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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 II

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IPS - Inter Press Services

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Understanding Iran's Diplomatic Strategy
    Summary: Iran "needs to know the entire game plan, including the end goal, before committing itself to anything", Mousavian wrote. The history of Iranian efforts to achieve a negotiated settlement supports Mousavian's warning. It is time for the United States to shed its shallow propagandisti ...
  • Ex-Israeli spy boss attacks Netanyahu and Bara ...
    Summary: Israel's former security chief, Yuval Diskin, warns: "I don't believe in either the prime minister or the defence minister. I don't believe in a leadership that makes decisions based on messianic feelings. Believe me, I have observed them from up close ... They are not people who I, ...
  • History could be repeating itself over Iran, w ...
    Summary: Determined not to allow the country to drift into another Middle Eastern conflict, Mr Bacon and a group of other MPs travelled to Vienna last week where they met officials from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which is tasked with ensuring the peaceful use of nuclear en ...
  • Iran Invasion Would Be a Disaster
    Summary: There's growing talk in Washington these days about invading Iran. It's not front and center -- yet. But there are folks in Washington building an under-the-radar case for an invasion right now, so I'm not waiting to speak out. source: Huffington Post read more
  • Don't get your hopes up for an Iran deal!
    Summary: Gareth PorterGareth Porter, investigative historian and journalist specializing in U.S. national security policy, discusses Washington Post writer David Ignatius’s claim that a deal has already been made on Iran’s nuclear program and that ongoing talks are scripted; why the US and Ir ...

The Daily Galaxy

Natural News

  • The hedonization of America: The hippie moveme ...
    Before we can get into how the hippie movement turned America and the rest of the world into hedonists, we have to first take a look at the "hippie" culture. The hippie movement began in America in the mid-60s, though its roots go back several years earlier. Within...
  • Medical breakthrough? Inviting patients to be ...
    A series of recent articles obtained from medical press releases all hailed a "new" concept just introduced into mainstream medicine: Allowing medical patients and clinical trial subjects to be more involved with their treatments. This is a new concept for the mainstream...
  • How the best natural beauty products can help ...
    In the United States lots of us are over weight, including nearly two-thirds of adults and one-third of children. The Brookings Institution estimates this epidemic costs our economy nearly $215 billion every year, a figure which includes costs of medical care as well...
  • Apple bans cellphone radiation detection app f ...
    An Israeli startup company known as Tawkon has developed a mobile application that provides visual readouts on the amount of radiation being emitted from mobile phones at any given time. But according to numerous reports, tech-giant Apple continues to refuse the addition...
  • Health Basics: 10 tricks to never eating meat ...
    What is the first question a meat-eater asks when you tell them you never eat meat? "Where do you get your protein from?" That protein myth has been dispelled for many years, in fact, there's more bio-ready "available" protein in raw vegetables than in meat, and it only...

Threat Level

  • Justice Department Clears Google in Wi-Fi Snif ...
    The Justice Department has cleared Google of wiretapping violations in connection to the company secretly intercepting Americans' data on unencrypted Wi-Fi routers for two years ending in 2010, Google said. The development means that at least three government agencies -- the FCC, Federal Trade C ...
  • Teen Sues Over Facebook Bullying
    A teenager in Georgia has decided to take things into her own hands after her school and police said they could do nothing about the bullying from classmates on Facebook.
  • House Passes Controversial Cybersecurity Measu ...
    The House on Thursday approved cybersecurity legislation that privacy groups cautioned is a threat to civil liberties.
  • Feds Seize 36 Criminal Carding Sites
    Three dozen criminal carding sites were seized on Wednesday by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in cooperation with authorities in Europe and elsewhere.
  • VMWare Source Code Leak Follows Alleged Hack o ...
    Source code belonging to VMWare has leaked to the internet after apparently being stolen by a hacker who claims to have obtained it from a Chinese firm's network.

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Romney Needs Big Shovel to Bury Bin Laden, Ira ...
    Echoing Teddy Roosevelt's famous line, Vice President Joe Biden used a major address on foreign policy Thursday to "promise you the President has a big stick." That provides a sharp contrast to the big shovel Republican nominee Mitt Romney will need to bury the embarrassing flip-flops in his fo ...
  • The Coming Right-Wing Clash over the "Half Tha ...
    In recent years, few Republican talking points have been regurgitated as often as the myth that almost half of Americans pay no taxes. Just last week, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor complained "we have to question whether that's fair," insisting "you've got to discuss that issue." And that ...
  • Romney's "Vision" Blind to Economic History
    On Tuesday night, the GOP's presumptive presidential nominee Mitt Romney threw down the gauntlet. Declaring the election is "still about the economy - and we're not stupid," Romney warned that "President Obama and I have very different visions." After claiming that "government is at the center ...
  • Introducing America's Second MBA President
    The Republican presidential nominee has an MBA from the prestigious Harvard Business School. He made millions in the private sector and earned notoriety for running a high-profile sports enterprise. The GOP's man is promising massive tax cuts which would deliver the lion's share of their bene ...
  • Republicans Call Kettle Black
    While all eyes in the Beltway were focused on innocent dogs and stay-at-home moms, Republicans have been unveiling their strategy for the 2012 presidential race. President Obama, they claim, is responsible both for failed GOP policies and the unprecedented Republican obstructionism designed to ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • Thousands Hit GE Shareholders Meeting to Prote ...
    At least 2,000 people assembled in downtown Detroit this week outside the General Electric shareholders meeting to demand that the giant multinational pay its fair share of taxes.
  • The New Depression: Waves of Suicide in the Ag ...
    Suicide starts to seem a strangely rational measure of life’s cheapness in a monetized society--people’s logical response to a loss of control over their destinies.
  • Occupy Oakland and Workers Back Off Plan to Sh ...
    Strikes, walk-outs, marches and rallies are part of Occupy Oakland's May Day plans, but the centerpiece, an attempted shutdown of the Golden Gate Bridge, may be off.
  • Are "Sentient Cities" That Track Your Personal ...
    Humans will act in ways that even the smartest computer model can fail to anticipate — which is fine, until you put your entire city in its hands.
  • Back to the Futurist interview with Anab Jain
    One of our current project investigating some of these themes is ‘Mutations’, in which we’re looking at new products and services at the intersection of synthetic biology and deviant globalization – a murky world of illegal, informal and pirate economies, new patent laws, cross-border flows of t ...

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Plastic in the Oceans Vastly Underestimated
      The quantity of plastic trash in the ocean may be vastly underestimated. In a new study, researchers have found the previous studies of plastic pollution in the oceans have vastly underestimated the true amount. Researchers discovered that wind was pushing the lightweight confetti-sized ...
  • Intense Light Treats and Prevents Heart Attacks
      Intense light, or even just daylight, may lower the risk of having a heart attack or suffering damage from one, according to a new study by researchers at The University of Colorado. “The study suggests that strong light, or even just daylight, might ease the risk of having a hear ...
  • Quantum Physics, Humor, Romney, the Onion, and ...
      Change. How Does it Become Positive or Negative? How Does Change Happen Completely or Incompletely?   People do change. Their focus does change. I could write a dissertation on the hows and whys of people doing what seems to be a complete turnabout regarding issues, viewpoints, or e ...
  • Rare Protozoan Confirmed as Most Distant Relat ...
      Humankind’s most distant relative has been found to be a very rare micro-organism living in the sludge at the bottom of a Norwegian lake. The discovery may give insight into what life looked like one billion or more years ago. The protozoan lives in a small lake 30 km south of [.. ...
  • GMO ‘Agent Orange Corn’ Close to Approval by t ...
      A new GMO corn that is immune to 2,4-D, one of the main ingredients in Agent Orange, is close to being approved for use in agriculture by the USDA. If Dow AgroSciences’ new GMO corn is approved, it will allow for widespread spraying of 2,4-D without damaging crops. “The scie ...

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Axis of Logic

  • Same old song - United States
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  • Catherine Destivelle Climbing Solo in Mali - M ...
    Be careful! She'll take your breath away ... Source: UK Climbing...
  • Paradigm Shifts: The End Goal Is Not to Occupy ...
    “If you want to create a change, you must challenge not only the models of Unreality, but the paradigms that underwrite them.” - Stafford Beer Imagine you are a 7-month-old baby and your older brother or sister is about 520-years-old. Wouldn’t you want to know something about how he/she ...
  • Unplugging Americans from the Matrix - Iran/Persia
    Americans, the British, and Western Europeans are accustomed to thinking of themselves as the representatives of freedom, democracy, and morality in the world. The West passes judgment on the rest of the world as if the West is God and the rest of the world are barbarians in need of...
  • Forced resignation hits at heart of Cameron go ...
    26 April 2012 Rupert Murdoch is to complete two days of testimony before the Leveson Inquiry into the British media today. But even as questioning of the multi-billionaire began, evidence submitted by his son, James, had forced the resignation of one ministerial adviser, and forced Culture S ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Tax the Ones Who Have the Money
    By @KYYellowDog Should be obvious, but relentless repug lies for the past 40 years have made it necessary to drag out the statistics and the facts and the reality-based arguments. Kevin Drum back in March: In the Wall Street Journal a few days ago, Allan Meltzer hauled out the chart below, whic ...
  • Insiders trying to rescue conservatism from itself
    By @TedFrier Just as the Tea Party movement was largely a branding effort of far right Republicans trying to sail away as fast as their little lifeboats would take them from a sinking Republican brand taking on water after eight long years of George W. Bush's epic ineptitudes, conservative spin ...
  • Songs to Fight the Plutocracy By: "Love Letter ...
    By @KYYellowDog Peter Rothberg at The Nation: Check out "Distractions," the first single on Talib Kweli's new album Prisoner of Conscious, a work which the Brooklyn rapper called a "love letter to the Occupy Movement everywhere." (Kweli explains his motivations and inspirations here.) Now, read ...
  • "Knowledge Without Affection Leads Us Astray E ...
    By @KYYellowDog For those of us who have read Wendell Berry for decades, who know him as that Henry County farmer with a way with words, it's easy to forget the man is a national treasure. Tom Eblen at the Herald: The National Endowment for the Humanities chose the Kentucky farmer, poet, essayis ...
  • Missouri - Unite Against the War on Women - Je ...
    By @MBersin Previously: Missouri - Unite Against the War on Women - Jefferson City march and rally - photos (April 28, 2012) Unite Against the War on Women - march and rally in Jefferson City - April 28, 2012 (April 21, 2012) We Are Women March 4.28.12 - Susan Montee (D) and Courtney Cole (D) (A ...

Care 2

  • Do you have your pets personality?
    Have you ever been told that your pet is exactly the same as you? Does he or she act like you? Are the two of you pretty much indistinguishable? WSPA Australia is now giving you the opportunity to discover exactly how alike your pet you really are! Submitted by Simone D. to Offbeat  |&nbsp ...
  • Ban Hound Hunting in California ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
    The practice of hounding, or hunting big game with the aid of packs of dogs, presents serious welfare concerns for predator and prey alike. Californias mountain lions are already protected from hounding under the law, but other predators arent so lucky Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |&nb ...
  • Stop Wolf Hunting & Trapping In MN ! PLEASE SI ...
    Many Minnesotans do not want the wolves killed randomly by hunting and trapping especially within one year of their federal delisting. We have an opportunity for our state to show that we keep our agreements: the original wolf management plan with its Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |&nbs ...
  • CLOSE OXFORD UNIVERSITY ANIMAL TORTURE LAB ! P ...
    In 2004 despite the (then) labour government's assurances that they would be reducing animal testing in this country, they went ahead, despite virulent protest from animal rights campaigners, to build the largest animal testing facility in Europe. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |  & ...
  • Against the killing of sea turtles and dugongs ...
    Green turtles and dugongs in Australia, are threatened with rapid extinction. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Shedding a tear for America
    This week is a sad moment for America. We have ceded our lead and presence in space. I watched the space shuttle on its funeral journey aboard a 747 at Dulles earlier this week. Now the U.S. begs and buys seats as mere passengers aboard Russian space craft some at NASA and in the government [...]
  • Kimmel Kills Obama and Romney and Washington
    The annual incest competition in Washington, DC–aka the Washington Correspondents Dinner–went off last night without President Obama killing the number two guy in al Qaeda, Ayman Zwahiri. However, there was some killing, at least the verbal variety, by Jimmy Kimmel. I am presuming mo ...
  • He washes and irons his own shirts … it’s true ...
    So much for the meme that Mitt Romney’s wealth makes his lifestyle so different from ours. Or that his “traditional marriage” is just that — not actually so, given that Mitt willingly does jobs that most wives would be expected to do. Yes, Mitt Romney really hand-washes h ...
  • Barack Obama, Despicable Buck Passer
    CIA Director Leon Panetta’s memorandum for the record, which I first mentioned in my terrorism post yesterday, deserves a post of its own. It is stunning. Here it is again: Received phone call from Tom Donilon who stated that the President made a decision with regard to AC1 [Abbottabad Com ...
  • Cuomo v. Hillary in 2016? Why Dems Focus on F ...
    Maggie Haberman of Politico offered a comprehensive article speculating — and speculating is the operative word — on a Cuomo/Clinton showdown for the Democratic nomination in 2016. There is an almost surreal quality to the number of stories about Hillary Clinton throwing her hat into ...

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • Voices of the Youth Rights Conference - Louisv ...
    Voices of the Youth Rights Conference Louisville Courier-Journal As citizens of an Appalachian state, we have grown up with the phrase “mountaintop removal” broadcast on our radios, televisions and on the bumpers of our cars. Yet, as often as we hear the phrase mountaintop removal in our communi ...
  • Coal industry wants activists muted in courts ...
    Coal industry wants activists muted in courts over mine permits Charleston Gazette Coal industry lawyers are hoping to combine the results of several recent court cases to significantly narrow the ability of citizen groups to block new mountaintop-removal mining permits in federal court. Lawyers ...
  • The Last Mountain: A documentary with a major ...
    The Last Mountain: A documentary with a major environmental message Examiner.com Now, Robertson is moving forward to promote awareness of mountain-top removal mining of coal. Raised in West Virginia, Robertson is very aware of the devastation towns are experiencing due to the damage to local wat ...
  • Performance Artist Reverend Billy Preaches the ...
    Performance Artist Reverend Billy Preaches the Gospel of Anti-Consumerism and ... Wesleyan Argus Monday night's sermon included topics as diverse as environmental sustainability and anti-bank activism, coalescing in the goal of “casting the demons out of vaults and ATM lobbies that finance M ...
  • State activist wins Wallenberg Medal for 2012 ...
    State activist wins Wallenberg Medal for 2012 Charleston Gazette The Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition says a veteran mountaintop-removal coal mining activist has won the Wallenberg Medal from the University of Michigan. Bob White resident Maria Gunnoe will receive her award in October. and m ...

Memeorandum

  • Microsoft backs away from CISPA support, citin ...
    Declan McCullagh / CNET: Microsoft backs away from CISPA support, citing privacy  —  Microsoft has been counted as a supporter of CISPA since the beginning.  Now the company tells CNET that any new law must allow “us to honor the privacy and security promises we make ...
  • Germany Looks to Southern Europe to Fill Jobs ...
    New York Times: Germany Looks to Southern Europe to Fill Jobs  —  SCHWÄBISCH HALL, Germany — While much of southern Europe is struggling with soaring unemployment rates, a robust Germany is desperate for educated workers, and it has begun to look south for the solution.
  • Unexceptionalism: A Primer (E. L. Doctorow/New ...
    E. L. Doctorow / New York Times: Unexceptionalism: A Primer  —  TO achieve unexceptionalism, the political ideal that would render the United States indistinguishable from the impoverished, traditionally undemocratic, brutal or catatonic countries of the world, do the following: ...
  • We Are All Nuns - CATHOLIC nuns are not the pr ...
    Nicholas D. Kristof / New York Times: We Are All Nuns  —  CATHOLIC nuns are not the prissy traditionalists of caricature.  No, nuns rock!  —  They were the first feminists, earning Ph.D.'s or working as surgeons long before it was fashionable for women to ho ...
  • Sebelius says she sought religious 'balance,' ...
    Benjamin Mann / CNA Daily News: Sebelius says she sought religious ‘balance,’ but ignored key precedents  —  Washington D.C., Apr 27, 2012 / 06:03 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- HHS secretary Kathleen Sebelius says she was unaware of legal precedents confirming religious freed ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Japan’s eco renewal
    From rolling blackouts to radioactive soil, post-tsunami reconstruction faces many challenges. But the path to recovery is looking distinctly green, Warren Karlenzig found on a tour of the stricken area.I’ve returned from a sobering United Nations-led tour of six tsunami-damaged communitie ...
  • Long journey for China's green cars?
    Strong government support has allowed electric vehicles to win a limited share of the Chinese auto market, but its too early to tell if favourable policy can build a thriving industry. Han Ziyu reports.In early March, the Chinese government unveiled a summary of its programme to promot ...
  • Energy summit: what would you say?
    For the next two days, 23 energy ministers from around the world will thrash out global strategies for cleaner power. chinadialogue asked a roundtable of experts what should top the agenda.Politicians from 23 of the world’s leading economies – including China – are convening in ...
  • Chinese oil: an evolving strategy
    Snapping up resources around the world, China’s state-owned oil companies are feared as aggressive agents of government interest. But, increasingly, these players are led by market signals, not Beijing diktats, writes Kevin Jianjun Tu.China’s thirst for oil and gas, fuelled by its br ...
  • Rethinking peak oil
    Faith-based theories about future oil supplies are easily knocked down, but China should still prepare for the risks of declining reserves, write Lin Shi and Yuhan Zhang.In recent years, Chinese scholars have been embracing “peak oil” theory in increasing numbers. The idea – fi ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Now It’s Clear: “Pro-Life” Means “Pro-Im ...
    Written by Lynn Paltrow & Emma S. Ketteringham for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. Last week, the Alabama Supreme Court agreed to consider an amicus (friend of the court) brief filed by the ...
  • Titanic Tax Shirking by Those in First Class
    President Obama’s 2011 income tax documents showed on Friday that he paid a significantly higher rate than the significantly richer Mitt Romney, highlighting the titanic level of tax shirking committed by far too many 1 percenters. President Obama paid 20.5 percent on earnings of $789,674. ...
  • Minister sells out Black community for race-ba ...
    The National Organization for Marriage has been steadily attempting to blunt the charges that it engaged in attempts to drive a wedge between the black and gay communities on the subject of marriage equality. Ever since confidential documents came out detailing NOM’s strategy to play th ...
  • KONY 2012, Invisible Children, and the Religio ...
    Since the eruption of Invisible Children’s record-breaking KONY 2012 viral video in early March, a considerable body of evidence has emerged which ties the nonprofit, and its leadership, to the American Protestant evangelical right. This is a summary of that evidence – which includes ...
  • From Hate to Love: Why “40 Days of Praye ...
    Written by Carole Joffe for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. Below is a an interview with Reverend Rebecca Turner of Faith Aloud, conducted by Carole Joffe. Faith Aloud is a pro-choice religious ...

Threat Level

  • Justice Department Clears Google in Wi-Fi Snif ...
    The Justice Department has cleared Google of wiretapping violations in connection to the company secretly intercepting Americans' data on unencrypted Wi-Fi routers for two years ending in 2010, Google said. The development means that at least three government agencies -- the FCC, Federal Trade C ...
  • Teen Sues Over Facebook Bullying
    A teenager in Georgia has decided to take things into her own hands after her school and police said they could do nothing about the bullying from classmates on Facebook.
  • House Passes Controversial Cybersecurity Measu ...
    The House on Thursday approved cybersecurity legislation that privacy groups cautioned is a threat to civil liberties.
  • Feds Seize 36 Criminal Carding Sites
    Three dozen criminal carding sites were seized on Wednesday by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in cooperation with authorities in Europe and elsewhere.
  • VMWare Source Code Leak Follows Alleged Hack o ...
    Source code belonging to VMWare has leaked to the internet after apparently being stolen by a hacker who claims to have obtained it from a Chinese firm's network.

