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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.

Friday, April 20, 2012

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Scoop - NZ

  • King Breaks Hip Hunting Elephants
    King Juan Carlos is recovering in a Madrid hospital from an emergency hip operation after he suffered a fall during an elephant-hunting trip to Botswana. The 74-year-old Spanish monarch is said to be in a comfortable state and is walking with the help of crutches after undergoing hip-replacement ...
  • Ex-directeur de la DST : Sarkozy est responsab ...
    L'ancien directeur de la Direction de la surveillance du territoire (DST), un service de renseignements du ministère de l'Intérieur, Yves Bonnet, a accusé le président Nicolas Sarkozy d'être responsable « du chaos en Libye, au Mali », soulignant que " le manque de confiance entre l'Algérie et la ...
  • Rumours of a Failed Qatari Coup
    The rumour mill is churning in the Persian Gulf with unconfirmed reports of a failed military coup against the Qatari ruler. There were even media reports that American military helicopters had whisked the Emir and his wife to a safe unknown destination in the aftermath of the failed putsch, ...
  • Afghanistan troop deaths in vain: Stretton
    A retired Major General is contesting the Prime Minister's assessment of Australia's role in Afghanistan, saying the deaths of the 32 Australians there have been in vain. Major General Alan Stretton, a former Australian of the Year and army leader during the Vietnam War, says the war has achi ...
  • Seymour Hersh: US Training Iranian Terrorists ...
    Interview with Seymour Hersh on revelations that the Bush administration secretly trained an Iranian opposition group despite its inclusion on the State Department’s list of foreign terrorists.

Independent - London

  • Secret Service agents sacked over prostitutes
    The US Secret Service is moving quickly to quell a prostitution scandal, sacking three agents less than a week after the embarrassing incident came to light. Related StoriesLeonard Cohen's ex-manager jailed for harassmentHow China's Bo affair rattled the White HouseThree US Secret Service employ ...
  • Vatican censures 'feminist' nuns for supportin ...
    The Vatican, already battered by child abuse and financial scandals, faces another public relations disaster after censuring "feminist" nuns in the US, allegedly for their support of the Obama health reforms.Related StoriesMississippi law may force its last surviving abortion clinic to shutCan ...
  • Republicans call for the return of Condi
    Republican voters have given a thumbs-up to Condoleezza Rice as their preferred choice as running mate for Mitt Romney as he gears up to challenge Barack Obama.Related StoriesLeonard Cohen's ex-manager jailed for harassmentHow China's Bo affair rattled the White HouseThree US Secret Service emp ...
  • EU will suspend most sanctions against Burma f ...
    The European Union will suspend most sanctions against Burma for a year while it assesses the country's progress towards democracy.Related StoriesSyria Olympic chief may be blocked from London 2012 GamesNato chiefs and politicians at war over 'risky' Afghan withdrawal plansNato chiefs and politi ...
  • Mali and me: Man from Microsoft who returned t ...
    Awidespread and worsening hunger crisis, at least two competing rebellions that have cut the country in two, active Islamic jihadists, a military coup and massive population displacement are some of the items in the in-tray of Mali's leaders.Related StoriesNigerian hotels warned of bombingsMbeki ...

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • The REAL X-Ray Spex: New 'Terahertz' Scanner L ...
    Scanner uses 'terahertz' spectrum - between infrared and microwavesCan see through walls, wood and plasticsDoctors could use small, cheap devices to see tumours inside body Comic-book superpowers could become reality as scientists have designed a phone that works as 'X-Ray spex'. A hi-tech chip ...
  • Gun Industry's Economic Impact Skyrockets Duri ...
    The economic impact of the firearms industry is up 66 percent since the beginning of the Great Recession, providing an unexpected shot in the arm for the economy, according to a new study. The National Shooting Sports Foundation says the economic impact of firearm sales - a figure that includ ...
  • Developments in British Phone-Hacking Scandal ...
    Developments in a phone-hacking scandal involving British newspapers owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.: November 2005: News of the World royal reporter Clive Goodman writes story saying Prince William has a knee injury. Buckingham Palace complaint prompts police inquiry. August 2006: Goodma ...
  • North Korea Threatens War as Seoul Unveils Mis ...
    North Korea demanded Thursday that South Korea apologise for what it called insults during major anniversary festivities, or face a "sacred war", as Seoul unveiled a new missile to deter its neighbour. Regional tensions have risen since Pyongyang went ahead with a long-range rocket launch last ...
  • Starbucks to Stop Using Red Food Coloring Made ...
    US, New York - Starbucks Corp. says it will stop using a red dye in its drinks that is derived from crushed bugs. The Seattle-based coffee chain said in a blog post on its website Thursday that it made the decision to reformulate its drinks after feedback from consumers prompted a "thorough" ev ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Joe Oliver attempts to lampoon Saturday Night Live
    #Cdnpoli Jebus H. on a popsicle stick, take a read of this fool: Environmental groups that don’t have particular expertise to offer shouldn’t be able to participate in environmental review hearings, Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver said Wednesday. That also goes for ordinary ...
  • Canadian Progressive Voices
    Like that? Thanks to Pale of A Creative Revolution we have a new and exciting blogrol in the 'verse. Canadian Progressive Voices is a gathering of people who believe, above all else, in the principles expressed clearly in the masthead. We share the belief that the inalienable rights e ...
  • F-35 for cheap
    TGB News, Ottawa, 34 September 2012: Today the defence minister announced that the government has inked a deal with the United States that will provide a mixed fleet of F-35s, F-15s, F-16s, and F-22s to the RCAF at the bargain cost of pilot salaries and fuel. Under the agreement, Canada will p ...
  • F-35 fading into the future
    #F35 #CdnForces #Cdnpoli -  Here's a syndrome that can only make matters worse for all sides on the F-35 imbroglio. As David Pugliese points out: Previously, the Canadian government determined it would receive the F-35 during peak production – the so-called “sweet spot’’ that Defence Mini ...
  • Robocon and election fraud
    #robofraud #elxn41 #elxnfraud #cdnpoli #RMG #Xentel #CPC - So we'll start with ... no. Just go read Alison, and make sure you're sitting down. Or you could make some popcorn and then take a seat.

Media Matters for America

  • Fast And Fallacious: Pavlich's Book On ATF Ope ...
    In her new book, Fast and Furious: Barack Obama's Bloodiest Scandal and its Shameless Cover-up, Townhall news editor Katie Pavlich offers up a number of false and misleading claims about the ATF's fatally flawed Operation Fast and Furious. In doing so Pavlich baselessly suggests that high-ranki ...
  • Facts Bust Media Narrative That Obama Favored ...
    Media conservatives are pushing the narrative that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's attacks against President Obama over the economy will be effective because Obama favored health care reform rather than focusing on "fixing the economy." However, this narrative falters when confr ...
  • Dodd-Frank Does Regulate Oil Speculat ...
    Fox News commentators have attacked the Dodd-Frank financial regulation law by falsely suggesting that it doesn't address oil speculation. In fact, Dodd-Frank does address speculation, and regulations on oil speculation have been issued. However, financial industry groups are suing to block the ...
  • Fox Falsely Claims Obama Opposes "Giving The M ...
    Fox hosts attacked President Obama for his opposition to Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's Small Business Tax Cut Act, claiming the bill would give "the middle class a tax break" and "creates thousands of jobs." In fact, Obama has threatened to veto Cantor's bill specifically becau ...
  • No Oxygen: Michigan Media Silent As State Pass ...
    Last week, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) approved a bill that curbs the ability of asbestos-exposure victims to recover losses from some companies that are legally responsible. The bill was pushed by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and Crown Holdings, Inc., a Fortune ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Obama and Romney on Foreign Policy - Drawing t ...
    The political battle lines are being drawn for the general election debate over foreign policy and national security, and you can't do much better than my fellow Democracy Arsenal blogger Michael Cohen for a guide. One key theme of Michael's latest column for ForeignPolicy.com is what a differen ...
  • Will Yale's Alumni Save Liberal Education?
    Hoping to head off alumni resistance to the brand-new "Yale-National University of Singapore" college that the Yale Corporation has created somewhat stealthily in collaboration with the government of that authoritarian city-state, Association of Yale Alumni chairman Michael Madison has inadvert ...
  • Neocons Celebrate: We Got MJ Rosenberg, We'll ...
    The right-wing "pro-Israel" lobby has taken off its mask. In the wake of my departure from Media Matters, it is in a celebratory mood. In one article and column after another, the Israel-is-always-right types cannot contain their feeling of triumph. There are dozens of these articles. Here i ...
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  • "Harvard Faculty Lounge" v. "Fox News Green Room"
    Among the idiotic things about this "Harvard faculty lounge" nonsense is the fact that President Obama wasn't on the faculty; he was a student. But never mind all that. If Republicans want to highlight a location with a supposedly warped picture of the world, two can play that game. I don't ...

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

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

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Hen lays healthy 'eggless' chick
    Which came first, the chicken or the egg ? One hen has turned the age-old question on its head. Vetinary officials were shocked when they were called ...
  • Is Ales Stenar the Swedish Stonehenge ?
    A research team has found new evidence that Sweden's Ales Stenar is far older than previously thought. The megalithic structure comprised of 59 huge b...
  • Scientists create DNA alternative
    Artificial genetic material that can evolve and store information like DNA has been developed in a lab. Researchers at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular...
  • US TV bosses launch channel for dogs
    DogTV is intended to keep your dog entertained and relaxed while you are out of the house. After a two-month run in California, the channel has now ap...
  • Did egg-laying cause dinosaur extinction ?
    Scientists have suggested that egg-laying may have been a factor in the extinction of the dinosaurs. Scientists including University of Zurich's Marcu...

Grassroots

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

Climate

  • New Energy-Efficient Light Bulb Goes on Sale S ...
    (AP) How much would you pay for an amazing, state-of-the-art light bulb? Shoppers will be asking themselves that very question at Home Depot and other outlets starting Sunday — Earth Day — when the bulb that won a $10 million governmen ...
  • Sea Level Rise Will Be Focus of Senate Hearing
    (Climate Central) The Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, chaired by Jeff Bingaman (D, N.M), will hold hearings Thursday into the impact of sea level rise on U.S. infrastructure.
  • Rail Shipments of Coal to Power Plants Fall to ...
    (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) Utilities are burning less coal to produce power, according to data released by the Energy Information Administration. The agency said shipments of coal by rail during the first quarter fell to 1.55 million ...
  • U.S. Coal Exports to China May Double in 2012: ...
    (Reuters) U.S. coal exports to China could more than double to over 12 million tons in 2012 thanks to depressed freight rates and a fall in domestic demand in the United States, the chief of top U.S. coal exporter Xcoal Energy & Re ...
  • Boardman, Ore., Considers a Future in Coal
    (New York Times) Even as coal-fired power plants are being phased out in Oregon and Washington, Boardman is among at least half a dozen ports in the region weighing whether to ship millions of tons of coal to Asia from the Powder River ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • Who is Paying Karin McQuillan?
    This is one of the most egregiously awful things I have read in a long time. It would have never occurred to me that Karin McQuillan is a Jewish name so I at first thought I'd discovered a rare Irish Catholic with truly weird hangups about Obama's attitude towards Israel. I expect that kind of ...
  • What this Election Will Be About
    We've spent a lot of time trying to unearth "the real Mitt Romney." What does he stand for? What positions are merely for convenience and what positions are non-negotiable? Will he govern more like a Massachusetts governor facing an overwhelmingly Democratic legislature, or the more-conservat ...
  • Is Sarkozy About to Fall?
    I don't know what an electoral loss for Nicolas Sarkozy for will mean (although European Tribune has a good discussion). I'll just be glad to see him go. The likely winner, Socialist candidate François Hollande, may pulls French troops out of Afghanistan earlier than anticipated, which could c ...
  • How Long Will It Take the Press to Notice That ...
    The mainstream press really wants to believe that Mitt Romney is going to start being a nice, safe right-centrist any day now -- but if so, that transformation isn't going to begin for at least another three and a half weeks, if it ever begins at all: Mitt Romney will deliver the commencement ...
  • Serious Questions
    I need a nap. But I also would like to know how much violence against women Mitt Romney and the Republicans are willing to tolerate. Also, how much violence against gays and undocumented workers do Romney and the Republicans support? Maybe we could write it all up in a bill and have a ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • Beijing's Secret Underground City
    Beijing's underground network of Cold War era bomb shelters have housed cheap apartments for over two decades. Tour this shadowy world and see what the future holds. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Looks So Real: Surreal Suburban Landscapes Cre ...
    These urban landscapes may seem quite normal at first, but take a closer look and you'll be surprised. The surreal works of artist Frank Kunert are strange indeed. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 2012 Indian Ocean Earthquake May Be Dry Run fo ...
    A massive earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia on April 11, 2012. No destructive tsunami was produced and early warning worked well but there are worrying signs. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 20 Awesome Pics of Jets Blazing Firetrails Acr ...
    Fuel ignited so that it leaves blazing trails behind aircraft may not sound like a good idea, but the maneuver known as the dump-and-burn might make you think otherwise. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Alarming Impact of Climate Change on Switz ...
    The Matterhorn, one of the most iconic of the Alpine mountains, is reportedly beginning to melt like an ice cream cone thanks to the effects of climate change. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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

Daily Censored

  • Obama attorney: released birth certificate “no ...
    Multiple experts in graphics software have written and filmed their explanation of the evidence that President Obama’s released birth certificate is an obvious forgery (3-minute video, and here, here, among many). An interesting update is the New Jersey legal challenge where Mr. Obama’s attorney ...
  • California attorney general’s office has ...
       Picture of Harrison Wills, student body president of Santa Monica College   On April 6, Santa Monica College trustees voted to cancel this summer’s pilot two-tiered fee plan after student protesters were pepper-sprayed at an earlier board meeting on April 3, 2012.  The two-tie ...
  • Senators Harkin &Hagan propose restricting abu ...
     On April 18, 2012 US Senators Tom  Harkin and Kay Hagan introduced a bill to prohibit all colleges  from using money from federal student assistance programs, including Title IV student loans and grants, Veterans benefits and the GI Bill, to pay for marketing, advertising and recruiting (http:/ ...
  • Wall Street starves, KILLS CHILDREN with fraud ...
    I documented personal history how US political “leadership” and corporate media allow a million children to die from preventable poverty each month. For Wall Street’s role in this child-slaughtering, UK Independent’s Grace Livingstone deftly explains (my emphasis): “Speculation by large in ...
  • Welcome to Wisconsin: Howard Fuller and taking ...
    From Larry Miller’s Blog: The following is from Larry Miller’s blog out of Wisconsin. You can readmore about Howard Fuller and his insidious plans for Wisconsin schools in an article entitled:  “Welcome to Wisconsin: Taking away ‘public choice’ in education, abdicating reasonin ...

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Institute for Policy Studies

  • Warfare Welfare: The Not-So-Hidden Costs of Am ...
    This edited volume reveals how a permanent war economy has made the United States unable to spread democracy abroad and has worsened domestic problems.
  • PHOTO: Human Rights Activism in Bahrain
    An anti-government protester flashes a victory sign in front of riot police during an anti-government rally demanding the release of human rights activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, in Manama, Bahrain.
  • CEO Pay on Morning Joe
    Political commentators on MSNBC's morning news talk show agreed that the forty-year trend of rising executive compensation is "obscene" and that Citigroup shareholders have a right to be upset.
  • Death and Taxes
    The United States accounts for approximately 43 percent of all global military expenditures.
  • Lannan Lecture: Phyllis Bennis on Cultural Freedom
    In New Mexico, Bennis told the Lannan In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom series why the bloated military budget represents an atrocious investment for our society.

IntelNews

War is a Crime.org

Grist - News

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

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Digg Green

  • Baleen Whales Use 'Ear Fat' to Hear
    Whales use sound to communicate over entire oceans, search for food, and coordinate attacks. But just how baleen whales—a group that uses comblike projections from the roof of their mouth to catch food—heard these grunts and moans was something of a mystery. Toothed whales, including dolphins an ...
  • 10 Things We’ve Learned About the Earth Since ...
    We recap the most surprising, awe-inspiring and alarming things that we have learned about the Earth and the environment since last year's holiday
  • The Spellbinding Carina Nebula | All That Is I ...
    Despite being four times larger and brighter than the Orion Nebula, the Milky Way's Carina Nebula is far less popular. That is truly remarkable, given that it houses two of the most massive and luminous stars in the Milky Way.
  • NASA - Space Shuttle Discovery Readied for Demate
    NASA's Shuttle Carrier Aircraft with the space shuttle Discovery mated on top rolls into position for demating at Washington Dulles International Airport, Wednesday, April 18, 2012, in Sterling, VA. Discovery, the first orbiter retired from NASA’s shuttle fleet, completed 39 missions, spent 365 ...
  • 'Extreme Universe' puzzle deepens
    Researchers go hunting for the source of the highest-energy particles we know of, and rule out one of the two presumed sources.

Invisible Opportunity

  • ‘Globally-supported company is funding fatal p ...
    By Shahbaz Rana ISLAMABAD: A government inquiry has found that polio vaccines for infants funded by the Global Alliance for Vaccination and Immunisation are causing deaths and disabilities in regional countries including Pakistan. The startling revelation is part of an inquiry report prepared by ...
  • Polio Vaccines Now The #1 Cause of Polio Paralysis
    Sayer Ji Activist Post January 18, 2012 The Polio Global Eradication Initiative (PGEI), founded in 1988 by the World Health Organization, Rotary International, UNICEF, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, holds up India as a prime example of its success at eradicating polio, ...
  • Paralysis Cases Spike in Wake of Bill Gates’ P ...
    Aaron Dykes Expert medical pediatricians in India have criticized the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for their illusory promise of polio eradication without noting the devastating side effects its vaccination regiment could inflict. Numerous problems ...
  • Stockholm airport bars Israeli airline over se ...
    By Zohar Blumenkrantz Arkia has to stop flying to Stockholm because the Swedish capital’s international airport now refuses to allow Israeli methods of security inspections dictated by the Shin Bet security service, TheMarker learned on Wednesday. Thus, Stockholm’s airport joined those in Malmo, ...
  • Woman removed from Air France flight for not b ...
    by Philip Weiss on April 18, 2012 Ali Abunimah reports on a disgusting incident surrounding the recent flytilla, an action in France at the behest of Israeli authorities: Air France demanded to know the religion of a passenger on a flight from Nice to Tel Aviv and removed her because she is not ...

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • Key Frames: Dancing Figures Light Up the Night ...
    Read the rest of Key Frames: Dancing Figures Light Up the Night With Low-Energy LEDs Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: art installation, Fête des Lumieres 2011 in Lyon, france, group laps, key frames, LED lights, light installation, low energy usage
  • NASA’s New LEED Platinum Sustainability Base i ...
    Read the rest of NASA’s New LEED Platinum Sustainability Base is the Greenest Federal Building in the US – PHOTOS Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", Ames Research Center, Bill McDonough, green architecture, green design, greenest go ...
  • Tree-inspired Mangrove Chair Is Fashioned from ...
    Knotted into a trunk-like formation from the base of its roots, the brilliant Mangrove Chair is crafted from a combination of recycled steel pipe, yellow pine and steel leaf. Created by Adam Krehbiel, this extraordinary piece of furniture demonstrates Veraseri Design’s continued research i ...
  • Win Canopy Verde’s Vegan-Friendly Cassia Mini ...
    There’s no simpler way to revamp your wardrobe for spring than with a bright pop of color. Enter Linda Wong’s stylish vegan Canopy Verde Cassia Mini bag, the perfect warm-weather tote. Clad in bright violet organic cotton, the bag is 100% cruelty-free and crafted with Oeko Tex-certif ...
  • Seattle Man Rescues & Transplants Hundreds of ...
    Read the rest of Seattle Man Rescues & Transplants Hundreds of Unwanted Trees Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: bernie obrian tree rescuer, bernie obrien, Craigslist, how to rescue trees, japanese maples, rescuing trees, Seattle, tree adoption, tree rescue, tree res ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • NASA Needs New Plan to Avoid Contaminating Oth ...
    Space could be much more hospitable to life than anyone thought, but probes sent looking for it might transfer an Earth-based extremophile to the new world -- and ruin everything. A recent National Academies of Science report tasked with evaluating NASA's protocols found them lacking.
  • Cryobots Could Drill Into Icy Moons With Remot ...
    Future extraterrestrial rovers may be powered remotely by high-energy laser beams shot through miles of thin fiber-optic cables. This new technology could allow robotic probes to penetrate thick layers of ice to explore Antarctic lakes or the subterranean oceans on icy moons like Europa or Encel ...
  • Small Furry Hyrax Sings in Regional Dialects
    The foundations of complex language have been found in colonies of unusual furry animals called hyraxes.
  • Hubble Captures Incredible New Panorama of Tar ...
    Millions of young stars shine brightly in this enormous stellar nursery at the heart of the Tarantula Nebula.
  • Greenpeace: Apple Fuels iCloud With Dirty, Dir ...
    As worldwide demand for data storage skyrockets, so do the power needs of the servers where all our digital archives live. While some companies (like Facebook) have made great progress in ditching dirty fossil-fuel energy for cleaner renewables, a few internet giants (like Apple) lag far behind.

