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Thomas Paine

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

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

4 April - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - MARCH 03: (EMBARGOED ...LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - MARCH 03: (EMBARGOED FOR PUBLICATION IN UK NEWSPAPERS UNTIL 48 HOURS AFTER CREATE DATE AND TIME) Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs David Miliband swerves to avoid some horse manure as he, Secretary of State for the Home Department Alan Johnson and Prime Minister Gordon Brown attend the Ceremonial Welcome for the President of The Republic of South Africa Jacob Zuma at Horse Guards Parade on March 3, 2010 in London, England. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Mexican Oases in Urgent Need of Protection
    Mexico's oases encompass significant environmental, cultural, social and economic wealth that must be properly assessed and preserved, warn experts.
  • Egypt Constitution Faces Islamic Colouring
    The large proportion of Islamist-leaning members in Egypt's Constituent Assembly elected last month has led to accusations that Islamist parties - especially the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) - are effectively monopolising the constitution-drafting process.
  • Where Men Now Fear to Tread
    No man, except for those raised here as children, lives in Umoja village in Kenya; one has not for two decades. It is a village only of and for women, women who have been abused, raped, and forced from their homes.
  • Latrines Critical to Keeping Kids in South Sud ...
    Before Bor B Primary School built latrines on the school grounds two years ago, students would leave during their first break to head home. Most did not come back until the next morning.
  • After Ten Years of Peace, "Angola's Future is ...
    Angola is celebrating 10 years of peace on Apr. 4. Since the end of its 27-year- long civil war in 2002, the country's economy has prospered thanks to oil. But experts fear that parliamentary elections later this year could return the country to violence and instability.

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

The Daily Galaxy

  • EcoAlert: Does Cosmic Dust Play a Role in Clim ...
    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...
  • New Finding Changes Understanding of Solar Sys ...
    A global collaboration including five University of Notre Dame researchers has revised the half-life of samarium-146 (146Sm), reducing it to 68 million years from 103 million years. The revised half-life, which is 34 percent shorter than the previously adopted value,...
  • The Missing 80%! New Observations of Dwarf Gal ...
    About 80 percent of the matter in the universe is invisible to telescopes, yet its gravitational influence is manifest in the orbital speeds of stars around galaxies and in the motions of clusters of galaxies. Yet, despite decades of effort,...
  • AI that Mimics the Human Brain --The Next Revo ...
    The term, Artificial Intelligence was coined in 1956 by John McCarthy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This year, computer scientists celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the mathematical genius Alan Turing. Turing set the basis for digital computing...
  • Milky Way's Rotation --It's Effect on Our Loca ...
    "The spin of our galaxy has a twisting effect on our local space that is a million times stronger than that caused by the spin of the Earth." --Dr Mark Hadley, of the Department of Physics at the University of...

Natural News

  • New health concern: Beware the risks of too mu ...
    Sitting for too many hours during the day could significantly increase your risk of dying, according to a new study published in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine. Data collected from Australia's The 45 and Up Study found that people who sit the most during an...
  • Understanding the science of cannabis is integ ...
    Cannabis is a plant with demonstrable antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties, both aspects that point to its potential to be used as an anti-cancer drug. Cannabinoids have been used in tentative studies, demonstrating their ability to greatly reduce tumours, and...
  • Gut health plays a critical role in fending of ...
    When microbiota balance is out of whack in the human intestinal system, the body becomes highly susceptible to chronic inflammation, which can develop into autoimmune diseases and a host of other serious health problems. And emerging new research suggests that diabetes...
  • Research shows pharmaceutical side effects exc ...
    Often no matter how bad you think it is, the reality is worse than imagined. This is the case with pharmaceutical side effects. It's so bad that even mainstream medical research acknowledges there are more adverse side effects than disclosed. But their viewpoint still...
  • Investigation of dangerous medical device impl ...
    Did you know that the vast majority of medical devices on the market today have received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) without ever having been properly safety tested? A thorough investigation by Consumer Reports has revealed that the medical...

Threat Level

  • Shady Companies With Ties to Israel Wiretap th ...
    The NSA is growing bigger and more powerful. But behind its curtains of secrecy, the secretive spying agency is relying on contractors with checkered pasts and ties to Israeli intelligence to build out and run its massive eavesdropping operations.
  • Global Payments Says 1.5 Million Cards Stolen; ...
    About 1.5 million cards were potentially stolen by hackers in the recent breach of Atlanta-based card processor Global Payments Inc, which said its loss-prevention software had been good enough to spot the data being siphoned from its servers, but not good enough to stop the leak.
  • With GPS Data Out, Feds Eye Warrantless Cell P ...
    Prosectors are shifting their focus to warrantless cell-tower locational tracking of suspects in the wake of a Supreme Court ruling that law enforcement should acquire probable-cause warrants from judges to affix GPS devices to vehicles and monitor their every move.
  • Megaupload User Demands Return of Seized Content
    An Ohio man is asking a Virginia federal judge to preserve data on the 66.6 million users of Megaupload, the file-sharing service that was shuttered in January due to federal criminal copyright infringement indictments targeting its operators.
  • Hackers Breach Credit Card Processor; 50K Card ...
    Global Payments Inc, an Atlanta-based processor, has been breached by hackers, leaving more than 50,000 card accounts potentially compromised.

PERRspectives : Blog

  • GOP, Press Forget Lurita Doan Scandal at Bush GSA
    Three top officials of the General Services Administration (GSA) were ousted Monday in advance of an Inspector General's report documenting a lavish spending spree at a 2010 agency conference in Las Vegas. But while White House chief of staff Jacob Lew reported that President Obama was "outrage ...
  • Romney-Ryan Plan is the Real 2012 Republican P ...
    After the Republican controlled House passed Paul Ryan's budget plan by a 228-191 party line vote, Speaker John Boehner lauded his GOP colleagues for laying out "a real vision of what we were to do if we get more control here in this town." But Boehner's "we" isn't limited to Republicans in Con ...
  • Medicare, Social Security Mandates Dwarf Affor ...
    As the New York Times suggested last week, the fate of President Obama's Affordable Care Act in general and its mandate that Americans obtain health insurance in particular may hinge on Justice Anthony Kennedy's notion of "liberty." While Solicitor General Donald Verilli posited "a profound conn ...
  • Republicans Forget When George Loved Vladimir
    Following their mid-term landslide in late 2010, emboldened Senate Republicans led by leaders Mitch McConnell and Jon Kyl almost scuttled the START treaty with Russia, a pact which enjoyed overwhelming support from the public and every living Republican secretary of state. So, when President Oba ...
  • Will the Supreme Court End Republicans' Privat ...
    After another bad day for the Affordable Care Act at the Supreme Court, voices across the political spectrum are already pondering life after death for health care reform. Conservative Ross Douthat and liberal James Carville agree that overturning the ACA will help President Obama get reelected ...

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TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • West Antarctica Splitting at the Seams
    A new study which represents the most extensive study of the evolution of floating ice shelves in the eastern Amundsen Sea Embayment in West Antarctica has revealed that the ice is steadily losing their grip on adjacent bay walls, a problem which scientists believe may hasten the loss of ice to ...
  • The Navy Yard Unites with Brooklyn Grange in E ...
    City skylines are full of empty roof tops with unused space. A new Brooklyn project means to change that by creating organic garden farms and gardens.
  • Spring Cleaning: 10 Ways to Upcycle Junk Creat ...
      Everyone knows they should recycle. But many people forget that there are two other R’s in Reduce, Reuse and Recycle, and that the other two immediately work together. Upcycling is the process of putting together something new by using old materials you might otherwise throw away. ...
  • Music Video: Free Energy
      I absolutely love this video below, which someone shared with us via our contact form linked at the top of the page. Have a watch and start your week off with its inspirational message and hope:
  • Solar Power Art Project
      Here’s a fun solar power art project to enjoy on this lovely Saturday morning, via sister site CleanTechnica: Deedee Morrison’s Sun-catcher Sculpture Combines Aesthetics and Solar Power (via Clean Technica)   Deedee Morrison is a sculptor and installation artist with [...] ...

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Axis of Logic

  • Invitation. Health Roots Presents: Revolutiona ...
    Editor's Note: Axis of Logic would like to encourage all our readers in the US Northeast (and anywhere else!) to take advantage of this very special invitation from Health Roots, to attend this unique and important event. - Les Blough in Venezuela The Consulate of the Bolivarian Republic o ...
  • Libya: One Year On (Part 2): Recording NATO's ...
    Editor's Note: We are pleased to publish this second installment on our series, "Libya: One Year On," by T.J. Coles. It is utterly important that the details of the 2011 US/Israeli/NATO destruction and continuing occupation of this peaceful country be documented for the historical record. While ...
  • A Misunderstanding about Democracy - World View
    There is a widespread misunderstanding about what democracy is. According to this misunderstanding, democracy is a way for all of the citizens of a nation, rich and poor alike, to peaceably reach agreements about important and controversial social questions, with every citizen having equal statu ...
  • German police killing of unemployed woman at j ...
    2 April 2012 On May 19, 2011, 39-year-old Christy Schwundeck was shot and killed by a female police officer in an employment centre in the Gallus city quarter of Frankfurt am Main. Christy Schwundeck came from Nigeria. She was the wife of Peter Schwundeck and mother of a 12-year-old daughter ...
  • England: Inquest into police killing of Mark D ...
    2 April 2012 Editor's Comment Tom Jackson, a right-wing reactionary and self-proclaimed "Northumberland's premier blogger" has a motto on his blog that says, "The truth is the truth whether whispered or shouted." He comments on the police murder of Mark Duggan: ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Songs to Fight the Plutocracy By: "Redemption ...
    By @KYYellowDog Uploaded by MentalKarmacoma on May 13, 2007 How long shall they kill our prophets, While we stand aside and look?
  • Game On
    By @BGinKC Hopefully that barn-burner speech the President delivered yesterday signals the end of his quixotic -- and foolish, not to mention fruitless -- quest for bipartisanship with the right-wing reactionaries that have taken over the GOP and given it a toddler-with-a-handgun quality that sc ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    By @BG & @YD Tractor-trailers were tossed about like toys as a dozen tornadoes ripped through Dallas Tuesday afternoon, leaving devastation in their wake. No deaths were reported, but there were several injuries and damage was extensive. Okay, but we have a question...what makes anyone think he' ...
  • Freedom to Be Strip-Searched
    By @KYYellowDog I'm not nostalgic about "the America of my childhood," mostly because it was a racist, misogynistic, homophobic, war-mongering, god-bothering, cops-beating-hippies, disco hellhole. But I have always taken great pride that in my lifetime, America has made enormous civil-rights and ...
  • The Vulture Whores In Congress
    By @TomBales1 Sourced from an article by Andrea Saybrook and Alex Blumberg @ NPR:  Take The Money And Run For Office.   We imagine lobbyists stalking the halls of Congress, trying to influence lawmakers with cash. But often, it's the other way around: Members of Congress stalk lobby ...

Care 2

  • Georgia passes "Women are Livestock" in the 11 ...
    After an emotional 14-hour workday that included fist-fights between lobbyists and a walk-out by women Democrats, the Georgia House passed a Senate-approved bill Thursday night that criminalizes abortion after 20 weeks. Submitted by Betsy Reiss to US Politics & Gov't  |  &nbsp ...
  • Congress : Fund the Fight to Save Bats ! PLEA ...
    Since its outbreak in upstate New York in 2006, the fungal illness known as white-nose syndrome has killed nearly 7 million bats and spread to at least 19 eastern states and four Canadian provinces. This devastating disease -- the worst wildlife-health Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |&nb ...
  • Join the Chain of Giving - Help People Pull Th ...
    The simple act of giving lies at the heart of what it means to be human. Nowhere was this truth more obvious than at a recent Heifer International "Passing of the Gift" ceremony in Kigali, Rwanda. Submitted by Lindsey Williams to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a ...
  • Support HR 1326 The Great Ape Protection Act ! ...
    It is time that the U.S. recognizes that great apes should not be used for experimentation Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Voice of Choice: Landlord Counters Harassment ...
    But when right to life protesters showed up at his daughter's middle school in Rockville, Maryland, last September, they took things too far Submitted by Phyllis P. to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Barack Obama, Constitutional Buffoon
    For a guy touted as the, “smartest man” to ever occupy the Oval Office, Barack Obama is a dummy. The icing on the cake is the assertion that Obama is a “Constitutional Scholar.” BOLLOCKS!! The man is a clown. He started a verbal brawl with the Judiciary Branch yesterday d ...
  • Another Tuesday Primary Day
    Today, it’s Wisconsin, Maryland, and Washington D.C. voters’ turn. CNN is displaying results. And Fox anchor Bret Baier hosts a special at 11 p.m. ET. Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com I get that politics isn’t supposed to be fair, but it would be classier if Rick San ...
  • Barack Obama Takes Money from Muslim Murderers
    We’re not just talking any old murderer. Barack Obama’s Presidential campaign is open for business and taking money from anyone willing to give it. This includes Major Nidal Hassan, the murdering bastard who killed fellow U.S. Army soldiers at Fort Hood two years ago. The story is he ...
  • Open Thread * Obama + Female Voters
    Obama gave an interview that just aired during the half-time of the NCAA championship game. My favorite line: “I don’t want to overstay my welcome …” I think he was referring to playing basketball on the White House’s basketball court. I’d have to listen to it ...
  • Professor Obama Schools the Supremes
    President Obama delivered an “animus brief” today to members of the Supreme Court, unable to contain himself any longer after last week’s three-day oral arguments on Obamacare. Does Obama really believe that lecturing the justices is a winning strategy? The nine justices alread ...

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • GUEST EDITORIAL: Disregard shown for mountains ...
    GUEST EDITORIAL: Disregard shown for mountains Clarksville Leaf Chronicle After five consecutive years, it really is a pity the Tennessee Legislature can't pass a bill protecting the state's wonderful scenic mountains from the ravages of mountaintop-removal mining for coal. The state Sen ...
  • Short film on W.Va. coalfields set to air Thur ...
    Short film on W.Va. coalfields set to air Thursday BusinessWeek The film explores underground mining, mountaintop removal mining and the successful struggle of a community to relocate Marsh Fork Elementary School from the shadow of a 2.8 billion-gallon coal slurry dam. and more »
  • Mark Hertsgaard: The nation's biggest climate ...
    Mark Hertsgaard: The nation's biggest climate victory OCRegister She was also an 11th-generation West Virginian, which perhaps explained her mom's other preoccupation: stopping mountaintop-removal coal mining in Appalachia. Hitt had spent the better part of a decade in Boone, North Carol ...
  • Ashley Judd to be Democratic convention delega ...
    6abc.com Ashley Judd to be Democratic convention delegate 6abc.com Judd discussed the controversial practice of mountain top removal coal mining in the Appalachian Mountains of Kentucky and West Virginia. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - April 3, 2012 ...
  • About Tonight: April 3, 2012 - DCist.com
    DCist.com About Tonight: April 3, 2012 DCist.com Learn about Evangelicals against mountaintop removal, Muslims for sustainable farms, Buddhists saving trees, and more. See it tonight at Bloombars in Columbia Heights (3222 11th Street NW). After the screening, the DC chapter of the Citizens Clima ...

Memeorandum

  • Solyndra's Loan Guarantee 'Was Rushed,' Treasu ...
    Alison Vekshin / Bloomberg: Solyndra's Loan Guarantee ‘Was Rushed,’ Treasury Audit Says  —  The U.S. Treasury Department was given one day to complete its review of the government's $535 million loan guarantee to Solyndra LLC, the bankrupt solar-panel manufacturer, t ...
  • Santorum remains undeterred, predicts Pennsylv ...
    CNN: Santorum remains undeterred, predicts Pennsylvania win  —  (CNN) — Despite disappointing finishes in all three of Tuesday's Republican primaries, Rick Santorum indicated no sign of letting up in his quest to win the Republican presidential nomination.  —&nb ...
  • Couch v. Wayne Local School District (Lambda L ...
    Lambda Legal: Couch v. Wayne Local School District  —  In April 2011, Maverick Couch, a high school student in Waynesville, Ohio, wore a T-shirt with a rainbow Ichthys, or “sign of the fish,” and a slogan that says “Jesus Is Not a Homophobe” in observatio ...
  • Flattering News Coverage Has a Price in China ...
    David Barboza / New York Times: Flattering News Coverage Has a Price in China  —  SHANGHAI — China is notorious for censoring politically delicate news coverage.  But it is more than willing to let flattering news about Western and Asian businesses appear in print and ...
  • Sarah Palin: 'Blast' hosting 'Today' show (Mj ...
    Mj Lee / Politico: Sarah Palin: ‘Blast’ hosting ‘Today’ show  —  ‘It was a blast.  Lots of energy, lots of chaos,’ Palin said.  AP Photos  —  Close  —  Fresh off of her debut on the “Today” ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Murky borders
    In the second of two articles about Sino-Burmese business, Yang Meng travels to the resource-rich borderlands, where everyone from wealthy jade merchants to ethnic nationalists is vying for advantage.Traders in the Ruili teahouse call him “Zhao, the Kachin general”. Rough-looking and ...
  • Chinese power, Burmese politics
    China’s state-owned energy firms have entwined themselves in Myanmar’s internal struggles. Yang Meng finds out more on a visit to the stalled Myitsone dam.We approached the Myitsone construction site along a new concrete road, laid over the local government’s old, rough track b ...
  • Why true leaders make us uneasy
    Creative solutions come when we are forced outside our comfort zones. The trick is to learn to force ourselves, writes John Elkington.You know the feeling. The elevator doors are closing behind you and suddenly you are alone with someone you have long wanted to meet and influence. How to connect ...
  • New nuclear spring for China?
    One year after Fukushima stalled its nuclear programme, the Chinese government is preparing to restart the engine. Feng Jie reports. During China’s parliamentary season this month, the government put out a number of signals that the moratorium on approving new nuclear-power plants may ...
  • Behind Myanmar’s suspended dam (2)
    China’s resolve not to interfere in its neighbour’s “internal affairs" rings hollow: the country has played a formative role in Burmese history, writes Qin Hui.Everything I heard in Myanmar pointed to a failure to consult as the key issue in the furore surrounding the Myit ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Racial and Religious Profiling: What will be t ...
    By Priya Murthy, Policy Director of South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT), The last ten years have been needlessly difficult for South Asians living in New York. South Asians, and in particular, Sikhs and Muslims, have faced ten years of profiling, ten years of negative encounters with ...
  • George Zimmerman, the Murder of Trayvon Martin ...
    If there is a version of Godwin’s law for discussing African American slavery and the Black Holocaust I always try to step delicately around it. Far too often words such as “lynching,” “racism,” “field negro,” “house negro,” “plant ...
  • Exposed: Massive New Spy Center Built to Track ...
    An investigative reporter reveals that the NSA has established listening posts throughout the nation to collect and sift through billions of email messages and phone calls.
  • How Activists Are Striking Back Against Drone ...
    An excerpt from Medea Benjamin's new book, "Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control," published by OR Books.
  • Bob Casey Versus the Rights of Women
    Written by Kate Michelman for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. It seems a lifetime ago that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Griswold v Connecticut that a Connecticut law prohibiting the use of c ...

Threat Level

  • Shady Companies With Ties to Israel Wiretap th ...
    The NSA is growing bigger and more powerful. But behind its curtains of secrecy, the secretive spying agency is relying on contractors with checkered pasts and ties to Israeli intelligence to build out and run its massive eavesdropping operations.
  • Global Payments Says 1.5 Million Cards Stolen; ...
    About 1.5 million cards were potentially stolen by hackers in the recent breach of Atlanta-based card processor Global Payments Inc, which said its loss-prevention software had been good enough to spot the data being siphoned from its servers, but not good enough to stop the leak.
  • With GPS Data Out, Feds Eye Warrantless Cell P ...
    Prosectors are shifting their focus to warrantless cell-tower locational tracking of suspects in the wake of a Supreme Court ruling that law enforcement should acquire probable-cause warrants from judges to affix GPS devices to vehicles and monitor their every move.
  • Megaupload User Demands Return of Seized Content
    An Ohio man is asking a Virginia federal judge to preserve data on the 66.6 million users of Megaupload, the file-sharing service that was shuttered in January due to federal criminal copyright infringement indictments targeting its operators.
  • Hackers Breach Credit Card Processor; 50K Card ...
    Global Payments Inc, an Atlanta-based processor, has been breached by hackers, leaving more than 50,000 card accounts potentially compromised.

