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Friday, April 6, 2012

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A mountain farm along the Skyline Drive in Vir...A mountain farm along the Skyline Drive in Virginia (LOC) (Photo credit: The Library of Congress)
CAPE TOWN/SOUTH AFRICA, 4JUN08 - Bingu Wa Muth...CAPE TOWN/SOUTH AFRICA, 4JUN08 - Bingu Wa Mutharika, President of Malawi, captured during the Opening Plenary of the World Economic Forum on Africa 2008 in Cape Town, South Africa, June 4, 2008. Copyright World Economic Forum/Eric Miller, (mailto:emiller@iafrica.com) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Scoop - NZ

  • The debate France urgently needs after Toulouse
    In 'sensitive urban zones' where a third of residents live below the poverty line and unemployment among young people is over 40%, it is difficult to see how people like Mohammed Merah can become part of France’s social fabric. The real debate is one which the President has skilfully managed ...
  • US Recovery? Housing says it’s a Hoax
    The Fed may have juiced the stock market with cheap money and ultra-low interest rates, but the housing market is dead. According to the latest Case-Shiller Home Index, prices are down—again. The latest data, released yesterday, reveals prices in 17 of 20 cities surveyed were down. Atlanta ho ...
  • Death of the Entertainment Industry
    There are things that many people in the developed world take for granted, especially in the states and Western Europe. Jobs, health benefits, social safety nets, affordable credit for homes/cars/etc. and cheap energy certainly rank among the most vital expectations, but even those things have b ...
  • Amid Debt Crisis, Athens Falls Apart
    As Greece struggles to master its devastating debt problem, decades of mismanagement have taken their toll on the country's once-proud capital. Athens has degenerated into a hotbed of chaos and crime, where tensions between Greeks and immigrants have led to attacks on foreigners by the far-right.
  • Leading the UN donkey up the Khyber
    Some 300,000 Afghan troops are going to take over from us – yet Lieutenant General Curtis Scaparrotti, the second most senior officer in Afghanistan, has said that only 1 per cent of Afghan battalions can fight independently. That's not exactly the Grenadier Guards. Michael Glackin has writte ...

Independent - London

  • US navy jet crashes in residential Virginia
    A US navy jet crashed in Virginia today with the two pilots aboard believed to have ejected before the impact, according to reports.Related StoriesRomney and Obama face off as GOP race nears endHugo Chavez back in Venezuela after treatment in Cuba'Merchant of Death' jailed for 25 years in USSad ...
  • French government fears serial killer on loose ...
    Four murders, all involving the same weapon, all in the same Paris region and all carried out since November have raised concerns that a serial killer may be on the loose in the suburbs of the French capital.Related StoriesOver 20,000 Syrian refugees have fled to TurkeyBossi quits over party co ...
  • Doctors who treated Malawi president say he's dead
    Malawi's President Bingu wa Mutharika has died after a heart attack, doctors who treated him said today, as the troubled and impoverished southern African nation awaited official word of Mutharika's death and who would succeed him. Related StoriesMalawi ruler 'critical' after heart attackGaddafi ...
  • US shootings man Neil Entwistle launches appeal
    Lawyers for a British man serving a life sentence in the US for shooting dead his wife and baby daughter today launched an appeal against his conviction.Related StoriesRomney and Obama face off as GOP race nears endHugo Chavez back in Venezuela after treatment in Cuba'Merchant of Death' jailed f ...
  • US charges six Chinese citizens with insider t ...
    The US government froze the assets of six Chinese citizens and one company charged with trading on confidential information that a China-based pork processor, Zhongpin Inc, was about to go private. Related StoriesBurma rebels hold ceasfire talksAfghan police killed by TalibanSuicide bomber kills ...

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Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Dead Catfish at Boyne River Mouth
    Mystery surrounds the appearance of more than a hundred dead catfish washed up at the Boyne River Mouth. Residents have been finding the fish since Monday. Along the high tide line on Boyne Island, dead catfish were strewn every few metres along the high tide line from the morning before. A sp ...
  • Beware Mac Users: Flashback Botnet Issue Disco ...
    Russian Security Firm Dr. Web says they've discovered a botnet infecting nearly half a million Macs worldwide. The firm made their announcement on Wednesday about the more than 550,000 infected Macs. Later in the day, however, their malware specialist Sorokin Ivan increased this number, saying h ...
  • The Fable of the Century
    Imagine a country in which the very richest people get all the economic gains. They eventually accumulate so much of the nation's total income and wealth that the middle class no longer has the purchasing power to keep the economy going full speed. Most of the middle class's wages keep falling a ...
  • Surprise! Venus May Have Auroras Without a Mag ...
    The same magnetic phenomenon that causes auroras on Earth has now surprisingly been discovered creating giant magnetic bubbles around Venus, a planet without a magnetic field. These findings could help explain mysterious flashes of light from Venus, in addition to the way comet tails work, rese ...
  • Sarkozy Accused of Using Terror Raids to Boost ...
    A renewed focus on security in recent weeks has boosted the reelection campaign of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, but his opponents are now accusing him of cracking down on potential terrorists for election purposes. Several factors are working in Mr. Sarkozy's favor. First, there were the s ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Proximity Alarms
    Q. What do the names Ken Boessenkool and Nigel Wright have in common? A. Stephen Harper. They were once or are part of Harper's inner circle in the PMO. They both come from corporate entities with links to very big-ticket and controversial Conservative projects that have seen the rules and reg ...
  • Perceptive failure at Progressive Bloggers
    You could say some feathers got ruffled over two members at Progressive Bloggers and their position on this. You could say that, but you'd be wrong. The moderators at Progressive Bloggers weren't ruffling feathers. They were spitting in the face of staunch defenders of the inalienable right o ...
  • Jon's perspective . . .
  • RIP, Jim . . .
    JIM MARSHALL, LEO FENDER and LES PAUL: the Holy Trinity of modern music and the builders of the most powerful weapons ever built to fight orthodoxy. RIP, Jim: put that  Marshall "crunch" in the Heavenly Chorus. Yum: Marshalls and Gibson SG Specials/Standards
  • Societies and corruption . . .
    CORRUPTION IS ETERNAL — and it comes in many different guises. According to Fred Reed's article, "The Receding Tide: Becoming Uzbekistan",  Several things characterize countries of the Third Word, whatever precisely "Third World" means.  The first is corruption. America is rotten wi ...

Media Matters for America

  • Right-Wing Media Applaud Fifth Circuit Judge's ...
    Right-wing media figures are exalting Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Jerry Smith for his demand that the Department of Justice explain comments President Obama made about the Supreme Court's review of the health care reform law. However, legal scholars argue that the judge's request ...
  • Local Media Fail To Cover Climate Denial, ALEC ...
    Starting in 2008 seven states -- Louisiana, South Dakota, Kentucky, New Mexico, Tennessee, Oklahoma, and Texas -- passed measures or promoted  policies that would change the education curriculums in their states to begin teaching "different perspectives" in environmental science instructio ...
  • Immigration Proposal To Keep Families Together ...
    Right-wing media have attacked a proposed Obama administration rule change that would reduce the amount of time required for undocumented immigrants who are immediate relatives of American citizens to apply for residency as "stealth amnesty" by a "lawless regime." But the proposed rule change w ...
  • Turning On A Dime, Conservative Media Recoil A ...
    Conservative media are on the attack after President Obama responded to a question about the Supreme Court's consideration of the Affordable Care Act by pointing out that conservatives criticize "unelected" judges who engage in "judicial activism" to "overturn a duly constituted and passed law. ...
  • It Would Be "Extraordinary" To Strike Down Hea ...
    Right-wing media are attacking President Obama over comments he recently made in which he pointed out that if the Supreme Court decides to strike down the Affordable Care Act, it will be an "unprecedented" and "extraordinary" step. In fact, the Supreme Court has not struck down a central provis ...

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TPM Cafe

  • A Small But Solid Victory for Liberal Education
    Just as the Tunisian vendor who sparked the Arab Spring was provoked not only by one bureaucratic or police affront but also by a long train of abuses, petty and large, that had alienated many Tunisians from the government, so the Yale professors who passed a resolution decisively (100 to 69) ov ...
  • The Showdown Over Liberal Education at Yale
    The stampede (or is it a gold rush?) abroad by dozens of American universities to plant their flags, brand names and, some of them claim, the seeds of liberal education and democracy was starting to seem thoughtless and chaotic by any serious pedagogical or political measure, even before Yale ...
  • Republican Foreign Policy Boiled Down for You
    Some simple rules of thumb: 1. Extent US must pursue missile defense: As far as conceivable 2. How much it matters whether the conceivable technology is actually workable: Not very 3. How much we should spend on the military: More (definitely more than Democrats, or the military themsel ...
  • New Law in WI Keeps People From Voting - Me, f ...
    After not being allowed to vote this morning, I want to report from the Wisconsin front lines of the draconian voting laws that Republicans have been pushing through state legislatures across the country. For all the focus on stringent requirements to show ID in order to vote, these are not the ...
  • Not That Complicated
    Justice Alito said that if he didn't buy a Volt, the price of Volts would go up. Where did he learn that? Yale Law School? I hope not; I was there with him and I don't remember learning that if demand falls, then prices go up. It's the other way around: if customers won't buy at a certain price, ...

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Public Citizen in Texas

  • Harold Simmons, WCS and the every expanding at ...
    Harold Simmons built a West Texas dump for radioactive waste that is bigger than 1,000 football fields, paid out hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions and got a permit for it in Texas, and is now working to fill it. To turn it into a profitable enterprise, the Texas billiona ...
  • A new scientific study for climate change deni ...
    MSNBC reports that a scientific paper published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature on Wednesday concluded that during the end of the last Ice Age (12,000 years ago), global temperatures rose after carbon dioxide levels started to rise.  This provides even more scientific evidence that there is ...
  • New Report on the Role of Job Impact Analysis ...
    The New York University School of Law’s Institute for Policy Integrity has released a new report – The Regulatory Red Herring: The Role of Job Impact Analysis in Environmental Policy Debates. The study finds that claims of jobs that stand to be gained or lost due to environmental regulations req ...
  • EHF – going broke. Will Texas declare it “too ...
    The Dallas Observer is reporting that there is a good chance that Energy Future Holdings (EFH) (or TXU for most of us) the state’s largest power generator, will go broke – click here to read their story. The question now becomes – are Texas ratepayers going to have to pay for E ...
  • If you build it, they will come
    With the Texas Low Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission (TLLRWDCC) approving rules that open up of the WCS dump site to out of compact waste, we may soon see low level radioactive waste from Nebraska Public Power District’s nuclear facility heading to Texas. The deal between ...

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Grassroots

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

Climate

  • French Court May Overturn Ruling on Total 1999 ...
    (Reuters) France's highest court may annul a verdict against oil giant Total over a disastrous 1999 oil spill off Brittany, a legal source with access to the documents in the case told Reuters.
  • Brazil Defends Credentials as Rio+20 Host
    (IPS) The government of Brazil, which will host the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) in June, defended itself from ecologists who lambasted its performance on the environmental front.
  • Study Finds E15 Damages Engines, Roiling Debat ...
    (Greenwire) Two popular gasoline engines in recent-model cars showed mechanical damage from fuel blend of unleaded gasoline and 15 percent ethanol, according to a study by a nonprofit research group backed by the petroleum and auto ind ...
  • Oil, Gas Industry Groups Seek to Join Pa. Frac ...
    (AP) A coalition of oil and gas industry companies is challenging a group of municipalities who are suing the state of Pennsylvania over a new law that aims to regulate gas drilling.
  • Fracking Coming to Illinois
    (Crain's Chicago Business) Energy companies are scrambling to strike lease deals with landowners and mineral rights owners in the southeastern part of the state. The first test wells in the region are expected to be drilled in the ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • Thoughts on Good Friday
    I try to avoid talking about my views on religion because this is a political blog and, in the political realm, I respect all people's religious beliefs and want to give them the maximum space to exercise them. If I talk about religion it is almost always because someone is not showing that sam ...
  • Weak-Willed
    Since George Will has already given up on winning the presidential election, shouldn't he stop opining on things like who Romney should pick as his running mate? I mean, what's the point? And it's remarkable how insulting he is. In one short column he manages to call the president a lout ...
  • Wow, That Was Easy
    I'm sure it won't surprise you that Peggy Noonan was profoundly saddened by President Obama's speech on Tuesday ("The speech was an unusual and unleavened assault on the Republican Party.... The speech was not aimed at healing, ameliorating differences, or joining together"). I particularly ...
  • A Very Good Height Indeed
    I guess Aaron Blake just doesn't want to get it. When Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus denied that the Republicans were waging a war on women, no one was all that surprised. After all, he's a spin doctor. That's his job. No one expects him to say something like, "Well, Al ...
  • Get Involved to Fight Citizens United
    Last week I wrote about Montana Attorney General Steve Bullock's intention to file an amicus brief with the Supreme Court arguing in favor of the Montana Supreme Court's decision to uphold their state's Corrupt Practices Act of 1912 even in the face of the Citizens United ruling. I also told y ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • 15 Cups of Animal Cuteness
    You'd be surprised how many people like to put their pet in a cup and take a photo. And since the result is super cuteness, we're sure glad they did! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Exploring the Centuries-Old Sewers Beneath the ...
    Beneath the bustling streets of Paris lies a network of underground tunnels: the sewers – a place almost as interesting to explore as the City of Light above. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Delicate Beauty of Mushroom Gills in Macro
    Let's look at the fragile world of mushroom gills – at once so functional and so delicate. Awesome macro photography displays Nature's brilliance as a designer. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Ongoing Suffering of Chernobyl's Survivors
    Although it's been 26 years since the Chernobyl disaster – the world's worst nuclear accident – thousands have spent their lives suffering its catastrophic effects. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Shoefiti: The Myths and Mysteries of Shoes on ...
    Shoes hang from power lines the world over, from urban centers to deserted country roads, and wherever they are, there is speculation; there is a burning question. Why? This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

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Green Inc. - NYT

  • A Difficult Choice on Water
    Proposed legislation offers the Navajo and Hopi the service of having water piped into their homes but comes with the caveat that they hand over their rights to the waters of the Little Colorado River.
  • From an F to a Low A: The N.Y. City Council
    The average "green" score for council members in 2010-11 was 90, up from 45 five years earlier.
  • Following the Money, and the Mafias, Behind Il ...
    A report from the World Bank recommends aggressive prosecutions of the masterminds behind illegal logging networks and the corrupt officials who make their activities possible.
  • On Our Radar: Google Plans Thermal Storage
    Google is installing an ice-based cooling system to save money on electricity in Taiwan.
  • On Our Radar: Missteps in Colorado Fire
    A reconstruction of a fire that began with a controlled burn suggests that firefighters failed to ask for a spot weather forecast, that radio communications were inadequate, and that dispatchers were kept in the dark on the gravity of the blaze.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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

Daily Censored

  • The Bully Politics of Education Reform
    America is a bully nation. America is the embodiment of might-makes-right. When another country (USSR) invades Afghanistan, America is filled with righteous indignation, but when America invades Afghanistan, well, all is right with the world. America has bred the bully tactic of vigilantism in t ...
  • Dr. King’s 2 minute message to you: ‘Silence i ...
    with video here. A year before the US government assassinated Dr. Martin Luther King, he asked Americans to end their silence over an unlawful, treaty-violating, and lie-started war killing millions. The month he was assassinated by the US government, Dr. King was to march for their “Occupy DC” ...
  • A Play about For-Profit Colleges
    Aaron Calafato is a playwright and actor. Like many people who choose that line of work, however, he has a hard time making a dime.  So he took a job as a recruiter for a for-profit college in Ohio. His experiences there led him to become a critic of the predatory industry. Now, according to [...]
  • Dr. Martin Luther King assassinated by US gove ...
    from my 6-part series: Occupy This: US History exposes the 1%’s crimes then and now “What then is, generally speaking, the truth of history? A fable agreed upon.”  - Napoleon Bonaparte [69] Anyone who wants the most important history of the Vietnam war, and American history, must be briefed of t ...
  • Where’s the criminal investigation of th ...
    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 murdere ...

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IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #709
    North Korea defector sentenced for assassination plot. Russian arrested in Cyprus for alleged espionage. Mystery deepens over death of UK intel expert in China.
  • Interview with ex-Mossad director Meir Dagan
    The former director of Israel’s most revered intelligence agency has given an extensive interview on why he believes a military strike against the Iranian nuclear program “should be the last option” for Israel.
  • News you may have missed #708
    Swedish Cold War spy dies at 79. US keeping Britain in the dark on intel issues. Bush official says CIA 'committed war crimes'.
  • Why are al-Qaeda websites going off-line?
    It began to happen late last month, and nobody seems to know why: one after another, the most popular pro-al-Qaeda websites around the world have been going off the air, in what appears to be coordinated fashion.
  • News you may have missed #707
    Russian colonel charged with spying for the US. FBI denies Russian spy tried to sexually entice US cabinet official. London police admits 'errors' in MI6 officer's death investigation.

War is a Crime.org

  • on Rattlesnakes
    Render to Caesar, Extraordinarily April 6, 2012 Exclusive  Consortiumnews.com Editor's Note: On Good Friday, Christians observe the brutal torture and crucifixion of Jesus at the hands of Roman occupiers, but many modern Christians don’t mind when it’s “their” side doing the extraordinary ...
  • Hi-Ho! The US is a Police State
      By Dave Lindorff   Back in the early 1980s, I had the extraordinary good fortune to get to meet one of my literary heroes, Kurt Vonnegut, up close and personal.  We shared a police wagon, sitting next to each other for a ride to the station to be booked for blocking the door to ...
  • U.S. Military Brings Down a Plane -- Its Own, ...
      OOPS! Why don't those planning possible routes toward peace ever have these kinds of accidents? read more
  • Putting Syria into some perspective
    The Anti-Empire Report by William Blum www.killinghope.org The Holy Triumvirate — The United States, NATO, and the European Union — or an approved segment thereof, can usually get what they want. They wanted Saddam Hussein out, and soon he was swinging from a rope. They wanted the Taliban ousted ...
  • Video: David Swanson Supports Leah Bolger's Pr ...