Equality Trust

  • Act Local = Reduce the Gap
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    Visit the website of One Society which works in partnership with The Equality Trust. One Society draws on a wealth of research which shows that large divides in income at the top and bottom of society – beyond ‘proportional rewards’ – are damaging to our economy and society, not just for those ...
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    Action for Happiness is a new movement for positive social change, founded by Richard Layard, Geoff Mulgan and Anthony Seldon.   They aim to bring together people from all walks of life who want to play a part in creating a happier society for everyone. Their vision of a better future inc ...
  • Traduction des preuves en Français
     Les preuves en Français Preuves à l’appui: une introduction Preuves à l’appui: la santé physique Preuves à l’appui: la santé mentale Preuves à l’appui: la toxicomanie Preuves à l’appui: l’éducation Preuves à l’appui: la population carcérale      

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • Is a modern day "Typhoid Mary" the link to a N ...
    As many as twenty-nine cases of Salmonella paratyphi B have been identified in North and South Carolina, Tennessee and New York since February 28th according to the North Carolina Buncombe County Department of Health. According to the CDC, humans are one of the only known reservoir sources of S ...
  • E. coli Found in Kentucky and Tennessee Linked ...
    As many as three Stanford Kentucky Elementary School kindergarten students may have contracted E. coli according to the Lincoln County Public Schools. State and local health officials are investigating and have examined the elementary school cafeteria without finding a cause. Two of the 5-year- ...
  • At least 19 sick with E. coli in Oregon and 12 ...
    It has been a bad few weeks for proponents of raw milk. According to the Oregon Department of Health, nineteen people in Oregon are ill with E. coli in an outbreak traced to raw milk from Foundation Farm near Wilsonville, Oregon. Of the 19 people, 11 have culture-confirmed E. coli O157 infecti ...
  • Asheville North Carolina Salmonella Paratyphi ...
    The Buncombe County Department of Health (BCDOH) is currently investigating an outbreak of Salmonella Paratyphi B infection in Buncombe County. Communicable Disease Nurses and Environmental Health Specialists are conducting interviews with people who currently have or have had the infection, re ...
  • Death Toll Continues to Mount in Cantaloupe Li ...
    Last years Listeria Cantaloupe Outbreak is still claiming lives.  December 2011 official CDC report counted a total of 146 persons infected with any of the four outbreak-associated strains of Listeria monocytogenes from 28 states.  However, the CDC still only counts thirty deaths as be ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Beijing: Toyota Dear Qin hatch, sedan foreshad ...
    Filed under: Concept Cars, Budget, Sedan, Hatchback, Toyota, Beijing Motor Show, Design/Style Details on the pair of Dear Qin concepts that Toyota unveiled at the Beijing Motor Show this week are sparse, but they do hint at something interesting coming to every market where the Japanese autom ...
  • Beijing: BMW i8 Spyder takes to the stage bear ...
    Filed under: Concept Cars, Convertible, Hybrid, Performance, BMW, Beijing Motor Show, Design/Style, Electric BMW has created the BMW i sub-brand for its upcoming production plug-in models, which currently include three concepts: the i3, i8 and the i8 Spyder. After keeping that third model awa ...
  • Official: Diesel sales jump, we ask "how high" ...
    Filed under: Car Buying, Diesel It may come as a shock, but diesel cars are doing well outside of their traditional European home. The just-released Mazda CX-5 shows that diesels are selling beyond expectations in Japan, but the real story is that we might be seeing the start of a golden era ...
  • Followup: GM battery lab explosion cost could ...
    Filed under: Safety, Technology, GM, Electric Last week, a fire broke out at the General Motors Technical Center battery research lab in Warren, Michigan. General Motors has since said the fire was caused by a battery that was being tested under "extreme stress." Engineers were trying to get ...
  • Report: More layoffs at Fisker; Delaware plant ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Sedan, Performance, Hirings/Firings/Layoffs, Plants/Manufacturing, Earnings/Financials, Fisker, Electric, Luxury Last we heard, Fisker Automotive was still "committed" to building the recently revealed Atlantic sedan at the former General Motors plant in Delaware. A few y ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • New Story and Search Features for Democracy No ...
    document.write(' '); We’ve made some changes to the website to enhance story videos, provide easy access to story transcripts and suggest Democracy Now! guests that might match your search terms. Check out these new features and let us know what you think. Use this form to submi ...
  • The NSA Is Watching You
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan Three targeted Americans: A career government intelligence official, a filmmaker and a hacker. None of these U.S. citizens was charged with a crime, but they have been tracked, surveilled, detained—sometimes at gunpoint—and interrogated, with no access to a ...
  • Amy Goodman Speaks at NYC Green Festival Main ...
    Award-winning investigative journalist Amy Goodman will speak on Sunday, April 22 at 2pm on the Green Festival Main Stage at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, 655 West 34th Street, in New York City. The Huffington Post will be streaming events on the main stage all weekend, so tune in ...
  • Watch Live, Friday, 7 EST: Amy Goodman Moderat ...
    Tune in tonight to see Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman as she moderates a panel that kicks off the Foundry Theatre’s “This Is How We Do It: A Festival of Dialogues About Another World.” She will speak with activist and philosopher Grace Lee Boggs , who says, “we have the power within us to c ...
  • Part 2: Tavis Smiley & Cornel West on Growing ...
    In part two of our interview, Tavis Smiley and Dr. Cornel West discuss growing up in working-class households. "I saw so much poverty growing up," says Smiley, who lived with 13 family members in a three-bedroom trailer and learned that even when he was not optimistic, he could be hop ...

Suzie-Q

  • Let’s Just Say It: The Republicans Are The Problem
    The Washington Post By Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein, Friday, April 27, 8:46 AM Rep. Allen West, a Florida Republican, was recently captured on video asserting that there are “78 to 81” Democrats in Congress who are members of the Communist Party. Of course, it’s not unusual for some ren ...
  • Obama: GOP On Women’s Health Like &#8216 ...
    Chicago Tribune By Michael A. Memoli 5:09 p.m. CDT, April 27, 2012 WASHINGTON — President Obama on Friday castigated the Republican Party for what he said were dated views onwomen’s healthissues, saying the recent debate over contraceptives was “like being in a time machine.&#8 ...
  • Mitt Romney Versus Reality: Global Edition
    Published on Apr 26, 2012 by BarackObamadotcom Are you in? https://my.barackobama.com/globalttvid Mitt Romney continues to distort reality in this global edition of “Mitt Romney versus Reality”
  • Romney’s “Vision” Blind to E ...
    PERRspectives April 25, 2012 On Tuesday night, the GOP’s presumptive presidential nominee Mitt Romney threw down the gauntlet. Declaring the election is “still about the economy – and we’re not stupid,” Romney warned that “President Obama and I have very diffe ...
  • Mitt Romney Versus Reality: Student Loans Edit ...
    Published on Apr 25, 2012 by BarackObamadotcom Are you in? https://my.barackobama.com/studentloantt5vid Romney’s budget plan cuts Pell Grants and locks in higher student loan rates. His advice for students? “The best thing I can do for you is tell you to shop around.” Reality: ...

Solari

  • Judge Asked to Reconsider Dismissal of FDA Raw ...
    Source: Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund Falls Church, Virginia, April 11, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — On March 30 federal district judge Mark W. Bennett issued an order dismissing a lawsuit challenging the interstate commerce ban on raw milk for human consumption filed by the Farm-to-Cons ...
  • Palacio da Regaleira, Sintra, Portugal
    [click on the image for a larger version] Photo From Wikipedia By Catherine Austin Fitts On Sunday, I was a tourist, leaving Lisbon to meet a wonderful group of Portuguese, Swiss and German friends in Cascais and Sintra. We went on a tour of the elaborate [...]
  • Water Retention Landscapes – A Conferenc ...
    Second International Water Symposium Tamera, Portugal- April 27 – 29, 2012 [Note from Catherine: I am attending this week] We have convened this symposium to introduce a concept of how desertification can be reversed and the water cycle cured in all climate zones of the Earth within a short per ...
  • New Startup Mining Asteroids for Precious Metals
    [CAF Note: Well, I guess these guys think precious metals is in a long-term primary trend!] By Beth Jinks Google Inc. (GOOG) (GOOG) Chief Executive Officer Larry Page and Chairman Eric Schmidt are among the backers of a venture to mine asteroids for trillions of dollars of precious metals, as E ...
  • 10 Fastest -growing and Dying Industries
    By Chuck Gibson In our continuing effort to mine for investments that will allow our clients to participate in future growth trends, I found the following list of the top 10 fastest and dying industries quite fascinating.  The data comes from a just released, special report from IBISworld who a ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Jared Bernstein examines the economic impact o ...
    Summary:  Three of the most significant changes in America’s social and economic structure since the Reagan Revolution in 1980 are slowing GDP growth, the rising federal deficits and the great increase of inequality in wealth and income.  Increasing taxes on the wealth might help reverse t ...
  • What does the future hold for the US Army &#82 ...
    Summary:  Today we see the official US Army’s view of the future, and a response by Douglas Macgregor (Colonel, US Army, retired).  Read and compare.  Much depends on whose view is more accurate. Contents The official view of the US Army’s future Doug Macgregor’s response About ...
  • We’re drifting towards tyranny, again. ...
    Summary:  The early days were perilous for the Republic. The founders flirted with military coup and tyranny.  Here Jefferson tells about one such moment of weakness.  Today we’re experiencing another.  But we can, as they did in 1776 and 1781, prevent America from into tyranny. Please rea ...
  • The new American economy: concentrating busine ...
    Summary:  Corporate power is concentrating in America, quite suitable for society with growing inequality of wealth and income.  A new business structure for a new society.  Today we look at some examples.  This is one of the drivers of increasing concentration of wealth and power in America, pu ...
  • A famous scientists makes a startling admissio ...
    Summary:  There are two kinds of people.  Those willing to admit mistakes, and those who will not.  World-renown scientists James Lovelock has passed the test and shown himself a member of the first group.  Despite the pressure to profess the anthropogenic climate change dogma, he acknowledged t ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

  • Why We Need a Smart NATO
    There is some contention as to who actually said it – Winston Churchill, Admiral Lord Fisher, or Ernest Rutherford but in any case some Brit once said, “Gentlemen, we have run out of money. Now is the time to think.” Sitting here in the Spanish capital in the wake of Real Madri ...
  • International Economic Cooperation Gut-Check
    Thought I'd take a break from all the recent FOREIGN POLICY DEBATE 2012!! fun and shift gears to some relatively apolitical policy issues. Today, a belated response to Dan Drezner's "How are they doing?" question about cooperation among the major economic powers. Dan's post was prompt ...
  • You Might Have Missed: China, Air Power, and B ...
    Background Briefing on the U.S. Military Realignment in Japan, April 26, 2012. QUESTION: And then how this [US-Japan security agreement] fits into the emerging strategic view of this building that rotational, small forces are better than these colossal bases that have been historically our footp ...
  • Map of the Day: Syria as a Humanitarian Crisis
    For the most part, commentary about Syria has focused on the dire human rights abuses that have been carried out by the Syrian regime: The shelling of urban centers, the extrajudicial killings, the disappearances, the torturing, and the crimes against children. The humanitarian side of the confl ...
  • Ethno-Nationalism on the Rise in Europe
    France had a presidential election last weekend, and one of every five voters who went to the polls that day cast a ballot for conservative ethno-nationalist Marine Le Pen. In Greece, the rabidly anti-immigrant Golden Dawn party seems poised to win enough votes to enter parliament for the first ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Consumer Screwgie of the Day
    There are a lot of things companies do to fool consumers, some more meaningful than others. They pack items in large boxes to make them look bigger, they offer questionable claims about their products' effectiveness, they weave absurd tales about how your life will be changed if you buy their t ...
  • Friday Music Break
    For today's edition of Gentle Flowing Tunes Layering Multiple Time Signatures, we have Poi Dog Pondering, with "Thanksgiving." Mmmm...
  • What's the Matter with Wall Street?
    Brad DeLong looks at the degree to which Wall Street has bounced back from the collapse under Obama, and wonders why bankers have turned completely against the president: Why? It is not as though Wall Street has done badly under Obama. Stock prices are up and interest rates are down, so leverag ...
  • Cool Kids Versus Squares, Continued
    Yesterday, I wrote a post looking at an ad aired by GOP uber-super-PAC American Crossroads that went after Barack Obama for being a "celebrity" and doing things like going on Jimmy Fallon's television show. I argued that it looked like once again we are in for a renewal of the old battles that ...
  • Trying Too Hard
    I understand that reporters want to hold the Obama campaign accountable for its rhetoric and tactics, but there’s a point where that goes from sensible to absurd. In the latter column is a “gotcha” from ABC News: The Obama campaign opened up a new line of attack on Mitt Romney Friday, suggestin ...

Buzzflash

  • On May Day, Only a Populist Movement Will Lead ...
    GREG RUGGIERO FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Revised introduction to Noam Chomsky's new book, "Occupy," which can be obtained directly from Truthout by clicking here. "People seem to know about May Day everywhere, except where it began, here in the United States of America," says Chomsky in a new pie ...
  • On Dangerous Right-Wing Partisans
    ANN DAVIDOW FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT We live in dangerous times, not just because the world is in a state of turmoil and threats to our way of life percolate just below a hard boil but because we aren't sure what will set things right or who the enemy is. It is frequently said that there isn't ...
  • Obama Implies He Will Approve Keystone XL Pipe ...
    MARK KARLIN FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT In a nod that his campaign will be using climate change as a wedge issue this year against Romney, Obama, however, implied that he thought too much of a ruckus was made about the Keystone XL Pipeline -- and all but said that he would approve it.read more
  • Walmart: Bribery, Wage-Slaves for Employees, a ...
    MARK KARLIN FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT If you haven't heard that Walmart paid out about $25 millions dollars in bribes to build parking lot size stores in Mexico, you have probably been listening to a slave wage made Apple IPod too long. In fact, Walmart just didn't pay the bribes, it covered up ...
  • Will They or Won't They? Romney and the Evange ...
    BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT A more realistic reading of the recent Christianity Today headline "Will Evangelicals Vote for a Mormon Candidate?" might be, "Do Bears Shit in the Woods?" It's hard to imagine that such a politically savvy Christian magazine thought that it was posing an ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Thinking, shredding and gardening
    An odd mix of books on my desk for review right now and just one of them with a strong scientific angle: Imagine: How creativity works by Jonah Lehrer, The Haynes Fender Stratocaster Manual by Paul Palmer and A Year in the Garden by “Mr Digwell”. Lehrer’s Imagine discusses the ...
  • Classically scientific
    It’s a well known fact, mostly well known to chemists, that the composer Alexander Borodin was also a chemist. When not playing his part as one of the Hand of Five, Borodin did some not insubstantial work on aldehydes. He did his post-doc in Heidelberg with Emil Erlenmeyer (of eponymous fl ...
  • Never mind the dinos
    A bizarre paper that prompted a massive backlash from the chemical community when it made the ludicrous claim that understanding handed molecules on earth might help explain how dinosaurs could be the dominant species on other planets. However, the paper hasn’t been withdrawn by the Americ ...
  • Pharma matters
    The latest issue of my Cutting Edge of Chemistry report for TR Pharma Matters is now available. Organic synthesis scheme showcase in this report, we look at a chemoenzymatic approach that shows promise for a more efficient route to synthesize ultra low molecular weight heparins. Scaffolds on the ...
  • Google unzipped
    Today, Google honours the inventor of the zip fastener, more commonly known in the common vernacular, as the zip (or zipper if you live on the other side of the pond that is The Atlantic. The Google Doodle shows an embroidered Google logo waiting expectantly for its tab to be pulled down…g ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Conservation Groups Seek to Break World Record ...
    On Saturday, concerned citizens will come together for “Polar Bear Uprisings” across the country and around the world to deliver a message to President Barack Obama – no drilling in the Polar Bear Seas this summer. As Shell Oil’s drill ships head to the Arctic Ocean to be ...
  • Conservation Groups Seek to Break World Record ...
    On Saturday, concerned citizens will come together for “Polar Bear Uprisings” across the country and around the world to deliver a message to President Barack Obama – no drilling in the Polar Bear Seas this summer. As Shell Oil’s drill ships head to the Arctic Ocean to be ...
  • “May Day is Coming Home”
    NOAM CHOMSKY, via Karla Quinonez-Ruggiero at Adelante Alliance, occupy at adelantealliance.orgHaymarket Martyrs Monument in Forest Home Cemetery: "The day will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you are throttling today."read more
  • “May Day is Coming Home”
    NOAM CHOMSKY, via Karla Quinonez-Ruggiero at Adelante Alliance, occupy at adelantealliance.orgHaymarket Martyrs Monument in Forest Home Cemetery: "The day will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you are throttling today."read more
  • Congress Must Keep Their Eye on the Prize
    “Unless a new plan is adopted by Congress, interest rates on subsidized student loans for nearly 7.5 million students will double on July 1st. "With multiple bills introduced, we are pleased that Congress has recognized the importance of addressing the pending interest rate hike on yo ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • May Day
    Noam Chomsky If you’re a serious revolutionary, then you are not looking for an autocratic revolution, but a popular one which will move towards freedom and democracy. That can take place only if a mass of the population are implement ...
  • White House Correspondents' Dinner: A Salute t ...
    Cenk Uygur I was at the White House Correspondents' Dinner tonight. And I loved 85% of it. This makes me somewhat of a hypocrite because I often criticize a lot of the people in that room, and I especially single out the chuminess of th ...
  • White House Correspondents' Dinner: A Salute t ...
    Cenk Uygur I was at the White House Correspondents' Dinner tonight. And I loved 85% of it. This makes me somewhat of a hypocrite because I often criticize a lot of the people in that room, and I especially single out the chuminess of th ...
  • And Now Back to the Real Scandal at the NLRB
    John Logan On Tuesday, the Senate voted down a Republican resolution that would have blocked the National Labor Relations Board’s new election rule, the latest in a series of recent GOP efforts to undermine the board. Now, attention h ...
  • And Now Back to the Real Scandal at the NLRB
    John Logan On Tuesday, the Senate voted down a Republican resolution that would have blocked the National Labor Relations Board’s new election rule, the latest in a series of recent GOP efforts to undermine the board. Now, attention h ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • Walmart, Water Wars, Stadiums: VOSD Reading List
    A roundup of what we've been reading recently.
  • Water wars?
    By DrZaeem Zia The people of Gilgit-Baltistan have always been unequivocalin defending their association with... read more
  • Green Blog: The Water Fight That Inspired &#39 ...
    A look at the history and the lingering impact of the water wars invoked in the1974 movie "Chinatown."
  • The Water Fight That Inspired 'Chinatown'
    A look at the history and the lingering impact of the water wars invoked in the1974 movie "Chinatown."
  • Pattaya Mail
    It seems to start earlier every year. Pattaya’s water wars, better known as Songkran, traditionally began in earnest on April 13, running non-stop until the final offensive on the area’s official “wan lai” day, April 19. But each year, the water guns seem to come out earlier.

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • Shakespeare in Palestine: theater director spe ...
    Sarah Irving 27 April 2012 Iman Aoun, artistic director of Ramallah’s Ashtar theater group, discusses the upcoming performance an Arabic-language version of Shakespeare’s Richard II at the Globe Theater in London.
  • Al-Walajah village explores theater as a form ...
    Ben Rivers al-Walaja 25 April 2012 In a unique protest action in the threatened village of al-Walaja, residents and local artists harnessed the power of music, theater, dance and poetry.
  • Palestinians banned from seeking top student p ...
    Yara Sa'di the Galilee 25 April 2012 A decision was made last week barring Palestinians from running for student union president at a college in the Galilee.
  • BBC challenged for ignoring plight of Palestin ...
    Amena Saleem Glasgow 25 April 2012 Hundreds of protesters in Glasgow, Scotland, converged on the BBC’s headquarters demanding an end to the media blackout of the ongoing hunger strikes by Palestinian prisoners.
  • Tom Friedman's latest advice to Palestinians: ...
    Titus North 23 April 2012 In a recent op-ed, the New York Times’ Thomas Friedman smugly offers the Palestinians how to settle their “conflict” with Israel: accept the settlements and the violent settlers, give up a large part of East Jerusalem, and forget about the refugees&#8 ...

The Wonk Room

  • A Critique Of The Broken-Record Counterfactual ...
    The New York Times keeps running opinion pieces and analyses that misstate the positions of the major environmental groups and even leading scientists. A classic example is the Dot Earth post from Friday headlined, “A Critique of the Broken-Record Message of ‘Green Traditionalists’.” ...
  • Top Republican Strategist Denies Women Are Pai ...
    This morning, during a heated discussion with Rachel Maddow on Meet The Press, GOP consultant Alex Castellanos denied that women make 77 cents for a man’s dollar in the workplace and noted, “there are lots of reasons for that.” Maddow expressed shock at the assertion, but concluded t ...
  • Boehner: Romney’s Wealth Won’t Hur ...
    Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has struggled to connect with average voters throughout his campaign, but that won’t hurt him in the general election, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) said Sunday. Asked by CNN’s Candy Crowley whether Romney’s wealth pre ...
  • Backfilling Nuclear Shutdowns With Efficiency ...
    by James Newcomb, via the Rocky Mountain Institute Electric utilities and policymakers in Japan and Germany have been scrambling for months to find ways to compensate for nuclear power plants shut down in the aftermath of Fukushima. In both instances, fossil fuels are part of the stopgap solutio ...
  • Joel Osteen: ‘The Scripture Says That Be ...
    Mega church leader Joel Osteen reiterated his belief that “the scripture says that being gay is a sin,” telling Fox News’ Chris Wallace Monday morning, “my faith is based on what I believe the scripture says and that’s the way I read the scripture.” Asked if g ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • A Few Things to Remember
    With regards to Iraq, the US-supported dictatorship of Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with 9-11, 2001. It did not possess WMDs. And democracy did not bust out all over and help usher in the "Arab Spring." It was a disaster, built on lies, and over a million people were killed and millions more ...
  • Hegemony ... it's the little things
    It's in this otherwise fine Toronto Star article about Vogue Magazine scrubbing their embarrassing gushing profile of Syrian mass-murderer Assad's wife:The 3,200-word article apparently proved so embarrassing to the magazine that it scrubbed it from its website, an almost unheard-of step for a ...
  • The Constitution of the United States of America
    Do you want to know what's really pathetic? Understand, Canada's Constitution and Charter of Rights and Freedoms is apparently a popular model for other countries when they write their constitutions. This is because it contains many positive freedoms. The United States Constitution, on the othe ...
  • Maybe They Should Try a Peaceful March Instead?
    So, Quebec student groups rioted last night. And, lo and nothing to behold, the Quebec government didn't immediately change its mind about tuition increases. Which just goes to show you that violence never works. It's been proven time and time again that getting permission for a rally followed ...
  • Big News! What a Feeling of Accomplishment!
    I cleaned up my kitchen after MONTHS of squalor. I cooked up some vegetables before they went bad. Then I cleaned up the mess from cooking right away!!!! That's how it can be when you don't have 5 things hanging over your head at once!

