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Saturday, April 14, 2012

14 April - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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Scoop - NZ

  • Smart ALECs Get Their Due
    The news in the past week has been heartening to those who see the transparently corrupt nature of ALEC, an organization that works with legislators to come up with and push pro-business legislation on the state level. Corporations pay up to $25,000 to get in on the action. The group, formal ...
  • Senator Says Facebook Passwords Should Not Be ...
    A Democratic senator from Connecticut is writing a bill that would stop the practice of employers asking job applicants for their Facebook or other social media passwords, he told The Associated Press on Thursday.
  • Uncertainty about Spain Worries Euro Zone
    The markets appeared to have forgotten about the euro crisis for a few weeks, but now uncertainty is returning, with yields rising again on Spanish and Italian government bonds. The effects of the ECB's massive cash injection are wearing off, and Spain's banks have already reportedly run out of ...
  • The logistical nightmare of leaving afghanistan
    The first NATO officers arrived in Ulyanovsk in the fall, and city officials have been in high spirits ever since. Governor Sergey Morozov, 52, a former police officer, is already dreaming of "a few thousand jobs." Once the withdrawal is underway, says Morozov, "several dozen planes" will land i ...
  • Has China passed the US economy in size ?
    China’s main credit rating agency – Dagong – argues that the U.S. economy is actually much closer to $5 than $15 trillion: In the components of the U.S. GDP in 2009, the financial services sector accounted for 21.4% while the real economy sector accounted for 65%. The total output value of th ...

Independent - London

  • William Hague welcomes UN resolution over Syria
    Foreign Secretary William Hague has welcomed unanimous United Nations Security Council backing for deployment of military observers to monitor the ceasefire in Syria as a "vital step".
  • Sudan and South fight over oil-rich border region
    South Sudan said today it had repulsed an attempt by the Sudanese army to retake the disputed oil-producing border area of Heglig, which the southern army seized earlier this week.Related StoriesMugabe dispels death rumours as he returns 'fit and well' to ZimbabweLost boys: What became of Liberi ...
  • German ship 'carrying Syria arms'
    Germany's government said today that it is looking into a report that weapons bound for the Syrian regime were loaded onto a German-owned ship.Related StoriesTehran set for nuclear talksBahrain? It's perfectly peaceful, claims Formula 1 chief EcclestoneSyria truce largely holds but at least six ...
  • Talks begin with Iran over nuclear programme
    Six world powers and Iran are meeting in an attempt to find common ground over concerns that Tehran's nuclear programme could be used to make weapons. Related StoriesTehran set for nuclear talksBahrain? It's perfectly peaceful, claims Formula 1 chief EcclestoneSyria truce largely holds but at le ...
  • Spitfires 'lost' in Burma could fly again
    Twenty "lost" Spitfires that were buried in Burma during the Second World War could return to the skies, it has been revealed.Related StoriesFailure to launch – but Pyongyang pays price for rocket testTraffic warden taken for a ride by rogue driverIn a Rangoon garden, Cameron stands with Suu Kyi ...

Rogue Government.com

  • Ben Bernanke Makes Insane Comments On Gold
    Ben Bernanke who today was testifying in front of a Congressional Committee made the assertion that gold is not money during an exchange with Congressman Ron Paul.  He even went as far to say that central banks only hold gold because of tradition
  • UK Energy bills ‘to double in five years’ as ...
    Energy bills are likely to double within five years as the Government drives a move to green power and building nuclear power stations, it is claimed.
  • EU calls emergency meeting as crisis stalks I ...
    European Council President Herman Van Rompuy has called an emergency meeting of top officials dealing with the euro zone debt crisis for Monday morning, reflecting concern that the crisis could spread to Italy, the region's third largest economy.
  • Analyst: Even Dollar Stores Struggling In ‘Ob ...
    More stores across the U.S. that offer deeply-discounted products are seeing their sales decline after years of growth amid America’s “Great Recession” — and one analyst said on Monday it’s another sign of even deeper downturn. 
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    A wooden chest discovered on board the vessel contained pills made of ground-up vegetables, herbs and plants such as celery, onions, carrots, cabbage, alfalfa and chestnuts – all ingredients referred to in classical medical texts.

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Airlines Cancel Activists' Flights to Israel
    A Palestinian activist said Saturday that a number of international airlines canceled flights for at least 100 people scheduled to arrive in Israel's main airport for a mass fly-in of pro-Palestinian activists, while Israel said those activists who manage to make it to the airport would be depor ...
  • Formula One race to go ahead despite ongoing b ...
    A teenage mourner shot by police in Bahrain was in intensive care on Saturday as Formula One bosses said next week's Grand Prix will proceed as planned. The 15-year-old youth was shot by anti-riot police while attending the funeral of a citizen journalist, who was killed at the end of March du ...
  • FLASHBACK: Couple sentenced for involvement in ...
    One of France's highest-profile sex abuse case in years has ended with guilty verdicts against 10 people, but with accusations of an even wider paedophile ring not proved. Thierry and Myriam Delay (also known as Myriam Badaoui) have been found guilty of abusing their own four children and getti ...
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    video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player A New Jersey couple is suing their landlord for a refund after they said paranormal activity caused them to flee their rental home. Michele Callan and her fiance, Josue Chinchilla, moved into the home in Toms River, N.J., with Callan's t ...
  • 100,000 children go missing every year in UK
    The face of Madeleine McCann was among more than 10,000 images held up at Wembley to raise awareness of the tens of thousands of children who go missing every year in the UK. Members of the Rock Choir, a community singing phenomenon that is sweeping the country, filled the London stadium with p ...

The Galloping Beaver

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  • Success story . . .
    THE PRICE OF COCAINE HAS DROPPED 80% in the last 30 years! A sure sign of victory in the War On Drugs. According to Brian Palmer's article in SLATE, "More Blow for Your Dough: How did cocaine get so cheap?", the price of coke has dropped as the free market economy mimics Wal-Mart with economies ...
  • The oyster in the mine shaft
    About seven years ago two oyster hatcheries located on the US Pacific northwest coast began to experience mortality rates which decimated 80 percent of their brood stock. The oyster larvae were dying before they had a chance of developing. There was a strong suspicion that some strain of bacter ...
  • Al Qaeda and Jesus?
    Oh dear. Is wing-nut media a threat to air safety? Discuss.
  • OK, so lemme get this right
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Media Matters for America

  • What War? Progressives Fight On Behalf Of Mothers
    Progressive legislators have consistently supported policies that benefit mothers and pregnant women, from passing the Affordable Care Act to supporting family leave legislation and funding for Planned Parenthood. Yet in spite of this record, right-wing media are leveling baseless accusations t ...
  • Rosen Uproar Is A Distraction From Policies Th ...
    Conservative media have created a furor over CNN contributor Hilary Rosen's comments about Ann Romney, drowning out an important truth: conservative policies limit women's opportunities to succeed economically.Rosen Says Ann Romney Never Dealt With Everyday Economic Problems, Then Apologizes R ...
  • Fox Cries "Class Warfare" To Defend Rich From ...
    Fox responded with outrage after Obama renewed his case for the Buffett Rule, which would set a minimum effective tax rate for millionaires, accusing Obama of waging "class warfare.""Class Warfare": Fox Objects To Buffett Rule Tax On Rich Bolling: In Speech Promoting Buffett Rule, Obama "Kept ...
  • Fox Spreads Romney's Dubious Talking Point On ...
    Fox is reinforcing Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's attacks on the Obama administration by parroting his misleading claim that since President Obama took office, "92.3 percent of the job losses ... has been women who've lost those jobs." In fact, this indicator is meaningless in ...
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    Both mainstream and conservative media outlets have responded to the recent spike in gasoline prices by circulating talking points rooted in politics rather than facts. As a whole, these claims reflect the misconception, perpetuated by the news media, that changes in U.S. energy policy are a ma ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Will Yale's Alumni Save Liberal Education?
    Hoping to head off alumni resistance to the brand-new "Yale-National University of Singapore" college that the Yale Corporation has created somewhat stealthily in collaboration with the government of that authoritarian city-state, Association of Yale Alumni chairman Michael Madison has inadvert ...
  • Neocons Celebrate: We Got MJ Rosenberg, We'll ...
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    Among the idiotic things about this "Harvard faculty lounge" nonsense is the fact that President Obama wasn't on the faculty; he was a student. But never mind all that. If Republicans want to highlight a location with a supposedly warped picture of the world, two can play that game. I don't ...
  • A Small But Solid Victory for Liberal Education
    Just as the Tunisian vendor who sparked the Arab Spring was provoked not only by one bureaucratic or police affront but also by a long train of abuses, petty and large, that had alienated many Tunisians from the government, so the Yale professors who passed a resolution decisively (100 to 69) ov ...

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Public Citizen in Texas

  • The answer my friend is blowin’ in the wind . . .
    The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the state grid operator and manager of the wholesale electric market, hit a new wind record of 7,599 MW on Wednesday, exceeding the previous record set the previous day by almost 200 megawatts (MW). At the time of Wednesday’s record, wind was su ...
  • Your Land is My Land … A David and Goliath Sto ...
    According to the Fort Worth Weekly, the Keystone pipeline company wants to run roughshod over Texas landowners – and maybe Texas law. When someone from the Canandian company, TransCanada, asked the Crawford family in 2008 about an easement to lay pipeline across their farm on the Texas bank of t ...
  • Harold Simmons, WCS and the every expanding at ...
    Harold Simmons built a West Texas dump for radioactive waste that is bigger than 1,000 football fields, paid out hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions and got a permit for it in Texas, and is now working to fill it. To turn it into a profitable enterprise, the Texas billiona ...
  • A new scientific study for climate change deni ...
    MSNBC reports that a scientific paper published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature on Wednesday concluded that during the end of the last Ice Age (12,000 years ago), global temperatures rose after carbon dioxide levels started to rise.  This provides even more scientific evidence that there is ...
  • New Report on the Role of Job Impact Analysis ...
    The New York University School of Law’s Institute for Policy Integrity has released a new report – The Regulatory Red Herring: The Role of Job Impact Analysis in Environmental Policy Debates. The study finds that claims of jobs that stand to be gained or lost due to environmental regulations req ...

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Grassroots

  • Voices from International Women’s Day
    haiti-womens-march.jpg Waiting for my visa interview on a dusty embroidered couch at the Afghan Embassy in Cairo, minutes turned into hours. I had recently decided to spend International Women’s Day in the countryside outside of Kabul, to l ...
  • A Darker Shade of Green Documents Critical Per ...
    Subheadline:  Video reveals global resistance to forest-carbon projects Our friends at Global Forest Coalition and Global Justice Ecology Project have produced a new video entitled A Darker Shade of Green: REDD Alert and the ...
  • Brazil’s water and energy mega-grab
    2012_02_banner-14marco12.jpg “Anytime a new wall is built, hundreds of acres of forest and fertile land for food production is flooded. Anytime a new wall is built, a river dies. The death of the rivers is the end of our livelihood” -  ...
  • Nicaragua’s peasant women reach another milestone
    156.jpg After a successful campaign to protect women’s land rights, Nicaragua’s peasant women achieved another policy milestone. Along with urban-based women’s organizations, they lobbied the National Congress to pass a new women’s rights l ...
  • Women in Africa and Asia Take the Lead to Addr ...
    women_and_climate_change.jpg By Alicia TozourToday, Grassroots International honors International Women’s Day by celebrating the ongoing victories of our partners, grantees and allies in their promotion of a global social movement for women ...

Climate

  • Rising Pacific Seas Linked to Climate Change: ...
    (AFP) Sea levels in the southwest Pacific started rising drastically in the 1880s, with a notable peak in the 1990s thought to be linked to human-induced climate change, according to a new study.
  • Global Warming Scientists Foresee Sun-Reflecti ...
    (AFP) Scientists sketched a vision on Friday of converting the world's cities into giant sunlight reflectors to help fight global warming but met with scepticism from fellow academics.
  • Ex-Astronauts, Employees Tell NASA to Steer Cl ...
    (Mother Nature Network) A group of former NASA employees, including astronauts, has called on the agency to stop making "unproven and unsubstantiated remarks" regarding global climate change — specifically that human activities are dri ...
  • Insurance Giant Lloyd’s of London Warns Of ‘Un ...
    (ThinkProgress) Analysts at one of the world's largest insurance markets are warning that offshore drilling in the Arctic would "constitute a unique and hard-to-manage risk" and urged companies to "think carefully about the consequence ...
  • Northeast States Gain from Pollution Controls
    (Hartford Courant) Between 2001 and 2009, six New England states along with New York, New Jersey, Maryland and Delaware cut per capita carbon dioxide emissions 20 percent faster than the rest of the nation. In those years, the Northeas ...

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Duly Noted

  • Greek debt – remember the goats
    Greece's creditors have essentially let it off the hook by overwhelmingly agreeing to take a 74 percent loss. So what better time to remember one of the first times Athens got in trouble with paying its debts.
  • Greeks on the street
    Greeks smashing windows and setting fire to shops and banks in a fury of opposition to yet more austerity is gripping, but not unique. There are underlying elements than make such uprisings more common in Greece than elsewhere.
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  • Winning the battle, losing the war; the US and ...
    After the NATO airstrikes, the political discourse within Pakistan is narrowing as religious nationalism gains ground
  • Capturing the Punjabi imagination: drones and ...
    A short work of fiction about drones may tell us more about the way these are imagined than how they are experienced in Pakistan's tribal areas.

Booman Tribune

  • Casual Observation
    I hate to break it to poor Jennifer Rubin, but discussion of the War on Women will continue. It will continue for two reasons. First, the offhand comment of one Democratic pundit is nothing more than the offhand comment of one Democratic pundit. Second, both the GOP and women will continue to ...
  • Why We Fight for Women's Rights
    I wasn't able to find the exact quote that I wanted, which dealt with the fact that for much of the 20th-Century women had no legal right to deny their husband's sexual advances, no right to contraception, and no right to abortion. The combination of these factors could result in terrible situa ...
  • RNC: Their Women's Blog is Blank
    It doesn't surprise me that the RNC created a blog to deal with women's issues and then forgot about it. They don't really have anything to say. It is, of course, hard to identify an issue about which all women agree. But a good start would be receiving equal pay for equal work. Another one w ...
  • Review of Koch Brothers Exposed
    "The Koch Brothers are killing me and my family."- Norma Thompson, Crossett, Arkansas. That's the type of thing you'll hear if you watch Robert Greenwald's latest release for Brave New Films: Koch Brothers Exposed. It's not a film that pulls its punches. It isn't intended as a balanced port ...
  • Serious Question
    In my opinion, Newt Gingrich ran the worst campaign, Rick Perry was the worst candidate, and Tim Pawlenty made the biggest mistake by not realizing that he could just court some billionaire to keep him afloat and he could win the thing in a walk. What say you? Discuss

Environmental Graffiti

  • The Kukeri Ritual: Bulgaria's Creepy Day of Mo ...
    Once a year, under darkened skies, streets and homes in villages and towns across Bulgaria are invaded by a carnival of monsters... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Global Warming: A Rising Threat To The Paradis ...
    The islands that make up the Maldives are under severe threat due to global warming and natural forces. Unless changes are enacted soon, they may disappear for good. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 15 Incredible X-rays of Real-Life Monsters of ...
    Many of these predatory fish are scary looking anyway, but seen from the 'inside', with the help of X-rays, these skeletal sea creatures are both beautiful and creepy! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Human Planet: How People Survive in Extreme Co ...
    Details about a fascinating TV series, Human Planet, which explores the different extreme environments we face on Earth and how people respond to survive. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Hottest Place on Earth
    The strange landscape, bubbling acid ponds and searing temperatures of Ethiopia's Danakil Depression make it one of the harshest yet most beautiful places on Earth. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

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Green Inc. - NYT

  • Meditation on the Colors of Nature
    A mother on a year's adventure in Maine living off the grid sees the seasons and the hues of nature in a whole new light.
  • Rethinking Some Old Habits, One of Them Close ...
    The RAND Corporation prepared a report for the Energy Department analyzing traditional methods of everyday activities like reading the news or getting around with the intention of reducing energy consumption without completely starting from scratch.
  • Don't Kill the Electric Car
    Though it's true that an electric vehicle's battery may be spewing a considerable amount of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, driving such a car still provides environmental benefits.
  • A New Oversight Panel on Fracking
    President Obama calls for the creation of an interagency task force to ensure the "safe and responsible development" of natural gas drilling even though hydraulic fracturing is regulated at the state level.
  • Breaking Down Traditional Chinese Medicine
    A new method of genetic analysis allows researchers to identify the component parts of traditional Chinese medicine, revealing endangered species, toxic plants and widespread mislabeling.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Meet the new Boss in Town: ICE spawns... HSI H ...
    Now with moar National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center ... Security unit targets ‘worst’ in world crime - John Lantigua, Palm Beach Post, Nov 26 2011 HSI is a new directorate within the Immigration and Customs Enforcement service. Formed in September, its agents are responsible ...
  • BREAKING: Minnesota Statute used to repress Oc ...
    We have word from downtown Minneapolis right now that the Minneapolis police are using something akin to a bomb scare to shut down the space around the relaunching Occupy Minneapolis space at Peavey Plaza. As usual the pseudo-war on terror lets those Constitutional rights get carved away one spa ...
  • First warm day of 2012 = Days 1&2: OccupyMinne ...
    IN an entirely unexpected and spontaneous emergence of lulz, the first dry, warm evening of spring led to an impromptu occupation of Peavey Plaza on Nicollet Mall, with OccupyMpls (occupyminneapolis.mn) regulars holding it down into the night with two tents, sleeping gear, hot tea and snacks. Ex ...
  • Report: Simcity 5 finally under development fo ...
    I have been very, very into SimCity ever since I was little. Now, finally SimCity 5 is getting a proper treatment. PLEASE send me any beta builds, i will debug the shizzle out of them :D Until you can get your hands on this, use the Network Addon Mod in SimCity 4 for much more fluid road&rai ...
  • Let them eat cake! Republican State Representa ...
    IN an astoundingly offensive display of casual Malthusian freestyling, Representative Mary Franson compared supporting poor people with food stamps to feeding wild animals. The Republicans pulled the YouTube once the magnitude of their irresponsibility hit the intertubes. But the usual suspects ...

Daily Censored

  • Maximum Security Prison, Turn Left After “Hoot ...
    Danny Glover and Saul Landau   Highway 15 connects California’s Inland Empire with Las Vegas – accounting for the relative thickness of Saturday morning traffic. So we don’t stare too long at signs advertising Gentleman’s Clubs – showing no gentlemen, but rather attractive young women. Did ...
  • Top ten reasons to rescind Obama’s Nobel ...
      10.  militarization of domestic police force   9.  internment of Bradley Manning   8.  mass incarceration of undocumented residents   7.  Guantanamo Bay detention camp   6.  military tribunals   5.  secret overseas prisons   4.  HR347   3.  NDAA   2.  targeted killings of Americans   1.  Drone ...
  • Fukushima: The Crisis Continues
    By - John Reimann   The Fukushima-Dai-Ichi… (reactors) have generated some of the largest concentrations of radioactivity on the planet…85 times more Cesium-137 than Chernobyl. [Its release] would destroy the world environment and our civilization. This is not rocket science, nor does it co ...
  • New allegations of racist practices at for pro ...
      On Wednesday April 11 2012 Courthouse news reported Joseph Simpson, a former dean at for profit school Anthem Career College, filed a lawsuit in Federal Court alleging Anthem fired him for protesting racist hiring practices and the cheating of workers out of overtime pay.   According to Courth ...
  • The unclassified Zelikow torture memo as evide ...
    “My colleagues were entitled to ignore my views,” he [Zelikow] continued. “They did more than that: The [2006] White House attempted to collect and destroy all copies of my memo. I expect that one or two are still at least in the State Department’s archives.” Philli ...

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  • The Great White Mancave
    A study of three prominent op-ed sections highlights their byline diversity problem and the conservative tilt of the nation's top columnists.
  • Washington Journal Discusses Wealth Inequality
    Chuck Collins visited C-SPAN to talk about his new book, "99 to 1: How Wealth Inequality is Wrecking Our World and What We Can Do About It."
  • Arms Down
    As we get ready to give our taxes to the Pentagon, here's a three-part strategy for reducing global military spending.
  • The Lineup: Week of April 9-15, 2012
    In this Tax Day special, Matias Ramos explains how immigrants face taxation without representation.
  • Taxation without Representation
    Undocumented immigrants consistently contribute to the government's coffers through payroll, sales, property, and income taxes.

IntelNews

  • Analysis: Biometric passports, iris scanners, ...
    False passports are to intelligence operatives what petrol is to automobiles. In the absence of forged travel documentation, intelligence officers working undercover are unable to operate internationally without revealing their identity. This is why, traditionally, intelligence operatives are kn ...
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    Israel wary of changes in the Arab world. Melting Arctic may redraw global geopolitical map. Why Indian intelligence doesn’t work too well in Pakistan.
  • Iran allegedly busts ‘Israel-backed’ sabotage ring
    The government of Iran has announced the arrests of a “terrorist network” that was allegedly planning sabotage and assassination operations inside the Islamic Republic.
  • News you may have missed #712
    New US spy satellite could include 'domestic surveillance'. US steps up intelligence and sabotage missions in Iran. MI6 'considers paying off' Libyan official.
  • News you may have missed #711 (ex-spy edition)
    Egypt ex-spy chief to run for President. Ex-CIA officer says evidence in alleged case was flawed. Ex-KGB agent wins South Ossetia vote.

War is a Crime.org

  • Afghan war whistleblower Daniel Davis: 'I had ...
    "Senior ranking US military leaders have so distorted the truth when communicating with the US Congress and American people in regards to conditions on the ground in Afghanistan that the truth has become unrecognisable."   Visit the Guardian for the full story
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  • Syrian Insurgents Violate Ceasefire
      Syrian Insurgents Violate Ceasefire   by Stephen Lendman   It was too good to last. On day one, insurgents violated ceasefire calm. Blame Washington's dirty hands. It manipulates everything going on.    read more
  • Israel's Lawless Settlement Project
      Israel's Lawless Settlement Project   by Stephen Lendman   Since June 1967, Israel maintained total domination over Occupied Palestine.    read more
  • Murdoch watch - Apocalypse when?
    By Michael Collins Rupert Murdoch is in big trouble.  It is not a perfect storm but we're getting there. British attorney Mark Lewis is in New York to take legal action in behalf of clients who may have had their phones hacked in the United States. More significantly, News Corp withdrew its ...