Grist - News

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

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  • DAVID WILCOCK with DRAKE Interview 29March2012 ...
    Transcript available at: http://divinecosmos.com/start-here/davids-blog/1043-massarrests
  • Spying on the Spies
    by Justin Raimondo, April 04, 2012 Stewart Nozette, a brilliant scientist whose work was instrumental in advancing the US space program, was convicted last year of attempting to spy on behalf of Israel, and this month was sentenced to 13 years in prison and a substantial fine. Under investigatio ...
  • Hammers and Nails and Avatars, Oh My
    By Les Visible In a time of pervasive materialism, confinement is the order of the day. The senses are bound by sense objects and ‘strange lusts’ are everywhere to be seen. Once it gets totally out of hand, and it always does, one avatar or another has to step in and restore balance. ...
  • The Kings of the Highlife and the Cannibal Pigs
    By Les Visible The paper of false record; The New York Swines, may have broken a record for the number of alleged, inferred and suspected ofs, with their latest caper off into the realm of fantasy, as a prelude to bloodshed (check out the comments, people are waking up). Meanwhile, the governmen ...
  • The philosophy of freedom: Much more than dema ...
    by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger (NaturalNews) Do you agree with this statement? Government has no business telling us what to drink, what to eat, what kind of medicine we should take, what to smoke, what to farm, or how to run our private lives. These are all elements of individual liberty or w ...

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  • The Georgia Guidestones
    On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
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    In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
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Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • Inhabitat’s Top Picks from the 2012 NY Auto Show
    Read the rest of Inhabitat’s Top Picks from the 2012 NY Auto Show Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: 2012, 2012 NY Auto Show, Amanda Coen, best of, concept car, delorean, eco-friendly, energy efficient, ev, Fisker Atlantic, green auto, green car, green technology, h ...
  • Trees Pass Through the Interior of Paz Arquite ...
    Read the rest of Trees Pass Through the Interior of Paz Arquitectura’s Casa Corallo in Guatemala City Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Casa Corallo, central america, Corallo house, Guatemala, Guatemala City, Latin America, modern architecture, natural design, Paz ...
  • 6 Amazing Green Renovations That Turn Industri ...
    Read the rest of 6 Amazing Green Renovations That Turn Industrial Buildings into Architectural Gems Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: 780 brewster, ABC Museo, adapted factories, Battersea Power Station, eco renovations, industrial redesign, southern pacific brewing compa ...
  • Indian Man Single-Handedly Plants 1,360 Acre F ...
    Subtropical forest in India photo from Shutterstock Deforestation and desertification are critical problems in India that have led to barren land, increased soil erosion, decreased agricultural production, and devastated local wildlife. However one Indian man has made a stand – by single-h ...
  • Mode:lina’s New Coworking Office Maximizes Spa ...
    Read the rest of Mode:lina’s New Coworking Office Maximizes Space With Private Plywood Loft Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Concordia Design, converted loft, coworking, eco design, green design, Mode:Lina, plywood, sustainable design

Pogue's Posts

  • Spec Obsession Disorder: The Incurable Techie ...
    Who on earth cares what processor is inside a phone-as long as the phone feels fast? And the Lumia 900 feels fast. It shouldn't matter if the phone has a Snapdragon, a dual core or a hamster wheel.
  • An Ode to the LED Bulb
    LED bulbs are expensive but will save money in the long run.
  • S.L.R. Video Cameras for the Pros
    The world of professional TV and film changed suddenly when digital S.L.R.'s - still cameras - were designed to capture video. And I mean, incredible video, with all the flexibility of interchangeable lenses and amazing low-light capability.
  • A Reader's Companion to Ultrabooks
    More on the Great Ultrabook Roundup, from USB compatibility to storage considerations.
  • The Disruptive Power of iMessage
    Apple has changed the way we buy music, use our phones, operate our computers and so on. Let's not overlook one of Apple's greatest ideas yet: messages.

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Chicks and Eggs: Best Live Nest Cams for Easter
    We've collected some of the best live streaming nest cams we could find. They all have eggs or chicks in the nest, or are about to have eggs. Turns out there are a lot of nest cams out there, from owls to falcons to emus.
  • Controversy Deepens Over Pesticides and Bee Co ...
    A controversial new study of honeybee deaths has deepened a bitter dispute over whether the developed world's most popular pesticides are causing an ecological catastrophe.
  • Unusual Dinosaur Eggs Are Shaped Like Easter Eggs
    Paleontologists have found hen-sized, hen-shaped dinosaur eggs sticking out of ancient sandstone in Spain's Pyrenees mountains.
  • What Space Looks Like to Kids
    This year's Space Foundation Student Art Contest attracted 1,500 prekindergarten to high school students from the U.S., Pakistan and Turkey. From stargazing in sleeping bags to shuttle launches and science fiction landscapes, students made drawings, paintings and mixed media pieces depicting spa ...
  • Send Bird-Watching Data Straight to Scientists ...
    A new smartphone app allows bird watchers to share sightings with scientists straight from the field.

PakAlert

  • Why The West Created The Islamic Republic of I ...
    According to conventional wisdom, Washington and Tehran have hated each other since the 1979 Islamic Revolution and the Iranian-American hostage crisis that occurred shortly after. But when we look past the surface of events and official rhetoric we find very little evidence to support this clai ...
  • NLE 2012: Will This Years Drill Go Live and Re ...
    The summer of 2012 is fast approaching. As it inches closer, we will start to see a major increase in US and foreign troop movements as well as military equipment movements throughout the CONUS (Continental United States). While many of the upcoming sightings may well be normal operations as ...
  • Poland Announces Complete Ban on Monsanto’s Ge ...
    Following the anti-Monsanto activism launched by nations like France and Hungary, Poland has announced that it will launch a complete ban on growing Monsanto’s genetically modified strain MON810. The announcement, made by Agriculture Minister Marek Sawicki, sets yet another international stand ...
  • Vaccine failure admitted: Whooping cough outbr ...
    New research reported by Reuters reveals that whooping cough outbreaks are HIGHER among vaccinated children compared with unvaccinated children. This is based on a study led by Dr. David Witt, an infectious disease specialist at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in San Rafael, California. ...
  • 19 Signs Of Very Serious Economic Trouble On T ...
    Most Americans have no idea how much economic trouble is heading our way.  Most of them just assume that everything will eventually “return to normal” just like it always has before and that those running our economy “know what they are doing” and that we should trust the ...

Andy Worthington

  • “I Affirm Our Right to Life”: Shak ...
    This article is the second of two articles providing new commentary by Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in Guantánamo — and reproducing a statement he made about conditions in the prison, with additional notes by Ramzi Kassem, one of his lawyers. The two articles were published simu ...
  • EXCLUSIVE: “They Want Me to be Harmed&#8 ...
    This world exclusive is one of two articles providing new commentary by Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in Guantánamo — and also reproducing a statement he made about conditions in the prison, and additional notes by Ramzi Kassem, one of his lawyers. The two articles are being publ ...
  • For the Last Two Kuwaiti Prisoners in Guantána ...
    171 men are still held in the “war on terror” prison at Guantánamo Bay, even though an interagency task force established by President Obama concluded over two years ago that 89 of them should be released. However, it is now 15 months since the last prisoner left Guantánamo alive, an ...
  • Close Guantánamo: Abdul Ghani, An Insignifican ...
    As published on the “Close Guantánamo” website. Please join us — just an email address required. As we at “Close Guantánamo” continue our series profiling prisoners still held at Guantánamo — and specifically, at this time, the Afghans who are still held — our lates ...
  • Ten Years of Torture: On Anniversary of Abu Zu ...
    Ten years ago, on the evening of March 28, 2002, the Bush administration officially embarked on its “high-value detainee” program in the “war on terror” that had been declared in the wake of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, when Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Texas Jury Hears Account of Fatal Shooting by ...
    By Friday, jurors are expected to begin weighing the evidence against a Texas murder suspect allegedly linked to Kingdom Identity Ministries, a racist, anti-Semitic group that opposes mixing of the races. Defendant Mark Simmons of Buda told an investigating officer that the victim, his friend  S ...
  • Accused Utah Cop-Killer Had Antigovernment Views
    A Utah man accused of murdering one police officer and wounding five others developed antigovernment views after being fired as an armed security guard for the IRS, his father told Hatewatch today. Matthew David Stewart, a 37-year-old decorated Army veteran accused of fatally shooting a police o ...
  • Racist Bikers Busted in Undercover Florida Probe
    Six members of a racist motorcycle gang in Florida face drug and bomb-related charges following a three-year undercover investigation, federal and state authorities announced Friday. The suspects are affiliated with the Outlaws motorcycle club and the 1st SS Kavallerie Brigade Motorcycle Divisio ...
  • Feds Charge Ex-Con in Wisconsin Abortion Clini ...
    An ex-convict being held in connection with the Sunday night bombing of a Grand Chute, Wis., Planned Parenthood clinic has been charged with two federal crimes, the FBI says. Francis G. Grady, 50, was arrested Monday evening after investigators identified him based on eyewitness information and ...
  • Anti-Semitic California Prof Now Attacking Bla ...
    In one of the more volatile recent periods of racial unrest in this country, some of the most inflammatory incitement is coming from an odd little corner of academia. An influential, tenured university psychology professor is on the airwaves claiming Trayvon Martin was a “thug,” a “hoodlum” and ...

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

  • Recall-Facing Wis. Gov. Walker Continues 'War ...
    Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who is facing a June 5 recall election, privately signed a slew of legislation on Thursday that some Democrats see as evidence of an ongoing "war on women." Wisconsin Gov. Walker (photo: Mark's Postcards from Beloit) ...
  • Sentencing of Arms Dealer Viktor Bout Avoids H ...
    Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, who was been called "the merchant of death," was sentenced today at a U.S. court in Manhattan to 25 years in prison for conspiracy and terrorism charges. But an arms trafficking expert today states that the way the case has been framed allows American o ...
  • Jobs Report Tempers Hopes of Accelerating US R ...
    The most recent jobs numbers were released today and the results indicate a slower recovery than many had predicted. The country's employers added ony 120,000 jobs in March, about half of the job gains for the previous months. The report also indictes that between Janaury and February 2012,& ...
  • US Attack on Transparency Continues: CIA Whis ...
    Washington continues its attack on whistle-blowers today as CIA whistle-blower, John Kiriakou, has been indicted in court for charges of violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act and three counts of violating the Espionage Act. Former CIA officer, Kiriakou, allegedly leaked informatio ...
  • Limits to Growth: 1972 'Collapse' Prediction S ...
    A renowned Australian research scientist has expressed concern over a possible "global economic collapse" that may occur in 2030 if humans fail to check expansion and preserve the world's already diminishing resources. Physicist Graham Turner says the 1972 MIT study --"The Lim ...

Lifehacker

  • Put Eggs in a Bowl of Water to See If They've ...
    There's nothing worse than cracking open a rotten egg, but it can sometimes be hard to tell if your eggs have gone bad just by looking at them. About.com shows us a simple trick for telling if an egg is bad, without having to open it up and se ...
  • Daily App Deals: Get Piano Notes Pro for iOS f ...
    The Daily App Deals post is a round-up of the best app discounts of the day, as well as some notable mentions for ones that are on sale. More »
  • Hypegram Is a Simple, Beautiful Desktop Player ...
    Windows: The Hype Machine has long been one of the best music discovery services out there, featuring the most talked about tracks from popular music blogs around the net. Hypegram is a compact desktop player that grabs tracks from the Hype Ma ...
  • This Week’s Most Popular Posts: March 25 - Apr ...
    This week we boosted our memories with tricks from the pros, made sure our credit cards hadn't been hacked, played a few harmless geek pranks, and more. Here's a look back. More »
  • How Do I Know If I Need More Insulation to Kee ...
    Summer is just around the corner. And if this summer is anywhere as hot as the winter was warm in most of the US, then we could be in for a sweltering one. The DIY experts at Stack Exchange are here to help you make sure your home is prepared ...

Water Privatization

  • Water conservation vital to Lake, students and ...
    Chicago's archaic water utility system and policies received an expert and activist examination.
  • City, RDN urged to become 'blue'
    With the world making waves over a clean, healthy supply of water, the city and Regional District of Nanaimo have an opportunity to make a splash on the issues.
  • Stop being a hypocrite and blaming everyone bu ...
    Selangor Senior State Executive Councillor for Investment, Industry & Trade, Teresa Kok advised MCA state chairman Donald Lim Siang Chai not to stop attempting to redirect the blame in the mismanagement of water in Selangor and the issue of Kampung Sungai Terentang Rawang’s high voltage cables.
  • Bennington College Center The Water Dialogues
    Thursday March 29, 2012 The Bennington College Center for the Advancement of Public Action (CAPA) presents a weeklong program of lectures, panel discussions, and workshops dedicated to the complex issues surrounding our most fundamental natural resource. Participants in these dialogues include s ...
  • Privatization stays an issue for Detroit
    The debate over privatization, a hot-button issue since the 1980s, has been one of the biggest issues in Detroit for the past few weeks. It’s been used in the past to decrease costs, improve quality of services and build innovation.

Guardian

  • Masters 2012: day two – live! | Scott Murray
    • Hammer F5 for updates, or hit auto-update • Email scott.murray@guardian.co.uk with yo' thoughts • Our hole-by-hole interactive guide to Augusta National • Latest Masters 2012 leaderboard (from the official site) • Our gallery of the best images from day one's action9.50pm BST, 4.50pm ET: What ...
  • Metropolitan police 'buried' report in 2004 wa ...
    Scotland Yard veterans claim spiralling crisis triggered by recording of racial abuse was 'accident waiting to happen'A secret Metropolitan police report warned police chiefs that they needed to take tougher action to stop officers discriminating against black people, and that a failure to do so ...
  • North Sea gas leak: plug plan gets green light
    Intervention given go-ahead after inspection of leak on Elgin platform, about 150 miles off AberdeenPlans to "kill" a gas leak on an offshore platform by pumping mud into it can go ahead, experts said on Friday.A team inspected the leak on the Elgin platform about 150 miles off Aberdeen to dec ...
  • Fears of another motorbike serial killer after ...
    Police find similarities in murders but as yet no terrorism link has been madePolice in Paris have linked a 7.65mm gun to four separate murders in the Essone area of the capital since November, raising the possibility of another serial killer following the death of Mohamed Merah in Toulouse on 2 ...
  • Virgin Atlantic tip-off allegations put workin ...
    Leveson inquiry urged to examine secret trade in private information that fuels the paparazziThey are the secret tip-offs at the heart of the paparazzi. Far from the heavily trailed showbiz parties and red-carpet events, the lifeline of most celebrity snappers is a confidential network of source ...

McClatchey

  • Three Big Oil companies agree to settle ‘ ...
    Three of the biggest oil companies in the country have agreed to settle lawsuits accusing them of profiting from hot fuel gasoline and diesel sold without adjusting the volume…Click to Continue »
  • Mom found dead in Fla. apartment; son tells po ...
    Kit Darrant was having a party. As he blasted his music and laughed with friends Tuesday night, however, Darrant was hiding a dark secret. His mother's butchered body was decomposing…Click to Continue »
  • Commentary: NRA could help stop Mexico's gun v ...
    When we talk about the violence that has left nearly 50,000 dead in Mexico over the past five years, we usually focus on Mexicos Sinaloa cartel, or the Juárez cartel,Click to Continue »
  • As US car sales pick up, trade-ins are older
    The economy remains wobbly, unemployment is still high, and yet people are buying new cars at a pace that would suggest a sweeping wave of prosperity.Click to Continue »
  • Employers add jobs, but not many, though joble ...
    A sharp slowdown in hiring during March, reported Friday by the Labor Department, renewed concern that the U.S. economy is still failing to fire on all cylinders. The question is…Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • NWC Condemns CIA Whistleblower Indictment
    The Department of Justice’s policy of distorting privacy laws to pursue and discredit whistleblowers continues. The Associated Press reported yesterday that a former CIA officer, John Kiriakou, is being charged with leaking classified information after publicly expressing concerns over the ...
  • This Week on Honesty Without Fear
    Tune in today at 1:00pm EDT to Honesty Without Fear on Progressive Radio Network. In the first half hour, Jane Turner interviews Rosemary Dew, a 13-year veteran FBI agent and author of "No Backup: My Life as a Female FBI Special Agent." Ms. Dew worked undercover against criminals, spi ...
  • Occupy EPA Rallies for Whistleblowers
    Today's Occupy EPA and NOW DC rally went off with a bang! An eclectic crowd of whistleblower supporters, environmental protectors, and Occupy supporters marched today starting from Franklin Square Park and ending at the EPA offices. Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, a member of the National Whistlebl ...
  • Supreme Court Guts Privacy Act
    Whistleblowers beware: this week the Supreme Court dealt a death blow to the Privacy Act. David Colapinto, NWC General Counsel and Privacy Act expert, appeared on NPR to talk about the ruling and it's devastating effects for whistleblowers. Full story here Congress originally passed the histo ...
  • Connecticut jury awards over $1 million in fir ...
    In the first Federal Rail Safety Act (FRSA) case to go to a jury trial, the jury awarded $50,000 in compensatory damages, and one million dollars in punitive damages. Andy Barati was working for the Metro North commuter rail on Grand Central Terminal, New York City, in 2008 when a jack failed an ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • How Drunk Would You Need To Be To Confuse Jack ...
    Apparently JDPI, the company behind Jack Daniel's whiskey, has no trademark inhibitions. Through LexisNexis we learn that Mark Anthony International, another alcohol company, has filed a lawsuit (pdf and embedded below) seeking declaratory judgement that they can obtain and use the trademark "Ca ...
  • MPAA Pretends Dodd Didn't Say That New SOPA Ne ...
    So Chris Dodd just said that there were ongoing backroom negotiations for a new SOPA, with some push from the White House. Of course, he did it with a wink and a nod, by saying he was "confident" that such was "the case" but that he wouldn't "go into more detail, because obviously if I do, it b ...
  • Arizona Politicians Scramble To Adjust Interne ...
    You know what's a bad sign? When you're a state legislature, and you pass what's clearly an unconstitutional law that criminalizes using technology to "annoy or offend" others -- and then you have to scramble after-the-fact to amend the bill you already passed. Yes, thanks to a rather loud pub ...
  • Twitter's Lawsuits Against Spam Tool Providers ...
    It's no secret that there's a fair bit of spam on Twitter -- which is annoying -- and it's nice to know that Twitter knows this is an issue that it needs to fight. But I'm a bit concerned by the news that it's now suing spamming tool providers as well as some spammers. Going after the spammers ...
  • Former Cybersecurity Czar Thinks DHS Should Sp ...
    Richard Clarke, the former cybersecurity czar in the White House -- and a huge, huge, huge proponent of pushing for greater legislation for spying on Americans under the guise of "cybersecurity" (it used to be "cyberwar" but that term was so laughable, it's been downgraded to "cybersecurity) -- ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

