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Thomas Paine

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

Monday, April 2, 2012

2 April - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

Australian resupply convoy from Mentoring Task...Australian resupply convoy from Mentoring Task Force 1 (MTF-1) in Uruzgan province, Afghanistan April 2010. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Bushmasters Afghanistan January 2010Bushmasters Afghanistan January 2010 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
U.S. Army Captain Rebecca Dimurco crouches to ...U.S. Army Captain Rebecca Dimurco crouches to be closer to eye level while speaking with Afghan children during an operation to transport patients in Uruzgan province, Afghanistan. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Smoke from early morning fires linger over whe...Smoke from early morning fires linger over wheat fields in Khas Oruzgan district, eastern Uruzgan province, June 20. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Bikes turned into mini power plants
Unwanted bicycles are being sent from the United States and Canada to be made into power sources that drive corn grinders and water pumps in Guatemala. An organization called Maya Pedal* is the force behind the effort to help poor people increase their corn grinding potential greatly so they can have more food, and sell their corn or corn products more easily. Maya Pedal also converts old bicycles into threshers, tile makers, nut shellers, blenders, trikes and trailers.
 
* 2010 Curry Stone Design Prize Finalist (per their webpage)
"The Curry Stone Design Prize honors an individual or group for developing and implementing a visionary design innovation. These emerging projects address critical issues such as access to clean air, food and water, shelter, health care, energy, education, social justice and the promotion of peace." 

Pedal Power

  • PEDAL Mission:

    The purpose of the PEDAL collective is to develop and promote the use of pedal powered technology, as an ecologically sustainable and self-sufficient energy and transportation source for the community as a whole. We accomplish this through educational programs, hands-on learning facilities and redistribution of recycled/refurbished bikes.
     
    Zenya

    Dr. John's Hiding Place
    Gnome 3 and Ubuntu's Unity however are to my opinion still 'experiments', aimed at the low-end of the computer-market: tablets, netbooks and smart-phones. Enough is told about that. In other words: for a larger laptop or office-PC there is no innovative Linux 'alternative' for the KDE 4.8.x and within a few months the KDE 5 desktop.
     

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    Scoop - NZ

    • GEAB 63: USA 2012-16 - Insolvent and Ungovern ...
      .. the 2012 election year, which opens against the backdrop of economic and social depression, complete paralysis of the federal system (3), strong rejection of the traditional two-party system and a growing questioning of the relevance of the Constitution, inaugurates a crucial period in the hi ...
    • NZ: Body blows have National reeling
      what we are witnessing is not so much a personal feud as a factional power struggle over who controls the party in the post-Key era. Key does not need all this. He has enough on his plate. His Administration is starting to look punch-drunk. To say things are untidy is an understatement. Na ...
    • Afghan policeman kills 9 fellow officers
      There has also been an increase in Afghans killing their own comrades. A member of a village-level force that provides security in areas where the Afghan army and police cannot was accused of involvement in the killing of nine members of his unit in March in southern Uruzgan province. They also ...
    • Challenges for new QLD leader
      Newman’s spectacular victory is without precedent in recent Australian political history. Even Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s 1974 victory crushed Labor to a comparatively robust 11 seats (that was in an 82-seat parliament). Total annihilation of one’s competitors can leave any leader prone to hubris.
    • Stan Goff on Bales' Afghan killings
      When I was running the Bayonet Assault Course for West Point plebes back in 1986, we added a bit of verbosity. INSTRUCTOR: What is the spirit of the bayonet? CADETS: To Kill! INSTRUCTOR: What do you want to see? CADETS: Blood! Blood! Blood makes the grass grow!”

    Independent - London

    • 32 dead in Siberian plane crash
      A total of 32 people have died after a passenger plane crashed in Siberia shortly after taking off.
    • Muslim Brotherhood to stand in Egypt election
      The Muslim Brotherhood is eyeing the total domination of Egyptian politics after breaking a key post-revolution pledge and putting forward a candidate for next month's presidential elections.Related StoriesPlea for help from Mali's juntaRebels attack northern Mali town of GaoRebels enter northe ...
    • Malian coup leader's pledge over constitution
      Mali's junta leader declared amid international pressure yesterday that he was reinstating the 1992 constitution and planning to hold elections, as rebels claimed to have seized the historic town of Timbuktu.Related StoriesPlea for help from Mali's juntaRebels attack northern Mali town of GaoReb ...
    • After 22 years of waiting, Suu Kyi to take fir ...
      A wave of hope and excitement – shackled and repressed here during so many years of military rule – gripped parts of Burma yesterday as Aung San Suu Kyi and her party claimed victory in a series of polls that could determine whether the country continues on its stumbling journey towards democra ...
    • Japanese experts predict 34-metre wave
      Much of Japan's Pacific coast could be inundated by tsunami over 34 metres high if a powerful earthquake hits offshore, a government panel warned. Related StoriesBombs kill nine and wound at least 70 in southern Thailand100 Britons caught in yet another cruise ship dramaVoters cast ballots in hi ...

    Rogue Government.com

    • UK Energy bills ‘to double in five years’ as ...
      Energy bills are likely to double within five years as the Government drives a move to green power and building nuclear power stations, it is claimed.
    • EU calls emergency meeting as crisis stalks I ...
      European Council President Herman Van Rompuy has called an emergency meeting of top officials dealing with the euro zone debt crisis for Monday morning, reflecting concern that the crisis could spread to Italy, the region's third largest economy.
    • Government asks Jewish groups to join in anti ...
      For the first time, the federal government is expanding its community-based anti-terrorism campaign to a religious group — the Jewish community, victims of past attacks in the U.S.
    • Hackers claim they exposed Booz Allen Hamilto ...
      Hackers flying the AntiSec banner claimed today that they compromised a server at consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and have released internal data, including about 90,000 military e-mail addresses.
    • Roman-era shipwreck reveals ancient medical s ...
      A wooden chest discovered on board the vessel contained pills made of ground-up vegetables, herbs and plants such as celery, onions, carrots, cabbage, alfalfa and chestnuts – all ingredients referred to in classical medical texts.

    Innovation Canada

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

    Signs of the times

    • Stealth GMOs Rapidly Consuming Global Food Supply
      Obviously there is no room for GMOs in truly healthy food products, which is why it is truly vital that you understand the nature of GMOs and how they are oftentimes hidden in commercial food products. It may very well shock you to know just how prevalent GMOs are within the food supply. It's t ...
    • "Lucy" had prehuman company, fossil shows
      Lucy, it turns out, had company - another prehuman that also walked but spent more of its time in trees. Until now, there was no proof of another human relative living around the same time as the species made famous by the Lucy skeleton. But a fossil discovery reveals there was another creature ...
    • New Report: Nitrate Contamination Threatens Ca ...
      Today, the Food & Environment Reporting Network - the first and only independent, non-profit, non-partisan news organization that produces investigative reporting on food, agriculture, and environmental health in partnership with local and national media outlets - published its third report, "Fa ...
    • Drones coming to a sky near you as interest surges
      BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) - Sharp-eyed dog walkers along the San Francisco Bay waterfront may have spotted a strange-looking plane zipping overhead recently that that looked strikingly like the U.S. stealth drone captured by Iran in December. A few key differences: The flying wing seen over Berke ...
    • 'Astonishing' Heat in March Set Records for th ...
      For tens of millions of Americans, last month was the warmest March in their lifetimes. Meteorologists used the terms "staggering," "astonishing" and "incredible" to describe the heat across the eastern two-thirds of the nation that set thousands of temperature records for March in cities and t ...

    The Galloping Beaver

    • The Government Chief Whip is clearly an ineffe ...
      There is a reason Gordon O'Connor has found himself descending the ladder of the Harper cabinet hierarchy. Simply put, he can be rated anywhere from useless to a complete political liability. One would have thought that having been moved out of the high profile Defence portfolio and down to Na ...
    • The attempt to minimize something massive
      Anyway you slice it, the testimony of Chief Electoral Officer, Marc Mayrand, before the House and Procedural Affairs Committee on 29 March was bombshell stuff. Overshadowed to some degree by the detail deficient and ideological platitude spouting of Jim Flaherty, what Mayrand had to say carries ...
    • TKO Trudeau
      Hmm...wonder if Senator Brazeau will be defecting? Isn't that what athletes from totalitarian regimes do when they lose at sport against political adversaries? Nope. "He didn't get me down," Brazeau said after the fight, his nose bleeding. He also challenged Trudeau to a rematch. The brash, ...
    • Bummer break . . .
      WHILE THE WRETCHES get their ducks in a row, figuring out who diddled whom, and preparing for continuing outrages from Stevie and his orcs, here's a fine piece of power blues: Red House, Jimi's slow blues masterpiece. You may not know who these guys are: Eric Johnson plays the red Gibson 335, Jo ...
    • Budget and Gateway
      I can't say it any better than BCL except to say that the smug prick isn't so much Paul Wells as it is Joe Oliver and his master.  

    Media Matters for America

    • Right-Wing Media Falsely Claim Biden Called Fo ...
      Right-wing media have distorted recent comments by Vice President Joe Biden by falsely claiming that he called for a "global tax." In fact, while advocating for a reduction in the corporate tax rate, Biden was referring to an Obama administration proposal to ensure that American companies pay a ...
    • Bolling Falsely Claims That The Affordable Car ...
      The right-wing media remains desperate to obscure the fact that the Affordable Care Act lowers the deficit. In the latest iteration of the claim, Eric Bolling teamed up with Fox's "brain room" to inflate the cost of the health care reform law to a whopping $4 trillion.Affordable Care Act Lowers ...
    • NYPost Editorial Attacks Proposed Min ...
      Last week the New York Post penned an op-ed attacking a proposal by NY Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D-64) that would raise NY's minimum wage from $7.25 to $8.50 an hour. The editorial repeated debunked myths that raising the minimum wage would increase unemployment, increase the cost of pro ...
    • Fox's Bream Falsely Suggests "Cornhusker Kickb ...
      Fox News reporter Shannon Bream said that during Supreme Court deliberations on the health care reform law, "some of the different justices talked about the Cornhusker Kickback and other things that were tucked into the law so that votes would be gotten along the way." In fact, the provision in ...
    • Obama Derangement Syndrome: The Wild Attacks O ...
      Right-wing media have attacked President Obama for his recent comments about shooting victim Trayvon Martin and his family, accusing Obama of "inject[ing]" himself into the debate using "racial code" and claiming that his statement is evidence that "he's got it in for this country."Obama Expres ...

    Global Research.ca

    TPM Cafe

    • Not That Complicated
      Justice Alito said that if he didn't buy a Volt, the price of Volts would go up. Where did he learn that? Yale Law School? I hope not; I was there with him and I don't remember learning that if demand falls, then prices go up. It's the other way around: if customers won't buy at a certain price, ...
    • Why Land Day still matters
      By Sam Bahour and Fida Jiryis Every year since 1976, on March 30, Palestinians around the world have commemorated Land Day. Though it may sound like an environmental celebration, Land Day marks a bloody day in Israel when security forces gunned down six Palestinians, as they protested Israeli ...
    • Romney's Foreign Policy Fantasies: "Breathtaki ...
      In a blog post at the web site of Foreign Policy magazine, Republican presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney attempts to paint the Obama administration as "soft" on Russia, and on security issues more broadly. But Romney's tirade reveals more about his own worldview than it does about Preside ...
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    • A Letter To Congressman Waxman
      The following post is a letter from Reed Hundt to Congress Henry Waxman titled "Re: In re H.R. 3309. Dear Congressman Waxman: You have asked me to share my views on the Federal Communications Process Reform Act of 2012, H.R. 3309, in light of my experience as chairman of the FCC from 1 ...

    Institute for Middle East Understanding

    Water - AlterNet

    Public Citizen in Texas

    • EHF – going broke. Will Texas declare it “too ...
      The Dallas Observer is reporting that there is a good chance that Energy Future Holdings (EFH) (or TXU for most of us) the state’s largest power generator, will go broke – click here to read their story. The question now becomes – are Texas ratepayers going to have to pay for E ...
    • If you build it, they will come
      With the Texas Low Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission (TLLRWDCC) approving rules that open up of the WCS dump site to out of compact waste, we may soon see low level radioactive waste from Nebraska Public Power District’s nuclear facility heading to Texas. The deal between ...
    • EPA Sets First Limits on Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      Today, the Environmental Protection Agency issued the first limits on greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants. “Today we’re taking a common-sense step to reduce pollution in our air, protect the planet for our children, and move us into a new era of American energy,” EPA Administrator Lis ...
    • Governor Perry names Toby Baker to replace Gar ...
      On Friday, Governor Perry announced he is appointing Toby Baker, a former policy and budget advisor to Perry on energy, natural resources and agriculture, to replace Garcia who continues to serve in a TCEQ commissioner’s spot that officially expired in August 31, 2011.  Mr. Baker’s t ...
    • President Obama Sacrifices Gas Policy for Gas ...
      Statement of Trevor Lovell, Environmental Program Coordinator,  Public Citizen’s Texas Office It is unfortunate that President Barack Obama has decided to ignore news stories in Business Week, the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News and Financial Post, among others, explaining in simple terms ho ...

    Unexplained Mysteries

    • Richard Branson prepares for deep sea dive
      Richard Branson is preparing for a mission to visit the depths of the Atlantic Puerto Rico Trench. Hot on the heels of Titanic director James Cameron ...
    • Laser guns on ships 'within 4 years'
      Senior Navy technologists have claimed that working laser cannons will be in service very soon. Laser weapons have been a staple of science fiction fo...
    • Calf with six legs defies the odds
      A six-legged calf that defied the odds by surviving past seven weeks has become a minor Swiss celebrity. The outlook seemed grim for Lilli when she wa...
    • Batman pulled over by cops in Maryland
      Police pulled over a man in a Batman costume because he had invalid license plates. Officers couldn't believe what they were seeing when they came acr...
    • Giant cat-sized rats invade Florida Keys
      Authorities have been alerted of a new invasion of giant Gambian puched rats in the Florida Keys. Originating in Africa and brought to the United Stat...

    Grassroots

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

    Climate

    • Cleveland Indians Install Innovative Wind Turb ...
      (AP) The revolutionary turbine, which amplifies airflow around a central cylinder to power four small fans, was designed at Cleveland State by Dr. Majid Rashidi, a professor of mechanical engineering.
    • EU Seeks to Decide Who Gets U.N. Climate Fund ...
      (Reuters) EU ambassadors were due to meet on Wednesday in an effort to settle a dispute over the allocation of seats to member states on the United Nations' Green Climate Fund (GCF) board.
    • Fracking Could Foil Carbon Capture Plans
      (New Scientist) Talk about the law of unintended consequences. Cracking open solid rock in a bid to squeeze out natural gas could spoil future efforts to store the carbon dioxide we release from burning fossil fuels.
    • Small Reactors Make a Bid to Revive Nuclear Power
      (Scientific American) While the U.S. government has not given up on investing in large units that boast conventional designs, the Department of Energy has also announced the availability of $450 million in funds to support engineering ...
    • Mine Exec Pleads Guilty in 2010 Explosion
      (CNN) The man in charge of ensuring the safety of miners at West Virginia's Upper Big Branch coal mine pleaded guilty Thursday to charges that he helped conceal hazardous conditions from federal inspectors.

    GreenBiz

    Duly Noted

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

    Booman Tribune

    • Not Winning
      Sometimes generals lie. But I have yet to see a politician win any points by accusing a general of lying. In Paul Ryan's case, even his apology is a second round of calling the generals liars. But what is Ryan supposed to do? He can admit to misspeaking, but he can't admit to being flat-out ...
    • Time for the DOJ to Expand Investigation
      Who was crying for help seconds before George Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin? Not Zimmerman: Tom Owen, forensic consultant for Owen Forensic Services LLC and chair emeritus for the American Board of Recorded Evidence, used voice identification software to rule out Zimmerman. Another expert co ...
    • Biggest Dolt in the Universe: Tom Maguire
      Tom Maguire is an impossibly stupid man, and his commenters are probably even dumber. Maguire had anticipated the possibility that voice analysis would determine that Zimmerman was lying when he (allegedly) told the police that he was screaming for help. His argument was that we can't use scie ...
    • So Long Santorum
      Rick Santorum says he's not an unreasonable man and he'll drop out of the race if it becomes clear that he can't win: "When I feel comfortable that we've done the best we possibly could and there's just no more we can do and this race is, you know, we've run the course, then you know I'm not ...
    • Veep Sweepstakes
      I recently saw some video footage of Mitt Romney and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) on stage together and I thought they looked good together. Their statures, physiques, and overall appearances seemed to complement each other. Visually, at least, they looked like a good ticket. Considering the fact th ...

    Environmental Graffiti

    • When A Waterspout Strikes...
      Though beautiful to look at and less ferocious than tornadoes, waterspouts are serious marine hazards that can wreak havoc on people and boats alike. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
    • 10 Totally Ridiculous Inventions
      A celebration of inventions that do serve a purpose (kinda), but which are just too weird and can make the user look like an utter tool. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
    • 10 Ways to Reduce Your Energy Usage
      There are many steps we as individuals can take, especially when reducing our energy footprint. Here are 10 simple steps. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
    • 7 Most Incredible Siamese Twins in History
      In the 19th and early 20th century, when the chances of surgical separation were low, most conjoined twins ended up as sideshow attractions in touring circuses. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
    • Giant Robot to Invade Mars
      The Rover Curiosity is the largest Mars explorer in history, and the fourth to be launched by NASA since 1997. See how it will land and what phenomena it will explore. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

    Foreign Policy in Focus

    Global Elite

    Al Jazeera

    Green Inc. - NYT

    • Q and A: North Korea's Choked Environment
      Experts invited to North Korea for a conference on its environmental problems struggled against constraints on open communication with the country's scientists.
    • Upstate vs. Downstate: A Slow Boil Over Water ...
      People all around the Catskills and up and down the Delaware River are complaining about New York City's management of the watershed that supplies the city's drinking water.
    • On Our Radar: Cuts in German Solar Subsidies
      The government says the subsidies have driven up electricity prices for consumers while propping up panel prices for German manufacturers.
    • Making Sense of the Wacky Weather
      Scientists are getting bolder about linking extreme weather patterns, and even specific events, to human-induced global warming. Still, even the boldest acknowledge that it's a difficult exercise.
    • A Very Long Road for Military Nuclear Waste
      The Department of Energy says it has mostly emptied and closed two more of the 51 underground tanks containing liquid nuclear waste from cold-war weapons at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina. Yet tens of thousands of gallons still potentially remain in those two tanks.

    Dot Earth News

    Doug Feith : Hong Pong

    • First warm day of 2012 = Days 1&2: OccupyMinne ...
      IN an entirely unexpected and spontaneous emergence of lulz, the first dry, warm evening of spring led to an impromptu occupation of Peavey Plaza on Nicollet Mall, with OccupyMpls (occupyminneapolis.mn) regulars holding it down into the night with two tents, sleeping gear, hot tea and snacks. Ex ...
    • Report: Simcity 5 finally under development fo ...
      I have been very, very into SimCity ever since I was little. Now, finally SimCity 5 is getting a proper treatment. PLEASE send me any beta builds, i will debug the shizzle out of them :D Until you can get your hands on this, use the Network Addon Mod in SimCity 4 for much more fluid road&rai ...
    • Let them eat cake! Republican State Representa ...
      IN an astoundingly offensive display of casual Malthusian freestyling, Representative Mary Franson compared supporting poor people with food stamps to feeding wild animals. The Republicans pulled the YouTube once the magnitude of their irresponsibility hit the intertubes. But the usual suspects ...
    • EXCLUSIVE: Cointelpro Gothic II: Midwestern Po ...
      EARLIER: October 13, 2010: Cointelpro Gothic: Docs prove Iowa FBI's Wild Rose Rebellion a pretend RNC "Terrorism Enterprise" for great "statistical accomplishment" BY DAN FEIDT -- Another level of the seemingly endless, unregulated Midwestern law enforcement campaign against political activists ...
    • New Filez! BuStEd: I sense Astroturfing in the ...
      BuStEd: I sense Astroturfing in the Occupy! http://the99spring.com/letter.html ~ LEAKED FILEZ! Got a nice tip. Pass it along, its all on the google! A bunch of groups which are mostly dedicated to Democratic electioneering are doing a "99% Spring" campaign soon. This is no secret, but the fil ...

    Daily Censored

    • US Ambassador to Afghanistan: kill ‘them’ tire ...
      US Ambassador to Afghanistan, Ryan Crocker, told a UK leading paper that leaving after ten years of war shows a lack of US patience, that all the US has accomplished so far is to kill the “slow and stupid ones,” and that killing in Afghanistan is important because somehow Afghanistan is a specia ...
    • The struggle for Workers’ Rights Heats up at T ...
      Picture of the persident’s mansion that is undergoing a $5,000,000 renovation while workers struggle to meet the necessities of daily life while putting up with harsh abuse at the site of exploitation — work. Monday, March 26, 2012 Solomon Comissiong, author of this piece,  is a freq ...
    • Inconvenient Details About the Afghan 17 Massacres
        Since the appearance of a March 27th article by sociology professor James Petras on numerous websites (see The Afghan 17 and the Obama Cover-up), I have been closely following the dispute between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and the Obama administration over the number of shooters in the ...
    • My personal history of the 1% killing a millio ...
      This is my paper for The Center of Process Studies’ conference, Money-Creation in a Finite World (free and open to the public, April 10-12, 2012; Claremont Colleges, CA): Money and credit as public services for full-employment, optimal infrastructure, ending debt slavery: Epic proponents, relate ...
    • 450 major bank resignations; arrests of econom ...
      A little over three weeks ago, 116 major bank resignations was startling news. Now with over 450 resignations and David Wilcock’s compelling documentation, the question is whether the 1% criminal oligarchy face imminent arrest. I can’t predict the future. I don’t know what the resignations mean. ...

    AlterNet's Breaking News

    Institute for Policy Studies

    IntelNews

    • Senior Soviet KGB ex-official found dead in Mo ...
      Leonid Shebarshin, a retired General of the KGB, who was often referred to as “the last Soviet spy” was found dead in his downtown Moscow apartment over the weekend. Police said a pistol and an apparent suicide note were found next to his body.
    • News you may have missed #704: Caught-red-hand ...
      Would be CIA spy uses Tweeter to attack CIA. US ambassador says Russia is spying on him. Poland ex-spy boss charged over CIA prison.
    • Sweden set up front company to secretly export ...
      Long considered as one of the world’s most socially responsible nations, Sweden has stringent laws prohibiting the export of Swedish weapons to countries that fall short of elementary democratic standards. Which is why the Swedish electorate was shocked by news earlier this month that the Swedis ...
    • News you may have missed #703: US edition
      NSA pressed to reveal details on Google deal. US spy agencies can keep data on Americans longer. Islam convert leads CIA's Counterterrorism Center.
    • French spy agency denies Toulouse gunman was a ...
      France’s domestic intelligence agency has denied allegations, made by its former Director, that it employed as an informant the militant Islamist who recently killed seven people in Toulouse.

