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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

20 April - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Protest Time in Tunisia Again
    Thousands of centre-left demonstrators violently clashed with police in street battles that completely shut down central Tunis last week, left scores seriously injured and underlined the persistent divisions in Tunisian society.
  • Malaysia's New Security Act Spares Politicians
    Malaysia's new internal security law is as draconian as the colonial law it has replaced, but has the saving grace that it will not target political opponents of the government, say critics.
  • U.S.-Mexico Border Build-Up Found Excessive
    While Republican politicians and other "border hawks" call for ever-tougher measures to secure the U.S.-Mexican border against drug trafficking and illegal immigration, a one-year bi-national study released here Thursday suggests that current efforts may be excessive.
  • Business20 Makes Its Weight Felt at G20 Meeting
    The concerns of the business community basically monopolised the first day of the meeting of trade and economy ministers of the G20 group of industrialised and emerging countries in this Mexican resort city Thursday.
  • Ghanaian Fisherfolk Blasting Their Way to Find ...
    Explosives, high-watt light bulbs, monofilament nets, and poison: these are a few methods fisherfolk are using to catch ever-dwindling fish stocks off Ghana's shores.

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • REPORT: Broadcast News Networks Misrepresent I ...
    Summary: Many in the media have long since repudiated their failures in the lead-up to the Iraq War, acknowledging that they were too quick to accept the false notion that Iraq possessed a sizable and dangerous cache of weapons of mass destruction. The question today is whether they have lear ...
  • Report on Iran's Nuclear Fatwa Distorts Its Hi ...
    Summary: Missing from the Times article was any reference to Iran's refusal to retaliate with chemical weapons for Iraq's repeated chemical weapons attacks on Iranian cities, based on U.S. intelligence on Iranian troop concentrations, killing 7,000 immediately and severely injuring at least 1 ...
  • Iran Sanctions Hitting Turkish Economy, Energy ...
    Summary: The economic cost “is borne by Turkey,” not just by Iran, Caglayan told reporters today in Washington, when asked whether sanctions on Iran’s trade are the best way to rein in the nuclear ambitions of Turkey’s eastern neighbor. “Other countries pay the price of sanctions, too.” so ...
  • Iran-P5+1 Nuclear Talks: Istanbul
    Summary: Given the depth of mutual distrust, it is a significant achievement for Iran and the Six countries negotiating with them to have launched a serious dialogue on a peaceful negotiated solution. source: Iran Reviewread more
  • "Sanctions are not working": High oil prices s ...
    Summary: High oil prices are insulating Iran from the full impact of US and European sanctions on the sale of its crude, providing Tehran with breathing space as it prepares for a new round of nuclear talks with western nations next month. source: Financial Timesread more

The Daily Galaxy

  • Emergence of the Human 'SuperBrain' 75,000 Yea ...
    There is archaeological evidence for the evolution of a human "super-brain" no later than 75,000 years ago that spurred a modern capacity for novelty and invention, according to John Hoffecker, an archaeologist at the University of Colorado. Scientists seeking to...
  • The Search for Alien Life: Manned Missions vs ...
    "Robotic missions are much cheaper and may provide more scientific information, but they don't catch the public imagination in the same way, and they don't spread the human race into space, which I'm arguing should be our long-term strategy," says...
  • ESA Targets Jupiter's Icy Moons for Next Large ...
    The European Space Agency has selected a satellite study of Jupiter's icy moons for its next large scale launch. The mission is called JUICE (JUpiter ICy moon Explorer), and would see a probe launch towards the Jovian system in 2022...
  • Mystery of Source of Ultra High-Energy Cosmic ...
    The IceCube neutrino telescope encompasses a cubic kilometer of clear Antarctic ice under the South Pole, a volume seeded with an array of 5,160 sensitive digital optical modules (DOMs) that precisely track the direction and energy of speeding muons, massive...
  • Milky Way Appears to be Void of Dark Matter -- ...
    The most accurate study so far of the motions of stars in the Milky Way has found no evidence for dark matter in a large volume around the Sun. According to widely accepted theories, the solar neighbourhood was expected to...

Natural News

  • Arizona inmates treated worse than animals
    Most people have probably heard about Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. He's the Arizona lawman who's become famous for things like making his prisoners wear pink outer- and underwear, sleep in tents and pedal bicycles to generate enough power to watch TV. Some...
  • Study: Following your doctor's orders could en ...
    Just because your doctor might seem to have all the right answers and always pay close attention to your medical testing and diagnostic needs does not necessarily mean that you are in good hands health-wise. A new study published in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine...
  • Colony Collapse Disorder in bees triggered not ...
    Studies linking neonicotinoid pesticides to Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), a condition in which entire bee colonies suddenly disappear or die, have been gaining national attention in recent months as they continue to flood scientific journals. But one area that has...
  • Letting go of what makes you unhappy on Mental ...
    On this week's episode of Mental Health Exposed on Natural News Radio, We are talking about happiness, life satisfaction and letting go of what makes you unhappy. It's a fascinating subject that is full of twists and turns and we have a great guest expert joining us...
  • The amazing healing powers of cayenne pepper ( ...
    When the famous master herbalist Dr. John Christopher was bothered by stomach ulcer problems as a student, one of his herbal instructors recommended young John drink a solution of cayenne pepper powder in water daily. At first, Dr. Christopher thought this was a contradiction...

Threat Level

  • Judges Drive Truck Through Loophole in Supreme ...
    A federal judge in Iowa is considering sanctioning an agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration for concealing information that he had used warrantless GPS vehicle tracking to tail the alleged kingpin of a local drug ring.
  • Motorcycle Club’s Attorney Scoffs at FBI Asses ...
    A lawyer representing an alleged crime syndicate is crying foul over a Federal Bureau of Investigation assessment that a motorcycle gang trademarked its patch to prevent infiltration by undercover officers.
  • CISPA Isn’t ‘Son of SOPA’ (But That’s Not Sayi ...
    Like a lion in tall grass, legislation to bolster America’s defense against cyber-attacks has been lying in wait in congressional committees for years. But now that legislation is about to leap onto the congressional conveyor belt where bills become law. And, once again, internet activists ...
  • FBI: Motorcycle Gang Trademarked Logo to Keep ...
    We've always considered trademarking as a means to protect a company's intellectual property and to aide consumers in identifying trusted products and services. But on Tuesday, we stumbled on a novel use of intellectual-property law implemented by an alleged organized crime syndicate founded in ...
  • Broadcasters Demand Barry Diller Explain $20.5 ...
    Television networks seeking to dismantle a startup that delivers over-the-air broadcasts via the internet want to know what the hell Barry Diller, the chairman of the IAC/InterActiveCorp media empire, was thinking when his company invested $20.5 million in to a legally questionable startup call ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Romney's Noblesse Non Oblige
    There's nothing wrong with being born with a silver spoon in your mouth. It's what you do with that good fortune that matters. And that is at the heart of Mitt Romney's problem with the American people. With his proclamations and policies, the same man who denounces President Obama as "out of ...
  • Romney's GOP Allies Boast the Rich Will Always ...
    Since Barack Obama first announced his still-popular proposal to let the Bush tax cuts earners for the top two percent expire, Republicans have regurgitated a series of tried if untrue talking points to keep the wealthiest Americans from paying one more cent to Uncle Sam. As the data clearly sh ...
  • 10 Things Republicans Don't Want You to Know A ...
    Tax Day 2012 has been a busy one for the propagandists of the Republican Party. After the GOP successfully filibustered the Buffett Rule in the Senate, House Speaker John Boehner claimed that Republicans are "listening to the American people." Of course, what Boehner, Mitch McConnell, Mitt Rom ...
  • Will Mitt Romney "Self-Hispanic?"
    "We're going to be able to get Hispanic voters," Mitt Romney assured big-dollars donors this weekend, adding, "We're going to overcome the issue of immigration." How the Republican presidential nominee plans to do that is another matter. After all, John McCain captured only 31 percent of the H ...
  • Mind the Gap
    This week, Mitt Romney's former Lieutenant Governor and current adviser Kerry Healy nonchalantly acknowledged the yawning chasm separating her candidate from American women, "There's always going to be a gender gap between Republicans and Democrats." She should know. After all, she was by Mitt ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • BP Cover-up ‘They Knew.’ by Greg Palast
    by Greg Palast Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.gregpalast.com Exclusive for EcoWatch.org Thursday, 19. April, 2012 Two years before the Deepwater Horizon blow-out in the Gulf of Mexico, another BP off-shore rig suffered a nearly identical blow-out, but BP concealed the first one from the U.S ...
  • Info On Graduation Dresses
    Info On Graduation Dresses If you are worried about choosing the best graduation dress for the party, then we can provide you with some important tips that can help you choose your dress. when choosing a dress, you have to consider two important things. The first one is that the dress should sui ...
  • Exclusive: The self as the ultimate source of ...
    by Rocket Kirchner Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Rocket Kirchner (blog) Rocket Kirchner (youtube channel) April 19, 2012 It has become quite fashionable these days to state that matters of faith in the divine is the ultimate source of all tyranny. When all is said and done it may seem a logica ...
  • The Global Pressures of Population and Access ...
    As the world climbs toward a population of 9 billion, how can we support all those people?
  • The Far Right Takes Root in Europe
    Anders Behring Breivik’s attacks are part of a worrying trend in Europe: the far right’s rise within mainstream politics.

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Rhino Crisis Round Up: Death Toll Rises to 181 ...
    South Africa’s Department of Environmental Affairs has reportedly updated the number of rhinos killed in the country this year to 181. Investigative journalist Julian Rademeyer tweeted that 113 arrests have been made so far, and 111 of the 181 rhinos were killed in the flagship Kruger Nat ...
  • Is Obama’s Blackness Increasing America’s Redness?
      More on the President’s blackness: From We Are the Respectable Negroes: Fear of a Black President? Love of the Confederacy? Explaining the Tea Party GOP and the “Southern Religion” From MotherJones: 109 things President Obama currently is or recently has been engaged i ...
  • Nanoparticles Damage Plant DNA
      Significant damage to a plant’s DNA has been caused by nanoparticles in a study by the National Institute of Standards and Technology at The University of Massachusetts Amherst. This is the first evidence that nanoparticles can accumulate within a plant and damage its DNA. The resea ...
  • International Team of Scientists to Study Thir ...
    Information regarding the health and fate of glaciers across the planet is rare and often misunderstood, causing some experts to make claims that bear no weight in fact. Now, an international team of scientists is planning a long-term campaign to monitor 25 glaciers in Tibet. The region contains ...
  • An Ancient Amazonian Farming Technique Could H ...
        [Updated/corrected post] A team of archeologists investigating a savanna region bordering the Amazon Rain Forest has found more conclusive evidence that a low-impact farming technique has been used for over 1500 years; the ‘alternative’ agricultural practice, used by s ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • The Militarization of Central America - Latin ...
    Last December 5, the 23rd Summit of the Tuxtla Mechanism of Dialogue and Concerted Action, which includes Mexico, Colombia and the Central American countries, met in Merida, Mexico. The Summit normally discusses the progress of the Mesoamerica Project (formerly Plan Puebla Panama), a network of ...
  • What Capitalism Delivers - Economy
    Most Presidents preside over one or more capitalist downturns (recessions, depressions, crises, etc.).  Every President since at least FDR generated a "program" to respond to the downturn -- as demanded by citizens and businesses.  FDR and every later President promised that his program would "n ...
  • Salim Lamrani: Cuba Meets the Challenges of th ...
    An interview with Ricardo Alarcon, President of the Cuban Parliament President of the Cuban Parliament since 1992, and member of the Political Bureau of the Cuban Communist Party, Ricardo Alarcon de Quesada is, after President Raul Castro and First Vice-President Antonio Ma ...
  • Argentina Proposes Nationalization of Biggest ...
    Editor's Comment: Bravo! We have nothing but praise for President Cristina Ferdandez for her courage and leadership demonstrated once again in her move to nationalize Argentine's natural resources. From Argentina's nationalization of the country's airlines and pension funds to it's recent stand ...
  • Koch Brothers Exposed: the Film - United States
    The 1% at its very worst This hard-hitting investigation of the 1% at its very worst is the latest from acclaimed director Robert Greenwald. Charles and David Koch are using their billions to put a stranglehold on American democracy. What are we going to do about it? "Every per ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Killing A Billion-Dollar Economy is Easier Tha ...
    By @KYYellowDog Like I said two years ago: the Gulf Coast is dead. Twenty million Americans fucked right into the ground by BP and governments wholly owned by Big Oil. Annie-Rose Strasser at Think Progress: The Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded nearly two years ago to the day, beginning an oil ...
  • Why Isn't Ted Nugent In Jail Now?
    I don't seriously believe that Ted Nugent ought to be in jail now, because that would confer on him martyr status that he doesn't deserve. But it's a question to ponder, since the heavy-metal bad boy turned NRA poster boy seems to have threatened the president of the United States during time of ...
  • Songs to Fight the Plutocracy By: "On the Pick ...
    By @KYYellowDog Uploaded by tylershipley on Feb 9, 2010
  • It's About the Healthcare, Stupid
    By @KYYellowDog Compared to the deficit hysterics, Chicken Little was a cock-eyed optimist. As Kevin Drum explains, forget government spending; healthcare spending is the only thing that matters: The chart on the bottom is my take: I've cut it off at 2007 so that the Great Recession doesn't obsc ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    By @BG & @YD He's shaking in his boots, we're sure. Guess who the Catholic League is pissed at now, and threatening to "mobilize" a boycott against...go ahead...guess...Oh, allright. We'll tell you...Jon Stewart! What has them so riled up, you ask? They didn't like his "vagina mangers" bit for s ...

Care 2

  • Who Will Be Romney's VP?
    See 1st comment Submitted by TomCat S. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Justice in Fitzwalkerstan?
    See 1st comment Submitted by TomCat S. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • GOOD NEWS! There Are More Protected Places ...
    In case it sometimes feels like we've never done anything good for the wild parts of our planet, take a look at these stats from the World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA). Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • 5 reasons the Secret Service prostitution scan ...
    The elite security agency is moving to quash the controversy by forcing out three accused agents. But the story is unlikely to end there Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Romney: Let Me Eat Cake!
    See 1st comment Submitted by TomCat S. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Why Obama Does Not Have a Silver Spoon In His ...
    So, Barack Obama was not born with a “silver spoon” in his mouth? Guess he spent so much time with it under his nose that his brain process has been addled. I found a picture, however, that I think explains why Obama could not have a “silver spoon” in his mouth (thanks to ...
  • Obama’s Continuing Economic Woes
    I’m almost tempted to lift the ban on the obnoxious, idiotic PPAA just to get a taste of his delusional claims about how swell Obama’s economy is doing. The news trickling in is not good. Let’s start with the IMF, which believes the euro is in big trouble: The crisis-hit euro i ...
  • The War on Women — Real or Faux?
    A spate of articles analyzing the “Mommy Wars,” ignited by political operative Hilary Rosen’s recent comments targeting Ann Romney, each argued that the mommy debate is not the one we should be having. In Politico, Tara McGuinness states that most women today do not have a choice about working, ...
  • Webb: President Obama Failed Tests of Leadersh ...
    Obama flunked Leaderhip 101. Jim Webb, Virginia’s U.S. Senator — a moderate Democrat who beat a GOP incumbent in 2006 — concludes that Obama floundered during his most important test as a leader. “Jim Webb: Health-care law represents a leadership failure for Obama,” ...
  • Approval Thing
    Spoke with Sean Trende, RealClearPolitics, re the comparison of the incumbent elections of 1980 and 2004 with the election 2012. The metric to watch is POTUS approval rating. The final result will only slightly improve on the final approval rating, perhaps no more than 2 percentage points. The m ...

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • Miners eat into the Appalachians - msnbc.com ( ...
    Miners eat into the Appalachians msnbc.com (blog) Critics refer to this type of mining as 'mountaintop removal mining' which has destroyed 500 mountain peaks and at least 1200 miles of streams while leading to increased flooding. The Appalachians are some of the oldest mountains on Earth ...
  • Controversial mining continues in the Appalach ...
    Controversial mining continues in the Appalachians msnbc.com (blog) Critics refer to this type of mining as 'mountaintop removal mining' which has destroyed 500 mountain peaks and at least 1200 miles of streams while leading to increased flooding. The Appalachians are some of the oldest ...
  • Apple fights Greenpeace over dirty iCloud powe ...
    SlashGear Apple fights Greenpeace over dirty iCloud power report SlashGear “The Apple cloud is heavily powered by dirty energy, particularly coal and coal that is coming from mountain-top removal in Appalachia,” report author Gary Cook wrote. “It is certainly not what you would expect from a com ...
  • Suit claims ex-W.Va. strip mine polluting stre ...
    Suit claims ex-W.Va. strip mine polluting streams Daily Mail - Charleston by AP AP HUNTINGTON -- The owner of a reclaimed mountaintop removal mine site is being sued by environmental groups who claim untreated water discharges from the property are polluting streams. The Ohio Valley Environmenta ...
  • Suit claims ex-W.Va. strip mine polluting stre ...
    Suit claims ex-W.Va. strip mine polluting streams WOWK (AP) - The owner of a reclaimed mountaintop removal mine is being sued by environmental groups who claim discharges from the property are polluting streams. The Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, West Virginia Highlands Conservancy and the ...

