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Thomas Paine

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

Thursday, March 8, 2012

8 March - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Stop Congress' New Pro-War Resolution
    Summary: This was a major week in the debate over war with Iran versus diplomacy. The hawkish AIPAC lobby organized its annual conference in Washington, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu met with Obama at the White House, and the pro-war crowd had one goal in mind: to pressure the President to ...
  • Brent 12 March 7pm Public Meeting with Jeremy ...
    Summary: Brent Stop the War Coalition Event: Brent AGM: Jeremy Corbyn MP, Stop the War Coalition National Chair speaking on Don't Attack Iran Date: Monday 12 March Time: Refreshments from 7.00 pm, Meeting starts 7.30 pm Venue: Rumi's Cave, 26 Willesden Lane (Kilburn High Rd end) NW6 7S ...
  • Iran: Unavoidable Conflict?
    Summary: Thursday 8th March, 6:30pm, Room 509, EEE Building, Imperial College London SW72AZ UK Speakers: Paul Ingram, Mohammad Kamaali, Nyresa Cama In this chaired debate key areas of current events involving Iran will be discussed including the reasons for the escalating rhetoric against Ira ...
  • Israel, Iran and America: Auschwitz complex
    Summary: News flash: Israel is not master of its fate. It's not terribly surprising that a country with less than 8m inhabitants is not master of its fate. Switzerland, Sweden, Serbia and Portugal are not masters of their fates. source: The Economistread more
  • Attacking Iran Is Illegal
    Summary: As a State Party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), Iran claims a lawful right to develop nuclear energy, just as scores of States Parties including the United States mobilize such a right to develop nuclear energy. The Iranian leaders deny, in an unambiguous language, th ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Objects of Extinction -- Analysis of the Itoka ...
    A massiveve impact from an asteroid or comet occurs on Earth an average of once every million years. Many eminent scientists consider massive impacts as a possible impediment to the evolution of advanced intelligent life in the Universe. In the...
  • HyperActive Star Factories of the Milky Way's Disk
    A team of volunteer 'citizen' scientists has pored over observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and discovered more than 5,000 "bubbles" in the disk of our Milky Way galaxy. Young, hot stars blow these bubbles into surrounding gas and dust,...
  • Image of the Day: 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...
  • "Our Universe is Merely a Region of an Enormou ...
    "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." Sir Martin Rees,...
  • Physicists Seeing Hints of Higgs Boson in CERN ...
    Fermilab Tevatron physicists see hints of Higgs boson sighting consistent with those from LHC. New measurements announced today by scientists from the CDF and DZero collaborations at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory indicate that the elusive Higgs...

Natural News

  • Adding prebiotic, probiotic ingredients to inf ...
    Mothers who feed their babies formula rather than natural breast milk are doing their children a major disservice in terms of their immune development and overall health. But baby formula can at least be somewhat enhanced through the addition of prebiotic foods and probiotic...
  • Chlorella and cilantro for amazing daily detox ...
    (NaturalNews)The more you read NaturalNews and other health sites that are truthful, real, and don't pull punches, the more you're probably realizing that we are all under siege with toxins -- especially heavy metals -- in our air, water, and food. Heavy or toxic metals, such...
  • The legalized killing of every person on earth ...
    Can you imagine making a profit by killing or maiming millions of innocent men, women and children - everyday? Companies like, The Dow Chemical Company, DuPont and Monsanto produce some of the deadliest pesticides on the planet. These pesticides are slowly killing people...
  • Getting the jump on spring allergies
    With the unseasonably warm winter weather, trees and grasses will be pollenating earlier than usual. This could be a challenging season for allergy suffers. The highest percentage of people who suffer from spring allergies, show a pattern of congested liver, toxic...
  • Vermont Legislature: Keep the Vaccine Philosop ...
    March 7, 2012, To: The Vermont Legislature Re: SB 199, An Act Relating to Immunization Exemptions and the Immunization Pilot Program Honorable Vermont Legislators and Concerned Others: SB 199 seeks to eliminate the Great State of Vermont's vaccine philosophical...

Threat Level

  • Occupy Rolls Out Its Most Subversive Tech: A M ...
    It’s not often that something new for cultural alarmists to fret over just rolls up, all flashing and beeping. But here it comes: the homebrew Occupy arcade game on wheels. If conservatives are worried about video games encouraging violence, imagine how they'll react to an itinerant amusement de ...
  • TSA Pooh-Poohs Video Purporting to Defeat Airp ...
    The government responded angrily Wednesday to a YouTube video allegedly showing a 27-year-old Florida man sneaking a metallic object through two different body scanner devices at American airports. The Transportation Security Administration, though, refused to directly address whether Jonathan C ...
  • Researchers Seek Help in Solving DuQu Mystery ...
    Vancouver, British Columbia — DuQu, the malicious code that followed in the wake of the infamous Stuxnet code, has been analyzed nearly as much as its predecessor. But one part of the code remains a mystery, and researchers are asking programmers for help in solving it. The mystery concern ...
  • Anonymous Rocked By News That Top Hacker Snitc ...
    On the heels of 25 arrests of Spanish speaking anons last week, Anonymous was rocked Tuesday by the news that Hector Xavier Monsegur, the legal name of prominent Antisec, Sabu, has been cooperating with the FBI to hunt down other anon hackers from Lulzsec and Antisec. The chatter on the anon IRC ...
  • Hackers Vie for More than $1 Million to Take D ...
    As alleged hackers from LulzSec and Anonymous contemplate the possibility of a life behind bars, other hackers are limbering up in Canada this week to vie for more than $1 million in prize money for their hacking prowess.

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Romney Admits He Has No "Bold" New Tax Plan
    Two weeks ago, Mitt Romney unveiled what he has repeatedly deemed a "bold" plan to deliver a 20 percent across the board tax cut. As it turns out, the plan isn't so bold after all. For starters, it's largely a retread of the 15 percent tax cut scheme Bob Dole rode to defeat in 1996. And after ...
  • Ronald Romney Forgets Iran-Contra
    For the second time in four months, Mitt Romney has penned a tough-talking op-ed on the Iranian nuclear program. But this time, the almost certain GOP presidential nominee has introduced a new riff to his constant refrain that "If we re-elect Barack Obama, Iran will have a nuclear weapon. If yo ...
  • Conservatives Silent About Romney-Alinsky Link
    Barack Obama was 10 years old when legendary activist and organizer Saul Alinsky died in 1972. Nevertheless, right-wingers are frothing at the mouth at the discovery posthumously unearthed by the late Andrew Breitbart that then Illinois State Senator Obama was part of panel discussion after a 1 ...
  • How Can Mitt Romney Sleep at Night?
    Less than 24 hours after refusing to take hate radio host Rush Limbaugh to task for slandering Sandra Fluke , Mitt Romney reached a new low on Saturday. During an exchange with an Army mom yesterday in Ohio, Romney asked of the President who killed Osama Bin Laden, "How in the world can the com ...
  • Netanyahu Comes to Romney's Rescue
    GOP White House hopeful Mitt Romney and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu go way back. Their friendship dates back to the 1980's when, as Governor Romney pointed out during a December GOP debate, "We worked together at Boston Consulting Group." And from his aborted campaign for state p ...

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Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Lindzen’s Misrepresentation of Climate Science ...
      Following up on a repost of Skeptical Science’s recent debunking of Richard Lindzen’s February London presentation, here’s a repost of a RealClimate debunking of one of Lindzen’s new slides/graphs. The debunking is by NASA climate scientist Gavin Schmidt: Misrepre ...
  • How Richard Lindzen Screws Up Climate Science
      Widely debunked climate scientist Richard Lindzen was quoted in big a Washington Post article this last week that, to put it mildly, was a completely off-the-wall horrible piece. (For more on that, check out Joe Romm’s piece on the Post’s horrid false balance.) I’m not ...
  • Who Said It? Mitt Romney or Mr. Burns?
      Brilliant, and quite a challenging test (see below). If you’re not familiar with Mitt Romney, you are living in a hole. In all seriousness, though, a quick summary of the man known as Romney is that he’s super rich, fights for the super rich when in political power, and waves ...
  • Keystone XL Showtime (Again)
      The Keystone XL is still clinging for life in the U.S. Senate. Here’s a note from 350.org: It’s crunch time: the US Senate will be voting on Keystone XL very soon, as early as this week. Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid indicated that he will allow a vote on an amendment to [. ...
  • Body-Painted PETA Activists Protest Mumbai Zoo
    Body-painted activists with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) visited the Byculla Zoo in Mumbai, India today. “Bodypainted in an array of bright colours and holding a banner that reads, ‘Let Animals Show Their True Colours: Boycott Zoos’, members of People for ...

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Axis of Logic

  • Speculating on hunger - Poverty/World Hunger
    How to control global food commodity trading Financial speculators invested in food futures even before the great crash of 2008, driving up food prices to dangerous levels. This can and must be stopped. The asphalt road was straight and monotonous. ...
  • new essay by petras - China: Rise, Fall and Re ...
    Introduction The study of world power has been blighted by Eurocentric historians who have distorted and ignored the dominant role China played in the world economy between 1100 and 1800. John Hobson’s[1] brilliant historical survey of the world economy during this period provides an abundan ...
  • NAS Recognizes Global Warming as Established T ...
    Last year marked an important event for people fighting against global warming and climate change. The US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) acknowledged the validity of theories related to the two phenomena, and put them on par with such theories as Earth's age, the Big Bang and evoluti ...
  • UK Secretly Helping Canada Push its Tar Sands ...
    A European proposal would designate fuel from tar sands as resulting in 22 percent more greenhouse gas emissions than that from conventional fuels. But not if the UK has its way. The UK government has been giving secret support at the very highest ...
  • 39 dead in US tornado outbreak - World News
    5 March 2012 A spate of tornadoes Friday across the Midwest and South left 39 dead, hundreds injured, and entire towns demolished. Worst hit was eastern Kentucky, where at least 21 were killed, and southern Indiana, where 13 people died. Three others died in Ohio; Alabama and Georgia also ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Broken Windows on Wall Street
    By @KYYellowDog Great idea from Steve M: IF RIGHT-WINGERS LIKE THE "BROKEN WINDOWS" THEORY SO MUCH, WHY NOT TAKE IT FROM THE STREETS TO THE SUITES? James Q. Wilson died this past week. I mentioned Wilson and his "broken windows" theory in my last post, but I wanted to add one more point. Here's ...
  • Housekeeping Note
    I had no internet service from late morning until about fifteen minutes ago. On the one hand, it was really productive getting some writing done for school, on the other hand, I have precious little time to get a newswrap done at this hour, so I am going to apologize and promise that it will ret ...
  • Marine Fights for Voting Rights
    By @KYYellowDog Tomorrow - Thursday - activists will rally for voting rights in the Kentucky State Capitol. May they be inspired by the passion for justice displayed by this Marine veteran in Tennessee Tuesday: 55-year old former U.S. Marine Tim Thompson was turned away from the polls today, Sup ...
  • Songs to Fight the Plutocracy By: "Another Cou ...
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  • Winning Ugly
    By @BGinKC Super Tuesday was yesterday -- and I haven't felt such utter dissonance with reality since the last time I wandered through a Dali exhibit. What should have been a walk for Rmoney was instead a bloodletting. When the battle was over and the field was surveyed, it was slick with gore ...

Care 2

  • South Africa: Suspected Rhino Poachers Shot at ...
    One suspected rhino poacher has been shot dead, two others have been wounded and another arrested in a shootout with SAN Parks rangers at the Kruger National Park Submitted by Jill Vickerman to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Tell the Senate: Say NO to Bombing Iran! ACTION
    President Obama noted, "Already, there is too much loose talk of war. Over the last few weeks, such talk has only benefited the Iranian government, by driving up the price of oil, which they depend on to fund their nuclear program." Submitted by Nancy C. to World  |   Note-it! &n ...
  • Namibia: Seal Killing to Continue, Says Esau
    NAMBIA will continue to kill seals in compliance with the country's laws and relevant international practices although animal activists are doing all they can to stop the cull Submitted by Jill Vickerman to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • 2020VISION: Britain's most ambitious nature ph ...
    2O2OVISION is the most ambitious nature photography initiative ever staged in Britain. It aims to establish in the public mind the crucial link between people's wellbeing and a wilder UK - to show that healthy ecosystems are not optional, but are Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat  |  & ...
  • Man Confesses to Beating Girlfriend and Killin ...
    Dennis White was out on bond for molesting a child. When his girlfriend refused to give him money, he attacked her. She fled. Her dog bit him and he then killed the dog and her 6 puppies. Then White went to the grocery store. Please sign this petition! Submitted by Beth M. to Animals  |&n ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Santorum Hangs Around
    Mitt Romney’s inability to put Rick Santorum away is the story for the rest of March and into April. Spoke McKay Coppins, Buzzfeed, in Boston with the Romney campaign, and he pointed to the lack of a Plan B if Santorum wins Ohio. The results show that Romney will win Ohio late, and will ha ...
  • All Over but the Whining
    Santorum and Gingrich are genuinely delusional. Each lacks a national organization. Both continue to demonstrate complete incompetence when it comes to registering delegate slates and getting on the ballot. As we learned in the case of Obama vs. Hillary it is all about the delegates. Romney now ...
  • Super Tuesday Backgrounder * Open Thread [Updates]
    UPDATE: 11:06 p.m. ET: Turn on CNN, which has the latest and best numbers. Romney ahead in Ohio. (Screw the pundits’ obituaries!) 10 States (each described below)   ||   437 Delegates MSNBC – 6:00 p.m. || CNN – 7:00 p.m. || Fox ...
  • Rick Hurls
    Next door is a Pagan, and across the street is a Catholic family, and next to them are Unitarians and on the other side are Mormons. At the end of the lane are Presbyterians. Inside my home are Christians and Jews. Our best friends are Buddhists. And so it goes. We get along. We break [...]
  • Barbara Bush Campaigns for Romney in “Super Tu ...
    In a way, this robo-call says it all. Can you imagine Barbara Bush agreeing to do a robo-call for Rick Santorum or Newt Gingrich? Can you? There is no way she’d ever do it. After all, the woman has class. Yes, she is a dutiful Republican, but she’d never go the extra mile — mak ...

Futurismic

  • 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 ...

Therapy News

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • Man of Action - Philadelphia Citypaper
    Man of Action Philadelphia Citypaper After all, Lakey — an activist, Swarthmore peace-studies professor and civil-disobedience trainer who, at age 74, is about to walk across Pennsylvania to protest PNC Bank's financing of mountaintop-removal coal mining — has a bio that reads like a ... ...
  • Battle against invasion - Northern Rivers Echo
    Battle against invasion Northern Rivers Echo Michael O'Connell made Mountain Top Removal in 2007. It explores the effect that mountain top removal mining in West Virginia had on local communities. "Michael was very dedicated to the idea. When he landed in Brisbane he drove a thousand ki ...
  • Virginia Regulators Fail To Notify Public On M ...
    WAMU Virginia Regulators Fail To Notify Public On Mountaintop Removal WAMU Some environmental advocates say regulators in Virginia are issuing permits for mountaintop removal without sufficient public notice. The Sierra Club, Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards and Appalachian Mountain Advoca ...
  • Kathy Mattea and Barbara Kingsolver Team Up to ...
    Kathy Mattea and Barbara Kingsolver Team Up to Protest Mountaintop-Removal Mining Knoxville Metro Pulse By Cari Wade Gervin Coal Power: Kathy Mattea has morphed from superstar country singer to an environmental activist fighting mountaintop removal coal mining. “I've never really thought of ...
  • Activists: EPA should end Va.'s water permit p ...
    Activists: EPA should end Va.'s water permit power CBS News Activists want the US Environmental Protection Agency to strip Virginia regulators of the power to grant federal Clean Water Act permits for mountaintop removal coal mines. Virginia mining officials have consistently violated federa ...

Memeorandum

  • Remedial constitutional education for Kos (Kar ...
    Karl / Hot Air: Remedial constitutional education for Kos  —  As many of you still shun Twitter, I must share with you the wit and insight of nutroots commissar Markos “Kos” Moultisas on Rick Santorum's Super Tuesday speech:  —  Following widespread m ...
  • 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 ...
  • Obama adviser slams Romney for Limbaugh while ...
    The Daily: Obama adviser slams Romney for Limbaugh while planning to go on Maher  —  CHICAGO — While slamming Mitt Romney for not standing up to the “strident voices” on his side, a top Obama advisor is planning to spend some quality time with one on his own, T ...
  • Satellite images show Iran cleaning secret nuc ...
    Associated Press: Satellite images show Iran cleaning secret nuclear activity, sources say  —  Diplomat tells Associated Press alleged testing at site could indicate attempt to develop nuclear arms; other sources say images show vehicles at site, indicating crews trying to clean ...
  • Mitt Romney: Super Tuesday speech (Transcript, ...
    Kenneth W. Smith Jr / Washington Post: Mitt Romney: Super Tuesday speech (Transcript, video)  —  Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney delivered his Super Tuesday remarks from Boston on Tuesday night after winning primaries in Vermont, Virginia and Massachusetts.  He wa ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.1, Vanuatu region
    Thursday, March 8, 2012 03:51:34 UTC Thursday, March 8, 2012 02:51:34 PM at epicenterDepth: 13.10 km (8.14 mi)
  • M 5.1, Vanuatu
    Wednesday, March 7, 2012 13:56:03 UTC Thursday, March 8, 2012 12:56:03 AM at epicenterDepth: 21.30 km (13.24 mi)
  • M 5.6, South Sandwich Islands region
    Wednesday, March 7, 2012 12:02:53 UTC Wednesday, March 7, 2012 10:02:53 AM at epicenterDepth: 62.60 km (38.90 mi)
  • M 5.7, Papua, Indonesia
    Wednesday, March 7, 2012 12:00:45 UTC Wednesday, March 7, 2012 09:00:45 PM at epicenterDepth: 43.80 km (27.22 mi)
  • M 5.0, Tonga
    Wednesday, March 7, 2012 07:19:45 UTC Wednesday, March 7, 2012 08:19:45 PM at epicenterDepth: 253.20 km (157.33 mi)

China Dialogue

  • Design tips for a carbon market
    China is planning emission-trading trials in key spots including Beijing and Shanghai. Alvin Lin and Yang Fuqiang have some words of advice.China’s decision to launch a group of city and provincial-level carbon-trading trials is widely considered to be preparation for an absolute cap on em ...
  • Full circle for bikes in Beijing?
    Shannon Bufton promotes two-wheeled travel as an aspirational pastime. New Chinese riders are as interested in bicycles as cool objects as they are in where cycling can take them, he tells Olivia Boyd.Australian bike enthusiast Shannon Bufton is the founder of Smarter Than Car, an NGO that promo ...
  • How China can decarbonise by 2050
    China needs a long-term emissions reduction goal. Ajay Gambhir introduces one such target and how the country could reach it.The recent “breakthrough” at UN-led climate negotiations at Durban, in South Africa, involved all countries, developed and developing, for the first time agree ...
  • Sham victory for China’s pandas
    Progress breeding giant pandas in captivity masks a conservation failure: the species’ natural habitat is vanishing, writes Wang Dajun.Images of a dozen or more baby pandas being shown off to the public by researchers or reserve staff is a common sight in the media these days, giving the i ...
  • Central Asia’s dam debacle
    Grand engineering schemes have failed to address the political problems of water management. As climate change dries up the rivers, regional tensions will escalate, warns Eelke Kraak.The Toktogul Dam in Kyrgyzstan is an imposing structure. The dam guards the largest and only multi-annual water r ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • What I Learned Today in Virginia: Orwellian Lo ...
    Written by tlcasey for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. Early this morning, I learned that Governor McDonnell had ordered a SWAT Team to cover a Candlelight Vigil I attended the night before at ...
  • Are the Koch Brothers Funding Rush Limbaugh?
    By Robert Greenwald and Jesse Lava Just in time for the release of Brave New Foundation’s new film, Koch Brothers Exposed, Rush Limbaugh has thrown in with Charles and David Koch in their letter war with Obama campaign manager Jim Messina. No surprise there; Rush has made his fortune defen ...
  • All The Money In The World
    Have you ever wondered how your life might be different if you had “All The Money In The World?” In her new book by that same name, Laura Vanderkam turns that question on its head. Instead, Laura, who is also the critically-acclaimed author of “168 Hours: You Have More Time Tha ...
  • Is the Blunt Amendment Constitutional?
    Written by Annamarya Scaccia for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. The Obama Administration’s recently-announced accommodation to the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive mandate sho ...
  • BREAKING: Historic Victory: Coal Free Chicago ...
    In a move that should electrify the clean energy movement across the country, the tireless champions with the Chicago Clean Power Coalition have announced that Midwest Generation, a subsidiary of multinational giant Edison International, will soon shut down the Windy City’s two Model-T-era ...

