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Wednesday, April 25, 2012

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WASHINGTON, D.C. - DECEMBER 04: Sir Paul McCa...WASHINGTON, D.C. - DECEMBER 04: Sir Paul McCartney, one of the 2010 Kennedy Center honorees, shares some thoughts with United States Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton as they prepare to pose for their formal class photo following the formal Artist's Dinner at the United States Department of State in Washington, D.C. on December 4, 2010. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
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  • Tipping point for the West has just passed
    .. the era in which the economies of Europe and its colonial offshoots, including the US and Australia, dominated the world ended 20 days ago. We can now see it for what it was - a historical aberration that lasted about 1½ centuries. "The Chinese look at this and they say, 'We just had a cou ...
  • UK: A long reign, and a lost republic
    The celebration of Queen Elizabeth’s sixty years on the throne coincides with the best of recent times for the British monarchy. The moment will pass, but this offers little comfort to the institution’s paralysed opponents.
  • US: The long debt emergency has arrived
    The US will be running deficits for as far as the indebted eye can see. This isn’t a new or novel trend but the magnitude certainly is. Since we stepped on the deficits do not matter accelerator in the 1980s the US dollar has been losing its purchasing power year after year. This might not be ...
  • “Friends of Syria” prepare for war
    The so-called “Friends of Syria,” consisting of the major imperialist powers, their NATO allies, and the Gulf monarchies, met Thursday evening in Paris to step up their war preparations against Syria. At the meeting, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declared, “I think we have to do more to ...
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    THOUSANDS Of Bahrain Protesters Marching Against Government

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  • Anders Breivik: Calling me insane is evil
    Mass killer Anders Breivik has dismissed a psychiatric report that declared him insane as based on "evil fabrications" meant to portray him as irrational and unintelligent.Related StoriesGuard saw Anders Breivik's bomb explode, court hearsFormer Ukrainian PM Tymoshenko refuses food over jail at ...
  • Nato accused of misleading reports on Afghanis ...
    Nato has been accused of misleading the public over success in Afghanistan by saying operations involving only its troops are led by local forces. Related StoriesNorth Korea threatens to reduce South's government 'to ashes'Chinese claims 'could be risk to navigation'North Korea escalates rhetori ...
  • Syria situation 'bleak' says Kofi Annan
    International envoy Kofi Annan has told the United Nations Security Council that the situation in Syria is "bleak" and expressed alarm at reports that government troops are still carrying out military operations in towns where UN observers are not present. Related StoriesDozens killed in Hama ju ...
  • Pakistan tests missile days after India's launch
    Pakistan successfully launched an upgraded ballistic missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead today, days after its neighbour and arch enemy India conducted its own missile test, the Pakistani military said. Related StoriesNorth Korea threatens to reduce South's government 'to ashes'Chinese ...
  • New case of mad cow disease in California
    The first new case of mad cow disease in the US since 2006 has been discovered in a dairy cow in California, but health authorities said the animal never posed a threat to the nation's food supply. Related StoriesSusan Sarandon mysteriously cut from White House guest listRomney within reach of v ...

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Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Shocking figures on the sexual assault against ...
    1.3 women are raped in every minute, 2.8 million men are raped once in their lifetime, 422 thousand men are raped in prisons... These are just a few examples of a culture that the American government has caused by its cultural policies. While the governments who oppose the U.S. government are c ...
  • Anti-depressants 'May Do More Harm Than Good'
    Common anti-depressants could be doing patients more harm than good, according to researchers examined the impact of the medications on the whole body. A team from McMaster University examined previous patient studies into the effects of anti-depressants and determined that the benefits of most ...
  • Heart Attack Burger Inexplicably Makes People Sick
    Sometimes, the names of things are self-explanatory. Snakes on a Plane is a movie about snakes on a plane; theKFC Double Down is kind of gross, etc. In these cases, titles serve as a warning of what's to come and it is the consumer's responsibility to heed these warnings. To return to Snakes on ...
  • New sex scandal hits US military, foreign serv ...
    The United States military and foreign service are embroiled in yet another sex scandal as fresh revelations surface concerning the misconduct of a number of US military service members and an embassy staffer in Brazil. The incident took in the capital Brasilia late last year, when three Marine ...
  • Children Age Faster When Exposed To Violence A ...
    Researchers have found that violence in the lives of children can cause changes in their DNA equivalent to seven to 10 years of premature aging. Scientists measured this cellular aging by studying the ends of children's chromosomes, called telomeres. Telomeres are DNA sequences that act like t ...

The Galloping Beaver

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  • It was a typo!
    #F35 #Cdnpoli -  Elmer's little boy is at it again. Peter MacKay has quietly sneaked in an erratum to the Department of National Defence Plans and Priorities report delivered to Parliament a few months ago.(Emphasis mine) In an “erratum” note, it says the 2011-12 report wrongly describe ...
  • Not good enough
    Until caught, Bev Oda was happy to indulge in excesses at the taxpayers' expense. But now that she's been caught ... “The expenses are unacceptable, should never have been charged to taxpayers, I have repaid the costs associated with changing hotels and I unreservedly apologize,” Ms. Oda ...
  • Political minders
    #jackbootshit Not in my country. Hey government scientists, why not get together and hold a press conference to introduce your research and your political minders to the world? Let them be photographed and invite the international media to interview the 'media relations contacts' and get the ...
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    #cdnpoli #vikileaks30  Go visit Kady's play by play account of #vikileaks30 tweeter Adam Carroll deftly dispatching his committee interrogators. Oh, and Dean del Mastro, maybe you should ring up Senator Brazeau so he can explain to you the complex difference between winning and losing ...

Media Matters for America

  • Bill O'Reilly Omits Fox News In Criticizing "N ...
    Declaring that he "has had enough" of "national news programs" that mislead American voters, Fox News host Bill O'Reilly said he will now aim to tell viewers "every time I see craziness in the national media during the campaign." However, the examples of "craziness" O'Reilly cited, including th ...
  • Silly: Quote From Anonymous State Dept. Offici ...
    Right-wing media have seized on a National Journal report quoting an anonymous State Department official saying that "the war on terror is over" to claim that President Obama has "surrendered." In fact, both Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have repeatedly emphasized their commitmen ...
  • UPDATED: Who Is Lila Rose?
    According to the Huffington Post, Planned Parenthood clinics are being targeted in a newly organized sting operation and the "most likely group behind the campaign, Planned Parenthood suspects, is anti-abortion activist group Live Action," which is headed by Lila Rose. In advance of the suspect ...
  • Appearing For The Defense Of Arizona's Controv ...
    This Wednesday the U.S. Supreme Court will decide if portions of Arizona's controversial immigration enforcement law, Senate Bill 1070, are inconsistent with federal law and therefore must be struck down. Fox has taken this opportunity to push misleading talking points about Arizona's immigrati ...
  • Breitbart.com, Fox Nation Put Words In Van Jon ...
    Breitbart.com is misrepresenting statements by Van Jones about the public health benefits of environment regulation. Breitbart wrote that Jones "claimed the right is waging an open campaign and willing to kill children to weaken the EPA to create a new job," which is not at all what Jones said ...

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TPM Cafe

  • Message to world government: Don't govern the ...
    You could think of the Aspen IDEA report published today as a letter to the head of the International Telecommunications Union, Hamadoun Touré, suggesting that he should reconsider his intent to put the "light touch" of government on the Internet's operations. M. Touré will be running a majo ...
  • Obama and Romney on Foreign Policy - Drawing t ...
    The political battle lines are being drawn for the general election debate over foreign policy and national security, and you can't do much better than my fellow Democracy Arsenal blogger Michael Cohen for a guide. One key theme of Michael's latest column for ForeignPolicy.com is what a differen ...
  • Will Yale's Alumni Save Liberal Education?
    Hoping to head off alumni resistance to the brand-new "Yale-National University of Singapore" college that the Yale Corporation has created somewhat stealthily in collaboration with the government of that authoritarian city-state, Association of Yale Alumni chairman Michael Madison has inadvert ...
  • Neocons Celebrate: We Got MJ Rosenberg, We'll ...
    The right-wing "pro-Israel" lobby has taken off its mask. In the wake of my departure from Media Matters, it is in a celebratory mood. In one article and column after another, the Israel-is-always-right types cannot contain their feeling of triumph. There are dozens of these articles. Here i ...
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  • The answer my friend is blowin’ in the wind . . .
    The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the state grid operator and manager of the wholesale electric market, hit a new wind record of 7,599 MW on Wednesday, exceeding the previous record set the previous day by almost 200 megawatts (MW). At the time of Wednesday’s record, wind was su ...
  • Your Land is My Land … A David and Goliath Sto ...
    According to the Fort Worth Weekly, the Keystone pipeline company wants to run roughshod over Texas landowners – and maybe Texas law. When someone from the Canandian company, TransCanada, asked the Crawford family in 2008 about an easement to lay pipeline across their farm on the Texas bank of t ...
  • Harold Simmons, WCS and the every expanding at ...
    Harold Simmons built a West Texas dump for radioactive waste that is bigger than 1,000 football fields, paid out hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions and got a permit for it in Texas, and is now working to fill it. To turn it into a profitable enterprise, the Texas billiona ...
  • A new scientific study for climate change deni ...
    MSNBC reports that a scientific paper published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature on Wednesday concluded that during the end of the last Ice Age (12,000 years ago), global temperatures rose after carbon dioxide levels started to rise.  This provides even more scientific evidence that there is ...
  • New Report on the Role of Job Impact Analysis ...
    The New York University School of Law’s Institute for Policy Integrity has released a new report – The Regulatory Red Herring: The Role of Job Impact Analysis in Environmental Policy Debates. The study finds that claims of jobs that stand to be gained or lost due to environmental regulations req ...

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  • Thousands of Honduran workers occupy land
    alegria-small_pic.jpg By the Via CampesinaThousands of Honduran farm workers have launched a co-ordinated land occupation, squatting on some 12,000 hectares nationwide and fuelling new tensions over land rights, authorities said.read more
  • Small-Scale Fishing Industry Washed Ashore in Gaza
    gaza_fishers.jpg The tiny motorboat’s engine coughs a couple of miles offshore and whirls to a stop. Gazing out over the aquamarine Mediterranean waters, I feel high from the fumes of cheap Egyptian diesel and the smell of sea salt. “Let’s ...
  • Voices from International Women’s Day
    haiti-womens-march.jpg Waiting for my visa interview on a dusty embroidered couch at the Afghan Embassy in Cairo, minutes turned into hours. I had recently decided to spend International Women’s Day in the countryside outside of Kabul, to l ...
  • A Darker Shade of Green Documents Critical Per ...
    Subheadline:  Video reveals global resistance to forest-carbon projects Our friends at Global Forest Coalition and Global Justice Ecology Project have produced a new video entitled A Darker Shade of Green: REDD Alert and the ...
  • Brazil’s water and energy mega-grab
    2012_02_banner-14marco12.jpg “Anytime a new wall is built, hundreds of acres of forest and fertile land for food production is flooded. Anytime a new wall is built, a river dies. The death of the rivers is the end of our livelihood” -  ...

Climate

  • Solar Panels Cause Clashes With Homeowner Groups
    (AP) Homeowners associations around the country have banned or severely restricted the installation of solar panels, and the solar industry has pushed back to halt the practice.
  • Small Solar Rising Again, Few Big Plants on Ho ...
    (SustainableBusiness) As federal solar subsidies in Europe and the U.S. contract, lenders grow wary of risks, panel prices fall further, and utilities become less interested because of low natural gas prices, small solar projects betwe ...
  • Brazil Congress Set to Vote on Divisive Forest Law
    (AP) Activists are warning that a proposed revamping of Brazil's tough environmental law could roll back recent historic gains in the fight against Amazon deforestation by opening parts of the rainforest to farming and increasing impun ...
  • Thousands of Tons Spilled at Oil Field in Russia
    (AP) Up to 2,000 tons of oil have spilled from a major field in northern Russia after workers struggled to contain the leak for two days, officials said.
  • Kalamazoo River Oil Spill Trial May End in Set ...
    (Kalamazoo Gazette) The Kalamazoo River oil spill whistleblower lawsuit may end soon with a settlement between SET Environmental Inc. and it's former employee John Bolenbaugh.

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Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • But How Would He Transform Us?
    When I saw that Ezra Klein had written a piece about how Mitt Romney would be a transformational president, I got kind of excited. I was thinking that Ezra had gamed out the likely avenue of New Deal destruction that would immediately commence with Romney's inauguration. But I was disappointed ...
  • Wanker of the Day: Jimmy Carter
    Jimmy Carter isn't helping: "I'd rather have a Democrat but I would be comfortable -- I think Romney has shown in the past, in his previous years as a moderate or progressive... that he was fairly competent as a governor and also running the Olympics as you know. He's a good solid family man ...
  • What Happened to Campaign Finance Reform?
    Do a Google News search for "John McCain" and "campaign finance reform" and you won't find much. John McCain doesn't talk about campaign finance reform anymore. After the Supreme Court issued their ruling in the Citizens United case, Sen. McCain declared campaign finance reform to be dead. ...
  • Racist "Neighbors" arrested in Kalonji Case
    You may remember this story about Jean Kalonji and his wife Angelica, the purchaser of a new home in Newton County GA. While changing the locks on their new home, they were threatened and held at gunpoint by two of their white neighbors. When the local sheriff deputies arrived they arrested t ...
  • Appalled
    So, I just voted in the PA primary today… For the first time ever, I was asked for photo ID to vote. When I responded that asking for that was just wrong, the suburban white lady looking up my name in the voter rolls actually defended it: "It will keep the terrorists from voting, and we'll g ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • Exploring Neverland: A Night Inside Michael Ja ...
    Most people are familiar with Michael Jackson's famous Neverland ranch, but few are likely to have seen it as here, in its abandoned state under a full moon... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • How New Farming Technologies Address Urban Foo ...
    New technology will bring local produce and imported prepared foods to neighborhood groceries. Progress is being made quickly, but governments are slow to catch up. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Macabre Tradition of Burning Human Bodies ...
    The burning ghats in Varanasi have long been the holiest site of Hindu cremations – where bodies are burnt 24 hours a day, in full view of mourners and sightseers alike. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Bizarre and Beautiful Crabs
    The amazing diversity of crabs occupying the world's waters makes for unique sizes, shapes and colors. Take a look at ten oddly beautiful decapods from around the world! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Sublime Beauty of Patagonia's Perito Moren ...
    Not only is Perito Moreno spectacularly beautiful and the third largest reserve of freshwater in the world; unlike most other glaciers it is also growing... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

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Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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

Daily Censored

  • May Day and the World Working Class in 2012
    By John Reimann  “Competition in a global economy is… not an option…. Rich people can always take their wealth elsewhere.” That was how one columnist in the Wall St. Journal (Bret Stephens, WSJ, 4/24/12) denounced the French voters for in effect rejecting the austerity measures of Sarkozy in the ...
  • JUVENILE OFFENDERS: THE CASE FOR COMPASSION
    By Elaine Leede Recently, I have seen a lot written on whether juveniles convicted of violent crimes should be given life sentences without parole. At this moment, the U.S. Supreme Court is considering the question of whether such a sentence is cruel and unusual punishment, forbidden by the Cons ...
  • Monetary, credit reform realizes Venus Project ...
    with video here. Credit and monetary reform is a transition phase between the rigged-casino economy of today and The Venus Project’s resource-based economy. The present and future of the US economy can be understood in three steps: A critical mass of the 99% recognize the credit and monetary sys ...
  • Shakespeare: America ‘cannot be call’d our mot ...
    In Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Macbeth, the murdered king’s son, Malcolm, questions Macduff to determine if he is allied with the tyrannical Macbeth (Act 4, Scene 3), or will stand with him for justice under law. That is the same question for Americans today: tyranny or justice. Americans have ...
  • EU Parliament to send passenger data to US
    Until now, passengers flying to the United States had to fill out the Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA) form as a paperless replacement to the I-94 form to be checked against the US watch list and pay a fee in order to enter the United States. This form has basic information on i ...

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  • Analysis: Nepotism, ethnic favoritism impede A ...
    Hundreds of Taliban insurgents were involved in the unprecedented attacks that shook the Afghan capital Kabul and several other key locations around the country last week. And yet not a single Afghan or foreign intelligence operative appeared to have the slightest idea the attacks were coming. W ...
  • News you may have missed #718 (GCHQ edition)
    GCHQ releases Alan Turing papers. Britain's GCHQ sued for 'racism'. Ex-GCHQ chief wants more surveillance of Facebook and Twitter.
  • MI6 set up fake mosque in Europe to attract Mu ...
    British and Libyan intelligence collaborated during the reign of Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi, in setting up a radical mosque in a European city aimed at luring Muslim extremists.
  • News you may have missed #717
    CIA wants more drone strikes in Yemen. US military intelligence critic to lead spy agency. Taiwanese man detained for spying for China.
  • UK Foreign Secretary asked if murdered busines ...
    Britain’s Foreign Secretary has been officially asked by a parliamentary committee whether Neil Heywood, the British businessman who was found murdered in China last November, was spying for British intelligence.