Memeorandum

  • Romney Visits Empty Factory to Mock Obama (Jan ...
    Janet Hook / Washington Wire: Romney Visits Empty Factory to Mock Obama … LORAIN, Ohio — Mitt Romney, shadowing President Barack Obama on the campaign trail, went to the battleground state of Ohio to appear at a shuttered industrial warehouse to dramatize his complaints about the i ...
  • Fears Rise That Recovery May Falter in the Spr ...
    Annie Lowrey / New York Times: Fears Rise That Recovery May Falter in the Spring  —  WASHINGTON — Some of the same spoilers that interrupted the recovery in 2010 and 2011 have emerged again, raising fears that the winter's economic strength might dissipate in the spring.&n ...
  • Romney hires national security spokesman (Phil ...
    Philip Rucker / Washington Post: Romney hires national security spokesman  —  Mitt Romney has hired Richard A. Grenell, a veteran Republican communications strategist who served in the George W. Bush administration, as his national security and foreign policy spokesman, a campai ...
  • Task force reviews 'stand your ground' (CNN)
    CNN: Task force reviews ‘stand your ground’  —  (CNN) — George Zimmerman went into hiding amid a national uproar over the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin.  That seclusion ended last week when the Sanford, Florida, neighborhood watch volunteer turned himse ...
  • Don't Strand the Holocaust in History (Jonatha ...
    Jonathan S. Tobin / Commentary Magazine: Don't Strand the Holocaust in History  —  This evening, Jews in Israel and around the world will mark Yom HaShoah, the day of remembrance of the Holocaust.  For most, it will be a moment of mourning as well as an occasion to ponder t ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Keeping rats on the run
    On the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia, scientists aim to restore 100 million seabirds by ridding the territory of rodents, writes Clive Cookson. The effort will be the largest eradication campaign in history.The largest rodent eradication campaign in history is set to poison millions of r ...
  • A heavy-metal burden
    Global efforts to cut mercury pollution pose particular challenges for China – responsible for a quarter of the world’s emissions. Tan Siying reports.Mercury pollution is a global issue with China at its centre. The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is pushing hard to bring ...
  • Greening China's press corps
    Academics, officials, media figures and NGO representatives gathered in Beijing last week to discuss the past and future of Chinese environmental journalism. Zhang Yang listened in.“Environmental reporters should focus on establishing value systems, so that once they have the facts they ca ...
  • "The world's most important story"
    Guardian environment reporter Jonathan Watts has spent nine years in China covering everything from pollution protests to species extinction. About to leave for pastures new, he shares some parting thoughts.This is the text of a speech given by Jonathan Watts at the 2012 China Environmental Pres ...
  • Life on the roof of the world
    Yang Xiaohong and Fang Qianhua, winners of the “best science report” category at the 2012 China Environmental Press Awards, spent a month with scientists tracking species in the Everest Nature Reserve. chinadialogue features a slideshow of their photos.Two journalists from Southern M ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • The Science of Fox News: Why Its Viewers are t ...
    Authoritarian people have a stronger emotional need for an outlet like Fox, where they can find affirmation and escape factual challenges to their beliefs.
  • Michael Vick, Katrina Were Turning Points in A ...
    New Orleans Is it possible to deal on a daily basis with dog fighting, puppy mills, horse slaughter, baby seal clubbing, homeless pets, leghold-trapped wildlife, animal research, cockfighting and factory farming and still spread a message of hope and not despair? Yes if you are Wayne Pacelle, th ...
  • Sanford Holds Its Breath! Negroes Plot Uprisin ...
    Holiday had been right about the tension. One of the first people I meet scans me up and down and looks at my notebook. “Write something down for me,” he says. “Get the fuck out of here.” He’s an exception. The people stopping and shopping in the late afternoon ...
  • The Quiet Racism that Killed Trayvon Martin: R ...
    Crossposted on Tikkun Daily. by Josh Healey Before he became the latest and most-Tweeted victim of racial violence in America’s long, dirty history, Trayvon Martin was just another kid growing up in Miami. He was a high school junior, got A’s and B’s in his classes, planned to ...
  • Anti-Choice Medical Malpractice Shields Threat ...
    Written by Jessica Mason Pieklo for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. Among the new restrictions appearing in anti-abortion bills nationwide, it is the medical malpractice liability shields that ...

Threat Level

  • Judges Drive Truck Through Loophole in Supreme ...
    A federal judge in Iowa is considering sanctioning an agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration for concealing information that he had used warrantless GPS vehicle tracking to tail the alleged kingpin of a local drug ring.
  • Motorcycle Club’s Attorney Scoffs at FBI Asses ...
    A lawyer representing an alleged crime syndicate is crying foul over a Federal Bureau of Investigation assessment that a motorcycle gang trademarked its patch to prevent infiltration by undercover officers.
  • CISPA Isn’t ‘Son of SOPA’ (But That’s Not Sayi ...
    Like a lion in tall grass, legislation to bolster America’s defense against cyber-attacks has been lying in wait in congressional committees for years. But now that legislation is about to leap onto the congressional conveyor belt where bills become law. And, once again, internet activists ...
  • FBI: Motorcycle Gang Trademarked Logo to Keep ...
    We've always considered trademarking as a means to protect a company's intellectual property and to aide consumers in identifying trusted products and services. But on Tuesday, we stumbled on a novel use of intellectual-property law implemented by an alleged organized crime syndicate founded in ...
  • Broadcasters Demand Barry Diller Explain $20.5 ...
    Television networks seeking to dismantle a startup that delivers over-the-air broadcasts via the internet want to know what the hell Barry Diller, the chairman of the IAC/InterActiveCorp media empire, was thinking when his company invested $20.5 million in to a legally questionable startup call ...

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

Marler Blog

  • Another Salmonella Lawsuit Filed - Against Tac ...
    Download Complaint PDF For more information about 20 years of Salmonella Lawsuits, visit Marler Clark.
  • Marler Clark and Raw Milk, Like Oil and Water, ...
    Since 2005 Marler Clark, the Food Safety Law Firm, has had the honor of representing families who have been struck down by pathogens contained in raw milk.  Since then Marler Clark has also been at the forefront of informing families of the real risk of consuming raw milk.  As part of ...
  • Salmonella Bareilly Tainted Tuna Toll Hits 141
    A total of 141 persons infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Bareilly have been reported from 20 states and the District of Columbia.  21 ill persons have been hospitalized, and no deaths have been reported.  The number of ill persons identified in each state is as follows: A ...
  • E. coli found in Raw Milk, Cows, Poop and Peop ...
    Given this evidence, what will the proponents of raw milk say? Lynne Terry of the Portland Oregonian reports that lab tests confirmed today what Oregon health officials suspected: Raw milk from Foundation Farm near Wilsonville was contaminated with a deadly strain of E. coli.  The tests fo ...
  • It is time to Put Parnell Behind Bars!
    I have developed a friendship with many of Stewart Parnell’s victims of the Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) Salmonella outbreak of 2009.  Many of them attended a press conference in 2011, where they asked why after two years Parnell was still free?  Re-reading internal emails ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Official: Diesel sales jump, we ask "how high" ...
    Filed under: Car Buying, Diesel It may come as a shock, but diesel cars are doing well outside of their traditional European home. The just-released Mazda CX-5 shows that diesels are selling beyond expectations in Japan, but the real story is that we might be seeing the start of a golden era ...
  • Followup: GM battery lab explosion cost could ...
    Filed under: Safety, Technology, GM, Electric Last week, a fire broke out at the General Motors Technical Center battery research lab in Warren, Michigan. General Motors has since said the fire was caused by a battery that was being tested under "extreme stress." Engineers were trying to get ...
  • Report: More layoffs at Fisker; Delaware plant ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Sedan, Performance, Hirings/Firings/Layoffs, Plants/Manufacturing, Earnings/Financials, Fisker, Electric, Luxury Last we heard, Fisker Automotive was still "committed" to building the recently revealed Atlantic sedan at the former General Motors plant in Delaware. A few y ...
  • Report: Bob Lutz praises Leaf and Volt, says n ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Etc., Government/Legal, Hatchback, Chevrolet, GM, Electric Bob Lutz is not going to take attacks on the electric car lying down - the closest he'll come to that is doing push-ups on The Colbert Report. After spending a few of his Forbes columns laying into right-wing pund ...
  • Report: Toyota announces service campaign to f ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Wagon, Recalls, Toyota Toyota engineers have worked hard to get the emissions that come out of the tailpipe of the Prius V down to a low level, but that doesn't mean everything is copacetic with the car's exhaust system. To fix a known problem, Toyota has announced a serv ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Part 2: Tavis Smiley & Cornel West on Growing ...
    In part two of our interview, Tavis Smiley and Dr. Cornel West discuss growing up in working-class households. "I saw so much poverty growing up," says Smiley, who lived with 13 family members in a three-bedroom trailer and learned that even when he was not optimistic, he could be hop ...
  • Obama’s Policies: The Real Scandal in Cartagena
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign launched its first Spanish-language ads this week, just after returning from the Summit of the Americas. He spent three days in Colombia, longer than any president in U.S. history. The trip was marred, however, ...
  • VIDEO: "Sex, Race and Class" — Extended Interv ...
    Watch Amy Goodman’s complete interview with the pioneering activist, writer and political thinker Selma James. For six decades, Selma James has been on the front lines of working-class movements for women’s liberation and against racism. She launched the International Wages for Hous ...
  • Part 2: Father of Peace Studies, Johan Galtung ...
    In part two of our conversation with Johan Galtung, author of many books, including The Fall of the US Empire—And Then What? , he discusses Occupy Wall Street, which he considers "deeply American, in the most positive sense." He also examines why the United Nations’ responses t ...
  • The Long, Hot March of Climate Change
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan The Pentagon knows it. The world’s largest insurers know it. Now, governments may be overthrown because of it. It is climate change, and it is real. According to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, last month was the hottest March on r ...

Suzie-Q

  • Romney To Deliver Commencement At Anti-Gay Lib ...
    Think Progress By Igor Volsky on Apr 19, 2012 at 11:48 am Mitt Romney — who at an earlier point in his career had promised to advance the equality of gay and lesbian people — is scheduled to deliverthe Commencement address at Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University on May 12, an Evangelical Christian ...
  • Lilly Ledbetter Slams Mitt Romney, GOP On Fair ...
    Huffington Post Posted: 04/18/2012 4:05 pm By- Laura Bassett Lilly Ledbetter, the woman who famously sued her employer after discovering she was being paid less than her male colleagues and who inspired the first piece of legislation President Barack Obama signed upon entering office, fired back ...
  • ROMNEY LIES: Claims John Kerry Released 2 Year ...
    Think Progress By Judd Legum  on Apr 17, 2012 at 6:15 pm In a CNBC interview with Larry Kudlow to air later tonight, Mitt Romney defends his decision to release only two years of tax returns — both filed after he decided to run for President — by claiming that 2004 Democratic nominee John Kerry ...
  • Mitt Romney’s Tax Plan Is Still a Mathem ...
    Apr 16 2012, 6:42 PM ET The Atlantic Matthew O’Brien The last time we checked in on Mitt Romney’s tax plan, the numbers didn’t add up. Actually, there weren’t any numbers to add up. Instead, there was a not very plausible promise to make the numbers add up at a later date ...
  • Mitt Romney’s Tax Plan Is Still a Mathem ...
    Apr 16 2012, 6:42 PM ET The Atlantic Matthew O’Brien The last time we checked in on Mitt Romney’s tax plan, the numbers didn’t add up. Actually, there weren’t any numbers to add up. Instead, there was a not very plausible promise to make the numbers add up at a later date ...

Solari

  • Transcript of the 4.12.12 Precious Metals Mark ...
    A transcript of the April 12th Precious Metals Market Report with special guest Chris Powell of GATA  is available to Subscribers! From the transcript: Catherine: Franklin, I’d like you to introduce our topic. We’re talking tonight about why invest in a managed market, and before we bring Chris ...
  • Technology Extracts a Big Price From Americans ...
    By Ken Tysiac Americans’ infatuation with technology such as cellphones, cable TV, and satellite radio isn’t helping them fatten their bank accounts, according to a survey conducted for the AICPA by Harris Interactive for National Financial Literacy Month. Fifty-six percent of U.S. adults said ...
  • Lawmakers Consider Changing Tax Breaks on Reti ...
    By Lori Montgomery The painful trade-offs of tax reform came into sharper focus Tuesday as lawmakers for the first time began considering specific tax breaks to reduce or otherwise change, starting with laws that allow millions of Americans to avoid taxes while saving for retirement. Tax incen ...
  • Quote du Jour
    “Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything-you can’t conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.”  ...
  • Did Iceland Forgive the Majority of its Citize ...
    Posted by Michael Laprarie An unbelievable story, the source of which appeared to be a single Spanish-language news broadcast, made the blogosphere rounds yesterday: Iceland is forgiving nearly all of its citizens’ mortgage debt! According to the report, the government of Iceland “put politician ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • The Robot Revolution arrives, and the world ch ...
    Summary: The first signs of the robot revolution have appeared, a trend that will reshape our world — automation moving from manufacturing into the service industries. Economists see the evidence but are blinded by their biases. This post provides excerpts from a new book about the revolut ...
  • Some important articles. Mirrors in which we ...
    Summary:  Every society has rationality tokens.  Some have many; some few.  In some they are held by people who become leaders of their society; in some they’re held by outcasts.  As a nation evolves, its rationality tokens pass into new hands.  Here we look at America, seeking to find the ...
  • President Romney will prove an effective Presi ...
    Summary:  In July 2008 I forecast that McCain would win.  Earlier, in February, I predicted that Obama would be a weak president.  This election we’ll double down:  Romney will win, and prove an effective President.  Effective for the 1% who purchased his election; less so for us. “Y ...
  • President Romney will prove an effective Presi ...
    Summary:  In July 2008 I forecast that McCain would win.  Earlier, in February, I predicted that Obama would be a weak president.  This election we’ll double down:  McCain will win, and prove an effective President.  Effective for the 1% who purchased his election; less so for us. “Y ...
  • Fear not! America will not fall due to its ci ...
    Summary: Our government’s debt grows, imperiling not just its solvency but our very self-confidence in ourselves, and in our political regime. Can we reform before the end? Read this essay to learn the answer. And rejoice! Read and learn from the money paragraph of “Why Democracies F ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

  • Extending the Drone War
    From the WaPo: The CIA is seeking authority to expand its covert drone campaign in Yemen by launching strikes against terrorism suspects even when it does not know the identities of those who could be killed, U.S. officials said. Securing permission to use these “signature strikes” would allow t ...
  • Would ‘Plan B’ For Syria Require the USA to By ...
    Josh Rogin has a nice scoop about how the Obama administration is struggling to come up with a Plan B for Syria, should the current diplomatic push not result in a real let up in violence. New options are now being considered internally, including another discussion of setting up buffer zones in ...
  • Navy Shipbuilding: When You Add it All Up
    When the Navy released their FY2013 budget earlier this year, the reason cited for not providing a shipbuilding plan with the budget was a Force Structure Analysis being conducted by the Department. The FSA is basically a classified review of the force structure, and it was expected at the time ...
  • Fifth Year In A Row Iraq Ranked Most Dangerous ...
    The Committee to Protect Journalists released its yearly report on press freedom around the world. The report measures violence directed at, and the murder of, reporters, and whether those cases are prosecuted or not by authorities. For the fifth straight year, Iraq was ranked the worst country ...
  • Top of the Morning: Rhetoric of War in the Sud ...
    Top stories from DAWNS Digest. Omar al Bashir Effectively Declares War on South Sudan Yesterday, we noted how the African Union warned against the prevailing logic of war that is taking hold between Sudan and South Sudan. To that, we can add there is now a prevailing rhetoric of war, particul ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Romney Cookie Apology Coming In 3...2...1...
    Every time some candidate airs a negative ad, you can reliably turn on cable news and hear some "strategist" or other say, "This is going to be the most negative campaign in history!" But I'm still waiting for someone to say, "This is going to be the dumbest and most trivial campaign in history ...
  • Levon Helm, 1940-2012
    When I was a junior in high school, somebody gave me a videotape of The Last Waltz, Martin Scorsese's 1978 documentary about The Band. It was revelatory—not only hadn't I ever heard The Band before, it was the first time I heard many of the other artists who appeared in the film, like Van Morri ...
  • A New Kind of Gold Standard?
    In the latest issue of the magazine, I have a piece examining a strange and growing trend in some conservative circles—pushing states to adopt alternative currencies to the federal dollar. The basic concern is one you've probably heard from Ron Paul: The Federal Reserve can't be trusted, the na ...
  • Republicans Keeping Anti-Gay Views in the Closet
    As polls in favor of marriage equality trend upward, politicians are pushed into an awkward corner. The Prospect's Paul Waldman explained earlier this morning how the incentives just aren't there yet for Democrats to go out on a limb and support same-sex marriage; favoring civil unions probably ...
  • There's No Politics Like Show Politics
    Brought to us by The Thick of It and In The Loop creator Armando Ianucci and starring Julia-Louis Dreyfus as ditzy, vainglorious Vice President Selina Meyer, Veep, which premieres Sunday, is HBO's bid to break TV's long-standing jinx on shows about politics. And ... jinx, you ask? Hey, bub, wha ...

Buzzflash

  • Yes, There Is a Kindergarten Cop, And It's Not ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT It may have been a comic farce when Arnold Schwarzenegger played an undercover police man in the film "Kindergarten Cop." But on Friday, a 6-year-old Georgia girl was handcuffed, arrested and taken to a police station after throwing a tantrum in her k ...
  • The Real Danger to Obama Is Not Ted Nugent - I ...
    DEE EVANS FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Okay, I know it's, as some say, "silly season in politics" but I am highly disturbed that much of the mainstream media seems to be giving has-been rocker Ted Nugent a slap on the wrist for his vile, disgusting and very threatening comments about President Obam ...
  • Christian Right, Targeting Gay Kiss, Is At It ...
    BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Richard Hayne, a Santorum donor, is under fire from the Christian Right for allowing a photo of two young women kissing in his new Urban Outfitters catalog. The Broadway tune goes "Love Makes the World Go 'Round." For the Christian Right, "Controversial ...
  • Is Rick Santorum Trying to Abort a Romney Pres ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Although Rick Santorum claims to be anti-choice, he appears to be trying to abort a Romney victory in 2012. A fundraising letter for Santorum just showed up in Iowa -- after he withdrew from the GOP presidential race - declaring to supporters, ""It tr ...
  • The Hollow Nothing of Modern Politics
    ANN DAVIDOW FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT If William Shakespeare were alive today he'd be working on a new play called "Much Ado About Nothing, Part II. That is what our campaigns have come down to, a strident never-ending indictment of the system itself. In the sixties some political factions began ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • 173 Climate myths debunked and ready to tweet
    Here is a summary of global warming and climate change myths, 173 of them. The default order is sorted by recent popularity versus what science says. You can click each statement to get a more detailed description of the evidence against each myth. In the default format each item is ready to twe ...
  • Protein degradation revelation
    The mighty analytical technique of X-ray crystallography has been used to investigate the protein machinery that medical researchers say goes awry in uncontrolled or inaccurate degradation of cellular proteins. The research offers new clues on how cancer or Alzheimer’s disease might develo ...
  • In Search Of Schrodinger’s Cat
    John Gribbin has updated his classic book to demystify quantum mechanics for a new generation. The book, originally published in 1984 reminds us that Schrodinger didn’t like the probabilistic world his science had wrought. Indeed, the parable of Schrodinger’s Cat was created to lampo ...
  • Fragile Earth? There’s an app for that
    See the world change in front of your eyes with the Fragile Earth app for iPad. Essentially, it’s an interactive photo gallery that gives a bird’s-eye view of 73 natural and human locations around the world as they are now, and with a swipe, as they were before climate change, urbani ...
  • Holland T Ennyson
    I am a Brit but back in 1988 I worked and travelled as a student in the US. We rented a car and drove from the east coast to the west and back. We “did” 20+ states and after a near-miss car crash I was musing with my fellow traveller on what to do after [...]Holland T Ennyson is a po ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Domestic Fuels Protection Act Will Shift Cost ...
    The Domestic Fuels Protection Act of 2012 (H.R. 4345) and its companion bill, the Domestic Fuels Act of 2012 (S.2264) would create a broad exemption from liability for a number of favored interests: fuel producers, engine manufacturers and retailers of virtually all transportation fuels and fuel ...
  • Regulators Say No to More Fossil Fuel Power Ge ...
    After determining that the existing electricity supply can meet the state’s system needs through the year 2020, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) voted unanimously today to defer any new procurement of fossil fuel generation.read more
  • Georgia Agrees to Comply with “Motor Voter Act ...
    Georgia has agreed to make it easier for people who receive food stamps, Medicaid and other public assistance to register to vote, in a settlement of a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union and other groups. read more
  • 100,000 Endangered Species Condoms to Be Given ...
    The Center for Biological Diversity is marking Earth Day this Sunday by giving away 100,000 free Endangered Species Condoms around the country. The condoms arrived this week in the mailboxes of 1,200 volunteer distributors who will hand them out at hundreds of Earth Day events and more than 80 c ...
  • Salt Lake Move to Amend Organizers Project Vic ...
    11,400 Salt Lake City voters have signed a petition asking for a Constitutional Amendment that would say corporations are not people and money is not speech. Organizers from Move to Amend Salt Lake say the signatures will be sufficient for the issue to be placed on the November ballot, the first ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Two years After the BP Drilling Disaster, Gulf ...
    Jordan Flaherty On April 20, 2010, a reckless attitude towards the safety of the Gulf Coast by BP, as well as Transocean and Halliburton, caused a well to blow out 5,000 feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico. As the world watched in ...
  • The US and Iran Are Talking: Why Is the New Yo ...
    Robert Naiman At long last, the United States and Iran are engaged in serious talks about Iran's nuclear program. But instead of celebrating the fact that President Obama is keeping his promise to the people who voted for him to pursue ...
  • Bahrain : United States :: Syria : Russia
    Kate Gould A world power equips a dictatorship that kills, tortures, and imprisons unarmed protesters. No, it’s not only Russia’s relationship to Syria. It’s also the United States when it comes to Bahrain.Abdulhadi Al-Kha ...
  • Greenwashing Walmart
    Pratap Chatterjee Is Walmart going green? Mike Duke, the company’s CEO, says in a new 126 page report that the company is becoming more sustainable and responsible while “building meaningful, long-term change.” Activists d ...
  • Earth Day and Tar Sands Oil
    Dale Wiehoff In January of 1969 the Santa Barbara Channel was the site of an oil well blowout that still ranks today as the third-largest oil spill in U.S. waters, after the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico and the Exxon Valdez in Pr ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • Pattaya Mail
    It seems to start earlier every year. Pattaya’s water wars, better known as Songkran, traditionally began in earnest on April 13, running non-stop until the final offensive on the area’s official “wan lai” day, April 19. But each year, the water guns seem to come out earlier.
  • Water Wars: Why India and Pakistan Are Squarin ...
    As Pakistan's water shortages worsen, the country's disputes with neighboring India over control of the rivers that straddle their border are becoming more antagonistic -- and worrisome
  • Water Wars: Why India and Pakistan Are Squarin ...
    As Pakistan's water shortages worsen, the country's disputes with neighboring India over control of the rivers that straddle their border are becoming more antagonistic -- and worrisome
  • Water Wars: Why India and Pakistan Are Squarin ...
    As Pakistan's water shortages worsen, the country's disputes with neighboring India over control of the rivers that straddle their border are becoming more antagonistic -- and worrisome
  • Water Wars: Why India and Pakistan Are Squarin ...
    India's Wular Lake, a popular picnic and tourist spot nestled in the Kashmir Valley, is an unlikely site for conflict. But India's plan to build a structure on the Jhelum River at the mouth of the lake that will allow it to release water during the river's lean winter months has outr ...

