11 May - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

BAIKONUR, KAZAKHSTAN - DECEMBER 19: In this handout image supplied by NASA the Soyuz TMA-03M spacecraft is rolled out by train on its way to the launch pad on December 19, 2011 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The launch of the Soyuz spacecraft with Expedition 30 Soyuz Commander Oleg Kononenko of Russia, NASA Flight Engineer Don Pettit and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut and Flight Engineer Andre Kuipers, is scheduled for Wednesday December 21, 2011. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)

BAIKONUR, KAZAKHSTAN - DECEMBER 19: In this handout image supplied by the European Space Agency, the Soyuz TMA-03M spacecraft is seen at the launch pad after being raised into vertical position on December 19, 2011 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The launch of the Soyuz spacecraft with Expedition 30 Soyuz Commander Oleg Kononenko of Russia, NASA Flight Engineer Don Pettit and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut and Flight Engineer Andre Kuipers, is scheduled for Wednesday December 21, 2011. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)

PACIFIC OCEAN - MARCH 13: (EDITORS NOTE: Image has been reviewed by U.S. Military prior to transmission. ) In this handout image provided by U.S. Navy, Sailors assigned to the Black Knights of Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron (HS) 4, embarked aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76), and Japanese relief workers load supplies for the Japanese oiler JDS Tokiwa (AOE 423) to support earthquake and tsunami relief efforts near Sendai, Japan March 13, 2011 in the Pacific Ocean. An earthquake measuring 8.9 on the Richter scale has hit the northeast coast of Japan causing tsunami alerts throughout countries bordering the Pacific Ocean. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)

PACIFIC OCEAN - MARCH 13: (EDITORS NOTE: Image has been reviewed by U.S. Military prior to transmission. ) In this handout image provided by U.S. Navy, an SH-60F Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to the Black Knights of Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron (HS) 4, launches off the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) March 13, 2011 in the Pacific Ocean. An earthquake measuring 8.9 on the Richter scale has hit the northeast coast of Japan causing tsunami alerts throughout countries bordering the Pacific Ocean. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)

BAIKONUR, KAZAKHSTAN - DECEMBER 19: In this handout image supplied by the European Space Agency, the Soyuz TMA-03M spacecraft is raised into vertical position on December 19, 2011 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The launch of the Soyuz spacecraft with Expedition 30 Soyuz Commander Oleg Kononenko of Russia, NASA Flight Engineer Don Pettit and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut and Flight Engineer Andre Kuipers, is scheduled for Wednesday December 21, 2011. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)

Near colliding NGC 2207 and IC 2163 as seen by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Français : Image obtenue par le Télescope spatial Hubble (ESA, NASA) et montrant NGC 2207 et IC 2163 se frôlant. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

CAPE CANAVERAL, FL - APRIL 1: In this handout image provided by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), during a simulated pad emergency on Launch Pad 39A, STS-134 Mission Specialists Roberto Vittori, with the European Space Agency, front, and Michael Fincke, Pilot Greg H. Johnson, and Commander Mark Kelly make their way toward a slidewire basket that would take them to a safe bunker below the pad in an unlikely emergency situation at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on April 1, 2010 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The emergency training while aboard space shuttle Endeavour is part of a week-long Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test. For the tentative April 29, 2011 launch, Space shuttle Endeavour will deliver the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) and spare parts to the International Space Station (ISS) on its 36th and final scheduled flight before being retired. AMS is designed to operate as an external experiment on the ISS where it will use the unique environment of space to study the universe and its origin by searching for dark matter. The STS-134 crew members are Commander Mark Kelly, Pilot Gregory H. Johnson and Mission Specialists Michael Fincke, Greg Chamitoff, Andrew Feustel and European Space Agency astronaut Roberto Vittori. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)

IPS - Inter Press Services

• U.N. Warns of Social Fall-Out from Spain's Aus ...
  An expert body of the United Nations has warned the Spanish government that the severe budget cutbacks it is applying must not undermine its commitment to upholding the economic, social and cultural rights of the country's people.
• Plastic Seas Altering Marine Ecology
  Plastic trash is altering the very ecology of the world's oceans. Insects called "sea skaters", a relative of pond water striders, are now laying their eggs on the abundant fingernail-sized pieces of plastic floating in the middle of the North Pacific Ocean instead of relying on a passin ...
• Tangled Web of Corruption Debilitates Mexico
  Although Mexico has signed several multilateral anti-corruption agreements, so far these instruments have yielded few concrete results in combating the rampant bribery, extortion and embezzlement, according to experts.
• Trans Community Celebrates Groundbreaking Gend ...
  Under a new law that recognises a broad range of rights for transvestites, transsexuals and transgender persons in Argentina, they will have the right to modify their legal documents to match their gender identity.
• Struggles over Land Rights Fall Under the Rio+ ...
  Land is the missing element at next month's big U.N. sustainable development summit known as Rio+20, where nations of the world will meet Jun. 20-22 with the goal of setting a new course to ensure the survival and flourishing of humanity.

My AntiWar

• With Military in Disarray, Tuareg Rebels Gain ...
• It’s Time to Say Hello! to the Glamorous ...
• Amid War Fears, Some Israelis Reach Out to Iran
• Guatemala’s President Urges Debate on Dr ...
• J Street Stresses Urgency of Peace in Opening ...

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• Critical Threshold in the Iran Crisis
  Summary: As we move closer to the Baghdad meeting between Iran and the world powers, scheduled for May 23, it is vitally important for both sides to maintain the positive environment generated at the Istanbul round in early April. source: New York Times read more
• War on Iran: America's Next Catastrophe in the ...
  Summary: There is no military solution to the nuclear file. An attack on Iran would unleash a protracted asymmetric war that would be played out globally. This is exactly what all reputable US intelligence and security officials have signalled to the Netanyahu administration. source: Truth ...
• A Tipping Point for Israel
  Summary: Everyone, with the possible exception of the U.S. Congress, has become aware that there is something terribly wrong with Israel. In Israel itself, where there is often ferocious debate over the country’s policies, it is time for a reckoning. source: antiwar.comread more
• Britain seeks Iran sanction delay
  Summary: Britain is seeking to persuade fellow European Union members to postpone by up to six months a ban on providing insurance for tankers carrying Iranian oil, arguing that it could lead to a damaging spike in oil prices, European diplomats said. source: Reutersread more
• No, Virginia, Iran isn’t in Bed with Al-Qaeda
  Summary: That the US intelligence and security apparatuses have been infiltrated in recent decades by persons with such axes to grind, whether on behalf of the military industrial complex or on behalf of supposed foreign allies, seems an inescapable conclusion if we consider the record over t ...

The Daily Galaxy

• Rho Ophiuchi Nebula--A Source of Earth's Origi ...
  Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) a key molecule for both astronomers and chemists has been discovered close to the star Rho Ophiuchi, about 400 light-years away. The region contains very cold (around -250 degrees Celsius), dense clouds of cosmic gas and dust,...
• Massive Black-Hole Engines --Powerful New Link ...
  Astronomers, using the European Space Agency's (ESA) Herschel Space Observatory, have shown that the number of stars that form during the early lives of galaxies may be influenced by the massive black holes at their hearts. This helps explain the...
• Rare Brown Dwarf Discovered --35 Times Size of ...
  An international team of astronomers led by David Pinfield of the University of Hertfordshire has found a brown dwarf 35 times the size of Jupiter that is more than 99% hydrogen and helium. Described as ultra-cool, it has a temperature...
• Image of the Day: Hubble Captures a Bright Neb ...
  The Hubble Space Telescope has captured detailed observations of the dwarf galaxy NGC 2366. While it lacks the elegant spiral arms of many larger galaxies, NGC 2366 is home to a bright, star-forming nebula and is close enough for astronomers...
• Image of the Day: Ghostly Remnant of a Sun-Lik ...
  Abell 39, about 7000 light years away, is a ghostly remnant of a Sun-like star and one of the largest existing spheres in the Milky Way. Six light-years across, it was once a sun-like star's outer atmosphere expelled thousands of...

Natural News

• Herbs for common pregnancy symptoms: Gestation ...
  Being poked, prodded, weighed, measured, and evaluated is part of being pregnant in the 21st century. Each woman and each pregnancy is different, so keep that in mind when you're being told about all those tests that are available, that may or may not have conclusive...
• DIY solutions for hay fever and seasonal allergies
  Tree and grass pollen are to blame for the hay fever suffered by over 14 million Americans annually during spring and summer. Pet dander, dust and mold all exacerbate allergic reactions; with such ubiquitous foes, it's no wonder people often turn to pharmaceuticals,...
• Fukushima haunts the world
  I have published more than several essays on my blog about the terrible nuclear disaster in Japan. I wish everything I am reporting on were not true, or at least were less true than it appears. It does seem that Japan is in the process of contaminating the entire Pacific...
• Sports and energy drinks irreversibly damage t ...
  If you are known by your friends for your "winning smile" or are otherwise concerned about your dental health - and you're a sports drink-a-holic - you might want to consider using a different option to help energize before workouts or quench your thirst after. That's...
• Americans stashing cash at home as mistrust of ...
  There's plenty of economic uncertainty to go around these days, and most of us know that the banking industry has taken it on the chin these past few years. But is it so bad that it's time to start stuffing mattresses with cash? Yes, say an increasing number of Americans...

Threat Level

• Unrepentant Hippie and World Networker Randy B ...
  Randy Bush, known for his volunteer work connecting countries in Africa and Latin America to the net, is inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame. Not bad for a hippie who fought to help others connect to the net without being the crusading white do-gooder.
• Few Companies Fight Patriot Act Gag Orders, FB ...
  Since the Patriot Act broadly expanded the power of the government to issue National Security Letters demanding customer records, hundreds of thousands have been issued by the FBI, but the perpetual gag orders that accompany them are rarely challenged by the ISPs and other recipients served with ...
• California, Congress Move to Keep Facebook Pas ...
  California's Assembly passed legislation Thursday that would forbid employers or prospective employers from demanding access to employees' personal, private online life, such as social-networking sites. The development comes a day after Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut) and Reps. Martin He ...
• Police Bust Disciplined Multi-Million-Dollar C ...
  More than 40 people were arrested on Wednesday in Canada in a sting operation against what authorities say was an international $100-million bank card ring.
• FBI Fears Bitcoin’s Popularity with Criminals
  A new internal report from the FBI expresses some concern that the digital payment system Bitcoin will help criminals hide from authorities and rip off other computer users.

PERRspectives : Blog

• Romney's Strategy? Call the Kettle Black
  Two funny things happened this week on Mitt Romney's way to the White House. First, the man who cried "let Detroit go bankrupt" announced "I'll take a lot of credit" for President Obama's million-job saving rescue of the American auto industry. But just as telling was the Republican's claim th ...
• Republicans, the Anti-Stimulus
  After this week's election results in France and Greece, press, pundits and politicians on both sides of the Atlantic are questioning the future of draconian austerity policies in Europe. As well they should. Euro-region unemployment has reached its highest levels in 15 years. Across the chan ...
• Romney Claims Paternity for Detroit, Disowns O ...
  Mitt Romney is now claiming paternity for President Obama's auto industry rescue that saved over a million jobs nationwide. But while he most certainly isn't the father of a reborn Detroit, the successful 2006 health care reform law he signed in Boston has become Mitt Romney's bastard love chil ...
• The Life of Mitt
  Conservatives this week were quick to mock the Obama campaign's "The Life of Julia," an online slideshow highlighting how government investments in education, health care, small business and retirement security help enable the children of working families to climb the ladder of social mobility. ...
• Infallible Bush Team Accuses Obama of Playing ...
  Desperate to deny President Obama any credit for the daring Bin Laden operation in Pakistan that George W. Bush, John McCain and Mitt Romney were on record as having opposed, veterans of Dubya's administration and their right-wing water carriers are trying a new and similarly despicable tactic. ...

Blackspot News Feed

• How the Corporate Right Hijacked America's Cou ...
  America's political-economy is caught in a vicious cycle, with concentrated wealth at the top leading to outsized political power.
• Mexican Poet Javier Sicilia Leads U.S. Peace C ...
  One of Mexico's best-known poets, Javier Sicilia, laid down his pen last year after his 24-year-old son was murdered by drug traffickers in Cuernavaca, Mexico. In his son's memory, Sicilia created the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity to urge an end to the drug violence -- violence tha ...
• Tony Kushner on the Overlooked "Radicalism" an ...
  For his latest project, Tony Kushner is writing the screenplay for an upcoming Steven Spielberg movie about Abraham Lincoln. Kushner says an understanding of Lincoln's presidency carries valuable lessons for political life today. "I think that [Lincoln's] incredible ability to finesse very, very ...
• Maurice Sendak (1928-2012): Tony Kushner on th ...
  Playwright Tony Kushner reflects on the life of his friend Maurice Sendak, the writer and illustrator best known for his children's book, "Where the Wild Things Are." Sendak died on Tuesday at the age of 83. "Maurice had that ability to speak universally, which I think was evidence of the fact t ...
• Playwright Tony Kushner Hails Obama's Support ...
  In an historic announcement, President Obama has become the first U.S. president to support same-sex marriage. We get reaction from acclaimed playwright and activist Tony Kushner. In 2003, he and his partner became the first same-sex couple to appear in the Vows section of the New York Times. "I ...

Consortium News

• Bin Laden Files Dispel Iran-Qaeda Link
• To Save the Republic, Tax the Rich?
• A ‘Treason’ Trial for Barack Obama?
• Democracy Fights Austerity
• Last Day for Spring Fund Drive

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

• Chimpanzee Displays Complex Forethought in Pla ...
    A chimpanzee at the Furuvik Zoo in Sweden has been seen using complex forethought to plan his attacks on zoo visitors and increase their likelihood of success. The same chimpanzee has previously been in the news for his practice of gathering, creating, and storing rock projectiles befor ...
• Rhino Crisis Round Up: $6.8 Million in Assets ...
  The South African Police Service (SAPS) announced this week that a raid on the properties of rhino horn syndicate suspects Dawie Groenewald, Karel Toet and Manie du Plessis has resulted in the seizure of assets totaling approximately R55 million (US $6.8 million). A joint team comprised of the ...
• Earliest Mayan Astonomical Records Found in Gu ...
      Latest Mayan archeological find reveals a lunar calendar that ‘ends’ thousands of years in the future… In a fascinating archeological discovery that is sure to add some debate with the Mayan ‘doomsday” believers camp, a team of archeologists from three ...
• To Reduce Global Warming, Address Meat Consumption
  Nitrous oxide continues to have a huge impact on global warming. Based on recent research, there are two key ways that these emissions can be decreased.
• Ignorance and Political Blinders Shift America ...
    A new Stanford-led survey has found that American support for governmental action to address global warming has dropped over the past two years, primarily amongst those who identify themselves as Republicans. A significant downward shift According to the report, political rhetoric and t ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• Water Quality Is Subjective
  Clean water is clean water right? If I don’t get sick when I drink it that means every one can
• Arsenal's Water Pollution Not As Bad As It Seems
  **Please note this article is the direct opinion of the poster and does not represent the official o
• Rene the Bristlenose Has Landed
  I had a call today from a lovely lady at Maidenhead Aquatics with the fine news that they had a Bris
• Breaking News: Obama Executive Order includes ...
  April 13, 2012 Obama Administration Announces New Partnership on Unconventional   Natural Gas and Oi
• Urban Waste Water Discharges in Ireland
  Serious deficiencies exist with urban waste water treatment plants and there are widespread and nega

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• Lebanons Oppressed: Domestic Workers, Women, P ...
  by Franklin Lamb Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Beirut, Lebanon April 10, 2012 University students
• Of Prophets, Power, and the Purpose of Intelle ...
  by Andrew Gavin Marshall Featured Writer Dandelion Salad http://andrewgavinmarshall.com April 13, 20
• Exclusive: Real Politik and the danger of an o ...
  by Rocket Kirchner Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Rocket Kirchner (blog) Rocket Kirchner (youtube c
• Massive US Surveillance On Iran Draws Yet Anot ...
  by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Ethiopia April 9, 2012 Washington’s Real Agenda
• The Purpose of Education: Social Uplift or Soc ...
  by Andrew Gavin Marshall Featured Writer Dandelion Salad http://andrewgavinmarshall.com April 9, 201

Axis of Logic

• Obama backs gay marriage. The Hype is Absurd. ...
  Editor's Note: Gay Marriage has been one of the corporate media tools used to divide (and control) the US population for a couple of decades. Others include fear of a "terrorist attack", immigration of Mexican workers, violent crime, "socialism" and moreso in the past there have been abortion v. ...
• Over 2,000 Visitors to Venezuelan Embassy for ...
  Women wearing the traditional dresses of the Venezuelan plains region – a skirt with stripes of yellow, blue and red like the national flag and a white off-the-shoulder blouse – greeted the more than 2,000 visitors to the Residence of the Ambassador of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in Was ...
• Québec students challenge dogma - Canada
  No wonder those Quebec student protestors have been spooking the English Canadian establishment. If they get their way, the same ideas could catch on here, leaving the best-laid plans for austerity in tatters. What seems to particularly gall some English Canadian commentators is the fact th ...
• Venezuelan Embassy Presents Lecture on Indigen ...
  Tomorrow, May 10 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Bolivarian Hall in Washington, DC, the Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela hosts a lecture by the Wayuu activist and filmmaker David Hernández Palmar entitled, “Indigenous participation in the exercise of the right to communication, in ...
• US jobless toll—a failure of capitalism - Work ...
  7 May 2012 Friday’s US jobless report, the most dismal so far this year, demonstrates the complete failure of the capitalist system to provide jobs for the unemployed. Nearly five years after the official beginning of the recession, and nearly four years since the collapse of Lehman Brothers ...

They Gave Us a Republic

• Songs to Fight the Plutocracy By: "Take the Po ...
  By @KYYellowDog Uploaded by LilaWunderbohnen on Dec 14, 2009
• We don't need no regulation...
  By @BGinKC Can anyone, with a straight face and in all seriousness, still insist that financial markets should be free from regulation and the Volcker Rule is a bad idea and represents an undue burden on the poor, put-upon financial class after this? JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer ...
• The Nightowl Newswrap
  By BG & YD They can's pass a budget in Brownbackistan, but by God, they can pass a law that forces doctors to lie to women who seek abortions and tell them it might cause them to get breast cancer later (and they'll deserve it, too!) -- but it will also shield physicians who deliberately lie to ...
• Michiganders on Mitt's Mendacity
  By @KYYellowDog Current's The War Room with Jennifer Granholm won't ever be Rachel or Keith, but it's improving slowly but steadily. Although at least once an episode I have to yell at the former governor of Michigan to stop scheduling evil repugs like Bay Buchanan and that horrible California s ...
• Still Time to Save the Post Office
  By @KYYellowDog My tiny rural town has one huge drawback and one huge advantage. The drawback is that we are outside the service areas of the surrounding towns' cable systems and thus have no access to highspeed broadband internet. The huge advantage is that we still have a post office. A post o ...

Care 2

• Syria unrest: UN condemns Damascus 'suicide bl ...
  The UN Security Council has condemned car bomb attacks that killed at least 55 people and wounded almost 400 in the Syrian capital, Damascus, on Thursday. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• House OKs money for jailing illegal immigrants ...
  Incarcerating illegal immigrants is expensive, and local and state governments have for years insisted that the federal government help foot the bill. Congress appears poised once again to keep the money flowing. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to US Politics & Gov't  |   Not ...
• This Is One Way To Get Your Cats Inside (FUNNY ...
  For anyone who's ever wondered whether there's a better way to get their cats inside the house in time for dinner, consider this trick posted to YouTube by user ignoramusky. These are some smart kitties! Submitted by Lindsey Williams to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |    ...
• UNDERESTIMATE EUROPE'S EXTREMIST MOVEMENTS AT ...
  Editorial: From Spain's indignados to Greece's neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, fringe groups are gaining strength in Europe. And while they don't tend to share much common ground, together they are posing a region-wide challenge to mainstream politics. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World  |&n ...
• WOMEN'S RIGHTS: Tortured Afghan teen on at ...
  In Afghanistan, Married at 13, Sahar Gul says her husband raped her and various in-laws tortured her.Three of her attackers were recently sentenced for 10 years Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

• It Is Enough: An Open Letter to the Sick at Heart
• Leading From the Back: Obama Accepts 21st Cent ...
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• Colin Powell's Tangled Web

Paul Krugman

• Tussle in Brussels
  Away, briefly.
• A Structural Blast From the Past
  In 1939, too.
• Occupational Hazards
  Which occupations are doing well? None.
• A Brief Patriotic Interlude
  God bless American music.
• How Bad Things Are
  Very.

No Quarter

• Breaking News + OPEN THREAD
  I went to Huffington Post, sure I’d find the Clooney Hollywood house party the top story. But no! Here’s what bumped Clooney out of first view: “Breaking News: $2 BILLION GOES POOF — London Trader Known As ‘Voldemort’ Causes Biggest U.S. Bank Huge Loss“ ...
• Krauthammer on Obama, Personally X2
  Two Obamas for the price of one. Oh no you don’t. This is in no way a comparison to Bill and Hillary. This is Barack, Personally and Barack, Personally … if you insist, you can say that the time differs. But that is wrong. No, don’t do that, even if Charles Krauthammer finds th ...
• “for me personally” … “those soldiers or airme ...
  All hail the King. Ah, but the King has ceded all control of ACTUAL law to each state. Isn’t that rather a radical reversal of the kind of exploitative use of state’s rights for which Republicans have been excoriated lo these many years? And what of “those soldiers or airmen or ...
• Did Obama Sell Out Our Terrorist Mole?
  News media is literally and figuratively all a TWITTER with the news report that a Saudi intelligence source who pretended to be a jihadist suicide bomber in order to deliver to the CIA an unexploded underwear bomb. The Saudis are reportedly livid that the United States so cavalierly divulged th ...
• Is Obama a wee bit unpopular? +Open Thread
  West Virginia primary results — Democratic Primary — are simply priceless: Obama 59% and Judd 41% Yes, Keith Judd, without ever campaigning got 41% of the ballot and likely delegates to the Democratic Convention this summer. Oh, but that is not all there is to this story… Keith ...

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

• Hansen: It's time for the politics to follow t ...
  RollingStone.com Hansen: It's time for the politics to follow the science on global warming Climate Science Watch James Hansen under arrest at mountaintop removal coal protest at White House, 2010. Photo: Rainforest Action Network. “President Obama speaks of a 'planet in peril,' but ...
• Bank's offer to fund vandalism repairs draws a ...
  Bank's offer to fund vandalism repairs draws activist backlash San Francisco Bay Guardian Yet this is the same Wells Fargo that has been targeted by housing rights, labor, and other progressive activists in recent months for its aggressive foreclosure tactics and investments in mountaintop r ...
• 'Burning the Future: Coal in America' showing ...
  'Burning the Future: Coal in America' showing Friday The Fayette Tribune OAK HILL — “Burning the Future: Coal in America,” a film documenting citizen efforts to protect their communities from mountaintop removal coal mining, will screen at the Historic Oak Hill Elementary School Auditori ...
• Activists Block Duke Coal Shipment, link Mount ...
  IBNLive.com Activists Block Duke Coal Shipment, link Mountaintop Removal to iCloud PressZoom (press release) Four activists, including leaders from the anti-mountaintop removal movement, locked themselves to the rail tracks preventing the train from passing. Other activists branded the train wit ...
• Charlotte protesters: Bank of America is 'wors ...
  msnbc.com Charlotte protesters: Bank of America is 'worst of the worst' msnbc.com "Whether it is workers who have been laid off, homeowners and also tenants who have been evicted from foreclosed homes … or people who live in coal country in the Appalachia whose home in a broader sen ...

Memeorandum

• Hoyer Statement on Marriage Equality (The Offi ...
  The Office of Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer: Hoyer Statement on Marriage Equality  —  SHARE: EMAIL PRINT FACEBOOK TWITTER  —  WASHINGTON, DC - House Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (MD) released the following statement today after President Obama's comments ...
• Obama talks gay rights at Clooney fundraiser ( ...
  Jeff Mason / Reuters: Obama talks gay rights at Clooney fundraiser  —  * Guest list includes Salma Hayek, Tobey Maguire, Jack Black  —  * Dave Matthews performs at one of two Seattle fundraisers (adds quotes from Obama)  —  President Barack Obama ...
• All 6 Wash. congressional Democrats favor repe ...
  Kyung M. Song / Seattle Times: All 6 Wash. congressional Democrats favor repeal of gay-marriage ban  —  Updated at 4:20 p.m. with response from Norm Dicks's office:  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama's belated if unequivocal support for gay marriges puts him ...
• Easy Useless Economics (Paul Krugman/New York ...
  Paul Krugman / New York Times: Easy Useless Economics  —  A few days ago, I read an authoritative-sounding paper in The American Economic Review, one of the leading journals in the field, arguing at length that the nation's high unemployment rate had deep structural roots and wa ...
• Clooney, Entertainment Industry VIPs Fêt ...
  Tina Daunt / Hollywood Reporter: Clooney, Entertainment Industry VIPs Fête Obama at Record-Breaking Fundraiser  —  The president cracked Hope poster jokes on the actor's Studio City basketball court as guests ranging from Barbra Streisand to Robert Downey Jr. dined at $40k ...

Energy & Environment News

• Old Texas Tale Retold: Farmer vs. TransCanada
  Julia Trigg Crawford and her family have had multiple visits from TransCanada representatives regarding land rights to their farm in Sumner, Tex.
• Green Blog: Finding Beauty in Old Things
  Some designers repurpose old things for aesthetic satisfaction as well as environmental reasons.
• Dot Earth Blog: An Online Tool For Gauging the ...
  A student team produces a handy online tool allowing car buyers to compare the full costs and benefits of cars.
• Green Blog: On Our Radar: Lugar, the G.O.P. an ...
  The senator says the nation must address greenhouse gas emissions.
• Op-Ed Contributor: Game Over for the Climate
  If Canada exploits the oil in its tar sands, civilization will be at risk.