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Grist - News

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

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  • Alcoholism Can Now Be Treated with Prescriptio ...
    French health authorities have approved the use of a drug, originally designed to treat nervous spasms, for the treatment of alcoholism on a 'case by case' basis.
  • Biology Degrees and PhDs: Actors Who Are Smart ...
    By Allen Tellis Acting is about being someone you’re not and being believable. Most of what we know about actors in their real lives is the scandal: who they just broke up with, who they’re cheating on their spouse with, what kind of drugs they take, what they did on their latest drunken binge,…
  • Technicolor visions of the future
    Cartoon strips that emerged after the launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik give a vivid insight into the beginnings of our technological age.
  • NASA releases photo of meteor blazing across N ...
    Scientists have a size estimate for an impressive fireball that was witnessed over California’s Central Valley Sunday (4/22).
  • Cassini Saturn Probe: New Insights into Titan' ...
    Saturn's giant moon Titan hides behind a thick, smoggy atmosphere that's well known to scientists as one of the most complex chemical environments in the solar system --a productive "factory" cranking out hydrocarbons that rain down on Titan's icy surface and cloak it in soot. With a brutally co ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • One Person’s Heaven is another Person&#8 ...
    By Les Visible One thing I can talk about, is the crazy payback shit that has been going on recently and those of you who follow these sites will remember what I had to say some time ago,when I mentioned a conversation with my invisible friends, where I was told that someone was going to [...]
  • Two Israelis admit thousands of drug shipments ...
    By Robert Patrick Two Israeli citizens pleaded guilty Monday and were sentenced for sending more than 9,000 shipments of unapproved prescription drugs worth more than $1.4 million to the U.S., the U.S. Attorney’s office said Tuesday morning. Benny Carmi, 58, was sentenced Monday afternoon ...
  • Pepsi Next May Be WORSE than High Fructose Cor ...
    By Dr. Mercola When a new beverage comes out advertising “60% less sugar—drink it to believe it”—the challenge is on. Same taste; fewer calories to your waist? Sounds good, doesn’t it? But before you throw that Pepsi Next into your grocery cart, Fooducate.comi suggests you comp ...
  • The US Has Finally Done It: Mexican Immigrants ...
    By Tyler Durden You know its bad when…the net flow of Mexicans into the US has fallen so much that there is a high probability that it is now in reverse ending around forty years of inward migration. The Pew Hispanic Center notes that the standstill – after more than 12 million curre ...
  • SOMETHING IS ROTTEN IN THE STATE OF ISRAEL
    I was born in the United States, I left there 45 years ago. I never lost my American citizenship. I immigrated to Canada, became a citizen there but left 28 years ago. I never lost my Canadian citizenship. I have lived in Israel since leaving Canada giving me 3 citizenships… * BUT * A man [...]

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    In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
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Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • Case of Mad Cow Disease Confirmed in California
    A California dairy cow recently tested positive for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), more commonly known as mad cow disease. While the news has resurrected fears about the illness, the United States Department of Agriculture has been quick to highlight that the cow, located in California& ...
  • Designers Create Luxury Furnishings from Recyc ...
    Read the rest of Designers Create Luxury Furnishings from Recycled Waste for Italy’s Torre Coccaro 5-Star Hotel Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: eco-art, green materials, luxury eco furnishings, Milan Design, Milan Design Week, milan design week 2012, Milan Furnit ...
  • From Yuhang Unveils Bamboo Paper Gú Chair at M ...
    From Yuhang is a design collective based in China that applies local paper making techniques to furniture design. During this year’s Milan Design Week they unveiled their Gú Chair, which is molded from bamboo paper pulp. Made entirely from renewable fast-growing materials, the furnishing r ...
  • Coda and China’s Great Wall Motors Announce Pl ...
    Coda Automotive and China’s Great Wall Motors have announced plans to co-develop an affordable electric vehicle that will be the first all-electric vehicle for worldwide distribution. The electric vehicle is intended to be the most affordable EV on the market, and will be designed for mark ...
  • GM Lamb Cloned to Produce ‘Healthy’ Omega Fats ...
    The meat industry has long been hailed as one of the most significant factors driving global warming — and this is in addition to being damaging to your health. However, Chinese scientists are looking to change all that, and they have cloned a genetically modified lamb that instead of prod ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Strange Objects Punching Holes Through Saturn’ ...
    NASA's Cassini spacecraft has revealed mysterious kilometer-sized objects that punch through Saturn's chaotic and ever-changing F ring, leaving trails of ice behind them.
  • Thinking in a Foreign Language Makes Decisions ...
    To judge a risk more clearly, it may help to consider it in a foreign language: A series of experiments on more than 300 people from the U.S. and Korea found that thinking in a second language reduced deep-seated, misleading biases that unduly influence how risks and benefits are perceived.
  • ‘Pay What You Want’ Works by Making People Fee ...
    Letting customers decide how much to pay for a product seems like a surefire way to go out of business, although bands like Radiohead have used the strategy with limited success. So does it really work?
  • Tech Billionaires Plan Audacious Mission to Mi ...
    A group of wealthy, adventurous entrepreneurs will announce on Apr. 24 a new venture called Planetary Resources, Inc., which plans to send swarms of robots to space to scout asteroids for precious metals and set up mines to bring resources back to Earth, in the process adding trillions of dollar ...
  • Jet Stream Damages Country’s Highest Astronomi ...
    Sometime after October, violent winds over Colorado’s Front Range blew the 15-year-old Myer-Womble Observatory’s dome to pieces.

PakAlert

  • US minesweepers carry out exercises in Persian ...
    US warships are carrying out minesweeping exercises and operations across the Persian Gulf, Press TV reports. The US military recently deployed four new minesweepers in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, adding to at least 80 US warships currently based in the region, a Press TV corresponden ...
  • Obama administration announces ‘War on Terror’ ...
    In an astonishing bit of unexpected news, a senior State Department official has announced, "The war on terror is over." This stems from the idea, reports the National Journal, that, "it is no longer the case, in other words, that every Islamist is seen as a potential accessory to terrorists." ...
  • Is there a drone in your neighbourhood? Rise o ...
    Unmanned spy planes are being launched from locations in 20 states and owners include the military and universities There are at least 63 active drone sites around the U.S, federal authorities have been forced to reveal following a landmark Freedom of Information lawsuit.
  • Antineoplastons: A Cure for Cancer Ignored For ...
    Could a cure for advanced, chemotherapy and radiation resistant cancer have already been discovered as far back as 1967? Could this curative substance have been so close to us for all this time, as to be part of our own blood and a constituent of our own urine?
  • Pentagon sets up new spy agency to eavesdrop o ...
    The Pentagon is to create a new spy service to focus on global strategic threats and the challenges posed by countries including Iran, North Korea and China. The move will bring to 17 the total number of intelligence organisations in the US.

Andy Worthington

  • Guantánamo: The Definitive Prisoner List Updat ...
    Please support my work! See Part One, Part Two, Part Three and Part Four of Andy Worthington’s Definitive Guantánamo Prisoner List. Exactly a year ago,  I worked with WikiLeaks as a media partner on the release of “The Guantánamo Files,” classified military files relating to al ...
  • Return Shaker Aamer from Guantánamo to the UK: ...
    Please sign the new e-petition here, and then ask all your friends and family members to sign (UK citizens and residents only). The original e-petition to the British government calling for the return of Shaker Aamer to the UK from Guantánamo, which was launched on February 14, has now been repl ...
  • Babar Ahmad and Talha Ahsan: Why It’s Ti ...
    Critics of the European Court of Human Rights, which, in February, refused to allow the UK to deport the Muslim cleric Abu Qatada to Jordan, were delighted when, on April 10, the court turned down an appeal by five other men who were seeking to prevent their extradition to the US, on the grounds ...
  • Guantánamo: Who Are The Two Uighurs Freed in E ...
    As published on the “Close Guantánamo” website. Please join us — just an email address required. With no fanfare — just an announcement on its website — the Pentagon informed the world on Thursday that two Uighur prisoners at Guantánamo, held for over ten years but recognized as inno ...
  • The Torture Trials at Guantánamo
    In the last few weeks, Guantánamo has been under the spotlight as, for the first time since President Obama took office, the military commission trial system — the government’s preferred method for trying terror suspects held in Guantánamo — has been readied for trying “h ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Suspect in Mobile, Ala., Beating Had Ongoing F ...
    Police arrested a suspect today in the racially charged beating of a white man who was left in critical condition after being attacked on his porch by what witnesses said was a group of about 20 African Americans, one of whom reportedly said, “Now that’s justice for Trayvon.” The suspect, Terry ...
  • Two Charged in New Cases of Alleged ‘Sovereign ...
    Buying a home can cause big headaches and quickly empty your wallet. Just ask an estimated 20 buyers in Atlanta who purchased vacant homes from two antigovernment “sovereign citizens” who are now accused of selling residences they didn’t own. Edgar Lee Rodgers and Diana Rowe were arrested last w ...
  • Two Charged in New Cases of Alleged ‘Sovereign ...
    Buying a home can cause big headaches and quickly empty your wallet. Just ask an estimated 20 buyers in Atlanta who purchased vacant homes from two antigovernment “sovereign citizens” who are now accused of selling residences they didn’t own. Edgar Lee Rodgers and Diana Rowe were arrested last w ...
  • Attacks May be Racially Motivated, Tied to Ang ...
    Police in Mobile, Ala.,  are investigating the beating of a white man who was in critical condition after being attacked by a group of African Americans. The victim, Matthew Owens had earlier argued with kids who were playing basketball in the street last Saturday night, police said. The kids le ...
  • Oklahoma Oath Keeper Convicted of Rape
    In the end, the antigovernment rhetoric that so energized his defense couldn’t save Charles Dyer, the former Marine and member of the antigovernment Oath Keepers organization accused of raping his own daughter. Late Thursday, after four hours of deliberation, a Duncan, Okla., jury convicted Dyer ...

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

  • Houston Set to Join Growing Bike Sharing Program
    Houston has announced this week that it is joining a growing number of cities across the nation by having a bike sharing program.(photo: roland) The Houston Chronicle reports that the new program will begin on May 2. read more
  • Why Does OSHA Move at a Glacial Pace? Democrat ...
    WASHINGTON — Republicans typically accuse Democats of not doing enough to streamline regulations. But at a hearing on Capitol Hill last week, Republican senators defended the Obama administration against criticism from labor leaders and workplace safety advocates who say the administration ...
  • GE Annual Meeting Interrupted by 99 Percent Pr ...
    Detroit Police officers hold the crowd back as protesters carry signs and chant 'GE: Pay Your Fair Share" outside the Renaissance Center where the General Electric Shareholders meeting was being held in Detroit, Michigan April 25, 2012. ...
  • 'Mad Cow' Finding Highlights Food Safety Gaps, ...
    The announcement on Tuesday that a California dairy cow had mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), highlights shortcomings of the country's food safety system, say critics.  read more
  • Arizona v. US: Supreme Court Hears 'Show Me Yo ...
    Today, the supreme court heard arguments on the controversial Arizona immigration law SB 1070 -- known as the 'show me your papers' law, which allows police to stop individuals on the street and demand proof of citizenship without probable cause or search warrants. ...

Lifehacker

  • Build Your Own EarthBox-Like Self-Watering Pla ...
    With two inexpensive plastic storage containers, you can make a versatile self-watering planter to grow your own vegetables in a small space. This video shows how to do it, using just a few tools. More »
  • The New Salary Happiness Tipping Point: $50000 ...
    We might not need as high a salary as previously thought for day-to-day happiness and life satisfaction, according to a new poll. The magic number used to be $75,000, but the tipping point for happiness appears to be 33% lower, at $50,000. ...
  • The Workspace in The Roof [Featured Workspace]
    Attic rooms with sloped ceilings can be awkward spaces, but this one is a cozy, special workspace, thanks to the owner's clever design choices. Sitting here might feel like you're working in a treehouse—a grown-up comfortable version of ...
  • Why You Should Care About and Defend Your Priv ...
    Privacy is dead, right? Facebook knows everything about you, and the world is still turning. Whether you don't mind companies or the government knowing all about your private life or still feel completely uneasy at the idea, we often gloss ov ...
  • Microsoft Security Essentials Updates with Bet ...
    Microsoft Security Essentials is our favorite antivirus software for Windows, and a new version is out that's even lighter and easier to use than ever. Here's what's changed. More »

Water Privatization

  • Asteroid Miners Unveil Plan To Tap Space Resources
    By 2020, low-cost spacecraft would be sent to extract water and precious metals from selected asteroid targets, said Peter Diamandis, one of the founders of Planetary Resources Inc. The water would be a commodity for propellant depots in low Earth orbit. There is a global market for precious metals.
  • Aquino now against selling hydropower plants, ...
    President Benigno Aquino has changed his mind about the planned privatization of the Agus and Pulangi hydroelectric power plants and now believes that doing so would be illegal, his adviser on Mindanao’s economic development said here on Monday.
  • Alton prepares for billing switchover
    ALTON - In coming months, the city will revert to sending out sewer and trash pickup bills as it did previously, as American Water Co. is dropping billing services for municipalities nationwide. Once Alton modifies software in its computerized system to bill for those services, Illinois American...
  • MCWD denies calling Osmeña ‘gatecrasher’
    THE Metropolitan Cebu Water District (MCWD) admitted Rep. Tomas Osmeña (Cebu City, south district) was not invited to the groundbreaking ceremony of a water project in the north. But the MCWD also said it never called Osmeña a “gatecrasher.” Osmeña, in turn, called the MCWD management corrupt.
  • Storm water problems concern candidates
    HUNTINGTON -- Huntington City Council's District 4 Republican primary features a seasoned politician in local government squaring off against a political newcomer who says her experiences of living in other places could be beneficial.

Guardian

  • Mitt Romney takes GOP control as Newt Gingrich ...
    All the reaction after Mitt Romney wins five primary states and Newt Gingrich effectively concedes the race. Follow developments live here12.40pm: Rubio is arguing forcefully for US intervention in Syria, a move he says would serve the regional goals of weakening Iran and strengthening Israel."T ...
  • Eurozone crisis live: UK sinks into double-dip ...
    UK drops into its first double-dip recession since the 1970s Ed Balls: Government credibility in tatters ECB's Draghi says economy is stabilising French presidential candidate Hollande won't ratify EU pact Today's agenda4.42pm: European markets have closed and despite continuing worries about t ...
  • Contraception study says 13-year-olds should g ...
    Report says pharmacists should be able to use their judgment, as alternative is youths will have sex without any protectionGirls as young as 13 should be able to walk into a high-street chemist and get the contraceptive pill if they want it, an evaluation of an NHS pilot scheme has concluded.The ...
  • Jeremy Hunt visited News Corp in US as Murdoch ...
    James Murdoch told David Cameron News Corp would support Tories soon after Hunt's US trip in 2009, documents revealJeremy Hunt spent five days in the US holding meetings with News Corp at the same point Rupert and James Murdoch were first deciding whether to bid for Sky, official documents revea ...
  • Age discrimination ruling allows employers to ...
    UK's most senior judges dismiss appeal by a man who claimed he was forced to retire at 65, but say employers must justify imposing mandatory retirement agesEmployers can continue to set the age at which their staff retire, but only if they can prove there is strong justification for doing so, fo ...

McClatchey

  • Israel’s new ties to Azerbaijan worry n ...
    The burgeoning relationship between Israel and Azerbaijan is raising eyebrows throughout the Middle East, not least of all because Azerbaijan is Iran?s neighbor to the north and shares close cultural…Click to Continue »
  • Arizona immigration law’s supporters, opp ...
    Los immigrantes, somos importantes! protesters chanted Wednesday outside the Supreme Court. Immigrants, we are important.Click to Continue »
  • Senate votes to extend Saturday postal service
    Saturday postal delivery could continue for at least two years. And the closing of post offices in smaller communities may not happen as quickly as advertised.Click to Continue »
  • EEOC revises rules on job seekers with crimina ...
    The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission voted Wednesday to revise its long-standing guidance to employers on how to properly evaluate job applicants criminal histories in pre-employment screening.Click to Continue »
  • Napolitano: Obama wasn’t endangered by Se ...
    President Barack Obamas safety in Colombia wasnt compromised because of a prostitution scandal that involved Secret Service and U.S. military personnel, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told a Senate committee…Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

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

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • The Chilling Effects Of Copyfraud: Blocking A ...
    I recently came across yet another story of copyfraud, but due to the nature of our litigious society and the way in which certain companies over-aggressively defend their rights, I need to prevent many of the details from being explained here, and have had to anonymize nearly everything. A fam ...
  • Now Is The Time To Improve CISPA Before Friday ...
    In Congress, this week is CISPA week. With the bill going up for debate tomorrow, and the final vote scheduled for Friday, it's clear that the voice of the internet community has had an impact. The reps have been proposing their final amendments, and all are clear attempts to address some of the ...
  • Jimmy Wales Says Irrelevance, Not Piracy, Will ...
    Jimmy Wales, who has become a bit of a thorn in the side of Hollywood of late, has given a speech in which he predicts that Hollywood is doomed, but not because of any threat from "piracy," but from the fact that technology and innovation means that the old infrastructure that filmmakers used to ...
  • Calm Down Internet: Google Drive's Terms Are T ...
    Remember when everyone freaked out about parts of Pinterest's terms of service? And how, slowly but surely, word got out that the same terms can be found on virtually every website and are mostly harmless? And then everyone learned a lesson and calmed down, and would approach future terms of ser ...
  • Breivik, The Press And The Ongoing Myth Of The ...
    Anders Breivik's trial for the murder of 77 Norwegians had barely commenced before Breivik gave the press something they could work with. During his opening statements, Breivik referred to two video games, World of Warcraft and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, both of which he referred to in his ...

VacTruth

  • Doctors Change Names of Diseases When Vaccines ...
    The truth is that more and more vaccinated children are becoming sick with the diseases they have been vaccinated against. Research is revealing that doctors are devising clever ways to cover this up.
  • Dr. Offit Revisited
    Dr. Offit clearly has a lot to gain from vaccines. Then we have the “false prophets” who also have something to gain. But what about the parents of children with autism? What do they have to gain by claiming that their kids developed autism after a vaccine?
  • 10,000 Crazy Vaccines!
    There was a storm of amazement and disbelief when this vaccine industry insider made the outrageous statement that each infant would have the theoretical capacity to respond to about 10,000 vaccines at any one time.
  • Child Paralyzed By Vaccinations And Stolen Fro ...
    Emma is a six year old little girl who is suffering from severe vaccine damage which has been verified by several leading experts. She has been taken from her mother.
  • We’ve Shown Them the Proof
    Science. They like that word. “Science has spoken when it comes to the theory that some childhood vaccines can cause autism."

