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Thomas Paine

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

Monday, April 23, 2012

23 April - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

Map of PakistanMap of Pakistan (Photo credit: Omer Wazir)
A truck from a Senegalese military unit convoy...A truck from a Senegalese military unit convoy arrives in Burkina Faso in June, for a multinational peacekeeping exercise. The military unit convoyed nearly 3,000 kilometers from coastal West Africa to Burkina Faso. Exercise JIGUI, conducted by the Economic Community of West African States standby force, focused on the logistical capabilities necessary to support the ECOWAS standby force in peace support operations. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Map showing ethnic and religious diversity amo...Map showing ethnic and religious diversity among the population of Iran. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Key Petroleum Sector facilities (2004) Iran (W...Key Petroleum Sector facilities (2004) Iran (Wall Map) 2004 "Iran Country Profile" Iran map with insets: Population Density, Ethnoreligious Distribution, Key Petroleum Sector Facilities, Southern Caspian Energy Prospects and Strait Of Hormuz (2.5M) (source: CIA map) http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asia/iran_country_profile_2004.jpg (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Advertisement from the 1970s by American nucle...Advertisement from the 1970s by American nuclear-energy companies, using Iran's nuclear program as a marketing ploy (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
flag of the Economic Community of West African...flag of the Economic Community of West African States (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Boycott Israel-posterBoycott Israel-poster (Photo credit: Creap)

IPS - Inter Press Services

  • ‘Anti-Terror' Laws Haunt Pakistan's Unio ...
    As International Labour Day approaches, rights groups in Pakistan are redoubling their efforts to win freedom for six incarcerated union leaders in Faisalabad, the country's textile hub, who are currently serving a combined jail term of 590 years for supposedly violating the country's &#82 ...
  • South Africa's Smallholders Lose Battle for Se ...
    In an almost ceremonial manner, Selinah Mncwango opens her big plastic bag and pulls out several smaller packets, each filled with different types of seeds: sorghum, bean, pumpkin, and maize. They are her pride, her wealth, the "pillar of my family," says the farmer from a village in South ...
  • Economic Crisis Hits Gender Budgeting
    Worldwide, women are largely responsible for managing family budgets, controlling 65 percent of global spending. But, women's needs are often ignored when it comes to government budgeting, delegates at an international meet in the Turkish capital observed.
  • Morocco Clamours for Justice
    A government plan to reform Morocco's dilapidated justice system, the details of which are still a mystery to the general public, has become the subject of much scepticism, especially from justice professionals around the country.
  • Guinea-Bissau Junta Presents ECOWAS With a Fai ...
    Six West African heads of state will attend a regional summit in Guinea on Monday, to discuss the situation in neighbouring Guinea and Cape Verde, where an Apr. 12 coup d'état aborted presidential elections. The Economic Community of West African States sent a delegation to Bissau, th ...

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Why the Right Hated the Iran Talks
    Summary: The weekend talks on Iran’s nuclear talks were hailed by many as progress. But the American right doesn’t see things that way. source: The Diplomatread more
  • Israel, Iran, nuclear weapons and a Shakespear ...
    Summary: Amid all the talk of Iran is aiming to equip itself with nuclear weapons, it seems too often ignored that the one Middle East country that indisputably has nuclear weapons is Israel. The person who, in 1986, produced the conclusive evidence for Israel having these weapons was Mordech ...
  • The U.S. and Iran Are Talking. Why Is the New ...
    Summary: At long last, the United States and Iran are engaged in serious talks about Iran's nuclear program. But instead of celebrating the fact that President Obama is keeping his promise to the people who voted for him to pursue diplomatic engagement with Iran, the New York Times has sugges ...
  • Israel Rides the Rollercoaster of Mass Hysteria
    Summary: Before an AIPAC audience only too eager to indulge him, Netanyahu likened a refusal to launch a war against Iran as tantamount to refusing a request from Jewish leaders to bomb Auschwitz. Together Netanyahu and his fawning American audience rode the roller coaster of mass hysteria o ...
  • REPORT: Broadcast News Networks Misrepresent I ...
    Summary: Many in the media have long since repudiated their failures in the lead-up to the Iraq War, acknowledging that they were too quick to accept the false notion that Iraq possessed a sizable and dangerous cache of weapons of mass destruction. The question today is whether they have lear ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Weekend Feature: Robotic Search for Life on Ju ...
    At NASA’s Astrobiology Science Conference held in Atlanta last week, visionary space inventor Bill Stone announced that he intends to get an autonomous six-foot by ten inch robotic cylinder called Valkyrie ready to visit the icebound sea of Jupiter’s moon...
  • New Space Venture the Next Google? --"Could Ad ...
    Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt and billionaire co-founder Larry Page have teamed up with "Avatar" director James Cameron and other investors to back an ambitious space exploration and natural resources venture, called Planetary Resources, that will be unveiled at a...
  • "The Great Switch" --Sun's Magnetic Field Does ...
    About every 11 years the magnetic field on the sun reverses completely – the north magnetic pole switches to south, and vice versa. This flip coincides with the greatest solar activity seen on the sun in any given cycle, known...
  • Weekend Feature: A 3-D Journey Through the Obs ...
    The Known Universe from AMNH on Vimeo.
  • Saturn's "UFO Moon" --The Odd, Baffling Pan (T ...
    Strange flying-saucer-shaped moons embedded in Saturn's rings have baffled scientists studying images transmitted by the ESA's Cassini Spacecraft. Research suggests that the oddly shaped moons, Pan and Atlas, are born largely from clumps of icy particles in the rings themselves,...

Natural News

  • Clarification: Breastfeeding isn't porn; it's ...
    Just a quick clarification about my hosting of the Alex Jones Show yesterday. During one segment I was talking about Kraft Foods and their publicity image of an infant breastfeeding while holding an Oreo cookie. You can see that image here: http://www.tmz.com/2012/04/19/oreo...
  • Green tea extract coupled with quercetin kills ...
    Green tea catechins such as EGCG have effectively been shown to increase metabolism as an aid to weight loss and have demonstrated a long history as a potent tool to fight many different types of cancer. Compounds in green tea act as powerful antioxidants that can promote...
  • Scientists call for global ban on bee-killing ...
    With a myriad of concrete evidence now in plain view, there is simply no denying that pesticides are a direct cause of massive bee declines all around the world. And despite continued denial by corporate-whore governments in the U.S., the U.K., and elsewhere that have...
  • Forget Lipitor and other statin drugs - The to ...
    Cholesterol is a natural byproduct of the liver and a necessary component of good health. Normal cholesterol is essential for cellular repair and development. It plays a critical role in the improvement of memory and learning, is the precursor to vitamin D production...
  • Hundreds of economists agree marijuana legaliz ...
    Marijuana prohibition currently costs taxpayers billions of dollars a year to enforce, and it accomplishes little or nothing beneficial in terms of economic benefits. On the contrary, legalizing marijuana would not only save taxpayers billions of dollars a year in unnecessary...

Threat Level

  • FBI Uses ‘Sledgehammer’ to Seize E-Mail Server ...
    In an effort to uncover the source of bomb threats sent to the University of Pittsburgh, agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation seized an entire server on Wednesday that is used by anonymous remailing service Mixmaster as well several progressive rights groups.
  • Judges Drive Truck Through Loophole in Supreme ...
    A federal judge in Iowa is considering sanctioning an agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration for concealing information that he had used warrantless GPS vehicle tracking to tail the alleged kingpin of a local drug ring.
  • Motorcycle Club’s Attorney Scoffs at FBI Asses ...
    A lawyer representing an alleged crime syndicate is crying foul over a Federal Bureau of Investigation assessment that a motorcycle gang trademarked its patch to prevent infiltration by undercover officers.
  • CISPA Isn’t ‘Son of SOPA’ (But That’s Not Sayi ...
    Like a lion in tall grass, legislation to bolster America’s defense against cyber-attacks has been lying in wait in congressional committees for years. But now that legislation is about to leap onto the congressional conveyor belt where bills become law. And, once again, internet activists ...
  • FBI: Motorcycle Gang Trademarked Logo to Keep ...
    We've always considered trademarking as a means to protect a company's intellectual property and to aide consumers in identifying trusted products and services. But on Tuesday, we stumbled on a novel use of intellectual-property law implemented by an alleged organized crime syndicate founded in ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Even After Bush Scandals, GOP Still Politicizi ...
    This was a very bad week indeed for employees of the federal government. The shameful Secret Service prostitution scandal, the GSA's Vegas boondoggle and the grisly pictures from Afghanistan rightly brought bipartisan condemnation from Democrats and Republicans alike. But you'd never know it r ...
  • Romney Steals Thatcher's "Labour Isn't Working ...
    In Ohio this week, Mitt Romney stood before a banner reading "Obama Isn't Working" and blamed the President for the shuttered plant he used as a backdrop. As it turns out, there are only two problems with this picture. Sadly for Romney, the drywall firm in question closed in June 2008 when Geo ...
  • Romney's Noblesse Non Oblige
    There's nothing wrong with being born with a silver spoon in your mouth. It's what you do with that good fortune that matters. And that is at the heart of Mitt Romney's problem with the American people. With his proclamations and policies, the same man who denounces President Obama as "out of ...
  • Romney's GOP Allies Boast the Rich Will Always ...
    Since Barack Obama first announced his still-popular proposal to let the Bush tax cuts earners for the top two percent expire, Republicans have regurgitated a series of tried if untrue talking points to keep the wealthiest Americans from paying one more cent to Uncle Sam. As the data clearly sh ...
  • 10 Things Republicans Don't Want You to Know A ...
    Tax Day 2012 has been a busy one for the propagandists of the Republican Party. After the GOP successfully filibustered the Buffett Rule in the Senate, House Speaker John Boehner claimed that Republicans are "listening to the American people." Of course, what Boehner, Mitch McConnell, Mitt Rom ...

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Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Arctic Ocean Could be Source of Massive Amount ...
    A new report has shown hat the Arctic Ocean could be a significant contributor of methane to the atmosphere. The study, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, looked at airborne observations of methane to determine how much of the greenhouse gas was being expelled from the Arctic Ocean, up ...
  • Global Warming & Extreme Weather Linked — Scie ...
      Climate scientists have been warning use for decades that global warming isn’t just about higher temperatures — it’s also about some seriously extreme weather. Such weather, we all know, destroys homes, destroys offices, ruins cities, and kills people. It has taken awh ...
  • Prenatal Exposure to Air Pollution Makes Child ...
      Prenatal exposure to high levels of air pollution doubled the likelihood of children becoming obese in a new study by Colombia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. The study finds that pregnant women exposed to high levels of polycyclic aromatic compounds (PAHS) were more ...
  • Photos from the First Annual Recycled Art and ...
      Hey Folks, here’s my photo blogging feature from RARE…the Recycled Art and Resource Expo…a three day event happening now in Bellingham, Washington (continues through Earth  Day, Sunday April 22, ’til 3pm).   So, if you’re in the neighborhood, I enthusiastica ...
  • #1 Environmental Issue This Earth Day — Can Yo ...
      Today, the #1 cause of numerous environmental problems, including our #1 problem of global warming (perhaps the biggest threat humanity has ever faced), is related to our food choices. I could probably write a book on it, but a great post someone shared with me yesterday and a great vid ...

Water Quality - WordPress

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Axis of Logic

  • Greek Town Implements Revolutionary Barter Sys ...
    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 barter sy ...
  • Resurrection. A poem by Chandi Sinnathurai - P ...
    RESURRECTION If I had died And come back living My life would be marked By scars you've inflicted Upon my soul and spirit. My wounds would prove The tyranny and slavery Set upon my flesh That eventually killed me off Into the land of the haunted ...
  • Argentina's critics are wrong again about rena ...
    In taking back oil and gas company YPF, Argentina's state is reversing past mistakes. Europe is in no position to be outraged. The Argentinian government's decision to renationalise the oil and gas company YPF has been greeted with howls of outrage, threats, forecasts of rage and ru ...
  • Measuring Wars by a Loss of Principles - World ...
    Literally over night in May of 1970, President Richard M. Nixon’s ill-planned and ill-fated invasion of Cambodia revived the dwindling antiwar movement to vigorous life. Whether it was his verbal barrages of “Peace with Honor” or his “Vietnamization” euphemism that lulled pro-life protesters to ...
  • They Want to Privatize the World - Education
    One of the biggest con games going on at the moment is the sustained attack on the U.S. public school system.  It’s being perpetrated by predatory entrepreneurs (disguised as “concerned citizens” and “education reformers”) hoping to persuade the parents of school-age children that the on ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • How Civilized Nations Deal with Criminal Corpo ...
    By @KYYellowDog Yes, there are nations where corporations do not own the political process, and they can be held accountable for their criminal behavior. Anthony Gucciardi at Truthout: In a major victory for public health and what will hopefully lead to other nations taking action, a French cour ...
  • Rachel Maddow in Kansas City - April 22, 2012
    By @MBersin A Kansas City area independent book store sponsored a book event featuring Rachel Maddow at the Uptown Theater this afternoon. A crowd of approximately fifteen hundred attended. For the price of admission they received a signed copy of Rachel Maddow's book, Drift: The Unmooring of A ...
  • Repugs Proven Dead Wrong on Cap and Trade, Too
    By @KYYellowDog News of yet more proof that liberal solutions not only work but refute conservative predictions of catastrophe rises to the level of "Breaking: Water is Wet." But yawning at the extension of repugs' century-long record of being Wrong About Everything works to their advantage if n ...
  • Sweetening the Pot
    By @BGinKC I really hate fundraising, mostly because I feel like a loser when I ask for money, and when I don't raise all I need the first day or two, I start feeling like "who the hell do I think I am, to even be doing this, anyway?" and then I slack off and drop the ball and suck it up. It's ...
  • Moving From Alarm to Action on Global Warming
    By @KYYellowDog Jennifer Granholm's War Room stepped it up several noches Friday night with a superb episode on the crisis of global warming. Ignore the cringe-worthy intro with Al Gore; the discussions with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Jeffrey Sachs are superb and inspiring. Kennedy explains the o ...

Care 2

  • CARIBBEAN: Turning Landfills into Energy
    A United Kingdom-based Waste to Energy firm is partnering with some Caribbean countries to set up plants that will convert garbage into electricity and potable water, and in the process transform the region from its dependence on fossil fuel. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Green Lifestyle ...
  • Light bulb with 20-year life unveiled in US on ...
    A prize-winning, super energy saving LED bulb from Dutch electronics giant Philips, said to last over 20 years, went on sale online and in stores Sunday to coincide with Earth Day. Submitted by Tomoko Harris to Green Lifestyle  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Identity Theft Insurance Overview
    Identity theft insurance is a relatively new policy that focuses on helping a victim recover the financial losses or compromised information resulting from an identity theft situation. Submitted by Adrian P. to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Vegetable Gardening: 2012 Gardening Trends
    It's time to get your garden growing! Submitted by Joanne Taylor to Green Lifestyle  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Expedition Seeks To Save Florida's 'Terra Inco ...
    On Sunday, these four adventurers mark the end of a 1,000-mile trek across Florida, from the tip of the Everglades to the Okefenokee Swamp. Submitted by Judy C. to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Are We Going to War?
    Title may strike you as quite odd since there is no apparent pot boiling on the international stove. But trust me on this one, there are guns being loaded and fingers touching triggers that the average person is not privy to and we could find ourselves plunged into a new military venture. The ho ...
  • Alarm Waiting
    The election is well underway, and Team Obama thrashes and preens. The Obama re-elect is said to be struggling for money in comparison to 2008. The Obama re-election lacks the mobs scenes that dominated the conversation. The underlying tale is the national and global economy. There are rumblings ...
  • Open Thread & Earth Day (minus politics)
    Florian Schulz has “witnessed some of the most dramatic landscapes, the most spectacular light, the most memorable wildlife encounters, and the most awe-inspiring migrations I have ever seen.” Above, mother and cubs flee as a male bear approaches. – The Seattle Times, April 22, ...
  • Cry Havoc And Let Slip The Dogs
    Unless you are unaware that every season is silly season in politics, and where have you been, you aren’t surprised by the Obama/Romney Dog wars. Romney put his on the roof of his car and Obama ate one. We are a country deep in dept, with unemployment over 8%, deeply divided politically an ...
  • Obama’s Speech-Writers Need Some New Material!
    Obama has so many nice things to say to foreign heads of state when they visit here or he visits them there. How genuine are his words of praise? How embarrassing when some clever Dane decides to string those nice phrases all together, all TWO of them. This reminds me of a kid in school [...]

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • Emery hosts Final Friday event including new M ...
    Emery hosts Final Friday event including new Moerlein beer and 2 CD releases FOX19 Dear Companion aims to create awareness of the problems surrounding mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia, with Moore and Sollee donating their artist profits from the album to Appalachian Voices in suppor ...
  • Where our electric comes from, and where our F ...
    Where our electric comes from, and where our Florida dollars go Cape Coral Daily Breeze The process is called Mountaintop Removal or MTR. The people living in those areas are asking us as consumers to please stop feeding an industry that is destroying their land/water as well as polluting our ow ...
  • For Earth Day, Treat Yourself to an Inspiring ...
    For Earth Day, Treat Yourself to an Inspiring Success Story Earth Island Journal The film did its job well, helping to ignite grassroots opposition to mountaintop removal coal mining and to put the coal industry on the defensive. Which is not to say that mountaintop removal is no longer a threat ...
  • The Avengers' Mark Ruffalo: Hulk Smash Pollute ...
    E! Online The Avengers' Mark Ruffalo: Hulk Smash Polluters! E! Online And this process, along with tar sands extraction and mountain top removal, destroys water." Not only has Ruffalo started an anti-fracking nonprofit, Water Defense, but he's also traveled to several states to atte ...
  • Miners eat into the Appalachians - msnbc.com ( ...
    Miners eat into the Appalachians msnbc.com (blog) Critics refer to this type of mining as 'mountaintop removal mining' which has destroyed 500 mountain peaks and at least 1200 miles of streams while leading to increased flooding. The Appalachians are some of the oldest mountains on Earth ...