PakAlert

  • Blamed for Bee Collapse, Monsanto Buys Leading ...
    Monsanto, the massive biotechnology company being blamed for contributing to the dwindling bee population, has bought up one of the leading bee collapse research organizations. Recently banned from Poland with one of the primary reasons being that the company’s genetically modifiedcorn may be de ...
  • “2012″ and Electromagnetic Effects on Consciou ...
    I am convinced that we are currently in the midst of a process involving the restructuring of our neuronal networks, and that the catalyst of this process is the high solar-geomagnetic activity whose consequences are feared by so many people today. However, all facts and findings add up to the u ...
  • Unplugging Americans From The Matrix
    Americans, the British, and Western Europeans are accustomed to thinking of themselves as the representatives of freedom, democracy, and morality in the world. The West passes judgment on the rest of the world as if the West is God and the rest of the world are barbarians in need of chastisement ...
  • US nuclear arms in Europe should now be remove ...
    A prominent international affairs expert says it is time for the United States to remove its tactical nuclear arsenal in Europe as the dangerous stockpiles “serve no legitimate strategic purpose.”
  • First Ever Blueprints for World Government Rev ...
    The main lines of this blueprint for governmental or unofficial action to organize the world were drawn in 1924. We revised our work and published the present pamphlet in 1937. This is the fourth edition. Believing government initiation of world union to be at present not only hopeless but even ...

Andy Worthington

  • The Human Face of Indefinite Detention: Shaker ...
    On Friday April 24, from 6:30 to 8:30pm, I will be beamed into Room 407a of the New School, at 66 West 12th Street, in New York City, for a panel discussion, “The Human Face of Indefinite Detention: Shaker Aamer, Guantánamo and the NDAA,” with some good friends of mine — Col. M ...
  • If Abu Qatada is Guilty of Crimes, Why Not Pro ...
    When it comes to dealing with Muslim “terror suspects” in the UK, and recent rulings by the European Court of Human Rights preventing the British government from deporting Abu Qatada to Jordan, but approving the extradition to the US of Abu Hamza, Babar Ahmad, Talha Ahsan and two oth ...
  • Calling for the Release of Shaker Aamer from G ...
    On Monday, in the hope of drawing MPs’ attention to the ongoing disgrace of the detention at Guantánamo of Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in the prison, the Save Shaker Aamer Campaign, with the support of Peace Strike, organised a demonstration in Parliament Square, to greet MPs a ...
  • Video: Aafia Siddiqui and America’s Disa ...
    On Saturday March 31, I was delighted to be asked to speak at a demonstration outside the US Embassy marking the 9th anniversary of the disappearance of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist who vanished with her three children in Karachi on March 30, 2003. It took nearly five and a hal ...
  • Guest Post: Polish Journalist Discusses the On ...
    Since November 2005, when the Washington Post first reported that the CIA had held “high-value detainees” in its “war on terror” in secret prisons in eastern Europe, and Human Rights Watch then revealed that prisons were located in Poland and Romania, concerned politician ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Missouri Lawmaker Proposes Amendment to Reject ...
    The antigovernment “Patriot” movement is big on the U.S. Constitution. Except when it’s not. For some reason, the far-right politicians who identify with and promote the Patriot movement can’t seem to get over the fact that the Constitution gives the federal government primacy over the states – ...
  • New Georgia Law Targets Antigovernment Soverei ...
    Aiming squarely at the antigovernment “sovereign citizens” movement, Georgia’s governor on Monday signed a law that will make it a felony to file fraudulent liens against public officials or employees, a tactic known as “paper terrorism.” Sovereign citizens, extremists who believe they don’t hav ...
  • Three Men with White Supremacist Tattoos Convi ...
    A Houston jury has convicted three men who sported white supremacist tattoos on federal hate crime charges for carrying out a racially motivated assault on a 29-year-old black man they cornered at a bus stop. Charles Cannon, 26, Michael McLaughlin, 41, and Brian Kerstetter, 32, face up to 10 yea ...
  • Psychiatrist Retracts Infamous ‘Ex-Gay&# ...
    Retired psychiatrist and Columbia University professor Robert Spitzer has retracted a much-criticized 2001 study that has been used for years by anti-gay activists to buttress their claims that gay men and lesbians can be “cured” of their homosexuality through therapy. In the controversial study ...
  • Slavery Apologist to Lecture Indiana Universit ...
    This Friday, a far-right religious activist who co-authored a repulsive apologia for Southern slavery and argues that women were created to be “dependent and responsive” to men, will speak on sexuality and the Bible at Indiana University, Bloomington. Invited by a campus Christian group, Douglas ...

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

  • Germany to Greece: Cut Safety Nets for Citize ...
    As Germany insists that Greece submit to harsh austerity measures leaving pensions cut, unemployment soaring and the healthcare system slashed, one area it believes needn't be cut is Greece's weapons purchases, provided in great part by and benefiting Germany. ...
  • Thousands of Peasant Farmers 'Reclaim' the Lan ...
    On Tuesday, small scale farmers and their allies around the world observed the International Day of Peasant's Struggle, by organizing more than 250 actions and manifestations all over the globe. read more
  • EU To Give US Homeland Security Sensitive Pass ...
    The European Union has agreed to pass on sensitive information on passengers flying from Europe to the United States to the US Department of Homeland Security. The European Parliament approved the new accord by a 409-226 vote on Thursday. ...
  • Environmental Groups: New Fracking Rules Fall ...
    The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued its first regulations on air pollution from hydraulic fracturing, known as fracking, on Wednesday, but environmental groups say the rules fall short.   The groups say the regulations fail to protect public health by ignoring the many environm ...
  • UC Davis Police Chief Resigns Over Pepper Spra ...
    The UC Davis police chief who oversaw the reprehensible pepper spraying of campus protesters has announced her resignation, effective today, university officials confirmed. A report released earlier this month found the department to be 'very dysfunctional', and in need of an overhaul. ...

Lifehacker

  • Unleash Your Headphones' Full Potential with a ...
    So you've picked out the perfect pair of headphones, but they sound a little flat and quiet coming from your computer's crappy built-in audio. Here's a little gadget that will make those headphones sound much better. More » ...
  • Best Linux Distribution? [Hive Five Call For C ...
    Whether you're just getting your feet wet with Linux or you're an old hand at it and have tried a half-dozen distros before finding the one you fell in love with, you probably have an opinion as to which Linux distribution is the best. This w ...
  • Remains of the Day: AT&T Doubles Data Caps on ...
    AT&T can't stop fiddling with their prepaid plans, Apple gives MobileMe users a little help getting ready for iCloud, and it gets harder to watch HBO even with a subscription. More »
  • How to Add a New Default Search Engine to Safa ...
    If you prefer a search engine other than Google, Bing, or Yahoo, you can add it to Safari on iOS with this jailbreak hack. More »
  • Keep Your Hand from Getting Crushed During a H ...
    We all know that one guy that shakes your hand with the jaws of death and tries to crunch your bones just for fun. You can keep your hand intact by touching their wrist with your index finger. More »

Water Privatization

  • Committee votes to take Asheville's water ...
    ASHEVILLE — A state legislative committee recommended Thursday the city be stripped of control of the region’s largest water system, which serves 125,000 people in Buncombe and Henderson counties.
  • Dan Kennedy: E-books and the Privatization of ...
    The trouble is that in too many cities and towns, we no longer have a village square except in the form of enclosed spaces owned by profit-seeking corporations. What happened to that protester said a lot more about our privatized idea of community than it does about that one particular incident.
  • ImperiumWatch: The Outlook for Water
    As issues like universal healthcare, the fight for the Republican presidential nomination and the shooting of an unarmed teenager in Florida grab attention day by day, it's important not to forget a more enduring, more crucial issue that faces the U.S. and the world. That issue is water. Wat ...
  • Rotaract Club sponsors screening of ‘Flow’
    A special showing of the award-winning documentary “Flow: For Love of Water” to benefit The BARKA Foundation will be held on Thursday, April 19 at 8:30 p.m. at Cinema Salem, One East India Square.
  • Never On A Sunday
    MANY of us have been exposed to the mantra that privatization of government strategic and economic assets is the way to go. Briefly, the brainwashing goes this way: 1)Private industries are more efficient than government-run. 2)Thus service or goods become cheaper, which greatly benefits the pub ...

Guardian

  • Abu Qatada could be free within weeks, warns judge
    Theresa May says she will resist an application to release al-Qaida-linked Islamist cleric on bailThe British judge at the centre of the Abu Qatada case has warned that the al-Qaida-linked Islamist cleric could be free and on the streets of London again within a fortnight.The home secretary, The ...
  • Anders Behring Breivik planned to film beheadi ...
    • Gro Harlem Brundtland visited Utøya just before massacre • Anti-Muslim fanatic had planned to set off three car bombsAnders Behring Breivik has told a court that his "primary target" in last year's terrorist attacks was a former prime minister whom he planned to behead, posting the footage on ...
  • Syrian president warned to allow deployment of ...
    Bashar al-Assad accused of wanting to 'wipe Homs off the map' as activists report 17 people killed by security forcesUN observers must be swiftly deployed to Syria or "other options" will be considered, President Bashar al-Assad was warned as western countries kept up pressure on him to maintai ...
  • Leonard Cohen's poetic thanks as former manage ...
    Singer Leonard Cohen tells of 'relentless' strategy of woman he had fired over lost earningsAs befits a man regarded as perhaps the most lyrical voice in contemporary popular music, the witness statement read to a Los Angeles court by Leonard Cohen was unusually poetic in its phrasing."I want to ...
  • Murdoch's News Corp facing growing legal threa ...
    Lawyer Mark Lewis reveals at press conference he has taken on fourth case of alleged phone hacking on American soilRupert Murdoch faces a growing legal challenge in the heart of his global media empire as lawyers representing alleged victims of phone hacking on US soil begin gathering evidence a ...

McClatchey

  • UN’s Ban Ki-moon calls South Sudan’s ...
    The secretary-general of the United Nations on Thursday blasted U.S. ally South Sudan for seizing an oil town on its border with Sudan, calling the military move an illegal actClick to Continue »
  • U.S. resettles 2 Guantánamo captives in E ...
    El Salvador is resettling two long-held Guantánamo captives, both citizens of China from the Uighur Muslim minority who sought asylum in a friendly country, the Pentagon announced Thursday.Click to Continue »
  • Syria’s Farouq rebels battle to hold onto ...
    As representatives of the more than 70 countries dubbed Friends of Syria met in Paris Thursday to discuss aid to the countrys opposition, some of the rebel fighters in Qusayr…Click to Continue »
  • Attorney defends prosecutor Bottini in Ted Ste ...
    Assistant U.S. Attorney Joe Bottini has been wrongfully smeared by allegations he purposely hid evidence from the defense in the case against then-Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, his attorney said Thursday…Click to Continue »
  • In Israel, remembering the forgotten survivors ...
    According to the Israeli government, roughly 30 percent of Holocaust survivors in Israel live below the poverty line. There are still 198,000 Holocaust survivors living in Israel, but every hour…Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

  • US helicopter crashes in Afghan
    File photo - A US Air Force UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter provides security during a medevac operation in Camp Nathan Smith in Kandahar City in ...
  • NATO Helicopter Crashes in Afghanistan
    KABUL, Afghanistan - A United States helicopter crashed in bad weather in southern Afghanistan on Thursday after it responded to evacuate Afghan police officers wounded in a suicide attack on a ...
  • US again pressures Pakistan to target Haqqani ...
    US ambassador to Afghanistan Ryan Crocker has called on Pakistan to target the Haqqani Network, saying there was "no question" that the group mounted recent co-ordinated attacks on Kabul and other are
  • Australian government announces accelerated tr ...
    Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced on Tuesday that most of Australia's 1,550 troops in Afghanistan will be withdrawn within 12 to 18 months, a year ahead of the previous December 2014 ...
  • Washington’s real concerns over the Afgh ...
    made it into print. Taken in 2010, one depicts a smirking soldier, a member of the 82nd Airborne Division's 4th Brigade Combat Team, posing with the hand of a dead Afghan placed on his ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Dr. Frederic Whitehurst and the Failed FBI Cri ...
    Washington Post readers found out this morning that the Justice Department has been withholding information for years about hundreds or even thousands of cases that were tainted by faulty forensic work in the FBI Crime Lab. The front-page feature was based in large part on the work of Dr. Freder ...
  • NWC to Testify on New York City False Claims Act
    This Monday, April 16, 2012, NWC Director of Advocacy & Development Lindsey Williams will testify before the New York City Council in support of strengthening whistleblower protections included in proposed legislation, including the local False Claims Act. The hearing will commence at 10:00a ...
  • RTTV Covers FBI Censorship of Sibel Edmonds
    NWC Executive Director Stephen Kohn appeared live on RTTV last night to discuss the treatment of national security whistleblowers under the Obama administration. Specifically, RTTV asked him about the FBI's attempts to censor Sibel Edmonds as she attempts to publish a book about her experience b ...
  • FBI Attempts to Hold Sibel Edmonds' Book Hostage
    For nearly a year, the FBI has attempted to prevent the publication of whistleblower Sibel Edmonds' new book, Classified Woman: The Sibel Edmonds Story. On April 26, 2011, Ms. Edmonds followed official procedure and submitted her manuscript to the FBI for pre-publication clearance. Under the t ...
  • FBI Attempts to Hold Sibel Edmonds' Book Hostage
    For nearly a year, the FBI has attempted to prevent the publication of whistleblower Sibel Edmonds' new book, Classified Woman: The Sibel Edmonds Story. On April 26, 2011, Ms. Edmonds followed official procedure and submitted her manuscript to the FBI for pre-publication clearance. Under the t ...

Science Express

  • Pollution from Asia Circles Globe at Stratosph ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additiona ...
  • After growth spurt, supermassive black holes s ...
    Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
  • Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virus
    A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20 ...
  • Lizard moms choose the right genes for the rig ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Two Dartmouth biologists have found that brown anole lizards make an interesting choice when deciding which males should father their offspring. The females of this species mate with several males, then produce more sons with sperm from large fathers, and more daughters with spe ...
  • More than One: Long-Reigning Microbe Controlli ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Marine scientists long believed that a microbe called Trichodesmium, a member of a group called the cyanobacteria, reigned over the ocean's nitrogen budget.

TechDirt

  • EU Commissioner Kroes Speaks Out On Internet O ...
    EU Commissioner for the Digital Agenda, Neelie Kroes, has been saying a ton of smart things lately. A few months ago, we wrote about her pointing out that copyright is being used to punish & withhold and how copyright middlemen should get with the times and innovate, rather than looking to ...
  • Countries In TPP Negotiations Begin To Wonder ...
    It looks like some of the countries negotiating the awful and secretive TPP agreement are beginning to realize that perhaps they're better off not giving in to whatever protectionist policies the US is about to push on them. Officials in Chile are apparently starting to realize that perhaps the ...
  • DailyDirt: Actually, It *Is* Soylent Green...
    People eat a lot of weird things, but most folks frown upon cannibalism. Some forms of cannibalism are more socially acceptable than others. Here are just a few examples of people eating other people (or parts of them). Ingesting placenta capsules doesn't sound like a very modern way to ge ...
  • Got Questions About Copyfraud? Now's The Time ...
    This month's Techdirt book club book is Copyfraud, by Jason Mazzone. If you missed them, we published some excerpts (part I and part II) earlier this month, and hopefully some of you have had a chance to dig into the full book. Over on our Step2 platform we're collecting questions and voting o ...
  • It's Time To Re-Establish That If A Patent Blo ...
    Andy Kessler has one of his typically insightful Wall Street Journal opinion pieces in which he says it's time for real patent reform (rather than the joke of patent reform we had last year). His main concern is the toll that patent trolling is taking on innovation. He goes through a number of ...

VacTruth

  • 10,000 Crazy Vaccines!
    There was a storm of amazement and disbelief when this vaccine industry insider made the outrageous statement that each infant would have the theoretical capacity to respond to about 10,000 vaccines at any one time.
  • Child Paralyzed By Vaccinations And Stolen Fro ...
    Emma is a six year old little girl who is suffering from severe vaccine damage which has been verified by several leading experts. She has been taken from her mother.
  • We’ve Shown Them the Proof
    Science. They like that word. “Science has spoken when it comes to the theory that some childhood vaccines can cause autism."
  • Vaccine Recalls
    According to a recent report, “…recalls for vaccines and immunoglobulins were higher than other drug classes."
  • Fetuses Bombarded With Powerful Drugs To Preve ...
    Despite the overwhelming evidence proving that vaccination can cause diabetes, governments around the world continue to bury their heads in the sand and blame parents for the growing problems.

BroadSnark

  • Occupy the DOJ
  • And…Not Either/Or
    Taibbi had an interesting post up a bit ago about the growing consensus about big banks. He talks about a report by the head of the Dallas fed’s research department who is calling for an end of “too big to fail” banks. Moreover, he talks about an inherent perversion of the syst ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Charles Davis is covering for Glenn Greenwald this week and wrote two really great posts. And I’m not just saying that because one of them relates to the campaign the criminal (in)justice committee is working on. Wells Fargo”s Prison Cash Cow The Liberal Betrayal of Bradley Manning I ...
  • Revolution in the Echo Chamber
    Organizing for radical change means building relationships and networks. It is natural that we start building with the ones we already have. We don’t need to start from scratch. And connections built on years of shared experiences are probably going to be stronger than ones based just on p ...
  • Protest: What’s the Point?
    Last month there was a silent march in protest of multiple acts of violence against GLBTQI people in DC. Not everyone was happy that it was a silent march. As one friend put it, hate crimes are an effort to silence. A silent march seemed to be the opposite of what should be done. I [...]