BroadSnark

  • Shame Redistribution
    A little while ago, I was watching this video of Michelle Alexander. In it, she talks about how struck she was by the silence within the communities most affected by mass incarceration. House after house in these neighborhoods had family members in prison. But people weren’t talking about ...
  • Anti-Authoritarianism, Anti-Racism, and Avoidi ...
    In response to my Trayvon post, one of the commenters denied that police and prison guards killed black kids and brought up how many black people were killed by other black people. I responded to the comment, but I think there is a bit more to say. Within the black communities that are most affe ...
  • Occupy the DOJ
  • And…Not Either/Or
    Taibbi had an interesting post up a bit ago about the growing consensus about big banks. He talks about a report by the head of the Dallas fed’s research department who is calling for an end of “too big to fail” banks. Moreover, he talks about an inherent perversion of the syst ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Charles Davis is covering for Glenn Greenwald this week and wrote two really great posts. And I’m not just saying that because one of them relates to the campaign the criminal (in)justice committee is working on. Wells Fargo”s Prison Cash Cow The Liberal Betrayal of Bradley Manning I ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

Watts Up With That?

  • NASA: Warm Ocean Currents Cause Majority of Ic ...
    Breaking news from NASA and the ICEsat team, that’s their headline, not mine. This really makes all the hype over the now discredited Steig et al. paper, which attempted to establish an air temperature warming trend as one of the … Continue reading →
  • I nominate Dr. Peter Gleick for the first annu ...
    Roger L. Simon writes on PJ Media: Starting this year, PJ Media, in conjunction with our good friends at The New Criterion, will be awarding the first annual Walter Duranty Prize for Journalistic Mendacity. Walter Duranty – it will be recalled … Continue reading →
  • ATI’s video summary of the Mann UVA case
    This is a historical summary, that shows both past and present context of Climategate and Michael Mann’s legal fight to keep his emails from University of Virgina a secret from FOIA requests. Worth a look. – Anthony ATI’s Freedom of … Continue reading →
  • Oh noes! Global Warming has driven Europe&#821 ...
    The precision, down to a tenth of a meter, calculated by the University of Grenada in their press release below is simply stunning. I wonder what the error bars are on 2.7 meters over seven years of the study? And, … Continue reading →
  • Crippled ENVISAT imaged in orbit, still incomm ...
    From the European Space Agency: Investigation on Envisat continues Optical, radar and laser observations of the Envisat satellite show that it is still in a stable orbit. Efforts to regain contact with the satellite have been under way since 8 … Continue reading →

treehugger

Biosingularity

  • Common Alzheimer’s drug may benefit patients i ...
    UK scientists have found that the drug donepezil, which is approved for use only in the mild to moderate stages of Alzheimer’s disease, could benefit patients in the later stages of the disease. The study is published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The study, led by researchers at King’ ...
  • In recognizing faces, the whole is not greater ...
    How do we recognize a face? To date, most research has answered “holistically”: We look at all the features — eyes, nose, mouth — simultaneously and, perceiving the relationships among them, gain an advantage over taking in each feature individually. Now a new study overt ...
  • Innovator tracks everything his body does
    Larry Smarr stops a visitor and says, “Before you go, let me show you my stool sample.” The UC San Diego physicist-futurist reaches into his kitchen refrigerator, past the milk, and pulls out a small white box. He marvels over its contents. “The bacteria in here contains more info than you’d fin ...
  • Cost of Gene Sequencing Falls, Raising Hopes f ...
    In Silicon Valley, the line between computing and biology has begun to blur in a way that could have enormous consequences for human longevity. Bill Banyai, an optical physicist at Complete Genomics, has helped make that happen. When he began developing a gene sequencing machine, he relied heavi ...
  • Why Does Grapefruit Mess With Your Medicine?
    Last month, the FDA issued an unusual warning. It wasn’t about counterfeit prescription drugs, an unsafe medicine, or a recalled product. Rather, the warning was for something that grows naturally in the groves of Florida: the sour, juicy grapefruit. The FDA consumer update confirmed what users ...

CFACT

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Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

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

Organic Consumers.org

Center for a Livable Future

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

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • The Banned Doonesbury Abortion Cartoon
    Political commentary on legislation implementing Statutory Rape via required involuntary intrusive physical examination to establish no medically needed data Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • If I Was God
    I have come to despise religion. It didnt take long to realize how religion has taken everything good about god, and made it bad. I still very much believe in a just and sensible god. Let me present to you my version of IF I WAS GOD…, Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |&n ...
  • Keeping Global Warming Within Limits
    Why would anybody want to calculate all of atmospheric absorption in the form of a greenhouse gas optical thickness parameter ? To uphold the very integrity of science against authoritarianism. Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |  &nb ...
  • 'Publication Bias' Casts Doubt on Value of Ant ...
    When researchers combined the data from published studies and those that never made it into print, the new analysis showed that SSRIs don't help repetitive behaviors much at all. Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Destruction of Poppy Fields in Afghanistan
    Photo essay According to some American soldiers, the current U.S. program to combat Afghan drug trafficking which focuses on the destruction of poppy fields is a waste of money. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

  • Seed Lady Network Goes Live!
    A seed sharing community site where people can share their personal seeds, seed saving tips and stories, as well as anything seed related.
  • International Seed Day (ISD) on April 26
    To advocate for Patent-FREE seeds, biodiversity, food sovereignty and farmers rights.
  • 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 ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Five held in Luton 'terror cell' raids
    ShareThisFalse flag alert: Five held in Luton 'terror cell' raids --Cops and MI5 swoop to thwart feared attacks 25 Apr 2012 Five suspected terror plotters were being quizzed last night — after police and MI5 swooped in the al-Qaeda [al-CIAduh] "hotbed" of LUTON. The men -- targets of an intellig ...
  • Did MI6 spy really die alone? DNA found on bag ...
    ShareThisDid MI6 spy really die alone? DNA found on bag may place second person at scene 25 Apr 2012 Video footage of Gareth Williams's death scene was shown in a court yesterday, which included shots of a bag with the body of Gareth Williams still inside. Examination of the red North Face sport ...
  • New case of mad cow disease in California
    ShareThisMega barf alert: New case of mad cow disease in California 25 Apr 2012 The first new case of mad cow disease in the US since 2006 has been discovered in a dairy cow in California, but health authorities said the animal never posed a threat to the nation's food supply. The infected cow, ...
  • Japan fears nuclear plant sits atop active geo ...
    ShareThisJapan fears nuclear plant sits atop active geological fault 25 Apr 2012 A nuclear plant in northwestern Japan may be sitting right on top of an active geological fault, the country's nuclear watchdog has said, raising the risk that the facility may never resume power generation for fear ...
  • 20 arrested protesting Wells Fargo meeting in SF
    ShareThis20 arrested protesting Wells Fargo meeting in SF 24 Apr 2012 Hundreds of protestors tried to shut down a Wells Fargo's shareholders meeting in San Francisco's Financial District Tuesday. Even though they weren't successful, parts of California and Sacramento Streets were closed to traff ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

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

The Killing Train

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

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Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Mon party eyes new name, merger
    The Mon National Democratic Force will apply to be registered under a new name in anticipation of merging with the All Mon Region Democracy Party
  • Government mulls new broadcast law
    During a media development conference in the country's capital, leaders and members of the fourth estate discussed what provisions should be made to a new broadcast law
  • Lessons from the ‘oath crisis’
    While the National League for Democracy have taken a stand against 'safeguarding' the constitution, is the party taking on the right political battle for the moment?
  • UN leader to visit Burma, meet with Suu Kyi
    UN general secretary Ban Ki-moon will travel to Burma this weekend to meet with country's president and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi
  • Bomb blast in Kachin leaves three wounded
    An explosion in northern Burma's Kachin state near a police traffic booth this morning injured three people, while no groups have claimed responsibility

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Military judge denies motion to dismiss Wikile ...
    [JURIST] Army Col. Denise Lind refused Wednesday to dismiss Espionage Act [text] charges against Pfc. Bradley Manning [advocacy website; JURIST news archive] for allegedly transferring vast amounts of classified information to Wikileaks [website; JURIST news archive]. The ruling [AP report] will ...
  • Maryland high court strikes down DNA collectio ...
    [JURIST] The Maryland Court of Appeals [official website] on Tuesday struck down [opinion, PDF] a law [text, PDF] allowing police to collect DNA from individuals arrested for violent crimes and burglaries, finding it an unconstitutional violation of the Fourth Amendment [Cornell LII backgrounder ...
  • European Muslims facing discrimination: Amnest ...
    [JURIST] Amnesty International (AI) [advocacy website] on Monday challenged European governments to do more to address discrimination against Muslims [report, PDF], especially in the areas of employment and education. The report states that many women are denied jobs or access to classrooms simp ...
  • Supreme Court rules in tax case
    [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website] ruled 5-4 [opinion, PDF] Wednesday in United States v. Home Concrete & Supply, LLC [SCOTUSblog backgrounder] that § 6501(e)(1)(A) [text] of the IRS code does not apply to an overstatement of basis. Ordinarily, the government must assess a def ...
  • Supreme Court hears arguments on sovereign imm ...
    [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website] heard oral arguments [day call, PDF] Tuesday in Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians v. Patchak [transcript, PDF; JURIST report] on US sovereign immunity in suits involving "trust or restricted Indian lands." David Patchak filed su ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

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

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

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

If Americans Knew

  • Gabrielle Giffords, Tom Hurndall and Palestini ...
    Alison Weir, CounterPunch - There is something particularly horrifying when someone is shot in the head. Perhaps it's the gruesome image, the destruction of the brain, the clear intent to kill. The recent shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is made even more nightmarish by the l ...
  • Critical Connections: Egypt, the US, and the I ...
    Minimally explored in all the coverage of the momentous Egyptian uprising taking place over the last 10 days [Jan-Feb 2011] are the Israeli connections.
  • The invisible government: Propaganda Disguised ...
    John Pilger: In a speech in Chicago, John Pilger describes how propaganda has become such a potent force in our lives and, in the words of one of its founders, represents 'an invisible government'.
  • An Open Letter to the Southern Poverty Law Cli ...
    I am disturbed by an article that the Center published in the fall 2007 issue of "Intelligence Report"--the Center's magazine. The item "Navy Extremist Disciplined--But Not for Extremism" is on page 11. The article focuses on Navy officer John Sharpe Jr.
  • A moment of truth: A word of faith, hope and l ...
    We, a group of Christian Palestinians, after prayer, reflection and an exchange of opinion, cry out from within the suffering in our country, under the Israeli occupation, with a cry of hope in the absence of all hope, a cry full of prayer and faith in a God ever vigilant, in God's divine provid ...

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Knight-Mozilla OpenNews Sponsors Dual Journali ...
    There's no better example of the global scale of the Knight-Mozilla OpenNews project than the dualing hack days we recently sponsored in New York City and Buenos Aires. In New York, we gave money for travel scholarships to bring top-notch developers to town to take part in the Wall Street Jo ...
  • How Ushahidi Deals With Data Hugging Disorder
    At Ushahidi, we have interacted with various organizations around the world, and the key thing we remember from reaching out to some NGOs (non-governmental organizations) in Kenya is that we faced a lot of resistance when we began in 2008, with organizations not willing to share data which was o ...
  • Top 5 Tech Ideas for Creating Better Explanato ...
    How can technology help journalists make sense of complex issues and explain them to the public in a clear, understandable manner?Last year, Jay Rosen's journalism students spent an entire semester researching and making explanations in partnership with ProPublica, a non-profit newsroom which fo ...
  • SocMap: Why a Small Map App Can Be Better Than ...
    We experimented with various concepts for SocMap.com for a whole year in an effort to create a map-based social network for connecting and informing people in local neighborhoods. The conclusion: Even though we can reach commendable levels of new user registration, our users don't create con ...
  • Knight-Mozilla Partnership Evolves, Seeks New ...
    It's only the start of April, and already it's been a big year for the Knight-Mozilla Partnership. We've placed four fellows at the BBC, the Guardian, Zeit Online, and Al Jazeera. (A fifth fellow, at the Boston Globe, will be starting a little later this spring.) We've renamed and refocu ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Korean Peninsula on Edge - North Korea Boasts ...
    North Korea’s army marked its 80th anniversary Wednesday with a vow to retaliate against what its chief of staff terms the traitors in the South. The remarks are the latest in a series of harsh threats directed at Seoul in recent weeks. North Korea is boasting of “powerful, modern weapons� ...
  • After the Holocaust - Holocaust Survivors Dese ...
    They endured horrifying physical, emotional and psychological torture at the hands of the Nazis and, for almost seven decades, Holocaust survivors have been further victimized and denied their rights — first, by insurance companies demanding policy documents and death certificates in order to ...
  • The Digital Edge - Muddy Mobile Graphics Water ...
    A core is not a core when it comes to graphics.When it comes to mobile SoCs generally, chips with two CPU cores are better than those with one, four cores are better than two, and so on. But not so with the GPU. What Qualcomm calls a graphics core is different from what Nvidia or someone else ca ...
  • Medical Edge - Migraine Sufferers Get Relief w ...
    Chronic migraine sufferers saw significant pain relief after four weeks of electrical brain stimulation in the part of the brain responsible for voluntary movement, the motor cortex, according to a new study. Researchers from the University of Michigan School of Dentistry, Harvard University and ...
  • Geopolitical Edge - How the U.S. can Exploit t ...
    As the world moves into the second decade of the 21st century, a new power rivalry is taking shape between India and China, Asia's two behemoths in terms of territory, population and richness of civilization. India's recent successful launch of a long-range missile able to hit Beijing and Shangh ...

High Country News

  • When wolf-trapping goes viral
    When a trapper posted photos of himself with a dying wolf on Facebook, the resulting angry, hate-filled uproar on the Internet accomplished nothing useful.
  • Wolf management in Idaho is not ready for prim ...
    The controversy that flared when a trapper posted a photo of himself with a dying wolf proves that Idaho and other Western states are incapable of managing wolves without the help of the Endangered Species Act.
  • A future of big fires and tiny bugs
    A second-generation forest ranger considers how fire prevention and climate change are affecting the forests he once roamed with his father.
  • A good ranger stands up to bad bureaucrats
    National Park Service ranger Robert Danno is still being punished by the agency he loves, despite being vindicated for his work as a whistleblower eight years ago.
  • The other Bakken boom: America's biggest oil r ...
    North Dakota's Three Affiliated Tribes have long wanted a stake in the state's occasional oil booms, but the size, scope and speed of the Bakken development caught them completely unprepared.

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Sen Daniel Patrick Moynihan Foresaw The Author ...
    By Barry Rubin It’s time for a revival of interest in the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, one of the last American politicians with serious intellectual credentials as well. (Compare Moynihan to Obama to see how shallow and mythical are the latter's intellectual attainments.) ...
  • If Obama Was President in 1948 Would He Have R ...
    Sixty-four years ago (by the Hebrew calender) Israel declared her independence.  Israel's independence would have been short lived were it not for the strong will of President Harry S Truman, who became the new Jewish State's first international supporter, not ...
  • "Must See" Radio!
    Those of you who have reading this site for a long time will know that while I am working my arse off on my real job Monday-Friday, I am usually "listening/watching" internet radio. The routine is always the same, The Ed Morrissey Show @3pm and the Tony Katz show @ 6pm(if you don't listen to eit ...
  • UK Environmental Big Shot "Perhaps I was Too A ...
    In 2007, Time magazine named James Lovelock as one of 13 leaders and visionaries in an article on “Heroes of the Environment,” which also included Gore, Mikhail Gorbachev and Robert Redford. “Jim Lovelock has no university, no research institute, no students. His almost unparalleled inf ...
  • Obama Selects Woman Who Wanted to Invade Israe ...
    Only Barack Obama! Today the President tried to show he was a friend of the Jews with a beautifully crafted speech Holocaust Museum. Showing his words mean nothing, also today Samantha Power began work today as chair of  President Barack Obama's new Atrocities Prevention Board. If you don't ...

The Real Agenda

  • U.K. in First Double-Dip Recession since 1970s
    The first double-dip recession since the 1970s forced Prime Minister David Cameron to defend his spending cuts in Parliament. By JENNIFER RYAN | BLOOMBERG | APRIL 2012 Gross domestic product fell 0.2 percent from the fourth quarter of 2011, when it declined 0.3 percent, the Office for ...
  • U.S. and Philippines Stage War Games
    REUTERS | APRIL 25, 2012 U.S. and Philippine commandos waded ashore on Wednesday in a mock assault to retake a small island in energy-rich waters disputed with China, part of a drill involving thousands of troops Beijing had said would raise the risk of armed conflict. The exercises, part o ...
  • Spain and Italy borrowing rates soar in latest ...
    RTE | APRIL 24, 2012 Borrowing costs for both Spain and Italy rose today in their latest auction of government bonds. Spain’s borrowing rate nearly doubled in a short-term debt auction as investors fretted over the euro zone’s determination to deal with its debts. And Italy rais ...
  • Greek Economy Getting into a Deeper Hole
    By GEORGE GEORGIOPOULOS | REUTERS | APRIL 24, 2012 Greek GDP to slump 5 pct in 2012. Current account gap to shrink to 7.5 pct of GDP. Inflation seen at 1.2 pct in 2012. Strict adherence to reforms urged. Greece’s economy will contract a deeper than expected 5 percent this year, t ...
  • Climate Coup: The Politics
    How the regulating class is using bogus claims about climate change to entrench and extend their economic privileges and political control. By DR. DAVID EVANS | SPPI | APRIL 24, 2012 THE SCIENCE The sister article Climate Coup—The Science contains the science foundation for this essay. ...