Memeorandum

  • Obama to target foreign nationals' use of new ...
    Scott Wilson / Washington Post: Obama to target foreign nationals' use of new technologies in human rights abuses  —  President Obama will issue an executive order Monday that will allow U.S. officials for the first time to impose sanctions against foreign nationals found to hav ...
  • Have Our News Organizations Gone Crazy? (John ...
    John Hinderaker / Power Line: Have Our News Organizations Gone Crazy?  —  I wrote here about MSNBC's campaign to tie the Koch brothers to George Zimmerman's shooting of Trayvon Martin.  That effort was, it is fair to say, insane, but it apparently inspired one or more liber ...
  • Political Memo: Obama-Romney Race Could Help P ...
    John Harwood / New York Times: Political Memo: Obama-Romney Race Could Help Pave Way to Deficit Deal  —  WASHINGTON — When television pundits and aging rock stars start commanding headlines in the presidential campaign, it is tempting to conclude that the election season w ...
  • Shift on Executive Power Lets Obama Bypass Riv ...
    Charlie Savage / New York Times: Shift on Executive Power Lets Obama Bypass Rivals  —  WASHINGTON — One Saturday last fall, President Obama interrupted a White House strategy meeting to raise an issue not on the agenda.  He declared, aides recalled, that the administr ...
  • Grassley: Were White House staff involved in p ...
    Susan Crabtree / Washington Times: Grassley: Were White House staff involved in prostitution scandal?  —  Sen. Chuck Grassley, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, is questioning the U.S. Secret Service about possible involvement of White House staff in the ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.0, Tonga
    Monday, April 23, 2012 03:08:01 UTC Monday, April 23, 2012 04:08:01 PM at epicenterDepth: 192.40 km (119.55 mi)
  • M 5.1, Tonga region
    Monday, April 23, 2012 02:14:24 UTC Monday, April 23, 2012 02:14:24 PM at epicenterDepth: 42.80 km (26.59 mi)
  • M 5.1, Guatemala
    Monday, April 23, 2012 00:20:40 UTC Sunday, April 22, 2012 06:20:40 PM at epicenterDepth: 57.20 km (35.54 mi)
  • M 5.0, west of Macquarie Island
    Sunday, April 22, 2012 13:11:19 UTC Sunday, April 22, 2012 10:11:19 PM at epicenterDepth: 9.80 km (6.09 mi)
  • M 5.3, west of Macquarie Island
    Sunday, April 22, 2012 12:20:46 UTC Sunday, April 22, 2012 09:20:46 PM at epicenterDepth: 10.00 km (6.21 mi)

China Dialogue

  • Rethinking peak oil
    Faith-based theories about future oil supplies are easily knocked down, but China should still prepare for the risks of declining reserves, write Lin Shi and Yuhan Zhang.In recent years, Chinese scholars have been embracing “peak oil” theory in increasing numbers. The idea – fi ...
  • Britain’s green power
    As energy ministers from around the world prepare for a clean-tech summit in London, Caspar Henderson asks what the host country – where the last industrial revolution began – can bring to the table. Energy ministers from 23 leading economies including China will meet in London next ...
  • Keeping rats on the run
    On the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia, scientists aim to restore 100 million seabirds by ridding the territory of rodents, writes Clive Cookson. The effort will be the largest eradication campaign in history.The largest rodent eradication campaign in history is set to poison millions of r ...
  • A heavy-metal burden
    Global efforts to cut mercury pollution pose particular challenges for China – responsible for a quarter of the world’s emissions. Tan Siying reports.Mercury pollution is a global issue with China at its centre. The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is pushing hard to bring ...
  • Greening China's press corps
    Academics, officials, media figures and NGO representatives gathered in Beijing last week to discuss the past and future of Chinese environmental journalism. Zhang Yang listened in.“Environmental reporters should focus on establishing value systems, so that once they have the facts they ca ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Hey Etch-A-Sketch-Conservatives, Time to Resur ...
    A spring awash with Etch A Sketch conservatives, camera-wielding GOP con men and a bogus deficit reduction budget from House Republicans shows that for the right, wrong is justified when it achieves the desired results. A perfect example of this political philosophy is the work of James E. O&#x2 ...
  • Religious right group continues to use African ...
    When an organization has been discovered to be deliberately exploiting hostilities between the gay and black communities on the subject of marriage equality, will that group: a. deny that the allegation is true b. say that the allegation is true while apologizing c. claim that the discovery of t ...
  • My Three Favorite “Money Rules”
    When economic times were flush, it felt relatively easy to figure out the next financial move to make. Today it feels like many of us are on a rapidly moving financial freeway with poor money signage. Should you pay off student loan debt or start saving for retirement? Should you save for your c ...
  • Texas Rep, Having Failed to Pass Anti-Choice L ...
    Written by Andrea Grimes for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. Texas Republican House Representative Bill Zedler couldn’t get the anti-choice amendment he proposed during last year’s ...
  • The Science of Fox News: Why Its Viewers are t ...
    Authoritarian people have a stronger emotional need for an outlet like Fox, where they can find affirmation and escape factual challenges to their beliefs.

Threat Level

  • FBI Uses ‘Sledgehammer’ to Seize E-Mail Server ...
    In an effort to uncover the source of bomb threats sent to the University of Pittsburgh, agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation seized an entire server on Wednesday that is used by anonymous remailing service Mixmaster as well several progressive rights groups.
  • Judges Drive Truck Through Loophole in Supreme ...
    A federal judge in Iowa is considering sanctioning an agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration for concealing information that he had used warrantless GPS vehicle tracking to tail the alleged kingpin of a local drug ring.
  • Motorcycle Club’s Attorney Scoffs at FBI Asses ...
    A lawyer representing an alleged crime syndicate is crying foul over a Federal Bureau of Investigation assessment that a motorcycle gang trademarked its patch to prevent infiltration by undercover officers.
  • CISPA Isn’t ‘Son of SOPA’ (But That’s Not Sayi ...
    Like a lion in tall grass, legislation to bolster America’s defense against cyber-attacks has been lying in wait in congressional committees for years. But now that legislation is about to leap onto the congressional conveyor belt where bills become law. And, once again, internet activists ...
  • FBI: Motorcycle Gang Trademarked Logo to Keep ...
    We've always considered trademarking as a means to protect a company's intellectual property and to aide consumers in identifying trusted products and services. But on Tuesday, we stumbled on a novel use of intellectual-property law implemented by an alleged organized crime syndicate founded in ...

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PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • Outbreaks and Illnesses Linked to Raw Milk Her ...
    A herdshare (a.k.a., cow condo) is a legal fiction created in an attempt to circumvent laws banning the sale of raw milk and laws preventing distribution of raw milk without proper licenses or food safety measures.  Under the fiction, the farmer does not "sell" raw milk, but "sells" a porti ...
  • Supreme Court of New South Wales vs KFC in Sal ...
    A young Australian girl who suffered severe brain damage and was left paralysed by Salmonella food poisoning won a $10,000,000 ($10,369,000 U.S.) judgment against Kentucky Fried Chicken. The judgment (Samaan bht Samaan v Kentucky Fried Chicken Pty Ltd [2012] NSWSC 381) was published Saturday. ...
  • Bad Cheese Leads to Criminal Indictments
    According to a Press Release from Patrick J. Fitzgerald, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, four individuals who were involved in shipping more than 110,000 pounds of Mexican cheese in 2007 were indicted (See, Full Indictment PDF) on federal charges for allegedly consp ...
  • The Wheels have come off the Crazy Bus known a ...
    Outbreaks from Foodborne Pathogens in Raw Milk and Raw Milk Cheeses, United States 1998-present These tables were compiled by the Real Raw Milk Facts working group through searches of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) online foodborne disease outbreak database (1998- ...
  • Occupy Food Safety Now!
    Below is the Rivera family.  An E. coli O157:H7 infection cost them over $6,000,000 in medical costs and kept Linda, still in a wheelchair, in the hosptial for over two years. Food poisoning is not a new concern. The problem is, it’s not an old one either.  Consumers, Governme ...

AutoblogGreen

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

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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  • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
  • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
  • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
  • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

Democracy Now!

  • Amy Goodman Speaks at NYC Green Festival Main ...
    Award-winning investigative journalist Amy Goodman will speak on Sunday, April 22 at 2pm on the Green Festival Main Stage at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, 655 West 34th Street, in New York City. The Huffington Post will be streaming events on the main stage all weekend, so tune in ...
  • Watch Live, Friday, 7 EST: Amy Goodman Moderat ...
    Tune in tonight to see Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman as she moderates a panel that kicks off the Foundry Theatre’s “This Is How We Do It: A Festival of Dialogues About Another World.” She will speak with activist and philosopher Grace Lee Boggs , who says, “we have the power within us to c ...
  • Part 2: Tavis Smiley & Cornel West on Growing ...
    In part two of our interview, Tavis Smiley and Dr. Cornel West discuss growing up in working-class households. "I saw so much poverty growing up," says Smiley, who lived with 13 family members in a three-bedroom trailer and learned that even when he was not optimistic, he could be hop ...
  • Obama’s Policies: The Real Scandal in Cartagena
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign launched its first Spanish-language ads this week, just after returning from the Summit of the Americas. He spent three days in Colombia, longer than any president in U.S. history. The trip was marred, however, ...
  • VIDEO: "Sex, Race and Class" — Extended Interv ...
    Watch Amy Goodman’s complete interview with the pioneering activist, writer and political thinker Selma James. For six decades, Selma James has been on the front lines of working-class movements for women’s liberation and against racism. She launched the International Wages for Hous ...

Suzie-Q

  • Richard Grenell, New Mitt Romney Spokesman, Sc ...
    Huffington Post By- Michael Calderone Posted: 04/22/2012 10:37 am Updated: 04/22/2012 3:00 pm NEW YORK — Richard Grenell, a former Bush administration official who joined the Romney campaign Thursday as national security and foreign policy spokesman, appears to have deleted more than 800 o ...
  • Romney Raised $12.6 Million In March. Refuses ...
    Chicago Sun-Times By Lynn Sweet on April 20, 2012 7:49 AM | Mitt Romney raised $12.6 million in March for his primary, his campaign said Friday. Watch for the number to quickly jump. Now that Romney is the all-but-certain nominee, he is starting to raise money jointly with the Republican Na ...
  • Romney To Deliver Commencement At Anti-Gay Lib ...
    Think Progress By Igor Volsky on Apr 19, 2012 at 11:48 am Mitt Romney — who at an earlier point in his career had promised to advance the equality of gay and lesbian people — is scheduled to deliverthe Commencement address at Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University on May 12, an Evangelical Christian ...
  • Lilly Ledbetter Slams Mitt Romney, GOP On Fair ...
    Huffington Post Posted: 04/18/2012 4:05 pm By- Laura Bassett Lilly Ledbetter, the woman who famously sued her employer after discovering she was being paid less than her male colleagues and who inspired the first piece of legislation President Barack Obama signed upon entering office, fired back ...
  • ROMNEY LIES: Claims John Kerry Released 2 Year ...
    Think Progress By Judd Legum  on Apr 17, 2012 at 6:15 pm In a CNBC interview with Larry Kudlow to air later tonight, Mitt Romney defends his decision to release only two years of tax returns — both filed after he decided to run for President — by claiming that 2004 Democratic nominee John Kerry ...

Solari

  • Mitt Romney, American Parasite
    By Pete Kotz 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 ...
  • Internet Ad Revenue Hits Record $31 billion in ...
    By Associated Press, New York — Revenue from Internet advertising in the U.S. hit a record $31 billion last year, according to a study released Wednesday. That’s up 22 percent from $26 billion in 2010, the previous record. The Interactive Advertising Bureau, an industry group, conducted the qu ...
  • The Secret Powers of Time
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  • 18 Venn Diagrams Showing How Corrupted America ...
    [click on the image for a larger version] Contributor Madison Ruppert A phenomenal series of Venn diagrams at the end of this article shows in painstaking detail just how corrupted our political system in the United States has become. When I look at the the connections of Goldman Sachs, it make ...
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Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Back to the future: convict labor returns to ...
    Summary: Another chapter in an ongoing series about this horrific symptom of America’s decay, both operational and moral.  Most of us don’t see it.  Rot, as in a home, usually remains hidden in the early stages (when it’s easy to treat).  Only in the advanced stages does it bec ...
  • Rome speaks to us. Their example can inspire ...
    Summary:  A the American polity rots, we follow a path well-worn by previous Republics.  Our society’s observation-orientation-decision-action (OODA) has broken, with each stage become dysfunctional.  We cannot accept this, so cognitive dissonance (see Wikipedia) dominates our mental proce ...
  • Rome speaks to us. Their example can inspire ...
    Summary:  A the American polity rots, we follow a path well-worn by previous Republics.  Our society’s observation-orientation-decision-action (OODA) has broken, with each stage become dysfunctional.  We cannot accept this, so cognitive dissonance (see Wikipedia) dominates our mental proce ...
  • Thomas Jefferson saw our present peril. We sh ...
    Summary: The Founders created the United States as a gamble, a bet on hope rather than history. They warned us about the events we see today. If we listen, we can prevent America from mutating beyond recognition. Please read this prescient warning in Notes on the State of Virginia by Thomas Jeff ...
  • Thomas Jefferson saw our present peril. We sh ...
    Summary:  The Founders created the United States as a gamble, a bet on hope rather than history.  They warned us about the events we see today.  If we listen, we can prevent America from mutating beyond recognition. Please read this prescient warning in Notes on the State of Virginia by Thomas J ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

  • Top of the Morning: Conflict Between Sudan and ...
    Top stories from DAWNS Digest.  Sudan Launches Major Attack on South Sudan The border conflict between the Sudans escalated over the weekend. “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, sig ...
  • L'État Ce N'est Pas Sarkozy
    (AP Photo/Michel Spingler) French Socialist party candidate Francois Hollande, center, arrives at his campaign headquarters on the morning after the first round of the French presidential elections in Paris, France, Monday, April 23, 2012. Hollande has taken his plodding, undynamic campaign to ...
  • Are You Ready for a War Between Sudan and Sout ...
    The last time these two fought a war, 2 million people died. The stakes are considerably higher this time around now that South Sudan is an independent, sovereign country. Khartoum has vowed to replace the regime in Juba (the capital of the South), which it also referred to with the dehumanizing ...
  • The EU's Misguided Move to Fight Pirates Onshore
    When confronting the crisis of Somali piracy, the preferred strategy of the international community has been to deploy naval vessels to protect vulnerable ships and deter and disrupt pirate attacks. The refrain that 'the solution to piracy lies onshore' is oft heard, but counter-piracy actor ...
  • French Elections
    It’s French election day. The final poll (all survey fieldwork must stop by law several days before the polls open) is here, putting Hollande and Sarkozy level around 27% (+/-1), Marine Le Pen on 16%, Jean-Luc Mélénchon on 14%, and the rest tailing in well behind. Every poll for the last 1 ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • The Man the Banks Fear Most
    Steve Moors In February 2011, one month after he’d been sworn in as New York state’s attorney general, Eric Schneiderman sat down with the staff attorney who’d been delegated to track the negotiations that the 50 state attorneys general and the Obama administration were conducting with ...
  • Dworkin on Why the PPACA is Constitutional
    Ronald Dworkin has an article defending the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in the New York Review of Books that offers an excellent primer on the relevant issues. There are two sections I'd recommend in particular. First, in Section II Dworkin does the most ...
  • Six States, Six Fates for Pro-Life Bills
    As states around the country consider legislation to limit access to abortion and reproductive rights, the outlook isn't bright for women's health advocates. Here's the latest from five states: Through a tied-vote, the Iowa Senate defeated a measure that would stop public dollars from funding a ...
  • Liberal Bias at Fox News?
    Over at The New York Times, Nicole Hemmer has a nice piece explaining some of the history of the right's "liberal media bias" charge and how it has left them incapable of seeing anything that happens in the media—even their own media—clearly. It turns out that supporters of Newt Gingrich and Ri ...
  • Friday Music Break
    I realize I posted a couple of Levon Helm clips yesterday on the occasion of his passing, but for this week's Friday Music Break I have to give you one more song from The Last Waltz. Here's Van Morrison with The Band, doing "Caravan" in an outfit that in no way screams '70s. Turn on your electr ...

Buzzflash

  • Forget the Scary Headlines: Social Security Ha ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Get ready for the pro-Paul Ryan austerity headlines that will predict an imminent demise of Social Security. On April 23, the Social Security Trustees Report for 2012 is expected to be released - and you can expect that the shills for the one percent ...
  • Obama's Atomic Solyndra?
    HARVEY WASSERMAN FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The future of nuclear power now hangs on a single decision by President Obama---and us. His Office of Management and Budget could cave to the unsustainable demands of reactor builders who cannot handle the standard terms of a loan agreement. Or he could ...
  • Yes, There Is a Kindergarten Cop, And It's Not ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT It may have been a comic farce when Arnold Schwarzenegger played an undercover police man in the film "Kindergarten Cop." But on Friday, a 6-year-old Georgia girl was handcuffed, arrested and taken to a police station after throwing a tantrum in her k ...
  • The Real Danger to Obama Is Not Ted Nugent - I ...
    DEE EVANS FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Okay, I know it's, as some say, "silly season in politics" but I am highly disturbed that much of the mainstream media seems to be giving has-been rocker Ted Nugent a slap on the wrist for his vile, disgusting and very threatening comments about President Obam ...
  • Christian Right, Targeting Gay Kiss, Is At It ...
    BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Richard Hayne, a Santorum donor, is under fire from the Christian Right for allowing a photo of two young women kissing in his new Urban Outfitters catalog. The Broadway tune goes "Love Makes the World Go 'Round." For the Christian Right, "Controversial ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • St George and the ZX Spectrum
    It’s St George’s Day and the 30th anniversary of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum so we’re celebrating with the latest Google Doodle! Why we English still celebrate the killing of a mythical beast by an allegedly Roman soldier from Syria Palaestina who was venerated as a saint by a rel ...
  • Discounted on Amazon already
    My new book, which I just mentioned not 5 minutes ago, and for which I’ve not actually signed the physical, paper contract nor done much more than the basic table of contents and a single “typeset test” chapter, is already on Amazon and discounted from the list price by 10%. Ma ...
  • My first solo book in time for Christmas
    I’ve collaborated on a few books over the years with esteemed authors such as John Gribbin, Adam Hart-Davis, Ian Stewart, Robert Slinn, even Richard Dawkins. Admittedly for the most part, by collaboration I simply mean I contributed a chapter or section to a book to which those people also ...
  • Beyond the blue bins
    Today’s video shows how the Montgomery County Maryland Recycling Facility in suburban Washington, DC, serves as one of the first links in the recycle-reuse chain. It receives more than 80,000 tonnes of mixed plastic, aluminium and other recyclable materials each year. There is some clever ...
  • Holistic chemophobia
    What do you make of a tweet like this? “Become very aware of where chemicals are present in your life and do what you can to minimise them.” It comes from DrLibbyLive (Libby Weaver). Her bio says she’s a “holistic nutrition specialist” and her website tells us she c ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • 2012 Senate Farm Bill Does More Harm Than Good
    Statement of Craig Cox, Senior Vice President for Agriculture and Natural Resources, Environmental Working Group, on the Senate Agriculture Committee’s 2012 farm bill.read more
  • The 5 important Lessons Not Learnt from Deepwa ...
    The second anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon disaster is upon us - and looking at the lessons the oil industry got from it, you’d think it never happened. Here are the most important points governments and oil companies didn’t learn:read more
  • Kucinich: Symptoms of a War that Must End
    “You can bomb the world pieces, but you can’t bomb the world to peace.” This memorable quote from Michael Franti is fitting for the now decade-long war in Afghanistan.read more
  • Center for Biological Diversity Statement on F ...
    Facing political pressure from Oregon’s congressional delegation, off-road vehicle users and a misinformation campaign, the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest Supervisor Monica Schwalbach this week retracted a “travel-management plan” that provided much-needed limits on off-road v ...
  • The Unlearned Lessons of the BP Disaster
    The BP disaster taught us many things: namely, that giant corporations cannot be trusted to behave responsibly absent strong public oversight, and that if 11 workers die on your watch, or unprecedented ecological damage from your negligence occurs from your operations – that none of it mat ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Earth Day Means Nothing If We Don’t Limit Carb ...
    Juan Cole The first observance of Earth Day was March 21, 1970. I was 17, and along with other students at Broad Run High School, went out with garbage bags to clean up the side of the road leading to the school. Even then, of course, the w ...
  • 'The Only Winning Move Is Not to Play'—The Ins ...
    William K. Black The plot of the movie WarGames (1983) involves a slacker hacker (played by Matthew Broderick) who starts playing the game “Global Thermonuclear War” with Joshua, a Department of Defense (DoD) supercomputer that ...
  • Bribing Mexico: Walmart Accused of Corruption
    Pratap Chatterjee Eduardo Castro-Wright, the former CEO of Walmart Stores USA, has been accused of leading a $24 million scheme to pay off Mexican city governments in return for permission to open supermarkets around the country.read more
  • Apple’s Two Faces: Power Gaps Between Brazil a ...
    Michelle Chen Apple presides over a global technology empire, but the economic landscapes it shapes around the world are strangely uneven. With its hundreds of thousands of employees worldwide, Apple’s manufacturing partner Foxconn wo ...
  • Not Just Labor Rights; Scott Walker Is Also Di ...
    John Nichols Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has attacked the rights of working people to organize unions and to speak up in their workplaces and the political life of their communities, their state and their nation. He has attacked the rig ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

