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- Fifty injured in attack on female Saudi protesters
Over 50 female Saudi students were injured when security guards and Saudi police attacked a peaceful protest in a university, a local newspaper has claimed. The 1,000-strong all-women protest, which was calling for an end to corruption and ill-treatment at the
King Khaled University (KKU) in ...
- Fifty injured in attack on female Saudi studen ...
Over 50 female Saudi students were injured when security guards and Saudi police attacked a peaceful protest in a university, a local newspaper has claimed. The 1,000-strong all-women protest, which was calling for an end to corruption and ill-treatment at the King Khaled University (KKU) in ...
- Greece, a preview for the rest of us
All eyes are on Greece these days, with hopes that the situation there can soon be resolved and global recovery kicked into high gear. Sadly, those hopes are misguided claims Ben Davies, CEO of Hinde Capital. In fact, he says, Greece's pain foreshadows the future awaiting the rest of the worl ...
- The Persecution of Judge Garzon
In 1998, a smug and retired Pinochet, secure in the Amnesty he had granted himself and his fellow torturers and murders, traveled to England, visited his friend
Margaret Thatcher, and then had back surgery. When he awoke from the anesthetic, a British policeman told him he was under arrest; a tr ...
- Carr: The Case Against Attacking Iran
We are hearing a new concept these days in discussions about Iran — the zone of immunity. The idea, often explained by Ehud Barak, Israel’s defense minister, is that soon Iran will have enough nuclear capability that Israel would not be able to inflict a crippling blow to its program. Israeli o ...
- Kony becomes target of viral campaign video
A video posted by an US activist group highlighting wartime atrocities in Africa, has proved once again the power of social media as a campaigning tool.Related StoriesLibya tribes declare breakaway areaTerror suspect 'flees to Somalia'Death toll from Congo blaze hits 236Eastern Libyans seek auto ...
- PM welcomes Syria defection reports
Downing Street today welcomed reports that a Syrian minister has defected from the government of
Bashar al-Assad and joined the rebels.Related StoriesHoms is 'devastated', says UN aid chief after visit to rebel districtSyrian oil minister 'defects'Syrian oil minister Abdo Husameddine 'defects'Sy ...
- Joseph Kony becomes target of viral campaign video
A video posted by an US activist group highlighting wartime atrocities in Africa, has proved once again the power of social media as a campaigning tool.Related StoriesLibya tribes declare breakaway areaTerror suspect 'flees to Somalia'Death toll from Congo blaze hits 236Eastern Libyans seek auto ...
- Kofi Annan urges end to Syria violence
Kofi Annan, the UN-Arab League special envoy on Syria, said today he would urge President Bashar al-Assad and his foes to stop fighting and seek a political solution to end a year of conflict. Related StoriesHoms is 'devastated', says UN aid chief after visit to rebel districtSyrian oil ministe ...
- Crucial day for Greek debt writedown
Greece's private investors have hours to decide whether to accept a massive writedown of the country's debts. Related StoriesNetherlands' 'next top model' Ananda Marchildon wins agency lawsuitBreivik is formally charged with terror attacksWas Putin's presidential 'rival' really an undercover all ...
- Safety haven
If Canadian postal workers were to design the perfect winter boot, it would help them avoid slipping on icy walkways, stop them from missing their truck brakes while driving and keep them from getting their crampon spikes stuck in wooden porches.If the hearing impaired were looking for a hearing ...
- Small tools, big impact
Cancer, heart disease and stroke are leading causes of death among Canadians. As a medical doctor, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and a Canada Research Chair in Bioengineering and Biophotonics, Victor Yang has a unique perspective on these deadly diseases. Based at ...
- Innovative, naturally
For the first time this past winter, the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) launched the Emerging Science Journalists Award (ESJA). The award was created to support Canada’s talented young science writers. Below is one of the winning entries by Roslyn Dakin, doctoral candidate in the Departm ...
- A very gourd idea
It’s been known for years that plants can take up and store trace amounts of hazardous metals like nickel, arsenic and cadmium from contaminated soil in a process called phytoremediation. Until recently, however, scientists assumed that plants weren’t capable of taking up a class of toxic chemic ...
- Johne’s happens
Trudging through a dairy farm to collect manure samples isn’t exactly glamorous work, but the odorous task is starting to have a big impact on the health of dairy cattle in Atlantic Canada — and it will save the dairy industry millions of dollars each year. Technicians at the University of Princ ...
- Detroit Mayor's New Plan: Sell City Lots for $200
US, Michigan - Detroit Mayor Dave Bing, under pressure to stanch cash outflows, unveiled a new plan Wednesday night that would allow property owners in the city to buy vacant city-owned lots for $200. The initiative, which Bing said is designed to "reduce blight in our neighborhoods," specifica ...
- Obama's Kill Doctrine
Trust us, Attorney General Eric Holder says -- we'll only assassinate Americans after administrative "due process." That's not how the Constitution works, buddy. On Monday, March 5, Northwestern University School of Law was the location of an extraordinary scene for a free nation. U.S. Attorney ...
- Virginia Governor Signs Pre-Abortion Ultrasoun ...
US - Abdominal ultrasounds for women seeking abortions in Virginia will become mandatory under a bill signed into law Wednesday by the state's Republican governor, who had faced a national uproar when earlier versions of the measure had sought to make the exams medically invasive. The law conse ...
- Deputy, 2 Others Shot Outside Oklahoma Courthouse
US: Tulsa, Oklahoma - A sheriff's deputy, a suspected gunman and a bystander were wounded Wednesday afternoon during an exchange of gunfire outside a Tulsa courthouse, sending people scattering from a crowded plaza as an employee at a nearby library used his camera to chronicle the events. Poli ...
- The Religious Right's Plot To Take Control of ...
The people who brought you Jesus Camp are moving into your neighborhood school. And there's not a damn thing you can do about it. The Good News Club: The Stealth Assault on America's Children by Katherine Stewart uncovers a right-wing conspiracy to infiltrate and destroy the nation's public sc ...
- Transport Canada working out of obsolete publi ...
To anybody who has to deal with them on a regular basis, that certainly is not a surprise. My friend and professional colleague at Tidal Station has unearthed the problem with Transport Canada's "approval" of the marine plan put forth by Enbridge Northern Gateway. In fact, he points out that, ( ...
- Feelings . . .
- Is it treason?
More than Voting Fraud, is it TREASON? Sounds bombastic I know, but consider: Stevie and his chimps didn't just commit a massive campaign of voter deception and suppression in the last election, they carried out a coup d' état. They seized power by paralyzing the political process. In other word ...
- Dear Stephen,
As I sit here watching the evidence mount that your party engaged in a massive campaign of voter deception in the last election, evidence of like behaviour in the previous election, I find myself wonder how you might feel about all of this? You're a politician, it's all you've ever really been. ...
- You just knew they couldn't keep it quiet
Eventually it had to come out. Centralized control. Centralized operations. Centralized voter list management. Oh yeah. The Harper central campaign is the first ever party to ask for ... wait for it! Over to DAMMIT JANET! for the answer, and then on to Dr. Dawg.
- Energy Experts Debunk Right-Wing Defense Of Oi ...
Conservative media are claiming that President Obama's proposal to eliminate $4 billion in annual tax subsidies enjoyed by oil and gas companies would raise gasoline prices. But energy experts say that rolling back the subsidies would have an "extremely small" or "imperceptible" effect on the p ...
- Limbaugh Launched 46 Personal Attacks On Fluke ...
Rush Limbaugh has "sincerely apologize[d]" for using the words "slut" and "prostitute" to describe Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke on two separate days and claimed that he "did not mean a personal attack" on her. These statements fail to account for the other 44 times that Limbaugh personal ...
- Young Women's Health Care Needs Are No Laughin ...
Right-wing media are now resorting to mocking female college students' health care needs and their call that religiously affiliated colleges and universities provide access to contraceptives. But studies have found that numerous benefits (medical, social, and economic) exist in providing colleg ...
- John Bolton's Default Setting: When In Doubt, ...
Fox News contributor and former Bush administration official John Bolton has used Fox News and print media to relentlessly push for first-strike military interventions in Iran. His advocacy of force is only the latest attempt by Bolton to push for the United States to engage in military operati ...
- Conservative Media Promote Bogus Chart On Nati ...
Fox News and right-wing blogs have promoted a chart that purports to show the "alarming" fact that national debt per person is higher in the United States than in several crisis-stricken European countries. This comparison is flawed because these countries' economies are fundamentally different ...
- Obama's Peace Speech At AIPAC
I was happily surprised by the President's AIPAC speech. I say this as someone who absolutely opposes the use of force to stop Iran's nuclear program and who favors containment, not war, if the Iranians develop nuclear weapons. I understand that Obama did not deliver a traditional "peace" spe ...
- But What Exactly Is Green Manufacturing?
When most people think of green manufacturing jobs, they think of multi-billion-dollar investments in plants making lithium-ion batteries for electric cars or photo-voltaic panels and wind turbines for smartening grids. They fear, not without reason, that jobs in such plants will star ...
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- In Afghanistan, American Conservatives Threw P ...
The stunning murders of two senior American officers within the high-security command and control center of the Afghanistan's Interior Ministry, followed by the wounding of other American soldiers by a grenade thrown into a camp in Kunduz, is a bitter disgrace for the counter-insurgency strategy ...
- The Unapologetic Republicans
I'm sorry, but the apology controversy is a sorry-**sed sorry affair (latest coverage here and here). If this is going to be taken seriously as campaign issue, it needs to be looked at from both directions. The Republicans shouldn't get a free pass to put the president on the defensive. We need ...
- Fukushima Anniversary Action in Austin, TX
This weekend marks the first anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Our thoughts and prayers will be with the hundreds of thousands of Japanese still living in contaminated areas. There are anniversary actions across the U.S. and entire world this weekend. You can find a list of many of ...
- Tell TCEQ grading polluters on a curve doesn’t ...
The Texas Commission for Environmental Quality is the second largest environmental agency in the world—with a budget to match. Help hold TCEQ accountable for taxpayer’s interests and stop them from implementing rules that favor polluting businesses. Read our press release (Press Release – ...
- Texas Pardons Pollution (Again!) – Public hear ...
Get tough on environmental crimes Texas law requires that the our state environmental agency, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), consider a facility’s past compliance when making decisions regarding permits or inspections. In fact, a facility’s Compliance History score affect ...
- Tar Sands by Any Other Name
This post was reprinted from a press statement by Trevor Lovell in response to TransCanada’s announcement yesterday, February 27th regarding their plans to pursue the building of a pipeline from Cushing, OK to the refineries on the Texas Gulf Coast while pursuing a new application for the ...
- 2012 Tornado Season: Fasten your seat belts bo ...
While March is generally considered to be the beginning of tornado season, this year the season got an early and deadly start in late January when two people were killed by separate twisters in Alabama, and just yesterday, dozens of homes were damaged by a tornado in Georgia that knocked out pow ...
- Woman falls in love with Statue of Liberty
A 27-year-old shop assistant suffers from a rare condition that makes her fall in love with objects. Amanda Whittaker first fell in love with the stat...
- Bat invasion threatens Australian town
A small town in northern Australia is the scene of an invasion by a massive swarm of 250,000 bats. Hundreds of thousands of fruit bats have invaded th...
- Velociraptor's last meal revealed
Scientists have found the remains of a giant flying pterosaur in the guts of a velociraptor. The new discovery suggests that velociraptors would have ...
- Was Bin Laden really buried at sea ?
Leaked emails reportedly suggest that Bin Laden was actually taken back to the US for cremation. The emails were obtained by the infamous hacker group...
- What is the risk of human extinction ?
As our population grows in excess of seven billion are we really vulnerable to extinction ? Professor Nick Bostrom seems to think so; he believes that...
- Forestry Budgets Sapped by Scourges of Warming ...
(The Colorado Independent) The warming climate is breeding more beetle-ravaged forest and prolonged fire seasons, U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell testified before a Senate committee on Tuesday, as he fielded questions about the W ...
- Chevrolet Volt Car of the Year as Production H ...
(Reuters) Just as the assembly lines making them prepared for a five-week shutdown due to slack demand, GM's Chevrolet Volt and Ampera plug-in electric hybrid cars were named "European Car of the Year" at the Geneva Auto Show.
- New York Seeks Waste-to-Energy Proposals
(NYT Green) Mayor Bloomberg announced Tuesday that the city was looking for a pilot "state of the art" waste-to-energy facility that could handle a maximum of 450 tons of trash per day with plans to double that capacity if successful ...
- Watchdog Group: Feds Aren't Doing Enough to Pr ...
(The Hill) Federal regulators are not moving quickly enough to implement new rules aimed at protecting U.S. nuclear power plants from major natural disasters, a nuclear watchdog group said Tuesday.
- India's Tata Favors Wind, Solar as Coal-Fed Pl ...
(Bloomberg) The power unit of Tata Group, India's biggest, said its new investments will favor wind and solar farms over coal-fired projects which have become "impossible" to develop.
- An Unholy Mess
Let's start the day off with this: Romney has won 56% of the delegates awarded so far, and needs to garner 47% of the remaining delegates to reach the magic number, according to a USA TODAY analysis of delegate counts provided by the Associated Press. His challengers have a higher bar: Ric ...
- Change Takes Time, or Why I Don't Read Bob Som ...
Kevin Drum quotes Bob Somerby at the Daily Howler: Bob Somerby points out today that Rush Limbaugh has been spewing bile for years. And yet, he says, "We liberals have been too lazy, too feckless, too ditto-headed to insist that big news orgs challenge Limbaugh." So Limbaugh has mostly gotten ...
- Grading Obama
In the late summer of 2000, Paul Glastris gave me a guided tour of the West Wing and the Old Executive Office Building. Bill Clinton wasn't there that day. But it was still one of the cooler experiences of my life. I'm still grateful. Glastris has a big new piece up about where Obama stands t ...
- Wanker of the Day: Michael Kinsley
I really don't care for Michael Kinsley's defense of Rush Limbaugh. Never mind that Kinsley has Parkinson's disease (something that killed my grandmother and may be stalking me). You might remember how Rush Limbaugh accused Michael J. Fox of faking his symptoms. If Kinsley doesn't hold a gru ...
- They Turned the GOP Into the Tea Party
I'll probably do a longer piece on GOP turnout tomorrow, but I just want to start a discussion on this: Only 5 percent of eligible voters younger than 30 cast ballots on Super Tuesday, roughly splitting evenly among Romney, former senator Rick Santorum (Pa.) and Rep. Ron Paul (Tex.), accordin ...
- 20 Incredible Praying Mantis Pictures
The praying mantis is one of nature’s most captivating creatures. Find out more about this fascinating insect while enjoying some awesome praying mantis pictures. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- 13 Amazing Pictures of Dunes from Space
Amazing images of sand dunes on both Earth and Mars – as seen from space... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- The Grinning Skeletons of Peru's 1000-Year-Old ...
Mummies and skeletal human remains – complete with hair and skin tissue – sit in open air tombs in Chauchilla Cemetery in Peru! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- Why Drinking Wine Is Good for You
Wine is one of the most diverse, enjoyable and healthy drinks available. Find out more about why... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- The Harrowing Lives of Child Miners in the Ear ...
Coal mining in the early 1900s was backbreaking and dangerous work, and mine bosses didn't shy away from employing young boys down in the pits. Far from it. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- Fear, Intimidation & Media Disinformation: U.K ...
Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 20, 2009 An official UK government report –quoted extensively in Britain’s tabloid media– is warning the British public that there will b ...
- President European Commission Advocated World ...
Jurriaan Maessen. Infowars. July 24th, 2009 On September 7, 1992, two term President of the European Commission Jacques Delors gave a speech to the Royal Institute of International A ...
- Billions of People Expected to Die Under Curre ...
Barbara Minton, Natural News, July 21st, 2009 Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in th ...
- Bioweapons, Dangerous Vaccines, and Threats of ...
Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 7th, 2009 Although international law prohibits the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons, America has had an active biological warfare pr ...
- Today we’re all prisoners in the USA
Papers, Please! June 2, 2009 As of today, June 1, 2009, even U.S. citizens are officially prisoners in the USA, or exiles barred from entering our own country without the government’ ...
- What Makes Gasoline Prices Go Up?
Cognitive dissonance persists on the presidential campaign trail and in Congress, but some energy statistics are telling.
- Canadian Official Defends Oil Sands
Alberta's premier says she is confident that the United States will ultimately approve the Keystone XL pipeline because it affords mutual benefits for both countries.
- On Our Radar: Dredging the Savannah River
For a mix of economic and environmental reasons, opponents line up against a proposal to deepen the waterway to accommodate bigger ships.
- Spike in Food Prices Projected by 2013
A projection cites the diversion of corn crops to ethanol as well as commodities speculation, both of which it says could lead to widespread hunger.
- A Jail Term for Jaguar Smugglers
A couple in Florida is convicted of violating the Endangered Species Act and illicit trafficking for smuggling their pelts into the United States from Mexico.
- First warm day of 2012 = Days 1&2: OccupyMinne ...
IN an entirely unexpected and spontaneous emergence of lulz, the first dry, warm evening of spring led to an impromptu occupation of Peavey Plaza on Nicollet Mall, with OccupyMpls (occupyminneapolis.mn) regulars holding it down into the night with two tents, sleeping gear, hot tea and snacks. Ex ...
- Report: Simcity 5 finally under development fo ...
I have been very, very into SimCity ever since I was little. Now, finally SimCity 5 is getting a proper treatment. PLEASE send me any beta builds, i will debug the shizzle out of them :D Until you can get your hands on this, use the Network Addon Mod in SimCity 4 for much more fluid road&rai ...
- Let them eat cake! Republican State Representa ...
IN an astoundingly offensive display of casual Malthusian freestyling, Representative Mary Franson compared supporting poor people with food stamps to feeding wild animals. The Republicans pulled the YouTube once the magnitude of their irresponsibility hit the intertubes. But the usual suspects ...
- EXCLUSIVE: Cointelpro Gothic II: Midwestern Po ...
EARLIER: October 13, 2010: Cointelpro Gothic: Docs prove Iowa FBI's Wild Rose Rebellion a pretend RNC "Terrorism Enterprise" for great "statistical accomplishment" BY DAN FEIDT -- Another level of the seemingly endless, unregulated Midwestern law enforcement campaign against political activists ...
- New Filez! BuStEd: I sense Astroturfing in the ...
BuStEd: I sense Astroturfing in the Occupy! http://the99spring.com/letter.html ~ LEAKED FILEZ! Got a nice tip. Pass it along, its all on the google! A bunch of groups which are mostly dedicated to Democratic electioneering are doing a "99% Spring" campaign soon. This is no secret, but the fil ...
- Podcast: Why Occupy? A government and history ...
Podcast: Why Occupy? A government, history teacher explains James Fetzer interviewed me on his radio show and podcast, The Real Deal, to walk Americans through the central arguments of Occupy: The 1% “leadership” in politics, banking, and corporate media commit crimes centering in war and money, ...
- President Andrew Jackson and Peter Cooper on m ...
This is my paper for The Center of Process Studies’ conference, Money-Creation in a Finite World (free and open to the public, April 10-12, 2012; Claremont Colleges, CA): Money and credit as public services for full-employment, optimal infrastructure, ending debt slavery: Epic proponents, relate ...
- Iran, Israel, the USA and World Capitalism
By - John Reimann The turmoil over whether (or when) Israel and/or the US will attack Iran is far more than a conflict between the regimes of these nations, as important as that conflict may be; it contains within it, and it affects all the tensions and conflicts wracking world capitalism. This ...
- The US/Taliban Information War
A bizarre random thought occurred to me a few nights ago. What if the alleged February 21st Koran burning at Bagram prison in Afghanistan never actually happened? Or if it happened, but without the involvement of any US troops? What if the whole thing was an ingenious Taliban psy-ops (psy ...
- Thomas Edison & Thomas Jefferson on monetary r ...
This is my paper for The Center of Process Studies’ conference, Money-Creation in a Finite World (free and open to the public, April 10-12, 2012; Claremont Colleges, CA): Money and credit as public services for full-employment, optimal infrastructure, ending debt slavery:Epic proponents, related ...
- Beyond the Golden Couples of Pyongyang
It's not likely that an Occupy Pyongyang movement will set up tents in Kim Il Sung Square anytime soon. But the same widening inequalities that plague the United States and the global economy can also be found inside North Korea.
- Obama Goes to AIPAC
The president offered carefully crafted remarks on Iran while writing off the Palestinians.
- Risks for Dark-Skinned Libyans
Libya's rampant acts of racism against dark-skinned Libyan civilians must be brought to the attention of the international community, who must address the problem and hold Libya accountable.
- The Blowback of TINA
Liberal democracy contains within it the very seeds of the American empire's destruction.
- The Spirit Level: Inequality Coming to a Theat ...
The landmark 2010 book by British epidemiologists Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett gets a fresh new visual dimension.
- Analysis: US spy agencies stil in the dark abo ...
It has been almost a year since the ongoing anti-government uprising erupted in Syria. But intelligence agencies in the United States are still struggling to make sense of most aspects of the spiraling conflict.
- News you may have missed #690
Indian army accused of spying on government officials. US Special Ops in Afghanistan to transfer to CIA. Interview with Katya Zatuliveter.
- Israel ‘has decided to attack Iran’, claims US ...
The consensus in the US intelligence community is that Israel has decided “on principle” to launch a military strike on Iran in order to halt its nuclear program, according to an American intelligence insider.
- Libyan militia arrests British journalists on ...
The commander of one of the largest armed militia groups in post-revolutionary Libya has announced the arrest of two British journalists accused of spying for an unidentified foreign country.
- News you may have missed #689: NSA edition
Ex-NSA Director calls Stuxnet a 'good idea'. NSA develops secure Android phones. Senior US Defense official says DHS should lead cybersecurity.
- America: Land of the Poor
America: Land of the Poor by Stephen Lendman Years ago, who could have imagined the appalling growing poverty level in the world's richest country? read more
- Bahraini Kangaroo Court Trials
Bahraini Kangaroo Court Trials by Stephen Lendman A new Human Rights Watch (HRW) report discussed sham show trials in Bahrain titled, "No Justice in Bahrain." read more
- Worker ‘Occupations’ in 3 States Yield Success ...
by In These Times by Mike Elk via CommonDreams In the last few months, workers in three different states—at the Serious Materials factory in Chicago, at a Century Aluminum factory in Ravenswood, West Va., and at AT&T’s regional headquarters in Atlanta—have engaged in "occupati ...
- NATO Intervening in Syria
NATO Intervening in Syria by Stephen Lendman read more
- The Peace Movement Needs Kucinich, With or Wit ...
If Congressman Dennis Kucinich becomes simply Dennis Kucinich sans the "Congressman" his value to the peace movement need not diminish. I admit it's been nice having someone in Congress who would say and do what he would. There have been and remain other relatively strong voices for ...
- The age-old battle of goats versus tortoises
by Sarah Laskow. Before reading further in this post, ask yourself a question (and answer honestly): Which do you care about more, guiltless (if hungry) goats or the Galápagos Islands' giant tortoises? If you answered goats, this post will make you sad. Here was the ...
- Watch an orca chase a shark out of the water
by Sarah Laskow. Orcas might be charismatic movie stars, but they are also killer whales. A family of beachgoers in New Zealand caught on film an orca fighting with a few sharks. One shark was so eager to get away from the whale that it beached itself in the shallow water. (That's t ...
- What environmental policy could we expect from ...
by Jess Zimmerman. Stephen Colbert has officially thrown his hat in the ring for definitely possibly considering a run for president. He's already out-polling Jon Huntsman! So what kind of environmental policy platform could we expect from a President Colbert? Well, for starters, no ...
- Don’t believe the hype about the ‘ ...
by Christopher Mims. Some chemists came up with a really clever way to observe the intermediate stage of an atmospheric chemical reaction, and then some PR flack got a hold of it and suddenly science has invented a brand-new molecule that will solve all our climate change woes! As usual, t ...
- Congressional staffers will stop betting on wi ...
by Jess Zimmerman. We here at Grist mock a lot of people. But we don't always manage to mock some sense into them. Which is why we're pretty psyched about the response to Sarah Laskow's feature story revealing that congressional staffers were making deadly wildfires into a fun ...
- NASA Captures a Tornado on Mars
NASA's HiRISE captured a twisting column of dust more than half a mile (800 meters) high and about 30 meters in diameter on Feb. 16, 2012, while the orbiter passed over the Amazonis Planitia region of northern Mars. The paths of previous whirlwinds, or dust devils, are visible as streaks on the ...
- Are scientists close to uncovering the Higgs b ...
Researchers analyzing data from Fermilab's now-defunct Tevatron particle accelerator say that they may have glimpsed evidence of the elusive Higgs boson, the so-called God particle thought to be responsible for giving all other particles mass.
- Hunt for 'God Particle' even closer to conclusion
The hunt for the elusive
- Our Universe is Merely a Region of an Enormous ...
This new concept is, potentially, as drastic an enlargement of our cosmic perspective as the shift from pre-Copernican ideas to the realization that the Earth is orbiting a typical star on the edge of the Milky Way.
- Diver's photo captures eerie beauty of reef sharks
Yes, they're real. This otherworldly photograph of three reef sharks is the handiwork of shark researcher Neil Hammerschlag, an assistant research professor at the University of Miami.
- How our Understanding of History is Manipulated
Andrew J. Fell Activist Post It’s becoming increasingly apparent that in order for us, the general population, to understand the deeper issues of the current geopolitical situation, it is imperative for us to understand the relevant history. This may sound somewhat obvious, but I would argue tha ...
- Monsanto’s Roundup Shown to be Ravaging Butter ...
Mike Barrett Activist Post Monsanto’s Roundup, containing the active ingredient glyphosate, has been tied to more health and environmental problems than you could imagine. Similar to how pesticides have been contributing to the bee decline, Monsanto’s Roundup has been tied to the decrease in the ...
- Mass Banking Resignations Signal a Purging Has ...
Brandon Turbeville Activist Post According to a list compiled by independent blog, American Kabuki, at least 122 banking directors, CEOs, and board members of both national and international stature have resigned since September of last year. The blog recently posted a list of all 122 of these i ...
- RT: FBI Tries To Coax Muslim Into Bombing US C ...
- Abortion Stillbirth Events from Gardasil Far E ...
Consumer beware! What your doctor isn’t telling you is that Gardasil leads all other vaccines in abortion stillbirth events. Does anyone actually review the VAERS data to protect the public? According to a National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC – http://nvic.org) MedAlerts blog entry wr ...
- Less Than a Week Away
We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware.George Green will be a featured speaker.September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CAClick here for Tickets & Reservations
- The Georgia Guidestones
On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
- The Creation
THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to pu ...
- The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...
In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
- About George Green
Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to fo ...
- Cartoon caption contest
Take a look at the cartoon below and enter your caption idea in the comment section (more ifo on prize, etc. below the cartoon). Eligible captions will be those posted on my site, Elephant Journal, Wend Magazine, PlanetSave, Eco-Snobbery Sucks, Ecolutionist, Ecopolitology, and Twilight Earth. Wi ...
- Exposed: Why the GOP wants to eliminate Clean ...
Whether we can believe this see-through-elephant-trunk footage or not, the possibility that elephants have a triple fitration system within their trunks has to have some credence. Otherwise, why on earth would leading Republicans try to make it easier for big polluters to further pollute the air ...
- Apples may lose trees [cartoon]
The rest of Joe Mohr’s cartoons, and cartoon updates and other green news on Twitter @GreenCartoons. Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoon) Eco-Snobbery Sucks: The Cartoon Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoo ...
