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Monday, April 23, 2012

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Scoop - NZ

  • No real winner in Bahrain's Grand Prix
    Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel may have won the Bahrain Grand Prix, but there was no winner in the main event: a public relations battle between the ruling Al Khalifa family and protesters in the streets over competing visions of Bahrain. Masked youths with petrol bombs faced off nightly against ...
  • Facebook Friends Can Make You Poor
    Economists have had an extraordinary new idea. They’ve noticed that people communicate with one another and this has opened up a new line of analysis. Maybe these social interactions are somehow important in investment decisions? Alright, enough sarcasm. The likely involvement of social inter ...
  • Romney’s Bad Math
    Speaking at a closed-press fundraiser in Palm Beach, Florida, on Sunday night, Mitt Romney offered more details than he ever has to date on what he might do about federal spending and taxes. Luckily, some reporters standing outside overheard him. NBC reports: “I’m going to take a lot of depar ...
  • On Feminism and Sadomasochistic Sex
    Katie Roiphe has written a link bait-y Newsweek cover story making an interesting claim: that the pop culture appearance of submissive female sexual fantasies, in shows like Lena Dunham’s “Girls” and pulp fiction like Fifty Shades of Grey, is somehow a backlash against women’s increasing economi ...
  • Lybia: Is that what we fought for?
    ON THE face of it, Libya’s was a very male revolution. Covering the armed rebellion in the east of the country, I came across thousands of young men firing their Kalashnikovs into the air and talking excitedly about the overthrow of Colonel Gaddafi. Their sisters, they told me, were at home. The ...

Independent - London

  • Dutch government close to collapse as cuts tal ...
    The Dutch government was close to collapse today, with the prime minister widely expected to resign after top-level talks on an austerity package failed. Related StoriesSecond Briton in three days dies in hotel fallAll eyes on Hollande as first-round victory leaves Sarkozy on brinkSpain back in ...
  • North Korea threatens 'unprecedented' action a ...
    North Korea's military vowed today to launch unspecified "special actions" soon meant to reduce South Korea's conservative government and media companies "to ashes" in less that four minutes, in an escalation of its recent threats. Related StoriesTsunami debris washes ashore on beach in AlaskaRo ...
  • All eyes on François Hollande as first-round v ...
    The Socialist challenger François Hollande narrowly topped the poll in the first round of the French presidential elections last night and now seems likely to become the first left-wing occupant of the Elysée Palace for 17 years.Related StoriesSecond Briton in three days dies in hotel fallAll e ...
  • Breivik compares himself to bereaved on last d ...
    The right-wing extremist who confessed to a massacre of 77 people in Norway compared the pain he caused the families of his victims to his own situation today.Related StoriesSecond Briton in three days dies in hotel fallAll eyes on Hollande as first-round victory leaves Sarkozy on brinkSpain bac ...
  • Spain back in recession as economy contracts in Q1
    Spain's central bank says the country is now in a technical recession as the economy contracted 0.4 percent in the first quarter of the year.Related StoriesSecond Briton in three days dies in hotel fallAll eyes on Hollande as first-round victory leaves Sarkozy on brinkBreivik compares himself to ...

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Oppressive Sanctions! EU Fascism Condemned in ...
    Russia on Friday condemned as unacceptable a fresh round of sanctions being prepared by the European Union against the Syrian regime. "Our position concerning such sanctions is well known," said foreign affairs ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich. "We judge them unacceptable from the point ...
  • The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Is Far From Over
    Spent reactor fuel, containing roughly 85 times more long-lived radioactivity than released at Chernobyl, still sits in pools vulnerable to earthquakes. More than a year after the Fukushima nuclear power disaster began, the news media is just beginning to grasp that the dangers to Japan and the ...
  • Monitoring the Internet: DHS Deception Exposed
    One of the nation's leading electronic privacy groups claimed this week that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) misled members of Congress during a recent hearing on whether the Department is paying a defense contractor $11.4 million to keep tabs on protected free speech and dissent again ...
  • Sun May Soon Have Four Poles, Say Researchers
    The sun may be entering a period of reduced activity that could result in lower temperatures on Earth, according to Japanese researchers. Officials of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan and the Riken research foundation said on April 19 that the activity of sunspots appeared to rese ...
  • Mitt Romney, American Parasite
    It was the early 1990s, and the 750 men and women at Georgetown Steel were pumping out wire rods at peak performance. They had an abiding trust in management's ability to run a smart company. That allegiance was rewarded with fat profit-sharing checks. In the basement-wage economy of Georgetown ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Pipeline provocations
    Looking back, Toronto looked a lot like the trial run. The first protests began outside Enbridge's offices, the BC legislature, and several places along the route.  Then access roads to the workcamps were blocked by protesters. Spiked trees on the route and the usual suspects chaining themselves ...
  • The sellout of British Columbia's sovereignty
     #NorthernGateway #BCpoli #Cdnpoli - On 21 June, 2010, soon-to-be-ousted-premier Gordon Campbell allowed the signing away of the sovereignty of British Columbia and any right to intervene on the Enbridge Northern Gateway Project to Stephen Harper and his petro-masters in an unannounced bac ...
  • Elmer Derrick appointed to Prince Rupert Port ...
    Elmer Derrick doesn't live in Prince Rupert. His Gitxsan Nation's land isn't in Prince Rupert. What makes this so "odd"? Well, take a look at this: The northern B.C. First Nation chief who signed a controversial deal to support Enbridge's $5.5-billion oil pipeline has been appointed by the ...
  • Hunsperger syndrome
    #Abvote I normally wouldn't pay all that much attention to Alberta politics. In turn, I'm pretty sure that most Albertans would likely ignore the rants of a lotus-lander pointing a finger eastward from the tidal high water mark of the Pacific. All that changes when the good people of Briti ...
  • Defund Catholic Schools
    I've never agreed with the public funding of schools run by an organized superstition in the first place and this just reinforces my reasons why. While we're at it, let's remove the tax-exempt status from the entire so-called "church".

Media Matters for America

  • Fox Hosts Act Horrified At Proposal To "Amend ...
    The conservative hosts of Fox News' The Five acted horrified at House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's statement that she wants to "amend the Constitution" to reverse the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United v. FEC, a decision that Pelosi said "flies in the face of our founders' vision." T ...
  • As Experts Agree Food Deserts "Do Exist," Righ ...
    A recent New York Times article highlighted two studies that the article claimed "question the pairing of food deserts and obesity" and may "raise questions about the efforts to combat the obesity epidemic simply by improving access to healthy foods." While right-wing media have seized on the a ...
  • Get Ready For More Years Of Falsehoods and Sme ...
    Media have reported that Fox News will be renewing the contracts of Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity, for multiple years and multiple millions of dollars. Based on O'Reilly and Hannity's previous years with the network, these extensions will likely result in several more years of blatant falsehoo ...
  • Fast And Fallacious: Pavlich's Book On ATF Ope ...
    In her new book, Fast and Furious: Barack Obama's Bloodiest Scandal and its Shameless Cover-up, Townhall news editor Katie Pavlich offers up a number of false and misleading claims about the ATF's fatally flawed Operation Fast and Furious. In doing so Pavlich baselessly suggests that high-ranki ...
  • Facts Bust Media Narrative That Obama Favored ...
    Media conservatives are pushing the narrative that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's attacks against President Obama over the economy will be effective because Obama favored health care reform rather than focusing on "fixing the economy." However, this narrative falters when confr ...

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TPM Cafe

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

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Public Citizen in Texas

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

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Grassroots

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

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

Booman Tribune

  • It'll Probably Be Romney/Portman
    It looks like the consensus is that Mitt Romney will choose one of the architects of the economic collapse as his running mate: There is no doubt in the minds of Republican National Committee members that Mitt Romney will be their standard bearer in the fall, and already consensus is buildin ...
  • New Crime: Owning Home While Black
    This story speaks for itself (from the Atlanta Journal Constitution): The Kalonji family had just closed on a foreclosed home and were told by their real estate agent they should go over to the house and change the locks. But when Jean Kalonji and his wife, Angelica, started working at the ...
  • How Can You Possibly Fail to Nationalize a Pre ...
    I see this in The New York Times today: Concern in G.O.P. Over State Focus on Social Issues ... this year, with the nation heading into the heart of a presidential race and voters consumed by the country's economic woes, much of the debate in statehouses has centered on social issues. T ...
  • We Broke Laws Banning Torture
    Here's something new in the history of Booman Tribune. My father sent along a link and suggested that I should discuss it on the blog. My Dad is not what most people would consider a left-winger. At least, not consistently, and not for at least half of my life. I can't really describe his po ...
  • Overprotective Parent?
    I don't know what sports, if any, my two year-old boy will want to play but it makes me sad that I don't think I can responsibly let him play football. I'm even a little concerned about soccer. I played all kinds of sports and the only concussion I ever got was while water-skiing. I guess I g ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • Las Nieves: The Spanish Campground Struck By a ...
    When nature unleashes her fury, camping can turn into a nightmare; the abandoned campground of Las Nieves in Biescas, Spain, fell victim to a devastating flood in 1996. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • How Our Computer Overlords Shape Global Culture
    Search engines direct viewers to websites and guide content creation – and skilled writers cater to these computer overlords. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Beijing's Secret Underground City
    Beijing's underground network of Cold War era bomb shelters have housed cheap apartments for over two decades. Tour this shadowy world and see what the future holds. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Looks So Real: Surreal Suburban Landscapes Cre ...
    These urban landscapes may seem quite normal at first, but take a closer look and you'll be surprised. The surreal works of artist Frank Kunert are strange indeed. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 2012 Indian Ocean Earthquake May Be Dry Run fo ...
    A massive earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia on April 11, 2012. No destructive tsunami was produced and early warning worked well but there are worrying signs. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

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Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Wins in Minneapolis & Choppy seas indeed: Glow ...
    EU bankfail as everyone relishes Spain's 'successful auction' - American bankfail continues as homeless spirals, inflation & money velocity drift On the MN front, well the Occupy movement in Minneapolis really flushed out a lot of authoritarian over-reactions in the last couple weeks, starti ...
  • Meet the new Boss in Town: ICE spawns... HSI H ...
    Now with moar National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center ... Security unit targets ‘worst’ in world crime - John Lantigua, Palm Beach Post, Nov 26 2011 HSI is a new directorate within the Immigration and Customs Enforcement service. Formed in September, its agents are responsible ...
  • BREAKING: Minnesota Statute used to repress Oc ...
    We have word from downtown Minneapolis right now that the Minneapolis police are using something akin to a bomb scare to shut down the space around the relaunching Occupy Minneapolis space at Peavey Plaza. As usual the pseudo-war on terror lets those Constitutional rights get carved away one spa ...
  • First warm day of 2012 = Days 1&2: OccupyMinne ...
    IN an entirely unexpected and spontaneous emergence of lulz, the first dry, warm evening of spring led to an impromptu occupation of Peavey Plaza on Nicollet Mall, with OccupyMpls (occupyminneapolis.mn) regulars holding it down into the night with two tents, sleeping gear, hot tea and snacks. Ex ...
  • Report: Simcity 5 finally under development fo ...
    I have been very, very into SimCity ever since I was little. Now, finally SimCity 5 is getting a proper treatment. PLEASE send me any beta builds, i will debug the shizzle out of them :D Until you can get your hands on this, use the Network Addon Mod in SimCity 4 for much more fluid road&rai ...

Daily Censored

  • EU Parliament to send passenger data to US
    Until now, passengers flying to the United States had to fill out the Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA) form as a paperless replacement to the I-94 form to be checked against the US watch list and pay a fee in order to enter the United States. This form has basic information on i ...
  • Rupert watch – signaling the end
    By Michael Collins Rupert Murdoch’s reign over the $33 billion News Corporation hinges on events surrounding the company’s ownership share of Britain’s dominant pay TV network, BSkyB (Sky). As Business Insider said, “it’s the only asset that really matters” in ...
  • Don’t sit under the banana tree with any ...
    On January 23 the Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities (APSCU), the trade “ union” group for for-profit colleges in the United States, announced that former president George W. Bush would be the keynote speaker at the lobbying group’s annual conference on June 22, 2012 at Mand ...
  • 43-second video: monetary, credit reform reali ...
    ET3 develops leading-edge research for the public transportation that can be fully-funded with credit and monetary reform. This 43-second video shows their evacuated tube transport system with top speeds of 4,000 mph. Monetary reform creates money for direct payment of public goods and services; ...
  • Monetary, credit reform empowers happiness: Pr ...
    The first 51 minutes of this video (following discussion here) from Claremont Colleges’ Center for Process Studies’ conference, “Money-Creation in a Finite World,” is Professor Mark Anielski’s presentation to explain how economics can, and should, be designed to enlighten, inform, and empower ac ...

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  • Radioactive Risks in Japan from Spent Nuclear ...
    The radioactive inventory of all the irradiated nuclear fuel stored in spent fuel pools at Fukushima is far greater and even more problematic than the molten cores.
  • Warfare Welfare: The Not-So-Hidden Costs of Am ...
    This edited volume reveals how a permanent war economy has made the United States unable to spread democracy abroad and has worsened domestic problems.
  • PHOTO: Human Rights Activism in Bahrain
    An anti-government protester flashes a victory sign in front of riot police during an anti-government rally demanding the release of human rights activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, in Manama, Bahrain.
  • CEO Pay on Morning Joe
    Political commentators on MSNBC's morning news talk show agreed that the forty-year trend of rising executive compensation is "obscene" and that Citigroup shareholders have a right to be upset.
  • Death and Taxes
    The United States accounts for approximately 43 percent of all global military expenditures.

IntelNews

War is a Crime.org

  • Shaky Economies
      Shaky Economies   by Stephen Lendman   Since 2009, an ocean of easy money saved American, EU, and Japanese economies from collapse.   read more
  • Grand Prix Disgrace
      Grand Prix Disgrace   by Stephen Lendman   On Sunday, April 22, Bahrain's Grand Prix went on as scheduled. This year's grand prize is disgrace, not glory.    read more
  • MSNBC: Evidence of Multiple Shooters, Night Ra ...
    The first story was shaky from the start, that Sgt. Robert Bales "sneaked" off a combat outpost into hostile, landmined territory in the middle of the night, walked north a little over a half mile to a village, engaged in bloody murder, then walked back that half mile, past the base, and another ...
  • War Crimes Indictment Served at Hancock Air Ba ...
    Today, in an action that included three women successfully reading a War Crimes Indictment at Hancock Air Field in Mattydale, NY, thirty-three members of the Upstate Coalition to Ground the Drones were preemptively arrested by the Onondaga County Sheriff’s Dept. two blocks from the entrance to t ...
  • Elliott Adams' Sentencing Statement on Novembe ...
    I appreciate the bench’s effort to understand the arguments made - arguments involving local law, international law and, even the principles of civil disobedience.  read more

Grist - News

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

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Invisible Opportunity

  • Greek Town Implements Revolutionary Barter Sys ...
    Activist Post Greece continues along a path toward self-sufficiency that could very well see them break free from their debt servitude. In the wake of their pillaging by international financiers, Greeks who have realized that protesting is likely to bring little relief have begun to implement ba ...
  • Connecticut bill would allow citizens to sue p ...
    Madison Ruppert, Contributor Activist Post The trend of individuals being arrested for legally filming police in public is an issue which gets me especially frustrated and a favorite topic of mine to bring up here at End the Lie. Thankfully, individuals have been striking back recently through l ...
  • Forget WiFi, Connect to the Internet Through L ...
    Whether you’re using wireless internet in a coffee shop, stealing it from the guy next door, or competing for bandwidth at a conference, you’ve probably gotten frustrated at the slow speeds you face when more than one device is tapped into the network. As more and more people—and their many devi ...
  • Activist Post: 5 Ways to Improve the Public Sc ...
    Bohemian Mom Activist Post As an unschooling parent, I often struggle with the thoughts of what happens to all the other children that are still in the public school system. While we believe very strongly in the benefits of having our children at home and following an unschooling lifestyle, I kn ...
  • Fracking: Pennsylvania Gags Physicians
    By Walter Brasch, Dissident Voice A new Pennsylvania law endangers public health by forbidding health care professionals from sharing information they learn about certain chemicals and procedures used in high volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing. The procedure is commonly known as fracking. Fr ...