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

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • Against the engine of violence: New book explo ...
    Jimmy Johnson 23 April 2012 Wendy Pearlman’s new book describes how the historical organizational structures of the Palestinian liberation struggle help to determine the methods of resistance against the British, the Jordanians and the Israelis.
  • Palestine football star seriously ill from fou ...
    Rami Almeghari Rafah 20 April 2012 Imprisoned by Israel, footballer Mahmoud Sarsak has never been tried for any recognizable offense, and his detention has been continuously renewed every six months. He is one of many prisoners depriving himself of food to demand liberty and justice.
  • Pointing to Syria to divert attention from Isr ...
    Jamil Sbitan Boston 20 April 2012 The Israeli government and its supporters now feel justified in exploiting the Syrian people’s suffering and resistance in order to further their own political agenda, depicting Israel as a “vibrant democracy” in comparison to Syria.
  • "I will never give up our house": Sabri Gharib ...
    Hilde Reksjø and Maria York Beit Ijza 20 April 2012 Surrounded on all sides by an Israeli settlement, a fence, walls and gates, the Gharib family’s situation is one of the most extreme and unsettling cases highlighting the effects of Israel’s illegal settlement building in the West ...
  • The beautifully-paced rage of Mourid Barghouti ...
    Sarah Irving 19 April 2012 Mourid Barghouti’s I Was Born There, I Was Born Here is for anyone in your life who needs to understand the pain, the absurdity, the injustice, and the devastatingly predictable unpredictability of life for ordinary Palestinians.

The Wonk Room

  • Let’s Rename Earth Day
    Affection for our planet is misdirected and unrequited. We need to focus on saving ourselves. In 2008, I wrote a piece for Salon about renaming ‘Earth’ Day. It was supposed to be mostly humorous. Or mostly serious. Anyway, the subject of renaming Earth Day seems more relevant than ever in light ...
  • More Than One-Third Of All U.S. Executions Too ...
    The Economist maps out every American execution since 1976, when the Supreme Court announced the modern constitutional regime governing death penalty cases after effectively suspending all executions nationwide for four years. Over one-third of all executions during this period took place in Tex ...
  • Whistleblower Reveals Widespread Bribery By Wa ...
    In this Sunday’s New York Times, the paper revealed an explosive story of high-level corruption at Walmart, aided by a whistleblower’s account of how the retail giant bribed its way to market dominance in Mexico. But unsurprisingly, the Sunday talk shows ignored the scandal entirely. ...
  • U.S. And Afghanistan Agree On Strategic Partne ...
    The United States and Afghanistan have reportedly reached a strategic partnership agreement that pledges American support for Afghanistan for 10 years after U.S. troops withdraw in 2014. Top U.S. officials agreed on the draft, which will now be sent to Afghanistan’s parliament and Presiden ...
  • Secret Service Sex Scandal Again Raises The Qu ...
    The Secret Service sex scandal in Cartagena, Columbia has women wondering whether the mostly-male bodyguard team might benefit from a few more female figures. On This Week with George Stephanopoulous today, Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) and Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) discussed Paula Reid, the woman ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Rebellion Without Responsibility
    I was listening to a song today. It's theme was about an individual realizing that they're a drone and rising up and speaking out for their own personal autonomy. It didn't really go anywhere. It's a rock n' roll song after all. I thought it would be pretty good to take the sentiments and the s ...
  • Ted Nugent and Sean Hannity
    All I got's to say is Seriously. What the Fuck? [Another busy day.]
  • Canadian Hunger-Striker Against harper's Draco ...
    Obert Mandondo is putting his health on the line to protest harper's idiotic "Jail More Canadians So That stephen harper Can Has Boner" law. Canada Crime Bill C10 hunger striker concerned about Parliament’s “silent treatment” (via Canadian Progressive World) ...
  • These Times We Live In
    Riot police versus gospel-singing peaceniks. Who thinks some of those authoritarian youngsters regretted that they weren't allowed to truncheon those sweet lil' hippies? This is what we're up against people. A system so absolutely insane that it either can't see how ridiculous it is to call a p ...
  • Doctor to Pirate
    I (again) have no time to say anything today. So here is some brilliance:

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Digital Journal

  • Toronto subway operator investigated for texti ...
    The incident came to the attention of the Toronto Transit Commission the way most such incidents do these days. A video was taken of the operator driving and then posted on YouTube.
  • George Zimmerman is freed on bond, location un ...
    George Zimmerman has, for now, again been given his freedom. Zimmerman, the 28-year-old Florida neighborhood watch volunteer who shot and killed teen Trayvon Martin on Feb. 26, was freed on a $150,000 bond on Sun., April 22.
  • Tsunami soccer ball from Japan hits Alaskan sh ...
    If soccer balls could talk this one would tell a story about floating and floating and then floating. It is from a school in Japan and was swept out to sea in last year's Tsunami and, after a year of floating, it has turned up on an Alaskan shore.
  • Did Canuck Kevin Bieksa pose as Ryan Kesler an ...
    It's hard not to like Kevin Bieksa for a variety of reasons, he's a hard-nosed hockey player, great teammate, awesome in the community and has a sense of humor which rivals Ben Stiller. In fact, he looks a bit like Ben Stiller.
  • AHL: Jerry D’Amigo again leads Marlies past Am ...
    After struggling last season with the Toronto Marlies and being sent back down to junior, Jerry D’Amigo has since found his game in returning to the team this season.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

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

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Sugar Shown To Be Toxic, Causing Cancer, Heart ...
    April 3, 2012 Disinformation.org “Everyone should be consuming less processed white sugar.  The new documentary Hungry for a Change makes the argument that suagar should be treated as a drug.”  –KTRN Although food activists have been warning for years of the dangers of the mass ...
  • Ron Paul: The Most Transparent Candidate
    April 4, 2012 RT By RT “Talk about transparency. The Paul campaign are reporting snacks they bought for less than $2 at a gas station.” –KTRN In the midst of the Mitt Romney tax filing fiasco, Ron Paul said he’d be embarrassed to publish personal finances on account of his comp ...
  • Rise of the Petty Dictator
    April 4, 2012 Info Wars By Patrick Henningsen “Obama taught constitutional law? Really?” –KTRN Many a constitutional scholar were left with their jaws hanging near their ankles following Obama’s press conference on the White House lawn yesterday, where he railed against Supreme ...
  • Pulitzer Winning Reporter: US Being Transforme ...
    April 4, 2012 Info Wars By Steve Watson “Doesn’t anyone think it’s odd that the mainstream media hardly covered the NDAA? It’s almost as if someone told them to leave it alone.  What would the founding fathers think?” –KTRN An award winning reporter who is sui ...
  • Arizona’s Obama I.D. Bill Still Stuck in Legis ...
    April 4, 2012 Info Wars By Patrick Henningsen “Can you imagine is this law passed and Obama wasn’t even on the ballot in AZ come November?” –KTRN The fate of Arizona’s own Candidate Certification Bill is still yet to be determined according to its supporters inside the st ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • The Duty of the Military in a Militarized Empire
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comBy SARTREMonday, April 23rd, 2012 Those who serve in the military are in a difficult position. The oath taken by enlistees states, “I, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution o ...
  • Blow to Sarkozy as Hollande wins 1st round, se ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRussia Todayyoutube.com Nicolas Sarkozy and socialist challenger Francois Hollande, will go head-to-head in the second round of the French Presidential election, in two weeks’ time. Results from the first round sho ...
  • New Big Brother Satellite to “Hunt Down” Carbo ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comCarbonSat: Enforcing green fascism’s CO2 tax from space Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Monday, April 23, 2012 The European Space Agency is set to green light a new surveillance satellite that will measure man ...
  • When I Say ‘We’re ALL Potential Terrorists Now’…
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comLew Rockwell Blog April 23, 2012 …I know of what I speak. Yes, that’s world-famous movie star “terrorist” George Clooney being screened by the concentration camp guards. (No, this is not a scene b ...
  • Trial of John Edwards set to begin
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comOpening arguments will begin Monday in the trial of John Edwards, a two-time Democratic presidential hopeful accused of illegally using political campaign money to hide a love affair from the public and his cancer-strick ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould: Afghanist ...
    Dandelion Salad Apr 22, 2012 by Grailwerk Afghanistan and Mystical Imperialism An expose of the esoteric underpinnings of American foreign policy March 25, 2012 I.N.N. World Studio, NY, NY PAUL FITZGERALD and ELIZABETH GOULD, a husband and wife team, began their experience in Afghanistan in 1981 ...
  • The Real Colombia Scandal: When Bedding Prosti ...
    by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Ethiopia April 19, 2012 Get caught with a hooker in your hotel room and it’s a firing offence; get caught desecrating the corpses of dead Afghans and – nothing. Two scandals emerging this week involving immoral conduct of US Secret Service and ...
  • Norway: NATO Rehearses For War In The Arctic b ...
    by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO April 21, 2012 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 the crash of ...
  • The Prisoners in Gaza – Their Blackout Nightma ...
    Dandelion Salad by Ralph Nader The Nader Page April 19, 2012 Have you heard much lately about the 1.5 million Palestinians illegally imprisoned by the Israeli government in the world’s largest open-air Gulag? Their dire living conditions, worsened by a selective Israeli siege limiting the import ...
  • Andrew Gavin Marshall: Class War and the Colle ...
    by Andrew Gavin Marshall Featured Writer Dandelion Salad http://andrewgavinmarshall.com April 17, 2012 Andrew Gavin Marshall joins us to discuss his latest three-part essay on “Class War and the College Crisis.” We talk about how the education system is used to create and maintain national ident ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • 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.

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Lia Tarachansky: Why Gaza’s Healthcare Fails T ...
    In 2011, over 9,000 patients from Gaza received emergency care in Israeli hospitals. Many of the admitted were injured in Israeli attacks on the strip. In August, The Real News' Lia Tarachansky spoke... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Conscientious objector Noam Gur sentenced to p ...
    "I refuse to join an army that has, since it was established, been engaged in dominating another nation, in plundering and terrorizing a civilian population that is under its control." IOA... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • Raed Salah: Britain’s duty to the Palestinian ...
    The Palestinian issue can only be resolved if Israel and its supporters in Britain abandon the dogmas of supremacy and truly adhere to the universal values of justice and fairness. Britain has a... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Amira Hass: IDF will go on keeping the Jordan ...
    The only excessive stupidity of which deputy brigade commander Lt. Col. Shalom Eisner can be accused is hitting a young blond man in front of a camera. Other commanders and their subordinates will... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
  • Rashid Khalidi: Tolerance of whom?
    The Simon Wiesenthal Center is planning to build a Museum of Tolerance on the Muslim Mamilla cemetery. This project is a grotesque attempt to erase the well-established history of a continuous Muslim... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

Natural Health News

  • Bacterial Bonanza: How They Actually Keep You ...
    Did you know there are tiny living organisms in your body numbering in the trillions? That’s right. From encoding enzymes to serving as pathways for vitamin production, to digesting parts of food, trillions of microbes live on, and in, your body, working to keep you alive. If you think that’s i ...
  • The Nutrients Most Likely to Let You Live to b ...
    Nutritionists have long been interested in the dynamics of telomere length in the human body, and how telomeres figure in to human health and life expectancy. Telomeres are DNA-protein complexes that protect the ends of human chromosomes, and more and more research is showing that certain nutrie ...
  • One Out of Every 4 Women Misdiagnose Themselve ...
    When you have a medical problem you can’t explain, who you gonna call? It seems that instead of picking up the phone and ringing up their doctors’ offices, many people head straight to their computers, where they let their fingers do the walking on Internet search engines. And of all the search ...
  • How Humans Grew Fruitful by Devouring Meat
    For those folks who believe that humanoids are simply an extension of great apes, new research suggests that humans are very different from apes in at least one way. Compared to the great apes, human females wean their young much earlier. In fact, great apes take about four times as long as huma ...
  • Sunlight Plus Lime Juice Makes Drinking Water ...
    How about a twist of lime with that glass of water? While many people enjoy a slice of lime or lemon with a nice cold glass of water, most likely they’re not aware that a new study shows that adding lime juice to water that’s been treated with a solar disinfection system can actually remove harm ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Taming Globalization Book Tour Hits DC (Where ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Last week, the good folks at the American Enterprise Institute and the Federalist Society hosted a book roundtable on Taming Globalization.  In addition to John Yoo and myself, we were joined in a very lively discussion by Prof. Martin Flaherty of Fordham and Prof. Je ...
  • U.S. Supreme Court Holds that Corporations Can ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku One of the most popular arguments made against the Second Circuit’s interpretation of the Alien Tort Statute in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Shell is essentially a policy argument: How could it be possible for Congress to have intended to allow corporations to immune f ...
  • Symposium on the Functional Approach to the La ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller I am delighted to announce that over the next few days Opinio Juris will be hosting a symposium on what is increasingly called, following Tel Aviv University’s Aeyal Gross, the “functional approach” to the law of occupation.  Here is th ...
  • Run-up to SB 1070 Argument: Why the Court Shou ...
    by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro The Supreme Court hears arguments in the Arizona SB 1070 case on Wednesday.  I’ll have some things to say on the merits over the next couple of days, but first a lament: why did the Court feel like it had to take the case in the first place? It could have wa ...
  • OPCD Report on Gaddafi’s Situation in Libya
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller In my previous post, I discussed the Registry’s report of its visit with Saif Gaddafi in Libya, which was posted on the ICC website and then removed without explanation a few hours later.  It has come to my attention that the Office of Public Couns ...

Public News Service

  • Autism Awareness Month - School Success Tips
    Autism Awareness Month - School Success Tips PHOENIX - Several new studies have been released to mark April's Autism Awareness Month, focusing on prenatal exposures, diet, and prevalence of the disorder. The CDC reports that one of every 64 children in Arizona has some form of autism, and succes ...
  • Report Recommends Mud Pies for Earth Day
    Report Recommends Mud Pies for Earth Day PHOENIX - Dirt is good, a new report says - especially for children. The National Wildlife Federation report makes that case by highlighting the benefits of letting children get messy outside - and its release coincides with Earth Day activities in Ariz ...
  • "Rampant Errors" on Background Checks Could be ...
    "Rampant Errors" on Background Checks Could be Costing Arizonans a Job PHOENIX - A quarter-million Arizonans still are out of work, and false information about their backgrounds could be hindering their job searches. According to new research from the National Consumer Law Center, more than 90 ...
  • New Study Links Autism With the Typical Americ ...
    New Study Links Autism With the Typical American Diet PHOENIX, Ariz. - The epidemic of autism in children may be linked to what they eat, suggests a study recently reported in the journal "Clinical Epigenetics." An unhealthy diet interferes with the body's ability to eliminate toxic chemicals, i ...
  • Report: Better Health Insurance Info Holds Rat ...
    Report: Better Health Insurance Info Holds Rate Relief Promise for Arizonans PHOENIX - Better-informed consumers could help hold down the cost of health insurance in Arizona. That's the premise of a new report from St. Luke's Health Initiatives and Arizona PIRG. ...(Read More)

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Um al-’Amad Update: April 21, 2012
    Several large families–among them, Ihrizat, Ihraini, and Abu Samra–belong to Um al-’Amad, perched on a high hill west of the desert and directly across from the drab and violent settlement of Otniel. In fact, Otniel sits on the Abu Samra family’s lands. Like all other ...
  • Word and Picture Diary: South Hebron Hills Wee ...
    (this diary by Ehud Krinis is crossposted from the Villages Group blog) As we do every week, last Thursday April 5 2012 we went to visit several Palestinian localities in the South Hebron Hills, with whom we have been in contact for some years now. Two members of our little group – Hamed and Er ...
  • When My Partner Went to Jail
    Me and Mousa in court. Jonathan Pollak going to jail Originally posted on Rajeefsworld.posterous.com A lot has been written recently about my good friend Jonathan Pollak’s recent incarceration in Israel for his participation in demonstrations. Understandably, there was international out ...
  • Omissions, Half-Truths, Lies: Ambassador Oren ...
    Originally posted on the 972Mag Website In a piece recently published, Israel’s Ambassador to Washington Michael Oren rejected claims regarding anti-democratic trends in his country, and compared the legal status of Palestinians in the West Bank to that of American citizens in Washington DC ...
  • Video: Israeli Army Invades and Closes Univers ...
    Sent to us by a reader. Click here for the Facebook page of Al Quds educational TV (mostly in Arabic.) Dr. Jamal Nusseibeh Vice President for Jerusalem Affairs Al-Quds University April 2, 2012 For the second time in two months, the Israeli authorities have invaded, searched and prevented the fun ...

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, [...]

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • Scientists To Soon Create Unlimited Supply of ...
    The first human eggs grown from human stem cells could be fertilized with human sperm cells later this year, potentially adding one more peg in the ladder toward reproduction sans human interaction. In this case it would entirely bypass a woman’s donation of her eggs. But it could also turn stem ...
  • Department of Homeland Security buying up enou ...
    Mike Adams NaturalNews 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. You can ...
  • Chemtrail Geoengineering Lawsuit Moves Forward ...
    Al DiCicco, an independent journalist and activist in Mohave County Arizona, has spoken out and rallied against the ongoing geoengineering of our skies at various local city council meetings and other public hearings. Now, after being involved in a series of tests that proved that he had high le ...
  • Vt. Debates Letting Parents Say No to Vaccines
    For Jennifer Stella, it’s a question of informed consent. Her son had a seizure after getting childhood vaccinations and her daughter suffered a “head-to-toe” eczema outbreak; she says parents should research the risks and benefits of immunizations and decide which ones are app ...
  • FDA Proposes Rules for Nanotechnology in Food
    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 interested in using ...