Wind Watch

  • Massive wind turbine damage caused by windy co ...
    A wind turbine in Paulding County, Ohio has been badly damaged. According to a spokesman with EDP Renewables, the turbine, which is located near Payne, had two of its blades sheared early Tuesday afternoon. Representatives from EDP Renewables have closed the site, which is known as Timber Road I ...
  • NV Energy pulls wind project because of threat ...
    CARSON CITY – More studies by the federal government on the future of the sage grouse has prompted NV Energy to pull out of developing a major wind energy project touted to supply 100,000 homes. NV Energy was working with RES America Development to build the China Mountain Wind Project wit ...
  • Questions blowing in the wind
    From the low mountain ridge, 3km in the distance, the roar of wind turbines bears down on the Waterloo village main street like a runaway truck that never arrives. At night, the soundscape changes with the prevailing winds. Sometimes the distant rumble could easily be mistaken for waves rolling ...
  • Condors may stand in way of growing wind power ...
    A clash is brewing between the endangered condor and the growing wind energy industry in Southern California, with thousands of megawatts and billions of dollars at stake. On one side is the California condor, the largest bird in North America, able to soar as high as 12,000 feet and 150 miles a ...
  • LURC officially rejects First Wind’s Bowers Mo ...
    BANGOR, Maine — Maine’s largest wind energy developer hopes to submit a proposal to build a new, dramatically reduced industrial wind site on Bowers Mountain later this year in response to its first and biggest defeat in Maine. The Land Use Regulation Commission voted 5-0 with little fanfare Fri ...

Tippers News

  • Three men helped starve kids, court tol
    Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • About Us,,,You may want to lisent...interesting!
    Interesting Information that you may find interesting With Love... Evelyn (: Submitted by Evelyn J. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Tiger killing 'a crime against nature'
    Three people have been sentenced to a total of eight and a half years in prison for trying to smuggle tiger skins and bones across the Russian border. And for the first time in this kind of case, a charge of 'ecological damage' might be brought for the Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals &nbsp ...
  • Confused cat found wandering streets of of Lin ...
    This hungry kitty thought she was the cat that had got the cream when she found a half-full tin of pet food as she prowled for snacks in bins behind a supermarket. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Two week-old kitten left for dead in locked cl ...
    Thanks to a passerby and local animal shelter, a two week-old kitten left for dead in a bolted-shut clothes recycling bin was rescued and has made a full recovery. The kitten was rescued about a month ago when a passing person heard the cry Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals  |  & ...

The Freeman

  • Fed Seems Ready to Stay the Course
    “The Federal Reserve will have plenty to say about the economy Wednesday, when its two-day policy meeting ends with a statement, updated forecasts and Chairman Ben Bernanke’s news conference. The Fed will likely repeat that it expects to keep short-term interest rates at record lows ...
  • Congressional Democrats Prepare to Curb States ...
    “The Supreme Court hears arguments Wednesday over Arizona’s immigration-crackdown law, but Democrats are already preparing for a potential loss by saying they’ll try to pass legislation stripping states of the power to enact their own immigration rules.” (Washington Times) Who speaks ...
  • Outlook Bleaker for Social Security
    “The Obama administration reported a significant deterioration in the financial outlook for Social Security on Monday, while stating that the financial condition of Medicare was stable but still unsustainable.” (New York Times) There’s a gem: “stable but still unsustainable.” FEE Tim ...
  • Corporal Punishment Persists in 19 States’ Schools
    Corporal punishment—typically swats with a wooden paddle on the backside of a student—is banned in most of the nation. However, 19 states, mostly in the South, still allow it, according to the Center for Effective Discipline, a group that seeks to abolish corporal punishment in U.S. schools.&#82 ...
  • Obama Increasingly Bypassing Congress
    “ncreasingly in recent months, the [Obama] administration has been seeking ways to act without Congress. Branding its unilateral efforts ‘We Can’t Wait,’ a slogan that aides said Mr. Obama coined at that strategy meeting, the White House has rolled out dozens of new policies—on creating jo ...

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

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

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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

new geography

  • Goodbye, Chicago
    Odd as it may seem for someone known as The Urbanophile, I actually grew up in the countryside. I spent most of my childhood on a country road about four miles outside the town of Laconia, Indiana, population 50.  I always used to get confused when John Cougar sang about living in a small tow ...
  • Megalopolis and its Rivals
    Jean Gottman in 1961 coined the term megalopolis ( Megalopolis, the Urbanized Northeastern Seaboard of the Unites States) to describe the massive concentration of population extending from the core of New York north beyond Boston and south encompassing Washington DC. It has been widely studi ...
  • Review: The Great Inversion and the Future of ...
    Is gentrification the “fifth great migration,” that will fill old downtowns with upper-middle-class white folks, while the tract mansions of the outer ring become slums for immigrants? So suggests Alan Ehrenhalt, the former executive editor of Governing magazine. In The Great Inversion and th ...
  • As Filmmaking Surges, New Orleans Challenges L ...
    For generations New Orleans‘ appeal to artists, musicians and writers did little to dispel the city’s image as a poor, albeit fun-loving, bohemian tourism haven. As was made all too evident by Katrina, the city was plagued by enormous class and racial divisions, corruption and some of th ...
  • Census Estimates: Slowing Metropolitan Growth ...
    Recently the Census Bureau released 2011 county and metro area population estimates that showed overall slowing population growth and particularly showing slow to halting growth in exurban counties. Someone once said to me about Chicago’s Mayor Daley that if he did something you liked, ...

GM Watch

  • Bt cotton hurting farmers - Minister of Agricu ...
    NOTE: Critics have consistently flagged up that Bt cotton was unsuited to rain-fed areas because it is so vulnerable to vagaries of the weather. Despite this, not just Monsanto and the seed companies but even government officials have continued to hype Bt cotton to poor farmers, and nowhere more ...
  • Monsanto fire sale on GM canola
    1.Monsanto fire sale on GM Roundup Ready canola seed 2.Growers clash over GM canola EXTRACT: "Contamination will happen but markets don't want it," said Ms Newman, who has farming interests in Newdegate. "It was not designed to co-exist." (item 2) --- --- 1.Monsanto Fire Sale on GM Roundup Read ...
  • Dow's new corn - "time bomb" or farmers' dream?
    Analysis - Dow's new corn - "time bomb" or farmers' dream? Carey Gillam Reuters, April 24 2012 http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/04/24/uk-usa-food-24-d-idUKBRE83N04K20120424 A new biotech corn developed by Dow AgroSciences could answer the prayers of U.S. farmers plagued by a fierce epidemic o ...
  • Dow's new corn- "time bomb" or farmers' dream?
    Analysis - Dow's new corn - "time bomb" or farmers' dream? Carey Gillam Reuters, April 24 2012 http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/04/24/uk-usa-food-24-d-idUKBRE83N04K20120424 A new biotech corn developed by Dow AgroSciences could answer the prayers of U.S. farmers plagued by a fierce epidemic o ...
  • Dow's new corn- "time bomb" or farmers' dream?
    Analysis - Dow's new corn - "time bomb" or farmers' dream? Carey Gillam Reuters, April 24 2012 http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/04/24/uk-usa-food-24-d-idUKBRE83N04K20120424 A new biotech corn developed by Dow AgroSciences could answer the prayers of U.S. farmers plagued by a fierce epidemic o ...

spiked

Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

  • 22 Red Flags That Indicate That Very Serious D ...
    If you enjoy watching financial doom, then you are quite likely to really enjoy the rest of 2012.  Right now, red flags are popping up all over the place.  Corporate insiders are selling off stock like there is no tomorrow, major economies all over Europe continue to implode, the ...
  • 53 Percent Of All Young College Graduates In A ...
    If you are in college right now, you will most likely either be unemployed or working a job that only requires a high school degree when you graduate.  The truth is that the U.S. economy is not coming anywhere close to producing enough jobs for the hordes of new college graduates ...
  • Why Is It Necessary For The Federal Government ...
    There has been no society in the history of the world that has ever been 100% safe.  No matter how much money the federal government spends on "homeland security", the truth is that bad things will still happen.  Our world is a very dangerous place and it is becoming increasingly ...
  • Chimps Throwing Poop And 29 Other Mind Blowing ...
    Why do chimpanzees throw poop?  The federal government would like to know and is using your tax dollars to investigate the matter.  Every single year, we all send huge amounts of our hard-earned money to the federal government.  We hope that they will spend that money wisely.  Un ...
  • There Is Not Going To Be A Solution To Our Eco ...
    For those waiting for our economic problems to be solved, you can quit holding your breath.  There is simply not going to be a solution to our economic problems on the national level.  So why is that the case?  Well, it is because the economic policies of both major political par ...

Desertification

  • Climate Change and Small Scale Farmers in Burk ...
    VIDEO : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUC8xYIJR-Q Desertification – The Impact of Climate Change on Small Scale Farmers in Burkina Faso An eyewitness report about the situation of peasent farmers in the Sahel zone of Burkina Faso. What are their challenges? How can they … Continue r ...
  • A scalable, cost-effective, nature based solut ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.rtcc.org/living/how-copying-nature-can-stop-desertification-in-its-tracks/ How copying nature can stop desertification in its tracks By Daniela Ibarra-Howell The challenge of desertification is becoming more real and brutal by the day, wi ...
  • Healthy soil is the key to securing water, ene ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.tempo.com.ph/2012/keep-soil-health-farmers-told/#.T5gTYo62-t4 Keep soil healthy, farmers told Posted by Online Manila, Philippines – The Bureau of Soils and Water Management (BSWM) has urged farmers and the people to battle desertificatio ...
  • What is desertification and what techniques co ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.rtcc.org/living/rtcc-qa-desertification/ RTCC Q+A: Desertification By Tierney Smith Every minute an area of land the size of a football pitch is lost to degradation through desertification and drought. It is estimated that around one &#82 ...
  • Bold moves at Rio+20 conference to achieve zer ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.eco-business.com/features/bold-actions-needed-to-build-a-zero-land-degradation-world/ Bold actions needed to build a zero land-degradation world By : China.Org The international community should endorse bold moves at the upcoming Rio+20 c ...

The Paper Trail

  • Elizabeth Warren for Senate ad: 'Kids Like Me"
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  • FACT CHECK: Elizabeth Warren attacks GE's cont ...
    Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren evoked corporate tax punching bag General Electric Co. in a recent ad, claiming the corporate giant pays “nothing — zero — in taxes” to make a point about misplaced values. But that’s not accurate.We should preface this by saying that we are wading ...
  • School discipline debate reignited by new Los ...
    As a national debate heats up over appropriate student discipline, new data from Los Angeles reveal that school police there issued more than 33,500 court summonses to youths between 10 and 18 in three years — with more than 40 percent of those tickets going to children 14 and younger.The data o ...
  • Who bankrolled the super PACs in March? Tracki ...
    Super PACs are required to report their donors on the 20th of each month unless they file quarterly. Engagement Editor Cole Goins used Storify to round up coverage of the most recent flood of reports. [View the story "Who bankrolled the super PACs in March? Tracking the monthly financial disclos ...
  • Florida group uses State Integrity Investigati ...
    Open government advocates in Florida are using results from the State Integrity Investigation to push for grassroots ethics reform. The Sunshine State received a C- on its corruption risk scorecard, ranking it 18th among the states.Dan Krassner, executive director of Integrity Florida, said the ...

backofthebook.ca

  • Alberta election’s biggest loser: Stephe ...
    By Frank Moher I’ll leave it to others to dissect why the PC’s ended up trouncing Wildrose in Alberta, despite all the polls and predictions. What interests me is what this portends for Stephen Harper and company. Danielle Smith is, whether by happenstance or design, a near-clone of ...
  • A Modest Opinion – Where’s the Can ...
    By Nathaniel Moher You know what Canada lacks? The American Dream. We don’t even have some lesser Canadian version of the American Dream (like how we have whatever our version of American Idol is called, or whatever our version of America’s Got Talent is called). And it’s our lack of the A ...
  • 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 ...

libcom

  • Mobilizing and Organizing from Below June 1st- ...
    431715_143387849116773_143387402450151_155120_881003796_n.jpg Mobilizing and Organizing from Below will be a gathering of activists and organizers, workers and parents, revolutionaries and militants a ...
  • Honduras farm workers stage mass land occupations
    class traitors.jpg Thousands of rural workers in Honduras have occupied land as part of a dispute with large landowners and the government. The coordinated invasions took place ...
  • Food Not Bombs Spotlight Interview: Moscow Ana ...
    How long has Moscow ABC been in operation, and what does it do? There were previous anti-repression groups, but first incarnation under label of ABC-Moscow was set up in 2003 as a coordinating organ between existing groups, but around 2005 it had degraded ...
  • Quebec protests reach rowdy new level
    blackstandoff.jpg Students in Quebec have been on strike since February. They have been upset about Premier Jean Charest's plan to add $1,625 to the annual cost of post-secondary education by 201 ...
  • Anarchist Alexey Sutuga was arrested and reman ...
    Alexey Sutuga, anarchist, anti-fascist and the member of "Autonomous Action" was arrested on Tuesday evening, April 17, in Moscow. It happened during fundraising effort in support of anti-fascists prisoners. It became aware almost after a day ...

Free Range International

  • Five Machineguns
    The other day The Bot and I were talking about Greg Mortenson (author of Three Cups of Tea).  Mortenson has been court ordered to fork over a million bucks for managing  donor money like a GSA mandarin.  He is also guilty of  fabricating tales of derring-do in his mission to build schools using ...
  • All Clear
    At 0630 this morning, Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) in the form of the Kabul Critical Response Unit (CRU) finished off a crew of villains who had been fighting for the past 16 hours.  These guys, most likely HIG militants, had barricaded themselves in a building under construction next ...
  • Storm Warning
    America is currently experiencing some monster tornados deep in the heartland.  As dawn breaks across the land, the scenes of devastation are dramatic, but the casualties so far, remarkably low.  Modern early warning systems have a lot to do with that.  When a sudden serious storm breaks in Kabu ...
  • Operation Magistral
    There was an article floating around the news on Afghanistan last week that got my immediate attention.  The article had a one day life cycle and have not seen any follow ups about it, which, given the content, is surprising.   I am not referring to the change in  night raid policy which I could ...
  • Extended Shelf Life – April Fools Edition
    In my last post I claimed to have reached the end of my useful shelf life as a blogger which, it turns out, is not true.  I’m back in Afghanistan and what better day to turn the FRI blog back on than April Fools? Groundhog day would have been more appropriate but I missed it. [...]

The Story Behind the Story

  • The “Other” Israel – Built O ...
    This is a great older presentation by Ted Pike concerning the “Jews” and “Israel”. It is a good and basic PRIMER course, but is missing a few critical pieces of the overall puzzle: 1.  The infiltration of the Edomite bloodline into Rabbinical circles 200 years before the ...
  • Nobel Laureate Gunter Grass Writes a Poem &#82 ...
    He is 84 years old.  He was awarded a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1999.  He is a German named Gunter Grass.  Apparently, Herr Gunter also has a conscious, and is upset over the West’s hypocrisy over Israel’s “conflict” with Iran.  The hypocrisy to Herr Grass is simply:  ...
  • Righteous Blood Part XII: The RED CHEKA TERRO ...
    WARNING: THE FOLLOWING HISTORIC EVENTS READ LIKE A STEPHEN KING HORROR MOVIE SCRIPT!  Yet, the events documented herein are all 100% real and factual! I submit they constitute the ULTIMATE “terrorism”  – I would go so far as to call them acts of “Horrorism”.  Still ...
  • Job Opening: Head of U.S. Department of TRUTH? ...
    Instead of maintaining something called "Homeland Security" - why not dissolve it and form an all-encompassing U.S. Department of Truth, to oversee the "Justice" Department and all "National Security" concerns.  Then this "One Nation Under God" could at last create a most safe and SECURE HOMELAN ...
  • Job Opening: Head of U.S. Department of TRUTH? ...
    Instead of maintaining something called "Homeland Security" - why not dissolve it and form an all-encompassing U.S. Department of Truth, to oversee the "Justice" Department and all "National Security" concerns.  Then this "One Nation Under God" could at last create a most safe and SECURE HOMELAN ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

  • Ken Dryden, NHL Hall of Famer (Jan 7, 2012)
    Hockey and the hits: it's been a season where a lot has been said about headshots, concussions and suspensions. How much has the game really changed, and what is at stake for its future? One of the games great players of the past, one of its most passionate observers of the present, takes on tho ...
  • Malcolm Gladwell (Dec 31, 2011)
    Renowned author wraps the critical events of 2011.
  • The Mansbridge Conversations 2011
    Highlights of Peter's interviews of the year, including conversations with Jack Layton, Olivia Chow, Nicole Williamson, Malcolm Gladwell and others.
  • NAGUIB SAWIRIS
    Peter sits down with Egyptian businessman and politician Naguib Sawiris ahead of the country's first free elections about his hopes for and disappoinment in Egypt's Arab Spring
  • Shawn Atleo - National Chief of the Assembly o ...
    In the wake of the crisis in Attawapiskat First Nation, Shawn Atleo discusses the future of Canada's Abroiginal communities.