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Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • German Trash Collectors Transform Dumpsters In ...
    Read the rest of German Trash Collectors Transform Dumpsters Into Giant Pinhole Cameras Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: dumpster art, eco design, green design, hamburg, pinhole camera, sustainable design, Trashcam Project, Upcycled dumpsters
  • New Research Links Phthalates to Type 2 Diabetes
    Diabetic is doing a glucose – Image from Shutterstock Phthalates are a family of chemicals that are used in plastics, fragrances and a variety of other consumer products. Because they serve as endocrine disruptors, phthalates have some very dangerous properties, but they’ve gone largely un ...
  • 7 Weird and Wonderful Uses For LED Lighting Te ...
    It’s amazing to think that just a few years ago, many people thought of LEDs as nothing more than the tiny red lights in our laser pointers but my, how the times have changed! With more and more people realizing the energy-efficiency benefits of LED lighting, it seems that everything from ...
  • The World’s 6 Most Pressing Environmental Issues
    Read the rest of The World’s 6 Most Pressing Environmental Issues Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: alternative energy, canopy loss, carbon emissions, Climate Change, deforestation carbon, Earth Day 2012, energy issues, environmental destruction, food security, foo ...
  • Report Says Chinese Textile Polluters Disregar ...
    Bad news for the fashion industry – nearly 50 major apparel brands have links with factories that have been disregarding China’s environmental laws, according to Cleaning Up the Fashion Industry, a report by five grassroots organizations. While China has put regulations in place to prevent ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Celebrate Earth Day in Super High Resolution
    In honor of Earth Day, Wired has put together a gallery featuring his most astounding images and videos of our glorious home planet.
  • Up for Bids: Classic Soviet Space Propaganda P ...
    Science and communism are inseparable! That is the basic message of this amazing collection of Soviet space propaganda posters that will be auctioned off on April 22. The posters have messages such as "Comrades! Soviet Land Has From Now On Become the Shore of the Universe!" or "The Tenth Planet ...
  • How Science Failed During the Gulf Oil Disaster
    When the Deepwater Horizon oil well exploded two years ago in the Gulf of Mexico, many academic scientists stepped outside of the Ivory Tower to study what was an unprecedented -- and unintended -- environmental experiment. They succeeded in gathering mountains of data, learning all sorts of new ...
  • Has Our Galaxy’s Dark Matter Gone Missing?
    Our little corner of the Milky Way contains no observable concentration of dark matter, the mysterious stuff whose gravity binds galaxies together -- or at least one team of astronomers claims. Other researchers doubt the reliability of the team's method for measuring the elusive substance.
  • 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.

PakAlert

  • Last fragments from ‘magical’ Egyptian ‘Book o ...
    The last missing pages from a supposedly 'magical' Book of the Dead from an Egyptian priest, Amenhotep, have been found after a century-long search - in a museum in Queensland. British Museum Egyptologist Dr John Taylor said he was 'floored' by the discovery of the 100 fragments. It's the ...
  • TSA pushing to have body scanners nationwide?
    The Transportation Security Administration has been the subject of criticism by seemingly all who fly in the USA. The TSA is accused of violating privacy when it asks travelers to go through full body scan machines all for the supposed sake of national security. One of the companies behind the c ...
  • Infected PCs may lose Internet in July
    For computer users, a few mouse clicks could mean the difference between staying online and losing Internet connections this summer. Unknown to most of them, their problem began when international hackers ran an online advertising scam to take control of infected computers around the world. I ...
  • Forget WiFi, Connect to the Internet Through L ...
    Whether you’re using wireless internet in a coffee shop, stealing it from the guy next door, or competing for bandwidth at a conference, you’ve probably gotten frustrated at the slow speeds you face when more than one device is tapped into the network. As more and more people—and their many devi ...
  • You WILL believe a man can fly: Video of dared ...
    The pilot is aged over fifty, and the wing suit, weighing 55kg and with a wing span of six feet looks like a film prop - but when Yves Rossy launches into the skies, it looks like magic made real.

Andy Worthington

  • Guantánamo: Who Are The Two Uighurs Freed in E ...
    As published on the “Close Guantánamo” website. Please join us — just an email address required. With no fanfare — just an announcement on its website — the Pentagon informed the world on Thursday that two Uighur prisoners at Guantánamo, held for over ten years but recognized as inno ...
  • The Torture Trials at Guantánamo
    In the last few weeks, Guantánamo has been under the spotlight as, for the first time since President Obama took office, the military commission trial system — the government’s preferred method for trying terror suspects held in Guantánamo — has been readied for trying “h ...
  • The Human Face of Indefinite Detention: Shaker ...
    On Friday April 24, from 6:30 to 8:30pm, I will be beamed into Room 407a of the New School, at 66 West 12th Street, in New York City, for a panel discussion, “The Human Face of Indefinite Detention: Shaker Aamer, Guantánamo and the NDAA,” with some good friends of mine — Col. M ...
  • If Abu Qatada is Guilty of Crimes, Why Not Pro ...
    When it comes to dealing with Muslim “terror suspects” in the UK, and recent rulings by the European Court of Human Rights preventing the British government from deporting Abu Qatada to Jordan, but approving the extradition to the US of Abu Hamza, Babar Ahmad, Talha Ahsan and two oth ...
  • Calling for the Release of Shaker Aamer from G ...
    On Monday, in the hope of drawing MPs’ attention to the ongoing disgrace of the detention at Guantánamo of Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in the prison, the Save Shaker Aamer Campaign, with the support of Peace Strike, organised a demonstration in Parliament Square, to greet MPs a ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Oklahoma Oath Keeper Convicted of Rape
    In the end, the antigovernment rhetoric that so energized his defense couldn’t save Charles Dyer, the former Marine and member of the antigovernment Oath Keepers organization accused of raping his own daughter. Late Thursday, after four hours of deliberation, a Duncan, Okla., jury convicted Dyer ...
  • Coulter: GOP Supports Arming Blacks to Defend ...
    In Superman comics, Bizzaro World is a cube-shaped planet on which all normal rules of reality are reversed and everything is the opposite of the way it is on Planet Earth. It is also the only place imaginable where Ann Coulter’s assertion that “For more than a hundred years, Republicans have ag ...
  • Missouri Lawmaker Proposes Amendment to Reject ...
    The antigovernment “Patriot” movement is big on the U.S. Constitution. Except when it’s not. For some reason, the far-right politicians who identify with and promote the Patriot movement can’t seem to get over the fact that the Constitution gives the federal government primacy over the states – ...
  • New Georgia Law Targets Antigovernment Soverei ...
    Aiming squarely at the antigovernment “sovereign citizens” movement, Georgia’s governor on Monday signed a law that will make it a felony to file fraudulent liens against public officials or employees, a tactic known as “paper terrorism.” Sovereign citizens, extremists who believe they don’t hav ...
  • Three Men with White Supremacist Tattoos Convi ...
    A Houston jury has convicted three men who sported white supremacist tattoos on federal hate crime charges for carrying out a racially motivated assault on a 29-year-old black man they cornered at a bus stop. Charles Cannon, 26, Michael McLaughlin, 41, and Brian Kerstetter, 32, face up to 10 yea ...

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

  • Chicago Continues Beefing Up 'Security' for NA ...
    In the lead-up to the NATO summit in Chicago from May 20 - 21, the city has acquired 500 troopers from the Illinois State Police as well as 600 Illinois National Guard troops for the summit and accompanying protests. What protesters still don't know is the location restrictions that the Secr ...
  • UN to Begin Contentious Investigation Into Nat ...
    The United Nations is set to embark on an investigation on Monday into the rights of Native Americans in the United States for the first time. James Anaya, the UN special rapporteur on indigenous peoples, will lead the investigation. read more
  • Arctic Methane in Vicious Cycle of Global Warm ...
    As the Arctic warms due to global warming, the Arctic Ocean itself may be releasing vast amounts of methane, contributing to even more global warming, according to a study published today in the journal Nature Geoscience. read more
  • Iran: We're Building a Copy of Captured U.S. ...
    Iranian officials have said today that they have begun building a copy of a U.S. drone that was downed by Iranian forces last year. Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh said, "There is almost no part hidden to us in this aircraft. We recovered part of the data that had been erased. There were many codes ...
  • Is Tar Sands Crude Coming to New England?
    While much attention has been paid to the possibility of Canada's tar sands crude coming to the U.S. via the Keystone XL pipeline, some signs indicate that Canada is quietly pushing for the crude to flow to the U.S. through a Montreal - Portland, Maine pipeline, according to Foster's Dai ...

Lifehacker

  • iConvert Instantly Converts Audio and Video fo ...
    OS X: There are a lot of tools that'll convert videos for your iPhone, iPod, or iPad (like our favorite, Handbrake), but they aren't always easy for the average joe to use. iConvert makes it as simple as drag, drop, and click. More &r ...
  • Dropbox Sharing Gets Easier with Direct Links ...
    Dropbox has updated its file sharing system to make it easier to share direct links to files inside your Dropbox folders without having to give up access to your account or dump content into your Public folder. More » ...
  • Make Your Mac's Dashboard Actually Useful [Mac ...
    The Mac Dashboard doesn't seem to get much love these days and a decrease in the amount of widgets being made for it means people have likely moved on to dedicated apps for most of their widget purposes. Still, it's an extra screen on your Mac ...
  • SAM Unlocks Any Jailbroken iPhone Running iOS ...
    iOS (Jailbroken): Unlocking your iPhone and taking it over to another carrier has been a relatively painless process in the past, but it wasn't always foolproof and didn't work on some modern devices. Different basebands on different phones me ...
  • Is Your Smartphone Helping You as Much as It’s ...
    Most of us have a smartphone in our pocket, and most of us have been known to use it for work from time to time—some people more than others. The theory is that owning a smartphone makes us more connected, more productive, but studies ha ...

Water Privatization

  • MCWD denies calling Osmeña ‘gatecrasher’
    THE Metropolitan Cebu Water District (MCWD) admitted Rep. Tomas Osmeña (Cebu City, south district) was not invited to the groundbreaking ceremony of a water project in the north. But the MCWD also said it never called Osmeña a “gatecrasher.” Osmeña, in turn, called the MCWD management corrupt.
  • Storm water problems concern candidates
    HUNTINGTON -- Huntington City Council's District 4 Republican primary features a seasoned politician in local government squaring off against a political newcomer who says her experiences of living in other places could be beneficial.
  • The myth of privatization
    The privatization of the power industry, as the neo-liberals would articulate, marked the culmination of the private sector’s partnership with the government.
  • Committee votes to take Asheville's water ...
    ASHEVILLE — A state legislative committee recommended Thursday the city be stripped of control of the region’s largest water system, which serves 125,000 people in Buncombe and Henderson counties.
  • Committee votes to take Asheville's water ...
    ASHEVILLE — A state legislative committee recommended Thursday the city be stripped of control of the region’s largest water system, which serves 125,000 people in Buncombe and Henderson counties.

Guardian

  • Leveson inquiry: Evgeny Lebedev, Aidan Barclay ...
    • Lebedev says £75m invested on Indy and Standard titles • Ofcom to investigate Sky News over 'canoe man' hacking • Ryley not 'sufficiently aware' of Computer Misuse Act • 'Highly unlikely' Sky News will take same action again • Prosecution sources suggested to 'look at' Darwin's emails3.30pm: ...
  • MI6 spy Gareth Williams complained of friction ...
    Sister says Williams disliked office culture and had been due to return to GCHQ one week after his body was found in holdallGareth Williams, the intelligence worker found dead in a padlocked holdall at his London flat, had requested a transfer from MI6 and had been due to move one week after his ...
  • Eurozone crisis live: Dutch PM offers resignat ...
    • Mark Rutte to tender resignation - reports • Finance minister promises to maintain fiscal discipline • Protests outside cabinet meeting • Dutch AAA rating at risk • Spain in recession, says central bank.3.07pm: It's official, Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte has offered his cabinet's resignatio ...
  • London mayoral election race draws tighter
    Boris Johnson just two percentage points ahead of Ken Livingstone in latest poll before local electionsBoris Johnson and Ken Livingstone are neck and neck once more in the race for the London mayoralty, according to the latest YouGov poll showing the Conservative candidate's lead has narrowed to ...
  • Sky News chief apologises to Leveson for previ ...
    John Ryley tells Leveson inquiry that letter stating staff had 'never intercepted communications' was 'very regrettable'The head of Sky News has apologised to the Leveson inquiry after the broadcaster previously said that it had not engaged in any hacking, when executives knew that a reporter ha ...

McClatchey

  • Ron Paul, supporters say GOP race isn't over yet
    Don't tell Ron Paul and his supporters that the race for the GOP presidential nomination is over. They put Republicans in Texas and beyond on notice Saturday that they plan…Click to Continue »
  • Offshore oil drilling near Cuba renews spill c ...
    In Cubas North Basin, the Spanish company Repsol has begun risky exploration for oil and natural gas on a semi-submersible rig, now just 77 nautical miles from Key West and…Click to Continue »
  • Sudan launches major attack on South Sudan
    Sudanese forces launched a major attack along the border with South Sudan after the South Sudanese army withdrew from a disputed oil field on Friday, signaling that the recent border…Click to Continue »
  • Supreme Court to hear Arizona immigration case ...
    In their latest highly charged faceoff, the justices must decide whether Arizona went too far with a crackdown that includes ordering police to routinely check the legal residency status of…Click to Continue »
  • Egypt reportedly cuts natural gas supply to Israel
    Egypt has terminated its contract to supply natural gas to Israel, ending a joint venture that served as a cornerstone of the peace process between the neighbouring states.Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

  • Bomb kills 2 NATO service members in Afghanistan
    NATO forces say two international service members have been killed in a bomb attack in eastern Afghanistan. The military coalition says in a statement issued Monday that the deaths happened on ...
  • US, Afghanistan reach deal for 'strategic ...
    US and Afghan negotiators have finalized a strategic partnership agreement outlining American support for the war-torn nation following the withdrawal of NATO troops at the end of 2014.
  • Afghanistan, U.S. reach pact on post-2014 Amer ...
    The Washington Post KABUL, Afghanistan -- After more than a year of negotiations, U.S. and Afghan officials reached an agreement Sunday confirming the United States' commitment to ...
  • Gloomy forecast for Afghanistan's future
    Negative developments in Afghanistan during the past week have painted a gloomy picture of the central Asian country's security outlook, once again demonstrating that the more the United States ...
  • U.S., Afghan's pending diplomatic deal
    U.S. ambassador, Afghan national security adviser initial framework for future relations The proposal does not address the future presence of American troops President Barack Obama wants to have ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

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

Science Express

  • Fermi maps an active galaxy's 'smokestack plumes'
    If our eyes could see radio waves, the nearby galaxy Centaurus A (Cen A) would be one of the biggest and brightest objects in the sky, nearly 20 times the apparent size of a full moon. What we can't see when looking at the galaxy in visible light is that it lies nestled between a pair of giant r ...
  • Pollution from Asia Circles Globe at Stratosph ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additiona ...
  • After growth spurt, supermassive black holes s ...
    Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
  • Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virus
    A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20 ...
  • Lizard moms choose the right genes for the rig ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Two Dartmouth biologists have found that brown anole lizards make an interesting choice when deciding which males should father their offspring. The females of this species mate with several males, then produce more sons with sperm from large fathers, and more daughters with spe ...

TechDirt

  • Bonus Sunday Post: Help Dan Bull Get His New F ...
    Check it out: a rare bonus Sunday post. Dan Bull, the independent UK musician who we've written about quite frequently for his songs about topics near and dear to our hearts, has come out with another awesome new song, Sharing is Caring. However, there is one thing different this time around: ...
  • Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week ...
    Hey folks. Mike is at Innovate/Activate this weekend, so I'm bringing you the roundup of funniest and most insightful comments. No record-busters this week, but lots of high scores nevertheless. The insight trophy goes to RD for a challenge to copyright maximalists that has so far gone unansw ...
  • No title
    If I had to define a theme for Techdirt, it would be something like: "Technology constantly evolves: get it, some don't." So, first up for my favorites this week are stories about the ones that don't get it: Working in computer security at a major bank (note, everything I say is my ow ...
  • Too Much Copyright: This Generation's Prohibition
    The folks over at ReasonTV have put together a great episode about the state of copyright law today. Hosted by Zach Weissmueller, the video includes three guests. Professor Tom Bell, who is well known for his useful depiction of the insanity of copyright extension via the Mickey Mouse curve, C ...
  • The Difference Between Nuanced Discussion And ...
    We recently posted what I thought was an interesting essay by musician Erin McKeown on her reaction to seeing someone copy a song of hers, and have that other song become a "hit." We thought it was an interesting and nuanced exploration of some of the challenges of being a musician and thinking ...

