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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 II

A photo mosaic assembled by the White House Ph...A photo mosaic assembled by the White House Photo Office of President Barack Obama's first 100 days in office, from January 20, 2009 through April 28, 2009. Fox High School in St. Louis, Missouri. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
President Barack Obama's motorcade makes its w...President Barack Obama's motorcade makes its way from Baghdad International Airport Tuesday, April 7, 2009, toward Camp Victory in Baghdad, Iraq. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
A "family" photo at the G-8 summit i...A "family" photo at the G-8 summit in L'Aquila, Italy, July 9, 2009. First rank: Silvio Berlusconi, Giorgio Napolitano (president of Italy), Nicolas Sarkozy, Barack Obama, Lula, Hosni Mubarak (back) and Muammar Gaddafi. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Breastfeeding, Not Formula, for South Africa's ...
    South Africa's nine provinces will begin phasing out provision of free formula to HIV-positive mothers and implement a new policy on breast-feeding from Sunday. But despite the clarity of the policy and its supporting data, vocal critics, including respected individuals from leading medica ...
  • Women Pay for Kashmir's Water Woes
    Naseema Akhtar, 38, worries that her daily treks to collect clean water from the mountain springs around her village of Bonpora, in Kashmir's Kupwara district, are getting longer. She is already doing more than seven km every day.
  • Mubarak Cronies Find Comfort in Exile
    Wanted members of the regime of former president Hosni Mubarak remain at large more than a year since he was ousted, and their illicit wealth lies safely beyond the reach of prosecutors.
  • Rebels March Into New Libya With a Hangover
    A few hundred police cadets in ad hoc camouflage uniforms march up and down the grounds at a training centre in the coastal town Zawiyah. "You are the people protecting the revolution and symbol of our pride," proclaims the scrawled writing on the wall behind them.
  • Caribbean Private Sector Lags in Exploiting EU ...
    When Europe signed an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the Caribbean Forum countries in 2008, the intention was to boost trade and services between the two regions.

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

The Daily Galaxy

  • Countdown to Discovery of Alien Life: "10's of ...
    New data from the European Space Agency's (ESO) HARPS planet finder shows that rocky planets not much bigger than Earth are very common in the habitable zones around faint red stars. The international team estimates that there are tens of...
  • Today's Hot Tech News Video from IDG--Top Righ ...
    Today's hot tech news from IDG News Service (publishers of PC World, MacWorld, and Computerworld). 'The Daily Galaxy' content on the discoveries, people and events changing our planet and our knowledge of the Universe is brought to you daily by...
  • Weekend Feature: 'Lucy' Discovered to Co-Exist ...
    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...
  • From the X-Files Dept: Saturday's 'Comment of ...
    Gary Mckinnon hacked into NASA and found that they have an entire department dedicated to airbrushing artifacts out of NASA images. A smoking gun, in my opinion, for a huge cover up of other civilizations they don't care to tell...
  • Weekend Feature: When Dark Energy 'Turned On' ...
    Some six billion light years distant, almost halfway from now back to the big bang, the universe was undergoing an elemental change. Held back until then by the mutual gravitational attraction of all the matter it contained, the universe had...

Natural News

  • Eating more citrus fruit can lower your risk o ...
    The antioxidant flavonoid compounds found in citrus fruits like oranges and grapefruits offer protective benefits against blood clot-related strokes. These are the findings of a new study published in the American Heart Association (AHA) journal Stroke, and ones that...
  • Handle criticism and verbal attacks with these ...
    The initial anger, shock or fear that arises when verbally attacked seem to be automatic and hardwired for the average person. Once fear and resentment take hold, they quickly succumb to hatred. Thus, the Dark Side leads you into the eternal trap of fault finding. Soon...
  • Eliminating gluten from the diet can relieve b ...
    Brain fog is a real problem despite the lack of information in most medical and psychological texts. Brain fog describes mental confusion or a lack of mental clarity. People with brain fog have difficulty thinking clearly most of the time and in varying degrees. A morning...
  • Chinese herbal medicine is twice as effective ...
    In a review published in the December issue of the journal Complementary Therapies in Medicine, women receiving Chinese herbal medicine treatments were twice as likely to get pregnant within a four-month period than those receiving conventional Western medical fertility...
  • 'Pink slime' is now found in 70 percent of the ...
    Would you knowingly eat ground beef which contained scrap meat items such as muscle connective tissue which had been sprayed with ammonium hydroxide? Would you want your children to eat such ground beef in their school lunches? According to recent revelations, if you...

Threat Level

  • With GPS Data Out, Feds Eye Warrantless Cell P ...
    Prosectors are shifting their focus to warrantless cell-tower locational tracking of suspects in the wake of a Supreme Court ruling that law enforcement should acquire probable-cause warrants from judges to affix GPS devices to vehicles and monitor their every move.
  • Megaupload User Demands Return of Seized Content
    An Ohio man is asking a Virginia federal judge to preserve data on the 66.6 million users of Megaupload, the file-sharing service that was shuttered in January due to federal criminal copyright infringement indictments targeting its operators.
  • Hackers Breach Credit Card Processor; 50K Card ...
    Global Payments Inc, an Atlanta-based processor, has been breached by hackers, leaving more than 50,000 card accounts potentially compromised.
  • Megaupload Drops Universal Lawsuit to Focus on ...
    Embattled Megaupload is dropping its lawsuit against Universal Music accusing the label of unlawfully removing from YouTube a four-minute video Megaupload produced featuring Kanye West, Mary J. Blige, will.i.am and others praising the notorious file-sharing service. In dropping the suit, Megaupl ...
  • Politically Motivated Border Searches Could Be ...
    An outspoken supporter of WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning has won the right to sue the federal government over a border search-and-seizure that agents conducted in 2010 after his return to the U.S. from a Mexico vacation.

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Medicare, Social Security Mandates Dwarf Affor ...
    As the New York Times suggested last week, the fate of President Obama's Affordable Care Act in general and its mandate that Americans obtain health insurance in particular may hinge on Justice Anthony Kennedy's notion of "liberty." While Solicitor General Donald Verilli posited "a profound conn ...
  • Republicans Forget When George Loved Vladimir
    Following their mid-term landslide in late 2010, emboldened Senate Republicans led by leaders Mitch McConnell and Jon Kyl almost scuttled the START treaty with Russia, a pact which enjoyed overwhelming support from the public and every living Republican secretary of state. So, when President Oba ...
  • Will the Supreme Court End Republicans' Privat ...
    After another bad day for the Affordable Care Act at the Supreme Court, voices across the political spectrum are already pondering life after death for health care reform. Conservative Ross Douthat and liberal James Carville agree that overturning the ACA will help President Obama get reelected ...
  • Romney's Number One Enemies List is a Long One
    On Monday, GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney blasted President Obama's open mic comment to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that he'll have more "flexibility" to deal with issues like missile defense after the November election. Predictably, a "disturbed" Romney denounced Obama's remark as "alarming ...
  • Mitt Romney, Cowardly Lyin'
    That Mitt Romney will lie about anything - no matter how major or mundane - is virtually taken for granted by the press and the public alike. Steve Benen has created a cottage industry cataloguing Romney's lies, an encyclopedic task now up to Volume XI. As Jonathan Chait explained, there's eve ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • 10 Reasons the JOBS Act is Insane
    White collar criminologist William K. Black sees the JOBS Act as a facilitator of fraud and a regulatory race to the bottom.
  • Oh Canada! Imposing Austerity on the World’s M ...
    by Ellen Brown Featured Writer Dandelion Salad webofdebt.com April 1, 2012 Even the world’s most resource-rich country has now been caught in the debt trap.  Its once-proud government programs are being subjected to radical budget cuts—cuts that could have been avoided if the government had not ...
  • Monsanto, a half-century of health scandals by ...
    by Soren Seelow Translated by Siv O’Neall Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Axisoflogic.com, Mar 22, 2012 www.lemonde.fr, Mar 16, 2012 Lyon, France Mar 28, 2012 This translation of ‘Monsanto, un demi-siècle de scandales sanitaires’ has received the full authorization to be published on ...
  • Michael Parenti: Occupy Empire!
    with Michael Parenti Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Michael Parenti Blog www.michaelparenti.org Mar. 31, 2012 MichaelParentiOrg on Mar 31, 2012 Ohlone College Dr. Parenti Occupy Empire at Ohlone College Part I * * * * Michael Parenti’s most recent books are The Culture Struggle (2006), Contrary ...
  • Israel Shields Public from Risks of War with I ...
    by Gareth Porter Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted at ISP March 29, 2012 TEL AVIV, Mar 29, 2012 (IPS) – The government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been telling Israelis that Israel can attack Iran with minimal civilian Israeli casualties as a result of retaliation, a ...

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Congressman Gets Climate Activist Placed in So ...
      This is one of those absurd stories that make you wonder what planet you live on. The injustice and cruelty in this story is mind-boggling. Here’s what I’m talking about, from the folks at Tim DeChristopher’s organization, Peaceful Uprising: (Download a PDF of our press ...
  • New IPCC Report on Managing the Risks of Extre ...
      The IPCC has a big new report out. Given that we have locked ourselves into some pretty concerning weather and ‘natural disasters’ for the decades to come, and also don’t seem real gung-ho about stopping even more considerable human catastrophe from global warming and c ...
  • How to Lose Friends yet Influence Elections
    The next edition of this board game hopefully won’t have that card included… More on Citizens United and Super PACs From HuffPo: Citizens United and Contributions to Super PACs: A Little History Is in Order From Salon: The hard truth about Citizens United From Open Secrets: [...] ...
  • Cancer Treatment Breakthrough: A Single Antibo ...
      A biomedical research team at Stanford University School of Medicine reported yesterday the results of mouse  experiments using an antibody molecule to treat various types of tumorous cancer cells — with results showing significant tumor shrinkage and slowed tumor growth in all can ...
  • Carbon Bubble = $20 Trillion (According to For ...
      “Randy Wray has described the current state of the commodities market as the biggest speculative bubble of all time, but the carbon bubble is even greater. In order to avoid catastrophic global warming, the Carbon Tracker Initiative found, we need to keep 80 percent of known carbo ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • The Hutaree Case: Next Time, They'll Just Send ...
    Next time the Regime identifies a group of people as “domestic terrorists,” the result might be summary execution, or imprisonment in military custody, rather than a trial. This is one very plausible result of the dismissal of “seditious conspiracy” charges against members of Michigan’s Hutaree ...
  • "The War That You Don't See." John Pilger's in ...
    Editor's Commentary: We published the full length, revolutionary film documentary by John Pilger, The War You Don't See in 2010 and 2011 when it appeared on YouTube.com for a brief windows of time and before it was censored, taken off YouTube permanently. The film has always been banned in the U ...
  • Venezuela's Opec stand is a win for climate ch ...
    Environmentalists who support developing countries' fight against polluters should also back their struggle for control of oil Pablo Fajardo, the lead Ecuadorian lawyer in indigenous peoples' case over pollution against oil company Chevron. Photograph: Jose Jacome/EPA Environmen ...
  • Fifty-three reactors down, one to go: Japan ma ...
    Japan is almost completely free of nuclear power now, after the shutdown on March 26, 2012 of the Number 6 reactor at the country’s Kashiwasaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant. No nuclear reactors are now operational on the Japanese mainland. When scheduled maintenance closes the Number 3 Tomari reac ...
  • FDA Deletes 1 Million Signatures for GMO Label ...
    While the Food and Drug Administration has seemingly reached the limit for unbelievable behavior, the company’s decisions continue to astound and appall consumers and health activists alike. In the agency’s latest decision, undoubtedly amazing thousands of individuals yet again, the FDA v ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • QOTD
    By KYYellowDog Steve M at No More Mister Nice Blog: We also forget that it's extraordinarily difficult to sell a lot of our ideas to heartlanders because the right is usually so fast off the mark. That's because the right has a forty-year head start in employing large numbers of people whose sol ...
  • Reject the Roundup Spring
    By @KYYellowDog Thanks to Big Oil and Big Coal, we're suffering the earliest spring in memory. "Suffering" because not only did we have to mow the lawn in March, but we're already having to deal with weeds invading the patio, sidewalk and driveway. Put the Roundup down and back away slowly. The ...
  • Songs to Fight the Plutocracy By: "American Sk ...
    By @KYYellowDog Uploaded by BruceSpringsteen on Mar 27, 2012
  • Number 106
    By @KYYellowDog "How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?" -- Lt. John Kerry, testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, April 22, 1971. Kentucky's 106th sacrifice to the insatiable maw of the Iraq/Afghanistan Clusterfuck is 20-year-old David Taylor of Dixon, ...
  • Anti-Abortion = Pro-Slavery
    By @KYYellowDog Misogyny and slavery are equally ancient, equally pervasive, so this should be as unsurprising as it is illuminating. JoAnn Wypijewski at The Nation: Bridgewater argues that because slavery depended on the slaveholder's right to control the bodies and reproductive capacities of e ...

Care 2

  • An End to Authoritarianism and Plutocracy: It ...
    Let us consider the fundamental guiding principles for the United States of America -- freedom, equal opportunity,compassion, and security. Submitted by Bee Hive to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Naughty Dolphin - YouTube
    Caressing and tickling his human friends..this dolphin is hilarious indeed. Submitted by Barb knight to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Financiers and Sex Trafficking
    THE biggest forum for sex trafficking of under-age girls in the United States appears to be a Web site called Backpage.com. The owners turn out to include private equity financiers, including Goldman Sachs with a 16 percent stake. Submitted by Kit B. to Business  |  ...
  • U.S. Corporate Tax Rate Much Lower Than Most O ...
    Republicans have been kvetching about the fact that, as of Sunday, the U.S. will have the highest statutory corporate tax rate in the world following a scheduled cut in Japan's corporate tax. Submitted by Kit B. to Business  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Risks of death in the workplace
    Health and Safety. I know, I know, I can already hear your groans. But bear with me please. We all know what dismal reputations those killjoys and jobsworths have in health and safety. In the UK, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is often forced Submitted by Agnes N. to Health & Wellness & ...

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No Quarter

  • Shocker, Muslim Brothers Break Promise
    Celebrate Good Times, C’mon!! Oops!! I meant, “Curse it Allah.” We should have had those Muslim Brothers in Egypt pinky swear instead of just giving a vanilla promise. They swore they would stay out of the Egyptian Presidential election. Guess they had second thoughts or their ...
  • Early Silly Season
    The DNC and Obama re-elect are surprisingly off-key in this clever and oddly sluggish send-up of Mitt Romney by linking him with the Paul Ryan Budget chair plan just passed by the Republican House. Ryan is a House geek; he crunches numbers and looks for outcomes that suit political ambitions. Mi ...
  • Helicopter Parents and the Cancelled Egg
    Turns out the kids in Colorado Springs, Colorado will miss out on the thrill of the annual Easter Egg hunt. It’s been cancelled. Why? So-called Helicopter Parents have ruined it for everyone. An article in USA Today describes how the anticipated tot event was thwarted. Organizers of an annual Ea ...
  • Pick Your Favorites in the Final Four * Weeken ...
    The polls are below.
  • Who Will Step Into Gabby Giffords’ Footprint?
    On January 25th, 2012 Gabrielle Giffords resigned her Congressional seat. It was an emotional and unifying experience not only for Arizonans but Americans across the nation.  It also showed that Washington could put aside its political gutter warfare and amalgamate for a short time. Her 8th dist ...

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • Rethinking energy - Out & About
    Rethinking energy Out & About Those costs are the reasons for the recent pushes across the country to get away from fossil fuels and the mountaintop removal that has become an almost accepted part of that fuel retrieval. “If people became more educated on the whole picture, ... and more &r ...
  • West Virginia mining project moves forward - P ...
    West Virginia mining project moves forward Pittsburgh Post Gazette By Erich Schwartzel / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The largest mountaintop removal mining project in West Virginia history has been 13 years in the making and along the way involved 50000 public comments, two US presidents, two govern ...
  • Fed Court Okays Worst Mountaintop Removal Proj ...
    Fed Court Okays Worst Mountaintop Removal Project in History Fly Rod & Reel Magazine (blog) Late last week, siding with the coal industry, a federal court overturned the US Environmental Protection Agency's veto of one of the worst mountaintop removal mines permits ever issued in US history, ...
  • Mark Ruffalo Addresses Fracking On 'Colbert Re ...
    Mark Ruffalo Addresses Fracking On 'Colbert Report' Interview (VIDEO) Huffington Post Appearing on the "Colbert Report" this week, Ruffalo discussed what he sees as one of the biggest problems associated with fracking, mountaintop removal coal mining and the extraction of Canad ...
  • Appalachians Vow to Continue Supporting EPA's ...
    Appalachians Vow to Continue Supporting EPA's Effort to Protect Waterways and ... PressZoom (press release) “It is a sad day not only for the people who live near mountains and streams threatened by mountaintop removal coal mining, but for all Americans who understand the need to protect our ...

Memeorandum

  • Turn on the Lights For Human Achievement Hour ...
    Townhall.com: Turn on the Lights For Human Achievement Hour … Tonight, from 8:30 to 9:30, environmentalists will observe Earth Hour, turning off all their lights for an hour.  For those who don't want to spend an hour in the dark, the Competitive Enterprise Institute is offering an ...
  • Priebus memo: Wis. recall strengthens GOP (Ale ...
    Alexander Burns / Politico: Priebus memo: Wis. recall strengthens GOP  —  Republicans will have a better chance at capturing Wisconsin in November thanks to the campaign they're waging now to keep Gov. Scott Walker in office, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus ...
  • Islamist Group Breaks Pledge to Stay Out of Ra ...
    David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times: Islamist Group Breaks Pledge to Stay Out of Race in Egypt  —  CAIRO — The Muslim Brotherhood nominated its chief strategist and financier Khairat el-Shater on Saturday as its candidate to become Egypt's first president since Hosni Mub ...
  • Rick Santorum on pressure to quit GOP race; De ...
    Chris Wallace / Fox News: Rick Santorum on pressure to quit GOP race; Dean, Barbour preview general election  —  Special Guests: Rick Santorum, Howard Dean, Haley Barbour … CHRIS WALLACE, HOST: I'm Chris Wallace.  —  With Republican leaders uniting behind ...
  • Swing States poll: A shift by women puts Obama ...
    Susan Page / USA Today: Swing States poll: A shift by women puts Obama in lead  —  MILWAUKEE - President Obama has opened the first significant lead of the 2012 campaign in the nation's dozen top battleground states, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds, boosted by a huge shift of wome ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Why true leaders make us uneasy
    Creative solutions come when we are forced outside our comfort zones. The trick is to learn to force ourselves, writes John Elkington.You know the feeling. The elevator doors are closing behind you and suddenly you are alone with someone you have long wanted to meet and influence. How to connect ...
  • New nuclear spring for China?
    One year after Fukushima stalled its nuclear programme, the Chinese government is preparing to restart the engine. Feng Jie reports. During China’s parliamentary season this month, the government put out a number of signals that the moratorium on approving new nuclear-power plants may ...
  • Behind Myanmar’s suspended dam (2)
    China’s resolve not to interfere in its neighbour’s “internal affairs" rings hollow: the country has played a formative role in Burmese history, writes Qin Hui.Everything I heard in Myanmar pointed to a failure to consult as the key issue in the furore surrounding the Myit ...
  • Behind Myanmar’s suspended dam (3)
    In a region scarred by violent conflict and rife with distrust of China, the investment risks are plain. Qin Hui concludes his three-part analysis of the fate of the Myitsone dam.Members of the Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO) and many other Kachins – including former communists &nda ...
  • Behind Myanmar’s suspended dam (1)
    After the decision to shelve a China-funded hydropower plant on the Irrawaddy River caused uproar in Beijing, Qin Hui set off south to learn about the project and its opponents. He opens a three-part article.On a recent trip to Myanmar – also known as Burma – my eyes were opened to t ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Breaking: Spruce Mine Reversal Signals Mountai ...
    In an alarming rebuke to fledgling EPA efforts to regulate devastating mountaintop removal mining operations today, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled that the Obama administration overstepped its authority in revoking a permit last year for the largest proposed strip-mining operation ...
  • United Nations Commission on the Status of Wom ...
    Written by Alex Garita for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. The United Nations Commission on the Status of Women meets every year for two weeks to review progress on implementation of the Fourth ...
  • How the Rich Took Over Airport Secuirty
    Security checks were one of America's most democratic places -- until rich passengers got their own speedy lines
  • “Monumental” Lies – Kirk Cam ...
    Child star turned fundamentalist Christian activist Kirk Cameron’s pseudo-documentary Monumental is coming to over 500 theaters across the country on March 27, and from the clips available online, it’s clear that Cameron’s movie promises to be packed with the same Christia ...
  • Like a Bad Rash, Randall Terry Re-Infects Wich ...
    Written by Kari Ann Rinker for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. Kansas has had its fill of Randall Terry. More specifically, Wichita has had its fill of Randall Terry. He was the instigator of t ...