Scotts Contracting

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

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Taking on Big Coal – and Winning
    More good news this month. All signs suggest that ordinary Americans are winning the battle against Big Coal (see * below). However you won’t read it in the New York Times. The mainstream media is never eager to report on the victories of grassroots movements.  Thus the Times neglec ...
  • Virginia Nullifies the NDAA
    Re-posted from the Tenth Amendment Center (NDAA nullification passes in Virginia) Today, the Virginia legislature once again approved House Bill 1160 (HB1160), what many refer to as the NDAA Nullification Act. The support was overwhelming, again. In the House today the vote was 89-7 and the ...
  • The Truth About Syria’s Civil War
    If you read/hear it in the US media, assume it's a lie. Anyone who has followed the war in Iraq is aware of the bitter religious and political rivalry between Sunni and Shia Muslims. Thus it’s pity that the mainstream corporate media fails to enlighten us about the major sectarian conf ...
  • Tell ALEC Companies to Stand Down
    One for Our Side The one positive outcome of Trayvon Martin’s appalling murder, is the recent withdrawal of several well-known corporations from the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). Thus far the list of members that have terminated their membership includes Mars candy, Coca-Co ...
  • When a Cover-up Costs More than the Truth
    Andrew Gibbs, outside Dow AgroSciences (This is the last of four blogs about the government cover-up of major health problems related to the production of dioxin-related chemicals at Dow AgroSciences in New Plymouth between 1948 and 1987.) “I have long dreamed of buying an island own ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

  • Will Arizona case help Obama?
    As the Supreme Court hears oral arguments today on the constitutionality of Arizona's hard-line immigration law, lawyers will revel in arcane discussions of "preemption" and "severability" and "harmonious regulation." Others will ponder the ever-elusive question of whether the eight sitting just ...
  • Romney’s solar flip-flop
    In February 2007, in his very first presidential campaign visit to New Hampshire, Mitt Romney toured a solar power plant. Unsurprisingly for a politician in such a location, he found some nice things to say about renewable energy.North Andover's Eagle-Tribune reported that Romney promised he wou ...
  • Drones for “urban warfare”
    In November 2010, a police lieutenant from Parma, Ohio, asked Vanguard Defense Industries if the Texas-based drone manufacturer could mount a "grenade launcher and/or 12-gauge shotgun" on its ShadowHawk drone for U.S. law enforcement agencies. The answer was yes.Last month, police officers from ...
  • Syria under lockdown
    DARAA, Syria — In the heart of Old Daraa — the tough, tribal, farming community on Syria’s southern border with Jordan — the Omari Mosque once stood as a symbol of resistance, a gathering point for those demanding the end of the regime, and a field hospital for when they received their reply.Tod ...
  • Mitt’s student loan flip-flop
    Mitt Romney is moving from hard-right to center so fast it would be causing car-sickness if we weren't already well-prepared with ample anti-nausea drugs for his inevitable "pivot." Latest example: At the Washington Post, Greg Sargent brings us the news that Romney told reporters Monday morning ...

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • A World Without Oil Price Speculators
    The quality of media reporting on energy has improved significantly since I started this blog in 2004.  However, one subject on which I think the state of energy reporting still leaves much to be desired concerns the role of market speculation in setting oil prices.  It's a comple ...
  • Clean Energy Rides Bucking Economy To Growth
    Reflecting on clean-energy performance in 2011, research firm Clean Edge released a report of the good, the bad and the not-too-ugly.
  • BP Employee Arrested For Destroying Evidence i ...
    Deepwater Horizon disaster ruined Florida's shores.
  • First Solar Shares Drop to Record Low, Can it ...
    First Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR), the world's largest maker of thin-film solar panels has seen its value fall to an all-time low today.  At 4:00 PM EST, the company's shares were down 6.78%, trading at $19.25 on the Nasdaq.It has been a difficult day for U.S. stocks, but for First Sola ...
  • Failing to Communicate the Promise of Transpor ...
    The Miller Center at the University of Virginia (full disclosure: my alma mater) rolled out its latest report, fittingly entitled “Are We There Yet? Selling America on Transportation” (pdf here). It’s based on a conversation they convened last fall, which in turn was a session following up on a ...

EU Times

  • US Calls For Russian Airborne Troops To Take A ...
    A bizarre report prepared by the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation that is circulating in the Kremlin today on the joint US-Russia military drills taking place next month in the State of Colorado says that the plans received from the Americans call for Russian Airborne Troops (V ...
  • Dutch PM resigns over Austerity talks Fail
    Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has handed his government’s resignation to Queen Beatrix after talks on reducing the country’s budget to meet European guidelines failed. The government information service announced on Monday that the Queen accepted Rutte’s resignation and asked him to tend ...
  • Egypt cuts off gas supply to Israel
    Egypt has canceled its natural gas supply deal with Israel, insisting the move has nothing to do with politics. Israel downplayed the decision, which could further deteriorate bilateral ties that have decayed markedly since the Egyptian revolution. Egypt’s Natural Gas Holding Company announced t ...
  • South Africa’s polygamous president marries fo ...
    South Africa’s president Jacob Zuma has wed his fourth wife in a traditional ceremony at his rural home, his office confirmed. The polygamist premier, 70, married Gloria ‘Bongi’ Ngema in a customary service which started at around 6am yesterday. The Zulu statesman’s nupti ...
  • Over 1000 South Sudanese soldiers die in confl ...
    More than 1,000 South Sudanese soldiers have been killed in the disputed oil-rich Heglig, following a fresh bombing raid by Sudanese warplanes. Reports say the number of dead bodies is so high and it is difficult to give an accurate estimation. Kamal Marouf, the Sudanese armed forces commander p ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Your Thoughts on Falcons Trade for Asante Samuel?
    Welcome to Atlanta, Mr. Samuel! (AP) There’s not to much to write about since this breaking news, but several outlets have confirmed that the Atlanta Falcons have traded a late round pick (according to NFL sources) for 4 Time Pro Bowl cornerback Asante Samuel. Here’s the news according to Alber ...
  • Katherine Heigl adopts again!
    Katherine Heigl and Josh Kelley have adopted again! The couple, already parents to 3-year-old daughter Naleigh – whom they adopted from South Korea — have welcomed a second little girl, the actress’s rep confirms to PEOPLE. “Yes they have adopted a baby,” rep Jill Fritzo tells PEOPLE. “No furth ...
  • TN operative Ward Baker given RNC-Romney role
    Ward Baker, a political operative based in the Nashville area, has been named to the team coordinating activities between the Republican National Committee and the Mitt Romney campaign. Washington Post political blog "The Fix" reports this morning that Baker will synchronize activities between ...
  • Apple 2012 Worldwide Developers Conference Wil ...
    Coming as a nice follow-up to some earlier rumors, Apple has officially announced the dates and details for the Worldwide Developers Conference. The event will take place in the usual location and begin in mid-June. More to the point here though, along with the details and dates — the tickets a ...
  • Apple CEO Tim Cook meets with Ferrari CEO
    Earlier this week, during a trip to Silicon Valley, Ferrari CEO Luca di Montezemolo gave a speech at Stanford University and met with Apple CEO Tim Cook and “heads of Google” for sit down meetings. The  report comes from Ferrari’s website , which claimed Cook and Montezemolo had a “two-hour fa ...

Groklaw

  • Claims of Two Rambus Memory Device Patents Rej ...
    The Patent Office Board of Appeals dealt Rambus a major setback yesterday by affirming the anticipation rejection of the two independent claims in reexamination of U.S. Patent Nos. 6,266,285 and 6,314,051, two of the so-called "Farmwald Patents" that have been the subject of an ITC investigation ...
  • The day my mind became open sourced
    Sure enough, Bruce's rules for Scrabble made the game far more fun to play. Mid-way through, I couldn't help but ask him, "If the rules for Scrabble can be improved, can the rules for other games also be improved?" Bruce replied, "The rules for all games can be improved. Not only that, everythi ...
  • Chinese official backs Proview in Apple dispute
    But on Tuesday, a senior official with China's State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC) -- the body that handles intellectual property infringements -- said Proview is the lawful owner of the trademark and any transfer of ownership would have to be approved by the relevant authoriti ...
  • Get rid of 'digital handcuffs', says European ...
    Holding up a pair of handcuffs sent to her the previous day by the Free Software Foundation along with a letter asking if she was "with them on openness", she said: "Let me show you, these handcuffs are not closed, not locked. I can open them if and when I want. That's what I mean by being open ...
  • Apple Found to Violate One Patent on Android P ...
    "These are long wars, and it's one more battle in the war," said Carl Howe, an analyst with Yankee Group. "It's about accumulating as much intellectual property as possible. It's not good for innovation if you do that, but that seems to be where we're heading." - Susan Decker, Bloomberg

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Philadelphia School District closes, students ...
    Our educational system continues to disintegrate.Philadelphia will shut 40 schools next year and 6 per years after that until 2017 due to funding shortfalls and mismanagement. Their school district is shutting down. That’s right, shutting down.Their Chief Recovery Officer says “There ...
  • IBM developing 500-mile electric vehicle battery
    IBM today announced two partners for a project aimed at building a lithium air battery able to propel an electric car 500 miles. Scientists from Asahi Kasei and Central Glass with expertise in membranes and electrolyte chemistries will join IBM researchers on the initiative.A 500 mile electric v ...
  • Cleantech subsidy reform
    Support is building for policies to encourage the growth of a globally competitive, subsidy independent cleantech sector in the United States, as moderate Republicans, industry insiders and analysts expressed keen interest in reforms that would drive production of cheaper, more innovative forms ...
  • Nuclear power proposal in Utah ignites water war
    A humongous 3 GW nuclear plant is planned near Green River, Utah. It would use 53,000 acre feet a year of water for cooling. This would put further strain on the Green River, which is a major tributary of the already overused Colorado River.The developers say it will use 1% of Utah’s water ...
  • Does the US have an economy based on war?
    Eddie Vedder. Hollywood antiwar rally. 2003The United States seemingly has endless wars, conflicts, and invasions. In 2010 the United States accounted for a staggering 41% of worldwide military spending, dwarfing spending by any other country. We have military bases in dozens of countries and s ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

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

frogblog

  • Our high exchange rate is killing exporters
    The high kiwi dollar is preventing the long overdue rebalancing of our economy according to Reserve Bank Governor, Dr Alan Bollard. Dr Bollard made those comments in June 2009 to his Board when the kiwi dollar was worth US$0.63 and the Trade Weighted Index (TWI) was at 60. Since this time, the k ...
  • Anal-ysis, Corrections Style.
    Most New Zealanders would agree that we live in a country where human rights are  protected, where we willingly comply with international agreements to treat people fairly and humanely, and civil rights are respected. Most of the time, they would be right.  Unfortunately, it is becoming increasi ...
  • General debate, April 22, 2012
  • ChristChurch Cathedral and heritage important ...
    The demolition of the ChristChurch Cathedral’s spire is expected to begin on Monday. On Saturday, I’ll be attending a rally, organised by Restore the Christchurch Cathedral and led by the Wizard, outside the Anglican Church’s Christchurch synod meeting. We are gathering from 8.15 am for a ...
  • Food industry free to feed us what they like
    My concern about this recent study is not so much that our fast food has more salt than other countries, but that our food industry has such unconstrained power to influence our diets. The Food Industry Group’s position to maintain a self regulatory approach to levels of salt, sugar and fat in o ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Coming Soon: A Controversial "Ruling" That Thr ...
    By Dr. Mercola Under the Clean Air Act, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is responsible for setting National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for various air pollutants, ozone included. But their latest ruling on ozone is riddled in controversy, as opponents state it ...
  • Why Stress Makes It Harder to Kick the Common Cold
    By Dr. Mercola Stress has a major influence on the function of your immune system, which is why you've probably noticed you're more likely to catch a cold when you're under a lot of stress. This is true for both acutely stressful episodes, such as preparing a big project for work, an ...
  • This Daily Habit Can Damage Your Brain, Disrup ...
    By Dr. Mercola The largest state legislature in the U.S. recently passed a bill mandating infant fluoride warnings on all water bills in fluoridated communities. On March 15, the New Hampshire House of Representatives voted 253-23 in favor of the bill. Thanks to a 13-2 recommendation from th ...
  • Most Recalled Type of Drug Will Surprise You
    By Dr. Mercola The most up-to-date list of recalled drugs is available on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) drug recall web site.i There you can find an ongoing list of drugs that have been removed from the market; generally these are "Class I" recalls, which means there is a ...
  • Over 60 Billion Doses a Year and Not ONE Death ...
    By Dr. Mercola Vitamins, minerals and herbal supplements have a tremendously safe track record, yet they are often singled out as being potentially dangerous by government agencies like the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This – the notion that dietary supplements are unsafe -- is t ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Colin Firth launches campaign to save ‘Earth’s ...
    Colin Firth has appealed to save the Awá from extinction © Survival Oscar-winning film star Colin Firth today launched a major Survival International campaign to save ‘Earth’s most threatened tribe’ – the Awá of the Brazilian Amazon. The centerpiece of the campaign is a short film, featuri ...
  • 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

  • Alberta election result is good news for Canada
    Over the past few weeks, many Canadians outside Alberta watched uneasily as the Wildrose Party under leader Danielle Smith promised to build a political "firewall" around the province, promote unfettered oilsands development, fight against Canada's federal notion of equalization payments and def ...
  • A choice between mob rule and democracy
    It is to some degree understandable that post-secondary students participating in the extended boycott of classes are somewhat unclear on the concept of democracy and the rule of law in a democratic society.
  • Students in the streets
    "" I'm a third-year Microbiology and Immunology student at McGill University. I live at home and haven't taken a vacation since I was 16 years old as I had to work during the summers to pay for my secondary education. I've never had a cup of coffee, Starbucks or otherwise, or owned a laptop. Bet ...
  • Working toward a government policy of openness
    Quebec's federation of professional journalists has submitted a most welcome report calling on the provincial government to attack the notorious culture of secrecy that has long been embraced by governments and public agencies at all levels in this province.
  • Working toward a government policy of openness
    Quebec's federation of professional journalists has submitted a most welcome report calling on the provincial government to attack the notorious culture of secrecy that has long been embraced by governments and public agencies at all levels in this province.

Food World Order

  • The Enviro Reporter on Fukushima Radiation Dan ...
    from enviroreporter.com: Media coverage of Fukushima Daiichi's multiple meltdowns contamination of the Pacific Ocean and America's air, water, soil, food and drink took a giant leap when NBC G4-TV's Attack of the Show! had this reporter on to discuss the gravest single environmental threat fac ...
  • USDA holding press briefing as mad cow rumor r ...
    from reuters: The United States Department of Agriculture was holding a press conference on Tuesday as rumors that a case of mad cow disease was discovered in California sent live cattle futures tumbling. The spokesman declined to comment on the topic of the briefing. The contents of the briefin ...
  • Huge Water Resource Exists Under Africa
    from cryptogon.com: Scientists say the notoriously dry continent of Africa is sitting on a vast reservoir of groundwater. They argue that the total volume of water in aquifers underground is 100 times the amount found on the surface. The team have produced the most detailed map yet of the sc ...
  • Chocolate Titans in fresh Antitrust Lawsuit fo ...
    from confectionerynews.com: The Associated Wholesale Grocer (AWG), a retailer-owned cooperative that supplies retail member stores, brought the action in the District Court in Kansas through law firm Stueve Siegel Hanson LPP. Hershey et al. are already defendants in an on-going class action ...
  • FDA Proposes Rules for Nanotechnology in Food
    from ap: Regulators are proposing that food companies that want to use tiny engineered particles in their packaging may have to provide extra testing data to show the products are safe. The Food and Drug Administration issued tentative guidelines Friday for food and cosmetic companies inter ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • 22 Red Flags That Indicate That Very Serious D ...
    If you enjoy watching financial doom, then you are quite likely to really enjoy the rest of 2012.  Right now, red flags are popping up all over the place.  Corporate insiders are selling off stock like there is no tomorrow, major economies all over Europe continue to implode, the ...
  • 53 Percent Of All Young College Graduates In A ...
    If you are in college right now, you will most likely either be unemployed or working a job that only requires a high school degree when you graduate.  The truth is that the U.S. economy is not coming anywhere close to producing enough jobs for the hordes of new college graduates ...
  • Why Is It Necessary For The Federal Government ...
    There has been no society in the history of the world that has ever been 100% safe.  No matter how much money the federal government spends on "homeland security", the truth is that bad things will still happen.  Our world is a very dangerous place and it is becoming increasingly ...
  • Chimps Throwing Poop And 29 Other Mind Blowing ...
    Why do chimpanzees throw poop?  The federal government would like to know and is using your tax dollars to investigate the matter.  Every single year, we all send huge amounts of our hard-earned money to the federal government.  We hope that they will spend that money wisely.  Un ...
  • There Is Not Going To Be A Solution To Our Eco ...
    For those waiting for our economic problems to be solved, you can quit holding your breath.  There is simply not going to be a solution to our economic problems on the national level.  So why is that the case?  Well, it is because the economic policies of both major political par ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Pop your clogs: Is the euro Edam-med by the Ne ...
    Slowly, the dominoes topple all over Europe. As the Greeks stay locked in their eurozone enslavement for what could be just a tiny bit longer until they experience the liberating effects of the return of the drachma, the latest in the long line of casualties in the long line of victims of the ...
  • Speech of the week contenders (both from UKIP, ...
    So, which 'Speech of the week' contender hits all the spots for you? Nigel Farage is, as you know, a fantastic orator... but his UKIP colleague Godfrey Bloom certainly speaks our language, too. Herein lies some of the reason that UKIP is now Britain's third largest party and the only m ...
  • Daniel Hannan and his pro-EU Tories
    The ever eloquent and essentially likable Daniel Hannan MEP is winning himself few friends but plenty of criticism on both Twitter and his own blog as - faced with the huge groundswell of momentum in the direction of UKIP - he grasps in desperation at the last straw plea to the electorate to, ev ...
  • We're all 'swivel eyed' now... it's very Vogue
    Unless you were having a very serious party in some secret pub where fun without permission from the state continues unlicensed, then you will be aware that, last night, The Sun published details of the latest YouGov survey in which: "UKIP has ousted the Lib Dems as the third most popular politi ...
  • Conservative to UKIP MP defections: Is that 'y ...
    That'll quell the speculation nicely. And on the BBC, too... The fact is, however, that no genuine eurosceptic can now really remain part of the falsely labelled Conservative Party - the party of traitor Edward Heath.

