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Thomas Paine

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

Sunday, April 8, 2012

8 April - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

Location map of en:Large Hadron Collider and e...Location map of en:Large Hadron Collider and en:Super Proton Synchrotron (blue circles) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Part of the LHC at CERN, an experimental endeavorPart of the LHC at CERN, an experimental endeavor (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Tunnel of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) of t...Tunnel of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) of the European Organization for Nuclear Research ((French: Organisation européenne pour la recherche nucléaire), known as CERN) with all the Magnets and Instuments. The shown part of the tunnel is located under the LHC P8, near the LHCb. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
An example of simulated data modelled for the ...An example of simulated data modelled for the CMS particle detector on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. Here, following a collision of two protons, a is produced which decays into two jets of hadrons and two electrons. The lines represent the possible paths of particles produced by the proton-proton collision in the detector while the energy these particles deposit is shown in blue. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
M.Sc.: 1980, Utkal University Predoctoral: 198...M.Sc.: 1980, Utkal University Predoctoral: 1982, IOPB Ph.D. : 1990, Michigan State University, USA Postdoctoral: Columbia University, NY, USA 1990-1993 : GSI, Germany / CERN - 1993-1996. Indian Scientist associated with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) of European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Professor Naba Kumar Mondal (Born 11th March, ...Professor Naba Kumar Mondal (Born 11th March, 1951). Fields of Specialization: Experimental Particle Physics, Accelerator-based Particle Physics and Neutrino Physics. Presently working at Department of High Energy Physics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR). India. He is associated with The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) of European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) projects. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Indian Scientist associated with The Large Had...Indian Scientist associated with The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) of European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Indian Scientist associated with The Large Had...Indian Scientist associated with The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) of European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Working to Cope with Climate Change, Jamaica C ...
    Jamaican authorities are aiming to transform an island that experts say faces one of the worst climate risks in the world into a nation "equipped to prepare for and respond to the negative impacts of climate change".
  • Israel-Iran Matters Get Worse in Verse
    A lyrical attack by Germany's acclaimed novelist and essayist Günter Grass in which he labelled Israel's alleged atomic arsenal and looming pre-emptive strike on Iran's nuclear installations a threat to world peace has triggered fury and controversy amongst Israelis.
  • "A New Dawn Rises over Malawi"
    It would be too simplistic to think that Malawi's problems have ended with the death of President Bingu wa Mutharika. But it is an opportunity for newly appointed President Joyce Banda, who is also leader of the opposition People's Party, to step up and offer a new and more responsive styl ...
  • U.S. Withdrawal a Blessing and a Curse for Afghans
    Though the United States' announcement to pull its troops from Afghanistan by 2014 was celebrated by most Afghans as the imminent end of a protracted and controversial foreign occupation, there are lingering questions about the outcome of such a withdrawal.
  • Will Climate Refugees Get Promised Aid?
    With extreme weather pounding countries across a wide arc in the Asia-Pacific region, questions hover over entitlements for millions of people displaced by climate change, pledged under the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and other sources.

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Report on the 2012 conference of the (U.S.) Un ...
    Summary: The United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) held its second national conference March 23-25 in Stamford, Connecticut. According to the organizers, more than 500 people attended, including a sizable number of Muslims attracted by UNAC's strong stand and activism against Islamophobia. ...
  • Obama offers to accept Iran's civilian nuclear ...
    Summary: President Barack Obama has told Iran the United States would accept Tehran having a civilian nuclear programme if the Islamic state can prove it is not seeking atomic weapons, the Washington Post said Friday. source: Pak Tribuneread more
  • IRAN, CHINA’S RISE, AND AMERICAN STRATEGY
    Summary: For its part, of course, the Obama Administration has committed itself to a policy under which it will be under enormous pressure to sanction important Chinese companies and financial institutions of the People’s Republic if it does not cut off—or at least radically reduce—its trade ...
  • Zbigniew Brzezinski: Romney is 'playing around ...
    Summary: “The easy, quick fashion in which he disposes of the Iranian problem by indicating that in effect, he would be using force, is very troubling,” Brzezinski pere told the gang. “I don’t think a presidential candidate should be playing around with matches that way. This whole thing can ...
  • OUR MEN IN IRAN?
    Summary: Five Iranian nuclear scientists have been assassinated since 2007. M.E.K. spokesmen have denied any involvement in the killings, but early last month NBC News quoted two senior Obama Administration officials as confirming that the attacks were carried out by M.E.K. source: The New ...

The Daily Galaxy

Natural News

  • Your toilet or tissue paper may be contributin ...
    A group known as Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) is largely responsible for the decimation of half of Sumatran and other Indonesian rain forests since 1985. These rain forests were the natural habitats for tigers. Activists with World Wildlife Fund (WWF) are clamoring for...
  • The Swiss government's exceedingly positive re ...
    The government of Switzerland has a long history of neutrality, and therefore, reports from this government on controversial subjects need to be taken more seriously than other reports from countries that are more strongly influenced by present economic and political...
  • Louisiana state medical boards continue widesp ...
    (NaturalNews)The Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners (LSBME), which was originally established to protect the people of Louisiana, is currently engaged in a war against them as it attempts to run all complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) practitioners out of state,...
  • Swine flu vaccines cause 17-fold increase in n ...
    The long-term health damage caused by the great H1N1 swine flu scam "pandemic" of 2009 -- and particularly the mass vaccination campaign that accompanied it -- is already becoming apparent in the form of an autoimmune disorder. A new review published in the journal Public...
  • FTC seeks band-aid solution for protection of ...
    The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the federal government's chief consumer protection agency, has the right idea in wanting to crack down on the invasion of our privacy by companies who buy and sell our personal information, but the approach it has chosen to address...

Threat Level

  • Watch Out, White Hats! European Union Moves to ...
    The European Union is moving forward on a proposal that would make it a crime to create or sell hacking tools. The only problem -- the good guys use them, too.
  • Appeals Court Revives Viacom’s Billion-Dollar ...
    Viacom is getting another chance to prove YouTube violated copyright laws, thanks to an appeals court, but the ruling leaves only a narrow opening for the content giant.
  • Researchers Release New Exploits to Hijack Cri ...
    New attack code that can be used to take over the control systems of refineries, power plants and factories has been released into the wild. The purpose? To push vendors to take security seriously.
  • On Profiling, And Google’s Big Double-Cross
    Google announced a new plan this week to help news publishers make money -- readers will be presented with a short marketing survey they have to complete before reading an article. Google consumer surveys is clever enough, and Google says replies will be anonymous. As the poet Rumi once wrote, " ...
  • Shady Companies With Ties to Israel Wiretap th ...
    The NSA is growing bigger and more powerful. But behind its curtains of secrecy, the secretive spying agency is relying on contractors with checkered pasts and ties to Israeli intelligence to build out and run its massive eavesdropping operations.

PERRspectives : Blog

  • The Resurrection and Immaculate Deception of P ...
    Wisconsin Representative Paul Ryan has become the perfect Republican Easter story. Each spring, Ryan reemerges with a new version of his draconian "Roadmap for America's Future." Despite being crucified each time by most Democrats, much of the press and even some members of his own party, Rya ...
  • Memo Exposes Condi Rice's Torture Problem
    For years, the Bush torture team and its ardent supporters have depended on what might be called the Seinfeld defense of its regime of detainee interrogation: it's not a lie, if you believe it. But with the release of this week Philip Zelikow's 2006 memo warning the Bush administration about it ...
  • How the Media Created an Obama Judicial Contro ...
    "Conservative commentators." "Commerce." "New Deal." Only if you pretend Barack Obama never uttered those three phases this week can you manufacture a controversy in which the President supposedly questioned the authority of the Supreme Court to overturn the 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA). B ...
  • Mitt Romney: Ann "Reports to Me" What Women Ca ...
    As recent polling shows, Mitt Romney has a very large problem with women voters. So, it comes as no surprise that the Romney camp has deployed an army of women surrogates including South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, New Hampshire Senator Kelly Ayotte to tout his wife Ann as a "secret bullet" ...
  • After Threatening Judges, GOP Accuses Obama of ...
    On Monday, President Obama unsurprisingly expressed confidence that the Supreme Court would uphold the 2010 Affordable Care Act. Even less remarkable, Obama rightly reminded Americans that "conservative commentators" have for year said "the biggest problem on the bench was judicial activism or ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • A Look at the Coup in Mali by Sean Fenley
    by Sean Fenley Guest Writer Dandelion Salad The Anything and Everything April 2, 2012 A Berber group, known as the Tuaregs, have recently been instrumental in the overthrow of President Amadou Toumani Toure of Mali. Some of these Tuaregs are returning veterans, that had fought for Qaddafi in the ...
  • NATO needs to be abolished, not discussed by R ...
    by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism April 3, 2012 Letter submitted to The DePaulia, newspaper of DePaul University in Chicago: This survey course on NATO ignores the Alliance’s salient characteristic: That it is not only the world’s ...
  • Gareth Porter: Is Netanyahu Bluffing?
    by Gareth Porter Featured Writer Dandelion Salad April 5, 2012 TheRealNews on Apr 4, 2012 Gareth Porter: Netanyahu is telling the Israeli people an attack on Iran will not cost much, but is the real objective to destroy the Iranian economy through sanctions? Is Netanyahu Bluffing? Gareth Porter  ...
  • But the Real Story Is… by Daniel N. White
    by Daniel N. White Guest Writer Dandelion Salad April 1, 2012 Michael Lewis’ newest book, Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World is a wonderful book, probably his best to date, and is a thoroughly enjoyable read and is full of some of the best descriptive sociology a reporter can do and ...
  • East Timor: A Lesson in Why the Poorest Threat ...
    Dandelion Salad by John Pilger Global Research www.johnpilger.com April 5, 2012 Milan Kundera’s truism, “the struggle of people against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting”, described East Timor. The day before I set out to film clandestinely there in 1993, I wen ...

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Animal Love (Picture)
      Here’s another fun and cute animal quickie for Easter — an adorable picture of a loving cat and deer. Image source unknown (retrieved from Facebook).
  • Cat & Dolphin Playing (VIDEO)
      Happy Easter! Here’s an adorable video of a cat and dolphins playing for you to enjoy.
  • Young Americans Dropping Cars for Bikes & Buses
      Young Americans seem to be more aware of the benefits of bicycling and taking the bus than their parents and older siblings. A new U.S. Public Interest Research Group report, Transportation and the New Generation, finds that young Americans are increasingly going by bike and by bus than ...
  • Bikes Belong Announces 6 Cities that Will Get ...
      A couple months ago, I wrote about Bikes Belongs’ project to get 6 cities some good, protected bike lanes. This week, Bikes Belong announced which 6 cities would get that support. They are: Austin, Chicago, Memphis, Portland, San Francisco, and Washington D.C. “The two-year, ...
  • Mountain Lion Attacks Man, Man Saved by Bear
      This is an amazing story. Apparently, a man quite familiar with spying on a family of bears was admiring them recently just before being pounced on by a mountain lion! Even more shocking, the mother bear actually came to the man’s rescue and fought the mountain lion off! Here are m ...

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Axis of Logic

  • Congo - Classical Symphony Orchestra in Kinsha ...
    Carmina Burana (Latin: Songs of Beuren) is a cantata composed by Carl Orff in 1935-1936. The complete title is "Carmina Burana: Songs for lay singers and choruses to be sung with a huge number of instruments and magic images." (“BenedictBeuren” is the full name of the monaste ...
  • Putting Syria into some perspective - Syria
    The Anti-Empire Report 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 from power, and, using ove ...
  • Capitalism Hits the Fan: The Global Economic M ...
    Editorial comment: This movie is at least as relevant today as it was in 2009 when it first came out. Professor Wolff tears down the curtain of lies by which the Corpocrats are trying to hide the very truth from us. - SON Watch as Professor Richard Wolff breaks down...
  • Recovery for the 1%, Recession for the Rest - ...
    Recovery [ri-kuhv-uh-ree] noun: term used by the 1% to characterize the 99%’s enduring recession. Sometime last November I listened to a lecture given by economist Richard Wolff. During the Q&A portion of his presentation Dr. Wolff responded to a question posed by a crestfallen college ...
  • Invitation. Health Roots Presents: Revolutiona ...
    Editor's Note: Axis of Logic would like to encourage all our readers in the US Northeast (and anywhere else!) to take advantage of this very special invitation from Health Roots, to attend this unique and important event. - Les Blough in Venezuela The Consulate of the Bolivarian Republic o ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): the black helicopters ...
    The birther business from Representative Vicky Hartzler's (r) town hall in Sedalia, Missouri last Thursday has been making the national news rounds these past few days. There was another remarkable exchange, also mentioned in the Sedalia Democrat report, which possesses an abundance of right win ...
  • Repugs Cause Stupid Sex
    By @KYYellowDog On Thursday, soon-to-be-ex Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin epitomized the work repug governors across the country are doing to create jobs and grow the economy by signing legislation to ... wait for it ... mandate teaching abstinence instead of sex education in the state's hig ...
  • Songs to Fight the Plutocracy By: "We're Not G ...
    By @KYYellowDog Uploaded by RhinoEntertainment on Aug 3, 2010
  • The Power to Punish Dissenters
    By @KYYellowDog I donate money to Doctors Without Borders (MSF), which operates in conflict zones all over the world - many of them targets in the never-ending Permanent War on The Imaginary Terror Monsters Under the Bed. MSF does not demand its patients prove their anti-terror bonafides before ...
  • The Last Bastion of Liberal Democracy
    By @KYYellowDog I love libraries. Especially libraries in huge, marble-floored, mahogany-trimmed antebellum mansions like the old Lexington Public Library in Gratz Park. I love librarians, who if they don't know absolutely everything there is to know about everything, know where to find it. Espe ...

Care 2

  • Easter For the Animals
    Every spring, the demand for Easter chicks and bunnies increases at hatcheries and farms and chicks are hatched at increasing rates to ensure that supply meets this demand. In the U.S. alone, 9 billion baby chickens are raised for food. Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat  |   Note- ...
  • The Heart of the Evil in Mexican American Stud ...
    This is a new policy, instituted by Pedicone, who officially became superintendent this year. And it is part of a climate of fear that pervades the ethnic-studies teaching ranks. TUSD teachers told me that theyre being closely watched by administrators> Submitted by Kit B. to Society & Cultu ...
  • Tell the USDA: Don't privatize meat inspection ...
    ...the UDSA is now considering a pilot program that would eliminate that inspection and allow private poultry processing plants to do whatever they want. The USDA is holding a public commenting period on this proposed change through April 26. Submitted by Nancy C. to Health & Wellness  |&n ...
  • Endangered Jaguar Population Found in Mexico.
    In the land around Terminos Lagoon in southeastern Mexico there are still jaguars to be found, one of the animals most venerated by pre-Columbian cultures and now in danger of extinction. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • End the Production of Foie Gras in Canada ! PL ...
    The production of foie Gras, or fatty liver, dates back to Egyptian times and entails the force feeding of ducks so as to enhance the flavor of their, then fatty, livers. Workers on foie gras farms pump mixtures into the livers of ducks by sticking Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |  ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Obama v. those women “creating havoc” * Open T ...
    “President Obama told the Women’s Economic Forum that he had waited for the women in the room, who he had been told were “creating havoc,” to settle down before addressing the group.” “Obama Waited to Attend Women’s Economic ForumUntil Women Settled Down ...
  • When They Stand
    April is National Sexual Assault Awareness Month This post is in honor of all who have suffered. I don’t write about the sex crimes part of my police job often though it’s considered my specialty. These cases cause me sleepless nights, tears and heartache. I’m not the victim but as a society we ...
  • GOP Surpasses Dems in Raising Money
    Pundits love to use fundraising success to help them forecast election results. Obama himself made his reelection about money when he confidently predicted he’d raise a record-breaking billion dollars in 2012. But, so far, Obama and the Democrats haven’t kept pace with the Republican ...
  • The Fauxrage Age
    Every day seems to bring a new fauxrage drama. Someone, somewhere, said something and someone else is angry about it. No, not angry, they are outraged! Once the MSM becomes involved, the dogs of fauxrage are unleashed to howl and piss on common sense as they mark their territory. Often the offen ...
  • Knitting Vaginas
    No, I am not kidding! The Snatchel Project aims to convince our male lawmakers to stay out of women’s vaginas by knitting them one of their own. Yep—The idea is that if the men in Congress have their own vagina, they will leave ours alone. Directions for knitting a vagina (or a vulva if you [...]

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • Grad student finds poetry in mountains - Red a ...
    Red and Black Grad student finds poetry in mountains Red and Black After seeing numerous photographs of her native West Virginia destroyed by mountaintop removal coal mining, an invasive procedure that uses explosives to remove the earth and mountaintop covering veins of coal beneath the land, S ...
  • COLUMN — Obama's energy policy: very few of th ...
    USA TODAY COLUMN — Obama's energy policy: very few of the above HollandSentinel.com I think mountaintop-removal mining should be phased out. But you can't really say you're pursuing an all-of-the-above energy policy, or deny that you want energy prices to go up, and declare war on co ...
  • After Upper Big Branch: New Film Reveals the L ...
    After Upper Big Branch: New Film Reveals the Lives and Dreams Along Coal River ... Huffington Post (blog) Along with the 30-minute feature, explore films includes an additional trove of insightful interviews and thematic profiles, including one of the last interviews with Judy Bonds, the "g ...
  • House GOP subpoenas Interior over planned coal ...
    House GOP subpoenas Interior over planned coal mining rules The Hill (blog) House Republicans have taken aim at Interior's plans to rework rules issued at the tail end of the George W. Bush administration that regulate the dumping of debris from mountaintop-removal coal mining into nearby wa ...
  • Federal Court Overturns EPA Revocation of Moun ...
    Between The Lines Federal Court Overturns EPA Revocation of Mountain Top Removal Coal Mine Permit Between The Lines 1 coal mine, the largest mountaintop removal site in West Virginia. Mountaintop removal coal mining is the process of blowing up mountain tops to access the coal seams underneath, ...