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • The beautifully-paced rage of Mourid Barghouti ...
    Sarah Irving 19 April 2012 Mourid Barghouti’s I Was Born There, I Was Born Here is for anyone in your life who needs to understand the pain, the absurdity, the injustice, and the devastatingly predictable unpredictability of life for ordinary Palestinians.
  • Our day will come (and soon)
    Yousef M. Aljamal Nuseirat refugee camp 19 April 2012 Despite it all, hope is on the rainbow, writes Yousef M. Aljamal from Gaza, as his mother enjoys a long-awaited reunion with her family in the West Bank.
  • How California uni chief conflates real bigotr ...
    Dalia Almarina Berkeley 18 April 2012 University of California President Mark Yudof has double standards when it comes to on-campus criticism of Israeli policies.
  • "Present absentee" keeps fighting against Isra ...
    Tanzil Chowdhury al-Walaja 18 April 2012 Sheerin al-Araj, a resident of al-Walaja village, is fighting tooth and nail against Israel’s encroaching settlement projects and the wall, which both continue to rapidly confiscate more village land.
  • Gaza's Christians like "birds who will always ...
    Rami Almeghari Gaza City 17 April 2012 Despite common media depictions of Gaza as being under harsh, Islamist rule, Gaza-based Palestinian Christians emphasize the close ties between families regardless of religion.

The Wonk Room

  • ‘Community’ Open Thread: Buttered ...
    This post contains spoilers through the April 19 episode of Community. Over the years I’ve been watching Community, I’ve written a great deal on and off about Dean Pelton. Often, it’s been about the way the show’s handled his sexual orientation in the absence of another g ...
  • The Morning Pride: April 20, 2012
    Welcome to The Morning Pride, ThinkProgress LGBT’s daily round-up of the latest in LGBT policy, politics, and some culture too! Here’s what we’re reading this morning, but please let us know what stories you’re following as well. Follow us all day on Twitter at @TPEquality. - Today is the Day of ...
  • Why Medicare Premium Support Makes No Economic ...
    Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) Medicare reform plan — which would provide future seniors with vouchers to purchase health care coverage from private insurers — is predicated on the assumptions that Medicare costs are spiraling out of control and that private insurers would do a better ...
  • April 20 News: Climate Change Is Impacting Eur ...
    Our round-up of the latest news in climate and energy. Please post additional links below. The acceleration of climate change is stressing mountain plants in Europe and driving them to migrate to higher altitudes, according to a study released by US researchers. [AFP] California has had remarkab ...
  • Econ 101: April 20, 2012
    Welcome to ThinkProgress Economy’s morning link roundup. This is what we’re reading. Have you seen any interesting news? Let us know in the comments section. You can also follow ThinkProgress Economy on Twitter. Regulators bowed to bank pressure and relaxed new regulations on derivatives trading ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Canadian Hunger-Striker Against harper's Draco ...
    Obert Mandondo is putting his health on the line to protest harper's idiotic "Jail More Canadians So That stephen harper Can Has Boner" law. Canada Crime Bill C10 hunger striker concerned about Parliament’s “silent treatment” (via Canadian Progressive World) ...
  • These Times We Live In
    Riot police versus gospel-singing peaceniks. Who thinks some of those authoritarian youngsters regretted that they weren't allowed to truncheon those sweet lil' hippies? This is what we're up against people. A system so absolutely insane that it either can't see how ridiculous it is to call a p ...
  • Doctor to Pirate
    I (again) have no time to say anything today. So here is some brilliance:
  • Two Books
    It's been a busy day and won't end until 9 pm. or so. So, here's a quick post about two books I'm reading. First is Lawrence Hill's The Book of Negroes. I'm finding it very moving, but I'm not sure if that's because the subject matter is such that almost any competent writer describing the trag ...
  • harper and Obama: Loons of a Feather
    Jesus Christ, even the President of Colombia (awash with all sorts of US military toys) says that the "War on Drugs" has been a failure. Latin American leaders at the Summit of the Americas were united in complaining that this drug war has been, and continues to be an enormously costly drain on ...

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End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Focus on military spending
    April 17th was the Second Annual Global Day of Action on Military Spending, which brought together peace activists from all over the world in an effort to reduce global arms budgets.
  • Vimy Ridge and national identity
    Radio host John Moore comments on the claim that the Battle of Vimy Ridge is fundamental to Canada's national identity.
  • The Minister who wasn’t there
    Andrew Coyne lays out a devastating critique of Peter MacKay's failure to present honest cost estimates for the planned F-35 purchase.
  • The nine steps of DND boondoggles
    A guide to the nine standard stages through which a typical DND procurement boondoggle proceeds during the life of the program.
  • Pundits on the F-35 fiasco
    Prominent media commentators and pundits weigh in on the F-35 procurement fiasco.

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Congress Gets Rough Treatment At Supreme Court
    April 2, 2012 Associated Press By AP “Even the Supreme Court thinks Congress is lame.” –KTRN The Supreme Court left little doubt during last week’s marathon arguments over President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul that it has scant faith in Congress’ abili ...
  • Japan’s Okinawa Island – The Healthiest Place ...
    April 2, 2012 Oddity Central By Sumitra “It’s really not that odd. The people living on Okinawa eat real food and have no stress – thus they live long lives. We can all learn a lot by studying the people living on this island.” –KTRN I used to think that there were ...
  • Secrets of Prometheus Film Leaked!
    April 2, 2012 Info Wars By Info Wars “According to Alex Jones, the new film Prometheus has a hidden global elite agenda.”  –KTRN No, we’re not going to give away any SPOILERS here; instead we will reveal the agenda behind Prometheus, the new film by legendary director Ridley Sc ...
  • FDA Discounts More Than a Million Signatures O ...
    April 2, 2012 Info Wars By Kurt Nimmo “So apparently more than a million signatures is not enough for the FDA.” –KTRN The FDA is with Monsanto and agribusiness. They don’t want you to know what’s in the food you eat. On Tuesday, the FDA reached a deadline for the “Just Label It ...
  • Junk Food, Fast Food Proven to Cause Depression
    April 2, 2012 Natural Society By Mike Barrett “If you already don’t have enough reasons to stop eating garbage, here is another one.” –KTRN According to recent research conducted by scientists from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and the University of Granada ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Pakistan To Help Extricate Than Reinforce ISAF
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comBy Brig Asif H. RajaThursday, April 19th, 2012 by Asif Haroon Raja   Among the seven agreements made by Gen Musharraf with Washington in September 2001, free passage of NATO containers from Karachi Port to Afghanist ...
  • BP faces legal action over Russian oil spills
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comBP has stepped into a new row over oil spills – this time in Russia – less than 24 hours after announcing it was going to pay out $8bn in America for polluting beaches with the Deepwater Horizon blowout. Shares in TNK-BP ...
  • Vermont calls on Congress to overturn Citizens ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comVermont became the third state on Thursday to call on the U.S. Congress to overturn the Supreme Court’s controversial ruling in Citizens United v. FEC. The Vermont House passed the resolution by a 92-40 vote. The V ...
  • Pet Grooming
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comPet Grooming By WashingtonsBlogwashingtonsblog.com Bonus animal clip: Click here for more animals. View the original article at Washingtons BlogCheck out all the best #altnews at DarkPolitricks.com
  • Jolie Film a Propaganda Flop
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comBy Veterans TodayThursday, April 19th, 2012 Angelina Jolie’s film interrupted in Moscow   Angelina Jolie’s film In the Land of Blood and Honey has already flopped in Serbia the film’s premiere attr ...

Dandelion Salad

  • BP Cover-up ‘They Knew.’ by Greg P ...
    by Greg Palast Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.gregpalast.com Exclusive for EcoWatch.org Thursday, 19. April, 2012 Two years before the Deepwater Horizon blow-out in the Gulf of Mexico, another BP off-shore rig suffered a nearly identical blow-out, but BP concealed the first one from the U.S ...
  • Exclusive: The self as the ultimate source of ...
    by Rocket Kirchner Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Rocket Kirchner (blog) Rocket Kirchner (youtube channel) April 19, 2012 It has become quite fashionable these days to state that matters of faith in the divine is the ultimate source of all tyranny. When all is said and done it may seem a logica ...
  • Dahr Jamail: Gulf seafood deformities alarm sc ...
    Dandelion Salad Apr 17, 2012 by AlJazeeraEnglish It’s almost two years since BP’s oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Now, scientists say they have found deformities among seafood and a great decline in the numbers of marine life. Dahr Jamail reports from New Orleans. Gulf seafood defor ...
  • Michael Hudson: Debt-ridden Countries IMF&#821 ...
    with Michael Hudson Featured Writer Dandelion Salad http://michael-hudson.com April 18, 2012 Apr 18, 2012 by CapitalAccount Welcome to Capital Account. European banks are under pressure to raise capital and the Euro could collapse triggering panic in financial markets and another great depressio ...
  • The European Stabilization Mechanism, Or How t ...
    by Ellen Brown Featured Writer Dandelion Salad webofdebt.com April 18, 2012 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 ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • 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.

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Conscientious objector Noam Gur sentenced to p ...
    "I refuse to join an army that has, since it was established, been engaged in dominating another nation, in plundering and terrorizing a civilian population that is under its control." IOA... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • Raed Salah: Britain’s duty to the Palestinian ...
    The Palestinian issue can only be resolved if Israel and its supporters in Britain abandon the dogmas of supremacy and truly adhere to the universal values of justice and fairness. Britain has a... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Amira Hass: IDF will go on keeping the Jordan ...
    The only excessive stupidity of which deputy brigade commander Lt. Col. Shalom Eisner can be accused is hitting a young blond man in front of a camera. Other commanders and their subordinates will... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
  • Rashid Khalidi: Tolerance of whom?
    The Simon Wiesenthal Center is planning to build a Museum of Tolerance on the Muslim Mamilla cemetery. This project is a grotesque attempt to erase the well-established history of a continuous Muslim... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Daniel Levy: Of herrings and elephants – Benny ...
    Benny Morris: "Of course. Ben-Gurion was a transferist. He understood that there could be no Jewish state with a large and hostile Arab minority in its midst… There are circumstances in history that... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Virginia Tech Spin-Off Company Miserware Offer ...
    MiserWare, a spin-off company of Virginia Tech's College of Engineering, is launching a free product that allows companies or individuals to measure their carbon footprint in terms of total power usage.
  • Kidney Care Reports Don't Line Up with Care Bi ...
    1) Information on a mandatory Medicare form regarding the care that older chronic kidney disease patients receive doesn't match the actual care that is billed by physicians. 2) Better accuracy and consistency are needed when clinicians complete this form and submit it to Medicare.
  • Quick Sports Physicals Not Enough to Ensure Te ...
    Parenting a teenage athlete is a juggling act--monitoring homework, keeping up with practice and training schedules, weeks packed with competitions or games. It may seem like a never-ending "to do" list and that yearly sports physical can seems like just one more thing in a busy parent's life. B ...
  • Body Cooling Cuts In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest P ...
    Forced body cooling known as therapeutic hypothermia has reduced in-hospital deaths among sudden cardiac arrest patients nearly 12 percent between 2001 and 2009, according to a Mayo Clinic study being presented at the upcoming American Academy of Neurology 2012 Annual Meeting in New Orleans. The ...
  • Primary Seat Belt Laws Mean Even High-Risk Tee ...
    Teen drivers who live in states with "secondary enforcement" seat belt laws are less likely to stay buckled up than in "primary enforcement" states.

Natural Health News

  • Sunlight Plus Lime Juice Makes Drinking Water ...
    How about a twist of lime with that glass of water? While many people enjoy a slice of lime or lemon with a nice cold glass of water, most likely they’re not aware that a new study shows that adding lime juice to water that’s been treated with a solar disinfection system can actually remove harm ...
  • More Evil Monsanto Mischief—They Threaten Mom ...
    Strangers came inside her house with weapons, ordering her “not to screw with the soybeans.” They even phoned her, threatening the life of her children. But it didn’t stop Sofia Gatica, who lost her baby to kidney failure, and who was spearheading an anti-Monsanto movement with other mothers of ...
  • Why Is Fast Food Saltier in the U.S.?
    A study on sodium content in fast foods around the world has exposed a salty truth: fast foods in the U.S. tend to be saltier than their counterparts in other countries, even when the foods come from the same restaurant chain. For example, Chicken McNuggets sold in the U.S. contained 2.5 times m ...
  • The Diet Myth that Is Destroying the Health of ...
    Diet myths abound in the health industry, but one of the biggest myths of all is the idea that a calorie is a calorie, no matter where you get it from, or what the scientific compound of it is.  If you care about your health and are truly working to keep your weight down, then you need to k ...
  • How Hot Does Water Need to Be When You Wash Yo ...
    When you’re talking about hot water and hand washing, very few people realize that the water temperature recommended to kill bacteria on your hands is way too hot to be comfortable to use. So what do you do if you’re really trying to get your hands not only clean, but sanitized? Luckily, there’s ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Kony 2012: Social Media Activists as Norm Ent ...
    by Roger Alford by Roger Alford I generally subscribe to a constructivist theory of international relations. On many issues I do not think state interests are fixed and this fluidity allows a space for norm entrepreneurs to alter state preferences. With any successful campaign, specific actors ...
  • Kony 2012: IHL 2.0: Is There a Role for Social ...
    by Anne Herzberg [Anne Herzberg is the Legal Advisor at NGO Monitor, a Jerusalem-based research institution. Her post is based on a forthcoming paper (2012), presented at the “Old Laws, New Technologies Conference” sponsored by the Hebrew University Minerva Center for Human Rights and the ICRC ...
  • Kony 2012: The Social, the Media, and the Acti ...
    by Beth Karlin [Beth Karlin is the Program Director of the Transformational Media Lab within the Center for Unconventional Security Affairs (CUSA) as well as a Research Associate at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) and a doctoral student in th ...
  • Links List at Lawfare of US General Counsel Sp ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson In case anyone finds it useful, over at Lawfare I have posted up links all in one place to the leading speeches by the US government’s senior national security lawyers on targeted killing, hypothetical drone programs, covert action, and related national ...
  • Kony 2012: Diverging Trajectories: Social Medi ...
    by Mark Kersten [Mark Kersten is a PhD candidate in International Relations at the London School of Economics and author of the blog Justice in Conflict. You can find him on Twitter @MarkKersten] It is widely accepted wisdom that social media is radically transforming how we understand the wor ...

Public News Service

  • Report Recommends Mud Pies for Earth Day
    Report Recommends Mud Pies for Earth Day PHOENIX - Dirt is good, a new report says - especially for children. The National Wildlife Federation report makes that case by highlighting the benefits of letting children get messy outside - and its release coincides with Earth Day activities in Ariz ...
  • New Study Links Autism With the Typical Americ ...
    New Study Links Autism With the Typical American Diet PHOENIX, Ariz. - The epidemic of autism in children may be linked to what they eat, suggests a study recently reported in the journal "Clinical Epigenetics." An unhealthy diet interferes with the body's ability to eliminate toxic chemicals, i ...
  • April is National STD Awareness Month
    April is National STD Awareness Month PHOENIX - A major problem with sexually transmitted diseases is that many people don't know they have them. April is STD Awareness Month, when public health agencies and health-care providers are urging sexually-active people to GYT - Get Yourself Tested. ...
  • Cuatro estados lanzan esfuerzo latino para sal ...
    Cuatro estados lanzan esfuerzo latino para salvar el Río Colorado PHOENIX - Un Nuevo grupo de 13 mil latinos de cuatro estados del Suroeste está cada vez más preocupado por el desequilibrio creciente que hay entre la demanda y el abasto de agua del Río Colorado. La organizaci ...
  • Four-state Launch for Latino Effort to Save Co ...
    Four-state Launch for Latino Effort to Save Colorado River PHOENIX – A new advocacy group is raising concerns about the growing imbalance of water use and supply from the Colorado River. Made up of of 13,000 Latinos in Southwestern states, Nuestro Rio (Spanish for "our river") supports act ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • 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 ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • This Day In History – April 20
    1534 – Jacques Cartier begins the voyage during which he discovers Canada and Labrador. 1657 – Freedom of religion is granted to the Jews of New Amsterdam (later New York City). 1775 – American Revolutionary War: the Siege of Boston begins, following the battles at Lexington and Concord. 1836 – ...
  • NATO’s Slow Genocide in Libya: Syria is Next
    What the world has to look forward to if NATO and the UN gets its way in Syria. by Tony Cartalucci April 19, 2012 – While Qatari government propaganda outlet Al Jazeera is busy whitewashing the NATO-led terrorist take-over of Libya with “documentaries” like “Gaddafi: The ...
  • 1942 Blueprints For World Government Document ...
    We have no Idea how authentic any of this is… Seems good though. Passing it along anyway. Andrew Puhanic, Contributor Activist Post The Campaign for World Government (A Globalist backed institution) created a manifesto in 1942 for how a World Government is to be formed. Written by Rosika S ...
  • Fed Release Absurdly Redacted – 513 page ...
       CNBC The Federal Reserve released 513 pages of previously unseen transcripts of policy meetings that took place between 2007 and 2010—and most of them are so heavily redacted that they elicit laughter. Take the entry from March 10, 2008. It begins with these words. CHAIRMAN BERNANKE: Goo ...
  • Levon Helm, co-founder of The Band, dead at 71
    (CNN) — Levon Helm, the drummer, multi-instrumentalist and singer for The Band who kept the band’s heart for more than three decades, died “peacefully” Thursday afternoon, according to his record label, Vanguard Records. He was 71. “He was surrounded by family, frie ...

