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Thomas Paine

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Tuesday, April 17, 2012

17 April - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • 'The Land is Never Wrong', Says Togolese Farmer
    Awuissa Walla has no regrets over choosing farming as a profession. He earned a degree in agronomy a decade ago, and borrowing money from friends, set himself up on an 18-hectare plot at Badja, some 50 kilometres from Lomé, the Togolese capital.
  • Libyans Now Battle Over Housing
    The future is uncertain for the gregarious Alhasairi family, living in a downtown apartment block battle-scarred from last year's overthrow of the Gaddafi regime. Like countless of similar cases across Libya, the property itself is now contested, as the original owners want to return home.
  • Sea Level Rise Threatens Mekong Rice
    With Vietnam's fertile Mekong delta threatened by rising sea levels and salt water ingress, the country's future as a major rice exporter depends critically on research underway in the Philippines.
  • Renewed Talks with Iran Fuel Both Optimism and ...
    U.S. and Iranian officials were optimistic about renewed talks over the weekend between Iran and the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany, but analysts here urge the United States to keep its expectations in check and establish clear goals for future n ...
  • Green Nobel Highlights Water Crises
    A Catholic priest from the Philippines, a mother of three from Argentina, and the founder of the NGO Friends of Lake Turkana in Kenya all have one thing in common: they have helped to motivate their respective local communities to protect the natural environment around them and to stand ...

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

The Daily Galaxy

  • NewsFlash: New Cassini Flyby to Taste "Spray" ...
    This image of Saturn's moon, Enceladus was taken on the April 14, 2012 Cassini Spacecraft flyby and received on Earth April 15, 2012. The camera was pointing toward Enceladus at approximately 120,808 kilometers away. In the recent series of tantalizingly...
  • Today's Hot Tech News Video from IDG--Top Righ ...
    Today's hot tech news from IDG News Service (publishers of PC World, MacWorld, and Computerworld). 'The Daily Galaxy' content on the discoveries, people and events changing our planet and our knowledge of the Universe is brought to you daily by...
  • EcoAlert: Glaciers Growing in the Karakoram
    New satellite data shows that the glaciers in the Karakoram have grown slightly over the last decade, bucking the global trend. The Karakoram, adjacent to the Himalayas, includes K2, the second tallest mountain in the world. While the Karakoram is...
  • Mysterious 'Majorana Fermion' Discovered --Cou ...
    In 1938 one of the world's greatet scientists withdrew all his money and disappeared during a boat trip from Palermo to Naples. Whether he killed himself, was murdered or lived on under a different identity is still not known. But...
  • Weekend Feature: "Space is 4D" -- Theory Claim ...
    Einstein never interpreted time "t" as a fourth dimension of space. Space is not 3D + T, space is 4D. With clocks we measure numerical order of material change. This numerical order is the only time that exists in a...

Natural News

  • Fermented red Asian ginseng a great natural re ...
    The ginseng plant has long been used medicinally to treat a variety of ailments, and a recent review of several published studies reveals that allergies are one of them. It appears as though "red" ginseng, or raw ginseng root that has been steamed, holds special value...
  • The IRS is now policing healthcare
    Before the U.S. Supreme Court even decides whether or not the administration's healthcare reform law, known as Obamacare, is even constitutional, the White House is already gearing up the enforcement apparatus: The Internal Revenue Service (IRS). According to The...
  • Study: Polio vaccine campaign in India has cau ...
    The mainstream media has been busy hailing the supposed success of India's polio vaccine campaign over the past few years, with many news outlets now claiming that the disease has been fully eradicated throughout the country. But what these misinformation puppets are...
  • Red Cross calls for humanitarian drug policies ...
    Recognizing the utter failure of the perpetual war on drugs to accomplish anything beneficial whatsoever in the world, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), the world's largest humanitarian network, has officially come out in open...
  • Top 5 herbs and spices that help lower blood sugar
    Fruit, bread, cereals and pasta are popular sources of glucose. Also known as blood sugar, glucose is a vital source of energy for the body. It is constantly required by our muscles and brain. For optimum performance, our brain must have a regular supply on hand because...

Threat Level

  • Contradicting a Federal Judge, FCC Clears Goog ...
    The Federal Communications Commission is clearing Google of wrongdoing in connection to it secretly intercepting Americans' data on unencrypted Wi-Fi routers. A federal judge has held otherwise in nearly a dozen civil lawsuits.
  • 8 Suspects Arrested in Online Drug Market Sting
    Eight suspects in the United States and elsewhere have been arrested and indicted for their involvement in an online drug market accessible only through the TOR anonymizing network that sold LSD, ecstasy, marijuana and other drugs to some 3,000 customers in 34 countries.
  • Supreme Court to Revisit ‘First-Sale’ Copyrigh ...
    The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide the global reach of U.S. copyright law, in a case testing whether an overseas purchaser of a copyrighted work may resell it in the United States without the copyright holder’s permission.
  • Judge Won’t Purge Megaupload User Data, At Lea ...
    A federal judge on Friday declined to pull the plug on 25 million gigabytes of Megaupload data seized when the government shuttered the file sharing service in January. But the fate of the gigantic trove of data remains unsettled.
  • Shades of 1984 Emerge in Broadcast TV Copyrigh ...
    In 1984, Hollywood was arguing that the VCR and home taping would kill its business and wanted the Supreme Court to outlaw the devices from Americans' living rooms. Luckily, for Americans and Hollywood, the Supreme Court recognized the power of innovation and the limits of copyright in a 5-4 dec ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Will Mitt Romney "Self-Hispanic?"
    "We're going to be able to get Hispanic voters," Mitt Romney assured big-dollars donors this weekend, adding, "We're going to overcome the issue of immigration." How the Republican presidential nominee plans to do that is another matter. After all, John McCain captured only 31 percent of the H ...
  • Mind the Gap
    This week, Mitt Romney's former Lieutenant Governor and current adviser Kerry Healy nonchalantly acknowledged the yawning chasm separating her candidate from American women, "There's always going to be a gender gap between Republicans and Democrats." She should know. After all, she was by Mitt ...
  • The Romney Uncertainty Principle
    That Mitt Romney will say anything to become President of the United States - no matter how blatantly false or comically contradictory - is sadly taken as a given in Election 2012. But while his pathetic pandering and transparent dissembling are not new, novel theories to explain his pathology ...
  • Four Years Later, Americans Still Back Obama o ...
    Looking back this week at his budget-busting windfall for the wealthy, George W. Bush lamented, "I wish they weren't called the Bush tax cuts." With good reason. After all, the first modern president to cut taxes during war-time, Bush's gravy train for the gilded-class helped double the nation ...
  • How to Save Ann and Mitt Romney from Themselves
    In the history book of Democratic politics, the chapter titled "Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory" is a long one. Years from now, CNN regular and Democratic consultant Hilary Rosen may be prominently featured in it. After all, she may have accomplished the virtually impossible: making ...

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TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • OH, WI, NJ, & FL Governors Lied to Public to K ...
      Remember the exciting announcements about a nationwide high-speed rail network that Obama made in 2010? And remember how several Tea Party governors killed high-speed rail in their states? Well, if it wasn’t painfully obvious before, Angie Schmitt of Streetsblog recently wrote a gr ...
  • BoBo Says No to Leather, and Explains Why (Som ...
      OK, I’ll admit it, this news release caught my eye because one of my nicknames is Bobo. That said, I’m glad it did, because it contains a great message and some great information. I normally don’t just repost a press release, but this is a really good and succinct one, ...
  • Tibetan Glaciers Growing Against the Flow
    Despite glaciers across the planet melting at an accelerated and unprecedented rate, one mountain range along the rim of the Tibetan plateau is home to a series of glaciers that have actually been posting measurable gains over the past decade. The Karakoram mountain range straddles China’s ...
  • NOAA Opens Up the Ocean Floor to the Public
    The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of America has released maps and other data concerning the world’s coasts, continental shelves, and deep ocean available for anyone to view online. The information has been available to scientists for a long time, but viewing the data was ...
  • Endowing Animals with Human Emotions…
      Another beautiful animal-related repost for the day, below is a beautiful quote by Frans de Waal, from “Are We in Anthropodenial?” — succinct but illuminating in its eloquence: “To endow animals with human emotions has long been a scientific taboo. But if we do not, we risk missin ...

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Axis of Logic

  • The Rise of the Killer Drones: How America Goe ...
    One day in late November, an unmanned aerial vehicle lifted off from Shindand Air Base in western Afghanistan, heading 75 miles toward the border with Iran. The drone's mission: to spy on Tehran's nuclear program, as well as any insurgent activities the Iranians might be supporting in Afghanista ...
  • Official: 1,600 prisoners to go on hunger stri ...
    BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Over 1,600 detainees in Israeli jails are due to begin a hunger-strike on April 17, a Palestinian Authority official said Saturday. Issa Qaraqe, the PA prisoners affairs minister, added that factional division among the strikers is dangerous and called on detain ...
  • People & Power - Panama: Village of the damned ...
    The Ngäbe-Buglé people are fighting back on multiple fronts against big business, the Panamanian regime of Ricardo Martinelli and even the United Nations - in our terms - Global Corporate Empire. Martinelli, a former business tycoon and friend of Washington is bent on crushing the Ngäbe-Buglé wi ...
  • Taliban attack: Explosions, gunfire inside Kab ...
    KABUL: Suicide bombers struck across Afghanistan in coordinated attacks Sunday, with explosions and gunfire rocking the diplomatic enclave in the capital as militants took over buildings and tried to enter parliament. Outside the capital, attackers also targeted government buildings in ...
  • Battle for the Soul of Occupy - United States
    Jump, jump, jump over the dead body of the old left! Alright you jammers, occupiers and Springtime dreamers, First they silenced our uprising with a media blackout… then they smashed our encampments with midnight paramilitary raids… and now they’re threatening to ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    By BG & YD Republicans use their 41-vote supermajority to kill the Buffett Rule In spite of the fact that the America public overwhelmingly supports the "Buffett Rule" and wants to see it enacted, Senate republicans today blocked it. The Nazi's already have Allen West in Congress, now they have ...
  • Don't tell me that the GOP is all about "perso ...
    By @BGinKC The next person who tells me that they vote for republicans because they care about personal, individual autonomy and want to be free from government intervention in their lives, I am going to call that person a moron, to their face, and I'm not going to be nice about it. I'm going to ...
  • Songs to Fight the Plutocracy By: "There Is Me ...
    By @KYYellowDog Uploaded by anomalek on Aug 12, 2011 John L. Handcox, Washington D.C., 1937
  • CUND Gulag Update
    By @BGinKC Since well over half of you also read Political Animal and are therefore familiar with frequent commenter over there CUND Gulag, I am putting this post up to let you know that I have heard from him. He is hanging in there and he is overwhelmed by the outpouring of affection and suppor ...
  • Monday Morning Quad Shot
    By @BGinKC So -- it was the weekend. I didn't get half the stuff done I wanted or needed to, but I did learn the limits of my FIOS connection....ten devices, and it starts slowing down. * Austerity is killing Europe. Althought suicide rates have gone up everywhere since the global financial cri ...

Care 2

  • POACHER SHOT DEAR BEFORE HE COULD KILL RHINOS!!!!
    A Rhino poaching suspect has been shot and killed in a gunfight with wildlife rangers at Ndumo Game Reserve, on KwaZulu-Natals northern border with Mozambique. The shooting happened early on Wednesday when a group of three poachers was intercepted... Submitted by Genoveva M. to Animals &nbs ...
  • Mexicans return beached whale to sea
    MEXICO CITY (AFP) - Volunteers and Navy personnel returned a 12-tonne whale to the sea after it became stranded on Submitted by Genoveva M. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Crippled Mama Horse & Her Baby Saved from Auct ...
    Irene and Ali came into our rescue program unexpectedly one April evening. The date of their arrival was a very unusual one for me, as I found myself drawn to the Jones Livestock Auction. This is a very rare occasion for me, because I know that I cant Submitted by Barb Knight to Animals &nb ...
  • Stop Gov. Christie's clean energy raid ACTION
    His current budget looks to raid over $210 million in clean energy funds money that should be dedicated to programs that cut our fossil fuel addiction, clear our air, and create local jobs. Submitted by Nancy C. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Jeff Ran, STOP Hunting Wild Animals! TAKE ACTION!
    Jeff Rann, sells animal hunting and shows off the dead of wild animals. These skills have made him the most famous safari organizer of the planet. He has now a millionaire business. This man has lands in Botswana, where he charges more than 37.000 euro.. Submitted by Lindsey Williams to Animals ...

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No Quarter

  • Obama’s diversionary, “dog whistle” attacks [U ...
    On Morning Joe Monday, Random House executive editor Jon Meacham asked Politico’s Mike Allen a perceptive question about Allen’s lead story that the Obama campaign plans an all-out offensive to uncover Mitt Romney’s “penchant for secrecy.” Some examples: “Why ...
  • 2008 Is Still Personal For Women
    (This was supposed to be my final review of books by No Quarter author’s.  But I’ve been learning that there are many more authors in our midst.  Coming soon: A novel about the Mafia by a No Quarter “regular commenter.”) The media dubbed 2008 the year of the woman because ...
  • Acting Like a Winner [Update]
    UPDATE: Today, Diane Sawyer asked Mitt Romney if he had a message he’d like to send the President. Here’s what he said: “Start packing.” You’ll never believe where I spotted Romney’s “ballsy” reply to Diane Sawyer: Jim Messina, Obama’s campai ...
  • Secret Service, The Unhappy Happy Ending
    Time to pile on the Secret Service prostitute scandal. Details continue to emerge but, it appears that eleven members of a Secret Service advance team in Cartagena, Colombia (who were prepping for an Obama visit) hired the services of eleven young ladies. Things got dicey the following morning w ...
  • VP Joe Biden is profiting $20,900/year from Se ...
    Preface: Yes, the Colombian Secret Service/prostitute scandal is hot but imho too new for commentary. The Bidens’ take is small potatoes, but the principle bothers me. Joe and Jill finagle extra income from free, required protection. Tacky. Rotating proximal Secret Service agents helps ens ...

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 ...

Therapy News

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • Students adapt Tibetan play for Earth Month - ...
    Students adapt Tibetan play for Earth Month College Heights Herald Yet, he said this adaptation might be a little different — Fickel's version was set in the Appalachian Mountains of Eastern Kentucky undergoing mountaintop removal. Fickel said Buddhism often promotes environmentalism, so it ...
  • Green Around the Hills: Mountaintop removal ra ...
    Green Around the Hills: Mountaintop removal raises the idea of 'the golden rule' Elizabethton Star From the King James Bible, Matthew 7:12, 30 AD For some of us, mountaintop removal (MTR) mining raises the idea of the “golden rule,” a basic tenet of all the major religions. Christians ar ...
  • Market Value: A Q&A With Leftover Salmon - Ame ...
    Market Value: A Q&A With Leftover Salmon American Songwriter I've written a couple songs lately dealing with mountain top removal in Appalachia. I'm from there and it really eats me up to see what's happening in the race to destroy in the name of coal. Having a chance to write , ...
  • Climate Reality Check Coalition: Action, Actio ...
    Climate Science Watch Climate Reality Check Coalition: Action, Action, Action! Climate Science Watch Organizers discussed upcoming actions including: Earth Day 2012, 350.org Climate Impacts Day, Alliance for Appalachia's Week in Washington and Day of Action to End Mountaintop Removal, and Ha ...
  • Letter: Commissioners better stop silica sand ...
    Letter: Commissioners better stop silica sand Republican Eagle In West Virginia, the mountain top removal tactics of Massey Energy are so untouchable that despite lawsuits, protests and multiple deaths of coal miners due to unsafe conditions, they brazenly built a coal silo just 300 feet from an ...

Memeorandum

  • Sen. Tom Coburn's New Book 'The Debt Bomb' War ...
    ABCNEWS: Sen. Tom Coburn's New Book ‘The Debt Bomb’ Warns of Economic Crisis  —  The leading Republican budget hawk in the Senate, Senator Tom Coburn, R-OK., is coming out Tuesday with a new book that provides a harsh critique of Congress and a dire warning for the f ...
  • GOVERNOR PHIL BRYANT SIGNS HOUSE BILL 1390 (Mi ...
    Mississippi's 64th Governor, Phil Bryant: GOVERNOR PHIL BRYANT SIGNS HOUSE BILL 1390  —  JACKSON - Gov. Phil Bryant today signed House Bill 1390, a bill that requires all physicians associated with an abortion clinic in Mississippi to be board-certified or eligible obstetrics/gy ...
  • CNN/ORC poll: Most Americans say tax system fa ...
    CNN: CNN/ORC poll: Most Americans say tax system favors wealthy  —  (CNN) - As procrastinators rush to file their 2011 tax returns by the Tuesday deadline, a new poll shows more than two-thirds of Americans believe the revenue system benefits the wealthy while being unfair to av ...
  • Notes on Poll-Watching, as Shift Toward Genera ...
    Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight: Notes on Poll-Watching, as Shift Toward General Election Season Begins  —  In a couple of weeks, we'll be starting our FiveThirtyEight forecasts for the general election.  But there's still a fair amount of work to get those ready, and we seem ...
  • Report abuse (Daily Mail)
    Daily Mail: Report abuse  —  From what I see on the message board, I have not seen one person mention what this means in the Grand Scheme of Things.  What is essentially happening here is the Elite/gov etc, are setting up a system where it will be illegal to critisise the g ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Life on the roof of the world
    Yang Xiaohong and Fang Qianhua, winners of the “best science report” category at the 2012 China Environmental Press Awards, spent a month with scientists tracking species in the Everest Nature Reserve. chinadialogue features a slideshow of their photos.Two journalists from Southern M ...
  • Korea’s green ribbon of hope
    The deathly forces that lock humans out of the demilitarised zone have allowed other species to thrive, writes Lisa Brady. Could a remnant of violent conflict become the symbol of a greener, more peaceful future?A thin green ribbon threads its way across the Korean Peninsula. Viewed from space, ...
  • Delving behind the headlines
    Feng Jie, named “Journalist of the Year” at the 2012 China Environmental Press Awards, sees a “golden age” for reporters. But, she tells Liu Yuan, pollution and water shortages are difficult realities to explore. Feng Jie’s first reaction on hearing that she&rs ...
  • China’s best green journalists
    Liu Jianqiang announces the winners of the 2012 China Environmental Press Awards.On April 10, China's Environmental Press Awards recognised the efforts of more than 20 environmental journalists. Their articles have exposed inconvenient environmental truths throughout the past year: from offshore ...
  • China’s citizen journalists
    Concerned citizens are using microblogs and other online tools to help protect the environment. Feng Yongfeng explains how the 2012 China Environmental Press Awards recognised their contributions.The 2012 China Environmental Press Awards, co-organised by chinadialogue, The Guardian and Sina, for ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • The Quiet Racism that Killed Trayvon Martin: R ...
    Crossposted on Tikkun Daily. by Josh Healey Before he became the latest and most-Tweeted victim of racial violence in America’s long, dirty history, Trayvon Martin was just another kid growing up in Miami. He was a high school junior, got A’s and B’s in his classes, planned to ...
  • Anti-Choice Medical Malpractice Shields Threat ...
    Written by Jessica Mason Pieklo for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. Among the new restrictions appearing in anti-abortion bills nationwide, it is the medical malpractice liability shields that ...
  • Tucson Citizen Shuts Down Popular Latino Blogg ...
    With the impeccable timing that continues to cement Tucson’s reputation as a hotbed of censorship and intellectual freedom violations, the online Tucson Citizen news site just announced that it has pulled the plug on the city’s most popular Latino blogger and activist, The Three Sono ...
  • Religious Freedom or Religious Control? Employ ...
    Written by Christine Charbonneau for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. I am the CEO of Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest.  I am also an employer.  In the latest round of the War ...
  • And They Call Trayvon Martin “Suspicious ...
    “The fraternities here have a tremendous sense of entitlement – a different entitlement than you find at Harvard or other Ivy League schools,” says Michael Bronski, a Dartmouth professor of women’s and gender studies. “Their members are secure that they have bright ...

Threat Level

  • Contradicting a Federal Judge, FCC Clears Goog ...
    The Federal Communications Commission is clearing Google of wrongdoing in connection to it secretly intercepting Americans' data on unencrypted Wi-Fi routers. A federal judge has held otherwise in nearly a dozen civil lawsuits.
  • 8 Suspects Arrested in Online Drug Market Sting
    Eight suspects in the United States and elsewhere have been arrested and indicted for their involvement in an online drug market accessible only through the TOR anonymizing network that sold LSD, ecstasy, marijuana and other drugs to some 3,000 customers in 34 countries.
  • Supreme Court to Revisit ‘First-Sale’ Copyrigh ...
    The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide the global reach of U.S. copyright law, in a case testing whether an overseas purchaser of a copyrighted work may resell it in the United States without the copyright holder’s permission.
  • Judge Won’t Purge Megaupload User Data, At Lea ...
    A federal judge on Friday declined to pull the plug on 25 million gigabytes of Megaupload data seized when the government shuttered the file sharing service in January. But the fate of the gigantic trove of data remains unsettled.
  • Shades of 1984 Emerge in Broadcast TV Copyrigh ...
    In 1984, Hollywood was arguing that the VCR and home taping would kill its business and wanted the Supreme Court to outlaw the devices from Americans' living rooms. Luckily, for Americans and Hollywood, the Supreme Court recognized the power of innovation and the limits of copyright in a 5-4 dec ...

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PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • It is time to Put Parnell Behind Bars!
    I have developed a friendship with many of Stewart Parnell’s victims of the Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) Salmonella outbreak of 2009.  Many of them attended a press conference in 2011, where they asked why after two years Parnell was still free?  Re-reading internal emails ...
  • Three HUS Cases Linked to Oregon's Foundation ...
    Also, farm linked to raw milk E. coli O157:H7 illnesses in Missouri. According the Lynne Terry of the Oregonian, Oregon health authorities have confirmed a fifth case of E. coli infection in an outbreak traced to raw milk. All five patients are younger than 15 and three, including a toddler, a ...
  • "What happens when your restaurant becomes inv ...
    I am giving a talk later this week to the Washington Restaurant Association. Bill Marler 2012 Washington Restaurant Association Webinar View more presentations from Bill Marler.
  • The Raw Milk Facts: Outbreaks, Illnesses and R ...
    With raw milk outbreak in both Oregon and Missouri, it is hard to keep up on the outbreak and recalls.  This line list was compiled through searches for government and dairy industry press releases, reports, and newsletters announcing dairy-related outbreaks and recalls. The data precedes ...
  • As many as 13 potential Raw Milk Illnesses in ...
    The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services has confirmed 13 cases of E. coli bacterial infection in central and western Missouri. Six of the cases involved people who drank raw milk purchased from the same farm, said Gena Terlizzi, an official with the Missouri health department. Stil ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Report: Toyota announces service campaign to f ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Wagon, Recalls, Toyota Toyota engineers have worked hard to get the emissions that come out of the tailpipe of the Prius V down to a low level, but that doesn't mean everything is copacetic with the car's exhaust system. To fix a known problem, Toyota has announced a serv ...
  • Followup: Five people hurt in GM lab explosion ...
    Filed under: Plants/Manufacturing, GM More details are filtering in about yesterday's explosion at the General Motors Technical Center battery research lab in Warren, Michigan. First, the number of people injured has climbed to five, with one taken to the hospital and four treated at the s ...
  • Video: Bob Lutz wins push-up contest on Th ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Videos, Chevrolet, GM, Electric Former General Motors Vice Chairman Bob Lutz went bicep-to-bicep with "America's ballsiest pundit," Stephen Colbert, last night - and came out ahead. Ostensibly, Lutz was on Colbert to talk about his new book, Car Guys Vs. Bean Counters, bu ...
  • Study: One and Done: Study says most hybrid dr ...
    Filed under: Car Buying, Hybrid, Etc., Toyota How much do hybrid drivers really, truly like their cars? According to R.L. Polk, not all that much - at least not in 2011. Polk has released a new hybrid loyalty analysis that concludes that only 35 percent of people who bought a hybrid bought ...
  • New York: Delorean Electric surprises in New Y ...
    Filed under: New York Auto Show, Classics, Hatchback, Electric First announced last October, the reborn, all-electric Delorean has made a surprise appearance at the New York Auto Show this year. It's a surprise because not even Delorean Motor Company president Stephen Wynne knew he was going ...