    War is a Crime.org

    • Peace activists in failed bid to swarm NATO HQ
      (AFP)  BRUSSELS — Hundreds of peace activists on Sunday tried in vain to break into the headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation in Brussels, with 483 of them arrested by police. The demonstration, organised by the Belgian association Action for Peace two months before a NATO ...
    • NATO Game Over
    • Audio: Bruce Gagnon and David Swanson
      CONNECT THE DOTS host LILA GARRETT  TUNE or LOG ON http://archive.kpfk.org/index.php?shokey=ctd Monday morning  7 TO 8,  KPFK, 90.7 FM,  Bruce Gagnon coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space  joins us.      Do ...
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      April & May 2012 War Criminal Appearances George Bush 4/19/12 - Las Vegas NV 4/21/12 - McKinney TX 5/3/12 - Lexington KY 5/11/12 - Billings MT Dick Cheney 4/3/12 - San Antonio TX 4/14/12 - Cheyenne WY read more

    Grist - News

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

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    • 'Lucy' Discovered to Co-Exist With Tree-Climbi ...
      A team of scientists has announced the discovery of a 3.4 million-year-old partial foot from the Woranso-Mille area of the Afar region of Ethiopia. The fossil foot did not belong to a member of "Lucy's" species, Australopithecus afarensis, the famous early human ancestor. The discovery of the Lu ...
    • ZUBRIN: Obama shoots down Mars exploration
      In its budget submitted to Congress Feb. 13, the Obama administration zeroed out funding for NASA’s future Mars exploration missions. The Mars Science Lab Curiosity is en route to the red planet, and the nearly completed small Maven orbiter, scheduled for launch in 2013, will be sent, but that’s ...
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      While trust in science remained stable among people who self-identified as moderates and liberals in the United States between 1974 and 2010, trust in science fell among self-identified conservatives by more than 25 percent during the same period, according to new research from Gordon Gauchat, a ...
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      After alien-like monsters were reported to disturb his daughter's sleep for four nights in a row, this father took action. When last questioned, the daughter seemed to indicate that the hullabaloo might have come from a planetary system possibly sounding like "Omicron Ceti". Getting to the root ...
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    • The Music of My Spheres and the End of Fear
      By Les Visible I realize how strange I appear to many readers; hearing voices, having the perspectives that I do, being aggressively demonstrative about governments and individuals, as well as established religions. I consider all of these, so mentioned, as part of the infrastructure of the shit ...
    • The Soft Stool Brigade on Batshit Mountain
      By Les Visible Think about it, these psychopaths murder hundreds of thousands, millions… and they don’t bat an eye. In most cases they do it simply to advance business interests. These lives are nothing more than numbers on documents. Far more people have been killed by the sweep of ...
    • Moonbathing on the Banks of the River Styx
      By Les Visible There are very strange things going on and figuring out why this is happening, is the job of persons better equipped for the effort than me. Something weird is going on over at Veterans Today. Something weird is going on with longstanding alternative web sites and their level of d ...
    • Studies show how pesticides make bees lose the ...
      By Kate Kelland LONDON | Thu Mar 29, 2012 7:42pm BST (Reuters) – Scientists have discovered ways in which even low doses of widely used pesticides can harm bumblebees and honeybees, interfering with their homing abilities and making them lose their way. In two studies published in the ...
    • CDC: U.S. kids with autism up 78% in past decade
      The number of children with autism in the United States continues to rise, according to a new report released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The latest data estimate that 1 in 88 American children has some form of autism spectrum disorder. That’s a 78% increase ...

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    • The Georgia Guidestones
      On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
    • The Creation
      THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to pu ...
    • The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...
      In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
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    • Cartoon caption contest
      Take a look at the cartoon below and enter your caption idea in the comment section (more ifo on prize, etc. below the cartoon). Eligible captions will be those posted on my site, Elephant Journal, Wend Magazine, PlanetSave, Eco-Snobbery Sucks, Ecolutionist, Ecopolitology, and Twilight Earth. Wi ...
    • Exposed: Why the GOP wants to eliminate Clean ...
      Whether we can believe this see-through-elephant-trunk footage or not, the possibility that elephants have a triple fitration system within their trunks has to have some credence. Otherwise, why on earth would leading Republicans try to make it easier for big polluters to further pollute the air ...
    • Apples may lose trees [cartoon]
      The rest of Joe Mohr’s cartoons, and cartoon updates and other green news on Twitter @GreenCartoons. Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoon) Eco-Snobbery Sucks: The Cartoon Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoo ...
    • Mixed message from USDA chief Vilsack [cartoon]
      US Ag Secretary, Tom Vilsack tells us to eat more natural foods a few days after fully deregulating GMO alfalfa…I’m confused. Confused as well? Read the links below and try to figure out this mess. From The New York Times: Government’s Dietary Advice: Eat Less From Elephant Journal: ...
    • BREAKING: Deleted Monsanto cartoon panel, leaked!
      Unlike the former Monsanto cartoon on this subject, this version shows a bit more clearly who surrendered the future of organic agriculture to Monsanto. There’s been a lot of talk from both sides (organic and biotech) about compromise. That is misleading and almost laughable (read: cryable ...

    Inhabitat

    • Meet the RE:VOLT, Chevy’s Next-Generation Gree ...
      Much has been made about the environmental costs associated with natural gas drilling, but there’s a different type of natural gas that’s produced by every one of the planet’s more than 7 billion inhabitants that requires no drilling at all. Seeking to tap into that natural res ...
    • Aerial Photos Reveal That Dubai Is Building a ...
      One might think that emirs of Dubai would learn from their past mistakes after Dubai’s artificial ‘The World’ archipelago surrendered its sands to the sea, but sinking islands and rising tides have yet to flag the Arab emirate’s ambitions of world building. Aerial photogr ...
    • New Leaked Image Reveals Apple’s Cupertino Cam ...
      Apple has caught some heat for its controversial, car-dependent Cupertino campus proposal, but an anonymous tipster has leaked an updated rendering to Inhabitat that would way up the controversy on the much-hyped, circular Apple campus. It looks as though the wild speculation about the campus&#8 ...
    • Christian Tagliavini Creates Historical Portra ...
      Do these ladies look a tad stiff? What you’re looking at is one of Swiss-Italian artist-photographer Christian Tagliavini‘s “cardboard ladies,” a series of portraits showing women’s fashion through the ages, made out of cardboard. From ruff-collared Elizabethan gown ...
    • Donald Trump Purchases Small African Island to ...
      It’s no secret that billionaire Donald Trump is always head-hunting for his next capable apprentice, but news sources are saying that he’s recently taken the term to a disturbingly literal level. Taking a cue from his sons’ predilection for hunting, the Donald reportedly purcha ...

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    WIRED Magazine | Science

    • Genetic Clue to van Gogh’s Mutant Sunflowers D ...
      Dutch impressionist Vincent van Gogh obsessed himself with sunflowers until his death in 1890, later earning avid collectors tens of millions of dollars for single paintings. These days researchers have developed their own sunflower obsession: Solving the genetic origin of mutant "teddy bear" su ...
    • Rainbow Brain Map Reveals Grid-Like Pattern
      The most striking feature of the human brain is its squiggly pattern of bumps and grooves, but within those curves is a lattice of nerve fibers that cross each other at roughly right angles. A new map shows off these structures in a rainbow of colors.
    • Controversial Pesticide Linked to Bee Collapse
      A controversial type of pesticide linked to declining global bee populations appears to scramble bees' sense of direction, making it hard for them to find home. Starved of foragers and the pollen they carry, colonies produce fewer queens, and eventually collapse.
    • Mysterious Stone Monolith Likely an Ancient As ...
      A mysterious stone monolith jutting from the ground near Manchester, England probably served as a crude seasonal calendar for Stone Age farmers.
    • Gigantic Solar Tornado Is 5 Times the Size of ...
      This enormous tornado erupting from the surface of the sun could swallow the Earth. In fact, it could swallow five Earths.

    PakAlert

    • America is Freemasonry’s “New Atlantis”
      Two thousand five hundred years ago, the Greek philosopher Plato described Atlantis as an ideal society destroyed in some unknown cataclysmic event, thousands of years previously. This event may have been a gigantic tsunami, an earthquake or the result of massive volcanic activity, but the r ...
    • ‘Oil for Food’ Barter Trades Begin to Get Arou ...
      Reuters is reporting that Uruguay, South America's leading rice exporter and the 7th largest rice exporter in the world, is seeking to barter "food for oil" with Iran to get around U.S. and EU sanctions. Because of the tough sanctions which have targeted financial institutions from doing tran ...
    • High court justice: Obama birth certificate fishy
      An Alabama State Supreme Court justice earlier this week agreed that findings suggesting Barack Obama presented a forged birth certificate to the nation “would raise serious questions about the [document's] authenticity” if presented as evidence in court.
    • US acted to conceal evidence of intelligence f ...
      The US government shut down a series of court cases arising from a multimillion pound business dispute in order to conceal evidence of a damning intelligence failure shortly before the 9/11 attacks, MPs were told.
    • NDAA in court over indefinite detention of Ame ...
      After much debate on a new law signed by President Barack Obama, House Republicans are throwing around the idea of reviewing the National Defense Authorization Act after the law was challenged in court.

    Andy Worthington

    • Close Guantánamo: Abdul Ghani, An Insignifican ...
      As published on the “Close Guantánamo” website. Please join us — just an email address required. As we at “Close Guantánamo” continue our series profiling prisoners still held at Guantánamo — and specifically, at this time, the Afghans who are still held — our lates ...
    • Ten Years of Torture: On Anniversary of Abu Zu ...
      Ten years ago, on the evening of March 28, 2002, the Bush administration officially embarked on its “high-value detainee” program in the “war on terror” that had been declared in the wake of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, when Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn ...
    • Rallies Worldwide to Mark the 9th Anniversary ...
      On Saturday, outside the US Embassy in Grosvenor Square, London, I will be speaking at an event marking the ninth anniversary of the disappearance in Pakistan of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, who vanished for five years and five months, and then mysteriously reappeared in Afghanistan in August 2008, where ...
    • Omar Khadr to Return to Canada from Guantánamo ...
      Finally, five months after the Canadian citizen and former child prisoner Omar Khadr was supposed to leave Guantánamo, to be returned to Canada as a result of a plea deal agreed in October 2010, it appears that he may be back in the country of his birth by the end of May. The delay has [...]
    • News from Albania: One Ex-Guantánamo Prisoner ...
      In the last week, two Guantánamo stories have emerged from Albania, home to ten former Guantánamo prisoners — all prisoners who could not be safely repatriated after being cleared for release from Guantánamo. Four men are Uighurs (Muslims from China’s Xinjiang province) released in M ...

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    drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

    SPL Center

    • Racist Bikers Busted in Undercover Florida Probe
      Six members of a racist motorcycle gang in Florida face drug and bomb-related charges following a three-year undercover investigation, federal and state authorities announced Friday. The suspects are affiliated with the Outlaws motorcycle club and the 1st SS Kavallerie Brigade Motorcycle Divisio ...
    • Calling All Black People: NOM Wants to Use You
      Black folks, this is a message for you: The National Organization for Marriage (NOM), the country’s preeminent group fighting against same-sex marriage, really, really likes you. They even want to make some of you famous! Have NOM’s principal leaders, former president Maggie Gallagher and curren ...
    • Hutaree Case Ends as Two Defendants Plead to W ...
      The two remaining defendants in the government’s case against members of Michigan’s Hutaree Militia pleaded guilty today to federal firearms charges, just two days after a judge dismissed antigovernment conspiracy charges against the pair and five others. David Stone Sr., 47, and his son Joshua ...
    • Faculty Adviser Quits, YWC Loses Official Stat ...
      Nearly two weeks after members of the Towson University chapter of Youth for Western Civilization chalked messages on university sidewalks that included the words “white pride,” the group has lost its campus privileges. The school’s official recognition of the YWC was pulled when the group’s fac ...
    • Most Charges Dismissed Against Hutaree Militia ...
      A federal judge in Detroit today dismissed charges against seven members of the Hutaree militia who have been on trial for allegedly plotting to kill police officers in hopes of igniting a revolution against the government. “The government’s case is built largely of circumstantial evidence,” U.S ...

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

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    • Hana Shalabi, Coming Off Hunger Strike, Exile ...
      Hana Shalabi, who refused to eat for 44 days while being detained by Israel, is being deported to Gaza today in a move that some say is a war crime. Shalabi's detention, in which she was held without trial due to Israeli laws that allow the government to detain prisoners they deem to pose a ...
    • ACLU: Police Tracking Cellphones as a 'Routine ...
      The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has released results from an investigation they did into how law enforcement agencies use cellphone tracking. The results, they concluded, are troubling. read more
    • US Moves Towards Intervention in Syria
      The United States has pledged to provide money and communications assistance to rebels in Syria, who have been clashing with the Syrian government. At least 60 nations, including the US, have pledged $100 million to pay opposition fighters in Syria, according to the New York Times. The Obama adm ...
    • Court: Parts of Scott Walker's Anti-Union Law ...
      Key portions of Governor Scott Walker's controversial legislation limiting collective bargaining -- or Act 10 -- were ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge yesterday. The court ruled that the law, which has sparked a recall campaign against the Wisconsin governor, creates an arbitrary, a ...
    • Court: Parts of Scott Walker's Anti-Union Law ...
      Key portions of Governor Scott Walker's controversial legislation limiting collective bargaining -- or Act 10 -- were ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge yesterday. The court ruled that the law, which has sparked a recall campaign against the Wisconsin governor, creates an arbitrary, a ...

    Lifehacker

    • Store Dishes in Drawers with Pegboard and Wood ...
      If you don't have enough cabinet space or you just like to do things differently you can create a custom dinnerware storage drawer using pegboard and wooden dowels using a tip from Better Homes and Gardens. More » ...
    • Bake Tortillas Into Hard Taco Shells on Your O ...
      If it's taco night at your place and you don't have any premade hard shells. Thanks to a tip from culinary weblog Eating Well you can just bake regular floppy flour tortillas in your oven. More »
    • "Does It Matter Where I Purchase an iPad? ...
      What Android tablet notetaking and sketching apps out there are really good? And any recommendations for a stylus? Does it matter where I purchase an iPad? I'm getting a Wi-Fi model, so I don't need a specific carrier. What's your experien ...
    • Repurpose a Contact Lens Case Into a Pocket Pi ...
      Definitely not groundbreaking news, but if you're looking for a small pill caddy to keep non-prescription meds handy use a contact lens case. Real Simple magazine's site recommends keeping your preferred headache remedy on hand and the other s ...
    • Replace Frosting with Marshmallows When Making ...
      If you're making cupcakes for a party and you need to leave now you can skip the few minutes it takes to frost by adding a marshmallow to the top of each cupcake 5 minutes before the end of the baking period. More » ...

    Water Privatization

    • Water district theft alleged
      The Mid-Peninsula Water District has sent the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office evidence that one of its former employees may have embezzled the special tax district out of an undisclosed amount of money, board President Matthew Zucca wrote the Daily Journal in an email yesterday.
    • Water documentary to be shown in Salem at benefit
      A special showing of the award-winning documentary “FLOW: For Love of Water” to benefit the BARKA Foundation will be held on Thursday, April 19 at 8:30 p.m. at Cinema Salem, One East India Square.
    • Chicago embarks on $7 billion infrastructure plan
      Chicago is setting off on an ambitious $7 billion program to overhaul the metropolis' aging infrastructure, from replacing crumbling commuter rail stations and century-old water pipes to building new airport runways and parks, its mayor announced Thursday.
    • Chicago embarks on $7 billion infrastructure plan
      Chicago is setting off on an ambitious $7 billion program to overhaul the metropolis' aging infrastructure, from replacing crumbling commuter rail stations and century-old water pipes to building new airport ...
    • /R E PE A T -- Media Advisory/Photo-Op - Plane ...
      TORONTO , March 27, 2012 /CNW/ - April is Environment Month! Join Water Brothers hosts Tyler and Alex Mifflin and Environment Minister Jim Bradley this Thursday at the Ontario Science Centre when it participates ...

    Guardian

    • Russian plane crash kills 29
      14 people survive disaster near Siberian city of TyumenAt least 29 people were killed and 14 were rescued alive from a plane crash in Siberia, Russia's state-run Itar-Tass news agency said on Monday.The ATR 72, a twin-engine, turbo-prop plane, with 43 people aboard, crashed near the western Sibe ...
    • Clipper race: coast guard rescues injured sail ...
      Two British competitors being taken to US mainland after their vessel, the Geraldton Western Australia, hit rough seasTwo British sailors who were injured when a large wave battered their yacht during a round-the world race are being taken to the US mainland, race organisers have said.Three Brit ...
    • Teachers tempted to rewrite pupils' exam answers
      In a poll by the Association of Teachers and Lecturers 35% of teachers said they could be persuaded to cheatMore than a third of teachers have admitted they could be tempted to re-write their pupils' exam answers, according to a poll.Some 35% of teachers said the pressure to improve their studen ...
    • New armed forces body promises review of Afgha ...
      Air Chief Marshal Sir Stuart Peach, head of the new 30,000-strong Joint Forces Command said his aim was to 'bring lessons more quickly from current operations into future operations'One of the armed forces' most senior officers is to oversee a wholesale review of the decade-long campaign in Afgh ...
    • First rise in house prices for 20 months
      Prices rose 0.2% last month, according to a survey of 1,500 surveyors and agents by Hometrack House prices rose in March for the first time in 20 months, partly helped by increased activity ahead of the ending of the first-time-buyer stamp duty holiday.Prices rose 0.2% last month, according to a ...

    McClatchey

    • Commentary: Flawed pleas from Kony 2012 and Mi ...
      In the news have been two unusual stories, both of them exposing outrageous abuse of innocents abroad, neither one broken by what we normally consider the news media. Instead they…Click to Continue »
    • No accord on arming Syrian rebels at Friends o ...
      The United States and more than 70 other countries Sunday announced modest new steps to counter Syria's brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, but they seemed unlikely to advance the U.S.Click to Continue »
    • Despite papal visits, ministering to Cuba's Ca ...
      Priests from Cuban interior, far from the large cities of Havana and Santiago, say it remains nearly impossible to operate with a semblance of normalcy. They cannot approximate the kind…Click to Continue »
    • Assad tightens grip on Syrian borders, cutting ...
      Syria has tightened control of its borders with Lebanon and Turkey in recent days, laying fresh fields of land mines and sweeping through areas critical to rebel smuggling operations in…Click to Continue »
    • Romney may be able to relax after Wisconsin vo ...
      Around the state, many Republicans approach Tuesday's Wisconsin primary with a sense of inevitability that Mitt Romney will win the Republican nomination. They think the often nasty primary campaign is…Click to Continue »

    Afghanistan Sun

    • Twin blasts at Afghan market wound 18
      Afghan: Twin bomb blasts tore through a local market in northern Afghanistan's Baghlan province on Monday, wounding 18 people, most of them civilians, officials said.The explosions occurred one ...
    • Etisalat extends Afghan mobile payments
      UAE telco Etisalat has partnered with Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS) to expand its mobile payment services in the war torn state, it was announced on ...
    • US, Taliban agree on prisoner swap
      The Taliban and the US have reportedly agreed to swap prisoners, sources have said, adding that a formal announcement of an agreement is not possible at the moment.
    • Most Americans agree with him on Afghanistan p ...
      Ron Paul has yet to win a primary or caucus election, but on one thing he has the support of most Americans: The withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan sooner rather than ...
    • Afghan policeman killed after surviving 16 attacks
      An Afghan police officer who was targeted by Taliban militants and survived 16 bomb attacks was killed by an improvised explosive device on Sunday, officials ...

    Futurismic

    • Hope for a Global Spring?
      Perhaps it’s because of the economy is beginning – finally – to pick up in the US. Perhaps it is because I’m sick to death of bad election-year politics, so I’m looking at anything else that comes along of interest. Maybe it’s even because I wrote about creative destruction the last time I did a ...
    • The only way to change your past is to steal s ...
      I get a fairly regular flow of emails about independent film projects. Most of them, to be honest, bounce straight off me – which says less about their quality than it does about my own taste in cinema. Independent cinema – like independent music and literature – has lots of pr ...
    • Censorship: I’m guilty as charged
      So, I stand accused of censorship by someone whose comment I declined to approve on this post. I figure anyone willing to throw around accusations of censorship is probably a big fan of radical transparency; hence, by way of amelioration, here is the digital papertrail for the full exchange. (Em ...
    • The Future Always Wins
      Soooooo, yeah – I’ve been busy. Did you miss me? New job, Masters degree… doesn’t leave a lot of spare time, so it doesn’t. But it’s been quiet here too long, so it’s time to dust down the soapbox and run a mic-check. One-two, one-two. The Future Always ...
    • New Economies
      Last month I pondered the extent to which the Arab Spring and Occupy Everything are socially-driven acts of creative destruction. Creative destruction is defined as a “process of industrial mutation that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying ...

    Whistleblowers Protection Blog

    • Occupy EPA Rallies for Whistleblowers
      Today's Occupy EPA and NOW DC rally went off with a bang! An eclectic crowd of whistleblower supporters, environmental protectors, and Occupy supporters marched today starting from Franklin Square Park and ending at the EPA offices. Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, a member of the National Whistlebl ...
    • Supreme Court Guts Privacy Act
      Whistleblowers beware: this week the Supreme Court dealt a death blow to the Privacy Act. David Colapinto, NWC General Counsel and Privacy Act expert, appeared on NPR to talk about the ruling and it's devastating effects for whistleblowers. Full story here Congress originally passed the histo ...
    • Connecticut jury awards over $1 million in fir ...
      In the first Federal Rail Safety Act (FRSA) case to go to a jury trial, the jury awarded $50,000 in compensatory damages, and one million dollars in punitive damages. Andy Barati was working for the Metro North commuter rail on Grand Central Terminal, New York City, in 2008 when a jack failed an ...
    • The Sky Has Not Yet Fallen
      (The First Seven Months of the SEC Dodd Frank Whistleblower Program) By Guest Columnist: Donna Boehme Principal at Compliance Strategists LLC and editor of the weekly CS Newsflash So far, the sky has not fallen. That’s not to say there isn’t some curious weather activ ...
    • OSHA issues new manual for whistleblower inves ...
      The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued a new Whistleblower Investigations Manual last year.  The new manual includes some improvements for whistleblowers, such as accepting oral complaints (which is particularly helpful in meeting the short 30-day time limits for en ...