- Mixed message from USDA chief Vilsack [cartoon]
US Ag Secretary, Tom Vilsack tells us to eat more natural foods a few days after fully deregulating GMO alfalfa…I’m confused. Confused as well? Read the links below and try to figure out this mess. From The New York Times: Government’s Dietary Advice: Eat Less From Elephant Journal: ...
- BREAKING: Deleted Monsanto cartoon panel, leaked!
Unlike the former Monsanto cartoon on this subject, this version shows a bit more clearly who surrendered the future of organic agriculture to Monsanto. There’s been a lot of talk from both sides (organic and biotech) about compromise. That is misleading and almost laughable (read: cryable ...
- Praksis Turns 19th Century Danish Barn Into a ...
Read the rest of Praksis Turns 19th Century Danish Barn Into a Modern Cultural Center in the Country Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Architecture, barn, biodegradable roof, curved wooden walls, Danish design, Denmark, eco-travel, exhibitions space, flexible space, gree ...
- Foster + Partners’ Towering Hermatage Plaza in ...
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- Tentsile Hanging Tents Provide a Safe Haven in ...
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- 5 High-Tech Green Data Centers That Serve The ...
You wouldn’t think that major data centers could go light on the environment, but think again — there are more than a handful of server farms out there making an effort to protect the environment while pushing bits and bytes. Whereas standard data center consume lots of electricity a ...
- Scientists Discover That Spider Silk Conducts ...
From violin strings to beautiful golden garments, delicate spider silk is good for much more than trapping delicious insects. Scientists at Iowa State University have put the organic threads to the test, and found that spider silk is an incredible natural heat conductor. The stretchy substance c ...
- The New iPad: It's in the Apps
The new
iPad's hardware keeps Apple ahead of its tablet rivals - there's no other tablet, yet, with anything like these specs - but it's the software that really makes the iPad shine.
- Place Your Emphasis HERE, Not THERE
When graphic designers use their computers to fool around with typography, sometimes they get the emphasis all wrong.
- A Review of the Windows 8 Beta
Microsoft has made a test version of its new Windows 8 operating system software available to the public. It's an imaginative and successful rethinking of an operating system. The Start screen, for example, is like a Lego kit for your life's control panel.
- More on OnLive Desktop – Readers' Questi ...
Following Thursday's column, more information about OnLive Desktop, the app that turns an
iPad into a blazing-fast Windows machine.
- What Cameras Inside Foxconn Found
ABC's "Nightline" was invited to visit Apple's production lines at Foxconn, giving Americans a chance to see how
iPads and
iPhones are made in China. A note from a man born in China gave another perspective on jobs in that country.
- The QWERTY Effect: How Typing May Shape the Me ...
A keyboard's arrangement could have a small but significant impact to how we perceive the meaning of words we type.
- New Shark Species Discovered in Galapagos
Scientists conducting deep-sea dives around the Galapagos Islands have identified a new species of shark. Part of a family known as a catsharks, the new species is about 1.3 feet long, roughly the same size as a typical housecat.
- Antique Vineyards Host Treasure Troves of Wine ...
A new census of wine yeasts in "grubby" Sicilian vineyards show that many of the microbes can compete with, or even outstrip, widely sold industrial yeasts used to make wines.
- Eureka? Evidence of the Higgs Boson Mounts
After a ten-year search, two experiments from Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois report tantalizing hints of what may be the Higgs boson. The finding bolster results announced last year from CERN's LHC experiment, which may have spotted the elusive particle at around 125 gigaelect ...
- Speculation Blamed for Global Food Price Weirdness
The link between commodity speculation and global food price weirdness just got stronger, and researchers warn that a new and potentially calamitous price bubble is imminent. Previous research had blamed a combination of food-to-fuel crop conversion and financial speculation for driving food pri ...
- Exploding Sun To Fuel 1000s Of Super-Tornadoes
When the sun becomes angry super spacestorms scour Earth. For the next 14 months the sun will be the angriest it's been since 1859. The massive storms electrify the geomagnetic field, affects the Arctic vortex, and warps and twists the jetstream creating gigantic vortexes sweeping across the def ...
- New York Prostitution Ring Provided Minors For ...
Yet another elitist pedophile ring has been exposed with the bust of 44-year-old mother of four Anna Gristina, charged with running a prostitution ring out of a New York apartment that relied on police protection to provide wealthy clients with minors for sexual encounters.
- A Year Later, Mysterious Space Plane Is Still ...
The Air Force’s secretive X-37B space plane gets more mysterious by the day. Designed to spend up to nine months on unspecified errands in Earth’s orbit, the second copy of the Boeing-made craft, known as Orbital Test Vehicle 2, has now been in space for a year and two days — and is still going ...
- WAR: Marching Toward Syria: Eyes Cast on Iran
While all the incessant warmongering directed toward Iran at the annual AIPAC policy conference in Washington was grabbing the headlines, the momentum for Western intervention into Syria continued to steadily build. All those neo-con "real men," it appears, just might prefer to go to Tehran via ...
- Welfare debit cards frequently used at liquor ...
An investigation by Colorado officials has found that welfare recipients are using their assistance debit cards to withdraw funds at ATMs located in casinos, strip clubs, bingo halls and amusement parks.
- Return Shaker Aamer to the UK from Guantánamo: ...
Please sign the e-petition (British citizens and residents only). This is the image that, from next week, will be on postcards distributed the length and breadth of the UK, and handed out in universities and colleges, in mosques and churches, and at protests and other gatherings, to secure 100,0 ...
- Quarterly Fundraiser Day 3: $2000 Needed to Su ...
Please support my work! Dear friends, readers and supporters: Thanks to the generosity of four of my supporters, I have secured $200 of the $2500 I was hoping to raise to help to fund my ongoing work on Guantánamo and related issues over the next three months. This is a great start, but I am [...]
- Video: Andy Worthington, Jason Leopold and the ...
In January, when I visited the US for events to mark the 10th anniversary of the opening of the “war on terror” prison at Guantánamo Bay, and to renew calls for the prison to be closed, as President Obama promised on his second day in office, I paid a flying visit to San Francisco to ...
- Quarterly Fundraiser: Can You Help Me Raise $2 ...
Please support my work! It’s that time of the year again. Every three months, I ask you, my friends, readers and supporters, to support me financially, to help me to continue to expose the lies and distortions that are told about the “war on terror” prison at Guantánamo Bay by ...
- Andy Worthington Discusses Guantánamo and Bagr ...
On Friday, I was delighted to be asked by Scott Horton of Antiwar Radio to discuss the ongoing shame of a world in which the prison at Guantánamo continues to remain open for business. The springboard for our interview was last week’s plea deal in the trial by military commission of Majid ...
- Don't Turn Your Back on the Bankers for Even a ...
The ink on the legislation is still drying and, already, the mortgage mill industry is trying to gut the little things that might help to hold them accountable for their bit part in the complete economic collapse of this nation: Dodd-Frank requires that lenders retain five percent of every loan ...
- Sarah Palin: Mayor of New Milford?
Is this a parody or real life? You decide. Citizens of New Milford: I want you to know that I'm on the job 24/7. Twenty four hours a week, seven months a year. But even with this strict time commitment, I can't be expected to keep up with everything going on in this vast metropolis. That's why ...
- Much like the "conservative" GOP...
The conservative Blue Dogs acted as Bush's domestic poodles, helping to move a dangerous right wing agenda. They were owned by the right wing and corporations and there is no big surprise why more than half of the Blue Dog caucus (28 of 54 members) were slaughtered in the 2010 elections. So f ...
- Stop Drinking and Start Doing, Dem Dumb Dumbs
Sober up, Dems. You started sucking suds when you captured the Congress in 2006. Since 2008 you've been binge drinking with Congress and the Prez. You even nibbled on some hot wings and pub nuts. Burp! And now the bartender just cut your drunk, lazy, liberal, progressive, leftie ass off. Y ...
- The People Have Spoken. And Their Message Is ...
So. What the heck happened last night? The GOP picked up 60 seats in the House, effectively reversing their losses there from 2006 and 2008, and returning control of that body to them. The GOP picked up some 6 seats in the Senate, but the Democratic Party retains control there. The GOP picked u ...
- New SPLC Report: ‘Patriot’ Movemen ...
The number of antigovernment “Patriot” groups grew at an astounding pace last year, as it has in all three years of the Obama presidency, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) annual count of extremist groups, released today. The number of these groups rose from 824 in 2010 to 1, ...
- Pot, Meet Kettle: JBS Rips Sovereigns as ̵ ...
A note to right-wing extremists: When the John Birch Society (JBS) condemns your movement as a “fringe group” whose followers are “paranoid” “conspiracy theorists” who “occasionally go off the deep end … when confronted with reality,” it’s time for some serious soul-searching. An article publish ...
- Alabama ‘Sovereign’ Kingpin Loses Land, Prompt ...
Not even antigovernment “sovereign citizen” James Timothy Turner, who has made a living teaching people sovereign tactics he claims will allow them to beat the banks, can save himself when it comes right down to it. On Feb. 22, Hatewatch has learned, the People’s South Bank in Ozark, Ala., ...
- Nevada Neo-Nazis Charged in Double Murder of A ...
Contents of a cell phone found two years ago by federal investigators may have provided key information to the unraveling of a racially motivated, brutal double murder that took place 14 years ago in the Nevada desert. Melissa Hack, 37, her brother, Ross Hack, 40, and Leland Jones, 31, are charg ...
- Anti-‘Genocide’ Protests Around Nation Were Or ...
Small protests against the “genocide” of white South Africans took place in 11 states Monday, drawing a smattering of media accounts that noted that some leftist counter-protesters accused the demonstrators of being white supremacists. But the Sacramento (Calif.) Bee quoted Michael Myers, a coor ...
- If Up to New Mexico’s Governor, Undocume ...
A haunting but ultimately uplifting story out of New Mexico has been making the rounds in newspapers and TV reports across the country. A 6-year-old girl in Albuquerque was abducted as she walked home on a suburban street. The kidnapper pulled her into his van, parked near a rock hiding packing ...
- Victory! NJ Gov. Signs Bill So Survivors Won't ...
In late June, a vital bill to support rape survivors landed on New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's desk. The bill, which had strong bipartisan support in both legislative houses, was to bar rape survivors from being charged for their own rape kits -- collections of forensic evidence after a sex ...
- Teen Leads Safe Crosswalk Campaign in Wake of ...
The shock and grief over a young person's tragic death can be paralyzing. Not for Kimiko Nishitsuji. Her friend's sudden death last month after being hit by a car at an intersection long known to be dangerous for pedestrians instead spurred her to action and mobilized a community. Kimiko created ...
- Major Progress: Administration to Grant Deport ...
Wow. Just weeks ago, UCLA graduate and award-winning Dreamer David Cho posted a petition on Change.org commemorating the ten-year anniversary of the federal DREAM Act and asking President Obama and the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to do everything in their power to stop deporting tal ...
- Robert Segwanyi Spared Deadly Deportation to U ...
Robert Segwanyi was scheduled for deportation on August 18, from the United Kingdom's Heathrow airport. The UK was sending Robert back to Uganda, where he was tortured with molten plastic and imprisoned for being gay. Robert was spared from deportation at the very last minute according to ...
- Controversial Abdominal Ultrasound Bill Passed ...
(photo: Debra Sweet)Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell signed a controversial bill this afternoon that requires women t read more
- Rights Groups, Law Experts Reject Obama's 'Ass ...
Law experts, human rights groups, and advocates for civil liberties and international law are expressing outrage and concern just days after the Obama administration's chief prosecutor, Attorney General Eric Holder, publicly outlined and defended the US government's program to target and ...
- Tar Sands Opponents Mobilize to Thwart Senate ...
A decision by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) to allow floor votes this week on a number of amendments to the federal transportation bill, have opponents to the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline mobilizing to ensure the amendment goes down to failure. The vote on Keystone could come ...
- Speculation Continues Over Possible Kucinich R ...
Rep. Dennis Kucinich's political future is still uncertain after losing Tuesday to Rep. Marcy Kaptur for Ohio's newly created 9th district. Many are still speculating whether Kucinich will run for a vacant congressional seat in Washington state. ...
- Report: Fracking Could Cause a New Global Wate ...
As the oil and gas industry heads more towards hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, to access resources, a new report out today from Food & Water Watch states that the process may become a global environmental and public health threat. Numerous communities in the U.S. ...
- Updated: The Best Twitter Client for Android [ ...
It's been a long time since we crowned Twidroyd (now UberSocial) for Android the best Twitter client. A number of other apps have come and gone since then, the whole field has improved, and we figured it was time to update our recommendation. ...
- How Can I Live with a Slob? [Ask Lifehacker]
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- Make a Hanging Book Display [DIY]
If you're lucky to have a kid who loves reading—or if you want to encourage a love of books—consider this simple and inexpensive project. Using two dowels and some fabric, you can hang books in easy reach for your child. More&n ...
- The Best (and Worst) Antivirus Apps for Androi ...
With the growth of malware threats on Android, it definitely makes sense to use an antivirus app, but unfortunately, a new study reveals many security apps have miserable detection rates, so you need to choose wisely. Here are the ones that pe ...
- The Better Bacon Book for iPad Guides You to P ...
iPad: Everyone loves bacon, but not everyone loves burnt, sandy bacon that's been in the oven or in the pan too long. If you want to up your bacon game and learn a bit more about proper pork preparation in the process, the Better Bacon Book, ...
- Privatization decision nears
The mayor got a round of applause from members of the Sanger Woman's Club Tuesday when he outlined the benefits of privatizing the city's disposal services.
- Harrisburg Assets Lead Would-Be Buyers to Line ...
The feelers about the waste-to-energy plant run by a Covanta Holding Corp. (CVA) unit and on other municipal assets were received by the Harrisburg Authority, which oversees the operations, according to documents posted today on the website of David Unkovic, the city’s receiver.
- Keep It Local, Keep it Public community event ...
PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA-- - The Canadian Union of Public Employees and the Stand up for the North Committee are hosting a free community event entitled "Keep it Local, Keep it Public", this Wednesday, March 7.This event will feature a screening of the film "Water Makes Mon ...
- Ontario may halt corporate tax cuts until 2017-18
TORONTO (Reuters) - Ontario may cancel plans to cut corporate taxes until it balances its books in 2017-18, and will eliminate its C$16 billion ($16.1 billion) deficit by that date "come hell or high water", the Canadian province's finance minister said on Monday. The government of ...
- Bottled water costly for us and the planet
I have to thank The Record for highlighting the issue of bottled water (Trustees failed both students and the planet, Our View, Feb. 26).
- China unveils new legislation on police powers ...
Experts warned that original draft legislation would have legalised disappearances, allowing police to hold suspects without informing familiesChina has unveiled legislation enshrining police powers to hold people at unknown locations for up to six months, but has removed a controversial secrecy ...
- Republican race turns to Mississippi and Alaba ...
Live coverage as Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and the other candidates turn their attention to the southern states11.31am: For the next crucial result, Republican eyes turn to ... Guam? Yes, in another sign of the desperation that the GOP bunfight has become, the candidates are actually worrying a ...
- Eurozone crisis live: Greek debt swap take-up ...
• Bond exchange appears certain to succeed • Result due 6am GMT Friday • ECB cuts growth forecasts • How the Greek deal works • Markets rally on debt deal hopes • Youth unemployment hits new high in Greece • Today's agenda4.32pm: Greece has achieved enough support from private investors to force ...
- Syria: deputy oil minister defects - Thursday ...
• Abdo Hussameldin becomes most senior official to switch • Kofi Annan warns against 'militarisation' of the crisis • Valerie Amos 'devastated' by what she saw in Baba Amr • Read the latest summary3.59pm: Here's a round up of events today in Syria:• Syria's deputy oil minister Abdo Hussameddin ...
- Kenya sacks 25,000 striking health workers
Government says that staff sacked for defying recall order will be replaced by unemployed nurses and health professionalsKenya's government has fired 25,000 striking nurses and health workers, saying they had defied an order to return to work and were placing patients' lives at risk."All illegal ...
- Project aims to lower operating costs for elec ...
WASHINGTON ? As part of his plan to get 1 million electric cars on the road by 2015, President Barack Obama wants Congress to give buyers a tax credit of…Click to Continue »
- Miami teen take immigration plight to Capitol Hill
As valedictorian, she hardly needed a permission slip to skip class, but Daniela Pelaez may have had the best excuse ever: talking to U.S. senators, several House members and others…Click to Continue »
- Idaho Gov. Otter want more federal money for w ...
Hunters, trappers and others wiped out nearly a third of Idaho's wolves last year after the state took over management from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. But about 750…Click to Continue »
- Obama unveils 'clean' vehicle initiative
Mixing politics with policy, President Barack Obama returned to North Carolina on Wednesday to step up his wooing of this key election-year swing state and to propose new federal incentives…Click to Continue »
- Israelis express relief at lack of news from W ...
Speeches given by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Barack Obama that focused almost exclusively on Iran and its nuclear program broke little new ground in Washington this week.Click to Continue »
- The only way to change your past is to steal s ...
I get a fairly regular flow of emails about independent film projects. Most of them, to be honest, bounce straight off me – which says less about their quality than it does about my own taste in cinema. Independent cinema – like independent music and literature – has lots of pr ...
- Censorship: I’m guilty as charged
So, I stand accused of censorship by someone whose comment I declined to approve on this post. I figure anyone willing to throw around accusations of censorship is probably a big fan of radical transparency; hence, by way of amelioration, here is the digital papertrail for the full exchange. (Em ...
- The Future Always Wins
Soooooo, yeah – I’ve been busy. Did you miss me? New job, Masters degree… doesn’t leave a lot of spare time, so it doesn’t. But it’s been quiet here too long, so it’s time to dust down the soapbox and run a mic-check. One-two, one-two. The Future Always ...
- New Economies
Last month I pondered the extent to which the Arab Spring and Occupy Everything are socially-driven acts of creative destruction. Creative destruction is defined as a “process of industrial mutation that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying ...
- 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 ...
- Whistleblower Leyla Wydler suffered to bring S ...
Yesterday's conviction of Ponzi schemer Allen Stanford generated much news. Most of the coverage, however, is missing the role of whistleblower Leyla Wydler. Two weeks ago on Honesty Without Fear, I interviewed Eyal Press about his new book, Beautiful Souls: Saying No, Breaking Ranks ...
- Congress Questions Federal E-mail Surveillance ...
Yesterday, Senator Charles Grassley and Representative Darrell Issa released a letter asking the Obama Administration for assistance in assessing the e-mail monitoring policies of all federal agencies. This letter was sent in light of Congressional and Office of Special Counsel investigations in ...
- This Week on Honesty Without Fear
Tune in today at 1:00pm EDT to Honesty Without Fear on Progressive Radio Network. From Sarajevo, Bosnia, Steve Kohn interviews Bojan Bajic, the head of the Centre for Responsible Democracy and co-founder of Association of Whistleblowers Against Corruption about the growing movement to increase ...
- FBI's PSA Excludes Key Information for Whistle ...
This week, the FBI released a public service announcement by actor Michael Douglas encouraging the public to report financial fraud. On its face this sounds like a good thing. However, the FBI left out some key information, namely other avenues of reporting that are likely better for whistleblow ...
- Supreme Court ducks conflict on Garcetti
This morning, the Supreme Court declined to hear two cases that raise a conflict among the circuits about whether the First Amendment protects government employees who refuse to make false statements. The Court denied petitions for certiorari by David Bowie, a former official of the Distri ...
- Fermi maps an active galaxy's 'smokestack plumes'
If our eyes could see radio waves, the nearby galaxy Centaurus A (Cen A) would be one of the biggest and brightest objects in the sky, nearly 20 times the apparent size of a full moon. What we can't see when looking at the galaxy in visible light is that it lies nestled between a pair of giant r ...
- Pollution from Asia circles globe at stratosph ...
The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additional evidence of the ...
- After growth spurt, supermassive black holes s ...
Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
- Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virus
A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20 ...
- New approach precisely tracks evolution's foot ...
(PhysOrg.com) -- Fossils may provide tantalizing clues to human history but they also lack some vital information, such as revealing which pieces of human DNA have been favored by evolution because they confer beneficial traits - resistance to infection or the ability to digest milk, for exampl ...
- Hollywood Hackers Vs. Reality
Perhaps no single "demographic" is more misunderstood (and feared -- especially post-SOPA debacle) by Hollywood than "The Hacker." In the hands of the movie machine, hackers are portrayed as fast-talking (and fast-typing) young men (and very occasionally, women) with unfortunate hairdos, huddled ...
- An Open Letter To Content Creators: One 'Pirat ...
We launched our Step 2 discussion platform last fall, just before the whole SOPA/PIPA fight heated up. It was just the first part of a much bigger planned program to better engage the wider community around here, with more parts rolling out as we move forward. The timing was interesting, and w ...
- Teaching Style, Not Computers, Appears To Be B ...
For many years, we've covered various stories of professors struggling with the idea of students having their laptops open in the classroom. Our argument has always been that the computers themselves are neutral, and it's up to the professors to adapt and make sure their teaching strategies eit ...
- Brazilian Performance Rights Agency Demands Bl ...
Well, you can never say that performance rights organizations are unwilling to explore every option when attempting to snag a bit more income, ostensibly for their roster artists. American PROs (ASCAP, BMI, etc.) have attempted to collect from Girl Scouts, every cell phone owner with a ringtone ...
- USTR Wants 'Trade Promotion Authority' In An E ...
While we've noted that the White House and the USTR have insisted that ACTA is not a treaty and does not require Congressional ratification (something that many, many observers believe is wrong), with the followup TPP agreement, there's no question that it's a broad agreement that will require C ...
- Things You Might Have Missed
If the G8 want to hide themselves as far away from protesters as possible, I propose we shoot them off into space and leave them there. James calls out rich people hypocrisy over on Cubik’s Rube. The more I read (and read about) Steven Pinker, the more I truly hate that man. There is a [...]
- More Revolutionary Than Thou
On one of the videos from the recent Occupy4Prisoners action in DC, somebody spots a guy on the roof of the jail. At first they think it is a sniper. But when they zoom in on them, they see that it is someone working on the camera. The protester starts to heckle the guy, telling [...]
- Things You Might Have Missed
The video is now up from our protest for the National Day for Prisoners. You can check it out here. Last Friday, anonymous took down The Geo Group’s website and replaced it with a picture of Mumia. I am so incredibly creeped out that corporations have been patenting the human genome. Excel ...
- On Porn Stars and Seamstresses
I know Chris Hedges has been blowing up the internets lately because of that piece he did on the black bloc. But I’d like to take him to task for something he said back at the beginning of January in this C-Span interview. It comes about 12 minutes into the second hour when he starts talk ...
- Things You Might Have Missed
Holy crap. How have I not put up a TYMHM since January 10th. I seem to have lost a month of my life somewhere along the way. As you must have gathered from the couple posts I have put up, one of the things keeping me busy is the Criminal INjustice Committee of occupy. We [...]
- Former IAEA Inspector Sees‘Déjà vu’ in Develop ...
EIR News Service press release.
- The LaRouche Show, March 3, 2012
International Day of Action, March 3: Stop the Drive for WW III; Promote Humanity!
- The LaRouche Show, February 25, 2012
Why Go Along with the Food Crisis? Stop the Bastards!
- A Science-Driver Recovery or Economic Extincti ...
By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, March 2, 2012, Vol. 39, No. 9
- LaRouche Slate Fights To Reverse ‘Clinton’s Te ...
By Matthew Ogden Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, March 2, 2012, Vol. 39, No. 9
- Netanyahu — guided by tales of genocide
After Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting at the White House with Barack Obama on Monday, Haaretz reported: The Iran issue was the focus of the talks. It permeated everything from the agenda of the one-on-one meeting to Netanyahu’s gift to Obama: a decorated copy of the Book of Esther, whic ...
- Video: U.S. 2012 — What role does the pro-Isra ...
- We can live with a nuclear Iran
Paul Pillar writes: Those in the United States who genuinely yearn for war are still a neoconservative minority. But the danger that war might break out—and that the hawks will get their way—has nonetheless become substantial. The U.S. has just withdrawn the last troops from one Middle Eastern c ...
- Obama derides Republican ‘posturing’ over use ...
The Guardian reports: Barack Obama has accused Republican presidential candidates of casually “beating the drums of war” over Iran without having the political courage to directly advocate a military attack or considering the human cost of battle. In his first press conference of the ...
- Washington’s undignified relationship with Israel
As a duel national born in a country fond of trumpeting its special relationship with the United States, I’m familiar with the ways foreign leaders can often embarrass themselves (and those they represent) by going too far in their expressions of affection for Uncle Sam. During his brief t ...
- Climate Change Impacts In The USA is Already [ ...
by Craig Loehle, Ph.D. Many government reports by NASA, NOAA, EPA, USFWS, USFS, USDA and other agencies mention that climate change impacts are already observable in the USA. This is discussed in the context of endangered species conservation, forest resource … Continue reading →
- Under the radar – the NAS Report
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Under the radar, and un-noticed by many climate scientists, there was a recent study by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), commissioned by the US Government, regarding climate change. Here is the remit under which … Continue reading →
- Solar storm continues, geomagnetic storm and a ...
We have about three hours to go for the expected arrival time of the CME at 0625 UTC/1025 PM PST. Proton flux remains high as do other indicators. Additionally another C class solar flare just occured. This bulletin just in … Continue reading →
- The Earth has chills and fever, and spots, or ...
WUWT Readers may remember in 2006 Al Gore announcing on national television one morning that: The earth has a fever… He of course was pushing his book, An Inconvenient Truth as the cure. Now, almost six years later, other symptoms … Continue reading →
- A detailed review of Mann’s book: The Ho ...
By Brandon Shollenberger Introduction Michael Mann recently published a book named The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars. It was generally well-received, quickly garnering many positive reviews. Even Henry Waxman, a sitting Congressman, and Bill Nye the Science Guy praised … Continue readi ...
- Philippine National Police Ordered to Plant 10 ...
As their nation's sole law enforcement agency, the Philippines National Police carry a heavy burden when it comes to keeping the country safe -- but arresting one of the biggest threats they face will take shovels, not clubs or handcuffs.
- Peak Meat: US Meat Consumption Falling
For a society that lives high on the food chain, this new trend could signal the end of meat’s mealtime dominance.
- Researchers Wrangle Sharks in the Bahamas to I ...
The Bahamas - and Caribbean in general - are important marine ecosystems under threat. Before conservationists can protect them, however, they must understand the species living there, and sometimes that means swimming with sharks.
- I Want You, Useless iPad
The iPad is the epitome of the created want: A consumer product that fulfills no function that a laptop or smartphone cannot; and everyone who wants to buy an iPad already has one of those things.
- Farming At A Crossroads: Will Farmers Rely on ...
Do farmers wait for more chemicals and genetically engineered crops like the ones Dow is pushing the EPA to approve, or do they shift away from such a heavy dependence on chemicals and GMO technology?
- How to Control a Prosthesis With Your Mind
Imagine a piece of technology that would let you control an apparatus simply by thinking about it. Lots of people, it turns out, have dreamed of just such a system, which for decades has fired the imaginations of scientists, engineers, and science fiction authors. It’s easy to see why: By transf ...
- Phantoms In The Brain
- Bats harbour influenza
Fruit bats in Guatemala are hosting a novel subtype of influenza A virus, according to a study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The virus — designated H17 — appears to have diverged from known influenza viruses long ago, shedding light on their evolution. T ...
- How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy
Jaroslav Flegr is no kook. And yet, for years, he suspected his mind had been taken over by parasites that had invaded his brain. So the prolific biologist took his science-fiction hunch into the lab. What he’s now discovering will startle you. Could tiny organisms carried by house cats be creep ...
