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Wednesday, May 2, 2012

2 May - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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IPS - Inter Press Services

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

The Daily Galaxy

  • Today's Hot Tech News Video from IDG--Top Righ ...
    Today's hot tech news from IDG News Service (publishers of PC World, MacWorld, and Computerworld). 'The Daily Galaxy' content on the discoveries, people and events changing our planet and our knowledge of the Universe is brought to you daily by...
  • Is the Age of Silicon Computing Coming to an E ...
    Traditional computing, with its ever more microscopic circuitry etched in silicon, will soon reach a final barrier: Moore's law, which dictates that the amount of computing power you can squeeze into the same space will double every 18 months, is...
  • EcoAlert: Satellite Images Reveal an Ancient N ...
    Satellite images have revealed that a network of ancient rivers once flowed through the sands of the Arabian Desert, leading scientists to believe that the region experienced wetter periods in the past. The images are the starting point for a...
  • Spectacular Galaxy Site of Massive Black Hole ...
    An extraordinary outburst from a black hole -- where its X-ray output increased at least 3,000 times -- has been seen with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory in the galaxy M83. Chandra observed what is called a ULX, or ultraluminous X-ray...
  • Presence of Life may be Required to Maintain H ...
    Researchers from the Australian National University Planetary Science Institute have discovered that rocky, Earth-like planets are probably more abundant than stars. The institute is a joint venture of the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics and the Research School of...

Natural News

  • Study indicates that what an individual eats, ...
    "The one that takes medicine and neglects diet, wastes the time of their doctor" - Ancient Chinese Proverb. In 1974, Zhou Enlai (DZO En-Lay) was the first Premier of the People's Republic of China, under Chairman Mao. When he was diagnosed with bladder cancer that year...
  • Nosodes: The Homeopathic Alternative to Vaccin ...
    Vaccination has become a highly controversial subject, those of us who challenge the concept are treated as if we are against apple pie and motherhood. I consider conventional vaccines to be extremely risky. Many veterinarians agree that vaccination is one of the...
  • Buffalo, NY, among the first cities to allow u ...
    You won't see cornrows stretching into the horizon or amber waves of grain as far as the eye can see, but there's a growing phenomenon in urban America - agriculture is "growing" in our big cities, and as a result, lawmakers and policy chiefs are taking notice. And...
  • 5 huge health benefits of sweet potatoes
    Sweet potatoes, also commonly labeled as yams, are an excellent and inexpensive staple to have on hand. These deep orange-fleshed nutritional powerhouses add several important components to the diet. Their health and weight management benefits far exceed the nutritional...
  • Flavonoids from blueberries and other fruits d ...
    Nearly one in ten people in the US have been diagnosed with diabetes and one in three are pre-diabetic, a strong indicator they will progress to full-blown diabetes in the near future without dietary intervention. Experts indicate that by the year 2050, one half of all...

Threat Level

  • Google’s ‘Engineer Doe’ Known for Wi-Fi Hackin ...
    The author of NetStumbler, a program credited with bringing war-driving to the masses was reportedly Google's Engineer Doe, the author of the company's controversial Street View Wi-Fi logging program.
  • Congress Should Grill the FCC Over Redacted Go ...
    It turns out that Google's "rogue engineer" excuse for its capture of WiFi data by Street View vehicles wasn’t entirely true. This is yet more bad news for a company whose business model depends on consumers trusting that their personal information will be handled properly. While Google of cours ...
  • Equipment Maker Caught Installing Backdoor Vow ...
    After ignoring a serious security vulnerability in its product for a year, a Canadian company that makes equipment and software for critical industrial control systems announced quietly on Friday that it would eliminate a backdoor login account in its flagship operating system, following public ...
  • British ISPs Ordered to Block The Pirate Bay
    United Kingdom internet service providers must block The Pirate Bay, that nation's High Court said Monday.
  • Justice Department Clears Google in Wi-Fi Snif ...
    The Justice Department has cleared Google of wiretapping violations in connection to the company secretly intercepting Americans' data on unencrypted Wi-Fi routers for two years ending in 2010, Google said. The development means that at least three government agencies -- the FCC, Federal Trade C ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Growing Dissent in Israel Poses Challenge for ...
    "We will not have an inch of difference," Mitt Romney declared in January, "between ourselves and our ally Israel." While that unprecedented pandering may have helped Romney slightly narrow the massive Democratic edge among Jewish voters, the cost of his blank check to his good friend Benjamin ...
  • Republicans Wouldn't, Couldn't, Shouldn't Get ...
    Here are two helpful reminders for apoplectic conservatives. Until Barack Obama shows up on a U.S. aircraft carrier in a flight suit and an over-sized cod piece, no GOP loyalist can criticize him for boasting about the operation that killed Osama Bin Laden. And no Republican can claim that "o ...
  • Romney Needs Big Shovel to Bury Bin Laden, Ira ...
    Echoing Teddy Roosevelt's famous line, Vice President Joe Biden used a major address on foreign policy Thursday to "promise you the President has a big stick." That provides a sharp contrast to the big shovel Republican nominee Mitt Romney will need to bury the embarrassing flip-flops in his fo ...
  • The Coming Right-Wing Clash over the "Half Tha ...
    "We can expect lawmakers to pontificate about fairness and take a few election-year roll calls, but don't expect any serious efforts to be made in addressing this important issue," Tony Perkins, the group's president, wrote to supporters. "That is why we need your help." The Ea ...
  • Romney's "Vision" Blind to Economic History
    On Tuesday night, the GOP's presumptive presidential nominee Mitt Romney threw down the gauntlet. Declaring the election is "still about the economy - and we're not stupid," Romney warned that "President Obama and I have very different visions." After claiming that "government is at the center ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • No Work, No Shopping, Occupy Everywhere: May D ...
    with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad May 1, 2012 May 1, 2012 by democracynow DemocracyNow.org – As Occupy Wall Street plans nationwide protests marking International Workers Day, or May Day, we discuss the movement with Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, Chris Hedges; Amin Husai ...
  • Why the GOP's Really Afraid of a "Cool" Obama
    Lately Obama has been raising the ante, asking which candidate would you like to share a song with, and the GOP considers this to be some kind of dirty trick.
  • He-Men and Virginity Pledges? Obama Administra ...
    The administration has succumbed to the political pressure of social conservatives, allowing ideology to prevail over the health and well-being of the nation's youth.
  • My Information Diet: Practical Website Capture
    On Tumblr last night, someone asked me the following question: you always find incredibly interesting info to do writing about. how do you find this stuff And I gave it an answer, but on reflection the answer seems too brief and shallow to describe how I do this thing.  (And it also led to ...
  • Ayn Rand or Jesus Christ? Conservatives Can't ...
    What makes American "a shining city on the hill?" Hint: it's not the streets paved with rich peoples' gold.

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Connect the Dots on May 5
      Coming up on May 5 is a global day of action to connect the dots between extreme weather and global warming. You should get involved! Here’s more info from a post on sister site CleanTechnica: May 5: Connect the Dots Between Extreme Weather & [...]
  • Scientists Discover Nighttime Warming Undernea ...
      A new study has found that land surface temperatures underneath and around large wind farms in west-central Texas have increased as a result of the introduction of the wind farms, especially at nighttime. “This study indicates that land surface temperatures have warmed in the vicin ...
  • Earth Day Giveaway Winners
      If you participated in our Earth Day giveaway last week, perhaps you’ve been eagerly awaiting the results. The news is: all participants get the book, and Sheila Korman wins the grand prize of the Energy Saving Basket. Congratulations! To redeem your prizes, email: imarketing (at) ...
  • Japan to Increase Green Energy by 13 Percent
      The Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said last week that it hopes to increase its country’s renewable energy capacity by approximately 13 percent through the year ending March 2013. It intends to do so by introducing a price incentive program for generators this Jul ...
  • Lifting the Veil
      Holy Terror Farm is a paradise of sorts on the banks of Terror Creek in the Western Colorado Rockies. Bushels of fresh fruits and vegetables of every sort, species, and color sprout from this soil every season (yes, even winter!). And all the water that irrigates the orchard, garden, a ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • You are all suspects now. What are you going t ...
    WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT ??? “Take away the videogame technology of killing - America's contribution to modernity - and the behaviour is traditional. Immersed in comic-book righteousness, poorly or brutally trained, frequ ...
  • SUPERPOWERS - Choice Reader Comment
    Editor's Note: "Lori High Priestess" suggested this video created by "The Dream" in her Reader's Comment to an article we published, "Lies Killed The Colonel." Both, LHP and The Dream are both long-time correspondents with Axis of Logic and we thank them both. Lori wrote the following commen ...
  • ILO report: Worldwide unemployment over 200 mi ...
    1 May 2012 The International Labor Organization, in its annual report on global labor conditions issued Monday, forecast that more than 200 million workers will be unemployed in 2012. The United Nations agency estimated that 50 million jobs had been wiped out since the 2008 financial crisis, ...
  • It's May Day: Around the world in pictures - F ...
    Today is not just a day of celebration. It's clearly a day of protest - for a variety of reasons, all of which boil down to the objections of the people to the huge gap between rich and poor....
  • May Day - Workers & Labor
    Editorial comment: "On May 1, 1886, Chicago unionists, reformers, socialists, anarchists, and ordinary workers combined to make the city the center of the national movement for an eight-hour day. ... Inspired by the American movement for a shorter workday, socialists and unionists around the wor ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    By BG & YD Shorter @ScottBrownMA: Obamacare protections for me, but not for thee! The Derek Zoolander of the US Senate who was elected to "Stop ObamaCare!!!1@!!! is all about keeping his 23-year-old daughter on his Congressional Health Plan, even though he has voted to overturn the law that affo ...
  • America's May Day Martyrs
    By @KYYellowDog They've been almost forgotten in their home nation, but 125 years after they died, they are still remembered and honored around the world. Dave Zirn at The Nation: Los Mártires de Chicago (an avenue in Santiago, Chile) ... was in fact named after Albert Parsons, August Spies, Ado ...
  • Shameless
    By @KYYellowDog I could not stomach watching this abomination, much less writing about it. Fortunately, David Atkins did  it for me. Proud American torturer Jose Rodriguez proudly admitted his crimes on 60 Minutes last night: SNIP See? The fact that there wasn't an attack proves that there ...
  • Well, that happened while I was in school...
    By @BGinKC Holy cow. I come home and get a little work done and when I go to Facebook and Twitter to waste some time before I get busy on the roundup, I see that everything in the world happened, and it all happened at once, apparently, and I wasn't available to write four different posts, so he ...
  • Songs to Fight the Plutocracy By on Internatio ...
    By @KYYellowDog Uploaded by fredcoonbanjo on Jan 1, 2008 On Peach Creek, in Logan County, WV in the year 1966 I collected this from "Aunt" Jenny Wilson. She was a wonderful 66 year old woman, at that time, fully of life and opinions about everything. Liberated long before it became words passed ...