    Science Express

    • Fermi maps an active galaxy's 'smokestack plumes'
      If our eyes could see radio waves, the nearby galaxy Centaurus A (Cen A) would be one of the biggest and brightest objects in the sky, nearly 20 times the apparent size of a full moon. What we can't see when looking at the galaxy in visible light is that it lies nestled between a pair of giant r ...
    • Pollution from Asia circles globe at stratosph ...
      The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additional evidence of the ...
    • After growth spurt, supermassive black holes s ...
      Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
    • Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virus
      A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20 ...
    • New approach precisely tracks evolution's foot ...
      (PhysOrg.com) -- Fossils may provide tantalizing clues to human history but they also lack some vital information, such as revealing which pieces of human DNA have been favored by evolution because they confer beneficial traits - resistance to infection or the ability to digest milk, for exampl ...

    TechDirt

    • Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week ...
      Normally, there are a few comments each week that really are way apart from all the rest when the voting is done -- the "clear winners." This week, however, on the insightful side, looking through the top 10 list, they were actually all pretty closely clumped together. Winning by just a tiny m ...
    • Sneeje's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week
      When I read Techdirt, one of the things I'm looking for are articles that help me understand the complex considerations between governmental power and individual rights. They interest me because I find that they always force me to deeply consider my own justifications and philosophies, and the ...
    • Case Study On How An Indie-Rock Composer Music ...
      We've talked about the Future of Music Coalition's excellent Artist Revenue Streams project for a while now, and over the last few months they've been releasing more and more results from the project. At some point in the future I'll have to dig more into some of the earlier results, but I thou ...
    • NBC Universal Caught Using Infringing Graphic ...
      Copyright infringement is easy. It's so easy that virtually everyone does it sometimes without even realizing—including some of the loudest cheerleaders for stronger copyright enforcement. We've pointed out several examples in the past: France's copyright three-strike agency pirated a font ...
    • EFF Slams Righthaven CEO For Pretending He Can ...
      We recently wrote about Righthaven CEO Steve Gibson's bizarre claim that a court order directed at him is inapplicable because he's just the CEO, and the company's own lawyers (who he blames everything on) won't return his calls. Now the EFF (who is representing Thomas DiBiase in the case) has f ...

    VacTruth

    BroadSnark

    • What’s Different with Trayvon?
      Last week I wrote about how I think that the Rush Limbaugh shit storm was in large part because of who the target was, how people perceived her, and what they thought their role towards her should be.  Now I’m thinking about how much attention the Trayvon Martin murder has gotten and why. ...
    • Things You Might Have Missed
      There are two Positive Force shows coming up. One is a benefit for Jobs With Justice on April 14th. The other is for the DC Trans Coalition on April 27th. Come out if you are in town. On April 24th we will be occupying the justice department. Here is why. The Cooperative Development Institute is ...
    • Using Prejudice
      I’ve been watching the fall of Rush Limbaugh with a certain amount of glee, but also with some ambivalence. I’m perfectly happy for him to get shit for calling Sandra Fluke a slut after testifying about contraceptives. But I am wondering why all his other equally offensive comments d ...
    • Things You Might Have Missed
      A wee bit late with this post as I was at the march last night. I have comments, but I think I am going to ruminate on them a bit more. You should check out CD’s latest, Foreclosing on the Commons. And what amazing photography. Would liberals who like to quote Warren Buffett talking about ...
    • Things You Might Have Missed
      Did you know that we have one third of all the women prisoners in the world? USA! USA! A while back I wrote about collections and how, if everyone actually showed up to court, the whole system would collapse. Well now someone is talking about it related to the criminal (in)justice system. We sho ...

    Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

    War in Context

    • Michael Klare: Welcome to the new third world ...
      Here’s a simple rule of thumb when it comes to energy disasters: if it’s the nuclear industry and something begins to go wrong — from Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania in 1979 to Fukushima, Japan, after the 2011 tsunami — whatever news is first released, always relatively ...
    • No Saudi Spring
      Madawi Al-Rasheed writes: Last spring, a young Saudi named Muhammad al-Wadani posted a YouTube video of himself calling for democracy, human rights, and more jobs. Echoing Egyptian protesters, he declared, “The people want the downfall of the regime.” On March 7, shortly before a national day of ...
    • Damascus on edge as Syria’s strife encroaches ...
      The Guardian reports: Yasser sits in the dark in his clothes shop in Damascus’s Old City, listening to the whirr of generators outside – a sound that was alien to Syria until recently. Usually his shop is packed with friends and customers, but Yasser, wrapped in a fleece and scarf, sits al ...
    • Civil rights and wrongs in the Palestinian str ...
      Khaled Diab interviews Zaid Shuaibi, a young Palestinian activist: A hip bar in Ramallah named after a famous cocktail where friends and lovers come to hang out and chill is probably not the most obvious place to meet a young Palestinian revolutionary. While around the world people do drink and ...
    • Why Peter Beinart’s book is driving the “Pro-I ...
      M.J. Rosenberg writes: Almost all the criticism (and controversy surrounding) Peter Beinart’s The Crisis of Zionism comes down to two major complaints. The first is that he is a “liberal Zionist” which, by some definitions, means he is just as indifferent to Palestinian rights ...

    Watts Up With That?

    • Mercury, the Trickster God
      I’ve been puzzling for a while about why the areas with the most power plants aren’t the areas with the worst levels of mercury pollution. Why aren’t the areas downwind from the power plants heavily polluted? I keep running across … Continue reading →
    • Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
      Quote of the Week: EPA is proposing to take common-sense steps under the Clean Air Act to limit carbon pollution from new power plants. … Power plants are the largest individual sources of carbon pollution in the United States and … Continue reading →
    • How Peter Gleick’s skullduggery killed m ...
      Readers may recall that I love a good April Fools story, such as the one I did about Low Flow Fire Hydrants in my town in the name of “sustainability”. It worked so well that I had even suckered in … Continue reading →
    • Extreme cures for extreme sea level projections
      Guest post by Cliff Ollier The Australian (March 24) reports that Port Macquarie Hastings Council is recommending the enforcement of a “planned retreat” because of an alleged danger from sea level rise in the distant future. The controversy about moving … Continue reading →
    • arXiv bookworm
      Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I stumbled across something called “bookworm“, which looks through all of the articles in the pre-print service arXiv. Their default home page looks like this. Figure 1. Comparison of the usage of three terms, “graphene” … Continue re ...

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    Biosingularity

    • Tortoise and the hare: New drug stops rushing ...
      The American Cancer Society estimates that 44,000 new cases of pancreatic cancer will be diagnosed this year and that 37,000 people will die from the disease. These are not strong odds. A new drug, rigosertib, allows pancreatic cancer cells to rush through replication – and then stops them cold, ...
    • Gene therapy cures life-threatening lung infec ...
      A 16-year-old boy who was born with a life-threatening immune disorder has become the first patient to benefit from a new form of gene therapy. Doctors at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London said the treatment had only a temporary effect but was sufficient to help the boy overcome a lung infe ...
    • Skin-Deep Immunity
      he smallpox vaccine was the first, and arguably most successful, vaccine ever put into practice, and it was scratched into the skin of individuals. With the invention of syringes and hypodermic needles, vaccination shifted toward administration directly into the muscle, under the assumption that ...
    • Immortal worms defy ageing
      Researchers from the University of Nottingham have demonstrated how a species of flatworm overcomes the ageing process to be potentially immortal. The discovery, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is part of a project funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Scie ...
    • How Staying Active Keeps Us Healthy
      Hoping to learn more about how inactivity affects disease risk, researchers at the University of Missouri recently persuaded a group of healthy, active young adults to stop moving around so much. Scientists have known for some time that sedentary people are at increased risk of developing heart ...

    CFACT

    Ria Novosti Online News

    Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

    Pruning Shears

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

    Organic Consumers.org

    • Outrageous Lies Monsanto and Friends Are Tryin ...
      It's not enough that the biotech industry -- led by multinational corporations such as Monsanto, Dow, Syngenta, BAS, and Dupont -- is poisoning our food and our planet. It's also poisoning young minds.Click here to read this article
    • GMO? Let us Know
      "We've reached 500,000 signatures," smiles Eileen Mitro, Ukiah coordinator for the California Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act initiative.Click here to read this article
    • With Grocery Prices Rising, Here's How Cooking ...
      In an age where the prevailing economic system often requires both parents working full time just to make ends meet, it's no wonder so many families eat out. The Fiscal Times reports that consumers now spend almost 4.5% of their total income on dining out, and now there's even more motivation.Cl ...
    • Nothing Fishy: Whole Foods will Stop Selling F ...
      ALBANY, N.Y. - Whole Foods Market said Friday that it will stop selling fish caught from depleted waters or through ecologically damaging methods, a move that comes as supermarkets nationwide try to make their seafood selections more sustainable.Click here to read this article
    • New Pesticides Linked to Bee Population Collapse
      Worldwide declines in bee colonies, threatening much of global agriculture, may be caused by a new generation of nerve-agent pesticides, two new scientific studies strongly suggest. The findings place a massive question mark over the increasingly controversial compounds, now the fastest growing ...

    Center for a Livable Future

    • Move to Strike: Amendment to Arsenic Legislati ...
      As introduced, the legislation would have banned the use of Roxarsone and other arsenic-based drugs regardless of what Pfizer decides to do. As amended, the bill will have no effect whatsoever.
    • Next Farm Bill Should Strengthen, Not Threaten ...
      Our future food security requires us to preserve the quantity and quality of a vital natural resource—the topsoil that we need to grow healthy food.
    • FDA Enters Withdrawal: Agency Must Pursue Limi ...
      Yesterday, a federal magistrate ordered the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to move ahead with a decades-old effort to withdraw approvals for several uses of antibiotics considered “critically important” to human health by the World Health Organization.  This is a solid win for public health ...
    • Congressman Roscoe Bartlett: Peak Oil and the ...
      In a talk at the Bloomberg School last week, Congressman Roscoe Bartlett (R–MD) asked the audience: “I’m not a perfect fit for the Republican mold, am I?” The talk was about peak oil, a concept that he’s been stumping in Congress for over a decade. A modern-day Cassandra, he’s been “on the floor ...
    • Will Allen: Gentleman farmer, grand thinker
      But Allen is not just growing food, he is helping to grow community—that feeling of being connected to each other, as well as to the natural world that sustains us. Community is the very ingredient that is most painfully lacking in the industrialized food system that is at once so productive and ...

    Investigate - Breaking News

    My Care2 Picks

    • infographic comparing fresh raw dairy to paste ...
      Infographiic reveals the crucial differences between the nutritional properties, animal compassion and health implications of raw (living) milk versus pasteurized (dead) milk. Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
    • The Climate Wars revisited or No truce with kings.
      Analysis piece on the politics and infowar aspects ; A lot of those articles are small stand-alone explanations of political or psychological ideas. The Establishment were absolutely determined to deconstruct western industrial society into their vision Submitted by John Farnham to Environment ...
    • BP Settlement Sells Out Victims -- Greg Palast
      Some deal. BP gets the gold mine and its victims get the shaft. And a few lawyers will get vacation homes - though they won't be so stupid as to build them on the Gulf Coast. Submitted by Kit B. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
    • So-Called Confined field releases of GM Eucaly ...
      Perfunctory environmental assessment is based largely on uninformed prejudice and hides crucial details on gene constructs under Confidential Business Information. Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
    • Access to water is a right- not a privilege
      After watching Blue Gold, I think that if we continue polluting, diverting, pumping, and wasting our limited supply of fresh water at an exponential rate as our population and technology grows, we may very well end up in a war over water. Submitted by John Farnham to Environment  |  ...

    Angry Indian News

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

    Farm Wars

    • Farm Wars Safe Seed Company List
      The following is a list of seed companies that provide organic and heirloom seed varieties. These companies have no ties to biotech interests, and do not get their seeds from Monsanto.
    • The Secret of Oz Full Movie
      The Ponzi Scheme that is our banking system.
    • Michigan Declares War on Family Pig Farmers
      The state of Michigan has officially declared war on family farmers. Bakers Green Acres raises pigs in a humane way. This evidently creates a competition threat to the pork industry, and the government-sponsored mega-corporations can't have that, so look out small family farmers, here comes the ...
    • Smart meter fire risks?
      Watch the “completely safe” smart meter explode and catch this unfortunate person’s house on fire. Pay no attention to the fire, that smart meter is fail-safe because I SAID SO! Submitted by Annie DeRiso
    • Health Authorities Now Admit Severe Side Effec ...
      On 1 September 2011, the Finnish National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) admitted, that for Finnish children and youngsters age 4-19, there was a new and obvious connection between Pandemrix and narcolepsy. As stated in THL's press release, "The increased risk associated with vaccination ...

    True/Slant Headline Grabs

    Citizens for Legitimate Government

    • War critic who demands immediate Afghanistan w ...
      ShareThisWar critic who demands immediate Afghanistan withdrawal wins surprise return to UK Parliament 30 Mar 2012 An outspoken critic of the war in Afghanistan claimed Friday that public anger over the conflict propelled him to a surprise victory in a special election for a seat in Britain's Ho ...
    • U.S. Taxpayers to Equip and Pay 'Rebels' in Syria
      ShareThisU.S. Taxpayers to Equip and Pay 'Rebels' in Syria 02 Apr 2012 The United States and dozens of other countries moved closer on Sunday to direct intervention in the fighting in Syria, with Arab nations pledging $100 million to pay opposition fighters and the Obama administration agreeing ...
    • Radiation affecting Japan's famous delicacies
      ShareThisRadiation affecting Japan's famous delicacies 01 Apr 2012 On Sunday, Japan reopened parts of the no-go zone around the Fukushima nuclear plant, but is still banning people from staying overnight. The government is also warning people to avoid hundreds of locally-produced foods that exce ...
    • Biosecurity advisory board reverses decision o ...
      ShareThisUSociopaths are trying to get a bird flu pandemic party started: Biosecurity advisory board reverses decision on 'engineered bird flu' papers --New surveillance shows that 'wild' H5N1 viruses circulating in chicken flocks overseas contain mutations similar to ones in the lab-engineered ...
    • Confirmed: CIA secret prison in Poland
      ShareThisConfirmed: CIA secret prison in Poland 02 Apr 2012 Another CIA-run interrogation 'black site' has been exposed after the confessions of top-ranking Polish officials blew the lid on the dirtiest secret in Eastern Europe. The former head of Poland's intelligence service secret Zbigniew Si ...

    Daily Loaf

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

    Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

    B.C. Preppers Network

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

    Michael Yon

    • Camera Auction
      Kopp-Etchells Effect during combat operations with British Forces. (Sangin, Afghanistan, 2009) 01 April 2012 The time has come for expensive upgrades.  Canon has added the Mark III 5d and soon the Dx to the line. I have two Canon 5d Mark II bodies for sale with accessories.  The 5d ...
    • Taliban Sends Message about US Prisoner Bowe B ...
      29 March 2012 Several years ago, the Taliban captured a US Soldier named Bowe Bergdahl. Yesterday was Bergdahl’s third birthday in captivity. I’ve asked the Taliban several times to see Bergdahl.  They have declined in the past citing security reasons.  I recently asked the Taliban a ...
    • Panjway, Afghanistan: Amphitheater of War
      For a larger view please click on image or one of the links below. 23 March 2012 This panorama was made in the general area where the Panjway 17 massacre unfolded.  The view is over the Arghandab River Valley, a place that Canadian and many US forces know well.  The Arghandab can be ...
    • Sir Petraeus
      16 March 2012 This has been secret until a few minutes ago.  The Dutch Minister of Defense just knighted General (ret.) Petraeus in the Hague.  I was invited to go but could not make it, unfortunately.
    • Libya Spot Report
      16 March 2012 An experienced friend is currently in Tripoli and writes: I’m telling you, you should get your butt over here to Libya - it’s a really interesting place.  I know everyone’s mind is on Afghanistan these days, but there’s really no comparison. The two countries could not be mo ...

    The Killing Train

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

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    Telegraph - Climate Change

    National Geographic | Environment

    Jurist - Legal Research

    • Liberia man removed from US for human rights a ...
      [JURIST] George Boley, former leader of the Liberian Peace Council (LPC), was removed from the US on Saturday for his role in human rights abuses in the 1990s during the Liberian Civil War [Global Security backgrounder]. An immigration judge ordered his removal [press release] from the US in Feb ...
    • UN calls on India to end arbitrary executions
      [JURIST] UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions Christof Heyns on Friday called on India's government to take stronger measures to end extrajudicial and arbitrary executions [press release]. While commending India for its willingness to listen to new ideas and im ...
    • UN SG urges Cambodia to cooperate with new gen ...
      [JURIST] A spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon [official website]on Friday urged the Cambodian government to give its full cooperation to the new judges [text] that will eventually be appointed to investigate the genocide during the Khmer Rouge regime [BBC backgrounder]. The statem ...
    • Bahrain rights activist may face charges for p ...
      [JURIST] President of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) [advocacy website] Nabeel Rajab, an outspoken critic of violent government crackdowns against protesters, may face criminal charges for the role he has played in anti-government protests, his lawyer said Sunday. Rajab was arrested ...
    • Human rights court agrees to hear Guantanamo d ...
      [JURIST] The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) [official website] on Friday agreed to hear the case of Guantanamo [JURIST backgrounder] detainee and Algerian national Djamel Ameziane. The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJ ...

    Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

    • Administration Admits That Indefinite Detentio ...
      The Obama administration acknowledged Tuesday that it would be a violation of current law to transfer individuals from Guantanamo Bay in Cuba to its soon-to-be acquired Thomson prison in Illinois unless they are destined for a federal trial or military tribunal. In a conference call with reporte ...
    • A Chastened Lieberman Defends Himself
      One person with knowledge of what it's like to work for Sen. Joe Lieberman these days describes a "bunker mentality" in his Senate office. Apparently, Lieberman was not happy that even the legacy media -- the Washington Post, the New York Times -- characterized his Medicare-buy-in position-chang ...
    • A Twitter Torrent Against ... Congressional De ...
      Twitter is on fire, and Joe Lieberman merely the kindle. The Netroots left -- a variegated slice of the Democratic base -- is livid about health care reform.  The fire has been slow burning for months, expressing itself in frustration, firstly, with the congressional leadership, and secondl ...
    • 2010: Exploring The Frustration Of Seniors
      Resurgent Republic, the GOP strategy/polling consortium, has been finding, in surveys, a trend among folks over 55 that quite concerns Democrats -- because they're seeing the same thing. Since April, older whites have not only been venting their frustration at Congress, they've been increasingly ...
    • 2010: The Case Against Self-Funding
      Confirming rumors, California gubernatorial candidate Steve Poizner announced today he's donating $15 million to his own campaign because he wants to "communicate my message of bold 10% tax cuts, a 10% reduction in state spending, creating a $10 billion rainy day fund, and I will cut our welfare ...

    COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

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    Tikun Olam

    • Land Day Picture Worth a Thousand Words
      TweetSometimes pictures are worth a thousand words, at least.  In the case of this image by Reuters’ Ammar Awad, this one may be worth 10,000 or more.  It’s also instructive that the NY Times headline for the slideshow presentation of Land Day images that includes this one was: Prote ...
    • Seattle Businesses Support Local Public Education
      TweetTonight, it’s small ball for readers used to my brooding on the big picture of war and peace in the Middle East.  We’re going to talk about public education and the wonderful local businesses who support it.  Back in the old days when this blog was searching for its voice, my su ...
    • 100 Iranian Missiles Will Penetrate Defenses, ...
      TweetGareth Porter does some excellent reporting during his current trip to Israel, where he’s meeting Israeli military and intelligence figures concerning a possible Israeli attack on Iran.  He focuses on the lack of Israeli psychological preparation or awareness of the danger they face f ...
    • Under Threat from Oakland Jewish Federation, B ...
      TweetAbout as close as Peter Beinart may ever get to Jewish Voice for Peace, were flyers seen throughout the area advertising his book promotion appearance at the East Bay Jewish Community Center in Berkeley.  The event was to have been co-sponsored by the JCC and KPFA, the local Pacifica radio ...
    • ‘Israel Bought an Airfield Called Azerbaijan’
      TweetMark Perry has published another powerful expose of covert Israeli intelligence activities against Iran.  This segment in his series deals with Azerbaijan, a subject I’ve written about here after the recent announcement of a $1.6 billion arms deal between Israel and that nation.  Perr ...

    If Americans Knew

    • Remember Rachel Corrie
      On March 16, 2003, Rachel Corrie was killed by Israeli soldiers driving a bulldozer. Please help us keep Rachel's memory and message alive! Order materials to distribute to your friends, family, neighbors, and community.
    • US Media and Israeli Military: All in the Family
      Recent exposes revealing that Ethan Bronner, the New York Times Israel-Palestine bureau chief, has a son in the Israeli military have caused a storm of controversy that continues to swirl and generate further revelations.
    • A History Lesson for Obama: Eisenhower's Example
      With President Obama's Middle East peace plans so completely -- and humiliatingly -- shipwrecked on the rocks of Israeli intransigence, it's time for him to consider a new approach, at least if he's serious about his announced objectives. In the spirit of bipartisanship that he's so dedicated to ...
    • The First Intifada
      It's interesting to find myself a small factor in the California race for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate. But before I get to that, it's necessary to take a look at the campaigns themselves, and the system in which they're running.
    • My "Relationship" With Tom Campbell: A Wrench ...
      The First Intifada was a grassroots uprising against Israel's occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. Intifada is an Arabic word for "civil uprising" that literally means "shaking off."

    David J. Gregory

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

    Unsuitable Blog

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

    Subalternate Reality

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

    Idea Lab | Technology

    • Colorful City Tracking Maps Launch Under Creat ...
      Maps.stamen.com, the second installment of the City Tracking project funded by the Knight News Challenge, is live. These unique cartographic styles and tiles, based on data from Open Street Map, are available for the entire world, downloadable for use under a under a Creative Commons Attribu ...
    • A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Developing iWitness
      iWitness, our project to create a tool to aggregate social media by time and place, is now well underway, and we're looking forward to sharing some of our thinking about the design of the tool with you in the coming weeks. In the meantime, we've asked our development partners at EdgeCase to ...
    • New Knight Lab Tool Makes Great-Looking Timeli ...
      A timeline is one of the most useful and versatile storytelling forms, suitable for everything from "tick tock" accounts that unfold over a short period of time to events that unfold over decades, centuries or millennia. But the tools available to journalists to create online, interactive timeli ...
    • How Overview Visualized 4,500 Pages of Declass ...
      Reporting on an incident where private security contractors fired at civilians in Iraq is one thing, but reporting on all such incidents is something else entirely. That's the situation we were faced with when, in reporting on the role of private security firms in Iraq, we wanted to analyze ...
    • Massachusetts Supreme Court Rules in Favor of ...
      The highest court in Massachusetts has just ruled in favor of OpenCourt's ability to video record, stream and archive public court proceedings online, writing that restricting rights to publish would violate First Amendment press protections. The decision arrived during Sunshine Week, a n ...