Threat Level

  • With GPS Data Out, Feds Eye Warrantless Cell P ...
    Prosectors are shifting their focus to warrantless cell-tower locational tracking of suspects in the wake of a Supreme Court ruling that law enforcement should acquire probable-cause warrants from judges to affix GPS devices to vehicles and monitor their every move.
  • Megaupload User Demands Return of Seized Content
    An Ohio man is asking a Virginia federal judge to preserve data on the 66.6 million users of Megaupload, the file-sharing service that was shuttered in January due to federal criminal copyright infringement indictments targeting its operators.
  • Hackers Breach Credit Card Processor; 50K Card ...
    Global Payments Inc, an Atlanta-based processor, has been breached by hackers, leaving more than 50,000 card accounts potentially compromised.
  • Megaupload Drops Universal Lawsuit to Focus on ...
    Embattled Megaupload is dropping its lawsuit against Universal Music accusing the label of unlawfully removing from YouTube a four-minute video Megaupload produced featuring Kanye West, Mary J. Blige, will.i.am and others praising the notorious file-sharing service. In dropping the suit, Megaupl ...
  • Politically Motivated Border Searches Could Be ...
    An outspoken supporter of WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning has won the right to sue the federal government over a border search-and-seizure that agents conducted in 2010 after his return to the U.S. from a Mexico vacation.

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    Visit the website of One Society which works in partnership with The Equality Trust. One Society draws on a wealth of research which shows that large divides in income at the top and bottom of society – beyond ‘proportional rewards’ – are damaging to our economy and society, not just for those ...
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PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • "Poisoned" on my mind
    In the morning I am taking an early flight to Washington State Universtity (Pullman) where I will have the honor of spending the day with the author of "Poisoned," the true story about the Jack in the Box E. coli Outbreak, that changed many lives, including my own.  You shoud buy the book a ...
  • "Blue Barf," "Green Goop," "Purple Puke," "Red ...
    What if you were the CEO of a multimillion dollar, privately held food manufacturing company and awoke one morning to find that the name of your best selling product (you previously had painstakingly crafted the name to sound so appetizing) was now known to the public as “Blue Barf,” ...
  • Flushing New York Tofu Linked to Two Botulism ...
    The New York City Health Department is investigating one confirmed and one suspect case of botulism, a rare but serious foodborne illness caused by an extremely potent toxin. Both patients are Chinese-speaking Queens residents and had recently purchased unrefrigerated fresh bulk tofu from the s ...
  • Beware of Little Turtles with Salmonella
    CDC reports today: • A total of 66 persons infected with outbreak strains of Salmonella Sandiego, Salmonella Pomona, and Salmonella Poona have been reported from 16 states. • The number of ill persons identified in each state is as follows: Arizona (2), California (8), Georgia (1), I ...
  • Botulism, Listeria and Scombrotoxin Risk at Bl ...
    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, in a complaint filed by the Department of Justice, is seeking to stop the processing and distribution of fish products at Blue Ocean Smokehouse because of a risk of botulism and other food hazards. If granted, the permanent injunction against Fujino Enterp ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Report: Happy Birthday! President George H.W. ...
    It appears the right-wing wall against the Chevrolet Volt is starting to crumble. Following months of beating on the Volt, Fox News aired a puff piece on how great the Volt is earlier this week. Now we hear that former president George H.W. Bush has purchased a Volt for his son Neil as a birt ...
  • GM ends donations to climate-change-denying He ...
    Filed under: Etc., Earnings/Financials 10,000 General Motors owners can make an impact. After being confronted with a petition against the money that the GM Foundation gave to the Heartland Institute - known as one of the biggest funders of climate-change denial - following an expos&eacute ...
  • Spy Shots: Fisker Nina caught peeking out befo ...
    Filed under: Spy Photos, Hybrid, Sedan, Paris Motor Show, Fisker, Electric Who wants to wait until the official unveiling of the Fisker Nina plug-in hybrid next week when we can see spy shots right this second? Neither do we. So, what do the shots reveal? For starters, we can see that the ...
  • Motorsports: Monster Tajima to tackle Pikes Pe ...
    Filed under: Motorsports, Electric This year, Pikes Peak will, once again, be crawling with electric vehicles. Mitsubishi will be there with its i-MiEV-based racer, and the Pikes Peak EV Challenge Committee has just announced it will bring a new all-electric car to scale the 14,110-foot peak in ...
  • Despite rumors, Volvo not ceasing electric C30 ...
    Filed under: Plants/Manufacturing, Hatchback, Volvo, Electric Dutch website NU recently reported that Volvo expects low demand for its C30 Electric, and therefore it decided to stop building the mostly electric car (it has a small, ethanol-burning heater to keep passengers warm). The original ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • General Strike in Spain: Report From Madrid On ...
    Workers in Spain staged a general strike Thursday, shutting down factories and parts of the transportation sector and holding massive marches. The strike was called by two major trade unions to protest labor rules that make it less costly for employers to hire and fire people in a country where ...
  • Part 2: Ousted Maldives President Mohamed Nash ...
    We continue our interview with ousted Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed and ask him if he plans to seek office again. "I will contest the coming elections," Nasheed says, noting that, "if the coup was so popular, we would have seen people coming out, rejoicing with the military. ...
  • Listen: 1997 Interview with Poet Adrienne Rich ...
    Poet, essayist and feminist Adrienne Rich died on Tuesday at the age of 82. Rich drew widespread acclaim for her many volumes of poetry and prose, which brought the oppression of women and lesbians into the public spotlight. She was a key figure in the women’s movement and an uncompromisi ...
  • Forget Fear of Flying, Fear Airport Screening
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan There was terror in the skies this week over Texas, caused not by a terrorist but by a pilot—a Flight Standards captain, no less. JetBlue Airways Capt. Clay Osbon, flying Flight 191 from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport to Las Vegas, began m ...
  • Part 2: Ahmed Rashid on U.S. Relations with Pa ...
    We continue our discussion with veteran Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid, whose new book details clandestine talks between the U.S. and the Taliban, the Obama administration’s expanded use of drones and the accompanying rise in civilian deaths, and how more "physical harm is now com ...

Suzie-Q

  • WINNING: The 10 Best Achievements Of Obama&#82 ...
    Via: MoveOn.org Posted on March 29, 2012 by Angie SOURCE
  • Obama Campaign Seeks Romney Tax Returns
    WSJ POLITICS Updated March 29, 2012, 9:42 p.m. ET BY MARK MAREMONT President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign called on Republican front-runner Mitt Romney to release his tax returns dating back to the 1980s, to see if they contain information about an uncommon investment arrangement at ...
  • George Galloway wins Bradford West byelection
    Respect candidate takes seat from Labour with 10,140 majority, claiming ‘the most sensational victory in British political history’ Patrick Wintour, political editor | The Guardian | Friday 30 March 2012   George Galloway, the leading figure in Respect, has grabbed a r ...
  • Mitt Romney Thinks Closing Michigan Factories ...
    By Eclectablog on March 28, 2012in Michigan, Mitt Romney Oh, now THAT is funny. Not. Mitt “I’m-a-Michigander-through-and-though” Romney barely got his foot out of his mouth before he stuck the other one back in today. This time it was to have a good belly laugh at the expense of — wait for it — ...
  • Bain Gave Staff Way to Swell IRAs by Investing ...
    WSJ Updated March 28, 2012, 10:09 p.m. ET By MARK MAREMONT Just after Philippe Wells took a job in 1998 at Bain Capital, then run by Mitt Romney, he recalls hearing an unusual boast from a partner. The man’s individual retirement account had jumped tenfold in five years. Mr. Wells soon lea ...

Solari

  • Joe Mysak: Insight on the Municipal Market
      By Catherine Austin Fitts This Thursday, I will be talking with Joe Mysak about trends in the municipal markets. Joe Mysak has made a career of helping us understand the municipal bond markets – from educating local officials about how to manage municipal bond issues to helping bond inv ...
  • Newborn Seized in Hospital by Police, Social W ...
    By Michael P. Farris, Esq. I am not content to sit on the sidelines while the government gradually usurps the very essence of parental rights. I hope you share my determination. We need to stand with people like Scott and Jodi Ferris (obviously no relation to someone named Farris). Here’s their ...
  • Quote du Jour
    Forest Wander
  • Transcript of the 3.22.12 Solari Report &#8220 ...
    A transcript of the March 22, 2012 Solari Report on Creating Liquidity in Your Neighborhood & Networks with Thomas H. Greco, Jr. is now available to Solari Report Subscribers! From the transcript: Catherine: We entitled our discussion tonight “Creating Liquidity in Our Neighborhoods and Netw ...
  • New Jobs Act Offers Substantial Regulatory Rel ...
    By Attorney Michael T. Dunn On March 27, 2012, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to approve the version of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (the “JOBS Act”) that was passed by the Senate on March 22, and President Obama has confirmed that he will sign the JOBS Act into law. The new ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Why do awesome people – like us – ...
    Summary:  Each campaign season brings complaints about the quality of the candidates.  Why such a poor selection, unlike what we see at Best Buy?  Read this for an answer, proven by history. I recommend joyfully reading “A Quantum Theory of Mitt Romney”  in the March 31 New York Time ...
  • We ask the mineshaft: should we be reasonable ...
    Summary:  We fight for the Republic against its worst enemies, those inside America.  As it has already been in our history.  Is cool logic, reasoned discussion grounded in fact, our best weapon?  Or that just foolish pedantry, and victory only possible by adopting the powerful tools of our enem ...
  • What every American needs to know about the Fe ...
    Summary: The Federal Reserve has become one of the most powerful government agencies, operating almost free of checks and balances.  Worse, it represents one of the most outrageous examples of regulatory capture, private interests taking control of agencies intended to supervise them.  Today we ...
  • God and the Tea Party Movement
    Summary:   Religion has always been a powerful factor in American politics.  So it has been, and so it today.  Today’s we have an excerpt from the always-interesting Foreign Affairs looking at the Tea Party.  At the end are links to other articles about the tea party, and about the green r ...
  • What will replace the Constitution in American ...
    Summary:  America moves steadily along a dark path, as we refused to see the obvious.  Here we again attempt to awaken ourselves, by showing what we become.  Nothing is written, as we have to power to choose a different future.  Otherwise we’ll learn that the great national evils, like fas ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

  • Romney's Defense Plan Means Bad Business for A ...
    Recently, President Obama unveiled a plan he claimed would cut U.S. military spending. However, several independent experts have come forward stating that the “cuts” are simply slowing future growth in military spending from previously projected figures, rather than actually cuts to the Defense ...
  • Why Democracies Fail…or How?
    Over at the Center for Global Development‘s Views from the Center blog, visiting fellow Ethan Kapstein looks to the recent coups in Mali and the Maldives for lessons about why democracies fail. Drawing on his book with Nathan Converse, Kapstein starts by refuting a few widely-held notions ...
  • What if Israel bombs Iran?
    What if Israel bombs Iran?: Israelis demonstrate on Saturday in Tel Aviv against war with Iran. “Bibi” is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Editor’s note: Gary Sick served on the National Security Council staff under Presidents Ford, Carter and Reagan, and was the principal Whit ...
  • Security Council; DRC; Pakistan; India; and more
    Security Council: On Monday the UN-Arab League Special Envoy for Syria, Kofi Annan will brief Council members in consultations by videoconference on his mediation efforts. Council members are likely to be interested in Annan’s recent visits to Moscow and Beijing and his plans to visit Tehran and ...
  • Will Iran's Quest for Nuclear Weapons Bring a ...
    "SHOWDOWN" is splashed in large red letters across the cover of Newsmax, the April issue of the conservative monthly. Followed by, in smaller letters, "Iran's Plan for a Second Holocaust Must Be Stopped." And, in parentheses, in still smaller type, between the twin grim-looks ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • The Prodigal Son Returns
    Barack Obama’s visit to Burlington today was a welcome surprise for Vermonters, who haven’t hosted a president since 1995. There’s a political reason for the visit: If there’s a state for liberals to call home, it’s Vermont. So why did Obama take a pit stop in the Green Mountain State instead o ...
  • State of the Week: The Wisconsin Recall
    This week's state of the week is ... Wisconsin! Well folks, it's official: Wisconsin's Scott Walker is the third governor in history to face a recall election. It's hardly shocking news.  After all, anti-Walker forces turned in more than a million petitions—almost double the number they needed. ...
  • Paul Ryan's "Smoke and Mirrors"
    Paul Ryan, the supposed champion of fiscal restraint among right-wing Republicans, has put his colleagues in an awkward bind. His budget includes a host of unpopular provisions, and if implemented, would eviscerate almost every part of the government except defense, health care, and Social Secu ...
  • Today in Reasons to Be Killed If You're Black
    If Trayvon Martin showed us that wearing a hoodie and walking in a gated community is enough to get killed as long as you’re an African American male, then Kenneth Chamberlain will shows us that death is also a fitting punishment if you’re an elderly veteran, sitting in your home, who had the m ...
  • Don't Wish For Judicial Overreach
    Given the hostility the Republican appointees on the Supreme Court showed to the Affordable Care Act during oral arguments this week, some progressives are seeking a silver lining. At least, some have argued, striking down the ACA would substantially undermine the legitimacy of the conservative ...

Buzzflash

  • Time to End America's "Drift" to Permanent War ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT We are so used to celebrity books that celebrate the "celebritydom" of the author, often written by a ghost writter, that when a book such as "Drift" comes along, it takes us a bit by surprise because it has actual substance to it - and important pote ...
  • Riddled With Cancer and Facing an Election, Wh ...
    NIKOLAS KOZLOFF FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT read more
  • We Cannot Kill Our Way to Peace
    ROBERT C. KOEHLER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT I'm far more interested in forgiveness than justice. I say this just to calm myself down after a morning of media overkill, so to speak. There are so many murdered mothers and children in the news, some with names and faces, so many just adding anonymo ...
  • Unlike Trayvon Martin, Gun Lovers Can Carry Mo ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The National Rifle Association (NRA) never misses a beat on capitalizing on paranoia or profiting from the gun industry. Call it utterly tasteless and macabre, but as Think Progress points out, the NRA sells hoodies in its online retail store that are ...
  • Limbaugh, Santorum, Sex, and the Origins of th ...
    STEVEN JONAS, MD, MPH FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT In the year 312, the Roman Emperor Constantine saw some kind of a religious vision at some time before a battle in which he defeated his major rival at the time, Maxentius (1). Just what the nature of the vision was is unclear, but it did lead to ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • See through batteries
    Anyone who has owned a portable electronic gadget during the last decade (hands up anyone who hasn’t!) or so will have relied on the almost ubiquitous lithium-ion battery. They precluded the need to use noxious cadmium and purportedly side-step the memory charge problem of so-called Ni-cad ...
  • Rush 2112 Precentenary
    It’s 1st April 2012, precisely 36 years since the 1976 release of the classic progressive heavy rock album 2112 by Canadian power trio Rush. More importantly, today is the “precentenary” of the eponymous date of Side 1 of the album. It’s the simple story of rebellion, the ...
  • Teasing apart handed molecules with lasers
    The handedness, or chirality, of nature’s molecules has fascinated chemists for decades and ever since Louis Pasteur plucked apart the left-and right-handed enantiomers of tartaric acid salts with tweezers and magnifying glass there has been an urge to find ways to understand the origins o ...
  • A German-English dictionary for chemists
    The Beilstein Dictionary (German/English) was compiled by the Beilstein Institute’s scientific staff to help users of the Basic Series and Supplementary Series I to IV of the well-known Handbook. It has about 2100 entries and contains pretty much all the German words occurring in the Beils ...
  • Double slit experiment with molecules
    The formation of a wave-like interference pattern when photons, electrons or other particles pass through two narrow slits and impinge on a screen or detector on the other side is the ultimate demonstration of quantum reality: individual particles behaving like waves. This experiment, Young&#821 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • FDA Keeps Toxic Plastic Chemical in Food, Infa ...
    Once again, the federal agency charged with protecting the public from tainted food has ignored a mountain of scientific research and decided to allow a toxic chemical to remain in food packaging. The federal Food and Drug Administration announced today it would not take immediate steps to bar b ...
  • FDA Keeps Toxic Plastic Chemical in Food, Infa ...
    Once again, the federal agency charged with protecting the public from tainted food has ignored a mountain of scientific research and decided to allow a toxic chemical to remain in food packaging. The federal Food and Drug Administration announced today it would not take immediate steps to bar b ...
  • NAACP to Host March & Rally for Trayvon Martin ...
    It has been more than a month since Trayvon Martin was shot and killed. In the weeks since this tragedy, evidence of racial bias, investigative mishaps, and the true nature of the circumstances surrounding Trayvon's killing have shaken us to the core. The routine mishandling of similar cases ...
  • NAACP to Host March & Rally for Trayvon Martin ...
    It has been more than a month since Trayvon Martin was shot and killed. In the weeks since this tragedy, evidence of racial bias, investigative mishaps, and the true nature of the circumstances surrounding Trayvon's killing have shaken us to the core. The routine mishandling of similar cases ...
  • National Geographic's New TV Show 'Wicked Tuna ...
    A new National Geographic Channel show, Wicked Tuna, focuses on a group of fishermen trying to catch one of ocean’s most majestic and imperiled fish, the bluefin tuna. The program comes at a time when key fisheries for bluefin tuna — highly migratory, warm-blooded ocean predators tha ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Wisconsin's Recall Elections Are Set for June 5
    John Nichols Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker will be the first chief executive of an American state to face a recall election because he attacked the rights of working people to have a voice in their workplaces and in the public life of the ...
  • Canada’s 2012 Budget: Imposing Austerity on th ...
    Ellen Brown Canada, called the world’s most resource-rich country, is now being subjected to austerity measures like those imposed on third world countries in earlier decades.  It is all done in the name of reducing a federal deb ...
  • Promises Broken, Promises Kept
    Theo Anderson The path to the presidency is a long and hard grind, and a candidate makes a lot of promises along the way. Many are throwaway lines that have little chance of ever becoming policy. Everyone knows it, and hardly anybody cares. ...
  • Why Japan and US Should Eliminate the Death Pe ...
    César Chelala Japan’s decision to hang three prisoners after nearly two years without executions has beread more
  • In Defense of Peter Beinart
    Dana Goldstein I write about Israel-Palestine issues only occasionally, because the onslaught of emails and comments calling me a self-hating Jew can be emotionally overwhelming.read more

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • Water Wars
    When Nevada State Engineer Jason King ruled in favor of the SNWA, allowing it to pump water from nearly 84,000 acre-feet in Spring Valley, Cave Valley, Dry Lake Valley and Delamar Valley, the response
  • US Intelligence Report Warns of Future Water Wars
    Water. It’s essential to life, and according to a U.S. intelligence report, it may soon be a cause for war.
  • Water Wars Cost $18.7 Million
    The state of Georgia and the Atlanta Regional Commission have spent about $18.7 million in outside legal fees during two decades of legal battles involving Florida and Alabama over access to drinking water. read more
  • Ga. Agencies Spend $18.7 Million on Water Wars
    Ga. Agencies Spend $18.7 Million on Water Wars
  • Ga. agencies spend $18.7 million on water wars
    ATLANTA (AP) — The state of Georgia and the Atlanta Regional Commission have spent about $18.7 million in outside legal fees during two decades of legal battles involving Florida and Alabama over access to drinking water. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports (http://bit.ly/GRelSy) that the t ...

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • Palestinian Authority jails journalist for pub ...
    Asa Winstanley Ramallah 30 March 2012 The Palestinian Authority imprisoned journalist Yousef al-Shayab Wednesday because of something he wrote, and because he insists on protecting his sources, say his colleagues
  • Israel threatens to demolish German-funded sol ...
    Jillian Kestler-D'Amours 30 March 2012 At least 500 Palestinians face total electricity cuts after Israel issued stop-work orders on solar panel and wind turbine systems in the South Hebron Hills, while illegal settlements in the area are provided with electricity and water.
  • New book shows how the PA enriched an elite an ...
    Mayssun Sukarieh 28 March 2012 Globalized Palestine: The National Sell-Out of a Homeland explores the rise of a new Palestinian elite that works together with international organizations against the will of the majority of its compatriots.
  • South Africans recall their own history during ...
    Adri Nieuwhof Geneva 26 March 2012 Israeli Apartheid Week in South Africa aimed to reach a wide audience and strengthen the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement.
  • 8,000 West Bank children arrested since 2000, ...
    Jillian Kestler-D'Amours Beit Sahour 26 March 2012 A new report examines the impact of Israeli arrests and detention on Palestinian children living under Israeli occupation.