Threat Level

  • Occupy Rolls Out Its Most Subversive Tech: A M ...
    It’s not often that something new for cultural alarmists to fret over just rolls up, all flashing and beeping. But here it comes: the homebrew Occupy arcade game on wheels. If conservatives are worried about video games encouraging violence, imagine how they'll react to an itinerant amusement de ...
  • TSA Pooh-Poohs Video Purporting to Defeat Airp ...
    The government responded angrily Wednesday to a YouTube video allegedly showing a 27-year-old Florida man sneaking a metallic object through two different body scanner devices at American airports. The Transportation Security Administration, though, refused to directly address whether Jonathan C ...
  • Researchers Seek Help in Solving DuQu Mystery ...
    Vancouver, British Columbia — DuQu, the malicious code that followed in the wake of the infamous Stuxnet code, has been analyzed nearly as much as its predecessor. But one part of the code remains a mystery, and researchers are asking programmers for help in solving it. The mystery concern ...
  • Anonymous Rocked By News That Top Hacker Snitc ...
    On the heels of 25 arrests of Spanish speaking anons last week, Anonymous was rocked Tuesday by the news that Hector Xavier Monsegur, the legal name of prominent Antisec, Sabu, has been cooperating with the FBI to hunt down other anon hackers from Lulzsec and Antisec. The chatter on the anon IRC ...
  • Hackers Vie for More than $1 Million to Take D ...
    As alleged hackers from LulzSec and Anonymous contemplate the possibility of a life behind bars, other hackers are limbering up in Canada this week to vie for more than $1 million in prize money for their hacking prowess.

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • Food Safety Lawyer Bill Marler On Sprouts, Raw ...
    By Blisstree’s Hanna Brooks Olsen: Based on the cases he’s tried and the amount of blogging he’s done on the subject, it’s amazing that Seattle-based food safety lawyer Bill Marler can eat anything he hasn’t grown or raised himself. But instead of being repu ...
  • They need to hear our stories - A Broken Syste ...
    Over the weekend I penned for Food Safety News, “Excluding Consumers a Bad Idea.” It was based upon reports that the cantaloupe industry was planning a series of meeting across the United States to develop a “new cantaloupe guidance document.” The report also made it cle ...
  • Why Some People in Michigan Drink Raw Milk - V ...
    Apparently today all charges were dismissed against Vernon Hershberger of Loganville, Wisconsin, who leases his cows to a "food buyers club," and had been charged with operating a retail food establishment without a license, operating a dairy farm as a milk producer without a license, operating ...
  • 74 Shigella Lawsuits Filed Against Subway in I ...
    Seventy-four people (Marler Clark clients) have filed lawsuits claiming they got Shigella infection, also known as dysentery, from a suburban Subway sandwich outlet. In one of 41 complaints filed this week in DuPage County Court, Tania Lesus sued Neel Subway dba Subway Restaurant, its owner Dah ...
  • Victims of Listeria Outbreak to be excluded fr ...
    Appalling seems to be the right word. I was hopefully reading Joan Murphy’s article in Produce News Daily, “Dates set for industry meetings on new cantaloupe guidance document,” until I read the last line of the article: The meetings are open to growers, buyers, auditors, aca ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Report: White House annouces $4.7B effort for ...
    Filed under: Government/Legal, Electric It's a big week for compressed natural gas vehicles, thanks to President Obama's announcement today that his administration wants to increase federal support for CNG automobiles by introducing a tax credit similar to the one in place for plug-in vehicle ...
  • Geneva: Volkswagen introduces four new Up! con ...
    Filed under: Concept Cars, Geneva Motor Show, Hatchback, Volkswagen Swiss. Winter. X. Cargo. Those are the names of the four new Up! models that Volkswagen has brought to the Geneva Motor Show, the latest expansion of the supermini that by now has more personalities than the United States ...
  • Report: GM shutting down Chevy Volt production ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Sedan, Hirings/Firings/Layoffs, Plants/Manufacturing, Chevrolet, GM, Electric Even with the new HOV-eligible 2012 Chevrolet Volt models heading to California and sales up in February, General Motors has reportedly decided to shut down production of the plug-in hybrid for ...
  • Official: Ford Focus Electric officially rated ...
    Filed under: Ford, Electric Coming soon to select Ford dealers, at least those on the coasts, is the most efficient five-passenger car in America, the 2012 Ford Focus Electric, which the EPA has certified gets 105 miles per gallon equivalent, combined. This is better than what the Blue Oval w ...
  • Official: Nissan Leaf available nationwide in ...
    Filed under: Car Buying, Hatchback, Nissan, Electric The wait is over. After the initial launch in limited markets at the end of 2010 and a methodical rollout in 2011, the Nissan Leaf will finally be available to order all around the U.S. starting pretty much immediately. Nissan recently sent ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Read an Excerpt from Anthony Shadid's New Memo ...
    On Thursday, we will interview reporter, Nada Bakri, wife of recently deceased, New York Times foreign correspondent, Anthony Shadid. Shadid died of an apparent asthma attack while covering the conflict in Syria. His newly published memoir, "House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a ...
  • Wikileaks vs. Stratfor: Pursue The Truth, Not ...
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan WikiLeaks, the whistle-blower website, has again published a massive trove of documents, this time from a private intelligence firm known as Stratfor. The source of the leak was the hacker group “Anonymous,” which took credit for obtaining more than 5 milli ...
  • Redefining Black Power: Pacifica Archives & Ci ...
    In this web exclusive interview, Amy Goodman interviews Joanne Griffith, editor of the new book, Redefining Black Power: Reflections on the State of Black America, a new which was inspired by historic recordings preserved in the Pacifica Radio Archives. She also speaks with Archives directo ...
  • Democracy Now!'s Sharif Abdel Kouddous Wins Iz ...
    Democracy Now! correspondent Sharif Abdel Kouddous , along with the Center for Media and Democracy, are co-winners of this year’s Izzy Award for Special Achievement in Independent Media . The Izzy Award is named after legendary maverick journalist I.F. Stone, who launched I.F. Stone’s ...
  • Jazz Legend Randy Weston: The Complete Democra ...
    Our full 78-minute interview with pianist and composer Randy Weston. Includes extended performances of many of Weston’s most famous songs: "High Fly," "Blue Moses," "African Cookbook," "In Memory Of," "The Healers," "African Lady,&quo ...

Suzie-Q

  • Obama to Romney: Make Your Case For War With I ...
    March 07, 2012 05:00 PM Crooks and Liars- By karoli Mitt Romney’s pathetic efforts to stain the President’s track record when it comes to foreign policy ring hollow and are actually dangerous, or could be. During his news conference yesterday, President Obama addressed Mitt Romney&#8 ...
  • Evening Jukebox: White Wedding (VIDEO)
  • Obama News Conference: President Holds First F ...
    By JIM KUHNHENN 03/ 6/12 11:00 AM ETAssociated Press WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is aiming mortgage relief at members of the military as well as homeowners with government-insured loans, the administration’s latest efforts to address a persistent housing crisis. In his first ...
  • George Will Blasts GOP Candidates’ Meek Respon ...
    Think Progress   By Judd Legum  on Mar 4, 2012 at 1:54 pm This morning on ABC, prominent conservative columnist George Will blasted the Republican leadership’s meek response to Rush Limbaugh’s sexist attacks on Sandra Fluke. Will mocked Speaker John Boehner for calling Rush’s language “inappropr ...
  • Operation Chaos – Proof That The Two Parties A ...
    March 4, 2012 Addicting Info   By Wes Bishop It is often heard in political discussions that there is very little difference between America’s two political parties. The declarations are common that they both are corrupt, that they both lie, that they both represent what is wrong with the countr ...

Solari

  • Quote du Jour
    “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” - Richard Buckminster Fuller Related reading: Buckminster Fuller From Wikipedia  
  • Bluebird
    By Catherine Austin Fitts I am leaving Los Angeles for Ojai today. A blue jay has been appearing in the back yard. My friend Nina says she has never seen one in her garden before. She says the bluebird of happiness is following me around. Nina has a big grey cat who is quite [...]
  • Kucinich’s Politics Career Defined by Adversity
    By Heidi Przybyla Representative Dennis Kucinich’s exit from Congress is among many setbacks defining his 42-year political career, dating to the 1978 attempt to recall him as the “boy mayor” of Cleveland. The 65-year-old Ohio (BEESOH) Democrat is among the first casualties in at least 10 conte ...
  • Special Ops Forces Create “Visible and Dramati ...
    By Steven Aftergood U.S. special operations forces are engaged in “more than 100 countries worldwide,” said Adm. William H. McRaven, commander of U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM), in testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee yesterday. “In significant ways, our forces are crea ...
  • Interested in Lunch With Catherine?
    If you are a Solari Report subscriber, you are cordially invited to meet and have lunch with Catherine at one of the many places she will be traveling to. This will provide an opportunity for you to meet Catherine in person and to get together with other Solari Report subscribers in your area. S ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Our leaders explain that we’re sheep. O ...
    Summary:  Sharks often use the ”bump and bite” attack:  The shark tests its prey by repeatedly bumping it.  If the prey gives no dangerous response, the shark begins its attack — biting the prey repeatedly and viciously.  It works for sharks, as it has worked for our leaders.  ...
  • Our leaders explain that we’re sheep. O ...
    Summary:  Sharks often use the ”bump and bite” attack:  The shark tests its prey by repeatedly bumping it.  If the prey gives no dangerous response, the shark begins its attack — biting the prey repeatedly and viciously.  It works for sharks, as it has worked for our leaders.  ...
  • Preparing for the Evacuation of Israel
    Summary:  This article by guest author Franz Gayl (Major, USMC, retired) looks ahead beyond Israel’s current moment in the sun.  They face a divided Arab people and even more fragmented Islamic societies, which they overawe by their massive military strength — exercised in the shadow ...
  • Preparing for the Evacuation of Israel
    Summary:  This article by guest author Franz Gayl (Major, USMC, retired) looks ahead beyond Israel’s current moment in the sun.  They face a divided Arab people and even more fragmented Islamic societies, which they overawe by their massive military strength — exercised in the shadow ...
  • How to Fund an American Police State (aka Weap ...
    Summary:  America fades away before our eyes while we snooze.  What can we do to reawaken our fellow citizens?  Perhaps we can do no more than warn our fellow citizens, so that’s what we do.  Today we have “Weaponizing the Body Politic” from TomDispatch, 4 March 2012, reposted ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

  • Top of the Morning: International Women’s Day; ...
    Top stories from DAWNS Digest US War Plans for Syria? Some important testimony in the US Congress on Wednesday. “President Obama has asked the Pentagon for military options on Syria, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, told the Senate on Wednesday. But both Genera ...
  • Ask the Experts: Where Are the Women in Foreig ...
    Having worked at a number of institutions over the past fifteen years, I have long been struck by the proportional underrepresentation of women in U.S. foreign policy and national security positions. In an attempt to understand the scope and extent of this gender gap, I wrote a piece that examin ...
  • The US Will not ‘Pivot’ Much to Asia: We Don’t ...
     I found this image here. So the US pivot toward Asia is all the rage in foreign policy now. Obama and Secretary Clinton genuinely seem to believe in this, and there good reasons for it. Briefly put, Asia has the money, people, and guns to dramatically impact world politics in a way that no ...
  • Former Mossad Director: Romney "Is Making the ...
    Efraim Halevy Mitt Romney’s oped in today’s Washington Post claimed — without offering any evidence — that Iran has a “nuclear-bomb program” and that the Islamic Republic is “racing to build a nuclear bomb.” Currently, U.S. intelligence and the IA ...
  • Invisible Children: Saviors or Sensationalists?
    Ed note.  Invisible Children’s new advocacy video has caught the social media world by storm. There’s been nearly 2 million views on YouTube since it was posted two days ago, and a raging discussion on Twitter.  I (Mark) asked Alanna to for her thoughts on the video.  She is a fantas ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • He's One of Them
    How did Mitt Romney scratch out a Super Tuesday win in Ohio, the state where Rick Santorum led by double digits just a few eye blinks ago and had the blue-collar evangelical message and cultural bona fides on his side? It was the usual formula: Mucho super PAC money, plus enthusiastic support f ...
  • Fumblerooski
    The sophisticated political observer doesn’t need public opinion polls to weigh the odds of President Obama’s re-election. Economic indicators drive voters, and if the president and his party come up short in November, the recriminations won’t be aimed at campaign headquarters in Chicago but at ...
  • The Difference a Different Decider Makes
    Two different guys. As the bleating of the Republican war caucus gets louder and louder, it's beginning to sound a lot like 2002, when the Bush administration was treating us to daily news about the terrifying threat posed by Saddam Hussein's vast arsenal of weapons of mass destructio ...
  • As the Economy Goes, So Do the Birthers
    Andy Borowitz wrote a piece called “In Positive Economic Sign, Republicans Starting to Say Obama Wasn’t Born in US,” and Barry Ritholz writes: The NYT’s Floyd Norris, on a hunch, decided to crunch them to see if there is any math underlying the funny business. As it turns out, there is: Anyone ...
  • Separated at Birth?
    Is it just me? Something about Ron Paul just reminds me desperately of Dennis Kucinich. That irrepressible grin, the don’t-bother-me-with-the-facts ideas, the feeling that they’re bouncing on the heels behind the podium—anyone agree?        

Buzzflash

  • The Tax Hypocrisy of the Wall Street Journal
    GERALD E. SCORSE FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Nobody outdoes the Wall Street Journal at decrying the federal deficit, berating President Obama for it, and predicting economic disaster if it isn't fixed. So it was amusing to see the Journal weeping over a lapsed tax break that added to the deficit, ...
  • The Unbearable Heaviness of Being Newt Gingrich
    BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT "I am the tortoise. I just take one step at a time," Gingrich declares at a Georgia victory celebration. If he was half the statesman he fancies himself, the headlines from Super Tuesday might have read, "Gingrich Bows Out Gracefully." Instead, those payi ...
  • Let's Face It: Rush Limbaugh is a Misogynist
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Let's face it: Rush Limbaugh is a misogynist. That makes him fit right in with the current Republican war on women. What we're seeing here is the modern incarnation of the "barefoot and pregnant" male cultural standard: the subjugation of females, ...
  • The Passing of Andrew Breitbart: Know Thine En ...
    STEVEN JONAS, MD, MPH FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT "Andrew Breitbart, the conservative blogger and journalist, died suddenly on Thursday morning, according to his website Big Journalism. He was 43. The site said that Breitbart died of ‘natural causes' shortly after midnight on Thursday." So the H ...
  • The Best Reason for the Very Rich to Pay a Lot ...
    PAUL BUCHHEIT FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Before getting into the best reason, here are some of the usual - and always good -- reasons. First of all, for every dollar the richest 1% earned in 1980, they've added three more dollars. The poorest 90% have added ONE CENT. The richest million families ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Three minutes of exercise is not enough
    BBC Horizon recently discussed the recent burst of activity surrounding claims that just 3 minutes of very intense exercise (HIT high intensity training), done in 3×20 second sessions three times each week is enough to improve various health factors (such as insulin sensitivity and lung cap ...
  • This week’s (al)chemical happenings
    The Alchemist learns this week how phosphorus atoms might be perfectly placed to build a quantum computer and how fluorescent gel and filter paper might put explosive sniffer dogs out of work. In environmental remediation the reverse of gold-digging could be used to remove toxic mercury ions fro ...
  • Rock on @GulliverTurtle
    Gulliver Turtle was checking out my guitars and stuff yesterday, making sure I’d turned everything up to 11…there he is, third shelf up, on the right, next to my wife’s copy of Streitwieser & Heathcock “Introduction to Organic Chemistry” (2nd edn 1981) and just ...
  • Making scientific peer review open
    Scientific reputation is essential to researchers for their academic advancement, tenure, research grants and fellowships. It relies, most of the times, on quantitative metrics such as the H Index, citation counts, article counts etc. And, of course, getting published in a journal in the first p ...
  • Shy showoffs sitting on the social spectrum
    I’ve always thought of myself as a shy showoff…others may disagree. But, to my mind it explains why you’ve probably never seen me give a lecture a science or journalism conference but you may have heard me sing and play guitar in front of 600 people at West Road Concert Hall in ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Amnesty International Urges Maldives Security ...
    Maldives police and military forces responded with violence against a peaceful rally backing the Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP), violating international standards against the use of excessive force, Amnesty International documented in the Maldives today.read more
  • Amnesty International Urges Maldives Security ...
    Maldives police and military forces responded with violence against a peaceful rally backing the Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP), violating international standards against the use of excessive force, Amnesty International documented in the Maldives today.read more
  • On Super Tuesday, Vermont Pushed Campaign to O ...
    The people have spoken, loud and clear. Super Tuesday showed us that momentum is growing rapidly for a constitutional amendment to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which opened the floodgates of corporate cash in our elections. T ...
  • On Super Tuesday, Vermont Pushed Campaign to O ...
    The people have spoken, loud and clear. Super Tuesday showed us that momentum is growing rapidly for a constitutional amendment to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which opened the floodgates of corporate cash in our elections. T ...
  • Cincinnati Joins Growing List of Cities Suppor ...
    Cincinnati, Ohio, today joined more than a dozen other U.S. cities in supporting the Environmental Protection Agency and President Barack Obama using the Clean Air Act to clean our air, reduce greenhouse gas pollution and slow global warming. The Cincinnati City Council, in passing a resolution ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • PTSD: A Cancer of the Spirit
    Robert C. Koehler Can we squeeze the glory out of the word “war”? Can we talk about savage irrationality and lifelong inner hell instead? Can we talk about the wreckage of two countries? Can we talk about spiritual cancer?read more
  • A Super Tuesday as Vermont Pushed to Overturn ...
    Aquene Freechild The people have spoken, loud and clear. Super Tuesday showed us that momentum is growing rapidly for a constitutional amendment to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Comm ...
  • A Super Tuesday as Vermont Pushed to Overturn ...
    Aquene Freechild The people have spoken, loud and clear. Super Tuesday showed us that momentum is growing rapidly for a constitutional amendment to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Comm ...
  • Worker ‘Occupations’ in 3 States Yield Success ...
    Mike Elk 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&mdash ...
  • Worker ‘Occupations’ in 3 States Yield Success ...
    Mike Elk 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&mdash ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • VAN ZANT: Fred Hall Show fights to save 'o ...
    This year's Fred Hall Show, which runs through Sunday, is dedicated to "Save California Fishing." The goal of the show is to get 5,000 anglers to sign up.
  • Financial woes shake the DRBC
    The financial noose is tightening for the Delaware River Basin Commission, the arbiter of whether natural gas drilling will occur in the watershed.
  • Sharon Kleyne Hour Power of Water Celebrates M ...
    Steven Solomon, Author of, Water: The Epic Struggle, Talked with Sharon Kleyne, founder of Bio Logic Aqua Research and host of Sharon Kleyne Hour, on World Water Day 2010.Grants Pass, OR (PRWEB) March 06, 2012 "United Nations World Water Day (March 22) offers an opportunity become educated ...
  • Financial woes shake the DRBC
    The financial noose is tightening for the Delaware River Basin Commission, the arbiter of whether natural gas drilling will occur in the watershed.
  • House Passes Bill to Reverse Water Diversions ...
    Farmers have been fighting water shortages in the valley as a result of water diversions to the San Francisco Bay to protect the endangered minnow the Delta smelt with the Endangered Species Act.

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • Interview: why Hana al-Shalabi's hunger strike ...
    Jillian Kestler-D'Amours 7 March 2012 Khitam Saafin, chairwoman of the Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees, talks to The Electronic Intifada about the challenges Palestinian women face today and why Hana al-Shalabi’s hunger strike should be supported.
  • Stealing a moment in a stolen land: the photog ...
    Jonathan Cook Nazareth 5 March 2012 Katie Ramandan’s collection of photos currently on exhibition in Nazareth explores the meaning of home and the boundaries between private and public space.
  • Detaining Africans latest step in making Israe ...
    Sophie Crowe Tel Aviv 2 March 2012 The African asylum-seekers have been greeted upon arrival in Israel with a hostile government that offers them no support or protection and wants them out.
  • New book deconstructs myth that the Zionist le ...
    Jimmy Johnson 2 March 2012 Anti-Zionist scholar, writer and longtime activist Tikva Honig-Parnass’s new book False Prophets of Peace: Liberal Zionism and the Struggle for Palestine critically analyzes Israel’s left.
  • Gaza gears up for Israeli Apartheid Week
    Rana Baker and Joe Catron Gaza Strip 1 March 2012 Students across the occupied Gaza strip prepare for the third consecutive year of Israeli Apartheid Week events, structured around strengthening the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement and bridging global struggles for liberation.