Grist - News

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

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  • Can Thorium Generate Safe and Cheap Nuclear Power?
    Derek Mead: November 14, 2011 It sounds like something from the distant future or a 1950s pipe dream: clean, safe nuclear power with little waste and zero proliferation threat. In fact, while uranium-fueled light water reactors were sprouting up around the world, molten salt reactors fueled by t ...
  • Origin of AIDS: The Polio Vaccine (CBC ‘ ...
  • Women’s birthing rights advocates stage ...
    by: Jonathan Benson (NaturalNews) Though she has reportedly assisted in the successful delivery of more than 1,700 babies, 400 of which were born in their families’ homes, 49-year-old Ireena Keeslar, a former obstetrics nurse-turned-midwife, was recently arrested on charges of practicing m ...

Global Insights

  • Less Than a Week Away
    We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware.George Green will be a featured speaker.September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CAClick here for Tickets & Reservations 
  • The Georgia Guidestones
    On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
  • The Creation
    THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to pu ...
  • The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...
    In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
  • About George Green
    Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to fo ...

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • Artist Calvin Nicholls Creates Life-like Anima ...
    Read the rest of Artist Calvin Nicholls Creates Life-like Animals Sculptures from Paper Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Animals, archival paper, Art, biodegradable materials, Calvin Nicholls, canada, compostable / recycling, delicate art, fox, hummingbird, Ontario, pap ...
  • New Study Links Regular Dental X-Rays To Cancer
    If you’ve been to the dentist’s office recently, chances are good that your dentist asked to take X-rays of your teeth. Dental radiographs have become very common because they show hidden cavities and other dental problems that dentists wouldn’t otherwise be able to see. But th ...
  • Angelina Jolie Allegedly has A Conflict-Free D ...
    Congratulations are in order for Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt who are apparently engaged, or so we assume by the giant diamond sitting on Jolie’s left ring finger.  Why do we care? The diamond is apparently conflict free. Jeweler Robert Procop, who designed the ring, trades exclusively wit ...
  • New Elektra One Solar Plane Flies Twice as Far ...
    Following the maiden flight of their Elektra One electric plane, SolarWorld and PC-Aero have unveiled a new solar-powered version that gives the small plane twice the range of the electric version. The Elektra One Solar plane features solar cells on the wing surfaces that harness energy from the ...
  • Attrap’Rêves Bubble Hotel is Made of Bubbletre ...
    Read the rest of Attrap’Rêves Bubble Hotel is Made of Bubbletree’s Transparent Pop-Up Tents Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Attrap’Rêves, bubble tents, bubbletree, camping, eco design, eco-tourism, france, glamping, green design, hotel, marseille, Pierre St ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

PakAlert

  • Russian Journal: HAARP Could Capsize Planet
    Just when you think you’ve heard all the possible far-out theories behind the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) in Alaska, leave it to the Russians to come up with one better. Forget mind control, the Russians think HAARP is a "geophysical weapon" that’s gonna capsize the pl ...
  • Underground Nuclear Strikes Not Earthquakes Hi ...
    Back in August of 2011, “earthquakes” were reported from Colorado to Washington, D.C. According to the The New York Times : An earthquake sent tremors from the nation’s capital to New York City Tuesday afternoon, the result of what officials said was a 5.8 magnitude earthquake based in Virgin ...
  • ‘It’s 99% certain there is life on Mars’: Shoc ...
    In July 1976, the Viking 1 probe touched down on Mars and failed to find traces of life - but now, three decades later, scientists think the experiment was flawed. VIking 1 did find evidence of extraterrestrial microbes in soil samples from the Red Planet.
  • Could a cure for AIDS be on the horizon? Genet ...
    Human stem cells can be genetically engineered into 'warrior' cells that fight HIV - and the new cells can attack HIV-infected cells inside a living creature. The breakthrough, by UCLA scientists, is hoped to be the first step towards a treatment that can eradicate HIV from an infected patien ...
  • San Franfrazzled: Once-in-a-lifetime picture o ...
    They say that lightning never strikes twice, but this amazing photo proves otherwise. An incredible eight bolts struck the Bay Bridge in San Francisco last night which was captured in this incredible shot by photographer Phil McGrew, who took the photo through the rain-soaked window of his ap ...

Andy Worthington

  • Tarek Mehanna’s Powerful Statement As He ...
    What a disgrace. On Thursday, Tarek Mehanna, a 29-year old pharmacist from Sudbury, Massachusetts, was sentenced to 17 and half years in prison, after being found guilty in December on seven charges, including “providing material support to terrorists,” conspiracy to kill in a foreig ...
  • Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Call ...
    As published on the “Close Guantánamo” website. Please join us — just an email address required. On March 30, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), a key part of the Organization of American States (OAS), issued what was described as “a landmark admissibility report& ...
  • Guantánamo and Recidivism: New Report Debunks ...
    On Monday, the Center for Policy and Research at Seton Hall University School of Law in New Jersey released a new report, “National Security Deserves Better: ‘Odd’ Recidivism Numbers Undermine the Guantánamo Policy Debate” (PDF), which analyzes the fundamental problems with the claim ...
  • US Training Manual Used As Basis for Bush&#821 ...
    Over the last few years, my friends and colleagues Jason Leopold and Jeffrey Kaye have been doing some excellent work for Truthout exposing the Bush administration’s torture program, and human experimentation at Guantánamo, and last week they produced another excellent article for Truthout ...
  • The Full Extent of the Tories’ Assault o ...
    With the Tory-led coalition government attacking vulnerable people on so many fronts, and with the last month in particular dominated by the last-ditch resistance to the wretched NHS reform bill, it’s been a while since I had the time to examine the ramifications of another appalling piece ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Psychiatrist Retracts Infamous ‘Ex-Gay&# ...
    Retired psychiatrist and Columbia University professor Robert Spitzer has retracted a much-criticized 2001 study that has been used for years by anti-gay activists to buttress their claims that gay men and lesbians can be “cured” of their homosexuality through therapy. In the controversial study ...
  • Slavery Apologist to Lecture Indiana Universit ...
    This Friday, a far-right religious activist who co-authored a repulsive apologia for Southern slavery and argues that women were created to be “dependent and responsive” to men, will speak on sexuality and the Bible at Indiana University, Bloomington. Invited by a campus Christian group, Douglas ...
  • Maine Anti-Gay Activists: Just Say NO to ‘Sodo ...
    Anti-gay extremists in Maine have a new talking point. In their battle against a marriage equality ballot initiative, they’re asking voters to reject “sodomy based marriage.” Interesting. The term opens up all kinds of questions. My dictionary defines sodomy as “anal or oral copulation with a me ...
  • In Latest Show of Extremism, the NRA Hosts a M ...
    The National Rifle Association (NRA) — the powerful gun lobby that has called federal law enforcement agents “jack-booted thugs,” accused President Obama of having secret plans to strip away Americans’ guns, and been the main force behind the incredibly dangerous “Stand Your Ground” laws being u ...
  • Key Members of Georgia Militia Plead Guilty in ...
    Two members of a Georgia militia — arrested late last year in a plot to bomb federal buildings, assassinate public officials and attack cities with deadly ricin — pleaded guilty today to conspiracy charges in a Gainesville, Ga., courtroom. Accused ringleader Frederick W. Thomas, 73, and Emory Da ...

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

  • Teen Protester, Mourner 'Shot in Chest' in Bahrain
    A 15-year-old boy has been shot in the chest by Bahraini forces, among several other injured. The incident occurred as thousands of people attended a funeral procession on Friday for Ahmed Ismail, 22, a 'citizen journalist', outside of the capital Manama. Several people were wounded by g ...
  • US Refuses Plea to End Drone Attacks in Pakistan
    Yesterday, the Pakistani government presented the US with a list of immediate demands, including a total end to CIA drone bombing and that “no overt or covert operations inside Pakistan shall be permitted”. The demand would have been in exchange for a reopening of NATO supply lines t ...
  • US Refuses Plea to End Drone Attacks in Pakistan
    Yesterday, the Pakistani government presented the US with a list of immediate demands, including a total end to CIA drone bombing and that “no overt or covert operations inside Pakistan shall be permitted”. The demand would have been in exchange for a reopening of NATO supply lines t ...
  • Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Caves on ...
    The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has decided not to challenge credit card companies on introductory fees. Credit card companies had been more aggressive in charging fees to users before they use a credit card, ever since new regulations made it so they could no longer charge more than 25 ...
  • Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Caves on ...
    The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has decided not to challenge credit card companies on introductory fees. Credit card companies had been more aggressive in charging fees to users before they use a credit card, ever since new regulations made it so they could no longer charge more than 25 ...

Lifehacker

  • Repurpose Plastic Easter Eggs as Snack Contain ...
    If you have kids odds are that you have lots of plastic Easter egg containers strewn about your home. Instead of storing them until next year or (gasp) throwing them away use them as snack containers for kids or adults. More » ...
  • Crack Nuts with Your Bare Hands
    If you have a bag of unshelled nuts from the holidays and no nutcracker, you can use a bit of force and your hands to crack two nuts at a time. More »
  • Top 10 Awesome Things You Can Do With the Unde ...
    If you're a fan of technology, chances are you've retired a few gadgets over the years and they're sitting in a box in your closet. Today's the day to dig out your leftovers and start thinking about what you can do to let them live and breath ...
  • DIY Planter Patio Umbrella Stand [Weekend Project]
    Maybe you already have a nice patio table and need additional seating or perhaps you have a balcony too small for a table. If either of these are the case, consider turning a planter into an umbrella stand; you'll have a handy base for your pa ...
  • What Would It Take For You to Stop Pirating? [ ...
    We may not agree with the RIAA on much, but today they made a surprising statement that we can actually get on board with: innovation is the best way to stop piracy. Our question for you is: What kind of innovation would get you to stop downlo ...

Water Privatization

Guardian

  • Mining giant Glencore accused in child labour ...
    London-listed company denies polluting river in Congo and profiting from children working undergroundGlencore, the commodity and mining firm worth £27bn, stands accused in the Democratic Republic of Congo of dumping raw acid and profiting from children working 150ft underground.The revelations c ...
  • Two £100,000-plus BBC staff avoid income tax
    Employees face only 20% corporation tax after having wages paid into service companiesTwo highly paid full-time BBC executives are able to avoid income tax because they are having their earnings paid into service companies.The employees, each earning more than £100,000 annually, have been workin ...
  • Far-right anti-Muslim network on rise globally ...
    Report highlights UK role in the growth of groups that inspired Norway's mass murdererThe international network of counter-jihadist groups that inspired Anders Behring Breivik is growing in reach and influence, according to a report released on the eve of the Norwegian's trial.Far-right organisa ...
  • Bahraini teenagers wounded after grand prix gi ...
    Three in hospital after sustaining injuries at a rally after the funeral of a man shot during an anti-government protestThree Bahraini teenagers were wounded at a post-funeral rally late on Friday, the country's opposition said, on the same day that Formula One organisers said the Bahrain grand ...
  • London mayoral candidates campaign on gay issues
    Ken Livingstone tells Boris Johnson he can borrow Labour manifesto in wake of controversy over anti-gay bus advertsLondon's mayoral candidates have canvassed for the gay vote a day after the incumbent, Boris Johnson, intervened to block the capital's buses from carrying adverts from a Christian ...

McClatchey

  • Karzai appoints slain leader's son to restart ...
    KABUL, Afghanistan ? The eldest son of the slain former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani was chosen Saturday to replace his father as head of the council charged with overseeing reconciliation…Click to Continue »
  • Commentary: On health care law, Congress deser ...
    Last week, President Barack Obama laid down a marker to the Supreme Court: Invalidate the health care law, and the court itself will become an issue in the election. He…Click to Continue »
  • Did U.S. miss 2010 chance for Iran nuke deal? ...
    The United States missed an opportunity to ease concerns about Iran's nuclear program nearly two years ago when it rejected a carefully negotiated deal that would have allowed Western powers…Click to Continue »
  • Did effort to stop drug payoffs to military tr ...
    One day after the military in this tiny West African nation shelled a presidential candidate's home and sealed this capital city from outsiders, it was still unclear Friday who, exactly,Click to Continue »
  • Cease-fire survives as Syrians protest without ...
    Thousands of people held street rallies across Syria on Friday to protest the government of President Bashar Assad, the first test of a U.N.-brokered ceasefire that went into effect Thursday.Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

Futurismic

  • Hope for a Global Spring?
    Perhaps it’s because of the economy is beginning – finally – to pick up in the US. Perhaps it is because I’m sick to death of bad election-year politics, so I’m looking at anything else that comes along of interest. Maybe it’s even because I wrote about creative destruction the last time I did a ...
  • 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 ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • NWC to Testify on New York City False Claims Act
    This Monday, April 16, 2012, NWC Director of Advocacy & Development Lindsey Williams will testify before the New York City Council in support of strengthening whistleblower protections included in proposed legislation, including the local False Claims Act. The hearing will commence at 10:00a ...
  • RTTV Covers FBI Censorship of Sibel Edmonds
    NWC Executive Director Stephen Kohn appeared live on RTTV last night to discuss the treatment of national security whistleblowers under the Obama administration. Specifically, RTTV asked him about the FBI's attempts to censor Sibel Edmonds as she attempts to publish a book about her experience b ...
  • FBI Attempts to Hold Sibel Edmonds' Book Hostage
    For nearly a year, the FBI has attempted to prevent the publication of whistleblower Sibel Edmonds' new book, Classified Woman: The Sibel Edmonds Story. On April 26, 2011, Ms. Edmonds followed official procedure and submitted her manuscript to the FBI for pre-publication clearance. Under the t ...
  • FBI Attempts to Hold Sibel Edmonds' Book Hostage
    For nearly a year, the FBI has attempted to prevent the publication of whistleblower Sibel Edmonds' new book, Classified Woman: The Sibel Edmonds Story. On April 26, 2011, Ms. Edmonds followed official procedure and submitted her manuscript to the FBI for pre-publication clearance. Under the t ...
  • NWC Condemns CIA Whistleblower Indictment
    The Department of Justice’s policy of distorting privacy laws to pursue and discredit whistleblowers continues. The Associated Press reported yesterday that a former CIA officer, John Kiriakou, is being charged with leaking classified information after publicly expressing concerns over the ...

Science Express

  • Fermi maps an active galaxy's 'smokestack plumes'
    If our eyes could see radio waves, the nearby galaxy Centaurus A (Cen A) would be one of the biggest and brightest objects in the sky, nearly 20 times the apparent size of a full moon. What we can't see when looking at the galaxy in visible light is that it lies nestled between a pair of giant r ...
  • Pollution from Asia Circles Globe at Stratosph ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additiona ...
  • After growth spurt, supermassive black holes s ...
    Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
  • Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virus
    A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20 ...
  • Lizard moms choose the right genes for the rig ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Two Dartmouth biologists have found that brown anole lizards make an interesting choice when deciding which males should father their offspring. The females of this species mate with several males, then produce more sons with sperm from large fathers, and more daughters with spe ...

TechDirt

  • Jesse Townley's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The ...
    This week's favorites mostly fall into 2 categories: Big Picture stories and "[fill-in-the-blank] Behaving Badly." The combination of these approaches to tech-related news is what keeps me checking Techdirt every week. Plus, I like seeing my name in lights, ha ha ha… A short introduct ...
  • The Rise Of Geek-Focused Online Video Networks
    There's been a really interesting trend going on recently. For all the talk about how the entertainment industry must be dying (it isn't), a whole bunch of internet-aware celebrities are wholeheartedly embracing the internet as a new video platform -- and this includes a bunch of folks we've wr ...
  • Study: Sharing Patents, Rather Than Blocking O ...
    There's been plenty of research over the years (much of which we've pointed to here) showing that the sharing of information and knowledge -- including information and knowledge that leads to innovation breakthroughs -- can actually help companies thrive. Studies on the early success of Silicon ...
  • The Odd Future Approach: Give Away The Music, ...
    The BBC has a great short video feature looking at Odd Future, the massively popular (and equally controversial) rap collective, and their merchandise-focused approach to the music business. Odd Future has always been an interesting case study in music: their graphic content prevents them from g ...
  • New Draft Of CISPA Announced: Some Progress, S ...
    The House Intelligence Committee has published a new draft of CISPA (pdf and embedded below), which includes the two amendments that were already approved, plus several other additions and changes. In some areas, there is genuine progress—in others, things actually seem to have gotten wors ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Charles Davis is covering for Glenn Greenwald this week and wrote two really great posts. And I’m not just saying that because one of them relates to the campaign the criminal (in)justice committee is working on. Wells Fargo”s Prison Cash Cow The Liberal Betrayal of Bradley Manning I ...
  • Revolution in the Echo Chamber
    Organizing for radical change means building relationships and networks. It is natural that we start building with the ones we already have. We don’t need to start from scratch. And connections built on years of shared experiences are probably going to be stronger than ones based just on p ...
  • Protest: What’s the Point?
    Last month there was a silent march in protest of multiple acts of violence against GLBTQI people in DC. Not everyone was happy that it was a silent march. As one friend put it, hate crimes are an effort to silence. A silent march seemed to be the opposite of what should be done. I [...]
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    I caught up on a lot of blog reading this weekend, but I’m going to try not to do too big of a link bomb. ZNet has a new thing called the International Organization for a Participatory Society. Who are the participants in this society? Apparently, a whole lotta white dudes. Some very excel ...
  • Is Stand Your Ground a Distraction?
    A lot of people, especially in mainstream media, have been talking about the “stand your ground” law. Darren Hutchinson wrote an excellent post about how “stand your ground” has nothing to do with the Trayvon Martin case. Definitely read the whole thing, but the short of ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Gorillas made me do it
    Max Rivlin-Nadler writes: You walk into an elevator and push the button for your desired floor. The button lights up. The elevator stops at the next floor and another person enters. He or she pushes the same button that’s already lit up. According to Dario Maestripieri’s new book, “Games Primate ...
  • Music: Salif Keita — Moussolou
  • U.N. votes to send monitors to Syria amid shak ...
    The Washington Post reports: The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Saturday to send up to 30 U.N. blue berets to Syria as the spearhead of a U.N. monitoring mission charged with reinforcing a shaky two-day cease-fire between the Syrian government and armed insurgents. The vote places the U ...
  • Video: The struggle for Egypt’s presidency
  • 1,500 activists prepare to visit Palestine via ...
    Mya Guarnieri: I’m writing this from somewhere in Europe. Sunday morning, I will board a plane* bound for Israel’s Ben Gurion International Airport. Organizers of the “Welcome to Palestine” campaign tell me that more than half the passengers on my flight will be international activists. When the ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Quote of the week – climate bookends and ...
    I had planned to write about this, and specifically that Joe Romm’s blog “Climate Progress” appears to have died a quiet death of assimilation by the borg greens, saying: We are now merging with ThinkProgress Green, and that means we’ll … Continue reading →
  • NOAA issues unusual media advisory release today
    On a Saturday even. This is why, it is even worse than the one yesterday: Here’s the Press Release:  Contact: Keli Pirtle, NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 405-325-6933 (office) / 405-203-4839 (cell) April 13, 2012 Chris Vaccaro, NOAA’s … Continue reading →
  • Met Office – COPing to predictions
    People send me stuff. Today I got a document dump, not quite on the Scale of ClimateGate but interesting nonetheless. These are the Met Office’s past reports to the COP climate conferences  going back to 1998, containing predictions about climate … Continue reading →
  • Warming in the USHCN is mainly an artifact of ...
    Dr. Roy Spencer proves what we have been saying for years, the USHCN (U.S. Historical Climatology Network) is a mess compounded by a bigger mess of adjustments. ============================================================== USHCN Surface Temperatures, 1973-2012: Dramatic Warming Adjustments, Noi ...
  • Tornado outbreak expected tomorrow from Texas ...
    I’ve been watching this with concern, and NOAA just had a press briefing on the issue today. It seems we are headed for the “perfect storm”. The convective outlook from SPC yesterday showed strong potential for Saturday. Today’s SPC forecast … Continue reading →

treehugger

Biosingularity

  • Stand up: Your life could depend on it
    Standing up more often may reduce your chances of dying within three years, even if you are already physically active, a study of more than 200,000 people published in Archives of Internal Medicine today shows. The study found that adults who sat 11 or more hours per day had a 40% increased risk ...
  • Fatty Diet Leads To Fat-loving Brain Cells
    Cheeseburgers pack on the pounds, but in mice a high-fat diet also packs on new nerve cells in the brain. More brain cells may seem like a good thing, but these newly sprouted cells appear to trigger weight gain in the animals, a new study finds. The results offer insight into how the brain cont ...
  • New Layer of Genetic Information Discovered
    A hidden and never before recognized layer of information in the genetic code has been uncovered by a team of scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) thanks to a technique developed at UCSF called ribosome profiling, which enables the measurement of gene activity inside ...
  • US face transplant gives man new jaw, teeth an ...
    US doctors have carried out what they say is the most extensive face transplant ever performed. The operation at the University of Maryland gave Richard Norris a new face, including jaw, teeth and tongue. The 37-year-old has lived as a recluse for 15 years after being severely injured in a gun a ...
  • Study explains how rapamycin also causes insul ...
    A Penn- and MIT-led team explained how rapamycin, a drug that extends mouse lifespan, also causes insulin resistance. The researchers showed in an animal model that they could, in principle, separate the effects, which depend on inhibiting two protein complexes, mTORC1 and mTORC2, respectively. ...

CFACT

Ria Novosti Online News

  • Four Pacific Fleet’s Warships Leave Russia for ...
    Four Russian warships from the Pacific Fleet, as well as support vessels, warplanes, helicopters and naval infantry, will leave Vladivostok on Sunday for a joint exercise with Chinese naval forces
  • Kim Jong-Il Named Eternal Party Head
    Late North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il who died in December last year, was posthumously named "eternal" general secretary of the ruling Workers' Party as well as the "eternal" Chairman of the National Defense Commission
  • Main news of April 14
    A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours
  • Hundreds of Russian Believers Meet Holy Fire
    The Holy Fire from Jerusalem arrived at Moscow's Vnukovo-1 Airport on Saturday evening greeted by hundreds of believers, RIA Novosti reported.
  • Belarusian Opposition Activist Released from Jail
    Belarusian former presidential candidate Andrei Sannikov, who has been in jail since 2010 on charges of inciting riots after presidential elections, was released on Saturday, Sannikov’s wife, Irina Khalip said.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

  • NASA to Draft 20-Year Mars Strategy by August
    NASA will compile the Mars research plan for the next 20 years by August, the U.S. space agency officials told a news conference on Friday.
  • Dinosaur Eggs Discovered in Chechnya
    Participants of a geographic expedition in Russia’s North Caucasus Chechen Republic have uncovered a batch of alleged dinosaur egg fossils, the Vesti Respubliki online daily said on Friday.
  • Russia Looks for Commercial Space Projects
    Russia needs to invigorate its efforts to implement commercial space projects jointly with the European Space Agency and individual space powers, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Thursday.
  • Russia Losing Space Race – Poll
    Russia is losing its position as the leader of the space race and needs to invest more in the space industry, a new poll by Levada Center revealed to mark Cosmonauts Day on Thursday.
  • Putin Calls for Space Launch Development Strategy
    Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Thursday a national strategy was needed for the development of the country’s space launch centers.