VacTruth

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

BroadSnark

  • Anti-Authoritarianism, Anti-Racism, and Avoidi ...
    In response to my Trayvon post, one of the commenters denied that police and prison guards killed black kids and brought up how many black people were killed by other black people. I responded to the comment, but I think there is a bit more to say. Within the black communities that are most affe ...
  • Occupy the DOJ
  • And…Not Either/Or
    Taibbi had an interesting post up a bit ago about the growing consensus about big banks. He talks about a report by the head of the Dallas fed’s research department who is calling for an end of “too big to fail” banks. Moreover, he talks about an inherent perversion of the syst ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Charles Davis is covering for Glenn Greenwald this week and wrote two really great posts. And I’m not just saying that because one of them relates to the campaign the criminal (in)justice committee is working on. Wells Fargo”s Prison Cash Cow The Liberal Betrayal of Bradley Manning I ...
  • Revolution in the Echo Chamber
    Organizing for radical change means building relationships and networks. It is natural that we start building with the ones we already have. We don’t need to start from scratch. And connections built on years of shared experiences are probably going to be stronger than ones based just on p ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Video: 60 Minutes — Christians of the Holy Land
    Considering that this is a story that the Israeli government tried to suppress, it could have been more hard-hitting. In the end, Israel’s Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren made himself the highlight of the piece by parading the rampant paranoia and defensiveness that has come to shape a ...
  • Bahrain’s epic fail
    Marc Lynch writes: Nine days ago, the courageous Bahraini activist Alaa Shehabi wrote for Foreign Policy about the then sixty-four day hunger strike by Abd al-Hadi al-Khawajai. His death, she warned, “could mark a significant breaking point for the regime’s efforts to rehabilitate it ...
  • Egypt terminates gas deal with Israel
    Al Jazeera reports: The head of the Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company has said it has terminated its contract to ship gas to Israel because of violations of contractual obligations, a decision Israel said overshadows the peace agreement between the two countries. Mohamed Shoeb, the gas compan ...
  • Senator Russ Feingold takes on Islamophobia
    Nayantara Mukherji reports: Former Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold is known for taking on monumental challenges. In 2001 he was the only senator to vote against the Patriot Act. These days, Feingold has turned his attention to another cause — US foreign policy. At a talk in Madison, Wiscon ...
  • Israeli minister agrees Ahmadinejad never said ...
    Robert Mackey writes: In a reminder that Persian rhetoric is not always easy for English-speakers to interpret, a senior Israeli official has acknowledged that Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, never actually said that Israel “must be wiped off the map.” Those words were a ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Klotzbach and Gray 2012 forecast – coole ...
    EXTENDED RANGE FORECAST OF ATLANTIC SEASONAL HURRICANE ACTIVITY AND LANDFALL STRIKE PROBABILITY FOR 2012 We anticipate that the 2012 Atlantic basin hurricane season will have reduced activity compared with the 1981-2010 climatology. The tropical Atlantic has anomalously cooled over the … C ...
  • Madrid 1995: Was this the Tipping Point in the ...
    Reposted with permission from Enthusiasm, Scepticism and Science John Haughton writes of it under the heading:  Meetings that Changed the World. He may be right but not only in the way he thinks. Here we consider whether this meeting in … Continue reading →
  • On Earth Day, another global warming opinion p ...
    WUWT and its large readership are often blamed for such results, in this case, we have nothing to do with it. Luboš Motl writes on his blog The Reference Frame ABC1, an Australian TV channel, is planning to air… I … Continue reading →
  • Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
    Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week: “In God we trust; all others bring data!” Motto of the Apollo space team that included lunar landings. ####################################### ...
  • Back-testing the Solar – Sea Level Relat ...
    Guest post by David Archibald This is a little bit amusing. In February, I had a post on the solar – sea level relationship which quantified the sea level fall to come to the end of Solar Cycle 25: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/02/03/quantifying-sea-level-fall/ … Continue reading →

treehugger

Biosingularity

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

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Pruning Shears

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

Organic Consumers.org

  • New Study Links Autism to High-Fructose Corn Syrup
    I know what you're thinking: "Tom, it's been ages since you wrote about high-fructose corn syrup." And you're right! It has. But as I'm feeling petulantly defiant, I think it's time to take another look at America's favorite sweetener.Click here to read this article
  • Using Technology and Excess Produce to Solve H ...
    Legendary broadcaster Edward R. Murrow once said, "The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer." One of those rare people who not only see but act on what was has clearly been invisible to most of us is Gary Oppenheimer. Since he founded AmpleHarvest.org, he has ...
  • Why Obama Must Drop Michael Taylor
    Earlier today, I had the opportunity to share a few choice words with Michael Taylor, former Monsanto lawyer, current Obama Food Safety Czar.Click here to read this article
  • Blamed for Bee Collapse, Monsanto Buys Leading ...
    Monsanto, the massive biotechnology company being blamed for contributing to the dwindling bee population, has bought up one of the leading bee collapse research organizations.Click here to read this article
  • The Organic Scoop - April 2012
    Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

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

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • 2012″ and Electromagnetic Effects on Con ...
    excerpted from Revolution 2012 by Dieter Broers We are in the midst of a process involving the restructuring of our neuronal networks, and that the catalyst of this process is the high solar-geomagnetic activity Submitted by John Farnham to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |  &n ...
  • U.S. Supreme Court says ok for organizations a ...
    The Supreme Court is totally out of control and has been for the past 10-15 years Submitted by Jaime Dough to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Nuclear Politics
    Rather than revisiting the NPT TRAP again I expanded the range of issues surrounding war and nuclear technology in what I hope is a fresh view Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Real Ridiculous Research - Top 10 Reasons why ...
    research the Nazis would have shunned as being immoral... Submitted by michael h. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Natalia's Story of HOPE: Blended Learning Model
    3rd grade student, Natalia, shares her experience with blended learning at HOPE Online Learning Academy Co-Op. For more information, visit ‪http://hopeonline.org Submitted by Erik Keith to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

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

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • 6.7 million bats already dead, White-nose Synd ...
    ShareThis6.7 million bats already dead, White-nose Syndrome could lead to extinction of some species - scientists 10 Apr 2012 More than six million bats are dead, and millions more are expected to fall victim to a disease known as White-nose Syndrome, or WNS. First identified in the northeastern ...
  • George Zimmerman released from jail on $150K bond
    ShareThisGeorge Zimmerman released from jail on $150K bond 23 Apr 2012 George Zimmerman was released around midnight Sunday from a Florida county jail on $150,000 bail as he awaits his second-degree murder trial for fatally shooting Trayvon Martin. The neighborhood watch volunteer [alleged kille ...
  • Two Men Die In Separate Incidents After Being ...
    ShareThisHoly police state, Batman! Two Men Die In Separate Incidents After Being Fired On By Meriden Police 22 Apr 2012 (CT) Two men died early Saturday after police officers fired weapons in two separate incidents involving drugs, according to the state police and the mayor. One man was killed ...
  • Chemical complex had second explosion, radiati ...
    ShareThisChemical complex had second explosion, radiation measurement is nearly impossible 22 Apr 2012 At 8:00 AM 4/22/2012, the chemical complex [Iwakuni Otake Petrochemical Complex of Mitsui] had second explosion with black smoke. They managed to extinguish fire at 17:15 of 4/22/2012, when alr ...
  • Israeli military ready for action in Iran: mil ...
    ShareThisIsraeli military ready for action in Iran: military 22 Apr 2012 The Israeli military is ready for action in Iran if need be, Israel's army chief of staff said in remarks published Sunday. "In principal, we are ready for action," Lieutenant-General Benny Gantz said in an interview with Y ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Dark Night
    DVIDS 23 April 2012 Last week there was a suicide attack on a police checkpoint in Afghanistan.  There were numerous fatalities and wounded.  All Afghans. MEDEVAC flights can be extremely dangerous for many reasons.  Firstly, the fact that MEDEVAC is needed is often due to host ...
  • Did Green Berets and MEDEVAC Violate Geneva Co ...
    NO. Air Force HH-60G Pave Hawk in Afghanistan (photo credit DVIDS) 22 April 2012 A video is circulating of "Green Berets" in combat.  The Soldiers are hammering away with a minigun and other weapons.  An A-10 can be seen rolling in and shooting.  Casualties are taken, and afte ...
  • Blame the military, not the media
    In wake of new Afghanistan corpse photo scandal, be sure to put responsibility where it belongs One of the infamous Abu Ghraib prison photos from Iraq in 2004. 21 April 2012 After Abu Ghraib and a steady drip of other outrages, the latest photo scandal with U.S. troops is upon us: A soldier ...
  • Taliban Denounce Poisoning of Girls
    18 April 2012 Yesterday, about 171 girls and women were poisoned at a school in Afghanistan.  Whereas the blame immediately went to the Taliban, Afghanistan is far too complex for reflexive answers.  Further, there are many groups of "Taliban," and other associated enemies, making it ...
  • Afghanistan Opium Survey 2012
    Please click here to view the entire document.

The Killing Train

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

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Democratic Voice of Burma

  • NLD files complaint; rival parties decry ‘unfa ...
    While the NLD says the USDP violated voting laws at one polling station during by-elections, a group of parties claim the NLD utilised unfair tactics
  • Parliament opens without NLD
    While the National League for Democracy have postponed their parliamentary debut, the legislative body swore in the willing and opened its third session
  • Minister U Aung Min: ‘Burma will become ...
    During the past six months Burmese Railway Minister U Aung Min has spearheaded negotiations with most of Burma’s armed ethnic groups. During a recent trip to Norway, the minister talked with DVB’s Chief Editor Aye Chan Naing about the tentative peace deals in the works between the government and ...
  • President refuses to amend parliamentary oath
    During his five-day trip to Japan, President Thein Sein said the MPs required pledge will not change after the NLD postponed their parliamentary debut in protest of the oath's wording
  • EU drops sanctions, keeps arms embargo
    Following the country's historic by-elections, the European Union is set to begin removing sanctions placed on Burma, while maintaining an arms embargo

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Ukraine ex-Prime Minister Tymoshenko returned ...
    [JURIST] Ukraine's ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko was returned to prison on Sunday after being sent to a clinic Friday for medical treatment. Tymoshenko has refused to be treated [JURIST report] by the Ukrainian doctors at her prison for back problems she has been experiencing, as she believ ...
  • UN to investigate rights of Native Americans
    [JURIST] UN Special Rapporteur on Rights of Indigenous Peoples James Anaya will visit the United States from April 23 to May 4 to launch the UN's first ever investigation into the rights situation [press release] of Native Americans. Anaya will be looking into the rights of Native Americans, Ala ...
  • Egypt high court lacks authority to rule on pr ...
    [JURIST] The Egyptian Constitutional Court [official website, Arabic] announced Saturday that it can not rule on an act of parliament that banned certain candidates from the upcoming presidential elections [IFES election guide]. The court said that it is only able to rule on the constitutionalit ...
  • Former US military cadets sue service academie ...
    [JURIST] Two former cadets from the US Military Academy and the US Naval Academy [official websites] brought a suit [text] in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York [official website] alleging that the service academies failed to prevent rapes. Specifically, the complaint al ...
  • Mexico legislature passes climate change bill
    [JURIST] The Mexican legislature passed a sweeping climate change bill on Thursday 128-10 in the Chamber of Deputies [official website, in Spanish] and unanimously in the Senate [official website, in Spanish]. The bill requires the country to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 30% by 2020, requi ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

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

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Israeli Navy Kidnaps Beethoven
    TweetNo, not the composer, but the ship.  Though I have little doubt had Beethoven lived today he’d be writing a symphony for Gaza that would get him banned by the Israeli Interior Ministry as happened to another German artist, Gunter Grass. Today, the Israeli navy forciby boarded a Liberi ...
  • Israel Makes Deal With Prisoners to Find Remai ...
    TweetIn 2005, an 18 year-old Druze soldier, Majdi Halabi, who’d only served five months in the IDF, disappeared while hitchhiking somewhere between his home in  northern Israel’s Carmel region and his military base. Until now, there has been no word on what happened to him. Police ne ...
  • Israeli ISP Bans Access to Tikun Olam
    TweetThanks to an Israeli reader who was visiting a Haredi community, Beitar, and tried unsuccessfully to access my blog.  Using the ISP Etrog, he received the following message: Dear User, This site is blocked by Etrog Internet. In the event that you think this is an error, click here… Wi ...
  • Links for 2012-04-21 [Digg]
    Negotiations Between Iran and the West: An Opportunity for Compromise or Prelude to War? It feels like war against Iran grows incrementally closer each day. Yet websites like Israel Loves Iran, Facebook pages like Israelis Against the War, and Twitter accounts are filled with a message sorely ...
  • Jewish Chronicle Editor Threatens Lawsuits Ove ...
    TweetStephen Pollard, editor of the UK’s Jewish Chronicle has levelled his first volley against journalists and bloggers who criticized the newspaper for hosting a blog by Carlos Cortiglia, a white supremacist leader of the British National Party.  He’s threatened Jews for Justice fo ...

If Americans Knew

  • A moment of truth: A word of faith, hope and l ...
    We, a group of Christian Palestinians, after prayer, reflection and an exchange of opinion, cry out from within the suffering in our country, under the Israeli occupation, with a cry of hope in the absence of all hope, a cry full of prayer and faith in a God ever vigilant, in God's divine provid ...
  • NPR Watch: Linda Gradstein Has Done It Again o ...
    NPR's reporter Linda Gradstein has done it again. She has managed to take a "must report" story on Israeli-Palestinian relations -- the new report by B'Tselem on the non-combatants, including children, killed by the Israeli military during the Israeli attack on Gaza -- and report it in a manner ...
  • Documentary Video: Shooting the Messenger
    This documentary on the deliberate killing and intimidation of journalists in conflict zones, examines how international reporters became targets.
  • Impressions of Israeli Executions in the West Bank
    Much planning had gone into our family vacation in Israel-Palestine. We could spare only the last two weeks of 2009, and so had developed an uncompromising itinerary for each day, allowing a mere half-day to recover from jet lag from our trip from California. After devoting most of the first wee ...
  • Calling Bono: Your Palestinian Gandhis Exist . ...
    In your recent column in the New York Times, "Ten for the Next Ten," you wrote: "I'll place my hopes on the possibility -- however remote at the moment -- that...people in places filled with rage and despair, places like the Palestinian territories, will in the days ahead find among them their G ...

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • How Ushahidi Deals With Data Hugging Disorder
    At Ushahidi, we have interacted with various organizations around the world, and the key thing we remember from reaching out to some NGOs (non-governmental organizations) in Kenya is that we faced a lot of resistance when we began in 2008, with organizations not willing to share data which was o ...
  • Top 5 Tech Ideas for Creating Better Explanato ...
    How can technology help journalists make sense of complex issues and explain them to the public in a clear, understandable manner?Last year, Jay Rosen's journalism students spent an entire semester researching and making explanations in partnership with ProPublica, a non-profit newsroom which fo ...
  • SocMap: Why a Small Map App Can Be Better Than ...
    We experimented with various concepts for SocMap.com for a whole year in an effort to create a map-based social network for connecting and informing people in local neighborhoods. The conclusion: Even though we can reach commendable levels of new user registration, our users don't create con ...
  • Knight-Mozilla Partnership Evolves, Seeks New ...
    It's only the start of April, and already it's been a big year for the Knight-Mozilla Partnership. We've placed four fellows at the BBC, the Guardian, Zeit Online, and Al Jazeera. (A fifth fellow, at the Boston Globe, will be starting a little later this spring.) We've renamed and refocu ...
  • 'Water Hackathon' Aims to Understand Brooklyn' ...
    My arm was up to the elbow in water classified as unfit for human contact. I was staring down a double-barreled shotgun of pipes that release some 90 million gallons of untreated sewage and storm water annually into the very water I was canoeing in. This is the Gowanus Canal, in Brooklyn, N.Y. I ...

Cutting Edge News

  • The 2012 Vote - Nonprofit Hauls in More than S ...
    Sixty-two percent of funds raised by two conservative groups associated with former Bush adviser Karl Rove have come from mystery donors, a statistic that shows the increasingly important role being played by nonprofits in a post-Citizens United political world. American Crossroads , a super PAC ...
  • Broken Labor - SuperShuttle: A Job or a Business?
    Okieriete Enajekpo needs money. It’s not that the Nigerian-born Maryland resident is unemployed.But as a driver for the airport van service, SuperShuttle, he must pay the company upwards of $900 a week before he takes home any money of his own.And going into his fourth day this week in January ...
  • The Race for Biofuel - The Biofuel Debate: Foo ...
    As biofuel production has increased – particularly ethanol derived from corn – a hotly contested competition for feedstock supplies has emerged between the agricultural grain markets and biofuel refineries. This competition has sparked concern for the more fundamental issue of allocating lim ...
  • Edge of Space - Finding ET May Require Giant R ...
    Autonomous, self-replicating robots -- exobots -- are the way to explore the universe, find and identify extraterrestrial life and perhaps clean up space debris in the process, according to a Penn State engineer, who notes that the search for extraterrestrial intelligence -- SETI -- is in its 50 ...
  • The Edge of Space - Some Stars Capture Rogue P ...
    New research suggests that billions of stars in our galaxy have captured rogue planets that once roamed interstellar space. The nomad worlds, which were kicked out of the star systems in which they formed, occasionally find a new home with a different sun. This finding could explain the existenc ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • President Obama's Lobbyist Lies
    Remember those idyllic days of the 2008 campaign. Then Senator Barack Obama promised us that he wouldn't hire a single lobbyist to work in his White House. In a way he was right, he didn't hire a single lobbyist, he hired dozens. It turns out over 100 current or former lobbyists have f ...
  • The Obama Administration's 15 Scandalous "Achi ...
    Sometimes I think my conservative compatriots go a bit too far.  They say that the three-year-old Obama administration is totally void of achievement. That is total nonsense; in three short years Barack Obama has increased the national debt by $5 trillion dollars, that's more than George Bu ...
  • Hidden Secrets of the "Soft-Core" Obama Supporters
    by Barry Rubin It’s really interesting when I talk to Obama supporters who are soft-core, meaning they are open to discussion and not completely closed-minded or ideologically set in granite. There are several themes that constantly recur in such conversations, though one rarely or never sees ...
  • Obama, "Quick-Get Me the Blood of A Virgin Tax ...
    Last week the Drudge Report displayed a picture showing that the burden of the presidency may be "getting to" Barack Obama. Under the headline SHOCK PHOTOS: Obama, Thin And Wasting Away, The picture showed the president looking tired and grey. It's really not anything unusual, that transf ...
  • Hillary Clinton Implies: Pro-Israel Sentiment ...
    Sometimes a secretary of state is asked tough questions. How they are answered shows the underlying philosophy of official and government. I genuinely don’t want to make too much out of a single exchange between Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and a Tunisian audience. Yet the problem is how t ...