Memeorandum

  • Trayvon Martin call was "mistake, not delibera ...
    Chris Francescani / Reuters: Trayvon Martin call was “mistake, not deliberate”: NBC  —  (Reuters) - NBC News' decision to air an edited call from George Zimmerman to police in the moments before he shot Trayvon Martin was “a mistake and not a deliberate act to ...
  • Black caucus chairman condemns Dem claims GOP ...
    Russell Berman / The Hill: Black caucus chairman condemns Dem claims GOP is waging ‘war on women’  —  The chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.), on Sunday condemned the charge by some Democrats that Republicans are engaged in a &ldq ...
  • Rick Warren: 'Inability to Delay Gratification ...
    ABCNEWS: Rick Warren: ‘Inability to Delay Gratification’ at Heart of Economic Woes  —  Saddleback Church Pastor Rick Warren told me that the poor economy has continued to impact his congregation, saying, “Most people would not think they're better off economica ...
  • CBS News journalist Mike Wallace dead at 93 (R ...
    Russell Berman / The Hill: CBS News journalist Mike Wallace dead at 93  —  Longtime CBS News journalist and “60 Minutes” correspondent Mike Wallace has died at age 93, the network announced Sunday.  —  Wallace's persistent questioning of world leaders ...
  • Reactions to the Death of Mike Wallace, '60 Mi ...
    Brian Stelter / Media Decoder: Reactions to the Death of Mike Wallace, ‘60 Minutes’ Pioneer  —  Mike Wallace in his CBS office in 2006.  —  11:40 a.m. |  Updated Mike Wallace, a pioneer of American broadcasting who confronted leaders and liars fo ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Fooling China's dam builders
    Malaysia’s government has hidden environmental and economic costs of dams to attract Chinese money, warns Kirk Herbertson. But the investors too must take responsibility – or face the consequences.When Chinese state-owned companies invest overseas, they can be caught off-guard b ...
  • Exporting China's e-bike marvel
    China’s development of a cheap and efficient transport solution has empowered millions of ordinary commuters, writes Sandip Sen. India shoud take note. Disruptive technologies are game changers that herald a new era, toppling established market leaders within a short span of time. The ...
  • Our future grub
    By 2050 there will be 2.5 billion more people on earth. How can they be fed? Science’s answer, writes John Vidal, is a diet of algae, insects and meat grown in laboratories.How can we feed the 2.5 billion more people – an extra China and India – likely to be alive in 2050? The ...
  • Murky borders
    In the second of two articles about Sino-Burmese business, Yang Meng travels to the resource-rich borderlands, where everyone from wealthy jade merchants to ethnic nationalists is vying for advantage.Traders in the Ruili teahouse call him “Zhao, the Kachin general”. Rough-looking and ...
  • Chinese power, Burmese politics
    China’s state-owned energy firms have entwined themselves in Myanmar’s internal struggles. Yang Meng finds out more on a visit to the stalled Myitsone dam.We approached the Myitsone construction site along a new concrete road, laid over the local government’s old, rough track b ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Some Thoughts on Good, Evil and David Brooks
    by Miki Kashtan crossposted from Tikkun Daily Seriously, don’t you wonder if anything can be written about good and evil that hasn’t already been said many times over? I did, too, until I encountered Nonviolent Communication while I was in graduate school pursuing a doctoral de ...
  • Missouri Legislator: Qualified To Legislate Wo ...
    Written by Robin Marty for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. In Illinois, they run reproductive rights bills through the agriculture committee. In Missouri, they call male lawmakers experts beca ...
  • Religious right group issues plastic explanati ...
    The National Organization for Marriage’s president, Brian Brown, has responded today specifically to the race-baiting scandal which has engulfed the organization:“Let me be the first to say that the tone of the language in that document as quoted by the press is inapt. Here’s ...
  • Legislating Teen Sex: What’s (Terribly) ...
    Written by Martha Kempner for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. Last month, my husband forwarded me this article from the Daily Beast and I haven’t been able to get it out of my mind since ...
  • Smearing Trayvon Martin: The True Lie that Bla ...
    The killing of Trayvon Martin is a Rorschach test for American society. This tragedy reveals a deep divide in our political imaginations and communities. It also is a mirror for the fissures of race, ideology, and party that still vex and befuddle us to the present. Some folks imagine themselves ...

Threat Level

  • Watch Out, White Hats! European Union Moves to ...
    The European Union is moving forward on a proposal that would make it a crime to create or sell hacking tools. The only problem -- the good guys use them, too.
  • Appeals Court Revives Viacom’s Billion-Dollar ...
    Viacom is getting another chance to prove YouTube violated copyright laws, thanks to an appeals court, but the ruling leaves only a narrow opening for the content giant.
  • Researchers Release New Exploits to Hijack Cri ...
    New attack code that can be used to take over the control systems of refineries, power plants and factories has been released into the wild. The purpose? To push vendors to take security seriously.
  • On Profiling, And Google’s Big Double-Cross
    Google announced a new plan this week to help news publishers make money -- readers will be presented with a short marketing survey they have to complete before reading an article. Google consumer surveys is clever enough, and Google says replies will be anonymous. As the poet Rumi once wrote, " ...
  • Shady Companies With Ties to Israel Wiretap th ...
    The NSA is growing bigger and more powerful. But behind its curtains of secrecy, the secretive spying agency is relying on contractors with checkered pasts and ties to Israeli intelligence to build out and run its massive eavesdropping operations.

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PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • What are you doing on a Saturday Night? I am r ...
    Or, All You Really Do Not Want to Know About the Stuff in Our Food. From the introductory summary: The second edition of the Bad Bug Book, published by the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, pro ...
  • Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli (STEC) ...
    The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) is investigating an increase in cases of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) in Central Missouri during late March and early April, 2012. Five cases of E. coli O157:H7 have been identified during this time period. Two of the ...
  • Sushi Salmonella Bareilly Illnesses Hits Centu ...
    A total of 100 persons infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Bareilly have been reported from 19 states and the District of Columbia. The number of ill persons identified in each state is as follows: Alabama (2), Arkansas (1), Connecticut (5), District of Columbia (2), Georgia (4), ...
  • O.K., step away from the Salmonella Turtle - C ...
    At least do not kiss them - and, wash your hands. The CDC reports that a total of 72 persons infected with outbreak strains of Salmonella Sandiego, Salmonella Pomona, and Salmonella Poona have been reported from 17 states. The number of ill persons identified in each state is as follows: Arizo ...
  • Iowa Governor Terry Branstad is a Tool, and a ...
    Those damn people who Governor Branstad thinks don’t like meat need to be investigated. I was reading Mike Glover’s piece: “Iowa Governor seeks Congressional investigation of 'pink slime,'” and the word “tool” came to mind. Defined as “a person used as ...

AutoblogGreen

  • New York: Delorean Electric surprises in New Y ...
    Filed under: New York Auto Show, Classics, Hatchback, Electric First announced last October, the reborn, all-electric Delorean has made a surprise appearance at the New York Auto Show this year. It's a surprise because not even Delorean Motor Company president Stephen Wynne knew he was going ...
  • Report: Improving Chevy Volt sales leads GM to ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Plants/Manufacturing, Hatchback, Chevrolet, UAW/Unions, Electric Just the other day, we heard that General Motors might extend its traditional two-week summer shutdown to three weeks for the Chevrolet Volt. But, after record Volt sales last month, we wonder how the calend ...
  • New York: Carlos Ghosn: Still bullish on batte ...
    Filed under: New York Auto Show, Nissan, Electric Carlos Ghosn is not backing down. Giving the keynote speech at the 2012 New York Auto Show today, the president and CEO of Nissan said that he stands behind his prediction that EVs will make up 10 percent of the market by 2020 in the places ...
  • New York: Fisker Atlantic revealed, promises t ...
    Filed under: Concept Cars, New York Auto Show, Hybrid, Hatchback, Fisker, Electric Overheard at the reveal event for the Fisker Atlantic this evening: This is the car you buy your secretary. Yes, the altogether good-looking Atlantic sets a new high for plug-in hybrid looks, and even though ...
  • Official: EPA gives E15 go-ahead despite objec ...
    Filed under: Etc., Government/Legal As predicted and expected, the Environmental Protection Agency today approved the first applications to make E15, a blend of gasoline with 15 percent ethanol in it. This means that E15 is now a "significant step" closer to production and sale in America. ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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  • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
  • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
  • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
  • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

Democracy Now!

  • Black in White Plains: The Police Killing of K ...
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan “My name is Kenneth Chamberlain. This is my sworn testimony. White Plains police are going to come in here and kill me.” And that’s just what they did. In the early hours of Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011, U.S. Marine veteran Kenneth Chamberlain Sr. accident ...
  • Van Jones on Democracy Now! Tuesday - Read An ...
    Ahead of Van Jones’ interview on Democracy Now! Tuesday, you can read an excerpt from his newest book, Rebuild the Dream. The green economy pioneer reflects on his journey from grassroots outsider to White House insider, shares details of his time in the Obama administration and his re ...
  • General Strike in Spain: Report From Madrid On ...
    Workers in Spain staged a general strike Thursday, shutting down factories and parts of the transportation sector and holding massive marches. The strike was called by two major trade unions to protest labor rules that make it less costly for employers to hire and fire people in a country where ...
  • Part 2: Ousted Maldives President Mohamed Nash ...
    We continue our interview with ousted Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed and ask him if he plans to seek office again. "I will contest the coming elections," Nasheed says, noting that, "if the coup was so popular, we would have seen people coming out, rejoicing with the military. ...
  • Listen: 1997 Interview with Poet Adrienne Rich ...
    Poet, essayist and feminist Adrienne Rich died on Tuesday at the age of 82. Rich drew widespread acclaim for her many volumes of poetry and prose, which brought the oppression of women and lesbians into the public spotlight. She was a key figure in the women’s movement and an uncompromisi ...

Suzie-Q

  • Romney Using Ethics Exception To Limit Disclos ...
    By Tom Hamburger, Updated: Thursday, April 5, 11:10 AM The Washington Post Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney, whose wealth has become a central issue in the 2012 campaign, has taken advantage of an obscure exception in federal ethics laws to avoid disclosing the nature and extent ...
  • Obama Campaign Leaves Mitt Romney Trailing As ...
    The Guardian Ed Pilkington in Tampa and Amanda Michel in New York guardian.co.uk,             Wednesday 4 April 2012 12.05 EDT A ‘for lease’ sign hangs outside Romney’s campaign office in Manchester, New Hampshire, four days before the primary.   Shackled by the internal battle ...
  • Mitt Romney Tries To Self-Deport Everything He ...
    Mitt Romney on immigration: January 23, 2012 vs. April 2, 2012 Daily Kos Tue Apr 03, 2012 at 06:50 AM PDT by Jed Lewison Now Mitt Romney blamesPresident Obama for Republican obstruction on immigration reform: “This has always been a priority for the President he chooses to do nothing about,” Rom ...
  • Obama Opens Big Gender Gap In Swing States
    USA TODAY Mar 30, 2012 By David Jackson, USA TODAY Updated  3d 8h ago Another poll, another big lead for President Obama in a swing state — and more evidence he is benefiting from a growing gender gap.Obama leads Mitt Romney by 52%-35% in Wisconsin, according to a new NBC News/Marist Poll ...
  • The Gender Gap: Three Decades Old, as Wide as Ever
    Pew Research Center Released: March 29, 2012 The gender gap in presidential politics is not new. Democratic candidates have gotten more support from women than men formore than 30 years. Even so, Barack Obama’s advantages among women voters over his GOP rivals are striking. In the Pew Research C ...

Solari

  • Transcript of the 3.29.12 Solari Report &#8220 ...
    A transcript of the March 29, 2012 Special Solari Report “Let’s Go to the Movies” with Jon Rappoport is now available to Solari Report Subscribers! From the transcript: Catherine: Tonight, we’re doing something very different. We normally never have a Solari Report in the last ...
  • Celebrating Easter & Passover
    Image From Wikipedia “He is not here: for he is risen” ~Matthew 28:6 Related reading: Easter From Wikipedia Passover From Wikipedia
  • Quote du Jour
    “If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.” - Nikola Tesla Related reading: Nikola Tesla PESWIKI
  • You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet
    National Debt from 1940 to Present [click on the image for a larger version]   Continue reading the article . . .   Related reading:   Part Two, Part Three
  • Federal Court Rules Scott Walker’s Anti- ...
    By Steven Rosenfeld Wisconsin’s recall-facing Republican Gov. Scott Walker and his legislative allies received a stunning rebuke from a federal court on Friday that ruled the state’s Act 10 that stripped most state employee unions of the collective bargaining rights and dues-collecti ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Updating you about today’s news confirmi ...
    Summary:  Among other services, the FM website warns you today about future dangers.  Here we review two important news stories about matters often reported on the FM website.  Please reading these stories, which describe potentially major trends.  More importantly, please act on at least one of ...
  • A tool of the 1% tells us about the wonderfuln ...
    Summary:  Advocacy for the 1% is the easy and surest way of success in America, with wealth and power concentrated in the 1%.  So we should become accustomed to reading their soothing explanations of why we live in the best of all possible worlds.  No anger necessary.  Today we have a fine examp ...
  • About the March jobs report – a few jobs ...
    Summary:  Most people focus on the month-to-month changes in the jobs report, which consists mostly of noise.  The 12-month changes are more revealing.  We remain in a slow recovery, somewhat faster than in 2010.  We should enjoy it, as it was bought at great cost. A cost we cannot long continue ...
  • Why should we care about the Supreme Court&#82 ...
    Summary:  We should care about the Court’s ruling allowing almost unlimited use of strip searches of prisoners.  It gives a powerful additional tool allowing police to punish people without trial, let alone conviction and sentencing by a jury of their peers.  Arrest on trivial or even perj ...
  • Why should we care about the Supreme Court&#82 ...
    Summary:  We should care about the Court’s ruling allowing almost unlimited use of strip searches of prisoners.  It gives a powerful additional tool allowing police to punish people without trial, let alone conviction and sentencing by a jury of their peers.  Arrest on trivial or even perj ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

  • Kim Jong Un’s Ascent: Rocket Launch as a Sign ...
    Here is part one, where I argued that Kim’s rise scrambles our conventional wisdom on NK, opening a lot of unexpected room, at least early in his tenure, to try to deal. The cold war stand-off in Korea is now so bad, that there is little to lose in trying to talk with him, and it would seem ...
  • You Might Have Missed: WMDs, Libya and Drone S ...
    Peter Cynkar, “Opinion Briefing: Mexico’s Drug War,” Gallup, April 4, 2012. Mexicans personally feel less safe in their own neighborhoods in 2011 than they did at the onset of the drug war. While perceptions about safety have fluctuated, the 42% who said they feel safe walking alone at night i ...
  • Building a Public Early-Warning System for Gen ...
    Can we see genocides and other mass atrocities coming? If so, how, and how far in advance? And would public dissemination of those forecasts help policy-makers, advocates, and affected societies prevent those atrocities from occurring? In October 2011, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) ...
  • Iran, China's Rise, and American Security
    Earlier this week, Hillary went on Al Jazeera’s Inside Story to talk about the United States’ “strategic pivot” (as the Obama Administration describes it) toward Asia, from the Middle East, see here or click on video above.  The other panelists are Barry Pavel, a former National Security Council ...
  • Kim Jong Un’s Ascent: A Unique Negotiating Opp ...
    Or maybe not… The following short piece for the Korean National Defense University was written after the Leap Day Deal, but before the rocket launch announcement. In the interim, the US has decided to cancel the leap day deal, which is entirely understandable, but a mistake nonetheless I think. ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • What Contempt for Democracy Looks Like
    One of the old saws about the different ways partisans see the world is that both sides think the other side is more underhanded, more vicious, and more corrupt than their own side. And as far as it goes, that's true: Democrats think this, and Republicans think this. That doesn't mean, however, ...
  • Friday Music Break
    In honor of the recent discovery of a 125 million year-old, 30 foot-long dinosaur with feathers, the largest feathered dino ever found, we have They Might Be Giants with "I Am a Paleontologist," from the terrific Here Comes Science, an antidote to every insipid kids' song you've ever heard:
  • Sorry Republicans, Mitt Romney Is Just as Weak ...
    Yesterday, at The Washington Post, Ezra Klein argued that Mitt Romney is a much stronger general election candidate than he might look at first glance. As Klein points out, there’s no way that a moderate governor of Massachusetts wins the nomination in a red-blooded GOP without some political s ...
  • Some Actual Corporate Accountability
    You may have heard that in response to a campaign by the progressive group Color of Change, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and now Kraft Foods have all withdrawn their support for the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the group that pushes conservative laws at the state level, in part by having ...
  • Romney Tries to Master His Problem With Women
    A minor kerfuffle emerged among the political chattering class yesterday over RNC Chairman Reince Priebus' statement that the allegations that his party is waging a war on women were as fictitious as a war on caterpillars. Democrats blasted out press releases, falsely indicating that Priebus ha ...

Buzzflash

  • "Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Before BuzzFlash joined Truthout, it also offered progressive premiums. Perhaps the most popular, with literally hundreds ordered, was Charles Pierce's "Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free."read more
  • First All-Europe Anti-Muslim Rally of 150 in D ...
    RON RIDENOUR FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Ruling authorities confront the continuing crisis of capitalism by: 1) aiding the very firms that bankrupt the general economy by transferring workers' taxes to the capitalist class; 2) decreasing the welfare state, throwing huge numbers out of jobs and ont ...
  • Former Chief Anti-Drug Advisor to Mexican Pres ...
    Mexican President Felipe Calderon has turned a US motivated war on drugs into a bloodbath for the citizens of his nation. Despite his public fervor to "cleanse" Mexico of the cartels, his key anti-drug advisor from to 2006 - 2008 received $450,000 a month in bribes from drug kingpins. That's mor ...
  • Two New Nuclear Reactors in the US? Not So Fast
    HARVEY WASSERMAN FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The only two US reactor projects now technically under construction are on the brink of death for financial reasons. If they go under, there will almost certainly be no new reactors built here. The much mythologized "nuclear renaissance" will be officia ...
  • The Partisan Five of the Supreme Court Threate ...
    ANN DAVIDOW FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT America must get over its willingness to accept the Supreme Court as the arbiter of opinions that must be respected in the court of public opinion. Decisions that shape our lives are supposed to be a-political and determined by strict adherence to ‘the law' ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Explosive Alchemist
    An explosive start to this weeks Alchemist, well actually its a non-explosive start thanks to a reaction scheme that tames diazomethan. In the world of X-ray crystallography, we learn that the bound structure of a drug to treat hepatitis C has been determined and in materials science, truly alch ...
  • Hands off spectroscopy
    A new dual laser approach to analysing chemicals shouldn’t require the sample to be prepped and placed in the spectrometer. The surface of a suspect package at an airport or a contaminated material in a medical or environmental setting could be “scanned” via a standoff approach ...
  • Copper helps out in protein studies
    Researchers have developed a novel solid-state NMR spectroscopic method that uses paramagnetic tags to help them visualize the shape of protein molecules. The technique could be used to help scientists understand the properties of various biological molecules under normal, healthy conditions and ...
  • Drugs to treat hepatitis C on the way
    Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a chronic infectious disease that afflicts some 170 million people worldwide, causing chronic liver disease and, in many cases, liver cancer. Chemists at the University of California, San Diego have finally obtained the first high- resolution crystal structure of a com ...
  • On the quantum dot
    There is always room for further innovation in any field and I recently highlight new work in the area of Quantum Dots – those tiny entities hoping to revolutionise computing, analysis and medical diagnostics. Robert Meulenberg, University of Maine, USA, and chemist Geoffrey Strouse, Flori ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Common Pesticides Associated With Lower Birth ...
    A new study is reinforcing obstetricians’ standard warning that pregnant women should avoid exposure to pesticides in foods and weed killers because the chemicals can harm the developing fetus. In the study, Cincinnati-area women had levels of organophosphate insecticides that significantl ...
  • Common Pesticides Associated With Lower Birth ...
    A new study is reinforcing obstetricians’ standard warning that pregnant women should avoid exposure to pesticides in foods and weed killers because the chemicals can harm the developing fetus. In the study, Cincinnati-area women had levels of organophosphate insecticides that significantl ...
  • Statement: Chad Stone, Chief Economist, on the ...
    Today's jobs report disappointed expectations, with employers adding only 120,000 jobs in March, making clear that a strong jobs recovery remains elusive. The unemployment rate dipped to 8.2 percent, but that decline reflected people leaving the labor force, not finding jobs. The combination ...
  • Statement: Chad Stone, Chief Economist, on the ...
    Today's jobs report disappointed expectations, with employers adding only 120,000 jobs in March, making clear that a strong jobs recovery remains elusive. The unemployment rate dipped to 8.2 percent, but that decline reflected people leaving the labor force, not finding jobs. The combination ...
  • DHS Inspector General Report Provides Further ...
    Today, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Inspector General issued two reports on the much-maligned “Secure Communities” deportation program. The reports, which come after two years of mounting opposition to Secure Communities from state and local officials, congressional repr ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Undermining Human Rights in the Name of Develo ...
    Bianca Jagger When I arrived at Biju Patnaik Airport, Bhubaneswar, Orissa, I was struck by a billboard above the luggage carousel: "Mining happiness for the people of Orissa - Vedanta."read more
  • Obama Turns Super-Hawk
    Danny Schechter Back in the last Century, when Bill Clinton was running for re-election in the "permanent campaign" he, with the advice of the smarmy Dick Morris chose to co-opt Republican positions to pre-empt their using them ag ...
  • Behind Another Rampage Massacre
    Mark Ames I was working on an article about last month’s rampage massacre in Afghanistan that left 17 villagers dead, when news hit of this past Monday’s massacre at an Oakland, California, religious college, leaving seven dead. ...
  • Mining Maverick Resigns from Rainmaking at JP ...
    Pratap Chatterjee Ian Hannam, a senior JP Morgan banker and ex-soldier, who helped finance a number of flamboyant and controversial mineral extraction projects over the last couple of decades, has resigned, after being fined $720,000 for in ...
  • Repudiate ‘Obamacare’?: Here is a Radical Stra ...
    Paul F. deLespinasse No matter how the Supreme Court decides the medical insurance cases, we face prolonged uncertainty. If it upholds the law, Republicans will sabotage implementation and promise to repeal it when they return to power. If ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