Pruning Shears

  • Keeping 1 percent values out of a 99 percent m ...
    This was published with considerable feedback from affinis, JuliaWilliams, okanogen, and lambert. My sincere thanks to them for their help.The purge of livestreamers and other transparency advocates at Occupy Oakland has been largely successful, and last weekend produced one of its predictable ...
  • How disorganization is damaging Occupy
    This was published with considerable feedback from affinis, Jasper, JuliaWilliams and lambert. My sincere thanks to them for their help.A few weeks ago Occupy Oakland (OO) began to emphasize secrecy (or security culture) over transparency, which resulted in livestreamers being attacked as snitc ...
  • Provocateur tactics and the subversion of Occupy
    This was published with considerable feedback from affinis and lambert. My sincere thanks to both of them for their help.The Occupy movement has already had a positive impact in many areas, but potentially the biggest one is rescuing concepts of public rights and the understanding of what is pu ...
  • Scaring the pants off Oscar Mayer
    Last month, Occupy Portland put out a national call to action on February 29 to other Occupies around the country.  Dubbed “Shut Down the Corporations”, the idea was to target corporations that are members of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) with creative, n ...
  • Opacity and creeping exclusion at Occupy
    This was published with considerable feedback from several bloggers at Corrente: DCblogger, affinis, lambert and okanogen. My sincere thanks to all of them for their help.Occupy has seemed to be in a bit of a winter hibernation. There are still encampments, meetings, decisions, protests, and s ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Scores Testify in Favor of GE Food Labeling Bill
    Hundreds of people, many of whom traveled in buses from the far corners of the state, jammed the Statehouse Thursday night to tell the House Agriculture Committee to pass the bill mandating labeling of genetically engineered (GE) food sold in Vermont.Click here to read this article
  • Millions Against Monsanto: The Food Fight of O ...
    Finally, public opinion around the biotech industry's contamination of our food supply and destruction of our environment has reached the tipping point. We're fighting back. Click here to read this article
  • The Wonderful, Unpredictable Life of the Occup ...
    I met Nomi on a bus in Baltimore. She was from Wisconsin and had been involved with Occupy Wall Street. She was part of Occupy Judaism and fondly recalled the Yom Kippur services she attended at the Wall Street occupation with hundreds of other people. Nomi said that, for the first time, she and ...
  • Database Established to Identify Food Fraud Issues
    CHICAGO - The most likely targets for adulteration as the result of food fraud are olive oil, milk, honey, saffron, orange juice, coffee and apple juice, according to new research published in the Journal of Food Science by the Institute of Food Technologists. Such findings are the result of a d ...
  • FDA's New Rules on Factory Farm Antibiotics Ar ...
    Without much warning and indeed just in time to catch me on a deadline for another story, the FDA finally got around to announcing its plan to address something it has seen as a public-health menace for 35 years: overuse of antibiotics on factory-scale animal farms.Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

  • A Winona LaDuke Reader
    An environmentalist, farmer, activist, writer, and advocate for native communities and ways of life, Winona LaDuke is an Anishinaabe force of nature, and one to be reckoned with.
  • A Lean Finely Textured Proposal
    Beef Products Inc. estimates that the filler makes up 15 percent of the total volume of ground beef sold. So here’s my proposal: Let’s reduce 15 percent of our hamburger consumption.
  • Survey Results from Sodexo’s Meatless Monday I ...
    What excites me the most is the enormous potential for a company like Sodexo to take the Meatless Monday campaign to the next level with its reach of over 10 million meals served daily.
  • Contract farmers step up, and Justice leaves t ...
    Varney and Butler aren’t likely to say this publicly, but they were obviously struck full in the face with the realization that status quo forces had them outnumbered and outgunned.
  • When FDA Bans a Drug in Poultry Production … W ...
    In 2005, FDA took trong action against the misuse of one class of antibiotics by industrial agriculture. The class of antibiotics that FDA decided to safeguard was fluoroquinolones, and they did so by banning their use in poultry production. How that ban going? Maybe not so good.

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Land Mine Detector By 17 Year Old Inventer
    Seventeen-year-old Marian Bechtel has invented a prototype for a new land-mine-detection device that uses sound waves to identify where deadly mines are buried. Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Covering Iran's Ninjas
    It may be time for Foreign Policy to have an editorial meeting about its abuse of humor. Ironically, Parks herself warns of glibly labeling a group in a way that plays into stereotypes about violence is no laughing matter." Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |    ...
  • Yet MORE evidence that pesticides are key culp ...
    Three new studies out in the past two weeks add to the growing body of evidence that implicate pesticides as a critical catalyst behind drastic declines in bee population. Submitted by John Farnham to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Putting Syria into some perspective
    The Holy Triumvirate The United States, NATO, and the European Union or an approved segment thereof, can usually get what they want.Removal of Bashar al-Assad of Syria: As with Gaddafi, the ground is being laid with continual news reports of barbarity Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & ...
  • The Failed Pundit
    A short time ago I was quipping on a thread on a site supposedly 'discussing' the insanity of 'climate deniers' in what looks like an open forum. It was interesting to see how swiftly variations from accepted wisdom disappeared preserving an Echo Chamber Submitted by John Farnham to Society &amp ...

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

  • The Colorado Dept. of Public Health and Enviro ...
    There is obviously a survey within a survey here. And using only land lines shows they're doing exact locations since they ask for Counties and Zip Codes in the questions and won't do interviews over cellphones. And they're very interested in military service (skills maybe?).
  • New Studies: Fluoridation Fails to Reduce Cavi ...
    The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) says fluoridation reduces tooth decay. But, this study and others shows it hasn't. Tooth decay crises are occurring in all fluoridated cities, states and countries. And, the CDC reports the incidence and severity of children's primary tooth decay recently in ...
  • Farm Wars Safe Seed Pledge
    If you are a seed distributor, grower, or home seed swapper, make sure that your website visitors know that you have absolutely NO ties to biotech interests. Take the Safe Seed Pledge, and consider placing something on your site letting potential customers know that you will not support the like ...
  • Nest Wars!
    Farm Wars geese are at it again. This time they've taken over the doghouse!
  • The Living Seed Company – Seeds of Freedom
    "The power of people growing food together and saving their own seeds is one of the best ways to achieve both inner harmony and global prosperity." Living Seed Company

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Pakistan Gives U.S. a List of Demands, Includi ...
    ShareThisPakistan Gives U.S. a List of Demands, Including an End to C.I.A. Drone Strikes 13 Apr 2012 In Islamabad, the government and opposition joined on Thursday to present the United States with a list of stringent demands, including an immediate end to C.I.A. drone strikes, that were cast in ...
  • U.S. Secret Service agents leave Colombia over ...
    ShareThisU.S. Secret Service agents leave Colombia over prostitution inquiry 13 Apr 2012 The U.S. Secret Service is investigating allegations of misconduct by agents who had been sent to Cartagena, Colombia, to provide security for President Obama's trip to a summit that began there Friday. Edwi ...
  • US Secret Service agents recalled from Colombi ...
    ShareThisUS Secret Service agents recalled from Colombia over sex scandal --News of the scandal broke just as four home-made explosive devices went off 14 Apr 2012 In a rare move, some Secret Service agents sent to Colombia to help protect US President Barack Obama at a regional summit have been ...
  • Fukushima Daiichi Site: Cesium-137 is 85 times ...
    ShareThisFukushima Daiichi Site: Cesium-137 is 85 times greater than at Chernobyl Accident By Akio Matsumura 05 Apr 2012 Japan's former Ambassador to Switzerland, Mr. Mitsuhei Murata, informed us that the total numbers of the spent fuel rods at the Fukushima Daiichi site excluding the rods in th ...
  • Obama approves aid package to Syrian 'rebels'
    ShareThisObama approves aid package to Syrian 'rebels' [Oh. I thought there was a deficit? WHY are US taxpayers paying mercenaries and terrorists to destabilize foreign governments?] 13 Apr 2012 US President Barack Obama has approved non-lethal US aid, including communications equipment and medi ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Senator Harkin’s Disinformation Letter
    04 April 2012 ©2012 MEDEVACmatters.org A constituent of U.S. Senator Tom Harkin finally received a reply five months after her initial letter and fax to Senator Harkin about MEDEVAC operations in Afghanistan. Despite the date on the Senator’s letter, she just received it today. The letter is ...
  • America’s Angry Troops: Message from a Marine
    13 April 2012 Marine, Army and Air Force sources continue to provide information about MEDEVAC failures in Afghanistan.  Top Army Generals say there are no complaints from the MEDEVAC/CASEVAC community in Afghanistan, but if this were so how is it that I end up with stacks of internal docu ...
  • Bowe Bergdahl: Two messages from the Taliban
    10 April 2012 Over the months I have communicated with the Taliban about US prisoner Bowe Bergdahl.  Numerous times I have asked the Taliban to allow me to visit Bowe.  In each case, the Taliban has declined citing security issues. It has been said that I am negotiating with the Tali ...
  • Aerial Camouflage – It’s Not Easy Being Green… ...
    04 April 2012 ©2012 MEDEVACmatters.org The recent discussions about removing the Red Crosses on white backgrounds from the Army’s MEDEVAC helicopters created quite an uproar from Army leadership. They based their arguments against doing so mostly on a misunderstanding the terms of the Geneva Co ...
  • Taliban Sends Message about US Prisoner Bowe B ...
    29 March 2012 Several years ago, the Taliban captured a US Soldier named Bowe Bergdahl. Yesterday was Bergdahl’s third birthday in captivity. I’ve asked the Taliban several times to see Bergdahl.  They have declined in the past citing security reasons.  I recently asked the Taliban a ...

The Killing Train

  • Help that hurts: An interview with Tim Schwart ...
    First published on ZNet, March 18, 2012 Tim Schwartz is an anthropologist with extensive experience in the foreign aid sector in Haiti. He is the author of the book, Travesty in Haiti, and of an upcoming book studying the nature and problems of the ways nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) opera ...
  • Professionals and Torturers
    The key moment in many revolutions comes when police and militaries refuse to fire on crowds. But what is difficult to explain about those moments is their infrequency. Soldiers and police come from the same society as the crowds. Why do they kill them? Why are elites and authorities able to res ...
  • The regressive politics of the Iranian-Canadia ...
    [This article, by Shourideh Molavi and myself, was first published in The Bullet - version with links is there]. The regressive politics of the Iranian-Canadian Khevari petition Shourideh Molavi and Justin Podur November 11, 2011 On October 12, members of the Iranian-Canadian community sent a pe ...
  • An interview for occupy Toronto
    Activist and comedian Jesse Owens interviewed me for the #occupyto.org website, way back in ancient occupy toronto history (ie., October 26). For posterity, I am also reproducing it here. Thanks Jesse... --- read more
  • Some thoughts on Whiteness and the 99%
    I have some disagreements with Joel Olson's article, "Whiteness and the 99%", but I will start with some agreements. I agree that "biologically speaking, there's no such thing as race." read more

treehugger

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • American-Muslims sue federal agencies over imp ...
    [JURIST] The Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MI) [advocacy website] announced Friday the filing of a lawsuit [press release] against three US agencies over the repeated detention and questioning of Muslims about their religious beliefs and practices by federal ...
  • UN experts call for release of imprisoned Bahr ...
    [JURIST] Four independent UN human rights experts on Friday called for the immediate release [press release] of Bahraini human rights defender Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja, who is serving a life sentence for terrorism-related charges after being tried before the Bahrain military National Safety Court in ...
  • Ninth Circuit strikes down ban on political ad ...
    [JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [official website] on Wednesday struck down [text. PDF] parts of a federal statute that prohibit public broadcasters from transmitting public issue and political advertisements. The suit was brought by the Minority Television Project on beha ...
  • UN counterterrorism official criticizes US cou ...
    [JURIST] UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and counterterrorism Ben Emmerson [official profile] on Thursday expressed regret over a US court decision [press release] denying Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) [National Security Archive] requests by a member of the UK parliament and the UK All ...
  • Pakistan lawmakers seek end to CIA drone strikes
    [JURIST] The Pakistani Parliament on Thursday approved recommendations [text] for redefining the government's relationship with the US and NATO, including calling for an end to CIA drone strikes. The new plan comes in response [Pakistan Today report] to the incidental drone strike that killed 24 ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Administration Admits That Indefinite Detentio ...
    The Obama administration acknowledged Tuesday that it would be a violation of current law to transfer individuals from Guantanamo Bay in Cuba to its soon-to-be acquired Thomson prison in Illinois unless they are destined for a federal trial or military tribunal. In a conference call with reporte ...
  • Is Obama Endorsing WWE Wrestling?
    For years, the World Wrestling Entertainment corporation has tinkered with a variety of strategies to improve its public image. The company toned down the storylines, aiming for a TV PG rating. They inaugurated voter registration drives in 2004, 2006 and 2008. They're a ubiquitous presence on th ...
  • At Spy Agency, More Women At Higher Levels
    CIA Director Leon Panetta is taking steps to increase the number of women at the highest levels of the nation's most fabled spy agency.
  • Obesity In The Health Care Bills
    Having studied the latest research on the economics and politics of obesity, I've grown skeptical that a convincing case can be made that government-wide interventions can reduce obesity's cost contribution to the health care system in the near-term. The more one studies obesity itself and its e ...
  • The Atlantic's Boldest: Department Of Corrections
    1. President Obama plans to transfer prisoners from Guantanamo Bay to Thomson, Illinois, not Thompson. 2. Rep. Collin Peterson is a Democrat from Minnesota, not Michigan.

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Tikun Olam: Tzedakah to Make Israel a Better Place
    Tonight, I was thinking of a particular friend who has created over the past few decades a wonderful business that is almost perfectly attuned to its community.  It has provided well for his family and, I presume, enabled him to give generously to his local community, including the Jewish commun ...
  • U.S. Demands of Iran Threaten to Scuttle Nucle ...
    The NY Times reports that the U.S. “demands” it will make of Iran in the upcoming round of negotiation: The Obama administration and its European allies plan to open new negotiations with Iran by demanding the immediate closing and ultimate dismantling of a recently completed nuclear ...
  • Seattle’s Jewish Newspaper Editor Refuses Op-E ...
    TweetOver the past few days, I’ve asked Joel Magalnick, editor of Seattle’s JTNews, the community Jewish newspaper, to publish a news story correcting numerous errors in its coverage of the recent Seattle pinkwashing controversy.  This involved the cancellation of an Israeli receptio ...
  • Plaintiffs in Olympia Food Coop Anti-BDS Lawsu ...
    TweetThe Olympia Superior Court judge hearing the Olympia food coop anti-BDS lawsuit held a hearing to determine the penalties that the plaintiffs would pay the defendants, whose position was upheld in an ant-SLAPP ruling that dismissed the case.  Lawyers for the food coop made a claim for $400, ...
  • Seymour Hersh: U.S. Trains and Facilitates MEK ...
    TweetWhen is a terrorist not a terrorist?  When he’s OUR terrorist. This just about knocked my socks off!  Sy Hersh, reporting in the New Yorker, one ups Mark Perry and just about everybody else with a story that the Bush administration provided MEK operatives terror training at secret fac ...

If Americans Knew

  • Israel Lobby Dominates Congress, Media Covers ...
    You might think that 20 percent of the American Congress going on all-expenses-paid, week-long junkets to a foreign country -- paid for by a lobby for that country -- would be newsworthy, especially when the top congressional leaders of both parties are leading the trips. You would be wrong.
  • Israeli video games in Gaza: "Minimal collater ...
    He looks at the camera with bright eyes and the beginning of a smile, wearing a miniature dark blue zipper sweatshirt, the cuffs folded up a bit to make it fit. I can imagine his mother dressing him that morning, making sure he would be warm enough. I wonder if she's the one who took the picture ...
  • American Taxpayers Pay and Pay: Subsidizing Is ...
    Israel's Jerusalem Post newspaper recently published an article calling Israel "The New Golden Country" for young people from around the world. It reports that Israel boasts "an ever-increasing GDP, a strong currency, and a lower unemployment rate than the US."
  • US Ambassador: Support for Israel drives all U ...
    While many Americans may believe that US policies are designed to address American needs, America's new Ambassador to Israel explains that this is far from the case.
  • Shop Talk: The Sacramento Bee
    Editors at McClatchy's Sacramento Bee recently made a series of questionable decisions in their coverage of a local event. They ran news stories about opposition to an upcoming event beforehand and accusations against it afterward, but didn't cover the event itself.

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Top 5 Tech Ideas for Creating Better Explanato ...
    How can technology help journalists make sense of complex issues and explain them to the public in a clear, understandable manner?Last year, Jay Rosen's journalism students spent an entire semester researching and making explanations in partnership with ProPublica, a non-profit newsroom which fo ...
  • SocMap: Why a Small Map App Can Be Better Than ...
    We experimented with various concepts for SocMap.com for a whole year in an effort to create a map-based social network for connecting and informing people in local neighborhoods. The conclusion: Even though we can reach commendable levels of new user registration, our users don't create con ...
  • Knight-Mozilla Partnership Evolves, Seeks New ...
    It's only the start of April, and already it's been a big year for the Knight-Mozilla Partnership. We've placed four fellows at the BBC, the Guardian, Zeit Online, and Al Jazeera. (A fifth fellow, at the Boston Globe, will be starting a little later this spring.) We've renamed and refocu ...
  • 'Water Hackathon' Aims to Understand Brooklyn' ...
    My arm was up to the elbow in water classified as unfit for human contact. I was staring down a double-barreled shotgun of pipes that release some 90 million gallons of untreated sewage and storm water annually into the very water I was canoeing in. This is the Gowanus Canal, in Brooklyn, N.Y. I ...
  • Bills Are Not a Changelog: Why You Can't Turn ...
    There is a common belief that since laws are the result of legislation, then surely one can automatically assemble an amended version of the code based on the bills that have passed the legislature. This is both a really cool idea and a wrong one. Your standard narrative of how a bill becomes ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Islam's War on Christianity - Turkey: Muslim A ...
    The Barnabas Fund, a charitable and activist organization based in the UK, reported that an Evangelical Christian pastor was beaten by a group of Muslims who forced their way into his church in Turkey and threatened to kill him unless he recited the Islamic confession of faith.Pastor Semih Serte ...
  • Islam's War on Christianity - Islamist Bombing ...
    At least 38 people were killed in a suicide bombing outside two Christian churches during Easter services in Northern Nigeria.  Explosives were detonated in the city of Kaduna, the capital of Kaduna state, on Sunday April 8 at around 8.40am local time. The All Nations Christian Assembly Chu ...
  • Film News - Gibson Jewish Film Project Cancell ...
    It seems that Mel Gibson has not changed his ways.In a letter to the Hollywood star, screenwriter Joe Eszterhas told Gibson, "you hate Jews," and detailed the numerous occasions on which Gibson referred to Jews as "Hebes" and "oven dodgers" and "Jew boys." The occasion for the letter was the can ...
  • The Battle for Syria - Is Turkey Considering M ...
    Several recent developments have put the possibility of military action in Syria on Turkey's agenda. On April 9, Syrian forces opened fire at a refugee camp on the Turkish side of the border, killing two Syrian refugees and wounding two Turks. The number of such refugees crossing into Turkey has ...
  • The North Korean Threat - North Korean Rocket ...
    North Korea has acknowledged a multi-stage rocket it launched early Friday failed to reach orbit. An announcer on North Korean television—interrupting programming four hours after the launch, which was not broadcast—says the Kwangmyongsong-3 earth observation satellite did not succeed in rea ...

High Country News

  • When Peter Gleick fell, California's water wor ...
    After he impersonated a Heartland Institute board member, gadfly scientist and Pacific Institute head Peter Gleick has been persona non grata. But California water bosses may miss his fierce intellect.
  • Solar power works best when it stays small and ...
    Industrial-style, large-scale solar developments on West public lands are simply not the right way to go.
  • Dead man working
    When Robert Palmer began crusading for better medical care on the firelines in memory of his brother, he realized -- as many reformers do -- that one of the problems lies in the risk-accepting culture of firefighting and other outdoor occupations.
  • The itch that riles Frontera author Denise Chavez
    The author and Border Book Festival maven recounts her childhood, her upcoming book, a "mystery love story" and what its like to run an independent bookstore in the naval of the world.
  • Could doing chores save the world?
    While living at a remote commune in the wilds of New Mexico, author Emily Schosid learned what real sustainability means. And it’s not at all what you’d expect.

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • What’s in a Shirt? Why Obama’s Foreign Policy ...
    “For he might have been a Russian, A French or Turk or Prussian Or perhaps Italian! But in spite of all temptations To belong to other nations, He remains an Englishman! He remains an Englishman!” --Gilbert and Sullivan, “H.M.S. Pinafore” By Barry Rubin Presi ...
  • Three New Rasmussen Polls That Should Frighte ...
    As James Carville once said,  "it's the economy stupid!" and according to a just-released Rasmussen poll American voters trust Mitt Romney by a wide 49%-39% margin. In fact Romney topped Obama in four of the five issues;economy, health care, taxes, and (just barely energy policy).  Oba ...
  • New Mel Gibson Bigotry: "Holocaust Was Mostly ...
    When the Mel Gibson movie about the Jewish hero Judah the Maccabee, green-lighted by Warner Brothers this past September was suddenly put on hold by the studio last month screen reporters didn't understand Warner's silence as to the reason behind their action. However yesterday that all changed ...
  • The Iraqi Government Model: As Good As it Gets
    By Barry Rubin Iraq is in a mess. Violence continues. Factionalism leads to endless bickering. Corruption is at high levels. Christians live in fear or flee altogether. Islamism is constantly creeping forward. Yet I would suggest that with all these shortcomings the “Iraqi model” is the best ...
  • Obamanomics Is Making Us Go BROKE: A Look at ...
    Don't you just love it when progressives try to convince you that Obama has been a successful president?  Much of the time, they back up their claims with some half-baked numbers pulled out of their backsides.   The numbers below are all sourced and represent what Barack ...

