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Scoop - NZ

• US Recovery? Housing says it’s a Hoax
  The Fed may have juiced the stock market with cheap money and ultra-low interest rates, but the housing market is dead. According to the latest Case-Shiller Home Index, prices are down—again. The latest data, released yesterday, reveals prices in 17 of 20 cities surveyed were down. Atlanta ho ...
• Death of the Entertainment Industry
  There are things that many people in the developed world take for granted, especially in the states and Western Europe. Jobs, health benefits, social safety nets, affordable credit for homes/cars/etc. and cheap energy certainly rank among the most vital expectations, but even those things have b ...
• Amid Debt Crisis, Athens Falls Apart
  As Greece struggles to master its devastating debt problem, decades of mismanagement have taken their toll on the country's once-proud capital. Athens has degenerated into a hotbed of chaos and crime, where tensions between Greeks and immigrants have led to attacks on foreigners by the far-right.
• Leading the UN donkey up the Khyber
  Some 300,000 Afghan troops are going to take over from us – yet Lieutenant General Curtis Scaparrotti, the second most senior officer in Afghanistan, has said that only 1 per cent of Afghan battalions can fight independently. That's not exactly the Grenadier Guards. Michael Glackin has writte ...
• General Strike in Spain
  Spain has the highest unemployment rate in the EU – 23% - and the figure is expected to rise. The generation of under-25s is particularly affected: 51.4% were unwaged in January 2012. This joblessness among young people will have devastating effects on the country in general. To give two example ...

Independent - London

• MPs back Turkey's bid to join EU
  A committee of MPs has backed Turkey to join the EU but warned issues around human rights and the conflict over Cyprus must be resolved first. Related StoriesGovernment under pressure to publish names of Russians suspected of links to assassinations
• 80-year-old lands plane after husband dies
  An 80-year-old woman with little flying experience knew her husband had died after he fell unconscious at the controls of a small plane, yet she remained calm as she landed the aircraft at a northeastern Wisconsin airport, her son said. Related StoriesHostage release raises hopes of an end to Co ...
• Syrian troops 'start to withdraw'
  Syrian troops have begun pulling out from some cities and heading back to their bases a week ahead of a deadline to implement an international ceasefire plan, a government official said. Related StoriesAnnan: Syria has agreed to ceasefire deadlineBarghouti put in isolation cellNetanyahu delays p ...
• Tornadoes wreck homes in Texas
  Up to a dozen tornadoes skipped through the densely populated Dallas-Fort Worth area in Texas, ripping apart homes, tossing tractor-trailer trucks into the air and injuring at least 17 people.Related StoriesHostage release raises hopes of an end to Colombia's 48-year civil warTransgender woman ...
• French police launch new swoops on suspected I ...
  Elite French police arrested 10 suspected Islamists in early morning raids today in several cities, including Marseille, a police source said.Related StoriesSpanish unemployment total rises to 4.75 millionNorway lorry driver survives cliff plungeIslam group accused of French judge kidnap plotFi ...

Rogue Government.com

• UK Energy bills ‘to double in five years’ as ...
  Energy bills are likely to double within five years as the Government drives a move to green power and building nuclear power stations, it is claimed.
• EU calls emergency meeting as crisis stalks I ...
  European Council President Herman Van Rompuy has called an emergency meeting of top officials dealing with the euro zone debt crisis for Monday morning, reflecting concern that the crisis could spread to Italy, the region's third largest economy.
• Government asks Jewish groups to join in anti ...
  For the first time, the federal government is expanding its community-based anti-terrorism campaign to a religious group — the Jewish community, victims of past attacks in the U.S.
• Hackers claim they exposed Booz Allen Hamilto ...
  Hackers flying the AntiSec banner claimed today that they compromised a server at consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and have released internal data, including about 90,000 military e-mail addresses.
• Roman-era shipwreck reveals ancient medical s ...
  A wooden chest discovered on board the vessel contained pills made of ground-up vegetables, herbs and plants such as celery, onions, carrots, cabbage, alfalfa and chestnuts – all ingredients referred to in classical medical texts.

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

• BEST OF THE WEB: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit ...
  After having read Part I and Part II of this three part series, the reader may be under the impression that I am somehow suggesting that in order to get things back on track for the world economy, politics, society, and the environment, etc., that we must return to good-old-fashioned values, lik ...
• Prominent French Academic Found Dead in New Yo ...
  A prominent French academic, Richard Descoings, was found dead in a New York hotel room on Tuesday afternoon and New York police opened an investigation into the circumstances of his death. New York City Police said that the body of Descoings, 53, director of the prestigious Institute of Pol ...
• Tornado-Wrecked Dallas Begins Assessing Damage
  US: Dallas, Texas - The tornado hurtled toward the nursing home. Physical therapist Patti Gilroy said she saw the swirling mass barreling down through the back door, after herding patients into the hallway in the order trained: walkers, wheelchairs, then beds. "It wasn't like a freight train l ...
• Update: Storm Lashes Japan, Killing 4, Groundi ...
  A powerful storm lashed Japan with heavy rain and strong winds, killing four people and paralyzing air and train traffic in Tokyo, officials said Wednesday. The spring storm swept across Japan's main island of Honshu on Tuesday, with winds of more than 144 kilometers (89 miles) per hour -- typh ...
• Afghanistan "Suicide Blast" Leaves at Least 12 ...
  A suicide bomber on Wednesday killed at least 12 people and injured many more in the Faryab province in northern Afghanistan, a Norwegian armed forces' spokesman told AFP. "There are many dead and injured. The numbers I have for the time being are at least 12 killed, but this number is not d ...

The Galloping Beaver

• The rumbling and shaking at 101 Colonel By Drive
  I was all prepared to post exactly what I thought about the Auditor General's report with respect to the the procurement of ... any number ... of F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighters. And I was going to conclude that all the fault with the total cluster-fuck that this procurement has become l ...
• How very conservative of you
  This just blows it all out of the water: A former B.C. Liberal MLA now working as a director at Simon Fraser University has been giving public dollars from his university expense account to the B.C. Liberal Party. Documents obtained by The Vancouver Sun show that in just over one month earlier ...
• Enbridge gets whacked on the pee-pee for propa ...
  Head on over to Tidal Station and get the good word from a professional tanker captain on the latest Enbridge nausea. There's a lot there but, aside from the gutting of the latest Enbridge attempt to cloud the issue over tankers, there is a point made which cannot be missed. Harper cut the bu ...
• Peak technology and the F-35
  Bit of a ramble here.  Michael Byers and Stewart Webb nail a lesson in the F-35 (via Dawg). The latest is where we find F-35's stealthy skin apparently doesn't react too well when the plane hits design speed maximums. Something which is, I think, revealing of other things. There's an ass ...
• Following the crumbs
  Back here I told the story of a frustrating bit of research where I ended up finding a small bouquet of strange connections between the Harper Conservatives and the BC Liberal party of Christy Clark. The problem was, I felt there had to be something more or, at the very least, something substant ...

Media Matters for America

• Turning On A Dime, Conservative Media Recoil A ...
  Conservative media are on the attack after President Obama responded to a question about the Supreme Court's consideration of the Affordable Care Act by pointing out that conservatives criticize "unelected" judges who engage in "judicial activism" to "overturn a duly constituted and passed law. ...
• It Would Be "Extraordinary" To Strike Down Hea ...
  Right-wing media are attacking President Obama over comments he recently made in which he pointed out that if the Supreme Court decides to strike down the Affordable Care Act, it will be an "unprecedented" and "extraordinary" step. In fact, the Supreme Court has not struck down a central provis ...
• Fox Nation Falsely Suggests "Taxpayers Lose $2 ...
  Fox Nation has seized on the bankruptcy filing of solar energy company Solar Trust to suggest that "taxpayers" would "lose $2 billion" because of the bankruptcy. However, Solar Trust did not receive loan guarantees from the federal government.Fox Claims Solar Trust "Received A $2.1 Billion Cond ...
• Economists Debunk Media Fearmongering About Ne ...
  After the EPA proposed regulations on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, several conservative media outlets claimed that the new rule would increase electricity prices for consumers by prohibiting the construction of coal plants without carbon dioxide controls. But economists and other ...
• Right-Wing Media Falsely Claim Biden Called Fo ...
  Right-wing media have distorted recent comments by Vice President Joe Biden by falsely claiming that he called for a "global tax." In fact, while advocating for a reduction in the corporate tax rate, Biden was referring to an Obama administration proposal to ensure that American companies pay a ...

Global Research.ca

• MONTREAL CONFERENCE: Richard Gage on 9/11 Truth
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• HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT: Testosterone Level ...
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• IT’S TAX TIME: IS IT TIME TO OCCUPY THE IRS?
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• After the Arab Spring in Palestine: Neoliberal ...
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• Money, Credit and the Hike in the Price of Cru ...
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TPM Cafe

• New Law in WI Keeps People From Voting - Me, f ...
  After not being allowed to vote this morning, I want to report from the Wisconsin front lines of the draconian voting laws that Republicans have been pushing through state legislatures across the country. For all the focus on stringent requirements to show ID in order to vote, these are not the ...
• Not That Complicated
  Justice Alito said that if he didn't buy a Volt, the price of Volts would go up. Where did he learn that? Yale Law School? I hope not; I was there with him and I don't remember learning that if demand falls, then prices go up. It's the other way around: if customers won't buy at a certain price, ...
• Why Land Day still matters
  By Sam Bahour and Fida Jiryis Every year since 1976, on March 30, Palestinians around the world have commemorated Land Day. Though it may sound like an environmental celebration, Land Day marks a bloody day in Israel when security forces gunned down six Palestinians, as they protested Israeli ...
• Romney's Foreign Policy Fantasies: "Breathtaki ...
  In a blog post at the web site of Foreign Policy magazine, Republican presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney attempts to paint the Obama administration as "soft" on Russia, and on security issues more broadly. But Romney's tirade reveals more about his own worldview than it does about Preside ...
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Institute for Middle East Understanding

• ICC won't investigate Gaza war because Palesti ...
  The International Criminal Court will not investigate Israel's conduct during its December 2008 offensive on Gaza because Palestine is not a state, the world prosecutor said Tuesday. In ...
• Israeli military violently evicts Palestinians ...
  Two days ago the Israeli military raided a house in Hebron's old city, evicting Palestinian and international activists who hoped to prevent it from being taken over by settlers. The activists intended to renovate and take residence in the house to prevent it from being taken over by Israeli set ...
• Pro-Palestinian groups plan April 15 mass arri ...
  Hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists and their families plan to fly to Israel in mid-April to commemorate Land Day, a member of the event's organizing committee told Haaretz. "On April ...
• Signs of success in Gaza trainee kitchen (Al ...
  A small group of trainee chefs in the Gaza Strip are preparing to open a restaurant staffed entirely by the hearing impaired. The new cooks learned their skills in an environment where ...
• Man dies of wounds from Israeli West Bank raid ...
  A young Palestinian man died on Monday morning from wounds suffered in an Israeli raid on his village near Ramallah last week, his family told Ma'an. Rashad Theib Shoukha, 28, was criti ...

Water - AlterNet

• Some Red States Are Already Running Out Of Water
  Our national intelligence experts report that several states are already high and dry. Thanks to the GOP, they're also in complete denial about it.
• Gulf of Mexico Dolphins Sick, Dying After BP O ...
  The dolphins could have ingested oil from sediments or water while feeding or by eating whole fish, which can harbor toxic chemicals.
• Avoiding the Next Arctic Oil Disaster
  Exxon's Valdez disaster had ruinous and enduring impacts. We could be close to catastrophe again.
• Why the Right to Water Is Under Attack
  World leaders are trying to roll back momentum that would instill the right to water as an essential human right.
• The World Water Forum and the Resistance Again ...
  Activists held an alternative to the corporate World Water Forum in France.

Public Citizen in Texas

• New Report on the Role of Job Impact Analysis ...
  The New York University School of Law’s Institute for Policy Integrity has released a new report – The Regulatory Red Herring: The Role of Job Impact Analysis in Environmental Policy Debates. The study finds that claims of jobs that stand to be gained or lost due to environmental regulations req ...
• EHF – going broke. Will Texas declare it “too ...
  The Dallas Observer is reporting that there is a good chance that Energy Future Holdings (EFH) (or TXU for most of us) the state’s largest power generator, will go broke – click here to read their story. The question now becomes – are Texas ratepayers going to have to pay for E ...
• If you build it, they will come
  With the Texas Low Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission (TLLRWDCC) approving rules that open up of the WCS dump site to out of compact waste, we may soon see low level radioactive waste from Nebraska Public Power District’s nuclear facility heading to Texas. The deal between ...
• EPA Sets First Limits on Greenhouse Gas Emissions
  Today, the Environmental Protection Agency issued the first limits on greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants. “Today we’re taking a common-sense step to reduce pollution in our air, protect the planet for our children, and move us into a new era of American energy,” EPA Administrator Lis ...
• Governor Perry names Toby Baker to replace Gar ...
  On Friday, Governor Perry announced he is appointing Toby Baker, a former policy and budget advisor to Perry on energy, natural resources and agriculture, to replace Garcia who continues to serve in a TCEQ commissioner’s spot that officially expired in August 31, 2011.  Mr. Baker’s t ...

Unexplained Mysteries

• Ex-military pilot reveals UFO encounter
  Marine Corps captain Larry Jividen has told the story of a UFO he witnessed 40 years ago. Jividen had been flying a T-39D Sabreliner aircraft with fiv...
• Earliest evidence of man-made fire
  Our ancestors may have been using fire for cooking and warmth as far back as one million years ago. Materials retrieved from Wonderwerk Cave in South ...
• Sparrows change their tune in cities
  Sparrows have been found to change their song so that they can be heard in loud environments. A new study to be published in the April edition of Anim...
• Did dinosaurs live in the water ?
  A startling new theory suggests that dinosaurs were simply too big and cumbersome to live on land. Professor Brian J Ford believes that the classic vi...
• Scientists collaborate on new radio telescope
  The ambitious Square Kilometre Array will be 50 times more sensitive than existing radio telescopes. Combining the signals from hundreds of transmitte...

Grassroots

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

Climate

• Sen. Bill Nelson: CFTC Head Must Curb Oil Spec ...
  (The Hill) Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) is losing patience with a top financial regulator, saying Tues. that he should either crack down on speculation driving up oil prices or no longer work at his watchdog agency.
• Gas Well Snapshot Shows High-Producing Ohio Wells
  (AP) Natural gas wells using the drilling method known as hydraulic fracturing are producing at a much higher rate than traditional wells, according to the first industry look at production figures from nine active wells in the Utica S ...
• Suntech "Sun King" Sees Industry Back in Black ...
  (Reuters) Suntech Power's chief executive said on Tuesday the Chinese solar company expects to return to profit, along with the entire industry, in the fourth quarter as prices stabilize on tighter inventories and improving demand.
• Environmental Rules: Job Killers or Job Creators?
  (NYT Green) The Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University's School of Law said in a new report that despite the limitations of current methods of measuring job gains and losses, they should be considered when drawing up fut ...
• Wind Power Crosswinds Blast McGuinty Government
  (Toronto Star) Hundreds of angry rural residents streamed through Toronto's financial core Tuesday protesting wind turbine developments in the Ontario countryside.

GreenBiz

• How Infosys cuts carbon emissions: Data, effic ...
  One of the largest IT companies in the world strides toward carbon neutrality via energy efficiency, renewable energy and carbon offsets. Now it's ready to share its tips for success.
• Making cardboard boxes even greener -- without ...
  Marty Metro, the CEO of UsedCardboardBoxes.com talks about why recycling isn't the always the best idea for corrugated cardboard, and how to create a new market for the ubiquitous cardboardbox.
• What to do when you've picked all the low-hang ...
  With just eight years remaining for Interface to reach its target of zero environmental footprint by 2020, it's clear that there's no more low-hanging fruit. How does a company adapt to a "tall canopy" landscape?
• How energy companies do (and don't) manage the ...
  NGOs and companies in a wide range of industries have taken increasingly ambitious steps to manage their water footprints. Most oil and gas firms, however, have remained silent on the matter.
• Climate change poses growing flood risks to US ...
  Millions of U.S. residents are at risk from rising sea levels and increasing numbers of storm surges, new research from Climate Central finds.

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

• Mike Johanns: Stupidest Man in the Universe
  It's not clear if conservative Republican Senator Mike Johanns is an idiot or if he is just pretending to be an idiot. Here he is, responding to the president's remark that he was confident the Supreme Court would uphold the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act: Sen. Mike Johanns ( ...
• I Laugh, So I Don't Cry
  I've been rather busy today working on crap that doesn't interest me, but I saw a lot of chatter about the president delivering some kind of epic smackdown of stupid Republicans. I even have an email inbox stuffed to the gills with transcripts and reactions. I haven't had time to go through an ...
• Did Obama Threaten to Kill Chelsea Clinton?
  This story is the perfect symbol for why Fox News watchers are so ignorant and misinformed. Heather Childers, a Fox "News Anchor" tweeted the following message (and provided a link as well) regarding the latest right wingnut conspiracy theory: That Obama threatened Chelsea Clinton's life to kee ...
• Site Update for Booman Tribune
  This site been under troll attack for a long time, but it has recently grown out of control. To give you an idea how bad it is, the first new account created in April received a user number of 330663. By early this afternoon, we were up to user 331541. That's almost 1100 new users in the last ...
• It's the Conservatism, Stupid
  I don't dispute that we're seeing a conservative revolution in this country, although calling it a coup d'etat is hyperbole. To take just the example of the undemocratic practices of the U.S. Senate, it must be admitted that the Senate rules now in operation are there by the acquiescence of the ...

Environmental Graffiti

• The Deceptive Beauty of Indonesia's Deadly Aci ...
  Indonesia's Kawah Ijen volcano is a place known both for its stunning beauty, and as one of the world's last two sites to continue the dangerous practice of sulfur mining This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
• What Your Armpit Hair Says About You
  Armpit hair evolved to help people communicate with chemicals. Yet as recent debates have shown, shaved or hairy armpits can also signal conformity or independence. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• 10 Effective Ways to Clean Up Hazardous Waste
  We all produce hazardous waste as a consequence of living in a technological era. Here are 10 steps you and your business can take to help dispose of waste properly. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Solar Flares: The Beautiful Lights That Could ...
  Solar flares are breathtakingly beautiful. But their beauty hides something much more sinister. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• The Annual Texas Rattlesnake Massacre
  Each March crowds gather in the normally sleepy town of Sweetwater to watch the Rattlesnake Roundup, an event showcasing the torture and death of thousands of snakes. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

• Justifications for Slaughtering Muslims Were i ...
  Thanks to rules and historical accounts in the Old Testament, early Christians found the justification and precedents they needed to kill Muslims en masse.
• The Foreign Policy President?
  Has Obama had any significant progressive foreign policy successes?
• Congress Tunes Out Lt. Col. Davis's Allegatio ...
  The 17-year Army veteran risked his career by speaking out about the Afghanistan War.
• The Costa Rica Consensus
  In a recent speech at the Newseum, former Costa Rican president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Oscar Arias describes concrete ways of moving beyond our over-militarized world.
• To Know Your "Enemy," Know Yourself: Towards a ...
  Much more effort is expended on figuring out what makes Islamic extremists tick than on what motivates the will to dominate of the United States.

Global Elite

• Fear, Intimidation & Media Disinformation: U.K ...
  Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 20, 2009 An official UK government report –quoted extensively in Britain’s tabloid media– is warning the British public that there will b ...
• President European Commission Advocated World ...
  Jurriaan Maessen. Infowars. July 24th, 2009 On September 7, 1992, two term President of the European Commission Jacques Delors gave a speech to the Royal Institute of International A ...
• Billions of People Expected to Die Under Curre ...
  Barbara Minton, Natural News, July 21st, 2009 Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in th ...
• Bioweapons, Dangerous Vaccines, and Threats of ...
  Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 7th, 2009 Although international law prohibits the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons, America has had an active biological warfare pr ...
• Today we’re all prisoners in the USA
  Papers, Please! June 2, 2009 As of today, June 1, 2009, even U.S. citizens are officially prisoners in the USA, or exiles barred from entering our own country without the government’ ...

Al Jazeera

• Officials killed in Somalia theatre blast
  Al-Shabab claims responsibility for apparent suicide bombing that killed heads of country's Olympic and football bodies.
• Israeli police evict illegal Hebron settlers
  Group of settlers ejected from disputed house in West Bank city, after taking it over from Palestinian owners.
• Yahoo to lay off 2,000 workers
  US-based internet company announces sixth mass layoff in the past four years, representing 14 per cent of its workforce.
• Afghanistan and US 'close to night raid deal'
  Agreement would give lead role to Afghan forces, as raid footage shows innocent family looking shocked and frightened.
• Syria violence rages despite peace pledge
  Activist reports of shelling, tank assaults and dozens killed, despite government's pledge to begin withdrawing forces.

Green Inc. - NYT

• Bracing for a Hungry Tick Season
  A die-off of mice is expected to leave ticks in the Northeast especially ravenous.
• Research Cut Short in Indian Tiger Preserves
  Scientists speak out against a system that gives individual state wardens authority over permits for field research.
• Environmental Rules: Job Killers or Job Creators?
  Despite the limitations of current tools, federal agencies should do their best to calculate job impacts when drafting environmental rules, the Institute for Policy Integrity says in a new report.
• Climate Change, the News Media and the Public
  A reporter explains the roots of a series in which he tries to take readers back to square one on climate science.
• On Our Radar: A Soupçon of van Gogh?
  Using advanced digital animation, scientists simulate ocean and sea-ice flows to better understand systems that move heat and carbon. The goal is to understand the ocean's role in future climate change.

Dot Earth News

• Peter Kareiva, an Inconvenient Environmentalist
  One of the country's top environmental scientists and activists rejects 20th century green tactics and offers a new path to progress.
• Seeking Happiness on a Finite and Human-Shaped ...
  Bhutan, a tiny Himalayan nation moving from monarchy to democracy, comes to the United Nations to help humanity explore new ways to measure progress.
• Why I'm O.K. with 'Pink Slime' in Ground Beef
  A closer look at a food fight over a beef byproduct that is centered on fear, not facts.
• A Republican Meteorologist Tries to Remove Lib ...
  Another Republican scientist tries to depoliticize climate findings.
• Scientists Call for Practical Steps to Smooth ...
  Scientists gauging global environmental trends propose practical steps to cut risks.

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

• First warm day of 2012 = Days 1&2: OccupyMinne ...
  IN an entirely unexpected and spontaneous emergence of lulz, the first dry, warm evening of spring led to an impromptu occupation of Peavey Plaza on Nicollet Mall, with OccupyMpls (occupyminneapolis.mn) regulars holding it down into the night with two tents, sleeping gear, hot tea and snacks. Ex ...
• Report: Simcity 5 finally under development fo ...
  I have been very, very into SimCity ever since I was little. Now, finally SimCity 5 is getting a proper treatment. PLEASE send me any beta builds, i will debug the shizzle out of them :D Until you can get your hands on this, use the Network Addon Mod in SimCity 4 for much more fluid road&rai ...
• Let them eat cake! Republican State Representa ...
  IN an astoundingly offensive display of casual Malthusian freestyling, Representative Mary Franson compared supporting poor people with food stamps to feeding wild animals. The Republicans pulled the YouTube once the magnitude of their irresponsibility hit the intertubes. But the usual suspects ...
• EXCLUSIVE: Cointelpro Gothic II: Midwestern Po ...
  EARLIER: October 13, 2010: Cointelpro Gothic: Docs prove Iowa FBI's Wild Rose Rebellion a pretend RNC "Terrorism Enterprise" for great "statistical accomplishment" BY DAN FEIDT -- Another level of the seemingly endless, unregulated Midwestern law enforcement campaign against political activists ...
• New Filez! BuStEd: I sense Astroturfing in the ...
  BuStEd: I sense Astroturfing in the Occupy! http://the99spring.com/letter.html ~ LEAKED FILEZ! Got a nice tip. Pass it along, its all on the google! A bunch of groups which are mostly dedicated to Democratic electioneering are doing a "99% Spring" campaign soon. This is no secret, but the fil ...

Daily Censored

• Raising My Voice Without Freedom
  Raising My Voice Without Freedom By Liliana Valdez   Here in this sea of grief they cover my voice and tie me! I can’t say anything. This intrigues me, it kills me, but at the same time relieves me. I’m free but I can’t take my freedom. I wish I could fly to escape from [...]
• The Great Dumbing Down: NY Department of Educa ...
  Uploaded by LeakSource2012  March 29, 2012 03/28/2012 If banning books by right-wing reactionaries is not enough, then how about asking text book companies to censor certain words from textbooks?  LeakSource, an online service, reported that the NY Department of Education has asked text book com ...
• College Board bars AP Government from teaching ...
  I have been removed from the Advanced Placement (AP) Government listserve for documenting US Constitution promises compared with these recent US ‘laws’ and actions: assassination of Americans upon the non-reviewable dictate of the president, control-drown/waterboarding anyone dictated as a “terr ...
• US war-murdered 20-30 million people since WW2 ...
  US covert and overt criminal Wars of Aggression caused 20-30 million deaths of human beings since World War 2, according to the outstanding documentation of James Lucas of Countercurrents.org. The US use/support of armed attacks is documented in 37 countries, and in direct violation of treaties ...
• The New York Plumber’s Union to finally ...
  For those interested in the on-going plight of criminal Kaplan University the good news is that on March 8, 2012, journalist for Accuracy in Media, Rusty Weiss, wrote a stunning and well-researched investigative report on the sordid little shop of horrors that poses as a university.  It is a mus ...

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Institute for Policy Studies

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• Organizing Across Generations
  Our allies talk to Bill Moyers about restoring domestic workers' rights and the 99% Spring.
• The Lineup: Week of April 2-8, 2012
  Chuck Collins explains what's behind the "99 percent spring."
• The 99 Percent Spring
  The people aren't powerless in the face of extreme inequality.

IntelNews

• News you may have missed #707
  Russian colonel charged with spying for the US. FBI denies Russian spy tried to sexually entice US cabinet official. London police admits 'errors' in MI6 officer's death investigation.
• News you may have missed #706
  UK government accuses Chechen of assassination plot. Israeli ex-soldiers arrested in Colombia on drugs charges. Lawyer alleges MI6 agent was killed by 'secret services'.
• Israel ‘scales back covert operations in Iran’ ...
  The Israeli government has instructed the country’s intelligence services to “scale back” their covert operations in Iran, according to Time magazine.
• News you may have missed #705
  UK man found dead in China had links to intel company. Iraq war ghosts haunting CIA in tackling Iran. Interview with African-American CIA official.
• Senior Soviet KGB ex-official found dead in Mo ...
  Leonid Shebarshin, a retired General of the KGB, who was often referred to as “the last Soviet spy” was found dead in his downtown Moscow apartment over the weekend. Police said a pistol and an apparent suicide note were found next to his body.

War is a Crime.org

• Talk Nation Radio: Rocky Anderson on His Campa ...
  Rocky Anderson is the Justice Party candidate for U.S. president.  He explains why he's running and what he thinks we need to do to get our country headed in a more just and peaceful direction.  Rocky's website is VoteRocky.org. Total run time: 29:00 Host: David Swanson. Producer: Davi ...
• Israel Plans Theft of 10% More West Bank Land
    Israel Plans Theft of 10% More West Bank Land   by Stephen Lendman   Israel occupies Gaza, East Jerusalem, and the West Bank illegally. Its settlements, closed military zones, tourist sites, and commercial areas control over 40% of the West Bank, including its most valued r ...
• Palestinian Hunger Strikers for Justice
    Palestinian Hunger Strikers for Justice   by Stephen Lendman   Hana Shalabi's ordeal highlights what many others endured previously and dozens do now. Only they know the physical and emotional toll.   Who else understands the willingness to die for justice? Who'll suff ...
• Deal Nearing on Afghan Night Raids
  From Wall Street Journal: BY DION NISSENBAUM IN KABUL AND ADAM ENTOUS IN WASHINGTON The U.S. and Afghanistan are close to signing a landmark agreement that would give Afghans effective control over nighttime raids and clear the way for the two countries to sign a strategic-partnership agreement ...
• 64 years later, America Complicit in a Second ...
  By Ann Wright President Obama, like President Bush, has a penchant for identifying areas of the world for America’s special attention.  In the 2002 State of the Union message, Bush used the phrase “Axis of Evil” to signal where America’s military might was to be focused in the next years.&n ...