  • Protest: What’s the Point?
    Last month there was a silent march in protest of multiple acts of violence against GLBTQI people in DC. Not everyone was happy that it was a silent march. As one friend put it, hate crimes are an effort to silence. A silent march seemed to be the opposite of what should be done. I [...]
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    I caught up on a lot of blog reading this weekend, but I’m going to try not to do too big of a link bomb. ZNet has a new thing called the International Organization for a Participatory Society. Who are the participants in this society? Apparently, a whole lotta white dudes. Some very excel ...
  • Is Stand Your Ground a Distraction?
    A lot of people, especially in mainstream media, have been talking about the “stand your ground” law. Darren Hutchinson wrote an excellent post about how “stand your ground” has nothing to do with the Trayvon Martin case. Definitely read the whole thing, but the short of ...
  • What’s Different with Trayvon?
    Last week I wrote about how I think that the Rush Limbaugh shit storm was in large part because of who the target was, how people perceived her, and what they thought their role towards her should be.  Now I’m thinking about how much attention the Trayvon Martin murder has gotten and why. ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    There are two Positive Force shows coming up. One is a benefit for Jobs With Justice on April 14th. The other is for the DC Trans Coalition on April 27th. Come out if you are in town. On April 24th we will be occupying the justice department. Here is why. The Cooperative Development Institute is ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Another U.S. terrorist training program
    Seymour Hersh writes: From the air, the terrain of the Department of Energy’s Nevada National Security Site, with its arid high plains and remote mountain peaks, has the look of northwest Iran. The site, some sixty-five miles northwest of Las Vegas, was once used for nuclear testing, and now inc ...
  • The intellectual cowardice of Günter Grass’s c ...
    In his controversial new poem, “What Must Be Said,” Günter Grass felt obliged to anticipate the utterly predictable reaction: “the verdict ‘Anti-semitism’ falls easily.” Jacob Heilbrunn describes Grass’s language as “wild and fevered and calumniato ...
  • Günter Grass and Israeli hypocrisy
    In his new poem, “What Must Be Said,” Germany’s most celebrated writer Günter Grass writes: “I’ve broken my silence/ because I’m sick of the West’s hypocrisy…” yet that hypocrisy is itself merely a shield for Israel’s own hypocrisy. Isr ...
  • Bill McKibben: How you subsidize the energy gi ...
    Just in case you’re running for national office, here are a few basic stats to orient you when you hit Washington (thanks to the invaluable Open Secrets website of the Center for Responsive Politics).  In 2011, the oil and gas industries ponied up more than $148 million to lobby Congr ...
  • Shady companies with ties to Israel wiretap th ...
    James Bamford writes: Army General Keith Alexander, the director of the NSA, is having a busy year — hopping around the country, cutting ribbons at secret bases and bringing to life the agency’s greatly expanded eavesdropping network. In January he dedicated the new $358 million CAPT Josep ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Heartland Institute to Host Seventh Internatio ...
    Peter Gleick ‘Fakegate’ Scandal, Debates on Latest Climate Science Featured What: Seventh International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC-7) Theme: Real Science, Real Choices Where: Hilton Chicago, 720 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL When: Monday, May 21 – Wednesday, May 23, … Continue ...
  • More uncertainty about warming – Study: ...
    From an OSU press release: CORVALLIS, Ore. – An analysis of 35 headwater basins in the United States and Canada found that the impact of warmer air temperatures on streamflow rates was less than expected in many locations, suggesting that … Continue reading →
  • Shakun on our wobbly world’s precession, ...
    It seems that the author of the recent paper in Nature (Shakun et al ) says that the Earth’s wobble was a contributor for ending the ice age, but won’t go so far as to call it the trigger. But … Continue reading →
  • A reply Shakun et al – Dr. Munchausen Ex ...
    Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach There’s a new study entitled “Global warming preceded by increasing carbon dioxide concentrations during the last deglaciation”, Shakun et al. (paywalled, hereinafter Shakun2012). The paper claims to show that in the warming since the last &#8230 ...
  • UK government trying to kill the FOI act
    I guess Climategate really put a burr under their saddle. Bishop Hill writes: As it becomes clear that there will be a determined step by bureaucrats to neuter the FOI Act by introducing charges, it is increasingly important that the … Continue reading →

treehugger

Biosingularity

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

CFACT

Ria Novosti Online News

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

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

Organic Consumers.org

  • Forget the Farm Bill: Where We Should Set Our ...
    I hate to be a Debbie Downer, but I don't care about the 2012 farm bill. Here's why.Click here to read this article
  • The "99% Spring" Brings Co-optation into Full ...
    As the Occupy movement begins to come into full bloom across the country this Spring - with plans for massive days of action and demonstrations on May 1st, new campaigns for transit justice on both coasts, continued organizing against foreclosures and police violence, and a slight chance of a ba ...
  • Food Politics: What's the Difference Between F ...
    Eighteen months ago I read a book that changed my life. Yeah, yeah, I know... sounds corny. But it's not what you think. This book changed my life not because of what it said but because of what it didn't say.Click here to read this article
  • Michigan Agency Creates Hardship for Heritage ...
    Falls Church, Virginia -- Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is using the state Invasive Species Act to expand its jurisdiction beyond hunting and fishing to farming operations.Click here to read this article
  • USDA Poultry Inspection Plan Sets Off Dispute
    Currently, the Agriculture Department's Food Safety and Inspection Service inspectors are stationed along the assembly lines in poultry plants and examine the birds for blemishes, feces or visible defects before they are processed.Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • A Primer on How to Avoid Magical Solutions in ...
    The risks of not understanding the Kaya Identity is that one can get caught out proposing magic as the main mechanism of reducing carbon dioxide emissions. The identity is also an extremely powerful tool of policy analysis Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech  |   Note ...
  • Govt Multiagency CleanUp of Navajo Nation Toxi ...
    Govt efforts to clean up radioactive sites across 27,000 miles² of Navajo rez in AZ-UT-NM, legacy of shoddy mining & federal neglect, way behind & 5-yr plan ends this yr! 3 generations've suffered illness & death from constant exposure that continues... Submitted by PeasantDiva WorldMinga to Env ...
  • infographic comparing fresh raw dairy to paste ...
    Infographiic reveals the crucial differences between the nutritional properties, animal compassion and health implications of raw (living) milk versus pasteurized (dead) milk. Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • The Climate Wars revisited or No truce with kings.
    Analysis piece on the politics and infowar aspects ; A lot of those articles are small stand-alone explanations of political or psychological ideas. The Establishment were absolutely determined to deconstruct western industrial society into their vision Submitted by John Farnham to Environment ...
  • BP Settlement Sells Out Victims -- Greg Palast
    Some deal. BP gets the gold mine and its victims get the shaft. And a few lawyers will get vacation homes - though they won't be so stupid as to build them on the Gulf Coast. Submitted by Kit B. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

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

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Radioactive fluid leaks at French nuclear reactor
    ShareThisRadioactive fluid leaks at French nuclear reactor 05 Apr 2012 Radioactive cooling fluid leaked at a French nuclear reactor Thursday following two fires, but the spillage was collected in special tanks, officials said. A reactor at the power plant in Penly on the English Channel near the ...
  • F/A-18 Navy jet crashes into apartments in Vir ...
    ShareThisF/A-18 Navy jet crashes into apartments in Virginia 06 Apr 2012 A Navy jet crashed Friday into some apartments near Virginia Beach, Virginia, sending flames and thick black smoke into the air, a military spokesman and a witness said. At least two people were hurt Friday, a hospital spok ...
  • 'Long Live Zimmerman' Spray-Painted On Ohio St ...
    ShareThis'Long Live Zimmerman' Spray-Painted On Ohio State's Black Cultural Center 06 Apr 2012 Officials say graffiti spray-painted on the wall of a black cultural center at Ohio State University likely stems from the nationwide unrest over the fatal shooting of a black Florida teenager. The gra ...
  • CIA agent who publicly opposed waterboarding c ...
    ShareThisCIA agent who publicly opposed waterboarding charged with leaking classified secrets to journalists 06 Apr 2012 A high profile CIA agent made famous by his public opposition to waterboarding has been indicted by a grand jury for leaking government secrets to reporters. John C. Kiriakou ...
  • LulzSec hacker pleads guilty
    ShareThisLulzSec hacker pleads guilty 05 Apr 2012 LulzSec hacker Cody Kretsinger has pleaded guilty to charges of taking part in an extensive computer breach against Sony. Kretsinger, 24, pleaded guilty in a California federal court to one count each of conspiracy and unauthorised impairment of ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

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

The Killing Train

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

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Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Armed groups hold talks with government
    Representatives from the Arkan Liberation Party and the Karen National Union are meeting with government negotiators to discuss potential peace deals
  • Power cuts increase in elections’ wake
    While power cuts have been rare during the last year, large cities across the country are being subjected to numerous cuts during the height of the summer
  • Media freedom in Burma still limited
    While the Burmese government have made nascent moves to prevent censorship, media watchdog groups claim stronger policies are needed to protect free speech
  • Displaced in Kachin state
    While the country’s by-elections continue to grab headlines across the globe, conflict is ravaging Kachin state where government forces and Kachin Independence Army troops are fighting. During a recent trip, photographer Brennan O’Connor documented the lives of the internally displac ...
  • Deadly malaria strain threatens Thai-Burma border
    A drug-resistant strain of malaria has spread rapidly to the Thai-Burma border, raising concerns of an uncontrollable epidemic

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Federal judge allows Ohio executions to proceed
    [JURIST] Judge Gregory Frost of the US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio [official website] on Wednesday denied a motion for an injunction to delay the execution of Mark Wiles. Frost, who had previously stayed the executions of two inmates [JURIST report] when he agreed with the a ...
  • Federal judge approves $25 billion mortgage fo ...
    [JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] has approved a $25 billion settlement agreement to address mortgage loan servicing and foreclosure abuses. The settlement [Reuters report] was between US Attorney General Eric Holder, along with Department ...
  • Report: voter ID laws are form of voter suppre ...
    [JURIST] The Center for American Progress (CAP) [advocacy website] released a report [text] on Wednesday criticizing the tide of recently-passed state voter ID laws as an attempt by conservatives and lobbyists to "return to past practices of voter suppression to preserve their political power." ...
  • Federal judge sentences notorious arms dealer ...
    [JURIST] The US District Court for the Southern District of New York [official website] on Thursday sentenced [memorandum, PDF] reputed Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] to 25 years imprisonment. Bout, 45, was convicted in November [JURIST report] on four counts ...
  • Illinois Supreme Court allows challenge to ass ...
    [JURIST] The Supreme Court of Illinois [official website] ruled [text, PDF] Thursday that a challenge to a ban on assault weapons can continue, reversing two lower court rulings dismissing the challenge. The Cook County ordinance [text] in question prohibits the possession and sale of "assault w ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Administration Admits That Indefinite Detentio ...
    The Obama administration acknowledged Tuesday that it would be a violation of current law to transfer individuals from Guantanamo Bay in Cuba to its soon-to-be acquired Thomson prison in Illinois unless they are destined for a federal trial or military tribunal. In a conference call with reporte ...
  • Is Obama Endorsing WWE Wrestling?
    For years, the World Wrestling Entertainment corporation has tinkered with a variety of strategies to improve its public image. The company toned down the storylines, aiming for a TV PG rating. They inaugurated voter registration drives in 2004, 2006 and 2008. They're a ubiquitous presence on th ...
  • At Spy Agency, More Women At Higher Levels
    CIA Director Leon Panetta is taking steps to increase the number of women at the highest levels of the nation's most fabled spy agency.
  • Obesity In The Health Care Bills
    Having studied the latest research on the economics and politics of obesity, I've grown skeptical that a convincing case can be made that government-wide interventions can reduce obesity's cost contribution to the health care system in the near-term. The more one studies obesity itself and its e ...
  • The Atlantic's Boldest: Department Of Corrections
    1. President Obama plans to transfer prisoners from Guantanamo Bay to Thomson, Illinois, not Thompson. 2. Rep. Collin Peterson is a Democrat from Minnesota, not Michigan.

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Plaintiffs in Olympia Food Coop Anti-BDS Lawsu ...
    TweetThe Olympia Superior Court judge hearing the Olympia food coop anti-BDS lawsuit held a hearing to determine the penalties that the plaintiffs would pay the defendants, whose position was upheld in an ant-SLAPP ruling that dismissed the case.  Lawyers for the food coop made a claim for $400, ...
  • Seymour Hersh: U.S. Trains and Facilitates MEK ...
    TweetWhen is a terrorist not a terrorist?  When he’s OUR terrorist. This just about knocked my socks off!  Sy Hersh, reporting in the New Yorker, one ups Mark Perry and just about everybody else with a story that the Bush administration provided MEK operatives terror training at secret fac ...
  • Seattle Jewish Community Leadership Misreprese ...
    TweetIMPORTANT: Please donate as generously as you can on behalf of an ad I plan to publish in the Seattle JTNews in protest of its distorted coverage of the Seattle City LGBT commission’s cancellation of a reception for an Israeli LGBT delegation that was part of an Israeli government pin ...
  • Committee to Protect Journalists: Israel Ranks ...
    TweetThe Committee to Protect Journalists has published its annual ranking of nations who imprison journalists.  Israel has the dubious distinction of coming in second in the competition behind Eritrea, one of the most closed societies in the world.  Per capita Israel has imprisoned more journal ...
  • Scoop: Israeli Iran Attack to Coincide With Ne ...
    TweetA senior Likud politician told my confidential Israeli source that Bibi Netanyahu has decided to delay an Israeli attack on Iran until some weeks or possibly months before the next scheduled Israeli election.  That will happen by October 2013 unless Bibi determines he wants to go to the nat ...

If Americans Knew

  • Spinning the Egyptian Anti-Israel Protest
    Today's New York Times front-page story on Egyptian protests against the Israeli embassy largely neglects a primary cause of the anger: Israeli forces' killing of five Egyptian policemen. Egyptian anger over these deaths grew even greater when Israel's defense minister Ehud Barak refused to apol ...
  • US Ambassador: Support for Israel drives all U ...
    While many Americans may believe that US policies are designed to address American needs, America's new Ambassador to Israel explains that this is far from the case.
  • Shop Talk: The Sacramento Bee
    Editors at McClatchy's Sacramento Bee recently made a series of questionable decisions in their coverage of a local event. They ran news stories about opposition to an upcoming event beforehand and accusations against it afterward, but didn't cover the event itself.
  • The Real Story of How Israel Was Created
    To better understand the Palestinian bid for membership in the United Nations, it is important to understand the original 1947 UN action on Israel-Palestine. The common representation of Israel's birth is that the UN created Israel, that the world was in favor of this move, and that the US gover ...
  • Denying Nazi-Zionist collusion: The Sacramento ...
    In an inversion of journalistic ethics, the Sacramento Bee reported on opposition to an event before and after it took place, but didn't cover the event itself. It featured an entire report on accusations against a flier, but didn't include a response from the flier's authors.

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Bills Are Not a Changelog: Why You Can't Turn ...
    There is a common belief that since laws are the result of legislation, then surely one can automatically assemble an amended version of the code based on the bills that have passed the legislature. This is both a really cool idea and a wrong one. Your standard narrative of how a bill becomes ...
  • Spending Stories to Dive Into Data at the Inte ...
    The Spending Stories team's experience in leading data journalism workshops, such as the one last year on EU spending in Utrecht and EuroHack in Warsaw, has shown that there are still a lot of barriers hindering data journalists from reporting on spending. This month, April 25-29, at the Interna ...
  • Reporters Observe PANDA in Its Natural Habitat
    First and foremost: Thanks to our early users for helping us make PANDA better! At the NICAR conference in St. Louis, we helped almost two dozen PANDA servers enter the world in less than an hour. We're hoping this is a sign that we've made PANDA easy enough for many newsrooms to install. Plu ...
  • Colorful City Tracking Maps Launch Under Creat ...
    Maps.stamen.com, the second installment of the City Tracking project funded by the Knight News Challenge, is live. These unique cartographic styles and tiles, based on data from Open Street Map, are available for the entire world, downloadable for use under a under a Creative Commons Attribu ...
  • A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Developing iWitness
    iWitness, our project to create a tool to aggregate social media by time and place, is now well underway, and we're looking forward to sharing some of our thinking about the design of the tool with you in the coming weeks. In the meantime, we've asked our development partners at EdgeCase to ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Russia on Edge - Russia’s Political Disconte ...
    One month ago, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin easily won a six-year term as president, despite vigorous rallies by activists opposing his candidacy. Does his victory mean the end of Russia’s opposition movement? Not likely, it seems. On Wednesday, barriers to registering a political par ...
  • The Edge of Architecture - Hutongs at Risk in ...
    Hutongs are a traditional form of architecture in Beijing that once dominated the city, but are now found mostly near the Forbidden City in the heart of the Chinese capital. But China’s economic boom, as well as the decaying nature of many of the structures, have made the hutongs, with their c ...
  • Edge of Rare Earth - Dangerous Dependence: US ...
    Despite China's emergence as an economic power and all the talk about how America has become a service economy, U.S. manufacturing is alive and well. Judging by impressive gains in productivity and America's high-tech advantage, manufacturing in the United States has shown surprising resiliency. ...
  • The Edge of Justice - Clarence Thomas Scolds C ...
    Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas defended his silence during the oral arguments last week on President Obama's healthcare law and scolded his colleagues for talking too much.“I don’t see where that advances anything,� Thomas said of peppering attorneys with questions, according to The ...
  • The Obama Edge - Obama's Auto-Bailout Fiction
    As the president has ramped up into campaign mode, he has studiously avoided mentioning most of his signature accomplishments. One can see why. The health care legislation is unpopular, as is the stimulus. The one thing President Obama always seems to mention is the auto bailout. Given that auto ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • BREAKING: MJ Rosenberg OUT At Media Matters
    Media Matters For America's Jew-Hater-In-Chief is out!   I believe he was pushed.  His promise to stop using the Anti-Semitic term Israel-firster made at the beginning of March  did not take the pressure off himself, or that of MMFA. But I will do so without using t ...
  • Interview With Barry Rubin His New Book and Cu ...
    By Barry Rubin 1.) What makes Israel: An Introduction different than the other introductions to Israel on the market? What makes the book unique? Actually, I don’t think there is a single book that provides a comprehensive explanation of Israel’s land, people, history, socie ...
  • Newbusted Exclusive: Democrats To Declare U. S ...
    After the almost universal panning of the President's attacks on the Supreme Court earlier this week and the subsequent denial that his attack ever took place, the Democratic party has been exploring other ways to get out of being blamed for the entire healthcare mess created by Obamacare.  ...
  • SCREWED! The Rabbis Left Moses Out of the Pass ...
    Moses was screwed! There is no other way to put it. At sundown tomorrow, Jews all across the world will begin the celebration of the holiday of Passover. Outside of Israel, the first two days of the holiday begin with a Seder (Jewish holidays begin in the evening) a family ritual  base ...
  • Has Ron Paul Been Replaced by a Zombie?
    Congressman Ron Paul has always been very concerned about wasteful government spending, that's why I was very surprised to see this chart created by Gov.track.us which examines Paul's voting record (on a quarterly basis) since 1997. The median  percentage of missed roll calls for a ...