The Air Vent

  • Contest — Ten Ways to Celebrate Earth Day
    Earth day is here again.   Twice as many penguins as we thought, polar bear population is up, both Arctic and global sea ice extents are normal, what should we do to celebrate? Here are a few ideas I had: Fly penguins to the north pole to feed the polar bears. Fly polar bears south to [...]
  • Gotta Be Kidding
    In an article titled, “Himalayan glaciers actually GAINING ice, space scans show An inconvenient truth” Lewis Page of the Register writes: The study was carried out by comparing two sets of space data, the first gathered by instruments aboard the space shuttle Endeavour in 2000 and t ...
  • What People Don’t Want to Know About Energy
    Guest Post by Thomas Fuller I’m well on my way to winning a small wager with a friend about my new blogging venture, 3,000 Quads ( http://3000quads.com/). It’s an unusual bet–I’m betting that I will be religiously ignored by the members of the climate consensus. We’ ...
  • History of Sea Ice
    This article is offered by Jonathan Drake.  It discusses the unusual changes in trend noted in sea ice at various points of the historic record paying particular attention to the satellite data.   I think it is worth posting, but I have varied opinions and questions regarding the different sea i ...
  • Antarctic Sea Ice Area by Latitude
    The following plots depict annual sea ice area for the Antarctic.  This is important in that we are attempting to isolate the response of annually melting sea ice to temperature.   Despite the attack on this method by the warmanistas, it does have value in that it is a reasonable proxy for how s ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: ...
    The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities across social and mobile application platforms. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at: SponsorPay, Agency Sacks and The Affluence Collaborative, W3i, Spr ...
  • Facebook roundup: Instagram, IPO, pages, Googl ...
    Facebook’s Instagram acquisition was all Zuckerberg – The Wall Street Journal reports that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg basically acted independently when pursuing the company’s latest acquisition of photo app Instagram. The board was “told” that the company would b ...
  • Facebook modifies proposed changes to terms of ...
    Facebook today released a new set of proposed changes to its terms of service and offered more detailed explanation of its revisions based on user feedback. Since 2009, the social network has taken a unique approach with its “Statements of Rights … Continue reading →
  • Facebook bug temporarily brings down apps, soc ...
    Thousands of Facebook applications and third-party sites that utilize the social network’s login capabilities experienced a two-hour outage last night. An issue with Facebook’s central JavaScript files prevented apps and some aspects of Facebook-connected sites from loading. Although the bug &#8 ...
  • Facebook expands capabilities for feature phon ...
    Facebook recently updated its feature phones mobile app to allow users to interact with pages and check into locations, according to posts on the company’s Facebook for Every Phone page. “Facebook for Every Phone” is a native mobile app compatible … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Disempowerment and suppression of freedoms in ...
    Graham Peebles looks at how the increasingly paranoid regime of Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi is systematically tightening its monopoly over information, suppressing free speech and suffocating media freedom. "Disempowerment is the aim, and the means are well known, crude and unimaginati ...
  • Israel's settler-officers in the glare of publ ...
    Uri Avnery examines the incident in which an Israeli skullcap-wearing officer, Lt-Col Shalom Eisner, launched an unprovoked and brutal attack on a young Danish peace activist, and argues that Eisner, a deputy brigade commander, is not just the quintessential army officer but the quintessential I ...
  • What do Breivik and Netanyahu have in common?
    Alan Hart argues that among the things that unite Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin is "mania of victimhood": for Breivik insane fears about the consequences for Norway of immigration and multiculturalism, and for Netanyahu an obsession with Iran which, i ...
  • Intolerance in the USA's "sunshine state" of F ...
    Lawrence Davidson analysis the chronic intolerance inherent in the US State of Florida, at the core of which lie the Cuban American and Jewish communities, which "form around repugnant ideological cores that then come to characterize their very identity".
  • Good for Guenter Grass! Everyone and his dog n ...
    Stuart Littlewood views the "squawks and screeches" emanating from Israel in protest at German poet Guenter Grass's poem on the threat Israel poses to the world, and reminds us of a couple of pertinent facts: that Israel is the only nuclear state in the Middle East and that it refuses to forgo t ...

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- April 5, ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “[Propaganda] must be aimed at the emotions and only to a very limited degree at the so-called intellect… The art of propaganda lies in understanding the emotional ideas of the great masses and finding, through a psychologically correct form, the way to the attentio ...
  • Money & Power: Which Comes First, the Chicken ...
    Part II of our book review of Frederick Sheehan’s Panderer to Power   Frederick Sheehan’s excellent 2010 book Panderer to Power: The Untold Story of How Alan Greenspan Enriched Wall Street and Left a Legacy of Recession provides us a window into the sources of the worst financial and econom ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- April 4, ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “By 1990, publishers of mass circulation daily newspapers will finally stop kidding themselves that they are in the newspaper business and admit that they are primarily in the business of carrying advertising messages.” – A. Roy Megary International Newsworthy ...
  • BFP Exclusive: The Anonymous Weasel behind the ...
    Anonymous Paul Campaign Insider Exposes the Anonymous Rumor Source For the past few weeks an intense buzz has been filling internet sites and news forums on a supposed Ron Paul-Mitt Romney deal behind closed doors. Yesterday morning the Business Insider went as far as declaring the rumor as ‘Rea ...
  • Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
    Canada’s Rockefellers: The Name is Power People know the name Rockefeller: from the oil barons, to the bankers and industrialists, politicians and think tanks, foundations, universities and in the whole realm of globalization, the name Rockefeller is synonymous with power and oligarchy. Th ...

Afro Spear

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • Torture on Trial
    Cases come in by the thousands from all over the world.
  • A Conspiracy of Whores
    The Secret Service scandal that came out of the Cartagena summit is nothing but a distraction from the real story, which is the shifting economics and politics of Latin America vis-a-vis the imperial United States. Whoring is nothing new, and in fact prostitution and US imperialism have always g ...
  • Storytelling revival
    April 26 will be the day to remember Gurenica and tell stories.
  • Vermont Legislature Calls for a Constitutional ...
    With yesterday's vote in the state house, Vermont is now the first state to call for an amendment to abolish the doctrine known as "Corporate Personhood" which gives corporations constitutional rights meant to protect people. Hawaii and New Mexico have passed resolutions against the Citizens ...
  • Guilty Priest From Stockton Flees Country
    Fr. Miacael Kelly, found guilty this month of child sex abuse in a "repressed memory" landmark case- has skipped out of the country, before the penalty phase of the court case. A warrant is forthcoming.

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 ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Teen Pregnancy Rates In Comparative Perspective
    Why, it’s almost enough to make me think that abstinence education doesn’t work…
  • Noah?
    Darren Aronofsky is directing a film about Noah and the ark starring Russell Crowe as Noah? Um. Wow. Will the scenes on the boat be very, very slow? Hey look, water!
  • Seapower in Culture: Civilization IV
    The Civilization series of games is in some sense ideal for depicting the influence of seapower on history.  Civilization connects geography, technology, and economic power to military capability, requiring a player to formulate a coherent grand strategy based on factor endowment and internation ...
  • Book Review: Lisa Sun-Hee Park and David Nagui ...
    One of the nation’s wealthiest communities, Aspen, Colorado has a complex relationship with the environmental movement and social justice. While a community deeply self-conscious about its own liberal politics, Aspen hasn’t shown much tolerance for the poor. In fact, worried that imm ...
  • What Have We Learned?
    Fifty years ago, Rachel Carson published Silent Spring, the landmark book connecting pesticide usage with species decline. Carson noted the very real threats of chemicals on humans as well as species and helped usher in the environmental movement that transformed the nation in important ways dur ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Health Care at the Supreme Court
    On the final day of argument before the U.S. Supreme Court over the Affordable Care Act — better known as the Obama administration's health care reform law — the justices considered what would happen if they strike down the individual mandate. The choice, as Justice Ruth Bader Ginsb ...
  • Congress weighs big FCPA reforms
    Top U.S. Department of Justice officials are preparing to issue new guidance about the government's enforcement of foreign bribery laws, as members of Congress and business advocates press for sweeping changes of their own.
  • Introducing the NLJ 350
    This week marks the debut of our expanded NLJ law firm survey. The new NLJ 350 ranks 100 national and regional law firms that have been added to our annual list of the nation's largest firms by headcount.
  • THE CAREERIST: Lower-caliber law school applicants
    What's the implication for the legal profession now that fewer high scorers are going to law school? Will the quality of lawyers — especially those in Big Law — decline as a result?
  • OPINION: Want to fix redistricting? Reform Con ...
    One readily achievable way would be to impose term ­limits on congressional committee assignments.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

  • New Anti-Counterfeit Law Ensures Access to Lif ...
    He says through the important ruling, the High Court of Kenya has upheld a fundamental element of the right to health.
  • Impressive Film Screenings At NY Independent F ...
    Raleigh Studios was this year's showcase for independent filmmakers. Golden Globe nominated actress, from Anna, Sally Kirkland, and Aileen Quinn star of the film Annie were there to support filmmakers Jason Alexander and Randy Crawford.
  • Female Coach Wins Djibouti League
    With women's football in Djibouti developing a female coach has won the country's division one championship after her AS Port club humiliated its Apejas rivals by 14-1 over the weekend.
  • US Supports Establishment of UN Observer Missi ...
    She explains that the Syrian people, know that the deployment of 300 or even 3,000 unarmed observers cannot, on its own, stop the Asad regime from waging its barbaric campaign of violence against the Syrian people.
  • Djibouti FA Gives Generous Donation to Breakaw ...
    Djibouti FA president Mr. Hussein Fadoul Dabar has presented the equipment to Ahmed Mohamed Sheik who leads the football committee in the breakaway Somali region in a bid to help them develop football there.

environment 360

  • Solar-Powered ATM Machines Expand Banking Opti ...
    For many villagers in rural areas of India, personal banking comes at a high cost. In addition to the expense of traveling to the nearest branch, often in distant cities, Click to enlarge Vortex Engineering A “Gramateller” ATM in a Tamil Nadu village. they must often forego a day’s work. ...
  • 151 Planned Dams Threatens Balance of Andean A ...
    A new study warns that 151 hydroelectric dams planned along six major rivers in the Amazon basin over the next two decades, including dozens of so-called mega-dams, could significantly disrupt the region’s ecological connectivity. Writing in the online journal PLoS ONE, researchers say 60 percen ...
  • Waterless Fracking Technology May Be Used at N ...
    A planned shale gas drilling project in New York state would utilize a waterless form of hydraulic fracturing, a new technique designed to reduce the potential pollution associated with the controversial natural gas drilling process. Rather than using typical hydraulic fracturing technologies — ...
  • Glaciers in Asian Range Are Gaining Ice, Study ...
    A new study has found that a series of glaciers located in a mountain range along the rim of the Tibetan plateau may actually be gaining mass, in contrast to global trends. In an analysis of satellite data, a team of French researchers found that numerous glaciers in the Karakoram mountain range ...
  • Hopes Fade for Cleanup In Nigeria’s Oil-Rich Delta
    The Ogoniland region of Nigeria has long been badly polluted by decades of oil production that has fouled the delta and contaminated drinking water. A United Nations report has recommended a massive recovery initiative, but so far the Nigerian government has shown few signs it will agree to the ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Second earthquake of 8.2-magnitude hits Sumatra
    Banda Aceh, Indonesia: Indonesia has issued a fresh tsunami warning after an aftershock with a preliminary magnitude of 8.2 shook its western coast. The first 8.6-magnitude quake off Aceh province, hours earlier, spawned a wave around 30 inches (80 centimeters) high but caused no serious damage. ...
  • "Necessary Force": The Denver Police Department
    "I always thought police were nothing but good and were there to protect people," testifies Elizabeth Polak, a registered nurse from Phoenix. Her view of the State’s enforcement caste changed dramatically as a result of what she witnessed in Denver on the evening of March 25, 2008.
  • Murder in Tibet’s High Places
    For Buddhists, the Potala is a holy spot, yet during the first half of the 19th century, the palace was the scene of a grim battle for political supremacy. The most prominent victims of this struggle were Dalai Lamas, the ninth through the twelfth, all of whom died in unusual circumstances, befo ...
  • Poland marks president’s plane crash anniversa ...
    Two years after the plane crash in Russia that claimed the life of Poland’s president Lech Kaczynski and a swathe of fellow members of the country’s elite, the country has been marking the anniversary of the tragedy. But relatives of some of the 96 victims, including the late president’s twin br ...
  • Tsunami alerts across countries after Indonesi ...
    Even as the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre sounded a tsunami alert in 28 places across the world after a massive earthquake rocked Indonesia earlier today, individual countries have come out with their own alerts on it and in some cases advised evacuation. In India, the Tsunami centre in Hyderab ...

Russia Today

  • Gas and peace: Egypt cuts off gas supply to Israel
    Egypt's national gas company has canceled its natural gas supply deal with Israel. It insists the move has nothing to do with politics. Israel warns that the cut off diminishes the peace treaty between the two countries. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Two blasts hit Japanese chemical plant (VIDEO)
    A dramatic video shows the moment a massive explosion struck a chemical plant in south-west Japan. At least one person was killed and some 17 injured as two blasts hit the facility on Sunday. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Earth Day around the world (VIDEO, PHOTOS)
    Tens of millions of people across the world have taken part in the world’s foremost environmental festival – Earth Day. But organizers say any festivities should be laced with a warning. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Thousands displaced by Sudan border clashes
    The ongoing military standoff between Sudan and South Sudan has forced thousands from their homes, fearing for their lives. This is according to a United Nations Human Rights report. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Hollande wins first round with 27.9 per cent
    Francois Hollande has secured 27.9 per cent of the votes cast in the first round of the presidential elections, with 75 per cent of the ballots counted. Nicholas Sarkozy is trailing his Socialist rival with 26.7 per... Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

  • Christians against Pussy Riot – Go Pussy ...
    You go, Girls! Go Pussy Riot! Russian church organises against rock band.
  • Here comes the bride!
    ‘Here comes the bride… NasoGastric tube in her nose’… (sing to the tune of Felix Mendelssohn’s Wedding March!)… Bridal Hunger Games Losing Weight in Time for the Wedding. Here Comes the Bride – Wedding March Faithfully guarded, remain behind with NasoGas ...
  • Obama Administration reaches agreement with it ...
    What a total fraud of a ‘withdrawal’! ‘After months of negotiations, the United States and Afghanistan completed drafts of a strategic partnership agreement on Sunday that pledges American support for Afghanistan for 10 years after the withdrawal of combat troops at the end of ...
  • Who obsconded with Pikes Peak Area Earth Day?
    Famed environmentalist Denis Hayes spoke at Colorado College last week, and it was very tempting to ask the creator of EARTH DAY what he thought about speaking to an audience which had eliminated theirs. Oh, we have Earth Month, and CC has Earth Week, to make room ostensibly for the growing plet ...
  • Anti- Austerity demonstrations spread to Czech ...
    Anti- Austerity rallies and demonstrations are spreading like wildfires across Europe. Czechs stage huge anti-government rally

Debunking the Debunkers

  • TSA - Grope & Pillage
    Created by: OnlineCriminalJusticeDegree.com Related: Coming Soon to an Airport Near You - Thanks to 9/11 The official 9/11 lie used by TSA as a reason to abuse children, women, and the handicapped TSA: Bullies, Thieves, Rapist and Child Molesters Why doesn't the TSA use dogs trained to sniff ...
  • Debunker Related Excerpts from and Review of ...
    Released 2/26/12, 9/11 Truther The Fight for Peace, Justice and Accountability starts off with a past aticle by author Jon Gold, which serves as a definition of the book's title:So what is a "9/11 Truther”? As I said, it's kind of hard to spin the word "Truth," but the "debunkers" and "media" ha ...
  • Two criticisms of the Harrit et al paper that ...
    The vast majority of debunker responses to the discovery of active thermitic material over the past three years have been one of the following mantras: "Paint!", "Peer-review!" and "Chain of custody!". Dr James Millette's report on the red/gray chips has apparently given the "Paint!" mantra new ...
  • Oystein's Contamination Denial
    The MEK test in the Active Thermitic Material ... paper was important in that it established that the aluminium in the red/gray chips is in elemental form consistent with the thermite hypothesis, rather than aluminosilicate form consistent with the paint hypothesis. JREFer Oystein is skeptical. ...
  • Tangled Webs - NIST and WTC7
    ------------------------------------------------ According to the official explanation the collapse of WTC7 came about from the expansion of a steel beam leading to the progressive failure of the entire structure. However, analysis of the building plans show that this already dubious explanati ...

Fooducate

  • Four Food Things to Do on Earth Day
     New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! Today is Earth Day. Our battered planet celebrates a day of appreciation. The ravaging pillager known as mankind has designated a day of reflection and hope… While some extremists knock all progress th ...
  • Have you ever had a Yogurt Salad?
     New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! Here’s a fun brunch idea for a spring weekend – Yogurt Salad! Yogurt is healthy. Raw veggies are too. Why not mix ‘em together and enjoy a hearty, healthy treat? Yogurt Salad.  Ingredients: ...
  • The NEW Starbucks Red Dye: Tomatoes Instead of ...
    And what does this have to do with pink slime?  New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! In one of the quickest turnarounds we’ve seen in the food industry, Starbucks has just announced that it will be removing the red bug coloring from its St ...
  • How Hard is it to be Vegan?
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! More and more we read about the health benefits of a plant based diet. You know, eat less meat, consume plenty of fresh vegetables and fruit, get your protein from legumes and such. About 7 million Americans ...
  • Food and the Brain: Hunger Satisfaction
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! This is a guest blog post by Jennifer Lee, Ph.D. The regulation of how much we eat and drink is a constant battle for many of us.  Our brains and bodies use a combination of signals to indicate “fullness”: se ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • 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 ...