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • Jimmy John's E. coli Sprouts Update
    A total of 29 individuals infected with the outbreak strain of E. coli O26 have been reported from 11 states. The number of ill persons identified in each state is as follows: Alabama (1), Arkansas (1), Iowa (5), Kansas (2), Michigan (10), Missouri (3), Ohio (3), Pennsylvania (1), Washington (1) ...
  • Is 19 State Salmonella Bareilly Outbreak linke ...
    There is an ongoing outbreak of Salmonella Bareilly.  The confirmed case count has grown to 90 as of April 2, 2012.  Reported case counts include 19 States and the District of Columbia. Seven hospitalizations and no deaths have been reported. The majority of the cases are clustered on ...
  • "Poisoned" on my mind
    In the morning I am taking an early flight to Washington State Universtity (Pullman) where I will have the honor of spending the day with the author of "Poisoned," the true story about the Jack in the Box E. coli Outbreak, that changed many lives, including my own.  You shoud buy the book a ...
  • "Blue Barf," "Green Goop," "Purple Puke," "Red ...
    What if you were the CEO of a multimillion dollar, privately held food manufacturing company and awoke one morning to find that the name of your best selling product (you previously had painstakingly crafted the name to sound so appetizing) was now known to the public as “Blue Barf,” ...
  • Flushing New York Tofu Linked to Two Botulism ...
    The New York City Health Department is investigating one confirmed and one suspect case of botulism, a rare but serious foodborne illness caused by an extremely potent toxin. Both patients are Chinese-speaking Queens residents and had recently purchased unrefrigerated fresh bulk tofu from the s ...

AutoblogGreen

  • New York: Fisker Atlantic revealed, promises t ...
    Filed under: Concept Cars, New York Auto Show, Hybrid, Hatchback, Fisker, Electric Overheard at the reveal event for the Fisker Atlantic this evening: This is the car you buy your secretary. Yes, the altogether good-looking Atlantic sets a new high for plug-in hybrid looks, and even though ...
  • Official: EPA gives E15 go-ahead despite objec ...
    Filed under: Etc., Government/Legal As predicted and expected, the Environmental Protection Agency today approved the first applications to make E15, a blend of gasoline with 15 percent ethanol in it. This means that E15 is now a "significant step" closer to production and sale in America. ...
  • Report: Happy Birthday! President George H.W. ...
    It appears the right-wing wall against the Chevrolet Volt is starting to crumble. Following months of beating on the Volt, Fox News aired a puff piece on how great the Volt is earlier this week. Now we hear that former president George H.W. Bush has purchased a Volt for his son Neil as a birt ...
  • GM ends donations to climate-change-denying He ...
    Filed under: Etc., Earnings/Financials 10,000 General Motors owners can make an impact. After being confronted with a petition against the money that the GM Foundation gave to the Heartland Institute - known as one of the biggest funders of climate-change denial - following an expos&eacute ...
  • Spy Shots: Fisker Nina caught peeking out befo ...
    Filed under: Spy Photos, Hybrid, Sedan, Paris Motor Show, Fisker, Electric Who wants to wait until the official unveiling of the Fisker Nina plug-in hybrid next week when we can see spy shots right this second? Neither do we. So, what do the shots reveal? For starters, we can see that the ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Van Jones on Democracy Now! Tuesday - Read An ...
    Ahead of Van Jones’ interview on Democracy Now! Tuesday, you can read an excerpt from his newest book, Rebuild the Dream. The green economy pioneer reflects on his journey from grassroots outsider to White House insider, shares details of his time in the Obama administration and his re ...
  • General Strike in Spain: Report From Madrid On ...
    Workers in Spain staged a general strike Thursday, shutting down factories and parts of the transportation sector and holding massive marches. The strike was called by two major trade unions to protest labor rules that make it less costly for employers to hire and fire people in a country where ...
  • Part 2: Ousted Maldives President Mohamed Nash ...
    We continue our interview with ousted Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed and ask him if he plans to seek office again. "I will contest the coming elections," Nasheed says, noting that, "if the coup was so popular, we would have seen people coming out, rejoicing with the military. ...
  • Listen: 1997 Interview with Poet Adrienne Rich ...
    Poet, essayist and feminist Adrienne Rich died on Tuesday at the age of 82. Rich drew widespread acclaim for her many volumes of poetry and prose, which brought the oppression of women and lesbians into the public spotlight. She was a key figure in the women’s movement and an uncompromisi ...
  • Forget Fear of Flying, Fear Airport Screening
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan There was terror in the skies this week over Texas, caused not by a terrorist but by a pilot—a Flight Standards captain, no less. JetBlue Airways Capt. Clay Osbon, flying Flight 191 from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport to Las Vegas, began m ...

Suzie-Q

  • Mitt Romney Tries To Self-Deport Everything He ...
    Mitt Romney on immigration: January 23, 2012 vs. April 2, 2012 Daily Kos Tue Apr 03, 2012 at 06:50 AM PDT by Jed Lewison Now Mitt Romney blamesPresident Obama for Republican obstruction on immigration reform: “This has always been a priority for the President he chooses to do nothing about,” Rom ...
  • Obama Opens Big Gender Gap In Swing States
    USA TODAY Mar 30, 2012 By David Jackson, USA TODAY Updated  3d 8h ago Another poll, another big lead for President Obama in a swing state — and more evidence he is benefiting from a growing gender gap.Obama leads Mitt Romney by 52%-35% in Wisconsin, according to a new NBC News/Marist Poll ...
  • The Gender Gap: Three Decades Old, as Wide as Ever
    Pew Research Center Released: March 29, 2012 The gender gap in presidential politics is not new. Democratic candidates have gotten more support from women than men formore than 30 years. Even so, Barack Obama’s advantages among women voters over his GOP rivals are striking. In the Pew Research C ...
  • WINNING: The 10 Best Achievements Of Obama&#82 ...
    Via: MoveOn.org Posted on March 29, 2012 by Angie SOURCE
  • Obama Campaign Seeks Romney Tax Returns
    WSJ POLITICS Updated March 29, 2012, 9:42 p.m. ET BY MARK MAREMONT President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign called on Republican front-runner Mitt Romney to release his tax returns dating back to the 1980s, to see if they contain information about an uncommon investment arrangement at ...

Solari

  • Ireland Faces Popular Revolt Over New Property Tax
    By Shawn Pogatchnik Debt-mired Ireland is facing a revolt over its new property tax. The government said less than half of the country’s 1.6 million households paid the charge by Saturday’s deadline to avoid penalties. And about 5,000 marched in protest against the annual conference ...
  • Shanley Goes to ‘Church’
    By Gordon Cox The latest play by John Patrick Shanley has a new title, “Storefront Church,” and a cast that includes Giancarlo Esposito, Tonya Pinkins and Zach Grenier. Bowing at Off Broadway’s Atlantic Theater this spring, “Storefront Church” was previously called ...
  • Japan Nuclear Plant May Be Worse Off Than Thought
    By Hiroko Tabuchi TOKYO — The damage to one of three stricken reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant could be worse than previously thought, a recent internal investigation has shown, raising new concerns over the plant’s stability and complicating the post-disaster cleanup. Continue reading t ...
  • Joe Mysak: Insight on the Municipal Market
      By Catherine Austin Fitts This Thursday, I will be talking with Joe Mysak about trends in the municipal markets. Joe Mysak has made a career of helping us understand the municipal bond markets – from educating local officials about how to manage municipal bond issues to helping bond inv ...
  • Interested in Lunch With Catherine?
    If you are a Solari Report subscriber, you are cordially invited to meet and have lunch with Catherine at one of the many places she will be traveling to. This will provide an opportunity for you to meet Catherine in person and to get together with other Solari Report subscribers in your area. S ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Surgery now underway to transform citizens int ...
    Summary: The Founders hoped that America would be a beacon light of hope and liberty to the people of the world. And so we were for two centuries. But we’ve become an example of another kind, as shown by today’s reading. There’s still time to get angry; time to act wisely. &#82 ...
  • Tribalism and racism are the 1%’s best f ...
    Summary:  Conservatives have exploited the shooting of Tryvon Martin by George Zimmerman.  Inciting tribalism, even racism — the 1%’s best friends. They seek to cloud the facts, exploiting the usual mish-mash of conflicting evidence to paint a simple false picture that arouses hatred ...
  • Why do awesome people – like us – ...
    Summary:  Each campaign season brings complaints about the quality of the candidates.  Why such a poor selection, unlike what we see at Best Buy?  Read this for an answer, proven by history. I recommend joyfully reading “A Quantum Theory of Mitt Romney”  in the March 31 New York Time ...
  • We ask the mineshaft: should we be reasonable ...
    Summary:  We fight for the Republic against its worst enemies, those inside America.  As it has already been in our history.  Is cool logic, reasoned discussion grounded in fact, our best weapon?  Or that just foolish pedantry, and victory only possible by adopting the powerful tools of our enem ...
  • What every American needs to know about the Fe ...
    Summary: The Federal Reserve has become one of the most powerful government agencies, operating almost free of checks and balances.  Worse, it represents one of the most outrageous examples of regulatory capture, private interests taking control of agencies intended to supervise them.  Today we ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

  • Joint Strike Fighter II: The Best is the Enemy ...
    Today is the thirtieth anniversary of the 1982 Argentine invasion of the Falklands about which I will say more later in the week. Last week I wrote a piece about the spiraling out of control costs of the ‘Fifth Generation’ F-35 Lightning II all-singing, all-dancing multirole combat a ...
  • Iran Unofficially Warns Saudi Arabia and Qatar ...
    The head of the Iranian parliament’s Defense Subcommittee announced that Tehran has unofficially warned Saudi Arabia and Qatar about meddling in Syria’s internal affairs. According to Press TV, Iran’s state-financed satellite broadcaster, Gholam Reza Karami Rad, the head of the parliament’s Def ...
  • Syrian Opposition Must Prove It Can Handle For ...
    In the aftermath of its latest meeting with international supporters, the opposition Syrian National Council (SNC) faces a crucial test: whether it can spend millions of dollars in foreign aid efficiently and without corruption.  Syria analysts and SNC members concede that the council ha ...
  • BMD and Theater Stability in Northeast Asia
    This is another interesting development in the context of the upcoming North Korean rocket launch. It would appear it isn't just South Korea and Japan preparing to shoot the rocket down if necessary, but Taiwan as well. A military spokesman yesterday refused to comment on media reports alleging ...
  • The Mess in Mali
    In less than two weeks, the West African nation of Mali has gone from being a rare oasis of democracy and stability to a near failed state whose troubles threaten to ripple across the Sahel where the security situation, always delicate even in the best of times, is especially stressed in the wak ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • I’m Vacating. Don’t You Go Anywhere, Though.
    I’ve been doing a little too much lately, as you’ll see soon in The Nation and the forthcoming print issue of The Prospect. So I’m running off to a foreign country—Texas—to see how much my nephews have grown, hang out by my brother’s pool, splash around with my wife and stepson, and prove to my ...
  • Just Can't Hide It
    Mitt Romney's struggles to win over the conservative wing of the GOP base have often been dismissed as a problem for the general election. Even if evangelicals and social conservatives in Alabama want to vote for Rick Santorum over Romney, they're unlikely to turn around and cast their ballot f ...
  • Auto Sales on the Rise
    Auto sales were on the upswing in March, thanks to a thirst for fuel-efficient vehicles and the unseasonably warm weather. Automakers sold 1.4 million light vehicles last month, with hybrids and more efficient models leading the way. General Motors sold over 100,000 models that get 30+ miles to ...
  • Don't Blame the National Organization for Marriage
    In case anyone thought the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) was around to promote racial harmony, unsealed strategy memos, recently released as part of a court case, show this is the last thing on their mind. Since 2009, NOM has tried to "drive a wedge between gays and blacks" by public ...
  • 4,446 Lonely D.C. Republicans
    One of the strange things about living in Washington, D.C. is the ongoing presence of lots and lots of Republicans. In my adult life I've lived in two other large cities (San Francisco and Philadelphia), and in both of those members of the Grand Old Party are not only few in number but nearly i ...

Buzzflash

  • NOM’s Racialist Divide and Conquer Strategy Wi ...
    BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The Ruth Institute has nothing to do with preserving the memory of baseball's immortal Babe Ruth, nor is it a tribute site to Ruth Wakefield, the inventor of the Tollhouse brand of chocolate chip cookies. Founded by Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, the Ruth Ins ...
  • Five Preposterous but Persistent Conservative ...
    PAUL BUCHHEIT FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUTM With the mainstream media in the hands of the mostly conservative and wealthy, it's difficult for average Americans to learn the truth about critical issues. The following five conservative claims are examples of the mythical beliefs that fall apart in th ...
  • Scalia Believes Innocent People Can Be Execute ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH ON TRUTHOUT In 2000, most legal pundits said that Bush v. Gore would never make it the Supreme Court, because voting was a states' right issue. Boy, were they wrong. In fact, many legal analysts and scholars prognosticate about Supreme Court behavior as if it we ...
  • Time to End America's "Drift" to Permanent War ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT We are so used to celebrity books that celebrate the "celebritydom" of the author, often written by a ghost writter, that when a book such as "Drift" comes along, it takes us a bit by surprise because it has actual substance to it - and important pote ...
  • Riddled With Cancer and Facing an Election, Wh ...
    NIKOLAS KOZLOFF FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT read more

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Drugs to treat hepatitis C on the way
    Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a chronic infectious disease that afflicts some 170 million people worldwide, causing chronic liver disease and, in many cases, liver cancer. Chemists at the University of California, San Diego have finally obtained the first high- resolution crystal structure of a com ...
  • On the quantum dot
    There is always room for further innovation in any field and I recently highlight new work in the area of Quantum Dots – those tiny entities hoping to revolutionise computing, analysis and medical diagnostics. Robert Meulenberg, University of Maine, USA, and chemist Geoffrey Strouse, Flori ...
  • Nanotech goes arty
    Caltech scientist Sameer Walavalkar just emailed me about his latest project. It’s a cultural meeting of science and art on the nanoscale. This is what he had to say: “I’m a physicist and work on creating silicon nanostructures. As part of my work I figured out how to use one o ...
  • Microbes make graphene reductively
    Microbes fished from the local river could be used to make low-cost and environmentally friendly graphene in an efficient way according to Japanese scientists. A simple method for the mass production of high quality graphene could help speed up our approach to a future generation of microelectro ...
  • See through batteries
    Anyone who has owned a portable electronic gadget during the last decade (hands up anyone who hasn’t!) or so will have relied on the almost ubiquitous lithium-ion battery. They precluded the need to use noxious cadmium and purportedly side-step the memory charge problem of so-called Ni-cad ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Bosnia and Herzegovina: Roma, Jews Face Politi ...
    Roma, Jews, and other national minorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina remain excluded from participation in national politics 20 years after war began, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Bosnia needs to remove ethnic discrimination against national minorities from its constitution ...
  • Trapped Idaho Wolf Tortured Before Killing
    The Center for Biological Diversity sent letters to both the Forest Service and Idaho Attorney General, Lawrence Wasden, today requesting investigations into the actions of a Forest Service employee, Josh Bransford, who posted photos of a wolf he had trapped in northern Idaho read more
  • U.S. District Court Finalizes Deadlines for Ai ...
    The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has approved an agreement between the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and conservation groups on a path toward cleaner, clearer air in our national parks and wilderness areas. The consent decree establishes firm, enforceable deadlines fo ...
  • U.S. District Court Finalizes Deadlines for Ai ...
    The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has approved an agreement between the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and conservation groups on a path toward cleaner, clearer air in our national parks and wilderness areas. The consent decree establishes firm, enforceable deadlines fo ...
  • Conservationists' Appeal Halts Coal Mine Expansion
    Plans by the Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Forest Service and Ark Land Company to expand mining at the Southern Utah Fuel Company Coal Mine have been halted following an appeal by Utah Environmental Congress, the Center for Biological Diversity and Grand Canyon Trust. The groups challenged the ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • The Fracking Frenzy's Impact on Women
    Sara Jerving Hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” has generated widespread media attention this year. The process, which injects water and chemicals into the ground to release "natural" gas and oil from shale bedrock, ...
  • Glorifying the Fetus While Ignoring the Fetal ...
    Margie Kelly Abortion opponents long ago slapped their brand on the fetus, parading giant graphic images of fetuses in marches and now calling for laws mandating pictures of fetuses inside a woman's body via sonograms – sometimes ...
  • Bahrain's Government Must Stop Killing Its Peo ...
    Ali Alaswad When 100,000 or more people take to the streets in protest, governments in most parts of the world would see it as a sign that they need to change course – especially in a country with only about 600,000 citizens.read more
  • Catching up to the Local Food Revolution
    Bill Wenzel This year, spring arrived early as a record-breaking heat wave swept across the nation, making it feel like summer in Minnesota, Virginia, and many other parts of the country. Farmers are either already planting their crops or j ...
  • Save Wall Street! Congress Passes JO(BS) Act
    Jim Hightower Hallelujah, Washington has finally heard the people's cries for jobs! In an urgent bipartisan push, Democrats and Republicans have joined hands across the aisle to pass the JOBS Act. In this time of "The Great Hurt&qu ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • BMA plans Songkran activities
    Besides water wars, many tamer Songkran celebrations will be on offer at places across Bangkok, such as City Hall, with the bathing of the Phra Phuttasihing statue and other Buddha images, and alms-giving for 185 monks.
  • Water Wars
    When Nevada State Engineer Jason King ruled in favor of the SNWA, allowing it to pump water from nearly 84,000 acre-feet in Spring Valley, Cave Valley, Dry Lake Valley and Delamar Valley, the response
  • US Intelligence Report Warns of Future Water Wars
    Water. It’s essential to life, and according to a U.S. intelligence report, it may soon be a cause for war.
  • Water Wars Cost $18.7 Million
    The state of Georgia and the Atlanta Regional Commission have spent about $18.7 million in outside legal fees during two decades of legal battles involving Florida and Alabama over access to drinking water. read more
  • Ga. Agencies Spend $18.7 Million on Water Wars
    Ga. Agencies Spend $18.7 Million on Water Wars

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • Why is Palestine solidarity being criminalized ...
    Kristin Szremski Chicago 3 April 2012 Cooperation between academic authorities at the University of California at Davis and influential Zionist organizations could have an adverse impact on Palestine solidarity work there and on college campuses across the country.
  • "We are only guests in Lebanon" - Palestinians ...
    Moe Ali Nayel Beirut 2 April 2012 Thousands marked Palestinian Land Day in south Lebanon last Friday. Palestinian refugees and Lebanese supporters explained what Land Day means to them.
  • Israeli authorities flout court order to provi ...
    Negev 2 April 2012 Bedouin communities not recognized by the Israeli government not only face frequent home demolitions and land confiscation, but limited access to clean water.
  • Palestinian Authority jails journalist for pub ...
    Asa Winstanley Ramallah 30 March 2012 The Palestinian Authority imprisoned journalist Yousef al-Shayab Wednesday because of something he wrote, and because he insists on protecting his sources, say his colleagues
  • Israel threatens to demolish German-funded sol ...
    Jillian Kestler-D'Amours 30 March 2012 At least 500 Palestinians face total electricity cuts after Israel issued stop-work orders on solar panel and wind turbine systems in the South Hebron Hills, while illegal settlements in the area are provided with electricity and water.