The Real Agenda

  • BRICS Denunciam a Manipulação da Moeda
    POR LUIS R. MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | 06 ABRIL 2012 Na mudança de poder que o mundo está enfrentando hoje, ambas as economias ricas e emergentes parecem que querem garantir grupos coesos com objetivos comuns. Enquanto o bloco anglo-saxão governou o mundo por mais de um século, as nov ...
  • BRICS Lloran por la Manipulación de Divisas
    POR LUIS R. MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | 6 ABRIL 2012 En el cambio de poder que el mundo está experimentando hoy en día, tanto los países ricos como las economías emergentes quieren asegurarse de aparecer como grupos cohesivos con objetivos comunes. Mientras que el bloque anglo-sajón ha ...
  • Microsoft Kinect Abre o Caminho para Espionage ...
    POR LUIS R. MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | 06 ABRIL 2012 A tirania não é horrível só por causa do caos que provoca, mas também pela maneira que estende seus tentáculos antes de apertar o cerco sobre as populações inocentes. Tirania virá em uniforme, diz um provérbio. Mas na maioria das ve ...
  • Microsoft Kinect Abre el Camino para Espiar en ...
    POR LUIS R. MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | 05 ABRIL 2012 La tiranía no es horrible sólo por el caos que causa, sino también por la forma en que extiende sus tentáculos antes de apretar la soga a las poblaciones inocentes. La tiranía vendrá en uniforme, dice un proverbio. Pero la mayor par ...
  • Amazon sold £7billion in UK and paid no taxes
    By IAN GRIFFITHS | THE GUARDIAN | APRIL 6, 2012 Amazon.co.uk, Britain’s biggest online retailer, generated sales of more than £3.3bn in the country last year but paid no corporation tax on any of the profits from that income – and is under investigation by the UK tax authorities. ...

Wind Watch

  • Unesco fear causes French wind project cancelation
    The French authorities have withdrawn a permit for three turbines 20km from Mont-St-Michel in preparation for imposing an exclusion zone around the Unesco World Heritage Site. Mont-St-Michel is a tidal island off the coast of Normandy. Although the island has only 40 occupants, its buildings dat ...
  • Probe of wind farm noise complaint recommended
    CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The state Public Service Commission staff has recommended rejecting a request by the operators of a Mineral County wind farm to dismiss a homeowner’s complaint about excessive wind turbine noise. Instead, the PSC should continue looking into noise and other issues ...
  • Nantucket votes down Madaket wind project
    The Madaket wind turbine project was the talk of Nantucket for months, but the proposal was overwhelmingly rejected by voters Saturday at the 2012 Annual Town Meeting. The controversial effort to build a 325-foot wind turbine at the Madaket landfill had seemed to divide the island, with governme ...
  • Federal government to issue “take” ...
    Concerns are growing across the nation over the number of birds, particularly eagles, that are losing their lives. Now, as the number of wind energy projects grows, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service is preparing to issue “take” permits that will make it legal for wind energy companies ...
  • Blowing in the wind: Maine’s energy past and f ...
    The nearly 400-foot-tall turbines atop Mars Hill Mountain had been spinning for several months when, on March 27, 2007, the facility quietly marked a historic moment in Maine’s energy history by selling electricity into the power grid. The Mars Hill project formally opened the door in Maine to a ...

Tippers News

  • Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
    The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
    DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...
    Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note- ...
  • Confused cat found wandering streets of of Lin ...
    This hungry kitty thought she was the cat that had got the cream when she found a half-full tin of pet food as she prowled for snacks in bins behind a supermarket. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Two week-old kitten left for dead in locked cl ...
    Thanks to a passerby and local animal shelter, a two week-old kitten left for dead in a bolted-shut clothes recycling bin was rescued and has made a full recovery. The kitten was rescued about a month ago when a passing person heard the cry Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals  |  & ...

The Freeman

  • Jobs Picture Darkens
    “Employers pulled back sharply on hiring last month, a reminder that the U.S. economy may not be growing fast enough to sustain robust job growth. The unemployment rate dipped, but mostly because more Americans stopped looking for work.” (Associated Press) Government is still blockin ...
  • Gold Market Reacts to Bernanke
    “Gold on Thursday recovered some of the previous day’s losses, rising about 1 percent. But it’s still down sharply for the week, a victim of the Federal Reserve’s prediction that it won’t need to take more steps to stimulate the economy.” (Christian Science Mo ...
  • Is Serfdom an Executive Order Away?
    The government's executive branch has virtually unchecked authority to declare an emergency during which the private economy would be commandeered.
  • Attorney General to Answer Judge on Judicial R ...
    “U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday that the Justice Department will respond ‘appropriately’ to a federal appellate judge in Texas who demanded a letter recognizing federal courts’ authority to strike down laws passed by Congress.” (Christian Science Monitor) An o ...
  • Americans Lose Interest in Outlying Burbs
    “Stung by high gasoline costs, outlying suburbs that sprouted in the heady 2000s are now seeing their growth fizzle to historic lows, halting American city dwellers’ decades-long exodus to sprawling homes in distant towns.” (Associated Press) Land-use patterns have been heavily ...

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Recording phone interviews: A solution that works
    Our graduate student E. K. Sommer recently asked for advice on how to record phone interviews, so I pointed her toward an old (but still very popular) post on this blog: Recording phone calls: For reporters. Sommer, however, found a better solution, and she agreed that I could share it here. She ...
  • Multimedia journalism “master classes&#8 ...
    A series of (temporarily) free “master classes” about multimedia journalism just got under way. Andy Bull, a journalism trainer based in the United Kingdom, is offering the classes online in a limited-release format: Each will be available online, free, for a short time, and then dis ...
  • Audio slideshows by journalism students
    Sometimes it’s a challenge to find appropriate examples to show to students. Of course we professors love to show them work by top multimedia journalists — but that can be intimidating. Seeing good work by other students can inspire undergraduates to step up and do better. All of the ...
  • Data Journalism Examples
      I created a Storify (below) for participants in a recent workshop about data journalism. The purpose is to enable them to explore the subject further on their own. You can compare the original version at the Storify site. To make it appear in this post, I simply exported (to WordPress) f ...
  • Social Media and Journalists
    This is a presentation I gave to several groups of TV and print journalists in Singapore. Download the PPT to get the notes and the URLs (March 19–23, 2012). It’s in four parts because it’s long. Part 1 covers concepts and definitions. Part 2 covers Twitter, Tumblr and Pinterest. Pa ...

Facing South

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

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

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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

new geography

  • 'Protestant Ethic' 2.0: The New Ways Religion ...
    In this season when most Americans are more concerned than usual with spiritual matters, it may be time to ask whether religion still matters. Certainly religiosity’s worst side has been amply on display in recent years, from the fanaticism of Islamic terrorists to the annoying sanctimoniousness ...
  • Smart Growth: The Maryland Example
    This is Part Two of a two-part series. Evidence that people just don’t like Smart Growth is revealed in findings from organizations set up to promote Smart Growth. In 2009, the Washington Post reported, “Scholars at the National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education found that over ...
  • Smart Growth and The New Newspeak
    It’s a given in our representative system that policies adopted into law should have popular support. However, there is a distinction to be made between adopting a policy consistent with what a majority of people want, and pushing a policy while making dubious claims that it harnesses “the will ...
  • Commanding Bureaucracies & 'The New Normal'
    Prior to the fifteenth century, China led the world in technological sophistication. Then, it went into a period of long decline. Here’s what Gregory Clark had to say about it in Farewell to Alms: ... When Marco Polo visited China in the 1290s he found that the Chinese were far ahead of the E ...
  • Buffalo, You Are Not Alone
    It hurts. When a bigtime Harvard economist writes off your city as a loss, and says America should turn its back on you, it hurts. But Ed Glaeser’s dart tossing is but the smallest taste of what it’s like to live in place like Buffalo. To choose to live in the Rust Belt is to commit to e ...

GM Watch

  • Facebook flak for Morrisons over GM livestock ...
    TAKE ACTION: Go to Morrisons' facebook page and let them know what you think:  http://www.facebook.com/MorrisonsWeLoveFood More ideas on how to take action www.gmwatch.org/latest-listing/1-news-items/13812 --- --- Facebook flak for Morrisons over GM livestock feeds Peter Crosskey  Agricultural a ...
  • Facebook flak for Morrisons over GM livestock ...
    TAKE ACTION: Go to Morrisons' facebook page and let them know what you think:  http://www.facebook.com/MorrisonsWeLoveFood More ideas on how to take action www.gmwatch.org/latest-listing/1-news-items/13812 --- --- Facebook flak for Morrisons over GM livestock feeds Peter Crosskey  Agricultural a ...
  • Facebook flak for Morrisons over GM livestock ...
    TAKE ACTION: Go to Morrisons' facebook page and let them know what you think:  http://www.facebook.com/MorrisonsWeLoveFood More ideas on how to take action www.gmwatch.org/latest-listing/1-news-items/13812 --- --- Facebook flak for Morrisons over GM livestock feeds Peter Crosskey  Agricultural a ...
  • Poland to ban Monsanto's GM maize
    1.Poland to ban Monsanto's GM maize 2.Greens drum up support against GM crops NOTE: For background: http://www.gmwatch.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=13800 --- --- 1.Poland to ban Monsanto's GM maize  AFP, 4 April 2012  http://www.france24.com/en/20120404-poland-ban-monsantos- ...
  • Poland to ban Monsanto's GM maize
    1.Poland to ban Monsanto's GM maize 2.Greens drum up support against GM crops NOTE: For background: http://www.gmwatch.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=13800 --- --- 1.Poland to ban Monsanto's GM maize  AFP, 4 April 2012  http://www.france24.com/en/20120404-poland-ban-monsantos- ...

spiked

Cryptogon

  • 5000+ Artists Line Up For a Pirate Bay Promotion
    “I have even gone so far that I have left my major record label and started up my own. I call it: ‘Do It Yourself Bitch Productions.’” —Soso Via: TorrentFreak: Record labels and Hollywood have described The Pirate Bay as one of the biggest threats to their business, ...
  • Britain: Proposed Law Would Require ISPs and D ...
    Will VPNs be outlawed? *chortle* Via: PC Pro: A new bill presented to the House of Lords demands both ISPs and device makers filter adult content. The Online Safety Bill, raised in the Lords by Baroness Howe of Ildicote, asks for ISPs and mobile operators to “provide a service that exclude ...
  • Poland to Ban Monsanto’s GM Maize
    Via: AFP: Poland will impose a complete ban on growing the MON810 genetically modified strain of maize made by US company Monsanto on its territory, Agriculture Minister Marek Sawicki said Wednesday. “The decree is in the works. It introduces a complete ban on the MON810 strain of maize in ...
  • Arizona Passes Sweeping Law Criminalizing Inte ...
    Via: Jonathan Turley: In one of the most sweeping attacks on free speech in America, the Arizona legislature has passed a draconian bill that would criminalize speech on the Internet (“any electronic or digital device”) that prosecutors consider “obscene, lewd or profane language or . . . sugges ...
  • Google Begins Testing Its Augmented-Reality Gl ...
    Here we go… Via: New York Times: If you venture into a coffee shop in the coming months and see someone with a pair of futuristic glasses that look like a prop from “Star Trek,” don’t worry. It’s probably just a Google employee testing the company’s new augmented-reality glasses. On Wednes ...

The Economic Collapse

  • 19 Signs Of Very Serious Economic Trouble On T ...
    Most Americans have no idea how much economic trouble is heading our way.  Most of them just assume that everything will eventually "return to normal" just like it always has before and that those running our economy "know what they are doing" and that we should trust them to do ...
  • Why Is The Heartland Of America Being Ripped T ...
    What in the world is going on in the heartland of America?  Spring has barely even begun and we are seeing communities all over America being ripped to shreds by gigantic tornadoes.  A lot of meteorologists claimed that the nightmarish tornado season of 2011 was an "anomaly", but ...
  • Read This First Before You Decide That Prepper ...
    Do you believe that preppers are a few cards short of a full deck?  Do you assume that anyone that is "preparing for doomsday" does not have their elevator going all the way to the top floor?  Well, you might want to read this first before you make a final decision that all prepp ...
  • The 15 Trillion Dollar Party
    If you knew that you could live in luxury for the rest of your life but that by doing so it would absolutely destroy the future for your children, your grandchildren and your great-grandchildren would you do it?  Well, that is exactly what we are doing as a nation.  Over the past ...
  • Everything Is Going To Be Alright?
    Is the U.S. economy going to be okay?  Well, if the only source you listened to was the mainstream media, you would be left with the distinct impression that the U.S. economy is heading toward a full recovery and that everything is going to be alright.  Unfortunately, that is not ...

Desertification

  • Gearing up to spend billions of dollars on pro ...
    Read at : Google Alert – images of the Africa Drought http://www.abc4.com/news/world/story/3-9-billion-pledged-to-prevent-famines/DILr-6-Z20qA2FaKn60ieg.cspx $3.9 billion pledged to prevent famines NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — International donors say they won’t allow a repeat of last year& ...
  • How much energy does desalinisation take ? (Li ...
    Read at : http://lightbucket.wordpress.com/2008/04/04/large-scale-desalination-is-there-enough-energy-to-do-it/ Large scale desalination: is there enough energy to do it? Very large scale desalination projects may be needed to meet the world’s future fresh water needs. There’s certainly enough s ...
  • The resources available in OECD countries to r ...
    Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95237/AID-POLICY-Humanitarianism-in-a-changing-world AID POLICY: Humanitarianism in a changing world* DUBAI, 4 April 2012 (IRIN) – There is “worrying evidence” that the scale and scope of disasters will increase significantly in coming years and “th ...
  • EMWIS Flash – March 2012
    EMWIS Flash – March 2012 Euro-Mediterranean Information System on the know-how in the Water Sector EMWIS is a program of the Union for the Mediterranean. For further information: www.emwis.net Monthly Flash produced by the EMWIS Technical Unit- OIEAU, CEDEX, SOGESID- … Continue readi ...
  • Less rain, worsening food insecurity (IRIN News)
    Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95247/HORN-OF-AFRICA-Greater-food-insecurity-forecast HORN OF AFRICA: Greater food insecurity forecast NAIROBI, 5 April 2012 (IRIN) – Food insecurity in the eastern Horn of Africa is expected to worsen as a result of less rain than previously foreca ...

The Paper Trail

  • IMPACT: Environmental groups sue EPA over lack ...
    Environmental groups sued the Environmental Protection Agency in federal court Thursday over the EPA’s failure to regulate disposal of toxic coal ash.“Politics and pressure from corporate lobbyists are delaying much needed health protections from coal ash,” Lisa Evans, a lawyer&nb ...
  • Hurt twice: once in war and once in treatment
    Terrible medical care, long delays in service, and soldiers who felt like they were in a “petting zoo”: Those are just some of the issues identified in a Department of Defense Inspector General report issued March 30th on the Wounded Warrior Regiment.Founded in 2007 as a way to help guide wounde ...
  • Russian arms dealer gets 25-year prison sentence
    A judge in New York sentenced arms dealer Victor Bout Thursday to 25 years in prison, permanently ending his run as perhaps the world’s most notorious weapons-dealing kingpin.   Bout was convicted on charges of conspiracy to kill U.S. citizens, conspiracy to kill U.S. employees, conspiracy ...
  • On-call employment: Good for business, bad for ...
    Like generations of college students, Caprice Taylor needed a job to help pay her school and living expenses. For the 24-year-old student of fashion merchandise management at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, sales work at a retail clothing shop seemed like a good option.Tayl ...
  • Delaware lawmakers move to address low grade f ...
    Delaware lawmakers have launched a new legislative effort designed in part to improve the C- grade the state received on lobbying disclosure from the State Integrity Investigation. The First State’s grade ranked it 22nd among the 50 states in that category.  The bill would require lobb ...

backofthebook.ca

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

libcom

  • Wildcat Strikers Get Ready to Fight their Paci ...
    hutabatory.png On April 2, a wildcat strike broke out in a metalworks in Chorzow, Poland. Tomorrow police and private security will try to violently break it. On April 2, a few ...
  • Accusations against housing movements in Rome ...
    451484c888729d5b11e2442b14a00054_L.jpg In September 2009, hundreds of Carabinieri stormed a school in the Magliana area of Rome and arrested dozens of people who were occupying it. The charges made ag ...
  • Successful autoworker strike in Russia
    kaluga.jpg Kaluga Benteler auto workers win strike in battle over wages, collective agreements and union recognition. Workers at a factory in the city of Kaluga, Soutwest of Mos ...
  • Migrant stories from Fortress Italy
    cie-lager.jpg It’s spring, and while most of us are already organising our summer holidays, some people have very different journeys in mind. In Northern Africa, migrants from all over the continent t ...
  • Women workers fight back against austerity in ...
    KZI.mały.jpg In 2012, Poland and Ukraine are going to host Euro2012, the European Football Championship. For that reason hundreds of millions of euro from the national and local budgets have been spen ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • The Bullet Designed to “CLEANSE” t ...
    According to a story from UPI (United Press International) – the 50,000+ “agents” of Homeland Security will have their sidearms loaded with a very lethal projectile: http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Security-Industry/2012/03/13/ATK-producing-ammo-for-Homeland-Security/UPI-91311 ...
  • BBC Interviews Mormon Apostle Jeffrey R. Holland
    One thing is for certain, the candidacy of Willard “Mittens” Romney is causing the critical spotlight to shine on Mormonism like never before. Where is the AMERICAN “Mainstream Media”?  Why does it take the BRITS to come to Utah and ask the LDS “Authorities” s ...
  • Predictive Programming and the Microchip
    What exactly is “Predictive Programming”?   Simply another word for Edomites usurping God – aka TRANSHUMANISM! When you watch this great video, remember that “Artificial Intelligence” via an Edomite SUPER COMPUTER is scheduled to go “on line” and become ...
  • Kane Commits Perjury (Again).
    Once again, I have no choice but to defend myself against the mean-spirited ranting of Ms. Kane and Hypocrite Horowitz. I can ignore their lunacy and false witnessing only so long. In a sworn statement under penalty of perjury to WordPress, Sherri Kane filed a DCMA notice alleging that I, A. Tru ...
  • Kane and Horowitz Continue Round Two – M ...
    Recently, posts to this blog made in June of last year concerning Leonard Horowitz and his girlfriend Sherri Kane have been forcibly removed by our friends at WordPress.  The reason??  Kane falsely declared (under penalty of perjury) that she had “EXCLUSIVE” rights to the recorded vi ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

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

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • Pirates seize Chinese cargo ship off Iranian coast
    A Chinese cargo ship was seized by pirates in the Gulf of Oman off Iran's coast, Chinese state media reported, citing China's embassy in Tehran. read more
  • How to Avoid Disaster With Iran
    Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei always has and always will try to lay the fault for all of Iran’s ills at the West’s doorstep. He should be relieved of this opportunity by ensuring that sanctions don’t deprive the Iranian people of food and medicine. Supplying medical isotopes to I ...
  • شعر بحث‌بر‌انگیز "گونتر گراس"
    همین دو،سه هفته پیش بود که گفت‌وگوی خبرنگار آلمانی با محمود احمدی نژاد در تهران با انتقاد گسترده رسانه‌های آلمانی روبه‌رو شد، چون خبرنگار مزبور به گفته منتقدان به جای پیچاندن طرف گفت‌وگو و طرح سوالات گوناگون در مورد برنامه هسته‌ای و نقض حقوق بشر در ایران، گذاشته بود احمدی نژاد هر چه می‌خواهد ...
  • تمامی کارگران شرکت ذوب آهن غرب کشور بيكار شدند
    ايلنا: تمامى کارگران کارخانه توليد شمش چدن شرکت ذوب آهن غرب کشور (کوره بلند) در نخستين روز كارى سال 91 اخراج شدند. read more
  • Ross Mirkarimi's wife gives her side of story
    In my home country of Venezuela, I am Eliana Lopez. I am a person who is respected both personally and professionally. I am an actress. I am the mother of Theo by good fortune. And I am married to Ross Mirkarimi. But in San Francisco, I am known only as the sheriff's wife. Now that I have been h ...