Care 2

  • Egypts Forgotten Animals
    With all the political chaos going on in Egypt, its easy to forget the suffering of its animals. Animals in ancient Egypt were once valued and respected, and guardians would even share their grave with their beloved pet. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |  ...
  • Help Stop Idaho's War on Wolves ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
    When Congress stripped federal protections from wolves in the Northern Rockies one year ago, we warned that hundreds of wolves in the region would be killed. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Occupy May Day, As It Happens
    Organizers are expecting tens of thousands of middle-class workers to take to the streets for May Day, the international worker holiday on which the Occupy movement has pinned its hopes for a resurgence Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it! &nbs ...
  • Task force meets to look at Florida's 'Stand Y ...
    A task force created by Florida Gov. Rick Scott to examine the state's "Stand Your Ground" law in the wake of the Trayvon Martin shooting meets for the first time Tuesday. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Demand that Idaho Stop Extreme Wolf Killing Ef ...
    Since Idaho took over wolf management, state officials have been decimating wolves and introducing extreme anti-wolf policies that facilitate hunting, trapping and killing these important predators. In one year, more than 400 wolves were eliminated Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |  ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • All The President’s Hit Lists
    We learn via the WSJ that President Obama has a “hit” list. Shades of Tricky Dick! Really? This would be scary stuff if we didn’t have investigative reporters and the MSM to alert the public. Oh wait… Presidential “Hit List.” Just the phrase should send a chil ...
  • Jose Rodriguez, War Criminal?
    Just a quick note about the 60 Minutes interview with the former head of the CIA’s clandestine service, Mr. Jose Rodriguez. I have known Jose since the Contra Wars in 1986. He is not a friend, but we worked the same area and issues back in the day. I served on the Central American Task [...]
  • The Obama Osama Fumble
    For the non-sport inclined among us, “SPIKING” the ball does not mean you secretly pour vodka or gin into it. Nope. It is something that some football players, particularly players labeled “hotdogs,” do when they score a touchdown, heave the ball into the ground and then ...
  • The Man Who Shot…
    This may be the Obama campaign, all of it, repeated from now until November 6. A presidency fixed on a murder by gunshot. Ironic? Dubious? Does it means that Mitt Romney or George Bush or any Republican would not have launched a operation against Bin Laden? Is this the foreign policy campaign of ...
  • Breaking News: Obama’s EPA Centurion “Retires”
    Breaking News, April 30, 12:30 p.m.: EPA official Al Armendariz has resigned for talking publicly about his team’s “crucifixion” of oil and gas companies in “the oil-rich South and Southwest region.” Armendariz insisted his staff only attacked guilty companies. Howe ...

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

  • Chesapeake Energy reports first-quarter loss - ...
    Chesapeake Energy reports first-quarter loss State Journal In an attempt to discourage the practice of mountaintop removal coal mining and coal-fired electricity, environmental groups issued a report card on the financial institutions that back the process. The In an attempt to discourage the pr ...
  • Environmental groups rate banks based on suppo ...
    Environmental groups rate banks based on support of coal State Journal By Taylor Kuykendall, Reporter - bio | email In an attempt to discourage the practice of mountaintop removal coal mining and coal-fired electricity, environmental groups issued a report card on the financial institutions that ...
  • US Banks Risk Public Health and Climate by Fin ...
    US Banks Risk Public Health and Climate by Financing Coal eNews Park Forest Today Rainforest Action Network and the Sierra Club released the Coal Finance Report Card 2012, their third annual ranking of the largest financiers of mountaintop removal coal mining and coal-fired power plants. The rep ...
  • Kentucky ethics watchdog challenges conservati ...
    Kentucky ethics watchdog challenges conservative group's tax status Lexington Herald Leader Richard Beliles staged a sit-in at the governor's office during our time with him, to protest mountaintop removal mining. He does the Thursday sit-in shift every week as part of a larger group of ...
  • Mine activist's residence burglarized - Beckle ...
    Mine activist's residence burglarized Beckley Register-Herald Gibson has held fast to his small plot of ancestral land at the top of Kayford Mountain, despite the fact that it is now surrounded by mountaintop removal mines. In an effort to raise awareness, Gibson hosts tours and events for j ...

Memeorandum

  • "Occupy" Movement Was Infiltrated By FBI Infor ...
    Wbastone / The Smoking Gun: “Occupy” Movement Was Infiltrated By FBI Informant In Cleveland Bridge Bombing Probe  —  Buster  —  The federal probe that resulted last night in the arrest of five purported anarchists for allegedly plotting to bomb an Ohi ...
  • Cuba May Be the Most Feminist Country in Latin ...
    Luisita Lopez Torregrosa / IHT Rendezvous: Cuba May Be the Most Feminist Country in Latin America  —  NEW YORK — Cuba may just be the most feminist country in Latin America.  —  It ranks No. 3 in the world when it comes to the political participation of wom ...
  • A beating at Church and Brambleton (Michelle W ...
    Michelle Washington / HamptonRoads.com: A beating at Church and Brambleton  —  The Virginian-Pilot  —  Wave after wave of young men surged forward to take turns punching and kicking their victim.  —  The victim's friend, a young woman, tried to pu ...
  • Warfare or Courtship in 2012? - What sort of t ...
    David Brooks / New York Times: Warfare or Courtship in 2012?  —  What sort of thing is a presidential campaign?  —  Maybe a campaign is like a courtship.  A candidate's job is to woo the electorate, to win the people's affection with charm, familiarity and c ...
  • Breeze Beretta Johnston: Levi Johnston & Sunny ...
    Katy Hall / The Huffington Post: Breeze Beretta Johnston: Levi Johnston & Sunny Oglesby Announce Baby Name … REACT:  —  FOLLOW:  —  Levi Johnston, Video, Breeze Baretta Johnston, Breeze Beretta Johnston, Levi Johnston Daughter, Photo Galleries, Sunny O ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • China’s big spend on green power
    As it aims to reduce fossil-fuel use, the country is investing heavily in wind and solar energy. Gansu province, once known for dirty mines and oil wells, is being revitalised, reports Jonathan Watts.The remote, wind-blasted desert of north-western Gansu could be the most unloved, environmentall ...
  • America’s new green financier
    Chinese investment in US clean energy is still small, but its growth could benefit both business and politics, write Linden J Ellis, Jennifer Turner and Devin Kleinfield-Hayes.The seven bilateral clean-energy agreements signed by Hu Jintao and Barack Obama in the autumn of 2009 focused on renewa ...
  • Qingdao’s new heroine
    An entertainment reporter in the Chinese coastal city has leapt to national fame after probing officials over a murky tree-planting programme. Chen Qian’er met her.Chinese civil society has a new golden girl. Pan Qi, 27, has made a name for herself in her home city of Qingdao – and b ...
  • Japan’s eco renewal
    From rolling blackouts to radioactive soil, post-tsunami reconstruction faces many challenges. But the path to recovery is looking distinctly green, Warren Karlenzig found on a tour of the stricken area.I’ve returned from a sobering United Nations-led tour of six tsunami-damaged communitie ...
  • Long journey for China's green cars?
    Strong government support has allowed electric vehicles to win a limited share of the Chinese auto market, but its too early to tell if favourable policy can build a thriving industry. Han Ziyu reports.In early March, the Chinese government unveiled a summary of its programme to promot ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Now It’s Clear: “Pro-Life” Means “Pro-Im ...
    Written by Lynn Paltrow & Emma S. Ketteringham for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. Last week, the Alabama Supreme Court agreed to consider an amicus (friend of the court) brief filed by the ...
  • Titanic Tax Shirking by Those in First Class
    President Obama’s 2011 income tax documents showed on Friday that he paid a significantly higher rate than the significantly richer Mitt Romney, highlighting the titanic level of tax shirking committed by far too many 1 percenters. President Obama paid 20.5 percent on earnings of $789,674. ...
  • Minister sells out Black community for race-ba ...
    The National Organization for Marriage has been steadily attempting to blunt the charges that it engaged in attempts to drive a wedge between the black and gay communities on the subject of marriage equality. Ever since confidential documents came out detailing NOM’s strategy to play th ...
  • KONY 2012, Invisible Children, and the Religio ...
    Since the eruption of Invisible Children’s record-breaking KONY 2012 viral video in early March, a considerable body of evidence has emerged which ties the nonprofit, and its leadership, to the American Protestant evangelical right. This is a summary of that evidence – which includes ...
  • From Hate to Love: Why “40 Days of Praye ...
    Written by Carole Joffe for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. Below is a an interview with Reverend Rebecca Turner of Faith Aloud, conducted by Carole Joffe. Faith Aloud is a pro-choice religious ...