The Wonk Room

  • Syrian Deputy Oil Minister: ‘I Do Not Wa ...
    Syria’s deputy oil minister appears in an online video announcing his defection, making him the highest ranking official to abandon President Bashar al-Assad’s regime. The minister, Abdo Husameddine, said he was joining the opposition because of the government’s “brutal&# ...
  • Anti-Gay Group Abandons Failed Boycott Of JC P ...
    One Million Moms was outraged that JC Penney would affiliate itself with a “high-profile homosexual entertainer” like Ellen DeGeneres, but its attempt to boycott the store has fizzled. Director Monica Cooley believes “only time will tell,” because the group is now moving ...
  • GOP Rep. Blasts Norquist’s Anti-Tax Pled ...
    Anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist’s “Taxpayer Protection Pledge” — which states that the signing lawmaker will never raise taxes for any reason, ever — has held Republicans in lockstep against tax increases in recent years. But with the country facing large deficits ...
  • Hate Groups Are On The Rise, Southern Poverty ...
    The number of hate groups and antigovernment organizations “in the nation has continued to grow, according to a report released Wednesday by the Southern Poverty Law Center.” At least 1,018 hate groups were operating last year, SPLC found, while the “number of groups whose ideo ...
  • Morning Briefing: March 8, 2012
    President Obama fired back at Republicans on gas prices yesterday, saying, “We are not going to be able to just drill our way out of the problem of high gas prices.” “Anyone who tells you otherwise either doesn’t know what they are talking about or they are not telling yo ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Why I've Been Blogging About Trolls
    Because I'm busy. The big story, ... the HUGE story is the harpercon assault on the integrity of our electoral process. And that story requires serious attention which I don't have the time for, but which Dr. Dawg, Montreal Simon, Alison at Creekside and Sixth Estate (among others) are doing. B ...
  • A Blast From The Past
    Read this for shits n' giggles.
  • How a "conservative"/troll thinks ....
    Sane person: "Electoral fraud is a stab at the heart of democracy. It looks like the Conservative Party of Canada engaged in it. We need to find out. We need to get to the bottom of it. We need a public inquiry." Conservative/Troll: "Ha! Stupid lefties can't take it! Sore losers! It's a smear j ...
  • "Wayne"
    You know, in some respects, "Wayne" or "L. Wayne Mathison," would be the gift that keeps on giving. Like most right-wing shit-heads there's a lot of unintended comedy in his comments. The beauty of consistency though is that I never have to waste time thinking: "Is this comment from the banned r ...
  • I Love the Smell of harpercon Fear in the Morning!
    Hah! You know, the funniest thing about this whole subversion of the democratic electoral process is that harper might have had his majority, albeit a smaller one, without all the desperate, sleazy, anti-democratic vote-suppression and fraud. But now, even though witless harpercon trolls like S ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Canadian scientists are the first to measure t ...
    A team of Canadian physicists have measured an antimatter atom for the first time. The research could prove to be important in understanding the Big Bang and the creation of the universe.
  • Another Toronto Maple Leaf season done in - by ...
    Look, I don't say this with any pleasure and did not want it to be so. In fact, though not a member of the Leaf Nation - it seems to exact too much pain - I feel their missing the playoffs is bad for the NHL. They should be there.
  • Sick Kids Hospital gets historic $40 million gift
    Today the mood was joyous at Sick Kids Hospital in Toronto when they received a transformational gift of $40 million donated by business leader Peter Gilgan, Founder and CEO of Mattamy Homes.
  • NHL: Maple Leafs lose Lupul, bring up Carter A ...
    It's not what Toronto Maple Leafs fans wanted to hear but the team announced Wed. March 7 that Joffrey Lupul will be out 3 to 4 weeks after separating his shoulder against Boston Tuesday. The Leafs called up newly acquired Carter Aston to replace him.
  • Toyota recalls Camrys, Venzas and Tacomas due ...
    Toyota has issued a safety recall to correct problems on approximately 70,500 Camry and 116,000 Venza models. In a separate problem, the manufacturer has also recalled approximately 495,000 Tacoma trucks.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

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

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • U.S. Prison Business: Privatize Profits, Socia ...
    February 16, 2012 Activist Post By Joe Wright “There is big money to be made in prisons. Why do you think more people are incarcerated in the US than any other country? It’s always all about the money.” –KTRN A new report from Chris Kirkham for Huffington Post, reinforces ...
  • Fake Drugs – All At a Pharmacy Near You!
    February 16, 2012 Forbes By Henry I. Miller A counterfeit version of Avastin, a widely used and expensive intravenous cancer drug. has according to the FDA been found in the U.S. It is unclear whether any of the bogus drug, which lacks any of the active ingredient, has been administered to patie ...
  • Maine Caucuses: Counties Ron Paul Won Were Ign ...
    February 16, 2012 Info Wars By Steve Watson “Here is even more proof of major vote fraud in Maine.  They don’t want Ron Paul to win – but he will.”  –KTRN As we previously reported, much to the ire of the Ron Paul campaign, Washington County – where Ron Paul was inc ...
  • Alaska Bill Would Criminalize Invasive TSA Pat ...
    February 16, 2012 Info Wars By Paul Joseph Watson “Alaska seems to be the one state that truly gets it.” –KTRN A bill introduced by Alaska lawmaker and TSA grope victim Rep. Sharon Cissna would criminalize both invasive pat downs and body scans that produce naked images conduct ...
  • Organic Milk Low As Demand Up And Farmers Struggle
    February 16, 2012 USA Today “Got milk?” is getting to be a difficult question when it comes to organic.Because even as more consumers are willing to pay premium prices for organic milk, supermarkets are having trouble keeping it on the shelves as high feed and fuel prices have left s ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Orwell covers the crime beat on Nanking Road…
    By Michael FarrellWednesday, March 7th, 2012 One of the things that binds loose collectives of malcontented malevolent dissidents, anarchists and soldiers, political thinkers and intellectual dilettantes that make up the staff of any blog is our general aversion to the impact of the totalitarian ...
  • Jon Stewart laments ‘never-ending gobstopper’ ...
    On his show Wednesday night, Daily Show host Jon Stewart compared the Republican presidential primary to Zeno’s paradox, claiming candidates could never actually arrive at the endpoint. “All I heard was that Tuesday was Super Tuesday,” he said, “because we would finally h ...
  • Podcast: Why Occupy? A government, history tea ...
    Podcast: Why Occupy? A government, history teacher explains By Carl Hermanwashingtonsblog.com 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 com ...
  • Sen. Levin would ‘love’ Armed Forces Network t ...
    Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI), chairman of the Armed Services Committee, said Wednesday that the Armed Forces Network should drop conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh. “I would hope the people that run it see just how offensive this is and drop it on their own volition,” Levin told CNN. Vo ...
  • Not the Video Breitbart Died For: Leaked Obama ...
    Prison Planet March 7, 2012 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 ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Responsibility to Protect or justifying the Ri ...
    by William Bowles Featured Writer Dandelion Salad williambowles.info 7 March 2012 Frankly, it’s not easy defending the Ba’ath regime in Syria, after all not so long ago the Communist Party in Syria and other left groups were suppressed by the ruling Ba’ath Party, its members th ...
  • Responsibility to Protect or justifying the Ri ...
    by William Bowles Featured Writer Dandelion Salad williambowles.info 7 March 2012 Frankly, it’s not easy defending the Ba’ath regime in Syria, after all not so long ago the Communist Party in Syria and other left groups were suppressed by the ruling Ba’ath Party, its members th ...
  • Obama Can Do More on Oil Prices by Ralph Nader ...
    Dandelion Salad By Ralph Nader The Nader Page Mar. 6, 2012 Gasoline and heating oil prices are ratcheting up. In California, some motorists are paying over $5 per gallon. President Obama declared that “there is no quick fix” for this problem. Meanwhile, the hapless but howling Republ ...
  • Obama Can Do More on Oil Prices by Ralph Nader ...
    Dandelion Salad By Ralph Nader The Nader Page Mar. 6, 2012 Gasoline and heating oil prices are ratcheting up. In California, some motorists are paying over $5 per gallon. President Obama declared that “there is no quick fix” for this problem. Meanwhile, the hapless but howling Republ ...
  • Zionism loves colonialism, Zionism is colonial ...
    by William Bowles Featured Writer Dandelion Salad williambowles.info 7 March 2012 Ynet Op-ed: Zionism will only cease being demonized when West stops to demonise colonialism [sic] If I didn’t know any better I’d think the following Op-ed piece from the rightwing Israeli news source Y ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • 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 ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Norman Finkelstein on BDS, Palestinian rights, ...
    IOA Editor: Finkelstein's treatment of Palestinian rights reflects the limitations of relying exclusively on international law in the defense of Palestinian rights. Rather than forcing 100 years of... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • Not quite “ordinary human beings” – anti-imper ...
    While perhaps well-meaning, operating under the assumption that any opposition to Zionism is to be welcomed, progressives who promote the work of Atzmon are in fact surrendering the moral high ground... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Haneen Zoabi’s Channel 2 TV [Israel] interview
    Haneen Zoabi in a highly biased interview with Israel's Channel 2 TV. Her courage stands out, rising above the abrupt Israeli interviewing style: she keeps to her principled positions. (Hebrew with... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • Arab justice’s refusal to sing Israel’s nation ...
    Israeli-Palestinian Supreme Court Justice Salim Joubran refused to sing 'Hatikva' at retirement ceremony of Supreme Court President Dorit Beinisch, prompting calls for his removal. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fift ...
  • Ali Abunimah: Finkelstein, BDS and the destruc ...
    Norman Finkelstein: "They don't want Israel... They think they're being very clever. They call it their three tiers... We want the end of the occupation, we want the right of return, and we want... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Missing: Electron Antineutrinos; Reward: Under ...
    An international particle physics collaboration today announced its first results toward answering a longstanding question - how the elusive particles called neutrinos can appear to vanish as they travel through space.
  • Teaching Fat Cells to Burn Calories
    In the war against obesity, one's own fat cells may seem an unlikely ally, but new research from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) suggests ordinary fat cells can be reengineered to burn calories.
  • Public Reports on Diabetes Care Helped Drive C ...
    In one of the first studies of the impact of publicly reporting quality measures on outpatient care, a research team has found that clinics made improvements in diabetes care when they began publicly reporting how they were treating patients with the chronic disease. University of Wisconsin-Madi ...
  • Rare Medical Phenomenon Of Systemic Tumor Disa ...
    A rarely seen phenomenon in cancer patients -- in which focused radiation to the site of one tumor is associated with the disappearance of metastatic tumors all over the body -- has been reported in a patient with melanoma treated with the immunotherapeutic agent ipilimumab (Yervoy(tm)). Researc ...
  • New Treatment Shows Promise for Kids with Life ...
    Doctors at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, working with Shriners Hospital for Children and other institutions, have identified a promising new treatment for a rare and sometimes life-threatening bone disorder that can affect infants and young children. Known as hypophospha ...

Natural Health News

  • New Study Shows Topical Antioxidant Protects t ...
    Acute exposure to ultraviolet B (UVB) light can be damaging to your eyes, causing photokeratitis and inducing apoptosis in corneal cells. The antioxidant carotenoid astaxanthin has been shown in a recent study to have both preventive and therapeutic effects on UV-photokeratitis. The research, c ...
  • Confirmed: This Beverage May Trigger Type 1 Di ...
    The link between juvenile onset (type 1) diabetes and cow’s milk consumption has long been noted in scientific literature.  Cow’s milk can potentially trigger an autoimmune destruction of the insulin-producing beta cells in your pancreas.  Recent research sheds new light on why this is ...
  • Why are Kids Getting Pink Slime for Lunches?
    Processed, ammonia-treated meat comes in the form of a bright pink goo that has earned it the name “pink slime”.  It has been rejected by McDonald’s, Taco Bell, and Burger King, but it is being used in America’s school lunch programs. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is purchasing 7 mill ...
  • Why You Need More of this Crucial Vitamin if Y ...
    Vitamin D is a fat-soluble vitamin, and many believe that the obese therefore need more of it because body fat acts as a “sink,” collecting such vitamins.  But muscle and fat may well act the same when it comes to storing vitamin D for future use. New research using mathematical models has ...
  • Simple Step You Can Take to Instantly Boost Yo ...
    New research shows that when healthy but inactive men and women exercise for only a few minutes, it produces an immediate change in their DNA. Although the underlying genetic code in human muscle doesn’t change, exercise causes important structural and chemical changes to the DNA molecules withi ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • David John Frank Responds to James Hathaway & ...
    by NYU Journal of International Law and Politics by NYU Journal of International Law and Politics Panel 1 of the NYU JILP Vol. 44:2 Online Symposium David John Frank is Professor of Sociology and, by courtesy, Education at the University of California, Irvine. He is interested in the cultural ...
  • Alan G. Kaufman Reviews Stephen C. Neff’s ‘Jus ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Alan Kaufman, a career national security lawyer and retired Navy JAG, has a fine review-essay of Stephen C. Neff’s Justice in Blue and Gray: A Legal History of the Civil War over at Lawfare.  Alan, who is a former student of mine a really long time ...
  • New York University Journal of International L ...
    by NYU Journal of International Law and Politics by NYU Journal of International Law and Politics The NYU Journal of International Law and Politics is partnering once again with Opinio Juris for an online symposium.  The symposium will correspond with the simultaneous release this week of our ...
  • Why Preventive Self-Defense Violates the UN Ch ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller I am teaching IHL in Jericho this week, so I don't have as much time as I'd like to weigh in on the increasingly surreal debate over whether the right of self-defense in Article 51 of the UN Charter permits the U.S. or Israel to attack a country that does not have nuclea ...
  • The Facts Make All the Difference on the Iran ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku David French and Jay Sekulow respond to Bruce Ackerman’s legal argument about the use of force against Iran with a factual claim: Iran has already attacked the U.S. There has, in fact, been an “armed attack” against the United States. Iran has been waging a low- ...

Public News Service

  • Studies: C-section or Induced Labor Not Always ...
    Studies: C-section or Induced Labor Not Always Best for Baby PHOENIX, Ariz. - Two new studies have called into question the use of cesarean procedures when a baby is going to be born early or when labor is induced. It has been common practice for doctors to order a cesarean section (C-section) ...
  • Keeping Up on Product Recalls Easier than Ever ...
    Keeping Up on Product Recalls Easier than Ever for Arizonans PHOENIX - Dozens of products are recalled every month because they could cause injuries or death, but keeping up on the latest recalls is easier than ever. So says attorney Paul Shively, although he adds that it does take initiative. ...
  • Study: Girls and Boys Who Act Like the Opposit ...
    Study: Girls and Boys Who Act Like the Opposite Sex at Risk of Abuse PHOENIX, Ariz. - Boys who act like girls and girls who act like boys are at risk of abuse and post-traumatic stress disorder, according to a new study by the American Academy of Pediatrics. The researchers polled adults about c ...
  • Many Rural Arizonans Find Themselves Living in ...
    Many Rural Arizonans Find Themselves Living in a "Food Desert" PHOENIX - If your weekly trip to the grocery store is quite a trek, you are not alone. A new study finds that Arizonans often experience "food deserts" - meaning residents have to travel 10 miles or more to find a supermarket. The ...
  • Consumer Alert: Beware of Rapid Tax Refunds
    Consumer Alert: Beware of Rapid Tax Refunds PHOENIX - The April 17 tax deadline is looming over the heads of hundreds of thousands of Arizonans. The silver lining to that cloud for many is their tax refund - and every year, businesses offer rapid refunds or refund-anticipation loans. While it ma ...

Center for Food Safety

  • Tell Walmart to Reject GE Sweet Corn!
    CFS has teamed up with the Center for Environmental Health and Food and Water Watch to urge major food companies and grocers to reject Monsanto’s GE sweet corn, and we need your help to tell leading retailer Walmart to reject this new GMO corn. General Mills (Green Giant, Cascadian Farms), Trade ...
  • Food Safety Update: A Budget Cut Only the Prod ...
    By Michele Simon, JD, MPH, Food Policy Consultant with the Center for Food Safety You’ve probably never heard of the Microbiological Data Program (MDP) but if you eat fresh produce, you should, because it’s currently on President Obama’s budgetary chopping block. The MDP is a small ($5 million a ...
  • USDA To Decide Imminently On Novel “Agen ...
    UPDATE: Today (2/22/12), the USDA extended the public comment period on this issue until April 27, 2012. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is currently deciding whether or not to approve an application by Dow Chemical for its controversial genetically engineered (GE) corn crop that is re ...
  • USDA To Decide Imminently On Novel “Agen ...
    Toxic Herbicide 2,4-D Linked to Cancer, Lower Sperm Counts, and Parkinson’s Disease 2,4-D Drift Causes More Crop Injury than any Other Herbicide, Threatening American Farms  Biotech Companies Only Winners in Chemical Arms Race as Herbicide Resistant Crops Fail The U.S. Department of Agriculture ...
  • Senator Barbara Boxer (CA) and Representative ...
    In the U.S., we pride ourselves on having choices and making informed decisions. Under current FDA regulations, we don’t have that choice when it comes to GE ingredients in the foods we purchase and feed our families.  This led the Center for Food Safety to submit a legal petition to the F ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Why/ Who Died?
    By David Grossman, Translated by Sol Salbe All said and done it is merely a minor story about an illegal alien who stole a car, was injured in an accident, then released from hospital to have cops dump him, still injured to die the by the roadside. What are the building blocks that lead to such ...
  • More on Khader Adnan: Video from “Democr ...
    Originally posted on the “Democracy Now!” website
  • Palestinian Prisoner Khader Adnan Stops Hunger ...
    Ma’an: The Palestinian Authority minister of prisoners affairs said Tuesday that Israel intends to release hunger striking prisoner Khader Adnan after he completes his current administrative detention term. In return, Adnan agreed to end his strike, according to Issa Qaraqe, the prisoners ...
  • Palestinian Prisoner Khader Adnan Stops Strike ...
    Ma’an: The Palestinian Authority minister of prisoners affairs said Tuesday that Israel intends to release hunger striking prisoner Khader Adnan after he completes his current administrative detention term. In return, Adnan agreed to end his strike, according to Issa Qaraqe, the prisoners ...
  • A Plea to the World from the Principal of a Pa ...
    In November we reported with joy about the new school structure at Susiya (Susya). (see also an earlier report here). Only a few weeks later, the Occupation regime’s fraudulently named “Civil Administration” handed down demolition orders to the school. In a rare direct expres ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • 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 ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • The Ring of Power and the World Economy
    “One ring to rule them all One ring to find them One ring to bring them all And in the darkness bind them.” From “The Fellowship of the Ring” by J.R.R. Tolkien I cut my fantasy reading teeth on “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings” when I read t ...
  • Blogger’s Video Claims to Expose Loophole in T ...
      Via The Blaze   An American blogger has published a video purporting to show just how easily the Transportation Security Administration’s full-body scanners can be duped. Jonathan Corbett — whose blog “TSA Out of Our Pants!” says he’s currently suing TSA over the use of the machines ...
  • Google does spy on laptop microphones and spie ...
      Author: Brian D. Hill Source: USWGO Alternative News Via We are Change Note: Also before I am writing this my laptop was attacked by hackers again. Now I have to restore my laptop again right around when I am suppose to interview Dr. Michael Coffman via Webcam and Microphone. I like to br ...
  • (Pulling out the Rug) Pro-Ron Paul super PAC r ...
    This is the PAC Bilderberger – and Pay Pal mafia head Peter Thiel donates to…   A Super PAC backing Paul is considering support for other candidates. | AP Photo By DAVE LEVINTHAL Politico (BCCI) The main super PAC supporting Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul is rea ...
  • F U Pharma! Cannabis, Cannabinoids – ADD ...
    But Medicaid doesn’t cover pot so…. Instead of arguing that we should all have “free” birth control – How about debating the issue of just being able to use MEDICAL marijuana without risking our lives getting it, and our freedom possessing it? No? Moving on….