    Cutting Edge News

    • Inside Cuba - A Papal Visit and Cuba's Repress ...
      The Cuban government, the Roman Catholic Church and the Cuban humanitarian group, the Ladies in White (Las Damas de Blanco), all formidable entities in their own right, found themselves thrust upon the world stage together this week as a result of Pope Benedict XVI’s first trip to Latin Americ ...
    • Robotic Edge - Oscillating Gel Substance Gives ...
      Sooner than later, robots may have the ability to “feel.� In a paper published online March 26 in Advanced Functional Materials, a team of researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) demonstrated that a nonoscillating gel can be resuscita ...
    • Environmental Edge - Water Scarcity in Califor ...
      Simultaneously attaining a reliable water supply for California and protecting and rehabilitating its Bay-Delta ecosystem cannot be realized until better planning can identify how trade-offs between these two goals will be managed when water is limited, says a new report from the National Resear ...
    • Book Review - The Scramble for What's Left: Th ...
      Is it possible to cope with the immense dangers posed by the rapid consumption of the world’s resources? In The Race for What’s Left, Michael Klare claims that it is -- but only through a significant change in behavior. Klare is the author of fourteen books, the most recent of which focus on ...
    • Edge on Mexico - The Deadly and Growing Mexica ...
      Call it the Michoacan Plus Syndrome. Exposed during last fall’s elections in the Mexican state of Michoacan, kidnappings and other crimes against actual or potential political candidates are now surfacing in Mexico’s state and federal elections scheduled for July 1.In a recent meeting with t ...

    High Country News

    CounterCurrents

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

    Contagious Love Experiment

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

    Yid With Lid

    • The Hatred of Israel Will Continue No Matter W ...
      By Barry Rubin It is the year 2012, which seems to be going by very fast and is already one-fourth finished. People are walking around with smart phones and all sorts of electronic devices undreamed of not long ago. There has been what is called an “Arab Spring” stoking fantasies about ...
    • Latest Moonbat Claim: Global Warming Will Make ...
      This is NOT an April Fools Joke (although it probably should be).  The National Wildlife Foundation has released a report saying that global warming will make people go nuts!  OK maybe not Keith Olbmermann crazy but it they are claiming it will have the same effect ...
    • The Bizarre Jewish Movement to Destroy Israel ...
      by Barry Rubin I can only laugh at the idea of dilettante Peter Beinart and J Street as leader of the anti-Israel (oops, I meant save-Israel-from-itself) movement. After all, imagine people parading as self-defined heroes while peddling ideas that have absolutely nothing to do with re ...
    • Newsbusted: Obama's 3+ Year Long Preparation F ...
      Two weeks from now is the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. That is why the movie is being re-released in 3D and many of the basic cable stations are airing specials about the tragedy. What has not been reported is that President Obama has been spending much of his time as preside ...
    • Is Obama Signaling a Second Administration Eve ...
       Note if you cannot see three videos below, Please click here. Four separate stories mostly unrelated, only one made big news, three were barely covered by the mainstream media.... but when you put them together they tell a frightening story. This narrative should be titled, What I ...

    The Real Agenda

    • Pseudoscience: Babies drugged in the Womb for ...
      By JULIE -ANNE BARNES | MAIL ONLINE | APRIL 1, 2012 Babies are being medicated in the womb in an attempt to prevent them from being  born obese. In a world first, dangerously overweight mothers-to-be in four British cities have started taking a diabetes drug during their pregnancy. The ...
    • Occupying the White House: Who is the U.S. Pre ...
      By LUIS R. MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | APRIL 2, 2012 A straight answer to this questions is no one but Barack Obama himself knows who he is. His Certificate of Life Birth is fake and so is his Selective Service registration card. The White House invested over $1.7 million to deny inves ...
    • British Under More Surveillance
      UK TELEGRAPH | APRIL 1, 2012 Ministers are preparing a major expansion of the Government’s powers to monitor the email exchanges and website visits of every person in the UK, it was reported today. Under legislation expected in next month’s Queen’s Speech, internet compani ...
    • Reporting Suspicious Behavior: Homeland Securi ...
      By LUIS R. MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | MARCH 30, 2012 See something, say something. Suspicious behavior must be denounced immediately to the pertinent authorities. So let’s be patriotic and report what seems to be very concerning events associated with the U.S. Department of Home ...
    • Buy Apple, Support Slavery
      By LUIS R. MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | MARCH 30, 2012 Unless you’ve been sleeping under a rock for the past decade or so, it may come as a surprise to learn that large technology corporations such as Apple use and abuse workers in third world nations where governments do not prov ...

    Wind Watch

    • Groundbreaking law prohibits wind turbines
      ST. HENRY – Council members made history Monday night by passing unique legislation that bans wind turbines in town. The new law, which unanimously passed third reading, prohibits the construction of all types of wind turbines, wind chargers and wind generators. It also outlaws any device, ...
    • Potential risks to residents from 20-square-mi ...
      Ocotillo resident Jim Pelley dreads the prospect of the 456-tall wind turbines that may soon surround his home on three sides-some less than half mile away. Whirling blades, each weighing many tons, would be placed atop an active earthquake fault area capable of a 7.0 quake or more. Fire danger, ...
    • BRSA turbine appeal reaches appellate court
      Construction of a 380-foot-tall industrial wind turbine proposed by the sewerage authority in Union Beach could set a precedent for land use decisions across the state, attorneys argued in the Appellate Division of Superior Court in Trenton last week. Union Beach special counsel Stuart Lieberman ...
    • Prattsburgh against Ecogen appeal, seeks to ne ...
      The Prattsburgh Town Board on Tuesday counter appealed an attempt by a wind farm developer to overturn an order signed by a state Supreme Court justice. Ecogen officials did not give a reason for appealing the order, which they originally submitted. The order – approved by Justice John Ark in Fe ...
    • Banning turbines in Litchfield maintains town& ...
      After a week on vacation, Litchfield resident Pat Christensen cherishes the moment she can step through the door and breathe a sigh of relief — she’s home. “That feeling has to stay here,” said Christensen, spokeswoman for Litchfield United. If industrial wind turbines set up shop in her communi ...

    Tippers News

    • Three men helped starve kids, court tol
      Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
    • Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
      The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
    • Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...
      Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note- ...
    • About Us,,,You may want to lisent...interesting!
      Interesting Information that you may find interesting With Love... Evelyn (: Submitted by Evelyn J. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
    • Tiger killing 'a crime against nature'
      Three people have been sentenced to a total of eight and a half years in prison for trying to smuggle tiger skins and bones across the Russian border. And for the first time in this kind of case, a charge of 'ecological damage' might be brought for the Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals &nbsp ...

    The Freeman

    • Lawyers Make Liberty Appeals to Justice Kennedy
      “The way to frame a Supreme Court argument meant to persuade Justice Anthony M. Kennedy is to talk about liberty. It is his touchstone and guiding principle, and his conception of liberty is likely to determine the future of President Obama’s health care law.” (New York Times) Libert ...
    • Consumer Spending Rises, But Income Hardly So
      “U.S. consumers boosted their spending in February by the most in seven months. But Americans’ income barely grew and the saving rate fell to its lowest point in more than two years.” (Washington Post) Does that mean more debt? FEE Timely Classic “Consumer Spending Doesn’t Driv ...
    • Seeing Like a Ruling Class
      In the beginning ruling classes had a problem. It will be familiar to those acquainted with the Austrian critique of central economic planning.
    • Court Considers Fate of Obamacare without Mandate
      “The day after the Supreme Court suggested that President Obama’s health care law might be in danger of being held unconstitutional, the justices on Wednesday turned their attention to the practical consequences and political realities of such a ruling.” (New York Times) The mandate ...
    • Solyndra Risks Were Known to Feds
      “The federal government and private investors knew the risks they were taking when they poured money in Solyndra LLC, the California solar panel manufacturer that went bankrupt two years after winning more than a half-billion dollars in federal loan guarantees, according to the company’s t ...

    Teaching Online Journalism

    • Data Journalism Examples
        I created a Storify (below) for participants in a recent workshop about data journalism. The purpose is to enable them to explore the subject further on their own. You can compare the original version at the Storify site. To make it appear in this post, I simply exported (to WordPress) f ...
    • Social Media and Journalists
      This is a presentation I gave to several groups of TV and print journalists in Singapore. Download the PPT to get the notes and the URLs (March 19–23, 2012). It’s in four parts because it’s long. Part 1 covers concepts and definitions. Part 2 covers Twitter, Tumblr and Pinterest. Pa ...
    • Definition: Social media
      I’ve been working on this for a few days. Trying to make it as simple as possible. Digital systems that enable people, identified by profiles, to share information. Now, please let me unpack that a little bit: Digital systems is another way to say media. I specify digital because I do not ...
    • Resources for learning about social media
      I have been collecting posts, articles, tutorials and general how-to materials that relate to how journalists use social media. I started about two weeks ago, as I prepare for a workshop in Singapore. They are curated here: Social Media and Journalists. The collection is housed at Scoop.it, a cu ...
    • Resources for learning about social media
      I have been collecting posts, articles, tutorials and general how-to materials that relate to how journalists use social media. I started about two weeks ago, as I prepare for a workshop in Singapore. They are curated here: Social Media and Journalists. The collection is housed at Scoop.it, a ...

    Facing South

    Worldpress - Africa

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

    Telegraph UK - oil

    Ian Welsh

    • Observations on Canadian NDP leader Mulcair an ...
      Last weekend, the federal New Democratic Party (NDP) elected a new leader: Thomas Mulcair, an MP from Quebec, who was a minister in the provincial Liberal government there, before he resigned rather than open a park for development. Mulcair was the front runner, and his victory was hardly a surp ...
    • It is in blood that empires, like humans, are ...
      I think we all remember the year before the Iraq war, the drumbeat of propaganda, the horrible certainty that nothing we could do would stop George Bush’s messianic belief that he must have a war with Iraq because he was ordained by God, and all the great presidents were war presidents. We argue ...
    • It is in blood that empires, like humans, are ...
      I think we all remember the year before the Iraq war, the drumbeat of propaganda, the horrible certainty that nothing we could do would stop George Bush’s messianic belief that he must have a war with Iraq because he was ordained by God, and all the great presidents were war presidents. We argue ...
    • On Stratfor
      Wikileaks has dumped a bunch of internal Stratfor documents, which they presumably received from Anonymous.  Years ago I used to read Stratfor’s briefs.  After a while I stopped, because their economic analysis was absolutely awful, straight up cookie cutter consensus macro, which missed t ...
    • On Stratfor
      Wikileaks has dumped a bunch of internal Stratfor documents, which they presumably received from Anonymous.  Years ago I used to read Stratfor’s briefs.  After a while I stopped, because their economic analysis was absolutely awful, straight up cookie cutter consensus macro, which missed t ...

    Media Consortium

    Reality Asserts Itself

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

    Great Beyond ( Nature )

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

    new geography

    • Buffalo, You Are Not Alone
      It hurts. When a bigtime Harvard economist writes off your city as a loss, and says America should turn its back on you, it hurts. But Ed Glaeser’s dart tossing is but the smallest taste of what it’s like to live in place like Buffalo. To choose to live in the Rust Belt is to commit to e ...
    • Gary Hustwit's "Urbanized" Re-lighting Debate ...
      Gary Hustwit’s new film, “Urbanized,” is the third in his series of documentaries concerning design.  In his first two films, he looks at consumer product design and the global visual culture.  The existential problem of the city, an urgent one about which much of this website is concerned, ...
    • The Next Public Debt Crisis Has Arrived
      In July of 2009, while the smoke from the global financial bonfire was still thick in the air, I wrote for this website about another crisis of massive proportions just looming on the horizon: the Global Crisis in Public Debt. Three years later, the news of defaults, bankruptcies, debt fo ...
    • How A Baby Bust Will Turn Asia's Tigers Toothless
      For the last two decades, America’s pundit class has been looking for models to correct our numerous national deficiencies. Some of the more deluded have settled on Europe, which, given its persistent low economic growth over the past 20 years and minuscule birth rates, amounts to someth ...
    • What Apple’s Supply Chain Says About US Manufa ...
      In January, The New York Times released a front-page report on the iEconomy, Apple’s vast and rapidly growing empire built on the production of tech devices almost exclusively overseas. The fascinating story created a wave of attention when it was published, and it’s back in the news after ...

    GM Watch

    • Monsanto's children's book and a riposte
      Here's Monsanto's biotech book for kids http://www.greenchipstocks.com/reports/Kids-Biotech-Basics-Activity-Book-1.pdf and here's a riposte http://generationgreen.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/The-ABCs-of-GMOs.pdf For background see our earlier post: Monsanto and friends target schoolchildren ...
    • Tell Morrisons you're off
      NOTE: Lots of great comemnts left here: http://www.facebook.com/MorrisonsWeLoveFood If you're on FaceBook, please leave your comments too, as well as writing to Morrisons Head of Policy - see below. --- --- Tell Morrisons you're off http://gmfreeze.webfactional.com/actions/27/ Let them know if ...
    • End of secrecy on GMOs in Chile
      Alianza por una Mejor Calidad de Vida (RAP-Chile) Red de Acción en Plaguicidas y sus Alternativas  de América Latina y el Caribe (RAP-AL) Press release Chilean Citizens win right to know GMO cultures location *Historical decision of Transparency Council  March 23 2012, Santiago, Chile - Marí ...
    • Rothamsted's GM wheat – "A step backwards for ...
      Rothamsted's GM Wheat – "A step backwards for farming" GM Freeze, 29 March 2012 www.gmfreeze.org/news-releases/187/  GM Freeze today responded to the announcement that Rothamsted Research has sowed its experimental crop of GM wheat, calling it "a step backwards for farming". The wheat is genet ...
    • European Parliament cracks down on EFSA
      1.European Parliament cracks down on EFSA 2.EU commission: OK for Monsanto lobbyist to run food regulator --- --- 1.European Parliament cracks down on EFSA CEO, March 28 2012 http://www.corporateeurope.org/blog/european-parliament-cracks-down-efsa Debates on EFSA's budget and management board i ...

    spiked

    • No bowing down before Bebe
      American journalist Pamela Druckerman’s fascinating look at how the French bring up their children shows that putting adults first is better for everyone – the kids included.
    • In higher education quality, not equality, matters
      Stefan Collini's new book asks What Are Universities For?, but his relativist view of Truth and Knowledge prevents him from giving a satisfactory answer.
    • Letters from a beaten figure
      A collection of William Burroughs’s letters reveals the Beat writer’s thoughts on everything from Denmark and drugs to ringworm and movie stars.
    • Religious belief is more than an evolutionary ...
      A new book attempts to ground a defence of religious freedom in cognitive science, but in doing so it reveals a lack of faith in freedom itself.
    • A Byronic defence of the Luddites
      200 years after Lord Byron’s tub-thumping speech about the Luddites, let us distinguish those radicals from today’s eco-miserabilists.

    Cryptogon

    • China: 30 Million People Live in Caves
      One for your Doomstead Ideas file folder. Via: Los Angeles Times: Like many peasants from the outskirts of Yanan, China, Ren Shouhua was born in a cave and lived there until he got a job in the city and moved into a concrete-block house. His progression made sense as he strove to improve his lif ...
    • Greece: Euro Free Alternative Currency Takes Off
      I just helped out some people here in New Zealand recover from a bad computer virus situation. They paid me with a one year old heifer that we’re going to eat! In terms of the time I spent on the job and the tangible value of that heifer, this represent the best compensation that I [...]
    • Scientists Create New Materials by Manipulatin ...
      Via: Stanford University: Researchers from Stanford University and the U.S. Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have created the first-ever system of “designer electrons” – exotic variants of ordinary electrons with tunable properties that may ultimately ...
    • Google Takes Down Russia Today YouTube Channel
      Update: RT Back Up on YouTube —End Update— Update: RT Tweeting: RT’s YouTube channel taken offline by YT administration, appears to be a mistake so far, follow updates here and on FB http://www.facebook.com/RTnews —End Update— Via: Russia Today YouTube Channel: This ...
    • Microsoft: Data Mining Your Digital Effluvia
      People seem to be cracking up and looking for technological fixes to what amounts to mental illness that was caused by their technology in the first place. Here’s how Becky chronicles milestones and other pleasant moments with our children. She pastes photographs to sheets of paper and han ...

    The Economic Collapse

    • The 15 Trillion Dollar Party
      If you knew that you could live in luxury for the rest of your life but that by doing so it would absolutely destroy the future for your children, your grandchildren and your great-grandchildren would you do it?  Well, that is exactly what we are doing as a nation.  Over the past ...
    • Everything Is Going To Be Alright?
      Is the U.S. economy going to be okay?  Well, if the only source you listened to was the mainstream media, you would be left with the distinct impression that the U.S. economy is heading toward a full recovery and that everything is going to be alright.  Unfortunately, that is not ...
    • A Cashless Society May Be Closer Than Most Peo ...
      Most people think of a cashless society as something that is way off in the distant future.  Unfortunately, that is simply not the case.  The truth is that a cashless society is much closer than most people would ever dare to imagine.  To a large degree, the transition to a cashl ...
    • 20 Signs That We Are Witnessing The Complete C ...
      What do you do when an entire nation begins to lose the capacity to think rationally?  Many Americans spend a great deal of time criticizing the government, and there is certainly a lot to complain about, but it is not just the government that is the problem.  All over America, p ...
    • Bernanke Claims That The Fed Has Averted A Sec ...
      Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke claims that the Federal Reserve averted a second Great Depression by bailing out the big Wall Street banks during the last financial crisis, and he says that if a similar financial crisis comes along that the correct "policy response" will be ...

    Desertification

    • Bushes, CO2 and Spirulina (Google / UNCSD 2012)
      Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.uncsd2012.org/rio20/index.php?page=view&nr=1013&type=230&menu=38 Chinese businessman comes to UN with anti-desertification demo Chinese businessman Li Jinglu built a power generating plant in an Inner Mongolia desert and fuele ...
    • Rio Plus 20 Prosêct (Google / Council on Forei ...
      Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://blogs.cfr.org/patrick/2012/03/30/rio-plus-20-what-prospects-for-the-next-un-mega-conference/ Rio Plus 20: What Prospects for the Next UN Mega-Conference? by Stewart M. Patrick On June 20-21, the world will descend on Rio de Janeiro for the Un ...
    • Desertification in N. Korea (Google / NY Times)
      Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/30/q-and-a-north-koreas-choked-environment/ Q and A: North Korea’s Choked Environment By JOANNA M. FOSTER   Although it remains one of the world’s most implacably closed societies, North Korea has become more o ...
    • Making drinking water for irrigation and domes ...
      Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.waterworld.com/index/display/news_display/1634354509.html Qatar: Solar energy to make drinking water ANSAmed – English March 30, 2012 (ANSAmed) Qatar is looking for ways to make drinking water for irrigation and domestic use with th ...
    • Pakistan : invest more in biotechnology resear ...
      Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/29/biotech-solution-to-meet-rising-population-needs.html `Biotech solution to meet rising population needs` According to the report prepared by the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications (I ...

    The Paper Trail

    • Illegal ocean dumping persists despite DOJ cra ...
      When a U.S. Coast Guard inspector boarded the M/T Chem Faros, a 21,145-gross-ton cargo ship that pulled into port in Morehead City, N.C., an oiler with the engine crew quietly handed him a note."GOOD MORNING SIR, I WOULD LIKE TO LET YOU KNOW THIS SHIP DISCHARGING BILGE ILEGALLY USING BY MAGIC PI ...
    • Nuclear testers can run but not hide
      Beneath the oceans, on distant islands, in barren deserts, on icy hillsides, and at hundreds of other spots around the globe, special sensors are sniffing the air, measuring ground motion, watching for a particular kind of light, and listening for unique sounds. Their function is to pick up the ...
    • Super donor Friess skips super PAC to help San ...
      Ahead of Tuesday’s GOP presidential primary in Wisconsin, wealthy investor Foster Friess is giving his preferred candidate, Rick Santorum, a boost. This time though, rather than contributing to a pro-Santorum super PAC, he’s taking matters into his own hands.Friess has personally spent $8,675 to ...
    • Billions of dollars for fancy software and whe ...
      A costly and lengthy effort by the Pentagon to bring its financial ledgers up to modern standards continues to encounter serious problems, according to a new General Accountability Office report that spotlights shortcomings in accounting software now being tested by the Army and the Air Force.Th ...
    • Department of Energy knew of Solyndra risks, f ...
      The Department of Energy was fully aware of the risks in backing Solyndra Inc., a start-up company that pocketed a half-billion dollar DOE loan but never turned a penny in profit before shutting its doors, concludes a former FBI agent hired to examine the company’s books.The expert’s report, fil ...

    backofthebook.ca

    • A Modest Opinion – Retracted
      By Nathaniel Moher Dear worshipping readership: as one of the few remaining hard-hitting investigative journalists out there (see you at the meeting, Seacrest), I obviously pride myself on never making a mistake. Ever. Well, apparently my assumption that I never make a mistake was in fact a mist ...
    • Robocalls and Republicons
      By Alison@Creekside The Cons’ somewhat belated talking points about their use of the US voter contact firm Front Porch Strategies in the last election have been all about only using them for townhalls : U.S. phone firm was just for town halls, say MPs  “Jim Ross [Front Porch's Canadi ...
    • A Modest Opinion – Who you gonna Robo-call?
      As I’m sure most of you have heard, the Conservatives are in a little bit of a hot spot (and I’m not just talking about the prairies). It seems that Harps and his conservatives are being accused of a placing phone calls during the last election, giving out the wrong address’ for polling stations ...
    • How the Sun helped post the Vancouver Playhous ...
      By Frank Moher The sudden news that the Vancouver Playhouse is closing after 49 seasons comes as a shock, of course. We assume these venerable civic institutions will somehow always manage to lumber along, despite economic downturns and hostile governments and digital depredations. This, after a ...
    • Ohi – uh-oh
      By Alison@Creekside Poor old Mr. Creosote. Steve sent his parliamentary secretary, Dean Del Maestro, out into the House two days in a row last week to claim the Libs spent “millions of dollars” in the last election hiring a foreign voter telemarketing company with offices in North Da ...

    libcom

    • Account of the March 29 Spanish general strike ...
      Riots-and-clashes-with-the-police-during-the-general-strike-in-Barcelona-498x226.jpg A short account for libcom.org from a comrade in Barcelona, on Spain's first general strike for 18 months. ...
    • California utility to spend $70 million for re ...
      pacific.jpg A gas pipeline exploded in the California town of San Bruno last year. The blast murdered eight individuals. Monday, the utility business responsible for the catastrophe, Pacific Gas and E ...
    • Axed Game staff occupy shops
      game-ireland-protestors-want-fair-deal-3.jpg Former staff at closed Game stores have occupied their workplaces to demand redundancy payouts All the stores in the Republic of Ire ...
    • Successful Fare Strike on New York Subways
      NYC Fare Strike.jpg This morning tens of thousands rode the New York City subways for free in a Fare Strike organized by Occupy Wall Street in coordination with rank-and-file transit workers. ...
    • Scenes from the general strike in Portugal
      general strike.jpg On March 22nd the second general strike in four months took place in Portugal, ending in confrontations with the police in Lisbon, and once again illustrating the shifting landscape ...