The Real Agenda

  • Ecos do Céu Não São Sinal da Segunda Vinda de ...
    POR LUIS R. MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | 13 ABRIL 2012 Os estranhos ecos vindo do céu. O que fazer com eles? Se eu tivesse que apostar, eu apostaria que não é um sinal do fim dos tempos ou a segunda vinda de Jesus Cristo. De fato, de forma inequívoca — embora haja uma [...]
  • From L.A. to New York in 30 Minutes Undergroun ...
    By SHEPARD AMBELLAS | THE INTEL HUB | APRIL 13, 2012 The Vary High Speed Transit System (VHST) was a Rand Corporation concept that was presented to the military industrial complex in the 1970′s. The concept was way ahead of it’s time, exactly what the secret sinister government needed ...
  • Los Ruidos del Cielo no son Señal de la Segund ...
    POR LUIS R. MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | 13 ABRIL 2012 Los ruidos que vienen del cielo. ¿Qué pensar de ellos? Si tuviera que apostar, apostaría que no es un signo del fin de los tiempos o la segunda venida de Jesucristo. De hecho, sin temor a equivocarme — aunque hay una posibilid ...
  • Libya: Oil for Blood
    By ADRIAN SALBUCHI | RT | APRIL 13, 2012 Last year NATO countries bombed Libya, demanding “democracy” in the country. But now it’s clear it was all about oil and it’s not like the Americans and Brits are going to be democratic about it, and share those spoils equally with France and It ...
  • Kosovo’s “Mafia State” Spons ...
    By F. WILLIAM ENGDAHL | GLOBAL RESEARCH | APRIL 13, 2012 In one of the more bizarre foreign policy announcements of a bizarre Obama Administration, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has announced that Washington will “help” Kosovo to join NATO as well as the European Union. She mad ...

Wind Watch

  • Ashburton couple blows windfarm away
    A Kiwi couple have done what the Aussies couldn’t – fought a corporate energy generator and won. Bernie and Angela Molloy left Ashburton in 2007 to start a new life in the Australian state of Victoria. They found that new life in Naroghid, near Cobden, buying a 420 milking cow farm. What t ...
  • Wind farms might not fly due to golden eagles ...
    Researcher Todd Katzner and the U.S. Department of Energyare tailing the same slightly ruffled, strawberry blond: an Eastern Golden Eagle equipped with a tiny cell phone that winters in Connecticut and summers in Quebec. Wingspan, 7 feet; weight,14 pounds; appearance, magnificent. The eagle&#821 ...
  • LURC decision leaves First Wind facing first d ...
    LINCOLN, Maine — The state’s largest wind developer could face defeat for the first time in Maine with LURC’s decision Friday to deny a request to withdraw a proposed wind project on Bowers Mountain. The Land Use Regulation Commission voted 5-0 at the Waterfront Event Center to reject First Wind ...
  • Bitterness and anger in Aith and Nesting over ...
    With the prospect of giant turbines almost on their doorsteps, many people in the communities of Nesting and Aith have been opposed to the windfarm from day one. News that energy minister Fergus Ewing has now approved the project was greeted in these areas with anger and incredulity. Many detest ...
  • Unesco fear causes French wind project cancelation
    The French authorities have withdrawn a permit for three turbines 20km from Mont-St-Michel in preparation for imposing an exclusion zone around the Unesco World Heritage Site. Mont-St-Michel is a tidal island off the coast of Normandy. Although the island has only 40 occupants, its buildings dat ...

Tippers News

  • Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
    The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
    DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...
    Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note- ...
  • Confused cat found wandering streets of of Lin ...
    This hungry kitty thought she was the cat that had got the cream when she found a half-full tin of pet food as she prowled for snacks in bins behind a supermarket. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Two week-old kitten left for dead in locked cl ...
    Thanks to a passerby and local animal shelter, a two week-old kitten left for dead in a bolted-shut clothes recycling bin was rescued and has made a full recovery. The kitten was rescued about a month ago when a passing person heard the cry Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals  |  & ...

The Freeman

  • Economists See Bottom of Housing Market
    “The relentless decline in home prices is nearing an end and prices should rise for the first time in seven years in 2013, but a possible new wave of foreclosures could threaten the recovery, according a Reuters poll of economists” (Reuters) What’s the value of a poll of economists&# ...
  • Consumer Agency Fidgets with Credit Card Fees
    “The Obama administration’s consumer financial-watchdog agency is backing off a plan to limit big upfront fees on credit cards. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau acknowledged Thursday that its proposal would increase costs for cardholders and allow banks to charge more in fees.&#822 ...
  • Variations on a Corporatist Theme
    Most voters who abhor “socialism” will rally round Republican corporatism, while most who abhor the cruel “free market” will rush to Democratic corporatism.
  • Cut in E-Book Pricing by Amazon Is Set to Shak ...
    “The government’s decision to pursue major publishers on antitrust charges has put the Internet retailer Amazon in a powerful position: the nation’s largest bookseller may now get to decide how much an e-book will cost, and the book world is quaking over the potential consequences.” ...
  • Few U.S. Options as North Korea Readies Missil ...
    “Beyond [rallying worldwide condemnation], however, the administration’s options are limited. The United States will not seek further sanctions in the United Nations Security Council, this official said, because North Korea is already heavily sanctioned and Washington needs to preserve its ...

Teaching Online Journalism

  • The liberal arts portion of a journalism education
    Model Curricula for Journalism Education is a 150-page document produced by UNESCO and published in 2007. Its contents are based on work done in 2005 by an international group of journalism educators. While many details in the document (particularly the recommended books) are now quite out of da ...
  • Two online tools I use and recommend
    Just a quick post to pimp two products/tools/sites I use every day — neither of which is nearly as famous as some companies that announced a billion-dollar deal yesterday. Pinboard. This is NOT the famous Pinterest that everyone is talking about. It has a few minor similarities (a “p ...
  • When plagiarism comes out, stand your ground
    The recent case of the president of Hungary does not involve any transgression of journalism ethics. Yet plagiarism is a plague in our high schools and universities — in every country around the world, so far as I can tell. As a journalist and an educator, I consider this an ethical issue ...
  • Recording phone interviews: A solution that works
    Our graduate student E. K. Sommer recently asked for advice on how to record phone interviews, so I pointed her toward an old (but still very popular) post on this blog: Recording phone calls: For reporters. Sommer, however, found a better solution, and she agreed that I could share it here. She ...
  • Multimedia journalism “master classes&#8 ...
    A series of (temporarily) free “master classes” about multimedia journalism just got under way. Andy Bull, a journalism trainer based in the United Kingdom, is offering the classes online in a limited-release format: Each will be available online, free, for a short time, and then dis ...

Facing South

Worldpress - Africa

  • The Need to "De-Nairobify" Somali Affairs
    For quite some time, international players have been conducting operations related to Somalia from across the Kenyan border in Nairobi.
  • London Conference on Somalia
    Although it succeeded in shining an international light on Somalia's ongoing conflict, the London conference failed in some respects to address dangerous issues of tribalism.
  • Kony 2012
    The Kony 2012 video has led to increased U.S. pressure on the Ugandan regime to catch the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) leader.
  • Water and Sanitation in Africa
    Although much more of the world's population has access to clean water than a decade ago, sanitation progress in Africa continues to stagnate.
  • Global Fund Fights AIDS, TB and Malaria
    The Global Fund has been fighting disease for a decade in 150 countries, but the time is ripe for reform and reassessment of its operations.

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • The police state of the future
    forget the problems of spy agencies, this is the stuff of pure police states.  The Stasi only wished they had it so good. When the revolution comes, if it comes, the first job is going to have to be to destroy all of this stuff, and to inculcate a visceral understanding that this and all [...]
  • Is the individual mandate really the hill prog ...
    Really? The individual mandate is lousy policy.  It always was.  It is especially lousy policy without a large (100 million +) public option.  The health care plan is, for all intents and purposes, a 90′s Heritage plan. This?  This is what progressives want to fight for? BMaz has a good ar ...
  • Is the individual mandate really the hill prog ...
    Really? The individual mandate is lousy policy.  It always was.  It is especially lousy policy without a large (100 million +) public option.  The health care plan is, for all intents and purposes, a 90′s Heritage plan. This?  This is what progressives want to fight for? BMaz has a good ar ...
  • Observations on Canadian NDP leader Mulcair an ...
    Last weekend, the federal New Democratic Party (NDP) elected a new leader: Thomas Mulcair, an MP from Quebec, who was a minister in the provincial Liberal government there, before he resigned rather than open a park for development. Mulcair was the front runner, and his victory was hardly a surp ...
  • Observations on Canadian NDP leader Mulcair an ...
    Last weekend, the federal New Democratic Party (NDP) elected a new leader: Thomas Mulcair, an MP from Quebec, who was a minister in the provincial Liberal government there, before he resigned rather than open a park for development. Mulcair was the front runner, and his victory was hardly a surp ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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

new geography

  • A Little Snooki in the French Presidential Cam ...
    As a reality television series, it’s hard to beat the prime-time adventures of the French presidential election; as endless as the Republican primaries, but racier than Snooki's antics on “Jersey Shore”. This ought to give pause to anyone who is relying on Parisian politics to save the European ...
  • The Right Steps to a Post-College Job
    What will become of today's middle class college students after they graduate? Opposing points of view come, on one side, from a voice of the education establishment, the American Association of Colleges & Universities (AACU), and on the other from rhetorical bomb thrower and author Aaron ...
  • Alternative Growth Paths for Sydney: A New Rep ...
    Population growth in Australia is double the world average and the New South Wales Department of Planning has projected that the population of the Sydney region will increase by 57,000 people annually. How will these extra people be housed?  The NSW Government follows the usual doctrines bas ...
  • The Urban US: Growth and Decline
    The urban population of the United States is now 249 million, according to the 2010 Census, 81 percent of the total. This is impressive, and not all surprising for a large developed economy. Yet the urban population --- meaning cities, suburbs and exurbs --- is not everything. And in many wa ...
  • Enjoying the Kool-Aid in Omaha
    I left Santa Monica for Omaha less than 3 months before the collapse of the global financial infrastructure in September 2008. The impending problems in housing and credit markets – obvious from early 2007 and exacerbated by the pile-on effect of derivatives gone wild – were increasingly in ...

GM Watch

  • Why a GM pig is a waste of money
    EXTRACT: The GM pig is a classic example of GM technology developed to solve a problem that already has one or more solutions. NOTE: For more examples of this: http://www.gmwatch.org/component/content/article/31-need-gm/12348 VIDEO: Genetically Modified Pig "Enviropig" shelved http://www.gmwat ...
  • Scores testify in favor of GM labeling bill
    NOTE: For some great photos of the event below see the Vt Right to Know campaign group's Facebook page:  http://www.facebook.com/VTrighttoknow EXTRACT: Rachel Lattimore, a Washington, D.C.-based lawyer who has represented the Biotechnology Industry Association, Monsanto, and other biotechnology ...
  • Women march for total ban on Bt cotton
    NOTE: Great photo of the women's anti-GMO protest here: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=387551471278629&set=o.276951472985&type=1 The Deccan Development Society (DDS), is a two-decade old grassroots organisation working in about 75 villages with women's Sanghams (voluntary village level ...
  • Chile stands up to Monsanto
    NOTE: See also the press release on this http://www.gmwatch.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=13803 --- --- Chile stands up to Monsanto PAN, 11 April 2012 http://www.panna.org/blog/chile-stands-monsanto On March 21, the Chilean Transparency Council stood with its citizenry agains ...
  • South African labeling row goes international
    NOTE: The African Centre for Biosafety which first exposed how South African food manufacturers were selling foods, including baby foods, with high levels of GM content without any labels is now facing legal threats from big food producers for suggesting this is illegal under South African law. ...

spiked

Cryptogon

  • 5000+ Artists Line Up For a Pirate Bay Promotion
    “I have even gone so far that I have left my major record label and started up my own. I call it: ‘Do It Yourself Bitch Productions.’” —Soso Via: TorrentFreak: Record labels and Hollywood have described The Pirate Bay as one of the biggest threats to their business, ...
  • Britain: Proposed Law Would Require ISPs and D ...
    Will VPNs be outlawed? *chortle* Via: PC Pro: A new bill presented to the House of Lords demands both ISPs and device makers filter adult content. The Online Safety Bill, raised in the Lords by Baroness Howe of Ildicote, asks for ISPs and mobile operators to “provide a service that exclude ...
  • Poland to Ban Monsanto’s GM Maize
    Via: AFP: Poland will impose a complete ban on growing the MON810 genetically modified strain of maize made by US company Monsanto on its territory, Agriculture Minister Marek Sawicki said Wednesday. “The decree is in the works. It introduces a complete ban on the MON810 strain of maize in ...
  • Arizona Passes Sweeping Law Criminalizing Inte ...
    Via: Jonathan Turley: In one of the most sweeping attacks on free speech in America, the Arizona legislature has passed a draconian bill that would criminalize speech on the Internet (“any electronic or digital device”) that prosecutors consider “obscene, lewd or profane language or . . . sugges ...
  • Google Begins Testing Its Augmented-Reality Gl ...
    Here we go… Via: New York Times: If you venture into a coffee shop in the coming months and see someone with a pair of futuristic glasses that look like a prop from “Star Trek,” don’t worry. It’s probably just a Google employee testing the company’s new augmented-reality glasses. On Wednes ...

The Economic Collapse

  • 27 Statistics About The European Economic Cris ...
    The economic crisis in Europe continues to get worse and eventually it is going to unravel into a complete economic nightmare.  All over Europe, national governments have piled up debts that are completely unsustainable.  But whenever they start significantly cutting government s ...
  • 24 Outrageous Facts About Taxes In The United ...
    The U.S. tax code is a complete and utter abomination and it needs to be thrown out entirely.  Nobody in their right mind would ever read the whole thing - it is over 3 million words long.  Each year, Americans spend billions of hours and hundreds of billions of dollars trying to ...
  • The Hard Working American vs. The Government P ...
    Which lifestyle choice produces better results - being a hard working American or being a government parasite?  Actually, when you look at the cold, hard numbers they may just surprise you.  In America today, we deeply penalize hard work and we greatly reward government dependenc ...
  • The Shocking Truth About Unemployment In Ameri ...
    The mainstream media is not telling you the truth about unemployment in the United States.  The percentage of working age Americans that are employed is not increasing.  In March 2010, 58.5 percent of all working age Americans had a job.  In March 2012, 58.5 percent of all workin ...
  • 19 Signs Of Very Serious Economic Trouble On T ...
    Most Americans have no idea how much economic trouble is heading our way.  Most of them just assume that everything will eventually "return to normal" just like it always has before and that those running our economy "know what they are doing" and that we should trust them to do ...

Desertification

  • The need to make women an equal partner in agr ...
    Read at : http://www.africafiles.org/article.asp?ID=26260 Feeding the planet by leveling the plowing field for women Summary & Comment: Countries in sub-Saharan Africa should be particularly mindful of the need to make women an equal partner in agriculture development. Women farmers need &#8 ...
  • To overcome Striga infestation overtaking maiz ...
    Read at : http://www.africafiles.org/article.asp?ID=26267 Saving Kenya’s maize crop Summary & Comment: Hybridization of a herbicide-resistant maize found in Kenya a decade ago will be used to overcome a weed infestion overtaking maize fields in Kenya’s western province. While care must ...
  • Rarefying natural resources (Acted)
    Read at : http://www.acted.org/fr/node/4452 Rarefying natural resources are main issue in South Sudan JUBA [ACTED News] – The village of Jamam, home to approximately 3,000 inhabitants, is now hosting over 35,000 refugees who have fled their homes in Blue Nile … Continue reading →
  • Mobile phones save the people in Kenya (Acted)
    Read at : http://www.acted.org/fr/node/4511 Mobile phones improve water resource management Data collection teams are deployed to the field to visit water sites, record data, and send the information using mobile phones. After weeks of mapping over 1,150 water resources in … Continue readi ...
  • Hygiene Promotion in Drought-Stricken Kenya (ACF)
    Read at : http://www.actionagainsthunger.org/blog/video-water-lifeline-hygiene-promotion-drought-stricken-kenya?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+acf-usa%2Fnews+%28Action+Against+Hunger+%7C+Updates%29 : Water as a Lifeline: Hygiene Promotion in Drought-Stricken K ...

The Paper Trail

  • Maine governor, legislators use 'F' grade as o ...
    In the aftermath of receiving an F grade on the State Integrity Investigation for corruption risk, Maine’s governor and state leaders plan to take legislative action. Maine ranks 46th among the 50 states.Gov. Paul LePage said in a statement that his office has been reviewing data from the S ...
  • Maine's report card
  • California moves closer to reforming school di ...
    Persuaded that school discipline policies are far too harsh, California lawmakers are moving closer to enacting reforms aimed at stemming a rising tide of suspensions and expulsions in the nation’s largest state.“I have seen too many children removed from school under the mandatory suspension an ...
  • Romney, GOP seek $50,000 for joint fundraising ...
    You too can be a “Founding Member” of “Romney Victory” and enjoy a California retreat in June – but it will cost you at least $50,000, and you better act now – only the first 1,000 donors qualify.That’s according to an April 10 email solicitation that’s going around to big potential donors and m ...
  • Support our new investigation into a deadly di ...
    Editor’s note: This Kickstarter project has raised $5,290 or 70 percent of its goal, as of April 12. We hope you’ll consider adding your support before the April 22 deadline.  A deadly disease is killing thousands of the world's poorest laborers — and no one knows what is causing it. L ...

backofthebook.ca

  • “The Postmedia chain has turned against ...
    An anonymous missive has appeared on The Gazetteer, purporting to be from “a newsworker at Postmedia” and offering an explanation for that chain’s sudden turn against the Harper Conservatives. The Gazetter‘s proprietor, RossK, had wondered if aggressive work on the roboca ...
  • I can’t hear you because I’m talki ...
    By Frank Moher In our Politics section right now you’ll find Alison@Creekside‘s response to MP Stephen Woodworth’s Motion 132, which asks Parliament to examine the definition of a human being under Canadian law. Alison doesn’t like his initiative, to say the least. I don& ...
  • Stephen Woodworth takes on the breeding vessels
    By Alison@Creekside Steve, one year ago: “I’m not opening this debate (on abortion). I don’t want it opened. I have not wanted it opened. I haven’t opened it as Prime Minister. I’m not going to open it. The public doesn’t want to open it. This is not the prior ...
  • A Modest Opinion – A penny … er … a nick ...
    By Nathaniel Moher I am outraged!  Are you guys outraged?!  That’s a stupid question, of course you are, because I’m outraged and, because I form your opinions for you based on my opinions, that means you guys are outraged too!  And that’s good, because I’m going to do something I don’t often do ...
  • Mike Wallace and The Homosexuals
    By Montreal Simon I see that Mike Wallace is being given a grand send off and is being called a journalistic hero. The newspapers are full of glowing obituaries, and TV stations have been running clips of his most famous interviews and documentaries. But funnily enough nobody mentioned the famou ...

libcom

  • Independent and free? A Glasgow anarchist's ta ...
    rsz_scottish_anarchism.jpg Written by a member of the Glasgow Anarchist Federation in a personal capacity, this article aims to respond to the rise of the Scottish independence movement and to encoura ...
  • The FSB is expelling political activists from ...
    On the 29th of March the Federal Migration Service of Russia gave Finnish citizen Antti Rautiainen, a member of Autonomous Action, an order to leave the Russian Federation within 15 days. According to the order, Rautiainen is suspected of "making state ...
  • MayDay 5 in the streets!
    1MAJ_1m.gif Every year, there were thousands of us on Císařská louka. We believe a similar crowd will also support this year’s Action Days. Prove that you are serious about the antifascist and anti-au ...
  • Neonazis kill in Poland
    bhpolska.JPG Białystok is one of the biggest cities in the east part of country. Since ages catholics, orthodox and muslims live in one area. Białystok is also full of people from Caucas. Only one far ...
  • Strike by DWP contractors
    pcs strike.jpg Balfour Beatty staff employed to work at DWP sites have struck today in a row over redundancies. The two-hour strike took place among messengers, typists and tele ...

Free Range International

  • Operation Magistral
    There was an article floating around the news on Afghanistan last week that got my immediate attention.  The article had a one day life cycle and have not seen any follow ups about it, which, given the content, is surprising.   I am not referring to the change in  night raid policy which I could ...
  • Extended Shelf Life – April Fools Edition
    In my last post I claimed to have reached the end of my useful shelf life as a blogger which, it turns out, is not true.  I’m back in Afghanistan and what better day to turn the FRI blog back on than April Fools? Groundhog day would have been more appropriate but I missed it. [...]
  • Back in the USSA
    I’ve been trying to come up with a post for over a month now but don’t have any good pictures because I’m back in America, sans super cool Nikon which got blown up in the Helmand, and without good pictures I don’t seem to be able to write.  That camera cost over a thousand bucks [...]
  • The Gladiators
    Editors Note:  B is taking some time off from destroying Libtards on Thomas Ricks blog to vent on a topic few men will dare touch.  At the Foriegn Policy blog he’s been coming up with stuff like this: Personally, I am glad that while I had to worry about leaders who were more worried about ...
  • War Groupies
    This is the second entry in the new “Paint Baba Tim’s White Fence” program.  The first was from my Dad and this one is from my good friend B.  Regular readers have probably guessed by now that B and I worked together in Afghanistan and know each other well.  As I deal with agen ...