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Snooki in the media: Pint-sized pregnant star ...
    It seems Snooki, that 4'9" whirlwind that made 'Jersey Shore' a habit for millions, is, if anything, getting more popular with pregnancy. The guidette with a heart, and a temper, is getting a new show despite no longer doing the late night club scene.
  • Website supports Canadian hockey player left a ...
    An injury that occurred quickly in a play that appeared routine has produced tragedy after a Canadian recreational hockey player was left a quadriplegic last week. Richard Morrison, 47-years-old with a wife and two young kids, faces life in a wheelchair.
  • UFO: Hamilton witness reports strange light ov ...
    UFOs are "Unidentified Flying Objects". A witness wants to know more about an apparent UFO that was recorded in Hamilton that is just west of Toronto.
  • Canada: Free Viagra and transgender surgery fo ...
    The National Defense department may eliminate free Viagra and taxpayer-funded sex-reassignment surgery for members of the military as the government looks for ways to trim $1.5 billion from its defense budget.
  • Commemorating the War of 1812 — Why rememberin ...
    It is called "the Forgotten War." With the coming bicentennial anniversary of the War of 1812, the federal government's commitment to reviving interest in the event is seen as a positive move – for both Canadians and Americans.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Troops to stay in Afghanistan past 2014?
    Prime Minister Harper has refused to rule out keeping Canadian special operations forces in Afghanistan past the scheduled 2014 end of the Canadian mission.
  • Former Air Force CF-18 Fleet Manager Opposed t ...
    “As an aerospace engineer and former manager of Canada’s fleet of CF-18s, when I see the term ‘development’ used in the F-35 procurement, I know the government is facing significant performance risks, headaches and much higher costs than anticipated,” said Colonel Paul Maillet (ret.)
  • Russia: Don’t leave Afghanistan!
    Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has criticized NATO's plan to withdraw from Afghanistan by 2014.
  • Focus on military spending
    April 17th was the Second Annual Global Day of Action on Military Spending, which brought together peace activists from all over the world in an effort to reduce global arms budgets.
  • Vimy Ridge and national identity
    Radio host John Moore comments on the claim that the Battle of Vimy Ridge is fundamental to Canada's national identity.

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Governments Everywhere Having Deep Money Problems
    April 13, 2012 International Forecaster By Bob Chapman “If you thought you had money problems, just take a look at countries around the world. Everyone is in big trouble.” –KTRN It was 13 months ago we disclosed that the administration passed a stimulus bill known as the $17.5 ...
  • Gold Resumes Surge As NEW QE Rumor Is Back
    April 13, 2012 Zero Hedge By Tyler Durden We guessed it wouldn’t be too long before the next rumor was dropped and Gold is surging – now over $1670 – on this latest chatter… Don’t tell Gartman, but gold is now of 5% higher in math terms from the minute the “world renowned” gold swing [...]
  • Diamond-Shaped UFO Hums Over Southern Californ ...
    April 13, 2012 Huffington Post By Lee Speigel “UFO sightings continue everyday all around the world.” –KTRN Many UFO reports seem to focus on objects described by witnesses as either shaped like a diamond, saucer, or disc, or as very bright — almost blinding — light ...
  • Top 10 List Of Friday 13th Myths
    April 13, 2012 Metro.Co.UK “Happy Friday The 13th.  Ch-Ch-Ch. Ha-Ha-Ha.” –KTRN It is held in fear by many superstitious people and here’s a top 10 list of the reasons why. 1. Fear of Friday the 13th is called “Paraskavedekatriaphobia”, derived from three Greek ...
  • Missouri Distributor Of Herbal Cancer Product ...
    April 13, 2012 Natural News By: Ethan A. Huff At the prompting of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as part of its ongoing war against natural cancer treatments, federal marshals recently seized a number of anti-cancer products from Notions-n-Things, a Bogard, Missouri-based distributo ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Now we are once again in recession how can we ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comBy Dark Politricks I have just watched the Andrew Marr show with his interview with David Cameron which covered an number of interesting matters such as the influence of lobbying and lobbyist especially his closeness bet ...
  • Right foot forward: Anti-EU drive speeds up
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRussia Todayyoutube.com The EU itself – clearly tiring of austerity – is calling for a new approach to resolving the Eurocrisis. The European Parliament President stressed the urgency, saying the collapse of ...
  • Counting shekels versus the feeding of lambs a ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comBy Michael FarrellSunday, April 29th, 2012 When it comes to the Vatican’s crackdown on women religious, I believe it’s time to declare that for the purpose of this struggle:we are all nuns if you can spell Ca ...
  • U.S. double-murder suspect found dead in hideout
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comUS law enforcement blew the roof off a mountain hideout in Washington state on Saturday and inside found the body of a man suspected of killing his wife and teenage daughter, officials said. Peter Keller, who had been mi ...
  • USA 2012: False Flag Forecast and Top Ten Targets
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comBy Captain MaySaturday, April 28th, 2012 Chicago is the most likely false flag terror target in 2012. By Captain Eric H. May   United State False Flag Attacks and Attempts (in reverse chronological order) 6/3/11 6/1 ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Noam Chomsky talks with High School Students o ...
    Dandelion Salad Apr 21, 2012 by michaelperillo83 Noam Chomsky speaks via phone at Dundee Crown High School in Carpentersville,IL. April 20th, 2012. He talks about the upcoming elections, Occupy Movement, NDAA, Syria, education in the U.S. and the drug war and trafficking. The event was part of a ...
  • A Debate On How To Get Out of the Euro with Ma ...
    with Michael Hudson Featured Writer Dandelion Salad http://michael-hudson.com April 25, 2012 Guns and Butter – | KPFA 94.1 FM “A Debate On How To Get Out of the Euro” with Marshall Auerback, Michael Hudson, William K. Black and Stephanie Kelton in Rimini, Italy. What withd ...
  • U.S. Leads Largest Air Combat Exercises In Bul ...
    by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO April 25, 2012 On April 18 U.S. Air Forces in Europe began the largest air exercise in the history of Bulgaria, no doubt in that of the Balkans as a whole, when 24-32 American F-16 fighter jets and 500 airmen joined Bulgarian counterparts ...
  • Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader Calls for the Po ...
    Dandelion Salad by Ralph Nader The Nader Page April 26, 2012 Condemns Postmaster General Donahoe’s Calls for Service Cuts, Post Office Closings, Job Cuts For More Information Contact: Ralph Nader or Jeff Musto 202-387-8034 Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader today called for Postmaster General Donahoe ...
  • Sri Lankan Buddhists Burn Muslim Flag by Suren ...
    by Suren Surendiran Featured Writer Dandelion Salad http://www.tamilsforum.com 28 April 2012 Issued for immediate release PRESS STATEMENT 28 April 2012 Global Tamil Forum stands in solidarity with the Muslims in Sri Lanka Global Tamil Forum (GTF) strongly condemns the Sri Lankan Government’s com ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Israeli left wing activists held indoors by po ...
    Members of the left wing organization Zochrot were attempting to distribute flyers containing the names of Palestinian villages that were evacuated or destroyed in 1948, when they were held indoors... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • East Jerusalem man, denied residency by Israel ...
    Amir Salima, 21, from the Old City of Jerusalem, has no legal status - not in Israel, not in the Palestinian Authority and not anywhere else. He has no identity card, no passport, he cannot register... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • Clampdown on Palestinian media spreads to the web
    The Palestinian Authority has quietly instructed Internet providers to block access to news websites whose reporting is critical of President Mahmoud Abbas, according to senior government officials... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • UMASS Boston Student Senate passes resolution ...
    The UMass Boston Undergraduate Student Government unanimously passed a bill demanding that the UMass Foundation, the university’s investment fund, divest from Boeing and other companies profiting... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • ‘Hunger strike a signal to world’s oppressed’
    Khader Adnan: I ask God to move the consciences of the free people around the world. I thank them all, especially Ireland, for they have stood by my hunger strike. I ask them to stand in solidarity... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Huge Study Finds Brain Networks Connected to T ...
    In the largest imaging study of the human brain ever conducted--involving 1,896 14-year-olds--scientists have discovered networks that go a long way toward explaining why some teenagers start experimenting with drugs and alcohol.
  • Canadian-Brazilian Synchrotron Experiment Brin ...
    Use of advanced internet technology to bring scientists and leading-edge research infrastructure together half a world apart was demonstrated today between the national synchrotron facilities of Canada and Brazil.
  • Milner-Fenwick's New 'Hospital Quality of Care ...
    Expanded series fosters patient education and communication; contributes to hospital safety efforts and transitions of care.
  • Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Association Hono ...
    Robert H. Baloh, MD, PhD, director of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's Neuromuscular Division, has received the ALS Association Golden West Chapter Commitment to a Cure Award.
  • Consider the Kilogram
    The kilogram is the only base unit in the International System of Units that's still tied to a physical artifact, but two ambitious efforts could soon change that.

Natural Health News

  • Why Is the Flu Vaccine Causing Arthritis Flare ...
    A new study on children already suffering with juvenile idiopathic arthritis has found that the flu vaccine caused adverse events in more than one-third of children, whether they had arthritis or not. The adverse events for the children with arthritis included disease flare-ups and more swollen ...
  • How Money and Power Are Able to Pervert You an ...
    In a submission to the Internal Revenue Service under the Tax Whistleblower Act, a nonpartisan advocacy organization, Common Cause, has exposed what amounts to a tax scam run by a legislative group known as ALEC for some of American’s largest companies. ALEC stands for the American Legislative E ...
  • Drug Company Tries to Force Hospitals to Use $ ...
    A story coming out of the United Kingdom illustrates exactly how far drug companies will go to make sure their expensive drugs are used when cheaper ones are available, including natural supplements that cost pennies on the dollar compared to the drugs. In London, in a legal maneuver intended to ...
  • How Exercise Could Give You a Better Brain
    Scientists have been linking the benefits of physical exercise to brain health for many years, but new research is making it clear that the two aren’t just simply related; rather, it is THE relationship. As reported by The New York Times, new evidence shows that physical exercise helps you build ...
  • Mom Stands Up to Evil Giant Monsanto and Wins ...
    A woman in Argentina who was instrumental in getting the president of Argentina to investigate the connection between pesticide use and the incidence of cancer and other devastating illnesses and deaths in her town has been awarded the 2012 Goldman Environmental Prize. The Goldman recognizes uns ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Upcoming Events: April 29, 2012
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey This is the fourth installment of our new feature; last week’s announcements can be found here. If you are organizing a conference or other event and would like to see the call for papers or the program announced on Opinio Juris, please contact us. Calls for ...
  • Is a Use of Force the same as an Armed Attack ...
    by Duncan Hollis by Duncan Hollis I’m just back from the U.S. Naval Academy and a great conference put on by the Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership:  Warfare in a New Domain: The Ethics of Military Cyber Operations. Ed Barrett pulled together a truly impressive group of technologist ...
  • Is a Use of Force the same as an Armed Attack ...
    by Duncan Hollis by Duncan Hollis I’m just back from the U.S. Naval Academy and a great conference put on by the Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership:  Warfare in a New Domain: The Ethics of Military Cyber Operations. Ed Barrett pulled together a truly impressive group of technologist ...
  • Weekend Roundup: April 21-27, 2012
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Kevin Jon Heller kicked us off this week with posts about the ICC’s report regarding Gaddafi’s situation in Libya and the infighting at the ICC between the Prosecutor and Libyan authorities. He also added a post about the OPCD report outlining Saif Gaddafi’s ...
  • Weekend Roundup: April 21-27, 2012
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Kevin Jon Heller kicked us off this week with posts about the ICC’s report regarding Gaddafi’s situation in Libya and the infighting at the ICC between the Prosecutor and Libyan authorities. He also added a post about the OPCD report outlining Saif Gaddafi’s ...

Public News Service

  • A Rainbow of Fruits and Veggies is Great for Y ...
    A Rainbow of Fruits and Veggies is Great for Your Heart PHOENIX – If you're planning a backyard garden, consider putting in a wide variety of fruits and vegetables - and the more colorful, the better. Mayo Clinic cardiologist Dr. Regis Fernandes says you can't go wrong. ...(Read More)
  • Proposed SNAP Cuts Would Affect One in Six Ari ...
    Proposed SNAP Cuts Would Affect One in Six Arizonans PHOENIX, Ariz. - The U.S. House Agriculture Committee has voted to recommend cutting the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) by $36 billion over 10 years, in line with GOP budget mandates to reduce spending. ...(Read More)
  • Report Recommends Mud Pies for Earth Day
    Report Recommends Mud Pies for Earth Day PHOENIX - Dirt is good, a new report says - especially for children. The National Wildlife Federation report makes that case by highlighting the benefits of letting children get messy outside - and its release coincides with Earth Day activities in Ariz ...
  • New Study Links Autism With the Typical Americ ...
    New Study Links Autism With the Typical American Diet PHOENIX, Ariz. - The epidemic of autism in children may be linked to what they eat, suggests a study recently reported in the journal "Clinical Epigenetics." An unhealthy diet interferes with the body's ability to eliminate toxic chemicals, i ...
  • April is National STD Awareness Month
    April is National STD Awareness Month PHOENIX - A major problem with sexually transmitted diseases is that many people don't know they have them. April is STD Awareness Month, when public health agencies and health-care providers are urging sexually-active people to GYT - Get Yourself Tested. ...

Center for Food Safety

  • USDA Receives Over 365,000 Public Comments Opp ...
    143 Farm, Fisheries, Public Health, Consumer, and Environmental Groups Send Secretary Vilsack Joint-Letter on Potential Threats to Human Health, American Farms  Public Comment Period Ends Friday, April 27 Over 140 groups and more than 365,000 citizens from across the country are urging the U.S. ...
  • California Cows Unhappy About Mad Cow Disease
    Once again mad cow disease (bovine spongiform encephalopathy [BSE]) has surfaced in the U.S.  This week the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) confirmed BSE in a California dairy cow.  USDA has taken the position that milk from BSE-infected cattle is safe for human consumption.  Dair ...
  • FDA Announces Antibiotic Reduction Plan
    3 YEAR PHASE-OUT A WIN FOR CONSUMERS, FOOD SAFETY ADVOCATES, AND MEDICAL COMMUNITY; CONTINUED OVERSIGHT NEEDED The Center for Food Safety (CFS) applauds the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today for issuing industry guidance limiting the use of antibiotics in food-producing animals.  Ant ...
  • USDA To Decide Imminently On Novel “Agen ...
    The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is currently deciding whether or not to approve an application by Dow Chemical for its controversial genetically engineered (GE) corn crop that is resistant to the highly toxic herbicide 2,4-D, one of the main ingredients in Agent Orange. On February 22n ...
  • New Scientific Research Strengthens Link Betwe ...
    Center for Food Safety Calls on Congress, EPA to Take Action Three new studies released in the past two weeks, including one today by Harvard University, add to the growing body of evidence that implicate pesticides, specifically neonicotinoids—a class of pesticides used as a seed treatment in c ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

  • Be organic, it's great for you and environment
    Nice colorful food in Spitalfield market, London. Did you know that seasonal food has much more nutrition than the non-seasonal? In addition, it is sustainable because it doesn't have to be stored for a long time. Check out Be organic... and follow the season (food-drink/be-organic-follow-the-se ...
  • Walk for yourself
    When you drive a car, you always have to be careful of traffic signs and jaywalking pedestrians, trapped in your stuffy car. But when you walk, you don't have to! Moreover, you can improve the health and environment together. If you need more information, check out Back to Basics (lifestyle/b ...
  • Drowned flowers in flood
    There was a huge flood in western Sydney, Illawarra. Up to 20 people have been rescued from danger.This reminds the effect of global warming (climate-change/global-warming.html). If trees die due to the rising degree of the earth, their ability to store water gets worse and it can cause huge rai ...
  • Sydney film festival
    Do you know that Sydney Film Festival (http://sff.org.au/public/about/) is held at June? You can see the several great films from all over the world. There is also a green screen section which you can find out the movie related to environmental issues like global warming (climate-change/global-w ...
  • Picnic with your children
    How about going on a picnic with your kids this weekend? It would be so special for the family to get together. Moreover, it would be good for you to go out riding on a bicycle. What a happy and healthy family! Check out Free Your Rusty Bike (lifestyle/free-your-rusty-bike.html) for more informa ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • 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 ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • The Jack Blood Show – April 26 2012
    Thursday – Rise Up and Shine with Jack Blood. Get the latest news and analysis you won’t find anywhere else. Jack’s Special guest in the first hour was Debra Medina, Former candidate for Texas Govenor and founder of “We Texans.”
  • The Jack Blood Show – April 25 2012
    Wednesday – Rise Up and Shine with Jack Blood. Get the latest news and analysis you won’t find anywhere else.
  • Ruin, Lies, Death, Tryanny… All a Joke t ...
    “I was born in Hawaii” (wink, laugh) LAUGHING ALL THE WAY TO THE BANK….. Glad these traitors have a sense of humor… They’ll need it where their going. Oh yeah, we think Obama “killing” Osama is a joke too! A Free press that isn’t afraid to ask ques ...
  • How to End the Healthcare Debate – Forever
    Rationing and policy didn’t give us the healthcare we have today, it will not provide us proper healthcare tomorrow.  an editorial by Tony Cartalucci  April 28, 2012 – In the modern political arena, we are provided a myriad of false choices from which to choose, while our supposedly ...
  • This Day In History – April 29
    1861 – American Civil War: Maryland’s House of Delegates votes not to secede from the Union. 1862 – American Civil War: New Orleans, Louisiana falls to Union forces under Admiral David Farragut. 1863 – William Randolph Hearst, American publisher (d. 1951) was born. 1910 – The Parliament of ...

The Air Vent

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

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: ...
    The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities across social and mobile application platforms. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at: Nixon Peabody, Courier Publishing, SponsorPay, Warner Brothers, Ci ...
  • Facebook roundup: Yahoo, IPO, Windows Phone, s ...
    Yahoo files more patent claims against Facebook - Yahoo today filed two more advertising-related patent infringement claims against Facebook. Yahoo criticized the social network for purchasing patents specifically as means of retaliation against Yahoo. Facebook responded with the following state ...
  • Facebook Offers now available to partners thro ...
    Facebook added support for creating and managing offers through the API this week, but a spokesperson tells us that this is only available to select partners who already have access to the self-serve version of the feature. Offers are a … Continue reading →
  • Facebook platform supports more than 42 millio ...
    There are now more than 42 million Facebook pages and 9 million Facebook apps, according to a recent amendment to the social network’s filing for an initial public offering. The number of pages on Facebook with 10 or more Likes … Continue reading →
  • Armies of Magic, ReverbNation, Ustream, tabs, ...
    Games and tabs were super popular on our list of emerging Facebook applications by monthly active users this week. We define emerging applications as those that ended with between 100,000 and 1 million MAU in the past week. There was … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • US liberals and their situational ethics
    Lawrence Davidson argues that the ethical standards of American liberals are more malleable than they would admit: In practice they "do not oppose the violation of civil or human rights, be they those of Americans, Iraqis or anybody else. What they do consider unacceptable are violations carried ...
  • Disempowerment and suppression of freedoms in ...
    Graham Peebles looks at how the increasingly paranoid regime of Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi is systematically tightening its monopoly over information, suppressing free speech and suffocating media freedom. "Disempowerment is the aim, and the means are well known, crude and unimaginati ...
  • Israel's settler-officers in the glare of publ ...
    Uri Avnery examines the incident in which an Israeli skullcap-wearing officer, Lt-Col Shalom Eisner, launched an unprovoked and brutal attack on a young Danish peace activist, and argues that Eisner, a deputy brigade commander, is not just the quintessential army officer but the quintessential I ...
  • What do Breivik and Netanyahu have in common?
    Alan Hart argues that among the things that unite Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin is "mania of victimhood": for Breivik insane fears about the consequences for Norway of immigration and multiculturalism, and for Netanyahu an obsession with Iran which, i ...
  • Intolerance in the USA's "sunshine state" of F ...
    Lawrence Davidson analysis the chronic intolerance inherent in the US State of Florida, at the core of which lie the Cuban American and Jewish communities, which "form around repugnant ideological cores that then come to characterize their very identity".

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- April 9, ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it.” – John Hay International Newsworthy US Gives Iran ‘Last Chance’ Warning Second US Aircraft Carrier in Gulf Iran Will Not Accept Any Precondition to Nuclear Talks Surge in Secret US Surveil ...
  • NATO: The Military Enforcement Wing of the Wes ...
    The Unelected, Unrepresentative & Unaccountable Western-Dominated Institution By Rick Rozoff On April 7 Fox News Chicago reported on Occupy Chicago’s march through the city’s downtown, the Loop, recording that hundreds of protesters chanted “End the war, tax the rich” during part of the grou ...
  • Podcast Show #83
    The Boiling Frogs Presents William Engdahl William Engdahl returns to our show to discuss the continuing tension with Iran driven by Israel and US propaganda, the effect of the war rhetoric in creating the ideal backdrop for a massive speculative spike in oil, and the role of key banks such as G ...
  • Putting Syria into Some Perspective: The Holy ...
    “The clinical megalomania of the Holy Triumvirate can scarcely be exaggerated & never prosecuted” By William Blum The Holy Triumvirate — The United States, NATO, and the European Union — or an approved segment thereof, can usually get what they want. They wanted Saddam Hussein out, and soon ...
  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Phil Collins Phil Collins needs no introduction. Picking a favorite song of his is always tough. For me Another Day in Paradise always comes out on top. Collins wrote it to bring attention to the problem of homelessness. He sings it like he cares about the woman in the song and others who are ho ...