The Wonk Room

  • Tea Party Introduces ‘Wacky’ And & ...
    Citing conspiracy theories about “a one-world order,” the Arizona Tea Party is attempting to slip a bill through the legislature that could strip programs designed to help residents in the state become more energy efficient. The bill’s sponsor, Arizona State Senator Judy Burges ...
  • Top Romney Surrogate Donald Trump Offers To Ex ...
    Politico’s Mike Allen reported last month that reality star/businessman/attention seeker Donald Trump is building his political stature as a top surrogate for Mitt Romney. The controversial figure is supposedly “gaining juice and respectability in national politics,” Allen repo ...
  • Geithner: House Republican Budget Is A ‘ ...
    Yesterday, President Obama blasted the House Republican budget that passed last week as “thinly veiled social Darwinism” that is a “prescription for decline.” Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner piled on today, calling the budget a “recipe for decline.” “The ...
  • The IMDb Age Discrimination Suit and Journalis ...
    I’ve been following the age discrimination suit actress Huong Hoang filed agaisnt Amazon.com and IMDb.com for revealing her name for a while now, and it’s worth revisiting now one of the central claims in the case has been revealed. Hoang’s allegations that the companies had co ...
  • Louisiana Considers Protecting Charter Schools ...
    A Louisiana Senate committee advanced a bill last week (SB 217) seeking to prevent executive branch departments from implementing non-discrimination protections beyond what is mandated by law. The effect of the bill would be that charter schools could discriminate on the basis of sexual orientat ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • The Woodworth Bill
    I'm going to repeat here what I said at Dawg's: nothing gets done by a harpercon unless harper wants it done. Just like the party-financed "private member's bill" about the gun registry when he had a minority. harper is going to test the water for public opinion ONCE ...
  • "It wasn't racism! Did you see how BLACK he was?"
    I've been following the tragic slaying of Trayvon Martin but I refrained from blogging about it because I do enough commentary about stuff in the USA, which is a foreign country after all. And it's not like we don't have murderous racism of the institutional variety here in Canada. But sometime ...
  • "Enforce the Damned Law"
    A very simple suggestion from "The Sixth Estate": At this point, the Canada Elections Act is virtually a dead letter. The last several years have shown that you can run roughshod over it with impunity. The Prime Minister of Canada lost a court case over election law violations. The Conservati ...
  • The Tragedy of the American Psyche
    How much more easy did World War II make the American government's justifications for US imperialism to the American voting public?
  • Capitalist Fundamentalists
    It's a religion to them. They are intolerant and dogmatic. And they believe with the fervor of fanatics because it's really self-interest. They are really only in it for power. Money is power to them. Plodding dullards and sycophants will sing their praises out of genuine delusion as well as for ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul are don ...
    It's over. It's done. They've lost. He's won. Mitt Romney will be the Republican to go against Barack Obama in the fight for the U.S. Presidency. Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul have officially become the house guests that won't leave.
  • What does your Toronto look like?
    Those in the city of Toronto often talk about being a culturally diverse city but what does that really mean? Does it mean imitation foreign food and beliefs toned down to Canadian standards or does it mean being able to to an individual in a sea of peopl
  • Duncan Keith's holiday now over, back in Black ...
    Duncan Keith's suspension is over and it has worked out nicely for the Chicago Blackhawks, and Keith. He got 5 games for running Vancouver Canuck Daniel Sedin and elbowing him hard to the head. Keith has completed what was arguably a welcome lay-off.
  • Toronto Mayor urges by-law enforcement of off- ...
    During his radio talk show Sunday, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford said he has received numerous calls about dog owners who do not have a leash on their dogs. He has now ordered Toronto Animal Services to enforce the by-law.
  • Transgender beauty queen may be allowed in Mis ...
    Jenna Talackova, the transgender Canadian beauty queen who was disqualified from the Miss Universe Canada competition because she is not "natural born" female may still get a chance to compete.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Auditor General condemns F-35 process
    Auditor General Michael Ferguson's first report is a scathing indictment of the Harper government's F-35 procurement process.
  • Military spending cut?
    The headlines after last week's federal budget trumpeted major cuts in the Department of National Defence's budget. But how significant the overall reduction in military spending will be remains to be seen.
  • Hancock: Sub purchase “daft”
    A British MP who raised concerns about the sale of dud British subs to Canada back in 1998 has a simple suggestion -- see if you can return them to Britain.
  • Pay pensions or fund fighters?
    The polling firm Ipsos Reid recently asked Canadians about their spending priorities for the upcoming federal budget -- and found some interesting results.
  • NDP tied with Tories for top spot
    According to a survey conducted by the polling firm Environics, the New Democratic Party is tied with the Conservatives for first place in voter support.

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Lost Principles And Social Destruction
    March 16, 2012 Activist Post By Brandon Smith …we are here dealing with a totalitarian state of which the philosophy included an utter contempt for the individual… any freedom of thought or action was inconceivable in the Aztec world… dependence and instability were absolute, f ...
  • Amnesty International’s Ultimatum to Russia
    March 16, 2012 Activist Post By Tony Cartalucci As Libya splinters into infighting factions, with racist genocidal death squads scouring “undesirables” across the nation, entire regions of the country peeling off as semi-autonomous terror-emirates and with a BP, Shell, and Total-fund ...
  • Why Are Bankers Jumping Ship In Record Numbers ...
    March 16, 2012 Activist Post By Brandon Turbeville On March 6, 2012, I wrote an article entitled, “Mass Banking Resignations Signal A Purging Has Begun?” in which I discussed the seemingly large number of banking resignations taking place all over the world. At the time the article was published ...
  • 5 Essentials for Healthy Longevity
    March 19, 2012 Meschino Health By Dr. Meschino “Here is some great advice on how to stay healthy for your entire life. There is no reason to get old and sick. You should be old and healthy.” –KTRN Most of us would like to live to be 100 or older, provided we could maintain a [...]
  • Lawmakers Try To Ban Facebook ‘Shoulder Surfin ...
    March 21, 2012 Time By Martha C. White “If a potential employer asks for your Facebook password, tell them to stick it. You know that guy or girl is going to be a horrible boss.” –KTRN Even in a marketplace where people routinely trade access to their personal data for small fr ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Jon Stewart pummels Sarah Palin for ‘infiltrat ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDaily Show host Jon Stewart on Tuesday night blasted former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin for nearly six minutes, mocking her for trying to make her appearance on NBC’s Today Show seem courageous. Palin had told Breitbar ...
  • Romney wins Republican primaries in Maryland a ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comFormer Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney will win Tuesday’s Republican primary in Maryland and Washington, D.C., according to media reports. The Republican establishment has been steadily coalescing behind the former ...
  • Duff on Press TV – ‘Americans ashamed of troop ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comBy Gordon DuffTuesday, April 3rd, 2012 Americans ashamed of troops atrocities in Afghanistan By Press’TV US Bureau “These last three incidents and in particular, the killing of 18 –which has been a more ...
  • US Internet Criminalization Now Pursued at Sta ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comThe Daily Bell Tuesday, April 3, 2012 ACLU Blasts ‘Electronic Harassment’ Bill; Says It Criminalizes Free Speech … The American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut is blasting a bill proposed by state ...
  • Elizabeth Warren, Hawk versus Scott Brown, Hawk
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article By John V. Walsh 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 ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Chris Hedges: Occupy Debate on Black Block Vio ...
    by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad April 3, 2012 ebecker2000 on Apr 2, 2012 With the escalation of police tactics at many Occupations, some Occupiers argue for more active resistance. Chris Hedges and Kevin Zeese are questioned by DC Occupiers over future tactics at a seminar sponso ...
  • The Ten Commandments (1956) + Moses (1995) (re ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Note: replaced video Mar. 11, 2012; note Pt 5 is unavailable. Updated: added the film, “Moses” Happy Pesach! Happy Passover! Watch on the original blog post: The Ten Commandments (1956) + Moses (1995) Filed under: Dandelion Salad Posts News Politi ...
  • Gareth Porter: Iranian Diplomat Says IAEA Unde ...
    by Gareth Porter Featured Writer Dandelion Salad April 3, 2012 TheRealNews on Apr 3, 2012 Gareth Porter: IAEA demanded to see Parchin on recent visit ahead of schedule to make Iran look uncooperative Gareth Porter: Iranian Diplomat Says IAEA Undermined Recent Talks to Satisfy Israel and West *** ...
  • Blogroll
    Dandelion Salad Blogroll 911blogger A-Z of Bushcraft & Survival Skills Adbusters All Over the Board American Leftist An Arab Woman Blues (Layla Anwar) Andy Worthington Antifascist Calling… BeggarsCanBeChoosers.com Between Both Worlds Boatang & Demetriou Brad Blog Building A Powerful Left ...
  • Chris Hedges: No Outcry Within Media on NDAA
    by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad April 2, 2012 TheAlyonaShow on Apr 2, 2012 We had reported on the show that a group of political activists and journalists testified in a New York Court about why they’re suing the Obama administration over the National Defense Authorization ...

Your New Reality

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    Hypnotic, grin-making. A house filled with interactive reproductions of classic art, coming soon: Starry Night (interactive animation) from Petros Vrellis on Vimeo.
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    Normal blogging output will return soon. Making some movies. In the meantime, enjoy :
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    Best. Christmas. Ever A Short Story By Darryl Mason "Is your father okay?" He waited for her to answer. He couldn't tell her what happened while she was away... "He's not getting better, if that's what you mean." How could he tell her, right now? She had more than enough on her mind alread ...
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    Britain Embraces Apocalyptic Doom It's grim, and getting grimmer, but as this UK Guardian story by Andy Beckett reveals Brits can't get enough of the end of the world : A sense of doom dominates recent films such as Melancholia, in which a vast unknown planet suddenly appears from behind the su ...
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    A journey to see the black hole claimed to be at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy : I love these cosmological photo-montage animations. They're even better than the ones I saw in my head as a kid, when we could only look at drawings of star-fields in science books and have to imagine such a ...

Wired - 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
    It's not the raw number of friends that matters in feeling pressured to join Facebook, but rather the types of friends who are signed up. The results of a new study show that groups of friends -- rather than friend number -- are important to how social trends spread.
  • 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 ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Marwan Barghouti placed in solitary confinemen ...
    Imprisoned Fatah commander called on Palestinians to severe economic and security coordination with Israel, urged economic and diplomatic boycott: "It must be understood that there is no partner for... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • Commemorating Land Day in pictures
    Palestinians and activists in the occupied West Bank, Gaza, Israel and neighbouring countires have demonstrated on Land Day in memory of six Palestinians killed by Israeli security forces on March... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
  • Dismay at Globe invitation to Israeli theatre
    We notice with dismay and regret that Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London has invited Israel's National Theatre, Habima, to perform The Merchant of Venice in its Globe to Globe festival this coming... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Israel Defense Ministry plan earmarks 10 perce ...
    The state has argued before the Supreme Court and the International Court of Justice in The Hague that the route of the separation barrier was based on Israel’s security needs. But Civil... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in ...
  • Israel cuts contact with UN rights council, to ...
    Israeli Arab MK Ahmed Tibi (Ra'am-Ta'al) criticized the move, saying that it amounted to a "boycott of the UN," and asked what "Lieberman and Yisrael Beiteinu have in common with human rights." MK... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • New Glioblastoma Research Presented at AACR An ...
    Physician-scientists from University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center's Seidman Cancer Center and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine presented new research findings in 24 presentations this week at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) in Chi ...
  • NRC Releases Report on the State of Polar Regions
    The U.S. National Research Council has released a synthesis of reports from thousands of scientists in 60 countries who took part in the International Polar Year (IPY) 2007-08, the first in over 50 years to offer a benchmark for environmental conditions and new discoveries in the polar regions.
  • Four Works Better Than Three
    Findings from a Saint Louis University study should bring better protection from influenza.
  • Researchers Reveal Why Some Pain Drugs Become ...
    Researchers at the University of Montreal's Sainte-Justine Hospital have identified how neural cells are able to build up resistance to opioid pain drugs within hours.
  • 'Positive Stress' Helps Protect Eye From Glaucoma
    Working in mice, scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have devised a treatment that prevents the optic nerve injury that occurs in glaucoma, a neurodegenerative disease that is a leading cause of blindness.

Natural Health News

  • Famous Long Distance Runner Dies Suggesting th ...
    The death of a runner who wrote a book on “extreme-distance” running may trigger questions on whether this type of exercise is as good for you as the runner believed. Micah True, an extreme-distance runner who wrote a book on the topic, vanished in March while on an extreme run. His body was fou ...
  • ‘Overdiagnosis’ of Breast Cancer May Be Higher ...
    A new study published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine not only shows that the overdiagnosis rate of breast cancer may be even higher than what health officials originally thought, but also that mammography might not be appropriate for use in screening for breast cancer. As reported by ...
  • Why Did New Study Find Dramatic Rise in Skin C ...
    A new study shows a dramatic increase in the incidence of melanoma among young men and women ages 18 to 39 between the years 1970 and 2009. Interestingly, the study also found that mortality rates from melanoma cancers have improved. The findings spurred researchers into announcing their support ...
  • Why Is Trust in Science at an All-Time Low?
    A recently released study looking at trends in public trust in science may explain why trust in science is plummeting among certain populations. The study found that while liberal and moderate attitudes toward the topic are basically unchanged, there is rising distrust among educated conservativ ...
  • Nearly 70 Million in U.S. Found to Have Seriou ...
    The number of inactive persons in the U.S. continues to increase every year, and now totals nearly 70 million people, according to a new study released by the Physical Active Council (PAC). The only encouraging finding was a small one: inactivity among children ages 6 to 12 fell just a tiny bit, ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Which Organ of the ICC Decides Whether Palesti ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller As most readers probably know by now, the Office of the Prosecutor has finally — after three inexcusable years of inaction — officially rejected Palestine’s attempt to accept the ICC’s jurisdiction pursuant to Article 12(3) of the ...
  • Weekday News Wrap: Wednesday, April 4, 2012
    by An Hertogen by An Hertogen A part of the Syrian peace plan, brokered at the behest of Kofi Annan, includes the deployment of 250 UN peacekeepers for a ceasefire monitoring mission, scheduled for arrival in Syria in the next 48 hours. Russia accuses the “Friends of Syria” group t ...
  • York University Faculty Torpedo $60 Million In ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku The faculty of Osgoode Hall Law School at York University in Toronto are either pretty gutsy, or totally insane… After eight months of controversy, York University has dropped plans for a joint international law program with Jim Balsillie’s think tank, having fa ...
  • Matt Bors Says It All
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller
  • Targeting and Causation
    by Deborah Pearlstein by Deborah Pearlstein The past few weeks have seen some resurrection of the old claim that targeted killing operations have increased under the Obama Administration because detention of participants in armed conflict (as the United States defines it) has become too fraugh ...

Public News Service

  • Spring Cleaning: Is There Danger Under the Sink?
    Spring Cleaning: Is There Danger Under the Sink? PHOENIX - For those who make a habit of spring cleaning, toxic chemicals in some household cleaners may turn this into a dangerous season. Twenty-one groups have sent a letter urging federal action to enforce a 40-year-old law which requires disc ...
  • GOP Enviro Activist: “Republicans Are Gr ...
    GOP Enviro Activist: “Republicans Are Green, Too” PHOENIX - Support for many environmental causes seems to run strictly along party lines, but a group of Republicans is trying to change that in Congress. Republicans for Environmental Protection is asking House Speaker John Boehner to ...
  • Bill Limiting Employee Contraceptive Coverage ...
    Bill Limiting Employee Contraceptive Coverage Defeated in Arizona Senate PHOENIX, Ariz. - About 100 women rallied Wednesday at the State Capitol against a bill allowing any employer to opt out of providing contraception coverage for religious or moral reasons. Shortly thereafter, the bill was de ...
  • Pain at the Pump? New Fuel Standards Could Eas ...
    Pain at the Pump? New Fuel Standards Could Ease the Burden PHOENIX - Soaring gas prices are hitting drivers in Arizona and across the nation, and little relief appears to be in sight. Zoe Lipman, senior manager for transportation solutions at the National Wildlife Federation, says part of the l ...
  • AZ Wind Energy Industry in a Holding Pattern?
    AZ Wind Energy Industry in a Holding Pattern? PHOENIX - The American wind energy industry is waiting for a favorable forecast from Congress. The wind-production tax credit is set to expire at the end of this year, and delayed decisions on its renewal have some sectors of the industry in a holdin ...

Center for Food Safety

  • Canadian Hog Industry Abandons Genetically Eng ...
    Center for Food Safety Calls on the U.S. FDA to Stop Review of GE “EnviroPig” The Center for Food Safety (CFS) welcomed reports that the University of Guelph, the Canadian university that developed the genetically engineered (GE) “Enviropig,” is closing down its research. CFS is now calling on t ...
  • Rep. Pingree Introduces Legislation to Require ...
    TEN MEMBERS OF CONGRESS JOIN LABELING BILL The Center for Food Safety (CFS) applauded a bill introduced by Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-ME) Friday that would require the labeling of lean finely textured beef (LFTB) – the ammonia-treated ground beef filler coined “pink slime” by a former U.S. Departme ...
  • Record-Breaking One Million Public Comments De ...
    Center for Food Safety Legal Petition Spearheads Coalition of Consumers, Public Interest Organizations and Food Companies in Demanding FDA Require Labeling 55 MEMBERS OF CONGRESS JOIN IN SUPPORT OF CENTER’S LEGAL PETITION Today, the Center for Food Safety (CFS or the Center) applauded the submis ...
  • GE Crops On Southeastern Wildlife Refuges Hit ...
    U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Admits Need for Deeper Environmental Review In an effort to deflect a pending federal lawsuit, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) has told the court that it will suspend planting genetically engineered (GE) crops in all national wildlife refuges located i ...
  • Beekeepers & Environmental Groups to EPA: Pest ...
    Over 1 million urge EPA to suspend use of pesticide harmful to bees, fix broken regulatory system Today, commercial beekeepers and environmental organizations filed an urgent legal petition with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to suspend further use of a pesticide the agency knows ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

  • Prima Ballerina
    These elegant creatures look like ballerina's balancing on one leg. They appear mostly in South-America and Africa. The reason that they often stand on one leg is not really clear. There are a few different theories about this, and one of them is that the flamingos have the ability to let a part ...
  • What's on 30 January 2012
    If you're wondering whether yoga might be right for you, or even if you are a yoga ethusiast, then you should definitely check out the FREE Living Yoga Urban Retreat Days at BodyMindLife’s new Surry Hills (Sydney) studio this weekend!
  • Registrations now open to help Clean Up Australia
    “Everyone can do their bit for Australia, individually or as part of a team. Clean Up Australia Day is a simple way you can clean up, fix up and conserve our greatest resource – Australia.”
  • Top surfers, skaters and musicians coming to M ...
    World's best surfers, skaters and musicians converge on Manly Beach for nine-day action sports and music celebration.
  • What's on 23 January 2012
    Come and enjoy a truly spectacular night of hilarious comedy this wednesday. For one night only some of the nation's most talented comedians will sharpen their wits and have some fun at the expense of 'greenies'. All proceeds will go to The Wilderness Society campaigns to protect the env ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Video: Israeli Army Invades and Closes Univers ...
    Sent to us by a reader. Click here for the Facebook page of Al Quds educational TV (mostly in Arabic.) Dr. Jamal Nusseibeh Vice President for Jerusalem Affairs Al-Quds University April 2, 2012 For the second time in two months, the Israeli authorities have invaded, searched and prevented the fun ...
  • Video: Israeli Soldiers Violently Evict Hebron ...
    From the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee Tuesday, 3 April 2012 “Youth Against Settlements’” Badia Dweik: “While we were violently evicted, the army treats settlers with kid gloves.” While Israeli PM and his ministers scramble to prevent the eviction of a Palestinian-owned house in ...
  • New young Israeli Refusers
    For decades hundreds of Israeli youth have declared at different times and for different reasons that they will refuse to serve in the Israeli military as they see its actions as immoral. Many times, these conscientious objectors (COs) are imprisoned for refusing to serve in the army, as the mil ...
  • Iz al-deen and Trayvon
    Two young men, a few weeks apart, attacked by adult men. Both names exotic to white American ears.  Iz al-deen Tamemi was not killed, “only” shot in the face. His attackers wore uniforms, while Trayvon Martin’s murderer was vigilante acting alone, though his behavior was sancti ...
  • Queers Say No Pinkwashing in the Pacific Northwest
    ed’s note: Unusual for TOD? we are focusing on domestic activism in this post by new contributor Wendy. By Wendy Elisheva Somerson My friend Selma and I were gripping each other’s hands tightly last Thursday night, March 15th, as Seattle’s LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) Com ...

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 ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • Martin Luther King Jr Assasination trial &#821 ...
    On this anniversary of the shooting of MLK, we feel its appropriate to give you some “MLK Truth” – Dr. William F. Pepper Corrects a Myth Following nine parts on You Tube… The Transcription of the King Family Press Conference on the MLK Assassination Trial Verdict December ...
  • Anarchism vs Minarchism – No Govt vs Som ...
    Stefan Molyneux on the Peter Schiff Radio – Minarchism vs Anarchism Both arguments require a constant and strong involvement by the people. To maintain limited government, you need the people to keep it that way. Anarchy with no government would require all peoples to actively and collecti ...
  • Poles Talk About CIA Prison, Breaking Silence
    As we have been sayin…. AP / Official Wire Poland Politics For years, the notion that Poland could allow the CIA to operate a secret prison in a remote lake region was treated as a crackpot idea by the country’s politicians, journalists and the public. A heated political debate this ...
  • Obama & 2016 (The Movie) Will the REAL Obama p ...
    Warning: Dinesh D’Souza (Konkani: दिनेश डिसूज़ा: born April 25, 1961) is an author and public speaker and a former Robert and Karen Rishwain Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He is currently the President of The King’s College in New York City. D&#8217 ...
  • NBC issues apology on Zimmerman tape Doctoring
        Washington Post NBC apologizes to viewers, but not directly to this viewer. (AFP/GETTY IMAGES) NBC has completed its investigation into the mishandling of the police dispatcher’s conversation with George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin case. And the process ends with a finding of e ...