The Air Vent

  • Hu McCulloch – Climate Audit
    I finally had time to read Hu McCulloch’s guest post at CA on Mann’s fancy new book. His reveiw shows more of that Mannian honesty we’ve all come to know and love.  My reading of it brings up some of my favorite history at Climate Audit. Good stuff
  • Taminos Trick
    Tamino has his crowd all whipped up about sea ice.  He has done two posts now declaring how stupid I, Anthony Watts, and by association, all of you, are.   Sorry folks, it was a drive-by incident! For him, I’m not enough of a believer and for others, I’m too much. Is it is a [...]
  • Gaggle of Giggles
    The Guardian is stooping to new lows – if that is possible.  With recent news that Mann’s emails won’t be released from the University of Virginia , you know the ones they claimed originally didn’t exist, the Guardian has taken this time to produce an article.  About Mann ...
  • The Concentric Blackbody Problem – Nick ...
    I have not had a chance to see Tallbloke’s guest post but Nick Stokes wrote a nice rebuttal to it.   It discusses basic equations for a sphere in a sphere for blackbody calcs.   I’ve been arguing over at Tallbloke’s. It’s one of those posts where a sceptic does an el ...
  • Sea Ice Annual vs Polar
    No time to write much but these plots are of the Northern Hemisphere sea ice above and below 72 latitude.  The split between the area is 50/50.   My anomaly timeframe is from about 1988 to present, I think I will address that in future posts. Reader Chuckles linked to a register article which li ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook estimates 5 or 6 percent of total use ...
    Facebook says 5 to 6 percent of its 845 million monthly active users could be false or duplicate accounts, according to a recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. This means the company estimates between 42 and 50 million … Continue reading →
  • Facebook says it had 432M mobile users in Dece ...
    Facebook had 432 million mobile monthly active users as of December 31, 2011, according to an updated filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company also revealed that just over 13 percent of these users accessed the social network … Continue reading →
  • Facebook gives Open Graph apps option to add f ...
    Facebook today announced developers can build Open Graph applications that let users tag their friends and add locations to actions they take from the app. For example, Hulu could enable users to indicate whether they are watching a show with … Continue reading →
  • New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: ...
    The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities across social and mobile application platforms. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at SponsorPay, GREE International, Inc., Nickelodeon Games Group, Powe ...
  • Facebook puts social game score stories in New ...
    Facebook users will now see their friends’ scores and achievements in social games through three new News Feed story types: achievement stories, high score stories and passing stories, the company announced in a blog post. Another unannounced item, “Play It … Continue reading & ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Flying into Tel Aviv? Then it's "Welcome to Pa ...
    Stuart Littlewood explains why people of conscience, principle and respect for justice and the truth will always see Palestine as Palestine and will not forget that what is known as "Israel" is an extraneous implant build on the blood and ruins of a nation.
  • Barack Obama prostrates himself before America ...
    Jamal Kanj argues that Binyamin Netanyahu's and Ariel Sharon's ominous assertions that Israel controls the US were demonstrated once again this week by Barack Obama's humiliating pledges of loyalty to Israel in a speech to America's leading pro-Israel lobby and in a magazine interview.
  • Ignore the intelligence reports, let's make wa ...
    Stuart Littlewood argues that, with the USA's intelligence agencies concurring that Iran has no nuclear weapons programme, Washington's and London's clamour for ever tighter sanctions and war with Iran appear to be motivated not by national interests, but by loyalty and obedience to Israel and i ...
  • Israelis rejoice at the death of Palestinian c ...
    Paul J. Balles considers the mentality of Israelis who openly rejoiced at the death of nine Palestinian kindergarten children and one adult in a bus accident in February.
  • Craven Liberal Democrats dump human rights cha ...
    Stuart Littlewood argues that the sacking of Jenny Tonge - one of Britain's most committed campaigners for human rights - from the Liberal Democrats' parliamentary party after criticizing Israel highlights the hypocrisy of the UK's Liberal Democrats, the cowardice of their leader Nick Clegg and ...

Amazon Rainforest

  • European energy corporation plans to flood Rai ...
    Spanish energy cooperation Endesa (subsidiary enterprise of the Italian Enel cooperation) is builiding a giant hydro-electric power plant next to the River Magdalena, Colombia- The construction work has started today- the protest camps of the local farmers and fishermen have been evacuated by fo ...
  • Plastic eating Fungi discovered in Amazon Rain ...
    The group of students, part of Yale’s annual Rainforest Expedition and Laboratory with molecular biochemistry professor Scott Strobel, ventured to the jungles of Ecuador. The mission was to allow “students to experience the scientific inquiry process in a comprehensive and creative way.&#8 ...
  • Justice for 8year girl burned alive by loggers ...
    Loggers in Brazil captured an eight-year-old girl from one of the Amazon’s last uncontacted tribes and burned her alive as part of a ‘campaign’ to force the indigenous population from its land! Sign Petition and share: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/813/288/541/ The ...
  • World’s largest beef company signs Amazo ...
    The world’s largest meat processor has agreed to stop buying beef from ranches associated with slave labor and illegal deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, according to the public prosecutor’s office in the state of Acre. The deal absolves JBS-Friboi from 2 billion reals ($1.3 bill ...
  • World’s largest beef company signs Amazo ...
    The world’s largest meat processor has agreed to stop buying beef from ranches associated with slave labor and illegal deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, according to the public prosecutor’s office in the state of Acre. The deal absolves JBS-Friboi from 2 billion reals ($1.3 bill ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • China: Rise, Fall and Re-Emergence as a Global ...
    Some Lessons from the Past By James Petras The study of world power has been blighted by Eurocentric historians who have distorted and ignored the dominant role China played in the world economy between 1100 and 1800. John Hobson’s[1] brilliant historical survey of the world economy during this ...
  • Jamiol Presents
  • Fighting the “Rising Tide” of Arab Nationalism
    The Eisenhower Doctrine & the Syrian Crisis Following the Suez Crisis, Nasser’s influence and reputation was enormously strengthened in the Arab, Muslim, and wider decolonizing world, while those of Britain and France were in decline. Nasser’s support for nationalist movements in North Afric ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- March 7, ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.” – A. J. Liebling International Newsworthy Obama is Selling Israel the Planes & Bombs to Attack Iran FBI Offers $1 Million in Ex-Agent’s Iran Disappearance West to Resume Iran Talks over ...
  • Syria: Responsibility to Protect or justifying ...
    The Real motives behind a Rapacious Imperial Power’s Real Objectives By William Bowles Frankly, it’s not easy defending the Ba’ath regime in Syria, after all not so long ago the Communist Party in Syria and other left groups were suppressed by the ruling Ba’ath Party, its members thrown in jail ...

Afro Spear

  • Kony 2012
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  • A piece of heaven in a world of hell
    As I was watching this documentary on Liberia, I though to myself: “here we go again, white people showing the worst of Africa, disease, death, crime, corruption, prostitution, cannibalism, civil war, dirt, filth, despair, hopelessness etc.” I almost turned it off but as I continued ...
  • A Thought on Abortion
    “America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe v. Wade has deformed a great nation. The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. It has sown violence and discord at the heart of the most intimate human relationships. It h ...
  • “Africa needs to sign a new social contr ...
    Jean Russeau wrote in Social Contract, “Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.” To free himself, Russeau suggests that man must gain security and a measure of freedom from action, in exchange for surrender of rights and property to the general will. This is not the language of complian ...

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • Super PACs Control American Politics
    Money has played a huge role in the GOP primaries. Not in the race between Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney, but in the the different campaign strategies of Mitt Romney and Buddy Roemer.
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  • Neatnyahu visits Canada for support on Iran.
    Before heading to the U.S., Netanyahu visited one of his most ardent supporters, Canada's PM Stephen Harper.
  • Beware Market Extremism
    Market fundamentalism is to be given free reign; never mind that it was the erroneous notion "the market knows best" that brought us the economic depression engulfing western societies. Austerity programmes and cuts are causing distress, hardship and misery to the majority of people in the west ...
  • Eyal Press: Chilling Dissent on Wall Street
    I scribbled the instructions in my notepad as fast as the strange man with the faint twang could give them: Ride the DC Metro red line out to the final stop. Walk to the commuter lot. Wait there. Look for a black Cadillac.

Switchboard

  • 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 ...
  • A South Side Parent's Reaction to a Coal-Free ...
    Josh Mogerman, Deputy Director, National Media, Chicago There are few things that grate on me more than the constant sight of the looming smokestack from the Fisk Generating Station. I see it every day. I see it on the L platform. I see it driving ...
  • Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline Won't Ease Gas ...
    Frances Beinecke, President of NRDC, New York City This week the Senate is likely to vote on an amendment that would force approval for the Keystone XL pipeline. President Obama already rejected the dirty tar sands pipeline because it needed a more ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • We Have, However, Passed Peak Contrarianism
    What Steve M. and Charles say about the increasingly embarrassing Michael Kinsley and his one remaining belief — that everyone is as vacuously cynical as he is. (Well, OK, there’s also his apparently sincere belief that political leaders need to meet his exacting aesthetic standards. ...
  • We Will Never Hit Peak Wingnut
    I would like to think this is a satire of wingnut racism and sexism, but alas: Darleen Click must be upset that she didn’t think of this first… In related news, I couldn’t resist watching the Hannity re-run, on which Ben Shapiro and some other very dumb person opened up Al Capo ...
  • Small Steps in the Republican Implosion
    While there’s a very long time left between now and November and while on the local and congressional level, Republicans may survive, or even take the Senate while retaining the House, the Republican Party and its leaders are doing everything in their power to destroy their chances of winn ...
  • How to reduce the increasingly indefensible co ...
    I was invited by 17 Stanford Law School student groups to give a talk on the law school scam, in the wake of increasing concerns that even at elite law schools the cost of attendance is approaching or has reached levels that make the decision to attend highly questionable. Prof. Deborah Rhode (a ...
  • On Caucuses
    Over at the Prospect I wade into the debate about the use of caucuses in the presidential selection process. I think the current system works tolerably well, although I don’t oppose regulation in principle and could be convinced that an all-primary system would be better.

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Intellectual Property: A Special Report
    The America Invents Act shifts the U.S. from a system where a patent is awarded to the first person who comes up with an invention to one where it's awarded to the first person who files a patent application.
  • 1st Circuit ponders how long plaintiff can tak ...
    How much time should a plaintiff get to serve a defendant who has moved overseas? That was the issue before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit during oral arguments on March 7.
  • First Toyota claim set for jury selection on N ...
    A California judge has set a trial schedule in the sudden acceleration litigation against Toyota Motor Corp. that would place a high-profile wrongful death case before jurors by Jan. 1.
  • Official implicated in cleric's kidnapping tur ...
    A former U.S. State Department official who is suing the government over its alleged failure to protect her from prosecution in a kidnapping case in Italy has taken her dispute to a federal appeals court in Washington.
  • Summer associate hiring lackluster as new norm ...
    On-campus recruiting picked up slightly at law schools last fall, but that didn't translate into major summer clerk hiring gains, according to data released on March 7 by the National Association for Law Placement.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • India’s Tata Group to Favor Green Energy Over ...
    The power unit of the India-based Tata Group conglomerate has said it will favor solar and wind projects over coal-fired plants in future global energy investments, citing the increasing difficulty of developing coal projects. In an interview with Bloomberg News, Tata Power Executive Director S. ...
  • Alien Seed Invasion Poses Threat to Antarctic ...
    The tens of thousands of tourists, scientists, and support personnel who visit Antarctica every year are carrying with them large numbers of seeds from alien plants that could one day pose a threat to Antarctica’s limited array of native plant species. A team of scientists vacuumed the clothes a ...
  • Some Scandinavian Conifers Survived the Last I ...
    A new study has found that some Scandinavian conifers were able to survive the harsh conditions of the last Ice Age, a finding that upends the long-held view that the region’s landscape was wiped clean by a massive blanket of ice. While scientists have long believed contemporary University of ...
  • Ocean Acidifying Faster Than Any Time in 300 M ...
    The world’s oceans may be acidifying faster today than during any period over the last 300 million years, a phenomenon that could have dire consequences for marine species and ecosystems, according to a new study. In a review of hundreds of paleoceanographic studies, a team of scientists found t ...
  • NASA Images Depict Rapid Loss of Thick Arctic ...
    A new comparison of satellite images from 1980 and 2012 vividly depicts the rapid disappearance of thick, multi-year Arctic Ocean ice in winter. Over the past three decades, the extent of the Arctic’s thickest ice has declined by 15 to 17 percent per decade, according to Click to enlarge NA ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Obama Birth Certificate and Selective Service ...
    2012 just started looking a lot like 2008 all over again. Controversial sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Ariz., declared President Barack Obama’s birth certificate and Selective Service card fakes Thursday, according to the Washington Times. Arpaio says his investigators used law enforceme ...
  • Stolen NASA Laptop Had Space Station Control Codes
    A laptop stolen from NASA last year was unencrypted and contained command and control codes for the International Space Station (ISS) on it, the agency’s inspector general told a United States House subcommittee yesterday (Feb. 29). In his testimony before a Science, Space and Technology House s ...
  • Discovery of Jerusalem tomb with purported ear ...
    An ancient tomb discovered deep beneath the patio of a Jerusalem condo is igniting controversy about the very origin of Christianity. A team led by Canadian documentary film-maker Simcha Jacobovici used a robotic camera to see into a chamber containing several ossuaries, stone caskets containing ...
  • Warning over Google privacy changes
    Civil rights campaigners have warned that people are "in the dark" about how Google’s new privacy policy could affect them. The policy came into effect today, despite warnings it might violate the European Union’s data protection rules. The change means private data collected by one Google servi ...
  • Medical Tattoos Offer Important Health Information
    Tattoos have long served as fashion statements, but a small number of Americans are now relying on them for a more practical, potentially lifesaving purpose: to warn first responders about important medical conditions. Some medical tattoos are being used to take the place of bracelets that commo ...

Russia Today

  • Syrian deputy oil minister jumps ship
    Syria’s deputy oil minister has announced his defection to the opposition from the Assad regime, making him the first Syrian politician to jump ship. Meanwhile, Russia has slammed Libya for reports of Syrian rebels... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • British MPs: Drunk on power or just drunk?
    British drinking culture is famous worldwide, being successfully exported abroad with countless pubs in seemingly every city. Mixing alcohol with political tradition, though, is something Britain mercifully reserves for... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Clinton: Putin ‘clear winner’
    US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has acknowledged that Vladimir Putin is the “clear winner” of Russia’s presidential elections and expressed her readiness to work with the president-elect. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Russia blasts NATO over Libya - and Libya over ...
    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... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Anonymous take down anti-virus giant and Vatic ...
    Hacktivist group Anonymous has launched an online assault on anti-virus company Panda Security after Tuesday’s arrest of members of the hackers’ LulzSec collective. The group also raided the Vatican website in protest... Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

  • The #StopKony KONY2012 viral video tests posit ...
    Was mainstream media endorsing a viral Youtube video your first clue that the Invisible Children campaign bears the suspicious signs of US war-making propaganda?! What “Save Darfur” was to Sudan, the CIA-spelled backward [Africa's] Invisible Children operation is to Uganda. With its ...
  • Real estate is not for you
    Here’s how real estate works, though not for you or me, or the millions of Americans losing their homes to foreclosure. The Gazette recorded real estate developer Lars Akerberg, reacting to the foreclosure of the Chidlaw Building which he bought in 1993 for $2 million. “It kind of hu ...
  • The 4th Combat Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, ...
    Neighbors of Ft Carson probably know that soldiers in the 12th Regiment, 2nd Battalion, 4th Infantry Division of the US Army 4th Ivy go by the team name of “LETHAL WARRIORS”. It may boost egos, but wouldn’t you think it limits their deployment options? You could hardly expect h ...
  • Chicago agrees to close two coal plants
    What do you know, it worked!
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Debunking the Debunkers

  • Millette Versus Harrit et al: The MEK Test
    Since the Active Thermitic Material... paper was published, debunkers have asserted that the red/gray chips are simply a form of paint. To support this claim, they note that the plate-like particles in the red layer look a lot like kaolinite - an aluminosilicate clay mineral that is used as a p ...
  • Some initial thoughts on Dr Millette's study...
    The red/gray chips are not nanothermite! So say Chris Mohr and Dr James Millette. I've had a quick look at the study, and here are my initial thoughts. Adam has informed me that Harrit et al are preparing their own response which I'm sure will be available shortly. I'm not interested in Dr Mil ...
  • Reflecting on the Verinage demolition method
    I recently came acrossdebunker vids on YouTube, such as this that boast of the Verinage demolition technique used to bring down buildingswithout explosives. According to Wikipedia, “The technique. . .is used in France to weaken and buckle the supports of central floors promoting the collaps ...
  • Kurt Haskell's Awakening
    http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBF2F6AA5408C443F
  • Debunking the REAL 9/11 Myths: Why Popular Mec ...
    I am happy to announce that my latest article is finally available online! My newest work, titled Debunking the REAL 9/11 Myths: Why Popular Mechanics Can't Face Up to Reality, is a point-by-point refutation of Popular Mechanics' weak arguments regarding the controlled demolition of the three WT ...

Fooducate

  • The Oreo Cookie Celebrates 100 Years
    This week marks the 100th birthday of the Oreo Cookie. Originally created and sold in New York by National Biscuit Company, the brand is now owned by mega-processed-food giant Kraft Foods. The brand tagline is “Milk’s Favorite Cookie,” and indeed Oreos have become an American i ...
  • GMO Labels – Coming Soon?
    We often get requests by Fooducate app users to provide GMO (genetically modified organism) information on products. We respond that our analysis is based on information presented on the products package. And product packages do not have this info to offer. We also tell people to assume that the ...
  • Eating, Seen Through Your Child’s Eyes
    This is a guest blog post by Dr. Dina R. Rose Sometimes I think parents and toddlers come from different planets, and speak different languages. That’s why we interpret the world so differently. It’s the parenting version of Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus. You see foods: applesauce, yog ...
  • The FDA (Sort of) Approves Industry’s Front of ...
    Food Navigator reports that the FDA is supporting the food industry’s rollout of the Facts Up Front nutrition labeling scheme (formerly known as Nutrition Keys).  This front of pack (FOP) system was seen by many, including Fooducate, as a preemptive move to undercut federal initiatives. Th ...
  • More on Meat Labeling
    Yesterday we wrote about the new mandate requiring nutrition labeling for 40 popular cuts of meat. There was quite a discussion in the comment thread and over at our facebook page. Below are some comments and our answer. “I am confused.  Why are there trans fats in there??” Thanks fo ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • 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 ...

Greg Palast

  • The Fukushima story you didn't hear on CNN
    "Completely and Utterly Fail in an Earthquake" by Greg Palast for FreePress.org I've seen a lot of sick stuff in my career, but this was sick on a new level. Here was the handwritten log kept by a senior engineer at the nuclear power plant: Wiesel was very upset. He seemed very nervous. V ...
  • BP Settlement Sells Out VictimsDeal buries evi ...
    by Greg Palast for TheMudflats Following the Deepwater Horizon explosion, Greg Palast led a four-continent investigation of BP PLC for Britain's television series Dispatches. From 1989-91, Palast directed the investigation of fraud charges in the Exxon Valdez grounding for Alaska Native villag ...
  • Billionaire Ballot Bandits
    They're stealing it again. In 2000, my team uncovered how Katherine Harris illegally purged thousands of African-Americans from Florida's voter rolls. In 2004, for BBC, we uncovered the Karl Rove GOP "caging scheme" that swiped that election. In 2008, we uncovered, for Rolling Stone and BBC, ...
  • Romney's Auto Bail-out Billionaires
    Top funders made billions from US Treasury by Greg Palast for NationOfChange [Thursday February 23] Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney called the federal government’s 2009 bail-out of the auto industry, “nothing more than crony capitalism, Obama style... a reward for his big donors t ...
  • The Billionaires' Brokered GOP Convention
    by: Greg Palast, Truthout | Op-Ed The Plan is working. Mitt Romney's biggest backer didn't want him to win. We know that Paul "The Vulture" Singer, Romney's Daddy Warbucks, organized the "grassroots" campaign to replace Romney with Gov. Chris Christie back in September. That flopped, ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • What food packaging & other household waste do ...
    It’s seed-starting time here in the northern hemisphere and my Twitter feed is full of exciting stories about what fruit & veg people are going to be growing this year. I’ve added half a dozen more fruit bushes to our garden this year but I’ve not sown any seeds yet &#8212 ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle an acrylic sweater/ ...
    We’ve covered wool jumpers/sweaters on the site before now – what to do with them when you accidentally shrink your most favourite jumper ever in the wash. But what about acrylic jumpers? They don’t get ruined in the same way but cheaper ones tend to lose their shape and look a ...
  • What green product do you wish someone would i ...
    We’ve had an email from Mel asking for a bit of help with a university assignment about green things and I thought it might make an interesting discussion: I have a uni assignment where I need to market an ‘imaginary’ green product – I believe my time would be better spent marketing an ‘ac ...
  • How can I revamp some plain curtains with recy ...
    Following on from my recent “how can I revamp a kitchen so I don’t need a new one?” question, Janet has asked a similar (smaller scale!) question about curtains: I have ordinary plain curtains that need to look snazzy. I like the “wacky” type of design,whether it&#8 ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle poker/betting chips?
    Inma has emailed us about betting chips: Hi! I’ve found a lot of chips to bet, and I wonder if anyone has some use for them. There was a fad for playing poker with betting chips a few years ago and all the shops were stacked full of them as cheap/easy Christmas presents – so [...]

Age of Autism

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

  • 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.