The Real Agenda

  • Iran unplugs oil terminal from Internet
    ASSOCIATED PRESS | APRIL 23, 2012 Iran has disconnected its oil ministry and its main crude export terminal from the Internet to avoid being attacked by computer malware, a semiofficial news agency reported on Monday. Mehr said an export terminal in Kharg Island and other oil facilities cam ...
  • Sudan on Sudan Genocide
    AFP | APRIL 23, 2012 Sudanese war planes on Monday launched a fresh bombing raid on Bentiu, capital of the oil-rich South Sudan border state of Unity, killing at least one child, officials said. “This is a serious escalation, and a violation of the territory of South Sudan… I th ...
  • Climate Coup: The Science
    We check the climate models against our best and latest data. They got all their major predictions wrong—air temperatures, oceans temperatures, atmospheric warming patterns, and outgoing radiation. By DR. DAVID EVANS | SPPI | APRIL 20, 2012 We check the climate models against our best ...
  • Stigmatizing Resistance to Authority
    The medicalization of rebellion By SHELDON RICHMAN | THE FREEMAN | APRIL 20, 2012 In 1861 Samuel A. Cartwright, an American physician, described a mental illness he called “drapetomania.” As Wikipedia points out, the term derived from drapetes, Greek for “runaway [slave],” and mania fo ...
  • BP Gulf Oil Spill Revisited
    Corexit Plus Oil Is A Continuing Threat, Says Gulf Rescue Alliance. GULF RESCUE ALLIANCE | APRIL 20, 2012 Sunday, April 22nd is not only Earth Day, it also marks the 2nd anniversary of the unprecedented Macondo Prospect oil gusher into the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) which began the infamous BP Gu ...

Wind Watch

  • LURC officially rejects First Wind’s Bowers Mo ...
    BANGOR, Maine — Maine’s largest wind energy developer hopes to submit a proposal to build a new, dramatically reduced industrial wind site on Bowers Mountain later this year in response to its first and biggest defeat in Maine. The Land Use Regulation Commission voted 5-0 with little fanfare Fri ...
  • Where eagles dare not fly: Waterloo looms as w ...
    A dead wedge-tailed eagle, chicken eggs without yolks and a dysfunctional village with residents bursting to flee. This is the clean-energy revolution Waterloo-style, where the nation’s biggest wind turbines have whipped up a storm of dissent. Adelaide University has been drawn into a cont ...
  • Indian Pond area neighbors seek cease and desi ...
    KINGSTON — Eleven Kingston families are requesting that Zoning Enforcement Officer Paul Armstrong issue separate cease and desist orders to prevent operation of the wind turbine Independence on the town’s capped landfill and to stop operation of the three wind turbines on business owner Mary O’D ...
  • Groups sue to protect birds from wind projects
    A controversial, mega wind energy project has attracted a second lawsuit, this one federal, over possible bird kills. A coalition of environmental groups sued Kern County last year after supervisors approved the nearly 13,000-acre, 300 megawatt North Sky River Wind Energy Project, which would dw ...
  • Navy, South Texas wind developer sign agreemen ...
    CORPUS CHRISTI — The Navy signed an agreement with a wind farm developer Thursday that paves the way for 83 turbines to be built near Riviera, over the objections of local officials. The agreement is a first since developers began tapping the Texas coast for its steady daytime winds and, militar ...

Tippers News

  • Three men helped starve kids, court tol
    Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
    The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
    DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...
    Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note- ...
  • Confused cat found wandering streets of of Lin ...
    This hungry kitty thought she was the cat that had got the cream when she found a half-full tin of pet food as she prowled for snacks in bins behind a supermarket. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • Concerns Grow that Economy Will Stall
    “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.” (New York Times) So government isn’t the all-powerful fixer? FEE Timely Classic “More Government Actio ...
  • Business-Tax Cut Clears House
    “The House on Thursday passed a $46 billion tax cut that would benefit almost every business in the country, after a class-conscious debate that highlighted the gulf between the parties as the sluggish recovery drags on.” (New York Times) Depriving politicians of revenue is always a ...
  • Stigmatizing Resistance to Authority
    In our scientific age, many people find scientism, the application of the concepts and techniques of the hard sciences to persons and economic/social phenomena, comforting.
  • Hopes Dampen for Pickup in Job Creation
    “The number of Americans claiming unemployment benefits for the first time fell only slightly last week, dampening hopes of a pick-up in job creation in April after March’s slowdown.” (Reuters) The conditions for a real recovery still don’t exist. FEE Timely Classic “Prod ...
  • Banks Find Way around Volcker Rule
    “The path to gaming the Volcker Rule has always been clear: Banks will shut down anything with the word “proprietary” on the door and simply move the activities down the hall. To look as if they were ready to comply with the Volcker Rule, the part of the Dodd-Frank Act that aims to prevent ...

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

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

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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

new geography

  • Review: The Great Inversion and the Future of ...
    Is gentrification the “fifth great migration,” that will fill old downtowns with upper-middle-class white folks, while the tract mansions of the outer ring become slums for immigrants? So suggests Alan Ehrenhalt, the former executive editor of Governing magazine. In The Great Inversion and th ...
  • As Filmmaking Surges, New Orleans Challenges L ...
    For generations New Orleans‘ appeal to artists, musicians and writers did little to dispel the city’s image as a poor, albeit fun-loving, bohemian tourism haven. As was made all too evident by Katrina, the city was plagued by enormous class and racial divisions, corruption and some of th ...
  • Census Estimates: Slowing Metropolitan Growth ...
    Recently the Census Bureau released 2011 county and metro area population estimates that showed overall slowing population growth and particularly showing slow to halting growth in exurban counties. Someone once said to me about Chicago’s Mayor Daley that if he did something you liked, ...
  • California Declares War on Suburbia II: The Co ...
    My April 9 Cross Country column commentary in The Wall Street Journal (California Declares War on Suburbia) outlined California's determination to virtually outlaw new detached housing. The goal is clear:    force most new residents into multi-family buildings at 20 and 30 or more to the ac ...
  • The Myth of the Republican Party’s Inevitable ...
    The map is shifting, and Democrats see the nation’s rapidly changing demography putting ever more states in play—Barack Obama is hoping to compete in Arizona this year, to go along with his map-changing North Carolina and Indiana wins in 2008—and eventually ensure the party’s dominance in ...

GM Watch

  • Monsanto props up weak GM crop price
    NOTE: There's a relatively tiny amount of GM canola being grown in Australia despite, as this article makes clear, Monsanto underwriting the price to prop it up and bags of Roundup Ready canola seeds being given away for free! --- --- Monsanto props up weak GM crop price NATASHA BITA The Austral ...
  • GM promoter and death camp denier
    1.John Simpson: I was on wrong side in Bosnia death camps libel trial 2.Thomas Deichmann - a profile EXTRACT: ...nobody had ever heard of Deichmann before [he] reinvented himself as a fully-fledged Bosnia expert... As the battle of ideas over Bosnia has receded, Deichmann seems to have... been ...
  • Debal Deb- keeper of seeds
    NOTE: A wonderful profile for Earth Day. --- --- Debal Deb - keeper of seeds Good News India, April 2012 http://www.goodnewsindia.com/index.php/post12/story/debal/ Every year since 1997, Dr Debal Deb has sown the 700 varieties of folk rice seeds in his collection, in order that they may not be ...
  • Food chain says "No thanks!" to GM wheat
    NOTE: Link to new report 'Aphid Control in Wheat without GM' at end.  --- --- Food Chain Says "No Thanks!" to GM Wheat - Natural aphid control is the way forward GM Freeze, 19 April 2012   http://www.gmfreeze.org/news-releases/189/ Farmers, celebrity chefs, bakers, businesses, trade unionists, ...
  • Food chain says "No thanks!" to GM wheat
    NOTE: Link to new report 'Aphid Control in Wheat without GM' at end.  --- --- Food Chain Says "No Thanks!" to GM Wheat - Natural aphid control is the way forward GM Freeze, 19 April 2012   http://www.gmfreeze.org/news-releases/189/ Farmers, celebrity chefs, bakers, businesses, trade unionists, ...

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Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

  • 53 Percent Of All Young College Graduates In A ...
    If you are in college right now, you will most likely either be unemployed or working a job that only requires a high school degree when you graduate.  The truth is that the U.S. economy is not coming anywhere close to producing enough jobs for the hordes of new college graduates ...
  • Why Is It Necessary For The Federal Government ...
    There has been no society in the history of the world that has ever been 100% safe.  No matter how much money the federal government spends on "homeland security", the truth is that bad things will still happen.  Our world is a very dangerous place and it is becoming increasingly ...
  • Chimps Throwing Poop And 29 Other Mind Blowing ...
    Why do chimpanzees throw poop?  The federal government would like to know and is using your tax dollars to investigate the matter.  Every single year, we all send huge amounts of our hard-earned money to the federal government.  We hope that they will spend that money wisely.  Un ...
  • There Is Not Going To Be A Solution To Our Eco ...
    For those waiting for our economic problems to be solved, you can quit holding your breath.  There is simply not going to be a solution to our economic problems on the national level.  So why is that the case?  Well, it is because the economic policies of both major political par ...
  • The Too Big To Fail Banks Are Now Much Bigger ...
    The Democrats, the Republicans and especially Barack Obama promised that something would be done about the too big to fail banks so that they would never again be a threat to destroy our financial system.  Well, those promises have not been kept and the too big to fail banks are ...

Desertification

  • Land Use/Cover Change and Desertification (Goo ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.economics-papers.com/a-synthetical-study-on-land-usecover-change-and-desertification-in-arid-and-semiarid-region.html A Synthetical Study on Land Use/Cover Change and Desertification in Arid and Semiarid Region Abstract】 It is characteriz ...
  • Talks on Rio+20 Document (Google / Prensa Latina)
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.plenglish.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=499760&Itemid=1 UN: New Round of Talks on Rio+20 Document United Nations, Apr 23 (Prensa Latina) Negotiations for the text of the final declaration of the UN Conference o ...
  • Tree planting in Oman (Google / Gulf News)
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/oman/eso-to-plant-12-000-native-plants-in-dhofar-1.1011881 ESO to plant 12,000 native plants in Dhofar Shaikh Salim Bin Ali Al Katheri to kick off campaign with tree-planting session in Salalah school Muscat: The Enviro ...
  • Tree planting in Angola (Google / Angop)
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.portalangop.co.ao/motix/en_us/noticias/ambiente/2012/3/16/Tree-planting-campaign-underway,3441a38c-dcf8-40cf-ac27-6a1ab808da72.html Benguela Tree-planting campaign underway A total of 800 acacia trees were on Saturday planted in “4 ...
  • Biofuel from Agave and Biogas from Opuntia (Pr ...
    My Comments on Biofuel from Agave and Biogas from Opuntia From: Dr.A.Jagadeesh Director Nayudamma Centre for Development Alternatives 2/210 First Floor Nawabpet NELLORE- 524 002 Andhra Pradesh INDIA Facebook:http://www.facebook.com/anumakonda.jagadeesh

The Paper Trail

  • ANALYSIS: Shareholders raising ruckus about CE ...
    One of my responsibilities when I was head of corporate communications at Cigna was to help ensure that the company’s annual meeting of shareholders ran smoothly and, if at all possible, attracted no negative publicity.I always dreaded the annual meeting because you really never knew if one or m ...
  • SuperShuttle: A job or a business?
    Okieriete Enajekpo needs money.It’s not that the Nigerian-born Maryland resident is unemployed.But as a driver for the airport van service, SuperShuttle, he must pay the company upwards of $900 a week before he takes home any money of his own.And going into his fourth day this week in Janua ...
  • SLIDESHOW: A day in the life of a SuperShuttle ...
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  • ANALYSIS: Health insurers try to fool Congress ...
    Want to find out what Congress is about to vote on? Take a ride on the Washington subway.If you’ve been on the Metro in recent days, you might have seen an ad designed to make you feel sorry for our poor health insurance companies. So sorry that you’ll call your congressman and demand he support ...
  • Navy failing to preserve historical culture, I ...
    The group tasked with preserving the rich history of the U.S. Navy could be putting artifacts, paintings, and documents “at risk” — possibly due to massive spending on the service’s 200th anniversary.That’s the conclusion of a report by the Navy Inspector General’s office, conducted last August ...

backofthebook.ca

  • Wildrose Party’s Byfield: The Collected ...
    By Frank Moher Alheli Picazo at CalgaryPolitics.com has dug up some of the writings of Wildrose Party candidate and one-time Alberta Report Publisher/Editor Link Byfield, just in case Danielle Smith would like to defend someone other than Allan Hunsperger and Ron Leech for a change. Of course, t ...
  • Wildrose’s Ron Leech and the “ethi ...
    By Frank Moher Wildrose Party leader Danielle Smith says she takes it personally when “accusations of racism and bigotry are aimed at me and at my party.” Okay, well how about if we accuse some of your candidates of being bone dumb? We knew, of course, that Wildrose candidate Ron Lee ...
  • 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 ...

libcom

  • Honduras farm workers stage mass land occupations
    class traitors.jpg Thousands of rural workers in Honduras have occupied land as part of a dispute with large landowners and the government. The coordinated invasions took place ...
  • Food Not Bombs Spotlight Interview: Moscow Ana ...
    How long has Moscow ABC been in operation, and what does it do? There were previous anti-repression groups, but first incarnation under label of ABC-Moscow was set up in 2003 as a coordinating organ between existing groups, but around 2005 it had degraded ...
  • Quebec protests reach rowdy new level
    blackstandoff.jpg Students in Quebec have been on strike since February. They have been upset about Premier Jean Charest's plan to add $1,625 to the annual cost of post-secondary education by 201 ...
  • Anarchist Alexey Sutuga was arrested and reman ...
    Alexey Sutuga, anarchist, anti-fascist and the member of "Autonomous Action" was arrested on Tuesday evening, April 17, in Moscow. It happened during fundraising effort in support of anti-fascists prisoners. It became aware almost after a day ...
  • Brutal beating of an immigrant by police caugh ...
    cops.jpg In a new video published today the brutal beating of an immigrant by the police was caught on camera by a resident from his balcony. Brutal beating of an immigrant by po ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

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

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

  • Ameren Meeting-HCR 35 Hearing-3 environmental ...
    The 3 environmental shareholder resolutions include: report on coal combustion waste report on coal-related costs and risks assessment and report on greenhouse gas and other air emissions reductions through customer energy efficiency and renewable energy programs Labadie Environmental Organizati ...
  • Kitchen Project Photos
      Scotty Comments:  I am very pleased with the Design-Build Concept utilized in the Kitchen Make-Over.  After the Prior Contractor Dropped the Ball on the project.  Scotts Contracting was hired to finish the project.  We added: Accent Lighting, Insulation, Air Sealing, N ...
  • Missouri Tell Your Senator to Vote NO SB 759
    Donate Now Become A Member Volunteer Forward to a Friend Follow us on: Like Us on Facebook Follow Us on Twitter Tell Missouri Senators: Stop SB 759 Senate Bill 759 would erode two laws supported by Missouri voters unless you help us stop it. The first law under attack currently makes it illegal ...
  • I took the Energy Star Pledge Have You?
    Twitter <—- Find Me —> Facebook Web Site: http://stlouisrenewableenergy.com scottscontracting Job Site Photo Album Green Blog Related articles New Company Website for St Louis Renewable Energy (scottscontracting.wordpress.com) Do Squirrels and Rabbits Ravage Your Garden? (sco ...
  • Garden Screen Protector-City Garden
    How I plan to protect the back-yard vegetable garden from the Birds, Squirrels, Rabbits, and other malicious garden destroying animals. Deer Block Mesh supported by: 1/2 Metal Conduit Related articles Do Squirrels and Rabbits Ravage Your Garden? (scottscontracting.wordpress.com) New vegetable ga ...

