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Thomas Paine

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

Sunday, April 29, 2012

29 April - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

WASHINGTON - JANUARY 17: People march during ...WASHINGTON - JANUARY 17: People march during the fifth annual peace walk in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. January 17, 2010 in Washington, DC. Twenty-five community-based organizations gathered at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Anacostia to march for jobs, social progress and civil rights while honoring the birth of American civil rights leader Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. who was assassinated on April 4, 1968. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
( Some years ago there was an online protest attempt to save a video used in schools on Martin Luther King from copyright suppression by downloading to multiple computers )
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Scoop - NZ

  • Yemen: Popular Committees Take Control
    After multiple defeats suffered by the army at the hands of Ansar al-Sharia, local communities and tribes in Southern Yemen have been taking charge of their own security, and doing a much more effective job at maintaining it.
  • Will Iran War be Another October Surprise?
    Will Mitt Romney and Benjamin Netanyahu concoct a war with Iran? Not if they have a tenth of the sense they were born with. But that’s not much consolation when we’re dealing, on the one hand, with a vulture capitalist and one time Mormon bishop whose flip flopping gives opportunism a bad name ...
  • Caring for traumatized soldiers in the US
    Experts estimate that up to 20 percent of American soldiers returning from Iraq or Afghanistan may suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and that only half of them are treated. Many soldiers simply struggle through on their own, because they fear the stigma attached to mental illnes ...
  • JJ: Could MLK Get a Job in Today’s America?
    Would a young Martin Luther King Jr. be able to get a job in America today? Would one of the thousands who went to jail in support of Nelson Mandela? Or the brilliant kids at the center of Occupy Wall Street? Unless we begin to enforce the Civil Rights Act, many Americans will find the doors of ...
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Independent - London

  • New York van crash kills seven
    Authorities say a van plunged off a roadway near the Bronx Zoo in New York City, killing seven people, including three children.Related StoriesWaterboarding and 'enhanced interrogation' shown to be ineffectiveJohn Edwards 'gave funding to aide'Women on the front line of America's abortion warUS ...
  • PM condemns beheading of British doctor Khalil ...
    The murder of a British aid worker whose body was found dumped in an orchard in Pakistan has been condemned by the Prime Minister as a “shocking and merciless act”.Related StoriesEscaped dissident pleads for action on corruptionJournalist held over Israeli attacks is 'the wrong man'British soldi ...
  • Kidnapped British Red Cross doctor beheaded in ...
    A British humanitarian worker has been killed in Pakistan after being kidnapped earlier this year, the Foreign Office said today.Related StoriesEscaped dissident pleads for action on corruptionJournalist held over Israeli attacks is 'the wrong man'British soldier killed in AfghanistanTear gas us ...
  • At least 15 killed in Nigeria church attack
    Gunmen killed 15 people and wounded many more when they attacked a lecture theatre used by Christian worshippers in Nigeria's second largest city of Kano on Sunday, a university worker told Reuters. Related StoriesCharles Taylor convicted of aiding war crimes
  • Three dead in yacht race accident
    Three crew members of a yacht were found dead and a fourth person was missing after they ran into trouble during a race off the coasts of California and Mexico.Related StoriesScouts sack lesbian leader for being gayWaterboarding and 'enhanced interrogation' shown to be ineffectiveJohn Edwards 'g ...

Rogue Government.com

  • Ben Bernanke Makes Insane Comments On Gold
    Ben Bernanke who today was testifying in front of a Congressional Committee made the assertion that gold is not money during an exchange with Congressman Ron Paul.  He even went as far to say that central banks only hold gold because of tradition
  • ATF’s Fast and Furious Seems Colored With Sha ...
    The acting head of ATF (the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) has seemingly blown the cover of both DEA and FBI informant operations in order to spare his own neck and to deflect blame away from a badly flawed operation undertaken by his own agency.
  • Blackwater’s New Director: Bill Clinton’s Law ...
    Blackwater’s rebranding continues at a torrid pace. Danger Room has learned the latest Washington greybeard hired to spruce up the image of the world’s most infamous private security firm is Jack Quinn, a top Washington lobbyist and former White House counsel to President Bill Clinton.
  • EU calls emergency meeting as crisis stalks I ...
    European Council President Herman Van Rompuy has called an emergency meeting of top officials dealing with the euro zone debt crisis for Monday morning, reflecting concern that the crisis could spread to Italy, the region's third largest economy.
  • Analyst: Even Dollar Stores Struggling In ‘Ob ...
    More stores across the U.S. that offer deeply-discounted products are seeing their sales decline after years of growth amid America’s “Great Recession” — and one analyst said on Monday it’s another sign of even deeper downturn. 

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Slained Gaddafi funded Sarkozy's 2007 Election ...
    A French news website has claimed President Nicolas Sarkozy's 2007 election campaign was partially funded by the government of the late Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi. The Paris-based website Mediapart has alleged the Sarkozy campaign was given an estimated US$66 million. Mediapart also suggeste ...
  • Giant asteroids hit earth more frequently than ...
    Research by international scientists concluded that giant asteroids, similar or larger than the one believed to have killed the dinosaurs, hit Earth billions of years ago with more frequency than previously thought, U.S. space agency NASA announced Wednesday. To cause the dinosaur extinction, t ...
  • Power really does corrupt as scientists claim ...
    More than a hundred years after noted historian Baron John Acton coined the phrase 'power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely' scientists claim the saying is biologically true. The feeling of power has been found to have a similar effect on the brain to cocaine by increasin ...
  • Mystery Deepens in Bizarre British Spy Death Case
    Of the myriad questions surrounding the case of the British codebreaker who was found naked and stuffed into a duffle bag in 2010, today expert witnesses gave at least one answer: he most likely didn't put himself in there. Gareth Williams, who worked for the British Secret Intelligence Service ...
  • London 2012: Missiles may be placed at residen ...
    The Ministry of Defense is considering placing surface-to-air missiles on residential flats during the Olympics. An east London estate, where 700 people live, has received leaflets saying a "Higher Velocity Missile system" could be placed on a water tower. A spokesman said the MoD had not yet ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Another military procurement screw-up
    Most Canadians can be excused for not having a clue about the Close Combat Vehicle (CCV) Project. It is, after all, only worth $2 billion. This particular project, which is intended to provide the army with either a tracked or wheeled (who knows?) infantry fighting vehicle capable of accomp ...
  • Playing for keeps . . .
    CHRISTWIRE.ORG is a delightful satire site. Adam Nelson reports in "Game Of American Thrones" that atheists are responsible for this comparison with today's Presidential Politicking — "Pint-sized lump of pure evil" — hooooweeeeee!
  • Tribal suicide
    Too many years of good rains and bountiful harvests have made the members fat and idle. They've lost the memory of droughts and hungry winters and with it, the wisdom to save the grain and salt the fish. They mock the wise ones who know the sky and the waters and say the soils are harder and the ...
  • A strong, stable conservative majority full of ...
    This will get the Wurlitzer spinning: Stephen Harper's Conservative government has won this year's Code of Silence Award from the Canadian Association of Journalists. The annual award recognizing Canada's most secretive government or publicly funded agency was handed out in Toronto Sat ...
  • Hitler away!
    Well, Stephen of Harper, you've just subverted a Law of the Internets. Godwin's Law no longer applies and well, we can now happily mock you with comparisons.

Media Matters for America

  • Fox's Hannity Denies That Women Face Discrimin ...
    This week, Fox News host Sean Hannity scoffed at the idea that women face discriminatory practices from the health insurance industry, arguing that it is "disinformation" to claim that repeal of the health care reform law, which bans such practices, will again subject women to unfair and discri ...
  • Memo To Media: EPA Official's Comments Applied ...
    Several media outlets have distorted comments by an EPA official, falsely suggesting that he said "oil companies should be crucified." In fact, the official was using an analogy, which he has since apologized for, to describe a common approach t ...
  • Who's Behind The Right's Latest Anti-Environme ...
    Fox News and other conservative media have promoted a video that suggests environmental regulations will cause "America to fail." But the video, created by a conservative group with a history of ethical problems, makes many misleading claims including denying global warming.Video Created By Con ...
  • Fox Won't Let Go Of Ridiculous Myth That Obama ...
    Fox News is once again pushing the myth that President Obama "apologized" for the United States, following a speech by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in which he vowed to "never again apologize for America." In fact, Obama has never made such an apology.Mitt Romney Suggested Obam ...
  • Fox News Now Denying Deforestation
    In a rant described by one scientist as "either incredibly ignorant" or "intentionally misleading," Fox News host Greg Gutfeld denied deforestation and distorted climate science.Gutfeld Becomes A Deforestation Denier Gutfeld Falsely Claims We Plant More Trees Than We Cut Down. During the April ...

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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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Public Citizen in Texas

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

Unexplained Mysteries

  • US Army requests 'magic bullets'
    Companies are being tasked with developing a bullet that can float around waiting for its target. Described as a 'Nonlethal Warhead for Miniature Orga...
  • Silver disk UFO sighted over Nova Scotia
    A witness has described a silver disk-shaped object gliding across the skies over Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. It was one of the hottest days of the year w...
  • Analytic thinking can undermine belief
    A new study has examined the connection between intuitive thought, analytical thinking and religion. Psychologists at the University of British Columb...
  • Grandmother 'resurrects' after 12 days
    A 67-year-old woman who was presumed dead stunned family members when she woke up a few days later. Mama Victoria Gbemisola Babatunde from Nigeria wou...
  • Man builds device to speak to dead daughter
    Gary Galka claims to have constructed several devices with which he can communicate with ghosts. Galka lost his daughter in a car accident eight years...

Grassroots

  • 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

  • A Daunting Emissions Quest for U.S. Cities
    (NYT Green) More than 1,000 American cities have voluntarily committed themselves to ambitious targets for reducing CO2 emissions. A recent case study focusing on Allegheny County, Pa., home to Pittsburgh, highlights how hard it will b ...
  • Study Hints at Greater Threat of Extreme Weather
    (New York Times) New research suggests that global warming is causing the cycle of evaporation and rainfall over the oceans to intensify more than scientists had expected, an ominous finding that may indicate a higher potential for ext ...
  • Drought-Hit Areas of England Told to Prepare f ...
    (Guardian) No sooner had 20 million people in southern and eastern England been banned from using hosepipes than the heavens opened, and now parts of the country have been told to prepare for flooding.
  • Shell Says No to North Sea Wind Power
    (Guardian) Shell will not be joining David Cameron's crusade to attract private sector investment into creating a North Sea wind revolution despite its commitment to turbines in the U.S.
  • North Sea, Nigerian Leaks to Hit Total
    (Wall Street Journal) Oil major Total on Friday warned that production in the second quarter will be dented by leaks at its North Sea and Nigerian operations as well as planned maintenance, and reported a profit drop in the first quart ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • Alarmed Observation
    There are a lot of crazy people in the world. There have to be better ways for people to spend their time. Discuss
  • Casual Observation
    Last night at the Nerdprom, President Obama asked, "What's the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull?" His answer? "A pit bull is delicious." It was a reference to the lipstick joke Sarah Palin told at the Republican National Convention four years ago. With the passage of time, howe ...
  • Netanyahu's Troubles
    Netanyahu is threatening to call early elections, which is something he would not do unless he expected to improve his position. But, I wonder if he'd actually improve his position. He's certainly taking a ton of abuse lately, with the former heads of Shin Bet and the Mossad taking major shots ...
  • Gingrich is Still a Pathetic Joke
    I generally like Dan Balz but this piece is pretty ridiculous. Gingrich ran one of the most shameless campaigns in American history. Even most of the troglodytes in his own party are ashamed of him. Balz acts like he was surprisingly restrained and disciplined. And then he asks the most bori ...
  • Observations on Iran
    If we can cut a deal with Iran that will allow them to enrich uranium up to 5% purity in exchange for meeting the international community's demands for transparency on their nuclear activities, that is actually an excellent deal. Part of that deal would entail Iran shipping all its 20% enriched ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • Why Running Barefoot Beats Running With Shoes
    Find out whether barefoot runners are naked-foot fanatics, or if there is actually some truth to the new buzz about running shoeless. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 7 Bioluminescent Creatures That Light Up the Ocean
    Imagine lighting up a room literally all by yourself. Well, that's what these bioluminescent sea creatures are born to do! Bioluminescence rarely looked so beautiful. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Damage to World Oceans May Cost Trillions
    The state of the oceans of the world is not a pretty one. Overfishing, pollution and climate change are piling up on each other and could cost trillions. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Amazing Abstract Textures of Microscopic Mold
    Your first reaction upon seeing a piece of moldy bread probably isn't "wow, that's interesting!" Still, these microscopic scale photographs of the fungi might your mind. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Cool Surf Spots in Alaska
    California... Hawaii... Australia... Alaska? Believe it or not, this chilly destination has tons of surfing potential – 47,000 miles of it to be exact. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • #WhileWeWatch Occupy Wall Street documentary t ...
    It was a fun experience out at Zuccotti Park last October/November, and one late morning/early afternoon I gave an interview to Kevin Breslin, a gung ho director who pulled the OWS pieces together a 38-minute documentary called #whilewewatch on very little budget. It's been making the rounds and ...
  • 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 ...

Daily Censored

  • the liberal center has collapsed: Appeasement ...
    The liberal center has folded.  Anyone who had any illusions about Democrats and a politics of resistance, you can forget it.  The issue that faced both Governor Jerry Brown of California and Governor Kitzhaber of Oregon was the same: whether to tax the rich of both states to offset the state... ...
  • Our 2nd American Revolution simply affirms US ...
    “Constitutional governments and aristocracies are commonly overthrown owing to some deviation from justice…the rich, if the constitution gives them power, are apt to be insolent and avaricious… In all well-attempered governments there is nothing which should be more jealously maintained than the ...
  • Humanity will never get Truth until criminal 1 ...
    The annual cost of US 1% “leadership” lies and obvious crimes is death to millions, harm to billions, and looting of trillions of the 99%’s wealth. The 1% lie about wars, then do exactly what war law exists to prevent: offensive and illegal Wars of Aggression. They lie year after year as the war ...
  • Insider trading probe at University of Phoenix ...
      On April 19, 2012 Reuters news service reported the Securities and Exchange Commission was investigating certain Apollo Company share sales by company insiders. Apollo is the parent company of the for-profit college, University of Phoenix . The insiders being investigated were not named.... ...
  • THE LAST SUMMIT –THANK GOD
    By Saul Landau Fidel Castro scored one big political victory last week, without speaking or even leaving his house – and one sort of amusing little win. By a lopsided score at the Summit of the Americas meeting in Cartagena, Fidel beat President Obama 31-2. The USA and Canada still want to exclu ...

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  • Comment: Britain denies murdered businessman w ...
    Britain's Foreign Secretary has officially denied allegations that a British businessman, who was found dead in China last November, was an intelligence operative. Is he being 'economical with the truth'?
  • News you may have missed #720
    Lebanese national wanted for spying for Israel. Article sheds light on UK Home Office's ex-spy official. First woman tapped to lead US spy satellite agency.
  • News you may have missed #719
    Iran says it has cracked US spy drone secrets. Israel steps up covert operations says defense chief. US Pentagon plans new intelligence-gathering service.
  • 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.