Rafe's Radar

  • Selling the Apple II: Three true stories
    It's the 35th anniversary of the introduction of the Apple II. It reminds Rafe Needleman of a summer job selling the ...
  • Reporters' Roundtable: Google Glasses you can ...
    It is the coolest tech demo we've seen this year: Google's Project Glass, which is an effort to create a glasses-based heads-up display for the real world. With the Google glasses, you look out a window and get a weather report overlaid on your field of view. Look at a product and get ...
  • LogMeIn launches Cubby: File sync and share do ...
    Dropbox users, listen up: Your beloved product is way too limiting. Originally posted at Software ...
  • Vic Gundotra: How we claim 170M Google+ users ...
    Google launched a redesigned version of the social network Google+ this morning. In the blog post announcing the upgrade, Google Senior Vice President of Social Vic Gundotra wrote, "More than 170 million people have upgraded to Google+." What does that really mean? Are 170 million people ...
  • Wavii groks the news so you don't have to
    New service does a strong job of understanding news well enough to write summary headlines of it. Originally posted ...

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • The Long, Hot March of Climate Change
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan The Pentagon knows it. The world’s largest insurers know it. Now, governments may be overthrown because of it. It is climate change, and it is real. According to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, last month was the hottest March on r ...
  • Kenneth Chamberlain's Family Says Autopsy Cont ...
    The former Marine shot by cops in his apartment died from a single bullet that entered his right arm and ripped through both lungs, according to an autopsy report obtained by the Daily News. The lawyer for Kenneth Chamberlain’s family said the autopsy contradicts the police account of his death ...
  • Tonight: Sharif Abdel Kouddous to Receive Izzy ...
    Tonight Democracy Now! correspondent Sharif Abdel Kouddous will receive the fourth annual Izzy Award for outstanding achievement in independent media, presented by the Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca College, Phillips Hall, Emerson Suites. The event is free and open to the public. ...
  • Democracy Now! Host Amy Goodman Named "Truthdi ...
    From the Truthdig.org website: This week’s Truthdigger choice may seem like a no-brainer, and in many ways it is, as journalist and “Democracy Now!” host Amy Goodman has made a career out of exemplifying just those qualities we look for when picking our winners. Many of those attributes fa ...
  • VIDEO: Malian Musician Khaira Arby, "Nightinga ...
    As we recently reported, Tuareg rebels in the West African nation of Mali have declared the independent state of Azawad after seizing Timbuktu and other major cities in the north. Renowned Malian musician Khaira Arby, was was born and raised in Timbuktu, where she studied under the legendary ...

Suzie-Q

  • Obama Skewers Senate Republicans for Blocking ...
    Politicususa By: Jason Easley April 16, 2012 After Senate Republicans blocked the Buffett Rule, President Obama took them to task and continued riding a wave of fairness towards reelection. After only one Republicans voted with Democrats in favor of the Buffett Rule, President Obama said in a st ...
  • Weekly Address Of President Obama: It’s Time F ...
    One of the fundamental challenges of our time is building an economy where everyone gets a fair shot, everyone does their fair share, and everyone plays by the same rules. And as many Americans rush to file their taxes this weekend, it’s worth pointing out that we’ve got a tax system that doesn’ ...
  • Obama Paid Higher Rate Than Mitt Romney, 2011 ...
    guardian.co.uk, Friday 13 April 2012 14.24 EDT White House says president believes he should pay more tax as returns show he and Michelle paid 20.5% on $789,674 The White House has said the president believes he should pay more tax as the release of Barack Obama‘s returns showed he was tax ...
  • Obamas and Bidens to Release Tax Returns
    The New York Times By MARK LANDLER and JIM RUTENBERG Published: April 13, 2012 WASHINGTON — Punctuating a week of political assaults on Mitt Romney over taxes, President Obama and Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. plan to release their own income tax returns on Friday, along with a statement ca ...
  • Mitt Romney: Memories to Last a Lifetime (VIDEO)

Solari

  • Jim Norman: The US Plays the Oil Card
    “The trouble with this country is that you can’t win an election without the oil bloc, and you can’t govern with it.”                – Franklin D. Roosevelt By Catherine Austin Fitts This Thursday, veteran journalist and author Jim Norman joins us to talk about th ...
  • Subscribers Brunch in San Jose
    What a wonderful brunch we had this weekend in San Jose! Australian Tony Brigstock and his beautiful family played host. Tony is a former PGA tour golfer who is now teaching and happens to be an incredible chef – multiple mouthwatering courses flowed from the kitchen. Our Solari Report su ...
  • Largest Publically Traded Banks in the World a ...
    The list below shows the largest banks in the world based on market capitalization as of January 20, 2012. Industrial & Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) is the largest bank in the world by market capitalization value. Chinese banks occupy the top positions. The People’s Republic now has 4 of ...
  • Number of Guns Per Capita by Country
    From Wikipedia This is a list of countries by gun ownership rate (number of privately owned small firearms divided by number of residents). [click on the image for a larger version] Continue reading the article . . . [Note from Catherine: Since I own a rifle and two semi-automatics, [...]
  • Transcript of Catherine’s Interview of J ...
    A transcript of Catherine’s April 5, 2012 interview with Joe Mysak on the Solari Report is available to Subscribers! From the transcript: Catherine: We’re calling this interview with Joe Mysak “Insight on the Municipal Market.” Joe is certainly a person who has extraordinary insight on thi ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • President Romney will prove an effective Presi ...
    Summary:  In July 2008 I forecast that McCain would win.  Earlier, in February, I predicted that Obama would be a weak president.  This election we’ll double down:  McCain will win, and prove an effective President.  Effective for the 1% who purchased his election; less so for us. “Y ...
  • Fear not! America will not fall due to its ci ...
    Summary:  Our government’s debt grows, imperiling not just its solvency but our very self-confidence in ourselves, and in our political regime.  Can we reform before the end?  Read this essay to learn the answer.  And rejoice! Read and learn from the money paragraph of “Why Democraci ...
  • Vietnam Has Left Town. Say Hello to our New Sy ...
    Summary:  No nation, no matter how powerful, can long prosper (perhaps not even survive) with a broken observation-orientation-decision-action loop (OODA loop).  Like ours.  The primary symptom: an inability to learn.  We cannot learn from our peers’ to fix our health care system.  We cann ...
  • Peter Van Buren explains “What We Lost i ...
    Summary:  Today we have an account of one man’s experience doing the right thing in the New America.  He dared to tell us the truth about the Iraq War.  We repaid him with illegal punishments and a broken career (the whistleblower laws, like all laws today, were meaningless) – pour l ...
  • Peter Van Buren explains “What We Lost i ...
    Summary:  Today we have an account of one man’s experience doing the right thing in the New America.  He dared to tell us the truth about the Iraq War.  We repaid him with illegal punishments and a broken career (the whistleblower laws, like all laws today, were meaningless) – pour l ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

  • Our Pre-industrial Cyber Future: Is the Smart ...
    Is it possible, as we rush to implement energy-saving Smart Grid technologies, that we are building a system so vulnerable that a cyber disruption would reduce us to pre-industrial days? This was the topic of a recent panel at the RSA computer security conference and seems, at first look, t ...
  • Iran Appears Optimistic About Nuclear Talks
    Following talks about Iran’s nuclear program in Istanbul, world powers and Iranian officials seem optimistic about future engagements. In an interview with the Iranian state television on April 15, the Iranian Foreign Minister, Ali Akbari Salehi, stated: “We had already repeatedly stated that t ...
  • Conservative WSJ Columnist Blasts GOP Candidat ...
    Conservative Wall Street Journal commentator Peggy Noonan’s weekend column criticized the Republican presidential field just as the primary race seemed to be tilting inexorably toward a nomination for Mitt Romney. The former speechwriter for Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush l ...
  • Militias Still Have the Run of Libya
    IHS’ Richard Cochrane reports that despite some success the interim government has had ahead of the planned June 2012 national elections in bringing militias to heel — 8,000 militiamen are now “pledged” to become border guards — several obstacles remain to the National Transitional Council’s eff ...
  • Iran Hones Asymmetric Diplomacy with Washington
    Outnumbered six to one, Iran deftly maneuvered this weekend (April 13-14) to restart negotiations that could yield formal recognition of its uranium enrichment program, and postponement of more crushing economic sanctions or a military attack. The results of the meeting in Istanbul bet ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Spring Come Early? Thank Occupy Wall Street
    Last week, several dozen nonprofit organizations hosted events across the country to train over 100,000 Americans in non-violent direct action. Dubbed the 99% Spring, the training was spearheaded by several national nonprofit organizations. If you didn’t hear about it, you’re not alone. Other t ...
  • Obamaites Charge Romney With Inveterate Richness
    Priorities USA Action, the super PAC run by former Obama advisers, is up with a new ad explaining to voters that Mitt Romney is an extremely rich guy, who does richie rich things like hold up pieces of legal tender while surrounded by his richie rich friends. In short, the ad seems like little ...
  • American Politics in Two Numbers
    Projected decline in total federal spending (relative to GDP), 2011-2023, under the Ryan budget plan unanimously supported by House Republicans (according to the Congressional Budget Office’s March 2012 report). Federal spending would fall from 22.5% of GDP in 2011 to 17.25% in 2023 (and to 15 ...
  • Political Science Is Just Like Leonardo DiCaprio
       
  • Even Romney's Donors Support Same-Sex Marriage
    The prolonged Republican primary forced Mitt Romney to take stances on a host of controversial issues to win the allegiance of conservative voters. That could be alienating now that he is moving to the general election. His opposition to reproductive rights, harsh tone on immigration, and defer ...

Buzzflash

  • The Ill-Wind of Death that Races Across the Me ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The statistics are almost certainly an undercount, because a lot of bodies are never found, but data reveals that hundreds of undocumented migrants each year die seeking economic refuge in the United States. According to the good Samaritan group No Mo ...
  • It's Perfectly Legal for Drug Companies to Pro ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT According to a Seattle Crosscut Public Media article, Leftover medications are fueling an epidemic of prescription-drug abuse that is killing more Washingtonians than traffic accidents, say drug-addiction experts. Yet pharmaceutical companies have co ...
  • Ann Romney: Not All Moms Have the Choice to Be ...
    DEE EVANS FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT My Mother finally got her chance to be a stay at home Mom...at age 65. As a single mother with five kids, she didn't have a ‘choice' of staying home and raising her kids...she had to work to put food on our table, clothes on our backs and a roof over our head ...
  • How Freedom of Speech is Abused by Fanatics
    ANN DAVIDOW FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT These days ‘freedom of speech' is used to justify outlandish outbursts by candidates as well as officeholders. Screeds from people like Sarah Palin and those she supports are so ludicrous and irresponsible they shouldn't be taken seriously although they ofte ...
  • Freedom Is on the March ... Backwards
    HARVEY WASSERMAN FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT At freedom's core is protection from arbitrary police power and the right to choose one's own medicine, as well as to express one's opinion, however controversial. All three of these rights have taken very troubling recent hits. Mired in imperial war an ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Ultrasound blasts prostate cancer
    Today, the BBC is reporting another medical “breakthrough” – high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) for treating prostate cancer as an adjunct or even alternative to radiotherapy, chemo, and invasive surgery. Ultrasound can be highly focused, essentially boiling the diseased ...
  • Print your own chemistry set…
    A 3D printer and some silicone is all you need to revolutionise chemistry by making the reaction vessel a part of the experiment itself. More details in this week’s Nature Chemistry. Tell the laboratory glassblower to hang up their face guard and shut the door on their way out… Relat ...
  • Toxic snails and novel painkillers
    Conotoxins from the predatory cone snail work even at very low levels to block nerve signals. Now, researchers in Germany have investigated the structures of one specific conotoxin with a view to developing the compound, or its derivatives, as a new type of painkiller. Despite being snail-derive ...
  • A virtual trip to New Mexico
    The Alchemist takes a virtual trip to New Mexico this week to learn of resistant bacteria. He also discovers that counter intuitively putting certain zeolites under pressure can open up the entrances to their pores. In geochemistry, we learn why copper is not found so commonly at the Earth&#8217 ...
  • A dinosaur timeline
    Dinosaurs are on my mind…not least because of the ACS’s intelligent alien dinosaur story and the attempt to ban the word and all evolutionary themes by the NYC Department of Education but also because my good buddy Ed Yong just alerted us to a Smithsonian article that puts the dinosa ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • As Buffett Rule Comes Before Congress This Tax ...
    To celebrate tax day, April 15-17 young members of “the one percent” plan to stage pie-cutting demonstrations to talk about wealth inequality and taxes while serving up pies in cities around the country. Demonstrations will occur at farmers markets, parks, and rallies in New York, Lo ...
  • PFAW Report: How the War on Women Became Mains ...
    Swept into power by Tea Party victories in 2010, Republicans in state legislatures and the U.S. Congress are waging an unprecedented assault on women’s rights. A new report from People For the American Way details the recent developments in the Right’s War on Women and outlines ways ...
  • Lawsuit Launched to Protect Habitat for Florid ...
    The Center for Biological Diversity and Turtle Island Restoration Network (SeaTurtles.org) filed a formal notice of intent to sue the Obama administration today seeking to protect critical habitat for imperiled loggerhead sea turtles on Florida’s nesting beaches and marine waters in the At ...
  • Kim's Selection as World Bank President is a " ...
    The announcement that Jim Yong Kim will be the next president of the World Bank is positive news for people living in poverty or struggling with illness, Center for Economic and Policy Research Co-Director Mark Weisbrot said today. Kim’s track record at Partners in Health and the World Hea ...
  • National Priorities Project Breaks Down Federa ...
    Ahead of the April 17 IRS filing deadline, National Priorities Project (NPP) announces the release of Tax Day 2012 with the numbers on how federal income taxes were spent in fiscal year 2011 -- down to the penny.read more

Common Dreams-Views

  • How Wealth Reduces Compassion
    Daisy Grewal Who is more likely to lie, cheat, and steal—the poor person or the rich one? It’s temping to think that the wealthier you are, the more likely you are to act fairly. After all, if you already have enough for yoursel ...
  • On Saving the 'Soul' of Occupy
    Danny Schechter Perhaps my problem is that I live in too many worlds at the same time, while many political eras live in me. That may be why I responded so negatively to a recent polemic wrapped up in a poetic communique from AdBusters, the ...
  • The Boss Man Cometh: Through State Tax Breaks, ...
    Michelle Chen As you file your taxes this week, before complaining about how much you’re forking over to Uncle Sam, bear in mind that the tax man might not be the only one you’re writing a check to: Your boss might be getting a ...
  • If Tarek Mehanna is Guilty So Am I
    Ross Caputi On April 12th Tarek Mehanna was found guilty of conspiracy and of giving material support for terrorism. He was sentenced to 17 years in prison. The prosecution accused Mehanna of translating statements for Al Qaeda and of disse ...
  • If Tarek Mehanna is Guilty So Am I
    Ross Caputi On April 12th Tarek Mehanna was found guilty of conspiracy and of giving material support for terrorism. He was sentenced to 17 years in prison. The prosecution accused Mehanna of translating statements for Al Qaeda and of disse ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • Europe's airlines enforce Israeli travel ban o ...
    Jillian Kestler-D'Amours Jerusalem 16 April 2012 Thousands of international solidarity activists were set to fly to Tel Aviv in a coordinated effort to volunteer with Palestinian initiatives in the occupied West Bank. However, Israel coordinated with European airlines to cancel many activi ...
  • With campus propagandists like these, the sati ...
    Jimmy Johnson 14 April 2012 Jimmy Johnson’s ironic report on a Zionist propaganda event at Wayne State University, which was protested by student activists.
  • Why are Palestinians paying for Germany's sins?
    Susan Abulhawa 14 April 2012 While Palestinians continue to be robbed of their land, heritage and human rights to atone for Germany’s sins, Germany unreservedly supports Israel.
  • Israeli democracy was dead on arrival: Peter B ...
    Rod Such 13 April 2012 In his new book, The Crisis of Zionism, Peter Beinart stops well short of accepting a Palestinian right of return or repudiating the idea that Jews are sovereign in a state where fully a fifth of its citizens are non-Jews.
  • Gaza family awaits new home, 9 years after dem ...
    Rami Almeghari Rafah 13 April 2012 Gaza families whose homes were destroyed in Israeli attacks can’t rebuild until Israel allows a sufficient quantity of building material into Gaza.

The Wonk Room

  • On Conference Call, Santorum Doesn’t Dis ...
    The race may be essentially over and his campaign suspended, but former GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum appears to be in no hurry to back presumed nominee Mitt Romney. Santorum held a conference call with supporters tonight to thank them for their work and discuss his future plans. Supp ...
  • Romney Refuses To Say Whether He Would Sign Li ...
    In an interview with ABC News’ Diane Sawyer that will air tonight, Mitt Romney refuses to say whether he would sign the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009, a law that helps women hold accountable employers who discriminate in the pay practices based on gender. Asked about the law, Romney ...
  • Senate Republicans Filibuster Buffett Rule
    The Buffett Rule, a bill backed by President Obama that would ensure millionaires pay a comparable tax rate to middle-class Americans, fell to a Republican filibuster in the Senate this evening, despite a new poll showing it to be overwhelmingly popular. While the rule, named after billionaire i ...
  • Fox News Guest Attacks Hillary: It’s As ...
    Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is having quite a month. After a photo of her spawned its own internet sensation, new images from a nightlife hotspot in Colombia that show Clinton sipping on a beer and dancing have ignited a fresh wave of gossipy commentary. The New York Post ran one photo on ...
  • A Quick Thought on the Pulitzers and the Great ...
    I’m excited to read all three of the finalists for drama: the winner, Quiara Alegría Hudes’ “Water By the Spoonfull,” about an Iraq war veteran working in a sandwich shop, and Stephen Karam’s “Sons of the Prophet,” about Lebanese-American family sound pa ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Two Books
    It's been a busy day and won't end until 9 pm. or so. So, here's a quick post about two books I'm reading. First is Lawrence Hill's The Book of Negroes. I'm finding it very moving, but I'm not sure if that's because the subject matter is such that almost any competent writer describing the trag ...
  • harper and Obama: Loons of a Feather
    Jesus Christ, even the President of Colombia (awash with all sorts of US military toys) says that the "War on Drugs" has been a failure. Latin American leaders at the Summit of the Americas were united in complaining that this drug war has been, and continues to be an enormously costly drain on ...
  • Consequences
    It's high time that Canadians started to care about their democracy. Because the stupid, self-righteous, ignorant outbursts of "Ah! They're all crooks!" is totally unproductive. They are NOT all crooks, and, if they were, wouldn't that be cause to do something more than bitch and grumble in the ...
  • harper, The Pretender, Making Ass of hisself a ...
    So, the guy who cheats to win power over us? The guy whose power over us stems from his control of a majority of the votes in an institution he himself has no respect for? The guy who lies shamelessly to our representatives in Parliament and to us through the news media? That guy? Well, apparen ...
  • Two Things
    I like this cartoon. In other news ... "Canadians continued to heap on debt in first quarter" The sniveling toadies to the USA masters of the Canadian universe seem perplexed that Canadians, already with debt-to-income levels of 150% are still not living within their means. In a recent intervi ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Donald Trump, officials cut the ribbon at Trum ...
    Donald Trump, real estate mogul and multi-billionaire businessman, and his three children visited Toronto Monday where they cut the ribbon of The Trump International Hotel and Tower, which has been open since Jan. 31.
  • A question about Ann Romney's 'mommy skills'
    I would be the last person to criticize Ann Romney for choosing to be a stay-at-home mom... which was never really the thing she was being criticized for. But I do have some questions.
  • Study: Six percent of 8th graders participated ...
    It's been called Knock Out, Space Monkey, Flat Liner, Five Minutes in Heaven and the Fainting Game, but it's more commonly known as the choking game. Now a population-based survey, says six percent of 8th graders in Oregon, have played it.
  • Toronto Constable stabbed in the line of duty
    Working on his own, a Toronto Police Officer dealt with their family's worse fear, being injured in the line of duty Sunday night. The incident took place near Bathurst Street and Wilson Avenue.
  • Live Green Flash Mob at Toronto's Nathan Phill ...
    Live Green brought out the drums today during a flash mob at Nathan Phillips Square in Toronto. Those drums were in the form of recycling boxes and brooms. The event was to send the message out to keep the city clean.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Two-Party Dictatorship: US Choosing Lesser Evil?
    March 29, 2012 RT By RT “Sooner or later, the democrats and republicans are going to lose.” -KTRN Republican candidates continue to battle it out in the primaries across the country in the hopes of challenging Democratic President Obama for the top job. But recent gallop polls sugges ...
  • Curcumin Found To Prevent Brain Degenerative D ...
    March 29, 2012 Natural News By John Phillip Curcumin, the bioactive compound found in the Indian curry spice turmeric and commonly referred to as ‘holy powder’, has been used for centuries in folk medicine to treat wounds, infections, and other health problems. Today researchers are ...
  • ‘Tens of Billions’ Of Potentially Habitable Pl ...
    March 29, 2012 RT By RT “This is amazingly awesome news. Just think about it – TENS OF BILLIONS of planets may have life – and this just in our galaxy alone.  The chances of there being intelligent life in the universe (other than humans, if we can even call ourselves intellige ...
  • Commonly Prescribed Drugs And Hospitals Are Ki ...
    March 29, 2012 Natural News By Tony Isaacs “Stop taking pharmaceutical drugs – doctor’s order.” –KTRN Prescription drugs and the combination of those drugs and other medications are taking a heavy toll on elderly Americans, leading to risky hospitalizations, mental ...
  • Australian Globalist Senator Bob Brown Calls f ...
    March 29, 2012 Activist Post By Andrew Puhanic “The globalists must be stopped.  we cannot allow them to take over the world.”  –KTRN The Globalists have officially infiltrated the Australian Government and have now admitted on record that they want Australia to lead the world ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Federal Reserve can serve 100%, not just crimi ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comFederal Reserve can serve 100%, not just criminal 1%: Prof. Tim Canova explains By Carl Hermanwashingtonsblog.com The first 32 minutes of this video from Claremont Colleges Center for Process Studies conference, Money-Cr ...
  • U.S. Senator Tours Fukushima, Warns Situation ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comU.S. Senator Tours Fukushima, Warns Situation Worse Than Reported …Urges Japan to Accept International Help to Stabilize Dangerous Spent Fuel Pools By WashingtonsBlogwashingtonsblog.com Reuters reports: Japan, with ...
  • U.S. greenhouse gases back up after decline
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comWASHINGTON ? US emissions of greenhouse gases blamed for climate change rose in 2010, ending a brief downward turn as the world’s largest economy gradually recovers from recession, official data showed Monday. In a ...
  • Federal Bureaucrat: Government and Taxes are t ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comKurt Nimmo Infowars.com April 16, 2012 Now that the Government Coercion Day – er, Tax Day, April 15 – is behind us, I thought it might be appropriate to show a federal bureaucrat rationalizing your sacrifice at gunpoint. ...
  • Activists Aim To Crush Internet Censorship Bill
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comWeek of protests against CISPA begins Steve Watson Prisonplanet.com April 16, 2012 A coalition of advocacy groups has begun a week of intensive protests against the latest attack on the free and open internet, The Cyber ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Sensationalist Media Miss the Mark by Ralph Nader
    Dandelion Salad by Ralph Nader The Nader Page April 10, 2012 March Madness comes once a year. Media Madness is year-round. What the mass media choose to cover and feature try to turn the priorities of any sane society upside down. People of vice, war, money, spectator sports and business receive ...
  • Søren Kierkegaard: Sea of Faith (1984)
    Dandelion Salad shinobirastafari on Oct 23, 2010 Part one of a two-part excerpt taken from the 1984 BBC documentary, “Sea of Faith”. The role of Søren Kierkegaard was played by the underrated Colin Jeavons. If you enjoyed the program, you can discover more about the Sea of Faith orga ...
  • Where Are All the Bodies Buried? by Michael Pa ...
    by Michael Parenti Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Michael Parenti Blog www.michaelparenti.org www.thirdworldtraveler.com Z magazine, June 2000 April 13, 2012 NATO commits acts of aggression In March 1999, NATO forces launched an 11-week nonstop aerial attack upon Yugoslavia that violated the UN ...
  • Weird Winter – Mad March
    Dandelion Salad Apr 16, 2012 by greenman3610 Join the conversation and support this series at www.climatecrocks.com For these and more videos, check out the Glimpse Science Network. http://glimpsescience.net/ This extraordinary mild winter in North America, followed by an unprecedentedly warm ma ...
  • The 1979 Iranian U.S. Embassy Siege and Hostag ...
    by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Ethiopia April 13, 2012 It was one of America’s most humiliating episodes during the past 50 years, ranking along with the hurried retreat from Saigon in 1975 and the Bay of Pigs fiasco off Cuba in 1961 – the US embassy siege in Tehran when 52 ...