The Air Vent

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

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • BranchOut raises additional $25M for professio ...
    BranchOut, a professional networking app built on top of Facebook, announced today that it raised $25 million in a Series C round lead by Mayfield Fund. The app lets users organize their professional connections, see which friends have worked at … Continue reading →
  • Facebook career postings: engineering, D.C., m ...
    Engineering positions, a public policy manager job in Washington, D.C., as well as marketing and account staff positions were posted this week on Facebook’s Careers page. On LinkedIn, Facebook posted positions for various account management and sales staff. Posts added this week on Faceboo ...
  • Facebook hires: public policy, engineering, le ...
    Greg Mauer is Facebook’s new director of public policy, according to LinkedIn. He was formerly the vice president of corporate public affairs at UPS. Facebook’s  LinkedIn feed also noted several hires in user operations and other related departments. The company’s Careers page noted ...
  • Facebook establishes Preferred Marketing Devel ...
    Facebook today officially introduced its Preferred Marketing Developer program with 141 new partner companies. The PMD program combines the Preferred Developer Consultant and Marketing API programs to create a unified certification process for companies that build marketing tools on top … ...
  • New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: ...
    The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities across social and mobile application platforms. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at: Agency Sacks and The Affluence Collaborative, W3i, SponsorPay, Spr ...

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ReDress News

  • Israel's settler-officers in the glare of publ ...
    Uri Avnery examines the incident in which an Israeli skullcap-wearing officer, Lt-Col Shalom Eisner, launched an unprovoked and brutal attack on a young Danish peace activist, and argues that Eisner, a deputy brigade commander, is not just the quintessential army officer but the quintessential I ...
  • What do Breivik and Netanyahu have in common?
    Alan Hart argues that among the things that unite Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin is "mania of victimhood": for Breivik insane fears about the consequences for Norway of immigration and multiculturalism, and for Netanyahu an obsession with Iran which, i ...
  • Intolerance in the USA's "sunshine state" of F ...
    Lawrence Davidson analysis the chronic intolerance inherent in the US State of Florida, at the core of which lie the Cuban American and Jewish communities, which "form around repugnant ideological cores that then come to characterize their very identity".
  • Good for Guenter Grass! Everyone and his dog n ...
    Stuart Littlewood views the "squawks and screeches" emanating from Israel in protest at German poet Guenter Grass's poem on the threat Israel poses to the world, and reminds us of a couple of pertinent facts: that Israel is the only nuclear state in the Middle East and that it refuses to forgo t ...
  • Pastor John Hagee and his deadly million
    Lawrence Davidson argues that US Pastor John Hagee and his followers, who believe in the divine creation of the state of Israel, are as delusional as people who once believed in the reality of Zeus and his Olympian clan but could one day act as cheerleaders for the ethnic cleansing and mass murd ...

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

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

Afro Spear

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • Misguided Scheme from NYT's Friedman
    If Friedman had any journalistic integrity, he would have declared that today's extremist Republican Party has become the chief threat to the nation's well-being -- and indeed the planet's survival. He would say that only the decisive defeat of this Ayn Rand radicalism offers a pathway to the fu ...
  • The Cosmic Story: Taurus New Moon & EarthDay 2012
    Listen to your bit of Earth this weekend. Visit a garden, a window-box, a forest, a mountain or a farm; go to a lake, the ocean, a river or stream. Smell and taste the air which is full of Spring here in the north and Fall in the southern hemisphere. Open your senses and your heart and ask ...
  • Attacks on RT and Assange reveal much about th ...
    Much is revealed by these media attacks on Assange and RT -- not about Assange or RT but about their media critics. We yet again find, for instance, the revealing paradox that nothing prompts media scorn more than bringing about unauthorized transparency for the U.S. government.
  • L.A. City Council Housing Committee Unanimousl ...
    The L.A. City Council's Housing, Community Economic and Development (HCED) Committee unanimously voted on April 16, 2012 in support of a motion to prohibit landlords from demanding that their tenants pay their rent only online.
  • The fast and furious Sunni revenge
    The unruly waves of that noxious Arab Spring never had a chance of disturbing the placid waters of the Gulf. The arrival of the Fast White Man Formula 1 circus -- a spectacular public relations operation -- proves that the GCC is as "normal" as an Arab prince swinging through Monte Carlo with a ...

Switchboard

  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Smart Policies Help Create Clean-Energy Jobs i ...
    Dylan Sullivan, Energy Advocate, Chicago In Environmental Entrepreneurs’ latest clean-energy jobs report, released yesterday, there’s good news for Ohio’s workers and for the state’s unemployed. (E2 is an NRDC affiliate.) Sin ...
  • A friend's manifesto for free-market sustainab ...
    Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC   As many readers have probably noticed, there are those who now contend that planning walkable, green communities is a big-government sponsored, gross violation of your propert ...
  • 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 ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • More Levon
    Will Hermes Charlie Pierce Robbie Robertson and Garth Hudson visit/react The Guardian Pitchfork I endorse Erik’s general position on The Band and Music From Big Pink, extraordinary records that remain rich listening experiences after at least two decades of frequent listening. Stage Fright ...
  • Levon
    RIP. Nice Times obituary. Also, please don’t smoke.
  • F-35 and What Not
    I talked Afghanistan and naval procurement policy with Alyona last night. The latter starts around 5:35. And if you listen closely around the 4:30 mark you can hear my daughters screaming at each other.
  • ACA Second-Guessing, From the Right
    Jim Webb gives us a familiar story: Webb voted for the law, but also for more than a dozen GOP-offered amendments to it. “If you were going to do something of this magnitude, you have to do it with some clarity, with a clear set of objectives from the White House,” added Webb, who opted [...]
  • Public Ignorance of the Supreme Court
    That only about a quarter of the public can name the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is not surprising. One implication of this, given the speculation that will surround the forthcoming ACA decision, is that whatever the Supreme Court does will probably have less effect on the presidential el ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Law students derive drama from miscarriage of ...
    As part of a class titled Lawyers and Legal Systems and Their Social Context, students at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law researched and wrote a play called (IN)JUSTICE for Michael Austin, based on the case of a Baltimore man sentenced to life in prison for murder and ...
  • Judge sends gender bias case against CIGNA to ...
    A Massachusetts federal judge granted the company's motion to compel arbitration based on its mandatory arbitration clause. In so doing, he ruled that a pattern-or-practice claim is a method of proving an unlawful discrimination claim in a judicial class action.
  • Former AGs debate targeted killings at ABA panel
    At an American Bar Association roundtable discussion April 19, former U.S. attorneys general Michael Mukasey, Alberto Gonzales, Dick Thornburgh and Benjamin Civiletti were asked how they used their old post as an effective bully pulpit.
  • Florida raises questions about BP settlement
    The details of a proposed $7.8 billion settlement with BP PLC in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill litigation have appeased numerous critics, but Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi continues to raise concerns about whether the deal benefits all the affected residents in her state.
  • Fourth Circuit rains on appeal of convicted Bu ...
    A split panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has affirmed counterfeiting convictions despite the defendants' claim that numerous prosecutorial misstatements at the trial were prejudicial, requiring a new trial.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

  • ObamaCare Will Save $42.8 Billion for Taxpayer ...
    According to the report, the program saved $202 million in its first year in nine metropolitan statistical areas - a reduction of 42 percent in costs and, as the program expands under the Affordable Care Act and earlier law, it could save up to $42.
  • The Next Greta Garbo
    Meet the Swedish-born actress Ottiliana Rolandsson, Ph.D. We're talking about why she moved from Sweden to USA, about her acting career and how she stays fit.
  • Conservatives Step Forward to 'Bring Big' Chan ...
    '(Taxpayers) don't realize how much waste is out there,' Turgeon says, adding that most of the cuts involve things that aren't 'going to touch the classroom.'
  • Spring 2012 Trends Journal Provides Hard Facts ...
    The future is coming at us with so much sound and fury that alarms should be blaring, 'Danger! Danger!' Instead, the word from Presidents, Prime Ministers and Wall Street is, 'The worst is over, better times are ahead.'
  • Eviction and Forcible Relocation of Ashraf Res ...
    The residents are left with an option to be killed or to leave their home and the city they have built with their own energy and resources for quarter of a century to go to a prison called Liberty without humanitarian minimums.

environment 360

  • U.S.-Based First Solar to Close German Factory ...
    First Solar, Inc., the U.S.’s biggest solar manufacturer, will lay off 2,000 workers and close its German factory, citing what the company called fundamental changes to the industry and “deteriorating market conditions” in Europe. The Arizona-based company, which had been the world’s leading man ...
  • As Threats to Biodiversity Grow, Can We Save W ...
    With soaring human populations and rapid climate change putting unprecedented pressure on species, conservationists must look to innovative strategies — from creating migratory corridors to preserving biodiversity hotspots — if we are to prevent countless animals and plants from heading to extin ...
  • Destructive Emerald Ash Borer Has Edged Closer ...
    The emerald ash borer, an invasive beetle that has destroyed millions of ash trees from the U.S. Midwest to western New York over the last decade, has been found east of the Hudson River for the first time, the closest the pest has comes to the forests of New England. New York environmental offi ...
  • Majority of Americans Link Extreme Weather and ...
    More than two-thirds of U.S. adults believe global warming made several recent extreme weather events even worse, according to a new survey. According to the report, released by the Yale Project on Climate Change Communications and George Mason University’s Center for Climate Change Communicatio ...
  • New Solar Panel System Could Double as Tinted ...
    A German startup has developed a new type of lightweight solar panel its developers say can be integrated into the design of buildings and even used in electricity-producing tinted windows. Designed by Dresden-based Heliatek, the technology utilizes small, organic molecules in the production of ...

Red Ice Creations

  • How would you sound on Mars?
    Astronauts on Mars would probably speak with each other on the surface through radio links — but if they were to pick up voices or sounds transmitted through Martian air, would they sound different? Acoustics experts say they would.
  • Quantum Computer Built Inside a Diamond
    Diamonds are forever -- or, at least, the effects of this diamond on quantum computing may be. A team that includes scientists from USC has built a quantum computer in a diamond, the first of its kind to include protection against "decoherence" -- noise that prevents the computer from functionin ...
  • Google Gets Patent for Using Background Noise ...
    Google, on Tuesday, was awarded a patent for "advertising based on environmental conditions." In other words, Google has patented the technique of using environmental factors gathered through a device’s sensors to target ads at users. "When determining what ads to serve to end users, the environ ...
  • An Easter Gift from Ken Humphreys: "Resurrecti ...
    It is therefore, perhaps, quite shocking that the biblical statements that purport to support the reversal of the most certain of laws - that the dead stay dead - amounts, in toto, to less than 600 words. The "conquest of death" rests upon the evidence of rather fewer words than the text of a Mc ...
  • Israel causes $66 million worth of damage to E ...
    The European Commission has released a document that lists projects it funded that were destroyed or damaged by the Israel Defence Forces between May 2001 and October 2011. The list documents 82 such instances, amounting to a monetary loss of 49.2 million euro, 30 million of which came directly ...

Russia Today

  • Vietnam's new war: Incurable mystery virus kil ...
    Hanoi has asked the World Health Organization for help to cure a virulent disease affecting children. Symptoms include blistering on hands, feet and mouths accompanied by high fever and eventual organ failure. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Landing aborted as Australian pilot was busy t ...
    Distracted by his mobile phone, a Jetstar pilot forgot to lower the aircraft's landing gear on approach to Singapore’s Changi Airport. He pulled up only 120 meters above the ground and landed his A320 with 220... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Moscow extends helping hand to NATO - strings ...
    NATO is to get more help from Russia in the Afghan war. At a ministerial meeting in Brussels, the sides discussed expanding the vital transit of military cargo to Afghanistan through Russian territory. But on what terms? Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Pressure rising: US calls for tougher measures ...
    While Damascus and the UN have signed an agreement on the terms of the UN monitoring mission in Syria, the US has called for tougher sanctions against the Assad regime, including a global arms embargo. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Sleazy business: CISPA ‘pushed by spy & tech c ...
    With the House of Representatives set to vote on the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) next week, David Seaman, the host of “The DL Show”, tells RT why Google and Facebook won’t help Americans to... Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

  • Here’s another one for ANZAC Day…
    So, it was on or just before ANZAC Day four years ago, the last veteran of Gallipoli died.   And I truly do get a bit sad and angry, betimes, when these guys are held up as a reason FOR more wars, more militarism, more police state bullshit.  Sometimes I choke when singing  Eric Bogle’s [...]
  • Coddling the Pentagon troops in their Israeli ...
    Oh the Poor Pentagon! They are now involved in their ‘scandals’ from Colombia to Afghanistan to Palestine-Israel. These Pentagon troops have been killing kids (Sgt. Robert Bales and comrades), cavorting with prostitutes, butchering up live goats (torture of animals) and laughing and ...
  • The role of the IMF
  • I Hate Cops!
    Remember all those idiot Ron Paul loving Libertarian fascist assholes telling us in Occupy how cops were supposedly part of our 99% crowd? Here is another song by Wally Pleasant titled I Hate Cops …He sure got that one right!
  • America the Sick has many in US wanting the Lo ...
    The Pentagon tried to get the Los Angeles Times to not publish the photos of American soldiers posing with mutilated Afghan soldiers’ bodies while gloating sickly over their kills. Yes, the Pentagon always tries to stage manage and censor information so that most Americans stay ill informe ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Debunker Related Excerpts from and Review of ...
    Released 2/26/12, 9/11 Truther The Fight for Peace, Justice and Accountability starts off with a past aticle by author Jon Gold, which serves as a definition of the book's title:So what is a "9/11 Truther”? As I said, it's kind of hard to spin the word "Truth," but the "debunkers" and "media" ha ...
  • Two criticisms of the Harrit et al paper that ...
    The vast majority of debunker responses to the discovery of active thermitic material over the past three years have been one of the following mantras: "Paint!", "Peer-review!" and "Chain of custody!". Dr James Millette's report on the red/gray chips has apparently given the "Paint!" mantra new ...
  • Oystein's Contamination Denial
    The MEK test in the Active Thermitic Material ... paper was important in that it established that the aluminium in the red/gray chips is in elemental form consistent with the thermite hypothesis, rather than aluminosilicate form consistent with the paint hypothesis. JREFer Oystein is skeptical. ...
  • Tangled Webs - NIST and WTC7
    ------------------------------------------------ According to the official explanation the collapse of WTC7 came about from the expansion of a steel beam leading to the progressive failure of the entire structure. However, analysis of the building plans show that this already dubious explanati ...
  • Project Truth (WTC) - Sip 2.5 Cognitive Dissonance
    Related: Cognitive Dissonance Meets 9/11 Truth AE911Truth - Psychologists on coping with 9-11 truth. Many people subconsciously make the mistake of only seeing the issues concerning 9/11 in black and white, as opposed to shades of gray. This is known as the black-or-white fallacy. In this c ...

Fooducate

  • How Hard is it to be Vegan?
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! More and more we read about the health benefits of a plant based diet. You know, eat less meat, consume plenty of fresh vegetables and fruit, get your protein from legumes and such. About 7 million Americans ...
  • Food and the Brain: Hunger Satisfaction
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! This is a guest blog post by Jennifer Lee, Ph.D. The regulation of how much we eat and drink is a constant battle for many of us.  Our brains and bodies use a combination of signals to indicate “fullness”: se ...
  • 5 Cheap, In-Season Foods for your Health
    New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! We all know that eating fresh fruits and vegetables is an investment in keeping our bodies healthy. According to Clare McKindley, a clinical dietitian at University of Texas MD Anderson ...
  • Your Favorite Gluten Free Foods Are…?
    New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! The Gluten Free product category has been booming in recent years, reaching close to $3 Billion in sales last year. Although less than 1% of Americans suffer from Celiac disease, 5-10% ...
  • 4 Examples of Marketing Through Nutrition Labels
    New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! This is a guest blog post by Richard Perlmutter, MS I’d like to show you what food companies are doing to improve the nutrition labeling characteristics of their products. Having ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

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

Greg Palast

  • BP Cover-up 'They Knew.'
    by Greg Palast – Exclusive for EcoWatch.org Thursday, 19. April, 2012 Two years before the Deepwater Horizon blow-out in the Gulf of Mexico, another BP off-shore rig suffered a nearly identical blow-out, but BP concealed the first one from the U.S. regulators and Congress. This week, EcoWatc ...
  • Billionaire Ballot Bandits - I've caught'em
    Karl Rove has you by the ballots.  With a $200 million war chest from a coven of billionaires, don't count on getting your vote counted. There's only one thing to stop him:  A COMIC BOOK. If we can get just $10,190 in the next 14 days, the nation’s top elections-heist investigators can publish ...
  • Cops beat our cameraman ZD Roberts
    [New York 1 a.m Sunday]   Our photographer ZD Roberts was just beaten by cops @OWS. Thrown down, hair grabbed and slammed with nightsticks - while Zach yelling "I'm PRESS!" trying to show badge. Cops berserk. Zach following protest path tho I'm trying to get him to come in with film. He cannot b ...
  • The Fukushima story you didn't hear on CNN
    "Completely and Utterly Fail in an Earthquake" by Greg Palast for FreePress.org I've seen a lot of sick stuff in my career, but this was sick on a new level. Here was the handwritten log kept by a senior engineer at the nuclear power plant: Wiesel was very upset. He seemed very nervous. V ...
  • BP Settlement Sells Out VictimsDeal buries evi ...
    by Greg Palast for TheMudflats Following the Deepwater Horizon explosion, Greg Palast led a four-continent investigation of BP PLC for Britain's television series Dispatches. From 1989-91, Palast directed the investigation of fraud charges in the Exxon Valdez grounding for Alaska Native villag ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • Autism Society of America Displays Inaccurate ...
    Managing Editor's Note: There has been a thread on FB of parents posting photographs of their children who were not born with autism. They run (with parental permission) at the end of this post. Perhaps ASA needs visuals to understand?...
  • Autism and Nutrition
    By Josie Nelson We know that dietary interventions are an important part of the healing equation and they often improve the quality of life in even the sickest of children, setting the foundation for therapeutic and biomedical treatments to make...
  • The Greater Good Film in Portland, Oregon April 21
    Date: April 21, 4:00 PM Event: The Greater Good documentary Portland Premiere Location: Cinema 21- 616 NW 21st Ave., Portland, Oregon Filmed partly in Portland, THE GREATER GOOD is a character-driven that explores the cultural intersections where parenting meets modern...
  • Minnesota Book Award Goes To Error Laden Entry ...
    Managing Editor's Note: You know when an author writes about Thimerosal and MMR in the same sentence that he or she has no grasp whatsoever on the autism/vaccine issue and is merely spouting from other uneducated sources. By Patti Carroll...
  • Katie Wright: Confessions of an Obese Autism Mom
    By Katie Wright OK, my secret is out. I am a big fat load and my out of control eating caused my son's autism. The minute I found out I was pregnant I started eating all the food I could...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