The Wonk Room

  • Do ‘Hunger Games’ Fans Care About Climate Chan ...
    I saw The Hunger Games over the weekend. It’s entertaining for sure — so it’s no surprise that it’s already grossed $250 million in 10 days. And that suggests far more people have already seen the movie then will ever read the book. What’s unfortunate is that as far ...
  • Newspaper Slams Alabama Governor For Signing G ...
    Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley’s (R) decision to sign the Taxpayer Protection Pledge authored by anti-tax zealot Grover Norquist “is hardly leadership,” the Birmingham News editorial board wrote today. Alabama, the editorial notes, “ranks dead last among states in combined s ...
  • Kristol Says Trayvon Martin Case Has Become &# ...
    On Fox News Sunday’s panel this morning, conservative pundit Bill Kristol bemoaned the national attention by activists and media being given to the Trayvon Martin case. “It is just demagoguery, I think, mostly on the side of those who want to indict the whole society for this death,& ...
  • Rep. Ryan: ‘I Really Misspoke’ Whe ...
    Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) today walked back his previous accusation that generals were lying about their support of President Obama’s Pentagon budget. On CNN’s “State of the Union” this morning, Ryan said that he had called to apologize to Gen. Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the ...
  • Leaked Documents Reveal Flatland Institute Pla ...
    Internal documents acquired by Climate Progress reveal that the Flatland Institute is planning to indoctrinate infants with a “Baby Inhofe” series of DVDs and videos. Flatland is a right-wing, anti-science think tank funded by the Koch brothers, the Resources Development Administrati ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • The Tragedy of the American Psyche
    How much more easy did World War II make the American government's justifications for US imperialism to the American voting public?
  • Capitalist Fundamentalists
    It's a religion to them. They are intolerant and dogmatic. And they believe with the fervor of fanatics because it's really self-interest. They are really only in it for power. Money is power to them. Plodding dullards and sycophants will sing their praises out of genuine delusion as well as for ...
  • The Globe & Mail and the CBC
    So yesterday I'm walking past a Globe & Mail newspaper box and there's a headline: "Harper's Modest Revolution" (or something like) that and I thought: "I'm completely uninterested." The only commentary that really interests me about stephen harper is debate about how long his prison senten ...
  • Budget? Electoral Fraud!
    Big surprise. The imbecilic Flaherty has cooked up another demonstration of his blinkered incompetence. I mean no disrespect to Dawg. I'm actually glad to have read his account of Flaherty's latest stupid budget. But for me, the big deal is still the fact that Flaherty's party has an illegitima ...
  • Shorter Anti-Democratic harpercon Trolls: "It' ...
    That's something else I've heard, and I'm sure that I will hear again. These shameless, lying pieces of shit.

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • NHL game teeming with Teemus as Selanne, Harti ...
    An NHL game in Anaheim between the Ducks and the Edmonton Oilers seems to have produced a result never known before in the league - all the goals were scored by a player with the first name Teemu.
  • Are Tim Horton's drive thrus the cause of Cana ...
    Canadians line up every morning to get their quick jolt of caffeine at Tim Horton's, both inside coffee shops and in the drive-thru lanes. So many in fact hit the drive thru that in many areas there are traffic snarls each day.
  • Bilingual skills may protect aging adults from ...
    A report recently published by Canadian researchers reviews recent studies showing that bilingualism helps to protect the brain from cognitive decline and delays the onset of Alzheimer's disease and other signs of dementia.
  • Mother Nature Plays April Fools' Day Joke on P ...
    As residents of Parksville and Qualicum Beach awoke on April 1st, they were made well aware that Mother Nature definitely has a humorous side. Blooming daffodils and rhododendrons were covered in a thin blanket of snow, thanks to an overnight snowfall.
  • Coyotes in the city
    Although coyotes or prairie wolves are known to live and breed in cities, they are rarely seen on the streets of Toronto. However, such encounters are possible, and I came almost nose-to-nose with one.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Military spending cut?
    The headlines after last week's federal budget trumpeted major cuts in the Department of National Defence's budget. But how significant the overall reduction in military spending will be remains to be seen.
  • Hancock: Sub purchase “daft”
    A British MP who raised concerns about the sale of dud British subs to Canada back in 1998 has a simple suggestion -- see if you can return them to Britain.
  • Pay pensions or fund fighters?
    The polling firm Ipsos Reid recently asked Canadians about their spending priorities for the upcoming federal budget -- and found some interesting results.
  • NDP tied with Tories for top spot
    According to a survey conducted by the polling firm Environics, the New Democratic Party is tied with the Conservatives for first place in voter support.
  • F-35: And the hits keep coming!
    A U.S. Government Accountability Office report, media investigations of DND disingenuousness, and a forthcoming Auditor-General's report keep the F-35 hilarity coming.

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • FDA To Make Many Prescription Drugs ‘Over the ...
    March 13, 2012 Natural Society By Mike Barrett “Thanks, FDA – for helping big pharma ruin more people’s lives. You are doing a great a job.” –KTRN The same organization which deems walnuts to be illegal drugs is in the process of deciding whether or not to make some ...
  • NYPD Officer Thrown In Psych Ward By Superiors ...
    March 13, 2012 Activist Post By Madison Ruppert “Here is just one more example of the blatant police corruption in the United States. When and how are we going to get police offers under control?” –KTRN Adrian Schoolcraft of the New York Police Department’s (NYPD) 81st precinct ...
  • Taliban Promise Revenge for Civilian Murders i ...
    March 13, 2012 Info Wars By Kurt Nimmo “Doesn’t anyone think the US deserves some kind of punishment for the brutality that this soldier committed? Wasn’t he supposed to be trained by the very best? If the US military were not in Afghanistan to begin with, none of this would ha ...
  • Ron Paul Tells Reporters He Is Suspicious Abou ...
    March 13, 2012 Info Wars By Steve Watson “We should all be suspicious about the caucus results. Ron Paul wins almost every on-line poll and straw poll, (not to mention getting way more people showing up at his events than all of the other candidates) yet he keeps losing caucuses? Something ...
  • Why Is The US And NATO Backing Extremist Musli ...
    March 13, 2012 Info Wars By Paul Joseph Watson A shocking video appears to show Libyan rebels desecrating Christian and Jewish graves at a cemetery, further evidence that the same forces who helped NATO overthrow Gaddafi and are now carrying out attacks in Syria are extremist Muslims who care li ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Reason and Rationality in Public Debate: The ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comBy 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. Peopl ...
  • ‘Huge shift’ among female voters gives Obama l ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comThere is often a gender gap between the two political parties, with woman voters tending to favor the Democrats while a majority of men support Republican candidates. In recent weeks, however, as the Republican Party has ...
  • Jesus – The Ultimate Rebel
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comBy Allen L RolandSunday, April 1st, 2012 This arresting picture of Jesus as a revolutionary, imitating the style of the famous poster of 1960s fighter Che Guevara, was produced as an advertising poster encouraging people ...
  • US Ambassador to Afghanistan: kill ‘them’ tire ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comUS Ambassador to Afghanistan: kill them tirelessly or they will kill you By Carl Hermanwashingtonsblog.com US Ambassador to Afghanistan, Ryan Crocker, told a UK leading paper that leaving after ten years of war shows a l ...
  • ‘Friends’ in Need: Syrian rebels & ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRussia Todayyoutube.com Saudi Arabia and its allies are thought to have agreed to pay salaries to rebels fighting the Syrian regime. The decision came as around 60 nations – all harsh critics of the Syrian governme ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Oh Canada! Imposing Austerity on the World’s M ...
    by Ellen Brown Featured Writer Dandelion Salad webofdebt.com April 1, 2012 Even the world’s most resource-rich country has now been caught in the debt trap.  Its once-proud government programs are being subjected to radical budget cuts—cuts that could have been avoided if the government had not ...
  • Monsanto, a half-century of health scandals by ...
    by Soren Seelow Translated by Siv O’Neall Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Axisoflogic.com, Mar 22, 2012 www.lemonde.fr, Mar 16, 2012 Lyon, France Mar 28, 2012 This translation of ‘Monsanto, un demi-siècle de scandales sanitaires’ has received the full authorization to be published on ...
  • Michael Parenti: Occupy Empire!
    with Michael Parenti Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Michael Parenti Blog www.michaelparenti.org Mar. 31, 2012 MichaelParentiOrg on Mar 31, 2012 Ohlone College Dr. Parenti Occupy Empire at Ohlone College Part I * * * * Michael Parenti’s most recent books are The Culture Struggle (2006), Contrary ...
  • Israel Shields Public from Risks of War with I ...
    by Gareth Porter Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted at ISP March 29, 2012 TEL AVIV, Mar 29, 2012 (IPS) – The government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been telling Israelis that Israel can attack Iran with minimal civilian Israeli casualties as a result of retaliation, a ...
  • An Occupier’s open letter to Chris Hedges by C ...
    Dandelion Salad by Caleb T. Maupin www.workers.org Mar 30, 2012 Chris Hedges, a writer for The Nation and former New York Times reporter, spoke at the Left Forum’s closing plenary on March 18 in New York City. [DS added the links.] As someone who was among the thousands of youth on Sept. 17 when ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • 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.

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Marwan Barghouti placed in solitary confinemen ...
    Imprisoned Fatah commander called on Palestinians to severe economic and security coordination with Israel, urged economic and diplomatic boycott: "It must be understood that there is no partner for... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • Commemorating Land Day in pictures
    Palestinians and activists in the occupied West Bank, Gaza, Israel and neighbouring countires have demonstrated on Land Day in memory of six Palestinians killed by Israeli security forces on March... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
  • Dismay at Globe invitation to Israeli theatre
    We notice with dismay and regret that Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London has invited Israel's National Theatre, Habima, to perform The Merchant of Venice in its Globe to Globe festival this coming... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Israel Defense Ministry plan earmarks 10 perce ...
    The state has argued before the Supreme Court and the International Court of Justice in The Hague that the route of the separation barrier was based on Israel’s security needs. But Civil... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in ...
  • Israel cuts contact with UN rights council, to ...
    Israeli Arab MK Ahmed Tibi (Ra'am-Ta'al) criticized the move, saying that it amounted to a "boycott of the UN," and asked what "Lieberman and Yisrael Beiteinu have in common with human rights." MK... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...

Ria Novosti - Military

  • India to Deploy Two Nuclear Submarines
    India will operate two nuclear powered submarines soon as it inducts the Russian Nerpa and launches the indigenous INS Arihant, Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) Chief V K Saraswat said on Saturday.
  • Russia Deploys S-400 Missiles in Far East
    S-400 Triumph air defense missile systems will be deployed in Russia’s Far East before the end of the year, Far East Air Force and Air Defense Force chief Col. Sergei Dronov said on Friday.
  • New Tank Navigation System to Hit Russian Arms ...
    A new navigation system has been developed for Russian armored vehicles, including T-72 and T-90 tanks, the manufacturer said in a press release on Friday.
  • India and Russia to Develop Hypersonic Cruise ...
    Russia and India are in talks to jointly develop a hypersonic cruise missile and will soon agree on a general outline of the design, the head of the BrahMos Indian-Russian cruise missile program, Praveen Pathak, said on Friday at the Defexpo defense show in Delhi.
  • Iran's nuclear program

NewsWise

  • Experts Recommend Cutting Global Forage Fishin ...
    Fishing for herring, anchovy, and other "forage fish" in general should be cut in half globally to account for their critical role as food for larger species, recommends an expert group of marine scientists in a report released today.
  • Weill Cornell Investigators Among Several Cent ...
    An international team of investigators from centers in the United States and the United Kingdom, including Weill Cornell Medical College, have been awarded a grant for $10 million over a three-year period to study the molecular underpinnings of metastatic prostate cancer while creating a compreh ...
  • Second Mutation in BRAF-Mutated Metastatic Mel ...
    A second mutation found in the tumors of patients with BRAF-mutated metastatic melanoma does not contribute to resistance to BRAF inhibitor drugs, a finding that runs counter to what scientists expected to be true.
  • Gene Variations Linked to Intestinal Blockage ...
    The discovery by an international team of researchers offers the possibility of developing therapies to intervene in utero. Some of these genes may influence disease in other cystic fibrosis-affected organs.
  • PI3K/mTOR Pathway Proteins Tied to Poor Progno ...
    Four proteins involved in translation, the final step of general protein production, are associated with poor prognosis in hormone-receptor-positive breast cancer when they are dysregulated, researchers reported at the AACR Annual Meeting 2012.

Natural Health News

  • Nearly 89% Increase in Autism Reported by CDC ...
    The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has announced that 1 in 88 children in the U.S. are now diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The number represents a 23 percent increase in the last two years and 78 percent in the past five years. But that was just the average—the numbers were ...
  • Bacteria Could Be Significant Cause of Obsessi ...
    The National Institute of Mental Health is launching a study to see whether Streptococcus bacteria, which cause strep throat, scarlet fever and other infections such as pneumonia, may also be responsible for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in children. For many people, the condition begins d ...
  • State Confiscates Newborn over Vaccinations
    A Pennsylvania mother who went into labor early and gave birth in an ambulance on the way to the hospital faced a nightmare when she questioned a vaccine hospital officials were preparing to give her baby. Like any new parents, Jodi and Scott Farris wanted to know exactly what was going on when ...
  • Commonly Used Herbicide Found to be Toxic to Y ...
    New research finds that glyphosate, an ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup Ultra Max, causes both cellular and DNA damage to the cells inside your mouth and throat. The damage includes chromosomal abnormalities that ultimately kill cells at higher concentrations. Importantly, DNA damage occurred at ...
  • FDA Eliminates 1 Million Signatures for GMO La ...
    In another brazen example of how the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) totally ignores the very people it’s supposed to listen to and protect, this rogue agency has decided that over a million U.S. citizens’ signatures and comments count for nothing. NOTHING. That’s the results of a campai ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Disarray at the ECCC
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller I think it’s safe to say that the ECCC is in serious trouble, despite having an excellent International Co-Prosecutor in Andrew Cayley and many intelligent, dedicated staff.  As readers probably know, the international reserve co-investigating judg ...
  • Pluralism v. Harmonization: National Adjudicat ...
    by An Hertogen by An Hertogen The VU University Amsterdam is pleased to announce it will hold a conference on international criminal law titled ‘Pluralism v. Harmonization: National Adjudication of International Crimes.’ Opinio Juris’ own Kevin Jon Heller and recent guest con ...
  • Pluralism v. Harmonization: National Adjudicat ...
    by An Hertogen by An Hertogen The VU University Amsterdam is pleased to announce it will hold a conference on international criminal law titled ‘Pluralism v. Harmonization: National Adjudication of International Crimes.’ Opinio Juris’ own Kevin Jon Heller and recent guest con ...
  • Quotable Quotes from the ASIL Annual Meeting
    by Roger Alford by Roger Alford Here are some choice quotes from the ASIL annual meeting, all taken out of context for maximum effect: The real problem with cyber-security is that Viagra is too expensive. ~ Christopher Soghoian International arbitration is like a Jackson Pollock painting. Ther ...
  • Quotable Quotes from the ASIL Annual Meeting
    by Roger Alford by Roger Alford Here are some choice quotes from the ASIL annual meeting, all taken out of context for maximum effect: The real problem with cyber-security is that Viagra is too expensive. ~ Christopher Soghoian International arbitration is like a Jackson Pollock painting. Ther ...

Public News Service

  • Bill Limiting Employee Contraceptive Coverage ...
    Bill Limiting Employee Contraceptive Coverage Defeated in Arizona Senate PHOENIX, Ariz. - About 100 women rallied Wednesday at the State Capitol against a bill allowing any employer to opt out of providing contraception coverage for religious or moral reasons. Shortly thereafter, the bill was de ...
  • Pain at the Pump? New Fuel Standards Could Eas ...
    Pain at the Pump? New Fuel Standards Could Ease the Burden PHOENIX - Soaring gas prices are hitting drivers in Arizona and across the nation, and little relief appears to be in sight. Zoe Lipman, senior manager for transportation solutions at the National Wildlife Federation, says part of the l ...
  • AZ Wind Energy Industry in a Holding Pattern?
    AZ Wind Energy Industry in a Holding Pattern? PHOENIX - The American wind energy industry is waiting for a favorable forecast from Congress. The wind-production tax credit is set to expire at the end of this year, and delayed decisions on its renewal have some sectors of the industry in a holdin ...
  • Anniversary of Affordable Care Act Marks Progress
    Anniversary of Affordable Care Act Marks Progress PHOENIX, Ariz. - Friday marks the second anniversary of the Affordable Care Act. The organizer of a national grassroots effort to get the law passed has written a book about the experience. ...(Read More)
  • Threat of Iran War Hurting Weak U.S. Recovery
    Threat of Iran War Hurting Weak U.S. Recovery PHOENIX - Concerned that Iran may be building nuclear weapons, some in Congress are pressing the United States to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities, or help Israel do it. However, economists warn that even the threat of war is hurting the economic reco ...

Center for Food Safety

  • Record-Breaking One Million Public Comments De ...
    Center for Food Safety Legal Petition Spearheads Coalition of Consumers, Public Interest Organizations and Food Companies in Demanding FDA Require Labeling 55 MEMBERS OF CONGRESS JOIN IN SUPPORT OF CENTER’S LEGAL PETITION Today, the Center for Food Safety (CFS or the Center) applauded the submis ...
  • GE Crops On Southeastern Wildlife Refuges Hit ...
    U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Admits Need for Deeper Environmental Review In an effort to deflect a pending federal lawsuit, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) has told the court that it will suspend planting genetically engineered (GE) crops in all national wildlife refuges located i ...
  • Beekeepers & Environmental Groups to EPA: Pest ...
    Over 1 million urge EPA to suspend use of pesticide harmful to bees, fix broken regulatory system Today, commercial beekeepers and environmental organizations filed an urgent legal petition with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to suspend further use of a pesticide the agency knows ...
  • 6 Days Left to Comment on CFS’s Legal Pe ...
    We’re less than 10,000 comments shy of our goal of one million comments, and we need your help to reach it! In the U.S., we pride ourselves on having choices and making informed decisions. Under current FDA regulations, we don’t have that choice when it comes to genetically engineered (GE) ...
  • Pressure on Walmart to Rebuff GE Sweet Corn In ...
    Consumer Allies Collect Nearly Half a Million Petition Signatures and Plan Protests at Stores Across the Country Today the Center for Food Safety, Food & Water Watch, CREDO Action, SumOfUs, Center for Environmental Health, and Corporate Accountability International announced they have collec ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

  • Prima Ballerina
    These elegant creatures look like ballerina's balancing on one leg. They appear mostly in South-America and Africa. The reason that they often stand on one leg is not really clear. There are a few different theories about this, and one of them is that the flamingos have the ability to let a part ...
  • What's on 30 January 2012
    If you're wondering whether yoga might be right for you, or even if you are a yoga ethusiast, then you should definitely check out the FREE Living Yoga Urban Retreat Days at BodyMindLife’s new Surry Hills (Sydney) studio this weekend!
  • Registrations now open to help Clean Up Australia
    “Everyone can do their bit for Australia, individually or as part of a team. Clean Up Australia Day is a simple way you can clean up, fix up and conserve our greatest resource – Australia.”
  • Top surfers, skaters and musicians coming to M ...
    World's best surfers, skaters and musicians converge on Manly Beach for nine-day action sports and music celebration.
  • What's on 23 January 2012
    Come and enjoy a truly spectacular night of hilarious comedy this wednesday. For one night only some of the nation's most talented comedians will sharpen their wits and have some fun at the expense of 'greenies'. All proceeds will go to The Wilderness Society campaigns to protect the env ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • New young Israeli Refusers
    For decades hundreds of Israeli youth have declared at different times and for different reasons that they will refuse to serve in the Israeli military as they see its actions as immoral. Many times, these conscientious objectors (COs) are imprisoned for refusing to serve in the army, as the mil ...
  • Iz al-deen and Trayvon
    Two young men, a few weeks apart, attacked by adult men. Both names exotic to white American ears.  Iz al-deen Tamemi was not killed, “only” shot in the face. His attackers wore uniforms, while Trayvon Martin’s murderer was vigilante acting alone, though his behavior was sancti ...
  • Queers Say No Pinkwashing in the Pacific Northwest
    ed’s note: Unusual for TOD? we are focusing on domestic activism in this post by new contributor Wendy. By Wendy Elisheva Somerson My friend Selma and I were gripping each other’s hands tightly last Thursday night, March 15th, as Seattle’s LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) Com ...
  • Help save solar and wind power in the West Bank
    Ed’s Note: The Only Democracy? does not usually feature action alerts, but we have highlighted work of Comet-ME in the past and are proud to come to their defense. Watch Elad’s action alert Israel is threatening to demolish solar and wind power systems in rural communities in the W ...
  • Settler Group Presses Israeli Government to Ac ...
    We previously reported on the worrisome escalation in demolition of Palestinian structures in South Hebron Hills. The body issuing the demolition orders is the deceptively-named “Civil Administration”. Contrary to its name (invented in the 1980′s by Ariel Sharon to mislead the ...

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 ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • Did Ex Prez Bill Clinton say Obama was ineligible?
    Or we could just vote him out…. Hollywood producer heard Bill Clinton say Obama ineligible Insider in Hillary’s 2008 campaign points to ‘original birthers’   WND – Jerome Corsi A successful Hollywood producer who had an insider’s view of Hillary Clinton’s 2008 ...
  • This Day In History – April 2
    1792 – The Coinage Act is passed establishing the United States Mint. 1863 – Richmond Bread Riot: Food shortages incite hundreds of angry women to riot in Richmond, Virginia and demand that the Confederate government release emergency supplies. 1865 – American Civil War: Confederate President Je ...
  • The Groping, Power Grabbing TSA Scam
    The TSA has become a poster child for government intrusion and ineptitude. It really is one of the worst excuses for a government program ever created. I’ve seen people refer to the TSA as anything from Thousands Standing Around to Total Sexual Assault. I have one of my own, Truly Scamming ...
  • West prepares rhetorical grounds for unrest in ...
      Wall Street Proxy Aung San Suu Kyi’s Ascension to Power by Tony Cartalucci April 1, 2012 – Without so much as a shred of evidence to explain why, citing no polls or rationale, the Western corporate-media has prematurely declared Wall Street-London proxy Aung San Suu Kyi the wi ...
  • Mexican agents probe family in 3 ritual murder ...
          NACOZARI, Mexico (AP) — It was a family people took pity on, one the government and church helped with free food, used clothes, and farm animals. The men were known as trash pickers. Some of the women were suspected of prostitution. Mexican prosecutors are investigating the ...