Afro Spear

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • CANDIDATE PLEDGES: RESTORING REAL DEMOCRACY TO ...
    This outlines a hard-ball offensive against incumbents who ignore the American public and their constituents to either get them back on track or remove them from office. It employs a deft combination of petitions and pledges to force the hand of legislators who have become the puppets of the ric ...
  • How Big Pharma Gets You To Stay on a Drug For Life
    Most blockbusters are pills for conditions such as anxiety, high cholesterol or constipation that must be taken daily, often for months or years. They are designed for rich Americans who can afford to buy them says a pharma expert.
  • US slowdown intensifies global economic crisis
    Corporate America has deliberately created a massive army of unemployed so as to further depress wage rates. In a newsletter to major investors, JPMorgan Chase chief investment officer Michael Cembalest wrote, "US labor compensation is now at a 50-year low relative to both company sales and US GDP."
  • Consumers Dump Kellogg's "Natural" Kashi After ...
    A photo taken of a local grocer's sign led to an online squall after customers learned most Kashi cereal products contain GMOs. After the natural foods retailer pulled Kashi and other brands, an angry consumer backlash aimed at Kashi grew into hundreds of comments on their Facebook page with ...
  • Understanding Iran's diplomatic strategy
    The history of Iranian efforts to achieve a negotiated settlement supports Mousavian's warning. It is time for the United States to shed its shallow propagandistic view of Iranian strategy, and accept the necessity for real bargaining with Iran on fundamental issues.

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 ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Retirement Age
    And as an addendum to Paul’s post yesterday, it’s pretty easy to talk about the benefits of a retirement age of 74 when your job is to put on a bow tie and pontificate about things you may or may not know anything about. Give Will and everyone else employed by Fred Hiatt’s op-e ...
  • Ryan’s Quasi-Repudiation Of His Hero Ayn ...
    Shorter Paul Ryan: When it comes to Ayn Rand, take the zombie-eyed granny starving, leave the atheism. The scene where everyone who was once guilty of an act of altruism gets asphyxiated, though, was awesome. And, to be clear, his Rand worship isn’t just something the Lamestream Media made up.
  • Environmental Protection and Unions
    A couple of weeks ago, I slammed United Mine Workers President Cecil Roberts for attacking the Environmental Protection Agency. I have a piece up at Alternet exploring this issue in greater detail. An excerpt: It makes little sense for Roberts to side with the coal companies on the EPA or anythi ...
  • The luckiest man who ever lived
    My brother was at the Cincinnati Reds’ game this afternoon, sitting a few rows up in the stands on the first base side. A ball was fouled off, and it bounced on one hop to a guy about five rows in front of him. On the very next pitch, the ball was fouled off again, [...]
  • Uruk-hai vs. Dothraki
    Charli and I talk about racial representations in Tolkien and George R.R. Martin: But I have to ask… Uruk-hai vs. Dothraki: Who would win in a fight?

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Congress weighs big FCPA reforms
    Top U.S. Department of Justice officials are preparing to issue new guidance about the government's enforcement of foreign bribery laws, as members of Congress and business advocates press for sweeping changes of their own.
  • Introducing the NLJ 350
    This week marks the debut of our expanded NLJ law firm survey. The new NLJ 350 ranks 100 national and regional law firms that have been added to our annual list of the nation's largest firms by headcount.
  • THE 2012 MIDSIZE HOT LIST
    The 20 firms listed here are good at what they do, but they're also good at how they do it.
  • THE GLOBAL LAWYER: The globalization of the to ...
    Current and former affiliates of the British mining conglomerate find themselves under assault by three shifting alliances of English, American and South African lawyers.
  • OPINION: The gun lobby: fair-weather federalists
    Lobby is an enemy of state and local government, yet some of the most fervent supporters of its Big Government encroachments oppose health care law on 'federalism' principles.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Warming Climate Has Caused Water Cycle to Inte ...
    A new study published in the journal Science suggests that the cycle of evaporation and rainfall over the world’s oceans has accelerated 4 percent in the last half-century as a result of global warming, a development that could portend more extreme weather in the decades to come. In an analysis ...
  • Pacific Shark Survey Shows 90 Percent Decline ...
    A comprehensive census of Pacific reef shark populations has found that shark abundance has plummeted by roughly 90 percent in waters located near islands inhabited by humans. Using underwater surveys P. AyotteGray reef sharks at Hawaii’s Kure Atoll conducted by divers across 46 U.S. Pacifi ...
  • Borneo Oil Palm Plantations Threaten Surge in ...
    A new study warns that the continued expansion of large-scale oil palm plantations in Indonesian Borneo, particularly on the island’s peatlands, will became a leading source of greenhouse gas emissions without stricter forest protections. According to researchers from Yale and Stanford universit ...
  • Warm Ocean Currents Play Key Role in Melting A ...
    Warm ocean currents are melting many of Antarctica’s floating ice shelves from beneath, which in turn is speeding up the flow of land-based glaciers into the ocean and increasing global sea levels, according to a new study. An international team of scientists, led by researchers from the British ...
  • Fighting A Last-Ditch Battle To Save the Rare ...
    Rhinoceroses worldwide are under siege as their habitat shrinks and poachers slaughter hundreds annually for their valuable horns. Now, in Indonesia, conservation groups are engaged in a desperate struggle to save the last 40 Javan rhinos on earth. BY RHETT BUTLER

Red Ice Creations

  • Anders Behring Breivik’s Plan of "Increased Po ...
    During the third day of his trial, The Guardian reported how Breivik insisted that his goal (in the short to medium term) was to make pariahs of Europe’s nationalists - the very people with whom you might expect him to feel kinship. ’I thought I had to provoke a witchhunt of modern moderately co ...
  • 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 ...
  • A crime by the highway: Poisoning trees to mak ...
    Trees were the enemy if they spoiled the view of a billboard. On days of an attack, Barnhart, 27, would arrive by dawn at work. After removing the magnetic logo from a company truck, he would set forth with a machete, a hospital mask and a container of what he described as a "pretty gnarly" herb ...
  • 40,000 Norwegians mock Breivik with "Marxist" ...
    Tens of thousands of rose-waving Norwegians gathered in rain-drenched Oslo Thursday to deride mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik by singing a song he hates, viewing it as Marxist indoctrination. Some 40,000 people, according to police, massed in the rain at a square near the courthouse where B ...
  • Breivik a False Flag to Discredit the Right
    Breivik is a Freemason Doing his Bit to Advance Communism by Pretending to Oppose It. Anders Breivik’s mass murder of leftist students is a false flag intended to discredit the nationalist causes he pretends to espouse. The demonstration Thursday is a form of mass brainwashing that consolidates ...

Russia Today

  • The missiles next door: Rooftop London bases t ...
    London residents were startled to discover that their housing complex was to be used as a military base to lodge a missile system. The UK Defense Ministry says it’s all part of an effort to counter a terror threat... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Hide-and-ship: Did the US know Libyan weapons ...
    The US and NATO have some questions to answer about the massive weapons cargo seized by Lebanese intelligence officials, Franklin Lamb tells RT. He says they surely knew the shipment was on its way to Syrian rebels, but... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Israeli intel ex-chief: Netanyahu’s policy on ...
    Top Israeli government ministers are misleading the public about the consequences of preemptive military action against Iran, former Israeli security chief Yuval Diskin has warned. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • British blackout? UK media silent on Lugovoy p ...
    British media look to be in no hurry to cover Russian MP Andrey Lugovoy’s British polygraph test, which showed he did not kill former security officer Aleksandr Litvinenko. It is odd that the media stay quiet,... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • At least 90 injured in Cairo as military close ...
    More than 90 people have been wounded as unidentified assailants attacked protesters in Cairo who called for an end to military rule. Police and army troops chose not to interfere. Some reports say a number of people... Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

  • Here’s to the ladies who lunch – e ...
    “Ladies Who Lunch” used to mean the idle spouses of financially successful husbands, as one New Yorker cartoonist fondly dubbed them, his Grand Dames, until Broadway in the mid-seventies where Stephen Sondheim subverted the idiom for Elaine Stritch’s COMPANY showstopper which e ...
  • Europeans increasingly are rejecting US and Ge ...
    All across Europe, European nations are increasingly rejecting forcefully the austerity programs for themselves devised by American and German corporate elites. The latest is Romania’s Government Collapses Amid Austerity Backlash …Why should people be forced to cut out necessary social pro ...
  • A brief current look at US ‘Christian&#8 ...
    Gosh how sickening the ‘Christian’ propaganda does get inside the USA! One would think, listening to the constant propaganda, that US Christians are battling persecution and inhumanity everywhere instead of solidly funding and supporting US war, imperialism, occupation, torture and w ...
  • COVERUP and hiding away of ‘Waldo’ ...
    We have recently been fed a series of ‘revelations’ by the media about military men and secret service agents going off to frolic with prostitutes in Cartagena, and now in San Salvador as well! Oh, the horrors of it all! Did they really? But what about the man the Pentagon spirited a ...
  • Workers Rights in China compared to Workers Ri ...
    Is the US really a giant repository for all Human Rights, and even more explicitly asked, is it a safe area for Workers Rights and model of workers rights for the rest of the world? After all, most Chinese and most Americans earn their income through working for their wages. How does our respect ...

Debunking the Debunkers

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

Fooducate

  • The Connection between Eating Disorders, Obesi ...
        New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! This is a guest blog post by Dr. J. Renae Norton.  I’ve been treating eating disorders (ED’s) and obesity for nearly 25 years and have always had good outcomes.  My rate of success improved dram ...
  • To Supplement or Not to Supplement, The Billio ...
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! Thanks everyone who participated in yesterday’s informal survey about supplementing. We got over 50 responses on the blog and our facebook page. It’s clear that many of you are supplementing, on t ...
  • Do You Supplement?
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! Happy Friday folks. Quick informal survey today. Do you take supplements? What led you to this decision? Would you prefer not to rely on supplements if you could? Shoot away in the comments below. Thanks. Get ...
  • The Mad Cow is Back. What this Means for You
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! You’ve probably heard this already on the news. For the first time in 6 years, Mad Cow Disease has resurfaced in a single cow in central California. Earlier this week, the USDA notified the press. Eatin ...
  • Is this Cheese? Kraft Singles [Cheese Miniseri ...
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! This is the third of three posts in our Cheese Miniseries. In part 1, we covered  12 basic cheese facts. In part 2, we explained what processed cheese is. Today we’ll look inside the label of Kraft Sing ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • 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 ...

Greg Palast

  • Arrest of BP Scapegoat:Real Killers Walk
    by Greg Palast – Special for Buzzflash at Truthout The Justice Department went big game hunting and bagged a teeny-weeny scapegoat.  More like a scape-kid, really. Today, Justice arrested former BP engineer Kurt Mix for destroying evidence in the Deepwater Horizon blow-out. I once ran a Jus ...
  • BP Cover-upPart 2: Bribery, George Bush and Wi ...
    by Greg Palast - Exclusive for EcoWatch.org Friday, 20. April, 2012 Evidence now implicates top BP executives as well as its partners Chevron and Exxon and the Bush Administration in the deadly cover-up –– which included falsifying a report to the Securities Exchange Commission. Yesterday, ...
  • BP Cover-up 'They Knew.'
    by Greg Palast – Exclusive for EcoWatch.org Thursday, 19. April, 2012 Two years before the Deepwater Horizon blow-out in the Gulf of Mexico, another BP off-shore rig suffered a nearly identical blow-out, but BP concealed the first one from the U.S. regulators and Congress. This week, EcoWatc ...
  • Billionaire Ballot Bandits - I've caught'em
    Karl Rove has you by the ballots.  With a $200 million war chest from a coven of billionaires, don't count on getting your vote counted. There's only one thing to stop him:  A COMIC BOOK. If we can get just $10,190 in the next 14 days, the nation’s top elections-heist investigators can publish ...
  • Cops beat our cameraman ZD Roberts
    [New York 1 a.m Sunday]   Our photographer ZD Roberts was just beaten by cops @OWS. Thrown down, hair grabbed and slammed with nightsticks - while Zach yelling "I'm PRESS!" trying to show badge. Cops berserk. Zach following protest path tho I'm trying to get him to come in with film. He cannot b ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • Autism “Awareness” and NOT born with It. Now ...
    By Cathy Jameson I used to love the month of April. Spring. Flowers. Sunshine. Warmth. My birthday. Yes, April was always a fun time for me. Now, I really can’t wait for it to be over. This autism “awareness” that...
  • My Autistic Son has NOT Ruined my Life
    By: Jamie Pacton My best friend is obsessed with tragic mom blogs. She spends way too much time in her work-from-home day reading sad stories about moms whose kids have terminal diseases, rare genetic conditions, and a host of other...
  • Mush From the Wimps: Autism Speaks and the CDC ...
    By Dan Olmsted After attending Wednesday’s congressional briefing on the latest autism statistics, I found myself with three questions, despite having asked several at the briefing. They are variations on the same theme, and not exactly new, but seem more...
  • Natalie Palumbo's "NOT Born This Way" Art Proj ...
    By Anne Dachel I recently received an email from a high school student in Lexington, SC. Natalie Palumbo, 17, is a person we can all learn something from. Her life experience is both a wakeup call and example of what...
  • Demonic? No, “Give Autism A Chance” in Austin.
    By Dan E. Burns Facebook rumors circulated that the café was “demonic,” but that didn’t stop an overflow crowd from enjoying “Give Autism A Chance” at family-friendly Spider House in the keep-it-weird city of Austin, Texas. Our teens fit right...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

Open Your Eyes News

  • Anti-depressants ‘may do more harm than ...
    Daily Mail – Common anti-depressants could be doing patients more harm than good, according to researchers examined the impact of the medications on the whole body. A team from McMaster University examined previous patient studies into the effects of anti-depressants and determined that th ...
  • Spy-in-bag case baffles UK police
    Reuters – British investigators try to work out how the body of a spy ended up inside a locked sports bag with the keys to the padlock with him. Read article
  • Father of twins shot dead while out on patrol ...
    Mail Online – A British soldier shot dead in Afghanistan while on patrol has been named by the Ministry of Defence as Guardsman Michael Roland, from 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards. Guardsman Roland, 22, from Worthing, Sussex, had been in Afghanistan for less than four weeks when he was sho ...
  • White House: Taiwan needs new jets to counter ...
    FP – In a shift of U.S. policy, the White House said Friday that Taiwan does have a legitimate need for new fighter planes to address a growing gap with the Chinese military and pledged to sell Taiwan an “undetermined number” new U.S.-made planes. The new White House position c ...
  • Asian Arms Race: India’s Vikramaditya aircraft ...
    Flight Global – Sea trials of India’s latest aircraft carrier will start “this summer”, with the work to involve the launch and recovery of fixed-wing aircraft from INS Vikramaditya. Although the Indian navy says it has received all 16 RSK MiG-29K/KUBs – 12 single-s ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • 'Whale Wars'' Paul Watson on Faroes killing, ...
    The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, capitalizing on the tremendous success of their Animal Planet TV show, “ Whale Wars ,” has now taken on a new battle. With the Japanese fleet’s Antarctic hunt finished for the season, the skull-and-crossbones crew have turned their attenti ...
  • Activists urge Discovery to acknowledge climat ...
    Forecast the Facts, the activist group that first confronted GM about its support of climate change doubters the Heartland Institute, now plans to muster a public campaign targeting the Discovery Channel. The purpose: to get Discovery to acknowledge the scientific consensus on man-made climate c ...
  • Sierra Club targets Puget Sound Energy in Beyo ...
    The Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal campaign, working in concert with a number of environmental and energy activists and researchers in Washington and Montana, announced Thursday a new push to get Puget Sound Energy to stop buying power from coal-fired Colstrip Generating Station in Montana. A ...
  • Activists sue Obama, others over National Defe ...
    A coalition of well-known journalists, activists and civil libertarians have sued President Obama, Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. , Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and other members of the U.S. government  to push them to remove or rewrite this year’s defense appropriations bill, sayin ...
  • American companies engaging in trade of illega ...
    More than 20 American companies have played roles in fostering a steady flow of illegal hardwoods from the Peruvian Amazon, part of a “well-oiled machine that is ransacking Peru’s forests and undermining the livelihoods and rights of the people that depend on them,” according t ...

water.org

  • A safer walk for water in Ethiopia
    In most rural areas of Tigray, women and young girls fetch water from open wells, springs and other unprotected sources of water. These water sources are often located in distant areas and mostly contain some impurities in the form of suspended or dissolved matter. In many cases the water looks ...
  • A new start in haiti
    Immediately following the inauguration ceremony, this woman collects her first bucket of water from a new well.
  • A toilet provides freedom
    Before, Mrs. Bhuvaneswari's family had to spend time walking to find a place to go to the bathroom. Now they are able to use their own toilet and their time for better things.
  • Bringing joy with clean water
    "The pond water I was forced to get water from was very dirty and had a bad smell. Due to my distant walks to collect water, sometimes I was late to work. My daughters and I would also suffer from diarrhea, jaundice, dysentery and skin diseases because of the dirty pomd water. We are able to ge ...
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    Water.org and Levi's® Launch Water

Before It's News


Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Reinstate Teacher Who Supported Trayvon Martin ...
    arget: Superintendent Jacqueline Cassell Goal: To reinstate Brooke Harris, an eighth grade teacher who was fired after supporting a fundraiser benefitting Trayvon Martins family. The Trayvon Martin case has already caused a storm of controversy, Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World &n ...
  • "Ive Been Duped" - Reflections on Israel and P ...
    Do you know the frustration you feel when you believed in something strongly and then you realize that the information that made you believe was from a source with an agenda to deceive? Submitted by Ken D. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • White House sees more pain for Iran as it clea ...
    Aggressive war is illegal, immoral against nations that are no threat, is nonbelligerent & it is insane! Call your Reps. Tell your friends, rouse up the good folk in your church,mosque and synagouge. We must stop this exported violence or we are screwed. Submitted by michael hall to World &nbs ...
  • Study: 400 Afghan women jailed for "moral crimes"
    In this Jan. 19, 2003 file photo, Zarghona, who is in prison because she left her first husband who abused her and forced her into prostitution, holds her seven-month-old son Balal and looks out through their cell window, at the Kabul Women's Prison in Submitted by Maria V. to World  |&nb ...
  • Seizure of Springs by Settlers Greatly Limits ...
    Palestinians have increasingly lost access to water sources in the West Bank as a result of the takeover of springs by Israeli settlers, who have used threats, intimidation and fences to ensure control of water points closed to tne settlements, Submitted by Naoko I. to World  |  &nbs ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

  • First Solar Shares Drop to Record Low, Can it ...
    First Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR), the world's largest maker of thin-film solar panels has seen its value fall to an all-time low today.  At 4:00 PM EST, the company's shares were down 6.78%, trading at $19.25 on the Nasdaq. read more
  • First Solar Shares Drop to Record Low, Can it ...
    First Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR), the world's largest maker of thin-film solar panels has seen its value fall to an all-time low today.  At 4:00 PM EST, the company's shares were down 6.78%, trading at $19.25 on the Nasdaq. ...
  • Solar Power Gets the Might of the U.S. Militar ...
    The first solar panels ever installed, were photo-voltaic solar panels mounted on military satellites and blasted into space from Cape Kennedy, Florida during the 'Space Race' of the 1960's. read more
  • Solar Power Gets the Might of the U.S. Militar ...
    The first solar panels ever installed, were photo-voltaic solar panels mounted on military satellites and blasted into space from Cape Kennedy, Florida during the 'Space Race' of the 1960's. read more
  • SolarReserve Receives Final Approval for its 2 ...
    SolarReserve has received its final permit from the Saguache County Board of County Commissioners for its two 100 megawatt solar thermal energy facilities it has proposed to build. read more

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • 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 ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • How Does Your Garden Grow?
    Now that the beautiful Spring weather is here, you might be eagerly looking forward to getting your flower beds cleaned up and ready for flowers and veggies! Gardening is a wonderful, relaxing activity, but is it right for you?... Read Full Post
  • Weekend Special: Books So Good You Want To Bec ...
    Some books are so good, we want to open them up and jump right in if we could. The Academy Award-winning short film, The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore brings this feeling to life in an amazingly imaginative way.
  • DOUBLE ANTIBIOTIC (Bacitracin Zinc And Polymyx ...
    Updated Date: Apr 27, 2012 EST
  • In Hopeful Sign, Health Spending Is Flattening Out
    The slowing of the growth rate is partly explained by the recession, but evidence suggests that changing behavior of health care providers and consumers also partly accounts for it.
  • Truvada PrEP, Gilead, AHF -- Our statement to ...
    Submitted to the FDA today, April 27, 2012, by John S. James: I strongly support approval of Truvada for PrEP. In the large iPrEx study of men who have sex with men, "No one in iPrEx acquired HIV infection with a drug level that would have been expected with daily dosing" (Dr. Robert Grant ...

Common Dreams

  • 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

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

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 ...