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Would any modern American president ever risk ...
    The video below shows Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a face to face encounter with a young Iranian woman in Bandar Abbas on April 10. Whatever she had to say to him, he seemed pretty unfazed by the situation. Saeed Kamali Dehghan writes: When Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took office in 200 ...
  • For Israel, the problem with Iran diplomacy is ...
    Tony Karon writes: Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu amplified his skepticism of President Obama’s Iran strategy on Wednesday, when he used a Holocaust remembrance speech to warn that Iran was building nuclear weapons in order to destroy Israel. “The Iranian regime is acting openly and ...
  • In Breivik, troubling echoes of West’s view of ...
    Timothy Stanley writes: The trial of mass murderer Anders Breivik has confirmed one thing so far: He seems quite mad. Looking plump and dumb, with a slightly receding hairline, the Norwegian gave a right-wing salute as he entered the courtroom and smirked his way through CCTV footage of his hand ...
  • Fraser and Freeman: Creating a prison-corporat ...
    As cash-starved state governments scrape their way through this so-called recovery, they might as well hang signs with this message on their capitals: “Everything must go.”  States are hemorrhaging workers and selling off assets at a startling rate as they grapple with anemic ta ...
  • Video: Environment still engulfed by BP’s oil ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Former NASA Scientists, Astronauts to Attend H ...
    What: Seventh International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC-7) Theme: Real Science, Real Choices Where: Hilton Chicago, 720 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL When: Monday, May 21 – Wednesday, May 23, 2012 Attend: Register here! Signed Recent Letter Critical of NASA’s … Continue r ...
  • Climate Craziness of the Week – Forbes S ...
    Wow, it doesn’t get much uglier than this. In my opinion, this is hate speech. Steve Zwick writes in his Forbes column: We know who the active denialists are – not the people who buy the lies, mind you, but the … Continue reading →
  • What – you mean we aren’t controll ...
    Correlation of Net CO2 emissions with climate properties shows that the growth in CO2 may be natural Story submitted by WUWT reader Steve Brown The narrative of the catastrophic anthropogenic global warming has been challenged at many levels but this … Continue reading →
  • NSIDC fixes their Arctic Sea Ice graphing problem
    As I mentioned yesterday, NSIDC had an oops moment, but with the help of skeptical blogs, was notified of the problem and responded timely and appropriately. They posted this update today: Update, April 19, 2012: The nine-day trailing average climatology … Continue reading →
  • What jellyfish and tornadoes have in common
    Jellyfish on the rise: UBC study Jellyfish are increasing in the majority of the world’s coastal ecosystems, according to the first global study of jellyfish abundance by University of British Columbia researchers. In a study published in this month’s edition … Continue reading →

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Biosingularity

  • 3D medical animation about acne
  • Stand up: Your life could depend on it
    Standing up more often may reduce your chances of dying within three years, even if you are already physically active, a study of more than 200,000 people published in Archives of Internal Medicine today shows. The study found that adults who sat 11 or more hours per day had a 40% increased risk ...
  • Fatty Diet Leads To Fat-loving Brain Cells
    Cheeseburgers pack on the pounds, but in mice a high-fat diet also packs on new nerve cells in the brain. More brain cells may seem like a good thing, but these newly sprouted cells appear to trigger weight gain in the animals, a new study finds. The results offer insight into how the brain cont ...
  • New Layer of Genetic Information Discovered
    A hidden and never before recognized layer of information in the genetic code has been uncovered by a team of scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) thanks to a technique developed at UCSF called ribosome profiling, which enables the measurement of gene activity inside ...
  • US face transplant gives man new jaw, teeth an ...
    US doctors have carried out what they say is the most extensive face transplant ever performed. The operation at the University of Maryland gave Richard Norris a new face, including jaw, teeth and tongue. The 37-year-old has lived as a recluse for 15 years after being severely injured in a gun a ...

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Pruning Shears

  • Home rule goes up against the fracking industr ...
    The fight against fracking in Ohio comes at a time when the state is approving new wells at a rapid pace. Local activists are organizing in an environment where the ground is constantly shifting under their feet - sometimes literally.Anti-fracking activism has been influenced by developments bo ...
  • Occupy Madison is a Home for the Homeless
    Since its beginning in October 2011, Occupy Madison has evolved from a symbolic occupation of public space to a social experiement that fills an important gap in the services that the city of Madison provides for the homeless.  The site of the encampment has moved from a public park on the ...
  • Keeping 1 percent values out of a 99 percent m ...
    This was published with considerable feedback from affinis, JuliaWilliams, okanogen, and lambert. My sincere thanks to them for their help.The purge of livestreamers and other transparency advocates at Occupy Oakland has been largely successful, and last weekend produced one of its predictable ...
  • How disorganization is damaging Occupy
    This was published with considerable feedback from affinis, Jasper, JuliaWilliams and lambert. My sincere thanks to them for their help.A few weeks ago Occupy Oakland (OO) began to emphasize secrecy (or security culture) over transparency, which resulted in livestreamers being attacked as snitc ...
  • Provocateur tactics and the subversion of Occupy
    This was published with considerable feedback from affinis and lambert. My sincere thanks to both of them for their help.The Occupy movement has already had a positive impact in many areas, but potentially the biggest one is rescuing concepts of public rights and the understanding of what is pu ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Vermont Governor Surrenders to Monsanto
    Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin has less than two weeks to either stand with the 90% of his constituents who support a mandatory labeling bill for genetically engineered foods - or cave in to Monsanto's threat to sue the state if legislators pass H.722.Click here to read this article
  • Changing the Climate in Our Schools
    Maybe you've heard. We are facing a climate crisis that threatens life on our planet. Climate scientists are unequivocal: We are changing the world in deep, measurable, dangerous ways -- and the pace of this change will accelerate dramatically in the decades to come.Click here to read this article
  • Monsanto's Enforcers
    From threatening state legislators with lawsuits, to suing farmers, to assaulting scientists, to sending gunmen to intimidate activists, Monsanto has used many vicious and illegal tactics to secure control of the food system.Click here to read this article
  • Joel Salatin Responds to New York Times' 'Myth ...
    The recent editorial by James McWilliams, titled "The Myth of Sustainable Meat," contains enough factual errors and skewed assumptions to fill a book, and normally I would dismiss this out of hand as too much nonsense to merit a response. But since it specifically mentioned Polyface, a rebuttal ...
  • Farm Group Seeks U.S. Halt on Dangerous Crop C ...
    A coalition of more than 2,000 U.S. farmers and food companies said Wednesday it is taking legal action to force government regulators to analyze potential problems with proposed biotech crops and the weed-killing chemicals to be sprayed over them.Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

  • Food Deserts Are Complex and Real
    Transportation is key when talking about food deserts—we feel strongly that if 40 percent (or more) of a community’s households live more than one-quarter of a mile from a supermarket and don’t have access to a vehicle, that community is a food desert.
  • A Winona LaDuke Reader
    An environmentalist, farmer, activist, writer, and advocate for native communities and ways of life, Winona LaDuke is an Anishinaabe force of nature, and one to be reckoned with.
  • A Lean Finely Textured Proposal
    Beef Products Inc. estimates that the filler makes up 15 percent of the total volume of ground beef sold. So here’s my proposal: Let’s reduce 15 percent of our hamburger consumption.
  • Survey Results from Sodexo’s Meatless Monday I ...
    What excites me the most is the enormous potential for a company like Sodexo to take the Meatless Monday campaign to the next level with its reach of over 10 million meals served daily.
  • Contract farmers step up, and Justice leaves t ...
    Varney and Butler aren’t likely to say this publicly, but they were obviously struck full in the face with the realization that status quo forces had them outnumbered and outgunned.

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Nuclear Politics
    Rather than revisiting the NPT TRAP again I expanded the range of issues surrounding war and nuclear technology in what I hope is a fresh view Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Real Ridiculous Research - Top 10 Reasons why ...
    research the Nazis would have shunned as being immoral... Submitted by michael h. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Natalia's Story of HOPE: Blended Learning Model
    3rd grade student, Natalia, shares her experience with blended learning at HOPE Online Learning Academy Co-Op. For more information, visit ‪http://hopeonline.org Submitted by Erik Keith to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Attack of the Killer Fungi
    Diseases caused by fungi have been causing some of the most severe die-offs and extinctions ever witnessed in wild species and crops.Fungi are wiping out amphibians, decimating bats.contributing to the disappearance of bees,killing corals and sea turtles. Submitted by John Farnham to Health & We ...
  • The Folly of Big Agriculture: Why Nature Alway ...
    Large-scale industrial agriculture depends on engineering the land to ensure the absence of natural diversity. Nature ultimately finds a way to subvert uniformity and assert itself. Submitted by John Farnham to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

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

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Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Obama Administration Again Proposes Polar Bear ...
    ShareThisObama Administration Again Proposes Polar Bear Extinction Plan --New Rule Echoes Bush Plan Ignoring Polar Bears' Plight (Center for Biological Diversity) 17 Apr 2012 The Obama administration announced today that it is reissuing a Bush-era regulation that sharply limits protections for p ...
  • Assange lawyer questioned at Heathrow
    ShareThisAssange lawyer questioned at Heathrow 20 Apr 2012 An Australian lawyer acting on behalf of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is due to arrive in Sydney this morning amid claims she was initially barred from boarding the flight. Jennifer Robinson, who has represented Mr Assange in his Bri ...
  • FBI Seizes a Server Used by CLG's Webhoster in ...
    ShareThisCLG Breaking: FBI Seizes a Server Used by CLG's Webhoster in Bomb Threat Investigation --MayFirst: FBI seizes server providing anonymous remailer and many other services from colocation facility --Server seizure 'plainly extra-judicial punishment and an attack on free speech and anonymi ...
  • Julian Assange's lawyer 'prevented from boardi ...
    ShareThisJulian Assange's lawyer 'prevented from boarding flight at Heathrow' 19 Apr 2012 A lawyer for the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, has said she was stopped at Heathrow airport and told she was on a watch list requiring official approval before she could return to her native Australia. ...
  • CIA seeks new authority to expand Yemen drone ...
    ShareThisCIA seeks new authority to expand Yemen drone campaign --'How discriminating can they be?' asked a senior U.S. official familiar with the proposal. 18 Apr 2012 The CIA is seeking authority to expand its covert drone campaign in Yemen by launching strikes against terrorism suspects even ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Taliban Denounce Poisoning of Girls
    18 April 2012 Yesterday, about 171 girls and women were poisoned at a school in Afghanistan.  Whereas the blame immediately went to the Taliban, Afghanistan is far too complex for reflexive answers.  Further, there are many groups of "Taliban," and other associated enemies, making it ...
  • Afghanistan Opium Survey 2012
    Please click here to view the entire document.
  • Is the Red Cross a Neutral Symbol to Afghans?
    16 April 2012 Wrtten by: MEDEVACmatters.org [Writer] Michael Yon has written about the cultural importance of our MEDEVAC helicopters showing Red Cross symbols on them in a Muslim society. Here is a photo of a poster displaying banned symbols Mark of the Beast Photo courtesy of Michael Yon Fr ...
  • Bowe Bergdahl: Two messages from the Taliban
    10 April 2012 Over the months I have communicated with the Taliban about US prisoner Bowe Bergdahl.  Numerous times I have asked the Taliban to allow me to visit Bowe.  In each case, the Taliban has declined citing security issues. It has been said that I am negotiating with the Tali ...
  • Sergeant Godsmack vs. Nazar
    27 March 2012 PTSD is a serious problem.  Suicides by veterans happen many times per day, every day.  At best, PTSD can degrade the quality of life of veterans and their families.  At worst, unmanaged, the human toll is incalculable. Other problems with “military PTSD:” 1) PTSD ...

The Killing Train

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

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Jurist - Legal Research

  • Ukraine ex-PM on trial for tax evasion
    [JURIST] A Ukrainian court on Thursday began proceedings in the tax evasion trial of former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko [personal website; JURIST news archive] who announced that she would not be able attend [press release] due to health concerns. Tymoshenko is charged with misappropriating ...
  • Federal judge dismisses Goldman Sachs, other b ...
    [JURIST] Federal Judge Denise Cote on Wednesday dismissed a securities lawsuit [opinion, PDF] against Goldman Sachs Group Inc. [corporate website] and 41 other defendants claiming [complaint, PDF] that the banks helped mislead investors in the $12.2 billion stock offering by General Electric Co. ...
  • Kazakhstan court sentences 47 individuals on t ...
    [JURIST] A court in Kazakhstan [official website] sentenced 47 individuals to 15-year prison terms Thursday on charges relating to terrorist attacks and financing extremist activities. The convicted individuals are alleged to be members of a terrorist group [AP report] and were subjected to a mo ...
  • UN SG concerned over arrests of Mali officials
    [JURIST] UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon [official profile] expressed concern [statement] on Wednesday over the new wave of arrests targeted at high-ranking officials within Mali. BAn demanded immediate release of those who had been imprisoned and asked that the junta stop all further arrests. ...
  • Former Venezuela top judge accuses government ...
    [JURIST] A former Venezuelan Supreme Tribunal of Justice [official website, in Spanish] judge accused the Venezuelan government on Thursday of improperly interfering with judicial decisions in a televised interview [video, in Spanish]. In the interview conducted in the US, former Venezuelan Just ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • A Twitter Torrent Against ... Congressional De ...
    Twitter is on fire, and Joe Lieberman merely the kindle. The Netroots left -- a variegated slice of the Democratic base -- is livid about health care reform.  The fire has been slow burning for months, expressing itself in frustration, firstly, with the congressional leadership, and secondl ...
  • 2010: Exploring The Frustration Of Seniors
    Resurgent Republic, the GOP strategy/polling consortium, has been finding, in surveys, a trend among folks over 55 that quite concerns Democrats -- because they're seeing the same thing. Since April, older whites have not only been venting their frustration at Congress, they've been increasingly ...
  • 2010: The Case Against Self-Funding
    Confirming rumors, California gubernatorial candidate Steve Poizner announced today he's donating $15 million to his own campaign because he wants to "communicate my message of bold 10% tax cuts, a 10% reduction in state spending, creating a $10 billion rainy day fund, and I will cut our welfare ...
  • Why Lieberman Hates The Health Care Bill
    For progressives, with his latest Hamleting on health care reform, Sen. Joe Lieberman has officially transitioned from his status as the Senate's Lucy-Pulling-The-Ball-Away to a guy who, in the words of CAP's Matthew Yglesias, demonstrates "sociopathic indifference to the human cost" of his acti ...
  • Administration Admits That Indefinite Detentio ...
    The Obama administration acknowledged Tuesday that it would be a violation of current law to transfer individuals from Guantanamo Bay in Cuba to its soon-to-be acquired Thomson prison in Illinois unless they are destined for a federal trial or military tribunal. In a conference call with reporte ...

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Tikun Olam

  • Bibi: Specter of Iran Nuke Will Strike Terror ...
    TweetThe list of Israeli paranoiac notions about Iran has just grown one item longer: but this one’s a doozy.  The Jerusalem Report notes: Even if the Iranians don’t use the bomb, he [Bibi Netanyahu] fears the very fact that they have it, could lead to a mass exodus of Jews from an Israel ...
  • Scandinavian Airports Reject Shin Bet Racial P ...
    TweetSo much for the vaunted Israeli security screening procedures the media was touting only a few years ago in the aftermath of the Nigerian underwear bomber.  Now, airports in Sweden and Denmark have rejected the racial profiling techniques employed by the Shin Bet to screen passengers boardi ...
  • Bibi’s Freebie
    TweetI missed this story a few days ago because I was laid up in bed with a two-day virus.  When I just read Bibi’s bitchy response after the end of the first round of P5 talks with Iran I had a hard time believing the guy is in his right mind.  Here’s how he responded: [...]
  • UK Jewish Chronicle Names British White Suprem ...
    TweetStephen Sizer reports that the UK national Jewish community’s Jewish Chronicle has offered a regular column to Carlos Cortiglia, a leader of the British National Party, the nation’s leading white supremacist political party.  Cortiglia is the BNP candidate in the London mayoral ...
  • IDF Officer Who Assaulted Multiple Palestinian ...
    Tweet Lt. Col. Shalom Eisner (whose two names translated mean roughly “Peace” and “Ironman”), deputy commander of the IDF unit patrolling the Jezreel Valley, who was caught on video rifle-butting multiple peace protesters (the above video is from Israeli TV coverage and i ...

If Americans Knew

  • Ethan Bronner's Conflict With Impartiality
    Ethan Bronner is the New York Times Jerusalem bureau chief. As such, he is the editor responsible for all the news coming out of Israel-Palestine. It is his job to decide what gets reported and what doesn't; what goes in a story and what gets cut.
  • Beware of the BBC
    Stuart Littlewood highlights the BBC's chronic pro-Israel bias, from allowing untruths about Israel's onslaught on Gaza in 2008-09 to go unchallenged, to its failure to provide accurate context about the Israeli township of Sderot, to its routine willingness to give disproportionate airtime to I ...
  • Stealing Success Tel Aviv Style
    And there is another aspect of Israel's growing high tech sector that he understandably chose to ignore because it is extremely sleazy. That is the significant advantage that Israel has gained by systematically stealing American technology with both military and civilian applications. The US dev ...
  • New Booklet: Stealing Success Tel Aviv Style
    International security and counterterrorism expert Philip Giraldi argues that Israel's flourishing high tech industry is built on widespread theft of American research. This has undermined American companies and endangered American security.
  • How to Contact the US Government and Media
    Contact information for the U.S. government and media.

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

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

Cutting Edge News

  • The Race For Batteries - Improved Batteries Wi ...
    From smartphones to e-bikes, the number of mobile electronic devices is steadily growing around the world. As a result, there is an increased need for batteries that are small and light, yet powerful.                 ...
  • The Battle for Bahrain - Formula 1 Racers get ...
    Zaineb Al-Assam, who studies the Mideast for Exclusive Analysis Ltd, provided an analysis of the risk of violence for Bahrain. She said, "Protests are likely in Bani Jamra, Juffair, Karzakan, al-Ma'amir, entailing roadblocks and petrol and pipe bombs targeting security forces. In response, secur ...
  • Edge of No Return - It’s the Real Thing: The ...
    In 2001, Hussam Khader, a Fatah leader, said of Yasser Arafat’s last negotiations with then President Bill Clinton, “If Yasser Arafat or any other Palestinian leader were to relinquish the right of return, I would lead the revolt against him.� This supposed right, one sided as it might be, ...
  • Israel and Turkey - Turkish-Israeli Relations ...
    In order to understand the initial reasons behind the creation of the Turkish-Israeli alliance, one must also recognize why that alignment came to an end. The cause was not within the partnership itself nor was it due to the 2008/2009 Gaza War or the 2010 flotilla events; rather this resulted fr ...
  • The Medical Edge - Personalized Medicine For L ...
    "A major goal of lung cancer treatment is to tailor the treatment to the individual," says Dr Fiona Blackhall from The Christie NHS Foundation Trust in Manchester, UK. Methods ranging from convenient blood-based molecular tests, detailed genetic analysis of tumors and functional imaging techniqu ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Hillary Clinton Implies: Pro-Israel Sentiment ...
    Sometimes a secretary of state is asked tough questions. How they are answered shows the underlying philosophy of official and government. I genuinely don’t want to make too much out of a single exchange between Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and a Tunisian audience. Yet the problem is how t ...
  • Barnabas Collins is Dead (Maybe)
    Throughout my grade school years, as soon the teacher would dismiss the class I would run home as fast possible. For a kid who wore size "husky,"that was no easy feat. The reason for my haste was "must see TV," the daily soap opera Dark Shadows (the reason it was onl ...
  • Holocaust Memorial Day Visions Of Horror-Eisen ...
    Tonight at sunset begins a very solemn day on the Jewish Calendar, Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance day.  It is observed on the 27th day of the month of Nisan, which marks the day when Allied troops liberated the first Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald, Germany, in 1945. ...
  • Obama’s “Secret” Plan To Stop Iran’s Nuclear ...
    Hey, there’s no hurry! The negotiations with Iran have just been postponed a month. What’s another month after the current U.S. government has given Iran 38 of them to keep developing nuclear weapons? The problem with the Obama administration is that it wants to pursue policies acceptabl ...
  • Just What In The Hell Did Hawaiian Schools Tea ...
    Back in the days Capitalism was taught in public schools as the best economic. For those of you who were taught that the various forms of Marxism (such as Socialism, Communism or Fascism for example) were just as viable as Capitalism ask anyone who graduated High School prior to the mid-8 ...

The Real Agenda

  • India Tested its Intercontinental Missile Succ ...
    By RAVI NESSMAN | ASSOCIATED PRESS | APRIL 19, 2012 India announced the successful test launch Thursday of a new nuclear-capable missile that would give it the ability to strike the major Chinese cities of Beijing and Shanghai for the first time, a significant step forward in its aspir ...
  • Project Blue Beam Technology out in the Open
    By LUIS R. MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | APRIL 18, 2012 A new article published by Popular Science adds more fuel to the fire about the existence of outer space technology capable of showering the Earth with space microwave beams of the type used to carry out experiments to influence hum ...
  • U.S. Military Thugs Celebrate Death
    AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE | APRIL 18, 2012 US soldiers took pictures of themselves posing with the mangled remains of suspected Afghan suicide bombers on more than one occasion in 2010, the Los Angeles Times reported on Wednesday. The LA Times said the US Army had launched an investigation into ...
  • More money for Banks as BoE keeps interest rat ...
    AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE | APRIL 18, 2012 Bank of England policymakers all voted in favour of holding interest rates at a record low earlier in April, while one member called for more stimulus cash, the BoE said on Wednesday. Minutes from the central bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) ...
  • Taxed to Death Americans Renounce their Citize ...
    REUTERS | APRIL 17, 2012 A year ago, in Action Comics, Superman declared plans to renounce his U.S. citizenship. “‘Truth, justice, and the American way’ — it’s not enough anymore,” the comic book superhero said, after both the Iranian and American governments c ...