Threat Level

  • Google’s ‘Engineer Doe’ Known for Wi-Fi Hackin ...
    The author of NetStumbler, a program credited with bringing war-driving to the masses was reportedly Google's Engineer Doe, the author of the company's controversial Street View Wi-Fi logging program.
  • Congress Should Grill the FCC Over Redacted Go ...
    It turns out that Google's "rogue engineer" excuse for its capture of WiFi data by Street View vehicles wasn’t entirely true. This is yet more bad news for a company whose business model depends on consumers trusting that their personal information will be handled properly. While Google of cours ...
  • Equipment Maker Caught Installing Backdoor Vow ...
    After ignoring a serious security vulnerability in its product for a year, a Canadian company that makes equipment and software for critical industrial control systems announced quietly on Friday that it would eliminate a backdoor login account in its flagship operating system, following public ...
  • British ISPs Ordered to Block The Pirate Bay
    United Kingdom internet service providers must block The Pirate Bay, that nation's High Court said Monday.
  • Justice Department Clears Google in Wi-Fi Snif ...
    The Justice Department has cleared Google of wiretapping violations in connection to the company secretly intercepting Americans' data on unencrypted Wi-Fi routers for two years ending in 2010, Google said. The development means that at least three government agencies -- the FCC, Federal Trade C ...

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • 37 cases of Salmonella Paratyhpi B Linked to S ...
    As of May 1, Buncombe County Department of Health reports 37 cases of Salmonella Paratyhpi B infection and continues to test and investigate people coming forward with symptoms of salmonella infection, some who ate tempeh and others who did not eat tempeh. The case interviews indicate that the d ...
  • Campylobacter, Cryptosporidium AND E. coli O15 ...
    Lynne Terry (a.k.a., the raw milk lady) reports today that Oregon health officials suspect two more illnesses are part of a raw milk outbreak traced nearly three weeks ago to a farm near Wilsonville. William Keene, senior epidemiologist with Oregon Public Health, said the two adults had both co ...
  • Asheville's Smiling Hara unpasteurized soybean ...
    The recall was prompted after samples during a routine inspection tested positive for Salmonella. The North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services announced today the voluntary recall of the 12-ounce packages of Smiling Hara unpasteurized soybean tempeh.  The company says ...
  • Connecticut, Maryland, Rhode Island, Texas, an ...
    A total of 7 “clusters” at restaurants (unnamed) and grocery stores (unnamed) have been identified by the CDC linked to a Salmonella Bareilly and Salmonella Nchanga outbreak tainded tuna.   In each cluster, at least one ill person reported eating sushi purchased at a restau ...
  • Is a modern day "Typhoid Mary" the link to a N ...
    As many as twenty-nine cases of Salmonella paratyphi B have been identified in North and South Carolina, Tennessee and New York since February 28th according to the North Carolina Buncombe County Department of Health. According to the CDC, humans are one of the only known reservoir sources of S ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Official: 'All new' Toyota RAV4 EV coming to E ...
    There could not be a more bland teaser for the upcoming all-electric "all new" Toyota RAV4 EV than the one Toyota just released: silver sheetmetal with a badge that simply reads "Electric." To see the rest of the vehicle, we will have to wait until the Electric Vehicle Symposium (EVS) gets st ...
  • Report: Toyota looking for high-volume Prius a ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Plants/Manufacturing, Toyota Rumors that Toyota would some day build the Prius in the U.S. have bounced around for years, with a location in Mississippi often being cited as the most likely candidate. After that plan was officially scrapped in 2008, a new version of the s ...
  • Beijing: Toyota Dear Qin hatch, sedan foreshad ...
    Filed under: Concept Cars, Budget, Sedan, Hatchback, Toyota, Beijing Motor Show, Design/Style Details on the pair of Dear Qin concepts that Toyota unveiled at the Beijing Motor Show this week are sparse, but they do hint at something interesting coming to every market where the Japanese autom ...
  • Beijing: BMW i8 Spyder takes to the stage bear ...
    Filed under: Concept Cars, Convertible, Hybrid, Performance, BMW, Beijing Motor Show, Design/Style, Electric BMW has created the BMW i sub-brand for its upcoming production plug-in models, which currently include three concepts: the i3, i8 and the i8 Spyder. After keeping that third model awa ...
  • Official: Diesel sales jump, we ask "how high" ...
    Filed under: Car Buying, Diesel It may come as a shock, but diesel cars are doing well outside of their traditional European home. The just-released Mazda CX-5 shows that diesels are selling beyond expectations in Japan, but the real story is that we might be seeing the start of a golden era ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Part 2: David Harvey on Rebel Cities, Occupy W ...
    In part two of our interview with social theorist David Harvey, he notes the "urban center" of Occupy Wall Street has been key to its success. "We have a global plutocracy now which essentially rules the world," Harvey says. "The only way you can challenge that power is ...
  • New Story and Search Features for Democracy No ...
    document.write(' '); We’ve made some changes to the website to enhance story videos, provide easy access to story transcripts and suggest Democracy Now! guests that might match your search terms. Check out these new features and let us know what you think. Use this form to submi ...
  • The NSA Is Watching You
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan Three targeted Americans: A career government intelligence official, a filmmaker and a hacker. None of these U.S. citizens was charged with a crime, but they have been tracked, surveilled, detained—sometimes at gunpoint—and interrogated, with no access to a ...
  • Amy Goodman Speaks at NYC Green Festival Main ...
    Award-winning investigative journalist Amy Goodman will speak on Sunday, April 22 at 2pm on the Green Festival Main Stage at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, 655 West 34th Street, in New York City. The Huffington Post will be streaming events on the main stage all weekend, so tune in ...
  • Watch Live, Friday, 7 EST: Amy Goodman Moderat ...
    Tune in tonight to see Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman as she moderates a panel that kicks off the Foundry Theatre’s “This Is How We Do It: A Festival of Dialogues About Another World.” She will speak with activist and philosopher Grace Lee Boggs , who says, “we have the power within us to c ...

Suzie-Q

  • Obama’s Speech In Afghanistan – May 1, 2 ...
    The New York Times Published: May 1, 2012 Good evening from Bagram Air Base. This outpost is more than seven thousand miles from home, but for over a decade it has been close to our hearts. Because here, in Afghanistan, more than half a million of our sons and daughters have sacrificed to protec ...
  • How ‘Obamacare’ Is Saving Seniors Billions On Meds
    TPM Sahil Kapur May 1, 2012, 6:16 AM In the first two years after “Obamacare” was signed, Medicare reforms in the law saved seniors a total of $3.4 billion in prescription drug costs by bridging a coverage gap, according to official figures.Over 220,000 beneficiaries have saved an average of $83 ...
  • Swiss Bank Account (VIDEO)
    Published on May 1, 2012 by BarackObamadotcom Are you in? https://my.barackobama.com/swissbankad “Swiss Bank Account” highlights Mitt Romney’s belief that a strong economy is built on outsourcing, loopholes and risky financial deals. As a corporate CEO, he shipped American jobs ...
  • Has Team Romney Forgotten That The Bush Years ...
    TheWashingtonPost Posted by Ezra Klein at 09:09 AM ET, 05/01/2012 There’s not much in politics that allows me to say, “I’m old enough to remember when.” But here’s one: I’m old enough to remember when George W. Bush was president. It was, after all, only four short years ago. And it didn’t go so ...
  • Forward (VIDEO)
    The video outlines the challenges America faced as President Obama took office at the height of the worst recession in almost a century and details the progress that has been made reclaiming the security of the middle class and building an economy that’s meant to last, where hard work pays ...