- How many neurons make a human brain? Billions ...
How many neurons are there in the human brain? It was a question that scientists thought they had nailed – and the answer was 100bn (give or take). If you went looking you would find that figure repeated widely in the neuroscience literature and beyond. But when a researcher in Brazil called Dr ...
- Scaring the pants off Oscar Mayer
Last month, Occupy Portland put out a national call to action on February 29 to other Occupies around the country. Dubbed “Shut Down the Corporations”, the idea was to target corporations that are members of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) with creative, n ...
- Opacity and creeping exclusion at Occupy
This was published with considerable feedback from several bloggers at Corrente: DCblogger, affinis, lambert and okanogen. My sincere thanks to all of them for their help.Occupy has seemed to be in a bit of a winter hibernation. There are still encampments, meetings, decisions, protests, and s ...
- Francis - This Must Be Blood EP
Petter from Francis let me know that their new EP This Must Be Blood is out.Have a listen to the single “Traktor:”
- Concerning violence advocates and nailing jell ...
This was published with considerable feedback from several bloggers at Corrente: DCblogger, affinis, lambert and okanogen. My sincere thanks to all of them for their help.When writing about violence at Occupy there seems to be a great deal of controversy over what the word itself means, so I ...
- Concerning violence advocates and the Black Bl ...
This was published with considerable feedback from several bloggers at Corrente: DCblogger, affinis, lambert and okanogen. My sincere thanks to all of them for their help.The issue of violence at Occupy flared up last week when Chris Hedges used violent rhetoric to make the case for nonviolence ...
- Update - Connecticut Legislation for Our Right ...
Things are really moving in Connecticut. If you want to be inspired, watch the video of the Capitol Press Briefing on HB 5117, the CT genetically modified foods right to know act. The opposition there had come from government spokespersons, including the state agriculture commissioner, as well a ...
- Food Hubs: How Small Farmers get to Market
Ask most small and mid-sized farmers who sell food to a local audience what they like least about their job and they will probably say marketing and distribution.Click here to read this article
- California Ballot Initiative to Require Labeli ...
The California Right to Know Initiative Campaign is gaining momentum with its signature gathering efforts across the state to place a voter backed initiative on the November 2012 ballot that would mandate labeling of genetically engineered food. The effort is supported by a broad coalition of pu ...
- Genetically Modified Labeling is Topic of Petition
Labeling GM foods should be a no-brainer. Practically everyone wants them labeled. That's why the Committee for the Right to Know is collecting signatures for a California ballot initiative to require it. To say that food biotechnology industry supporters oppose this idea is to understate the m ...
- Organic Group Challenged to Remove Former Boar ...
ANAHEIM, CA: On the heels of an emerging corporate influence peddling scandal that has undermined the integrity of the federal organic rulemaking process, The Cornucopia Institute, an industry watchdog, has requested that a speech by Alan Greene, a well-known pediatrician, be canceled at the Na ...
- 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 ...
- Judge Throws out Organic Farmers Case Against ...
Between 1997 and 2010, 144 lawsuits were filed by Monsanto against American family farmers, with an additional 700 being settled out of court.The Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association was hoping that the judge would disallow the use of Monsantos see Submitted by John Farnham to Science & ...
- Monsanto's Bt GMO corn to be sold at Wal-Mart ...
Most of the genetically-modified (GM) corn products forced on American consumers today are hidden in processed foods in the form of high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS), corn oil, corn starch, and various other corn-based additives. But soon to be available at Submitted by Walter L Bradley Jr to Heal ...
- Political Climate
You likely know climate change is a political football, even if only from ridiculous seeming pronouncements. And scientists are respected - so they make good cover for politicians to use them as sock puppets. Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture | Note-it! ...
- Thirst
I was thinking of our drinking water shortage ever increasing and reflecting on an old story about CIDA drilling wells in the Sahel and causing desertification. So I explored as the muse led. Submitted by John Farnham to Environment | Note-it! | Add a Comment
- American Airlines Exposes Bushs Big Lie: Fligh ...
American Airlines itself is the source for information that AA Flights 11 (North Tower) and 77 (Pentagon) did not fly on 911. ( Len Hart posts at OpEd News, guest blogs at Bluebloggin,: his own Existentialist Cowboy is filled with scholarly research ) Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics &am ...
- Revealed: Survival International alerted Andam ...
Revealed: Survival International alerted Andaman authorities to human safaris two years ago: The Andaman authorities were alerted to the existence of human safaris two years ago by Survival... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
- Afghans Condemn US Over Urination Video -- New ...
Afghans Condemn US Over Urination Video -- News from Antiwar.com: From Afghan President Hamid Karzai to tribal elders in the far southern Helmand Province, reaction is coming out from the leaked... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
- Spooks off the hook but torture fight continue ...
Spooks off the hook but torture fight continues / Britain / Home - Morning Star: Top government figures are still not off the hook for Britain's complicity in torture despite the Crown Prosecution... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
- Mapuche women assaulted by police, have crimin ...
Mujeres mapuche agredidas por Carabineros, presentan querella criminal Guillermina Painevilo with his daughter Susana Guzman, accompanied by members of their community, with the sponsorship of... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
- Kosovo Albanian protestors dispersed on Serbia ...
Kosovo Albanian protestors dispersed on Serbian border | Demotix.com: Police cordons blocked the road outside the northern town of Podujevo, some six kilometers (four miles) from the border with... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
- TSA Nude Body Scanners Worthless
After looking at the following video, I challenge anyone to think that these scanners were put in place for anything other than subjugation of the American people, NOT for our safety and security. This blows the lid right off that blatant lie.
- GMOs – The New Green Revolution – Graphic
Ag Day - March 8, 2012 - Graphic: In celebration of the sellout of conventional farming to biotech interests, and the phony "New Green Revolution." Enjoy!
- 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.
- U.S. firm linked to civilian deaths hired to t ...
ShareThisU.S. firm linked to civilian deaths hired to train Canadian soldiers --Military has had relationship with Blackwater/Xe for years - documents 07 Mar 2012 An American mercenary firm whose employees have been implicated in the killing of civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan was paid nearly $ ...
- FBI director: Have to check whether targeted k ...
ShareThisFBI director: Have to check whether targeted killing rule is outside US only --'Uh, I'm not certain whether that was addressed or not.' 07 Mar 2012 FBI Director Robert Mueller on Wednesday said he would have to go back and check with the Department of Justice whether Attorney Gene ...
- MoD Official Accused of Leaking Secrets
ShareThisMoD Official Accused of Leaking Secrets 08 Mar 2012 A Ministry of Defence official is due to appear in court today charged with breaching the Official Secrets Act, Scotland Yard has said. Edward Devenney, 29, is accused of communicating information which could be deemed to be useful to ...
- Obama asks Pentagon for military plans on Syri ...
ShareThisUSociopaths trolling for more wars for oil: Obama asks Pentagon for military plans on Syria: Gen. Dempsey 08 Mar 2012 Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey says President Barack Obama has requested from the Pentagon military options against the Syrian governmen ...
- Mystery Illness Kills Three in Maryland Family
ShareThisMystery Illness Kills Three in Maryland Family --'We have to wonder if it may be a mutant strain of flu virus.' 06 Mar 2012 Three members of a Maryland family died after contracting severe respiratory illnesses and a third family member is hospitalized in critical condition, the Calvert ...
- 5 books that are sure to heat up your kitchen life
I like to read — a lot. I could make lists counting the hundreds of books that make great reads. Unfortunately, we don’t have the time and you may not have the attention span for that. To keep it short and sweet, here’s a list of five books that I feel add depth and meaning [...]
- Beer Review: Victory Hop Devil/Victory Hop Wallop
Victory Brewing Company opened up fifteen years ago in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, but only recently entered the Florida market. With such beers as their highly touted Prima Pils and Storm King Stout, Victory has earned a rightful place among the respected craft brewers in the United States. St ...
- D’s nuts: Rays’ crazy defense feeds hitting, p ...
Tampa Bay took the series victory against the Chicago with the win, getting back to .500 and improving to 2 games back in the American League East division. Rays look for sweep tomorrow.
- Interview with Michael Foley about the Florida ...
The Florida Dance Festival provides a springboard for raw talent and fresh ideas.
- Just plain cheesy: Celebrate National Grilled ...
April is National Grilled Cheese Month: an entire four weeks devoted to the American classic. The following sandwich recipe is from cheese expert and author Laura Werlin’s book, Great Grilled Cheese.
- VRM: Pandemic Preparedness & The Dark Agenda Ahead
We are currently entering the next phase in the Globalist plan to erode the bedrock of natural immunity amongst the general population, a race to gain complete control over our inherent right to self-determination of the body. Based on all my research thus [...]
- VRM: PCV Vaccine Exposed – Breeding Grou ...
The road-map leading to most neurological & neuro-developmental disorders traces back to the earliest vaccines administered to babies (HEP B, DTaP, PCV, RV, HIB, IPV, MMR). Timing is the key – a premature breach of the delicate, under-developed “electrical grid network” designed to prot ...
- VRM: The Flu Report
The Flu Vaccine deception ranks as one of the great cover-ups & swindles of the last century perpetrated against the general population. Not only has the public been systematically lied to by their elected Government for generations (in league with the World Health Organization & a Vacc ...
- VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5B – ...
Article continued from VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5A – Detoxification & Restoration of The Body Replenishing the vital mineral base We must look to children with Autism to determine the full extent of “vaccine toxicity” derived nutrient deficiencies incurred in th ...
- VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5A – ...
Article intended to be read in conjunction with VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 4 – Primary Aspects of Vaccine Toxicity Affecting The Body The Long Road To Recovery There are unfortunately no shortcuts to restoring natural, optimal health levels in the body, no quick fix sol ...
- You Know You're Getting Old When...
A few weeks back we received our new high-efficiency front loading LG washer and dryer set and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed by them. The set was only around $1000 (on sale) but I felt like I'd gone from a Chevette to a Cadillac when compared to our old set. A cute little luxur ...
- Control Your Home Thermostat On the Internet!
Today a fellow from our natural gas company came by to install a new thermostat as part of the Peaksaver program that we signed up for. If you haven't heard of Peaksaver, basically what it does is allow the Ontario government electricity provider to turn off your central air conditi ...
- Happy Day!: The Water Bill Arrived!
After being shocked a few months ago with a water bill of over $240 I decided to do a few things to cut down on our water use We converted our main toilet to a dual-flush and installed a water saving device on the second (haven't switched it over to a dual yet). We also installed a new ...
- Strawberry Picking
Our family went strawberry picking this morning, it's a fun thing to do once in a while and I think it's a good way to help our 3-year old daughter realize where food comes from. While my wife picked berries with our oldest I went for a walk around the farm with our youngest in the stroller ...
- Pioneer Solar: PV System For Free?
I received a flyer from Pioneer Solar in the mail the other day which claims to help people get a solar system installed on their house, farm, or business for free. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, like most things there's good and bad points about it and what might be a good deal fo ...
- Senator Levin on MEDEVAC
07 March 2012 Senator Carl Levin has been sending a form letter to his constituents. Key parts of the letter seem to be have been written by the Army. At minimum, Senator Levin’s responses are a rewrite of Army releases. His statement perpetuates numerous myths and outri ...
- MEDEVAC Momentum: Senate Armed Services Commit ...
01 March 2012 The MEDEVAC issue continues with increasing seriousness. Numerous Generals, the Secretary of the Army, and the Secretary of Defense (through General Dempsey, the Chairman of Joint Chiefs) have all weighed into the fight. Seventeen members of Congress have joined, and m ...
- Sisters at War
29 February 2012 This is a small tribute to our women in harm’s way. We constantly argue about whether or not women should be allowed in combat. Reality is that they have been in combat for longer than anyone reading this has been alive, and they were in combat before any of our great gr ...
- Tigers, Crocodiles, Korans and Superstitions
Tiger eyes of man with fresh scars “The Sundarbans lies in the massive delta between India and Bangladesh. This is one of the most beautiful but most dangerous places in the world, a place of tigers and crocodiles and dangerous seas and canals. Mamata is just one of about 3,000 ‘tiger widows’ i ...
- Our Weak Government Must Stop Apologizing for ...
27 February 2012 The recent Koran-burning in Afghanistan has again inspired lunacy and murder. And while the US civilian and military leadership burdened by their oleaginous apologies tumbles down a moral stairwell, Afghan security forces continue to murder American and Coalition troops.& ...
- Professionals and Torturers
The key moment in many revolutions comes when police and militaries refuse to fire on crowds. But what is difficult to explain about those moments is their infrequency. Soldiers and police come from the same society as the crowds. Why do they kill them? Why are elites and authorities able to res ...
- The regressive politics of the Iranian-Canadia ...
[This article, by Shourideh Molavi and myself, was first published in The Bullet - version with links is there]. The regressive politics of the Iranian-Canadian Khevari petition Shourideh Molavi and Justin Podur November 11, 2011 On October 12, members of the Iranian-Canadian community sent a pe ...
- An interview for occupy Toronto
Activist and comedian Jesse Owens interviewed me for the #occupyto.org website, way back in ancient occupy toronto history (ie., October 26). For posterity, I am also reproducing it here. Thanks Jesse... --- read more
- Some thoughts on Whiteness and the 99%
I have some disagreements with Joel Olson's article, "Whiteness and the 99%", but I will start with some agreements. I agree that "biologically speaking, there's no such thing as race." read more
- The Logic of Occupy Wall Street for Canada
The Occupy Wall St. Movement and the Occupy Together movements that are inspired by it actually have a simple premise: society shouldn't be run for the unrestricted benefit of the wealthiest. The immediate grievance is the 2008 banking crisis, in which the US banks engaged in fraudulent and crim ...
- Philippine National Police Ordered to Plant 10 ...
As their nation's sole law enforcement agency, the Philippines National Police carry a heavy burden when it comes to keeping the country safe -- but arresting one of the biggest threats they face will take shovels, not clubs or handcuffs.
- Peak Meat: US Meat Consumption Falling
For a society that lives high on the food chain, this new trend could signal the end of meat’s mealtime dominance.
- Researchers Wrangle Sharks in the Bahamas to I ...
The Bahamas - and Caribbean in general - are important marine ecosystems under threat. Before conservationists can protect them, however, they must understand the species living there, and sometimes that means swimming with sharks.
- I Want You, Useless iPad
The iPad is the epitome of the created want: A consumer product that fulfills no function that a laptop or smartphone cannot; and everyone who wants to buy an iPad already has one of those things.
- Farming At A Crossroads: Will Farmers Rely on ...
Do farmers wait for more chemicals and genetically engineered crops like the ones Dow is pushing the EPA to approve, or do they shift away from such a heavy dependence on chemicals and GMO technology?
- US hands suspected Somali pirates over to Seyc ...
[JURIST] The US government on Tuesday handed over [press release] 15 suspected Somali pirates it captured in January to the Republic of Seychelles for prosecution. The suspects are accused of attacking a ship and kidnapping 13 Iranian fisherman, all of whom the US Navy rescued. They will be trie ...
- UN urges states not to use official religion t ...
[JURIST] UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief Heiner Bielefeldt [official website] said Tuesday that states should refrain from using official state religions [press release] as a means to enhance their national identity politics, "as this may have detrimental effects for the s ...
- Samsung files patent suit against Apple in Sou ...
[JURIST] Samsung Electronics [official website; Bloomberg backgrounder] filed a patent suit on Tuesday in the Seoul Central District Court in South Korea alleging Apple [official website; Bloomberg backgrounder] infringed three of its utility patents. Samsung alleges that Apple's iPhone 4S and i ...
- Wisconsin judge temporarily blocks voter ID law
[JURIST] A judge in the Dane County Circuit Court [official website] on Tuesday issued an injunction temporarily blocking enforcement [order, PDF] of the state's controversial new voter identification law, Wisconsin Act 23 [text, PDF]. The injunction was issued by Circuit Court Judge David Flana ...
- Holder frames US policy toward targeted killin ...
[JURIST] US Attorney General Eric Holder [official website], in a speech [transcript] Monday, framed the Obama administration's policy toward the targeted killing [JURIST news archive] of US citizens abroad who are members of al Qaeda [GlobalSecurity backgrounder]. Holder's comments also address ...
- Obama Plays Dangerous Game, Offers Israel Bunk ...
Barack Obama is playing a very dangerous game regarding Iran. He speaks to Israeli leaders like Bibi Netanyahu and his pro-Israel supporters in Aipac like an Iran hawk, placating them with suitably hawkish rhetoric. While the very next day, he tells a White House press conference those who lob ...
- Bibi’s Declaration of War (on Iran)
After reading Bibi Netanyahu’s profoundly delusional and mendacious Aipac speech from earlier today, I’m left with two impressions: the most important one is that Israel will attack Iran. His remarks read like a declaration of war. Believe me, no Jew invokes a historical parallel to ...
- Israel’s Iran Policy Doomed to Fail Whatever t ...
I was just reading Paul Pillar’s incisive essay in the Washington Monthly which puts the argument against war with Iran about as strongly as anyone can. Pillar is a 28 year veteran of the CIA specializing in the Near East and South Asia, and currently is director of graduate studies at Ge ...
- Links for 2012-03-04 [Digg]
Are the War Hawks Watching? In Lauded Iranian Film, Self-Interest Yields Tragedy | Truthout But because at a time when talk of war, intimidation and aggression is exchanged between politicians, the name of their country, Iran, is spoken here through her glorious culture, a rich and ancient cul ...
- Congressional Pro-Israel Supporters Tell Obama ...
Bibi Netanyahu is a corrupt, anti-democratic, ultra-nationalist Israeli leader. But one thing he is indisputably good at is political manipulation both of his own population and world opinion. In the run up to his coronation in Washington where he arrives shortly, he has superbly laid groundwo ...
- NPR Watch: Linda Gradstein Has Done It Again o ...
NPR's reporter Linda Gradstein has done it again. She has managed to take a "must report" story on Israeli-Palestinian relations -- the new report by B'Tselem on the non-combatants, including children, killed by the Israeli military during the Israeli attack on Gaza -- and report it in a manner ...
- Documentary Video: Shooting the Messenger
This documentary on the deliberate killing and intimidation of journalists in conflict zones, examines how international reporters became targets.
- Impressions of Israeli Executions in the West Bank
Much planning had gone into our family vacation in Israel-Palestine. We could spare only the last two weeks of 2009, and so had developed an uncompromising itinerary for each day, allowing a mere half-day to recover from jet lag from our trip from California. After devoting most of the first wee ...
- Calling Bono: Your Palestinian Gandhis Exist . ...
In your recent column in the New York Times, "Ten for the Next Ten," you wrote: "I'll place my hopes on the possibility -- however remote at the moment -- that...people in places filled with rage and despair, places like the Palestinian territories, will in the days ahead find among them their G ...
- International law is clear: Israeli settlement ...
Eric Rozenman's Dec. 11 Op-Ed article, "Israeli settlements are more than legitimate," is legal nonsense that disregards history. He is correct in his observation that Article 6 of the Mandate for Palestine permitted "close settlement by Jews on the land, including state lands and waste lands no ...
- The Eye On Citrus Show
http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/the-eye-on-citrus-show/ Our latest radio show is up, talking about the GOP Forum held in Crystal River this past Saturday, Jan 14, 2010. The two non-fiction books relating the dark and illegal deeds of t ...
- Jesse Ventura, 63 Documents the Government Doe ...
http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/01/07/jesse-ventura-63-documents-the-government-does-not-want-you-to-read/ EyeOnCitrus.com is proud to announce that Jesse Ventura, newest book, 63 Documents The Government Doesn’t Want you to read, is availab ...
- What side are you on?
As a Thanksgiving deadline nears for action by the powerful congressional committee on deficit reduction, Bernie sounded an alarm over reports that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid may be cut. "The American people have been very clear. They understand how important Social Security, Med ...
- Listen to Art Bell’s Coast to Coast HAAR ...
This is an (CLICK HERE FOR THE SHOW) encore presentation of a show that aired in 2005. It’s revealing because it discusses the secret facility in Alaska that manipulates the ionosphere with possible devastating results. Listen to scientists working on it then and their reluctance to speak about ...
- Official 9/11 Fable To Become Part Of School C ...
Government-supported effort to ‘encourage critical thinking’ actually encourages obedient regurgitation of lies Paul Joseph Watson Rest of Story on Prison Planet.com Tuesday, September 6, 2011 “We don’t need no education….we don’t need no thought control.” In a week where the establishment is de ...
- The Unsuitablog Archive
The Unsuitablog contains a huge range of posts from simple criticism to investigation to downright in-your-face sabotage. It also has heaps of advice on how to recognise and expose greenwash and the entire series of Monthly Undermining Tasks which helped the book Underminers become a reality. To ...
- The Unsuitablog: Winding Down and Winding Up
Four years, and it feels like it. It would take a book to tell the story of The Unsuitablog: all the work that has gone into it; the sleepless nights wondering whether a stunt would come off or what the repercussions of an exposure would be; the arm-aching pixel manipulation in creating the hund ...
- You’re Not Taking “Radical” ...
On Monday 5th December, 2011, Bill McKibben, author and figurehead-leader of 350.org wrote the following in the Daily Kos: You think OWS is radical? You think 350.org was radical for helping organize mass civil disobedience in DC in August against the Keystone Pipeline? We’re not radical. Radica ...
- Strikes vs Royal Weddings
There is going to be a strike in Britain on Wednesday. The UK Government are condemning it. This is starting to appear all over Facebook: When the government decide we can have a day off for the royal wedding it doesn’t damage the economy, but when the workers decide to strike for a day it ...
- WWF Denies Palm Oil is the Problem, then Count ...
It seems there is no depth to which the corporate world’s own favourite NGO, WWF, will not sink. An article in this week’s Guardian was happy to give WWF some free publicity, implying that the group actually give a stuff about the wildlife they were apparently set up to protect (or s ...
- Forget The Wealthy. How Do We Tax The Lucky?
A few weeks ago, the Washington Post ran a lengthy, above-the-fold piece looking into what impact capital gains tax rates were having on wealth inequality in America. “Most of the richest Americans pay lower overall tax rates than middle-class Americans do,” the reporters noted, adding that duri ...
- Muslim-Baiters Don’t Want To Be Treated ...
Over the weekend, I posted the following message on Twitter: “When a Muslim commits terror, every Muslim in the world somehow shares responsibility. When it’s a white Christian, he’s always a lone wolf.” I wasn’t commenting on the tendency of commentators to use different words to de ...
- Keith Ellison’s Tears And Epistemic Closure
Rep. Peter King’s hearings looking into the “radicalization” of the American Muslim community, and the suggestion that the community doesn’t cooperate with law enforcement, was largely a waste of time and tax dollars. The affair didn’t produce a single insight into the actual and urgent issue of ...
- Praying On Qasr al-Nil
One of the more memorable scenes of the Egyptian revolution will surely be that of ordinary Egyptian’s praying on Cairo’s Qasr al-Nil Bridge as members of Egyptian state police direct their water cannons at them. Truly a remarkable sight. via Al Jazeera Filed under: Middle East Tagged: Al-Jazeer ...
- “I Support Democratization, But…&# ...
The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg – one of the key proponents of the disastrous invasion of Iraq – has some serious misgivings about the fledgling pro-democracy movement that’s taken over the streets of Egypt. “I support democratization, but,” he cautions, “the democratization we saw in Gaza (cour ...
- How the State Decoded Makes Sense of Messy Rea ...
Those of us who deal with big data have a tendency to describe working with it in cavalier terms. "Oh, I just grabbed the XML file, wrote a quick parser to turn it into CSV, bulk loaded it into MySQL, laid an API on top of it, and I was done." The truth is that things very rarely go so well. ...
- iWitness Aims to Aggregate News By Time and Place
Let's face it: The great promise of citizen media has not really been fulfilled. News organizations have struggled to find ways to supplement their coverage of news events with contributions from citizens -- and finding citizen media related to a news event is currently difficult at best. Key ...
- Triangle Wiki Day a Win for Open Source in Raleigh
This post is a guest column by Jason Hibbets, chair of Raleigh's South West Citizen Advisory Council (SWCAC). A version of this post first appeared on southwestraleigh.com. Almost 50 people collaborated on Saturday at Red Hat headquarters, currently located on Centennial Campus in Raleigh, ...
- Journo-Coders Take NICAR 12 to a Whole New Level
I spent a rapid-fire 23 hours in St. Louis this weekend at the NICAR 12 conference. For those who don't know, NICAR stands for "National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting," and, as the slightly antiquated name might suggest, was founded long before the commercial Internet, back in 1989. ...
- As TriangleWiki Gets Ready to Launch, LocalWik ...
Hey friends! Whew! A lot has happened since our last PBS Idea Lab blog update! Our first focus community, DentonWiki, has been doing great, and several of our other focus communities are close to launching. Just recently, nearly 50 people came together in Raleigh, N.C., to join a mass ...
- Israel on Edge - The Souls in the Land are the ...
It was May 7, 2004 when Salim Joubran was given a position on Israel's Supreme Court. The day that he became the first permanent member of the Court from the Israeli Arab community should have been the day the world realized that Israel was in fact, a democracy like none else in its region. It w ...
- Peru on Edge - Last of the Shining Path Comand ...
While international attention is currently centered on issues including the protests and violence in Syria, the ongoing spats between Argentina and the United Kingdom over the Falkland/Malvinas islands, and the presidential race in the U.S., there seems to be a lack of attention regarding the&nb ...
- The Defense Edge - How Planned Defense Budget ...
Tremendous changes can occur over the course of one year. Regarding defense spending, the Administration is now planning to pay out $4.5–$5 trillion over the next ten years on defending the country, compared to nearly $6 trillion just 12 months ago. This, in part, reflects the debt ceiling agr ...
- Edge on Transparency - It’s Time for Cameras ...
There is one thing on which Republicans and Democrats, not to mention a majority of the public, agree when it comes to the health insurance reform law: This month’s Supreme Court hearings on the constitutionality of that landmark legislation ought to be televised so the public can hear the ora ...
- IBM's Guilt in the Holocaust a Certainty
I do not know why I missed it for a decade, but the new edition of IBM and the Holocaust (see IBM’s Role in the Holocaust—What the New Documents Reveal, Page One, February 28, 2012) woke me up. The evidence presented in the article, and the 90 pages I have thus far read in the book I purchas ...
- Why Is Obama Sending 12, 000 U.S. Troops To Li ...
By Cynthia McKinney It is with great disappointment that I receive the news from foreign media publications and Libyan sources that our President now has 12,000 U.S. troops stationed in Malta and they are about to make their descent into Libya
- Will A Pro-Gadhafi Green Revolution Topple The ...
By Franklin Lamb The signs from Libya are that this country remains volatile and that contrary to NATO claims that it put into place a new democratic Libya that the predictable next chapter is starting to unfold that may bring the end of the NTC before the coming June elections when it is sched ...
- US Doubles Aircraft Carriers Near The Persian Gulf
By Peter Symonds The Obama administration has reinforced the threat of American military strikes against Iran by doubling the number of US aircraft carrier groups in the region. The provocative decision heightens the danger of war in the Persian Gulf as the US moves aggressively to impose a de ...
- And Who, By the Way, Is John C. Stennis?!?
By Toby ORyan Who, you might ask, is John C. Stennis? What are the boons and benefits for humanity accomplished by this John C. Stennis such that he came to have his name emblazoned on a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier?
- What Does Ken Ford Know? And Who Put Him In Pr ...