Wind Watch

  • Ashburton couple blows windfarm away
    A Kiwi couple have done what the Aussies couldn’t – fought a corporate energy generator and won. Bernie and Angela Molloy left Ashburton in 2007 to start a new life in the Australian state of Victoria. They found that new life in Naroghid, near Cobden, buying a 420 milking cow farm. What t ...
  • Wind farms might not fly due to golden eagles ...
    Researcher Todd Katzner and the U.S. Department of Energyare tailing the same slightly ruffled, strawberry blond: an Eastern Golden Eagle equipped with a tiny cell phone that winters in Connecticut and summers in Quebec. Wingspan, 7 feet; weight,14 pounds; appearance, magnificent. The eagle&#821 ...
  • LURC decision leaves First Wind facing first d ...
    LINCOLN, Maine — The state’s largest wind developer could face defeat for the first time in Maine with LURC’s decision Friday to deny a request to withdraw a proposed wind project on Bowers Mountain. The Land Use Regulation Commission voted 5-0 at the Waterfront Event Center to reject First Wind ...
  • Bend group sues to halt Steens Mtn. wind project
    It’s considered one of the most pristine wilderness areas in the West. Stretching across southeastern Oregon, over 425,550 undeveloped acres dotted with desert, mountains and wildlife. “It’s hard to find a place like Steens Mountain any more. You know, it’s amazingly wild ...
  • Bitterness and anger in Aith and Nesting over ...
    With the prospect of giant turbines almost on their doorsteps, many people in the communities of Nesting and Aith have been opposed to the windfarm from day one. News that energy minister Fergus Ewing has now approved the project was greeted in these areas with anger and incredulity. Many detest ...

Tippers News

  • Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
    The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
    DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...
    Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note- ...
  • About Us,,,You may want to lisent...interesting!
    Interesting Information that you may find interesting With Love... Evelyn (: Submitted by Evelyn J. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Tiger killing 'a crime against nature'
    Three people have been sentenced to a total of eight and a half years in prison for trying to smuggle tiger skins and bones across the Russian border. And for the first time in this kind of case, a charge of 'ecological damage' might be brought for the Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals &nbsp ...

The Freeman

  • Hopes Dampen for Pickup in Job Creation
    “The number of Americans claiming unemployment benefits for the first time fell only slightly last week, dampening hopes of a pick-up in job creation in April after March’s slowdown.” (Reuters) The conditions for a real recovery still don’t exist. FEE Timely Classic “Prod ...
  • Banks Find Way around Volcker Rule
    “The path to gaming the Volcker Rule has always been clear: Banks will shut down anything with the word “proprietary” on the door and simply move the activities down the hall. To look as if they were ready to comply with the Volcker Rule, the part of the Dodd-Frank Act that aims to prevent ...
  • Equal Pay Day: Some Thoughts
    Using government to address issues such as the gender pay gap is like doing surgery with a hacksaw.
  • Oil Prices Are Down
    “World oil prices weakened on Wednesday, following recent gains, as traders awaited the weekly snapshot of energy inventories in top global crude consumer the United States.” (Reuters) Headline should be: Greed Declines FEE Timely Classic “Greed and Gravity” by Dwight R. Lee
  • GSA Exec Traveled World on Taxpayers Despite W ...
    “The main figure in a General Services Administration spending scandal took trips to Hawaii, Napa Valley and the South Pacific islands, all after the agency’s inspector general warned top officials about the excesses.” (Christian Science Monitor) Ruling class. FEE Timely Classi ...

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Programming and journalism students: A convers ...
    I think it’s pretty cool to use Storify to sort out the threads of a bunch of simultaneous conversations on Twitter: [View the story "Programming and journalism students: A conversation" on Storify] Please join in — on Twitter, on Facebook, or here.
  • The courses a student wishes he had taken
    As he prepares to graduate, University of Oregon public relations student Sam Drake reflects on the courses he did not take: Computer science: “To be able to code in Java, HTML, C++ or Python is one skill that is going to be extremely important in the coming years.” Marketing cla ...
  • The liberal arts portion of a journalism education
    Model Curricula for Journalism Education is a 150-page document produced by UNESCO and published in 2007. Its contents are based on work done in 2005 by an international group of journalism educators. While many details in the document (particularly the recommended books) are now quite out of d ...
  • The liberal arts portion of a journalism education
    Model Curricula for Journalism Education is a 150-page document produced by UNESCO and published in 2007. Its contents are based on work done in 2005 by an international group of journalism educators. While many details in the document (particularly the recommended books) are now quite out of da ...
  • Two online tools I use and recommend
    Just a quick post to pimp two products/tools/sites I use every day — neither of which is nearly as famous as some companies that announced a billion-dollar deal yesterday. Pinboard. This is NOT the famous Pinterest that everyone is talking about. It has a few minor similarities (a “ ...

Facing South

Worldpress - Africa

  • Blood Diamonds 2012
    Nine years after the Kimberley Process was formed to stop the trade in conflict diamonds and ensure that diamond purchases were not funding violence, the KP has refused to evolve and address the clear links between diamonds, violence and tyranny.
  • Blood Diamonds 2012
    Nine years after the Kimberley Process was formed to stop the trade in conflict diamonds and ensure that diamond purchases were not funding violence, the KP has refused to evolve and address the clear links between diamonds, violence and tyranny.
  • The Need to "De-Nairobify" Somali Affairs
    For quite some time, international players have been conducting operations related to Somalia from across the Kenyan border in Nairobi.
  • The Need to "De-Nairobify" Somali Affairs
    For quite some time, international players have been conducting operations related to Somalia from across the Kenyan border in Nairobi.
  • London Conference on Somalia
    Although it succeeded in shining an international light on Somalia's ongoing conflict, the London conference failed in some respects to address dangerous issues of tribalism.

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • The US does not have justice or even the rule ...
    and whether the public approves or disapproves is irrelevant.  Black letter law, on the books, makes most of what the banks did leading up to the subprime crisis illegal.  It was fraud.  Black letter law makes the war on Iraq a war crime, and no one went to jail for that.  Black letter law does ...
  • The police state of the future
    forget the problems of spy agencies, this is the stuff of pure police states.  The Stasi only wished they had it so good. When the revolution comes, if it comes, the first job is going to have to be to destroy all of this stuff, and to inculcate a visceral understanding that this and all [...]
  • The police state of the future
    forget the problems of spy agencies, this is the stuff of pure police states.  The Stasi only wished they had it so good. When the revolution comes, if it comes, the first job is going to have to be to destroy all of this stuff, and to inculcate a visceral understanding that this and all [...]
  • Is the individual mandate really the hill prog ...
    Really? The individual mandate is lousy policy.  It always was.  It is especially lousy policy without a large (100 million +) public option.  The health care plan is, for all intents and purposes, a 90′s Heritage plan. This?  This is what progressives want to fight for? BMaz has a good ar ...
  • Is the individual mandate really the hill prog ...
    Really? The individual mandate is lousy policy.  It always was.  It is especially lousy policy without a large (100 million +) public option.  The health care plan is, for all intents and purposes, a 90′s Heritage plan. This?  This is what progressives want to fight for? BMaz has a good ar ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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

new geography

  • Census Estimates: Slowing Metropolitan Growth ...
    Recently the Census Bureau released 2011 county and metro area population estimates that showed overall slowing population growth and particularly showing slow to halting growth in exurban counties. Someone once said to me about Chicago’s Mayor Daley that if he did something you liked, ...
  • California Declares War on Suburbia II: The Co ...
    My April 9 Cross Country column commentary in The Wall Street Journal (California Declares War on Suburbia) outlined California's determination to virtually outlaw new detached housing. The goal is clear:    force most new residents into multi-family buildings at 20 and 30 or more to the ac ...
  • The Myth of the Republican Party’s Inevitable ...
    The map is shifting, and Democrats see the nation’s rapidly changing demography putting ever more states in play—Barack Obama is hoping to compete in Arizona this year, to go along with his map-changing North Carolina and Indiana wins in 2008—and eventually ensure the party’s dominance in ...
  • California Recovery: No, It Is Not East vs. West
    Every now and then, some East Coast based publication sends a reporter out to California to see how the West Coast's economy is doing.  I think they write these things sitting at a restaurant patio overlooking the Pacific Ocean.  That can be seductive, and lulled into a comfortable sense that ...
  • Millennial Generation Safe at Home
    Each emerging American generation of adolescents and young adults tends to have a distinctive relationship with its parents. For the Baby Boomers of the 1960s and 1970s, that relationship was often conflicted, even adversarial. For Generation X in the 1980s and 1990s it was frequently distan ...

GM Watch

  • Food chain says "No thanks!" to GM wheat
    NOTE: Link to new report 'Aphid Control in Wheat without GM' at end.  --- --- Food Chain Says "No Thanks!" to GM Wheat - Natural aphid control is the way forward GM Freeze, 19 April 2012   http://www.gmfreeze.org/news-releases/189/ Farmers, celebrity chefs, bakers, businesses, trade unionists, ...
  • Two important new films about GM in India
    1."Bitter Seeds: The Plight of India's Farmers" 2."Bitter Seeds" at the San Francisco Film Festival 3.Telling suppressed stories: "Cotton For My Shroud" NOTE: You can see the trailer for "Bitter Seeds" here http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=QZtKB_KuASc For films available i ...
  • Pig farmer describes dramatic health and produ ...
    1.Dr Brian John on GM soy impact 2.GM-free soy gave boost in production COMMENT from Dr Brian John: I have tried to tidy up this translation [item 2] a bit more because this Danish article is hugely important, when put together with the other evidence from the USA and elsewhere of direct harm t ...
  • Genetic engineering in Hawaii
    1.Environmental and Health Risks of Synthetic Chemicals used by the Biotechnology Seed Industry in Hawaii 2.Boss GMO NOTE: See also the video Islands at Risk: Genetic Engineering in Hawaii http://www.gmwatch.org/gm-videosb/24-corporate-takeover/11720 And for a short exuberant musical response h ...
  • Roundup Ready canola a new and difficult weed
    COMMENT from Prof. Joe Cummins: The report below illustrates a growing problem with Monsanto's Roundup Ready canola. The weed threat is perplexing and difficult to deal with. Furthermore, the problem may spawn dangerous and disgusting secondary pests, the Monsanto lawyers. The courts seem to be ...

spiked

Cryptogon

  • New Humble Bundle Packed with Goods from Amani ...
    I like Amanita Design. An English dub version of Kooky, the children’s movie, is also part of this one. http://www.humblebundle.com/
  • IBM’s Internal Plan to Grow Earnings-Per-Share ...
    Via: Cringely: The direct impetus for this column is IBM’s internal plan to grow earnings-per-share (EPS) to $20 by 2015. The primary method for accomplishing this feat, according to the plan, will be by reducing US employee head count by 78 percent in that time frame. Reducing employees by more ...
  • U.S. Marines: Infantry Now Open to Women
    Anybody’s Son Will Do. Or daughter. Via: Marine Corps Times: The Marine Corps school that produces infantry combat officers will enroll its first-ever female students this year, Marine Corps Times has learned. As part of the service’s extensive research campaign to determine what additiona ...
  • Hate To Break It To You, But Your Car Likely H ...
    Via: Forbes: The big news in the automotive privacy world this week is that Congress is on the verge of passing a transportation bill that will make “big brother” black boxes mandatory in all cars. … But the truth of the matter is that most Americans already have black boxes in their cars. ...
  • Blamed for Bee Collapse, Monsanto Buys Leading ...
    Via: Natural Society: Monsanto, the massive biotechnology company being blamed for contributing to the dwindling bee population, has bought up one of the leading bee collapse research organizations. Recently banned from Poland with one of the primary reasons being that the company’s genetically ...

The Economic Collapse

  • Chimps Throwing Poop And 29 Other Mind Blowing ...
    Why do chimpanzees throw poop?  The federal government would like to know and is using your tax dollars to investigate the matter.  Every single year, we all send huge amounts of our hard-earned money to the federal government.  We hope that they will spend that money wisely.  Un ...
  • There Is Not Going To Be A Solution To Our Eco ...
    For those waiting for our economic problems to be solved, you can quit holding your breath.  There is simply not going to be a solution to our economic problems on the national level.  So why is that the case?  Well, it is because the economic policies of both major political par ...
  • The Too Big To Fail Banks Are Now Much Bigger ...
    The Democrats, the Republicans and especially Barack Obama promised that something would be done about the too big to fail banks so that they would never again be a threat to destroy our financial system.  Well, those promises have not been kept and the too big to fail banks are ...
  • 25 Signs That Middle Class Families Have Been ...
    The middle class in America is being systematically wiped out, and most people don't even realize what is happening.  Every single year, millions more Americans fall out of the middle class and become dependent on the government.  The United States once had the largest and most v ...
  • Tony Robbins, Ron Paul And Ben Bernanke All Ag ...
    Is there one thing that Tony Robbins, Ron Paul and Ben Bernanke can all agree on?  Yes, there actually is.  Recently they have all come forward with warnings that the national debt crisis could destroy America if something is not done.  Unfortunately, our politicians continue to ...

Desertification

  • ENDING HUNGER CRITICAL TO ENSURING DEVELOPMENT ...
    New York, Apr 19 2012  4:05PM The world must tackle the urgent challenge of ending hunger if it is to ensure a model of development that is sustainable over the long term, the head of the United Nations Food and … Continue reading →
  • GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT URGES SCIENTIFIC AP ...
    New York, Apr 18 2012  1:05PM The President of the General Assembly, Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, warned today that economic growth that relies on unsustainable patterns of consumption and production is undermining humankind’s quest for harmony with nature and called for … Continue reading ...
  • From pollution protests to species extinction ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/4876 “The world’s most important story” Jonathan Watts April 17, 2012 Guardian environment reporter Jonathan Watts has spent nine years in China covering everything from pollution ...
  • Two million trees across the state of Borno (N ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.businessdayonline.com/NG/index.php/news/111-politics/36081-borno-to-fight-desert-encroachment Borno to fight desert encroachment The Borno Government said on Tuesday that it would plant two million trees across the state in a bid to check ...
  • Until now we have not taken water shortages ve ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentID=20120417122015 Time to get smart about water usage BY HASSAN Y. YASSIN There was a time not long ago when all we heard about was impending oil shortages and their devastating ...

The Paper Trail

  • Key findings:
    — Crossroads GPS is a nonprofit 501(c)(4) organization, a name that comes from the IRS tax code. They can raise and spend up to 49 percent of their funds attacking or supporting candidates, but cannot contribute directly to a campaign.— Unlike a super PAC, donations to nonprofits can remain comp ...
  • Combined Crossroads' income, through 2011
    Ajani Winston/iWatch News
  • 'Occupy Obamacare' PAC attacks health care pla ...
    A former supporter of President Barack Obama, angered by Obama’s signature health insurance overhaul, wants to turn the election season into a horror movie with the aid of a super PAC.Last week, Glenn Morton, a 41-year-old health insurance broker and failed congressional candidate who lives in a ...
  • Priorities USA Action ad: 'Romney's World View'
    HASH(0x548fd98)
  • Tea party leader Dick Armey gets first-class t ...
    Dick Armey is a former House Majority Leader and current chairman of FreedomWorks, which serves as a hub for tea party groups nationwide. He makes $500,000 a year, flies around the country in first class (along with his companions) and at times has had a driver.Given his lifestyle, he seems an o ...

backofthebook.ca

  • Danielle Smith: standing up for bigots’ ...
    Editor’s note: Since Montreal Simon posted on Tuesday about about Wildrose Party leader Danielle Smith and her defense of candidate/bigot Allan Hunsperger (see below), another runaway pastor has emerged. Ron Leech, Wildrose candidate in the multicultural riding of Calgary-Greenway, cleverl ...
  • Let’s get this party started
    By Mark Evans South of the border, the party is raging. You can almost hear Prince’s “1999″ playing in the background as startups find themselves being courted by investors and snapped up for eye-popping amounts. The current case in point is Facebook’s $1-billion purchase of Instagram, which is ...
  • F-35: Lies and damn liars
    By Saskboy Our top Ministers of our Canadian Government are so very disgraceful. They continue to lie to us, after being caught by multiple non-partisan authorities. It’s often claimed that people expect politicians to lie, but there’s been an understanding in Ottawa that it was taboo for Minist ...
  • “The Postmedia chain has turned against ...
    An anonymous missive has appeared on The Gazetteer, purporting to be from “a newsworker at Postmedia” and offering an explanation for that chain’s sudden turn against the Harper Conservatives. The Gazetter‘s proprietor, RossK, had wondered if aggressive work on the roboca ...
  • I can’t hear you because I’m talki ...
    By Frank Moher In our Politics section right now you’ll find Alison@Creekside‘s response to MP Stephen Woodworth’s Motion 132, which asks Parliament to examine the definition of a human being under Canadian law. Alison doesn’t like his initiative, to say the least. I don& ...

libcom

  • Netherlands: Cleaners end strike after 105 days
    6649385425_2a85397e91_b-605x402.jpg Cleaners end their long strike, after having been on strike for an impressive 105 days, after an agreement has been reached, with elements that make it seriously le ...
  • Independent and free? A Glasgow anarchist's ta ...
    rsz_scottish_anarchism.jpg Written by a member of the Glasgow Anarchist Federation in a personal capacity, this article aims to respond to the rise of the Scottish independence movement and to encoura ...
  • The FSB is expelling political activists from ...
    On the 29th of March the Federal Migration Service of Russia gave Finnish citizen Antti Rautiainen, a member of Autonomous Action, an order to leave the Russian Federation within 15 days. According to the order, Rautiainen is suspected of "making state ...
  • MayDay 5 in the streets!
    1MAJ_1m.gif Every year, there were thousands of us on Císařská louka. We believe a similar crowd will also support this year’s Action Days. Prove that you are serious about the antifascist and anti-au ...
  • Neonazis kill in Poland
    bhpolska.JPG Białystok is one of the biggest cities in the east part of country. Since ages catholics, orthodox and muslims live in one area. Białystok is also full of people from Caucas. Only one far ...

Free Range International

  • All Clear
    At 0630 this morning, Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) in the form of the Kabul Critical Response Unit (CRU) finished off a crew of villains who had been fighting for the past 16 hours.  These guys, most likely HIG militants, had barricaded themselves in a building under construction next ...
  • Storm Warning
    America is currently experiencing some monster tornados deep in the heartland.  As dawn breaks across the land, the scenes of devastation are dramatic, but the casualties so far, remarkably low.  Modern early warning systems have a lot to do with that.  When a sudden serious storm breaks in Kabu ...
  • Operation Magistral
    There was an article floating around the news on Afghanistan last week that got my immediate attention.  The article had a one day life cycle and have not seen any follow ups about it, which, given the content, is surprising.   I am not referring to the change in  night raid policy which I could ...
  • Extended Shelf Life – April Fools Edition
    In my last post I claimed to have reached the end of my useful shelf life as a blogger which, it turns out, is not true.  I’m back in Afghanistan and what better day to turn the FRI blog back on than April Fools? Groundhog day would have been more appropriate but I missed it. [...]
  • Back in the USSA
    I’ve been trying to come up with a post for over a month now but don’t have any good pictures because I’m back in America, sans super cool Nikon which got blown up in the Helmand, and without good pictures I don’t seem to be able to write.  That camera cost over a thousand bucks [...]