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Virginia Nullifies the NDAA
    Re-posted from the Tenth Amendment Center (NDAA nullification passes in Virginia) Today, the Virginia legislature once again approved House Bill 1160 (HB1160), what many refer to as the NDAA Nullification Act. The support was overwhelming, again. In the House today the vote was 89-7 and the ...
  • The Truth About Syria’s Civil War
    If you read/hear it in the US media, assume it's a lie. Anyone who has followed the war in Iraq is aware of the bitter religious and political rivalry between Sunni and Shia Muslims. Thus it’s pity that the mainstream corporate media fails to enlighten us about the major sectarian conf ...
  • Tell ALEC Companies to Stand Down
    One for Our Side The one positive outcome of Trayvon Martin’s appalling murder, is the recent withdrawal of several well-known corporations from the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). Thus far the list of members that have terminated their membership includes Mars candy, Coca-Co ...
  • When a Cover-up Costs More than the Truth
    Andrew Gibbs, outside Dow AgroSciences (This is the last of four blogs about the government cover-up of major health problems related to the production of dioxin-related chemicals at Dow AgroSciences in New Plymouth between 1948 and 1987.) “I have long dreamed of buying an island own ...
  • Spin, Cover-up, and Statistical Manipulation
    Mar 6 2005 protest at Dow AgroSciences – I’m in the Green Party tee shirt behind the woman in the wheelchair (This is the third of four blogs about the government cover-up of major health problems r ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • New Occupy Crackdown Documents Just Obtained b ...
    NPS Production Documents: Click here to view the NPS Production (77 pages) Two days before the NYPD’s eviction of the Occupy Wall Street encampment from Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan, Brookfield Properties' security was in direct communications and sharing information with the ...
  • 20-Year Veteran to Face Jail Time for Act of C ...
    PRESS ADVISORY 20-Year Veteran to Face Jail Time for Act of Civil Disobedience Disruption of Congressional “Super Committee” could result in 6-month sentence Retired Naval Commander Leah Bolger will appear in court Thursday, April 12th 2012 on charges stemming from her arrest on O ...
  • Worker Ownership for the 99%: The United Steel ...
    For release:     March 26, 2012                                          &nb ...
  • The End of Men
    Excerpted from Stupid White Men ...And Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation by Michael Moore EARLIER THIS YEAR, my wife and I attended the baptism of our new nephew, Anthony. Our teenage daughter had been asked to be his godmother, a job that would require her to be there for little ...
  • Michael Moore Tweets About Rush Limbaugh's "Ap ...
    Rush Limbaugh issues a rare (if ever?) apology: mmflint.me/zvDYzY I didn't know there was anyone on earth who had the power to tell Rush what 2 do. But then there's Bain Capital, financiers of Clear Channel I guess Romney knew that Rush, who made the mistake of saying what most Republicans thi ...

Salon

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • Stories from the Gulf Reveal BP Disaster Still ...
    “Never let injustice shut you up. When you see injustice you must stand up. It’s going to hurt sometimes. It’s going to cost you something. But you can never, never allow injustice in your presence and sit silently by and let it happen. You cannot do that.” – Gulf resident Linda St. Martin from ...
  • NAATBatt Meets with Secretary Chu; New Initiat ...
    NAATBatt looks forward to following the progress of the distributed energy storage market and to playing an important role in promoting it. The white paper predicts a possible combined DES/automotive market for advanced batteries of as much as 370 GWh by 2022. That market may happen, but it wi ...
  • Pink on Green: How to Ignite the Second Electr ...
    The electric industry is good at building things. That’s how it solves problems. Is there a threat of blackouts? Develop a new natural gas-fired plant. Worried about climate change? Build wind and solar power. Does electricity cost too much? Install a transmission line to import cheaper power.Bu ...
  • Support Grows for Clean Tech Subsidy Reform
    Support is building for policies to encourage the growth of a globally competitive, subs
  • Why natural gas is the ‘atomic bomb’ of the en ...
    The growing role of natural gas in the U.S. energy mix continues to confound and divide renewable energy experts and investors. Is America's abundant supply of shale gas a boon for the renewable industry, or undercutting it?

EU Times

  • At least 125 injured as two trains collide in ...
    Two trains have collided in Amsterdam, Dutch media reports. At least 125 people were injured in the accident, around 50 seriously. A spokeswoman for Dutch Railways said the injuries mainly consist of broken bones and bruises. The trains collided between the Dutch capital’s main station Ams ...
  • Iran starts cloning of American spy drone
    Iran has completed reverse-engineering of the captured US spy drone and has started building its own copy, Iranian media reports. The Revolutionary Guard is yet to decode parts of the software the Sentinel aircraft uses, General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, who heads the force’s aerospace division, said ...
  • Tribute to remarkable People of science
    The first studies on radiation: Geissler, Crookes and Rontgen. The second half of the nineteenth century was particularly fruitful for the development of Physical Science, which began to shed light on the intimate constitution of matter with constant and meticulous efforts of a large group of sc ...
  • Pentagon wants spies sneaking through offices ...
    The Pentagon is pushing for more power when it comes to international spying. The US military is now making a case to open up an undercover operation aimed at the overseas civilian sector. The US Department of Defense has asked Congress to approve a change in intelligence outlines which would pe ...
  • French Elections 2012: Marine Le Pen is the on ...
    France’s politics would appear to be in deceptively rude health. As Sunday’s first stage of the country’s two-round presidential election approaches, the vital indicators return vivid signs of life. Mass meetings in Paris and elsewhere have drawn numbers and passion hard to imagine in some parts ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Sunday’s Yankees/Red Sox game rained out
    Hope you didn’t have plans to watch tonight’s Yankees game, or worse, plans to head to Fenway Park as the game has been rained out. No make up date has been announced yet, but the Yankees are planning on just pushing their starters back a day. That means Japanese pitcher Hiroki Kuroda and Yu Da ...
  • Seguin's overtime goal forces Game Seven
    WASHINGTON (AP) -- Tyler Seguin scored at 3:17 of overtime, Tim Thomas made 36 saves, and the Boston Bruins beat the Washington Capitals 4-3 on Sunday to tie the first-round Eastern Conference playoff series at three games apiece. The defending Stanley Cup champion Bruins never trailed, but nee ...
  • Ron Artest floors James Harden with vicious elbow
    Ron Artest deserves a hefty suspension for this despicable act. I'm thinking 10 games. Maybe more, considering his history of violence.  What do you think? Update: Here's the statement Artest issued to the media: "During that play I just dunked on  (Kevin) Durant and  (Serge) Ibaka  and I g ...
  • Elizabeth McGovern Stars In World Premiere Mov ...
    On Friday’s balmy night in NYC I made my way down to TriBeCa for the world premiere of a new movie starring Downton Abbey actress, Elizabeth McGovern , and Like Crazy star, Felicity Jones , as part of the Tribeca Film Festival . The movie, Cheerful Weather For The Wedding , is set in the U.K in ...
  • Iran: We're Building a Copy of Captured U.S. ...
    Iranian officials have said today that they have begun building a copy of a U.S. drone that was downed by Iranian forces last year. Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh said, "There is almost no part hidden to us in this aircraft. We recovered part of the data that had been erased. There were many codes and ...

Groklaw

  • The Java IP Story
    In forking the OpenJDK, you face two options: 1) If you want to put the "Java" label on your fork, you'll have to pass the TCK and accept Oracle's field-of-use restrictions. Since you are required to keep the software under the original GPLv2 license, this may hand you a GPL violation lawsu ...
  • An Interview with Linus Torvalds
    What I in many ways think is more interesting [than MacBook Air] are people who do new things. I love the whole Raspberry PI concept, for example. That's revolutionary in a whole different direction - maybe not the prettiest form-factor, but taking advantage of how technology gets cheaper to rea ...
  • Spring Cleaning: Google Shuts Down Patent Sear ...
    "We're redirecting the old Patent Search homepage to google.com to make sure everyone is getting the best possible experience for their patent searches. Over the past few months, we've been making updates and improvements to the Patent Search functionality on google.com-not only are you able to ...
  • The Geeks Who Saved Prince of Persias Source C ...
    When he was working on Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time in 2002, the new game's programmers wanted to add Mechner's classic to their PlayStation 2 update as an Easter Egg, and asked if he had the source code. No problem, Mechner thought. I saved everything. The finished Apple II game was ea ...
  • The Frand Wars: Whos on First?
    To help get a handle on the current state of play in the courts, Table 1 offers a summary of some of the principal cases in which FRAND issues are currently being litigated in the U.S. and Europe. These disputes form only a part of the larger patent wars currently being waged across the smart ph ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • The Trojan House. Mobile homeless homes
    The Trojan House. Mobile homeless homes. From Joey Skaggs
  • Eurozone collapse will hurt Obama in election
    Dutch government falls.Socialist will probably defeat Sarkosy in France. Krugman says this is a good thing since Sarkosy supports the same economic orthodoxy that created the problem in the first place.Spain about to enter full scale collapse.Europe’s demise will crush global markets this ...
  • Major closures in solar power
    SunPower and First Solar, two major American solar photovoltaic companies, are closing factories. Overcapacity, competition from China, and governments cutting back on tax credits and subsidies are the primary reasons.This does not bode well for the growth of solar power.
  • Just another week for the TSA
    The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise, 1445. Giovanni di Paolo, Italian (Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art)First, to get the basics out of the way, let’s see what we got in return for the weekly $150,961,538 they cost us. According to the TSA, here’s what they fo ...
  • Woody Guthrie. Pretty Boy Floyd
    It was in Oklahoma City, It was on a Christmas Day, There was a whole car load of groceries Come with a note to say:Well, you say that I’m an outlaw, You say that I’m a thief. Here’s a Christmas dinner For the families on relief.Yes, as through this world I’ve wandered, [...]

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

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

frogblog

  • Anal-ysis, Corrections Style.
    Most New Zealanders would agree that we live in a country where human rights are  protected, where we willingly comply with international agreements to treat people fairly and humanely, and civil rights are respected. Most of the time, they would be right.  Unfortunately, it is becoming increasi ...
  • General debate, April 22, 2012
  • ChristChurch Cathedral and heritage important ...
    The demolition of the ChristChurch Cathedral’s spire is expected to begin on Monday. On Saturday, I’ll be attending a rally, organised by Restore the Christchurch Cathedral and led by the Wizard, outside the Anglican Church’s Christchurch synod meeting. We are gathering from 8.15 am for a ...
  • Food industry free to feed us what they like
    My concern about this recent study is not so much that our fast food has more salt than other countries, but that our food industry has such unconstrained power to influence our diets. The Food Industry Group’s position to maintain a self regulatory approach to levels of salt, sugar and fat in o ...
  • What Our Academics Say about Charter Schools
    Many people are confused about the Charter School plans the Government are actively pursuing. We know it was in the ACT/National Party agreement to do this but we have been unable to find out what problem they are trying to solve. There is a multitude of conflicting international evidence on the ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Over 60 Billion Doses a Year and Not ONE Death ...
    By Dr. Mercola Vitamins, minerals and herbal supplements have a tremendously safe track record, yet they are often singled out as being potentially dangerous by government agencies like the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This – the notion that dietary supplements are unsafe -- is t ...
  • The Beverage that is Even WORSE than High Fruc ...
    By Dr. Mercola When a new beverage comes out advertising "60% less sugar—drink it to believe it"—the challenge is on. Same taste; fewer calories to your waist? Sounds good, doesn't it? But before you throw that Pepsi Next into your grocery cart, Fooducate.comi suggests you complete the chal ...
  • This Daily Habit Can Burn Heavy Metals and Tox ...
    By Dr. Mercola Steve Benda is trained in power systems and nuclear engineering. Here, we discuss saunas and the electromagnetic fields (EMF's) they can produce. While sauna bathing can be highly beneficial for your health, EMF's are a distinct health hazard. Benda literally grew up in and ...
  • New Study Shows Obesity Rate Is Actually Far W ...
    By Dr. Mercola In the United States, where two-thirds of all states already have obesity rates exceeding 25 percent, and 12 states now have obesity rates over 30 percent, it is shocking to hear that these rates may actually be underestimated. But this is precisely what new research has revea ...
  • The Tragic Mistake That Now Threatens 1 Out of ...
    By Dr. Mercola Honey bees are the angels of agriculture, but they're disappearing at a startling rate in a mysterious phenomenon dubbed Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). Since 2007, North American honey bees are literally disappearing without a trace. There are no massive dead bee bodies appe ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Uncontacted tribe photographed in Colombian Amazon
    Previously uncontacted Nukak emerged from the forest in the 1980s after being forced from their land by violent armed groups © Gustavo Pollitis/Survival An uncontacted tribe has been photographed from the air for the first time in the Colombian Amazon. The Indians, thought to be members of ...
  • 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

  • Working toward a government policy of openness
    Quebec's federation of professional journalists has submitted a most welcome report calling on the provincial government to attack the notorious culture of secrecy that has long been embraced by governments and public agencies at all levels in this province.
  • Working toward a government policy of openness
    Quebec's federation of professional journalists has submitted a most welcome report calling on the provincial government to attack the notorious culture of secrecy that has long been embraced by governments and public agencies at all levels in this province.
  • Evidence of hate crime is there for everyone t ...
    Sûreté du Québec investigators are being unaccountably slow to identify as a hate-motivated crime last week's vandalism of a number of Jewish-owned homes in Val Morin, north of Montreal.
  • The mission: ensure a steady drug supply
    A report jointly released this week by Quebec's College of Physicians and three groups representing Quebec pharmacists should spur governments, both federal and provincial, to hasten the formulation of a national strategy designed to assure a consistent supply of medically necessary drugs.
  • Weeding out corruption: it's a start
    The roundup of suspects by the province's anti-corruption squad was quite spectacular, given the profile of some of those arrested.

Food World Order

  • Chocolate Titans in fresh Antitrust Lawsuit fo ...
    from confectionerynews.com: The Associated Wholesale Grocer (AWG), a retailer-owned cooperative that supplies retail member stores, brought the action in the District Court in Kansas through law firm Stueve Siegel Hanson LPP. Hershey et al. are already defendants in an on-going class action ...
  • FDA Proposes Rules for Nanotechnology in Food
    from ap: Regulators are proposing that food companies that want to use tiny engineered particles in their packaging may have to provide extra testing data to show the products are safe. The Food and Drug Administration issued tentative guidelines Friday for food and cosmetic companies inter ...
  • Food Stamp Rolls Increase 70% from 2007, Proje ...
    from cryptogon.com: The Congressional Budget Office said Thursday that 45 million people in 2011 received Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, a 70% increase from 2007. It said the number of people receiving the benefits, commonly known as food stamps, would continue growing unt ...
  • #Video: Episode017 - Fluoride, Hugs and Drugs
    On Thursday nights, Media Monarchy joins Corbett Report Radio live on Republic Broadcasting to go over all the latest stories from the world of food, environment and health. This week's menu features Fluoride, Hugs and Drugs and more... Feed/Archive Previous Audio: Episode016 - En ...
  • #Audio: Episode017 - Fluoride, Hugs and Drugs
    On Thursday nights, Media Monarchy joins Corbett Report Radio live on Republic Broadcasting to go over all the latest stories from the world of food, environment and health. This week's menu features Fluoride, Hugs and Drugs and more... Episode017: MP3/Feed Previous Audio: Episod ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • 53 Percent Of All Young College Graduates In A ...
    If you are in college right now, you will most likely either be unemployed or working a job that only requires a high school degree when you graduate.  The truth is that the U.S. economy is not coming anywhere close to producing enough jobs for the hordes of new college graduates ...
  • Why Is It Necessary For The Federal Government ...
    There has been no society in the history of the world that has ever been 100% safe.  No matter how much money the federal government spends on "homeland security", the truth is that bad things will still happen.  Our world is a very dangerous place and it is becoming increasingly ...
  • Chimps Throwing Poop And 29 Other Mind Blowing ...
    Why do chimpanzees throw poop?  The federal government would like to know and is using your tax dollars to investigate the matter.  Every single year, we all send huge amounts of our hard-earned money to the federal government.  We hope that they will spend that money wisely.  Un ...
  • There Is Not Going To Be A Solution To Our Eco ...
    For those waiting for our economic problems to be solved, you can quit holding your breath.  There is simply not going to be a solution to our economic problems on the national level.  So why is that the case?  Well, it is because the economic policies of both major political par ...
  • The Too Big To Fail Banks Are Now Much Bigger ...
    The Democrats, the Republicans and especially Barack Obama promised that something would be done about the too big to fail banks so that they would never again be a threat to destroy our financial system.  Well, those promises have not been kept and the too big to fail banks are ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

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

Facing South

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

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

Case About Bird Flu

  • 2,200 people could have narcolepsy due to swin ...
     *Irish government confirms Pandemrix swine flu jab caused narcolepsy *24 children and adolescents diagnosed with sleeping disorder *2,2000 people in Ireland could be living with the condition, admits government expert *47% of all Irish children under four received toxic jab *Irish government cr ...
  • Doctor gives damning critique of big pharma&#8 ...
    The extent of the global revolt against toxic vaccines can be seen from the 2009 swine flu pandemic vaccine uptake figures. In spite of unprecedented hype by governments, medical bodies and the media, some countries in Europe had a vaccine uptake which was as low as 1%, including Spain and Italy ...
  • SUPPORT BECKY DUTTON AND THE ANTI MERCURY CAMPAIGN
      Dear Brits,  An exciting event happened on 26 March in Brussels.  A consultant for the European Union presented a proposal to the 27 Members States that calls for a ban on amalgam by the year 2018.  If the proposal holds, and then is adopted, amalgam gone!  We had a team of leaders from B ...
  • Northern Irish Globalist actor to play Natasch ...
    IRISH ACTOR Antonia Campbell-Hughes is to portray Austrian kidnap victim Natascha Kampusch in a biopic for release next year. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2012/0417/1224314822275.html  
  • Study: 57% of people who took flu jab in 2011/ ...
    A study by the European Centre of Disease Control (ECDC) published  in „Eurosurveillance” shows that 57% of the people who took the seasonal flu jab in 2011/2012 got the flu. The fact that more than half the people who took the flu vaccine got the flu strongly suggests the notion that the ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Greek Town Implements Revolutionary Barter Sys ...
    Activist Post Greece continues along a path toward self-sufficiency that could very well see them break free from their debt servitude. In the wake of their pillaging by international financiers, Greeks who have realized that protesting is likely to bring little relief have begun to implement ba ...
  • Connecticut bill would allow citizens to sue p ...
    Madison Ruppert, Contributor Activist Post The trend of individuals being arrested for legally filming police in public is an issue which gets me especially frustrated and a favorite topic of mine to bring up here at End the Lie. Thankfully, individuals have been striking back recently through l ...
  • Forget WiFi, Connect to the Internet Through L ...
    Whether you’re using wireless internet in a coffee shop, stealing it from the guy next door, or competing for bandwidth at a conference, you’ve probably gotten frustrated at the slow speeds you face when more than one device is tapped into the network. As more and more people—and their many devi ...
  • Activist Post: 5 Ways to Improve the Public Sc ...
    Bohemian Mom Activist Post As an unschooling parent, I often struggle with the thoughts of what happens to all the other children that are still in the public school system. While we believe very strongly in the benefits of having our children at home and following an unschooling lifestyle, I kn ...
  • Fracking: Pennsylvania Gags Physicians
    By Walter Brasch, Dissident Voice A new Pennsylvania law endangers public health by forbidding health care professionals from sharing information they learn about certain chemicals and procedures used in high volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing. The procedure is commonly known as fracking. Fr ...