The Story Behind the Story

  • Righteous Blood Part XII: The RED CHEKA TERRO ...
    WARNING: THE FOLLOWING HISTORIC EVENTS READ LIKE A STEPHEN KING HORROR MOVIE SCRIPT!  Yet, the events documented herein are all 100% real and factual! I submit they constitute the ULTIMATE “terrorism”  – I would go so far as to call them acts of “Horrorism”.  Still ...
  • Job Opening: Head of U.S. Department of TRUTH? ...
    Instead of maintaining something called "Homeland Security" - why not dissolve it and form an all-encompassing U.S. Department of Truth, to oversee the "Justice" Department and all "National Security" concerns.  Then this "One Nation Under God" could at last create a most safe and SECURE HOMELAN ...
  • Job Opening: Head of U.S. Department of TRUTH? ...
    Instead of maintaining something called "Homeland Security" - why not dissolve it and form an all-encompassing U.S. Department of Truth, to oversee the "Justice" Department and all "National Security" concerns.  Then this "One Nation Under God" could at last create a most safe and SECURE HOMELAN ...
  • The New Face of “Racism” in America?
    Sadly, this despicable scene is repeated daily in the inner-city cesspools of America.   This one just happened to be recorded for posterity. Not only was the entire event VIDEOTAPED, but incredibly, was posted on You-Tube as a kind of “Look What We Did to Whitey” bragging-rights tro ...
  • The New Face of “Racism” in America?
    Sadly, this despicable scene is repeated daily in the inner-city cesspools of America.   This one just happened to be recorded for posterity. Not only was the entire event VIDEOTAPED, but incredibly, was posted on You-Tube as a kind of “Look What We Did to Whitey” bragging-rights tro ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

  • Missouri Tell Your Senator to Vote NO SB 759
    Donate Now Become A Member Volunteer Forward to a Friend Follow us on: Like Us on Facebook Follow Us on Twitter Tell Missouri Senators: Stop SB 759 Senate Bill 759 would erode two laws supported by Missouri voters unless you help us stop it. The first law under attack currently makes it illegal ...
  • I took the Energy Star Pledge Have You?
    Twitter <—- Find Me —> Facebook Web Site: http://stlouisrenewableenergy.com scottscontracting Job Site Photo Album Green Blog Related articles New Company Website for St Louis Renewable Energy (scottscontracting.wordpress.com) Do Squirrels and Rabbits Ravage Your Garden? (sco ...
  • Garden Screen Protector-City Garden
    How I plan to protect the back-yard vegetable garden from the Birds, Squirrels, Rabbits, and other malicious garden destroying animals. Deer Block Mesh supported by: 1/2 Metal Conduit Related articles Do Squirrels and Rabbits Ravage Your Garden? (scottscontracting.wordpress.com) New vegetable ga ...
  • 2012 Election Poll-What are the Issues that re ...
    What are the 5 most Important Issues in the upcoming election to you and your family. Created March 23, 2012 Compare the Results of the 2010 Election Poll to the Issues of today- Poll Results from 2010 Election Issues 2010 Election (created Oct 28, 2010)-What issues are most important to you and ...
  • Do Squirrels and Rabbits Ravage Your Garden?
    Varmit Garden Screen Protector Designed and Built by Scotts Contracting will protect your precious vegetables from the Vermin. Garden Screen Protector Available at Scotts Contracting Sunday March 18, 2012 Planted Back Yard Garden Gambling on Spring Weather Conditions First Plants to Germinate Ma ...

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • A Blueprint for Solving the Iran Crisis
    There’s much pessimism surrounding this week’s scheduled talks over Iran’s nuclear program. But a quid pro quo approach offers a solution. One which is divided in two stages: interim and permanent.
  • تصوير سنگ‌برجسته اردشير بابکان در فيروز آباد م ...
    خبرگزاری آذربایجان : درحالي تصوير بزرگترين سنگ برجسته ساساني اردشيربابکان و شاهپور يکم در رودخانه تنگاب فيروزآباد درحال محو شدن است که آغاز سدسازي در اين محوطه نيز سبب لرزش و ريزش اين صخره ساساني شده است. درحال‌حاضر read more
  • Kofi Annan will find it hard to prise Iran awa ...
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  • Iran can stand 2-3 year oil blockade: Ahmadinejad
    DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran has enough funds to withstand a total embargo on its oil sales for two to three years, Iranian media quoted President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as saying days before the resumption of talks with world powers on Tehran's nuclear programme.
  • Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran's Northern Bo ...
    The Russian military anticipates that an attack will occur on Iran by the summer and has developed an action plan to move Russian troops through neighboring Georgia to stage in Armenia, which borders on the Islamic republic, according to informed Russian sources.   Russian Security Coun ...

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Spin, Cover-up, and Statistical Manipulation
    Mar 6 2005 protest at Dow AgroSciences – I’m in the Green Party tee shirt behind the woman in the wheelchair (This is the third of four blogs about the government cover-up of major health problems r ...
  • Did New Plymouth Manufacture Agent Orange for ...
    Images from New Plymouth Maternity Hospital from http://www.dioxinnz.com/let-us-spray/L_U_S_part-02k.html (This is the second of four blogs about the government cover-up of major health problems related to the production of dioxin-related chemicals at Dow AgroSciences in New Plymouth between 1 ...
  • New Zealand’s Love Canal
    Paritutu and Ivon Watkins Dow smokestack (This is the first of four blogs about the government cover-up of major health problems related to the production of dioxin-related chemicals at Dow AgroSciences in New Plymouth between 1948 and 1987) When is corruption not corruption? The anti-corruption ...
  • A Welsh Resistance Fighter Named Arthur
    In the map above, the magenta areas are regions reconquered and controlled by Arthur 300 yrs later, only North & West Wales and Cornwall remain under the Britons' control As the late Howard Zinn, Michael Parenti, Noam Chomsky and other dissident historians frequently remind us, history i ...
  • How the US Missed Out on Concentrating Solar Power
    US CSP plant in Mojave Desert (This is the second of two blogs about Spain’s growing concentrating solar power industry and it’s potential role in solving that country’s debt crisis.) By the end of 2010, Spain had surpassed the US as the world leader in CSP production, increa ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • 20-Year Veteran to Face Jail Time for Act of C ...
    PRESS ADVISORY 20-Year Veteran to Face Jail Time for Act of Civil Disobedience Disruption of Congressional “Super Committee” could result in 6-month sentence Retired Naval Commander Leah Bolger will appear in court Thursday, April 12th 2012 on charges stemming from her arrest on O ...
  • Worker Ownership for the 99%: The United Steel ...
    For release:     March 26, 2012                                          &nb ...
  • The End of Men
    Excerpted from Stupid White Men ...And Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation by Michael Moore EARLIER THIS YEAR, my wife and I attended the baptism of our new nephew, Anthony. Our teenage daughter had been asked to be his godmother, a job that would require her to be there for little ...
  • Michael Moore Tweets About Rush Limbaugh's "Ap ...
    Rush Limbaugh issues a rare (if ever?) apology: mmflint.me/zvDYzY I didn't know there was anyone on earth who had the power to tell Rush what 2 do. But then there's Bain Capital, financiers of Clear Channel I guess Romney knew that Rush, who made the mistake of saying what most Republicans thi ...
  • Q&A on New Rules for Best Documentary Academy ...
    Thank you for your feedback on our new rules for Academy Award voting and eligibility. We are pleased so many of you have welcomed these changes. Some of you, though, still have some questions. Due to some stories in the media that did not explain the new rules correctly or fully, there is a li ...

Salon

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • Battery Fires and Rick Santelli
    Advanced batteries and compressed natural gas can both power vehicles and can do so safely if properly engineered and manufactured. The key to the safety of both technologies is rigorous testing, high quality manufacture, and minimum safety standards. As between the safety technology coming ou ...
  • Smart Parking Solutions to Reduce Congestion a ...
    The days of free parking may be numbered.
  • Is the first emissions reductions mechanism us ...
    Energy policy development over the last decade has shown one thing for certain, governments the world over are persistent in their desire to alter the energy mix and/or at least begin to manage emissions. How can businesses best respond to this trend and what role should they play?
  • Nuclear start-ups have stretch goals
    The desire is for independence and to innovate with great results
  • Clean Energy Investments Top $250 Billion in 2011
    In 2011, new clean energy investments rose to a record $263 billion – a 6.5 percent increase from last year.  The United States rose to the top in 2011 after having fallen behind China and Germany last year.  But the 27 countries that make up the European Union (EU-27) as a whole were ...

EU Times

  • North Korea plans to launch another rocket whi ...
    The United States will not go forward with planned food aid to North Korea, the White House said on Friday, after the impoverished nation’s unsuccessful launch of a long-range missile which Washington had warned would have consequences. ‘Their efforts to launch a missile clearly demo ...
  • UK Courts persecute Christians and drive them ...
    Christians have been hounded out of jobs and their values driven underground thanks to heavy-handed courts, a former Archbishop of Canterbury has claimed. Lord Carey said Christians are being treated like bigots and face the same sort of persecution homosexuals were once subjected to. He also in ...
  • Facebook is Deception
    Three years of research involving over one million users and ten thousand interviews has resulted in a book, and has resulted in some startling conclusions about the most widely used social network, Facebook. The book, “Facebook is deception”, reveals tales of bullying, fraud and sca ...
  • Russia’s anti-gay drive takes global turn
    Russia has disassociated itself from the language used in a statement on fundamental human rights and freedoms by the G8 Foreign Ministers Meeting Chair, as the document listed both gays and bisexuals as separate groups. Foreign Ministry spokesman Sergey Ryabkov told reporters that Russia consid ...
  • Samsung overtakes Nokia, ending their 14-year ...
    Samsung ended Finnish phone maker Nokia’s 14-year leadership of the global mobile phone market in the first quarter of the year, outselling the struggling handset maker for the first time ever. It’s another blow for a beleaguered company whose products have become eclipsed by glamoro ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Bee Geesâ Robin Gibb Now in Coma, Condition Se ...
    Former Bee Gee Robin Gibb has been battling serious health problems for months. British media reported that Gibb is in the hospital with pneumonia on Saturday, and now there are reports that the 62-year-old is in a coma, fighting for his life. âOur prayers are with Robin. He has kept so positiv ...
  • Marketing Deckchairs On The Titanic
    “Rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic” - Colloquial expression describing usually trivial and ultimately futile efforts to save a failing system Today (April 15) is the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912. To this day, still one of the worst ever peacetime maritime ...
  • Don’t Try to “Pull an Instagram.” Here’s Why …
    Instagram. It’s understandably on everybody’s mind these days. Clichés abound about, “You know what would be cool? …” I’ll write soon on my views of why I believe Instagram took off as a social network and what I think comes next. Instagram happens to be one of the few social networks I regular ...
  • Why the Left Fears Ann Romney
    She's a spectacular woman, for one thing. But that's not all, according to Teri Christoph and Suzanne Haik Terrell, at CNN : As her husband moves toward locking up the Republican nomination, recent headlines have screamed that Ann Romney is the "Romney that Democrats fear most." And for good reason
  • Angelina Jolie Engagement Ring: Getting Marrie ...
    Angelina Jolie Engagement Ring 36-year old Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie is finally engaged to her partner of seven years and six kids together Brad Pitt. I guess the couple often referred to as Brangelina are finally taking the plunge. Photos show Angelina Jolie sporting a diamond engag ...

Groklaw

  • Microsoft's Future Remains 'Cloudy'
    Inside the cloud problem is another, bigger problem, one Microsoft has struggled with for a decade: Open source. This week Microsoft moved to isolate the problem by putting its open source eggs into one basket, Microsoft Open Technologies. The recent move of rival VMWare(VMW) explains why. VMWa ...
  • Cut in E-Book Pricing by Amazon Is Set to Shak ...
    As soon as the Department of Justice announced Wednesday that it was suing five major publishers and Apple on price-fixing charges, and simultaneously settling with three of them, Amazon announced plans to push down prices on e-books. The price of some major titles could fall to $9.99 or les ...
  • Here's The Blow-By-Blow Account Of How Apple D ...
    One of the neat things about the DOJ's lawsuit against Apple over e-book pricing is that we get an inside glimpse into what Apple was thinking when it decided to open the iBookstore. - Jay Yarow, BusinessInsider
  • Fourth Circuit's Rosetta Stone v. Google Opinion
    Sadly, this ruling--giving Rosetta Stone another chance in court--will undoubtedly revive the trademark plaintiff bar's interest in suing Google for its keyword ad practices. Just like Google got hit with over a dozen lawsuits in the wake of Google's Second Circuit "loss" in the Rescuecom case, ...
  • Intellectual property supports 40 million jobs ...
    "Strong intellectual property protections encourage businesses to pursue the next great idea, which is vital to maintaining America's competitive edge and driving our overall prosperity," said Deputy Commerce Secretary Roberta Blank. [PJ: Yeah, cause without strong patent and copyright protectio ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • G-Male and Siri: A Love Story
    Silicon Valley love. The little dig at Yahoo is funny as is the rest, even if it is probably for geeks only.
  • Bankruptcy ends world’s largest solar power de ...
    Blythe Solar Power groundbreaking. Credit: whitehouse.govThe 1 GW Blythe Solar Power Project in California was supposed to be the biggest solar power plant ever. But builder Solar Trust filed bankruptcy recently parent corporation did the same in Germany. Solar Trust is also the recipient of a $ ...
  • Why you might not want to move to North Dakota ...
    Despite offering a wealth of job opportunities and a better-than-living wage, there are very few places to live. Most workers strive to get into one of the many "Man Camps." (Photo: Robert Johnson, Business Insider)Yes, there are a lot of jobs there, the majority of them requiring no mor ...
  • Bassnectar – Ping Pong
  • On Congressman West and Democratic lawmaker co ...
    Congressman West’s comments about 80 Democratic lawmakers being in the Communist Party of the US are comical. On the far left, the CP-US has long been considered an anemic joke. It has a tiny membership and for decades has told members to vote Democratic to stop Republicans from winning. I ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • Tragedies of liberal interventionist thinking ...
    Where to start? Maybe with this piece by Le Monde Diplo's Alain Gresh today (or anyway, recently.) In it, he writes: The opposition cannot bring down the government, and the government cannot put down an uprising that has a surprising determination and courage... I was writing the exact same t ...
  • JWB's fab titles--in C'ville Saturday, and glo ...
    For all JWN readers in the Greater Charlottesville area-- do come by the VaBook book fair that runs tomorrow, 9am-4pm, at the Omni Hotel. Tell your friends to come, as well! You can see and buy copies of all the fabulous titles published by my company, Just World Books, including the two latest: ...
  • Powerful, intimate memoir from Israeli peace a ...
    The countdown clock is now ticking fast, toward the publication of Miko Peled's amazing and powerful memoir, The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine. The book traces Miko's journey from being born, in 1961, into a family that was part of the core of the Jewish-Israeli elite to, now ...
  • Quick notes from Penn BDS conference
    The conference was an outstanding success! Everyone involved in organizing it-- and most of us who spoke at it-- have all been extremely busy; so I'm really sorry that we don't have much more, and richer, reporting on the events out already. But expect more great reporting of the conference to c ...
  • What's new in the publishing biz!
    ... is Just World Books's new webstore, which gives us global reach for distributing books from, as of now, three different print/distribute hubs... I am really excited about this development. I've been trying for a while to figure out a way to escape Amazon's large and greedy clutch, and I thi ...

frogblog

  • The Burmese election…a new era, but hard ...
    Twenty-two years after her first thwarted election to the Burmese Parliament, Aung San Suu Kyi celebrates a momentous return. Her party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), is claiming a landslide victory in the Kawhmu by-election. In 1990, even before winning 81% of the seats in Parliament ...
  • Last day to submit in opposition to two ghastl ...
    Today is the last day for submissions on two ghastly Government Bills - the Mixed Ownership Model Bill and the Social Security (Youth Support and Work Focus) Amendment Bill. If you haven't already made submissions opposing these Bills, please try to find the time today to do so, even if you can ...
  • Spying not a solution to bullying
    I’m rather concerned about the media attention being given to the Rotorua Coroner’s suggestion that parents should install spyware on their children’s phones. Spyware isn’t the answer to bullying. Youth suicide is a tragedy and there is much more we can be doing to support young people to preven ...
  • 3rd Global Greens Congress in Senegal…a ...
    Co-leader Metiria Tūrei and I were the two Kiwi MPs attending the 3rd Global Greens Congress which concluded last week. Green party colleagues, Pete Davis (International Secretary) and Jackson Wood (Young Greens) attended as well, so there was a respectable turnout of four from NZ.  Yes, offsett ...
  • Does fracking cause earthquakes?
    Human-induced earthquakes seem more the realm of a comic book baddie or Cold War failed-research programme but international research is increasingly linking fracking with earthquakes.

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • Treacherous Treaties
    Is American imperialism a Bilderberger plot? Are the American bankers, diplomats, and members of the Council on Foreign Relations all traitors, having turned America into merely an instrument to carry out their Bilderberger maniacal aims? Does America as a sovereign nation even exist anymore ...
  • Is Adam Smith's a Pickpocket
    Economists use the law of supply and demand merely to provide suppliers with an excuse for raising prices and picking consumer's pockets.
  • Economic Models and the Apologetics of Greed
    Economists build models by subtracting from reality the characteristics they deem unessential to the economic situations they model. The result is a bare bones description consisting of what economists deem economically essential. Everything that is discarded (not taken into consideration in the ...
  • The Crisis of Education in America: "How to Be ...
    Educational systems now train workers to fulfill the needs of companies. A society in which people exist for the sake of companies is a society enslaved. But there's a deep problem with the notion that education should equal vocational training. To paraphrase a very famous and renowned pers ...
  • Instruments of Repression
    For a society to be well governed, it's laws must be just and moral. The Ancients knew that "Those who are rightly governed . . . do not fill their porticoes with written statutes but only cherish justice in their souls; for it is not by legislation, but by morals that states are well direct ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Best-Selling Drug Attacks Your Heart, Brain an ...
    By Dr. Mercola Depression is a pervasive health issue today. According to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), one in 10 American adults report some form of depression.i Eleven percent of the U.S. population over the age of 12 is on antidepressant medication. ...
  • Americans Eat the Cheapest Food in the World, ...
    By Dr. Mercola In 2010, Americans spent just over 9 percent of their disposable income on food (5.5 percent at home and 3.9 percent eating out).i This is a dramatically lower percentage spent just decades ago in the early 1960s, when over 17 percent was spent on food, and even more of a “bar ...
  • How Big Companies are Making You Unwitting Acc ...
    By Dr. Mercola Just as organic, chemical-free food is an integral part of a healthy lifestyle, organic clothing is also an important factor for both your health and that of the environment. The importance of buying organic when it comes to your clothing lies in what the clothing does not con ...
  • Slash Your Risk of Cancer - by Breaking This C ...
    By Dr. Mercola UV light from the sun and tanning beds is the main vitamin D source for humans, and researchers have identified an astonishing number of health benefits of vitamin D in the past decade. But since UV exposure has been suspected of causing skin cancer, many conventional health ...
  • The Neurological Poison So Common Your Doctor ...
    By Dr. Mercola The presumed intent of a vaccination is to help you build immunity to potentially harmful organisms that contribute to illness and disease. However, your body's immune system has been designed over the course of countless millennia to ward off infection naturally. Infectiou ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Indian tribe stands firm as Vedanta mine appea ...
    Hundreds of Dongria Kondh protest against the Vedanta mine appeal. © Bikash Khemka/Survival One of the world’s most controversial mines is back in the spotlight after hundreds protested against renewed efforts to mine India’s Niyamgiri Hills. Dongria Kondh and Niyamgiri supporters held the ...
  • Peru passes indigenous rights law without cons ...
    The new law has been pushed since the tragic incidents of the Bagua protests in northern Peru © Marijke Deleu and Thomas Quirynen This week Peru has published the greatly anticipated Prior Consultation Law promised by Ollanta Humala at the beginning of his presidency last year. The law ai ...
  • Peru defies UN breakthrough on uncontacted tribes
    Peru continues to approve oil and gas projects despite previous exploration leading to the death of half the Nahua tribe. © Survival Peru’s government is ignoring new UN guidelines on the protection of uncontacted Indians in the Amazon. Instead of backing the UN’s landmark report, which su ...
  • Revealed: how Ethiopia's plantations are killi ...
    Efforts to re-direct the Omo River for irrigation are drying up a key water source for tribes. © Survival New photographic evidence proves Ethiopia’s controversial plantations scheme is killing the Lower Omo River, a lifeline for 100,000 tribal people. The Omo River downstream from ...
  • Sri Lankan park guard kills tribal man
    A Wanniyala-Aetto family. The tribe want to return to their land in Maduru Oya National Park. © Survival A Sri Lankan park guard has shot dead a young man from the Wanniyala-Aetto tribe for hunting on his people’s ancestral land. Local sources say Thalawarige Sunila was hunting inside the ...

Montreal Gazette

  • Home care for seniors should be a priority
    When Quebec ombudswoman Raymonde Saint-Ger main launched an investigation last year into a spiralling number of complaints about the lack of care for older Quebecers in their homes, she found chronic underfunding and care too often allocated on capricious grounds.
  • Canadians need to know that our food is safe
    With the cuts in government spending on food inspection that were announced in the recent federal budget, Ottawa would do well to issue a detailed description of how it intends to safeguard the food that Canadians consume.
  • Canadians need to know that our food is safe
    With the cuts in government spending on food inspection that were announced in the recent federal budget, Ottawa would do well to issue a detailed description of how it intends to safeguard the food that Canadians consume.
  • Looking into corruption, behind closed doors
    The Charbonneau Commission into collusion and corruption in the construction industry seems to be subverting what should be its primary goal: finding out on behalf of the people of Quebec what is going on in that industry and telling them about it.
  • Some nuance on the sensitive issue of language
    The findings of a Léger Marketing poll that were published on The Gazette's Opinion page Tuesday showed that anglophone views on the sensitive language issue are considerably more nuanced, and influenced by contextual considerations, than they were portrayed as being in an earlier CROP poll ...