War is a Crime.org

  • Iran War Weekly - April 29, 2012
    IranWar Weekly April 29, 2012 Hello All – With negotiations about Iran’s nuclear program set to resume in Baghdad on May 23, the broad outlines of a possible settlement have begun to emerge.  The terms of an agreement – or at least a suspension of an escalation of the conflict – would inclu ...
  • Obama's Death Panels
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  • Confessions of a Drone
    They told me I was the best, better than any human.  I didn't hesitate.  I didn't flinch.  I didn't think.   It wouldn't have occurred to me to think.  I'd been taught to value obedience above all else, and I did so, and they loved me for it. They told me I could fly f ...
  • Sometimes Civil Disobedience Is the Only Way
  • Drone Warfare in Yemen
      Drone Warfare in Yemen   by Stephen Lendman   Predator drones sanitize killing on the cheap compared to manned aircraft and ground troops. Teams of remote warriors work far from, and at times, closer to battlefields.    read more

Grist - News

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

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    Ezekiel Edwards Rebecca McCray Over 300 economists, including three Nobel Laureates, recently signed a petition that encourages t...
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    While perhaps not as sexy as some mammals and plants, ants play important roles in shaping ecosystems and interacting with other organisms. Ants are probably the best understood insect, which is a backhanded way of saying that they’re not very well understood. So Guénard, Dunn and Weiser set out ...
  • Why Should There Be Dark Matter?
    There's definitely physics in this world that's beyond the standard model, there's definitely more to neutrinos than we know, and there's definitely something stopping CP violation from occurring in the strong interactions. There may also be extra dimensions, grand unification, supersymmetry, or ...
  • Palm-sized Star Trek tech may be closer than y ...
    In the Star Trek universe, the tricorder is a handheld device used by Kirk, Spock, and various red-shirted crew members to make detailed scans of unfamiliar planets and even less familiar life-forms. It can be used in sick bay to diagnose intergalactic patients, and in engineering to find which ...
  • Ending Speech from On Deadly Ground
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Invisible Opportunity

  • Financial Repression in Italy
    Author Pater Tenebrarum In Italy, the Monti government has begun to control the spending habits of its citizens to a never before seen extent (hat tip to ‘Das Gelbe Forum’ in Germany). Its crackdown on alleged tax evaders has so far produced 23 suicides by people who were either utte ...
  • Romney Nightmare: Ron Paul Resurfaces Yet Again
    By Robert Ringer – Friday, April 27, 2012 Conservative Republicans knew they were in trouble when one-time conservative Ann Coulter suddenly refocused her swooning from Chris Christie to Mitt Romney. Even Nutty Newt is jumping on board, for fear of being left outside the establishment tent ...
  • A Spanish Company Known As Scytl Will Be Repor ...
    Michael Snyder, Contributor Activist Post Do you know who is going to be counting the votes on Election Day 2012? Most Americans never even think about this. Most Americans just assume that their votes will count and that the government will ensure that the counting process is done honestly and ...
  • Private Prison Corporations Are Slave Traders
    Glen Ford Activist Post The nation’s largest private prison company, the Corrections Corporation of America, is on a buying spree. With a war chest of $250 million, the corporation, which is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, this month sent letters to 48 states, offering to buy their prison ...
  • ROUTINE SAFETY STUDY THAT GOVERNMENT SCIENTIST ...
    ATLANTA, GA -Findings released today showed that infant monkeys given vaccines officially recommended by the CDC and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) exhibited autism-like symptoms. Lead investigator Laura Hewitson of the University of Pittsburgh and colleagues presented study results at ...

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • The Best Green Designs in Ventura Lambrate at ...
    Read the rest of The Best Green Designs in Ventura Lambrate at the Milan Furniture Fair Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Annebet Philips, Aran Dasan, biodegradable lamps, bug dining, celulose lamps, chairs you grow, diy shoes, e27, eating bugs, eco friendly decor, eco f ...
  • “Concealed Carry” Clothes Tailored for Gun Own ...
    Photo by Shutterstock “Covert fashion” — clothes that are made to hide firearms — are having a “moment,” according to the New York Times. Companies like Woolrich, whose new “Concealed Carry” collection features stretchable waistbands for securing handguns, kni ...
  • Sweden Announces BPA Ban in Children’s Food Pa ...
    Just one month after the FDA rejected a proposal to ban Bisphenol A (BPA) in food packaging, Sweden has announced that it will ban the chemical in food packaging intended for children under 3 years old. BPA is a powerful hormone disrupter that is used in plastics and aluminum can linings. Govern ...
  • Gigantic Rubber Duckie Floats Down the Loire R ...
    Read the rest of Gigantic Rubber Duckie Floats Down the Loire River in France! Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: eco design, floating sculpture, florentijn hofman, green design, Loire Estuary, Loire River, pontoon boat, PVC sculpture, sustainable design
  • The Best Green Furnishings at Fiera Milano Dur ...
    Read the rest of The Best Green Furnishings at Fiera Milano During the 2012 Milan Furniture Fair Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "green furniture", 2012 Milan Furniture Fair, eco furnishings, eco textiles, fiera milano, green, green design, green interiors, Milan Desig ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

PakAlert

  • DNA-Destroying Chip Being Embedded Into Mobile ...
    According to Dr. Boian Alexandrov at the Center for Nonlinear Studies at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, terahertz (THz) waves destroy human DNA. The waves literally unzip the helix strand. Now a team of technologists at UT Dallas are planning to take chips broadcasting THz waves a ...
  • Fukushima: Hanging by a Thread
    After writing my essay “Radioactive Hell on Earth”—actually I wanted to change that title to “Fukushima on Steroids”—I see Christina Consolo’s essay “Fukushima is Falling Apart”: Are you ready—it is becoming clear that we, our children and our entire civilization is hanging by a thread. It is a ...
  • Mother Wins Top Environmental Award for Beatin ...
    After experiencing the traumatizing death of her daughter to kidney failure just three days after her daughter was born, Sofia Gatica from Argentina became determined to find out what killed her daughter. Her conclusion? Monsanto’s genetically modified soy fields that surrounded her neighborhood ...
  • TSA Hires Criminals and Sexual Predators Witho ...
    Infowars.com has reported numerous instances of TSA employees assaulting and stealing from passengers over the last few years. The TSA has consistently hired violent criminals and even pedophiles and there is a logical explanation for this – the agency does not follow through on background check ...
  • Surface-to-air missiles on top of flats to pro ...
    Ground-to-air missiles are to be sited on the roof of a block of flats near the Olympic site as part of a huge security operation to protect the Games. The Army will station soldiers and high-velocity surface-to-air missiles on the residential block in East London to ward off airborne terror ...

Andy Worthington

  • Canada’s Shameful Scapegoating of Omar Khadr
    Last week, the Canadian government received a formal request for the return of Omar Khadr from Guantánamo Bay. Julie Carmichael, an aide to Public Safety Minister Vic Toews, told the Globe and Mail, “The government of Canada has just received a completed application for the transfer of prisoner ...
  • As Britain Enters Double-Dip Recession, George ...
    Only 23 percent of those eligible to vote elected these clowns to run the country, and yet we’ve ended up with two whey-faced Etonian buffoons — David Cameron and George Osborne, who are both clever only to the extent that they can conjure up the illusion of intelligence — driv ...
  • The Fight for the NHS Isn’t Over; It&#82 ...
    Although the mangled corpse of Andrew Lansley’s wretched NHS reform bill was passed by Parliament a month ago, the fight to save the NHS is far from over. On the afternoon of April 24, the campaigning group 38 Degrees, which mobilised over half a million people to oppose the government&#82 ...
  • Can Jeremy Hunt Prevent a Tsunami of Sleaze fr ...
    What a disgrace the Tories are. Even on the election trail two years ago, it was clear that they were sucking up to Rupert Murdoch in an even more ingratiating manner than previous parties on the verge of unseating the existing government. Moreover, it was, I contend, only public outrage — ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • The Russians are Coming! ‘Patriot’ Paranoia Ru ...
    In our time, no foreign army has ever occupied American soil. Until now. So says the trailer for “Red Dawn,” a Cold War-era movie about a group of American teenagers who resist a Russian invasion, calling themselves Wolverines. Now, some 28 years after the film was released, the antigovernment ...
  • Neo-Nazi Newspapers Distributed Near Scene of ...
    Some residents in a Mobile, Ala. neighborhood found white supremacist newspapers on their front lawns Thursday morning, five days after the racially charged beating of a white man by a group of about 20 African Americans. According to witnesses, the attack on Matthew Owens, 40, came after Owens ...
  • CNN Gives Racist Immigrant Basher a Platform
    As the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments this week concerning Arizona’s controversial immigration law, a racist patriarch of the anti-immigrant movement once again found a mainstream platform for his hate-filled, conspiracy-mongering extremism. CNN posted a report that contrasted two pers ...
  • North Dakota Weather Helps Convict Aryan Wannabe
    A would-be Aryan warrior who apparently thought he’d committed the perfect murder forgot one thing: There’s no mud in North Dakota in the middle of the winter. It was a pair of muddy boots and coveralls, along with a mud stain on a basement wall, that led investigators to discover the buried, de ...
  • Antigovernment ‘Patriot’ Movement Takes Up Del ...
    Update: Proposed legislation clarifying that Delaware sheriffs do not have powers of arrest was withdrawn yesterday by its sponsor, WGMD News reports. State Rep. Daniel Short, who sponsored the bill, said he struck it over concerns that the issue had become too politicized. As an alternative, h ...

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

  • UK Supermarket Chain to Boycott Israeli Produc ...
    One of the largest supermarket chains in Britain has announced that it intends to boycott Israeli agricultural exporters that market produce from the West Bank settlements. The Co-operative Group, the UK's fifth biggest food retailer, announced Saturday that they are "no longer engaging ...
  • Tens Of Thousands Protest Austerity In Spain
    Tens of thousands of people across Spain protested Sunday against austerity measures as the country slides into an economic abyss. Unemployment in Spain is at a eurozone high of 24.4 percent, more than half of Spaniards under 25 years old are jobless, and Conservative Prime Minister Mariano Rajo ...
  • Banks Working with Police to ‘Identify, Map an ...
    The nation’s largest financial institutions are preparing for the upcoming Occupy Wall Street’s May 1st demonstrations by working together and with police, according to Bloomberg News. The banks from America and overseas are working to “identify, map and track” protesters ...
  • US/Pakistan Talks Fail as Obama Refuses to Apo ...
    The New York Times is reporting today that high-level talks designed to end a diplomatic deadlock between the U.S. and Pakistan ended in failure Friday night because the Obama administration is refusing to apologize for US attacks last November that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers. Because the U.S. ...
  • International Drone Summit: Live Streaming Cov ...
    The peace group CODEPINK and the legal advocacy organizations Reprieve and the Center for Constitutional Rights are hosting the first international drone summit in Washington, DC. read more

Lifehacker

  • Cut Bread Loaves Upside Down to Avoid Squishin ...
    Next time you're cutting a loaf of unsliced bread turn that loaf over and start the cut from the bottom—you'll have an easier time cutting as the bottom is softer than the crust and since you'll cut easier you can avoid squishing the bre ...
  • "What is everybody doing with all this fr ...
    What is everybody doing with all this free cloud space companies have been giving away lately? More »
  • DIY Margarita Popsicles
    Last year we covered a recipe to make a Margarita-like popsicle using Mike's Hard Lemonade but just in time to plan for your Cinco de Mayo party culinary author Karen Solomon gives us a real version with real tequila. More » ...
  • Hang a Folding Table on Your Wall with Bicycle ...
    If you have a tiny apartment and rarely need an entire dining table you may want to consider buying a folding table and hanging it on the wall with bicycle storage hooks when not in use. More »
  • Repurpose Ikea Shelves Into a Storage Bed Plat ...
    If you need a platform support for your mattress and could also use some storage you can hack two Ikea Expedit 5x1 shelving units into a platform storage bed along with two sheets of MDF, a 4x4-inch post, and a few floor protectors. More&n ...

Water Privatization

  • Gov’t sets out selloff program
    The latest report by the government on the Stability and Growth Program for the second quarter of the year provides for the start of the privatization process for 34 regional airports, 12 ports -- including Piraeus and Thessaloniki -- and of water companies EYDAP and EYATH.
  • Eased postal reforms, Diet pay cuts passed
    The Diet passed a bill Friday to amend the Postal Privatization Law and water down the postal reforms championed in the early 2000s by then Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, and a bill to trim national lawmakers' salaries for two years. The two bills were approved by the Upper House with hel ...
  • Gladewater mayor hopefuls differ on hot topics
    GLADEWATER — Mayoral candidates differed sharply Thursday about keeping the city’s contracted water provider and a past tax increase. The candidate forum preceded the May 12 municipal and school elections.
  • Africa: Water and Reconstruction - an Agenda f ...
    [Fahamu] The unification of the water resources of Africa is one of the primary bases for African unity, with a system of canals linking rivers and lakes in the kind of infrastructure planning that ensures that all will have water.
  • Mayor hopefuls differ on hot topics
    GLADEWATER — Mayoral candidates differed sharply Thursday about keeping the city’s contracted water provider and a past tax increase. The candidate forum preceded the May 12 municipal and school elections.

Guardian

  • 'It's rather surreal' … residents react to pla ...
    Inhabitants of gated complex in east London fear presence of high velocity missiles will make them target for terrorismIt would make an arresting addition to any estate agent's particulars. From next week a gated apartment complex in east London will be able to boast not just landscaped gardens ...
  • Protect Chen Guangcheng, Mitt Romney tells Bar ...
    Republican frontrunner calls for US policy to confront China over its human rights recordMitt Romney waded into Washington's diplomatic dilemma with China by urging Barack Obama to protect the blind civil rights activist who is believed to have sought sanctuary in the US embassy.The Republican f ...
  • David Cameron blames UK double-dip recession o ...
    PM says economic crisis will go on for years and progress on reducing dependence on City and public sector too slowDavid Cameron on Sunday held out the prospect of the UK economy being dragged down for years, as he predicted the euro crisis was "nowhere near half complete" and warned the single ...
  • Israeli government aides attempt to draw sting ...
    Officials dismiss criticism as act of resentment but some observers believe it is further evidence of divisions on Iran policyA stinging attack on Israel's political leadership by a former head of Shin Bet, the security agency, continued to reverberate on Sunday despite high-level efforts to di ...
  • Guy Hands' Terra Firma poised to buy Four Seas ...
    Terra Firma's £825m acquisition of UK's largest care homes business will render shares in the group worth little or nothingGuy Hands, the tax exile and private-equity baron best known for his disastrous debt-fuelled takeover of EMI, is poised to snap up Britain's largest care home chain after a ...

McClatchey

  • Obama quips jokes at annual DC press dinner
    President Barack Obama poked fun at his Republican rivals Saturday night, but didn't spare his own Secret Service, secretary of state or even his past indulgence of exotic cuisine as…Click to Continue »
  • Cheri Young testifies that husband's devotion ...
    Taking the witness stand Friday after 20 hours of testimony from her husband, Andrew, Cheri Young showed the frustration she has carried for years about her husband's former employer, John…Click to Continue »
  • Military to show Guantanamo proceedings at 4 U ...
    Firefighters and cops who raced to the burning trade World Trade Center towers on Sept. 11, 2001, will watch in one room at a Brooklyn Army post, while 9/11 victims…Click to Continue »
  • Commentary: When sound bites bite back
    The trouble with sound bites is that they have a habit of biting the one who uttered them in the you-know-what.Click to Continue »
  • Commentary: Forget about the 'Mommy Wars'
    Enough of the Mommy Wars. And Im up to here with the so-called War on Women and soccer moms and any label politicians, with their Machiavellian marketing schemes, dreamed up…Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

  • One NATO soldier killed in S. Afghanistan
    One NATO soldier was killed on Saturday in a blast in southern Afghanistan, the military alliance confirmed on Saturday. "One International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) service member died ...
  • Why Afghan Women Risk Death to Write Poetry
    In a private house in a quiet university neighborhood of Kabul, Ogai Amail waited for the phone to ring. Through a plate-glass window, she watched the sinking sun turn the courtyard the color of ...
  • NATO soldier dies in Afghanistan
    A soldier with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) died Saturday in Afghanistan, a statement said.
  • Soldier shot on Afghan patrol named
    Guardsman Michael Roland, from 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards, who died after being shot while on patrol in Afghanistan. Photograph: MoD Crown ...
  • 4 Killed in Attack on Afghan Governor Compound
    Two attackers hiding handguns in their shoes infiltrated a compound of the governor of Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province Saturday, sparking a fierce gunbattle that left two guards and both assa

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

  • Missouri House passes "Whistleblower's Protect ...
    Yesterday, the Missouri House of Representatives passed a bill called the "Whistleblower's Protection Act," H.B. 2099. This bill is actually an attempt to weaken the protections Missouri courts already afford to whistleblowers.  Like courts in most states, Missouri courts recogniz ...
  • The Growing Power of the NSA
    We may be much closer to living in an Orwellian state than many think, suggests William Binney, a National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower. Binney served as an NSA employee for almost 40 years, including time as technical director of the NSA’s World Geopolitical and Military Analysis R ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week ...
    Not quite sure what to make of this, but the comment that was voted most insightful this week came on the post about CISPA passing (and the amendment that was added, changing the nature of the bill, which in many ways expanded the scope of the bill). The comment was a rather simple comment from ...
  • G Thompson's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week
    Well here it is again, the favorite (without a U) Techdirt post of the week, brought to you by the one and only me, (and not U), G Thompson from that land down under, Australia, where the brave fear to tread, mainly because we make U appear in color, flavor, and favor on pain of eating Vegemite. ...
  • Why Do We Celebrate The 'Solitary' Experience ...
    We already wrote making people more lonely, but that same piece made Mathew Ingram go on a bit of rant on Twitter raising a good point. He noted that the same folks who decry social media for making people lonely often celebrate the importance of the solitary experience of reading books. He fi ...
  • Sen. Harry Reid: The Postal Service Must Be Sa ...
    You know a service is on its last legs when the best argument a person can make for its continued existence is both a) very likely untrue and b) incredibly depressing. The United States Postal Service, best known these days for its massive accounting losses and quarterly stamp price increases, i ...
  • When You Create Value It Doesn't Mean You Have ...
    As I discussed in my Hacking Society post, one of the things I'm thinking a lot about these days is how to measure value that isn't directly monetized. There's a related aspect to all of this, as well: recognizing that when you create value, you don't have to monetize all of it directly yoursel ...