Open Your Eyes News

  • Canberra records wettest week in 60 years
    NineMSM – Canberra is recovering from its wettest week in more than 60 years. Nearly 200mm fell at the city’s airport during the seven days up until Sunday, with 75mm more recorded in the national capital’s southern suburbs. It was the biggest seven-day fall since 1950, the Bur ...
  • Health uncertainties torment Japanese in nuke zone
    AP – Yoshiko Ota keeps her windows shut. She never hangs her laundry outdoors. Fearful of birth defects, she warns her daughters: Never have children. This is life with radiation, nearly one year after a tsunami-hit nuclear power plant began spewing it into Ota’s neighborhood, 40 mil ...
  • European recession fears put U.S. stock rally ...
    LA Times – Renewed fears of a European recession are threatening to derail the stock market’s 2012 rally. Stock indexes around the world experienced their sharpest drops of the year Tuesday, with the Dow Jones industrial average logging its first triple-digit loss since December. Rea ...
  • Sexist remarks and wolf-whistles could become ...
    Guardian – Salacious whistles and sexist comments may fall foul of new laws against sexual harassment to which Britain is signing up, the prime minister will announce on Thursday. The pledge to criminalise “verbal, non-verbal or physical” sexual harassment is one of the commitm ...
  • Youngest are at risk of dental fluorosis
    Irish Medical Times – Young children are at greatest risk of exceeding fluoride limits, according to the results of a new assessment by the European Commission Scientific Committee on Health and Environmental Risks (SCHER). Read article

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Animals: Iowa, first state to criminalize unde ...
    On Friday, Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad signed into law a bill designed to thwart activists who go undercover to report animal abuse. This makes Iowa the first state in the country to pass such a law; Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New York and Utah are considering them.
  • Federal court rejects delay of N.M. power plan ...
    A federal appeals court has ruled that the owners of the San Juan Generating Station, a huge coal-fired power plant near Farmington, N.M., must continue with plans to install strong pollution controls. Several California cities purchase electricity from the plant.
  • More Americans now believe in global warming
    After several years of finding that fewer and fewer Americans believed in man-made climate change, pollsters are now finding that belief is on the uptick.
  • California wolf trek shows importance of wilde ...
    The incredible ramble of California’s only wolf shows more than determination, as OR7 has trotted more than 1,000 miles to look for a mate and a new home. It also demonstrates the necessity of wilderness areas that serve as safe corridors for migrating wildlife.
  • Organic farmers' case against Monsanto thrown ...
    U.S. Federal Dist. Judge Naomi Buchwald ruled Friday to dismiss the case brought by organic farmers to stop patent infringement lawsuits brought by seed giant Monsanto. The suit, called OSGATA et al. vs. Monsanto , was brought by the Organic Seed Growers and Trade Assn. (OSGATA), as well as 82 ...

water.org

  • Gearing up for World Water Day
    For the past few years, these 20,000 women have come together from all over rural India on March 22 to celebrate water. As their colorful saris fill the giant tents, they spend World Water Day listening to speakers, watching dancers, and talking about the importance of water in their lives.
  • Mar 2012 Conference Call
    Water.org’s Senior Manager of International Programs, Heather Arney, talked about our work with WaterCredit in India, and Water.org’s Marketing Programs Manager, Erin Swanson, spoke about the many ways to get involved with World Water Day, March 22nd. The call ends with an open question and answ ...
  • Conference Call: March
    Hear about India and World Water Day
  • Loan Buys Time with Family
    With the encouragement of a local self help group, Mrs. Laxmi has gained the confidence to take out a loan for a water connection. Little did she know how much her whole family would benefit.
  • Sanitation Eases Burden for the Family
    Managing without access to personal sanitation is humiliating to say the least, but for people living with disabilities, it brings a whole cascade of problems. Now, one courageous family has improved their situation, and their new household toilet brings dignity and health.

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • The Story of Obama and Israel
    The Porkies of the POTUS Submitted by Tommy S. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Noam Chomsky - What Are Iran's Intentions?
    The January/February issue of Foreign Affairs featured the article Time to Attack Iran: Why a Strike Is the Least Bad Option" ... one purpose of Israeli nuclear weapons, not often stated, but obvious, is their use on the United States ... ME-WMDFZ... Submitted by wolf a. to US Politics & Gov ...
  • Pitts: There's nothing to fear in Girl Scouts' ...
    Bob Morris is scared of Girl Scouts. Fear the Girl Scouts. They are trying to conquer America one cookie at a time. Submitted by Robert Tomlinson to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Olympia Snowe delivers rebuke in decision to l ...
    Olympia Snowe, a moderate Republican senator from Maine, won't seek another term in the US Senate because intense partisanship has made her question how 'productive' it would be. Submitted by Jae A. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • 2012 Aurora Borealis
    The Northern Lights, also known as Aurora Borealis, occurs when energy particles from the sun interact with the earths magnetic field. This year, the sun spewed it's largest solar flares in six years Submitted by Jae A. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • 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 ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • 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. ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • 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.

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • NATO Intervening in Syria
    Stephen Lendman On March 6, the BBC reported Obama saying Washington won't intervene in Syria unilaterally. At the same time, he stopped short of ruling out joint Western aggression. In his first 2012 news conference, he said: "The notion that the way to solve every one of these problems is to ...
  • China: Rise, Fall and Re-Emergence as a Global ...
    James Petras Introduction The study of world power has been blighted by Eurocentric historians who have distorted and ignored the dominant role China played in the world economy between 1100 and 1800. John Hobson’s[1] brilliant historical survey of the world economy during this period ...
  • Imperial Rage for War
    by Stephen Lendman America ravages the world one country at a time or in multiples. Post-9/11 alone, millions died. Vast destruction was caused. Human misery caused is incalculable. Now Syria and Iran are targeted. Disagreement only is on timing, not intent. Neocon Senator John McCain wants ...
  • Poverty in America -- From Riches to Rags
    By Vincent Guarisco Like a pebble dropped in a pond, everything we do affects the people in our lives, and their reactions in turn affect others. The choices we make will have far-reaching consequences. Each of us carries within us the capacity to change the world in small ways for better or wo ...
  • ‘Ignore the intelligence reports, let&#8 ...
    Stuart Littlewood Let’s shred and vapourise a few million more innocents... But first we’ll strangle them with sanctions, say our elected leaders. Is this what we voted for? Is this what Western diplomacy has come to in the 21st century? Thank heaven for Dr David Morrison’ ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Inequality: The role of unions and race
    The University of Toronto's Richard Florida has an important two-part series in The Atlantic focusing on what is driving the growing income gap in American cities. In particular, he and colleague Charlotta Mellander look at what is driving the differences in income inequality, since it's not a ...
  • Toxic spill and communications chill
    Last August, a pipeline broke near Fort St John, spilling toxic liquid that killed at least one cow and sickened other cattle. The Oil and Gas Commission has refused to release any details about the spill, citing its ongoing investigation. But our researcher Ben Parfitt questions the OGC's loyal ...
  • Nova Scotia doubles number of temporary foreig ...
    The number of migrant labourers working in Nova Scotia has doubled over the past five years.  While such rapid increases benefit the Canadian economy, they pose difficult questions for policymakers.  Recent immigrants are often  used as an exploitable working population and are si ...
  • Bill C-10: The Truth About Consequences
    Today, March 1, 2012  at 1:30 at the John Howard Society of Manitoba (3rd Floor, 583 ElliceAvenue), The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Mb. and the John HowardSociety of Manitoba, Inc. will release their report: Bill C-10: The Truth About Consequences. This report was produced wit ...
  • New Brunswick needs to change direction
    A new study from UNB-SJ economist Roderick Hill and CCPA-NS researcher Jason Edwards outlines why New Brunswick should move toward a more progressive tax structure.  The report, titled New Brunswick at a Crossroads: Progressive Income Tax, a Clear Choice, estimates that the province could g ...

World Wide Hippies

  • What’s Ahead for Rep. Dennis Kucinich?
    by: Amy Goodman, truthout Democracy Now! | Report - In a newly drawn district in Ohio, outspoken antiwar Rep. Dennis Kucinich suffered a defeat against Rep. Marcy Kaptur. The two were forced to square off in a Democratic primary after Republicans redrew Ohio’s congressional map. Kaptur now ...
  • O.W.S. awaiting its ‘American Spring’
    BY Zach Williams ,downtownexpress.com| Zuccotti Park remains as much an inspiration as a flashpoint for the Occupy Wall Street movement, and that fact seems unlikely to change as the promised “American Spring” draws near. Occupiers congregated at Zuccotti late last Thursday night following ...
  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Thursday
    Biggest solar storm in years races toward Earth WASHINGTON (AP) — The largest solar storm in five years was due to arrive on Earth early Thursday, promising to shake the globe’s magnetic field while expanding the Northern Lights. The storm started with a massive solar flare earlier in the ...
  • As the Cookie Crumbles: Bums’ Rush..
    By Dr. Woody,Worldwidehippies – Ol’ Dr. Woody’s been aware of, dismayed by, and leery about the “attractions” of Rush Limbaugh since about 1986, when I first heard him in syndication on a talk radio station in Baton Rouge. Reagan changed the Fairness Doctrine to all ...
  • Gus Died Last Night
    By Phil Polizatto,Worldwidehippies – Gus died last night. I am unfettered by the responsibility to find someone to take care of him when I want to travel. I no longer have to cut my evenings short in order to be home in time for his evening walk. No longer do I have to get up [...]

FourWinds10

  • Chernobyl in the Gulf of Mexico
    BP Spill Released Dangerous Amounts of Radioactive Material Into the Gulf Cross posted here. It’s been more than a year since BP’s runaway Macondo Well began filling the northern waters of the Gulf of Mexico with more than 200 million gallons of sweet crude, fouling shorelines from L ...
  • Revealed: the secret battle for the riches of ...
    Leaked cables show how nations are carving up pristine wilderness By Shaun Walker in Moscow   The melting of the polar ice has been disastrous for wildlife but opens up new opportunities to exploit natural resources .firstcolumn { font-family: verdana; font-size: 11px; border-bottom: 5px so ...
  • THE GARBAGE PATCH
  • STUDYING HOW PLASTIC POLLUTION ENTERS OCEAN FO ...
  • Your help needed to pass FRAC Act and hold dri ...
    (NaturalNews) In response to massive public outcry, the US Senate has finally reintroduced the Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals (FRAC) Act, or S. 587, which will once again hold natural gas drilling companies responsible for the environmental pollution they cause when fractur ...

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Ethanol Exports and the Future of the Ethanol ...
    Were U.S. Taxpayers Subsidizing Ethanol Exports? Over the past couple of years, U.S. ethanol exports have soared. Last year a news article in Financial Times charged that these exports were being subsidized with U.S. tax dollars. The U.S. ethanol industry strongly denied this, but I wrote severa ...
  • Study: Eliminating Coal-Fired Power is Worth 0 ...
    Who could have dreamed solving climate change would be so easy? A new paper in Environmental Research Letters called “Greenhouse gases, climate change and the transition from coal to low-carbon electricity” concludes that replacement of all of the world’s currently operating coal-fired pow ...
  • Follow-up to Alan Colmes’ Interview
    During my interview last week with Alan Colmes (embedded below), a few points were discussed that warrant some elaboration. Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com The first is the conversion from winter to summer gasoline, which I have written about in more detail at Why Summer Gasoline Mea ...
  • Natural Gas Liquids and Algae as Fuel — R-Squa ...
    In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer questions about natural gas liquids and algal fuel. Some of the topics discussed are: The difference between natural gas liquids (NGLs) and crude oil How NGLs and “all-liquids” contribute to oil supplies How “double- ...
  • President Obama’s Role in Current Gas Prices
    Newt Gingrich — Gas Price Fairy If you have been following the news at all, you know that President Obama is catching a lot of heat over rising gas prices. He used his weekly radio address this week to talk about the issue: Obama calls GOP gas price plan “a bumper sticker” Most ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • The 3 Biggest Sources of Chemicals in Your Home
    It's pretty well known that products like vinyl shower curtains and floor tiles, personal care products, and household cleaners expose people to a variety of harmful chemicals that have been linked to asthma and reproductive problems, including infertility in both men and women. But when it com ...
  • The New GMOs: More Chemicals, More Dangerous
    A global pesticide company announced last week that it plans to start selling a new type of GMO, AKA genetically modified crop, to farmers as early as the 2014 growing season, a move weed scientists have been predicting for years since weeds have been growing increasingly resistant to the chemi ...
  • 5 Things That Should Never Be In Your Makeup
    Spring is right around the corner, inspiring us to reach for bright colors, not just in the closet, but in cosmetic aisles, too. But every time you slather a flash of color across your lips, you could be applying an alarming dose of lead to your mouth, a part of the body where the heavy metal i ...
  • The Shocking Truth about Daylight Saving Time
    Pop quiz time! True or false? 1. Daylight Saving Time helps us conserve energy. 2. Daylight Saving Time was developed to help farmers. 3. Daylight Saving Time unequivocally reduces traffic deaths. The answer to all of these? False. Although most Americans will routinely turn their clocks ahe ...
  • The Hidden Cancer Threat in Soda
    Pay any attention to a soda label and you'll find questionable ingredients like sugar in excess amounts, high-fructose corn syrup, or dubious artificial sweeteners. But a new analysis from the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) has detected a cancer-causer that you won't ever find ...

big think

  • No, Seriously. Science Can Be Funny.
    What's the Big Idea? The history of scientific discovery, in Bill Nye's words: "Copernicus goes, the sun is the center, not the earth. Everybody’s like what, dude? Yeah. The earth goes around the sun. Oh, now everything adds up. Galileo says hey, you know, we’re not the only planet with ...
  • Why Can't Reason and Imagination Just Be Friends?
    Back in high school, my imagination was overtaken for a year or two by the poems and engravings of William Blake (1757-1827). In particular, and only semi-consciously, I absorbed some of Blake’s wild mythology about the relationship between Urizen, a deity representing Reason and Law, and Los – ...
  • Why Americans Should Put More Scientists in th ...
    What is the Big Idea? As the U.S. wades deep into the election season, voters are bombarded with information and raising questions about the candidates' qualifications. But one question that doesn't get asked often is why don't more leaders in the U.S. have science backgrounds? I ...
  • Will Technological Change Lead to Abundance or ...
    At this year’s TED conference, which brought together some of the world’s leading thinkers and innovators, one of the most provocative debates challenged participants to consider the future of the earth. Two stunning TED Talks – “The Earth is Full” from Paul Gilding and “Abundance” from Peter .. ...
  • Solar Storm Watch: A Pleasant Aurora or Power ...
    2012 is shaping up to be the year of the solar storm. In late January, the largest solar storm in years erupted, sending a cloud of particles streaming from the Sun toward Earth at 4.5 million mph.  Now forecasters at NOAA's Space Weather Center have issued a warning that another storm . ...

Information Liberation

  • Holder's Ridiculous Justification for Assassin ...
    With Attorney General Eric Holder*s speech attempting to justify the president*s omnipotent power to assassinate Americans, we are seeing, once again, the consequences of having permitted U.S. officials with getting away with the sham of converting a...
  • Police Ticket Elderly Man For Driving With Cel ...
    Via Global Winnipeg: No one supports Manitoba*s law banning cell phone use by drivers more than Cheryl Derry. Her husband Mark was killed last fall in a crash with another driver suspected of texting behind the wheel. But she*s upset at news off...
  • 'I Don't Remember If My Penis Came Out' Says P ...
    FOX4News has the lowdown on another career criminal in uniform: According to departmental records, Officer Maurice Phillips has a long history of discipline problems including inappropriate comments and wrecking his patrol car. His most recent visit...
  • Why Can*t You Smoke Pot? Because Lobbyists Are ...
    John Lovell is a lobbyist who makes a lot of money from making sure you can*t smoke a joint. That*s his job. He*s a lobbyist for the police unions in Sacramento, and he is a driving force behind grabbing Federal dollars to shut down the California ma...
  • Isn't It Time Artists Lost Their 18th-Century ...
    One of the common assumptions in the copyright debate is that artists are special, and that they have a right to make money from their works repeatedly, in ways not granted to "ordinary" workers like plumbers or train drivers, thanks to copyright's r...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Agree Or Else Part II – The Silencing Of ...
    Our God-Emperor beat me to it. The Australian Government’s Finkelstein Report, released last Friday, is the stuff of all freedom-loving people’s nightmares. It proposes the establishment of a new bureaucracy, the News Media Council, to “regulate” all forms of print &#8230 ...
  • The Darkest Debate
    In this thread, LibertyGibbert will look at the topic which, more than any other, divides Libertarians. It’s a topic I have been reluctant to raise on this forum till now; indeed, I have been advised by some of you that … Continue reading →
  • A Servitude Of Convenience
    Quite often while I’m explaining the meaning of Libertarianism to friends or acquaintances, I’m met with a response which runs along the lines of but Ozboy, government can do so many things for us more efficiently than we can do … Continue reading →
  • And So Say All Of Us
    I’m currently looking at GE’s recent thread at the DT, lamenting the rise of the Welfare State and the normalization of welfare dependency, helplessness, and self-righteous mendicancy; a subject LibertyGibbert has previously visited in detail. The general tone of the comments … ...
  • Ugly Australia
    This isn’t the thread I had planned to write. Actually, I had planned to put out an essay last Thursday—Australia Day, commemorating the 224th anniversary of the arrival of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove. I had planned to tell … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Three minutes of exercise is not enough
    BBC Horizon recently discussed the recent burst of activity surrounding claims that just 3 minutes of very intense exercise (HIT high intensity training), done in 3×20 second sessions three times each week is enough to improve various health factors (such as insulin sensitivity and lung cap ...
  • This week’s (al)chemical happenings
    The Alchemist learns this week how phosphorus atoms might be perfectly placed to build a quantum computer and how fluorescent gel and filter paper might put explosive sniffer dogs out of work. In environmental remediation the reverse of gold-digging could be used to remove toxic mercury ions fro ...
  • Rock on @GulliverTurtle
    Gulliver Turtle was checking out my guitars and stuff yesterday, making sure I’d turned everything up to 11…there he is, third shelf up, on the right, next to my wife’s copy of Streitwieser & Heathcock “Introduction to Organic Chemistry” (2nd edn 1981) and just ...
  • Making scientific peer review open
    Scientific reputation is essential to researchers for their academic advancement, tenure, research grants and fellowships. It relies, most of the times, on quantitative metrics such as the H Index, citation counts, article counts etc. And, of course, getting published in a journal in the first p ...
  • Shy showoffs sitting on the social spectrum
    I’ve always thought of myself as a shy showoff…others may disagree. But, to my mind it explains why you’ve probably never seen me give a lecture a science or journalism conference but you may have heard me sing and play guitar in front of 600 people at West Road Concert Hall in ...

RFF Library

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

Scientific American - News

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Safety First
    Picket at Airport Hotel Construction Site Finds Safety Infractions A construction site next door to the Halifax International Airport was picketed yesterday by the Atlantic Regional Council of Carpenter, Millwrights and Allied Workers. Clos ...
  • The Greenwashing of Sustainable Seafood
    The environmental community rejects the sustainable certification of Nova Scotia longline caught swordfish Sustainable seafood certification announces to consumers that the fish they are buying is caught using ecologically sound practices ...
  • Canucks arena workers fight for concessions
    VANCOUVER - The workers who staff the concessions at the Rogers Arena took to the street tonight. They were outside the rink before tonight`s Vancouver Canucks game demanding respect from employer Aramark. They say they are fighting for better working conditions and better customer service. The ...
  • Bus Riders Make Video in Support of Transit Wo ...
    Social media was abuzz yesterday with criticism of striking transit workers' decision to block snowplows for 10 minutes. But some HRM residents instead went to the pic ...
  • Discussing the Dalhousie Strike
    Strike is a symptom of corporatization of education, say students and faculty With members of the Dalhousie Faculty Association voting 83% in favour of a strike last month, professors are set to walk off the job on March 10th. Asaf Rashid s ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • What has the Republican Party come to? - III
    David Seaton's News LinksObserving the pantagruelian expense and listening to and reading about the nauseating, sociopathic babble of the seemingly endless Republican primaries in the United States; people all over the world are questioning the democratic process and wondering if China's authori ...
  • What has the Republican Party come to? - II
    David Seaton's News Links"Melancholy" Domenico Feti We are living in quite special times. The crisis in the system hasn’t been this evident to “everyman” since the 1930s. The United States is rather special in one respect in facing the crisis. The idea of personal responsibility for everyth ...
  • What has the Republican Party come to?
    David Seaton's News LinksIf Mitt Romney takes the nomination and then loses to Obama, the extremists who’ve taken over the party will surely say the problem was Romney’s lack of ideological purity.  Joe Nocera - New York Times Here’s what I think may happen. Romney gets the nomination and ...
  • Are we looking at a possible intellectual and ...
    David Seaton's News LinksBank concentration: Graph - Mother Jones, (click though to view)Low genetic variation can make a species less resilient to changes in its environment, and place it at increased risk of extinction. BBC NewsEcologists say that when the gene-pool of a species is reduced be ...
  • The Darkest Hour Is Just Before Dawn
    David Seaton's News LinksBetween the civil war in Syria, for that is what it is, and the threat of an Israeli attack on Iran, which would set the region -- at the very least -- ablaze, and probably start off a chain of events that could tip the whole world into full-scale depression, we have ple ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Bachmann: Obama Could Mandate One-Child Policy
    Before you read this, I want to remind you that only a few months ago Michele Bachmann was considered a serious contender for the Republican nomination for president. Hard to believe, I know, but it's true. With that thought firmly in mind, here is Bachmann last night: Kathleen Sebelius, th ...
  • More Twaddle From the Twit
    Did the Iranians release their American hostages on the day of Ronald Reagan's inaugural because they were scared shitless of what the Gipper would do to them if they held out? In a word, no. Probably just the opposite. They weren't especially afraid of Reagan, but they were pissed off at Jimmy ...
  • 99 Cents and the Future of Journalism
    There's a new journalism startup in town called Matter. Their pitch: once a week they're going to publish a stunningly good piece of long-form journalism about issues in technology and science. "That means no cheap reviews, no snarky opinion pieces, no top ten lists. Just one unmissable story." ...
  • Will Retiring Baby Boomers Overwhelm the Housi ...
    Paging Karl Smith! Suzy Khimm writes today about something that I remember getting a bit of attention a few years ago: namely that as we baby boomers age, we're all going to sell our houses. This is going to put an unusually large number of old houses on the market, which could keep the constru ...
  • The Left Strikes Back
    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 away with it. I don't really buy Bob's examples of ...