Grist - News

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

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Digg Green

• NASA - Tackling the Global Water Challenge
  The U.S. Water Partnership is a public-private partnership that seeks to mobilize expertise and resources to improve water security around the world.
• Does Cosmic Dust Play a Role in Climate Change?
  Although we think of space as being empty, there is more out there than meets the eye – dust, for example, is everywhere. If all the material between the Sun and Jupiter were compressed together it would form a moon 25 km across. Now a new research program will try to see how much of this dust e ...
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  As the International Space Station circles Earth, it has been tracking individual ships crossing the seas beneath. An investigation hosted by the European Space Agency (ESA) in its Columbus module has been testing the viability of monitoring global maritime traffic from the station's orbit hundr ...

Invisible Opportunity

• FDA Says Fresh Milk Is Dangerous, But Chemical ...
  by Alexander Higgins If you are looking for answers to nonsensical FDA decisions such as declaring fresh milk dangerous and BPA safe you need only to follow the money. (NaturalNews) The FDA, the organization that conspired with California bureaucrats to attack raw milk distribution centers over ...
• The Cancer Report (Full Version)
  This documentary catalogs how allopathic medicine established dominance in the early part of the 20th Century, and how natural medicines were arbitrarily banned from the medical profession, despite the basis of this decision being scientifically unsound. The wholesale transition from natural med ...
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  Baby Irene’s dad agreed with his homeopathic physician, Hannah Eagle, about the dangers of vaccines. He certainly did not plan on vaccinating his 4-month old daughter. On December 4, 2011, however, under a tremendous amount of pressure from the family pediatrician, he and his wife acquiesc ...
• Thomas Aquinas, Sigmund Freud, Rheumatoid Arth ...
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• Truth behind 9/11 will annihilate Israel
  If Americans ever know that Israel did this, they are going to scrub them off the earth,” Alan Sabrosky, writer and consultant specializing in national and international security affairs A US Marine Corps veteran and author asserts that Israel masterminded the 9/11 attacks, saying if Americans w ...

Global Insights

• Less Than a Week Away
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• The Georgia Guidestones
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• The Creation
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• The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...
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• About George Green
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AlterNet - DrugReporter

• Feds Raid Oaksterdam Marijuana University, The ...
  The country's first "cannabis college" is raided and taped off by federal marshalls; the DEA and IRS continue their "ongoing investigation" as marijuana supporters mobilize.
• The Drug That Saves Addicts: FDA Will Discuss ...
  Naloxone is a cheap, safe drug that could save countless people from overdosing on heroin and other opiates. So why isn't it in every first-aid kit?
• The Drug That Saves Addicts - FDA Will Discuss ...
  Naloxone is a cheap, safe lifesaving drug that could save countless people from overdosing on heroin and other opiates. So why isn't it in every first aid kit?
• Colombian Congress Debates New Bill That Decri ...
  The United States have spent billions on coca plant busts; if passed, the bill would eliminate the threat of prison for illicit crop production in Colombia.
• Health and Societal Costs of Marijuana vs. Alc ...
  A pragmatic regulatory framework allowing for the limited legal use cannabis would best mitigate the potential health risks and societal costs associated with its use.

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

• Ultra Futuristic Pedestrian Bridge in Spain Po ...
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• Stacked Shipping Container Sugoroku Office Pop ...
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• PHOTOS: Fisker Atlantic Extended-Range EV Offi ...
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• Nissan NV200 Taxi of Tomorrow Unveiled Today i ...
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• IKEA’s Beautiful New SOLKULLEN LED Lamp Floats ...
  IKEA just unveiled its latest collection of designs, and one of the brightest is Ehlen Johansson‘s gorgeous SOLKULLEN LED pendant lamp, which makes efficient use of materials and energy. Glowing like a jellyfish, the energy-efficient lamp casts a shadow of waves on the walls around it. The ...

Pogue's Posts

• S.L.R. Video Cameras for the Pros
  The world of professional TV and film changed suddenly when digital S.L.R.'s - still cameras - were designed to capture video. And I mean, incredible video, with all the flexibility of interchangeable lenses and amazing low-light capability.
• A Reader's Companion to Ultrabooks
  More on the Great Ultrabook Roundup, from USB compatibility to storage considerations.
• The Disruptive Power of iMessage
  Apple has changed the way we buy music, use our phones, operate our computers and so on. Let's not overlook one of Apple's greatest ideas yet: messages.
• A Few Questions (and Answers) About the New iPad
  David Pogue answer's readers' questions about the new iPad.
• The New iPad: It's in the Apps
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WIRED Magazine | Science

• Video: Fly Through the World’s Most Powerful X ...
  A few millionths of a second is all it takes for electrons to traverse the world's most powerful X-ray laser, but a new time-lapse video makes the half-mile trip in 37 seconds.
• Live Webcam: Watch a Great Blue Heron Lay an E ...
  Watch a Great Blue Heron lay an egg on a livestreaming webcam today between 2 and 4 p.m. PDT.
• How Facebook ‘Contagion’ Spreads
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• Audio Gallery: What Other Planets Might Sound Like
  Travelers to other bodies in our solar system will get to explore amazing sights and sounds. While the sights have been well documented using robotic probes, we are still quite ignorant of what the sounds of other planets will be.
• We Can Survive Killer Asteroids — But It Won’t ...
  Killer asteroids are a somewhat remote danger, but they are possible and can deal Earth what amounts to an extinction-level event. The dinosaurs didn't escape that fate, and it would be shame (to say the least) if we humans, with our larger brains and space programs, didn't fare better. But avoi ...

PakAlert

• Did Barack Obama Campaign Threaten Life of Che ...
  Most people in the US, especially Democrats, believe that the Obama Birther Movement was started by Republicans and or the Tea Party. They believe it is a smear campaign aimed to tarnish the image of their hero of change. But they may be shocked to learn that the Birther Movement was actually st ...
• Obama prepares to sue Sheriff Joe
  On the heels of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s challenge of Barack Obama’s constitutional eligibility for the presidency, the Obama administration announced today is preparing to sue the Arizona elected official for alleged civil rights violations against Latinos in a crackdown on illegal immigrants. ...
• Radiation Levels in California Rain Recorded a ...
  A radiation test carried out after a storm swept through Southern California has recorded radiation at 506% above normal background levels. The EnviroReporter, through their Inspector Alert nuclear radiation monitor, has conducted over 1,500 radiation tests with the most recent one being by f ...
• Even worse than SOPA: New CISPA cybersecurity ...
  An onrush of condemnation and criticism kept the SOPA and PIPA acts from passing earlier this year, but US lawmakers have already authored another authoritarian bill that could give them free reign to creep the Web in the name of cybersecurity. As congressmen in Washington consider how to han ...
• United States of Mass Murder: Only Mao Killed More
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Andy Worthington

• For the Last Two Kuwaiti Prisoners in Guantána ...
  171 men are still held in the “war on terror” prison at Guantánamo Bay, even though an interagency task force established by President Obama concluded over two years ago that 89 of them should be released. However, it is now 15 months since the last prisoner left Guantánamo alive, an ...
• Close Guantánamo: Abdul Ghani, An Insignifican ...
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• Ten Years of Torture: On Anniversary of Abu Zu ...
  Ten years ago, on the evening of March 28, 2002, the Bush administration officially embarked on its “high-value detainee” program in the “war on terror” that had been declared in the wake of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, when Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn ...
• Rallies Worldwide to Mark the 9th Anniversary ...
  On Saturday, outside the US Embassy in Grosvenor Square, London, I will be speaking at an event marking the ninth anniversary of the disappearance in Pakistan of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, who vanished for five years and five months, and then mysteriously reappeared in Afghanistan in August 2008, where ...
• Omar Khadr to Return to Canada from Guantánamo ...
  Finally, five months after the Canadian citizen and former child prisoner Omar Khadr was supposed to leave Guantánamo, to be returned to Canada as a result of a plea deal agreed in October 2010, it appears that he may be back in the country of his birth by the end of May. The delay has [...]

Environment _ National Geographic

• "Lost" Long-Fingered Frog Found in Africa
  In a handy stroke of luck, scientists have rediscovered a "lost" African species: the Bururi long-fingered frog.
• While Rare-Earth Trade Dispute Heats Up, Scien ...
  While nations clash with China to ease its monopoly over the rare-earth minerals critical to energy technology, scientists hunt for other options.
• James Cameron on Earth's Deepest Spot: Desolat ...
  James Cameron describes Challenger Deep as a desolate, "lunar" environment, saying the dive felt as if he'd gone to another planet.
• Cameron's Historic Dive Cut Short by Leak; Few ...
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• Don't Turn Your Back on the Bankers for Even a ...
  The ink on the legislation is still drying and, already, the mortgage mill industry is trying to gut the little things that might help to hold them accountable for their bit part in the complete economic collapse of this nation: Dodd-Frank requires that lenders retain five percent of every loan ...
• Sarah Palin: Mayor of New Milford?
  Is this a parody or real life? You decide. Citizens of New Milford: I want you to know that I'm on the job 24/7. Twenty four hours a week, seven months a year. But even with this strict time commitment, I can't be expected to keep up with everything going on in this vast metropolis. That's why ...
• Much like the "conservative" GOP...
  The conservative Blue Dogs acted as Bush's domestic poodles, helping to move a dangerous right wing agenda. They were owned by the right wing and corporations and there is no big surprise why more than half of the Blue Dog caucus (28 of 54 members) were slaughtered in the 2010 elections. So f ...
• Stop Drinking and Start Doing, Dem Dumb Dumbs
  Sober up, Dems. You started sucking suds when you captured the Congress in 2006. Since 2008 you've been binge drinking with Congress and the Prez. You even nibbled on some hot wings and pub nuts. Burp! And now the bartender just cut your drunk, lazy, liberal, progressive, leftie ass off. Y ...
• The People Have Spoken. And Their Message Is ...
  So. What the heck happened last night? The GOP picked up 60 seats in the House, effectively reversing their losses there from 2006 and 2008, and returning control of that body to them. The GOP picked up some 6 seats in the Senate, but the Democratic Party retains control there. The GOP picked u ...

SPL Center

• Anti-Semitic California Prof Now Attacking Bla ...
  In one of the more volatile recent periods of racial unrest in this country, some of the most inflammatory incitement is coming from an odd little corner of academia. An influential, tenured university psychology professor is on the airwaves claiming Trayvon Martin was a “thug,” a “hoodlum” and ...
• Records Suggest Move Against Racist Icon Tom M ...
  Tom Metzger — a wily, iconic racist ideologue who has for years espoused “lone-wolf” terrorism — could soon find himself facing criminal charges filed by the federal government he’s excoriated for decades. Federal investigators, fresh off a related mail-bombing conviction in Arizona, may be pres ...
• Wisconsin Planned Parenthood Clinic Damaged in ...
  A homemade bomb exploded and caused a small fire last night at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Grand Chute, Wis. – the second attack on an abortion clinic in 2012. Authorities say the device, fashioned from a plastic bottle filled with incendiary chemicals, was placed on a windowsill at the clini ...
• Racist Bikers Busted in Undercover Florida Probe
  Six members of a racist motorcycle gang in Florida face drug and bomb-related charges following a three-year undercover investigation, federal and state authorities announced Friday. The suspects are affiliated with the Outlaws motorcycle club and the 1st SS Kavallerie Brigade Motorcycle Divisio ...
• Calling All Black People: NOM Wants to Use You
  Black folks, this is a message for you: The National Organization for Marriage (NOM), the country’s preeminent group fighting against same-sex marriage, really, really likes you. They even want to make some of you famous! Have NOM’s principal leaders, former president Maggie Gallagher and curren ...

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

Common Dreams -News

• Dissenting Memos on Bush Torture Program Released
  Internal State Department memos warning against use of torture that the Bush Adminstration tried to "collect and destroy" were released on Tuesday following a Freedom of Information Act request by the National Security Archive, a nonprofit advocacy group for government transparency.&nb ...
• ICC Refuses to Investigate Israeli War Crimes ...
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• Time Running Out for Sustainable Future: Report
  The planet will not be able to sustain levels of consumption typical of today's 'consumer class' without irreparable consequences to the globe, according to the just released Worldwatch Institute in State of the World 2012: Moving Toward Sustainable Prosperity. They have proposed a r ...
• Mexico's Deepwater Drilling Plans Spell Doom
  Plans to begin deep-water drilling in the Gulf of Mexico by Mexico's state owned oil company have environmental fears flying. The plans of the company, Pemex, involve drilling wells into more than 9000 feet of water -- depths at which the company has no experience drilling. In contrast, the ...
• Same-Sex Couples Challenge Defense of Marriage ...
  The Defense of Marriage Act, a 1996 law which defines marriage as between a man and a woman, is being challenged in a lawsuit by five same-sex couples. The couples, working with Immigration Equality, a gay rights group that focuses on immigration, brought the case before US District Court yester ...

Lifehacker

• Unload a 12 Pack of Soda Into Your Fridge in 1 ...
  If you buy a lot of soda, you know how annoying and time consuming it can be to unload cans one by one into your fridge. Here's a trick that'll let you fill the fridge in seconds. More »
• Make a Remote Control for Your Home Devices Th ...
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• Juice Isn't Always a Sugar Bomb: Pick the Righ ...
  Juice sometimes gets a bad rap for being loaded with sugar and masquerading as a healthy choice when it's secretly bad for you. While sugar isn't exactly ever great for you, ABC News points out that the right kind of juice can still be a heal ...
• Do Mid-Afternoon Power Naps Actually Work? [Ti ...
  Last week I learned that a 15-20 minute nap between the hours of 1:00 and 3:00 PM could cure your afternoon slowness. Still skeptical, I thought I'd put it to the test and see if it really made a difference. Here's what I discovered. Mor ...
• Store Dairy on The Top Shelf of The Fridge (an ...
  Where you place foods in your refrigerator and how you package them can save you from having to throw them out before their time. Dairy, such as yogurt and obviously milk, for example, keeps best on the upper shelves where the temperature is m ...

Water Privatization

• Stop being a hypocrite and blaming everyone bu ...
  Selangor Senior State Executive Councillor for Investment, Industry & Trade, Teresa Kok advised MCA state chairman Donald Lim Siang Chai not to stop attempting to redirect the blame in the mismanagement of water in Selangor and the issue of Kampung Sungai Terentang Rawang’s high voltage cables.
• Bennington College Center The Water Dialogues
  Thursday March 29, 2012 The Bennington College Center for the Advancement of Public Action (CAPA) presents a weeklong program of lectures, panel discussions, and workshops dedicated to the complex issues surrounding our most fundamental natural resource. Participants in these dialogues include s ...
• Privatization stays an issue for Detroit
  The debate over privatization, a hot-button issue since the 1980s, has been one of the biggest issues in Detroit for the past few weeks. It’s been used in the past to decrease costs, improve quality of services and build innovation.
• Water Authority of Western Nassau County Trans ...
  SAN DIEGO, CA--(Marketwire - Apr 2, 2012) - In a report in Business Review USA, the WAWNC's unique transformation from a private to public entity leads to great success in water utility management.
• Daniel Moss: The Right Water Debates in the Wr ...
  The water commons is rising -- alongside a view of water as a green commodity to be bundled like mortgages and traded on financial markets. The much desired win-win is hard to find between these divergent views.

Guardian

• Eurozone crisis live: Spain faces bond auction ...
  • Service sector data shows eurozone in recession... • ...but UK powers ahead • Fed minutes send shares falling • Today's agenda9.49am: Breaking – Spain's bond auction has gone badly.The Spanish government was forced to pay higher interest rates to sell the bonds on offer, and also sold much les ...
• Sri Lanka v England – live! | Rob Smyth and Si ...
  • Hit F5 for the latest or use our auto-refresh button below • And press F5 if full descriptions of wickets don't appear • Our Sachin Tendulkar ebook is available to buy now • Read the latest edition of the Spin, from Andy Bull • And email your thoughts to rob.smyth@guardian.co.uk30th over: Engl ...
• Syria crisis - UN peacekeeping team heading fo ...
  • New security council draft on Kofi Annan's peace plan • Syrian official claims troop withdrawal has begun • New clashes between rival militia in western Libya9.41am: Bahrain: The authorities have been harassing the family of citizen journalist Ahmed Ismael Hassan who died on Saturday after bei ...
• Woman arrested over death of war veteran
  William Davis, 92, died as a result of severe head injuries at his home in the West Midlands, police sayA 35-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a decorated war veteran who was found dead in his home.William Davis, 92, was found collapsed at his Hobley Street residence in ...
• Burma sanctions must be lifted, south-east Asi ...
  Ten leaders urge western nations to lift the embargo after Aung San Suu Kyi's landslide election victorySouth-east Asian leaders have called on western countries, including the European Union, to lift punitive sanctions imposed on Burma.The leaders of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian ...

McClatchey

• Alaska's Supreme Court reviews federal gun-sho ...
  WASHINGTON ? A Bush-era federal law that protects gun dealers from being liable for murders committed with guns from their shops is under fire in an Alaska court case that's…Click to Continue »
• Soldiers at Afghanistan post befriend combat t ...
  Walking in the dark toward the scene of an Apache helicopter attack against a team of insurgents, Sgt. Dison Ittu looked down and saw something that might help the days…Click to Continue »
• Answers to questions about possible changes to ...
  Congress is unlikely to consider legislation that would fundamentally restructure Medicare until a new Congress ? and possibly a new president - are seated next year. But politicians have sought…Click to Continue »
• U.S. announces $10 million reward for Pakistan ...
  Pakistan was stung Tuesday by the U.S. State Department's announcement of a $10 million reward for the capture or conviction of the founder of a Pakistani militant group that allegedly…Click to Continue »
• Only one shooter likely in Kandahar killings, ...
  The chief Afghan investigator in last month's slayings of 17 civilians says there's strong evidence that only one killer was involved, a view that puts him at odds with Afghanistan's…Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

• Plight of Afghan women drug addicts
  Afghanistan's government estimates the nation has about a million opium and heroin users. In Kabul, a drug clinic is lifting the veil on the plight of Afghanistan's female drug ...
• Suicide bomber kills 10 in north Afghanistan
  An Afghan street vendor passes a building, damaged during the 1990s civil war, as he carries a sack containing used clothes to sell in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, April 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Musadeq ...
• 12 dead after suicide blast in Afghanistan
  12 people have died in northern Afghanistan after a suicide bomber attacked foreign military forces, officials said, as NATO's fatalities for the year passed the 100 ...
• US-Afghan deal give Kabul more authority over ...
  The United States and Afghanistan are close to clinching an agreement that will give Kabul more authority over night-time raids. The deal on night raids could be announced as soon as this week, ...
• Bomber blows self up in Afghan
  Lal Mohammad Ahmad Zai, a police spokesman for northern Afghanistan, said the bomber blew himself up on Wednesday in Maimanah, the capital of Faryab. It's not clear what the target ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

• This Week on Honesty Without Fear
  Tune in today at 1:00pm EDT to Honesty Without Fear on Progressive Radio Network. In the first half hour, Jane Turner interviews Rosemary Dew, a 13-year veteran FBI agent and author of "No Backup: My Life as a Female FBI Special Agent." Ms. Dew worked undercover against criminals, spi ...
• Occupy EPA Rallies for Whistleblowers
  Today's Occupy EPA and NOW DC rally went off with a bang! An eclectic crowd of whistleblower supporters, environmental protectors, and Occupy supporters marched today starting from Franklin Square Park and ending at the EPA offices. Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, a member of the National Whistlebl ...
• Supreme Court Guts Privacy Act
  Whistleblowers beware: this week the Supreme Court dealt a death blow to the Privacy Act. David Colapinto, NWC General Counsel and Privacy Act expert, appeared on NPR to talk about the ruling and it's devastating effects for whistleblowers. Full story here Congress originally passed the histo ...
• Connecticut jury awards over $1 million in fir ...
  In the first Federal Rail Safety Act (FRSA) case to go to a jury trial, the jury awarded $50,000 in compensatory damages, and one million dollars in punitive damages. Andy Barati was working for the Metro North commuter rail on Grand Central Terminal, New York City, in 2008 when a jack failed an ...
• The Sky Has Not Yet Fallen
  (The First Seven Months of the SEC Dodd Frank Whistleblower Program) By Guest Columnist: Donna Boehme Principal at Compliance Strategists LLC and editor of the weekly CS Newsflash So far, the sky has not fallen. That’s not to say there isn’t some curious weather activ ...

Science Express

• Fermi maps an active galaxy's 'smokestack plumes'
  If our eyes could see radio waves, the nearby galaxy Centaurus A (Cen A) would be one of the biggest and brightest objects in the sky, nearly 20 times the apparent size of a full moon. What we can't see when looking at the galaxy in visible light is that it lies nestled between a pair of giant r ...
• Pollution from Asia circles globe at stratosph ...
  The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additional evidence of the ...
• After growth spurt, supermassive black holes s ...
  Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
• Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virus
  A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20 ...
• New approach precisely tracks evolution's foot ...
  (PhysOrg.com) -- Fossils may provide tantalizing clues to human history but they also lack some vital information, such as revealing which pieces of human DNA have been favored by evolution because they confer beneficial traits - resistance to infection or the ability to digest milk, for exampl ...

TechDirt

• EU Cybercrime Bill Targets Anonymous: Makes It ...
  While we're still sorting through the crazy cybersecurity bill proposals in the US, it appears that some in the EU are going through a similar process. The EU Parliament's "Civil Liberties Committee" has approved a legislative proposal concerning "cyber attacks," which appears to ramp up crimin ...
• What Quilting's Legal Battles Can Teach Us Abo ...
  Last year Techdirt wrote about Leah Day, who was trying to introduce a free model to quilting -- apparently a bold thing to do. Sadly, it seems that the ownership mentality is nonetheless spreading in her field, as she reports in this really excellent new blog post entitled "Copyright Terrorism ...
• Video Showcases The Many Perfectly Legitimate ...
  Anti-circumvention laws, which ban the tools used to do things like copy DVDs and jailbreak devices, make no sense. There are plenty of legitimate uses for these tools, so regulating them inevitably squashes legal activity alongside the infringing activity such regulation is supposed to target. ...
• DailyDirt: Cool New Planes
  Futuristic-looking jet planes used to inspire all kinds of technology geeks, back when commercial flying was a relatively new venture. Over the years, though, the airline industry has matured quite a bit, and commercial plane designs don't really look that unique anymore. But that doesn't mean e ...
• MPAA Says Letting Anyone Access Data On Megaup ...
  As you may recall, the MPAA is among those who have said that Carpathia, the hosting company Megaupload used, must retain the data on its servers -- even though the Justice Department has said it's done with it and Carpathia was free to delete the evidence. Others, of course have also asked for ...

VacTruth

• 1 in 88: What’s Causing the Increase in Autism ...
  Last week the CDC released the new autism statistics - 1 in 88. What’s behind the explosion of autism in our children?
• Babies Sleep Better If They Are Drugged And Va ...
  Babies are drugged with this medication for pain before being vaccinated with multiple vaccinations. This is said to aid sleep which, according to experts, maximizes the vaccines response.
• Vaccine Safety—Some Great Ideas!
  These medical professionals are concerned about the safety of vaccines. They say they have seen adverse reactions and admit that vaccines aren’t always effective.
• Warning! Are Vaccine-Resistant Pathogens Putti ...
  As a parent, you are told if your children are vaccinated they are ‘protected’; yet many of the outbreaks have occurred in fully immunized populations. So what’s going on?
• Antibiotics Declared a Disaster; Should Vaccin ...
  “We are losing our first-line antimicrobials. Replacement treatments are more costly, more toxic, need much longer durations of treatment, and may require treatment in intensive care unit.”

BroadSnark

• Is Stand Your Ground a Distraction?
  A lot of people, especially in mainstream media, have been talking about the “stand your ground” law. Darren Hutchinson wrote an excellent post about how “stand your ground” has nothing to do with the Trayvon Martin case. Definitely read the whole thing, but the short of ...
• What’s Different with Trayvon?
  Last week I wrote about how I think that the Rush Limbaugh shit storm was in large part because of who the target was, how people perceived her, and what they thought their role towards her should be.  Now I’m thinking about how much attention the Trayvon Martin murder has gotten and why. ...
• Things You Might Have Missed
  There are two Positive Force shows coming up. One is a benefit for Jobs With Justice on April 14th. The other is for the DC Trans Coalition on April 27th. Come out if you are in town. On April 24th we will be occupying the justice department. Here is why. The Cooperative Development Institute is ...
• Using Prejudice
  I’ve been watching the fall of Rush Limbaugh with a certain amount of glee, but also with some ambivalence. I’m perfectly happy for him to get shit for calling Sandra Fluke a slut after testifying about contraceptives. But I am wondering why all his other equally offensive comments d ...
• Things You Might Have Missed
  A wee bit late with this post as I was at the march last night. I have comments, but I think I am going to ruminate on them a bit more. You should check out CD’s latest, Foreclosing on the Commons. And what amazing photography. Would liberals who like to quote Warren Buffett talking about ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• Russia Announces Measures To Address War Threat
  EIR News Service press release.
• Queen’s Bank Sanctioned for Money Laundering
  EIR News Service press release.
• Obama’s Behavior Shows British War Game Is On
  EIR News Service press release.
• Israeli Columnist Pushes Israel’s Nuclear Opti ...
  EIR News Service press release.
• President Put on Notice: Nationwide Campaign T ...
  Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, March 23, 2012, Vol. 39, No. 12

War in Context

• Afghanistan falls apart
  Karen Leigh writes: Near a busy intersection where burqa-clad women beg for spare change at car windows, Mahmoud Saikal, Afghanistan’s former deputy foreign minister, sat under a photo of this capital city’s crowded hillside neighborhoods in the stately living room of his compound. & ...
• Pakistani scoffs at new U.S. bounty on him
  Robet Mackey reports: As my colleague Declan Walsh reports, the United States announced on Monday that it is offering a reward of up to $10 million for “information leading to the arrest and conviction of” Hafiz Saeed, a Pakistani militant leader accused of orchestrating the 2008 Mumbai attacks. ...
• Syria: As his adversaries scramble for a strat ...
  Tony Karon writes: That which has not been achieved on the battlefield can rarely be achieved at the negotiation table, and the harsh reality facing Syria’s opposition is that the regime of President Bashar al-Assad has not been defeated, nor is it in danger of imminent collapse. Assad has promi ...
• Federalism is unlikely in Libya, however, dece ...
  Wolfram Lacher writes: “Eastern Libya declares autonomy.” In spite of international headlines such as this one, talk of the country’s impending disintegration is misleading. Although the participants at the March 6 Barqa Conference (Barqa is the Arabic name for Cyrenaica, or the region of northe ...
• How the Saudis are squandering their most prec ...
  NASA reports: Saudi Arabia is drilling for a resource possibly more precious than oil. Over the last 24 years, it has tapped hidden reserves of water to grow wheat and other crops in the Syrian Desert. This time series of data shows images acquired by three different Landsat satellites operated ...

Watts Up With That?