Greg Palast

  • BP Cover-upPart 2: Bribery, George Bush and Wi ...
    by Greg Palast - Exclusive for EcoWatch.org Friday, 20. April, 2012 Evidence now implicates top BP executives as well as its partners Chevron and Exxon and the Bush Administration in the deadly cover-up –– which included falsifying a report to the Securities Exchange Commission. Yesterday, ...
  • BP Cover-up 'They Knew.'
    by Greg Palast – Exclusive for EcoWatch.org Thursday, 19. April, 2012 Two years before the Deepwater Horizon blow-out in the Gulf of Mexico, another BP off-shore rig suffered a nearly identical blow-out, but BP concealed the first one from the U.S. regulators and Congress. This week, EcoWatc ...
  • Billionaire Ballot Bandits - I've caught'em
    Karl Rove has you by the ballots.  With a $200 million war chest from a coven of billionaires, don't count on getting your vote counted. There's only one thing to stop him:  A COMIC BOOK. If we can get just $10,190 in the next 14 days, the nation’s top elections-heist investigators can publish ...
  • Cops beat our cameraman ZD Roberts
    [New York 1 a.m Sunday]   Our photographer ZD Roberts was just beaten by cops @OWS. Thrown down, hair grabbed and slammed with nightsticks - while Zach yelling "I'm PRESS!" trying to show badge. Cops berserk. Zach following protest path tho I'm trying to get him to come in with film. He cannot b ...
  • The Fukushima story you didn't hear on CNN
    "Completely and Utterly Fail in an Earthquake" by Greg Palast for FreePress.org I've seen a lot of sick stuff in my career, but this was sick on a new level. Here was the handwritten log kept by a senior engineer at the nuclear power plant: Wiesel was very upset. He seemed very nervous. V ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • Trifecta!
    By Cathy Jameson So, while driving around town Wednesday, I had a great brainstorming session. I had a brilliant idea. I actually had two brilliant ideas. By the time I got a chance to sit down and type though, I...
  • April is not OK
    By Kim Stagliano Thursday was the 17th anniversary of the bombing in Oklahoma City, OK. I swung by Fox News. Nothing on the home page. Popped over to MSNBC. Nothing on the home page. How is it that the nation...
  • Autism Society of America Displays Inaccurate ...
    Managing Editor's Note: There has been a thread on FB of parents posting photographs of their children who were not born with autism. They run (with parental permission) at the end of this post. Perhaps ASA needs visuals to understand?...
  • Autism and Nutrition
    By Josie Nelson We know that dietary interventions are an important part of the healing equation and they often improve the quality of life in even the sickest of children, setting the foundation for therapeutic and biomedical treatments to make...
  • The Greater Good Film in Portland, Oregon April 21
    Date: April 21, 4:00 PM Event: The Greater Good documentary Portland Premiere Location: Cinema 21- 616 NW 21st Ave., Portland, Oregon Filmed partly in Portland, THE GREATER GOOD is a character-driven that explores the cultural intersections where parenting meets modern...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

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

Open Your Eyes News

  • Drug capsules ‘made from industrial wast ...
    ABC – Police in China have reportedly confiscated 77 million drug capsules on suspicion they are made from industrial waste. Read article
  • The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Is Far From Over
    Huffington Post – 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 d ...
  • Ron Paul IS BEATING Romney/ The media LIES! Wa ...
  • Thousands flood Cairo square as army struggles ...
    Haaretz – The army had appeared to be in full control of the central Cairo square after they issued an ultimatum to demonstrators to evacuate or face arrest. Tahrir Square has been at the heart of the protests that began on January 25 and within weeks toppled President Hosni Mubarak, Read ...
  • Asian Arms Race – China, Russia launch f ...
    Press TV – China and Russia have launched their first joint naval drill in the Yellow Sea off China’s east coast amid heightened tensions between Beijing and its Asian neighbors over maritime disputes. The six-day-long naval exercises kicked off on Sunday near Japanese waters and China&#82 ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Sierra Club targets Puget Sound Energy in Beyo ...
    The Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal campaign, working in concert with a number of environmental and energy activists and researchers in Washington and Montana, announced Thursday a new push to get Puget Sound Energy to stop buying power from coal-fired Colstrip Generating Station in Montana. A ...
  • Activists sue Obama, others over National Defe ...
    A coalition of well-known journalists, activists and civil libertarians have sued President Obama, Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. , Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and other members of the U.S. government  to push them to remove or rewrite this year’s defense appropriations bill, sayin ...
  • American companies engaging in trade of illega ...
    More than 20 American companies have played roles in fostering a steady flow of illegal hardwoods from the Peruvian Amazon, part of a “well-oiled machine that is ransacking Peru’s forests and undermining the livelihoods and rights of the people that depend on them,” according t ...
  • Climate change vs. Easter bunnies
    Easter is still a great day for worship, candy in baskets, pagan solstice rituals and running around the yard finding eggs, but every year it gets quite a bit worse for bunnies.
  • Spoof ad thanks GM for pulling Heartland funding
    ForecastTheFacts.org has put up an advertisement spoofing the new TV ads created for the Chevy Volt – but this one congratulates GM for ceasing to fund the Heartland Institute, a free-market think tank that questions the science behind global warming.

water.org

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

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Reinstate Teacher Who Supported Trayvon Martin ...
    arget: Superintendent Jacqueline Cassell Goal: To reinstate Brooke Harris, an eighth grade teacher who was fired after supporting a fundraiser benefitting Trayvon Martins family. The Trayvon Martin case has already caused a storm of controversy, Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World &n ...
  • "Ive Been Duped" - Reflections on Israel and P ...
    Do you know the frustration you feel when you believed in something strongly and then you realize that the information that made you believe was from a source with an agenda to deceive? Submitted by Ken D. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • What people will do for beauty: 8 Grossest Spa ...
    uh..the title says it all :) Submitted by Vicky Pitchford to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Iran Bashing, Terrorism, and Who Chose the Cho ...
    Dedicated to the long-suffering Palestinians and Iranians who have been sidelined by the United Nations in favour of the Nuclear Apartheid State of Zionist Israel in the most blatant exercise in International Double Standards that our world has ever known Submitted by Ken D. to World  |&nb ...
  • Study: 400 Afghan women jailed for "moral crimes"
    In this Jan. 19, 2003 file photo, Zarghona, who is in prison because she left her first husband who abused her and forced her into prostitution, holds her seven-month-old son Balal and looks out through their cell window, at the Kabul Women's Prison in Submitted by Maria V. to World  |&nb ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

  • New Anti-Counterfeit Law Ensures Access to Lif ...
    He says through the important ruling, the High Court of Kenya has upheld a fundamental element of the right to health.
  • Impressive Film Screenings At NY Independent F ...
    Raleigh Studios was this year's showcase for independent filmmakers. Golden Globe nominated actress, from Anna, Sally Kirkland, and Aileen Quinn star of the film Annie were there to support filmmakers Jason Alexander and Randy Crawford.
  • Female Coach Wins Djibouti League
    With women's football in Djibouti developing a female coach has won the country's division one championship after her AS Port club humiliated its Apejas rivals by 14-1 over the weekend.
  • US Supports Establishment of UN Observer Missi ...
    She explains that the Syrian people, know that the deployment of 300 or even 3,000 unarmed observers cannot, on its own, stop the Asad regime from waging its barbaric campaign of violence against the Syrian people.
  • Djibouti FA Gives Generous Donation to Breakaw ...
    Djibouti FA president Mr. Hussein Fadoul Dabar has presented the equipment to Ahmed Mohamed Sheik who leads the football committee in the breakaway Somali region in a bid to help them develop football there.

Worldnews

  • 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 ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • 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 ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

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?

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Worrisome Security Council Syrian Resolution
    by Stephen Lendman On April 14, the Security Council unanimously passed Resolution 2042. The UN News Centre headlined, "Syria: Security Council authorizes deployment of advance military observer team," saying: The Security Council authorized sending "an advance team of up to 30 unarmed m ...
  • 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 the News Corp collection ...
  • Stuck on Stupid Supporting Democrats and Repub ...
    Larry Pinkney “Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity...They realize at last that change does not mean reform, that change does not mean improvement.” -Frantz Fanon Albert Einstein correctly noted that the definition of insanity is & ...
  • America's Gulf Disaster Revisited
    by Stephen Lendman April 20 marked the two year anniversary of BP's Gulf of Mexico disaster. Until Fukushima Daiichi's catastrophic nuclear meltdown, it was the largest ever environmental calamity. It's devastated the lives of millions of area residents. It contaminated America's Gulf. Nothing ...
  • What do Breivik and Netanyahu have in common?
    By Alan Hart Let’s start with a glance at what they do not have in common. The man now on trial for killing 77 people in bomb and gun attacks in Norway last July has admitted, even boasted about, what he did. Netanyahu denies Zionism’s crimes. The main thing they have in common ste ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • ILO cites ongoing labour rights violations by ...
    In a recent report, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) cited Canada for over 20 ongoing violations of the ILO's international labour standards. Governments across Canada have refused to change labour laws which have been found to be in contravention of Convention No. 87, Freedom of Asso ...
  • CFLR hosts book launch for "Constitutional Lab ...
    The Canadian Foundation for Labour Rights (CFLR) recently launched Constitutional Labour Rights in Canada: Farm Workers and the Fraser Case, a new book on labour rights in Canada. The book is a collection of 11 essays related to the Supreme Court of Canada April 2011 decision in Ontario (At ...
  • What’s at stake for working seniors?
    It is argued by some that eligibility for Old Age Security (OAS) and the Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS) at age 65 discourages older Canadians from remaining in the workforce, and that we need to keep them working longer to avoid present and future labour shortages and a sharp rise in the so- ...
  • Taxing the rich
    There's a growing movement in Canada to pressure our governments to ask those who have more to give to contribute more in taxes. A new Environics Poll for the Broadbent Institute shows 83% of Canadians favour raising taxes on the richest. And a new movement, Doctors for Fair Taxes reflects a gro ...
  • Income Inequality Un-Canadian: Poll
    The Broadbent Institute has launched its new Equality Project with a poll by Environics Research that shows the majority of Canadians view growing income inequality as a big problem with long-term consequences - a problem that undermines Canadian values. The poll also shows Canadians are ahead o ...

World Wide Hippies

  • Revolution 99 Updates: Will NATO bring Troops ...
    Clown Show at UC Davis — Too Bad It’s Not Funny By Bob Ostertag,HuffPo – Remember those videos of campus police pepper spraying seated students in the face at UC Davis last November? Old news, right? Well, it has taken all this time for the task force appointed by the UC presid ...
  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Monday
    Trial of US ex-political star John Edwards set to begin Opening arguments will begin Monday in the trial of John Edwards, a two-time Democratic presidential hopeful accused of illegally using political campaign money to hide a love affair from the public and his cancer-stricken wife. Edwards, a ...
  • Familes That Stay Together
    I saw an interesting article this week on Yahoo News.  The article dealt with multi-generational families moving in with each other. According to a Pew study in 2009, 17% of households in the US were multi-generational. Even the developers are taking note of this growing trend. Of course the ide ...
  • America’s Gulf Disaster Revisited
    By Stephen Lendman,OEN - America’s Gulf Disaster Revisited BP criminality caused millions to suffer. April 20 marked the two year anniversary of BP’s Gulf of Mexico disaster. Until Fukushima Daiichi’s catastrophic nuclear meltdown, it was the largest ever environmental calamity ...
  • Worldwide Hippies Digest Sunday: Carlin, Carol ...
    Comedy gold: George Carlin’s It’s Bad for Ya By Leo Benedictus,guardian.co.uk – This counter-cultural legend shows his talent was undimmed in this set, recorded just a few months before his death. The set-up: George Carlin’s place in the pantheon of standup’s counte ...

FourWinds10

  • 'On The Beach'
    1950s hit novel disturbingly similar to radiation situation today — except for government lying   When I was in the 8th grade in 1958 and was just beginning to learn how to read for pleasure, Nevil Shute's apocalyptic novel "On The Beach" was the smash hit of the summer, ...
  • Bubbling sea signals severe coral damage this ...
    Findings from a "natural laboratory" in seas off Papua New Guinea suggest that acidifying oceans will severely hit coral reefs by the end of the century. Carbon dioxide bubbles into the water from the slopes of a dormant volcano here, making it slightly more acidic. Coral is badly affe ...
  • Nigerian author Helon Habila mixes oil and wat ...
    For all the public outrage directed at government agencies and BP over last year’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Americans and others across the world have largely remained silent when it comes to the environmental destruction wreaked by the oil industry in the Niger delta. The United State ...
  • California may ban takeout food in foam containers
    (06-02) 15:25 PDT Sacramento, Calif. (AP) -- Getting takeout food in foam containers would be a thing of the past under a bill approved by the state Senate. The bill by Democratic Sen. Alan Lowenthal of Long Beach prohibits vendors from providing prepared food in expanded polystyrene containers. ...
  • China gives bleak assessment of its battered e ...
    (Reuters) - More than half of China's cities are affected by acid rain and one-sixth of major rivers are so polluted the water is unfit even for farmland, a senior official said on Friday in a bleak assessment of the environmental price of the country's economic boom. The environmental d ...

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • The Hard Truth: Even Liberals are Big Fans of ...
    Survey Says… If you were to survey people and ask the question “Should we subsidize oil companies?” — the overwhelming majority would undoubtedly respond “No!” The notion that we are subsidizing oil companies generates outrage in many people, but in this artic ...
  • Natural Gas Prices & Canada’s Economy — R-Squa ...
    In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I talk about the impact of natural gas in the U.S., and the Canadian economy. Some of the topics discussed this week are: How I think natural gas prices will behave over the next 10 years Which industries will benefit the most from low natural ...
  • Cutting Through the Rhetoric on Speculators an ...
    Let’s Play ‘Blame the Speculators’ Most people would probably agree that speculation in the oil and gas markets is hurting American consumers. Consider the case of Aubrey McClendon. Mr. McClendon is the CEO of Chesapeake Energy, where he sells natural gas for a living. Natural ...
  • The Impact of $5 Gas Prices, and Eco-Proppants ...
    In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I talk about the impact I believe $5 gasoline will have on most people, and whether there are any environmentally friendly proppants that can be used for hydraulic fracturing. Some of the topics discussed this week are: My observations here in ...
  • Canada Rises and Saudi Slides: Top 15 Sources ...
    The Energy Information Administration (EIA) recently published an article on 2011 U.S. crude oil imports. I thought it might be interesting to take a look at where the U.S. currently obtains its oil, and how that has changed over the past decade. The EIA story is: Nearly 69% of U.S. crude oil im ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • New GMOs Poised to Destroy Farmer's Market Fav ...
    Your tomatoes are under attack. If approved, two new types of genetically engineered corn and soy crops will threaten some of America's favorite farm foods, including tomatoes, peas, cucumbers, squash, melons, pumpkins, green beans, grapes, and other farmer's market and garden staples. The ne ...
  • 10 Food Rules for Earth Day
    We all eat. It's kind of necessary for our survival, after all. And to survive, we spend a lot of money and energy making food choices every day that impact the future of planet. So this Earth Day, rather than focusing on lightbulbs or hybrid cars, take stock of your kitchen. How can you make i ...
  • University Students Kick Toxic Triclosan Off C ...
    First, the city of Austin, Texas, became the first in the nation to ban all disposable shopping bags. Now, the progressive city that houses the country's fifth-largest college campus has marked another first: The University of Texas (UT) recently voted to ban antibacterial soaps containing the ...
  • Gretchen Bleiler's 9 Best Ways to Live Green
    Gretchen Bleiler's Olympic medals and multiple X Games victories have made her the face of women's snowboarding. But success on the half-pipe isn't enough. Realizing that her favorite sport may soon disappear because of a warming planet, Bleiler has devoted herself to reversing climate change. ...
  • A Non-Food Cause of Diabetes
    America's steady diet of processed foods full of excess calories and sugar is undoubtedly fueling the diabetes epidemic that costs the country millions every year. But researchers are starting to uncover this truth: It's not all about calories when it comes to the causes of diabetes. In a new s ...

big think

  • Why Companies Need to Embrace Whistleblowers
    What is the Big Idea? Despite the subprime mortgage debacle, Goldman Sachs tarnished reputation, MF Global debacle, the rogue traders at UBS, "most corporate employees continue to withhold information about misconduct by colleagues on issues they know are wrong, until it turns into a maj ...
  • Whistleblower: Hero or Rat?
    Everyone has secrets. Some have personal secrets of infidelity, lies and embarrassing tidbits that they hope will never see the light of day. Powerful institutions like businesses and governments also have secrets of shady practices, illegal behavior and incompetence.  But at some point ...
  • AUMF and Yemen
    On Saturday Bruce Ackerman of Yale Law School published this op-ed in the Washington Post on the CIA's reported request to employ signature strikes in Yemen.  The legal issues that Ackerman discusses are obviously beyond my training and expertise, but there are a couple of points where I ...
  • Which Brain Games Can Make You Smarter?
    What's the Latest Development? A cognitive game known as the N-back test has been shown in some studies to increase people's IQ scores, a feat that was considered impossible just a few years ago. The game challenges players to remember something, such as the location of an object or a pa ...
  • Nicolas Sarkozy: A Lesson For Leaders On What ...
    What is the Big Idea? French voters go to the poll today for the first round of the presidential election. Nicolas Sarkozy, and his Socialist challenger, François Hollande, will probably emerge as the finalists in a field of 10 candidates. They will face a run off on May 6.  The ...

Information Liberation

  • Video Shows US Border Patrol Beat Immigrant To ...
    An immigrant risked his life to come to the "land of the free," unfortunately, he should have stayed in Mexico, because agents of "the freest country on earth" beat him to death at the border. Via RT: A new video shows Anastacio Hernadez-Rojas ...
  • Cops: When They're Not Committing Crimes For T ...
    When the police are not doing officially state sanctioned criminal actions, you'll frequently find them moonlighting in non-state sanctioned criminal actions, such as this story from the AP details: NYPD badges out, Kelvin Jones and the other armed ...
  • 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 a...
  • The Normalization of Dystopia
    Lily Tomlin used to say *I try to be cynical, but I can*t keep up.* Writers of dystopian sci-fi have the same trouble keeping ahead of actual reality. Forty years ago, Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea, in the Illuminatus! trilogy, portrayed a ...
  • Marc Faber: Economy Will Be Worse Than The Gre ...
    There will be winners and losers....

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • St George and the ZX Spectrum
    It’s St George’s Day and the 30th anniversary of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum so we’re celebrating with the latest Google Doodle! Why we English still celebrate the killing of a mythical beast by an allegedly Roman soldier from Syria Palaestina who was venerated as a saint by a rel ...
  • Discounted on Amazon already
    My new book, which I just mentioned not 5 minutes ago, and for which I’ve not actually signed the physical, paper contract nor done much more than the basic table of contents and a single “typeset test” chapter, is already on Amazon and discounted from the list price by 10%. Ma ...
  • Discounted on Amazon already
    My new book, which I just mentioned not 5 minutes ago, and for which I’ve not actually signed the physical, paper contract nor done much more than the basic table of contents and a single “typeset test” chapter, is already on Amazon and discounted from the list price by 10%. Ma ...
  • My first solo book in time for Christmas
    I’ve collaborated on a few books over the years with esteemed authors such as John Gribbin, Adam Hart-Davis, Ian Stewart, Robert Slinn, even Richard Dawkins. Admittedly for the most part, by collaboration I simply mean I contributed a chapter or section to a book to which those people also ...
  • My first solo book in time for Christmas
    I’ve collaborated on a few books over the years with esteemed authors such as John Gribbin, Adam Hart-Davis, Ian Stewart, Robert Slinn, even Richard Dawkins. Admittedly for the most part, by collaboration I simply mean I contributed a chapter or section to a book to which those people also ...