Solari

  • While in Portugal….
    By Catherine Austin Fitts While I was in Portugal, I received the following e-mail from my assistant in Hickory Valley: Bolivar Energy Authority stopped by regarding Smart meter , said that he was going to put the smart meter on or cut off the electricity. I tried to get him [...]
  • Solari Report Resources 101
    “Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free.  -  Robert A. Heinlein By Catherine Austin Fitts The Solari Report offers a rich archive of resources. After speaking with subscrib ...
  • Coal’s Future Is Rocky at Best
    By Matthew Philips [click on the image for a larger version] Continue reading the article . . .
  • Transcript of Catherine’s 4.19.12 Interv ...
    A transcript of Catherine’s April 19, 2012 interview with Jim Norman on the Solari Report is available to Subscribers! From the transcript: Catherine: What we’re saying is there is certainly a profound change going on, both in terms of the relationship between the oil and gas prices, and i ...
  • Ford Pension Offers Lump Sums
    By Fred Meier Ford announced today that it would offer a lump-sum payment to its 90,000 salaried retirees as well as U.S. salaried former employees due pensions to get them to voluntarily give up all rights to monthly payments. The plan does not affect union employees, whose pension obligations ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Memory Failure at the Pentagon, one that has c ...
    Summary:  We are like children, believing that closing our eyes tightly disappears the expense, casualties, and blowback from our war in Afghanistan. All that remains is the exhalation of our killing, our pride in our drones and special ops warriors. Unfortunately this does not as well as we hop ...
  • About America’s economic recovery: the ...
    Summary:  The news media provide a fire hose-like stream of information and analysis about the US economy.  Most of it consists of the consensus viewpoint repeated endlessly.  A consensus opinion suitably optimistic for politicians in Washington and bankers in New York.  Here we look behind the ...
  • Jared Bernstein examines the economic impact o ...
    Summary:  Three of the most significant changes in America’s social and economic structure since the Reagan Revolution in 1980 are slowing GDP growth, the rising federal deficits and the great increase of inequality in wealth and income.  Increasing taxes on the wealth might help reverse t ...
  • What does the future hold for the US Army &#82 ...
    Summary:  Today we see the official US Army’s view of the future, and a response by Douglas Macgregor (Colonel, US Army, retired).  Read and compare.  Much depends on whose view is more accurate. Contents The official view of the US Army’s future Doug Macgregor’s response About ...
  • We’re drifting towards tyranny, again. ...
    Summary:  The early days were perilous for the Republic. The founders flirted with military coup and tyranny.  Here Jefferson tells about one such moment of weakness.  Today we’re experiencing another.  But we can, as they did in 1776 and 1781, prevent America from into tyranny. Please rea ...

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

  • Targeted Killings and Unanswered Questions
    “As soon as they tell me it is limited, it means they do not care whether you achieve a result or not. As soon as they tell me ‘surgical,’ I head for the bunker.” General Colin Powell, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, September 1992. “It’s this surgical precision—th ...
  • The Third (Iranian) Way
    Most analysis of the Iranian nuclear program deals with two extreme scenarios: an Iranian breakout to nuclear weapons or a capitulation under international pressure to abandon the project completely. There is a third option: a threshold state that has the ability to assemble a nuclear weapon but ...
  • Chinese Navy Joins Carrier Club; Still Junior ...
    The Chinese People's Liberation Army-Navy (PLAN) continues to prepare its new aircraft carrier (SHI LANG) for operations and train a nascent cadre of naval aviators to launch and return to the deck of a moving ship. Beyond developing the day-to-day tasks involved with driving a carrier and cond ...
  • Top of the Morning: Ntaganda on the March in D ...
    Top stories from DAWNS Digest. Warlord Bosco “The Terminator” Ntaganda Overruns Two DRC Towns Forces loyal to Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda, who is wanted by the ICC, have taken over two towns in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Thousands of people are reported to have fled the fighting. ...
  • The WTO as Catalyst of Democratization
    In a statistical analysis written up a few years ago in the journal Democratization, I found that countries belonging to the World Trade Organization (WTO) or its predecessor, the GATT, were more likely to attempt and sustain democratic government than ones that did not. By contrast, I found no ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Romney's Gay Episode
    Mitt Romney accomplished a rare political feat when he hired Richard Grenell to serve as his foreign policy spokesman: He managed to provoke politicos of all ideological stripes. Liberals were up in arms over Grenell'simpolitic tweets (more than 800 of which he has deleted) haranguing female po ...
  • Apparently, You Can't be Gay and Work for Romney
    Two weeks ago, the Romney campaign hired Richard Grenell—a long-time Republican and former staffer for the Bush White House—to act as a spokesperson on foreign policy and national security. Grenell received tough criticism from Democrats for a series of sexist tweets, but that wasn’t enough to ...
  • Virginia Is Still Obama Territory, For Now
    A new Public Policy Polling survey for Virginia shows President Obama in good shape ahead of his visit on Saturday. He has an approval rating of 50 percent with 46 percent of voters disapproving of him, and in a head-to-head matchup with Mitt Romney, he leads 51 percent to Romney’s 43 percent. ...
  • Romney Accuses Obama of Being Romney
    Most independent experts agree that the various Republican budget plans—from Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney, and others—would have a disasterous effect on lower-income Americans. By slashing programs like Medicaid and food stamps, and cutting taxes on the richest Americans, they would precipitate a mas ...
  • Hey, Kids, Let's Invite Dan Savage To Our Conf ...
    Stop me if you've heard this one. Dan Savage walks into a high school journalists' conference, and talks like... well, like Dan Savage. He uses a word that is technically an obscenity—"bullshit"—but is, in today's crude culture, considered so mild that its use wouldn't even get a movie rated PG ...

Buzzflash

  • Ending Poverty Should Not be Tainted and Forgo ...
    JOHN HORTON FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The human being is a very complicated contraption and that they are not good or bad but are good and bad and the good comes out of the bad and the bad out of the good, and the devil take the hindmost -Robert Penn Warren, All the Kings Menread more
  • The GOP Knows It Can Only Win the White House ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Today, Talking Points Memo headlines a story "The Overlooked Voting Rights Suppression," and it is about efforts to keep former felons from voting. It's a testament to the short historical memory of Americans in a six-hour news cycle - and the lack of ...
  • Five Tax Fallacies Invented by the One Percent ...
    PAUL BUCHHEIT FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT We hear these claims often, even though they're entirely false. An analysis of the facts should make that clear.  (1) The Rich Pay Almost All the Taxes That's simply not true. The percentage of total taxes paid by the very rich (the top 1%) is approxim ...
  • On May Day, Only a Populist Movement Will Lead ...
    GREG RUGGIERO FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Revised introduction to Noam Chomsky's new book, "Occupy," which can be obtained directly from Truthout by clicking here. "People seem to know about May Day everywhere, except where it began, here in the United States of America," says Chomsky in a new pie ...
  • On Dangerous Right-Wing Partisans
    ANN DAVIDOW FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT We live in dangerous times, not just because the world is in a state of turmoil and threats to our way of life percolate just below a hard boil but because we aren't sure what will set things right or who the enemy is. It is frequently said that there isn't ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • This week’s Alchemist
    This week, The Alchemist takes another look at an old friend, aspirin, that most venerable of pharmaceuticals. He also sheds light on catalysts and a silicon version of the carbon allotrope graphene. In the physical arena, splitting the electron is on the cards and a DNA triple helix comes to th ...
  • How to read and interpret a science news story
    Scientist Emily Willingham blogs about science at Double X Science. BoingBoing just alerted me to the existence of her site and the fact that she has come up with a handy, six-step guide for reading and interpreting science news stories (it applies equally well to press releases). The six rules ...
  • A chunk of Deceived Wisdom
    My new book, I filed the first chunk of my new solo book – Deceived Wisdom – with my publisher today. Looking forward to purely positive feedback and a minimal of virtual red ink on the virtual manuscript…oh and did I already say, Deceived Wisdom is on Amazon (with a 10% discou ...
  • Thinking, shredding and gardening
    An odd mix of books on my desk for review right now and just one of them with a strong scientific angle: Imagine: How creativity works by Jonah Lehrer, The Haynes Fender Stratocaster Manual by Paul Palmer and A Year in the Garden by “Mr Digwell”. Lehrer’s Imagine discusses the ...
  • Classically scientific
    It’s a well known fact, mostly well known to chemists, that the composer Alexander Borodin was also a chemist. When not playing his part as one of the Hand of Five, Borodin did some not insubstantial work on aldehydes. He did his post-doc in Heidelberg with Emil Erlenmeyer (of eponymous fl ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Romney Surrenders to Religious Right, Forces O ...
    Today, Mitt Romney spokesman Richard Grenell, who is openly gay, resigned from his job on the Romney campaign. Grenell’s hiring less than two weeks ago provoked harsh criticism among Religious Right activists including the Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins, former FRC president ...
  • PBS Responds on Dow-Funded Series
    PBS ombud Michael Getler (4/27/12) agrees that the Dow Chemical Corporation's sponsorship of a PBS series violates PBS underwriting guidelines. PBS, unfortunately, stands by its show.read more
  • Consumer Advocates and Food Safety Inspectors ...
    Consumer advocacy group Food & Water Watch and the National Joint Council of Food Inspection Local Unions led a rally outside Democratic Congressional Candidate Christie Vilsack’s campaign headquarters today to demand that she stands up for food safety and oppose the U.S. Department of ...
  • CREW Calls for FCC to Revoke Mudoch's Broadcas ...
    Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Julius Genachowski asking the FCC to revoke the 27 Fox broadcast licenses News Corp. holds in the United States. Under U.S. law, broadcast frequencies may be used ...
  • U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Asked ...
    The Center for Biological Diversity today requested that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigate Royal Dutch Shell for potentially misleading statements about its readiness to drill in the Arctic Ocean for offshore oil. read more