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 5.0, Gansu-Qinghai border region, China
  Friday, May 11, 2012 10:18:13 UTC Friday, May 11, 2012 06:18:13 PM at epicenterDepth: 31.00 km (19.26 mi)
• M 5.2, Molucca Sea
  Thursday, May 10, 2012 19:11:22 UTC Friday, May 11, 2012 03:11:22 AM at epicenterDepth: 8.60 km (5.34 mi)
• M 5.1, Minahasa, Sulawesi, Indonesia
  Thursday, May 10, 2012 07:31:30 UTC Thursday, May 10, 2012 03:31:30 PM at epicenterDepth: 172.00 km (106.88 mi)
• M 5.2, Easter Island region
  Thursday, May 10, 2012 02:13:56 UTC Wednesday, May 9, 2012 06:13:56 PM at epicenterDepth: 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
• M 5.9, Easter Island region
  Thursday, May 10, 2012 02:13:55 UTC Wednesday, May 9, 2012 06:13:55 PM at epicenterDepth: 3.80 km (2.36 mi)

China Dialogue

• Living with Foxconn
  Residents near the manufacturer’s plant in Taiyuan city are up in arms over a toxic stench. Meng Si went to meet the community that doesn’t much care for Apple’s gadgets.Yang Xiuduan would love to have an iPhone – on one condition. “I’ll buy it just as soon as ...
• After Kyoto, a new economics?
  In the results of a survey out today, 800 sustainability experts from around the world have a clear message for governments: make greenhouse gases more expensive. Jeff Erikson explains.At the end of this year, the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol will expire. That’s not becaus ...
• Climate change in US classrooms
  Ideological conflicts over global warming are heating up, drawing in teachers, scientists, politicians, religious groups, corporate lobbyists, judges and ordinary parents. They all want a voice in American children’s green education. Jan McGirk reports.Ever since the menace of greenhouse g ...
• Pipeline in the crossfire
  For months, the Burmese army and ethnic militias have been engaged in fierce fighting – raising concerns for the project due to carry oil and gas to China from next year. Yin Hongwei reports.Editor's note: since the suspension of the multibillion dollar, China-backed Myitsone dam last autu ...
• Meat off menu for China’s Olympians
  Athletes are struggling to source safe pork and beef as fears grow over the impact of additives on doping test results. Jiang Xinjie, Zhang Luyan and Wang Jingyi report on China's latest food crisis.You might not expect a meat shortage to top the list of concerns at the Jiangsu Sports Bureau&rsq ...

AlterNet Top Stories

• What a Test Score Could Never Tell You About M ...
  According to current rubrics, David Chura and his former students were educational "failures." But after 40 years working with kids, Chura isn't buying that notion.
• How the Corporate Right Hijacked America's Cou ...
  America's political-economy is caught in a vicious cycle, with concentrated wealth at the top leading to outsized political power.
• 10 Worst Things Arizona's Racist Sheriff Joe A ...
  The Department of Justice has filed a suit against Arpaio -- here are the worst examples of his bigotry against Latinos.
• Confessions of a Cheating Vegan
  I myself am a vegan of sorts and I'm here to tell you that it's not an easy life -- that's why it's OK to cheat.
• Bin Laden Files Debunk Neocon Hysteria Over Iran
  The claim of a deal between Iran and Al-Qaeda has been discredited by former officials in the wake of publication of documents from Osama bin Laden's files.

Threat Level

• Unrepentant Hippie and World Networker Randy B ...
  Randy Bush, known for his volunteer work connecting countries in Africa and Latin America to the net, is inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame. Not bad for a hippie who fought to help others connect to the net without being the crusading white do-gooder.
• Few Companies Fight Patriot Act Gag Orders, FB ...
  Since the Patriot Act broadly expanded the power of the government to issue National Security Letters demanding customer records, hundreds of thousands have been issued by the FBI, but the perpetual gag orders that accompany them are rarely challenged by the ISPs and other recipients served with ...
• California, Congress Move to Keep Facebook Pas ...
  California's Assembly passed legislation Thursday that would forbid employers or prospective employers from demanding access to employees' personal, private online life, such as social-networking sites. The development comes a day after Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut) and Reps. Martin He ...
• Police Bust Disciplined Multi-Million-Dollar C ...
  More than 40 people were arrested on Wednesday in Canada in a sting operation against what authorities say was an international $100-million bank card ring.
• FBI Fears Bitcoin’s Popularity with Criminals
  A new internal report from the FBI expresses some concern that the digital payment system Bitcoin will help criminals hide from authorities and rip off other computer users.

Equality Trust

• The Spirit Level Documentary Film
  We're delighted to introduce The Spirit Level Documentary - a forthcoming film based on the best-selling book, which will show why a more equal society is better for us all. Find out more...    
• Act Local = Reduce the Gap
  Find out more about our new campaign: Act Local = Reduce the Gap
• We work in partnership with One Society
  Visit the website of One Society which works in partnership with The Equality Trust. One Society draws on a wealth of research which shows that large divides in income at the top and bottom of society – beyond ‘proportional rewards’ – are damaging to our economy and society, not just for those ...
• Among Equals: read our newsletter
  Read the latest edition of our supporter newsletter  
• Action for Happiness
  Action for Happiness is a new movement for positive social change, founded by Richard Layard, Geoff Mulgan and Anthony Seldon.   They aim to bring together people from all walks of life who want to play a part in creating a happier society for everyone. Their vision of a better future inc ...

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

• Organic Pastures Raw Milk Linked to Campylobac ...
  Raw milk, raw skim milk (non-fat), raw cream and raw butter produced by Organic Pastures Dairy of Fresno County is the subject of a statewide recall and quarantine order announced by California State Veterinarian Dr. Annette Whiteford. The quarantine order came following the confirmed detection ...
• Tempeh Salmonella Paratyphi B Hit 63
  On Thursday, May 10, Buncombe County Department of Health received final test results from the NC Department of Public Health laboratory confirming that the unopened bag of culture that was added to the tempeh tested positive for the matching strain of Salmonella Paratyphi B linked to the curren ...
• Indiana Lone Star Restaurant has Hepatitis A P ...
  The Vanderburgh County Health Department and the Indiana State Department of Health are investigating a case of Hepatitis A in a food worker at the Lone Star Restaurant located in the Eastland Place Shopping Center at 943 N. Green River Road Evansville IN, 47715-2418. “We’ve been in ...
• Norovirus Linked to Reusable Grocery Bags
  The city that I live in just banned “will that be paper or plastic” from our local grocery store. I wonder how the eco-friendly city fathers and mothers are feeling after this AP article: Oregon investigators have traced an outbreak of norovirus to a reusable grocery bag that membe ...
• CDC Webinar: Foodborne Illness Outbreaks and Law
  I have the honor and pleasure of giving an one hour webinar tomorrow sponsired by the CDC.  Here are the slides: CDC Webinar: Foodborne illness Outbreaks and Law with Attorney Bill Marler View more presentations from Bill Marler. You will note that one of the slides is ...

AutoblogGreen

• Official: High-MPG Taylors drive a Volkswagen ...
  Filed under: Sedan, Volkswagen, Diesel Watch out, Wayne Gerdes, there's a new hypermiling crew in town. John and Helen Taylor - Volkswagen calls them "mileage experts" and "the world's most fuel-efficient couple" - recently drove a stock 2012 Passat TDI SE all the way from Houston, Texas to ...
• Official: Toyota RAV4 EV priced at $49,800
  Filed under: Car Buying, Crossover, Toyota, Electric Announced almost two years ago, Toyota finally gave us some more details about the was the all-electric RAV4 EV will be sold to the general public during the 26th Electric Vehicle Symposium in Los Angeles today. The important number? The MS ...
• BMW recalling 24,000 vehicles over emissions p ...
  Filed under: Recalls, BMW, Diesel BMW wants to take another look at over 24,000 vehicles it's sold in the United States. No, this isn't just to check out how they're holding up in the real world, it's to make sure the smoke coming out of the tailpipe is clean enough. BMW is recalling a tot ...
• Report: New CAFE rules and a stagnant gas tax ...
  Filed under: Government/Legal, Earnings/Financials Oh, the gas tax, always a contentious issue. We've covered it throughout the years but now the Congressional Budget Office is reminding us that the time has come to move well beyond simple discussion and politics: the Highway Trust Fund is no ...
• Official: Toyota Prius plug-in sells 1,654 cop ...
  Filed under: Car Buying, Hybrid, Hatchback, Toyota, Electric The Toyota Prius, the most popular hybrid in the world, was also the most popular plug-in vehicle in U.S. last month. Compared to sales of the Chevrolet Volt and the Nissan Leaf, which sold 1,462 and 370 units, respectively, the ...

Rafe's Radar

• Facebook App Center: More showcase than store, ...
  Or, how Facebook makes money and advances its own interest by helping Apple sell apps on its own store. It's a surpr ...
• The problem with augmented reality: Tablets an ...
  Augmented reality is showing up in all kinds of applications. But there are a few arenas where it still doesn't quit ...
• The curse of the two-faced interface
  Sometimes, user interfaces come together at the last minute. And not very well. Originally posted at News - Business ...
• Evernote CEO Phil Libin talks valuations and b ...
  I'll disclose this off the top: I'm a big fan of Evernote. I like the app and use it all the time. I even pay for it. I also enjoy talking with Evernote CEO Phil Libin, who I have found to be uncommonly deliberate and transparent for a startup CEO. With the news around Evernote lately -- ...
• Color launches new features on Verizon only
  Video-sharing app company Color snags a carrier contract, releasing a tweaked version of its app the old-fashioned w ...

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

• Holding Bank of America to Account
  By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan Shareholder meetings can be routine, unless you are Bank of America, in which case it may be declared an "extraordinary event". That is what the city of Charlotte, North Carolina called the bank’s shareholder meeting this week. Bank of Americ ...
• Part 2: Human Rights Watch's Kenneth Roth on P ...
  In part two of our interview with Human Rights Watch’s Executive Director Kenneth Roth he examines why the U.S. has not pressured Bahrain to release pro-democracy activists. "Saudi Arabia simply is not going to tolerate a genuine democracy immediately off its shore, particularly one ...
• Letter Sent to Eric Holder Seeking Federal Pro ...
  Earlier today the attorneys for Kenneth Chamberlain’s family sent the following letter to Attorney General Eric Holder seeking a federal probe into his death. To see our full coverage of Chamberlain case click here Holder Ltr 050412 Via Facsimile–May 4, 2012 The Honorable E ...
• The Real Mad Men: Following the Money Behind T ...
  By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan May Day, Murdoch and the murder of Milly Dowler. What do they have to do with the 2012 U.S. general election? This year’s election will undoubtedly be the most expensive in U.S. history, with some projections topping $5 billion. Not only has the amount of s ...
• The Real Mad Men: Following the Money Behind T ...
  By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan May Day, Murdoch and the murder of Milly Dowler. What do they have to do with the 2012 U.S. general election? This year’s election will undoubtedly be the most expensive in U.S. history, with some projections topping $5 billion. Not only has the amount ...

Suzie-Q

• Obama Backs Gay Marriage
  Huff Post Sam Stein Posted: 05/09/2012 2:55 pm Updated: 05/09/2012 7:34 pm WASHINGTON — In a nod to a dramatic shift in public opinion, Barack Obama on Wednesday became the first sitting president to announce his support for same-sex marriage. In a sit-down interview with ABC’s Robin ...
• Abandon Ship: How the Left Sunk the Swiftboati ...
  Politicususa By: Sarah Jones May 9, 2012 It turns out that Joel Arends, the Chairman of Swiftboating 2012 style’s “Veterans for a Strong America” and creator of the viral “Obama spiked the bin Laden football” video, is exactly what he accuses the President of being. He has politicized the Navy S ...
• Romney ‘Still Deciding What His Position ...
  Huff Post Elise Foley  Posted: 05/08/2012 1:06 pm Updated: 05/08/2012 3:17 pm A Latino-vote outreach program on Tuesday plans to stress to voters that the president has failed on immigration reform and deported a record number of people, said the Republican National Committee’s top Hispani ...
• Romney Image Backed by Bush-Era Policy
  BloombergBusinessweek By  Lisa Lerer on May 07, 2012 Some of the choices are also driven by politics, a person close to the campaign said. Romney limited his proposed elimination of capital gains taxes to incomes up to $200,000. Some of his advisers think the ceiling is too low. In a primary deb ...
• Obama 2012 Rallies Escalate Election Fight In ...
  By JULIE PACE 05/05/12 09:45 AM ET WASHINGTON — In campaign mode for months, President Barack Obama is making his quest for a second term official with rallies in Ohio and Virginia while casting Republican rival Mitt Romney as a flip-flopping protector of the rich. The events Saturday at t ...

Solari

• The Eurozone Decoupling. . .
  Source: Pragmatic Capitalism One of the more controversial ideas I wrote about last year was the decoupling of Europe and the USA The equity market went vertical this morning on the back of the US ISM Manufacturing PMI coming in stronger than expected (54.8 vs 53 expected).. [click on [...]
• Go Away American Millionaires
  By Sanat Vallikappen That’s what some of the world’s largest wealth-management firms are saying ahead of Washington’s implementation of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act , known as Fatca, which seeks to prevent tax evasion by Americans with offshore accounts.HSBC Holdings Plc (HSBA) , Deut ...
• Solari Report Subscribers
  By Catherine Austin Fitts [Excerpt from our Annual Wrap Up in January 2012] This year was my first opportunity to meet a lot of Solari Report subscribers in person. I was astonished as I learned story after story of people who literally hold the world together. Let me tell you about yourselves. ...
• Federal Reserve Board Approves Bank Holding Ap ...
  The Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday announced its approval of the application by Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited, China Investment Corporation, and Central Huijin Investment Ltd., all of Beijing, People’s Republic of China, to become bank holding companies under section 3 of t ...
• Tamera Named Buckminster Fuller Challenge Finalist
  Tamera, Portugal, May 7th, 2012: – Tamera Water Retention Landscape has been named a 2012 Finalist in the Buckminster Fuller Challenge, the prestigious annual design science competition named “Socially-Responsible Design’s Highest Award” by Metropolis Magazine. Continue readin ...

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

• Corporate Legal Rights Grow As Courts Block Pr ...
  Consumer activists find a 2011 Supreme Court ruling has blocked dozens of class action suits, instead forcing consumers into arbitration.
• Woman in Jail for Shooting at Abusive Husband: ...
  There are major inconsistencies in applications of "Stand Your Ground" laws.
• Tracked, Detained at Gunpoint? 3 Americans Ass ...
  A career government intelligence official, a filmmaker and a hacker have all been targeted by the state, despite not having been charged with a crime.
• Supreme Court Asks Hard Questions at Oral Argu ...
  The justices signalled that this may not be the end of the fight over SB 1070.
• Facebook and Google Turned Into Government Spi ...
  A private company doing the government’s work does not face the same privacy restrictions.

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

• Recommendations for your weekend reading pleasure
  Summary:   Today we have a potpourri of articles — insights, information, and folly — for your weekend reading pleasure.  Yes, this went up a day early. (1)  Everybody loves real estate!  See the fascinating tables and graphs in the 2012 Demographia International Housing Affordabilit ...
• Doug Macgregor explains how our military reach ...
  Summary:  Douglas A. Macgregor (Colonel, US Army, retired) looks at military history, and sees how our military came to its current state.  Military power with little wit, bought at great expense in terms of national wealth and the blood of our brave troops. Contents Experience in combat:  essen ...
• To learn more about today’s events in Eu ...
  Summary:  The current political and regime in Europe has erupted from its long slow burn into low flames, with the elections this weekend in France and Greece.  Unless its leaders do the unexpected, taking bold and large-scale actions to further unify Europe, then a raging bonfire seems likely t ...
• Do we have a shortage of workers, or just chea ...
  Summary:  So much of our consensus thinking results from full-spectrum propaganda from well-paid shills working for our ruling elites, well-funded institutions of disinformation and propaganda. This is one reason why we’re losing, and the Republic dying. Here we examine one issue of import ...
• Do we have a shortage of workers, or just chea ...
  Summary:  So much of our consensus thinking results from full-spectrum propaganda from well-paid shills working for our ruling elites, well-funded institutions of disinformation and propaganda. This is one reason why we’re losing, and the Republic dying. Here we examine one issue of import ...

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

• You Might Have Missed: Drones, Israel’s Nuclea ...
  Nick Paumgarten, “The World of Surveillance,” The New Yorker, May 14, 2012. Patrick Egan, president of the Silicon Valley chapter of the Association for Unmanned Systems International: “The first time a drone Tases the wrong dude at a Phish concert, you’re going to have problems.&#82 ...
• An Army Mutiny Could Lead to New War in Congo
  The situation in eastern Congo remains tense as up to 600 troops defected from the Congolese army in early April. The soldiers, formerly of the Rwanda-supported CNDP militia, were integrated into the national army in 2009. They are supporters of General Bosco Ntaganda, who was the head of the CN ...
• The Case of Chen the Party Crasher: Normal Dip ...
  Traveling around the U.S. since I left the Foreign Service, I’ve been astonished by how little Americans know about the rest of the world and how our representatives deal with it, which is to say, about diplomacy. Sometimes, in despair about the deficiencies of U.S. education, I’ve found mysel ...
• Time for a New Strategy in Afghanistan
  Pentagon officials and pundits enjoy telling us that if we stay the course we can still win the war in Afghanistan. This argument directly contradicts the facts. Ten years and over $500 billion later, the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan isn’t working. This strategy doesn’t require more patience &#8 ...
• Top of the Morning: New Clashes in DRC; Global ...
  Top stories from DAWNS Digest.  New Clashes in DRC Stretch Humanitarian Resources Thin Fighting between Congolese armed forces and General Bosco Ntaganda loyalists is displacing thousands of residents the DRC. “Clashes erupted after Congolese President Joseph Kabila announced last month he would ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

• The Big Bully
  It was one (fabulous, uplifting, inspiring) thing to watch the president of the United States come out for same-sex marriage on Wednesday. It was whole 'nother to see, within 24 hours of Barack Obama’s revelation, his campaign immediately begin to use Mitt Romney’s opposition to marriage equali ...
• Back to the Deficit
  The House plans to vote today on a Republican plan to avoid the $110 billion in Pentagon sequestration cuts that would be triggered at the end of the year because of the failure of last year's supercommittee. "People know at the end of the day that this is not going to be all sunshine and cotto ...
• Is Mitt Romney a Bully?
  The presidential campaign story of the day is Jason Horowitz's lengthy portrait of Mitt Romney's days as a student at the elite Cranbrook prep school in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. While the story contains a lot of detail that paints the picture of who the youthful Mitt Romney was and what kind ...
• Bring On Less Democracy
  Is anybody else as depressed as I am about the next four years?  No matter who wins, we face the prospect of bitterly divided government, savage partisanship in Congress, and increasing executive desperation. Even if Republicans win the Senate and retain the House, they will not have a filibust ...
• Why Obama Won't Be Punished For His "Evolution ...
  If you were Mitt Romney right now, you'd probably feel like you're the victim of a double-standard. When you have changed your position on an issue in the past, everyone took it as proof that you have no core of beliefs and you'll flip-flop whenever the situation demands. But when Barack Obama ...

Buzzflash

• Monsanto and Dow Continue a Toxic War on Weeds ...
  MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT BuzzFlash at Truthout has periodically written on the increasingly perverse profiteering of big agriculture (Big Ag), particularly its toxic threat (most recently about Monsanto and the dying of bees). In fact, it is an ominous evolution that chemica ...
• Walking in Nonviolence to Bend the Arc Toward ...
  ROBERT C. KOEHLER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The city of Chicago and the federal government will be putting on a $55 million security extravaganza later this month to protect NATO delegates, representing the most powerful military force on the planet, from nonviolent protesters who want to see an ...
• Christian Anti-Porn Group Groping Groupon
  BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Over the past few months, there have been hunks of bad news about Groupon, the original "Deal of the Day" web site, which currently has 16 million users. According to Reuters, the once innovative company "has lost more than half its market value this year ...
• The Austerity Theory is a Big Lie
  STEPHEN PIZZO FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT You know that something is seriously out of whack when those who made a bundle, and then some, with financial black magic, nearly bringing down the entire industrial world, insist they be allowed to not only keep their booty but that the 99% who ate it in ...
• Americans So Concerned About "Preserving Marri ...
  MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT This isn't the first time BuzzFlash at Truthout has advocated that instead of banning gay marriage, we should ban divorce - and toss married individuals who commit adultery in prison - if there are people who are so concerned about maintaining the "sa ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

• The DOJ's escalating criminalization of speech
  Muslims continue to be targeted for prosecution for expressing political views the government dislikes
• Facts and myths in the WikiLeaks/Guardian saga
  A series of accidental events led to the publication of 251,000 diplomatic cables in unredacted form
• Top CIA official: Obama "changed virtually not ...
  A new Frontline from PBS features a "revelation" that is anything but, though it offers an important added detail
• Celebrating the fall of a dictator
  Reports about thankful citizens are being used to justify a pro-war argument -- but we've seen this before
• A tweet that explains everything
  The nation's watchdog news outlets deploy to cover a Wednesday vs. Thursday scheduling conflict

The BiPartisan Report

• Sex, lies and ‘edited’ videotape
• Nihilism 1 American People Nil
• Sheldon Whitehouse brings truth to the Senate ...
• Pesky facts spoil GOP’s mammogram arguments
• Those holier than thou Conservatives

Sciencebase

• Wellcome to Brains
  As I was in London earlier this week for the Leonardo da Vinci: Anatomist exhibition opening at The Queen’s Gallery it seemed churlish not to take in the Wellcome Collection’s fascinating Brains exhibition too, which dovetailed nicely with the bizarre view that Leonardo and his conte ...
• Buck House, Queeny, classically speaking brain ...
  So, as I was saying, I was at Buck House earlier this week. I know, you’re thinking the knighthood is well over due, but I’m afraid I was only there for breakfast, not with Liz and Phil, but with Rachel Woollen, Martin Clayton and others from the Royal Collection and fellow blogging ...
• The rights and lefts of Leonardo da Vinci: Ana ...
  A 5:30 am start is not the usual modus operandi of this freelance journalist but with an invitation to a Bloggers’ Breakfast at Buckingham Palace in London to see the launch of the Leonardo da Vinci exhibition at the BH Gallery scheduled for 8:30 an early train from the outskirts of Cambri ...
• Exergy, existentialism and the environment
  Exergy is perhaps an unfamiliar concept. Energy we can fairly easily get to grips with, it’s a measure of the ability of a system to do work. Work is what causes a system to change its energy state…hmm…first law of thermodynamics. But, what is exergy and where does it fit into the en ...
• The health benefits of giving, joining in and ...
  Helping others, joining in and having some kind of life plan or at least goals, aspirations and ambitions seem to make for enhanced mental health. Certainly, it’s a better strategy than popping supplements and introspection. There is even some scientific evidence that spending money on oth ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

• ACLU in Appeals Court Today for No Fly List Ch ...
  The American Civil Liberties Union will argue in a federal appeals court today that its challenge to the government’s secretive No Fly List should be reinstated. The ACLU represents 15 U.S. citizens and permanent residents, including four military veterans, who are banned from flying to or ...
• ACLU Responds to Justice Department’s Lawsuit ...
  The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced today it would proceed with legal action against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio.read more
• ACLU Responds to Justice Department’s Lawsuit ...
  The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced today it would proceed with legal action against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio.read more
• Philadelphia Joins Urgent Call for National Ac ...
  Philadelphia has joined more than 20 other U.S. cities in supporting the use of the Clean Air Act to reduce greenhouse gas pollution to head off catastrophic climate change. Philadelphia’s city council, in passing a resolution Thursday, is the 24th city to join the Center for Biological Di ...
• Philadelphia Joins Urgent Call for National Ac ...
  Philadelphia has joined more than 20 other U.S. cities in supporting the use of the Clean Air Act to reduce greenhouse gas pollution to head off catastrophic climate change. Philadelphia’s city council, in passing a resolution Thursday, is the 24th city to join the Center for Biological Di ...

Common Dreams-Views

• Pentagon Spending and the War on Children
  Jeff Blum What would you rather see your tax dollars fund? Food stamps for 46 million Americans? Or wars we don't need? The choice for most of us is clear. When asked, "What would you cut if you have to," Americans chose cuts ...
• Why We Must Name All Drone Attack Victims
  Chris Woods Sunday’s death of Fahd al-Quso in a CIA drone strike was a significant US success. The admitted al Qaeda bomber had long been sought for his role in the deadly attack on the US navy ship the  USS Cole back in 2000.Dro ...
• The 'Global May Manifesto'
  We are living in a world controlled by forces incapable of giving freedom and dignity to the world's population. A world where we are told "there is no alternative" to the loss of rights gained through the long, hard struggles of our ancestors, and where success is defined in oppos ...
• Don't Buy the Spin: How Cutting the Pentagon's ...
  Robert Pollin Heidi Garrett-Peltier Should the enormous US military budget—which is more than double the combined levels of military spending by China, the United Kingdom, France, Russia and ...
• Mitt Romney, Bully
  Amy Davidson What is the defining image in the Washington Post’s story on Mitt Romney, as a student at the Cranbrook School, bullying a gay teen-age boy? Maybe it’s Romney, the eighteen-year-old son of a governor, spotting the s ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

• This Is The War That Never Ends
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• Making Afghanistan Safe For China
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• The Costs of War
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• NATO to lose its supply route through Pakistan?
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Water Wars

• A time to listen on wastewater
  There are water wars on the Cape. Participants came together in an all-day forum at Dennis Pines Golf Course May 9 to find ways of “rowing in the same direction: coming together to restore Cape Cod’s coastal waters.”
• Documentary Takes Global View Of Nevada's ...
  Las Vegas and its chief water czar play a prominent role in a new documentary that begins at the Bellagio fountains and spins outward to water flash points around the world. Southern Nevada Water Authority General Manager Pat Mulroy discusses coming conflict
• Water Wars Documentary Last Call at the Oasis ...
  Destabilizing futurism set to a pulse-pounding score isn’t just for sci-fi and fantasy thrillers. It works just as well to sell documentaries like Last Call at the Oasis, which thirstily peers into our present and future water wars, as can be seen in the film’s trailer above. Unlike the comic-bo ...
• Mad Dog Disease
  What does Carpinteria have in common with Afghanistan? Not much, but the Poodle attempts to connect the dots anyway.
• Walmart, Water Wars, Stadiums: VOSD Reading List
  A roundup of what we've been reading recently.

WordPress | Economics

• New books at the Central Library in April/May 2012
  Please see the attached lists for new books received at the Central Library for April and May 2012.
• European Commission sees 'slow recovery' in se ...
  The European Commission on Friday said the European Union economy is in a “mild recession,
• Dimon with egg on his face
  JPMorgan Chase & Co, the biggest US bank by assets, announced yesterday that it had suffered a t
• Exogenous Shocks and Marine Reserves: Blatant ...
  It could be an idea to blatantly promote my own academic work here. My latest publication: EXOGENOUS
• China's inflation cools in April
  China’s consumer inflation slowed in April after a surprise gain in March, while wholesale pri

Electronic Intifada

• Palestinian children work for a pittance in Is ...
  Jillian Kestler-D'Amours 10 May 2012 Extreme poverty forces hundreds of children to work in Israel’s illegal settlements.
• Film review: Palestinians in Israel honored in ...
  Maureen Clare Murphy 10 May 2012 The under-recognized steadfastness of Palestinians who clung onto their land in the areas of Palestine upon which the State of Israel was declared is lovingly praised in Sameh Zoabi’s lighthearted debut feature Man Without a Cell Phone.
• Too many tears have been shed in Palestine; le ...
  Yousef M. Aljamal Gaza Strip 8 May 2012 My mother recently spent 32 days in the West Bank, where she was born and raised. A day for every year she has lived in Gaza.
• After narrow escape, Gaza woman educates peers ...
  Rami Almeghari Gaza Strip 7 May 2012 Ten persons have died so far this year due to various accidents with generators in the Gaza Strip, plagued by chronic power shortages.
• Horowitz smear will only invigorate boycott Is ...
  David Letwin 7 May 2012 David Horowitz’s New York Times attack ad exploits the Holocaust to distract from Israel’s crimes against the Palestinian people.