The Story Behind the Story

  • Nobel Laureate Gunter Grass Writes a Poem &#82 ...
    He is 84 years old.  He was awarded a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1999.  He is a German named Gunter Grass.  Apparently, Herr Gunter also has a conscious, and is upset over the West’s hypocrisy over Israel’s “conflict” with Iran.  The hypocrisy to Herr Grass is simply:  ...
  • Righteous Blood Part XII: The RED CHEKA TERRO ...
    WARNING: THE FOLLOWING HISTORIC EVENTS READ LIKE A STEPHEN KING HORROR MOVIE SCRIPT!  Yet, the events documented herein are all 100% real and factual! I submit they constitute the ULTIMATE “terrorism”  – I would go so far as to call them acts of “Horrorism”.  Still ...
  • Job Opening: Head of U.S. Department of TRUTH? ...
    Instead of maintaining something called "Homeland Security" - why not dissolve it and form an all-encompassing U.S. Department of Truth, to oversee the "Justice" Department and all "National Security" concerns.  Then this "One Nation Under God" could at last create a most safe and SECURE HOMELAN ...
  • Job Opening: Head of U.S. Department of TRUTH? ...
    Instead of maintaining something called "Homeland Security" - why not dissolve it and form an all-encompassing U.S. Department of Truth, to oversee the "Justice" Department and all "National Security" concerns.  Then this "One Nation Under God" could at last create a most safe and SECURE HOMELAN ...
  • The New Face of “Racism” in America?
    Sadly, this despicable scene is repeated daily in the inner-city cesspools of America.   This one just happened to be recorded for posterity. Not only was the entire event VIDEOTAPED, but incredibly, was posted on You-Tube as a kind of “Look What We Did to Whitey” bragging-rights tro ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

  • Kitchen Project Photos
      Scotty Comments:  I am very pleased with the Design-Build Concept utilized in the Kitchen Make-Over.  After the Prior Contractor Dropped the Ball on the project.  Scotts Contracting was hired to finish the project.  We added: Accent Lighting, Insulation, Air Sealing, N ...
  • Missouri Tell Your Senator to Vote NO SB 759
    Donate Now Become A Member Volunteer Forward to a Friend Follow us on: Like Us on Facebook Follow Us on Twitter Tell Missouri Senators: Stop SB 759 Senate Bill 759 would erode two laws supported by Missouri voters unless you help us stop it. The first law under attack currently makes it illegal ...
  • I took the Energy Star Pledge Have You?
    Twitter <—- Find Me —> Facebook Web Site: http://stlouisrenewableenergy.com scottscontracting Job Site Photo Album Green Blog Related articles New Company Website for St Louis Renewable Energy (scottscontracting.wordpress.com) Do Squirrels and Rabbits Ravage Your Garden? (sco ...
  • Garden Screen Protector-City Garden
    How I plan to protect the back-yard vegetable garden from the Birds, Squirrels, Rabbits, and other malicious garden destroying animals. Deer Block Mesh supported by: 1/2 Metal Conduit Related articles Do Squirrels and Rabbits Ravage Your Garden? (scottscontracting.wordpress.com) New vegetable ga ...
  • 2012 Election Poll-What are the Issues that re ...
    What are the 5 most Important Issues in the upcoming election to you and your family. Created March 23, 2012 Compare the Results of the 2010 Election Poll to the Issues of today- Poll Results from 2010 Election Issues 2010 Election (created Oct 28, 2010)-What issues are most important to you and ...

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Tell ALEC Companies to Stand Down
    One for Our Side The one positive outcome of Trayvon Martin’s appalling murder, is the recent withdrawal of several well-known corporations from the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). Thus far the list of members that have terminated their membership includes Mars candy, Coca-Co ...
  • When a Cover-up Costs More than the Truth
    Andrew Gibbs, outside Dow AgroSciences (This is the last of four blogs about the government cover-up of major health problems related to the production of dioxin-related chemicals at Dow AgroSciences in New Plymouth between 1948 and 1987.) “I have long dreamed of buying an island own ...
  • Spin, Cover-up, and Statistical Manipulation
    Mar 6 2005 protest at Dow AgroSciences – I’m in the Green Party tee shirt behind the woman in the wheelchair (This is the third of four blogs about the government cover-up of major health problems r ...
  • Did New Plymouth Manufacture Agent Orange for ...
    Images from New Plymouth Maternity Hospital from http://www.dioxinnz.com/let-us-spray/L_U_S_part-02k.html (This is the second of four blogs about the government cover-up of major health problems related to the production of dioxin-related chemicals at Dow AgroSciences in New Plymouth between 1 ...
  • New Zealand’s Love Canal
    Paritutu and Ivon Watkins Dow smokestack (This is the first of four blogs about the government cover-up of major health problems related to the production of dioxin-related chemicals at Dow AgroSciences in New Plymouth between 1948 and 1987) When is corruption not corruption? The anti-corruption ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • New Report Suggests Best Approach to Invest Ca ...
    California’s safest option for guarding against lawsuits over how it spends the billions anticipated from its landmark cap-and-trade program is to channel the auction revenue toward reducing greenhouse gas pollution and furthering the goals of its Global Warming Solutions Act (AB32), according t ...
  • Audio Archive: Energy Storage and Renewable Power
    Energy Storage and Renewable Power:Is Storage a Solution to Renewable Intermittence and Grid Inefficiency?
  • Reckless vs. Responsible: Dueling Infrastructu ...
    Here's the state-of-play with transportation law:The Senate passed a bill, Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century, MAP-21, by an overwhelming bipartisan vote of 74-22. This lobbed a nice easy proposal to the chamber on the other side of Capitol Hill, which has managed only fits and starts ...
  • UK Marine Energy Continues Aggressive Expansion
    The British government has a launched a £20 million ($32 million) scheme to fund projects for groups of wave machines.The funding money is available for up to two pre-commercial projects and will allow the development of single device prototypes into a cluster of devices. The successful bid ...
  • U.S. Hybrid and Electric Vehicle Sales Jump in ...
    In March, sales of hybrid, plug-in, and clean diesel cars grew significantly in the United States, casting a positive light on the emerging low emission transportation industry.

EU Times

  • India tests first nuclear-capable ICBM
    India has test-launched its first long-range intercontinental ballistic missile, significantly upgrading the emerging Asian nation’s military capabilities. It has the capacity to target major Chinese cities and Europe. According to Indian media the missile was launched just after 8am local time ...
  • Fukushima Reactor 2: Radiation Comparable to W ...
    TEPCO plans to use a robot today to photograph possible damage inside the suppression pool at the bottom of Fukushima’s damaged number 2 reactor. TEPCO is the operator of the tsunami damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan. “We want to check whether there is no deformation or damage in ...
  • China may sink into oblivion trying to outrun ...
    Over 50 Chinese cities are sinking into the ground because of the continuous subsidence of the soil. The excessive consumption of ground water is to blame. As its result, under many Chinese cities, including Beijing, the world’s largest underground funnels have formed. But there are other ...
  • Official US and UK fears revealed about Obama’ ...
    In his three years as U.S. president, Barack Obama has been dogged by claims he is not patriotic enough. Last year he even had to publish his birth certificate to silence doubters who suggested he was not born an American. Now it emerges that similar fears were expressed about his father, who wa ...
  • Saudi Arabia bans homosexuals from schools
    Gays, tomboys and “emos” can no long enter public schools and universities in Saudi Arabia, until they change their appearance and behavior. That is how the country has chosen to tackle the spread of these “phenomena”. ­The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vic ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Google warns 20,000 websites they could be inf ...
    by Loek Essers, IDG-News-Service:Amsterdam-Bureau   Google has warned 20,000 websites that they might be hacked and injected with JavaScript redirect malware, Google said. What you need to know about the Flashback trojan Inside Safari 3.2âs anti-phishing features Analyst: 600,000 Macs infected ...
  • iPhone 5 To Arrive In October Featuring 28-Nan ...
    Earlier, we heard that Apple is to launch its next iPhone at WWDC in the June 2012. Now, we have received some more information revealing that Apple will launch iPhone 5 or Next-gen iPhone in October along with the reason of delayed launch. The reason is the shortage of 28-nanometer LTE chips, ...
  • Microsoft FY12Q3 Results
    Isn't this the best time ever to be in tech! I love it. And I love profits, too ! I know, I just lost half of you there. But it's amazing. The amount of competition and change and adoption makes me nothing but giddy. If you're a PlayStation fan-boy then you have to at least love the competition ...
  • Levon Helm dead at 71, Francis Lawrence to dir ...
    Levon Helm dead at 71, Francis Lawrence to direct Hunger Games sequel | Source: Rickey.org | The X Factor | The Voice | American Idol Levon Helm, Founder and Drummer for The Band, Dies at 71 (THR) Anne Hathaway and Hugh Jackman look Miserables (Seriously OMG) Vatican Reprimands U.S. Nuns (Daily ...
  • Drummer backed Bob Dylan, sang on the Band's k ...
    Levon Helm came to fame in a rootsy rock group that featured three extraordinary voices. But you could always tell which was his: It was the sound of the lusty wildcat, the stern Southern preacher, the depleted Confederate soldier, the dirt farmer at the end of his day.

Groklaw

  • Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer touts innovation, ...
    Ballmer also noted that Microsoft's SkyDrive is really a cloud service for both mobile and wired devices that allows personal, secure storage as well as public sharing. He noted that a critical feature of the new mobile platforms being readied by Microsoft is security. "With the consumerization ...
  • Hollywood Studios Lose Aussie Download Suit
    Iinet Ltd., based in Perth, didn't authorize the infringement when customers illegally downloaded pirated copies of movies, the High Court of Australia ruled, according to a summary of the decision released on the court's website. - Joe Schneider, BusinessWeek
  • EXPLAINER: Here's What Google And Oracle Are F ...
    Q. So what's this really about? A. The original creator of Java, James Gosling, weighed in on this when the suit was first filed in 2010, saying this is mostly about "ego, money, and power." That still seems about right to us. [PJ: One correction. Android isn't 15,000 lines of code as the arti ...
  • Red Hat, OpenStack, and Open Clouds
    Nearly two years ago, Rackspace and NASA bravely took on a new mission: unifying their separate efforts of cloud storage and cloud compute under the umbrella project of OpenStack. Publishing the source code under an open source license, and investing significant time and resources to catalyze a ...
  • EU Clears Sony's $2.2 Billion Acquisition of EMI
    The European Commission's approval marks a coup for Sony, which has averted a lengthy in-depth second probe. However, European Union authorities set several conditions, telling Sony it must divest several assets. The commission said the probe focused on concerns over the merged entity's ability ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Top wind power states? Guess again…
    Credit: windpoweringamerica.govMost people would probably choose California as the state with the highest percentage of electricity generation from wind power. As it turns out, California isn’t even close as it gets about 4% of its power from wind.The top honor goes South Dakota, with a whopping ...
  • Ted Nugent may be a wild man
    …but he’s not dumb. He defused that Secret Service investigation brilliantly. Seriously.
  • Putting Water Back Into the River
    Out here on the Oregon High Desert local businesses and environmental conservation groups are partnering to conserve water, improve the fish and wildlife habitat and make the heart of the region’s Deschutes River more attractive to recreation and tourism.Read more at the Independent Voter Networ ...
  • Crony capitalism and the expansive central state
    Charles Hugh Smith details how crony capitalism benefits from our ever expanding central state. I recommend you read the whole article.There is a great irony in this concentration of power in the State: the power is concentrated to protect the citizenry from predation and exploitation, but that ...
  • US is a nation of spoiled brats, Financial Tim ...
    Financial Times columnist Edward Luce’s new book, Time to Start Thinking: America in the Age of Descent. Read his interview with Foreign Policy.From the Amazon review.His conclusion, “An Exceptional Challenge” looks at America’s dwindling options in a world where the pace ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

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

frogblog

  • ChristChurch Cathedral and heritage important ...
    The demolition of the ChristChurch Cathedral’s spire is expected to begin on Monday. On Saturday, I’ll be attending a rally, organised by Restore the Christchurch Cathedral and led by the Wizard, outside the Anglican Church’s Christchurch synod meeting. We are gathering from 8.15 am for a ...
  • Food industry free to feed us what they like
    My concern about this recent study is not so much that our fast food has more salt than other countries, but that our food industry has such unconstrained power to influence our diets. The Food Industry Group’s position to maintain a self regulatory approach to levels of salt, sugar and fat in o ...
  • What Our Academics Say about Charter Schools
    Many people are confused about the Charter School plans the Government are actively pursuing. We know it was in the ACT/National Party agreement to do this but we have been unable to find out what problem they are trying to solve. There is a multitude of conflicting international evidence on the ...
  • Youth services to be cut?
    Are welfare reforms really going to mean a reduction in the services available to our young people? Was that the government’s intention? Less services for our youth transitioning from secondary school? Mayors from South Canterbury to Southland have been lobbying the Ministry to try and save a yo ...
  • A plea for submissions from Auckland Sexual Ab ...
    I’m very happy to help spread the word on this and would urge all of you to please make a submission. Please share this link around social media and get as many of your friends as possible to also participate. I’m sure I don’t need to remind you of the appalling rates of sexual violence [...]

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Another Miserable Failure of the FDA -- It Wil ...
    By Dr. Mercola More than three years ago, the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) filed a petition with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), calling for the agency to prohibit the use of bisphenol-A (BPA), a known toxin, in products manufactured in the United States. The F ...
  • Why Do You Yawn? (It's Not What You Think...)
    By Dr. Mercola Yawning is usually associated with boredom or being tired, but new research suggests there's far more to this behavior than meets the eye. The first clue that yawning serves a much greater purpose? We do it involuntarily, like breathing, and it starts even before we're born ...
  • 42 Flowers You Can Eat
    By Dr. Mercola Edible flowers are ordinarily associated with haute cuisine and wedding cakes, but you may have several tasty varieties right in your own backyard. Adding flowers to your meals will not only make an ordinary dish look gourmet, they can be quite flavorful and nutriti ...
  • Put This Food on Your Hair for a New Level of ...
    By Dr. Mercola Did you know one of the best personal care products you'll ever find may be sitting in your kitchen cupboard right now? I'm talking about coconut oil, which is equally beneficial externally as it is taken internally, and can be used for both skin and hair. According to one st ...
  • Big Surprise - Whooping Cough Spreads Mainly t ...
    By Dr. Mercola In 2010, the largest outbreak of whooping cough in over 50 years reportedly occurred in California. Around that same time, a scare campaign was launched in the California by Pharma-funded medical trade associations, state health officials and national media targeting people op ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Innu man completes historic 4,000 km walk
    Giant (Michel Andrew), who aims to connect young Innu with 'nutshimit'. © Joanna Eede/Survival The Innu of north-eastern Canada are celebrating the completion of an historic 4,000 km walk through Nitassinan, their ancestral territory. The initiative of a young Innu man, Michel An ...
  • Brazil investigates death threats to Guarani a ...
    Guarani Indians. Tonico Benites is fighting for the Guarani's right to live on their land. © Joaó Ripper/Survival The Brazilian authorities are investigating death threats to Guarani anthropologist and activist Tonico Benites. Benites and his family were stopped by a man armed with tw ...
  • Indian tribe stands firm as Vedanta mine appea ...
    Hundreds of Dongria Kondh protest against the Vedanta mine appeal. © Bikash Khemka/Survival One of the world’s most controversial mines is back in the spotlight after hundreds protested against renewed efforts to mine India’s Niyamgiri Hills. Dongria Kondh and Niyamgiri supporters held the ...
  • Peru passes indigenous rights law without cons ...
    The new law has been pushed since the tragic incidents of the Bagua protests in northern Peru © Marijke Deleu and Thomas Quirynen This week Peru has published the greatly anticipated Prior Consultation Law promised by Ollanta Humala at the beginning of his presidency last year. The law ai ...
  • Peru defies UN breakthrough on uncontacted tribes
    Peru continues to approve oil and gas projects despite previous exploration leading to the death of half the Nahua tribe. © Survival Peru’s government is ignoring new UN guidelines on the protection of uncontacted Indians in the Amazon. Instead of backing the UN’s landmark report, which su ...

Montreal Gazette

  • Evidence of hate crime is there for everyone t ...
    Sûreté du Québec investigators are being unaccountably slow to identify as a hate-motivated crime last week's vandalism of a number of Jewish-owned homes in Val Morin, north of Montreal.
  • The mission: ensure a steady drug supply
    A report jointly released this week by Quebec's College of Physicians and three groups representing Quebec pharmacists should spur governments, both federal and provincial, to hasten the formulation of a national strategy designed to assure a consistent supply of medically necessary drugs.
  • Weeding out corruption: it's a start
    The roundup of suspects by the province's anti-corruption squad was quite spectacular, given the profile of some of those arrested.
  • Westwood teens need to account for their inaction
    The danger in treating adolescents as if they live in a parallel world, at a distant remove from the consequences of bad behaviour, is that they might not join the adult world when they grow up.
  • A clarion call for the restoration of 'culture ...
    of Montreal has taught violin for 12 years and now teaches at Collège Stanislas Conservatory and Stewart Hall.

Food World Order

  • #BingeAndPurge: Strains, Summit, Seafood and more
    Hug Coca-Cola Vending Machine, Get 'Free' Soda* FDA & federal judge shut down PA Amish farm for selling raw milk* More people stricken with E. coli through raw milk from Wilsonville, OR farm* PDF: Scientists Identify Hypervirulent Salmonella Strains* Farm group seeks U.S. halt on ...
  • Surge in Obesity Sparks Crematorium Blazes in ...
    from spiegel.de: As the number of obese Germans rises, the funeral industry is scrambling to make adjustments in how larger bodies with more fat can be safely incinerated. A number of crematoriums have suffered severe damage when burning fat overwhelmed their emergency measures.
  • World’s cheapest food in USA; At what cost?
    from foodfreedomgroup.com: In 2010, Americans spent just over 9 percent of their disposable income on food (5.5 percent at home and 3.9 percent eating out). This is a dramatically lower percentage [than that] spent just decades ago in the early 1960s, when over 17 percent was spent on food, and ...
  • Fluoride Toothpaste Poison for your Brain Redu ...
    from experimentalvaccines.org: While living in the most controlled experimental society in human history I have become aware of the giant amount of truth that has been swept under the rug. Believe me when I tell you to be careful when looking under this rug for when you dig up the past all you ...
  • Call to action - Join the demand to investigat ...
    from naturalnews.com: There is nothing more pathetic, ugly and insidious than a tyrannical government thug who uses his power to destroy the lives of law-abiding citizens. Today, we have witnessed the outrageous acts carried out by jack-booted scumbags in Michigan's Department of Natural Resourc ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • Chimps Throwing Poop And 29 Other Mind Blowing ...
    Why do chimpanzees throw poop?  The federal government would like to know and is using your tax dollars to investigate the matter.  Every single year, we all send huge amounts of our hard-earned money to the federal government.  We hope that they will spend that money wisely.  Un ...
  • There Is Not Going To Be A Solution To Our Eco ...
    For those waiting for our economic problems to be solved, you can quit holding your breath.  There is simply not going to be a solution to our economic problems on the national level.  So why is that the case?  Well, it is because the economic policies of both major political par ...
  • The Too Big To Fail Banks Are Now Much Bigger ...
    The Democrats, the Republicans and especially Barack Obama promised that something would be done about the too big to fail banks so that they would never again be a threat to destroy our financial system.  Well, those promises have not been kept and the too big to fail banks are ...
  • 25 Signs That Middle Class Families Have Been ...
    The middle class in America is being systematically wiped out, and most people don't even realize what is happening.  Every single year, millions more Americans fall out of the middle class and become dependent on the government.  The United States once had the largest and most v ...
  • Tony Robbins, Ron Paul And Ben Bernanke All Ag ...
    Is there one thing that Tony Robbins, Ron Paul and Ben Bernanke can all agree on?  Yes, there actually is.  Recently they have all come forward with warnings that the national debt crisis could destroy America if something is not done.  Unfortunately, our politicians continue to ...

CASSE

  • The Titanic Code
    The 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic gets Dave Gardner thinking about the speed at which economic growth is propelling us toward unseen icebergs.
  • Limits to Growth – of Stuff, Value, and GDP
    Limits to growth apply to more than just "stuff," but you have to think clearly about "value" to get it.
  • Capital, Debt, and Alchemy
    Herman Daly explains Frederick Soddy's far-reaching economic insight, and he comes up with a doozy of a conclusion.
  • The Influence of Donella Meadows and the Limit ...
    Donella Meadows was way ahead of her time, and her words continue to provide inspiration 40 years after she wrote The Limits to Growth.
  • Deceptionomics
    Deceptionomics allows all sorts of unwise decisions about economic growth, environmental protection, and human well-being.