The Air Vent

  • Earth Hour
    Earth hour approaches for the United States, with enough participation in the shut off everything campaign, we would actually be able to hard-stop the electric grid.   How cool would that be!  Days of restarting, tens of millions in cost, now that would send a real message.  To um….someone ...
  • Roy Spencer finds Scientific Proof of UHI, Cho ...
    McKitrick & Michaels Were Right: More Evidence of Spurious Warming in the IPCC Surface Temperature Dataset How can one explain such results, other than to conclude that there is spurious warming in the CRUTem3 dataset? I already see in the comments, below, that there are a few attempts to di ...
  • Extreme Opinions
    From a Bob Ferguson email, here is a collection of links to today’s great denier story.   A key theme expressed at skeptic blogs including this one is that the climate extremes predicted for so many years doesn’t exist.  It seems that the IPCC was forced to admit that non-alarmists h ...
  • Icicles in my livingroom
    This is a repost from Luboš Motl’s blog, the Reference Frame, with permission.   I read this when it was originally posted and believe that its message is far too often overlooked in the midst of the global warming alarmism.  In all likelihood, we will be working into an ice age in the nex ...
  • Rational Environmenalism
    I’ve had quite a bit of time to consider what I call rational environmentalism. There is a lifestyle that we live that I don’t believe we need to give back even one bit of comfort on. For instance, not showering when you want in order to save energy, cannot save enough energy to be w ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • This week’s headlines from across Inside Network
    A roundup of all the news Inside Network brought you from Mar. 26 to Apr. 1 Inside Mobile Apps Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms and virtual goods. Monday, Mar. 26 GREE’s second North American title sees players … Continue reading →
  • New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: ...
    The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities across social and mobile application platforms. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at: Spruce Media, Shutterstock Images, W3i, OfferPop, International Bu ...
  • Facebook roundup: platform updates, trading, I ...
    New platform policy more mindful of developer schedules – Facebook updated its policy to make any breaking changes to the API on the first Wednesday of every month. Previously, changes were pushed on the first of the month, which sometimes … Continue reading →
  • Romney leads, Gingrich loses fans, plus new in ...
    Apart from a few single-day dips this month, Mitt Romney leads the Republican presidential primary candidates in new Facebook Likes per day, according to our Inside Facebook Election Tracker. This week Newt Gingrich had several days of negative fan growth, … Continue reading →
  • Why Timeline engagement ‘studies’ should be ig ...
    In the lead-up to today’s mandatory switch to Timeline for pages, a number of companies released so-called studies about how the new design affects fan engagement rate. However, these reports — and many news outlets that covered them — completely … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • The Zionist cuckoos in Christianity's nest
    Stuart Littlewood views the ideology of Christian Zionism, which is rampant in the United States and has made some inroads in other "Christian" societies, and argues that, in essence, Christian Zionism is "a gross corruption of the biblical message".
  • Confined cruelty: Israeli treatment of Palesti ...
    Graham Peebles highlights Israel's systematic, barbarous practices against Palestinian children - practices that are carried out in violation of international law and obligations Israel had signed up to - and calls on the United Nations to "stand in the face of injustice, violence and hate to sa ...
  • Marwan Barghouti: Palestine's Nelson Mandela
    Uri Avnery views imprisoned Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti's message to the people of Palestine, which he has sent from his prison cell, in which he calls for an end to the "peace process" smokescreen for continued Israeli land thefts and a total boycott of Israel.
  • Israel's occupation: who is most "out of touch ...
    Alan Hart argues that while the UN Human Rights Council may well be a hypocritical body because it chooses to ignore numerous human rights abuses in Africa and Asia, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's attack on it for its decision to investigate the impact of Israeli colonies on the Pal ...
  • Who is normal? The case for "universal standar ...
    Lawrence Davidson argues for the adoption of universal standards of civilized normality based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. On that basis, he says one would find Israeli society chronically abnormal.

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

Afro Spear

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

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 ...
  • From "Earth Hour" to "Earth Summit": Let's Ig ...
    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 the awesome video below, ...
  • 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 ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Birthday Boy
    Happy birthday/April Fool’s to LGM co-founder R.M.F. Speaking of the embedded band, djw and the author happened to be at a conference in Portland for a DBT gig at the Crystal Ballroom last week, the first one I’ve seen since Shonna Tucker’s departure.  Despite two slightly supp ...
  • The New Criterion
    I’ve said this before with respect to some of its associates, but the operating principle of the journal seems to be people congratulating themselves for their highbrow intellectual superiority while oddly never displaying it.
  • Where the Qualified Women At?
    Amazingly, never in the rolodex.
  • How Can I Sleep When Our Couches are Burning?
    Some preparatory celebration… Jubilation over the University of Kentucky’s win over the University of Louisville quickly turned into scenes of couch-burning mayhem in key celebratory areas around campus. State Street, which had become the epicenter of couch burning in recent weeks, w ...
  • Kentucky Basketball Tonight
    In the course of what amounts to an aesthetic argument on behalf of the Louisville Cardinals, Dennis Berman argues: This should be a moment of elation for Kentucky fans. Their team plays a ruthlessly beautiful brand of basketball. Their starting lineup is better than the New Jersey Nets. And yet ...

Desert Research Institute

  • DRI's Net Zero Building Honored by USGBC and ...
    The Desert Research Institute’s Net Zero Building was honored by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) and Senator Harry Reid at the USGBC Northern Nevada Chapter luncheon for its goals and plans to create an independently sustainable structure.
  • DRI's Net Zero Building Honored by USGBC and ...
    The Desert Research Institute’s Net Zero Building was honored by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) and Senator Harry Reid at the USGBC Northern Nevada Chapter luncheon for its goals and plans to create an independently sustainable structure.
  • DoE/NNSA Contract Extension
    DRI secured a new Technical Research, Engineering, and Development Services contract with the U.S. Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration. The contract extends until October 31, 2016 and has a ceiling value of $35,926,593. DRI supports the nationally important missions of ...
  • DoE/NNSA Contract Extension
    DRI secured a new Technical Research, Engineering, and Development Services contract with the U.S. Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration. The contract extends until October 31, 2016 and has a ceiling value of $35,926,593. DRI supports the nationally important missions of ...
  • DRI Researcher Featured in Scientific American
    The February Edition of Scientific American features the work of DRI’s Joseph McConnell, Ph.D. The article includes interviews with several scientists whose research examines how dust influences climate and cloud formation—and the fertilization of oceans and rain forests.

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • The NLJ 250 Regional Report
    Our report on NLJ 250 survey results by region examines the top 25 U.S. markets, the top international markets, and provides data on where law firms are committing their lawyers. Plus, a firm-by-firm listing of nearly 3,000 NLJ 250 regional offices.
  • THE GO-TO SCHOOLS: It's tough out there
    Our annual report on the 50 law schools that NLJ 250 law firms relied upon the most to fill their first-year associate classes during 2011. Plus, the law schools that saw the most alumni promoted to partner at NLJ 250 firms in 2011.
  • TOP VERDICTS & WINNING
    Our special report on litigation includes our annual look at the top 100 verdicts of the year and "Winning," which explores successful trial strategies by top litigators.
  • Health Care at the Supreme Court
    On the final day of argument before the U.S. Supreme Court over the Affordable Care Act — better known as the Obama administration's health care reform law — the justices considered what would happen if they strike down the individual mandate. The choice, as Justice Ruth Bader Ginsb ...
  • THE GLOBAL LAWYER: The Court and alien tort suits
    Kiobel is apparently an alien tort Rorschach test; judges see in it what they wish to see.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

  • World Goes Dark for Earth Hour 2012
    Earth Hour was launched in 2007 in Australia by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). It aims to call for people, organizations and cities to turn off their non-essential light for one hour starting at 8:30 p.m. local time.
  • KPLT Militant Killed In Assam
    A hardcore militant of Karbi People's Liberation Tigers (KPLT) was killed and two others injured in an encounter with security forces in Parkalangso, Assam.
  • Is Media Safe From Interference In India?
    The arrest of eminent Indian journalist, Syed Kazmi and a midnight police raid of Frontline magazine Delhi Bureau chief begs the question, is media safe?
  • New Postage Stamps Dedicated to Autism Awareness
    People with autism are equal citizens who should enjoy all human rights and fundamental freedoms, Mr. Ban added.
  • Three Federal Judges Strike Down Gun Bans
    Yesterday, a Federal judge in North Carolina struck down that state's ban on carrying firearms in public during declared states of emergency.

environment 360

  • Shell’s Spill Response Plan Is Approved by U.S ...
    The U.S. Department of the Interior has approved Shell Oil’s plan to respond to an oil spill in the Arctic’s Beaufort Sea, clearing the way for exploratory drilling this summer. The decision follows similar U.S. government approval for a spill response plan in the Chukchi Sea, and Shell said tha ...
  • New EPA Rules Will Limit CO2 Emissions from Po ...
    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expected to impose a limit on greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants, a strict new regulation that could prevent conventional coal-fired power plants from being built. In new rules to be announced as soon as Tuesday, the EPA will require ...
  • Auction of Ivory in China Spurring Illegal Mar ...
    A new report says that the illegal trade in ivory has risen sharply in China in recent years, with nearly 90 percent of the ivory purchased at “legal” auctions obtained from illegal sources. According to the report, published by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), a decision by the Con ...
  • Denmark Aims to Achieve 35 Percent Green Energ ...
    The Danish government has approved a series of goals to significantly reduce its carbon emissions and increase its use of green energy by 2020, an “ambitious green transition” officials say will affect all levels of society. The agreement, which was approved by parliament last week, targets cutt ...
  • Shunning Nuclear Power Will Lead to a Warmer World
    A physicist argues that if we allow our overblown and often irrational fears of nuclear energy to block the building of a significant number of new nuclear plants, we will be choosing a far more perilous option: the intensified burning of planet-warming fossil fuels. BY SPENCER R. WEART

Red Ice Creations

  • Soviet-Swedish Social Services Kidnap and Abus ...
    It’s been called one of the worst cases of government abuse ever committed against a home schooling family: the abduction by Swedish authorities of Domenic Johansson, a happy, healthy, 7-year-old boy taken from his parents Christer and Annie Johansson in 2009 as they waited to leave Sweden on a ...
  • The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy ...
    The spring air in the small, sand-dusted town has a soft haze to it, and clumps of green-gray sagebrush rustle in the breeze. Bluffdale sits in a bowl-shaped valley in the shadow of Utah’s Wasatch Range to the east and the Oquirrh Mountains to the west. It’s the heart of Mormon country, where re ...
  • It’s Robert Green’s Birthday on Tuesday the 27 ...
    Please drop him a line or send him a card to show him your support. Robert wants to say a huge ’thank you’ to everyone who has written to him since he was imprisoned - it has really touched him to know that he is in people’s thoughts. He said that to date he has received letters from 22 countrie ...
  • Sarkozy: Prosecute and Imprison Readers of "Ex ...
    French president Nicolas Sarkozy didn’t wait long to exploit the terror rampage of Mohammed Merah. Soon after Merah’s death in a stand-off with police, Sarkozy said French citizens who visit "extremist" websites should be treated the same way as those who look at child pornography. "Anyone who r ...
  • Inception becomes reality? Two teams of scient ...
    The idea of the surreal film, Inception, where people ’plant’ an idea in someone else’s head may not be so out-there after all. Two teams of scientists have found ways to create false memories, and implant them into the brain at will - although for now, the technique only works in mice. Memories ...

Russia Today

  • Israel to scale down intelligence in Iran - of ...
    Israeli intelligence are scaling down their covert operations in Iran and spy recruitment, Israeli security officials say. This would also imply a cutback in alleged high-profile missions such as assassinations and... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • CIA ‘should pay for Nazi-like Poland prison’
    The smoldering scandal around an alleged CIA secret prison in Poland has exploded again, as charges have been brought against the country's former intelligence chief for allowing the site. For years, Poland’s top... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Clinton, Biden call out Romney for ‘Cold War’ ...
    US Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in separate comments, have criticized Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney over perceived tardiness in judging Russia in Cold War terms. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Siberian plane crash kills 31 (VIDEO, PHOTOS)
    A passenger jet has crashed early Monday morning in Russia's Tyumen region, in Siberia. The country’s Emergencies Ministry says at least 31 people out of the 43 onboard were killed. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Argentina: From Falklands Blitz to ‘Treaty of ...
    Thirty years ago, Argentina’s ruling regime occupied the Falkland/Malvinas Islands, only to surrender 74 days later to Margaret Thatcher’s Task Force. The defeat paved the way for Argentina’s very own degrading “Treaty... Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

  • Despite the UN brokered ‘peace’ tr ...
    The New York Times today reports… ISTANBUL — ‘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 to send commu ...
  • How many children are stolen away from Mexican ...
    This case got reported but how many cases similar in nature do not get noticed by anybody at all except by the heart broken left to rot in Mexico away from their own kids? Deported to Mexico, a father hopes for custody with his three boys back in North Carolina, where foster parents want to [...]
  • Baltimore police arrest 4 Black children out o ...
    …The Baltimore police had teachers call 4 elementary school kids out of their classes to the principal’s office, where they were then handcuffed and hauled away cuffed to jail, without their parents being called at all! This, for a supposed crime that had occurred 9 days previously! ...
  • Poland charges their ex head cop with helping ...
    What? Did you miss this in the US corporate news? So did I… Imagine that? See the Washington Times report about this world news…Newspaper says Poland’s ex-intelligence chief charged in alleged torture at secret CIA prison
  • We want an arrest. Shot in the chest!
    Thousands upon thousands of marchers today were active nationwide demanding that justice be served on George Zimmerman for his assassination of Travon Martin in Florida, with whom he started a confrontation with because he thought it suspicious that a Black teenager was walking in his neighborho ...

Debunking the Debunkers

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

Fooducate

  • BREAKING: Coke, Pepsi to Slash 30% of Sugar fr ...
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! A few weeks ago we wrote about a product formulation change by cola manufacturers, including Pepsi and Coca Cola, modifying the type of caramel coloring used in order to avoid being labeled as carcinogenic. B ...
  • Closeup Picture: The Red Bugs in Your Starbuck ...
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! Tiny red bugs were all the rage this week as news of their presence in Starbucks strawberry drink spread across the web. The news was broken by a vegan barista who shared it with vegetarian blogs. Starbucks d ...
  • Healthy Apple Crisp: Cute & Yummy
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! This is a guest post by Lisa Cain, PhD, a.k.a Snack-Girl Many of us are on the hunt for a dessert that is both satisfying and healthy. I’ve been asked for a redo of creme brulee (which isn’t gonna ...
  • Studies: Popcorn, Chocolate Good for Health
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! Snackers of the world – rejoice. Two recent studies are telling us Fooducate’s favorite snacks are healthy! Woo hoo! Research conducted at the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania has found that ...
  • Allergies, Warning Labels, and Dilemmas
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! Food allergies affect about 10-15 million Americans today. Interestingly, a similar number of people believe they have an allergy as well! How could this be? To answer, first let’s understand what a foo ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • 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 ...

Greg Palast

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle large (catering siz ...
    Sam has emailed asking about large food cans: I have a number of large metal food cans, some zinc lined, which are called #10 size. They hold about 5 or 6 lbs (just under 3kg) of beans, or other foods. Now that they’re empty, they are open on one end, with no plastic lid to [...]
  • She recycled that! Upcycling novelty hats into ...
    Last September, Karen emailed us about the vast collection of novelty jester hats that her boyfriend had collected at various carnivals and festivals over the years. She wanted to know how she could reuse or recycle them as she hadn’t had much success giving them away. Lots of people made ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle wallpaper samples?
    Following on from the paint tester pots the other week, I’ve got some wallpaper samples that have served their purpose too. I really can’t wait for our renovations to be over! Like the paint, the samples were to check out ideas/colours/designs in-situ. Some of them were torn from rol ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle medical plastic tubing?
    We’ve had an email from Janette asking about medical plastic tubing: I need to know how I might reuse/recycle medical plastic tubing. My husband uses an oxygen tank and the cannula (clear plastic tubing) needs to be changed every two weeks. After the nasal clip is removed, biowaste/garbage ...
  • What can I reuse or recycle as moulds for maki ...
    We asked about stuff to reuse/recycle as homemade soup moulds not too long ago but Danell has messaged with a variation on that theme: I want to melt old crayon stubs together to make new crayons for kids. I know I could use old muffin tins or ice cube trays, neither of which I have, [...]

Age of Autism

  • Fool Me Once…
    By Cathy Jameson Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice, shame on you. I often write about my son Ronan here. He’s my inspiration and the reason I work so hard in the autism community. Ronan, despite the...
  • Olmsted and Blaxill Talk Shocking Autism Rates ...
    EDITOR'S NOTE: The shocking new autism numbers from the CDC were discussed by Dan Olmsted on the Gary Null radio program, and Mark Blaxill on the Robert Scott Bell Show. You can listen at the links below -- both load...
  • Tell Politicians, President, HHS About NYC Pre ...
    Autism Rate Now 1 in 88, 1 in 54 Boys; What Will it Take for the Feds to Act? CLICK HERE to alert your Senator, Represenatative and President Obama about the reality of the autism epidemic. “When will the federal...
  • Watch Fox & Friends Sunday On Lack of Governme ...
    Watch EBCALA's Communications Director Becky Estepp on Fox and Friends on Sunday, April 1st with Alisyn Camerota at 8:45am EDT on Sunday, April 1st. Becky will be talking about the new autism prevalence of 1 in 88 kids and discussing...
  • Rebecca Estepp on Fox News "Autism Is an Epidemic"
    Please click Fox 5 San Diego to hear Rebecca Estepp discuss the shocking 1 in 88 autism numbers, 1 in 54 for boys. Having a boy? Light it up blue might mean far more than just the color of your...

Global BDS Movement

  • New York activists make “TIAA-CREF’s Checkpoin ...
    To mark Palestinian Land Day and the global BDS Day of Action, Adalah-NY, Hunter College SJP, NYU SJP, and the Global Justice group at Occupy Wall Street have teamed up to create “TIAA-CREF’s Checkpoint Reality Check.” This effort is part of the national campaign calling on TIAA-CREF to divest f ...
  • “Freedom for us all” music track launched for ...
    Durban-based artist and member of the South African Artists Against Apartheid collective, Iain EWOK Robinson, has released a music track, "Freedom for us All", as part of (and for) today's international "BDS Day of Action".
  • Palestinian rights activists join BDS Global D ...
    Supporters of Palestinian rights across the world have taken action in support of the campaign for boycotts, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel until it complies with international law to mark Palestinian Land Day on March 30.
  • BDS Global Day of Action 2012
    Follow the latest about the BDS Global Day of Action 2012
  • “Sí, se puede!” : Palestinian civil society sa ...
    The BNC salutes the National Movímíento Estudíantíl Chícan@ de Aztlán (M.E.Ch.A), the largest association of Latin@ youth in the US, for their landslide vote in support of the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign

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 ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Alert level raised for remote Alaska volcano
    Fox News – The alert level for a remote Alaska volcano has been raised again after scientists found another lava dome has formed in the crater in the last week. The Alaska Volcano Observatory on Wednesday increased the level for Cleveland Volcano, a 5,675-foot peak on uninhabited Chuginada ...
  • Italian volcano blows its top
    Apr. 01 – Mount Etna on the Italian island of Sicily erupts, sending lava and ash spewing into the sky. Andrew Raven reports. Link to Transcript page
  • Polish workers protest plan to hike retirement age
    HuffintonPost – Thousands of people from across Poland demonstrated noisily Friday outside Parliament to protest government plans to raise the retirement age to 67. The law currently allows women to retire at age 60 and men at 65, but Prime Minister Donald Tusk wants to raise the retiremen ...
  • Three deadly explosions hit Yala in southern T ...
    BBC – At least 10 people have been killed in three explosions in the southern Thai province of Yala, officials say. Yala Governor Dejrat Simsiri said the blasts occurred over 10 minutes at around midday (05:00 GMT) in the commercial district of Yala city. He said two of the bombs were hidd ...
  • FEATURE PAGE – Fluoridated Water
    Just why are we here are Open Your Eyes News leading the campaign against water fluoridation in our home city of Perth, Western Australia? Surely it’s good for your teeth? And we’re only talking about tiny amounts in just the water after-all? To find out the real facts on why we are ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • GM pulls support for Heartland Institute
    Citing its corporate stance that climate change is real, General Motors announced Wednesday that its General Motors Foundation would no longer be funding the Heartland Institute, a free-market think tank that has attacked human-caused global warming as “junk science.”
  • Ex-Obama green advisor Van Jones to address Oc ...
    Former Obama administration environmental advisor Van Jones will address an Occupy-related art show and protest training event in L.A. on Saturday titled " All in for the 99% ."
  • Hunters, anglers report warming winters bad fo ...
    The exceptionally warm winter of 2011-12 might be a nice respite for everyone, but the rising average winter temperatures are not a good thing for North American wildlife. In a new report released this week by the National Wildlife Federation, fishermen, hunters and other sportspersons discuss ...
  • Film 'Who Bombed Judi Bari?' shows at Laemmle ...
    The Sunday Los Angeles Times featured my story about the new documentary film, "Who Bombed Judi Bari?" which plays Wednesday at the Laemmle Monica in Santa Monica. Not only a gripping story about a campaign to save the last stands of coastal old-growth redwoods in California in the 1980s and ' ...
  • Obama limits carbon dioxide emissions from new ...
    As reported on the Los Angeles Times Politics Now blog, the Obama administration on Tuesday announced stringent rules to limit carbon dioxide emissions from new power plants. Most climate scientists say that carbon dioxide is the principal gas responsible for global warming.

water.org

  • Bringing joy with clean water
    "The pond water I was forced to get water from was very dirty and had a bad smell. Due to my distant walks to collect water, sometimes I was late to work. My daughters and I would also suffer from diarrhea, jaundice, dysentery and skin diseases because of the dirty pomd water. We are able to ge ...
  • Levi's Water
    Water.org and Levi's® Launch Water
  • Make Progress on Sanitation
    No invention has saved more lives than a toilet. More than 80% of sewage in developing countries is discharged untreated, polluting rivers, lakes and coastal areas. All because there is no infrastructure - a toilet, or city utilities - to flush away yesterday's meal. But that's not all. Toilets ...
  • Project4India: Vlogger Videos
    When we visited the field in India this February, we brought three of YouTube's most popular vloggers with us so that they could share their experiences with the world and tell their audience all about the water crisis. In celebration of World Water Day, they've each just released their first vi ...
  • Matt Damon and Gary White Ask For Your Help
    On a recent trip to the field in Haiti, Water.org Co-Founders Matt Damon and Gary White took a brief moment to talk about this year's World Water Day, and they want you to get involved!