The Air Vent

  • Sea Ice Code
    A little cleanup of code for gridded sea ice. Download a free software called FileZilla and copy sea ice files to a known folder. The following code is a mathematically clean download and summation of gridded microwave satellited data.  For the north the pole-hole (area not observed by the satel ...
  • The Air Vent on Moderation
    Well in 3 1/2 years of blogging, millions of views and 45000 comments, the Air Vent is now on moderation.   This situation was caused by a single individuals repetitive nonsense commentary and name changing.   All this while claiming to have overturned basic thermodynamics without a single equat ...
  • Northern Hemisphere f11, f13
    I have quietly been spending some more hours of free time on sea ice and have a ton of data to present.  Previously, we found that there was a nearly statistically significant difference in trend between satellite NOAA 17 and 13 that would create a spurious trend increase.  In addition, we found ...
  • Earth Hour
    Earth hour approaches for the United States, with enough participation in the shut off everything campaign, we would actually be able to hard-stop the electric grid.   How cool would that be!  Days of restarting, tens of millions in cost, now that would send a real message.  To um….someone ...
  • Roy Spencer finds Scientific Proof of UHI, Cho ...
    McKitrick & Michaels Were Right: More Evidence of Spurious Warming in the IPCC Surface Temperature Dataset How can one explain such results, other than to conclude that there is spurious warming in the CRUTem3 dataset? I already see in the comments, below, that there are a few attempts to di ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook open sources mobile browser test suit ...
    Facebook has open sourced Ringmark, its browser test suite for building apps on the mobile web, according to a post on the company’s HTML5 blog today. The effort is part of Facebook’s push to promote HTML5 development. One of the … Continue reading →
  • Facebook serves Yahoo with counter-suit claimi ...
    Facebook has responded to Yahoo’s patent infringement suit with counterclaims that Yahoo infringes upon 10 of the social network’s patents, according to All Things D. The company asks the court to dismiss Yahoo’s case and instead find Yahoo guilty of … Continue reading →
  • Involver adds visual tool for producing custom ...
    Social marketing platform Involver today introduced a visual tool for building Facebook applications and other customizable experiences. The Visual SML is an addition to Involver’s Social Markup Language, a system that enables front-end developers to code apps more efficiently. Now … Conti ...
  • ‘The Simpsons,’ LMFAO, sports, BlueStacks, mor ...
    “The Simpsons” topped our list of the fastest growing Facebook pages this week. There was also “Titanic,” the band LMFAO, several sports stars, a few blog-related pages, Miracle-Gro and Android app player for Windows PC BlueStacks. Pages on our list … Continue reading →
  • Plink raises angel round for Facebook Credits ...
    Plink, a Facebook Credits-based rewards program, closed an angel investment round of $633,000 at a $5 million valuation. Consumers who sign up for Plink can earn Facebook Credits when they use their credit card at brick-and-mortar locations, such as Taco … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • US editorialist Thomas Friedman's "Festival of ...
    Lawrence Davidson explains why Thomas Friedman, one of the most widely read editorial writers in the United States, is confused and unreliable when it comes to the Middle East.
  • The Zionist cuckoos in Christianity's nest
    Stuart Littlewood views the ideology of Christian Zionism, which is rampant in the United States and has made some inroads in other "Christian" societies, and argues that, in essence, Christian Zionism is "a gross corruption of the biblical message".
  • Confined cruelty: Israeli treatment of Palesti ...
    Graham Peebles highlights Israel's systematic, barbarous practices against Palestinian children - practices that are carried out in violation of international law and obligations Israel had signed up to - and calls on the United Nations to "stand in the face of injustice, violence and hate to sa ...
  • Marwan Barghouti: Palestine's Nelson Mandela
    Uri Avnery views imprisoned Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti's message to the people of Palestine, which he has sent from his prison cell, in which he calls for an end to the "peace process" smokescreen for continued Israeli land thefts and a total boycott of Israel.
  • Israel's occupation: who is most "out of touch ...
    Alan Hart argues that while the UN Human Rights Council may well be a hypocritical body because it chooses to ignore numerous human rights abuses in Africa and Asia, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's attack on it for its decision to investigate the impact of Israeli colonies on the Pal ...

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

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  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- March 26 ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “NATIONAL DEFENSE, n. In U.S. political discourse: 1) The pauperization of the nation through expenditures for deadly weapons systems; 2) The bombardment and invasion of small countries. The United States is, of course, the only nation entitled to such ‘defense.&#82 ...
  • Podcast Show #81: ‘Real’ Reportage on Syria & Iran
    The Boiling Frogs Presents Pepe Escobar Roving investigative journalist Pepe Escobar returns to our show and provides us with ‘real’ reportage on Syria and Iran. He discusses the narrow view and propaganda presented by the US government and media, and deconstructs the rehearsed messages and imag ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- March 23 ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.” – Thomas Jefferson International Newsworthy IAEA Chief Accused of Pro-Western Bias over Iran Trouble on the Iran-Pakistan Pipeline F ...
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Afro Spear

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • Don't Koch Block the Debate
    With my new film Koch Brothers Exposed set for release, the billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch are doing everything they can do hide their behavior. First they got their lawyer to fire off a menacing letter that all but threatened news organizations that dare to cover the film's c ...
  • GOP Five Like Stripping Americans
    The Supreme Court's GOP Five just finished a run as brave libertarians protecting Americans from President Obama's health-care reform, but now are back to their usual role as defenders of abusive state power, allowing strip searches of anyone arrested for anything -- and perhaps particularly pro ...
  • Is Bibi Bluffing on Iran?
    The widespread impression among the Israeli national security elite and press corps that Netanyahu's threat of war against Iran is a bluff does not guarantee that Netanyahu will not attack Iran. But it does help explain why there has not been a much bigger outcry against a war option that is wid ...
  • They Shoot the Youth Don't They?
    This is what is happening in Gaza. The 36th anniversary of Land Day has come and gone. Israeli soldiers shot two young men, armed only with a flag, from point-blank range. Over the course of the day, they shot dozens of young men, all armed with nothing more than stones.
  • Amnesty Urges Halt in Immigration Enforcement; ...
    In the land of John Perry and Joe Arpaio, the gun is the king, and racial profiling isn't just inconvenient and humiliating -- it can land you in jail.

Switchboard

  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Pebble Mine: No Means No!
    Joel Reynolds, Director of NRDC's Urban Program, the Marine Mammal Protection and So. California Ecosystem projects, Santa Monica, CA The battle against the massive Pebble Mine is intensifying. Later this month, the U.S. Environmental Protection Ag ...
  • 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 ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Of Course You Would!
    Today’s worst person in the world, David Stern:  “David Stern would love a system in which Anthony Davis and the rest of Kentucky’s freshmen stars were required to try to repeat.” Yes, players should play for an extra year without just compensation for the NCAA cartel so ...
  • Obama’s DOJ And the Arbitrary Strip Search
    Glenn: That there is such vehement condemnation over this strip-search ruling, almost all of which ignores the fact that the Obama administration was fully on board with it and helped to bring it about, is — as this VastLeft cartoon suggests — a microcosm for how and why that has happened. A few ...
  • Right wing memes gone wild
    Scott links below to Ruth Marcus’s inane pearl-clutching over how Obama criticizing the Supreme Court could be interpreted as an Assault On the Rule of Law and Thus Our Most Sacred Freedoms. Apparently some sort of signal went out from the Bat Cave today. Behold the Fifth Circuit of our fe ...
  • Children and Ethics
    Elizabeth Kolbert has an interesting essay in The New Yorker about the ethics of parenting, wondering whether if there are ever ethical reasons to have children. Ethics certainly don’t determine whether people will have children but it’s an interesting conversation to have. The last ...
  • The Vitagraph Smokestack
    The last structure from the early New York film industry is in trouble. The old Vitagraph studio lot in Brooklyn is long gone, but its smokestack remains. It is falling apart and needs restoration. Here’s a petition to make that happen. This is a neat part of our early film past and worth ...

Desert Research Institute

  • DRI's Net Zero Building Honored by USGBC and ...
    The Desert Research Institute’s Net Zero Building was honored by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) and Senator Harry Reid at the USGBC Northern Nevada Chapter luncheon for its goals and plans to create an independently sustainable structure.
  • DRI's Net Zero Building Honored by USGBC and ...
    The Desert Research Institute’s Net Zero Building was honored by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) and Senator Harry Reid at the USGBC Northern Nevada Chapter luncheon for its goals and plans to create an independently sustainable structure.
  • DoE/NNSA Contract Extension
    DRI secured a new Technical Research, Engineering, and Development Services contract with the U.S. Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration. The contract extends until October 31, 2016 and has a ceiling value of $35,926,593. DRI supports the nationally important missions of ...
  • DoE/NNSA Contract Extension
    DRI secured a new Technical Research, Engineering, and Development Services contract with the U.S. Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration. The contract extends until October 31, 2016 and has a ceiling value of $35,926,593. DRI supports the nationally important missions of ...
  • DRI Researcher Featured in Scientific American
    The February Edition of Scientific American features the work of DRI’s Joseph McConnell, Ph.D. The article includes interviews with several scientists whose research examines how dust influences climate and cloud formation—and the fertilization of oceans and rain forests.

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • A new look at sentencing guidelines brings fre ...
    Patricia Williams, who served 24 years in federal prison on drug-related charges, was released on March 30 after the 10th Circuit ruled she had been illegally sentenced under the federal sentencing guidelines. Axinn Veltrop's John Tanski talks to NLJ about the case.
  • Quick on the heels of 'Prometheus,' a patent i ...
    A federal district judge has issued what the winning party's lawyer believes to be the first patent invalidity decision applying the Supreme Court's recent ruling invalidating two diagnostic test patents.
  • DOJ says redactions in ex-DIA officer's book s ...
    The U.S. Justice Department wants a federal judge to shut down a suit over a former Defense Intelligence Agency official's claims that the government is violating his First Amendment rights by requiring him to redact information from a book about his experience in Afghanistan.
  • Who's the biggest law firm of them all (in the ...
    The NLJ 250 would look significantly different if it were based solely on attorney headcounts within the United States. Some of the firms that top the traditional NLJ 250 hold significantly lower spots on an all-U.S. attorney list, given their heavy investments in foreign markets.
  • Judge again refuses to force ABA to accredit l ...
    A federal judge in Tennessee has declined to reconsider his refusal to order the American Bar Association to grant provisional accreditation to the Lincoln Memorial University Duncan School of Law.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Exposure to Weed Killer Can Alter the Shape of ...
    A new study has found that exposure to the popular weed killer Roundup can alter the morphology of some amphibian species, triggering unexpected changes in body shape of young tadpoles. In a series of tests conducted in large outdoor tanks that mimicked wetland ecosystems, scientists at the Univ ...
  • UK Revives £1 Billion Competition to Boost Car ...
    The UK has re-launched a £1 billion ($1.6 billion) competition to promote the large-scale adoption of carbon-capture technology, an investment that government officials hope will make the UK a global leader in the emerging low-carbon energy sector. Launched by the Department of Energy and Climat ...
  • Some Corals More Resilient To Increased Acidif ...
    Some coral species may be better able to cope with the increasingly acidic condition of the world’s oceans than previously believed, a new study says. Writing in the journal Nature Climate Change, an international team of scientists describes an internal mechanism by which many coral speci ...
  • Shell’s Spill Response Plan Is Approved by U.S ...
    The U.S. Department of the Interior has approved Shell Oil’s plan to respond to an oil spill in the Arctic’s Beaufort Sea, clearing the way for exploratory drilling this summer. The decision follows similar U.S. government approval for a spill response plan in the Chukchi Sea, and Shell said tha ...
  • New EPA Rules Will Limit CO2 Emissions from Po ...
    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expected to impose a limit on greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants, a strict new regulation that could prevent conventional coal-fired power plants from being built. In new rules to be announced as soon as Tuesday, the EPA will require ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Soviet-Swedish Social Services Kidnap and Abus ...
    It’s been called one of the worst cases of government abuse ever committed against a home schooling family: the abduction by Swedish authorities of Domenic Johansson, a happy, healthy, 7-year-old boy taken from his parents Christer and Annie Johansson in 2009 as they waited to leave Sweden on a ...
  • The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy ...
    The spring air in the small, sand-dusted town has a soft haze to it, and clumps of green-gray sagebrush rustle in the breeze. Bluffdale sits in a bowl-shaped valley in the shadow of Utah’s Wasatch Range to the east and the Oquirrh Mountains to the west. It’s the heart of Mormon country, where re ...
  • It’s Robert Green’s Birthday on Tuesday the 27 ...
    Please drop him a line or send him a card to show him your support. Robert wants to say a huge ’thank you’ to everyone who has written to him since he was imprisoned - it has really touched him to know that he is in people’s thoughts. He said that to date he has received letters from 22 countrie ...
  • Sarkozy: Prosecute and Imprison Readers of "Ex ...
    French president Nicolas Sarkozy didn’t wait long to exploit the terror rampage of Mohammed Merah. Soon after Merah’s death in a stand-off with police, Sarkozy said French citizens who visit "extremist" websites should be treated the same way as those who look at child pornography. "Anyone who r ...
  • Inception becomes reality? Two teams of scient ...
    The idea of the surreal film, Inception, where people ’plant’ an idea in someone else’s head may not be so out-there after all. Two teams of scientists have found ways to create false memories, and implant them into the brain at will - although for now, the technique only works in mice. Memories ...

Russia Today

  • Pensioner shoots himself at Greek Parliament, ...
    A 77-year-old Greek man has committed suicide in central Athens by the nation’s parliament, shooting himself with a handgun in apparent financial desperation. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Suicide blast in Somali theater targets PM, of ...
    A number of high-profile figures are feared to be among the dead after a female suicide bomber struck the Somali capital Mogadishu’s newly-opened National Theater. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Serbian president Tadic resigns to prompt earl ...
    Serbia’s Boris Tadic has resigned nine months before the end of his presidential term, paving the way for an early election. The pro-Western Tadic is expected to face strong competition from nationalist Tomislav Nikolic. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Trouble brewing: UK clamps down on bargain boozing
    In an effort to deter growing levels of binge-drinking in the UK, the government is proposing the introduction of a minimum price for alcohol. But its implementation has come under fire from the drinks industry, which... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • 2,500 US marines in Australia ‘not a military ...
    The first rotation of about 200 US marines has arrived in Australia on a six-month training deployment. A total of 2,500 troops are expected to arrive over the next few years in Darwin to enhance the US’s military... Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

  • Who else indoctrinates children and trains the ...
    No sooner had the KONY 2012 video gone famously viral, with lots of help from the corporate war-loving media, it was debunked for being US Africa interventionism propaganda. But Springs area schools had already booked the tour, and that’s a difficult about face in these military parts. Yes ...
  • Any surprise that China, McDonalds and ad worl ...
    Advertizing creatives Doug Nichol and John Benet made a wonderful behind-the-scenes “making-of” as they filmed two commercial spots for McDonalds China, and neither their client nor their employers are pleased. The title SUNSHINE works on several levels and hopefully this will be the ...
  • Who are you calling anti-soldier?
    The pro-death contingent appear to have targeted Tribe as “anti-soldier”, imagine that if you will.  Just can’t BUY better publicity, but they’re giving it free of charge. They keep regurgitating the same vomit they’ve spewed last month, and the month before and the ...
  • Behind the UN’s messing over Somalia and ...
    The UN, with the US behind them, just can’t stay out of the news completely about how the two together are royally screwing over the people of both Somalia and Haiti. In Haiti, the UN has had continually been involved in the sexual abuse of Haitians and also in bringing them a virulent str ...
  • HITMAN!- Obama’s new model for lawless i ...
    There is a new model for lawless US government policing, where the government can now issue ‘a hit’ on whoever it pleases by merely offering up a reward ‘Dead or Alive’ against whoever, and/ or whatever organization worldwide the President designates. No need for warrants ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Two criticisms of the Harrit et al paper that ...
    The vast majority of debunker responses to the discovery of active thermitic material over the past three years have been one of the following mantras: "Paint!", "Peer-review!" and "Chain of custody!". Dr James Millette's report on the red/gray chips has apparently given the "Paint!" mantra new ...
  • Oystein's Contamination Denial
    The MEK test in the Active Thermitic Material ... paper was important in that it established that the aluminium in the red/gray chips is in elemental form consistent with the thermite hypothesis, rather than aluminosilicate form consistent with the paint hypothesis. JREFer Oystein is skeptical. ...
  • Tangled Webs - NIST and WTC7
    ------------------------------------------------ According to the official explanation the collapse of WTC7 came about from the expansion of a steel beam leading to the progressive failure of the entire structure. However, analysis of the building plans show that this already dubious explanati ...
  • Project Truth (WTC) - Sip 2.5 Cognitive Dissonance
    Related: Cognitive Dissonance Meets 9/11 Truth AE911Truth - Psychologists on coping with 9-11 truth. Many people subconsciously make the mistake of only seeing the issues concerning 9/11 in black and white, as opposed to shades of gray. This is known as the black-or-white fallacy. In this c ...
  • Reflecting on the Verinage demolition method
    I recently came across debunker vids on YouTube, such as this that boast of the Verinage demolition technique used to bring down buildings without explosives. According to Wikipedia, “The technique. . .is used in France to weaken and buckle the supports of central floors promoting the collapse o ...

Fooducate

  • Pepsi Next: The Worst of 2 Drinks, Combined in ...
    New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! When we joked about the big cola companies removing 30% of the sugar from their soft drinks as an April Fool’s prank, some people responded in all seriousness, having spotted such ...
  • Beautiful, Fun and Healthy Easter Recipe Ideas
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! Did you know Fooducate is on Pinterest? We’re using this addictive online scrapbooking service as a place to share not just nutrition information, but also collection of fun, healthy recipes ideas aroun ...
  • A Weak FDA: BPA Toxicity Needs More Research, ...
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! Last Friday, the FDA issued its most updated position on Bisphenol-A (BPA), a chemical widely used in food packaging. A chemical that has some unfortunate side effects, due to the fact that it mimics human ho ...
  • BREAKING: Coke, Pepsi to Slash 30% of Sugar fr ...
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! A few weeks ago we wrote about a product formulation change by cola manufacturers, including Pepsi and Coca Cola, modifying the type of caramel coloring used in order to avoid being labeled as carcinogenic. B ...
  • Closeup Picture: The Red Bugs in Your Starbuck ...
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! Tiny red bugs were all the rage this week as news of their presence in Starbucks strawberry drink spread across the web. The news was broken by a vegan barista who shared it with vegetarian blogs. Starbucks d ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • 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 ...

Greg Palast

  • Cops beat our cameraman ZD Roberts
    [New York 1 a.m Sunday]   Our photographer ZD Roberts was just beaten by cops @OWS. Thrown down, hair grabbed and slammed with nightsticks - while Zach yelling "I'm PRESS!" trying to show badge. Cops berserk. Zach following protest path tho I'm trying to get him to come in with film. He cannot b ...
  • The Fukushima story you didn't hear on CNN
    "Completely and Utterly Fail in an Earthquake" by Greg Palast for FreePress.org I've seen a lot of sick stuff in my career, but this was sick on a new level. Here was the handwritten log kept by a senior engineer at the nuclear power plant: Wiesel was very upset. He seemed very nervous. V ...
  • BP Settlement Sells Out VictimsDeal buries evi ...
    by Greg Palast for TheMudflats Following the Deepwater Horizon explosion, Greg Palast led a four-continent investigation of BP PLC for Britain's television series Dispatches. From 1989-91, Palast directed the investigation of fraud charges in the Exxon Valdez grounding for Alaska Native villag ...
  • Billionaire Ballot Bandits
    They're stealing it again. In 2000, my team uncovered how Katherine Harris illegally purged thousands of African-Americans from Florida's voter rolls. In 2004, for BBC, we uncovered the Karl Rove GOP "caging scheme" that swiped that election. In 2008, we uncovered, for Rolling Stone and BBC, ...
  • Romney's Auto Bail-out Billionaires
    Top funders made billions from US Treasury by Greg Palast for NationOfChange [Thursday February 23] Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney called the federal government’s 2009 bail-out of the auto industry, “nothing more than crony capitalism, Obama style... a reward for his big donors t ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • Dana Ramdwar Napoleon Presents A Pictorial Pro ...
    By Dana Ramdwar Napoleon I am a photographer. I have a photographer friend (Melinda Kim) --who shot these images of me - I asked her to shoot some statement images In 2010 - This is what we came up with....
  • Best of AofA: Who Cares that 54% of American C ...
    Managing Editor's Note: We ran this post last June. Seems little has taken place to put true health on the radar screen. Children continue to become and remain sick in droves. By John Stone An Open Letter to the National...
  • “Our Nation’s Children Are Becoming Brain Dama ...
    Editor’s Note – I wasn’t at the press conference Monday in New York, but I just watched it, and I feel like I’ve gotten the most up-to-date and important briefing on autism in memory. Our own Mark Blaxill gave a...
  • A Hurricane of Blue
    By LJ Goes Blue. Everywhere blue. Buildings downtown. T-Shirts. Toys-R-Us and every chain restaurant in you neighborhood. Everyone is Lighting It Up Blue for Autism. "Care to donate for autism research?" Your waitress with shiny blue salon manicured nails asks....
  • Best of AofA: CDC What Did They Know and When ...
    Managing Editor's Note: Background in light of recent CDC announcement of 1 in 88 autism rate. Below is the 2 part post. By Mark Blaxill With the recent announcement of the "largest ever" study to investigate the causes of autism,...