VacTruth

  • Monkeys Get Autism-like Reactions to MMR & Oth ...
    A bombshell was probably dropped when the results of a completed macaque monkey (primates) study showed what happened to they were vaccinated. Here's why...
  • Do Nurses Have It Right About Vaccinations?
    Why would nurses, who vaccinate infants and children, refuse to get vaccinations for themselves even when a directive went out that all nurses must be vaccinated against this disease?
  • 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.

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

  • Tom Engelhardt: A global-profiling president
    The Obama contradiction — weakling at home, imperial president abroadBy Tom Engelhardt He has few constraints (except those he’s internalized).  No one can stop him or countermand his orders.  He has a bevy of lawyers at his beck and call to explain the “legality&#822 ...
  • Why Afghan women risk death to write poetry
    Eliza Griswold writes: In a private house in a quiet university neighborhood of Kabul, Ogai Amail waited for the phone to ring. Through a plate-glass window, she watched the sinking sun turn the courtyard the color of eggplant. The electricity wasn’t working and the room was unheated, a few floo ...
  • Video: Dan Ariely on our buggy moral code
  • Bin Laden files show al-Qaida and Taliban lead ...
    The Guardian reports: Documents found in the house where Osama bin Laden was killed a year ago show a close working relationship between top al-Qaida leaders and Mullah Omar, the overall commander of the Taliban, including frequent discussions of joint operations against Nato forces in Afghanist ...
  • Video: Humanitarian crisis continues in Gaza

Watts Up With That?

  • Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
    Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week: Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what … C ...
  • On Fracking
      This post represents two milestones for WUWT. 1. It is the first post where a detailed examination of fracking has been offered to the readers. 2. It is the first post I’ve authored from an airplane cruising about 35,000 … Continue reading →
  • Tisdale on the “17 year itch” &#82 ...
    Guest post by Bob Tisdale What Do Observed Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies and Climate Models Have In Common Over The Past 17 Years? One word answer: NOTHING!!!! OVERVIEW In this post, we’ll compare satellite-based sea surface temperature anomalies (Reynolds OI.v2) … Continue reading →
  • From Schmidt 2005 to Miller 2012: the “n ...
    Guest post by Alec Rawls Miller et al. 2012 recently provided some pretty strong evidence for a solar driver of climate. “This is the first time anyone has clearly identified the specific onset of the cold times marking the start … Continue reading →
  • Climate craziness of the week – global w ...
    “…thinner air” cited by sports broadcaster From DeadSpin’s Timothy Burke: Tim McCarver Blames Global Warming For The Increase In Major League Home Runs We’d normally save this sort of thing for McCarve’d Up (which will be back next week after … Continue ...

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Biosingularity

  • 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 ...
  • New Type of DNA Discovered?
    A newly identified form of DNA—small circles of non-repetitive sequences—may be widespread in somatic cells of mice and humans, according to a study in this week’s issue of Science. These extrachromosomal bits of DNA, dubbed microDNA, may be the byproducts of microdeletions in chromosomes, meani ...

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Ria Novosti Online News

  • Russian, Sudanese Foreign Ministers to Meet in ...
    Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will on Monday hold talks with his Sudanese counterpart Ali Karti
  • Seven Killed as SUV Flips in New York
    Seven people, including three children, were killed on Sunday as a Honda Pilot SUV flipped over a guardrail and plunged up to 60 feet to the ground in New York City
  • Main news of April 29
    A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours
  • Saudi Arabia Shelters Bin Laden Widows
    Saudi officials confirmed on Sunday that they had sheltered three widows and reportedly eleven children of the late number one terrorist Osama bin Laden, Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported.
  • Taliban Kills British Red Cross Doctor
    Taliban has claimed responsibility for a murder of a British aid worker from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Khalil Dale who was found decapitated on Sunday in southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta, Dawn News TV channel reported.

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Pruning Shears

  • Scott Walker’s “Jobs Plan” is Working
    A lot of folks have been jumping on the latest US Bureau of Labor Statistics report, which shows Wisconsin hemorrhaging jobs faster than any other state over the past 12 months.  Many have been quick to point out that these numbers prove that Walker’s plan is failing; that his “ ...
  • 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 ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Should 'Pink Slime' Be Labeled?
    The fallout from the consumer backlash to so-called "pink slime" continues to hurt meat sales. Now, some companies are taking steps to label the product they call "lean, finely textured beef" in hopes that they can earn back consumer trust.Click here to read this article
  • 6 Kinds of Pills Big Pharma Tries to Get You H ...
    Since direct-to-consumer drug advertising debuted in the late 1990s, the number of people on prescription drugs for life has ballooned. Click here to read this article
  • Burger King Makes a Big Pledge - But What's 'C ...
    As of today, Burger King is calling itself the "first U.S. national chain to pledge cage-free pork and eggs."Click here to read this article
  • Dow Corn, Resistant to a Weed Killer, Runs Int ...
    To Jody Herr, it was a telltale sign that one of his tomato fields had been poisoned by 2,4-D, the powerful herbicide that was an ingredient in Agent Orange, the Vietnam War defoliant.Click here to read this article
  • Meet a Pesticide Even Conventional Vegetable F ...
    A new coalition is trying to throw sand in the gears of industrial agriculture's chemical treadmill. And this one just may have what it takes to slow it down. I'm referring to the fight over USDA approval for Dow AgroScience's new genetically modified corn seeds (brand name "Enlist"), which are ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • Senators, let’s tie “soil insurance” to crop i ...
    The farm bill version that came out of the Senate Agriculture Committee on Thursday does not attach compliance to crop insurance, as no committee members offered such an amendment. However, with farm bill battles now shifting to the full Senate, there is still hope that an amendment could attach ...
  • Sustainable Food Systems for the 1 Percent
    Let me begin by saying I would love a mobile chicken coop in my backyard. In fact, I plan to build one this summer, hopefully for less than 100 dollars. I’m lucky enough that with an afternoon of work and a trip or three to the hardware store, I think I can accomplish this.  But [...]
  • Colbert Talks Chicken Feed
    Last week, Stephen Colbert used his signature blend of mock-outrage and wit on a topic very familiar to those of us here at the CLF. In a segment called “Thought For Food,” Colbert commented on news reports that cited a recently published CLF study that found antibiotics (some of which have been ...
  • 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.

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My Care2 Picks

  • '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
  • FBI Seizes Server From Progressive Internet Se ...
    In an attack on our infrastructure, our movement and the democratic Internet, the FBI seized a server from one of our cabinets in a colocation facility. Server is owned by our sister organization, Riseup, and is managed by ECN, a progressive technology pr Submitted by O O O O to US Politics &amp ...
  • Attacks on RT and Assange reveal much about th ...
    finally a' leak' of truth in america Submitted by michael hall to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Surrender now or we'll bomb you later
    Former United States president George W Bush issued an ultimatum to Saddam Hussein before bombing and invading Iraq. Nine years later, US President Barack Obama has issued an ultimatum to the leadership in Tehran Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note- ...

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

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Newt Gingrich to end presidential bid on Wedne ...
    ShareThisNewt Gingrich to end presidential bid on Wednesday, source says 29 Apr 2012 Newt Gingrich will end his bid for the Republican presidential nomination on Wednesday in Washington, D.C., a source close to the former House speaker told CNN. Previous reports said Gingrich would likely quit t ...
  • To Joliet Jail for NATO offenders?
    ShareThisTo Joliet Jail for NATO offenders? 29 Apr 2012 Mothballed for a decade, the Joliet Correctional Center could be temporarily reopened to serve as a detention facility for those arrested for serious offenses during the May 20-21 NATO summit. Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart says his first cho ...
  • Federal agents to begin 'Operation Red Zone' i ...
    ShareThisUS police state gone wild: Federal agents to begin 'Operation Red Zone' in Chicago 26 Apr 2012 Starting next week, expect to see a showing of federal law enforcement in "battle" gear, weapons slung, in a highly visible effort to protect a perimeter that encompasses the federally operate ...
  • Elite Afghan soldier kills U.S. special forces ...
    ShareThisElite Afghan soldier kills U.S. special forces mentor 28 Apr 2012 An elite Afghan soldier shot dead an American mentor and his translator at a U.S. base, Afghan officials said on Friday. The soldier opened fire at an American military base on Wednesday in Shah Wali Kot district, in Kand ...
  • Report: NATO Misleads With 'Afghan-Led' Label
    ShareThisReport: NATO Misleads With 'Afghan-Led' Label 25 Apr 2012 A new report Wednesday by a Kabul-based think tank accuses international forces of misleading the public by calling military operations "Afghan-led" even in cases where NATO or U.S. forces are the only troops on the ground. In th ...

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 ...
  • Is the Red Cross a Neutral Symbol to Afghans?
    16 April 2012 Wrtten by: MEDEVACmatters.org [Writer] Michael Yon has written about the cultural importance of our MEDEVAC helicopters showing Red Cross symbols on them in a Muslim society. Here is a photo of a poster displaying banned symbols Mark of the Beast Photo courtesy of Michael Yon Fr ...
  • Senator Harkin’s Disinformation Letter
    04 April 2012 Written by: MEDEVACmatters.org A constituent of U.S. Senator Tom Harkin finally received a reply five months after her initial letter and fax to Senator Harkin about MEDEVAC operations in Afghanistan. Despite the date on the Senator’s letter, she just received it today. The let ...
  • America’s Angry Troops: Message from a Marine
    Image: DVIDS 13 April 2012 Marine, Army and Air Force sources continue to provide information about MEDEVAC failures in Afghanistan.  Top Army Generals say there are no complaints from the MEDEVAC/CASEVAC community in Afghanistan, but if this were so how is it that I end up with stacks of ...

The Killing Train

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

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Jurist - Legal Research

  • Sudan declares state of emergency on South Sud ...
    [JURIST] Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] issued a resolution Sunday declaring a state of emergency in areas near the border with South Sudan and suspending the constitution. The move follows the arrest Saturday of four people whom the Sudanese claim were arre ...
  • Bahrain police abusing detainees: HRW
    [JURIST] Bahrain's police officers regularly abuse minor detainees before transporting them to police stations, Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] reported [text] Sunday after a five-day visit to the country. During the visit to Bahrain, HRW conducted interviews with young males who all ...
  • Vietnamese-American activist arrested for terr ...
    [JURIST] Vietnamese-American activist Nguyen Quoc Quan was arrested earlier this month in Vietnam for allegedly attempting to stop celebrations in remembrance of the end of the Vietnam War [History backgrounder], reports said on Sunday. Vietnamese newspaper Tuoi Tre [media website, in Vietnamese ...
  • Bosnian Muslim woman pleads guilty to war crim ...
    [JURIST] Rasema Handanovic, a woman accused of killing Bosnian Croat civilians during the 1992-1995 Bosnian Civil War [JURIST news archive], pleaded guilty Friday before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina [official website]. This makes her the first woman [AFP report] convicted of war crimes by ...
  • South Africa president pardons 35,000 offender ...
    [JURIST] South African President Jacob Zuma [BBC profile] announced Saturday that he will be issuing pardons [text], known as "special remissions," to 35,000 offenders in order to ease prison overcrowding. The remissions were issued in honor of Freedom Day commemorating Nelson Mandela [BBC profi ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

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

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Tikun Olam

  • Antiwar.com Publishes Ziad Jilani Profile, Tik ...
    TweetI’ve published three new pieces on varying I-P related subjects in the past week.  First, I contributed an op ed to my local paper, the Seattle Times dealing with the controversy over an Israeli LGBT delegation seeking to promote pinkwashing through a reception hosted by the Seattle C ...
  • Former Shin Bet Chief on Jewish Terror, Deteri ...
    Tweet I’ve noticed a rather remarkable phenomenon among Israeli intelligence chiefs and prime ministers. While in office they speak loads of rubbish. But once they leave, a cloud lifts and their minds clear and they become lucid, incisive, even brilliant. But of course, the problem is that ...
  • Links for 2012-04-27 [Digg]
    Ziad Jilani: a Kill Shot in Wadi Joz by Richard Silverstein -- Antiwar.com East Jerusalem Palestinian killed by Israeli Border Police execution style as he drove home to his wife & three young daughters after Friday afternoon prayers at Al Aqsa mosque.
  • Former Shin Bet Chief, Diskin Loses Confidence ...
    TweetFormer Shin Bet director Yuval Diskin told an Israeli audience that he had no confidence in the leadership of Bibi Netanyahu or Ehud Barak: “My major problem is that I have no faith in the current leadership, which must lead us into an event on the scale of war with Iran or regional w ...
  • IDF Chief Calls Iran “Rational,” Barak Disagrees
    TweetIsrael continued its self-portrait as a government in disarray as its military chief, Benny Gantz called Iran “rational” and said he believed that nation would not build a nuclear weapon (a position fully in accord with U.S. views). The next day, Ehud Barak took pains to divorce ...

If Americans Knew

  • VIDEO: AIPAC and Stealth Israel Political Acti ...
    Janet McMahon of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs explains the history and impact of "stealth PACs." Why has the American Israel Public Affairs Committee spawned a network of PACs across America? Why don't any claim affiliation to their creator or use descriptive names? Shouldn't the ...
  • Israel Lobby Dominates Congress, Media Covers ...
    You might think that 20 percent of the American Congress going on all-expenses-paid, week-long junkets to a foreign country -- paid for by a lobby for that country -- would be newsworthy, especially when the top congressional leaders of both parties are leading the trips. You would be wrong.
  • Israeli video games in Gaza: "Minimal collater ...
    He looks at the camera with bright eyes and the beginning of a smile, wearing a miniature dark blue zipper sweatshirt, the cuffs folded up a bit to make it fit. I can imagine his mother dressing him that morning, making sure he would be warm enough. I wonder if she's the one who took the picture ...
  • American Taxpayers Pay and Pay: Subsidizing Is ...
    Israel's Jerusalem Post newspaper recently published an article calling Israel "The New Golden Country" for young people from around the world. It reports that Israel boasts "an ever-increasing GDP, a strong currency, and a lower unemployment rate than the US."
  • US Ambassador: Support for Israel drives all U ...
    While many Americans may believe that US policies are designed to address American needs, America's new Ambassador to Israel explains that this is far from the case.