By Cynthia McKinney Ken Ford, Jr. wrote an intelligence report on the Iraq War which contradicted the Administrations reason for going to war against Iraq
- Kill Team: The Bigger Picture
Sorry to have been slacking on the blog. Here’s an article I wrote and forget to post… better late than never! Kill Team: The Bigger Picture http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/06-8
- Kill Team: The Bigger Picture
Sorry to have been slacking on the blog. Here’s an article I wrote and forget to post… better late than never! Kill Team: The Bigger Picture http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/06-8
- Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
- Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
- Practicing Peace in the New Year
A friend, Frank Swift, that I met on my first journey has passed along some great practical steps towards peace for the new year. Frank has written a children’s book to help young people see an alternative to the competition and forcefulness that can too easily get instilled in our young p ...
- Can You Judge A President by His Jew-Hating Fr ...
Yesterday’s release of the Barack Obama/Derrick Bell Harvard tape was seen by many as another example of the President’s long history associating with radicals. There is another interpretation however. When Obama urged people to open up their hearts and minds to Bell it was another case of him “ ...
- Will the Palestinians Launch a Third "Intifada ...
By Barry Rubin Is there going to be a “third intifada?” I have no idea. That is a question most likely to be determined by those who set Palestinian strategy and they will surely differ among themselves. What interests me is the question of on what basis would such a choice be made. When t ...
- Purim: Remembering Iran's War With The Jews Th ...
Tonight at sundown begins the Jewish Purim, a holiday which holds more significance today than ever. On Purim we celebrate the victory of the Jews over an evil man named Haman, who was the royal vizier of the King of Persia. Today Persia is called Iran. The quick version of the stor ...
- Barack Obama: From Amateur to Fool in Forty-Ei ...
On Sunday President Obama seemingly (and unnecessarily) committed US troops to a war with Iran. His statement "wiggle room," a mistake an amateur would make. Today he took one giant step backwards from that over-zealous commitment making himself look like a wavering fool, totally void o ...
- Newsbusted: Obama Claims "Afghan Apology" Lowe ...
Now at least we know why President Obama apologized to Afghanistan for mistakenly burning Korans which were already defaced by Muslim prisoners... like many of his other energy policies such as limiting the oil exploration and drilling, the apology was mean to lower oil prices. And th ...
- Objetivo Tierra: Tormenta Solar puede tener ef ...
Por Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda 08 de marzo 2012 El sistema solar está entrando en una fase en la que la estrella más brillante – el sol – comienza a disminuir su actividad. Sin embargo, la estrella gigante no va a “irse” en silencio. En los últimos meses, el sol ha e ...
- Target Earth: Coming Solar Storm May Have Cata ...
by Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda March 8, 2012 The solar system is entering into a phase where it’s brightest star — the sun — begins to decrease its activity. However, the giant star will not go out quietly. In the last few months, the sun experienced some of the heaviest activity in the [...]
- Mossad, CIA and Blackwater operate in Syria
Russia Today March 7, 2012 security operation in Homs reveals Mossad, CIA and Blackwater are involved in the military violence in this part of Syria, as over 700 Arab and Western gunmen and Israeli, American and European-made weapons were detained in Baba Amr district. Syrian security forces go ...
- Half-human creatures: What is going on?
by Olga Selyanina Pravda.ru March 7, 2012 Now, Nigeria. Another half-human creature is born to a sheep. Thousands of onlookers flocked to see the creature at the Fakon Idi Veterinary Clinic…but what is going on? This is but the latest in a series of half-human creatures born across the glo ...
- US Police can Search Cell Phones without Warrant
by Jay Gormley CBS March 7, 2012 Think about all the personal information we keep in our cell phones: It’s something to consider after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit ruled it is now legal for police to search cell phones without a warrant. Former Dallas FBI Agent Danny Defenbaugh ...
- Pinnacle Wind Farm complaint filed with Public ...
KEYSER – A Keyser man has filed a formal complaint with the West Virginia Public Service Commission over noise from the Pinnacle Wind Farm. Richard Braithwaite filed the complaint last month, citing excessive noise levels both inside and outside his Green Mountain home near the 23-turbine wind f ...
- Alexander attacks tax break for wind power
A top Republican lawmaker said Wednesday that long-standing federal subsidies on the wind farm industry should be allowed to expire at the end of the year, calling wind energy unreliable, too expensive and damaging to the environment. While wind energy interests have launched a concerted campaig ...
- ‘We should not have to take drugs’
People living near a wind farm north of Carmarthen say they have resorted to medication because the turbines are so loud. They also claimed energy company Statkraft, which built and runs the Alltwalis Wind Farm, has admitted there is a noise problem — but told residents to “just live with ...
- Somerset County residents voice concerns about ...
PRINCESS ANNE — With just days left for input on a proposed wind turbine ordinance, residents throughout Somerset County are continuing to voice concerns about the ramifications for residents and wildlife. “I don’t want the wind turbines because of the health impact and the noi ...
- Energy subsidies total $24 billion, most to re ...
The federal government spent $24 billion on energy subsidies in 2011, with the vast majority going to renewable energy sources, according to a government report Tuesday. Renewable energy and energy efficiency accounted for $16 billion of the federal support, according to the Congressional Budget ...
- Three men helped starve kids, court tol
Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World | Note-it! | Add a Comment
- DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World | Note-it! | Add a Comment
- About Us,,,You may want to lisent...interesting!
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- Tiger killing 'a crime against nature'
Three people have been sentenced to a total of eight and a half years in prison for trying to smuggle tiger skins and bones across the Russian border. And for the first time in this kind of case, a charge of 'ecological damage' might be brought for the Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals   ...
- Confused cat found wandering streets of of Lin ...
This hungry kitty thought she was the cat that had got the cream when she found a half-full tin of pet food as she prowled for snacks in bins behind a supermarket. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals | Note-it! | Add a Comment
- The Economics of The Lorax
If property rights are stable, clearly defined, and well-enforced, the self-interest of owners of natural resources will lead them to extract something far less than the full quantity.
- Congress Imposes Tariffs on Chinese Imports
“Congress on Tuesday overturned a court decision and reaffirmed that the government has the right to impose higher tariffs on goods from China and other state-run economies that subsidize their exports to the United States.” (Associated Press) The first casualty of trade war is freed ...
- February Job Creation Stat Revised Upward
“The pace of job creation by private employers accelerated more than expected in February, a report by a payrolls processor showed on Wednesday. The private sector added 216,000 jobs last month, the ADP National Employment Report showed, topping economists’ expectations for a gain of ...
- Biden Tells Latin American Leaders US Won’t En ...
“Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. delivered a blunt message on Monday to leaders in Latin America who are contemplating opening the door to the legalization of illicit drugs: The United States will not budge in its opposition.” (New York Times) He’s not paying the costs. FEE Timely ...
- Past-Due Student Loans Ignite Worry
“Some experts have called the nation’s soaring college debt load a ‘ticking time bomb’ — a looming crisis threatening young adults, their families and the broader economy. A new report raises even more alarms: It’s likely that as many as 1 in 4 borrowers was carrying a past-due ...
- Definition: Social media
I’ve been working on this for a few days. Trying to make it as simple as possible. Digital systems that enable people, identified by profiles, to share information. Now, please let me unpack that a little bit: Digital systems is another way to say media. I specify digital because I do not ...
- Resources for learning about social media
I have been collecting posts, articles, tutorials and general how-to materials that relate to how journalists use social media. I started about two weeks ago, as I prepare for a workshop in Singapore. They are curated here: Social Media and Journalists. The collection is housed at Scoop.it, a cu ...
- Resources for learning about social media
I have been collecting posts, articles, tutorials and general how-to materials that relate to how journalists use social media. I started about two weeks ago, as I prepare for a workshop in Singapore. They are curated here: Social Media and Journalists. The collection is housed at Scoop.it, a ...
- People see value in curation
I think it’s very cool that 1,126 people visited this blog yesterday. The number of retweets on the link to my post about social media tools for journalists really drove the traffic. What’s even more encouraging is that a lot of links in my post were clicked. That’s wonderful, ...
- People see value in curation
I think it’s very cool that 1,126 people visited this blog yesterday. The number of retweets on the link to my post about social media tools for journalists really drove the traffic. What’s even more encouraging is that a lot of links in my post were clicked. That’s wonderful, ...
- David Ross loses shareholder vote to take Cosa ...
David Ross, the multi-millionaire entrepreneur, has lost the vote to take Cosalt private and declared the company will remain publicly listed following a shareholder revolt.
- BP trial: in numbers
As the "trial of the century" gets under way in New Orleans, with BP and some of its suppliers in the dock over its Gulf of Mexico oil spill, here are some of the numbers.
- London-based oil executive linked to 9/11 hija ...
A Saudi Arabian accused of associating with several of the September 11 hijackers and who disappeared from his home in the United States a few weeks before the attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon, is in London working for his country's state oil company.
- September 11: A Saudi family, a Florida villa ...
Whether the September 11 hijackers acted alone, or whether they received support from a network of co-conspirators in the United States, remains one of the unanswered questions of the world's most devastating terrorist attack.
- Charles Hendry: North Sea oil industry in inde ...
The North Sea oil industry will be at greater risk of "unnecessary and harmful" interference by Europe if Scotland becomes independent, the Government has warned industry leaders.
- On Stratfor
Wikileaks has dumped a bunch of internal Stratfor documents, which they presumably received from Anonymous. Years ago I used to read Stratfor’s briefs. After a while I stopped, because their economic analysis was absolutely awful, straight up cookie cutter consensus macro, which missed t ...
- Justified Pessimism
is not, in fact, pressimism. It is realism. I find the “be happy” crowd odd. We have, in the past few years, seen millions of Americans and Europeans impoverished and lose their homes. We are seeing a wave of austerity in the 1st world which has and will impoverish many millions m ...
- Justified Pessimism
is not, in fact, pressimism. It is realism. I find the “be happy” crowd odd. We have, in the past few years, seen millions of Americans and Europeans impoverished and lose their homes. We are seeing a wave of austerity in the 1st world which has and will impoverish many millions m ...
- Sewage
Why is Francis Fukuyama considered an intellectual? Why is he considered an intellectual worth of praise, his opinion important? I ask this not because I don’t know the answer, I do, and I’ll get to it, but because so many people seem to believe he is an intellectual. Let me quote F ...
- Sewage
Why is Francis Fukuyama considered an intellectual? Why is he considered an intellectual worth of praise, his opinion important? I ask this not because I don’t know the answer, I do, and I’ll get to it, but because so many people seem to believe he is an intellectual. Let me quote F ...
- Drug Wars in Juarez Fuels Boom in El Paso
My colleague Malak Behrouznami recently returned from Juarez Mexico where she grew up as a child. She as a wonderful heritage - her father is Iranian and her Mother is Mexican. She went Juarez for family and journalistic reasons. One of her objectives was to find out why Juarez has become a terr ...
- PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI NEGOTIATIONS TO NOWHERE NO ...
A few months ago when shooting a documentary in the Middle East, we met Zeina, a 13-year-old Palestinian living in a Beirut refugee camp. She was traumatized as she watched the Israeli Gaza war on television. It changed her life. She now thinks of revenge and cannot understand the Israeli childr ...
- FROM JOE McCARTHY TO GLEN BECK – TIME TO END F ...
I listened to Glen Becks "Restoring Honor" speech today hoping to find something of substance to write about. I found a stringing together of such empty phrases it does not bear discussion. The more important issue is why a man whose megalomania seems to have no bounds can become ...
- PAKISTAN FLOODS AND A FAILED POLICY - UN Sec. ...
Ban Ki Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, says of the flooding in Pakistan "The world has never seen such a disaster. It's much beyond anybody's imagination". At least 20 million people have lost their homes, more than 1600 have died, and disease and hunger will c ...
- China and the end of the end of history
Many economists and political analysts think the current recovery, as it's being called, is a rather temporary phenomenon. Many expect the recession to kick back in, and perhaps within a few years get much more serious. What does that mean in terms of the future of the world economy and worl ...
- Human variome taking shape with Chinese node
An ambitious project to log all genetic variations that cause human disease lunged forward this week with the launch of the Chinese “node” of the Human Variome Project (HVP). Scientists and clinicians in China meanwhile are hoping participation will spread genetic counseling and genetic medicine ...
- US cell-based flu vaccine plant open for business
Americans may soon be getting flu jabs made with cells and not eggs. The drug company Novartis opened a first-of-its kind facility in the US to produce influenza vaccines using mammalian cells, Novartis and US government officials announced 13 December. The approach is an alternative to conve ...
- NSF takes broad look at broader impacts
A National Science Foundation (NSF) task force has finalized its recommendations for tweaking the agency's two merit review criteria, 'intellectual merit' and 'broader impacts'. And central to that effort was a non-prescriptive, big-tent definition of broader impacts, says task force co-chair J ...
- Land grabbing in Africa continues to harm the poor
More than 200 million hectares of land in poor nations was sold by governments in land-grabbing deals with industry and investors between 2000 and 2010, a new study reports. This high global demand for land is likely to continue for the long term, concludes the study by the International Land ...
- Stratolaunch embarks on hybrid rocket-plane system
Forget Kennedy Space Center. How about launching massive rockets from the underbelly of the largest plane ever built? On Tuesday, Burt Rutan, of aerospace company Scaled Composites, and billionaire Paul Allen, a former Microsoft executive, announced Stratolaunch Systems -- a company that aims to ...
- The Evolving Urban Form: Hong Kong
Hong Kong has experienced its slowest decadal growth in at least 70 years, according to the results of the recently released 2011 census. Between 2001 and 2011, Hong Kong added only 5.4 percent to its population, a decline of more than two-thirds from its 1991-2001 rate. Hong Kong's slowest ...
- Foreign Industrial Investment Is Reshaping America
Declinism may be all the rage in intellectual salons from Beijing to Barcelona and Boston, but decisions being made in corporate boardrooms suggest that the United States is emerging the world’s biggest winner. Long the world leader as a destination for overseas investment, the U.S. is ext ...
- Is The United States Population Heading to Lon ...
It's been clear since the census 2011 estimates were released on December 21, 2011, that we are experiencing something of a demographic change, at least in the short run. Clearly growth is slowing down in part, many believe, due to economic reasons, as was the case during the 1930s as well a ...
- The Return of the Monkish Virtues
“[The author of Leviticus] posits the existence of one supreme God who contends neither with a higher realm nor with competing peers. The world of demons is abolished; there is no struggle with autonomous foes, because there are none. With the demise of the demons, only one creature rema ...
- Shale Revolution Challenges the Left and the Right
In his State of the Union address, President Obama invoked the 30-year history of federal support for new shale gas drilling technologies to defend his present day investments in green energy. Obama stressed the value of shale gas—which will create thousands of jobs and billions in profi ...
- Re: Massive cuts in pesticides without GMOs
NOTE: Doug's comment relates to a French study projecting a 30% reduction in pesticide use within industrial agricultural systems. http://www.gmwatch.org/latest-listing/1-news-items/13737 COMMENT from Doug-Gurian Sherman: This is a useful study, but it is conservative in its findings. Work in t ...
- Re: Massive cuts in pesticides without GMOs
NOTE: Doug's comment relates to a French study projecting a 30% reduction in pesticide use within industrial agricultural systems. http://www.gmwatch.org/latest-listing/1-news-items/13737 COMMENT from Doug-Gurian Sherman: This is a useful study, but it is conservative in its findings. Work in t ...
- Re: Massive cuts in pesticides without GMOs
NOTE: Doug's comment relates to a French study projecting a 30% reduction in pesticide use within industrial agricultural systems. http://www.gmwatch.org/latest-listing/1-news-items/13737 COMMENT from Doug-Gurian Sherman: This is a useful study, but it is conservative in its findings. Work in t ...
- Surviving in a thirsty world
NOTE: Go to the original blog for lots of useful embedded links or to comment. --- --- Surviving in a Thirsty World Doug Gurian-Sherman, senior scientist, Food & Env The Equation (UCS blog), March 6 2012 http://blog.ucsusa.org/surviving-in-a-thirsty-world Clean, fresh water is an increasingly s ...
- Surviving in a thirsty world
NOTE: Go to the original blog for lots of useful embedded links or to comment. --- --- Surviving in a Thirsty World Doug Gurian-Sherman, senior scientist, Food & Env The Equation (UCS blog), March 6 2012 http://blog.ucsusa.org/surviving-in-a-thirsty-world Clean, fresh water is an increasingly s ...
- South Korea: Dr. Smartphone?
Not The Onion: Check. Not April 1: Check. Via: Reuters: Tired of long waits at the hospital for medical tests? If Korean researchers have their way, your smartphone could one day eliminate that — and perhaps even tell you that you have cancer. A team of scientists at Korea Advanced Institu ...
- James Cameron Buys Farms, Plans to Move Family ...
Good idea. Via: Stuff: Hollywood movie mogul James Cameron is coming to live in Wairarapa – and he is bringing his family with him. The director of blockbuster films Titanic and Avatar has purchased two large plots of land along Western Lake Rd in south Wairarapa, where he is expected to a ...
- Pay Fee to Jump to Front of Line at San Franci ...
Via: San Francisco Chronicle: Frequent travelers who use San Francisco International Airport once again will be able to get through security a little faster with the return of a fee-based pre-screening program approved by the Airport Commission Tuesday. The CLEAR program, operated by a private c ...
- Surveillance Video Becomes a Tool for Studying ...
Via: Technology Review: Software mines security footage to help business owners see what people do once they’re inside the store. The huge success of online shopping and advertising—led by giants like Amazon and Google—is in no small part thanks to software that logs when you visit Web pag ...
- Reconstructing Speech from Human Auditory Cortex
Via: PLoS Biology: How the human auditory system extracts perceptually relevant acoustic features of speech is unknown. To address this question, we used intracranial recordings from nonprimary auditory cortex in the human superior temporal gyrus to determine what acoustic information in speech ...
- Ben Bernanke Says That His Son Will Graduate W ...
Who ever imagined that Ben Bernanke would become a poster child for the student loan debt problem in America? Recently Bernanke told Congress that his son will graduate from medical school with about $400,000 of student loan debt. For most Americans, such a staggering amount of ...
- 15 Potentially Massive Threats To The U.S. Eco ...
We live in a world that is becoming increasingly unstable, and the potential for an event that could cause "sudden change" to the U.S. economy is greater than ever. There are dozens of potentially massive threats that could easily push the U.S. economy over the edge during the n ...
- Now THAT Is Cold – 19 Signs That America ...
The economy is not the only thing that is wrong with America. In order for a society to function smoothly, people need to be able to trust one another and be able to expect that most of their fellow citizens will behave in a somewhat civilized manner. Unfortunately, we are star ...
- 10.7 Percent: Unemployment In Europe Is Worse ...
The unemployment rate in the eurozone is now 10.7 percent. That is the highest the unemployment rate has been since the introduction of the euro. The unemployment rate in the eurozone never got any higher than 10.2 percent during the last recession. This is very troubling news ...
- Inflation Is A Tax And The Federal Reserve Is ...
Ronald Reagan once famously declared that inflation is a tax, but sadly most Americans did not really grasp what he was talking about. If the American people truly understood what inflation was doing to them, they would be screaming bloody murder about monetary policy. Inflatio ...
- Building living tunnel greenhouses for rural p ...
One of the biggest problems for sustainably constructing greenhouses in the drylands is that of the strong winds. Most of the greenhouse constructions do not resist these winds and the recurrent need to invest in reparations discourages those … Continue reading →
- Deserts and Desertification (Google / Ochre Ar ...
Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://ochrearchives.blogspot.com/2012/03/deserts-and-desertification.html We recently self-nominated and were listed on the Holistic Management International website as a contact point for people who wanted to communicate with an Australian practit ...
- Land that has become barren occasioned princip ...
Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.leadership.ng/nga/articles/17801/2012/03/01/katsina_challenges_combating_desertification.html KATSINA: Challenges of Combating Desertification Statistic has showed that in 10 out of the 19 northern states of the country, each year the des ...
- Desertification in CEE (Google / UNCCD)
Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.unccd.int/en/regional-access/Europe/Pages/alltext.aspx Combating desertification in CEE Soil degradation and desertification is intense in Central and Eastern Europe. Although the process and degree of soil degradation in CEE region is va ...
- False claims about afforestation in Sindh (Goo ...
Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-4-96392-False-claims-about-afforestation-in-Sindh Shahid Husain Wednesday, March 07, 2012 Though several issues were discussed in the Sindh Assembly session on Tuesday, more important amongst them were deforesta ...
- Fukushima disaster anniversary finds U.S. nucl ...
One year ago on Sunday, an earthquake off the coast of Japan and the resulting tsunami triggered a month-long partial meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. In the days leading up to the anniversary of the crisis, advocates and opponents of nuclear power are squaring off in a f ...
- PAC profile: FreedomWorks for America
Supports: Conservatives Principals: Dick Armey, Matt Kibbe, Ryan Hecker, Russ Walker More...
- New federal statistics reveal harsh discipline ...
Secretary of Education Arnie Duncan unveiled a vast collection of school data Tuesday, calling attention to alarmingly high discipline rates for minority students in comparison to their white counterparts. The trend lines applied to suspensions and expulsions, as well as referrals to law enforce ...
- Virginians protest General Electric over forec ...
A crowd of Northern Virginia residents and clergy members marched to General Electric's offices in Washington DC today, demanding that the company's CEO, Jeffrey Immelt, take responsibility for helping homeowners who received subprime loans from the company's now-closed mortgage arm, WMC Mortgag ...
- FACT CHECK: Democrats' repeat ‘end Medicare’ c ...
Can the “Lie of the Year” still be used to defeat Republicans?Democrats hope so, and a super PAC is using an Iowa congressional race to retest the claim that House Republicans voted to “end Medicare.” But we find the Iowa ads to be little improved from last year, when we labeled this claim as am ...
- Ohi – uh-oh
By Alison@Creekside Poor old Mr. Creosote. Steve sent his parliamentary secretary, Dean Del Maestro, out into the House two days in a row last week to claim the Libs spent “millions of dollars” in the last election hiring a foreign voter telemarketing company with offices in North Da ...
- 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’ ...
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 ...
- Russia: They don`t represent us!
Almost 40% of the population of Russian Federation with a "right to elect" chose not to participate in the electoral farce, indirectly expressing his opposition to the existing system, which doesn`t represent their will. The ...
- New Zealand: Meat workers locked out for 9 weeks
6388328351_912a5f98bf_z.jpg Since 19th October meat workers at the Canterbury Meat Processors Rangitikei lamb-processing plant have been locked out by the company in a bid to force them to accept new ...
- A rally against the elections in Moscow live b ...
161979_382708068424764_1893775011_n.jpg Make sure to keep track of what is happening in the very centre of Moscow and St. Petersburg in real time! Our reporters will follow left-wing activists collect ...
- Valsusa in every city: NO TAV updates (Italy)
images.jpeg The last 10 days or so have seen a massive shift in the NO TAV struggle, with the state now trying to repress the movement more openly than ever: evictions, police beatings, and the govern ...
- Betrayals and Outbursts in Barcelona
manifestants-trencat-Banco-Popular-AFP_ARAIMA20120229_0131_20.jpg On the transport strike, the student strike, and the riots, protests, and sabotage carried out in Barcelona in the month of February, ...
- Back in the USSA
I’ve been trying to come up with a post for over a month now but don’t have any good pictures because I’m back in America, sans super cool Nikon which got blown up in the Helmand, and without good pictures I don’t seem to be able to write. That camera cost over a thousand bucks [...]
- The Gladiators
Editors Note: B is taking some time off from destroying Libtards on Thomas Ricks blog to vent on a topic few men will dare touch. At the Foriegn Policy blog he’s been coming up with stuff like this: Personally, I am glad that while I had to worry about leaders who were more worried about ...
- War Groupies
This is the second entry in the new “Paint Baba Tim’s White Fence” program. The first was from my Dad and this one is from my good friend B. Regular readers have probably guessed by now that B and I worked together in Afghanistan and know each other well. As I deal with agen ...
- THE DIVERSITY PLATOON
Editors Note: This post is the first (of what I hope to be many) posts from my father Major General J.D. Lynch Jr. USMC (Ret.) The Current Situation Forty years ago, the American military was held in great contempt by the public it served. The feeling was returned in roughly equal measure. We ...
- EFP’s
During our last trip to Zaranj we had one more task to complete before we went home. The after action report on the ambush of Haji Nematullah, reported they seized three large buckets of Home Made Explosives (HME) and three Explosively Formed Penetrator (EFP) mines. EFP’s were a big prob ...
- Netanyahu Speech at AIPAC – Sounds Like ...
Listen to this blatant Edomite PROPAGANDA!!!! Indeed, it is time to call a Duck a Duck Sir!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GnDbA5r0pc What the esteemed Prime Minister fails to mention, of course are these most salient facts: 1. Israel has nukes – reportedly the 5th largest arsenal in ...
- Edomite Agents Spewing Lies and Disinfo – ...
Truth is a Beautiful Thing – when it is declared and told, you don’t have to worry about covering it up. On the other hand, malicious Lies beget more lies and more deception. #1 TRUTH FOR CHRISTIANS: Edomites (the descendants of Esau which is Edom) Abhor Truth, yet Adore the Lie! ...
- The War Prayer – America’s Corrupt ...
The Edomite “Festival” of Purim is all about death and destruction of Esau/Edom’s enemies – but most specifically, the destruction of Persia (which is modern-day Iran). “Esther” is a fictitious archetype of the Edomite/Babylonian goddess Ishtar, and Mordecai ...
- Edomite Satanism in Action
Geraldo Rivera tried to warn America years ago. Satanism and it’s toll on humanity has increased, not diminished.
- Mitten’s Massive Mormon Myths – My ...
In the immortal words of Sir Walter Scott: “Oh What a Tangled Web We Weave, When First We Practice to Deceive!!” Indeed! I would submit that the biggest problem with promoting a massive lie to millions of trusting people, is the need to employ a full time Public Relations firm (the ...
- Christopher Plummer (Encore Presentation)
Peter sits down with the legendary Canadian actor, Christopher Plummer(originally broadcast 24 April 2010).
- Mary Simon, President of ITK (Jan 14, 2012)
They are the first peoples of Canada’s north: the Inuit. They live in some of the most spectacular parts of this country, but the challenges facing them are daunting. From climate change to resource development, from education to housing. For the past six years the most powerful Inuit leader in ...
- Ken Dryden, NHL Hall of Famer (Jan 7, 2012)
Hockey and the hits: it's been a season where a lot has been said about headshots, concussions and suspensions. How much has the game really changed, and what is at stake for its future? One of the games great players of the past, one of its most passionate observers of the present, takes on tho ...
- Malcolm Gladwell (Dec 31, 2011)
Renowned author wraps the critical events of 2011.
- The Mansbridge Conversations 2011
Highlights of Peter's interviews of the year, including conversations with Jack Layton, Olivia Chow, Nicole Williamson, Malcolm Gladwell and others.
- New Policy Brief- Middle Income Financing for ...
Increasing Middle America’s Access to Capital for Energy Improvements While middle income Americans have historically invested in improvements that maintain and increase the value of their homes, they have seen an important source of financing – the equity in their properties – evaporate at the ...
- Health Benefits of Plants in the Work Place
Introducing living plants into your work place can actually have a large positive effect on your psychological and physical health. Keywords: Flowers, Bouquet, Volatile Organic Compounds, Pollution, Office Having plants in your work place does more for you than simply providing something pretty ...
- CAD Deck Design
Features: Pergola, Bench Seat, Topiary, and Hot Tub Computer Aided Drawing- Deck design by Scotty-Scotts Contracting, St Louis Renewable Energy
- Saving a Deck from the Landfill – Part 1
Deck Repair by Scotty-Scotts Contracting, St Louis Renewable Energy Because the Deck was not built to current Building Codes the St Louis Building Code Department required: Structural Site Inspection and Documentation of Needed Repairs of the Deck by an Architectural Engineer, Obtain a Repair Pe ...