RFF Library

  • Practicing Risk-Aware Electricity Regulation: ...
    Ceres | Public Policy Consulting / by Ron Binz, Richard Sedano, Denise Furey and Dan Mullen (Free download with registration) http://bit.ly/JkcQhk [From Forward] … It is vital—for electricity consumers and utilities’ own economic viability—that their investment decisions reflect the n ...
  • Relieving Pain at the Pump: Thanks to Stronger ...
    Natural Resources Defense Council http://www.nrdc.org/energy/relievingpainatthepump.asp [From Report]  …Compared to the first round of efficiency improvements to 35.5 mpg, the proposed 54.5 mpg standards will result in billions of additional gallons saved annually across the states. Aggreg ...
  • The Fracking Debate: A Policymaker’s Guide
    National Conference of State Legislatures http://www.ncsl.org/documents/energy/frackingdebateguide412.pdf [From an Energy Wire article by Margaret Kriz Hobson, sub. req'd] …The report outlines the economic upside of the increasing shale oil and gas development throughout the country, inclu ...
  • New Oil and Natural Gas Air Pollution Standards
    US EPA http://www.epa.gov/airquality/oilandgas/ [From Press Release]  In response to a court deadline, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finalized standards to reduce harmful air pollution associated with oil and natural gas production. The updated standards, required by the Cle ...
  • Beyond Boom and Bust: Putting Clean Tech On a ...
    Brookings Institution | Breakthrough Institute | World Resources Institute / by Mark Muro et al. http://www.brookings.edu/papers/2012/0418_clean_investments.aspx [From a Climate Wire story by Daniel Cusick, sub. req'd]  Three prominent think tanks are recommending that the Obama admini ...

Scientific American - News

  • Cheap Fracked Gas Could Help Americans Keep on ...
    A different kind of truck stop is coming soon to Atlanta. Greg Roche, vice president for infrastructure at Clean Energy Fuels , is presently scouting locations to build one of the California-based company's natural gas fueling stations for long-haul trucks by the end of this year. With fra ...
  • Second Wind: Air-Breathing Lithium Batteries P ...
    Researchers predict a new type of lithium battery under development could give an electric car enough juice to travel a whopping 800 kilometers before it needs to be plugged in again--about 10 times the energy that today's lithium ion batteries supply. It is a tantalizing prospect --a l ...
  • Hot Spring Yields New Hybrid Viral Genome
    In the hostile environment of a bubbling volcanic hot spring, a team of researchers at Portland State University in Oregon has discovered a new viral genome that seems to be the product of recombination between a DNA virus and an RNA virus -- a natural chimaera not seen before. Their findings&nb ...
  • The Rue Age: Older Adults Disengage from Regre ...
    "Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret," wrote 19th-century British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli in his political novel, Coningsby . Hyperbole aside, he may have mixed things up a bit. The latest research suggests that young people tend to fixate on their re ...
  • Melting Glaciers Liberate Ancient Microbes
    Editor's Note: This article is a extended version of " Bugs in the Ice Sheet " from the May 2012 Issue of Scientific American . [More]

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Our Generation's Quiet Awakening must be Green ...
    En français: http://bit.ly/Ji1EFz The creative, courageous and inspiring Quebec student movement will today weave its way through Montreal's Earth Day rally, mixing red and green, merging demands for a freeze on tuition with respect for the earth and those most impacted by climate change. Le ...
  • La Révolution Tranquille de Notre Génération d ...
    Aujourd’hui, le mouvement étudiant québécois, si créatif et engageant, s’engage à tisser son chemin à travers la marche pour le Jour de la Terre à Montréal, fusionnant rouge et vert pour symboliser ses demandes pour un gel des frais de scolarité avec un respect pour la planète et ceu ...
  • Cape Breton Coal Mining Plans Inching Forward
    In an age of climate change, controversial multinational seeks to re-open Donkin mine Halifax - Erdene Resource Development Corp., and giant multi-national coal exporter Xtrata, continue to move through federal environmental regulatory hur ...
  • Let them work up north!
    “Let them eat cake!” Marie Antoinette never said those words (really, who would be ignorant enough to say such a thing while peasants were starving for lack of bread?), but they were subsequently attributed to her to illustrate ...
  • Demonstration Against The Plan Nord In Pictures
    Police were overwhelmed by demonstrators Friday, before receiving reinforcements from the Sûreté du Québec.

David Seaton's News Links

  • From Rosa Parks to Barack Obama
    David Seaton's News LinksOne of the most significant political images in American history. "It did, in fact, give me cause to celebrate that in my own lifetime I saw an African American elected to the presidency." Mike HuckabeeI just didn't want to let this photo go by without comment.I was jus ...
  • Is progressive change in America possible? A p ...
    David Seaton's News Links How is progressive change to be effected within the American political system? First: are citizens asking the correct questions?Does anyone really believe that any topflight, professional, national politician, with what national campaigns cost these days, is ever goin ...
  • Mitt Romney, severely stiff?
    David Seaton's News Links The coming presidential election is very different from 2008... as then one of the men is a known quantity and the other is an enigma. But yesterday's enigma is today's known quantity and although the other man has been around for years, the more he says and the more h ...
  • Thoughts at Easter: Once I built a tower and n ...
    David Seaton's News Links "We are so made that we can sustain our existence only in group life. Love is the essence of humanity, love needs something to bestow itself upon; human beings must live together in order to live a life of mutual love." D. T. Suzuki "I sincerely believe that if you ...
  • Conservatives or neo-fascists?
    David Seaton's News LinksI would think it important to separate this new "conservatism" from the traditional variety. Remember the American vice is to use language to hide meaning. I’ll quote myself from an earlier post:One of the most disturbing things about America is the incoherence of ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Quote of the Day: "Pineapples Don't Have Sleeves"
    The New York Times reports this weekend that the state of New York is in a meltdown over a recent piece of alleged standardized test idiocy. Here's the nickel version: It's about a short story on the 8th grade reading test. In the story, a pineapple (yes, a pineapple) challenges a hare to a ra ...
  • Vacation Bleg: Copenhagen & Rome
    Guess what? It's vacation time again! This time it's a family affair, and we'll be spending a week in Copenhagen in the middle of May followed by a week in Rome during the last week of May. Anybody have some interesting suggestions? Stuff off the beaten path that we should be sure to see? Let ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging - 20 April 2012
    Today is outdoor portrait day! On the left, Inkblot is pretending that he's king of the jungle. On the right, Domino is favoring us all with her squinty look. Need more cats? If you haven't yet seen Henrí the existential cat, you should. The original Henrí is here; the sequel ...
  • The United States Has Not Abandoned Space. Really.
    Charles Krauthammer, it turns out, is a small-government conservative only as long as our small government keeps doing all the stuff that Charles Krauthammer gets a kick out of. Today he's unhappy about the end of the space shuttle program: Is there a better symbol of willed American declin ...
  • Quote of the Day: The Tornado of Idiocy That i ...
    From Ezra Klein, after learning that conservatives are attacking President Obama for eating dog meat when he was a seven-year-old growing up in Indonesia: After I learned the story, I felt a little worse about myself for being in any way involved in the tornado of idiocy that is American po ...

Insanity Report

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

Simple Climate

  • N2O cuts are no laughing matter
    Drastic reductions in meat consumption unappetising to many must be paired with tough farming, industry and transport action to meet the most ambitious targets to control emissions of greenhouse gas nitrous oxide, which you might know as laughing gas, according to Eric Davidson from the Woods Ho ...
  • N2O cuts are no laughing matter
    Drastic reductions in meat consumption unappetising to many must be paired with tough farming, industry and transport action to meet the most ambitious targets to control emissions of greenhouse gas nitrous oxide, which you might know as laughing gas, according to Eric Davidson from the Woods Ho ...
  • Climate change threatens the carnival of the a ...
    From chipmunks to calves, Simple Climate has regularly reported on creatures pressured by global warming. This week I bring together their pictures as a reminder of which creatures are at risk, in the hope of providing more motivation to act to help them.
  • Climate change threatens the carnival of the a ...
    From chipmunks to calves, Simple Climate has regularly reported on creatures pressured by global warming. This week I bring together their pictures as a reminder of which creatures are at risk, in the hope of providing more motivation to act to help them.
  • Global view answers ice age CO2 puzzle
    Measurements seemingly showing that temperatures have risen before atmospheric concentrations of CO2 over the past 800,000 years only represent Antarctica, say Harvard University's Jeremy Shakun and colleagues. By looking globally they show that CO2 rose before the world warmed at the end of the ...

e!Science News

  • Research shows why 1 bacterial infection is so ...
    Scientists have found why a certain type of bacteria, harmless in healthy people, is so deadly to patients with cystic fibrosis. read more
  • Chemists explain the molecular workings of pro ...
    Researchers from New York University and the Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart reveal how protons move in phosphoric acid in a Nature Chemistry study that sheds new light on the workings of a promising fuel cell electrolyte. read more
  • History is key factor in plant disease virulence
    The virulence of plant-borne diseases depends on not just the particular strain of a pathogen, but on where the pathogen has been before landing in its host, according to new research results. read more
  • Hinode and SOHO paint an asymmetrical picture ...
    Approximately every 11 years the magnetic field on the sun reverses completely -- the north magnetic pole switches to south, and vice versa. It's as if a bar magnet slowly lost its magnetic field and regained it in the opposite direction, so the positive side becomes the negative side. But, of c ...
  • Study finds that mild winters are detrimental ...
    The recent mild winter throughout much of the United States was a cause for celebration for many. However, butterfly aficionados shouldn't be joining in the celebration. read more

unEarthed

  • Group Wins Chance to Protect Grand Canyon
    Court lets Earthjustice argue for wildlife and waters near iconic park The Grand Canyon. We’re in! Judge Martone of the U.S. District Court for the Dis ...
  • BP Oil Spill - Two Years Ago Today
    Eleven people died when the Deepwater Horizon well exploded Never Forget. Here are a few reflections on that day and what it means for us now. Remembering America's greatest environment ...
  • Tr-Ash Talk: The Coal Breath of Betrayal
    House panders to Big Coal, allowing risks of spills and poisoning A cloud of highly toxic coal ash is seen blowing like a sandstorm straight at the homes on the Moapa River Reservation, one ...
  • Here's Why Asthmatics Need Dirty Air
    Cleaning up pollution actually hurts those afflicted by it, says EPA critic A remarkable thing happened during Senate hearings today on the EPA's rule to limit toxic air pollution from coal-fired power plants. A critic of the agenc ...
  • Inupiat Leader Wins Goldman Award
    Caroline Cannon named as North American recipient The world's largest prize for environmental action has been awarded to Caroline Cannon, an Inupiat leader ...

Brave New Climate

  • IFR FaD 13 – cost comparison of IFR and therma ...
    This is the fourth and final part of the series of extracts from the book Plentiful Energy — The story of the Integral Fast Reactor by Chuck Till and Yoon Chang. Reproduced with permission of the authors, these sections describe and justify some of the key design choices that went into the makin ...
  • Off to Russia
    Well, I’m just about to hop on a plane to Russia to visit for a week — destination Moscow. This is part of my duties as a member of the International Awards Committee for the Global Energy Prize (see here for details). Whilst in the heart of the former Soviet Union, I’ll hook u ...
  • The Nuclear Energy Solution
    Guest Post by Bill Sacks and Greg Meyerson. Bill is a physicist and a radiologist, and wrote Lessons about nuclear energy from the Japanese quake and tsunami about a  month into the Fukushima crisis. Greg is an English professor with specialization in critical theory. Both are based in the U.S. ...
  • IFR FaD 12 – lessons learned from fast reactor ...
    This is the third of a four-part series of extracts from the book Plentiful Energy — The story of the Integral Fast Reactor by Chuck Till and Yoon Chang. Reproduced with permission of the authors, these sections describe and justify some of the key design choices that went into the making the IF ...
  • Open Thread 22
    The Open Thread 21 has passed 500 comments and is getting a little bloated, so time for a new one. The Open Thread is a general discussion forum, where you can talk about whatever you like — there is nothing ‘off topic’ here — within reason. So get up on your soap box! The standard commenting [...]

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

  • A Republican Didn’t Like The Sign In My ...
    When I roll, I always have one of our RepublicansAreADisease.com sighs taped on the rear window of my car. I went to Office Depot to return some supplies yesterday and what appeared to be a Republican with his wife and teen age daughter were walking up to the car next to me. The Republican saw [...]
  • Michele Bachman Lying Again
    On Meet the Press Michele Bachman claims Republicans want women to make their own health care choices. Really? I guess unless their employer disagrees right Michele? Please media. The story is the fact that the Michele Bachman types get to lie repeatedly, and never have to pay a price. Time to d ...
  • Wolf Blitzer Owes Hillary Rosen An Apology
    Dear Wolf. You are an asshole. Why should anyone apologize for telling the truth? I know that you think that Marie Antoinette Romney is an “elite” and we are supposed to worship her while she tell us “poor people” how we should live our lives, and what matters to us? Hill ...
  • Marie “Ann”toinette Romney You Hav ...
    Dear Marie Antoinette Romney. Please sit down and shut up about economics. It is wonderful that your “family” has been so prosperous that you have never had to work for wages once in your whole life, unlike almost every other woman in America. What you don’t seem to understand ...
  • How Many Small Business Owners Did Newt Screw ...
    Come on Newt, who do you owe? You have millions upon millions in loot, and you can’t pay the people that you have contracts with and did business with? You have yours and you are screwing them out of theirs? You are sick man. I know you wanted to be prezzident so you could screw us [...]

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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  • Egypt terminates deal to supply Israel with na ...
    Cancellation of the commercial deal between private Egyptian and Israeli entities has more to do with Egypt’s own internal confrontation with corporate governance and transparency than with the peace treaty with Israel. According to several news reports, Egypt has terminated a deal to supp ...
  • The Round Trip part 16: Fresh water
    From Ein Gedi to Sodom via three Hebrew songs, two versions of paradise and one magnesium plant. Tine likes the Dead Sea, conceptually, that is. She likes that it’s called the Dead Sea and that no form of life survives in its waters except for tourists. We camp out at a place that turns ou ...
  • Palestinian women take back West Bank spring a ...
    For the first time in years, a group of Palestinian women was able to reach the Nabi Saleh spring, which was taken over long ago by settlers. The group hopes to hold on to the liberated spring. Every Friday for the past three years or so, Nabi Saleh residents, along with Israeli and internationa ...
  • Urban Outfitters’ yellow tee causes stir ...
    Urban Outfitters, as my brilliant sister very articulately put it, is a fashion emporium based on the notion that the store is really frickin’ cool. The music, the down-home furniture, the hipster wannabe salespeople are all systematically placed to make you feel that the $42 jean cut-offs you a ...
  • On violence, soccer and occupation – how ...
    End the occupation and the militarism, which are conspicuous in the democratic world today but not in its history, and this could be a pretty cool place. I try not to go out of my way to write good things about Israel, but I also try not to go out of my way not to write [...]

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Matt Weidner Blog

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

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

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

Reader Supported News

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

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

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

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Consumerist

  • Doctors Skip The Whole Insurance Thing By Char ...
    What if, instead of paying hundreds -- or even thousands -- of dollars each month for health insurance that you may not even be taking advantage of, you paid a retainer of somewhere between $39 to $79 a month to your primary care physician? Some doctors say this kind of service can work out to ...
  • Refusing To Turn Off Electronics & Sit Down Wi ...
    You've got basically two options on a flight -- do what the flight attendants tell you to do when they tell you to do it, or end up watching the plane leave without you. A woman from Massachusetts was unable to do as she was told, and missed her flight as a result. WBZ NewsRadio says the woman ...
  • Best Buy Celebrates Earth Day By Imagining A W ...
    Oh, Best Buy. If only we could give you a gift card so you could buy a clue. Yesterday was Earth Day, when we globe-dwellers were supposed to stop, think and honor our planet. Maybe you started composting, or promised to stop keeping lights on in empty rooms. Over at Best Buy, they celebrated ...
  • Airlines Forced To Roll Back Price Hike Becaus ...
    When it comes to airline price hikes, it's all for one or none at all. Last week it seemed Delta Air Lines would get away with an increase of $10 to $20 on last-minute domestic roundtrips, because American, United and US Airways all joined in. This time, however, it appears they've been thwarte ...
  • Etsy Features Seller Who May Be Blatantly Viol ...
    While Etsy.com policy clearly states that the website is for people to sell handmade items, vintage goods, or crafting materials, the actual enforcement of those standards -- especially in the "handmade" category -- has always been a bit fuzzy, with the definition of "handmade" ranging from a h ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Army Denies Early Release of 'Kill Team' Whist ...
    Associated Press: Army Denies Clemency Bid by Whistleblower in 2010 ‘Thrill Killings’ of Afghan Civilians Summary: The Army has denied an early release for the soldier who originally tried to blow the whistle on the ‘kill team’ – a group of US soldiers killing Afghan civilians for sport – and ...
  • Poultry Whistleblower Appears on ABC; USDA Ext ...
    ABC News: USDA to Let Industry Self-Inspect Chicken Summary: A whistleblower who came to GAP's Food Integrity Campaign (FIC) raising concerns about USDA's plan to deregulate poultry inspection (by expanding a pilot program known as HIMP) was interviewed on ABC's World News with Diane Sawy ...
  • Poultry Disease Pics Show More Than "Bumps & B ...
    HIMP Update: Poultry Disease Pics Show More Than "Bumps and Blemishes" Summary: Thus far rebuffing whistleblower concerns regarding its plan to expand a deregulated poultry inspection program known as HIMP, the USDA has downplayed the topical monitoring of birds for signs of disease. GAP's Foo ...
  • Whistleblower Prosecutor Leaves DOJ; Ron Paul ...
    GOP Presidential candidate Ron PaulThe New York Times: Prosecutor Who Ran Ethics Unit Leaves Justice Dept. Summary: Noted Justice Department prosecutor William Welch II, who handled multiple Espionage Act prosecutions against intelligence whistleblowers, left the agency on Friday. Welch manage ...
  • Taxpayer-Funded Jugglers and Clowns: GSA Scand ...
    Inspectors General may sometimes be the fox guarding the hen house, but they're all that there is, and once and a while they work. An Inspector General can save taxpayers billions by investigating whistleblower claims of fraud, waste, abuse, mismanagement or illegality. The recent the General S ...