The Wonk Room

• Europeans Look To China For Renewable Energy E ...
  by Jeffrey Cavanagh Even in the midst of an economic crisis, most European countries are staying committed to deploying renewable energy. But with demand starting to lag due to fiscal constraints, the region’s leaders are looking to large developing countries as growth markets for European ...
• Congressman: Christie Vetoed New Jersey Health ...
  Gov. Chris Christie (R) vetoed a bill yesterday that would have created New Jersey’s insurance exchange program and extended health insurance to 1.3 million New Jersey residents. The governor insisted that his veto was because of the uncertainty surrounding the Affordable Care Act, which r ...
• Rep. Allen West Claims LGBT Workplace Discrimi ...
  Rep. Allen West (R-FL), no stranger to controversy, declared on Thursday that gay people are never fired because of their sexual orientation in the United States. “That don’t happen out here in the United States of America,” West told ThinkProgress during an interview on Capito ...
• Jon Spaihts On Video Game Storytelling v. Movi ...
  io9′s Charlie Jane Anders has a typically intriguing interview with Jon Spaihts, the screenwriter who did the first drafts of Prometheus, and part of the discussion came down to the difference between rendering worlds and telling stories in video games and movies: Storytelling in games has ...
• Reid: Supporters of Filibuster Reform Were &#8 ...
  Every two years, when the Senate’s newly-elected members take office, the Constitution opens up a brief window when the Senate’s rules can be changed with just 51 votes — the rules typically require a two-thirds majority to make any changes. Last year, several senators proposed ...

thwap's schoolyard

• Unfuckablewith
  Like what's that guy doing? These are gigantic allegations:Subject of Communications:  Fantino directly contacts Finley (PM Harper’s #2 and now a Senator) about using federal party resources to pay for robocalling in 2008 general election and 2010 Vaughan by-election.  Finley explai ...
• Sacha Baron Cohen is a Putz
  There is a line in his movie featuring "Borat" that I thought was good comedy. Throughout the film, "Borat" tries to figure out the comedic use of the addendum "Not!" at the end of a sentence. Then, when Pamela Anderson refuses his offer of marriage, "Borat" tells her he doesn't love her anymore ...
• Shit On The Troops!
  Why? For god's sake WHY do right-wing politicians always display such sickeningly hypocritical, disgusting behaviour? Why do they always express their militarism, their love of war and their devotion to "the troops" and then turn around and shit all over "the troops"  when they get damaged ...
• CBC Sides With Top 1%?
  It's funny. In response to the people's victories against neo-liberal austerity in Europe, the CBC comes out with headlines such as this: World markets rattled by European uncertaintyAthens exchange dives 8% after electionGreek election impasse heralds lengthy instabilityInvestors jittery about ...
• Some Crimes are Forever
  I'm always big on the idea of redemption. And you know, even in the case of pedophiles, it's my understanding that a lot of them suffered horrific abuse as children which destroyed their ability to have normal lives. But even this sympathy only goes so far. No matter what, a convicted pedophile, ...

on Government Oversight

• Senators Demand Answers on Mishandling of Mili ...
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Digital Journal

• Prince Charles presenting the weather forecast ...
  Viewers watching BBC Scotland's news broadcast on Thursday were stunned when the presenter announced, "now for the weather forecast and we have a new presenter today". Then cameras switched to the weather map with Prince Charles as the forecaster.
• Quebec police takedown $100M credit card fraud ...
  Before 6 a.m. Wednesday morning, Quebec police pounced on a $100 million Montreal-based international credit card fraud ring, arresting more than 45 people.
• Cancer death rate in decline in Canada
  The Canadian Cancer Society announced Wednesday that the death toll due to cancer has declined over the last two decades. More than 100,000 lives have been saved in that time span.
• Are we overdosed and overmedicated?
  The popular belief that we’re “overdosed and overmedicated” is not rooted in reality but rather in a blatant prejudice against the mentally ill.
• Alberta PC Premier Alison Redford announces 18 ...
  A couple of weeks after winning a historic election, Alberta Premier Alison Redford announced her cabinet, which consists of six Calgary MLAs becoming ministers and a Tory who claimed to be assaulted by a senior citizen during the campaign trail.

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

• MacKay flubbed Libya costs
  Peter MacKay dramatically underestimated the cost of last year's Libya intervention, incremental cost figures released wih the DND 2012-13 Report on Plans and Priorities show.
• Damoclean nukes
  Kudos to the National Post for publishing a visually striking depiction of the day-to-day nuclear threat hanging over the Earth.
• Richler on military mythmaking
  Noah Richler denounces the recent effort to change the self-image of Canadians from peacekeepers to warriors.
• Cluster’s last stand
  The Harper government has introduced legislation that will have the effect of gutting Canadian support for the 2008 treaty banning cluster bombs.
• “Small” nuclear war = global famine
  Even a "small" nuclear war involving 100 nuclear weapons could produce climate effects severe enough to threaten global famine, warns a new report by International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War and Physicians for Social Responsibility.

Kevin Trudeau Show

• Drug Babies Before Vaccinating Them, Doctors D ...
  April 12, 2012 Natural News By Ethan A. Huff “When are these doctors going to learn? Adults shouldn’t even be taking acetaminophen – now they want you to give it to your babies. Let’s kill their livers right away. What a crock.” –KTRN A recent study published ...
• 4 Health Foods With More Sugar Than A Twinkie
  April 12, 2012 Natural Society By Anthony Gucciardi “Not all food you find in health food stores is actually healthy. Read the labels.” –KTRN Is sugar the last ingredient that has not been slammed by health conscious activists? Numerous crusades have been waged against GMOs (ge ...
• Fight Cancer with this Tropical Fruit
  April 13, 2012 DrAxe.Com By Dr. Josh Axe “As Dr. Coldwell will tell you, there are hundreds of natural cancer cures. It just takes a bit of research.” –KTRN In 2007, researchers published a groundbreaking article in the Planta Medica journal about a certain enzyme being found t ...
• Obama Speeches ‘Exactly Same’ A Year Apart
  April 13, 2012 WND By Joe Kovacs “This is absolutely incredible. How arrogant of him to think we aren’t going to notice. Talk about a lazy staff of speech writers.” –KTRN When it comes to politicians, they often say the same thing over and over. That statement is taken to ...
• Budget Prepping for A Buck
  April 13, 2012 Activist Post By Gaye Levy “If you’re into preparedness, here is a cool article on how to do it with a budget.” –KTRN This year tax day appears on April 17. For most of you, your return is now filed and you are waiting for a modest refund. For the not so [...]

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

• The Sovereign Burden
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article By Kim Petersen In this day and age, so many people still seem challenged by the contradiction of supporting monarchism and democracy, by the contradiction of supporting a classless society and su ...
• Geraldo Rivera: I Was “Raped” By The TSA
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comFox News host was put on ‘no fly list’ Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com Friday, May 11, 2012 Fox News host Geraldo Rivera revealed today how he was “manually raped” by a TSA worker while traveling ...
• Planned NATO nuclear weapons upgrade is ‘expen ...
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comNato’s plans to upgrade the US’s estimated 180 tactical nuclear weapons in western Europe are unnecessary, expensive and likely to exacerbate already difficult relations with Russia, according to a report. Th ...
• Ever wondered what it’s like to have the ...
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comThe FBI took — and mysteriously returned — their server. Here’s their story MSNBC By Bob Sullivan Presumed FBI agents reinstall the server seized from MayFirst/PeopleLink. The bureau won’t say why ...
• Gordon Duff on Press TV, US Rendition Manual
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comBy Gordon Duff Veterans Today Friday, May 11th, 2012 Gordon Duff, senior editor of Veterans Today, says that the prisoners at U.S. prisons around the world have no rights at all . Duff made the remarks in an interview wi ...

Dandelion Salad

• True Christian theology is a theology of love ...
  Dandelion Salad May 7, 2012 by strugglevideomedia Naim Ateek, a Christian Palestinian, talks about life for Christians in Palestine/Israel and the Kairos Document that a large number of Palestinian Christian leaders co-authored. He talked in 2010 at the Tree of Life Conference at the First Congr ...
• Sibel Edmonds: US government needs to keep the ...
  with Sibel Edmonds Featured Writer Dandelion Salad May 9, 2012 May 9, 2012 by RTAmerica The Obama administration has the worst track record when it comes to prosecuting whistleblowers. Obama once claimed he’d work hard to have a transparent government, but many have faced retaliation for r ...
• Malaysia puts Bush, Cheney on ‘trial&#82 ...
  Dandelion Salad May 8, 2012 by PressTVGlobalNews For the second time, the Kuala Lumpur Foundation to Criminalize War is putting a former head of state and their administration before a peoples court to face charges of Torture and War Crimes. Press TV’s Lauren Booth reports from Kuala Lumpu ...
• Madeleine Albright, Iraq’s “Grim R ...
  by Felicity Arbuthnot Featured Writer Dandelion Salad London, England 30 April 2012 “There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.” (Madeleine Albright, 1937 – ) As the anniversary of probably one of the most infamous responses in broadcasting history approac ...
• The Mondragon Experiment – Corporate Coo ...
  Dandelion Salad Apr 19, 2012 by 5iF3R The MONDRAGON Corporation is a corporation and federation of worker cooperatives based in the Euskadi. Founded in the town of Mondragón in 1956, its origin is linked to the activity of a modest technical college and a small workshop producing paraffin heater ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

• Infrared Imaging Helps Save Yellowstone’s Wolves
  Scientists are using thermal imaging to track Yellowstone's wolves, which are facing a vicious new predator: sarcoptic mange.
• Live Chat: The Last Days of Dinos
  Join paleontologists Mark Norell and Steve Brusatte of the American Museum of Natural History for a live chat about the Age of Dinosaurs' last days.
• Stone-Throwing Chimp Thinks Ahead
  A chimp famous for throwing stones at visitors now conceals his weapons to get a closer aim at his targets, providing further putative evidence that he is thinking ahead like humans do.
• Physicists Succeed in Making ‘Impossible’ Gamm ...
  Physicists have created a new gamma-ray lens and they believe it will open up a new field of gamma-ray optics for medical imaging, detecting illicit nuclear material, and getting rid of nuclear waste.
• Smarter Grid: Greening the Largest Machine on ...
  In the last couple years the Obama administration has pumped billions into cutting-edge clean energy tech. But these all share a common problem: plugging into an electric grid that is mostly unchanged since the 1930s. Energy experts say meeting our carbon-footprint reduction goals will remain a ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

• Lia Tarachansky: Two of mass Palestinian priso ...
  The Israeli supreme court rejected this week the appeal of two Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike for 70 days. The rejection was described as a death sentence by Physicians for Human Rights -... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
• Jonathan Cook: Netanyahu crowns himself king o ...
  [The newly-created coalition] gives Netanyahu time to entrench moves towards authoritarianism. Netanyahu has been behind a series of measures to weaken the media, human rights groups, and the courts.... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
• Tel Aviv University okays Nakba Day ceremony, ...
  Safi Kadaan: “We’re talking about a new idea, a new campus framework in which there will be a ceremony not just for Arab students, but for everyone.” The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website ...
• Chris Hedges: Welcome to the asylum
  When civilizations start to die they go insane. Let the ice sheets in the Arctic melt. Let the temperatures rise. Let the air, soil and water be poisoned. Let the forests die. Let the seas be emptied... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
• Amira Hass: For Israel, punishing Palestinians ...
  Israelis are not satisfied with the various measures to worsen [Palestinian] prison conditions. When it comes to Palestinians, punishment is not enough. Prison must also be never-ending revenge that... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...

Ria Novosti - Military

• American Hypersonic Weapons 'Threat to Russia' ...
  American research into hypersonic weapons, which the U.S. aims to complete by 2015, represents an especially serious threat to Russia, acting Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Friday.
• U.S. Vows to Go Ahead with Missile Shield, Hop ...
  The United States and NATO will proceed with its European missile defense program despite Russia’s concerns while continuing to seek Moscow’s cooperation on the issue, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Philip Gordon said.
• Russia, Norway to Hold Joint Naval Drills
  The Russian-Norwegian Pomor-2012 naval drills will begin in the Arctic on Friday, the Russian Northern Fleet spokesman said.
• Jordan Interested in Russia’s Heavy Flamethrow ...
  Russia’s arms trading company Rosoboronexport has offered Jordan to buy the TOS-1 Buratino multiple launch rocket system, Newsru.com reported on Thursday.
• U.S. Tests New Missile Defense System
  The United States has successfully tested a new ballistic missile defense interceptor, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) said.

NewsWise

• Pneumonia and Preterm Birth Complications Are ...
  Researchers examined the distribution of child deaths globally by cause and found that 64 percent were attributable to infectious causes and 40 percent occurred in neonates.
• Immune Drug Doesn't Help Kids with Hard-to-Tre ...
  Highlights * Children with a particular kidney immune disorder that is unresponsive to standard treatments do not benefit from the immune drug rituximab. * Additional studies are needed to fully understand the disease and to develop effective therapies for hard-to-treat cases.
• The Desert Southwest: Oasis or Mirage?
  The American West has a drinking problem. On farms and in cities, we are guzzling water at an alarming rate. Scientists say that to live sustainably, we should use no more than 40 percent of the water from the Colorado River Basin. As it is now, we use 76 percent.
• Tune in to Music Themes for Health Tips on Nat ...
  Women, "It's Your Time, " according to the 2012 theme of National Women's Checkup Day on May 14. Nutrition expert Suzy Weems says schedule health screenings, but take some cues from music, too.
• ASU to Digitize Vast Southwestern Arthropod Co ...
  For the first time, the National Science Arizona State University's insect collection is going high-tech and will soon be available for viewing as a virtual museum..

Natural Health News

• Will Half of the U.S. Be Fat by 2030?
  Americans are fat and getting fatter. It’s not exactly politically correct to say it that way—usually people are more comfortable with the words “obese” or simply “overweight.” But according to the CDC, if the spiral continues, 42 percent of the U.S. population will be obese by 2030, and 11 perc ...
• ‘One in Six Cancers Worldwide Are Caused by In ...
  A new study published in The Lancet shows that 1 in 6 cancers are caused by infections that are preventable and treatable, according to BBC News Health. The numbers are attention-getting: just four infections account for 2 million new cancers worldwide every year, including human papillomaviruse ...
• U.S. Foods Widely Banned from Other Countries
  If you’re wondering how safe your food is in the U.S., and whether state and federal regulations truly protect what you eat, you might want to take a look outside the U.S. to see what other countries think of our foods before you make that next trip to the grocery store. What you’ll find is that ...
• FDA Warns Kids Need Less Radiation
  Too much radiation from medical testing is a growing concern around the world, particularly with children who may be getting radiation doses that are geared toward adults. Concerned about reports that the average child will receive more than seven  radiation-emitting scans by age 18, the FD ...
• GM Food: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell?
  A majority of Americans say they want labels on foods so they can see tell which products are genetically modified (GM), thus helping them to decide whether they want to buy these foods. The idea seems reasonable—why shouldn’t we be allowed to know where our foods come from and how they’re grown ...

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

• Weekday News Wrap: Friday, May 11, 2012
  by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Responding to a letter to which we linked yesterday, US Trade Representative Kirk has rejected criticism that the negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement have not been transparent. The Greek left leader has asked the EU to re-examine its comm ...
• China-Philippines Standoff: It Will Get Worse ...
  by Julian Ku by Julian Ku The standoff between China and the Philippines over the Huangyan Island/ Scarborough Shoal (see the island marked 黄岩 on the Chinese map to the right) has continued to fester over the past few weeks. CFR’s Asia Unbound blog has a nice summary here of the latest. ...
• Bachmann Renounces Swiss Nationality (Dual Cit ...
  by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro Michele Bachmann couldn’t take a little bit of heat from a few restrictionists on the Right and has renounced her Swiss citizenship, apparently pursuant to article 42 of the Swiss nationality law. It wasn’t clear that Republicans had such a big problem ...
• Bachmann Renounces Swiss Nationality (Dual Cit ...
  by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro Michele Bachmann couldn’t take a little bit of heat from a few restrictionists on the Right and has renounced her Swiss citizenship, apparently pursuant to article 42 of the Swiss nationality law. It wasn’t clear that Republicans had such a big problem ...
• The Crime that Dare Not Speak Its Name
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller More follies from the Khalid Sheikh Mohammed military commission: The video and audio feed from the war court at Guantanamo Bay is on a time delay so as to prevent accidental or deliberate disclosure of classified information during proceedings. As Khali ...

Public News Service

• A Mother's Day “Hangup” For Prisoners
  A Mother's Day “Hangup” For Prisoners PHOENIX – This weekend, Arizona prison inmates who call their moms on Mother's Day will pay as much as $2.75 per minute on a collect call. Prison phone rates vary widely from state to state but, in general, they burden families trying to p ...
• Arizona Advocates: Moms Get No Love from Lawmakers
  Arizona Advocates: Moms Get No Love from Lawmakers PHOENIX – As Arizona moms celebrate Mother's Day this weekend, advocates say thousands will face additional challenges because of the new state budget. Lawmakers increased spending by a half-percent, but also put $450 million into a rainy ...
• Nurses Celebrate National Nurses Week by Uniti ...
  Nurses Celebrate National Nurses Week by Uniting to Protect Patient Care PHOENIX - It's National Nurses Week, and just as pioneering nurse Florence Nightingale tended to wounded soldiers, nurses today also are on the front lines, fighting to protect patient care. Many nurses are rallying around ...
• Internet Freedom Worries Pivot to Privacy Concerns
  Internet Freedom Worries Pivot to Privacy Concerns PHOENIX - A bill before Congress aimed at enhancing cyber security could leave an individual's personal information exposed to government and corporate misuse, according to Internet freedom advocates. The bill, called the Cyber Intelligence Shar ...
• Report: Proposed Mine May Threaten Water Suppl ...
  Report: Proposed Mine May Threaten Water Supply SE of Tucson PHOENIX - A new open-pit copper mine proposed for 30 miles southeast of Tucson could dramatically lower the area's water table, by hundreds of feet. That's the key finding of a new report by Dr. Waite Osterkamp, a retired hydrologist w ...

Center for Food Safety

• More Empty Recommendations on Junk Food Market ...
  by Michele Simon Institute of Medicine Gives Big Food Another Deadline – or else! This week, the nation’s top public health experts are gathered at a much-trumpeted obesity conference hosted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention called Weight of the Nation. (A quick glance at th ...
• USDA Receives Over 365,000 Public Comments Opp ...
  143 Farm, Fisheries, Public Health, Consumer, and Environmental Groups Send Secretary Vilsack Joint-Letter on Potential Threats to Human Health, American Farms  Public Comment Period Ends Friday, April 27 Over 140 groups and more than 365,000 citizens from across the country are urging the U.S. ...
• California Cows Unhappy About Mad Cow Disease
  Once again mad cow disease (bovine spongiform encephalopathy [BSE]) has surfaced in the U.S.  This week the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) confirmed BSE in a California dairy cow.  USDA has taken the position that milk from BSE-infected cattle is safe for human consumption.  Dair ...
• FDA Announces Antibiotic Reduction Plan
  3 YEAR PHASE-OUT A WIN FOR CONSUMERS, FOOD SAFETY ADVOCATES, AND MEDICAL COMMUNITY; CONTINUED OVERSIGHT NEEDED The Center for Food Safety (CFS) applauds the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today for issuing industry guidance limiting the use of antibiotics in food-producing animals.  Ant ...
• USDA To Decide Imminently On Novel “Agen ...
  The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is currently deciding whether or not to approve an application by Dow Chemical for its controversial genetically engineered (GE) corn crop that is resistant to the highly toxic herbicide 2,4-D, one of the main ingredients in Agent Orange. On February 22n ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

• Time magazine breastfeeding cover – too far?
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• Forget manuka, kiwi scientist discovers new ty ...
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• Wishart’s new treaty book rockets up bestselle ...
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• Reviews of Ian Wishart books
  Reviews of Ian Wishart books. First review of The Great Divide: The Story of New Zealand & Its Treaty
• New Treaty book blames Maori, Pakeha and Story ...
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Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

• Low temperature geothermal could be a game-changer
  Traditional geothermal technology requires 360+ degrees Fahrenheit sources that are difficult to find, less abundant, and therefore costly to discover and develop. Low-temperature geothermal technology makes it possible to access resources as low as 165°F. According to the SMU Geothermal Laborat ...
• JP Morgan loses $2 billion on risky trade
  JP Morgan stock is crashing as a result and the rest of the financial worlds is nervous too. But fear not, JPM CEO Jamie Dimon is sure to call up his old Chicago pal Barack Obama and tell him to send more bailout money.Oh wait, didn’t JPM already get billions in bailout money? Apparently [...]
• Colorado River is basis of economy in US West
  Lake Mead bathtub ringThe Salt Lake Tribune states the obvious that many overlook. The Colorado River is crucial for the entire economy of the American West, generating $26 billion in recreation income as well as water for millions..The largest employer in the American Southwest isn’t a company, ...
• Obama support for same-sex marriage as deliber ...
  Bet you didn’t hear much about “the howling protests of an angry mob” at the Bank of America protest in Charlotte NC yesterday, yes the same state where the Democratic Convention will be held and which just voted against same-sex marriage.The same sex marriage issue will genera ...
• Same-sex marriage meets the Jim Crow South
  Alan Markow grew up in segregated Virginia in the 1950′s and views the dinosaurs in North Carolina as on the wrong side of history, just like the segregationists were.Even the state House Speaker – who backed the anti-gay marriage position – acknowledged that it is “a generational 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

• Head Fake – WH won’t push gay marr ...
    President Obama declared his personal support for same-sex marriage yesterday, but the White House chose not to push for the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act today. “Well, party platform issues are for the party to decide,” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said when ...
• Spring Takeover? Warnings of civil unrest in V ...
  FT Politicians across the spectrum in Venezuela are trading dire predictions of impending violence in the vacuum left by uncertainty about the health of President Hugo Chávez. The opposition has warned of plans to postpone or even cancel elections due in October because of speculation that the s ...
• House panel: Don’t even think about more ...
  It wasn’t enough for lawmakers to refuse approval of additional rounds of base closings; they have voted to stop the Pentagon from spending any money on even considering the idea. The Military Times reports the House Armed Services Committee, which omitted the Pentagon’s request to a ...
• The Mayans reveal their darkest mysteries: New ...
  A vast city built by the ancient Mayan civilisation and discovered nearly a century ago in modern day Guatemala is finally starting to yield its secrets – including a hint that apocalyptic predictions around the ‘end’ of the Mayan Calendar may be wrong. Excavating for the first ...
• Occupy Bilderberg (pressfortruth.tv)
  The annual Bilderberg conference is set to take place in Chantilly Virginia from May 31 to June 3. Approximately 125 of the most powerful and influential people in the world will meet in secret to discuss their best options for continuing to move the world towards a One World Government. Occupy ...

The Air Vent

• Some Unsolicited Advice to Heartland
  It looks like I missed quite a bit over the last couple of weeks. Not only have I not been writing, I haven’t done any reading!   Very unusual  for me.   I had to check if global warming was still happening, whether the sea still had ice and whether climategate 3.0 had broken out. It turne ...
• Some Unsolicited Advice to Heartland
  It looks like I missed quite a bit over the last couple of weeks. Not only have I not been writing, I haven’t done any reading!   Very unusual  for me.   I had to check if global warming was still happening, whether the sea still had ice and whether climategate 3.0 had broken out. It turne ...
• Steve McIntyre – FOI Granted
  Long time readers will be familiar with the Yamal saga.   Yamal is the name of a region which allegedly demonstrated proof of extreme recent warming in tree ring data.  Recently, after years,  Steve McIntyre was granted access to the total dataset site list. Unsurprisingly for paleoclimatology, ...
• Steve McIntyre – FOI Granted
  Long time readers will be familiar with the Yamal saga.   Yamal is the name of a region which allegedly demonstrated proof of extreme recent warming in tree ring data.  Recently, after years,  Steve McIntyre was granted access to the total dataset site list. Unsurprisingly for paleoclimatology, ...
• Sea Ice – Because I Promised
  This post is in fairness to the sea ice doom mongers. Some have written that sea ice is the Achilles heel of the non-alarmist. The implication is that the melting is unequivocal and absolutely destructive to the skeptic argument. I’m not an idiot, so why keep posting on sea ice? Because my ...

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

• Vitrue partners with 7 ad platforms to create ...
  Social enterprise software company Vitrue today announced a partnership with seven ad management companies to give its customers a way to track paid and owned media from its platform without necessarily forcing marketers to switch ad providers. Vitrue’s Media Partner … Continue reading →
• Facebook to give all groups file-sharing capab ...
  Facebook is expanding its group file sharing features to give all groups the ability share files between members, we’ve confirmed with a spokesperson. Last month, the social network gave school-specific groups this functionality but it did not share that it … Continue reading →
• Facebook career postings: media solutions, ana ...
  Facebook added several analytics and media positions this week on its Careers page. The company’s LinkedIn feed showed a few engineering and other positions available. Posts added this week on Facebook’s Careers Page: Operations Analyst Analyst, Measurement Solutions (Chicago) Analyst, Mea ...
• Facebook hires: engineering, design, counsel, more
  Facebook this week expanded its design team with new hires from YouTube, Quora and Rdio, according to its LinkedIn feed.  It also appears that Facebook cleaned out its job inventory again this week, as its Careers page showed many jobs removed since last week. … Continue reading →
• Bing expands Facebook integration with new soc ...
  Bing redesigned its search engine to include a sidebar that displays information from Facebook friends and other social media sources that might be able to help with a search topic. The sidebar includes four components: An “ask friends” feature that … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

• truthout: Truthout's @MayaSchenwar & @exil ...
  truthout: Truthout's @MayaSchenwar & @exileinflyville will be talking People's Media vs. 1% Media in #Chicago this Saturday: http://t.co/px6NgteJ
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• truthout: A Dumb War: @AlanGrayson on #Afghani ...
  truthout: A Dumb War: @AlanGrayson on #Afghanistan http://t.co/ZoTbS2uR #antiwar #p2
• truthout: 27 years after the Guerilla Girls' f ...
  truthout: 27 years after the Guerilla Girls' famous survey: Women Artists Still Face Discrimination http://t.co/OtzmGeeD #fem2 #art

ReDress News

• What kind of society do Americans want?
  Lawrence Davidson argues that Americans face a clear choice: to live in a cohesive and civilized society that cares and supports all its members, or to live in a society governed by selfishness and the philosophy of survival of the fittest.
• Netanyahu crowns himself King of Israel
  Jonathan Cook argues that the newly announced coalition in Israel between the Likud and Kadima parties will give Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu time to entrench moves towards authoritarianism - weakening the media, human rights groups and the courts - and allow him to further undermine rival ...
• Zionist history: a short quiz
  Neve Gordon highlights the slide in Israeli political thought over the past 20 years with a quiz the answers to which "expose just how far right Israeli politics, as well as the public discourse informing it, have shifted".
• Israel's hawks in open revolt against war on Iran
  Uri Avnery looks at how a number of leading hardliners in Israel's military and security establishments have spoken out against the Israeli government's plans for an attack on Iran's nuclear installations and called into question the fitness for office of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and De ...
• Intimidated, detained and tortured: false impr ...
  Graham Peebles calls on the international community, especially donor nations, to take action against the Meles Zenawi regime in Ethiopia, including freezing personal assets and imposing targeted sanctions, to force it to end its gross human rights violations.