Global BDS Movement

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.

Open Your Eyes News

  • Most US Police Don’t Seek Warrants Befor ...
    PC World – Many law enforcement agencies across the U.S. track mobile phones as part of investigations, but only a minority ask for court-ordered warrants, according to a new report released Monday by the American Civil Liberties Union. More than 90 law enforcement agencies said they track ...
  • USA: Many little kids lack outdoor time with p ...
    Reuters – Half of preschoolers don’t spend time playing outside with a parent each day, according to results from a recent survey. In interviews with parents of close to 9,000 kids, less than half of moms and only a quarter of dads reported taking their child for a walk or playing wi ...
  • Netanyahu delays planned eviction of Jewish se ...
    Independent – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu overruled the planned eviction on Tuesday of Jewish settlers from a building in an occupied West Bank city that is flashpoint of tensions with Palestinians. Some 20 settlers moved into the Hebron building last Thursday at night, seeki ...
  • US draws up plans for nuclear drones
    Guardian – American scientists have drawn up plans for a new generation of nuclear-powered drones capable of flying over remote regions of the world for months on end without refuelling. The blueprints for the new drones, which have been developed by Sandia National Laboratories – the US g ...
  • FEATURE PAGE – One Trillion Dollars
    The number “a trillion” gets bandied around a lot these days when describing the fall out from the 2nd Great Depression. But just how much is a trillion dollars and what would it look like in $100 bills? To find out CLICK HERE

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Titanic today might dodge better but would enc ...
    The Titanic hit an iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland, but it probably didn’t hit one the size of Manhattan.
  • Judge orders testing of evidence in Judi Bari ...
    Almost 22 years after Earth First! activists Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney were car-bombed during a campaign to save old-growth trees, a federal judge has ordered the FBI to turn over evidence from the bombing for forensic testing.
  • GM pulls support for Heartland Institute
    Citing its corporate stance that climate change is real, General Motors announced Wednesday that its General Motors Foundation would no longer be funding the Heartland Institute, a free-market think tank that has attacked human-caused global warming as “junk science.”
  • Ex-Obama green advisor Van Jones to address Oc ...
    Former Obama administration environmental advisor Van Jones will address an Occupy-related art show and protest training event in L.A. on Saturday titled " All in for the 99% ."
  • Hunters, anglers report warming winters bad fo ...
    The exceptionally warm winter of 2011-12 might be a nice respite for everyone, but the rising average winter temperatures are not a good thing for North American wildlife. In a new report released this week by the National Wildlife Federation, fishermen, hunters and other sportspersons discuss ...

water.org

  • A toilet provides freedom
    Before, Mrs. Bhuvaneswari's family had to spend time walking to find a place to go to the bathroom. Now they are able to use their own toilet and their time for better things.
  • Bringing joy with clean water
    "The pond water I was forced to get water from was very dirty and had a bad smell. Due to my distant walks to collect water, sometimes I was late to work. My daughters and I would also suffer from diarrhea, jaundice, dysentery and skin diseases because of the dirty pomd water. We are able to ge ...
  • Levi's Water
    Water.org and Levi's® Launch Water
  • Make Progress on Sanitation
    No invention has saved more lives than a toilet. More than 80% of sewage in developing countries is discharged untreated, polluting rivers, lakes and coastal areas. All because there is no infrastructure - a toilet, or city utilities - to flush away yesterday's meal. But that's not all. Toilets ...
  • Project4India: Vlogger Videos
    When we visited the field in India this February, we brought three of YouTube's most popular vloggers with us so that they could share their experiences with the world and tell their audience all about the water crisis. In celebration of World Water Day, they've each just released their first vi ...

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • White House sees more pain for Iran as it clea ...
    Aggressive war is illegal, immoral against nations that are no threat, is nonbelligerent & it is insane! Call your Reps. Tell your friends, rouse up the good folk in your church,mosque and synagouge. We must stop this exported violence or we are screwed. Submitted by michael h. to World   ...
  • Iran Bashing, Terrorism, and Who Chose the Cho ...
    Dedicated to the long-suffering Palestinians and Iranians who have been sidelined by the United Nations in favour of the Nuclear Apartheid State of Zionist Israel in the most blatant exercise in International Double Standards that our world has ever known Submitted by Ken D. to World  |&nb ...
  • Study: 400 Afghan women jailed for "moral crimes"
    In this Jan. 19, 2003 file photo, Zarghona, who is in prison because she left her first husband who abused her and forced her into prostitution, holds her seven-month-old son Balal and looks out through their cell window, at the Kabul Women's Prison in Submitted by Maria V. to World  |&nb ...
  • Seizure of Springs by Settlers Greatly Limits ...
    Palestinians have increasingly lost access to water sources in the West Bank as a result of the takeover of springs by Israeli settlers, who have used threats, intimidation and fences to ensure control of water points closed to tne settlements, Submitted by Naoko I. to World  |  &nbs ...
  • Re-Occupation and Police Raid of Zuccotti Park ...
    The brief re-occupation of Zuccotti Park and its swift re-eviction are both previews of the season to come. Submitted by Robert S. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • 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 ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • 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 ...
    The International Criminal Court refused on a Tuesday to consider a war crimes tribunal against Israel for its military assault on the Gaza Strip in 2009 or for other possible criminal acts in occupied Palestine.  Israel welcomed the news, but human rights groups condemned the announcement, ...
  • 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 ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

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 ...

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Where's the criminal investigation of the Murd ...
    By Michael Collins There was something tawdry and disgusting about the phone hacking by Rupert Murdoch's News of the World. The News Corporation owned tabloid hacked the phone mails of several thousand citizens of Great Britain. Victims included celebrities, politicians, and even a murdered ...
  • Partisan Confusion: Outside the Supreme Court ...
    By Kevin Zeese I was standing outside the U.S. Supreme Court holding a sign that said “Single Payer Now, Strike Down the Obama Mandate.” It was the second day of argument on the Affordable Care Act. As I watched the crowds it was evident this was an organized partisan event.  ...
  • Hana Shalabi: Not Quite Free at Last
    by Stephen Lendman After ignoring her entire hunger striking ordeal, her lawless detention, and weeks of Israeli ruthlessness, The New York Times finally acknowledged she exists, but little more. On April 1, The Times headlined "Israel Frees Palestinian Detainee After Hunger Strike of Weeks," ...
  • How Many Violations of US Arms Laws are Too Many?
    Franklin Lamb Beirut It depends whether the miscreant enjoys “We will always have your back regardless”…. status On March 6, 2012, the US Congressional Research Service released a report to the US Congress concerning Restrictions on the use of American weapons by recipient c ...
  • Friends of Syria Declare War on Assad
    by Stephen Lendman On April 1 in Istanbul, Washington-led rogue leaders discussed ways to destabilize and topple Assad. They recognized the violent Syrian National Council (SNC) as the "sole representative of the Syrian people." Doing so assures continued conflict, not peaceful resolution. Kil ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Budget needs to move Nova Scotia Forward to Fa ...
    Today, the provincial government is releasing its budget.  While there has been much talk about getting "back to balance," CCPA-NS has advocated for a budget that more accurately reflects the province's real fiscal situation.  Our fact sheet, "Twelve Things You Should Know about nova S ...
  • Family Resource Centres in Manitoba Public Ho ...
    This report looks at family resource centres in six Manitoba Housing complexes outside Winnipeg's inner city. These resource centres meet very basic needs for the tenants, including access to phones, faxes, and computers; social engagement with friends and neighbours; and, for many people, when ...
  • Federal budget commentary and analysis
    The federal budget will leave Canadians peniless in more ways than one. Read CCPA's news release in reaction to the budget here. The following CCPA staff and research associates have posted their budget analysis on our blog (watch this space—we'll be posting links as they come in): Marc Lee: ...
  • Just Like Mike: Ontario Budget Analysis
    Over on our blog, Behind the Numbers, CCPA Research Associate Hugh Mackenzie shares his devastating critique of the Ontario budget. He suggests that Premier Dalton McGuinty’s ninth Ontario budget completes the job of cutting government down to size—a job started by the Mike Harris Conservatives ...
  • Brad Wall's Wonderful World of Laissez-Faire
    With the elimination of the Saskatchewan Film Employment Tax Credit and the certain demise of the film industry in the province, Premier Brad Wall asked: "If an industry cannot survive at all without a permanent taxpayer subsidy, should the taxpayers subsidize indefinitely?" The Saskatchewan Off ...

World Wide Hippies

  • As The Cookie Crumbles: Losing Is Winning…
    By Dr.Woody – Comes another somebody in the lefty-blogosphere (TalkingPointsMemo) protesting that defeating “Obama/Romney/Heritage-care” will be a Pyrrhic victory for the GOPhux, a “Short-term success but long-term disaster!” Statements like that make my asshole tig ...
  • “The War That You Don’t See.&#8221 ...
    By John Pilger and Julian Assange. Axis of Logic and John Pilger Website. Editor’s Commentary: We published the full length, revolutionary film documentary by John Pilger, The War You Don’t See in 2010 and 2011 when it appeared on YouTube.com for a brief windows of time and before it ...
  • Bend Over America! – Corrupt, Perverted ...
    By ADAM LIPTAK,WASHINGTON— The New York Times News Service – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled by a 5-to-4 vote that officials may strip-search people arrested for any offence, however minor, before admitting them to jails even if the officials have no reason to suspect the presence o ...
  • Worldwide Hippies Digest: Hicks, Burroughs, Me ...
    Dan Hicks still delivering the Hot Licks at 70 By Jim Harrington,Oakland Tribune - Dan Hicks never subscribed to the rock ‘n’ roll motto — “live fast, die young and leave a beautiful corpse.” “I figured I’d get to 70,” says the Mill Valley resident ...
  • When The Going Gets Weird by Mikel K
    Look At The Bums                                                                                                       [...]

FourWinds10

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

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Power Plays is Published
    Introduction My new book — Power Plays: Energy Options in the Age of Peak Oil — has been published. A press release issued last week describes the book in some detail: Robert Rapier Reflects on Energy Options in the Age of Peak Oil in his Latest Book Here I want to describe a bit abo ...
  • Vinod Khosla, Cellulosic Ethanol, and Biomass ...
    In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer a few questions about pathways to biofuels, cellulosic ethanol, and Vinod Khosla. I have to apologize this week, because the microphone was a bit away from my mouth, so the volume is lower than normal. Some of the topics discussed thi ...
  • Setting the Record Straight on U.S. Oil Reserves
    The Difference Between Oil Shale and Oil from Shale Formations There has been some confusion lately about the overall extent of U.S. oil reserves. Some claim that the U.S. has hundreds of billions or even trillions of barrels of oil waiting to be produced if the Obama Administration will simply ...
  • Are You Looking to Invest in the Google of Bio ...
    The Big Names in Biofuels So you’re hoping to strike it rich by investing in LanzaTech. Or Solazyme. Or KiOR. Or Gevo. After all, these companies have all recently had high-profile IPOs, and they are clearly “hot” given all of the press coverage devoted to them. So perhaps you ...
  • Oil Dependence — Tom Friedman’s False Narrative
    Twisting Facts to Support an Agenda Thomas L. Friedman, a New York Times Op-Ed Columnist, frequently writes on the topic of energy and the environment. One persistent habit he has is to omit certain important facts from a story — facts so important that they would greatly undermine the poi ...

Discovery Educator Network

  • Humanline.com: Images of art, history and scie ...
    Comments:Education users Professors, students and teachers are free to use it in classroom presentations and demos, dissertations and other non-commercial academic works, researches and all related not-for-profit activities. The use of our files is still bound by a license but its use is complet ...
  • Math Moves U
    Tags: math, maths, mathematics, education, studentsby: Fred Delventhal
  • How Infographics Accelerate Learning | Edudemic
    Tags: infographics, learning, infographic, statistics, edudemic, visualliteracyby: Dean Mantz
  • Wonderopolis » Blog Archive » Do Llamas Really ...
    Comments:Every day Wonderopolis posts a question one might wonder about. There is a picture with the question and sometimes a video. You can read further to find the answer to the question. A great discussion starter and then practice reading skill by reading the answer then maybe do a summar ...
  • Make Your Images Interactive - ThingLink
    Comments:Take a picture and icons and make them interactive links.  - Dean MantzTags: interactive, ThingLink, engagement, creativity, linksby: Dean Mantz

Rodale News

big think

  • Google Sparks New Moon Race with $20 Million Prize
    What's the Latest Development? Google has teamed up with the X Prize Foundation to offer a $20 million prize to the first private organization to land a spacecraft on the moon, move it 500 meters and send video back to Earth as proof. "The first to register for the competition was Odysse ...
  • Why Do Atheists Gather?
    In the first of my posts summing up the Reason Rally, there was a commenter who said that gathering on the National Mall was "sink[ing] to the level of the religious". At the time, I considered this too self-evidently absurd to merit refutation - but then I heard it again, in an NPR interview .. ...
  • A Nuclear-Powered Drone? Fantasy. DIY Drones? ...
    This is a tale of two drones. Or rather, two types of drones. One is the stuff of crazy science fiction. The other is fast becoming a reality. Now here's the twist: individuals are making DIY drones a reality while large government-sponsored researchers in some cases are the ones writing the ... ...
  • Do Data Miners Know You Better than You Do?
    What's the Latest Development? It's nearly tax time, and if your return looks anomalous with respect to the millions of others filed, the IRS might take a closer look. That's just one of the ways in which powerful computer algorithms can extract personal data over a wide range of informa ...
  • Hack The System Podcast with Chris Guillebeau
    The Hack The System Podcast is your access to interviews with the world’s foremost experts on blogging, lifestyle design, traveling, and life/system hacking. In short–you’re going to learn how to kick ass. You should subscribe to this show on iTunes. In this episode, I s ...

Information Liberation

  • Ron Paul: "I*m trying to save the Republican P ...
    *And there*s no way I*m going to give up on the effort to get the Republicans back to their roots,* he said. *You know, probably, in some ways they say, *Well, why don*t you give up and this will help the Republican Party.* The truth is, I*m trying...
  • Man whose WMD lies led to 100,000 deaths confe ...
    A man whose lies helped to make the case for invading Iraq * starting a nine-year war costing more than 100,000 lives and hundreds of billions of pounds * will come clean in his first British television interview tomorrow. "Curveball", the Iraqi d...
  • French Constitutional Court Bans Law Enforceme ...
    Last week, the Conseil Constitutionnel, the highest authority on the French Constitution, declared the provisions of a law permitting judicial and police use of a centralized national ID database to be unconstitutional. 200 members of the French Parl...
  • Houston Cop Loses It & Threatens To Taze Teens ...
    Some police don't mind being filmed, others go absolutely psychotic. This video involves the latter. "Hostile Houston Cop comes after two innocent guys video taping at a Wal-Mart in SouthWest Houston for NO REASON, the men where later hand-c...
  • Kids Arrested and Jailed After Cafeteria Food ...
    This is a surreal story that I watched on my local news last night. A food fight in a downriver Detroit area public prison school cafeteria, in Monroe, led to the suspension and arrest of four kids, and criminal charges. Plus, the students face poten...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Revenge Of The Banana Benders
    That’s how people in other states of Australia refer to Queenslanders. The state election on March 24, resulting in the biggest electoral loss for the Australian Labor Party in any election since the Second World War, says much about the … Continue reading →
  • Power In All The Wrong Hands
    I’m still rather tied up, so I thought as a bit of a change of pace,  I’d direct you to a rather marvellous article from the von Mises Institute: The Seven Rules of Bureaucracy. Had me in stitches at several … Continue reading →
  • Only In America
    I’m exaggerating. It’s de rigeur an any dictatorship worthy of the name. But the Executive Order of President Barack Hussein Obama, signed last Friday, is gob-smacking in its scope and abandonment of all pretence of congressional democracy. Go have a … Continue reading →
  • More Dollars Than Sense
    Still hammering away on my next thread, so I thought I’d ask you about the topic currently doing the rounds over at DT: “Quantitative Easing”, or QE. Actually, it’s printing money to you and me, but that can be misleading, … Continue reading →
  • Agree Or Else Part II – The Silencing Of ...
    Our God-Emperor beat me to it. The Australian Government’s Finkelstein Report, released last Friday, is the stuff of all freedom-loving people’s nightmares. It proposes the establishment of a new bureaucracy, the News Media Council, to “regulate” all forms of print &#8230 ...

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Fenland Study follow-up – part 1
    Regular readers will know that I was recruited via my GP to take part in the Fenland Study. The study is taking a sample of the population born between 1950 and 1975, and carrying out a raft of blood tests, body stature measurements, DEXA body fat and bone density and tests for diabetes, cholest ...
  • Planetary landers, caffeine, sulfa drugs and c ...
    The latest issue of my SpectroscopyNOW column is now live. This weeK: US researchers are developing the next generation of laser ablation technology, which might one day be used in a future planetary lander to carry out isotopic analysis of a planets surface, for instance, and so allow precise & ...
  • More red meat risk analysis
    NHS Choices finally published its critique of the Harvard red meat research that had the tabloids screaming that meat kills earlier this week. I provided some commentary on Sciencebase soon after. Anyway, this is what NHS Choices concludes: “This study had several strengths including its s ...
  • Can you see the Man in the Moon?
    Quite coincidentally, given the moon hour-by-hour video I posted earlier today, a press release just arrived waxing lyrical about gazing up at the night sky and seeing the familiar face of the “Man in the Moon”. The synchronous rotation of the Moon means it takes about the same amoun ...
  • Processed meat, fillet steak and death
    I was planning to write an “appraisal” of the Harvard study on meat and risk of death that hit the news today, but have been so busy procrastinating lately that another blog has beaten me to it. Apparently, we should all be eating less meat, particularly processed meat like sausages, ...

RFF Library

  • Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disas ...
    Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change | WHO | UNEP http://ipcc-wg2.gov/SREX/ [From a Washington Post article by Juliet Eilperin and Brian Vastag]  Scientists are increasingly confident that the uptick in heat waves and heavier rainfall is linked to human-caused greenhouse gas emiss ...
  • Carbon Pollution Standard for New Power Plants
    US EPA http://epa.gov/carbonpollutionstandard/ [From an EPA Press Release] Following a 2007 Supreme Court ruling, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today proposed the first Clean Air Act standard for carbon pollution from new power plants…The rulemaking proposed today only con ...
  • The Economic Impact of a Regional Low Carbon F ...
    Report title:  “Analysis of the Economic Impact of a Regional Low Carbon Fuel Standard on Northeast/Mid-Atlantic States: Final Report” From the Consumer Energy Alliance http://bit.ly/H4LJoL (report) http://bit.ly/H9oX1Z (press release) [From a Greenwire article by Amanda Peterka, sub ...
  • EPA Power Plant Standards: A Powerful Catalyst ...
    Union of Concerned Scientists / by Rachel Cleetus http://www.ucsusa.org/clean_energy/solutions/big_picture_solutions/epa-regulations-electicity-reliability.html [From a Climate Wire article by Tiffany Stecker, sub. req'd] The economic viability of coal is steadily eroding, as low natural gas pri ...
  • Poll: Americans Split on Energy vs. Environmen ...
    Gallup http://www.gallup.com/poll/153404/Americans-Split-Energy-Environment-Trade-Off.aspx [From Website]  Americans are about as likely to say production of energy supplies (47%) should be prioritized as to say environmental protection (44%) should be, a closer division than last year, when ene ...