Your New Reality

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    Tupac Rises Well, fuck me.... From even a few dozen rows back, reportedly, the hologram of Tupac was utterly believable. How long before a Michael Jackson hologram culled from his greatest live performances is touring the world's stadiums? I've been waiting decades to see holographic tech ...
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    Hypnotic, grin-making. A house filled with interactive reproductions of classic art, coming soon: Starry Night (interactive animation) from Petros Vrellis on Vimeo.
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    Normal blogging output will return soon. Making some movies. In the meantime, enjoy :
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    Best. Christmas. Ever A Short Story By Darryl Mason "Is your father okay?" He waited for her to answer. He couldn't tell her what happened while she was away... "He's not getting better, if that's what you mean." How could he tell her, right now? She had more than enough on her mind alread ...
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    Britain Embraces Apocalyptic Doom It's grim, and getting grimmer, but as this UK Guardian story by Andy Beckett reveals Brits can't get enough of the end of the world : A sense of doom dominates recent films such as Melancholia, in which a vast unknown planet suddenly appears from behind the su ...

Wired - Science

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Lia Tarachansky: Israel Denies Entry to Hundre ...
    Over 1500 activists from 15 countries attempted to fly to Ben Gurion Airport to travel to Bethlehem in the occupied Palestinian territories. They were invited by Palestinian activists to help build a... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Israeli soldiers brutally attack Palestinians ...
    Palestinian and international cyclists were brutally attacked by the Israeli occupation forces on Saturday as they attempted to bike up Route 90, the main North-South highway running through the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • NEW BOOK by Moshé Machover: Israelis and Pales ...
    Victoria Brittain: "This collection of Moshé Machover’s writings from the mid-1960s to today brings together a coherent and consistent vision of Zionist colonialism and the dispossession and... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, no ...
  • Israeli activists will arrive tomorrow at Tel ...
    As citizens of Israel, we feel great respect and appreciation for our international activists who come to visit the West Bank and express solidarity with the Palestinian residents, living under... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Amira Hass: Israel must understand it cannot b ...
    The real question is not whether the solution is "two states" or "one state." History in any case does not recognize end points - every stage leads to another. Visions are also not lacking. The... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...

Ria Novosti - Military

  • Malaysia in Talks with Russia on SAM, AT Missi ...
    Malaysia is close to a contract with Russia on the delivery of Kornet antitank missile systems, Igla portable anti-aircraft missiles and is also negotiating a deal on Russian guided missile and patrol boats, Russian state-controlled arms exporter Rosoboronexport said on Tuesday.
  • Iran's nuclear program
  • Russian Peacekeepers to Remain in Transdnestr
    Moscow will not cave in to Western pressure and abandon its peacekeeping mission in Moldova's breakaway region of Transdnestr, the Russian president’s point man for the region said on Tuesday.
  • Russia, Indonesia to Clinch $100M Armored Vehi ...
    Russia will soon sign a contract with Indonesia to deliver 37 infantry fighting vehicles worth more than $100 million, Russian state-controlled arms exporter Rosoboronexport said on Tuesday.
  • Russia 3rd Largest Military Spender Worldwide ...
    Russia’s military expenditures in 2011 totaled $71.9 billion, which made the country the world’s third largest military spender, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) think tank said in a report published on Tuesday.

NewsWise

  • Preschoolers' Reading Skills Benefit From One ...
    A small change in how teachers and parents read aloud to preschoolers may provide a big boost to their reading skills later on, a new study found.
  • American Association of Neurological Surgeons ...
    Mitchel S. Berger, MD, FAANS, FACS, will be named president of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) at the 80th AANS Annual Meeting in Miami, April 14-18, 2012. Dr. Berger is chairman of the University of California, San Francisco's (UCSF) Department of Neurological Surgery ...
  • Genetically Engineered Compound for Back Pain ...
    Despite the great promise that injecting a new type of anti-inflammatory pain medicine into the spine could relieve the severe leg and lower back pain of sciatica, a Johns Hopkins-led study has found that the current standard of care with steroid injections still does better.
  • Rush's New Hospital is the Largest New Constru ...
    Rush University Medical Center's innovative new hospital building, the Tower, which opened in January, has earned LEED Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council and verified by the Green Building Certification Institute. It is the largest new construction healthcare project in the ...
  • An Online Snub Hurts As Much as a Real One
    A snub on Facebook feels just as painful as one in real life, suggests new research from Misericordia University and Penn State.

Natural Health News

  • The Richest Fattest Nation on Earth (It’s Not ...
    When it comes to the world’s most obese countries, the United States usually takes the cake. But in a surprising report, it turns out that Qatar, a tiny country the size of Connecticut, puts the frosting and cherry on top in the most-obese category. In September Qatar officially became the riche ...
  • Powerful Flu Drugs—Is the Cure Worse than the ...
    In a personal commentary on her child’s experience taking Tamiflu—a drug that is supposed to alleviate flu symptoms—a Time Healthland journalist reveals that sometimes the so-called cure for an illness not only can be worse than the disease, but terrifying. Her little boy suffered neuropsychiatr ...
  • Is the Fiberglass in Your Attic or Walls Causi ...
    Fiberglass was nominated as a top safety concern on the synthetic mineral fiber list for the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) in 1994. It’s a substance that can be found almost everywhere you look, from homes and schools, to medications and toothpastes, to the very air you br ...
  • This Life-Saving Mineral Found to Actually Inc ...
    A new study shows that reducing iron levels in blood plasma may protect the brain from changes related to Alzheimer’s Disease. When scientists fed a high-cholesterol diet to rabbits, it caused them to accumulate plaques of a protein called beta-amyloid. These plaques are central to the developme ...
  • Six Surprising Foods with More Sugar than a Tw ...
    Sometimes the definition of “healthy” can take a detour if you’re eating packaged foods without reading the labels. Unfortunately, if you take time to read those labels, you'll find that some foods you think are good for you actually have more sugar than a Twinkie! Thanks to Huffington Post, tho ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Weekday News Wrap: Tuesday, April 17, 2012
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey The US-backed Korean-American Jim Yong Kim was named the next president of the World Bank, in a move that drew criticism about the purported dominance of the post by the United States. The Philippines will take its dispute with China in the South China Sea t ...
  • A Deal to Try Saif in Libya?
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller I have no idea whether it’s true, but that’s what the BBC is reporting: The International Criminal Court could soon drop its demand that Saif al-Islam Gaddafi be transferred to the Hague for trial, officials have told the BBC. They say the mo ...
  • British Public Opinion Turning Against Europea ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku I know these polls might not reflect a whole lot of deliberation or thoughtfulness, but still, it is amazing to me: Nearly three quarters of Britons think human rights have become a ‘charter for criminals’, a poll has revealed. It showed a strong majority of 72 per ce ...
  • Daniel Klaidman Comments on CIA General Counse ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Daniel Klaidman, the journalist whose June 2012 book “Kill or Capture: The War on Terror and the Soul of the Obama Presidency” looks to be a must-read, has sent in a guest post to Lawfare discussing how the Stephen Preston speech came about a ...
  • Berman on Global Legal Pluralism
    by Roger Alford by Roger Alford Dean Paul Schiff Berman has a new book entitled Global Legal Pluralism (Cambridge University Press 2012) that I heartily recommend to our readers. Here’s the abstract: We live in a world of legal pluralism, where a single act or actor is potentially regula ...

Public News Service

  • Report: Better Health Insurance Info Holds Rat ...
    Report: Better Health Insurance Info Holds Rate Relief Promise for Arizonans PHOENIX - Better-informed consumers could help hold down the cost of health insurance in Arizona. That's the premise of a new report from St. Luke's Health Initiatives and Arizona PIRG. ...(Read More)
  • April is National STD Awareness Month
    April is National STD Awareness Month PHOENIX - A major problem with sexually transmitted diseases is that many people don't know they have them. April is STD Awareness Month, when public health agencies and health-care providers are urging sexually-active people to GYT - Get Yourself Tested. ...
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  • Cuatro estados lanzan esfuerzo latino para sal ...
    Cuatro estados lanzan esfuerzo latino para salvar el Río Colorado PHOENIX - Un Nuevo grupo de 13 mil latinos de cuatro estados del Suroeste está cada vez más preocupado por el desequilibrio creciente que hay entre la demanda y el abasto de agua del Río Colorado. La organizaci ...
  • Four-state Launch for Latino Effort to Save Co ...
    Four-state Launch for Latino Effort to Save Colorado River PHOENIX – A new advocacy group is raising concerns about the growing imbalance of water use and supply from the Colorado River. Made up of of 13,000 Latinos in Southwestern states, Nuestro Rio (Spanish for "our river") supports act ...

Center for Food Safety

  • FDA Announces Antibiotic Reduction Plan
    3 YEAR PHASE-OUT A WIN FOR CONSUMERS, FOOD SAFETY ADVOCATES, AND MEDICAL COMMUNITY; CONTINUED OVERSIGHT NEEDED The Center for Food Safety (CFS) applauds the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today for issuing industry guidance limiting the use of antibiotics in food-producing animals.  Ant ...
  • USDA To Decide Imminently On Novel “Agen ...
    The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is currently deciding whether or not to approve an application by Dow Chemical for its controversial genetically engineered (GE) corn crop that is resistant to the highly toxic herbicide 2,4-D, one of the main ingredients in Agent Orange. On February 22n ...
  • New Scientific Research Strengthens Link Betwe ...
    Center for Food Safety Calls on Congress, EPA to Take Action Three new studies released in the past two weeks, including one today by Harvard University, add to the growing body of evidence that implicate pesticides, specifically neonicotinoids—a class of pesticides used as a seed treatment in c ...
  • BPA is FDA’s Latest Gift to Food Industry
    By Michele Simon In a long-awaited decision, last week the Food and Drug Administration disappointed health advocates once again by allowing Bisphenol A or BPA, a known endocrine disruptor, to remain approved as a chemical additive in food containers such as plastic bottles and metal cans.While ...
  • Canadian Hog Industry Abandons Genetically Eng ...
    Center for Food Safety Calls on the U.S. FDA to Stop Review of GE “EnviroPig” The Center for Food Safety (CFS) welcomed reports that the University of Guelph, the Canadian university that developed the genetically engineered (GE) “Enviropig,” is closing down its research. CFS is now calling on t ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

  • Be organic, it's great for you and environment
    Nice colorful food in Spitalfield market, London. Did you know that seasonal food has much more nutrition than the non-seasonal? In addition, it is sustainable because it doesn't have to be stored for a long time. Check out Be organic... and follow the season (food-drink/be-organic-follow-the-se ...
  • Be organic, it's great for you and environment
    Nice colorful food in Spitalfield market, London. Did you know that seasonal food has much more nutrition than the non-seasonal? In addition, it is sustainable because it doesn't have to be stored for a long time. Check out Be organic... and follow the season (food-drink/be-organic-follow-the-se ...
  • Walk for yourself
    When you drive a car, you always have to be careful of traffic signs and jaywalking pedestrians, trapped in your stuffy car. But when you walk, you don't have to! Moreover, you can improve the health and environment together. If you need more information, check out Back to Basics (lifestyle/b ...
  • Walk for yourself
    When you drive a car, you always have to be careful of traffic signs and jaywalking pedestrians, trapped in your stuffy car. But when you walk, you don't have to! Moreover, you can improve the health and environment together. If you need more information, check out Back to Basics (lifestyle/b ...
  • Drowned flowers in flood
    There was a huge flood in western Sydney, Illawarra. Up to 20 people have been rescued from danger.This reminds the effect of global warming (climate-change/global-warming.html). If trees die due to the rising degree of the earth, their ability to store water gets worse and it can cause huge rai ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Word and Picture Diary: South Hebron Hills Wee ...
    (this diary by Ehud Krinis is crossposted from the Villages Group blog) As we do every week, last Thursday April 5 2012 we went to visit several Palestinian localities in the South Hebron Hills, with whom we have been in contact for some years now. Two members of our little group – Hamed and Er ...
  • When My Partner Went to Jail
    Me and Mousa in court. Jonathan Pollak going to jail Originally posted on Rajeefsworld.posterous.com A lot has been written recently about my good friend Jonathan Pollak’s recent incarceration in Israel for his participation in demonstrations. Understandably, there was international out ...
  • Omissions, Half-Truths, Lies: Ambassador Oren ...
    Originally posted on the 972Mag Website In a piece recently published, Israel’s Ambassador to Washington Michael Oren rejected claims regarding anti-democratic trends in his country, and compared the legal status of Palestinians in the West Bank to that of American citizens in Washington DC ...
  • Video: Israeli Army Invades and Closes Univers ...
    Sent to us by a reader. Click here for the Facebook page of Al Quds educational TV (mostly in Arabic.) Dr. Jamal Nusseibeh Vice President for Jerusalem Affairs Al-Quds University April 2, 2012 For the second time in two months, the Israeli authorities have invaded, searched and prevented the fun ...
  • Video: Israeli Soldiers Violently Evict Hebron ...
    From the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee Tuesday, 3 April 2012 “Youth Against Settlements’” Badia Dweik: “While we were violently evicted, the army treats settlers with kid gloves.” While Israeli PM and his ministers scramble to prevent the eviction of a Palestinian-owned house in ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Secret Service prostitution scandal growing
    Image. wikimedia commons, modified (obviously)At least ten soldiersmay have been involved along with the eleven Secret Service agents. President Obama and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff are not happy and wish to know much more, as does Congress.If this happened in a Third World countr ...
  • GSA. Possible bribery and kickbacks
    The General Services Administration inspector general is investigating whether bribery and kickbacks have occured. Jeffrey McNeely, a GSA regional commissioner, has been placed on leave and pled the Fifth Amendment at a congressional hearing.Maybe Neely’s wife shouldn’t have posted p ...
  • The Innocence Project: Freeing those unjustly ...
    credit: innocenceproject.orgThe Innocence Project uses DNA testing to free those wrongfully imprisoned and has aided in the release of over 250 people.The photo says it all, Cornelius Dupree after being exonerated by a Texas judge. He spent thirty years in prison for crimes he did not commit.The ...
  • Santa Cruz coastline will be protected
    A beautiful sunset sky reflects golds and pinks on the cliffs along the Pacific Ocean near Santa Cruz, CA. (The Trust for Public Land, Photo Credit: Frank S. Balthis)The Coastal Commission has approved a landmark deal that will preserve 10 square miles of land in northern California.The 6,800 ac ...
  • Prescription drug abuse. Why aren’t the drugs ...
    Prescription drug abuse is devastating Kermit, West Virginia. We’re talking hard core downers, heroin substitutes like Vicodin and Loracet. Police play whack-a-mole trying to close pill mills. Organized crime is moving in. The incidence of violence and overdoses is soaring. But this isn&#8 ...

Coteret

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

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The Air Vent

  • Gotta Be Kidding
    In an article titled, “Himalayan glaciers actually GAINING ice, space scans show An inconvenient truth” Lewis Page of the Register writes: The study was carried out by comparing two sets of space data, the first gathered by instruments aboard the space shuttle Endeavour in 2000 and t ...
  • What People Don’t Want to Know About Energy
    Guest Post by Thomas Fuller I’m well on my way to winning a small wager with a friend about my new blogging venture, 3,000 Quads ( http://3000quads.com/). It’s an unusual bet–I’m betting that I will be religiously ignored by the members of the climate consensus. We’ ...
  • History of Sea Ice
    This article is offered by Jonathan Drake.  It discusses the unusual changes in trend noted in sea ice at various points of the historic record paying particular attention to the satellite data.   I think it is worth posting, but I have varied opinions and questions regarding the different sea i ...
  • Antarctic Sea Ice Area by Latitude
    The following plots depict annual sea ice area for the Antarctic.  This is important in that we are attempting to isolate the response of annually melting sea ice to temperature.   Despite the attack on this method by the warmanistas, it does have value in that it is a reasonable proxy for how s ...
  • Bookends and Separations
    Guest Post by Thomas Fuller Once again Jeff has handed over both gavel and podium for a guest post from a Lukewarmer–guess he’s trying to keep you all on your toes… I want to talk about the brief period that will be known going forward as the Global Warming scare, and the inevi ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Social games have lower costs per click on Fac ...
    On average, brands advertising on Facebook pay more per click than social game companies do, according to data provided to us by third-party vendor AdParlor. Facebook ad costs continue to rise across a number of industries as competition increases, particularly … Continue reading →
  • Dailymotion, social readers, Instagram, Viddy, ...
    Dailymotion led a number of media-related applications on our list of the top 20 growing Facebook apps by monthly active users this week. Titles on our list gained the most MAU of any apps on the platform, growing from between … Continue reading →
  • New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: ...
    The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities across social and mobile application platforms. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at: Offerpop, W3i,  Spruce Media, Rebel Entertainment, SponsorPay,  Po ...
  • Facebook roundup: Sandberg, Colleran, Seattle ...
    Sandberg highlights importance of family – In an interview with Time, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg notes that she leaves the office at 5:30 p.m. daily so she can dine with her children at 6. Essentially, she highlights the importance of … Continue reading →
  • Facebook acquires mobile loyalty startup Tagtile
    Facebook has acquired the team and most of the assets of Tagtile, a mobile-based customer loyalty management startup, according to a post on Tagtile’s website. Facebook started and ended this week with mobile-focused acquisitions, having bought photo-sharing app Instagram for … Conti ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Intolerance in the USA's "sunshine state" of F ...
    Lawrence Davidson analysis the chronic intolerance inherent in the US State of Florida, at the core of which lie the Cuban American and Jewish communities, which "form around repugnant ideological cores that then come to characterize their very identity".
  • Good for Guenter Grass! Everyone and his dog n ...
    Stuart Littlewood views the "squawks and screeches" emanating from Israel in protest at German poet Guenter Grass's poem on the threat Israel poses to the world, and reminds us of a couple of pertinent facts: that Israel is the only nuclear state in the Middle East and that it refuses to forgo t ...
  • Pastor John Hagee and his deadly million
    Lawrence Davidson argues that US Pastor John Hagee and his followers, who believe in the divine creation of the state of Israel, are as delusional as people who once believed in the reality of Zeus and his Olympian clan but could one day act as cheerleaders for the ethnic cleansing and mass murd ...
  • The devastating impact of Passover on Jewish p ...
    Uri Avnery considers the fictional story of the Passover and its devastating impact on Jewish culture: extreme paranoia and a craving for revenge against non-Jews - for Israelis, pouring out their wrath on their neighbours, the Palestinians and other Arabs, on their minorities and on their victims.
  • German poet Guenter Grass says what cowardly p ...
    Gilad Atzmon considers German poet Guenter Grass's courageous stance on Israel, which he criticized in a poem for undermining an already fragile world peace, and views the ridiculous response of Israel's embassy and its stooges in Germany.

Amazon Rainforest

  • Peru police clashes with illegal gold miners: ...
    Thousands of illegal gold miners battled police for control of a regional capital in the Amazon basin on Wednesday and at least three people were killed by gunfire.  Outnumbered riot police fired tear gas against miners who wielded clubs and rocks and tried to seize strategic facilities in Puert ...
  • Brazil to Dilma: Fulfill campaign promise!
      The Forest Code is dwindling, and with it the Brazilian forests. Soon to be voted in the House, the text that distorts the country’s main environmental law was the target of a demonstration today in Brasilia, which brought together social movements and environmental groups, asking the Pr ...
  • European energy corporation plans to flood Rai ...
    Spanish energy cooperation Endesa (subsidiary enterprise of the Italian Enel cooperation) is builiding a giant hydro-electric power plant next to the River Magdalena, Colombia- The construction work has started today- the protest camps of the local farmers and fishermen have been evacuated by fo ...
  • Plastic eating Fungi discovered in Amazon Rain ...
    The group of students, part of Yale’s annual Rainforest Expedition and Laboratory with molecular biochemistry professor Scott Strobel, ventured to the jungles of Ecuador. The mission was to allow “students to experience the scientific inquiry process in a comprehensive and creative way.&#8 ...
  • Justice for 8year girl burned alive by loggers ...
    Loggers in Brazil captured an eight-year-old girl from one of the Amazon’s last uncontacted tribes and burned her alive as part of a ‘campaign’ to force the indigenous population from its land! Sign Petition and share: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/813/288/541/ The ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • US-Israel War on Iran: The Myth of Limited Warfare
    Israel-US War on Iran: How Cheap has it Become to ‘Buy a War’ in the US By James Petras The mounting threat of a US-Israeli military attack against Iran is based on several factors including: (1) the recent military history of both countries in the region, (2) public pronouncements by US and Isr ...
  • The EyeOpener- Life & Death: Bioethics as cryp ...
    Few in the general public have heard much, if anything at all, about the relatively obscure corner of academia known as bioethics. First emerging as an academic discipline in the late 1960s, bioethics concerns itself with the ethical questions raised by advancing knowledge and technological soph ...
  • Class War & the College Crisis
    The “Crisis of Democracy” & the Attack on Education Today, we are witnessing an emerging massive global revolt, led primarily be the educated and unemployed youth of the world, against the institutionalized and established powers which seek to deprive them of a future worth living. In Chile ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- April 2, ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.” – Thomas Jefferson International Newsworthy Did the US Just Break the Secret Israeli-Azerbaijani Alliance against Iran? Iran Still Coy on Turkey’s Overture Israel to Scale ...
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Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • Poetry Sightings
    It is Poetry Month again, but most Americans wouldn't know it, preoccupied as they are with forechecks, Mitt, Kim, Lady, Pippa and Doritos Locos Tacos. What a far cry from what Walt Whitman envisioned, since he actually thought our country would value poets more than any other.
  • Challenging America's Plutocracy: The Power of ...
    The Voters' Rights Amendment (USVRA), which provides all of the People with the right to cast effective votes and guarantees that each write-in vote is counted, is intended to serve as a catalyst for the discontent that is widespread among American voters. It will operate for the benefit of ever ...
  • Four Artworks by the Amazing Mark Tansey
    I first saw Mark Tansey's art five years ago, when Sothebys and Christie's websites carried artworks being auctioned at their attended auctions worldwide, and the artworks did not download in a streaming format from their websites, so you could collect their pictures in your own files and create ...
  • "Women should be married and home with their k ...
    The "War on Mommies"
  • Burma: Sanctions must be maintained -- Why?
    The National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma (NCGUB), Burmese government in exile, has advised Washington not to hurriedly relieve sanctions against Burma's current quasi-civilian government. The NCGUB and various rights groups support U.S. engagement with Burmese government, but they ...