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

Open Your Eyes News

  • Sudan president seeks to ‘liberate&#8217 ...
    BBC – Sudan President Omar al-Bashir has said his main goal is now to “liberate” the people of South Sudan from its rulers following recent border clashes. The former rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) has ruled South Sudan since it seceded from Sudan in July ...
  • State of Himalayan Glaciers Less Alarming Than ...
    ScienceDaily — Several hundreds of millions of people in Southeast Asia depend, to varying degrees, on the freshwater reservoirs of the Himalayan glaciers. Consequently, it is important to detect the potential impact of climate changes on the Himalayan glaciers at an early stage. Together with i ...
  • FEATURE PAGE – The World’s Most Widely U ...
    On the tip of a missile it may be able to cut instantly through a tanks armour like a hot knife through butter, but its effects can last thousands of years and can be deadly. To find out more about the world’s most widely used, and under-reported, weapon of mass destruction CLICK HERE
  • News Archive In Focus – Conspiracy and Secrets ...
    Open Your Eyes only uses mainstream news sources so no great conspiracies at work here. Just the honest news about big topics that many would rather “sweep under the carpet”.Questions too big and too hard to shrink into sound-bites. For a comprehensive view of the news about Conspiracies and Sec ...
  • Climate Fact Of The Day – No Polar Ice C ...
    “In the last half billion years, earth has lost, four times, its polar caps: no ice at the North Pole and none at the South Pole. And, four times, the polar caps were reconstituted. Man did not exist then, only the so-called cosmic rays, discovered by mankind in the early twentieth century. The ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Activists sue Obama, others over National Defe ...
    A coalition of well-known journalists, activists and civil libertarians have sued President Obama, Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. , Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and other members of the U.S. government  to push them to remove or rewrite this year’s defense appropriations bill, sayin ...
  • American companies engaging in trade of illega ...
    More than 20 American companies have played roles in fostering a steady flow of illegal hardwoods from the Peruvian Amazon, part of a “well-oiled machine that is ransacking Peru’s forests and undermining the livelihoods and rights of the people that depend on them,” according t ...
  • Climate change vs. Easter bunnies
    Easter is still a great day for worship, candy in baskets, pagan solstice rituals and running around the yard finding eggs, but every year it gets quite a bit worse for bunnies.
  • Spoof ad thanks GM for pulling Heartland funding
    ForecastTheFacts.org has put up an advertisement spoofing the new TV ads created for the Chevy Volt – but this one congratulates GM for ceasing to fund the Heartland Institute, a free-market think tank that questions the science behind global warming.
  • Titanic today might dodge better but would enc ...
    The Titanic hit an iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland, but it probably didn’t hit one the size of Manhattan.

water.org

  • A new start in haiti
    Immediately following the inauguration ceremony, this woman collects her first bucket of water from a new well.
  • A toilet provides freedom
    Before, Mrs. Bhuvaneswari's family had to spend time walking to find a place to go to the bathroom. Now they are able to use their own toilet and their time for better things.
  • Bringing joy with clean water
    "The pond water I was forced to get water from was very dirty and had a bad smell. Due to my distant walks to collect water, sometimes I was late to work. My daughters and I would also suffer from diarrhea, jaundice, dysentery and skin diseases because of the dirty pomd water. We are able to ge ...
  • Levi's Water
    Water.org and Levi's® Launch Water
  • Make Progress on Sanitation
    No invention has saved more lives than a toilet. More than 80% of sewage in developing countries is discharged untreated, polluting rivers, lakes and coastal areas. All because there is no infrastructure - a toilet, or city utilities - to flush away yesterday's meal. But that's not all. Toilets ...

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Reinstate Teacher Who Supported Trayvon Martin ...
    arget: Superintendent Jacqueline Cassell Goal: To reinstate Brooke Harris, an eighth grade teacher who was fired after supporting a fundraiser benefitting Trayvon Martins family. The Trayvon Martin case has already caused a storm of controversy, Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World &n ...
  • Israeli democracy without the High Court and B ...
    In a country where many Knesset members view the High Court as an enemy, minorities as a fifth column, the left as homegrown terrorists and religion as the basis of patriotism, it is not the legislature that needs strengthening but rather the court.. Submitted by . to World  |  &nbsp ...
  • Daniel Pipes' attack on Israeli Arabs is basel ...
    But there is in Israel a frightening increase in violence when it comes to Arab citizens and this is well documented. And I mean Jewish attacks directed against Arab citizens. Sadly, Pipes neglects to weigh in on this. Submitted by . to World  |   Note-it!  |   Ad ...
  • "Ive Been Duped" - Reflections on Israel and P ...
    Do you know the frustration you feel when you believed in something strongly and then you realize that the information that made you believe was from a source with an agenda to deceive? Submitted by Ken D. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • White House sees more pain for Iran as it clea ...
    Aggressive war is illegal, immoral against nations that are no threat, is nonbelligerent & it is insane! Call your Reps. Tell your friends, rouse up the good folk in your church,mosque and synagouge. We must stop this exported violence or we are screwed. Submitted by michael h. to World   ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

  • ObamaCare Will Save $42.8 Billion for Taxpayer ...
    According to the report, the program saved $202 million in its first year in nine metropolitan statistical areas - a reduction of 42 percent in costs and, as the program expands under the Affordable Care Act and earlier law, it could save up to $42.
  • The Next Greta Garbo
    Meet the Swedish-born actress Ottiliana Rolandsson, Ph.D. We're talking about why she moved from Sweden to USA, about her acting career and how she stays fit.
  • Conservatives Step Forward to 'Bring Big' Chan ...
    '(Taxpayers) don't realize how much waste is out there,' Turgeon says, adding that most of the cuts involve things that aren't 'going to touch the classroom.'
  • Spring 2012 Trends Journal Provides Hard Facts ...
    The future is coming at us with so much sound and fury that alarms should be blaring, 'Danger! Danger!' Instead, the word from Presidents, Prime Ministers and Wall Street is, 'The worst is over, better times are ahead.'
  • Eviction and Forcible Relocation of Ashraf Res ...
    The residents are left with an option to be killed or to leave their home and the city they have built with their own energy and resources for quarter of a century to go to a prison called Liberty without humanitarian minimums.

Worldnews

  • 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 ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • 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. ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

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.

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Israel Using Oslo Accords to Steal West Bank Land
    by Stephen Lendman In 1993, Edward Said minced no words denouncing the Oslo Accords and Declaration of Principles, explaining: "the fashion-show vulgarities of the White House ceremony, the degrading spectacle of Yasser Arafat thanking everyone for the suspension of most of his people's rights ...
  • Realize Your True Potential and Let's Create A ...
    By Vincent L. Guarisco "Realize your true potential as a human being. Forget the imaginary restraints that have been placed before you by the academic system and the limitations you are told exist by science and religious teachings and look at the whole spectrum because the fact is that each of ...
  • America's Lost War
    by Stephen Lendman America's Afghan war is lost and illegal. The Bush administration got no Security Council authorization or congressional declaration of war. International law expert Francis Boyle said Congress passed a War Powers Resolution Authorization. Doing so gave Bush "blank check" p ...
  • Defending the Indefensible
    by Stephen Lendman Robert Shiller is Yale University Professor of Economics and Professor of Finance and Fellow at the International Center of Finance, Yale School of Management. He's best known perhaps for his 2000 book titled, "Irrational Exuberance." At the height of the tech bubble, he go ...
  • AfPak: Mutiny on the Bounty
    Eric Walberg The Taliban began their spring campaign as a British lord put a price on Bush's scalp. 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& ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • CFLR hosts book launch for "Constitutional Lab ...
    The Canadian Foundation for Labour Rights (CFLR) recently launched Constitutional Labour Rights in Canada: Farm Workers and the Fraser Case, a new book on labour rights in Canada. The book is a collection of 11 essays related to the Supreme Court of Canada April 2011 decision in Ontario (At ...
  • What’s at stake for working seniors?
    It is argued by some that eligibility for Old Age Security (OAS) and the Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS) at age 65 discourages older Canadians from remaining in the workforce, and that we need to keep them working longer to avoid present and future labour shortages and a sharp rise in the so- ...
  • Taxing the rich
    There's a growing movement in Canada to pressure our governments to ask those who have more to give to contribute more in taxes. A new Environics Poll for the Broadbent Institute shows 83% of Canadians favour raising taxes on the richest. And a new movement, Doctors for Fair Taxes reflects a gro ...
  • Income Inequality Un-Canadian: Poll
    The Broadbent Institute has launched its new Equality Project with a poll by Environics Research that shows the majority of Canadians view growing income inequality as a big problem with long-term consequences - a problem that undermines Canadian values. The poll also shows Canadians are ahead o ...
  • Youth and Community-led Activism in Canada
    In spite of system and systemic failure, young people are—with creativity, passion and determination—fighting for change across sectors and within communities. They are pushing the progress envelope. And we need to celebrate their victories and support them with knowledge, with numbers, and with ...

World Wide Hippies

  • Hippie Roots & The Perennial Subculture
    By Gordon Kennedy & Kody Ryan,Hippie.com - “Wandervogels Abschied” by Fidus, 1900 According to Webster’s dictionary (2003) a “hippie” or “hippy” is: “a young person of the 1960’s who rejected established social mores, advocated spontaneity, free expr ...
  • UN refugee agency names Angelina Jolie as spec ...
    UN,Worldwidehippies – – The UN refugee agency announced today that actress and humanitarian Angelina Jolie will take on a new and expanded role as a Special Envoy of its High Commissioner, António Guterres. “In her new role, she is expected to focus on large-scale crises resulting in ...
  • Sticky Notes
    By Sherry Pasquarello,Worldwidehippies -  I had a really terrific article for tonight. Honest- I did. It was AMAZING! Trust me on this. Unfortunately, I didn’t jot down a note to myself after I framed the whole thing out in my mind. It went poof, like the old joke about Pierre’s mustache. Yes, i ...
  • How the Goldman Vampire Squid Just Captured Europe
    By Ellen Brown, Truthout - 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 b ...
  • A Worldwide Hippies CITIZEN DISPATCH April 19 ...
    Worldwidehippies – Welcome to CITIZEN DISPATCH. News and Commentary from Citizen Journalist around the globe. This Edition; Larry Wessel  – Documentary Film,Video Producer USA MEDIA FOR THE PEOPLE BY THE PEOPLE – TAKE YOUR EYES, EARS AND CELL PHONE CAMERAS OUT INTO YOUR PART OF ...

FourWinds10

  • Chernobyl in the Gulf of Mexico
    BP Spill Released Dangerous Amounts of Radioactive Material Into the Gulf Cross posted here. It’s been more than a year since BP’s runaway Macondo Well began filling the northern waters of the Gulf of Mexico with more than 200 million gallons of sweet crude, fouling shorelines from L ...
  • Revealed: the secret battle for the riches of ...
    Leaked cables show how nations are carving up pristine wilderness By Shaun Walker in Moscow   The melting of the polar ice has been disastrous for wildlife but opens up new opportunities to exploit natural resources .firstcolumn { font-family: verdana; font-size: 11px; border-bottom: 5px so ...
  • THE GARBAGE PATCH
  • STUDYING HOW PLASTIC POLLUTION ENTERS OCEAN FO ...
  • Your help needed to pass FRAC Act and hold dri ...
    (NaturalNews) In response to massive public outcry, the US Senate has finally reintroduced the Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals (FRAC) Act, or S. 587, which will once again hold natural gas drilling companies responsible for the environmental pollution they cause when fractur ...

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Natural Gas Prices & Canada’s Economy — R-Squa ...
    In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I talk about the impact of natural gas in the U.S., and the Canadian economy. Some of the topics discussed this week are: How I think natural gas prices will behave over the next 10 years Which industries will benefit the most from low natural ...
  • Cutting Through the Rhetoric on Speculators an ...
    Let’s Play ‘Blame the Speculators’ Most people would probably agree that speculation in the oil and gas markets is hurting American consumers. Consider the case of Aubrey McClendon. Mr. McClendon is the CEO of Chesapeake Energy, where he sells natural gas for a living. Natural ...
  • The Impact of $5 Gas Prices, and Eco-Proppants ...
    In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I talk about the impact I believe $5 gasoline will have on most people, and whether there are any environmentally friendly proppants that can be used for hydraulic fracturing. Some of the topics discussed this week are: My observations here in ...
  • Canada Rises and Saudi Slides: Top 15 Sources ...
    The Energy Information Administration (EIA) recently published an article on 2011 U.S. crude oil imports. I thought it might be interesting to take a look at where the U.S. currently obtains its oil, and how that has changed over the past decade. The EIA story is: Nearly 69% of U.S. crude oil im ...
  • Poet, KiOR, and Waste-to-Heat — R-Squared Ener ...
    In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer questions about POET’s Project Liberty, about why KiOR might need a natural gas pipeline, and whether there are better options out there for utilization of waste heat from electrical generating plants. Some of the topics discuss ...

Discovery Educator Network

  • Home | Assess4ed.net
    Comments:designed to help you address the challenges and leverage the opportunities of next generation assessment systems powered by technology. - Dean MantzTags: assessment, commoncore, technology, SETDAby: Dean Mantz
  • epiccommunity - home
    Comments:dynamic environment for educators to collaborate, share their expertise, and have access to resources to strengthen their ability to plan, implement, and sustain technology-enabled learning initiatives. - Dean MantzTags: wiki, community, PLN, collaboration, education, epicedby: Dean Mantz
  • edshelf
    Tags: technology, web2.0, tools, education, edshelfby: Dean Mantz
  • Nature Works Everywhere
    Comments:Nature Works Everywhere gives teachers, students and families everything they need to start exploring and understanding nature’s fantastic factory — videos, interactive games, and interactive lesson plans that align to standards. - Fred DelventhalTags: nature, education, students, teach ...
  • STEM Collaborative.org - Home
    Tags: stem, math, collaborative, technology, science, resources, interactive, middleschoolby: Dean Mantz

Rodale News

  • University Students Kick Toxic Triclosan Off C ...
    First, the city of Austin, Texas, became the first in the nation to ban all disposable shopping bags. Now, the progressive city that houses the country's fifth-largest college campus has marked another first: The University of Texas (UT) recently voted to ban antibacterial soaps containing the ...
  • Gretchen Bleiler's 9 Best Ways to Live Green
    Gretchen Bleiler's Olympic medals and multiple X Games victories have made her the face of women's snowboarding. But success on the half-pipe isn't enough. Realizing that her favorite sport may soon disappear because of a warming planet, Bleiler has devoted herself to reversing climate change. ...
  • A Non-Food Cause of Diabetes
    America's steady diet of processed foods full of excess calories and sugar is undoubtedly fueling the diabetes epidemic that costs the country millions every year. But researchers are starting to uncover this truth: It's not all about calories when it comes to the causes of diabetes. In a new s ...
  • Where To Buy The Healthiest Chicken
    Maryland is about to become the first state in the country to ban the practice of adding arsenic to chicken feed, after the state legislature passed a bill earlier this week that's headed to the governor's desk. The hope is that the ban will protect Maryland's drinking water supplies and the en ...
  • FDA Won't Ban Antibiotics in Farming
    Every year, the nonorganic farm system administers a whopping 30 million pounds of antibiotics to farm animals that aren't even sick. They do this to fatten up animals faster and prevent health problems in animals kept in extreme confinement (and often filthy) conditions. Much of the meat and e ...

big think

  • The Constant Critic
    Earlier today Will McCants, Jeremy Scahill, Clint Watts and I had a twitter discussion - or whatever the word is when one is limited to 140 characters - on Yemen and US policy.  Will, Jeremy and Clint all write and speak with a great deal of eloquence and expertise on many different things.  I d ...
  • Will the $25 Computer Change Everything?
    What's the Latest Development? This week, the first shipments of the $25 Raspberry Pi computer began leaving China for all parts of the world. Designed in England, the computer is about the size of a credit card and forms part of the open-hardware movement. Founder of Raspberry Pi, Eben ...
  • Want a better marriage? Then Find some Couple- ...
    Do you and your partner have “couple friends”--other couples that you socialize with as a couple? Have you thought about their role in your marriage? University of Maryland professor Geoffrey Greif has. He and co-author Kathleen Holtz Deal conclude in Two Plus Two: Couples and their ...
  • Signature Strikes in Yemen
    Yesterday I teased an upcoming post about the US approach to disrupting and defeating AQAP.  Shortly after that Greg Miller - a smart and well connected journalist at the Washington Post - released this piece on the CIA seeking to use "signature strikes" in Yemen. There are several thing ...
  • What Entrepreneurs Can Learn from Journalists
    What's the Latest Development? Entrepreneurs are better off taking lessons from journalists than business professionals, says Shane Snow, himself an entrepreneur and former journalist. From Richard Branson, who began his storied career as a magazine editor, to the Columbian Journalism Sc ...

Information Liberation

  • Public Schools In Action: Kindergartners Taken ...
    Kindergartners from Sunnyside Elementary taking part in an "educational field trip" were taken to a jail, and some of the children even had the fortune to be put behind bars! The Chicago Sun Times reports: At 6 years old, Stephen Stovall has seen...
  • Sociopathy Is Running the US
    I recently wrote an article that addresses the subject of sociopaths and how they insinuate themselves into society. Although the subject doesn't speak directly to what stock you should buy or sell to increase your wealth, I think it's critical ...
  • Mandatory *Big Brother* Black Boxes In All New ...
    A bill already passed by the Senate and set to be rubber stamped by the House would make it mandatory for all new cars in the United States to be fitted with black box data recorders from 2015 onwards. Section 31406 of Senate Bill 1813 (known as M...
  • Money and Finance as if You Mattered
    During the 2008 credit crisis, a horde of central bankers, Treasury officials and large corporations screamed that the end of the world was upon us * unless trillions of your money were spent (or created) to prop up the existing financial and banking...
  • 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 wil...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Copyright and Intellectual Property – A ...
    Two pieces of information I’ve received in the last 24 hours prompted me to open a discussion on Libertarianism and intellectual property rights. Firstly, the tragic death yesterday of Australian band Men At Work’s multi-instrumentalist Greg Ham, in his suburban … Continue read ...
  • Neither A Soul To Damn, Nor A Body To Kick
    Today I’m having a look at an issue you might not generally associate with Libertarianism, but whose existence directly impacts on the liberty of us all, thousands of times every day: the company. Specifically, the limited-liability, joint stockholder corporation. Most … Continue rea ...
  • Neither A Soul To Damn, Nor A Body To Kick
    Today I’m having a look at an issue you might not generally associate with Libertarianism, but whose existence directly impacts on the liberty of us all, thousands of times every day: the company. Specifically, the limited-liability, joint stockholder corporation. Most … Continue rea ...
  • Revenge Of The Banana Benders
    That’s how people in other states of Australia refer to Queenslanders. The state election on March 24, resulting in the biggest electoral loss for the Australian Labor Party in any election since the Second World War, says much about the … Continue reading →
  • Revenge Of The Banana Benders
    That’s how people in other states of Australia refer to Queenslanders. The state election on March 24, resulting in the biggest electoral loss for the Australian Labor Party in any election since the Second World War, says much about the … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Beyond the blue bins
    Today’s video shows how the Montgomery County Maryland Recycling Facility in suburban Washington, DC, serves as one of the first links in the recycle-reuse chain. It receives more than 80,000 tonnes of mixed plastic, aluminium and other recyclable materials each year. There is some clever ...
  • Holistic chemophobia
    What do you make of a tweet like this? “Become very aware of where chemicals are present in your life and do what you can to minimise them.” It comes from DrLibbyLive (Libby Weaver). Her bio says she’s a “holistic nutrition specialist” and her website tells us she c ...
  • 173 Climate myths debunked and ready to tweet
    Here is a summary of global warming and climate change myths, 173 of them. The default order is sorted by recent popularity versus what science says. You can click each statement to get a more detailed description of the evidence against each myth. In the default format each item is ready to twe ...
  • Protein degradation revelation
    The mighty analytical technique of X-ray crystallography has been used to investigate the protein machinery that medical researchers say goes awry in uncontrolled or inaccurate degradation of cellular proteins. The research offers new clues on how cancer or Alzheimer’s disease might develo ...
  • In Search Of Schrodinger’s Cat
    John Gribbin has updated his classic book to demystify quantum mechanics for a new generation. The book, originally published in 1984 reminds us that Schrodinger didn’t like the probabilistic world his science had wrought. Indeed, the parable of Schrodinger’s Cat was created to lampo ...