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

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • Ex-hunger striker Hana al-Shalabi wants "myste ...
    Rami Almeghari Gaza Strip 8 April 2012 A week after her banishment to Gaza, Hana al-Shalabi spoke exclusively to The Electronic Intifada about the meaning of her 43-day-long hunger strike in Israeli detention.
  • Israel's pinkwashing exposed as dishonest at N ...
    Uri Horesh 6 April 2012 Israel’s strategy of “pinkwashing” — using its supposedly stellar record on gay rights — to obscure abuses of Palestinian human rights has done more to provoke than to quiet criticism.
  • How detention without charge links Israel and ...
    Eron Davidson 6 April 2012 The use of administrative detention is just one of many similarities between apartheid South Africa and apartheid Israel.
  • Book review: exploring how Jewish activists re ...
    David Landy 5 April 2012 Jewish dissidents from across the English-speaking world explaining why they, to a greater or lesser extent, support Palestinian rights in Beyond Tribal Loyalties: Personal Stories of Jewish Peace Activists.
  • Israel causes $66 million worth of damage to E ...
    Charlotte Silver Ramallah 4 April 2012 A new report by the European Commission indicates that 82 humanitarian aid projects that it funded in the West Bank and Gaza Strip were destroyed or damaged by Israeli military attacks between 2001-2011.

The Wonk Room

  • GOP Rep. Vicky Hartzler: ‘I Have Doubts That I ...
    Another Republican member of Congress has stepped forward as a birther, calling into question President Obama’s birth certificate at a town hall meeting. Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-MO) told a crowd of her constituents that she is no more convinced of President Obama’s birth place as anyo ...
  • Brigham Young University Students Courageously ...
    An estimated 1,800 LGBT students attend Bringham Young University, the Mormon-run school that banned advocacy of gay rights until 2010. Though homosexual behavior is still prohibited on campus, gay, lesbian, and bisexual students have been speaking out to help raise awareness about the challenge ...
  • Must-Read: Tom Friedman On Climate Change And ...
    “The Arab awakening was driven not only by political and economic stresses, but, less visibly, by environmental, population and climate stresses as well. If we focus only on the former and not the latter, we will never be able to help stabilize these societies.” NOAA concluded in 201 ...
  • Holy Week Reflections: What Can The Prophets T ...
    JR: Since Brad Johnson is leaving ThinkProgress, here’s another timely column of his. The lessons of the Hebrew prophets can teach humanity how to respond to the catastrophe of global warming with strength and resilience. As we near Passover and Easter Sunday, it is a good time to reflect ...
  • How Our Prius Paid For Itself And Put $10,000 ...
    by Randy Essex, via Rocky Mountain Institute Our 2006 Prius topped 100,000 miles last weekend as we drove on Interstate 70 through Colorado’s Glenwood Canyon, prompting my wife and me to wonder how much money we’ve saved. The result, calculated conservatively, is an eye-popping $34,441—most of w ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • "Or perhaps the fact that Conservative support ...
    That is one of the tired defenses of the harpercon shit-lickers. It makes no sense and is only evidence of the mind of a dull plodder beginning to break down under the strain of events. 1. Elections Canada did not make those calls. 2. Polling locations hadn't changed. That means that the call ...
  • I'm Not Your Friend
    There's not many things worse, not many things more dangerous, than a zealot. Someone so infatuated with an idea that they elevate it above actual human beings. Someone who thinks they have such a firm grasp on the world's workings that they can inflict suffering and death upon millions confiden ...
  • harper's Election Fraud & Vatican Child Molest ...
    Arguing with some stupid trolls elsewhere. One of their witless defenses of their party (the Conservative Party of Canada)'s election fraud is that most Canadians don't seem to care about the scandal the way leftist whiners and sore-losers do. These trolls must all love Justin Bieber's music be ...
  • Random Thoughts
    Here's Glenn Greenwald talking about Rachel Maddow's new book Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power. It's about how successive US Presidents have chipped away at their Constitution's explicit limitations on a president's right to wage war. Sounds like a good read. My thing is that, ...
  • The Woodworth Bill
    I'm going to repeat here what I said at Dawg's: nothing gets done by a harpercon unless harper wants it done. Just like the party-financed "private member's bill" about the gun registry when he had a minority. harper is going to test the water for public opinion ONCE ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • NHL Playoffs Eastern Conference Preview
    The NHL season is finally over and the playoffs are set. The Eastern Conference lineup features a few perennial favorites as well as a resurgent New York Rangers team.
  • Titanic memorial cruise sets sail from Southam ...
    A cruise liner, MS Balmoral is leaving Southampton docks on Sunday afternoon, retracing the route of the ill-fated RMS Titanic's maiden voyage. On board are relatives of some of those who perished in icy waters 100 years ago.
  • Montreal Canadiens, Toronto Maple Leafs end sa ...
    The Montreal Canadiens beat the Toronto Maple Leafs, 4-1 on April 7 as the each finished disappointing seasons. There was some spirit in the game but it was hardly a classic as both franchises head into the off-season with numerous question marks.
  • Thomas Kinkade, the ‘Painter of Light’, dead at 54
    Artist Thomas Kinkade, known for his paintings of landscapes with cottages, rural gardens, Chistmas scenes and churches bathed in morning light, died yesterday of natural causes at age 54, as reported by his family.
  • George Zimmerman given stress test after he sh ...
    A new lawyer hired by George Zimmerman, Hal Uhrig, told an Orlando radio station his client was given a voice stress test the night he shot and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. Zimmerman has yet to be charged with anything in the shooting.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Pundits on the F-35 fiasco
    Prominent media commentators and pundits weigh in on the F-35 procurement fiasco.
  • Auditor General condemns F-35 process
    Auditor General Michael Ferguson's first report is a scathing indictment of the Harper government's F-35 procurement process.
  • Military spending cut?
    The headlines after last week's federal budget trumpeted major cuts in the Department of National Defence's budget. But how significant the overall reduction in military spending will be remains to be seen.
  • Hancock: Sub purchase “daft”
    A British MP who raised concerns about the sale of dud British subs to Canada back in 1998 has a simple suggestion -- see if you can return them to Britain.
  • Pay pensions or fund fighters?
    The polling firm Ipsos Reid recently asked Canadians about their spending priorities for the upcoming federal budget -- and found some interesting results.

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Lawmakers Try To Ban Facebook ‘Shoulder Surfin ...
    March 21, 2012 Time By Martha C. White “If a potential employer asks for your Facebook password, tell them to stick it. You know that guy or girl is going to be a horrible boss.” –KTRN Even in a marketplace where people routinely trade access to their personal data for small fr ...
  • Ron Paul Blasts Obama For Killing Americans
    March 21, 2012 RT By RT “As if you need another reason to demonstrate how Ron Paul is the man for the job.” –KTRN Presidential hopeful Ron Paul has publicly attacked the Obama administration’s abolishment of due process in a new editorial, calling the move a turning point in Am ...
  • Confronting The VP May Be Impolite. Is It A Crime?
    March 21, 2012 NPR By Nina Totenberg “So apparently it’s now a crime to disagree with your elected officials. Dick Cheney is a war criminal.” –KTRN The U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments Wednesday in a case involving the arrest of a Colorado man who was thrown in jail aft ...
  • Worldwide Banking Resignations Triple Accordin ...
    March 21, 2012 Activist Post By Brandon Turbeville On March 6, 2012, I wrote an article entitled “Mass Banking Resignations Signal A Purging Has Begun?” where I included a list of banking directors, CEOs, and board members of both national and international financial institutions standing who ha ...
  • Gold Whale vs Bond Harpoon
    March 21, 2012 321 Gold By Stewart Thomson In the theoretical world, gold stocks are a fantastic bargain. In the theoretical world, gold and silver bullion are on sale at “once in a lifetime” prices. In the real world, gold investors (you) have bought the gold stock sales repeatedly. Instead of ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Armed Neo-Nazis Patrolling Sanford In Preparat ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comMichael Miller New Times Miami Sunday, April 8, 2012 Neo-Nazis are currently conducting heavily armed patrols in and around Sanford, Florida and are “prepared” for violence in the case of a race riot. The pat ...
  • SPLC Declares Tulsa Shootings a Racist “Hate C ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comKurt Nimmo Prison Planet.com April 8, 2012 It didn’t take the Southern Poverty Law Center long to turn the Tulsa, Oklahoma, shootings into a racist hate crime. Following the arrest of two suspects, the SPLC dredged ...
  • Andrew Sullivan: Politicization of Christianit ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comColumnist and author Andrew Sullivan said Sunday that atheism was growing in the United States because more and more people saw Christianity as an organization intent on gaining political power. “I think our abilit ...
  • Putting Syria into Some Perspective
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article By William Blum The Holy Triumvirate — The United States, NATO, and the European Union — or an approved segment thereof, can usually get what they want. They wanted Saddam Hussein out, and soon he ...
  • Rebels refuse regime’s demand to disarm ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRussia Todayyoutube.com The UN-backed peace plan for Syria could be in deadlock, just days ahead of a ceasefire deadline. The rebels have refused to give Damascus any guarantees they will lay down arms before the governm ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Selling Out Regulation by Ralph Nader
    Dandelion Salad by Ralph Nader The Nader Page April 4, 2012 The Republican Party has a sense of humor, however inadvertently. It’s ardent advocates regularly accuse the Obama Administration of heavy handed regulation of business. Tell that to the hundred federal poultry inspectors who just picke ...
  • A Look at the Coup in Mali by Sean Fenley
    by Sean Fenley Guest Writer Dandelion Salad The Anything and Everything April 2, 2012 A Berber group, known as the Tuaregs, have recently been instrumental in the overthrow of President Amadou Toumani Toure of Mali. Some of these Tuaregs are returning veterans, that had fought for Qaddafi in the ...
  • NATO needs to be abolished, not discussed by R ...
    by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism April 3, 2012 Letter submitted to The DePaulia, newspaper of DePaul University in Chicago: This survey course on NATO ignores the Alliance’s salient characteristic: That it is not only the world’s ...
  • Gareth Porter: Is Netanyahu Bluffing?
    by Gareth Porter Featured Writer Dandelion Salad April 5, 2012 TheRealNews on Apr 4, 2012 Gareth Porter: Netanyahu is telling the Israeli people an attack on Iran will not cost much, but is the real objective to destroy the Iranian economy through sanctions? Is Netanyahu Bluffing? Gareth Porter  ...
  • But the Real Story Is… by Daniel N. White
    by Daniel N. White Guest Writer Dandelion Salad April 1, 2012 Michael Lewis’ newest book, Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World is a wonderful book, probably his best to date, and is a thoroughly enjoyable read and is full of some of the best descriptive sociology a reporter can do and ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • 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.

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Dr. Mads Gilbert: What did I see in Gaza and w ...
    Eyes in Gaza: What did I see in Gaza and what you can do? A presentation by Dr. Mads Gilbert, one of two foreign doctors allowed into Gaza during Operation Cast Lead. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go t ...
  • Günter Grass: ‘What must be said’
    The poem, originally published in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, has created a heated debate in both Germany and Israel. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...
  • IDF and the murder of Egyptian POWs in the Sin ...
    References to Israeli soldiers murdering Egyptian prisoners of war, although never officially acknowledged by Israel, can be found in a variety of sources. This case is interesting because it... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
  • Rashid Khalidi: David Ben-Gurion and Israel’s ...
    In late 2011, the self-appointed media watchdog CAMERA informed the Journal of Palestine Studies of an incorrect citation in an article by Ilan Pappé referring to a quotation by Israeli founding... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Norman Finkelstein bids farewell to Israel bashing
    In June, Norman Finkelstein will mark 30 years of criticizing Israel. He remembers the exact day - the beginning of the Lebanon war, which ended his indifference to the Middle East's troubles. He'll... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Genes Identified in Common Childhood Obesity
    Genetics researchers have identified at least two new gene variants that increase the risk of common childhood obesity. The meta-analysis is the largest-ever genome-wide study of the common condition.
  • New "Genetic Bar Code" Technique Establishes A ...
    Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine have developed a method to derive enough DNA information from non-DNA sources--such as RNA--to clearly identify individuals whose biological data are stored in massive research repositories. The approach may raise questions regarding the ability to ...
  • Sugar Production Switch in Liver May Offer Tar ...
    Salk researchers find molecular switch that controls liver glucose production and may represent a new avenue for treating insulin-resistant type II diabetes.
  • Is Some Homophobia Self-Phobia?
    Homophobia is more pronounced in individuals with an unacknowledged attraction to the same sex and who grew up with authoritarian parents who forbade such desires, a series of psychology studies demonstrates. The study is the first to document the role that both parenting and sexual orientation ...
  • Risk of Blood Loss in Childhood Back Surgery V ...
    The relative risk of blood loss during corrective spine surgery in children appears linked to the underlying condition causing the spinal deformity, according to a new study from Johns Hopkins Children's Center.

Natural Health News

  • Insights into How Drug Companies Manipulate Re ...
    A new series featured in an online forum offers insight into how the pharmaceutical industry manipulates research, from what you hear in the news to the actual medical journals the so-called medical research is published in. According to The Conversation, transparency in medicine—if it even exis ...
  • Does Sunshine Actually Decrease Dangerous Mela ...
    Recent research blaming UV exposure for the growing incidences of melanoma has failed to consider crucial information that could turn the entire concept on its head, according to Dr. William Grant, an epidemiologist writing for the Vitamin D Council. One thing this research missed was that somet ...
  • Most Recalled Drugs Will Surprise You
    A new report on the drug industry shows an emerging pattern in drug recalls over recent years, with vaccines and immunoglobulins, in particular, failing to meet safety standards. These products are drugs with active substances in them produced by, or extracted from, a biological living source, f ...
  • The Beverage that Is Even WORSE than High Fru ...
    When a new beverage comes out advertising “60% less sugar—drink it to believe it”—the challenge is on. Same taste, fewer calories to the waist? Sounds good, doesn’t it? But before you throw that Pepsi Next into your grocery cart, Fooducate.com suggests you complete the challenge by reading the i ...
  • Why Stress Makes It Harder to Kick the Common Cold
    For anyone who’s ever suffered what seems like an unending cold or flu while they’re in the middle of an extended emotional crisis, scientists now believe they know why you’re more vulnerable to illness during high-stress times. According to CNN Healthland, a hormone released when we feel anxiou ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Upcoming Events – 8 April 2012
    by An Hertogen by An Hertogen Opinio Juris is proud to bring you a new regular feature aggregating all calls for papers, conference and event announcements that we receive. If you are organizing a conference or other event and would like to see the call for papers or the program announced on O ...
  • Weekend Roundup: March 31 – April 6, 2012
    by An Hertogen by An Hertogen Roger Alford kicked off the new week with quotable quotes from the ASIL Annual Meeting. Also on ASIL, Julian Ku posted an excerpt from his report on the Chevron-Ecuador panel. Ken Anderson reported on the first decision by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights ...
  • Weekend Roundup: March 31 – April 6, 2012
    by An Hertogen by An Hertogen Roger Alford kicked off the new week with quotable quotes from the ASIL Annual Meeting. Also on ASIL, Julian Ku posted an excerpt from his report on the Chevron-Ecuador panel. Ken Anderson reported on the first decision by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights ...
  • Three Questions for David Davenport
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Mr. Davenport makes some very strong claims in his post concerning the OTP’s refusal to accept the Palestinian declaration.  Although I am on record with my belief that accepting the declaration would be a terrible political move for the ICC, I hav ...
  • Three Questions for David Davenport
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Mr. Davenport makes some very strong claims in his post concerning the OTP’s refusal to accept the Palestinian declaration.  Although I am on record with my belief that accepting the declaration would be a terrible political move for the ICC, I hav ...

Public News Service

  • Report Asks: Biofuel Crop or Invasive Weed?
    Report Asks: Biofuel Crop or Invasive Weed? PHOENIX – Biofuels are hot new crops all around the country, but before plowing ahead to seed the fields, a new report urges caution. The National Wildlife Federation (NWF) notes that bioenergy is an important piece of clean, local energy produc ...
  • Cutting the Cost of Running Errands
    Cutting the Cost of Running Errands PHOENIX - With gasoline prices around four dollars a gallon, it can pay Arizonans to plan ahead for those daily errands in the car. Jerry Medinger, manager of the Clean Fuels and Vehicle Technology program for the American Lung Association, says there are pl ...
  • Complaint Claims Felony Filing Violations by S ...
    Complaint Claims Felony Filing Violations by Southern AZ Copper Company PHOENIX – The long-delayed plans for a large open-pit copper mine southwest of Tucson hit another potential snag Thursday with the filing of a formal complaint with the Arizona Corporation Commission. It alleges that R ...
  • AZ Wind Energy Industry in a Holding Pattern?
    AZ Wind Energy Industry in a Holding Pattern? PHOENIX - The American wind energy industry is waiting for a favorable forecast from Congress. The wind-production tax credit is set to expire at the end of this year, and delayed decisions on its renewal have some sectors of the industry in a holdin ...
  • SCOTUS Takes Up Affordable Care Act
    SCOTUS Takes Up Affordable Care Act WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court today begins hearing arguments on the constitutionality of provisions of the Affordable Care Act, the national health care reform law. The justices will look at two provisions of the ACA: the mandate that everyone must have insur ...