UK Progressive

  • The Monday Line: Why Tesco Slides? Don’t Fix W ...
    For the first time in two decades, Tesco PLC’s UK operations lost money. Their solution? Stop expansion (for which they have mostly been blocked in communities for the devastating impact their buying power and low prices have on the High Street) and they will pour £1 billion pounds into store ma ...
  • The EPA’s First Fracking Rules — Limited and D ...
    by Lena Groeger, ProPublica The Environmental Protection Agency issued the first-ever national air pollution regulations for fracking on Wednesday. Firstproposed in July 2011, the final rules have been welcomed by environmental groups as a much-needed initial move in reducing pollution and prote ...
  • The Return of CREEP
    by Kim Barker, ProPublica With 300-plus super PACs and counting, it would be easy to miss CREEP. But last Thursday, a new super PAC ingeniously named the Committee for the Re-Election of the President registered with the Federal Election Commission. The committee is based out of a post office bo ...
  • Preventing Passing The Point of No Return
    It has been a tough decade for the environment and those advocating for a healthier world. From New York to Tokyo the adverse effects of climate change have been well documented and hard felt. Activists fighting around the world for our rights to clean air, fresh food, and safe drinking water ha ...
  • Why “We’re on the Right Track” Isn’t Enough an ...
    President Obama’s electoral strategy can best be summed up as: “We’re on the right track, my economic policies are working, we still have a long way to go but stick with me and you’ll be fine.” That’s not good enough. This recovery is too anemic, and the chance of an economic stall between now a ...

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JoNova

  • Radio interview and 100,000th comment!
    We are just 40 odd comments today from the 100,000th lucky commenter!!! Wait for it, we’ll be sending you on a world tour, a dinner for two, I might just post the Grand Winner both Skeptics Handbook I and II Kerry Lutz And for those who would like some weekend listening I did an intervie ...
  • Burn those deniers houses down
    A Tennessee Fireman’s Solution to Climate Change Steve Zwick, This propaganda has already set us back two decades, … … there is a very public record of who has been lying to the public and who hasn’t – and it’s time to start using this information to make the liars and shirker ...
  • When is a free market solution *not* the answe ...
    Profit through regulation of markets Which caring environmentalists are trying to save the world through carbon credits? That would be the Banksters. Watch how the banks  are working to “fix” the free market, via intervention and regulation, and milk the system to maximize profit. Th ...
  • So is the hotspot a “fingerprint” ...
    Some people claim that I mislead people. But it seems they are the misled — not by me, but by their own heroes. In the Skeptics Handbook I wrote: “The greenhouse signature is missing If Greenhouse gases are warming the earth we are supposed to see the first signs of it in the patch o ...
  • James Delingpole Tour starts tomorrow in Perth ...
    Don’t forget to book for Perth via email eventsATjoannenova.com.au. 7pm Royal Perth Yacht Club, Matilda Bay, Tuesday 17th April. See details for the rest of the tour at this page. Rating: 10.0/10 (5 votes cast) Rating: 10.0/10 (5 votes cast)

ReNew America

  • Gun industry's economic impact skyrockets duri ...
    (Washington Times) - The economic impact of the firearms industry is up 66 percent since the beginning of the Great Recession, providing an unexpected shot in the arm for the economy, according to a new study...
  • Obama quietly seeking to cede U.S. oceans to U ...
    (WorldNetDaily) - 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...
  • End the government's partying
    (Washington Times) - If there were ever any doubt that the federal government is out of control, the recent revelations of taxpayer-fueled parties at the General Services Administration (GSA) should put it to rest. Both House and Senate committees this week began digging deeper into the $822,751 ...
  • Abortion doc runs group making Planned Parenth ...
    (Life News) - Pro-life advocates have long complained that Planned Parenthood, the country's largest abortion provider, worships at the altar of abortion, but did you know that the abortion industry actually prays for abortion?...
  • York: Obama faces defeat on Keystone pipeline
    (Washington Examiner) - While much of the political world obsesses over Twitter fights and Seamus the dog, Barack Obama has set himself up for a high-profile defeat on one of the most important issues of the campaign...

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

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

Facing South

One News Page

  • `Pleading guilty alone no key to a lesser sentence
    Merely pleading guilty of one`s crime is no surety for a lesser sentence, a Delhi court has said, while jailing a youth for a year and a half for robbing a woman of her gold chain. Reported by Zee News 2 hours ago
  • Will Priyadarshan drive Mallika Sherawat out?
    The Tezz director wanted Sameera Reddy to gyrate to an item number but the producer of the film Ratan Jain went ahead with Mallika Sherawat and shot Laila song without the due approval from Priyadarshan. Reported by Bollywood Life 2 hours ago
  • Crimes in Bollywood: Who is to be blamed?
    According to industry insiders, the urge to become the next big thing and the greed to earn more money compel Bollywood wannabes to commit such gruesome crimes. Reported by DNA 2 hours ago
  • Nicolas Sarkozy woos far right after Hollande ...
    Sarkozy hammered home pledges to get tough on immigration and security as he sought to win over record numbers of far-right voters and whittle down Hollande's narrow first-round election lead. Reported by DNA 2 hours ago
  • Lakers star becomes wiser, names himself Milit ...
    The player, whose current name is Metta World Peace, credits this change to him becoming wiser and older. Reported by Firstpost 2 hours ago

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Daily Tech

Oriental Review

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

BlogHer

  • 25 Signs You Hate Your Job
    Today I was talking with a colleague about what it felt like in those deep dark days of being in a job that you hate. It is intense. The feelings are real and sometimes the thoughts are irrational. It feels like you are trapped with no way out. It's not funny business by any means. That said, we ...
  • The Latest App Sensation: Draw Something
    If you haven't heard of the latest sensation in iPhone and iPad apps, you are about to get an education in a game called Draw Something. It's a lot of fun, even if you aren't a great artist, as Rachel from Grasping for Objectivity explains, Yet, despite my complete artistic blindness, I have al ...
  • Earth Day, Every Day
    Earth Day is the day we celebrate the earth. It is the one day out of the year that people from all over the world come together to plant trees, pledge to compost and/or recycle more, remember their reusable mugs and bags. It seems to me that people sometimes forget that the earth needs some lov ...
  • Sweet Treat: Orange Vanilla Bean Cupcakes
    [Editor's Note: These fresh and light cupcakes are ideal for a spring gathering, whether that's a party, a brunch, or a family barbeque. Though Annie of Annie's Eats claims no love for citrusy flavors at the end of a meal, even she really liked them, and since I'm a big fan of that genre of dess ...
  • What Some Tech Companies Are Doing with Pinterest
    It isn't just plain folks making use of Pinterest these days. Michele from Scraps of My Geek Life found 25 tech companies on Pinterest and took a look at what they are doing and how they are doing it. She writes, I think Pinterest is a perfect tool for just about any brand because it is very vi ...

Health Freedom Alliance

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

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Friday roundup, April 20, 2012
    In this photo taken Sunday, April 15, 2012, rescuers search for victims of a landslide from a strip coal mine in Thai Nguyen province, Vietnam. An official said the landslide from the coal mine’s dump killed one person and left five others missing and presumed dead in northern Vietnam.  (A ...
  • Bumper stickers: Cecil Roberts demands apology ...
    It seemed like it was going to be a slow Friday afternoon … then into my email inbox popped this release from our friends at the United Mine Workers of America: “The comments from WWVA-AM on-air personality David Bloomquist about coal miners, their wives and the nature of coal miners ...
  • Update: Coal ash and Congressman McKinley
    Earlier this week, the U.S. House of Representatives added to a major transportation funding bill an amendment from West Virginia’s very own, Rep. David McKinley, to block the federal Environmental Protection Agency from regulating toxic coal ash from the nation’s power plants. As Pa ...
  • What happened to NIOSH-MSHA move to revoke app ...
    CSE Corp. President Scott Shearer with one of his company’s SR-100 self-contained self rescuer units. Photo by AP.  So far this week, we’ve had a blog post and this print story detailing the findings of the two-year National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health investigation ...
  • Exactly which EPA was run by a bunch of &#8216 ...
    There’s a great piece out today from FactCheck.org with the headline, Romney misfires with EPA anecdote: Mitt Romney railed against the “Obama EPA” and “how the Obama government interferes with personal freedom” — using as his example an EPA action taken in 2007, under President George W. ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Feynman on Why You Should Enjoy What You Do
    He says, “Feynman, that’s pretty interesting, but what’s the importance of it? Why are you doing it?” “Hah!” I say. “There’s no importance whatsoever. I’m just doing it for the fun of it.” His reaction didn’t discourage me; I had ...
  • I’m a sexy woman, so stop objectifying me!
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  • Marquese Scott: The Best Dancer I’ve Ever Seen
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  • Documenting Chinese Commercial Espionage | Her ...
    This adds up to a disturbing conclusion: China’s manufacturing rise has been illegally aided. Many advances are certainly due to the PRC’s own strengths; others stem from voluntary cooperation by foreign partners. But it is all too easy to find examples of Chinese theft that correspond well to s ...
  • Dave Winer Says “It’s Definitely a Bubble”
    We’re in a bubble now, and like all bubbles unless you’re thinking about it the “right” way, you don’t see it. That’s how bubbles are. It wouldn’t be a bubble if it were easy to see.   To find it, you have to look at your assumptions and challenge t ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

  • Revolution 99 Updates: Will NATO bring Troops ...
    Clown Show at UC Davis — Too Bad It’s Not Funny By Bob Ostertag,HuffPo – Remember those videos of campus police pepper spraying seated students in the face at UC Davis last November? Old news, right? Well, it has taken all this time for the task force appointed by the UC presid ...
  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Monday
    Trial of US ex-political star John Edwards set to begin Opening arguments will begin Monday in the trial of John Edwards, a two-time Democratic presidential hopeful accused of illegally using political campaign money to hide a love affair from the public and his cancer-stricken wife. Edwards, a ...
  • Familes That Stay Together
    I saw an interesting article this week on Yahoo News.  The article dealt with multi-generational families moving in with each other. According to a Pew study in 2009, 17% of households in the US were multi-generational. Even the developers are taking note of this growing trend. Of course the ide ...
  • America’s Gulf Disaster Revisited
    By Stephen Lendman,OEN - America’s Gulf Disaster Revisited BP criminality caused millions to suffer. April 20 marked the two year anniversary of BP’s Gulf of Mexico disaster. Until Fukushima Daiichi’s catastrophic nuclear meltdown, it was the largest ever environmental calamity ...
  • Worldwide Hippies Digest Sunday: Carlin, Carol ...
    Comedy gold: George Carlin’s It’s Bad for Ya By Leo Benedictus,guardian.co.uk – This counter-cultural legend shows his talent was undimmed in this set, recorded just a few months before his death. The set-up: George Carlin’s place in the pantheon of standup’s counte ...

reference frame

  • I can change your mind about climate: TV
    ABC1, an Australian TV channel, is planning to air I can change your mind about... climate on Thursday, April 26th, 8:30 pm. You may click the link above and check the trailer as well as the results of a poll about the attitudes concerning global warming. When I was taking th ...
  • Rachel Marsden on multiculturalism
    On Friday, I watched this 25-minute video, among other things: On Russia Today's flagship program, the CrossTalk, there were three men (which includes the host, American journalist Peter Lavelle, and Oxford's political scientist Roger Griffin, besides Mohammed Shafiq of the Ramadha ...
  • Is the LHC's \(125~\GeV\) "Higgs boson" an ext ...
    A bold LHC application of Randall-Sundrum models got published in PRL Since the middle December, I thought that the \(125\,\,\GeV\) Higgs boson is a sure thing. But of course, there's always a chance I am wrong. The signals could go away. However, I will offer you a more shocking – and m ...
  • Schrödinger has never met Newton
    Sabine Hossenfelder believes that Schrödinger meets Newton. But is the story about the two physicists' encounter true? Yes, these were just jokes. I don't think that Sabine Hossenfelder misunderstands the history in this way. Instead, what she completely misunderstands ...
  • Is the Avogadro constant equal to one?
    Bane asked and provoked a discussion: I was tasked with creating a presentation on Avogadro's work, and this is the first time I actually got introduced to the 'mole' and to 'Avogadro's constant'. And, to be honest, it doesn't make any mathematical sense to me. \[ \eq{ 1\,\,{\rm mol ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • God bless America. Without you we would not ha ...
    After decades of fluoridation, aspartame, high fructose corn syrup, GMO, growth hormones, antibiotics in the food, the US Education System, and mass media zombie programming, you end up with cross-dressing, feminized, obese rednecks. God bless America. Without you we would not have this: The pho ...
  • Planet X Arrives in Antarctica
    I tried to tell you guys that Planet X aka Nibiru was here (http://tatumba.com/blog/archives/7116). I photographed it and uploaded back in January 2012, when it was just coming into our visible frequency range. I was ridiculed, told it was Photoshopped, lens flare, etc. Well I just got back from ...
  • 12 year old girl explains how to destroy corru ...
    This little girl is a genius, a result of great parenting that has resulted in a young patriot that tears apart the Canadian Banking System exposing how it is corrupt and has become a plague on society. After she tears them out a new one, she offers a solution of how to rid us of [...] Related ...
  • I wonder if TSA Agents know what long term exp ...
    People have been wondering what long term exposure to naked body scanners will do to the human body. Wonder no more. Here is a photo of an ex TSA Employee. I hear she now works as a tanning bed operator. Click image to enlarge   Any questions? Homeland Security Job Guide: How to get an [... ...
  • Giabo George is a ‘MADe’ Dog. Seen by over 200 ...
    I don’t know how I forgot this one. My Pug, Giabo George, was featured on the Keiser Report over the Christmas holidays. I must be losing it, as the little guy was made famous by Stacey Herbert and Max Keiser. The Keiser Report is seen by over 200 million viewers from around the world each ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

Enviroblog

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

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Skiing season’s last hurrah
    More than 12,000 skiers headed back up to the high country over the weekend to take part in the traditional 38-kilometer mountain ski race called “Skarverennet.” The race is the last major skiing event of the season, and among the biggest in the world. This year’s race was save ...
  • Progress Party ready to rule
    Norway’s most conservative political party, the Progress Party,  wrapped up its annual national meeting on Sunday and the message from party leader Siv Jensen was clear: “We have one ambition, to have influence. There won’t be any (non-socialist) majority without us.” Jen ...
  • More tears after new brutal testimony
    Grown men were reduced to tears once again, as were many others, when terror defendant Anders Behring Breivik re-traced his murderous steps in an Oslo courtroom on Friday. Repeated attempts by attorneys to get Breivik to show any signs of emotion or empathy himself, though, were unsuccessful. &# ...
  • Liberal Party logs leap in popularity
    Members of Norway’s small and, until recently, struggling Liberal Party (Venstre) could head into the weekend smiling. After months of poor showings in the polls, they jumped a relatively whopping 3.5 points in a new voter survey. If the results had been an election, Venstre would have won ...
  • Norway’s traumatic moment of truth
    NEWS ANALYSIS: After describing himself as a self-appointed executionist on Thursday, Anders Behring Breivik was back on the witness stand in Oslo on Friday to answer more questions about his attacks of July 22. As survivors and families of victims braced for more gruesome details, questions kee ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Personal Responsibility and Causes for Consumerism
    Editor’s Note: This article is courtesy of the new PRI Sunshine Coast (formally Kin Kin SOULS), led by highly experienced permaculturists, Tom and Zaia Kendall. Please note that Tom and Zaia will be hosting a 72-hour Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) course from May 20, 2012, and a ful ...
  • Domestic Uses for Wood Ash
    Wood ash can be obtained by sieving the remains of burnt, non-treated wood. The composition and amount of the ash will depend on the type of combustion (higher temperatures will lead to fewer ash residues). Normally, remaining ash will represent 0.43 — 1.82% of the initial wood weight. A ...
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  • Mediterranean Permaculture Practitioners Come ...
    The PDC graduates of the Mediterranean and the Middle-east will converge for the first gathering specifically for this region. This event will make possible the initiation of networking and sharing of knowledge & experiences for the region. The Mediterranean is one zone where we need this co ...
  • 72h Permaculture Design Course: Permaculture f ...
    This 13-day practical and demonstrative PDC will take place in Konso, south Ethiopia, from May 7th – 19th, 2012, at Strawberry Fields Eco Lodge. It will have a special focus on the application of permaculture to communities in the developing world. It will involve practical demonstrations ...

Pointman's

  • There’s a killer in your house.
    This year marks the final phase out of incandescent light bulbs in the EU, and their total replacement by what’s termed compact fluorescent lamps or CFLs. The reasons given for this move are that CFLs are more environmentally friendly, because they reduce CO2  emissions, and more energy-ef ...
  • The sun is setting on solar power, the money&# ...
    If you keep an eye on the financial world, which I do, and especially the green sectors, which I also do, it’s been an interesting time of late. Within the last few weeks, Solar Trust of America (STA), owner of the world’s largest solar plant, filed for bankruptcy protection under Ch ...
  • About writing.
    I do the thinking thing very well. For so much of my life and for so many things in it, I think very carefully before I leap and I’m good at it. Over the years, people have learnt to trust and depend on that and because I love them, that’s something special I can do … Read more
  • About writing.
    I do the thinking thing very well. For so much of my life and for so many things in it, I think very carefully before I leap and I’m good at it. Over the years, people have learnt to trust and depend on that and because I love them, that’s something special I can do … Read more
  • Political fracture points and power vacuums.
    A political fracture point is a sudden and radical change in the political landscape. In classical times, it would be the collapse of an empire, such as the Roman Empire. In the last century, World War I resulted in the outright destruction of several, such as the German Empire, and ultimately f ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Two years on, anger and frustration on the Gul ...
    A shorter version of this article appeared today in newspapers around the world through Agence France Presse, the newswire service. Two years after the worst maritime oil spill in history, fishermen, scientists, and environmentalists up and down the US Gulf Coast warn that the disaster may be ...
  • Another Victory Against Louisiana's Crime Agai ...
    A judge's order yesterday took another step towards ending the harsh legacy of Louisiana's Crime Against Nature Law. Below is a press release on the issue from Center for Constitutional Rights. Louisiana must “cease and desist” from placing any individuals convicted of Crime Against Nature by ...
  • Isabella's Story: A Transgender Person's Story ...
    The letter below came to us from our friends at BreakOUT!. This Thursday night at 9:00pm, the Allways Lounge will host a benefit for BreakOUT! featuring a range of performances; circus, burlesque, drag, bounce, and more. "This is a short story of my life. Please type it and print it and send it ...
  • Danziger Sentences Bring Closure, With Controv ...
    This article originally appeared on the New Orleans Tribune/TribuneTalk website. On Wednesday, five officers were sentenced for firing on unarmed civilians on Danziger Bridge on September 4, 2005, and conspiring to cover-up their crime. The sentences bring some degree of closure to a case th ...
  • Victim Impact Statement of Lance Madison
    The following statement was read by Lance Madison during the sentencing of the officers involved in the killings on Danziger Bridge Good Morning. My name is Lance Madison. I am here today on behalf of myself, my mother, my brothers and sisters and especially my brother Ronald. On Septembe ...