Common Dreams-Views

  • How to Rebrand Occupy
    Arun Gupta By all measures the Occupy movement is a powerful brand. It has thousands of spin-offs such as occupy our homes, occupy money, occupy the hood, occupy gender equality and occupy the food system. It has powerful name recognition, ...
  • 'Shame on You': Why I Interrupted Obama Counte ...
    Medea Benjamin Counterterrorism adviser John Brennan spoke at the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington DC on April 30 to mark the one-year anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden. It was the first time a high level member ...
  • The Tinder-Box Society
    Robert Reich The Dow Jones Industrial Average hit 13,338 Tuesday, it’s highest since December, 2007. The S&P 500 added 16 points. Wall Street will remember May 1 as a great day. But most of these gains are going to the richest 10 ...
  • Further Reflections About John Brennan's Targe ...
    Jameel Jaffer The president's chief counterterrorism advisor delivered a speech yesterday at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. We issued a first reaction here. Here are some further thoughts:read more
  • The Big Banks’ Big Secret in Canada
    David MacDonald The CCPA today released my report: “The Big Banks Big Secret” which provides the first public estimates of the emergency funds taken by Canadian banks.  The report bases its estimates on publicly available d ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • Walmart, Water Wars, Stadiums: VOSD Reading List
    A roundup of what we've been reading recently.
  • Water wars?
    By DrZaeem Zia The people of Gilgit-Baltistan have always been unequivocalin defending their association with... read more
  • Green Blog: The Water Fight That Inspired &#39 ...
    A look at the history and the lingering impact of the water wars invoked in the1974 movie "Chinatown."
  • The Water Fight That Inspired 'Chinatown'
    A look at the history and the lingering impact of the water wars invoked in the1974 movie "Chinatown."
  • Pattaya Mail
    It seems to start earlier every year. Pattaya’s water wars, better known as Songkran, traditionally began in earnest on April 13, running non-stop until the final offensive on the area’s official “wan lai” day, April 19. But each year, the water guns seem to come out earlier.

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

  • Romney Feigns Ignorance Of A Popular Tax Propo ...
    In March, Vice President Joe Biden floated a tax proposal known as the global minimum tax while campaigning in Iowa. The proposal, a feature of President Obama’s budget aimed at companies that use offshore tax havens to reduce the amount they pay in income taxes, would force multinational ...
  • Amendment One Funded Mostly By Religious Right ...
    Jeremy Hooper points out that almost all of the top donors supporting North Carolina’s discriminatory Amendment One, which limits what relationships the state can recognize, are from radically conservative religiously-affiliated groups. It’s true that opponents of the measure have ra ...
  • Bad Headline Mars Good NY Times Story Debunkin ...
    Your not-so-impossible mission, should you choose to accept it, is to write a headline that better reflects the actual content of today’s NY Times article, which redebunks long-debunked disinformer Richard Lindzen. Headlines are important because research shows that most newspaper readers ...
  • Lindsey Graham Helps Win Permits For $10B Nucl ...
    For years, the SCANA Corporation and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) have enjoyed a mutually beneficial alliance. Graham backs the company’s nuclear power interests and the company provides him with campaign cash. The level of symbiosis between the two became especially evident in recent weeks. ...
  • Poll: Supreme Court Favorablity Reaches Lowest ...
    A poll taken after the Supreme Court’s highly partisan oral arguments in the Affordable Care Act case but before the Court heard arguments on Arizona’s harsh immigration law finds that public opinion of the Supreme Court has fallen to the lowest point in more than a quarter century: ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • A Few Things to Remember
    With regards to Iraq, the US-supported dictatorship of Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with 9-11, 2001. It did not possess WMDs. And democracy did not bust out all over and help usher in the "Arab Spring." It was a disaster, built on lies, and over a million people were killed and millions more ...
  • Hegemony ... it's the little things
    It's in this otherwise fine Toronto Star article about Vogue Magazine scrubbing their embarrassing gushing profile of Syrian mass-murderer Assad's wife:The 3,200-word article apparently proved so embarrassing to the magazine that it scrubbed it from its website, an almost unheard-of step for a ...
  • The Constitution of the United States of America
    Do you want to know what's really pathetic? Understand, Canada's Constitution and Charter of Rights and Freedoms is apparently a popular model for other countries when they write their constitutions. This is because it contains many positive freedoms. The United States Constitution, on the othe ...
  • Maybe They Should Try a Peaceful March Instead?
    So, Quebec student groups rioted last night. And, lo and nothing to behold, the Quebec government didn't immediately change its mind about tuition increases. Which just goes to show you that violence never works. It's been proven time and time again that getting permission for a rally followed ...
  • Big News! What a Feeling of Accomplishment!
    I cleaned up my kitchen after MONTHS of squalor. I cooked up some vegetables before they went bad. Then I cleaned up the mess from cooking right away!!!! That's how it can be when you don't have 5 things hanging over your head at once!

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Bizzare twist in Canadian hang-gliding death a ...
    A 27-year-old woman fell to her death while she was hang-gliding Saturday and the pilot she was doing a tandem with has been charged - with swallowing evidence. Making her first jump ever, Lenami Godinez fell 300 metres after becoming detached.
  • Over 2,000 march in May Day Parade in Toronto
    On May 1, many Torontorians took to the streets as part of a May Day protest. From ending war to the Occupy Movement citizens walked to bring awareness to issues that they felt strongly about.
  • May Day in Toronto: No bankers, borders, bosse ...
    Hundreds gathered at Nathan Phillips Square Tuesday to celebrate May Day and protest against capitalism, austerity measures being imposed by all levels of government and the so-called war on workers' rights and immigrants.
  • Toronto: Sick Kids Hospital wants you to 'Do T ...
    Being happy is one of the best parts of being a child. When a child is sick that happy smile can go away but this May at Toronto's Sick Kids Hospital the community is being asked to do the happy for sick kids.
  • Canadians show apathy to NAU assimilation pros ...
    On 7 December 2011, President Obama and Prime Minister Harper unveiled the the Beyond the Border (BTB) Action Plan and the Regulatory Cooperation Council (RCC) Action Plan. These two initiatives are part of an envisioned North American Union.

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

  • 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.
  • Troops to stay in Afghanistan past 2014?
    Prime Minister Harper has refused to rule out keeping Canadian special operations forces in Afghanistan past the scheduled 2014 end of the Canadian mission.
  • Former Air Force CF-18 Fleet Manager Opposed t ...
    “As an aerospace engineer and former manager of Canada’s fleet of CF-18s, when I see the term ‘development’ used in the F-35 procurement, I know the government is facing significant performance risks, headaches and much higher costs than anticipated,” said Colonel Paul Maillet (ret.)
  • Russia: Don’t leave Afghanistan!
    Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has criticized NATO's plan to withdraw from Afghanistan by 2014.

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • 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 [...]
  • Professional Photojournalist Files Suit After ...
    April 13, 2012 End The Lie By Madison Ruppert “If the police weren’t doing something wrong, why would they care if you filmed them?” -KTRN Professional photojournalist Philip Datz has had a long and tumultuous history with the Suffolk County Police Department and finally Datz h ...
  • Further Crackdown On Dissent As The Elite Prep ...
    April 13, 2012 Resistance Radio By Brit Dee As southern Europe erupts in protest at crippling austerity measures, imposed by corrupt puppet politicians at the behest of global financial loansharks such as the IMF, the Spanish authorities have announced plans to further criminalise and crush diss ...

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

  • Lebanon seizes 150 tons of Libyan arms en rout ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRussia Today youtube.com As the violence in Syria continues unabated, neighbouring Lebanon has seized a shipment of smuggled weapons, destined for Syrian rebels. The sea-bound cache apparently came from Libya, which is b ...
  • Now we are once again in recession how can we ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comBy Dark Politricks I have just watched the Andrew Marr show with his interview with David Cameron which covered an number of interesting matters such as the influence of lobbying and lobbyist especially his closeness bet ...
  • Right foot forward: Anti-EU drive speeds up
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRussia Todayyoutube.com The EU itself – clearly tiring of austerity – is calling for a new approach to resolving the Eurocrisis. The European Parliament President stressed the urgency, saying the collapse of ...
  • Counting shekels versus the feeding of lambs a ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comBy Michael FarrellSunday, April 29th, 2012 When it comes to the Vatican’s crackdown on women religious, I believe it’s time to declare that for the purpose of this struggle:we are all nuns if you can spell Ca ...
  • U.S. double-murder suspect found dead in hideout
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comUS law enforcement blew the roof off a mountain hideout in Washington state on Saturday and inside found the body of a man suspected of killing his wife and teenage daughter, officials said. Peter Keller, who had been mi ...