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

• Jamiol Presents
• The EyeOpener- Education & “National Sec ...
  Watch the Preview Here: Watch the Full Video Report Here (Subscribers Only): *The Transcript for this video is available at Corbett Report: Click Here This site depends exclusively on readers’ support. Please help us continue by SUBSCRIBING, and by ordering our EXCLUSIVE BFP DVD .
• Updates on ‘Classified Woman’ & BFP
  Calm before a Storm? You got the news on my coming book, and some of you already have a copy. Then, you got the press release from NWC, and after that the video clip of my attorney’s interview with RT. I know many of you are wondering: what’s going on?! What  next?! Trust me, I [...]
• Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
  Solomon Burke This week’s BFP Jamiol music pick has 2 things going for it. First off, it’s a request from Sibel and secondly it’s a song performed by Solomon Burke aka “King Solomon.” Burke also earned the title “the Muhammad Ali of soul” for his ability ...
• The Purpose of Education: Social Uplift or Soc ...
  The Path to Deconstructing Democracy In Part 1 of this series, I examined the elite assault on education – through the Chamber of Commerce, right-wing think tanks, and the Trilateral Commission – which arose in response to the massive social and political activist movements of the 1960s. The thr ...

Afro Spear

• What Good Friday Means
• Hoodie and Hijab standing together for justice!
• I want to be an Aid Worker
• The Circle of Injustice
• Alem Dechassa & the modern slavery of Ethiopia ...
  Read article here: Modern slavery of Ethiopian women

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

• Havana cigars: So What?!
  Havana cigars embargo and stringent laws have relaxed to the point when legitimate US import is imminant.
• Pick 'em -- Romney, Romney-bot or Vampire?
  Is Romney truly a vampire politician or merely another robot-puppet doing rightwing billionaire bidding? Inquiring minds want to know as we prefer humanized robots to fiendish ghouls -- and we wrote two verse satires to support this prudent perspective.
• "Occupy", What it Articulated and Exposed, Wha ...
  So where is the "occupy" movement headed? How will it evolve and what impact will it make down the road? It certainly isn't dead. It's an idea you can't kill by physically removing it. For sure "occupy" articulated and exposed the rot w/in our corporate dominated plutocratic state. It's the nex ...
• Constitutional Issues: Part III: The "Pretty" ...
  Part 3 of a 3-part "Constitutional Issues" series...
• 5 Signs You Are Dealing with Real ID in 2012
  May 11th, 2012 will mark four years since DHS' original deadline challenge to States to comply with Real ID regulations. The law became virtually unenforceable as a national identity system, but are citizens and residents really free and clear of the negative impacts stemming from Real ID?

Switchboard

• House Votes to Undo Part of Settlement to Rest ...
  Doug Obegi, Staff Attorney, Western Water Project, San Francisco Yesterday, the House of Representatives passed Congressman Denham’s amendment to undo part of the court approved settlement to restore the San Joaquin River and its historic salm ...
• New Redford Colorado River Film in Online Film ...
  Barry Nelson, Senior Policy Analyst, Water Program, San Francisco Robert Redford’s new film about the Colorado River, called Watershed, can now be viewed online as part of the Whole Earth “Do Something Reel Film Festival” (for a mo ...
• Arunabha Ghosh Guest Blog: Finance Remains Sol ...
  Anjali Jaiswal, Senior Attorney, San Francisco Guest Blog by Dr. Arunabha Ghosh, CEO of Council on Energy, Environment, and Water In New Delhi, we recently launched our latest report, an evaluation of Phase 1 of India’s National Solar Mission ...
• Breakthrough on Measuring Farm Water Use Bodes ...
  Ed Osann, Senior Policy Analyst, Santa Monica This week, a critical milestone that can eventually save a significant amount of water was passed when the California Water Commission gave its unanimous approval to a rule proposed by the Department of ...
• Join us for New York Solar Jobs Days
  Pierre Bull, Policy Analyst, Air & Energy, New York City Summer is nearly here, and we’re urging Albany to put more of that New York sunshine to work already! It’s time to show lawmakers that solar power is a priority for New Yorkers. W ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• Hacktacular!
  Elizabeth Foley upholds the standards one would expect of a poster at Instapundit.   According to Foley, a civil rights lawsuit filed against Joe Arpaio shows that liberals hate free speech: Let me get this straight. It’s a violation of federal civil rights law now to use derogatory slang or exp ...
• Your Republican Party!
  The modern Republican Party: creating myths about what the Founders thought out of thin air yet actually opposing what the Founders invented while screaming tyranny. The latest example of the second part of this equation comes from the House passing a bill eliminating the census surveys that hav ...
• Hijinks and pranks
  Isn’t that what Abu Ghraib was all about? In 1965, an effeminate student named John Lauber showed up with “bleached-blond hair that draped over one eye.” “He can’t look like that. That’s wrong. Just look at him!” an incensed Romney told Matthew Friedemann, his close friend in t ...
• The Silliness of the “Obama Just Agrees ...
  Speaking of Josh Trevino, he tries out a line that I’ve seen in a few places — including some liberals who should know better:  “Forgot to congratulate Barack Obama for arriving at the same policy position on gay marriage as Rick Perry, Dick Cheney, & Barry Goldwater.&#8221 ...
• Back to the F-35B!
  The Royal Navy, after deciding last year to switch from the STOVL F-35B (short take off vertical landing) to the CATOBAR (catapult assisted takeoff barrier assisted recovery) F-35C, has now switched back to the F-35B. There are three apparent reasons; first, the F-35B has been doing relatively w ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

• Angelenos To LADWP: More Solar Now!
• Wanted: Fuel Cell Baggage-Towing Tractors
• Small Wind-Turbine Maker Sees ‘Energy Clusters’
• Huge California PV Project Under Way
• Rural Montana Kids Energy Efficiency Champs

National Law Journal | U.S.

• Hazy forecast for 2012
  Fewer businesses filed for bankruptcy protection during 2011 than they did the year before, reflecting a shift toward out-of-court restructurings using high-yield debt financing — and bearing repercussions for the legal profession.
• Volkswagen challenges fee award method in MDL ...
  An award of $30 million in attorney fees and nearly $1.2 million in costs to plaintiffs lawyers who worked on a multidistrict litigation came under fire at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit on May 10.
• Syracuse breaks ground on $90 million facility
  Dineen Hall, as the building will be called, is expected to open in 2014, administrators said. unveiled plans for the 200,000 square-foot structure in 2010 and have been raising money for the project ever since.
• Ignorance no defense for celebrity health reco ...
  A federal appeals court has refused to toss out charges that a former researcher at the University of California at Los Angeles Health System illegally obtained medical records of patients, including celebrities such as Arnold Schwarzenegger and Tom Hanks.
• THE CONNECTED LAWYER: Biggest firms still not ...
  To see which firms are really catching the vision, you need to look just outside the AmLaw 100.

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

• Streaming Media East, Billboard Music Awards, ...
  On the evening of May 8 a Digital Music LA Meetup, designed to help digital music industry professionals uncover new business opportunities, follows a cocktail sip. On closing evening, there is the Red Carpet Arrivals and Awards Dinner Party.
• Three Hazardous Waste Sites Added To EPASuperf ...
  Contaminants found at the sites include benzene, heavy metals, polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), volatile organic compounds (VOCs), and trichloroethylene (TCE).
• Chinese Group Hailed for Combating Wildlife Tr ...
  The Chinese organization reportedly carried out two nationwide operations this year to successfully combat wildlife crime.
• Three Brilliant Women Win UN Award
  The ITU's Secretary-General Hamadoun Touré commended the work of the three award-winners in promoting both the involvement of women in the ICT field.
• New Bacon Pretzel Rolos Will Take Everyone Int ...
  But that's exactly what these candies will do for you. Give you mouth- happiness like no other. We realize that statement sounds a little... off but we don't care. We have no shame when it comes to bacon.

environment 360

• Lack of Profitability Drives U.S. Company Out ...
  A U.S.-based company that used genetic engineering to develop a technology to convert sugar into biofuel has announced that it will stop producing the fuel, at least temporarily, because the process simply isn’t profitable. Amyris, a San Francisco firm that also produces cosmetic products, had e ...
• Greenland Glaciers Moving More Slowly Than Pr ...
  A new U.S. study says that Greenland’s glaciers are sliding into the sea more slowly than previously estimated, a finding that may indicate future sea level rise will not be as high as some projected worst-case scenarios. Using satellite data to track changes to 200 outlet glaciers from 2000 to ...
• Japan Goes Nuclear-Free For the First Time in ...
  Japan will shut down its last working nuclear power station this weekend, culminating — at least for now — a national shift away from nuclear energy in the aftermath of last year’s Fukushima disaster. The shutdown of the No. 3 Tomari reactor in Hokkaido will leave the country w ...
• Earth Observation Satellites Threatened by Bud ...
  Budget shortfalls, launch failures, and mission changes have caused a decline in U.S. earth observation satellites over the last five years, a trend that could undermine the nation’s ability to forecast weather and monitor natural disasters and climate change, according to a new report. The repo ...
• Experiments Underestimate Plant Responses to G ...
  Studies designed to predict how plants and trees will react to rising temperatures have consistently underestimated those responses, with the actual flowering and leafing of plants advancing far more rapidly than most experiments forecast. That is the conclusion of new research by Canadian and U ...

Red Ice Creations

• The Hindenburg Disaster, 75 Years On
  It’s been 75 years since the famous and terrible Hindenburg Disaster. On May 6, 1937 the German passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg burst into flames and fell from the sky while docking in New Jersey. It had departed on its fateful trip three days earlier from Frankfurt, Germany. Of the 97 peopl ...
• The Origin of Mysterious, Dark-Skinned Blonds ...
  Residents of the Solomon Islands in the Pacific have some of the darkest skin seen outside of Africa. They also have the highest occurrence of blond hair seen in any population outside of Europe. Now, researchers have found the single gene that explains these fair tresses.
• Drop the Money Bomb on Monsanto!
  Between May 1 and May 26, a broad coalition of food, farm, health, public interest, and environmental groups all over the country, joined by leading organic food companies, will attempt to raise one million dollars to support the California Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act, a citize ...
• Dr. Rath’s Call to the people of Germany and E ...
  We are living in a time of change. The status quo fights against this change. If you have any questions, go to wiki-rath.org/ At a Cancer Free World conference in Berlin, Germany, on 13th March 2012, Dr. Rath called on the people of Germany and Europe to take responsibility for building a democr ...
• Eurocrats’ secret plan to abolish EU sovereign ...
  All EU countries will be run from Brussels if Van Rompuy is replaced by a "super EU president". Senior Eurocrats are secretly plotting to create a super-powerful EU president to realise their dream of abolishing ­Britain and other nation states, UK media has revealed. A covert group of EU foreig ...

Russia Today

• Libya moving to democracy through torture?
  Thousands of supporters of Colonel Gaddafi are being detained, with some tortured in secret prisons by revolutionary brigades, the head of the UN Support Mission in Libya says. Rights groups have already raised the... Read Full Article at RT.com
• Olympic crackdown: UK govt targets protests
  The UK government is rounding on protesters ahead of this summer’s Olympics, issuing the first court order to ban an Occupy activist from the event. The unprecedented security measures for the Games have been branded as... Read Full Article at RT.com
• Apocalypse not now: Mayan relic says 2012 not ...
  The discovery in a Guatemala jungle of a previously unknown version of the Mayan calendar offers humankind a ray of hope: the world is not going to end on December 21, 2012 and could most probably last for another... Read Full Article at RT.com
• Greek austerity: Path to recovery, or path to ...
  Greece is struggling to form a new government, as political parties are divided on austerity measures. RT spoke to economic analyst Michael Mross, who explains what it means for Greece and Europe as a whole. Read Full Article at RT.com
• Loving the bomb: NATO to splurge billions on n ...
  The US is planning to spend $4 billion to upgrade NATO’s Western Eruopean nuclear arsenal. The “unnecessary and expensive” initiative is likely to stir new animosity with Russia, a report says. Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

• Romney and friends were ‘a pack of dogs& ...
  “I saw it with my own eyes,” said Maxwell, of the anecdote first reported by the Washington Post . Maxwell said Romney held the scissors helping to cut the hair of a student, John Lauber, who was presumed to be gay and who had long hair. “It was a hack job… clumps of hair taken ...
• US backed terrorists wound or kill hundreds in ...
  If the US corporate daily press can’t label US terrorism when they see it, we on the US Left should at least be able to do so. Dozens dead in twin Damascus blasts
• Stop Joseph Kony? Who’s going to stop US ...
  Wanna know who’s all over Kony, KONY 2012 that is? Denver’s Global Equality collective is on top of that shit like you wouldn’t believe. You may have thought the viral video debunked and that was that, a screening of KONY 2012 was attempted in Uganda and caused a riotous backla ...
• Obama takes historic step on pop-top, endorses ...
  What next? Is candidate Obama going to say he’s against war again too? I recall some event last week which was held to be the kickoff of President Obama’s presidential campaign, but today’s statement confirms it, Candidate Obama is in the house, he’s for whatever you&#821 ...
• Someone liked Maurice Sendak

Debunking the Debunkers

• My Top 10 Insane Conspiracy Theories
  For Infowars Nightly News last night, Paul Joseph Watson counted down his top 10 insane conspiracy theories which distract from exposing real coverups. Many of them were about Alex Jones and himself. His humorous list inspired me to make a slightly more se ...
• Insightful
  A little while back, Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog posted the following: InsaneThat's my vote with regard to this headline: 9/11 Conspiracy Theory–Insane or Insightful? The writer, who apparently worked for CNN at one point, goes on to talk about one of the silliest tropes: I ke ...
• Manufacturing Terror
  Video posted by Jon Gold, author of "9/11 Truther The Fight for Peace, Justice and Accountability."   One of the many reasons there is no justification for the "War On Terror." http://www.motherjones.com/special-reports/2011/08/fbi-terrorist-informants http://www.guardian.co.uk/wor ...
• TSA - Grope & Pillage
  Created by: OnlineCriminalJusticeDegree.com Related: Coming Soon to an Airport Near You - Thanks to 9/11 The official 9/11 lie used by TSA as a reason to abuse children, women, and the handicapped TSA: Bullies, Thieves, Rapist and Child Molesters Why doesn't the TSA use dogs trained to sniff ...
• Debunker Related Excerpts from and Review of ...
  Released 2/26/12, 9/11 Truther The Fight for Peace, Justice and Accountability starts off with a past aticle by author Jon Gold, which serves as a definition of the book's title:So what is a "9/11 Truther”? As I said, it's kind of hard to spin the word "Truth," but the "debunkers" and "media" ha ...

Fooducate

• Baby Steps for Better Health?
  New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! Hi folks, This is Hemi, founder of Fooducate. I’ve been invited to speak at Stanford University next week at the Mobile Health 2012 Conference.  The theme of this year’s conference is Baby Steps f ...
• The System is Broken: How DC is Mishandling Ob ...
  New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! The Center for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) projects a thirty percent increase in obesity rates by 2030 to 41% of the US population. The toll on our economy – a whopping half a trillion dollar ...
• Luna Fiber Bar: Blurring the line between food ...
  New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! Luna (by Clif Bar), the brand of bars targeted to the “fit female”, has released a new product, apparently for the Ensure generation. The Luna Fiber bar is soft, sweet and pumped up with fiber, vi ...
• Enjoying Pink Slime? You’ll Love Meat Glue
  New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! Transglutaminase, also known as Meat Glue, is not something you’d expect to find in your steak. But it turns out that this animal derived additive is used, mostly in the dining industry. It allows chefs ...
• My Kid Likes Junk Food. And That’s OK.
  New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! This is a guest blog post by Sally Kuzemchak, MS, RD When my son Henry was two years old, we were out with another mom and her child when Henry pointed to a vending machine and squealed, “Pepsi!” I was horrif ...

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

• Bushmen’s fear as Botswana’s security forces r ...
  Bushmen are being arrested despite their right to live and hunt in the CKGR. © Survival Botswana’s security forces are arresting and intimidating Bushmen, despite the tribe’s legal right to live and hunt in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR). Survival has received several reports tha ...
• Amazon road could cut uncontacted tribes’ land ...
  Uncontacted Mashco-Piro are believed to live in the path of the road. One band of the tribe were recently spotted further south. © D. Cortijo/www.uncontactedtribes.org Peru’s Congress is about to approve a highly controversial road that will slash in half the territory of at least two uncon ...
• India: Illegal ‘human safari’ road still open ...
  India's illegal 'human safari' road remains open 10 years after ruling to close it. © G Chamberlain/ Survival A road at the centre of a ‘human safari’ scandal in the Andaman Islands is still open, exactly ten years after India’s Supreme Court ordered its closure. The Andaman ...
• Amazon Indians’ fishing ritual brought to halt
  Enawene Nawe man. Drastically low fish stocks in the Indians' rivers have left them 'desperate' © Fiona Watson/Survival The Enawene Nawe Indians of the Brazilian Amazon have said they feel ‘desperate’, as their annual fishing ritual has provided them with almost no fish. Th ...
• Colin Firth campaign for Brazilian tribe break ...
  Colin Firth's appeal has generated more than 10,000 protest emails. © Survival A campaign launched by Colin Firth to save the world’s most threatened tribe has generated more than 10,000 protest emails to the Brazilian government in just three days – a record for protest action for tr ...

Greg Palast

• Greg Palast at Chicago GreenFestival Tomorrow
  Greg Palast at Chicago GreenFestival this Sunday - Invitation Greg wants to thank you for your support with a special gift. He will be the featured speaker this Sunday and would love to meet you in person and say hi. We have arranged for 20 free guest spots for our supporters. If you would like ...
• Sneak Peak: Why We Occupy Live! DVD
  Greg Palast from the oil soaked heart of America, Houston TX. Greg Palast live DVD - Coming Soon.
• Arrest of BP Scapegoat:Real Killers Walk
  by Greg Palast – Special for Buzzflash at Truthout The Justice Department went big game hunting and bagged a teeny-weeny scapegoat.  More like a scape-kid, really. Today, Justice arrested former BP engineer Kurt Mix for destroying evidence in the Deepwater Horizon blow-out. I once ran a Jus ...
• BP Cover-upPart 2: Bribery, George Bush and Wi ...
  by Greg Palast - Exclusive for EcoWatch.org Friday, 20. April, 2012 Evidence now implicates top BP executives as well as its partners Chevron and Exxon and the Bush Administration in the deadly cover-up –– which included falsifying a report to the Securities Exchange Commission. Yesterday, ...
• BP Cover-up 'They Knew.'
  by Greg Palast – Exclusive for EcoWatch.org Thursday, 19. April, 2012 Two years before the Deepwater Horizon blow-out in the Gulf of Mexico, another BP off-shore rig suffered a nearly identical blow-out, but BP concealed the first one from the U.S. regulators and Congress. This week, EcoWatc ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

• How can I reuse or recycle toilet seats?
  Apologies for the break in blogging – I’ve been super busy with other things over the last month. And in my absence, Recycle This had its sixth birthday! Happy Birthday website! :D Anyway, moving on: we’ve had an email from Stephanie about toilet seats: I just came into about 2 ...
• 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 ...

Age of Autism

• Dr. David Berger on Minimizing Autism Incidence
  By Anne Dachel WTSP-TV in St. Petersburg, FL posted some amazing news coverage on May 2. 2012. It was on children and autism and ways to lower the risk of families having future children with neurodevelopmental and chronic health issues....
• What’s Really Behind the Increase in Autism Rates
  By Alice Shabecoff The just-released data on autism shows a count of 1 in 88 children, up from a rate of 1 in 110 three years ago and one in 150 five years ago. With each change, the response remains...
• Congressional Briefing on Current Status of Na ...
  Congressional Briefing The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program Addressing Mismanagement Issues and Providing Legislative Recommendations Please join SafeMinds and the Vaccine Injured Petitioners Bar Association at a Congressional Briefing on May 18 at 10 am. The Briefing will discuss th ...
• Autism Community! Congress is Listening!
  Congress is Listening ! Hundreds of you have visited the Facebook page of the House Committee on Oversight and Government reform – THANK YOU! We have talked to the committee’s staff and they have taken note of your input. If...
• From The Editor

Global BDS Movement

• G4S loses its contract with the European Parli ...
  Campaigners had raised concerns about the role the company plays in equipping Israeli prisons in which Palestinian political prisoners are held in violation of international law
• Palestinian civil society and human rights org ...
  Marking Palestinian Prisoners Day, Palestinian organisations call for action against G4S, supplier to Israeli prisons at which political prisoners are detained
• BDS roundup: Los Angeles activists urge city t ...
  In this week’s BDS roundup from the Electronic Intifada, LA activists, international campaign urges Yves Béhar, university students in Pennsylvania protest, boycott activists, and more
• Why Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions Should ...
  The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement has been a significant instrument in the campaign to tear down Israel's democratic facade
• Scottish govt. helps Israeli company deal with BDS
  Documents obtained by the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign show how a subsidiary of an Israeli company operating in Britain turned successfully for help from the Scottish Government

Farm Wars

• Immunization Graphs – The Real Story on Vaccin ...
  Actual statistics prove that vaccines HAVE NOT prevented disease.
• Pig Blood Safer than Fresh Milk?
  Evidently, drinking fresh milk straight from the mom is supposed to be unhealthy for calves because it is unpasteurized, but pig blood is good?
• New EO to Eliminate GMO Trade Barriers
  The USDA and Monsanto, using international Free Trade agreements as a club, have a penchant for attempting to force other countries under threat of penalty for creating a barrier to free trade, into accepting the unacceptable at their borders, in the form of genetically modified products (GMOs). ...
• Family Farmers – Remember! The USDA OWNS the “ ...
  In order to sell your home grown fruit at the now centrally planned "farmers market" you must submit a "crop plan" and have your Garden inspected by filling out a "farm schedule." After that's done you're more than welcome to sell your oranges once you fill out your various tax forms, sign the t ...
• Michigan Mutations from Fukushima Fallout?
  Investigators detailing vegetation mutations possibly from Fukushima.

Open Your Eyes News

• Keep cutting or EU aid stops, Greeks told
  Telegraph – The political turmoil triggered market turbulence yesterday as shares fell on fears that Greece will be forced out of the euro within months. Concern that the problems may spread pushed up the price of borrowing for Spain and Italy. Guido Westerwelle, the German foreign ministe ...
• US: Lawmakers move to boost 2013 defense budget
  Reuters – Pentagon chief Leon Panetta warned lawmakers last month not to pick apart piece by piece the finely balanced 2013 defense budget he sent to Capitol Hill earlier this year. But lawmakers in the Republican-led House of Representatives are doing exactly that. The House Armed Service ...
• Laos says building of controversial dam on hold
  AFP – Laos has postponed construction of a controversial dam on the Mekong, an official said Thursday, dismissing fears that the work was going ahead despite growing regional opposition. “There is no construction on the Mekong river,” Viraphonh Viravong, director general of the ...
• FEATURE PAGE – Fluoridated Water
  Just why are we here are Open Your Eyes News leading the campaign against water fluoridation in our home city of Perth, Western Australia? Surely it’s good for your teeth? And we’re only talking about tiny amounts in just the water after-all? To find out the real facts on why we are ...
• News Archive In Focus – Deforestation (288 art ...
  The transformation of forested lands by human actions represents one of the great forces in global environmental change and one of the great drivers of biodiversity loss. The World Resources Institute estimates that only about 22% of the world’s original forest cover remains intact. The im ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

• Unabomber billboard continues to hurt Heartlan ...
  With a simple statement on Tuesday, State Farm Insurance became the latest company to withdraw its support from the Heartland Institute, a Chicago-based think-tank which claims a “realist” position questioning that humans are responsible for climate change.
• EV confab this weekend is about more than cars
  The electric car might not be enjoying a good moment as the Electric Vehicle Symposium, EVS26, powers up for its run this weekend at the Los Angeles Convention Center. GM stopped production for five weeks on the Chevy Volt, and sales of new all-electric cars such as the Volt or the Nissan Leaf a ...
• Settlement may bring EV infrastructure to Cali ...
  In an unforeseen upside to the electric-power market crisis of 2001, a new proposed legal settlement between utility NRG and the California Public Utilities Commission would bring more than $100 million in new electric-vehicle charging infrastructure to the state.
• 'Whale Wars'' Paul Watson on Faroes killing, ...
  The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, capitalizing on the tremendous success of their Animal Planet TV show, “ Whale Wars ,” has now taken on a new battle. With the Japanese fleet’s Antarctic hunt finished for the season, the skull-and-crossbones crew have turned their attenti ...
• Activists urge Discovery to acknowledge climat ...
  Forecast the Facts, the activist group that first confronted GM about its support of climate change doubters the Heartland Institute, now plans to muster a public campaign targeting the Discovery Channel. The purpose: to get Discovery to acknowledge the scientific consensus on man-made climate c ...

water.org

• Jodie Foster & Matt Damon: It's Personal
  This Mother's Day, Jodie Foster and Matt Damon challenge you to transform the life of another mom.
• One Mother's Story: Ranjana
  A small sanitation loan helped Ranjana build her family a clean, safe toilet on their property. As a result, they saved enough money on medical bills that Ranjana was able to start her own business.
• One Daughter's Story: Kebebush
  Thanks to a new handpump in her community, Kebebush has been able to focus herself more fully on her education.
• One Mother's Story: Vandana
  Vandana's life was changed thanks to a small loan through our WaterCredit program - now she and the other women in her community have access to clean, healthy water right at their doorstep.
• Water is More Precious than Gold
  For the past eight years Mrs. Yashodha has diligently worked through the process to secure reliable water for her family and their household. After becoming a member of a locally organized self-help group she was able to save enough money to secure a loan for a household water connection.