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First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • CKUT Round Table: What Next For the Student St ...
    An in-studio discussion with student and community activists Audio from a live round-table discussion on CKUT's Off the Hour on Friday, March 30th. On March 22, one of the largest demonstrations in Canadian history took place with over ...
  • CKUT Round Table: What Next For the Student St ...
    An in-studio discussion with student and community activists Audio from a live round-table discussion on CKUT's Off the Hour on Friday, March 30th. On March 22, one of the largest demonstrations in Canadian history took place with over ...
  • That Sinking Feeling
    Penobsquis resident Heather McCabe watches house buckle, bulge, sink Penobsquis, NB - In 2003, when Heather McCabe bought her homestead in Penobsquis, New Brunswick, she thought it would make the perfect sanctuary for special-needs an ...
  • That Sinking Feeling
    Penobsquis Resident Heather McCabe Watches House Buckle, Bulge, Sink. Penobsquis, New Brunswick - In 2003, when Heather McCabe bought her homestead in Penobsquis, New Brunswick, she thought it would make the perfect sanctuary for ...
  • Third lecture completes James Robinson Johnsto ...
    Dr. Hakim Adi: The White Man's Burden? The New Scramble for Africa Halifax - The third and final lecture in the James Robinson Johnston (JRJ) Distinguished Lecture Series took place Tuesday, March 20th before a large audience at Dalhou ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Conservatives or neo-fascists?
    David Seaton's News LinksI would think it important to separate this new "conservatism" from the traditional variety. Remember the American vice is to use language to hide meaning. I’ll quote myself from an earlier post:One of the most disturbing things about America is the incoherence of ...
  • Why are the Republicans so weird?
    David Seaton's News LinksThis blog post, by the excellent Thomas Edsall, makes some very interesting points about the make-up of the Republican electorate. In the GOP’s South Carolina primary, 98% of those who voted were white: this in a state where nearly 28% of the population is black. Rep ...
  • Mohammed Merah, the monster of Toulouse
    David Seaton's News LinksThe  question we must ask is; was Mohammed Merah really a trained terrorist or simply a nut?We know practically nothing about Mohammed Merah. As far as we can see he acted totally alone, with only a handgun: nothing complicated like explosives was involved.Right n ...
  • When is a conservative not a conservative?
    David Seaton's News LinksAt a Tea Party rally in Troy, Michigan, the GOP presidential contender Rick Santorum said this: "President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob!" To rapturous applause, Santorum went on: "There are good, decent men and women who go ...
  • China: capitalism, democracy and sovereignty
    David Seaton's News Links China is an authoritarian state, run in Leninist fashion by a communist party and at the same time a vital player, perhaps, alongside the United States, the key player in the international capitalist system. We wish it were more democratic. Perhaps we should be ca ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Fifth Circuit Judges Now In Full Wingnut Mode
    This is beyond bizarre. A three-judge panel of the 5th Circuit Court is hearing a challenge to Obamacare, but when a Justice Department lawyer began arguments this morning she was stopped short: Appeals Court Judge Jerry Smith immediately interrupted, asking if DOJ agreed that the judiciary co ...
  • Why High Inflation is Good in a Recession
    In a recession, you'd expect average pay to adjust to a lower level. As unemployment rises, workers should be willing to accept lower wages, and as wages drop employers should become more willing to hire new workers. If this doesn't happen, the recession is likely to persist. One of the current ...
  • Fox News is Inside the White House's OODA Loop
    Gardiner Harris has a long front-page piece in the New York Times today about friction between the FDA and the White House over just how strict the FDA's rules should be. With one exception (Kathleeen Sebelius's overrule of the FDA's decision to make the Plan B emergency contraceptive availabl ...
  • George Zimmerman and the "Great Bodily Harm" D ...
    I think David Kopel made this point over at the Volokh Conspiracy a few days ago, but today he takes to the Washington Times to argue that Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law isn't really an issue in the Trayvon Martin case: The assertion that Florida law allows shooting whenever someone beli ...
  • Did Tax Cuts Cause the 2008 Financial Crisis?
    Andrew Sullivan links today to a post by David Glasner arguing that low marginal tax rates might actually be bad for the economy: Our current overblown financial sector is largely built on people hunting, scrounging, doing whatever they possibly can, to obtain any scrap of useful informatio ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 312: How to be THE Black Friend
    Topics: April Movies and upcoming Trailers Kev & the born again virgin No blowjobs for life Why Jesus won’t let Kriss win the Mega Millions The Pope & why we let religious leaders get away with bigotry Religion isn’t an excuse for bigotry Pat Robertson’s greatest hits ...
  • The Roast of Joe Oliver
    After eviscerating the stories being passed through the media about Trayvon Martin by the Sanford Police department, the Orlando Sentinel and Craig Sonner, George Zimmerman’s lawyer, you would think any Zimmerman supporter would think twice about going on and confronting Lawrence.  Well, J ...
  • Lawrence O’Donnell Dropping Ether
    I have a general dislike for most of the media, particularly 24 hour cable news networks.  24 hours of non-stop coverage and yet I feel like we’re getting even less real information and becoming less informed the more we watch.  The same stories rehashed from hour to hour, the same guests recycl ...
  • IC 311: More Great Moments In White Privilege
    Topics: Bioware Mass Effect 3 update Michael Bay and the Ninja Turtles Extra raunchy & sexual comedy isn’t funny Dane Cook sucks President Obama Comments on Trayvon Martin The Trayvon Martin Case & White Privilege George Zimmerman’s friends defend him Racist don’t kil ...
  • IC 310: The Stop Michael Bay Foundation
    Topics: Movie news Disney bombs with John Carter Why John Carter was doomed from the beginning Michael Bay looks to rape the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles legacy Crazy lady goes nuts in class over evolution How to deal with crazy Trayvon Martin updates Larry Elder is a sad excuse for a man Toure ...

Simple Climate

  • Volunteer computers broaden climate model fore ...
    Dan Rowlands from Oxford Universty and colleagues run a 10,000 simulation experiment using donated computer time, finding the upper range of likely warming in 2050 could be nearer to 3ºC rather than 2ºC higher than the average from 1961-1990
  • Climate models pass prehistoric test
    US Geological Survey scientist Harry Dowsett and a worldwide team of expert climate modellers and temperature sleuths show four models can generally describe a 300,000 year warming period 3,000,000 years ago.
  • Complete organic crop switch would raise UK em ...
    Agricultural consultant Rob Carlton and colleagues suggests leaving more plant waste in fields is the best way to cut greenhouse gases produced by arable farming, though he still holds out hope for bringing the best bits of organic and conventional methods together.
  • Thick ice decline could advance watery Arctic ...
    NASA scientist Joey Comiso reveals a faster loss of supposedly less vulnerable “multiyear” ice that could see summer Northern polar ice melt into history, bringing further climate and food chain problems.
  • Melting sea ice plays critical role in winter ...
    Georgia Institute of Technology's Jiping Liu and colleagues have revealed evidence that shrinking Arctic ice is allowing more water into the atmosphere and slowing the jet stream so the moisture can move southward and fall as snow.

e!Science News

  • Researchers discover a DNA marker that indicat ...
    Researchers and doctors at the North Shore-LIJ Health System and the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research discovered that blood can help determine the best treatment plan for patients with ovarian cancer. More specifically, a genetic marker embedded in deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), called mic ...
  • Nanoscale magnetic media diagnostics by rippli ...
    Memory devices based on magnetism are one of the core technologies of the computing industry, and engineers are working to develop new forms of magnetic memory that are faster, smaller, and more energy efficient than today's flash and SDRAM memory. They now have a new tool developed by a team fr ...
  • Robosquirrels versus rattlesnakes
    Robot squirrels from the University of California, Davis, are going into rattlesnake country near San Jose, continuing a research project on the interaction between squirrels and rattlesnakes. read more
  • Incisive research links teeth with diet
    You are what you eat is truism that has been given new impetus by 'cutting edge' research led by the University of Leicester that reveals your teeth are literally shaped by your food. read more
  • Darwin in the genome
    A current controversy raging in evolutionary biology is about whether adaptation to new environments is the result of many genes, each of relatively small effect, or just a few genes of large effect. A new study published in Molecular Ecology strongly supports the first "many-small" hy ...

unEarthed

Brave New Climate

  • Open Thread 22
    The Open Thread 21 has passed 500 comments and is getting a little bloated, so time for a new one. The Open Thread is a general discussion forum, where you can talk about whatever you like — there is nothing ‘off topic’ here — within reason. So get up on your soap box! The standard commenting [...]
  • Environmentalism in the mud: responding to Jim ...
    Guest Post by Ben Heard. Ben is Director of Adelaide-based advisory firm ThinkClimate Consulting, a Masters graduate of Monash University in Corporate Environmental Sustainability, and a member of the TIA Environmental and Sustainability Action Committee. After several years with major consultin ...
  • Dietary Guidelines Committee ignores climate c ...
    Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. His recently published book is CSIRO Perfidy. His previous article on BNC was: Feeding the billions on a hotter planet (Part III). He also wrote a brilliant recent piece for The ...
  • Further critique of ’100% renewable elec ...
    Recently on BNC, I ran two guest posts on the economic and technical challenges of supplying an energy-intensive, developed-world market using 100% renewable sources (under a situation where large hydro and/or conventional geothermal can provide little or no contribution). The case study was the ...
  • How realistic is The Economist’s cool vi ...
    Last week, the influential weekly news and international affairs publication, The Economist, ran an essay on the future of nuclear energy – The dream that failed: Nuclear power will not go away, but its role may never be more than marginal. As you might have guessed from the title, it was ...

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

  • Geraldo This Is A Hood
  • Leaving Goldman Sachs
    A top executive at Goldman Sachs has a lot to say about the “new” Goldman Sachs. Let’s just say his love for the company has left. Read More About Goldman Sachs Culture
  • Don’t Ever Forget Who Is The Head Of The ...
  • What Are Republicans Trying To Destroy Now?
    Why does hearing the word Republican make me want to vomit? Maybe it is because of what they stand for. Our friends at Daily Kos have a poll up on their website asking “Which issue below concerns you most in terms of the Republican assault on it?” Destroying these things listed below ...
  • I Want To Be On Armed Forces Radio
    I promise not to call people sluts for the crime of testifying before congress, and this alone makes me more qualified than Rush The Liar Limbaugh. I don’t have a radio show, bit I am sure there is millions of Americans who agree that Republicans are a Disease, and would love to hear my vo ...

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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  • Israel being used in NYC subway ad war
    On Tuesday, New York City’s MTA (Metropolitan Transit Authority) explained its September 2011 decision to reject an ad created by the American Freedom Defense Initiative on the grounds that it is “demeaning.” It did so during a hearing to address a law suit filed by the anti-Is ...
  • Racist Israeli soccer team left in the dust
     A small low-budget team from northern Israel with four Arab citizens of Israel on its team has just won the championship, while the Arab-free Israeli soccer club notorious for its racist fan base came out a loser. By Issa Boursheh Racism and violence are on the rise in Israel’s soccer fields. I ...
  • Settlers take over Hebron house in another rou ...
    The standoff between the IDF and a group of settlers who occupied a house in the Palestinian city Hebron continues. An evacuation deadline that the army issued to the settlers expired today (Tuesday) at 3 p.m., but it seems that Defense Minister Barak has postponed the evacuation following a req ...
  • Dead anti-democratic legislation resurrected & ...
    A shelved bill that pits Jerusalem’s holy character against the rights of the LGBT community was recently put on the Knesset table again, posing a serious threat to Israeli democracy.  By Elinor Sidi Israeli democracy has reached a crucial point in its existence. Although Prime Minister Ne ...
  • Hate speech: Stocking up fuel for murderous vi ...
    Ami Kaufman has done the important work of translating a Channel 10 report on the vicious racism afflicting Israeli teens. The report was produced in the wake of the hideous comments made by some teens on the incineration of five Palestinian children in a bus crash in Jerusalem the other month. ...

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Matt Weidner Blog

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

  • Anticipation
    During the course of my adult lifetime I have written some 55 books, ranging from kid’s stories to novels. In …Continue reading »
  • Hunger Games – Weren’t We All Supp ...
    This week sees our 25th annual citywide spring food drive in London. It should have been like old hat but …Continue reading »
  • Managing Poverty
    After 25 years you’d think we’d be used to it. But by the time I walked into the food bank …Continue reading »
  • On Protest and Power
    The rush to the middle is killing the historical political construct – Thomas Mulcair’s victory as the new leader of …Continue reading »
  • Public Defacement
    Our town hasn’t been used to such exposure in a long time. The ElectroMotive plant closing of a few weeks …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

Reader Supported News

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

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

  • 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 ...

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Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Consumer Reports Survey Confirms That We're Wo ...
    What with credit card companies being hacked, apps on smartphones that have you sign your life away before using them and new policies from social networks and search engines, there are a lot of reasons for consumers to be uncomfortable about the state of online privacy. That's exactly what a n ...
  • Time Warner Cable Offers $99 Wideband Service, ...
    After seven years of subscribing to Time Warner Cable's broadband internet service, Consumerist reader Matt saw that TWC was offering upgrades to its wideband service for the tempting price of $99 per month... well, sort of. After placing the upgrade order through the TWC website, Matt says h ...
  • Flying Car Will Debut At New York Auto Show Pi ...
    Fire up the flux capacitor and tell Doc you'll be back in time for dinner -- a so-called flying car is scheduled to be debuted at the New York Auto Show this week. And while it won't travel through time and Marty McFly won't actually be driving it (George Jetson will be! Kidding, again), we're ...
  • Fed Orders Review Of Thousands Of Morgan Stanl ...
    Yesterday, Morgan Stanley finally finished selling off its one remaining unit involved in servicing subprime mortgages. Today, the Federal Reserve gave Morgan Stanley some unwelcome news: It must review thousands of foreclosures processed by that now-former subsidiary. Saxon Mortgage Services ...
  • Visa, MasterCard Don't Want You Knowing Which ...
    If your bank tells you that your credit card information was stolen from an online merchant you bought something from, it only makes sense that the bank also tell you which e-tailer failed at protecting your information. But the banks say they can't share this info because the folks at Visa and ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • 'Pink Slime' Timeline Undercuts Gov Branstad's ...
    'Pink Slime' Investigation, Gov. Branstad? Here's a Timeline. Summary: Iowa Governor Terry Branstad is calling for an investigation into what he labels a "smear campaign" against ammoniated beef, or "pink slime." GAP's Food Integrity Campaign explains why recent news coverage has been a t ...
  • Protests at USDA over Poultry Inspection: Dail ...
    Government Executive: USDA ‘Playing Chicken with Safety,’ Protestors Charge Summary: Food inspectors, advocacy groups members, and others protested proposed changes to the poultry inspection process – know as HIMP – in front of the USDA yesterday. The changes would dramatically increase the ra ...
  • History & Truth in Progress: Shady Companies W ...
    National Security Agency (NSA) expert and author Jim Bamford has a another explosive article in Wired Magazine: But one of the agency’s biggest secrets is just how careless it is with that ocean of very private and very personal communications, much of it to and from Americans. Increa ...
  • Journalists, Gov Officials, Intelligence Whist ...
    The Daily Progress: Obama’s Heavy Use of Espionage Act Topic of ‘Whistleblowers’ Conference at Montpelier Summary: This coverage of an event on national security and whistleblowers – which took place yesterday and continues today at the James Madison Montpelier Center for the Constitution – ce ...
  • World Bank Advocates Public Financial Disclosu ...
    Here at GAP, we were both shocked and pleased this morning to see that the World Bank advocates the public disclosure of financial assets by public officials as an effective anti-corruption measure. Disclosure by public officials of their income, assets and interests should be mandated if the f ...

UK Progressive

  • Total’s Disaster
    by Martin Veart Since the abandonment of Total’s Elgin / Franklin platform, it has been hard to get figures on the amount of hydrocarbons coming from the leaking well.  Now they are starting to emerge but differ wildly. In the Telegraph a figure of 200,000 cubic metres (m3) per day is given for ...
  • Taking Responsibility for Killers Among Us
    Shocked by the shooting of a black teenager in Florida and 17 villagers in Afghanistan, the nation busily tears into the psyches of the two shooters, debating what could possibly motivate such outrages. In the one case, an American soldier, Staff Sergeant Robert “Bobby” Bales, in Afghanistan for ...
  • The Hoodie Debate: The “Shoot First” Law and N ...
    Journalist Geraldo Rivera set off a national firestorm when he suggested the hoodie that Florida youth, Trayvon Martin, was wearing cost him his life. What Rivera was suggesting, in an offbeat way, was that Martin was profiled by the clothes he was wearing — not such an outrageous assertion — gi ...
  • Whose Recovery?
    Luxury retailers are smiling. So are the owners of high-end restaurants, sellers of upscale cars, vacation planners, financial advisors, and personal coaches. For them and their customers and clients the recession is over. The recovery is now full speed. But the rest of America isn’t enjoying an ...
  • A Jobs Bill for Wall Street
    It’s about time Congress focuses attention on jobs for Wall Street, and it appears they are going overboard to help in the new JOBS Act that recently passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 380-to-41. After all, last year Wall Street cash bonuses fell 14% to $19.7 billion or $121,150 pe ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • The end of the Global Warming Scare would look ...
    Soon, the moment will come when the crowd will say “I always knew it was fake”. Here are three signs we are at the beginning of The End. 1. Op-Ed writers will be pointing out how governments are unwinding  policies: Dominic Lawson: Britain Has Finally Rejected The Bogus Economics Of ...
  • The new world order – Black, Brown, and ...
    Scoff scoff scoff.  There is no global conspiracy to get One World Government. If there was, the leaders would have sent a memo to Bob Brown to be quiet, to Scientific American to rephrase the agenda, and to Richard Black to stay out of group photos at socialist events. So there is no central co ...
  • Idso 1998 – eight different ways to show ...
    Here’s a forgotten paper that deserves more attention: Idso 1998. Rather than using an enormously complex global circulation model (or 22) to come up with a figure for climate sensitivity, Sherwood Idso does calculations from eight completely different natural experiments which all arrive ...
  • In ice-ages, CO2 hides in the oceans (yes we k ...
    It comes as not even a tiny surprize that when someone asks “Where does all the CO2 go in an ice age?” that the answer is “The Ocean“. We already know temperatures rise 800 years before CO2 levels (Caillon 2003), and we know the oceans contain 50 times as much CO2 as the ...
  • Flannery admitted to Australian Academy of Sci ...
    What does it take to be a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science? Apparently, making wildly exaggerated predictions that are already known to be wrong, calling people names, and having a thin grip on the scientific method is just the stuff the Academy is looking for. Who knew? Science used ...

ReNew America

  • Obama takes a shot at Supreme Court over healt ...
    (Reuters) - President Barack Obama took an opening shot at conservative justices on the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, warning that a rejection of his sweeping healthcare law would be an act of "judicial activism" that Republicans say they abhor...
  • Tea party to Arizona: Check Obama's eligibility
    (WorldNetDaily) - Evoking an overlooked provision of state law, Arizona tea party groups are circulating a petition urging a chamber of the state legislature to pass a resolution that would force Arizona's secretary of state to examine Barack Obama's birth credentials...
  • Hollywood producer heard Bill Clinton say Obam ...
    (WorldNetDaily) - A successful Hollywood producer who had an insider's view of Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign claims she heard Bill Clinton say that Barack Obama is not eligible to be president...
  • Abrupt climate-change reversal
    (Washington Times) - The injection of politics into the global-warming hypothesis has made it difficult to know where facts end and falsehoods begin. While alarmists have been blaming their fellow man for every hurricane, tornado and other ill wind whipped up by Mother Nature, science is now con ...
  • Van Jones: Obama wouldn't lose black vote if h ...
    (Real Clear Politics) - "I think if President Obama came out as gay, he wouldn't lose the black vote," a cheerful Van Jones told MSNBC this afternoon. "President Obama is not going to lose the black vote no matter what he does," he added...

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

  • Second Solar Storm Detector Launching in 2014
    Better late than never! In my recent article on the incredible harm a solar storm could inflict on infrastructure, I pointed out that we only have a single line of defense, and the solar storms it detects could kill it: When warning us about incoming geomagnetic storms, the NOAA’s only ...
  • $20 Million Steel Arks
    In my opinion, it went something like this: A few authors suggest a global cataclysm could occur in 2012 Patrick Geryl says a good way of surviving would be unsinkable yachts Roland Emmerich makes the movie 2012, using many of Geryl’s ideas. He replaces yachts with massive steel arks ...
  • Here Come The Homonids
    I had previously anticipated (in mid-2010) that more human ancestors and cousins would turn up: Based on recent discoveries, I wouldn’t be surprised if 6-10 human species are determined to have lived in the last 50,000 years – and I reckon an additional species for the last 10,000 years is qu ...
  • 2012 Solar Storm = Long-Term Power Blackout
    Lawrence E Joesph, Patrick Geryl and myself would probably be the 2012 catastrophists that have reached the most people. Something we all proclaim is that our Sun is the most likely source of a 2012 disaster: Geryl: convoluted math and ancient texts prove that a 2012 disaster is certain Jose ...
  • Fermi Bubbles – Proof of Galactic Core Explosion?
    These two things are certain: Nothing has completely eradicated life on Earth (so far) Natural catastrophes may vary in size, type and location – but they always repeat An explosion from our Galactic Core is certainly survivable, although you might need a bunker and supplies to last ...