The Talking Clock

  • Speech of the week contenders (both from UKIP, ...
    So, which 'Speech of the week' contender hits all the spots for you? Nigel Farage is, as you know, a fantastic orator... but his UKIP colleague Godfrey Bloom certainly speaks our language, too. Herein lies some of the reason that UKIP is now Britain's third largest party and the only m ...
  • Daniel Hannan and his pro-EU Tories
    The ever eloquent and essentially likable Daniel Hannan MEP is winning himself few friends but plenty of criticism on both Twitter and his own blog as - faced with the huge groundswell of momentum in the direction of UKIP - he grasps in desperation at the last straw plea to the electorate to, ev ...
  • We're all 'swivel eyed' now... it's very Vogue
    Unless you were having a very serious party in some secret pub where fun without permission from the state continues unlicensed, then you will be aware that, last night, The Sun published details of the latest YouGov survey in which: "UKIP has ousted the Lib Dems as the third most popular politi ...
  • Conservative to UKIP MP defections: Is that 'y ...
    That'll quell the speculation nicely. And on the BBC, too... The fact is, however, that no genuine eurosceptic can now really remain part of the falsely labelled Conservative Party - the party of traitor Edward Heath.
  • Sunday Paper Review: 15th April 2012
    There's a thread of freedom running through the stories we found interesting in this week's Sunday paper offerings... yet it is a freedom under threat and that threat is, we feel, accelerating daily. There's a heavyweight piece of analysis over on the Telegraph's pages where the prospect of S ...

Facing South

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • 3 Best Launchers for Android 4.0+ ICS
    With ICS becoming available for more and more smartphones and tablets, apps specifically designed for Android 4.0+ ICS is slowly gaining foothold. Story is no different as far as Android Launchers are concerned. Though a good number of highly regarded Android launchers have not been updat ...
  • History of Ubuntu: Revisited & Updated
    Ubuntu has touched the lives of many among us in different ways. I can't speak for everyone here and hence I will share a few of my experiences with Ubuntu. For me, Ubuntu was the gateway to Linux and the whole open source way of thinking. Ubuntu taught me that computers are not all about Wind ...
  • Synapse Launcher is Not Maintained Anymore, Mi ...
    Kupfer and Synapse are two incredibly elegant launcher applications for Ubuntu. Synapse has been my favorite for a long time now (though I have to add, I don't use it as often as I used to ever since the the arrival of Unity and GNOME Shell). Now it seems like, Synapse is not maintained anymor ...
  • XBMC 11.0 will be Available in Default Ubuntu ...
    With Boxee abandoning its support for dedicated desktop client, XBMC (upon which Boxee is actually based on) has become the unquestioned king among media center apps for Ubuntu. There is more good news for all XBMC fans. XBMC has just been accepted to official Debian repositories. This means, ...
  • Two New Indian Made Ultra Low Cost Android 4.0 ...
    Google's flagship Android OS is gobbling up market share in every nook and corner of the world, and the story is no different in India as well. Now it's the turn of Android 4.0 based Tablets to take on the world. But, there are no blockbuster Andriod Tabs yet, apart from may be Kindle Fire. Tw ...

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

  • ‘Globally-supported company is funding fatal p ...
    By Shahbaz Rana ISLAMABAD: A government inquiry has found that polio vaccines for infants funded by the Global Alliance for Vaccination and Immunisation are causing deaths and disabilities in regional countries including Pakistan. The startling revelation is part of an inquiry report prepared by ...
  • Polio Vaccines Now The #1 Cause of Polio Paralysis
    Sayer Ji Activist Post January 18, 2012 The Polio Global Eradication Initiative (PGEI), founded in 1988 by the World Health Organization, Rotary International, UNICEF, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, holds up India as a prime example of its success at eradicating polio, ...
  • Paralysis Cases Spike in Wake of Bill Gates’ P ...
    Aaron Dykes Expert medical pediatricians in India have criticized the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for their illusory promise of polio eradication without noting the devastating side effects its vaccination regiment could inflict. Numerous problems ...
  • Stockholm airport bars Israeli airline over se ...
    By Zohar Blumenkrantz Arkia has to stop flying to Stockholm because the Swedish capital’s international airport now refuses to allow Israeli methods of security inspections dictated by the Shin Bet security service, TheMarker learned on Wednesday. Thus, Stockholm’s airport joined those in Malmo, ...
  • Woman removed from Air France flight for not b ...
    by Philip Weiss on April 18, 2012 Ali Abunimah reports on a disgusting incident surrounding the recent flytilla, an action in France at the behest of Israeli authorities: Air France demanded to know the religion of a passenger on a flight from Nice to Tel Aviv and removed her because she is not ...

Veterans Today

  • Duff on Press TV – ‘Animal killing for t ...
    In an interview with a prominent leader of the Special Forces community, I was told training on dogs was abandoned years ago and that this type of operation is considered "shameful" and "unprofessional."
  • Pakistan To Help Extricate Than Reinforce ISAF
    Among the seven agreements made by Gen Musharraf with Washington in September 2001, free passage of NATO containers from Karachi Port to Afghanistan via Torkham and Chaman and also air supplies were included.
  • Popular Travel Guide Posts Video on Israeli Lies
    Rick Steves, Travel Guru on PBS, has been everywhere, and now reveals on the web what he has learned about Israelis behavior by posting a video that belongs among the archives of what I call the VT educational program.
  • A Soldiers Home Tour
    Rules of Disengagement. Guess what there aren’t any. So let’s get on it.
  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News April ...
    Veterans! Here’s your Top 10 News stories of the day compiled from the latest sources   We encourage you to browse our list so that you can take what you want and keep what you need   1.    Taliban commander turns self in… for reward on ‘Wanted’ poster.  Sometimes, capturing a Ta ...

electric politics

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

PR News

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

  • Alberta Earth Day Events
    Earth Day is this weekend. Visit the Earth Day Canada website to find a list of Earth Day events around the province. Source: Earth Day Canada
  • Slow Down Oil Sands to Save Wetlands, Scientis ...
    Alberta Wilderness Association Water Matters 19 Apr 2012 As development continues to destroy wetlands crucial to Alberta’s water sec ...
  • Group Sues Government over Castle Logging
    Castle-Crown Wilderness Coalition 18 Apr 2012 Arguing that there was a reasonable expectation that the Castle Special Place would be protected, and that no proper consultation was c ...
  • Pembina reacts to federal government plans to ...
    Pembina Institute 17 Apr 2012 CALGARY — Simon Dyer, policy director at the Pembina Institute, made the following statement in response to Natural Resources Minister Joe O ...
  • Healthy Calgary Pesticide Roundup
    Coalition for a Healthy Calgary 22 Apr 2012 - 08:00 - 18:00 Alberta has the most acute pesticide poisonings per capita in Canada. Let's reduce that number. Drop off your pesti ...

Stop NATO

  • Chicago Summit: NATO Prepares For Operations U ...
    Stop NATO April 19, 2012 NATO Prepares For Operations Until 2020 And Beyond…Throughout The Galaxy Rick Rozoff The North Atlantic Treaty Organization held meetings of the defense and foreign ministers of its 28 member states on April 18 and April 19 ahead of and in preparation for next mont ...
  • U.S. Holds First First-Ever Defense Talks With ...
    Xinhua News Agency April 19, 2012 Bangladesh, U.S. first-ever security talks end, no media briefing Bangladesh: U.S. And NATO Forge New Military Partnership In South Asia           DHAKA: The first-ever security talks between Bangladesh and the United States were he ...
  • China, Russia To Hold Joint Naval Drill In Yel ...
    Xinhua News Agency April 17, 2012 Joint navy drill to boost China-Russia military ties: senior Chinese officer ==== Friendly military-to-military cooperation is an important aspect of the China-Russia strategic partnership, Chen [Bingde, Chief of the General Staff of the People's Liberation Army ...
  • Secessionist Threat In Macedonia: New War In B ...
    ADN Kronos International April 17, 2012 Macedonia: Mysterious ‘army’ threatens ‘liberation of Albanian lands’ ==== Ethnic Albanians rebelled in 2001…gaining concessions from the government under international [NATO, U.S., EU] mediation. But tensions have been runnin ...
  • Missile Race: India Must Not Join Western Cont ...
    Global Times April 19, 2012 India being swept up by missile delusion ==== India should…not overstate the value of its Western allies and the profits it could gain from participating in a containment of China. If it equates long range strategic missiles with deterrence of China, and stirs u ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

FRS

  • Hyderabad meeting to focus on Green Hunt, econ ...
    Apr 19, 2012, IANS Hyderabad: Resistance group Revolutionary Democratic Front (RDF), at its first conference here on April 22-23, will demand an end to the anti-Maoist Operation Green Hunt and discuss how to turn the current economic crisis in the country into a revolutionary opportunity. More t ...
  • India: “Students’ Forum Against Ma ...
    “How many ears must one man have, before he can hear people cry How many deaths will it take till he knows that too many people have died .. “ Yes, we are speaking from Nonadanga slum area, Kolkata. Our government has uprooted all the slum-dwellers of Nonadanga from their habitat. On ...
  • The Telegraph (Calcutta, India): “On a ...
    Tribal areas are the new and happening tourist spots in India. But tribal groups gain little from efforts by tour operators and government departments to sell tourism in these underdeveloped regions, contends Sonia Sarkar A Koya man in traditional headgear “If you are able to approach a tribal a ...
  • The Telegraph (Calcutta, India): “On a ...
    Tribal areas are the new and happening tourist spots in India. But tribal groups gain little from efforts by tour operators and government departments to sell tourism in these underdeveloped regions, contends Sonia Sarkar A Koya man in traditional headgear “If you are able to approach a tribal a ...
  • India: Scientist supporter of Nonadanga anti-e ...
    Scientist gets bail after Mamata govt faces public ire Apr 18, 2012 KOLKATA: The Mamata Banerjee government finally bowed before the groundswell of support for the arrested scientist Partha Sarathi Ray. On Tuesday, a city court granted him bail after 10 days in jail custody. But the bail pleas o ...

Ken O'Keefe

  • Tribute to my brother Vittorio (Vik) Arrigoni ...
    There simply cannot be enough praise for brother Vik, he was a man who exemplified what it is to be human, to be a loving, courageous, full fledged human being. I am blessed till the end of time for knowing him; I will love him to the day I die. And the greatest way to honour Vik is to never giv ...
  • Thought Police within the so-called ‘Pal ...
    I depart by saying that any group of people, whether it is the disciples of Hitler, the Christian Zionists of America or the Jewish supporters of Israel, or the brainwashed false Muslims, I say loud and clear, any group that believes they are “chosen” by God and thus superior to anyone else, is ...
  • Thought Police within the so-called ‘Pal ...
    I depart by saying that any group of people, whether it is the disciples of Hitler, the Christian Zionists of America or the Jewish supporters of Israel, or the brainwashed false Muslims, I say loud and clear, any group that believes they are “chosen” by God and thus superior to anyone else, is ...
  • No Fly Zone Over Palestine
    As Israel once again flexes its psychopathic tendencies, I feel the need to expose the hypocrisy of the west once more in the form of a picture.
  • No Fly Zone Over Palestine
    As Israel once again flexes its psychopathic tendencies, I feel the need to expose the hypocrisy of the west once more in the form of a picture.

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

  • How Mitt Romney Saved a Girl's Life and What i ...
    A little known story about Mitt Romney involving the missing 14 year old daughter of a business partner is recounted in Buzzfeed. The incident which shows a hitherto unsuspected heroic side of the presidential candidate is illuminating.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Apr 18, 2012
  • My Tribute to New Year’s Eve Icon Dick Clark
    Dick Clark died at age 82.Contributor: William Browning Published: Apr 18, 2012
  • Photos Released by Los Angeles Times Add New T ...
    On April 18, 2012, the Los Angeles Times released photos in which U.S. soldiers posed with the corpses and mangled body parts of Afghan insurgents. This release signifies yet another black eye to an already-beleaguered war effort.Contributor: Christopher A. Brown Published: Apr 18, 2012
  • Gallup: Romney Edges Obama If Election Were He ...
    Gallup released it's first election poll comparing the two presumptive nominees for president today highlighting the tight race for the White House.Contributor: Roy Branson Published: Apr 16, 2012
  • Romneycare Has Its Sixth Birthday
    Six years ago today, Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney signed a bill forcing all citizens to buy health insurance. President Obama borrowed many of the tenets of Romneycare for his Obamacare four years later.Contributor: William H. Sloan Published: Apr 12, 2012

Popsci - Science

  • For the First Time, Electrons are Observed Spl ...
    We generally think of electrons as fundamental building blocks of atoms, elementary subatomic particles with no smaller components to speak of. But according to Swiss and German researchers reporting in Nature this week, we are wrong to think so. For the first time, the researchers have recorded ...
  • The World's First Transgenic, 'Handmade' Clone ...
    The world’s first transgenic sheep produced via a simplified cloning technique, known as handmade cloning (seriously), is here. Peng Peng, named for the two cloner sheep who happened to have identical names, was successfully delivered back on March 26 and is developing so well that researchers h ...
  • FYI: Is the Glass Really Half-Full?
    No one is entirely sure. Water has high surface tension, yet the molecules at its surface are unstable, which makes the air-surface interface mysterious and difficult to describe. Satoshi Nihonyanagi, a researcher at a molecular-spectroscopy lab in Japan, studies water and its surface—“specifica ...
  • FYI: Is the Glass Really Half-Full?
    No one is entirely sure. Water has high surface tension, yet the molecules at its surface are unstable, which makes the air-surface interface mysterious and difficult to describe. Satoshi Nihonyanagi, a researcher at a molecular-spectroscopy lab in Japan, studies water and its surface—“specifica ...
  • Deformities in Gulf Seafood Found After BP Oil ...
    Al Jazeera just published a thoroughly disturbing report on the deformed fish and shellfish that are being pulled from the Gulf in the wake of the BP oil spill. Shrimp without eyes or even eye sockets, snapper with large pink growths, undersized and misshapen crabs--the fishermen in the Gulf tha ...

Veterans Today

  • Duff on Press TV – ‘Animal killing for t ...
    In an interview with a prominent leader of the Special Forces community, I was told training on dogs was abandoned years ago and that this type of operation is considered "shameful" and "unprofessional."
  • Pakistan To Help Extricate Than Reinforce ISAF
    Among the seven agreements made by Gen Musharraf with Washington in September 2001, free passage of NATO containers from Karachi Port to Afghanistan via Torkham and Chaman and also air supplies were included.
  • Popular Travel Guide Posts Video on Israeli Lies
    Rick Steves, Travel Guru on PBS, has been everywhere, and now reveals on the web what he has learned about Israelis behavior by posting a video that belongs among the archives of what I call the VT educational program.
  • A Soldiers Home Tour
    Rules of Disengagement. Guess what there aren’t any. So let’s get on it.
  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News April ...
    Veterans! Here’s your Top 10 News stories of the day compiled from the latest sources   We encourage you to browse our list so that you can take what you want and keep what you need   1.    Taliban commander turns self in… for reward on ‘Wanted’ poster.  Sometimes, capturing a Ta ...

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • Global and regional climate update
    Average global temperatures in March rose to +0.108C above the 30 year running mean, from -0.116C in February, based on the UAH satellite measurement shown on the graph below. Adjusted to the more standard 1961-1990 mean, global temperatures were approximately +0.361C above normal. Acro ...
  • Drought order in parts of Yorkshire. Will it a ...
    The Environment Agency has today confirmed that some parts of Yorkshire are now officially in drought.   The drought order applies to some catchments of the Rivers Don, Rother, Hull and Derwent and has been issued because the agency is concerned about the effect of drought on the environme ...
  • Recovery in Arctic sea ice continues
    Arctic sea ice has staged a strong recovery in the last few weeks, reaching levels not far from normal for this time of the year. The rise is all the more impressive, since February saw the 5th lowest ice extent since satellite records began in 1979, and until recently ice extent has been ...
  • Drought order update
    The continued dry weather in parts of our region has led Anglian Water to implement a hosepipe ban for all its customers in Lincolnshire from April 5th. Customers in North Nottinghamshire who are served by Severn Trent for sewerage, but Anglian Water for their water supplies, will also have a h ...
  • Global temperature update
    Average global temperatures remained broadly the same throughout the month of February according to the UAH satellite measure. The anomaly of -0.116C, relative to the 30 year running average, equates to an anomaly of approximately +0.137C above the more standard 1961-1990 average. The decline ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Why LDCs Won't Give the IMF More Money
    I am rather tired of reading news clippings about how LDCs are reluctant to give the IMF more money when their grievances are not given proper airing. If you're looking for a global governance dinosaur par excellence, then I will give you the IMF. Imagine that we were stuck in the Fifties, the W ...
  • IMF's (Shocking?) Endorsement of Procyclicality
    I needn't recycle criticisms you're most familiar with concerning how the IMF exacerbates difficulties by deterring poor countries from using countercyclical policies to cope with downturns--either indirectly via policy suggestions during Article IV consultations or via conditionalities when the ...
  • Lingo Wars: Urban Dictionary v Academie Francaise
    While most things Anglo-Saxon are taking a well-deserved beating nowadays--neoliberal economic policies and a penchant for soaring rates of obesity among other things--there remains considerable vitality in their common language. As the Global Transformations crew rightly pointed out sometime ag ...
  • EuroPissants: Should Germany [!] Leave Eurozone?
    Having lived on and off the continent during the past few years, I am a follower and sometimes patron of various things European: Euratom. Euro currency. Eurofighter. Eurostar. Eurotunnel. Eurotrash. Not wanting to be left behind in all this naming fun, I've come up with the EuroPalin and EuroNa ...
  • Pope 1, Obama 0: LatAm United vs Cuba Embargo
    Here's yet another example of how the gringos are unwelcome in their own backyard: A few weeks ago, I discussed the skillful diplomacy the Vatican has conducted over the years with the brothers Castro, culminating in Pope Benedict XVI's open-air mass attended by hundreds of thousands in late Mar ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • Chimps Throwing Poop And 29 Other Mind Blowing ...
    Why do chimpanzees throw poop?  The federal government would like to know and is using your tax dollars to investigate the matter.  Every single year, we all send huge amounts of our hard-earned money to the federal government.  We hope that they will spend that money wisely.  Un ...
  • There Is Not Going To Be A Solution To Our Eco ...
    For those waiting for our economic problems to be solved, you can quit holding your breath.  There is simply not going to be a solution to our economic problems on the national level.  So why is that the case?  Well, it is because the economic policies of both major political par ...
  • The Too Big To Fail Banks Are Now Much Bigger ...
    The Democrats, the Republicans and especially Barack Obama promised that something would be done about the too big to fail banks so that they would never again be a threat to destroy our financial system.  Well, those promises have not been kept and the too big to fail banks are ...
  • 25 Signs That Middle Class Families Have Been ...
    The middle class in America is being systematically wiped out, and most people don't even realize what is happening.  Every single year, millions more Americans fall out of the middle class and become dependent on the government.  The United States once had the largest and most v ...
  • Tony Robbins, Ron Paul And Ben Bernanke All Ag ...
    Is there one thing that Tony Robbins, Ron Paul and Ben Bernanke can all agree on?  Yes, there actually is.  Recently they have all come forward with warnings that the national debt crisis could destroy America if something is not done.  Unfortunately, our politicians continue to ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • India tests first nuclear-capable ICBM
    India has test-launched its first long-range intercontinental ballistic missile, significantly upgrading the emerging Asian nation’s military capabilities. It has the capacity to target major Chinese cities and Europe. According to Indian media the missile was launched just after 8am local time ...
  • Fukushima Reactor 2: Radiation Comparable to W ...
    TEPCO plans to use a robot today to photograph possible damage inside the suppression pool at the bottom of Fukushima’s damaged number 2 reactor. TEPCO is the operator of the tsunami damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan. “We want to check whether there is no deformation or damage in ...
  • China may sink into oblivion trying to outrun ...
    Over 50 Chinese cities are sinking into the ground because of the continuous subsidence of the soil. The excessive consumption of ground water is to blame. As its result, under many Chinese cities, including Beijing, the world’s largest underground funnels have formed. But there are other ...
  • Official US and UK fears revealed about Obama’ ...
    In his three years as U.S. president, Barack Obama has been dogged by claims he is not patriotic enough. Last year he even had to publish his birth certificate to silence doubters who suggested he was not born an American. Now it emerges that similar fears were expressed about his father, who wa ...
  • Saudi Arabia bans homosexuals from schools
    Gays, tomboys and “emos” can no long enter public schools and universities in Saudi Arabia, until they change their appearance and behavior. That is how the country has chosen to tackle the spread of these “phenomena”. ­The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vic ...