• Roy Spencer’s UAH report for March
  See also Dr. Christy’s report from yesterday here UAH Global Temperature Update for March 2012: +0.11 deg. C By Dr. Roy Spencer The global average lower tropospheric temperature anomaly jumped up in March, 2012, to +0.11 deg. C. as La … Continue reading →
• UC Berkeley study: switch to nuclear from coal ...
  From the University of California – Berkeley while China (and Slovenia if Jim Hansen will shut up) surges ahead with coal power generation, some scholars are fretting over meeting carbon emissions targets. On the plus side, they advocate for nuclear … Continue reading →
• The National Wildlife Federation Jumps The Shark
  Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach SOURCE It doesn’t happen often … some would say not often enough … but I’m speechless. Truly, I don’t know what to say about this. I can only shake my head and point and laugh. … Continue reading →
• UAH Global Temperature anomaly up in March at ...
  Global Temperature Report: March 2012 U.S. hits record highs in March, Iowa is ‘warmest’ place on Earth Global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.13 C per decade March temperatures (preliminary) Global composite temp.: +0.11 C (about 0.20 degrees Fahrenheit) … Continue reading →
• NASA’s Hansen tries to tell Slovenia not ...
  This really is abuse of Hansen’s position at NASA, what next? Meanwhile China keeps building coal plants, where’s your letter to them Jim? Of course  China would tell Hansen to go suck rocks, and Hansen knows it, so he doesn’t … Continue reading →

treehugger

• Sun, Sea, Sand, And... Small Appliances? New M ...
  Nearly 1 million pieces of food packaging, more than 250,000 items of clothing, and enough light bulbs to replace every light on the Eiffel Tower -- that's just some of the 9 million pounds of trash volunteers collected recently from coastlines.
• The Future of Wind Power: 9 Cool Innovations
  Innovations in wind technology keep bringing us more efficient ways to harvest clean renewable energy from the air above us. Here's a collection of the new and exciting in the wind power revolution.
• Adorable Albino Albatross Chicks Born On Midwa ...
  This year, Midway Atoll saw three albino chicks hatched, and two are in nests less than ten feet from each other!
• The Kitchen Of the Future Today: 11 Small Kitc ...
  Kitchens don't have to be huge to do what you need. They don't have to be static, either.
• Suzy Amis Cameron's Hemp Silk Green Gown is Re ...
  James Cameron's wife wore a sustainable gown at the "Titanic 3D" premiere in support of her Red Carpet Green Dress fashion.

Biosingularity

• Stand up: Your life could depend on it
  Standing up more often may reduce your chances of dying within three years, even if you are already physically active, a study of more than 200,000 people published in Archives of Internal Medicine today shows. The study found that adults who sat 11 or more hours per day had a 40% increased risk ...
• Fatty Diet Leads To Fat-loving Brain Cells
  Cheeseburgers pack on the pounds, but in mice a high-fat diet also packs on new nerve cells in the brain. More brain cells may seem like a good thing, but these newly sprouted cells appear to trigger weight gain in the animals, a new study finds. The results offer insight into how the brain cont ...
• New Layer of Genetic Information Discovered
  A hidden and never before recognized layer of information in the genetic code has been uncovered by a team of scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) thanks to a technique developed at UCSF called ribosome profiling, which enables the measurement of gene activity inside ...
• US face transplant gives man new jaw, teeth an ...
  US doctors have carried out what they say is the most extensive face transplant ever performed. The operation at the University of Maryland gave Richard Norris a new face, including jaw, teeth and tongue. The 37-year-old has lived as a recluse for 15 years after being severely injured in a gun a ...
• Study explains how rapamycin also causes insul ...
  A Penn- and MIT-led team explained how rapamycin, a drug that extends mouse lifespan, also causes insulin resistance. The researchers showed in an animal model that they could, in principle, separate the effects, which depend on inhibiting two protein complexes, mTORC1 and mTORC2, respectively. ...

CFACT

• Hybrids not just for small cars anymore
• Improving air quality helps Americans breathe easy
  Air quality has improved so much that Clean Air Act actually saved lives over its first 20 years
• The New Detroit Lions?
• Follow me to a bridge by a river...
• Hype over population bomb fizzling out

Ria Novosti Online News

• Hackers Make Public Private Data of Czech Prim ...
  Hackers posted on internet private data of Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas, including numbers of his three mobile telephones, after a series of cyber attacks on governmental websites, Czech media reported on Wednesday.
• Ryabkov: Reaction to N.Korea Rocket Launch Sho ...
  Russia calls on the international society to think over its reaction to a planned rocket launch by North Korea in advance, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Wednesday.
• Mitt Romney Wins Maryland Republican Race
  Mitt Romney won the Maryland Republican party presidential primary on Tuesday, tightening his grip on the nomination.
• Assaulted Latvian Journalist Says Fears for Hi ...
  Latvian journalist Leonids Jakobsons, hospitalized last week after an allegedly targeted assault on him, said he is concerned with the safety of his family, the Delfi web portal said.
• India to Induct Russia’s Nerpa Nuclear Sub on Wed.
  The Indian Navy will officially induct Russia’s K-152 Nerpa nuclear-powered attack submarine during a solemn ceremony on Wednesday, an unnamed source in the Indian Defense Ministry told RIA Novosti.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• Europe’s ATV-3 Space Freighter Adjusts Space S ...
  Europe’s ATV-3 unmanned resupply spacecraft, which docked with the ISS earlier this week, readjusted the space station’s orbit on Sunday
• China Launches Telecom Satellite
  China successfully put a French-made communication satellite, APSTAR-7, into orbit with its Long March-3B carrier rocket on Saturday, Xinhua reported.
• Ashgabat, Beijing in Talks to Launch First Tur ...
  Turkmenistan and China are in talks to build and launch Turkmenistan's first telecoms satellite, Ashgabat mass media reported on Thursday.
• European Unmanned ATV-3 Cargo Carrier Docks wi ...
  ATV-3, Europe's unmanned cargo carrier, has docked with the International Space Station, NASA said on Thursday.
• Russian space programs

Pruning Shears

• How disorganization is damaging Occupy
  This was published with considerable feedback from affinis, Jasper, JuliaWilliams and lambert. My sincere thanks to them for their help.A few weeks ago Occupy Oakland (OO) began to emphasize secrecy (or security culture) over transparency, which resulted in livestreamers being attacked as snitc ...
• Provocateur tactics and the subversion of Occupy
  This was published with considerable feedback from affinis and lambert. My sincere thanks to both of them for their help.The Occupy movement has already had a positive impact in many areas, but potentially the biggest one is rescuing concepts of public rights and the understanding of what is pu ...
• Scaring the pants off Oscar Mayer
  Last month, Occupy Portland put out a national call to action on February 29 to other Occupies around the country.  Dubbed “Shut Down the Corporations”, the idea was to target corporations that are members of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) with creative, n ...
• Opacity and creeping exclusion at Occupy
  This was published with considerable feedback from several bloggers at Corrente: DCblogger, affinis, lambert and okanogen. My sincere thanks to all of them for their help.Occupy has seemed to be in a bit of a winter hibernation. There are still encampments, meetings, decisions, protests, and s ...
• Francis - This Must Be Blood EP
  Petter from Francis let me know that their new EP This Must Be Blood is out.Have a listen to the single “Traktor:”

Organic Consumers.org

• Control the Coporation Conference - Alexis Bad ...
  Click here to read this article
• Occupy EPA Videos - Helen Caldicott, Alexis Ba ...
  Under the Occupy 2012 banner of the “American Spring,” the movement spearheaded the largest protest ever against the Environmental Protection Agency/EPA last Friday in Washington D.C. The Organic Consumers Association's political director Alexis Baden-Mayer spoke at the rally. Here are two video ...
• The Bicycling Community Is Becoming a Politica ...
  For the past year powerful voices around Washington have singled out programs to improve biking and walking as flagrant examples of wasteful government spending. Click here to read this article
• Why Are People Dying to Bring You Dinner? The ...
  Cesar Chavez, the champion of farmworkers' rights who gets his annual day of state recognition this Saturday, must be rolling in his grave. It's been 37 years since Governor Jerry Brown, in an earlier life, signed the landmark agricultural labor relations act--and soon California legislators wil ...
• FDA on BPA: We Need More Time to Think
  This week was packed with incriminating evidence linking the endocrine disruptor bisphenol A (BPA) to an array of health risks. As we reported last week, a new study found regular, low-dose exposure to BPA might be far more dangerous than previously believed. Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

• The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ...
  SNAP benefits may be used by some participants to purchase prepared foods - but only at Subway Sandwich shops.
• Move to Strike: Amendment to Arsenic Legislati ...
  As introduced, the legislation would have banned the use of Roxarsone and other arsenic-based drugs regardless of what Pfizer decides to do. As amended, the bill will have no effect whatsoever.
• Next Farm Bill Should Strengthen, Not Threaten ...
  Our future food security requires us to preserve the quantity and quality of a vital natural resource—the topsoil that we need to grow healthy food.
• FDA Enters Withdrawal: Agency Must Pursue Limi ...
  Yesterday, a federal magistrate ordered the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to move ahead with a decades-old effort to withdraw approvals for several uses of antibiotics considered “critically important” to human health by the World Health Organization.  This is a solid win for public health ...
• Congressman Roscoe Bartlett: Peak Oil and the ...
  In a talk at the Bloomberg School last week, Congressman Roscoe Bartlett (R–MD) asked the audience: “I’m not a perfect fit for the Republican mold, am I?” The talk was about peak oil, a concept that he’s been stumping in Congress for over a decade. A modern-day Cassandra, he’s been “on the floor ...

Investigate - Breaking News

• Global governance the final solution to climat ...
  Global governance the final solution to climate change – it’s official. Global governance the final solution to climate change – it’s official
• Media credibility on climate change questioned ...
  Media credibility on climate change questioned as Earth Hour scandal breaks. Media credibility on climate change questioned as Earth Hour scandal breaks
• China trying to politically infiltrate NZ and ...
  China trying to politically infiltrate NZ and Australia – report. China trying to politically infiltrate NZ and Australia – report
• Oral sex could be as cancer-causing as tobacco ...
  Oral sex could be as cancer-causing as tobacco, scientists warn. Oral sex could be as cancer-causing as tobacco, scientists warn
• Climate change may not be to blame for weather ...
  Climate change may not be to blame for weather extremes – new IPCC report. Climate change may not be to blame for weather extremes – new IPCC report

My Care2 Picks

• EcoAlert: Does Cosmic Dust Play a Role in Clim ...
  A new research program will try to see how much space dust enters the Earths atmosphere and its impact on climate change. Estimates of how much dust comes in vary by a factor of a hundred Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• How the Fundamentalist Mind Compels Conservati ...
  Good people are willing to subvert the U.S. Constitution and even violate human decency in their quest for converts. Religions take charge of our moral reasoning and emotions,Religion can alter the way we stack competing values It embeds us in a community Submitted by John Farnham to Society &am ...
• Someone You Love: Coming to a Gulag Near You - ...
  The NDAA puts into the hands of people with no discernible understanding of legitimate dissent the power to use the military to deny due process to all deemed to be terrorists, or terrorist sympathizers, and hold them indefinitely in military detention. Submitted by Judy C. to US Politics & ...
• The FDA, Monsanto, and Soy : the Assault on th ...
  One of america's rising epidemics is obesity.There are several combinationz that contribute to its growth. there's no tellin' what we're actually eatin' because it's camouflaged by the flavor! more Fast Food chainz opening up 2003 movie, 'Super Size Me' Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wel ...
• Eating This Common Food Could Damage Your Kidn ...
  According to a new study, low doses of the Bt biopesticide CryA1b, and the glyphosate-based herbicide Roundup, kill human kidney cells. Glyphosate at 57.2 parts per million -- 200 times below agricultural use killed half the cells. Submitted by Ellyn S. to Health & Wellness  |  &nbsp ...

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

• Farm Wars Safe Seed Pledge
  If you are a seed distributor, grower, or home seed swapper, make sure that your website visitors know that you have absolutely NO ties to biotech interests. Take the Safe Seed Pledge, and consider placing something on your site letting potential customers know that you will not support the like ...
• Nest Wars!
  Farm Wars geese are at it again. This time they've taken over the doghouse!
• The Living Seed Company – Seeds of Freedom
  "The power of people growing food together and saving their own seeds is one of the best ways to achieve both inner harmony and global prosperity." Living Seed Company
• Farm Wars Safe Seed Company List
  The following is a list of seed companies that provide organic and heirloom seed varieties. These companies have no ties to biotech interests, and do not get their seeds from Monsanto.
• The Secret of Oz Full Movie
  The Ponzi Scheme that is our banking system.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

• The stupidity of crowds helps kill a planet - ...
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• Sex, death, and the noble American toad - Scot ...
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• How to save a fishery: owning, renting, and ex ...
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• ‘Gossip Girl’ unethical because of threesome? ...
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Citizens for Legitimate Government

• US draws up plans for nuclear drones
  ShareThisUS draws up plans for nuclear drones --Technology is designed to increase flying time 'from days to months', along with power available for weapons systems 02 Apr 2012 American scientists have drawn up plans for a new generation of nuclear-powered drones capable of flying over remote re ...
• Man arrested for Planned Parenthood bombing
  ShareThisMan arrested for Planned Parenthood bombing 03 Apr 2012 A Wisconsin man faces federal charges after a bombing of a Planned Parenthood clinic in eastern Wisconsin. The FBI says 50-year-old Francis Grady is charged with arson of a building used in interstate commerce and intentionally dam ...
• Zimmerman hires 2nd lawyer
  ShareThisZimmerman hires 2nd lawyer 04 Apr 2012 George Zimmerman has hired a second attorney who will work alongside his first lawyer, Craig Sonner, Local 6 has learned. Defense attorney Hal Uhrig has been practicing for more than 30 years in the Orlando area. He told Local 6 he feels comfortabl ...
• DOJ must explain Obama healthcare remarks
  ShareThisDOJ must explain Obama healthcare remarks 04 Apr 2012 A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Justice Department to write a letter describing the administration's position on the judiciary's power to overturn laws. A judge on the three-judge 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the de ...
• Boston appeals court to hear challenge to fede ...
  ShareThisBoston appeals court to hear challenge to federal Defense of Marriage Act 04 Apr 2012 An appeals court in Boston is set to hear arguments in a legal battle over a law that denies federal benefits to married gay couples. The 1996 federal Defense of Marriage Act defines marriage as a unio ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

• MEDEVACmatters.org
  02 April 2012 The Army continues to insist that certain helicopters in Afghanistan must wear Red Crosses to abide by Geneva Conventions.  This is untrue.  There is no requirement to wear Red Crosses in combat.  At cost of troops’ lives, the Army uses these Red Crosses as a tool i ...
• Camera Auction
  Kopp-Etchells Effect during combat operations with British Forces. (Sangin, Afghanistan, 2009) 01 April 2012 The time has come for expensive upgrades.  Canon has added the Mark III 5d and soon the Dx to the line. I have two Canon 5d Mark II bodies for sale with accessories.  The 5d ...
• Taliban Sends Message about US Prisoner Bowe B ...
  29 March 2012 Several years ago, the Taliban captured a US Soldier named Bowe Bergdahl. Yesterday was Bergdahl’s third birthday in captivity. I’ve asked the Taliban several times to see Bergdahl.  They have declined in the past citing security reasons.  I recently asked the Taliban a ...
• Sergeant Godsmack vs. Nazar
  27 March 2012 PTSD is a serious problem.  Suicides by veterans happen many times per day, every day.  At best, PTSD can degrade the quality of life of veterans and their families.  At worst, unmanaged, the human toll is incalculable. Other problems with “military PTSD:” 1) PTSD ...
• Panjway, Afghanistan: Amphitheater of War
  For a larger view please click on image or one of the links below. 23 March 2012 This panorama was made in the general area where the Panjway 17 massacre unfolded.  The view is over the Arghandab River Valley, a place that Canadian and many US forces know well.  The Arghandab can be ...

The Killing Train

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

treehugger

• Sun, Sea, Sand, And... Small Appliances? New M ...
  Nearly 1 million pieces of food packaging, more than 250,000 items of clothing, and enough light bulbs to replace every light on the Eiffel Tower -- that's just some of the 9 million pounds of trash volunteers collected recently from coastlines.
• The Future of Wind Power: 9 Cool Innovations
  Innovations in wind technology keep bringing us more efficient ways to harvest clean renewable energy from the air above us. Here's a collection of the new and exciting in the wind power revolution.
• Adorable Albino Albatross Chicks Born On Midwa ...
  This year, Midway Atoll saw three albino chicks hatched, and two are in nests less than ten feet from each other!
• The Kitchen Of the Future Today: 11 Small Kitc ...
  Kitchens don't have to be huge to do what you need. They don't have to be static, either.
• Suzy Amis Cameron's Hemp Silk Green Gown is Re ...
  James Cameron's wife wore a sustainable gown at the "Titanic 3D" premiere in support of her Red Carpet Green Dress fashion.

Democratic Voice of Burma

• Military leaders promoted in by-elections&#821 ...
  According to a article in a major state-run newspaper, several military leaders have been promoted following the country's by-elections
• ASEAN wants sanctions dropped; EU mulls decision
  As ASEAN prepares to issue a statement calling for the removal of sanctions against Burma, European leaders mull what should be dropped and when
• Military officers among voters supporting NLD
  Military officers were among the voters who swept the National League for Democracy to a landslide victory in Sunday’s elections
• Burma and North Korea to dominate ASEAN summit
  Burma's reform programme and North Korea's planned rocket launch is set to dominate the ASEAN summit in Phnom Penh this week
• Karen rebels set date for union-level peace talks
  The Karen National Union will hold union-level peace talks with government on Friday to discuss conflict resolution and public security

Telegraph - Climate Change

• World landmarks fade to black for Earth Hour
  Hundreds of famous landmarks around the world from the Eiffel Tower to the Great Wall of China are plunged into darkness to mark the annual Earth Hour.
• Postage and pasties: some more fine messes tha ...
  Why are our politicians so keen to hide the hand that our government in Brussels has had in the latest fiascos? asks Christopher Booker.
• Britain is bedevilled by short-termism
  Telegraph View: For some reason, we seem to have lost the capacity to think strategically.
• Horizon: Global Weirding, BBC Two, review
  Horizon: Global Weirding was a missed opportunity to ask what is causing climate change, says Andrew Marszal
• Climate law survives red tape cull
  Britain's laws on climate change that push up energy bills for millions of households have been spared, despite George Osborne's plea for a reduction in expensive green regulations.

National Geographic | Environment

• "Lost" Long-Fingered Frog Found in Africa
  In a handy stroke of luck, scientists have rediscovered a "lost" African species: the Bururi long-fingered frog.
• While Rare-Earth Trade Dispute Heats Up, Scien ...
  While nations clash with China to ease its monopoly over the rare-earth minerals critical to energy technology, scientists hunt for other options.
• James Cameron on Earth's Deepest Spot: Desolat ...
  James Cameron describes Challenger Deep as a desolate, "lunar" environment, saying the dive felt as if he'd gone to another planet.
• Cameron's Historic Dive Cut Short by Leak; Few ...
  Despite technical challenges, James Cameron made history Monday in the Mariana Trench, which he said "looked like the moon."
• James Cameron Completes Record-Breaking Marian ...
  Filmmaker-explorer James Cameron just became the first human to reach Earth's deepest abyss alone—and the only one to explore it in depth.

Jurist - Legal Research

• ICC lacks jurisdiction to investigate Palestin ...
  [JURIST] The Office of Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) [official websites] said Tuesday that the ICC lacks jurisdiction [text, PDF] to investigate allegations of crimes committed in Palestine during the 2008-2009 Gaza conflict [JURIST news archive]. After considering argumen ...
• Bangladesh war crimes tribunal issues arrest w ...
  [JURIST] The International Crimes Tribunal in Bangladesh (ICTB) [Facebook page] on Tuesday granted prosecutors' warrant petition for the arrest of a former leader of the Islamist group Jamaat e Islami (JI) for crimes committed during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War [GlobalSecurity backgrounde ...
• UN rights expert concerned with ongoing violen ...
  [JURIST] The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) [official website] on Tuesday expressed concern [press release] over political and security instability in Mali, and how ongoing fighting between government forces and Tuareg rebels will affect Malians forced to flee their homes in search of ...
• Bi-national same-sex couples file suit challen ...
  [JURIST] A group of same-sex couples filed a lawsuit [complaint, PDF] on Monday challenging the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) [text; JURIST news archive] on the grounds that the law discriminates against same-sex couples in which one of the partners is a foreign nationa ...
• US regulator sues Canada bank alleging illegal ...
  [JURIST] The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) [official website] on Monday filed charges [complaint, PDF; press release] in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York against the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) [corporate website] alleging that the bank was involved in ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

• Administration Admits That Indefinite Detentio ...
  The Obama administration acknowledged Tuesday that it would be a violation of current law to transfer individuals from Guantanamo Bay in Cuba to its soon-to-be acquired Thomson prison in Illinois unless they are destined for a federal trial or military tribunal. In a conference call with reporte ...
• A Chastened Lieberman Defends Himself
  One person with knowledge of what it's like to work for Sen. Joe Lieberman these days describes a "bunker mentality" in his Senate office. Apparently, Lieberman was not happy that even the legacy media -- the Washington Post, the New York Times -- characterized his Medicare-buy-in position-chang ...
• A Twitter Torrent Against ... Congressional De ...
  Twitter is on fire, and Joe Lieberman merely the kindle. The Netroots left -- a variegated slice of the Democratic base -- is livid about health care reform.  The fire has been slow burning for months, expressing itself in frustration, firstly, with the congressional leadership, and secondl ...
• 2010: Exploring The Frustration Of Seniors
  Resurgent Republic, the GOP strategy/polling consortium, has been finding, in surveys, a trend among folks over 55 that quite concerns Democrats -- because they're seeing the same thing. Since April, older whites have not only been venting their frustration at Congress, they've been increasingly ...
• 2010: The Case Against Self-Funding
  Confirming rumors, California gubernatorial candidate Steve Poizner announced today he's donating $15 million to his own campaign because he wants to "communicate my message of bold 10% tax cuts, a 10% reduction in state spending, creating a $10 billion rainy day fund, and I will cut our welfare ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

• [COAT] WikiLeaks on Canada in Iraq War - coat
• [COAT] CANSEC Arms Bazaar Protest, June 1, Ott ...
• [COAT] Put a SNAG in CANSEC: Spring Nuremberg ...
• [COAT] WikiWeapons Cda Exposes 18,888 Export C ...
• [COAT] Latest on Cda's Arms Exports & CANSEC r ...

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

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• SKorea on alert after ship hit by mysterious b ...
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• Energy Secretary Steven Chu on the nation's en ...

Tikun Olam

• Scoop: Israeli Iran Attack to Coincide With Ne ...
  TweetA senior Likud politician told my confidential Israeli source that Bibi Netanyahu has decided to delay an Israeli attack on Iran until some weeks or possibly months before the next scheduled Israeli election.  That will happen by October 2013 unless Bibi determines he wants to go to the nat ...
• Only 20% of American Jews Believe Israel is Im ...
  TweetThe news from the American Jewish community isn’t good as far as Israel is concerned (that is, if Israel even cares).  The Public Religion Research Institute, whose board chair is Rabbi David Saperstein, has conducted a wide-ranging survey (full report) of attitudes toward Jewish iden ...
• IDF Creates New Artillery Unit to Shell Civili ...
  TweetThe title of this post is not exactly the title of the IDF press release that would’ve distributed to mark the launch of this new military unit.  But the upshot of the new unit and weapons it will use is correctly described in the title.  Here’s how Haaretz described it: The Isr ...
• Links for 2012-04-01 [Digg]
  Israel's Assassination of Gazan Leader Lays Groundwork for Iran Attack Bibi Netanyahu cynically used Gaza as a weapons lab to test politicies & munitions he'd use in an attack on Iran.
• Land Day Picture Worth a Thousand Words
  TweetSometimes pictures are worth a thousand words, at least.  In the case of this image by Reuters’ Ammar Awad, this one may be worth 10,000 or more.  It’s also instructive that the NY Times headline for the slideshow presentation of Land Day images that includes this one was: Prote ...

If Americans Knew

• Documentary Video: Shooting the Messenger
  This documentary on the deliberate killing and intimidation of journalists in conflict zones, examines how international reporters became targets.
• Impressions of Israeli Executions in the West Bank
  Much planning had gone into our family vacation in Israel-Palestine. We could spare only the last two weeks of 2009, and so had developed an uncompromising itinerary for each day, allowing a mere half-day to recover from jet lag from our trip from California. After devoting most of the first wee ...
• Calling Bono: Your Palestinian Gandhis Exist . ...
  In your recent column in the New York Times, "Ten for the Next Ten," you wrote: "I'll place my hopes on the possibility -- however remote at the moment -- that...people in places filled with rage and despair, places like the Palestinian territories, will in the days ahead find among them their G ...
• International law is clear: Israeli settlement ...
  Eric Rozenman's Dec. 11 Op-Ed article, "Israeli settlements are more than legitimate," is legal nonsense that disregards history. He is correct in his observation that Article 6 of the Mandate for Palestine permitted "close settlement by Jews on the land, including state lands and waste lands no ...
• Noam Chomsky and the pro-Israel lobby: Fourtee ...
  Noam Chomsky has been called the US leading intellectual by pundits and even some sectors of the mass media. He has a large audience throughout the world especially in academic circles, in large part because of his vocal criticism of US foreign policy and many of the injustices resulting from t ...

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

• Spending Stories to Dive Into Data at the Inte ...
  The Spending Stories team's experience in leading data journalism workshops, such as the one last year on EU spending in Utrecht and EuroHack in Warsaw, has shown that there are still a lot of barriers hindering data journalists from reporting on spending. This month, April 25-29, at the Interna ...
• Reporters Observe PANDA in Its Natural Habitat
  First and foremost: Thanks to our early users for helping us make PANDA better! At the NICAR conference in St. Louis, we helped almost two dozen PANDA servers enter the world in less than an hour. We're hoping this is a sign that we've made PANDA easy enough for many newsrooms to install. Plu ...
• Colorful City Tracking Maps Launch Under Creat ...
  Maps.stamen.com, the second installment of the City Tracking project funded by the Knight News Challenge, is live. These unique cartographic styles and tiles, based on data from Open Street Map, are available for the entire world, downloadable for use under a under a Creative Commons Attribu ...
• A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Developing iWitness
  iWitness, our project to create a tool to aggregate social media by time and place, is now well underway, and we're looking forward to sharing some of our thinking about the design of the tool with you in the coming weeks. In the meantime, we've asked our development partners at EdgeCase to ...
• New Knight Lab Tool Makes Great-Looking Timeli ...
  A timeline is one of the most useful and versatile storytelling forms, suitable for everything from "tick tock" accounts that unfold over a short period of time to events that unfold over decades, centuries or millennia. But the tools available to journalists to create online, interactive timeli ...

Cutting Edge News

• Egypt on Edge - Muslim Brotherhood Changes Tac ...
  The decision by Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood to field Khairat el-Shater as its presidential candidate marks the latest reversal in the group’s tactics during the nation’s political transition. Brotherhood politicians already dominate both houses of parliament, after initially pledging to con ...
• The Edge of Space - Cruising in Space at 40,00 ...
  he first prototype of a new, ultra-compact motor that will allow small satellites to journey beyond Earth's orbit is just making its way out of the EPFL laboratories where it was built. The goal of the micro motor: to drastically reduce the cost of space exploration.Imagine reaching the Moon usi ...
• The Drug Wars - U.S. Facing Bold New Calls for ...
  At a poorly attended summit of Central American leaders, the host President Otto Perez Molina of Guatemala reiterated calls for the decriminalization of recreational drug use. Although some regional former heads of state have called for such a solution, President Molina became the first sitting ...
• Broken Banking - Tribal Payday Lender Sued by ...
  The Federal Trade Commission today took up a case that had thwarted state authorities for years, accusing an Internet payday lender with ties to Indian tribes of illegally deceiving borrowers.The agency is asking a federal judge in Nevada to order AMG Services of Overland Park., Kan., to stop th ...
• Cultural Jihad - Shakespeare Dragged into Isra ...
  Emma Thompson is one of three dozen English actors, directors, and writers who are urging a ban of Israel's national theater company in an upcoming Shakespeare festival. High drama, indeed. Thompson and her cohorts say Israel's Habima theater company hasn't done enough to distance itself from Is ...