Facing South

One News Page

  • U.S. puts bounty on Pakistani suspect in Mumba ...
    NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The United States has posted a $10 million reward for help in the arrest of a Pakistani Islamist leader, Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, suspected of masterminding attacks on India's financial capital and its parliament. Reported by Firstpost 48 minutes ago
  • Police: Accused Oakland gunman targeted admini ...
    OAKLAND, California (Reuters) - A former student suspected of opening fire at a small Christian college in California, killing seven people and wounding three, was targeting a school administrator and former classmates who he felt had treated him unfairly, police said on Tuesday. Oakland Police ...
  • Tornadoes rip through Dallas area, planes grounded
    DALLAS (Reuters) - Tornadoes tore through the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area in Texas on Tuesday, ripping apart buildings, tossing tractor trailer trucks into the air and grounding all planes in the region. There were no immediate reports of injuries or deaths although the storm was still . ...
  • RIM launches software to accommodate Apple users
    TORONTO (Reuters) - Research In Motion ( RIM.TO ) on Tuesday launched software t hat enables it s large 'enterprise' customers to manage Apple and other rival devices through the same servers as they use for the BlackBerry smartphone and Playbook tablet. Reported by Firstpost 2 hours ago
  • Mitt Romney to begin joint fundraising with RNC
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Presidential candidate Mitt Romney plans to start raising money jointly with the Republican National Committee, people involved in the campaign said on Tuesday, as he shifts focus from the party nomination battle to an expensive election campaign against Democratic ... Re ...

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • BRICS: Going Strong to Change the World Scene
    On 28-29 March 2012 a BRICS summit was held in Indian capital New Delhi. The theme was “BRICS Partnership for Stability, Security and Growth”. This was the fourth BRICS summit that brought together the leaders of the emerging economic powers to discuss a host of global issues. The event took pla ...
  • The Arab World: From Nationalism to Tribalism
    The “parade of autonomies” we are currently witnessing in the Arab world, primarily in Iraq and Libya, is an indicator of the crisis the region’s nation-states are undergoing. Unlike Europe, however, it is less a consequence of integrationist trends than an indicator of the Greater Middle East’s ...
  • US Missile Shields Demand a New Tough Response
    Wrapping up the “sidelines” meeting at the Seoul nuclear summit, Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama acknowledged by mutual consent they failed to get ahead in finding a common stance on the most acute but still unsolved issue of global dimension – the creation of some kind of “cooperative” Russia ...
  • Active Endeavour and Drug Trafficking
    We all are aware of the basic frameworks of the US response to barbaric 9/11 terrorist attacks. The Bush’s administration and NATO launched unprecedented media, diplomatic and military campaigns aimed to suppress the adversary inside its haunt in Afghanistan. But few remember that the US Operati ...
  • Useless ‘Secrets’ of the US Missiles in Europe
    The European component of the US Missile Defense System is one of the major irritants in the US-Russian relations. The American administration insists it is aimed to counter threats coming from Iran and North Korea. The Russians respond that geography, laws of physics and irrefutable facts clear ...

BlogHer

  • Lost Identity: Can I Be a Wife, a Mom and an E ...
    [Editor's Note: I have had multiple discussions with some of my friends about "wasted degrees" and being "just a mom" and not "contributing to the household" over the past few months. It's a hard thing to come to terms with, to make sense of at times. Brittany Ann at Living in the Moment recentl ...
  • Moral Majority's Legacy Still Dogs the GOP Gen ...
    At a party Saturday night, a well-respected and long-time fellow Republican woman tossed out a few casual "the party left me, I didn't leave the party" remarks. Pausing for a sip, I took the chance to retort: "When did that change? I remember the days of the GOP being branded as supporting work ...
  • How to Write a Winning Resume
    [Editor's Note: I can remember when I started my career, it was a kiss of death to change jobs or careers too often. Times have really changed. That is why having a winning resume is key to navigate the changes. This is an excellent post in a series that breaks it down for you in manageable how- ...
  • Help Your Kids Help Others This Easter!
    I know that some families struggle with the candy and bunnies overshadowing the resurrection of Jesus at Easter time. Finding the balance can be hard in teaching your children the meaning behind your family's reason for celebrating the holiday. One way to help keep the focus is to serve others. ...
  • A Happy Ending in the Privacy Universe
    Transparency is everything in the world of ones and zeros where data can be collected and used in hidden ways for not-always-helpful purposes. Sometimes revealing what an app is actually capable of doing – is doing – with your data results in a happy ending. Girls Around Me screen capture The s ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Milk Man Faces Multiple Felony Charges for Foo ...
    After destroying Rawesome Foods (which is being physically deconstructed right now), the Ventura County Health Department is now targeting other raw milk distribution centers in California. As Gumpert writes:
  • Here’s The Real Truth On Homework
    Research reveals primary school homework offers no real benefit – and only limited results in junior high school. Only senior students in Years 11 and 12 benefit from after-school work, associate professor Richard Walker said. “What the ...
  • Justice Scalia to Obama’s Solicitor Gene ...
    While Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr. made the Obama administration’s case for the constitutionality of the individual mandate in the health care law Tuesday, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia interrupted and lectured Verrilli about American ...
  • Too Much Sitting Can Kill You, Study Suggests
    For better health, try standing up more, a new study suggests. Those who spend 11 or more hours a day sitting are 40 percent more likely to die over the next three years regardless of ...
  • Our Right to Know: Organizations Take Action f ...
    This past month I’ve found myself neck deep in thinking and talking about genetic engineering. Not about the science, but about the current state of affairs. Recently the unrestricted approval of Round-Up Ready alfalfa, the ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Another day in West Virginia’s coalfield ...
    In this March 13, 2012 photo, a coal barge makes its way to the Bruce Mansfield Power Station in Shippingport , Pa.  (AP Photo) As I’ve read, listened to and watched the reactions the last two days from West Virginia political leaders reacting to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency&#8 ...
  • Sen. Rockefeller on EPA greenhouse gas proposa ...
    While the rest of West Virginia’s political leaders are busy bashing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, here’s what Sen. Jay Rockefeller had to say about the EPA’s proposed greenhouse gas emissions limits: We have known since the 2007 Supreme Court ruling that greenhouse ...
  • NY Times to Obama: Appeal Spruce Mine ruling
    The New York Times is urging the Obama administration to appeal last week’s ruling that overturned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency veto of the Spruce Mine permit: The Obama administration’s decision last year to revoke a permit for a huge mine in West Virginia inspired hope that m ...
  • Another weekend, another coal miner killed
    There’s bad news early this week out of the coalfields of Alabama, as the Birmingham news reports: Harold Ennis, 37, from the Nauvoo area of Walker County, died in the approximately 9:30 p.m. Friday incident, Walker County Coroner J.C. Poe said this morning. Poe said the reports he receive ...
  • Main defends MSHA performance at UBB mine
    This morning’s House committee hearing on the Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster didn’t exactly come at an easy time for MSHA chief Joe Main. Just four days ago, MSHA was forced to release highly critical findings of a NIOSH review that found Labor Department officials and inspectors cou ...

Daniel Miessler

  • The First of April
    So I’m sitting here reading the Bible on my Samsung Galaxy Note, and I realized that I do in fact except Jesus as my personal savior. Also, I think I’m going to have kid’s after all–a girl actually–and I hope she’ll grow up and marry a nice, hoelesome fellow l ...
  • Civilized Cities Should Ban Smoking
    I feel like I cannot be the only one who is disgusted every time I walk through someones exhaled cigarette smoke while walking on a public sidewalk or entering/exiting a public building. In populous areas, this equates to every few steps. People crowd around the doors to their establishments, wh ...
  • The Joys of Blogging
    Some people really dislike my thoughts (or enthusiasm?) on the controversial topic of improving website performance. :: Related ContentInteresting Web Data from a Day on the Front Page of Hacker News5X WordPress Speed Improvement with W3 Total CacheHandling Redirects with Varnish and NginxHow to ...
  • Hacktivists and Havij | Dark Reading
    Favored by hacktivists and financially motivated attackers alike, Havij automates bad guys’ SQL injection attacks by automatically detecting the database behind a targeted website, detecting whether it uses a string or integer parameter type, and testing different injection syntaxes on the ...
  • The Free Will Argument You MUST See
    This is the single best presentation of Harris’ argument that I’ve ever seen him make. He finally addresses common counterarguments, such as: Well, I can decide to do x right now—and then I can change my mind–or even change my mind again! This proves I have free will. Thi ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Wednesday
    Olbermann’s Late Night Offensive Keith Olbermann sounded suspiciously like a man taking the blame. “I screwed up,” he told David Letterman on Tuesday. “I screwed up really big on this.” So it was all his fault that the Current TV version of Countdown flopped, prompting Al Gore’s channel to fire ...
  • As The Cookie Crumbles: Losing Is Winning…
    By Dr.Woody – Comes another somebody in the lefty-blogosphere (TalkingPointsMemo) protesting that defeating “Obama/Romney/Heritage-care” will be a Pyrrhic victory for the GOPhux, a “Short-term success but long-term disaster!” Statements like that make my asshole tig ...
  • “The War That You Don’t See.&#8221 ...
    By John Pilger and Julian Assange. Axis of Logic and John Pilger Website. Editor’s Commentary: We published the full length, revolutionary film documentary by John Pilger, The War You Don’t See in 2010 and 2011 when it appeared on YouTube.com for a brief windows of time and before it ...
  • Bend Over America! – Corrupt, Perverted ...
    By ADAM LIPTAK,WASHINGTON— The New York Times News Service – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled by a 5-to-4 vote that officials may strip-search people arrested for any offence, however minor, before admitting them to jails even if the officials have no reason to suspect the presence o ...
  • Worldwide Hippies Digest: Hicks, Burroughs, Me ...
    Dan Hicks still delivering the Hot Licks at 70 By Jim Harrington,Oakland Tribune - Dan Hicks never subscribed to the rock ‘n’ roll motto — “live fast, die young and leave a beautiful corpse.” “I figured I’d get to 70,” says the Mill Valley resident ...

reference frame

  • Blondes, brunettes, and the real meaning of MPH
    Gordon has reminded me of this 6-million-views viral video from December 2011. A young husband, while driving, asks his young blonde wife how long does it take to drive 80 miles if you are traveling 80 miles per hour. This is the result he recorded, while driving. Just to be sure, ...
  • Is nature natural?
    Jon Butterworth of ATLAS asked the same question on his Guardian blog. Many other physicists will be asking the question increasingly more frequently, especially if (and as long as) the 125 GeV God particle remains the only new particle that the LHC discovers. Things in Nature may ...
  • Czech-affiliated physicist Angela Merkel back ...
    The world's most powerful woman, Angela Merkel, is visiting Prague today. She speaks Czech to some extent; to say the least, her skills would simplify her practical life in the Czech lands because she knows how to order beer or a hotel room. ;-) Today, she was asked what food she was served. ...
  • La Niña conditions are over
    According to the newest weekly ENSO report, the Niño region 3.4 anomaly increased to –0.2 °C, closer to zero. It's the first time since Summer 2011 when the value is strictly above the –0.5 °C threshold below which we live in the La Niña conditions, by definition. The 2011-2012 was ...
  • Explosion of high-brow string/SUGRA books
    Many prominent theoretical physicists have written books – or textbooks – on string/M-theory that were recently released or that will be released within a month or two (or three). You may click at the titles in the amazon.com widgets to see more details. Luis E. Ibáñez and Angel M. Urang ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • I wonder if TSA Agents know what long term exp ...
    People have been wondering what long term exposure to naked body scanners will do to the human body. Wonder no more. Here is a photo of an ex TSA Employee. I hear she now works as a tanning bed operator. Click image to enlarge   Any questions? Homeland Security Job Guide: How to get an [... ...
  • Giabo George is a ‘MADe’ Dog. Seen by over 200 ...
    I don’t know how I forgot this one. My Pug, Giabo George, was featured on the Keiser Report over the Christmas holidays. I must be losing it, as the little guy was made famous by Stacey Herbert and Max Keiser. The Keiser Report is seen by over 200 million viewers from around the world each ...
  • Chris Duane: As long as you play by the Elite’ ...
    This video just about sums up what I have been saying for the past 5 or so years. The Heretic is back with a plan for us to destroy the paradigm of evil, fraud, corruption. and tyranny that has been built up by the Elite. If you do not own physical silver then may God [...] Related posts: The ...
  • Heist The Movie – Who Stole the American Dream?
    Please watch the newly updated trailer for “Heist: Who Stole the American Dream?,” the new, explosive documentary from Frances Causey and Donald Goldmacher exposing the roots of the American economic crisis and the destruction of the American dream. Visit Heist-TheMovie.com for more ...
  • The subtle art of mind control in the media: T ...
    So I have been listening,watching, and reading with fascination, intrigue, and disgust at how the media is conditioning the minds of the masses by reporting on Andrew Briebart’s death by stating that ‘he was ‘known to have heart problems’ or ‘he was known to have a ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

  • "You Can't Find What You Don't Look For"
    Our California fracking report continued to gain fantastic coverage this week with three large stories in Santa Cruz Weekly, Sacramento News and Review and Wines and Vines. Our president, Ken Cook, posted in Huffington Post on BPA in food packaging... [[ This is a content summary only. Visi ...
  • Toxic Chemicals in Food Packaging Must Go
    By Kenneth A. Cook, EWG President and co-founder Under mounting pressure from consumers, scientists, advocacy groups and lawsuits, the Food and Drug Administration is about to decide whether to ban the ubiquitous industrial chemical BPA (bisphenol-A)... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...
  • Ohio Regulators: Link Between Recent Quakes an ...
    By Thomas Cluderay, Assistant General Counsel Polluted water resources. Compromised housing values. And now, earthquakes? As companies increasingly rely on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to expand U.S. oil and gas operations, regulators are finally... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
  • Diapers, Pacifiers, Hazmat Onesies -- Parentin ...
    Last week, the New York Times ran a D-1 story titled "Is It Safe to Play Yet?" on parents working to detoxify their homes, featuring EWG. On the same day, the Los Angeles Times ran a story on fracking in... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, a ...
  • Diapers, Pacifiers, Hazmat Onesies -- Parentin ...
    Last week, the New York Times ran a D-1 story titled "Is It Safe to Play Yet?" on parents working to detoxify their homes, featuring EWG. On the same day, the Los Angeles Times ran a story on fracking in... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, a ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Bhatti arrested again, but released
    Arfan Bhatti, best known for being the first person in Norway to be charged under new anti-terrorism laws, was back in police custody earlier this week on new charges of domestic violence. A city court judge ended up releasing him at mid-day Wednesday, but slapped him with a restraining order ag ...
  • Pace of ‘påske’ accidents picks up
    Hard and icy ski trails along with challenging conditions in the mountains of southern Norway left Red Cross workers dealing with a sharp increase in accidents by mid-week, after an otherwise calm start to the country’s traditional Easter skiing holidays called påske. In northern Norway, h ...
  • Philippines leads permit statistics
    The largest group of non-European foreigners obtaining long-term residence and work permits in Norway last year came from the Philippines, according to new statistics from immigration agency UDI (Utlendingsdirektoratet). Most of them were young women arriving in Norway to work as au pairs in Nor ...
  • Norwegian to lead UN’s team in Syria
    Major General Robert Mood of Norway has been selected to lead the United Nations’ support team for UN Special Envoy Kofi Annan in Syria. His duties will include preparations for a UN observation force in Syria that’s currently under evaluation by the UN Security Council. Mood, who&#8 ...
  • Krekar, ‘Fjordman’ called to testify
    Defense attorneys for confessed terrorist Anders Behring Breivik have confirmed that former guerrilla leader Mullah Krekar and anti-Muslim blogger Peder Jensen, better known as “Fjordman,”  are among the roughly 35 persons they’re calling to testify during Breivik’s trial ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Our Seeds: Seeds Blong Yumi – Watch for Free
    In September 2008 Seed Savers released their first film, “Our Seeds: Seeds Blong Yumi”, a 57 minute documentary that celebrates traditional food plants and the people that grow them. We have now released this documentary on the net for free viewing (with English audio and Portugues ...
  • The Frontiers of Crop Science
    by Nico Snyman: B.Sc. Agric (Agron.)Pret. Six years after we started farming in the tropics, in the upper catchment areas of the Congo basin, North Eastern Zambia, we discovered why farming in the tropics always goes along with constant deforestation. With cultivation, the nutrients are lost bec ...
  • Sustainable Garden Design Workshops – Event Ro ...
    A series of free Sustainable Garden Design Workshops were held at various locations around Adelaide, South Australia, over the past couple of months and I was fortunate enough to be able to attend the one held in the suburb of Salisbury, along with quite a large number of other people. All of t ...
  • The Permaculture Path to Sustainability
    by Emma Crameri The Permaculture Path to Sustainability illustrates the steps we can take to transition to a life with a smaller footprint on the earth. When I was completing my Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC), I wanted a simple way to plan the future of our house and garden. I was feeling ...
  • Bonus Features
    Click for larger view Courtesy: Marc Roberts

Pointman's

  • Political fracture points and power vacuums.
    A political fracture point is a sudden and radical change in the political landscape. In classical times, it would be the collapse of an empire, such as the Roman Empire. In the last century, World War I resulted in the outright destruction of several, such as the German Empire, and ultimately f ...
  • Job opportunity, with lots of money to be made.
    You know those Huey helicopters that you see in all those old Vietnam war movies. They had this single bolt sticking out of the cabin, connecting it to the rotor blades. The troopers used to call it the Jesus Bolt, because if it failed, everyone on board was going home to Jesus. Well, the equiva ...
  • Job opportunity, with lots of money to be made.
    You know those Huey helicopters that you see in all those old Vietnam war movies. They had this single bolt sticking out of the cabin, connecting it to the rotor blades. The troopers used to call it the Jesus Bolt, because if it failed, everyone on board was going home to Jesus. Well, the equiva ...
  • The Climate Wars revisited or No truce with kings.
    This is a quiet little island of the internet. I write an article and it floats off into the blogosphere to end up Lord knows where. Some pieces sink without trace, foundering even before they’ve cleared the reef but others seem to take on a life of their own. There’s no way of predicting their& ...
  • The Climate Wars revisited or no truce with kings.
    This is a quiet little island of the internet. I write an article and it floats off into the blogosphere to end up Lord knows where. Some pieces sink without trace, foundering even before they’ve cleared the reef but others seem to take on a life of their own. There’s no way of predicting their& ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • The End of Sex Offender Registration for Louis ...
    Judge Rules That Sex-Offender Registration for “Crime Against Nature by Solicitation” Convictions Is Unconstitutional From Center for Constitutional Rights: Yesterday, one day after attorneys from the Center for Constitutional Rights argued that individuals convicted prior to August 2011 unde ...
  • OUR WIN – Letter from Women With A Vision Exec ...
    Yesterday, US District Judge Martin Feldman ruled that the Louisiana law that required sex workers to register as sex offenders is unconstitutional. Lawmakers had already changed the law last year, but this ruling is expected to help remove from the registry hundreds of women (and some men) who ...
  • From NYPD Spying to Trayvon Martin, By Jordan ...
    A version of this article originally appeared on The Progressive website.When I heard that my name was featured in a New York City Police Department report, I should have been outraged. I had followed revelations of NYPD spying, but it hadn’t occurred to me that they would come to New Orleans t ...
  • Crime Against Nature Court Hearing This Wednesday
    From our friends at Women With a Vision: As many of you know, last June we had a huge legislative victory in our work to challenge Louisiana’s Crime Against Nature statute, which mandated fifteen years or more of sex offender registration for women who would have otherwise been charged with s ...
  • Eight Anti-Nuclear Activists Arrested at Enter ...
    From a press release from the Safe And Green Energy (SAGE) Alliance: Group demands: “No Nuke Business as Usual for March 22nd” and "Shut Down Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant" An affinity group of eight anti-nuclear activists with the New England-based Safe And Green Energy (SAGE) Alliance, ...