Center for Food Safety

  • USDA To Decide Imminently On Novel “Agen ...
    The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is currently deciding whether or not to approve an application by Dow Chemical for its controversial genetically engineered (GE) corn crop that is resistant to the highly toxic herbicide 2,4-D, one of the main ingredients in Agent Orange. On February 22n ...
  • New Scientific Research Strengthens Link Betwe ...
    Center for Food Safety Calls on Congress, EPA to Take Action Three new studies released in the past two weeks, including one today by Harvard University, add to the growing body of evidence that implicate pesticides, specifically neonicotinoids—a class of pesticides used as a seed treatment in c ...
  • BPA is FDA’s Latest Gift to Food Industry
    By Michele Simon In a long-awaited decision, last week the Food and Drug Administration disappointed health advocates once again by allowing Bisphenol A or BPA, a known endocrine disruptor, to remain approved as a chemical additive in food containers such as plastic bottles and metal cans.While ...
  • Canadian Hog Industry Abandons Genetically Eng ...
    Center for Food Safety Calls on the U.S. FDA to Stop Review of GE “EnviroPig” The Center for Food Safety (CFS) welcomed reports that the University of Guelph, the Canadian university that developed the genetically engineered (GE) “Enviropig,” is closing down its research. CFS is now calling on t ...
  • Rep. Pingree Introduces Legislation to Require ...
    TEN MEMBERS OF CONGRESS JOIN LABELING BILL The Center for Food Safety (CFS) applauded a bill introduced by Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-ME) Friday that would require the labeling of lean finely textured beef (LFTB) – the ammonia-treated ground beef filler coined “pink slime” by a former U.S. Departme ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • The bed is dead. Next-gen space saving furniture
    “The bed is dead”, says Ron Barth of Resource Furniture. To Barth, the idea of occupying a room just to house a bed is archaic. This is because Barth sells beds that are so far beyond the traditional Murphy Bed, it’s awkward to even bring up the term. [...]
  • Compressed air energy storage underwater in bags!
    Compressed air energy storage is generally done by using excess renewable energy to pump air into underground caverns. The air is released as needed to create energy as needed. Hydrostor is testing CAES in giant plastic bags underwater. [...]
  • Rimshot!
    Angela Merkel arrives at Passport Control at Athens airport.“Nationality?” asks the immigration officer.“German,” she replies.“Occupation?”“No, just here for a few days.”Via The Big Picture
  • Tax havens and Apple’s offshore $60 billion
    Many large corporations, and not just tech, park large amounts of money offshore. Now they want lower taxes if the money is repatriated, [...]
  • Financial blogger Mish’s wife has ALS, Lou Geh ...
    JoanneMish wants to raise $3 million to go to ALS research. His blog, Mish’s Global Economic Trend Analysis, is widely read. He wants to sell 30,000 tickets at $200 each and given the blog’s popularity, he may well do it. The winner gets $1 million if all tickets are sold.His blog is ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • Talking Politics to Worshippers of the State ( ...
    There are a couple of things one might want to accomplish when talking to worshippers of the state. I think that first and foremost one wants is to turn the brain of the worshipper back on. One wants to get the state practitioner to think. That isn’t to say that worshippers of the state do ...
  • Is Easter an Occult Babylonian Holiday?
    A great excuse to spend time with family and friends… But what does the holiday mean and where did it come from? Certainly the Spring Equinox is part of it…. But what came first? The holiday or the Egg? Here is some of what we found: “History of Easter – Hidden, Secret Or ...
  • Veteran CBS journalist Mike Wallace dead at 93 ...
    (Reuters) – CBS journalist Mike Wallace, who earned a reputation as a tough interviewer on the network’s “60 Minutes” show, died at the age of 93, the network said on Sunday.
  • The Jack Blood Show – April 6 2012
    Friday – Rise Up and Shine with Jack Blood. Get the latest news and analysis you won’t find anywhere else. Open Lines Open Minds Friday.
  • Al Gore, Current TV fights back against &#8220 ...
    Note that the same words (Allegedly) used by KO “Assassinate” “Kill” are metaphorical terms worse than what he objected to many times on his broadcasts while labeling “Tea Baggers” as dangerous extremists…. And yes Keith’s production company was ca ...

The Air Vent

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

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: ...
    The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities across social and mobile application platforms. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at: Meltwater Buzz, Clear Channel, Remy Cointreau USA, W3i, SponsorPay ...
  • Facebook roundup: iPad, Ceglia, India, security
    Facebook updates iPad app – Facebook updated its iPad app to support retina display, as well as allowing offline chat, photo and friend bug fixes and more. Ceglia can’t search Zuckerberg’s files – Attorneys for Facebook and would-be Facebook owner … Continue reading ...
  • How will Facebook respond to the growth of Pin ...
    A report from marketing services company Experian says Pinterest is the third most popular social network in the U.S. after Facebook and Twitter. In past years when a social platform started to get traction as Pinterest has, Facebook responded by … Continue reading →
  • Dropbox, videos, Soul Crash, Pose, Digg, hi5, ...
    Dropbox topped our list of emerging Facebook applications by monthly active users this week after the app started giving bonus storage space to people who refer friends to use it. Then a few video apps, games led by Soul Crash, … Continue reading →
  • Facebook updates page insights to reflect impr ...
    Facebook page insights will now more accurately count the number of impressions gained through fans sharing posts, according to a post on the Facebook Studio Blog. Previously, impressions gained from initial shares were included in page’s total and viral impressions, … Continue readi ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Pastor John Hagee and his deadly million
    Lawrence Davidson argues that US Pastor John Hagee and his followers, who believe in the divine creation of the state of Israel, are as delusional as people who once believed in the reality of Zeus and his Olympian clan but could one day act as cheerleaders for the ethnic cleansing and mass murd ...
  • The devastating impact of Passover on Jewish p ...
    Uri Avnery considers the fictional story of the Passover and its devastating impact on Jewish culture: extreme paranoia and a craving for revenge against non-Jews - for Israelis, pouring out their wrath on their neighbours, the Palestinians and other Arabs, on their minorities and on their victims.
  • German poet Guenter Grass says what cowardly p ...
    Gilad Atzmon considers German poet Guenter Grass's courageous stance on Israel, which he criticized in a poem for undermining an already fragile world peace, and views the ridiculous response of Israel's embassy and its stooges in Germany.
  • Britain's mad-house foreign policy
    Stuart Littlewood highlights Britain's double standards and contradictory policies in the Middle East: on the one hand irrational belligerence and warmongering towards Iran even though this is contrary to British national interests, and on the other cosying up to and taking its cue from Israel, ...
  • Israel set to uproot 30,000 of its own Bedouin ...
    Neve Gordon explains why Israel's plans to move entire communities of its own Bedouin citizens from their ancestral lands in the Negev and put them in townships will deprive them of their livelihood and land rights.

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Podcast Show #82: NSA’s Gigantic Utah Center, ...
    The Boiling Frogs Presents James Bamford James Bamford returns to our show to discuss the gigantic $2 billion data center that’s being built in Utah for the National Security Agency and other agencies geared to target everyone and every single communication, and how for the first time sinc ...
  • Jamiol Presents
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- March 29 ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism – despotism during the campaign – is indispensable.” – Walter Bagehot International Newsworthy Report: Israel’s “Secret Staging Ground” is Azerbaijan Azerbaijan ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- March 28 ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that numbers of people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience. . . ...
  • The Massacre of the Afghan 17 & the Obama Cover-Up
    The Obama Regime’s Priority: Defend the Empire with Whatever Personnel is Available at his Disposal By James Petras The March 11 Massacre of the 17 Afghan citizens, including at least nine children and four women, raises many fundamental issues about the nature of a colonial war, the practices o ...

Afro Spear

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • Strip-Searches: Obama Wants You to Bend Over ( ...
    Crushing political dissent, not safety in jails, is what motivates the Obama administration to ally itself with the most reactionary wing of the Republican-dominated U.S. Supreme Court. The Left is not paranoid; the Obama administration really is preparing its legal arsenal to smash dissent in t ...
  • "it starts here"
    What would have happened if Philip K. Dick and Jack Kerouac met in Berkeley (while they were both citizens of that town) and decided to collaborate on a book?
  • Supreme Court on Trial
    The Supreme Court is on the brink of putting itself on trial in the eyes of the nation, and certainly with much of the nation that vehemently disagrees with the court's view that America is a nation in which the money rules over the people and that free speech is a property that can be bought by ...
  • The Truth About Espionage Act Prosecution Agai ...
    It's outrageous that John Kiriakou, a whistleblower, is the ONLY INDIVIDUAL TO BE PROSECUTED IN RELATION TO THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION'S TORTURE PROGRAM . The interrogators who tortured prisoners, the officials who gave the orders, the attorneys who authored the torture memos, and the CIA agen ...
  • How the US uses sexual humiliation as a politi ...
    You don't need to have done anything wrong to be arrested in America any longer. You can be arrested for walking your dog without a leash. The man who was forced to spread his buttocks was stopped for a driving infraction. So nothing prevents thousands of Occupy protesters -- if there will be an ...

Switchboard

  • Mysterious Arctic Illness May Have Spread to P ...
    Andrew Wetzler, Director, Land & Wildlife Program, Chicago   A mysterious disease that swept through populations of seals in the Canadian, Russian and American Arctic last year and was associated with high levels of mortality, may have spread ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Yep, This Is the Man Who Helped Give Us Whitewater
    To follow up on yesterday’s post, there’s one more thing about James Stewart’s ridiculous defense of the Ryan plan I’d like to point out: As I pointed out a few weeks ago, Mr. Ryan’s tax plan, which calls for lowering top rates to 25 percent and 10 percent, could actually ...
  • Beating a Dead Horse, But…
    One more thing on the Derbyshire bit, then I’m done.  Of all the “rules” listed by Derbyshire, the one that offended me the most was this: (10h) Do not act the Good Samaritan to blacks in apparent distress, e.g., on the highway. It’s difficult to express how awful this se ...
  • Kinkade
    America’s shittiest artist, dead at 54.
  • Progress of a sort
    National Review has disassociated itself from John Derbyshire. For those who would complain about the violation of Derbyshire’s supposed First Amendment rights, keep in mind the Constitution no longer applies to foreigners.
  • Scott Walker Joins The War on Women in Full Force
    Of course he has. Michelle Goldberg has a grimly entertaining interview with one of the drivers of the repeal of pay equity laws, who has some further thoughts to share after citing the eminent sociologist Ann Coulter: Grothman doesn’t accept these studies. When I ran the numbers by him, he repl ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • TOP VERDICTS & WINNING
    Our special report on litigation includes our annual look at the top 100 verdicts of the year and "Winning," which explores successful trial strategies by top litigators.
  • Health Care at the Supreme Court
    On the final day of argument before the U.S. Supreme Court over the Affordable Care Act — better known as the Obama administration's health care reform law — the justices considered what would happen if they strike down the individual mandate. The choice, as Justice Ruth Bader Ginsb ...
  • Three Decades of The NLJ 250
    2012 marked our 35th annual survey of law firm headcount. In this special report, we look back at three decades of growth and ask legal players to assess the changes that have transformed the profession.
  • OPINION: Jump off the private prison bandwagon
    A population under total control deserves to be overseen by entities responsible to the electorate, not to investors.
  • IN-HOUSE COUNSEL: Self-interest as an obstacle ...
    An in-house line lawyer has interests that may not align with those of the company, but there are some fixes.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • New iPad App Will Help Mariners Avert Right Wh ...
    A coalition of conservation groups has created an iPad/iPhone app capable of warning mariners when they are approaching areas of high risk for collision with endangered North Atlantic right whales. The so-called Whale Alert app, which is available for free Click to enlarge NOAA Whale Alert ...
  • Exposure to Weed Killer Can Alter the Shape of ...
    A new study has found that exposure to the popular weed killer Roundup can alter the morphology of some amphibian species, triggering unexpected changes in body shape of young tadpoles. In a series of tests conducted in large outdoor tanks that mimicked wetland ecosystems, scientists at the Univ ...
  • UK Revives £1 Billion Competition to Boost Car ...
    The UK has re-launched a £1 billion ($1.6 billion) competition to promote the large-scale adoption of carbon-capture technology, an investment that government officials hope will make the UK a global leader in the emerging low-carbon energy sector. Launched by the Department of Energy and Climat ...
  • Some Corals More Resilient To Increased Acidif ...
    Some coral species may be better able to cope with the increasingly acidic condition of the world’s oceans than previously believed, a new study says. Writing in the journal Nature Climate Change, an international team of scientists describes an internal mechanism by which many coral speci ...
  • Shell’s Spill Response Plan Is Approved by U.S ...
    The U.S. Department of the Interior has approved Shell Oil’s plan to respond to an oil spill in the Arctic’s Beaufort Sea, clearing the way for exploratory drilling this summer. The decision follows similar U.S. government approval for a spill response plan in the Chukchi Sea, and Shell said tha ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Revenge of the Candida Fungus
    The Ganglion parasites from Dark Skies Healthy people typically have about 4 pounds of microorganisms living in their intestines. At least 80-85% of those organisms are beneficial and less than 15-20% are detrimental. They fight constantly over nutrients and space to live on the wall of the colo ...
  • "The most beautiful woman in the world" : Holl ...
    The mathematically-minded inventor first learned about military technology from dinner party conversations between her arms-manufacturer husband and Nazi German generals, before escaping to America where she eventually invented a new torpedo guidance system for the U.S. Navy.
  • Solar Storm Dumps Gigawatts into Earth’s Upper ...
    A recent flurry of eruptions on the sun did more than spark pretty auroras around the poles. NASA-funded researchers say the solar storms of March 8th through 10th dumped enough energy in Earth’s upper atmosphere to power every residence in New York City for two years. "This was the biggest dose ...
  • Henrik Palmgren interviewed on The Vinny Eastw ...
    Vinny’s NUTShell: Henrik Palmgren www.redicecreations.com Feels like the world is changing and changing fast, it also appears that the people around us are under the control of a sinister scheme hatched in the very bowels of scumbaggery. But we can all wake up and do what is right, not because w ...
  • Soviet-Swedish Social Services Kidnap and Abus ...
    It’s been called one of the worst cases of government abuse ever committed against a home schooling family: the abduction by Swedish authorities of Domenic Johansson, a happy, healthy, 7-year-old boy taken from his parents Christer and Annie Johansson in 2009 as they waited to leave Sweden on a ...

Russia Today

  • N.Korea to conduct underground nuclear test – ...
    It has already alarmed the world with its imminent rocket launch. But now it also appears that North Korea is on the verge of executing another underground nuclear test. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Let’s talk about sex: Poll claims Russians enj ...
    The 1990s, apparently, didn’t do much to set the mood, with only 6 per cent of the country’s population happy with what they had. But it seems Russians have rediscovered their mojo and got their groove back. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Legal concern: Muslim Brotherhood files last-m ...
    The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's top political force, has put up its back-up presidential candidate just a day before the doors of the Electoral Commission closed. They fear their first pick may be disqualified from the... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Worldwide pillow fight: Feathered fun takes th ...
    Clashes erupted across the globe as thousands of enthusiastic people armed themselves and took to the streets. Police were helpless to do anything about it. They did not dare to stop International Pillow Fight Day. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Iran faces arm-twisting demands ahead of strat ...
    The six-party party talks on Iran’s nuclear issue, called “the last chance” by the West, may now be jeopardized. The US and Israel have come up with new requirements towards Iran’s nuclear program just days ahead of the... Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

  • ‘Warriors on the Field becoming Warriors ...
    Happy Easter from Tim Tebow. He’s just as inspiring as all Hell let out! Tim Tebow's Easter Message …Move over, Pope. You’ve now got competition!
  • Just how doped up on medications are US soldie ...
    Pills, pills, pills! Just how doped up on medications are US soldiers now getting? The Los Angeles Times today has an article called A fog of drugs and war that mentions that ‘more than 110,000 active-duty Army troops last year were taking prescribed antidepressants, narcotics, sedatives, ...
  • Tibetan suicides versus Indian suicides in US ...
    By now, most Americans have heard about those young Tibetan Buddhist monks committing suicide as protest against the Chinese control over their region. Tibetan Buddhist monks control the country of Bhutan but they also want control over the areas of Chinese Tibet as well. But how many Americans ...
  • How the US military created today’s mons ...
    The Zetas, Mexico’s nastiest gang of drug traffickers noted for mutilating bodies and dumping body parts all over the place into cities and rural towns alike, and the Mara Salvatrucha, Central America’s most notorious gang are joining forces together. See Two of Latin America's ...
  • Thomas Kinkade has died- What are all admirers ...
    “A Kinkade painting was typically rendered in slightly surreal pastels,” Joan Didion wrote. “It typically featured a cottage or a house of such insistent coziness as to seem actually sinister, suggestive of a trap designed to attract Hansel and Gretel. Every window was lit, to lurid effect, as i ...

Debunking the Debunkers

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

Fooducate

  • Happy Easter!
    New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! Happy Easter to you and yours! Hope you’re planning a splendid family get together with scrumptious spring dishes. Tell us about your tasty recipes in the comments below… Ge ...
  • Seven Egg Facts Ahead of Easter
    New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! With Easter eggs equally decorating lawns and kitchens across America this weekend, we thought to remind you about the health benefits of eggs: 1. Seventy Five billion eggs are produced ...
  • What is an “Incomplete” Protein?
    New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! This is a guest blog post by Claire Harrison I’ve begun to look more closely at beans. Now bean protein is considered an “incomplete” protein. I don’t know about you, but I’ve never rea ...
  • Superfood or Super PR?
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! It seems these days almost every other food we hear about has some magic property that turns it into a “superfood.” The term, which did not exist 10 years ago, was coined by Steven G. Pratt, MD in ...
  • Pepsi Next: The Worst of 2 Drinks, Combined in ...
    New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! When we joked about the big cola companies removing 30% of the sugar from their soft drinks as an April Fool’s prank, some people responded in all seriousness, having spotted such ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • Peru 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 ...