Before It's News

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Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

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

News Blaze

• Streaming Media East, Billboard Music Awards, ...
  On the evening of May 8 a Digital Music LA Meetup, designed to help digital music industry professionals uncover new business opportunities, follows a cocktail sip. On closing evening, there is the Red Carpet Arrivals and Awards Dinner Party.
• Three Hazardous Waste Sites Added To EPASuperf ...
  Contaminants found at the sites include benzene, heavy metals, polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), volatile organic compounds (VOCs), and trichloroethylene (TCE).
• Chinese Group Hailed for Combating Wildlife Tr ...
  The Chinese organization reportedly carried out two nationwide operations this year to successfully combat wildlife crime.
• Three Brilliant Women Win UN Award
  The ITU's Secretary-General Hamadoun Touré commended the work of the three award-winners in promoting both the involvement of women in the ICT field.
• New Bacon Pretzel Rolos Will Take Everyone Int ...
  But that's exactly what these candies will do for you. Give you mouth- happiness like no other. We realize that statement sounds a little... off but we don't care. We have no shame when it comes to bacon.

Worldnews

• 'Save the planet', science leaders urge G ...
  Leaders of the global science community have issued joint statements to world leaders meeting at the G8 summit later this month in the US. National science academies from 15 countries have called on the leading industrialised economies to pay greater heed to science and technology. The acade ...
• Wenger `very confident` that Van Persie w ...
  London: Arsenal chairman Peter Hill-Wood says he is optimistic that captain Robin van Persie will sign a new deal at the Gunners, despite speculation he could leave the club. The Dutchman has refused to comment on his future or discuss extending his current deal that is due to run out in 201 ...
• Ganguly to serve as mentor only from IPL ...
  Sourav Ganguly will no longer be the captain of Pune Warriors in Indian Premier League and will serve only as the team's mentor, putting an end to intense speculation over the struggling batsman's fate following a string of poor...
• After six losses in a row, Ganguly faces ...
  Pune Warriors skipper Sourav Ganguly said on the eve of the game against Royal Challengers Bangalore on Thursday that he would continue to lead the second-last placed side for the rest of the season. But then, his position has been undermined following the team's poor show, it is reliably le ...
• HC adjourns bail plea hearing of AMRI dir ...
  The Calcutta High Court on Thursday adjourned the hearing of the anticipatory bail petition of Preeti Surekha, one of the...

Alex in Wonderland

• Report: Active-Duty Army PSYOPS Soldiers Embed ...
  To better manufacture consent, U.S. Army soldiers are embedded as intern and fellows at local TV affiliates, along with previously reported newspapers and national outlets.
• Military Welfare Budget Won’t Thin Any T ...
  Ivan Eland sat with RT to discuss the astronomical political clout held by the welfare queens of the military-industrial complex that will thwart any translation of the Pentagon's rhetoric into actual policy
• Afghan Elections Rigged on Video? (Video)
  Yes, people videotaped it and Al Jazeera broke the story.
• Fuckin’ Oil, Where Did It Went?
  With 90% of up to 4.4 million barrels of oil 'unaccounted for', it's now... still unaccounted for.
• U.S. Troops ‘Killing for Sport’ in Afghanistan ...
  Taped interrogations of four soldiers charged in theatrically slaying numerous Afghan civilians were obtained by CNN and ABC. CNN's report includes the soldiers' rampant drug abuse and a before unreported case of staging the murder of an Afghan civilian.

MY Daily Apple

• House Takes Pot Shots at Research and Ocean Policy
  Spending bill hits programs at NSF and Census Bureau
• VitaminSpice Responds To Frivolous Filings By ...
  WAYNE, Pa., May 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- VitaminSpice, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: VTMS) will aggressively defend and address via the legal system its former counsel Jehu Hand and his conspirators.  This latest lawsuit is the 7th in a string of serial filings that have been...
• Top 10 Changes in 'What to Expect'
  Author of 'What to Expect When You're Expecting' compares older editions with her latest, fourth edition.
• New Diet Drug Lorcaserin Wins Vote From FDA Panel
  An FDA advisory committee voted 18-4, with one abstention, that the agency should approve lorcaserin, which would make it the first new prescription weight loss drug in more than a decade.
• Trampoline Recall
  About 92,000 Sportspower BouncePro 14' Trampolines are being recalled because "the netting surrounding these trampolines can break, allowing children to fall through the netting and be injured." The recalled trampolines were made in China and sold at Wal-Mart from February 2009 to 2012 for abou ...

Common Dreams

• JP Morgan's $2 Billion Tumble Renews Call: 'Br ...
  Wall Street titan JPMorgan Chase on Thursday admitted that poorly positioned trades cost the bank $2 billion in losses. The news sent stocks of other big banks tumbling and raised the alarm once again over the tenuous nature of the financial system and the role of 'too big to fail' banks ...
• 'Bombs over Bread': GOP-Controlled House Passe ...
  The GOP-controlled House of Representatives on Thursday passed a 'reconciliation budget' that makes sweeping and what many termed 'devastating' cuts to social programs, including food assistance for children, federal retirement benefits for older workers, and medicaid programs fo ...
• Justice Dept. Sues Arizona Sheriff Arpaio for ...
  The U.S. Justice Department has announced that it is suing Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio for civil rights violations and fostering discrimination against Latinos.Sheriff Joe Arpaio. (photo: Gage Skidmore) read more
• US Military Taught Officers: ‘Hiroshima’ Tacti ...
  The U.S. military has been teaching its future leaders that a “total war” against the world’s 1.4 billion Muslims will be necessary to protect America from terrorists, according to documents released today in a stunning story in Wired's Danger Room. Hundreds of US military ...
• Sen. Sanders, Environmental Groups Call to End ...
  Today, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), Bill McKibben of 350.org, Brent Blackwelder of Friends of the Earth and Ryan Alexander of Taxpayers for Common Sense held a rally and press conference announcing a new piece of legislation aimed at eliminating all subsidies for fo ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

• James Moore
• Neill Blomkamp
• Sarah Polley
• Jay Baruchel
• David Suzuki

Examine Religion - Tweets

• ExamineReligion: Is God your chief joy? http:/ ...
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• ExamineReligion: North Carolina imposes ban on ...
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• ExamineReligion: The 10 spiritual lessons of r ...
  ExamineReligion: The 10 spiritual lessons of relationships http://t.co/cHsmKLbJ

Energy Collective

• Emerging signs of health in the global PV indu ...
  Although most pundits agree that 2012 will be a very tough year for the PV majors, some good news has finally started emerging.The first story is about the price of silicon, the raw material that feeds our industry and is the source of so much opportunity and at times, so much pain.
• Baby You Can Drive My (Electric) Car
  Electric vehicles have come a long way since the days for the botched EV-1 experiment of the 1990s.
• Senate bill aims to appraise value of home eff ...
  Say you were getting ready to put your home on the market and wanted to make a quick investment to boost the selling price. Would you be better off buying a granite countertop for your kitchen, or an ultra-efficient furnace that would lower heating bills by hundreds of dollars every year?
• PG&E Proposes New & Improved Rates for Electri ...
• Replacing nuclear with wind power: Could it be ...

Green House - USA Today

• Climate change affects each U.S. state, Web to ...
  How badly is climate change affecting your state? A new Web tool allows users to see how vulnerable their area has been to drought, flooding and heat extremes as well as the health problems that go along with them.
• What's in your child's car seat? Study finds t ...
  What's a parent to do? You buy a car seat to keep your child safe but then find out, as a new study reports, that 60% of these products contain dangerous chemicals. The good news: some seats were found to be almost toxic-free.
• U.S. cities require buildings to disclose ener ...
  Worried that the apartment you like could be an energy hog? Help is on the way as U.S. states and cities begin this year to require that commercial buildings measure and disclose their energy use.
• Study: Climate change imperils Himalayan glaciers
  Two of three Himalayan glaciers -- both in humid areas of eastern Nepal -- could disappear if present climate change patterns continue, a study predicts.
• Environmentalists cheer Obama's fuel economy hike
  President Obama's plan to double fuel efficiency standards for cars and light-duty trucks by 2025 received applause from environmentalists who had pressed for such action.

Prior Art

• With $4.5 Billion Bid, Group Led by Apple and ...
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• Hangover Cure: Warner Bros. Settles Copyright ...
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• This Week in IP: Apps, Tats, and Patent Reform ...
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• App Backwards: Lodsys, Texas Troll, Targeted i ...
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• Supreme Court Rules Against Microsoft in i4i Case
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Peoples Voice

• Guantanamo Show Trial Begins
  by Stephen Lendman At issue is prosecuting five 9/11 suspects: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM: the alleged mastermind), Ramzi bin al-Shibh, Walid bin Attash, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, and Mustafa al Hawsawi. Defense lawyer James Connell announced a tentative May 2013 trial date. A scheduled one hasn't ...
• Israel: Profile of a Police State
  by Stephen Lendman Police states are defined by lawlessness, injustice, and contempt for democratic values. Merriam Webster calls them "political unit(s) characterized by repressive governmental control of political, economic, and social life usually by an arbitrary exercise of power by police ...
• Who Really Runs the World?
  By Cosmic Convergence Research Group ... at the end of Kali Yuga? Before we can answer that question, it's important to first establish the "ground rules of the age" that have existed since time immemorial on Planet Earth. For those uninitiated into this realm of inquiry, consider this a bap ...
• Global Control Matrix Revealed (Who Really Run ...
  By Cosmic Convergence Research Group Isn't it amazing that in 2012 the Illuminati, the New World Order, the Rothchilds have literally become household words?! Virtually any website that is not considered mainstream media (MSM) may have at least one reference to one of these mysterious entities ...
• Another Foiled False Flag
  by Stephen Lendman Wikipedia defines false or black flags as "covert operations designed to deceive the public in such a way that the operations appear as though they are being carried out by other entities." "The name is derived from the military concept of flying false colors; that is: flyi ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

• Envisioning the Future of Medicare: A Citizens ...
  On June 15th, the Saskatchewan Office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is proud to present a unique Citizen's Conference on the Future of Medicare. "Envisioning the Future of Medicare" will both celebrate fifty years of universal medicare and look to the future of how we sustain an ...
• Lessons learned from the Climate Justice Proje ...
  CCPA-BC Director Seth Klein was recently invited to give a speech in Berlin at the annual meeting of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (an international gathering of leading economists). His 12-minute speech summarized some of the key lessons to date from our Climate Justice Project. Yo ...
• CCPA Online Audience Survey: Tell us what you ...
  In an effort to better serve our supporters online and make more effective use of our social media channels and website, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is conducting a short survey. Your feedback is important to us! We want to know what is important to you, so that we can improve y ...
• Study reveals secret Canadian bank bailout
  Throughout the 2008-2010 financial crisis, Canadian banks were touted by the federal government—and the banks themselves—as being much more stable than other countries’ big banks. Canadians we assured that our banks needed no bailout. However, CCPA’s latest study, The Big Banks’ Big Secret: Esti ...
• Living Wage for Metro Vancouver rises to $19.14
  For families with young children, the costs of basic necessities like food, rent and child care quickly add up. Even with full-time work year round, both parents in a family of four must earn at least $19.14 to escape severe financial stress in Metro Vancouver. This is the Metro Vancouver li ...

World Wide Hippies

• Worldwide Hippies Digest Friday: Free-Hugs, Qu ...
  Local woman initiates free-hugging events The free-hug phenomenon is a grassroots movement that is finally making its way out west- of Edmonton that is. Offers of hugs to strangers, at random times, at random but organized events and places, have been happening all over the world. This may be a ...
• Revolution 99 Updates: The 1% and their corrup ...
  Poet Joshua Clover, 11 UC Davis students, will head to court over U.S. Bank protestThe poet Joshua Clover and 11 students at the University of California at Davis, where Clover teaches in the English department, were arraigned on Thursday morning in Yolo County Superior Court on charges based on ...
• Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Friday W/Photo C ...
  Pros and cons in the bee debate? Is a widely used pesticide to blame for making bees disappear? The debate over a class of chemicals known as neonicotinoids was the focus of a spot on NBC’s “Nightly News” tonight, and NBC News’ Anne Thompson has supplemented her TV report ...
• I SHOULD HAVE STAYED IN BED
  By Sherry Pasquarello,Worldwidehippies – Yeppers, I should have listened to my little inner voice this morning and just rolled over and pulled the sheet over my head and gone back to sleep. But, NO, being the good doggie mom that I am. I got up, dressed and took Max out like I do every mor ...
• Julian Assange’s The World Tomorrow: Ar ...
  Published on May 8, 2012 by RussiaToday - In the fourth episode of The World Tomorrow Julian Assange speaks with two leading Arab revolutionaries in the middle of conflict, Alaa Abd El-Fattah from Egypt and Nabeel Rajab from Bahrain. Alaa Abd El-Fattah is a long time Egyptian blogger, programmer ...

FourWinds10

• 'The Last Mountain' - Official Trailer
  The fight for the last great mountain in America's Appalachian heartland pits the mining giant that wants to explode it to extract the coal within, against the community fighting to preserve the mountain and build a wind farm on its ridges instead. THE LAST MOUNTAIN highlights a battle for t ...
• Many native forest species threatened by boomi ...
• INSIDE Your Home: The Ugly Invaders Which Can ...
• US Energy Department panel endorses shale frac ...
  (NaturalNews) Hydraulic fracturing, also known as "fracking," for the purpose of extracting natural gas from the earth involves flooding it with millions of gallons of chemical-laden water, a practice that by all estimates is damaging the environment to some extent. But a US Energy Dep ...
• Industrial waste blamed as millions of fish di ...
  MILLIONS of dead fish have been found floating on the Minjiang River in southeast China's Fujian Province and it has started to stink. A cleanup has begun and authorities are investigating the cause and trying to find out whether there is any danger to drinking water. Local farmers suspect t ...

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

• Nuclear Power in Japan, Methane Hydrates, and ...
  In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I cover: Japan’s decision to abandon nuclear power (which will contend for the top energy story of the year — regardless of how it plays out) ConocoPhillips’ successful methane hydrates drilling test in the Arctic, and whethe ...
• Current and Projected Costs for Biofuels from ...
  A reader recently called my attention to a new and very interesting presentation from the Department of Energy’s Biomass Program: Biofuels Design Cases The presentation explored the question of whether the U.S. government is spending money on the right technology pathways. Costs were prese ...
• Rare Earth Elements and Pyrolysis Oil — R-Squa ...
  In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I talk about the significance of China’s dominance of rare earth element production, and the conversion of pyrolysis oil into fuel. The questions answered this week are: 1. Can you discuss the uses of ‘rare earth’ elements in ...
• Why High Oil Prices are Here to Stay
  On May 3rd I will be delivering a talk called Moving Beyond Oil Dependence as a part of UC Santa Barbara’s Spring 2012 Chemical Engineering Seminar Series. The talk will roughly follow the outline of my book, and I have used several graphics from the book in the presentation. However, I cr ...
• Discussing Peak Oil, Speculators, Oil Shale, a ...
  I am traveling some over the next two weeks, and did not have a chance to record my weekly video segment this week. However, last Friday I was a guest on Alan Colmes’ show on Fox News Radio, so I will share that this week instead. I had been a guest on his show last month to discuss whethe ...

Discovery Educator Network

• A Day in the Life of a Connected Educator – Us ...
  Tags: infographic, PLN, educator, connected, infographics, socialmedia, plpby: Dean Mantz
• Prezi For The Win? Ten Top Tips To Make a Good ...
  Tags: prezi, presentations, howto, web2.0, tools, presentingby: Dean Mantz
• Overview - GameSalad
  Comments:Create, test, publish, and learn how to create your own mobile apps.  - Dean MantzTags: gaming, programming, apps, development, mlearning, appdesign, creatorby: Dean Mantz
• Blogging About The Web 2.0 Connected Classroom ...
  Comments:Steven Anderson provides multiple options to use if considering app development.  - Dean MantzTags: apps, development, mlearning, appdesign, web20classroomby: Dean Mantz
• Platinum Arts Sandbox Free 3D Game Maker | Awa ...
  Tags: gaming, sandbox, gamedesign, 3D, download, freeby: Dean Mantz

Rodale News

• Do You Have a Sun Protection Regimen?
  Spring and summer means spending more time outdoors. That also means more exposure to the sun. We know that not everyone uses the same tactics when it comes to preventing overexposure and sunburn, so we're setting out to learn about your sun protection regimen. Rodale.com and the Skin Cancer Fo ...
• 5 Surprising Reasons You're Not Losing Weight
  If current predictions hold true, 42 percent of the U.S. population will be either obese or "severely obese" (100 pounds or more overweight) by the year 2030. That staggering statistic came out of a study published this week in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, and it also ...
• The Breast Cancer Causer in Your Cabinet
  The canned-food chemical bisphenol A, or BPA, has been under attack for years, with study after study suggesting it's associated with negative health impacts ranging from cancer and obesity to infertility and heart disease. BPA is a common hormone-disrupting chemical used as a liner in metal f ...
• Is Your Dog's Food Safe?
  Time, yet again, to reassess your dog's diet. A growing number of dry dog foods are being recalled in the wake of a discovery of Salmonella contamination at a Diamond Pet Food facility in South Carolina. Unlike the melamine-in-pet-food scandal that killed hundreds of dogs and cats in 2007, this ...
• The Truth About Your Natural Cereal
  When you eat "natural" food, you're probably not betting on biting into controversial genetically engineered ingredients and harmful pesticide residues. But all too often, "natural" cereal is anything but, and is loaded with toxic and untested ingredients that have been linked to a rising rates ...

big think

• Has America Become Too Snobby?
  What's the Latest Development? Despite America's classless and meritocratic self-image, there is a widening cultural and income gap, says British-born Clive Cook. Raised by a working-class family in a working class neighborhood, Cook went on to attend Oxford University and has since been ...
• Book Review: The Better Angels of Our Nature
  I've just finished reading Steven Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature, an extraordinary book that I think deserves wider attention. I want to write a full review, but this book is far too vast (696 pages!) and too broad in scope to do it justice in a single post, so I plan to split my revie ...
• Optimism Is A Self-Amplifying Feedback Loop (f ...
  Jason Silva is an optimist. With a capital O. His optimism hits you full force the moment you meet him – the broad, beaming grin, the reassuring handshake . . . no, before that, in the form of multiple enthusiastic exclamation points in his every email. More specifically, he’s optimistic about t ...
• Obama Comes Out for Same-Sex Marriage
  On Wednesday, President Obama became the first sitting president to support marriage equality for gays and lesbians. The president’s support does nothing to alter the moral case for marriage equality. While Obama said he personally supported same-sex marriage, he didn't say he thought states sho ...
• The Internet's Battle For Our Digital Souls
  Harvard neuroscience researchers have just confirmed what many of us have suspected all along: social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest are “brain candy” for Internet users. Every status update, every tweet, every pin is a micro-jolt delivered squarely to the pleasure ... ...

Information Liberation

• TSA Harasses Diabetic Teen Girl With Insulin P ...
  A "public servant" at the TSA forced a type one diabetic teen girl to go through a naked body scan and grope down despite the girl having a note from her doctor detailing her medical situation. The TSA agent lied to the girl and assured her th...
• Have We Become Accustomed to Police Brutality?
  If the Rodney King beating had happened a year ago, would anyone notice? When King was beaten by Los Angeles police officers after a high-speed chase in 1991, it became a national scandal. The vast majority of Americans condemned the brutality. Th...
• U.S. Millionaires Told Go Away as Tax Evasion ...
  Go away, American millionaires. That*s what some of the world*s largest wealth-management firms are saying ahead of Washington*s implementation of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, known as Fatca, which seeks to prevent tax evasion by Americ...
• FBI Raids "Domestic Terrorist" Camp in Florida
  A raid conducted by federal authorities and local law enforcement in Florida is being used to portray anti-government sentiment as dangerous and potentially violent. The FBI raided what it describes as a paramilitary camp in Osceola County over th...
• Congress To Amend NDAA To Give DoD & NSA Great ...
  Remember the NDAA? Yeah, for a variety of reasons that bill got a lot of attention last year -- mostly focused on the question of detainment of terrorists. But there are some other nuggets in the bill, including one tidbit about "military activitie...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

• Deferring To Our Betters?
  I’m in the middle of writing a longer article on religion; but meantime, here’s an article from today’s Sydney Daily Telegraph that caught my eye, and which has serious implications for the administration of criminal justice in all countries whose … Continue reading →
• An Evening With James Delingpole
  Today’s LibertyGibbert thread comes to you from Sydney, Australia’s largest city, where this evening I had the great pleasure of listening to James Delingpole, climate warrior and God-Emperor of the blogosphere, speaking live to a packed house. James is clearly … Continue readi ...
• Calling A Spade A Bloody Shovel
  The full text: If I wanted America to fail… To follow, not lead; to suffer, not prosper; to despair, not dream… I’d start with energy. I’d cut off America’s supply of cheap, abundant energy. I couldn’t take it by force. … Continue reading →
• Our Traditions Are Worth Upholding
  On this day, the 97th Anzac Day, I have been wondering about the motives of some in our community who, by all appearances, seem to want to ditch our national traditions, in particular our annual remembrance of those soldiers who … Continue reading →
• Copyright and Intellectual Property – A ...
  Two pieces of information I’ve received in the last 24 hours prompted me to open a discussion on Libertarianism and intellectual property rights. Firstly, the tragic death yesterday of Australian band Men At Work’s multi-instrumentalist Greg Ham, in his suburban … Continue read ...

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

• Can Rutaesomn decaf your body? #herbal
  Red Ferret and others have been talking about a “herbal” treatment – Rutaesomn – that is supposed to deactivate any caffeine you have had and so help you sleep. Aside from the fact that the marketing says it’s “drug free”, which if it’s physiologic ...
• Wellcome to Brains
  As I was in London earlier this week for the Leonardo da Vinci: Anatomist exhibition opening at The Queen’s Gallery it seemed churlish not to take in the Wellcome Collection’s fascinating Brains exhibition too, which dovetailed nicely with the bizarre view that Leonardo and his conte ...
• Buck House, Queeny, classically speaking brain ...
  So, as I was saying, I was at Buck House earlier this week. I know, you’re thinking the knighthood is well over due, but I’m afraid I was only there for breakfast, not with Liz and Phil, but with Rachel Woollen, Martin Clayton and others from the Royal Collection and fellow blogging ...
• The rights and lefts of Leonardo da Vinci: Ana ...
  A 5:30 am start is not the usual modus operandi of this freelance journalist but with an invitation to a Bloggers’ Breakfast at Buckingham Palace in London to see the launch of the Leonardo da Vinci exhibition at the BH Gallery scheduled for 8:30 an early train from the outskirts of Cambri ...
• Exergy, existentialism and the environment
  Exergy is perhaps an unfamiliar concept. Energy we can fairly easily get to grips with, it’s a measure of the ability of a system to do work. Work is what causes a system to change its energy state…hmm…first law of thermodynamics. But, what is exergy and where does it fit into the en ...

RFF Library

• Global Water Security: Intelligence Community ...
  Defense Intelligence Agency or the Dept. of State http://www.dni.gov/nic/ICA_Global%20Water%20Security.pdf [From a Climate Wire article by Jane Pyper, sub. req'd] …The report concludes that while it is unlikely there will be wars over water in the next 10 years, water challenges — in ...
• Hydraulic Fracturing and the National Environm ...
  Congressional Research Service http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42502.pdf The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requires federal agencies to consider the potential environmental consequences of the actions they propose to take by preparing one of three NEPA documents. Actions that fit wit ...
• CBO: Energy Security in the United States
  Congressional Budget Office http://www.cbo.gov/publication/43012 [From CBO blog] …Because of the global nature of the oil market, no policy could eliminate the costs borne by consumers as a result of disruptions, but some policies could reduce those costs. Policies to Address Temporary Dis ...
• Aviation and the European Union’s Emissi ...
  Congressional Research Service http://opencrs.com/document/R42392/ [From Summary]  …Air carriers from the United States and other countries have vociferously objected to inclusion of international aviation in the EU ETS. The U.S. government and other nations have pressed the EU to exclude foreig ...
• Europe’s Energy Security: Options and Ch ...
  Congressional Research Service http://opencrs.com/document/R42405/ [From Summary] Europe as a major energy consumer faces a number of challenges when addressing future energy needs. Among these challenges are a rapidly rising global demand and competition for energy resources from emerging econo ...

Scientific American - News

• In Search of the Best (Energy) Ideas: A Q&A wi ...
  The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy (ARPA–E) works on a three-year cycle: Funded projects have three years to prove worthy--or not. Program directors who help fund projects such as Plants Engineered to Replace Petroleum ( PETRO ) or Batteries for Electrical Energy Storage in ...
• Ancient Time: Earliest Mayan Astronomical Cale ...
  An excavation of an archaeological site in Guatemala has uncovered Mayan astronomical records dating to the ninth century A.D. The tabulated numbers, which predate existing Mayan astronomical documents by several hundred years, chart the motion of the moon and also seem to relate to the orbits o ...
• Climate Forecasting: A Break in the Clouds
  By Jeff Tollefson of Nature magazine [More]
• Hive and Seek: Domestic Honeybees Keep Disappe ...
  Bees are making headlines these days, and not in a positive way. Colony collapse disorder has cut through honeybee populations, with some beekeepers reportedly losing up to 90 percent of their stock in recent years. European bee populations are also declining, and so are some species of North Am ...
• Brain Scans Reveal Dogs' Thoughts
  Fido's expressive face, including those longing puppy-dog eyes, may lead owners to wonder what exactly is going on in that doggy's head. Scientists decided to find out, using brain scans to explore the minds of our canine friends. [More]

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

• Russian Spring?
  Voices of Russia’s Progressive Opposition Moscow - The following is the first in a four part series on the recent demonstrations in Russia.  Albrecht Berg recently spent two months in Moscow, meeting with many radicals and interviewing ...
• On Industry: Musings on the twentieth annivers ...
  By Heidi Mitton  Truro, Nova Scotia - I was eight years old on May 9, 1992, when my father was summoned to the rescue team at the Westray mine. I have patchy memories of my brother, sister and I milling around in the homes of relative ...
• Strange Media Consensus on the Student Strike
  Pundits, especially pundits in the rest of Canada (ROC), were already having a hard time making heads or tails of the Québec student strike, which had lasted 12 weeks by the time a “deal” had been struck between protesters and ...
• Why I Voted Against the Québec Government "Off ...
  Since Saturday, some people have come up to me expressing their delight a strike that is finally over, now that a negotiated agreement has been made between the government of Québec and striking students. My reply is that “nothing can be further from the truth.” Here’s why. 1) ...
• We Stopped the Train
  On May 5th, people around the world came together to connect some dots with their issues. In White Rock people from different walks of life got together to stop all coal t ...