Information Underground

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Exposure to Weed Killer Can Alter the Shape of ...
    A new study has found that exposure to the popular weed killer Roundup can alter the morphology of some amphibian species, triggering unexpected changes in body shape of young tadpoles. In a series of tests conducted in large outdoor tanks that mimicked wetland ecosystems, scientists at the Univ ...
  • UK Revives £1 Billion Competition to Boost Car ...
    The UK has re-launched a £1 billion ($1.6 billion) competition to promote the large-scale adoption of carbon-capture technology, an investment that government officials hope will make the UK a global leader in the emerging low-carbon energy sector. Launched by the Department of Energy and Climat ...
  • Some Corals More Resilient To Increased Acidif ...
    Some coral species may be better able to cope with the increasingly acidic condition of the world’s oceans than previously believed, a new study says. Writing in the journal Nature Climate Change, an international team of scientists describes an internal mechanism by which many coral speci ...
  • Shell’s Spill Response Plan Is Approved by U.S ...
    The U.S. Department of the Interior has approved Shell Oil’s plan to respond to an oil spill in the Arctic’s Beaufort Sea, clearing the way for exploratory drilling this summer. The decision follows similar U.S. government approval for a spill response plan in the Chukchi Sea, and Shell said tha ...
  • New EPA Rules Will Limit CO2 Emissions from Po ...
    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expected to impose a limit on greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants, a strict new regulation that could prevent conventional coal-fired power plants from being built. In new rules to be announced as soon as Tuesday, the EPA will require ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • 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 ...

Daily Beast

  • Power to Gaza
    "It appears, Netanyahu lives in another country." Labor party chief Shelly Yachimovitch reacts to Netanyahu's list of his government's achievements.
  • William and Kate Immortalised in Wax by Madame ...
    First peek at the new Madame Tussauds wax figures of Will and Kate, going on show for the first time in London and New York today
  • Death of an Educator
    Richard Descoings’s death in a Manhattan hotel has vague echoes of the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case and may be a suicide, reports Christopher Dickey.
  • Did the Klan Kill MLK?
    "The Awful Grace of God" contends that James Earl Ray may have been part of a wide conspiracy. By R.M. Schneiderman.
  • Sanford’s Racist Past
    The dark story behind the city where Trayvon Martin died.

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Camacho charged with child abuse
    Former champion boxer Hector "Macho" Camacho is facing a felony count of child abuse and turned himself in to Florida authorities this week on a warrant filed late last year. The 49-year-old Camacho posted a $5,000 bond at the Orange County Jail in Orlando on Monday and was released. According ...
  • Kagawa ready to take place among world's elite
    Shinji Kagawa set a new goalscoring mark for Japanese players in Europe last weekend, but if the Borussia Dortmund forward's career continues on the same trajectory, it will not be the last record he breaks. Kagawa notched his 12th goal of the Bundesliga season in Dortmund's 4-4 draw with Stut ...
  • Rangers sweep Flyers, grab top seed
    Outside, inside, Pennsylvania, New York. It really doesn't matter where they play — the Rangers own the Flyers. As a result, they are the No. 1 seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs.
  • Preparatory FTA talks with EU near end
    Japanese and European Union authorities are likely to conclude preliminary talks for a future trade accord within weeks, business leaders of the two sides said Wednesday. The so-called scoping exercise, aimed at identifying matters of mutual concern and interest related to a free-trade agreeme ...
  • Heat lock up playoff berth
    LeBron James arrived at work a little earlier than usual on Tuesday, warming up more than three hours before tip-off with hopes of finding his rhythm. With Dwyane Wade out, Miami needed some extra offense — and James delivered.

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • When Is A Conservative Not A Conservative?
    Today we learned that Rights and Democracy — an agency established by Conservative Prime Minister Brian Mulroney in 1988 to monitor human rights and democratic development internationally –  has been terminated. The closure follows similar shutdowns by the Harper Conservatives of org ...
  • Alternative Budget Provides path for Nova Scot ...
    Last week, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Nova Scotia (CCPA-NS) released its flagship annual publication, the Nova Scotia Alternative Budget (NSAB). This report brings together a wide range of experts, including economists, social scientists, community representatives and social adv ...
  • Ontario to Mine for More Revenue
    Last week’s provincial budget promised a mining sector review “to ensure Ontario receives fair compensation for its non-renewable resources,” a proposal advanced by this blog and the United Steelworkers before appearing as a Drummond recommendation. The relevant budget section begins with the fo ...
  • Selling the 2012 Federal Budget: Envy-nomics 101
    “It’s time for the public sector to have its 2008 recession,” proclaimed Patty Croft, impeccably dressed and looking well-rested (early retirement seems to suit her), on CBC Newsworld’s The Bottom Line. We know that governments make budgets, and budgets are about choices, but her wish list struc ...
  • Federal Job Cuts: The Real Numbers
    The federal budget has started to fill in some of the details of its latest round of spending cuts. In particular, it now estimates 19,200 positions lost due to its latest round of cuts (Federal Budget 2012, pg 221). While they have provided this initial estimate, it hardly shows the full pictur ...

ReDress

  • US editorialist Thomas Friedman's "Festival of ...
    Lawrence Davidson explains why Thomas Friedman, one of the most widely read editorial writers in the United States, is confused and unreliable when it comes to the Middle East.
  • The Zionist cuckoos in Christianity's nest
    Stuart Littlewood views the ideology of Christian Zionism, which is rampant in the United States and has made some inroads in other "Christian" societies, and argues that, in essence, Christian Zionism is "a gross corruption of the biblical message".
  • Confined cruelty: Israeli treatment of Palesti ...
    Graham Peebles highlights Israel's systematic, barbarous practices against Palestinian children - practices that are carried out in violation of international law and obligations Israel had signed up to - and calls on the United Nations to "stand in the face of injustice, violence and hate to sa ...
  • Marwan Barghouti: Palestine's Nelson Mandela
    Uri Avnery views imprisoned Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti's message to the people of Palestine, which he has sent from his prison cell, in which he calls for an end to the "peace process" smokescreen for continued Israeli land thefts and a total boycott of Israel.
  • Israel's occupation: who is most "out of touch ...
    Alan Hart argues that while the UN Human Rights Council may well be a hypocritical body because it chooses to ignore numerous human rights abuses in Africa and Asia, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's attack on it for its decision to investigate the impact of Israeli colonies on the Pal ...

Physics Today

  • Tracing the origin of Silicon Valley
    NPR: Today NPR aired the first in a three-part series on the history of Silicon Valley. It all started with William Shockley, a Nobel Prize–winning inventor of the transistor, who decided to start a lab in the late 1950s in his hometown of Palo Alto, California, located in the Santa Clara ...
  • Facebook app promotes energy conservation
    New York Times: A new app encourages people to post their energy use on their Facebook pages and invite friends to share their information as well. The app is available through Opower, which works with utility companies to promote energy efficiency to consumers by analyzing usage and offering re ...
  • Planned telescope array sparks supercomputing ...
    Arstechnica: The Square Kilometer Array, which has been proposed to be built in either South Africa or Australia and New Zealand, will be a massive project comprising thousands of radio telescopes linked together. And because of its size, it is expected to produce more than one exabyte (1 billio ...
  • Special smart fabric designed for the military
    BBC: A new lightweight military uniform was showcased recently at an event organized by the UK’s Centre for Defence Enterprise, which funds research into novel high-risk innovations with high potential benefits to the defense industry. Made with electrically conducting fibers, the e-textil ...
  • Radiation-detecting camera to be used at Fukushima
    Daily Mail: In an ongoing push to assess and ameliorate the aftereffects of last year’s earthquake and tsunami, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has developed a prototype camera to detect radioactive hot spots. The Super-wide Angle Compton Camera, based on technology that will ...

Revolutionary Politics

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

Peakwater

  • Look How Unequally Water Is Divided In The Mid ...
    “THE southern provinces on Lebanon’s border with Israel fare worse than the rest of the country by most measures. Water is one thing in short supply. Swathes of fertile farming land sit idle. Officials say the lack of water is partly to blame for the region’s underdevelopment. ...
  • Water Wars Heat Up
    “Water demand in the summer season shoots up anywhere between 20 to 40 per cent in the city. Vigyanapura is feeling the heat already, with absolutely no water supply. This area was promised new connections under the upcoming Cauvery project. But from the past one month, the residents have ...
  • The Costs of Fracking
    “As regulators weigh the benefits of drilling 40,000 gas wells across New York State, the Department of Environmental Conservation’s scant analysis of fracking’s potential costs overstates job benefits and omits state Transportation Department estimates of road maintenance costs exceeding ...
  • People Forced To Drink Polluted Water
    “Chakwal—Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources (PCRWR) has revealed that most of the water sources in district Chakwal are providing unsafe drinking water, mainly due to presence of micro-organisms, iron and fluoride. According to report of Technical survey for Water Supply Schem ...
  • Concerns over India rivers order
      “A supreme court order in India asking the government to link more than 30 rivers and divert waters to parched areas has sparked concerns in neighbouring countries. Bangladesh says it would be hardest hit because it is a downstream country to two major rivers that flow from India. N ...

D. Kucinich

  • Davis-Besse News Alert: Kucinich Responds to N ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), who has consistently fought for stronger oversight of Davis-Besse to protect the people of Ohio, released the following statement after the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) overturned a decision made by the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board to accept testim ...
  • Kucinich: Supreme Court Ruling will be the Nex ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), who provided the pivotal vote in the House to pass the Affordable Care Act, today explained the Supreme Courts’ ruling will simply be the next step in the inevitable path towards single-payer health care. Today, the Supreme Court began hearing arguments as it ...
  • Kucinich Calls for SEC Investigation of Potent ...
    Provides Detailed Analysis of Discrepancies Which Could Constitute “Material Misrepresentations” Washington D.C. (March 22, 2012) -- Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), the Ranking Member of the Regulatory Affairs Subcommittee, today requested that Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair ...
  • Kucinich Analysis: Fast-Tracking Southern Segm ...
    Upon reports that the Obama Administration will “fast-track” the southern segment of the Keystone Pipeline between Cushing, Oklahoma and the Gulf Coast, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following analysis: “Americans need relief from high gas prices. However, approval of th ...
  • Kucinich Welcomes Cleveland, Midwest Steel Ind ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), a member of the Congressional Steel Caucus, today welcomed the President and CEO’s of Cleveland’s ArcelorMittal and Cliffs Natural Resources at a hearing examining the state of the steel industry in the United States. Kucinich discussed the importance of ...

Authentically Wired

  • this is SOP for the Arizona State Legislature
            … Actually this is SOP for the Arizona State Legislature and believe it or not … Arizona citizens fall for it every time … Filed under: Blogroll
  • … And still we believe whatever the &#82 ...
    … And still we believe whatever the “doctor” says…?   Shock: A court case reveals that the FDA admits mercury is still in vaccines! http://www.naturalnews.com/035432_vaccines_mercury_court_case.html   Important: Here are the 11 most toxic ingredients in vaccines and their toxic s ...
  • Just what’s gotten into U
    … Just what’s gotten into U … U actually believe you can demonstrate and loudly protest an action supported by America’s military  industrial corporate congressional complex … Think again …  Cause that just ain’t going to happen …!     Chicago bans anti-war march during ...
  • Wagging our finger for what…?
    …IF … this is true … then consider that with the complex interplay of ocean currents the fish caught off South America and North America and Alaska are most likely also contaminated …   So … we are wagging our finger at Japan for what … ?   JAPANESE FISH CONTAMINATED 04-01-2012&# ...
  • stuff was established for your benefit
    … What …?   You actually thought this TSA … Department of Homeland Security stuff was established for your benefit … Guess again …   How the Rich Took Over Airport Security Security checks were one of America’s most democratic places — until rich passengers got t ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Beyond Bigfoot: the science of cryptozoology
    Anyone who doubts cryptozoology, which in Greek means the "study of hidden animals," should remember the many lessons of the past 110 years: the mountain gorilla (discovered in 1902), the colossal squid (discovered in 1925, but a full specimen not caught until 1981), and the saola (discovered in ...
  • Some toilet paper production destroys Indonesi ...
    American consumers are unwittingly contributing to the destruction of endangered rainforests in Sumatra by purchasing certain brands of toilet paper, asserts a new report published by the environmental group WWF. The report, Don't Flush Tiger Forests: Toilet Paper, U.S. Supermarkets, and the Des ...
  • Big trees, like the old-growth forests they in ...
    Already on the decline worldwide, big trees face a dire future due to habitat fragmentation, selective harvesting by loggers, exotic invaders, and the effects of climate change, warns an article published this week in New Scientist magazine. Reviewing research from forests around the world, Will ...
  • Rainforests need massive finance, but REDD mus ...
    A proposed mechanism to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by protecting tropical forests has evolved considerably since it started to gain momentum during the 2005 climate talks in Montreal. Known then as 'avoided deforestation', the concept was simple: pay tropical forest countries to keep their ...
  • The dark side of new species discovery
    Scientists and the public usually rejoice when a new species is discovered. But biologist Bryan Stuart has learned the hard way that the discovery of new species, especially when that species is commercially valuable, has a dark side-one that could potentially wipe out the new species before pro ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Rise in whale trade stuns experts
    Scientists plan to investigate a "marine bushmeat trade" after a major study showed that global consumption of marine mammals such as whales and dolphins is increasing.The research surprised New Zealand marine experts, in particular...
  • WeatherWatch: Columnist weathers storm of frie ...
    Scientists can't be doing too good a job of convincing us of climate change, judging by more polls indicating that the public's level of concern is waning.The NZ Herald has reported that an academic analysis of surveys spanning...
  • Oyster is the world for honoured NZ scientist
    Home education, a love of the sea and a passion for the famous Bluff oyster have brought a New Zealand marine biologist to Paris, where she is being feted among the ranks of leading young scientists.Zoe Hilton, 33, has been honoured...
  • Pesticides sting life out of bees
    Worldwide declines in bee colonies, threatening much of global agriculture, may be caused by a new generation of nerve-agent pesticides, two new scientific studies strongly suggest.The findings place a huge question mark over the...
  • Scientists hope pest-repelling GM wheat will w ...
    The world's first genetically modified crop that has been engineered to emit a repellent against insect pests is now growing in a small patch of land in the Hertfordshire countryside.Scientists have created the "whiffy" wheat in...

The Bovine

  • 41 Sheep vanish from Ontario farm
    From the Alberta Farmer Express: “Ontario Provincial Police and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency are looking for a flock of sheep that has disappeared from a southeastern Ontario farm under quarantine for scrapie. The CFIA said in a release Monday … Continue reading →
  • Threatened rare sheep slaughter thwarted by th ...
    From Mark Hoult, in the Community Press: Trent Hills — The Canadian Food Inspection Agency found no sheep to slaughter Monday morning at Montana Jones’ Wholearth Farm Studio near Hastings. The 41 rare Shropshire Sheep were allegedly taken from the barn … Continue reading →
  • Michigan pig fracas as “test marketing&# ...
    As in test marketing of the one variety fits all, or  imposing monoculture on the entire ag sector. From David E. Gumpert on the Complete Patient blog: “…Obviously, the state and Big Ag’s Michigan Pork Producers Association don’t like small … Continue reading →
  • CBC news: Slaughter looms for a rare sheep her ...
    From CBC News, April 1, 2012 (and no, this is not a joke): “More than 40 sheep from a rare, heritage breed on an Ontario farm are to be put to death tomorrow by the federal government. The Canadian Food … Continue reading →
  • Michael Schmidt: Good Friday concerts
    From Michael Schmidt:

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Ceridian Fuel Index Up 0.3 Percent in March, D ...
    The UCLA Ceridian Pulse of Commerce Index based on real-time truck fuel usage rose slightly in March. The Ceridian-UCLA Pulse of Commerce Index® (PCI®), issued today by the UCLA Anderson School of Management and Ceridian Corporation rose 0.3 percent in March following the 0.7 percent increase ...
  • Eurozone Composite PMI® Signals Recession Says ...
    In what should have been expected, but somehow wasn't, Eurozone weakness is across the board except for Ireland bucking the trend for now. Markit says Eurozone Composite PMI® Signals New Recession in Eurozone Key Points for March Final Eurozone Composite Output Index: 49.1 (Flash 48. ...
  • Spanish Economic Drama: Nearly 57% of Budget D ...
    Inquiring minds keep poking around at problems in Spain and everywhere one looks problems are far greater than government officials would like you to believe. Please consider this Google Translation from the Guru'sBlog Spanish Economic Drama, Over Half Federal Budget Devoted to Pensions, Un ...
  • Obama Delivers Warning to Supreme Court on Hea ...
    Open issues abound on healthcare. Will the Supreme Court strike it down? If so, who is to blame? Who are the winners and losers? Will healthcare help or hurt the Republican chances? First please consider Obama delivers warning over healthcare law Barack Obama has delivered a surprisingly ...
  • Finalists Announced for Wolfson Economics Priz ...
    Five finalists have been announced for a Wolfson Economics Prize which challenged the world’s brightest economists to prepare a contingency plan for a break-up of the Eurozone. I believe the Eurozone cannot possibly stay intact and it was doomed from the start. There are five finalists, and ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • The EyeOpener- Marks to Market: America’s Nucl ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- April 3, ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.” – Isaiah Berlin International Newsworthy A ‘Closing Window’ on Iran Blocks Out Realistic Diplomacy Israeli Experts Back Bibi’s Bluff on Iran Germany Illegall ...
  • The EyeOpener- Life & Death: Bioethics as cryp ...
    Few in the general public have heard much, if anything at all, about the relatively obscure corner of academia known as bioethics. First emerging as an academic discipline in the late 1960s, bioethics concerns itself with the ethical questions raised by advancing knowledge and technological soph ...
  • Our first Boiling Frogs Post DVD is now available!
    Truths about Boiling Frogs Post The first truth is what we do…We try to bring to our readers and subscribers the truth with our News and Editorial Round Ups, Investigative Video Reports, Podcast Interviews, Weekly Podcast Series, Editorials & Analyses by Independent and Nonpartisan Exp ...
  • Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
    Phony 2012 What are the broader motivations and implications behind the Kony 2012 video? Taking a look at the geopolitics of the region, its recent history, and Western subsidies for dictatorships (“dictatorship by franchise”) as well as profiting off of genocide (such as in the Cong ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

Press TV

  • ‘UK has subjugated Malvinas’: Argentina
    Argentina has lashed out at Britain over its ‘persistent colonialism’ in Las Malvinas (Falklands) in a war of words with British Prime Minister David Cameron who labeled Argentina’s 1982 invasion of the Islands “a profound wrong” on Tuesday.
  • 4 US-led soldiers killed in Afghan attack
    At least four US-led soldiers have been killed in a bomb attack in Faryab province, northern Afghanistan, Press TV reports.
  • Killing of black US vet gets less coverage
    While the case of slain African-American teenager Trayvon Martin has been under the spotlight in the US, the fatal shooting of another black US citizen has received far less attention.
  • Egypt junta jails pro-uprising officer
    A military court in Egypt has sentenced an army officer to six years in prison for joining the popular protests in 2011 against former US-backed dictator Hosni Mubarak, leading to his ouster.
  • 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.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

  • Fred Flintstone's bed uncovered
    Writing in this week's Science, University of Witwatersrand palaeontologist Professor Lyn Wadley and her colleagues describe an excavation they have carried out in a cave site called Sibudu in South A...
  • Gauging photo fakery
    A technique to quantify the perceptual impact of photo-manipulation on fashion shots has been developed by US scientists. On a daily basis, billboards, magazines and websites dish up a deluge of wri...
  • Antibody-based vaccine for HIV
    A modified virus encoding an anti-AIDS antibody can protect animals from HIV infection. An estimated 7000 new cases of HIV occur each day, the majority of them in developing countries where access t...
  • Nerve transplants wire themselves into host brains
    Embryonic nerve cells transplanted into a recipient brain survive, wire themselves up and can even correct a metabolic disorder in vulnerable individuals, scientists have discovered. Successful brai...
  • First seafaring fisherman
    The world's oldest tackle, together with evidence of deep-sea fishing 40,000 years ago, has been unearthed in East Timor. Early human migrants, including those who first set foot in Australia 50,000...

Nick Turse

  • A house burns down in Tamina, Libya. Many home ...
    A house burns down in Tamina, Libya. Many homes of those considered to be Qaddafi loyalists were and continue to be burned down, leaving many with no place to live. Davide Monteleone/VII Photo Agency
  • A Femen activist stages a protest outside Gazp ...
    A Femen activist stages a protest outside Gazprom headquarters, Moscow, Monday, Feb. , 13, 2012. Activists of the Ukrainian group Femen protested in front of the Russian natural gas monopoly Gazprom, blaming Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Gazprom of subjugating U ...
  • At a time when civic-minded news organizations ...
    At a time when civic-minded news organizations are battling for recognition from the IRS — in some cases waiting more then two years to hear whether they’ll be allowed to be nonprofits — the NFL is a not-for-profit.
  • "In the new world of the National Security Com ...
    “In the new world of the National Security Complex, no one can be trusted — except the...
  • Anti-government protesters run towards Farooq ...
    Anti-government protesters run towards Farooq Junction formerly known as Pearl Square after breaking barriers set up by police during a protest in Budaiya west of Manama, February 13, 2012. REUTERS/Hamad I Mohammed
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