Most Revolutionary Act

  • How the US Missed Out on Concentrating Solar Power
    US CSP plant in Mojave Desert (This is the second of two blogs about Spain’s growing concentrating solar power industry and it’s potential role in solving that country’s debt crisis.) By the end of 2010, Spain had surpassed the US as the world leader in CSP production, increa ...
  • General Strikes, Public Marijuana Cultivation ...
    Spain's first concentrating solar power plant (This is the first of two blogs about Spain’s growing concentrating solar power industry and it’s potential role in solving that country’s debt crisis.) Spain has been in the news a lot the past month. On March 29th, they had a ...
  • Lone Nut Theory vs Routine Night Pacification
    Since the appearance of a March 27th article by sociology professor James Petras on numerous websites (see The Afghan 17 and the Obama Cover-up), I have been closely following the dispute between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and the Obama administration over the number of shooters in the Mar ...
  • The Real Source of Greek Debt
    Debtocracy: the Greek documentary (This is the last of three posts about the new female head of the IMF, which the business press is promoting as a “rock star of the economic world,” and how we are being deceived about the real cause of the debt crisis in Europe.) The free Greek docu ...
  • The IMF’s Fairy Tale Princess
    IMF chief Christine Lagarde (This is the second of three posts about the new female head of the IMF, which the business press is promoting as a “rock star of the economic world,” and how we are being deceived about the real cause of the debt crisis in Europe) LaGarde isn’t wi ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • 20-Year Veteran to Face Jail Time for Act of C ...
    PRESS ADVISORY 20-Year Veteran to Face Jail Time for Act of Civil Disobedience Disruption of Congressional “Super Committee” could result in 6-month sentence Retired Naval Commander Leah Bolger will appear in court Thursday, April 12th 2012 on charges stemming from her arrest on O ...
  • Worker Ownership for the 99%: The United Steel ...
    For release:     March 26, 2012                                          &nb ...
  • The End of Men
    Excerpted from Stupid White Men ...And Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation by Michael Moore EARLIER THIS YEAR, my wife and I attended the baptism of our new nephew, Anthony. Our teenage daughter had been asked to be his godmother, a job that would require her to be there for little ...
  • Michael Moore Tweets About Rush Limbaugh's "Ap ...
    Rush Limbaugh issues a rare (if ever?) apology: mmflint.me/zvDYzY I didn't know there was anyone on earth who had the power to tell Rush what 2 do. But then there's Bain Capital, financiers of Clear Channel I guess Romney knew that Rush, who made the mistake of saying what most Republicans thi ...
  • Q&A on New Rules for Best Documentary Academy ...
    Thank you for your feedback on our new rules for Academy Award voting and eligibility. We are pleased so many of you have welcomed these changes. Some of you, though, still have some questions. Due to some stories in the media that did not explain the new rules correctly or fully, there is a li ...

Salon

  • The bigger recovery woe
    The 1% is doing great. But the economy won't stabilize until regular consumers have money to start spending again
  • Jobs report: Blip or bummer?
    Today's disappointing jobs report could end up as a campaign turning point for Mitt Romney
  • The Wall Street backlash
    Big banks are throwing even more money at Congress to scale back reform designed to protect your savings
  • A warning bell rings on jobs
    Panic at the White House? The economy created only 120,000 jobs in March, significantly lower than expectations
  • We don’t need new roads
    America's love affair with cars is finally waning. Investing in more highways is bad policy

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • Five Iconic Mountains Threatened By Climate Change
    Glacial melt. Invasive species. Mudslides. Erosion. Mountains around the world are seeing major changes accelerated by a warming planet.
  • Potential Government Funding Opportunities Ava ...
    Manny Oliver, Director of the Small Business Innovation Research & Small Business Technology Transfer Programs for the Department of Energy, discusses the objectives of these programs and how companies can apply for funding. Full transcript:
  • Vermont Yankee is Not Fukushima
    Vermont Yankee is not Fukushima
  • The Future of Algae Biofuels
    The Future of Algae Biofuels Researchers at Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech have assembled the draft genome sequence of a marine algae,  Nannochloropis gaditan, that may be capable of producing the lipid yields necessary for a viable fuel source.
  • Starting to understand extreme weather
    With a new report coming from the IPCC on managing the risks associated with extreme weather and continued weather phenomena attracting media attention, it is more important to attempt to get to grips with the science and statistics behind this rapidly emerging field of research. Work along such ...

EU Times

  • Six youths beat 78-year old in twisted revenge ...
    A 78-year-old white man says he was savagely beaten by a gang of six youths shouting: ‘This is for Trayvon. Kill that white.’ Six youngsters aged between 11 and 17, both white and black, allegedly launched a merciless attack on Dallas Watts in East Toledo, Ohio. The frail pensioner s ...
  • Poland confirms existence of secret CIA prison
    Poland confirms existence of secret CIA prison on their territory. Polish authorities have confirmed the involvement of the Central Intelligence Agency of America (CIA, for its acronym in English) in the launch of a secret detention center on vacant land in Poland. For years, both countries have ...
  • Ferdinand Porsche, legendary 911 sports car cr ...
    Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, the man responsible for creating one of the world’s most iconic cars, has died in Germany. A statement from the German company confirmed Professor Porsche, grandson of company founder Ferdinand Porsche, had passed away in Salzburg. The designer, nicknamed Butzi ...
  • Serbia’s President Tadic Resigns
    Serbian president Boris Tadic has announced his resignation, nine months before the end of his presidential term, paving the way for an early presidential election. Serbia’s parliament speaker is expected to call the vote for May 6, the same day that general elections are already scheduled ...
  • NBC apologizes for editing Zimmerman phone cal ...
    The NBC network has apologized after it was revealed that they doctored a 911 call made by George Zimmerman the night he killed Trayvon Martin that some say depicts him as racist. In apologizing, NBC calls the gaffe a production error. NBC came under fire after it was made clear that the network ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • NBC's 'Today' Show Mocks Keith Olbermann
    On Friday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer confirmed that he had renewed his contract with network, prompting applause from his fellow hosts and this zinger from weatherman Al Roker about Lauer's potential replacement: "Yeah, because it was either you or Keith Olbermann." The entire studio erupt ...
  • Jennifer Lopez And Boyfriend Casper Smart Take ...
    Jennifer Lopez and her boyfriend Casper Smart take her twins to visit the Easter Bunny. INF Daily’s photographers found J-Lo posing for Easter Bunny pictures with her four-year-old twins Max and Emme yesterday in sunny Los Angeles. Lopez keeps the two mostly out of the spotlight so it’s been aw ...
  • Jennifer Lopez ft. PitBull 'Dance Again' Musi ...
    Jennifer Lopez  ft. PitBull 'Dance Again' Music Video Premiere! Take a look at Jennifer Lopez's new music video for her song 'Dance Again' ft Pitbull , the American Idol judge premiered the music video during the show last night. The video also features Jennifer's current boyfriend dancer Casp ...
  • The Odds Are Not In Favor Of Gary Ross Returni ...
    While it did allow us to make that truly excellent title joke, we are not pleased with this news. While today we got the good news that Fox and Lionsgate worked out a filming schedule under which Jennifer Lawrence will be allowed to kick mutant/futuristic butt in both the X-Men: First Class seq ...
  • AMANDA BYNES In Full Make Up In Latest Mug Sho ...
    AMANDA BYNES appeared to be in full make up in her latest mug shot this morning. Check it out: Amanda Bynes looked rather normal (and sober) in her latest mug shot taken shortly before star news has learned that she was arrested and put behind bars in the West Hollywood Sheriff’s Station  for ...

Groklaw

  • Exclusive: Yahoos Chief Product Officer Blake ...
    In addition, Yahoo's new CEO Scott Thompson has been contemplating selling off large parts of the company's advertising technology platforms, as well as its search business, also now under Irving. Irving had largely opposed the strategy that Thompson has been aiming toward, said sources, and al ...
  • Shutting down spammers
    One challenge in battling spam is bad actors who build tools designed to distribute spam on Twitter (and the web) by making it easier for other spammers to engage in this annoying and potentially malicious activity. This morning, we filed suit in federal court in San Francisco against five of t ...
  • If Oracle wins its Android suit, everyone loses
    If Oracle wins, the decision could set a legal precedent that legitimizes controlling behaviors by platform vendors -- and introduces a complex and unwelcome legalism into software development. Header files and function prototypes would need copyright statements and corresponding copyright licen ...
  • Facebook ID theft threat impacts all iPhones, ...
    Although Facebook says that a vulnerability allowing someone to access another user's account only impacts jailbroken iPhones, two reports say that's not the case. U.K. app developer Gareth Wright and The Next Web have separately confirmed that the issue, which originates from Facebook's iPhone ...
  • Constitutional Law Class
    [PJ: This video will give you a background on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (colloquially termed Obamacare) case, in that it explains what courts in the past have decided regarding the commmerce clause. It doesn't necessarily predict what the US Supreme Court will do, however. ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • TSA: A cup of coffee please and hold the mayo!
    Fun During Coffee Break, 1932. Martin Munkacsi, American. (Metropolitan Museum of Art © Joan Munkacsi, courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery)It looks like it was kind of a slow week for the TSA during the period between March 23rd and 29th, 2012: Firearms: 11: 5 loaded; 6 unloaded 0 artfully conceal ...
  • How will the lights stay on if coal plants shu ...
    United Mine Workers of America president blasts new EPA coal regulations saying ”The Navy SEALs shot Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan and [EPA Administrator] Lisa Jackson shot us in Washington.”Lawyers, Guns and Money says coal pollution kills predominantly working class people so WTF is ...
  • Water wars between countries possible, UK Ener ...
    “Countries have not tended to go to war over water, but I have a fear for the world that climate instability drives political instability The pressure of that makes conflict more likely,” he said.Climate change accelerates the instability as does population growth. One recurring wate ...
  • New Orleans police get stiff sentences in Katr ...
    Four alleged humans and former NOPD officers were sentenced to decades in prison for killing unarmed civilians in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Robert Faulcon got 65 years for shotgunning a man in the back while Kenneth Bowen got 40 years for spraying AK-47 fire at cowering civilians. A fi ...
  • California water wars: Imperial Valley water r ...
    Imperial Dam (Credit: commons.wikimedia.org)The Imperial Valley gets 20% of *all* the water from the Colorado River – more than Nevada and Colorado combined – and produces substantial amounts of the country’s winter vegetables.If you’re wondering why the Imperial Valley gets so much water ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

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

frogblog

  • An open letter to Ministers about the Chch hou ...
    I write to you to enquire what measures you will take to combat this growing problem to ensure that people do not have to resort to sleeping in their cars, moving house numerous times, or live in cramped and substandard housing. These are just a few examples of the symptoms of a much wider probl ...
  • Lobbying Disclosure Bill pulled from the ballot
    I'm very excited to report that my first Member's Bill has been drawn from the parliamentary ballot! I inherited the Lobbyist Disclosure Bill from former Green MP Sue Kedgley when she retired, and I'm thrilled that I'll get a chance to continue Sue's great work on transparency and open governmen ...
  • How to crash the budget
    The fiscal neutrality or otherwise of the 2010 tax changes is important because it goes to the heart of the economic competence of National.  They claimed the cut to income tax for upper income earners plus the cut the company tax rate was balanced by the increase in GST and other tax changes. T ...
  • Where does John Banks stand on SkyCity dirty deal?
    Here’s how the votes look likely to stack up on John Key’s dirty deal under which SkyCity would get a relaxation of casino gambling laws and an increase in their pokie machine numbers in return for building a new convention centre in Auckland. For: National + United Future = 60 Against: Greens + ...
  • Please make a submission for the sake of our w ...
    Last week, the Government’s Social Security (Youth Support and Work Focus) Amendment Bill received a First Reading in Parliament and was referred for submissions to the Social Services Select Committee.  This Bill is the first of two proposed to implement the Welfare Working Group’s recommendati ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • The Heart Disease Scam That Generates Billions ...
    By Dr. Mercola More than half a million Americans received an angioplasty in 2007 (the most recent year for which data is available).i This invasive procedure involves inflating a thin balloon in a narrowed artery to crush deposits; a stent (a wire mesh tube) is often then left behind to kee ...
  • The Vitamin You Need for a Sharp Brain as You ...
    By Dr. Mercola Vitamin B12, or rather a lack thereof, has been called the "canary in the coalmine" for your future brain health, and recent research has bolstered the importance of this vitamin in keeping your mind sharp as you age. According to the latest research, people with high levels ...
  • Disease Outbreaks Tied to Imported Foods Incre ...
    By Dr. Mercola The more steps your food goes through before it reaches your plate, the greater your chances of contamination becomes. If you are able to get your food locally, directly from the field or after harvest, such as directly from a farmer or farmer's market, you knock out numerous ...
  • Could this Simple Vitamin Help Treat Psychotic ...
    By Dr. Mercola A growing trend of drug misuse is alarming medical experts, policymakers, and patient advocates. In recent years, there has been a massive increase in off-label use of a class of drugs called "atypical antipsychotics." These drugs, which include Seroquel, Zyprexa, Risperdal ...
  • The Dramatic New Rule Change for Genetically E ...
    By Dr. Mercola Under new U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) rules, Monsanto and other biotech companies that create genetically modified (GM) crops will get speedier regulatory reviews of their genetically engineered food products. The new rules will cut the time needed to approve biotec ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Peru passes indigenous rights law without cons ...
    The new law has been pushed since the tragic incidents of the Bagua protests in northern Peru © Marijke Deleu and Thomas Quirynen This week Peru has published the greatly anticipated Prior Consultation Law promised by Ollanta Humala at the beginning of his presidency last year. The law ai ...
  • 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

  • The government's olive branch on tuition fees
    The provincial government has made a reasonable concession in the confrontation with university and college students who have been boycotting classes into a seventh week to protest an increase in tuition fees.
  • The auditor-general takes on the F-35 purchase
    When Michael Ferguson was named Canada's new auditor general by the Conservative government late last year, some questioned whether he would be a watchdog or a lapdog.
  • Toward a better system of admitting immigrants
    In the end, the federal government solved the problem of Canada's eight-year-long, 284,000-applicant immigration backlog the simplest way possible: it erased it
  • Toward a better system of admitting immigrants
    Ottawa has cancelled applications that predated Feb. 27, 2008, telling applicants they are welcome to apply again and promising to refund the collective $130 million in fees they paid to apply under the Federal Skilled Worker Program.
  • Reward outweighs risk in Myanmar's truncated vote
    It would be easy to underestimate the baby step toward democracy that Myanmar took when the ruling military government allowed voting to take place for barely 10 per cent of the country's 664 parliamentary seats.

Food World Order

  • Huge Rooftop Farm Is Set for Brooklyn
    from nytimes.com: Brooklyn is fast becoming the borough of farms. On Thursday, Bright Farms, a private company that develops greenhouses, announced plans to create a sprawling greenhouse on a roof in Sunset Park that is expected to yield a million pounds of produce a year — without using any dir ...
  • Monsanto Threatens to Sue Vermont if Legislato ...
    from alternet.org: The world’s most hated corporation is at it again, this time in Vermont. Despite overwhelming public support and support from a clear majority of Vermont’s Agriculture Committee, Vermont legislators are dragging their feet on a proposed GMO labeling bill. Why? Because Monsant ...
  • #BingeAndPurge: Trials, Shares, Raids and more
    FDA rejects call to ban BPA from food packaging* FDA to Consumers: We're Still Thinking About It; Sorry You're Still Eating It* BASF gives up on pushing GMOs in Europe, moves operations to US where 'Frankenfoods' are not labeled* Starbucks Admits Strawberry Drinks Colored with Crushed P ...
  • In cancer science, many "discoveries" don't ho ...
    from reuters.com: A former researcher at Amgen Inc has found that many basic studies on cancer -- a high proportion of them from university labs -- are unreliable, with grim consequences for producing new medicines in the future.  During a decade as head of global cancer research at Amgen, ...
  • Medical madness: Researchers develop genetical ...
    from naturalnews.com: Just as predicted, the scientific community's genetic engineering fetish is quickly degenerating into a no-holds-barred, genetic-tampering freak show of dastardly proportions. According to the Houston Chronicle, researchers at Texas A&M University (A&M) have unveile ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • 19 Signs Of Very Serious Economic Trouble On T ...
    Most Americans have no idea how much economic trouble is heading our way.  Most of them just assume that everything will eventually "return to normal" just like it always has before and that those running our economy "know what they are doing" and that we should trust them to do ...
  • Why Is The Heartland Of America Being Ripped T ...
    What in the world is going on in the heartland of America?  Spring has barely even begun and we are seeing communities all over America being ripped to shreds by gigantic tornadoes.  A lot of meteorologists claimed that the nightmarish tornado season of 2011 was an "anomaly", but ...
  • Read This First Before You Decide That Prepper ...
    Do you believe that preppers are a few cards short of a full deck?  Do you assume that anyone that is "preparing for doomsday" does not have their elevator going all the way to the top floor?  Well, you might want to read this first before you make a final decision that all prepp ...
  • The 15 Trillion Dollar Party
    If you knew that you could live in luxury for the rest of your life but that by doing so it would absolutely destroy the future for your children, your grandchildren and your great-grandchildren would you do it?  Well, that is exactly what we are doing as a nation.  Over the past ...
  • Everything Is Going To Be Alright?
    Is the U.S. economy going to be okay?  Well, if the only source you listened to was the mainstream media, you would be left with the distinct impression that the U.S. economy is heading toward a full recovery and that everything is going to be alright.  Unfortunately, that is not ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • 250,000
    According to our stats, this morning, we hit the milestone of having delivered 250,000 The Talking Clock page views. We're not the biggest blog and some of the REALLY big blogs probably serve up that many in a month. For us, though, 250,000 is mindblowing. Yet we do not mention it in th ...
  • Quote of the Day: 5th April 2012
    "I believe that young people without a future will, one day, take up arms and - at Syntagma Square - will hang the national traitors..." - The 77 year old pensioner named as Dimitris Christoulas who tragically took his own life in Greece yesterday rather than face the prospect of "scrounging ...
  • Diana: Authoritative research author says Blai ...
    We've got the press release in for the latest book in the series by Australian researcher John Morgan whose minute examination of the research into the killing of Diana, Princess of Wales led Mike Mansfield QC to declare that the chronicles were "the Magnum Opus" into those events in 1997. We ...
  • Dave in drag: ZaNuTories have PM now strutting ...
    So, the country is up in arms yet again today. This time, it is something even more devastating than the humble Cornish pasty which has everyone animated. When we say 'everyone', a glance around corporate media comment pages and reactions on social media suggest that the Coalition's reboot of ...
  • Sunday Paper Review: 1st April 2012
    It may be 'April Fool's Day' but we'll try to keep away from spaghetti trees and other such tomfoolery and, instead, concentrate solely on the political fools who are grabbing this Sunday's news headlines. The Sunday Telegraph has seen a draft report by the European Scrutiny Committee which i ...