David J. Gregory

  • BIG NEWS Obama Threatens VETO CISPA
    Big news. President Obama is threatening to veto CISPA, the bill that could give the government and big companies limitless powers to spy on us online. The President has folded on a lot of things in the past, but finally, yes finally, there is hope, the tide maybe changing, from the GOP Corporat ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • At the International Journalism Festival: Can ...
    PERUGIA, Italy -- Here at the International Journalism Festival the launch of three large initiatives have generated a lot of the buzz around the topic of data journalism. The School of Data Journalism, organized by the European Journalism Centre and the Open Knowledge Foundation, is compose ...
  • ScraperWiki: How Legal Is Scraping?
    Lots of people, when they hear about ScraperWiki, ask, "Is scraping legal? How can you build a business off that?" Usually, they follow up by saying, "We do it in our company, but we would never tell anyone." This is strange to us, as we have come from a world of good scraping: taking gov ...
  • 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 ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Performing Arts on Edge - Historic Theater Reo ...
    The Howard Theater, a Washington, DC landmark, is reborn.Some of the greatest African-American entertainers—including Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington—have performed at the Howard Theater. Some of them even launched their careers there. However, by 1980, The Howard, which is located in a t ...
  • Broken Labor - Fatal Work Injuries Rose in 2010
    The Department of Labor reported this week that 4,690 U.S. workers suffered fatal injuries in 2010, a 3 percent increase from 2009. The higher number in part reflects a string of high-profile disasters in 2010: An explosion at the Upper Big Branch coal mine in West Virginia that killed 29; BP’ ...
  • The Health Edge - Low-Income Moms Under Stress ...
    Single mothers and those with symptoms of depression more likely to add cereal to bottles. Efforts to prevent obesity among low-income infants should focus not only on what babies are being fed but also the reasons behind unhealthy feeding practices, according to a study, Pediatric Academic Soci ...
  • The Americas on Edge - Latin America's Growing ...
    Approximately 300,000 children around the globe have been recruited as child soldiers. These children are forced to enter “various armed groups, civil militia, paramilitaries and government armed forces.� According to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of a Child, any person under t ...
  • Iran's Nukes - US Reportedly Moves Stealth Com ...
    A prominent Iranian lawmaker says the reported basing of America's most sophisticated stealth jet fighters in the United Arab Emirates is a U.S.-Israel plot to create regional instability. The U.S. Air Force has moved several F-22 stealth combat aircraft to a base in the United Arab Emirates, 30 ...

High Country News

  • The truth about wolves is hard to find
    Some hunters claim wolves are killing too many deer and elk in northwestern Montana, but the facts indicate otherwise -- although those facts are easily lost in all the emotional rhetoric.
  • 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.

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

  • The Progressive Media's Still Covering-up Thei ...
    A month short of two years ago my friend Rabbi David Nesenoff sent me a video which contained a short explosive interview he had conducted with Helen Thomas. There on tape the veteran White House correspondent gave a statement that  many people (including me) saw as ...
  • Obama's Nonsensical Foreign Policy Al-Qaida Ba ...
    By Barry Rubin A great controversy has erupted over a National Journal article by Michael Hirsh entitled, “The Post Al Qaida Era.” I think this is an important issue there is absolutely nothing new here that couldn’t have been seen—as I’ll show in a moment—five years ago. The Obama ...
  • Why Michelle Obama is a VERY Happy Woman:Parts ...
    Despite living in the "fishbowl" of the White House, despite requiring secret service protection everywhere she goes, and even despite hearing her husband constantly criticized for his awful performance as president of the United States---despite all that and more First Lady Michelle Obama must& ...
  • France Is Burning But its Leaders are Fiddling ...
    by Barry Rubin In the tiny town of Barr, France—population 6000—in Alsace near the German and Swiss borders, there is a tiny parking lot near the main street. You pull into it, take one of the dozen or so spaces, and then notice the sign, “Parking de Synagogue.” For a moment one thinks that ...
  • Has Obama Been Eating the "Blue Dog" Democrats?
    According to the progressive argument, the mainstream media, and pseudo-conservatives such as David Frum and Jennifer Rubin,  the Tea Party groups have radicalized the GOP moving them to extreme right wing positions. While everyone is concentrating on us tyrannical conserva ...

The Real Agenda

  • Economic Dispair Makes Suicide Rate Explode in ...
    By ERIK KIRSCHBAUM | REUTERS | APRIL 28, 2012 On Monday, a 38-year-old geology lecturer hanged himself from a lamp post in Athens and on the same day a 35-year-old priest jumped to his death off his balcony in northern Greece. On Wednesday, a 23-year-old student shot himself ...
  • Gaddafi ‘agreed to fund Sarkozy’ w ...
    AFP | APRIL 28, 2012 French investigative website Mediapart reported Saturday that deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi agreed to fund President Nicolas Sarkozy’s 2007 election campaign with a 50 million euro cheque. Moamer Kadhafi’s regime agreed to fund French President Nicolas Sar ...
  • United Nations Will Pursue a Global Green Gove ...
    By ALEX NEWMAN | THE NEW AMERICAN | APRIL 27, 2012 A recently released United Nations report outlines the global body’s plan to foist a centrally planned “green” world order on all of humanity, making every level of government subservient to its “sustainable development” agenda. The up ...
  • US Stealth Jets Get Set Near Iran
    By DAVID AXE | WIRED | APRIL 27 The U.S. Air Force is quietly assembling the world’s most powerful air-to-air fighting team at bases near Iran. Stealthy F-22 Raptors on their first front-line deployment have joined a potent mix of active-duty and Air National Guard F-15 Eagles, includi ...
  • US House Approves CISPA Bill
    Although Obama had expressed concerns about the power of the new legislation, he’s said he will sign it anyways. By PETE KASPEROWICZ | THE HILL | APRIL 27, 2012 The House on Thursday approved controversial cybersecurity legislation that the Obama administration has threatened to ...

Wind Watch

  • Viking Energy: the human impact
    When Donnie and Evelyn Morrison moved to South Setter in the Kergord valley almost 24 years ago they were looking for a quiet life away from the new housing development where they had been living in central Weisdale. They moved to the land Donnie’s grandfather had bought in 1917, but their plans ...
  • Broken promises: Ocotillo wind project wins ap ...
    A former firefighter who has parachuted into raging wildfires, Viejas Community Relations Director Charlie Brown (photo, left above) has no shortage of courage. But he choked back tears as he spoke about what Ocotillo and its ancient geoglyphs means to him and other tribes that have long conside ...
  • Community delight as wind farm plan rejected
    An Bord Pleanala has refused planning permission for the construction of a nine turbine wind farm on the Comeragh mountains. The decision has been welcomed by the Comeragh Community Wind Farm Awareness Group who have opposed the plan which had already been rejected by Waterford County Council an ...
  • Turbine proponents get frosty reception
    Turbine proponents discovered their ideas may be just blowing in the wind as they spoke to Puslinch council regarding the potential of a wind park in the township with up to ten turbines. Christine Koenig of Koenig Consultants, along with Arvid Hesse of wpd Canada Corporation, made a pitch to co ...
  • Damaged turbine suspends wind energy production
    Around 12:45 Tuesday afternoon, two blades on a turbine were damaged so severely that debris was sent raining down on the field below. No one was injured. The owners, EDP Renewables, say while the investigation into what damaged the blades is ongoing, at this point it doesn’t appear that str ...

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
  • Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...
    Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note- ...
  • 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

  • Economic Growth Slowed in First Quarter
    “The economic output of the United States grew at an annual rate of 2.2 percent in the first quarter of the year, easing from the prior quarter’s growth rate of 3 percent, as expected, but maintaining what many economists have started to call a ‘sustainable’ pace of recovery.&# ...
  • Traffic Stops in Washington State Bring ACLU S ...
    “The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit Thursday against the U.S. Border Patrol seeking to bar agents from making traffic stops, saying people are being pulled over and questioned ‘without reasonable suspicion.’ The lawsuit stems from tensions between immigrants and the expande ...
  • Violence Against Woman Act Reauthorized by Senate
    “The Senate voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act and expand its reach to American Indians and homosexuals, after Republicans opted to sidestep an expected partisan brawl. ” (New York Times) An earlier version was declared unconstitutional. FE ...
  • Can Mutually Beneficial Exchanges Be Exploitative?
    The great thing about competitive markets is not that marginal utility sets prices, but that rivalry among sellers drives prices below more people's marginal utility, producing a consumer surplus.
  • Do Ends Justify Means?
    I—and most other people, I assume—grew up being taught that the end doesn’t justify the means. This is an injunction not to rationalize one’s own behavior while using other people as mere means to one’s ends. Most people apply that principle day to day. If we want at an item on a supermarket she ...

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

  • As California Collapses, Obama Follows Its Lead
    Barack Obama learned the rough sport of politics in Chicago, but his domestic policies have been shaped by California’s progressive creed. As the Golden State crumbles, its troubles point to those America may confront in a second Obama term. From his first days in office, the president ...
  • Staying the Same: Urbanization in America
    The recent release of the 2010 US census data on urban areas (Note 1) shows that Americans continue to prefer their lower density lifestyles, with both suburbs and exurbs (Note 2) growing more rapidly than the historic core municipalities.  This may appear to be at odds with the recent Cens ...
  • Understanding Chongqing and the Fall of Bo Xilai
    The demise of Bo Xilai, the former Party Secretary of Chongqing, has turned into one of the biggest political scandals in China in recent memory and now includes allegations that Bo’s wife Gu Kailai is connected to the murder of a British businessman close to Bo’s family. It is even rumored ...
  • Homebuilding: Recovery & Red Tape
    The Recovery Blueprint is a multipart series of articles that offers suggestions on how to recover from the homebuilding recession. Since the recession began, there haven't been any significant changes in how regulations could be improved to energize the housing market and foster innovation. ...
  • 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 ...

GM Watch

  • Avoiding GM foods in the US
    1.What Practical Tips Do You Suggest To Avoid GM Foods? 2.Kashi's GMO Controversy Rages On EXTRACT: "This characterization of our work by Kashi is blatantly false," said Will Fantle, Cornucopia’s Research Director.  "We purchased a readily available box of Kashi’s GoLean cereal from a Whole Foo ...
  • Don't buy this GM spin
    EXTRACTS: Although animal producers spend a lot on feed, the difference in cost between GM and non-GM feed is tiny... Even Morrisons keeps GM ingredients out of its own labels. They let poultry producers use GM feed because of EU regulations that allow food produced from animals fed GM feed to b ...
  • Kashi cereal's 'natural' claims stir anger
    1.Kashi cereal's 'natural' claims stir anger 2.Co-Op to stock fewer Kashi products after GMO flap EXTRACTS: Many posters on the Kashi site seemed especially angry about the presence of genetically engineered soy in some of its cereals. One wrote that by marketing its products as whole foods and ...
  • Bio-economy versus biodiversity
    1.In New U.S. "Bioeconomy", Industry Trumps Environment 2.Developing countries face up to synthetic biology challenges NOTE: These articles mention 2 important reports: Bio-economy Versus Biodiversity http://globalforestcoalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Bioecono-vs-biodiv-report-with-fro ...
  • Bio-economy versus biodiversity
    1.In New U.S. "Bioeconomy", Industry Trumps Environment 2.Developing countries face up to synthetic biology challenges NOTE: These articles mention 2 important reports: Bio-economy Versus Biodiversity http://globalforestcoalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Bioecono-vs-biodiv-report-with-fro ...

spiked

  • The divided state of America
    Charles Murray’s new book is a valiant effort to explain why America's upper classes are now so hollow and defensive, and incapable of marshalling the moral resources to lead society.
  • Ordinary Americans don’t need the left&# ...
    Thomas Frank’s belief that people aren’t revolting against capitalism because they’ve been duped by right-wing ideologues betrays an incredible disdain for the public.
  • Is America committing ‘superpower suicid ...
    Yes, claims that America is rotting like the Roman Empire are over the top, but two new books swing too far in the other direction.
  • Lessons from the new food priesthood
    There is certainly a cacophony of nutritional and food advice being spewed forth today. But far from cutting through the proverbial, two recent books simply add to the noise.
  • We are not all mentally ill now
    Kenneth McLaughlin’s Surviving Identity is an important salvo against the mainstreaming of mental health treatment.

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 Signs That The Collapsing Spanish Economy I ...
    What happens when debt-fueled false prosperity disappears?  Just look at Spain.  The 4th largest economy in Europe was riding high during the boom years, but now the Spanish economy is collapsing with no end in sight.  When a debt bubble gets interrupted, the consequences can be ...
  • The Family Farm Is Being Systematically Wiped ...
    An entire way of life is rapidly dying right in front of our eyes.  The family farm is being systematically wiped out of existence in America, and big agribusiness and the federal government both have blood all over their hands.  According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, t ...
  • 5 New Lies That The Federal Reserve Is Telling ...
    The Federal Reserve says that everything is going to be okay.  The Fed says that unemployment is going to go down, inflation is going to remain low and economic growth is going to steadily increase.  Do you believe them this time?  As you will see later in this article, Federal R ...
  • 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 ...

Desertification

  • A thing of beauty … (Willem Van Cotthem)
    A thing of beauty is a joy for ever (John KEATS)  
  • 2mn trees to avoid desertification in Nigeria ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.businessdayonline.com/NG/index.php/news/284-breaking-news/36715-jigawa-plant-2mn-trees-to-avoid-desertification Jigawa plant 2mn trees to avoid desertification The Jigawa Government will facilitate the planting of two million tree seedlin ...
  • Land reform in Malawi (IRIN News)
    Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95363/MALAWI-Without-land-reform-small-farmers-become-trespassers MALAWI: Without land reform, small farmers become “trespassers” BANGULA, 26 April 2012 (IRIN) – Dorothy Dyton, her husband and seven children used to make a living farming ...
  • 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 ...

The Paper Trail

  • About the story:
    This story was reported by Maggie Mulvihill, Julia Waterhous and Alex Burris from the New England Center for Investigative Reporting. Read more about the New England Center here.
  • State Integrity Investigation cited in New Yor ...
    Citing the state’s F grade for redistricting in the State Integrity Investigation, Common Cause/NY filed an amicus brief earlier this week supporting a challenge to the constitutionality of New York’s newly-drawn 63rd Senate district.“The entire process was tremendously opaque,” said Susan Lerne ...
  • Missile defenses hobbled by uncertainties
    After the successful U.S. interception of a simulated North Korean warhead in a 2007 test, Lt. Gen. Henry Obering III expressed great confidence in the capabilities of the U.S. missile defense program. “Does the system work? The answer to that is yes,” Obering, then the program’s director, told ...
  • Obama nominates elite fundraiser for top diplo ...
    Timothy Broas, a top fundraiser for President Barack Obama, is now the nominee to be the next U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands.Broas, a partner at the D.C. law firm Winston and Strawn, has raised more than $500,000 for Obama’s re-election efforts as a bundler, meaning he has been credited for ...
  • Tell us: Does current military spending keep u ...
    Pro — America is threatened by an increasingly hostile world, with threats coming from many corners of the globe. Reducing our military would lower our guard and make us more vulnerable. If problems broke out in more than one place, we would not be able to deal with them all. Furthermore, cuttin ...

backofthebook.ca

  • The Inside Read: “Crossing the Continent ...
    We’re pleased to unveil backofthebook.ca’s Inside Read, in which we’ll introduce you to new Canadian books with an excerpt that we think will whet your appetite for more. In this passage from Michel Tremblay’s new novel Crossing the Continent, translated by Sheila Fischma ...
  • Woodworth’s motion aborted
    By Montreal Simon Gawd. What a horrible way to begin my day. All I could think of was Stephen “Woody” Woodworth polishing his big teeth, and preparing for his big day. Even my egg started to look like him, and I hardly dared boil it, in case it should hatch. For who knows when life [...]
  • Robocalls: The seven deadly ridings
    By Allison@Creekside As a follow up to my earlier chart showing Steve’s Margin of Victory in ridings with the closest vote margins, I’ve adjusted it to include only the seven being contested in court for voter fraud and added two columns of polling data from an EKOS research paper ba ...
  • 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 ...

libcom

  • Detroit Highschool students walkout protesting ...
    Detroit students walk out against school budget cuts and in solidarity with a nearby school threatened with closure. Western International High School students talk about defending public education and opposing the charterization and ...
  • Bread instead of games!
    10_banner.png In June and July 2012, Poland is going to host Euro2012, the European Football Championship. Coalition of Polish feminist, anarchist and worker activists is mobilising for a protest on 1 ...
  • 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 ...