Switchboard

  • Cabo Cortés is the wrong type of project, i ...
    Carolina Herrera, Latin America Advocate, Washington DC A new study on good practices for coastal tourism in Mexico helps illustrate that the massive Cabo Cortés resort proposed near Cabo Pulmo National Marine Park is the wrong type of projec ...
  • NRDC in the News: Christie's Green Auction, FD ...
    NRDC News, NRDC News Team, NRDC Offices Worldwide Frances Beinecke was quoted in Forbes about Christie’s third annual Green Auction: Bid to Save the Earth to draw attention to the rampant water pollution in China, saying “You know the co ...
  • Burtraw: California's Cap and Trade Program is ...
    Kristin Eberhard, Legal Director, Western Energy and Climate Projects, Santa Monica The nation is closely watching as California prepares to launch its first auction of pollution credits in a groundbreaking cap-and-trade program to reduce greenhouse ...
  • The Return of the House Transportation (Poison ...
    Rob Perks, Transportation Advocacy Director, Washington, D.C. Congress has returned from recess but the GOP leaders in the House aren't taking a break from bad ideas. Rather than heed calls to pass the bi-partisan Senate bill that will create jobs ...
  • No Time for the US to Be on the Fence about Gl ...
    Zak Smith, Attorney, Marine Mammal Protection Project, Santa Monica Last week, the US Fish and Wildlife Service announced that it is undecided about whether it should propose protecting polar bears from the threat of international trade at the nex ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • For the Record…
    I do plan on analyzing all the Mad Men episodes, but the one about thyroid cancer hit too close to home, so I’m a bit behind, and I suck at re-cap. (But you all know that.) Honestly, I’ve received numerous emails about this, so I should just say that as a survivor/current dealer of o ...
  • Particularly Good Mad Men Episode
    Merits a particularly strong MZS essay.
  • Obscure political theory blogging
    File under “I can’t believe this actually made it through peer review”. If you’ve been wondering what Thomas Hobbes really had to say about Beethoven, your wait is over. Adrian Blau deploys the hermeneutical techniques of one of the giants of 20th century political though ...
  • “It illuminates nothing; it humiliates i ...
    Virginia Heffernan reads Katie Roiphe so you don’t have to: Over a series of bad-faith and gibberish paragraphs, she sets up the reader as a hayseed who is turned on by lite porn because she’s never seen how they do it in Berlin or whatever; or—worse still—so unsuccessfully feminine ...
  • Eric Gregg Lives!
    The pitches thrown to Cody Ross in the last AB in today’s Red Sox/Rays game. 3 were called strikes. If you pay attention to such things you probably could have identified this immediately as the work of Larry Vanover. Vaonover is a real throwback. In the worst sense — a throwback to ...

Desert Research Institute

  • Governor praises DRI’s METRIC program
    Speaking at an important state-wide water summit in March, Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval lauded DRI’s METRIC program calling its Landsat satellite technology an important tool in monitoring water usage.
  • Governor praises DRI’s METRIC program
    Speaking at an important state-wide water summit in March, Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval lauded DRI’s METRIC program calling its Landsat satellite technology an important tool in monitoring water usage.
  • DRI's Net Zero Building Honored by USGBC and ...
    The Desert Research Institute’s Net Zero Building was honored by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) and Senator Harry Reid at the USGBC Northern Nevada Chapter luncheon for its goals and plans to create an independently sustainable structure.
  • DRI's Net Zero Building Honored by USGBC and ...
    The Desert Research Institute’s Net Zero Building was honored by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) and Senator Harry Reid at the USGBC Northern Nevada Chapter luncheon for its goals and plans to create an independently sustainable structure.
  • DoE/NNSA Contract Extension
    DRI secured a new Technical Research, Engineering, and Development Services contract with the U.S. Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration. The contract extends until October 31, 2016 and has a ceiling value of $35,926,593. DRI supports the nationally important missions of ...

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • At high court, big pharma finds overtime case ...
    In arguments Monday in the U.S. Supreme Court, the pharmaceutical industry warned of "massive retroactive liability" if their sales representatives are not exempt from federal overtime pay requirements.
  • Steptoe must let defense view records of inter ...
    Steptoe & Johnson must turn over e-mails and other communications between its lawyers and federal prosecutors to defense attorneys in a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act case, a federal judge in California has tentatively ruled.
  • Judge issues rare Rule 11 sanction over patent ...
    A New York federal judge has issued a rare Rule 11 sanction against a patent infringement plaintiff based on its filings during claim construction — the court process for determining the meaning of patent claim terms.
  • Data trove reveals scope of law schools' hirin ...
    The ABA has launched an expansive online database that contains far more detailed employment information than the organization has made public previously.
  • Health Care at the Supreme Court
    On the final day of argument before the U.S. Supreme Court over the Affordable Care Act — better known as the Obama administration's health care reform law — the justices considered what would happen if they strike down the individual mandate. The choice, as Justice Ruth Bader Ginsb ...

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • Community Workshop in Tioga County on Environm ...
    The Clean Air Council and Penn Environment, state-wide environmental groups, will give an educational workshop in Tioga County for residents of north-central Pennsylvania on Saturday, March 24, 1-4 PM. The training will be held at the W.M. Tokishi Training Center, NYPUM Drive, Wellsboro, PA 1690 ...
  • New State Impact PA App
    Since I now live in south central PA (I moved south from Tioga County; north central PA) and have less access to the center of the gas drilling, I frequently use State Impact PA as a resource as well as tune in to WITF radio on my commutes to work, when I’m not pedaling my [...]
  • OilandGasHelp.com
    I happen to be looking for the location of a specific Northwest Savings Bank in PA and when I pulled up their website I found the below link. http://www.oilandgashelp.com/ It looks like Northwest Savings Bank has put together a section of their website to answer questions or help folks who are c ...
  • The Passage of House Bill 1950…
    I thought I’d highlight a few of the items that I find horrifying that passed with house bill 1950 during yesterdays vote. Municipalities will no longer be safe from drilling and the acceptable distances of drilling pads and compressor stations from homes or public spaces, such as schools, ...
  • Update on PA Roads Effected by Gas Drilling fr ...
    From the DCNR website: In recent years there has been a marked increase in natural gas activity in state forests in north central Pennsylvania . Visitor experiences and road usage can be impacted by this activity. Loyalsock State Forest Bodine Mountain Road: Heavy gas activity is to be expected ...

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Waterless Fracking Technology May Be Used at N ...
    A planned shale gas drilling project in New York state would utilize a waterless form of hydraulic fracturing, a new technique designed to reduce the potential pollution associated with the controversial natural gas drilling process. Rather than using typical hydraulic fracturing technologies — ...
  • Glaciers in Asian Range Are Gaining Ice, Study ...
    A new study has found that a series of glaciers located in a mountain range along the rim of the Tibetan plateau may actually be gaining mass, in contrast to global trends. In an analysis of satellite data, a team of French researchers found that numerous glaciers in the Karakoram mountain range ...
  • Hopes Fade for Cleanup In Nigeria’s Oil-Rich Delta
    The Ogoniland region of Nigeria has long been badly polluted by decades of oil production that has fouled the delta and contaminated drinking water. A United Nations report last year recommended a massive recovery initiative, but so far the Nigerian government has shown few signs it will agree t ...
  • Lack of Sound U.S. Policies Threatens Clean En ...
    A new report says that a surge in wind and solar power pushed the U.S. past China in renewable energy investment in 2011, but predicts that the U.S. edge could be short-lived in the absence of consistent, long-term policies to promote clean energy. According to the report published by the Pew Ch ...
  • Doctors’ Group Urges Caution On Growing Use o ...
    The American Academy of Environmental Medicine is calling for increased study and expanded public education of the possible health effects of the growing use of cell phones and wireless technology. In a position paper on the issue, the academy said that effects of electromagnetic fields and radi ...

Red Ice Creations

  • 19 arrested in French police raids - A "Big Bo ...
    Nineteen people have been arrested in a series of police raids on suspected Islamists, French President Nicolas Sarkozy told French radio Friday morning. The raids come a week after gunman Mohammed Merah, who killed seven people, was shot dead after a long siege in the southwestern city of Toulo ...
  • French commune home to 20,000 ‘doomsday cultis ...
    An estimated 20,000 New Age believers who say the "upside down" mountain is home to aliens who will rescue them from an impending apocalypse have saturated a small French commune near the foot of the picturesque Pic de Bugarach. The Independent reports the growing flock, whom locals refer to as ...
  • The man machines? Scientists develop plastic s ...
    Scientists have created a plastic ’skin’ that oozes red blood when cut. It can also ’heal’ itself, building tiny molecular bridges inside in response to damage. The material could provide self-healing surfaces for a multitude of products ranging from mobile phones and laptops to cars. (Or spark ...
  • Poland exhumes some 2010 plane crash victims - ...
    Polish investigators have exhumed the remains of three of the 96 Poles killed in the 2010 plane crash in Russia that killed President Lech Kaczynski. The need for the new autopsies has added to suspicions held by some Poles that the Russians were, at best, sloppy in their handling of the crash a ...
  • Escobar on Fukushima email leak: ’Deleting dat ...
    "It’s emerged that at the height of Japan’s nuclear crisis last March, the authorities in Fukushima concealed radiation data vital to safely evacuate people from that area. Japan has a computer system designed to predict the spread of radioactive releases. But local media reports say the prefect ...

Russia Today

  • CISPA is US ‘cyber-security loophole’
    The readiness of the internet community to self organize for mass protests against censorship and online privacy curtailment has taken US legislators aback, believes Trevor Timm, web freedom activist from the Electronic... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Iranians skeptical about Israeli attack threat
    Israel’s possible military operation against Iran is a hot topic in today’s global politics. But when Iranians themselves talk about it, you could think they are speculating about a remote possibility, claiming their... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Leaked CIA memo exposes US terror suspect tort ...
    The US is refraining from defining waterboarding and other questionable interrogation methods it used to apply to terrorist suspects as torture, possibly with a view to using them once again someday. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Powerful 6.7 earthquake shakes central Chile
    A strong earthquake measuring 6.7 on the Richter scale has hit close to the Chilean capital Santiago, prompting the authorities to evacuate a large stretch of coastline. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • 'Let Cuba In!' Sixth Summit of Americas sends ...
    When the heads of both Americas met for their Sixth Summit in Colombia, a key issue was finally put squarely on the table: either Cuba is invited to the next Summit or… there will be no next Summit. Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

  • ‘Oath Keepers’, American fascist o ...
    'Oath Keepers' is an effort of the American Far Right to organize more cops and military into a blatantly fascist organization that is dedicated to fighting ‘domestic enemies’ of the US capitalist Empire. To the US Far Right, that would include just about anybody other than ...
  • A victimhood that simply does not exist
    This murderous European Right Wing creep claims a victimhood that simply does not even exist. He, and others of like political ilk, claim to be victims of ‘multiculturalism’, as if having to live alongside others slightly different than oneself could ever make one a victim of some so ...
  • Fort Carson thug/soldiers now getting arrested ...
    …I know that we should all be e’er so respectful of ‘our’ uniformed soldiers, but then again after the third vandalism LAST NIGHT of my property and Eric’s by these dishonest and insincere, soldier loving Right Winger former members of Colorado Springs Occupy, I&#82 ...
  • US military whore dances away in Cartagena
    I kinda of find this picture to be rather scary… The Republicans have their Mother ‘Ann’ and the Democrats still have their Hillary. The US ruling class is just as creepy as the worst low life American Right Wingers are IMO.
  • ‘Liberal’ Obama supports no change ...
    ‘It was now-disgraced President Richard Nixon who coined the term “war on drugs” in 1971. Since then, the drug war has cost more than one trillion dollars, the Associated Press reported in 2010. Hundreds of thousands of lives have also been lost. Observers are split on whether ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Two criticisms of the Harrit et al paper that ...
    The vast majority of debunker responses to the discovery of active thermitic material over the past three years have been one of the following mantras: "Paint!", "Peer-review!" and "Chain of custody!". Dr James Millette's report on the red/gray chips has apparently given the "Paint!" mantra new ...
  • Oystein's Contamination Denial
    The MEK test in the Active Thermitic Material ... paper was important in that it established that the aluminium in the red/gray chips is in elemental form consistent with the thermite hypothesis, rather than aluminosilicate form consistent with the paint hypothesis. JREFer Oystein is skeptical. ...
  • Tangled Webs - NIST and WTC7
    ------------------------------------------------ According to the official explanation the collapse of WTC7 came about from the expansion of a steel beam leading to the progressive failure of the entire structure. However, analysis of the building plans show that this already dubious explanati ...
  • Project Truth (WTC) - Sip 2.5 Cognitive Dissonance
    Related: Cognitive Dissonance Meets 9/11 Truth AE911Truth - Psychologists on coping with 9-11 truth. Many people subconsciously make the mistake of only seeing the issues concerning 9/11 in black and white, as opposed to shades of gray. This is known as the black-or-white fallacy. In this c ...
  • Reflecting on the Verinage demolition method
    I recently came across debunker vids on YouTube, such as this that boast of the Verinage demolition technique used to bring down buildings without explosives. According to Wikipedia, “The technique. . .is used in France to weaken and buckle the supports of central floors promoting the collapse o ...

Fooducate

  • 5 Cheap, In-Season Foods for your Health
    New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! We all know that eating fresh fruits and vegetables is an investment in keeping our bodies healthy. According to Clare McKindley, a clinical dietitian at University of Texas MD Anderson ...
  • Your Favorite Gluten Free Foods Are…?
    New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! The Gluten Free product category has been booming in recent years, reaching close to $3 Billion in sales last year. Although less than 1% of Americans suffer from Celiac disease, 5-10% ...
  • 4 Examples of Marketing Through Nutrition Labels
    New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! This is a guest blog post by Richard Perlmutter, MS I’d like to show you what food companies are doing to improve the nutrition labeling characteristics of their products. Having ...
  • Complete the sentence: McDonald’s at a Hospita ...
    New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! McDonald’s at a Hospital is like - a cardiologist smoking - an obese dietitian - etc…. What you need to know: There are 26 hospitals in the US with active McDonald’s r ...
  • Innovative Marketing Won’t Save this Veggie Ch ...
    New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! We spotted this very cool package design at last month’s Natural Food Expo in Los Angeles. The Newspaper theme was well thought out, cleanly laid out and certainly made the mouth ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • Innu man completes historic 4,000 km walk
    Giant (Michel Andrew), who aims to connect young Innu with 'nutshimit'. © Joanna Eede/Survival The Innu of north-eastern Canada are celebrating the completion of an historic 4,000 km walk through Nitassinan, their ancestral territory. The initiative of a young Innu man, Michel An ...
  • Brazil investigates death threats to Guarani a ...
    Guarani Indians. Tonico Benites is fighting for the Guarani's right to live on their land. © Joaó Ripper/Survival The Brazilian authorities are investigating death threats to Guarani anthropologist and activist Tonico Benites. Benites and his family were stopped by a man armed with tw ...
  • 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 ...

Greg Palast

  • Cops beat our cameraman ZD Roberts
    [New York 1 a.m Sunday]   Our photographer ZD Roberts was just beaten by cops @OWS. Thrown down, hair grabbed and slammed with nightsticks - while Zach yelling "I'm PRESS!" trying to show badge. Cops berserk. Zach following protest path tho I'm trying to get him to come in with film. He cannot b ...
  • The Fukushima story you didn't hear on CNN
    "Completely and Utterly Fail in an Earthquake" by Greg Palast for FreePress.org I've seen a lot of sick stuff in my career, but this was sick on a new level. Here was the handwritten log kept by a senior engineer at the nuclear power plant: Wiesel was very upset. He seemed very nervous. V ...
  • BP Settlement Sells Out VictimsDeal buries evi ...
    by Greg Palast for TheMudflats Following the Deepwater Horizon explosion, Greg Palast led a four-continent investigation of BP PLC for Britain's television series Dispatches. From 1989-91, Palast directed the investigation of fraud charges in the Exxon Valdez grounding for Alaska Native villag ...
  • Billionaire Ballot Bandits
    They're stealing it again. In 2000, my team uncovered how Katherine Harris illegally purged thousands of African-Americans from Florida's voter rolls. In 2004, for BBC, we uncovered the Karl Rove GOP "caging scheme" that swiped that election. In 2008, we uncovered, for Rolling Stone and BBC, ...
  • Romney's Auto Bail-out Billionaires
    Top funders made billions from US Treasury by Greg Palast for NationOfChange [Thursday February 23] Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney called the federal government’s 2009 bail-out of the auto industry, “nothing more than crony capitalism, Obama style... a reward for his big donors t ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle empty bottled gas/p ...
    Lyndon has emailed to ask about reusing – or recycling – propane gas canisters (the ones for heating, barbecues or patio heaters etc): Trying to tidy up the yard at work, what can I do with some old gas bottles? If there is a company name on the bottles (like Calor Gas, Flo Gas or [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle large (catering siz ...
    Sam has emailed asking about large food cans: I have a number of large metal food cans, some zinc lined, which are called #10 size. They hold about 5 or 6 lbs (just under 3kg) of beans, or other foods. Now that they’re empty, they are open on one end, with no plastic lid to [...]
  • She recycled that! Upcycling novelty hats into ...
    Last September, Karen emailed us about the vast collection of novelty jester hats that her boyfriend had collected at various carnivals and festivals over the years. She wanted to know how she could reuse or recycle them as she hadn’t had much success giving them away. Lots of people made ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle wallpaper samples?
    Following on from the paint tester pots the other week, I’ve got some wallpaper samples that have served their purpose too. I really can’t wait for our renovations to be over! Like the paint, the samples were to check out ideas/colours/designs in-situ. Some of them were torn from rol ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle medical plastic tubing?
    We’ve had an email from Janette asking about medical plastic tubing: I need to know how I might reuse/recycle medical plastic tubing. My husband uses an oxygen tank and the cannula (clear plastic tubing) needs to be changed every two weeks. After the nasal clip is removed, biowaste/garbage ...

Age of Autism

  • Katie Wright: Confessions of an Obese Autism Mom
    By Katie Wright OK, my secret is out. I am a big fat load and my out of control eating caused my son's autism. The minute I found out I was pregnant I started eating all the food I could...
  • Dr. Andrew Wakefield Exclusive on American Inv ...
    By Richard Moore Speaking in an exclusive interview with Richard Moore on the American Investigator and for The Lakeland Times, internationally renowned and controversial autism researcher Dr. Andrew Wakefield says recently announced numbers on the prevalence of autism – which...
  • America's Men: Are Marriage and Children Liter ...
    By Julie Obradovic As of this week, I now know five people my age who have been married to or are married to a man with a mental illness. Five. And that's only the ones I know about. Three of...
  • Autism Research Institute Spring Conference Ap ...
    We're fortunate to have conferences year round from organizations seeking to provide the best in treatment, education, living, employment and other pressing topics in autism. Traveling isn't always easy for us though - goodness knows. This year, the Spring 2012...
  • Autism Awareness - Not For Sissies
    By Cathy Jameson My five-year old fell in a heap in my lap at last Wednesday morning. She was watching me get Ronan’s seizure medication ready. I saw her watching me and asked, “Hey, Iz. Do you know what this...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

  • Tyranny
    The Wolf and the Lamb graphic.
  • 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!

Open Your Eyes News

  • Briton killed after threat to expose Chinese l ...
    Reuters – The British businessman whose murder has sparked political upheaval in China was poisoned after he threatened to expose a plan by a Chinese leader’s wife to move money abroad, two sources with knowledge of the police investigation said. Read article
  • Asian Arms Race: US and Philippines begin Sout ...
    BBC – Joint military exercises between the US and the Philippines are getting under way in the South China Sea, even as Manila remained locked in a stand-off with Beijing over a disputed shoal. The annual exercises, called Balikatan, are due to run until 27 April. This year they are taking ...
  • FEATURE PAGE – Films & Documentaries
    Our archive contains over 25 hard hitting documentaries ranging from game theory to fluoridation, from big brother to 9/11. To challenge your perceptions CLICK HERE
  • News Archive In Focus – Energy & Resources (1, ...
    We are consuming energy at an exponential rate, placing more and more stress on the world’s resources. As governments and companies work towards developing new solutions and technologies to the question of our energy consumption, we must also address the range of pollution, climate change, ...
  • Climate Fact Of The Day – Last Glacial M ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • American companies engaging in trade of illega ...
    More than 20 American companies have played roles in fostering a steady flow of illegal hardwoods from the Peruvian Amazon, part of a “well-oiled machine that is ransacking Peru’s forests and undermining the livelihoods and rights of the people that depend on them,” according t ...
  • Climate change vs. Easter bunnies
    Easter is still a great day for worship, candy in baskets, pagan solstice rituals and running around the yard finding eggs, but every year it gets quite a bit worse for bunnies.
  • Spoof ad thanks GM for pulling Heartland funding
    ForecastTheFacts.org has put up an advertisement spoofing the new TV ads created for the Chevy Volt – but this one congratulates GM for ceasing to fund the Heartland Institute, a free-market think tank that questions the science behind global warming.
  • Titanic today might dodge better but would enc ...
    The Titanic hit an iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland, but it probably didn’t hit one the size of Manhattan.
  • Judge orders testing of evidence in Judi Bari ...
    Almost 22 years after Earth First! activists Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney were car-bombed during a campaign to save old-growth trees, a federal judge has ordered the FBI to turn over evidence from the bombing for forensic testing.

water.org

  • A toilet provides freedom
    Before, Mrs. Bhuvaneswari's family had to spend time walking to find a place to go to the bathroom. Now they are able to use their own toilet and their time for better things.
  • Bringing joy with clean water
    "The pond water I was forced to get water from was very dirty and had a bad smell. Due to my distant walks to collect water, sometimes I was late to work. My daughters and I would also suffer from diarrhea, jaundice, dysentery and skin diseases because of the dirty pomd water. We are able to ge ...
  • Levi's Water
    Water.org and Levi's® Launch Water
  • Make Progress on Sanitation
    No invention has saved more lives than a toilet. More than 80% of sewage in developing countries is discharged untreated, polluting rivers, lakes and coastal areas. All because there is no infrastructure - a toilet, or city utilities - to flush away yesterday's meal. But that's not all. Toilets ...
  • Project4India: Vlogger Videos
    When we visited the field in India this February, we brought three of YouTube's most popular vloggers with us so that they could share their experiences with the world and tell their audience all about the water crisis. In celebration of World Water Day, they've each just released their first vi ...