Insanity Report

  • What Was More Offensive Than Limbaugh’s “Slut” ...
    Another day, another offensive Rush Limmbaugh segment from his radio show. By know you’ve heard that advertisers are leaving Rush’s show and Rush Limbaugh has even done something I’ve never heard him do before:  “Apologize”. I have “apologize” in quotes ...
  • IC 308: The World’s Fattest Cockblocker
    Topics: Mass Effect 3 launch trailer Recognizing the complexity of video games Fuck Chris Brown and fuck Rihanna too Fuck this dirty ass cunt Andrew Breitbart was a piece of shit, don’t white wash it Respect is earned not given Rush Limbaugh doesn’t understand how birth control works ...
  • IC 307: Getting It In Like Stephen Hawking
    Topics: The New Avengers Trailer Stephen Hawking likes to get it in Crazy bitches Being a loner doesn’t give you the right to shoot up a school Parents gotta do better Fuck Virginia The 2012 election Share with your friends:
  • IC 306: Ratchet
    Topics: UFC commentary Making racial jokes around white people 2 racist white girls make a Youtube video There are no blacks in the north Standing in line for shoes Jaheim gets roasted Share with your friends:
  • FacePalm of the Week: Lou Dobbs Thinks The Lo ...
    Lou Dobbs has a long history of being an idiot.  From race-baiting to flat out bigoted statements, particularly aimed at Latinos to his ridiculous attacks against the “Liberal media” and Liberals “War on America”.  I mean he’s become a cornucopia of ratchet rightwin ...

Simple Climate

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

e!Science News

  • A foot in the door to genetic information
    In the cell nucleus, DNA wraps around what are called histone proteins, forming regularly spaced spherical bodies called nucleosomes. Thus, large portions of the genetic material are inaccessible to the gene reading machinery. Scientists at the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforsc ...
  • A bird's song may teach us about human speech ...
    Can the song of a small bird provide valuable insights into human stuttering and speech-related disorders and conditions, including autism and stroke? New research by UCLA life scientists and colleagues provides reason for optimism. read more
  • New depression treatment 'safe and effective'
    Stimulating the brain with a weak electrical current is a safe and effective treatment for depression and could have other surprise benefits for the body and mind, a major Australian study of transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) has found. read more
  • Sperm can count
    Sperm have only one aim: to find the egg. The egg supports the sperm in their quest by emitting attractants. Calcium ions determine the beating pattern of the sperm tail which enables the sperm to move. Together with colleagues from the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in ...
  • Genetic survey of endangered Antarctic blue wh ...
    More than 99 percent of Antarctic blue whales were killed by commercial whalers during the 20th century, but the first circumpolar genetic study of these critically endangered whales has found a surprisingly high level of diversity among the surviving population of some 2,200 individuals. read more

unEarthed

  • Tr-Ash Talk: Risky Retirement
    Closure of old coal plants raises cleanup issues Coal ash ponds in Nevada. (Chris Jordan-Bloch / Earthjustice) Across the country, communities near retiring c ...
  • Friday Finds: Lorax Speaks for the SUVs
    Google oceans, cutting oil subsidies, beach-bound tsunami debris (Photo courtesy of B Rosen) The Lorax peddles SUVs to elementary kids The main character fr ...
  • When What You Don’t Know Actually Can Hurt
    Industry says studies about health impacts of chemicals should be confidential It seems reasonable that if something were to cause us harm, we’d like to kn ...
  • Proposal For Longview Coal Export Terminal Returns
    Columbia River facility would ship 44 million tons of coal annually They’re baaack! The shipping and logistics company Millennium Bulk Terminals last week ...
  • Tennessee Standing Up For Its Mountains
    State may become first to ban high-altitude mountaintop removal mining Tennessee mountains -- Image courtesy of EarthFirst A bipartisan bill is coming up for ...

Brave New Climate

  • Purpose and target audience of BraveNewClimate.com
    Before I write a scientific paper, I always try to identify: (1) my main message [MM], in 25 words or less, and (2) my target audience [TA]. Doing this helps focus the ‘story’ of the manuscript on a key point. Papers that try to present multiple messages are typically confusing and/or too long f ...
  • The Fukushima Question How close did Japan rea ...
    I think The Breakthrough Institute guys, led by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, are doing great working in environmental policy and thought leadership, which is why I was delighted to become a 2012 Senior Fellow. Below I reproduce an important article published today in Slate.com, on Fuk ...
  • 100% Renewable Electricity for Australia: Resp ...
    Guest post by Dr Mark Diesendorf, Institute of Environmental Studies, UNSW. Click here for a printable 6-page PDF version of this response. ——————– This is a personal response to Lang’s (2012) article critiquing the peer-reviewed paper Elliston, Diesendo ...
  • IFR FaD 10 – Metal fuel and plutonium
    Over the next few months I will publish four extracts from the book Plentiful Energy — The story of the Integral Fast Reactor by Chuck Till and Yoon Chang. Reproduced with permission of the authors, these sections describe and justify some of the key design choices that went into the making the ...
  • The Grattan Report on low-emissions energy tec ...
    Guest post by Dr Ted Trainer, University of NSW (http://ssis.arts.unsw.edu.au/tsw/). Wood, A, T. Ellis, D. Mulloworth, and H. Morrow (2012) No Easy Choices: Which Way to Australia’s Energy Future. Technology Analysis. Grattan Institute, Melbourne. This report is a valuable addition to the litera ...

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

  • I Want To Be On Armed Forces Radio
    I promise not to call people sluts for the crime of testifying before congress, and this alone makes me more qualified than Rush The Liar Limbaugh. I don’t have a radio show, bit I am sure there is millions of Americans who agree that Republicans are a Disease, and would love to hear my vo ...
  • So Rush Limbaugh Is A Piece Of Slime
    Who knew…. How dare anyone testify that doing stuff that keeps people from dying might be necessary! How dare they. They should just sit down, shut up, and let Rush’s friends run the world.
  • Psycho CPAC Anyone?
    Man, I watched clips of the freak show at this year’s CPAC. Why don’t they just call it the Obama hatefest? Where is Politifact anyway? I don’t think one single fake conservative said one single thing that was true from all the coverage I watched. Man, what a bunch of lying cry ...
  • Romney Zero % Tax Rate? Really?
    Mitt Romney may have a good reason to not release his 2008, and 2009 tax returns. He may have made millions and paid zero income, or capital gains tax. Isn’t being filthy rich great! ‘Ol Mittens claimed in a Univision interview he gives 15% to “charity” too. You mean you ...
  • Smeagol Gives Tonight’s Republican Respo ...
    How did they pull it off? Getting Smeagol all taped up to give the response. I am sure it was Smeagol. All the things he was talking about any orc would love, and any Hobbit would hate. Giving the rich and corporations they own more tax cuts while cutting services for the poor. More of [...]

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

  • This Is NOT What Democracy Looks Like! Crimina ...
    If laws like the new Trespass Bill (HR 347) had been in effect during the Civil Rights movement, there would have been no March on Washington. Martin Luther King Jr. and his fellow activists would have been rendered criminals. And King's call for "militant nonviolent resistance" would have been ...
  • Decentralized Global Rebellion: G8 On The Run; ...
    Facing Global Protest, G8 Retreats | #Occupy News Roundup | How to Fund an American Police State | Thousands Protest Soaring Education Cuts | "This Is Our Land:" Lakota Form Human Blockade to Stop Tar Sands Trucks | Tech Firms Help Arab Dictators | Vermont Town Meet ...
  • Hot List: Richest 1% Swipe 93% of All Income G ...
    Richest 1% Swipe 93% of All Income Gains | Wall Street speculators continue to rake in billions | SEC Dropped the Ball on $7 Billion Ponzi Scheme | Goldman's Massive Conflicts of Interest | Gaming the Greek bailout | Market Recovery Is an Illusion | BP to Pay $7.8 B ...
  • #GetMoneyOut News Roundup: Abolish Corporate P ...
    Voters Back Grassroots Campaign to Abolish Corporate Personhood | It’s Not Just Citizens United | FEC’s bad rap getting worse | Super Tuesday’s winner: Big-money politics | Most Former Members Of Congress Work In Lobbying | Stanford's been convicted, will lawmakers retur ...
  • LulzSec Cyber Activists Arrested With Help of ...
    Full LulzSec Indictments Here

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  • International Women’s Day: Hana Shalabi ...
    Palestinian administrative detainee Hana Shalabi is now on the 22nd day of her hunger strike, protesting her treatment during her arrest and over the course of her detention. Three court rulings from recent days may mark a shift in the system’s attitude towards her, following the Khader Ad ...
  • Poll: Most Israelis against attack on Iran
    Since the shift in the American policy, to one which is much more hospitable to Netanyahu and his government, every time the prime minister returns from Washington, his numbers jump. The last poll (from Haaretz) sees the Likud with 37 seats, which means a very easy job assembling the next govern ...
  • WATCH: Netanyahu compares Iran to a ‘duc ...
    Israel and the United States are BFFs. Best Friends Forever. So the leader of the “free world,” US President Barack Obama, can count among his closest allies Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…Bibi, the man who, when speaking to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) earlier ...
  • Slutwalk is coming to Israel – but I won ...
    “Slutwalk,” the global movement that calls on women around the world to march in minimal clothing to protest sexual harrassment, is coming to Israel. The movement aims to protest the claim that how a woman is dressed can cause sexual violence. But while Varda Bachrach demands equalit ...
  • War with Iran is closer than we think
    Even if Netanyahu and Barak are only trying to encourage the international community to act against Iran, their actions are getting us very close to military confrontation All public evidence suggests that there is no consensus in Israel regarding a military action against Iran. The three securi ...

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Matt Weidner Blog

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

  • We Found Love In A Hopeless Place
    Jane and I weren’t prepared for the sheer number of well wishes pouring in through various venues yesterday regarding my …Continue reading »
  • With Respect
    Try as hard as I might, I just can’t seem to get out of politics. Strange, considering that I lost …Continue reading »
  • Right to Community – Not As We Had Hoped
    Canadian communities are presently struggling through a process never endured before. We have already recounted in these posts how governments, …Continue reading »
  • I Earned Them
    The call came from one of those trendy American magazines that have found their niche and built a solid base …Continue reading »
  • Right to Community – Perils of Political ...
    I learned in my five years in politics that most MPs are privileged to see the best of our communities …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

  • Tenure track faculty positions in risk science ...
    Just thought I’d circulate this on the 2020 Science network – please feel free to pass on the information to anyone who might be interested. We have finally started the process of looking for two junior faculty to join the Risk Science Center at the University of Michigan School of P ...
  • Basic research and personal responsibility
    Dan Sarewitz has a rather provocative commentary in Nature this morning, where he suggests that proposals to increase basic research may be good politics, but questionable policy. The headline alone is probably enough to get some science-advocates’ blood boiling, whether they go on to read ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    Next week I am being “installed” here at the University of Michigan.  Not in the sense of installing a carpet – as one friend suggested – but in the sense of being installed as an endowed professor.  The Charles and Rita Gelman Risk Science Professor to be precise. To mar ...
  • Nanotechnology, climate and energy: over-heate ...
    Friends of the Earth have just released a new report challenging claims that nanotechnology will lead to greener, more energy-efficient technologies, lower-impact technologies. I’ve only had the chance to skim through the report so far, and so don’t have detailed comments on it.  But ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    Here’s something that keeps me awake at night (seriously): why, in this age of super-slick graphics and innovative multimedia resources, is it nearly impossible to give presentation that looks as good as they should? How come I can guarantee that when I give a presentation, the slides will ...

Reader Supported News

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

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

  • Field Trip Day
    We empathized with the human side of these hard-working distributors just trying to make a buck in this tough economy like the rest of us. But, of course, we also challenged them with difficult questions about sustainability and their role in the future of our food system.
  • The Other Side of the Chicken
    I recently had my first in-person experience with one of the hurdles in promoting a healthy change in food production. It was a major eye-opener to see how great of a hurdle the legislative process can be.
  • Public Health Reports on Antibiotics in Food A ...
    The good news is that the journal Public Health Reports has published a review article that acknowledges (not in so few words) that agriculture is one of the major drivers of the antibiotic resistance crisis that is unfolding.
  • Art Is the Answer
    Metaphors are models that help us understand how different parts of the world fit together. I view novels as models. And they are models that have four dimensions because there is a temporal dimension to a novel, as you are sitting there reading it, you are moving through it, you are watching it ...
  • How Do Economics Shape Food, Faith and the Future?
    Last week, Sylvia Nasar, author of Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius, addressed the issue of economics as it relates to food systems and the future, at the sixth session of the Baltimore Food and Faith Project’s Enoughness series. Complex and massive, the topic garnered a number of div ...

k2p blog

  • Worldcomp and the University of Georgia
    A search for "University of Georgia + Worldcomp" returns some 52,900 results and encourages the perception that the two are linked. A very discrete disclaimer on the Worldcomp website does little to correct this perception. If the University of Georgia truly wishes to distance itself from these ...
  • Norway: “25–56% of the temperature incre ...
    Norwegian scientists find that temperature increases over the last 150 years at Norwegian stations can be largely attributed to solar effects followed by ocean effects.
  • “Green” is also the colour of slim ...
    Green is also the colour of slime. The number of "green" companies which get huge subsidies, pay-out large bonuses and then file for bankruptcy is growing. It has become the "subsidy" industry rather than the "green" industry.
  • Indian Institute of Management Professor found ...
    A two-member committee of inquiry at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad has found Professor Rajanish Dass guilty of plagiarism. He, of course, blames his research associate and has gone to court.
  • Indian Indian Institute of Management Professo ...
    A two-member committee of inquiry at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad has found Professor Rajanish Dass guilty of plagiarism. He, of course, blames his research associate and has gone to court.

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Is AT&T Misleading iPhone 4S Users About 4G Ac ...
    Yesterday, the same day that Apple announced its new iPad would be able to access AT&T and Verizon's 4G LTE networks, AT&T iPhone 4S owners received an update to their devices -- and suddenly millions of people who had been told their phone didn't work on 4G networks now had a little icon that ...
  • Coke Clarifies That It Is Not Changing Its Rec ...
    Quit your whining, Coca-Cola aficionados -- the company is not changing its recipe for Coke after a consumer group study claimed the caramel color they use causes cancer. While they're disputing the study, they are also clarifying that they're just asking caramel suppliers to modify their proce ...
  • Parents Don't Realize Daughter Is Still At Chu ...
    Kids are wily little things, and if they find an extra token at Chuck E. Cheese's, you better believe they'll resort to sneaking back inside the restaurant to use it. One 3-year-old gave her whole family the slip recently with just that motivation, and her absence was unnoticed until her parent ...
  • Pizza Hut Drivers Turn Into Super-Cops, Follow ...
    If you're standing outside a restaurant and see three gun-toting people in masks flee the building, what is your immediate response? For a pair of Pizza Hut drivers in Georgia, it was time to tail the suspects before they could get away. Around 9:30 p.m. last night, the two drivers were outsid ...
  • Recall Roundup: Beware Of The Dancing Teapot
    In this edition of the Recall Roundup, a scary number of bicycle parts are recalled, grass cutters might cut humans, and we learn that a "dancing teapot" (pictured) is a lot less fun than the name makes it sound. Especially when it burns you. Babies and Kids Tumblekins Toys - can shatter; ch ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Answers Needed About IRI & NDI Funding and Act ...
    On December 29, 2011, Egyptian prosecutors and police raided the offices of 17 pro-democracy and human rights non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Out of 43 employees detained and charged with crimes against the state as a result of the raids, 19 were Americans. With these arrests, tensions be ...
  • Ammoniated Beef on the School Lunch Menu: Dail ...
    What's on the School Lunch Menu? Ammoniated Beef! Summary: The USDA plans to continue purchasing a controversial ammoniated beef product – known as ‘pink slime’ – for the national school lunch program. The product is created and sold by Beef Products Incorporated (BPI). This USDA move com ...
  • IDB Whistleblower Case Leads to Shady Dealings ...
    So ethics guru Bernardo Kliksberg is back in the news. On March 1, FOX News' George Russell published a detailed piece about Kliksberg’s peculiar departure from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in January 2007, just before the Social Capital and Ethics Initiative “coordinated” by h ...
  • Mets Could Pay $83M in Madoff Suit: Daily Whis ...
    Daily Beast: Noreen Harrington – The Mets’ Madoff Whistleblower Summary: A Wall Street employee alleges to have told the New York Mets team owners in 2003 that the ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff’s impressive returns could be explained by illegal trading. Now, she has testified before a judge abou ...
  • Assassinating U.S. Citizens: Holder says "Yes ...
    Yesterday, Attorney General Eric Holder said: The American people can be — and deserve to be — assured that actions taken in their defense are consistent with their values and their laws. I agree, Mr. Holder, but if you really cared about informing the American public more than silen ...

UK Progressive

  • Reverse-Engineering Obama’s Message Machine
    by Lois Beckett and Jeff Larson, ProPublica Last Thursday, President Obama’s re-election campaign sent out an email blast to supporters. Former journalism professor Dan Sinker and his wife received their messages simultaneously as they sat next to each other on their couch in Chicago. Both ...
  • Health Care: Affordability Is Accessibility
    Conservatives really wanted a fight about religious freedom. It appeared to be an easy win: Make an ObamaCare mandate that insurers cover birth control into a war on religion. The GOP, void of any ideas Obama hasn’t contaminated by agreeing with, finds itself in an election year frantically look ...
  • BP Settlement Leaves Most Complex Claims Unres ...
    by Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica BP’s announcement that it will pay $7.8 billion to compensate thousands of Gulf Coast residents harmed in the Deepwater Horizon disaster ends one chapter of legal wrangling over the 2010 oil spill, but leaves other, potentially far more expensive, issues unresolv ...
  • Good Morning California! How Long Have Gas Com ...
    What most Californians don’t realize is that fracking has been taking place throughout their state for over sixty years. US towns and communities have been in the midst of an unprecedented gas drilling boom, using a process called hydraulic fracturing or “fracking.” With each new dri ...
  • Demographic Time Bombs Explode – The GOP’s His ...
    A FOX News(!) poll shows the bombshell effect of the USA’s Hispanic vote’s cumulative enmity towards the Republican Party. The three front running GOP candidates trail President Obama among Hispanic voters by 54-56 points! President Obama trumps front-runner Mitt Romney by 70%-14%! Statistically ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • China finds the odd 200 years worth of fuel
    Who isn’t finding shale gas these days? To whom shall we sell all those super-costly solar units, that we will supposedly be “world leaders” in? China reveals 25tn cu metres of shale gas Financial Times China announced the results of its most extensive official appraisal of sha ...
  • Finkelstein — Yes please. Just try it…
    Welcome to Australistan. I haven’t read the whole 400 page Finklestein report, but Mark Steyn tells me that the Chinese government likes it. What more do you need to know? As Steyn says, this is not a left-right thing, it’s a free-unfree thing. Tim Andrews at Menzies House launches ...
  • Monbiot — Steal things and be a “d ...
    Showing the intellectual depth we’ve come to expect from progressives, Monbiot argues that the public debate on atmospheric dynamics would be improved by knowing who-funds-those-who dare speak against the government experts. It’s as if the truth of future tropospheric warming comes n ...
  • The Moons influence on the atmosphere over Aus ...
    We know the moon changes our tides, but can it also change our rainfall? Could the moon also cause tides in the atmosphere? Some researchers have found such periodic movements in air above 3000m. Some have suggested that the moon drives the cyclical shifts in the Length of Day (LOD) that occur o ...
  • FakeGate beats DenierGate in google war: DeSmo ...
    In the big battle for the meme-of-the-moment, Fakegate has won. DeSmog can’t be too happy about this. Google “DenierGate” and get 67,000 results, but google “Fakegate” and get 168,000. What do you know? Stealing things, breaching privacy, and exposing nothing but ti ...