Free Range International

  • Dalton Thomas Comes Home
    This is the first of what I hope is many posts from my friend Dalton Thomas.  He wanted me to stress that he is practicing his creative writing skills and his story is a fictional account of coming home after being gone a long long time. I went to the local family practice center for [...]
  • 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 ...

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 ...
  • 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:  ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • How Prostitutes and Ex-Slaves Challenged the P ...
    19th century prostitute A Renegade History of the United States by Thaddeus Russell 2010 Free Press Book Review (This book review is divided into three parts. The second part discusses the debt of gratitude Americans owe prostitutes and ex-slaves for many of the liberties we currently take for ...
  • A Renegade History of the United States &#x201 ...
    A Renegade History of the United States by Thaddeus Russell 2010 Free Press Book Review (This book review is divided into three parts. The first traces white America’s puritanical work ethic and tradition of self-denial. The second discusses the debt of gratitude Americans owe prostitutes ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Obama’s GI Bill fight
    The multiple incarnations of the GI Bill are widely considered some of the most effective pieces of social welfare legislation ever passed by the U.S. Congress. Since World War II, millions of veterans have been able to attend college and graduate school via direct tuition assistance from the fe ...
  • Mitt: The real European
    An odd thing happened during Mitt Romney's victory-lap speech after Tuesday's Republican primaries: He didn't once mention the word "Europe."The absence was jarring, because Romney's claim that President Obama is dragging the United States toward a loathsome European-style "social welfare" futur ...
  • Wal-Mart’s shame grows worse
    Bloomberg is reporting that Eduardo Castro-Wright, the Wal-Mart executive fingered by the New York Times as the man at the heart of a huge international bribery scandal, has stepped down from his position as a member of the board of directors at MetLife.One has to pity poor Bloomberg reporter An ...
  • 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 ...
  • What is Marco Rubio running for?
    Marco Rubio insists he isn't running for vice president in 2012, but he is running pretty hard for something. The question is what and when.The junior senator from Florida gave a proverbial "major foreign policy address" in Washington today, after publishing a Los Angeles Times op-ed calling for ...

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

  • BP Sees a Return to Grandeur as Gulf Fishermen ...
    The second memorial of the nation’s worst oil catastrophe has come and gone, forever linked to Earth Day and seared into the psyches of millions of Gulf residents and fishermen. In recent weeks, the media has unleashed a torrent of stories about the devastating impacts of the ...
  • The Latest Publication from the World Business ...
    The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) held its annual company delegate conference in Switzerland this week. For the WBCSD Energy and Climate team the event marked the launch of the latest WBCSD publication “The Energy Mix”. This is a document that started life back in th ...
  • What does Q Cells insolvency tell us about the ...
    I had a call last week from one of the team at Q Cells Australia; not about the insolvency issues but about my earlier post on PV quality and manufacturing.
  • Critical Need for Energy Savings and Loan Perf ...
    Providing energy efficiency loans could give financial institutions new market opportunities. Unfortunately, their underwriters don’t have enough loan performance information to finance large volumes of energy efficiency projects yet. This lack of information inhibits the scaling up of energy ef ...
  • The Royal Society Gets It Wrong on 'People and ...
    The Royal Society - Britain's premier scientific institution - has just released a major report called People and the Planet, arguing that per capital resource consumption in the richest parts of the world needs to come down dramatically if the poorest 1.3 billion are to be lifted out of ex ...

EU Times

  • Dutch Prime Minister resigns after Austerity t ...
    The Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Mark Rutte, has submitted his letter of resignation to Queen Beatrix after entering into a governmental coalition with the extreme right-wing Freedom Party, led by Geert Wilders, which had refused to support the budget reduction. His resignation was immedia ...
  • Merkel and Hollande clash over EU Debt Crisis
    German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French Socialist Party presidential candidate Francois Hollande have had a war of words over how to handle the European debt crisis. It is “not for Germany to decide for the rest of Europe”, Hollande, who is the favorite in France’s May 6 run-off e ...
  • Thousands of Palestinians go on hunger strike ...
    Thousands of Palestinians are on hunger strike in Israeli prisons – for over a week, they have been protesting against indefinite detention without charge and alleged ill-treatment. Some of those who got out, told RT about their life behind bars. Human rights groups in the West Bank say 2, ...
  • Former Brazilian club employee plans to sue US ...
    A former Brazilian club employee plans to file a lawsuit against the US embassy in Brasilia and five of its personnel for injuries she sustained from the US authorities late last year. Romilda Aparecida Ferreira says she was run over on December 29, 2011 by an American embassy driver, who was di ...
  • College Dropout turns Maths Genius after stree ...
    A college dropout has been hailed a unique maths genius – after his brain was damaged in a brutal attack by muggers. Jason Padgett, 41, was left concussed after he was ambushed outside a karaoke club and repeatedly kicked in the head. Now, wherever he looks, he sees mathematical formulas a ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • NBA Playoffs Round 1: Lakers - Nuggets Live Ga ...
    The wait is over, folks. Los Angeles Lakers playoff basketball, circa 2012, has arrived. Today, the Los Angeles Lakers begin what will hopefully be another long playoff journey towards that ultimate prize, the Larry O'Brien trophy. They start their journey with the Denver Nuggets , those fast-p ...
  • Newscorp market leader The Shunt is proud to b ...
    Newscorp market leader The Shunt is proud to bring its devotees the first picture of Sh*tstorm victim Jerry Punt (above) following his exposure to a sh*tstorm in the light of a Not Guilty M’lud plea to Lord Leveson last week. His Lordship refused to hear his plea, however – a decision that has ...
  • Apple saves billions in taxes through very cre ...
    As one of the most profitable companies in the world, it’s hard not to think that Apple would try to reduce its taxes wherever possible. But according to a detailed report today by the New York Times , the company is going to extreme lengths to avoid taxes — so much so that it’s pioneered accou ...
  • Obama jabs at Romney at White House Correspond ...
    By Lily Kuo WASHINGTON | Sun Apr 29, 2012 9:00am EDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama poked fun at his likely presidential rival Mitt Romney and Republican opponents in Congress on Saturday night, including a dig at Romney’s treatment of a pet dog, at the annual White House Corresp ...
  • Another bad Freddy Garcia outing may force Yan ...
    The big news about Saturday's 7-5 loss was the latest hit to the beleaguered Yankee rotation. Freddy Garcia, awful all year, gave up six runs in 1.2 innings - the second straight start that Garcia has failed to get out of the second inning.   The Yankees may have a looming rotation decision on ...

Groklaw

  • Facebook and many other sites also bypass Inte ...
    Microsoft explicitly called out Google for their behaviour but either neglected to mention or didn't investigate Facebook (skeptics may believe that this is because of Microsoft's shareholding in Facebook and their partnerships in search and advertising (HT ask4n)). If Google is being asked to ...
  • What the Government Won't Tell You Today About ...
    The government is launching an all-out blitz on the proposed Canada - European Union Trade Agreement today with no less than 18 events planned across the country featuring 16 cabinet ministers and parliamentary secretaries. The speeches will emphasize the benefits of the proposed agreement to ma ...
  • Why Linux Does/Does Not Suck
    "Why Linux Sucks" and "Why Linux Does Not Suck" videos from Linux Fest. - newsycombinator
  • How techs giants want to re-invent journalism
    "Because everyone can publish now, how do you show you're the person to go to?" Facbeook's Lavrusik asked. "Media companies have approached it from 'we need to chase more eyeballs, we need to create more content'. So journalists who created a few articles in one week are now doing that in one d ...
  • Samsung Passes Nokia to Become Worlds No. 1 Ph ...
    A continued drop in sales at Nokia allowed Samsung to grab the title of world's No.1 seller of cellphones. Nokia sold 83 million units, while Samsung sold 92 million phones, according to IHS iSuppli. That's a reversal from last year's fourth quarter, where Nokia shipped 113.5 million units, whi ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Don’t forget the TSA!
    Magazines weighted down with pistols, Drugstore, Gonzales Texas, March 1939. Russell Lee, American. (Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division Washington, DC)I guess more of our air travelers must have been feeling threatened during the period between April 13th and 19th, 2012, becau ...
  • Military may put missiles on private roofs for ...
    More proof, if any be needed, of the derangement of the national security state and its ever-expanding tentacles.Charlie StrossIf one of those things is ever fired, either in anger or by accident, it’ll shower white-hot supersonic shrapnel across the extremely crowded residential heart of ...
  • “Bad things happened…”
    Black drop (Pictorial envelope) published by S.H. Zahm & Co. Civil War era (Source: New York Historical Society via Library of Congress American Memory)“…and then everyone was happy and went to the seashore,” That’s how Melina Mercouri’s character Illya always e ...
  • The Cabin in the Woods
    The Cabin in the Woods is an astonishing meta-feat, capable of being funny, strange, and scary — frequently all at the same time.Rotten Tomatoes has trailers, photos, and more on this seriously weird and fun horror movie.
  • Jellyfish-like organisms shut down California ...
    The Diablo Canyon nuclear power power has been shut down completely after salp, which are like jellyfish, clogged intakes. California’s other nuke at San Onofre is also down and may never come back online. This means California must generate several gigawatts of power from other sources, w ...

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

  • Cross Party Support for Te Reo In Schools?
    It’s high time we all worked together and supported our national languages in schools starting with Te Reo Maori. I agree with Tim Groser that learning Te Reo should be available to all children and it’s great to hear the message from an unexpected quarter. The earlier children learn ...
  • Meat workers are doing their share for New Zealand
    While all eyes have been on the Ports of Auckland and SkyCity, another important dispute has been unfolding. For over two months, more than 1300 Talley’s-Affco meat workers have been locked out of their workplaces by their employer.  Two days of mediated bargaining began today. Up to 5,000 child ...
  • Keep our Assets – The Petition for a ref ...
    Great timing just before the marches in Auckland, and Nelson tomorrow. You can sign on to help collect signatures to keep our assets. Someone will be in contact next week with more details. The release: Keep Our Assets Media Release 27 April 2012 Asset sale petition approved The Clerk of the Hou ...
  • Buy local or shop online?
    The often tense relationship between  ’bricks and mortar’ retailers and proponents of online shopping has come to the fore again this week.  NZ Post and Customs will be devoting more resource to screening goods being brought into the country by online shoppers, to assess liability (o ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Caution: Wearing These Can Sabotage Your Health
    By Dr. Mercola Dr. James Oschman is an expert in the field of energy medicine, with a Bachelor's Degree in Biophysics and a PhD in Biology from the University of Pittsburgh. As an author of a number of books, he is widely recognized as an authority in the biophysics of energy medicine. In t ...
  • Does Sunshine Actually Decrease Dangerous Mela ...
    By Dr. Mercola Recent research blaming sunlight exposure for the growing incidences of melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, has failed to consider crucial information that could turn the entire concept on its head, according to Dr. William Grant, an epidemiologist writing for the Vita ...
  • The Oil that May Help Relieve Arthritis, Sciat ...
    By Dr. Mercola Folk healers around the world have used castor oil to treat a wide variety of ailments.You are probably aware that castor oil is regarded by some as a remedy for constipation. But you may not be aware of its reported use as an antiviral, antibacterial, and antifungal, or that ...
  • The Household Appliance that Releases 600 Pote ...
    By Dr. Mercola The scent is unmistakable. Anyone who's ever taken a stroll through their neighborhood has picked up the familiar scent of laundry products wafting from dryer exhaust vents everywhere. But have you ever wondered what's in these common laundry products? The familiar "clean" ...
  • Almost Everyone Does This at The Dentist's Off ...
    By Dr. Mercola A study in the journal Canceri shows that people who have had dental X-rays are more likely to develop a type of brain tumor called meningioma than those who have not. According to CNN Healthii : "The meningioma patients had more than a two-fold increased likelihoo ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Colin Firth campaign for Brazilian tribe break ...
    Colin Firth's appeal has generated more than 10,000 protest emails. © Survival A campaign launched by Colin Firth to save the world’s most threatened tribe has generated more than 10,000 protest emails to the Brazilian government in just three days – a record for protest action for tr ...
  • 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

  • Let reason prevail in the tuition conflict
    It is time for reason, and for reasonable people, to prevail in the conflict over tuition-fee increases that has increasingly disrupted life on the streets of this province's cities and tarnished Quebec's image beyond its borders.
  • The Charles Taylor verdict: a blow against imp ...
    Thursday's historic verdict against Charles Taylor, the former president of Liberia found guilty of aiding and abetting war crimes in Sierra Leone, may have direct and unexpected relevance in Canada.
  • Liquor-law reforms: the glass is only half full
    There is good and not so good in the legislation introduced this week to update Quebec's liquor laws.
  • Sign an organ-donation card, and save a life
    However, if ever there were a time to think about it, it is this week, which has been designated National Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Week. A further inspiration to consider the matter is the story of 15-year-old Vincent Lambert that was featured in Wednesday's Gazette.
  • Sign an organ-donation card, and save a life
    However, if ever there were a time to think about it, it is this week, which has been designated National Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Week. A further inspiration to consider the matter is the story of 15-year-old Vincent Lambert that was featured in Wednesday's Gazette.

Food World Order

  • Food Stamps In Crosshairs Of Republicans' Plan ...
    from huffingtonpost.com: The latest Republican plan to reconcile the budget and preserve defense spending extracts even deeper cuts from programs to help the poor and Americans still reeling from the recession... They are doing so because the Super Committee, which was supposed to find $1.2 tr ...
  • Feds Hit Family Farms With 'Labor Laws' for th ...
    from naturalnews.com: New labor laws being proposed by the U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) would prohibit children from performing many of the routine farm chores they have been involved with for centuries, which some see as a direct attack on small-scale agriculture... The Daily Caller reports t ...
  • #Video: Episode018 - Flossophy, Nanotech, Mad Cow
    On Thursday nights, Media Monarchy joins Corbett Report Radio live on Republic Broadcasting to go over all the latest stories from the world of food, environment and health. This week's menu features Flossophy, Nanotech, Mad Cow and more... Episode018: MP3/Feed Previous Audio: Epi ...
  • #Audio: Episode018 - Flossophy, Nanotech, Mad Cow
    On Thursday nights, Media Monarchy joins Corbett Report Radio live on Republic Broadcasting to go over all the latest stories from the world of food, environment and health. This week's menu features Flossophy, Nanotech, Mad Cow and more... Episode018: MP3/Feed Previous Audio: Ep ...
  • #BingeAndPurge: Poses, Promises, Cage-Free Cha ...
    Ron Wyden's nuclear field trip: Fukushima poses ongoing danger* Video: Wyden Discusses a Recent Onsite Tour of Fukushima* 6 Portland neighborhood health food stores that put localvores first* Growing Hope by Growing Cities* Seed Lady Network Goes Live!* State Threatens to S ...