- Roy Blunt R MO Dirty Energy Voting Record
Dirty Energy Voting Record for Roy Blunt aka:"Big Oil Roy Blunt" Roy Blunts Dirty Dollar Image via:http://dirtyenergymoney.org While searching for what company (Big Oil and Big Coal) was giving to the Politicians from Missouri aka: "Big Oil Roy Blunt", who is also in favor of the ...
- Wyoming Prepares for Dollar Collapse
2012 STATE OF WYOMING 12LSO-00441 HB0085 HOUSE BILL NO. HB0085 Government continuity Sponsored by: Representative(s) Miller, Burkhart, Davison, Edmonds, Jaggi, Kroeker, McKim, Peasley, Quarberg and Teeters and Senator(s) Jennings and Peterson A BILL for 1 AN ACT relating to go ...
- Korangate 3: An Ingenious Taliban Psy-ops?
Afghans burn Obama in effigy A bizarre random thought occurred to me last night. What if the alleged February 21st Koran burning at Bagram prison in Afghanistan never actually happened? Or if it happened, but without the involvement of any US troops? What if the whole thing was an ingenious Tali ...
- The FBI’s Misadventures in New Zealand
Kim Dotcom There is growing suspicion in New Zealand that this country, like American Samoa and Puerto Rico, has become an American colony. Sadly, the unfolding Kim Dotcom[1] saga seems to confirm this. On January 20th, a New Zealand assault team consisting of helicopters and special defen ...
- The People Under the Black Masks
Pink black bloc (This is the third of three posts regarding the “diversity of tactics” debate raging in the Occupy movement and Chris Hedges inflammatory February 6th article on Truthdig entitled The Cancer in Occupy) As Nihilo Zero, Don Gato and others point out, the major problem w ...
- Demonizing the Black Bloc
Greek black bloc (This is the second of three posts regarding the “diversity of tactics” debate raging in the Occupy movement and Chris Hedges inflammatory February 6th article on Truthdig entitled The Cancer in Occupy) Nearly all the on-line critiques (rightly, in my view) accuse He ...
- Michael Moore Tweets About Rush Limbaugh's "Ap ...
Rush Limbaugh issues a rare (if ever?) apology: mmflint.me/zvDYzY I didn't know there was anyone on earth who had the power to tell Rush what 2 do. But then there's Bain Capital, financiers of Clear Channel I guess Romney knew that Rush, who made the mistake of saying what most Republicans thi ...
- Q&A on New Rules for Best Documentary Academy ...
Thank you for your feedback on our new rules for Academy Award voting and eligibility. We are pleased so many of you have welcomed these changes. Some of you, though, still have some questions. Due to some stories in the media that did not explain the new rules correctly or fully, there is a li ...
- THOUSANDS OF NURSES & SUPORTERS TO MARCH AT G8 ...
RNs to be joined by Occupy, Global Community Reps, Union Activists to Stop Demise; Speculation Tax is Starting Point to Address Economies in Demise, say Nurses and Allies Nurses from across the U.S., joined by union, healthcare, Occupy Wall Street and other community activists, as well as ...
- 'Gratitude'
Excerpted from Here Comes Trouble: Stories From My Life by Michael Moore I knew nothing about making a movie, and I wish I could tell you some cool story about how I started shooting films when I was six on my dad's 8mm Bell & Howell, or that I went to NYU film school with Spike Lee, and th ...
- 'Gratitude' Audio
- The anti-hate ad MSNBC won’t run
For the longest time, many of us have been raising hell over the fact that MSNBC hosts hate-group leader Tony Perkins (the Family Research Council) as authoritative voice without asking him about his organization’s history of lying in order to demonize the LGBT community.Well now Faithful Americ ...
- The wrong exit strategy
Recent weeks have brought yet another sad chance to watch badly laid plans in Afghanistan go haywire. In three separate incidents, allies, most from the Afghan National Army (ANA), allegedly murdered six Americans -- two of them officers in the high-security sanctum of Kabul’s Interior Ministry. ...
- Egypt’s fading LGBT movement
CAIRO — Long before Tahrir Square captured the imagination of the world as the stage for Egypt’s revolution, it was an infamous, clandestine meeting place for gay Cairenes.Gay men could be seen in Tahrir cruising with knowing glances as they leaned against the guardrails, Cairo’s traffic swirlin ...
- The economic story Obama must tell
Look at it this way: If the Wall Street banking crisis had taken place in 2007 instead of 2008, George W. Bush wouldn't be able to leave home without being jeered. (As it is, he rarely leaves Texas.) Hardly anybody would buy the brand of tycoonomics GOP presidential candidates are selling. Peopl ...
- Washington’s new antiwar movement
Before they became famous — or infamous, depending on one’s perspective — for their article (later turned into a book) called "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy," professors Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer were best known for their prescience about the Iraq War. Right before the U.S. in ...
- Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits ...
For SMB News Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits camps PURWOBINANGUN: Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano spewed more deadly heat clouds Wednesday as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono visited some of the 50,000 evacuees in shelters. Searing gas billowed from the crater of the 2,91 ...
- Kasaba throws spit on the camera
\Kasaba throws spit on cameraMUMBAI: Ajmal Kasaba webcam spit on Tuesday during a hearing in the Bombay High Court for confirmation of the death penalty, which led the court strictly tell him to behave properly. Judjes a warning when they Kasaba altercation with the police and spit at the camera ...
- K’taka Speaker disqualifies 16 MLAs
For SMB News KBANGALORE: Hours ahead of the trust vote for beleaguered Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa in the Assembly, Speaker K G Bopaiah disqualified sixteen rebel MLAs, including eleven from ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), legislative sources said on Monday. Bopaiah signed the ...
- Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8
For SMB News Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8 KARACHI: Eight people including two children were killed and over 65 others suffered injuries when two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Abdullah Shah Ghazi’s shrine in Clifton, official sources said here Thursday. Two heads, beli ...
- Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistake
For SMB News Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistakes’ LONDON: Former president Gen. (Retd.) Pervez Musharraf Friday admitted that political mistakes were committed in the twilight years of his regime and sought apology from Pakistani nation for the same. “These mistakes caused damage ...
- Developing Low Cost Batteries For Energy Storage
Photo: Aquion
- U.S. Solar Trade Surplus With China Turns Into ...
Last summer, we wrote about a trade report from GTM Research showing that the U.S.
- Shale Gas Likely to Alter China's Energy Mix
Two recent news stories highlight the significant shifts underway in China's energy sector, along with the global impact that is already apparent from these changes. Last week the Chinese government announced a new estimate for the country's potential resources of shale gas that is nearly double ...
- EIA Sees US Renewable Power Generation Gains, ...
Wind and biomass dominate projected increases in U.S. renewable electricity generation, excluding hydropower, in EIA’s Annual Energy Outlook 2012 (AEO2012) Early Release Reference case. Increased generation from non-hydro renewable energy resources in the electric power sector accounts ...
- Cutting the Cost of Gasoline: It's About Gallo ...
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 blind eye to the denominator. It calls out for attention, since we can do little to nothing about prices.
- Argentina plans museum dedicated to those kill ...
Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has announced plans to build a museum dedicated to the Malvinas War to honor the marines that were killed while trying to reclaim the island from the UK. Fernandez said on Monday that the USD 20-million museum would be inaugurated in August 20 ...
- Huge asteroid expected to fly past our planet ...
A 150-foot asteroid orbiting Earth called 2012 DA14 will pass so close to Earth it will fly UNDER man-made satellites orbiting our planet. Nasa’s Impact Risk report said that the odds of the space rock actually hitting our planet are very low indeed – but on February 15 next year it ...
- Bin Laden not buried at sea, body moved on CIA ...
The body of Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden was not buried at sea, according to leaked emails of intelligence firm Stratfor, as revealed by WikiLeaks. Stratfor’s vice-president for intelligence, Fred Burton, believes the body was “bound for Dover, [Delaware] on [a] CIA plane” and then “onward to ...
- Japanese researchers invent speech-jamming gun
Japanese researchers have invented a hand-held speech-jamming gadget that can painlessly force people into silence. Kazutaka Kurihara of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology and Koji Tsukada of Ochanomizu University developed the portable ‘SpeechJammer’ ...
- British Fireball Sparks Grim Warning Of Decemb ...
A grim report issued by General Director Vladimir Popovkin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) on the “huge meteorite fireball” seen across nearly the entire length of Britain [photo 2nd left] this weekend past warns that this event is but a precursor to an expected hit upon Earth th ...
- Symptoms and Treatments of Diabetes Insipidus
Diabetes Insipidus ( or DI ) is a health condition that is often distinguished by extreme thirst along with excessively diluted urination . DI is similar in characteristics to untreated Diabetes ( or Diabetes Mellitus) but without the onset of blood glucose elevation. One of the major differ ...
- Natural Acne Remedies
There are several health conditions that hinder many people’s lives and outlook everyday. Acne is a condition which can affect your self esteem and your life. I’ve known several friends and family members with terrible cases of acne. They would purchase expensive remedies prescribed by docto ...
- Linguistic Observations: Mendoza's Gang Girls ...
Homegirls by Norma Mendoza Denton is a fascinating, and yet, perplexing, view of gangs in the San Francisco Bay area. Over the course of the next few weeks, I'll be providing you incites on the inner workings of the gangs, symbolism of certain material items, and other such related details. ...
- Normal Structure and Function of the Musculosk ...
Mr. Ghaz says: Muscular dystrophies refer to a group of more than 30 genetic diseases which are characterized by progressive weakness and degeneration of the skeletal muscles..Studies and estimation show that after sustaining a hip fracture (as a result of osteoporosis) 20% of patients die withi ...
- Reasons to Donate Blood
Have you ever donated blood? If you have why did you do it? It may have been for a loved one or a friend. It could have been for the free coupons and gift certificates blood centers provide for donations. Maybe you’re required to donate blood being that you’re in the medical field. In actua ...
- NFL Facts and Rumors
While it's rumored that Raiders players Richard Seymour and Michael Huff have restructured their contracts in order to help the team get under the salary cap, the Peyton Manning story is anything but rumor. Former Indianapolis Colts quarterback and living football legend Peyton Manning announce ...
- Opposition to the Syrian Opposition: Against t ...
First, let us be clear: the Syrian people have every right to protest, peacefully and violently, against the brutal regime. And let us be clear: the Syrian regime has no right to stay in power, and this was true even before it began using violence to quell the uprising. And let us be clear: the ...
- âAmerican Idolâ: Gals upstage guys despite Whi ...
Stevie Wonder and Whitney Houston got the “American Idol” treatment tonight. Stevie fared better than Whitney, who defeated a few young women. But the gals were still more impressive. The judges use so many words. Here’s how the singers fared, in a word: 1. Joshua Ledet on “I Wish”: energetic. ...
- Whitney Houston’s Will Leaves Everything To Da ...
The details of Whitney Houston ‘s will were just released and all the proceeds of her, rumored to be, $20 million estate go to one sole beneficiary — her daughter Bobbi Kristina . The paperwork was filed yesterday, but apparently, Whitney put the document together in 1993, one month before she ...
- Romney Supports Gone Wild, Newt Gone Shopping, ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Atq5qh4TxDQ SCRIPT FOR TODAY’S PJ NEWS BREAK WITH SCOTT OTT SCOTT OTT: It’s Wednesday, March 7th, 2012, and this is news. Rick Santorum won yesterday in North Dakota, Oklahoma, and Tennessee; while Mitt Romney captured six states, including Ohio, where despite out ...
- The new iPad's great but what's wrong with a g ...
Well, I've been using a variety of tablets, including both the already shipping
iPads and the 16GB version of the Nook Tablet, and here's what I use my tablets for: Reading e-books, watching Netflix and Hulu Plus videos; listening to music; playing some games; and lightweight Web browsing and wr ...
- U.S. Warns Apple, Publishers
The Justice Department has warned Apple Inc. and five of the biggest U.S. publishers that it plans to sue them for allegedly colluding to raise the price of electronic books, according to people familiar with the matter....The case centers on Apple's move to change the way that publishers charge ...
- Dilbert does patents
"There's a 99% chance you're an insane lawsuit monkey..." - Dilbert
- Sanctions Affirmed for Frivolous Bankruptcy
A loan-servicing company and two law firms cannot appeal nearly $1 million in sanctions handed down for filing a "frivolous" bankruptcy action in Nevada, the 9th Circuit ruled Tuesday. Chief U.S District Judge Robert Jones in Nevada ordered the sanctions in connection to a dispute over ...
- Apple to keep tablet lead over Android in 2012 ...
Apple will hold onto a big chunk of the tablet market in 2012, according to a report from IHS-iSuppli and a research note from Deutsche Bank today. Apple will take back a bit of market share lost to Android in the fourth quarter, while maintaining more than the 60 percent of the market in 2012, ...
- Tidal power coming to Bay of Fundy
Federal regulators yesterday granted Portland, Maine.-based Ocean Renewable Power Co. a license to install a 300-kilowatt tidal power project in Cobscook Bay, near Eastport, Maine putting it in the running to be the first U.S. company to operate a tidal energy project connected to the power grid ...
- Lightsquared is toast. Sprint plans to end par ...
Phil Falcone and his Harbinger Capital Partners can now kiss their $3 billion investment goodbye.I’m of the opinion if Lightsquared hadn’t been such relentlessly nasty, over-entitled assholes about the whole thing, their innovative technology might have had a chance.
- Farewell to Dennis the Menace Kucinich
Kucinich kept purportedly rebellious progressives inside the Democratic Party, especially during presidential elections. He would run in primaries, get a small but enthusiastic vote from progressives who might otherwise a third party candidate. He would then invariably support the nominee, no ma ...
- Lester Chambers of the Chambers Brothers. I am ...
From Lester Chambers Facebook page. The Chambers Brothers “The Time has Come” was an anthem for the 1960′s and contains the classic line “And my soul has been psychedelicized.”Lester explains how he’s been screwed on royalties for decades, He is now 72, did no ...
- Further proof that what TSA does is just secur ...
Full body scanners can apparently be fooled by carrying light metallic objects on your side. TSA Out Of Our Pants demonstrates how to do it.This video is here to demonstrate that the TSA’s insistence that the nude body scanner program is effective and necessary is nothing but a fraud, just ...
- Powerful, intimate memoir from Israeli peace a ...
The countdown clock is now ticking fast, toward the publication of Miko Peled's amazing and powerful memoir, The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine. The book traces Miko's journey from being born, in 1961, into a family that was part of the core of the Jewish-Israeli elite to, now ...
- Quick notes from Penn BDS conference
The conference was an outstanding success! Everyone involved in organizing it-- and most of us who spoke at it-- have all been extremely busy; so I'm really sorry that we don't have much more, and richer, reporting on the events out already. But expect more great reporting of the conference to c ...
- What's new in the publishing biz!
... is Just World Books's new webstore, which gives us global reach for distributing books from, as of now, three different print/distribute hubs... I am really excited about this development. I've been trying for a while to figure out a way to escape Amazon's large and greedy clutch, and I thi ...
- Pro-Israeli discourse suppressors desperately ...
It is almost amusing to see the lengths to which the pro-Israeli discourse suppressors here in the United States have been going to try to rebuild the long-crumbled "Bar-Lev Line" with which, over decades past, they sought to protect Israel from being the subject of any free, fair, and fact-base ...
- The use of web-based disinformation by the 'west'
Patrick Cockburn has an extremely important piece at the Independent today, in which he takes to task the major organs of the 'western' media-- including, crucially, today's Al-Jazeera-- for the extremely uncritical and often openly inflammatory use they make of unsubstantiated or highly exagger ...
- A criminal waste of money – Wiri prison ...
Today we got some very bad news, and frankly quite unexpected news, when Ministers Tolley and English announced the government’s intention to build yet another fiscal and moral failure, a 960 bed prison at Wiri in South Auckland. I had (foolishly, it seems) been optimistic that a more enli ...
- Rena – Lessons learned
This morning the Transport Accident Investigation Commissions initial report into the Rena grounding was released and Maritime NZ appeared in Select Committee for questioning. It’s good to get some answers but we are still only seeing a small part of the picture and need an independent inquiry i ...
- Scheduled maintenance outage overnight
We’re going to be upgrading some systems which power the Green Party websites tonight. This means that we’ll be pulling a few cords and crossing some wires from the early evening, and while that’s happening some of our sites, including frogblog, will be down.
- IWD – It Won’t Do
International Women’s Day is as relevant today as it was when it was first marked in 1911. Then, one million men and women rallied in countries across Europe to demand the right for women to vote, hold public office, work and have equal pay. It’s a day celebrated by a holiday in many ...
- FrackNo petition heads to Parliament
FrackNo petitions have been coming in thick and fast recently and it’s been truly heartening to see the level of involvement out there by people who want to see this dangerous practice put to an end. I will be tabling the petition in Parliament in a couple of weeks, so all petitions have to be r ...
- Is Adam Smith's a Pickpocket
Economists use the law of supply and demand merely to provide suppliers with an excuse for raising prices and picking consumer's pockets.
- Economic Models and the Apologetics of Greed
Economists build models by subtracting from reality the characteristics they deem unessential to the economic situations they model. The result is a bare bones description consisting of what economists deem economically essential. Everything that is discarded (not taken into consideration in the ...
- The Crisis of Education in America: "How to Be ...
Educational systems now train workers to fulfill the needs of companies. A society in which people exist for the sake of companies is a society enslaved. But there's a deep problem with the notion that education should equal vocational training. To paraphrase a very famous and renowned pers ...
- Instruments of Repression
For a society to be well governed, it's laws must be just and moral. The Ancients knew that "Those who are rightly governed . . . do not fill their porticoes with written statutes but only cherish justice in their souls; for it is not by legislation, but by morals that states are well direct ...
- The Why of Not Doing the Right Thing: The Amer ...
The unfairness of American society is being recognized by many. Eighty-nine percent of Americans say they don't trust their government; Congress has a mere 9% approval rating; America's financial institutions are widely considered to be corrupt; the Occupy movement has emerged, some are seek ...
- You Can Do This!
What can you do, if you simply get out there and do it? More than you might think.
- Monsanto Guilty of Chemical Poisoning in France
By Dr. Mercola Most people do not realize that genetically engineered foods were only approved in the U.S. because the FDA hid 40,000 documents indicating their extreme toxicity. Countries around the globe are making it increasingly clear that they're not going to continue to let Monsanto ab ...
- Can Probiotics Prevent the Development of Celi ...
By Dr. Mercola Probiotics, or "friendly bacteria," are essential in establishing a healthy gut flora, and this may be a crucial factor both in helping to prevent celiac disease, an autoimmune disorder that affects at least 3 million Americans,i as well as in reducing adverse (though seldom di ...
- This Popular Nut Slashed Breast Cancer Risk in ...
By Dr. Mercola As unbelievable as it sounds, current law makes it illegal for food producers to share certain types of scientific information with you. So when Diamond Food relayed health information about the omega-3 fats in walnuts on product packaging and also on their Web site, the U.S. ...
- The Hidden Email the White House Hopes to Keep ...
By Dr. Mercola Americans are finally waking up to the reality of genetically engineered food—what it is, and its many dangers to human health and the environment. Genetically engineered (GE) foods are also known as genetically modified (GM), or as genetically modified organisms (GMO). In ...
- Outrage at ‘Freakshow TV’ as reporter brands A ...
Paul Raffaele said a Suruwaha girl refused to shake his hand because she wanted to kill him. In fact, he was wearing so much sun cream the Suruwaha thought he had a skin disease. © Channel 7 An Australian TV report which branded an Amazon tribe as child murderers; a ‘suicide cult’ from the ...
- 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 ...
- Quebec's challenge is to make daycare even better
International Women's Day has become a day for taking stock of how well, or how badly, women are faring at home and outside of the home, in Canada and in other countries throughout the world.
- Robocalls: release the records and clear the air
It is hard to believe that the robocall affair that has become the focus of attention on Parliament Hill these past two weeks was orchestrated at the highest levels of the Conservative Party.
- Meeting the needs of English-speaking seniors
It is encouraging to see that a provincial government often rightly accused of taking near-blanket electoral support from anglophones for granted has come across with funding for a major initiative in aid of English-speaking seniors.
- Meeting the needs of English-speaking seniors
The minister responsible for seniors, Marguerite Blais, announced on the weekend that the Quebec Community Groups Network will be granted just shy of $275,000 to fund a three-year research undertaking that is projected to lead to the establishment of a provincewide advocacy network for anglophon ...
- Bridging the solitudes, with music and laughter
There were two shows in town this week that together made for a refreshing sign of the times in what was once the city of two solitudes.
- More Foods Going to Pouch Packaging
Plus, there's no more pesky recycling! from chicagotribune.com: Packaged food makers are thinking outside the bottle and can. More to the point, they're increasingly partial to pouches. Kitchen staples from Campbell Soup Co. and H.J. Heinz Co. will be joining other consumer products in pou ...
- AntiSec dumps Monsanto data on the Web
from cnet.com: Anonymous continued its ongoing attack on agricultural biotech giant Monsanto today by publishing an outdated database of the company's material. This is the newest in a barrage of strikes from hackers aligned with Anonymous who operate under the "AntiSec" banner. In a stat ...
- #Video: Episode011 - Nukes, Books, Syrian Seeds
On Thursday nights, Media Monarchy joins Corbett Report Radio live on Republic Broadcasting to go over all the latest stories from the world of food, environment and health. This week's menu features nukes, books, Syrian seeds and more... Episode011: MP3/Feed\Archive Previous Audio ...
- #Audio: Episode011 - Nukes, Books, Syrian Seeds
On Thursday nights, Media Monarchy joins Corbett Report Radio live on Republic Broadcasting to go over all the latest stories from the world of food, environment and health. This week's menu features nukes, books, Syrian seeds and more... Episode011: MP3/Feed\Archive Previous Audio ...
- #BingeAndPurge: Official Dismissal, Doomsday, ...
Food Safety Official's Monsanto Ties Spur Petition for Ouster* Help stop former Monsanto VP from attaining top position at the FDA* Judge Dismisses Organic Farmers' Case Against Monsanto* Syria Crops Sheltered in Arctic Doomsday Vault* Calif. Food Truck Ban Cooks Up Growing Oppositio ...
- The Bait of Christian Fundamentalism in Africa
source: Huffington Post, 8/24/2011 Michael Mungai Co-founder, Dagoretti 4 Kids I grew up in the hovels of Dagoretti, an impoverished suburb in the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya. Raised by an unemployed single mother, my two siblings and I would take turns missing school to babysit our ...
- Puttur: Four Arrested for Forcing Religious Co ...
source: Daijiworld, Aug 29, 2011 Puttur, Aug 29: Four persons, reportedly belonging to a Christian sect, were handed over to the police by the residents of Boodujal of Nedle village near Uppinangady on Sunday August 28. The locals, including some dalits, accused K J Kunhimonu (30) from Mun ...
- Andhra Pradesh: Church priest rapes minor girl ...
source: India today, July 1, 2011 A Christian priest has been arrested for raping a 16-year-old girl and setting her ablaze in his house at Nadendla village of Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh.
- The changing face of the church
source: Deccan chronicle, July 13, 2011 Its a well-documented fact that people adopt aspects of other cultures around them. The churches in Andhra Pradesh are following this custom and Indianising some of practices. At St Andrews Orthodox Church, West Marredpally, a Dwaja Stambam has been ...
- Pastors wife accuses him of sexual abuse of mi ...
source: Bangalore Mirror, June 17, 2011 In her police complaint, Priyalatha has charged Shantaraju, pastor of Bethel Church and Bethel Student Centre, with having sex with young girls and getting them to abort S Shyam Prasad
- Vox Populi, Methods of Manipulation
COTO Report and Megan ‘Verb’ Kargher are proud to present Vox Populi, Methods of Manipulation. It has become increasingly evident that large portions of the planet are descending with alarming speed into Orwellian police states. What is the New World Order and what are their plans fo ...
- The Big Awakening Conference 2011
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- Lawfull Rebellion - Roger Hayes challenges Liv ...
“Wirral Council is taking Roger Hayes to Birkenhead county court for non-payment of council tax. Mr Hayes, chairman of The British Constitution Group, claims the council tax is illegal and imposed without his consent. His stand has won support from all over the country, and demonstrators t ...
- Truthjuice Gathering 2011
SPEAKERS CONFIRMED CHARLIE VEITCH - THE END OF FEAR MARK FOSTER - EMPOWERMENT FOR THE PEOPLE PHIL MEDLEY - STARGATES: A PERSONAL JOURNEY MICHAEL HALLAM - BURSTING THE ECONOMIC BUBBLE AND PRACTICAL TOOLS FOR LOCAL COMMUNITY BUILDING IAN MOORE ( ...
- COTO Report This Ain’t Oz an Interview w ...
COTO Report and Megan Kargher are pleased to bring you a special two day interview with Freeman of freemantv, the freeman perspective and the free zone http://www.youtube.com/user/Freemantv… http://thefreemanperspective.blogspot… http://freemantv.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O ...
- Ben Bernanke Says That His Son Will Graduate W ...
Who ever imagined that Ben Bernanke would become a poster child for the student loan debt problem in America? Recently Bernanke told Congress that his son will graduate from medical school with about $400,000 of student loan debt. For most Americans, such a staggering amount of ...
- 15 Potentially Massive Threats To The U.S. Eco ...
We live in a world that is becoming increasingly unstable, and the potential for an event that could cause "sudden change" to the U.S. economy is greater than ever. There are dozens of potentially massive threats that could easily push the U.S. economy over the edge during the n ...
- Now THAT Is Cold – 19 Signs That America ...
The economy is not the only thing that is wrong with America. In order for a society to function smoothly, people need to be able to trust one another and be able to expect that most of their fellow citizens will behave in a somewhat civilized manner. Unfortunately, we are star ...
- 10.7 Percent: Unemployment In Europe Is Worse ...
The unemployment rate in the eurozone is now 10.7 percent. That is the highest the unemployment rate has been since the introduction of the euro. The unemployment rate in the eurozone never got any higher than 10.2 percent during the last recession. This is very troubling news ...
- Inflation Is A Tax And The Federal Reserve Is ...
Ronald Reagan once famously declared that inflation is a tax, but sadly most Americans did not really grasp what he was talking about. If the American people truly understood what inflation was doing to them, they would be screaming bloody murder about monetary policy. Inflatio ...
- Ken Clarke's Charter To Bump Off Anti-Landmine ...
Much fuss has been made over the last few days, quite rightly too, about Bilderberg attending Justice Secretary Ken Clarke's plans for "secret justice". Faced with widespread criticism, the Bilderberger has today - according to The Independent - "attempted to quell growing concerns over propo ...
- Pritchard Quits: Principles Over Personal Posi ...
Those wondering whether Roger Helmer MEP's weekend defection from the Conservatives to UKIP would open the floodgates did not have to wait too long. Yesterday we learnt through the Sunday newspapers that Steve Hilton walked from his Downing Street job, apparently privately citing frustrations ...
- President Obama's Birth Certificate: 'Not Auth ...
The debate about whether President Obama - Barry Soetoro, to some - should not be President of the United States due to his status as a U.S. citizen or otherwise rumbles on. The issue has migrated from the pages of 'right wing' indie media and 'conspiracy theory' websites and now it is mainst ...
- Sunday Paper Review: 4th March 2012
Telling a few home truths about the EU in The Observer? Again? Why yes! And they don't hold back today. Warning the British people about the consequences of EU regulations on hen cages, the newspaper tells of the grim prospect that: "Britain's supermarket shelves could be empty of key prod ...