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Reinstate Teacher Who Supported Trayvon Martin ...
    arget: Superintendent Jacqueline Cassell Goal: To reinstate Brooke Harris, an eighth grade teacher who was fired after supporting a fundraiser benefitting Trayvon Martins family. The Trayvon Martin case has already caused a storm of controversy, Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World &n ...
  • Israeli democracy without the High Court and B ...
    In a country where many Knesset members view the High Court as an enemy, minorities as a fifth column, the left as homegrown terrorists and religion as the basis of patriotism, it is not the legislature that needs strengthening but rather the court.. Submitted by . to World  |  &nbsp ...
  • "Ive Been Duped" - Reflections on Israel and P ...
    Do you know the frustration you feel when you believed in something strongly and then you realize that the information that made you believe was from a source with an agenda to deceive? Submitted by Ken D. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Study: 400 Afghan women jailed for "moral crimes"
    In this Jan. 19, 2003 file photo, Zarghona, who is in prison because she left her first husband who abused her and forced her into prostitution, holds her seven-month-old son Balal and looks out through their cell window, at the Kabul Women's Prison in Submitted by Maria V. to World  |&nb ...
  • Tibetan singer detained and tortured
    25-year-old singer, Ugyen Tenzin, was detained last month soon after the release of his album titled, An Unending Flow of My Hearts Blood,.Unconfirmed reports said that Ugyen Tenzin has been beaten in custody and disabled a month after album released Submitted by Red Thorvenkiold to World &nb ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • SRK wants Happy New Year with Kat
    Mumbai, April 17: Katrina Kaif seems to be Shah Rukh Khan’s favourite co- star these days. The two stars, who never worked together till Yash Chopra pulled off a casting coup by signing them up for his upcoming untitled biggie, could be doing Farah Khan’s next, Happy New Year , according to ...
  • Srinagar to get its first joggers park
    Srinagar, April 17 (IANS) Musical fountains, a modern gymnasium, jogging tracks, lawn tennis and basket ball courts, multi-cuisine continental restaurant, library and a swimming pool -- the scenic Srinagar city is all set to get its first multi-facility joggers park. The sprawling sports ce ...
  • City seeks to stop mosquitoes
    MURFREESBORO — City crews hope to control the mosquito population by treating standing water along public rights of way, the city announced. What well be doing is putting out larvicide it comes in dunks that look like a donut in standing water and drainage ditches if they are holding ...
  • Algeria to develop tourism to diversify e ...
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  • German airline lures customers with Greek ...
    Airline Condor is offering German customers 50 euros off flights to Greece in a bid to entice reluctant German holidaymakers to the Mediterranean nation after a slump in bookings. Tour operators such as TUI Germany (TT.L)...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • Nearly 1,500 Palestinian Prisoners Launch Hung ...
    Palestinians across the West Bank, Gaza, and those held in Israeli prisons hope to draw attention to abusive nature of solitary confinement, the practice of 'detention without charge,' and renew calls for the release of all political prisoners. The action comes on the same day that Pales ...
  • Wealthiest Benefit Most from Skewed Tax Code: Poll
    More than two-thirds of Americans believe the revenue system benefits the wealthy while being unfair to average workers, according to a new CNN/ORC poll. read more
  • Jim Yong Kim Chosen as World Bank President Am ...
    The World Bank has named US-supported Jim Yong Kim as its new president this afternoon amid criticism that the United States is continuing its 68-year stranglehold on the position. Kim's rival in the contest, Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, blasted the U.S. domination of the p ...
  • NYPD Raid Occupy's Sleep-In Protest
    This morning the New York Police Department began arresting Occupy Wall Street protesters who have reoccupied Wall Street for the last week by sleeping on Wall Street in front of the New York Stock Exchange. Occupiers say the arrests are in defiance of 2000 ruling allowing for protesters to slee ...
  • Texas Toxic Dump Site May Benefit from Owner's ...
    A toxic waste disposal site owned by Texas billionaire Harold Simmons -- one of the GOP's largest donors in the 2012 primary season, and the largest single donor to Karl Rove's super PAC, American Crossroads -- has environmentalists, and at least one Texas state representative, very conc ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • Reflections on Twenty Years of Policy Innovation
    In 2009, the U.S. Congress considered but ultimately failed to enact legislation aimed at limiting U.S.
  • Geothermal Steams Forward, Under The Radar
    Geothermal has long been touted as the only stable form of renewable energy because it produces constant 24-hour energy from hot rocks deep underneath the ground.
  • Our Electric Grid – As Unsinkable as the Titanic?
    A catastrophic failure compounded by a lack of failover strategies and an inability to think the unthinkable.  These are the main reasons for the sinking of the Titanic. Could these also be the post-mortem conclusions for the next large-scale electric grid failure?  Even as we note the ...
  • Smart Grid: From Vision to Benefits
    Conversations on the vision, challenges, and benefits of the smart grid with Sonita Lontoh of Trilliant and Christine Hertzog of the Smart Grid Library. A TV interview archive.
  • Is Speculation Responsible For High Oil Prices?
    Let’s Play ‘Blame the Speculators’Most people would probably agree that speculation in the oil and gas markets is hurting American consumers. Consider the case of Aubrey McClendon. Mr. McClendon is the CEO of Chesapeake Energy, where he sells natural gas for a living. Natural gas prices have now ...

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Israel's Lawless Settlement Project
    by Stephen Lendman Since June 1967, Israel maintained total domination over Occupied Palestine. Lawlessly, it includes controlling essential resources, air space, Gaza's coastal waters, borders, who's allowed to cross them, political, economic, and financial activities, internal movemen ...
  • "Mama, will Baba Roumieh visit us in Shatila c ...
    by FRANKLIN LAMB Beirut It's official according to the Vatican. Pope Benedict XVI will visit Lebanon from the 14th to the 16th September, in just five months' time. By coincidence or design, the Pontiff's visit will coincide with the International commemoration of the 30th Anniversary of the ...
  • Nuclear Chess
    by Stephen Lendman On April 14, two days of nuclear chess began in Istanbul. At issue is Iran's civilian program. So-called P5+1 countries - America, Russia, China, Britain, and France - plus Germany - know it's peaceful. They pretend otherwise. Expect toing and froing without resolution. Wash ...
  • Global Peace and Wars: America at War with Itself
    By Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD Built on lies and political deception, the on-going wars were suppose to create a new culture of FEAR amongst the American and European common masses, enabling the ruling elite to sustain their grip over the powerhouses for long time to come as did the Nazis, a war of ...
  • Calm Before Greater Storm in Syria
    by Stephen Lendman Previous articles stressed Washington's longstanding regime change plans in Syria. Independent sovereign states aren't tolerated. Replacing them with pro-Western ones is policy. All means are used. They include punishing sanctions, color revolutions, violent coups, subversi ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • What’s at stake for working seniors?
    It is argued by some that eligibility for Old Age Security (OAS) and the Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS) at age 65 discourages older Canadians from remaining in the workforce, and that we need to keep them working longer to avoid present and future labour shortages and a sharp rise in the so- ...
  • Taxing the rich
    There's a growing movement in Canada to pressure our governments to ask those who have more to give to contribute more in taxes. A new Environics Poll for the Broadbent Institute shows 83% of Canadians favour raising taxes on the richest. And a new movement, Doctors for Fair Taxes reflects a gro ...
  • Income Inequality Un-Canadian: Poll
    The Broadbent Institute has launched its new Equality Project with a poll by Environics Research that shows the majority of Canadians view growing income inequality as a big problem with long-term consequences - a problem that undermines Canadian values. The poll also shows Canadians are ahead o ...
  • Youth and Community-led Activism in Canada
    In spite of system and systemic failure, young people are—with creativity, passion and determination—fighting for change across sectors and within communities. They are pushing the progress envelope. And we need to celebrate their victories and support them with knowledge, with numbers, and with ...
  • CCPA-NS Reacts to provincial budget
    As was expected, the provincial budget released by Nova Scotia's ruling New Democratic Party is characterized by a fixation on getting “back to balance”.  With a debt to-GDP ratio of 35%, there is no need to prioritize fiscal balance to the exclusion of other important needs. What is being ...

World Wide Hippies

  • The Power of Algae; Pesticides and Autism?
    By Adam Clark Estes | The Atlantic Wire - Discovered in Green: The most amazing algae you’ve ever seen, unintended consequences of the otherwise environmentally friendly ethanol, building greener cities, and the link between pesticides and autism. Algae farms could save the environmen ...
  • Been 100 years…
    By Sherry Pasquarello,Worldwidehippie -Can we drop the titanic overblown subject of the Titanic? Yes, it was an awful thing and yes, naturally people were curious but for pity’s sake, let it rest in peace. It’s time to move on. Even the latest movie is old news by now. But NO, we’ve got to 3D th ...
  • The Soapbox: You Don’t “Get&#8221 ...
    See the World Around You! – Hear the Voices of Activism! – Speak Truth To Power! Media for the People by the People! Citizen Dispatch For reporting from your spot on the globe The Soapbox For your commentary and opinions Hippie TV News For news entertainment. Contact joe@worldwidehip ...
  • Music: Two Cool and a Fu#%@ng Fool!
    CD Review | Raitt returns with message for the middle-aged By Chris Willman,THEWRAP.COM – In 1989, Bonnie Raitt had a huge hit and subsequent Grammy sweep with the album Nick of Time, which movingly spoke to the ways that love can creep up and save a person in middle age. Almost a qua ...
  • Worldwide Hippies Digest Monday: An odd friend ...
    Women linked by Manson murders form odd friendship By TRACIE CONE,AP – CORCORAN, Calif.—On August 9, 1969, two naive 17-year-old girls were launched on a path that led to the unlikeliest of friendships. That infamous night, four young people under the sway of a charismatic career criminal ...

FourWinds10

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

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Cutting Through the Rhetoric on Speculators an ...
    Let’s Play ‘Blame the Speculators’ Most people would probably agree that speculation in the oil and gas markets is hurting American consumers. Consider the case of Aubrey McClendon. Mr. McClendon is the CEO of Chesapeake Energy, where he sells natural gas for a living. Natural ...
  • The Impact of $5 Gas Prices, and Eco-Proppants ...
    In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I talk about the impact I believe $5 gasoline will have on most people, and whether there are any environmentally friendly proppants that can be used for hydraulic fracturing. Some of the topics discussed this week are: My observations here in ...
  • Canada Rises and Saudi Slides: Top 15 Sources ...
    The Energy Information Administration (EIA) recently published an article on 2011 U.S. crude oil imports. I thought it might be interesting to take a look at where the U.S. currently obtains its oil, and how that has changed over the past decade. The EIA story is: Nearly 69% of U.S. crude oil im ...
  • Poet, KiOR, and Waste-to-Heat — R-Squared Ener ...
    In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer questions about POET’s Project Liberty, about why KiOR might need a natural gas pipeline, and whether there are better options out there for utilization of waste heat from electrical generating plants. Some of the topics discuss ...
  • Power Plays is Published
    Introduction My new book — Power Plays: Energy Options in the Age of Peak Oil — has been published. A press release issued last week describes the book in some detail: Robert Rapier Reflects on Energy Options in the Age of Peak Oil in his Latest Book Here I want to describe a bit abo ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • A Non-Food Cause of Diabetes
    America's steady diet of processed foods full of excess calories and sugar is undoubtedly fueling the diabetes epidemic that costs the country millions every year. But researchers are starting to uncover this truth: It's not all about calories when it comes to the causes of diabetes. In a new s ...
  • Where To Buy The Healthiest Chicken
    Maryland is about to become the first state in the country to ban the practice of adding arsenic to chicken feed, after the state legislature passed a bill earlier this week that's headed to the governor's desk. The hope is that the ban will protect Maryland's drinking water supplies and the en ...
  • FDA Won't Ban Antibiotics in Farming
    Every year, the nonorganic farm system administers a whopping 30 million pounds of antibiotics to farm animals that aren't even sick. They do this to fatten up animals faster and prevent health problems in animals kept in extreme confinement (and often filthy) conditions. Much of the meat and e ...
  • The Nickel Pincher: The Best Veggie Garden for ...
    This quick and inexpensive planter will have you enjoying your own efforts at container vegetable gardening in a month or less. Put it on your driveway or your deck, on a sturdy outdoor table (no-stoop gardening!), or just on the ground. Anywhere that gets at least five to six hours of full sun ...
  • The Toxic Trio in "Nontoxic" Nail Polish
    Healthy cosmetics can be hard to find. Claims like "natural" and even "organic" aren't well regulated, and every few months, you hear of another report finding that lipstick is contaminated with lead and even baby shampoo contains cancer-causing dioxins. Now, it seems, you have yet more reason ...

big think

  • Barney Frank on Our My Side Echo Chambers and ...
    In a Q&A interview with Jason Zengerle of New York magazine, outgoing Congressman Barney Frank offers a diagnosis of several of the major drivers of polarization and paralysis in American politics that fits with much of the political communication work in the area.  Frank focuses on the the ...
  • The Legacy of Apollo 13 and the Case for a Spa ...
    On the night of April 13, 1970, astronaut Jack Swigert famously beemed into NASA headquarters to declare “Houston, we have a problem.” A nation of inspired onlookers watched in suspense as the Apollo 13 crew worked frantically against the clock, and their failing ship, to return to earth alive t ...
  • Facebook: A Window into Human Behavior
    What's the Latest Development? The Data Team is a research group inside of Facebook tasked with finding patterns in the vast amounts of information voluntarily posted by the 845 million people who use the social network each month. Those vast stores of information, which Facebook uses to ...
  • States, Markets, and Basic Liberties
    Ned Resnikoff picks up on my old post, via a terrific recent one by Daniel Little, on the radicalism of John Rawls' position on economic liberty: If we’ve to fairly evaluated Rawls’ decision to include all of those [political and civil] rights while excluding things like (in Wilk ...
  • Leader, Invest in Your People.
    What’s the Big Idea?  A subtle but undeniable shift has been taking place in American corporate management theory. Roughly, the change corresponds to psychology’s shift from punishment & reward focused Skinnerian behavioralism to a focus on human relationships and development. Not su ...

Information Liberation

  • Freedom of speech row as blogger faces jail fo ...
    A blogger who called a local politician a 'c***' on Twitter sparked a row over freedom of speech after being convicted of sending the offensive remark. John Graham Kerlan who blogs under the name Olly Cromwell, faces jail after Councillor Melvyn S...
  • Obama: *Google, Facebook Would Not Exist* With ...
    President Barack Obama insisted Thursday that without government spending, *Google, Facebook would not exist.* Obama made the remark at a campaign fundraiser while criticizing the budget passed by House Republicans. Obama said the Rep. Paul Ryan*s...
  • Federal Bureaucrat: Government and Taxes are t ...
    Now that the Government Coercion Day -- er, Tax Day, April 15 -- is behind us, I thought it might be appropriate to show a federal bureaucrat rationalizing your sacrifice at gunpoint. In the video here, Obama*s Secretary of Labor, Hilda Solis, t...
  • How Regulators Wrecked Our Mowers
    When I was a kid, lawn mowers worked. You pushed them and they cut grass. The grass went into the bag. Then you emptied the bag. The results were great. There was no grass to rake. It all went into the bag, because that's what lawn mowers did. The...
  • Tony Robbins, Ron Paul And Ben Bernanke All Ag ...
    Is there one thing that Tony Robbins, Ron Paul and Ben Bernanke can all agree on?* Yes, there actually is.* Recently they have all come forward with warnings that the national debt crisis could destroy America if something is not done.* Unfortunately...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Neither A Soul To Damn, Nor A Body To Kick
    Today I’m having a look at an issue you might not generally associate with Libertarianism, but whose existence directly impacts on the liberty of us all, thousands of times every day: the company. Specifically, the limited-liability, joint stockholder corporation. Most … Continue rea ...
  • Neither A Soul To Damn, Nor A Body To Kick
    Today I’m having a look at an issue you might not generally associate with Libertarianism, but whose existence directly impacts on the liberty of us all, thousands of times every day: the company. Specifically, the limited-liability, joint stockholder corporation. Most … Continue rea ...
  • Revenge Of The Banana Benders
    That’s how people in other states of Australia refer to Queenslanders. The state election on March 24, resulting in the biggest electoral loss for the Australian Labor Party in any election since the Second World War, says much about the … Continue reading →
  • Revenge Of The Banana Benders
    That’s how people in other states of Australia refer to Queenslanders. The state election on March 24, resulting in the biggest electoral loss for the Australian Labor Party in any election since the Second World War, says much about the … Continue reading →
  • Power In All The Wrong Hands
    I’m still rather tied up, so I thought as a bit of a change of pace,  I’d direct you to a rather marvellous article from the von Mises Institute: The Seven Rules of Bureaucracy. Had me in stitches at several … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Print your own chemistry set…
    A 3D printer and some silicone is all you need to revolutionise chemistry by making the reaction vessel a part of the experiment itself. More details in this week’s Nature Chemistry. Tell the laboratory glassblower to hang up their face guard and shut the door on their way out… Relat ...
  • Toxic snails and novel painkillers
    Conotoxins from the predatory cone snail work even at very low levels to block nerve signals. Now, researchers in Germany have investigated the structures of one specific conotoxin with a view to developing the compound, or its derivatives, as a new type of painkiller. Despite being snail-derive ...
  • A virtual trip to New Mexico
    The Alchemist takes a virtual trip to New Mexico this week to learn of resistant bacteria. He also discovers that counter intuitively putting certain zeolites under pressure can open up the entrances to their pores. In geochemistry, we learn why copper is not found so commonly at the Earth&#8217 ...
  • A dinosaur timeline
    Dinosaurs are on my mind…not least because of the ACS’s intelligent alien dinosaur story and the attempt to ban the word and all evolutionary themes by the NYC Department of Education but also because my good buddy Ed Yong just alerted us to a Smithsonian article that puts the dinosa ...
  • Crowdsourcing science definitions
    Forget long-winded, long-form, textbooks, essays and all that overblown background reading stuff! Science 140 is a new crowdsourcing social media project that hopes to collate science definitions andexplanations. As the name would suggest, each has to be 140 characters or fewer, tweet length, in ...

RFF Library

  • The Year that Shook the Rich: A Review of Natu ...
    Brookings Institution / by Elizabeth Ferris and Daniel Petz http://bit.ly/wgIckA [From Executive Summary] 2011 was the most expensive year in terms of disaster losses in history, mostly because of a spate of disasters affecting developed countries. Globally, the economic cost of disasters in 201 ...
  • Preparing for a Changing Climate: Washington S ...
    State of Washington, Dept. of Ecology http://www.ecy.wa.gov/biblio/1201004.html [From Executive Summary]  …By taking action now to respond and adapt to changing climate conditions, Washington can significantly limit the damage and reduce the long-term costs of the climate related impacts t ...
  • The Regulatory Red Herring: The Role of Job Im ...
    New York University, School of Law, Institute for Policy Integrity / by Michael A. Livermore, Elizabeth Piennar, and Jason A Schwartz http://policyintegrity.org/files/publications/Regulatory_Red_Herring.pdf [From the Executive Summary] …This report examines the use of job impact analysis b ...
  • Two Economic Studies of Proposed CAFE Standards
    The Effect of Proposed MY 2017-2025 Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) Standards on the New Vehicle Market Population, by David Wagner, Paulina Nusinovich, Esteban Plaza-Jennings — National Automobile Dealers Association, Feb. 2012 http://bit.ly/HxHQtF [From Introduction] The proposed f ...
  • Wind Farms Don’t Harm Birds in the Long Run
    Greater impacts of wind farms on bird populations during construction than subsequent operation: results of a multi-site and multi-species analysis, by J. W. Pearce-Higgins, L.  Stephen, A. Douse & R. H. W. Langston. Journal of Applied Ecology, v49 n2 p386-394, April 2012 (open access) http: ...

Scientific American - News

  • Apes' Simple Nests Are Feats of Engineering
    When they are ready to snuggle up at the tops of trees, great apes make themselves cozy "nests" in which to rest for the night. New studies of these one-night nests reveal their incredible complexity. [More]
  • Hierarchy of Color Naming Matches the Limits o ...
    The order in which colors are named worldwide appears to be due to how eyes work, suggest computer simulations with virtual people. [More]
  • Memory Foraging: When the Brain Behaves Like a Bee
    In search of nectar, a honeybee flies into a well-manicured suburban garden and lands on one of several camellia bushes planted in a row. After rummaging through the ruffled pink petals of several flowers, the bee leaves the first bush for another. Finding hardly any nectar in the flowers of t ...
  • Penguins from Space: A New Satellite Census Do ...
    A group of geographers and ecologists from three continents has taken an unprecedented look at Antarctica's emperor penguins. Using very high resolution (VHR) images from satellites 450 kilometers above Earth, the team has come up with the first total population count for an entire species. ...
  • Secret Computer Code Threatens Science
    Modern science relies upon researchers sharing their work so that their peers can check and verify success or failure. But most scientists still don't share one crucial piece of information -- the source codes of the computer programs driving much of today's scientific progress. [More] ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Toronto In Review: March
    City workers make concessions, ban on brothels overturned, Occupy Toronto back in the news On March 26, an Ontario Court of Appeals decision struck down a ban on brothels. It modified the law against living off the avails of the sex trade s ...
  • CBC on Quebec student strike: Deploying govern ...
      CBC news reports are now using inaccurate language to describe the ongoing Québec-wide student strike. Journalists on the CBC are regularly repeating, without question, the terminology of government officials, tilting reports to justify the planned $1,625 hike in post-secondary tuition f ...
  • CKUT's Off the Hour: Red Square Report for Fri ...
    Valleyfield students resist forced return to class   Last thursday, Valleyfield College students successfully blocked access to their CEGEP after the administration announced a forced return to classes despite the strike being re-vote ...
  • Gatineau Students Defy Injunction, Barricade C ...
    The Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO) suspended classes on Monday, April 16, as students defied a court injunction and blocked access to the Alexandre-Taché campus building. Last week, a small group of students opposed to the strike filed an injunction with the Quebec Superior Court to for ...
  • Photos: Hundreds Rally Against Pipelines and T ...
    Hundreds of people gathered on the lawn in front of the provincial legislature on Sunday to participate in a 'Rally Against Enbridge.' After a series of passionate speakers - from young children to First Nations grassroots community leaders - rally participants marched through downtown V ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Mitt Romney, severely stiff?
    David Seaton's News Links The coming presidential election is very different from 2008... as then one of the men is a known quantity and the other is an enigma. But yesterday's enigma is today's known quantity and although the other man has been around for years, the more he says and the more h ...
  • Thoughts at Easter: Once I built a tower and n ...
    David Seaton's News Links "We are so made that we can sustain our existence only in group life. Love is the essence of humanity, love needs something to bestow itself upon; human beings must live together in order to live a life of mutual love." D. T. Suzuki "I sincerely believe that if you ...
  • Conservatives or neo-fascists?
    David Seaton's News LinksI would think it important to separate this new "conservatism" from the traditional variety. Remember the American vice is to use language to hide meaning. I’ll quote myself from an earlier post:One of the most disturbing things about America is the incoherence of ...
  • Why are the Republicans so weird?
    David Seaton's News LinksThis blog post, by the excellent Thomas Edsall, makes some very interesting points about the make-up of the Republican electorate. In the GOP’s South Carolina primary, 98% of those who voted were white: this in a state where nearly 28% of the population is black. Rep ...
  • Mohammed Merah, the monster of Toulouse
    David Seaton's News LinksThe  question we must ask is; was Mohammed Merah really a trained terrorist or simply a nut?We know practically nothing about Mohammed Merah. As far as we can see he acted totally alone, with only a handgun: nothing complicated like explosives was involved.Right n ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • The Bush National Guard Story Lives!
    Joe Hagan has a long story in the current issue of the Texas Monthly about George Bush's adventures in the Texas Air National Guard, and as a longtime Bush National Guard junkie I was eager to read it. As it turns out, it doesn't really break a lot of new ground, but it's got a few new tidbits ...
  • Jim Kim is Now the President of the World Bank
    Despite a surprisingly vigorous campaign from the American politico-economic blogosphere, Nigerian finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala will not be the next head of the World Bank. Instead, just as it's been for the past 60 years, the next president will be the U.S. nominee, Dartmouth College&rs ...
  • Is it Science or Is It Bullshit? (Cookie Crumb ...
    Sarah Kliff reports on a new study showing that portion size matters. Here's the nickel version: If you offer kids a bowl full of cookies, they eat more than if you offer them a bowl full of smaller cookies. Well, that sounded interesting. But I was curious about the details. So I found the o ...
  • The Reign in Spain is not Keynes
    Via Brad Delong, here is Wolfgang Münchau writing about the latest mushrooming economic crisis in Europe, this one centered on Spain: News coverage seems to suggest that the markets are panicking about the deficits themselves. I think this is wrong. The investors I know are worried tha ...
  • Mitt Romney's Underwhelming Tax Plan
    What is Mitt Romney's real tax plan? Apparently we got a rare glimpse of this when reporters overheard a private conversation Sunday night with supporters at a fundraising party: "I'm going to probably eliminate for high income people the second home mortgage deduction," Romney said, adding ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 315: Ignorance is Bliss
    Topics: The Raid How to make an awesome action movie The Cabin in the Woods and almost ruining a movie with a trailer The Secret Service tries to get it in while in Columbia Snitching on your teacher for showing porn Fucking up your week: Kriss asks a question bound to fuck up everyone’s w ...
  • IC 314: She’s Cute for a Meth Head
    Topics: April Movie Preview Trolling the Avengers Kristen Stewart is not hot enough to play the hot chick Easter has the best candy Bacon Sundaes 600 lbs man gets stuck in his house Best crime spree EVER Trayvon Martin case updates Conservatives have no humanity Share with your friends:
  • IC 313: The American Dream
    Topics: Kinect Star Wars We’re too lazy for Kinect The American Dream: To be Mediocre and Lazy The Mega Millions “winner” Mary J Blige “sings” for Burger King Conservatives Show their Asses on Trayvon Martin Coverage Share with your friends:
  • IC 312: How to be THE Black Friend
    Topics: April Movies and upcoming Trailers Kev & the born again virgin No blowjobs for life Why Jesus won’t let Kriss win the Mega Millions The Pope & why we let religious leaders get away with bigotry Religion isn’t an excuse for bigotry Pat Robertson’s greatest hits ...
  • The Roast of Joe Oliver
    After eviscerating the stories being passed through the media about Trayvon Martin by the Sanford Police department, the Orlando Sentinel and Craig Sonner, George Zimmerman’s lawyer, you would think any Zimmerman supporter would think twice about going on and confronting Lawrence.  Well, J ...