High Country News

• Margaret Hiza Redsteer uses Navajo memories to ...
  A scientists taps the recollections of tribal elders as part of her work to piece together the story of landscape change on the Navajo Nation.
• How to heat-proof your garden
  In a spring so hot and dry that it’s breaking records, backyard gardeners might considering using edible living mulch to protect the soil.
• Fracking is the big new gun
  Hydraulic fracturing is changing the energy industry -- and the entire nation -- in ways we’re only beginning to understand.
• The Gettysburg of the West?
  Some historians argue that the Civil War battle at Glorieta Pass, N.M. was the West's version of Gettysburg.
• Deadly handouts, dependent deer
  A neighbor's outdoor feeding efforts endanger local deer, who might be spreading chronic wasting disease.

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

• Why Do Progressive Leaders Support the Antisem ...
  Earlier this week I wrote a post about the blood-libel accusations made against Jewish people since...well all the way back to the right after Moses led us out of Egypt.  I was asked to rewrite my post as my weekly column for the Jewish Star.  As I reread the post it became apparent th ...
• Newsbusted: Is Justice Sotomayor a White Hispanic?
  One of the many controversies coming out of the horrible mainstream media coverage of the Trayvon Martin tragedy is the invention of a new term, The White Hispanic to describe the shooter, George Zimmerman. The media invented the term as a way to point out...well I don't really know what ...
• Syrian Despot is Taking Advantage of Obama's W ...
  By Barry Rubin They’ve been saying it in Arabic, in public, for most of President Barack Obama’s term in office. The leader of the Muslim Brotherhood said it in August 2010: he pointed to Obama’s weakness as a reason for launching a revolution. But the American mass media has ignored it ...
• Obama Attempts to Intimidate the Supreme Court ...
  Today the President tried to bully the Supreme Court into ruling his way on the Obamacare individual mandate. "Ultimately, I'm confident the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step in overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a ...
• The Anti-Semitic Blood Libel Still Exists, Eve ...
  It started 3,500 years ago in the land of Egypt: " we were slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt," the story of Exodus says. The 10th and final plague hit the firstborn sons of every Egyptian. To avoid the plague Jews smeared the blood of a slaughtered lamb on the doorposts of the Jewish homes, the dea ...

The Real Agenda

• Did Obama just threaten to overturn a Supreme ...
  By LUIS R. MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | APRIL 3, 2012 U.S. President Barack Obama publicly challenged the Supreme Court Justices on Monday, reminding them that they are not elected officials. This action comes in light of what could be a declaration by the Supreme Court of the United St ...
• Pentagon to Lobotomize People with Virus in Va ...
  Leaked April 13, 2005 video shows how the Pentagon intends to destroy people’s brains by putting a virus in vaccines used by most of the population. By LUIS R. MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | APRIL 3, 2012 As if disease alone wasn’t a problem, there are powerful people searchin ...
• 17 Million Unemployed in Euro zone
  By ROBIN EMMOTT | REUTERS | APRIL 2, 2012 Unemployment in the euro zone reached its highest level in almost 15 years in February, with more than 17 million people out of work, and economists said they expected job office queues to grow even longer later this year. Joblessness in the 17 ...
• Pseudoscience: Babies drugged in the Womb for ...
  By JULIE -ANNE BARNES | MAIL ONLINE | APRIL 1, 2012 Babies are being medicated in the womb in an attempt to prevent them from being  born obese. In a world first, dangerously overweight mothers-to-be in four British cities have started taking a diabetes drug during their pregnancy. The ...
• Occupying the White House: Who is the U.S. Pre ...
  By LUIS R. MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | APRIL 2, 2012 A straight answer to this questions is no one but Barack Obama himself knows who he is. His Certificate of Life Birth is fake and so is his Selective Service registration card. The White House invested over $1.7 million to deny inves ...

Wind Watch

• Probe of wind farm noise complaint recommended
  CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The state Public Service Commission staff has recommended rejecting a request by the operators of a Mineral County wind farm to dismiss a homeowner’s complaint about excessive wind turbine noise. Instead, the PSC should continue looking into noise and other issues ...
• Enxco drops Boone County wind farm plans
  French-owned energy company enXco has dropped plans to build a wind farm in western Boone County. “Regulatory uncertainty” over the fate of the federal renewable energy tax credit, which subsidizes wind farm development, played a part in enXco’s decision to drop the project, a company spokeswoma ...
• Nantucket votes down Madaket wind project
  The Madaket wind turbine project was the talk of Nantucket for months, but the proposal was overwhelmingly rejected by voters Saturday at the 2012 Annual Town Meeting. The controversial effort to build a 325-foot wind turbine at the Madaket landfill had seemed to divide the island, with governme ...
• Federal government to issue “take” ...
  Concerns are growing across the nation over the number of birds, particularly eagles, that are losing their lives. Now, as the number of wind energy projects grows, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service is preparing to issue “take” permits that will make it legal for wind energy companies ...
• Blowing in the wind: Maine’s energy past and f ...
  The nearly 400-foot-tall turbines atop Mars Hill Mountain had been spinning for several months when, on March 27, 2007, the facility quietly marked a historic moment in Maine’s energy history by selling electricity into the power grid. The Mars Hill project formally opened the door in Maine to a ...

Tippers News

• Three men helped starve kids, court tol
  Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
  DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• About Us,,,You may want to lisent...interesting!
  Interesting Information that you may find interesting With Love... Evelyn (: Submitted by Evelyn J. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Tiger killing 'a crime against nature'
  Three people have been sentenced to a total of eight and a half years in prison for trying to smuggle tiger skins and bones across the Russian border. And for the first time in this kind of case, a charge of 'ecological damage' might be brought for the Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals &nbsp ...
• Confused cat found wandering streets of of Lin ...
  This hungry kitty thought she was the cat that had got the cream when she found a half-full tin of pet food as she prowled for snacks in bins behind a supermarket. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

The Freeman

• White House and F.D.A. Often at Odds
  “Congress gave the power to regulate food, drugs and other health products to the nation’s health secretary, but that authority was for decades delegated almost wholly to the F.D.A., which jealously guarded its independence.” (New York Times)   They keep squabbling, the individual keeps losing. ...
• Gsa Chief Resigns Amid Reports Of Excessive Sp ...
  “The GSA also failed to follow regulations on the use of contractors for the conference, promising, for example, the hotel an additional $41,480 in catering charges in exchange for the hotel lowering its lodging cost to honor the government’s limit on room prices.” (Washington Post)  Another day ...
• Weak Ties, Entrepreneurship, and the Great Society
  Precisely because economic development depends so heavily on weak ties, it’s important to appreciate the environment in which they can emerge.
• The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy ...
  “Under construction by contractors with top-secret clearances, the blandly named Utah Data Center is being built for the National Security Agency. A project of immense secrecy, it is the final piece in a complex puzzle assembled over the past decade. Its purpose: to intercept, decipher, analyze, ...
• In Yemen, Lines Blur As U.S. Steps Up Airstrikes
  “As the pace quickens and the targets expand, however, the distinction may be blurring between operations targeting militants who want to attack Americans and those aimed at fighters seeking to overthrow the Yemeni government. U.S. officials insist that they will not be drawn into a civil war an ...

Teaching Online Journalism

• Audio slideshows by journalism students
  Sometimes it’s a challenge to find appropriate examples to show to students. Of course we professors love to show them work by top multimedia journalists — but that can be intimidating. Seeing good work by other students can inspire undergraduates to step up and do better. All of the ...
• Data Journalism Examples
    I created a Storify (below) for participants in a recent workshop about data journalism. The purpose is to enable them to explore the subject further on their own. You can compare the original version at the Storify site. To make it appear in this post, I simply exported (to WordPress) f ...
• Social Media and Journalists
  This is a presentation I gave to several groups of TV and print journalists in Singapore. Download the PPT to get the notes and the URLs (March 19–23, 2012). It’s in four parts because it’s long. Part 1 covers concepts and definitions. Part 2 covers Twitter, Tumblr and Pinterest. Pa ...
• Definition: Social media
  I’ve been working on this for a few days. Trying to make it as simple as possible. Digital systems that enable people, identified by profiles, to share information. Now, please let me unpack that a little bit: Digital systems is another way to say media. I specify digital because I do not ...
• Resources for learning about social media
  I have been collecting posts, articles, tutorials and general how-to materials that relate to how journalists use social media. I started about two weeks ago, as I prepare for a workshop in Singapore. They are curated here: Social Media and Journalists. The collection is housed at Scoop.it, a cu ...

Facing South

• The New Vigilantes: Trayvon Martin and the 'sh ...
  Across the South and country, the gun lobby has pushed laws like Florida's "Stand Your Ground" measure, which local police say is the reason they haven't bro ...
  
• North Carolina gathers public feedback on fracking
  State regulators release a draft report for comment that says fracking for natural gas can be done safely -- but they also admit that there "is a lot of projecting going on.&quot ...
  
• Mississippi Democrat leaders: We need to retur ...
  Most Mississippians may call themselves conservatives, but talk to them for five minutes and you'll hear William Jennings Bryan-style populism.
  Most Miss ...
  
• Trayvon Martin killing brings scrutiny to cont ...
  Sixteen states besides Florida have the same "Stand Your Ground" law that's complicating the quest for justice in the shooting death of an unarmed Florida teen by a ...
  
• Why the racist history of the charter school m ...
  Touted as the cure for what ails public education, charter schools have historical roots that are rarely acknowledged.
  Touted as the cure for what ails public ed ...
  

Worldpress - Africa

• London Conference on Somalia
  Although it succeeded in shining an international light on Somalia's ongoing conflict, the London conference failed in some respects to address dangerous issues of tribalism.
• Kony 2012
  The Kony 2012 video has led to increased U.S. pressure on the Ugandan regime to catch the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) leader.
• Water and Sanitation in Africa
  Although much more of the world's population has access to clean water than a decade ago, sanitation progress in Africa continues to stagnate.
• Global Fund Fights AIDS, TB and Malaria
  The Global Fund has been fighting disease for a decade in 150 countries, but the time is ripe for reform and reassessment of its operations.
• Global Fund Fights AIDS, TB and Malaria
  The Global Fund has been fighting disease for a decade in 150 countries, but the time is ripe for reform and reassessment of its operations.

Telegraph UK - oil

• Police and students clash in Indonesia over fu ...
  Police and students clash in Indonesia over fuel price subsidy.
• SNP attacks Shetland and Orkney 'troublemakers'
  The SNP has accused MSPs representing the Northern Isles of being "troublemakers" after they warned their constituents might not join a separate Scotland.
• Scotland's oil-rich Northern Isles tell Alex S ...
  Scotland's oil-rich Northern Isles are threatening to destroy Alex Salmond's economic case for independence by warning they might not accept rule from Edinburgh.
• PM and President discussed possibility of tapp ...
  Prime Minister David Cameron said release of strategic oil reserves is "worth looking at" to quell rising fuel prices.
• David Ross loses shareholder vote to take Cosa ...
  David Ross, the multi-millionaire entrepreneur, has lost the vote to take Cosalt private and declared the company will remain publicly listed following a shareholder revolt.

Ian Welsh

• Is the individual mandate really the hill prog ...
  Really? The individual mandate is lousy policy.  It always was.  It is especially lousy policy without a large (100 million +) public option.  The health care plan is, for all intents and purposes, a 90′s Heritage plan. This?  This is what progressives want to fight for? BMaz has a good ar ...
• Is the individual mandate really the hill prog ...
  Really? The individual mandate is lousy policy.  It always was.  It is especially lousy policy without a large (100 million +) public option.  The health care plan is, for all intents and purposes, a 90′s Heritage plan. This?  This is what progressives want to fight for? BMaz has a good ar ...
• Observations on Canadian NDP leader Mulcair an ...
  Last weekend, the federal New Democratic Party (NDP) elected a new leader: Thomas Mulcair, an MP from Quebec, who was a minister in the provincial Liberal government there, before he resigned rather than open a park for development. Mulcair was the front runner, and his victory was hardly a surp ...
• Observations on Canadian NDP leader Mulcair an ...
  Last weekend, the federal New Democratic Party (NDP) elected a new leader: Thomas Mulcair, an MP from Quebec, who was a minister in the provincial Liberal government there, before he resigned rather than open a park for development. Mulcair was the front runner, and his victory was hardly a surp ...
• It is in blood that empires, like humans, are ...
  I think we all remember the year before the Iraq war, the drumbeat of propaganda, the horrible certainty that nothing we could do would stop George Bush’s messianic belief that he must have a war with Iraq because he was ordained by God, and all the great presidents were war presidents. We argue ...

Media Consortium

• New Voices: What Works
• The Media Consortium » The Big Thaw
• Corporations Are Not People -- In These Times
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• Private prison company’s growth went hand-in-h ...
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• Montana AG warns of return to rampant corporat ...
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Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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

new geography

• Smart Growth and The New Newspeak
  It’s a given in our representative system that policies adopted into law should have popular support. However, there is a distinction to be made between adopting a policy consistent with what a majority of people want, and pushing a policy while making dubious claims that it harnesses “the will ...
• Commanding Bureaucracies & 'The New Normal'
  Prior to the fifteenth century, China led the world in technological sophistication. Then, it went into a period of long decline. Here’s what Gregory Clark had to say about it in Farewell to Alms: ... When Marco Polo visited China in the 1290s he found that the Chinese were far ahead of the E ...
• Buffalo, You Are Not Alone
  It hurts. When a bigtime Harvard economist writes off your city as a loss, and says America should turn its back on you, it hurts. But Ed Glaeser’s dart tossing is but the smallest taste of what it’s like to live in place like Buffalo. To choose to live in the Rust Belt is to commit to e ...
• Gary Hustwit's "Urbanized" Re-lighting Debate ...
  Gary Hustwit’s new film, “Urbanized,” is the third in his series of documentaries concerning design.  In his first two films, he looks at consumer product design and the global visual culture.  The existential problem of the city, an urgent one about which much of this website is concerned, ...
• The Next Public Debt Crisis Has Arrived
  In July of 2009, while the smoke from the global financial bonfire was still thick in the air, I wrote for this website about another crisis of massive proportions just looming on the horizon: the Global Crisis in Public Debt. Three years later, the news of defaults, bankruptcies, debt fo ...

GM Watch

• Roundup causes deformities in a vertebrate
  NOTE: Link to the new study here http://www.esajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1890/11-0189.1 EXTRACT from the Abstract: Even more striking was the discovery that Roundup induced morphological changes in the tadpoles. In wood frog and leopard frog tadpoles, Roundup induced relatively deeper tails in th ...
• GM canola contamination court battle
  MEDIA RELEASE For immediate release: 3rd April 2012  Organic Farmer lodges claim against GM Farmer in WA Supreme Court Slater & Gordon Solicitors today lodged a claim in the WA Supreme Court on behalf of an organic farmer seeking to recover loss and damage allegedly caused by a genetically mo ...
• Roundup can cause amphibians to change shape
  New Study Is First to Show That Pesticides Can Induce Morphological Changes in Vertebrate Animals, Says Pitt Researcher When exposed to the popular herbicide Roundup, tadpoles change shape in ways that are normally induced by predators University of Pittsburgh, March 30 2012  http://www.news.pi ...
• GM pig shelved
  Genetically Modified Pig Shelved Press Release Embargoed to 11:00 EST Feds should rule out GM food animals, citizens' group urges Ottawa, April 2 2012 – Today, the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network (CBAN) welcomed reports that the University of Guelph, the Canadian university that develo ...
• Goodbye to Morrisons
  TAKE ACTION: Write to Morrisons Head of Policy David Scott (David.FJ.Scott@morrisonsplc.co.uk) telling him you want the company to reinstate its non-GM feed policy for poultry. Leave a comment on the Morrisons FaceBook page (www.facebook.com/MorrisonsWeLoveFood) telling the company and anyone v ...

spiked

• The birth of democracy in Burma? Sadly not
  Aung San Suu Kyi’s electoral victory is less the product of people power than of deal-making between the US and the military junta.
• We don’t need no grade inflation
  Following Gove’s A-level blast, a sixth-form teacher lifts the lid on the cynical, ‘teach to the test’ reality of UK schools.
• Children need education, not qualifications
  Schooling has a crucial, humanist task: to introduce pupils to the accumulated learning of humanity.
• Banning broccoli? You protest too much
  The censorious clicktivists desperately searching for new causes to ‘like’ and products to ban are doing more harm than good.
• No bowing down before Bebe
  American journalist Pamela Druckerman’s fascinating look at how the French bring up their children shows that putting adults first is better for everyone – the kids included.

Cryptogon

• China: 30 Million People Live in Caves
  One for your Doomstead Ideas file folder. Via: Los Angeles Times: Like many peasants from the outskirts of Yanan, China, Ren Shouhua was born in a cave and lived there until he got a job in the city and moved into a concrete-block house. His progression made sense as he strove to improve his lif ...
• Greece: Euro Free Alternative Currency Takes Off
  I just helped out some people here in New Zealand recover from a bad computer virus situation. They paid me with a one year old heifer that we’re going to eat! In terms of the time I spent on the job and the tangible value of that heifer, this represent the best compensation that I [...]
• Scientists Create New Materials by Manipulatin ...
  Via: Stanford University: Researchers from Stanford University and the U.S. Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have created the first-ever system of “designer electrons” – exotic variants of ordinary electrons with tunable properties that may ultimately ...
• Google Takes Down Russia Today YouTube Channel
  Update: RT Back Up on YouTube —End Update— Update: RT Tweeting: RT’s YouTube channel taken offline by YT administration, appears to be a mistake so far, follow updates here and on FB http://www.facebook.com/RTnews —End Update— Via: Russia Today YouTube Channel: This ...
• Microsoft: Data Mining Your Digital Effluvia
  People seem to be cracking up and looking for technological fixes to what amounts to mental illness that was caused by their technology in the first place. Here’s how Becky chronicles milestones and other pleasant moments with our children. She pastes photographs to sheets of paper and han ...

The Economic Collapse

• Why Is The Heartland Of America Being Ripped T ...
  What in the world is going on in the heartland of America?  Spring has barely even begun and we are seeing communities all over America being ripped to shreds by gigantic tornadoes.  A lot of meteorologists claimed that the nightmarish tornado season of 2011 was an "anomaly", but ...
• Read This First Before You Decide That Prepper ...
  Do you believe that preppers are a few cards short of a full deck?  Do you assume that anyone that is "preparing for doomsday" does not have their elevator going all the way to the top floor?  Well, you might want to read this first before you make a final decision that all prepp ...
• The 15 Trillion Dollar Party
  If you knew that you could live in luxury for the rest of your life but that by doing so it would absolutely destroy the future for your children, your grandchildren and your great-grandchildren would you do it?  Well, that is exactly what we are doing as a nation.  Over the past ...
• Everything Is Going To Be Alright?
  Is the U.S. economy going to be okay?  Well, if the only source you listened to was the mainstream media, you would be left with the distinct impression that the U.S. economy is heading toward a full recovery and that everything is going to be alright.  Unfortunately, that is not ...
• A Cashless Society May Be Closer Than Most Peo ...
  Most people think of a cashless society as something that is way off in the distant future.  Unfortunately, that is simply not the case.  The truth is that a cashless society is much closer than most people would ever dare to imagine.  To a large degree, the transition to a cashl ...

Desertification

• Alleviating drought at home (Google / Daily Mail)
  Read at : Google Alert – container gardening http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/gardening/article-2124416/Surviving-hosepipe-ban-With-just-simple-tricks-stave-effects-drought.html?ito=feeds-newsxml Surviving the hosepipe ban: With just a few simple tricks you can stave off the effects of the ...
• CSD Side event on desertification (Google / UN ...
  Listened to : http://www.unmultimedia.org/radio/library/2012/03/57854.html Special event on combating desertification 2012-03-26 15:03:13.0 Floor 82 minutes Keywords: SPECIAL EVENT, CSD SIDE EVENT, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, COMBATING, DESERTIFICATION, CHINA, MONGOLIA, SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY
• Afforerstation in India (Google / Inhabitat)
  Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://inhabitat.com/indian-man-single-handedly-plants-1360-acre-forest/ Indian Man Single-Handedly Plants 1,360 Acre Forest by Timon Singh, Deforestation and desertification are critical problems in India that have led to barren land, increased soi ...
• Slideshows on desertification (Sliodeshare / G ...
  SLIDESHOWS seen at : http://www.slideshare.net/greenfacts Scientific Facts on Water Resources  Water is essential for human survival and well-being and important to many sectors of the economy. However, resources are irregularly distributed in space and time, and they are under ——&#8 ...
• Ocean surface currents around the world (You Tube)
  VIDEO seen at : http://youtu.be/xusdWPuWAoU Perpetual Ocean [1080p] This visualization shows ocean surface currents around the world during the period from June 2005 through December 2007. The visualization does not include a narration or annotations; the goal was to use … Continue reading ...

The Paper Trail

• Articles we find interesting
  Some stories are so grim that they depress the spirit, make one angry, and stick in the mind for days afterward. Such is the powerful and important tale of Shin In Geun, one of the few successful escapees from a North Korean gulag. He was unfortunate enough to be born inside one of that country’ ...
• Delaware lawmakers move to address low grade f ...
  Delaware lawmakers have launched a new legislative effort designed in part to improve the C- grade the state received on lobbying disclosure from the State Integrity Investigation. The First State’s grade ranked it 22nd among the 50 states in that category.  The bill would require lobb ...
• IMPACT: Tribal payday lender sued by Federal T ...
  The Federal Trade Commission today took up a case that had thwarted state authorities for years, accusing an Internet payday lender with ties to Indian tribes of illegally deceiving borrowers.The agency is asking a federal judge in Nevada to order AMG Services of Overland Park., Kan., to stop th ...
• Watchdog 4/2/12
  Clear ImpactWe’re seeing more impact from our massive State Integrity Investigation every day. When you put compelling information into people’s hands in an easy-to-access format, big things happen. State legislators in Delaware, Michigan, Ohio and South Carolina are proposing new ethics r ...
• Ohio Democrats demand transparency task force ...
  Citing the Buckeye State’s D grade from the State Integrity Investigation, Democratic legislators in Ohio have called for a bipartisan task force to review current ethics laws and consider new legislation to strengthen accountability and transparency.“We have a responsibility to the people of Oh ...

backofthebook.ca

• A Modest Opinion – Retracted
  By Nathaniel Moher Dear worshipping readership: as one of the few remaining hard-hitting investigative journalists out there (see you at the meeting, Seacrest), I obviously pride myself on never making a mistake. Ever. Well, apparently my assumption that I never make a mistake was in fact a mist ...
• Robocalls and Republicons
  By Alison@Creekside The Cons’ somewhat belated talking points about their use of the US voter contact firm Front Porch Strategies in the last election have been all about only using them for townhalls : U.S. phone firm was just for town halls, say MPs  “Jim Ross [Front Porch's Canadi ...
• A Modest Opinion – Who you gonna Robo-call?
  As I’m sure most of you have heard, the Conservatives are in a little bit of a hot spot (and I’m not just talking about the prairies). It seems that Harps and his conservatives are being accused of a placing phone calls during the last election, giving out the wrong address’ for polling stations ...
• How the Sun helped post the Vancouver Playhous ...
  By Frank Moher The sudden news that the Vancouver Playhouse is closing after 49 seasons comes as a shock, of course. We assume these venerable civic institutions will somehow always manage to lumber along, despite economic downturns and hostile governments and digital depredations. This, after a ...
• Ohi – uh-oh
  By Alison@Creekside Poor old Mr. Creosote. Steve sent his parliamentary secretary, Dean Del Maestro, out into the House two days in a row last week to claim the Libs spent “millions of dollars” in the last election hiring a foreign voter telemarketing company with offices in North Da ...

libcom

• Successful autoworker strike in Russia
  kaluga.jpg Kaluga Benteler auto workers win strike in battle over wages, collective agreements and union recognition. Workers at a factory in the city of Kaluga, Soutwest of Mos ...
• Migrant stories from Fortress Italy
  cie-lager.jpg It’s spring, and while most of us are already organising our summer holidays, some people have very different journeys in mind. In Northern Africa, migrants from all over the continent t ...
• Women workers fight back against austerity in ...
  KZI.mały.jpg In 2012, Poland and Ukraine are going to host Euro2012, the European Football Championship. For that reason hundreds of millions of euro from the national and local budgets have been spen ...
• Account of the March 29 Spanish general strike ...
  Riots-and-clashes-with-the-police-during-the-general-strike-in-Barcelona-498x226.jpg A short account for libcom.org from a comrade in Barcelona, on Spain's first general strike for 18 months. ...
• California utility to spend $70 million for re ...
  pacific.jpg A gas pipeline exploded in the California town of San Bruno last year. The blast murdered eight individuals. Monday, the utility business responsible for the catastrophe, Pacific Gas and E ...

Free Range International

• Extended Shelf Life – April Fools Edition
  In my last post I claimed to have reached the end of my useful shelf life as a blogger which, it turns out, is not true.  I’m back in Afghanistan and what better day to turn the FRI blog back on than April Fools? Groundhog day would have been more appropriate but I missed it. [...]
• Back in the USSA
  I’ve been trying to come up with a post for over a month now but don’t have any good pictures because I’m back in America, sans super cool Nikon which got blown up in the Helmand, and without good pictures I don’t seem to be able to write.  That camera cost over a thousand bucks [...]
• The Gladiators
  Editors Note:  B is taking some time off from destroying Libtards on Thomas Ricks blog to vent on a topic few men will dare touch.  At the Foriegn Policy blog he’s been coming up with stuff like this: Personally, I am glad that while I had to worry about leaders who were more worried about ...
• War Groupies
  This is the second entry in the new “Paint Baba Tim’s White Fence” program.  The first was from my Dad and this one is from my good friend B.  Regular readers have probably guessed by now that B and I worked together in Afghanistan and know each other well.  As I deal with agen ...
• THE DIVERSITY PLATOON
  Editors Note:  This post is the first (of what I hope to be many) posts from my father Major General J.D. Lynch Jr. USMC (Ret.) The Current Situation Forty years ago, the American military was held in great contempt by the public it served. The feeling was returned in roughly equal measure. We ...

The Story Behind the Story

• BBC Interviews Mormon Apostle Jeffrey R. Holland
  One thing is for certain, the candidacy of Willard “Mittens” Romney is causing the critical spotlight to shine on Mormonism like never before. Where is the AMERICAN “Mainstream Media”?  Why does it take the BRITS to come to Utah and ask the LDS “Authorities” s ...
• Predictive Programming and the Microchip
  What exactly is “Predictive Programming”?   Simply another word for Edomites usurping God – aka TRANSHUMANISM! When you watch this great video, remember that “Artificial Intelligence” via an Edomite SUPER COMPUTER is scheduled to go “on line” and become ...
• Kane Commits Perjury (Again).
  Once again, I have no choice but to defend myself against the mean-spirited ranting of Ms. Kane and Hypocrite Horowitz. I can ignore their lunacy and false witnessing only so long. In a sworn statement under penalty of perjury to WordPress, Sherri Kane filed a DCMA notice alleging that I, A. Tru ...
• Kane and Horowitz Continue Round Two – M ...
  Recently, posts to this blog made in June of last year concerning Leonard Horowitz and his girlfriend Sherri Kane have been forcibly removed by our friends at WordPress.  The reason??  Kane falsely declared (under penalty of perjury) that she had “EXCLUSIVE” rights to the recorded vi ...
• War With Iran Averted – At Least Until A ...
  http://www.roytov.com/articles/usathwarts.htm According to Edomite-Turned Christian reporter Ro’i (Roy) Tov, the world can breath much easier these days. In a MOST STUNNING EXPOSE, Roy Tov explains what the Main Stream Media has completely ignored: USA Thwarts Israeli Attack on Iran Obama ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

• Life in a carbon neutral world…
  There’s a great Story from the New York Times / International Herald and Tribune about a 28 year old product designer from Luxembourg attempting to live a carbon neutral life in Barcelona, Spain. Her story is at certainly inspiring, although sometimes uncomfortable to read about… who ...
• BPA, Phthalates, Toxic Plastic Bottles, Sippy ...
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• Green Spring Cleaning!
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• Food Miles – how far your food travels & ...
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• Getting real about energy production & reduction
  Here’s a great video from a Cambridge University Physicist David Mackay. He’s discussing practical ways of measuring domestic power consumption, ways of producing energy, and he debate about replacing traditional fossil fuels based methods of producing electricity with more sensible ...