Greg Palast

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • Healing Hearts - A Homecoming
    By Cathy Jameson A Homecoming Babies come in all colors and sizes. Some are born quickly while others take their time arriving. Some babies are free of medical issues while others are riddled with one problem after another. One such...
  • A Happy Holiday Weekend To All
    We'd like to wish our readers a blessed holiday weekend. Spring means renewal and hope - here's to a basketful for all of us. The AofA team.
  • April Tears For Autism Fears
    By Lisa Dea My child was stolen from me. He no longer speaks to me He can’t look me in the eye and see the tears lingering there He won’t feel the warmth of my embrace Or the comfort of...
  • Age of Autism Contest: Vortex Sodium Lauryl Su ...
    Managing Editor's Note: My Dad was a dentist. And I know how difficult oral healthcare can be for our families in the autism community. Vortex changes colors while brushing and contains the lowest fluoride possible while still qualifying as a...
  • Hope While We Groan
    By Brooke Potthast “Hope While We Groan”. That was the title of the sermon given at my church today. The youngish reverend who delivered the sermon did his usual stunning job of getting us to dig deep in our hearts...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

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

Open Your Eyes News

  • U.K. Home Prices to Reach Pre-Recession Levels ...
    Bloomberg – House prices in the U.K. will rise to levels in late 2007 before the country’s economy sank into a recession, the Centre for Economics and Business Research said. Shortage of housing relative to demand, improved affordability and mortgage availability will probably support hous ...
  • May to end immigrant ‘abuse’ of fa ...
    Guardian – The home secretary, Theresa May, is bringing in new immigration rules to end the “abuse” of the right to family life – as enshrined in the European convention on human rights – which allows foreign nationals to stay in the UK despite having committed crimes or breach ...
  • Mali coup leaders to stand down as part of Eco ...
    BBC – In return, the bloc will lift trade and economic sanctions and grant amnesty to the ruling junta, mediators said. The move came after Tuareg rebels in the north declared independence of an area they call Azawad. The rebels seized the area after a coup two weeks ago plunged the West A ...
  • Bosnia-Hercegovina marks 20th anniversary of war
    BBC – Ceremonies in Sarajevo are marking 20 years since the start of the war in Bosnia-Hercegovina, a conflict that saw the worst atrocities in Europe since World War II. The conflict began in April 1992 as part of the break-up of Yugoslavia. About 100,000 people were killed and nearly hal ...
  • Himalayan avalanche buried scores of Pakistani ...
    Washington Post — A huge avalanche buried more than 120 soldiers at a major Pakistani army base on a Himalayan glacier close to India on Saturday, military officials said. Prospects for finding survivors seemed slim, given the fiercely inhospitable climate and dangerous terrain. “We haven’t real ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Climate change vs. Easter bunnies
    Easter is still a great day for worship, candy in baskets, pagan solstice rituals and running around the yard finding eggs, but every year it gets quite a bit worse for bunnies.
  • Spoof ad thanks GM for pulling Heartland funding
    ForecastTheFacts.org has put up an advertisement spoofing the new TV ads created for the Chevy Volt – but this one congratulates GM for ceasing to fund the Heartland Institute, a free-market think tank that questions the science behind global warming.
  • Titanic today might dodge better but would enc ...
    The Titanic hit an iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland, but it probably didn’t hit one the size of Manhattan.
  • Judge orders testing of evidence in Judi Bari ...
    Almost 22 years after Earth First! activists Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney were car-bombed during a campaign to save old-growth trees, a federal judge has ordered the FBI to turn over evidence from the bombing for forensic testing.
  • GM pulls support for Heartland Institute
    Citing its corporate stance that climate change is real, General Motors announced Wednesday that its General Motors Foundation would no longer be funding the Heartland Institute, a free-market think tank that has attacked human-caused global warming as “junk science.”

water.org

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

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • What people will do for beauty: 8 Grossest Spa ...
    uh..the title says it all :) Submitted by Vicky Pitchford to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • White House sees more pain for Iran as it clea ...
    Aggressive war is illegal, immoral against nations that are no threat, is nonbelligerent & it is insane! Call your Reps. Tell your friends, rouse up the good folk in your church,mosque and synagouge. We must stop this exported violence or we are screwed. Submitted by michael h. to World   ...
  • Iran Bashing, Terrorism, and Who Chose the Cho ...
    Dedicated to the long-suffering Palestinians and Iranians who have been sidelined by the United Nations in favour of the Nuclear Apartheid State of Zionist Israel in the most blatant exercise in International Double Standards that our world has ever known Submitted by Ken D. to World  |&nb ...
  • Tibetan singer detained and tortured
    25-year-old singer, Ugyen Tenzin, was detained last month soon after the release of his album titled, An Unending Flow of My Hearts Blood,.Unconfirmed reports said that Ugyen Tenzin has been beaten in custody and disabled a month after album released Submitted by Red Thorvenkiold to World &nb ...
  • Seizure of Springs by Settlers Greatly Limits ...
    Palestinians have increasingly lost access to water sources in the West Bank as a result of the takeover of springs by Israeli settlers, who have used threats, intimidation and fences to ensure control of water points closed to tne settlements, Submitted by Naoko I. to World  |  &nbs ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • Mangoes arrive in fewer numbers
    The bright, luscious king of fruits eagerly awaited in the summer months may disappoint its fan club this time round, what with its shrunken arrivals and elevated prices. Instead of a series of trucks waiting to be offloaded at the Gaddi Annaram Agricultural Market Yard, famously known as Ko ...
  • Interest in organic farming grows
    BY JENNIFER PALMER jpalmer@opubco.com | For organic producer Susan Graff, the daily grind is performed far from a cubicle. Organic farmer Susan Graff waters her produce in a greenhouse. Her operation, Crestview Farms in Arcadia, is one of about 75 certified organic producers in the state. ...
  • Easter eggs may fall to new regs
    Nolan Finley Comments Be careful hiding those Easter eggs today, they soon may be worth their weight in gold. Already in Europe, eggs are becoming as scarce as hen's teeth, with production down and prices up 55 percent. The reason? New European Union rules granting cages with more elbow room ...
  • Kolkata looks to bounce back against Raja ...
    Jaipur: After a rollicking start to their IPL V campaign, Rajasthan Royals will look to continue the winning momentum when they face Kolkata Knight Riders, who would be equally keen to bounce back from a humiliating defeat in their opening match against Delhi Daredevils, on Sunday. Led by th ...
  • Stocks overshadow gold’s glitter with str ...
    Gold has been glittering bright for investors for many years, but the stock market seems to have begun 2012 on a brighter note with better returns than the yellow metal in the first quarter of this year. After outperforming the stock market for more than a decade, the appreciation in gold pr ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • 'War on Drugs' Has Failed, say Latin American ...
    On April 14 and 15, heads of state and government from across the Americas, including U.S. President Barack Obama, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and their Latin American and Caribbean counterparts, will gather for a two-day 'Summit of the Americas' in Cartagena, Colombia, and th ...
  • Will Climate Refugees Get Promised Aid?
    BANGKOK - With extreme weather pounding countries across a wide arc in the Asia-Pacific region, questions hover over entitlements for millions of people displaced by climate change, pledged under the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and other sources. Will the long wait by climate change migrants &ndash ...
  • Single Payer Doctor Carol Paris Packs It Up
    Dr. Carol Paris is a psychiatrist. She’s practiced for 13 years in southern Maryland. And she’s fought hard for a single payer system. She’s even been arrested in Congress for speaking out for single payer. But now, she’s had enough. She’s closing her practice. And ...
  • World Bank Race: Non-US Candidates Rake in End ...
    WASHINGTON - While the U.S. candidate for World Bank president, Jim Yong Kim, still has the inside track, the two non-U.S. candidates, Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and former Colombian finance minister Jose Antonio Ocampo, have been raking in high-profile endorsements. ...
  • Tennessee's 'Monkey Bill' Will Protect Anti-Sc ...
    Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam is likely to sign into law a bill requiring Tennessee's public schools to allow teachers to discuss purported weaknesses of theories such as evolution and global warming in their classrooms. Haslam has until Tuesday to sign the bill, veto it, or allow it to become ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • Cheap Hydrogen Cars In A Decade, Researchers Say
    A new process for producing fuel cells could help bring the cost of hydrogen cars down significantly within 10 years, researchers claim.Staff from the University of Connecticut developed the process, which involves spraying atom-sized particles of a catalyst onto a membrane, to produce hydrogen ...
  • Lakotas Launch Hunger Strike Against Tar Sands ...
    In the Dakotas, members of the proud Lakota Nation rose in protest this week to join a  48-hour hunger strike in opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline—and all tar sands pipelines—they say will destroy precious water resources and ancestral lands in the U.S and in Canada.  
  • 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

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Hate Crime or Terrorism? The Ku Klux Klan Stil ...
    By Ismail Salami Kendrec McDade, and Shaima AlawadiOnce upon a time in America back in the nineteenth century, there was a far-right organization known as Ku Klux Klan that adhered to primitively radical and hidebound ideas including white supremacy and brutalized and persecuted the colored r ...
  • US-Israel War on Iran: The Myth of Limited Wa ...
    James Petras Introduction The mounting threat of a US-Israeli military attack against Iran is based on several factors including: (1) the recent military history of both countries in the region, (2) public pronouncements by US and Israeli political leaders, (3) recent and on-going attacks on ...
  • Friends of Syria Subvert Peaceful Resolution
    by Stephen Lendman Washington-backed so-called "Friends" won't tolerate resolving Syrian violence peacefully. How can they when America, rogue NATO partners, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and other regional despots incited it, fund it, arm it, and continue it. The name of the game is regime chang ...
  • Abdulhadi Alkhawaja: Dying for Justice
    by Stephen Lendman Bahrain's Al-Khalifa monarchy is one of the world's most ruthless despotic regimes. It's also a valued US ally. It's one of many other regional ones, notably Saudi Arabia, the worst of the lot. In summer 2010, sporadic protests began. Last February, major ones erupted. Dai ...
  • War crimes in Libya and the March shift
    By Michael Collins Foreign Policy just published a roundup of weapons contributed to the Libyan rebels in the regime change effort. The e-Journal is a publication of the Washington Post. Colum Lynch's April 4 article relies on the March 20 UN report to the UN Security Council by a panel of ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Youth and Community-led Activism in Canada
    In spite of system and systemic failure, young people are—with creativity, passion and determination—fighting for change across sectors and within communities. They are pushing the progress envelope. And we need to celebrate their victories and support them with knowledge, with numbers, and with ...
  • CCPA-NS Reacts to provincial budget
    As was expected, the provincial budget released by Nova Scotia's ruling New Democratic Party is characterized by a fixation on getting “back to balance”.  With a debt to-GDP ratio of 35%, there is no need to prioritize fiscal balance to the exclusion of other important needs. What is being ...
  • What a Wildrose Victory May Mean for Saskatchewan
    Simon Enoch, Director of the Saskatchewan Office, wonders what a Wildrose Party victory in the upcoming Alberta election will mean for Saskatchewan. More here.
  • Why we need a Canadian sector development policy
    Today CCPA released a paper on sector development policy by Jim Stanford. The general goal of sector development policy is to attain a more desirable sectoral mix in the economy, winning a greater share of output and employment in identified high-value or “strategic” sectors than would otherwise ...
  • Budget needs to move Nova Scotia Forward to Fa ...
    Today, the provincial government is releasing its budget.  While there has been much talk about getting "back to balance," CCPA-NS has advocated for a budget that more accurately reflects the province's real fiscal situation.  Our fact sheet, "Twelve Things You Should Know about nova S ...

World Wide Hippies

  • Tepco’s Cheapskate Tactics Put World at Risk
    by Richard Wilcox,dissidentvoice.org - ,While “Fifty Year Battle” To Save Japan Rages On Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. – Henry David Thoreau The system of nature, of which man is a pa ...
  • Sex, Drugs And Rock Photography
    By CLAIRE O’NEILL,wbur.org - Mick Rock is really his name — though he’s Michael to his mother — and he is exactly what you might imagine a rock photographer to be: tall and hip with shaggy hair. Shaded Ray-Bans, jean jacket, scarf. Oh, and an English accent to boot — so he can drop w ...
  • Strategies of Deception
    By William T. Hathaway To get a preview of Obama’s strategies for winning a second term, we just need to read the liberal press. They are giving lip-service praise to the current protests while trying to steer them in a direction that serves the Democratic Party. Seeking to restore the fad ...
  • Revolution 99 Updates: Positioning, Planning a ...
    DC’s 2 ongoing Occupy protests plan to merge with single vigil at McPherson Square AP – WASHINGTON — Washington’s two ongoing Occupy protests plan to merge with one group moving out of Freedom Plaza and joining protesters at McPherson Square. The Washington Post (http://wapo.st/HR3k70 ) re ...
  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Sunday
    US defines opening move in new talks with Iran WASHINGTON — The Obama administration and its European allies plan to open new negotiations with Iran by demanding the immediate closing and ultimate dismantling of a recently completed nuclear facility deep under a mountain, according to American a ...

FourWinds10

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

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Poet, KiOR, and Waste-to-Heat — R-Squared Ener ...
    In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer questions about POET’s Project Liberty, about why KiOR might need a natural gas pipeline, and whether there are better options out there for utilization of waste heat from electrical generating plants. Some of the topics discuss ...
  • Power Plays is Published
    Introduction My new book — Power Plays: Energy Options in the Age of Peak Oil — has been published. A press release issued last week describes the book in some detail: Robert Rapier Reflects on Energy Options in the Age of Peak Oil in his Latest Book Here I want to describe a bit abo ...
  • Vinod Khosla, Cellulosic Ethanol, and Biomass ...
    In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer a few questions about pathways to biofuels, cellulosic ethanol, and Vinod Khosla. I have to apologize this week, because the microphone was a bit away from my mouth, so the volume is lower than normal. Some of the topics discussed thi ...
  • Setting the Record Straight on U.S. Oil Reserves
    The Difference Between Oil Shale and Oil from Shale Formations There has been some confusion lately about the overall extent of U.S. oil reserves. Some claim that the U.S. has hundreds of billions or even trillions of barrels of oil waiting to be produced if the Obama Administration will simply ...
  • Are You Looking to Invest in the Google of Bio ...
    The Big Names in Biofuels So you’re hoping to strike it rich by investing in LanzaTech. Or Solazyme. Or KiOR. Or Gevo. After all, these companies have all recently had high-profile IPOs, and they are clearly “hot” given all of the press coverage devoted to them. So perhaps you ...

Discovery Educator Network

  • Take a trip through baseball history with our ...
    Comments:"The Ultimate Opening Day Infographic" - John EvansTags: baseball, history, ultimate, espn, infographicby: John Evans
  • Geocube - The world of Geography at your finge ...
    Tags: world, geography, students, elementary, socialstudies, visual, educationby: Fred Delventhal
  • Spicynodes : Home
    Comments:"Fresh from the oven and piping hot, SpicyNodes is limited only by your imagination. Entice visitors to explore and savor the experience of visiting your web site, add visualizations to your blog, create a mindmap or organizational chart, or encourage students to delve deeper." - Fred D ...
  • Myths and Legends from E2BN
    Comments:"Welcome to Myths and Legends. This site is for pupils, teachers and all those who enjoy stories and storytelling. The British Isles is rich in myths, folktales and legends. Almost every town, city and village in Britain has its own special story, be it a Celtic legend, Dark Age mystery ...
  • Edistorm - Edistorm - Online Brainstorming and ...
    Comments:Add, discuss and organize ideas from multiple locations before, during and after (or instead of) your meetings. - Fred DelventhalTags: collaboration, brainstorming, web2.0, mindmap, tools, notesby: Fred Delventhal

Rodale News

  • 8 Must-Haves for a Nontoxic Cleaning Kit
    Just because a store-bought "green" cleaner label makes claims of being natural or ecofriendly doesn't mean the contents match the message. According to research from the American Chemical Society, the truth behind green-cleaning product claims varies wildly, with some loaded with harmful petro ...
  • The 7 Best Eggs You're Not Eating
    Easter is next Sunday, the annual White House Easter Egg Roll is the following Monday, and Earth Day is just two weeks later, on April 22. So it seems apropos that the National Park Foundation, which manages the White House's South Lawn, will hand out ecofriendly souvenir eggs made fro ...
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big think

  • What Kind of Artistic Afterlife Will Thomas Ki ...
    The self-titled and legally trademarked “Painter of Light” has been extinguished. When the news spread on Saturday that painter Thomas Kinkade had suddenly passed away at the age of 54 of natural causes, it sent a tremor through not necessarily the art world, but more like the art critic world . ...
  • 560 - A World Map of Heavy Metal Density
    Some maps are beautiful because of their rich complexity. Others capture our attention because they are so starkly simple.   Cartography has the curious capacity to bypass a map-reader’s critical function when conveying information, and never more so than when a map is plain and simple. ...
  • How Too Much Happiness Makes You Unhappy
    What's the Latest Development? The more happiness the better, right? Not exactly. Psychologists say that relentlessly seeking happiness is a recipe for loneliness and dissatisfaction. After studying diary entries of 206 Americans, psychologist Iris Mauss found that "those to whom being h ...
  • Celebrity Neurons
    Just when you think you've gotten away from the so-called "grandmother cell," it comes around again.  It's the proverbial Whack-A-Mole in the neuroscience world.  No matter how many times the idea is struck down, it pops back up--often, with a vengeance (or, these days, a popular actress). ...
  • In America, Age Brings Wisdom. But Not in Japan.
    What's the Latest Development? A psychological study of Americans and Japanese found that, for Americans, wisdom increases with age, while Japanese seem wise from the age of 25. In the study, newspaper articles describing a conflict between two groups, such as a poor Pacific island and a ...