Facing South

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

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

Case About Bird Flu

  • Is Günter Grass really an anti-Semite for crit ...
    *German novelist Günter Grass smeared as anti Semite for pointing out the Israeli government is a risk to world peace by Bild and Die Welt *Europeans could be face compulsory conscription in the event of the EU declaring war * Only Irish are exempt from little-known f0rced conscription measure c ...
  • Rothschilds to unite English and French bank b ...
    The Rothschild family plans to secure “long-term control” over its international banking empire by merging its French and British assets into a single entity,” writes James Boxell in the FT today. “The historic reorganisation will reunite the shareholdings of the French and English s ...
  • Chile stops use of mercury in vaccines: WHO to ...
    Check out the blog of Ulla Danielsen, journalist, DK-Copenhagen  http://nbjour.wordpress.com/2012/04/04/breaking-news-chile-stops-use-of-mercury-in-vaccines/  Chile Stops Use of Mercury in Vaccines Decision Comes as WHO Meets to Discuss Global Treaty on Mercury Use WASHINGTON, April 3, 2012 /PRN ...
  • MAINSTRAM MEDIA REPORTS SWINE FLU JAB LINKED T ...
    The mainstream media has reported on a Finnish study showing that cases of  mnarcolpesy shot up 17 times among children who took the swine flu vaccine. There are reports in The Telegraph, The Independent, The Irish Independent and the Daily Mail. Dr Rebecca Carley predicted just such an autoimmu ...
  • Huge increase in autism in the USA linked to v ...
      PUBLISHED: 19:45 GMT, 29 March 2012 | UPDATED: 09:00 GMT, 30 March 2012 Daily Mail Autism cases appear to be on the rise again in the United States, but experts say the country’s highest ever rate could be a result of wider screening and the disorder’s expanding definition. Th ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • DAVID WILCOCK with DRAKE Interview 29March2012 ...
    Transcript available at: http://divinecosmos.com/start-here/davids-blog/1043-massarrests
  • Spying on the Spies
    by Justin Raimondo, April 04, 2012 Stewart Nozette, a brilliant scientist whose work was instrumental in advancing the US space program, was convicted last year of attempting to spy on behalf of Israel, and this month was sentenced to 13 years in prison and a substantial fine. Under investigatio ...
  • Hammers and Nails and Avatars, Oh My
    By Les Visible In a time of pervasive materialism, confinement is the order of the day. The senses are bound by sense objects and ‘strange lusts’ are everywhere to be seen. Once it gets totally out of hand, and it always does, one avatar or another has to step in and restore balance. ...
  • The Kings of the Highlife and the Cannibal Pigs
    By Les Visible The paper of false record; The New York Swines, may have broken a record for the number of alleged, inferred and suspected ofs, with their latest caper off into the realm of fantasy, as a prelude to bloodshed (check out the comments, people are waking up). Meanwhile, the governmen ...
  • The philosophy of freedom: Much more than dema ...
    by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger (NaturalNews) Do you agree with this statement? Government has no business telling us what to drink, what to eat, what kind of medicine we should take, what to smoke, what to farm, or how to run our private lives. These are all elements of individual liberty or w ...

Veterans Today

  • 10.3 Percent Unemployment Among Younger Vets; ...
    On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released Veteran unemployment data for the month of March.
  • U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for ...
    AGVIQ, L.L.C.*, Anchorage, Alaska, is being awarded a maximum amount $100,000,000 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, cost-plus-award-fee contract for environmental remediation services for projects at various locations within the Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Atlantic area ...
  • Victor Bout Must Be Silenced!
    Victor Bout, the "Lord of War," has been sentenced to 25 years in prison, supposedly for trying to sell 2 FBI agents "missiles" while he was hiding out in Bangkok. The same FBI agents were there to interview Dimitri Khalezov, VT staffer who they would also love to silence. The following video ...
  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News April ...
    Improving the health and health care of women Veterans is a high priority within the Department of Veterans Affairs, said a panel of leading researchers on March 27.
  • I do not think we need more human beings on th ...
    A challenging interview with controversial philosopher and bio-ethicist Peter Singer about morality, religion, abortion and euthanasia

electric politics

  • Labor History, Revised
    It isn't every day that someone has a second look at enshrined history and finds it upside down. Then, to tell people what's wrong is even more remarkable. It takes a combination of (possibly naïve) philosophical idealism, hearty persistence and guts. Dr. Timothy Messer-Kruse reexamined the ...
  • The Future Is Not What It Used To Be
    Listening to Ed Asner I'm reminded of Michael Polanyi's observation (to paraphrase) that we believe more than we can prove and know more than we can say. Polanyi also talked about "growing points" in science, which I hope has an analogue in a free society where personal connections become more i ...
  • The NUMEC Affair
    No charges were ever filed. Nothing was ever proved. But the FBI tried, over the course of several criminal investigations, to ascertain whether, in fact, certain suspect individuals had diverted hundreds of pounds of highly enriched uranium from a plant in Pennsylvania to Israel, for use in mak ...
  • Washington's Warlords
    When it comes to its spending priorities America seems congenitally unable to focus on reality. Obfuscation being more highly prized than clarity. Nevertheless, we should recognize that as a percentage of GDP this country spends four to five times the money for military purposes as do other indu ...
  • The Taiping Civil War
    In the middle of the 19th century a civil war in China killed at least twenty million people. The war totally changed the course of Chinese history, of Asian history and, indeed, of world history. Just think: if the Taipings had won and followed through with their modernization program, and Chin ...

PR News

  • Campaign urges doctors, consumers to question ...
    WASHINGTON: Nine national medical groups have teamed with GYMR Public Relations to launch the "Choosing Wisely" campaign, which encourages consumers and physicians to have conversations about whether procedures are truly necessary.
  • Customer-contact platform provider Aspect hire ...
    CHICAGO: Aspect, a customer-contact software maker, has hired Ogilvy PR Worldwide as its AOR for North America. The company handled most PR and communications in-house for the past five years.
  • Car brands tell comeback, innovation stories a ...
    Automakers are taking advantage of the New York Auto Show as a platform for high-profile vehicle launches and redesigns, as well as to build on the positive narrative of the recovering automotive industry.
  • Emirates launches global brand awareness initi ...
    DUBAI: International airline Emirates has kicked off its first integrated campaign to increase brand awareness around the world and change the company's image to a lifestyle brand.
  • Former AlixPartners CMO starts own firm
    NEW YORK: AlixPartners CMO Peter Cosco has left the consulting firm to start his own outsourcing agency called 4Forces Group, specializing in business development and marketing services.

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • NATO Summit In Chicago: The Dead Don’t Dine
    Submitted to Crain’s Chicago Business In his feature “NATO blitz takes a toll on National Restaurant Show“ reporter Greg Hinz was speaking to (and of) the city and not the world, but the coupling of the acronym NATO and the word blitz has more than a metaphorical significance f ...
  • U.S. Missile Field In Gulf: Russian MP Warns O ...
    RT April 6, 2012 US missile defense plans may signal strike on Iran, Russia warns Robert Bridge A unified missile defense system comprising the United States and six Arab states is a signal that a military strike on Iran could be on the horizon, says the Chairman of the State Duma’s Intern ...
  • U.S. Missile Field In Gulf: Russian MP Warns O ...
    RT April 6, 2012 US missile defense plans may signal strike on Iran, Russia warns Robert Bridge A unified missile defense system comprising the United States and six Arab states is a signal that a military strike on Iran could be on the horizon, says the Chairman of the State Duma’s Intern ...
  • Washington Post Calls For NATO Intervention In ...
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/nato-nations-must-help-restore-order-in-mali/2012/04/05/gIQAFK1LyS_story.html The Washington Post April 5, 2012 The Post’s View NATO nations must help restore order in Mali By Editorial Board Excerpt: France, which led the NATO intervention in Libya and emp ...
  • Washington Post Calls For NATO Intervention In ...
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/nato-nations-must-help-restore-order-in-mali/2012/04/05/gIQAFK1LyS_story.html The Washington Post April 5, 2012 The Post’s View NATO nations must help restore order in Mali By Editorial Board Excerpt: France, which led the NATO intervention in Libya and emp ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • Rendered Defenseless: International Treaty Cou ...
    The Intel Hub By Brent Daggett April 6, 2012 Contributed by End the Lie “None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free,” said 18 to 19th century German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Since September 11, 2001, our nation has continued to witness the erosion of our ...
  • Collpase Then Crackdown …
    Charlie McGrath April 6, 2012
  • ALERT: DHS Buys Up Millions of Rounds of .40 C ...
    The Intel Hub News Brief | In the last three years numerous domestic US government agencies (with Homeland Security being the main agency) have ordered a total of over 750 million rounds of .40 caliber ammunition. On top of that they have ordered an unknown number of bullet resistant check ...
  • Navy F 18 Reportedly Crashes Into Apartment Bu ...
    The Intel Hub | A Navy F18 has apparently crashed into multiple apartment buildings in Virginia Beach, Virginia. We will keep you updated on any findings.
  • Feds Attempt to Install Embedded Monitor In Sh ...
    The Intel Hub | The Obama Department of Justice is currently carrying out a large scale investigation into what they have called racial profiling throughout Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio's office. These so far unproven charges come as Arpaio continues his groundbreaking cold case posse invest ...

FRS

  • Palestinian officials want UN help for ‘ ...
    Tuesday 03 April 2012 by Tom Mellen Palestinian officials appealed to the international community on Tuesday to press the Israeli government to end its draconian administrative detention policy. Addressing the first day of a two-day UN meeting in Geneva on “The question of Palestinian poli ...
  • India: “The jails are full of Soni Sori ...
    The Hindu, April 3, 2012 by Divya Trivedi [SISTERHOOD: Women narrate their stories. Photo: Divya Trivedi] Women prisoners reveal the shocking conditions of their confinement –custodial violence, which has no sanction under law, is a part and parcel of the system Following a minor altercati ...
  • India: Hikaka abductors put out April 5 deadline
    Wednesday, 04 April 2012 00:38 PNS | BHUBANESWAR The Odisha Government on Tuesday was faced with a pincer attack when the Andhra-Odisha border Maoists who abducted Laxmipur MLA Jhina Hikaka on March 24 issued a video tape declaring April 5 as deadline for release of the Chasi Mulia Adivasi ...
  • US: “At 11th Hour, Georgia Passes &#821 ...
    By Lauren Barbato, Ms.Magazine Blog, March 31, 2012 http://msmagazine.com/blog/blog/2012/03/31/at-11th-hour-georgia-passes-women-as-livestock-bill/ 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- ...
  • India: “Third Maoist letter to Odisha C ...
    Odisha Diary, Tuesday, April 03, 2012 Report by Manoranjan Routray; Koraput : The media in Koraput today received a third letter from the CPI (Maoist) Party regarding release of kidnapped BJD MLA Jhina Hikaka. The letter, addressed to media persons, lashes out at the Naveen Patnaik Government fo ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

  • Candidates Look to Super Tuesday
    A look at the polls for the Republican nomination, and their meaning, one day before super TuesdayContributor: Peter Flom Published: Mar 05, 2012
  • Romney Urged President Obama to Adopt RomneyCa ...
    A 2009 Op-Ed Contradicts Republican Presidential Candidate Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's Campaign Claim That His Heath Care Reform Law Was Not The Basis For President Barack Obama's Controversial 2010 Health Care LawContributor: Steven Holmes Published: Mar 05, 2012
  • Creationist Rick Santorum's Speech Against Env ...
    Rick Santorum has gained a jump in the polls in Ohio this week, yet there are still people scratching their heads and wondering why. Aside from denying solidly proven science about the environment, he appealed to the highly religious in pious Ohio.Contributor: JD Stockman Published: Feb 21, 2012
  • Iran Halts Oil Sales to British and French Com ...
    Iran is trading blows with the United States and its western allies over its nuclear program.Contributor: John Coon Published: Feb 20, 2012
  • Breakthrough in Early Diagnosis of Autism
    It may be possible to diagnose autism in infants as young as 6 months old, well before most begin to display signs of the disorder. A recent study found differences in the way neural pathways in the brain develop in autistic infants.Contributor: Kim Jacobs Walker Published: Feb 20, 2012

Popsci - Science

  • Images of the Week, April 2-6, 2012
  • The Most Amazing Images of the Week, April 2-6 ...
    From the amazing Tungurahua volcano spewing molten rock and ash to a stunning concept motorcycle to a cargo ship smashing into the rocky beach of Wales, this week's roundup of the most amazing science and tech images is an excellent one (though we couldn't find any science-and-Passover imagery, ...
  • MIT Predicts That World Economy Will Collapse ...
    Forty years after its initial publication, a study called The Limits to Growth is looking depressingly prescient. Commissioned by an international think tank called the Club of Rome, the 1972 report found that if civilization continued on its path toward increasing consumption, the global econom ...
  • How It Works: The First Disposable, USB-Powere ...
    Nanopore technology that lets your computer read your chromosomes The first human genome sequence took 13 years and cost $3 billion — now, less than a decade later, a new company promises to sequence a full genome in 15 minutes for a song. If this exponential increase in efficiency and drop in ...
  • Q&A: The Surprising Phenomenon of Exercise-Ind ...
    A first-person coregasm testimonial According to a new study by sex researchers at the Indiana University, women having orgasms during exercise is a real phenomenon. As far as the researchers know, this is the first study that deals directly with exercise-induced orgasms (EIO), known colloquiall ...

Veterans Today

  • 10.3 Percent Unemployment Among Younger Vets; ...
    On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released Veteran unemployment data for the month of March.
  • U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for ...
    AGVIQ, L.L.C.*, Anchorage, Alaska, is being awarded a maximum amount $100,000,000 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, cost-plus-award-fee contract for environmental remediation services for projects at various locations within the Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Atlantic area ...
  • Victor Bout Must Be Silenced!
    Victor Bout, the "Lord of War," has been sentenced to 25 years in prison, supposedly for trying to sell 2 FBI agents "missiles" while he was hiding out in Bangkok. The same FBI agents were there to interview Dimitri Khalezov, VT staffer who they would also love to silence. The following video ...
  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News April ...
    Improving the health and health care of women Veterans is a high priority within the Department of Veterans Affairs, said a panel of leading researchers on March 27.
  • I do not think we need more human beings on th ...
    A challenging interview with controversial philosopher and bio-ethicist Peter Singer about morality, religion, abortion and euthanasia

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

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

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Palace Coup? World Bank Vets Pick Okonjo-Iweala
    News is becoming sparser as most of the Christian world slows for the Easter holidays. However, in the run-up to the selection of the next World Bank president which should happen in a fortnight or so, we've had ringing endorsements of Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. (See a previo ...
  • A Parisian in America: Comic Stylings of IMF's ...
    This will be short and unsweet as it demonstrates that you do not have to go very far to observe the mind-boggling ludicrousness of the world economy. My homepage ever since I hopped into cyberspace in 1994, Yahoo! News, is carrying an Agence-France Presse clipping about how IMF Managing Directo ...
  • Got Fission? Debating Nukes 4 Development
    Our colleagues over at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists sent me a notice about a timely new feature of theirs concerning LDCs considering the adoption of nuclear power (the Atomic Scientists maintain the well-known Doomsday Clock). The impetus for doing so should be familiar to everyone: in ...
  • Money Talks? Bahrain GP Still On (Fortnight to Go)
    Some have hunger games; Formula One has, well, anger races.  There has been a lot in the news about how the Formula One circus will not be disrupted this year alike how last year's Bahrain Grand Prix was postponed then finally cancelled due to the events of the so-called Arab Spring. Durin ...
  • Globocop No More: United States After Unipolarity
    LSE IDEAS has been churning out special reports at such a furious pace that I almost forgot to mention this one concerning The United States After Unipolarity. The title pretty much sums up what the contributions here say, although the various contributors do question the extent to which the--pa ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • 19 Signs Of Very Serious Economic Trouble On T ...
    Most Americans have no idea how much economic trouble is heading our way.  Most of them just assume that everything will eventually "return to normal" just like it always has before and that those running our economy "know what they are doing" and that we should trust them to do ...
  • Why Is The Heartland Of America Being Ripped T ...
    What in the world is going on in the heartland of America?  Spring has barely even begun and we are seeing communities all over America being ripped to shreds by gigantic tornadoes.  A lot of meteorologists claimed that the nightmarish tornado season of 2011 was an "anomaly", but ...
  • Read This First Before You Decide That Prepper ...
    Do you believe that preppers are a few cards short of a full deck?  Do you assume that anyone that is "preparing for doomsday" does not have their elevator going all the way to the top floor?  Well, you might want to read this first before you make a final decision that all prepp ...
  • The 15 Trillion Dollar Party
    If you knew that you could live in luxury for the rest of your life but that by doing so it would absolutely destroy the future for your children, your grandchildren and your great-grandchildren would you do it?  Well, that is exactly what we are doing as a nation.  Over the past ...
  • Everything Is Going To Be Alright?
    Is the U.S. economy going to be okay?  Well, if the only source you listened to was the mainstream media, you would be left with the distinct impression that the U.S. economy is heading toward a full recovery and that everything is going to be alright.  Unfortunately, that is not ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • Six youths beat 78-year old in twisted revenge ...
    A 78-year-old white man says he was savagely beaten by a gang of six youths shouting: ‘This is for Trayvon. Kill that white.’ Six youngsters aged between 11 and 17, both white and black, allegedly launched a merciless attack on Dallas Watts in East Toledo, Ohio. The frail pensioner s ...
  • Poland confirms existence of secret CIA prison
    Poland confirms existence of secret CIA prison on their territory. Polish authorities have confirmed the involvement of the Central Intelligence Agency of America (CIA, for its acronym in English) in the launch of a secret detention center on vacant land in Poland. For years, both countries have ...
  • Ferdinand Porsche, legendary 911 sports car cr ...
    Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, the man responsible for creating one of the world’s most iconic cars, has died in Germany. A statement from the German company confirmed Professor Porsche, grandson of company founder Ferdinand Porsche, had passed away in Salzburg. The designer, nicknamed Butzi ...
  • Serbia’s President Tadic Resigns
    Serbian president Boris Tadic has announced his resignation, nine months before the end of his presidential term, paving the way for an early presidential election. Serbia’s parliament speaker is expected to call the vote for May 6, the same day that general elections are already scheduled ...
  • NBC apologizes for editing Zimmerman phone cal ...
    The NBC network has apologized after it was revealed that they doctored a 911 call made by George Zimmerman the night he killed Trayvon Martin that some say depicts him as racist. In apologizing, NBC calls the gaffe a production error. NBC came under fire after it was made clear that the network ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