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

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

Scotts Contracting

• I took the Energy Star Pledge Have You?
  Twitter <—- Find Me —> Facebook Web Site: http://stlouisrenewableenergy.com scottscontracting Job Site Photo Album Green Blog Related articles New Company Website for St Louis Renewable Energy (scottscontracting.wordpress.com) Do Squirrels and Rabbits Ravage Your Garden? (sco ...
• Garden Screen Protector-City Garden
  How I plan to protect the back-yard vegetable garden from the Birds, Squirrels, Rabbits, and other malicious garden destroying animals. Deer Block Mesh supported by: 1/2 Metal Conduit Related articles Do Squirrels and Rabbits Ravage Your Garden? (scottscontracting.wordpress.com) New vegetable ga ...
• 2012 Election Poll-What are the Issues that re ...
  What are the 5 most Important Issues in the upcoming election to you and your family. Created March 23, 2012 Compare the Results of the 2010 Election Poll to the Issues of today- Poll Results from 2010 Election Issues 2010 Election (created Oct 28, 2010)-What issues are most important to you and ...
• Do Squirrels and Rabbits Ravage Your Garden?
  Varmit Garden Screen Protector Designed and Built by Scotts Contracting will protect your precious vegetables from the Vermin. Garden Screen Protector Available at Scotts Contracting Sunday March 18, 2012 Planted Back Yard Garden Gambling on Spring Weather Conditions First Plants to Germinate Ma ...
• Help Support Renewable Energy in St Louis
  Because, it’s healthier for the environment and people than pollution from power plants? Because a diverse energy portfolio protects ratepayers from steep rate hikes and fosters competition that keeps electric rates low? Or because installing solar panels and wind turbines creates good jobs that ...

The View From Abroad

• Keynesians Are Clueless
  Paul Krugman didn't see the Great Recession coming and he doesn't see the next crisis coming either.
• Bernanke’s Publicity Stunt
  Fed chairman Ben Bernanke defends corrupt banking cartel by criticizing gold standard.
• Just Who is a Threat to Whom?
  If you look beyond the war propaganda against Iran, it is clear who the real threat to peace is.
• Romney is Focusing on the Wrong Mechanism
  To help the working poor Mitt Romney should propose something other than indexing the minimum wage for inflation.
• Is Obama Attempting to Buy Votes from College ...
  The president is playing politics with the high cost of college.

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

• Justifications for Slaughtering Muslims Were i ...
  Thanks to rules and historical accounts in the Old Testament, early Christians found the justification and precedents they needed to kill Muslims en masse.
• The Foreign Policy President?
  Has Obama had any significant progressive foreign policy successes?
• Congress Tunes Out Lt. Col. Davis's Allegatio ...
  The 17-year Army veteran risked his career by speaking out about the Afghanistan War.
• The Costa Rica Consensus
  In a recent speech at the Newseum, former Costa Rican president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Oscar Arias describes concrete ways of moving beyond our over-militarized world.
• Romney's Defense Plan Means Bad Business for A ...
  It would increase defense spending 42% beyond Cold War levels.

Law.com

• Latest Chevron Outtake: 'They're All Corrupt!'
  Donziger muses 'The judicial system is so utterly weak' in Corporate Counsel's latest release of outtakes from the documentary Crude.
• Minus Kagan, Supreme Court Lets 'Don't Ask' Po ...
  In an order Friday, the Supreme Court denied a motion aimed at allowing a worldwide ban on enforcement of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays in the military to take effect.
• MGA Loses Effort to Stall Trial in Fee Fight W ...
  A Los Angeles judge issued a tentative ruling Friday denying toymaker MGA Entertainment's efforts to stay a lawsuit that was filed by its former lawyers at O'Melveny & Myers.
• Proskauer and English Firm End Their Merger Di ...
  Proskauer Rose and SJ Berwin said Friday they had decided against merging, putting to an end months of speculation about a possible trans-Atlantic tie-up between the two law firms. The firms in a joint statement said "we recognized that the timetable necessary to reach the agreements that would ...
• IRS Throws In Towel on Closely Watched Interna ...

Iranian.com

• Netanyahu: Sanctions failing to convince Iran ...
  "The Iranian government ... is having economic troubles but it has yet to move backward, even a millimeter, in its nuclear program,"
• Iran gives Reuters news agency chop over 'ninj ...
  Iran has banned the Reuters news agency after it described a group of female martial arts practitioners as "assassins" in a report, officials say. The video showed a group of Iranian women in the city of Karaj training in ninjutsu, a martial art derived from Japan's 15th-century ninj ...
• 'I Am Also An Afghan' -- Iranians Condemn Raci ...
  A YouTube video making the rounds shows a group of Afghans being mistreated, apparently by Iranian soldiers, who tell the Afghans to hit themselves on the head, perform sit-ups, and say aloud, “We will never come to Iran anymore.” Iranian officials are quick to remind critics that the Islamic re ...
• گزارش تصویری هفت سین دانشجویان دانشگاه شریف به ...
  دانشجویان دانشگاه شریف یاد دانشجویان دربند را گرامی داشتند. در این مراسم عکس ۷ دانشجوی دربند که در زندان های مختلف کشور محبوس شده اند بر روی سفره ی هفت سین گذارده شد.
• Iran and the Futility of Denial Diplomacy at t ...
  After a full year of efforts by Iran's human rights diplomats to discredit or ignore the mandate of Special Rapporteur on human rights in Iran Ahmed Shaheed, 22 members of the United Nations Human Rights Council voted to renew the mandate for another year on March 22.read more

Most Revolutionary Act

• General Strikes, Public Marijuana Cultivation ...
  Spain's first concentrating solar power plant (This is the first of two blogs about Spain’s growing concentrating solar power industry and it’s potential role in solving that country’s debt crisis.) Spain has been in the news a lot the past month. On March 29th, they had a ...
• Lone Nut Theory vs Routine Night Pacification
  Since the appearance of a March 27th article by sociology professor James Petras on numerous websites (see The Afghan 17 and the Obama Cover-up), I have been closely following the dispute between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and the Obama administration over the number of shooters in the Mar ...
• The Real Source of Greek Debt
  Debtocracy: the Greek documentary (This is the last of three posts about the new female head of the IMF, which the business press is promoting as a “rock star of the economic world,” and how we are being deceived about the real cause of the debt crisis in Europe.) The free Greek docu ...
• The IMF’s Fairy Tale Princess
  IMF chief Christine Lagarde (This is the second of three posts about the new female head of the IMF, which the business press is promoting as a “rock star of the economic world,” and how we are being deceived about the real cause of the debt crisis in Europe) LaGarde isn’t wi ...
• Giving Capitalism a Feminine Face
  IMF head Christine Lagarde (This is the first of three posts about the new female head of the IMF, which the business press is promoting as a “rock star of the economic world,” and how we are being deceived about the real cause of the debt crisis in Europe) Historically the IMF and ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

• Worker Ownership for the 99%: The United Steel ...
  For release:     March 26, 2012                                          &nb ...
• The End of Men
  Excerpted from Stupid White Men ...And Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation by Michael Moore EARLIER THIS YEAR, my wife and I attended the baptism of our new nephew, Anthony. Our teenage daughter had been asked to be his godmother, a job that would require her to be there for little ...
• Michael Moore Tweets About Rush Limbaugh's "Ap ...
  Rush Limbaugh issues a rare (if ever?) apology: mmflint.me/zvDYzY I didn't know there was anyone on earth who had the power to tell Rush what 2 do. But then there's Bain Capital, financiers of Clear Channel I guess Romney knew that Rush, who made the mistake of saying what most Republicans thi ...
• Q&A on New Rules for Best Documentary Academy ...
  Thank you for your feedback on our new rules for Academy Award voting and eligibility. We are pleased so many of you have welcomed these changes. Some of you, though, still have some questions. Due to some stories in the media that did not explain the new rules correctly or fully, there is a li ...
• THOUSANDS OF NURSES & SUPORTERS TO MARCH AT G8 ...
  RNs to be joined by Occupy, Global Community Reps, Union Activists to Stop Demise; Speculation Tax is Starting Point to Address Economies in Demise, say Nurses and Allies   Nurses from across the U.S., joined by union, healthcare, Occupy Wall Street and other community activists, as well as ...

Salon

• Romney-Ryan mania!
  Crowding the GOP primary with a fiery, populist speech, Obama made the two men running mates – for a day anyway
• Tucker Max’s failed stunt
  Planned Parenthood was right to refuse a donation, but Max's redemption is still possible
• Occupy SF booted from building
  Protesters had hoped to repurpose an abandoned building but, like Occupiers elsewhere, faced swift police action
• Romney’s banking problem
  As evidence of bad bank behavior grows, the GOP candidate continues to absolve them of blame
• Rubio’s race for Romney’s ear on i ...
  Can the Florida senator steer the presumptive GOP nominee away from from immigration hard-liner Kris Kobach?

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

• How could Stephen Harper have known the F-35 w ...
  Auditor-General Michael Ferguson has exposed Conservative government mismanagement with his scathing report on the F-35 warplane purchase.
• Miss Universe Canada is right to include trans ...
  Jenna Talackova’s fight to take part in Miss Universe Canada as a transsexual subverts the concept of the beauty pageant.
• Ontario must boost addiction services and trea ...
  Ontario must move quickly to boost addiction services and treatment programs to help OxyContin addicts.
• Canada should begin to re-engage with Burma, c ...
  Canada should begin to cautiously ease sanctions on Burma, to reward political reform.
• Time for Toronto to close some schools
  It’s time for Toronto’s public school board to face the reality of declining enrolment and close some schools.

Energy Collective

• Feed-in Tariffs Levy Larger Price Incentive fo ...
  Carbon-pricing advocates regularly point to European nations for examples of appropriate and effective clean energy deployment policies.
• March Heat Records Crush Cold Records by Over ...
  The final data is in for the unprecedented March heat wave that was “unmatched in recorded history” for the U.S. (and Canada).
• Will Social Media Help You Cut Home Energy Usage?
  You’ll soon be competing  with your Facebook friends to cut home energy use with a new social energy app. The soon-to-be-released app is the brainchild of Alliance Associate Opower and Board member NRDC, with social media powerhouse Facebook, who expect the social energy ...
• To Protect Americans' Health, NRDC Opposes Exp ...
  Most people want their homes to be a safe haven where their families can grow and thrive. Yet for thousands of Americans who find themselves living next to natural gas drilling sites, that sense of safety is becoming harder to preserve. A new study by researchers from the Colorado School of Publ ...
• Old Wind Turbines Find New Life In Playground
  The wind power industry is still in its beginning stages, so few have stopped to think about what we’ll do with these giant structures when they’re beyond repair. In the Netherlands, a country with a rich history of harnessing the wind’s energy, there are already plenty of spent discarded wind t ...

EU Times

• Arizona citizens outraged over internet censor ...
  Does this article – or maybe just the headline – annoy, offend or terrify you? If so, it may soon be illegal in Arizona. ­The state’s legislature has passed a bill which would update an existing telephone harassment law to apply to the Internet and other forms of electronic communication. ...
• Hugo Chavez may lose presidential election
  Venezuela’s National Electoral Council officially appointed the date of the presidential election – October 7, 2012. However, the situation in the country is heating up already. According to the Independent Social Agencies, the chances of the current president Hugo Chavez for re-elec ...
• Russia, Iran set to counter US-Israeli strike ...
  Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov issued a strong warning against a military attack on Iran Monday, April 2, saying that a pre-emptive strike would violate international law. His comments, made during a visit to Armenia, stopped short of threatening (the US and/or Israel) of consequences. B ...
• Worse than SOPA: CISPA cybersecurity bill will ...
  An onrush of condemnation and criticism kept the SOPA and PIPA acts from passing earlier this year, but US lawmakers have already authored another authoritarian bill that could give them free reign to creep the Web in the name of cybersecurity. As congressmen in Washington consider how to handle ...
• UK government’s monitoring plan for Inte ...
  Civil liberties groups have reacted angrily to the British government’s plan to monitor the personal activities of its citizens on the Internet. Under a government plan known as the Communications Capabilities Development Programme (CCDP), Internet service providers will be forced to grant secur ...

Stonecipher News

• WPMU Dev - The WordPress Experts!
• Stay Value Neutral When Counseling Clients
  From Chris Stonecipher's http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifFactoidz page: It is important to be value neutral wihttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifth clients to avoid harm by mixing your own values and beliefs with clients that is potentially damaging to th ...
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• Video Games and Teen Violence Correlations
  With the rising increase in teen violence, much research has been directed to determine if video games, violent television shows and other electronic media is directly related. Gentile, D.A. & Anderson C.A (2003) has done extensive research in which supports the theory that video games lead to v ...

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

• Mitt Romney Sweeps Wisconsin, Maryland and Dis ...
  Mitt Romney continued on the path to securing the Republican presidential nomination last night, winning all 37 delegates in Maryland, all 16 delegates in the District of Columbia, and at least 30 delegates in Wisconsin. In a speech after the results were tallied, Rick Santorum vowed to keep fi ...
• Nokia Lumia 900 camera shoot-out vs. iPhone 4 ...
  Putting the Nokia Lumia 900's 8-megapixel camera to the test. (Credit:Josh Miller/CNET) Nokia has hyped the Nokia Lumia 900 's 8-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, and you know what that means: it's time for a camera shoot-out. I traipsed around San Francisco with four smartphones with 8- ...
• Onward, Senator Santorum
  The Republican nomination battle is definitely not over — but Rick Santorum’s path to victory is now extremely steep and narrow. Mitt Romney’s campaign really is looking like the death star, pounding the rebels into submission with the dark energy of a relentlessly negative campaign.   Santorum ...
• Barcelona 3- AC Milan 1 – Champions League pho ...
  BARCELONA v AC Milan in the Champions League. Barcelona win 3-1 with two goals form⦠Lionel Messi. He’s only 24! PS – Wonder if Cesc Fabregas regrets leaving Arsenal? 13224261 ◄ Back Next ► ◄ Back Next ► Picture 2 of 10 FC Barcelona's Lionel Messi, from Argentina, right, reacts after scoring a ...
• Nokia Lumia 900 review: A sleek contender
  It's too bad for Microsoft and Nokia that another company already used the slogan "Think Different." That would be the perfect line to pitch Nokia's Lumia 900, the sleek new smartphone that's making its debut Sunday on AT&T. If you're inclined to try a Windows Phone, the Lumia 900 is pe ...

Groklaw

• You yes, you are using Linux, and you probab ...
  Linux is everywhere. You might not see it, and you probably don't know it yet, but it's powering the web services you use, the phone in your hand, and the ATM at your bank. The following video, just released by the Linux Foundation, is all about the places and apps where Linux is lurking unseen ...
• Judge calls Apple motion to reconsider Motorol ...
  Near the conclusion of Judge Posner's March 30 order, he writes: "Apple presumably spent a nontrivial amount of time drafting its order, and now I have done the same in responding to it. Yet it seems that Apple brought about this expenditure of scarce resources without first making a caref ...
• Apple holds the master decryption key when it ...
  Given the fact that Apple can decrypt and access any information stored on iCloud servers, enterprise users face a potentially higher risk that sensitive corporate data could be accessed or turned over to a third party. Because of various legal requirements or corporate policies, enterprise user ...
• Facebook uses Zuckerberg patent to countersue ...
  Facebook has responded to a ten patent lawsuit from Yahoo by asserting ten patents of its own - including two that list CEO Mark Zuckerberg as the inventor.... In a widely publicized deal, Facebook recently acquired a license to hundreds of IBM patents to buttress its own portfolio. Facebook's ...
• OPERA: What Went Wrong
  We now have many details of what went wrong at OPERA, the experiment which produced an anomalous result showing neutrinos arriving earlier than expected, widely interpreted in the press as a violation of Einstein's dictum that nothing can go faster than the universal speed limit, the speed at wh ...

WideShut

• Police Trying to Hide Decision-Making Info In ...
  The IPCC says sensitive evidence of police decision-making may prevent an open hearing. What are the police trying to hide?
• Media Use False Image of Marijuana to Demonize ...
  Trayvon Martin was caught with an empty bag of weed once. So what? Does that mean he deserved to be shot dead?
• March 26, 2012, WideShut Webcast
  Keelan breaks down all the latest headlines, from Bill Gates to Lockerbie.
• Teen Arrested For Afghan War Rant: March 19, 2 ...
  This week Keelan discusses among other headlines, the arrest of a 19 year old for ranting about the Afghan war on Facebook
• UN Calls For More Controlled Global Governance
  United Nations set to publish report saying Globalization is getting ahead of itself and needs to be more tightly controlled.

Politics in the Zeros

• Water wars lead to global instability, US inte ...
  South Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa will have increasing floods and water shortages in the next 30 years says US intelligence. This will lead to political instability.
• Other countries are way ahead of United States ...
  A Sustainable Business email juxtaposed these two headlinesDenmark plans 100% renewable energy by 2050. They already get 25% of their energy from wind while the US, despite all the bleating about the wonderfulness of renewable energy, manages a pathetic 2.9%.US to get first offshore wind turbine ...
• ‘Stand your ground’ law protecting those who g ...
  Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida and the Republican Senator who sponsored Stand Your Ground say George Zimmerman went way beyond self-defense.Said Durell Peaden, the former FL Republican senator from Crestview who sponsored the Stand Your Ground bill: “The guy lost his defense right then. When he ...
• California High Speed Rail zombie lurches on
  "Trains, I must have trains." (Credit: laughingsquid.com)It’s time to put the shambling California High Speed Rail zombie out of its misery. By most estimates the cost will be triple the original estimate, at $100 billion. The High Speed Rail Authority, in a desperation ploy, just ...
• Our impending urban water crisis
  There’d be plenty of water, if only our fastest-growing cities weren’t in deserts. We’ll need creative fixes, fast.San Antonio shows the way. After years of bickering they achieved consensus and now water conservation is practiced by all. Water consumption dropped from 200 gall ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

• One dead in truck crash in Hawke's Bay
  One person is dead and another is in a serious condition after a truck accident tonight.
• Power cut to thousands in Christchurch after s ...
  Around 12,000 Christchurch households were plunged into darkness tonight.
• Gun held to employee's head in Wellington arme ...
  Wellington police are hunting two men who robbed an Indian restaurant and held a gun to an employee's head
• Aussies outraged after Kiwi tourist throws bri ...
  A New Zealand tourist almost killed a crocodile after he threw bricks into its enclosure at an Alice Springs reptile centre, the centre's owner says
• Dozens evacuated in Hawke's Bay as wild weathe ...
  Dozens of people have been evacuated as the North Island continues to be battered by strong winds and rain.

Just World News

• JWB's fab titles--in C'ville Saturday, and glo ...
  For all JWN readers in the Greater Charlottesville area-- do come by the VaBook book fair that runs tomorrow, 9am-4pm, at the Omni Hotel. Tell your friends to come, as well! You can see and buy copies of all the fabulous titles published by my company, Just World Books, including the two latest: ...
• Powerful, intimate memoir from Israeli peace a ...
  The countdown clock is now ticking fast, toward the publication of Miko Peled's amazing and powerful memoir, The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine. The book traces Miko's journey from being born, in 1961, into a family that was part of the core of the Jewish-Israeli elite to, now ...
• Quick notes from Penn BDS conference
  The conference was an outstanding success! Everyone involved in organizing it-- and most of us who spoke at it-- have all been extremely busy; so I'm really sorry that we don't have much more, and richer, reporting on the events out already. But expect more great reporting of the conference to c ...
• What's new in the publishing biz!
  ... is Just World Books's new webstore, which gives us global reach for distributing books from, as of now, three different print/distribute hubs... I am really excited about this development. I've been trying for a while to figure out a way to escape Amazon's large and greedy clutch, and I thi ...
• Pro-Israeli discourse suppressors desperately ...
  It is almost amusing to see the lengths to which the pro-Israeli discourse suppressors here in the United States have been going to try to rebuild the long-crumbled "Bar-Lev Line" with which, over decades past, they sought to protect Israel from being the subject of any free, fair, and fact-base ...

frogblog

• Repeat after me – no environment, no eco ...
  The Government’s Minister in Charge of Many Things, Stephen Joyce, has become repetitive in his claim that those who opppose his economic agenda are simply anti-business, anti-jobs, anti-science,  anti-New Zealand making its way in the world.  This claim, most recently recounted in relatio ...
• Supporting the co-operative model
  I had the opportunity yesterday to speak about an issue quite dear to my heart. The government, supported by the Fonterra board, is pushing through changes to Fonterra. The Government changes focus around transparency in the process of how the milk price that farmers receive is set. More importa ...
• Nuclear-free New Zealand?
  These last few days, the world has watched Seoul as the global leaders discuss the ever-pressing issue of nuclear security, right in the shadow of North Korea. In increasingly uncertain times, the prevention of nuclear terrorism and the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons is one of the leading ...
• General debate, March 31, 2012
• National and Act’s local government agenda is ...
  The decisions councils make, how they invest and spend rates and other revenue and how they control land and water use can help or hinder a sustainable future and a fairer society, and affect our  quality of life – whether  it’s easy to bus or bike to work, to recycle, or use a swimming pool [...]

Patronus Analytical

• Greek aid worker kidnapped in Pakistan
• Aid worker killed in Iraq
• Update on kidnapped Greek aid worker
• NGO worker beaten to death in Dhaka
• Canadian aid worker murdered in Honduras

J Kozy

• Is Adam Smith's a Pickpocket
  Economists use the law of supply and demand merely to provide suppliers with an excuse for raising prices and picking consumer's pockets.
• Economic Models and the Apologetics of Greed
  Economists build models by subtracting from reality the characteristics they deem unessential to the economic situations they model. The result is a bare bones description consisting of what economists deem economically essential. Everything that is discarded (not taken into consideration in the ...
• The Crisis of Education in America: "How to Be ...
  Educational systems now train workers to fulfill the needs of companies. A society in which people exist for the sake of companies is a society enslaved. But there's a deep problem with the notion that education should equal vocational training. To paraphrase a very famous and renowned pers ...
• Instruments of Repression
  For a society to be well governed, it's laws must be just and moral. The Ancients knew that "Those who are rightly governed . . . do not fill their porticoes with written statutes but only cherish justice in their souls; for it is not by legislation, but by morals that states are well direct ...
• The Why of Not Doing the Right Thing: The Amer ...
  The unfairness of American society is being recognized by many. Eighty-nine percent of Americans say they don't trust their government; Congress has a mere 9% approval rating; America's financial institutions are widely considered to be corrupt; the Occupy movement has emerged, some are seek ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

• Disease Outbreaks Tied to Imported Foods Incre ...
  By Dr. Mercola The more steps your food goes through before it reaches your plate, the greater your chances of contamination becomes. If you are able to get your food locally, directly from the field or after harvest, such as directly from a farmer or farmer's market, you knock out numerous ...
• Could this Simple Vitamin Help Treat Psychotic ...
  By Dr. Mercola A growing trend of drug misuse is alarming medical experts, policymakers, and patient advocates. In recent years, there has been a massive increase in off-label use of a class of drugs called "atypical antipsychotics." These drugs, which include Seroquel, Zyprexa, Risperdal ...
• The Dramatic New Rule Change for Genetically E ...
  By Dr. Mercola Under new U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) rules, Monsanto and other biotech companies that create genetically modified (GM) crops will get speedier regulatory reviews of their genetically engineered food products. The new rules will cut the time needed to approve biotec ...
• The "Massive Con" Causing a Suicide Every 30 M ...
  By Dr. Mercola It's been called the "largest wave of recorded suicides in human historyi." Indian farmers have been robbed of their livelihoods, causing them to take their own lives in despair. Over the past 16 years, it is estimated that more than a quarter of a million Indian farmers ...
• 40 Women With Breast Cancer Had This "Cosmetic ...
  By Dr. Mercola New research has detected the presence of paraben esters in 99 percent of breast cancer tissues sampledi. The study examined 40 women who were being treated for primary breast cancer. In 60 percent of cases, five of the different esters were present. Parabens are chemicals w ...

JAMA

• Retinal Detachment [JAMA Patient Page]
• The Art of Medicine: Over 2000 Years of Images ...
• MRI of the Gastrointestinal Tract [Book and Me ...
• The Yale Guide to Ophthalmic Surgery [Book and ...
• Recommendations on Use of Prostate-Specific An ...

Survival - tribal peoples

• Peru defies UN breakthrough on uncontacted tribes
  Peru continues to approve oil and gas projects despite previous exploration leading to the death of half the Nahua tribe. © Survival Peru’s government is ignoring new UN guidelines on the protection of uncontacted Indians in the Amazon. Instead of backing the UN’s landmark report, which su ...
• Revealed: how Ethiopia's plantations are killi ...
  Efforts to re-direct the Omo River for irrigation are drying up a key water source for tribes. © Survival New photographic evidence proves Ethiopia’s controversial plantations scheme is killing the Lower Omo River, a lifeline for 100,000 tribal people. The Omo River downstream from ...
• Sri Lankan park guard kills tribal man
  A Wanniyala-Aetto family. The tribe want to return to their land in Maduru Oya National Park. © Survival A Sri Lankan park guard has shot dead a young man from the Wanniyala-Aetto tribe for hunting on his people’s ancestral land. Local sources say Thalawarige Sunila was hunting inside the ...
• UN body says Brazil violating indigenous rights
  Kayapó Indians dance at an anti-dam protest © Terence Turner The International Labour Organization (ILO), part of the UN, has criticized the Brazilian government for failing to respect indigenous peoples’ rights. The ILO has stated that by failing to consult Indians about the construction ...
• Killed by ‘progress’: uncontacted manhunt reme ...
  Erui pictured in 2012, and his wife Bajo photographed just after she was captured in 1986. © Survival Ayoreo Indians have publicly marked the 25th anniversary of Paraguay’s last manhunt, in which over two dozen of the tribe’s members were captured, and five killed. The US-based fundamental ...

Montreal Gazette

• Toward a better system of admitting immigrants
  Ottawa has cancelled applications that predated Feb. 27, 2008, telling applicants they are welcome to apply again and promising to refund the collective $130 million in fees they paid to apply under the Federal Skilled Worker Program.
• Reward outweighs risk in Myanmar's truncated vote
  It would be easy to underestimate the baby step toward democracy that Myanmar took when the ruling military government allowed voting to take place for barely 10 per cent of the country's 664 parliamentary seats.
• Two languages, one roof: a chance for learning
  At a time when people with a political agenda devoted to separating Quebec from Canada are seizing on every opportunity to pit francophones against their anglo fellow Quebecers, the prospect of enhanced co-operation between English and French school boards is a most welcome development.
• The Gazette's view, in short
  The legality of putting up a poster in Montreal is currently in a grey zone. In 2010 the Quebec Court of Appeal struck down the city bylaw that forbade postering on public spaces. And yet the very interdiction struck down by the court is upheld in the city's cleanliness bylaw that bans postering ...
• Public has a right to know how money is spent
  It took seven long years of pressing the issue, but city hall has finally released documentation that The Gazette had been seeking on the financing of the FINA World Aquatics Championships that Montreal hosted in the summer of 2005.