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • The Game of Metaphysical Chess
    By Robert Singer Why are we born and what are we doing here? Are we all mindless beings, mere products of chance born to consume, grind out a living chasing fulfillment in "things and then die?" [1] Monotheism teaches that Man’s purpose is to worship a Jealous God, die a natural death ...
  • In abolishing the death penalty, Connecticut j ...
    Mary Shaw On April 25, with a stroke of the governor's pen, Connecticut became the 17th U.S. state to abolish the death penalty - and the fifth state to do so in five years. This reflects a growing momentum to end capital punishment in the U.S., which is the only major industrialized Western na ...
  • 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. Drone pilots operate computer keyboards and multiple monitors. Sensor staff work with them. They ...
  • Daring to Criticize Israel
    by Stephen Lendman Addressing this issue responsibly risks rebuke, ostracism, or job loss. For some, it's a career ender. Scoundrel media writers and broadcasters are vulnerable. So are university professors. Joel Kovel lost his Bard College position for writing books like "Overcoming Zi ...
  • UAE leads an anti-Iranian alliance
    Kourosh Ziabari The United Arab Emirates officials are burning with a low blue flame. They have once again started insulting the Iranian nation using an arrogant and offensive language. What has irritated them this time is the recent visit paid by the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to th ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Living Wage for Metro Vancouver rises to $19.14
    For families with young children, the costs of basic necessities like food, rent and child care quickly add up. Even with full-time work year round, both parents in a family of four must earn at least $19.14 to escape severe financial stress in Metro Vancouver. This is the Metro Vancouver li ...
  • Nova Scotia should defend its health workers' ...
    While negotiations between Capital Health and its employees continue, health workers' rights are as prescient now as ever before.  Working people have the right to bargain collectively and withdraw their labour, or strike, if they feel they are being treated unfairly.  Healthcare worke ...
  • Can Wildrose remove its thorns?
    Is the Wildrose challenge to Tory supremacy in Alberta over? Or is it just beginning? Find out here.
  • ILO cites ongoing labour rights violations by ...
    In a recent report, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) cited Canada for over 20 ongoing violations of the ILO's international labour standards. Governments across Canada have refused to change labour laws which have been found to be in contravention of Convention No. 87, Freedom of Asso ...
  • CFLR hosts book launch for "Constitutional Lab ...
    The Canadian Foundation for Labour Rights (CFLR) recently launched Constitutional Labour Rights in Canada: Farm Workers and the Fraser Case, a new book on labour rights in Canada. The book is a collection of 11 essays related to the Supreme Court of Canada April 2011 decision in Ontario (At ...

World Wide Hippies

  • Letter from The U.K.; Secrets, Crimes and Lies ...
    THE END OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE, 1945 – 1965 And the Secrets, Crimes and Lies that accompanied it By Michael Faulkner – tpjmagazine.us In the days – long since gone – when British history was taught in schools as a chronological story, the Empire was treated as an unalloyed boon to the world ...
  • 5 Mind-Bending Facts About Dreams
    By Jeanna Bryner,  LiveScience.com - When your head hits the pillow, for many it’s lights out for the conscious part of you. But the cells firing in your brain are very much awake, sparking enough energy to produce the sometimes vivid and sometimes downright haunted dreams that take place ...
  • Loud Speakers and High Heels
    By Ars Moriendi,WorldWide Hippies-I have always wanted to buy a van with a sound system in it, one of those like you see in an ice cream truck or political van, and ride around praising women. I just want to go from neighborhood to neighborhood, the well off and poor alike, spreading a message o ...
  • Revolution 99 Updates: Love and Support your S ...
    Occupy the regulatory system! NEW YORK — Occupy Wall Street has moved. Its new address: 60 Wall Street. There, inside a soaring public atrium, dreadlocked teens trade shoulder massages near the evening meditation circle. A young man holds up a sign: “You’re a Federal Reserve $lave.” The dinnerti ...
  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Sunday
    Police blow Wash. mountain bunker, find man dead NORTH BEND, Wash. (AP) — Peter Keller spent eight years carving his hole in the side of the mountain, camouflaging the rugged underground bunker with ferns and sticks and stocking it with a generator and ammunition boxes sealed in Ziploc bags. Sus ...

FourWinds10

  • Oil Spill Gulf of Mexico 'Everything is dead o ...
    Oil Spill Gulf of Mexico "Everything is dead or dying"- Kindra Arnesan, Louisiana. September 2010 - IT IS NOT OVER. THE WELL CAP IS USELESS. Sealife is contaminated. Oil is continuing to show up daily.
  • Scientists find record level of shellfish toxi ...
    MUSSELS: Findings are most dangerous on record -- one mussel could kill several. KETCHIKAN -- State scientists looking into paralytic shellfish poisonings in Southeast Alaska have found the highest levels of toxin ever recorded, so high that just one mussel could cause death in several peopl &nb ...
  • Ocean Life on the Brink of Mass Extinctions
    ife in the oceans is at imminent risk of the worst spate of extinctions in millions of years due to threats such as climate change and over-fishing, a study showed on Tuesday. Time was running short to counter hazards such as a collapse of coral reefs or a spread of low-oxygen "dead zones,& ...
  • Exxon oil spill in Mont. river prompts evacuations
    LAUREL, Mont. (AP) — An ExxonMobil pipeline that runs under the Yellowstone River in Montana ruptured Saturday and leaked hundreds of barrels of oil into the waterway, causing a 25-mile plume that fouled the riverbank and forced municipalities and irrigation districts downstream to close i ...
  • Bishops, Nuns and Rabbis Debate Gas Fracking
    Associated Press= PITTSBURGH (AP) — Bishops, nuns and rabbis are joining the environmental and social debate over natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale region, and many are seeking a balance that reflects their congregations. "We have people's lives who are being blessed or ...

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Discussing Peak Oil, Speculators, Oil Shale, a ...
    I am traveling some over the next two weeks, and did not have a chance to record my weekly video segment this week. However, last Friday I was a guest on Alan Colmes’ show on Fox News Radio, so I will share that this week instead. I had been a guest on his show last month to discuss whethe ...
  • The Hard Truth: Even Liberals are Big Fans of ...
    Survey Says… If you were to survey people and ask the question “Should we subsidize oil companies?” — the overwhelming majority would undoubtedly respond “No!” The notion that we are subsidizing oil companies generates outrage in many people, but in this artic ...
  • Natural Gas Prices & Canada’s Economy — R-Squa ...
    In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I talk about the impact of natural gas in the U.S., and the Canadian economy. Some of the topics discussed this week are: How I think natural gas prices will behave over the next 10 years Which industries will benefit the most from low natural ...
  • Cutting Through the Rhetoric on Speculators an ...
    Let’s Play ‘Blame the Speculators’ Most people would probably agree that speculation in the oil and gas markets is hurting American consumers. Consider the case of Aubrey McClendon. Mr. McClendon is the CEO of Chesapeake Energy, where he sells natural gas for a living. Natural ...
  • The Impact of $5 Gas Prices, and Eco-Proppants ...
    In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I talk about the impact I believe $5 gasoline will have on most people, and whether there are any environmentally friendly proppants that can be used for hydraulic fracturing. Some of the topics discussed this week are: My observations here in ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • The Food & Makeup Contaminant That Fuels Breas ...
    For the second time this spring, researchers are finding that the heavy metal cadmium promotes breast cancer. Generally considered a contaminant in cheap, imported kid's jewelry and toys, cadmium can also be found in the food supply, likely the result of chemical fertilizers, and also a contam ...
  • The Food & Makeup Contaminant That Fuels Breas ...
    For the second time this spring, researchers are finding that the heavy metal cadmium promotes breast cancer. Generally considered a contaminant in cheap, imported kid's jewelry and toys, cadmium can also be found in the food supply, likely the result of chemical fertilizers, and also a contam ...
  • The Nickel Pincher: A Super-Easy Spring Salad ...
    This quick-and-easy container salad garden will start serving up fresh goodies in as little as a few weeks. Pair it with a pot of über-easy cherry tomatoes and you'll be set for salads for months to come. To grow cucumbers, you'll need an outdoor spot where your planter will get at least eight ...
  • 5 Suspect Causes of Autism
    Autism risk: More than just genetics? When it comes to autism, ADHD, and learning disabilities, genetics is only part of the story. In fact, in trying to figure out the causes of autism, researchers are proving that environmental factors—everything from farm chemicals to soda and shampoo ...
  • Don't Worry About Mad Cow…For Now
    Federal officials announced today that a case of mad-cow disease (formally known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy) was found in a dairy cow in California. John Clifford, the USDA’s chief veterinarian, said that the animal's carcass was destroyed and that none of its meat entered the food su ...

big think

  • The Trouble with Mann & Ornstein's "The Republ ...
    Thomas Mann of the Brookings Institute and Norman Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute have a must-read essay in today's Washington Post titled "Let's Just Say It: The Republicans Are the Problem." At the core of their argument is that Republicans in Congress have veered so far to the . ...
  • How to Keep Your Brain Young
    What's the Latest Development? When it comes to maintaining a healthy brain into old age, what you do in your later years is more important than how you lived your youth, according to new scientific evidence just published in Trends in Cognitive Science. "Engagement is the secret to succ ...
  • Book Review: Letters From an Atheist Nation
    (Author's Note: The following review was solicited and is written in accordance with this site's policy for such reviews.) Summary: A surprising, welcome reminder that atheism has a long and storied history in the U.S. Letters from an Atheist Nation, edited by Thomas Lawson, is a ...
  • How Analytic Thinking Erodes Religious Belief
    What's the Latest Development? Individuals prompted to think analytically downplay their belief in the supernatural, according to a psychological study completed at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. In an experiment, 93 students were asked to rate their belief in d ...
  • What It Takes to Have a Creative Brain
    What's the Latest Development? Perhaps the nation's best science writer, Jonah Lehrer has long been fascinated with how the brain works and what inspires creative minds. In his new book, Imagine: How Creativity Works, Lehrer tells the story of the post-it note as an example of the creati ...

Information Liberation

  • Jimmy Kimmel to Obama: "Remember when the coun ...
    Jimmy Kimmel aimed his comedic barbs at President Obama, Washington politics, and the Secret Service during the White House Correspondents Dinner on Saturday. Kimmel was the event's featured entertainer. (April 29) - AP...
  • Leftist Favorite Elizabeth Warren Is A Neocon ...
    I can't say I'm suprised. Leftist favorite Elizabeth "Everything You Have You Owe to the State" Warren is a neocon war hawk when it comes to Iran. Despite all evidence to the contrary, she parrots the neocon propaganda line that Iran is actively pu...
  • Virginia Cops Claim Amazing Pot-Sniffing Abilities
    Police officers in Chesapeake, Virginia, have developed the ability to smell marijuana in cars as they cruise down the highway, even when the police have their windows up. Or, at least, according to a report in the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot this week, ...
  • Insanity: CISPA Just Got Way Worse, And Then P ...
    Up until this afternoon, the final vote on CISPA was supposed to be tomorrow. Then, abruptly, it was moved up today*and the House voted in favor of its passage with a vote of 248-168. But that's not even the worst part. The vote followed the debat...
  • New Mexico Sheriff Tries to Cover-up DWI Arres ...
    Via ABC News: New Mexico's attorney general and a county district attorney are investigating to determine whether criminal charges should be brought against a sheriff caught on audio tape trying to force a deputy to release his friend from a DWI a...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Calling A Spade A Bloody Shovel
    The full text: If I wanted America to fail… To follow, not lead; to suffer, not prosper; to despair, not dream… I’d start with energy. I’d cut off America’s supply of cheap, abundant energy. I couldn’t take it by force. … Continue reading →
  • Our Traditions Are Worth Upholding
    On this day, the 97th Anzac Day, I have been wondering about the motives of some in our community who, by all appearances, seem to want to ditch our national traditions, in particular our annual remembrance of those soldiers who … Continue reading →
  • Copyright and Intellectual Property – A ...
    Two pieces of information I’ve received in the last 24 hours prompted me to open a discussion on Libertarianism and intellectual property rights. Firstly, the tragic death yesterday of Australian band Men At Work’s multi-instrumentalist Greg Ham, in his suburban … Continue read ...
  • Neither A Soul To Damn, Nor A Body To Kick
    Today I’m having a look at an issue you might not generally associate with Libertarianism, but whose existence directly impacts on the liberty of us all, thousands of times every day: the company. Specifically, the limited-liability, joint stockholder corporation. Most … Continue rea ...
  • Neither A Soul To Damn, Nor A Body To Kick
    Today I’m having a look at an issue you might not generally associate with Libertarianism, but whose existence directly impacts on the liberty of us all, thousands of times every day: the company. Specifically, the limited-liability, joint stockholder corporation. Most … Continue rea ...

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Thinking, shredding and gardening
    An odd mix of books on my desk for review right now and just one of them with a strong scientific angle: Imagine: How creativity works by Jonah Lehrer, The Haynes Fender Stratocaster Manual by Paul Palmer and A Year in the Garden by “Mr Digwell”. Lehrer’s Imagine discusses the ...
  • Classically scientific
    It’s a well known fact, mostly well known to chemists, that the composer Alexander Borodin was also a chemist. When not playing his part as one of the Hand of Five, Borodin did some not insubstantial work on aldehydes. He did his post-doc in Heidelberg with Emil Erlenmeyer (of eponymous fl ...
  • Classically scientific
    It’s a well known fact, mostly well known to chemists, that the composer Alexander Borodin was also a chemist. When not playing his part as one of the Hand of Five, Borodin did some not insubstantial work on aldehydes. He did his post-doc in Heidelberg with Emil Erlenmeyer (of eponymous fl ...
  • Never mind the dinos
    A bizarre paper that prompted a massive backlash from the chemical community when it made the ludicrous claim that understanding handed molecules on earth might help explain how dinosaurs could be the dominant species on other planets. However, the paper hasn’t been withdrawn by the Americ ...
  • Never mind the dinos
    A bizarre paper that prompted a massive backlash from the chemical community when it made the ludicrous claim that understanding handed molecules on earth might help explain how dinosaurs could be the dominant species on other planets. However, the paper hasn’t been withdrawn by the Americ ...

RFF Library

  • The Future of Fuels: An Analysis of Future Ene ...
    National Association of Convenience Stores www.nacsonline.com/futureoffuels [From a Greenwire article by Jason Plautz, sub. req'd] In a report released today, the National Association of Convenience Stores say the CAFE (corporate average fuel economy) standards and RFS cannot coexist without add ...
  • NEPAssist: a GIS Tool for Identifying Environm ...
    EPA | White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) http://134.67.99.123/nepassist/entry.aspx [Website] NEPAssist is a tool that facilitates the environmental review process and project planning in relation to environmental considerations. The web-based application draws environmental ...
  • The Impact of Carbon Pricing on Wholesale Elec ...
    Univ. of Queensland,  School of Economics/  by Phillip Wild http://www.uq.edu.au/eemg/docs/workingpapers/2012-5.pdf [Gizmo.com] Research out of the University of Queensland suggests that the impact of the Carbon Tax won’t be as bad as imagined — but some states will do markedly better than other ...
  • Deploying Renewables: Best and Future Policy P ...
    OECD (This book is available to RFFers through OECD iLibrary. If prompted for a password, check the library landing page, left side; for others, it is available through the OECD Bookshop.) http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/9789264124912-en The global energy system faces urgent challenges. Concerns about ...
  • Korea’s Low-Carbon Green Growth Strategy
    OECD / by Sang In Kang, Jin-gyu Oh, Hongseok Kim http://bit.ly/Hpay3E [Abstract]  This paper examines Korea’s low-carbon green growth strategy with a focus on three pillars: regulations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from industries; incentive mechanisms for businesses to develop green techn ...

Scientific American - News

  • A Q&A with Ian Hacking on Thomas Kuhn's Legacy ...
    Scientific American 's review of Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions in 1964 ended with the pat pronouncement that the book was "much ado about very little." The short piece, which appeared two years after the initial publication of Structure as a monogra ...
  • Certainty Principle: People Who Hold False Con ...
    Firm convictions dominate news headlines these days, but because of a phenomenon called the hypercorrection effect, strongly held ideas that turn out to be factually incorrect are actually easier to amend . Brain imaging is now shedding light on how people change their minds during hypercorrecti ...
  • Space Shuttle Swan Songs: Enterprise and Di ...
    New Yorkers who look up today can catch a glimpse of history. The Enterprise space shuttle will be flown along the Hudson River and around the metropolitan area on its way to John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens, a stopover on its final journey to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space M ...
  • India Becomes World's Top Spammer
    If you've got a junk email folder full of spam, there's nearly a 10 percent chance it came from a computer in India, the world's new top spam producer. [More]
  • 9 Percent of Older Adults Have Osteoporosis
    Nearly one in 10 older adults in the U.S. have osteoporosis, according to a new government report. [More]

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Locked-Out Bus Drivers in N.B and P.E.I. Ask f ...
    Nova Scotia intercity buses have turned around at provincial border for five months Fredericton - Glen Carr says the blame lies with Acadian Coach Lines, and not the workers, for the five month absence of intercity bus service in New Bruns ...
  • M4 Resolution on the Extractive Mining Model
    From Panama to Canada, NO to mining! Version en español abajo. M4 RESOLUTION ON THE EXTRACTIVE MINING MODEL   Mining companies invade our land and all of them, the majority Canadian, violate our fundamental human rights.  Throug ...
  • M4 Resolution on the Extractive Mining Model
    From Panama to Canada, NO to mining! Version en español abajo. M4 RESOLUTION ON THE EXTRACTIVE MINING MODEL   Mining companies invade our land and all of them, the majority Canadian, violate our fundamental human rights.  Throug ...
  • A McGill Islamic Studies student experiences A ...
    Interview with Pascal Abidor When Pascal Abidor reached the US-Canadian border on May 1st, 2010, he was expecting the standard two-hour wait on the train while the border officials move through the cars and check passports.  What he wa ...
  • Charter Cities in Honduras: A Proposal to Expa ...
    The Globe and Mail really outdid themselves today. With the help of a writer named Jeremy Torobin, they took their journalism to the level of the commentary they once specialized in courtesy of Christy Blatchford (who is now at t ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Obama vs. Romney: a message to would be leftists
    David Seaton's News Links There are many contradictions in the process of development of a complex thing, and one of them is necessarily the principal contradiction whose existence and development determine or influence the existence and development of the other contradictions. Mao Tse Tung ...
  • There are still important differences between ...
    David Seaton's News LinksA Sample of Tea Party Humor I'd like to reproduce a dialog between myself and a blogger I much respect, Wendy Davis, on a previous post of mine:Seaton: I think that all of those who were so ecstatic about Obama in 2008 (I wasn’t) should “stand by their man” and realiz ...
  • Another good reason to vote for Obama
    David Seaton's News LinksMitt's friend, BibiThe ties between Mr. Romney and Mr. Netanyahu stand out because there is little precedent for two politicians of their stature to have such a history together that predates their entry into government. And that history could well influence decision-mak ...
  • From Rosa Parks to Barack Obama
    David Seaton's News LinksOne of the most significant political images in American history. "It did, in fact, give me cause to celebrate that in my own lifetime I saw an African American elected to the presidency." Mike HuckabeeI just didn't want to let this photo go by without comment.I was jus ...
  • Is progressive change in America possible? A p ...
    David Seaton's News Links How is progressive change to be effected within the American political system? First: are citizens asking the correct questions?Does anyone really believe that any topflight, professional, national politician, with what national campaigns cost these days, is ever goin ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Human Beings Not As Impressive As You Think
    A recent study suggests that computers can score student essays about as well as human beings. Les Perelman, a director of writing at MIT, isn't impressed: While his research is limited, because E.T.S. is the only organization that has permitted him to test its product, he says the automate ...
  • No, Irvine is Not the Most Fashionable City in ...
    My hometown of Irvine, California, is mostly famous for being one of the most heavily planned communities in America. We are not just boring, we are deliberately and proudly boring. But it turns out that we're #1 in more than municipal planning. According to the Daily Mail, we are also the mos ...
  • Yet Another Retired Spook Says Netanyahu is a ...
    I know Israeli politics is even crankier and more partisan than ours, but even so it's hard not be impressed by the number of national security figures who have recently suggested that prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is basically a nutcase. Here's the latest: “I don’t believe ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging & Fundraising - 27 April 2012
    On the left we have a rare action shot of Inkblot. This isn't rare because he never walks around, it's rare because I'm not a quick enough photographer to catch him very often before he either flops onto the ground or else rushes up to nuzzle the camera lens. But this time I did, right in the m ...
  • Water Really is More Important Than Money
    Burt Likko has today's Complaint of the Day™: Why is it that I need to create a not-less-than-twelve-character username, consisting of at least one capital letter, at least one lowercase letter, at least one punctuation symbol, and at least one number, and then create a unique password o ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 318: I Don’t Need Kids
    Topics: A lot of random topics including: The inevitable disappointment of Washington Sports teams Ronda Rousey, world’s most dangerous sexy woman Married men and bachelor parties Kid’s shoes or Xbox games? Scary Movie 5 Death by testicle crushing World’s Worse Mother Share wit ...
  • IC 317: Brian “Andy” McKnight
    Topics: UFC news Will Avengers be the best Comic Book EVER? An American Remake of The Raid? The shittiest crime spree of all time? Being a woman doesn’t give you the right to assault someone Prison is a consequence Brian McKnight wants to show ladies how to work their pussy Share with your ...
  • IC 316: 30 for 30
    Topics: Dick Clark dies You’re making me be an asshole 30 for 30 Secret Service got caught cause dude didn’t pay Don’t be THAT guy Dinochickens The basic chicks of Hollywood Warm Weather PSA Share with your friends:
  • IC 315: Ignorance is Bliss
    Topics: The Raid How to make an awesome action movie The Cabin in the Woods and almost ruining a movie with a trailer The Secret Service tries to get it in while in Columbia Snitching on your teacher for showing porn Fucking up your week: Kriss asks a question bound to fuck up everyone’s w ...
  • IC 314: She’s Cute for a Meth Head
    Topics: April Movie Preview Trolling the Avengers Kristen Stewart is not hot enough to play the hot chick Easter has the best candy Bacon Sundaes 600 lbs man gets stuck in his house Best crime spree EVER Trayvon Martin case updates Conservatives have no humanity Share with your friends:

Simple Climate

  • Warming world could send corn price popping
    Climate plays the largest role in how much US corn prices swing, say economist Tom Hertel from Purdue University and colleagues, though forcing ethanol from corn to be used in fuel makes matters worse.
  • N2O cuts are no laughing matter
    Drastic reductions in meat consumption unappetising to many must be paired with tough farming, industry and transport action to meet the most ambitious targets to control emissions of greenhouse gas nitrous oxide, which you might know as laughing gas, according to Eric Davidson from the Woods Ho ...
  • N2O cuts are no laughing matter
    Drastic reductions in meat consumption unappetising to many must be paired with tough farming, industry and transport action to meet the most ambitious targets to control emissions of greenhouse gas nitrous oxide, which you might know as laughing gas, according to Eric Davidson from the Woods Ho ...
  • Climate change threatens the carnival of the a ...
    From chipmunks to calves, Simple Climate has regularly reported on creatures pressured by global warming. This week I bring together their pictures as a reminder of which creatures are at risk, in the hope of providing more motivation to act to help them.
  • Climate change threatens the carnival of the a ...
    From chipmunks to calves, Simple Climate has regularly reported on creatures pressured by global warming. This week I bring together their pictures as a reminder of which creatures are at risk, in the hope of providing more motivation to act to help them.

e!Science News

  • Pacific islands may become refuge for corals i ...
    Scientists have predicted that ocean temperatures will rise in the equatorial Pacific by the end of the century, wreaking havoc on coral reef ecosystems. But a new study shows that climate change could cause ocean currents to operate in a surprising way and mitigate the warming near a handful of ...
  • Teen-led study highlights dangers of texting a ...
    Some people have questioned whether a ban on texting while driving will actually lead to more crashes because drivers will conceal their cell phones, making it more dangerous to read and type messages. Research led by high school students, however, shows that texting while driving is unsafe rega ...
  • Notre Dame paper examines nanotechnology-relat ...
    A recent paper by Kathleen Eggleson, a research scientist in the Center for Nano Science and Technology (NDnano) at the University of Notre Dame, provides an example of a nanotechnology-related safety and ethics problem that is unfolding right now. read more
  • NASA's Landsat satellites see Texas crop circles
    A water-rich polka dot pattern takes over the traditional rectangular patchwork of fields in this time series animation of 40 years of Landsat images. In the dry Texas panhandle near the town of Dalhart, this transformation is due to center-pivot irrigation, a farming method that improves water ...
  • lobSTR algorithm rolls DNA fingerprinting into ...
    As any crime show buff can tell you, DNA evidence identifies a victim's remains, fingers the guilty, and sets the innocent free. But in reality, the processing of forensic DNA evidence takes much longer than a 60-minute primetime slot. read more

unEarthed

  • Judge: Salmon-killing Dams Should Go
    Says dam removal an easy fix with big rewards The four lower Snake River dams keep salmon from prime habitat in the snowmelt waters of Idaho. In a recent vide ...
  • Coal -- The Earth's Food Poisoning
    Join more than 600,000 opposing industrial coal plant pollution 680,000 comments, being hand-delivered to the EPA. Earthjustice Legislative Representative Sarah Saylor (left) carries more t ...
  • Tr-Ash Talk: 'Stand Your Ground' Embraces Coal Ash
    Conservative group ALEC would weaken coal ash standards The 2008 coal ash spill in Kingston, TN, motivated the EPA to propose the first ever federal rules regarding safe disposal of coal as ...
  • Group Wins Chance to Protect Grand Canyon
    Court lets Earthjustice argue for wildlife and waters near iconic park The Grand Canyon. We’re in! Judge Martone of the U.S. District Court for the Dis ...
  • BP Oil Spill - Two Years Ago Today
    Eleven people died when the Deepwater Horizon well exploded Never Forget. Here are a few reflections on that day and what it means for us now. Remembering America's greatest environment ...

Brave New Climate

  • The future of Brave New Climate
    Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.  ― Lao Tzu The Brave New Climate (BNC) blog has seen many changes in its almost 4 years of existence. I&#82 ...
  • IFR FaD 13 – cost comparison of IFR and therma ...
    This is the fourth and final part of the series of extracts from the book Plentiful Energy — The story of the Integral Fast Reactor by Chuck Till and Yoon Chang. Reproduced with permission of the authors, these sections describe and justify some of the key design choices that went into the makin ...
  • Off to Russia
    Well, I’m just about to hop on a plane to Russia to visit for a week — destination Moscow. This is part of my duties as a member of the International Awards Committee for the Global Energy Prize (see here for details). Whilst in the heart of the former Soviet Union, I’ll hook u ...
  • The Nuclear Energy Solution
    Guest Post by Bill Sacks and Greg Meyerson. Bill is a physicist and a radiologist, and wrote Lessons about nuclear energy from the Japanese quake and tsunami about a  month into the Fukushima crisis. Greg is an English professor with specialization in critical theory. Both are based in the U.S. ...
  • IFR FaD 12 – lessons learned from fast reactor ...
    This is the third of a four-part series of extracts from the book Plentiful Energy — The story of the Integral Fast Reactor by Chuck Till and Yoon Chang. Reproduced with permission of the authors, these sections describe and justify some of the key design choices that went into the making the IF ...

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

+972

  • Netanyahu and Barak: Two ‘messiahs&#8217 ...
    Ex-Shin Bet chief launches the latest attack on Netanyahu and Barak’s character, warning that they can’t be trusted to deal with Iran. What is it about these two? This is just about unprecedented in Israeli history, these public attacks on the reliability of the prime minister and de ...
  • ‘Empty Stomachs’ hunger strike movement spread ...
    A movement of Palestinian prisoners protesting their incarceration and treatment inside Israeli prisons is continuing to reach momentous proportions. Billed the “War of Empty Stomachs,” the number of prisoners on hunger strike is now in the thousands. On April 17, the prisoner movement split int ...
  • Diaspora writer’s who wrote in Hebrew pr ...
    Where is the center of Jewish identity? Israel or the Diaspora? Can we have a thriving Hebrew language and culture without a Jewish majority country? World Jewry seems to be standing at a critical junction in history. While more than half of us still remain in the Diaspora, intermarriage will pr ...
  • The Round Trip part 21: Strip tease
    From Nir Oz to Askelon via Agadir, the land of broken pots and the city of dirty bunkers Ewan and I build a fire outside Kmehin, both to warm ourselves and to impress a very special newcomer. Ruthie is here. She took the train to Beer Sheva, then caught a bus to the border and [...]
  • Can critique of Iran strike by security figure ...
    Will Diskin crack Netanyahu’s “good for security” armor? A review of public surveys on the Iran issue shows that even prior to the damning critique on Friday by Yuval Diskin, former head of the Internal Security Agency, the public already diverged sharply from the leadership&#8 ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

Matt Weidner Blog

  • THE SECURITIZATION/AUDIT DEBATE RAGES ON- MARK ...
    I appreciate the feedback and debate on this most important topic.  Please understand, I am NOT disregarding the work of everyone….only those that are breaking the law and putting consumers in harm’s way! I recently had very powerful results working with one researcher that translate ...
  • Florida Bankers to The Florida Supreme Court, ...
    Huh?  Come again?  All of this comes from an Amicus Brief submitted to the Florida Supreme Court in the Pino case… “Moreover, scrutiny of the validity of an assignment of mortgage may be inappropriate under any circumstances.” Apparently the argument is, when faced with questio ...
  • Student Loan Debt- 1 in 2 New Grads Un/UnderEm ...
    The Foreclosure Defendants continue to Occupy the lower rungs of humanity, even as more and more of those rungs are Occupied by more and more Americans, making that bottom caste a large and growing portion of the population. This disfavored caste, the Unpaid, cannot count on the protections of t ...
  • Florida’s Fantasy Retirement Portfolio- ...
    Once you understand “our” government does not serve us at all, but instead serves the banks and Wall Street and the monied vipers that are sucking the life out of all of America. Goldman, The Banks, The corporations, all working together to suck every little penny and nickle from the ...
  • Mortgage Securitization Audits….THEY ARE ...
    Let me be clear about  this one more time. MORTGAGE LOAN SECURITIZATION AUDITS ARE A CRIME! VIOLATIONS.—A person who violates any provision of this section commits an unfair and deceptive trade practice as defined in part II of this chapter. Violators are subject to the penalties and remedies pr ...

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The Parallel Parliament

  • A Hill to Die On
    It all ended so badly – the tone perhaps worse than the ultimate decision. Following 10 years of diligent effort …Continue reading »
  • “Idiots”
    All of this is becoming a little passé and perhaps irrelevant these days, but to read the ideals of democracy …Continue reading »
  • Canada’s Game of Thrones
    Game of Thrones – a popular book series now made into a television series. It’s about power and the never-ending …Continue reading »
  • For All Of It
    This weekend we celebrate the birthdays of our twin girls Abuk and Achan. I just can’t let that day go …Continue reading »
  • To the Marrow
    In their 1991 groundbreaking work The Good Society, authors and researchers led by Robert Bellah concluded that without institutions modern …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

  • Tenure track faculty positions in risk science ...
    Just thought I’d circulate this on the 2020 Science network – please feel free to pass on the information to anyone who might be interested. We have finally started the process of looking for two junior faculty to join the Risk Science Center at the University of Michigan School of P ...
  • Risk Science – A personal perspective
    As Director of the University of Michigan Risk Science Center, it’s probably not surprising that I’m constantly being asked “what on earth is risk science?”  What is surprising is how hard it is to come up with a clear and concise answer.  Which is why I decided to spend ...
  • Emerging technologies at the World Economic Fo ...
    In an interconnected world, global issues demand integrative solutions.  It’s a statement that many people would agree with – in systems where associations between cause and effect are complex, you ignore synergistic inter-relationships between factors at your peril. But when it come ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    As you’ll have gathered from last week’s Lost in the Maize, I’ve been on the road this week.  In fact, I am writing this on the plane back to Detroit, looking forward to a quick wash, shave, sleep, and catch-up with family, before heading off to the Society for Risk Analysis annual meeting in Sa ...
  • Small gods and the art of technology innovation
    There’s something rather liberating about being asked to give a no-holds talk on your perspective on life, the universe and everything.  So when the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center asked if I would speak as part of their “Where do we go from here?” series, I jumped at it. N ...

Reader Supported News

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

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

  • 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.

k2p blog

  • Plagiarism one-upmanship – return your d ...
    A German politician has returned his plagiarised Doctorate to the University of Potsdam before he could be found out - this gaining political points with his fellows.
  • Back from assignment
    Deja vu. The fundamental drivers of behaviour are the same and are probably genetic. But perhaps some of the prejudices of 30 years ago - against women in the work place and against ethnic groups - while still present have reduced significantly. The prejudices against the young and the old still ...
  • The spirit of the Inquisition is alive and well
    I conclude that in our enlightened twenty-first century human behaviour is not so very different to that during the medieval period. Crusades and inquisitions are paralleled in today's world.
  • Japanese astronomers also see a Maunder-like s ...
    Japanese astronomers are expecting another solar minimum similar to the Maunder Minimum and a period of global cooling.
  • Fawcett charged with animal cruelty after mass ...
    Robert Fawcett who massacred over 50 huskies after the 2010 Winter Olympics is to be charged with animal cruelty.

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Amazon To Start Collecting Sales Tax In Texas
    Starting in July, shoppers in Texas will no longer have to go through the hassle of calculating and paying all that sales tax that Amazon hasn't been collecting on their purchases. On Friday, the Lone Star State joined a growing group of states reaching accords with the online giant about makin ...
  • Newark Airport Terminal Evacuated Over Uncheck ...
    The week of little children posing a threat to the travelers of the world concludes with this story about how officials evacuated and temporarily shut down an entire terminal at Newark International Airport because a baby didn't receive a second screening. The NY Daily News reports that mom a ...
  • Amazon Marks My Order As Fraudulent But Doesn' ...
    Consumerist reader Paul works in the Internet retail business, and as such, knows how easily an order can get tangled up if the shipping and billing addresses don't match. So after he'd moved, he made sure to change the address on his credit card before ordering an item on Amazon. Even that did ...
  • Group Alleges 'Good Morning Vietnam' DJ Misled ...
    Though he bears little resemblance to the record-slinging, Nixon-impersonating prankster played by Robin Williams in Good Morning, Vietnam, former Air Force radio DJ Adrian Cronauer is still closely associated with the 1987 comedy. Now, Cronauer is making a different sort of headline after the ...
  • KFC Ordered To Pay $8.3 Million For Chicken Th ...
    A bellyache after a bucket of chicken is one thing, but in the case of a little girl who fell ill with salmonella poisoning after eating at KFC, things are a lot more serious. The fast food chain has been ordered to pay $8.3 million to the Australian girl's family after she suffered severe brai ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Tears and Cheers: The 2012 Ridenhour Prizes
    Journalist John Seigenthaler presented the Ridenhour Courage Prize to Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.)Working in the nonprofit world can often be discouraging. So much to do, so little time. Not to mention fewer resources, less money, not enough people. Try to address one issue and five more take its pla ...
  • Judge Fails to Dismiss Charge Against Bradley ...
    Associated Press: Most Serious Charge Against Bradley Manning in WikiLeaks Case Stands Summary: A military judge refused yesterday to dismiss the most serious charge against Bradley Manning, the soldier accused of giving classified information to WikiLeaks. Manning’s attorneys had filed to dis ...
  • GAP Client Eileen Foster Accepts Ridenhour Pri ...
    GAP's Jesselyn Radack and Kathleen McClellan talk with Ralph Nader at the Ridenhour ceremony yesterday.Huffington Post: Eileen Foster, Former Countrywide Executive, Calls for Investigation into Cover-Ups Summary: Countrywide/Bank of America whistleblower and GAP client Eileen Foster was awarde ...
  • Whistleblower's Identity Exposed by SEC: Daily ...
    Wall Street Journal: SEC Whistleblower’s Identity Exposed Summary: While investigating a company running a 'dark pool' stock trading platform, the SEC inadvertently revealed the identity of an anonymous whistleblower, when the SEC lawyer showed an executive notes from the whistleblower’s noteb ...
  • Frank Serpico at NYC Tour Stop Today
    Frank Serpico at GAP's Anyone Can Whistle event in February 2010Here's the pitch: A tough, yet honorable Army vet joins the NYPD, where he is suddenly thrust into the underbelly of rampant police corruption, and, in the dramatic climax, is shot – and nearly killed – exposing the truth. Sounds li ...

UK Progressive

  • The Best Watchdog Journalism on Campaign Finance
    by Blair Hickman, ProPublica This week, we’re exposing the world of campaign finance post-Citizens United, the 2010 Supreme Court case that opened the door to super PACs. The stories fall into three categories: donor profiles, super PACs and scandals, though as Michael Kinsley said: “The s ...
  • NerdProm 2012 is a Hit!
    Annually The White House Correspondents’ Dinner brings out the media glitterati and celebrity political A-listers of Washington, DC. It is an annual affair where The President of The United States cracks jokes at the White House press corps’s expense. It is also a big night for Holly ...
  • FUKUSHIMA… the ‘Japanese Chernobyl’…a year lat ...
    ..”All the samples would be considered nuclear waste if found here in the US.” Arnie Gundersen on soil samples taken recently from parks, playgrounds and rooftop gardens throughout Tokyo. The Japanese Prime Minister Declares Nuclear Plant Safe… Last week, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda d ...
  • ALEC and ExxonMobil Push Loopholes in Fracking ...
    by Cora Currier, ProPublica One of the key controversies about fracking is the chemical makeup of the fluid that is pumped deep into the ground to break apart rock and release natural gas. Some companies have been reluctant to disclose what’s in their fracking fluid. Scientists and environ ...
  • Review of “Towards a World War III Scenario. T ...
    U.S. plans to attack Iran with a mix of nuclear and conventional weapons have been in readiness since June, 2005, according to Michel Chossudovsky. a distinguished authority on international affairs. “Confirmed by military documents as well as official statements, both the U.S. and Israel ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • The spectacle that is the Australian Parliamen ...
    Even if you aren’t in Australia, you can’t help but find the  Australian Parliament the best reality TV show on the box anywhere. The background: Our Leftie Labor Government was elected with a roughly equal tally of seats as the right leaning coalition, in late 2010. It was such a kn ...
  • David Evans explains the skeptics case (Youtube)
    No, this isn’t footage from the documentary I can Change Your Mind — that’s a very large file, and we are trying to condense it so it can appear in a complete but manageable form. In the meantime, it just happens that thanks to Barry Corke (for the filming and editing) we have ...
  • ABC Biased. Scientist Matthew England, outrage ...
    Bottom line: On Q&A Nick Minchin said the IPCC predictions were wrong. Matthew England said “Not true” their 1990 prediction was “very accurate”. But the IPCC predicted 0.3C per decade, and we got at most 0.18C per decade. (Forster and Rahmsdorf 2011 ) How is is &#822 ...
  • The intellectual vacuum – alarmists are ...
    In response to the ABC doco I Can Change Your Mind, the believers of man-made global warming are out attacking with logical fallacies, cherry picking deceit, and the usual barking mad irrelevant lines about tobacco and AIDS.  Desperate eh? Never before in one day on one post have I enjoyed respo ...
  • The Highest Authority in Science is the Data
    Joint Post David Evans and Jo Nova “97 percent of climate experts say man-made global warming is a major threat” The correct response: “So? The satellites, ocean buoys, and weather balloons disagree.” The alarmists may have “experts”, but the skeptics have the data. How do you find the truth ab ...

ReNew America

  • The audacity of cynicism
    (Robert Knight) - Barack Obama's 2006 best-seller, "The Audacity of Hope," gave us a number of clues as to how he would govern based on his worldview. We can't say we weren't warned. Amid the graceful prose, we see underlying hostility toward the idea of revealed truth (apart from his own). We a ...
  • Team Obama's latest kick in the gut
    (David Limbaugh) - Every day, we get a new kick in the gut from the Obama administration. Most recently, Environmental Protection Agency Region 6 Administrator Al Armendariz was caught on video articulating his view of the agency's role in enforcing its regulations. Armendariz said: "It was kind ...
  • 'Crucify them': The Obama way
    (Michelle Malkin) - One of President Obama's radical eco-bureaucrats has apologized for confirming an indelible truth: This White House treats politically incorrect private industries as public enemies who deserve regulatory death sentences. Environmental Protection Agency administrator Al Armen ...
  • Rep. Chaffetz: House committee could cite Hold ...
    (Newsmax) - Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, said Friday that Congress may have to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt for the Justice Department's slow response to a subpoena relating to the Fast and Furious gun running operation...
  • Labor Dept. withdraws farm child labor rule af ...
    (Daily Caller) - Under pressure from farming advocates in rural communities, and following a report by The Daily Caller, the Obama administration withdrew a proposed rule Thursday that would have applied child labor laws to family farms...

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

  • Survival Tips on YouTube
    I’m normally quite dismissive of YouTube when it comes to 2012 information. Although there are many thousands of videos about 2012, the majority are from faceless, nameless authors presenting unverifiable information – which only leads to more confusion on the topic. The other side o ...
  • Fukushima Radiation in the USA – Really?
    Just in case you were falling for the radiation scaremongering… you might have noticed that the mainstream media have not reported on this, and I can’t see how you could suggest it is a “conspiracy”. Reality… it’s a non-story, despite what you may read: Mut ...
  • Deaths and House Prices
    The peak-to-trough fall in house prices in the 1930s Depression was 31 per cent – and prices took 19 years to recover after that downturn. The current Global Financial Crisis has surpassed that decline, with a record 33%. But ultimately, whichever way you look at it, humans have collectively b ...
  • Another Promising Radiation Cure
    The combination of two existing drugs kept 80% of tested mice alive after being exposed to radiation. While many more tests are needed, stockpiling this combo could one day save millions of lives. Mice exposed to radiation were administered a combination of the antibiotic fluoroquinolone and a ...
  • Giant Swedish Sinkhole
    I’m still not sure if there is any signifiance to all these sinkholes that are making the news these days. And this one, well it’s in a mining area. But you’d think that the mining 600 metres below wouldn’t cause a sinkhole, although perhaps explosions could? Anyway &#821 ...