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 Signs That The Collapsing Spanish Economy I ...
    What happens when debt-fueled false prosperity disappears?  Just look at Spain.  The 4th largest economy in Europe was riding high during the boom years, but now the Spanish economy is collapsing with no end in sight.  When a debt bubble gets interrupted, the consequences can be ...
  • The Family Farm Is Being Systematically Wiped ...
    An entire way of life is rapidly dying right in front of our eyes.  The family farm is being systematically wiped out of existence in America, and big agribusiness and the federal government both have blood all over their hands.  According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, t ...
  • 5 New Lies That The Federal Reserve Is Telling ...
    The Federal Reserve says that everything is going to be okay.  The Fed says that unemployment is going to go down, inflation is going to remain low and economic growth is going to steadily increase.  Do you believe them this time?  As you will see later in this article, Federal R ...
  • 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 ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Quote of the Day: 29th April 2012
    "We now see a gulf yawning between, on the one hand, the consensus government of our new nomenklatura and, on the other, all the rest of us, aware that we are democratically powerless. To the growing groundswell of contempt and resentment that this is creating, those who rule us with such sublim ...
  • And now the British people intend to... citize ...
    That it has come to this... We all know about the people of this country performing citizens arrests on judges. Now they're intending to arrest the politicians. Not just any politician either. Oh no. In fact, they're intending to arrest Bilderberg attending Chancellor George Osborne. ...
  • Of Europe, the European Union, Britain and "xe ...
    This is a personal article, written from the heart and therefore lacking in links, references or academic research. I wanted to write a little - from the point of view of an Englishman - explaining my position on Europe and the European Union. Away from 'The Talking Clock', I've been reall ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Two Ways to Easily Upgrade to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ...
    Ubuntu 12.04 LTS has just been released. It is one of the most anticipated Ubuntu release ever. We will be doing a comprehensive review of Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin" very soon. Anyway, here is how you can easily upgrade to latest Ubuntu 12.04 from Ubuntu 11.10 and earlier version of Ubunt ...
  • Upcoming Elementary OS Luna's New Notification ...
    Next version of Elementary OS codenamed "Luna" will be based on just released Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" and it is going to bring about a number of really interesting changes, new notification system being one of them. Video Demo of Elementary OS's New Notification S ...
  • 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 ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • Germans and Austrians pressured to join in Isr ...
     *Israeli Prime Minister  hypes Iran threat in Germany  *Netanjahu attacks Gunter Grass in bid to drum up support for war *Chancellor Angela Merkel says sole purpose of German state is to serve Israeli war interests *Austrian-Israeli society pressures Austrian government to guarantee Israeli sec ...
  • Germans and Austrians pressured to join in Isr ...
     *Israeli Prime Minister  hypes Iran threat in Germany  *Netanjahu attacks Gunter Grass in bid to drum up support for war *Chancellor Angela Merkel says sole purpose of German state is to serve Israeli war interests *Austrian-Israeli society pressures Austrian government to guarantee Israeli sec ...
  • Vaccination of New Zealand children without pa ...
    *New Zealand health officials use social media to promote vaccination to teenagers *Vaccination of underage teenagers without consent By Katherine Smith Natural Medicine, New Zealand The report on TV3 news on April 24 that health officials are using social media to promote vaccination to teenage ...
  • Vaccination of New Zealand children without pa ...
    *New Zealand health officials use social media to promote vaccination to teenagers *Vaccination of underage teenagers without consent By Katherine Smith Natural Medicine, New Zealand The report on TV3 news on April 24 that health officials are using social media to promote vaccination to teenage ...
  • Does another wave of pandemic bird flu hype si ...
    Three years after Baxter was found to have contaminated 72 kilos of seasonal flu vaccine with the deadly bird flu virus in its biosecurity 3 lab in Austria, nearly triggering a global pandemic, US scientists are hyping a pandemic bird flu yet again. H5N1 Flu Virus Could be ‘Engineered’ to Put Hu ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Financial Repression in Italy
    Author Pater Tenebrarum In Italy, the Monti government has begun to control the spending habits of its citizens to a never before seen extent (hat tip to ‘Das Gelbe Forum’ in Germany). Its crackdown on alleged tax evaders has so far produced 23 suicides by people who were either utte ...
  • Romney Nightmare: Ron Paul Resurfaces Yet Again
    By Robert Ringer – Friday, April 27, 2012 Conservative Republicans knew they were in trouble when one-time conservative Ann Coulter suddenly refocused her swooning from Chris Christie to Mitt Romney. Even Nutty Newt is jumping on board, for fear of being left outside the establishment tent ...
  • A Spanish Company Known As Scytl Will Be Repor ...
    Michael Snyder, Contributor Activist Post Do you know who is going to be counting the votes on Election Day 2012? Most Americans never even think about this. Most Americans just assume that their votes will count and that the government will ensure that the counting process is done honestly and ...
  • Private Prison Corporations Are Slave Traders
    Glen Ford Activist Post The nation’s largest private prison company, the Corrections Corporation of America, is on a buying spree. With a war chest of $250 million, the corporation, which is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, this month sent letters to 48 states, offering to buy their prison ...
  • ROUTINE SAFETY STUDY THAT GOVERNMENT SCIENTIST ...
    ATLANTA, GA -Findings released today showed that infant monkeys given vaccines officially recommended by the CDC and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) exhibited autism-like symptoms. Lead investigator Laura Hewitson of the University of Pittsburgh and colleagues presented study results at ...

Veterans Today

  • Your G-d’s Will Die With You
    One of the things we learned is that Americans, Christian Evangelists, give billions to Israel. They get no accounting of how it is spent. The amount is staggering, conservatively over $30 billion a year which goes with the secret $18 billion the Pentagon gives Israel in arms which they sell ...
  • Leadership – Keeping Hope Alive When Oth ...
    - Uri Avnery...I am an Optimist. Period. No ifs...No buts...No perhapses
  • Confessions of a Drone
    They told me I was the best, better than any human. I didn't hesitate. I didn't flinch. I didn't think.
  • P C Roberts : Trials Without Crimes Or Evidence
    Andy Worthington is a superb reporter who has specialized in providing the facts of the US government’s illegal abuse of “detainees,” against whom no evidence exists.
  • Misreading Arab public opinion on Iran’s nucle ...
    Adapting to the sweeping changes of the Arab Spring requires a new paradigm about the Middle East, one that is cognizant and respectful of the democratic will of Arab public opinion.

electric politics

  • Summa Economica
    According to Dr. Ha-Joon Chang, modern economics emulates the spirit and purpose of medieval scholasticism in upholding — above all else — the status quo. Nowhere is this more apparent, or more required, than in the ridiculous nostrum of "free trade," though if you look closely most ...
  • 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 ...

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

Stop NATO

  • NATO Invades Chicago: Where Is Responsibility ...
    Global Research April 29, 2012 NATO Invades Chicago: But Where is the “Responsibility to Protect” (R2P) for Citizens in this War-Zone City? By Ross Ruthenberg The city of Chicago will be invaded by a NATO conference next month, costing US taxpayers up to $100 million for the provisio ...
  • NATO Invades Chicago: Where Is Responsibility ...
    Global Research April 29, 2012 NATO Invades Chicago: But Where is the “Responsibility to Protect” (R2P) for Citizens in this War-Zone City? By Ross Ruthenberg The city of Chicago will be invaded by a NATO conference next month, costing US taxpayers up to $100 million for the provisio ...
  • Now India: NATO Has James Bond Badge To Kill W ...
    Pakistan Observer April 28, 2012 NATO: “James Bond” 007 force Geopolitical notes from India M D Nalapat === f NATO personnel were to be arrested for killing innocent civilians, tens of thousands would now be in jail for the murder of hundreds of thousands in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and elsewher ...
  • Now India: NATO Has James Bond Badge To Kill W ...
    Pakistan Observer April 28, 2012 NATO: “James Bond” 007 force Geopolitical notes from India M D Nalapat === f NATO personnel were to be arrested for killing innocent civilians, tens of thousands would now be in jail for the murder of hundreds of thousands in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and elsewher ...
  • State Department Reveals 21st Century NATO&#82 ...
    Stop NATO April 27, 2012 State Department Reveals 21st Century NATO’s Global Priorities Rick Rozoff The State Department’s top Eurasia hand addressed the House Committee on Foreign Affairs’s Subcommittee on Europe and Eurasia on April 26 to present Washington’s perspectiv ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • Bersih 3.0: Politicizing the Apolitical in Mal ...
    Nile Bowie | Protests rocked the streets of the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, April 28, as an estimated 25,000 people took to the streets in support of Bersih [1], an organization fighting to reform the nation’s electoral system.
  • Big Oil’s Central Asian Mafia
    Dean Henderson | According to Kurt Wulff of the oil investment firm McDep Associates, the Four Horsemen, romping in their new Far East pastures, saw asset increases from 1988-1994 as follows: Exxon Mobil- 54%, Chevron Texaco- 74%, Royal Dutch/Shell- 52% and BP Amoco- 54%.
  • The 2012 London Summer Olympics – More t ...
    Andrew W. Griffin | Beginning at the end of July, the 2012 Summer Olympics are going to be held in London. We are noticing increasing discussion on certain forums and sites suggesting that something – and we emphasize Andrew W. Griffinsomething – may happen at the London Summer Olympics.
  • Methanol, Biproduct of Aspartame Linked to Aut ...
    Patrick Gallagher | Among these studies is a comprehensive one on Methanol, the primary alcoholic component used in aspartame.
  • Woman with Cerebral Palsy Arrested in Foreclos ...
    Joe Wright | The story of Ana Casas Wilson is one that contains a similar report of abuse that we have heard coming from every state in the union.

FRS

  • Nepal: Basanta, a leader of revolutionary Mao ...
    [From the Basanta interview below:  "Dissolution of the people’s power, submission of the PLA into the hands of Nepal Army through a kind of coup on April 10, 2012, returning of land to the landlords, signing of anti-national treaties like BIPPA and other shameful treaties on water resources wit ...
  • Palestine: Political prisoners’ hunger s ...
    Detained PFLP Leader Moved To Prison Hospital Sunday April 29, 2012 15:03, by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC News Palestinian sources reported, Sunday, that detained secretary-general of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Ahmad Sa’adat, was moved to the Ramla prison hos ...
  • India: ‘The State has to own up to the killin ...
    by Kunal Majumder, Senior Correspondent, Tehelka An interview with GN Saibaba, Vice-President, Revolutionary Democratic Front Of India GN SaibabaPhoto: Shailendra Pandey Civil activists like Prashant Bhushan and Binayak Sen have put out an appeal for the release of Sukma Collector Alex Menon. Do ...
  • India: ‘The State has to own up to the killin ...
    by Kunal Majumder, Senior Correspondent, Tehelka An interview with GN Saibaba, Vice-President, Revolutionary Democratic Front Of India GN SaibabaPhoto: Shailendra Pandey Civil activists like Prashant Bhushan and Binayak Sen have put out an appeal for the release of Sukma Collector Alex Menon. Do ...
  • BRAZILIAN GOVERNMENT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MURDE ...

Ken O'Keefe

  • Enemies Within the Gate – Police Corruption &# ...
    Police Aiding & Abetting in the Theft of Trade Not Aid Vehicles, Donated Goods & Money Moving on, in August of last year I made a complaint to the police about the Trade Not Aid vehicles (18-ton Renault Truck Reg. #V97 DBA & Optare Metrorider Minibus Reg. # P420 VRG) being stolen by ...
  • 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 ...

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

Popsci - Science

  • Video: ISS Soars Above Beautiful Auroras, Ligh ...
    For your morning viewing pleasure, we bring you another beautiful video of one of the rarest views in the universe — Earth lit up from below as the International Space Station soars 220 miles above. The video contains a series of time-lapse sequences captured by the crew of Expedition 30 aboard ...
  • FYI: My Dog Is A Very Good Listener, But How M ...
    That depends. Dogs aren’t linguists, but they have remarkably good social cognition skills. Daniel Povinelli, a psychologist at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, tested dogs’ ability to read cues from people. He placed a reward (a scrap of food, for example) under one of two buckets whil ...
  • The Most Amazing Science Images of the Week, A ...
    This week's amazing image roundup takes us from the ocean of flowers in China's Yunnan province to the rim of Oregon's Crater Lake, from a macro view of the Milky Way to a very close-up view of the inside of an elephant. Enjoy! Click to launch the gallery.
  • The Most Amazing Science Images of the Week, A ...
  • NIST's Quantum Simulator Mimics Hundreds of Qu ...
    In a case that’s somewhat chicken-and-egg, one of the many reasons computer scientists and physicists are pursuing a working quantum computer is to model quantum systems themselves. Modeling some quantum properties for systems even with a just a few dozen particles is impossible on even the bigg ...

Veterans Today

  • Your G-d’s Will Die With You
    One of the things we learned is that Americans, Christian Evangelists, give billions to Israel. They get no accounting of how it is spent. The amount is staggering, conservatively over $30 billion a year which goes with the secret $18 billion the Pentagon gives Israel in arms which they sell ...
  • Leadership – Keeping Hope Alive When Oth ...
    - Uri Avnery...I am an Optimist. Period. No ifs...No buts...No perhapses
  • Confessions of a Drone
    They told me I was the best, better than any human. I didn't hesitate. I didn't flinch. I didn't think.
  • P C Roberts : Trials Without Crimes Or Evidence
    Andy Worthington is a superb reporter who has specialized in providing the facts of the US government’s illegal abuse of “detainees,” against whom no evidence exists.
  • Misreading Arab public opinion on Iran’s nucle ...
    Adapting to the sweeping changes of the Arab Spring requires a new paradigm about the Middle East, one that is cognizant and respectful of the democratic will of Arab public opinion.

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • Wettest April on record - and more rain to come
    Church Fenton in North Yorkshire has become the first station to report record rainfall following last night's heavy rain. So far this month, 122mm (5 inches) has fallen, beating the previous record set in 2000 of 115mm. The station average for April is 49mm (2 inches). Other stations are al ...
  • 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 ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Globalizing Bad Taste in Cars, BRICS+Beckham Edn
    [A weekend feature! It's been such a long time, but rest assured that I still speak of political economy.] Way back when, anyone with a passing familiarity with the automobile business knew what the most important auto shows were: Detroit, Frankfurt, Geneva, Paris, Tokyo. The presence of marques ...
  • Bad Habits Die Hard: On USAID "Relaxing" Tied Aid
    Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime - Chinese proverb Give LDCs subsidized American foodstuffs and you can feed them for a while, albeit with the risk of decimating unsubsidized local food production. Help develop their food self-suf ...
  • 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 ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • 22 Signs That The Collapsing Spanish Economy I ...
    What happens when debt-fueled false prosperity disappears?  Just look at Spain.  The 4th largest economy in Europe was riding high during the boom years, but now the Spanish economy is collapsing with no end in sight.  When a debt bubble gets interrupted, the consequences can be ...
  • The Family Farm Is Being Systematically Wiped ...
    An entire way of life is rapidly dying right in front of our eyes.  The family farm is being systematically wiped out of existence in America, and big agribusiness and the federal government both have blood all over their hands.  According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, t ...
  • 5 New Lies That The Federal Reserve Is Telling ...
    The Federal Reserve says that everything is going to be okay.  The Fed says that unemployment is going to go down, inflation is going to remain low and economic growth is going to steadily increase.  Do you believe them this time?  As you will see later in this article, Federal R ...
  • 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 ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • Dutch Prime Minister resigns after Austerity t ...
    The Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Mark Rutte, has submitted his letter of resignation to Queen Beatrix after entering into a governmental coalition with the extreme right-wing Freedom Party, led by Geert Wilders, which had refused to support the budget reduction. His resignation was immedia ...
  • Merkel and Hollande clash over EU Debt Crisis
    German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French Socialist Party presidential candidate Francois Hollande have had a war of words over how to handle the European debt crisis. It is “not for Germany to decide for the rest of Europe”, Hollande, who is the favorite in France’s May 6 run-off e ...
  • Thousands of Palestinians go on hunger strike ...
    Thousands of Palestinians are on hunger strike in Israeli prisons – for over a week, they have been protesting against indefinite detention without charge and alleged ill-treatment. Some of those who got out, told RT about their life behind bars. Human rights groups in the West Bank say 2, ...
  • Former Brazilian club employee plans to sue US ...
    A former Brazilian club employee plans to file a lawsuit against the US embassy in Brasilia and five of its personnel for injuries she sustained from the US authorities late last year. Romilda Aparecida Ferreira says she was run over on December 29, 2011 by an American embassy driver, who was di ...
  • College Dropout turns Maths Genius after stree ...
    A college dropout has been hailed a unique maths genius – after his brain was damaged in a brutal attack by muggers. Jason Padgett, 41, was left concussed after he was ambushed outside a karaoke club and repeatedly kicked in the head. Now, wherever he looks, he sees mathematical formulas a ...

Voiceless Victim

  • Anything Less Than A Royal Commission Is Just ...
    For far too long Australians have been happy to turn their backs on the untold suffering of thousands of victims of church-enabled sexual predators. But ignoring the problem simply ensures it continues, and gives rapists the message that they have a right to destroy as many innocent lives as the ...
  • 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 ...

WL Central

  • 2012-04-29 #WikiLeaks News Update: #IJF12, "Wo ...
    Tweet WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 512 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 509 days. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 705 days. A secret Grand Jury has been active in the U.S. without transparency for 591 days. ...
  • 2012-04-26 #WikiLeaks News Update: Major devel ...
    Tweet WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 509 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 506 days. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 703 days. A secret Grand Jury has been active in the U.S. without transparency for 589 days. ...
  • 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 ...