Veterans Today

  • VETERANS DEMAND TRUTH ON CANCER
    By: Charles Kelley, Vietnam 67-68 Dow and Congress holding hearing on the Report on Carcinogens (RoC).    (WASHINGTON, DC) – This hearing might as well be called “fact versus fiction” and certainly has political agenda undertones with campaign money for the membership of the committee’s at ...
  • Criminal Fed Inflation Clearly Explained 50 Ye ...
    There is a theory known as the Theory of Cognitive Dissonance, which holds that the mind involuntarily rejects information not in line with previous thoughts and/or actions.
  • CrossTalk on BDS: Sanctioning Israel (ft. Walb ...
    What goals has the BDS movement achieved so far? Does it aim for a constructive solution to the conflict?
  • Veterans For Peace Among 33 Arrested Outside D ...
    Three members of Veterans For Peace -- Russell Brown, John Amidon, and Elliott Adams -- were among 33 peaceful protesters arrested on Sunday outside Hancock Air Field in New York State.
  • The Duty of the Military in a Militarized Empire
    Those who accept that the Presidential chain of command is by nature constitutional; lack a proper understanding of history and professes an even greater ignorance of current affairs.

electric politics

  • The Virtue of Protectionism (and Class Warfare)
    It's a vicious circle. Financialization. Profit maximization. Offshoring. Political dysfunction. To start with the offshoring part, the American economy will wither and die without good industrial jobs. The numbers don't add up otherwise and the numbers don't lie. But thanks to money, corporatio ...
  • Ocean Acidification
    Human beings start domesticating crops only 12,000 or so years ago. Written history begins about 5,000 years ago. The modern era dates from — when? — maybe 100-200 years ago. Perhaps it's no surprise, then, that we have some difficulty internalizing the idea that our burning carbon h ...
  • Labor History, Revised
    It isn't every day that someone has a second look at enshrined history and finds it upside down. Then, to tell people what's wrong is even more remarkable. It takes a combination of (possibly naïve) philosophical idealism, hearty persistence and guts. Dr. Timothy Messer-Kruse reexamined the ...
  • The Future Is Not What It Used To Be
    Listening to Ed Asner I'm reminded of Michael Polanyi's observation (to paraphrase) that we believe more than we can prove and know more than we can say. Polanyi also talked about "growing points" in science, which I hope has an analogue in a free society where personal connections become more i ...
  • The NUMEC Affair
    No charges were ever filed. Nothing was ever proved. But the FBI tried, over the course of several criminal investigations, to ascertain whether, in fact, certain suspect individuals had diverted hundreds of pounds of highly enriched uranium from a plant in Pennsylvania to Israel, for use in mak ...

PR News

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

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

Stop NATO

  • Malta: Case Study In NATO Subversion And Coercion
    Malta: Case Study In NATO Subversion And Coercion Rick Rozoff On April 20 the European Affairs spokesman of Malta’s opposition Labour Party, George Vella, demanded the resignation of the government’s permanent representative to the European Union, Richard Cachia Caruana, over the lat ...
  • West Pits India Against China To Subjugate The ...
    Global Times April 22, 2012 India and China must remember common threat amid missile fuss The article was compiled by Global Times reporter Chen Chenchen based on an interview with M.D. Nalapat, director and professor of the School of Geopolitics at Manipal University in India ==== The celebrati ...
  • Yellow Sea: China, Russia Begin First Joint Na ...
    Xinhua News Agency April 22, 2012 Russia-China joint naval exercise starts QINGDAO: Russian naval deputy chief of staff Rear Admiral Leonid Sukhanov announced here on Sunday the official start of the joint exercise with the Chinese navy. Ding Yiping, deputy commander of the Chinese People’ ...
  • Norway: NATO Rehearses For War In The Arctic
    Stop NATO April 21, 2012 Norway: NATO Rehearses For War In The Arctic Rick Rozoff The largest military exercise in the High North, inside and immediately outside the Arctic Circle, since the end of the Cold War (and perhaps even before) was completed on March 21 in northern Norway. Except for th ...
  • Pentagon’s “Successful Plan” ...
    RT April 20, 2012 Pentagon has ‘successful plan’ with hundreds of Tomahawks deployed near Iran America’s plan B for Iran “will be successful,” promises US defense secretary, Leon Panetta. Reports suggest this is no sable rattling, as the US strike groups deployed to the Persian Gulf may be carry ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • American Police State: Officer May be Fired fo ...
    Madison Ruppert | In this case the officer is being declared “psychologically incompetent” for stepping in to save an emotionally disturbed young man from a brutal beating by police.
  • Connecticut Bill Would Allow Citizens to Sue P ...
    Madison Ruppert | The trend of individuals being arrested for legally filming police in public is an issue which gets me especially frustrated and a favorite topic of mine to bring up here at End the Lie. Thankfully, recently individuals have been striking back through lawsuits and in some ...
  • 100% Certainty of Total Catastrophic Failure o ...
    Mac Slavo | As smart grid metering systems expand across the developed world, many are starting to ask whether the threats posed by the new devices, which officials promise will save energy and reduce end user utility costs, outweigh their benefits.
  • Fukushima is Falling Apart: Are You Ready?
    Christina Consolo | Thirteen months have passed since the Fukushima reactors exploded, and a U.S. Senator finally got off his ass and went to Japan to see what is going on over there.
  • Coupe Snoop: Congress Wants All Cars to be Equ ...
    RT | The federal government is about to become the country’s worst backseat driver.

FRS

  • Revolutionary Democratic Front (RDF) THE FIRS ...
      22 April 2012, Hyderabad, Telangana –PRESS RELEASE The historic first conference of the Revolutionary Democratic Front (RDF) – a federation of revolutionary mass organisations working among different classes and sections of the society at the grass-roots level – went underway today ...
  • Revolutionary Democratic Front (RDF) THE FIRS ...
      22 April 2012, Hyderabad, Telangana –PRESS RELEASE The historic first conference of the Revolutionary Democratic Front (RDF) – a federation of revolutionary mass organisations working among different classes and sections of the society at the grass-roots level – went underway today ...
  • America’s decline: Myth or reality?
    [The growing debate between imperialist intellectuals, economists and politicians is not Democratic vs. Republican, but "declinists" vs. "ostrichists."  --  Frontlines ed.] ———————- Reuters | Apr 21, 2012 WASHINGTON: Take note of a new phrase in the ...
  • America’s decline: Myth or reality?
    [The growing debate between imperialist intellectuals, economists and politicians is not Democratic vs. Republican, but "declinists" vs. "ostrichists."  --  Frontlines ed.] ———————- Reuters | Apr 21, 2012 WASHINGTON: Take note of a new phrase in the ...
  • India: Maoist bandh paralyses Narayanpatna
    KORAPUT/JEYPORE: The two-day bandh call by Andhra-Orissa Border Special Zonal Committee (AOBSZC) of CPI (Maoist) paralysed traffic in several areas of Narayanpatna on Friday. Trees have been felled to disrupt traffic with communication from Laxmipur to Narayanpatna and towards Bandhugaon complet ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

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

Popsci - Science

  • PopSci's Friday Lunch: a Can of Surströmming W ...
    Food-science expert McGee and adventurous culinary technologist Dave Arnold invite PopSci to sample rotten fish When Popular Science was acquired by Sweden's Bonnier Corporation in 2007, some people thought we'd be eating surströmming, the legendary Scandinavian delicacy of fish left to ferment ...
  • James Cameron, Charles Simonyi, and Ross Perot ...
    Planetary Resources, a mysterious organization whose investors include Google execs Larry Page and Eric Schmidt, Microsoft alum and astronaut Charles Simonyi, director James Cameron, "space visionary" Peter Diamandis, and Ross Perot, Jr., is planning to announce more details of the project this ...
  • The Most Amazing Science Images of the Week, A ...
    In this week's roundup, we say goodbye to the space shuttle Discovery, hello to a bright purple crab, "yes please" to laser-cut nori, and "good god get that thing away from me" to an orb-weaver spider. More amazing images from the past week in the gallery below. Click to launch the gallery.
  • New Report Urges Extreme Caution Against Infec ...
    As Earth humans begin to seriously consider sending missions to icy worlds like Europa and Enceladus, one of the necessary concerns has to be protection of the environment where such a mission would land. It would be a shame to arrive on a fascinating alien world only to immediately seed it with ...
  • Images of the Week, April 16-20, 2012

Veterans Today

  • VETERANS DEMAND TRUTH ON CANCER
    By: Charles Kelley, Vietnam 67-68 Dow and Congress holding hearing on the Report on Carcinogens (RoC).    (WASHINGTON, DC) – This hearing might as well be called “fact versus fiction” and certainly has political agenda undertones with campaign money for the membership of the committee’s at ...
  • Criminal Fed Inflation Clearly Explained 50 Ye ...
    There is a theory known as the Theory of Cognitive Dissonance, which holds that the mind involuntarily rejects information not in line with previous thoughts and/or actions.
  • CrossTalk on BDS: Sanctioning Israel (ft. Walb ...
    What goals has the BDS movement achieved so far? Does it aim for a constructive solution to the conflict?
  • Veterans For Peace Among 33 Arrested Outside D ...
    Three members of Veterans For Peace -- Russell Brown, John Amidon, and Elliott Adams -- were among 33 peaceful protesters arrested on Sunday outside Hancock Air Field in New York State.
  • The Duty of the Military in a Militarized Empire
    Those who accept that the Presidential chain of command is by nature constitutional; lack a proper understanding of history and professes an even greater ignorance of current affairs.

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

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

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Fight-a-Bully: Philippine, PRC Territorial Dis ...
    [NOTE: Perhaps it's not obvious for me to begin writing about a territorial dispute by talking about lawyers, but why I'm doing so will be obvious soon enough.] While a certain number of lawyers are necessary for modern societal functioning--drawing up contracts, settling technical disputes, fin ...
  • Why LDCs Won't Give the IMF More Money
    I am rather tired of reading news clippings about how LDCs are reluctant to give the IMF more money when their grievances are not given proper airing. If you're looking for a global governance dinosaur par excellence, then I will give you the IMF. Imagine that we were stuck in the Fifties, the W ...
  • IMF's (Shocking?) Endorsement of Procyclicality
    I needn't recycle criticisms you're most familiar with concerning how the IMF exacerbates difficulties by deterring poor countries from using countercyclical policies to cope with downturns--either indirectly via policy suggestions during Article IV consultations or via conditionalities when the ...
  • Lingo Wars: Urban Dictionary v Academie Francaise
    While most things Anglo-Saxon are taking a well-deserved beating nowadays--neoliberal economic policies and a penchant for soaring rates of obesity among other things--there remains considerable vitality in their common language. As the Global Transformations crew rightly pointed out sometime ag ...
  • EuroPissants: Should Germany [!] Leave Eurozone?
    Having lived on and off the continent during the past few years, I am a follower and sometimes patron of various things European: Euratom. Euro currency. Eurofighter. Eurostar. Eurotunnel. Eurotrash. Not wanting to be left behind in all this naming fun, I've come up with the EuroPalin and EuroNa ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • 53 Percent Of All Young College Graduates In A ...
    If you are in college right now, you will most likely either be unemployed or working a job that only requires a high school degree when you graduate.  The truth is that the U.S. economy is not coming anywhere close to producing enough jobs for the hordes of new college graduates ...
  • Why Is It Necessary For The Federal Government ...
    There has been no society in the history of the world that has ever been 100% safe.  No matter how much money the federal government spends on "homeland security", the truth is that bad things will still happen.  Our world is a very dangerous place and it is becoming increasingly ...
  • Chimps Throwing Poop And 29 Other Mind Blowing ...
    Why do chimpanzees throw poop?  The federal government would like to know and is using your tax dollars to investigate the matter.  Every single year, we all send huge amounts of our hard-earned money to the federal government.  We hope that they will spend that money wisely.  Un ...
  • There Is Not Going To Be A Solution To Our Eco ...
    For those waiting for our economic problems to be solved, you can quit holding your breath.  There is simply not going to be a solution to our economic problems on the national level.  So why is that the case?  Well, it is because the economic policies of both major political par ...
  • The Too Big To Fail Banks Are Now Much Bigger ...
    The Democrats, the Republicans and especially Barack Obama promised that something would be done about the too big to fail banks so that they would never again be a threat to destroy our financial system.  Well, those promises have not been kept and the too big to fail banks are ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • At least 125 injured as two trains collide in ...
    Two trains have collided in Amsterdam, Dutch media reports. At least 125 people were injured in the accident, around 50 seriously. A spokeswoman for Dutch Railways said the injuries mainly consist of broken bones and bruises. The trains collided between the Dutch capital’s main station Ams ...
  • Iran starts cloning of American spy drone
    Iran has completed reverse-engineering of the captured US spy drone and has started building its own copy, Iranian media reports. The Revolutionary Guard is yet to decode parts of the software the Sentinel aircraft uses, General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, who heads the force’s aerospace division, said ...
  • Tribute to remarkable People of science
    The first studies on radiation: Geissler, Crookes and Rontgen. The second half of the nineteenth century was particularly fruitful for the development of Physical Science, which began to shed light on the intimate constitution of matter with constant and meticulous efforts of a large group of sc ...
  • Pentagon wants spies sneaking through offices ...
    The Pentagon is pushing for more power when it comes to international spying. The US military is now making a case to open up an undercover operation aimed at the overseas civilian sector. The US Department of Defense has asked Congress to approve a change in intelligence outlines which would pe ...
  • French Elections 2012: Marine Le Pen is the on ...
    France’s politics would appear to be in deceptively rude health. As Sunday’s first stage of the country’s two-round presidential election approaches, the vital indicators return vivid signs of life. Mass meetings in Paris and elsewhere have drawn numbers and passion hard to imagine in some parts ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

  • 2012-04-23 #WikiLeaks News Update: "World Tomo ...
    Tweet WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 506 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 503 days. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 700 days. A secret Grand Jury has been active in the U.S. without transparency for 586 days. ...
  • 2012-04-22 'Terrorist' by Association, Assange ...
    TweetLast Thursday, human rights and Julian Assange lawyer Jennifer Robinson was held up on her flight from London to Sydney for security reasons. Over the years, journalists have been interrogated and detained at borders, often for purely political reasons. This incident was unprecedented with ...
  • 2012-04-21 List of possible NSA interception p ...
    Tweet Below is a list of addresses that were handed out on a sheet of paper at the Whitney Biennial 2012's Surveillance Teach-In, and described as "possible domestic NSA interception points". 2651 Olive Street, Saint Louis, MO 63103 United States 420 South Grand, Los Angeles, CA 90071 United ...
  • 2012-04-21 #WikiLeaks news update: WikiLeaks l ...
    Tweet WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 504 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 501 days. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 698 days. A secret Grand Jury has been active in the U.S. without transparency for 584 days. ...
  • Cablegate: Polish Secret Service cooperated wi ...
    TweetIn 2006, the Polish military Secret Service (WSI) was restructured. The negotiations leading up to this drastic move triggered a number of US diplomatic dispatches. Most of these summarize public speeches by leading Polish politicians. The selection of material included in these dispatches ...