Dandelion Salad

  • No Work, No Shopping, Occupy Everywhere: May D ...
    with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad May 1, 2012 May 1, 2012 by democracynow DemocracyNow.org – As Occupy Wall Street plans nationwide protests marking International Workers Day, or May Day, we discuss the movement with Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, Chris Hedges; Amin Husai ...
  • Sam Gindin and Leo Panitch: May 1st and an Ind ...
    Dandelion Salad Apr 30, 2012 by TheRealNews Sam Gindin and Leo Panitch May 1st and an Independent Workers Movement see Noam Chomsky on May Day, 2009: Labor History and Anarchism (repost) + May Day Started Here Chris Hedges: People are caught in the vice of unregulated corporate capitalism – with ...
  • Noam Chomsky on May Day, 2009: Labor History a ...
    Dandelion Salad Posted previously. Updated below. with Noam Chomsky Chomskyan June 29, 2009 David Buccola (Buddhagem) interviews Noam Chomsky on May Day about labor history and anarchism. May 1st, 2009, at his MIT office, Cambridge, Mass. Recorded by David Buccola, Charngchi Way Edited by Charng ...
  • Chris Hedges: People are caught in the vice of ...
    with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad April 30, 2012 Apr 30, 2012 by RussiaToday America sees the’ looting’ of the US Treasury, and the money given to a Wall Street ‘criminal class’, journalist Chris Hedges told RT. He adds that ordinary people are caught in t ...
  • Partners Across The Globe: NATO Consolidates W ...
    by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO April 26, 2012 The military leaders of 50 nations, more than a quarter of those in the world, opened a two-day conference at NATO Headquarters in Brussels on April 25 to discuss, as the Pentagon’s website described it, “the present and fut ...

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

  • Signals of Natural Selection Found in Recent H ...
    Humans may seem immune to the forces of natural selection, but a new study finds evolution was shaping our species as recently as the 19th century.
  • Open Space: Wired’s New Portal to the Commerci ...
    Wired Science is launching Open Space, a new portal to the world of commercial and private space ventures. The future of space travel, exploration and exploitation looks very different from the past. The new space race has a far more diverse list of entrants, with the number of new commercial co ...
  • Interactive Timeline of SpaceX’s Successes, Fa ...
    SpaceX's upcoming launch of the Dragon spacecraft to dock with the International Space Station is finally happening. Probably. Originally, SpaceX thought this flight could take place in 2010, but that was later changed to the summer of 2011 and then the fall and winter. This year alone the laun ...
  • Space Law: Is Asteroid Mining Legal?
    With all the hype around asteroid mining, the technology required to do it and the potential riches that would follow, one aspect of such a venture hasn't received a close look: Is mining an asteroid and selling the ore legal? Space lawyers Berin Szoka and James Dunstan consider the strange and ...
  • Q&A: Legal Scholar on Historic SpaceX Launch
    This week, Wired interviews experts in the spaceflight community to discuss the ways this historic launch will impact NASA and mankind's presence in space. Is it a giant leap, or just a baby step? Up today is Henry Hertzfeld, a scholar of economic, legal, and policy issues surrounding spacefligh ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • IDF closes probe into Israeli air strike that ...
    Military prosecution says will take no legal steps against those responsible for deaths of Samouni family, killed in their home during Operation Cast Lead. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA w ...
  • Israeli left wing activists held indoors by po ...
    Members of the left wing organization Zochrot were attempting to distribute flyers containing the names of Palestinian villages that were evacuated or destroyed in 1948, when they were held indoors... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • East Jerusalem man, denied residency by Israel ...
    Amir Salima, 21, from the Old City of Jerusalem, has no legal status - not in Israel, not in the Palestinian Authority and not anywhere else. He has no identity card, no passport, he cannot register... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • Clampdown on Palestinian media spreads to the web
    The Palestinian Authority has quietly instructed Internet providers to block access to news websites whose reporting is critical of President Mahmoud Abbas, according to senior government officials... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • UMASS Boston Student Senate passes resolution ...
    The UMass Boston Undergraduate Student Government unanimously passed a bill demanding that the UMass Foundation, the university’s investment fund, divest from Boeing and other companies profiting... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • UT MD Anderson President Ronald DePinho Electe ...
    The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center President Ronald DePinho, M.D., has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - one of the most prestigious accolades in the United States bestowed in the field of science and engineering.
  • Acclaimed Artist and Photographer Len Steckler ...
    Artist Len Steckler has photographed and painted the celebrated and glamorous, the brightest stars on the planet. In one well-known series of photos, he captured images of his friend, the poet and author Carl Sandburg, with Marilyn Monroe - eight months before her death. But Steckler, who is in ...
  • Patented 'Noise Sponge' Quiets Combustion
    Dr. Ajay K. Agrawal, a University of Alabama engineering professor, was recently granted a patent for a breakthrough technology for noise reduction in combustion. This technology decreases the noise generated by combustion systems at the source by placing a sponge-like material directly in the f ...
  • Research Yields New Clues to How Brain Cancer ...
    Johns Hopkins researchers have discovered that a protein that transports sodium, potassium and chloride may hold clues to how glioblastoma, the most common and deadliest type of brain cancer, moves and invades nearby healthy brain tissue.
  • A New, Simple Way to Purify Drinking Water in ...
    Nearly 80 percent of disease in developing countries is linked to bad water and sanitation. Now a scientist at Michigan Tech has developed an easy, cheap way to make water safe to drink, even if it's muddy.

Natural Health News

  • 11 Surprising Diabetes Triggers
    With so many warnings in the news these days about the increasing number of Americans with diabetes, it’s become vitally important to know what you can do to avoid getting this deadly chronic disease. Now, thanks to Rodale, there’s an 11-point list of some surprising things that can trigger diab ...
  • CDC Warns Flu Can Kill You and to Get Vaccine ...
    Recently after three people in a Maryland family died with the flu, the CDC said this shows why it’s important to get a flu vaccine. But then media reported that two of the three who died WERE vaccinated for flu. That’s OK, the CDC told Fox News: “Although the influenza vaccine does not prevent ...
  • Pneumonia Vaccine Shown to Actually Increase B ...
    It may come as no surprise to parents of infants and toddlers that statistics show that children between the ages of 6 and 35 months have an average of six episodes of acute rhinosinusitis a year. But how many parents realize that one reason their kids are getting so many ear and sinus infection ...
  • The Key Vitamin to use with Vitamin D to Reduc ...
    A study published in a recent issue of Osteoporos International has concluded that lifetime supplementation with vitamin K, vitamin D3, and calcium is likely to reduce fractures and increase survival in postmenopausal women. Theorizing that vitamin K might have a role in the primary prevention o ...
  • Presence of Radon Gas in Your Home
    Did you know that radon is the second leading cause of lung cancer? A major health risk that may be lurking in your house, radon is a radioactive gas that you can’t see or smell, or even realize you’ve been breathing until you start to get to sick, and even then you probably won't know it's rado ...

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

  • DSK Court Dodges Domestic Status of Customary ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku As far as I can tell, the NY state court reached the right conclusion by rejecting former IMF Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s claim for immunity under customary international law.  It is also worth noting that the Court wisely dodged the tricky question of whethe ...
  • Law and Ethics for Robot Soldiers
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Lethal autonomous weapons can be approached from two directions.  One is to look from the front-end – starting from where technology stands today, forward across the evolution of the technology, but focused on the incremental changes as and how the ...
  • NY State Court Rejects DSK’s Immunity Claim
    by Peggy McGuinness by Peggy McGuinness As Julian predicted a few days ago, Judge Doug McKeon of the Bronx Supreme Court (that is the trial court level, New York state) today rejected former IMF Chief Dominique Strauss Kahn’s claim that he was entitled to immunity from a civil lawsuit br ...
  • A Return to “Diplomatic Asylum”?
    by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro Uri Feldman and Josh Keating have this excellent piece now up over at Foreign Policy on the history and mechanics of diplomatic asylum, as now possibly playing out in the case of Chen Guangcheng. This in the wake of Wang Lijun, who got the Bo Xilai ball rolling an ...
  • A Return to “Diplomatic Asylum”?
    by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro Uri Feldman and Josh Keating have this excellent piece now up over at Foreign Policy on the history and mechanics of diplomatic asylum, as now possibly playing out in the case of Chen Guangcheng. This in the wake of Wang Lijun, who got the Bo Xilai ball rolling an ...

Public News Service

  • Occupy May Day Arizona: Appreciating the 8-Hou ...
    Occupy May Day Arizona: Appreciating the 8-Hour Workday PHOENIX - In Phoenix, Tucson, and cities around the nation, the "Occupy" movement is calling for a general strike to commemorate this May Day, International Workers Day. While some labor unions have endorsed the idea, it's unclear how many ...
  • New Air Report Gives AZ Mixed Results
    New Air Report Gives AZ Mixed Results PHOENIX - Arizona gets mixed grades for ozone and particle pollution in the American Lung Association's State of the Air report for 2012, released today. Overall, however, the report shows some improvements from prior years. Dona Wininsky, the association's ...
  • Could Texas Voter ID Case Dismantle Arizona Vo ...
    Could Texas Voter ID Case Dismantle Arizona Voting Rights? PHOENIX - U.S. Supreme Court watchers say a Texas case could trigger the dismantling of a decades-old civil rights law affecting Arizona. Arizona and Texas are among nine states, mostly southern, with a history of discrimination that are ...
  • Autism Awareness Month - School Success Tips
    Autism Awareness Month - School Success Tips PHOENIX - Several new studies have been released to mark April's Autism Awareness Month, focusing on prenatal exposures, diet, and prevalence of the disorder. The CDC reports that one of every 64 children in Arizona has some form of autism, and succes ...
  • "Rampant Errors" on Background Checks Could be ...
    "Rampant Errors" on Background Checks Could be Costing Arizonans a Job PHOENIX - A quarter-million Arizonans still are out of work, and false information about their backgrounds could be hindering their job searches. According to new research from the National Consumer Law Center, more than 90 ...