- Hello Helmer... welcome to UKIP
It's hardly shocking news, that Conservative MEP Roger Helmer is now UKIP MEP Roger Helmer. Already up and running under the party banner, here is his first outing as a member of UKIP at the party conference... and Helmer is one UKIP face one who is certain to be high profile: Helmer's d ...
- Search for new executive director of Center on ...
Karen Greenberg, executive director of NYU Law’s Center on Law and Security (CLS), announced she is leaving to pursue other career opportunities. Greenberg’s tenure as executive director began with the founding of the Center in 2003. Under her stewardship, CLS … Continue reading →
- Today’s Terrorism News
Today’s Terrorism News post will be the last one for the summer. Along with the staff here at the Center on Law and Security, and with particular thanks to The Soufan Group for its generous support and to Carolyn O’Hara … Continue reading →
- Today’s Terrorism News
In Association with The Soufan Group At Radicalization Hearing, Rep. King Says al Shabab Poses Threat Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) held a third congressional hearing on Islamic radicalization in the United States Wednesday, this one focused on the threat of … Continue reading →
- Today’s Terrorism News
In Association with The Soufan Group Four Indicted for Drug Trafficking to Benefit Terrorism Federal prosecutors in New York unsealed indictments Tuesday against four men they say conspired to sell drugs and buy weapons for Hezbollah and the Taliban in … Continue reading →
- Today’s Terrorism News
In Association with The Soufan Group In Arkansas, Man Accused of Killing Soldier Strikes Plea Deal A man on trial for shooting two U.S. soldiers, one of whom was killed, outside of a military recruiting station in 2009 reached a … Continue reading →
- Android Market is Now Google Play, Play Shop A ...
Ever since the Larry Page became the CEO, Google is on an aggressive consolidation mode. Google Play is the latest in a serious of such moves. Google intends to bring its movies, music, books and android apps under one umbrella via Google Play. Having said that, Google Movies, Music and Books ...
- First Official Release of Songbird Fork - Nigh ...
Quoting our previous article on the topic, "Not so long ago, Songbird was one of the most loved music player app among Linux users. It all changed when Songbird developers decided to stop supporting Linux and concentrate on Mac and Windows platforms. But some hardcore Songbird users were not r ...
- Logcat Android Live Wallpaper Sure Looks Geeky!
We have featured quite a number of really unique Android live wallpapers before, but Logcat is of a different breed altogether. And it is very simple too. All it does is displaying Android activity log as your live wallpaper. I have to admit, it looks very geeky! Logcat Live W ...
- RetroShare: Open Source Tool to Securely Chat ...
Privacy and security is paramount, especially while you are communicating through internet with your near and dear ones. And then there is 'whom-to-trust' issue. Generally speaking, Open Source software has to be the most secure of them all. RetroShare seems like a good bet. It is an Open Sour ...
- TSF Shell 3D Released: Lots of Surprises in Store!
Surprise No.1: Jaw-dropping price tag. I mean, how often do you see an app in Android Market priced at a staggering $17 USD apiece! I have been very eagerly waiting for the release of TSF Shell 3D Android launcher ever since it was officially announced nearly 2 months ago. So I decided to gi ...
- The relevance of Stauffenberg to our problems ...
IT IS JULY 20th, 1944. Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg makes his way through the labyrinthe of the Wolf’s Lair to assassinate Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, launch a coup, end the Second World War and liberate the concentration camps. Read the first chapter of this book of fiction based on his ...
- FOREIGN POLICE CALLED IN TO INVESTIGATE KAMPUS ...
*AUSTRIAN PARLIAMENT TO CALL IN FBI AND GERMAN POLICE TO INVESTIGATE KAMPUSCH KIDNAPPING CASE * TOP AUSTRIAN POLITICIAN CONFIRMS OVERWHELMING EVIDENCE OF ACCOMPLICE *SWISS MEDIA ACCUSES AUSTRIAN MEDIA OF COLLUDING IN COVER UP *POLICE INSPECTOR WHO TRIED TO FIND OUT THE TRUTH ABOUT KAMPUSCH CHILD ...
- Irish fury at bankster bailouts grows ahead of ...
Irish journalst Vincent Browne has become an unlikely hero after he dared stand up to ECB, EU and IMF Troika officials at a press conference and tell them to their face the truth, namely, that their bankster bailouts were causing huge damage to ordinary people. “Ireland’s favourite ...
- Irish health authories in swine flu vaccine co ...
Ireland’s health authority, the HSE, claims that it cannot find out how many people have narcolepsy after taking the swine flu vaccine because vaccination data which should have been entered onto computers is incomplete, reports The Irish Examiner. http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/hse- ...
- Sleeping Pill Death Toll In The USA In 2010 Ma ...
Taking sleeping pills significantly increases the risk of dying, a new study published by BMJ Open has shown. The authors correlated deaths with sleeping pill intake and uncovered a shocking association. Daniel Kripke, a co author, said that between 320,000 and 507,000 people could have died fr ...
- How our Understanding of History is Manipulated
Andrew J. Fell Activist Post It’s becoming increasingly apparent that in order for us, the general population, to understand the deeper issues of the current geopolitical situation, it is imperative for us to understand the relevant history. This may sound somewhat obvious, but I would argue tha ...
- Monsanto’s Roundup Shown to be Ravaging Butter ...
Mike Barrett Activist Post Monsanto’s Roundup, containing the active ingredient glyphosate, has been tied to more health and environmental problems than you could imagine. Similar to how pesticides have been contributing to the bee decline, Monsanto’s Roundup has been tied to the decrease in the ...
- Mass Banking Resignations Signal a Purging Has ...
Brandon Turbeville Activist Post According to a list compiled by independent blog, American Kabuki, at least 122 banking directors, CEOs, and board members of both national and international stature have resigned since September of last year. The blog recently posted a list of all 122 of these i ...
- RT: FBI Tries To Coax Muslim Into Bombing US C ...
- Abortion Stillbirth Events from Gardasil Far E ...
Consumer beware! What your doctor isn’t telling you is that Gardasil leads all other vaccines in abortion stillbirth events. Does anyone actually review the VAERS data to protect the public? According to a National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC – http://nvic.org) MedAlerts blog entry wr ...
- Some Major Holes in the Current Case For War W ...
Casually listening to the established media (for an insightful articleabout the media’s handling of the push for a war with Iran read this article) it would seem that Iran has already decided to build a nuclear weapon and is in fact working towards that goal. However, this is not true. Ira ...
- Top 10 Genius Reasons to Keep Troops in Afghan ...
When you're setting a record for the longest modern war, cutting it short just increases the chances of somebody breaking your record some day.
- Hana Shalabi: Day 19 and Counting
Anyone who's fasted several days knows doing it isn't easy. Persisting for extended periods risks health, even death.
- Why Hate Gilad Atzmon?
Gilad Atzmon is outrageously easy to like. So why is he hated so much?
- Orwell covers the crime beat on Nanking Road&# ...
Now, China has the potential to explode at any time. It's fairly obvious to anyone with a basic knowledge of Marxist thought that the victory of the Communist Party in 1948 preceded the rise of the industrial proletariat. Pretty much the way that Communism has spread everywhere, by the way, exce ...
- It Takes A Generation To Raise A Prophet
In theory, churches should be more active than they are these days in pursuing Justice and Peace. So why aren't they? Where were they on Iraq? Where are they now, on Iran? What do churches have to say about universal health care? Or income and wealth inequality? Or, for that matter, out of contr ...
- America Agonistes
The best way to fix fundamental political problems — sometimes the only way — is first to talk about them. In other words, to act like human beings instead of lab rats. Of course it isn't easy to wrap our minds around our problems, let alone articulate them, but that's what struggles ...
- The Color of Authority
We use money all the time. We talk about money a lot. Some people even love money — some so much they seem to think, like the Egyptian Pharaohs, that they'll be able to take it with them. But does anyone really understand what money is? If we actually did understand it, then, in theory, we ...
- How To Think About Iran's Nuclear Program
Like some predatory colonial power of the not-so-distant past the U.S. seems to think that war might solve our problems with Iran. But it couldn't. Instead, we need the imagination, and courage, to find a compromise. To help us make our way we're extraordinarily lucky then to have Ambassador Pet ...
- Whither Korea?
The North Koreans aren't stupid. Nor are they brainwashed ideological zombies. Their main problem is that for the past sixty some years they've been at war with the U.S., a war the U.S. either doesn't want or know how to end. But might a changing of the guard in North Korea lead to an improvemen ...
- Leaving Afghanistan
Seven Afghanistan experts review the president's plans for ending the war.
- Raging at Rawalpindi
American leaders are furious with Pakistan’s military in the wake of Osama bin Laden’s killing. But twisting arms will only backfire.
- The FP Salon: Peter Bergen's The Longest War
An FP round-table discussion on counterterrorism expert Peter Bergen's latest book. A decade after 9/11, is the war on terrorism a war we can win?
- Crazy Like a Fox
In a fit of anger, Hamid Karzai axes his director of intelligence, Amrullah Saleh. But is there method to his madness?
- Addicted to Contractors
The United States is hooked on privatized warfare in Afghanistan. And it's more costly than you think.
- Sri Lanka: Next U.S., NATO “Humanitarian ...
Asian Tribune March 7, 2012 The battle will have to be fought to the very last minute – Ambassador Tamara Kunanayakam ==== The High Commissioner for Human Rights uses apparently innocuous language, but punctuates the section dealing with Sri Lanka with terminology associated with that dang ...
- Russia Blasts NATO Over Libya And Libya Over Syria
RT March 8, 2012 Russia blasts NATO over Libya – and Libya over Syria Russia says that NATO should apologize for causing civilian casualties during their air raids in Libya in 2011 and pay compensation. Moscow has also accused Libya’s new government of training Syrian rebels and instigatin ...
- Realignment: Putin To Be First Russian Head Of ...
Express Tribune March 7, 2012 Maiden trip: Vladimir Putin to visit Pakistan in Sept By Kamran Yousaf ==== [T]he maiden visit by a Russian head of state to Pakistan reflects the recent improvement in bilateral relations between former cold-war rivals. In May last year, President Asif Ali Zardari ...
- Russia Accuses Libya Of Training Syrian Rebels
Xinhua News Agency March 8, 2012 Russia accuses Libya of training Syrian rebels UNITED NATIONS: Russia on Wednesday accused Libya of training Syrian rebels who are fighting to topple President Bashar al-Assad, saying that “this is completely unacce ...
- Karl Kraus: The Warmakers
Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Karl Kraus Translated by Karl F. Ross The Warmakers They spent their lives in laughter and play while ours were put on the line. They got themselves drunk with blood in the day and chased it at night with wine. They feasted and threw th ...
- Privacy Nightmare: McCain Bill Could Have Mili ...
DemandProgress.org March 7, 2012 The message still hasn’t sunk in. Congress is proposing yet another law to monitor your activities on the Internet – Here’s the ACLU’s take on John McCain’s new cybersecurity bill: “This is a privacy nightmare that will eventua ...
- Obama’s Lies And Denials About Where He Was Bo ...
WesternJournalism.com March 7, 2012 Barack Hussein Obama, using eight different names, has failed to meet eligibility requirements for the office of U.S. President. This is according to a 19 point challenge alleging he was born in Kenya to a Kenyan citizen and a teenage mother not old enough to ...
- The Difference Between a Leader and a Master
The Intel Hub By J.G. Vibes March 7, 2012 What is the difference between a leader and master? These are two different terms which imply two different types of relationships that exist between human beings. To determine whether someone is a master or a leader all that you have to do is closely o ...
- Sheriff Arpaio: ‘I Talked to Breitbart J ...
Shepard Ambellas | A stunning statement by Arpaio proves the Obama birth certificate probe could be deadly.
- Is New Magnetic Motor Generating 400% Over Uni ...
Avalon | There is natural power in magnets (magnetism) that basically has tremendous power if applied in a way that takes advantage of the electric flux that magnets produce.
- India: Women against Sexual Violence and Stat ...
Let us on this historic day reaffirm our commitment to: * Resist the increasing assault on people’s land, other resources, livelihoods and lives * Fight the increasing sexual assault in society at large, especially on women in mass struggles * Rescue March 8 from the cacophony created by media, ...
- AF3IRM: “A Woman’s Place is in th ...
[Who is AF3IRM? This, from their website (http://www.af3irm.org/), is how they describe themselves, and their history: "The Association of Filipinas, Feminists Fighting Imperialism, Re-feudalization, and Marginalization (AF3IRM), is a national organization of women engaged in transnational femin ...
- AF3IRM: “A Woman’s Place is in th ...
[Who is AF3IRM? This, from their website (http://www.af3irm.org/), is how they describe themselves, and their history: "The Association of Filipinas, Feminists Fighting Imperialism, Re-feudalization, and Marginalization (AF3IRM), is a national organization of women engaged in transnational femin ...
- Internationalist Solidarity: Indian Maoist sal ...
COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA (MAOIST) — CENTRAL COMMITTEE — Press Release – September 24, 2011 CPI (Maoist)’s condolence message to the Central Committee of the CPP on the demise of Gregorio “Ka Roger” Rosal Dear Comrades, Our CC felt deep sorrow when we heard the news of pas ...
- Internationalist Solidarity: Indian Maoist sal ...
COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA (MAOIST) — CENTRAL COMMITTEE — Press Release – September 24, 2011 CPI (Maoist)’s condolence message to the Central Committee of the CPP on the demise of Gregorio “Ka Roger” Rosal Dear Comrades, Our CC felt deep sorrow when we heard the news of pas ...
- For Love
I just want to say, need to say, for the record, that I want what is best for all people, and I mean all people. I want no retribution, I feel no hate, I want truth and justice. When I see my children, who deserve a good father, just like all children, I only hope that they, like all other chi ...
- The Criminal UK Police Looking to Arrest Me fo ...
The mass murdering criminal UK Government and its equally corrupt police, the ones who are happy to protect Israeli war criminals in the UK by destroying universal jurisdiction. The same UK that is home to the worlds biggest fraudsters and financial terrorists, otherwise known as the banksters. ...
- Lecture at Middlesex University – Israel ...
Here is my lecture last week at Middlesex University. The one with our friendly Zionists. Watch the video to see what they reckon I should be jailed for; 'incitement' they call it. I would have to agree that telling the truth is the mostrevolutionary activity of our time and the UK police have a ...
- Lecture at Middlesex University – Israel ...
Here is my lecture last week at Middlesex University. The one with our friendly Zionists. Watch the video to see what they reckon I should be jailed for; 'incitement' they call it. I would have to agree that telling the truth is the mostrevolutionary activity of our time and the UK police have a ...
- Memo to all Christians – The Heretic & M ...
This is so worthwhile for every Christian to consider. Especially supposedly patriotic American Christians; think about what this short video is saying. Imagine that you, unwittingly or not, are paying for the murder of Jesus Christ's blood relatives. Actually, do not imagine it, know it, becaus ...
- Life is change and change is life
And here is proof: The Courant's parent company, Tribune, is backing away from maintaining this particular blog format -- Movable Type -- in favor of another blog platform, one that is unworkable here. Namely, the new format allows blog comments to go online unapproved, and -- I say th ...
- Maybe CEO salaries need a Buffett rule
"Peer benchmarking" helps move compensation for CEOs ever higher. Perhaps one of the high-dollar bosses should take a page from Warren Buffett, who in August suggested in a New York Times essay that the rich don't carry their weight in taxes. Meanwhile, Buffett, himself, has refined his earlier ...
- De-pinkifying breast cancer
There's a growing movement that seeks to turn the pink ribbon upside down. You can read more here. Flickr photo
- Why the occupation?
You can see more Mother Jones charts here. You can read about Hartford's budding Occupation here, with a planning meeting set for 8:30 a.m. Wednesday at Bushnell Park, and again at 5 p.m.
- Cleansing after Yom Kippur
Yom Kippur starts at sundown on Friday and here's one man's take on it. Flickr photo
- President Obama Piles on Another Trillion Doll ...
For the fourth year in a row President Obama will run a one Trillion dollar budget deficit according to the Congressional Budget Office. The CBO also predicts continued high unemployment and slow economic growth.Contributor: Matthew Smith Published: Jan 31, 2012
- Healthcare Mandate on Contraceptives Creates O ...
A new health care law forces employers to provide insurance that covers FDA-approved prescription contraceptives 100%. Some church-related organizations are outraged that they may have to pay for something the church itself condemns.Contributor: Angela Woods Published: Jan 31, 2012
- Does Mitt Romney Have a Commercial Space Vision?
While Newt Gingrich’s approach to space policy would be heavily weighted toward encouraging the private sector, space observers have been wondering how much the Mitt Romney approach, once it is formulated, will rely on commercial space.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Jan 29, 2012
- Ron Paul Packs Them In In Maine
Ron Paul may be missing in Florida, but Maine knows he's around. For 2 days, despite bad weather, huge crowds have turned out to listen to Paul. Can Maine give Paul a win?Contributor: Sherry Tomfeld Published: Jan 28, 2012
- Demi Moore Call -- Example of 911 System Succe ...
The Los Angeles Times released details of the confusion surrounding the Demi Moore 911 call, which resulted in a delayed response by paramedics. Looking back on the recent history of the Los Angeles 911 system, it may actually be a study in success.Contributor: Sylvia Cochran Published: Jan 28, 2012
- Captured: The First-Ever Images of Atoms Movin ...
Ohio State University researchers have captured the first-ever images of atoms moving within a molecule using a novel technique that turns one of the molecules own electrons into a kind of flash bulb. The technique has yielded a new way of imaging molecules, but could one day help scientists to ...
- Stowaway Seeds Carried By Unwitting Humans Are ...
Seeds are surreptitiously hitching a ride on human visitors to Antarctica, threatening to sow invasive species in one of the last remaining pristine environments on Earth. About 20 percent of visitors to the frozen continent bring stowaway seeds on their clothing and luggage, according to a new ...
- Stop the Foolishness: Of Course Pink Is a Color
There’s an interesting volley online right now between two science journalists I admire, Michael Moyer and Robert Krulwich, over the color pink. In a blog post for NPR last week, Krulwich was shocked to learn from a video that pink does not exist, and Monday Moyer responded with his own ontologi ...
- By the Numbers: Flu Season, Visualized
Strains of seasonal influenza behave slightly differently season to season and strain to strain. The differences are revealing. The rate of transmission of the 1918 pandemic, which killed 40 million people, closely mirrors the data from the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. The two strains are, in fact, close ...
- Smart, Self-Healing Hydrogels Repair Themselve ...
The ability to heal--to repair oneself repeatedly and thus sustain damage repeatedly--is one of biology’s greatest tricks, and one that humans have been trying to replicate in synthetic materials for years. Now, bioengineers at University of California, San Diego, have done so via a hydrogel tha ...
- Some Major Holes in the Current Case For War W ...
Casually listening to the established media (for an insightful articleabout the media’s handling of the push for a war with Iran read this article) it would seem that Iran has already decided to build a nuclear weapon and is in fact working towards that goal. However, this is not true. Ira ...
- Top 10 Genius Reasons to Keep Troops in Afghan ...
When you're setting a record for the longest modern war, cutting it short just increases the chances of somebody breaking your record some day.
- Hana Shalabi: Day 19 and Counting
Anyone who's fasted several days knows doing it isn't easy. Persisting for extended periods risks health, even death.
- Why Hate Gilad Atzmon?
Gilad Atzmon is outrageously easy to like. So why is he hated so much?
- Orwell covers the crime beat on Nanking Road&# ...
Now, China has the potential to explode at any time. It's fairly obvious to anyone with a basic knowledge of Marxist thought that the victory of the Communist Party in 1948 preceded the rise of the industrial proletariat. Pretty much the way that Communism has spread everywhere, by the way, exce ...
- Global temperature update
Average global temperatures remained broadly the same throughout the month of February according to the UAH satellite measure. The anomaly of -0.116C, relative to the 30 year running average, equates to an anomaly of approximately +0.137C above the more standard 1961-1990 average. The decline ...
- Winter 2011/2012: The final verdict
Winter this year has confounded most long range forecasts issued last autumn, turning out to be mild, averaged over December, January and February (Climatological winter). Talk of huge snowfalls, and the likelihood of another severe winter which were lapped up by an ever eager media, were wide ...
- February's huge temperature contrast
Warm air from the sub-tropics is affecting Yorkshire and Lincolnshire today and has led to some exceptionally mild temperatures for February. At the old Finningley Met Office site, which is now Robin Hood airport, along with Donna Nook outside Cleethorpes, 18C (64F) has been recorded. These te ...
- Drax axes plans to build new biomass power sta ...
The company which owns Drax power station in North Yorkshire, which is the largest single producer of electricity and carbon dioxide in the country, has announced that a £1.4 billion plan to build 2 of 3 new dedicated biomass power stations have been shelved. The third of the planned power sta ...
- Risk of drought restrictions spread
Large parts of the UK are at risk from serious water shortages this summer if rainfall in the next few months continues to be low. Since June 2011, drought has affected Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, parts of Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire, and west Norfolk. Now, much of South East England ...
- Masters of the Game: Vatican Diplomacy in Cuba
By far one of the most underresearched areas in IPE I would argue is the role played by religious institutions as diplomatic actors. Not only were the imperial conquests of earlier European colonizers usually phrased in terms of enlightening the unwashed masses, but religion remains a very signi ...
- Celebrating the IPE Zone's Five-Year Anniversary
Five Years of Fearless BloggingUnbeknownst to me, the IPE Zone just turned five in February.. Belatedly, then, it's time to celebrate! I once had a nearly octogenarian boss who morbidly observed that her peers were all retired and many dead besides. With blogging the very model of a throwaway me ...
- White Man's Burden 2012: World Bank Succession
Take up the White Man's burden-- Have done with childish days-- The lightly proferred laurel, The easy, ungrudged praise. Comes now, to search your manhood Through all the thankless years Cold, edged with dear-bought wisdom, The judgment of your peers! Well here is more dis ...
- 'The DNA of Human Rights'
Here's an interesting counterpoint to the "Asian values" argument that prioritizes collective well-being over individual rights. While I to a certain extent buy into that argument, it is at this point in time largely due to objections to how Western nations that are usually loudest about blather ...
- German Apprenticeship vs US/UK Uni-Jobless System
It is no big secret that youth unemployment is especially high in Anglo-Saxon economies at the present time.* As I have illustrated, wages for US college graduates have been on a steady downward trend. At the same time, tuition fees are rising at a rate far outstripping the rate of inflatio ...
- Ben Bernanke Says That His Son Will Graduate W ...
Who ever imagined that Ben Bernanke would become a poster child for the student loan debt problem in America? Recently Bernanke told Congress that his son will graduate from medical school with about $400,000 of student loan debt. For most Americans, such a staggering amount of ...
- 15 Potentially Massive Threats To The U.S. Eco ...
We live in a world that is becoming increasingly unstable, and the potential for an event that could cause "sudden change" to the U.S. economy is greater than ever. There are dozens of potentially massive threats that could easily push the U.S. economy over the edge during the n ...
- Now THAT Is Cold – 19 Signs That America ...
The economy is not the only thing that is wrong with America. In order for a society to function smoothly, people need to be able to trust one another and be able to expect that most of their fellow citizens will behave in a somewhat civilized manner. Unfortunately, we are star ...
- 10.7 Percent: Unemployment In Europe Is Worse ...
The unemployment rate in the eurozone is now 10.7 percent. That is the highest the unemployment rate has been since the introduction of the euro. The unemployment rate in the eurozone never got any higher than 10.2 percent during the last recession. This is very troubling news ...
- Inflation Is A Tax And The Federal Reserve Is ...
Ronald Reagan once famously declared that inflation is a tax, but sadly most Americans did not really grasp what he was talking about. If the American people truly understood what inflation was doing to them, they would be screaming bloody murder about monetary policy. Inflatio ...
- Argentina plans museum dedicated to those kill ...
Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has announced plans to build a museum dedicated to the Malvinas War to honor the marines that were killed while trying to reclaim the island from the UK. Fernandez said on Monday that the USD 20-million museum would be inaugurated in August 20 ...
- Huge asteroid expected to fly past our planet ...
A 150-foot asteroid orbiting Earth called 2012 DA14 will pass so close to Earth it will fly UNDER man-made satellites orbiting our planet. Nasa’s Impact Risk report said that the odds of the space rock actually hitting our planet are very low indeed – but on February 15 next year it ...
- Bin Laden not buried at sea, body moved on CIA ...
The body of Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden was not buried at sea, according to leaked emails of intelligence firm Stratfor, as revealed by WikiLeaks. Stratfor’s vice-president for intelligence, Fred Burton, believes the body was “bound for Dover, [Delaware] on [a] CIA plane” and then “onward to ...
- Japanese researchers invent speech-jamming gun
Japanese researchers have invented a hand-held speech-jamming gadget that can painlessly force people into silence. Kazutaka Kurihara of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology and Koji Tsukada of Ochanomizu University developed the portable ‘SpeechJammer’ ...
- British Fireball Sparks Grim Warning Of Decemb ...
A grim report issued by General Director Vladimir Popovkin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) on the “huge meteorite fireball” seen across nearly the entire length of Britain [photo 2nd left] this weekend past warns that this event is but a precursor to an expected hit upon Earth th ...
- Catholic Church has no business policing itself
Below are some excerpts from this week’s Report of the Inquiry into Protecting Victoria’s Vulnerable Children (Australia) demolishing some of the Catholic Church’s favourite excuses for its appalling record on child endangerment. Thankfully the inquiry refused to be fooled by t ...
- How Many Dead Children Are Too Many?
An average of 50 children die from drowning in Australia every year. This figure is considered unacceptably high. Generously funded multi million dollar public education campaigns called Swim and Survive and Swim Kids aim to teach children about water safety in order to bring that shocking numbe ...
- Italy acknowledges Vatican unworthy of unfair ...
The new Italian Prime Minister, Mario Monti, has responded to a petition by 130,000 citizens to end unfair tax-free perks for the Catholic Church’s commercial enterprises. Promising to reverse the trend which in the past saw anti-competitive and possibly illegal special privileges for the ...
- Aspiring Aussie PM Sacrifices Truth and Church ...
Kevin Rudd, former, and aspiring future Australian Prime Minister demonstrated on Friday that he is prepared to prostitute himself, the truth, and the victims of church violence against children in order to deliver a minor political miracle and shore up his hopes to oust Julia Gillard from the P ...
- Even Thief Gives Pope Lesson in Morality ̵ ...
Are the media actually picking on the catholic church over child sexual abuse, as petulantly claimed by the Vatican’s propaganda machine? Or are catholic church leaders truly the last people in the world any responsible parent would want to have anything to do with their children? Last yea ...
- 2012-03-07 Press Release for Motion Hearing at ...
TweetBelow is a March 1, 2012 United States Department of Defense Press Release for an upcoming Motion Hearing in the legal proceedings for U.S. Government vs. PFC Bradley Manning: Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE NEWS RELEASE The U.S. Army Military District of Washington Guardians o ...
- To Whom It May Concern
TweetI, Heather Marsh, have decided to no longer act as editor-in-chief, administrator or domain holder of wlcentral.org. From this point forward, I accept no legal, moral or other responsibility for the content of this site. WL Central has been one of the most enjoyable volunteer efforts I have ...
- 2012-03-06 #WikiLeaks News Update: #GIFiles; U ...
Tweet WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 458 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 455 days. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 652 days. WikiLeaks News: Image from WikiLeaks WikiLeaks continues to release more G.I. F ...
- Christine Assange's Talking Points
TweetChristine Assange, mother of WikiLeaks founder and Editor-in-Chief Julian Assange, has spent many long months reaching out to supporters and urging them to contact their local political representatives. Recognising that many politicians do not even know the true story behind WikiLeaks and h ...