Simple Climate

  • Climate change threatens the carnival of the a ...
    From chipmunks to calves, Simple Climate has regularly reported on creatures pressured by global warming. This week I bring together their pictures as a reminder of which creatures are at risk, in the hope of providing more motivation to act to help them.
  • Global view answers ice age CO2 puzzle
    Measurements seemingly showing that temperatures have risen before atmospheric concentrations of CO2 over the past 800,000 years only represent Antarctica, say Harvard University's Jeremy Shakun and colleagues. By looking globally they show that CO2 rose before the world warmed at the end of the ...
  • Volunteer computers broaden climate model fore ...
    Dan Rowlands from Oxford Universty and colleagues run a 10,000 simulation experiment using donated computer time, finding the upper range of likely warming in 2050 could be nearer to 3ºC rather than 2ºC higher than the average from 1961-1990
  • Climate models pass prehistoric test
    US Geological Survey scientist Harry Dowsett and a worldwide team of expert climate modellers and temperature sleuths show four models can generally describe a 300,000 year warming period 3,000,000 years ago.
  • Complete organic crop switch would raise UK em ...
    Agricultural consultant Rob Carlton and colleagues suggests leaving more plant waste in fields is the best way to cut greenhouse gases produced by arable farming, though he still holds out hope for bringing the best bits of organic and conventional methods together.

e!Science News

  • Ammonites found mini oases at ancient methane ...
    Research led by scientists at the American Museum of Natural History shows that ammonites-an extinct type of shelled mollusk that's closely related to modern-day nautiluses and squids-made homes in the unique environments surrounding methane seeps in the seaway that once covered America's Great ...
  • CU-Boulder study shows Greenland may be slip-s ...
    Like snow sliding off a roof on a sunny day, the Greenland Ice Sheet may be sliding faster into the ocean due to massive releases of meltwater from surface lakes, according to a new study by the University of Colorado Boulder-based Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences. r ...
  • Rose-colored glasses: Are optimistic consumers ...
    People who believe the world is a just place trust salespeople more than consumers who don't -- but only after they've made a purchase, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research. read more
  • UWM discovery advances graphene-based electronics
    Scientists and engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) have discovered an entirely new carbon-based material that is synthesized from the "wonder kid" of the carbon family, graphene. The discovery, which the researchers are calling "graphene monoxide (GMO)," ...
  • X-rays create a window on glass formation
    Scientists have for the first time visualised the transformation of powder mixtures into molten glass. A better understanding of this process will make it possible to produce high quality glass at lower temperatures, leading to significant energy savings in industrial glass manufacturing. The re ...

unEarthed

  • Farmworkers Savor Sweet Taste of Victory
    Earthjustice suit pressures company to nix toxic pesticide Last month – less than a year after Earthjustice sued to protect strawberry field workers from ...
  • In Florida, Green Is Toxic
    New algae bloom flourishes amid weak state rules Algae bloom in Florida As I write this, a new toxic algae bloom has broken out on southwest Florida’s C ...
  • Lloyd’s Urges Caution In The Arctic
    Will Obama listen to the risk market makers? Are you listening, Mr. President? The Obama administration is all ears—deaf ones—when it comes to dir ...
  • Snatching Skagit River Water Is In The Public ...
    Swinomish tribe fights against misguided scheme Skagit River (USGS) Washington state’s Swinomish tribe faces a water rights battle in the Skagit River b ...
  • Little Fish Are a Big Deal
    And we should protect them Menhaden are a key forage fish threatened by overfishing. When you ask a 4-year-old, “What do big fish eat?,” the ...

Brave New Climate

  • Off to Russia
    Well, I’m just about to hop on a plane to Russia to visit for a week — destination Moscow. This is part of my duties as a member of the International Awards Committee for the Global Energy Prize (see here for details). Whilst in the heart of the former Soviet Union, I’ll hook u ...
  • The Nuclear Energy Solution
    Guest Post by Bill Sacks and Greg Meyerson. Bill is a physicist and a radiologist, and wrote Lessons about nuclear energy from the Japanese quake and tsunami about a  month into the Fukushima crisis. Greg is an English professor with specialization in critical theory. Both are based in the U.S. ...
  • IFR FaD 12 – lessons learned from fast reactor ...
    This is the third of a four-part series of extracts from the book Plentiful Energy — The story of the Integral Fast Reactor by Chuck Till and Yoon Chang. Reproduced with permission of the authors, these sections describe and justify some of the key design choices that went into the making the IF ...
  • Open Thread 22
    The Open Thread 21 has passed 500 comments and is getting a little bloated, so time for a new one. The Open Thread is a general discussion forum, where you can talk about whatever you like — there is nothing ‘off topic’ here — within reason. So get up on your soap box! The standard commenting [...]
  • Environmentalism in the mud: responding to Jim ...
    Guest Post by Ben Heard. Ben is Director of Adelaide-based advisory firm ThinkClimate Consulting, a Masters graduate of Monash University in Corporate Environmental Sustainability, and a member of the TIA Environmental and Sustainability Action Committee. After several years with major consultin ...

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

  • Michele Bachman Lying Again
    On Meet the Press Michele Bachman claims Republicans want women to make their own health care choices. Really? I guess unless their employer disagrees right Michele? Please media. The story is the fact that the Michele Bachman types get to lie repeatedly, and never have to pay a price. Time to d ...
  • Wolf Blitzer Owes Hillary Rosen An Apology
    Dear Wolf. You are an asshole. Why should anyone apologize for telling the truth? I know that you think that Marie Antoinette Romney is an “elite” and we are supposed to worship her while she tell us “poor people” how we should live our lives, and what matters to us? Hill ...
  • Marie “Ann”toinette Romney You Hav ...
    Dear Marie Antoinette Romney. Please sit down and shut up about economics. It is wonderful that your “family” has been so prosperous that you have never had to work for wages once in your whole life, unlike almost every other woman in America. What you don’t seem to understand ...
  • How Many Small Business Owners Did Newt Screw ...
    Come on Newt, who do you owe? You have millions upon millions in loot, and you can’t pay the people that you have contracts with and did business with? You have yours and you are screwing them out of theirs? You are sick man. I know you wanted to be prezzident so you could screw us [...]
  • Bush Is Back
    So it looks like Mr. Bush is going to fight hard to make sure all them tax breaks for billionaires stay in place. In 8 years he didn’t create one single private sector job with his tax cuts, and in fact we lost almost 700,000 private sector jobs. Giving all them “job creators” ...

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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  • Palestinian Prisoners’ Day: Bassam Tamim ...
    Bassam Tamimi has been sitting in an Israeli prison for over a year. Tamimi is a prominent Palestinian activist from the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, where he has led the small village’s popular unarmed struggle against Israeli occupation and takeover of land since its beginnings at th ...
  • Palestinian Prisoners’ Day: The numbers
    Israel arrests more than nine Palestinians per day on average. Currently, 320 Palestinians are held in prison by Israel without trial. Today, April 17, 2012, marks Palestinian Prisoners’ Day. By Michal Vexler Sources: Faculty for Israeli-Palestinian peace B’Tselem Haaretz http://nole ...
  • Israeli response to fly-in proves West Bank is ...
    Advocates for Israel often claim that the Palestinians run their own life. Yet again and again it appears that the West Bank has become their prison. Last week I posted here a criticism of Ambassador Michal Oren’s Foreign Policy piece, titled “Israel’s Resilient Democracy.&#822 ...
  • Conscientious objector refusing to serve in ID ...
    Noam Gur, a young Israeli conscientious objector, was sentenced Monday afternoon to 10 days in military prison. Once released, Gur is likely to be ordered to enlist again – and sent again to prison, the process repeating itself several times before she is ultimately released. Gur was accompanied ...
  • Dr. Mustafa Barghouti: Nonviolent resistance i ...
    Palestinian politician on his version of events from Land Day, the ineffectiveness of the United States and why Israelis themselves will not be free until the Palestinians are free. By Elsa Rassbach On March 20th, I interviewed Dr. Mustafa Barghouti about the plans for a new international initia ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

Matt Weidner Blog

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

  • Preserving The Best In Us
    He was good, real good. Spending this past weekend in Toronto with Michael Ignatieff and his wife Zsuszanna was a …Continue reading »
  • Not Consultation but Engagement
    Follow the link below to read the article I wrote for the London Free Press today on the need for …Continue reading »
  • Catching Up to History
    Formal politics has increasingly come under suspicion as a less than adequate institution for guiding democracy through the shoals of …Continue reading »
  • The Loss of Canadian Honour
    This morning the Huffington Post has run an article of mine on the loss of honour in Canadian federal politics. …Continue reading »
  • The Hidden Costs of the F-35
    At no point in my final year in Parliament was there any concrete belief in the estimated costs offered by …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

  • Tenure track faculty positions in risk science ...
    Just thought I’d circulate this on the 2020 Science network – please feel free to pass on the information to anyone who might be interested. We have finally started the process of looking for two junior faculty to join the Risk Science Center at the University of Michigan School of P ...
  • Risk Science – A personal perspective
    As Director of the University of Michigan Risk Science Center, it’s probably not surprising that I’m constantly being asked “what on earth is risk science?”  What is surprising is how hard it is to come up with a clear and concise answer.  Which is why I decided to spend ...
  • Emerging technologies at the World Economic Fo ...
    In an interconnected world, global issues demand integrative solutions.  It’s a statement that many people would agree with – in systems where associations between cause and effect are complex, you ignore synergistic inter-relationships between factors at your peril. But when it come ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    As you’ll have gathered from last week’s Lost in the Maize, I’ve been on the road this week.  In fact, I am writing this on the plane back to Detroit, looking forward to a quick wash, shave, sleep, and catch-up with family, before heading off to the Society for Risk Analysis annual meeting in Sa ...
  • Small gods and the art of technology innovation
    There’s something rather liberating about being asked to give a no-holds talk on your perspective on life, the universe and everything.  So when the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center asked if I would speak as part of their “Where do we go from here?” series, I jumped at it. N ...

Reader Supported News

  • FOCUS: Sneak Attacks
    Jane Mayer reports: "A new and highly aggressive multi-million-dollar anti-Obama ad campaign has started airing on television stations in eight key political swing states - but for now at least, the funders are staying hidden in the shadows." President Barack Obama is facing attack ads paid f ...
  • FOCUS: Sneak Attacks
    Jane Mayer reports: "A new and highly aggressive multi-million-dollar anti-Obama ad campaign has started airing on television stations in eight key political swing states - but for now at least, the funders are staying hidden in the shadows." President Barack Obama is facing attack ads paid f ...
  • NSA Building Foreign/Domestic Spying Supercent ...
    Excerpt: "A new expose in Wired Magazine reveals details about how the National Security Agency is quietly building the largest spy center in the country in Bluffdale, Utah, as part of a secret NSA surveillance program codenamed 'Stellar Wind.'" Wasatch Range in Bluffdale, Utah. (photo: Jesse ...
  • NSA Building Foreign/Domestic Spying Supercent ...
    Excerpt: "A new expose in Wired Magazine reveals details about how the National Security Agency is quietly building the largest spy center in the country in Bluffdale, Utah, as part of a secret NSA surveillance program codenamed 'Stellar Wind.'" Wasatch Range in Bluffdale, Utah. (photo: Jesse ...
  • Why 49 Advertisers Dropped Limbaugh, in Their ...
    Excerpt: "Thousands of angry customers have been inundating dozens of Limbaugh's corporate sponsors, demanding that they cut ties with the program. ... Here are the companies we have confirmed that have already pulled their sponsorship from Limbaugh's show." Corporate sponsors are dropping Ru ...

War Resisters League

  • كفى دموعا!
    كفى دموعا! بمناسبة يوم الارض الفلسطيني 2012, تُنشر النسخة العربية للكاريكاتير”كفى دموعا!” الذي يربط حركات للتغير حول العالم من خلال تحليل من ابرز الاسلحة التي تُستدخدم ضدها: الغاز المسيّل للدموع. بشكل سهل التناول, يسمّي “كفى دموعا!” الشركات التي تربح من … Continue r ...
  • A Story and a Book
    by Matt Meyer [This article was originally published on 'New Clear Vision' on February 15th, 2012.] On the Nature of Violence and Nonviolence Amidst a bombardment of Black Bloc commentary, questions about the militarized nature of tear-gas toting police, and … Continue reading →
  • “Exigent times call for very strenuous r ...
    [The WRL blog is excited to feature a film review by Jeanne Strole, co-director of the A.J. Muste Memorial Institute, with which the War Resisters League shares a long history, as well as the building at 339 Lafayette St. in … Continue reading →
  • More Deaths and Injuries from US Tear Gas in P ...
    [This piece by Adalah-NY: The New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel was originally published here on January 15th, 2012.] US-made tear gas, manufactured by companies like Combined Systems Inc. (CSI), Defense Technology, and NonLethal Technologies, continues to be … Continue reading & ...
  • What does justice for Danny Chen look like?
    by Esther Wang [This piece first appeared on December 22nd as a note on Esther Wang's Facebook page.] In October, news broke that 19-year-old Danny Chen – a US Army private who was born and raised in Chinatown – had … Continue reading →

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.

k2p blog

  • Settled science? Karakoram glaciers, polar bea ...
    The glaciers flowing between the towering peaks of the Karakoram range on the Pakistan-China border have grown in size in the last decade, according to new research. And emperor penguin numbers are twice what they were thought to be.
  • Professor at IIM-A resigns
    Professor Rajanish Dass at the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad has resigned after an investigating committee had found him guilty of 3 counts of plagiarism. Dass had received some relief from the High Court which had instructed the Institute to take some of his additional responses i ...
  • Another dent in anti-nuclear paranoia as wildl ...
    Radiation from the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear accidents may not have been as harmful to wildlife as previously thought.
  • What makes a “good” manager?
    What makes for a good manager? While defining what would constitute "success" is vital, it is my contention that the selection process for managers has to focus on the "goodness" of the manager. There are nine attributes which are necessary and sufficient to assess the goodness of a manager.
  • 8.7 magnitude earthquake off Aceh again &#8211 ...
    An 8.7 magnitude earthquake struck off the Aceh coast today. A tsunami warning is in effect. The 2004 quake was of 9.1 magnitude.

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Senate Blocks Buffett Rule With 51-45 Vote
    While some of us are still fretting about filing our taxes before the deadline, the Senate voted today to put a kibosh on the so-called Buffett Rule, a proposed tax reform intended to guarantee that those earning more than $2 million annually would pay a federal tax rate of at least 30%. Only ...
  • Don't Leave Your Phone In The Airplane Bathroo ...
    There once was a time when the worst thing that could happen if you accidentally left your phone in an airplane bathroom was that it might be stolen by a sticky-fingered passenger or crew member. But now, a phone in the loo could be a bomb, which means your plane is making an emergency landing ...
  • One Of These Things Is Not Like The Other: Bew ...
    It's not just fake Louis Vuitton purses and Prada shoes getting knocked off and sold on the Internet -- you could get scammed by a book title as well if a self-publishing author plays their game well enough. And yes, this kind of thing happens under Amazon's watch. Fortune warns of titles on A ...
  • Georgia Welfare Recipients Will Have To Pass D ...
    Almost six months after a federal judge halted similar legislation in Florida, the governor of Georgia has signed off on a new regulation that will require certain welfare recipients to pay for and pass a drug test. Under the new law, applicants for the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy F ...
  • A 4-Page Paper Arguing Your Case With Physics ...
    Trying to argue your way out of a traffic ticket is one thing. But presenting a four-page letter that presents the physical impossibility of the situation described in said ticket is something that could only be done by an expert physicist. So if you don't want to pay $400 and happen to know su ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Taxpayer-Funded Jugglers and Clowns: GSA Scand ...
    Inspectors General may sometimes be the fox guarding the hen house, but they're all that there is, and once and a while they work. An Inspector General can save taxpayers billions by investigating whistleblower claims of fraud, waste, abuse, mismanagement or illegality. The recent the General S ...
  • 'Big Ag' Retooling After 'Pink Slime': Daily W ...
    GAP's Jesselyn Radack with Salon's Glenn Greenwald at a fundraiserReuters: “Pink Slime” Controversy Stokes Clash over Agriculture Summary: The recent uproar over 'pink slime' – the ammoniated beef filler product – has shown “how social media have given activists and consumers a powerful weapon ...
  • Kiriakou Arraigned Today; HIMP Criticism Escal ...
    NPR: The Case of an Accused Leaker – Politics or Justice? Summary: GAP National Security & Human Rights Director Jesselyn Radack was featured on NPR’s Morning Edition to talk about today’s arraignment of former CIA agent John Kiriakou, where he is expected to plead not guilty. Ki ...
  • Jim Yong Kim Weak on Whistleblower Protections ...
    As president of Dartmouth University, President Obama’s nominee to head the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim, presides over extreme, traumatizing, pervasive, revolting and potentially illegal hazing at fraternities. Andrew Lohse, the whistleblower who exposed it, is now, alone, among those charged with ...
  • Sign GAP's Petition to Keep Poultry Safe!: Dai ...
    Petition: USDA - Keep Chicken Safe by Rejecting Privatized Poultry Inspection! Summary: GAP's Food Integrity Campaign has launched a petition calling on USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack to reject the proposed expansion of HIMP, which hands poultry inspection oversight to the industry itself. FI ...

UK Progressive

  • Behind Closed Doors, Broadcasters Battle Onlin ...
    by Justin Elliott, ProPublica The Federal Communications Commission isscheduled to vote April 27 on whether to require TV stations to post online public information about political ad buys. Some form of the rule seems likely to pass, but the industry and others are lobbying the FCC to alter the ...
  • Conservative Crack-up
    With Mitt Romney’s conservative opponents destroyed by his lavishly financed onslaught of personal attacks against them, the great general-election question about the man called a weathervane by some, and the “Etch a Sketch” candidate by others, is this: When will Mitt Romney next betray the rig ...
  • Pentagon Keeps Building Overseas Bases from Wh ...
    If the Iraq war is over and the Afghan war is winding down, what is prompting the remorseless expansion of the Pentagon’s vast network of overseas military bases? Veteran foreign affairs journalist Eric Walberg says the bases are the modern version of colonies. The U.S. has a whopping 1,10 ...
  • The Monday Line: Our NMBS* 10-Point Plan for F ...
    *NMBS=No More Bull Shit. We’re tired of posturing and partisan wrangling. It’s time to put common sense solutions on the table, stop beating up those in need of the social safety net, eliminate horse trading and fix the global economy. Here are 10-steps to move in the right correct direction. 1. ...
  • How Did Mitt Make So Much Money And Pay So Lit ...
    Now that Mitt Romney is the presumed Republican candidate, it’s fair to ask how he made so much money ($21 million in 2010 alone) and paid such a low tax rate (only 14.9 percent). Not only fair to ask, but instructive to know. Because the magic of private equity reveals a lot about how and [...]

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • So is the hotspot a “fingerprint” ...
    Some people claim that I mislead people. But it seems they are the misled — not by me, but by their own heroes. In the Skeptics Handbook I wrote: “The greenhouse signature is missing If Greenhouse gases are warming the earth we are supposed to see the first signs of it in the patch o ...
  • James Delingpole Tour starts tomorrow in Perth ...
    Don’t forget to book for Perth via email eventsATjoannenova.com.au. 7pm Royal Perth Yacht Club, Matilda Bay, Tuesday 17th April. See details for the rest of the tour at this page. Rating: 10.0/10 (5 votes cast) Rating: 10.0/10 (5 votes cast)
  • Soaking in money — a fake “indepen ...
    What kind of organization receives all its funding from one source, then claims to be “independent?” (Just another GONGO idea). The Conversation trumpets that it is “Independent” but it’s funded with $6 million from … the Government. As Tim Blair said “i ...
  • The incredible power of clouds (and Roy Spence ...
    Joint Post by Tony Cox and Jo Nova Clouds cool the planet as it warms Clouds cover an enormous 65% of the planet and are responsible for about half of the sunlight that is reflected back out to space.  The effects of clouds are so strong that most of the differences between IPCC-favoured-models ...
  • Last 30 years shows climate feedbacks are zero ...
    Let’s be as generous as we can. The IPCC say feedbacks amplify CO2′s warming by a factor of about three. Without the amplification from positive feedback there is no crisis So being nice people, let’s assume it’s warmed since 1979 and assume that it was all due to carbon dioxi ...

ReNew America

  • Finding the right House candidate: one who sta ...
    (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - In a crowded field, it takes extraordinary perception (to say nothing of time) to choose the right candidate for public office. No such difficulty exists in the Utah's Second Congressional District...
  • The Democrats' big-government message: not goo ...
    (Patrick Garry, RA analyst) - In his emerging re-election campaign, President Obama's message is becoming clear and simple: be afraid, be very afraid of those heartless conservatives. What is amazing is that his message is almost completely opposite from his message of four years ago...
  • Obama angry over Secret Service coverage
    (Bloomberg News) - President Barack Obama said the media often ignores progress made at international summits in favor of more "flashy" news, as the Summit of the Americas was overshadowed by allegations of misconduct by his Secret Service agents...
  • What if the prostitutes were male?
    (Joseph Farah) - I'm confused about this scandal developing over Secret Service and U.S. military personnel paying for sex in a country where prostitution is legal. Would it be all right with U.S. authorities and the media if the same personnel had non-commercial consensual sex with women in the ...
  • Imagine no income tax
    (Daniel J. Flynn) - Imagine there's no income tax. It isn't hard to do. No last-minute paperwork hell. And no IRS, too. Almost half of Americans don't have to imagine. An estimated 46 percent of the country will not pay any federal income taxes this year. And you read this as though it were a ba ...

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

  • Land Rover DC100
    Over at USA Today they are telling us that this new Land Rover model should appeal to survivalists: With its rooftop equipment rack, you can stow hundreds of cans of Spam and canned peas topside, leaving the cargo area for your stash of glinting yellow gold bullion. As giant chasms split open ...
  • Holly Deyo on Changing Countries
    Survivalists often discuss which countries would be safest to be in, should a global cataclysm occur. Typically the focus is on the lack of danger – no volcanoes, inland, no nuclear power plants… Less discussed is whether you can handle the more mundane aspects of living somewhere ne ...
  • Many Earthquakes Today
    I check this web page all the time: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_big.php It lists every earthquake greater than 5.0 for the last week, and it is updated in real-time. On most days there’s less than five quakes listed, and often just one or two. Today ...
  • Astrophysicists: Crab Pulsar is Ultra-Powerful
    It amazes me how contradictory orthodox scientists can collectively be. When discussing the future of our planet, they typically regard their current understandings to be certainties that are set in stone. A good example is that we are not close enough to any potential supernova for harm to come ...
  • Natural Gas Worse Than Coal
    You already know this, but diets high in meat contribute to global warming. That’s because cows fart methane. By burping, belching and excreting copious amounts of methane — a greenhouse gas that traps 20 times more heat than carbon dioxide — India’s livestock of roughly 485 milli ...

Facing South

One News Page

  • Chelsea hope to avenge 2009 semis defeat vs Barca
    Written off as too old and accused of hastening the downfall of Andre Villas-Boas, Chelsea's old guard have flourished under stand-in manager Roberto Di Matteo and will relish trying to halt Barcelona's bandwagon on Wednesday. Reported by Firstpost 53 minutes ago
  • Tata Teleservices applications received late: ...
    Former telecom secretary D.S. Mathur Monday told a CBI special court that applications of Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) Limited (TTML) and Tata Teleservices Limited (TTSL) for dual technology were received after the receipt of new applications were stopped. Reported by IndiaVision 1 hour ago
  • EPL: Battling Wigan stun Arsenal 2-1
    Roberto Martinez's side scored twice in the first eight minutes and although Arsenal struck back quickly, Wigan hung on to claim a victory that moved them five points clear of relegation with four matches left in the season. Reported by Firstpost 1 hour ago
  • UNFRIENDLY credit card CHARGES you must know
    Be careful about what and how you spend using your credit card while travelling abroad. Reported by Rediff.com 2 hours ago
  • Bihar HC acquits Bathani Tola massacre accused
    17 Apr 2012 The Patna High Court has acquitted all the 23 persons, in the Bathani Tola massacre, due to lack of evidence.Earlier, the Additional district and session Court, Bhojpur had sentenced three persons to death and life imprisonment to 20 for the 1996 massacare at Bathani Tola ... R ...