Facing South

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

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

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

  • One Person’s Heaven is another Person&#8 ...
    By Les Visible One thing I can talk about, is the crazy payback shit that has been going on recently and those of you who follow these sites will remember what I had to say some time ago,when I mentioned a conversation with my invisible friends, where I was told that someone was going to [...]
  • Two Israelis admit thousands of drug shipments ...
    By Robert Patrick Two Israeli citizens pleaded guilty Monday and were sentenced for sending more than 9,000 shipments of unapproved prescription drugs worth more than $1.4 million to the U.S., the U.S. Attorney’s office said Tuesday morning. Benny Carmi, 58, was sentenced Monday afternoon ...
  • Pepsi Next May Be WORSE than High Fructose Cor ...
    By Dr. Mercola When a new beverage comes out advertising “60% less sugar—drink it to believe it”—the challenge is on. Same taste; fewer calories to your waist? Sounds good, doesn’t it? But before you throw that Pepsi Next into your grocery cart, Fooducate.comi suggests you comp ...
  • The US Has Finally Done It: Mexican Immigrants ...
    By Tyler Durden You know its bad when…the net flow of Mexicans into the US has fallen so much that there is a high probability that it is now in reverse ending around forty years of inward migration. The Pew Hispanic Center notes that the standstill – after more than 12 million curre ...
  • SOMETHING IS ROTTEN IN THE STATE OF ISRAEL
    I was born in the United States, I left there 45 years ago. I never lost my American citizenship. I immigrated to Canada, became a citizen there but left 28 years ago. I never lost my Canadian citizenship. I have lived in Israel since leaving Canada giving me 3 citizenships… * BUT * A man [...]

Veterans Today

  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News April ...
    Last week, VA announced it would add 1,900 mental health staffers to its workforce. If you’re interested in serving through a job in VA’s health care system, we’re hiring.
  • Latest Message from Israel’s Nuclear Whi ...
    "My message to Obama, Vanunu is very supporting Obama policy, Obama Ideology of a Middle East Free from all Nuclear weapons. Vanunu is ready to help Obama in this. Diplomacy Now!!! Freedom Now!!"-Mordechai Vanunu, 24 April 2012 from east Jerusalem
  • Israel’s Persecution Of Christians In th ...
    The exodus from the Holy Land of Palestinian Christians could eventually leave holy cities like Jerusalem and Bethlehem without a local Christian population.
  • Shaky Economies
    Never before historically did the world's largest central banks abandon reason and go "absolutely berserk," according to financial expert Martin Weiss. Earlier ones alone did it.
  • Egypt has terminated the Mubarak-era natural g ...
    Netanyahu plays down gas dispute with Egypt. While the cancellation does not signal and end to Egyptian peace with Israel, it does signal that the supine subjection of Egypt to Israeli interests is coming to an end.

electric politics

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

PR News

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

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

Stop NATO

  • Russia-India-China: International Balance Of P ...
    Russia & India Report April 24, 2012 RIC: trilateral set to scale new heights Nivedita Das Kundu ==== RIC’s main agenda has been to oppose unilateralism and to promote a pluralistic democratic international order. The three countries believes that the diverse threats and risks cannot be addr ...
  • The Arctic Heats Up
    Russia & India Report April 25, 2012 Arctic heats up Ilya Kramnik Global warming is making the polar regions of the Earth more accessible, and while the possibility of armed conflict is limited, all regional players are preparing for such a scenario. The Arctic region is expected to be the d ...
  • Namibia: Germany’s Forgotten Genocide, C ...
    Southern Times April 23, 2012 Confronting the Past By Peter Katjavivi In October 2011, the skulls of Namibian ancestors were returned to their country of origin. The Namibian delegation that participated in the repatriation of the human skulls from Germany successfully accomplished the mission. ...
  • Russia And China: Common Goals And Common Opponent
    Voice of Russia April 24, 2012 Russia and China: common goals and common concerns Ilya Kramnik Russia and China have launched one of the largest joint navy drills, with a total of 25 ships and submarines, over 20 aircraft and special forces on both sides taking part in what is a very visible fle ...
  • Emotional Engineering: U.S. World Leader In &# ...
    RT April 25, 2012 US ‘world leader’ in color revolution engineering VIDEO The US is the foremost power when it comes to creating and applying “color revolutions”: America invented the know-how and has the best experts in this area, political scientist Mateusz Piskorski told RT. RT: What are the ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

FRS

  • Nepal: After dissolution of PLA, Maoist revol ...
    Nepal Maoists hardliners form Jan Sevak bureau a la YCL: Report Telegraph Nepal The panel led by nationalist leader, Mohan Baidya ‘Kiran’ of Unified Maoists’ Party, has declared formation of a separate ‘fighting force’ comprising of dissatisfied, UNMIN disqualified Militias and some YCL cadres. ...
  • India: Maoist roots in places which the gover ...
    Naxals are the govt in a village India just discovered Harinder Baweja , Hindustan Times Bijapur, Chhattisgarh, April 22, 2012 Helicopters were kept on standby for casualty evacuation; targets were chosen with care after studying satellite images and the troops were warned — the encounters would ...
  • India: Revolutionary Democratic Front conclud ...
    ibnlive.com, Apr 24, 2012 Permission denied for RDF procession at Dharna Chowk HYDERABAD: The Revolutionary Democratic Front (RDF) on Monday at the end of their two-day national conference decided to continue their struggle against the imperialistic and capitalistic policies and actions of the g ...
  • Israel: Number Of Hunger-Striking Palestinian ...
    Tuesday April 24, 2012 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies The number of Palestinian political prisoners, held by Israel in various prisons, detention camps and interrogation facilities around the country, will likely reach 3000 as waves of detainees intend to join the strike, demandin ...
  • Honduras: Mobilizing to Oppose Land Grabbing
    19 de abril –International Day of Peasant Struggle: Over 12,000 hectares of land occupied in Honduras Thousands of Honduran peasants occupied on Tuesday, the International Day of Peasant Struggle, over 12,000 hectares of land in several departments (Cortés, Yoro, Santa Bárbara, Intibucá, E ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

  • Steven Chu Backpedals on Advocacy of European- ...
    Recall then-incoming-Energy Secretary Steven Chu’s now-infamous 2008 quote to the Wall Street Journal: “Somehow, we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.”Contributor: Brian Koenig Published: Mar 14, 2012
  • Afghanistan is Turning into Vietnam
    Afghanistan is turning into Vietnam, or least it is starting to remind me of it.Contributor: J. Brackston Published: Mar 12, 2012
  • Minnesota Girl Sues School Over Facebook Invasion
    A pre-teen from Minnesota has been joined by the ACLU in a lawsuit claiming her school invaded her privacy and wrongfully intimidated her into divulging her Facebook password and email accounts.Contributor: Charis Alura Published: Mar 11, 2012
  • USS Enterprise Sails Off into the Sunset
    The U.S.S Enterprise, the navy's largest Aircraft Carrier, will be decommissioned this December after it finishes its final deployment in the Middle east, ending a career that spans five decades.Contributor: Roy Branson Published: Mar 11, 2012
  • Jobs Growth Numbers Favor President Obama
    Positive trends from latest jobs report give President Obama fuel for his reelection bid to the White House.Contributor: John Coon Published: Mar 10, 2012

Popsci - Science

  • After Decades of Mystery, Has the G-Spot Been ...
    A surgeon claims to have found the fabled organ, but skeptics say not so fast For decades, researchers have argued over the existence of the G-spot, a supersensitive spongy organ on the front vaginal wall that many women report causes vaginal, rather than clitoral, orgasms. Now, a cosmetic surg ...
  • Video: An Inflatable, Flying Turbine Goes High ...
    Oil companies look for oil where they think it might be most abundant, so doesn’t it make sense to seek wind power in the places where the wind is most abundant? An MIT spin out called Altaeros Energies seems to think so. Not content to harvest wind energy from atop a static tower just a few hun ...
  • New Study Finds Vast Galactic Network, No Sign ...
    Is dark matter in danger? A few days after scientists said there’s no dark matter near our sun, a team of researchers in Germany now says there’s no dark matter in our galactic neighborhood. The team found a vast structure of globular clusters and satellite galaxies surrounding the Milky Way in ...
  • Video: Flying Objects Punch Through Saturnian ...
    Scientists scrutinizing Cassini imagery have stumbled on a strange find — evidence of half-mile-sized snowballs perforating one of Saturn’s rings, creating miniature contrail-like streams in the ring’s shape. The pictures answer a mysterious question about the F ring, Saturn’s oddest ring. Unlik ...
  • "Fragile Earth" App Slides Time to Show the Ra ...
    Fragile Earth, new in the App Store this week, is a simple idea, and it's actually executed simply as well--two or more photos of the same place over time, with a slider so you can see how it looks in the past. But these are places that have been utterly changed by major, unstoppable forces: tim ...

Veterans Today

  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News April ...
    Last week, VA announced it would add 1,900 mental health staffers to its workforce. If you’re interested in serving through a job in VA’s health care system, we’re hiring.
  • Latest Message from Israel’s Nuclear Whi ...
    "My message to Obama, Vanunu is very supporting Obama policy, Obama Ideology of a Middle East Free from all Nuclear weapons. Vanunu is ready to help Obama in this. Diplomacy Now!!! Freedom Now!!"-Mordechai Vanunu, 24 April 2012 from east Jerusalem
  • Israel’s Persecution Of Christians In th ...
    The exodus from the Holy Land of Palestinian Christians could eventually leave holy cities like Jerusalem and Bethlehem without a local Christian population.
  • Shaky Economies
    Never before historically did the world's largest central banks abandon reason and go "absolutely berserk," according to financial expert Martin Weiss. Earlier ones alone did it.
  • Egypt has terminated the Mubarak-era natural g ...
    Netanyahu plays down gas dispute with Egypt. While the cancellation does not signal and end to Egyptian peace with Israel, it does signal that the supine subjection of Egypt to Israeli interests is coming to an end.

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • April could be wettest on record in drought-hi ...
    Low pressure will dominate the UK's weather for the rest of April, and possibly into early May, bringing further showers and longer spells of locally heavy rain. In Lincolnshire, where the drought situation is amongst the worst in the country, some of the highest rainfall totals have been reco ...
  • Global and regional climate update
    Average global temperatures in March rose to +0.108C above the 30 year running mean, from -0.116C in February, based on the UAH satellite measurement shown on the graph below. Adjusted to the more standard 1961-1990 mean, global temperatures were approximately +0.361C above normal. Acro ...
  • Drought order in parts of Yorkshire. Will it a ...
    The Environment Agency has today confirmed that some parts of Yorkshire are now officially in drought.   The drought order applies to some catchments of the Rivers Don, Rother, Hull and Derwent and has been issued because the agency is concerned about the effect of drought on the environme ...
  • Recovery in Arctic sea ice continues
    Arctic sea ice has staged a strong recovery in the last few weeks, reaching levels not far from normal for this time of the year. The rise is all the more impressive, since February saw the 5th lowest ice extent since satellite records began in 1979, and until recently ice extent has been ...
  • Drought order update
    The continued dry weather in parts of our region has led Anglian Water to implement a hosepipe ban for all its customers in Lincolnshire from April 5th. Customers in North Nottinghamshire who are served by Severn Trent for sewerage, but Anglian Water for their water supplies, will also have a h ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • 6/365 Egyptian Lawmakers Vote for IMF Rescue
    Those are such bad numbers you too probably wouldn't have missed much getting out of bed. I am simultaneously fascinated and appalled by the developments in Egypt. Among the more influential academics in policy circles--see Anne-Marie Slaughter especially--there's been this idea that we're in ...
  • Fight-a-Bully: Philippine, PRC Territorial Dis ...
    [NOTE: Perhaps it's not obvious for me to begin writing about a territorial dispute by talking about lawyers, but why I'm doing so will be obvious soon enough.] While a certain number of lawyers are necessary for modern societal functioning--drawing up contracts, settling technical disputes, fin ...
  • Why LDCs Won't Give the IMF More Money
    I am rather tired of reading news clippings about how LDCs are reluctant to give the IMF more money when their grievances are not given proper airing. If you're looking for a global governance dinosaur par excellence, then I will give you the IMF. Imagine that we were stuck in the Fifties, the W ...
  • IMF's (Shocking?) Endorsement of Procyclicality
    I needn't recycle criticisms you're most familiar with concerning how the IMF exacerbates difficulties by deterring poor countries from using countercyclical policies to cope with downturns--either indirectly via policy suggestions during Article IV consultations or via conditionalities when the ...
  • Lingo Wars: Urban Dictionary v Academie Francaise
    While most things Anglo-Saxon are taking a well-deserved beating nowadays--neoliberal economic policies and a penchant for soaring rates of obesity among other things--there remains considerable vitality in their common language. As the Global Transformations crew rightly pointed out sometime ag ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • 22 Red Flags That Indicate That Very Serious D ...
    If you enjoy watching financial doom, then you are quite likely to really enjoy the rest of 2012.  Right now, red flags are popping up all over the place.  Corporate insiders are selling off stock like there is no tomorrow, major economies all over Europe continue to implode, the ...
  • 53 Percent Of All Young College Graduates In A ...
    If you are in college right now, you will most likely either be unemployed or working a job that only requires a high school degree when you graduate.  The truth is that the U.S. economy is not coming anywhere close to producing enough jobs for the hordes of new college graduates ...
  • Why Is It Necessary For The Federal Government ...
    There has been no society in the history of the world that has ever been 100% safe.  No matter how much money the federal government spends on "homeland security", the truth is that bad things will still happen.  Our world is a very dangerous place and it is becoming increasingly ...
  • Chimps Throwing Poop And 29 Other Mind Blowing ...
    Why do chimpanzees throw poop?  The federal government would like to know and is using your tax dollars to investigate the matter.  Every single year, we all send huge amounts of our hard-earned money to the federal government.  We hope that they will spend that money wisely.  Un ...
  • There Is Not Going To Be A Solution To Our Eco ...
    For those waiting for our economic problems to be solved, you can quit holding your breath.  There is simply not going to be a solution to our economic problems on the national level.  So why is that the case?  Well, it is because the economic policies of both major political par ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • US Calls For Russian Airborne Troops To Take A ...
    A bizarre report prepared by the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation that is circulating in the Kremlin today on the joint US-Russia military drills taking place next month in the State of Colorado says that the plans received from the Americans call for Russian Airborne Troops (V ...
  • Dutch PM resigns over Austerity talks Fail
    Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has handed his government’s resignation to Queen Beatrix after talks on reducing the country’s budget to meet European guidelines failed. The government information service announced on Monday that the Queen accepted Rutte’s resignation and asked him to tend ...
  • Egypt cuts off gas supply to Israel
    Egypt has canceled its natural gas supply deal with Israel, insisting the move has nothing to do with politics. Israel downplayed the decision, which could further deteriorate bilateral ties that have decayed markedly since the Egyptian revolution. Egypt’s Natural Gas Holding Company announced t ...
  • South Africa’s polygamous president marries fo ...
    South Africa’s president Jacob Zuma has wed his fourth wife in a traditional ceremony at his rural home, his office confirmed. The polygamist premier, 70, married Gloria ‘Bongi’ Ngema in a customary service which started at around 6am yesterday. The Zulu statesman’s nupti ...
  • Over 1000 South Sudanese soldiers die in confl ...
    More than 1,000 South Sudanese soldiers have been killed in the disputed oil-rich Heglig, following a fresh bombing raid by Sudanese warplanes. Reports say the number of dead bodies is so high and it is difficult to give an accurate estimation. Kamal Marouf, the Sudanese armed forces commander p ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

  • 2012-04-25 #WikiLeaks News Update: Manning's m ...
    Tweet WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 508 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 505 days. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 702 days. A secret Grand Jury has been active in the U.S. without transparency for 588 days. ...
  • 2012-04-23 #WikiLeaks News Update: "World Tomo ...
    Tweet WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 506 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 503 days. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 700 days. A secret Grand Jury has been active in the U.S. without transparency for 586 days. ...
  • 2012-04-22 'Terrorist' by Association, Assange ...
    TweetLast Thursday, human rights and Julian Assange lawyer Jennifer Robinson was held up on her flight from London to Sydney for security reasons. Over the years, journalists have been interrogated and detained at borders, often for purely political reasons. This incident was unprecedented with ...
  • 2012-04-21 List of possible NSA interception p ...
    Tweet Below is a list of addresses that were handed out on a sheet of paper at the Whitney Biennial 2012's Surveillance Teach-In, and described as "possible domestic NSA interception points". 2651 Olive Street, Saint Louis, MO 63103 United States 420 South Grand, Los Angeles, CA 90071 United ...
  • 2012-04-21 #WikiLeaks news update: WikiLeaks l ...
    Tweet WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 504 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 501 days. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 698 days. A secret Grand Jury has been active in the U.S. without transparency for 584 days. ...