Voiceless Victim

  • Historic Inquiry to Provide First Taste of Jus ...
    I have just received notification that in a few minutes the first official investigation into the Australian catholic church’s enabling and coverup of widespread child sexual assault will be announced. I congratulate the Victorian state government on being the first government in Australia ...
  • Why does the catholic church continue to abuse ...
    Every now and then I come across a summary of the catholic church’s exploitation and abandonment of children that pulls it all together so accurately, or captures the horror of honest, ordinary people at the atrocities committed by the Church of Child Rape. When I respond to a piece of wri ...
  • Just Like in Hunger Games the Church is killin ...
    The catholic church, when faced with the choice of protecting itself or preventing children from being raped, has consistently chosen to sacrifice the children. Usually without a second thought. This is not a claim without evidence. There is ample proof. In recent years there have been official, ...
  • Rare Opportunity for the Real Truth to be Told
    It was less than edifying this easter when the feeble monarch of the Church of Child Rape pronounced from his viciously defended high moral ground atop St Peter’s Square, tottering under the weight of pathetically opulent gold encrusted vestments and symbols of status, that ‘Life is ...
  • Pope, Cardinals, and Bishops just as guilty as ...
    In my personal experience as a victim of catholic church enabled child sexual abuse, as a child protection activist, and as a member of a victim support self help group, I have always known that I was not abused solely by the cunning predator who went to such lengths to regularly torture me and ...

WL Central

  • 2012-04-19 Breaking the Silence: Beyond the Do ...
    Tweet Image Credit - idlewild606 "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?" This familiar philosophical question came to my mind in response to a friend's challenge of my support for WikiLeaks and call for investigation into the recent shooting of a bla ...
  • 2012-04-20 Common Misconceptions of the Assang ...
    TweetJulian Assange has now been detained for 500 days without charge. This includes the 10 days he spent in solitary confinement on top of the 490 days he's spent electronically tagged under house arrest. After all this time the media is still spreading the same falsities about his case and peo ...
  • 2012-04-19 #WikiLeaks News Update: "The World ...
    Tweet WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 502 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 499 days. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 696 days. A secret Grand Jury has been active in the U.S. without transparency for 582 days. ...
  • 2012-4-18 Christine Assange Demands Attorney G ...
    TweetIn an emotional ABC radio interview today, Christine Assange, mother of WikiLeaks founder and editor-in-chief Julian Assange, has demanded the resignation of Australian Attorney General Nicola Roxon. The demand came after Ms Roxon appeared with other panelists, including WikiLeaks lawyer G ...
  • 2012-04-17 #WikiLeaks News Update: WikiLeaks o ...
    Tweet WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 500 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 497 days. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 694 days. A secret Grand Jury has been active in the U.S. without transparency for 580 days. ...

U N News

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

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • The Gulf Oil Crisis... 30 Facts It Was 'Planne ...
      This article explains what has really happend in the Gulf of Mexico, who is really responsible for the explosion, and how the devastation serves investment bankers. These globalists sway stocks, create markets, and planned this crisis, among a series of catastrophes, to advance geopo ...
  • Targeted For Extinction... 25 Signs Middle Cla ...
      The middle class in America is being systematically wiped out, and most people don't even realize what is happening.  Every single year, millions more Americans fall out of the middle class and become dependent on the government.  The United States once had the largest and ...
  • Ways States Can Protect Themselves From Financ ...
      The states of America are, truly, children of the Constitution. The legal framework that is the foundation of state sovereignty and internal administration is unique for perhaps any country in history up to the moment the U.S. won its independence. States were designed to decentraliz ...
  • The Warnings of Benjamin Fulford... Tape Rever ...
      Benjamin Fulford, 46, is a Tokyo based journalist who appeared on the Jeff Rense Program, July 5th 2007, making some very radical claims. According to Fulford, a Chinese secret society with 6 million members, including 1.8 million Asian gangsters and 100,000 professional assassins, h ...
  • Obama’s War On Women
      Of the millions of job losses that have occurred since Barack Obama became president, nearly 70% of those job losses have been women. Using Democrats’ own unique version of political logic – isn’t it then fair to ask why Barack Obama is waging a war against American women? read more

Tarpley

  • Yet Another Mini-Tet in Afghanistan: Karzai Ha ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV April 18, 2012 [download video] [download audio] The US seeks to continue the Afghan war into a “perpetual state of low intensity guerilla conflict”, preventing the country to rebuild its infrastructure, says a prominent political analyst. Afghan President Hami ...
  • Collapse of Mali a Result of Post-Qaddafi US-N ...
    Webster G. Tarpley Ph.D. KPFK 90.7 FM – Spotlight Africa April 16, 2012 Original KPFK broadcast on April 7, 2012 [download audio]
  • Obama’s Friday Afternoon Document Dump f ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV April 14, 2012 [download video] [download audio]
  • State Department Hits New Low of Cynical Hypoc ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV April 10, 2012 [download video] [download audio] Kofi Annan’s assessment of Syria is a ploy which puts blame solely on the government, but discounts foreign destabilization of the country, says a prominent political analyst. Press TV has conducted an interview ...
  • Zelikow Torture Memo Released in Attempt by St ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV April 8, 2012 [download video] [download audio] George W. Bush and Tony Blair have committed international conspiracy to launch an aggressive war, subject to a future Nuremberg prosecution, says an analyst. In a recently surfaced memo from the George W. Bush’s ...

Modern Survivalism

  • How to Purify Water with Sunlight
    Did you know that solar radiation from the sun can purify (disinfect) water and make it safe for drinking from harmful bacteria? While so often we hear or read about the bad things that the sun is capable of doing to us, we should also know that some of the same energy from the sun [...]
  • Disaster Stuff
    msb-note: Modern Survival Blog welcomes our newest sponsor, Disaster Stuff.com, located in Roseville, California. They have a walk-in store too. Check them out if you live nearby (MSB used to be located about an hour from them). ‘Disaster Stuff’ is a leading supplier of Berkey Water ...
  • How Long To Boil Drinking Water?
    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reports that 90 percent of the world’s water is contaminated in some way. There are a variety of microscopic organisms that can contaminate water supplies and cause potentially serious, even fatal, illnesses among wilderness travelers. Dipping your head i ...
  • Michigan Government Thugs Force Farmer To Shoo ...
    The following article is entirely the work of Mike Adams, Editor of NaturalNews.com, who has written a exclusive report, “Michigan government unleashes armed raids on small pig farmers, forces farmer to shoot all his own pigs“, and has asked to have his story shared. While it is extr ...
  • Fukushima Could Still Armageddon The World
    The world has become largely desensitized to what has happened and what is still happening in the wake of the nuclear disaster at the Daiichi nuclear plant in Fukushima Japan more than a year ago. Arnie Gunderson of Fairewinds Associates, with more than 40 years experience in the nuclear industr ...

Fast Company

  • Why You Should Start A Company In... Bismarck, ...
    Move to North Dakota for your startup? Yes, really. Shake off any residual snobbery, friends, because the Roughrider State offers chasteningly attractive conditions for entrepreneurs. Julie Kuennen, executive director of the IDEA Center of North Dakota, shares five things you need to know about ...
  • Can The Phone Be Reinvented?
    The iPhone 5 won't arrive for about six months, but that doesn't stop the rumors and questions from swirling. Will it be as much of a success as the iPhone 4S, which is expected to be a key component in Apple's earning's call next week? Will it be LTE? Will it be liquid metal? Will it be a ...
  • Burn The Ships, Promise Gold, And Other Change ...
    Ken Rees, president and CEO of Think Finance, says Cortez got it right. For today's businesses, he offers some less drastic ways to effect change.[twistage 2568fc94667dd]For more bite-sized bits of wisdom on leadership and strategies for success, explore our ongoing video series at 30 Secon ...
  • When Good Web Design Can Save Lives
    When it comes to preventing diabetes, a good user experience can save you much more than a headache. Here we speak with Sean Duffy of Omada Health about how to fix health care's UX problem.Sean Duffy is the CEO of Omada Health, a startup that wants to revolutionize health care using the web. Oma ...
  • MC10 Recruits NFL, NBA Veterans To Help Develo ...
    Wearable electronics startup MC10 is getting super serious about its skinny, stretchy sensors for sports. Today the company announced that it has signed on eight veteran athletes including NFL and NBA stars, ex-Olympians, and national lacrosse champions--to advise the company on its line of flex ...

Jadaliyya

  • في الدفاع عن دولة المواطنة
    مثلما فتح سقوط النظام البعثي السابق أبواب العراق على مصاريعها وجعلها مشرعة للجميع ، فإنه وفي الوقت ذاته فتح الأبواب لدخول الكثير من القيم والمفاهيم الجديدة إلى العراق، المحرمة طوال عقود، بفعل الزخم الإعلامي والتضخيم والوعود التي أطلقتها أمريكا لمرحلة عراق ما بعد صدام والبعث تتمثل في الترويج لمفا ...
  • في أحوال الذئاب
    رويَ: أنه في يوم القيامة ستهبُّ رياحٌ قوية، ستقلع الأشجار وتهزُّ أركان الجبال. لن يبقى إنسان ولا حيوان ولا نبات. ستزول الحياة وتندثر، إلا الذئب سيبقى متشبثاً بالأرض، غارساً مخالبه في التربة، مقاوماً، معانداً، حتى تسلخ قوة الرياح جلده من ذيله إلى فروة رأسه!  ***    سألوا الذئب: ...
  • Syria Media Roundup (April 19)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Syria and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Syria Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to syria@jadaliyya.com by Mond ...
  • Maghreb Media Roundup (April 19)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Maghreb and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Maghreb Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to maghreb@jadali ...
  • The Malian Crisis Seen from Algeria
    The military blitz by rebels in Northern Mali is far from inconsequential for its Algerian neighbor. The hypothetical secession of the Azawad (in the northern half of Mali) is not viewed favorably in Algeria, to say the least. In addition to the threat of instability across the country's souther ...

mediagazer

  • Senior Dawn journalist Murtaza Razvi found dea ...
    Dawn: Senior Dawn journalist Murtaza Razvi found dead  —  Dawn's Senior Assistant Editor and Magazines Editor Murtaza Razvi was murdered in Karachi.  —  KARACHI: Murtaza Razvi, a senior assistant editor and head of magazines at Dawn, was murdered in the early hou ...
  • Larry Kirshbaum shares many more details on ho ...
    Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent: Larry Kirshbaum shares many more details on how Amazon Publishing will work  —  Last week, Amazon New York publisher Larry Kirshbaum — the publishing industry veteran hired to oversee the launch of the NY imprint's first list this fall &mda ...
  • The San Francisco Examiner Closes in on Purcha ...
    Rachel Swan / East Bay Express: The San Francisco Examiner Closes in on Purchase of San Francisco Bay Guardian  —  The owners of the San Francisco Examiner are on the cusp of buying the San Francisco Bay Guardian.  Bay Guardian Executive Editor Tim Redmond told the Express ...
  • Misinformation campaign targets USA TODAY repo ...
    Gregory Korte / USA Today: Misinformation campaign targets USA TODAY reporter, editor  —  WASHINGTON - A USA TODAY reporter and editor investigating Pentagon propaganda contractors have themselves been subjected to a propaganda campaign of sorts, waged on the Internet through a ...
  • New York Times Staffers Protest Contract Negot ...
    Katherine Fung / The Huffington Post: New York Times Staffers Protest Contract Negotiations, Pensions (VIDEO)  —  New York Times staffers have put out a new video speaking out against the ongoing contract negotiations with the paper's management — particularly proposed cha ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • Salma Hayek considered having a child alo ...
    Salma Hayek Salma Hayek was considering having a child on her own before meeting husband François-Henri Pinault. The 45-year-old actress wanted a baby but was starting to doubt whether or not she would ever meet Mr. Right. In a show of independence, she decided to go it alone, b ...
  • Earth Day activities set to have positive ...
    As Earth Day approaches Sunday, environmental activists and other groups hope to inspire people to make eco-friendly choices. A variety of activities throughout the region will mark the annual international celebration. Dave Mazza, western regional director of the Pennsylvania Resources Coun ...
  • Mumbai suburban train service getting bac ...
    Mumbai, April 20 (IANS) Central Railway Friday assured normalisation of crucial suburban services by evening, three days after a fire disrupted its network resulting in overcrowded trains that claimed three lives, an official said. By Thursday night, barring...
  • China leaders less bullish on global rise ...
    Despite the confidence of China's public, the Asian power's elite is becoming less certain that the country will surpass the United States as the top global power, a major survey said Thursday. A wide-ranging poll of opinion in the two countries showed that most Chinese and Americans hold po ...
  • Tackling the matter of gold price manipul ...
    It is a game where the dollar will continue to be debased, and the price of gold will continue to rise – but in a controlled way until the game ends with a soaring gold price In the April edition of The Casey Report, Doug Casey tackles the matter of gold price manipulation. He does this in a ...

no frakking consensus

Anna's News

  • Now it's 4D film: The high-tech cinemas which ...
    Hollywood is converting blockbuster films into 4-D because cinemagoers are shunning pricey multi-dimensional 3-D versionsBut the experience has left some fans feeling sick, damp and pummeled after watching movies like Kung Fu Panda 2 and the latest ...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & ...
  • 10 Best British Open Performances
    Rory McIlroy's Tiger-esque performance at Congressional has many golf fans wondering what the 22-year-old has in store for Royal St. George's, one of the most difficult courses in the Open Championship rotation. Past winners Walter Hagen, Sandy Lyle and.. Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...
  • Tiny snails survive digestion by birds
    Snails are able to survive intact after being eaten by birds, according to scientists.Japanese white-eyes on the island of Hahajima, Japan feast on tiny land snails. Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Polar Shifts on Rising Seas
    How high will the oceans rise in response to our warming global climate, and how fast will it happen?Climate scientists have been unable to answer these basic questions with any confidence, mainly because they can't really tell how the ice caps at the.... Submitted by Anna Smith to Environment ...
  • Haji Ali: A Popular Pilgrimage for all Faith
    Haji Ali Dargah in Mumbai is a popular pilgrimage destination for devotees of all faith. Many devotees visit Dargah from different walks of life. It is situated 500 yards off shore in the middle of Worli Bay in Mumbai. The mosque was built in 1431 by a... Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...

Medical Marijuana

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

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

  • Empowerment begins in your mind - or is it jus ...
    On today's show we bring you analysis and commentary on a number of hot topics in Australian news at the moment. We look at the embattled MP Craig Thompson, who, despite manifest evidence of fraud and criminal conduct,  is being propped up by a Labor government desperate to hold on to the ...
  • How Full-Body Scanners Work – and Fail
    TSA has been introducing full-body scanners to perform a virtual strip search of air travelers. Although technically travelers have the right to opt out, the TSA discourages this behavior with aggressive and invasive pat-down searches. Initially, TSA denied punitive pat-down searches. Then they ...
  • Total Body Scam? — Taking your money and freed ...
    Was it just me? Was I the only one who noticed a tiny announcement in February that Airport Scanners were coming to Australia, the land where terrorists haven’t landed (yet), and … wait for it… there would be no (NO!) — opt — out– clause. Did I hear that cor ...
  • We will not be scanned!
    In today's show we bring you an interview from the Rule of Law radio show with Hereward Fenton, who discusses the health, privacy and civil liberties issues of body scanners with Deborah Stevens. Hereward talks about the introduction of body scanners in Australian airports which are due to go ...
  • TSA threatens media not to cover story exposin ...
    The engineer who reported on serious flaws in body scanner technology now reports that journalists are being warned not to cover the story. I’ve been on the phone all day for the last 2 days with reporters and journalists of all kinds, including the big bad MSM, and one South Florida rep ...

Beacon

  • Government Fails on Offshore Drilling Report Card
    Friday will mark two years since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, causing the worst accidental oil spill in history. One would hope that an accident like this would lead to monumental changes in safety regulations, but sadly that is not the case. Today, we release ...
  • New Report: Widespread Seafood Fraud in LA
    Red snapper is often mislabeled. [image via Wikimedia Commons] Something’s fishy in Los Angeles. That’s according to our new report, which found widespread seafood mislabeling in the LA-area. DNA testing confirms that 55 percent of the seafood our campaigners sampled was mislabeled based on ...
  • This Year's Christie’s Green Auction a Success
    Last week, international art collectors, philanthropists, celebrities and designers convened for the third year in a row for Christie’s Green Auction. Last year, the evening's festivities raised a record-breaking $2.4 million for four of the world's leading, science-based environmental nonpro ...
  • Oil Exploration Noise May Lead to Dolphin Stra ...
    © Oceana/Carlos Minguell In the last three months, more than 3,000 dolphins have washed ashore in Peru, most likely due to offshore oil exploration. Oil companies in the region often use sonar or acoustic soundings to detect oil beneath the floor of the sea, and dolphins and whales can be aff ...
  • Ocean Hero John Halas Retires
    John Halas (foreground, left). Photo credit: Judy Halas/Courtesy of John Halas The Florida ocean conservation community said farewell to one of its greatest servants this week. John Halas, who was the winner of Oceana’s first annual Ocean Heroes contest, has retired after nearly 32 years of ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

Taylor Marsh

  • Pres. Obama on Rosa Parks Bus
    On a fundraising sweep, during a stop at Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, Pres. Obama boarded the legendary bus. From remarks at one of the fundraisers, via CBS News: “I actually had the chance to sit in Rosa Parks’ bus — I just sat there for a moment and pondered the c ...
  • Are Greater Wealth and Less Ethical Behavior R ...
    Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. There’s a recent UC Berkeley study – by Paul Piffa, with graduate students Daniel M. Stancatoa, Stéphane Côtéb, Rodolfo Mendoza-Dentona, and Dacher Keltnera – which provides some answers to that question. From the Abs ...
  • North Carolina Democrats Have a Weiner Problem
    Well, it’s not exactly like Anthony Weiner, but the settlement conjures up similar images. The Democratic Party is holding their convention in a right-to-work state that is anti-union, where a sex scandal has now broken wide. From the New Observer: A former staffer accused the state Democr ...
  • LA Times Right to Publish Damning Afghan Photos
    There is no question that publishing the photos of the Army 82nd Airborne posing with body parts of dead Afghanistan militants was the right thing to do. It’s predictable that SecDef Leon Panetta would cite blowback as a reason to refrain, but there is too much secrecy in what the U.S. doe ...
  • Legendary Coach Pat Summitt Steps Down After D ...
    And when the goodbye was finally uttered on Wednesday, with Summitt abdicating the throne she occupied for 38 years, the reality washed over everyone who is in some degree in her debt. And that would be everyone in the sport. – Pat Summitt’s Signature: Success and Dignity Without Title IX ...