- Untitled Angst: the curse of lethargy in a tim ...
TweetAuthored By: Nadim Fetaih As Edmund Burke once wrote, “all that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.” It is time for Canada to shed the shackles of apathy and rise. I have long been a proponent for a revolution in Canada. I have written many blog pieces to try an ...
- Guatemala: UN welcomes judge's decision to den ...
The United Nations human rights office today welcomed the news that a Guatemalan judge rejected the claim that a former dictator is protected under an amnesty law from being tried on genocide charges.
- Haiti: First mobile phone cash transfers facil ...
Survivors of the 2010 devastating earthquake in Haiti have this week started receiving cash subsidies through the first-ever mobile money transfer system in support of post-disaster housing reconstruction, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) reported today.
- UN launches new guidelines in fight against ch ...
United Nations health officials have unveiled new guidelines to help countries throughout the Americas detect and prevent transmission of the mosquito-borne chikungunya virus - a disease which has already infected more than two million people around the world.
- Drug-related violence has reached alarming lev ...
Escalating violence involving drug trafficking organizations in Central America has reached "alarming and unprecedented levels," making it one of the most violent areas in the world, the United Nations anti-narcotics panel stressed in its annual report which was launched today.
- Haitian premier's resignation sparks concern f ...
The chief of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) today expressed his deep concern following the resignation of Prime Minister Garry Conille, just four months after his appointment.
- The Magic Weed
Hemp growing doesn't need any weed killing, no pesticide. Its raw material grows naturally and it doesn't need chemical intervention.
- Blood Coltan
Blood coltan still exists. I'm holding a mobile phone. And I know that the microprocessor it contains uses coltan. And if this coltan has been obtained at the massacre of 10 or 20 villagers through slave labor, the suffering of children forced to work in the mines by the armed militia. This is i ...
- CAMP FEMA 2: Enemy of the State
Some state governments passed measures to forcibly quarantine residents, incarcerate those who refuse to be vaccinated, and to forcibly vaccinate your children. Legislation like this passed during the much hyped H1N1 flu outbreak.
- Hangar 18: The UFO Warehouse
Not only was debris from many UFO crashes allegedly shipped to the base, but from the late 1940s until the end of the late 1960s, all reports regarding UFOs were conducted at Wright-Patterson for the military's official UFO investigation Project Blue Book.
- HAARP – Everything You Wanted to Know – Nick B ...
You might be surprised at all of the constructive uses HAARP could be used for, but will be even more surprised by its focus on weapons and military applications, such as weather modification, geological disruption such as triggering earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, and perhaps most controver ...
- Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – A Root o ...
Life is good. Many-fold, tangled life is better. Many-fold, tangled life not hobbled by Man’s will is best. What do I mean? By “life is good,” I am not writing a television commercial about sitting with your buddies in front of a widescreen TV for a Superbowl party with Budweiser while wives and ...
- Don’t Flush Tiger Forests
The toilet paper on your grocery store shelves may have a direct impact on the 400 Sumatran tigers left in the wild. Learn more about how you can help through World Wildlife Fund and make a pledge to never buy paper products linked to rain forest and tiger habitat destruction.
- NASA – NASA Finds 2011 Ninth-Warmest Year on R ...
NASA – NASA Finds 2011 Ninth-Warmest Year on Record.
- Open Pipes Are Killing Birds and Other Wildlife
This issue made the news last fall, but we thought it would be good to keep the topic active and to remind our readers to look around for real and potential hazards to our wild friends. Bird Death Pipes “Hollow metal and plastic (PVC) pipes and posts are found throughout the world and serv ...
- Paul S. Martin, Pleistocene Ecologist: Colleag ...
Seven science colleagues present tributes to Paul S. Martin, 1928 – 2010: Jim King, Geoff Spaulding, Gary Haynes, Alberto Burquez, Tom Van Devender, David Burney, and Connie Barlow (plus, Paul’s son, Tom Martin). The outdoor memorial service was held on the University of Arizona̵ ...
- America... Wake Up Now or Sleep Forever... You ...
This video was made to inspire courage in the people of America. We are the world's last hope for freedom, if we fall completely to the New World Order the world will become a tyrannical prison planet. It is time to stand and fight the NWO anyway you can. I would rather die on m ...
- Dennis Kucinich... The Last Man Against Wars a ...
Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich (D-Ohio), the two-time presidential candidate and icon of the antiwar left, suffered a bruising primary defeat Tuesday as a new Republican-drawn congressional map threatened to end the career of one of the most colorful figures in Congress. ~ Video - See Kucin ...
- Obama Impersonator DEAD at 48
It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Steve Bridges. His passing comes as a shock to all of us. The cause of death is not known at this time, but we will publish more information as it becomes available. Steve brought joy and laughter to millions and was a great inspir ...
- Busted!... Anderson Cooper Caught Staging Fa ...
Phoenix - CNN, CNN breaking news, and Anderson Cooper have been caught red handed creating staged CNN war room scenarios regarding Syria and other stories that are simply manufactured Hollywood news designed to dupe the ignorant masses of Amer ...
- Australia... Bill Will Allow 'Children Of Any ...
Following the call by ethicists for after-birth abortions and the press explosion surrounding the ‘Euthanasia Coaster‘, new legislation from Australia is now paving the way for children of any age to consent to sterilization — without parental consent! ~ Anthony Gucci ...
- Occupy Wall Street Must Dump Failed Graeber-Ad ...
Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV March 6, 2012 [download video] [download audio]
- Reactionary Republicans and Wall Street Democr ...
Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. Atlantic Television News February 27, 2012 — recorded on February 15, 2012 [download video] [download audio]
- One-Candidate Presidential Election Mockery in ...
Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV February 27, 2012 [download video] [download audio] Press TV has interviewed Dr. Webster Griffin Tarpley, author and historian from Washington about the potential for real change and stabilization in Yemen now that UK-trained army officer Abd-Rabbu Mansour Had ...
- Russia, China Confirm Boycott of NATO’s ...
Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV February 25, 2012 [download video] [download audio] Top US officials have called for the urgent provision of weapons, intelligence and funds to the Syrian opposition for use against President Bashar al-Assad. Press TV has interviewed Dr. Webster Griffin Tarpl ...
- Hillary Clinton’s “Enemies of Syri ...
Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV February 24, 2012 [download video] [download audio] A political analyst says the Friends of Syria conference expected to be held in Tunisia’s capital Tunis aims at creating a scenario in Syria similar to the one, which materialized in Libya. What follows is a ...
- To Evacuate Or Not To Evacuate
To evacuate or not to evacuate. That is the question. All too often I hear others who jump to the conclusion that when faced with disaster, they plan to ‘bug out’. Evacuate. It’s like they believe that somehow things will be better… away from their home! As though strappi ...
- Today In The News: March 7, 2012
msb-note, ‘Today in the News‘ is a snapshot of risk and awareness. Current events that may influence your survival emergency preparedness plans, or simply feed your curiosity. Bandits Assault Customers In Violent Minimart Robbery This does not surprise me at all. In today’s ter ...
- Earth’s Shield Struggling With Huge Suns ...
A new and very large sunspot region has launched an awesome X-class solar flare at Earth, triggering low latitude aurora borealis displays as the earth’s magnetic shield struggles to fight off the incoming radiation. An ‘S3′ class (strong) solar radiation storm is currently und ...
- Chainmate Survival Pocket Chain Saw
This pocket chain saw survival tool is ideal and practical in many ways to tuck in your backpack or survival kit, and will cut through wood limbs with apparent ease. Unlike a typical saw, this one will roll up and store easily and safely, taking up little storage space. Perfect for camping, in y ...
- Where Is The Best Place To Live?
So, you want to know where is the best place to live in the United States? I recently received an email with this question, which included criteria ‘where water is good’, ‘hunting’, ‘not too cold or hot’, ‘good soil’, ‘etc,,,’. The pers ...
- Why Email Sabbaticals Are An Essential Part Of ...
[twistage 84d3fb5e5b41c]As a Senior Researcher for Microsoft, danah boyd, (yes, all lowercase, she had her name legally changed), studies how we work, live, and play on the Internet. While the well-known researcher truly loves social media and the online universe, she also understands that som ...
- Brandyourself And The Billion-Dollar SEO And R ...
You may be too proud to admit it, but you've probably Googled yourself at one point or another. And why not? Prospective employers certainly are hunting you down online. And who knows? Those would-be bosses might inadvertently make their first impressions of you based on a convicted felon ...
- Fast Talk: Elle Luna's Holistic Vision Of Design
Meet Elle Luna, a former IDEO designer who believes design plays a role at every stage of the process--even before teams start to think visually.Elle Luna calls herself a "designer, storyteller, and startup advisor." As a mentor at the Designer Fund, which believes designers should be startup fo ...
- AT&T And Verizon Reveal Data Plans For 4G iPad ...
Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day.Getty Images Licenses Instagram-shot Yankees Series. Smartphone photo app Instagram has got the Getty Images seal of approval. The image database has licensed a series of portraits shot entirely with the app, suggesting that p ...
- The One Huge Oversight Everyone Makes When Hiring
The checklist for hiring is pretty simple: write a job description, post the job, screen resumes, prepare interview questions, conduct interviews, call references, and write the offer or rejection letter. But it’s often missing one key component: check for skills.Checking for skills used to mean ...
- Opposition to the Syrian Opposition: Against t ...
First, let us be clear: the Syrian people have every right to protest, peacefully and violently, against the brutal regime. And let us be clear: the Syrian regime has no right to stay in power, and this was true even before it began using violence to quell the uprising. And let us be cle ...
- Syria Media Roundup (March 7)
“The Doves of Damascus” spotlight on the people working for change from inside Syria “Syria Today: Daily News Brief” A locally produced news roundup on Syria “Syrians fleeing Homs accuse troops of atrocities” and “Why BBC journalists are in besieged Homs” The BBC on why it feels ...
- Hama: Post-Massacre
We went back to Hama after our first post-massacre visit. Three weeks later, the magnitude of destruction had become more apparent. The Kilani district had been flattened, and a brick wall was being built around it. Assad banned survivors from the historic site from returning to t ...
- New Texts Out Now: Nergis Ertürk, Grammatology ...
Nergis Ertürk, Grammatology and Literary Modernity in Turkey. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book? Nergis Ertürk (NE): One of my motives was to try to deepen our understanding of the phoneticizing Turkish alphabet reform of ...
- New Texts Out Now: Mervat Hatem, Literature, G ...
Mervat F. Hatem, Literature, Gender, and Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century Egypt: The Life and Works of `A’sha Taymur. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book? Mervat Hatem (MH): The modern construction of Egyptian history gives the grand ol ...
- Simmons' $5M salary, 'antics' led to WNBC ditc ...
Don Kaplan / New York Post: Simmons' $5M salary, ‘antics’ led to WNBC ditching her: sources — There were 5 million reasons to oust Sue Simmons — and they were all in her paycheck. — WNBC/Channel 4 refused to renew the nightly news anchor's c ...
- PCC to close in wake of hacking scandal (Lisa ...
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian: PCC to close in wake of hacking scandal — Media watchdog will be replaced by transitional body until replacement is set up after Leveson inquiry — The Press Complaints Commission is to be shut down after 21 years, closing one of the ...
- U.S. Warns Apple, Publishers (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal: U.S. Warns Apple, Publishers — Justice Department Threatens Lawsuits, Alleging Collusion Over E-Book Pricing — The Justice Department has warned Apple Inc. and five of the biggest U.S. publishers that it plans to sue them for allegedly co ...
- Inquirer: Rendell relinquishes lead in Philly ...
Julie Moos / Poynter: Inquirer: Rendell relinquishes lead in Philly papers purchase, as his group gets exclusive consideration — The group of local leaders interested in buying the Philadelphia papers is now being led by H.F. “Gerry” Lenfest, who was asked to take ...
- PCC confirms closure and transfer to new body ...
Press Gazette: PCC confirms closure and transfer to new body — The Press Complaints Commission has confirmed its closure - agreeing to move to a new body that will see the transfer of all staff, assets and liabilities. — New chairman Lord Hunt had previously ...
- CHEMTRAIL AND UFO SIGHTING, PORIRUA, NZ ...
I suspected it of being a Chemtrail and therefore pulled out the video camera to film it. Many planes went by during the shooting, more than any other time I have ... https://chemtrailsnorthnz.wordpress.com/.../chemtrail-and-ufo-...
- Maui residents craft legislation to ban geo-en ...
Maui residents craft legislation to ban geo-engineering 'chemtrails' www.naturalnews.com/033691_chemtrails_Maui.html
- 10 mile long chemtrail 1 Video
probably longer. denver,co 9/23/11 Author: Boondox681 Keywords: denver ten mile long chemtrail Added: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:33:25. vodpod.com/watch/15460352-10-mile-long-chemtrail-1
- ChemTrail Pilot Admits to 'Domestic ...
Headlines ChemTrail Pilot Admits to 'Domestic Terrorism'! ... Chemtrails: The Consequences of Toxic Metals and Chemical Aerosols on Human Health · Heavy ... www.davidicke.com/.../53899-chemtrail-pilot-admits-to-dome...
- Chemtrail Rainbow - YouTube
Chemtrails caused rainbow....no rain. ... I have several (which I think are ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcOyMeW0xpU
- What's new for iPad with iOS 5.1
March 7, 2012 During the long awaited Keynote for the new iPad, Apple revealed iOS 5.1, a new update for iOS devices. iOS 5.1 is a minor update that tweaks small details of iOS 5 and includes some bug fixes and security updates. Here’s what to look for with iOS 5.1 (available today). Siri no ...
- Obama Administration Offers Help for Home ...
How will the Obama Administration latest announcement to help homeowners benefit you? Assuming your mortgage is insured by the F.H.A. (Housing Urban Development – Federal Housing Administration) and was funded prior to May 31, 2009, you may be in luck. 3 Million Projected Eligible Homeowners ...
- Apple debuts new, higher-resolution iPad
Apple Inc. on Wednesday confounded the prognosticators by announcing its newest iPad -- without a new name. Widespread speculation had been divided between iPad 3 and iPad HD as a name for the new product, but Apple referred to the newborn of its line of tablet computers simply as "the new i ...
- Apple Adds Sharper Screen and Speed to Ne ...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Apple updated the iPad on Wednesday with a high-definition screen, a faster wireless connection and several other refinements, all packaged in a device without any major design changes. As recent history has shown, though, Apple may not need a bold overhaul of the look of it ...
- Azera taps into luxury
Scott Burgess Hyundai) The Hyundai Azera was the first Korean car I ever sat in and said, "Wow, this carmaker is on to something." But six years ago, the Azera was really the only standout in a lineup that focused on saving money before primping luxury. The Azera changed that notion. The ori ...
- National Parks at Risk: Photos
National parks represent our country's last stronghold of wilderness. But the large majority of parks are suffering, too.Ninety-five percent of parks assessed in a recent study have lost key species that once helped define them. Meanwhile, 91 percent .... Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals &nbs ...
- Suicide rates in Europe 'linked' to financial ...
The financial crisis "almost certainly" led to an increase in suicides across Europe, health experts say.The analysis by US and UK researchers found a rise in suicides was recorded among working age people from 2007 to 2009 in nine of the 10 nations...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Well ...
- Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerela - Richest in ...
For the past one week, the Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerela has been in the news because of the huge wealth found in its secret crypts.The Padmanabhaswamy Temple is the most famous Lord Vishnu temple in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerela. It is bel ............ Submitted by Anna Smith to World |& ...
- South Sudan becomes an independent nation
South Sudan has become the world's newest nation, the climax of a process made possible by the 2005 peace deal that ended a long and bloody civil war.Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon are among international dignitaries Submitted by Anna Smith to World ...
- 10 Ridiculous But Compelling Twitter Feuds
Like all social networking sites, Twitter can be a wonderful outlet to share your feelings and views, but it also leaves plenty of room for offensive comments and bullying. Whether it's the empowerment of being behind a computer or the wide-reaching...... Submitted by Anna Smith to World ...
- 2/28/12 - What is the Israeli fence/wall/barrier?
israelipalestinian.procon.org - What is the Israeli fence/wall/barrier? - Learn more about the history, route, and construction status of the roughly 440 mile Israeli fence/wall/barrier.
- 2/28/12 - Is the Isreali fence/wall/barrier go ...
israelipalestinian.procon.org - Is the Israeli fence/wall/barrier good for the Israeli-Palestinian peace process? - Read pro and con arguments from the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs (pro), Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (con), Editor in Chief of US News and World Report ...
- 2/28/12 - NL MVP Ryan Braun Successfully Appea ...
sportsanddrugs.procon.org - Ryan Braun Becomes First MLB Player to Successfully Appeal a Positive Drug Test - National League MVP Ryan Braun's 50-game suspension was overturned on Feb. 23, 2012 because of a delay transferring his sample to the testing lab. His testosteron ...
- 2/17/12 - "Did You Know?” Little Known Facts a ...
2012election.procon.org "Did You Know?" Little Known Facts about US Presidents – Did you know that eight US Presidents have died while in office? (Four were assassinated and four died of natural causes.) Did you know that the shortest presidency in the history of the office lasted just 31 d ...
- 2/17/12 - Embargo against Cuba
2012election.procon.org - Should the US continue to support the embargo against Cuba? - Read the 2012 presidential candidates’ positions on this issue. Paul is Con. Gingrich, Romney, Santorum, and Obama are Pro, and Johnson is Not Clearly Pro or Con.
- The myth of Chinese exceptionalism
Yuan-kang Wang All nations tend to see their history as exceptional, and these beliefs usually continue a heavy dose of fiction. Here are the top three myths of contemporary Chinese exceptionalism. Myth #1: China did not expand when it was strong. Myth 2: The Seven Voyages of Zheng He demonstrat ...
- Why moralism spoils the appetite
Adam Gopnik makes a powerful and entertaining case for why we shouldn’t ruin the aesthetic pleasure of food by adding a side order of moralism. Kirk Leech Gopnik believes that, ‘Having made food a more fashionable object, we have ended by making eating a smaller subject.’ When ‘gastronomy’ was o ...
- The God wars
To hardline atheists, it is now unreasonable and “dramatically peculiar” to argue that religion is not altogether evil. How did such intolerance become acceptable to rational minds? Bryan Appleyard Two atheists – John Gray and Alain de Botton – and two agnostics – Nassim Nichol ...
- Gogol* Explains the Post-Soviet World
(*And Chekhov and Dostoyevsky.) The case for (re)reading Russia’s greatest literary classics. THOMAS DE WAAL Twenty years ago, 15 new states emerged from the wreck of the Soviet Union, uneven shards from a broken monolith. One story turned into 15. Most Soviet watchers have been struggling ...
- The State of the Anglosphere
The decline of the English-speaking world has been greatly exaggerated. Joel Kotkin and Shashi Parulekar It’s indisputable that the Anglosphere no longer enjoys the overwhelming global dominance that it once had. What was once a globe-spanning empire is now best understood as a union of language ...
- UK and China, comparing notes on science and p ...
For a science policy nerd like me, meeting with international counterparts is like taking a holiday or meeting old friends in the pub at Christmas; there are many fresh things to explore but you can quickly get down to business. Friday’s small but perfectly-formed gathering in Beijing of abou ...
- Neuroscience, conflict and security: a dual us ...
The Royal Society has launched the final report of the Brain Waves series, which investigate developments in neuroscience and their implications for society and policy. Brain Waves 3: Neuroscience, conflict and security examines the potential applications of neuroscience in a military and law ...
- Revolutionary science
This week marks the first anniversary of the popular uprising in Egypt that resulted in the overthrow of the then president, Hosni Mubarak. Yesterday, as new rounds of demonstrations were taking place in Egypt, I attended the launch of an Institute of Development Studies bulletin on The Pulse of ...
- Martin Rees looks back to understand why ‘scie ...
In what might be described as the science policy Christmas lecture, former Royal Society President Lord Rees offered a tour de force of recurrent issues in science policy. Speaking at the Cambridge Centre for Science and Policy, Rees navigated issues from energy supply to food security, with a n ...
- Digital tools for the scientific endeavour – o ...
FROM CLAIRE COPE IN THE SCIENCE POLICY CENTRE Scientists collect data; analyse it; try to make sense of it all; and publish their findings in a scientific journal. Right? Well yes, but it’s not always as simple as that. The way in which science is conducted has changed dramatically over the past ...
- End of Nations: Canada, the US and the “Securi ...
Regardless of whether this particular agreement bears fruit for those seeking to bring the two countries into a closer union, or whether it is just another waypoint on the road of a much longer and more detailed process, the very real concerns about the erosion of national sovereignty implicit i ...
- Goodbye Kyoto, Make Way For The North American ...
"On Tuesday December 13th the Minister of the Environment Peter Kent announced that Canada is removing itself from the Kyoto Protocol. Kent is pushing for a more unified agreement that would unite all nation's on a global scale."
- The Pretext For A North American Homeland Secu ...
"Any deal which gives the Department of Homeland Security more personal information poses a serious risk to privacy rights"
- Welcome To Fortress North America! NAU-Phase One
We knew that there was nothing “new” at all to be found in this "new border vision"
- Paving The Way For A North American Union
By: Press For Truth (http://www.pressfortruth.ca) Release Date: 11/9/11 The agenda for a North American Union is underway and a new security perimeter deal will blur the lines at the border and further erode the sovereignty of Canadians and Americans. On November 13th Stephen Harper, Barack Ob ...
- Kiwi keeper McCullum set for move down batting ...
WELLINGTON - New Zealand cricket captain Daniel Vettori and batting coach Mark Greatbatch have reportedly decided to push batsman-wicketkeeper Brendon McCullum down the order to change the fortunes of the team after its 4-0 loss to Bangladesh in a one-day international series. McCullum is expe ...
- Katie Holmes
more images Katie Holmes shelters underneath an umbrella as she returns to her trailer wrapped in a white dressing gown on the set of latest movie ?Jack And Jill?. Los Angeles, California. .... Source : Gaea News Network.
- Ava Sambora Walks The Runway
more images LOS ANGELES (GaeaTimes.com)- It seems that the celebrity children are making headlines now a days. Just few days back Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith’s daughter Willow Smith’s “Whip My Hair” went viral online, its time for Ava Sambora, the 13 year old daugh ...
- Tylenol Recall Ghost Haunts Johnson & Johnson
more images FORT WASHINGTON (GaeaTimes.com)- Johnson & Johnson the diversified pharmaceutical and health care company is back in news though for the wrong reasons. Tylenol is a product made by the company that is being recalled now in USA and Puerto Rico. This is not the first time that the ...
- VHP seers meet in Ayodhya to decide on road ahead
AYODHYA - The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has convened a meeting of leading seers here Wednesday to decide on the road ahead after the verdict on the Ramjanmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute. The 41-member central committee of seers will assemble at the Karsewak Puram camp. Amongst those participat ...
- Police brutality on youtube: with entertainmen ...
The following videos were found during a casual youtube search which began with a story about a 20 year old girl in Florida who suffered severe brain damage as a result of being tasered in the back while handcuffed. These videos demonstrate over and over again the same pattern, with police off ...
- How To Get Anything Through TSA Nude Body Scan ...
This video is here to demonstrate that the TSA’s insistence that the nude body scanner program is effective and necessary is nothing but a fraud, just like their claims that the program is safe (radiation what?) and non-invasive (nude pictures who?). The scanners are now effectively worthl ...
- Airport scanners: your freedom has flown
Plans to introduce see-through scanners at airports don't allow you any choice, like frisking or pat-down as alternatives. The scanners are bad in principle, will cause delays and produce false positives, and they create a head-on assault on Australians' civil liberties. They are also a waste of ...
- Airport body scanners lengthen queues as many ...
Debra Jopson March 5, 2012 Two in five passengers who took part in a trial of airport body scanners, which are set to become compulsory in four months, had to submit to further searches after they triggered alarms. During seven weeks of trials at Sydney and Melbourne's internationa ...
- Australian academics advocate killing unwanted ...
The first half of today's show features an interview with engineer and 9/11 truth advocate John Bursill, who has launched a new campaign to oppose a military strike on Iran. John has recently written an article on this subject which is posted at truthnews.com.au. John has organised a protest a ...
- Fish as a Lifeline for Filipinos
Ayoke Island, Philippines. © Suzannah Evans Editor's note: This is part 3 in a series of dispatches from the Philippines. Ayoke Island may be the most idyllic place I’ve ever seen. It’s a small island in the northern part of Lanuza Bay covered with a riot of coconut and palm trees. The town ...
- What BP Owes Americans
This blog was originally posted on the Huffington Post. There has been a lot of news lately about whether BP will settle all of the legal claims against it stemming from the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe two years ago, or whether the company will end up in court. As is typical of most thi ...
- Leatherback Sea Turtle May Be CA’s Newest Symbol
© NOAA Some fun news today: The Pacific leatherback sea turtle may soon join the California poppy, coast redwood, and grizzly bear as one of California’s official symbols. Assemblymember Paul Fong introduced legislation (Assembly Bill 1776) that would designate the Pacific leatherback a ...
- From Dynamite Fishing to Sustainable Fishing
Rare fellow Vincent Duenas educates the community about MPAs. © Suzannah Evans Editor's note: This is part 2 in a series of dispatches from the Philippines. One of the biggest challenges facing sustainable fishing in the Philippines is the prevalence of dynamite fishing, where fishers create ...
- Offshore Wind Gets a $180 Million Push
© Oceana Offshore wind development got a huge boost last week when the Department of Energy announced that it would provide $180 million in funding to support four planned offshore wind farms off the U.S. Atlantic coast. To get the ball rolling, $20 million of this funding is being released ...
- The First Super Weapon.
It weighed almost 20 tons and was 17 feet long. Cast in bronze by Munir Ali, and brought to the Ottoman Turk Army in Constantinople by Urban, a 15th century Hungarian gunfounder, the gun was used to attack Byzantines who laid siege to the city. The Dardanelles Gun was partly responsible f ...
- The Ikarus.
Yugoslavia did not go gently into the Warsaw block. Marshal Tito demanded that Yugoslavia build its own industries and in aviation the Yugoslavs did quite well. Here we see a few examples of an aircraft that existed in about six prototype forms: The Ikarus 451M Solja or “Wasp” pict ...
- German World War II Propaganda Posters.
Source: Lest We Forget
- Great Black And White Photographs Of Russian W ...
Almost a million Russian women fought for the Red Army in World War II. Because Communists were devoted in principle to equality, women who served in the Red Army fought on the front lines, not just in support roles. Yes, they drove trucks and loaded ships. They were also snipers, tankers ...
- Dr. Tina Strobos Who Hid More Than 100 Jews Fr ...
Today would have been my mother’s 88th birthday. In her honor, I post this story about a Dutch hero who foiled the Nazis. Dr. Tina Strobos, a fearless woman who hid more than 100 Jews in a gabled attic in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam just a few blocks from the hideout where Anne Frank wa ...
- Mitt Romney Minute: Just a Couple of Cadillacs ...
Art offers his perspective as a movement progressive activist. I think we can use Britney Spear’s anthem “Oops I did it again” as Mitt Romney’s theme song. Mitt was declared the “winner” of the nasty Wednesday debate but as usual Mitt creates a self-inflicted ...
- Queer Talk: Obama administration and “gay righ ...
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. Before getting to the Obama administration: Thursday, the Maryland Senate followed the House’s earlier approval of a bill making marriage of same gender couples legal. From Keen News: The Maryland Senate … gave ...