U N News

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

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • DHS Buying and Stocking Up Enough Ammo to Wage ...
      As we recently reported, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), an agency that says its main purpose now is to thwart “homegrown terrorism,” has awarded a contract to ammunition manufacturer ATK for acquiring 450 million rounds of .40 caliber hollow point ammo. ~ Mike Adams - rela ...
  • The 'New World Moral Order'... Post-War Map Cr ...
      Created it 1942, it proposes a post-war “New World Moral Order” — a world divided among the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union... ~ Joey DeVilla read more
  • Agenda 21... Obama Quietly Seeking To Cede U.S ...
      President Obama’s ambitious plan for stepped up government regulation of the oceans includes an unreported effort to cede U.S. oceans to United Nations-based international law, WND has learned. ~ Josey Wales read more
  • Bill Gives The IRS Power To... Remove Your Rig ...
      The collection agency for the Federal Reserve known as the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is working with legislators to gain control over the rights of Americans. Without the right to due process, the IRS can simply claim a citizen owes $50,000 dollars or more to their illegal opera ...
  • The Gulf Oil Crisis... 30 Facts It Was 'Planne ...
      This article explains what has really happend in the Gulf of Mexico, who is really responsible for the explosion, and how the devastation serves investment bankers. These globalists sway stocks, create markets, and planned this crisis, among a series of catastrophes, to advance geopo ...

Tarpley

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

Modern Survivalism

  • List of Preparedness Items For: Doing Laundry
    In a world without a functioning electrical power grid, a post apocalyptic world, a world knocked back in time, you will need to perform tasks that were once assisted by modern technology. You will need items that will help accomplish the job, and you will need to know how to do it yourself. Mos ...
  • A Last Run To Buy Grocery Store Food Items
    What will be the first grocery store items to disappear during a SHTF scenario when all of your neighbors are rushing out to the grocery store down the street? Will the items they purchase be the items they really should be purchasing? Maybe, but then again, maybe not. For the purpose of this sc ...
  • Mayan Cacao Powder: A Super Survivor Food
    As I just made a batch of homemade cookies the other day, I thought I’d share with you a ‘not-so-well-known’ item we have in our stock. Pure organic cacao is an ingredient we have been using for several years. For those of you that don’t know, organic cacao is considered ...
  • Diversion Safe
    A diversion safe can be a safe that is hiding in plain sight. It looks so much like something other than a safe, that a burglar or intruder will not think twice about checking it out for valuables. A diversion safe should never take the place of a real safe for your ultimate valuables, because [...]
  • Recession Proof Sewing Kit
    When our world changes due to some SHTF scenario, one of the kits you want to have stocked is a sewing kit. How detailed you get is up to you, but even on a tight budget, you can put together a decent recession proof sewing kit. Why should you have a sewing kit in your [...]

Fast Company

  • The Band's Ex-Tour Manager Blasts Reddit Found ...
    Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian debated USC professor Jonathan Taplin, director of the USC Annenberg Innovation Lab and former tour manager of The Band at our recent Innovation Uncensored event. Afterward, Ohanian continued the debate with an open letter to Taplin. The next day, The Band's drumm ...
  • YouTube Launches AdWords For Video
    Video production is getting cheaper, so Google is creating a self-service option for pre-roll advertisements aimed at small- and medium-sized businesses.Google's AdWords program has long been an easy way for businesses of all shapes and sizes to post their ads on Google Search results. Now the c ...
  • Vodafone Spends $1.7 Billion To Become A More ...
    Breaking news from your Fast Company editors with updates all day.Vodafone, one of Europe's biggest and most powerful cell phone networks, has this morning spent a whopping £1 billion ($1.7 billion) to buy Cable & Wireless, an operator that has significant land-line assets and a business-cen ...
  • Top 10 Most Popular Stories Of The Week
    Here are the stories you read, shared, tweeted, and pinned this week. In case you were one of the few who missed it this week, check out "The Lost Steve Jobs Tapes." We have some great business and self-improvement stories as well as a new glimpse into how Google is looking to disrupt the startu ...
  • Khan Academy and 23andMe Link Up For Genetics ...
    Khan Academy and Google-backed personal genomics company 23andMe are partnering to teach the world about genomes and DNA. Khan Academy has added two series of videos made by 23andMe to its roster of educational clips. Appropriately enough, the two announced their partnership today, National DNA ...

Jadaliyya

  • خطيئة الدستور (2): والآن تشاهدون فيلم اسماعيل ...
    حذر الجزء الأول من هذه السلسة من أن اتفاق فرقاء الصراع الدستوري الحالي على تصوير دستور ١٩٢٣ على أنه كان دستورا سباقا يعكس تخليهم عن مطالب ثورة يناير وعدم اهتمامهم بتبعية مصر للاستعمار من أجل إعلاء مصالحهم الحزبية الضيقة. ودفعني ذلك إلى رفض الإطار الذي يحكم وضع الدستور الحالي من حيث المبدأ حتى ...
  • الثورة السورية بين أيدي وسائل الإعلام
    لم يكن لقائي مع "رامي"، وهو شاب شيوعي من حي الخالدية بحمص، هو المحفّز الوحيد لكتابة هذه المقالة، بل ملاحظات كثيرة أخرى...ولكن المعلومات التي استطعت الاطلاع عليها عن كثب جعلتني أتأكد أكثر من معطياتي وبالتالي من رأيي! فـ "رامي" الذي كان مسؤول الشباب الشيوعي الموحّد في حمص، منذ ...
  • Outside Looking In
    City of Mirages: Baghdad 1952-1982. The Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place, New York, NY, 22 February – 5 May 2012. City of Mirages: Baghdad 1952-1982 is an exhibit of design work produced by world-famous architects and firms for the booming Iraqi capital during the mid-twentieth cent ...
  • Abdulhadi al-Khawaja Enters 74th Day on Hunger ...
                                             
  • الشعب لا يريد
    في دمشق، لا يزيد من سماجة حرّ نيسان، سوى اللافتات المعلّقة على الجدران، فوق أسطح العمارات، بين جذعي شجرتي نخيل، بين عامودي كهرباء، بين إشارتين ضوئيتين. تلك اللافتات تبدو أشدّ خطورة من الحرّ ومن سماجته. تلك اللافتات، وكأنها خرجت من جوارير المؤسسات الحكومية، لم ينفض عنها غبار السنوات الماضية، كتبت ...

mediagazer

  • Experts Say Government Had Little Choice in E- ...
    Thomas Catan / Wall Street Journal: Experts Say Government Had Little Choice in E-Books Case  —  WASHINGTON—The U.S. Justice Department has come under criticism since filing an antitrust lawsuit against Apple Inc. and five publishers, accusing them of colluding to fix e-bo ...
  • Looking beyond Kony (Erika Fry/CJR)
    Erika Fry / CJR: Looking beyond Kony  —  Coverage of Africa needs to go beyond the sensationalistic, three experts said at a panel talk on Thursday  —  In Kenya in early March, a grenade blast linked to the terrorist group Al-Shabaab killed six people and injured ...
  • Meltwater Response To Associated Press Lawsuit ...
    Mike Masnick / Techdirt: Meltwater Response To Associated Press Lawsuit: AP Is Misusing Copyright Law  —  We were somewhat surprised by the Associated Press' decision to sue news search engine Meltwater, because we couldn't see how the AP — even with its absurdist interpre ...
  • TV Corrects Itself, Just Not on the Air (David ...
    David Carr / New York Times: TV Corrects Itself, Just Not on the Air  —  After broadcasting an audio clip on the “Today” show about George Zimmerman last month that hit the trifecta of being misleading, incendiary and dead-bang wrong, NBC News management took serious ...
  • At the Logan Symposium at Berkeley, investigat ...
    Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab: At the Logan Symposium at Berkeley, investigative reporting showed plenty of signs of life.  —  Alfredo Corchado was used to getting mortal threats.  —  He received three in Mexico, but now he was in a Laredo bar, north of the ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • Agri tag eludes broom industry Meghalaya' ...
    Agri tag eludes broom industry Meghalaya's broomstick industry may be booming with high demand in other Northeast states, but it has a long way to go before becoming an organised and viable trade E.M. JOSE Searchlight Shillong, April 22: The booming broomsticks industry in Meghalaya is yet t ...
  • The week ahead: Keene Simple Living, Apri ...
    The fiddleheads are uncurling and green is quickly replacing the sere brown of winter. This is the busiest season for anyone involved in agriculture, as seeds are prepared for planting, fields are ploughed or tilled and amended for new growth, and weeds are growing every which way. Farmers m ...
  • Hollande edges Sarkozy in French vote, Le ...
    PARIS (Reuters) - Far-rightist Marine Le Pen threw France's presidential race wide open on Sunday by polling nearly 19 percent in the first round - votes that may tip a runoff between Socialist favourite Francois Hollande and conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy. Francois Hollande, Sociali ...
  • Declare tea as national drink, says Monte ...
    Tweet JORHAT (ASSAM): Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia has said the panel will support the industry's move to declare tea as the national drink of India....
  • Family Fun and Golf on Captiva Island at ...
    For families craving the wild beaches and the low-key, non-commercial feel of Florida's Gulf Coast islands, South Seas Island Resort on Captiva Island fills the bill with 2.5 miles of white sand beaches, the absence of highrises and fast food chains, and one of the prettiest 9-hole golf cour ...

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Anna's News

  • National Parks at Risk: Photos
    National parks represent our country's last stronghold of wilderness. But the large majority of parks are suffering, too.Ninety-five percent of parks assessed in a recent study have lost key species that once helped define them. Meanwhile, 91 percent .... Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals &nbs ...
  • Suicide rates in Europe 'linked' to financial ...
    The financial crisis "almost certainly" led to an increase in suicides across Europe, health experts say.The analysis by US and UK researchers found a rise in suicides was recorded among working age people from 2007 to 2009 in nine of the 10 nations...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Well ...
  • Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerela - Richest in ...
    For the past one week, the Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerela has been in the news because of the huge wealth found in its secret crypts.The Padmanabhaswamy Temple is the most famous Lord Vishnu temple in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerela. It is bel ............ Submitted by Anna Smith to World  |& ...
  • South Sudan becomes an independent nation
    South Sudan has become the world's newest nation, the climax of a process made possible by the 2005 peace deal that ended a long and bloody civil war.Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon are among international dignitaries Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...
  • News of the World staff shocked at closure
    Staff at the News of the World have reacted with shock to news that it will be closed after this Sunday's edition.The paper's political editor, David Wooding, said the closure came as a "bombshell". Submitted by Anna Smith to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Medical Marijuana

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

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

  • Origins of the Arts
    Sociobiologist E.O. Wilson on the evolution of culture Edward O. Wilson RICH AND SEEMINGLY BOUNDLESS as the creative arts seem to be, each is filtered through the narrow biological channels of human cognition. Our sensory world, what we can learn unaided about reality external to our bodies, is ...
  • Middle Age
    Evolution has given humans a huge advantage over most other animals David Bainbridge As a 42-year-old man born in England, I can expect to live for about another 38 years. In other words, I can no longer claim to be young. I am, without doubt, middle-aged. To some people that is a depressing rea ...
  • Recharging your Immune system
    Some people seem to catch everything that is doing the rounds, from coughs and colds to stomach bugs. Other people never seem to get ill. What’s their secret? A lot is down to dumb luck. There are some things affecting the performance of your immune system that you cannot change: your age, ...
  • Wealth & Compassion
    As riches grow, empathy for others seems to decline Daisy Grewal Who is more likely to lie, cheat, and steal—the poor person or the rich one? It’s temping to think that the wealthier you are, the more likely you are to act fairly. After all, if you already have enough for yourself, it’s easier t ...
  • Mapping Intelligence in the Brain
    A new study found that specific structures, primarily on the left side of the brain, are vital to general intelligence and executive function (the ability to regulate and control behavior). Brain regions that are associated with general intelligence and executive function are shown in color, wit ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

  • Kiwi keeper McCullum set for move down batting ...
    WELLINGTON - New Zealand cricket captain Daniel Vettori and batting coach Mark Greatbatch have reportedly decided to push batsman-wicketkeeper Brendon McCullum down the order to change the fortunes of the team after its 4-0 loss to Bangladesh in a one-day international series. McCullum is expe ...
  • Katie Holmes
    more images Katie Holmes shelters underneath an umbrella as she returns to her trailer wrapped in a white dressing gown on the set of latest movie ?Jack And Jill?. Los Angeles, California. .... Source  : Gaea News Network.
  • Ava Sambora Walks The Runway
    more images LOS ANGELES (GaeaTimes.com)- It seems that the celebrity children are making headlines now a days. Just few days back Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith’s daughter Willow Smith’s “Whip My Hair” went viral online, its time for Ava Sambora, the 13 year old daugh ...
  • Tylenol Recall Ghost Haunts Johnson & Johnson
    more images FORT WASHINGTON (GaeaTimes.com)- Johnson & Johnson the diversified pharmaceutical and health care company is back in news though for the wrong reasons. Tylenol is a product made by the company that is being recalled now in USA and Puerto Rico. This is not the first time that the ...
  • VHP seers meet in Ayodhya to decide on road ahead
    AYODHYA - The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has convened a meeting of leading seers here Wednesday to decide on the road ahead after the verdict on the Ramjanmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute. The 41-member central committee of seers will assemble at the Karsewak Puram camp. Amongst those participat ...

TruthNews Australia

  • What would a world without government look lik ...
    Throughout the last century, it has been estimated that governments around the world have been responsible for approximately 250 million murders. On the contrary, it is estimated that only nine million non-governmental, or domestic cases of homicide, have been perpetrated within the same time fr ...
  • Empowerment begins in your mind - or is it jus ...
    On today's show we bring you analysis and commentary on a number of hot topics in Australian news at the moment. We look at the embattled MP Craig Thompson, who, despite manifest evidence of fraud and criminal conduct,  is being propped up by a Labor government desperate to hold on to the ...
  • How Full-Body Scanners Work – and Fail
    TSA has been introducing full-body scanners to perform a virtual strip search of air travelers. Although technically travelers have the right to opt out, the TSA discourages this behavior with aggressive and invasive pat-down searches. Initially, TSA denied punitive pat-down searches. Then they ...
  • Total Body Scam? — Taking your money and freed ...
    Was it just me? Was I the only one who noticed a tiny announcement in February that Airport Scanners were coming to Australia, the land where terrorists haven’t landed (yet), and … wait for it… there would be no (NO!) — opt — out– clause. Did I hear that cor ...
  • We will not be scanned!
    In today's show we bring you an interview from the Rule of Law radio show with Hereward Fenton, who discusses the health, privacy and civil liberties issues of body scanners with Deborah Stevens. Hereward talks about the introduction of body scanners in Australian airports which are due to go ...

Beacon

  • Chile to Expand Marine Reserves in 2012
    A sea turtle in Hanga Roa Bay, Easter Island. © Oceana/Eduardo Sorensen Great news today: The Chilean Government announced its intention to expand the Salas y Gómez marine reserve and to create a smaller reserve in Hanga Roa Bay – the harbor right off the main town and capital of historic Eas ...
  • Chile to Create Easter Island Marine Reserve i ...
    A sea turtle in Hanga Roa Bay, Easter Island. © Oceana/Eduardo Sorensen Great news today: the Chilean government has announced that within the year 2012, it will designate a marine reserve in Easter Island’s Hanga Roa Bay and present a proposal for the expansion of the nearby marine park Motu ...
  • Two Years Later: Deformed Seafood and Sick Dol ...
    A soapfish in the Gulf of Mexico. © Oceana/Eduardo Sorensen Today marks the second anniversary of the Gulf oil spill. Oil has long stopped flowing from the leaking rig, but that doesn’t mean the disaster is over. Local fishermen have been making some off-putting discoveries: nets full of eyel ...
  • Government Fails on Offshore Drilling Report Card
    Friday will mark two years since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, causing the worst accidental oil spill in history. One would hope that an accident like this would lead to monumental changes in safety regulations, but sadly that is not the case. Today, we release ...
  • New Report: Widespread Seafood Fraud in LA
    Red snapper is often mislabeled. [image via Wikimedia Commons] Something’s fishy in Los Angeles. That’s according to our new report, which found widespread seafood mislabeling in the LA-area. DNA testing confirms that 55 percent of the seafood our campaigners sampled was mislabeled based on ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • Photographs of Adolph Hitler The Complete Coll ...
    Bet you know you’re a war history nerd when you spend time reviewing photos on a blog called, and I am not kidding, adolphhitlerbestpictures.blogspot.com.Until you see this you don’t really get an idea that he was the face of the Nazi party and that said he made sure he appeared in p ...
  • The SAAB J21
          It was 1947 when Saab began making almost 300 copies of the pusher/puller dual propellers and twin tail J21 aircraft. Sweden wouldn’t have been able to acquire an air force and so they attempted a domestic expenditure to create a fighter aircraft of original design and capab ...
  • The Semovente 47/32 Selp Propelled Howitzer
        Perhaps it should be viewed as a compliment that the Italians actually produced an armored fighting vehicle that the Germans were happy to use. After all, the Wehrmacht featured the best tanks in the world and were it not for Hitler propping him up, Mussolini would have fallen much ...
  • The M7 105mm Gun Carriage
        George S. Patton made extensive use of US made 105mm howitzers. He countered better German tanks with smarter use of fire-power. The Canadians made their own self propelled 105mm gun and called it the M7 Motor Carriage. The British used this weapon but called it The Priest. The Bis ...
  • The Skoda Tortoise PA II Czech Tank
            Czechoslovakia was an unexpected source of engineering skill. Although out classed by German manufacturing right next door, the Skoda PAII tank featured revolutionary design from this quaint corner of Europe. The tank had rounded armor and gun turrets all around the v ...