  • 2012-04-05 #WikiLeaks News Update: Collateral ...
    Tweet WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 489 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 486 days. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 683 days. WikiLeaks News: Today marks the two-year anniversary of WikiLeaks' release of "Col ...
  • 2012-04-03 The #WikiLeaks financial blockade a ...
    TweetAuthored by @Nicsha If you spend five minutes watching commercial television or flicking through a mainstream magazine, you would think spending money is not only our birthright, but a move that is encouraged and welcomed. We can buy almost anything from anywhere. We have the freedom to inv ...
  • 2012-04-02 Australian Government's escalating ...
    TweetAfter a public forum on WikiLeaks, Australian Greens Senator Scott Ludlam made the following comment: The Australian Government has done the absolute bare minimum above stuff-all to help this Australian citizen in trouble. […] They've attempted to block and delay Freedom of Information requ ...
  • From Social Media to Moral Awakening; Bradley ...
    TweetOriginal picture by Nikhil Kirsh, Creative Rendering by idlewild606 James Madison once said, "Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives". Madison recognized that accurate knowledge is es ...
  • 2012-03-31 #WikiLeaks News Update & Upcoming E ...
    Tweet WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 483 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 480 days. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 677 days. WikiLeaks News: The Australian Government recently renewed its attacks against Wik ...

U N News

  • UN rights chief urges Barbados to address dome ...
    The United Nations human rights chief today urged Barbados to adopt more effective legislation measures to combat discrimination and domestic and sexual violence in the country, adding that an attitudinal change is needed in society as a whole to tackle these issues.
  • UN relief chief welcomes Brazil's contribution ...
    The United Nations humanitarian affairs chief yesterday pledged support for Brazil's humanitarian work around the world, highlighting the country's contributions in the areas of disaster-risk prevention and food security.
  • Ban and head of South American bloc discuss re ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met yesterday with the head of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), María Emma Mejía Vélez, in discussions touching on cooperation between the United Nations and regional organizations, the issue of the Falkland Islands (Malvinas) and sustainable development.
  • At UN conference, Latin American countries rea ...
    Latin American and Caribbean countries reaffirmed their commitment to eradicate hunger during a United Nations conference on food and agriculture in Buenos Aires, Argentina, over the weekend.
  • Recent death of gay man highlights need for an ...
    The United Nations human rights office today urged the Government of Chile to pass a law against discrimination, including on grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity, following the recent killing of a young gay man in the capital, Santiago.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Muslim Brotherhood - $1.5 Billion... American ...
      Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) - April 5 - "The White House defended the decision to release USD 1.5 billion in foreign aid to Egypt, on Thursday, following meetings between U.S. officials and lawmakers and representatives of the Muslim Brotherhood in Washington.” read more
  • “Obama Is Dangerously Close to Totalitarianism ...
      Constitutional expert Judge Andrew Napolitano says he fears that the president is skirting “dangerously close to totalitarianism” with his recent questioning of the authority of the Supreme Court to conduct a review of ObamaCare. ~ S. Watson - Videos read more
  • When Will America Collapse?... Today's Bad New ...
      Double dip recessions, falling home prices, mortgage foreclosures, high unemployment, tight oil supply and rising sovereign debt are today’s news. What does tomorrow hold for us? By examining today’s news we can look at one possible scenario and... the future isn’t pretty... mor ...
  • A Dictator In The Making?... Will America Suff ...
      Obama's behavior of bullying Congress and the Supreme Court as of late... it denotes his true colors a Tyrannical African Tin Horn Dictator, a Dictator in the making, a monster extraordinaire in the venue of... read more
  • 'The Hunger Games'... A Glimpse at the New Wo ...
      The hit movie “The Hunger Games” takes place in a dystopian future where the poor and wretched masses live under the high tech tyranny of a wealthy elite. Is the movie depicting the kind of society the elite is trying to establish for the New World Order? We’ll look at characteristic ...

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • My God, it’s full of stars!
    Astronomers have today (3/27/2012) released a picture containing more than one billion stars in our Milky Way galaxy. The full image contains 150 billion pixels and combines data from two near-infrared telescopes – the UK Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) in Hawaii and the VISTA telescope in Chile &#82 ...
  • How To Make Self Rising Flour
    Dry yeast has a shelf life of about 4 months after it is opened and if kept refrigerated. In a SHTF world, without refrigeration, it won’t be so simple to make bread without being able to reach into the fridge to get some of that fresh active yeast to perform it’s magic of making the ...
  • Emergency Food 101
    Once in awhile, it’s worth repeating the basics. So, here’s some Emergency Food 101. The first thing a newbie prepper does is to start stocking up on extra food. This, after all, is the first building block of the prepper’s castle. It is also the easiest thing to do, while time ...
  • Survival Skills Cross Training Is Essential
    I don’t think I can stress often enough how important it is to learn what you don’t know how to do. I am particularly thinking of the things you don’t know how to do that you may need to know in a SHTF scenario. For example, it’s kind of similar to the way Coach Bill [...]
  • A few EMP reader questions
    Reader Questions: (regarding an EMP) A well motor..185 feet down..survive A EMP attack? …..(would have Have electricity) Inside Old refrigerator ..good for EMP protection? Extension cords..rubber..safe EMP? I have heard that any early model (with carburetor) vehicle will be ok but will it ...

Fast Company

  • Leadership Lessons From YouSendIt's Founding T ...
    One of YouSendIt's three founders was fired. Another pleaded guilty to a federal charge involving a cyberattack he launched on YouSendIt. Somehow, third cofounder Ranjith Kumaran walked away from the disaster with his company intact and a new set of team-building tenets. Startups and investors c ...
  • MyEnergy CEO Ben Bixby's Eureka Moment Literal ...
    The 29-year-old was carving out a career in international political affairs before he discovered a better use for his--and the world's--energy.In 2007, Ben Bixby cofounded MyEnergy with the belief that--with the right tools and rewards--he could make American consumers not only care about conser ...
  • How IBM's Big Data Guy Found A Career In Chaos
    Charlie Schick, 46, is IBM's Worldwide Director of Marketing, Big Data, Health Care, and Life Sciences, taps skills as a molecular biologist, a tech journalist, a marketer, and more. As a marketing director in IBM's Big Data group, Charlie Schick helps scientists and health care providers use co ...
  • Why RIM Lost Its Crew, Its Groove
    In business, complacency kills, as the competition is not only trying to innovate faster, they're ready to snatch up members of your devoted tribe.Research in Motion has certainly seen better days. Last Thursday, the company announced its first quarterly loss in seven years. By Friday, industry ...
  • How To Protect Your Company From Invention Theft
    Note: This is the third of a series of articles on the America Invents Act (AIA), the sweeping patent reform legislation signed into law in September 2011. As I explained in the first post in this series, the AIA replaces the “first-to-invent” system with what is commonly called a “first-to ...

Jadaliyya

  • April 6: Genealogy of a Youth Movement
    Go to any protest outside Tahrir Square today and you will inevitably hear onlookers grumbling about “April 6 youths destroying the country” — even when the group has no presence at the demonstration. The April 6 Youth Movement’s reputation doesn’t so much precede it as outstrip it. Loyalists o ...
  • New Texts Out Now: Nelly Hanna, Artisan Entrep ...
    Nelly Hanna, Artisan Entrepreneurs in Cairo and Early Modern Capitalism (1600-1800). Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2011. Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book, and what particular topics, issues, and literatures does it address? Nelly Hanna (NH): The book is part of ...
  • Video: Islam Harbi Will Spend His Childhood in ...
  • المرشح لرئاسة مجلس إدارة مصر
    يقول أحد عمال سيراميكا كليوباترا المضربين بحماس شديد في فيديو مدته ١٠ دقائق من قلب الإضراب بثت حركة مصرين على يوتيوب:"احنا لما قمنا بالثورة قمنا عشان نلغي حكومة رجال الأعمال. احنا عايزين الحكومة اللي بتمثل الشعب تشوف الشعب عايز ايه". يصف العمال، الذين حققوا انتصارا شاملا في كل ...
  • المرشح لرئاسة مجلس إدارة مصر
    يقول أحد عمال سيراميكا كليوباترا المضربين بحماس شديد في فيديو مدته ١٠ دقائق من قلب الإضراب بثت حركة مصرين على يوتيوب:"احنا لما قمنا بالثورة قمنا عشان نلغي حكومة رجال الأعمال. احنا عايزين الحكومة اللي بتمثل الشعب تشوف الشعب عايز ايه". يصف العمال، الذين حققوا انتصارا شاملا في كل مطالبهم ...

mediagazer

  • Britannica experiences run on final print edit ...
    Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune: Britannica experiences run on final print edition  —  The decision to end publication of the printed edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica after 244 years has turned it into a best seller.  —  When the Chicago-based company an ...
  • NBC Fires Producer of Misleading Zimmerman Tap ...
    Brian Stelter / Media Decoder: NBC Fires Producer of Misleading Zimmerman Tape  —  NBC News has fired a producer who was involved in the production of a misleading segment about the Trayvon Martin case in Florida.  —  The person was fired on Thursday, according t ...
  • Why Bob Woodward is wrong about the internet a ...
    Mathew Ingram / GigaOM: Why Bob Woodward is wrong about the internet and journalism  —  Anyone who has followed the media for the past half century or so knows that Bob Woodward is a giant in the field, one half of the legendary investigative team of Woodward and Bernstein &mdas ...
  • American digital public library promised for 2 ...
    Alison Flood / Guardian: American digital public library promised for 2013  —  Two million books will be available in an online digital library to rival Google's collection, according to Professor Robert Darnton, who promised the new database would overcome copyright hurdles by ...
  • Former CIA officer indicted on charges of leak ...
    Associated Press: Former CIA officer indicted on charges of leaking classified information to journalists  —  WASHINGTON — A former CIA officer who became a focal player in the debate over waterboarding as an interrogation technique was indicted Thursday on charges he leak ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • Princess Beatrice's travel plans may have ...
    Details of a flight booking to the US were in emails allegedly sent to a London picture agency Princess Beatrice travel details appear to have been supplied to a firm of paparazzi photographers by a Virgin Atlantic employee. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA Wire/Press Association Images Travel plans o ...
  • Slot fans, casinos in midst of 'golden ag ...
    The offers abound at casino after casino -- free slot play here, free slot play there, free slot play everywhere, it seems. Most slot fans relish the gifts. They're able to enjoy a few spins at no cost and maybe cash out with a profit. Casinos can enjoy the free play, too; like the sale-pric ...
  • Nissan to release luxury EV globally
    NEW YORK (Jiji Press)--Nissan Motor Co. said Thursday it will add an electric vehicle to its Infiniti luxury car lineup for overseas markets in 2014, becoming the world's...
  • TOKYO EXCHANGE / Nikkei rewrites 1-month ...
    The key Nikkei average index slipped below 9,700 to rewrite its one-month closing low on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Friday, pressured by the yen's rise against the euro as well as position-adjustment selling prior to the weekend. The 225-issue Nikkei average closed down 79.16 points, or 0.8 ...
  • Obama has aggressive Internet strategy to ...
    Type in a Google search for the words “immigration reform,” and in the split second it takes for your results to pop up, the president’s reelection campaign may begin courting you. Up comes an ad for barackobama.com, next to the search results. And if you take the next step ...

no frakking consensus

Anna's News

  • National Parks at Risk: Photos
    National parks represent our country's last stronghold of wilderness. But the large majority of parks are suffering, too.Ninety-five percent of parks assessed in a recent study have lost key species that once helped define them. Meanwhile, 91 percent .... Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals &nbs ...
  • Suicide rates in Europe 'linked' to financial ...
    The financial crisis "almost certainly" led to an increase in suicides across Europe, health experts say.The analysis by US and UK researchers found a rise in suicides was recorded among working age people from 2007 to 2009 in nine of the 10 nations...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Well ...
  • Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerela - Richest in ...
    For the past one week, the Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerela has been in the news because of the huge wealth found in its secret crypts.The Padmanabhaswamy Temple is the most famous Lord Vishnu temple in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerela. It is bel ............ Submitted by Anna Smith to World  |& ...
  • South Sudan becomes an independent nation
    South Sudan has become the world's newest nation, the climax of a process made possible by the 2005 peace deal that ended a long and bloody civil war.Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon are among international dignitaries Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...
  • 10 Ridiculous But Compelling Twitter Feuds
    Like all social networking sites, Twitter can be a wonderful outlet to share your feelings and views, but it also leaves plenty of room for offensive comments and bullying. Whether it's the empowerment of being behind a computer or the wide-reaching...... Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...

Medical Marijuana

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

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

  • Writers Replying to Reviewers?
    Arthur Krystal Many writers, especially younger ones, regard other people’s books as an opportunity to enhance their own reputations. What better way to show off one’s own wit, erudition, and verbal artistry than to debunk someone else’s? And if you can look good at some poor w ...
  • Karl Marx
    Capitalism has subjected the country to the rule of the towns. It has created enormous cities. Capitalism has agglomerated population, centralised means of production, and has concentrated property in a few hands. Capitalism has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-i ...
  • Originality of the species
    A frenzied desire to be first inspired Darwin and Einstein to bursts of creativity. Like writers and artists, scientists strive to have their names attached to a work of brilliance, but any breakthrough depends on the efforts of countless predecessors. Ian McEwan reflects on originality and coll ...
  • Epigenetics
    For decades, our view of heredity has been written in the language of DNA — and genetic mutations and recombinations have driven most descriptions of how phenotypic traits are handed down from one generation to another. Yet, as is amply demonstrated in Science‘sspecial issue of 10 Au ...
  • Why Your DNA Isn’t Your Destiny
    JOHN CLOUD The remote, snow-swept expanses of northern Sweden are an unlikely place to begin a story about cutting-edge genetic science. The kingdom’s northernmost county, Norrbotten, is nearly free of human life; an average of just six people live in each square mile. And yet this tiny po ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

  • Empowerment begins in your mind - or is it jus ...
    On today's show we bring you analysis and commentary on a number of hot topics in Australian news at the moment. We look at the embattled MP Craig Thompson, who, despite manifest evidence of fraud and criminal conduct,  is being propped up by a Labor government desperate to hold on to the ...
  • How Full-Body Scanners Work – and Fail
    TSA has been introducing full-body scanners to perform a virtual strip search of air travelers. Although technically travelers have the right to opt out, the TSA discourages this behavior with aggressive and invasive pat-down searches. Initially, TSA denied punitive pat-down searches. Then they ...
  • Total Body Scam? — Taking your money and freed ...
    Was it just me? Was I the only one who noticed a tiny announcement in February that Airport Scanners were coming to Australia, the land where terrorists haven’t landed (yet), and … wait for it… there would be no (NO!) — opt — out– clause. Did I hear that cor ...
  • We will not be scanned!
    In today's show we bring you an interview from the Rule of Law radio show with Hereward Fenton, who discusses the health, privacy and civil liberties issues of body scanners with Deborah Stevens. Hereward talks about the introduction of body scanners in Australian airports which are due to go ...
  • TSA threatens media not to cover story exposin ...
    The engineer who reported on serious flaws in body scanner technology now reports that journalists are being warned not to cover the story. I’ve been on the phone all day for the last 2 days with reporters and journalists of all kinds, including the big bad MSM, and one South Florida rep ...

Beacon

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

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • UFO In Aberdeen Scotland, 1822
      December 5th, 1822 Aberdeen, Scotland   “Soon after six o’clock a most extraordinary meteor was observe, almost due north from Aberdeen. When first seen, it had the appearance of a large ball of the moon’s diameter; but descending towards the horizon, it assumed the shape and appeara ...
  • The Mobula Concept Aircraft.
    Chris Cooke, a design student at Coventry University designed this behemoth luxury aircraft that flies a bit like the Ekranoplan. Using ground effect, or the phenomenon where lift for aircraft increases dramatically and drag decreases when flying close to the ground. This called the Mobula and i ...
  • The Interview.
      Katie Couric, while interviewing a Marine sniper, asked: “What do you feel … when you shoot an insurgent?” The Marine shrugged and replied, “A slight recoil.” Source: Militaryhumor.com
  • Murphy’s Laws Of Combat.
    1. You are not a superman. 2. If it’s stupid but works, it’s not stupid. 3. Don’t look conspicuous, it draws fire. 4. When in doubt, empty your magazine. 5. Never share a foxhole with anyone braver than you are. 6. Remember: Your weapon was made by the lowest bidder. 7. If your attack is [...]
  • A Former Legislator And A Former Military Offi ...
      Henry W. McElroy Jr. Representative, New Hampshire, talks about Dwight David Eisenhower’s Briefing on ETs.     Col. Phillip Corso, US Army Ret. Talks about Roswell.