RFF Library

  • The Fracking Debate: A Policymaker’s Guide
    National Conference of State Legislatures http://www.ncsl.org/documents/energy/frackingdebateguide412.pdf [From an Energy Wire article by Margaret Kriz Hobson, sub. req'd] …The report outlines the economic upside of the increasing shale oil and gas development throughout the country, inclu ...
  • New Oil and Natural Gas Air Pollution Standards
    US EPA http://www.epa.gov/airquality/oilandgas/ [From Press Release]  In response to a court deadline, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finalized standards to reduce harmful air pollution associated with oil and natural gas production. The updated standards, required by the Cle ...
  • Beyond Boom and Bust: Putting Clean Tech On a ...
    Brookings Institution | Breakthrough Institute | World Resources Institute / by Mark Muro et al. http://www.brookings.edu/papers/2012/0418_clean_investments.aspx [From a Climate Wire story by Daniel Cusick, sub. req'd]  Three prominent think tanks are recommending that the Obama admini ...
  • Energy Services Analysis: An Alternative Appro ...
    Rand Corp. / by Keith Crane, Liisa Ecola, Scott Hassell and Shanthi Nataraj http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR1170.html [From Website] This technical report uses energy service analysis (ESA) to identify and evaluate new means to reduce greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions. Most analyses in ...
  • Coal Mine Drainage for Marcellus Shale Natural ...
    Rand Corp. / by Aimee E. Curtright and Kate Giglio http://www.rand.org/pubs/conf_proceedings/CF300.html [From Website] On December 14, 2011, the RAND Corporation hosted and moderated a roundtable conference…to examine the use of coal mine water and, specifically, drainage from actively man ...

Scientific American - News

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Education...for Some?
    Teaching assistants concerned that cuts to education are leaving students with learning disabilities behind “Before I started school, I literally could not speak,” says Kyle Hunter. “My diagnosis before I started school w ...
  • Riot Police Kettle UQO Students, Make Dozens o ...
    Gatineau riot police kettled over 200 students, professors, supporters, and journalists on Lac des Fées parkway on Wednesday, April 18. The demonstration was en route to the Université du Québec en Outaouais’s (UQO) Lucien-Brault campus as students defied a court injunction for a third day ...
  • Poem Tribute to Raymond Taavel
    For Raymond, and for all of the Raymonds, which is to say: for everyone Written by Tanya Davis on April 17th, for the death and life of Raymond Taavel and for the love of Halifax   There are words that spring to mind like sadness like violence like senseless crime like how this affects all ...
  • “Compassionate, Caring, Outgoing, Welcoming”
    Vigil held on Gottingen Street following murder of Raymond Taavel At least 300 people gathered on Gottingen Street in Halifax today at 7pm to mourn the passing of Raymond Taavel, local community activist. Taavel was killed this morning at a ...
  • CKUT's Off the Hour: The risk of the Inter-Tri ...
    Interview with Gordon Bird An interview with vice-president of the Board of Directors at the Native Friendship Center of Montreal, Gordon Bird about the current situation the NFCM is in. The center risks closing down in 3 month. The Inter-T ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Is progressive change in America possible? A p ...
    David Seaton's News Links How is progressive change to be effected within the American political system? First: are citizens asking the correct questions?Does anyone really believe that any topflight, professional, national politician, with what national campaigns cost these days, is ever goin ...
  • Mitt Romney, severely stiff?
    David Seaton's News Links The coming presidential election is very different from 2008... as then one of the men is a known quantity and the other is an enigma. But yesterday's enigma is today's known quantity and although the other man has been around for years, the more he says and the more h ...
  • Thoughts at Easter: Once I built a tower and n ...
    David Seaton's News Links "We are so made that we can sustain our existence only in group life. Love is the essence of humanity, love needs something to bestow itself upon; human beings must live together in order to live a life of mutual love." D. T. Suzuki "I sincerely believe that if you ...
  • Conservatives or neo-fascists?
    David Seaton's News LinksI would think it important to separate this new "conservatism" from the traditional variety. Remember the American vice is to use language to hide meaning. I’ll quote myself from an earlier post:One of the most disturbing things about America is the incoherence of ...
  • Why are the Republicans so weird?
    David Seaton's News LinksThis blog post, by the excellent Thomas Edsall, makes some very interesting points about the make-up of the Republican electorate. In the GOP’s South Carolina primary, 98% of those who voted were white: this in a state where nearly 28% of the population is black. Rep ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Food Deserts Not to Blame for Obesity and Poor ...
    You all know what a food desert is, right? It's a place where there aren't very many supermarkets. In fact, most often it's a place with no supermarkets, and almost always it's a poor neighborhood. But why do food deserts exist? Perhaps poor neighborhoods just aren't very profitable places to ...
  • Pretty Much Everything is Now a Bet on the Cen ...
    Via the Financial Times, here's an interesting bit of color coded data from HSBC Global showing the level of correlation between various asset classes. The version on the left is from 2005, and it shows about what you'd expect. Deep red means a pair of asset classes are highly correlated &mdas ...
  • Chart of the Day: The Great Recession is Still ...
    According to the Congressional Budget Office, the number of people receiving SNAP benefits (aka food stamps) will continue rising through 2014. Newt Gingrich will no doubt use this as an occasion to snark yet again about Barack Obama being a "food stamp president," but among non-buffoons the t ...
  • Are Americans Cheating on Political Surveys?
    Over at the Atlantic, James Warren brings us shocking news from a recent meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association: sometimes people cheat on internet surveys. When they correctly say that John Roberts is Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, it might only be because they googled ...
  • Judicial Restraint Pretty Much Obsolete on the ...
    In an otherwise tedious case about milk regulation, Appellate Judge Janice Rogers Brown decided to give her inner Randian free rein last week. "Cowboy capitalism" is dead, she moaned, and courts are at fault for not slapping down legislatures both local and national that infringe on economic r ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 316: 30 for 30
    Topics: Dick Clark dies You’re making me be an asshole 30 for 30 Secret Service got caught cause dude didn’t pay Don’t be THAT guy Dinochickens The basic chicks of Hollywood Warm Weather PSA Share with your friends:
  • IC 315: Ignorance is Bliss
    Topics: The Raid How to make an awesome action movie The Cabin in the Woods and almost ruining a movie with a trailer The Secret Service tries to get it in while in Columbia Snitching on your teacher for showing porn Fucking up your week: Kriss asks a question bound to fuck up everyone’s w ...
  • IC 314: She’s Cute for a Meth Head
    Topics: April Movie Preview Trolling the Avengers Kristen Stewart is not hot enough to play the hot chick Easter has the best candy Bacon Sundaes 600 lbs man gets stuck in his house Best crime spree EVER Trayvon Martin case updates Conservatives have no humanity Share with your friends:
  • IC 313: The American Dream
    Topics: Kinect Star Wars We’re too lazy for Kinect The American Dream: To be Mediocre and Lazy The Mega Millions “winner” Mary J Blige “sings” for Burger King Conservatives Show their Asses on Trayvon Martin Coverage Share with your friends:
  • IC 312: How to be THE Black Friend
    Topics: April Movies and upcoming Trailers Kev & the born again virgin No blowjobs for life Why Jesus won’t let Kriss win the Mega Millions The Pope & why we let religious leaders get away with bigotry Religion isn’t an excuse for bigotry Pat Robertson’s greatest hits ...

Simple Climate

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

e!Science News

  • New CU-NOAA monitoring system clarifies murky ...
    A University of Colorado Boulder-led team has developed a new monitoring system to analyze and compare emissions from human-made fossil fuels and trace gases in the atmosphere, a technique that likely could be used to monitor the effectiveness of measures regulating greenhouse gases. read more
  • New technique efficiently creates single photo ...
    Using lasers to excite just one atom from a cloud of ultra-cold rubidium gas, physicists have developed a new way to rapidly and efficiently create single photons for potential use in optical quantum information processing -- and in the study of dynamics and disorder in certain physical systems. ...
  • First atomic-scale real-time movies of platinu ...
    They won't be coming soon to a multiplex near you, but movies showing the growth of platinum nanocrystals at the atomic-scale in real-time have blockbuster potential. A team of scientists with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) Berkeley ...
  • Anti-tobacco TV ads help adults stop smoking, ...
    Anti-tobacco television advertising helps reduce adult smoking, according to a study by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago's Institute for Health Research and Policy -- but some ads may be more effective than others. read more
  • Stable electrodes for improving printed electr ...
    Imagine owning a television with the thickness and weight of a sheet of paper. It will be possible, someday, thanks to the growing industry of printed electronics. The process, which allows manufacturers to literally print or roll materials onto surfaces to produce an electronically functional d ...

unEarthed

  • Here's Why Asthmatics Need Dirty Air
    Cleaning up pollution actually hurts those afflicted by it, says EPA critic A remarkable thing happened during Senate hearings today on the EPA's rule to limit toxic air pollution from coal-fired power plants. A critic of the agenc ...
  • Inupiat Leader Wins Goldman Award
    Caroline Cannon named as North American recipient The world's largest prize for environmental action has been awarded to Caroline Cannon, an Inupiat leader ...
  • Friday Finds: The Government's Toxic Love Affair
    GMOs and BPA get a kiss, while green chemistry gets the boot Photo courtesy of healthserviceglasses (flickr) EPA disses green chemistry program Recently, th ...
  • Utah Versus the National Parks
    State prepares assault on national icons Salt Creek Canyon, Canyonlands National Park, claimed as a "constructed highway" by the State of Utah. Ted Zukoski photo. ...
  • Farmworkers Savor Sweet Taste of Victory
    Earthjustice suit pressures company to nix toxic pesticide Last month – less than a year after Earthjustice sued to protect strawberry field workers from ...

Brave New Climate

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

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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  • Suspending officer who hit Danish activist isn ...
    By Ophir Pines-Paz On one hand, the storm of condemnations by the top levels of government and now the suspension of Lieutenant Colonel Shalom Eisner from his position for beating an apparently unarmed Danish protester with his weapon, is the right response. On the other hand, this response is c ...
  • The Round Trip part 13: Walking the line
    From Ramot to Rachel’s tomb via Brooklyn, a haunted house, a threat of very painful eternal damnation and two fjords. Ira, Ezra and myself are having breakfast in the sunny kitchen of Givon Hakhadasha. Ira eats what she terms a “kibbutz” breakfast: white cheese spread, some bre ...
  • An essential sense of urgency: On Peter Beinar ...
    “The Crisis of Zionism,” appears to be a book about politics, history and ideology, but in fact it is a research into identity; the identity of a community and the identity of the author. It is a book about the construction, the de-construction and the effort to reconstruct an identi ...
  • Mounting criticism of bill to limit Supreme Co ...
    Justice Minister Yaakov Neeman’s draft bill for the Basic Law: Legislation has prompted a lively debate for and against, mainly over the clause that would allow the Knesset to revive a law that the Supreme Court has ruled unconstitutional through a 65-member majority. On Tuesday, the new c ...
  • My great-grandmother: Orthodox and anti-Zionist
    The Jewish diaspora didn’t always march lockstep behind Israel. My great-grandmother–who escaped pogroms and lost family in the Holocaust–was an anti-Zionist. Rampant anti-Semitism drove my great-grandmother from Eastern Europe. There’d been pogroms; there were restrictions on ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

Matt Weidner Blog

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

  • For All Of It
    This weekend we celebrate the birthdays of our twin girls Abuk and Achan. I just can’t let that day go …Continue reading »
  • To the Marrow
    In their 1991 groundbreaking work The Good Society, authors and researchers led by Robert Bellah concluded that without institutions modern …Continue reading »
  • A Case For Citizen Journalism
    For the last number of months I’ve been writing a bi-weekly column for the London Free Press pertaining to what …Continue reading »
  • Preserving The Best In Us
    He was good, real good. Spending this past weekend in Toronto with Michael Ignatieff and his wife Zsuszanna was a …Continue reading »
  • Not Consultation but Engagement
    Follow the link below to read the article I wrote for the London Free Press today on the need for …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

  • Basic research and personal responsibility
    Dan Sarewitz has a rather provocative commentary in Nature this morning, where he suggests that proposals to increase basic research may be good politics, but questionable policy. The headline alone is probably enough to get some science-advocates’ blood boiling, whether they go on to read ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    Next week I am being “installed” here at the University of Michigan.  Not in the sense of installing a carpet – as one friend suggested – but in the sense of being installed as an endowed professor.  The Charles and Rita Gelman Risk Science Professor to be precise. To mar ...
  • Nanotechnology, climate and energy: over-heate ...
    Friends of the Earth have just released a new report challenging claims that nanotechnology will lead to greener, more energy-efficient technologies, lower-impact technologies. I’ve only had the chance to skim through the report so far, and so don’t have detailed comments on it.  But ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    Here’s something that keeps me awake at night (seriously): why, in this age of super-slick graphics and innovative multimedia resources, is it nearly impossible to give presentation that looks as good as they should? How come I can guarantee that when I give a presentation, the slides will ...
  • Risk, uncertainty and sustainable innovation: ...
    Despite the risk of receiving absolutely no comments (please don’t let me down!), I thought I’d try something new and ask for some feedback on the background blurb for a meeting I’ve been working on. The meeting is a symposium on Risk, Uncertainty and Sustainable Innovation bei ...

Reader Supported News

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

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

  • 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.

k2p blog

  • Video: India test fires Agni-V ICBM rocket &#8 ...
    India test fired its Agni-V ICBM rocket today. Initial reports are of a successful launch though details of the 20 minute flight will take some time to be analysed.
  • Director of Max Planck Institute admits that c ...
    The physical causes of climate change are still unclear, and climate model simulations are not consistent with the current observations.
  • Mathematics mayhem – paper proving the i ...
    A mathematics paper by two authors from Dr.Mahalingam College of Engineering & Technology in India has been retracted for lack of scientific content.
  • Settled science? Karakoram glaciers, polar bea ...
    The glaciers flowing between the towering peaks of the Karakoram range on the Pakistan-China border have grown in size in the last decade, according to new research. And emperor penguin numbers are twice what they were thought to be.
  • Professor at IIM-A resigns
    Professor Rajanish Dass at the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad has resigned after an investigating committee had found him guilty of 3 counts of plagiarism. Dass had received some relief from the High Court which had instructed the Institute to take some of his additional responses i ...

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Vermont Lawmakers Vote For Constitutional Amen ...
    In January 2010, the Supreme Court ruled in the case of Citizens United v. Federal Election Committee that it was unconstitutional to limit political campaign spending by corporations, thus helping to usher in the current era of the "super PAC." Today, Vermont's state legislature became the lat ...
  • Throw Out That Toupee: Researchers Successfull ...
    Has your bare pate led you to extreme measures, perhaps shoplifting Rogaine? Stop your life of crime and toss your hat in celebration -- scientists have successfully grown hair on a bald mouse. Humans can't be too far behind, right? Yes, it is creepy to see long black hair sprouting from a bal ...
  • 26% Of Working-Age Americans Went Without Heal ...
    Having health insurance is not only too often tied to having a full-time job, it also usually requires that you be in that job for weeks or months before coverage kicks in. So with so many Americans either without staff jobs or starting work for a new employer, it's perhaps not surprising that ...
  • Pilot Too Distracted By Texting To Bother Lowe ...
    Proving that it really is dangerous to have cell phones on during a flight, an investigation in Australia says a pilot was too distracted by texting on his phone to remember to put the wheels down for landing. Oh, oops. Turns out you need those things. The incident occurred almost two years ag ...
  • CFPB Complaint Portal Resolves Problem That Ye ...
    In March the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau launched a complaint portal for people with unresolved issues tied to their checking and savings accounts. Now we're hearing the first of what we hope are numerous success stories from Consumerist readers who have tried the CFPB portal. Back in ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Poultry Whistleblower Appears on ABC; USDA Ext ...
    ABC News: USDA to Let Industry Self-Inspect Chicken Summary: A whistleblower who came to GAP's Food Integrity Campaign (FIC) raising concerns about USDA's plan to deregulate poultry inspection (by expanding a pilot program known as HIMP) was interviewed on ABC's World News with Diane Sawy ...
  • Poultry Disease Pics Show More Than "Bumps & B ...
    HIMP Update: Poultry Disease Pics Show More Than "Bumps and Blemishes" Summary: Thus far rebuffing whistleblower concerns regarding its plan to expand a deregulated poultry inspection program known as HIMP, the USDA has downplayed the topical monitoring of birds for signs of disease. GAP's Foo ...
  • Whistleblower Prosecutor Leaves DOJ; Ron Paul ...
    GOP Presidential candidate Ron PaulThe New York Times: Prosecutor Who Ran Ethics Unit Leaves Justice Dept. Summary: Noted Justice Department prosecutor William Welch II, who handled multiple Espionage Act prosecutions against intelligence whistleblowers, left the agency on Friday. Welch manage ...
  • Taxpayer-Funded Jugglers and Clowns: GSA Scand ...
    Inspectors General may sometimes be the fox guarding the hen house, but they're all that there is, and once and a while they work. An Inspector General can save taxpayers billions by investigating whistleblower claims of fraud, waste, abuse, mismanagement or illegality. The recent the General S ...
  • 'Big Ag' Retooling After 'Pink Slime': Daily W ...
    GAP's Jesselyn Radack with Salon's Glenn Greenwald at a fundraiserReuters: “Pink Slime” Controversy Stokes Clash over Agriculture Summary: The recent uproar over 'pink slime' – the ammoniated beef filler product – has shown “how social media have given activists and consumers a powerful weapon ...