    Free Range International

    • Extended Shelf Life – April Fools Edition
      In my last post I claimed to have reached the end of my useful shelf life as a blogger which, it turns out, is not true.  I’m back in Afghanistan and what better day to turn the FRI blog back on than April Fools? Groundhog day would have been more appropriate but I missed it. [...]
    • Back in the USSA
      I’ve been trying to come up with a post for over a month now but don’t have any good pictures because I’m back in America, sans super cool Nikon which got blown up in the Helmand, and without good pictures I don’t seem to be able to write.  That camera cost over a thousand bucks [...]
    • The Gladiators
      Editors Note:  B is taking some time off from destroying Libtards on Thomas Ricks blog to vent on a topic few men will dare touch.  At the Foriegn Policy blog he’s been coming up with stuff like this: Personally, I am glad that while I had to worry about leaders who were more worried about ...
    • War Groupies
      This is the second entry in the new “Paint Baba Tim’s White Fence” program.  The first was from my Dad and this one is from my good friend B.  Regular readers have probably guessed by now that B and I worked together in Afghanistan and know each other well.  As I deal with agen ...
    • THE DIVERSITY PLATOON
      Editors Note:  This post is the first (of what I hope to be many) posts from my father Major General J.D. Lynch Jr. USMC (Ret.) The Current Situation Forty years ago, the American military was held in great contempt by the public it served. The feeling was returned in roughly equal measure. We ...

    The Story Behind the Story

    • War With Iran Averted – At Least Until A ...
      http://www.roytov.com/articles/usathwarts.htm According to Edomite-Turned Christian reporter Ro’i (Roy) Tov, the world can breath much easier these days. In a MOST STUNNING EXPOSE, Roy Tov explains what the Main Stream Media has completely ignored: USA Thwarts Israeli Attack on Iran Obama ...
    • The HollyWood Agenda – Truly EYE-OPENING ...
      To really understand who operates “Hollywood” – you have to look at the history of the “motion picture” industry and “television” from its very inception. From an article posted on Rense.com we learn: Walt Disney’s War With Hollywood’s Jews 7 ...
    • Police State Out of Control. This Illinois St ...
      The Truth is Stranger than Fiction. Imagine, facing 75 years in prison, being arrested and HARASSED merely for DARING to record local police in action!  Sound incredible in AMERICA? Think again friends:
    • Debt as Money – INCREDIBLE MUST-WATCH VI ...
      This is a tremendously well-done presentation – easy to understand and extremely accurate.   Better yet, it explores SOLUTIONS, rather than just focusing on the problems. Keep in mind as you watch this, that Mariner Eccles, the ARCHITECT of the corrupt and non-sustainable Federal Reserve S ...
    • The Final Judgment – Israel and Organize ...
      Read the book online at:  http://www.scribd.com/doc/47546468/7/Chapter-Fifteen Is it “hate mongering” to simply write the truth?   Are you a “Jew-Hater” simply because you expose the links to Jewish Mafia Kingpin Meyer Lansky and his role in the formation of the modern-da ...

    du la bab - Now is the Time

    Mansbridge One on One - CBC

    • Ken Dryden, NHL Hall of Famer (Jan 7, 2012)
      Hockey and the hits: it's been a season where a lot has been said about headshots, concussions and suspensions. How much has the game really changed, and what is at stake for its future? One of the games great players of the past, one of its most passionate observers of the present, takes on tho ...
    • Malcolm Gladwell (Dec 31, 2011)
      Renowned author wraps the critical events of 2011.
    • The Mansbridge Conversations 2011
      Highlights of Peter's interviews of the year, including conversations with Jack Layton, Olivia Chow, Nicole Williamson, Malcolm Gladwell and others.
    • NAGUIB SAWIRIS
      Peter sits down with Egyptian businessman and politician Naguib Sawiris ahead of the country's first free elections about his hopes for and disappoinment in Egypt's Arab Spring
    • Shawn Atleo - National Chief of the Assembly o ...
      In the wake of the crisis in Attawapiskat First Nation, Shawn Atleo discusses the future of Canada's Abroiginal communities.

    Scotts Contracting

    • I took the Energy Star Pledge Have You?
      Twitter <—- Find Me —> Facebook Web Site: http://stlouisrenewableenergy.com scottscontracting Job Site Photo Album Green Blog Related articles New Company Website for St Louis Renewable Energy (scottscontracting.wordpress.com) Do Squirrels and Rabbits Ravage Your Garden? (sco ...
    • Garden Screen Protector-City Garden
      How I plan to protect the back-yard vegetable garden from the Birds, Squirrels, Rabbits, and other malicious garden destroying animals. Deer Block Mesh supported by: 1/2 Metal Conduit Related articles Do Squirrels and Rabbits Ravage Your Garden? (scottscontracting.wordpress.com) New vegetable ga ...
    • 2012 Election Poll-What are the Issues that re ...
      What are the 5 most Important Issues in the upcoming election to you and your family. Created March 23, 2012 Compare the Results of the 2010 Election Poll to the Issues of today- Poll Results from 2010 Election Issues 2010 Election (created Oct 28, 2010)-What issues are most important to you and ...
    • Do Squirrels and Rabbits Ravage Your Garden?
      Varmit Garden Screen Protector Designed and Built by Scotts Contracting will protect your precious vegetables from the Vermin. Garden Screen Protector Available at Scotts Contracting Sunday March 18, 2012 Planted Back Yard Garden Gambling on Spring Weather Conditions First Plants to Germinate Ma ...
    • Help Support Renewable Energy in St Louis
      Because, it’s healthier for the environment and people than pollution from power plants? Because a diverse energy portfolio protects ratepayers from steep rate hikes and fosters competition that keeps electric rates low? Or because installing solar panels and wind turbines creates good jobs that ...

    The View From Abroad

    Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

    Law.com

    Iranian.com

    Most Revolutionary Act

    • Lone Nut Theory vs Routine Night Pacification
      Since the appearance of a March 27th article by sociology professor James Petras on numerous websites (see The Afghan 17 and the Obama Cover-up), I have been closely following the dispute between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and the Obama administration over the number of shooters in the Mar ...
    • The Real Source of Greek Debt
      Debtocracy: the Greek documentary (This is the last of three posts about the new female head of the IMF, which the business press is promoting as a “rock star of the economic world,” and how we are being deceived about the real cause of the debt crisis in Europe.) The free Greek docu ...
    • The IMF’s Fairy Tale Princess
      IMF chief Christine Lagarde (This is the second of three posts about the new female head of the IMF, which the business press is promoting as a “rock star of the economic world,” and how we are being deceived about the real cause of the debt crisis in Europe) LaGarde isn’t wi ...
    • Giving Capitalism a Feminine Face
      IMF head Christine Lagarde (This is the first of three posts about the new female head of the IMF, which the business press is promoting as a “rock star of the economic world,” and how we are being deceived about the real cause of the debt crisis in Europe) Historically the IMF and ...
    • END:CIV Resist or Die
      END:CIV Resist or Die 2011, directed by Franklin Lopez Free (Creative Commons) download at: http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/end-civ-resist-or-die/ Film Review END:CIV, according to the promo, “examines our culture’s systemic addiction to violence and environmental exploitation.& ...

    Michael Moore - Must Read

    • Worker Ownership for the 99%: The United Steel ...
      For release:     March 26, 2012                                          &nb ...
    • The End of Men
      Excerpted from Stupid White Men ...And Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation by Michael Moore EARLIER THIS YEAR, my wife and I attended the baptism of our new nephew, Anthony. Our teenage daughter had been asked to be his godmother, a job that would require her to be there for little ...
    • Michael Moore Tweets About Rush Limbaugh's "Ap ...
      Rush Limbaugh issues a rare (if ever?) apology: mmflint.me/zvDYzY I didn't know there was anyone on earth who had the power to tell Rush what 2 do. But then there's Bain Capital, financiers of Clear Channel I guess Romney knew that Rush, who made the mistake of saying what most Republicans thi ...
    • Q&A on New Rules for Best Documentary Academy ...
      Thank you for your feedback on our new rules for Academy Award voting and eligibility. We are pleased so many of you have welcomed these changes. Some of you, though, still have some questions. Due to some stories in the media that did not explain the new rules correctly or fully, there is a li ...
    • THOUSANDS OF NURSES & SUPORTERS TO MARCH AT G8 ...
      RNs to be joined by Occupy, Global Community Reps, Union Activists to Stop Demise; Speculation Tax is Starting Point to Address Economies in Demise, say Nurses and Allies   Nurses from across the U.S., joined by union, healthcare, Occupy Wall Street and other community activists, as well as ...

    Salon

    SMB News

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

    Toronto Star - Editorials

    Energy Collective

    • Experience with Energy Storage Technology Is T ...
      It is clear that new innovation is needed to bring down the cost of energy storage and that the innovation must produce technologies and systems that are different than what we use today. But in looking for that innovation and trying to promote it, it is important to identify from where it is m ...
    • Mississippi Residents Find Death Along Oily Gu ...
      Since BP’s catastrophic oil blowout nearly two years ago, Laurel Lockamy has gotten pretty good at photographing the dead. She’s snapped images of dozens of lifeless turtles and dolphins, countless dead fish, birds, armadillos and nutria and pretty much anything that crawls, swims or f ...
    • 'Drill, Baby, Drill' Gains In US Polls
      You might think rising gasoline prices at a time of flat demand and surging domestic oil production would convince Americans that we need to find alternatives to oil. But no. A new survey shows the public increasingly tilting toward doubling down on oil, on the apparent assumption that if t ...
    • Closing in on Climate Tipping Points
    • German utilities retreat from U.K. new build
      E.ON and RWE pack it in for Wylfa and Oldbury

    EU Times

    • Uruguay ready to barter rice for Iran oil
      Uruguayan Agriculture Minister Tabare Aguerre says his country is ready to export rice to Iran in exchange for Iranian oil in the face of the US-led unilateral sanctions on Tehran. “If Iran is willing to barter oil for rice we will do it and we will take out currency from (the operation),& ...
    • Russia Goes On Alert As China Coup Fears Escalate
      President Medvedev today took the unprecedented step today of putting the Federal Security Service (FSB) on its “highest maximum alert” over fears the Communist Party leadership in China is fast losing control over its internal police and military forces leading many Russian intelligence analyst ...
    • US Navy may deploy Laser Cannons in 4 Years
      The US Navy hopes to have operational laser cannons on their ships within the next four years. They will be used against fast-moving targets like cruise missiles, speedboats and drones. ­The Navy hopes to have a working prototype for the futuristic laser weapon within two years, Wired reports. “ ...
    • Australia warns Israel against strike on Iran
      Australia has joined the list of countries that have warned the Israeli regime against any military strike on Iran, a report says. According to Israeli Haaretz newspaper, Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Bob Carr, in a phone conversation with his Israeli counterpart Avigdor Lieberman, has voi ...
    • NDAA in court over indefinite detention of Ame ...
      After much debate on a new law signed by President Barack Obama, House Republicans are throwing around the idea of reviewing the National Defense Authorization Act after the law was challenged in court. Seven witnesses appeared in front of US District Judge Katherine Forrest in New York on Thurs ...

    Stonecipher News

    Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

    • Arsenal alerted over £6M Bilbao star
      Arsenal could potentially snap up Athletic Bibao winger Markel Susaeta for just £6 million this summer, according to The Sun . But is there any need for the Gunners to pursue the Bilbao star? Well the 24-year-old only has a year left to run on his current deal and although he is rated at around ...
    • Sarah Palin Is Co-Hosting The Today Show
      In what is certainly just a bid for ratings, it’s been announced that Sarah Palin is co-hosting the Today Show sometime next week. It was announced on the show’s website, along with the promise that Sarah will “reveal a different side of her than you’ve seen before.” This is all happening, prob ...
    • Obama And Romney Announce Plans For Unity Campaign
      Word out of Washington this morning that President Obama and Mitt Romney have decided on a national unity campaign for 2012. The Democratic ticket will be Obama/Romney while the GOP ticket will be Romney/Obama. Joe Biden will reportedly take over the Department of Defense. Details to follow in ...
    • Boston Red Sox Notes: Rotation Set, Andrew Bai ...
      We are only a few days away from the season where the Boston Red Sox will undoubtedly be looking to take the field and forgot about their performance last season. One of the last steps before doing that is setting the MLB 25-man roster; let's take a look at news and notes around Red Sox camp... ...
    • Katy Perry Dress at 2012 Nickelodeon Kids Choi ...
      Katy Perry Kids Choice Awards 2012 27-year old Katy Perry wore a a neon green outfit with matching peep toe heels on the orange carpet at Kids’ Choice Awards in Los Angeles on Saturday March 31st, 2012. Her sports bra-like top looked like it was dripping with slime, and she topped her look with ...

    Groklaw

    • Oh, great, a patent for toiling on the go
      [PJ: For those who imagine that the US patent system is simply wonderful, the American Way, etc., look at this patent that just issued to Novell, "Techniques for multilingual password challenge response, password reset, and/or password recovery", patent No. 8,132,265, invented by Jay D. Wootton ...
    • Yahoo! Facebook! litigation! trips! patent! tr ...
      I experienced the same thing back in 2002 when I joined Novell. At the time Novell, much like when Baio joined Yahoo!, was in the process of trying to turn itself around. Not long after I joined we acquired Ximian, then SUSE, and tried to reinvent ourselves as an open-source powerhouse. In tand ...
    • Hackers can steal credit card data from used X ...
      Hackers can reportedly retrieve credit card data and other personal information from old Microsoft Xbox 360s. Even if the console is restored back to factory settings and its hard drive is wiped, researchers say they can pull off the feat. Ashley Podhradsky, Rob D'Ovidio, and Cindy Casey of Drex ...
    • A Round Up of ALL of Googles April Fools Jokes ...
      Fifth, a lesser known option, Google now lets you change the weather! I could use this here in San Francisco, miserable.... Seventh, Click-To-Teleport, a Chrome extension that allows potential customers to instantly teleport to a gl t 220x136 A Round Up of ALL of Googles April Fools Jokes. Fair ...
    • Why Google isnt worried about Android revenue
      Money is nice. But Android was a defensive move on Google's part, and one that wasn't primarily motivated by desire for revenue or profit.... Android is the only thing that has prevented Apple from completely taking over the mobile market. All Google ever hoped to do was provide a shell-shocked ...

    WideShut

    Politics in the Zeros

    • Ray Wylie Hubbard. Drunken Poet’s Dream
    • Estonia has free wifi everywhere. Yes, Estonia
      For the geographically-challenged. Estonia. (google maps)A musician friend emailsI’ve spent a lot of time in foreign countries touring over the past 5 years. About 70 weeks, in fact. When we were in Estonia in 2009, I was astonished that we had access to free wifi everywhere.In addition to ...
    • Why pick on TSA?
      Circus poster, Omaha, Nebraska, November 1938. John Vachon, American. ( Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.)First, let’s take a look at what they say they found during the period between March 16th and 22nd, 2012: Firearms: 29: 21 loaded; 8 unloaded 3 artfu ...
    • Chrome Multitask Mode
      Chrome Multitask Mode lets you browse the web with multiple cursors at the same time, so you can get more done, faster. Welcome to the ambinavigation revolution.
    • Virgin Volcanic
      The team behind Virgin Volcanic believes going to the core of the five most active volcanoes is just the first step. In future this technology can be developed as a clean, safe and fast alternative to trans- continental commercial aviation. By taking the heat from molten lava Virgin Volcanic pla ...

    TVNZ - Top Stories

    Just World News

    • JWB's fab titles--in C'ville Saturday, and glo ...
      For all JWN readers in the Greater Charlottesville area-- do come by the VaBook book fair that runs tomorrow, 9am-4pm, at the Omni Hotel. Tell your friends to come, as well! You can see and buy copies of all the fabulous titles published by my company, Just World Books, including the two latest: ...
    • Powerful, intimate memoir from Israeli peace a ...
      The countdown clock is now ticking fast, toward the publication of Miko Peled's amazing and powerful memoir, The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine. The book traces Miko's journey from being born, in 1961, into a family that was part of the core of the Jewish-Israeli elite to, now ...
    • Quick notes from Penn BDS conference
      The conference was an outstanding success! Everyone involved in organizing it-- and most of us who spoke at it-- have all been extremely busy; so I'm really sorry that we don't have much more, and richer, reporting on the events out already. But expect more great reporting of the conference to c ...
    • What's new in the publishing biz!
      ... is Just World Books's new webstore, which gives us global reach for distributing books from, as of now, three different print/distribute hubs... I am really excited about this development. I've been trying for a while to figure out a way to escape Amazon's large and greedy clutch, and I thi ...
    • Pro-Israeli discourse suppressors desperately ...
      It is almost amusing to see the lengths to which the pro-Israeli discourse suppressors here in the United States have been going to try to rebuild the long-crumbled "Bar-Lev Line" with which, over decades past, they sought to protect Israel from being the subject of any free, fair, and fact-base ...

    frogblog

    • General debate, March 31, 2012
    • National and Act’s local government agenda is ...
      The decisions councils make, how they invest and spend rates and other revenue and how they control land and water use can help or hinder a sustainable future and a fairer society, and affect our  quality of life – whether  it’s easy to bus or bike to work, to recycle, or use a swimming pool [...]
    • Huawei the real problem.
      The Green Party is calling for an investigation into Huawei, the Chinese corporation that has contracts to supply parts for the Ultra-Fast Broadband and Rural Broadband Initiatives after Australia blocked them from participating in their broadband project.
    • Will privatising energy companies improve the ...
      The National Government has used the government deficit and debt to justify the privatisation of assets. As I pointed out in an earlier blog, the deficit and debt problem has been made much worse as a result of this Government’s very poor revenue and spending decisions. But does privatising the ...
    • MMP review submission guide
      If you're thinking of submitting to the MMP review, and you'd like to be heard in person, look sharp! There’s only a week left to get your submission in (deadline 5 April). If you just want to make a written submission, relax, you've got until 31 May. We’ve created a submission guide that outlin ...

    Patronus Analytical

    J Kozy

    • Is Adam Smith's a Pickpocket
      Economists use the law of supply and demand merely to provide suppliers with an excuse for raising prices and picking consumer's pockets.
    • Economic Models and the Apologetics of Greed
      Economists build models by subtracting from reality the characteristics they deem unessential to the economic situations they model. The result is a bare bones description consisting of what economists deem economically essential. Everything that is discarded (not taken into consideration in the ...
    • The Crisis of Education in America: "How to Be ...
      Educational systems now train workers to fulfill the needs of companies. A society in which people exist for the sake of companies is a society enslaved. But there's a deep problem with the notion that education should equal vocational training. To paraphrase a very famous and renowned pers ...
    • Instruments of Repression
      For a society to be well governed, it's laws must be just and moral. The Ancients knew that "Those who are rightly governed . . . do not fill their porticoes with written statutes but only cherish justice in their souls; for it is not by legislation, but by morals that states are well direct ...
    • The Why of Not Doing the Right Thing: The Amer ...
      The unfairness of American society is being recognized by many. Eighty-nine percent of Americans say they don't trust their government; Congress has a mere 9% approval rating; America's financial institutions are widely considered to be corrupt; the Occupy movement has emerged, some are seek ...

    Dr. Mercola Natural Health

    • 40 Women With Breast Cancer Had This "Cosmetic ...
      By Dr. Mercola New research has detected the presence of paraben esters in 99 percent of breast cancer tissues sampledi. The study examined 40 women who were being treated for primary breast cancer. In 60 percent of cases, five of the different esters were present. Parabens are chemicals w ...
    • They Outnumber Your Cells Ten to One but Resea ...
      By Dr. Mercola Probiotics, along with a host of other microorganisms, are so crucial to your health that researchers have compared them to "a newly recognized organ." In fact, your microflora – a term used to describe the bacteria, fungi, viruses and other microbes that make up your microbia ...
    • Why is this Organic Food Stuffed With Toxic So ...
      By Dr. Mercola Last December, the U.S. National Organic Standards Board, an expert panel that advise the USDA Secretary on organic matters, narrowly approved Martek Biosciences Corporation's petition to allow the use of their genetically modified soil fungus and algae as nutritional supplemen ...
    • Obvious to You -- Amazing to Others
      Do you know people who have amazing, fascinating, brilliant ideas? You may be one of them yourself.
    • What Hospitals Won't Tell You - Vital Strategi ...
      By Dr. Mercola Dr. Andrew Saul has over 35 years of experience in natural health education, and holds a number of certificates for teaching clinical nutrition. He's a recipient of the Citizens for Health Outstanding Health Freedom Activist Award, and was named as one of the seven natural he ...

    JAMA

    Survival - tribal peoples

    • Revealed: how Ethiopia's plantations are killi ...
      Efforts to re-direct the Omo River for irrigation are drying up a key water source for tribes. © Survival New photographic evidence proves Ethiopia’s controversial plantations scheme is killing the Lower Omo River, a lifeline for 100,000 tribal people. The Omo River downstream from ...
    • Sri Lankan park guard kills tribal man
      A Wanniyala-Aetto family. The tribe want to return to their land in Maduru Oya National Park. © Survival A Sri Lankan park guard has shot dead a young man from the Wanniyala-Aetto tribe for hunting on his people’s ancestral land. Local sources say Thalawarige Sunila was hunting inside the ...
    • UN body says Brazil violating indigenous rights
      Kayapó Indians dance at an anti-dam protest © Terence Turner The International Labour Organization (ILO), part of the UN, has criticized the Brazilian government for failing to respect indigenous peoples’ rights. The ILO has stated that by failing to consult Indians about the construction ...
    • Killed by ‘progress’: uncontacted manhunt reme ...
      Erui pictured in 2012, and his wife Bajo photographed just after she was captured in 1986. © Survival Ayoreo Indians have publicly marked the 25th anniversary of Paraguay’s last manhunt, in which over two dozen of the tribe’s members were captured, and five killed. The US-based fundamental ...
    • Papuan leaders imprisoned for treason
      Indonesia's brutal crackdown on last October's peaceful rally claimed many victims. © Tapol/Down to Earth/West Papua Media Five Papuan leaders have been found guilty of treason and sentenced to three years in prison by a court in Papua’s capital, Jayapura. Forkorus Yaboisembut, E ...