Food World Order

• The War On Public Water
  from ecosalon.com: It’s up to us to say no to corporations buying up our public water and selling it back to us in plastic.  In the context of World Water Day on March 22, a report by the World Economic Forum ranked water shortage as one of the top global risks – right up there with widespr ...
• #WeirdWisconsin: #Watertown and #ClintonvilleBooms
  from brasschecktv.com: As if the Clintonville Booms (ha! sounds like a high school football team) weren't enough, a hundred miles south of Clintonville, in Watertown, exploding kitchen floor tiles ripped through a school cafeteria. It was described as being reminiscent of the horror movie 'Tremo ...
• USDA 2012 Food Assistance Programs to Benefit ...
  from usda.gov: The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced that international food assistance in fiscal year 2012 will benefit more than 9.7 million people worldwide under USDA's Food for Progress and McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition programs. ...
• A Populace Pink Slimed
  from huffingtonpost.com: A trio of governors and a duo of lieutenant governors last week dined on pink slime burgers and pronounced them mouth-wateringly-delicious-and-nutritious as TV cameras rolled on their barbecue in a Nebraska factory that manufactures the stuff.  Shoppers have reacted ...
• The Schmallenberg Virus: DARPA and The Fraunho ...
  from gutbrainmanipulation.blogspot.ca: The Schmallenberg virus is the name that has been given to the collective cases of lamb, sheep, goat and cattle still births and birth deformities that have spread at an alarming rate across a large part of Europe.  The spread of the so called virus is ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

• Why Is The Heartland Of America Being Ripped T ...
  What in the world is going on in the heartland of America?  Spring has barely even begun and we are seeing communities all over America being ripped to shreds by gigantic tornadoes.  A lot of meteorologists claimed that the nightmarish tornado season of 2011 was an "anomaly", but ...
• Read This First Before You Decide That Prepper ...
  Do you believe that preppers are a few cards short of a full deck?  Do you assume that anyone that is "preparing for doomsday" does not have their elevator going all the way to the top floor?  Well, you might want to read this first before you make a final decision that all prepp ...
• The 15 Trillion Dollar Party
  If you knew that you could live in luxury for the rest of your life but that by doing so it would absolutely destroy the future for your children, your grandchildren and your great-grandchildren would you do it?  Well, that is exactly what we are doing as a nation.  Over the past ...
• Everything Is Going To Be Alright?
  Is the U.S. economy going to be okay?  Well, if the only source you listened to was the mainstream media, you would be left with the distinct impression that the U.S. economy is heading toward a full recovery and that everything is going to be alright.  Unfortunately, that is not ...
• A Cashless Society May Be Closer Than Most Peo ...
  Most people think of a cashless society as something that is way off in the distant future.  Unfortunately, that is simply not the case.  The truth is that a cashless society is much closer than most people would ever dare to imagine.  To a large degree, the transition to a cashl ...

CASSE

• The Influence of Donella Meadows and the Limit ...
  Donella Meadows was way ahead of her time, and her words continue to provide inspiration 40 years after she wrote The Limits to Growth.
• Deceptionomics
  Deceptionomics allows all sorts of unwise decisions about economic growth, environmental protection, and human well-being.
• Deceptionomics
  Deceptionomics allows all sorts of unwise decisions about economic growth, environmental protection, and human well-being.
• Economic Theology: Angels Dancing on the Head ...
  David Jones debunks decoupling -- the mainstream answer for rationalizing continuous economic growth.
• Economic Theology: Angels Dancing on the Head ...
  David Jones debunks decoupling -- the mainstream answer for rationalizing continuous economic growth.

The Talking Clock

• Diana: Authoritative research author says Blai ...
  We've got the press release in for the latest book in the series by Australian researcher John Morgan whose minute examination of the research into the killing of Diana, Princess of Wales led Mike Mansfield QC to declare that the chronicles were "the Magnum Opus" into those events in 1997. We ...
• Dave in drag: ZaNuTories have PM now strutting ...
  So, the country is up in arms yet again today. This time, it is something even more devastating than the humble Cornish pasty which has everyone animated. When we say 'everyone', a glance around corporate media comment pages and reactions on social media suggest that the Coalition's reboot of ...
• Sunday Paper Review: 1st April 2012
  It may be 'April Fool's Day' but we'll try to keep away from spaghetti trees and other such tomfoolery and, instead, concentrate solely on the political fools who are grabbing this Sunday's news headlines. The Sunday Telegraph has seen a draft report by the European Scrutiny Committee which i ...
• Scotland, Cruddas and the pro-EU Tories
  Reports are emerging that Peter Cruddas - embroiled in the row over "access for donations" to Prime Minister David Cameron - has been secretly recorded on tape suggesting that the Conservative Party have no genuine interest in maintaining the union between Scotland and the rest of the UK. The ...
• German economic analyst: "Spain will blow up t ...
  We have been rather overtaken with news in the last couple of days so had little time to mention the austerity riots which happened in Spain. Now, we love Spain. We love the Spanish people, their culture, the way of life. Indeed, talking about Spain is like talking about a good friend. So ...

Facing South

• The New Vigilantes: Trayvon Martin and the 'sh ...
  Across the South and country, the gun lobby has pushed laws like Florida's "Stand Your Ground" measure, which local police say is the reason they haven't bro ...
  
• North Carolina gathers public feedback on fracking
  State regulators release a draft report for comment that says fracking for natural gas can be done safely -- but they also admit that there "is a lot of projecting going on.&quot ...
  
• Mississippi Democrat leaders: We need to retur ...
  Most Mississippians may call themselves conservatives, but talk to them for five minutes and you'll hear William Jennings Bryan-style populism.
  Most Miss ...
  
• Trayvon Martin killing brings scrutiny to cont ...
  Sixteen states besides Florida have the same "Stand Your Ground" law that's complicating the quest for justice in the shooting death of an unarmed Florida teen by a ...
  
• Why the racist history of the charter school m ...
  Touted as the cure for what ails public education, charter schools have historical roots that are rarely acknowledged.
  Touted as the cure for what ails public ed ...
  

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

• Today on New Scientist: 3 April 2012
  All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: cave cuisine 1 million years ago, orca invasion, world's toughest bugs, and more
• World's toughest bugs survive electron beam an ...
  These ticks have become the first organisms to be observed alive in a scanning electron microscope and survive the experience
• Today on New Scientist: 2 April 2012
  All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: Total report from last year details North Sea gas drilling problems, mysteries of the Milky Way, and more
• See the cities that never sleep from space
  This image of the eastern US taken from the International Space Station shows that when the sun goes down, the Big Apple is far from alone
• Today on New Scientist: 30 March 2012
  All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: lightning directed by laser beams and get tantric at meal times to enjoy what you eat

Tech Drive In

• Top 10 Free Apps Designed for Android 4.0+ ICS
  Android 4.0 code named Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) was released more than three months ago. Google's own Galaxy Nexus is perhaps the only device that ships with it at the moment. And because of that, there are only a handful of Android apps available whose design has been updated for Android 4. ...
• Canonical Integrates Landscape with Ubuntu 12. ...
  Canonical launched Landscape system management tool without much fanfare sometime ago. Now, in a most recent update, they have integrated Landscape with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, again without much hoopla. In line with a recent move by Canonical integrating handy Privacy Management tool into Ubuntu 12 ...
• Ubuntu 12.04 Features a New Easily Configurabl ...
  I am not sure if this "new" option was already available from the beginning. I noticed it in my Ubuntu 12.04 LTS beta only recently and when I checked, it was not available in the previous Ubuntu 11.10 release either. Of all the new features that has been added to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, I ...
• 15 Most Creatively Designed Android Apps: Part 2
  As I did promised earlier on, here is the sequel for the post that introduced you to some of most innovatively designed apps for Android. 15 more of them to be precise. Official TED app for Android was released just a day ago. It is a cleverly designed app with ingenious additions l ...
• Oil Rush RTS Game Becomes Ubuntu's Most Downlo ...
  Linux is no stranger to high value paid apps. But gaming has always been Linux's Achilles heel. Things are slowly changing with the arrival of a number of top-notch games into Linux through Ubuntu Software Center. Software Center may not be an Android Market in terms of quality or quant ...

Case About Bird Flu

• MAINSTRAM MEDIA REPORTS SWINE FLU JAB LINKED T ...
  The mainstream media has reported on a Finnish study showing that cases of  mnarcolpesy shot up 17 times among children who took the swine flu vaccine. There are reports in The Telegraph, The Independent, The Irish Independent and the Daily Mail. Dr Rebecca Carley predicted just such an autoimmu ...
• Huge increase in autism in the USA linked to v ...
    PUBLISHED: 19:45 GMT, 29 March 2012 | UPDATED: 09:00 GMT, 30 March 2012 Daily Mail Autism cases appear to be on the rise again in the United States, but experts say the country’s highest ever rate could be a result of wider screening and the disorder’s expanding definition. Th ...
• Court Hears arguments In Lawsuit Against Obama ...
  Judge asks government lawyers if NDAA can be used on ordinary citizens Steve Watson Prisonplanet.com March 30, 2012   A Federal court in New York heard arguments Thursday for a preliminary injunction against the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the bill signed by Obama that legisl ...
• Two thirds of Irish households refuse to pay b ...
  Just over 30% or 600,000 of the 1.8 million eligible households in Ireland have so far paid a new €100 household charge, reports the Irish Independent. The number of people paying the tax is bound to increase before the deadline tomorrow. But the refusal of two thirds of the Irish households to ...
• IT IS TIME TO END OUR PRIVATISED MONEY SYSTEM
  As the eurozone faces financial meltdown, it’s important to recall there is a solution. A really simple one. The eurozone just needs a central bank or a state bank which creates money and puts it into circulation without charging interest. 97% of the money currently put into circulation in the e ...

Invisible Opportunity

• FDA Says Fresh Milk Is Dangerous, But Chemical ...
  by Alexander Higgins If you are looking for answers to nonsensical FDA decisions such as declaring fresh milk dangerous and BPA safe you need only to follow the money. (NaturalNews) The FDA, the organization that conspired with California bureaucrats to attack raw milk distribution centers over ...
• The Cancer Report (Full Version)
  This documentary catalogs how allopathic medicine established dominance in the early part of the 20th Century, and how natural medicines were arbitrarily banned from the medical profession, despite the basis of this decision being scientifically unsound. The wholesale transition from natural med ...
• Baby receives cocktail of seven vaccines, lose ...
  Baby Irene’s dad agreed with his homeopathic physician, Hannah Eagle, about the dangers of vaccines. He certainly did not plan on vaccinating his 4-month old daughter. On December 4, 2011, however, under a tremendous amount of pressure from the family pediatrician, he and his wife acquiesc ...
• Thomas Aquinas, Sigmund Freud, Rheumatoid Arth ...
  By Les Visible Anyone who has all the answers is wrong, especially anyone who is absolutely certain and even more so when they try to engage complex language that has the same comparative effect on my digestive system as overcooked linguine. I’ve waxed complex on occasion but I generally l ...
• Truth behind 9/11 will annihilate Israel
  If Americans ever know that Israel did this, they are going to scrub them off the earth,” Alan Sabrosky, writer and consultant specializing in national and international security affairs A US Marine Corps veteran and author asserts that Israel masterminded the 9/11 attacks, saying if Americans w ...

Veterans Today

• Debt-To-Income Ratio: Does it Make Any Differe ...
  VA loan was officially introduced through the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act (GI Bill of Rights) on June 22, 1944.
• VA Grant Supports Improvement at Pennsylvania ...
  The Department of Veterans Affairs is awarding nearly $1.9 million to install life safety fire alarms and sprinkler systems at the Pennsylvania Veterans home in Hollidaysburg.
• Thomas Sczaz – A Humanist Who Deserves Honor
  In 1989, when Radio Free America was into it's first full year of broadcasts one of the themes most gripping to a new audience for the new medium of anti-fascist statism, sometimes called ‘populism’ Was the forum promoted around the great work of Dr. Thomas Sczaz author of ‘the myth of mental il ...
• U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for ...
  Arma Global Corp., Tampa, Fla., has been awarded a $500,000,000 single-award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide TACLAN family of system acquisition, design, integration, production, and delivery in support of U.S.
• Duff on Press TV – ‘Americans ashamed of ...
  "These last three incidents and in particular, the killing of 18 --which has been a more of a shock in the United States than anyone is aware-- is that Americans are so ashamed. We have almost no way of dealing with this; we cannot understand what happened. We reached to a point where we have ve ...

electric politics

• The Future Is Not What It Used To Be
  Listening to Ed Asner I'm reminded of Michael Polanyi's observation (to paraphrase) that we believe more than we can prove and know more than we can say. Polanyi also talked about "growing points" in science, which I hope has an analogue in a free society where personal connections become more i ...
• The NUMEC Affair
  No charges were ever filed. Nothing was ever proved. But the FBI tried, over the course of several criminal investigations, to ascertain whether, in fact, certain suspect individuals had diverted hundreds of pounds of highly enriched uranium from a plant in Pennsylvania to Israel, for use in mak ...
• Washington's Warlords
  When it comes to its spending priorities America seems congenitally unable to focus on reality. Obfuscation being more highly prized than clarity. Nevertheless, we should recognize that as a percentage of GDP this country spends four to five times the money for military purposes as do other indu ...
• The Taiping Civil War
  In the middle of the 19th century a civil war in China killed at least twenty million people. The war totally changed the course of Chinese history, of Asian history and, indeed, of world history. Just think: if the Taipings had won and followed through with their modernization program, and Chin ...
• It Takes A Generation To Raise A Prophet
  In theory, churches should be more active than they are these days in pursuing Justice and Peace. So why aren't they? Where were they on Iraq? Where are they now, on Iran? What do churches have to say about universal health care? Or income and wealth inequality? Or, for that matter, out of contr ...

PR News

• M Booth forms fashion alliance with Umindi Fra ...
  NEW YORK: M Booth has formed an alliance with Umindi Francis Consulting Group to enhance its fashion expertise.
• LG plans to retain Ogilvy-H+K team after RFP
  SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA: LG Electronics is planning to retain LG-One, a multi-agency team made up of WPP Group's Ogilvy PR Worldwide and Hill+Knowlton Strategies, to handle global PR work after a review process.
• LG to retain Ogilvy-H+K team after RFP
  SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA: LG Electronics is planning to retain LG-One, a multi-agency team made up of WPP Group's Ogilvy PR Worldwide and Hill+Knowlton Strategies, to handle global PR work after a review process.
• WPP acquires EffectiveUI
  DUBLIN, IRELAND: WPP Group has acquired EffectiveUI, a user experience agency that develops custom web, mobile, desktop, and touch-enabled applications.
• Havas buys crowd-sourcing ad firm Victors & Spoils
  PARIS: Havas has acquired a majority stake in Victors & Spoils, a creative advertising agency that uses crowd-sourcing principles.

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

• Job Opportunity: Seasonal Wetlands Educator, I ...
  Position:  Seasonal Wetlands Educator Organization:  Inside Education ...
• AWA Tuesday Talk— Water For Tomorrow: All-Part ...
  Alberta Wilderness Association 28 Mar 2012 - 19:00 “The reality is that fresh water is more valuable than crude oil.” Peter Lougheed, Former Alberta Premier, 2005 ...
• Job Opportunity: Project Manager, Clean Air St ...
  Position:  Project Manager Organization:  Clean Air Strategic Alliance ...
• Climb & Run for Wilderness
  Alberta Wilderness Association 21 Apr 2012 - 08:00 Event details and registration information Location Calgary Tower Cal ...
• Dialogues and Action for Earth Summit 2012: We ...
  WE CANada 14 Mar 2012 - 18:00 - 20:00 Starting in Corner Brooke, Newfoundland, and touring all the way to Vancouver, British Columbia, youth leaders and sustainability veterans will ...

Stop NATO

• Chicago NATO summit: The whole world will be w ...
  Submitted to the Chicago Tribune Re: Up with the NATO protesters! It was refreshing, encouraging and surprising alike to see Andy Thayer of the Coalition Against NATO/G-8 War & Poverty Agenda given the opportunity to address the issue of why Chicagoans, and their supporters throughout the wo ...
• NATO Plans Forceful Statement On Georgia At Ch ...
  Itar-Tass April 3, 2012 NATO plans forceful statement on cooperation with Georgia at Chicago summit BRUSSELS: A forceful statement with regard to cooperation with Georgia may be made at the NATO Chicago summit in late May 2012, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen told a Tuesday press co ...
• Comment: When will NATO be abolished?
  Comment posted to WBEZ 91.5 Chicago Public Media Re: NATO in the 21st Century: Hearing both sides of the debate It is to be hoped that at least one of the four presenters will indict the North Atlantic military bloc as the lawless, aggressive, constantly expanding threat to the post-World War Tw ...
• Pakistan: NATO Supply Lines May Not Open Anyti ...
  News Pakistan April 3, 2012 NATO supply lines may not open anytime soon Aftermath of NATO attack on the Salala border post on November 26, 2011 Prime Minister of Pakistan Yousuf Raza Gilani has recently given a statement in which he expressed the stance of the government ruled by the Pakistan Pe ...
• Libyan Scenario Unacceptable For South Caucasu ...
  RT April 3, 2012 Libyan scenario unacceptable for Karabakh – Lavrov Russia believes that everything possible must be done for a peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh territorial conflict, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said. “I really wouldn’t want the Libyan scenario to repeat a ...

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Intel Hub

• Driving Inside the Soviets’ Secret Submarine Lair
  Wired | In 1953, Joseph Stalin signed the plans for a top-secret nuclear submarine base that would become the operational home for the fearsome Soviet Black Sea Fleet.
• U.S. Corporate Tax Rate Consequences
  James Hall | Now that Japan lowered its own taxes, the U.S. stands on top with the dubious distinction of having the highest corporate tax rates.
• Bio-Safety Danger In U.S. Heartland
  American Free Press By Frank Whalen April 3, 2012 Despite funding and safety concerns, plans are still in the works to replace the aging Plum Island Animal Disease Center, which houses the deadliest viruses, bacteria and other pathogens in the world, with the new National Bio-and Agro-Defense Fa ...
• Duplicate Mega Millions Lottery Tickets Raise ...
  AZFamily.com April 3, 2012 PHOENIX — Two lottery tickets bought in the Valley are raising eyebrows. They were purchased by employees at Hughes Performance, a Phoenix company that specializes in rebuilding transmissions. Jan Bleichroth owns the company and collected money from employees for ...
• Videos: Tornadoes Rip Through Texas
  The Intel Hub Multiple tornadoes have devestated parts of Texas with tractor trailers tossed hundreds of feet into the air. nCould this be weaponized manipulation?

FRS

• Srikakulam-Koraput, India: Maoists firm on wi ...
  Express News Service, 29 March 2012BHUBANESWAR/KORAPUT: Even as the hostage crisis drags on, the Srikakulam-Koraput division of the CPI (Maoist) has announced that stopping Operation Green Hunt and release of all tribals from jails are the two main demands.  A press note signed by Daya, secretar ...
• Neighbors Spying on You? New Program Spreading ...
  By Uzma Kolsy , Salon, March 31, 2012 http://www.alternet.org/story/154772/neighbors_spying_on_you_new_program_spreading_across_the_us_takes_neighborhood_watch_to_scary_new_level Crime in Los Angeles is a gritty enterprise, and donning an LAPD badge has historically involved getting your hands d ...
• Neighbors Spying on You? New Program Spreading ...
  By Uzma Kolsy , Salon, March 31, 2012 http://www.alternet.org/story/154772/neighbors_spying_on_you_new_program_spreading_across_the_us_takes_neighborhood_watch_to_scary_new_level Crime in Los Angeles is a gritty enterprise, and donning an LAPD badge has historically involved getting your hands d ...
• Philippines: Mindanao press reports large grow ...
  NPAs in Mindanao up 20 percent By Edwin G. Espejo GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/28 March) – The communist-led New People’s Army (NPA) in Mindanao has grown in numbers over the last two years, according to rebel spokesman Jorge Madlos, a.k.a. Ka Oris. “We have formed additional platoons and incr ...
• Philippines: Mindanao press reports large grow ...
  NPAs in Mindanao up 20 percent By Edwin G. Espejo GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/28 March) – The communist-led New People’s Army (NPA) in Mindanao has grown in numbers over the last two years, according to rebel spokesman Jorge Madlos, a.k.a. Ka Oris. “We have formed additional platoons and incr ...

Ken O'Keefe

• Thought Police within the so-called ‘Pal ...
  I depart by saying that any group of people, whether it is the disciples of Hitler, the Christian Zionists of America or the Jewish supporters of Israel, or the brainwashed false Muslims, I say loud and clear, any group that believes they are “chosen” by God and thus superior to anyone else, is ...
• Thought Police within the so-called ‘Pal ...
  I depart by saying that any group of people, whether it is the disciples of Hitler, the Christian Zionists of America or the Jewish supporters of Israel, or the brainwashed false Muslims, I say loud and clear, any group that believes they are “chosen” by God and thus superior to anyone else, is ...
• No Fly Zone Over Palestine
  As Israel once again flexes its psychopathic tendencies, I feel the need to expose the hypocrisy of the west once more in the form of a picture.
• No Fly Zone Over Palestine
  As Israel once again flexes its psychopathic tendencies, I feel the need to expose the hypocrisy of the west once more in the form of a picture.
• For Love
  I just want to say, need to say, for the record, that I want what is best for all people, and I mean all people. I want no retribution, I feel no hate, I want truth and justice. When I see my children, who deserve a good father, just like all children, I only hope that they, like all other chi ...

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

• Creationist Rick Santorum's Speech Against Env ...
  Rick Santorum has gained a jump in the polls in Ohio this week, yet there are still people scratching their heads and wondering why. Aside from denying solidly proven science about the environment, he appealed to the highly religious in pious Ohio.Contributor: JD Stockman Published: Feb 21, 2012
• Iran Halts Oil Sales to British and French Com ...
  Iran is trading blows with the United States and its western allies over its nuclear program.Contributor: John Coon Published: Feb 20, 2012
• Breakthrough in Early Diagnosis of Autism
  It may be possible to diagnose autism in infants as young as 6 months old, well before most begin to display signs of the disorder. A recent study found differences in the way neural pathways in the brain develop in autistic infants.Contributor: Kim Jacobs Walker Published: Feb 20, 2012
• Taking Advantage of Momentum, Rick Santorum Go ...
  With recent primary wins, Presidential hopeful Rick Santorum goes after President Obama and Republican front runner Mitt Romney as we head into Super Tuesday on March 6th.Contributor: Roy Branson Published: Feb 19, 2012
• Where Have You Gone, John Glenn?
  John Glenn and NASA will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of his flight Feb. 20, 2012.Contributor: William Browning Published: Feb 18, 2012

Popsci - Science

• While the LHC Hunts Higgs, the Jefferson Accel ...
  While the Large Hadron Collider prepares to fire up its proton beams and get back to particle smashing, another accelerator is dialing up the search for another elusive particle. The Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Virginia is turning up its electron beams in search of “dark” o ...
• The World's Most Sensitive Scale Can Weigh Sin ...
  Accurate to one yoctogram A group of scientists at the Catalan Institute of Nanotechnology have created a new scale (and process for weighing) that increases the accuracy of small-scale, um, scales to new heights. Their new scale, which uses short nanotubes at very low temperatures, was able to ...
• Mitt Romney Campaigns According to the Rules ...
  An op-ed in the Sunday New York Times -- amusing regardless of your opinion of the candidate -- offers “A Quantum Theory of Mitt Romney.” Much the same way that light is both a particle and a wave, Mitt Romney is
• This Week in the Future, March 26-30, 2012
  This week's Baarbarian illustration reminds us that just as last week we were up in the air, we've spent the last five days with our heads under the sea. Not as far under as James Cameron, but, you know, nobody's ever been that far under, by themselves, at least. And...segue...have a nice weeken ...
• The Most Amazing Science Images of the Week, M ...
  A well-rounded lineup of amazing imagery for you guys this week: there's an elephant with a phone and a monkey with a cold (animal requirements: fulfilled). There's a shot of the space shuttle in space, and one of the SpaceX capsule on the ground (space requirements: fulfilled). There are perfum ...

Veterans Today

• Debt-To-Income Ratio: Does it Make Any Differe ...
  VA loan was officially introduced through the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act (GI Bill of Rights) on June 22, 1944.
• VA Grant Supports Improvement at Pennsylvania ...
  The Department of Veterans Affairs is awarding nearly $1.9 million to install life safety fire alarms and sprinkler systems at the Pennsylvania Veterans home in Hollidaysburg.
• Thomas Sczaz – A Humanist Who Deserves Honor
  In 1989, when Radio Free America was into it's first full year of broadcasts one of the themes most gripping to a new audience for the new medium of anti-fascist statism, sometimes called ‘populism’ Was the forum promoted around the great work of Dr. Thomas Sczaz author of ‘the myth of mental il ...
• U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for ...
  Arma Global Corp., Tampa, Fla., has been awarded a $500,000,000 single-award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide TACLAN family of system acquisition, design, integration, production, and delivery in support of U.S.
• Duff on Press TV – ‘Americans ashamed of ...
  "These last three incidents and in particular, the killing of 18 --which has been a more of a shock in the United States than anyone is aware-- is that Americans are so ashamed. We have almost no way of dealing with this; we cannot understand what happened. We reached to a point where we have ve ...

War is Business

• “Surveillance Inc.”: Profit Makes ...
  Sell moral responsibility Sell moral responsibility • Read more at The Atlantic
• 2011 Not So Bad For U.S. Defense Contractors, ...
  Buy downturn insurance Buy downturn insurance • Read more at Govpro
• Americans In Afghanistan Likely Causing More C ...
  Even the most cash-strapped, podunk county prosecutor's office would be embarrassed by these numbers. Three audits completed. Two bribery convictions. Three million bribes a day.
• Obama To Sidestep Rules In Bahrain Arms Deal ( ...
  Sell formalities Sell formalities • Read more at Foreign Policy
• New U.S. Nuke Facility Shows One Way Military ...
  Aren't nuclear weapons, after all, the constant preoccupation of all foreign and national security thought—not just within the U.S., but around the world?

Hudson's Weather & Climate

• Drought order in parts of Yorkshire. Will it a ...
  The Environment Agency has today confirmed that some parts of Yorkshire are now officially in drought.   The drought order applies to some catchments of the Rivers Don, Rother, Hull and Derwent and has been issued because the agency is concerned about the effect of drought on the environme ...
• Recovery in Arctic sea ice continues
  Arctic sea ice has staged a strong recovery in the last few weeks, reaching levels not far from normal for this time of the year. The rise is all the more impressive, since February saw the 5th lowest ice extent since satellite records began in 1979, and until recently ice extent has been ...
• Drought order update
  The continued dry weather in parts of our region has led Anglian Water to implement a hosepipe ban for all its customers in Lincolnshire from April 5th. Customers in North Nottinghamshire who are served by Severn Trent for sewerage, but Anglian Water for their water supplies, will also have a h ...
• Global temperature update
  Average global temperatures remained broadly the same throughout the month of February according to the UAH satellite measure. The anomaly of -0.116C, relative to the 30 year running average, equates to an anomaly of approximately +0.137C above the more standard 1961-1990 average. The decline ...
• Winter 2011/2012: The final verdict
  Winter this year has confounded most long range forecasts issued last autumn, turning out to be mild, averaged over December, January and February (Climatological winter). Talk of huge snowfalls, and the likelihood of another severe winter which were lapped up by an ever eager media, were wide ...

Internat'l Political Economy

• A Parisian in America: Comic Stylings of IMF's ...
  This will be short and unsweet as it demonstrates that you do not have to go very far to observe the mind-boggling ludicrousness of the world economy. My homepage ever since I hopped into cyberspace in 1994, Yahoo! News, is carrying an Agence-France Presse clipping about how IMF Managing Directo ...
• Got Fission? Debating Nukes 4 Development
  Our colleagues over at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists sent me a notice about a timely new feature of theirs concerning LDCs considering the adoption of nuclear power (the Atomic Scientists maintain the well-known Doomsday Clock). The impetus for doing so should be familiar to everyone: in ...
• Money Talks? Bahrain GP Still On (Fortnight to Go)
  Some have hunger games; Formula One has, well, anger races.  There has been a lot in the news about how the Formula One circus will not be disrupted this year alike how last year's Bahrain Grand Prix was postponed then finally cancelled due to the events of the so-called Arab Spring. Durin ...
• Globocop No More: United States After Unipolarity
  LSE IDEAS has been churning out special reports at such a furious pace that I almost forgot to mention this one concerning The United States After Unipolarity. The title pretty much sums up what the contributions here say, although the various contributors do question the extent to which the--pa ...
• Tired of the World Bank? Enter BRICS Dev't Bank
  You hoped that the IMF and the World Bank would reflect more of the changes in the world economy by giving more input and leadership to major emerging economies. But, as the IMF succession process proved and the current World Bank "search" (stitch-up is the more accurate term) is proving, Wester ...