Center for Food Safety

  • 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 ...
  • New Scientific Research Strengthens Link Betwe ...
    Center for Food Safety Calls on Congress, EPA to Take Action Three new studies released in the past two weeks, including one today by Harvard University, add to the growing body of evidence that implicate pesticides, specifically neonicotinoids—a class of pesticides used as a seed treatment in c ...

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

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

  • WalMart is the Titanic and Mexican bribery its ...
    Savvy thoughts from the Phoenix Principle. Walmart is a dinosaur that can not or will not change.WalMart’s industrial strategy is similar to the Titanic strategy. Build a boat so big it can’t sink. And if any retailer could be that big, then WalMart was it. But these scandals keep sh ...
  • A polarized America, the nation of spoiled bra ...
    Financial Times columnist Edward Luce says America is on the decline internationally and domestically and we too often act like spoiled brats. He has written a book about it, Time to Start Thinking: America in the Age of Descent.His basic thesis is that the United Sates is losing its pragmatism ...
  • UK lawmakers: Rupert Murdoch not fit to run a ...
    This after those very same lawmakers fawned over Murdoch and gave him insider access for years.
  • Packing and moving tips
    As mentioned yesterday, we’re moving. This will be the fifth times in eight years, two of which were transcontinental.Some tips: Cardboard banker boxes are great for books, CDs, loose stuff, kitchen gear, etc. Buy them at Staples in bulk. Paper towels are perfect for wrapping breakables. G ...
  • You say you like puzzles?
    1940 US Census for Niwot, Boulder County, Colorado, Sheet No. 7B, enumerated on April 17th My maternal grandparents Harry and Anna Slater and their sons are listed beginning on line 67. (Source: National Archives)If you’re up for a real challenge, the 1940 US Census Community Project has m ...

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

  • Who are the (Anti-Ron Paul) Trolls?
    A troll was, at one time, a nasty menace that sat under bridges waiting to eat little goats that may come along, or little children, depending on who’s telling the story. They would goad the creatures they sought to munch upon with jibes and insults. In the modern vernacular, the troll has ...
  • This Day In History – May 2
    1519 – Leonardo da Vinci, Italian inventor and painter (b. 1452), died. 1536 – Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, is arrested and imprisoned on charges of adultery, incest, treason and witchcraft. 1568 – Mary, Queen of Scots, escapes from Loch Leven Castle. 1611 – King James Bible is published for t ...
  • Student abandoned in DEA holding cell drank ow ...
    Daniel Chong, a 24-year old student at UC San Diego, was taken into custody during a drug raid and abandoned in a holding cell for five days without food or water, according to NBC San Diego. “They never came back, ignored all my cries and I still don’t know what happened,” he said. “I’m not [...]
  • Disabled parents fight to keep newborn at home
    A disabled couple in Mississauga are fighting to keep their newborn son after social workers threatened to take the boy away unless he receives round-the-clock care from an “able-bodied attendant.” Maricyl Palisoc and her partner, Charles Wilton, are the parents of a healthy month-old baby boy n ...
  • May Day Eve violence In San Francisco – ...
    So far we have various arrests and shut downs… not as bad as we feared.  Stay cool y’all. (can see live stream on our main page) Yahoo A day that is expected to be filled with anti-establishment protests all around the globe began early last night with a roving band of “anarchi ...

The Air Vent

  • 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 ...
  • No Time Part XX
    I’m going to try and do something soon but I have no time to blog at all.    tAV still has quite a few readers who stop by every day so if anyone would like to contribute, send me a Word doc by email. Jeff  
  • Contest — Ten Ways to Celebrate Earth Day
    Earth day is here again.   Twice as many penguins as we thought, polar bear population is up, both Arctic and global sea ice extents are normal, what should we do to celebrate? Here are a few ideas I had: Fly penguins to the north pole to feed the polar bears. Fly polar bears south to [...]
  • Gotta Be Kidding
    In an article titled, “Himalayan glaciers actually GAINING ice, space scans show An inconvenient truth” Lewis Page of the Register writes: The study was carried out by comparing two sets of space data, the first gathered by instruments aboard the space shuttle Endeavour in 2000 and t ...
  • What People Don’t Want to Know About Energy
    Guest Post by Thomas Fuller I’m well on my way to winning a small wager with a friend about my new blogging venture, 3,000 Quads ( http://3000quads.com/). It’s an unusual bet–I’m betting that I will be religiously ignored by the members of the climate consensus. We’ ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook bug prevents some users from creating ...
    Some users with a new version of the self-serve Facebook ad dashboard are unable to to create ads to promote their events, we’ve discovered. A Facebook spokesperson confirms this is a bug in the ad tool. As a result of … Continue reading →
  • Facebook platform sent 160M users to mobile ap ...
    Facebook says it sent more than 160 million visitors to Facebook-integrated mobile apps last month, according to a post on the company’s developer blog. Native mobile games like Zynga’s “With Friends” titles, popular apps from Spotify, Pinterest and now Viddy and … Contin ...
  • Buddy Media acquisition of Brighter Option res ...
    Buddy Media today announced its new BuyBuddy platform for managing Facebook advertising campaigns. BuyBuddy is the result of the social media management software company’s acquisition of Facebook Ads API partner Brighter Option in February. Buddy Media has integrated the advertising … Cont ...
  • New Facebook platform industry hires: Ifeelgoo ...
    Ifeelgoods hired an SVP of sales, Scale Venture Partners hired a new executive-in-residence, Nanigans brought on a technical advisor and Strutta has a new director of marketing, among other notable hires made this week at Facebook platform companies. If your … Continue reading →
  • How social video apps leverage Facebook Open G ...
    Two new mobile video apps — Viddy and Socialcam — have shot into the top 25 most popular Facebook apps by monthly active users this week.Their developers have both raised funding from prominent investors, with valuations likely influenced by Facebook’s … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • American Methodists must be fearless about div ...
    Stuart Littlewood calls on US Methodists to be courageous and ignore pressure from Christian Zionists by supporting divestment from companies that profiteer from the brutal Israeli occupation of Palestine, arguing that British Methodists had "blazed a trail through this minefield" nearly two yea ...
  • Israel propagandist David Horowitz and the art ...
    Lawrence Davidson examines the use of slander by US conservative writer David Horowitz to damn the boycott Israel campaign. He argues that Horowitz "displays the prejudice of a fanatic and tries to pass it off as reason” but that he “may well have overstepped and made himself the subject of crit ...
  • US liberals and their situational ethics
    Lawrence Davidson argues that the ethical standards of American liberals are more malleable than they would admit: In practice they "do not oppose the violation of civil or human rights, be they those of Americans, Iraqis or anybody else. What they do consider unacceptable are violations carried ...
  • Disempowerment and suppression of freedoms in ...
    Graham Peebles looks at how the increasingly paranoid regime of Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi is systematically tightening its monopoly over information, suppressing free speech and suffocating media freedom. "Disempowerment is the aim, and the means are well known, crude and unimaginati ...
  • Israel's settler-officers in the glare of publ ...
    Uri Avnery examines the incident in which an Israeli skullcap-wearing officer, Lt-Col Shalom Eisner, launched an unprovoked and brutal attack on a young Danish peace activist, and argues that Eisner, a deputy brigade commander, is not just the quintessential army officer but the quintessential I ...

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

  • The EyeOpener- Fahrenheit 2012: Suppressing D ...
    In this episode of our EyeOpener Report James Corbett looks at the book publishing industry controlled by a few media moguls, examines how the ease with which political and governmental bodies have been able to block the publication of books that are uncomfortable to the Washington elite has gre ...
  • RT Video: Steve Kohn on Sibel Edmonds’ B ...
    This site depends exclusively on readers’ support. Please help us continue by SUBSCRIBING, and by ordering our EXCLUSIVE BFP DVD .
  • 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 ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- April 9, ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it.” – John Hay International Newsworthy US Gives Iran ‘Last Chance’ Warning Second US Aircraft Carrier in Gulf Iran Will Not Accept Any Precondition to Nuclear Talks Surge in Secret US Surveil ...

Afro Spear

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • Understanding Iran's diplomatic strategy
    The history of Iranian efforts to achieve a negotiated settlement supports Mousavian's warning. It is time for the United States to shed its shallow propagandistic view of Iranian strategy, and accept the necessity for real bargaining with Iran on fundamental issues.
  • Economic Nostradamus: We Are Literally Witness ...
    If people don't have money, they can't consume to keep the economy going. This leads to a vicious negative feedback loop that forces small (and large) business employers to lay off workers, which takes even more money out of the economy, which subsequently leads to more business closures and cut ...
  • Encounters With Miracles. An Inoculation Fro ...
    Honest fight is a good thing. Malice is never an option.
  • Are You Suffering From OLS (Obama Letdown Synd ...
    OLS (Obama Letdown Syndrome) began infecting millions of liberal/progressives soon after the President took office. Will it continue to get worse, or is there hope for a cure?
  • New "Tell-All" Book About ACORN Hits The Stand ...
    A brand new "tell-all" book about ACORN just hits the newsstand. Michael McCray's ACORN 8: Race, Power and Politics is a thriller, political analysis, historical document, and screenplay idea all rolled into one. This book review written by Mike Volpe and published in the Southern Christian Lead ...