    Montreal Gazette

    • The Gazette's view, in short
      The legality of putting up a poster in Montreal is currently in a grey zone. In 2010 the Quebec Court of Appeal struck down the city bylaw that forbade postering on public spaces. And yet the very interdiction struck down by the court is upheld in the city's cleanliness bylaw that bans postering ...
    • Public has a right to know how money is spent
      It took seven long years of pressing the issue, but city hall has finally released documentation that The Gazette had been seeking on the financing of the FINA World Aquatics Championships that Montreal hosted in the summer of 2005.
    • A cautious, workmanlike budget with few surprises
      Opposition parties will have a hard time scoring points off the Conservative government's federal budget.
    • The fiscal and economic case against Gentilly 2
      The time is approaching when the provincial government will have to decide whether to proceed with the renovation of Quebec's lone nuclear-power generating station or take the thing down.
    • Ottawa must move carefully on prostitution ruling
      No court in Canada can visit prostitution laws without the spectre of Robert Pickton emerging from the shadows.

    Food World Order

    • The Schmallenberg Virus: DARPA and The Fraunho ...
      from gutbrainmanipulation.blogspot.ca: The Schmallenberg virus is the name that has been given to the collective cases of lamb, sheep, goat and cattle still births and birth deformities that have spread at an alarming rate across a large part of Europe.  The spread of the so called virus is ...
    • Maple syrup-pocalypse arrives 20 years early
      from grist.org: Maple syrup farmers have “never seen a season like this,” and as a result, maple syrup production has cratered. If you like the stuff, it’s time to start stockpiling it. Scientists have been saying that maple syrup production could be devastated in 20 to 30 years, but this season ...
    • #Video: Episode015 - Homeless Virus, Tacocopter
      On Thursday nights, Media Monarchy joins Corbett Report Radio live on Republic Broadcasting to go over all the latest stories from the world of food, environment and health. This week's menu features Homeless Virus, Tacocopter and more... Feed/Archive Previous Video: Episode014 - ...
    • #Audio: Episode015 - Homeless Virus, Tacocopter
      On Thursday nights, Media Monarchy joins Corbett Report Radio live on Republic Broadcasting to go over all the latest stories from the world of food, environment and health. This week's menu features Homeless Virus, Tacocopter and more... Episode015: MP3/Feed\Archive Previous Audio: ...
    • #BingeAndPurge: Pre-Chewed, Tacocopter and Str ...
      Annie's Leaps in IPO As Investors Clamor for Mac And Cheese* Solera Capital-backed Annie’s raises $95m through IPO* US Suspends Food Aid to N. Korea Over Missile Plans* Study: Disorientation from pesticides a clue to bee disorder* CDC sees autism rate rise 25%* SCOTUS throws out h ...

    CrusadeWatch

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

    Whole Truth Coalition

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

    The Economic Collapse

    • The 15 Trillion Dollar Party
      If you knew that you could live in luxury for the rest of your life but that by doing so it would absolutely destroy the future for your children, your grandchildren and your great-grandchildren would you do it?  Well, that is exactly what we are doing as a nation.  Over the past ...
    • Everything Is Going To Be Alright?
      Is the U.S. economy going to be okay?  Well, if the only source you listened to was the mainstream media, you would be left with the distinct impression that the U.S. economy is heading toward a full recovery and that everything is going to be alright.  Unfortunately, that is not ...
    • A Cashless Society May Be Closer Than Most Peo ...
      Most people think of a cashless society as something that is way off in the distant future.  Unfortunately, that is simply not the case.  The truth is that a cashless society is much closer than most people would ever dare to imagine.  To a large degree, the transition to a cashl ...
    • 20 Signs That We Are Witnessing The Complete C ...
      What do you do when an entire nation begins to lose the capacity to think rationally?  Many Americans spend a great deal of time criticizing the government, and there is certainly a lot to complain about, but it is not just the government that is the problem.  All over America, p ...
    • Bernanke Claims That The Fed Has Averted A Sec ...
      Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke claims that the Federal Reserve averted a second Great Depression by bailing out the big Wall Street banks during the last financial crisis, and he says that if a similar financial crisis comes along that the correct "policy response" will be ...

    CASSE

    The Talking Clock

    • Dave in drag: ZaNuTories have PM now strutting ...
      So, the country is up in arms yet again today. This time, it is something even more devastating than the humble Cornish pasty which has everyone animated. When we say 'everyone', a glance around corporate media comment pages and reactions on social media suggest that the Coalition's reboot of ...
    • Sunday Paper Review: 1st April 2012
      It may be 'April Fool's Day' but we'll try to keep away from spaghetti trees and other such tomfoolery and, instead, concentrate solely on the political fools who are grabbing this Sunday's news headlines. The Sunday Telegraph has seen a draft report by the European Scrutiny Committee which i ...
    • Scotland, Cruddas and the pro-EU Tories
      Reports are emerging that Peter Cruddas - embroiled in the row over "access for donations" to Prime Minister David Cameron - has been secretly recorded on tape suggesting that the Conservative Party have no genuine interest in maintaining the union between Scotland and the rest of the UK. The ...
    • German economic analyst: "Spain will blow up t ...
      We have been rather overtaken with news in the last couple of days so had little time to mention the austerity riots which happened in Spain. Now, we love Spain. We love the Spanish people, their culture, the way of life. Indeed, talking about Spain is like talking about a good friend. So ...
    • Quote of the Day: 31st March 2012
      "I’m happy with the idea of UKIP eating away at our poll rating and even of UKIP winning the European elections in 2014. Frankly I think that is the best thing that could happen to our party." - Words attributed to a a Tory politician in a column by Paul O'Flynn for the Daily Express

    Facing South

    CenterLine

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

    Short Sharp Science

    Tech Drive In

    • Top 10 Free Apps Designed for Android 4.0+ ICS
      Android 4.0 code named Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) was released more than three months ago. Google's own Galaxy Nexus is perhaps the only device that ships with it at the moment. And because of that, there are only a handful of Android apps available whose design has been updated for Android 4. ...
    • Canonical Integrates Landscape with Ubuntu 12. ...
      Canonical launched Landscape system management tool without much fanfare sometime ago. Now, in a most recent update, they have integrated Landscape with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, again without much hoopla. In line with a recent move by Canonical integrating handy Privacy Management tool into Ubuntu 12 ...
    • Ubuntu 12.04 Features a New Easily Configurabl ...
      I am not sure if this "new" option was already available from the beginning. I noticed it in my Ubuntu 12.04 LTS beta only recently and when I checked, it was not available in the previous Ubuntu 11.10 release either. Of all the new features that has been added to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, I ...
    • 15 Most Creatively Designed Android Apps: Part 2
      As I did promised earlier on, here is the sequel for the post that introduced you to some of most innovatively designed apps for Android. 15 more of them to be precise. Official TED app for Android was released just a day ago. It is a cleverly designed app with ingenious additions l ...
    • Oil Rush RTS Game Becomes Ubuntu's Most Downlo ...
      Linux is no stranger to high value paid apps. But gaming has always been Linux's Achilles heel. Things are slowly changing with the arrival of a number of top-notch games into Linux through Ubuntu Software Center. Software Center may not be an Android Market in terms of quality or quant ...

    Case About Bird Flu

    • MAINSTRAM MEDIA REPORTS SWINE FLU JAB LINKED T ...
      The mainstream media has reported on a Finnish study showing that cases of  mnarcolpesy shot up 17 times among children who took the swine flu vaccine. There are reports in The Telegraph, The Independent, The Irish Independent and the Daily Mail. Dr Rebecca Carley predicted just such an autoimmu ...
    • Huge increase in autism in the USA linked to v ...
        PUBLISHED: 19:45 GMT, 29 March 2012 | UPDATED: 09:00 GMT, 30 March 2012 Daily Mail Autism cases appear to be on the rise again in the United States, but experts say the country’s highest ever rate could be a result of wider screening and the disorder’s expanding definition. Th ...
    • Court Hears arguments In Lawsuit Against Obama ...
      Judge asks government lawyers if NDAA can be used on ordinary citizens Steve Watson Prisonplanet.com March 30, 2012   A Federal court in New York heard arguments Thursday for a preliminary injunction against the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the bill signed by Obama that legisl ...
    • Two thirds of Irish households refuse to pay b ...
      Just over 30% or 600,000 of the 1.8 million eligible households in Ireland have so far paid a new €100 household charge, reports the Irish Independent. The number of people paying the tax is bound to increase before the deadline tomorrow. But the refusal of two thirds of the Irish households to ...
    • IT IS TIME TO END OUR PRIVATISED MONEY SYSTEM
      As the eurozone faces financial meltdown, it’s important to recall there is a solution. A really simple one. The eurozone just needs a central bank or a state bank which creates money and puts it into circulation without charging interest. 97% of the money currently put into circulation in the e ...

    Invisible Opportunity

    • The Music of My Spheres and the End of Fear
      By Les Visible I realize how strange I appear to many readers; hearing voices, having the perspectives that I do, being aggressively demonstrative about governments and individuals, as well as established religions. I consider all of these, so mentioned, as part of the infrastructure of the shit ...
    • The Soft Stool Brigade on Batshit Mountain
      By Les Visible Think about it, these psychopaths murder hundreds of thousands, millions… and they don’t bat an eye. In most cases they do it simply to advance business interests. These lives are nothing more than numbers on documents. Far more people have been killed by the sweep of ...
    • Moonbathing on the Banks of the River Styx
      By Les Visible There are very strange things going on and figuring out why this is happening, is the job of persons better equipped for the effort than me. Something weird is going on over at Veterans Today. Something weird is going on with longstanding alternative web sites and their level of d ...
    • Studies show how pesticides make bees lose the ...
      By Kate Kelland LONDON | Thu Mar 29, 2012 7:42pm BST (Reuters) – Scientists have discovered ways in which even low doses of widely used pesticides can harm bumblebees and honeybees, interfering with their homing abilities and making them lose their way. In two studies published in the ...
    • CDC: U.S. kids with autism up 78% in past decade
      The number of children with autism in the United States continues to rise, according to a new report released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The latest data estimate that 1 in 88 American children has some form of autism spectrum disorder. That’s a 78% increase ...

    Veterans Today

    • The price we pay for a civilized country…
      The Coyote of the east came where the people were and asked Old Man where he came from. Old Man told him from three worlds down below and also told Coyote how he came up, also saying “If you (Coyote) are a clever man, I will teach you all we know about our religion, etc.” So he taught him everyt ...
    • Reason and Rationality in Public Debate: The ...
      By Jim Fetzer*     I would like to make it clear that Pilots For 9/11 Truth do not endorse the No Plane Theory nor the article mentioned in the OP.  I personally have not read the article in detail, nor do I intend to. People are free to make their own choices. – Rob [...]
    • Church Leader Tells Palestinians and Israelis ...
      An appalling shallowness has descended over Mainline Protestantism.
    • Sunday Night, April Fools Day, 2012
      Fools Isn’t the Half of It As We Review the Week’s Intel   By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor   This will be a rambling take on “plots” along with some of what is going on that won’t be entirely public.  The big story is Zimmerman, which has officially gotten o ...
    • Thomas Friedman’s “Festival of Lies&#822 ...
      In truth the U.S. has not and does not give a damn for either good government or good behavior in the Middle East. What it cares about are governments that cooperate with us in terms of trade, acceptance of Israel and now hostility toward Iran.

    electric politics

    • The Future Is Not What It Used To Be
      Listening to Ed Asner I'm reminded of Michael Polanyi's observation (to paraphrase) that we believe more than we can prove and know more than we can say. Polanyi also talked about "growing points" in science, which I hope has an analogue in a free society where personal connections become more i ...
    • The NUMEC Affair
      No charges were ever filed. Nothing was ever proved. But the FBI tried, over the course of several criminal investigations, to ascertain whether, in fact, certain suspect individuals had diverted hundreds of pounds of highly enriched uranium from a plant in Pennsylvania to Israel, for use in mak ...
    • Washington's Warlords
      When it comes to its spending priorities America seems congenitally unable to focus on reality. Obfuscation being more highly prized than clarity. Nevertheless, we should recognize that as a percentage of GDP this country spends four to five times the money for military purposes as do other indu ...
    • The Taiping Civil War
      In the middle of the 19th century a civil war in China killed at least twenty million people. The war totally changed the course of Chinese history, of Asian history and, indeed, of world history. Just think: if the Taipings had won and followed through with their modernization program, and Chin ...
    • It Takes A Generation To Raise A Prophet
      In theory, churches should be more active than they are these days in pursuing Justice and Peace. So why aren't they? Where were they on Iraq? Where are they now, on Iran? What do churches have to say about universal health care? Or income and wealth inequality? Or, for that matter, out of contr ...

    PR News

    A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

    Field Notes - Alberta Environment

    Stop NATO

    • Missiles, Wars, Nuclear Arms: 500 Protesters A ...
      Agence France-Presse April 1, 2012 Peace activists in failed bid to swarm NATO HQ BRUSSELS: Hundreds of peace activists on Sunday tried in vain to break into the headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation in Brussels, with 483 of them arrested by police. The demonstration, organised ...
    • West, Gulf Cohorts Push Syrian Power Monopoly ...
      Xinhua News Agency April 2, 2012 Legitimizing Syria’s opposition a devotion of power monopoly ==== Washington will offer another 12 million U.S. dollars in humanitarian aid for Syria’s embattled population, and will also provide communication equipment to help opposition forces evade ...
    • NATO: U.S.-Led Global Military Alliance With 7 ...
      NATO: U.S.-Led Global Military Alliance With 78 Members and Partners   The 28-member North Atlantic Treaty Organization officially lists the following 40 nations as partners. With the 22 members of the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council, all but Russia are also members of the Partnership for ...
    • NATO’s New Battlefield: Pakistan
      Dawn March 31, 2012 Salala report Selected and translated by Zaheer Mahmood Siddiqui Dozens of Pakistani troops were martyred or injured in a barbaric attack by US-led Nato helicopters on the Salala check post…[T]he US military has obstinately put the entire blame on Pakistani troops in th ...
    • Namibia: NATO, EU Flexing Military Muscles Eve ...
      The Namibian March 28, 2012 China-Country Must Close Ranks – Speaker Gurirab “The world belongs to us all, not only them,” commented National Assembly Speaker Theo-Ben Gurirab, criticising what he called NATO and the European Union (EU) “flexing their muscles everywhere i ...

    Before It's News

    Intel Hub

    • Lawyer for Soldier Accused of Afghan Slaughter ...
      The Intel Hub By Madison Ruppert April 1, 2012 John Henry Browne, the attorney for Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, the man accused of single-handedly massacring 17 Afghan villagers, is now accusing the United States government of “an almost complete information blackout” which is blocking him from ...
    • U.S. Ambassador: al Qaeda Could Plan Another 9 ...
      The Intel Hub By Madison Ruppert April 1, 2012 According to Ryan Crocker, the American ambassador to Kabul, if the United States does not continue to occupy Afghanistan, al Qaeda would be able to plan and carry out another September 11, 2001-style attack. Of course, this is hindered by the fact ...
    • Will U.S. Troops Fire On American Citizens?
      Avalon & Shepard Ambellas | Who would believe that in the year 2012, one would have to ask if the U.S. Military would fire on American Citizen’s? The question of troop involvement in an upcoming Martial Law scenario that is being predicted is no imaginary possibility – nor is it a ‘con ...
    • F5 Tornado Slams Fort Knox; Rooftop Hole Revea ...
      The Intel Hub | A category F5 tornado struck a direct blow to the Ft. Knox gold reserve yesterday, peeling back the roof of the famous gold vault and revealing row upon row of empty shelves and bare floors to a WRON helicopter camera crew as it surveyed damage just hours after the storms pa ...
    • Sheriff Arpaio: Obama’s Documents Are Amateur ...
      Obama’s Records Are Missing + Mike Zullo, Jerome Corsi Full Interviews. Infowars.com March 31, 2012 The Obama records which have not been released include; Passport records, Obama kindergarten records, Punahou School records, Occidental College records, Columbia University records, Columbia thes ...

    FRS

    • Neighbors Spying on You? New Program Spreading ...
      By Uzma Kolsy , Salon, March 31, 2012 http://www.alternet.org/story/154772/neighbors_spying_on_you_new_program_spreading_across_the_us_takes_neighborhood_watch_to_scary_new_level Crime in Los Angeles is a gritty enterprise, and donning an LAPD badge has historically involved getting your hands d ...
    • Philippines: Mindanao press reports large grow ...
      NPAs in Mindanao up 20 percent By Edwin G. Espejo GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/28 March) – The communist-led New People’s Army (NPA) in Mindanao has grown in numbers over the last two years, according to rebel spokesman Jorge Madlos, a.k.a. Ka Oris. “We have formed additional platoons and incr ...
    • Philippines: “People’s war in Mindanao i ...
      Statement on the 43rd Founding Anniversary of the New People’s Army Jorge Madlos (Ka Oris) Spokesperson, NDF-Mindanao March 29, 2012 The revolutionary movement in Mindanao has comprehensively advanced in the last five years and more so in the first two years of the US-Aquino regime in all sphere ...
    • The Hoodie & The Hijab — Our Common Struggle f ...
      March 25, 2012 Written by: RoyaAziz http://www.dominionofnewyork.com/2012/03/25/the-hoodie-the-hijab-our-common-struggle-for-human-rights/#.T3XNj9WepRT As a good friend prepares to put together a book on the topic of hijab in America I referred her to an incident during then-Senator Barack Obama ...
    • The Hoodie & The Hijab — Our Common Struggle f ...
      March 25, 2012 Written by: RoyaAziz http://www.dominionofnewyork.com/2012/03/25/the-hoodie-the-hijab-our-common-struggle-for-human-rights/#.T3XNj9WepRT As a good friend prepares to put together a book on the topic of hijab in America I referred her to an incident during then-Senator Barack Obama ...

    Ken O'Keefe

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

    StillSmallVoice

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

    Associated Content

    • Suspect Arrested in Capitol Suicide Bombing Plot
      After a year long undercover sting operation, federal authorities arrest Amine El Khalifi on attempting a suicide attack on the U.S. Capitol.Contributor: Kathrine Ayers Published: Feb 18, 2012
    • Foster Friess' Cheap Birth Control Pill Makes ...
      Foster Friess, a 71 investor who has given money to Rick Santorum’s presidential campaign, got himself and his candidate in a little trouble for his take on the birth control controversy, according to Reuters.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Feb 18, 2012
    • President Obama's Approval Rating on the Rise, ...
      The political climate is becoming sunnier for President Barack Obama, according to a new CNN/ORC International poll. The poll, released Feb. 15, shows Obama's approval rating is up to 50 percent, the highest it has been in eight months.Contributor: Tamara McRill Published: Feb 15, 2012
    • Colombian Singer Shakira the Latest Victim of ...
      Latin pop diva Shakira got up close and personal with sea lions in Cape Town, South Africa. CBS News recounts a sudden sea lion attack by one of the animals previously submerged in the water. Are sea lion attacks on humans common?Contributor: Sylvia Cochran Published: Feb 15, 2012
    • Budget Proposal Sparks Republican Opposition
      President Obama introduced a budget plan during an address to college students.Contributor: Alethea Pape Published: Feb 13, 2012

    Popsci - Science

    • This Week in the Future, March 26-30, 2012
      This week's Baarbarian illustration reminds us that just as last week we were up in the air, we've spent the last five days with our heads under the sea. Not as far under as James Cameron, but, you know, nobody's ever been that far under, by themselves, at least. And...segue...have a nice weeken ...
    • The Most Amazing Science Images of the Week, M ...
      A well-rounded lineup of amazing imagery for you guys this week: there's an elephant with a phone and a monkey with a cold (animal requirements: fulfilled). There's a shot of the space shuttle in space, and one of the SpaceX capsule on the ground (space requirements: fulfilled). There are perfum ...
    • Images of the Week, March 26-30, 2012
    • Where Are Henry David Thoreau's Plants Now?
      A literary-scientific project tracks the change in New England plantlife from Thoreau's journals to today It is astonishing how soon and unexpectedly flowers appear, when the fields are scarcely tinged with green. Yesterday, for instance, you observed only the radical leaves of some plants; to- ...
    • Fossilized Raindrop Dimples Add to Mystery of ...
      Pumice-like cratery indents formed by ancient raindrop splats are adding to the mystery of why the adolescent Earth was warm enough to host rivers and oceans, despite the dim sun of the day. Thanks to fossilized impressions from rains that fell down on Africa 2.7 billion years ago, the "Faint Yo ...

    Veterans Today

    • The price we pay for a civilized country…
      The Coyote of the east came where the people were and asked Old Man where he came from. Old Man told him from three worlds down below and also told Coyote how he came up, also saying “If you (Coyote) are a clever man, I will teach you all we know about our religion, etc.” So he taught him everyt ...
    • Reason and Rationality in Public Debate: The ...
      By Jim Fetzer*     I would like to make it clear that Pilots For 9/11 Truth do not endorse the No Plane Theory nor the article mentioned in the OP.  I personally have not read the article in detail, nor do I intend to. People are free to make their own choices. – Rob [...]
    • Church Leader Tells Palestinians and Israelis ...
      An appalling shallowness has descended over Mainline Protestantism.
    • Sunday Night, April Fools Day, 2012
      Fools Isn’t the Half of It As We Review the Week’s Intel   By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor   This will be a rambling take on “plots” along with some of what is going on that won’t be entirely public.  The big story is Zimmerman, which has officially gotten o ...
    • Thomas Friedman’s “Festival of Lies&#822 ...
      In truth the U.S. has not and does not give a damn for either good government or good behavior in the Middle East. What it cares about are governments that cooperate with us in terms of trade, acceptance of Israel and now hostility toward Iran.