Economic Collapse Blog

• Why Is The Heartland Of America Being Ripped T ...
  What in the world is going on in the heartland of America?  Spring has barely even begun and we are seeing communities all over America being ripped to shreds by gigantic tornadoes.  A lot of meteorologists claimed that the nightmarish tornado season of 2011 was an "anomaly", but ...
• Read This First Before You Decide That Prepper ...
  Do you believe that preppers are a few cards short of a full deck?  Do you assume that anyone that is "preparing for doomsday" does not have their elevator going all the way to the top floor?  Well, you might want to read this first before you make a final decision that all prepp ...
• The 15 Trillion Dollar Party
  If you knew that you could live in luxury for the rest of your life but that by doing so it would absolutely destroy the future for your children, your grandchildren and your great-grandchildren would you do it?  Well, that is exactly what we are doing as a nation.  Over the past ...
• Everything Is Going To Be Alright?
  Is the U.S. economy going to be okay?  Well, if the only source you listened to was the mainstream media, you would be left with the distinct impression that the U.S. economy is heading toward a full recovery and that everything is going to be alright.  Unfortunately, that is not ...
• A Cashless Society May Be Closer Than Most Peo ...
  Most people think of a cashless society as something that is way off in the distant future.  Unfortunately, that is simply not the case.  The truth is that a cashless society is much closer than most people would ever dare to imagine.  To a large degree, the transition to a cashl ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

• A Las Barricadas: A Boardgame of Social War
  A Las Barricadas is a boardgame about conflict between two opposing social forces, namely that of the state and of anti-authori...
• Left Bank Books again publishes pamphlets and ...
  After several years of publishing silence, Left Bank Books Collective is pleased to announce the restart of its publishing project. We will be p...
• American Section of the Situationist Internati ...
  The French publishing house Collectif des Métiers De l’Édition (CMDE) has just published, under the rubric “Les reveil...
• Announcing: The Anvil Review #3
  After a too long absence we have finally released into the wild the brand new issue of The Anvil Review (#3). This issue includes revie...
• Issue #6 of The Sovereign Self is out
  March’s issue (#6) of The Sovereign Self* is out! Number six includes articles regarding: the drastic differences between active and passi...

E U Times

• Arizona citizens outraged over internet censor ...
  Does this article – or maybe just the headline – annoy, offend or terrify you? If so, it may soon be illegal in Arizona. ­The state’s legislature has passed a bill which would update an existing telephone harassment law to apply to the Internet and other forms of electronic communication. ...
• Hugo Chavez may lose presidential election
  Venezuela’s National Electoral Council officially appointed the date of the presidential election – October 7, 2012. However, the situation in the country is heating up already. According to the Independent Social Agencies, the chances of the current president Hugo Chavez for re-elec ...
• Russia, Iran set to counter US-Israeli strike ...
  Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov issued a strong warning against a military attack on Iran Monday, April 2, saying that a pre-emptive strike would violate international law. His comments, made during a visit to Armenia, stopped short of threatening (the US and/or Israel) of consequences. B ...
• Worse than SOPA: CISPA cybersecurity bill will ...
  An onrush of condemnation and criticism kept the SOPA and PIPA acts from passing earlier this year, but US lawmakers have already authored another authoritarian bill that could give them free reign to creep the Web in the name of cybersecurity. As congressmen in Washington consider how to handle ...
• UK government’s monitoring plan for Inte ...
  Civil liberties groups have reacted angrily to the British government’s plan to monitor the personal activities of its citizens on the Internet. Under a government plan known as the Communications Capabilities Development Programme (CCDP), Internet service providers will be forced to grant secur ...

Voiceless Victim

• Pope, Cardinals, and Bishops just as guilty as ...
  In my personal experience as a victim of catholic church enabled child sexual abuse, as a child protection activist, and as a member of a victim support self help group, I have always known that I was not abused solely by the cunning predator who went to such lengths to regularly torture me and ...
• Taste of justice at last for state victims, bu ...
  The most horrifying evidence in recent weeks from a West Australian inquiry into the reign of terror of convicted serial child rapist Dennis McKenna at the head of a state run hostel at Katanning is not about the abuse itself, but about the complete and utter betrayal of dozens, possibly hundred ...
• Catholic Church has no business policing itself
  Below are some excerpts from this week’s Report of the Inquiry into Protecting Victoria’s Vulnerable Children (Australia) demolishing some of the Catholic Church’s favourite excuses for its appalling record on child endangerment. Thankfully the inquiry refused to be fooled by t ...
• How Many Dead Children Are Too Many?
  An average of 50 children die from drowning in Australia every year. This figure is considered unacceptably high. Generously funded multi million dollar public education campaigns called Swim and Survive and Swim Kids aim to teach children about water safety in order to bring that shocking numbe ...
• Italy acknowledges Vatican unworthy of unfair ...
  The new Italian Prime Minister, Mario Monti, has responded to a petition by 130,000 citizens to end unfair tax-free perks for the Catholic Church’s commercial enterprises. Promising to reverse the trend which in the past saw anti-competitive and possibly illegal special privileges for the ...

WL Central

• 2012-04-03 The #WikiLeaks financial blockade a ...
  TweetAuthored by @Nicsha If you spend five minutes watching commercial television or flicking through a mainstream magazine, you would think spending money is not only our birthright, but a move that is encouraged and welcomed. We can buy almost anything from anywhere. We have the freedom to inv ...
• 2012-04-02 Australian Government's escalating ...
  TweetAfter a public forum on WikiLeaks, Australian Greens Senator Scott Ludlam made the following comment: The Australian Government has done the absolute bare minimum above stuff-all to help this Australian citizen in trouble. […] They've attempted to block and delay Freedom of Information requ ...
• From Social Media to Moral Awakening; Bradley ...
  TweetOriginal picture by Nikhil Kirsh, Creative Rendering by idlewild606 James Madison once said, "Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives". Madison recognized that accurate knowledge is es ...
• 2012-03-31 #WikiLeaks News Update & Upcoming E ...
  Tweet WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 483 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 480 days. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 677 days. WikiLeaks News: The Australian Government recently renewed its attacks against Wik ...
• Polish CIA prison: political influence on the ...
  TweetPM Donald Tusk has now commented on the investigation into the CIA black site in Stare Kiejkuty. According to news agency PAP, he is constantly in touch with President Bronisław Komorowski and General Prosecutor Andrzej Seremet regarding the matter. He added that the prosecutors investigat ...

U N News

• Ban and head of South American bloc discuss re ...
  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met yesterday with the head of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), María Emma Mejía Vélez, in discussions touching on cooperation between the United Nations and regional organizations, the issue of the Falkland Islands (Malvinas) and sustainable development.
• At UN conference, Latin American countries rea ...
  Latin American and Caribbean countries reaffirmed their commitment to eradicate hunger during a United Nations conference on food and agriculture in Buenos Aires, Argentina, over the weekend.
• Recent death of gay man highlights need for an ...
  The United Nations human rights office today urged the Government of Chile to pass a law against discrimination, including on grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity, following the recent killing of a young gay man in the capital, Santiago.
• UN concerned over funding for humanitarian ser ...
  The United Nations and the Government of Haiti today voiced concern over a lack of resources to fund humanitarian services that are still required to help people in the Caribbean country recover from recent crises, including the 2010 earthquake and the cholera epidemic, and enhance preparedness ...
• UN development chief hails Haiti's progress tw ...
  The United Nations development chief today commended Haiti's progress in rebuilding its capital, Port-au-Prince, two years after a devastating earthquake rocked the country killing 200,000 people.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

• Indonesia's Shark Fin Trade
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Despite the damage to the global marine ecosystem, Indonesia has no rules on shark fishing
• Coping with Climate Change
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Some people will be forced to cope because they don’t have the economic or social means to adapt
• The Real Winners in Burma's Election
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Small step in the struggle for democracy
• Can Afghanistan and Pakistan Prop Each Other Up?
  • (http://twitter.com/share) As NATO leaves, a last hope is that Afghans and Pakistanis try economic cooperation
• The Masters is Not a Major
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Millions of enthusiasts should expect more out of what’s billed as one of the world’s greatest golf spectacles

We Know the Lies

• The Cancer Report
    This documentary catalogs how allopathic medicine established dominance in the early part of the 20th Century, and how natural medicines were arbitrarily banned from the medical profession, despite the basis of this decision being scientifically unsound. ~ Full length Documentary read ...
• The Theft of the American Dream and the Koch B ...
    We are in the battle of our lives... we are in danger of losing. The enemy is men in Brooks Brothers suits. The 2000 election was the first battle and they won. The Supreme Court of the United States installed a president in the White House... we let them do it. Al Gore let them do it. ...
• The Census' Broken Promise... Your Privacy!
    Despite decades-old assurances census data would be private and pose no harm, the federal government is releasing data that could reveal family skeletons or lead to identity theft. read more
• Chelsea Clinton's Life Threatened To Keep Bill ...
    Most people in the US, especially Democrats, believe that the Obama Birther Movement was started by Republicans and or the Tea Party. They believe it is a smear campaign aimed to tarnish the image of their hero of change. But they may be shocked to learn that the Birther Movement was ...
• 'Military Coup Could Oust Obama'... Says Form ...
    Former White House speechwriter John L. Perry has  courted controversy by suggesting that the U.S. Military, upholding  their oath to defend the Constitution against domestic enemies, could stage a bloodless coup to oust President Obama. read more

Tarpley

• From Munich 1938 to April Fool in Istanbul: Wi ...
  74 Years Ago, the Buffer Zone Was Called the Sudetenland Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV March 29, 2012 [download video] [download audio] While the Syria’s opposition in Turkey is struggling to form an interim government in case the ongoing regime change efforts succeeded, Damascus has accep ...
• A Turkish Attempt to Carve Out a “Buffer ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV March 28, 2012 Recorded Monday, March 26, 2012 [download video] [download audio]
• Obama Begs Vacillating Medvedev to Delay Russi ...
  Webster G. Tarpley on the Alex Jones Show Infowars March 28, 2012 Recorded on Monday, March 26, 2012 [download video] [download audio]
• Ron Paul Still AWOL on Urgent Motion by Rep. W ...
  Webster G. Tarpley on INN World Report Radio I.N.N. World Report March 28, 2012 Recorded on Thursday, March 22, 2012 [download audio]
• 9/11, False Flags, and Black Ops: An Evening o ...
  Monday, April 02, 2012 — 6:30pm to 8:30pm Tickets $15 — Buy Now! Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. International Spy Museum March 26, 2012 Briefing The truth may be out there, but when does the search for it turn into a wild goose chase? Canadian journalist and Visiting Fellow at the [...]

Modern Survivalism

• Risks Happen
  Our perception of risk is something we share as survivalists and preppers. It’s the ability to realize the potential dangers there are in our world and to become prepared for these dangers, in case they actually happen, even though the risk may seem to be small. Think about how many people ...
• When the Trucks Stop, It’s Over
  Systemic risk. I guarantee that most ordinary folks have no idea that if trucks stopped rolling all across America, within a short period of time nearly all Americans would all be in a life-threatening situation from major delivery shortages. 70% of all freight that is moved in the U.S. is done ...
• NSA versus the USA
  The government seems to have plenty of money for this kind of thing. Total surveillance on all Americans. We are apparently already well beyond Orwell’s “1984″. Ever evolving high-tech gadgets and the Internet have given Big Brother a peep hole into the lives of everyday Americ ...
• Work Gloves – A Survival Essential
  Work gloves are essential for safety and health while performing tasks where your hands are at risk to be cut and/or contaminated-infected. Work gloves are a crucial element to SHTF survival and a tool for any survivalist/prepper, man or woman. A simple cut can quickly lead to infection. Without ...
• Bisphenol-A (BPA) Disinformation
  Guest post: by ‘Otter Walks’ Bisphenol-A (BPA) another Alphabet System Anti-Survival: FDA Government/cy-op disinformation This all came with a walk in the woods. A discarded boxed wine container was just off the path so I picked it up… Darn litter Bugs! That was the here and now reac ...

Fast Company

• How To Avoid Getting Nowhere With Your Business
  In the culture versus strategy debate, Ward Van Beek at THNK, the Amsterdam School of Creative Leadership, says one without the other will get you nowhere. [twistage 250f2ec9274a8]For more bite-sized bits of wisdom on leadership and strategies for success, explore our ongoing video series at&nbs ...
• PC Deathwatch: In Which Intel Begins to Sweat
  Intel sounds afraid of the future. Speaking to PC World yesterday, Intel Product Manager Anand Kajshmanan and media spokesperson Alison Wesley set out in no uncertain terms what the Ultrabook means to Intel. It's all hidden in the name, it seems: "Ultra' means pinnacle, and we wanted the Ul ...
• How To Get The Most Out Of Your Employees
  The notion that an employee needs to be engaged, enabled, or energized is certainly not groundbreaking. But the problem is that they’ve generally been considered separately. Instead, think for a moment about these three traits visually, as shaded circles in a Venn diagram; when the three traits ...
• The 10-Minute Strategy Session That Will Recha ...
  My recent post, "Why Small Businesses Should Scrap Strategic Planning," set off a barrage of conversations, mostly from entrepreneurs who agree. Big companies have to make all their strategic decisions at once during an annual strategic planning session because it is too difficult and costly to ...
• KAYAK On Creating A Culture Of Innovation
  “Creativity is a constant stream of new--new ideas, new solutions, new product, new processes. I love to surround myself with childlike creative people, leaving the brilliant doubters and naysayers to work for my competitors,” says Paul English, Chief Technology Officer and Cofounder of KAYAK.Wh ...

Jadaliyya

• Essential Readings: Reading Lebanon
  My dissertation studies intersections and impasses between law and citizenship in Lebanon. I do so through examining two phenomena, activism for a secular personal status and/or civil marriage law, and conversion between sects and/or religions in order to make use of different personal s ...
• Press Release: Stop Home Demolitions and the D ...
  [The following press release was issued by Adalah--The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel on 27 March 2012.] 30 March 2012 is the thirty-sixth Land Day. The first Land Day began as a general strike in 1976 to protest Israel's policy of confiscating Arab land, and ended with ...
• Does International Law Shelter States from Acc ...
   Regrettably, states’ power to protect themselves and to ensure impunity has continued to grow in recent years. This paper discusses two recent examples of this political trend: the far-reaching reaction to Judge Baltasar Garzon’s legal decision not to apply the 1977 Spanish Amnesty ...
• Press Release: Adalah, Bimkom, the RCUV and Ar ...
   [The following press release was issued by Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel on 25 March 2012.] (Beer el-Sabe, Israel)--On 19 March 2012, six residents of unrecognized Arab Bedouin villages in the northern Naqab (Negev) filed an official o ...
• Covering Iran's Ninjas
  On the evening of 29 March, a line in my twitter feed read, “You don’t want to mess with Iran’s lady ninjas.” Cara Park’s snarky comment had been retweeted by someone I follow in Cairo. I clicked her link to find she’s a deputy managing editor of Foreign Policy, blogging on the suspensio ...

mediagazer

• Amazon says its Kindle Owners' Lending Library ...
  Paul Sawers / The Next Web: Amazon says its Kindle Owners' Lending Library drives 229% more sales in backlist e-book titles  —  Amazon's Kindle certainly seems to be dominating the e-reading space in many countries, but it's perhaps its publisher deals that helps it truly stay a ...
• Woodward and Bernstein: Could the Web generati ...
  Dan Zak / Washington Post: Woodward and Bernstein: Could the Web generation uncover a Watergate-type scandal?  —  The gabby, gray-haired grand poobahs of journalism sprang from the back flaps of their book jackets onto a real-life panel Tuesday afternoon in the air-conditioned g ...
• Reuters editor in chief received $2.7 million ...
  Chris Roush / Talking Biz News: Reuters editor in chief received $2.7 million in 2011  —  Stephen J. Adler, the editor in chief of Reuters, received total compensation of $2.7 million in 2011, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.  —  ...
• Uncomfortable Matt Lauer interview with Ryan S ...
  Eric Deggans / Tampa Bay Times: Uncomfortable Matt Lauer interview with Ryan Seacrest a collision of brands and offscreen talks  —  One of the Today show's other hyped-up interviews to counteract Katie Couric guest hosting Good Morning America fizzled this morning, as American I ...
• Keith needed 'Diva' limos e-mails reveal (Marc ...
  Marc Berman / New York Post: Keith needed ‘Diva’ limos e-mails reveal  —  Liberal bloviator Keith Olbermann spent his last days at Current TV driving colleagues nuts with rants about “smelly” drivers who had the audacity to talk to him, according to start ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

• Kalou hopes for Blues stay
  Salomon Kalou believes he could be offered an opportunity to prolong his Chelsea career after coming back into favour under Roberto Di Matteo. The Ivory Coast international appeared to be heading towards the exits...
• Does Mitt Romney Really Abhor Europe?
  FacebookTwitterLinkedinShareShareCloseRedditTumblrDigg E-mailPrint LONDON — Does Mitt Romney really not like Europe, or is it just politics? When the former Massachusetts governor, in a primaries victory speech on Tuesday night, accused President Barack Obama of “laying the foundation ...
• Success of Annan's peace plan for Syria d ...
  UNITED NATIONS - The success or failure of Kofi Annan's peace plan for Syria will depend largely on how willing Russia is to keep sustained pressure on a government that Moscow is determined to protect from Western calls for 'regime change.' Even if, as expected, Syrian President Bashar al-A ...
•   ...
  Posted: April 4, 2012 Jessica Alba’s new tattoos are not real, a rep for the star has confirmed to E! Online. The 30-year-old mother-of-two, who already has some genuine tats of her own (including a line of Sanskrit on her wrist, and a ladybug and a daisy on her neck), was spotted Tues ...
• Real Heroes - An Ethereal Event Appreciat ...
  Reliance Industries being known for bringing radical changes in the society has consistently worked towards energizing India. Mukesh Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director of Reliance has persistently exhibited his magnanimousness by supporting innumerable causes that has enabled welfare in ...

no frakking consensus

• Thank You, British Taxpayers
  British taxpayers spent £165,937 in recent years on climate change projects here in Canada.
• Today’s News Media: Cheerleaders for the ...
  Newspapers used to think their job was to help keep wealthy and powerful institutions honest. Now they climb into bed with them.
• Earth Hour Organizers Prey on Mexico
  Mexico is crippled by corruption, violence, and poverty. But the World Wildlife Fund wants it to show leadership on climate change.
• The Enormous CEO Salaries Behind Earth Hour
  Earth Hour isn't a volunteer, grassroots operation. The World Wildlife Fund pays its US and Canadian CEOs so handsomely they are part of the economic elite - the top 1% of income earners.
• Earth Hour: Corporations Preaching Morality
  When you dim your lights for Earth Hour, you're protesting in a manner approved by multinational corporations. You're allowing banks and insurance companies to tell you how to spend your Saturday night.

Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

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

Truth About Our World

• Notification
  This blogs entries have been moved to http://worldtruthtoday.wordpress.com/ I will no longer post anything here, although site will remain open for a while. Thanks Grace
• Trudell Documentary
• Occupy Wall Street “Beware The Zeitgeist ...
• The Dirty Fucking Hippies Were Right
• World War 3 (III,Three): September 11, 2001-20 ...

Gyrovague's Raves

• Life Without Sex
  Now that he’s raised awareness of his lifestyle, David Jay, founder of AVEN, is working to change mainstream beliefs about sex drives RACHEL HILLS But what all asexual people have in common — and what defines asexuality as an orientation — is that, while they may have a desire ...
• Some Years Before 1963
  Norma Clarke A woman born in 1600 grew up being told she was the most lustful of God’s creatures. Come 1800 and the message was reversed: she was ‘naturally’ delicate and pure. No longer having lusts of her own to manage, her role was to control the ‘natural’ lust o ...
• Pink Slime, Deconstructed
  See Arr Oh Well, if you come from the meat producers’ camp, you instead refer to “slime” as lean, finely-textured beef, or LFTB. Connective tissue, trimmings, and scraps from industrial butcher plants are mixed in a large steel reactor, where technicians heat the mixture to 100 oF, initiating ti ...
• Brain drain
  Neuroscience wants to be the answer to everything. It isn’t ROGER SCRUTON There are many reasons for believing the brain is the seat of consciousness. Damage to the brain disrupts our mental processes; specific parts of the brain seem connected to specific mental capacities; and the nervous syst ...
• Epigenetics
  For decades, our view of heredity has been written in the language of DNA — and genetic mutations and recombinations have driven most descriptions of how phenotypic traits are handed down from one generation to another. Yet, as is amply demonstrated in Science‘sspecial issue of 10 Au ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

• Now, hairbrush that reads your mind
  WASHINGTON - Who says hairbrush can only be used to comb locks? Scientists have made a hairbrush like device that would be able to monitor mental activity. One of the main techniques for measuring and monitoring mental activity, called functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), can often b ...
• Man U?s bemused Fergie tells shifty Roo to res ...
  LONDON - Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has told key striker Wayne Rooney that he must respect the club and its traditions if he wants to stay on. Commenting on reports that suggest that the star player wants to leave Manchester United for another club - either Manchester City or ...
• Google Street Viewers spot ?God? floating over ...
  SYDNEY - Google Street View has spotted a god-like figure floating midair above a lake in Quarten, Switzerland. Although the image, discovered by the Gawker blog, is apparently the result of some sort of light distortion or lens flare, blogger Max Read has questioned whether it might have more ...
• Dogs reduce stress in autistic children: Study
  WASHINGTON - Dogs-apart from being man’s best friend-have a special role to play in the lives of children with special needs. A new study by the Universite de Montreal has suggested that specifically trained service dogs can help reduce the anxiety and enhance the socialization skills of ...
• How sex hormones influence right heart function
  WASHINGTON - A new study has revealed human sex hormones influence the structure and function of the right ventricle (RV) of the heart. The researchers found that in women receiving hormone therapy, higher estrogen levels were associated with higher RV ejection fraction and lower RV end-systol ...

TruthNews Australia

• Charles Darwin debunked!
  Today's show contains 2 excellent interviews and audio clips from a recent anti-war protest held in Sydney. In the first half of today’s show we bring you an interview with Chris Emery and Holland Van den Nieuwenhof discussing their stunning film A Noble Lie, which exposes the cover-up a ...
• TNRA Goes LIVE on Logos Radio Network!
  Today we bring you our first live broadcast on Logos Radio Network. This will be a regular broadcast, and you can pick it up the live stream at Logos Radio every Thursday. The exact time of the 2 hour broadcast varies a little due to changing daylight saving time zones. Our next broadcast on 29 ...
• Pay the TSA $100 protection money to avoid sca ...
  Hate the full-body scans, pat-downs and slow going at TSA airport security screening checkpoints? For $100, you can now bypass the hassle. The Transportation Security Administration is rolling out expedited screening at big airports called "Precheck." It has special lanes for background-checke ...
• Stop CSG Rally video report - Government fails ...
  Truth News covers the stop CSG Rally at Parliament House NSW, 15 March 2012. In the morning a motion was put to the NSW Upper House by Jeremy Buckingham of the Greens – to place a moratorium on all coal seam gas (CSG) projects in the state, other than the Camden production field. It w ...
• How Facebook is exterminating communities
  Ladies and gentlemen, I have been struggling (unsuccesfully) to get the new facebook timeline features to work in a reasonable way which suit the needs of this website, and I just want to let you all know that I've had enough! I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more! I've com ...

Beacon

• Forage Fish Should Stay in the Ocean
  California Anchovies [Image credit: NOAA via Wikimedia Commons] Editor's Note: This post was co-written by Ben Enticknap and Geoff Shester Yesterday a task force of thirteen distinguished scientists from around the globe released a new report, “little fish BIG IMPACT” that investigates the s ...
• Outrage Against Drilling in Canary Islands
  A popular tourist beach in the Canary Islands that would be affected by drilling. © Lauren Linzer Editor's note: This is a guest contribution by Oceana supporter Lauren Linzer, who lives on the Spanish island of Lanzarote, one of the Canary Islands, which are just off the west coast of Africa ...
• A Better Way to Farm Fish
  An aquaculture operation. © Oceana/Juan Cuetos Almost half of the world’s seafood now comes from fish farms, which can have significant environmental effects. Because so many fish are confined to such a small place, aquaculture can lead to high levels of pollution and outbreaks of diseases. ...
• Arctic Drilling Could Start as Early as July
  The Beaufort Sea. [Image credit: NOAA via Wikimedia Commons.] In the past 60 days Shell Oil, the global oil and gas company headquartered in the Netherlands, has received two permits from the U.S. government approving their Chukchi Sea and Beaufort Sea spill response plans. This is shocking b ...
• Deep-sea Coral Sickness Linked to Gulf Oil Spill
  Deep-sea corals. © NOAA Even more sad news from the Gulf of Mexico, but this time it runs a mile deep. A new study confirms that the oil that likely caused deepwater coral sickness indeed came from the largest accidental oil spill in history, the Deepwater Horizon. Back in June 2010, deep-s ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

• The Interview.
    Katie Couric, while interviewing a Marine sniper, asked: “What do you feel … when you shoot an insurgent?” The Marine shrugged and replied, “A slight recoil.” Source: Militaryhumor.com
• Murphy’s Laws Of Combat.
  1. You are not a superman. 2. If it’s stupid but works, it’s not stupid. 3. Don’t look conspicuous, it draws fire. 4. When in doubt, empty your magazine. 5. Never share a foxhole with anyone braver than you are. 6. Remember: Your weapon was made by the lowest bidder. 7. If your attack is [...]
• A Former Legislator And A Former Military Offi ...
    Henry W. McElroy Jr. Representative, New Hampshire, talks about Dwight David Eisenhower’s Briefing on ETs.     Col. Phillip Corso, US Army Ret. Talks about Roswell.
• UFO Witnessed In 1619, Lake Lucerne, Switzerland
      Christophorus Schere from Uri County witnessed a large bright light, cigar shaped and fiery in color flew along the lake. “As I was contemplating the serene sky by night, I saw a very bright dragon flying across from a cave in a great rock in mount Pilatus toward another cave, know ...
• After Spending A Year on Patrol In Different P ...
    By SCOTT SHANE WASHINGTON — On his second yearlong deployment to Afghanistan, Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis traveled 9,000 miles, patrolled with American troops in eight provinces and returned in October of last year with a fervent conviction that the war was going disastrously and that senior ...

Taylor Marsh

• Obama Slams Budget as ‘Laughable’ on Romney’s ...
  Mitt Romney won Maryland, D.C. and Wisconsin, then delivered a speech that began lifelessly when he said Paul Ryan won’t ever replace Ann when it comes to introductions. But the end of his remarks held something on which the team could build. Mr. Romney talked about “the dreamers,&#8 ...
• Trayvon Martin: Pick Your Side, Justice Denied
  “Zimmerman was also bleeding from the nose and the back of his head.” – Police Report, released by the Orlando Sentinel “You can cancel second rescue. Second patient is not a gunshot.” – From 911 tape, verified through Police Report Confusion reigns between fa ...
• SCOTUS Okays Strip Searches for Minor Offenses ...
  Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. Filed under, “decisions that limit your civil rights,” one by the Supreme Court and a second by the Secret Service. From NPR: Supreme Court OKs Strip Searches For Minor Offenses The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that g ...
• ABC’s Analysis on Women Voters Leans Right and ...
  This latest article from ABC’s Matt Negrin not only misinforms, but it’s misleading and misogynistic, until the piece turns to women pollsters for answers. Generally, according to research by Democrats, unmarried women care more about economic matters like jobs than more complicated ...
• Hillary Mania on High
  Rep. Nancy Pelosi has caught Hillary mania, which is sweeping the media and political class during the Republican circus lull, while everyone nods off until Mitt Romney can squeeze 1144 out of wingnut primary voters. I’d heard about this exchange, with Buzzfeed posting the video late yeste ...