Food World Order

  • Dover Air Force Base ordered to restart water ...
    from naturalnews.com: Dover Air Force base in Maryland stopped adding fluoride to their water system in 2007. In 2010 they reported this in their water quality report. After this knowledge became public the Air Force issued new orders three months later that forced the base to restart fluoridati ...
  • #Audio: Episode016 - EnviroPigs and Rooftop Farms
    On Thursday nights, Media Monarchy joins Corbett Report Radio live on Republic Broadcasting to go over all the latest stories from the world of food, environment and health. This week's menu features EnviroPigs, Rooftop Farms and more... Episode016: MP3/Feed Previous Audio: Episo ...
  • #BingeAndPurge: Beer, Bugs, Drugs and more
    #TheSimpsons Mural in #Chernobyl — Street artist takes on nuclear industry one year after Fukushima* Video: Soft-Serve Beer Foam Now Available In Tokyo* Update: Study says beer makes men smarter* Dangerous Radioactive Wave To Hit Entire US Food Supply By Next Year* Marine Die-Offs, P ...
  • Proposed 'Natural Health Products Bill' in New ...
    from naturalnews.com: The health freedom of New Zealanders is under very serious threat, as the federal government there pushes to pass a bill known as the Natural Health Products Bill (NHPB), or Bill 324-1, that will bring the nation into compliance with the overbearing and authoritarian food a ...
  • Radioactive particles from Japan detected in C ...
    from latimes.com: Radioactive particles released in the nuclear reactor meltdown in Fukushima, Japan, following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami were detected in giant kelp along the California coast, according to a recently published study. Radioactive iodine was found in samples collected ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • 27 Statistics About The European Economic Cris ...
    The economic crisis in Europe continues to get worse and eventually it is going to unravel into a complete economic nightmare.  All over Europe, national governments have piled up debts that are completely unsustainable.  But whenever they start significantly cutting government s ...
  • 24 Outrageous Facts About Taxes In The United ...
    The U.S. tax code is a complete and utter abomination and it needs to be thrown out entirely.  Nobody in their right mind would ever read the whole thing - it is over 3 million words long.  Each year, Americans spend billions of hours and hundreds of billions of dollars trying to ...
  • The Hard Working American vs. The Government P ...
    Which lifestyle choice produces better results - being a hard working American or being a government parasite?  Actually, when you look at the cold, hard numbers they may just surprise you.  In America today, we deeply penalize hard work and we greatly reward government dependenc ...
  • The Shocking Truth About Unemployment In Ameri ...
    The mainstream media is not telling you the truth about unemployment in the United States.  The percentage of working age Americans that are employed is not increasing.  In March 2010, 58.5 percent of all working age Americans had a job.  In March 2012, 58.5 percent of all workin ...
  • 19 Signs Of Very Serious Economic Trouble On T ...
    Most Americans have no idea how much economic trouble is heading our way.  Most of them just assume that everything will eventually "return to normal" just like it always has before and that those running our economy "know what they are doing" and that we should trust them to do ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • So are we, YOU, actually... a slave?
    The author of this blog has been having a nice, long-running ding-dong with those lovely (pah!) people known as Lloyds TSB Bank plc. As you know, The Treasury generously coughed up many billions of pounds of taxpayer money to allow this bank to continue functioning in circumstances where any ...
  • Quote of the Day: 12th April 2012
    "Ed Davey seems to have let the cat out of the bag. Far from being a eurosceptic government bringing back powers from Brussels, the Government seems to be run by the senior civil service, for the senior civil service and of the senior civil service, and the senior civil service are europhile to ...
  • And now the campaign to impeach Obama energise ...
    Last month, North Carolina Republican Walter Jones commenced impeachment proceedings against President Obama. This month, it's the turn of the people to get energised behind the campaign which looks already as though it has escaped from the political Pandora's Box. We share this, not as a ...
  • Quote of the Day: 8th April 2012
    "I know that almost all elections in this country are rigged to suit the big parties. The old loyalties are at last dying, the Coalition actually speaks for nobody, there is no proper opposition in Parliament and – instinctively, like a flower seeking light – the electorate is recognising tha ...
  • EU-sacrificed Greek citizens descending toward ...
    The completely foreseeable further disintegration of Athenian society took another step forward onto the global stage today. According to a multitude of alternative media reports, Greek citizens who had gathered after the funeral of tragic 77-year-old Dimitris Christoulas, exacted a twisted r ...

Facing South

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • XBMC 11.0 will be Available in Default Ubuntu ...
    With Boxee abandoning its support for dedicated desktop client, XBMC (upon which Boxee is actually based on) has become the unquestioned king among media center apps for Ubuntu. There is more good news for all XBMC fans. XBMC has just been accepted to official Debian repositories. This means, ...
  • Two New Indian Made Ultra Low Cost Android 4.0 ...
    Google's flagship Android OS is gobbling up market share in every nook and corner of the world, and the story is no different in India as well. Now it's the turn of Android 4.0 based Tablets to take on the world. But, there are no blockbuster Andriod Tabs yet, apart from may be Kindle Fire. Tw ...
  • Ubuntu 12.04 Default Wallpapers has Arrived, C ...
    Wallpapers for upcoming Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin has just been arrived. The collection include a new official default wallpaper plus 14 other exceptionally good community contributed wallpapers as well. To put it lightly, community contributed wallpapers put the default one to shame. By f ...
  • Top 10 Free Apps Designed for Android 4.0+ ICS
    Android 4.0 code named Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) was released more than three months ago. Google's own Galaxy Nexus is perhaps the only device that ships with it at the moment. And because of that, there are only a handful of Android apps available whose design has been updated for Android 4. ...
  • Canonical Integrates Landscape with Ubuntu 12. ...
    Canonical launched Landscape system management tool without much fanfare sometime ago. Now, in a most recent update, they have integrated Landscape with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, again without much hoopla. In line with a recent move by Canonical integrating handy Privacy Management tool into Ubuntu 12 ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • Read a fictional account of the Kampusch case ...
    The Austrian parliamentary committee yesterday failed to meet a second deadline to publish a report on the Natascha Kampusch case, which was widely expected to recommend a new investigation. http://www.nachrichten.at/nachrichten/chronik/art58,854709 In protest at the continuing cover up of this ...
  • Update tomorrow on the Kampusch case
    The Austrian parliamentary committee investigating the Natascha Kampusch abduction case has twice announced the imminent publication of a report expected to recommend  a new investigation — and with the help of the FBI – but so far there is no sign of the report, sparking fears of a ...
  • Poem in praise of Günter Grass
         Austrian singer Michael Montecrossa has written a pretty good song in praise of Günter Grass and his anti war poem “What needs to be said”. You can listen to it on his website here:  http://michelmontecrossa.com/ I also wrote a short poem about the  media furore which ...
  • Irish mother battles swine flu vaccine cover up
    ‘Did the swine flu jab leave my son (15) with chronic sleep disorder?’ By Conor Feehan Herald, Ireland Tuesday April 10 2012 THE mother of a Dublin teen who collapses when he laughs or cries, fears he could be suffering from a serious sleeping disorder as a result of the swine flu va ...
  • Irish politician flees into church to escape t ...
    Minister flees to church as house tax demo rages By Clodagh Sheehy Herald, Ireland Thursday April 12 2012 FURIOUS anti-household charge protesters forced Environment Minister Phil Hogan to seek refuge in a cathedral. The angry group had turned up for the minister’s planned launch of Carlow ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Scum of the Earth, Blood Hungry for the Kill
  • Stuxnet Loaded by Iran Double Agents
    By Richard Sale The Stuxnet virus that damaged Iran’s nuclear program was implanted by an Israeli proxy — an Iranian, who used a corrupt “memory stick.32,” former and serving U.S. intelligence officials said. In the continuing battle to hold off the Iranian nuclear program, Iranian proxies have ...
  • Can Thorium Generate Safe and Cheap Nuclear Power?
    Derek Mead: November 14, 2011 It sounds like something from the distant future or a 1950s pipe dream: clean, safe nuclear power with little waste and zero proliferation threat. In fact, while uranium-fueled light water reactors were sprouting up around the world, molten salt reactors fueled by t ...
  • Origin of AIDS: The Polio Vaccine (CBC ‘ ...
  • Women’s birthing rights advocates stage ...
    by: Jonathan Benson (NaturalNews) Though she has reportedly assisted in the successful delivery of more than 1,700 babies, 400 of which were born in their families’ homes, 49-year-old Ireena Keeslar, a former obstetrics nurse-turned-midwife, was recently arrested on charges of practicing m ...

Veterans Today

electric politics

  • Ocean Acidification
    Human beings start domesticating crops only 12,000 or so years ago. Written history begins about 5,000 years ago. The modern era dates from — when? — maybe 100-200 years ago. Perhaps it's no surprise, then, that we have some difficulty internalizing the idea that our burning carbon h ...
  • Labor History, Revised
    It isn't every day that someone has a second look at enshrined history and finds it upside down. Then, to tell people what's wrong is even more remarkable. It takes a combination of (possibly naïve) philosophical idealism, hearty persistence and guts. Dr. Timothy Messer-Kruse reexamined the ...
  • The Future Is Not What It Used To Be
    Listening to Ed Asner I'm reminded of Michael Polanyi's observation (to paraphrase) that we believe more than we can prove and know more than we can say. Polanyi also talked about "growing points" in science, which I hope has an analogue in a free society where personal connections become more i ...
  • The NUMEC Affair
    No charges were ever filed. Nothing was ever proved. But the FBI tried, over the course of several criminal investigations, to ascertain whether, in fact, certain suspect individuals had diverted hundreds of pounds of highly enriched uranium from a plant in Pennsylvania to Israel, for use in mak ...
  • Washington's Warlords
    When it comes to its spending priorities America seems congenitally unable to focus on reality. Obfuscation being more highly prized than clarity. Nevertheless, we should recognize that as a percentage of GDP this country spends four to five times the money for military purposes as do other indu ...

PR News

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Features on NATO summit in Chicago
    Chicago Brainwashes Grade Schoolers For New Generation Of NATO Warfare Turkey-Syria: New NATO Intervention Ahead Of Chicago Summit? Aunt Maddie Of Hamelin Leads Chicago Students Down NATO’s Garden Path Hillary Clinton Promotes 22nd Century NATO Ahead Of Chicago Summit NATO: The Military Enforcem ...
  • Stop NATO news: April 14, 2012
    ==== Jungle Warfare Training Centre: NATO Troops Train In Australia NATO Official: South Caucasus Important For NATO Azeri FM: NATO Must “Insure Regional Stability” In Caucasus NATO: Azerbaijan Can Play Greater Role In Global Operations Scotland Hosts Largest NATO Naval-Air-Ground Mi ...
  • Chicago Brainwashes Grade Schoolers For New Ge ...
    Stop NATO April 13, 2012 Chicago Brainwashes Grade Schoolers For New Generation Of NATO Warfare Rick Rozoff The day after NATO Host Committee co-chairperson Madeleine Albright belabored South Side high school students on her favorite topic – the ineffable virtues of the North Atlantic Trea ...
  • NATO Blamed For Unrest In Mali, Destabilizatio ...
    New Era April 13, 2012 NATO blamed for Mali unrest By Toivo Ndjebela WINDHOEK: Namibia has blamed the architects of last year’s overthrow of the Libyan government for the civil strife and the recent coup against a democratically elected government in Mali. Tuareg rebels in Mali have proclaimed i ...
  • Russian Warships To Continuously Patrol Off Sy ...
    Russian Information Agency Novosti April 13, 2012 Russian Warships to Patrol Syrian Coast MOSCOW: Russian warships will be continuously deployed for patrol duty off the Syrian coast in the Mediterranean, a high-ranking source in the Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday. “A decision has been m ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • Top Scientist: Fluoride Already Shown to Cause ...
    Mike Barrett Fluoride is a toxic substance, and has been tied to numerous health complications.
  • Tornadoes and Supercell Thunderstorms Erupt Ac ...
    theintelhub.com April 14, 2012 A series of storms has struck parts of the United States causing widespread panic. CNN Reports: Tornadoes and supercell thunderstorms swept Saturday through the southern and central Plains, where more than 5 million residents hunkered down for predicted strong to v ...
  • Alert: Join Our Exclusive Mailing List In Case ...
    Alex Thomas | We have heard many behind the scenes reports of ongoing censorship of numerous websites and are even dealing with our own problems. The one major way that we can counter a full out attack on our website is a fully functioning mailing list.
  • Navy Spending $21 Billion on Three New Destroy ...
    Madison Ruppert | The military continues to ignore this reality and funnel huge sums of money into the coffers of the war profiteers.
  • CFR Not Happy with Obama’s Buffet Tax
    Shepard Ambellas | CFR based puppets Sebastian Mallaby, Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies and Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics are not happy with Obama's new proposal, as the president calls for anyone who earns over $1 million per ...

FRS

  • Nepal: India (regional hegemonist) and United ...
    Kathmandu Post, KATHMANDU, APR 12 – India and the United States on Thursday lauded the recent developments in the peace process, expressing hope that the constitution writing process would now be taken to its logical end within the agreed time-frame. In a statement, the Indian Embassy cong ...
  • Nepal: Badiya faction-led alliance announces ...
    Thursday, 12 April 2012 Revolutionaries in Nepal protest against liquidation and surrender of PLA Revolutionaries in Nepal protesting against UCPM-M Party Headquarters’ decision to liquidate and surrender of the People’s Liberation Army Baidhya faction spills PLA handover anger on st ...
  • Automakers are flooding to the Deep South for ...
    State of the anti-union by Tamsin McMahon in Maclean’s, Thursday, April 5, 2012 When German executives from Volkswagen descended on Chattanooga, Tenn., last May for the grand opening of their $1-billion plant, they pointed to the warm Southern hospitality and the cultural amenities of life ...
  • India: Demand release of jailed peoples artist ...
    http://www.change.org/petitions/the-chief-minister-jharkhand-india-release-jiten-marandi-immediately-and-unconditionally-2 COMMITTEE FOR THE RELEASE OF POLITICAL PRISONERS  185/3, FOURTH FLOOR, ZAKIR NAGAR, NEW DELHI-110025 To Mr. Arjun Munda, Chief Minister, Jharkhand No to put Jiten Marandi un ...
  • India: Demand release of jailed peoples artist ...
    http://www.change.org/petitions/the-chief-minister-jharkhand-india-release-jiten-marandi-immediately-and-unconditionally-2 COMMITTEE FOR THE RELEASE OF POLITICAL PRISONERS  185/3, FOURTH FLOOR, ZAKIR NAGAR, NEW DELHI-110025 To Mr. Arjun Munda, Chief Minister, Jharkhand No to put Jiten Marandi un ...

Ken O'Keefe

  • Thought Police within the so-called ‘Pal ...
    I depart by saying that any group of people, whether it is the disciples of Hitler, the Christian Zionists of America or the Jewish supporters of Israel, or the brainwashed false Muslims, I say loud and clear, any group that believes they are “chosen” by God and thus superior to anyone else, is ...
  • Thought Police within the so-called ‘Pal ...
    I depart by saying that any group of people, whether it is the disciples of Hitler, the Christian Zionists of America or the Jewish supporters of Israel, or the brainwashed false Muslims, I say loud and clear, any group that believes they are “chosen” by God and thus superior to anyone else, is ...
  • No Fly Zone Over Palestine
    As Israel once again flexes its psychopathic tendencies, I feel the need to expose the hypocrisy of the west once more in the form of a picture.
  • No Fly Zone Over Palestine
    As Israel once again flexes its psychopathic tendencies, I feel the need to expose the hypocrisy of the west once more in the form of a picture.
  • For Love
    I just want to say, need to say, for the record, that I want what is best for all people, and I mean all people. I want no retribution, I feel no hate, I want truth and justice. When I see my children, who deserve a good father, just like all children, I only hope that they, like all other chi ...

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

  • Romneycare Has Its Sixth Birthday
    Six years ago today, Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney signed a bill forcing all citizens to buy health insurance. President Obama borrowed many of the tenets of Romneycare for his Obamacare four years later.Contributor: William H. Sloan Published: Apr 12, 2012
  • Why a Conviction of Second Degree Murder for G ...
    Zimmerman has been charged with second degree murder in the death of Trayvon Martin, but it seems unlikely that he will be found guilty unless new evidence comes to light.Contributor: Kristin Watt Published: Apr 12, 2012
  • Bush: "I Wish They Weren't Called the Bush Tax ...
    In a speech today, former President George W. Bush laments the fact that his name is attached to the famous tax cuts now being debated in this years campaign.Contributor: Roy Branson Published: Apr 10, 2012
  • George Zimmerman’s Website in Poor Taste
    George Zimmerman has created a website in lieu of his inability to be in public because of accusations against him in the Trayvon Martin shooting.Contributor: William Browning Published: Apr 10, 2012
  • Titanic Memorial Cruise Sets Sail; Controversy ...
    A look at the memorial cruise to commemorate Titanic's 100th anniversary.Contributor: Brian Davis Published: Apr 10, 2012

Popsci - Science

  • The Most Amazing Science Images of the Week, A ...
    This week in images: beautiful pictures from space--and a picture of a rocket that didn't quite make it. Snail therapy and pink leopards. Robots made from vacuum cleaners and a picture of London, illegally taken from the top of the unfinished Shards of Glass skyscraper. Click through, look, enjo ...
  • The Most Amazing Science Images of the Week, A ...
  • Human Eggs Grown in the Lab Could Produce Unli ...
    The first human eggs grown from human stem cells could be fertilized with human sperm cells later this year, potentially revolutionizing fertility treatment for women. This could be one more step on the path toward reproduction sans human interaction — in this case, a potential parent wouldn’t e ...
  • The Fastest-Ever Random Number Generator Conju ...
    It was once thought that vacuums--like the vacuum of space--contained nothing. No particles, no sound, just empty darkness. But it has since come to light, thanks to discoveries in quantum physics, that virtual sub-atomic particles constantly and spontaneously appear and disappear, even in the v ...
  • How It Would Work: Creating a Quantum Computer
    A working, large-scale quantum computer is still a decade away, but researchers are currently turning a critical corner from theory to building the first small quantum systems Silicon semiconductors have taken us a dazzling distance along the computing road. But even if they continue unabated t ...

Veterans Today

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • Drought order in parts of Yorkshire. Will it a ...
    The Environment Agency has today confirmed that some parts of Yorkshire are now officially in drought.   The drought order applies to some catchments of the Rivers Don, Rother, Hull and Derwent and has been issued because the agency is concerned about the effect of drought on the environme ...
  • Recovery in Arctic sea ice continues
    Arctic sea ice has staged a strong recovery in the last few weeks, reaching levels not far from normal for this time of the year. The rise is all the more impressive, since February saw the 5th lowest ice extent since satellite records began in 1979, and until recently ice extent has been ...
  • Drought order update
    The continued dry weather in parts of our region has led Anglian Water to implement a hosepipe ban for all its customers in Lincolnshire from April 5th. Customers in North Nottinghamshire who are served by Severn Trent for sewerage, but Anglian Water for their water supplies, will also have a h ...
  • Global temperature update
    Average global temperatures remained broadly the same throughout the month of February according to the UAH satellite measure. The anomaly of -0.116C, relative to the 30 year running average, equates to an anomaly of approximately +0.137C above the more standard 1961-1990 average. The decline ...
  • Winter 2011/2012: The final verdict
    Winter this year has confounded most long range forecasts issued last autumn, turning out to be mild, averaged over December, January and February (Climatological winter). Talk of huge snowfalls, and the likelihood of another severe winter which were lapped up by an ever eager media, were wide ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • I Knew It: 61% of Treasuries Purchased by the Fed
    What do you get when you cross the soppy Bushite Lee Greenwood with Obama's pastor? For one thing, you get a more accurate (financial) portrayal of the current state of that benighted land: I'm cowed to be an American Where at last I know I'm unfree And I won't forget Uncle Ben Who sold me into ...
  • Developmental Authoritarianism: Burma's Turn?
    There's an interesting brace of articles [1, 2] from the Financial Times concerning Myanmar AKA Burma opening up to the rest of the world once again. Following Vietnam and China before that, Burma appears to be loosening up to the extent that it can profit from participation in the world economy ...
  • EuroNasty II: Carbon Taxes on Maritime Transport?
    [NOTE: Out of curiosity, I Googled "euronasty" and was shocked, just shocked at the search results! As I've said before, the IPE Zone is a family-oriented site.] There has already been much controversy over the European Union beginning to levy carbon taxes on air transport. In particular, their ...
  • Palace Coup? World Bank Vets Pick Okonjo-Iweala
    News is becoming sparser as most of the Christian world slows for the Easter holidays. However, in the run-up to the selection of the next World Bank president which should happen in a fortnight or so, we've had ringing endorsements of Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. (See a previo ...
  • A Parisian in America: Comic Stylings of IMF's ...
    This will be short and unsweet as it demonstrates that you do not have to go very far to observe the mind-boggling ludicrousness of the world economy. My homepage ever since I hopped into cyberspace in 1994, Yahoo! News, is carrying an Agence-France Presse clipping about how IMF Managing Directo ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • 27 Statistics About The European Economic Cris ...
    The economic crisis in Europe continues to get worse and eventually it is going to unravel into a complete economic nightmare.  All over Europe, national governments have piled up debts that are completely unsustainable.  But whenever they start significantly cutting government s ...
  • 24 Outrageous Facts About Taxes In The United ...
    The U.S. tax code is a complete and utter abomination and it needs to be thrown out entirely.  Nobody in their right mind would ever read the whole thing - it is over 3 million words long.  Each year, Americans spend billions of hours and hundreds of billions of dollars trying to ...
  • The Hard Working American vs. The Government P ...
    Which lifestyle choice produces better results - being a hard working American or being a government parasite?  Actually, when you look at the cold, hard numbers they may just surprise you.  In America today, we deeply penalize hard work and we greatly reward government dependenc ...
  • The Shocking Truth About Unemployment In Ameri ...
    The mainstream media is not telling you the truth about unemployment in the United States.  The percentage of working age Americans that are employed is not increasing.  In March 2010, 58.5 percent of all working age Americans had a job.  In March 2012, 58.5 percent of all workin ...
  • 19 Signs Of Very Serious Economic Trouble On T ...
    Most Americans have no idea how much economic trouble is heading our way.  Most of them just assume that everything will eventually "return to normal" just like it always has before and that those running our economy "know what they are doing" and that we should trust them to do ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • North Korea plans to launch another rocket whi ...
    The United States will not go forward with planned food aid to North Korea, the White House said on Friday, after the impoverished nation’s unsuccessful launch of a long-range missile which Washington had warned would have consequences. ‘Their efforts to launch a missile clearly demo ...
  • UK Courts persecute Christians and drive them ...
    Christians have been hounded out of jobs and their values driven underground thanks to heavy-handed courts, a former Archbishop of Canterbury has claimed. Lord Carey said Christians are being treated like bigots and face the same sort of persecution homosexuals were once subjected to. He also in ...
  • Facebook is Deception
    Three years of research involving over one million users and ten thousand interviews has resulted in a book, and has resulted in some startling conclusions about the most widely used social network, Facebook. The book, “Facebook is deception”, reveals tales of bullying, fraud and sca ...
  • Russia’s anti-gay drive takes global turn
    Russia has disassociated itself from the language used in a statement on fundamental human rights and freedoms by the G8 Foreign Ministers Meeting Chair, as the document listed both gays and bisexuals as separate groups. Foreign Ministry spokesman Sergey Ryabkov told reporters that Russia consid ...
  • Samsung overtakes Nokia, ending their 14-year ...
    Samsung ended Finnish phone maker Nokia’s 14-year leadership of the global mobile phone market in the first quarter of the year, outselling the struggling handset maker for the first time ever. It’s another blow for a beleaguered company whose products have become eclipsed by glamoro ...

Voiceless Victim

  • Just Like in Hunger Games the Church is killin ...
    The catholic church, when faced with the choice of protecting itself or preventing children from being raped, has consistently chosen to sacrifice the children. Usually without a second thought. This is not a claim without evidence. There is ample proof. In recent years there have been official, ...
  • Rare Opportunity for the Real Truth to be Told
    It was less than edifying this easter when the feeble monarch of the Church of Child Rape pronounced from his viciously defended high moral ground atop St Peter’s Square, tottering under the weight of pathetically opulent gold encrusted vestments and symbols of status, that ‘Life is ...
  • Pope, Cardinals, and Bishops just as guilty as ...
    In my personal experience as a victim of catholic church enabled child sexual abuse, as a child protection activist, and as a member of a victim support self help group, I have always known that I was not abused solely by the cunning predator who went to such lengths to regularly torture me and ...
  • Taste of justice at last for state victims, bu ...
    The most horrifying evidence in recent weeks from a West Australian inquiry into the reign of terror of convicted serial child rapist Dennis McKenna at the head of a state run hostel at Katanning is not about the abuse itself, but about the complete and utter betrayal of dozens, possibly hundred ...
  • Catholic Church has no business policing itself
    Below are some excerpts from this week’s Report of the Inquiry into Protecting Victoria’s Vulnerable Children (Australia) demolishing some of the Catholic Church’s favourite excuses for its appalling record on child endangerment. Thankfully the inquiry refused to be fooled by t ...