Facing South

One News Page

  • Top U.N. truce monitor in Syria, lull in violence
    BEIRUT (Reuters) - A Norwegian general charged with overseeing a shaky U.N.-brokered truce in Syria arrived in Damascus on Sunday, boosting a monitor mission that activists say has already helped ease the violence in the city of Homs, hotbed of a 13-month uprising. Reported by Firstpost 56 minu ...
  • Teesta agreement will materialise: Bangladesh FM
    Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dipu Moni said her country 'is sure' that the Teesta water-sharing agreement with India will materialise. Reported by Zee News 2 hours ago
  • Analysis: Obama falls short of meteoric expect ...
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It was not just U.S. Democratic voters who were looking forward to 'hope and change' when Barack Obama became the 44th U.S Reported by Firstpost 2 hours ago
  • As technology shifts, Asian giants wrestle for ...
    TOKYO/TAIPEI (Reuters) - LG Electronics will steal a march on its rivals by bringing forward the launch of a 55-inch flat TV using next-generation technology, raising the stakes in a cut-throat battle for the living room between Asia's top tech powerhouses. The South Korean firm will introduce . ...
  • Government okays alternative route linking Mys ...
    *The State government has given its nod for the construction of an alternative road connecting Mysore and Mananthavadi, bypassing the Nagarahole National Park. * The existing road had led to controversies, as it passes through critical tiger habitat. The government released Rs 18 crore for . ...

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

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

BlogHer

  • RSS: What is It? How Do You Use It?
    [Editor's Note: Jessica from 30 Something Mother Runner talks about the feature common to all blogs: RSS. She tells you what it is and how to use it. –Virginia] Do you ever notice the icon on blogs with the three lines in an orange (or any other color for that matter- mine is red and to the righ ...
  • Easy Tips for Small Business Budgeting
    Budget. It's like a four-letter word and yet it is a crucial aspect of running a successful business. Whether you're running a side-hustle freelance business or a multi-million dollar business, getting a grip on your financials is part of your lifeblood. Here are some practical tips to do that. ...
  • Women of America, Suit Up! Notes from the DNC' ...
    I used to teach a women's studies class to middle schoolers at a progressive school. We had an ongoing project called Powerful, Positive Women, in which the girls researched and presented a woman each day to the rest of the class. Sometimes these were well-known women such as Hillary Clinton, an ...
  • From Fruit Drying Racks to Picture Frames
    [Editor's Note: Amanda Kuzak has a great eye for up-cycling. Anyone who looks at old wooden fruit drying racks salvaged from a barn attic and sees a clever way to display photos is alright by me. I’ve never seen binder clips look so good. - Jen]DIY Picture FrameAmanda currently has her racks dis ...
  • Telling Your Story with Digital Narrative
    Gena Haskett at Create Video Notebook has some examples, tips, and links that can help you understand how to tell a digital story using personal narrative to make your point. She explains, I love some of the New York Times photo and video narratives but I also like homespun as well. I have no w ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • The Link Between Autism and Low Levels of Vita ...
    Vitamin D Intake and Cognitive Performance If even some of the damage done by vitamin D deficiency during fetal development is reversible, we’d expect to find that vitamin D supplementation would help reduce autistic symptoms at ...
  • Is Vermont’s Governor Surrendering to Mo ...
    Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin has less than two weeks to either stand with the 90 percent of his constituents who support a mandatory labeling bill for genetically engineered foods — or cave in to Monsanto’s ...
  • 5 Reasons Why Cast Iron Is The Greenest Choice ...
    Dependable, that’s what cast iron is. It will last for centuries if properly cared for, and it has a natural non-stick surface that’s eco-friendly.  When I was a bride, my Granny gave me two of her cast iron skillets. A ...
  • Study: Stress Changes Immune System
    Stress is the leading cause of depression and poor health. Make peace with your past and don’t beat yourself up. Your health depends on it. ~Health Freedoms Changes in social status can alter the immune system, ...
  • Ron Paul’s In It To Win In Money Bomb Ap ...
    April 15th money bomb! Ron Paul is IN IT TO WIN IT, as so is the Health Freedoms Alliance. Please join us on April 15th for the largest one-day donation event of the 2012 presidential campaign. Our ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Friday roundup, April 27, 2012
    In this photo taken March 12, 2012, coal miner Joackim Myhrvang gestires in Mine 7, Svalbard, Norway (AP Photo/Scanpix Norway, Berit Roald) It’s always interesting to see photographs and news stories from the coalfields around the world, like the photo above and like the terrible events de ...
  • Still wondering if Sen. Rockefeller will lead ...
    We’ve asked before here on Coal Tattoo if West Virginia Sen. Jay Rockefeller will really step forward now and lead our state toward sound policies on energy and climate change and, most importantly, our relationship with the coal industry. Sen. Rockefeller offered West Virginians who despe ...
  • Another coal miner dies on the job
    Tonight’s sad news comes from the coalfields of Kentucky, where another coal miner has died on the job. According to what MSHA said today: Wednesday morning, it was reported that a contract worker fell from a catwalk about 15 feet and suffered a head injury.  While being transported to the ...
  • Six years after Sago, MSHA announces timeline ...
    A government photo shows the SCSRs that Sago miners tried to use to survive after the January 2006 explosion. Six years ago, here’s how coal miner Randal McCloy described what he and his coworkers — all of whom died — went through trying to get their CSE Corp. SR-100 model self ...
  • Here’s a report coalfield political lead ...
    Some media folks have picked up an on interesting report issued yesterday by the International Energy Agency, telling us: … Many technologies with great potential for energy and emissions savings are making halting progress at best. Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is not seeing the necess ...

Daniel Miessler

  • 83% of repubilcans voted for cispa while only ...
    http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/supxt/83_of_repubilcans_voted_for_c… Sent from my mobile device; please forgive any brevity or errors. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related ContentChild of a republican here: I get it now. | RedditIn 1986 Reagan &# ...
  • Feynman on Why You Should Enjoy What You Do
    He says, “Feynman, that’s pretty interesting, but what’s the importance of it? Why are you doing it?” “Hah!” I say. “There’s no importance whatsoever. I’m just doing it for the fun of it.” His reaction didn’t discourage me; I had ...
  • I’m a sexy woman, so stop objectifying me!
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  • Marquese Scott: The Best Dancer I’ve Ever Seen
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  • Documenting Chinese Commercial Espionage | Her ...
    This adds up to a disturbing conclusion: China’s manufacturing rise has been illegally aided. Many advances are certainly due to the PRC’s own strengths; others stem from voluntary cooperation by foreign partners. But it is all too easy to find examples of Chinese theft that correspond well to s ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

  • You Are All Suspects Now. What Are You Going t ...
    By John Pilger, Truthout | News Analysis - You are all potential terrorists. It matters not that you live in Britain, the United States, Australia or the Middle East. Citizenship is effectively abolished. Turn on your computer and the US Department of Homeland Security’s National Oper ...
  • Letter from The U.K.; Secrets, Crimes and Lies ...
    THE END OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE, 1945 – 1965 And the Secrets, Crimes and Lies that accompanied it By Michael Faulkner – tpjmagazine.us In the days – long since gone – when British history was taught in schools as a chronological story, the Empire was treated as an unalloyed boon to the world ...
  • 5 Mind-Bending Facts About Dreams
    By Jeanna Bryner,  LiveScience.com - When your head hits the pillow, for many it’s lights out for the conscious part of you. But the cells firing in your brain are very much awake, sparking enough energy to produce the sometimes vivid and sometimes downright haunted dreams that take place ...
  • Loud Speakers and High Heels
    By Ars Moriendi,WorldWide Hippies-I have always wanted to buy a van with a sound system in it, one of those like you see in an ice cream truck or political van, and ride around praising women. I just want to go from neighborhood to neighborhood, the well off and poor alike, spreading a message o ...
  • Revolution 99 Updates: Love and Support your S ...
    Occupy the regulatory system! NEW YORK — Occupy Wall Street has moved. Its new address: 60 Wall Street. There, inside a soaring public atrium, dreadlocked teens trade shoulder massages near the evening meditation circle. A young man holds up a sign: “You’re a Federal Reserve $lave.” The dinnerti ...

reference frame

  • Habermann: a movie on the Sudetenland
    Last night I watched the Habermann Mill, a 2010 Czech-German-Austrian movie on the co-existence of Czechs and Germans in the Sudetenland. The film director, Mr Juraj Herz, is a Slovak-born Czech Jewish chap. Both Czech and German or Austrian actors were hired. I think that the m ...
  • Was the Universe past-eternal?
    Cosmic Variance and other blogs describe a clash between Lawrence Krauss, a self-described Star Trek physicist and a jerk, and some self-described modern philosophers whose names are too unimportant to occupy several bytes on TRF in the wake of the publication of Krauss' book, "A Universe fro ...
  • Four largest Czech parties' webs: turned off b ...
    Hackers sometimes manage to attack a server at a random moment. But what happened in the Czech Republic just an hour ago seems more amazing and scary. The websites of four largest political parties represented in the Parliament, namely www.cssd.cz, www.ods.cz, www.kscm.cz, and w ...
  • Nir Shaviv: evidence shaky for \(CO_2\) as the ...
    The author is a top Israeli astrophysicist and cosmoclimatologist, blogging at sciencebits.com Does the global temperature lag \(CO_2\)? More flaws in the Shakun et al. paper in Nature. Over the past two weeks, perhaps a dozen people asked me about the recently published paper of Shaku ...
  • Anna V. on huge physics collaborations
    The author is a retired Greek experimental particle physicist and a frequent TRF commenter The story with the huge author list high energy experiments What follows is my experience of participating in HEP experiments mainly at CERN from about 1970 until 2001 when I retired. ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • Boston Bruins Fans go on racist twitter attack ...
    Racism is alive and well in the good ole USA. Last night Washington Capitals forward, Joel Ward, scored the winning goal in overtime of game 7 thus eliminating last seasons Stanley Cup Champions, the Boston Bruins, from further play.   Within minutes of the game’s end a lot of Bruin f ...
  • If I wanted America to fail – Earth Day is Min ...
    With all of the Yuppies and Trendies running around shouting “save the planet from ourselves” the social engineers of the planet and global dictators must have huge shit-eating grins on their face at the little mindless Eco-Fascists that they have created. An entire generation of you ...
  • MAD APE PRESS RELEASE: Council on Foreign Rela ...
    MAD APE PRESS RELEASE We, the free people of the Planet Earth, who have broken through the false reality that you have helped create, know who you are and what you represent. Our duty, our life mission, is to expose your deceit, your global financial dictatorship, your theft of the human spirit, ...
  • God bless America. Without you we would not ha ...
    After decades of fluoridation, aspartame, high fructose corn syrup, GMO, growth hormones, antibiotics in the food, the US Education System, and mass media zombie programming, you end up with cross-dressing, feminized, obese rednecks. God bless America. Without you we would not have this: The pho ...
  • Planet X Arrives in Antarctica
    I tried to tell you guys that Planet X aka Nibiru was here (http://tatumba.com/blog/archives/7116). I photographed it and uploaded back in January 2012, when it was just coming into our visible frequency range. I was ridiculed, told it was Photoshopped, lens flare, etc. Well I just got back from ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

  • Can't Stop the Big Mo
    Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
  • Grading Back-to-School Stocks
    Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
  • Merck: More Agony from Its Painkiller
    The costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either
  • Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
    Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
  • No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
    The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley

Enviroblog

  • Ryan Gosling and Dirty Cleaners
    The "Hall of Shame" of the dirtiest cleaners from our upcoming EWG Cleaners Database was released Monday evening to our email list and selective media outlets. EWG supporter feedback was impressive - the two posts to our Facebook fans received... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my ...
  • We've Been Slimed
    A guest post from Laura MacCleery Mom, attorney and blogger Last month, the New York Times published a story about my efforts when I was pregnant to rid my home of toxic chemicals. The story featured a photo of my... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other ...
  • Skin Deep and Healthy Home Tips Across the Web
    News coverage of EWG topics including cosmetics and household toxins appeared across the web from sites including the Los Angeles Times, Shine by Yahoo!, and Prevention. EWG released a statement on a finding from an independent science panel finding... [[ This is a content summary only. Vis ...
  • News Wrapup: Earthquakes, Nail Polish and Diabetes
    A summary of a U.S. Geological Survey finding associating earthquakes with the oil and gas drilling process was mentioned by The Atlantic, and re-printed in Yahoo! Finance and SFist. Bill Allayaud was interviewed twice by different Fox News programs,... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...
  • Are Pesticide Sprayers "Health Experts?" Serio ...
    By Alex Formuzis, Vice President of Media Relations New online videos from a chemical agribusiness front group show conventional growers straining to convince consumers that it's just fine to eat bug killers and weed killers. The Alliance for Food and... [[ This is a content summary only. V ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Song protest provoked Breivik supporters
    While tens of thousands of Norwegians sang out against confessed terrorist Anders Behring Breivik last week, others were sounding off through online debate in support of Breivik. He killed 77 persons last summer in attacks he claims were motivated by his opposition to immigration. News bureau NT ...
  • Sudan accuses Norwegian of spying
    A Norwegian aid worker who’s an expert at clearing land mines was arrested along with several other foreign colleagues by soldiers from Sudan over the weekend. Officials in Sudan later accused him of being a spy. Officials at Norway’s foreign ministry in Oslo were on alert and awaiti ...
  • Mood to lead UN observers in Syria
    The United Nations has, as expected, named Norwegian Major General Robert Mood to lead the UN observers in Syria. Norway’s former defense chief said he couldn’t think of anyone better qualified to do the job. The UN decided just before the weekend to send up to 300 unarmed observers ...
  • Farmers want 20 percent pay hike
    The powerful organizations representing Norwegian farmers (bondelagene) have delivered a written demand for NOK 2.2 billion (around USD 386 million) worth of subsidies and other forms of economic support. State officials claimed the demand amounts to a pay hike of 20 percent. Leif Forsell of the ...
  • Immigration breaks new record
    Around 80,000 persons moved to Norway last year, the vast majority coming from other European countries where unemployment is high. The influx exceeded the numbers expected by researchers at state statistics bureau SSB, and marks the highest level of immigration ever. More than 260,000 European ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • More Good Excuses
    PRI Australia Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) graduates, April 2012 Click here for larger view, or here for even larger! All photos © Craig Mackintosh I recently briefed you on the fact that I was visiting New Zealand. Today I put up a little more evidence of this (don’t worry ...
  • APC11 Presentation: Susan Krumdieck – Sustaina ...
    Susan Krumdieck, speaking at the Australasian Permaculture Conference (APC11) in Turangi, New Zealand, April 2012 Photo © Craig Mackintosh Susan Krumdieck is an Associate Professor working in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zeal ...
  • Edible Forest Gardens Course, Woodbine Ecology ...
    Course Date: June 1 — 7, 2012 About Edible Forest Gardens: Edible forest gardens mimic the structures and functions of natural ecosystems while producing food and other products, with an emphasis on low-maintenance perennial crops. These gardens (and larger-scale operations) can provide cr ...
  • Indigenous Land Management Practices in the US ...
    I’ve been interested in indigenous land management for many years, but since the publication of M. Kat Anderson’s phenomenal Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California’s Natural Resources I’ve been engaged in active research. This has inc ...
  • Personal Responsibility and Causes for Consumerism
    Editor’s Note: This article is courtesy of the new PRI Sunshine Coast (formally Kin Kin SOULS), led by highly experienced permaculturists, Tom and Zaia Kendall. Please note that Tom and Zaia will be hosting a 72-hour Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) course from May 20, 2012, and a ful ...

Pointman's

  • Lies, damn lies and polls.
    Some time ago and in the context of climategate, I put forward the opinion that it would eventually produce two big losers and one big winner. The two losers were going to be climate science and the mainstream media (MSM), while the big winner was going to be the blogosphere. Climategate, import ...
  • There’s a killer in your house.
    This year marks the final phase out of incandescent light bulbs in the EU, and their total replacement by what’s termed compact fluorescent lamps or CFLs. The reasons given for this move are that CFLs are more environmentally friendly, because they reduce CO2  emissions, and more energy-ef ...
  • The sun is setting on solar power, the money&# ...
    If you keep an eye on the financial world, which I do, and especially the green sectors, which I also do, it’s been an interesting time of late. Within the last few weeks, Solar Trust of America (STA), owner of the world’s largest solar plant, filed for bankruptcy protection under Ch ...
  • About writing.
    I do the thinking thing very well. For so much of my life and for so many things in it, I think very carefully before I leap and I’m good at it. Over the years, people have learnt to trust and depend on that and because I love them, that’s something special I can do … Read more
  • About writing.
    I do the thinking thing very well. For so much of my life and for so many things in it, I think very carefully before I leap and I’m good at it. Over the years, people have learnt to trust and depend on that and because I love them, that’s something special I can do … Read more

Journalists' Toolkit

  • Baby Steps in Data Journalism
    This is a Tumblr blog that I started in early April 2012: Baby Steps in Data Journalism Its purpose is to collect links and other useful information related to learning about data journalism. To go directly to something you might be searching for, try these links: How I installed Python (April 2 ...
  • The best video export options
    How do you choose the best settings for exporting your video, after you have edited it? I remember how confusing this was for me when I started working with Web video several years ago. With the slower computers we had back then, I would wait for what seemed like forever while exporting a small ...
  • Video Resources updated
    The new Video Resources page has been added to this site. This is a carefully curated page with links to good tutorials for video editing software, video shooting tips, and the like. It’s intended for beginners, particularly journalism students and journalism educators who are teaching vid ...
  • Flash Journalism updates
    I have been hard at work updating the Flash Journalism website. New tutorials for ActionScript 3.0 and for working on the Timeline in CS4 and CS5 have been added. The old pages from the original site (created to support the book I wrote about Flash journalism in 2004) are still online, and all t ...
  • New tutorial: Windows Live Movie Maker
    As an aid to a journalism training session I agreed to give, I created a short PowerPoint that is aimed at journalism students. Windows Live Movie Maker Tutorial Windows Live Movie Maker is quite different from its predecessor — Windows Movie Maker (not “live”). It is less vers ...

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • New Orleans Communities Come Together in Youth ...
    From our friends at Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana: On Saturday, March 24th 2012, youth from around the city of New Orleans came together for the first ever Power of a Million Minds (POMM) Youth Summit at Dillard University. POMM is a youth led, youth organized, and youth run collabo ...
  • Conviction of Black Mayor Overturned by US Cou ...
    In a 2-1 ruling today, the Second Circuit Court of Appeal reversed the conviction of former Waterproof mayor Bobby Higginbotham, and vacated his sentence. The case had attracted the attention of civil rights activists around the US, as well as Color of Change, a national racial justice activism ...
  • Statement in Response to the First Criminal In ...
    From a statement by our friends at the Louisiana Bucket Brigade: Today a former BP employee has been indicted. We believe that there are more criminal indictments of oil companies possible, if only the Department of Justice would look. The Department should look into ongoing actions by man ...
  • Two years on, anger and frustration on the Gul ...
    A shorter version of this article appeared today in newspapers around the world through Agence France Presse, the newswire service. Two years after the worst maritime oil spill in history, fishermen, scientists, and environmentalists up and down the US Gulf Coast warn that the disaster may be ...
  • Another Victory Against Louisiana's Crime Agai ...
    A judge's order yesterday took another step towards ending the harsh legacy of Louisiana's Crime Against Nature Law. Below is a press release on the issue from Center for Constitutional Rights. Louisiana must “cease and desist” from placing any individuals convicted of Crime Against Nature by ...

Information Underground

  • Economics, Money/Banking, Investments, Profite ...
    Bill Black: Our System Is So Flawed That Fraud Is Mathematically Guaranteed Tyler Durden's picture Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/28/2012 09:41 -0400 https://s3.amazonaws.com/cm-us-standard ... -part1.mp3 Submitted by Chris Martenson Bill Black: Our System Is So Flawed That Fraud Is ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    CSR, you live down there, don't you?Statistics: Posted by LordLindsey — Sun Apr 29, 2012 4:14 pm
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Scotty, I don't support the Jew Zimmerman. But remember, over 33% of black males have spent time jail. I don't bet on 33% odds. Young Black males are not non-violent people in America. I do think Zimmerman was beaten up by Trayvon and that is all that has to be proven in this case. Black Ame ...
  • Philosophy • Re: Michael Hoffman interviews a ...
    Thanks Mike!Statistics: Posted by ada — Sun Apr 29, 2012 2:55 pm
  • Crimes of Israel, IDF, Zionists, Mossad or &qu ...
    checkitb4uwreckit wrote: Timothy_Fitzpatrick wrote:Mossad Make Themselves Appear as the Heroes Even When They Murder (Bush Assassination Plot) Yup. When the Mossad bombed the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania Israeli forces were the first on the scene masquerading as "humanitarians" ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Warming Climate Has Caused Water Cycle to Inte ...
    A new study published in the journal Science suggests that the cycle of evaporation and rainfall over the world’s oceans has accelerated 4 percent in the last half-century as a result of global warming, a development that could portend more extreme weather in the decades to come. In an analysis ...
  • Pacific Shark Survey Shows 90 Percent Decline ...
    A comprehensive census of Pacific reef shark populations has found that shark abundance has plummeted by roughly 90 percent in waters located near islands inhabited by humans. Using underwater surveys P. AyotteGray reef sharks at Hawaii’s Kure Atoll conducted by divers across 46 U.S. Pacifi ...
  • Borneo Oil Palm Plantations Threaten Surge in ...
    A new study warns that the continued expansion of large-scale oil palm plantations in Indonesian Borneo, particularly on the island’s peatlands, will became a leading source of greenhouse gas emissions without stricter forest protections. According to researchers from Yale and Stanford universit ...
  • Warm Ocean Currents Play Key Role in Melting A ...
    Warm ocean currents are melting many of Antarctica’s floating ice shelves from beneath, which in turn is speeding up the flow of land-based glaciers into the ocean and increasing global sea levels, according to a new study. An international team of scientists, led by researchers from the British ...
  • Fighting A Last-Ditch Battle To Save the Rare ...
    Rhinoceroses worldwide are under siege as their habitat shrinks and poachers slaughter hundreds annually for their valuable horns. Now, in Indonesia, conservation groups are engaged in a desperate struggle to save the last 40 Javan rhinos on earth. BY RHETT BUTLER

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • 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 ...