Taylor Marsh

  • ‘Reason No. 54 for #OWS’: The ‘Top House Fundr ...
    Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. Common People’s Source for News has a running list of “reasons for” the Occupy movement. The most recent, Reason No. 54: ‘Special Interest and Banks Buying Tax Laws and Banking Regulation Laws’ If you’re a member of C ...
  • Augusta Chairman Billy Payne Can’t Find the Ba ...
    I’m a lover of golf. I also used to play a pretty mean game, whenever I could afford the luxury, which wasn’t often. So, will Augusta National Golf Club’s chairman Billy Payne lead and move the board to change their policy? No, he won’t. From the Washington Post: Each tim ...
  • Obama Picks Tech, Trumka Suckered Again
    It does not protect CEOs and CFOs from being sued by regulators and investors for fraud. So-called emerging growth companies – those with less than $1 billion in revenue – will be exempt from an outside audit of internal controls for up to five years. Yet senior management must conti ...
  • Chris Licht, Al Gore’s on Line One
    Al Gore’s Current TV has bigger problems to deal with than a potential lawsuit from fired news anchor Keith Olbermann – namely not getting kicked off Time Warner Cable for low ratings. – Exclusive: Low ratings could end cable deal for Gore’s Current TV, by Peter Lauria IT ...
  • About the Costs of Wars and No Universal Healt ...
    Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. The Costs of War From Bill Moyers, Most discussion about the ‘costs of war’ focuses on two numbers: dollars spent and American troops who gave their lives. … But … those numbers … don’t tell the full ...

Hudson New York

  • Short Supply, Not Middle East Tensions, Push u ...
    "Right now the key thing that is driving higher gas prices is actually the world's oil markets and uncertainty about what's going on in Iran and the Middle East, and that's adding a $20 or $30 premium to oil prices," President Obama said March 23. It's
  • Islam Conquers European Football
    The top-ranked football team in Spain, Real Madrid, has removed a Christian cross from its official logo as a way to strengthen its fan base among Muslims in Europe and the Middle East. According to Spain's top sports newspaper, Marca, the change was
  • Courtroom Terror
    Apologists sometimes try to explain away Islamic terrorism as a byproduct of something else, calling it the "weapon of the weak." The usual argument is that because Muslims are politically, socially, or militarily weak—the archetypal example often given
  • Britain's Multicultural Nightmare
    More than 400 children were subjected to forced marriage in Britain during the past year, including a five-year-old girl who is believed to be the country's youngest victim of the practice. The statistics were provided by the British government's Forced
  • Old Habits Die Hard: Germany Funding Palestini ...
    Last week, Salam Fayyad, the Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority [PNA], visited Berlin with several of his ministers. His visit was successful. The Germans, who pride themselves on being one of the largest sponsors of the Palestinian

Urban Survival

  • Exclusive: Solar Kill Shot in December?
    Killshot or Pole Shift? We depart, momentarily, from our usual focus on longwave economics (and the evolution of the Second Depression despite the joys of the latest Jobs report from the government which we will get to in a second) … Continue reading →
  • Coping: with Low-Effort Thought
    My friend Howard Hill (www.mindonmoney.wordpress.com) sent me a fascinating article to ponder in a recent “Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.” In it, the authors (four of them) study the correlation between (among other things) how much alcohol people drink and … Conti ...
  • Munch-a-Buncha Job Numbers
    New jobless figures out from Challenger, Christmas, and Gray…and oh my, what’s this, a decline in planned grenade rolling by the HR crowd? Planned job cuts declined in March to the lowest level since May 2011, as U.S.-based employers announced … Continue reading →
  • Coping: How to Build a Conspiracy Theory
    A reader sent along a link to the details of how that “faster-than-light” neutrinos story may have gone wrong – because of loose cables.  Wonders the reader: wouldn’t this make the case that basic electronics learning is a survival skill? … Continue reading →
  • Executive Influence
    I’ve always held the US Supreme Court in the same mental space reserved for baseball umpires:  They get to make the hard calls, and despite what the manager of the team on the wrong end of a call may say, … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • NRDC Greenlights Two Solar Projects in California
    Johanna Wald, Senior Attorney, San Francisco After careful review, I’m excited to say that two proposed California solar projects are up to snuff. This week, NRDC joined the Audubon California, Defenders of Wildlife and the Sierra Club in supp ...
  • Bear pepper spray works
    Louisa Willcox, Senior Wildlife Advocate, Livingston, Montana                               &nbsp ...
  • Latin America Climate, Energy and Environment ...
    Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC Chile Chile’s Supreme Court released its final verdict in favor of HydroAysén, the project which would build five dams on the Baker and Pascua Rivers in the Patagonia region. This ...
  • Solar Development in California: Preserving ou ...
    Johanna Wald, Senior Attorney, San Francisco Expanding solar development in California in a way that meets our clean energy needs while preserving our wildlands and wildlife is no small task.  And it's not without controversy. Coming to the ta ...
  • French people form "Human Chain Reaction" of u ...
    Jerome Simons, Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellow, Washington, D.C. A press release from March 11, 2012 mentions the nuclear protest of tens of thousands of people that formed a human chain in the Rhône valley. Réseau Sortir du Nucl&eacu ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Unfortunately, my current job interfered with my ability to track reports yet again today, still, here are the 9 reports I was able to track in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Thursday, April 5, 2012: Harrodsburg KY cop sentenced to 3 years as part of a plea deal to 148 rape, [...]
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 11 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Wednesday, April 5, 2012: 5 New Orleans LA cops sentenced for roles in Danziger bridge murders, 1 for 65yrs, 2 for 40, 1 for 38 & 1 for 6 [0] http://bit.ly/Hnt1N1 Hayward CA police sued ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 40 reports of police misconduct tracked so far in our National Police Misconduct News Feed over our unfortunate hiatus from Wednesday, March 29 – Tuesday, April 3, 2012: Rockledge FL police sued by mom of patient who died after tasered 6x & suffocated w/pillow case by cops ...
  • More Downtime
    Sorry folks, but my already substantial workload at my job just got tripled for a while, which means I won’t be able to run the news feed or generate daily reports for a few days. I’m hoping that things settle down by Monday and I can restart the news feed and reports then. Until [...]
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 14 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Tuesday, March 27, 2012: New York NY cop convicted of sexually assaulting school teacher at gunpoint, jury deadlocks on rape charge during what have been described as angry deliberations. [0 ...

Total Collapse

  • Russian Warship to Exercise off Syria
    Russian guided missile destroyer ‘Smetlivy’ to exercise off Syria’s Mediterranean coast. A Russian warship will dock at the Syrian port of Tartus before planned exercises off the country’s Mediterranean coast. TheSmetlivy guided-missile destroyer will remain in the wester ...
  • North Korea warns against attempts to intercep ...
    North Korea has warned that any attempts to jeopardize its plans to launch a rocket-powered satellite scheduled for later this month would constitute “an act of war.” Whoever “intercepts the satellite or collects its debris will meet immediate, resolute and merciless punishment” from ...
  • UN Chief Warns Syria crisis is Getting Worse – ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Thursday the crisis in Syria is getting worse and claiming more lives every day even though President Bashar Assad’s government insists it is withdrawing troops ahead of a U.N. deadline to end the violence. The U.N. chief appealed to Assad “to show ...
  • “No place in US” to be safe if America attacks ...
    Iran will retaliate for “any attack” the US launches against them, a senior Revolutionary Guards commander told the Iran Daily on Tuesday. “We will not only act in the boundaries of the Middle East and the Persian Gulf, no place in America will be safe from our attacks,” said Massoud Jazay ...
  • Global sanctions on Iran not working: Israel PM
    The global campaign of imposing sanctions against Iran has so far failed to halt Tehran’s controversial nuclear drive, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday. “The sanctions are painful, hard.. but will this bring about a halt or a retreat in the Iranian nuclear pr ...

Daily Dose

  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tech news in 5 ...
    Facebook and Dropbox apps suffer a security vulnerability, Twitter gets tougher on spammers and we announce The Next Web Startup Rally 2012 finalists. It’s all in today’s Daily Dose. You...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
    Apple seems to be testing a 7.85-inch iPad, but you shouldn’t be surprised. Senator Al Franken is pushing for more Internet privacy. The YouTube and Viacom suit is back, with...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
    Apple is the #3 OEM according to comScore. Yahoo confirms the layoff of 2,000 employees. Instagram for Android hits 1 million downloads in its first day. You can catch The...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tech news in 5 ...
    Amazon appears to be testing in-app payments, Path increases user data security, and Tumblr hits Facebook Timeline. It’s all in today’s Daily Dose. You can catch The Daily Dose every...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
    Temple Run crosses 50 million downloads. Samsung’s Galaxy Note campaign voted most effective. Dell is set to acquire Wyse Systems. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through Friday...

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • The Clean Energy Finance Corporation and Conce ...
    Beyond Zero Emissions has just released a paper on the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) set up as part of the carbon price package of policies. It outlines the current limitations of the CEFC model specifically in relation to baseload solar thermal power, and compares it to policies used ...
  • Clean fossils of the future? How about ready r ...
    There’s a lot of discussion and political jostling around energy options, decarbonisation, low-carbon or zero-carbon transition. Looking at the options, let’s begin with today’s dominant player, conventional coal. It’s fate is easy to summarise, we burn it now in old, outdated power stations, ...
  • Adelaide - Repower Port Augusta Report Launch
    At what promises to be one of the most important events on the political calendar for 2012, Mark Ogge from the renewable energy think-tank, Beyond Zero Emissions, will launch the long-awaited BZE Repower Port Augusta Report. This reports presents the compelling economic and environmental case ...
  • The minister for tourism signs tourism industr ...
    Martin Ferguson, the Federal Minister for Resources Energy and Tourism and previous head of the ACTU, today signalled that the mining industry will take precedence over tourism and manufacturing, despite the enormous damage it is doing to these industries. In a speech in Brisbane today, Mr ...
  • The merit order effect – actually, it’s a good ...
    The Merit Order Effect, put simply, means lower electricity bills for consumers. That’s because it means lower-cost electricity in the wholesale market when additional renewables are introduced into the mix. The effect has been demonstrated in Germany, where they have very significant deploym ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Campaign targets Bayer on mass bee die-offs
    A campaign launched on Change.org is calling on the EPA to ban chemicals known as neoniconitoids after two prominent studes linked the pesticide to mass Colony Collapse Disorder among bees.
  • Baby boom: 18 of the world's rarest duck born
    The global population of one of the world's rarest birds just increased 43 percent. The Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust is reporting that 18 Madagascar pochards — the world's rarest duck — hatched and are now being reared at a facility in Madagascar. The breeding program is a jo ...
  • Certified palm oil profitable for companies, f ...
    A new study suggests shifting to certified palm oil production increases profitability despite higher production costs.
  • As world bodies dally, private sector, local g ...
    Despite slow progress via the U.N. process and other intergovernmental bodies, national governments, municipalities, and the private sector are moving ahead with initiatives to measure and compensate the value of services afforded by ecosystems, said a leading forestry expert speaking on the sid ...
  • Brazil can eliminate deforestation by 2020, sa ...
    Brazil can reduce Amazon deforestation to zero by 2020 while boosting rural livelihoods and maintaining healthy economic growth, the governor of Pará told mongabay.com on the sidelines of the Skoll World Forum, a major conference on social entrepreneurship, last week. Governor Simao Jatene ...

Sierra Express

  • PRINCEWALEANS OBSERVE FOUNDATION DAY – 6TH OF ...
    The Prince of Wales School – It’s Emergence and First Thanksgiving Service - By the Late Sylvannus Juxon Smith * The Government Model School could be rightly called the mother of the Prince of Wales School. I entered the Government Model School in the year 1917 and was in Class 2, under E.W.B. C ...
  • UN family launches sustainable energy for all ...
    Freetown, 5th April 2012: The UN family in Sierra Leone has launched the Sustainable Energy For All (SE4All) initiative at the UNIPSIL compound, Signal Hill Road in Freetown 5th April 2012. The event was in recognition of the International Year of Sustainable Energy for All. The Chairman of the ...
  • This week in: English Football – City lose mor ...
    Pop quiz, hotshot. You’re watching your favourite team in a league game at home. Thus far this season, they have won all 14 of the Premiership matches they have played on their own turf and are competing with their fiercest rivals to win their first title since 1968. Your team is 3-1 down, again ...
  • Attitudinal Change: A national new year appeal
    The New Year is still new and will be new until we celebrate our National Independence – a milestone in the history of Sierra Leone that we must always celebrate.  This said, I believe it is better now than never to wish you all a Happy Easter, and a very happy 51st Independence Anniversary!  Fr ...
  • NACS ends training with MDAs and Civil Society ...
    As the implementation of the revised National Anti-Corruption Strategy (NACS) 2011-2013 is in the offing, the NACS Secretariat of the ACC has on Thursday 5th April, 2012 concluded two day training with MDAs and Civil Society Monitors at the Commission’s Conference Hall, Mena Hills, Makeni. Speak ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Milk powder drops for fifth time as supply bea ...
    Whole milk powder prices fell again in Fonterra's online dairy auction, with the weighted average price the lowest since August 2010.The average price for a basket of products in the auction yesterday increased 1.5 per cent, having...
  • Milk rustlers working Mount Maunganui
    Thieves working to order have stolen about 1200 litres of milk and other dairy products in Mount Maunganui, police say.Detective Sergeant Darryl Brazier said the thieves targeted delivery trucks at a storage unit on Totara Street...
  • Dairy prices snap 3-month slide in overnig ...
    Prices of dairy products snapped a three-month slide in Fonterra's latest GlobalDairyTrade auction, lifting the average winning price from the lowest level since August.The GDT-TWI Price Index rose 1.5 per cent compared...
  • Fran O'Sullivan: Fonterra boss not playing games
    Fonterra chief executive Theo Spierings is not afraid to puncture some of the irrational games being played in the local dairy industry.The Herald's China Business 2012 report in today's paper reveals how he floated the prospect...
  • China Business 2012: Nothing ventured, nothing ...
    Kiwi entrepreneur David Spurway credits legendary Chinese dairy leader Niu Gensheng as the inspiration for his decision to jump straight into the infant formula market.Gensheng - a visionary but egotistical businessman - built an...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Newt Gingrich Apparently Still Running, Obama ...
    My campaign isn't dead yet, insists Newt Gingrich. Obama says he's thrilled about not-so-thrilling jobs numbers. Afghanistan may not be quite poised to thrive after the U.S. pulls out. New Mexico mayoral election results in an empty office after the winner runs into a ...
  • Debt and Loving It, Fiscal Year 2012 Edition
    Trillion dollar budget deficit, here we come...again. According to a new report from the Congressional Budget Office, the federal government racked up a $780 billion deficit during the first half of the 2012 fiscal year—yet another reminder that the feds are well on the way to anoth ...
  • Bronx Legislators Push To Hold Incarcerated Pa ...
    Two Bronx legislators want to establish a pilot program that would let 60 parents be incarcerated near their minor children, reports the New York Daily News. New York State’s Department of Corrections doesn’t factor in parenthood when assigning inmates to prisons, even though 73 pe ...
  • Katherine Mangu-Ward Talks Happy Meal Toys and ...
    Reason Managing Editor Katherine Mangu-Ward appeared on Fox Business to talk about the lawsuit over McDonald's Happy Meal toys that was thrown out by a California judge. She says that even though this is one good step away from the nanny state, there is still a long way to ...
  • Will Google's Augmented Reality Glasses Facili ...
    Ever wanted to wear the Internet on your face? With a nifty pair of Google Glasses, now in an early prototype phase, you may soon be able to. Here's the demo video released yesterday by Project Glass at Google[x], the company's bleeding edge innovation lab:  Neat, right ...

Mercury Rising

  • I dare you to watch this
    See US policy in action.
  • Friday Cat Blogging
    “It was like this when I got here.” (In fact, the shredded chair back was Lightfoot’s handiwork.)
  • “Eat Sh*t And Die” The New USDA Wa ...
    If you haven’t already sworn off most industrial chicken, you might want to consider it now — or call your Congresscritters — after seeing this: Under the current rules, the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is responsible for inspecting all chicken and turkey ca ...
  • Out of the clear blue sky: Murdoch’s Sky ...
    Dan Sabbagh, Nick Davies, and Robert Booth, The Guardian: Sky News has admitted that one of its senior executives authorised a journalist to conduct email hacking on two separate occasions that it said were “in the public interest” – even though intercepting emails is a prima facie b ...
  • Dutch Catholic Church rocked by castration scandal
    Via Scott Horton, an article by Leo Cendrowicz in TimeWorld: The newspaper [NRC Handelsblad] said the castrations [which were done in the 1950s] were regarded both as a treatment for homosexuality as well as a punishment for those who accused clergy of sexual abuse. The newspaper said 20-year-ol ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Calendar Convergence Day: April 5th, 260 days ...
      This article orginally appeared on Peace 2012.    read more
  • What Videogames Need
      The following is excerpted from Rise of the Videogame Zinesters: How Freaks, Nomads, Amateurs, Artists, Dreamers, Drop-outs, Queers, Housewives, and People Like You Are Taking Back an Art Form, available from Seven Stories Press.  There's a videogame about a dyke who convinces ...
  • Visionary Nutrition: Food Medicine Life
      "As we begin (once again) to naturalize ourselves -- both nutritionally and medicinally -- we may begin to discover that there is far more to a plant than just its chemical composition, more than just its list of constituent phyto-nutrients, vitamins and minerals. Rather, and mor ...
  • Psychic Sound Monuments
    In the March edition of Popular Archaeology an article was published linking the construction of ancient monuments to create particular frequency range of sounds to induce altered states of consciousness and certain manipulations in sound effects. read more
  • Through a Fractured Glass, Darkly (Part Two): ...
      Part Two: Whitley's Onion (Three Years Later) For Part One of this article, click here.     The Two Keys read more

Desertification

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

Blogging Canadians

  • A thief isn't a thief when caught in the act?
    The rule used to be that being caught in the act of preparing to commit a crime or a general evil deed was enough to be considered in violation of either the law or the moral foundations of society. Apparently, not anymore. The number of times that the Tories have now claimed innocence in the wh ...
  • F-35: Stephen Harper enjoying his ride
  • Akaash Maharaj: The Raj, the Reich, and the Go ...
    During my trip to Delhi to ride for Canada at the Asian Championships, I had a chance encounter with the ghosts of India's independence movement, and a reminder that nothing corrupts the soul more than the certainty of personal virtue.
  • Octomom: Back on Food Stamps
    This is one of the weirdest stories which made mass media. Maybe she should go back to stripping. "Octomom" Nadya Suleman says financial troubles as she tries to raise 14 children have put her back on food stamps. Suleman said Thursday that she's been forced to break her vow to refuse public ...
  • Stephen Harper’s latest victim: Rights And Dem ...
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