ReNew America

  • Narcissism and the culture war
    (Fred Hutchison, RA analyst) - The culture war might be likened to fighting a war against a coalition of powers. Imagine WWI-style trench warfare on a long front. In the center of the enemy lines are the forces of moral relativism. These forces oppose the idea that there is a universal moral law ...
  • RomneyCare now funding FREE abortions
    (Amy Contrada) - RomneyCare now offers free elective surgical abortions. Mitt Romney was the enabler. This is how his government-dictated health plan is playing out...
  • Will the 'war on women' kill Limbaugh's radio ...
    (Cliff Kincaid) - Rush Limbaugh claims that MSNBC is hyping an alleged "Republican War on Women," stemming from the controversy caused by his vicious attacks on feminist Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke, for which he has apologized...
  • Secret to Santorum's success found in one word
    (Bryan Fischer) - The general consensus among the political punditry from Super Tuesday, both left and right, is that Romney is a very weak frontrunner. He failed to close the deal, didn't deliver the knockout punch, eked out a win in Ohio, etc. So even though he won six states to Rick Santorum' ...
  • Santorum assails Romney's health care stances
    (Washington Times) - While Mitt Romney squeaked out a narrow victory in Ohio's Republican primary, chief opponent Rick Santorum peeled away the scab and drew new blood over the former Massachusetts governor's history on health care, resurrecting the chief obstacle between Mr. Romney and the nomi ...

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

  • Survivalist Magazine / More Apocalyptic TV
    2012 is the year of 2012! Issue six of Survivalist magazine is a special 2012 issue. You can buy single copies and the first two issues are now also available on Kindle. To my knowledge this is the only survivalist magazine in existence. Please let me know if you are aware of any others. &#8 ...
  • Doomsday Preppers: Highest Ratings
    According to National Geographic Channel, Doomsday Preppers is the most popular show the network has ever aired. This week on National Geographic Channel, Doomsday Preppers continues its amazing run on the channel, the #1, 3, 6 and 11 most viewed shows of the week.  Doomsday Preppers has become ...
  • Another Solar Flare Alert
    As you can see, this X5 flare is much bigger than the X1 flare that occurred just 20 hours ago. As a comparison, last August we had an X6.9. The major storm of 2003 had an X17.2 flare, whilst the 1989 flare that took out a power grid in Canada was an X15. The biggest recorded in modern times was ...
  • Seed Bank Insurance / Korean Doomsday Movie
    Seed banks are incredibly valuable resources, and an acknowledgement that sometimes there SHTF events that require emergency backups. Seed banks can help restart horticulture in the event of a natural disaster or spread of a disease. But what if harm comes to the seed bank itself? Wars have dest ...
  • Asteroid 2012 DA14: Earth Impact in 2013?
    An article has been appearing in blogs and at forums. It says, in part: To avert a possible catastrophe – this time set for February 2013 – scientists suggest confronting asteroid 2012 DA14 with either paint or big guns. The stickler is that time has long run out to build a spaceship to carr ...

Facing South

One News Page

  • Mukesh Ambani richest Indian on Forbes list; M ...
    NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Mukesh Ambani retained the top spot among Indians on Forbes' annual list of the world's billionaires on Wednesday with a net worth of $22.3 billion. Reported by Reuters India 2 hours ago
  • PHOTOS: McKay five-for steers Aussies to tri-s ...
    Images from the third final of the CB series between Australia and Sri Lanka at Adelaide. Reported by Rediff.com 3 hours ago
  • Apple cuts iPad 2 prices; starts at 24,500 rup ...
    NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Gadget lovers in India can now own an iPad 2 for 24,500 rupees, with Apple Inc slashing its price worldwide on Thursday following the launch of a new third-generation, 4G-ready tablet. Reported by Reuters India 4 hours ago
  • Solar storm to hit earth today; may disrupt po ...
    A massive solar storm of charged particles that erupted two days ago is expected to bombard the Earth's magnetic field today which could potentially disrupt power grids, satellite navigation and plane routes. Reported by Rediff.com 5 hours ago
  • No hurdle for rail extension in Tripura
    The impasse over land acquisition for the 44 km Agartala-Udaipur railway extension project is over as the land owners have assured the government to sell their lands, official sources said. Reported by Zee News 5 hours ago

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • The BRICs and the Construction of the Multipol ...
    Ten years ago, the acronym BRIC entered the lexicon of international economics and finance. Since then, cooperation among the emerging countries contained in that acronym has taken on an increasingly marked geo-economic and geopolitical record. The consolidation of relations among Brazil, Russia ...
  • Two Worlds, Two Truths
    The Vladimir Putin’s election for a new term means the major foreign policy guidelines outlined in his article called Russia and the Changing World are going to be further implemented. The article calls for the resurrection of the bipolar world order when no one involved in confrontation could a ...
  • Russia’s National Interests and Foreign ...
    On February 27, with Russia’s presidential poll already in sight, Moskovskie Novosti daily featured an international politics opinion piece by Vladimir Putin, which came as the seventh in a series of programmatic papers by the Russian prime minister and March 4 elections front-runner. The ...
  • Russia’s New President And the Transforming World
    Many events of the year 2011 have explicitly demonstrated that the world has entered a phase of profound change and transformation with regard to politics, ideology, finance and economy. As the economic situation and social standards in the United States and Europe continue to deteriorate, the N ...
  • US Media Rigged Ahead of Russian Elections
    In the spirit of recognizing mobs of terrorists as legitimate national governments before a sovereign nation’s true leadership is murdered by US-led NATO operations, as was the case in Libya, the Western media is already decrying Russia’s upcoming elections as “rigged” be ...

BlogHer

  • A Tale of Love from Two Different Worlds
    My grandmother was one of the most amazing human beings ever. She was my protector, my grounding force, my moral compass, my confidant, my teacher. My best friend. I don't remember too much about my grandfather. He died from malignant melanoma when I was five. I do remember some things though, o ...
  • International Women's Day: Celebrating MAMAs A ...
    I thought hard of how to honor International Women's Day. But once I saw the beautiful and powerful online exhibition at the International Museum of Women called "MAMA: Motherhood Around the Globe," it became immediately clear. MAMA is about the experience of pregnancy and motherhood, as viewe ...
  • Sportscaster Dan Patrick Crushed My Morale
    I am a sports fan.  I share my enthusiasm for sports with my significant other, M. What we do not share is a liking for day-long sports news updates provided by ESPN streaming via the TV in the living room.  It’s turned down to a low volume thanks to my numerous pleas.  But it is ...
  • The Joys Of Working From Home
    Just this past October my husband and I moved to Windsor, Ontario, and in November I started working from home (part time) for my employer in Victoria, British Columbia. I LOVE IT. Just so you know, here are 16 reasons why: If I'm in the living room or kitchen, the commute to my office is up a ...
  • How My iPod Was the Gateway Drug to All Things ...
    Edited at 2:00pm: The announcements have all been made! The new products include Apple TV at 99.00 with HD capability, the iPad with a higher resolution retina display, and iOS 5.1 updates! Check out Mashable here for complete information on today's releases. http://mashable.com/2012/03/07/app ...

Health Freedom Alliance

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

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • W.Va. passes mine safety bill — such as ...
    In this April 6, 2010 file photo, Trevor, 11, and Rabekka Quarles, 9, watch news reports about the Upper Big Branch mine explosion, surrounded by their father’s mining gear at their home in Naoma, W.Va. On Monday Gary Quarles, 33, was killed in an explosion at Massey Energy’s Upper B ...
  • Judge consolidates medical testing in Prenter case
    SSP organizer Bobby Mitchell labeling a black water sample from Prenter. Photo from the Sludge Safety Project. Important news in today from Boone County, where Circuit Judge William S. Thompson has handed residents of the Prenter area a significant legal victory. Judge Thompson has ruled that re ...
  • House Democrats defend OSMRE in mountaintop re ...
    Photo from iLoveMountains, via House Democrat report We’ve covered here before the ongoing — and rather cooked-up — controversy over the federal Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement’s efforts to rewrite the stream buffer zone rule into something that OSMRE ...
  • UBB ‘internal review’ finds seriou ...
    We’ve just posted on the Gazette’s website our first story about the release of the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration’s “internal review” of agency enforcement and other actions at the Upper Big Branch Mine in Raleigh County, W.Va., where 29 miners were kil ...
  • Another coal miner killed in Kentucky
    Bad news from the coalfields of Kentucky, where the Herald-Leader reports: A mine foreman died early Saturday while fixing a canopy in a Harlan County mine. James A. Bailey, 32, of Loyall was pinned by the protective covering that he was installing on a mine shuttle car, according to the state E ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Getting Real IP Addresses Using CloudFlare, Ng ...
    Logs from Splunk CloudFlare is a great service that proxies your site’s traffic in order to offer performance gains and filtering options. It can compress and cache static content such as CSS files, JavaScript, and image files and then geographically optimize how they’re given to you ...
  • Thoughts on Sam Harris’ Book on Free Will
    Sam Harris’s book on free will came out today and I read it during dinner (it’s a short read). Here’s what I had to say about the book back in December when he announced it: I basically anticipate an extremely high-quality summary of my numerous articles, posts, and debate inte ...
  • iOS-based Square Headed To New York City Taxi ...
    As we heard last week, mobile payments platform Square pitched the New York Taxi and Limousine Commission to replace the current taxi TVs and payments technology in 50 cabs. The company says today that the pilot has been approved, and Square will be tested in up to 30 cabs in the test. AllThings ...
  • Dunning-Kruger and the End of Democracy
    The research, led by David Dunning, a psychologist at Cornell University, shows that incompetent people are inherently unable to judge the competence of other people, or the quality of those people’s ideas. For example, if people lack expertise on tax reform, it is very difficult for them ...
  • Give it five minutes | 37signals
    There are two things in this world that take no skill: 1. Spending other people’s money and 2. Dismissing an idea. Dismissing an idea is so easy because it doesn’t involve any work. You can scoff at it. You can ignore it. You can puff some smoke at it. That’s easy. The hard thing to [...]

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

  • What’s Ahead for Rep. Dennis Kucinich?
    by: Amy Goodman, truthout Democracy Now! | Report - In a newly drawn district in Ohio, outspoken antiwar Rep. Dennis Kucinich suffered a defeat against Rep. Marcy Kaptur. The two were forced to square off in a Democratic primary after Republicans redrew Ohio’s congressional map. Kaptur now ...
  • O.W.S. awaiting its ‘American Spring’
    BY Zach Williams ,downtownexpress.com| Zuccotti Park remains as much an inspiration as a flashpoint for the Occupy Wall Street movement, and that fact seems unlikely to change as the promised “American Spring” draws near. Occupiers congregated at Zuccotti late last Thursday night following ...
  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Thursday
    Biggest solar storm in years races toward Earth WASHINGTON (AP) — The largest solar storm in five years was due to arrive on Earth early Thursday, promising to shake the globe’s magnetic field while expanding the Northern Lights. The storm started with a massive solar flare earlier in the ...
  • As the Cookie Crumbles: Bums’ Rush..
    By Dr. Woody,Worldwidehippies – Ol’ Dr. Woody’s been aware of, dismayed by, and leery about the “attractions” of Rush Limbaugh since about 1986, when I first heard him in syndication on a talk radio station in Baton Rouge. Reagan changed the Fairness Doctrine to all ...
  • Gus Died Last Night
    By Phil Polizatto,Worldwidehippies – Gus died last night. I am unfettered by the responsibility to find someone to take care of him when I want to travel. I no longer have to cut my evenings short in order to be home in time for his evening walk. No longer do I have to get up [...]

reference frame

  • Reality of complexified fields
    Observables are expressed by Hermitian operators in quantum mechanics; their eigenvalues are real. In other words, the eigenvalues lie at a special curve in the complex plane – namely the real axis. Of course, it isn't the only curve that may be preferred. For example, unitary operators obeyi ...
  • EU feminists kill Bill of Asia by parthenogenesis
    Racist, sexist, imperialist official EU ad shelved The European Union officials have decided to prove that they're not just wet rags but they can do really cool things. So they paid this €127,000 ($165,000 or so) propaganda video to show how the European Union plans to bring peace to the ...
  • Tevatron confirms a 115-135 GeV Higgs
    Today, Wednesday, is dedicated to the Higgs boson news at Moriond, a particle physics conference in the Italian Alps. The Wilson-Higgs Hall, a photoshopped cousin of the Fermilab's Wilson Hall. A few minutes ago, the media exploded (see Reuters, BBC, NYT, Nature, and tons of o ...
  • Supersymmetry at CMS: some multilepton excesse ...
    The Moriond conference offers us updates on many searches in particle physics although the most interesting findings may be stored for later and larger conferences. Matt Strassler has mentioned an interesting new exclusion plot based on the newest CMS multilepton events. It shows an exce ...
  • LHCb: dimuon branching ratio of B decays match ...
    In November 2011, we were informed about a result of the LHCb experiment, an experiment using a smaller detector at the LHC that focuses on aspects of particle physics associated with the bottom quark i.e. the second-heaviest quark flavor. Four months ago, the result was telling us that ...

Tatumba 2.0

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

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

  • Can't Stop the Big Mo
    Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
  • No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
    The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
  • Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
    Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
  • Grading Back-to-School Stocks
    Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
  • Merck: More Agony from Its Painkiller
    The costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either

Enviroblog

  • Don't let the lights go out on environmental j ...
    By Alex Formuzis: Vice President of Media Relations A few days ago two California-based environmental reporters for the Associated Press who had made major contributions to the issue and their profession were taken off the beat. In the entire state... [[ This is a content summary only. Visi ...
  • California: The Wild West of Fracking
    In some states, oil and gas companies have begun to face (gasp!) some basic regulations, such as required reporting of where and when they hydraulically fracture (or "frack") wells, and even disclosure of the chemicals they use. But in California,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...
  • California: The Wild West of Fracking
    In some states, oil and gas companies have begun to face (gasp!) some basic regulations, such as required reporting of where and when they hydraulically fracture (or "frack") wells, and even disclosure of the chemicals they use. But in California,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...
  • Concerned about Drilling in New York? So are s ...
    By Leeann Brown, press secretary New York is considering lifting its moratorium on hydraulic fracturing, an oil and gas drilling technology in which large volumes of water, sand and chemicals are injected into the ground at high pressure. Drillers... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...
  • Study: Toxic Chemicals Play Are Lowering Child ...
    By Alex Formuzis: Vice President of Media Relations I spend more time than most people reading about scientific studies on the environmental and public health effects of exposure to toxic chemicals. Last week I came across one report that I... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my web ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Top bureaucrat also resigns from troubled ministry
    Harald Nybøen, who held the top bureaucratic post at Norway’s beleaguered government ministry in charge of family and equality issues, has resigned just two days after the ministry’s top politician, Audun Lysbakken, resigned as minister himself. Nybøen had led the ministry for 15 yea ...
  • Terror survivors feel let down
    Many of those who survived confessed terrorist Anders Behring Breivik’s bomb and massacre last summer have been telling Norwegian media that they feel let down by the state’s indictment against Breivik. Some fear he may not be held responsible for his murderous attacks, while others ...
  • Indictment ‘disappoints’ Breivik
    The defense attorney for confessed terrorist Anders Behring Breivik said his client is “disappointed” with the state indictment handed down on Wednesday that formally charges Breivik with the attacks and murders carried out on July 22. Attorney Geir Lippestad told Norwegian Broadcast ...
  • State hands down terror indictment
    State prosecutors formally handed down a 19-page indictment against confessed terrorist Anders Behring Breivik on Wednesday, charging him with two separate terrorist acts that killed a total of 77 persons last year. They admitted there is no legal precedent in Norway for the massive scope of Bre ...
  • Conservative MP faces drug charges
    A Member of Parliament (MP) for Norway’s Conservative Party (Høyre) has been stripped of all his party posts after police found white powder believed to be narcotics in his Oslo apartment, which is paid for by the Parliament. Høyre leader Erna Solberg said she was “shocked” by ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Sail Power Reborn – Transporting Local Goods b ...
    Peak Moment host Janaia Donaldson joins Fulvio Casali, Kathy Pelish and Alex Tokar, co-founders of the Salish Sea Trading Cooperative, on the deck of the sailboat Soliton, docked in Ballard, near Seattle, Washington. The Salish Sea Trading Cooperative have teamed up with Nash’s organic pr ...
  • Get Ready Now for the 11th European Permacultu ...
    What: 11th European Permaculture Convergence (EUPC) When: August 1st – 5th, 2012 Where: Escherode/Kassel, Germany Dear activist-friends in Europe The website for registration is online and we invite you to check the key note speakers, lectures and workshops already listed. This program ...
  • Peak Meat: U.S. Meat Consumption Falling
    by Janet Larsen, Earth Policy Institute U.S. meat consumption has peaked. Data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture show that meat eating across the country fell from the 2004 high point of 184 pounds (83 kilograms) per person to 171 pounds in 2011. Early estimates for 2012 project a further ...
  • Permaculture Resiliency Project with the San B ...
    In a land of contrast, mystery and years of imperialism, a small village of over 300 people on the edge of the Kalahari in Namibia germinated a new permaculture resiliency project in January of 2012. In talking with the headman of the village, he shared that their people, the San Bushmen, have ...
  • An Experiment in Back Yard Sustainability – an ...
    Part I Scott McGuire of ‘White Sage Gardens’, Janaia Donaldson’s guest for this episode of Peak Moment, asks the question: What would it look like if we were to really start feeding ourselves? In this first year of his experiment he planned to find out how much yield is ...

Pointman's

  • The Climate Wars.
    If you’ve ever fought someone much bigger and stronger than you, then you learn some lessons quickly or you perish. If you stand your ground, they’ll destroy you, because they’re just so much more powerful than you, so you give ground. You’ve still got to fight them, so you jab at them as you gi ...
  • The Climate Wars.
    If you’ve ever fought someone much bigger and stronger than you, then you learn some lessons quickly or you perish. If you stand your ground, they’ll destroy you, because they’re just so much more powerful than you, so you give ground. You’ve still got to fight them, so you jab at them as you gi ...
  • Fakegate claims its first scalp.
    The prominent climate alarmist Peter Gleick, has just admitted obtaining by identity theft the Heartland material and emailing it anonymously to journalists sympathetic to “the cause”. There are some things to be noted when reading his confession. It was obviously drafted with legal help and a v ...
  • Fakegate claims its first scalp.
    The prominent climate alarmist Peter Gleick, has just admitted obtaining by identity theft the Heartland material and emailing it anonymously to journalists sympathetic to “the cause”. There are some things to be noted when reading his confession. It was obviously drafted with legal help and a v ...
  • Fakegate and post-modern journalism.
    Fakegate has been a very public reverse for climate alarmism. Instead of being a successful smear of the Heartland Institute and other parties, it’s likely to be viewed in retrospect as a turning point in the manner in which the mainstream and online media covers dissenting institutions and voic ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

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

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idvq2coKLNU iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMt3nKd-QZYStatistics: Posted by Michael K. — Thu Mar 08, 2012 11:29 am
  • Zionist Influence/Power • Re: "Israel's L ...
    "Israel's Last Day" God that has a nice ring to it.Statistics: Posted by abduLMaria — Thu Mar 08, 2012 10:33 am
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Dear stewie You raise a very interesting series of questions about "Mark Lane." I have another angle to explore, that of his possible involvement not with the CIA alone, but also with the USSRussia. The significance of understanding this question is of the utmost immediate importa ...
  • Economics, Money/Banking, Investments, Profite ...
    The demons walking-on-two-legs MUST be stopped and our planet taken-back from these parasites. Listen to The Protocols, and I swear to you that you will never think the same-way about ANY OF THIS again. I read it a-loud for about four hours, while reading it--of course--and I can tell you that ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_9HjpnfMiA I am so very proud to present to the world the full-narration of The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion in Modern English. I will be doing the original "Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion" in the high-language, and Jack Bernstein's ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • India’s Tata Group to Favor Green Energy Over ...
    The power unit of the India-based Tata Group conglomerate has said it will favor solar and wind projects over coal-fired plants in future global energy investments, citing the increasing difficulty of developing coal projects. In an interview with Bloomberg News, Tata Power Executive Director S. ...
  • Alien Seed Invasion Poses Threat to Antarctic ...
    The tens of thousands of tourists, scientists, and support personnel who visit Antarctica every year are carrying with them large numbers of seeds from alien plants that could one day pose a threat to Antarctica’s limited array of native plant species. A team of scientists vacuumed the clothes a ...
  • Some Scandinavian Conifers Survived the Last I ...
    A new study has found that some Scandinavian conifers were able to survive the harsh conditions of the last Ice Age, a finding that upends the long-held view that the region’s landscape was wiped clean by a massive blanket of ice. While scientists have long believed contemporary University of ...
  • Ocean Acidifying Faster Than Any Time in 300 M ...
    The world’s oceans may be acidifying faster today than during any period over the last 300 million years, a phenomenon that could have dire consequences for marine species and ecosystems, according to a new study. In a review of hundreds of paleoceanographic studies, a team of scientists found t ...
  • NASA Images Depict Rapid Loss of Thick Arctic ...
    A new comparison of satellite images from 1980 and 2012 vividly depicts the rapid disappearance of thick, multi-year Arctic Ocean ice in winter. Over the past three decades, the extent of the Arctic’s thickest ice has declined by 15 to 17 percent per decade, according to Click to enlarge NA ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • 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&#8217 ...
    All right, it’s been about three months since I offered up my first batch of suggestions on how we can fix the world, and it appears none of them have been implemented. (Seriously ABC, Charlie’s Angels is the next … Charlie’s Angels. It’ll spawn five seasons, two movies, and a reboot series if y ...
  • Coren vs. Boteach: let’s go to the tape
    By Frank Moher A passel of Michael Coren supporters have emerged over the last day to defend his “interview” of Rabbi Shmuley Boteach on the SUN “News” Network. (I always keep a pile of ironic quotation marks beside me when I write about SUN TV.) Some of them arrived here ...

Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • U.S. may base Ospreys in Honshu
    Japan and the United States are considering temporarily stationing the MV-22 Osprey, a transport aircraft that can take off and land vertically, at U.S. bases and other locations in Honshu, sources said Wednesday. The proposed move, with some planes to be stationed as early as July, comes ahea ...
  • Former Mitsubishi UFJ credit trader to start J ...
    Yoshihito Asakawa, a former Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities Co. trader, will start a Japan-focused hedge fund in May that will invest in credit derivatives and currencies. Asakawa, 31, plans to start with about ¥500 million in initial capital raised from investors he found throug ...
  • New York photo exhibition depicts disasters, m ...
    A photo exhibition depicting the damage and surviving children of the March 11 Tohoku disasters was held Monday at the United Nations headquarters in New York. Diplomats and New York residents attended the exhibition — held shortly before the first anniversary of the disasters — fe ...
  • Rampant Devils cut loose on Rangers
    The New York Rangers made too many mistakes and played with too little emotion, and the New Jersey Devils made the team at the top of the NHL standings pay for both. The Devils hit the Rangers hard, dropped the gloves for two fights in the first period, and took over in the third when David Cl ...
  • Contaminated water may still be leaking into P ...
    A group of researchers has reported that radiation-contaminated water could still be leaking into the sea from the Fukushima No. 1 power plant. Data on radioactive cesium in the sea near the plant nearly a year after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami triggered multiple meltdowns show a slowe ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • The Loonie’s Stagnant Purchasing Power
    The following note also appears on Business Insider: When Ontario’s Premier recently complained that Canada’s petro-dollar undermines manufacturing exports, many economists tripped over each other to counter that a strong loonie benefits all Canadians through cheaper imports. In theory, that mak ...
  • Increasing number of migrant labourers in Nova ...
    According to a Citizenship and Immigration Canada report, the number of migrant labourers in Canada increased from 177,781 to 432,682 between 2000 and 2010.  Immigrant Settlement Integration Services says the number of foreign workers entering Nova Scotia has almost doubled in the last five year ...
  • Tilting at Windmills: What to do about Dutch D ...
    In response to Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty’s complaint about oil and the exchange rate, several (conservative) commentators argued that this “Dutch disease” is not what ails Ontario manufacturing. Andrew Coyne took a different tack yesterday, agreeing that petroleum development drives up the ...
  • Santa Claus Delivers a Positive Quarter Despit ...
    The Month: Christmas Gift Canada’s economy was buoyed by Christmas cheer as a December bounce more than offset slight declines in October and November to turn the fourth quarter positive. Unfortunately, one month does not make a trend. The key question is whether December’s strength continued in ...
  • What Obama’s Corporate Tax Proposal Means for ...
    The following commentary also appears on The Globe and Mail’s Global Exchange blog: Last week, there was much consternation in Canada’s business press that some modest reversals of provincial corporate tax cuts and President Obama’s proposed corporate tax changes could erode our competitiveness. ...

ReDress

  • Flying into Tel Aviv? Then it's "Welcome to Pa ...
    Stuart Littlewood explains why people of conscience, principle and respect for justice and the truth will always see Palestine as Palestine and will not forget that what is known as "Israel" is an extraneous implant build on the blood and ruins of a nation.
  • Barack Obama prostrates himself before America ...
    Jamal Kanj argues that Binyamin Netanyahu's and Ariel Sharon's ominous assertions that Israel controls the US were demonstrated once again this week by Barack Obama's humiliating pledges of loyalty to Israel in a speech to America's leading pro-Israel lobby and in a magazine interview.
  • Ignore the intelligence reports, let's make wa ...
    Stuart Littlewood argues that, with the USA's intelligence agencies concurring that Iran has no nuclear weapons programme, Washington's and London's clamour for ever tighter sanctions and war with Iran appear to be motivated not by national interests, but by loyalty and obedience to Israel and i ...
  • Israelis rejoice at the death of Palestinian c ...
    Paul J. Balles considers the mentality of Israelis who openly rejoiced at the death of nine Palestinian kindergarten children and one adult in a bus accident in February.
  • Craven Liberal Democrats dump human rights cha ...
    Stuart Littlewood argues that the sacking of Jenny Tonge - one of Britain's most committed campaigners for human rights - from the Liberal Democrats' parliamentary party after criticizing Israel highlights the hypocrisy of the UK's Liberal Democrats, the cowardice of their leader Nick Clegg and ...

Physics Today

  • FCC reminder: Cell phone jammers are illegal
    Los Angeles Times: A commuter in Philadelphia recently confessed to using a cell phone jammer on his daily bus ride when he felt his fellow bus riders were being too disruptive with their cell phone conversations. His confession sparked a storm of sympathetic commentary in US media last week. No ...
  • Robotic cheetah breaks running record
    BBC: The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has released video of a four-legged robot designed to move like fast-running animals in the wild. Called Cheetah, the robot will be able to "more effectively assist war fighters across a greater range of missions," according to DARPA. ...
  • US collider finds further evidence of Higgs boson
    Science: Scientists analyzing data from the now-defunct Tevatron particle accelerator in Batavia, Illinois, say they have found hints of the elusive Higgs boson. The finding lends support to last year's announcement from CERN of its tentative Higgs detection. The two accelerators use different p ...
  • Bumblebees change flight paths to avoid predators
    BBC: Although a physicist might be tempted to treat bumblebees as randomly moving objects hitting randomly distributed targets, they actually fly in the proverbial beeline and travel systematically from flower to flower unless predators are nearby. To study how the presence of predators might al ...
  • Asian emissions affect US ozone levels
    Nature: The phenomenon of pollution crossing the Pacific Ocean has been documented since the 1990s. Using chemical modeling to distinguish between locally produced and imported pollution, Meiyun Lin of Princeton University and colleagues analyzed air-quality data from satellites and ground measu ...

Revolutionary Politics

  • Americans Blame Wasteful Government Spending f ...
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  • Central Banks Expand Gold Reserves With $6 Bil ...
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  • One Million Apply for 62,000 Jobs…with McDonald’s
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  • The great fuel fail: ethanol from corn
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  • The Charts That Show Why the U.S. Is ‘Screwed’
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Peakwater

  • Fracking Could Cause a New Global Water Crisis
    “Numerous communities where fracking has occurred in the U.S. have had their public water resources contaminated as a result of fracking. One community the report highlights is Dimock, Pennsylvania: In 2009, Pennsylvania regulators ordered the Cabot Oil and Gas Corporation to cease all fra ...
  • Brash SJV congressman shifts California water wars
    “After 20 years under CVPIA (Central Valley Project Improvement Act), Congress can conclude one thing: flushing fresh water into the San Francisco Bay is not helping to recover species and people are suffering needlessly.” “That’s how Republican Nunes introduced H.R 1837, the Sacramento-Sa ...
  • Cotter rerouting tainted creek near leaking ur ...
    “The owners of a leaking uranium mine west of Denver have begun a bold project to reduce contamination of a creek that flows into a metro drinking-water reservoir: physically rerouting the creek so that it no longer flows over toxic waste. “Nobody wants Cotter Corp.’s re-routin ...
  • U.N. says 2 billion more get safe water to drink
    “More than 2 billion people have gained access to better drinking water sources, such as piped supplies and protected wells, between 1990 and 2010, U.N. officials said on Tuesday. “The figure means the world has met the internationally agreed Millennium Development Goal (MDG) to halv ...
  • World Rivers Review: Dam Greenwashing Flows at ...
    “The stated goal of this year’s World Water Forum- the world’s largest meeting devoted to water- is to create solutions to the water, energy, and food challenges presented by climate change and economic growth. However some of the “solutions” being presented will do ...

D. Kucinich

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

Authentically Wired

  • …Honest kindness – generosity &#82 ...
    …Honest kindness – generosity – compassion remains vibrant in the American spirit …     BOATLIFT – An Untold Tale of 9/11 Resilience (HD Version) 03-06-2012  •  www.youtube.com  Tom Hanks narrates the epic story of the 9/11 boatlift that evacuated half a mill ...
  • …WOMAN DO AS I SAY … Mitt Romney & ...
    So should Romney become President what do you expect his position on women and abortion will be when his Church promotes this position …   War on Women: Utah House Passes 72 Hour Abortion Waiting Period    Dakota’s law mandating that a woman seeking an abortion must wait 72- ...
  • Apparently it is NOT just Arizona’s &#82 ...
    …  Apparently it is NOT just Arizona’s “dry-heat” that makes legislators and jurists stupid ….   Colorado court says students can carry guns on campus 03-06-2012  •  Reuters The University of Colorado overstepped its authority when the school’s board of regents im ...
  • … Brewer owe’$ so she will find a ...
    … Brewer owe’$ so she will find a way to pay … Brewer’s private prison plan under fire   By Dennis Welch…The Arizona Guardian… Read More Gov. Jan Brewer’s plan to let private companies lock down thousands of more state prisoners came under assault Monday by a pair of the state’s most ...
  • Manchurian Candidate … Johnny McCain …
      …Arizona’s answer as Manchurian Candidate   … Johnny McCain …     McCain calls for US-led airstrikes on Assad forces 03-05-2012  •  msnbc.com staff Arizona Sen. John McCain called for American-led airstrikes on President Bashar Assad’s forces in Syria. ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Some toilet paper production destroys Indonesi ...
    American consumers are unwittingly contributing to the destruction of endangered rainforests in Sumatra by purchasing certain brands of toilet paper, asserts a new report published by the environmental group WWF. The report, Don't Flush Tiger Forests: Toilet Paper, U.S. Supermarkets, and the Des ...
  • Model airplane used to monitor rainforests - c ...
    Conservationists have converted a remote-controlled plane into a potent tool for conservation. Using seed funding from the National Geographic Society, The Orangutan Conservancy, and the Denver Zoo, Lian Pin Koh, an ecologist at the ETH Zürich, and Serge Wich, a biologist at the University ...
  • Big trees, like the old-growth forests they in ...
    Already on the decline worldwide, big trees face a dire future due to habitat fragmentation, selective harvesting by loggers, exotic invaders, and the effects of climate change, warns an article published this week in New Scientist magazine. Reviewing research from forests around the world, Will ...
  • Rainforests need massive finance, but REDD mus ...
    A proposed mechanism to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by protecting tropical forests has evolved considerably since it started to gain momentum during the 2005 climate talks in Montreal. Known then as 'avoided deforestation', the concept was simple: pay tropical forest countries to keep their ...
  • The dark side of new species discovery
    Scientists and the public usually rejoice when a new species is discovered. But biologist Bryan Stuart has learned the hard way that the discovery of new species, especially when that species is commercially valuable, has a dark side-one that could potentially wipe out the new species before pro ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Shuttered LHC rivals 'close to confirming God ...
    More scientists are getting closer in the search for the "God particle" of physics that would help explain the fundamentals of the universe, but they haven't found it yet.In the hunt for the Higgs boson, which is key to...
  • TV Pick of the Week: The making of Frozen Planet
    For the past two months many of us have been transfixed by the high-rating Frozen Planet . The BBC-Discovery Channel co-production has gone to the icy ends of the Earth to film what - and who - lives there, and to look at the effects...
  • Team back on 'emotional' search for lost terraces
    A team of scientists has resumed an "emotional" mission to digitally resurrect New Zealand's long-lost eighth natural wonder of the world - the famous Pink and White Terraces.By the end of the week, the team from GNS Science, Niwa...
  • University's death toll - 25,000 animals in tw ...
    More than 25,000 animals including fish have died during research and teaching at the University of Otago since 2009, and the figures are expected to increase significantly when statistics are collated for 2011.About 53,334 animals...
  • Diesel exhausts increase cancer risk: Study
    There is new evidence that exposure to exhaust from diesel engines increases the risk of lung cancer.Diesel exhaust has long been classified as a probable carcinogen. But the 20-year study from the National Cancer Institute took...

Truth Survival + RSS

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

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Father of Cop Who Killed Kelly Thomas: "It was ...
    Fullerton homeless man Kelly Thomas was beaten into a coma on July 5, 2011, by five members of the Fullerton Police Department. His family took him off life support days later. Last September, after a lengthy investigation, Fullerton PD officers Jay Cicinelli and Manuel Ramos were c ...
  • Super PAC Aimed at Booting Incumbents Backs... ...
    As mentioned in today's morning links, there is a pleasingly quirky Super PAC making waves this election cycle. The goal: Throw the bums out: The Campaign for Primary Accountability, founded by the son of a Houston construction magnate, is targeting longtime incumbents in H ...
  • John Stossel on Vulture Capitalism
    “Greed” means you want more for yourself. Fine. If you obtain it legally, without force or privilege—say, by buying a business and making it more efficient, or shifting resources to where consumers prefer them—that is a good thing. “Creative destruction” makes America richer. But we i ...
  • Updates and a Civil Suit From That 2011 Marico ...
    Remember that March 2011 Maricopa County SWAT raid over cockfighting which starred occasional-"lawman" Steven Seagal? Well, at long last a lawsuit by the homeowner/alleged cockfighter Jesus Llovera is going forward. Seagal and the Maricopa County sheriff's department, as well as t ...
  • Veronique de Rugy on Women vs. the State
    March is Women’s History Month. As schoolteachers across America lecture students about how women fought for the right to own property, vote, and control their own bodies, another important lesson will be neglected: Women are still suffering from overly intrusive government. As Veroni ...

Mercury Rising

  • The Fukushima next time
    It’s all very far away. Pay no attention. Build new plants near you. You are getting very sleeeeeepy: Monticello Minneapolis, MN Nuclear Management Co. Routine testing of an emergency pump intended to prove that it was capable of performing its safety functions during an accident actually ...
  • How Breitbart And Other Cons Gamed The Legitim ...
    The life and career of Andrew Breitbart, and of conservative “journalism” in general, may be summed up thus: Breitbart knew the shtick all too well: Accuse journalists of contrived groupthink, partisan deception and indoctrination to needle them professionally, while transmitting tha ...
  • I Have Two Words For Kirk Cameron: Griffith Park.
    With regard to the latest homophobic outburst by right-wing former child star Kirk Cameron, I just have this to say: As an exercise for our readers, I suggest pulling up the search engine of your choice and plugging the words “kirk cameron griffith park” into it. That is all.
  • Considering Giving Obama Money? You’re B ...
    Even more than in 2008, Obama’s campaign is going to be dominated by big corporate and institutional funders. And even more than in 2008 and 2009, when he essentially took over the DNC and made it into an OFA arm, the downticket Democratic candidates are getting screwed: President Barack O ...
  • When “Commies” Lied About Franken ...
    As much as Greens and other lefty third parties like to complain about how Democrats and Republicans share many of the same goals, it’s ironic to see how often Greens, Communists and other lefty third parties seem to work hand-in-glove with Republicans on various tasks. For one instance, w ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Isis Aquarian -- On the High Road With Father Yod
      Introduction by Caroline Ryder read more
  • Cleaning Space
    The Swiss have a plan to launch CleanSpace One, an $11m "janitor satellite" to clean up debris in Earth's orbit, within the next five years. read more
  • Electric Jesus East Coast Tour
      Celebrate an evening of aliens, ayahuasca, and chakra activations at the East Coast readings of my debut book The Electric Jesus: The Healing Journey of a Contemporary Gnostic in Richmond, Va, Washington, Baltimore, and Philly.  (April 16-20). ---- The Electric Jesus Reading & ...
  • Anti-Pipeline Petition
    The saga of North America's Keystone XL pipeline continues.   On November 10, 2011, four days after twelve thousand people encircled the White House, the culmination of months of protests, President Obama announced "the decision on the pipeline permit would be delayed until at leas ...
  • Television Vs Sacred Massage
    A petition has been launched against Lifetime Television regarding a new dramatic series that is slated to premier this April starring Jennifer Love Hewitt called “The Client List”. The series follows Hewitt cast as a single mother who begins to work at a massage spa that is a front for a brothe ...

Desertification

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

Automatic Earth

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

Press TV

  • Japan fishery exports radiation-tainted
    South Korean officials say that an increasing number of Japanese fishery products exported to the country are found to be contaminated with radioactive materials.
  • ‘US plunders world's natural resources'
    A prominent professor says the US tries to steal other countries’ resources, instead of expanding diplomatic relations and looking for win-win opportunities.
  • 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).
  • UK MPs rap govt. for view of global role
    Senior British lawmakers say the UK government’s view that the new world developments have not diminished Britain’s role in global affairs is totally “unrealistic.”
  • Roadside bomb injures Afghan official
    A senior official and his two bodyguards have been injured after their car was struck by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan's northern province of Kunduz, Press TV reports.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

  • Reducing Cancer Risk Factors
    The biggest study so far into cancer risk factors confirms our understanding of the lifestyle choices that may lead to cancer... Kat - For my day job I work for Cancer Research UK and we put o...
  • Fred Flintstone's bed uncovered
    Writing in this week's Science, University of Witwatersrand palaeontologist Professor Lyn Wadley and her colleagues describe an excavation they have carried out in a cave site called Sibudu in South A...
  • Seed and soil - understanding how cancers spread
    Cancer is a growing problem - and because we're all living longer, we're more likely to develop the disease at some point in our lifetime. Although we've got a lot better at treating the disease in re...
  • Voyager Casts off the Hydrogen-Tinted Spectacles
    This week a team of researchers in France, Russia and the USA have reported that Voyager Spacecrafts 1 2 - launched 34 years ago - have made it far enough out of the solar system to detect Lyman...
  • Spooky Diamonds a Step Towards Quantum Computing
    This week, researchers from the UK, Canada and Singapore have accomplished quantum entanglement on the macro scale, entangling two millimeter-sizeddiamonds. Typically we think of objects movin...

Nick Turse

  • Men mourn and pray at the the funeral of a sol ...
    Men mourn and pray at the the funeral of a soldier killed during the clashes in Bani Walid. Davide Monteleone/VII Photo Agency
  • The devastated town of Tawargha, roughly 40 mi ...
    The devastated town of Tawargha, roughly 40 miles south of Misurata. The town, which had an estimated population of 31,250 people, is now empty. It’s people having either fled or been killed, amid reports that those remaining are being killed as they try to find food and water. Davide Monte ...
  • villagevoice:This week’s cover, The NYPD Tap ...
    villagevoice: This week’s cover, The NYPD Tapes Confirmed: The report police hid for nearly two years that corroborates a Voice investigation — and vindicates a whistle-blower the NYPD tried to destroy.
  • CJR offers up an enlightening and depressing i ...
    CJR offers up an enlightening and depressing infographic that puts the golden parachutes of departing CEOs Janet Robinson of The New York Times Company and Craig Dubow of Gannett into perspective. 
  • Abdallah Ahmede and his wife are photographed ...
    Abdallah Ahmede and his wife are photographed in Misurata. Their son, Mustafa, 31, was killed during the battle for Zawiya. Davide Monteleone/VII Photo Agency
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