David Seaton's News Links

• Is American individualism a myth?
  David Seaton's News LinksAmerican icon: the lone cowboyHere’s what Generation Y doesn’t want: formal living rooms, soaker bathtubs, dependence on a car.(...) They want to walk everywhere. Surveys show that 13% carpool to work, while 7% walk, (...) A whopping 88% want to be in an urban setting(.. ...
• Steve Jobs: the metaphor
  David Seaton's News Links There is virtually no debate about the best treatment. “It has long been held that surgery can lead to very long-term survival,” says Kim. (...) Despite the expert consensus on the value of surgery, Jobs did not elect it right away. He reportedly spent nine months on “a ...
• Obama vs. Romney: a message to would be leftists
  David Seaton's News Links There are many contradictions in the process of development of a complex thing, and one of them is necessarily the principal contradiction whose existence and development determine or influence the existence and development of the other contradictions. Mao Tse Tung ...
• There are still important differences between ...
  David Seaton's News LinksA Sample of Tea Party Humor I'd like to reproduce a dialog between myself and a blogger I much respect, Wendy Davis, on a previous post of mine:Seaton: I think that all of those who were so ecstatic about Obama in 2008 (I wasn’t) should “stand by their man” and realiz ...
• Another good reason to vote for Obama
  David Seaton's News LinksMitt's friend, BibiThe ties between Mr. Romney and Mr. Netanyahu stand out because there is little precedent for two politicians of their stature to have such a history together that predates their entry into government. And that history could well influence decision-mak ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

• California Committing Educational Suicide
  The Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) released a grim report on Thursday with a pretty simple message: We're eating our seed corn. Over the past two decades, the number of California high school students completing the state's most rigorous curriculum—known as the "a-g requirem ...
• Wall Street's Casino Culture Still Alive and Well
  JPMorgan announced a gigantic $2 billion dollar loss today thanks to a huge position in basis trades that blew up. Felix Salmon explains what a basis trade is: The basis trade is an arbitrage, basically. There are two different ways the market measures credit risk: by looking at credit spreads ...
• Chart of the Day: Being Rich in America is a P ...
  This will come as no surprise to any of you at this point — I hope — but it never hurts to see it again. The combination of the 1997 capital gains tax cut, the 2001 Bush tax cut, and the 2003 Bush tax cut has been fantastically beneficial to the richest of the rich in America. Most ...
• Why Romney's High School Bullying Is Fair Game
  Jason Horowitz reports in the Washington Post today that Mitt Romney bullied a gay high school classmate named John Lauber in 1965: [Lauber] was walking around the all-boys school with bleached-blond hair that draped over one eye, and Romney wasn’t having it. “He can’t look l ...
• Did the Supreme Court Get Snookered During Oba ...
  Andrew Sprung has been on a crusade over the past month over a single issue brought up during the Supreme Court's oral arguments over Obamacare. The issue is catastrophic coverage, and today he summarizes everything he's written about it: In his oral argument against the constitutionality of t ...

Insanity Report

• IC 320: Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
  Topics: Obama Supports Gay Marriage…duh Words Matter…But Actions Should Matter more It’s All Fun and Games Until You’re In the Group Judged Bryon Long Explains Why He’s Not Gay T.O on Dr. Phil The Secret Service prostitute scandal chick speaks out Share with your fr ...
• IC 319: Calorie Counting
  Topics: Tequila is not my friend Avengers does $200 million in a weekend What WB needs to do to in order to make the JLA Captain America > Superman & Cyclops Kids in the theater We gotta stop being lazy Your diet plans probably suck What’s in a serving size Octomom’s Masturbatio ...
• IC 318: I Don’t Need Kids
  Topics: A lot of random topics including: The inevitable disappointment of Washington Sports teams Ronda Rousey, world’s most dangerous sexy woman Married men and bachelor parties Kid’s shoes or Xbox games? Scary Movie 5 Death by testicle crushing World’s Worse Mother Share wit ...
• IC 317: Brian “Andy” McKnight
  Topics: UFC news Will Avengers be the best Comic Book EVER? An American Remake of The Raid? The shittiest crime spree of all time? Being a woman doesn’t give you the right to assault someone Prison is a consequence Brian McKnight wants to show ladies how to work their pussy Share with your ...
• IC 316: 30 for 30
  Topics: Dick Clark dies You’re making me be an asshole 30 for 30 Secret Service got caught cause dude didn’t pay Don’t be THAT guy Dinochickens The basic chicks of Hollywood Warm Weather PSA Share with your friends:

Simple Climate

• Water’s climate risks show high temperat ...
  Considering salinity changes in climate models suggests the water cycle accelerates 8% per 1°C warming, compared to just 4% when considering rainfall alone, says Susan Wijffels from CSIRO in Australia
• Warming world could send corn price popping
  Climate plays the largest role in how much US corn prices swing, say economist Tom Hertel from Purdue University and colleagues, though forcing ethanol from corn to be used in fuel makes matters worse.
• N2O cuts are no laughing matter
  Drastic reductions in meat consumption unappetising to many must be paired with tough farming, industry and transport action to meet the most ambitious targets to control emissions of greenhouse gas nitrous oxide, which you might know as laughing gas, according to Eric Davidson from the Woods Ho ...
• N2O cuts are no laughing matter
  Drastic reductions in meat consumption unappetising to many must be paired with tough farming, industry and transport action to meet the most ambitious targets to control emissions of greenhouse gas nitrous oxide, which you might know as laughing gas, according to Eric Davidson from the Woods Ho ...
• Climate change threatens the carnival of the a ...
  From chipmunks to calves, Simple Climate has regularly reported on creatures pressured by global warming. This week I bring together their pictures as a reminder of which creatures are at risk, in the hope of providing more motivation to act to help them.

e!Science News

• First forecast calls for mild Amazon fire seas ...
  Forests in the Amazon Basin are expected to be less vulnerable to wildfires this year, according to the first forecast from a new fire severity model developed by university and NASA researchers. read more
• A push from the Mississippi kept Deepwater Hor ...
  When the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded April 20, 2010, residents feared that their Gulf of Mexico shores would be inundated with oil. And while many wetland habitats and wildlife were oiled during the three-month leak, the environmental damage to coastal Louisiana was less than many ex ...
• Unseen planet revealed by its gravity
  More than a 150 years ago, before Neptune was ever sighted in the night sky, French mathematician Urbain Le Verrier predicted the planet's existence based on small deviations in the motion of Uranus. In a paper published May 10 in the journal Science online, a group of researchers led by Dr. Dav ...
• New IBEX data show heliosphere's long-theorize ...
  New results from NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) reveal that the bow shock, widely accepted by researchers to precede the heliosphere as it plows through tenuous gas and dust from the galaxy does not exist. read more
• Nanotube 'sponge' has potential in oil spill c ...
  A carbon nanotube sponge that can soak up oil in water with unparalleled efficiency has been developed with help from computational simulations performed at the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Oak Ridge National Laboratory. read more

unEarthed

• Tr-Ash Talk: Clean Up Your Coal Ash!
  EPA and North Carolina need to step up coal ash regulation, enforcement As evidenced in North Carolina and other states burdened by coal ash ponds, waiting for states to effectively regulat ...
• Protest Against Northwest Coal Export
  Battle heats up in region targeted by Big Coal A 129-car BNSF coal train going through White Rock, B.C. (Michael Chu) Warren Buffett is a famous gazillionaire ...
• Looking Forward To The Long Summer Daze
  As asthma awareness month begins, ozone season looms Smog makes some kids sing the blues when "School's Out For Summer" (the memorable Alice Cooper tune) &ldq ...
• When Paint Chips are Not the Only Danger
  Communities living in toxic legacy of lead-emitting facilities A lead smelter in Missouri. (Kbh3rd / Wikimedia) We all know the danger that resides in lead-la ...
• Judge: Salmon-killing Dams Should Go
  Says dam removal an easy fix with big rewards The four lower Snake River dams keep salmon from prime habitat in the snowmelt waters of Idaho. In a recent vide ...

Brave New Climate

• The Power Makers’ Challenge – and the ne ...
  Guest Post by Martin Nicholson. Martin studied mathematics, engineering and electrical sciences at Cambridge University in the UK and graduated with a Masters degree in 1974. He has spent most of his working life as business owner and chief executive of a number of information technology compani ...
• Carbon offsetting of uranium mines?
  Below is an article I wrote for the South Australian Mines and Energy Journal on carbon emissions of uranium mines. (This, and others in the SACOME series, have also been published by my co-author, Ben Heard, on DecarboniseSA.com). This is a new version of a blog post I published on BNC a few ye ...
• What volume of synthetic hydrocarbon fuels can ...
  Guest Post by Chris Uhlik. Dr Uhlik did a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering at Stanford 1979–1990. He worked at Toyota in Japan, built robot controllers, cellular telephone systems, internet routers, and now does engineering management at Google. Among his 8 years of projects as an ...
• The future of Brave New Climate
  Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.  ― Lao Tzu The Brave New Climate (BNC) blog has seen many changes in its almost 4 years of existence. I&#82 ...
• IFR FaD 13 – cost comparison of IFR and therma ...
  This is the fourth and final part of the series of extracts from the book Plentiful Energy — The story of the Integral Fast Reactor by Chuck Till and Yoon Chang. Reproduced with permission of the authors, these sections describe and justify some of the key design choices that went into the makin ...

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

• Activists Blockade Coal Train
  Activists set up a blockade to stop a coal train en route to Duke Energy’s Marshall coal plant in Terrell, North Carolina on May 3, 2012 and branded it with the Apple logo. The train is carrying coal extracted from … Continue reading →
• May Day actions against UBS’ funding of ...
  Happy May Day, everybody! Today, Appalachians will demand that UBS stop funding and supporting mountaintop removal mining. Come out to our actions in: Asheville, NC 11 am at 138 Charlotte St. Knoxville, TN: 10 am at Market Square Chattanooga, 11 … Continue reading →
• Welcome to Appalachia Rising!
  Welcome, friends and allies! Here is your home base for updates on this spring’s lineup of region-wide actions aimed at bringing an end to mountain top removal (MTR) coal mining in Appalachia. We hope you’ll stay tuned for stories and photos from … Continue reading →
• 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- ...

Amped Status

• The Evolution of the Butterfly
  Renowned cellular biologist, Dr. Bruce Lipton narrates the process of a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly over a milieu of imagery in "The Evolution of the Butterfly". The film combines first hand footage from the Occupy Wall Street movement with stylized portraits of the recent eco ...
• After Being Beaten and Arrested Several Times, ...
  This is Daniel Murphy @ Union Square on March 22nd:
• Fault Lines: History of an Occupation
• Wall Street Pirates – Shepard Fairey & J ...
  Shepard Fairey and Jamie Reid print collaboration.
• The JOBS Act Is A Fraud-Enhancing Gift To Wall ...
  By William K. Black, Henry N. Pontell, Gilbert Geis, Janet Tavakoli, Barry Ritholtz & Lynn A. Stout As white-collar criminologists (and a former financial regulator and enforcement head) and experts in ferreting out sophisticated financial frauds, our careers and research focus on financial ...

+972

• Shaul Mofaz, potential statesman, deserves a break
  By Roni Schocken Congratulations to Benjamin Netanyahu and Shaul Mofaz. I’ve been fond of Mofaz for a while now. Ever since he served as defense minister in Ariel Sharon’s government during the disengagement from Gaza, Mofaz has been building himself up as a serious politician and pe ...
• The Wall,10 years on / part 6: What has the st ...
  Commemorating 10 years since construction of the wall also means commemorating almost 10 years of the struggle against it, as described in the previous chapter. Just as we shall later examine what the wall has accomplished, one should also ask what exactly the struggle against it succeeded to do ...
• War trauma, kid? Not if you’re Asian
  The weekend supplement of Ma’ariv ran an exhaustive investigation of the effect the Palestinian rocket threat has on Israeli children living within their range. On the left is the “illustration” by one Ophir Bagon, which opened the story. On the right is the original photo. See ...
• Court prevents eviction of Palestinian family ...
  After two decades of legal struggle, the Ruweidi family from Silwan has been granted recognition by the courts that they are indeed the rightful owners of their home. The decision rejects the Jewish National Fund’s claim that the home was property of the State of Israel. Moriel Rothman con ...
• WATCH: Journalists among arrestees in demo aga ...
  Close to 1,000 people gathered in Tel Aviv Tuesday night to protest the coalition deal between Prime Minister Netanyahu and Kadima head Shaul Mofaz, under the slogan: “The entire nation is the opposition.” The protest was reportedly put together by organizers of last summer’s J ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

• New weather bureau radar for south-east Tasma ...
  Tasmania's new state-of-the-art Doppler weather radar will provide coverage to large sections of the state for the first time.
• Nominations open for the 2012 Prime Minister' ...
  Commercial and industrial companies that can demonstrate recent water savings are encouraged to nominate for the 2012 Prime Minister's Water Wise Award.
• Stormwater greening Geelong Botanic Gardens a ...
  Geelong Botanic Gardens and Eastern Park will be greener thanks to the construction of new stormwater irrigation infrastructure.
• Stormwater to keep heritage parks and gardens ...
  Heritage-listed public gardens in Melbourne will save water and stay green through a stormwater harvesting and reuse scheme.
• Remarkable water savings for Booleroo and Mel ...
  The communities of Booleroo Centre and Melrose in South Australia will save nearly six million litres of water each year through the use of an innovative water saving technique.

Matt Weidner Blog

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

abelard - news

• modernising the bible - six suggestions to rep ...
  How the politically correct are 'nice' to everyone but those of Judeo-Christian origins.
• was milly dowler's 'phone *ever* hacked? trust ...
  Sharp deconstruction of latest fossil media hysteria bid.
• euro amusement | fun/economics news at abelard.org
  Now you know why the euro is having such problems.
• socialism at action | politics news at abelard.org
  Ignore facts, believe the party line.
• a greedy possum | fun news at abelard.org
  Look what happens if you just eat and eat pastries!

The Parallel Parliament

• We Ruined It
  With all this emphasis being placed upon citizen engagement, someone is going to have to figure out how to bring …Continue reading »
• Striving for the One Voice
  The next phase has begun. When the Citizens’ Panel presented its initial report to City Hall on income disparity, it …Continue reading »
• The Language of Movement
  Peter Mansbridge came to town and for a few hours it was all people were talking about. Accustomed to presenting …Continue reading »
• Democracy in Reverse
  The challenges were immense, but I took it on as a task of goodwill. We had been asked to assist …Continue reading »
• “False Options”
  Responding to a recent newspaper article I wrote on citizen engagement, one Londoner said in her email: “I’m just growing …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

• Davos 2011: Global Risks permeate conversation ...
  Cross-posted from the Risk Science Blog. Take a metaphorical slice through this year’s annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, and Global Risk would be writ large through every part of it.  Hot on the heels of the sixth Global Risk report, this year’s meeting saw the launch of ...
• Davos 2011 – Partnering with teens to build a ...
  This is not a science and technology post – which is a bit odd for a science and technology blog.  But I wanted to introduce five people who together shake up the whole idea of the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos as being an elitist and increasingly irrelevant gathering of middle age ...
• Davos 2011 – Committed to changing the state o ...
  Cross-posted from the Risk Science Blog. As it did last year, the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos has left me with a daunting task – how do I summarize the highlights of the meeting in a single, short post? The answer of course is that I can’t – Davos is so complex, dive ...
• Nanotechnology – Unplugged
  Next Tuesday, we’ll be launching a new series of occasional discussions on contemporary public health risk issues at the University of Michigan Risk Science Center.  And the first topic is – no surprises – nanotechnology. Under the tagline “No PowerPoint, no script; just ...
• The New Toxicology of Sophisticated Materials: ...
  Cross-posted from The Risk Science Blog Several months ago, I was asked by a colleague if I fancied co-authoring a review on nanotoxicology for a copy of Toxicological Sciences celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Society of Toxicology (coming out later this year). Fool that I am, I agreed.  ...

Reader Supported News

• Urgent Request for UN Intervention to Stabiliz ...
  Excerpt: "We Japanese civil organizations express our deepest concern that our government does not inform its citizens about the extent of risk of the Fukushima Daiichi Unit 4 spent nuclear fuel pool. It is imperative for the Japanese government and the international community to work together o ...
• Urgent Request for UN Intervention to Stabiliz ...
  Excerpt: "We Japanese civil organizations express our deepest concern that our government does not inform its citizens about the extent of risk of the Fukushima Daiichi Unit 4 spent nuclear fuel pool. It is imperative for the Japanese government and the international community to work together o ...
• 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 ...

War Resisters League

• “You Can’t Take What’s All o ...
  To mark the upcoming NATO summit to be held in May 2012 in Chicago and the simultaneous G8 summit to be held in Camp David, Maryland, War Resisters League and the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance release a new popular education … Continue reading →
• 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 & ...

Center for a Livable Future

• Grocery Store Shrimp Contains Drug Resistant B ...
  Farmed shrimp joins the list of animal proteins - pork, turkey, ground beef, and chicken - that contain drug-resistant bacteria.
• SNAP and the Farm Bill Budget Visualizer
  Programs supported by the Farm Bill vary dramatically in size and scope from the $73 billion budgeted for SNAP to $5 million for Community Food Projects which aim to fight food insecurity through self-sufficiency and strengthening local food systems.
• Ditching Meat One Day a Week: What, Exactly, I ...
  Not only did the Harvard researchers find that eating red meat was associated with an increased risk of death from all causes, but they also found a dose-response relationship with the risk of death increasing as the amount of meat consumed increased. Kind of scary, if you ask me; but the good n ...
• Senators, let’s tie “soil insurance” to crop i ...
  The farm bill version that came out of the Senate Agriculture Committee on Thursday does not attach compliance to crop insurance, as no committee members offered such an amendment. However, with farm bill battles now shifting to the full Senate, there is still hope that an amendment could attach ...
• Sustainable Food Systems for the 1 Percent
  Let me begin by saying I would love a mobile chicken coop in my backyard. In fact, I plan to build one this summer, hopefully for less than 100 dollars. I’m lucky enough that with an afternoon of work and a trip or three to the hardware store, I think I can accomplish this.  But [...]

k2p blog

• Wind and solar to get licence to kill bald eag ...
  The wind lobby is more influential than the wildlife lobby. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering loosening regulations on the killing of bald eagles to accommodate the development of wind energy projects. Under the proposal such projects would be licenced to kill the birds for 30 years.
• Entire Sukhoi sales team killed in superjet crash
  A Sukhoi SSJ100 Superjet crashed during a sales tour in Indonesia. All 45 on board perished.
• Solar effects on climate – evidence moun ...
  Evidence from boreholes in Antartica show that the Little Ice Age was a global event and not restricted to parts of Europe and Greenland. The Little Ice Age coincided with the Maunder Minimum and was probably caused by solar and volcanic effects.
• “Single currency needs a single governme ...
  A single currency demands a single government and a single European government would be a many-headed monster.
• Karachi University decides that plagiarism is ...
  Karachi University decides that plagiarism is not misconduct.

Left Foot Forward

• What is our common purpose?
  Former Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury Kitty Ussher writes about public services and the economy ahead of the Progress Annual Conference.
• Telegraph distorts the truth on energy bills
  The Daily Telegraph has joined the ranks of the Daily Mail and Daily Express in exaggerating the costs of environmental regulations, reports Will Straw.
• Will consumers support Living Wage products an ...
  Will consumers make it worth employers’ investment in the Living Wage, by shifting their custom to those who pay decent wages?
• How the Tories became an endangered species in ...
  IPPR North researcher Lewis Goodall reflects on the 2012 local election results in Northern England.
• Making a # out of intelligence
  Arguments between advocates of social media regulation and open rights campaigners lack adequate legal or ethical foundations, writes Demos’s Carl Miller.

Consumerist

• Now You Can Force Your Friends To Finally Read ...
  If you're sick of trying to foist various large tomes from the Harry Potter series on your friends so they can finally see for themselves how exciting Quidditch is, there's relief in sight. Amazon announced today that Kindle owners can now borrow Harry Potter e-books from the Kindle Owners' Len ...
• You Might Be Making More Money If You Lived So ...
  Stuck in an economic rut? Maybe a move could give you a boost, says a new study, which found that the more economically mobile citizens of the U.S. live in places like New England and the Mid-Atlantic states. If you're living in the South, well, that money ladder is harder to climb. A study by ...
• How Strict Should Stores Be About Employees-On ...
  While retail stores all need someplace for employees to wash up and occasionally relieve themselves, many stores have a "staff only" policy for access to the toilet. But are there situations where the store staffers should make an exception in the name of saving a customer from embarrassment? ...
• We Hope Redbox Customers Only Like Playing The ...
  Going back to the days of video stores, renting items on multiple discs or tapes has always presented a slight hassle. And for a company like Redbox where everything is handled through automated kiosks, it's got to be even more complicated. But Redbox's apparent solution for the upcoming video ...
• Court Sides With Starbucks In Dispute Over Lab ...
  You won't be seeing Starbucks baristas sporting aprons covered in Industrial Workers of the World pins anytime in the near future, after a U.S. appeals court ruled today that the coffee company is within its rights to stop employees from wearing too much of the pro-union flare. The dispute, be ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

• Senate Passes WPEA by Unanimous Consent: Daily ...
  Washington Post: Senate Passes Whistleblower Protections – Again Summary: Yesterday, the US Senate passed the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act, legislation that would improve the federal protections for employees who speak out about corruption, waste, and wrongdoing. The bill was passe ...
• Gestión turbia de los Fondos Fiduciarios de Es ...
  Traducción al español del artículo "Murky Management of Spanish Trust Fund at IDB", publicado el 9 de mayo de 2012 en la web de Government Accountability Project (GAP), http://www.whistleblower.org Nota: ¡El texto del artículo ofrece hipervínculos a todos los documentos citados, para su visión ...
• Murky Management of the Spanish Trust Fund at ...
  The Palace of Moncloa is the residence for the Spanish Prime MinisterAs the new Spanish government contemplates austerity measures in the face of an 8.5 percent of GDP budget deficit, cost-cutting officials might look to one of their Trust Funds at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to sa ...
• GAP Hails Senate Passage of Federal Whistleblo ...
  Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act passed by Unanimous Consent (Washington, DC) – The Government Accountability Project (GAP) hailed last night's 'Unanimous Consent' approval by the US Senate of S. 743, the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA). The legislation provides millions ...
• OSC Urges Increased Oversight of FAA: Daily Wh ...
  Associated Press: Gov’t Watchdog Urges Stronger Air Safety Oversight in Response to Whistleblower Complaints Summary: Yesterday, the Office of Special Counsel sent a letter to President Obama urging increased oversight of the Federal Aviation Administration, which has failed to respond to a nu ...

UK Progressive

• Obama Forced to Come Out on Gay Marriage
  While President Obama’s views was still “evolving” on marriage equality, it’s apparent they were evolved for two of his top officials. For Vice President Joe Biden the issue is a no-brainer. “I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying  ...
• News Summary from An Executive Review of Busin ...
  Bye-bye Baby  bmibaby. Soon to be grounded. British Airways will over the next few months disembowel BMA, the once proud British airline vanishing from September, Peter Simpson MD of BA CityFlyer now managing affairs.  Some 500 staff will be affected.  BA owner IAG says that it is unlikely to fi ...
• Dick Lugar may lose to tea party favorite Rich ...
  Super PACs and other outside groups are on track to spend more on tea party favorite Richard Mourdock in his battle to unseat Sen. Richard Lugar in Indiana’s Tuesday Republican primary than Mourdock’s own campaign, records show. Lugar, a moderate known for his expertise in foreign affairs and na ...
• TSA Reveals Passenger Complaints … Four Years ...
    by Michael Grabell, ProPublica From intrusive pat-downs to body scans to perceived profiling, the Transportation Security Administration always seems to be the target of complaints. Here’s another one: It took the TSA almost four years to tell me what people complained about — in 20 ...
• A Question of Timing: What America Can Learn f ...
  Who’s an economy for? Voters in France and Greece have made it clear it’s not for the bond traders. Referring to his own electoral woes, Prime Minister David Cameron wrote Monday in an article in the conservative Daily Telegraph: “When people think about the economy they don’t see it through the ...

NewsAlert

• Firearms sales booming in Michigan, nationwide
  The Detroit News
• RNC Ad Forgetting the Recession?
• Facebook's IPO already oversubscribed: source
  Reuters reports:Facebook Inc's record initial public offering is already oversubscribed, a source familiar with the share listing said, days after the world's largest social network embarked on a cross-country roadshow to drum up investor enthusiasm. Despite concerns about slowing growth, a lof ...
• YouTube considering introducing subscription-b ...
  The New York Post reports:YouTube is weighing the introduction of a premium, subscription-based video service, The Post has learned. The video giant is holding conversations with program providers about adding more top-shelf content to its channels but putting it behind a pay-wall as some newsp ...
• Armageddon in Wisconsin
  Politico reports:The Koch brothers and Big Labor. The tea party and progressives. Teachers, gun owners, environmentalists, abortion-rights advocates, conservative billionaires, the national parties — name the interest group or outside party and chances are they’ve played a role in the June 5 rec ...

JoNova

• Unthreaded – Site maintenance coming
  Apologies for the inconvenience. Unfortunately sometime this week the site will be offline for some hours (up to one day). This move is in an effort to reduce costs. Thanks to a generous offer from a reader (thank you David) for the suggestion. I hadn’t been paying attention, and bandwidth ...
• Want climate resistant oysters, or climate &#8 ...
  File this under “Monopolistic Science” Australian Taxpayer funds in 2012 are supporting around 50 projects about “climate change” or “greenhouse gases”. One David McKnight has got $95k to study how Australian governments “spin” the news. So which c ...
• Has CO2 warmed the planet at all in the last 5 ...
  Joint Post: Jo Nova and Tony Cox Even most skeptics agree that the world has been warming during the last 50 years, but there is apparently no significant underlying warming trend in 46 out of 47 years of data. Something decidedly unusual happened to the world in 1977 and we don’t know for ...
• Tim Flannery in Parramatta will be happy to an ...
  Tim Flannery is paid to help you understand why Australia is getting a Carbon Tax in eight weeks time. If you can’t fathom why the nation which emits just 1.3% of all man-made CO2 is going to pay three times the current market rate to reduce world temperatures by 0.00 degrees C, I’m ...
• Pathological exaggerators caught on death thre ...
  Here’s a character test on climate scientists and some of the media. It tells us much how concerned they are about truth, and how willing they are to be gullible fools, to have manners, decency, to milk even the most vaporous wisp of evidence into a national headline. Credit to Simon Turni ...