U N News

  • UN rights office voices alarm at killing of Br ...
    The United Nations human rights office today voiced concern at what it called a "disturbing" trend of killing journalists in Brazil, after another reporter was found dead earlier this week.
  • UN welcomes abolition of death penalty in US s ...
    The United Nations human rights office today welcomed a new law in the state of Connecticut, in the United States, that abolishes the death penalty and urged other states to follow suit.
  • 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.

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

  • EXPECTED?... Michael Cormier Autopsy Coroner f ...
      Medical examiners in Los Angeles are investigating the possible poisoning death of one of their own officials who may have worked on the case of Andrew Breitbart, the conservative firebrand who died March 1, the same day Sheriff Joe Arpaio announced probable cause for forgery in Presid ...
  • Mexico Seized More Than 68,000 Guns From US in ...
      Mexican authorities have seized more than 68,000 guns in the past five years that have been traced back to the United States. ~ related article read more
  • Government Waste? Check This Out!... Michelle ...
      First Lady Michelle Obama’s vacation in Spain with her daughter Sasha, several friends, their children, and some White House staffers cost U.S. taxpayers at least $467,585,  according to documents obtained by Judicial Watch, a conservative public interest group that fights go ...
  • Medicare Faces Unfunded Liability of $38.6 TRI ...
      Medicare faces an unfunded liability of $38.6 trillion, according to the Medicare Trustees report released Monday. The unfunded liability is the amount that has been promised in benefits to people now alive that will not be funded by the tax revenue the system is expected to take in t ...
  • Government Plifers Social Security Then Claims ...
      Social Security faces an unfunded liability of $8.6 trillion, according to the 2012 Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and Federal Disability Insurance Trust Funds. ~ Christopher Goin (Government had no business squandering the social se ...

Tarpley

  • Debate on “9/11, False Flags, and Black ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. C-SPAN April 26, 2012 with David Frum, Jonathan Kay, and Webster Tarpley C-SPAN 2, Saturday, April 28th at 8pm (EDT) [download video] [download audio] Tarpley onstage at the International Spy Museum in Washington DC with two leading neocons, both from Canada. This deba ...
  • World Crisis Radio
    New programs posted weekly on Saturday evenings Select the appropriate file and listen now or download to your mp3 player. World Crisis Radio Ad-Free RSS Feed! Select Year 2012 2011 2010 Select Program April 28, 2012 April 21, 2012 April 14, 2012 April 7, 2012 March 31, 2012 March 24, 2012 Mar ...
  • Debate on “9/11, False Flags, and Black ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net April 26, 2012 with David Frum, Jonathan Kay, and Webster Tarpley C-SPAN 2, Saturday, April 28th at 8pm (EDT) Tarpley onstage at the International Spy Museum in Washington DC with two leading neocons, both from Canada. This debate is especially relevant comi ...
  • 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 ...

Modern Survivalism

  • Chicago Fears Evacuation and Federal Red Zone
    There is a secret plan to evacuate Chicago in the event of trouble due to the upcoming NATO summit May 20-21 taking place at McCormick Place (the largest convention center in the United States). The Red Cross in Milwaukee is preparing to shelter Chicagoans if they need to be relocated. A Red Cro ...
  • Sharpening Knives 101
    The basic skill of properly sharpening knives is simple, but yet essential to keeping your survival pocket knife (or any other) razor sharp, and at the ready. First you need a sharpening stone. There are lots of varieties, sizes and shapes. The sharpener shown in the picture happens to be a Doub ...
  • A Powerful Preparedness Resource: AM Radio
    Not only do I have an interest in radios, but they are also an integral part of emergency preparedness. There are radios that just ‘receive’ (you only listen to them) and those that ‘transmit and receive’. For most of us, simply listening to radio communications is enough ...
  • List of Preparedness Items For: Cleaning
    In a world without a functioning electrical power grid, perhaps a post apocalyptic world, a world knocked backward 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 y ...
  • How To Achieve your Goals
    It is one thing to think about or talk about the things that we want to do – our goals, but it is quite another to actually do something about it and put the thoughts or talk into actions. I have had my own occasional issues of procrastination, like I’m sure most of you do. [...]

Fast Company

  • Follow Up: The Tablet Really Is Killing The E- ...
    E Ink Holdings, the firm behind the allegedly easy-on-the-eye daylight readable electronic paper that once made your Kindle or Nook so great, has just reported its first loss in 10 successive quarters. The company made a net loss of NT$787 million (a little under $27 million) for the f ...
  • This Week In Bots: Do Let This Robotic Valet F ...
    Bot Vid: RoboCosmoNautNASA's Robonaut may not be the only advanced robotic astronaut helping the crew of the International Space Station if Russia gets its way: The Russian space agency has developed SAR-400, a cosmonaut version of NASA's robot astronaut, and plan on sending it aloft inside ...
  • How Great Family Businesses Skirt The Feuds, A ...
    Even in an age of juggernaut enterprises such as Amazon, Apple, and Google, about 80 percent of the world’s businesses are family owned. But only a third will survive to the next generation. Here's how to navigate the trials of working with relatives and pass the torch successfully.Scott Moorehe ...
  • Jerky Week, Part 5: Big Jerky Speaks
    Can David topple Goliath? Join us as we talk with Slim Jim's brand manager in this shocking conclusion to Fast Company's weeklong investigation into the hotly contested, high-stakes, often spicy business of beef jerky.For the past week, Fast Company has taken a look at four beef jerky startups t ...
  • You're Hired. Now Figure Things Out (With The ...
    This week, Valve's hipper-than-thou employee handbook was unleashed on the Internet, to much envy and amusement. Companies like Valve, Zappos, and Facebook spill on how they maintain continuity and culture using clever onboarding practices and simple reassurance.In Douglas Adams’ famous book ser ...

Jadaliyya

  • "There Are Marxists in India?" Prabhat Patnaik ...
    After an engaging half-hour interview with India’s pre-eminent Marxist economist during a conference at New York University, I told a friend about my one-on-one time with Prabhat Patnaik. “There are Marxists in India?” came the bemused response. “I thought India was the heart of the new capital ...
  • Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja: "Free Bird"
    [The following is an animation narrated by Zainab Al-Khawaja after a phone call with her dad and before she was arrested on 21 April 2012 for protesting the Formula One Grand Prix in Bahrain. Abdulhadi al-Khawaja enters his 90th day on hunger strike today, as his status and whereabouts remain un ...
  • Urban Space in Contemporary Egyptian Literature
    Mara Naaman, Urban Space in Contemporary Egyptian Literature: Portraits of Cairo. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. [This review was originally published in the most recent issue of Arab Studies Journal. For more information on the issue, or to subscribe to ASJ, click here.] In January and F ...
  • اليسار في الزمن الثوري
    تحمل الثورات العربية إلى اليسار مزيجاً من التحدي الوجودي والفرصة التاريخية. والفيصل بين الإثنين هو قدرة اليسار على التعلّم من الدروس البليغة التي تحملها العملية الثورية، وبلورة مشروعه ودوره فيها، وتدبّر كيفية الرد على تحدياتها. فلعل في ذلك ما يدفع اليسار إلى مغادرة مندبة النقد الذاتي، كفارة ذنوب ...
  • Press Release: Front Line Defenders Demand "Pr ...
    [The following press release was issued by Front Line Defenders on Thursday, 26 April 2012, as Abdulhadi al-Khawaja’s status and whereabouts remain unverified. Today marks the 79th day of his hunger strike.]   PRESS RELEASE—for immediate release On the 78th Day of Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja’s h ...

mediagazer

  • Twitter becomes a key real-time tool for campa ...
    Karen Tumulty / Washington Post: Twitter becomes a key real-time tool for campaigns  —  The bully pulpit has a new kind of altar call: “Tweet them. … President Obama repeated that Twitter hashtag twice more during a Tuesday speech opposing an increase in student loa ...
  • Inside The AP's Social Strategy (Josh Sternber ...
    Josh Sternberg / Digiday: Inside The AP's Social Strategy  —  In the spring of 1846, five New York daily newspapers made journalism history when they founded the New York Associated Press to help incur the costs to deliver news from Texas during the Mexican-American War.  A ...
  • Cameron denies "grand deal" to help Murdoch (D ...
    David Milliken / Reuters: Cameron denies “grand deal” to help Murdoch  —  Prime Minister David Cameron has denied favouring Rupert Murdoch's business interests in exchange for political support from his newspaper empire, and defended a minister's handling of an ill-f ...
  • The Library of Utopia - Google's ambitious boo ...
    Nicholas Carr / Technology Review: The Library of Utopia  —  Google's ambitious book-scanning program is foundering in the courts.  Now a Harvard-led group is launching its own sweeping effort to put our literary heritage online.  Will the Ivy League succeed where Sili ...
  • The newsonomics of 99-cent media (Ken Doctor/N ...
    Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab: The newsonomics of 99-cent media  —  Honk if you still love newsprint enough to pay $700 or more a year for a seven-day print subscription to The New York Times.  Of course, you have many other choices.  —  You can try one ...

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

  • 2,900-year-old Egyptian mummy had rare, c ...
    Washington: About 2,900 years after he was mummified, scientists have uncovered that the ancient Egyptian man, likely in his 20s, died of a rare, cancer-like disease that may also have left him with a type of diabetes. A team of doctors who looked at the mummy, which is now in the Archaeolog ...
  • One horrific play, and Derrick Rose&#8217 ...
    CHICAGO — After reaching all those dizzying heights and unfurling countless acrobatic moves in his first three spectacular seasons, Derrick Rose’s fourth ended with an awful image. A jump stop. A clutch of his left knee as he rose two feet into the air. A crumple to the ground, w ...
  • 10 cases of cholera in Surat in 1 month
    Monsoon is yet to set in, but cases of cholera are already surfacing in Surat. Ten people have tested positive for the disease in less than a month in the city. While authorities of New Civil Hospital (NCH) say the situation is serious, Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) claims...
  • I am not someone who keeps sitting on lau ...
    In spite of the city's favourite son Sourav Ganguly leading the Pune Warriors India against them, Kolkata Knight Riders' (KKR) captain Gautam Gambhir hopes Kolkatans will root for his team in the crucial Indian Premier...
  • Is your kid hooked on fast-food? Blame it ...
    If youngsters hooked on fast food have greater chances of becoming overweight, then blame fast-food ads on TV which entice them in the first place. "We know that children and adolescents are highly exposed to fast-food restaurant advertising, particularly on television," said Auden C McClure ...

no frakking consensus

Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

  • 4/27/12 - "Obamacare" in the Supreme Court
    healthcarereform.procon.org - "Obamacare" in the Supreme Court - See our new resource about the Supreme Court hearings on the constitutionality of Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).  Read a summary, a timeline of how the case made it to t ...
  • 4/26/12 - Is nuclear power safe for humans and ...
    alternativeenergy.procon.org - Is nuclear power safe for humans and the environment? – Read statements, including post-Fukushima quotes, from experts such as John Hutton, Chairman of the Nuclear Industry Association (pro), Helen Caldicott, President of the Nuclear Policy Research Institute ( ...
  • 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.

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

  • Thomson quits, Slipper stands down
    Breaking News Embattled Thomson quits Labor party PM moves on Thomson and Slipper, saying a 'line has been crossed' Whether or not you believe in our representative democracy, I hope you can see that we need an election now, and that, if this occurs (as it should from the numbers against th ...
  • What would a world without government look lik ...
    Throughout the last century, it has been estimated that governments around the world have been responsible for approximately 250 million murders. On the contrary, it is estimated that only nine million non-governmental, or domestic cases of homicide, have been perpetrated within the same time fr ...
  • Empowerment begins in your mind - or is it jus ...
    On today's show we bring you analysis and commentary on a number of hot topics in Australian news at the moment. We look at the embattled MP Craig Thompson, who, despite manifest evidence of fraud and criminal conduct,  is being propped up by a Labor government desperate to hold on to the ...
  • How Full-Body Scanners Work – and Fail
    TSA has been introducing full-body scanners to perform a virtual strip search of air travelers. Although technically travelers have the right to opt out, the TSA discourages this behavior with aggressive and invasive pat-down searches. Initially, TSA denied punitive pat-down searches. Then they ...
  • Total Body Scam? — Taking your money and freed ...
    Was it just me? Was I the only one who noticed a tiny announcement in February that Airport Scanners were coming to Australia, the land where terrorists haven’t landed (yet), and … wait for it… there would be no (NO!) — opt — out– clause. Did I hear that cor ...

Beacon

  • Maya Lin Asks 'What is Missing'?
    We got an email recently from artist Maya Lin about her new project, What is Missing, and it is spectacular. Maya created a monument to the disappearing creatures and places on our planet, and put it on the internet to grow and evolve. Her project is a powerful interactive website that showca ...
  • California Begins to Reel in Seafood Fraud
    Red snapper is often mislabeled. [image via Wikimedia Commons] With the help of sustainable seafood guides such as Seafood Watch, we can make informed decisions about what type of seafood to buy based on mercury levels, the type of fishing gear used, and the health of the fishery. But those ...
  • 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 ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • Why The Wehrmacht Overwhelmed The Russians At ...
          If Stalin was anything, he was paranoid. Some of his paranoia was well founded. He was a murderous, obstreperous tyrant who saw the world through only his own eyes.  His police state apparatus was filled with informers and he was tipped off to a plot at the top of his office ...
  • Sexually Transmitted Disease Warning Poster Fr ...
                  Source: Retronaut
  • The Marder III Self Propelled Anti Tank Gun
          As often as the Nazis vilipended the Bolsheviks rendering them little more than animals, the Russian sure did produce great weapons. In fact the Germans copied and adapted captured Russian munitions. For example, the sloped armor of the T-34 helped give birth to the improved ...
  • The Sturmpanzer IV, AKA The Brummbår.
        The Sturmpanzer IV, or Brummbår was an assault gun designed to knock buildings down. It featured a 150mm or 6 inch gun and carried 38 of these massive rounds. It was not designed as an anti tank gun. It was designed as a gun that would take down a building. The Germans put [...]
  • 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 ...

Taylor Marsh

  • Pres. Obama at the Political Insiders Prom
    “What’s the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? A pit bull is delicious.” – Pres. Barack Obama AT THE 1% INTERSECTION OF ELITISM, access and insider greasing. That doesn’t mean it wasn’t funny. I’m sure someone will find something wrong with ...
  • Arrogant Amnesia: Obama Gets OBL, Republicans ...
    AN INTERVIEW WITH PRESIDENT OBAMA in the Situation Room with Brian Williams on the bin Laden raid has exploded. Sen. John McCain is having a hissy fit. Breitbart’s Ben Shapiro is either the dumbest political writer on planet earth or is ignorant of presidential commander in chief powers. I ...
  • The Women Behind Reelect POTUS
    BUZZFEED’S QUICK AND DIRTY dissection of three of the top women inside Obama reelect is instructive. The tale begins with Rosengate, with Stephanie Cutter the central figure that helped manage a situation that went viral and gave Mitt Romney a breather from withering, well earned war on wo ...
  • Photo in Search of a Caption
    You likely know the story by now. It went viral online and screams for a caption. Consider this your thank the gods it’s Friday open forum. Any topic goes.
  • Queer Talk: Achieving Equality and Electoral P ...
    Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality advocate, writer. Recently the Obama / Biden campaign site posted Progress for the LGBT Community, which begins: Together we’ve fought for equal rights for LGBT Americans – and the repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ is just one example ...