Hudson New York

• Britain's Multicultural Nightmare
  More than 400 children were subjected to forced marriage in Britain during the past year, including a five-year-old girl who is believed to be the country's youngest victim of the practice. The statistics were provided by the British government's Forced
• Old Habits Die Hard: Germany Funding Palestini ...
  Last week, Salam Fayyad, the Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority [PNA], visited Berlin with several of his ministers. His visit was successful. The Germans, who pride themselves on being one of the largest sponsors of the Palestinian
• Urgently Needed: "Fill the Vacuum" for Israeli ...
  Some of the leaders of the Israeli Arabs have caused tremendous damage to relations between Jews and Arabs inside Israel. These leaders are responsible for the fact that a growing number of Jews today view Arab citizens as a "fifth column" and an "enemy
• How to Privatize Nation-Building
  Last year, the Libyan people rid themselves of a tyrant and international menace. Today, the Syrian people stand poised to do the same. In each revolutionary instance, there occurs a three-act play. The first act is the downfall of the dictator. The
• Terrorism In France
  As the serial killing saga of self-styled Islamic extremist and al-Qaeda sympathizer, 23-year old Mohammed Merah, comes to a close in Toulouse, France, it might help to look at the lessons this event unwittingly provides, particularly as political

Urban Survival

• Executive Influence
  I’ve always held the US Supreme Court in the same mental space reserved for baseball umpires:  They get to make the hard calls, and despite what the manager of the team on the wrong end of a call may say, … Continue reading →
• Coping: With the WuJo and “Science Goo&# ...
  I could be wrong, but there seems to have been a noticeable decline in the number of “WuJo” reports – people running smack dab into a corner of the Twilight Zone, only in real-life with no commercial interruptions. Take this … Continue reading →
• Muddling Through a Depression
  I’ve told you countless times that the US was muddling through its replay of the 1929-1941 economic depression in a time-expanded way, but with a look around we can also view events as a global depression as well.  The unemployment … Continue reading →
• Coping: With What Goes Around: Morse Code
  One of the nice things about having long time friends – like my best friend who’s a retired major from the .mil world, who I’ve been friends with since we were both about 3½ – is that you can share … Continue reading →
• Lotto Madness
  We’ve had the discussion recently in our Peoplenomics reports about factors that may influence that slippery stuff called “luck.”  Today the Mega Millions jackpot is up over half a billion dollars.  ($540 million) and because of that you can expect … Continue re ...

Trends & Forecasts

• The Food Conspiracy - Coast to Coast AM 3.4.2012
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• Peter Schiff Blog: Anarchist Stefan Molyneux ...
• Peter Schiff Blog: Anarchist Stefan Molyneux ...

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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

NRDC Switchboard

• How the evolving housing market will help sust ...
  Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC   I was privileged to be invited to participate along with some very smart urban thinkers in a recent program on the resilience of cities.  The program was sponsored by the ...
• GOP Snake Oil About Gas Prices
  Rob Perks, Transportation Advocacy Director, Washington, D.C. Energy experts agree that it's time for politicians stop distracting and deceiving by finger-pointing on gas prices. But the GOP just can't stop playing the blame game. Just before leavi ...
• California's Coast Loses a Good Friend
  Annie Notthoff, California Advocacy Director, San Francisco office and Sacramento Last week we celebrated Oceans Day here in California's capitol. Governor Brown, who signed the Coastal Act in to law in 1976, joined several of us to mark the occasio ...
• Will Southern California make transportation h ...
  Amanda Eaken, Deputy Director, Sustainable Communities, San Francisco Car-loving Southern California is poised to adopt the strongest transportation plan in its history tomorrow. In keeping with California’s leadership in adopting forward-thin ...
• Lakotas Launch Hunger Strike Against Tar Sands ...
  Rocky Kistner, Communications Associate, Washington, DC In the Dakotas, members of the proud Lakota Nation rose in protest this week to join a  48-hour hunger strike in opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline—and all tar sands pi ...

Injustice Everywhere

• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 40 reports of police misconduct tracked so far in our National Police Misconduct News Feed over our unfortunate hiatus from Wednesday, March 29 – Tuesday, April 3, 2012: Rockledge FL police sued by mom of patient who died after tasered 6x & suffocated w/pillow case by cops ...
• More Downtime
  Sorry folks, but my already substantial workload at my job just got tripled for a while, which means I won’t be able to run the news feed or generate daily reports for a few days. I’m hoping that things settle down by Monday and I can restart the news feed and reports then. Until [...]
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 14 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Tuesday, March 27, 2012: New York NY cop convicted of sexually assaulting school teacher at gunpoint, jury deadlocks on rape charge during what have been described as angry deliberations. [0 ...
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 11 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Monday, March 26, 2012: Kennett Square PA cop sentenced to 12.5-25yrs prison in plea deal for raping 4 young girls for several years [0] http://bit.ly/GTFc79 Rockaway Beach OR cop gets proba ...
• Police Misconduct NewsFeed Weekend Recap 03-24 ...
  Here are the 11 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this weekend of March 24-25, 2012: 2 Niles MI cops are accused of using excessive force on a man who was distraught when paramedics wouldn’t let him ride with them while they took his mothe ...

Total Collapse

• “No place in US” to be safe if America attacks ...
  Iran will retaliate for “any attack” the US launches against them, a senior Revolutionary Guards commander told the Iran Daily on Tuesday. “We will not only act in the boundaries of the Middle East and the Persian Gulf, no place in America will be safe from our attacks,” said Massoud Jazay ...
• Global sanctions on Iran not working: Israel PM
  The global campaign of imposing sanctions against Iran has so far failed to halt Tehran’s controversial nuclear drive, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday. “The sanctions are painful, hard.. but will this bring about a halt or a retreat in the Iranian nuclear pr ...
• Russian warships launch drill from Tartus vers ...
  Not 24 hours after Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warned that a pre-emptive strike (by the US and/or Israel) would violate international law, Moscow put muscle into his warning: Tuesday, April 3, the Russian guided missile destroyer Smetliviy arrived in the Syrian port of Tartus from its ...
• Russia, Iran set to counter US/Israeli strike ...
  Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov issued a strong warning against a military attack on Iran Monday, April 2,, saying that a pre-emptive strike would violate international law. His comments, made during a visit to Armenia, stopped short of threatening (the US and/or Israel) of consequences. ...
• North Korea fuelling rocket ahead of banned launch
  North Korea has begun fuelling a rocket for a launch seen by the West as a pretext for testing ballistic missile technology banned by the UN. The United States has suspended its food aid plan to the country. The country had begun inserting liquid fuel into the rocket, a diplomatic source told Ja ...

Daily Dose

• TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
  Apple is the #3 OEM according to comScore. Yahoo confirms the layoff of 2,000 employees. Instagram for Android hits 1 million downloads in its first day. You can catch The...
• TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tech news in 5 ...
  Amazon appears to be testing in-app payments, Path increases user data security, and Tumblr hits Facebook Timeline. It’s all in today’s Daily Dose. You can catch The Daily Dose every...
• TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
  Temple Run crosses 50 million downloads. Samsung’s Galaxy Note campaign voted most effective. Dell is set to acquire Wyse Systems. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through Friday...
• TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
  Twitter is encouraging “artful” engagement for TV execs. RIM says that it’s not pulling out of the consumer smartphone market. DuckDuckGo is climbing faster than ever in search queries. You...
• TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
  Apple’s Tim Cook did a Foxconn tour, while in China. Pinterest users are actually buying things, too. Time’s 100 list is a tech-fest this year. You can catch The Daily...

Beyond Zero Emissions

• Clean fossils of the future? How about ready r ...
  There’s a lot of discussion and political jostling around energy options, decarbonisation, low-carbon or zero-carbon transition. Looking at the options, let’s begin with today’s dominant player, conventional coal. It’s fate is easy to summarise, we burn it now in old, outdated power stations, ...
• Adelaide - Repower Port Augusta Report Launch
  At what promises to be one of the most important events on the political calendar for 2012, Mark Ogge from the renewable energy think-tank, Beyond Zero Emissions, will launch the long-awaited BZE Repower Port Augusta Report. This reports presents the compelling economic and environmental case ...
• The minister for tourism signs tourism industr ...
  Martin Ferguson, the Federal Minister for Resources Energy and Tourism and previous head of the ACTU, today signalled that the mining industry will take precedence over tourism and manufacturing, despite the enormous damage it is doing to these industries. In a speech in Brisbane today, Mr ...
• The merit order effect – actually, it’s a good ...
  The Merit Order Effect, put simply, means lower electricity bills for consumers. That’s because it means lower-cost electricity in the wholesale market when additional renewables are introduced into the mix. The effect has been demonstrated in Germany, where they have very significant deploym ...
• Worley base case baseless but coal seam gas st ...
  A new WorleyParsons report states that gas plants can have higher emissions than even the worst coal plants, but under-estimates the problem by relying on misleading assumptions. Understating the true level of coal seam gas (CSG) emissions will lead to massive gas fields being approved erroneous ...

Monga Bay ( News )

• BP moves into the Amazon rainforest
  BP has acquired a stake in on exploration block in the heart of the Amazon rainforest, reports MarketWatch.
• Slow lorises sold openly, illegally in Indonesia
  Defying Indonesian law, slow lorises are being sold openly in Jakarta markets for the underground pet trade, according to wildlife trade monitoring group TRAFFIC. In the last two weeks, TRAFFIC has recorded fifty different individual slow lorises on sale in the Indonesian capital. "The openness ...
• Environmentalists, orangutans lose court case ...
  Environmentalists were handed a set back in a dispute over a palm oil plantation granted in a protected peat swamp that is home to a population of critically endangered orangutans, reports the Aceh Globe and the Sydney Morning Herald.
• Featured video: Honoring Wangari Maathai, who ...
  The indomitable Wangari Maathai would have turned 72 yesterday, April 1st, 2012. Maathai, who was the first African woman and the first environmentalist to win a Nobel Peace Prize (in 2004), passed away last September.
• Oceans heating up for over 100 years
  In 1872 the HMS Challenger pulled out from Portsmouth, England to begin an unprecedented scientific expedition of the world's oceans. During its over three year journey the HMS Challenger not only collected thousands of new species and sounded unknown ocean depths, but also took hundreds of temp ...

Sierra Express

• Construction begins at Bankasoka Hydropower Dam
  PORT LOKO, April 3, 2012 – The roads were narrow and dusty but that did not stop school children and residents of Port Loko who flooded the streets with banners, singing and dancing under the hot burning sun to welcome the many dignitaries that came from far and wide to be part of a very [...]
• As ACC extradites Sorious and others – VP Suma ...
  Suspects of the Al-Jazeera ‘Timbergate’ documentary footage, Alex Mansaray, Momoh Conteh, Sorious Samura and the Vice President of Sierra Leone, Chief Samuel Sam Sumana, have been under the watchful eyes of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) who are still investigating elements of corruption a ...
• President Koroma to boycott OBBA
  Reports from the Southern city of Bo have it that President Koroma will not be honoring the Old Bo Boys Association’s (OBBA) annual event slated for the weekend for reasons that he would be snubbed. Koroma is reported to have said that he is saving himself a possible embarrassment with Maada Bio ...
• DIF-SL Executive Director meets disable youths ...
  The Executive Director of Disable International Foundation–Sierra Leone, Imambay Kadie Kamara (in photo) has paid a courtesy visit to the physically challenged persons at the Amnesty International Office situated at Sombo Street in Kenema on Sunday April 1st. Imambay Kadie Kamara said her organi ...
• Usman Boie Kamara donates to fire victims
  Former Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) flag bearer aspirant, Alhaji Usman Boie Kamara has donated 200 bags of cement and five bundles of zinc to fire inferno victims of Constantine Magazine over the weekend. The incident left at least one person dead and swept away 97 makeshift shanties hosti ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

• Milk rustlers working Mount Maunganui
  Thieves working to order have stolen about 1200 litres of milk and other dairy products in Mount Maunganui, police say.Detective Sergeant Darryl Brazier said the thieves targeted delivery trucks at a storage unit on Totara Street...
• Dairy prices snap 3-month slide in overnig ...
  Prices of dairy products snapped a three-month slide in Fonterra's latest GlobalDairyTrade auction, lifting the average winning price from the lowest level since August.The GDT-TWI Price Index rose 1.5 per cent compared...
• Fran O'Sullivan: Fonterra boss not playing games
  Fonterra chief executive Theo Spierings is not afraid to puncture some of the irrational games being played in the local dairy industry.The Herald's China Business 2012 report in today's paper reveals how he floated the prospect...
• China Business 2012: Nothing ventured, nothing ...
  Kiwi entrepreneur David Spurway credits legendary Chinese dairy leader Niu Gensheng as the inspiration for his decision to jump straight into the infant formula market.Gensheng - a visionary but egotistical businessman - built an...
• China Business 2012: 'Real camaraderie' in joi ...
  Former National Finance Minister Ruth Richardson is one of a select number of Kiwis to sit on the board of a Chinese-controlled NZ-based company.As a director of Synlait Milk - 51 per cent owned by Shanghai's Bright Dairy - Richardson...

Hit & Run | Reason

• Romney Wins Maryland, Wisconsin and Moscow on ...
  Mitt Romney won Republican primaries in and out of the Beltway tonight.  Maryland, Wisconsin and the District of Columbia all went for the former Massachusetts governor.  More delegate math to help you sleep.  Former Keystone State Sen. Rick Santorum says the campaign, like De ...
• Is The Hunger Games Libertarian?
  Nestled snugly atop the box office right now rests The Hunger Games. The movie is based on a Young Adult novel by Suzanne Collins and it's the latest in a line of series (See: Twilight and Harry Potter) to make teens and unashamed adults flip out and reach for their wallets. Meanw ...
• Gary Johnson, Likely Libertarian Party Candida ...
  Gary Johnson did a good job hyping the non-kookiness of libertarian beliefs on wars in the Middle East, the drug wars, and gay marriage, among others. Colbert asks him why Johnson couldn't do well with the GOP; Johnson managed to answer without sounding whiney, and says his "message i ...
• Register today for Reason’s Alaska Cruise Augu ...
  Reason will take to the high seas in 2012 for our second annual cruise—and this time, we'll explore the magnificent Gulf of Alaska August 11-18 aboard Holland America's luxurious Westerdam! Spend a week with Leda Cosmides and John Tooby, the founders of evolutionary psychology. Reason ...
• No "Obscene, Lewd or Profane" Language? There ...
  If there's any point to the Internet other than the use of "obscene, lewd or profane language," that purpose may have slipped by a few of us, especially if that language is uttered "with intent to terrify, intimidate, threaten, harass, annoy or offend." But outlawing just that is the ...

Mercury Rising

• Conservatives: Freedom means nothing left to lose
  Via Avedon, a post from Dahlia Lithwick that deserves attention, even if it is on Slate: The fight over Obamacare is about freedom. That’s what we’ve been told since these lawsuits were filed two years ago and that’s what we heard both inside and outside the Supreme Court this morning. … I ...
• Blessed are the little children….
  Josephine Moulds, The Guardian: An 11-year-old boy from the Netherlands has joined the chorus of people calling for Greece to leave the euro in a surprise entry for the lucrative Wolfson economics prize. Jurre Herman won €100 (£83) in gift vouchers for his devastatingly simple contingency plan f ...
• While Federal Cops Were Busy Raiding A Harmles ...
  …a not-so-harmless person was doing this on the other side of town: Seven people were killed and three were injured after a gunman opened fire this morning on a private university in Oakland that caters to Christian students, in what ranks among the deadliest attacks on a campus in Califor ...
• Let’s just put bars around the country a ...
  DemocracyNow: A new investigation by the American Civil Liberties Union shows police tracking of cell phones without court-approved warrants is more widespread than previously known. According to the ACLU, just a fraction of more than 200 police departments that admitted to tracking cell phones ...
• Kristof’s War On The Village Voice: Stil ...
  Nicholas Kristof, in the course of attacking a local and national competitor of the media empire that gives him his paychecks, tries yet again to smear the Village Voice (which has debunked his prior reporting time and again) as the Root of All Sexual Evil: THE biggest forum for sex trafficking ...

Reality Sandwich

• Through a Fractured Glass, Darkly (Part Two): ...
    Part Two: Whitley's Onion (Three Years Later) For Part One of this article, click here.     The Two Keys read more
• Intuition and Acupuncture
  The following is excerpted from Star Sister: How I Changed My Name, Grew Wings, and Learned to Trust Intuition, published by Evolver Editions, distributed by North Atlantic Books. read more
• Super Gardens of the Sahara
  With research development spearheaded by Cornell U. Pro-Natura's Biochar-- used for 7,000 years by Amazonian indigenous groups and praised by Gaia Hypothesis founder James Lovelock as "Humanity's best chance to survive"--is the foundation for helping re-green North Africa and ...
• The E+SM Mix: Evolution for Your Ears
  In celebration of our Evolver Social Movement (E+SM) spring drive, we are giving away a free 11-track music download, featuring Thievery Corporation, The Nadis Warriors, Tipper,  KiloWatts, Dynasty Electric, and more.read more
• Evolving Towards a Partner State in an Ethical ...
    In the  emerging institutional model of peer production, most visibly in the free software industry, we can distinguish an interplay between three partners, i.e. 1) a community of contributors that create a commons of knowledge, software or design; 2) an enterpreneurial coalition th ...

Desertification

• Treat Illegal Logging Like Organised Crime, Ur ...
  With illegal loggers clearing the equivalent of a football field of the world's most valuable forests every two seconds, local and international law enforcement systems should target the criminal operations that profit most from the trade, according to a new report released here Tuesday ...
• Rio+20 Summit: A Moment That Must Be Seized
  The upcoming Rio+20 conference has to be the moment in human history when the nations of the world come together to find ways to ensure the very survival of humanity, many science and environmental experts believe.
• ARGENTINA: Three-Quarters of "Breadbasket" Is ...
  How has Argentina managed to maintain its image as one of the world's breadbaskets when a full three-fourths of its territory consists of drylands? This was one of the questions raised by the scientists who decided to create the National Observatory on Land Degradation and Desertification this year.
• MAURITANIA: Ravaged by Drought - the Number of ...
  Mariem Mint Ahmedou sits cross-legged on a worn-out carpet in a basic tent built with mud bricks and layers of sewn-together fabric. Her eight-month-old twins, Hussein and Hassan, lie weakly against her body. Both of them have been malnourished since birth, because Beydar, undernourished h ...
• Cloud Seeding - Uncertain Solution for Mexico' ...
  As half of Mexico endures one of the most severe droughts in its history, cloud seeding appears to be a promising way to bring desperately needed rain, although it remains a source of controversy.

Blogging Canadians

• The case for taxing the family garden
  Economists frequently argue that taxing the produce from the family garden is a good idea – for example, see these papers/posts making the case for taxing food in the US,  Canada, and New Zealand. read the rest here. Filed under: … Continue reading →
• Hubris leads to incompetence: the Rowe & Krugm ...
  Well a strange lull has fallen on the battle field this evening as the respective sides dig in and at least one side licks its wounds.  To keep reading click here Filed under: Canadian Politics
• Sugar is toxic for you
  Pretty well every food includes some sugar. What is left to eat??? :) Source: CBS
• Fasten your seat belts, here comes the abortio ...
  In just under three and a half years I have written or touched on the topic of abortion 21 times.  In fact the most often read post on this blog is "Abortion in Canada Legal – Right Up Until Time of Birth". Well, here goes number 22. Canada is about to have a parliamentary debate on ...
• Sunflower: Flower which worships the sun
  This is a further mystery of life. This particular flower - called the sunflower - follows the sun as the sun moves across the horizon. This is another example of the interesting behaviour of plants. Here is an interesting video about the sunflower and the bees who love this flower.

Press TV - Middle East

• Turkey to begin historic 1980 coup trial
  Turkey is set to begin the trial of two surviving leaders of the bloody 1980 coup, retired general Kenan Evren and former air force commander Tahsin Sahinkaya.
• Ship with Syrian oil let through Suez
  A tanker carrying Syrian oil has been allowed to pass through Egypt's Suez Canal "after paying the required fees," an Egyptian official says.
• HRW accuses Jordan of crushing demos
  Human Rights Watch (HRW) has accused the Jordanian government of using "repressive" methods to put down anti-regime demonstrations.
• Bahrainis rally to support hunger striker
  Bahraini protesters have staged rallies across the country to express solidarity with prominent human rights activist, Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, who is being held in prison, despite deteriorating health condition, Press TV reports.
• Turks urged to protest price hikes
  The Turkish Republican People’s Party (CHP) has called on the nation to stage protests against recent price hikes in the energy sector.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

• Solicitation of Nominations for SPS Governing ...
  We are now accepting nominations for students to join the School of Professional Studies Governing Council.  The Governing Council considers proposals for new courses, degrees, certificates and programs that will be offered by the School.  Two students and two alternates are needed to serve on t ...
• Smarmy Prince, Contemptible Hypocrite, Ayatoll ...
  What a group. What a choice. The remaining field of Republican presidential candidates is one of the weakest in history. It is not just the liberal media that thinks so. Former Republican Congressman and current MSNBC host Joe Scarborough believes it and right wing pundit Charles Krauthammer cal ...
• Silently Waiting
  The ruthless brutality which humankind has been known to unleash upon their fellow humans throughout history seems unrelenting and in fact almost unbelievable when considered in hindsight. For example, the Holocaust, the Trail of Tears, the Middle Passage, and the Great Purge – all events of his ...
• Choices and Trade-offs…Why I Chose CUNY ...
  Hi everyone, my name is Coy. The year 2011 was a year of opportunities, challenges, and new experiences. My first semester as a CUNY SPS student greatly expanded my perspectives as I found myself introduced to the vast amount of resources we – students, workers, and citizens of a digital world – ...
• Get ready, get set, go!
  2011 is behind us and now we’ve embarked on a new year, 2012. Last year was a pretty good year, especially for me in academia.  As many students can attest, the beginning of a new semester can bring with it, new challenges, fresh perspectives and even elevated stresses. In my experience, as a mo ...

Dissident Voice

• Elizabeth Warren, Hawk versus Scott Brown, Hawk
  The battle for Senate has been joined in Massachusetts between Scott Brown, a hawk, and Elizabeth Warren – another hawk. Warren began as the darling of the progressives here, but as her stance on Iran, the ongoing wars and the plight of the Palestinians becomes known, the bloom is off the rose. ...
• Why Is the Military Still Using Violence-Linke ...
  Few remember the grisly summer of 2002 when four Fort Bragg soldiers’ wives were murdered within six weeks of each other and the malaria drug, Lariam, widely prescribed to troops deploying to Afghanistan and Iraq, was suspected as a factor in at least some of the killings. The label on the ...
• Union Pride
  In no way is this intended to be condescending or self-congratulatory, but the one thing that’s always made me proud of my old labor union (AWPPW, Local 672) is something that, oddly enough, was linked to the social dynamics of high school.  To understand it, we need to take a brief trip down me ...
• A Look at the Coup in Mali
  A Berber group, known as the Tuaregs, have recently been instrumental in the overthrow of President Amadou Toumani Toure of Mali. Some of these Tuaregs are returning veterans, that had fought for Gaddafi in the Libyan military theater. Much like the Kurds of the Levant, Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Sy ...
• Waltzing at the Doomsday Ball: The Best of Joe ...
  “I’m so damn average that what I write resonates with people”, Joe Bageant once told an interviewer in explaining how he had gained a global following for his essays published on the web. In 2004, at the age of 58, Joe sensed that the Internet could give him editorial freedom. Without gatekeeper ...

Destructionist

• A Message to the GOP from Ron Paul Supporters
  Reblogged from This Day - One Day: Vote For Ron Paul … Vote For Peace In Your Life! Supporters of Congressman Paul will not fall for the establishment trick of getting Americans to vote for the lesser of two evils. And it is time the GOP learns this. When both political parties support end ...
• Real Or Fake? Pentagon Proposal to Lobotomize ...
  A video on YouTube appears to show a Pentagon briefing in which the idea of lobotomizing terrorists to remove their religious fanaticism using a manufactured virus containing a vaccine is seriously proposed, although debate has raged about whether the clip is authentic or not. The footage sho ...
• Online buzz: Did Santorum just drop N-bomb on ...
  Did Rick Santorum really call Barrack Obama a “n****r”?! Did he drop the N-bomb?A YouTube video has caught the republican presidential in a potentially campaign killing gaffe.

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  Infocast's Advanced Renewable Energy Project Finance & Analysis Seminar ...

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  SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Apr 04, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Infocast brings its highly successful and informative Bi-Annual Advanced Renewable Energy Project Finance & Analysis Seminar to the Hilton Union Square from April 30-May 1, ...

  BROOKFIELD RENEWABLE ENERGY : Partners 2012 First Quarter Conference Call and ...

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  April 2, 2012 - You are invited to participate in Brookfield Renewable Energy Partners' (TSX: BEP.UN) First Quarter Conference Call and Webcast on Monday, May 7, 2012 at 10:00 am (Eastern Time) to discuss results and current business initiatives with ...

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  State Could Become a Leader in Clean, Renewable Offshore Wind Energy

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  Martin O' Malley, places a good bet on offshore wind by incentivizing the development of what could be the nation's first offshore wind farm—providing stable, renewable wind power to the state's residents and positioning Maryland to become a leader in ...

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  Papademos Says Renewable Energy Investment a Priority for Greece

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  Investment in renewable energy is a “national priority” for Greece, which agreed to deep spending cuts to fend off a possible financial collapse, Papademos told a conference in Athens today. The Helios project, named after the ancient god of the sun, ...

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  Why US Ecology's Earnings Are Outstanding

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  Today, we're checking in on US Ecology (NAS: ECOL) , whose recent revenue and earnings are plotted below. Source: S&P Capital IQ. Data is current as of last fully reported fiscal quarter. Dollar values in millions. FCF = free cash flow.

  Lonestar Ecology Opens in Time for Earth Day Celebration

  MarketWatch (press release)

  HOUSTON, Apr 02, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Lonestar Ecology, the Gulf Coast region's newest waste management facility, has opened for business in time for Houston's celebrations of Earth Day throughout April. The new facility, located at 12901-A Bay Park ...

  Oerlikon Textile: where ecology meets economy

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  Anyone seeking financial success today must think ecologically, produce sustainably and be efficient and sparing with energy and resources. This trend can be exploited satisfactorily especially in the textile industry, above all in the production and ...

  The ecology of sustainable tourism

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  A growing answer to rising seas: floating homes

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  Homes, hospitals, even prisons and golf courses may be built over the water as architects cope with rising sea levels that will affect coastal cities around the world. By Denis D. Gray, Associated Press / April 4, 2012 This computer-generated image ...

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  Six water mains break in LA on day DWP's chief seeks rate hikes

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  A 5% water rate hike and a 10.5% power rate hike are sought to address maintenance and environmental issues. The pipe breaks are blamed on work at a reservoir north of Beverly Hills. Water gushes from a broken main in the 300 block of North Vista ...

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  Water heaters provide some of the most common problems for homeowners. So, we've compiled a few valuable water heater upkeep tips to help you keep the appliance in good shape, so that you don't have to spend a great deal of time worrying about ...

  Dream Water ® Announces Major US Expansion Through Target, Kroger and Safeway

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  These partnerships will expand distribution to thousands of new stores where consumers can find Dream Water, the natural, zero calorie, 2.5oz rest and relaxation shot. Dream Water continues its torrid growth as consumers' positive experience with the ...

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