due Process: As Mu ...
    In his speech at Northwestern University yesterday (as Lucy Steigerwald noted), Attorney General Eric Holder said the "due process" required before killing suspected terrorists in other countries, including American citizens, is not the same as the due process required for crimi ...

Mercury Rising

  • I Have Two Words For Kirk Cameron: Griffith Park.
    With regard to the latest homophobic outburst by right-wing former child star Kirk Cameron, I just have this to say: As an exercise for our readers, I suggest pulling up the search engine of your choice and plugging the words “kirk cameron griffith park” into it. That is all.
  • Considering Giving Obama Money? You’re B ...
    Even more than in 2008, Obama’s campaign is going to be dominated by big corporate and institutional funders. And even more than in 2008 and 2009, when he essentially took over the DNC and made it into an OFA arm, the downticket Democratic candidates are getting screwed: President Barack O ...
  • When “Commies” Lied About Franken ...
    As much as Greens and other lefty third parties like to complain about how Democrats and Republicans share many of the same goals, it’s ironic to see how often Greens, Communists and other lefty third parties seem to work hand-in-glove with Republicans on various tasks. For one instance, w ...
  • 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 ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Anti-Pipeline Petition
    The saga of North America's Keystone XL pipeline continues.   On November 10, 2011, four days after twelve thousand people encircled the White House, the culmination of months of protests, President Obama announced "the decision on the pipeline permit would be delayed until at leas ...
  • Television Vs Sacred Massage
    A petition has been launched against Lifetime Television regarding a new dramatic series that is slated to premier this April starring Jennifer Love Hewitt called “The Client List”. The series follows Hewitt cast as a single mother who begins to work at a massage spa that is a front for a brothe ...
  • Techno-Optimism: An Interview with Jason Silva
      Jason Silva is a dynamic "performance philosopher" and techno-optimist who is spreading exciting visions of future possibilities for society and consciousness. His eclectic scientific-philosophical-literary discourse remixes the likes of Buckminster Fuller, Marshall McLuhan, J ...
  • Blogosphere DJ Battle
    Starting today, March 5th, Turntable.fm is holding a several-round contest to find someone to DJ a (remote) 30-minute set at their SXSW Interactive event on March 10th.  The winner will also receive a swank ASUS Zenbook UX31 Series Ultrabook powered by Intel.  The first pre-event is a DJ Bat ...
  • What Jennifer Aniston May Not Know About Ayahuasca
    Note: This article original appeared on The Huffington Post and was written for their readers, who may not be as familiar with ayahuasca as our RS community. ----- 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

  • Ohio primary heading to photo finish
    US Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum are locked in a tight race in the Republican primary of the swing-state of Ohio, where 63 delegates are at stake.
  • Super Tuesday a mixed bag so far
    Super Tuesday has been a mixed bag so far, with no candidate running away from the pack yet in the ten Republican primaries being held on this night of nights of the primary season.
  • Santorum wins Tenn., leads in Okla.
    Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum has won the Republican presidential primary in Tennessee and is leading in Oklahoma, according to exit polls.
  • Gingrich wins Georgia, exit polls show
    Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has won the Republican presidential primary in Georgia, exit polls show.
  • Romney wins Mass., Va., Vt.: exit polls
    US presidential candidate Mitt Romney has won the Republican primaries in Massachusetts, Virginia, and Vermont, according to exit polls.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

  • Fred Flintstone's bed uncovered
    Writing in this week's Science, University of Witwatersrand palaeontologist Professor Lyn Wadley and her colleagues describe an excavation they have carried out in a cave site called Sibudu in South A...
  • Seed and soil - understanding how cancers spread
    Cancer is a growing problem - and because we're all living longer, we're more likely to develop the disease at some point in our lifetime. Although we've got a lot better at treating the disease in re...
  • Key to the Blood Brain Barrier
    A signal that controls the integrity of the blood brain barrier -the system that protects and chemically cocoons the brain from the rest of the body - has been discovered. Early during embryon...
  • A Diode for light
    For many years engineers have wanted to use light instead of electricity to build circuits with. It moves slightly faster, but more importantly signals can pass one another without interfering. This l...
  • The coldest point water can remain a liquid ha ...
    If you ask any group of school children what temperature does pure water freeze at and you will normally get the answer 0 degrees celsius, which is the standard answer and it is the temperature below ...

Nick Turse

  • Polling station officials clash with topless m ...
    Polling station officials clash with topless members of Ukrainian feminist group FEMEN members at a polling station in Moscow on Sunday, March 4, 2012. Written on the bodies of the radically anti-Putin protesters is the slogan “I steal for Putin”, referring to their symboli ...
  • Anza, 26, visits his house, damaged during fig ...
    Anza, 26, visits his house, damaged during fighting in Sirte. His brother Ali, 31, was killed during the siege of the city. And his father, Hassan, served as an officer in the Qaddafi army. The family is from the Warfalla tribe. Davide Monteleone/VII Photo Agency
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  • A Syrian rebel takes cover during an exchange ...
    A Syrian rebel takes cover during an exchange of fire with army troops, unseen, in Idlib, Syria, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012. The European Union will impose harsher sanctions on Syria, a senior EU official said Wednesday, as Russia tried to broker talks between the vice president and the opposition ...
  • 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
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