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • What people will do for beauty: 8 Grossest Spa ...
    uh..the title says it all :) Submitted by Vicky Pitchford to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • White House sees more pain for Iran as it clea ...
    Aggressive war is illegal, immoral against nations that are no threat, is nonbelligerent & it is insane! Call your Reps. Tell your friends, rouse up the good folk in your church,mosque and synagouge. We must stop this exported violence or we are screwed. Submitted by michael h. to World   ...
  • Study: 400 Afghan women jailed for "moral crimes"
    In this Jan. 19, 2003 file photo, Zarghona, who is in prison because she left her first husband who abused her and forced her into prostitution, holds her seven-month-old son Balal and looks out through their cell window, at the Kabul Women's Prison in Submitted by Maria V. to World  |&nb ...
  • Tibetan singer detained and tortured
    25-year-old singer, Ugyen Tenzin, was detained last month soon after the release of his album titled, An Unending Flow of My Hearts Blood,.Unconfirmed reports said that Ugyen Tenzin has been beaten in custody and disabled a month after album released Submitted by Red Thorvenkiold to World &nb ...
  • Special Report: Intel shows Iran nuclear threa ...
    The United States, European allies and even Israel generally agree on three things about Iran's nuclear program: Tehran does not have a bomb, has not decided to build one, and is probably years away from having a deliverable nuclear warhead. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World  |  &n ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

  • World Goes Dark for Earth Hour 2012
    Earth Hour was launched in 2007 in Australia by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). It aims to call for people, organizations and cities to turn off their non-essential light for one hour starting at 8:30 p.m. local time.
  • KPLT Militant Killed In Assam
    A hardcore militant of Karbi People's Liberation Tigers (KPLT) was killed and two others injured in an encounter with security forces in Parkalangso, Assam.
  • Is Media Safe From Interference In India?
    The arrest of eminent Indian journalist, Syed Kazmi and a midnight police raid of Frontline magazine Delhi Bureau chief begs the question, is media safe?
  • New Postage Stamps Dedicated to Autism Awareness
    People with autism are equal citizens who should enjoy all human rights and fundamental freedoms, Mr. Ban added.
  • Three Federal Judges Strike Down Gun Bans
    Yesterday, a Federal judge in North Carolina struck down that state's ban on carrying firearms in public during declared states of emergency.

Worldnews

  • 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...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • Neues Datenmaterial zeigt mögliche Heilwi ...
    STAINES, England, March 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Die potenziell tödliche Clostridium-difficile-Infektion (CDI) ist eine der häufigsten durch Gesundheitspflege verursachten Infektionskrankheiten in Europa[1] Neues Datenmaterial, das beim 22. Europäischen Kongress...
  • Uranium Mines Dot Navajo Land, Neglected and S ...
    Scientists and Indian advocates question why the government is not acting more quickly on a cleanup.
  • Haiti’s Cholera Outraced the Experts and ...
    The world rallied to confront Haiti’s cholera, but the mission was muddled by the United Nations’ apparent role in setting off the epidemic and its unwillingness to acknowledge it.
  • Fish oil added to yogurt may help consumers me ...
    Many consumers want to increase their intake of heart-healthy n-3 fatty acids, found naturally in fish and fish products, but find it difficult to consume the levels recommended by the American Heart Association. Scientists have now demonstrated that it may be possible to achieve the suggested d ...
  • Well: Why 'Bully' Is a Family Film
    The new documentary "Bully" may shock parents, but very little of it is likely to surprise their school-age children.

Common Dreams

  • 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 ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

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

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • The Massacre of the Afghan 17 and the Obama Co ...
    James Petras The March 11 Massacre of the 17 Afghan citizens, including at least nine children and four women, raises many fundamental issues about the nature of a colonial war, the practices of a colonial army engaged in a prolonged (eleven-year) occupation and the character of an imperial sta ...
  • Freedom of religion cannot be exclusive
    Mary Shaw In recent years, the religious right have moved even farther to the right - to the fringes. Some have even expanded their war on women's reproductive rights to where they are condemning contraception. They even held Congressional hearings on the subject. This is despite the fact that ...
  • Imagining the Unthinkable
    by Stephen Lendman The combination of America's rage for war, its nuclear arsenal, and global delivery systems makes the unthinkable possible - nuclear war. On March 27, David Krieger and Daniel Ellsberg raised the possibility in their Christian Science Monitor article headlined, "For nuclear ...
  • FRACKING: Pennsylvania Gags Physicians (Part 1 ...
    by Walter Brasch A new Pennsylvania law endangers public health by forbidding health care professionals from sharing information they learn about certain chemicals and procedures used in high volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing. The procedure is commonly known as fracking. Fracking is the c ...
  • Legislating Greater Wall Street Theft
    by Stephen Lendman Political Washington is Wall Street's best friend. Whatever crooked bankers want they get. Their business model features grand theft. Wealth’s amassed through fraudulent double-dealing. Lawmakers facilitate their racketeering. They're rewarded in kind. Only fleeced ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Federal budget commentary and analysis
    The federal budget will leave Canadians peniless in more ways than one. Read CCPA's news release in reaction to the budget here. The following CCPA staff and research associates have posted their budget analysis on our blog (watch this space—we'll be posting links as they come in): Marc Lee: ...
  • Just Like Mike: Ontario Budget Analysis
    Over on our blog, Behind the Numbers, CCPA Research Associate Hugh Mackenzie shares his devastating critique of the Ontario budget. He suggests that Premier Dalton McGuinty’s ninth Ontario budget completes the job of cutting government down to size—a job started by the Mike Harris Conservatives ...
  • Brad Wall's Wonderful World of Laissez-Faire
    With the elimination of the Saskatchewan Film Employment Tax Credit and the certain demise of the film industry in the province, Premier Brad Wall asked: "If an industry cannot survive at all without a permanent taxpayer subsidy, should the taxpayers subsidize indefinitely?" The Saskatchewan Off ...
  • Tuition fees and accessibility to higher education
    This week, three hundred thousand students from 178 associations are boycotting their classes in Quebec to protest the provincial government's decision to raise tuition fees $325 a year for the next five years. CBC radio in Quebec City interviewed Erika Shaker, director of the CCPA's Education P ...
  • Jets and Jails or Jobs and Justice?
    Saskatchewan Director Simon Enoch discusses the upcoming federal budget and the CCPA's Alternative Budget with Prairie Dog's Gregory Beatty. Read more here. 

World Wide Hippies

  • Maybe We Just Need Some Beano
    Well, the gas prices are back up near $4.00. People are squawking. The blame game began and of course, it is all Obama’s fault. Oh how simple that answer is. Yep, blame the President, after all, he controls the prices. Let’s forget the facts, as we usually do.   Okay, the President is to bl ...
  • Can you identify me? I don’t find this amusing ...
    Worldwidehippies - You can call me Al. Al is not my name, or is it? I don’t find these guessing games amusing anymore. It’s been eight years since you found me. It’s been even longer since I died. I think its time someone finally figures out who I am. You think I sound angry? Well [...]
  • Last chance to be cool this Summer!
    Last week for Cheap Tee’s Reg. $15.00 Save 33% Now! We need your help! Check out our Store for other cool Hippie gear. When you do, you are showing your support for Citizen Journalism . You can also make a donation to Worldwide Hippies So we can keep up the “Howl” For Peace and ...
  • Worldwide Hippies Facts, Freaks and Groovy Things
    Dr. Woody’s Fabulous, Fascinating Factoid, #4: Gladiators Died Hard Where Have All the Neurotics Gone? By BENEDICT CAREY,nytimes - SOME  cultural archetypes leave the stage with a flourish, or at least some foot stomping. All those pith-helmeted colonialists, absinthe-addled poets and hipp ...
  • Worldwide Hippies Book Nook
    You cannot really see, until you can read… WWH – Book Nook will appear every Sunday here at WorldWide Hippies. We want to bring you some of the best writers and poets–whether they are new writers, weary older writers, experimental, funny, romantic, and innovative and energetic writers. You ...

FourWinds10

  • Oil Spill Gulf of Mexico 'Everything is dead o ...
    Oil Spill Gulf of Mexico "Everything is dead or dying"- Kindra Arnesan, Louisiana. September 2010 - IT IS NOT OVER. THE WELL CAP IS USELESS. Sealife is contaminated. Oil is continuing to show up daily.
  • Scientists find record level of shellfish toxi ...
    MUSSELS: Findings are most dangerous on record -- one mussel could kill several. KETCHIKAN -- State scientists looking into paralytic shellfish poisonings in Southeast Alaska have found the highest levels of toxin ever recorded, so high that just one mussel could cause death in several peopl &nb ...
  • Ocean Life on the Brink of Mass Extinctions
    ife in the oceans is at imminent risk of the worst spate of extinctions in millions of years due to threats such as climate change and over-fishing, a study showed on Tuesday. Time was running short to counter hazards such as a collapse of coral reefs or a spread of low-oxygen "dead zones,& ...
  • Exxon oil spill in Mont. river prompts evacuations
    LAUREL, Mont. (AP) — An ExxonMobil pipeline that runs under the Yellowstone River in Montana ruptured Saturday and leaked hundreds of barrels of oil into the waterway, causing a 25-mile plume that fouled the riverbank and forced municipalities and irrigation districts downstream to close i ...
  • Bishops, Nuns and Rabbis Debate Gas Fracking
    Associated Press= PITTSBURGH (AP) — Bishops, nuns and rabbis are joining the environmental and social debate over natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale region, and many are seeking a balance that reflects their congregations. "We have people's lives who are being blessed or ...

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Vinod Khosla, Cellulosic Ethanol, and Biomass ...
    In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer a few questions about pathways to biofuels, cellulosic ethanol, and Vinod Khosla. I have to apologize this week, because the microphone was a bit away from my mouth, so the volume is lower than normal. Some of the topics discussed thi ...
  • Setting the Record Straight on U.S. Oil Reserves
    The Difference Between Oil Shale and Oil from Shale Formations There has been some confusion lately about the overall extent of U.S. oil reserves. Some claim that the U.S. has hundreds of billions or even trillions of barrels of oil waiting to be produced if the Obama Administration will simply ...
  • Are You Looking to Invest in the Google of Bio ...
    The Big Names in Biofuels So you’re hoping to strike it rich by investing in LanzaTech. Or Solazyme. Or KiOR. Or Gevo. After all, these companies have all recently had high-profile IPOs, and they are clearly “hot” given all of the press coverage devoted to them. So perhaps you ...
  • Oil Dependence — Tom Friedman’s False Narrative
    Twisting Facts to Support an Agenda Thomas L. Friedman, a New York Times Op-Ed Columnist, frequently writes on the topic of energy and the environment. One persistent habit he has is to omit certain important facts from a story — facts so important that they would greatly undermine the poi ...
  • Global Warming Primer & Natural Gas Vehicles — ...
    In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer questions about compressed natural gas (CNG) vehicles, and talk a little bit about global warming. Some of the topics discussed are: The environmental footprint of a CNG vehicle versus an electric vehicle operating on natural gas-deri ...

Discovery Educator Network

  • How Infographics Accelerate Learning | Edudemic
    Tags: infographics, learning, infographic, statistics, edudemic, visualliteracyby: Dean Mantz
  • Wonderopolis » Blog Archive » Do Llamas Really ...
    Comments:Every day Wonderopolis posts a question one might wonder about. There is a picture with the question and sometimes a video. You can read further to find the answer to the question. A great discussion starter and then practice reading skill by reading the answer then maybe do a summar ...
  • Make Your Images Interactive - ThingLink
    Comments:Take a picture and icons and make them interactive links.  - Dean MantzTags: interactive, ThingLink, engagement, creativity, linksby: Dean Mantz
  • Home | City Technology
    Comments:Partnership between college faculty, elementary teachers, and students.  Based on National Science Foundation  - Dean MantzTags: science, technology, elementary, exploration, learning, creativityby: Dean Mantz
  • Historical Movie Trailers with iMovie - HCSMobile
    Comments:Great use of Discovery Education videos and student creativity for student assessment.  Create video trailers to assess learning.  - Dean MantzTags: history, trailers, socialstudies, imovie, iPadby: Dean Mantz

Rodale News

  • Autism Rate Soars Nearly 80 Percent
    Autism rates are nearly 80 percent higher than they were just a decade ago, according to a new U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report released Thursday. The drastic increase is largely credited to improvements in detection, although mounting research suggests interplay between g ...
  • FDA: We Won't Ban BPA (For Now)
    Two weeks after a landmark study found hormone-disrupting chemicals like bisphenol A (BPA) are unsafe even in tiny doses, the Food and Drug Administration announced it would not ban the substance in food packaging, at least for now. Since the FDA BPA ban is not happening, food manufacturers wil ...
  • Major Clue Points to Farm Chemical's Role in M ...
    Italian researchers are the latest to identify a common chemical coating applied to corn seeds as a possible culprit in the colony collapse disorder epidemic that has been wiping out honeybee populations around the world. If the suspicions of more and more researchers prove true, chemical farm ...
  • Everyday Chemicals: What You Need to Know
    It seems like not a week goes by without a study linking a common household product—or its ingredients—to one serious health problem or other. Whether it's BPA in cans causing heart attacks and cancer or fake fragrances in personal care products inducing early puberty in girls, the deluge of wh ...
  • The One-Pot Herb Garden
    Sure, there's a science to growing herbs, but it's not hard to learn. Herbs are probably the easiest foods to grow if you've never gardened before and don't require much attention or space. If you have a sunny window or a small patio, you can grow multiple varieties and use them in your cooking ...

big think

  • Truth and Fiction in Mad Men
    Matt Steinglass, my colleague at The Economist's Democracy in America blog, notes that a scene in the season premiere of Mad Men widely panned by critics is based closely on historical fact. He then asks: Are the critics right to say that in judging whether this scene in "Mad Men ...
  • Field of Neuroscience Uncovered as Giant Hoax
    What's the Latest Development? The nation's leading neuroscientists, including top researchers at Harvard and Stanford, called a surprise press conference this morning, April 1st, to come clean on how they have deceived the public for years. "We're always qualifying our conclusions by re ...
  • Keys to Creativity: Daydreaming, Persistence, ...
    What's the Latest Development? While creativity is often thought of ephemeral and serendipitous, individuals and companies can take concrete steps to establish the conditions under which creativity is more likely to thrive. For individuals, it means letting go of finding the perfect solu ...
  • How a Second Language Rewires Your Brain
    What's the Latest Development? Using an artificial 13-world language called Brocanto2, scientists have concluded that even adult brains, which struggle to pick up new languages, can mimic the brain patterns of native speakers. Scientists at Georgetown and the U of Illinois divided a grou ...
  • In Praise of Etch-a-Sketch Politics and Politi ...
    The Etch-a-Sketch to which Mitt Romney has been disparagingly likened is a wonderful toy. The Ohio Art Company invented it in 1960, and it was one of the original inductees into the National Toy Hall of Fame in 1998. The Etch-a-Sketch is a mechanical drawing toy, a portable drafting tabl ...

Information Liberation

  • Iran Like You've Never Seen It [Pics]
    "Some pictures from my homeland, Iran." Via r/pics...
  • The U.S. Military and Massacres
    The murderous rampage of U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales in Afghanistan has received much deserved media attention. Sgt. Bales*s shooting spree, killing 17 Afghan civilians, was quickly condemned by the Obama administration as a horrible incident a...
  • Felony Charges Dropped Against Man For Filming ...
    A North Port man arrested on a felony charge in January for taking video of police working a traffic stop will not be prosecuted, the State Attorney's office announced Thursday. Steve Horrigan, 57, was charged with felony eavesdropping and misdeme...
  • Army Officially Reprimands Soldier Who Spoke A ...
    The uniformed solider who endorsed Ron Paul during a rally in Iowa in January has been officially reprimanded by the US Army. After being cut short during a CNN interview on January 3, Reserve Corporal Jesse Thorsen, who has served two tours in ...
  • Judge acquits Hutaree militia members of consp ...
    DETROIT * A federal judge Tuesday acquitted seven Hutaree members of all conspiracy charges, concluding the government didn't have enough evidence that the group plotted a violent revolt that included killing a police officer and bombing a funeral. ...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Power In All The Wrong Hands
    I’m still rather tied up, so I thought as a bit of a change of pace,  I’d direct you to a rather marvellous article from the von Mises Institute: The Seven Rules of Bureaucracy. Had me in stitches at several … Continue reading →
  • Only In America
    I’m exaggerating. It’s de rigeur an any dictatorship worthy of the name. But the Executive Order of President Barack Hussein Obama, signed last Friday, is gob-smacking in its scope and abandonment of all pretence of congressional democracy. Go have a … Continue reading →
  • More Dollars Than Sense
    Still hammering away on my next thread, so I thought I’d ask you about the topic currently doing the rounds over at DT: “Quantitative Easing”, or QE. Actually, it’s printing money to you and me, but that can be misleading, … Continue reading →
  • Agree Or Else Part II – The Silencing Of ...
    Our God-Emperor beat me to it. The Australian Government’s Finkelstein Report, released last Friday, is the stuff of all freedom-loving people’s nightmares. It proposes the establishment of a new bureaucracy, the News Media Council, to “regulate” all forms of print &#8230 ...
  • Agree Or Else Part II – The Silencing Of ...
    Our God-Emperor beat me to it. The Australian Government’s Finkelstein Report, released last Friday, is the stuff of all freedom-loving people’s nightmares. It proposes the establishment of a new bureaucracy, the News Media Council, to “regulate” all forms of print &#8230 ...

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Fenland Study follow-up – part 1
    Regular readers will know that I was recruited via my GP to take part in the Fenland Study. The study is taking a sample of the population born between 1950 and 1975, and carrying out a raft of blood tests, body stature measurements, DEXA body fat and bone density and tests for diabetes, cholest ...
  • Planetary landers, caffeine, sulfa drugs and c ...
    The latest issue of my SpectroscopyNOW column is now live. This weeK: US researchers are developing the next generation of laser ablation technology, which might one day be used in a future planetary lander to carry out isotopic analysis of a planets surface, for instance, and so allow precise & ...
  • More red meat risk analysis
    NHS Choices finally published its critique of the Harvard red meat research that had the tabloids screaming that meat kills earlier this week. I provided some commentary on Sciencebase soon after. Anyway, this is what NHS Choices concludes: “This study had several strengths including its s ...
  • Can you see the Man in the Moon?
    Quite coincidentally, given the moon hour-by-hour video I posted earlier today, a press release just arrived waxing lyrical about gazing up at the night sky and seeing the familiar face of the “Man in the Moon”. The synchronous rotation of the Moon means it takes about the same amoun ...
  • Processed meat, fillet steak and death
    I was planning to write an “appraisal” of the Harvard study on meat and risk of death that hit the news today, but have been so busy procrastinating lately that another blog has beaten me to it. Apparently, we should all be eating less meat, particularly processed meat like sausages, ...

RFF Library

  • Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disas ...
    Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change | WHO | UNEP http://ipcc-wg2.gov/SREX/ [From a Washington Post article by Juliet Eilperin and Brian Vastag]  Scientists are increasingly confident that the uptick in heat waves and heavier rainfall is linked to human-caused greenhouse gas emiss ...
  • Carbon Pollution Standard for New Power Plants
    US EPA http://epa.gov/carbonpollutionstandard/ [From an EPA Press Release] Following a 2007 Supreme Court ruling, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today proposed the first Clean Air Act standard for carbon pollution from new power plants…The rulemaking proposed today only con ...
  • The Economic Impact of a Regional Low Carbon F ...
    Report title:  “Analysis of the Economic Impact of a Regional Low Carbon Fuel Standard on Northeast/Mid-Atlantic States: Final Report” From the Consumer Energy Alliance http://bit.ly/H4LJoL (report) http://bit.ly/H9oX1Z (press release) [From a Greenwire article by Amanda Peterka, sub ...
  • EPA Power Plant Standards: A Powerful Catalyst ...
    Union of Concerned Scientists / by Rachel Cleetus http://www.ucsusa.org/clean_energy/solutions/big_picture_solutions/epa-regulations-electicity-reliability.html [From a Climate Wire article by Tiffany Stecker, sub. req'd] The economic viability of coal is steadily eroding, as low natural gas pri ...
  • Poll: Americans Split on Energy vs. Environmen ...
    Gallup http://www.gallup.com/poll/153404/Americans-Split-Energy-Environment-Trade-Off.aspx [From Website]  Americans are about as likely to say production of energy supplies (47%) should be prioritized as to say environmental protection (44%) should be, a closer division than last year, when ene ...