U N News

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

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • War On Farm Families... Government Will Decide ...
      A proposal from the Obama administration to prevent children from doing farm chores has drawn plenty of criticism from rural-district members of Congress. Now it’s attracting barbs from farm kids themselves! ~ Video - Related article read more
  • THE OIL SCAM!... Oil Is NOT A Fossil Fuel... T ...
      Colonel L. Fletcher Prouty spills the beans about how oil was deliberately, incorrectly classified as a fossil fuel, when in fact it is Abiotic. As such, it is a replenishable, naturally occurring source. Peak oil is a myth, or more accurately, a lie. Just like almost everything else ...
  • Execution In The Name Of ... Art???
      German students plan to decapitate defenceless lamb live online as part of a sick project!!! A pair of cruel art students in Germany are defying authorities - and moral decency - by promising to forge ahead with the ritual decapitation of a lamb in the name of art. ~ Allan Hallread more
  • Could There Be A Psychopath In Your Life?... W ...
      Psychopathy is a mental health disorder. The major characteristics of a psychopath, are violation of others, such as stealing or violence, and lack of empathy and remorse. Psychopaths often appear healthy, and some are charming. Unfortunately, no treatment is currently available for ...
  • An Amazing Story... The Oldest Man On Earth Wh ...
      Li Ching-Yuen, also known as Li Ching-Yun found the secret fountain of youth, as he was reportedly the oldest human on Earth, having lived 256 years. His 1933 obituaries which were featured in Time Magazine and the New York Times stated that he had outlived 23 wives and his amazing ...

Tarpley

  • Will NATO Try a Wag-the-Dog Provocation Agains ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV April 24, 2012 [download video] [download audio] PressTV has conducted an interview with Washington-based author and historian, Dr. Webster Griffin Tarpley, to further discuss the developing issue. The following is an approximate transcription of the interview. ...
  • Yet Another Mini-Tet in Afghanistan: Karzai Ha ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV April 18, 2012 [download video] [download audio] The US seeks to continue the Afghan war into a “perpetual state of low intensity guerilla conflict”, preventing the country to rebuild its infrastructure, says a prominent political analyst. Afghan President Hami ...
  • Collapse of Mali a Result of Post-Qaddafi US-N ...
    Webster G. Tarpley Ph.D. KPFK 90.7 FM – Spotlight Africa April 16, 2012 Original KPFK broadcast on April 7, 2012 [download audio]
  • Obama’s Friday Afternoon Document Dump f ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV April 14, 2012 [download video] [download audio]
  • State Department Hits New Low of Cynical Hypoc ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV April 10, 2012 [download video] [download audio] Kofi Annan’s assessment of Syria is a ploy which puts blame solely on the government, but discounts foreign destabilization of the country, says a prominent political analyst. Press TV has conducted an interview ...

Modern Survivalism

  • 1-2-3 Survival
    What do I need to survive? It’s such a general question that it’s almost impossible to answer. The question can’t accurately be answered without asking a multitude of other questions such as, “What are the circumstances?”, “What is the disaster?”, &#8220 ...
  • Healthy Skepticism: A Survival Trait
    In some other posts we’ve discussed good survivor traits such as compassion, adaptability and your ability to perceive risk. Today I’d like to talk about a trait we call ‘healthy skepticism’. According to the dictionary, the definition of skepticism is: an attitude of dou ...
  • Surviving The Fukushima Nuclear Fuel Pool Collapse
    The current TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Company) plan calls for the nuclear fuel rods of the severely damaged ‘Daiichi’ nuclear power plant fuel-pool #4 to NOT begin removal until possibly 2014. That’s right, 2 more years before they might start the 10-year process of removing ...
  • Cookie Recipe With Cacao Powder
    Since I just recently discussed our Cacao powder and it’s benefit as a ‘superfood’, I thought I’d share this yummy Cacao Cookie recipe with you. For this recipe, we will be using quite a few of our food storage ingredients. This is another reason that I thought you would ...
  • List of Preparedness Items For: Doing Laundry
    In a world without a functioning electrical power grid, a post apocalyptic world, a world knocked back in time, you will need to perform tasks that were once assisted by modern technology. You will need items that will help accomplish the job, and you will need to know how to do it yourself. Mos ...

Fast Company

  • Something Is Rotten In The State Of E-Book Pub ...
    The publishing industry has a problem. The old guard haven't innovated. And neither their business models nor their products embrace the digital books revolution. Take the ongoing and complicated spat between Apple and the Justice Department over the agency pricing model and alleged co ...
  • Why You Should Start A Company In... New Haven
    Slate Ballard, cofounder of the coworking space The Grove, and Derek Koce, CEO of the product-development firm Independent Software, share five things you need to know about starting a business in New Haven, Connecticut. UNITED STATES OF INNOVATION New Ideas, New Markets, New Insights I ...
  • Mirror Neurons And Their Role In Marketing
    Last month I speculated that physical experiences will play an enormous role in the future of marketing and communications. Researchers have discovered that your experiences act as a kind of source code for your brain. In the same way that computer code dictates what you see on a web page, diffe ...
  • The Workplace Challenges Political Candidates ...
    It’s not your grandpa’s workplace anymore, but if you listen to the presidential and congressional candidates, it’s easy to wonder if they're aware that it’s 2012, not 1972. This is especially true for issues related to work and life in a modern, hectic, global, high-tech world. Addressing thes ...
  • Jerky Week, Part 3: Would You Buy Beef Jerky I ...
    Peter Garbowski of BulkBeefJerky.com is betting you would, as he tells us in the third installment in Fast Company's weeklong investigation into the surprisingly robust business of jerky. A food, Garbowski tells us, that's for everyone.Peter Garbowski is the founder of BulkBeefJerky.com, a websi ...

Jadaliyya

  • Free Salameh Kaileh!
    At 2am on Tuesday April 24, the Palestinian-Syrian intellectual and activist Salameh Kaileh was arrested from his home “without explanation,” as his lawyer Anwar Bunni of the Syrian Centre for Legal Studies and Research put it. This is not Salameh Kaileh’s first time in a Syrian prison. He was a ...
  • New Texts Out Now: Gilbert Achcar, Eichmann in ...
    Gilbert Achcar, “Eichmann in Cairo: The Eichmann Affair in Nasser's Egypt.” Arab Studies Journal Vol. XX No. 1 (Spring 2012). Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this article? Gilbert Achcar (GA): The story of this article resembles that of my book The Arabs and the Holocaust, of which it can ...
  • Abdulhadi al-Khawaja Enters 77th Day on Hunger ...
                                             
  • Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (April 24)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Arabian Peninsula and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Arabian Peninsula Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to ...
  • Pageantry, Military Myths, and Egypt's “Daddy ...
    The Egyptian calendar is punctuated by various celebrations associated with military events. The Sixth of October had typically been the most flamboyant of those celebrations. Normally, the population does not actively participate in these festivities. On the streets, the Sixth of October feels ...

mediagazer

  • Who cares if Murdoch lobbied? (Jack Shafer/Reu ...
    Jack Shafer / Reuters: Who cares if Murdoch lobbied?  —  Pummel Rupert Murdoch and his minions all you want for News Corp.'s phone-hacking of celebrities and crime victims, its computer-hacking, its blagging, its bribing of police, its payments of hush money, its obstruction o ...
  • Can an Algorithm Write a Better News Story Tha ...
    Steven Levy / Wired: Can an Algorithm Write a Better News Story Than a Human Reporter?  —  Had Narrative Science — a company that trains computers to write news stories—created this piece, it probably would not mention that the company's Chicago headquarters lie only ...
  • Daily Dot, Editor-in-Chief Part Ways (Lauren I ...
    Lauren Indvik / Mashable: Daily Dot, Editor-in-Chief Part Ways  —  The Daily Dot, an online news startup launched in August that bills itself as “the hometown newspaper of the World Wide Web,” is no longer being edited by Owen Thomas, the publication confirmed in a b ...
  • Worldcrunch wants to be the Internet's Rosetta ...
    Adrienne LaFrance / Nieman Journalism Lab: Worldcrunch wants to be the Internet's Rosetta Stone for news  —  As the translation-based news service Worldcrunch approaches the one-year anniversary of its launch, it's also tweaking its business approach in three key ways that co-fo ...
  • Gordon Brown: Rupert Murdoch wrong to claim I ...
    Dan Sabbagh / Guardian: Gordon Brown: Rupert Murdoch wrong to claim I declared war on News Corp  —  Former prime minister calls on media mogul to correct account he gave on oath to Leveson inquiry  —  Gordon Brown has denied he pledged to “declare war&rdquo ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • John Terry's act of folly denies him chan ...
    In the midst of Chelsea's Champions League ecstasy on Tuesday, one can only wonder at the thoughts going through the mind of their disgraced skipper John Terry. A gallant 2-2 draw against Barcelona in the Nou Camp gave Chelsea a 3-2 aggregate victory and a place in the final for another crac ...
  • Jaya Bachchan delighted over Big B's exon ...
    New Delhi, Apr 25 (ANI): Expressing delight over the final exoneration of Amitabh Bachchan's name in the Bofors Gun case, his wife and Samajwadi Party (SP) lawmaker Jaya Bachchan on Wednesday said the truth had finally come out in the open. "Whatever news that you have published...
  • David Cameron disappointed at Britain's r ...
    The Office for National Statistics today announced the 0.2% decline in gross domestic product (GDP) in the first quarter of the year which, after a fall of 0.3% the previous quarter, has triggered the UK's first double-dip recession since the 1970s. Labour leader Ed Miliband told the House o ...
  • On Marine Le Pen and Populism
    Article By WN.com Guest Writer Gilad Atzmon Marine Le Pen and The French's Front National are the big winners in the French elections. France's Front National scored the best ever presidential campaign first-round result (18% of the votes). As elsewhere in Europe, the French far right is dea ...
  • Beyonce named People's most beautiful wom ...
    NEW YORK (AP): People magazine is naming Beyonce as the World's Most Beautiful Woman for...

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Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

  • 4/25/12 - Candidate Finances
    2012election.procon.org - Candidate Finances - According to the Federal Election Commission, the three remaining Republican candidates (Gingrich, Paul, and Romney) have raised $148,098,413 cumulatively, while Democratic President Barack Obama has raised $196,610,770. See how much money each cand ...
  • 4/23/12 - 16 Legal Medical Marijuana States and DC
    medicalmarijuana.procon.org - 16 Legal Medical Marijuana States and DC - On Apr. 11, 2012, Arizona released its revised rules for regulating medical marijuana and announced that it will be accepting dispensary applications. The Apr. 2012 Delaware Register of Regulations included proposed regulat ...
  • 4/2/12 - Pro & Con Arguments: “Should the drin ...
    drinkingage.procon.org - Pro & Con Arguments: "Should the drinking age be lowered from 21 to a younger age?” - Read new pro and con arguments about whether the minimum legal drinking age in the United States should be lowered from 21 to a younger age.
  • 3/30/12 - Health Care Reform
    healthcarereform.procon.org - Health Care Reform ProCon.org - On Mar. 27, 2012, we updated the core question to include the term "Obamacare" because that label has become widely used to reference the Mar. 2010 health care reform laws by both critics of the health care changes and proponents, ...
  • 3/30/12 - Health Care Reform
    healthcarereform.procon.org - Health Care Reform ProCon.org - On Mar. 27, 2012, we updated the core question to include the term "Obamacare" because that label has become widely used to reference the Mar. 2010 health care reform laws by both critics of the health care changes and proponents, ...

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

  • Sweaty armpits could trigger airport scanners
    FULL-BODY scanners being introduced at Australia's eight international airports could be triggered by sweaty armpits and a passenger's posture, a counter-terrorism unit has warned. In German trials of the body-scanning technology, false alarms were recorded and sweaty armpits were among the cu ...
  • Are airport body scanners safe? Radiation expe ...
    An expert in the health risks of human exposure to radiation will speak at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) about airport whole-body scanners on May 4. Hosted by the UWM Department of Physics, Dr. John Moulder of the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) will address the considerable p ...
  • Target offers 3D body scanner to measure custo ...
    TARGET has a new employee - a 3D body scanner - charged with making sure clothes fit better. The national retailer is spending $1 million on the technology that will measure the dimensions of 20,000 men and women as part of a national survey to update their designs. Perth shoppers will be ...
  • Two interviews and some Australian News - Part 1
    In the first hour of today's show we bring you some analysis of recent news in Australia on the subject of climate change and the impending carbon tax, as well as an excerpt from a mini documentary which explores some of the internal frictions which caused the occupy movement in Brisbane to spli ...
  • Charles Darwin debunked!
    Today's show contains 2 excellent interviews and audio clips from a recent anti-war protest held in Sydney. In the first half of today’s show we bring you an interview with Chris Emery and Holland Van den Nieuwenhof discussing their stunning film A Noble Lie, which exposes the cover-up a ...

Beacon

  • Video: Chile’s Shockingly Polluted Communities
    Our team in Chile has produced a powerful video, and we are excited to share it with you. The video shows dramatic images and real testimonies from the people of Ventanas, in central Chile, which is severely affected by the pollution from coal-fired power plants and a copper refinery. Earlier ...
  • ‘Frozen Planet’ Raises Climate Questions
    Sunday night, Discovery Channel aired the final episode of the Frozen Planet series that aired on the BBC last year. This episode featured Sir David Attenborough visiting both poles – huddled by a sedated polar bear in the Arctic, hollering over the extreme winds at his Antarctic campsite – r ...
  • Chile to Expand Marine Reserves in 2012
    A sea turtle in Hanga Roa Bay, Easter Island. © Oceana/Eduardo Sorensen Great news today: The Chilean Government announced its intention to expand the Salas y Gómez marine reserve and to create a smaller reserve in Hanga Roa Bay – the harbor right off the main town and capital of historic Eas ...
  • Chile to Create Easter Island Marine Reserve i ...
    A sea turtle in Hanga Roa Bay, Easter Island. © Oceana/Eduardo Sorensen Great news today: the Chilean government has announced that within the year 2012, it will designate a marine reserve in Easter Island’s Hanga Roa Bay and present a proposal for the expansion of the nearby marine park Motu ...
  • Two Years Later: Deformed Seafood and Sick Dol ...
    A soapfish in the Gulf of Mexico. © Oceana/Eduardo Sorensen Today marks the second anniversary of the Gulf oil spill. Oil has long stopped flowing from the leaking rig, but that doesn’t mean the disaster is over. Local fishermen have been making some off-putting discoveries: nets full of eyel ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • The Sturmgeschutz III, AKA Stug.
    Few people realize that Germany, known to have produced an adamantine armored force, also produced armored vehicles rarely talked about or ever the subject of films. Germany produced tens of thousands of self-propelled anti-tank guns. In yesterday’s post, we discussed the Jagd 38t, other wise kn ...
  • The Canadian Tank That Never Saw Battle.
      The 5 man crew Cruiser Ram II came late. It was in the field towards the end of World War II. But it travelled at 40 kilometers an hour and sported a 57mm, or 6 pounder main cannon. It had a high profile for its day and missed combat completely. Newer tank models were [...]
  • Photographs of Adolph Hitler The Complete Coll ...
    Bet you know you’re a war history nerd when you spend time reviewing photos on a blog called, and I am not kidding, adolphhitlerbestpictures.blogspot.com.Until you see this you don’t really get an idea that he was the face of the Nazi party and that said he made sure he appeared in p ...
  • The SAAB J21
          It was 1947 when Saab began making almost 300 copies of the pusher/puller dual propellers and twin tail J21 aircraft. Sweden wouldn’t have been able to acquire an air force and so they attempted a domestic expenditure to create a fighter aircraft of original design and capab ...
  • The Semovente 47/32 Selp Propelled Howitzer
        Perhaps it should be viewed as a compliment that the Italians actually produced an armored fighting vehicle that the Germans were happy to use. After all, the Wehrmacht featured the best tanks in the world and were it not for Hitler propping him up, Mussolini would have fallen much ...

Taylor Marsh

  • Foreclosures, Student Debt and Act Up: Occupyi ...
    Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. If you want to be taken seriously, Occupiers are told, you have to identify specific issues. Equally as important, you have to frame all your arguments within accepted Duopoly either / or language. And since it’s a pr ...
  • The Moment Where Charles Pierce Obliterates Ro ...
    Simply put, Elaine Pagels has forgotten more about the events surrounding the founding of Christianity, including the spectacular multiplicity of sects that exploded in the deserts of the Middle East at the same time, than Ross Douthat will ever know, and to lump her work in with the popular fic ...
  • We Won’t Have Newt Gingrich to Kick Around Anymore
    “I’m going to be the nominee.” – Newt Gingrich Breaking from CNN… Newt Gingrich will officially end his bid for the Republican presidential nomination and formally express his support for Mitt Romney next week, two sources close to Gingrich tell CNN. While details a ...
  • Ann Romney’s Mitt-ism
    “I love the fact that there are women out there who don’t have a choice and they must go to work and they still have to raise the kids. Thank goodness that we value those people too. And sometimes life isn’t easy for any of us.” – Ann Romney I bet women who don’t have [...]
  • Obama Slow Jams the News with Fallon
    Fan of Jimmy Fallon here. There’s a reason Obama has solid likable numbers. Naming “Groundhog Day” as a favorite movie does date him. It also illustrates priorities, because Obama’s a man who could get any film he wanted at the White House from studios. He’d rather ...