WL Central

  • Polish, and other complicity in the CIA rendit ...
    TweetFrom late 2002 on, the CIA showed a sudden interest in a remote part of the Masovian countryside. Apart from its beautiful lakes and low population density, this area is only known for hosting a large military installation, containing a training center of the Secret Service. It consists of ...
  • 2012-04-14 #WikiLeaks News Update: Assange TV ...
    Tweet WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 497 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 494 days. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 691 days. A secret Grand Jury has been active in the U.S. without transparency for 577 days. ...
  • 2012-04-11 #WikiLeaks News Update: Cablegate c ...
    Tweet WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 494 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 491 days. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 688 days. WikiLeaks News (Releases): Cablegate coverage: Invisible Children, the makers of ...
  • 2012-04-05 #WikiLeaks News Update: Collateral ...
    Tweet WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 489 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 486 days. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 683 days. WikiLeaks News: Today marks the two-year anniversary of WikiLeaks' release of "Col ...
  • 2012-04-03 The #WikiLeaks financial blockade a ...
    TweetAuthored by @Nicsha If you spend five minutes watching commercial television or flicking through a mainstream magazine, you would think spending money is not only our birthright, but a move that is encouraged and welcomed. We can buy almost anything from anywhere. We have the freedom to inv ...

U N News

  • UN rights chief disturbed by Suriname amendmen ...
    The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, today said she was "disturbed" by the recent decision by Suriname to pass an amendment to an existing law that grants immunity for human rights violation committed during the 12-year period in which the country was, for the most ...
  • UN expert regrets US court decision preventing ...
    An independent United Nations counter-terrorism expert today expressed profound regret at a decision by a United States court to refuse freedom of information requests by a British organization on extraordinary renditions.
  • UN independent experts call on Honduras to ado ...
    Two United Nations independent experts today called on the Government of Honduras to adopt concrete measures to stop the killing of lawyers in the country, stressing that they should be able to carry out their functions without risking their lives.
  • UN rights chief urges Barbados to address dome ...
    The United Nations human rights chief today urged Barbados to adopt more effective legislation measures to combat discrimination and domestic and sexual violence in the country, adding that an attitudinal change is needed in society as a whole to tackle these issues.
  • UN relief chief welcomes Brazil's contribution ...
    The United Nations humanitarian affairs chief yesterday pledged support for Brazil's humanitarian work around the world, highlighting the country's contributions in the areas of disaster-risk prevention and food security.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

  • An interview with Dave Foreman
    Roger Wendell and Dave Foreman enjoyed a lively conversation on “Connections”, which aired Friday morning March 30,2012 on KGNU Community Radio (Denver/Boulder). Listen: audioarchives-Connections-2012-Connections_2012-03-30 or stream from KGNU.
  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – A Root o ...
    Life is good. Many-fold, tangled life is better. Many-fold, tangled life not hobbled by Man’s will is best. What do I mean? By “life is good,” I am not writing a television commercial about sitting with your buddies in front of a widescreen TV for a Superbowl party with Budweiser while wives and ...
  • Don’t Flush Tiger Forests
    The toilet paper on your grocery store shelves may have a direct impact on the 400 Sumatran tigers left in the wild. Learn more about how you can help through World Wildlife Fund and make a pledge to never buy paper products linked to rain forest and tiger habitat destruction.    
  • NASA – NASA Finds 2011 Ninth-Warmest Year on R ...
    NASA – NASA Finds 2011 Ninth-Warmest Year on Record.
  • Open Pipes Are Killing Birds and Other Wildlife
    This issue made the news last fall, but we thought it would be good to keep the topic active and to remind our readers to look around for real and potential hazards to our wild friends. Bird Death Pipes “Hollow metal and plastic (PVC) pipes and posts are found throughout the world and serv ...

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • What is the Difference?... A Democracy or a Re ...
      It is important to keep in mind the difference between a Democracy and a Republic, as dissimilar forms of government. Understanding the difference is essential to comprehension of the fundamentals involved. ~ See related article read more
  • You Are Being Taxed To Death!... 24 Plus Facts ...
      The U.S. tax code is a complete and utter abomination and it needs to be thrown out entirely.  Nobody in their right mind would ever read the whole thing - it is over 3 million words long.  Each year, Americans spend billions of hours and hundreds of billions of dollars try ...
  • AFRICOM... Is the Military Campaign About Jose ...
      Washington’s “hunt” for Joseph Kony, the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebel group, is a sideshow masking America’s real intention to fulfill a long-held dream to gain a foothold in the DRC’s minerals sector. ~ related artice read more
  • Major Obama Crony-Contributor Company to Count ...
      We seem to have reached the end of the United States of America, folks.  At least that is what the Obama syndicate wants us to believe.  The time to panic has come and gone and now the great and planned wasteland of what was once our country has already begun its implementa ...
  • Jailing Americans for Profit... The Rise of th ...
      “Mass incarceration on a scale almost unexampled in human history is a fundamental fact of our country today – perhaps the fundamental fact, as slavery was the fundamental fact of 1850... by Constitutional Attorney John W Whitehead read more

Tarpley

  • State Department Hits New Low of Cynical Hypoc ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV April 10, 2012 [download video] [download audio] Kofi Annan’s assessment of Syria is a ploy which puts blame solely on the government, but discounts foreign destabilization of the country, says a prominent political analyst. Press TV has conducted an interview ...
  • Zelikow Torture Memo Released in Attempt by St ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV April 8, 2012 [download video] [download audio] George W. Bush and Tony Blair have committed international conspiracy to launch an aggressive war, subject to a future Nuremberg prosecution, says an analyst. In a recently surfaced memo from the George W. Bush’s ...
  • To Cut the Gas Price by 40%, Outlaw Commodity ...
    Webster G. Tarpley Ph.D. TARPLEY.net – World Crisis Radio April 8, 2012 World Crisis Radio program for April 7, 2012 [download audio] Guest: Eric Draitser House testimony this week by Michael Greenberger shows that commodity index swaps and synthetic exchange traded funds need to be added ...
  • New Delhi BRICS Summit Challenges Dollar Domin ...
    Webster G. Tarpley Ph.D. TARPLEY.net – World Crisis Radio April 6, 2012 World Crisis Radio program for March 31, 2012 [download audio] Guest: Professor Sreeram Chaulia, Jindal School of International Affairs, India The BRICS challenge the power of the IMF in one of the most serious bids fo ...
  • To Cut Gas Price in Half Now, Ban Commodity In ...
    Webster G. Tarpley on the Jeff Rense Program rense.com April 4, 2012 [download audio]

Modern Survivalism

  • Systemic Risk: The Internet
    Systemic risk is risk that affects an entire system. A systemic risk is one that could potentially bring it all down. It would be a component or a dependency of a system that itself requires the ‘thing’ to be there, to be functioning as expected, to always be up and running or workin ...
  • Analogy Of The 20 Titanic Lifeboats
    Just 20 lifeboats. That’s all they had aboard the Titanic when it sank April 15, 1912, 100 years ago. The Titanic was originally fitted with enough lifeboats for more than everyone on board, but the company ordered the removal of two-thirds of them claiming the full 64 lifeboats made the s ...
  • Helping A Choking Victim With The Heimlich Man ...
    A person may be choking when food or another object gets stuck in the airway in the throat. The object stops air from getting to the lungs. Some choking is mild and some is severe. If it’s severe, act fast. Get the object out so the person can breathe. The choking is mild if… The [...]
  • There Is A Carcinogen In Your Flour
    A disturbing report from Mike Adams over at Natural News.com titled, “Baked goods sold in USA contain potassium bromate, a carcinogen banned in Europe but allowed in the US due to chemical loophole“, says it all. It is something that I had never heard anything about before today, and ...
  • Strawberry Granola Recipe
    Guest post: by Christine Coburn Oh No !!! I can’t go buy cold cereal. If The SHTF then the stores will be closed and your nightly bowl of Raisin Bran will come to an end unless you can make a substitute out of your pantry. Here is one alternative for a tasty cold cereal that [...]

Fast Company

  • Top 10 Most Popular Stories Of The Week
    Here are the stories you read, shared, tweeted, and pinned this week. This week’s stories feature some advice on how to focus, be happy, and cherish every day of the week (that’s right, even Monday). There was also a controversial piece on the effects of the buy-one give-one model, most promine ...
  • This Week In Bots: Real-Life Terminators, Tita ...
    This week the U.S. military took one step toward making the freakish humanoid robots of Arnold Schwarzenneger's Terminator films a reality. For real. Thank heavens there's friendlier (and tastier!) bot news, too.Bot Vid: DARPA's New Pet Is PetmanDARPA just announced its most recent Robotics Chal ...
  • Why Being A Meaner Boss Will Help Your Company ...
    Everybody likes to be liked. And unless you’re the type of boss who revels in tyranny, it’s only natural to seek the favor of your underlings. But there’s a big difference between engaging with employees and fawning over them. In an era when the virtues of a collegial and collaborative envi ...
  • Startup Lessons From The Food Truck Revolution
    The food truck phenomenon has taken the country by storm. From New York to Los Angeles, the number, the variety, and the quality of food trucks are on the rise. In 2011, the mobile food industry in the United States was estimated to be at $630 million. I think this sum dramatically underest ...
  • How Jay Want Prescribes A Change In The Busine ...
    This year, the U.S. government started a program for health-care innovators. One innovator, Jay Want sees a more efficient and cost-effective future for health-care payments. Photo by Matt Nager Chairman of the Board @ Center for Improving Value in Health Care, Denver Condition: Our he ...

Jadaliyya

  • ماذا بعد ترشح عمر سليمان؟ الأمتار الأخيرة قبل ...
    بترشح عمر سليمان الرسمي لانتخابات الرئاسة يقترب المسار الانتقالي في مصر من محطته الأخيرة مما يوجب علينا أن نراجع بعض المقولات الرئيسية أولا، من السذاجة الشديدة تصور أن الدولة بمؤسساتها العسكرية والأمنية والبيروقراطية ستقبل طواعية بالإشراف على عملية إنتخابية - بشكل مباشر عبر  الداخلية والقضا ...
  • يحلم السوريون بتظاهرات وحيوانات متوحشة وأشلاء ...
    كنت مع أحد الأصدقاء على سطح عمارة عتيقة. نجلس على كرسيين من القش. تفصل بيننا طاولة خشب يتدلى فوقها غطاء أبيض مطرز. أنظر إلى القمر، مكتملاً وشهياً. لا يزال لونه النحاسي طرياً. العمارة التي نجلس على سطحها عالية وتطلّ على دمشق. فجأة، أرى القمر يسقط دفعة واحدة إلى الأرض ويخفت لونه. في اللحظة ذاتها، ...
  • The Disintegrating Fabric of Tunisian Politics ...
    It’s difficult to say how it started. For clarity’s sake, let’s begin on 28 November 2011. Enraged at the university’s enforcement of the niqab ban, a group of Salafists took the Dean of the College of Letters at Manouba University hostage. (Students at Manouba, and at universities aro ...
  • Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (April 13)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Arabian Peninsula and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Arabian Peninsula Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to ...
  • ماذا يعني الحكم لصالح حازم صلاح أبو اسماعيل، و ...
    أتت التطورات الأخيرة على مدار الأسبوعين الماضيين من تصعيد الإخوان ضد المجلس العسكري، إلى تقدمهم بمرشحين لانتخابات الرئاسة، إلى ما أعقب ذلك من ترشيح عمر سليمان، إلى قرار الإخوان بالعودة إلى الميدان، إلى الحكم الصادر لصالح حازم صلاح أبو اسماعيل، وإن توقعها البعض، لتعكس تقريبا كل التصورات التي كانت ...

mediagazer

  • Reviewing the Next Issue App, a Buffet of Maga ...
    David Pogue / New York Times: Reviewing the Next Issue App, a Buffet of Magazines  —  Few words fire up the happiness transmitters in your brain more than “free.”  But “flat-fee unlimited” comes close.  —  Unlimited movies (Netflix).& ...
  • The newsonomics of small things (Ken Doctor/Ni ...
    Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab: The newsonomics of small things  —  If the news business were sexy enough (it's not) to fuel Hollywood or Bollywood filmmaking, we might envision this wake-me-from-the-dead screenplay: A publisher (I'm thinking Tom Hanks, now almost old enough ...
  • The Life and Death of Andrew Breitbart (David ...
    David Carr / New York Times: The Life and Death of Andrew Breitbart  —  ON the last night of February, Arthur Sando was having a drink at the Brentwood Restaurant and Lounge in Los Angeles when a bearded silver-haired man took a seat next to him, ordered a glass of pinot noir an ...
  • New Republic Cancels Lottery to Attend Washing ...
    Noam Cohen / Media Decoder: New Republic Cancels Lottery to Attend Washington Dinner  —  The New Republic has quickly canceled its plan to send one lucky subscriber to the White House Correspondents' Association dinner this month after being told that it would be violating the a ...
  • BBC in new sexism row after gender pay gap rev ...
    Hannah Furness / Telegraph: BBC in new sexism row after gender pay gap revealed  —  Male staff at the BBC are paid an average 10 per cent more than women.  —  Nearly twice as many men hold senior roles at the broadcaster as female employees and they earn an avera ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • PRC: Nursing exam takers dwindling
    IT APPEARS that not only nursing schools are set to decrease as the number of nursing graduates themselves have already been on a down swing recently. The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) said there was a sharp drop in the number of nursing graduates based on the most recent examinat ...
  • Safety fears over 'unclean' and 'unregula ...
    London, Apr 14 (ANI): Health experts are demanding stringent controls on electronic cigarettes over concerns that customers could be exposed to poisonous chemicals. The nicotine vapour inhaler devices, mostly imported from China, are not subject to regulations and fears are growing that peop ...
  • Labour urges rethink on VAT for work on l ...
    Labour's deputy leader Harriet Harman says removing the exemption on VAT for listed buildings will hit the Church of England very hard indeed and the decision should be reversed. 560 315 TelegraphPlayer_9204396 11:35AM BST 14 Apr 2012 Mr Osborne announced plans to impose VAT on restoration w ...
  • Gold, silver decline on weak global cues, ...
    Both the precious metals, gold and silver, plunged in the national capital today as demand at existing higher levels dried up to some extent amid a weak global markets. Gold tumbled by Rs 200 to Rs...
  • Burma tourism set to boom
    Tourism in Burma is expected to surge twofold this year as curious foreigners explore the long-isolated country in the wake of landmark reforms which look set to make the nation more accessible to the world. 560 315 TelegraphPlayer_9204429 11:56AM BST 14 Apr 2012 According to the Ministry of ...

no frakking consensus

Anna's News

  • National Parks at Risk: Photos
    National parks represent our country's last stronghold of wilderness. But the large majority of parks are suffering, too.Ninety-five percent of parks assessed in a recent study have lost key species that once helped define them. Meanwhile, 91 percent .... Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals &nbs ...
  • Suicide rates in Europe 'linked' to financial ...
    The financial crisis "almost certainly" led to an increase in suicides across Europe, health experts say.The analysis by US and UK researchers found a rise in suicides was recorded among working age people from 2007 to 2009 in nine of the 10 nations...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Well ...
  • Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerela - Richest in ...
    For the past one week, the Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerela has been in the news because of the huge wealth found in its secret crypts.The Padmanabhaswamy Temple is the most famous Lord Vishnu temple in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerela. It is bel ............ Submitted by Anna Smith to World  |& ...
  • South Sudan becomes an independent nation
    South Sudan has become the world's newest nation, the climax of a process made possible by the 2005 peace deal that ended a long and bloody civil war.Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon are among international dignitaries Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...
  • News of the World staff shocked at closure
    Staff at the News of the World have reacted with shock to news that it will be closed after this Sunday's edition.The paper's political editor, David Wooding, said the closure came as a "bombshell". Submitted by Anna Smith to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Medical Marijuana

  • 4/2/12 - Pro & Con Arguments: “Should the drin ...
    drinkingage.procon.org - Pro & Con Arguments: "Should the drinking age be lowered from 21 to a younger age?” - Read new pro and con arguments about whether the minimum legal drinking age in the United States should be lowered from 21 to a younger age.
  • 3/30/12 - Health Care Reform
    healthcarereform.procon.org - Health Care Reform ProCon.org - On Mar. 27, 2012, we updated the core question to include the term "Obamacare" because that label has become widely used to reference the Mar. 2010 health care reform laws by both critics of the health care changes and proponents, ...
  • 3/30/12 - Health Care Reform
    healthcarereform.procon.org - Health Care Reform ProCon.org - On Mar. 27, 2012, we updated the core question to include the term "Obamacare" because that label has become widely used to reference the Mar. 2010 health care reform laws by both critics of the health care changes and proponents, ...
  • 3/29/12 - 2012 Presidential Candidate Summary ...
    2012election.procon.org - 2012 Presidential Candidate Summary Chart - See the four remaining Republican candidates (Gingrich, Paul, Romney, and Santorum), Barack Obama (Democrat), Gary Johnson (Libertarian), and Buddy Roemer's (Independent) positions on 50 different issues in our side-by-side ca ...
  • 3/29/12 - 2012 Presidential Candidates Quiz
    2012election.procon.org - 2012 Presidential Candidates Quiz - Take our compatibility quiz to find out which candidate is the best match for you. We've updated the questionnaire with five new questions on felon voting, the Keystone XL pipeline, oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ...

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

  • The Richest, Fattest Nation
    HALEY SWEETLAND EDWARDS According to recent studies, roughly half of adults and a third of children in Qatar are obese, and almost 17 percent of the native population suffers from diabetes. By comparison, about a third of Americans are obese, and eight percent are diabetic. Qatar also has very h ...
  • Grass’s Poem
    Jeffrey Goldberg “What Must Be Said” is interesting for what it says about the mind of Guenter Grass, but it is more interesting for what it says about the manner in which some intellectuals think about Israel and Iran. By extracting the self-pity, self-aggrandizement and guilt-expiation from “W ...
  • What’s the big idea?
    Dostoevsky tackled free will, Tolstoy the meaning of life – but is it still possible to write philosophical novels? Jennie Erdal At St Andrews University in the early 1970s, philosophy was still a required subject for entry into an honours course. To leave the way clear for reading modern langua ...
  • Rise of the Fictional Lecherous Prof.
    Stephanie Bernhard He’s crusty, grumpy, aging, and set in his outdated ways. He’s a he. Mortality is on his mind, and his will to bed women a fraction of his age increases in direct proportion to his fear of aging and death. He is, of course, the Humanities Professor archetype, and he is everywh ...
  • Writers Replying to Reviewers?
    Arthur Krystal Many writers, especially younger ones, regard other people’s books as an opportunity to enhance their own reputations. What better way to show off one’s own wit, erudition, and verbal artistry than to debunk someone else’s? And if you can look good at some poor w ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

  • Dual use education in neuroscience
    The Royal Society hosted a Roundtable meeting on dual use education and awareness raising in neuroscience on Friday 16 March. The meeting was intended to follow up on aspects of the recent Brain Waves 3: Neuroscience, conflict and security report, but specifically looked at the recommendation th ...
  • Human enhancement and the future of work
     Last week, I attended a joint meeting organised by the Academy of Medical Sciences, British Academy, Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society on human enhancement and the future of work.  It’s the first time that all four academies have come together like this on a policy issue. Such ...
  • New Trends in Think Tanks in China
    Xufeng Zhu is currently Professor at the Zhou Enlai School of Government, Director of the Centre of Chinese Policy Science, and Associate Director of the Centre for MPA Education, Nankai University. He has published extensively, including on China’s Think Tanks (Tsinghua University Press, ...
  • UK and China, comparing notes on science and p ...
      For a science policy nerd like me, meeting with international counterparts is like taking a holiday or meeting old friends in the pub at Christmas; there are many fresh things to explore but you can quickly get down to  business. Friday’s small but perfectly-formed gathering in Beijing of abou ...
  • Neuroscience, conflict and security: a dual us ...
     The Royal Society has launched the final report of the Brain Waves series, which investigate developments in neuroscience and their implications for society and policy.  Brain Waves 3: Neuroscience, conflict and security examines the potential applications of neuroscience in a military and law ...

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

  • Two interviews and some Australian News - Part 1
    In the first hour of today's show we bring you some analysis of recent news in Australia on the subject of climate change and the impending carbon tax, as well as an excerpt from a mini documentary which explores some of the internal frictions which caused the occupy movement in Brisbane to spli ...
  • Charles Darwin debunked!
    Today's show contains 2 excellent interviews and audio clips from a recent anti-war protest held in Sydney. In the first half of today’s show we bring you an interview with Chris Emery and Holland Van den Nieuwenhof discussing their stunning film A Noble Lie, which exposes the cover-up a ...
  • TNRA Goes LIVE on Logos Radio Network!
    Today we bring you our first live broadcast on Logos Radio Network. This will be a regular broadcast, and you can pick it up the live stream at Logos Radio every Thursday. The exact time of the 2 hour broadcast varies a little due to changing daylight saving time zones. Our next broadcast on 29 ...
  • Pay the TSA $100 protection money to avoid sca ...
    Hate the full-body scans, pat-downs and slow going at TSA airport security screening checkpoints? For $100, you can now bypass the hassle. The Transportation Security Administration is rolling out expedited screening at big airports called "Precheck." It has special lanes for background-checke ...
  • Stop CSG Rally video report - Government fails ...
    Truth News covers the stop CSG Rally at Parliament House NSW, 15 March 2012. In the morning a motion was put to the NSW Upper House by Jeremy Buckingham of the Greens – to place a moratorium on all coal seam gas (CSG) projects in the state, other than the Camden production field. It w ...