Scientific American - News

  • Live Webcast: Xenophobia--Why Do We Fear Others?
    Join a panel of scientists, scholars and public intellectuals, including primatologist Frans de Waal, international economic advisor and Earth Institute Director Jeffrey Sachs, experimental social psychologist Steven Neuberg, cognitive neuroscientist Rebecca Saxe, physicist and mathematician Fre ...
  • New Images of Titanic Wreck Revealed
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  • Radioactive Iodine from Fukushima Found in Cal ...
    LONG BEACH, Calif. – Kelp off Southern California was contaminated with short-lived radioisotopes a month after Japan’s Fukushima accident, a sign that the spilled radiation reached the state’s urban coastline, according to a new scientific study. [More]
  • 'Earth Hour' Pauses at U.S. Border
    Consider an hour without power, from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. Saturday, local time. Organizers say as many as 1.8 billion will join in the symbolic environmental event worldwide. But if you live in the US, your neighbors may think you just blew a fuse.   [More]
  • Fossil Free: Microbe Helps Convert Solar Power ...
    A new " bioreactor " could store electricity as liquid fuel with the help of a genetically engineered microbe and copious carbon dioxide. The idea--dubbed " electrofuels " by a federal agency funding the research--could offer electricity storage that would have the energy den ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Making the Case for Higher Taxes
    Group calls for tax rates on the rich to be returned to pre-2000 levels A forum this Sunday put on by a new local group, Nova Scotians for Tax Fairness, is premised on one simple idea: the rich should pay more in taxes. “When you star ...
  • Osgoode Police Brutality Podcast
    TMC and MediaWrench talk to witnesses of Osgoode arrests Jared Khan of MediaWrench and TMC's own Darryl Richardson talk to witnesses of the police brutality that occured at Osgoode Hall today.
  • Police Brutality at Osgoode Hall
    4 occupiers arrested, 2 beaten, 3 arrests for simply recording First names used by request.  Behind Osgoode Hall at around 2:00pm today Angela sent out a text that police were at Osgoode Hall with an eviction notice. The occupiers comp ...
  • DTES Interim Rezoning Guidelines a Mixed Bless ...
    Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories – March 30, 2012 – The Low Income community won at least a partial victory on Wednesday when the city passed a set of Interim Rezoning Guidelines for the Downtown Eastside. These guidelines, originally meant to last for a year, were supposed to pro ...
  • Ontario pays mining corp to avoid conflict wit ...
    God's Lake Resources make milions without digging for gold In the face of a looming conflict, the Ontario government has paid out $3.5 million to junior gold mining company God's Lake Resources (GLR) to surrender their mining claim ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Conservatives or neo-fascists?
    David Seaton's News LinksI would think it important to separate this new "conservatism" from the traditional variety. Remember the American vice is to use language to hide meaning. I’ll quote myself from an earlier post:One of the most disturbing things about America is the incoherence of ...
  • Why are the Republicans so weird?
    David Seaton's News LinksThis blog post, by the excellent Thomas Edsall, makes some very interesting points about the make-up of the Republican electorate. In the GOP’s South Carolina primary, 98% of those who voted were white: this in a state where nearly 28% of the population is black. Rep ...
  • Mohammed Merah, the monster of Toulouse
    David Seaton's News LinksThe  question we must ask is; was Mohammed Merah really a trained terrorist or simply a nut?We know practically nothing about Mohammed Merah. As far as we can see he acted totally alone, with only a handgun: nothing complicated like explosives was involved.Right n ...
  • When is a conservative not a conservative?
    David Seaton's News LinksAt a Tea Party rally in Troy, Michigan, the GOP presidential contender Rick Santorum said this: "President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob!" To rapturous applause, Santorum went on: "There are good, decent men and women who go ...
  • China: capitalism, democracy and sovereignty
    David Seaton's News Links China is an authoritarian state, run in Leninist fashion by a communist party and at the same time a vital player, perhaps, alongside the United States, the key player in the international capitalist system. We wish it were more democratic. Perhaps we should be ca ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • NBC Jumps the Shark on George Zimmerman
    According to the Today show, here's what George Zimmerman said to a 911 dispatcher as he was trailing Trayvon Martin last February: Zimmerman: This guy looks like he’s up to no good. He looks black. What a racist! Obviously Zimmerman had a real hang-up about black kids. But no. It ...
  • Me and my iPad
    You've probably all been wondering about me and my new toy. "I wonder how Kevin likes reading on an iPad?" you've been asking yourself. "I sure wish he'd write a blog post telling us." OK, fine. I will. I'm not sure if I'm surprised by this or not, but I like it a lot. I bought a Kindle a few y ...
  • Facebook and the Creep Factor
    A few days ago I finished reading Rule 34, which reminded me once again that I should probably read Charlie Stross's blog more regularly. But of course, I did nothing about this because I'm a lazy sod and I had other things on my mind. Now Brad DeLong reminds me again, by linking to Stross, wh ...
  • Maybe We Really Do Have the Government We Deserve
    I just turned on the TV for a few minutes and switched to MSNBC. Where I found Rachel Maddow going on and on about the fact that Mitt Romney once called the residents of Afghanistan "Afghanis" instead of Afghans. That got tedious after the fifth or sixth bit of snark, so I switched over to Fox. ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging - 30 March 2012
    On the left we have a cat and her shadow. On the right, we have a shadowy cat. Or, more accurately, a snoozing cat who wants to know when I'm going to put my stupid human toy away and let him get back to his nap. Need more cats? Coming right up. Here's the story of Vincent, a homeless stray w ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 312: How to be THE Black Friend
    Topics: April Movies and upcoming Trailers Kev & the born again virgin No blowjobs for life Why Jesus won’t let Kriss win the Mega Millions The Pope & why we let religious leaders get away with bigotry Religion isn’t an excuse for bigotry Pat Robertson’s greatest hits ...
  • The Roast of Joe Oliver
    After eviscerating the stories being passed through the media about Trayvon Martin by the Sanford Police department, the Orlando Sentinel and Craig Sonner, George Zimmerman’s lawyer, you would think any Zimmerman supporter would think twice about going on and confronting Lawrence.  Well, J ...
  • Lawrence O’Donnell Dropping Ether
    I have a general dislike for most of the media, particularly 24 hour cable news networks.  24 hours of non-stop coverage and yet I feel like we’re getting even less real information and becoming less informed the more we watch.  The same stories rehashed from hour to hour, the same guests recycl ...
  • IC 311: More Great Moments In White Privilege
    Topics: Bioware Mass Effect 3 update Michael Bay and the Ninja Turtles Extra raunchy & sexual comedy isn’t funny Dane Cook sucks President Obama Comments on Trayvon Martin The Trayvon Martin Case & White Privilege George Zimmerman’s friends defend him Racist don’t kil ...
  • IC 310: The Stop Michael Bay Foundation
    Topics: Movie news Disney bombs with John Carter Why John Carter was doomed from the beginning Michael Bay looks to rape the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles legacy Crazy lady goes nuts in class over evolution How to deal with crazy Trayvon Martin updates Larry Elder is a sad excuse for a man Toure ...

Simple Climate

  • Volunteer computers broaden climate model fore ...
    Dan Rowlands from Oxford Universty and colleagues run a 10,000 simulation experiment using donated computer time, finding the upper range of likely warming in 2050 could be nearer to 3ºC rather than 2ºC higher than the average from 1961-1990
  • Climate models pass prehistoric test
    US Geological Survey scientist Harry Dowsett and a worldwide team of expert climate modellers and temperature sleuths show four models can generally describe a 300,000 year warming period 3,000,000 years ago.
  • Complete organic crop switch would raise UK em ...
    Agricultural consultant Rob Carlton and colleagues suggests leaving more plant waste in fields is the best way to cut greenhouse gases produced by arable farming, though he still holds out hope for bringing the best bits of organic and conventional methods together.
  • Thick ice decline could advance watery Arctic ...
    NASA scientist Joey Comiso reveals a faster loss of supposedly less vulnerable “multiyear” ice that could see summer Northern polar ice melt into history, bringing further climate and food chain problems.
  • Melting sea ice plays critical role in winter ...
    Georgia Institute of Technology's Jiping Liu and colleagues have revealed evidence that shrinking Arctic ice is allowing more water into the atmosphere and slowing the jet stream so the moisture can move southward and fall as snow.

e!Science News

  • Metformin appeared to slow prostate cancer growth
    The use of metformin in men with prostate cancer before prostatectomy helped to reduce certain metabolic parameters and slow the growth rate of the cancer, according to the results of a phase II study. read more
  • New comparison of ocean temperatures reveals r ...
    A new study contrasting ocean temperature readings of the 1870s with temperatures of the modern seas reveals an upward trend of global ocean warming spanning at least 100 years. read more
  • NIH study finds women spend longer in labor no ...
    Women take longer to give birth today than did women 50 years ago, according to an analysis of nearly 140,000 deliveries conducted by researchers at the National Institutes of Health. The researchers could not identify all of the factors that accounted for the increase, but concluded that the ch ...
  • Tales from the crypt lead researchers to cance ...
    Tales from the crypt are supposed to be scary, but new research from Vanderbilt University, the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, and colleagues shows that crypts can be places of renewal too: intestinal crypts, that is. Intestinal crypts are small areas of the intestine where new cells a ...
  • Making mice comfy leads to better science, St ...
    Nine out of 10 drugs successfully tested in mice and other animal models ultimately fail to work in people, and one reason may be traced back to a common fact of life for laboratory mice: they're cold, according to a researcher at the Stanford University School of Medicine. read more

unEarthed

Brave New Climate

  • Environmentalism in the mud: responding to Jim ...
    Guest Post by Ben Heard. Ben is Director of Adelaide-based advisory firm ThinkClimate Consulting, a Masters graduate of Monash University in Corporate Environmental Sustainability, and a member of the TIA Environmental and Sustainability Action Committee. After several years with major consultin ...
  • Dietary Guidelines Committee ignores climate c ...
    Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. His recently published book is CSIRO Perfidy. His previous article on BNC was: Feeding the billions on a hotter planet (Part III). He also wrote a brilliant recent piece for The ...
  • Further critique of ’100% renewable elec ...
    Recently on BNC, I ran two guest posts on the economic and technical challenges of supplying an energy-intensive, developed-world market using 100% renewable sources (under a situation where large hydro and/or conventional geothermal can provide little or no contribution). The case study was the ...
  • How realistic is The Economist’s cool vi ...
    Last week, the influential weekly news and international affairs publication, The Economist, ran an essay on the future of nuclear energy – The dream that failed: Nuclear power will not go away, but its role may never be more than marginal. As you might have guessed from the title, it was ...
  • IFR FaD 11 – sodium coolant and pool design
    This is the second of a four-part series of extracts from the book Plentiful Energy — The story of the Integral Fast Reactor by Chuck Till and Yoon Chang. Reproduced with permission of the authors, these sections describe and justify some of the key design choices that went into the making the I ...

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

  • Geraldo This Is A Hood
  • Leaving Goldman Sachs
    A top executive at Goldman Sachs has a lot to say about the “new” Goldman Sachs. Let’s just say his love for the company has left. Read More About Goldman Sachs Culture
  • Don’t Ever Forget Who Is The Head Of The ...
  • What Are Republicans Trying To Destroy Now?
    Why does hearing the word Republican make me want to vomit? Maybe it is because of what they stand for. Our friends at Daily Kos have a poll up on their website asking “Which issue below concerns you most in terms of the Republican assault on it?” Destroying these things listed below ...
  • I Want To Be On Armed Forces Radio
    I promise not to call people sluts for the crime of testifying before congress, and this alone makes me more qualified than Rush The Liar Limbaugh. I don’t have a radio show, bit I am sure there is millions of Americans who agree that Republicans are a Disease, and would love to hear my vo ...

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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  • Driving through the West Bank ‘felt like ...
    Three anecdotes from Peter Beinart’s Crisis of Zionism reveal a lot on what can and what can’t be said in Washington today “The Crisis of Zionism,” Peter Beinart’s new book on the Jewish establishment’s transformation into a propaganda and lobbying arm for the ...
  • Deconstructing the Associated Press coverage o ...
    Reading the Washington Post online this morning I came across two articles from the Associated Press written about Land Day. The coverage struck me as particularly biased towards Israel, especially for a news agency that has the global reputation of merely reporting the news with the bare minimu ...
  • Left-wing hypocrisy on African refugees
    From our all-Jewish, middle-class neighborhoods, we tell Israel to welcome refugees, but only poor, conservative areas are obliged to absorb them.    I’m glad the deportation of the South Sudanese refugees, which was supposed to start today, has been delayed. (A court order put it off for ...
  • Oops: Unemployment in Israel “leaps&#822 ...
    The Central Bureau of Statistics announced it is changing its criteria for calculating unemployment. On the new list: Arab communities. Off the list: IDF conscripts who are now considered “employed” . The result: A quantum leap of 20 percent.  This isn’t even an April Fools jok ...
  • South Sudanese get temporary reprieve from dep ...
    On Thursday, a Jerusalem District Court judge issued a temporary injunction preventing the Ministry of Interior from revoking the group protection of South Sudanese. The move effectively delays the deportation of South Sudanese refugees, which was set to begin today. Families, including Israeli- ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

Matt Weidner Blog

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

  • Managing Poverty
    After 25 years you’d think we’d be used to it. But by the time I walked into the food bank …Continue reading »
  • On Protest and Power
    The rush to the middle is killing the historical political construct – Thomas Mulcair’s victory as the new leader of …Continue reading »
  • Public Defacement
    Our town hasn’t been used to such exposure in a long time. The ElectroMotive plant closing of a few weeks …Continue reading »
  • Right to Community – Breaking Out
    It’s in the nature of living that we grow accustomed to thinking of our daily activities in cyclical fashion. Given …Continue reading »
  • Right to Community – From Manipulation t ...
    Canadian democracy, like most advanced democracies around the world, displays the strong tendency to be concerned over what people believe …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

Reader Supported News

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

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

  • 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 ...

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Consumerist

  • FDA Decides Against Banning BPA In Food & Beve ...
    Bisphenol A -- better known as "BPA" -- is a chemical used in the epoxy resin linings of a lot of food and beverage containers. Studies have linked BPA to everything from increased risks of certain cancers to diabetes, reproductive abnormalities, and heart disease. But the Food and Drug Adminis ...
  • Third-Place Worst Company In America Winner To ...
    Last year, when Bank of America lost by the narrowest of margins to BP in the Final Death Match of the 2011 Worst Company In America tournament, we listened to readers who called for the creation of the first-ever Silver Poo trophy. That honor will remain in place for the 2012 tourney, and will ...
  • If Earth Day Is Too Much To Handle, Just Turn ...
    We know, you're too addicted to keeping your phone/tablet/laptop charged to go for an entire day without using any electricity, but how about for just 60 minutes during Earth Hour tomorrow? Come on, you can do it. We believe in you, and the world will be ever so grateful. Over at Consumer Repo ...
  • MasterCard, Visa Payment Processor Says Violat ...
    Earlier today, we wrote about how MasterCard and Visa had begun notifying banks about a possible data breach at a third-party company that processes credit card payments. Now more information has come out regarding when the breach occurred and how many people may be affected. The payment proce ...
  • Netflix Proves That It Still Cares About DVDs, ...
    In spite of the fact that Netflix has done an awful lot in the last year to distance itself from the disc-by-mail service that made it a household name, the company apparently still wants to be associated with the shiny discs. Earlier this week, Netflix purchased the URL DVD.com, which now re ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • World Bank Advocates Public Financial Disclosu ...
    Here at GAP, we were both shocked and pleased this morning to see that the World Bank advocates the public disclosure of financial assets by public officials as an effective anti-corruption measure. Disclosure by public officials of their income, assets and interests should be mandated if the f ...
  • A Flawed Process Can Produce a Flawed World Ba ...
    World Bank headquarters in Washington, DCOnce again it’s time to debate who should be the next World Bank President. By tacit post- World-War-II agreement, the World Bank President has always been an American, while European governments are entitled to produce the Managing Director of the Intern ...
  • Bradley Manning Supporter's Search-and-Seizure ...
    Wired: Politically Motivated Border Searches Could Be Unconstitutional, Judge Rules Summary: David House, an outspoken supporter and friend of Bradley Manning had his belongings searched and some of his electronics seized after returning from a vacation in Mexico in 2010. The ACLU filed suit a ...
  • Whistleblower Tour Stop at Mt. Holyoke Wrap-up ...
    Daniel Ellsberg, Jesselyn Radack, & Thomas Drake at the American Whistleblower Tour Mt. Holyoke stopLast night, a packed auditorium of nearly 300 people listened to the stories of three courageous human beings whose heartfelt belief in speaking the truth led each to become something they nev ...
  • Intelligence Whistleblowers Speak Out on Tour: ...
    Daniel Ellsberg, Jesselyn Radack, and Thomas Drake at the Mount Holyoke stop of the American Whistleblower TourThe Republican (MA): Whistleblowers Daniel Ellsberg, Thomas Drake and Jesselyn Radack Denounce Obama Administration’s Secrecy Crackdown Summary: GAP’s American Whistleblower Tour ...

UK Progressive

  • Company Conspires To Cover-Up Dangerous Asbest ...
    As the 8th Annual International Asbestos Awareness Conference (Asbestos: An International Public Health Crisis) comes to an end today, an email from Libby, Montana, pops-up in my mailbox. It’s from a gentlemen who has just been diagnosed with Pleural Thickening – a common side effect of ex ...
  • Dancing Without Stars – For God’s Sake
    Long before the inception of written history we humans, like our animal contemporaries, developed patterns of behaviors that have become part of our collective psyche. These non-learned behaviors in all creatures lay dormant unchallenged and are often tied to hormones which trigger them into pre ...
  • The Extreme Ice Nexus
    ”Glaciers everywhere… at the Rockies, and the Andes, and Alps, and Himalayas are in their death throes.” This is a quote from Extreme Ice, a film that vibrantly dramatizes the glacial behavior of the world’s melting ice. Extreme Ice aired on PBS, as a Nova-National Geographic Television Special, ...
  • Prison Realignment or Expensive Musical Chairs
    Getting the attention of the average American isn’t easy but keeping it for more than 10 seconds requires real skill. Hence the popularity of Twitter, with it’s 140-character limitation. Given the public’s short attention span, it’s no wonder juicy celebrity gossip and salacious headlines have c ...
  • Supreme Court Scandals
    As the Supreme Court considers the healthcare law — and in so doing, possibly dominates a national election for the third time since since 2000 — Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) warns that a wave of corruption and scandal will result from the earlier high court decision in Citizens United. As judicia ...

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JoNova

  • Idso 1998 – eight different ways to show ...
    Here’s a forgotten paper that deserves more attention: Idso 1998. Rather than using an enormously complex global circulation model (or 22) to come up with a figure for climate sensitivity, Sherwood Idso does calculations from eight completely different natural experiments which all arrive ...
  • In ice-ages, CO2 hides in the oceans (yes we k ...
    It comes as not even a tiny surprize that when someone asks “Where does all the CO2 go in an ice age?” that the answer is “The Ocean“. We already know temperatures rise 800 years before CO2 levels (Caillon 2003), and we know the oceans contain 50 times as much CO2 as the ...
  • Flannery admitted to Australian Academy of Sci ...
    What does it take to be a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science? Apparently, making wildly exaggerated predictions that are already known to be wrong, calling people names, and having a thin grip on the scientific method is just the stuff the Academy is looking for. Who knew? Science used ...
  • The Hour of Power: Celebrate Human Achievement ...
    Hello Earthians! It’s time to say thank you to Edison, to Faraday and Maxwell, it’s time to celebrate the Gift of Light. Saturday night at 8.30 – 9.30pm this week is the Hour of Power (Don’t confuse this with the splinter group celebrations called Earth Hour, where people ...
  • There go those gravy trains in Queensland & Vi ...
    Australia is stepping back from the cliff At last, some real progress. Both Queensland and Victoria are peeling back the warmist bureaucracy. I’m happy. The new premier of Queensland Campbell Newman, is scrapping many state carbon reduction schemes. Who knew that the head of Queensland&#82 ...

ReNew America

  • Justices meet Friday to vote on health care case
    (Associated Press) - While the rest of us have to wait until June, the justices of the Supreme Court will know the likely outcome of the historic health care case by the time they go home this weekend...
  • Obama doubling down on his Leftist radicalism
    (David Limbaugh) - You can't even casually surf the Internet on any given day without numerous reminders of just how radical President Obama is -- and this is during an election year, when it should be in his political interest to mask his radicalism...
  • Shocking new report: The case against college
    (WorldNetDaily) - "Get a college education." That piece of advice has long been one of the most universal and unquestioned beliefs of the Western world. College, we're constantly reminded, is not just the key to a good career and financial security; it's a virtual baptism into a greater and more ...
  • Media ignore longtime investigator's bid for C ...
    (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - The voters of Maryland's Eighth Congressional District have an opportunity in that state's primary next Tuesday (April 3) to help send to the House of Representatives a candidate who -- metaphorically speaking -- knows "where the bodies are buried" in this town. He has ...
  • The spiritual suicide of Postmodernism
    (Fred Hutchison, RA analyst) - This essay begins with a brief outline of the rise and collapse of Modernism. In the aftermath of that collapse, a number of disillusioned modernists committed a peculiar form of spiritual suicide. This may be responsible for some of the odd qualities of contempora ...