ReNew America

• Restoring representation--A Strategic Proposal I
  (Alan Keyes) - Introductory Note: Whatever the activity involved, sound strategic thinking requires a clear view of the overall objective to be achieved -- one that starts by taking account of the context and circumstances of action, including especially the nature of the obstacles that may be p ...
• Liberalism and group-think
  (Fred Hutchison, RA analyst) - As I was sitting in a restaurant eating breakfast and reading the newspaper, I perused the voting records of the nine Supreme Court justices during 2003. We had three conservative justices: Rehnquist, Thomas, and Scalia; three liberal justices: Stevens, Ginsberg, a ...
• Obama declares support for gay marriage
  (ABC News) - President Obama today announced that he now supports same-sex marriage, reversing his longstanding opposition amid growing pressure from the Democratic base and even his own vice president...
• North Carolina approves ban on same-sex marria ...
  (NBC Politics) - North Carolina voters Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a proposed amendment to the state's constitution which limits marriage to traditional one man-one woman marriages. With all of the state's 100 counties reporting, the amendment won in a landslide, with 61 percent of the vote...
• 324,000 women dropped out of labor force in la ...
  (CNS News) - 324,000 women dropped out of the nation's civilian labor force in March and April as the number of women not in the labor force hit an all-time historical high of 53,321,000, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics...

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

• Bacteria Release in Boston Subway
  This story has been appearing on conspiracy sites this week: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), has announced a series of biological tests that they will be conducting in subway systems near Boston. DHS will be releasing bacteria into the MBTA tunnels, in what they say are tests to ev ...
• SWAT Team Storms Private Bunker
  The anti-survivalist actions of some authorities in the USA are getting much worse. In recent times we have seen the malicious use of zoning laws to thwart survival plans, and we have seen many of things survivalists do listed as suspicious (in a terrorism way). This most recent news is of speci ...
• Take Shelter: Movie Review
  This review is written by a reader of this blog, Isaac. It might not have the explosions of 2012, but this is one of the very finest movies to address prepping, and is in many ways a modern day Noah’s Ark story, with a much smaller cast. Take Shelter (2011) Take an apocalyptic theme and ...
• The Bunker of Dead Survivalist Peter Keller
  Peter Keller had been preparing for “the end of the world” since 2004, when he began constructing his North Bend, WA bunker. It is located deep in steep, wooded terrain. And he was very cautious and careful so that it would not be found: - he used so many different paths to reach hi ...
• Dec 21, 2012: The Darkest Day
  What if the end date of the ancient Mayan Long Count calendar was not meant to be taken literally? The first question you need to ask is this: Dec 21 is also the Winter Solstice (in the northern hemisphere) – the darkest day of the year, so it is a coincidence or deliberate? The second q ...

Facing South

• VOICES: Reflections on the passage of NC's cyn ...
  Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, president of the North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP, discusses why we can't stop now in the fight for equality.read more
• What happened in North Carolina? Lessons from ...
  Why did blue-trending North Carolina buck the trend towards states accepting marriage equality? A look at the numbers and fight around Amendment One. read more
• Honoring more boots on the ground: All of Us N ...
  Pam Spaulding interviews two of the organizers behind All of Us NC, a grassroots offshoot of the social justice group Southerners on New Ground, about their fight against the proposed constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage in North Carolina. read more
• NC House leader says anti-gay hate group 'over ...
  N.C. House Majority Leader Paul Stam (R) says he wanted a more narrowly worded amendment banning same-sex marriage but was "overruled" by the Alliance Defense Fund, a self-described Christian group that likens homosexuality to pedophilia and claims same-sex marriage leads to bestiality ...
• Lawsuit blames BP's Gulf pollution for divers' ...
  A commercial diver who worked in the Gulf of Mexico following the BP disaster has filed a lawsuit blaming his serious health problems -- and the suicide deaths of two of his colleagues -- on the oil and chemical dispersants used to break up the slick. read more

One News Page

• Aamir Khan to host radio show similar to ‘Saty ...
  Dil Pe Lagi Aur Baat Bani will dealt with important issuesAfter debuting on television with Satyamev Jayate, Aamir Khan is looking to expand his horizon. Reported by Bollywood Life 2 hours ago
• Indian American professor donates Rs1 crore to ...
  Kamal Bawa has donated the entire prize money from a prestigious international sustainability award to a Bangalore based trust working for ecology and environment. Reported by DNA 2 hours ago
• CBI files case against Defence Estate official ...
  11 May 2012 CBI today filed a case against Defence Estate officials for allegedly entering into a criminal conspiracy and issuing no-objection certificates for sale of defence land located near the high security Srinagar airport, a sensitive installation in Jammu and Kashmir. The CBI ... R ...
• SC directs CBI probe against ex-Karnataka CM Y ...
  11 May 2012 The Supreme Court today directed a CBI probe against former Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa for allegedly granting undue favours to firms involved in illegal mining in lieu of donations to a charitable trust run by his kin. A Special Forest bench headed by Chief ... Re ...
• Jail officials seal pages written by Nupur Tal ...
  According to jail officials, she has compared the Aarushi murder mystery to that of the unsolved case of Princess Diana, who was killed in a car crash. Reported by DNA 2 hours ago

Global Research TV

• Whistleblower: US Government Needs to Keep Fea ...
• Pentagon Policy is NATO Encirclement of Russia
• Police State Montreal: Brutal Treatment of Pro ...
• Une bonne guerre! / A Good War!
• ‘Bye, bye, Merkozy': Will it be Merkollande?

Daily Tech

• FTC Launches Probe Into Facebook's $1 Billion ...
  Facebook said it would pay Instagram a $200 million termination fee if the FTC blocked the deal
• Star Wars: The Old Republic Lost 25% of Its Su ...
  Subscriber loss surprised some
• Intel CEO Points to Legacy Drawbacks for Windo ...
  Missing legacy mode will hurt ARM Windows 8 according to Intel
• Tesla Model S Arrives Ahead of Schedule, Stock ...
  Elon Musk may have done it again
• Microsoft Introduces Augmented Reality System ...
  A potential use for MirageTable includes new ways to play video games

Oriental Review

• Germany: “Young Veterans”
  A discussion on veterans’ policy change has been going on for some time in Germany upon the initiative of Minister of Defense Thomas de Meiziere (Christian Democratic Union). In April he submitted the “Bundesver veterans’ policy” report to the Bundestag Defense Committee. As the German tradition ...
• An Open Government Wrapped in the Internet
  On April 17-18, 2012 the First Annual High-Level Summit of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) will be held in Brazil. According to the dedicated page on the US State Department web-site, the OGP is ‘aimed at securing concrete commitments from governments to promote transparency, increase civi ...
• Soros’s Virus Sneaking Into the Open Gov ...
  The first annual conference of the Open Government Partnership, an international group set up in New York by the US, UK,  Canada, Norway, Brazil, Mexico, Indonesia, the Philippines, and South Africa in September, 2011, will open in Brazil on April 17, 2012. Over the past six months, the partners ...
• Who Are To Stand Up In the International Crimi ...
  Not long ago the International Criminal Court (ICC) handed down a noteworthy ruling. Formally it was related to two African states – Malawi and Chad visited by president of Sudan Omar al-Bashir. Their fault was not so much receiving him but rather not putting him under arrest. The warrant was is ...
• Amnesty International Propaganda Targets Russi ...
  The Amnesty International “infographic” titled, “Shocking Facts About Who’s Arming Human Rights Abusers,” portraying Russia’s arming of Syria as “fueling the most bloodshed” is not “shocking” at all when one realizes the disingenuous human ri ...

BlogHer

• Taking Things on Faith
  So much of our modern lives is rooted in taking that grand leap of faith - something I face every time I get on a plane:"So much of our daily life is based on faith. Not necessarily Faith, with a capital F, but standard, garden variety belief that it will work out. Maybe it's religious faith, mi ...
• A Taste of South African Wine Yields Thirst Fo ...
  My family and I went to Cape Town, South Africa recently to explore nature and to see for ourselves where Nelson Mandela spent three decades in prison trying to liberate from apartheid. We came home wondering how we could get our hands on more of the country’s delicious wines. All the South Afr ...
• Learn a Few Parenting Tips from Blended Families
  Did you know that all blended families aren't like The Brandy Bunch? On a similar note, did you know that you can learn a lot from a blended family? Tina Ann Foraker wrote about the things "normal" families can learn from blended families on Inspire a Fire. Her points are important ones for all ...
• Crafting a Custom Family Portrait Tradition
  It is tricky choosing the perfect Mother’s Day gift, I know from experience. Not only am I a mother, but I also happen to have a mom that is particularly difficult to shop for. Jewelry and flowers are nice, but they have been done already. Why not instead get your mother something extra special. ...
• A Look at Katie Salen's Ideas on Games and Edu ...
  [Gail at The Female Perspective of Computer Science looks at some ideas about gaming, learning, collaboration, and mastery that Katie Salen's has shared in her conference speeches. -Virginia] In video games, you don't want a player who is just learning the controls for the first time to have to ...

Health Freedom Alliance

• Suzanne Somers’ ‘Bombshell’ ...
  Hollywood superstar Suzanne Somers has played many roles in her long career: television actress, fitness-product pitchwoman, and best-selling author. But with her new book, Somers has become something else entirely: a medical pioneer. In “Bombshell: Explosive ...
• Water Fluoridation Persists Despite Being Unhe ...
  Recently, the Senate has taken up an issue that may actually benefit the general public – this time specifically, it’s regarding the mass medication that is omnipresent in everyone’s water supply, sodium fluoride. The largest ...
• Avocados Naturally Overcome Aging and Disease
  Contrary to many anti-aging pills and creams, avocados are extremely inexpensive and also quite a delicious addition to any seasonal meal. The best part, however, is that they are actually effective in fighting both again ...
• Lime & Sunlight Naturally Purify Water
  Natural sunlight and a slice of lime could potentially be the answer to the global water crisis, affecting millions of individuals worldwide who do not have access to water filtration services. Found to effectively remove ...
• Water Fluoridation Persists Despite Being Unhe ...
  Recently, the Senate has taken up an issue that may actually benefit the general public – this time specifically, it’s regarding the mass medication that is omnipresent in everyone’s water supply, sodium fluoride. The largest ...

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

• UBB update: Family lawsuits appear far from over
  There’s some pretty interesting stuff buried in the latest U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission disclosure filed today by Alpha Natural Resources. First, there’s this: The Company had reached agreements in principle to settle with all twenty-nine families of the deceased miners as ...
• CCS update: Funding still stalled for coal&#82 ...
  The good folks at the Worldwatch Institute have this important report out this week: Global funding for carbon capture and storage technology, a tool for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, remained unchanged at US$23.5 billion in 2011 in comparison to the previous year, according to a ne ...
• Appalachian women put coal on trial
  Strong Appalachian women have long been a major force in our region — from Mother Jones to the women who helped lead the Harlan County coal strike, to Kentucky mining widows who fought for tougher safety regulations to folks like Judy Bonds and Maria Gunnoe in the anti-mountaintop removal ...
• Would Mitt Romney protect coal miners?
  Folks like Hoppy Kercheval are basking in the glow of Tuesday’s election here in West Virginia, where a felon who is in jail in Texas managed more than 40 percent of the vote against Presidential Obama in the Democratic primary. Writes Hoppy in today’s West Virginia MetroNews comment ...
• Coal politics: What W.Va. doesn’t want t ...
  President Barack Obama walks across the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, May 8, 2012, as he arrives from a day trip to from Albany, N.Y. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) As you can see from today’s Gazette story, Mining causing widespread water damage, judge told, I spent Wes ...

Daniel Miessler

• Atheists More Generous Than Religious When Hel ...
  A new study by the University of California, Berkeley, suggests athiests and agnostics are more willing to help other people than those who identify themselves as religious. The reason for this difference, the study found, is because atheists are driven by emotions, such as compassion, as oppose ...
• Religious Websites Riskier Than Porn Sites
  http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/05/01/religious-websites-riskier-than-porn-fo… Sent from my mobile device; please forgive any brevity or errors. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related ContentOnline Porn and the Bible BeltU.S. Religious Knowledge Survey – Pe ...
• Google as DoS/Bandwidth Weapon | Security Affairs
  The steps to conduct similar attacks are: Collect a large number of URLs from the targeted website. Preferably big media files (jpg, pdf, mpeg and similar) Put these URLs in a Google feed, or just put them in a Google Spreadsheet Put the feed into a Google service, or use the image(url) command ...
• DDoS Attacks Move to Server Scripts | Network ...
  Internet criminals are sidestepping the need to launch DDoS attack from large networks of malware-compromised bot PCs by using simpler server ‘booter shells’, mitigation firm Prolexic has warned. America’s 10 most wanted botnets ‘Booter shells’ or plain ‘boote ...
• DDoS Attacks Move to Server Scripts | Network ...
  Internet criminals are sidestepping the need to launch DDoS attack from large networks of malware-compromised bot PCs by using simpler server ‘booter shells’, mitigation firm Prolexic has warned. America’s 10 most wanted botnets ‘Booter shells’ or plain ‘boote ...

Fitwatch

• FIT at Mayday march, London
  FIT team and the new 'baby blue' Police Liasion cops were much in evidence on the Mayday march in London. We've also had reports of a PCSO in a FIT role - first time we've come across that! Some reports have suggested that the FIT were in evidence partly because the cops seem fixated on [...]
• 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 ...

Worldwide Hippies

• I SHOULD HAVE STAYED IN BED
  By Sherry Pasquarello,Worldwidehippies – Yeppers, I should have listened to my little inner voice this morning and just rolled over and pulled the sheet over my head and gone back to sleep. But, NO, being the good doggie mom that I am. I got up, dressed and took Max out like I do every mor ...
• Julian Assange’s The World Tomorrow: Ar ...
  Published on May 8, 2012 by RussiaToday - In the fourth episode of The World Tomorrow Julian Assange speaks with two leading Arab revolutionaries in the middle of conflict, Alaa Abd El-Fattah from Egypt and Nabeel Rajab from Bahrain. Alaa Abd El-Fattah is a long time Egyptian blogger, programmer ...
• Dr. Woody’s Fascinating Factoid, #7: ...
  Dr. Woody’s Fascinating Factoids. by John Konopak. Worldwide Hippies “official” resident scholar. Shit you should know about. But mite have forgotten. And if you didn’t know about it, you do now. Brought to you as a Public Service by Worldwide Hippies. ‘An educated ...
• Can You Identify Me?
  Worldwidehippies – Do you ever think about how great life is? Do you ever ponder the benefits you receive on a daily basis? Life’s benefits could be major like you won the lottery, or met the love of your life. Life’s benefits could be simple like a walk in the park, or hot cup of [...]
• Hip Poetry: ‘No Mad’ (Andrew J Pe ...
  WorldWide Hippies– WorldWide Hippies is proud to announce the publication of our very first book:Hip Poetry 2012! The book is a compilation of some of the worlds best poets and writers. Each Week Worldwide Hippies will post excerpts from the Book Hip Poetry. Hip Poetry 2012 dances and moves. It ...

reference frame

• Thomas Bayes and supersymmetry
  Phil Gibbs wrote a nice article about an insightful puzzle, Bayes and SUSY, which is relevant for a sensible answer to the question "how much we should change our mind when we eliminate a big chunk of a parameter space", i.e. a big portion of the possible values of some parameters that specif ...
• EU lawmakers won't go to Rio+20, can't afford ...
  Next month, there will be a conference in Rio – called Rio+20 or Earth Summit 2012 – which will take place exactly 20 years after the 1992 conference in Rio that helped environmentalism in general and global warming in particular to penetrate deeply into the mainstream media and the mainstrea ...
• Gauginos with Dirac masses and F-theory
  The idea that the gauge fields of the Standard Model are extended not just to \(\NNN=1\) supersymmetry multiplets but to \(\NNN=2\) supermultiplets has been discussed a few times on this blog, e.g. in November 2011. Those blog entries were mostly inspired by phenomenologists who had goo ...
• Mars: climate change faster than thought
  Global warming on other planets (and moons) is one of the cute scientific observations that have amused many of us many times. Mars for Martians The topic got hotter in recent hours once again: Mars sand dunes show rapidly shifting environment Google NewsThe Martian sand d ...
• Is everything entangled?
  Roman Buniy and Steve Hsu published a preprint named Everything Is Entangledwhich claims that... everything is entangled. Because of the cosmological evolution, everything evolves into an entangled state and the entanglement easily transgresses the cosmic horizon. However, you can't observe ...

Tatumba 2.0

• Crazy Man Praises The Mad Ape
  http://tatumba.com – This sickly and mentally deranged dude is the net result of a lifetime of bio-weapon attacks. He wishes to do a bit of show and tell and provide a testimonial of how he became a walking corpse. I have told you guys repeatedly about the cumulative health hazards of cons ...
• HSBC Bank is a Criminal Enterprise
  HSBC Bank is a Criminal Enterprise, so says former Vice President and Relationship Manager John Cruz. Mr. Cruz has gone public and turned over to more than 1,000 pages of documents to World News Daily. In an exclusive interview with Jerome R. Corsi, a Harvard Ph.D. Mr. Cruz had explained in grea ...
• Putting Students at the Center of a Maelstrom. ...
  Editors Note: Today’s posting is from Jane of the Jungle, a person with firsthand knowledge of the ineffectiveness of the David Alward Government when it comes to Education in New Brunswick. Between Premier David Alward and Minister of Education and Early Childhood Development Jody Carr, t ...
• FPS Russia – THE MINIGUN
  I have one of these on order. Can’t wait to try it out at Harvey Lake and on the Green!   We’re looking for a female model 18+ to model some of out products, you’d be featured wearing them in the outro of a video. If you’re interested send your resume and photos to F ...
• Keiser Report 283: Mafia vs OWS feturing Geral ...
  In this episode, Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert discuss Treasury Secretary Secretary Timothy Geithner is like a monkey who sees no evil, hears no evil, speaks no evil while Wall Street ‘elks’ are protected by the police from protestor ‘wolves.’ In the second half o ...

Truth About Our World

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

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

• Chemical Agriculture Goes to the Mattresses
  The U.S. Department of Agriculture began testing fruits and vegetables for pesticide residues in 1991 after the public became concerned about their potential risks to children. Remember Alar? In 1993, at the request of Congress, several top public health... [[ This is a content summary only ...
• "Environmental Working Group (EWG) to the rescue."
  As we change gears from the Hall of Shame and begin to focus on the upcoming annual EWG Sunscreen Database, EWG research was mentioned in a number of consumer health stories. The Washington Post ran a story on preserving the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full li ...
• New York Times' Kristof Lays Out the Case Agai ...
  In recent years, the incidence of hypospadias, a congenital malformation of the penis, has doubled. Leading health experts blame this surge on a family of toxic chemicals called endocrine disruptors, which attack the hormone system. Nicholas Kristof, a... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
• Baby, Meet Frog; Frog, Meet Baby
  Renowned researcher and professor Tyrone Hayes has been studying the effects of the common herbicide atrazine for more than a decade. His findings contributed to the European Union's decision to ban this toxic endocrine disrupter. Much of his research... [[ This is a content summary only. V ...
• Ryan Gosling and Dirty Cleaners
  The "Hall of Shame" of the dirtiest cleaners from our upcoming EWG Cleaners Database was released Monday evening to our email list and selective media outlets. EWG supporter feedback was impressive - the two posts to our Facebook fans received... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my ...

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

• Brooklyn D.A. Charles Hynes has a special way ...
• Republican chairs: Kelly hasn't started yet, a ...
• F.A.Q.: Which campaign wants to have an electi ...
• 'Barack on Broadway' gets a return engagement
• City Dems vote for a House bill that would def ...

Views & News from Norway

• Emotional outburst halted terror trial
  After weeks of almost uncanny calm in the courtroom, an emotional outburst finally disrupted the ongoing trial of the man charged with killing 77 persons in Norway last summer. Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) reported that a spectator following the proceedings on Friday suddenly stood up, threw a s ...
• Christian Democrats soften stance against gay ...
  Leaders of the conservative Christian Democrats party are proposing a major change in the party’s position on Norway’s marriage laws. While many party members remain opposed to gay marriage, party officials now claim it should be up to various religious congregations in Norway to dec ...
• Activists link arms to protect forest
  Around 40 environmental activists gathered in the forest at Ekeberg in Oslo this week, ready to face off against work crews they fear will chop down trees to make room for a controversial new sculpture park. There was no confrontation, however, at least not yet. Protests had begun over the weeke ...
• Norway hails its greatest war hero
  It didn’t take long before ordinary Norwegians spontaneously started paying their final respects to their country’s greatest war hero, Gunnar Sønsteby, after his death was announced on Thursday afternoon. Sønsteby was Norway’s most decorated citizen and spent much of his life s ...
• Breivik challenged his witnesses
  Terror defendant Anders Behring Breivik challenged witnesses testifying against him as his trial continued in an Oslo courtroom this week. More autopsy reports were being examined on Thursday. Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) reported how Breivik interrupted the testimony of one of the private boat ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

• APC11 Presentation: Regenerative Agriculture, ...
  Dan Palmer, of VeryEdibleGardens (VEG), gives an interesting look at the basis of Regenerative Agriculture, and how it applies in practice — sharing his experiences consulting for a 10-acre property about 2.5 hours northeast of Melbourne, Victoria.
• Following McDonalds’ Example Towards a Healthy ...
  Images copyright Cam Wilson 2012 Who would have thought we could follow McDonalds’ business model to get our kids to eat healthy food? “Where do you see McDonalds situated?” Rick Coleman asks his PDC class. Wherever they will be in your face, that’s where. You don&#821 ...
• Enhancing Permaculture Through Research
  Bill Mollison and David Holmgren developed permaculture through a combination of years of study and observation, many late night discussions and practical testing in the field (in fact it was a garden!) What has emerged since is a powerful network of action learners busy putting permaculture the ...
• Mulloon Creek Intern Program, Spring 2012
  Our intern program is centred around learning by doing. Here at Mulloon Creek Natural Farms there’s a great mix of both the established bread and butter commercial operations, as well as a lot of innovative development that’s taking place over the coming years within our ecological a ...
• Paper Parks
  The UK’s marine reserves offer no meaningful protection to the life of the sea. by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist, United Kingdom. What do the terms “marine reserve” and “marine protected area” conjure up for you? Places in which, perhaps, ...

Pointman's

• What I’m going to say will upset a few p ...
  This is not going to be a popular article with some people on the skeptical side of the global warming divide but you’re going to get it anyway, because a few things that have needed to be said for some time, now require to be said more urgently, especially in the light of recent events.&# ...
• For Nicholas, a birth poem.
    Against the odds, you were a boy, Confounding sages of such things, From bump to boy, with Marie’s help, We loved your baby screams.   Your limbs they are so smooth and straight, Your bones so hard and pointy, Your chubby cheeks and cupid lips, Your back so warm and downy.   In sleep&#16 ...
• For Nicholas, a birth poem.
    Against the odds, you were a boy, Confounding sages of such things, From bump to boy, with Marie’s help, We loved your baby screams.   Your limbs they are so smooth and straight, Your bones so hard and pointy, Your chubby cheeks and cupid lips, Your back so warm and downy.   In sleep&#16 ...
• Lies, damn lies and polls.
  Some time ago and in the context of climategate, I put forward the opinion that it would eventually produce two big losers and one big winner. The two losers were going to be climate science and the mainstream media (MSM), while the big winner was going to be the blogosphere. Climategate, import ...
• Lies, damn lies and polls.
  Some time ago and in the context of climategate, I put forward the opinion that it would eventually produce two big losers and one big winner. The two losers were going to be climate science and the mainstream media (MSM), while the big winner was going to be the blogosphere. Climategate, import ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

• New Orleans Workers’ Center Calls on Janet Nap ...
  From our friends at the New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice: Hundreds at Local Rally Will Call for ICE to Grant Legal Status to Southern 32 for Standing Up to Abusive Employers and Law Enforcement On Tuesday, May 1, hundreds will gather at New Orleans City Hall to join the New Orl ...
• New Orleans Communities Come Together in Youth ...
  From our friends at Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana: On Saturday, March 24th 2012, youth from around the city of New Orleans came together for the first ever Power of a Million Minds (POMM) Youth Summit at Dillard University. POMM is a youth led, youth organized, and youth run collabo ...
• Conviction of Black Mayor Overturned by US Cou ...
  In a 2-1 ruling today, the Second Circuit Court of Appeal reversed the conviction of former Waterproof mayor Bobby Higginbotham, and vacated his sentence. The case had attracted the attention of civil rights activists around the US, as well as Color of Change, a national racial justice activism ...
• Statement in Response to the First Criminal In ...
  From a statement by our friends at the Louisiana Bucket Brigade: Today a former BP employee has been indicted. We believe that there are more criminal indictments of oil companies possible, if only the Department of Justice would look. The Department should look into ongoing actions by man ...
• Two years on, anger and frustration on the Gul ...
  A shorter version of this article appeared today in newspapers around the world through Agence France Presse, the newswire service. Two years after the worst maritime oil spill in history, fishermen, scientists, and environmentalists up and down the US Gulf Coast warn that the disaster may be ...

Information Underground

• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  I asked Texe about Mike Stathis. Texe never heard about him I'll cover that on next audio #ZerohedgeStatistics: Posted by Ognir — Fri May 11, 2012 12:35 pm
• Crimes of Israel, IDF, Zionists, Mossad or &qu ...
  Biblical Relic Dealer Acquitted in Forgery Trial, Sparking Controversy Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer Date: 14 March 2012 Time: 03:51 PM ET Real or fake? An Israel Antiquities Authority panel concluded that this plaque, supposedly associated with King Solomon's Temple in Jerusa ...
• History and Philosophy of Zionism/Judaism/&quo ...
  Earliest Evidence of Biblical Cult Discovered LiveScience.comBy Wynne Parry, Senior LiveScience Writer | LiveScience.com The excavation of a shrine in the 3,000-year-old city of Khirbet Qeiyafa near Jerusalem. For the first time, archaeologists have uncovered shrines from the time of th ...
• Economics, Money/Banking, Investments, Profite ...
  May 10, 2012, 5:29 P.M. ET JP Morgan Reveals Large Trading Loss; Shares Hammered By Avi Salzman JPMorgan Chase (JPM) fell 6.5% after-hours after saying it incurred “significant mark-to-market losses in its synthetic credit portfolio.” CEO Jamie Dimon apologized on a conference call at 5 p ...
• Economics, Money/Banking, Investments, Profite ...
  More Insider Trading? (JPM) Naw, nothing wrong here.... The highlighted field shows 13,843 $41 PUTs traded today and expire tomorrow for, at the close, about 43 cents. They're worth a fair bit more than that right now (like $3) Why would you buy a crapload of $41 PUTs with the stock tradi ...