Hudson New York

  • German Islam Conference Ends in Failure
    Senior German officials gathered in Berlin with Muslim leaders from around the country on April 19 for the seventh annual German Islam Conference. The official focus of this year's forum -- aimed at furthering Muslim integration in Germany -- was finding
  • Pro-Palestinian or Anti-Israel?
    Pro-Palestinian groups and individuals in the US and Europe are doing Palestinians injustice by devoting all their energies only against Israel. There is a feeling in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that most of these groups and individuals are more
  • 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

Urban Survival

  • GDP Growth: Collapsing
    You may have been thinking that Mr. Ure (me) had taken leave of my senses on Wednesday of this week when our Peoplenomics subscribers were given a quick lecture on “Why 15.3937577 is the ONLY Number that Matters.”  In case … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With the Body parts Trade
      Our Indonesia Bureau is a little worried about going out at night by the sound of the note that accompanied a pointer to the article “Indonesian Migrants Killed in Malaysia Missing Organs, Family Members Say.” The note wonder “Seen … Continue reading →
  • Happy-Talking Ben
    The markets genuinely liked what Fed Chair Ben Bernanke had to say yesterday in his press comments following the Fed rate meeting.  A glance at that shows the Fed still thinks it has more ammo to throw into the fight … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With the Return of WuJo
    Maybe I should have kept my mouth shut about that déjà vu moment I had early this week, but I didn’t….and what’s interesting is that I’m not the only person to have gone through that set of feelings.  An email: … Continue reading →
  • 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 ...

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

  • Latin America Climate, Energy and Environment ...
    Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC Chile Chileans celebrated Earth Day in the capital of Santiago this week with a series of environmental activities ranging from bike riding to community clean-up of some of the city’s pub ...
  • Reflections on the Race to Rio: Will President ...
    Jacob Scherr, Director, Global Strategy & Advocacy, Washington, DC Just recently Rioi+20 has started to get some attention in wider circles in Washington, DC with the focus on whether President Obama will attend the Summit. It began with Todd S ...
  • Time to Take Action on Polar Bears: Lessons fr ...
    Whitney Angell Leonard, Wildlife Advocate, Livingston, Montana A polar bear cartoon on display at the IPY 2012 conference For the past few days, I’ve been representing NRDC at the International Polar Year conference in Montreal, Canada, whi ...
  • Retired Brigadier General says Keystone XL tar ...
    Liz Barratt-Brown, Senior Advisor, Washington, DC In today’s Politico, the former chief logistician responsible for moving troops in Iraq, Retired Brigadier General Steven M. Anderson, in a piece entitled, "Keystone feeds dangerous addiction", ...
  • Massachusetts Biomass Regulations: The Model f ...
    Sami Yassa, Senior Scientist, Director of NRDC’s Markets Initiative, San Francisco Today, Massachusetts’s Governor Deval Patrick’s administration took bold leadership in announcing new standards to ensure that the state’s Renewable ...

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

  • China and Russia hold joint naval exercises in ...
    China and Russia are conducting a major joint naval exercise in the Yellow Sea from April 22 to 27. The drills are a response by the two countries to their growing concerns about the Obama administration’s aggressive “pivot” to Asia that includes a military build-up and the strengthening of US a ...
  • Obama Outlaws All Protests In US Ahead Of Hist ...
    A chilling Ministry of Finance report circulating in the Kremlin today states that the Obama Regime has begun instituting what can only be described as one of the most brutal assaults of human rights and freedoms after it effectively banned all protests against the US government under penalty of ...
  • U.S. Amasses Stealth Jet Armada Near Iran
    2012 Raytheon Award Video from Jersey on Vimeo. The U.S. Air Force is quietly assembling the world’s most powerful air-to-air fighting team at bases near Iran. Stealthy F-22 Raptors on their first front-line deployment have joined a potent mix of active-duty and Air National Guard F-15 Eagles, i ...
  • 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 ...

Daily Dose

Beyond Zero Emissions

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

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Brazil's Congress OKs weakened version of fore ...
    Brazil's Congress on Wednesday approved controversial changes to the country's Forest Code, a move supporters argue will simplify environmental laws and ease agricultural expansion, but environmentalists say will spark deforestation and grant amnesty for past illegal logging. The measure needs t ...
  • Palm oil industry lobbies EPA to reverse palm ...
    Wilmar International, the world's largest palm oil processor and trader, has hired a major lobbying firm to overturn the Environmental Protection Agency's ruling that palm oil-based biodiesel will not meet greenhouse gas emissions standards under America's Renewable Fuels Standard, reports The Hill.
  • Organic yields lag behind industrial farming, ...
    In general, industrial agriculture beats organic farming in yields, according to a comprehensive new study in Nature. The study adds new data to the sometimes heated debate of organic versus conventional farming. Proponents of organic farming argue that these practices are environmentally friend ...
  • Forest activist shot dead in Cambodia allegedl ...
    Chut Wutty, a prominent activist against illegal logging and deforestation, has been killed in the Koh Kong province of Cambodia. Wutty was shot dead at a military police checkpoint while traveling with two journalists with The Cambodia Daily. The journalists are currently being held for questio ...
  • Oil company Perenco endangering 'uncontacted' ...
    The company hoping to exploit the oil deposits slated to transform Peru’s economy has been declared to be endangering the lives of indigenous people living in "voluntary isolation" by the country’s indigenous affairs department (INDEPA). Perenco, an Anglo-French company with headquar ...

Sierra Express

  • Position on the purchase of arms and ammunitio ...
    During my recent visit to the country, I was fortunate to listen to different radio stations as well as, individual discussion programs wherein, fellow citizens expressed their concerns over the purchase of a large quantity of arms and ammunition by government for the Sierra Leone police force.  ...
  • Tanzania’s smallholder farmers get new potato ...
    Lagos, Nigeria – Mtanga Farms Limited (MFL), in partnership with the Tanzanian government, announced the registration of four new potato varieties – the first varieties to be released in Tanzania in 30 years. MFL, a commercial farming operation in the southern highlands of Tanzania – rehabilitat ...
  • Sierra Films in association with Topline produ ...
    Coming this summer, in this thriller/drama, ‘Secret Past’ written by AB Sallu and Mohamed Bah, and produced by Susan Nwokedi, Mohamed Bah, and Samuel I Obichi, a young mother of one finds a new zest for life and marriage to her new husband and love. Their new family unit is in for he ...
  • Sierra Leone Mission in China celebrates 51st ...
    It was a moment of pomp and pageantry at the Sierra Leone Embassy in the People’s Republic of China, when, on April 28th dozens of Chinese and Sierra Leoneans gathered to celebrate Sierra Leone’s 51st  independence anniversary. Bringing together Sierra Leoneans from across Beijing, including Sie ...
  • HE President Koroma’s speech on Sierra Leone’s ...
    51st Independence Anniversary, Broadcast to the Nation By His Excellency the President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma April 27, 2012.  (Photo: HE Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma, President, Sierra Leone) “Today we are celebrating the 51st anniversary of our independence. This is also the very first year of o ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Dita De Boni: Making fleece golden again
    Amid all the teeth-gnashing about the Chinese purchase of the Crafar farms, it may help to remember that without the Chinese, another of our agricultural industries would most certainly be down the gurgler.The wool industry, which...
  • Visiting dairy factories from days gone by
    There's history in them there walls. Small dairy factories adorned almost every hamlet in New Zealand in days gone by. Some have fallen into dereliction and others have succumbed to the bulldozer. A handful of these solidly built,...
  • Fran O'Sullivan: Fonterra puts opposition on b ...
    Fonterra HQ has gazumped moves by dissident shareholders to force another vote on the upcoming switch to trading among farmers by scheduling its own meeting on June 25.Fonterra chief executive Theo Spierings sought board permission...
  • 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...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • The White House Press Correspondents' Dinner i ...
    Let's start with Time's head and subhead—  "President Obama Outshines Jimmy Kimmel at White House Press Correspondents' Dinner: Do we laugh at the president because he's funny or -- because he's the president and we have to? Here's your answer." "At Saturday night’s White House ...
  • Judge Jim Gray Floats VP Run With Gary Johnson
    The chatter surrounding a possible Libertarian vice-presidential candidacy by Judge Jim Gray of California just got an exclamation point on Gray's Facebook page.  "What would you think of Judge Gray running for Vice President?" the Jim Gray page asked on Friday.  The questio ...
  • Tim Cavanaugh on the 20th Anniversary of the L ...
    On the 20th anniversary of the L.A. riots, Tim Cavanaugh writes, there is a lot of good news to report. There has been an actual improvement in civil harmony. Crime rates are down to mid-1960s levels; gang activity is declining; relations between local residents and the Los Angeles ...
  • Kennedy on Attachment Parenting Versus Liberta ...
    The modern world is deadset against libertarian parenting, and it's high time for a playground smackdown with the real enemy. If the attachment commies, the allergyniks, the vegans, and the congenitally offended are indoctrinating their spawn with an anti-rational bucket of goat vomit ...
  • Baylen Linnekin on the Misguided Attempt to Ba ...
    Earlier this month, a Maryland bill that would have banned the possession or sale of shark fins gathered steam before eventually dying in the state’s House of Delegates. It was the latest in a series of efforts around the country to outlaw the popular ingredient employed by Chinese-Am ...

Mercury Rising

  • Sanity pays a visit to Likud. Will this place ...
    Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian: Israel’s former security chief has censured the country’s “messianic” political leadership for talking up the prospects of a military stike on Iran’s nuclear programme. In unusually candid comments set to ratchet up tensions over Iran ...
  • Oops. Or, why everything you thought you knew ...
    Or whatever. These religious debates go on. But Elaine Pagels is always worth reading. Charles Lewis, National Post: …Elaine Pagels, a well-known author of biblical history, as well as a professor of religion at Princeton University, says putting the Revelation in the New Testament was a m ...
  • A nomination for least likely to be re-elected ...
    Clark Canfield, Huffington Post Maine’s blunt-speaking governor is again creating a ruckus with his offhanded remarks – this time by calling state government middle managers “about as corrupt as can be.” At a town hall-style meeting in Newport on Thursday night, Republican Gov. ...
  • Obama at Ft. Stewart
    I listened to the Obamas speaking at Ft. Stewart, Georgia on April 27th. The speech was introduced in part by a letter recounting the experience of a veteran who was swindled by a for-profit online college. Obama said that things had gotten so bad that college recruiters had gotten Marines with ...
  • Obama at Ft. Stewart
    I listened to the Obamas speaking at Ft. Stewart, Georgia on April 27th. The speech was introduced in part by a letter recounting the experience of a veteran who was swindled by a for-profit online college. Obama said that things had gotten so bad that college recruiters had gotten Marines with ...

Reality Sandwich

  • This Week in Psychedelics
      The New York Times reports on the use of psychedelics to ease end-of-life anxiety, Roger Sterling experiments with LSD in the latest episode of "Mad Men," and Sony prepares to release a PlayStation 3 game about a datura trip in this week's psychedelic news. read more
  • In Goddess We Trust: America's Spiritual Cross ...
    Celestial choir! enthron'd in realms of light,
 Columbia's scenes of glorious toils I write. ~Phillis Wheatley, To His Excellency, General Washington Who controls the past, controls the future. Who controls the present, controls the past. ~George Orwell, 1984   read more
  • Poetry Occupies the People's Library
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  • Apple Trees Grow in Brooklyn
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  • Yoga At the Source
    Up until a few years ago, Yoga for me was a series of twists, bends and  undulations with ludicrous new age epithets like 'Prana Flow', 'Nude yoga', 'Shakti kicks' and 'Yoga trance dance', performed in slick studios by nubile nymphs wearing fluorescent skin-ti ...

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

  • Stephen Harper wins the award
    Award was given by the Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ) for being the most secretive government. Very appropriate award for the Mr. Secretive. There is an interesting video on the above site. In a publice meeting he was asked that if he were a vegetable which vegetable he ...
  • Alien ship near the sun - an alien spotted
    A good close-up of the UFO reveals that there is indeed an alien on the ship. :)
  • Harper Government is obsessed with Hitler
    I wonder why? Guilty conscience? If they have any? Now it was John Baird's turn. Read the story in The Huffington Post
  • Another U.S politician involved in sex scandal
    What is with these politicians? Especially with these Weiner guys. First it was Rep. Anthony Weiner of New York who had to resign and now Michael Weiner of New Mexico who was caught doing it in Philippines. Of course there is the big story of the secret service personnel in Colu ...
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    Only Sun News network knows that! Read the story and watch the video here.

Press TV - Middle East

  • Jordan in critical situation: PM-designate
    Jordan’s Prime Minister-designate Fayez Tarawneh says the country is facing a critical situation amid popular demonstrations demanding reform and an end to corruption.
  • Israel fumes over Diskin's Iran remarks
    Political tension is simmering inside Israel’s political circles over latest remarks made by a former spymaster, who said the entity’s leaders are guided by “messianic” impulses and are exaggerating the effectiveness of a possible military attack on Iran.
  • ‘Syria intervention will ignite Mideast’
    Iran’s Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani warns that any military intervention in Syria will have devastating repercussions in the Middle East, and runs the risk that the months-long crisis in the Arab nation would spill over into other regional countries.
  • UN observer urges end to Syria unrest
    Head of the UN observer mission in Syria Major General Robert Mood has demanded all sides cooperate to end the “armed violence” in the country.
  • Bahraini police torture 13-year-old boy
    Bahraini police have beaten and tortured a 13-year-old boy detained for “inciting violence” in the northern city of Hamad Town, his lawyer says.

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 ...
    Hi everyone, my name is Coy. The year 2011 was a year of opportunities, challenges, and new experiences. My first semester as a CUNY SPS student greatly expanded my perspectives as I found myself introduced to the vast amount of resources we – students, workers, and citizens of a digital world – ...

Dissident Voice

  • U.S. and South Korea Assault an Idyllic Island
    The beautiful island of Jeju in South Korea is packed with natural and cultural treasures and designated a UNESCO world heritage site. But it has the misfortune of appearing to the U.S. military strategically positioned to play a part in surrounding China. Most Americans are unaware of Jeju or o ...
  • A Communist in the Woods
    Moloch! Moloch! Nightmare of Moloch! Moloch the loveless! Mental Moloch! Moloch the heavy judger of men! — Allen Ginsberg, “Howl” It is probably impossible today for anyone to make an even halfway commercial movie that shouts, in some positive sense, ‘Revolution!’ as loudly as its lu ...
  • Redemption of the White Liberal
    As I came of age in the mid-60’s during the thick of the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements, great debates raged over when, whether, and how so-called “white liberals” could or should contribute to our cause. White clergy held prominent positions during many of the demonstrations and marches ...
  • A History of the World, BRIC by BRIC
    Goldman Sachs — via economist Jim O’Neill — invented the concept of a rising new bloc on the planet: BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa). Some cynics couldn’t help calling it the “Bloody Ridiculous Investment Concept.” Not really. Goldman now ex ...
  • Occupy and Tea Party Members Meet in Minnesota
    April 11th there was an amazing event at the University Club in St  Paul, Minnesota. Occupy Minnesota sat down at a table and had a discussion with the Minnesota Tea Party. Before we get into how it went, an explanation on how it transpired is in order. Members of the Minnesota Tea Party were at ...

Destructionist

  • Alex Jones: Defeating The Technocratic Totalit ...
    Alex presents a detailed talk covering the history of the New World Order, its philosophy and mindset, what makes it tick and how we can decisively defeat the plan to establish a technocratic totalitarian prison planet.
  • Fukushima Is Falling Apart: Are You Ready … Fo ...
    If they are MOX fuel, containing 6% plutonium, one fuel rod has the potential to kill 2.89 billion people. If this pool collapses, as Senator Wyden is now saying too, we would face a mass extinction event from the release of radiation in those rods. That is, if we aren’t in one already. Nuke ...
  • House Passes CISPA: Red Alert!
    So this is how freedom dies. Ben Franklin warned that those who trade (cyber) liberties for (cyber) security will have neither. And yet, despite outspoken criticism and the founder’s wisdom, gross civil liberties have been again wagered for new government powers under the promise of ‘keeping ...
  • The Next US President Will Be….
    President George Bush, President Barack Obama, and presidential hopeful Mitt Romney all work for the exact same handful of corporate-financier interests. While they vary in how they dress up their methods of carrying out what is essentially a singular agenda, there is glaring continuity from one ...
  • The Next US President Will Be….
    President George Bush, President Barack Obama, and presidential hopeful Mitt Romney all work for the exact same handful of corporate-financier interests. While they vary in how they dress up their methods of carrying out what is essentially a singular agenda, there is glaring continuity from one ...
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