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

  • Here Come The Homonids
    I had previously anticipated (in mid-2010) that more human ancestors and cousins would turn up: Based on recent discoveries, I wouldn’t be surprised if 6-10 human species are determined to have lived in the last 50,000 years – and I reckon an additional species for the last 10,000 years is qu ...
  • 2012 Solar Storm = Long-Term Power Blackout
    Lawrence E Joesph, Patrick Geryl and myself would probably be the 2012 catastrophists that have reached the most people. Something we all proclaim is that our Sun is the most likely source of a 2012 disaster: Geryl: convoluted math and ancient texts prove that a 2012 disaster is certain Jose ...
  • Fermi Bubbles – Proof of Galactic Core Explosion?
    These two things are certain: Nothing has completely eradicated life on Earth (so far) Natural catastrophes may vary in size, type and location – but they always repeat An explosion from our Galactic Core is certainly survivable, although you might need a bunker and supplies to last ...
  • Mexico City Earthquake: Predicted!
    “State System for Civil (public) Protection Mega Simulation Setting: Presence and effect of an earthquake of 7.9 on the Richter Scale. Participants: General Public, Schools and Hospitals, both public and private, businesses, social and private agencies, as well as those dependents of ...
  • Australia: Biggest Quake in 15 Years
    As reported by news.com.au: The earthquake’s epicentre was recorded at shallow depth near Ernabella, 415km north west of Coober Pedy and about 320km south west of Alice Springs, just before 8pm. Geoscience Australia reported the quake could have been felt by people up to 500km away and d ...

Facing South

One News Page

  • Ajay Devgan to celebrate his 43rd birthday in ...
    Having become a fan of this royal city of Punjab, Bollywood actor Ajay Devgan will celebrate his 43rd birthday in Patiala on Monday. Reported by IndiaTimes 7 hours ago
  • Tourists dump garbage, assault locals at Goa beach
    The green brigade, who have been actively taking up the cause of cleanliness in Benaulim for the last several years, noticed garbage strewn along the road at Peda. Reported by IndiaTimes 7 hours ago
  • Learning with the Times: Semi-colon shaped isl ...
    Many ancient cultures observed days dedicated to the celebration of foolishness when people collectively decide to tolerate jokes and pranks. Reported by IndiaTimes 8 hours ago
  • Rise in number of corporators facing criminal ...
    A look at the affidavits of the recently elected corporators to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation reveals that the number of corporators with a criminal record has jumped from 24 in the previous term to 38 now. Reported by Indian Express 8 hours ago
  • Once friends of Mamata, rights activists to ma ...
    Rights activists and city intelligentsia, who had hit the streets a few years ago against the alleged atrocities by the CPM cadres in Nandigram and Singur, are set to make a similar comeback later this month. Reported by Indian Express 9 hours ago

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Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • The Arab World: From Nationalism to Tribalism
    The “parade of autonomies” we are currently witnessing in the Arab world, primarily in Iraq and Libya, is an indicator of the crisis the region’s nation-states are undergoing. Unlike Europe, however, it is less a consequence of integrationist trends than an indicator of the Greater Middle East’s ...
  • US Missile Shields Demand a New Tough Response
    Wrapping up the “sidelines” meeting at the Seoul nuclear summit, Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama acknowledged by mutual consent they failed to get ahead in finding a common stance on the most acute but still unsolved issue of global dimension – the creation of some kind of “cooperative” Russia ...
  • Active Endeavour and Drug Trafficking
    We all are aware of the basic frameworks of the US response to barbaric 9/11 terrorist attacks. The Bush’s administration and NATO launched unprecedented media, diplomatic and military campaigns aimed to suppress the adversary inside its haunt in Afghanistan. But few remember that the US Operati ...
  • Useless ‘Secrets’ of the US Missiles in Europe
    The European component of the US Missile Defense System is one of the major irritants in the US-Russian relations. The American administration insists it is aimed to counter threats coming from Iran and North Korea. The Russians respond that geography, laws of physics and irrefutable facts clear ...
  • Mali Coup a New Step towards Global Resources Grab
    A coup erupted in Mali, a landlocked West African country, on March 22. The presidential palace, a number of the country’s state institutions, and the premises of the national broadcaster were seized by a mutinous group led by Capt. Amadou Haya Sanogo, and at the moment, authority in Mali ...

BlogHer

  • Why We Still Need Camcorders
    Everybody has a video camera in their pocket or purse these days. But do we still need to own a dedicated camcorder for shooting video? Gena Haskett from Create Video Notebook says yes. She explains why. . . . most people they do not want or or perceive that they need a dedicated camcorder. That ...
  • We Bought a Convertible: My Not Midlife Crisis
    I stared at the phone in my hand. My sister had texted me two words: MIDLIFE CRISIS. Because I sent her a pic of a convertible I saw while driving home with my seven-year-old daughter. But I bought one, anyway. A Brief History of Responsible Automobiles My parents always bought cars with cash. I ...
  • NaBloPoMo Soup: Add Your April Posts
    You have posts and we want to read them. This is a way for people to post a link to their daily April NaBloPoMo posts that they publish on their personal blogs. Please use the linky feature below daily to add your post, and peruse the ones already entered in order to find great things to read as ...
  • Don't Be an April Fool: Back Up Your Blog
    Yesterday, March 31st, was World Backup Day, a day set aside to remind you of all the horrible things that could befall your blog or photos or documents if you don't make a copy of them... NOW. (Apologies, I had to pause for a moment to run and make copies.) In all seriousness, it's important t ...
  • How to Make Restaurant-Style White Queso At Home
    [Editor's Note: Lesley of Recipe for Crazy had one wish: To be able to make the same kind of white queso dip she found at Mexican restaurants at home. After a lot of research and experimentation, she managed to figure out the secret, and now we're lucky enough to get the benefit of her new-found ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Milk Man Faces Multiple Felony Charges for Foo ...
    After destroying Rawesome Foods (which is being physically deconstructed right now), the Ventura County Health Department is now targeting other raw milk distribution centers in California. As Gumpert writes:
  • Here’s The Real Truth On Homework
    Research reveals primary school homework offers no real benefit – and only limited results in junior high school. Only senior students in Years 11 and 12 benefit from after-school work, associate professor Richard Walker said. “What the ...
  • Justice Scalia to Obama’s Solicitor Gene ...
    While Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr. made the Obama administration’s case for the constitutionality of the individual mandate in the health care law Tuesday, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia interrupted and lectured Verrilli about American ...
  • Too Much Sitting Can Kill You, Study Suggests
    For better health, try standing up more, a new study suggests. Those who spend 11 or more hours a day sitting are 40 percent more likely to die over the next three years regardless of ...
  • Our Right to Know: Organizations Take Action f ...
    This past month I’ve found myself neck deep in thinking and talking about genetic engineering. Not about the science, but about the current state of affairs. Recently the unrestricted approval of Round-Up Ready alfalfa, the ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Another day in West Virginia’s coalfield ...
    In this March 13, 2012 photo, a coal barge makes its way to the Bruce Mansfield Power Station in Shippingport , Pa.  (AP Photo) As I’ve read, listened to and watched the reactions the last two days from West Virginia political leaders reacting to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency&#8 ...
  • Sen. Rockefeller on EPA greenhouse gas proposa ...
    While the rest of West Virginia’s political leaders are busy bashing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, here’s what Sen. Jay Rockefeller had to say about the EPA’s proposed greenhouse gas emissions limits: We have known since the 2007 Supreme Court ruling that greenhouse ...
  • NY Times to Obama: Appeal Spruce Mine ruling
    The New York Times is urging the Obama administration to appeal last week’s ruling that overturned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency veto of the Spruce Mine permit: The Obama administration’s decision last year to revoke a permit for a huge mine in West Virginia inspired hope that m ...
  • Another weekend, another coal miner killed
    There’s bad news early this week out of the coalfields of Alabama, as the Birmingham news reports: Harold Ennis, 37, from the Nauvoo area of Walker County, died in the approximately 9:30 p.m. Friday incident, Walker County Coroner J.C. Poe said this morning. Poe said the reports he receive ...
  • Main defends MSHA performance at UBB mine
    This morning’s House committee hearing on the Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster didn’t exactly come at an easy time for MSHA chief Joe Main. Just four days ago, MSHA was forced to release highly critical findings of a NIOSH review that found Labor Department officials and inspectors cou ...

Daniel Miessler

  • The First of April
    So I’m sitting here reading the Bible on my Samsung Galaxy Note, and I realized that I do in fact except Jesus as my personal savior. Also, I think I’m going to have kid’s after all–a girl actually–and I hope she’ll grow up and marry a nice, hoelesome fellow l ...
  • Civilized Cities Should Ban Smoking
    I feel like I cannot be the only one who is disgusted every time I walk through someones exhaled cigarette smoke while walking on a public sidewalk or entering/exiting a public building. In populous areas, this equates to every few steps. People crowd around the doors to their establishments, wh ...
  • The Joys of Blogging
    Some people really dislike my thoughts (or enthusiasm?) on the controversial topic of improving website performance. :: Related ContentInteresting Web Data from a Day on the Front Page of Hacker News5X WordPress Speed Improvement with W3 Total CacheHandling Redirects with Varnish and NginxHow to ...
  • Hacktivists and Havij | Dark Reading
    Favored by hacktivists and financially motivated attackers alike, Havij automates bad guys’ SQL injection attacks by automatically detecting the database behind a targeted website, detecting whether it uses a string or integer parameter type, and testing different injection syntaxes on the ...
  • The Free Will Argument You MUST See
    This is the single best presentation of Harris’ argument that I’ve ever seen him make. He finally addresses common counterarguments, such as: Well, I can decide to do x right now—and then I can change my mind–or even change my mind again! This proves I have free will. Thi ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

  • Maybe We Just Need Some Beano
    Well, the gas prices are back up near $4.00. People are squawking. The blame game began and of course, it is all Obama’s fault. Oh how simple that answer is. Yep, blame the President, after all, he controls the prices. Let’s forget the facts, as we usually do.   Okay, the President is to bl ...
  • Can you identify me? I don’t find this amusing ...
    Worldwidehippies - You can call me Al. Al is not my name, or is it? I don’t find these guessing games amusing anymore. It’s been eight years since you found me. It’s been even longer since I died. I think its time someone finally figures out who I am. You think I sound angry? Well [...]
  • Last chance to be cool this Summer!
    Last week for Cheap Tee’s Reg. $15.00 Save 33% Now! We need your help! Check out our Store for other cool Hippie gear. When you do, you are showing your support for Citizen Journalism . You can also make a donation to Worldwide Hippies So we can keep up the “Howl” For Peace and ...
  • Worldwide Hippies Facts, Freaks and Groovy Things
    Dr. Woody’s Fabulous, Fascinating Factoid, #4: Gladiators Died Hard Where Have All the Neurotics Gone? By BENEDICT CAREY,nytimes - SOME  cultural archetypes leave the stage with a flourish, or at least some foot stomping. All those pith-helmeted colonialists, absinthe-addled poets and hipp ...
  • Worldwide Hippies Book Nook
    You cannot really see, until you can read… WWH – Book Nook will appear every Sunday here at WorldWide Hippies. We want to bring you some of the best writers and poets–whether they are new writers, weary older writers, experimental, funny, romantic, and innovative and energetic writers. You ...

reference frame

  • L.M. was a fiction
    As the intelligent readers of this blog have figured out, everything that has been written in this domain since October 2004 was a work of fiction. We're a group of 38 leading European climatologists and P.R. experts who had won a €60 million grant EU-AGW-RVHP-2004/13 from the European C ...
  • Erratic Boulder 2011
    Sisyfos [Sisyphus], the Czech scientific skeptics' club, has distributed the annual "Erratic Boulder" awards for 2011. The prize acknowledges unusual contributions to the muddy thinking in the society. Astrophysicist Dr Jiří Grygar, a leading face of Sisyfos, holds the hammer again ...
  • 35 years of \(\NNN=4\) Yang-Mills theory
    George Musser who writes for Scientific American has authored an unusually (for SciAm) scientifically oriented blog entry The Emperor, Darth Vader, and the Ultimate Ultimate Theory of Physics about the 35th birthday of the maximally supersymmetric i.e. \(\NNN=4\) Yang-Mills theory in \(d= ...
  • OPERA experiment spokesman resigned
    Tommaso Dorigo was minutes ahead of Reuters and Fox News or AFP when he told us that signore Antonio Ereditato resigned from his chair of the OPERA experiment's spokesman. The decision was apparently sparked by the superluminal blunder but there's no explicit quote available tha ...
  • Record temperatures and female Fields medalists
    A few days ago, the media were obsessed by a paper by Dim Coumou and Stefan Rahmstorf trying to hype hypothetical links between the increasing global mean temperature in recent decades and the increasing dominance of record hot temperatures relatively to record cold temperatures. The two ...

Tatumba 2.0

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

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

  • Can't Stop the Big Mo
    Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
  • Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
    Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
  • No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
    The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
  • Grading Back-to-School Stocks
    Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
  • IGN Entertainment: Where the Boys Are
    The Web outfit has drawn a huge, male-dominated following and has an IPO in the works. But will a big Net player come calling?

Enviroblog

  • "You Can't Find What You Don't Look For"
    Our California fracking report continued to gain fantastic coverage this week with three large stories in Santa Cruz Weekly, Sacramento News and Review and Wines and Vines. Our president, Ken Cook, posted in Huffington Post on BPA in food packaging... [[ This is a content summary only. Visi ...
  • Toxic Chemicals in Food Packaging Must Go
    By Kenneth A. Cook, EWG President and co-founder Under mounting pressure from consumers, scientists, advocacy groups and lawsuits, the Food and Drug Administration is about to decide whether to ban the ubiquitous industrial chemical BPA (bisphenol-A)... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...
  • Ohio Regulators: Link Between Recent Quakes an ...
    By Thomas Cluderay, Assistant General Counsel Polluted water resources. Compromised housing values. And now, earthquakes? As companies increasingly rely on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to expand U.S. oil and gas operations, regulators are finally... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
  • Diapers, Pacifiers, Hazmat Onesies -- Parentin ...
    Last week, the New York Times ran a D-1 story titled "Is It Safe to Play Yet?" on parents working to detoxify their homes, featuring EWG. On the same day, the Los Angeles Times ran a story on fracking in... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, a ...
  • Diapers, Pacifiers, Hazmat Onesies -- Parentin ...
    Last week, the New York Times ran a D-1 story titled "Is It Safe to Play Yet?" on parents working to detoxify their homes, featuring EWG. On the same day, the Los Angeles Times ran a story on fracking in... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, a ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Annual Easter exodus gets underway
    The annual Easter exodus from Norwegian cities started on Friday but it may not be as extensive as in earlier years. Warm weather in recent weeks has resulted in a lack of snow for traditional spring skiing in the mountains, and there was lots on tap for those staying in Oslo. The week between P ...
  • Police ran budget surplus
    Norway’s state police system cut costs before lost year’s terrorist attacks to meet strict budgets, part of the reason why preparedness proved inadequate when the attacks hit. Now it’s emerged that the police ended last year with a budget surplus of NOK 227 million, setting off ...
  • Jets collide at OSL Gardermoen
    Two jets from Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) and one from Norwegian Air were involved in two separate collisions within the space of 40 minutes at Oslo’s main airport at Gardermoen Thursday evening. Norwegian is blaming SAS for one of the collisions, claiming that the SAS jet started backing ...
  • Støre drops controversial book plans
    Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre has been in hot water during the past two weeks over some alleged conflicts of interest. Now he’s decided to drop a ministry-financed book project that featured himself, after realizing it violated government purchasing and competition rules. Støre told No ...
  • Labour mayor indicted for assault
    The mayor of the scenic community of Vågå in the mountains of Oppland County was indicted Thursday on charges he sexually assaulted a girl under the age of 14 several times over a period of two years. Rune Øygard of the Labour Party faces a prison term as long as 15 years. Øygard, who’s be ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • The Permaculture Path to Sustainability
    by Emma Crameri The Permaculture Path to Sustainability illustrates the steps we can take to transition to a life with a smaller footprint on the earth. When I was completing my Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC), I wanted a simple way to plan the future of our house and garden. I was feeling ...
  • Bonus Features
    Click for larger view Courtesy: Marc Roberts
  • Trellises For Your Summer Food Crops
    If you are thinking of planting tomatoes, cucumbers, winter squash, peas, beans or any vining plant, it’s worth considering growing them vertically to save space in your annual garden area. Permaculture principles urge us to create no waste and to find multiple functions for whatever we d ...
  • Calling for Before/After Site Photographs for ...
    Many of you know of the excellent work of the filmmaker, John Liu. Amongst other projects, John documented, over many years, the amazing transformation of China’s massive Loess Plateau from being a significantly degraded, and dangerous land (the vegetation-free landscape made for seriously ...
  • Permaculture Research: The Reality of Food Forests
    A newly established swale food forest at PRI Australia, backdropped by an 8 year old food forest. Photo: Fraser Bliss We have heard about the wonders of permaculture food forests, whereby nature does all the work and we can simply walk around harvesting more food than we can possibly eat. B ...

Pointman's

  • Political fracture points and power vacuums.
    A political fracture point is a sudden and radical change in the political landscape. In classical times, it would be the collapse of an empire, such as the Roman Empire. In the last century, World War I resulted in the outright destruction of several, such as the German Empire, and ultimately f ...
  • Job opportunity, with lots of money to be made.
    You know those Huey helicopters that you see in all those old Vietnam war movies. They had this single bolt sticking out of the cabin, connecting it to the rotor blades. The troopers used to call it the Jesus Bolt, because if it failed, everyone on board was going home to Jesus. Well, the equiva ...
  • Job opportunity, with lots of money to be made.
    You know those Huey helicopters that you see in all those old Vietnam war movies. They had this single bolt sticking out of the cabin, connecting it to the rotor blades. The troopers used to call it the Jesus Bolt, because if it failed, everyone on board was going home to Jesus. Well, the equiva ...
  • The Climate Wars revisited or No truce with kings.
    This is a quiet little island of the internet. I write an article and it floats off into the blogosphere to end up Lord knows where. Some pieces sink without trace, foundering even before they’ve cleared the reef but others seem to take on a life of their own. There’s no way of predicting their& ...
  • The Climate Wars revisited or no truce with kings.
    This is a quiet little island of the internet. I write an article and it floats off into the blogosphere to end up Lord knows where. Some pieces sink without trace, foundering even before they’ve cleared the reef but others seem to take on a life of their own. There’s no way of predicting their& ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • The End of Sex Offender Registration for Louis ...
    Judge Rules That Sex-Offender Registration for “Crime Against Nature by Solicitation” Convictions Is Unconstitutional From Center for Constitutional Rights: Yesterday, one day after attorneys from the Center for Constitutional Rights argued that individuals convicted prior to August 2011 unde ...
  • OUR WIN – Letter from Women With A Vision Exec ...
    Yesterday, US District Judge Martin Feldman ruled that the Louisiana law that required sex workers to register as sex offenders is unconstitutional. Lawmakers had already changed the law last year, but this ruling is expected to help remove from the registry hundreds of women (and some men) who ...
  • From NYPD Spying to Trayvon Martin, By Jordan ...
    A version of this article originally appeared on The Progressive website.When I heard that my name was featured in a New York City Police Department report, I should have been outraged. I had followed revelations of NYPD spying, but it hadn’t occurred to me that they would come to New Orleans t ...
  • Crime Against Nature Court Hearing This Wednesday
    From our friends at Women With a Vision: As many of you know, last June we had a huge legislative victory in our work to challenge Louisiana’s Crime Against Nature statute, which mandated fifteen years or more of sex offender registration for women who would have otherwise been charged with s ...
  • Eight Anti-Nuclear Activists Arrested at Enter ...
    From a press release from the Safe And Green Energy (SAGE) Alliance: Group demands: “No Nuke Business as Usual for March 22nd” and "Shut Down Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant" An affinity group of eight anti-nuclear activists with the New England-based Safe And Green Energy (SAGE) Alliance, ...