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • An Open Government Wrapped in the Internet
    On April 17-18, 2012 the First Annual High-Level Summit of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) will be held in Brazil. According to the dedicated page on the US State Department web-site, the OGP is ‘aimed at securing concrete commitments from governments to promote transparency, increase civi ...
  • Soros’s Virus Sneaking Into the Open Gov ...
    The first annual conference of the Open Government Partnership, an international group set up in New York by the US, UK,  Canada, Norway, Brazil, Mexico, Indonesia, the Philippines, and South Africa in September, 2011, will open in Brazil on April 17, 2012. Over the past six months, the partners ...
  • Who Are To Stand Up In the International Crimi ...
    Not long ago the International Criminal Court (ICC) handed down a noteworthy ruling. Formally it was related to two African states – Malawi and Chad visited by president of Sudan Omar al-Bashir. Their fault was not so much receiving him but rather not putting him under arrest. The warrant was is ...
  • Amnesty International Propaganda Targets Russi ...
    The Amnesty International “infographic” titled, “Shocking Facts About Who’s Arming Human Rights Abusers,” portraying Russia’s arming of Syria as “fueling the most bloodshed” is not “shocking” at all when one realizes the disingenuous human ri ...
  • What Missiles Are Threatening Europe?
    The issue of creating missile defense boundaries in Europe is largely political in nature. The United States is developing the system more for ensuring national security — officially from Iran, but in reality from China and possibly Russia. Otherwise, it is difficult to understand its persistenc ...

BlogHer

  • Five Things to Know Before You Start Your Food ...
    From the technical considerations to the practical plans, starting a food blog encompasses so much more than simply reviewing restaurants or photographing fajitas. Since the launch of my food blog Just a Taste in 2008, I’ve kept a long list titled “Things I Wish I’d Known.” The list has proven t ...
  • Of Unicorns and Perfect Mamas
    [Editor's Note: If you need some encouragement as a mom, I invite you not only to read this letter-slash-post by Sarah Besey, but to also check out the Mother Letters project. I have a few I could write. I have a few I should write. I especially loved Sarah's, however. She makes me feel like I'm ...
  • Child Abuse Prevention Month: Getting in Separ ...
    April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month. Our local courthouse, like others around the country, has gone blue to help raise awareness in hopes of prevention. I think one of the best ways we can continue to help children -- besides reporting abuse or neglect when we witness or suspect it -- ...
  • Helping Children Become Digitally Literate
    At Moms with Apps they are concerned about how to teach the current crop of children referred to as digital natives the skills they need to navigate the waters of interconnectedness. They ask some provocative questions and suggest conversation topic for parents with children who are just approac ...
  • BlogHer Food '12 Pre-Conference Buzz: Why Did ...
    Suddenly it’s mid-April and I feel like we’re spiraling toward summer at a high rate of speed. Of course, that means that before we know it, BlogHer Food '12 will be upon us! As people begin to wonder what to pack for the Seattle weather and make plans to meet up with fellow bloggers, we thought ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Ron Paul’s In It To Win In Money Bomb Ap ...
    April 15th money bomb! Ron Paul is IN IT TO WIN IT, as so is the Health Freedoms Alliance. Please join us on April 15th for the largest one-day donation event of the 2012 presidential campaign. Our ...
  • The Top Ten Natural Sources of Important Vitam ...
    This article will discuss the top ten natural foods that contain important vitamins that your body needs. Vitamins are very easy to find if you know where to look. Meats,grains, fruits and vegetables are all excellent ...
  • Air Conditioning and Pollution Are Making Us Fat
    In the battle over Americas expanding waistline, much of the emphasis is on diet and exercise. A study suggests other potential causes, including too much air conditioning, should be studied as well. The report, published in ...
  • Marriage, Education and Job Status Improve Health
    Married people who are well-educated and have the higher per-capita incomes tend to also be the healthiest. That’s the provocative conclusion of a new Spanish study that finds socioeconomic factors may play the biggest roles in ...
  • FDA: Animal Antibiotics Endanger Humans
    The Food and Drug Administration called on drug companies Wednesday to help limit the use of antibiotics in farm animals, a decades-old practice that scientists say has contributed to a surge in dangerous, drug-resistant bacteria. Antibiotic ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • NIOSH issues report on troubled SCSR model
    This just in: The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health has finally issued its report on the problems with the CSE SR-100 model self-contained, self-rescuer devices, saying in typically cryptic language: The investigation was designed to test field-deployed CSE SR-100 SCSRs to de ...
  • Friday roundup, April 13, 2012
    In this photo released by Peru’s presidential press office, an unidentified miner, center is helped out of the Cabeza de Negro gold-and-copper mine in Yauca del Rosario, Peru, Wednesday April 11, 2012. Nine miners had been trapped inside the mine since April 5. (AP Photo/Job Rosales, Peru& ...
  • Sen. Joe Manchin, common sense and coal: Where ...
    U.S. Senator Manchin speaks at the conclusion of a roundtable discussion on the “Impact of the Federal Government on the Appalachian Coal Industry” as WV Governor Earl Ray Tomblin, right, and Tim McLean, left,  of Walker Machinery, look on.  The roundtable discussion, hosted by the W ...
  • State moves to strip UBB foreman of license
    Back in late February, when the state Office of Miners’ Health, Safety and Training issued its report on the Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster, agency officials said they were taking action against several individuals found to have violated safety laws at the Massey Energy operation. As we re ...
  • Arch Coal seeks to reopen Spruce Mine case
    In the wake of last month’s federal court ruling that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency lacked legal authority to veto the permit for the Spruce No. 1 Mine, we’ve been waiting for the other shoe to drop … As folks who have followed this closely know that, along with a po ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Bay Bridge Lighting
    via lh5.googleusercontent.com Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related ContentMondayDucks in WaterThe First Result When Googling SantorumMy Varnish Study PieceYouTube Downloader | Chrome Web Store
  • Old Man In Nursing Home Reacts To Hearing Musi ...
    via youtube.com Touching. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related Content29-year-old Deaf Woman Hears For First Time Using Hearing ImplantA Creative SongSeriously Fast LyricsHitler Finds Out There’s No iPhone 5If China Attacks America (A Must See)
  • How to Get a Good Cup of Coffee From Starbucks
    Wagner’s music is better than it sounds. ~ Edgar Wilson Nye People tend to love Starbucks despite it tasting like it was brewed for three weeks in the center of the sun. Most mask this reality by ordering a coffee beverage instead of coffee, or by adding so much to it as to render it [...]
  • At Least Double The NASA Budget — Currently 1/ ...
    Currently, NASA’s budget barely surpasses 0.5 percent of the Federal budget, and has seen a steady decline in the proportions of its funding, now reaching all-time lows. The cultural mindset brought on by NASA has allowed us to reap the benefits of economic growth, creating an influx of people w ...
  • Why don’t Americans Walk More? | Slate Magazine
    Carlin Robinson, 12, walks from her grandmother’s car to the school bus in Manchester, Ky. Her house can be seen in the background. A study published in 2010, investigating high obesity rates in the town found that residents used cars to minimize walking distance, to the detriment of ...

Fitwatch

  • FITwatch: The Open Public Meeting
    We at FITwatch have been a bit quiet recently – but we are leaping back into life with an open meeting on Sunday 25th March, 1pm at the London Action Resource Centre. With the Met trying to criminalise face masks, implementing new data gathering systems, and making an issue of ‘robust’ policing, ...
  • Questioning the tactic of “questioning t ...
    The following article, originally posted on the Vancouver Media Co-op website, has been reproduced here by FITwatch as we believe it is of relevance in the ongoing debate around the wearing of masks on demonstrations. FITwatch always has, and always will, encourage the wearing of masks on demons ...
  • ‘Extremist’ policing of Leicester ...
    The remarkable ambivalence with which the police treat right wing groups was clearly evident in the policing of the EDL demonstration this week in Leicester. Leicestershire constabulary were clearly happy with facilitating the EDL demonstration, while being equally clearly committed to clamping ...
  • HMIC report into domestic extremist units disg ...
    Well, we always knew HMIC’s ludicrously named ‘review of national police units which provide intelligence on criminality associated with protest’ was going to be a farce, and we haven’t been disappointed. The 48 page report published today fails to address any of the concerns addressed by activi ...
  • Student Centre Branded Terrorist
    London students who occupied a space in the run-up to the November 30th public sector strike were under the jurisdiction of the Met's SO15 Counter Terrorism Command, FITwatch have learned today. Bloomsbury Social Centre - which aimed to be a "hub of organising for students, workers and residents ...

Worldwide Hippies

  • Exhibit of 18 violins tells story of the Holocaust
    By MARTHA WAGGONER,AP - CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — When a musician plays a violin long enough, the instrument is imprinted with its owner’s way of making sound. If someone else picks it up, they learn to play it in a way that honors its history. So when David Russell places a violin played in ...
  • The Power of Algae; Pesticides and Autism?
    By Adam Clark Estes | The Atlantic Wire - Discovered in Green: The most amazing algae you’ve ever seen, unintended consequences of the otherwise environmentally friendly ethanol, building greener cities, and the link between pesticides and autism. Algae farms could save the environmen ...
  • Been 100 years…
    By Sherry Pasquarello,Worldwidehippie -Can we drop the titanic overblown subject of the Titanic? Yes, it was an awful thing and yes, naturally people were curious but for pity’s sake, let it rest in peace. It’s time to move on. Even the latest movie is old news by now. But NO, we’ve got to 3D th ...
  • The Soapbox: You Don’t “Get&#8221 ...
    See the World Around You! – Hear the Voices of Activism! – Speak Truth To Power! Media for the People by the People! Citizen Dispatch For reporting from your spot on the globe The Soapbox For your commentary and opinions Hippie TV News For news entertainment. Contact joe@worldwidehip ...
  • Music: Two Cool and a Fu#%@ng Fool!
    CD Review | Raitt returns with message for the middle-aged By Chris Willman,THEWRAP.COM – In 1989, Bonnie Raitt had a huge hit and subsequent Grammy sweep with the album Nick of Time, which movingly spoke to the ways that love can creep up and save a person in middle age. Almost a qua ...

reference frame

  • Fermi: fifty dark matter photons at 130 GeV: a ...
    Gordon Kane has pointed out that I have missed a shocking hep-ph paper by Christoph Weniger on Friday 13th, A Tentative Gamma-Ray Line from Dark Matter Annihilation at the Fermi Large Area Telescope (PDF) The author from Munich is one non-member of the Fermi collaboration, a rather fresh ...
  • Do neutrino patterns hint at \(SO(10)\) grand ...
    Rabindra Mohapatra is among the phenomenologists who seem to be convinced that the detailed properties of the neutrinos, together with some previously known characteristics of charged leptons and quarks, make the grand unification, especially one based on the \(SO(10)\) gauge group, much more ...
  • Himalayan glaciers grew in 1999-2008: surprise?
    The IPCC had told us that the Himalayan glaciers would be gone by 2035. The notorious verbal Marxist guerilla group later admitted that the figure 2035 was created by permuting digits in the figure 2350 which was casually mentioned in an interview with a random mediocre alarmist as the ...
  • Was Lenin pro-science?
    Sean Carroll wrote about Fang Lizhi, a Chinese cosmologist and dissident who recently died at the age of 76. Cosmic Variance wasn't the most sensible place to write such a thing because it is one of the blogs belonging to the "hardcore left-wing ideological" blogosphere. So the readers ...
  • Ozone hole and global warming: evolution of an ...
    Steven Goddard at real-science.com is posting lots of old newspaper articles with scary predictions we already know to be wrong. I was intrigued by this particular one today: NASA 1986: All Life Extinct In A Few DecadesAre the ozone hole and global warming problems related? Are they correla ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • 12 year old girl explains how to destroy corru ...
    This little girl is a genius, a result of great parenting that has resulted in a young patriot that tears apart the Canadian Banking System exposing how it is corrupt and has become a plague on society. After she tears them out a new one, she offers a solution of how to rid us of [...] Related ...
  • I wonder if TSA Agents know what long term exp ...
    People have been wondering what long term exposure to naked body scanners will do to the human body. Wonder no more. Here is a photo of an ex TSA Employee. I hear she now works as a tanning bed operator. Click image to enlarge   Any questions? Homeland Security Job Guide: How to get an [... ...
  • Giabo George is a ‘MADe’ Dog. Seen by over 200 ...
    I don’t know how I forgot this one. My Pug, Giabo George, was featured on the Keiser Report over the Christmas holidays. I must be losing it, as the little guy was made famous by Stacey Herbert and Max Keiser. The Keiser Report is seen by over 200 million viewers from around the world each ...
  • Chris Duane: As long as you play by the Elite’ ...
    This video just about sums up what I have been saying for the past 5 or so years. The Heretic is back with a plan for us to destroy the paradigm of evil, fraud, corruption. and tyranny that has been built up by the Elite. If you do not own physical silver then may God [...] Related posts: The ...
  • Heist The Movie – Who Stole the American Dream?
    Please watch the newly updated trailer for “Heist: Who Stole the American Dream?,” the new, explosive documentary from Frances Causey and Donald Goldmacher exposing the roots of the American economic crisis and the destruction of the American dream. Visit Heist-TheMovie.com for more ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

  • News Wrapup: Earthquakes, Nail Polish and Diabetes
    A summary of a U.S. Geological Survey finding associating earthquakes with the oil and gas drilling process was mentioned by The Atlantic, and re-printed in Yahoo! Finance and SFist. Bill Allayaud was interviewed twice by different Fox News programs,... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...
  • Are Pesticide Sprayers "Health Experts?" Serio ...
    By Alex Formuzis, Vice President of Media Relations New online videos from a chemical agribusiness front group show conventional growers straining to convince consumers that it's just fine to eat bug killers and weed killers. The Alliance for Food and... [[ This is a content summary only. V ...
  • Help Us Create Our New Facebook Timeline Banner!
    As you've likely noticed, Facebook recently released its Timeline feature for fan and brand pages. It's a great new way to tell stories and share and highlight memorable posts. Everyone is getting creative with the new format, so we... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for ...
  • "You Can't Find What You Don't Look For"
    Our California fracking report continued to gain fantastic coverage this week with three large stories in Santa Cruz Weekly, Sacramento News and Review and Wines and Vines. Our president, Ken Cook, posted in Huffington Post on BPA in food packaging... [[ This is a content summary only. Visi ...
  • Toxic Chemicals in Food Packaging Must Go
    By Kenneth A. Cook, EWG President and co-founder Under mounting pressure from consumers, scientists, advocacy groups and lawsuits, the Food and Drug Administration is about to decide whether to ban the ubiquitous industrial chemical BPA (bisphenol-A)... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • ‘Classic rhetoric’ as Breivik testifies
    Several lawyers expressed surprise that an Oslo City Court judge allowed mass murder and terror suspect Anders Behring Breivik to speak for as long as he did, when he started five days of testimony on Tuesday. Others called his testimony “classic rhetoric” although Breivik himself cl ...
  • Dramatic start to trial’s second day
    Confessed right-wing Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik was ready and in place for what’s considered one of his most important days in court on Tuesday. He’d even made his now-customary Nazi salute before sitting down, when the judge immediately delayed proceedings because of ...
  • Government may trim F35 order
    Norwegian government officials are now admitting that the huge costs of replacing the country’s current fleet of F16 fighter jets will likely cut into state funding for schools, health care and transport programs. The government may decide to trim its order, from 52 of the new F35 jets to ...
  • Norway lifts sanctions against Burma
    The Norwegian government has decided to lift economic sanctions against Burma, also known as Myanmar. All limits that have been placed on foreign aid, financing and visas will now be removed, announced Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre over the weekend. “We’re doing this to send a po ...
  • More wolves spotted north of Oslo
    Police in Akershus County received several more calls during the night and early Monday from residents who claimed they’d seen wolves from Lillestrøm to Skedsmokorset and Gjerdrum, northeast of Oslo. Wolf tracks were confirmed by state officials on Monday. The new w0lf-sightings are believ ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • 72h Permaculture Design Course: Permaculture f ...
    This 13-day practical and demonstrative PDC will take place in Konso, south Ethiopia, from May 7th – 19th, 2012, at Strawberry Fields Eco Lodge. It will have a special focus on the application of permaculture to communities in the developing world. It will involve practical demonstrations ...
  • Good Excuses
    Photos © Craig Mackintosh I thought I had better break the silence by letting you know I haven’t fallen off the edge of the earth, but am currently in New Zealand, collecting interesting notes, photos and video for you all. You should find it worth the wait, but thanks for your pat ...
  • For the Love of Parks – a Transition Initiative
    On a beautiful spring day in the heart of east Berlin, eight fruit trees are planted in Görlitzer park. The trees, mainly apples but also some plums and pears, were carefully laid into the ground. The project, ‘I heart Görli’, was organised by a group of locals with similar ...
  • Tree Cotton – Gossypium Arboreum
    You might have seen the cotton growing out west — around St George, Gundiwindi and Dirranbandi in Queensland, Australia, and Moree and Narrabri in NSW. It’s an annual crop — sown in the spring and harvested in the autumn — grown in flat plains country. The blocks are leve ...
  • Permaculture Design Certificate Course, Arusha ...
    Time is running out to join members of the international permaculture community for FoodWaterShelter’s Permaculture Design Certificate Course between the 4th to 15th June 2012 in Arusha, Tanzania. With applicants from England to the USA, South Africa to Germany and throughout Africa includ ...

Pointman's

  • The sun is setting on solar power, the money&# ...
    If you keep an eye on the financial world, which I do, and especially the green sectors, which I also do, it’s been an interesting time of late. Within the last few weeks, Solar Trust of America (STA), owner of the world’s largest solar plant, filed for bankruptcy protection under Ch ...
  • About writing.
    I do the thinking thing very well. For so much of my life and for so many things in it, I think very carefully before I leap and I’m good at it. Over the years, people have learnt to trust and depend on that and because I love them, that’s something special I can do … Read more
  • About writing.
    I do the thinking thing very well. For so much of my life and for so many things in it, I think very carefully before I leap and I’m good at it. Over the years, people have learnt to trust and depend on that and because I love them, that’s something special I can do … Read more
  • Political fracture points and power vacuums.
    A political fracture point is a sudden and radical change in the political landscape. In classical times, it would be the collapse of an empire, such as the Roman Empire. In the last century, World War I resulted in the outright destruction of several, such as the German Empire, and ultimately f ...
  • Political fracture points and power vacuums.
    A political fracture point is a sudden and radical change in the political landscape. In classical times, it would be the collapse of an empire, such as the Roman Empire. In the last century, World War I resulted in the outright destruction of several, such as the German Empire, and ultimately f ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Another Victory Against Louisiana's Crime Agai ...
    A judge's order yesterday took another step towards ending the harsh legacy of Louisiana's Crime Against Nature Law. Below is a press release on the issue from Center for Constitutional Rights. Louisiana must “cease and desist” from placing any individuals convicted of Crime Against Nature by ...
  • Isabella's Story: A Transgender Person's Story ...
    The letter below came to us from our friends at BreakOUT!. This Thursday night at 9:00pm, the Allways Lounge will host a benefit for BreakOUT! featuring a range of performances; circus, burlesque, drag, bounce, and more. "This is a short story of my life. Please type it and print it and send it ...
  • Danziger Sentences Bring Closure, With Controv ...
    This article originally appeared on the New Orleans Tribune/TribuneTalk website. On Wednesday, five officers were sentenced for firing on unarmed civilians on Danziger Bridge on September 4, 2005, and conspiring to cover-up their crime. The sentences bring some degree of closure to a case th ...
  • Jena Six activists and other local organizers ...
    This article was originally published in the April 2, 2012 print edition of The Louisiana Weekly newspaper. In 2008, officers from the New York City Police Department took a trip to New Orleans to spy on the people of this city. The occasion was the People’s Summit, a grassroots response to a ...
  • The End of Sex Offender Registration for Louis ...
    Judge Rules That Sex-Offender Registration for “Crime Against Nature by Solicitation” Convictions Is Unconstitutional From Center for Constitutional Rights: Yesterday, one day after attorneys from the Center for Constitutional Rights argued that individuals convicted prior to August 2011 unde ...

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    I've tried via 2 Swedish friends to get more details, seems if you are locked up in Sweden, then you are in the systemStatistics: Posted by Ognir — Tue Apr 17, 2012 1:10 am
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Read this all weekend, complete crock of shiteStatistics: Posted by Ognir — Tue Apr 17, 2012 1:09 am
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Israeli TV report shows air force gearing up for Iran attack, says moment of truth is near ‘IAF expects losses, and knows it can’t destroy entire Iranian program’ By Greg Tepper April 15, 2012, 11:49 pm 108 major Israel TV station on Sunday night broadcast a detailed report on how Israel will ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    From a few years back but another one of those "back page" stories that unless you were there... is quickly forgotten. The Idiot Jewish Press never shines a light on these crimes. To bad the kid wasn't loaded up... stop the "Skittles" attack... -- CSR ------- In St. Louis ...
  • History and Philosophy of Zionism/Judaism/&quo ...
    An interesting and timely show at Christogenea.org by WIlliam Finck: Christogenea Saturdays, April 14th, 2012 - Should Christians Embrace the Jews? Submitted by wmfinck on Sat, 04/14/2012 - 23:11 http://www.christogenea.org/audio/downl ... ceJews.mp3Statistics: Posted by CrackSmokeRepublican ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Waterless Fracking Technology May Be Used at N ...
    A planned shale gas drilling project in New York state would utilize a waterless form of hydraulic fracturing, a new technique designed to reduce the potential pollution associated with the controversial natural gas drilling process. Rather than using typical hydraulic fracturing technologies — ...
  • Glaciers in Asian Range Are Gaining Ice, Study ...
    A new study has found that a series of glaciers located in a mountain range along the rim of the Tibetan plateau may actually be gaining mass, in contrast to global trends. In an analysis of satellite data, a team of French researchers found that numerous glaciers in the Karakoram mountain range ...
  • Hopes Fade for Cleanup In Nigeria’s Oil-Rich Delta
    The Ogoniland region of Nigeria has long been badly polluted by decades of oil production that has fouled the delta and contaminated drinking water. A United Nations report last year recommended a massive recovery initiative, but so far the Nigerian government has shown few signs it will agree t ...
  • Lack of Sound U.S. Policies Threatens Clean En ...
    A new report says that a surge in wind and solar power pushed the U.S. past China in renewable energy investment in 2011, but predicts that the U.S. edge could be short-lived in the absence of consistent, long-term policies to promote clean energy. According to the report published by the Pew Ch ...
  • Doctors’ Group Urges Caution On Growing Use o ...
    The American Academy of Environmental Medicine is calling for increased study and expanded public education of the possible health effects of the growing use of cell phones and wireless technology. In a position paper on the issue, the academy said that effects of electromagnetic fields and radi ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • Let’s get this party started
    By Mark Evans South of the border, the party is raging. You can almost hear Prince’s “1999″ playing in the background as startups find themselves being courted by investors and snapped up for eye-popping amounts. The current case in point is Facebook’s $1-billion purchase of Instagram, which is ...
  • F-35: Lies and damn liars
    By Saskboy Our top Ministers of our Canadian Government are so very disgraceful. They continue to lie to us, after being caught by multiple non-partisan authorities. It’s often claimed that people expect politicians to lie, but there’s been an understanding in Ottawa that it was taboo for Minist ...
  • “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 ...

Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Python kills Ibaraki pet breeder
    A man died after apparently being bitten by a 6.5-meter-long python at a pet breeding farm in Ushiku, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Saturday night, police said Monday. Shoji Fujita, 66, the father of the farm's operator, was found lying on the ground at around 11 p.m. Saturday and the snake, a reticu ...
  • Kamakura: Do you approve of the proposed doubl ...
    Takashi KobayashiTransport worker, 31 (Japanese)I think the sales tax will have to be raised in the future, but I doubt if now is a good time to do it. If they hike the tax, it would make life harder for me. ShihoHousewife, 40s (Japanese)The government hasn't given a clear reason as to why the ...
  • Baldini slams 'indecisive' league
    Roma general director Franco Baldini has slammed the Italian Football League for failing to decide what to do about the Serie A matches that were postponed this weekend. The postponements were a mark of respect to Livorno midfielder Piermario Morosini, who collapsed and died after suffering a ...
  • Electric utilities burned record levels of LNG ...
    Power providers said they used record amounts of liquefied natural gas last year to replace nuclear generation. The 10 regional power utilities burned 52.9 million metric tons of LNG in the fiscal year ended in March, up 27 percent from the prior year, according to data Monday from the Federat ...
  • Robinson honored by MLB
    LaTroy Hawkins has heard the stories from his 87-year-old grandfather, about his days of picking cotton in Mississippi, about the times when there were no black players in big league baseball. And about what it meant when Jackie Robinson broke the game's color barrier.

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Later Retirement: A Win-Win Solution?
    The C. D. Howe Institute have put out a study on later retirement by Peter Hicks, a former senior official with HRSDC and the OECD who has written a lot on the policy implications of ageing societies. I find this to be one of his less convincing efforts. The argument – with parenthetical c ...
  • Corporate Canada is Dangerously Under-leveraged
    (Hat tip to Toby Sanger, from whom I’ve borrowed much of this material.) It is now generally well recognized that Canadian household debt has reached unsustainable levels.  Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of Canada, has cited household debt as the most pressing domestic economic issue. Canadia ...
  • Who’s a bigger drag on Canada’s fu ...
    This is my latest column for Canadian Business magazine.  Giorgio, a hard-working, smart-as-a-whip University of Toronto student, asked me a great question after a recent guest lecture: What if the biggest challenge facing Canadian businesses and governments in the coming years isn’t an aging so ...
  • Saskatchewan Budget: Where’s the Intergovernme ...
    A hallmark of Brad Wall’s premiership has been cosy relations with municipal governments and the two westernmost provincial governments. Since taking office, the Sask. Party has been throwing money at municipalities. It pledged not to sign the Trade, Investment and Labour Mobility Agreement with ...
  • HST cut in Nova Scotia: Detracting from real d ...
    The Nova Scotia government has just announced that it will cut the HST by 1% next year and 1% the following year. This cut will reverse the 2% increase the government imposed in order to assist it to achieve a balanced budget. Increasing the HST was part of a four year plan to balance the [...]

ReDress

  • Intolerance in the USA's "sunshine state" of F ...
    Lawrence Davidson analysis the chronic intolerance inherent in the US State of Florida, at the core of which lie the Cuban American and Jewish communities, which "form around repugnant ideological cores that then come to characterize their very identity".
  • Good for Guenter Grass! Everyone and his dog n ...
    Stuart Littlewood views the "squawks and screeches" emanating from Israel in protest at German poet Guenter Grass's poem on the threat Israel poses to the world, and reminds us of a couple of pertinent facts: that Israel is the only nuclear state in the Middle East and that it refuses to forgo t ...
  • Pastor John Hagee and his deadly million
    Lawrence Davidson argues that US Pastor John Hagee and his followers, who believe in the divine creation of the state of Israel, are as delusional as people who once believed in the reality of Zeus and his Olympian clan but could one day act as cheerleaders for the ethnic cleansing and mass murd ...
  • The devastating impact of Passover on Jewish p ...
    Uri Avnery considers the fictional story of the Passover and its devastating impact on Jewish culture: extreme paranoia and a craving for revenge against non-Jews - for Israelis, pouring out their wrath on their neighbours, the Palestinians and other Arabs, on their minorities and on their victims.
  • German poet Guenter Grass says what cowardly p ...
    Gilad Atzmon considers German poet Guenter Grass's courageous stance on Israel, which he criticized in a poem for undermining an already fragile world peace, and views the ridiculous response of Israel's embassy and its stooges in Germany.

Physics Today

  • Graphene offers clear window on liquids
    BBC: Until now, liquids have been difficult to view at the same resolution as solids using transmission electron microscopes (TEMs), which require liquids to be placed in some sort of container. Silicon nitride or silicon oxide capsules are traditionally used, but they don't provide a clear view ...
  • Rival teams shared in Nobel celebration
    Science: In 2011, Brian Schmidt, Adam Riess, and Saul Perlmutter were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae". The Nobel may not be shared among more than three people, and the three men wante ...
  • No title
    Talking Points Memo: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is back online after a four-month long maintenance period. On Thursday, CERN announced that it had achieved the highest-energy level for proton collisions yet recorded in history: 8 trillion electron volts (TeV).
  • Wind energy growth tops renewable energy sector
    Earth Policy Institute: Renewable energy makes up only a small section of the energy market but since 2007 hydropower grew by 7 percent and wind power grew by 36 percent while coal declined slightly says a new report from the Earth Policy Institute. In fact in five US states more than 10 percent ...
  • Smaller accelerators continue the search for d ...
    Nature: In the wake of the null results from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, some physicists are turning from larger, more powerful particle accelerators to smaller, less expensive ones. At the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Virginia, a continuous dense beam of electr ...

Revolutionary Politics

  • Norway massacre is a false flag
    by Sung (Posted Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:54:46 GMT) 686. Camp Utoya and Camp Casey (9/15/2011) The tyrant of the NWO hate peace loving people that much that they put them as hitting target in their plot. We saw it in Norway killing (7/22/2011) and Hurricane Katrina event. (9/24/2005, a failed plot) ...
  • CIA Spy Captured Giving Nuclear Bomb To Terrorists
    by Sung (Posted Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:50:35 GMT) 693. Eric Holder and Operation “Fast and Furious” (11/14/2011) In last article, I said, “The nuclear disaster hadn’t developed further because their main case failed to go through.” The main plot is to kill Kat Hak Sung in a framed case. In recent ...
  • Ron Paul names US internal Enemies
    by Sung (Posted Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:45:15 GMT) href="#">href="#">href="#">href="#">Ron Paul says U.S. is turning into a 'fascist system' dominated by government and businesses By Associated Press Last updated at 7:02 AM on 19th February 2012 'We've slipped away from a true Republic,' Paul said. ...
  • News media won't report
    by Sung (Posted Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:37:51 GMT) In 2010, as the nation slowly ground its way from Great Recession to recovery, 93 percent of national income gains went to the richest 1 percent of Americans. As Reuters's David Cay Johnston pointed out today, this makes the 2010 recovery quite diff ...
  • Media suppress Ron Paul
    by Sung (Posted Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:30:23 GMT)

Peakwater

  • Water Wars: Why India and Pakistan Are Squarin ...
    “India’s Wular Lake, a popular picnic and tourist spot nestled in the Kashmir Valley, is an unlikely site for conflict. But India’s plan to build a structure on the Jhelum River at the mouth of the lake that will allow it to release water  during the river’s lean winter m ...
  • Water meters to cost €40 a year for 20 years
    “Homeowners face an annual €40 standing charge for 20 years just to cover the cost of water meters. That is before they hand over a cent for the water they use. “The Irish  Independent has learned of fresh details about the standing charge which will be levied on 1.35 million homeown ...
  • Merck and Safe Water Network Launch Initiative ...
    “Merck, known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, and Safe Water Network, announced the launch of a three−year, $1.5M partnership to increase access to safe water and reduce the impact of water-borne disease among impoverished communities in Andhra Pradesh, India. This initiative ...
  • Water Wars: Why India and Pakistan Are Squarin ...
    “India’s Wular Lake, a popular picnic and tourist spot nestled in the Kashmir Valley, is an unlikely site for conflict. But India’s plan to build a structure on the Jhelum River at the mouth of the lake that will allow it to release water during the river’s lean winter mo ...
  • $6.6-million settlement reached on Malibu beac ...
    “Malibu has reached a $6.6-million legal settlement with environmental groups that both sides say will protect beachgoers by reducing the amount of polluted storm runoff that reaches the ocean. “The settlement of a 2008 federal Clean Water Act lawsuit against the city by Santa Monica ...

D. Kucinich

  • Nearly $200 Billion in Savings if Minnesotans ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), coauthor of H.R. 676, Medicare for All, today released the following statement highlighting a report by respected health care analytical group, The Lewin Group, showing the State of Minnesota would save $189.5 billion over ten years by providing universal, sin ...
  • Davis-Besse News Alert: Kucinich Responds to N ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), who has consistently fought for stronger oversight of Davis-Besse to protect the people of Ohio, released the following statement after the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) overturned a decision made by the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board to accept testim ...
  • Kucinich: Supreme Court Ruling will be the Nex ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), who provided the pivotal vote in the House to pass the Affordable Care Act, today explained the Supreme Courts’ ruling will simply be the next step in the inevitable path towards single-payer health care. Today, the Supreme Court began hearing arguments as it ...
  • Kucinich Calls for SEC Investigation of Potent ...
    Provides Detailed Analysis of Discrepancies Which Could Constitute “Material Misrepresentations” Washington D.C. (March 22, 2012) -- Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), the Ranking Member of the Regulatory Affairs Subcommittee, today requested that Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair ...
  • Kucinich Analysis: Fast-Tracking Southern Segm ...
    Upon reports that the Obama Administration will “fast-track” the southern segment of the Keystone Pipeline between Cushing, Oklahoma and the Gulf Coast, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following analysis: “Americans need relief from high gas prices. However, approval of th ...

Authentically Wired

  • would vote to eliminate gorging themselves at ...
          …What…?   You actually expected those currently feeding the hog-trough provided by lobbyi$t$ would vote to eliminate gorging themselves at our expense …?      Ariz. Senate rejects new bans on meals, donations Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The ...
  • …What you learn just might surprise you ...
    …What you learn just might surprise you …!   The Secret Life of Garbage [Infographic] If you’re interested in learning more about how much waste we generate and where it goes — check out this infographic below. Also, businesses are tackling this issue with "zero waste& ...
  • Contain Blood, Pus and Drugs …
    The Everyday Drink that May Contain Blood, Pus and Drugs …   Follow link to watch the videos …Posted By Dr. Mercola | April 15 2012 … http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/04/15/inhumane-treatment-on-dairy-cows.aspx?e_cid=20120415_SNL_Art_1   A rid ...
  • for-profit-private-prison$ are her manna from ...
        … For Arizona Governor Jan Brewer for-profit-private-prison$ are her manna from heaven and a lynch pin for new job creation for her citizens … Arizona is striving to be America’s private prison capital …       Jailing Americans for Profit: The Rise of the Priso ...
  • all imbued with attributes corporate finds acc ...
    … Welcome the corporate world of Frankenstein’s … all imbued with attributes corporate finds acceptable …   Human Eggs Grown in the Lab Could Produce Unlimited Supply of Humans 04-14-2012  •  http://www.popsci.com, By Rebecca Boyle first human eggs grown from human stem cell ...

Popular Technology

  • The Truth about Skeptical Science
    Skeptical Science is a climate alarmist website founded and run by a self-employed cartoonist, John Cook. It is moderated by zealots who ruthlessly censor any and all form of dissent from their alarmist position. This way they can pretend to win arguments, when in reality they have all been refu ...
  • Mastering the Firefox Search Bar
    As a veteran online searcher, data miner, researcher, and computer scientist, I have in the past shied away from using in-browser search bars... instead preferring to use the search tools available on individual sites. This is for practical and functional purposes, as: [1] in-site searches t ...
  • The Truth about SourceWatch
    SourceWatch is a propaganda site funded by an extreme left-wing, anti-capitalist and anti-corporate organization, the Center for Media and Democracy. Just like the untrustworthy Wikipedia the content can be written and edited by ordinary web users. Users who all conveniently share an extreme lef ...
  • Correcting misinformation about the journal En ...
    A frequent source of contention in the global warming debate is the existence of skeptical peer-reviewed papers. These have been overwhelmingly proven to exist. Once confronted with this inconvenient truth, alarmists have desperately tried to discredit the journals that dare publish these papers ...
  • Origin of the Popular Technology.net Peer-Revi ...
    There are various myths floating around online about where the Popular Technology.net peer-reviewed paper list originated, falsely giving credit to people who copied earlier versions of my list and published it as their own. The following is a brief history,Back in February 2007 I began compilin ...

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • How a crippled rhino may save a species
    On December 18th, 2011, a female Sumatran rhino took a sudden plunge. Falling into a manmade pit trap, the rhino may have feared momentarily that her end had come, but vegetation cushioned her fall and the men that found her were keen on saving her, not killing her. Little did she know that cons ...
  • Our success in transforming commodity markets ...
    The success of governments and big corporations in eliminating environmental degradation from the products we consume will play a critical role in determining the fate of the world's remaining wild places, said a group of experts speaking at a panel during the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepr ...
  • Some toilet paper production destroys Indonesi ...
    American consumers are unwittingly contributing to the destruction of endangered rainforests in Sumatra by purchasing certain brands of toilet paper, asserts a new report published by the environmental group WWF. The report, Don't Flush Tiger Forests: Toilet Paper, U.S. Supermarkets, and the Des ...
  • Big trees, like the old-growth forests they in ...
    Already on the decline worldwide, big trees face a dire future due to habitat fragmentation, selective harvesting by loggers, exotic invaders, and the effects of climate change, warns an article published this week in New Scientist magazine. Reviewing research from forests around the world, Will ...
  • Rainforests need massive finance, but REDD mus ...
    A proposed mechanism to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by protecting tropical forests has evolved considerably since it started to gain momentum during the 2005 climate talks in Montreal. Known then as 'avoided deforestation', the concept was simple: pay tropical forest countries to keep their ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • DNA project reveals actor related to Napoleon
    It is one of the most improbable family connections. One is an actor famed as a languid Lothario. The other was one of the world's most brutal but brilliant military leaders. Nevertheless geneticists say their analysis shows Tom Conti...
  • From green to gold: Algae proves lucrative
    A New Zealand research company has tapped into a potentially multi-million dollar market.Nelson-based Cawthron Institute has extracted minute quantities of organic compounds from algae, and onsold them to international researchers.Acting...
  • Scientist selling farm to fund malaria battle
    A veteran researcher says she's selling her multimillion-dollar organic farm so that she can continue her work on breakthrough anti-malarial treatment.Auckland University researcher Norrie Pearce has dedicated much of her life to...
  • Particle collider escalates quest to explore u ...
    The world's largest particle collider has notched up a new record as it escalates its quest to find fundamental matter and explore the origins of the Universe, CERN said.Early on Thursday the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) brought...
  • Rise in whale trade stuns experts
    Scientists plan to investigate a "marine bushmeat trade" after a major study showed that global consumption of marine mammals such as whales and dolphins is increasing.The research surprised New Zealand marine experts, in particular...

The Bovine

  • Raw milk bias misguided, says farmer
    By Jodie Jackson, via Three Wheeled Cheese: “Eric and Joanna Reuter believe a state and local health department bias against raw dairy products is partly to blame for those agencies initially linking raw dairy to an E. coli outbreak. The … Continue reading →
  • Danielle Smith speaks up for the “consci ...
    The following quote is taken from a newspaper story by Warren Kinsella, in the Calgary Sun, that’s in general harshly critical of the views of Wildrose Alliance leader Danielle Smith. Danielle’s party is a strong contender in the upcoming Alberta … Continue reading →
  • Raw milk: problem, reaction, solution?
    In his latest post, American raw milk journalist David E. Gumpert compares the recent spate of raw milk disease incidents, and the outcry on the part of raw milk opponents — calls for prohibiting the feeding of raw milk to … Continue reading →
  • New group helping farmers in Ontario
    From the new Practical Farmers of Ontario website: “An energetic, strong willed Grey Bruce organic farmer, Sean McGivern, has started a new Ontario farm group. Sean helped one of our Ontario farmers when he was refused access to testing for … Continue reading →
  • B.C. local governments take on GMOs
    You’ve no doubt heard about those towns in Maine that have declared food sovereignty. Well, here’s something at least a little bit in the same direction happening right here in that second rate socialist country, Canada! (Believe it or not, … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Trends in Nonfarm Employment, Civilian Employm ...
    Initial unemployment claims have generally been trending lower, but in a very choppy manner. One way to smooth out the weekly claims reports is to use seasonal adjustments. Another way is to use 4-week moving averages. However, both methods are subject to fluctuations around floating holida ...
  • Spain Government May Take Over Some Regions' F ...
    Madrid Threatens Intervention as Regional Debt Worries Mount The Financial Times reports Madrid threatens to intervene in regions Madrid has threatened to seize budgetary control of wayward Spanish regions as early as May if they flout deficit limits, officials said – as investors took fr ...
  • Mish on Coast-to-Coast Radio Tonight 10:00PM ...
    I will be on Coast-to-Coast late night syndicated radio talk show with George Noory to discuss the state of the US and global economies, jobs, stimulus efforts by the FED and ECB, housing, healthcare, the stock market, and gold. Most major metropolitan areas of the country have a station ...
  • 12 Predictions by Michael Pettis on China; Non ...
    Michael Pettis at China Financial Markets has Two Bets with the Economist. Pettis bets growth in China will average less than 3.5% for the rest of the decade Pettis bets the Chinese economy will not overtake the US by 2018  I side with Pettis and said so in The Dating Game: Michael P ...
  • ECB Wants Its Pensions Adjusted For Inflation; ...
    The gall and arrogance of bureaucrats who should not have a job at all, let alone have a pension that no one else gets is rather stunning. Courtesy of Google translate, please consider Little faith ECB officials The personal representative of the central bank is now demanding that the emp ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- April 5, ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “[Propaganda] must be aimed at the emotions and only to a very limited degree at the so-called intellect… The art of propaganda lies in understanding the emotional ideas of the great masses and finding, through a psychologically correct form, the way to the attentio ...
  • Money & Power: Which Comes First, the Chicken ...
    Part II of our book review of Frederick Sheehan’s Panderer to Power   Frederick Sheehan’s excellent 2010 book Panderer to Power: The Untold Story of How Alan Greenspan Enriched Wall Street and Left a Legacy of Recession provides us a window into the sources of the worst financial and econom ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- April 4, ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “By 1990, publishers of mass circulation daily newspapers will finally stop kidding themselves that they are in the newspaper business and admit that they are primarily in the business of carrying advertising messages.” – A. Roy Megary International Newsworthy ...
  • BFP Exclusive: The Anonymous Weasel behind the ...
    Anonymous Paul Campaign Insider Exposes the Anonymous Rumor Source For the past few weeks an intense buzz has been filling internet sites and news forums on a supposed Ron Paul-Mitt Romney deal behind closed doors. Yesterday morning the Business Insider went as far as declaring the rumor as ‘Rea ...
  • Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
    Canada’s Rockefellers: The Name is Power People know the name Rockefeller: from the oil barons, to the bankers and industrialists, politicians and think tanks, foundations, universities and in the whole realm of globalization, the name Rockefeller is synonymous with power and oligarchy. Th ...

bloody crossroads

  • Is Obama a Fraud?
    The debt deal is yet another sign that hope and change has been a fiction from the start: Like many, I was extremely hopeful when Obama won in 2008.  And like many I’ve become totally disillusioned with the president and … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    Good politifact piece on how Social Security functions and its solvency How the state is revoking our civil liberties by imprisoning people, in some cases for up to 15 years, for recording police brutality with smart phones Economist Dean Baker … Continue reading →
  • The Tyranny of American Healthcare
    For those who read this on Splice, be sure to re-read the unedited version… Why are we trying to prop up a broken system?: Do you realize how badly you’re being screwed by the health insurance corporations?  Let me give … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    Politifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    Politifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →

gCaptain

  • Teekay Sheds 13 Tankers, Positions for Investm ...
    Teekay Corp. (TK) said it will sell 13 of its 17 directly owned conventional tankers to its subsidiary Teekay Tankers Ltd. (TNK) in a stock-and-debt deal valued at about $455 million, [...]
  • Seaspan Marine Calls on STX Know-How to Help w ...
    Canada’s Seaspan Marine Corporation says it has entered into a technology support agreement with STX Offshore and Shipbuilding that will help its Vancouver Shipyard optimize planned facilities upgrades for the [...]
  • Australian Government Steps In to Remove M/V T ...
    After more than three months against the rocks on Christmas Island, the Australian Government says it is stepping in to remove the wreckage of the M/V Tycoon after its owner [...]
  • The Role of Class in Shipping – A Discussion w ...
    I met up with Tim Protheroe, President, Lloyd’s Register Americas, for a chat at this year’s Connecticut Maritime Association (CMA) conference, here’s what he had to say: 21 March 2012 [...]
  • CGGVeritas Awarded Angola 4D Processing Program
    CGGVeritas (NYSE: CGV) announced today that, after negotiations with Total Exploration & Production Angola and Sonangol, it has been awarded a five-year contract for the 4D seismic processing and imaging [...]

Press TV

  • Israeli forces injure Palestinian farmer
    A Palestinian farmer has been injured by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip, with no further details on the incident, yet.
  • US sanctions on Iran stay put: Clinton
    US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says Washington will not lift the sanctions against Tehran over Iran’s nuclear energy program before the next round of talks between the Islamic Republic and the P5+1.
  • Record number renounces US citizenship
    Nearly 1,800 Americans have in 2011 renounced their citizenships or turned in their so-called Alien Registration Cards to avoid sharing more information than necessary with the US government.
  • 'Aussie troops to exit Afghanistan early'
    Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has announced that Canberra will bring its troops home from Afghanistan nearly a year earlier than planned.
  • Nigeria slams West media hype on Iran
    Nigeria’s Foreign Minister Viola Onwuliri has dismissed the Western propaganda against Tehran, praising Iran’s ‘vigorous’ social and economic environment.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

  • Life's building blocks found in a ring around ...
    Complex carbon-based molecules, including many that are important for life on Earth, could have formed in the early solar system. That's according to a paper by Fred Ciesla and Scott Sandford in this ...
  • Thinking cap makes impossible problem soluble
    A small dose of electrical current passed across their heads enabled a group of volunteers to immediately solve a puzzle they had previously found to be impossible. This surprising result is the work...
  • Pint sized rocket
    A rocket has been developed that could get a spaceprobe to the moon on just 100g of fuel Some tasks can only be done by a large satellite, but there are many others which can be done as well if not b...
  • Seeing Around the Corner
    Using a laser, a super fast camera and a clever algorithm, researchers at MIT have developed the ability to see, in 3D, around a corner. Writing in the journal Nature Communications, Andreas Velten a...
  • Drugs in sewage
    Drug use in populations, both legal and illegal, is important to know about for health and law and order reasons. Whilst it is relatively easy to keep tabs on the amount of legal drug use by asking ph...

Nick Turse

  • Afghan policewomen handle AMD-65 rifles at a d ...
    Afghan policewomen handle AMD-65 rifles at a dusty firing range outside Kabul. They are trained by carabinieri, Italian military police from the local NATO troops. Insurgents often attack the police and very few women get permission to sign up from their husband and male relatives. Yet women ar ...
  • Bibi, about 60 years old, sits with empty pods ...
    Bibi, about 60 years old, sits with empty pods of opium as she scrounges for drugs to smoke at home in Shortepa district outside of Mazar e Sharif, in Afghanistan. As a child, she used to collect the opium harvest, and became addicted when she was about 12 years old. She has been smoking and ea ...
  • Relatives of missing Kashmiri youth participat ...
    Relatives of missing Kashmiri youth participate in a protest demonstration organized by the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) in Srinagar, India, Saturday, March 10, 2012. According to APDP some 8,000-10,000 people have gone missing since the beginning of the Kashmir conflict ...
  • A demonstrator tries to scale a barrier to ent ...
    A demonstrator tries to scale a barrier to enter the Cambridge University Students’ Union to protest against speech being given to students by former International Monetary Fund chief Dominic Strauss-Kahn, in Cambridge, England, Friday, March 9, 2012. The 62-year-old French politician, often ca ...
  • A woman protests against violence against wome ...
    A woman protests against violence against women during a demonstration marking the International Women’s Day in Mexico City, Thursday March 8, 2012. (Alexandre Meneghini)
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