Taylor Marsh

  • George Zimmerman Released from Jail
    From the Los Angeles Times: George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer who shot an unarmed teenager, was released from jail about midnight Sunday, two days after a Florida judge set his bond at $150,000. Zimmerman’s attorney, Mark O’Mara, said in court Friday that Zimmerman w ...
  • Beyond Timothy Leary and Valley of the Dolls: ...
    “Rick Doblin has done a lot for the field, but he is more of a populist,” Grob says. “We need careful and controlled scientific studies showing the efficacy of these drugs so funding can continue.” Broader awareness of these sorts of end-of-life psychedelic studies could be good for everyone, th ...
  • Wal-Mart Bribery Cover-Up in Mexico
    Explosive report from the New York Times: The former executive gave names, dates and bribe amounts. He knew so much, he explained, because for years he had been the lawyer in charge of obtaining construction permits for Wal-Mart de Mexico. Wal-Mart dispatched investigators to Mexico City, and wi ...
  • As the World Turns: Susan G. Komen Uzbekistan ...
    For whatever reason, Susan G. Komen for the Cure failed to fully vet its partner in Uzbekistan and assess the risks of working with them. – Due Diligence, Googoosha, and Komen for the Cure Susan G. Komen is getting bad press and deserving it again. But this time they’re being mention ...
  • Queer Talk: ‘We Can’t Wait,’ Mr. Obama
    Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. (NOTE: Beginning next week, Queer Talk moves to noon on Fridays.) Last week ago I wrote Obama Delays Implementation of Promised Work Place Protection. For months, the administration had, as ThinkProgress reported it, ...

Hudson New York

  • Britain: Muslim 'Cultural Sensitivity' Runs Amok
    The largest university in London plans to impose a ban on the sale of alcohol on campus to accommodate the "cultural sensitivity" of its Muslim students. London Metropolitan University's Vice Chancellor, Malcolm Gillies, says it would be unwise to
  • Tunisia's Religious Persecution
    After two Tunisian citizens were condemned to a seven-year prison term for publishing writings perceived as offensive to Islam on March 28, Tunisian journalist Najoua Jo wrote, "In today's Tunisia, has anyone the right to be an atheist and to publicly
  • How the Eurocrisis Will Affect the West
    Next Sunday, the first ballot of the French presidential elections will be held. The two candidates with the most votes will run against one another in the second and final round on May 6. The big surprise of the French electoral campaign so far has been
  • Sensitive Muslims in the Religion of Peace
    On Friday, March 30, after Jumma prayer, thousands of Muslims in Bangladesh came out of the different masques in three towns and rushed to loot houses, then burn them down. Witness said several thousand people took part in the attacks, most of them
  • Stop Fatah from Stealing Public Funds
    The president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, has renewed his efforts to gain control over the Finance Ministry portfolio which, over the past few years, has been in the hands of Prime Minister Salam Fayyad. In recent statements to

Urban Survival

  • A Word from Jas Jain
    We don’t normally get into editorial positions, especially on Friday with Miller time close at hand, and another weekend at long last in sight, but with the headline in the Washington Times that “Obama reverts to 2008 plan: Blame Bush.” … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Friday Morning Knowledge-sharing
    Much feedback on yesterday’s column, and I thought you’d get a kick out of come of it…since much of it shows there are innovative, thinking Americans left… “You’re using the mouse to select the block of text and its new … Continue reading →
  • About that Government “Space Weather&#82 ...
    I’ll admit that sometimes we get a little wonky, living as we do usually 10-minutes to 10-years in advance of many secular events, but more than one reader who thought we were a bit “over-the-top” on worries about Sun-based events … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Dear Microsoft Support…
    I found out last year that I write more than most people, including writers, who near as I can tell average about 5,000-8,000 words per week.  Not that this is entirely new…a software documentation writer I used to know told … Continue reading →
  • Lingering Questions About Housing
    First, the long-term context:  Remember that we have been looking at the reports on housing from Case Shiller/S&P and have been repeatedly warning that the prices could resume their downward move and get cheaper than the recently announced return to … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • What Earth Day Means to Millennials
    Claire Morgenstern, Online and Social Media Development, NRDC Membership, New York Today is Earth Day. And I, by virtue of being a member of the first generation to have grown up with this holiday, am an Earth Day expert. I’ve made more than o ...
  • Latin America Climate, Energy and Environment ...
    Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC Chile SunEdison, the fourth largest solar company in the world, plans to install photovoltaic solar plants in Chile’s Atacama region. SunEdison’s vice president for their Latin Amer ...
  • Port of Los Angeles Proposes Developing the Cl ...
    Adrian Martinez, Staff Attorney, Environmental Justice, Santa Monica, California Yesterday, the Port of Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners unanimously approved its Strategic Plan for 2012 to 2017.  Overall, I must admit portions of the p ...
  • This Earth Day, you can support a historic ste ...
    Kim Knowlton, Senior Scientist, New York My hometown is now New York City, and I have pretty much been in a New York State of mind all my life. I grew up in lovely countryside east of Binghamton, NY; spent many years in the Finger Lakes Region; an ...
  • iMatter Campaign is Partnering with Earth Day ...
    Kelly Henderson, Climate Center Program Assistant, Washington, D.C. Earth Day is upon us once again; a gentle reminder of the past 42 years of environmental legislation that have made the Earth a cleaner, healthier place to live. This year, Earth Da ...

Injustice Everywhere

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

Total Collapse

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

Daily Dose

Beyond Zero Emissions

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

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Animal picture of the day: the spotless cheetah
    A strange cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) has been photographed in Kenya by wildlife artist Guy Combes. The "golden" cheetah's telltale spots are bizarrely diluted.
  • Eye-popping purple crabs discovered in the Phi ...
    Scientists have discovered four new species of brilliantly-colored freshwater crabs on the Philippine island of Palawan. Described in the Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, the new species expands the genus, Insulamon, from one known crab species to five. Although its ecosystems are threatened by wide ...
  • Mexico passes aggressive climate bill
    Last week, Mexico's Senate passed an aggressive and comprehensive climate change bill, making it the first developing nation and only the second country to do so, after the UK. The bill, which far outshines anything achieved by its far wealthier northern neighbors, sets ambitious targets for cut ...
  • 100 pictures for Earth Day
    One of the things that makes my job enjoyable despite the hours are the opportunities for getting out in the field. Reporting on tropical forests and other environmental issues frequently takes me to some places of amazing natural beauty. Along the way, I take pictures when I can.
  • Earth Day to do list
    Earth Day To Do List. 1. Solve climate change. 2. Conserve our wild places. 3. Save the world's species from extinction. 4. Learn from the wisdom of the world's indigenous peoples ...

Sierra Express

  • Over Aljazeera ‘Timbergate’ – Momoh Konte in c ...
    One of the indicted persons in the controversial Aljazeera – timber documentary saga, Momoh Kemoh Konteh is due in court on Tuesday April 24th. The anti graft agency lodged him with seven counts of indictment charges viz: soliciting an advantage contrary to Section 35(1) of the Anti Corruption C ...
  • Police in shady land deals at Jui
    Land feud has erupted in the east outskirts of Jui in the Western Rural area of Freetown between police officers and church authorities. The land in question according to sources was the one pegged for retired police personnel who throughout their working services are unable to buy land and buil ...
  • Police raid ghettos
    The Kissy Police Division in the east of Freetown, headed by Chief Superintendent of police, Fayia Sellu has undertaken massive raids of ghettos within the Kissy community over the weekend. The raids which were strictly handled by the operations wing of the Kissy Police Division targeted gray ar ...
  • Belgium Sellers go mad over Koroma’s $60,000
    Youth sellers at Belgium, King Jimmy, west central of the capital Freetown went wild on Thursday April 19 last week in a reactionary protest after they discovered that the substantial money President Koroma gave them for the purpose of developing their community has been siphoned by certain memb ...
  • Seven to vie for SLFA presidency, but…
    Seven high profile football personalities are set to contest for the Sierra Leone FA Presidency in the forthcoming July elective congress scheduled to take place in Kailahun.  (Photo: Isha Johansen, owner FC Johansen) Sierra Express Sports understands that the Acing FA President Joseph S. Keifal ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Fonterra blames media-savvy minority for e ...
    Fonterra will go back to shareholders one last time to get its Trading Among Farmers scheme over the line, after finding disquiet among global customers about apparent farmer opposition to the initiative.Chairman Henry van der...
  • Dairy farmers face payout cut after big fall i ...
    New Zealand dairy farm payouts look likely to sink further next season if the downward trend in dairy prices continues, economists say.Prices of dairy products had their biggest decline since July 2010 in Fonterra's latest GlobalDairyTrade...
  • Dairy prices fall 9.9pc in overnight auction
    Prices of dairy products had their biggest decline since July 2010 in Fonterra's latest GlobalDairyTrade auction, pushing the price index below its 10-year average.The GDT-TWI Price Index fell 9.9 per cent compared to the...
  • Fonterra plans to invest in new Indonesian plant
    Fonterra Cooperative Group, the world's biggest dairy exporter, plans to invest in a new blending and packing plant in Indonesia as it seeks to tap growing Asian demand for high-protein food products.The plant is expected to be...
  • A2 signs supply agreement with Synlait Milk
    A2 Corp, the NZAX-listed alternative milk company, has signed a supply agreement with Canterbury processor Synlait Milk as it seeks to launch its infant formula into Asian markets.The deal will see Synlait Milk source A2 milk from...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Milk Carton Faces Tell Lies, and I Got Proof
    Brian Palmer looks back at the missing-children scare of the 1980s and its most famous cultural artifact, the face on the milk carton: It all started with a few pamphlets. In the 1970s, many police departments were hesitant to intervene when noncustodial parents made off with the ...
  • Supreme Court Refuses to Hear NYC Rent Control ...
    The Supreme Court announced this morning that it will not hear the legal challenge filed by New York landlords James and Jeanne Harmon against the city’s famous rent stabilization law. Because the Harmons previously lost at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, which upheld t ...
  • Republicans Know More Than Democrats, Says Study
    At least GOPers do when it comes to politics, according to survey results released earlier this month by the Pew Research Center. As the report notes: Republicans fare substantially better than Democrats on several questions in the survey, as is typically the case in surveys abo ...
  • Sen. Kent Conrad, Senate Dems Punt on Producin ...
    In the Washington Times, Deroy Murdock reminds us that it's been three years since "Senate Democrats passed a budget. This dereliction of duty lagrantly violates the 1974 Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act." Here's Harry Reid (D-Nev.), the head of the Democrat: “W ...
  • A.M. Links: Orrin Hatch Faces Primary Challeng ...
    Senator Orrin Hatch failed to secure the support necessary at the Utah GOP convention this weekend to avoid a primary challenger. French President Nicholas Sarkozy’s weak showing in this weekend’s first round of Presidential elections is worrying investors that are uncertain abo ...

Mercury Rising

  • FOX’s Doocy Alters Obama Quote, WaPo Run ...
    From TPM, we hear that the Washington Post got fooled by a little sleight-of-hand (or in this case, sleight-of-quote) by FOX’s Steve Doocy: The initial version of the article quoted Obama as saying, “unlike some people, I wasn’t born with a silver spoon in my mouth.” TPM reported ...
  • Why Is The NFL Helping The Vikings Browbeat Mi ...
    Forbes’ Mike Ozanian has the details: Why is the NFL pushing so hard for taxpayers to pony up? After all, Goodell didn’t browbeat politicians in New Jersey for public financing for New York‘s $1.6 billion stadium, which was financed by the owners of the Giants and Jets. And as the table be ...
  • About 100 years too late (UN investigates trea ...
    It is not widely appreciated, even in this country, that the US government haD an explicit policy of genocide toward Native Americans until the 1930s or that, after John Collier‘s service as Commissioner of Indian Affairs, the policy reverted to one of erasing Native culture. A Native man ...
  • The coming wave of reform
    Via Ritholtz, Michael Lind has a fascinating article on American economic history that makes some sense out of the current era of stagnation and aimlessness. He says that periods of reform last 15-30 years and that Obama may just be the early stages of that transition (I would probably argue tha ...
  • CNN’s Own Chart Disproves CNN Claim Abou ...
    Propaganda spewage fail: CNN Money published an article today on Social Security and Medicare that, as is characteristic of mainstream reporting on these programs, misinforms readers about the country’s long-term fiscal picture. Fortunately, the misinformation can be easily debunked &#8212 ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Bail Out Iquitos
      Iquitos has become a place of refuge, healing, and transformation. Now, after recent and unprecedented flooding, Iquitos is "Beyond Red Alert" -  the city and the people need your help.  read more
  • Plant/Human Symbiosis & the Fall of Humanity: ...
    “I believe that the lost secret of human emergence . . . the undefined catalyst that took a very bright monkey and turned that species into a self-reflecting dreamer . . . that catalyst has to be sought in these alkaloids in the food chain that were catalyzing higher states of intellectual act ...
  • Everyone Is Pregnant
    2012, the year of...the baby boom? Take a walk past supermarket shelves and you will discover that all the tabloid magazines are racing to cover the hottest trend, pregnancies. It seems that our collective unconscious has chosen to trade guns and gas masks for bottles and diapers. Hollywood ...
  • The Future of Love Salon
    In this Spore conversation, we will explore The Future of Love in all its facets, from breakthroughs in evolutionary psychology around the origin of current mating patterns to the potential for elevating eroticism by restoring a sacred and Tantric dimension to relationships.read more
  • How is a "Spiritual Person" Supposed to Act?
    How is a spiritual person supposed to act?  Should s/he be more gentle?  Speak in a soft voice?  Work as a holistic healer?  Have only ‘mindful' sex, not drink, not get angry?  Maybe give lots of money to charity? I want to claim that these misconceptions confuse what spirituality is a ...

Desertification

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

Blogging Canadians

  • George Zimmerman Lies under oath
    Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economyWatch this video and you be the judge.
  • Canada's oil is cheap
    Stephen Harper wants to sell our oil at any cost. He wants to be a good salesman. Why Harper should take the blame? Because the buck stops at Prime Minister’s door. He must come up with policies which should alleviate this problem. Read the CBC story.
  • George Zimmerman will be free on bail
    It is sad. This man is a cold-blooded murderer. Maybe it helped that his father was a judge. To me it looks like first justice denied and now justice delayed.Read the story here
  • Peter Mackay: Besides F-35 another $2 billion ...
    Defence minister Peter MacKay is taking the heat for the shortcomings of the F-35 project in public, yet he is no longer in control of the process. Chris Wattie/Reuters This one is about infantry fighting vehicles. “It is understood that the $2-billion competition to chose (sic) a supplier f ...
  • Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld -the liars
    These bastards are responsible for the killing of over one million Iraqis – majority of them women and children. No one has the courage to make them accountable including softy Obama. We live in a horrible world. Lest we forget.

Press TV - Middle East

  • Mass funeral held for Bahraini protester
    Hundreds of Bahrainis have taken to the streets in Manama suburb of Bilad al-Qadim to take part in the funeral of a protester killed by regime forces.
  • Iran on agenda of Israel FM Baku visit
    Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman is visiting Baku amid reports that Tel Aviv may use Azerbaijan’s soil to launch a military attack against Iran.
  • Israeli tanks, bulldozers cross into Gaza
    Four Israeli tanks backed by two military bulldozers have crossed into the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun, opening fire on agricultural land in the area, Press TV reports.
  • EU approves new sanctions on Syria
    The European Union has reached an agreement to impose a new set of sanctions on the Syrian government, an official with the bloc says.
  • UN observers visit three Syrian cities
    A group of United Nations observers has visited three cities in Syria in line with its task of monitoring a ceasefire that went into effect on April 12.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • Solicitation of Nominations for SPS Governing ...
    We are now accepting nominations for students to join the School of Professional Studies Governing Council.  The Governing Council considers proposals for new courses, degrees, certificates and programs that will be offered by the School.  Two students and two alternates are needed to serve on t ...
  • Smarmy Prince, Contemptible Hypocrite, Ayatoll ...
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