Information Liberation

  • NEVER Call 911: If Jimma Reat Had Ignored the ...
    People who dial 911 in the hope of police assistance often learn, to their chagrin, that they've made a tragic mistake. If they confront immediate danger, the police won't arrive in time to help, and they have no enforceable duty to provide assistanc...
  • Iran and the Recurring Bad Dream
    Maybe U.S. energy independence isn't such a great thing after all. Some years ago, when the American political class was whooping it up for war with China, what stopped the push were the American commercial interests who essentially asked, "What, are...
  • Dr. Marc Faber: Global Central Banks Are In Th ...
    Download Mp3 Here Jim welcomes back Dr. Marc Faber of the Gloom, Boom & Doom Report this week. Dr. Faber believes shorting the markets can be a risky proposition when the global central banks will print money at the drop of a hat. He believes it i...
  • 'Necessary Force'
    "I always thought police were nothing but good and were there to protect people," testifies Elizabeth Polak, a registered nurse from Phoenix. Her view of the State*s enforcement caste changed dramatically as a result of what she witnessed in De...
  • DHS Looks to Spy on Video Game Consoles in Sea ...
    The government is more concerned with the platforms rather than the games themselves, mainly because newer systems like Xbox 360, Wii and PlayStation 3 allow users to communicate with one another via messaging and chat systems The Department of Ho...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Neither A Soul To Damn, Nor A Body To Kick
    Today I’m having a look at an issue you might not generally associate with Libertarianism, but whose existence directly impacts on the liberty of us all, thousands of times every day: the company. Specifically, the limited-liability, joint stockholder corporation. Most … Continue rea ...
  • Revenge Of The Banana Benders
    That’s how people in other states of Australia refer to Queenslanders. The state election on March 24, resulting in the biggest electoral loss for the Australian Labor Party in any election since the Second World War, says much about the … Continue reading →
  • Power In All The Wrong Hands
    I’m still rather tied up, so I thought as a bit of a change of pace,  I’d direct you to a rather marvellous article from the von Mises Institute: The Seven Rules of Bureaucracy. Had me in stitches at several … Continue reading →
  • Only In America
    I’m exaggerating. It’s de rigeur an any dictatorship worthy of the name. But the Executive Order of President Barack Hussein Obama, signed last Friday, is gob-smacking in its scope and abandonment of all pretence of congressional democracy. Go have a … Continue reading →
  • More Dollars Than Sense
    Still hammering away on my next thread, so I thought I’d ask you about the topic currently doing the rounds over at DT: “Quantitative Easing”, or QE. Actually, it’s printing money to you and me, but that can be misleading, … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

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

RFF Library

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

Scientific American - News

  • How the Moon Affects the Date of Easter
    Friday (April 6) brings us the first full moon of the new spring season.  [More]
  • Different Strokes: New Lower-Pollution Auto Ri ...
    Banned in Delhi for a decade, smog-spewing combustion engine–powered rickshaws are fading away in India and in many other countries, thanks not only to inroads by minivans, but also to  improved rickshaw motor designs coupled with laws to mothball dirtier models. In January, for examp ...
  • Massive Dolphin Die-Off in Peru May Remain a M ...
    LIMA, Peru -- When a retired fisherman called to report that about 1,500 dolphins had washed up dead on Peru’s northern coast, veterinarian Carlos Yaipén’s first reaction was, “That’s impossible.” [More]
  • Nanorama: Graphene Bubbles Showcase Liquids wi ...
    Graphene, the wonder material that earned two researchers the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics and that has been the subject of countless scientific studies and news articles, has certainly spent some time in the limelight. Now it may take center stage under the microscope. [More] ...
  • Drug-Resistant Malaria Spreads, Scientists Hun ...
    The malaria parasite is a wily organism, shifting its life stages as it flits from human to mosquito and back again. It still kills some 600,000 people each year and has outwitted eradication efforts, having developed resistance to previously popular drugs and, thus far, eluded vaccine-induc ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Making Moo-ves!
    East Coast Organic Milk Cooperative set to provide local, organic, milk in Nova Scotia by mid-June. Halifax - Nova Scotians may be pouring their first glasses of local organic milk this coming June. It’s a big moment for organic dairy ...
  • CKUT Off the Hour: “À qui profite le Plan Nord ...
    Entrevue avec le chercheur principal, Bertrand Schepper L’institut de recherche et d’informations socio-économique (IRIS) vient de publier une nouvelle recherche sur le Plan Nord, “À qui profite le Plan Nord?”. &nbsp ...
  • CKUT Radio: Artist Seth Tobocman
    listen to interview with NYC artist Seth Tobocman Listen to an interview with New York City artist Seth Tobocman on the recently released book Understanding the Crash, co-authored with writer Eric Laursen. This interview details the way tha ...
  • No Bill C-31 National Action
  • Unions in the Broader Community
    CLC Rep Tony Tracy on union work in the non-unionized and international context Tony Tracy got his first unionized job at 17. He grew up in the New Brunswick forestry town of Nackawic, and started work in the town’s pulp and paper mil ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Thoughts at Easter: Once I built a tower and n ...
    David Seaton's News Links "We are so made that we can sustain our existence only in group life. Love is the essence of humanity, love needs something to bestow itself upon; human beings must live together in order to live a life of mutual love." D. T. Suzuki "I sincerely believe that if you ...
  • Conservatives or neo-fascists?
    David Seaton's News LinksI would think it important to separate this new "conservatism" from the traditional variety. Remember the American vice is to use language to hide meaning. I’ll quote myself from an earlier post:One of the most disturbing things about America is the incoherence of ...
  • Why are the Republicans so weird?
    David Seaton's News LinksThis blog post, by the excellent Thomas Edsall, makes some very interesting points about the make-up of the Republican electorate. In the GOP’s South Carolina primary, 98% of those who voted were white: this in a state where nearly 28% of the population is black. Rep ...
  • Mohammed Merah, the monster of Toulouse
    David Seaton's News LinksThe  question we must ask is; was Mohammed Merah really a trained terrorist or simply a nut?We know practically nothing about Mohammed Merah. As far as we can see he acted totally alone, with only a handgun: nothing complicated like explosives was involved.Right n ...
  • When is a conservative not a conservative?
    David Seaton's News LinksAt a Tea Party rally in Troy, Michigan, the GOP presidential contender Rick Santorum said this: "President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob!" To rapturous applause, Santorum went on: "There are good, decent men and women who go ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Emotionalism in Lawmaking: A Primer From the NRA
    The Washington Post has a front-page story today about the dramatic rise in justifiable homicides in Florida since they passed the nation's first Stand Your Ground law in 2005. In the first half of the decade Florida averaged 12 per year; in the second half of the decade it tripled to 36 per y ...
  • Michigan Republicans Blowing Up Yet Another No ...
    A couple of days ago Rachel Maddow highlighted an outrageous abuse of power from Michigan Republicans. Normally, it takes several months for new state laws to take effect, but a two-thirds "immediate effect" vote can cause laws to take effect right away. Lately, however, Republicans have been j ...
  • The Price of Gas Still Isn't High Enough to Ma ...
    The LA Times reports today that gasoline prices have hit nearly $4 lately but consumers aren't really getting all that exercised about it. They suggest several reasons for this: the increase hasn't been as steep as it was in 2008; prices aren't all that high when you adjust for inflation; ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging - 6 April 2012
    Today's theme was supposed to be catblogging done entirely from an iPad, a task that seems like it ought to be fairly straightforward but decidedly isn't. And I almost did it! But there were a few minor quality control issues last night related to both Photoshop and MoJo web access, and I didn' ...
  • Will Banning Pink Slime Destroy the Planet?
    I've studiously ignored the pink slime controversy, but now that the whole thing is pretty much over and the slime industry seems to be close to collective bankruptcy, Brad Plumer brings us news that maybe it was all a big mistake. After all, the pink slime processors recover an extra ten pound ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 313: The American Dream
    Topics: Kinect Star Wars We’re too lazy for Kinect The American Dream: To be Mediocre and Lazy The Mega Millions “winner” Mary J Blige “sings” for Burger King Conservatives Show their Asses on Trayvon Martin Coverage Share with your friends:
  • IC 312: How to be THE Black Friend
    Topics: April Movies and upcoming Trailers Kev & the born again virgin No blowjobs for life Why Jesus won’t let Kriss win the Mega Millions The Pope & why we let religious leaders get away with bigotry Religion isn’t an excuse for bigotry Pat Robertson’s greatest hits ...
  • The Roast of Joe Oliver
    After eviscerating the stories being passed through the media about Trayvon Martin by the Sanford Police department, the Orlando Sentinel and Craig Sonner, George Zimmerman’s lawyer, you would think any Zimmerman supporter would think twice about going on and confronting Lawrence.  Well, J ...
  • Lawrence O’Donnell Dropping Ether
    I have a general dislike for most of the media, particularly 24 hour cable news networks.  24 hours of non-stop coverage and yet I feel like we’re getting even less real information and becoming less informed the more we watch.  The same stories rehashed from hour to hour, the same guests recycl ...
  • IC 311: More Great Moments In White Privilege
    Topics: Bioware Mass Effect 3 update Michael Bay and the Ninja Turtles Extra raunchy & sexual comedy isn’t funny Dane Cook sucks President Obama Comments on Trayvon Martin The Trayvon Martin Case & White Privilege George Zimmerman’s friends defend him Racist don’t kil ...

Simple Climate

  • Global view answers ice age CO2 puzzle
    Measurements seemingly showing that temperatures have risen before atmospheric concentrations of CO2 over the past 800,000 years only represent Antarctica, say Harvard University's Jeremy Shakun and colleagues. By looking globally they show that CO2 rose before the world warmed at the end of the ...
  • Volunteer computers broaden climate model fore ...
    Dan Rowlands from Oxford Universty and colleagues run a 10,000 simulation experiment using donated computer time, finding the upper range of likely warming in 2050 could be nearer to 3ºC rather than 2ºC higher than the average from 1961-1990
  • Climate models pass prehistoric test
    US Geological Survey scientist Harry Dowsett and a worldwide team of expert climate modellers and temperature sleuths show four models can generally describe a 300,000 year warming period 3,000,000 years ago.
  • Complete organic crop switch would raise UK em ...
    Agricultural consultant Rob Carlton and colleagues suggests leaving more plant waste in fields is the best way to cut greenhouse gases produced by arable farming, though he still holds out hope for bringing the best bits of organic and conventional methods together.
  • Thick ice decline could advance watery Arctic ...
    NASA scientist Joey Comiso reveals a faster loss of supposedly less vulnerable “multiyear” ice that could see summer Northern polar ice melt into history, bringing further climate and food chain problems.

e!Science News

  • Emergence of artemisinin-resistance on Thai-My ...
    Evidence that the most deadly species of malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, is becoming resistant to the front line treatment for malaria on the border of Thailand and Myanmar was reported in The Lancet April 5.This increases concern that resistance could now spread to India and then Afric ...
  • Scientists forecast forest carbon loss
    When most people look at a forest, they see walking trails, deer yards, or firewood for next winter. But scientists at the Harvard Forest and Smithsonian Institution take note of changes imperceptible to the naked eye -- the uptake and storage of carbon. What they've learned in a recent study is ...
  • Scientists identify major source of cells' def ...
    Both radiation and many forms of chemotherapy try to kill tumors by causing oxidative stress in cancer cells. New research from USC on a protein that protects cancer and other cells from these stresses could one day help doctors to break down cancer cells' defenses, making them more susceptible ...
  • Impact of warming climate doesn't always trans ...
    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 some ecosystems may be resilient to certain aspects of climate change. read more
  • Coordinating the circadian clock: Molecular pa ...
    The 24-hour internal clock controls many aspects of human behavior and physiology, including sleep, blood pressure, and metabolism. Disruption in circadian rhythms leads to increased incidence of many diseases, including metabolic disease and cancer. Each cell of the body has its own internal ti ...

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Brave New Climate

  • IFR FaD 12 – lessons learned from fast reactor ...
    This is the third of a four-part series of extracts from the book Plentiful Energy — The story of the Integral Fast Reactor by Chuck Till and Yoon Chang. Reproduced with permission of the authors, these sections describe and justify some of the key design choices that went into the making the IF ...
  • Open Thread 22
    The Open Thread 21 has passed 500 comments and is getting a little bloated, so time for a new one. The Open Thread is a general discussion forum, where you can talk about whatever you like — there is nothing ‘off topic’ here — within reason. So get up on your soap box! The standard commenting [...]
  • Environmentalism in the mud: responding to Jim ...
    Guest Post by Ben Heard. Ben is Director of Adelaide-based advisory firm ThinkClimate Consulting, a Masters graduate of Monash University in Corporate Environmental Sustainability, and a member of the TIA Environmental and Sustainability Action Committee. After several years with major consultin ...
  • Dietary Guidelines Committee ignores climate c ...
    Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. His recently published book is CSIRO Perfidy. His previous article on BNC was: Feeding the billions on a hotter planet (Part III). He also wrote a brilliant recent piece for The ...
  • Further critique of ’100% renewable elec ...
    Recently on BNC, I ran two guest posts on the economic and technical challenges of supplying an energy-intensive, developed-world market using 100% renewable sources (under a situation where large hydro and/or conventional geothermal can provide little or no contribution). The case study was the ...

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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  • The round trip part 3: Roots and branches
    On foot from Jisr az-Zarka to Haifa, via Slovakia, Burning Man, Egypt, Sudan, a strip mall and a sub-tropical concentration camp.  As darkness falls on the first day of my journey, I am at a coffeeshop in Jisr A-Zarqa, smoking Nargileh and speaking to the friendly owner Hamis and to his equally ...
  • Jewish soldiers refuse to share Seder table wi ...
    Druze soldiers used to think their uniform will exempt them from the racism prevalent in Jewish Israeli society. They ought to seriously rethink this assumption.  During Seder night last week, a group of Jewish soldiers refused to share the same table with Druze soldiers in training base Camp 80 ...
  • Political is personal: The allure of Peter Beinart
    The author of a new book describing a crisis in Zionism may not be telling us anything we didn’t already know – but in tracing his own personal journey of his anguished relationship to Israel, Peter Beinar has touched a nerve no one in the American Jewish community can ignore.  At a ...
  • The Kaufman Critique: Keeping Passover real at ...
    It’s been over a year since the last Kaufman Critique was published.  It’s not that I haven’t been to restaurants lately, more of a time issue. And certainly, writing about McDonald’s isn’t the best comeback post, but hey – maybe it’ll get me back into t ...
  • Günter Grass, persona non grata in Israel
    Now Interior Minister Eli Yishai has declared Grass to be persona non grata while Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has accused the German author of being ”willing to sacrifice the Jewish people on the altar of crazy anti-Semites for a second time, just to sell a few more books or gain re ...

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Matt Weidner Blog

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

  • On Being Bigger Than We Are
    It’s Easter – Good Friday – and that should mean something, shouldn’t it? I don’t mean in any way particularly …Continue reading »
  • Hunger Games – Global Reach
    Foresight, a think-tank established to predict future crises, spent most of last year calling for “urgent action” to prevent food …Continue reading »
  • Hunger Games – No Way Out
    Budgets are infernal things and in times of economic hardship can either rescue a troubled economy or prolong it. And …Continue reading »
  • Anticipation
    During the course of my adult lifetime I have written some 55 books, ranging from kid’s stories to novels. In …Continue reading »
  • Hunger Games – Weren’t We All Supp ...
    This week sees our 25th annual citywide spring food drive in London. It should have been like old hat but …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

  • Basic research and personal responsibility
    Dan Sarewitz has a rather provocative commentary in Nature this morning, where he suggests that proposals to increase basic research may be good politics, but questionable policy. The headline alone is probably enough to get some science-advocates’ blood boiling, whether they go on to read ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    Next week I am being “installed” here at the University of Michigan.  Not in the sense of installing a carpet – as one friend suggested – but in the sense of being installed as an endowed professor.  The Charles and Rita Gelman Risk Science Professor to be precise. To mar ...
  • Nanotechnology, climate and energy: over-heate ...
    Friends of the Earth have just released a new report challenging claims that nanotechnology will lead to greener, more energy-efficient technologies, lower-impact technologies. I’ve only had the chance to skim through the report so far, and so don’t have detailed comments on it.  But ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    Here’s something that keeps me awake at night (seriously): why, in this age of super-slick graphics and innovative multimedia resources, is it nearly impossible to give presentation that looks as good as they should? How come I can guarantee that when I give a presentation, the slides will ...
  • Risk, uncertainty and sustainable innovation: ...
    Despite the risk of receiving absolutely no comments (please don’t let me down!), I thought I’d try something new and ask for some feedback on the background blurb for a meeting I’ve been working on. The meeting is a symposium on Risk, Uncertainty and Sustainable Innovation bei ...

Reader Supported News

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

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

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Consumerist

  • Kraft Bows To Customer Pressure, Ditches Ties ...
    Consumers put enough of a lean on Kraft Foods that it's giving up its relationship with the American Legislative Exchange Council, a conservative lobbying group that has backed voter ID and "stand your ground" laws. Coca-Cola also recently split with the group. The Chicago Tribune cites a stat ...
  • Public Shaming Does The Job: Bank Of America G ...
    It's not that we love the act of shaming a big, greedy bank into doing the right thing -- wait. Scratch that. We totally love it, which is why we're happy that Bank of America finally refunded over
  • Treasury Freezes Compensation For Top AIG, All ...
    While a majority of the American corporations that received "exceptional" bailout assistance form the Troubled Asset Relief Program, there are still three businesses -- AIG, Ally Financial (you may know it by its pre-bust name of GMAC), and General Motors -- remaining. Today, Treasury Dept. ann ...
  • Discover Accidentally Steals From Foundation T ...
    Phil (no, not the one who works here) had to make a payment to an art foundation, and learned that he could use his Discover card to do so. Neat! So he put the payment through, and all was well...until he learned that somehow the transaction went through backwards, transferring the money from t ...
  • American Airlines Voucher Disappears In The Ma ...
    The original copy of an air travel voucher has mystical powers, and flights can only be scheduled using the original copy. At least, that's the impression we get from Ashley's experience. When she went to redeem her voucher, she mailed it in, as required. Only the tracking number hasn't been sc ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Torture Whistleblower Becomes 6th Charged with ...
    Former CIA officer John KiriakouAssociated Press: Ex-CIA Officer Charged with Leaking Secret Info Summary: Former CIA officer John Kiriakou was indicted yesterday under the Espionage Act for allegedly leaking classified information to journalists regarding the CIA's use of waterboarding (label ...
  • The Truth About the Espionage Act Prosecution ...
    Well-played, Justice Department. Indict former CIA officer John Kiriakou on Tuesday evening, but don't unseal the indictment until 4:59pm on Thursday, right before the holiday weekend, in order to avoid press coverage of the Obama administration's 6th Espionage Act prosecution of a whistleb ...
  • Obama Indicts Sixth Whistleblower Under the Es ...
    On April 3, 2012, the Obama administration indicted intelligence whistleblower John Kiriakou. Kiriakou is the sixth whistleblower that the Obama administration has charged under the Espionage Act for the alleged mishandling of classified information – more than all past administrations combined. ...
  • Whistleblower Protection Petition to Treasury ...
    GAP's Shelley Walden holds the GAP & NTU petition in front of the Department of the TreasuryLast week, GAP delivered copies of our joint petition, Protect Whistleblowers at U.S. Taxpayer-Funded International Banks, to key officials at the Treasury Department and in Congress, in conjunction w ...
  • USDA Inspectors Sound Alarm on Poultry Inspect ...
    The New York Times: Plan to Let Poultry Plants Inspect Birds Is Criticized Summary: The US Department of Agriculture is seeking to expand its controversial pilot program, HIMP – an inspection system at poultry plants – to cut costs. The program, which turns over significant inspection duties t ...