    War is Business

    Hudson's Weather & Climate

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

    Internat'l Political Economy

    • Got Fission? Debating Nukes 4 Development
      Our colleagues over at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists sent me a notice about a timely new feature of theirs concerning LDCs considering the adoption of nuclear power (the Atomic Scientists maintain the well-known Doomsday Clock). The impetus for doing so should be familiar to everyone: in ...
    • Money Talks? Bahrain GP Still On (Fortnight to Go)
      Some have hunger games; Formula One has, well, anger races.  There has been a lot in the news about how the Formula One circus will not be disrupted this year alike how last year's Bahrain Grand Prix was postponed then finally cancelled due to the events of the so-called Arab Spring. Durin ...
    • Globocop No More: United States After Unipolarity
      LSE IDEAS has been churning out special reports at such a furious pace that I almost forgot to mention this one concerning The United States After Unipolarity. The title pretty much sums up what the contributions here say, although the various contributors do question the extent to which the--pa ...
    • Tired of the World Bank? Enter BRICS Dev't Bank
      You hoped that the IMF and the World Bank would reflect more of the changes in the world economy by giving more input and leadership to major emerging economies. But, as the IMF succession process proved and the current World Bank "search" (stitch-up is the more accurate term) is proving, Wester ...
    • Did Global Financial Crisis Curb Carbon Emissions?
      In a rather disappointing word, no. Intuitively, you may have expected worldwide carbon emissions to drop given a slowdown in global economic activity. However, it is a tale of two different worlds--the Global North (developed nations) and the Global South (the developing nations). While the lik ...

    Economic Collapse Blog

    • The 15 Trillion Dollar Party
      If you knew that you could live in luxury for the rest of your life but that by doing so it would absolutely destroy the future for your children, your grandchildren and your great-grandchildren would you do it?  Well, that is exactly what we are doing as a nation.  Over the past ...
    • Everything Is Going To Be Alright?
      Is the U.S. economy going to be okay?  Well, if the only source you listened to was the mainstream media, you would be left with the distinct impression that the U.S. economy is heading toward a full recovery and that everything is going to be alright.  Unfortunately, that is not ...
    • A Cashless Society May Be Closer Than Most Peo ...
      Most people think of a cashless society as something that is way off in the distant future.  Unfortunately, that is simply not the case.  The truth is that a cashless society is much closer than most people would ever dare to imagine.  To a large degree, the transition to a cashl ...
    • 20 Signs That We Are Witnessing The Complete C ...
      What do you do when an entire nation begins to lose the capacity to think rationally?  Many Americans spend a great deal of time criticizing the government, and there is certainly a lot to complain about, but it is not just the government that is the problem.  All over America, p ...
    • Bernanke Claims That The Fed Has Averted A Sec ...
      Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke claims that the Federal Reserve averted a second Great Depression by bailing out the big Wall Street banks during the last financial crisis, and he says that if a similar financial crisis comes along that the correct "policy response" will be ...

    Infoshop - Alt Media

    E U Times

    • Uruguay ready to barter rice for Iran oil
      Uruguayan Agriculture Minister Tabare Aguerre says his country is ready to export rice to Iran in exchange for Iranian oil in the face of the US-led unilateral sanctions on Tehran. “If Iran is willing to barter oil for rice we will do it and we will take out currency from (the operation),& ...
    • Russia Goes On Alert As China Coup Fears Escalate
      President Medvedev today took the unprecedented step today of putting the Federal Security Service (FSB) on its “highest maximum alert” over fears the Communist Party leadership in China is fast losing control over its internal police and military forces leading many Russian intelligence analyst ...
    • US Navy may deploy Laser Cannons in 4 Years
      The US Navy hopes to have operational laser cannons on their ships within the next four years. They will be used against fast-moving targets like cruise missiles, speedboats and drones. ­The Navy hopes to have a working prototype for the futuristic laser weapon within two years, Wired reports. “ ...
    • Australia warns Israel against strike on Iran
      Australia has joined the list of countries that have warned the Israeli regime against any military strike on Iran, a report says. According to Israeli Haaretz newspaper, Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Bob Carr, in a phone conversation with his Israeli counterpart Avigdor Lieberman, has voi ...
    • NDAA in court over indefinite detention of Ame ...
      After much debate on a new law signed by President Barack Obama, House Republicans are throwing around the idea of reviewing the National Defense Authorization Act after the law was challenged in court. Seven witnesses appeared in front of US District Judge Katherine Forrest in New York on Thurs ...

    Voiceless Victim

    • Taste of justice at last for state victims, bu ...
      The most horrifying evidence in recent weeks from a West Australian inquiry into the reign of terror of convicted serial child rapist Dennis McKenna at the head of a state run hostel at Katanning is not about the abuse itself, but about the complete and utter betrayal of dozens, possibly hundred ...
    • Catholic Church has no business policing itself
      Below are some excerpts from this week’s Report of the Inquiry into Protecting Victoria’s Vulnerable Children (Australia) demolishing some of the Catholic Church’s favourite excuses for its appalling record on child endangerment. Thankfully the inquiry refused to be fooled by t ...
    • How Many Dead Children Are Too Many?
      An average of 50 children die from drowning in Australia every year. This figure is considered unacceptably high. Generously funded multi million dollar public education campaigns called Swim and Survive and Swim Kids aim to teach children about water safety in order to bring that shocking numbe ...
    • Italy acknowledges Vatican unworthy of unfair ...
      The new Italian Prime Minister, Mario Monti, has responded to a petition by 130,000 citizens to end unfair tax-free perks for the Catholic Church’s commercial enterprises. Promising to reverse the trend which in the past saw anti-competitive and possibly illegal special privileges for the ...
    • Aspiring Aussie PM Sacrifices Truth and Church ...
      Kevin Rudd, former, and aspiring future Australian Prime Minister demonstrated on Friday that he is prepared to prostitute himself, the truth, and the victims of church violence against children in order to deliver a minor political miracle and shore up his hopes to oust Julia Gillard from the P ...

    WL Central

    • From Social Media to Moral Awakening; Bradley ...
      TweetOriginal picture by Nikhil Kirsh, Creative Rendering by idlewild606 James Madison once said, "Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives". Madison recognized that accurate knowledge is es ...
    • 2012-03-31 #WikiLeaks News Update & Upcoming E ...
      Tweet WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 483 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 480 days. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 677 days. WikiLeaks News: The Australian Government recently renewed its attacks against Wik ...
    • Polish CIA prison: political influence on the ...
      TweetPM Donald Tusk has now commented on the investigation into the CIA black site in Stare Kiejkuty. According to news agency PAP, he is constantly in touch with President Bronisław Komorowski and General Prosecutor Andrzej Seremet regarding the matter. He added that the prosecutors investigat ...
    • Polish CIA prison: Secret Service reveals file ...
      TweetThis article is solely based on publicly available information. The author of this article is not and never has been affiliated with WikiLeaks, and does not have, and never had inside information on their operations. The article reflects the views of the author only. The former head of the ...
    • Australian Prime Minister Stares Into The Abyss
      Tweet"Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Nietzsche. A cautionary tale from Julian Assange's birthplace of Townsville, where Australian Labour Party (ALP) MP Mandy Johnstone just lost power in the recent Queensland ...

    U N News

    • Recent death of gay man highlights need for an ...
      The United Nations human rights office today urged the Government of Chile to pass a law against discrimination, including on grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity, following the recent killing of a young gay man in the capital, Santiago.
    • UN concerned over funding for humanitarian ser ...
      The United Nations and the Government of Haiti today voiced concern over a lack of resources to fund humanitarian services that are still required to help people in the Caribbean country recover from recent crises, including the 2010 earthquake and the cholera epidemic, and enhance preparedness ...
    • UN development chief hails Haiti's progress tw ...
      The United Nations development chief today commended Haiti's progress in rebuilding its capital, Port-au-Prince, two years after a devastating earthquake rocked the country killing 200,000 people.
    • Haiti receives advice from UN economists on at ...
      United Nations economists have provided the Haitian Government with advice on a new investment strategy to help the country attract financing to rebuild infrastructure and boost economic development.
    • Guatemala: UN rights chief underlines need to ...
      Guatemala has made progress in the fight against impunity and human rights abuses, but the country must tackle the tremendous challenges that remain to become a State based on democracy and the rule of law, says the United Nations human right chief.

    Conspiracy Reality TV

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

    Rewilding Institute

    • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – A Root o ...
      Life is good. Many-fold, tangled life is better. Many-fold, tangled life not hobbled by Man’s will is best. What do I mean? By “life is good,” I am not writing a television commercial about sitting with your buddies in front of a widescreen TV for a Superbowl party with Budweiser while wives and ...
    • Don’t Flush Tiger Forests
      The toilet paper on your grocery store shelves may have a direct impact on the 400 Sumatran tigers left in the wild. Learn more about how you can help through World Wildlife Fund and make a pledge to never buy paper products linked to rain forest and tiger habitat destruction.    
    • NASA – NASA Finds 2011 Ninth-Warmest Year on R ...
      NASA – NASA Finds 2011 Ninth-Warmest Year on Record.
    • Open Pipes Are Killing Birds and Other Wildlife
      This issue made the news last fall, but we thought it would be good to keep the topic active and to remind our readers to look around for real and potential hazards to our wild friends. Bird Death Pipes “Hollow metal and plastic (PVC) pipes and posts are found throughout the world and serv ...
    • Paul S. Martin, Pleistocene Ecologist: Colleag ...
      Seven science colleagues present tributes to Paul S. Martin, 1928 – 2010: Jim King, Geoff Spaulding, Gary Haynes, Alberto Burquez, Tom Van Devender, David Burney, and Connie Barlow (plus, Paul’s son, Tom Martin). The outdoor memorial service was held on the University of Arizona&#821 ...

    Asia Sentinel

    We Know the Lies

    • Exposed... Goldman Sachs Owns Top Sex Traffick ...
        So good it must be true! Nicholas Kristof unearths yet more dirt on the banksters at Goldman, in the New York Times... read more
    • Current TV Gives Keith Olbermann the Boot Clai ...
        The Cable network Current TV has fired Countdown host Keith Olbermann claiming he sabotaged the network announcing plans to replace him with Elliot Spitzer. ~ Video read more
    • Death Penalty Drugs Given Deadly Blow
        U.S. imports of sodium thiopental - often called the “truth serum” – have been banned by a judge because of the poor quality of imports, particularly from the UK. The ruling has struck a serious blow against the death penalty in the U.S., because of the key role the drug plays in let ...
    • When Ignorance is Not Bliss... Sharia Law
        Speaker Gingrich has had the courage to call Sharia what it is: “...inherently brutal -- defined by oppression, stonings and beheadings...” For his courage, Speaker Gingrich needs to be praised, not criticized.  The evidence of stoning and beheading women for the mere accusation o ...
    • 9 Things That Will Disappear In Our Lifetime.
        Something to think about... Whether these changes are good or bad depends in part on how we adapt to them. But, ready or not, here they come... read more

    Tarpley

    Modern Survivalism

    • Earthquakes 2012
      Here is some of the latest earthquake information regarding, Recent Earthquakes Earthquake Prediction Earthquake Damage Earthquake Preparedness and 2012 earthquakes. We will be keeping this updated throughout the year will the latest information and statistics, so bookmark this page and check ba ...
    • New IRS Powers To Revoke Citizen Passports
      In yet another slash at American liberty, the Senate has passed a bill giving the power to the IRS and the State Department to revoke a US citizen’s passport if it is believed (not proven) that the taxpayer owes more than $50,000 in back taxes. Bill S. 1813 might as well be named the Passp ...
    • 100% Inflation – 90% Stock Crash – ...
      Billionaire Donald Trump and best selling author and money manager Robert Wiedemer just predicted the market is going to get much, much worse. “This is no recovery,” he says [Wiedemer]. “And this is no ‘down cycle’ that will soon be followed by a reliable ‘up ...
    • Veggie Chili From Your Food Storage
      I thought I would share with all of you a great chili recipe that you can make by using some of your food storage and either fresh vegetables from your garden or dehydrated vegetables. For those of you that are having tough times during this ‘recession’, this recipe will provide you ...
    • HUGE .40 Caliber Ammo Contract for DHS
      The headline reads, “ATK Secures .40 Caliber Ammunition Contract with Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (DHS, ICE)”. And here’s the real eye-opener… “…Ammunition Contract with 450 Million Round Potential…” Ye ...

    Fast Company

    • Six Powerful Web Tools For Getting Unusual Thi ...
      The web still hasn't become its own operating system but, man, parts of it are close. Take these surprisingly powerful and useful app-like websites, for example.Do you remember how web browsers worked in 1998? Even back in the days of dial-up, Microsoft was so worried that your browser might rep ...
    • Who (Or What's) Best At Predicting March Madne ...
      When it comes to predicting March Madness winners, who knows best: experts, algorithms, or the crowd?An estimated 45% of Americans will fill out an NCAA tournament bracket this year. That’s more than the number of people who voted in the 2010 midterm elections. And until the clock strikes 1 ...
    • Fancy Hands' On-Call Army Of Personal Assistan ...
      You don't have to be a Hollywood mogul to have someone do mind-numbing tasks for you. Just ask Ted Roden. Three years ago, Ted Roden was sitting in a maternity ward with his wife and newborn baby when he came to a realization. Between his full-time job as a New York Times developer, the book he ...
    • Top 10 Most Popular Stories Of The Week
      Here are the stories you read, shared, tweeted, and pinned this week. This week’s stories primarily focused on charisma, creativity, breaking norms in the workplace, and stunning design. You will find some great advice and varying perspectives in the articles below. Enjoy. 1. 7 Entrepren ...
    • Post-"Entourage," Adrian Grenier Brews Beer, S ...
      Adrian Grenier doesn't mind if you call him Vince. But he'd also like you to call him a community builder who has some big ideas about turning media culture into a positive way to engage teens. Oh, and he thinks you should try a little of his retro-inspired beer. Let's get a little better acquai ...

    Jadaliyya

    • Political Imaginaries in Saudi Arabia: Revolut ...
      The contemporary Saudi-led counterrevolution, fierce as it has been throughout the Arab world, is perhaps most relentless inside the Kingdom’s own borders. US-trained and armed security forces have been dispatched more thoroughly throughout the country to thwart any potential signs of pu ...
    • Migration: The Arabian Gulf story
      When I arrived in the Gulf fourteen years ago, my perception of this region was the same as that of millions of other migrants, that this is a place where we can easily earn enough to achieve financial freedom. But over the years, a different gulf has been haunting my thoughts: that betw ...
    • The Draft Anti-Terrorism Law in Saudi Arabia: ...
      In July 2011, Amnesty International published a leaked copy of the draft Saudi Arabian Penal Law for Terrorism Crimes and Financing of Terrorism. This Anti-Terror Law, which grants the Ministry of Interior unprecedented levels of authority and discretion in intelligence gathering, polici ...
    • Revolutionary Junctures: Documenting the Yemen ...
      The two films presented here, “One day in the heart of the revolution ” and “Another day in the heart of the revolution,” provide snapshots of the Yemeni uprising in 2011. As a filmmaker, I wanted to show Yemenis who have taken to the streets, the ordinary citizens who fought for change ...
    • الحركات السياسية في البحرين: الماضي والحاضر وا ...
      ‎قبل عام واحد، دعا ناشطون على الإنترنت إلى "ثورة ١٤ فبراير" على جزيرة البحرين الصغيرة. وقد تثير الإحتجاجات المستمرة دهشة البعض، ولكن تاريخ الحركات السياسية في البحرين وفي الخليج العربي طويل ويمتد إلى مئات السنين. ولوضع هذه الحركات في السياق، من الضروري أن نتعمق في هذا ال ...

    mediagazer

    • A Shooting, And Instant Polarization (David Ca ...
      David Carr / New York Times: A Shooting, And Instant Polarization  —  What seemed like a single shooting incident in a midsize Florida city — the killing in February of Trayvon Martin — now threatens to divide a country.  How did that happen?  —  ...
    • How Blogs, Twitter and Mainstream Media Have H ...
      Journalism.org: How Blogs, Twitter and Mainstream Media Have Handled the Trayvon Martin Case  —  Almost immediately after the February 26 shooting of Trayvon Martin, the conversation about the case began simmering on Twitter.  But it was nearly three weeks later, on March 1 ...
    • Booking Battle at the Morning Shows (Brian Ste ...
      Brian Stelter / Media Decoder: Booking Battle at the Morning Shows  —  Set your alarm clocks for 6:59 a.m., America.  —  On Monday morning, “Good Morning America” on ABC will have Katie Couric; “CBS This Morning” will have Oprah Winfrey; a ...
    • Legitimate News Source Ditches Credibility for ...
      Louis Peitzman / Gawker: Legitimate News Source Ditches Credibility for April Fool's Fun  —  For a brief moment, Google News' top story was “Romney Drops Out of Race, Endorses Santorum.”  This is decidedly untrue — but hey, it was published by Forbes, so i ...
    • NUJ: statutory reform of press regulation has ...
      Paul McNally / Journalism.co.uk: NUJ: statutory reform of press regulation has become ‘inevitable’  —  Journalists' union also calls for communications bill to tackle issue of who regulates websites belonging to a broadcaster or newspaper publisher  —&nbsp ...

    Chemtrail News

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

    World News - Top Stories

    • Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari to vi ...
      Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari will travel to India later this month, officials say, as tensions ease between the nuclear-armed neighbours. Mr Zardari will visit, in a private capacity, the shrine of a...
    • Vietnam still struggles with puzzling cas ...
      Vietnam might have contained the fatal bird-flu outbreak that raged in the late 2000s, but it is still struggling with new cases of the disease that have puzzled experts. Since January, bird-flu outbreaks have occurred in 14 provinces. About 65,000 chickens and ducks have died or been culled ...
    • Fast food can push you into depression, s ...
      SHARE AND DISCUSSTweet MADRID: Eating fast food such as hamburgers, hotdogs and pizza and even baked items could send you into a tailspin of blues. A recent study by scientists from the universities of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Granada, Spain,...
    • Dubai Earth Hour 2012 celebrations saved ...
      DUBAI - Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has announced that Earth Hour 2012 celebrations held in Dubai on Saturday night attracted overwhelming support from all sectors of the community and achieved a record saving rate of 216,000 KW/h and 130,000 kg Carbon Emission to mark the s ...
    • Boonen wins record equalling third Tour o ...
      AFP - Belgian cyclist Tom Boonen won the one day classic Tour of Flanders for a record equalling third time here on Sunday. The 31-year-old - previously a winner in 2005 and 2006 - beat home Italian duo Filippo Pozzato and Alessandro Ballan in a...

    no frakking consensus

    • Earth Hour Organizers Prey on Mexico
      Mexico is crippled by corruption, violence, and poverty. But the World Wildlife Fund wants it to show leadership on climate change.
    • The Enormous CEO Salaries Behind Earth Hour
      Earth Hour isn't a volunteer, grassroots operation. The World Wildlife Fund pays its US and Canadian CEOs so handsomely they are part of the economic elite - the top 1% of income earners.
    • Earth Hour: Corporations Preaching Morality
      When you dim your lights for Earth Hour, you're protesting in a manner approved by multinational corporations. You're allowing banks and insurance companies to tell you how to spend your Saturday night.
    • The Wealthy Corporations Behind Earth Hour
      Earth Hour was brought into this world by corporations. Fairfax Media Limited - whose newspapers, magazines, and radio stations are supposed to report impartially on environmental issues - owns one-third of this annual green event.
    • The Royal Society’s Blatherfest
      A Royal Society-hosted conference is being billed as a gathering of scientists. I guess that's why politicians, bureaucrats, musicians & political activists will be there in full force.

    Anna's News

    • National Parks at Risk: Photos
      National parks represent our country's last stronghold of wilderness. But the large majority of parks are suffering, too.Ninety-five percent of parks assessed in a recent study have lost key species that once helped define them. Meanwhile, 91 percent .... Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals &nbs ...
    • Suicide rates in Europe 'linked' to financial ...
      The financial crisis "almost certainly" led to an increase in suicides across Europe, health experts say.The analysis by US and UK researchers found a rise in suicides was recorded among working age people from 2007 to 2009 in nine of the 10 nations...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Well ...
    • Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerela - Richest in ...
      For the past one week, the Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerela has been in the news because of the huge wealth found in its secret crypts.The Padmanabhaswamy Temple is the most famous Lord Vishnu temple in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerela. It is bel ............ Submitted by Anna Smith to World  |& ...
    • South Sudan becomes an independent nation
      South Sudan has become the world's newest nation, the climax of a process made possible by the 2005 peace deal that ended a long and bloody civil war.Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon are among international dignitaries Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...
    • 10 Ridiculous But Compelling Twitter Feuds
      Like all social networking sites, Twitter can be a wonderful outlet to share your feelings and views, but it also leaves plenty of room for offensive comments and bullying. Whether it's the empowerment of being behind a computer or the wide-reaching...... Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...

    Medical Marijuana

    • 3/30/12 - Health Care Reform
      healthcarereform.procon.org - Health Care Reform ProCon.org - On Mar. 27, 2012, we updated the core question to include the term "Obamacare" because that label has become widely used to reference the Mar. 2010 health care reform laws by both critics of the health care changes and proponents, ...
    • 3/29/12 - 2012 Presidential Candidates Quiz
      2012election.procon.org - 2012 Presidential Candidates Quiz - Take our compatibility quiz to find out which candidate is the best match for you. We've updated the questionnaire with five new questions on felon voting, the Keystone XL pipeline, oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ...
    • 3/29/12 - Teaching creationism in schools
      2012election.procon.org - Should creationism and Intelligent Design be taught as science in schools along with evolution? Santorum is Pro, and Gingrich, Obama, Roemer, and Romney are Con.
    • 3/29/12 - Military force against Iran
      2012election.procon.org - Should the US use military force if Iran does not dismantle its nuclear program? Paul is Con, and Gingrich, Obama, Romney, and Santorum are Pro.
    • 3/29/12 - ANWR drilling
      2012election.procon.org - Should drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) be allowed? Obama is Con and Gingrich, Johnson, Paul, Roemer, Romney, and Santorum are Pro.