Daily Beast

  • 7 Best Moments from Sunday Talk
    Boehner attacks Obama, Brennan urges extra vigilance against terror plots & more Sunday Talk.
  • 9 Best ‘Nerd Prom’ Moments
    No one was safe from President Obama’s comedy routine at the White House Correspondents Dinner.
  • Is Obama Getting Negative Media Coverage?
    Has the media been giving fair coverage of Obama? A new study from Pew argues that the media coverage of the President has been much more negative than the coverage of Romney. But what does that really mean? I was on Howard Kurtz's "Reliable Sources" this morning to discuss. Click ...
  • A Wrench in the DSK Conspiracy Theory
    Edward Jay Epstein suggested it—but now he’s backpedaling. Christopher Dickey reports.
  • Obama Hosts ‘Nerd Prom’
    Sometimes what the Beltway really needs is glamour and a good ribbing. See full coverage of “Nerd Prom.”

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Possession underscores nuclear contradictions
    Can the differing world reactions to India's missile test and North Korea's attempted "satellite launch" be explained by the familiar saying that success has a thousand fathers while failure is an orphan? The more likely explanation is that the two tests are forcing the international community t ...
  • Sorting out bills for careful debate
    A special committee was set up in the Lower House on April 26 to mainly discuss tax and social welfare reform bills, including a bill to raise the consumption tax. The political parties should have careful discussions in the committee because the bills will directly affect people's lives. Prim ...
  • A crisis of capital flight as TARGET debt grows
    For a while, it looked as if the European Central Bank's â¬1 trillion credit program to pump liquidity into Europe's banking system had calmed global financial markets. But now interest rates for Italian and Spanish government bonds are on the rise again, closing in on about 6 percent. Of cour ...
  • Wigan boosts hopes of survival with rout
    Wigan demolished Newcastle 4-0 on Saturday for another remarkable win in its attempt to avoid relegation from the Premier League and severely dent its opponent's chances of qualifying for next season's Champions League. With the fight for the title not resuming until leader Manchester United m ...
  • The international path toward self-destruction
    The latest report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) shows that, after allowing for some data uncertainties, world military spending in 2011 as essentially unchanged from that in 2012. This breaks a 13-year-long run of continuous military spending increases. It might ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Climate change will shape BC in 2035, one way ...
    I have an oped in today’s Vancouver Sun as part of its BC in 2035 series. Climate change will shape BC in 2035, one way or another We live on a different planet from the one our parents grew up on, says environmentalist Bill McKibben. Climate change from our rampant combustion of fossil fu ...
  • The Opacity of Tory Transparency
    “The time for accountability has arrived.” These were the first words written by Stephen Harper in the Conservatives’ 2006 Election Platform, “Stand Up for Canada.” Indeed, if there is an animating theme in what would become the Conservative’s winning election message in 2006, it was the T ...
  • Is the Plan Nord really an economic developmen ...
    On 9 May 2011, the Charest government presented its Plan Nord. Its objective is to revitalize the economy north of the 49th parallel. This plan relies on natural resource extraction to breath new life into the entire province’s economy. To do so, it invests in infrastructure at the different nor ...
  • Atlantic Canadians Agree: Inequality is a Publ ...
    Inequality has become a problem for all Canadians.  Nationwide, 3.8% of households control about 67% of total financial wealth.  The Conference Board of Canada recently addressed the issue, finding that, “High inequality can diminish economic growth if it means that the country is not fully usin ...
  • PBO Strikes Again
    I wanted to tip my hat to the hard working folks at the PBO for a particularly revealing Economic and Fiscal Outlook that was published today. While the PBO has more than once eaten my lunch on various issue they’ve done a superb job of looking at Canada’s economic and fiscal position. I’d point ...

ReDress

  • US liberals and their situational ethics
    Lawrence Davidson argues that the ethical standards of American liberals are more malleable than they would admit: In practice they "do not oppose the violation of civil or human rights, be they those of Americans, Iraqis or anybody else. What they do consider unacceptable are violations carried ...
  • Disempowerment and suppression of freedoms in ...
    Graham Peebles looks at how the increasingly paranoid regime of Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi is systematically tightening its monopoly over information, suppressing free speech and suffocating media freedom. "Disempowerment is the aim, and the means are well known, crude and unimaginati ...
  • Israel's settler-officers in the glare of publ ...
    Uri Avnery examines the incident in which an Israeli skullcap-wearing officer, Lt-Col Shalom Eisner, launched an unprovoked and brutal attack on a young Danish peace activist, and argues that Eisner, a deputy brigade commander, is not just the quintessential army officer but the quintessential I ...
  • What do Breivik and Netanyahu have in common?
    Alan Hart argues that among the things that unite Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin is "mania of victimhood": for Breivik insane fears about the consequences for Norway of immigration and multiculturalism, and for Netanyahu an obsession with Iran which, i ...
  • Intolerance in the USA's "sunshine state" of F ...
    Lawrence Davidson analysis the chronic intolerance inherent in the US State of Florida, at the core of which lie the Cuban American and Jewish communities, which "form around repugnant ideological cores that then come to characterize their very identity".

Physics Today

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

Revolutionary Politics

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

Peakwater

  • Salmon revival in sight as Elwha River dams fa ...
    “The two dams, about 80 miles northwest of Seattle, blocked migratory routes of salmon and steelhead trout to some 70 miles of tributary habitat, in the process robbing Native Americans of income by halting a treaty-guaranteed reservation fishery. The river teemed with thrashing pink salmo ...
  • The Great Nile River War
    “April 29, 2012: Ethiopia and Egypt, working through the AU (African Union), have asked Sudan and South Sudan to resume negotiations to end their war. Discussions have taken place in Ethiopia and Egypt. Since the time of the pharaohs Egypt has regarded Sudan as its backdoor. Ethiopia has r ...
  • ALEC and ExxonMobil Push Loopholes in Fracking ...
      “One of the key controversies about fracking is the chemical makeup of the fluid that is pumped deep into the ground to break apart rock and release natural gas. Some companies have been reluctant to disclose what’s in their fracking fluid. Scientists and environmental advocat ...
  • Groups to raise awareness against water privat ...
    “Various groups of citizens of Mangalore will raise awareness among people on the proposed move of the State government to privatise water supply in the city. At a meeting here on Saturday, the groups took note of the decision of the Mysore City Corporation asking Jamshedpur utilities and ...
  • Drought Causes Water Shortage, Parches Crops
    “BEIJING – Lingering drought has left more than 8.57 million people short of drinking water and huge areas of farmland parched in China, the nation’s top drought-relief authority said Friday. As of Friday, droughts have affected 3.64 million hectares of farmland, mostly in the ...

D. Kucinich

  • Kucinich Votes Against H.R. 4628, the Interest ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement after voting against  H.R. 4628, the Interest Rate Reduction Act. “Congress has a unique opportunity to prevent the scheduled doubling of student loan interest rates before July.  Our failure to act will have de ...
  • Kucinich Stands with T-Mobile Workers
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), who has been one of the most consistent supporters for workers in Congress, today released the following statement and video in support of workers who object to a decision by T-Mobile to close seven call centers in the United States. ...
  • Kucinich: Nuclear Loan Guarantees – Bad Inves ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following video discussing why nuclear loan guarantees are a bad investment. The Department of Energy is expected to soon guarantee $8.3 billion of loans to the Southern Company. Cli ...
  • Market Manipulation Drives Gas Prices Higher; ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today proposed an amendment in the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform to exempt the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) from legislation meant to prevent the federal government from taking “significant regulatory actions.” “The CFTC’s job i ...
  • CFTC, SEC Gave Bonanza to Energy Companies One ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), Ranking Member of the Regulatory Affairs Subcommittee, today wrote the Chairs of the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (C.F.T.C.) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (S.E.C.) demanding the analysis that justifies the adoption of a new rule which wo ...

Authentically Wired

  • What should we expect
          … What should we expect this is a religion lead by a man who turns his back on nearly 2,000 years of Catholic Church tolerated and sanctioned pedophilia …     U.S. Nuns Face Vatican Rebuke for "Radical Feminism" in Stances on Church Teachings, Social Justic ...
  • For your Sunday musing
    … For your Sunday musing …   …10 Amazing Discoveries You Missed This Week…   By Liz Langley, AlterNet…Posted on April 26, 2012, Printed on April 28, 2012… http://www.alternet.org/story/155172/10_amazing_discoveries_you_missed_this_week Here are 10 amazing things research revealed ...
  • In his world everyone is borne with a silver s ...
    … In his world everyone is borne with a silver spoon in their mouth … Romney’s Advice To Students: Borrow Money From Your Parents   By Annie-Rose Strasser on Apr 27, 2012 at 4:08 pm …http://thinkprogress.org/special/2012/04/27/473096/romney-borrow-money-parents/?mobile=nc &# ...
  • Come on the answer is not that difficult
    … Come on the answer is not that difficult … “big-pharma” will not tolerate competition and as corporate member they control and own our Congre$$ and office of the President … New Poll: 3/4 of Americans Want Alternative Penalties for Marijuana — So Why is the Gov’t Still Leading a Wa ...
  • Of course TARP will $how a profit
    … Of course TARP will $how a profit … Wall $treet will just “cook” the book$ and we will never know …     Tarp Overseer Debunks Bailout Myths: HAVEN’T Repaid Tarp Funds … 04-27-2012  •  ZeroHedge After 3½ years, the Troubled Asset Relief Program (“TARP”) continues to be an ac ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Photos: Uncontacted Amazon tribes documented f ...
    Aerial surveys of a remote area of rainforest along the Colombia-Brazil border have produced the first photographic evidence of uncontacted tribes, according to a conservation group that works to safeguard indigenous territories and culture. The photos, released by the Amazon Conservation Team ( ...
  • How a crippled rhino may save a species
    On December 18th, 2011, a female Sumatran rhino took a sudden plunge. Falling into a manmade pit trap, the rhino may have feared momentarily that her end had come, but vegetation cushioned her fall and the men that found her were keen on saving her, not killing her. Little did she know that cons ...
  • Our success in transforming commodity markets ...
    The success of governments and big corporations in eliminating environmental degradation from the products we consume will play a critical role in determining the fate of the world's remaining wild places, said a group of experts speaking at a panel during the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepr ...
  • Some toilet paper production destroys Indonesi ...
    American consumers are unwittingly contributing to the destruction of endangered rainforests in Sumatra by purchasing certain brands of toilet paper, asserts a new report published by the environmental group WWF. The report, Don't Flush Tiger Forests: Toilet Paper, U.S. Supermarkets, and the Des ...
  • Big trees, like the old-growth forests they in ...
    Already on the decline worldwide, big trees face a dire future due to habitat fragmentation, selective harvesting by loggers, exotic invaders, and the effects of climate change, warns an article published this week in New Scientist magazine. Reviewing research from forests around the world, Will ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Scientists call for urgency on cancer-phone link
    The jury is still out on mobile phone health risks. Picture / AP Allegations of bad science, not enough science, conflicts of interest, political inertia, scaremongering, lobbying and lawsuits: the debate about the safety of mobile...
  • Minivan sized meteor packed explosive power
    Scientists say a giant fireball that exploded in daylight over California's Central Valley over the weekend was a rare phenomenon and much larger than most meteors.Bill Cooke, a specialist in meteors at Nasa's Marshall Space Flight...
  • US company to mine asteroids for water
    A US company, backed by film director James Cameron and Google's top executives, has unveiled bold plans to mine asteroids for precious minerals and water.Heralding a new frontier in space exploitation, Planetary Resources announced...
  • Big Bang Theory - surgeon claims to have found ...
    The bottom line is men and women have erogenous zones all over their body. Sex therapist Robyn Salisbury An American surgeon claims to have confirmed the existence of the so-called "G-spot", an elusive female pleasure zone.Academic...
  • Geoff Keey: Fact, fantasy and the Ross Sea
    Last week Gareth Morgan went Fishing for Facts in the Ross Sea and found mostly fantasy, and this week again misunderstood our proposal ( Extreme Green r

The Bovine

  • Rawsome founder responds to the New Yorker art ...
    Thanks to Marilyn Gang for the news tip. From Aajonus Vonderplanitz’ “We Want to Live” blog: “The New Yorker magazines RAW DEAL article was so far more favorable to our right to have the foods we want in a major … Continue reading →
  • North Carolina threatens to shut down blogger ...
    Just another entry in the annals of state follies? A blogger who was too much “in their face”? Nevertheless, it’s disquieting that the coercive power of the state would be deployed to enforce dogmas around nutritional advice. I wonder if … Continue reading →
  • CFIA returns, posts armed guards at Montana Jo ...
    Posted last night on Montana Jones’ “Save Our Shrops — Shropshire Sheep Facebook page: CFIA RAID on WHOLEARTH FARM!—Suddenly, at 7:15 PM tonight, four Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) officials arrived at Montana Jones farm with an Order of Destruction … Continue re ...
  • Farmer Wendell Berry tells it like it is
    Wendell Berry, from Chronicle of Higher Education, via Grist.org, speaking at the National Endowment of Humanities: “…“The two great aims of industrialism — replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy — … Continue reading ...
  • Farmer Wendell Berry tells it like it is
    Wendell Berry, from Chronicle of Higher Education, via Grist.org, speaking at the National Endowment of Humanities: “…“The two great aims of industrialism — replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy — … Continue reading ...

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • "Flying Piano" Costs Pentagon $1.5 Trillion
    The Pentagon is about to waste $1.5 trillion, 38% of entire defense budget for a "virtual flying piano". That may sound preposterous, and it is. Unfortunately, it is also true. Foreign Policy Magazine discusses the sad saga of The Jet That Ate the Pentagon. This month, we learned that t ...
  • Giant Sucking Sound; Demand for Credit in Euro ...
    In a report on fixed income, David Owen, Chief European Financial Economist at Jefferies, notes that demand for credit in Europe has plunged. Owen asks Is it the supply or demand for credit that matters? 25 April 2012 Perhaps the most memorable comment Mario Draghi made to the Euro ...
  • The No Retirement Plan: 25% Expect to Work Til ...
    Given major delays in retirement plans, 80 is the new 65 says CNN Money. A quarter of middle-class Americans are now so pessimistic about their savings that they are planning to delay retirement until they are at least 80 years old -- two years longer than the average person is even expecte ...
  • GDP Miss Far Bigger Than Announced; Real GDP i ...
    The Advance Estimate for Q1 GDP came in at 2.2%, down from 3.0% in the previous quarter, and below most mainstream media estimates of 2.5%. However, my friend BC notes .... The GDP deflator is reported to have averaged 1.2% annualized in the past 2 qtrs. Had the trend rate from '11 per ...
  • Depression in Spain: Unemployment Rate Up .5 P ...
    Via email from Barclays Capital, Spain: Q1 unemployment rate rises; trend likely to continue into H1 2013. This morning Spain released labour market statistics for Q1. Seasonally adjusted, the unemployment rate rose to 23.6% from 23.1% in Q4 last year (Figure 1). We think that the labour mar ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Press Release: FBI Attempts to Hold Sibel Edmo ...
    Investigation Shows Agency Used Contract to Censor Whistleblowers The following press release was issued today by my attorneys and the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC). For the full release visit their website at http://www.whistleblowers.org Washington, D.C. April 10, 2012. Today, the Natio ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- April 9, ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it.” – John Hay International Newsworthy US Gives Iran ‘Last Chance’ Warning Second US Aircraft Carrier in Gulf Iran Will Not Accept Any Precondition to Nuclear Talks Surge in Secret US Surveil ...
  • NATO: The Military Enforcement Wing of the Wes ...
    The Unelected, Unrepresentative & Unaccountable Western-Dominated Institution By Rick Rozoff On April 7 Fox News Chicago reported on Occupy Chicago’s march through the city’s downtown, the Loop, recording that hundreds of protesters chanted “End the war, tax the rich” during part of the grou ...
  • Podcast Show #83
    The Boiling Frogs Presents William Engdahl William Engdahl returns to our show to discuss the continuing tension with Iran driven by Israel and US propaganda, the effect of the war rhetoric in creating the ideal backdrop for a massive speculative spike in oil, and the role of key banks such as G ...
  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Phil Collins Phil Collins needs no introduction. Picking a favorite song of his is always tough. For me Another Day in Paradise always comes out on top. Collins wrote it to bring attention to the problem of homelessness. He sings it like he cares about the woman in the song and others who are ho ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

  • COSCO: Dry Bulk Capacity Forecasted to Outpace ...
      SHANGHAI (Dow Jones)–China Cosco Holdings Ltd. (1919.HK) said Thursday that its net loss widened in the first quarter as its dry-bulk shipping business slumped amid a slowdown in the [...]
  • Noble Energy Contracts Atwood Hunter Offshore ...
    Houston-based offshore drilling contractor, Atwood Oceanics, announced today that one of its subsidiaries has been awarded a drilling services contract by a subsidiary of Noble Energy Inc. for the Atwood Hunter.  [...]
  • Tracking Cruise Ships – Carnival Signs U ...
    Carnival Corporation announced this week that it has joined the MONALISA project. Led by The Swedish Maritime Administration, MONALISA aims to continuously track the locations of cruise and cargo vessels [...]
  • In Case of Offshore Oil Drilling in Cuba and t ...
    By Doug Helton, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) For the past year, we at NOAA and the U.S. Coast Guard have been studying the possible threats that new offshore oil [...]
  • “Hauling the Mail”… Austal L ...
    USNS Spearhead (JHSV 1), the innovative high-speed catamaran transport ship under construction by shipbuilder Austal in Mobile, Alabama, successfully completed Builder’s Sea Trials (BST) on April 19 in the Gulf [...]

Press TV

  • US drone crashes in central Afghanistan
    A US reconnaissance plane has crashed in the central Afghanistan province of Ghazni, with Taliban militants claiming they have downed the aircraft.
  • 'KSA, Qatar support arming Iraqi Kurds'
    A senior Iraqi lawmaker has called on the autonomous Kurdistan Region to hand over heavy weaponry it seized after the fall of former dictator Saddam Hussein.
  • Sarkozy hopes of reelection dashed
    Recent media claims that former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi sought to fund the French President Nicolas Sarkozy campaign in 2007 have hampered his hopes of re-election.
  • 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.
  • US interests lie in tension in PG: Cmdr.
    A senior Iranian military commander says the United States and its allies seek to promote division and discord among Iran and its neighboring states by means of causing a broad array of conspiracies.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

  • Life's building blocks found in a ring around ...
    Complex carbon-based molecules, including many that are important for life on Earth, could have formed in the early solar system. That's according to a paper by Fred Ciesla and Scott Sandford in this ...
  • Thinking cap makes impossible problem soluble
    A small dose of electrical current passed across their heads enabled a group of volunteers to immediately solve a puzzle they had previously found to be impossible. This surprising result is the work...
  • Pint sized rocket
    A rocket has been developed that could get a spaceprobe to the moon on just 100g of fuel Some tasks can only be done by a large satellite, but there are many others which can be done as well if not b...
  • Seeing Around the Corner
    Using a laser, a super fast camera and a clever algorithm, researchers at MIT have developed the ability to see, in 3D, around a corner. Writing in the journal Nature Communications, Andreas Velten a...
  • Drugs in sewage
    Drug use in populations, both legal and illegal, is important to know about for health and law and order reasons. Whilst it is relatively easy to keep tabs on the amount of legal drug use by asking ph...

Nick Turse

  • "Vietnam is now one for the ages. After so ma ...
    “Vietnam is now one for the ages. After so many years, Afghanistan has finally emerged as a...
  • Jordanian demonstrators hold Jordanian flags d ...
    Jordanian demonstrators hold Jordanian flags during a protest calling for political reforms at Jamal Nasser Square, in Amman, on March 24, 2012. Hundreds of Jordanians demonstrated on March 23, 2012, against what they charged was ‘procrastination’ on reform in the country, as opposition Islamis ...
  • A woman anti-government protester runs to the ...
    A woman anti-government protester runs to the aid of a fellow demonstrator as police have him on the ground to arrest him Saturday, March 24, 2012, in Sitra, Bahrain. As more women ran to his aid, police let him go. Clashes erupted during a protest in the village against the April 22 Formula 1 ...
  • Women hold placards during a demonstration org ...
    Women hold placards during a demonstration organized by the ‘Oui a la vie’ (yes to life) association to protest for abortion rights on March 24, 2012 in Bordeaux, southwestern France. Getty
  • Occupy Wall Street protesters protest in Union ...
    Occupy Wall Street protesters protest in Union Square at the end of a march from Zuccotti Park to Union Square on March 24, 2012 in New York City. The Occupy Wall Street movement has seen a resurgence in recent weeks in part due to new protests over the killing of Florida teen Trayvon Martin. Getty

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