UK Progressive

  • On This Easter Holiday Weekend – We Are Also T ...
    All of us here at UK Progressive Magazine wish you and yours a wonderful spring holiday weekend, Happy Easter and Passover. We’re taking a few days off to gear up for the next round of GOP craziness. It is also a time of change and reflection as today is the one year anniversary of my [...]
  • The Choice in 2012: Social Darwinism or a Dece ...
    The returns aren’t all in yet on today’s Republican primaries but President Obama didn’t wait. He kicked off his 2012 campaign against Mitt Romney with a hard-hitting speech centered on the House Republicans’ budget plan – which Romney has enthusiastically endorsed. That plan, by the way, is the ...
  • $10 Million Bounty for Alleged Mumbai Plotter ...
    by Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica The U.S. government yesterday offered a $10 million reward for information leading to the arrest of Hafeez Saeed, the spiritual chief of Pakistan’s Lashkar-i-Taiba militant group and an alleged mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. A yearlong invest ...
  • Finance Industry Makes Up Nearly Half of pro-R ...
    by Alexandra Duszak and Rachael Marcus The Center for Public Integrity Investment kings dominate pro-Romney attack-PAC Last summer, hedge fund pioneer Julian Robertson made the maximum $2,500 contribution to Mitt Romney’s campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. With a net worth some ...
  • While White House Emphasizes Easing Student De ...
    It was with some fanfare that the Obama administration announced last fall that it was ramping up a program to help students with federal loans reduce their monthly payments. Under the program, payments are adjusted based on how much students earn — what’s known as income-based repayment. Yet, e ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Easter Monday – Unthreaded
    Assuming the site survived the maintenance and switch you’ll be able to see this post. Jo Rating: 9.0/10 (6 votes cast) Rating: 9.0/10 (6 votes cast)
  • Happy Easter Unthreaded
    Yes, incredibly, I am on a real holiday. Happy Easter to you all. I am at the beach again. The site will be going on a holiday too. So sometime this break unfortunately we’ll be offline.  Sorry about that. Do book those Delingpole tickets. Rating: 8.7/10 (7 votes cast) Rating: 8.7/10 (7 v ...
  • Satellites show a warmer Earth is releasing ex ...
    (I’m revisiting older important papers and setting up resource pages, largely thanks to Tony Cox’s prodding. In this post I found it interesting that Lindzen’s work, which was so controversial because it proved the IPCC is wrong, was in many ways merely confirming earlier resul ...
  • Regulators wet dreams of controling you
    The Planet Under Pressure conference has brought out the clawing powermongers. The Commentator.com team who were brave enough to attend, tell us that no one got very excited about the science, but the word “regulation” was received, well… ecstatically. The conference was largel ...
  • James Delingpole on Tour in Australia — ...
    The brilliant James Delingpole is coming to Australia thanks to the IPA to promote freedom for the world, to rescue modern science and to sell a hundred thousand copies of his new book: Killing the Earth to Save It (How Environmentalists are ruining the planet, destroying the economy and steali ...

ReNew America

  • And they crucified Him
    (Washington Times) - Jesus stood before the governor: And the governor asked him, saying, "Art thou the King of the Jews?" And Jesus said unto him, "Thou sayest." And when he was accused of the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing...
  • Obama gives $1.5 billion to Muslim Brotherhood ...
    (National Review) - In October 2010, on the eve of the Islamic revolution that the media fancies as "the Arab Spring," the Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood called for jihad against the United States...
  • Effort underway to turn Texas into winner-take ...
    (Daily Caller) - An effort to shake up the GOP primary race is underway in the Lone Star State. The outcome could set the course for a brokered convention by keeping front-runner Mitt Romney from securing enough delegates to win the presidential nomination outright...
  • Santorum to campaign in Pennsylvania, Missouri ...
    (Newsmax) - Rick Santorum will be in Pennsylvania and Missouri over four days next week, his campaign said Saturday. The Hill reports that the campaign released a schedule of six events for Tuesday through Friday, an indication the former Pennsylvania senator's exit from the presidential race is ...
  • Gay Mormon students at BYU come out in Web video
    (Associated Press) - Students from a strict Mormon college that prohibits "homosexual behavior" have launched a Web video aimed at reassuring other gay and lesbian youth struggling with their faith and sexual orientation...

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

  • 2012ers: New Age v. Preppers v. Rapture
    OK, fess up – if you believe in 2012 to any degree then you are one of the above. You might be a mix of two or even all three, but one will be where your core 2012ism comes from. One of the easiest ways to determine your key aspect is to ask yourself how you will react if a massive EOTW e ...
  • Japan Updates Tsunami Predictions
    In 2003 the Japan government’s expert panel on tsunamis predicted the maximum height of any tsunami created by an earthquake to be 20 meters. In wake of last year’s disaster they have changed their evaluation, and the new worst-case scenario is a 35-meter wave. Tokyo could be hit by ...
  • Second Solar Storm Detector Launching in 2014
    Better late than never! In my recent article on the incredible harm a solar storm could inflict on infrastructure, I pointed out that we only have a single line of defense, and the solar storms it detects could kill it: When warning us about incoming geomagnetic storms, the NOAA’s only ...
  • $20 Million Steel Arks
    In my opinion, it went something like this: A few authors suggest a global cataclysm could occur in 2012 Patrick Geryl says a good way of surviving would be unsinkable yachts Roland Emmerich makes the movie 2012, using many of Geryl’s ideas. He replaces yachts with massive steel arks ...
  • Here Come The Homonids
    I had previously anticipated (in mid-2010) that more human ancestors and cousins would turn up: Based on recent discoveries, I wouldn’t be surprised if 6-10 human species are determined to have lived in the last 50,000 years – and I reckon an additional species for the last 10,000 years is qu ...

Facing South

One News Page

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • We Want War, And We Want It Now
    With friends like these … It all had to do with that Friends of Syria (fools for war?) meeting in Istanbul. Picture Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal – who seems to have a knack for sending US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton into rapture – feverishly arguing that the Hou ...
  • Is BRICS Challenging the West?
    The fourth BRICS summit representing Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa was held on March 28-29, 2012 in New Delhi. Despite the limited timeline, its results might be defined as outstanding. In any case it’s obvious that the leaders of the member countries had no intention to confine ...
  • NATO in Afghanistan: Do They Stay Or Do They Go?
    Despite the fact that the U.S. has officially announced the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan in 2014, things are coming so that they will remain there. The question, in what status, with what rights and, more importantly, with what goal – increasingly concerns the neighbors of Afghani ...
  • The Iranian Threat
    The West sees Iran as a real threat. That perception is driving development of a missile defense system in Europe and the Middle East; ever tougher, so-called “crippling” economic and financial sanctions against Iran; support for both the internal opposition, which is not currently having a majo ...
  • BRICS: Going Strong to Change the World Scene
    On 28-29 March 2012 a BRICS summit was held in Indian capital New Delhi. The theme was “BRICS Partnership for Stability, Security and Growth”. This was the fourth BRICS summit that brought together the leaders of the emerging economic powers to discuss a host of global issues. The event took pla ...

BlogHer

  • Programmers are More Hilarious than You Thought
    Lea Verou, a web developer known for mad CSS skills and helpful programs was doing some programming. Something programmers do as they change code is create "commit messages" that tell what was changed in the code and why. That way programmers who follow after have the information to help them ke ...
  • How to Negotiate Your Salary
    It has been shown over and over that women tend to leave hundreds of thousands of dollars (if not millions) on the table over the course of their careers simply because they did not ask for more. Whether it is because of the gender wage gap or some other phenomenon, the bottom line is, if you do ...
  • Help for Detecting Mac Flashback Trojan
    LifeHacker and other sites are reporting a trojan infecting Mac computers. Kris Cain at Little Tech Girl looked into it and found out how to test your computer to see if it's infected. She explains, The BackDoor.Flashback.39 has already affected up to 600,000 Mac computers today. Wow. I used to ...
  • Healing the Wounds of Domestic Violence with Art
    "Art opens the closets, airs out the cellars and attics. It brings healing." - Julia Cameron As women, we are artist of our own lives. We exercise our creativity by providing healthy, hearty meals for our family, creating a cozy home, planning birthday parties and organizing holidays. We are con ...
  • BlogHer Conferences Weekly Update - - April 6, ...
    Happy holiday weekend! If I have it right, we have both Passover and Easter this weekend, so enjoy time with your friends and family! It's been a very busy few weeks here for the BlogHer Conference Team and we are excited to share! We are still excited about the second annual BlogHer Entrepren ...

Health Freedom Alliance

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

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Friday roundup, April 6, 2012
    On Thursday, W.Va. Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin placed a wreath at the coal miner statute on the state Capitol grounds to mark the 2nd anniversary of the Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster. Photo courtesy of the governor’s office. There was understandably quite a bit of reporting this week about the ...
  • Coal and climate: Still searching for Cecil Ro ...
    I’m not sure what MetroNews radio personality Hoppy Kercheval would prefer — For United Mine Workers President Cecil Roberts to announce the union will work against President Obama’s re-election or for Brother Cecil to keep refusing to do so, giving Hoppy endless material for t ...
  • The Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster, April 5, 2010
    Two years ago this afternoon, a horrific explosion ripped through Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch Mine in Raleigh County, W.Va. Twenty-nine coal miners died and two others were injured. For many of us, the 2nd anniversary is a time to revisit the disaster, to ask questions about whether e ...
  • Another day in West Virginia’s coalfield ...
    In this March 13, 2012 photo, a coal barge makes its way to the Bruce Mansfield Power Station in Shippingport , Pa.  (AP Photo) As I’ve read, listened to and watched the reactions the last two days from West Virginia political leaders reacting to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency&#8 ...
  • Sen. Rockefeller on EPA greenhouse gas proposa ...
    While the rest of West Virginia’s political leaders are busy bashing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, here’s what Sen. Jay Rockefeller had to say about the EPA’s proposed greenhouse gas emissions limits: We have known since the 2007 Supreme Court ruling that greenhouse ...

Daniel Miessler

  • The Benefits of Web Server Optimization
    Granted I’m only a couple hundred miles away from my datacenter for this test, but I am loading a fairly typical page of content here in 128ms. That’s pretty sick. We’re talking a tenth of a second for a full page load. Here’s how I did it. :: Related Content10 Ways to Te ...
  • How to Address Chinese Infosec Espionage
    It’s not hard to imagine what happens when an American company pays for research and a Chinese firm gets the results free; it destroys our competitive edge. Shawn Henry, who retired last Friday as the executive assistant director of the F.B.I. (and its lead agent on cybercrime), told Congress la ...
  • Abolish The Reference Check | TechCrunch
    What’s my beef with reference checks? They don’t accomplish the job we intend them to do. In a startup, you can’t afford to hire B-players. But reference checks, which are intended to do the screening, fail to eliminate these candidates who are just so-so. This happens because the person giving ...
  • Up To 1.5M Credit Card Numbers May Have Been S ...
    On Friday, we heard the news that payments processor Global Payments was hit with a massive security breach involving MasterCard and Visa cardholders. At the time it was unclear the reach of the security issue, which was being investigated by the U.S. Secret Service. Tonight, Global Payments rep ...
  • Clothes and Self-Perception | NYTimes
    If you wear a white coat that you believe belongs to a doctor, your ability to pay attention increases sharply. But if you wear the same white coat believing it belongs to a painter, you will show no such improvement. via nytimes.com Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Rela ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

  • What If Socialism Is Part Of The Solution?
    I have watched the political climate of late and frankly it makes me sick. A country, that many claim is a Christian nation, treats their poor like a pariah. Any effort to help the poor better their lives is condemned as being Socialist propaganda. “If this is going to be a Christian nation that ...
  • Tepco’s Cheapskate Tactics Put World at Risk
    by Richard Wilcox,dissidentvoice.org - ,While “Fifty Year Battle” To Save Japan Rages On Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. – Henry David Thoreau The system of nature, of which man is a pa ...
  • Sex, Drugs And Rock Photography
    By CLAIRE O’NEILL,wbur.org - Mick Rock is really his name — though he’s Michael to his mother — and he is exactly what you might imagine a rock photographer to be: tall and hip with shaggy hair. Shaded Ray-Bans, jean jacket, scarf. Oh, and an English accent to boot — so he can drop w ...
  • Strategies of Deception
    By William T. Hathaway To get a preview of Obama’s strategies for winning a second term, we just need to read the liberal press. They are giving lip-service praise to the current protests while trying to steer them in a direction that serves the Democratic Party. Seeking to restore the fad ...
  • Revolution 99 Updates: Positioning, Planning a ...
    DC’s 2 ongoing Occupy protests plan to merge with single vigil at McPherson Square AP – WASHINGTON — Washington’s two ongoing Occupy protests plan to merge with one group moving out of Freedom Plaza and joining protesters at McPherson Square. The Washington Post (http://wapo.st/HR3k70 ) re ...

reference frame

  • Why I am alarmed about climate change
    By Alexander Ač, Czech Globe Thanks to Luboš Motl for providing me the place for a guest post. Natural greenhouse effect is a well described and for a long time understood scientific phenomenon. Without greenhouse gases (GHGs), such as water vapor, CO2, CH4, O3, and some others, global ...
  • Freedom of speech in the U.S. is a fantasy
    John Derbyshire was one of the brightest writers in National Review who focused on history, immigration, China, race, and even mathematics – including topics involving the Riemann zeta function. He is conservative and almost (or about) as pro-science (and pro-evolution) as your humble corresp ...
  • The royal status of 11-dimensional supergravity
    A few days ago, I discussed the maximally supersymmetric gauge theory, the Darth Vader theory, which is exceptional. I mentioned that the \(\NNN=4\) gauge theory in \(d=4\) dimensions is a beautiful, fully consistent (at the quantum level) dimensional reduction of the 10-dimensional supe ...
  • 35 years of \(\NNN=4\) Yang-Mills theory
    Update: See also a newer article on 11-dimensional supergravity George Musser who writes for Scientific American has authored an unusually (for SciAm) scientifically oriented blog entry The Emperor, Darth Vader, and the Ultimate Ultimate Theory of Physics about the 35th birthday of the ...
  • Quantum computer in a diamond
    Technical: Speed up your MathJax \(\rm\LaTeX\) by a second per page, at least in Windows. Download these zipped OTF fonts, unzip them, and for each of the 22 OTF files, right-click Properties/General and "unblock". Then choose all the 22 OTF files and install them. It will display the same ma ...

Tatumba 2.0

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

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

Enviroblog

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

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Only one in six will attend church during Easter
    Around 16 percent of Oslo’s population is likely to attend a church service during Norway’s official Easter holiday period, which starts on Thursday and runs through Monday. Not all churches will be open and offering services either. A survey conducted by research firm Respons for ne ...
  • Red Cross tackles the Easter blues
    Norway’s long, five-day Easter holiday isn’t only a spring fling full of fun. For many Norwegians, it can be a period of loneliness and depression, so the Red Cross was standing by with more than rescue squads for wayward skiers in the mountains. “There are very many who don&#8 ...
  • Norwegians traveling more than ever
    As Norwegians tucked into their annual five-day Easter holiday came news that many of them are traveling more than ever. New studies show they’re willing to spend large sums on adventure travel, from mountain climbing in the Himalayas to ski trips over the South Pole.  Trade association Vi ...
  • Breivik ‘like a Nazi from the ’30s ...
    A psychiatrist who has read a 38-page letter to Norwegian media from confessed right-wing terrorist Anders Behring Breivik has likened Breivik’s text to the “ideologocial documents” written by Nazis in the 1930s and 1940s. Portions of Breivik’s letter were published in Os ...
  • Bhatti arrested again, but released
    Arfan Bhatti, best known for being the first person in Norway to be charged under new anti-terrorism laws, was back in police custody earlier this week on new charges of domestic violence. A city court judge ended up releasing him at mid-day Wednesday, but slapped him with a restraining order ag ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • For the Love of Parks – a Transition Initiative
    On a beautiful spring day in the heart of east Berlin, eight fruit trees are planted in Görlitzer park. The trees, mainly apples but also some plums and pears, were carefully laid into the ground. The project, ‘I heart Görli’, was organised by a group of locals with similar ...
  • Tree Cotton – Gossypium Arboreum
    You might have seen the cotton growing out west — around St George, Gundiwindi and Dirranbandi in Queensland, Australia, and Moree and Narrabri in NSW. It’s an annual crop — sown in the spring and harvested in the autumn — grown in flat plains country. The blocks are leve ...
  • Permaculture Design Certificate Course, Arusha ...
    Time is running out to join members of the international permaculture community for FoodWaterShelter’s Permaculture Design Certificate Course between the 4th to 15th June 2012 in Arusha, Tanzania. With applicants from England to the USA, South Africa to Germany and throughout Africa includ ...
  • Take a PDC with Rico Zook in Bayouda Village, ...
    At least after the International Permaculture Conference (IPC11) last September, Jordan is now well-known in the permaculture world. It is thus a pleasure to invite you to join a 2-week full PDC course that will be held in the scenic village of Bayouda — 20km north-east of Amman, Jordan, i ...
  • Our Seeds: Seeds Blong Yumi – Watch for Free
    In September 2008 Seed Savers released their first film, “Our Seeds: Seeds Blong Yumi”, a 57 minute documentary that celebrates traditional food plants and the people that grow them. We have now released this documentary on the net for free viewing (with English audio and Portugues ...

Pointman's

  • About writing.
    I do the thinking thing very well. For so much of my life and for so many things in it, I think very carefully before I leap and I’m good at it. Over the years, people have learnt to trust and depend on that and because I love them, that’s something special I can do … Read more
  • About writing.
    I do the thinking thing very well. For so much of my life and for so many things in it, I think very carefully before I leap and I’m good at it. Over the years, people have learnt to trust and depend on that and because I love them, that’s something special I can do … Read more
  • Political fracture points and power vacuums.
    A political fracture point is a sudden and radical change in the political landscape. In classical times, it would be the collapse of an empire, such as the Roman Empire. In the last century, World War I resulted in the outright destruction of several, such as the German Empire, and ultimately f ...
  • Political fracture points and power vacuums.
    A political fracture point is a sudden and radical change in the political landscape. In classical times, it would be the collapse of an empire, such as the Roman Empire. In the last century, World War I resulted in the outright destruction of several, such as the German Empire, and ultimately f ...
  • Job opportunity, with lots of money to be made.
    You know those Huey helicopters that you see in all those old Vietnam war movies. They had this single bolt sticking out of the cabin, connecting it to the rotor blades. The troopers used to call it the Jesus Bolt, because if it failed, everyone on board was going home to Jesus. Well, the equiva ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

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

Information Underground

  • Zionist Personalities We Should Know About • R ...
    Try here, I'm sure whatever question you may have has been covered already; https://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en#hl=e ... 27&bih=907Statistics: Posted by GordZilla — Sun Apr 08, 2012 1:35 pm
  • Social Engineering • Re: RamzPaul : Into The H ...
    I'm not a big fan of Ramsey Paul, but he's spot on here. Turn down the irritating Jazz "music" and these also give a good idea what East St. Louis is like... iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0usW0kw2Dw iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krT0_n_O6XA iframe http://www.you ...
  • Formal Introductions & Welcomes • Re: supe ...
    imsamhi1 wrote: thanks, but not working yet. i tried multiple reloads, removing browser's tiu cookies, re-login, non of it seem to work. Press on the letter icon and send me an email. Or try to send me a msg . I have fixed the problom.Statistics: Posted by superzebra — Sun Apr 08, 2012 7:17 am
  • Formal Introductions & Welcomes • Re: supe ...
    superzebra sent me a PM so he's back onlineStatistics: Posted by Ognir — Sun Apr 08, 2012 2:47 am
  • Zionist Personalities We Should Know About • R ...
    There is a question mark on the end of the topic isn't it? Seriously? ...We have debated this subject to its full conclusion. This is just yet another attempt by the Jews to even further muddy the waters; "Ok so they won't believe he was the monster we first portrayed him as, I got an ide ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • New iPad App Will Help Mariners Avert Right Wh ...
    A coalition of conservation groups has created an iPad/iPhone app capable of warning mariners when they are approaching areas of high risk for collision with endangered North Atlantic right whales. The so-called Whale Alert app, which is available for free Click to enlarge NOAA Whale Alert ...
  • Exposure to Weed Killer Can Alter the Shape of ...
    A new study has found that exposure to the popular weed killer Roundup can alter the morphology of some amphibian species, triggering unexpected changes in body shape of young tadpoles. In a series of tests conducted in large outdoor tanks that mimicked wetland ecosystems, scientists at the Univ ...
  • UK Revives £1 Billion Competition to Boost Car ...
    The UK has re-launched a £1 billion ($1.6 billion) competition to promote the large-scale adoption of carbon-capture technology, an investment that government officials hope will make the UK a global leader in the emerging low-carbon energy sector. Launched by the Department of Energy and Climat ...
  • Some Corals More Resilient To Increased Acidif ...
    Some coral species may be better able to cope with the increasingly acidic condition of the world’s oceans than previously believed, a new study says. Writing in the journal Nature Climate Change, an international team of scientists describes an internal mechanism by which many coral speci ...
  • Shell’s Spill Response Plan Is Approved by U.S ...
    The U.S. Department of the Interior has approved Shell Oil’s plan to respond to an oil spill in the Arctic’s Beaufort Sea, clearing the way for exploratory drilling this summer. The decision follows similar U.S. government approval for a spill response plan in the Chukchi Sea, and Shell said tha ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • “Bully” gets a bigger pulpit
    By Montreal Simon It never made any sense. A movie where children kill each other gets a PG-13 rating, a documentary about children getting bullied gets rated R. So I’m glad to see that Bully has been reclassified. I’m happy that kids are going to be able to see it, and that the new ...
  • 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 ...

Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Japan, China, South Korea urge North Korea to ...
    The foreign ministers of Japan, China and South Korea agreed Sunday to make "maximum efforts" to dissuade North Korea from conducting a satellite launch but failed to reach consensus on how the three countries will respond if Pyongyang launches the rocket. Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Ge ...
  • Amateur champion Matsuyama hangs tough at Masters
    Asian amateur champion Hideki Matsuyama kept alive his hopes of qualifying for a return to Augusta with an even-par 72 in the third round of the Masters Tournament on Saturday. The 20-year-old from Japan moved up four spots into a tie for 27th at 1 over. The top 16 and ties will receive automa ...
  • Pakistan airlifts Japanese tourists out of Gilgit
    The Pakistani government dispatched a military aircraft Sunday to airlift 120 foreign tourists, including 77 Japanese, from a northern region where sectarian violence has left them stranded since early this month. Japan's embassy in Islamabad requested the help from Pakistan once it became cle ...
  • Ex-prime minister Murayama expresses regret ov ...
    Former Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama said Sunday it is regrettable that he changed the then Japan Socialist Party's policy to an acceptance of nuclear power stations while he was in office. "It was imprudent and it was a failure. I want to apologize," Murayama told an antinuclear meeting in ...
  • Kansai Electric to present timetable for Oi re ...
    Kansai Electric Power Co. President Makoto Yagi is considering presenting a medium- to long-term timetable for the implementation of safety measures for two idled reactors at its Oi nuclear power plant to industry minister Yukio Edano on Monday morning, sources familiar with the move said Sunday ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Saskatchewan Budget: Where’s the Intergovernme ...
    A hallmark of Brad Wall’s premiership has been cosy relations with municipal governments and the two westernmost provincial governments. Since taking office, the Sask. Party has been throwing money at municipalities. It pledged not to sign the Trade, Investment and Labour Mobility Agreement with ...
  • HST cut in Nova Scotia: Detracting from real d ...
    The Nova Scotia government has just announced that it will cut the HST by 1% next year and 1% the following year. This cut will reverse the 2% increase the government imposed in order to assist it to achieve a balanced budget. Increasing the HST was part of a four year plan to balance the [...]
  • Real Unemployment Rate = 11.3%
    Statistics Canada reported significant employment growth today for the first time in six months. As Andrew has already noted, welcome strength in March does not make up for the five preceding months of stagnation. Compared to September 2011, full-time employment has increased by 21,900 while Can ...
  • Is the Federal Government Spending Too Little?
    A talking point has appeared among right wing commentators that federal government expenditures are out of control and need to be cut back. They argue expenditures need to be cut so we can get back to a balanced budget. And they expect us to ignore the fact that we were going to get there anyway ...
  • What a Wildrose Victory May Mean for Saskatchewan
    If recent polling is to be believed, Alberta’s ultra-conservative Wildrose Party looks poised to capture an electoral majority in the upcoming provincial election only a few years after its creation. While we could just chalk this up to Alberta’s peculiar penchant for right-wing popu ...

ReDress

  • Pastor John Hagee and his deadly million
    Lawrence Davidson argues that US Pastor John Hagee and his followers, who believe in the divine creation of the state of Israel, are as delusional as people who once believed in the reality of Zeus and his Olympian clan but could one day act as cheerleaders for the ethnic cleansing and mass murd ...
  • The devastating impact of Passover on Jewish p ...
    Uri Avnery considers the fictional story of the Passover and its devastating impact on Jewish culture: extreme paranoia and a craving for revenge against non-Jews - for Israelis, pouring out their wrath on their neighbours, the Palestinians and other Arabs, on their minorities and on their victims.
  • German poet Guenter Grass says what cowardly p ...
    Gilad Atzmon considers German poet Guenter Grass's courageous stance on Israel, which he criticized in a poem for undermining an already fragile world peace, and views the ridiculous response of Israel's embassy and its stooges in Germany.
  • Britain's mad-house foreign policy
    Stuart Littlewood highlights Britain's double standards and contradictory policies in the Middle East: on the one hand irrational belligerence and warmongering towards Iran even though this is contrary to British national interests, and on the other cosying up to and taking its cue from Israel, ...
  • Israel set to uproot 30,000 of its own Bedouin ...
    Neve Gordon explains why Israel's plans to move entire communities of its own Bedouin citizens from their ancestral lands in the Negev and put them in townships will deprive them of their livelihood and land rights.

Physics Today

  • Rival teams shared in Nobel celebration
    Science: In 2011, Brian Schmidt, Adam Riess, and Saul Perlmutter were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae". The Nobel may not be shared among more than three people, and the three men wante ...
  • No title
    Talking Points Memo: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is back online after a four-month long maintenance period. On Thursday, CERN announced that it had achieved the highest-energy level for proton collisions yet recorded in history: 8 trillion electron volts (TeV).
  • Wind energy growth tops renewable energy sector
    Earth Policy Institute: Renewable energy makes up only a small section of the energy market but since 2007 hydropower grew by 7 percent and wind power grew by 36 percent while coal declined slightly says a new report from the Earth Policy Institute. In fact in five US states more than 10 percent ...
  • Smaller accelerators continue the search for d ...
    Nature: In the wake of the null results from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, some physicists are turning from larger, more powerful particle accelerators to smaller, less expensive ones. At the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Virginia, a continuous dense beam of electr ...
  • Rwanda uses x-ray technology to identify nutri ...
    SciDev.Net: Agricultural researchers in Rwanda are using x-ray fluorescence (XRF) to determine the mineral content of food crops, writes Aimable Twahirwa for SciDev.Net. In XRF analysis, atoms of a food sample are excited with high-energy, short-wavelength radiation to identify various elements ...

Revolutionary Politics

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

Peakwater

  • Climate Change Linked to Waterborne Diseases i ...
    “As global warming triggers heavier rainfall and faster snowmelt in the Arctic, Inuit communities in Canada are reporting more cases of illness attributed to pathogens that have washed into surface water and groundwater, according to a new study. The findings corroborate past research that ...
  • Water Pollution Threatens Lake Victoria
    “A study conducted by the ACCORD Tanzania has revealed that by 2048 there will be much less fish in the Lake Victoria. The study revealed that Nile Perch stocks went down from 750,000 tones during 2005 to 337,000 tones, in 2008. Tilapia also dropped from 27,061 tones to 24,811 tones over t ...
  • Water crisis in city may take a serious turn soon
    “The water crisis that has been causing sufferings to the residents of different parts of the Dhaka city is unlikely to end soon.   “Rather lifting of excess groundwater from the aquifer and obstruction to recharge it may even intensify the crisis in the coming days, experts sai ...
  • Scarce water spreads disease on waterfowl refuge
    Dave Mauser walked the edge of a mudflat, peering underneath the dried brown rushes where one coot after another had gone to hide and then die. “Now the coots are getting the worst of it,” said Mauser, head biologist on the Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge, the nation’s f ...
  • A Difficult Choice on Water
      “Arizona’s two senators, John McCain and Jon Kyl, traveled to the Navajo reservation this week to meet with Navajo and Hopi tribal leaders about a proposed water rights accord that would settle the two tribes’ claims to the Little Colorado River system. “Mr. Kyl and Mr. McCain ...

D. Kucinich

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

Authentically Wired

  • we don’t need a gun
    …In America we don’t need a gun … we give that job to our medical profession and they vaccinate us … same results ours is thought to be more humane…     Russia developing a gun that turns people into zombies (seriously) 04-05-2012  •  Y!Tech Russian President Vladmir Pu ...
  • So what is honestly ORGANIC and NOT owned by g ...
    … So what is honestly ORGANIC and NOT owned by giant corporate corruptors …   Organic Food Industry Bought Up by Corporations Like Coca-Cola APR 7T Posted by Wake Up World in Health & Wellbeing… 7th April 2012…By Anthony Gucciardi   You may be wondering why som ...
  • changing far quicker than
          …The paradigms are changing far quicker than the old-boys want and there are completely baffled …   No Women Allowed? It’s Way Past Time to Desegregate Augusta   Golf is not just an innocent little game: We’re talking billions of dollars and a soc ...
  • simply an agent for the privately owned
    … As the IRS is simply an agent for the privately owned federal reserve system (those that control our $$$) … they have NO power over our sovereign rights … tell the IRS hell no …   Owe The IRS? Bill Would Suspend Passport Rights For Delinquent Taxpayers 04-05-2012  •  losan ...
  • STOP … take a deep breath
    … STOP … take a deep breath … allow the statement below t truly permeate through all five senses … WOW … what a positive … beautiful opportunity …   The Seeds of a Quiet Economic Revolution: A Review of Gar Alperovitz’s "America Beyond Capitalism" Maria Armoudian, Trutho ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

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

Science - NZ Herald

  • Scientist selling farm to fund malaria battle
    A veteran researcher says she's selling her multimillion-dollar organic farm so that she can continue her work on breakthrough anti-malarial treatment.Auckland University researcher Norrie Pearce has dedicated much of her life to...
  • Particle collider escalates quest to explore u ...
    The world's largest particle collider has notched up a new record as it escalates its quest to find fundamental matter and explore the origins of the Universe, CERN said.Early on Thursday the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) brought...
  • Rise in whale trade stuns experts
    Scientists plan to investigate a "marine bushmeat trade" after a major study showed that global consumption of marine mammals such as whales and dolphins is increasing.The research surprised New Zealand marine experts, in particular...
  • WeatherWatch: Columnist weathers storm of frie ...
    Scientists can't be doing too good a job of convincing us of climate change, judging by more polls indicating that the public's level of concern is waning.The NZ Herald has reported that an academic analysis of surveys spanning...
  • Oyster is the world for honoured NZ scientist
    Home education, a love of the sea and a passion for the famous Bluff oyster have brought a New Zealand marine biologist to Paris, where she is being feted among the ranks of leading young scientists.Zoe Hilton, 33, has been honoured...

The Bovine

  • Hunger is no game for poor in Britain
    Is this how “the system” uses the seemingly impartial objectivity of economics to put the screws to what the elite may regard as “useless eaters”? From The Independent: “Evidence is mounting that thousands of children in the UK are not … Continue reading →
  • Sheep may safely graze…. but not if they ...
    Shepherdess Montana Jones, on the radio: Andy Oudman (1290 AM CJBK, London ON) and Pam Killeen interview Montana Jones (http://shropshiresheep.org/news-on-cfia-slaughter/), Karen Selick and Judith McGeary about the disappearance of the family farm and the importance of preseving heritage breeds. ...
  • Rare sheep situation a challenge for the rigid ...
    From the Belleville Intelligencer: “Anyone who has ever been baffled by the bureaucratic mindset must be shaking their heads in amazement regarding what is currently happening at Wholearth Farms in Trent Hill. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has decided to … Continue reading →
  • Michael Schmidt’s Mozart Requiem
    Performance tonight in Thornhill at the Christian Community church, at 901 Rutherford Rd, just past the Sobey’s plaza, going west past Bathurst St., on Rutherford Rd. By donation. Tomorrow, Good Friday, another performance in Hanover. See details on poster below.
  • Iowa guv and the “pink slime” story
    From Bill Marler’s “Marler blog: “…According to Mike Glover, the phrase “pink slime,” coined by a federal microbiologist, Gerald Zirnstein, has appeared in the media at least since a critical 2009 New York Times report by Pulitzer Prize winner, Michael … ...

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • US Offers to "Negotiate" if Iran Surrenders; T ...
    President Obama has stepped up the rhetoric against Iran with an offer to "negotiate". His offer is no offer at all, it is a demand to surrender. There will be nothing left to "negotiate" if Iran accepts the offer. This is what Obama demands before "negotiation" begins. Immediately close an ...
  • Illinois Admits $83 Billion in Pension Liabili ...
    Illinois has combined $137 billion in pension and healthcare liabilities on top of $9 billion in current unpaid bills. Yet, Illinois legislators will not even ask 6-figure pensioners to pick up a portion of their health premiums. The Chicago Tribune reports Surprise! You owe another $54 bil ...
  • U.S. Local Governments Cut Payrolls to Lowest ...
    In a much needed development U.S. Local Governments Cut Payrolls to Lowest Level Since 2006 U.S. local-government payrolls fell to the lowest level in more than six years in a sign that municipalities still face fiscal strains almost three years after the end of the recession. Employment ...
  • Over 20% of All Real Estate Loans in Spain are ...
    Some rather shocking delinquency numbers (to mainstream media readers but not readers of Mish, Acting Man, Zero Hedge, Max Keiser, the Slog etc.) have surfaced in Spain. Courtesy of Google Translate please consider The default property is multiplied by ten since 2008. Upfront Notes: ...
  • Nonfarm Payroll +120,000, Unemployment Rate Fe ...
    Quick Notes About the Unemployment Rate US Unemployment Rate dropped .01 to 8.2%   In the last year, the civilian population rose by 3,604,000. Yet the labor force only rose by 1,315,000. Those not in the labor force rose by 2,289,000.   The Civilian Labor Force fell by ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Podcast Show #82: NSA’s Gigantic Utah Center, ...
    The Boiling Frogs Presents James Bamford James Bamford returns to our show to discuss the gigantic $2 billion data center that’s being built in Utah for the National Security Agency and other agencies geared to target everyone and every single communication, and how for the first time sinc ...
  • Jamiol Presents
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- March 29 ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism – despotism during the campaign – is indispensable.” – Walter Bagehot International Newsworthy Report: Israel’s “Secret Staging Ground” is Azerbaijan Azerbaijan ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- March 28 ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that numbers of people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience. . . ...
  • The Massacre of the Afghan 17 & the Obama Cover-Up
    The Obama Regime’s Priority: Defend the Empire with Whatever Personnel is Available at his Disposal By James Petras The March 11 Massacre of the 17 Afghan citizens, including at least nine children and four women, raises many fundamental issues about the nature of a colonial war, the practices o ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

Press TV

  • Bahraini forces attack mourners
    Saudi-backed troops in Bahrain have attacked the protesters, who were calling for the release of detained human rights activist, Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, Press TV reports.
  • Armenia says it might talk radar with Russia
    Armenia says it is ready to discuss with Russia the construction of a radar system on its territory if Moscow and Baku fail to agree on the extension of the lease on a Russian-operated defensive radar system in Azerbaijan.
  • 'Israel pursues ethnic cleansing agenda'
    The holy city of Jerusalem (al-Quds) is flooded with Christian pilgrims from around the world in Easter time while Palestinian Christians have no access to the holy sites.
  • Iran attends naval summit in S. Africa
    The commander of Iran’s Navy has arrived in South Africa to take part in the Third Indian Ocean Naval Symposium.
  • '26 militants killed in Afghanistan'
    Over the past 48 hours, at least 26 Taliban militants have been killed by Afghan and foreign forces in the war-torn country, Press TV reports.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

  • Reducing Cancer Risk Factors
    The biggest study so far into cancer risk factors confirms our understanding of the lifestyle choices that may lead to cancer... Kat - For my day job I work for Cancer Research UK and we put o...
  • Seed and soil - understanding how cancers spread
    Cancer is a growing problem - and because we're all living longer, we're more likely to develop the disease at some point in our lifetime. Although we've got a lot better at treating the disease in re...
  • Voyager Casts off the Hydrogen-Tinted Spectacles
    This week a team of researchers in France, Russia and the USA have reported that Voyager Spacecrafts 1 2 - launched 34 years ago - have made it far enough out of the solar system to detect Lyman...
  • Spooky Diamonds a Step Towards Quantum Computing
    This week, researchers from the UK, Canada and Singapore have accomplished quantum entanglement on the macro scale, entangling two millimeter-sizeddiamonds. Typically we think of objects movin...
  • Key to the Blood Brain Barrier
    A signal that controls the integrity of the blood brain barrier -the system that protects and chemically cocoons the brain from the rest of the body - has been discovered. Early during embryon...

Nick Turse

  • An anti-government protester walks along a str ...
    An anti-government protester walks along a street engulfed by tear gas, fired by riot police to disperse a march to Al Farook Junction, formerly known as Pearl Square, in Budaiya, west of Manama February 17, 2012. REUTERS/Hamad I Mohammed
  • A man who said he was beaten by police, shows ...
    A man who said he was beaten by police, shows the injuries on his back behind the stage during an anti-government rally in Budaiya, a suburb of Manama February 4, 2012. REUTERS/Caren Firouz
  • journo-geekery:The Missing 20th Century: How ...
    journo-geekery: The Missing 20th Century: How Copyright Protection Makes Books Vanish - Rebecca J. Rosen - The Atlantic
  • cartoonpolitics:News  that a staggering 69% ...
    cartoonpolitics: News  that a staggering 69% of Americans do not support the 10-year long ‘war’ in Afghanistan, making it at least as unpopular as the bitterly divisive invasion and occupation of Iraq at its worst.
  • Protesters are seen near a burning barricade t ...
    Protesters are seen near a burning barricade they set up on a road during clashes with riot police after the funeral procession for Fadhel Mirza in Diraz village, west of Manama, March 10, 2012. REUTERS/Hamad I Mohammed
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