    Truth About Our World

    Gyrovague's Raves

    • Writers Replying to Reviewers?
      Arthur Krystal Many writers, especially younger ones, regard other people’s books as an opportunity to enhance their own reputations. What better way to show off one’s own wit, erudition, and verbal artistry than to debunk someone else’s? And if you can look good at some poor w ...
    • Karl Marx
      Capitalism has subjected the country to the rule of the towns. It has created enormous cities. Capitalism has agglomerated population, centralised means of production, and has concentrated property in a few hands. Capitalism has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-i ...
    • Originality of the species
      A frenzied desire to be first inspired Darwin and Einstein to bursts of creativity. Like writers and artists, scientists strive to have their names attached to a work of brilliance, but any breakthrough depends on the efforts of countless predecessors. Ian McEwan reflects on originality and coll ...
    • Green tea could mask testosterone doping
      Peter Aldous ATHLETES who cheat by doping themselves with testosterone may be able to mask their actions by drinking green tea. Large quantities might even provide a legal performance boost by raising levels of testosterone in the blood. Abuse of testosterone is hard to spot because the steroid ...
    • The Big Lesson of a Little Prince
      Maria Konnikova  My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The Child is father of the Man; I could wish my days to be … Read more

    In Verbena | Royal Society

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

    NAU Resistance

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

    Gaea Times

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

    TruthNews Australia

    • Insider trading 9/11 ... the facts laid bare
      Is there any truth in the allegations that informed circles made substantial profits in the financial markets in connection to the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, on the United States? Arguably, the best place to start is by examining put options, which occurred around Tuesday, September ...
    • How Full-Body Scanners Work – and Fail
      TSA has been introducing full-body scanners to perform a virtual strip search of air travelers. Although technically travelers have the right to opt out, the TSA discourages this behavior with aggressive and invasive pat-down searches. Initially, TSA denied punitive pat-down searches. Then they ...
    • Total Body Scam? — Taking your money and freed ...
      Was it just me? Was I the only one who noticed a tiny announcement in February that Airport Scanners were coming to Australia, the land where terrorists haven’t landed (yet), and … wait for it… there would be no (NO!) — opt — out– clause. Did I hear that cor ...
    • We will not be scanned!
      In today's show we bring you an interview from the Rule of Law radio show with Hereward Fenton, who discusses the health, privacy and civil liberties issues of body scanners with Deborah Stevens. Hereward talks about the introduction of body scanners in Australian airports which are due to go ...
    • TSA threatens media not to cover story exposin ...
      The engineer who reported on serious flaws in body scanner technology now reports that journalists are being warned not to cover the story. I’ve been on the phone all day for the last 2 days with reporters and journalists of all kinds, including the big bad MSM, and one South Florida rep ...

    Beacon

    • A Better Way to Farm Fish
      An aquaculture operation. © Oceana/Juan Cuetos Almost half of the world’s seafood now comes from fish farms, which can have significant environmental effects. Because so many fish are confined to such a small place, aquaculture can lead to high levels of pollution and outbreaks of diseases. ...
    • Arctic Drilling Could Start as Early as July
      The Beaufort Sea. [Image credit: NOAA via Wikimedia Commons.] In the past 60 days Shell Oil, the global oil and gas company headquartered in the Netherlands, has received two permits from the U.S. government approving their Chukchi Sea and Beaufort Sea spill response plans. This is shocking b ...
    • Deep-sea Coral Sickness Linked to Gulf Oil Spill
      Deep-sea corals. © NOAA Even more sad news from the Gulf of Mexico, but this time it runs a mile deep. A new study confirms that the oil that likely caused deepwater coral sickness indeed came from the largest accidental oil spill in history, the Deepwater Horizon. Back in June 2010, deep-s ...
    • Blowout Causes North Sea Gas Leak
      Gas has been leaking into the United Kingdom’s North Sea for three days, after an attempt to close an underwater oil well caused a blowout. Oil drilling accidents happen more often than you might think. Smaller spills and leaks don’t usually make the news, although they can still affect the loc ...
    • ‘To The Arctic’: Sneak Peek
      We’re excited to be a partner of “To the Arctic,” a new IMAX film by MacGillivray Freeman coming out April 20. The film, narrated by Meryl Streep, follows a mother polar bear and her two seven-month-old cubs as they navigate the changing Arctic wilderness they call home. Extraordinary footage b ...

    Civilian Military Intelligence Group

    • After Spending A Year on Patrol In Different P ...
        By SCOTT SHANE WASHINGTON — On his second yearlong deployment to Afghanistan, Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis traveled 9,000 miles, patrolled with American troops in eight provinces and returned in October of last year with a fervent conviction that the war was going disastrously and that senior ...
    • The Nazi Who Refused To Be A Nazi.
        This photo was shot in 1936 in Hamburg, at a Nazi rally. August Landmesser was a soldier who finally could no longer countenance the teachings of the Nazis. His grand children found this photo of him refusing to give the Nazi salute. He had also been in jail for marrying  a Jewish woman. ...
    • UFO Sighting In Japan, 1606 AD
        May 1606, Kyoto, Japan   Near Nijo Castle, Many people, including Samurai warriors watched in amazement as balls of fire were seen flying over Kyoto. One night, a giant ball of light resembling  red wheel appeared and hovered over Nijo Castle.   Source: Micheal Bougard, La Chron ...
    • Tinker Tailor Soldier Professional Baseball Pl ...
        He was probably the best educated professional baseball player in history, with degrees from Princeton and Columbia University, which at the time was quite an accomplishment given that he was a poor Jewish kid from the inner city. His expertise lay in Romance Languages and he was fluent i ...
    • Phil Warren’s Amazing Matchstick Fleet.
        He’s almost 80 years old now. Yet he has pursued an odd artistic proclivity. He builds 1:13000 model ships entirely out of matchsticks and wooden boxes. In fact, he has assembled a fleet of 432 ships and 12000 aircraft. This Octogenarian Brit uses a razor blade, glue, matchsticks, tweezer ...

    Taylor Marsh

    • Progressive Notes: Women’s Rights Progressive ...
      Art offers his perspective as a movement progressive activist. There is a very important Democratic primary setting up in Michigan. It is congressional District 3, a working class district which at one time was represented by Jerry Ford. In the 2010 Tea Party wave a real hardcore conservative wo ...
    • Keith Olbermann and Al Gore’s Unseemlyly Dog Fight
      Okay, boys, zip it up. No one cares who did what to whom. There’s too much at stake to fuel energy into an oxygen suck that makes everyone look petty at a time when things are fairly serious. There’s nothing from the outside that could possibly break in at this point, with Olbermann& ...
    • Piers Morgan and Touré Interview Combat
      After a Twitter smackdown, CNN’s Morgan live tweets booking MSNBC contributor Touré, which leads to a serious discussion between the men. The Orlando-Sentinel reports other news that impacts the discussion, because it adds new facts to the case. As the Trayvon Martin controversy splinters ...
    • Mitt Romney Minute: On Leno Says Tough Luck if ...
      Art offers his perspective as a movement progressive activist. As this week’s epic SCOTUS hearing unfolded with the 5 Republican justices hammering away at the Affordable Care Act and Democrats freaked out about the ACA getting axed, a funny thing happened. The GOP contenders are now being ...
    • PRIVACY WATCH: CultofMac Busts Notorious ‘Girl ...
      Facebook has just released a statement to Cult of Mac, saying that they are currently investigating the app. We hope to have more details shortly. – CultofMac Aps are irresistible, but they are also insidious and if you’re a woman, something to watch. Girls Around Me is a standard ge ...

    Hudson New York

    • Italy: "Mosques Springing Up like Mushrooms"
      More than 250 mosques across Italy have reached an agreement to create a new umbrella organization, the Italian Islamic Confederation (CII). The CII will be controlled by Morocco, and will compete with an existing Muslim umbrella organization, the Union
    • Jihad in France Just Beginning
      The Congress of the French branch of the Muslim Brotherhood (UOIF) will take place in the city of Le Bourget, near Paris, from April 6-9. Over 100,000 participants are expected. Six anti-Semitic Islamic preachers who were invited to speak were denied
    • "Targeted Assassination" by the U.S. Security ...
      When President Obama wants to impress Jewish audiences, such as AIPAC, he frequently casts U.S.-Israel relations in a military context. How much military aid Israel receives (although he had nothing to do with the level; President Bush set the level in a
    • J.F.R. Jacob: A Man of Honor for Bangladesh
      Among the foreign friends whom Bangladesh awarded last week on the occasion of the 41st anniversary of its independence, for their leading role in liberating it in 1971, was a Jew, an Indian top ranking military official, Lt. Gen (ret.) Jack Farj Rafael
    • Salam Fayyad's Hypocrisy
      The Palestinian Authority government of Salam Fayyad, announcing this week the launching of the 2012 Award for Press Freedom, invited Palestinian journalists to submit their candidacy for the prestigious award, the first if its kind in the Palestinian

    Urban Survival

    • Lotto Madness
      We’ve had the discussion recently in our Peoplenomics reports about factors that may influence that slippery stuff called “luck.”  Today the Mega Millions jackpot is up over half a billion dollars.  ($540 million) and because of that you can expect … Continue re ...
    • Coping: A Friday Pep Talk
      I don’t get off the ranch much.  Time was, and this was back in “ought two,” people would look at me like I was a crazed nutjob for leaving the six-figure world and heading out.  A return in 2004 – … Continue reading →
    • Supco Mulls Healthcare
      Arguments are over and thinking time for the Supreme Court.  Talking to my consigliore who’s a well-schooled attorney, I think we settled on a 5-4 vote on the healthcare challenge as being the likely outcome on the Healthcare Bill challenge.  … Continue reading →
    • Coping: With the Ugly Side of Economics
      As I told Peoplenomics readers yesterday, I finally gave up on my long-term short position and called it a loss yesterday and took both cents and invested on the long side of things.  Even though the market is likely to … Continue reading →
    • Fresh Housing Data: Continued Weakness
      Hot off the .PDF maker is the new Case Shiller/S&P Housing report: “New York, March 27, 2012 – Data through January 2012, released today by S&P Indices for its S&P/Case-Shiller1 Home Price Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices, … Continue reading →

    Trends & Forecasts

    Radical Chic

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

    Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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

    NRDC Switchboard

    • Colorado farmers lose out to fracking companie ...
      Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. There's a very important story in today's Denver Post. According to the Post: "At Colorado's premier auction for unallocated water this spring, companies that provide water for hydraulic fracturing a ...
    • Pennsylvania Municipalities Fight Back: Seven ...
      Daniel Raichel, Legal Fellow, New York On Thursday, seven municipalities (the Townships of Robinson, Nockamixon, South Fayette, Peters, Cecil, Mount Pleasant Township, and the Borough of Yardley Bucks County), along with the Delaware Riverkeeper Net ...
    • Latin America Climate, Energy and Environment ...
      Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC Chile Energy Minister Rodrigo Álvarez quit his post unexpectedly, after agreements to settle the protests in Aysén were made without him. (La Tercera 03/27/2012) His deputy, Sergi ...
    • New study: No one knows how many accidents hap ...
      Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. The following is a guest post from NRDC Legal Fellow Matthew McFeeley: In a previous guest blog, I wrote about the risks posed by the lack of oversight of natural gas “gathering lines” i ...
    • From "Earth Hour" to "Earth Summit": Can we d ...
      Jacob Scherr, Director, Global Strategy & Advocacy, Washington, DC This Saturday March 31st, millions of people around the world will observe “Earth Hour” at 8:30 p.m.   As you’ll see in this awesome video, lights will be ...

    Injustice Everywhere

    • More Downtime
      Sorry folks, but my already substantial workload at my job just got tripled for a while, which means I won’t be able to run the news feed or generate daily reports for a few days. I’m hoping that things settle down by Monday and I can restart the news feed and reports then. Until [...]
    • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
      Here are the 14 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Tuesday, March 27, 2012: New York NY cop convicted of sexually assaulting school teacher at gunpoint, jury deadlocks on rape charge during what have been described as angry deliberations. [0 ...
    • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
      Here are the 11 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Monday, March 26, 2012: Kennett Square PA cop sentenced to 12.5-25yrs prison in plea deal for raping 4 young girls for several years [0] http://bit.ly/GTFc79 Rockaway Beach OR cop gets proba ...
    • Police Misconduct NewsFeed Weekend Recap 03-24 ...
      Here are the 11 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this weekend of March 24-25, 2012: 2 Niles MI cops are accused of using excessive force on a man who was distraught when paramedics wouldn’t let him ride with them while they took his mothe ...
    • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
      Here are the 17 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Friday, March 23, 2012: Huntington Beach CA sued alleging cops entered home w/o warrant, groped a woman while searching under her skirt, then used excessive force while falsely arresting two ...

    Total Collapse

    • North Korea fuelling rocket ahead of banned launch
      North Korea has begun fuelling a rocket for a launch seen by the West as a pretext for testing ballistic missile technology banned by the UN. The United States has suspended its food aid plan to the country. The country had begun inserting liquid fuel into the rocket, a diplomatic source told Ja ...
    • China, Russia plan naval war exercises next month
      China says it will join Russia in naval war games starting next month in the Sea of Japan and the Yellow Sea. The official Xinhua News Agency quoted Defense Ministry spokesman Yang Yujun as saying Thursday that the exercise will begin in late April and run into May. The specific locations were n ...
    • UK queen accused of drug trafficking
      Britain’s financial regulator has fined the British queen’s bank for money laundering failures as a French presidential candidate has said part of the queen’s fortune “comes from drug trafficking.” The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has fined the British queen’s bank, Coutts Bank, 8.75 milli ...
    • Shock Obama Move Gives All Water in America To ...
      An alarming new report prepared by the Federal Water Resources Agency of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment circulating in the Kremlin today states that United States President Obama has given control over all water in America to his military forces in what Russian officials deem ...
    • U.N. Policy Paper Outlines 7 Building Blocks f ...
      The fact that the world is being restructured from decentralized diversity to collectivized hierarchy by an authoritarian regime cloaked in green trappings can hardly be disputed. The final push toward the next and perhaps final phase may be announced this June at the 2012 U.N. Conference on Sus ...

    Daily Dose

    • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
      Twitter is encouraging “artful” engagement for TV execs. RIM says that it’s not pulling out of the consumer smartphone market. DuckDuckGo is climbing faster than ever in search queries. You...
    • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
      Apple’s Tim Cook did a Foxconn tour, while in China. Pinterest users are actually buying things, too. Time’s 100 list is a tech-fest this year. You can catch The Daily...
    • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
      Apple is offering iPad refunds in Australia. Tumblr has hit 20 BILLION posts. A Kuwaiti Twitter user is arrested for “blasphemous” statements. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday...
    • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
      Facebook might sue employers and others that are demanding your account passwords. Best Buy is rivaling Apple itself in iPhone sales. Congress requests information from iOS developers of social media...
    • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tech news in 5 ...
      Tim Cook is the first Apple CEO to visit China, a Japanese court tells Google to disable auto-complete, and Angry Birds Space gets off to an interstellar start. It’s all...

    Beyond Zero Emissions

    • The minister for tourism signs tourism industr ...
      Martin Ferguson, the Federal Minister for Resources Energy and Tourism and previous head of the ACTU, today signalled that the mining industry will take precedence over tourism and manufacturing, despite the enormous damage it is doing to these industries. In a speech in Brisbane today, Mr ...
    • The merit order effect – actually, it’s a good ...
      The Merit Order Effect, put simply, means lower electricity bills for consumers. That’s because it means lower-cost electricity in the wholesale market when additional renewables are introduced into the mix. The effect has been demonstrated in Germany, where they have very significant deploym ...
    • Worley base case baseless but coal seam gas st ...
      A new WorleyParsons report states that gas plants can have higher emissions than even the worst coal plants, but under-estimates the problem by relying on misleading assumptions. Understating the true level of coal seam gas (CSG) emissions will lead to massive gas fields being approved erroneous ...
    • Feature: Learning from Spain’s HSR success
      Australia has much to learn from the success of Spain’s Alta Velocidad Española (AVE) high-speed rail network, writes Matthew Wright, executive director, Beyond Zero Emissions. The Spanish know how to get around in style and at speed. The country can boast it has the most comfortable, fa ...
    • RenewEconomy: South Australia’s big win with wind
      Wind Power in South Australia has been a howling success; it now provides more electricity in the state than coal and in just a decade the wind industry has developed into one of the world’s leaders – and all to the benefit of South Australians. Back in 1998 when the National Electricity Market ...

    Monga Bay ( News )

    • Turkey's rich biodiversity at risk
      Turkey: the splendor of the Hagia Sophia, the ruins of Ephesus, and the bizarre caves of the Cappadocia. For foreign travelers, Turkey is a nation of cultural, religious, and historic wonders: a place where cultures have met, clashed, and co-created. However, Turkey has another wealth that is fa ...
    • As world bodies dally, private sector, local g ...
      Despite slow progress via the U.N. process and other intergovernmental bodies, national governments, municipalities, and the private sector are moving ahead with initiatives to measure and compensate the value of services afforded by ecosystems, said a leading forestry expert speaking on the sid ...
    • UN: wild teak forests declining
      Wild teak forests continue to decline, threatening genetic diversity, while commercial planted teak forests are on the rise, according to a new assessment by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Overall, teak forests have declined by 1.3 percent, or 385,000 hectares, worldwide from 1992 ...
    • Beyond Bigfoot: the science of cryptozoology
      Anyone who doubts cryptozoology, which in Greek means the "study of hidden animals," should remember the many lessons of the past 110 years: the mountain gorilla (discovered in 1902), the colossal squid (discovered in 1925, but a full specimen not caught until 1981), and the saola (discovered in ...
    • Brazil's indigenous affairs ministry: $32B car ...
      An apparent carbon deal between an Irish carbon trading company and an indigenous tribe that sparked outrage in Brazil is "invalid" according to the president of FUNAI, Brazil's indigenous affairs agency.

    Sierra Express

    • Need to launder Julius Maada Bio’s records
      Freetown, Sierra Leone – Current documents circulating the news corridor contain allegations that the current flag bearer of the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) is wrapped in some passport deals which Dr. Abass Bundu officially sold to foreign Chinese nationals who were using Sierra Leo ...
    • Hero’s welcome for Usu Boie
      Father of FAMBUL, Alhaji Usman Boie Kamara received a hero’s welcome in Freetown on Friday coming from a month long visit of his children and family members residing in the United Kingdom. The FAMBUL organization which comprises of indigenous trader groups in the Western Area crowned Usu Boie as ...
    • Official construction of Bankasoka Hydropower ...
      FREETOWN, April 2, 2012 – For many around the world, Kandeh Yumkella is the global citizen who heads the Vienna Based UNIDO agency and the man leading UN Secretary Ban Ki-moon’s energy access campaign; an initiative that seeks to achieve the goal of Sustainable Energy for All by 2030 by me ...
    • Land + Le 25Million Leone winner commends Airtel
      Winner of Airtel’s Prime Land and Le 25 million Friendzy star prize, Cecilia Kainessie has told Sierra Express Media’s Ngardi Lahai that the Friendzy competition was genuine.  (Photo: Cecilia Kainessie proud grand prize winner) Cecilia said it was shocking to learn that her name was tipped for t ...
    • Patriots storm debut march in Freetown
      At least a thousand Sierra Leoneans came out to mark a debut patriotic march in the capital Freetown on Saturday March 31.  Their attendance follows a clarion call by the Patriotic Sierra Leoneans organization to establish a sense of belonging and ownership of Sierra Leone. Different personaliti ...

    Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

    • Weather helps fatten Fonterra profit
      Highly favourable weather helped drive Fonterra's production up 10 per cent, more than offsetting weaker product prices and helping raise its net profit by 18 per cent to $346 million in the first half, the dairy giant said yesterday.Fonterra...
    • Fonterra boss outlines vision for dairy giant
      New Fonterra boss Theo Spierings has put his hand firmly on the tiller at the farmer co-operative with a strategy aimed at growing volumes and value, including a tighter focus on emerging markets.Dutchman Spierings has a record...
    • Fonterra shareholders slam dairy bill
      Fonterra's shareholders' council says the overhaul of the dairy co-operative's enabling legislation will end up regulating farmers' earnings and sapping the life from New Zealand's biggest export.The Dairy Industry Restructuring...
    • Units for sale by year's end
      The Fonterra Shareholders' Fund, which will allow non-farm investors to gain financial exposure to the dairy co-operative, is expected to be up and running by November or December, according to chief financial officer Jonathan Mason.The...
    • Dairy bill thin on numbers
      National's contentious Dairy Industry Restructuring Bill could be in trouble before it has barely surfaced with Act opposing a major aspect of it and no guarantee it has the numbers to pass.The Fonterra Shareholders' Council, representing...

    Hit & Run | Reason

    • Recommendation: Read Mark Dery, Soar With Winners
      Whether you're starting your spring break or just slacking off work for another week, there's no better way to wile away your idle hours than reading through Mark Dery's new collection of essays I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts.  I'm a Dery fan from way back, having run his Marx-by- ...
    • John Stossel on the Successes of Freedom in Ed ...
      "It shows how horrible things were, that it took this long for this eminently sensible thing to happen" said Fox Business host John Stossel of school choice in education. Stossel made a speech at Reason Weekend 2012, Reason Foundation's annual donor event, about the suc ...
    • Sheldon Richman on How to Think Like the State
      In the beginning ruling classes had a problem. Rulers could not know what they needed to know to do the job they wanted to do. Societies, even seemingly primitive ones, are complex networks held together by unarticulated—and largely inarticulable—know-how. That presents a formidable o ...
    • The Truth about Public Servants: Adrian Moore ...
      "The problem [with government workers] really is the unions," says Adrian Moore, who is Reason Foundation's vice president for policy. "These are organizations whose mission is to oppose the taxpayers and get a better deal for their members. That's their mission." A ...
    • Recovering America: Earning Less, Spending Mor ...
      Since Ben Bernanke the hero saved the global economy, things have been coming up roses for, well, nobody.  The Department of Commerce reports that Americans are spending far more than they are making. That’s good news, according to CNN:  [PNC economist Stuart] Hoffman said ...

    Mercury Rising

    • Kristof’s War On The Village Voice: Stil ...
      Nicholas Kristof, in the course of attacking a local and national competitor of the media empire that gives him his paychecks, tries yet again to smear the Village Voice (which has debunked his prior reporting time and again) as the Root of All Sexual Evil: THE biggest forum for sex trafficking ...
    • I Was Going To Do Another Post On ALEC And Its ...
      …but Sally Jo Sorensen wrote it for me and did a much better job than I could have or would have. Click here to see for yourself. Thanks, Sally Jo!
    • Comments on the Trayvon Martin case
      I’ve tried to be careful in judging this case, because so much of what we think we know is based on selective leaks, statements by people who do not have any independent knowledge of the case, and judgments reached on the basis of emotion. For example, it is certainly possible, as the righ ...
    • Comments on the Trayvon Martin case
      I’ve tried to be careful in judging this case, because so much of what we think we know is based on selective leaks, statements by people who do not have any independent knowledge of the case, and judgments reached on the basis of emotion. For example, it is certainly possible, as the righ ...
    • As usual, only one man can summarize the healt ...
      In its entirety: The following message was released today by the National Alliance of Funeral Directors: This week, several Republican Supreme Court Justices have argued that the Affordable Care Act supported by the Obama Administration is unconstitutional. At the National Alliance of Funeral Di ...

    Reality Sandwich

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