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Is one of Corey Feldman's pedophile abusers director Rob Reiner? Reiner directed several films Feldman appeared in. Here is his Jewpedia bio: Rob Reiner was married to actress-director Penny Marshall from 1971 to 1981 and adopted Marshall's daughter from a previous marriage, actress Tracy R ...
  • Zionist Personalities We Should Know About • R ...
    Chrarles Giuliani, Jordan Maxwell, et al—an exercise in Blavatsky's "externalized hierarchy"? iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuocQZiXiJs Hegelian Dialectic: Religion + anti-Religion = ????Statistics: Posted by Timothy_Fitzpatrick — Sun Apr 01, 2012 9:41 pm
  • Zionist Personalities We Should Know About • R ...
    It surely is an interesting debate. someone by the name checkitb4uwreckit is basically on a wrecking rampage before checking it .............. destroyer911 comes up with the abaddon 911 link (which I was one of the first to post here about 3-4 years ago) and spreads his abyss doctrine here li ...
  • The Information Underground Radio Show • cummo ...
    That is not what I wanted go to hell:lol: Give us a postStatistics: Posted by Shiksa Rage — Sun Apr 01, 2012 7:16 pm
  • Economics, Money/Banking, Investments, Profite ...
    Worth keeping an eye on... ------- The Limitless Potential of the E-Cat: An Interview with Andrea Rossi By James Burgess | Thu, 29 March 2012 13:54 | 23 Resource depletion, climate change and rising oil prices have led to large investments in renewable energy and new fossil fuel extraction te ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Shell’s Spill Response Plan Is Approved by U.S ...
    The U.S. Department of the Interior has approved Shell Oil’s plan to respond to an oil spill in the Arctic’s Beaufort Sea, clearing the way for exploratory drilling this summer. The decision follows similar U.S. government approval for a spill response plan in the Chukchi Sea, and Shell said tha ...
  • New EPA Rules Will Limit CO2 Emissions from Po ...
    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expected to impose a limit on greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants, a strict new regulation that could prevent conventional coal-fired power plants from being built. In new rules to be announced as soon as Tuesday, the EPA will require ...
  • Auction of Ivory in China Spurring Illegal Mar ...
    A new report says that the illegal trade in ivory has risen sharply in China in recent years, with nearly 90 percent of the ivory purchased at “legal” auctions obtained from illegal sources. According to the report, published by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), a decision by the Con ...
  • Denmark Aims to Achieve 35 Percent Green Energ ...
    The Danish government has approved a series of goals to significantly reduce its carbon emissions and increase its use of green energy by 2020, an “ambitious green transition” officials say will affect all levels of society. The agreement, which was approved by parliament last week, targets cutt ...
  • Shunning Nuclear Power Will Lead to a Warmer World
    A physicist argues that if we allow our overblown and often irrational fears of nuclear energy to block the building of a significant number of new nuclear plants, we will be choosing a far more perilous option: the intensified burning of planet-warming fossil fuels. BY SPENCER R. WEART

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • 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 ...

Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Civilization will live or die by new technology
    Reporter: "What do you think of Western civilization, Mr. Gandhi?" Mohandas Gandhi: "I think it would be a good idea." This quote is probably apocryphal, but if the Mahatma didn't say it, he should have. Now we have something close to a global civilization: Most of the world's people work in s ...
  • City blows chance to pressure Man United in Pr ...
    Manchester City missed the chance to put pressure on Premier League leader Manchester United on Saturday when it stumbled to a 3-3 draw against Sunderland that ended its record winning streak. With United not in action until Monday, City knew that it could have drawn level on points with the d ...
  • Vonn finds peace amid chaos of trying season
    Lindsey Vonn leisurely glided down the outer edge of the sun-toasted course rather than through the gates. And the clock which had been tracking her progress had long since stopped — a big "did not finish" appearing in its place on the scoreboard.
  • India and the Iran sanctions
    Writing in The Diplomat on Feb. 20, R. Nicholas Burns, undersecretary of state in the Bush administration, lamented the fact that India was going to continue to purchase oil from Iran. He was reacting to reports that to circumvent Western sanctions on Iran's central bank, Delhi was negotiating ...
  • Noda's plan to increase sales tax
    There's no such thing as a popular tax increase. Woe betide the leader who sees no other way out of a fiscal impasse. Such is Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's unenviable plight. A kōreika shakai (é«é½¢å社ä¼, aging society) like Japan's must fund its swelling shakai hoshōhi (社ä¼ä¿éè ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Federal budget worsens inequality, high unempl ...
    The 2012 federal budget, which purports to deliver “jobs, growth and long-term prosperity,” does nothing of the kind. Make no mistake, this is an austerity budget— spending cuts outpace new measures 7:1— that worsens income and inter-generational inequality, destroys jobs and locks in a slow gro ...
  • Budget 2012: Pennywise But Pound Foolish
    Marc, Andrew and Toby have posted substantial analyses of yesterday’s federal budget, but here are my two cents about its economic forecasts. Table 2.1 envisions a 7.5% unemployment rate this year, slightly above last year’s rate of 7.4%. That seems like an admission of failure from a budget ost ...
  • Lockouts Almost Derail GDP Growth
    Statistics Canada reported today that economic growth dropped to a bare 0.1% in January. The New Year began with Rio Tinto locking out former Alcan employees at Alma, Quebec, and Caterpillar locking out former Electro Motive employees at London, Ontario. Closing these major facilities contribute ...
  • OAS, the Budget, and the Baby Boomers
    The Budget justifies raising the age of eligibility for OAS and GIS on the grounds that  the long-term fiscal sustainability of the program is being undermined by rising life expectancy. No estimates of savings are provided. They will be very modest. Given that average life expectancy at age 65 ...
  • CLC Analysis of the 2012 Federal Budget
    Introduction Budgets are all about choices. With unemployment and underemployment still at very high levels and a shrinking middle-class, the federal government could and should have laid the basis for a sustained and broadly shared economic recovery. The federal government should be taking a la ...

ReDress

  • The Zionist cuckoos in Christianity's nest
    Stuart Littlewood views the ideology of Christian Zionism, which is rampant in the United States and has made some inroads in other "Christian" societies, and argues that, in essence, Christian Zionism is "a gross corruption of the biblical message".
  • Confined cruelty: Israeli treatment of Palesti ...
    Graham Peebles highlights Israel's systematic, barbarous practices against Palestinian children - practices that are carried out in violation of international law and obligations Israel had signed up to - and calls on the United Nations to "stand in the face of injustice, violence and hate to sa ...
  • Marwan Barghouti: Palestine's Nelson Mandela
    Uri Avnery views imprisoned Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti's message to the people of Palestine, which he has sent from his prison cell, in which he calls for an end to the "peace process" smokescreen for continued Israeli land thefts and a total boycott of Israel.
  • Israel's occupation: who is most "out of touch ...
    Alan Hart argues that while the UN Human Rights Council may well be a hypocritical body because it chooses to ignore numerous human rights abuses in Africa and Asia, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's attack on it for its decision to investigate the impact of Israeli colonies on the Pal ...
  • Who is normal? The case for "universal standar ...
    Lawrence Davidson argues for the adoption of universal standards of civilized normality based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. On that basis, he says one would find Israeli society chronically abnormal.

Physics Today

  • Recycling plastic waste into carbon fibers
    New Scientist: Amit Naskar and coworkers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee have found a way to convert the polyethylene in used plastic bags and other plastic waste into carbon fibers that can be fine-tuned for specific applications. Published in the journal Advanced Materials, their ...
  • Chilean astronomer publishes first ALMA findings
    BBC: Cinthya Herrera, a doctoral student from Chile, is lead author on the first science paper to be based on observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope. In their paper published last month in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics, Herrera and coworkers ...
  • Telescope images yield largest-ever portrait o ...
    BBC: A colossal picture of the Milky Way galaxy, 10 years in the making, has been created from thousands of individual images captured by two ground-based telescopes developed by the UK. "There are about one billion stars in there—this is more than has been in any other image produced by s ...
  • Environmental conference addresses global sust ...
    New York Times: This week the Planet Under Pressure conference in London brought together nearly 3000 people to discuss humanity's impact on Earth. "Without urgent action, we could face threats to water, food, biodiversity and other critical resources," wrote conference cochairs Lidia Brito and ...
  • Lightning produces neutrons, according to new ...
    Arstechnica: Russian scientists have found that as many as 5000 low-energy neutrons per cubic meter are produced every second by lightning strikes. The results of their research were published last week in Physical Review Letters. Based on research begun in 1985, the new experiment used three de ...

Revolutionary Politics

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

Peakwater

  • 11 Rivers Forced Underground
    “Rivers are the lifeblood of many plant, animal, and human communities. Yet many of the world’s rivers have been dammed, degraded, polluted, and overdrawn at alarming rates. Some of the world’s great rivers, from the Colorado to the Indus, don’t always reach their ends be ...
  • Water pollution at Lake Titicaca endangers Sou ...
    “Lake Titicaca glows like a sapphire amidst the subtle shades of brown on the high Andean planes. It sits on the border of Peru and Bolivia, and the Inca considered the 3,200-square-mile lake the birthplace of mankind. The waters continue to support thousands of indigenous farmers and fish ...
  • Drought fears for Midlands and south-west England
    “The government agency expects drought to spread west across the country following the recent dry weather. It comes amid reports that rivers are at their lowest levels since 1976, with a severe lack of rainfall not seen since the drought of 1921. From Thursday, hosepipe bans are due to com ...
  • Great Lakes Water Levels Bring Conflict For Mi ...
    “In a scenario that might baffle onlookers from arid regions, people around the Great Lakes – the world’s most abundant freshwater system – are fighting over water. Complaints that levels are too high or too low are longstanding, but the debate is growing louder as a warming climate ...
  • Ethiopia’s plantations are killing vital waterway
    “The Omo River downstream from the notorious Gibe III dam is now being diverted into a newly-dug irrigation canal, one of several which will feed a massively ambitious plantations scheme for state and private investors. These manmade canals are key to Ethiopia’s plantations plan, which is ...

D. Kucinich

  • Davis-Besse News Alert: Kucinich Responds to N ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), who has consistently fought for stronger oversight of Davis-Besse to protect the people of Ohio, released the following statement after the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) overturned a decision made by the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board to accept testim ...
  • Kucinich: Supreme Court Ruling will be the Nex ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), who provided the pivotal vote in the House to pass the Affordable Care Act, today explained the Supreme Courts’ ruling will simply be the next step in the inevitable path towards single-payer health care. Today, the Supreme Court began hearing arguments as it ...
  • Kucinich Calls for SEC Investigation of Potent ...
    Provides Detailed Analysis of Discrepancies Which Could Constitute “Material Misrepresentations” Washington D.C. (March 22, 2012) -- Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), the Ranking Member of the Regulatory Affairs Subcommittee, today requested that Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair ...
  • Kucinich Analysis: Fast-Tracking Southern Segm ...
    Upon reports that the Obama Administration will “fast-track” the southern segment of the Keystone Pipeline between Cushing, Oklahoma and the Gulf Coast, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following analysis: “Americans need relief from high gas prices. However, approval of th ...
  • Kucinich Welcomes Cleveland, Midwest Steel Ind ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), a member of the Congressional Steel Caucus, today welcomed the President and CEO’s of Cleveland’s ArcelorMittal and Cliffs Natural Resources at a hearing examining the state of the steel industry in the United States. Kucinich discussed the importance of ...

Authentically Wired

  • three war-crazed amigos
    …It’s time for these 3 to be put to pasture…       McCain, Lieberman and Graham: The Senate’s three war-crazed amigos John McCain, Joe Lieberman and Lindsey Graham have an exciting new idea (spoiler: It’s war) READ COMLETE ARTICLE HERE … BY ALEX PAREENE…http://www.salon ...
  • they need more practice
    … Not yet as the boys have not quite perfected their “killing” style … they need more practice …   Obama Told Pakistan: US ‘Not Ready’ to Stop Drone Strikes     The highly anticipated meeting between President Obama and Pakistani Prime Minister Yousef Raza Gilani, potentially the ...
  • Perfectly logical for Arizona
    … Perfectly logical for Arizona proud land of SB170 … Russell Pearce … finger wagging Jan Brewer … Tea Party … Private for-profit Prison Capital of America … Joe Arpaio …   Arizona Senate Passes Extreme Anti-Abortion Bill, Closing Window of Access Before Women Even Know They’re ...
  • addressing America’s drug policy in prec ...
    Actually the United Nations is addressing America’s drug policy in precisely the manner authorized and financially supported by “big-pharma” corporate interest$ …     The United Nations’ Disappointing Failure to Address Drug Policy Alternatives     Despite a historic sh ...
  • And they are laughing all the way to the bank& ...
    …  And who did you say has your back … … Yup your friend$ at Mon$anto …   … And they are laughing all the way to the bank… Filed under: Blogroll

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

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

Science - NZ Herald

  • Rise in whale trade stuns experts
    Scientists plan to investigate a "marine bushmeat trade" after a major study showed that global consumption of marine mammals such as whales and dolphins is increasing.The research surprised New Zealand marine experts, in particular...
  • WeatherWatch: Columnist weathers storm of frie ...
    Scientists can't be doing too good a job of convincing us of climate change, judging by more polls indicating that the public's level of concern is waning.The NZ Herald has reported that an academic analysis of surveys spanning...
  • Oyster is the world for honoured NZ scientist
    Home education, a love of the sea and a passion for the famous Bluff oyster have brought a New Zealand marine biologist to Paris, where she is being feted among the ranks of leading young scientists.Zoe Hilton, 33, has been honoured...
  • Pesticides sting life out of bees
    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 huge question mark over the...
  • Scientists hope pest-repelling GM wheat will w ...
    The world's first genetically modified crop that has been engineered to emit a repellent against insect pests is now growing in a small patch of land in the Hertfordshire countryside.Scientists have created the "whiffy" wheat in...

The Bovine

  • CBC news: Slaughter looms for a rare sheep her ...
    From CBC News, April 1, 2012 (and no, this is not a joke): “More than 40 sheep from a rare, heritage breed on an Ontario farm are to be put to death tomorrow by the federal government. The Canadian Food … Continue reading →
  • Michael Schmidt: Good Friday concerts
    From Michael Schmidt:
  • Grudge enforcement over raw milk
    Humorless might be a good word to describe the mood of regulators who find it in their karma to deal with those contemporary messianic figures whose mission involves producing, promoting and distributing raw milk on this fine continent of ours. … Continue reading →
  • And in-depth look at raw milk through the stor ...
    Brittany Devanyi has written one of the most extensive articles on Michael Schmidt and raw milk that we’ve seen for a long time. It’s just been published in the quarterly journal Maisoneuve: “AS I DRIVE down a muddy, narrow road, past acres of … Continue reading →
  • A new Canadian raw milk consumer advocacy grou ...
    A guest post from Margo McIntosh: A new consumer group has formed to coordinate the efforts of many across Canada to make headway with raw milk legislation.  There is a working group consisting of consumers from various walks of life … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • China Manufacturing PMI™ Decreases at Second-F ...
    The slowdown in China continues at an accelerating rate according to the HSBC China Manufacturing PMI™. March data showed manufacturing production falling for the fourth time in the past five months. Factory output was reduced largely in response to lacklustre demand from domestic and external ...
  • Bankruptcy, the Best Way to Deal with Public U ...
    Distressed cities are finally doing what they should have been doing long ago, declaring bankruptcy to force concessions from public unions. Numbers are still a trickle, but at soon as a major city such as Oakland or LA selects that option, we will likely see a torrent of municipal bankruptcies. ...
  • Gasoline Prices Approach Highest Ever; Who is ...
    National gasoline prices inch ever so higher. The national average is now $3.925, approaching the all-time high of $4.114 on 7/17/2008 according to the Fuel Gauge Report. Locally, my price in Northern Illinois is about $4.28. Illinois average is $4.25. Prices in Chicago are higher. ...
  • Spiegel Says "Even a 1-Trillion Euro Firewall ...
    Eurozone bureaucrats keep upping the ante as to how big a "firewall" is needed. And at every critical juncture, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has proven she is nothing but a liar. With every demand for additional firepower, comes an inevitable cave-in from Merkel supporting the move, no matter ...
  • Violence, Firebombings Erupt as Spain Announce ...
    My friend Bran who lives in Spain writes ... Hello Mish Here are thoughts from the last couple of days on the strikes, protests, and violence in the wake of more austerity plans by Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy. Pro-government news played down the strike to a virtual non-event, givin ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • “The Book the Government Doesn’t Want You to R ...
    A Surreal Journey into the Heart of the Beast Called the Police State In this startling new memoir, Sibel Edmonds—the most classified woman in U.S. history—takes us on a surreal journey that begins with the secretive FBI and down the dark halls of a feckless Congress to a stonewalling judiciary ...
  • Money & Power: Which Comes First, the Chicken ...
    Book Review — Frederick J. Sheehan’s Panderer to Power Written on the heels of the worst financial and economic crisis since the Great Depression, Frederick Sheehan’s critical biography, Panderer to Power:  The Untold Story of How Alan Greenspan Enriched Wall Street and Left a Legacy of Re ...
  • Our first Boiling Frogs Post DVD is now available!
    Truths about Boiling Frogs Post The first truth is what we do…We try to bring to our readers and subscribers the truth with our News and Editorial Round Ups, Investigative Video Reports, Podcast Interviews, Weekly Podcast Series, Editorials & Analyses by Independent and Nonpartisan Exp ...
  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Gil Scott-Heron Gil Scott-Heron was a poet, author and most of all an extremely talented musician. With a blend of soul, jazz and the blues, his statements of social issues and the politics of his time were way out in front of other artists through that period. His work influenced much of the hi ...
  • Podcast Show #82: NSA’s Gigantic Utah Center, ...
    The Boiling Frogs Presents James Bamford James Bamford returns to our show to discuss the gigantic $2 billion data center that’s being built in Utah for the National Security Agency and other agencies geared to target everyone and every single communication, and how for the first time sinc ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

  • Maritime Monday for April 2, 2012: It took a s ...
    Descriptio terræ subaustralis – Copperplate map, with added color, 9 × 13 cm. From Petrus Bertius’s P. Bertii tabularum geographicarum contractarum (Amsterdam, 1616) Terra Australis Incognita The notion of Terra [...]
  • Putin Promises “Favorable” Tax Conditions For ...
    MOSCOW -(Dow Jones)- Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has reassured the chief executives of France’s Total SA (TOT) and Norway’s Statoil ASA (STO) that favorable tax conditions will be created for the giant Shtokman [...]
  • Total Contracts Wild Well Control to Conduct “ ...
    ABERDEEN, Scotland (Dow Jones)–Total SA‘s (TOT) efforts to stem a natural gas leak on a North Sea platform gathered pace Sunday after an onboard flare that had hampered relief plans [...]
  • Google Annonces The Return Of Morse Code
    The QWERTY keyboard was invented in 1874 and yet it is still used today, largely unchanged. What’s more, the keyboard doesn’t come close to the speed and effectiveness of a [...]
  • 54 Cargos of Indonesian LNG Destined for the S ...
    JAKARTA (Dow Jones)–Indonesia aims to sell 54 cargoes of liquefied natural gas in the spot market in May, a senior official at upstream regulator BPMigas said Friday. Rudi Rubiandini, operations [...]

Press TV

  • Israeli troops kill Palestinian in WB
    A Palestinian man, who had been shot and injured by Israeli troops during a clash in the occupied West Bank last week, has died of his wounds.
  • Iran voices firm support for Syria
    Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has expressed Tehran's unwavering support for the Syrian government and nation to implement reforms and hold a national dialogue.
  • ‘Hosting Iraqi veep, Qatar’s message’
    Fugitive Iraqi VP al-Hashemi, accused of initiating acts of terrorism against Iraqi interests, has reportedly fled from Iraq's Kurdistan region to be welcomed in Qatar.
  • 'Iran, China seek to up trade to $50bn'
    The Islamic Republic of Iran and China seek to increase the value of their bilateral trade to more than 50 billion dollars in 2012, says an Iranian vice president.
  • Israel frees, exiles female inmate
    The Tel Aviv regime has “conditionally” released a female Palestinian prisoner, on hunger strike to protest her arbitrary arrest without charge, weeks after she was re-arrested at her West Bank home on February 16 following an earlier release.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

  • Reducing Cancer Risk Factors
    The biggest study so far into cancer risk factors confirms our understanding of the lifestyle choices that may lead to cancer... Kat - For my day job I work for Cancer Research UK and we put o...
  • Seed and soil - understanding how cancers spread
    Cancer is a growing problem - and because we're all living longer, we're more likely to develop the disease at some point in our lifetime. Although we've got a lot better at treating the disease in re...
  • Voyager Casts off the Hydrogen-Tinted Spectacles
    This week a team of researchers in France, Russia and the USA have reported that Voyager Spacecrafts 1 2 - launched 34 years ago - have made it far enough out of the solar system to detect Lyman...
  • Spooky Diamonds a Step Towards Quantum Computing
    This week, researchers from the UK, Canada and Singapore have accomplished quantum entanglement on the macro scale, entangling two millimeter-sizeddiamonds. Typically we think of objects movin...
  • Key to the Blood Brain Barrier
    A signal that controls the integrity of the blood brain barrier -the system that protects and chemically cocoons the brain from the rest of the body - has been discovered. Early during embryon...

Nick Turse

  • A demonstrator chants slogans during a protest ...
    A demonstrator chants slogans during a protest march against Pope Benedict XVI’s papal visit to Mexico, in Mexico City, Friday March 23, 2012. Benedict visited Mexico for the first time, arriving Friday afternoon to a welcome ceremony at the airport in Silao, Mexico. AP
  • (via Clay Bennett)
    (via Clay Bennett)
  • A protestor shouts slogans during a rally orga ...
    A protestor shouts slogans during a rally organized by Communist Party of India (Marxist) and various trade unions in Jammu, India, Saturday, March 24, 2012. The protest was against inflation and alleged anti-labor policies in the country. (Channi Anand)
  • (via Ben Sargent)
    (via Ben Sargent)
  • A female inmate at a Mazar-e Sharif prison has ...
    A female inmate at a Mazar-e Sharif prison has just been released, prompting Maida-Khal, 22, to cry out because she is still trapped in her cell. When Maida-Khal was 12, she was married to a man of about 70 who was paralyzed. ‘I was so young, I couldn’t carry him because he was so heavy, so his ...
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