Hudson New York

  • Tunisia's Religious Persecution
    After two Tunisian citizens were condemned to a seven-year prison term for publishing writings perceived as offensive to Islam on March 28, Tunisian journalist Najoua Jo wrote, "In today's Tunisia, has anyone the right to be an atheist and to publicly
  • How the Eurocrisis Will Affect the West
    Next Sunday, the first ballot of the French presidential elections will be held. The two candidates with the most votes will run against one another in the second and final round on May 6. The big surprise of the French electoral campaign so far has been
  • Sensitive Muslims in the Religion of Peace
    On Friday, March 30, after Jumma prayer, thousands of Muslims in Bangladesh came out of the different masques in three towns and rushed to loot houses, then burn them down. Witness said several thousand people took part in the attacks, most of them
  • Stop Fatah from Stealing Public Funds
    The president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, has renewed his efforts to gain control over the Finance Ministry portfolio which, over the past few years, has been in the hands of Prime Minister Salam Fayyad. In recent statements to
  • The Raheb-Herzog Affair
    When the German concern Media Control announced the four winners of its 2011 German Media Prize (Deutscher Medienpreis) on January 13, 2012, the choice of the fourth, Lutheran Pastor Mitri Raheb of Bethlehem, provoked a storm of hundreds of protests. Why

Urban Survival

  • About that Government “Space Weather&#82 ...
    I’ll admit that sometimes we get a little wonky, living as we do usually 10-minutes to 10-years in advance of many secular events, but more than one reader who thought we were a bit “over-the-top” on worries about Sun-based events … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Dear Microsoft Support…
    I found out last year that I write more than most people, including writers, who near as I can tell average about 5,000-8,000 words per week.  Not that this is entirely new…a software documentation writer I used to know told … Continue reading →
  • Lingering Questions About Housing
    First, the long-term context:  Remember that we have been looking at the reports on housing from Case Shiller/S&P and have been repeatedly warning that the prices could resume their downward move and get cheaper than the recently announced return to … Continue reading →
  • Coping: FDA Backs Renting your life/marketing ...
    Had an interesting even happen recently:  Remember my little gout episode of a week, or so back?  Well, I got the doc to give me a prescript for colchicine. Now, mind you I have been cursed by gout, which feels … Continue reading →
  • About Retail Spending
    I have to admit to being a little nervous about the rate of retail sales, for two reasons, really.  One is the recent Consumer Debt report from the Fed (which for marketing purposes they insist on calling “Credit”) which shows … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • New Jersey to North Carolina: Speak Out about ...
    Michael Jasny, Senior Policy Analyst, Vancouver, B.C., and Santa Monica A couple of weeks ago, the Obama Administration announced its plans to open up most of the east coast to oil and gas exploration.  If you live near the coast and want ...
  • Turning abandoned and obsolete properties into ...
    Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC   One of the problems I have with a lot of what passes for smart infill development – on the whole, a good thing – is that parks and green space are treated as after ...
  • Economic Recovery: Escaping From A Vicious Circle
    David Goldstein, Energy Program Co-Director, San Francisco Once again, the news this week points out weakness in the economy, concentrating on lower home sales. Despite a general tone of optimism on the economy, home sales are weak and prices still ...
  • Consumers Get Relief from High Gas Prices as N ...
    Luke Tonachel, Vehicles Analyst, New York City Thanks to stronger fuel efficiency standards, new cars and light trucks are going further on a gallon of gasoline. Automakers have made significant advancements in many popular models over the last thre ...
  • The new EPA Clean Air Act rules for dangerous ...
    Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. The Obama administration has officially lifted industry's complete stranglehold on new federal health, safety, and environmental rules for oil and gas development and issued the first ever feder ...

Injustice Everywhere

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

Total Collapse

  • Russia Stunned After Japanese Plan To Evacuate ...
    A new report circulating in the Kremlin today prepared by the Foreign Ministry on the planned re-opening of talks with Japan over the disputed Kuril Islands during the next fortnight states that Russian diplomats were “stunned” after being told by their Japanese counterparts that upwards of 40 m ...
  • Russian warships heading for Syria: Russian mi ...
    A high-ranking source in the Russian defense ministry says several Russian warships are on their way to the Mediterranean Sea to guard Syrian coasts for the foreseeable future. “A decision has been made to deploy Russian warships near the Syrian shores on a permanent basis,” the state-run RIA ne ...
  • Obama Regime Suicides Top Diplomat To Cover Up ...
    A shocking Federal Security Services (FSB) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that top French diplomat Richard Descoings was “suicided” by American intelligence agents shortly after he arrived in New York and was due to report to the United Nations that France’s Central Directorate o ...
  • Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran’s Northern Bo ...
    The Russian military anticipates that an attack will occur on Iran by the summer and has developed an action plan to move Russian troops through neighboring Georgia to stage in Armenia, which borders on the Islamic republic, according to informed Russian sources. Russian Security Council head Vi ...
  • Obama Orders Press Blackout After US Credit Ra ...
    A shattering report from RIA Novosti’s Washington D.C. bureau appears to prove that the mainstream press in America has become nothing more than a propaganda arm of the Obama regime when during a White House news briefing this past week they were effectively ordered not to report on this past we ...

Daily Dose

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Repowering Port Augusta report now available
    To download the report click here. This ground breaking report makes the environmental, social and economic case for the replacement of Port Augusta’s existing brown coal-fired power stations with baseload solar thermal and wind power. As with all our work, this blueprint is technically det ...
  • AGL's war on solar
    It is deeply troubling that AGL continues to suggest low income households, such as pensioners, are now paying more for their electricity to enable Australians to get solar. This is simply not true. If we rewind, to a bit over two years ago, before AGL tried to deflate the solar PV industry, ...
  • Clean fossils of the future? How about ready r ...
    There’s a lot of discussion and political jostling around energy options, decarbonisation, low-carbon or zero-carbon transition. Looking at the options, let’s begin with today’s dominant player, conventional coal. It’s fate is easy to summarise, we burn it now in old, outdated power stations, ...
  • Adelaide - Repower Port Augusta Report Launch
    At what promises to be one of the most important events on the political calendar for 2012, Mark Ogge from the renewable energy think-tank, Beyond Zero Emissions, will launch the long-awaited BZE Repower Port Augusta Report. This reports presents the compelling economic and environmental case ...
  • The minister for tourism signs tourism industr ...
    Martin Ferguson, the Federal Minister for Resources Energy and Tourism and previous head of the ACTU, today signalled that the mining industry will take precedence over tourism and manufacturing, despite the enormous damage it is doing to these industries. In a speech in Brisbane today, Mr ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Animal picture of the day: the gray zorro
    This canine has many names: the gray zorro, the chilla, and the South American gray fox. Despite its moniker as a fox, however, the species is more closely related to wolves and coyotes than actual foxes.
  • Two-foot-long cloud rat rediscovered after mis ...
    Czech computer programmer, Vaclav Rehak, was the first person to see a living Dinagat bushy-tailed cloud rat (Crateromys australis) in nearly forty years, reports GMA News. Rehak was traveling on Dinagat Island with his new wife, Milada Rehakova-Petru, a specialist on Philippine tarsiers, when h ...
  • Camera traps discover tigers, elephants in "em ...
    Although it's named Namdapha Tiger Reserve, conservationists had long feared that tigers, along with most other big mammals, were gone from the park in northeast India. However, an extensive camera trap survey has photographed not only Bengal tigers (Panthera tigris tigris), but also Asian eleph ...
  • Papua New Guinea halts controversial nickel mi ...
    A massive, controversial nickel mine has been shut down in Papua New Guinea due to the environmental concerns of its slurry pipeline, reports Cultural Survival. Inspections of the 83 mile (134 kilometer) slurry pipeline found that it had been built too close to a major highway with spills alread ...
  • Scientists count penguins by satellite, find t ...
    The population of emperor penguins in Antarctica is nearly twice as high as previously estimated according to a new satellite-based assessment.

Sierra Express

  • The crusade against graft receives the support ...
    In an effort to continue the spate of public education campaigns by the ACC the Eastern Regional Office of the ACC in Kenema on Wednesday 18th April 2012 held a well attended customized meeting with the Kenema branch of NASSIT.  (Photo: ACCs Patrick M George making his Presentation) The aim was ...
  • Beyond the Nigeria fuel subsidy crisis
    One would think that being a citizen of a country with the second-largest oil reserves in Africa came with some perks. Not so in Nigeria where scores of people are up in arms after being stripped of a petrol subsidy in effect since 1973.  The price of gas at the pumps more than doubled, sparking ...
  • Cluff Gold gets environmental permit for Baoma ...
    The first gold pour on Baomahun in Sierra Leone is expected in 2014 with steady state production anticipated in 2015 Cluff Gold (LON:CLF,TSE:CFG) has now received an environmental permit for its wholly-owned Baomahun gold project in Sierra Leone. This enables Cluff to complete the environmental ...
  • Health & Energy Ministers in USA to showcase S ...
    Sierra Leone’s Health and Sanitation Minister Hon. Zainab Hawah Bangura and her colleague Energy & Water Resources Minister Hon. Oluniyi Robin – Coker arrived in the United States of America Wednesday April 18th to showcase the West African Country’s progress in the area of Health, Sanitatio ...
  • Optimising Africa’s megacities
    As African cities implode, leaders on the continent are intensifying efforts to address the challenges of urbanization. A forum bringing together Africa’s housing ministers was recently held in Nairobi, Kenya on 20 March 2012 under the auspices of the African Ministers Conference on Housing and ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Dairy farmers face payout cut after big fall i ...
    New Zealand dairy farm payouts look likely to sink further next season if the downward trend in dairy prices continues, economists say.Prices of dairy products had their biggest decline since July 2010 in Fonterra's latest GlobalDairyTrade...
  • Dairy prices fall 9.9pc in overnight auction
    Prices of dairy products had their biggest decline since July 2010 in Fonterra's latest GlobalDairyTrade auction, pushing the price index below its 10-year average.The GDT-TWI Price Index fell 9.9 per cent compared to the...
  • Fonterra plans to invest in new Indonesian plant
    Fonterra Cooperative Group, the world's biggest dairy exporter, plans to invest in a new blending and packing plant in Indonesia as it seeks to tap growing Asian demand for high-protein food products.The plant is expected to be...
  • A2 signs supply agreement with Synlait Milk
    A2 Corp, the NZAX-listed alternative milk company, has signed a supply agreement with Canterbury processor Synlait Milk as it seeks to launch its infant formula into Asian markets.The deal will see Synlait Milk source A2 milk from...
  • Fonterra spends $100m in China
    Fonterra Co-operative Group plans to spend $100 million building two more farms in China's Hebei Province.Chief executive Theo Spierings said the dairy exporter wanted to set up an integrated milk business in China as it sought...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • April 19: A Day to Write Lazy Certainties Abou ...
    April 19 is one of those days known for a whole string of notable events, mostly bloody, which include the 1775 battle of Lexington and Concord which began the American Revolution, the first day of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943, and of course, in 1993, (AKA cable news-recent memo ...
  • Ron Paul Roundup: On Time's Most Infl ...
    Time magazine, the weekly paper embodiment of conventional wisdom, sees what's in front of its own eyes and names Ron Paul, congressman, presidential candidate, and topic of my out-soon book Ron Paul's Revolution, one of the 100 Most Influential people. Very interestingly, it does ...
  • In Defense of Julian Assange and Russia To ...
    Glenn Greenwald at Salon defends Wikileaker Julian Assange's new show on Russia Today from mainstream news and media criticism from the New York Times. Greenwald points out that Times critic Alessandra Stanley sets up Assange for criticism with vague assertions that, well, no one ...
  • Romney Slaps Obama for Money Digs, Cops Make S ...
    Mitt Romney found himself a backbone and slapped back at Obama for needling him over being neck-deep in dollars. (The prez denies all.) Congressional Republicans and Democrats are wrangling over competing proposals for business tax breaks. Although still not sorry about pu ...
  • Greg Beato on Why the Firearms Boom Is Good Ne ...
    A little more than a decade ago, the domestic firearms industry was staggering like a villain on the wrong side of Dirty Harry’s .44 Magnum. “The future has never been more uncertain for America’s oldest manufacturing industry,” a Businessweek cover story reported in 1999. Flat sales, ...

Mercury Rising

  • Friday Cat Blogging
    Special Guest Cat: Horatio is the barn cat at historic Firestone Farm in Greenfield Village. He gets regular vet visits but is otherwise self-sufficient, thriving on a steady diet of mice and pigeons. He enjoys attention from visitors, though he made it clear he does not like belly rubs.
  • I Am Mitt, Destroyer Of Jobs – Especiall ...
    While Mitt Romney was grandstanding at a factory that shut down under Bush the Younger and pretending it closed during Obama’s tenure, this article appeared at Gawker: Bain Capital, a job creating powerhouse established by America’s number one job creator Mitt Romney, is being sued by a gr ...
  • The for-profit education fraud: bipartisan, di ...
    Danny Weil, Truthout: On Friday, April 13, 2012, Courthouse News reported a class-action lawsuit by students filed in federal court against the Art Institute of California and its owner, Educational Management Corporation (EDMC). As reported in Truthout, Sen. Olympia Snowe’s (R-Maine) husb ...
  • Dark Arts Master Murdoch has 10 US allegations ...
    Ed Pilkington, The Guardian: Mark Lewis, the English lawyer who has been a driving force behind phone-hacking revelations in the UK, and his American legal partner Norman Siegel, have revealed that they have been approached by at least 10 people bearing complaints relating to Murdoch’s New ...
  • Romney Blames Obama for Factory Closing That H ...
    Geez, Mittens, all that money didn’t buy you good researchers? Or are you just hoping nobody in the same establishment that acted as your attack dogs against Hilary Rosen bothers to mention that this is wrong? Romney in plant that closed under Bush: “Had the president’s economic plans work ...

Reality Sandwich

  • The Future of Love Salon
    In this Spore conversation, we will explore The Future of Love in all its facets, from breakthroughs in evolutionary psychology around the origin of current mating patterns to the potential for elevating eroticism by restoring a sacred and Tantric dimension to relationships.read more
  • How is a "Spiritual Person" Supposed to Act?
    How is a spiritual person supposed to act?  Should s/he be more gentle?  Speak in a soft voice?  Work as a holistic healer?  Have only ‘mindful' sex, not drink, not get angry?  Maybe give lots of money to charity? I want to claim that these misconceptions confuse what spirituality is a ...
  • Funding My Existence
      It appears we are living at the dawn of a new era. Throughout our culture we see signs of change, progress, and evolution. A "Creative Class"  is on the rise that -- with the help of the Internet and other related technologies -- will reportedly transform our entire socio-econ ...
  • World Music Impresario: Talking With Fabian Al ...
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  • At U.N. Summit, A Coal Pile In the Ballroom
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Desertification

  • Will Climate Refugees Get Promised Aid?
    With extreme weather pounding countries across a wide arc in the Asia-Pacific region, questions hover over entitlements for millions of people displaced by climate change, pledged under the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and other sources.
  • Treat Illegal Logging Like Organised Crime, Ur ...
    With illegal loggers clearing the equivalent of a football field of the world's most valuable forests every two seconds, local and international law enforcement systems should target the criminal operations that profit most from the trade, according to a new report released here Tuesday ...
  • Rio+20 Summit: A Moment That Must Be Seized
    The upcoming Rio+20 conference has to be the moment in human history when the nations of the world come together to find ways to ensure the very survival of humanity, many science and environmental experts believe.
  • ARGENTINA: Three-Quarters of "Breadbasket" Is ...
    How has Argentina managed to maintain its image as one of the world's breadbaskets when a full three-fourths of its territory consists of drylands? This was one of the questions raised by the scientists who decided to create the National Observatory on Land Degradation and Desertification this year.
  • MAURITANIA: Ravaged by Drought - the Number of ...
    Mariem Mint Ahmedou sits cross-legged on a worn-out carpet in a basic tent built with mud bricks and layers of sewn-together fabric. Her eight-month-old twins, Hussein and Hassan, lie weakly against her body. Both of them have been malnourished since birth, because Beydar, undernourished h ...

Blogging Canadians

Press TV - Middle East

  • Activists denounce Bahrain F1 timing
    Human rights activists in Bahrain have criticized the timing of Formula One Grand Prix, describing the race as a political event meant to award Al Khalifa dictators, Press TV reports.
  • Bahrain denies visas to foreign reporters
    The Saudi-backed regime of Bahrain has denied visas to foreign journalists seeking to travel to the Persian Gulf country to cover the upcoming Formula One Grand Prix race.
  • US urges UN sanctions against Syria
    US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has called on world powers to push for tough UN sanctions, including an arms embargo, against the government of President Bashar al-Assad.
  • Syrian rebels urge military intervention
    Armed groups fighting against the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad have called for foreign military intervention in the country even without the approval of the United Nations Security Council.
  • US urges UN sanctions against Syria
    US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has called on world powers to push for tough UN sanctions against the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • Solicitation of Nominations for SPS Governing ...
    We are now accepting nominations for students to join the School of Professional Studies Governing Council.  The Governing Council considers proposals for new courses, degrees, certificates and programs that will be offered by the School.  Two students and two alternates are needed to serve on t ...
  • Smarmy Prince, Contemptible Hypocrite, Ayatoll ...
    What a group. What a choice. The remaining field of Republican presidential candidates is one of the weakest in history. It is not just the liberal media that thinks so. Former Republican Congressman and current MSNBC host Joe Scarborough believes it and right wing pundit Charles Krauthammer cal ...
  • Silently Waiting
    The ruthless brutality which humankind has been known to unleash upon their fellow humans throughout history seems unrelenting and in fact almost unbelievable when considered in hindsight. For example, the Holocaust, the Trail of Tears, the Middle Passage, and the Great Purge – all events of his ...
  • Choices and Trade-offs…Why I Chose CUNY ...
    Hi everyone, my name is Coy. The year 2011 was a year of opportunities, challenges, and new experiences. My first semester as a CUNY SPS student greatly expanded my perspectives as I found myself introduced to the vast amount of resources we – students, workers, and citizens of a digital world – ...
  • Get ready, get set, go!
    2011 is behind us and now we’ve embarked on a new year, 2012. Last year was a pretty good year, especially for me in academia.  As many students can attest, the beginning of a new semester can bring with it, new challenges, fresh perspectives and even elevated stresses. In my experience, as a mo ...

Dissident Voice

  • AfPak: Mutiny on the Bounty
    Kabul was cast into chaos Sunday as the Taliban began their spring offensive with attacks on US, British, German and Russian embassies, NATO headquarters, Camp Eggers, a hotel, President Karzai’s palace compound and parliament. “These are coordinated attacks that went just as we planned,” Taliba ...
  • Oligarchy That Runs The World Now Verified By ...
    After about five centuries of modern science, since the Scientific Revolution, Science has finally officially confirmed a global oligarchy. Although for, conservatively, 10,000 years ruling families have crafted civilization into a dominating matrix, not until this week has Science confirmed the ...
  • Report on Iran’s Nuclear Fatwa Distorts ...
    IPS — The Barack Obama administration’s new interest in the 2004 religious verdict, or “fatwa”, by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei banning the possession of nuclear weapons, long dismissed by national security officials, has prompted the New York Times to rev ...
  • The Rest is Hasbara
    “My Lords, I was in Gaza six weeks ago,” began Baroness Tonge, when she spoke at the House of Lords in January 2009. “Now, as a result of the impotence of the international community, not just in Gaza, but…over 40 years of occupation of Palestine by Israel, those institutions that I visited are ...
  • The European Stabilization Mechanism
    The Goldman Sachs coup that failed in America has nearly succeeded in Europe—a permanent, irrevocable, unchallengeable bailout for the banks underwritten by the taxpayers.  In September 2008, Henry Paulson, former CEO of Goldman Sachs, managed to extort a $700 billion bank bailout from Congress. ...

Destructionist

  • US tries to limit damage from grisly Afghan photos
    The United States has swiftly condemned photos of soldiers posing with the mangled corpses of insurgents in Afghanistan, seeking to limit the fallout from the latest scandal involving US troops. The photographs, which date back to 2010 but were published by the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday, ...
  • US tries to limit damage from grisly Afghan photos
    The United States has swiftly condemned photos of soldiers posing with the mangled corpses of insurgents in Afghanistan, seeking to limit the fallout from the latest scandal involving US troops. The photographs, which date back to 2010 but were published by the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday, ...
  • High gas prices prompt call to Brockton police
    An infuriated gas customer called police to complain about high gas prices from a Warren Avenue gas station on Wednesday night. Officers responded to Prestige Gas at 761 Warren Ave. after receiving a 911 call at 8:10 p.m. from a man upset at the price of gas. The man, who was not identifie ...
  • High gas prices prompt call to Brockton police
    An infuriated gas customer called police to complain about high gas prices from a Warren Avenue gas station on Wednesday night. Officers responded to Prestige Gas at 761 Warren Ave. after receiving a 911 call at 8:10 p.m. from a man upset at the price of gas. The man, who was not identifie ...
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    New York Daily News
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