TVNZ

• Gambling, drinking monks raise hell in South Korea
  Six Buddhist monks have quit after secret video footage exposed them indulging in smoking and drinking.
• Obama calls same-sex marriage a 'logical exten ...
  President Barack Obama continues to endorse same-sex marriage during a campaign fundraiser.
• Coalition doubtful as Greek parties meet
  Greek Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos met with conservatives today in coalition attempt.
• British PM under fire in phone hacking inquiry
  David Cameron gave a former tabloid newspaper editor access to government secrets, an inquiry heard.
• No survivors found in Russian plane crash
  A rescue team found bodies but no survivors today in the wreckage of a Russian passenger jet.

environment 360

• Lack of Profitability Drives U.S. Company Out ...
  A U.S.-based company that used genetic engineering to develop a technology to convert sugar into biofuel has announced that it will stop producing the fuel, at least temporarily, because the process simply isn’t profitable. Amyris, a San Francisco firm that also produces cosmetic products, had e ...
• Greenland Glaciers Moving More Slowly Than Pr ...
  A new U.S. study says that Greenland’s glaciers are sliding into the sea more slowly than previously estimated, a finding that may indicate future sea level rise will not be as high as some projected worst-case scenarios. Using satellite data to track changes to 200 outlet glaciers from 2000 to ...
• Japan Goes Nuclear-Free For the First Time in ...
  Japan will shut down its last working nuclear power station this weekend, culminating — at least for now — a national shift away from nuclear energy in the aftermath of last year’s Fukushima disaster. The shutdown of the No. 3 Tomari reactor in Hokkaido will leave the country w ...
• Earth Observation Satellites Threatened by Bud ...
  Budget shortfalls, launch failures, and mission changes have caused a decline in U.S. earth observation satellites over the last five years, a trend that could undermine the nation’s ability to forecast weather and monitor natural disasters and climate change, according to a new report. The repo ...
• Experiments Underestimate Plant Responses to G ...
  Studies designed to predict how plants and trees will react to rising temperatures have consistently underestimated those responses, with the actual flowering and leafing of plants advancing far more rapidly than most experiments forecast. That is the conclusion of new research by Canadian and U ...

oldephartte/Diigo

• henryhbauer
  Tags: HIV_AIDS denierism meme scientific method corporate research
• Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Association
  Tags: farming gardening association news
• Fancy
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• Whole Health Source
  Tags: health source fat brain
• NEWS JUNKIE POST | News, Politics, And Opinion ...
  Tags: news politics

backofthebook

• CRTC reaches for volume control
  A BoB short: The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission has announced that all broadcasters, cable and satellite providers, and video-on-demand services must silence erratically loud ads by Sept. 1, 2012. The federal regulator had previously told the TV industry that it had ...
• Robocalls: Who was hiding behind the proxy server?
  By Alison@Creekside Despite Wednesday’s somewhat dampening headline, Pierre Poutine robocalls trail goes cold in Saskatchewan, the main story here is not that Elections Canada’s Al Mathews was unable to secure phone records from a proxy server company in Saskatchewan a whole freakin ...
• John Baird plays Iran Got Nukes!
  By Alison@Creekside Baird says Iran could build nuclear bomb within months screams the CBC headline over Evan Solomon interviewing John Baird under a giant picture of visiting Israel PM Shimon Peres. Fans of the Iran got nukes! cry-wolf sweepstakes will recall both Peres and Netanyahu predicted  ...
• The student strike and the savage state
  By Montreal Simon Uh oh. It  looks like my Quebec student’s victory celebration party, from which I’m still recovering, was a little premature. Students in a half dozen colleges and 10 university faculties and departments voted to reject the agreement on Monday after the Charest gove ...
• Skrillex train tour inspired by 70′s Fes ...
  A BoB short: A motley of young electronic musicians led by Grammy-winning dubstep artist Skrillex, who is arguably more known for his half-shaved hairstyle, will be touring Canada via private train this summer. Accompanying Skrillex, whose real name is Sonny Moore, is indie pop maven and former ...

Daily Beast

• The Davos for Dissidents
  Summits aren’t just for jetsetters anymore. Eli Lake rubs elbows with dissidents and activists in Oslo.
• Brooks Takes the Stand
  Rebekah Brooks to testify on allegations of cozy relationships with No. 10 Downing Street. By Mike Giglio.
• Camilla tried her hand at forecast too.
  Prince of Gales Goes Viral
• Corgi Numbers Get Jubilee Spike
  Corgi numbers on the up
• First Major Jubilee Show Kicks Off in Windsor
  Horses and performers from around the world gather in Windsor

Loonwatch

• UC San Diego Students Need to Protest the &#82 ...
  Take Action: Protest "Stand With Us" hate fest!
• U.S. Military Taught Officers: Use ‘Hiroshima’ ...
  The U.S. military taught its future leaders that a “total war” against the world’s 1.4 billion Muslims would be necessary. Among the options considered for that conflict: using the lessons of “Hiroshima” to wipe out whole cities at once, targeting the “civilian population wherever necessary.”
• Juan Cole: Sarkozy’s Loss in Part Due to ...
  Some of the margin of his defeat came from his pandering to the discourse of the French anti-immigrant far right.
• Gun Parts, Ammo Found Hidden Inside Stuffed An ...
  Gun components and ammunition were found hidden inside three stuffed animals carried by a passenger at Rhode Island’s T.F. Green Airport on Tuesday.
• Stop the Judeo-Mestizo Islamization of North A ...
  Now equal opportunity bigots have two contenders for Most Scary Diabolical Plot: The Left-Islamist Alliance & the Judeo-Mestizo Takeover.

Energy News

• Major Japan Weekly: Industry insiders say Fuku ...
• Fukushima Secret: Tepco reveals Reactor No. 3 ...
• 500,000 people to be evacuated around Fukushim ...
• Head of Tokyo-area Medical Clinic: “Risk from ...
• SOS from Local Official: I can’t take it any m ...

Japan Times

• Trilateral bonds key to Asia: China
  Stepped-up cooperation by China, Japan and South Korea is expected to help promote their prosperity and unity in East Asia and serve as a driving force in the global economy, the Chinese Foreign Ministry has said in a report. The report noted that the three countries together account for some ...
• Sony profit projections lower than expected
  Sony Corp. on Thursday predicted profit below analysts' estimates amid slumping TV and game-console sales and worsening earnings from the mobile-phone unit. Net income in the year ending March 31 may be ¥30 billion, the Tokyo-based maker of Bravia TVs and Cyber-shot cameras said Thursday. ...
• Taniguchi takes lead into clubhouse at Japan PGA
  Toru Taniguchi held the clubhouse lead with a 7-under 65 on Thursday as the opening round of the Japan PGA Championship was suspended by darkness. Taniguchi, the 2010 winner of the major tournament on the Japanese tour, made seven birdies without a bogey at Karasuyamajo Country Club in Tochigi ...
• 'The Descendants'
  If you were an actor, middle-aged or older and looking to revamp your career, landing a role in an Alexander Payne movie could be just the thing. On the other hand, collaborating with the man who brought to the world the twin masterpieces of midlife pathos "About Schmidt" and "Sideways" may mean ...
• A-bomb pianos in Tokyo concerts
  A concert featuring two pianos that survived the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima will be held Sunday at Daigo Fukuryu Maru Exhibition Hall in Tokyo's Yumenoshima waterfront district, organizers said. The organizers said they "will think about Hiroshima, Nagasaki, the Fukuryu Maru and Fukushim ...

Alexander Higgins

• TSA Yanks 18-Month-Old Baby On Terror Watch Li ...
  In a blatant example of the dangers of the NDAA and drone strikes, the US government's terrorist profiling algorithm flagged an 18 month old baby as terrorist.
• Armed Authorities Coerce Farmers To Massacre G ...
  Michigan authorities, presumably under lobbyist influence, force GMO free organic farmers to murder their livestock in cold blood based on 'made up' rule.
• Chaos In Greece: The Final Nail In The Euro Coffin
  Greece's government splinters into warring factions as violence hits the streets raising fears austerity cuts needed to get the next EU banker bailout will not be passed.
• Cop Boots Pregnant Woman In Stomach; Dept. Say ...
  A Georgia cop is in the news for the third time in only seven months for kicking a pregnant woman in the stomach who was crying because her brother was just tasered.
• CNN: Entire Outfit of Al-Qaeda Terrorists Are ...
  CNN warns an entire outfit of Al-Qaeda terrorist are planning to conduct attacks on US soil using sophisticate high-tech bombs undetectable by security systems.

Macleans - Central

• The global conspiracy to make Canada’s e ...
  Surely the only reasonable reaction to allegations that some Canadian environmental groups receive cash...
• The Commons: A long night of known unknowns
  Less than 10 minutes into the evening, the NDP's Jack Harris seemed to give up hope
• On navel-gazing, civil liberties, and Shimon Peres
  I hope readers will forgive a post that is definitely narcissistic and possibly an...
• Surprise, surprise: Canada lags in e-commerce
  Selling online would allow Canadian businesses to escape the constraints of our small domestic market--but it ain't happening
• No deal
  Presumably saddening Young Stephen Harper, Peter Van Loan has announced the government’s intention to...

Making It Count - CCPA

• Don’t Kid Yourself: We all pay for the defundi ...
  I went to McGill in the late 80s and early 90s when tuition fees were less than $1,200 a year, so with summer jobs and some parental help I graduated from my first degree debt-free. For my MA, which I took in Ontario, I worked part-time and graduated after one year with a debt of [...]
• Corak in Context
  Professor Miles Corak had a post on The Globe and Mail’s Economy Lab yesterday comparing measures of unemployment in Canada and the U.S. I remember learning in Economics 100 that the official Canadian and American unemployment rates are not directly comparable, in part because Statistics Canada ...
• Opting Out of Union Dues
  Murray Mandryk’s excellent column today saves me the trouble of writing a lengthy blog post on the Saskatchewan government’s recent musings about labour legislation. From an economic perspective, it’s worth noting that enabling unionized workers to opt out of paying union dues would create a cla ...
• While You Were Sleeping: Fed Policies Make It ...
   A shorter version of this article appeared today in the Globe and Mail’s Economy Lab Have you noticed how common it has become to talk about replacing workers with even cheaper workers? If you’re looking over your shoulder, you’re not paranoid; you’re paying attention. T ...
• Meilinomics II: Income from Within
  The following is another excerpt from Dr. Ryan Meili’s new book, A Healthy Society: How a Focus on Health Can Revive Canadian Democracy, which fellow blogger Greg Fingas has been discussing. The road to Tevele is red sand and sloppy in the rainy season. The pick- up truck bounces in and out of r ...

ReDress

• What kind of society do Americans want?
  Lawrence Davidson argues that Americans face a clear choice: to live in a cohesive and civilized society that cares and supports all its members, or to live in a society governed by selfishness and the philosophy of survival of the fittest.
• Netanyahu crowns himself King of Israel
  Jonathan Cook argues that the newly announced coalition in Israel between the Likud and Kadima parties will give Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu time to entrench moves towards authoritarianism - weakening the media, human rights groups and the courts - and allow him to further undermine rival ...
• Zionist history: a short quiz
  Neve Gordon highlights the slide in Israeli political thought over the past 20 years with a quiz the answers to which "expose just how far right Israeli politics, as well as the public discourse informing it, have shifted".
• Israel's hawks in open revolt against war on Iran
  Uri Avnery looks at how a number of leading hardliners in Israel's military and security establishments have spoken out against the Israeli government's plans for an attack on Iran's nuclear installations and called into question the fitness for office of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and De ...
• Intimidated, detained and tortured: false impr ...
  Graham Peebles calls on the international community, especially donor nations, to take action against the Meles Zenawi regime in Ethiopia, including freezing personal assets and imposing targeted sanctions, to force it to end its gross human rights violations.

Physics Today

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

Revolutionary Politics

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

Peakwater

• Karuma dam in new saga
  “Construction of the 660MW Karuma dam has once again courted controversy, with anonymous experts not only questioning the bidding process, but also the design of the project and the qualifications of the project manager. According to two separate whistleblowers, these issues are likely to ...
• Recipe For Safer Drinking Water? Add Sun, Salt ...
  “In many developing countries, the only source of water is contaminated with viruses and bacteria. In fact, the United Nations estimates that 1 in 6 people don’t have access to enough fresh drinking water. Pouring water into clear plastic bottles and placing them in the sun can kill ...
• South Africa: Country Tap Water Remains World ...
  “Cape Town — South Africa’s drinking water is among the best in the world, and the country remains among a few in the world where water can still be consumed from the tap, the Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs Edna Molewa said on Monday. Releasing the 2012 Blue Drop report ...
• Amid Brazil’s Rush to Develop, Workers Resist
  “JACI PARANÁ, Brazil — The revolt here on the banks of the Madeira River, the Amazon’s largest tributary, flared after sunset. At the simmering end of a 26-day strike by 17,000 workers last month, a faction of laborers who were furious over wages and living conditions began setting fire to ...
• MENA Changing Drastically & NASA Has The Pictu ...
  “Lake shrinkage in Iran Left: August 1985. Right: August 2010. Iran’s Lake Oroumeih (also spelled Urmia) is the largest lake in the Middle East and the third largest saltwater lake on Earth. But dams on feeder streams, expanded use of ground water, and a decades-long drought have reduced i ...

D. Kucinich

• Kucinich on Sequester Replacement Act: The Rea ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today delivered the following remarks on the Floor of the United States House of Representatives in opposition of H.R. 5652, the Sequester Replacement Reconciliation Act of 2012: “It is called a reconciliation act, but how do we reconcile more money ...
• Kucinich on AP Afghanistan Poll:
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement after a poll conducted by the Associated Press showed that less than 30% of Americans support the war in Afghanistan: “A recent poll by the Associated Press demonstrates that support for the U.S. war in Afghanistan has r ...
• Bombs or Bread; Congress Must Decide
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following video in advance of today’s expected vote on the Sequestration Replacement Reconciliation Act which raids, among other domestic programs, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to fund the military budget. ...
• Kucinich Inspires at American University in Du ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today delivered the keynote address at the American University in Dubai’s Fifteenth Commencement. Kucinich spoke to an attentive audience of about 5,000. His Highness Sheikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler ...
• The Key to Economic Recovery; Kucinich Explain ...
  In advance of a Financial Services Subcommittee hearing today to look at legislative proposals for “reforming or abolishing the Federal Reserve,” Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) released the following video detailing how his legislation would reassert Congressional authority over American mon ...

Authentically Wired

• This really might be the greatest speech ever made
  This really might be the greatest speech ever made http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2011/09/15/this-really-might-be-the-greatest-speech-ever-made/ I’m a cynic, it helps in my line of work, but despite my resistance, this speech and video truly had an impact. I hope it will for you too. It’s old ...
• anyone who advocates
  …I am discovering that anyone who advocates providing full disclosure and transparency to “we” – the people – is in most instances labeled an enemy of the state … and I am one of those…   Number ONE Enemy of the State 05-08-2012  •  www.batr.org There is immense confusion about th ...
• Actually they are the providers of the new emp ...
  … Actually they are the providers of the new employees for America’s 1% “new-world-order” … Private Prison Corporations Are Modern Day Slave Traders   Read complete article here …By Glen Ford, Black Agenda Report… Posted on April 29, 2012, Printed on May 2, 2012 … http://www.alternet.org/st ...
• Hey … it’s OK … God told him ...
  … Hey … it’s OK … God told him …   Horrifying: Audio of Pastor Telling Laughing Congregation to Beat Gay Kids   This video, circulated by the website, "Good As You," has gone viral–in a negative way–this week. It features a pastor in North Carolina, which ...
• timely to demonize WalMart
  … I realize it is timely to demonize WalMart’s alleged bribery of Mexico’s officials … what I find absolutely hypocrite is that “we” remain deaf, dumb, silent as WalMart and most every other corporation in America BRIBE$ our Congre$$… and most state legislature$   Jim Hightower | The S ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

• The month in environmental news for April 2012
  Mongabay.com provides a quick review of forest-related news for April 2012.
• New reptile discovered in world's strangest ar ...
  Few people have ever heard of the Socotra Archipelago even though, biologically-speaking, it is among the world's most wondrous set of islands. Over one third of Socotra's plants are found no-where else on Earth, i.e. endemic, while 90 percent of its reptiles are also endemic. Adding to its list ...
• For Earth Day, 17 celebrated scientists on how ...
  Seventeen top scientists and four acclaimed conservation organizations have called for radical action to create a better world for this and future generations. Compiled by 21 past winners of the prestigious Blue Planet Prize, a new paper recommends solutions for some of the world's most pressing ...
• 100 pictures for Earth Day
  One of the things that makes my job enjoyable despite the hours are the opportunities for getting out in the field. Reporting on tropical forests and other environmental issues frequently takes me to some places of amazing natural beauty. Along the way, I take pictures when I can.
• Model airplane used to monitor rainforests - c ...
  Conservationists have converted a remote-controlled plane into a potent tool for conservation. Using seed funding from the National Geographic Society, The Orangutan Conservancy, and the Denver Zoo, Lian Pin Koh, an ecologist at the ETH Zürich, and Serge Wich, a biologist at the University ...

Science - NZ Herald

• Japan to shut down last nuclear reactors
  Another long, stupefyingly hot summer is looming for Japan just as it shuts down its last operating nuclear power reactor, worsening a squeeze on electricity and adding urgency to calls for a green energy revolution.On Saturday,...
• NZ schools lacking effective science programme ...
  Less than a third of schools have effective science programmes for Year 5 to 8 students, according to the Education Review Office.An ERO report,
• Scientists call for urgency on cancer-phone link
  The jury is still out on mobile phone health risks. Picture / AP Allegations of bad science, not enough science, conflicts of interest, political inertia, scaremongering, lobbying and lawsuits: the debate about the safety of mobile...
• Minivan sized meteor packed explosive power
  Scientists say a giant fireball that exploded in daylight over California's Central Valley over the weekend was a rare phenomenon and much larger than most meteors.Bill Cooke, a specialist in meteors at Nasa's Marshall Space Flight...
• US company to mine asteroids for water
  A US company, backed by film director James Cameron and Google's top executives, has unveiled bold plans to mine asteroids for precious minerals and water.Heralding a new frontier in space exploitation, Planetary Resources announced...

The Bovine

• New study on Amish shows how raw milk promotes ...
  From Rady Ananda, on Food Freedom News “An international team of researchers recently confirmed that children who drink fresh milk – unprocessed and unpasteurized – have a better immune response to allergens and are far less likely to develop asthma. Researchers … Continue reading &# ...
• (Atypical?) Mad cow in California
  From Michael Greger, M.D. in Civil Eats: “The downer dairy cow recently found stricken with mad cow disease in California was infected with an “atypical” strain. Such cases are thought to arise spontaneously, a notion the USDA seized upon to explain how … Continue reading →
• 66% of New Zealanders want legal raw milk acco ...
  From Ag Wired: “Our latest ZimmPoll asked the question, “Should raw milk be allowed for sale?” The question was prompted by one of the panelists at the 2012 Animal Agriculture Alliance Stakeholders Summit. She is a reporter with a food safety publication who … Continue reading →
• GMO labeling bill in Connecticut
  From Hella Delicious: “….The state of Connecticut was on the eve of a historic vote. With 90% of Connecticut residents in favor of GMO labeling, pre-vote tallies indicating that a bi-partisan majority of legislators were in favor of the bill, … Continue reading →
• Dr. Russell Blaylock on chemtrails
  4th May 2012 | By Dr. Russell Blaylock | Submitted By Dr. Betty Martini | via Natural Cures.com Chemtrails, Nanoaluminum And Neurodegenerative And Neurodevelopmental Effects The internet is littered with stories of “chemtrails” and geoengineering to combat “globa ...

Mish's Global Economic Trends

• Cash Cow Liquidity Comparison: Where's the Cas ...
  In light of  renewed banter about corporations being flush with cash following Apple's stellar earnings, I thought it would be instructive to take a look at the top 50 companies by market cap in the following ways: Debt and liabilities vs. cash Debt and liabilities vs. cash plus sho ...
• Whale of a Story: JPMorgan Loses $2 Billion on ...
  In a special conference call this evening Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan disclosed a "trading loss" of at least $2 billion from a failed hedging strategy. The strategy "morphed over time" and it was "ineffective, poorly monitored, poorly constructed and all of that," said Dimon. Last mon ...
• LPS Home Price Index (HPI) Shows National Home ...
  The latest LPS HPI Release suggests home prices are flattening out if not bottoming. Data is from February. Highlights Nationally, February seasonally-adjusted prices rose 0.2%, the first such increase since March 2010 The average US home price in February was $195K, on par with lev ...
• Hard Times for Bookies: UK Bookmakers Suspend ...
  Hard times for bookies: NewsMax reports UK Bookmakers Suspend Betting on a Greek Euro Exit Want a flutter on Greece leaving the eurozone? It may already be too late. A surge in bets has forced Britain's biggest bookmakers William Hill Plc and Ladbrokes Plc to suspend betting on the odds of ...
• Marc Faber: "Bureaucrats in Brussels make US g ...
  The quote of the day goes to Marc Faber, publisher of the Gloom, Boom & Doom report. Faber says "I do not have a high opinion of the U.S. government, but the bureaucrats in Brussels make the government in the U.S. look like an organization consisting of geniuses." Marc Faber spoke with ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
  The Road to Revolution What is a Revolution? Is it desirable? How do we get there? Far from the idea of usurping power – whether violently or peacefully – or promoting a single politician to a position of power with the hope of “revolutionizing” society, a true revolution ...
• The “Worst Recovery in History?”
  Where to Blame the Crack-up in Jobs Growth? Last week, Edward Lazear wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal with the uplifting title “The Worst Economic Recovery in History.”  Lazear noted that many people have referred to our latest recession as the worst recession since the Great Depression ...
• Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
  Black Power: From Harlem to Haiti and Hanoi What is Black Power? When, where, how, and why did it emerge? Taking a look at the Civil Rights movement in the broader context of a Black Liberation Movement, we must examine the concept of Black Power, and look to the revolutionary philosophers of ac ...
• The EyeOpener- A Brief History of Israeli Spyi ...
  The knowledge that Israeli-connected companies and intelligence agents have been involved in detailed and elaborate spying operations in the US is of course nothing new. The phenomenon has been painstakingly documented over the years by numerous journalists and sources. Indeed, the documented ca ...
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- April 10 ...
  BFP Nightly Quote “Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.” – Heinrich Heine International Newsworthy US: Warship in Waters Near Iran Only ‘Routine’ Iran Busts Israeli Terror Group Iran Offers Possible Nuclear Compromise Iran Cuts Oil Ex ...

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

• 1,000 MT on the KPI Bridge Oil Composite Would ...
  The KPI Bridge Oil Composite declined over 3% this week as bunker prices reduced dramatically after several days of declines in the crude markets.  With US Oil inventories at 22 [...]
• Total: “Top Kill” at Elgin Could Happen Today
  PARIS (Dow Jones)–Total SA (TOT) Friday said it has everything ready to “kill” a leaking gas well in the North Sea. “We could carry out the operation as early as today [...]
• APM Terminals Plans Major Black Sea Investment ...
  COPENHAGEN (Dow Jones)–The port-operating arm of Danish industrial conglomerate A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S (MAERSK-B.KO), APM Terminals, will invest over $100 million to ramp up capacity in the Georgian port of Poti over the next [...]
• Vessel Expenses Outweigh 42% Revenue Growth at ...
  (Dow Jones) Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services lowered its rating outlook on Navios Maritime Acquisition Corp. (NNA) to negative from stable, citing difficult trading conditions in the product tanker shipping industry. Dry-bulk [...]
• Losses Continue at Chilean Shipping Company CSAV
  SANTIAGO -(Dow Jones)- Chilean shipper Compania Sudamericana de Vapores SA‘s (VAPORES.SN) first-quarter loss widened to $205 million compared with a loss of $186 million a year earlier, the company said in [...]

Press TV

• Russia slams twin bombings in Syria
  Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has condemned the recent twin bombings in Syria, accusing certain foreign powers of encouraging the ongoing violence, Press TV reports.
• Americans gloomy on economy: Poll
  A new US poll indicates a rising pessimism about the nation’s economy among Americans, with nearly two-thirds rejecting President Barack Obama’s handling of gas prices in recent months.
• Egyptian candidates call Israel 'enemy'
  Egypt’s hopeful presidential candidates have strongly criticized Israel in a television debate, calling Israel as an enemy to the Egyptian nation.
• UK police join nationwide strike
  More than 30,000 off-duty police officers in London have joined a massive nationwide strike staged by British public sector workers against the government’s changes to pays and pensions.
• China floods kill dozens, hurt scores
  At least 24 people have been killed and 40 others injured after torrential rains struck the Minxian county in China's northwestern Gansu province.

SciDev.net

• Africa's hidden scourge needs an integrated ap ...
  Buruli ulcer could spread as agriculture intensifies in Africa, making prevention research vital, says agro-eco-health expert Rousseau Djouaka.
• Why it was right to publish research findings ...
  An editorial in the journal Nature explains the reasons for publishing the full results of a controversial paper about a modified bird flu virus
• Egypt's Zewail science city hit by universitie ...
  Ahead of its September opening, Egypt's high-profile science and technology city is mired in a dispute over who owns the site's buildings.
• Millennium villages project 'a success'
  A project to help African countries achieve the MDGs is proving a success says a study, although experts question its methods.
• Brazil to create network on neglected diseases
  Brazil’s Ministry of Health announces USS10 million boost for neglected disease research.

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

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

Nick Turse

• Indian laborers shots slogans during a rally t ...
  Indian laborers shots slogans during a rally to mark May Day in Ahmadabad, India, Tuesday, May 1, 2012. Placards in Gujarati read, ” strictly enforce all labor laws in the state”, bottom left and ” Pay Rupees 500 as monthly allowance to workers of the non-organized sector”, bottom right. (Ajit ...
• The UNIVAC at Lawrence Livermore National Labo ...
  The UNIVAC at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory had a large console with a series of switches that could be set to address each of the machine’s 1,000 words of memory. Once set, the contents of that memory location would be displayed on the console’s oscilloscope. An electric typewriter co ...
• U.S. Military Taught Officers: Use 'Hiroshima' ...
  U.S. Military Taught Officers: Use 'Hiroshima' Tactics for 'Total War' on Islam | Danger Room |...
• "As I survey my life, which is coming near its ...
  “As I survey my life, which is coming near its end, I want to set down a few thoughts that...
• IBM tape drive used for outputting data in the ...
  IBM tape drive used for outputting data in the computer center at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. 1966. Source: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory/Flickr