Beacon

  • Oil Exploration Noise May Lead to Dolphin Stra ...
    © Oceana/Carlos Minguell In the last three months, more than 3,000 dolphins have washed ashore in Peru, most likely due to offshore oil exploration. Oil companies in the region often use sonar or acoustic soundings to detect oil beneath the floor of the sea, and dolphins and whales can be aff ...
  • Ocean Hero John Halas Retires
    John Halas (foreground, left). Photo credit: Judy Halas/Courtesy of John Halas The Florida ocean conservation community said farewell to one of its greatest servants this week. John Halas, who was the winner of Oceana’s first annual Ocean Heroes contest, has retired after nearly 32 years of ...
  • Could a Shark Live in a Lake?
    A lemon shark at Governors River Walk, Palm Beach, FL. [Image via Wikimedia Commons] Last year’s horror flick, Shark Night 3D, tells the tale of a group of college friends who are attacked by sharks while vacationing near a lake. While the premise of the movies is that evildoers intentionally ...
  • Leatherbacks Closer to Becoming CA Symbol
    © NOAA More good news for sea turtles today: The endangered leatherback sea turtle swam one lap closer today to becoming California’s official marine reptile. The California Assembly Committee on Water, Parks, and Wildlife voted unanimously today that this ocean ambassador should be an addit ...
  • Oceana Returns to Nautica South Beach Triathlon
    © Nautica On April 1st Oceana kicked off spring in high gear at the 2012 Nautica South Beach Triathlon. We set out for the warm waters of Miami to fundraise for the oceans, engage hundreds of new ocean advocates and connect with existing Wavemakers in one of our favorite ocean places. Thanks ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • The MIG-105, The Soviet Union’s First Ex ...
      The MIG-105 was an experimental low speed outer atmospheric orbital vehicle developed in he Soviet Union in 1976. The idea was that this plane would be launched not from the ground, but from the back of a large hypersonic extra-atmospheric vehicle built by Tupelov that would resemble the ...
  • Political Posters Make A Huge Comeback On Facebook
           
  • Tonight Is The 51st Anniversary Of Yuri Gagari ...
    Yuri Gagarin was born in Klushino, near Smolensk on 9 March 1934. The adjacent town of Gzhatsk was renamed Gagarin in 1968 in his honour. His parents, Alexey Ivanovich Gagarin and Anna Timofeyevna Gagarina, worked on a collective farm. Both were laborers but both were well read and fairly educat ...
  • The Gastraphetes
      The Gastraphetes was a type of compound bow used about 400BC by the ancient Greeks and Macedonians. Heron of Alexandria, the great inventor describes it in Belopoeica, and  there exists also a description by the 3rd century BC engineer Ctesibius. The name gives away its western translated ...
  • Jerry Coleman, Marine Combat Pilot, Fought In ...
      He played for the Yankees and the Padres. He played in six World Series and won four of them. He batted a lifetime .263. He had 558 hits and 217 runs batted in. Coleman was an American League All-Star, and won the Most Valuable Player in the 1950 World Series, when the Yankees swept [...]

Taylor Marsh

  • The Buffet Rule Disguised as ‘Romney Rule’ for ...
    Of course it’s popular. From CBS: In asking the question, Gallup did not actually use the term “Buffett Rule.” Here’s how the question was asked: “Would you favor or oppose Congress passing a new law that would require households earning $1 million a year or more to ...
  • Queer Talk: Homophobes, Ex-Ex-Gays, Spooks and ...
    Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. Four things to queerly consider today. Five, if you count the photo (see explanation at end). First, from New Civil Rights: (A)nother study finds that homophobes — people who hate homosexuals — hate ‘the gays’ maybe b ...
  • Bigger Than Ta-Tas, and Did You Hear the One A ...
    Love Sofia Vergara! “Modern Family” is one of the only sitcoms we DVR and never miss. You cannot talk about Vergara without the picture she cuts in clothes, as well as pop culture. But her talents go well beyond her ta-tas. Her incredible figure is part of her persona and her comedy, ...
  • Occupy Mancos, CO, Has Two Members
    Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. Humor, wisdom / common sense, and some encouragement. That’s what I hear in the first-person account from one of the two people Occupying Mancos, Colorado. Read Occupy Mancos, CO: The Importance of Small Occupies, by ...
  • Kim Jong Un Can’t Get His Rocket Up
    Both the Pentagon and the South Korean defense ministry have confirmed that the rocket was launched at 7:39am Seoul time, or 6:49pm Washington, D.C. time; a spokesman for the South Korean defense ministry said that a few minutes after the launch the rocket had broken up and crashed into the sea. ...

Hudson New York

  • How the Media Whitewashes Muslim Persecution o ...
    When it comes to Muslim persecution of Christians, the mainstream media (MSM) has a long paper trail of obfuscating. While they may eventually state the bare-bone facts—if they ever report on the story in the first place, which is rare—they do so after
  • Are Settlements the Major Obstacle to Peace?
    The Palestinian Authority is demanding that the UN Security Council condemn Israel for building in the settlements and east Jerusalem neighborhoods. In a letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the Palestinian Authority said that Israeli settlements
  • "If You Prick Us Do We Not Bleed?"
    Shylock in The Merchant of Venice rightly protested against injustice towards Jews and to manifestations of malignant anti-Semitism. At this time, it is appropriate for fair -minded people to protest against the unjust assault on Israeli institutions,
  • The "Rorschach" Facts in the Killing of Trayvo ...
    The time has come for the cheerleading on both sides to stop in the killing of Trayvon Martin and for everybody to unite around the need for the truth—or as much of it as we can recapture— to emerge as to precisely what happened on that dark, rainy night
  • Germany: A Koran in Every Household
    Islamic radicals in Germany have launched an unprecedented nationwide campaign to distribute 25 million copies of the Koran, translated into the German language, with the goal of placing one Koran into every household in Germany, free of charge. The mass

Urban Survival

  • Inflation Warms Up a Bit
    Bad news, though not unexpected, fro the Bureau of Labor Statistics this morning as they unveiled their cost of living update: The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.3 percent in March on a seasonally adjusted basis, … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With Quakes and Spreadsheets
    It’s not making headlines yet, but I’m getting a mighty uneasy feeling about the global earthquake situation.  Part of the reason is that I was expecting a peak in quake activity around April 19th.  Another is that there have been … Continue reading →
  • World War III in May?
    Speculation is building as to just when the world-ending fighting will begin (if it does, at all).  Specifically, there’s a slow clock running on Iran, which is coming into talks on April 23rd with what most experts agree are less … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With Earthshaking Developments
    If you’ve read this column for any length of time, you’ll maybe have spotted by writing technique:  I often write about things which are slightly greater than zero possibilities as though they are far out, and thus, our initial brush … Continue reading →
  • That N. Korean Rocket-in-Waiting
    Yep, it’s all over the place (including here) and yet, they seem ready to launch some kind of satellite,   but just how big the payload is turns out to be a bit of a slippery eel to catch. The reason … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • Waste Proposal for Los Angeles Keeps on Rolling
    Adrian Martinez, Staff Attorney, Environmental Justice, Santa Monica, California Earlier this week, the Ad Hoc Committee on Waste Reduction & Recycling for the Los Angeles City Council met to examine how to shift the way Los Angeles picks up its ...
  • Latin America Climate, Energy and Environment ...
    Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC Chile Chile is increasingly tapping into solar energy. Solar energy is now powering schools, clinics, farms, tunnels, residential lighting systems and even neighborhoods in the Atacama region. ...
  • At the Summit of the Americas leaders must sta ...
    Carolina Herrera, Latin America Advocate, Washington DC Thirty-two of the Western Hemisphere's leaders are gathered in the seaside city of Cartagena, Colombia for the Sixth Summit of the Americas during which they’ll participate in two days of ...
  • Mexico moving closer to a national climate law ...
    Jake Schmidt, International Climate Policy Director, Washington, DC In the lead-in to the Cancun Global Warming Negotiations, the Mexican government was debating a national climate law – the General Law on Climate Change.  Unfortunately t ...
  • A Chance for Millennials to Feel Strong: Takin ...
    Kelly Henderson, Climate Center Program Assistant, Washington, D.C. The best way to get people excited about something or willing to support a cause is giving them the feeling of empowerment. Feeling strong and knowing that an action one takes will ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • Suspended until further notice
    Due to the voting fiasco I am suspending the project until further notice while I take some time to figure out what to do.
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 15 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misonduct News Feed for this Wednesday, April 11, 2012: Jonesville MI police chief accused of hitting cuffed autistic 8yr-old who left school with a baton in the back of a police car after he left school while it was in ...
  • Candidates for Ownership of the NPMSRP
    As discussed this weekend, I’ve decided that the best way to hand this project over to some other person or group would be to let the readers, who have supported this project so much through the years, make the decision on who they feel most comfortable with running it from now on. Accordi ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 13 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Tuesday, April 10, 2012 Washington DC police sued by mom of teen fataly shot in back, cops say he had BB gun, witnesses contradict [3] http://bit.ly/Ipxihs Chicago IL & 4 cops lose $1.15 ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 14 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Monday, April 9, 2012: Beloit WI settles suit for $265k to teen injured by cop when thrown against cop car then strip searched in public [0] http://bit.ly/HvCFg7 Minneapolis Park MN cop sent ...

Total Collapse

  • Russian warships heading for Syria: Russian mi ...
    A high-ranking source in the Russian defense ministry says several Russian warships are on their way to the Mediterranean Sea to guard Syrian coasts for the foreseeable future. “A decision has been made to deploy Russian warships near the Syrian shores on a permanent basis,” the state-run RIA ne ...
  • Obama Regime Suicides Top Diplomat To Cover Up ...
    A shocking Federal Security Services (FSB) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that top French diplomat Richard Descoings was “suicided” by American intelligence agents shortly after he arrived in New York and was due to report to the United Nations that France’s Central Directorate o ...
  • Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran’s Northern Bo ...
    The Russian military anticipates that an attack will occur on Iran by the summer and has developed an action plan to move Russian troops through neighboring Georgia to stage in Armenia, which borders on the Islamic republic, according to informed Russian sources. Russian Security Council head Vi ...
  • Obama Orders Press Blackout After US Credit Ra ...
    A shattering report from RIA Novosti’s Washington D.C. bureau appears to prove that the mainstream press in America has become nothing more than a propaganda arm of the Obama regime when during a White House news briefing this past week they were effectively ordered not to report on this past we ...
  • USS Enterprise must obtain IRGC permission to ...
    The U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the USS Enterprise, which is heading for the Persian Gulf, will have to answer the questions of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) at the “Sepah station” to obtain permission to enter the sea, the Persian service of the Fars News Agency reported ...

Daily Dose

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • AGL's war on solar
    It is deeply troubling that AGL continues to suggest low income households, such as pensioners, are now paying more for their electricity to enable Australians to get solar. This is simply not true. If we rewind, to a bit over two years ago, before AGL tried to deflate the solar PV industry, ...
  • The Clean Energy Finance Corporation and Conce ...
    Beyond Zero Emissions has just released a paper on the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) set up as part of the carbon price package of policies. It outlines the current limitations of the CEFC model specifically in relation to baseload solar thermal power, and compares it to policies used ...
  • Clean fossils of the future? How about ready r ...
    There’s a lot of discussion and political jostling around energy options, decarbonisation, low-carbon or zero-carbon transition. Looking at the options, let’s begin with today’s dominant player, conventional coal. It’s fate is easy to summarise, we burn it now in old, outdated power stations, ...
  • Adelaide - Repower Port Augusta Report Launch
    At what promises to be one of the most important events on the political calendar for 2012, Mark Ogge from the renewable energy think-tank, Beyond Zero Emissions, will launch the long-awaited BZE Repower Port Augusta Report. This reports presents the compelling economic and environmental case ...
  • The minister for tourism signs tourism industr ...
    Martin Ferguson, the Federal Minister for Resources Energy and Tourism and previous head of the ACTU, today signalled that the mining industry will take precedence over tourism and manufacturing, despite the enormous damage it is doing to these industries. In a speech in Brisbane today, Mr ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Scientists count penguins by satellite, find t ...
    The population of emperor penguins in Antarctica is nearly twice as high as previously estimated according to a new satellite-based assessment.
  • Russia creates massive park for rare cats
    Russia has created a massive national park to protect some of the world's rarest big cats, the critically endangered Amur tigers and leopards, reports the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS).
  • Indonesia to investigate contested oil palm co ...
    A high ranking Indonesian official is investigating the controversial grant of an oil palm concession within an area of protected peat forest in Aceh on the island of Sumatra, reports the Jakarta Globe.
  • Scientists unlock indigenous secret to sustain ...
    Indigenous populations in the Amazon successfully farmed without the use of fire before the arrival of Europeans, demonstrating a potentially sustainable approach to land management in a region that is increasingly vulnerable to man-made fires.
  • Whole Foods bans 'red' fish from its stores
    Whole Foods has announced it will be the first grocery chain in the U.S. to no longer sell any seafood in the "red." Based on sustainability ratings by the Monterey Bay Aquarium and Blue Ocean Institute, fish labeled red are those that are considered either overfished or fished in a manner that ...

Sierra Express

  • Stamp out violence – Town Hall meeting today, ...
    A Town Hall meeting will be held today April 14, 2012 from 2pm – 6pm to address  stamping out violence in the Sierra Leone community. It is hopeful that you will be in attendance to discuss this matter and come up with solutions to STAMP OUT VIOLENCE within the Sierra Leonean community. St ...
  • Sierra Leoneans take action after Greenbelt ma ...
    In the wake of the murder of Aiah Nyanga Tongu, people from Sierra Leone are organizing a local town hall meeting to stop violence in their community. A number of Sierra Leoneans believe the March 18 murder of 34-year-old Aiah Nyanga Tongu, of Greenbelt, is the latest crime in an upsurge of viol ...
  • War Victim Funds in big mess
    The War Victims’ Funds, which President Koroma launched in October of 2009 to restore war victims’ health and dignity is currently embroiled in a mess, Sierra Express Media is made to understand.  (Photo: suffering war victim, Salman Jalloh) The War Victims’ Funds were recommended in Section 7 ( ...
  • Save Salman Jalloh’s life
    It could be recalled that October 2009 marks the launching of the War Victim’s Fund by President Koroma upon the backdrop of restoring the health and dignity of victims who suffered most the brunt of the eleven year civil war. Salman Jalloh a victim and a hero that survived seven bullets he sust ...
  • That which is in the head of Joseph Kamara
    Recent revelations made by the Anti Corruption Commissioner that they have received “transcript” & “uncut edition” of the timber documentary is laughable to an extent. With all the years of practice and bank of wealth of experience the ACC Commissioner accrued in his horsemanship at the Spec ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Fonterra spends $100m in China
    Fonterra Co-operative Group plans to spend $100 million building two more farms in China's Hebei Province.Chief executive Theo Spierings said the dairy exporter wanted to set up an integrated milk business in China as it sought...
  • Milk powder drops for fifth time as supply bea ...
    Whole milk powder prices fell again in Fonterra's online dairy auction, with the weighted average price the lowest since August 2010.The average price for a basket of products in the auction yesterday increased 1.5 per cent, having...
  • Milk rustlers working Mount Maunganui
    Thieves working to order have stolen about 1200 litres of milk and other dairy products in Mount Maunganui, police say.Detective Sergeant Darryl Brazier said the thieves targeted delivery trucks at a storage unit on Totara Street...
  • Dairy prices snap 3-month slide in overnig ...
    Prices of dairy products snapped a three-month slide in Fonterra's latest GlobalDairyTrade auction, lifting the average winning price from the lowest level since August.The GDT-TWI Price Index rose 1.5 per cent compared...
  • Fran O'Sullivan: Fonterra boss not playing games
    Fonterra chief executive Theo Spierings is not afraid to puncture some of the irrational games being played in the local dairy industry.The Herald's China Business 2012 report in today's paper reveals how he floated the prospect...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Did the West Liberate Kuwait So It Could Execu ...
    Back in 1991, a coalition of international troops led by the United States and put together chiefly by President George H.W. Bush attacked Iraq in response to that country's invasion and occupation of Kuwait. One of the goals of the operation was to liberate Kuwait and hem in Saddam ...
  • Food Trucks vs. The Establishment: Attorney Je ...
    "If freedom can't win over something so innocuous and where the benefits are so wide, then you can't win at all," says Jeffrey Dermer, a lawyer and founder of the Southern California Mobile Food Vendor's Association, a group devoted to protecting the legal rights of foo ...
  • Tax Day Videos to Have Running in the Backgrou ...
    Tax Day is Tuesday, April 17, and the issue of what we need to fork over to government at all levels hasn't been so fraught since...last year. Here's Reason's video playlist of tax-related videos from the past few years. Among the highlights: "Why Aren't the Rich Paying 50% in Taxes ...
  • President Obama: "I don’t mind a debate around ...
    President Barack Obama further muddled his position on drug policy reform in an interview with Univision's Enrique Acevedo, saying, in the course of one response, both "I don’t mind a debate around issues like decriminalization," and "I don’t think that legalization ...
  • Reason Writers at the Movies: Peter S ...
    Senior Editor Peter Suderman reviews the new sci-fi prison escape movie Lockout in The Washington Times: “Lockout” belongs to a number of familiar cinematic subgenres: It’s part prison-escape flick, part sci-fi spectacular, part glib ‘80s-throwback action blockbuster. At times, i ...

Mercury Rising

  • Elizabeth Holtzman on why the Bush Administrat ...
    Yeah, I know. No one thinks it’s ever going to happen. But Liz Holtzman is the real deal, one of the most important voices of the last 50 years. If we are going to end impunity, it will almost certainly have to involve bringing Bush and Cheney to account. Watch Cheating Justice on BookTV A ...
  • Wikileak head Assange to appear on RT
    More evidence that RT is actually shaking things up in the news business. From CNN: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange plans to debut a talk show, “The World Tomorrow,” on Russia’s state-funded television network next week. Assange and RT, an English-language international satell ...
  • The Spring of our Discontent
    An excerpt from a post by an Occupier (Kasama) on a 99%Spring event: It was largely an older crowd. Many had been to Zucotti but hadn’t found a way to get involved. If you visited Zucotti after the change, it was a difficult place to fit into. In the early days of Zucotti, I knew [...]
  • The Four Stooges
    Bill Donohue of the Catholic League mixes it up with Hollywood. Yes, Mr. Donohue, The Three Stooges is tasteless, puerile fare (please note the correct spelling). It always has been, even back in the sainted 1950s when segregation was illegal, the Catholic Church was in many places teaching anti ...
  • Murdoch computer hack against novelist. It&#82 ...
    Murdoch’s minions have been claiming that whatever hacking they did was in the public interest, something that might convince the faithful when it deals with suspected criminals. But a novelist? Sam Marsden of The Independent (The Guardian, oddly, seems to be behind the curve on this), rep ...

Reality Sandwich

  • You Can Awaken the Global Heart-Mind
      Explore the "Four Global Truths" and unveil what we can do individually, and collectively, to guide us through this time of great transition. Join Darrin Drda for the live, online video course "Awakening the Global Heart-Mind" – 4 illuminating sessions with a stellar ...
  • Awaken Your Inner Electronic Power
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  • What ho, Apothecary!
    The following is excerpted from D.I.Y. Magic, now available from Floating World Comics. read more
  • Pre-Occupied This Spring
    Occupy seems dead. Unless the police screw up again and bash some student heads in one of the parks, won't it likely stay dead?  After all, why would anyone think that a bunch of random people (many of whom have no place else to go) sleeping in a park; trying to "occupy" a publ ...
  • Culture Crash - Desperation Politico
    What happens to a culture when it has no visionaries or humanitarians seeking political office? What happens when virtually every political candidate focuses entirely on their ability to get elected, and not at all on elevating our society? read more

Desertification

  • Will Climate Refugees Get Promised Aid?
    With extreme weather pounding countries across a wide arc in the Asia-Pacific region, questions hover over entitlements for millions of people displaced by climate change, pledged under the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and other sources.
  • Treat Illegal Logging Like Organised Crime, Ur ...
    With illegal loggers clearing the equivalent of a football field of the world's most valuable forests every two seconds, local and international law enforcement systems should target the criminal operations that profit most from the trade, according to a new report released here Tuesday ...
  • Rio+20 Summit: A Moment That Must Be Seized
    The upcoming Rio+20 conference has to be the moment in human history when the nations of the world come together to find ways to ensure the very survival of humanity, many science and environmental experts believe.
  • 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 ...

Blogging Canadians

  • Allen West: Rebirth of Joseph McCarthy
    Rep. Allen West says 78-81 democrats in the US Congress are also members of the Communist Party. This syndrome is also known as paranoia. I hope he gets help. Ed Schultz of MSNBC had an interesting discussion on Allen West's fear tactics and paranoia. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, wor ...
  • Stephen Harper’s Legacy
    Poor are getting poorer and rich are getting richer. Here is a one story and there are many more here.
  • Netflix, Inc.
    Dear @netflix We are Anonymous, We are legion, We never forgive, We never forget, Expect us. #OpBoycottNetflix part one. by "Anonymous" As originally posted on: YourAnonNews (Anonymous) on Twitter April 9, 2012
  • George Zimmerman will be charged
    "The special prosecutor in the Trayvon Martin case will announce criminal charges against George Zimmerman Wednesday afternoon, a law enforcement official told NBC News." Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Read the NBC story here. Update: The Prosecutor ...
  • George Zimmerman charged with 2nd degree murder
    Special Prosecutor Angela Corey The Special Prosecutor charges Zimmerman with 2nd degree murder. That is the maximum the prosecutor can go without a grand jury. This charge carries a maximum of 30 years in jail without bail and a minimum of 25 year in jail. Read more here. Zimmerman ...

Press TV - Middle East

  • Syria supports deployment of monitors
    Syria has voiced support for the UN Security Council resolution on the deployment of observers to monitor the ceasefire brokered by the UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan.
  • Armed groups fuel violence in Syria
    Armed groups in Syria have launched rocket attacks on a neighborhood in the restive city of Homs, killing at least one civilian and injuring a dozen more.
  • Arms dealers profiting from Syria unrest
    Beirut is facing new security challenges as arms smuggling along the Lebanon-Syria border rises, while its army ability to combat the phenomenon is limited, Press TV reports.
  • Bahrain police find bomb near F1 circuit
    Bahrain security forces have found a homemade explosive device near the popular Formula One (F1) auto race circuit.
  • Bahraini protester dies in hospital
    Another Bahraini protester has died in hospital after being run over by a police car during a protest rally in the Persian Gulf country, Press TV reports.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • Solicitation of Nominations for SPS Governing ...
    We are now accepting nominations for students to join the School of Professional Studies Governing Council.  The Governing Council considers proposals for new courses, degrees, certificates and programs that will be offered by the School.  Two students and two alternates are needed to serve on t ...
  • Smarmy Prince, Contemptible Hypocrite, Ayatoll ...
    What a group. What a choice. The remaining field of Republican presidential candidates is one of the weakest in history. It is not just the liberal media that thinks so. Former Republican Congressman and current MSNBC host Joe Scarborough believes it and right wing pundit Charles Krauthammer cal ...
  • Silently Waiting
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