Information Underground

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Solar-Powered ATM Machines Expand Banking Opti ...
    For many villagers in rural areas of India, personal banking comes at a high cost. In addition to the expense of traveling to the nearest branch, often in distant cities, Click to enlarge Vortex Engineering A “Gramateller” ATM in a Tamil Nadu village. they must often forego a day’s work. ...
  • 151 Planned Dams Threatens Balance of Andean A ...
    A new study warns that 151 hydroelectric dams planned along six major rivers in the Amazon basin over the next two decades, including dozens of so-called mega-dams, could significantly disrupt the region’s ecological connectivity. Writing in the online journal PLoS ONE, researchers say 60 percen ...
  • Waterless Fracking Technology May Be Used at N ...
    A planned shale gas drilling project in New York state would utilize a waterless form of hydraulic fracturing, a new technique designed to reduce the potential pollution associated with the controversial natural gas drilling process. Rather than using typical hydraulic fracturing technologies — ...
  • Glaciers in Asian Range Are Gaining Ice, Study ...
    A new study has found that a series of glaciers located in a mountain range along the rim of the Tibetan plateau may actually be gaining mass, in contrast to global trends. In an analysis of satellite data, a team of French researchers found that numerous glaciers in the Karakoram mountain range ...
  • Hopes Fade for Cleanup In Nigeria’s Oil-Rich Delta
    The Ogoniland region of Nigeria has long been badly polluted by decades of oil production that has fouled the delta and contaminated drinking water. A United Nations report has recommended a massive recovery initiative, but so far the Nigerian government has shown few signs it will agree to the ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • 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 ...

Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Juventus boss unfazed by allegations
    Juventus coach Antonio Conte is unfazed by allegations from one of his former players that he knew about a match that was fixed while he managed Siena last season. Local media reported Saturday that the recently arrested player, Filippo Carobbio, told investigators that Conte was aware of a fi ...
  • Neglect of nuclear regulation
    The Nuclear Regulatory Agency was originally scheduled to be set up on April 1. Although the Noda Cabinet endorsed a bill to establish the agency on Jan. 31 and send it to the Diet that day, the Diet has yet to start deliberating on it. The legislature should be strongly censured for its neglect ...
  • Lowly Five Arrows' skid reaches 23 games
    The Takamatsu Five Arrows' season has been an epic failure. A complete disaster. Takamatsu, which has failed to make one trade or move to upgrade its roster this season, fell to 2-48 after its latest setback, a 95-69 defeat on Sunday to the host Hamamatsu Higashimikawa Phoenix.
  • Capitalistic consensus moved Brazil investors
    Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's visit to Washington earlier this month offers an occasion to consider how some once-poor countries have broken out of poverty, as Brazil has. Development institutions like the World Bank have advocated improving business law as an important way to do so. Are ...
  • Huge scale of A-bomb gene study revealed
    Organ samples and medical records on more than 1,200 babies who were stillborn or died shortly after birth after being carried by mothers who survived the 1945 U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were sent to the United States for radiation research, a researcher in Hiroshima says. ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Neil Reynolds’ Fuzzy Tax Math
    If you need help with your tax return, don’t ask Neil Reynolds. His latest attack on the New Democrat proposal to collect modestly more tax from Ontario’s super-rich stated that “the province’s highest marginal rate on personal income would rise, federal and provincial rates combined, from 46.4 ...
  • Meilinomics I: The Little Boats
    The following is an excerpt from Dr. Ryan Meili’s new book, A Healthy Society: How a Focus on Health Can Revive Canadian Democracy. There’s a family that comes frequently to the West Side Clinic; we’ll call them Lucas and Annie. Hardly a week goes by that I don’t see them in for a medical visit ...
  • Deflating the Monetary Hawks
    Canada’s business press has recently been filled with speculation that the Bank of Canada may soon hike interest rates based on its somewhat more optimistic economic outlook. But today’s Consumer Price Index report indicates that there is no need to raise interest rates. Statistics Canada report ...
  • BMO Professor vs. Bank Regulation
    Last week, the C. D. Howe Institute was out with an op-ed contending that Canadian household debt is not worth worrying too much about: “There does not seem to be a strong case for restrictive regulation of consumer credit products, such as tight caps on interest rates.” The C. D. Howe Institute ...
  • Political Apathy and Voter Suppression: Who ar ...
    Haven’t you heard? Canada’s in deep trouble. No, it’s not rising inequality. Or stagnant incomes. (That growing gap between the rich and the rest of us is so last week.) The environment? Whatever. A decimated workforce? Aboriginal poverty? Public sector layoffs? The attack on worker rights? Not ...

ReDress

  • Disempowerment and suppression of freedoms in ...
    Graham Peebles looks at how the increasingly paranoid regime of Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi is systematically tightening its monopoly over information, suppressing free speech and suffocating media freedom. "Disempowerment is the aim, and the means are well known, crude and unimaginati ...
  • Israel's settler-officers in the glare of publ ...
    Uri Avnery examines the incident in which an Israeli skullcap-wearing officer, Lt-Col Shalom Eisner, launched an unprovoked and brutal attack on a young Danish peace activist, and argues that Eisner, a deputy brigade commander, is not just the quintessential army officer but the quintessential I ...
  • What do Breivik and Netanyahu have in common?
    Alan Hart argues that among the things that unite Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin is "mania of victimhood": for Breivik insane fears about the consequences for Norway of immigration and multiculturalism, and for Netanyahu an obsession with Iran which, i ...
  • Intolerance in the USA's "sunshine state" of F ...
    Lawrence Davidson analysis the chronic intolerance inherent in the US State of Florida, at the core of which lie the Cuban American and Jewish communities, which "form around repugnant ideological cores that then come to characterize their very identity".
  • Good for Guenter Grass! Everyone and his dog n ...
    Stuart Littlewood views the "squawks and screeches" emanating from Israel in protest at German poet Guenter Grass's poem on the threat Israel poses to the world, and reminds us of a couple of pertinent facts: that Israel is the only nuclear state in the Middle East and that it refuses to forgo t ...

Physics Today

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

Revolutionary Politics

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

Peakwater

  • Shocking Conflict of Interest: Private Water C ...
      “The water companies – American Water and Aqua America — are leading drinking water suppliers in Pennsylvania, where drilling is booming. They also sell water to gas companies — which use a drilling technique that requires massive amounts of water — and have ...
  • In the Klamath Basin, too little water promise ...
      “The abundance and diversity of waterfowl and other migratory birds make the Klamath Basin one of the nation’s most significant wetland wildlife areas. The region’s spectacular National Wildlife Refuges, including Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge and Lower Klamath Nati ...
  • Supreme Court seeks CPCB report on ground wate ...
    “NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court directed the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) to file a comprehensive affidavit on the “character and content” of reported contamination of ground water in Bhopal’s Arifnagar area due to the 1985 Union Carbide gas tragedy. A bench of ju ...
  • Zimbabwe: Sewage-Fed Vegetables Give Pause for ...
    “Harare — Maria Saungweme, 42, an informal trader and single mother from the low-income suburb of Glen Norah in the Zimbabwean capital Harare, uses sewage-infested river water to irrigate her two-acre vegetable plot. “I am not proud to say this, but I consider the sewage that is offl ...
  • Eole Uses Wind Power to Make Water From Desert Air
    “A  revolutionary way to condense water from the desert air, powered by – and housed within – a wind turbine has been tested in the UAE  since October of 2011, by French innovation startup Eole Water. The ground-mounted version has proven that it can condense up to 800 litres a day from ai ...

D. Kucinich

  • Kucinich: Symptoms of a War that Must End
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following video discussing the current status of the war in Afghanistan. Click the image to see the video. The full text follows: “You can bomb the world pieces, but you can’t bomb ...
  • Kucinich Discusses H.R. 9: How are we going to ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following video after the House passed H.R. 9, The Small Business Tax Cut. Click the image to see the video. The full text follows: Today, Congress considered a fundamental question ...
  • Kucinich Opposes Giveaway to Oil Companies, Ca ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement after voting against H.R. 4348, the Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2012. “The transportation infrastructure needs of our nation are urgent and unprecedentedly large.  Addressing those needs must be at the ce ...
  • Congressman Kucinich on the Passing of America ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement upon the passing of Dick Clark. Mr. Clark was 82. “For generations Dick Clark helped bring to Americans the music of our lives. In many ways he helped create the soundtrack of America.  He brought forward some of the ...
  • Kucinich Applauds Decision to Keep Area Roman ...
    Cleveland, Ohio (April 18, 2012) – Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today welcomed the decision by Roman Catholic officials to keep open 12 churches in the Cleveland area: “I am pleased and relieved that the 12 Roman Catholic churches which were subject to the appeal to the Vatican on their p ...

Authentically Wired

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  • BILL GATE$ – - VACCINE – - EUGENET ...
    - – BILL GATE$ – - VACCINE – - EUGENETIC$ – -   . There’s a wave of paralysis sweeping across India today, and its cause might surprise you: It’s the polio vaccines! Yep, the vaccines are, themselves, the source of the disease. Read more: http://www.natur ...
  • APS buy$ … we pay
          … APS buy$ … we pay…   … APS corporate parent gets to increase their bottom line while their friends on the Arizona Corporate Commi$$ion decrease your bottom line …     Filed under: Blogroll
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        … What don’t you get … for-profit-water-corporation$ are by design amoral they don’t give a damn where their $$$ come$ from and if it hurts you or me in the process that’s too damn bad…   Shocking Conflict of Interest: Private Water Companies Partner With Fracking Lobby ...
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        … Gotta love it …   Corporate makes the call and their puppet Congre$$men respond handsomely…   … Who did you say serves and protects us …?   Filed under: Blogroll

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • For Earth Day, 17 celebrated scientists on how ...
    Seventeen top scientists and four acclaimed conservation organizations have called for radical action to create a better world for this and future generations. Compiled by 21 past winners of the prestigious Blue Planet Prize, a new paper recommends solutions for some of the world's most pressing ...
  • 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.
  • Model airplane used to monitor rainforests - c ...
    Conservationists have converted a remote-controlled plane into a potent tool for conservation. Using seed funding from the National Geographic Society, The Orangutan Conservancy, and the Denver Zoo, Lian Pin Koh, an ecologist at the ETH Zürich, and Serge Wich, a biologist at the University ...
  • Brazil can eliminate deforestation by 2020, sa ...
    Brazil can reduce Amazon deforestation to zero by 2020 while boosting rural livelihoods and maintaining healthy economic growth, the governor of Pará told mongabay.com on the sidelines of the Skoll World Forum, a major conference on social entrepreneurship, last week. Governor Simao Jatene ...
  • Beyond Bigfoot: the science of cryptozoology
    Anyone who doubts cryptozoology, which in Greek means the "study of hidden animals," should remember the many lessons of the past 110 years: the mountain gorilla (discovered in 1902), the colossal squid (discovered in 1925, but a full specimen not caught until 1981), and the saola (discovered in ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Russian scientists quest to find elusive white ...
    A team of Russian scientists say they will embark on a quest next week to observe the only all-white, adult killer whale ever spotted - a majestic and elusive bull they have named Iceberg.The researchers from the universities of...
  • Universe from 'nothing' rattles faith
    The idea has shifted from a philosophical concept to a fragile piece of real estate, says cosmologist. Ultimately, we must understand the universe and use science and reality as policy guides or "we're screwed", says cosmologist...
  • Body donors more likely to be blue-collar workers
    People who choose to donate their bodies to science are more likely to be blue collar workers than people in professional or managerial occupations, a study suggests.The University of Otago study surveyed more than 200 people registered...
  • When one head is better than two
    According to the old saying, two heads are better than one but in many cases, you are better off thinking for yourself, say researchers.Scientists found that group decision- making is more likely to yield the correct answer to a...
  • DNA project reveals actor related to Napoleon
    It is one of the most improbable family connections. One is an actor famed as a languid Lothario. The other was one of the world's most brutal but brilliant military leaders. Nevertheless geneticists say their analysis shows Tom Conti...

The Bovine

  • Is milk the carrier of Crohns disease?
    We hear constant chatter from the regulatory types about the dangers of raw milk and the health hazards of consuming it. But they seem to be strangely uninterested in examining the health risks of consuming conventionally produced and processed milk … Continue reading →
  • NPR on raw milk: between personal experience a ...
    Below we have an excerpt from a piece written recently by National Public Radio’s ombudsman, in response to listener feedback. Listeners wondered why reporters and commentators on a publicly funded radio network would express opinions that cast doubt the wisdom … Continue reading →
  • Practical Farmers of Ontario now have 200 memb ...
    Learn more on the Practical Farmers of Ontario website.
  • Among the leading causes of despair…
    John Kenneth Galbraith in a BBC documentary a few decades ago quoted a British statement as saying “Governing men is grand work, the noblest of occupations, though perhaps the most difficult…”. Already back in the last century independent commentators had … Continue readi ...
  • The party that supports raw milk poised to win ...
    A few days ago we ran a story which included an email statement from the Chief Policy Correspondent of Alberta’s Wildrose Alliance party stating that “…We support the right of our dairy producers to sell their product wherever demand exists … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Hollande Wins Round One But Euroskeptic Le Pen ...
    As expected Francois Hollande and incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy will square off on May 6 in round two of the French presidential elections. However, there was a huge surprise in spot number 3 as extreme right wing candidate Marine Le Pen pulled in 18% of the vote running on a dump-the-euro plat ...
  • European Splintering Escalates: Dutch Governme ...
    The Netherlands government has officially collapsed in a dispute over austerity measures. Elections likely in September. Meanwhile, the Czech government is also on the verge of collapse, for the same reason: austerity measures. The Financial Times reports Dutch government falls over budget ...
  • Point of No Return: "Australia is Screwed"
    Point of No Return My friend "Brisbane Bear" from down under says ... Hey Mish, I think we are well past the point of no return. Woolworth's, one of our biggest retailer/supermarket companies, just had their worst quarter in 13 years. Woolworth's is about as bullet proof a compa ...
  • EIB Inserts Drachma Clauses in Loans to Greek ...
    I keep pleading for someone, anyone to put Greece out of its misery. Greek voters have a chance on May 6th to do just that. Please consider Greek ruling parties to get wafer-thin majority The two main parties in Greece's ruling coalition would together get just a one-seat majority in par ...
  • Dutch Government on Verge of Collapse After An ...
    The Netherlands has been one of the staunchest proponents of forced austerity on Greece. However, now that Brussels has demanded the Netherlands hit its fiscal targets, Dutch politicians can't get the task done and the government is poised to collapse. New elections are coming up. The Washi ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • “The Book the Government Doesn’t Want You to R ...
    Update: Classified Woman website is now up & running. You can visit the site here: http://classifiedwoman.com A Surreal Journey into the Heart of the Beast Called the Police State In this startling new memoir, Sibel Edmonds—the most classified woman in U.S. history—takes us on a surreal jou ...
  • Patriots – Convenient & Otherwise
    Can Boiling Frogs Become Patriots? In September 2005, David Rose wrote an article in Vanity Fair about Sibel Edmonds, the founder of this website.  The article was titled “An Inconvenient Patriot.” Well, let’s step back for a minute.  What is a “patriot?”  How does “patriotism” help illuminate t ...
  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Fleetwood Mac Fleetwood Mac was one of the most celebrated bands of all time. Stevie Nicks’ voice, choice of music and persona took the band to unheard of levels. Nicks is still out there singing and performing with various younger artists. This performance, back in 1976, of Rhiannon is pr ...
  • Jamiol Presents
  • Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
    The Road to Revolution What is a Revolution? Is it desirable? How do we get there? Far from the idea of usurping power – whether violently or peacefully – or promoting a single politician to a position of power with the hope of “revolutionizing” society, a true revolution ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

  • TORM Shareholders Left With Pennies, Banks Gai ...
    COPENHAGEN (Dow Jones)–Financially strapped Danish shipping company Torm A/S (TORM.KO) said Monday a planned liquidity injection would result in its bank group holding 92.5% of the company’s shares and voting rights. It [...]
  • Nexen’s Buzzard Platform: Damage Unknown to La ...
    LONDON (Dow Jones)–U.K. offshore safety inspectors are investigating reports of a fire on Nexen Inc.’s (NXY) Buzzard North Sea platform over the weekend, a spokesman for the Health and Safety Executive [...]
  • Maritime Monday for April 23, 2012: Dunkirk Jack
    A naval officer overlooks Ramsgate harbour as about 50 original Operation Dynamo boats prepare to depart A fleet of Little Ships that rescued Allied troops from Dunkirk in 1940 has [...]
  • Wallenius Wilhelmsen on Track for 30% Reductio ...
    Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL), the global shipping and logistics company, announced today that it is on track to reduce its relative greenhouse gas emissions with 30% by 2015, compared to [...]
  • Princess Cruises: Captain Was Never Notified o ...
    The Princess Cruise’s captain being accused of turning his back on fellow mariners in distress says that neither him nor the officer on watch were ever notified of the distressed [...]

Press TV

  • Dutch PM resigns over austerity
    Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has handed his government’s resignation to Queen Beatrix after talks on an austerity package for the country failed.
  • Thinking about death improves health
    Despite what many people believe, thinking about death may not be bad for people and can even improve their health and help them re-prioritize their goals and values.
  • ‘Illegal P5+1 demands caused deadlock'
    A senior Iranian lawmaker says insisting on unfounded and illegal demands by the P5+1 - the US, France, Britain, China, and Russia plus Germany - has been the main cause of the deadlock in Iran's multifaceted negotiations with the group.
  • Sudan rejects talks with S Sudan
    Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has strongly rejected negotiations with South Sudan after a deadly battle over Khartoum’s oil-rich Heglig region.
  • 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.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

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

Nick Turse

  • Afghan Young Women for Change (YWC) activists, ...
    Afghan Young Women for Change (YWC) activists, holding placards which read ‘where is justice?’, take part in a protest denouncing violence against women in Afghanistan in Kabul on April 14, 2012. Some 30 Afghan women took to the streets of the capital Kabul against the killing of five Afghan wo ...
  • Afghan Young Women for Change (YWC) activists, ...
    Afghan Young Women for Change (YWC) activists, holding placards which read ‘where is justice?’, take part in a protest denouncing violence against women in Afghanistan in Kabul on April 14, 2012. Some 30 Afghan women took to the streets of the capital Kabul against the killing of five Afghan wo ...
  • Palestinian demonstrators hold posters of Hana ...
    Palestinian demonstrators hold posters of Hana Shalabi, a female Palestinian prisoner jailed in Israel who has been on hunger strike for 37 days during a protest in solidarity with prisoners jailed in Israel, outside the Ofer military prison, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, Thursday, March ...
  • Afghan Young Women for Change (YWC) activists, ...
    Afghan Young Women for Change (YWC) activists, holding placards which read ‘where is justice?’, take part in a protest denouncing violence against women in Afghanistan in Kabul on April 14, 2012. Some 30 Afghan women took to the streets of the capital Kabul against the killing of five Afghan wo ...
  • shortformblog:Malawi: Joyce Banda becomes Af ...
    shortformblog: Malawi: Joyce Banda becomes African continent’s third-ever female head of state A new female leader in Africa: Joyce Banda, the vice president of Malawi, was sworn in as president Saturday, two days after the death of the country’s longtime leader, Bingu wa Mutharika.  ”I call u ...
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