UK Progressive

  • Obama and Romney Can’t Fence-Sit on Marriage E ...
    While President Obama’s attitude concerning same-sex marriage is evolving, and presidential hopeful Mitt Romney’s attitude is an unequivocal denouncement, the American people seem to moving solidly toward an acceptance of marriage equality. Both Obama and Romney need to get with the ...
  • Our Own People – For God’s Sake
    Most of us have seen the video gone viral of the St. Pattie’s day beating, stripping naked and robbing in Baltimore of a young WHITE male by a group of four young black men and women. All of us are painfully aware of the shooting of Trayvon Martin (BLACK) by George Zimmerman, a WHITE Hispa ...
  • No Forensic Background? No Problem
    by Leah Bartos, Special to ProPublica This story was co-published with PBS Frontline. This is how I — a journalism graduate student with no background in forensics — became certified as a “Forensic Consultant” by one of the field’s largest professional groups. One afternoon early las ...
  • The Paradox of Mobility in America
    We’re a species that has gotten around; we’ve wandered, pioneered and migrated to every corner of the world. The spear tip of technology is how we can get somewhere else: the wheel, the sailboat, the rocket. In short: we’re movers. We are now as mobile as we’ve ever been as a culture. Our phones ...
  • The Significance of Citigroup’s Shareholder Revolt
    The shareholders of Wall Street giant Citigroup are out to prove that corporate democracy isn’t an oxymoron. They’ve said no to the exorbitant $15 million pay package of Citi’s CEO Vikram Pandit, as well as to the giant pay packages of Citi’s four other top executives. The vote, at Citigroup’s a ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Burn those deniers houses down
    A Tennessee Fireman’s Solution to Climate Change Steve Zwick, This propaganda has already set us back two decades, … … there is a very public record of who has been lying to the public and who hasn’t – and it’s time to start using this information to make the liars and shirker ...
  • When is a free market solution *not* the answe ...
    Profit through regulation of markets Which caring environmentalists are trying to save the world through carbon credits? That would be the Banksters. Watch how the banks  are working to “fix” the free market, via intervention and regulation, and milk the system to maximize profit. Th ...
  • So is the hotspot a “fingerprint” ...
    Some people claim that I mislead people. But it seems they are the misled — not by me, but by their own heroes. In the Skeptics Handbook I wrote: “The greenhouse signature is missing If Greenhouse gases are warming the earth we are supposed to see the first signs of it in the patch o ...
  • James Delingpole Tour starts tomorrow in Perth ...
    Don’t forget to book for Perth via email eventsATjoannenova.com.au. 7pm Royal Perth Yacht Club, Matilda Bay, Tuesday 17th April. See details for the rest of the tour at this page. Rating: 10.0/10 (5 votes cast) Rating: 10.0/10 (5 votes cast)
  • Soaking in money — a fake “indepen ...
    What kind of organization receives all its funding from one source, then claims to be “independent?” (Just another GONGO idea). The Conversation trumpets that it is “Independent” but it’s funded with $6 million from … the Government. As Tim Blair said “i ...

ReNew America

  • Postmodern barbarians
    (Fred Hutchison, RA analyst) - In this essay, I discuss some psychological similarities between Postmodernism and barbarism. Both seem to inflict some of the same kinds of torments upon the mind. I shall contrast these miseries with the joys of a high culture...
  • K Street and Tea Party again fight for soul of GOP
    (Washington Examiner) - Big business and the Tea Party are at swords' points once again, with GOP Senate primaries for the second straight election becoming proxy battles in the war over the soul of the Republican Party. Conservative insurgents pose serious threats this year to establishment Rep ...
  • Seventeen trillion reasons to repeal Obamacare
    (Deroy Murdock) - Several brand-new reasons lately have emerged for repealing Obamacare. Like proper, government-designed straitjackets, they come in three sizes: hefty, huge, and humongous. The hefty reason to repeal Obamacare arrived just as Americans struggled to file their taxes on Tuesday...
  • Obama's secret plan to seize Americans' land
    (WorldNetDaily) - Brian Sussman, author of "Eco-Tyranny: How the Left's Green Agenda will Dismantle America," has exposed Barack Obama's secret plan to seize land from the American people, on Fox News' "Fox and Friends."...
  • Polygamy, too
    (National Review) - Presidential candidate Rick Santorum got jeered for comparing the legalization of same-sex marriage to that of polygamy, but, whether or not the comparison is rationally sound, thoughts of the former's facilitating the latter bring a smile to many Islamists. If the definition ...

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

  • Giant Swedish Sinkhole
    I’m still not sure if there is any signifiance to all these sinkholes that are making the news these days. And this one, well it’s in a mining area. But you’d think that the mining 600 metres below wouldn’t cause a sinkhole, although perhaps explosions could? Anyway &#821 ...
  • Video On Relocating for Survival Purposes
    The creator of this video is Fernando “Ferfal” Aguirre who wrote the very interesting survivalist book Surviving The Economic Collapse. While his writing style is unusual, his hardcore attitude makes it a must read – it’ll force you to think about many SHTF aspects that m ...
  • Land Rover DC100
    Over at USA Today they are telling us that this new Land Rover model should appeal to survivalists: With its rooftop equipment rack, you can stow hundreds of cans of Spam and canned peas topside, leaving the cargo area for your stash of glinting yellow gold bullion. As giant chasms split open ...
  • Holly Deyo on Changing Countries
    Survivalists often discuss which countries would be safest to be in, should a global cataclysm occur. Typically the focus is on the lack of danger – no volcanoes, inland, no nuclear power plants… Less discussed is whether you can handle the more mundane aspects of living somewhere ne ...
  • Many Earthquakes Today
    I check this web page all the time: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_big.php It lists every earthquake greater than 5.0 for the last week, and it is updated in real-time. On most days there’s less than five quakes listed, and often just one or two. Today ...

Facing South

One News Page

  • US-India Homeland Security meeting today
    Terrorism and its funding, transnational crime and intelligence sharing will be among the key issues to be discussed threadbare at the US-India Homeland Security meeting to be held here Friday. Reported by Zee News 1 hour ago
  • From Manson to Breivik: Pop culture that inspi ...
    Breivik said he was inspired by a video game, while Manson's killing spree was prompted by a Beatles song. Here are some songs, films, games and books that have inspired killers. Reported by Firstpost 2 hours ago
  • Mumbai heritage week: Kanheri Caves A delecta ...
    Board a local train or bus to Borivli station. Then take an autorickshaw for a two-minute ride to SGNP. Reported by DNA 2 hours ago
  • China assisting N.Korean missile program - U.S ...
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China has provided some assistance to North Korea's missile programme, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Thursday, a week after the hermit state's failed rocket launch triggered international condemnation. Reported by Reuters India 2 hours ago
  • US helicopter crashes in Afghanistan, four fea ...
    Washington: A US military helicopter went down in poor weather in Afghanistan on Thursday, the military said, in a crash that officials believed may have killed all four people onboard. A US defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the Black Hawk helicopter crashed in the ... ...

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

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

BlogHer

  • Have You Been So Sleep Deprived You Become a M ...
    [Editor's Note: Do you remember those first few sleep deprived months of your kids' lives? Yeah, me either. I'm surprised we all survived with the total lack of sleep in our house! Kate at Practical Pablum recently wrote about the "Mombie." You know, the mom-zombie. I laughed while reading it -- ...
  • Children and the Holocaust: When Do We Talk Ab ...
    Today is Yom HaShoah -- Holocaust Remembrance Day. It's on our calendar, though I totally forgot about it; I had no idea why Josh chose to broach the topic of teaching the twins about the Holocaust in the car this morning on the way to the Metro. They're young. But there's a reason for doing it ...
  • The Call Every Parent of a Driving Teen Fears
    [Editor's Note: I'm not sure how parents survive "the driving years." I'm not there yet, but I can just picture myself sitting by the window, waiting for their headlights to return. I would assume you get used to it, but when I read things like what Tena of Tena's Therapy recently shared, I wond ...
  • A Mother's Story: Sharing The Kitchen With A S ...
    [Editor's Note: I loved this story, which chronicles the history of a mother who wanted her son, who was born with cerebral palsy, to share cooking and time in the kitchen with her. From figuring out accommodations to better fit his abilities to helping him make his soon-to-be-famous hexagon-sha ...
  • Ratty, Old 'Found' Chair Makeover
    Katy applied her reuse philosophy and DIY magic on this rejected, worn-out chair, a lucky curbside find. The chair now sits prettily in her living room; sometimes, all 'garbage' needs is a little attention:"Even though it looks like there's perfectly good caning on the seat, it's actually kind o ...

Health Freedom Alliance

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

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • What happened to NIOSH-MSHA move to revoke app ...
    CSE Corp. President Scott Shearer with one of his company’s SR-100 self-contained self rescuer units. Photo by AP.  So far this week, we’ve had a blog post and this print story detailing the findings of the two-year National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health investigation ...
  • Exactly which EPA was run by a bunch of &#8216 ...
    There’s a great piece out today from FactCheck.org with the headline, Romney misfires with EPA anecdote: Mitt Romney railed against the “Obama EPA” and “how the Obama government interferes with personal freedom” — using as his example an EPA action taken in 2007, under President George W. ...
  • Whatever happened to reforming the AML program?
    We’ve written many times about the Obama administration’s plan to reform the federal Abandoned Mine Lands program so that some states — primarily Wyoming — stop getting tons of coal-tax dollars to spend on things other then cleaning up old, abandoned coal mines (see here ...
  • Bullpush Mountain, public health and EPA attacks
    This is how Bullpush Mountain, said to be West Virginia’s first mountaintop removal operation, looked back in 1998 when it was featured in the Gazette’s Mining the Mountains series. Photo by Lawrence Pierce. It’s been a long time since I wrote about Bullpush Mountain, when the ...
  • NIOSH issues report on troubled SCSR model
    This just in: The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health has finally issued its report on the problems with the CSE SR-100 model self-contained, self-rescuer devices, saying in typically cryptic language: The investigation was designed to test field-deployed CSE SR-100 SCSRs to de ...

Daniel Miessler

  • The Graph All High School English Teachers Sho ...
    [ The graph's x-axis shows the GSS WORDSUM score, which is a vocabulary-based intelligence proxy (correlated at .71). The y-axis shows percentage of people with that score. ] Given how little Americans value education today I think it’s a good idea to empirically demonstrate to our youth t ...
  • 10 Interesting Data Points on IQ and Demographics
    Gene Expression recently put up a brilliant post showing data on the GSS‘s WORDSUM scores correlated to various demographic data points, such as educational attainment, political ideology, religious preferences, etc. From the post: A few years ago I put up a post, WORDSUM & IQ & ...
  • Bay Bridge Lighting
    via lh5.googleusercontent.com Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related ContentMondayDucks in WaterThe First Result When Googling SantorumMy Varnish Study PieceYouTube Downloader | Chrome Web Store
  • Old Man In Nursing Home Reacts To Hearing Musi ...
    via youtube.com Touching. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related Content29-year-old Deaf Woman Hears For First Time Using Hearing ImplantA Creative SongSeriously Fast LyricsHitler Finds Out There’s No iPhone 5If China Attacks America (A Must See)
  • How to Get a Good Cup of Coffee From Starbucks
    Wagner’s music is better than it sounds. ~ Edgar Wilson Nye People tend to love Starbucks despite it tasting like it was brewed for three weeks in the center of the sun. Most mask this reality by ordering a coffee beverage instead of coffee, or by adding so much to it as to render it [...]

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

  • Hippie Roots & The Perennial Subculture
    By Gordon Kennedy & Kody Ryan,Hippie.com - “Wandervogels Abschied” by Fidus, 1900 According to Webster’s dictionary (2003) a “hippie” or “hippy” is: “a young person of the 1960’s who rejected established social mores, advocated spontaneity, free expr ...
  • UN refugee agency names Angelina Jolie as spec ...
    UN,Worldwidehippies – – The UN refugee agency announced today that actress and humanitarian Angelina Jolie will take on a new and expanded role as a Special Envoy of its High Commissioner, António Guterres. “In her new role, she is expected to focus on large-scale crises resulting in ...
  • Sticky Notes
    By Sherry Pasquarello,Worldwidehippies -  I had a really terrific article for tonight. Honest- I did. It was AMAZING! Trust me on this. Unfortunately, I didn’t jot down a note to myself after I framed the whole thing out in my mind. It went poof, like the old joke about Pierre’s mustache. Yes, i ...
  • How the Goldman Vampire Squid Just Captured Europe
    By Ellen Brown, Truthout - 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 b ...
  • A Worldwide Hippies CITIZEN DISPATCH April 19 ...
    Worldwidehippies – Welcome to CITIZEN DISPATCH. News and Commentary from Citizen Journalist around the globe. This Edition; Larry Wessel  – Documentary Film,Video Producer USA MEDIA FOR THE PEOPLE BY THE PEOPLE – TAKE YOUR EYES, EARS AND CELL PHONE CAMERAS OUT INTO YOUR PART OF ...

reference frame

  • Schrödinger has never met Newton
    Sabine Hossenfelder believes that Schrödinger meets Newton. But is the story about the two physicists' encounter true? Yes, these were just jokes. I don't think that Sabine Hossenfelder misunderstands the history in this way. Instead, what she completely misunderstands ...
  • Is the Avogadro constant equal to one?
    Bane asked and provoked a discussion: I was tasked with creating a presentation on Avogadro's work, and this is the first time I actually got introduced to the 'mole' and to 'Avogadro's constant'. And, to be honest, it doesn't make any mathematical sense to me. \[ \eq{ 1\,\,{\rm mol ...
  • Nima Arkani-Hamed on doomed spacetime
    If you have 80 minutes, you may want to listen to Nima Arkani-Hamed's talk he gave in Stony Brook a week ago. He spends a half of the lecture by explaining the quantum and quantum gravity revolutions from the viewpoint of the decreasing number of observables we can consider and ...
  • New England cottontail, others would benefit f ...
    A few years ago, the media would only allow negative predictions associated with a hypothetical warming in the future. Needless to say, if there were some warming by a few degrees, most of the consequences would be positive. A New England cottontail: cute This simple fact gra ...
  • Dark-matter-exists general: our foes have foun ...
    Remotely related breaking news: A team of Chilean astronomers behind the ESO telescope claims that there's no dark matter in the Solar System's vicinity. If true, the direct searches such as those described in the article below should be very hard. One more: IceCube found too few neutrinos, ...

Tatumba 2.0

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

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

  • Can't Stop the Big Mo
    Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
  • Merck: More Agony from Its Painkiller
    The costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either
  • Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
    Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
  • No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
    The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
  • Why Qualcomm Has Its Wallet Out
    The Elata and Flarion acquisitions reflect the outfit's need to keep abreast of tech's latest trends. Expect more of the same

Enviroblog

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

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Norway’s traumatic moment of truth
    NEWS ANALYSIS: After describing himself as a self-appointed executionist on Thursday, Anders Behring Breivik was back on the witness stand in Oslo on Friday to answer more questions about his attacks of July 22. As survivors and families of victims braced for more gruesome details, questions kee ...
  • Munch heirs fight ‘Scream’ misuse
    Heirs of Norwegian artist Edvard Munch are screaming yet again over alleged misuse of their famed relative’s most well-known painting Skriket  (The Scream). They objected to its use in a Swedish firm’s ads for gift certificates last December. The ads used the familiar motif to peddle ...
  • SV gets support for oil sands opposition
    Norway’s Socialist Left party (SV) seems to finally have attracted enough support from its government coalition partner, Labour, to forcefully oppose state-controlled oil company Statoil’s controversial oil sands operations in Canada. Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) polled half of Labou ...
  • Foreign Minister called in for questioning
    Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre has been summoned to appear before the Parliament’s supervisory committee that handles disciplinary matters. It has decided to look into whether Støre violated any regulations when his ministry granted NOK 6 million to a foundation in northern No ...
  • ‘Can’t believe what we’re hearing’
    Some Norwegians were calling Thursday the “worst day ever in a local court,” and Friday may be worse. Survivors and families of the victims of last summer’s terrorist attacks in Oslo were severely shaken as they listened to the latest unflinching testimony of the man who carrie ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

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

Pointman's

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

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Two years on, anger and frustration on the Gul ...
    A shorter version of this article appeared today in newspapers around the world through Agence France Presse, the newswire service. Two years after the worst maritime oil spill in history, fishermen, scientists, and environmentalists up and down the US Gulf Coast warn that the disaster may be ...
  • Another Victory Against Louisiana's Crime Agai ...
    A judge's order yesterday took another step towards ending the harsh legacy of Louisiana's Crime Against Nature Law. Below is a press release on the issue from Center for Constitutional Rights. Louisiana must “cease and desist” from placing any individuals convicted of Crime Against Nature by ...
  • Isabella's Story: A Transgender Person's Story ...
    The letter below came to us from our friends at BreakOUT!. This Thursday night at 9:00pm, the Allways Lounge will host a benefit for BreakOUT! featuring a range of performances; circus, burlesque, drag, bounce, and more. "This is a short story of my life. Please type it and print it and send it ...
  • Danziger Sentences Bring Closure, With Controv ...
    This article originally appeared on the New Orleans Tribune/TribuneTalk website. On Wednesday, five officers were sentenced for firing on unarmed civilians on Danziger Bridge on September 4, 2005, and conspiring to cover-up their crime. The sentences bring some degree of closure to a case th ...
  • Jena Six activists and other local organizers ...
    This article was originally published in the April 2, 2012 print edition of The Louisiana Weekly newspaper. In 2008, officers from the New York City Police Department took a trip to New Orleans to spy on the people of this city. The occasion was the People’s Summit, a grassroots response to a ...

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Here it is, people...you have asked for it, you have demanded it, and NOW YOU HAVE IT! http://theinfounderground.com/archives/ ... mplete.mp3 Here is the high-quality audio of my narration of The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion in Modern English. I will also be featuring my other work ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    http://bhcourier.com/article/Local/Loca ... iers/64577 Friends Of The IDF Gala Raises $2 Million For Israel’s Soldiers Published 12/24/2008 - 11:57 a.m. PDT bhc122608 From left: The Beverly Hilton’s owner Beny Alagem, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ishtar Alabina, L.A. Mayor Antonio Villara ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Another "log" on the "No-Planer" fire. Check the explosions in this "Effects" video on Pearl Harbor from the Summer of 2001. For some reason, I always thought the J-Tribe used this movie as a warm up and test bed for the real thing on 9/11. --CSR Like Hollywoo ...
  • Zionist Influence/Power • Re: Christian Massac ...
    Maitreya's Age of Aquarius target: 2012Statistics: Posted by Timothy_Fitzpatrick — Thu Apr 19, 2012 10:20 pm
  • Technology, Energy, Genetically Modified or En ...
    Project Bluebeam anyone?Statistics: Posted by Timothy_Fitzpatrick — Thu Apr 19, 2012 10:19 pm

TVNZ

environment 360

  • U.S.-Based First Solar to Close German Factory ...
    First Solar, Inc., the U.S.’s biggest solar manufacturer, will lay off 2,000 workers and close its German factory, citing what the company called fundamental changes to the industry and “deteriorating market conditions” in Europe. The Arizona-based company, which had been the world’s leading man ...
  • As Threats to Biodiversity Grow, Can We Save W ...
    With soaring human populations and rapid climate change putting unprecedented pressure on species, conservationists must look to innovative strategies — from creating migratory corridors to preserving biodiversity hotspots — if we are to prevent countless animals and plants from heading to extin ...
  • Destructive Emerald Ash Borer Has Edged Closer ...
    The emerald ash borer, an invasive beetle that has destroyed millions of ash trees from the U.S. Midwest to western New York over the last decade, has been found east of the Hudson River for the first time, the closest the pest has comes to the forests of New England. New York environmental offi ...
  • Majority of Americans Link Extreme Weather and ...
    More than two-thirds of U.S. adults believe global warming made several recent extreme weather events even worse, according to a new survey. According to the report, released by the Yale Project on Climate Change Communications and George Mason University’s Center for Climate Change Communicatio ...
  • New Solar Panel System Could Double as Tinted ...
    A German startup has developed a new type of lightweight solar panel its developers say can be integrated into the design of buildings and even used in electricity-producing tinted windows. Designed by Dresden-based Heliatek, the technology utilizes small, organic molecules in the production of ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • 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& ...

Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Comic plays mark anniversary
    While the most prominent of entertainment company Yoshimoto Kogyo's myriad business interests are the near endless TV appearances by it contracted comedians, the real heart of its operation lies not in the studio but on the stage. It was exactly 100 years ago this month that Yoshibe Yoshimoto ...
  • Ishihara puts date on isles purchase; China sl ...
    Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara said Thursday he expects the purchase of the Senkaku Islands to go through as early as next April. Ishihara made the remarks after arriving at Narita Airport from Washington. He said the Tokyo Metropolitan Government is negotiating with the owner to buy three of th ...
  • 'Le Havre'
    Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismaki has always been free from a particular pressure of the modern world: the pressure to grow and change. You know, the one where we have to make more money, be better looking and forever fit, and go on better vacations than the Joneses (or Suzukis) and post the pict ...
  • Stopping the North's next move
    The United Nations Security Council on Monday "strongly condemned" North Korea for its failed rocket launch three days earlier and announced that it will impose new sanctions. The North's failed attempt to launch a satellite clearly violates a 2009 UNSC resolution that prohibits it from carrying ...
  • Nowitzki lights up Rockets in fourth
    Dirk Nowitzki should have been tired after playing 96 minutes in consecutive overtime losses. Instead, Nowitzki was at his best late when the Dallas Mavericks needed him most.

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • BMO Professor vs. Bank Regulation
    Last week, the C. D. Howe Institute was out with an op-ed contending that Canadian household debt is not worth worrying too much about: “There does not seem to be a strong case for restrictive regulation of consumer credit products, such as tight caps on interest rates.” The C. D. Howe Institute ...
  • Political Apathy and Voter Suppression: Who ar ...
    Haven’t you heard? Canada’s in deep trouble. No, it’s not rising inequality. Or stagnant incomes. (That growing gap between the rich and the rest of us is so last week.) The environment? Whatever. A decimated workforce? Aboriginal poverty? Public sector layoffs? The attack on worker rights? Not ...
  • Later Retirement: A Win-Win Solution?
    The C. D. Howe Institute have put out a study on later retirement by Peter Hicks, a former senior official with HRSDC and the OECD who has written a lot on the policy implications of ageing societies. I find this to be one of his less convincing efforts. The argument – with parenthetical c ...
  • Corporate Canada is Dangerously Under-leveraged
    (Hat tip to Toby Sanger, from whom I’ve borrowed much of this material.) It is now generally well recognized that Canadian household debt has reached unsustainable levels.  Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of Canada, has cited household debt as the most pressing domestic economic issue. Canadia ...
  • Who’s a bigger drag on Canada’s fu ...
    This is my latest column for Canadian Business magazine.  Giorgio, a hard-working, smart-as-a-whip University of Toronto student, asked me a great question after a recent guest lecture: What if the biggest challenge facing Canadian businesses and governments in the coming years isn’t an aging so ...

ReDress

  • Israel's settler-officers in the glare of publ ...
    Uri Avnery examines the incident in which an Israeli skullcap-wearing officer, Lt-Col Shalom Eisner, launched an unprovoked and brutal attack on a young Danish peace activist, and argues that Eisner, a deputy brigade commander, is not just the quintessential army officer but the quintessential I ...
  • What do Breivik and Netanyahu have in common?
    Alan Hart argues that among the things that unite Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin is "mania of victimhood": for Breivik insane fears about the consequences for Norway of immigration and multiculturalism, and for Netanyahu an obsession with Iran which, i ...
  • Intolerance in the USA's "sunshine state" of F ...
    Lawrence Davidson analysis the chronic intolerance inherent in the US State of Florida, at the core of which lie the Cuban American and Jewish communities, which "form around repugnant ideological cores that then come to characterize their very identity".
  • Good for Guenter Grass! Everyone and his dog n ...
    Stuart Littlewood views the "squawks and screeches" emanating from Israel in protest at German poet Guenter Grass's poem on the threat Israel poses to the world, and reminds us of a couple of pertinent facts: that Israel is the only nuclear state in the Middle East and that it refuses to forgo t ...
  • Pastor John Hagee and his deadly million
    Lawrence Davidson argues that US Pastor John Hagee and his followers, who believe in the divine creation of the state of Israel, are as delusional as people who once believed in the reality of Zeus and his Olympian clan but could one day act as cheerleaders for the ethnic cleansing and mass murd ...

Physics Today

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

Revolutionary Politics

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

Peakwater

  • An Army Corps of contradictions
    “Even as it clings to a policy requiring state and local agencies to clear trees from levees, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has granted one of its own districts a variance to plant 30,000 trees along the levee-lined Sacramento River. Huh? “The Corps has always been an agency of in ...
  • Landslide Risk at Reservoir Cited in China
    “A growing threat of landslides on ground surrounding the massive Three Gorges Dam reservoir could force the government to relocate 100,000 more residents of the area, from which 46,000 were moved earlier, an expert with China’s land and resources ministry said this week. “The dam, t ...
  • US government releases ‘fracking’ gas rules
    “The US government has released long-awaited rules on “fracking”, the process  used to unlock oil and gas deposits hidden deep in rock formations that has revolutionised  the domestic energy sector. From 2015, oil and gas companies will be required to capture methane and  other pollutant g ...
  • Protecting Bay Area’s Water Supply in Ev ...
    “One day before the 106th anniversary of the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, Mayor Ed Lee was in San Mateo County on Tuesday to mark a major milestone in securing the region’s water supply in the event of a future major earthquake. “Lee joined San Francisco Public Utilities C ...
  • Direct drinking water recycling could prevent ...
    “Direct potable reuse (DPR) of wastewater could free up billions of litres of water from reservoirs around Australia, giving cities a greater buffer to capture rainwater and control major flooding events, says Dr Stuart Khan, an environmental engineer at the UNSW Water Research Centre. &#8 ...

D. Kucinich

  • Kucinich Discusses H.R. 9: How are we going to ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following video after the House passed H.R. 9, The Small Business Tax Cut. Click the image to see the video. The full text follows: Today, Congress considered a fundamental question ...
  • Kucinich Opposes Giveaway to Oil Companies, Ca ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement after voting against H.R. 4348, the Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2012. “The transportation infrastructure needs of our nation are urgent and unprecedentedly large.  Addressing those needs must be at the ce ...
  • Congressman Kucinich on the Passing of America ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement upon the passing of Dick Clark. Mr. Clark was 82. “For generations Dick Clark helped bring to Americans the music of our lives. In many ways he helped create the soundtrack of America.  He brought forward some of the ...
  • Kucinich Applauds Decision to Keep Area Roman ...
    Cleveland, Ohio (April 18, 2012) – Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today welcomed the decision by Roman Catholic officials to keep open 12 churches in the Cleveland area: “I am pleased and relieved that the 12 Roman Catholic churches which were subject to the appeal to the Vatican on their p ...
  • Democrats Turn Out in Force to Protect Non-Dis ...
    Democrats on the Committee on Education and the Workforce’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Subcommittee, led by acting Ranking Member Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), turned out in force for an important federal agency that protects the rights and opportunities of American workers who work ...

Authentically Wired

  • …And you would find this surprising why& ...
    …And you would find this surprising why…?    GOP Unveils Plan to Gut Food Stamp Program 04-18-2012  •  http://www.commondreams.org, Common Dreams staff House Republicans have passed their budget that includes slashing food stamps in an effort to save billions in cuts to ...
  • ..IF… you are buying this crap
    ..IF… you are buying this crap … call me quickly as I have some ocean front property in Arizona to sell you … You really believe the gangster-banksters are going to automatically end their domination over our money …  can you spell … STUPID …   Big Brother America: Government Preparing ...
  • WHAT…? … YOU STILL CAN’T CON ...
    … IRS  … FEBERAL REVERVE … CORPORATIONS … WALL STREET … BANKSTERS …   WHAT…?   … YOU STILL CAN’T CONNECT THE DOT$ …?   IRS Travel Ban: Revoking Citizenship By Stealth   4-16-2012  •  www.prisonplanet.com  Efforts to pass a bill that would allow ...
  • …It’s Time to Stop the Nuclear Ene ...
    …It’s Time to Stop the Nuclear Energy Welfare Program…   By Sen. Bernie Sanders and Ryan Alexander, Comment Is Free …Posted on April 15, 2012, Printed on April 18, 2012 … http://www.alternet.org/story/154982/it%27s_time_to_stop_the_nuclear_energy_welfare_program The US is facing ...
  • Brewer vetoes bill allowing guns in buildings
    THANK YOU … perhaps there is light at the end of a long tunnel…  Brewer vetoes bill allowing guns in buildings   By TERRY TANG … Associated Press .. PHOENIX (AP) —   Gov. Jan Brewer has vetoed a bill that would have allowed guns in public buildings. The governor’s office ann ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Photos: Uncontacted Amazon tribes documented f ...
    Aerial surveys of a remote area of rainforest along the Colombia-Brazil border have produced the first photographic evidence of uncontacted tribes, according to a conservation group that works to safeguard indigenous territories and culture. The photos, released by the Amazon Conservation Team ( ...
  • Model airplane used to monitor rainforests - c ...
    Conservationists have converted a remote-controlled plane into a potent tool for conservation. Using seed funding from the National Geographic Society, The Orangutan Conservancy, and the Denver Zoo, Lian Pin Koh, an ecologist at the ETH Zürich, and Serge Wich, a biologist at the University ...
  • Brazil can eliminate deforestation by 2020, sa ...
    Brazil can reduce Amazon deforestation to zero by 2020 while boosting rural livelihoods and maintaining healthy economic growth, the governor of Pará told mongabay.com on the sidelines of the Skoll World Forum, a major conference on social entrepreneurship, last week. Governor Simao Jatene ...
  • Beyond Bigfoot: the science of cryptozoology
    Anyone who doubts cryptozoology, which in Greek means the "study of hidden animals," should remember the many lessons of the past 110 years: the mountain gorilla (discovered in 1902), the colossal squid (discovered in 1925, but a full specimen not caught until 1981), and the saola (discovered in ...
  • Gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon: a view fro ...
    On the back of a partially functioning motorcycle I fly down miles of winding footpath at high-speed through the dense Amazon rainforest, the driver never able to see more than several feet ahead. Myriads of bizarre creatures lie camouflaged amongst the dense vines and lush foliage; flocks of p ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Body donors more likely to be blue-collar workers
    People who choose to donate their bodies to science are more likely to be blue collar workers than people in professional or managerial occupations, a study suggests.The University of Otago study surveyed more than 200 people registered...
  • When one head is better than two
    According to the old saying, two heads are better than one but in many cases, you are better off thinking for yourself, say researchers.Scientists found that group decision- making is more likely to yield the correct answer to a...
  • DNA project reveals actor related to Napoleon
    It is one of the most improbable family connections. One is an actor famed as a languid Lothario. The other was one of the world's most brutal but brilliant military leaders. Nevertheless geneticists say their analysis shows Tom Conti...
  • From green to gold: Algae proves lucrative
    A New Zealand research company has tapped into a potentially multi-million dollar market.Nelson-based Cawthron Institute has extracted minute quantities of organic compounds from algae, and onsold them to international researchers.Acting...
  • Scientist selling farm to fund malaria battle
    A veteran researcher says she's selling her multimillion-dollar organic farm so that she can continue her work on breakthrough anti-malarial treatment.Auckland University researcher Norrie Pearce has dedicated much of her life to...

The Bovine

  • The party that supports raw milk poised to win ...
    A few days ago we ran a story which included an email statement from the Chief Policy Correspondent of Alberta’s Wildrose Alliance party stating that “…We support the right of our dairy producers to sell their product wherever demand exists … Continue reading →
  • Michael Schmidt court date is now postponed to ...
    From the Canadian Constitution Foundation: BELLEVILLE, ON: Dairy farmer Michael Schmidt’s next scheduled day in court has been postponed from April 25 to July 25, 2012 after Schmidt’s lawyer was served with a motion to strike evidence from his application … Continue reading →
  • Canadian raw milk consumer forum
    Special to The Bovine, by Margo McIntosh The Canadian Consumer Raw Milk Advocacy Group is announcing their forum at www.rawmilkconsumer.ca/forum.  The purpose of this forum is to collect information and discuss how to constructively go forward with our lobbying of government. Within … Cont ...
  • Michigan MNR actually launches armed raids on ...
    From Health Ranger Mike Adams, at Natural News.com “(NaturalNews) NaturalNews can now confirm that the Michigan Department of Natural Resources has, in total violation of the Fourth Amendment, conducted two armed raids on pig farmers in that state, one in … Continue reading →
  • Is it a crime to drink milk?
    From Phyllis Schlafly, at The Moral Liberal.com “…I’m particularly interested in this case (Amish farmer Dan Allgyer) because I brought up all my six children drinking raw fresh milk. Every Saturday, I would drive to a farm about an hour away … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • "Not ECB's Job to Tackle Spain's Problems" Say ...
    Echoing sentiment that should be widely-held but unfortunately is not German central bank president  Jens Weidmann says Not ECB's Job to Tackle Spain's Problems. Spain should take a rise in its bond yields as a spur to tackle the root causes of its debt woes, not look to the European Cent ...
  • Is Capitalism Dead, or Simply Dying?
    Noted financial author Richard Duncan says Capitalism is Dead, Credit New King. The world needs to clue in to changes to its economic system, including the death of capitalism, according to noted financial author Richard Duncan, who warns that attempts to turn back the clock on our credit-driv ...
  • Huge Dilemma: Do You Protect Your Job or Your ...
    Every day I face the question: Do You Protect Your Job or Your Clients’ Money? The above link points to an 11 page PDF by Jeremy Grantham in his latest GMO quarterly newsletter. Here are a few excerpts. Jeremy Grantham The central truth of the investment business is that investment b ...
  • IMF Chief Jackass Calls for Taxpayer-Funded Ba ...
    Yesterday TrimTabs president & CEO, Charles Biderman, proposed Firing All Government Economists and Disbanding the BLS, BEA and Census Bureau I countered with ... "Biderman's proposal a mere down payment on what needs to happen. In addition to getting rid of the BLS, the BEA, and t ...
  • Economic Madness; Bank of Japan Threatens More ...
    The last thing Japan really needs is to kick off a bout of inflation. At a mere 2% interest rate or so, interest on its national debt would consume all revenues. Nonetheless, the Wall Street Journal reports BOJ Ready to Take Additional Steps The Bank of Japan stands ready to take additional st ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Jamiol Presents
  • US-Israel War on Iran: The Myth of Limited Warfare
    Israel-US War on Iran: How Cheap has it Become to ‘Buy a War’ in the US By James Petras The mounting threat of a US-Israeli military attack against Iran is based on several factors including: (1) the recent military history of both countries in the region, (2) public pronouncements by US and Isr ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- March 27 ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular cause . . . True courage and manhood come from the consciousness of the right attitude toward ...
  • The EyeOpener- Change of Heart?: The Legacy of ...
    Until last Saturday, those who called former Vice President Dick Cheney “heartless” would have been more or less technically correct. Since 2010, the now 71 year old with a history of heart troubles has been using a HeartMate II, a left ventricle assist device that helped his heart t ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- March 26 ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “NATIONAL DEFENSE, n. In U.S. political discourse: 1) The pauperization of the nation through expenditures for deadly weapons systems; 2) The bombardment and invasion of small countries. The United States is, of course, the only nation entitled to such ‘defense.&#82 ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

Press TV

  • 4 US forces die in Afghanistan air crash
    At least four US troops have been killed after a helicopter operated by the US-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) went down in the conflict-plagued southern Afghanistan.
  • Iran censures terror acts in Iraq
    A senior Iranian Foreign Ministry official has censured a wave of terrorist bombing and shooting attacks across iraq that killed at least 37 and left over 170 others, including a number of Iranian pilgrims, wounded.
  • UK police Tasers black firefighter
    The British law enforcement faces another case of police racism after a black firefighter lodged a complaint that police officers assaulted and shot him with a Taser gun.
  • US to probe into troops photo disaster
    US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has ordered a probe into published photos showing American troops mugging for the camera, while posing with the body parts of sUSpected Afghan militants.
  • UN chief welcomes Iran-P5+1 talks
    UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed last week’s talks between Iran and the P5+1, urging both sides to use their achievements in Istanbul as a basis for the next summit in Baghdad.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

  • Eyes vote no to space travel
    Head scans of astronauts have shown signs of raised intracranial pressure affecting their eyes and pituitary glands, new research has revealed. Writing in the journal Radiology, University of Texas ...
  • Happiness is in your Right Hand
    How you type a word could change the way you emotionally respond to it, and words typed with mainly the right hand seem to make people happier. In fact, the layout of letters on a keyboard may e...
  • Gut Bugs Promote Blood Vessel Growth
    The bacteria that live in your intestines change the way that blood vessels form inside your gut. New research, published in the journal Nature, identifies how this happens and offers potential ...
  • Corals that can clone
    Mass mating spawnings aren't the only means of coral reproduction: these reef-building organisms have a clever way of cloning themselves too, Australian scientists have shown. Writing in Science, A...
  • Iceman's DNA decoded
    tzi, the Tyrolean iceman frozen in a glacier for 5300 years until his 1991 discovery, was brown-eyed, prone to heart disease, lactose intolerant, blood group O and infected with lyme disease, a new a...

Nick Turse

  • Members of Socialist Unity Center of India (SU ...
    Members of Socialist Unity Center of India (SUCI) listen to a speaker during a rally in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, March 14, 2012. The protest was against hike in prices of essential commodities as well as rampant corruption. (Saurabh Das)
  • An Occupy Wall Street protester is seen in Uni ...
    An Occupy Wall Street protester is seen in Union Square at the end of a march from Zuccotti Park to Union Square on March 24, 2012 in New York City. The Occupy Wall Street movement has seen a resurgence in recent weeks in part due to new protests over the killing of Florida teen Trayvon Martin. ...
  • Presidential candidate Dr. Abdullah Abdullah i ...
    Presidential candidate Dr. Abdullah Abdullah is surrounded by supporters at a rally in Kabul. Credit: Lynsey Addario
  • At this Kabul wedding the bride is Fershta, 18 ...
    At this Kabul wedding the bride is Fershta, 18. She wears a green dress for the ceremony—a color associated with prosperity and paradise in Islamic tradition. The groom is Amin Shaheen, son of film director Salim Shaheen. Credit: Lynsey Addario
  • A male Ethiopian surgeon, center left, shows t ...
    A male Ethiopian surgeon, center left, shows the female staff at Malalai Maternity Hospital in Kabul how to repair a fistula—an abnormal hole between the vagina and bladder or rectum that can lead to infection and incontinence. The condition often occurs during childbirth in young mothers whose ...
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