Hudson New York

  • Muslim Persecution of Christians: March, 2012
    The war on Christianity and its adherents in the Muslim world rages on. In March alone, Saudi Arabia's highest Islamic legal authority decreed that churches in the region must be destroyed; jihadis [holy warriors] in Nigeria said they "are going to put
  • Anti-Christian and Anti-Jewish Sentiment in Ma ...
    An anti-Semitic sermon prepared and distributed by the Malaysian Federal Territory Islamic Affairs Department was aired on March 30 in all the mosques of the capital city, Kuala Lumpur. The sermon called "to understand that Jews are the main enemy to
  • How To Avoid Another Defeat in Iran
    Thirty-two years ago this week, on April 24, eight U.S. servicemen died in the southeastern desert of Iran when their mission to rescue 52 Americans held captive by the revolutionary regime in Tehran was aborted by President Jimmy Carter. Operation Eagle
  • Will the Pirates Capture Germany?
    The crisis surrounding the euro is leading to growing dissatisfaction with existing parties all over the eurozone. In France, as explained here last week, the current crisis has breathed new life into the far left. In Germany, where the far-left Die
  • Erdogan the Aesthete
    Early in 2011, while visiting the Turkish city of Kars, less than 20 miles (30 kilometres) from the Armenian frontier. the country's neo-fundamentalist prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan of the Justice and Development Party (known by its local initials

Urban Survival

  • Another Kick Down for Housing
    Although the report is a couple of months behind the market, I’ve always held the Case Shiller/S&P 20-city housing index out as the gold standard of real estate activity measurements and this morning’s report showed what I rather expected:  Weakness … Continue reading ...
  • Coping: Hanging Around the Airport
    Usually, when I go down to the local airport, it’s with charts and logbook in hand, credit card for gas, a couple of bucks for a hamburger, and the airaplane keys jangling in my pocket on a sunny day.  But … Continue reading →
  • Seat Backs and Tray Tables?
    I have been yammering the past couple of weeks to Peoplenomics readers about how I’ve been getting 100% short because my “spidey-sense” is screaming that this year’s “Sell in May and Go Away” event could go into the history books.  … Continue readin ...
  • Coping: With Monday at the WuJo
    Not very often that I get a serious dose of déjà vu.  First, because the first time I heard of it was not as a part of curiously “remember” something that is just happening.  No, it was when as a … Continue reading →
  • A Word from Jas Jain
    We don’t normally get into editorial positions, especially on Friday with Miller time close at hand, and another weekend at long last in sight, but with the headline in the Washington Times that “Obama reverts to 2008 plan: Blame Bush.” … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • India's Solar Sector Has Grown Rapidly, Drivin ...
    Frances Beinecke, President of NRDC, New York City India has dramatically expanded its reliance on solar power over the past two years. Solar installations have sprouted across the nation and costs for this clean energy have dropped, according to a ...
  • Fracking in Ohio
    Henry Henderson, Director, Midwest Program NRDC, Chicago, Illinois Listen to the fracking fanatics in Ohio and you are likely to hear lots about the economic possibility, but a whole lot less about its economic and environmental liabilities. Despite ...
  • The Prince's Speech on Food
    Johanna Dyer, Legal Fellow, New York As the U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee continues its Farm Bill discussions this month, it’s a good time to take a look at America’s broken food system and how it contributes to so many of our most p ...
  • Update: Illinois Senate Poised to Advance Shar ...
    Nick Magrisso, Midwest Program , Chicago Springfield, Illinois – thousands of miles away from any ocean coast, and void of any charismatic ocean predators, like sharks, Illinois is moving swiftly to pass legislation that would help save our oc ...
  • Energizing the Solar Market in India: How Gove ...
    Anjali Jaiswal, Senior Attorney, San Francisco With nations around the world vying for clean energy leadership, India has taken a bold step toward becoming a leader in solar development. In only two years under India’s ambitious national solar ...

Injustice Everywhere

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

Total Collapse

  • US Calls For Russian Airborne Troops To “Take ...
    A bizarre report prepared by the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation that is circulating in the Kremlin today on the joint US-Russia military drills taking place next month in the State of Colorado says that the plans received from the Americans call for Russian Airborne Troops (V ...
  • Russia Stunned After Japanese Plan To Evacuate ...
    A new report circulating in the Kremlin today prepared by the Foreign Ministry on the planned re-opening of talks with Japan over the disputed Kuril Islands during the next fortnight states that Russian diplomats were “stunned” after being told by their Japanese counterparts that upwards of 40 m ...
  • Russian warships heading for Syria: Russian mi ...
    A high-ranking source in the Russian defense ministry says several Russian warships are on their way to the Mediterranean Sea to guard Syrian coasts for the foreseeable future. “A decision has been made to deploy Russian warships near the Syrian shores on a permanent basis,” the state-run RIA ne ...
  • Obama Regime Suicides Top Diplomat To Cover Up ...
    A shocking Federal Security Services (FSB) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that top French diplomat Richard Descoings was “suicided” by American intelligence agents shortly after he arrived in New York and was due to report to the United Nations that France’s Central Directorate o ...
  • Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran’s Northern Bo ...
    The Russian military anticipates that an attack will occur on Iran by the summer and has developed an action plan to move Russian troops through neighboring Georgia to stage in Armenia, which borders on the Islamic republic, according to informed Russian sources. Russian Security Council head Vi ...

Daily Dose

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Repowering Port Augusta report now available
    To download the report click here. This ground breaking report makes the environmental, social and economic case for the replacement of Port Augusta’s existing brown coal-fired power stations with baseload solar thermal and wind power. As with all our work, this blueprint is technically det ...
  • Clean fossils of the future? How about ready r ...
    There’s a lot of discussion and political jostling around energy options, decarbonisation, low-carbon or zero-carbon transition. Looking at the options, let’s begin with today’s dominant player, conventional coal. It’s fate is easy to summarise, we burn it now in old, outdated power stations, ...
  • Adelaide - Repower Port Augusta Report Launch
    At what promises to be one of the most important events on the political calendar for 2012, Mark Ogge from the renewable energy think-tank, Beyond Zero Emissions, will launch the long-awaited BZE Repower Port Augusta Report. This reports presents the compelling economic and environmental case ...
  • The minister for tourism signs tourism industr ...
    Martin Ferguson, the Federal Minister for Resources Energy and Tourism and previous head of the ACTU, today signalled that the mining industry will take precedence over tourism and manufacturing, despite the enormous damage it is doing to these industries. In a speech in Brisbane today, Mr ...
  • The merit order effect – actually, it’s a good ...
    The Merit Order Effect, put simply, means lower electricity bills for consumers. That’s because it means lower-cost electricity in the wholesale market when additional renewables are introduced into the mix. The effect has been demonstrated in Germany, where they have very significant deploym ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • First-ever picture of rare leopard in China
    Camera traps in China's Hunchun Amur Tiger National Nature Reserve have captured the first-ever image of the critically endangered Amur leopard on Chinese soil, reports the Wildlife Conservation Society. The photograph, coupled with a recent study that suggests the presence of 8-11 leopard in Ji ...
  • New reptile discovered in world's strangest ar ...
    Few people have ever heard of the Socotra Archipelago even though, biologically-speaking, it is among the world's most wondrous set of islands. Over one third of Socotra's plants are found no-where else on Earth, i.e. endemic, while 90 percent of its reptiles are also endemic. Adding to its list ...
  • Featured video: How to save the Amazon
    The past ten years have seen unprecedented progress in fighting deforestation in the Amazon. Indigenous rights, payments for ecosystem services, government enforcement, satellite imagery, and a spirit of cooperation amongst old foes has resulted in a decline of 80 percent in Brazil's deforestati ...
  • Animal picture of the day: the spotless cheetah
    A strange cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) has been photographed in Kenya by wildlife artist Guy Combes. The "golden" cheetah's telltale spots are bizarrely diluted.
  • Eye-popping purple crabs discovered in the Phi ...
    Scientists have discovered four new species of brilliantly-colored freshwater crabs on the Philippine island of Palawan. Described in the Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, the new species expands the genus, Insulamon, from one known crab species to five. Although its ecosystems are threatened by wide ...

Sierra Express

  • Women’s Forum Network launches sensitization a ...
    The Women’s Forum Network with support from UN Women Salone has launched a national sensitization and mapping out initiative of women aspirants for the November general elections.   (Rosalind Mcarthy, President of Women’s Forum Sierra Leone) Speaking at the launching ceremony which was hel ...
  • Iranian deputy Governor visit FCC
    On Monday 23rd April, Acting Mayor of Freetown Alhaji Gibril Kanu (in photo) received the Iranian Deputy Governor with his high power delegation from Iran paying a courtesy call at his Lightfoot Boston Street office in Freetown. Welcoming the delegation the Acting Mayor Alhaji Gibril Kanu said t ...
  • Ambassador Multi-Kamara welcomed with ‘opened ...
    The Dean of ECOWAS Ambassadors in the People’s Republic of China has assured Sierra Leone’s new Ambassador to China, Abu Bakarr Multi-Kamara of their unflinching support to him and promised to share with him the challenges as well as the successes he (Multi-Kamara) will score in his new job. Amb ...
  • Meeting President Koroma, reaching IAMTECH
    I was in Sierra Leone for few days and I must state, Sierra Leone is such a beautiful country that one could not help but invite tourists to pay a visit and have time along our beautiful beaches. During my two weeks long stay, I was able to learn about the commitment and readiness of [...]
  • ABC Secretariat Iron Lady entices footballers
    Gracing the finals of a soccer gala between Premier Base and Me and My Boys teams that was organized at the Millen Field in Freetown on Monday April 22nd 2012, the National Coordinator and Second-in-Command of Attitudinal and Behavioural Change (ABC) Secretariat, Madam Nanette Thomas called on f ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Most Kiwis prefer Fay group's bid
    Days after Chinese company Shanghai Pengxin won approval for its purchase of the Crafar Farms, New Zealanders say they would rather the group led by controversial Kiwi asset stripper Sir Michael Fay owned the farms.Shanghai Pengxin's...
  • Fonterra blames media-savvy minority for e ...
    Fonterra will go back to shareholders one last time to get its Trading Among Farmers scheme over the line, after finding disquiet among global customers about apparent farmer opposition to the initiative.Chairman Henry van der...
  • Dairy farmers face payout cut after big fall i ...
    New Zealand dairy farm payouts look likely to sink further next season if the downward trend in dairy prices continues, economists say.Prices of dairy products had their biggest decline since July 2010 in Fonterra's latest GlobalDairyTrade...
  • Dairy prices fall 9.9pc in overnight auction
    Prices of dairy products had their biggest decline since July 2010 in Fonterra's latest GlobalDairyTrade auction, pushing the price index below its 10-year average.The GDT-TWI Price Index fell 9.9 per cent compared to the...
  • Fonterra plans to invest in new Indonesian plant
    Fonterra Cooperative Group, the world's biggest dairy exporter, plans to invest in a new blending and packing plant in Indonesia as it seeks to tap growing Asian demand for high-protein food products.The plant is expected to be...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Ron Paul: The Candidate Who Wasn't There, Yet ...
    Ron Paul is still running for president, and insists he'll continue to be until the Republican Party's convention in Tampa in 2012. Where isn't Ron Paul? *This CNN primary delegate chart. *In this Townhall.com "Veepstakes" poll. *In this robocall to GOP voters in New York from ...
  • Secret Service Scandal: They Transgressed the ...
    I still don't quite understand what the Secret Service hooker scandal is about (aside from the folly of post-purchase haggling), and this story in today's New York Times left me even more confused (emphasis added): One official said that the misconduct in Cartagena, Colombia, ...
  • David Harsanyi on Obamacare's Newest Fraud
    If the Obama administration expended as much creative energy saving taxpayers money as it does obscuring the costs of Obamacare, we'd probably have a program worth saving. But from day one, the health care law has been larded with double-counting gimmickry to conceal its $1 trillion p ...
  • After Three Wars, 1.2 Million Deportations, an ...
    President Barack Obama went on Jimmy Fallon's TV last night and "slow jammed the news," which is like "those bits of Barry White songs where he’s talking while the band plays in the background," according to the Christian Science Monitor.  The segment is getting some pretty strong ...
  • Cabins Selling Out Quickly! Register Today for ...
    Reason will take to the high seas in 2012 for our second annual cruise—and this time, we'll explore the magnificent Gulf of Alaska August 11-18 aboard Holland America's luxurious Westerdam! You’ll have the chance to talk with Nadine Strossen, one of America’s most respected civil li ...

Mercury Rising

  • RPM’s Brodkorb Scorecard So Far: West Me ...
    A few days ago, Spotty over at the Cucking Stool was chuckling away over the prospect of Cal Ludeman’s being hauled into a courtroom to address some, ah, inconsistencies in his public statements on the firing of Senate staffer Michael Brodkorb: There was a hearing yesterday which began to ...
  • The Vulture Secretary: Murdoch’s control ...
    (Image from Nick Sutton, Twitpic) Patrick Wintour and Dan Sabbagh, The Guardian: Jeremy Hunt, the culture secretary, has begged the Leveson inquiry to give him a chance to salvage his reputation after emails released by News Corp appeared to show that Hunt and his office passed confidential and ...
  • He’s nothing if not persistent: Limbaugh ...
    Puffington Host: Rush Limbaugh went after Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke again on Tuesday for what he called “coordinating” with President Obama to “scare students about the interest rates on their loans.” During his Tuesday radio show, Limbaugh read a twe ...
  • A legal lynching: the murder of Anastasio Hern ...
    From DemocracyNow AMY GOODMAN: …In May 2010, 32-year-old Anastasio Hernández-Rojas was caught trying to enter the United States from Mexico near San Diego. Hernández-Rojas had previously lived in the United States for 25 years, from the age of 15. He was the father of five U.S. born-childr ...
  • Lapping ‘cross the pond (the Murdoch sca ...
    Ed Pilkington and Dominic Rushe, The Guardian: Colin Myler’s editorship of the New York Daily News, one of the most prominent newspapers in America, has come under renewed scrutiny following allegations that he attempted to intimidate members of the UK parliament investigating phone hackin ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Waking up from History... to Love?
    Wake me up from Histr'y, O' Daedalus said We're falling into Mystery, the dreamer insisted Seaspawn and seawrack, this tide won't subside Order from chaos, one hell of a ride Unwinding the clock as the moon pulls the tide Analemma-just the nature of time.   rea ...
  • May 1: Welcome to the Paradigm Shift
    Evolver Call to Action! This is a call out to the Evolver/Reality Sandwich community to activate on May 1st in Solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement to kick off the Spring Awakening!   read more
  • Communal Microbes 

    The behavior of microorganisms presents a paradox that puzzles the confident logic of science: some microbes can cease performing a function that had been considered necessary for their survival, yet this seeming disparity causes them to thrive and proliferate. A progressive group of microbio ...
  • Art is Magic
    We all know that art can be magical, but in a deep way, art can literally be magic. NYers are invited to join me for the opening party of my next group art show, Sigils & Signs, which opens at Observatory this week -- Friday, April 27th from 7-10pm. The show will be up through Sunday, June 1 ...
  • The Cloud Filmmaking Manifesto
      When YouTube first came out, I had a vivid dream that all the videos were in HD quality and had easy pull-down menus that explained how I could license the footage. I was like a kid in a candy store. read more

Desertification

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

Blogging Canadians

  • "The Current Status Quo"
    War against the current status quo is our imperative. The Internet & the streets are our playground. We are everywhere. You cannot stop us. by "Anonymous" As originally posted on: Anonymous (YourAnonNews) on Twitter March 13, 2012
  • Erratic weather in New Brunswick
    This morning my deck looked like the above picture. We had a very unusual weather this winter. It was a very mild winter. Temperature hit 27c for a few days in March. However April has been generally cold and we had a major snow storm in April. Since the last few days it has been raining a ...
  • Nicolas Sarkozy: Presidential Elections in France
    Nicolas Sarkozy should have no problem winning. His girlfriend/wife in bikini should help as he thinks French don't like burqa/veil.   He was another of George W. Bush's poodle besides Tony Blair of Britain and Stephen Harper of Canada.
  • "This Monster"
    Poison by "Paradox" The following poem was originally posted on Revolution of the Mind (http://www.alparadox.blogspot.com) on February 25, 2012. It flows from the lips of every politician, Every print ad, every commercial. It is a siren song, calling people towards lies, Pulling them away ...
  • Mulcair On Pot
    The above heading on the front page of The Huffington Post gives the impression that Mulcair, Leader of NDP, puffs pot. But when you click on the story the actual heading is “NDP Clarifies Mulcair Stance On Marijuana“. Misleading heading!

Press TV - Middle East

  • Zainab al-Khawaja jailed for seven days
    Bahraini authorities have remanded into custody for seven days the daughter of jailed human rights activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja for protesting during last week's Formula One Grand Prix.
  • Two Syrian officers killed in Dara’a
    Armed groups have killed two Syrian army officers and a Red Crescent employee in the southern city of Dara’a, media reports say.
  • ‘Iran not in pursuit of nuclear weapons’
    Israel’s Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Benny Gantz says he does not believe Iran will pursue nuclear weapons after years of efforts made by Tel Aviv and its allies to convince the world otherwise.
  • Gaza rally held for jailed Palestinians
    Palestinians have staged a protest rally in the besieged Gaza Strip to express solidarity with prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails.
  • Israel to help terrorist Free Syrian Army
    Israel is reportedly set to provide the terrorist Free Syrian Army fighting against the government of President Bashar al-Assad with assistance as part of its conspiracy against Damascus, Press TV reported.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • Follow-Back: The Power of Twitter
    Twitter, a social micro-blogging website has burst onto the scene and become embedded into the fabric of society and more importantly has become one of society’s methods of staying ‘in touch.’ Twitter has attracted users from all walks of life, be they mainstream corporations, governmental organ ...
  • Solicitation of Nominations for SPS Governing ...
    We are now accepting nominations for students to join the School of Professional Studies Governing Council.  The Governing Council considers proposals for new courses, degrees, certificates and programs that will be offered by the School.  Two students and two alternates are needed to serve on t ...
  • Smarmy Prince, Contemptible Hypocrite, Ayatoll ...
    What a group. What a choice. The remaining field of Republican presidential candidates is one of the weakest in history. It is not just the liberal media that thinks so. Former Republican Congressman and current MSNBC host Joe Scarborough believes it and right wing pundit Charles Krauthammer cal ...
  • Silently Waiting
    The ruthless brutality which humankind has been known to unleash upon their fellow humans throughout history seems unrelenting and in fact almost unbelievable when considered in hindsight. For example, the Holocaust, the Trail of Tears, the Middle Passage, and the Great Purge – all events of his ...
  • Choices and Trade-offs…Why I Chose CUNY ...
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    MarketWatch (press release)
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    Santa Barbara Independent
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    Catholic Online
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    Los Angeles Times
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    MarketWatch (press release)
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