- Dash of Dan: Mini Chocolate Oreo Cheesecakes
Cheesecake. One of my favorite shows (ever) is the “Golden Girls.” Whenever the girls reminisce or have a group pow-wow, cheesecake is the immediate vicinity. And just like that, problems were solved and good times ensued. But you don’t always have the time to make a cheesecake ...
- Political Junky Fun, with Amy and Seth
How was your week? Have some fun this weekend. Anyone planning to watch the Oscars? I fell in love with “Hugo.” …out of the love between a father and his daughter, quite lovely.
- SuperPACs and “dancing with the devil”
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. After all the words written and spoken about “Wall Street” and the “1%,” and the ties between those at the top with DC Insiders, the 2012 campaign season clearly shows that the power of that relationship remains intac ...
- The "Mother of All Letters"
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas deserves an award for being the best master of gimmicks in the Middle East. After his failed statehood bid at the UN Security Council and his unsuccessful attempts to end the power struggle between his Fatah
- Bequeathers of Absolute Truth Crush Free Speec ...
"It is Seldom That Any Kind of liberty is lost all at once," wrote David Hume. To warn that the erosion of economic freedom by interventionist measures would lead to the erosion of political and intellectual freedom, Friedrich Hayek placed this quote on
- The Fate of Syria
What is the alternative to Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria? Just consider which groups in Syria are especially for or against Assad—and why. Christian minorities, who, as 10% of the Syrian population, have the most to gain from a secular government and
- The Pursuit of Zero Nuclear Weapons
Should the United States reduce its nuclear warheads to 300 as is being proposed by advocates of Global Zero (the campaign to eliminate all nuclear weapons worldwide)? Advocates of that number contend it would be sufficient to drop three bombs on each of
- Erdogan Calls for Humanitarian Aid Corridors i ...
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan denounced the Syrian government's brutal crackdown on anti-regime protests, describing them as "inhumane savagery," and called for the immediate establishment of humanitarian aid corridors in Syria to help
- Rollover Week, Day II
We are seeing gold hammered this morning, and although our linkage between gold and the Dow isn’t perfect, if you’ve been popping the ginko pills for your memory, you may recall the alchemical view that: “If gold goes down, the … Continue reading →
- Coping: Is there “Luck?”
While we warily wait to see what the “game-changer” is that we’re supposed to see over the period between now and Friday, although with the usual +/- three days of error, my thinking is running increasingly toward a major bank … Continue reading →
- Is this “Panic Week?”
Elaine and I went up to Oklahoma this weekend to chat with Robin Landry about his outlook for markets and likely the most interesting part was that later on this week (7th through 9th) we could see things get really … Continue reading →
- Coping: With Mass Consciousness Arriving
We’ve been discussing (admittedly on a hit and miss basis) the idea that there’s a global mass consciousness awakening/emerging right here on the internet. So for your further ponderings, here’s something else to toss into your thinkery: A 63-minute video … Continue ...
- Nervously Waiting & Watching
With Libya arguably taken down for that rabble-rouser talk of backing an African gold-back currency, several readers have noted that leave only a couple of countries not hooked up to the corporate life support system: Central banks. Since those two … Continue reading →
- NIGERIAN PARTIES vs PARTIES IN ENGLAND
Once you have been to ‘one’ Nigerian party in your life it is safe to say that you will always know the menu. It is an unwritten rule that you can be as exotic as you like, but if your party lacks certain fundamental items, it really isn’t a party. There ‘must’ be J ...
- AFRICAN ROMANCE: ‘Thorns With Roses̵ ...
I once attended a wild party where I had an unusual encounter. It came in the form of a one night stand. I was a twenty-two year old student, sent to the US to get my MBA so I could take over my father’s thriving business someday. My girlfriend whom I’d whimsically thought would become [...]
- AWKWARD TOPICS: A 12 Year Old Has A Baby, Shou ...
This topic is for you, yes, you! I want to know your opinion on this matter. What do you think? A 12 year old has a baby, should she be allowed to keep it? On a biological level this is perhaps not a very common scenario, but for some reason, Amy is 12 years old [...]
- RANDOM RANTS: ‘Infidelity’ – ...
It’s one of the biggest issues facing sexual relationships today and the demise of most relationships can usually be traced back to it. But what exactly is cheating? The dictionary defines it rather unhelpfully as “marital disloyalty; adultery”. I find this definition almost insulting. Where do ...
- FLASH FICTION: ‘A Christmas Miracle̵ ...
Spending Christmas in hospital was not how Yinka envisioned her holidays. Hospitals were places where she received bad news: “I’m sorry your aunt is dead”; “I’m sorry you can’t concieve children naturally “; and so on. She and her husband, Tunde had worked hard all year, deferring all their annu ...
- Tattoos, movies, and commies: Sciencey stuff t ...
Much to do here even as the semester winds down in Boston and Cambridge. On Monday, science writer Carl Zimmer meets Terry Gilliam, so to speak. Zimmer will be the speaker at the Coolidge Corner Theatre's "Science and Screen" airing of Gillam's 12 Monkeys. In a future world devastated by di ...
- Sat. is last chance to see "Prints and the Pur ...
Artist Brian Knep has a lab on Longwood Avenue -- not a studio. He's not a scientists; he's the Harvard Medical School artist-in-residence. Knep says he looks to science for "metaphors about life, about change, about healing." So, when he led group through the Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge ...
- New Kendall Square restaurant set up to host b ...
When new drug development company H3 decided to throw a party to launch the opening of Kendall Square labs and offices, organizers didn't have to go very far. They took the elevator downstairs. Last week, local researchers, bio boosters and lots of men in dark suits from the Japanese drug comp ...
- BU's biolab makes it to level-2, still seeking ...
Massachusetts environmental regulator recognized that there is a big difference between TB and Ebola. So, last week, they granted Boston University permission to begin using their new biolab to work on bio safety level-2 materials. From the Globe: For years, the National Emerging Infectious ...
- Sunday's Chef Adrià talk at Harvard' sells out
Most of Harvard's Science and Cooking Lectures are first come, first served, so to speak. But, you needed a ticket for Tuesday's return of superstar Spanish chef and modernist Ferran Adrià of elBulli, who talked about "The New Culinary Think Tank - el bulli 2.0." And they were scooped up a few d ...
- It's unanimous: El Paso commits to a smarter, ...
Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC Earlier this week, the city council of El Paso, the nation’s 19th-largest city, unanimously adopted a detailed comprehensive plan built around the principles of smart gr ...
- The Economist: Wrong About Health-Protective R ...
Peter Lehner, Executive Director, New York City Environmental safeguards have clearly proven their value over the past few decades, bringing returns on investment as high as 40 to 1. Yet in its recent coverage of U.S. regulations, The Economist choo ...
- NRDC in the News 3/6: Keystone XL plan update, ...
NRDC News, NRDC News Team, NRDC Offices Worldwide Susan Casey-Lefkowitz was quoted by CNN Money on TransCanada’s new plan to build Keystone XL in segments… Danielle Droitsch also commented on the lack of adequate environmental revi ...
- NRDC in the News 3/7: Herbicide concerns, clea ...
NRDC News, NRDC News Team, NRDC Offices Worldwide On NPR’s “Morning Edition,” NRDC was noted as one group that has voiced concerns over the use of the herbicide 2,4-D; the online edition linked to Gina Solomon’s switchboard p ...
- Body of Evidence, Face of a Child
Kim Knowlton, Senior Scientist, New York Climate change affects human health, right here in the US. One face of climate change is the face of an asthmatic child, using an inhaler to breathe. NRDC has been working for years to connect th ...
- National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
Here are the 19 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Tuesday, March 6, 2012: Pittsburgh PA settles suit for $75k to teen beaten by cops who claim they mistook a soda bottle he had in his pocket for a gun. [1] bit.ly/xYaw6k Milford CT finalizes ...
- National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
Here are the 18 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Monday, March 5, 2012: Crestview FL police major faces slew of charges including excessive force, assault, soliciting sex in exchange for favors, racketeering & other charges, though the ...
- Police Misconduct NewsFeed Weekend Recap 03-03 ...
Here are the 9 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this weekend of March 3-4, 2012: 5 Springfield MA cops are the subject of a lawsuit alleging that they beat a man for filming a violent arrest then arrested both him & his wife on false charge ...
- National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
Here are the 12 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Friday, March 2, 2012: Lodi CA settles suit for $197k to man badly bitten in the face by police dog after arrested and down on the ground [0] bit.ly/z2LJN3 Lake City SC cop arrested on assau ...
- National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
Here are the 16 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Thursday, March 1, 2012: St Louis MO police sued after 9 witnesses claim cop shot an unarmed man and continued to shoot him to death while he laid on the ground bleeding then planted a gun [...]
- US bunker-busters, aerial refueling for Israel ...
American sources disclosed Tuesday March 6, that President Barack Obama had decided to let Israel have weapons systems suitable for long-range military operations and strikes against fortified underground targets. They include four KC-35 aerial refueling aircraft, doubling the number already in ...
- Israeli spies oppose Iran war: Former US envoy
Former US ambassador to Tel-Aviv says Israel’s intelligence agencies do not suggest a military strike on Iran, despite the fact that Israeli politicians push for it. “The really interesting thing about the Israeli situation is…that the heads of the three Israeli intelligence services do not seem ...
- 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. Thousands of major tribal leaders and militia commanders attended a celebrat ...
- US Defense Secretary: US will take Military Ac ...
US defense secretary Panetta says US will take military action to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons if all else fails Source.
- McCain to call for air strikes on Syria
Later today, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), the ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, will become the first U.S. senator to publicly call for U.S. led air strikes to halt the violence and atrocities being committed by the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. “After a ...
- TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tech news in 5 ...
The next iPad is minutes away from launch, Google is rebranding its Android apps and content offerings, and Twitter founders’ Obvious Corp. has unveiled its next project. It’s all in...
- TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
SimplyZesty gets snatched up for up to £5 million. LulzSec leader said to be turning in some top-ranking members, working with the FBI. Russia exempts the iPad from a 5%...
- TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
China Mobile is dominating iPhone use in China, but the iPhone isn’t even supported on the network. Apple’s 25 billionth downloaded app was Where’s My Water. Android is now the...
- TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
Twitter gives over user information of an account associated with the Occupy Movement. Apple is pushing forward with its plan for TV. VEVO logins are about to be through Facebook...
- TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
Chrome loses market share while IE gains for the 2nd month in a row. A new Apple TV could come right after the iPad 3 announcement. Japan warns Google about...
- Cairns and Brisbane, QLD: Two-Speed Economy - ...
Everyone has heard how good the mining industry is for Queensland but is this actually the case? The world’s largest coal mine is being developed 400km inland from Cairns, with a proposal to ship coal through the Whitsundays. There is no doubt that it will destroy existing jobs in tourism and a ...
- Australian Climate Leadership - Volunteer Oppo ...
Are you sick of hearing that “Australia is only a small part of the climate problem”, that “we shouldn’t act before the rest of the world”, and that “our actions won’t make any difference anyway”? BZE is challenging these excuses for inaction with a new report that aims to expose the true extent ...
- Hans-Josef Fell at ANU
German member of parliament Hans-Josef Fell, the key architect of the world's most successful renewable energy policies (feed-in tariffs) spoke at the Australian National University in Canberra last week. Below is a recording of his talk.
- Brace for an electric shock
Germany's 37 million households will soon be paying half as much on their annual electricity bills as Australian households. An average German household pays just $1060, or about $88 a month, for electricity to run their computers, lights and other household appliances, while an Austral ...
- House swap: I’ll take wind turbines over a coa ...
Wind turbines. You either love them (like 75 per cent of us), or hate them (15 per cent). Or, you couldn’t care less. Coal mines: you either love them, like those who reap their profits (20 per cent), or you hate them (80 per cent), like those who have to live near them. The problem of differing ...
- Solar cells cross new threshold
Imagine powering your cell phone by leaving it on the window sill. Sounds like science fiction? Actually, this might soon turn into reality. Scientists have been exploring the potential of solar energy for decades. One of the cheapest ways to turn solar energy into electricity is by creating sol ...
- Rally calls on Brazil President to veto new fo ...
A coalition of 200 organizations, known as the Comitê Brasil in Defense of Forests and Sustainable Development, rallied today in Brasilia against proposed changes to Brazil's Forestry Code. The code, which was supposed to be voted on this week but has been delayed to shore up more support, ...
- After illegal logging allegations, certifier l ...
Less than a week after Greenpeace released evidence that protected tree species were being illegally logged and pulped at an Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) mill in Sumatra, a major certifier, the Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC), has lodged a complaint and asked for an inves ...
- United Nations meets clean water goal
Over the past two decades (1990-2010) over two billion people have received access to improved drinking water, bringing the current number of people worldwide who have access to better water up to 89 percent. This accomplishment meets the UN's Millennium Development Goal's (MDG) target of cuttin ...
- Niger creates desert park bigger than Hungary
Yesterday, the Niger government formally created the Termit and Tin Toumma National Nature and Cultural Reserve in the Sahara Desert, reports the Sahara Conservation Fund. The reserve, now one of the largest in Africa, expands existing protected areas to 100,000 square kilometers (38,610 sq. mil ...
- What does Maada Bio have to hide? (Part 1)
Ceaseless and tireless enquiries about corruption have thrown up inevitably paradoxical results in present day Sierra Leone. When corruption is allowed to thrive with impunity and reckless abandon, it’s the people who suffer most. (Photo: Jarrah Kawusu-Konte, author) Richard C. Crook and James ...
- ACC takes the fight against corruption to Bomb ...
The Northern Regional office of the Anti-Corruption Commission has taken the educational approach in the fight against corruption to Bombali District Council. This was in the form of a sensitization meeting with staff of the Council on Tuesday 6th March 2012. (Photo: Cross section of Bombali Di ...
- Blair, Elumelu launch BEFP to strengthen Afric ...
Tony O. Elumelu, MFR, and Rt. Hon. Tony Blair were in Freetown on Tuesday, March 6, 2012, to formally kick off the first part of a joint innovative programme aimed at supporting transformational governments in Africa. The Blair Elumelu Fellowship Programme (BEFP) – a partnership between The Tony ...
- Progress in the Agenda for Change
Government has made significant progress in the implementation of the AGENDA for CHANGE during 2008 to 2010. The programmes and projects implemented under each of the strategic priorities of the AGENDA for CHANGE are detailed below: Energy Government recognised that access to reliable and afford ...
- The Politics of Lies
One of Sierra Leone’s prominent politicians once remarked that the ‘plasas’ or source of politics is lies. Politics cannot be eaten and enjoyed if it is not spiced with lies, the politician said. Sierra Leone is entering the challenging process of learning and properly experiencing the challenge ...
- Dairy prices dip but still at 'pretty good levels'
International dairy prices continue to drop in Fonterra's online auction but are still at "pretty good levels" says BNZ economist Doug Steel.The average price for a basket of products in the latest online auction dropped 0.9 per...
- Dairy prices fall at global auction
Prices of dairy products fell for the third straight sale on the GlobalDairyTrade platform in a week in which China lowered its target for economic growth and figures confirmed Europe's economy contracted.The GDT-TWI Price Index...
- Smaller investors sought for dairy farms
The balance between the cost of buying a dairy farm and how much it can earn is the best that Pastoral Dairy Investments chairman Malcolm Bailey says he can remember.Pastoral Dairy Investments (PDI) is looking to raise a minimum...
- Commodity prices hold steady in February
The ANZ commodity price index of New Zealand exports was unchanged during February, with declines in some areas balanced by gains in others.Dairy prices in aggregate fell 1 per cent, seafood dropped 4 per cent and the price of skins...
- Flood of European milk to hit market
Billions of litres of extra milk are expected to hit the global market once restrictions on European production are fully lifted, says Rabobank.It said its forecasts indicated when dairy quotas were fully lifted in 2015 an additional...
- Roundup killing food microorganisms?
From Sayer Ji at Green Med Info.com: “Disturbing new research indicates that the microbial biodiversity of the soil and our food is being dramatically impacted by the use of herbicides like glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller. Researchers … Continue rea ...
- Vernon Herschberger interview, part 2
Politics and Activism by Raoul Bedi of the Vedic Harmony Centre (www.canadafoodsecurity.info) In the first interview published last week we focused briefly on Vernon’s background but mainly on his “Sources of inspiration and role models “. The same day the … Continue reading →
- OSPCA raiding Amish farms in Ontario
According to Michael Schmidt, 45 inspectors of the OSPCA raided 16 Amish farms in Huron County. No charges were laid. They found one dog with an ear infection, one puppy born the night before laying away from his mother, and tarter … Continue reading →
- The Declaration of Food Independence
From Kimberly Hartke on her Hartke is Online blog: “…Liz Reitzig served as emcee for the rally, and introduced Canadian dairy farmer Michael Schmidt who spoke to the crowd about how food rights and small farms were at risk all … Continue reading →
- Environmental “obesogens” are what ...
From the Institute for Science in Society (ISIS): Persistent environmental pollutants responsible for obesity epidemic Prof. Joe Cummins. A fully referenced version of this report is posted on ISIS members website and is otherwise available for download here Obesity epidemic Metabolic diseases a ...
- Currency Looniness and Reserve Currency Madnes ...
Given the clearly dire consequences associated with Greece being in a currency union with no control over its own currency, one might think such results would put an immediate halt to new currency unions and momentum of countries instituting new currency pegs as well. Yet, about a week ago, ...
- Mitt Romney's Foolish Pledge to Re-Fight the C ...
On the basis of Mitt Romney's latest appeal to the far right, including a vow to "teach Iranians the meaning of American resolve", and also on Romney's pledge to start a trade war with China, I am now willing to state that I would just assume see president Obama reelected as Mitt Romney be elect ...
- Concerns in Germany About Its Gold at the NY F ...
GoldCore has a pair of interesting articles on German concerns about its gold reserves. The most recent article regards gold held outside Germany. Please consider Germany to Review Bundesbank Gold Reserves in Frankfurt, Paris, London and Federal Reserve Bank of New York German lawmakers ...
- Mish Video on Capital Account, March 6: Nether ...
Once again it was a pleasure to be on Capital Account with Lauren Lyster yesterday afternoon. We discussed Europe, a Eurozone breakup, and general investment ideas proposed by Marc Faber, and my own thoughts on the same subject. Link if video does not play: Netherlands looking for Eu ...
- LPS Home Price Index Shows U.S. Home Prices Ac ...
U.S. home prices declines to a new low for the move and are back to a level last seen in September-October 2002 according to a LPS News Release. The LPS HPI national average home price for transactions during December 2011 reached a price level not seen since September 2002. This is the ...
- Balochistan: CIA Carving Out New Role
… but this started before 9/11 and with a direct link to 9/11 Just finished reading the latest on CIA-Balochistan, and had to write a quick post and share. ISLAMABAD: The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), led by David Petraeus the former Commander, US Forces Afghanistan (USFOR-A), has a strateg ...
- BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- February ...
BFP Nightly Quote “Whether the mask is labelled Fascism, Democracy, or Dictatorship of the Proletariat, our great adversary remains the Apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across the frontier or the battlelines, which is not so much our enemy as our b ...
- Podcast Show #78- US Government Mandatory Vacc ...
The
Boiling Frogs Presents Barbara Loe Fisher Is it in the best interests of the citizens of this free society, or of public health officials in positions of authority in federal or state government, to use the heel of the boot of the state to crush all dissent to mandatory vaccination la ...
- Media Sleepwalks, While History Is In the Making
Re-Burying the Recently Unearthed 9/11 Reports In the last week, three important new articles have added to our understanding and raised new questions about the crimes of September 11, 2001. As of today, Friday morning, there is nary a peep about their contents in the U.S.mainstream media. Th ...
- BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- February ...
BFP Nightly Quote “A free government with an uncontrolled power of military conscription is the most ridiculous and abominable contradiction and nonsense that ever entered into the heads of men.” – Daniel Webster International Newsworthy Iran: Convoluted Fuse to Bangkok Bombs I ...
- Is Obama a Fraud?
The debt deal is yet another sign that hope and change has been a fiction from the start: Like many, I was extremely hopeful when Obama won in 2008. And like many I’ve become totally disillusioned with the president and … Continue reading →
- Today’s Stories
Good politifact piece on how Social Security functions and its solvency How the state is revoking our civil liberties by imprisoning people, in some cases for up to 15 years, for recording police brutality with smart phones Economist Dean Baker … Continue reading →
- The Tyranny of American Healthcare
For those who read this on Splice, be sure to re-read the unedited version… Why are we trying to prop up a broken system?: Do you realize how badly you’re being screwed by the health insurance corporations? Let me give … Continue reading →
- Today’s Stories
Politifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →
- Today’s Stories
Politifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →
- The mercenary qualities of liberal economists
Here is Mankiw circa 2007: Thursday, July 19, 2007 The Taxation of Carried Interest Several people have asked me my views on the taxation of carried interest. It is a complicated issue, and I don’t pretend to be an … Continue reading →
- "Monopolies" and "these Monopoly Constructs"
History Shows That Copyright Monopolies Prevent Creativity And Innovation by Rick Falkvinge As originally posted on: TorrentFreak March 5, 2012 We all too frequently hear that the copyright monopoly is supposed to encourage creativity and that the patent monopoly is supposed to encourage in ...
- Stop closing your model
The classical theorists resemble Euclidean geometers in a non-Euclidean world, who discovering that in experience straight lines apparently parallel often meet, rebuke the lines for not keeping straight—as the only remedy for the unfortunate collisions which are occurring. Yet, in … Conti ...
- Peggy Nash or Bust
OK time to get off the fence. There are presently two visions of social democracy at play within the NDP. One that wants to drag the NDP further to the neoliberal centre and one that wants to take a pause … Continue reading →
- Rppe.org under attack
For those trying to access RPPE.ORG the site has been temporarily suspended do to an attack. It appears the attack was directed at the parent host. I knew something was up as I have had boat load of hits coming … Continue reading →
- Palestinian shot dead in West Bank
Israeli forces have shot dead a Palestinian and wounded another in a village near the southern West Bank city of al-Khalil (Hebron).
- Female protester killed in S Arabia
A female student in Saudi Arabia has been killed during an anti-government protest rally in the southwestern city of Abha, the capital city of Asir Province.
- Saudi vendor sets himself on fire
A Saudi Arabian vendor has self-immolated in the northern city of Ar'ar as anti-regime protests culminate in the Persian Gulf kingdom.
- Arab TVs exaggerate Syria death toll
Contrasting figures of the mortalities have raised doubts about the validity of news reports released by anti-Damascus media outlets about the developments in Syria.
- Twin blasts hit N Syria security posts
Two bomb explosions have targeted security and police offices in northern Syria in the latest terrorist attacks against the government forces in the country.
- Smarmy Prince, Contemptible Hypocrite, Ayatoll ...
What a group. What a choice. The remaining field of Republican presidential candidates is one of the weakest in history. It is not just the liberal media that thinks so. Former Republican Congressman and current MSNBC host Joe Scarborough believes it and right wing pundit Charles Krauthammer cal ...
- Silently Waiting
The ruthless brutality which humankind has been known to unleash upon their fellow humans throughout history seems unrelenting and in fact almost unbelievable when considered in hindsight. For example, the Holocaust, the Trail of Tears, the Middle Passage, and the Great Purge – all events of his ...
- Choices and Trade-offs…Why I Chose CUNY ...
Hi everyone, my name is Coy. The year 2011 was a year of opportunities, challenges, and new experiences. My first semester as a CUNY SPS student greatly expanded my perspectives as I found myself introduced to the vast amount of resources we – students, workers, and citizens of a digital world – ...
- Get ready, get set, go!
2011 is behind us and now we’ve embarked on a new year, 2012. Last year was a pretty good year, especially for me in academia. As many students can attest, the beginning of a new semester can bring with it, new challenges, fresh perspectives and even elevated stresses. In my experience, as a mo ...
- Those Crazy Chain Emails and Those Who Believe ...
I had a different blog post almost completely written, but then a friend of mine forwarded an email to me entitled, “WHERE ARE ALL THE GIRLFRIENDS OF OBAMA?”. I replied, “Are you serious?” and thus began yet another crisis in our friendship since high school and my scrapp ...
- Netanyahu’s Gift Book of Esther
According to press reports, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave President Obama a gift during his visit to Washington, as he urged the U.S. to attack Iran: a copy of the Old Testament Book of Esther. Officials around Netanyahu referred to the text as “background reading” on Iran for O ...
- Back to Basics in Palestine: Redefining Our Re ...
The Winter 2012 edition of Palestine News features a photograph of an old man. His white beard and traditional jalabiya give him the appearance of any Palestinian grandfather. His name is not given; he could be a Muslim or a Christian. We know that he comes from the West Bank village of Qusra, a ...
- Beware: De-Humanizing Labels
Label (n.)— short classifying phrase applied to a person… — Oxford Desk Dictionary In the stratified, hierarchical marketplace which we inhabit daily, we encounter (but do not relate to) “food servers,” “store clerks,” “flight attendants,” and so on. As “consumers,” we may even collaborate with ...
- The Corrupt Influence of Money in the American ...
I have a policy to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. And as I’ve made clear time and again during the course of my presidency, I will not hesitate to use force when it is necessary to defend the United States and its interests. – U.S. President Barack Obama, Sunday, March 5, 20 ...
- Marching Toward Syria with Eyes Cast Towards Iran
While all the incessant warmongering directed toward Iran at the annual AIPAC policy conference in Washington was grabbing the headlines, the momentum for Western intervention into Syria continued to steadily build. All those neo-con “real men,” it appears, just might prefer to go t ...
- Pentagon Launches Desperate Damage Control Ove ...
The Pentagon is engaging in damage control after shocking testimony yesterday by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta at a Senate Armed Services Committee congressional hearing during which it was confirmed that the U.S. government is now completely beholden to international power structures and that ...
- 1984 v. Brave New World
Within the next generation I believe that the world’s rulers will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their ...
- Not the Video Breitbart Died For: Leaked Obama ...
Will damning footage Andrew Breitbart intended to release March 1 ever surface unedited? Media outlets are frothing at the release of video that shows now President Obama a ‘radical’ Harvard rally supposedly demonstrative of racial division tactics he took part in. Indeed, Breitbart.com repor ...
- TSA Tacitly Admits $1 Billion Dollar Body Scan ...
The Transportation Security Administration has tacitly admitted that the critical flaws brought to light in a viral You Tube video yesterday which exposed how airport body scanners could easily be beaten are accurate, rendering the entire $1 billion dollar program virtually worthless. Enginee ...
- Breaking: Breitbart’s “Selectively ...
Earlier today, Buzzfeed’s Ben Smith announcedon Twitter that video researcher Andrew Kaczynski had released “the mysterious Harvard/Obama/race video that the Breitbart folks have been talking about.” The video, which Kaczynski says was “licensed from a Boston television station,” shows a you ...
Water Power
KELOLAND TV
By Brady Mallory Five water mains broke in Sioux Falls Tuesday night, resulting in problems from Downtown all the way to the Empire Mall, and neighborhoods in between. Traffic was even re-routed in places. City officials say all the damage is the ...
BusinessWorld Online Edition
THE WORLD has achieved the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) on safe drinking water, the United Nations (UN) said, even as it noted that the target in improving sanitation globally may not be reached before the 2015 deadline. In a statement released on ...
Reuters
(Reuters) - Mueller Water Products Inc (MWA.N) said on Thursday it agreed to sell two of its US units for $89.8 million in cash to private equity firm Wynnchurch Capital, sending its shares up about 25 percent. The company's stock -- which was the top ...
Joplin Globe
By Roger McKinney news@joplinglobe.com Missouri American Water Co. rates will increase after Wednesday's approval of a settlement agreement by the Missouri Public Service Commission. The rate increase, which is expected to take effect around April 1, ...
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