Switchboard

  • Grizzly managers put the cart before the horse
    Louisa Willcox, Senior Wildlife Advocate, Livingston, Montana Recent statements made at the Yellowstone grizzly bear subcommittee meeting show that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is again putting a political agenda ahead of science, when ...
  • Sacramento Bee details the environmental conse ...
    Sylvia Fallon, Senior Scientist, Washington, DC In part two of a three part series that the Sacramento Bee is rolling out on Wildlife Services, reporter Tom Knudson focuses on the ecological impact of the federal agency responsible for killing hundr ...
  • Bad idea watch, Ohio edition: counting natural ...
    Dylan Sullivan, Energy Advocate, Chicago Sometimes there are ideas that look innocuous at first glance but are actually quite bad. One I’ve heard recently: allowing Ohio’s electric utilities to count “efficient generation” to ...
  • NADA Should Be Smiling: Auto Dealer Profits Ar ...
    Luke Tonachel, Vehicles Analyst, New York City Consumers shopping for a new car have more fuel-efficient options and auto dealers are seeing a “renaissance” at their stores. The model year 2012 cars in showrooms today are the first to me ...
  • March/April 2012 Threats to the Endangered Spe ...
    Elly Pepper, Legislative Advocate, Washington, DC In a final push before the elections begin in earnest, over the past couple months, Congress has ramped up the heat on the Endangered Species Act. Here’s the rundown: Salmon Sen. Hatch (R-UT) ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Dysfunctional Institutions
    This would actually be a chance for them to do some good. If there were any Republicans left in America who believed in free markets as opposed as shoveling money to plutocrats, they might even kill the latest idiotic stadium deal for good.
  • This Has Been Another Edition Of…
    …what Fallows said.
  • Didn’t Take Long…
    Romney washes that gay right out of his foreign policy team: In a statement obtained by Right Turn, Grenell says: I have decided to resign from the Romney campaign as the Foreign Policy and National Security Spokesman. While I welcomed the challenge to confront President Obama’s foreign policy f ...
  • Chris Ethridge, RIP
    The bass player in the Flying Burrito Brothers has passed. While everyone thinks of the Burrito Brothers as Gram Parsons’ band, Ethridge co-wrote several of their most well-known songs, including “Hot Burrito #1,” “Hot Burrito #2,” and “She.”
  • This is What Politicizing National Security Lo ...
    Also, this: Until Republicans repudiate Bush’s politicizing national security, can they please shut up about Obama running on the fact that he killed Osama bin Laden.

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

National Law Journal | U.S.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Oil and Gas Companies See Offshore Wind Potent ...
    An increasing number of oil service companies are working with renewable energy companies to develop offshore wind projects in the North Sea as the region’s fossil fuel resources dwindle and demand for clean energy rises. According to a report by Bloomberg News, companies such as Technip and Sub ...
  • Fukushima Begins Restoration of Forests Destro ...
    Fukushima Prefecture will soon begin a nine-year restoration of coastal forests devastated by last year’s tsunami, including the planting of 4.6 million seedlings over a 90-mile stretch of coastline. With the financial assistance of other prefectures, the Fukushima government will begin collecti ...
  • Leaf-Mimicking Design Boosts Output of Solar P ...
    By adding microscopic folds onto the surface of photovoltaic materials, a design variation borrowed from a natural leaf, researchers say they have been able to boost the solar output of flexible plastic solar cells by 47 percent. According to the scientists, who published their Frank Wojciech ...
  • Australia Lists Koala As Threatened Species fo ...
    The Australian government has added the koala to the list of threatened species in parts of the country for the first time, saying the iconic species is under threat from habitat loss, urban expansion, disease, and climate change. Following a three-year study, Environment Minister Tony Burke an ...
  • China’s Looming Conflict Between Energy and Water
    In its quest to find new sources of energy, China is increasingly looking to its western provinces. But the nation’s push to develop fossil fuel and alternative sources has so far ignored a basic fact — western China simply lacks the water resources needed to support major new energy development ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Anders Behring Breivik’s Plan of "Increased Po ...
    During the third day of his trial, The Guardian reported how Breivik insisted that his goal (in the short to medium term) was to make pariahs of Europe’s nationalists - the very people with whom you might expect him to feel kinship. ’I thought I had to provoke a witchhunt of modern moderately co ...
  • Hanging by a Thread
    After writing my essay "Radioactive Hell on Earth" - actually I wanted to change that title to "Fukushima on Steroids" - I see Christina Consolo’s essay "Fukushima is Falling Apart": Are you ready - it is becoming clear that we, our children and our entire civilization is hanging by a thread. It ...
  • A crime by the highway: Poisoning trees to mak ...
    Trees were the enemy if they spoiled the view of a billboard. On days of an attack, Barnhart, 27, would arrive by dawn at work. After removing the magnetic logo from a company truck, he would set forth with a machete, a hospital mask and a container of what he described as a "pretty gnarly" herb ...
  • 40,000 Norwegians mock Breivik with "Marxist" ...
    Tens of thousands of rose-waving Norwegians gathered in rain-drenched Oslo Thursday to deride mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik by singing a song he hates, viewing it as Marxist indoctrination. Some 40,000 people, according to police, massed in the rain at a square near the courthouse where B ...
  • Breivik a False Flag to Discredit the Right
    Breivik is a Freemason Doing his Bit to Advance Communism by Pretending to Oppose It. Anders Breivik’s mass murder of leftist students is a false flag intended to discredit the nationalist causes he pretends to espouse. The demonstration Thursday is a form of mass brainwashing that consolidates ...

Russia Today

  • Twin blasts hit Kabul following Obama’s visit
    The Afghan capital Kabul was hit by at least two explosion on Wednesday shortly after US President Barack Obama’s surprise visit to sign a strategic agreement. Taliban claimed responsibility for the attacks. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Obama cements US support to Afghanistan beyond ...
    On a secret trip to Afghanistan Barack Obama has signed an agreement pledging US financial and military support to the country for 10 years beyond the 2012 withdrawal. Despite its many failures the US is trying to... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • 'Millionaires’ row': UK ministers out-of-touch ...
    There is a growing barrage of anger aimed at Britain's wealthy ministers for being out-of-touch with real life. Most of them come from the richest levels of society and do not face the same struggles as most British... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Chorus of criticism: Netanyahu’s politics puts ...
    Former PM Ehud Olmert and the recently-resigned Kadima leader Tzipi Livni have joined the chorus of past and present senior Israeli politicians criticizing the government and its warmongering policy against Iran. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Tunisian president to Assange: I’m still human ...
    The transformation of Tunisia after the revolution is far from complete. Imprisoned under the previous dictatorship, and now facing the realities of power, President Moncef Marzouki has vowed to protect human rights in... Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

  • Top Obama official calls assassinations by sni ...
    Each and every time the US government uses drones to kill people with, it is using a form of sniper to assassinate somebody without any due process to try and convict them legally in a court of law. So how is any of that ‘legal’? And unlike executions, which most of the world condemn ...
  • Colombia- La Marcha Patriotica
    Just one week ago a huge crowd of people from all around Colombia marched on government buildings in Bogota demanding A New Colombia… one that would be free of the Colombian financial and military oligarchy connected to the US imperialists of Washington D.C.- Cancion marcha patriotica colombia
  • No dilemma, the human omnivore’s preroga ...
    Radical slow food guru Joel Salatin is not popular with vegetarians. New Age wisdom has held that modern man had to transcend meat, the only sustainable future calling for us to cut out the middle beast and narrow our source of nutrition to the more efficient vegetable kingdom. Except it turns o ...
  • Here’s to the ladies who lunch – e ...
    “Ladies Who Lunch” used to mean the idle spouses of financially successful husbands, as one New Yorker cartoonist fondly dubbed them, his Grand Dames, until Broadway in the mid-seventies where Stephen Sondheim subverted the idiom for Elaine Stritch’s COMPANY showstopper which e ...
  • Europeans increasingly are rejecting US and Ge ...
    All across Europe, European nations are increasingly rejecting forcefully the austerity programs for themselves devised by American and German corporate elites. The latest is Romania’s Government Collapses Amid Austerity Backlash …Why should people be forced to cut out necessary social pro ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • 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 ...
  • Two criticisms of the Harrit et al paper that ...
    The vast majority of debunker responses to the discovery of active thermitic material over the past three years have been one of the following mantras: "Paint!", "Peer-review!" and "Chain of custody!". Dr James Millette's report on the red/gray chips has apparently given the "Paint!" mantra new ...

Fooducate

  • Coke and Monster – A Match Made in Sugar (and ...
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! Will the Coca Cola Company buy Monster Energy in the largest beverage industry acquisition ever? The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that a deal, valued at over $10 billion dollars, was in the works. T ...
  • Nutella Fined 3 Million Dollars for Misleading ...
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! Nutella is paying just over $3 million to settle a class action lawsuit. Apparently, it had been misleading consumers to think it was a healthy food. A San Diego mom thought Nutella would be a good breakfast ...
  • The Connection between Eating Disorders, Obesi ...
        New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! This is a guest blog post by Dr. J. Renae Norton.  I’ve been treating eating disorders (ED’s) and obesity for nearly 25 years and have always had good outcomes.  My rate of success improved dram ...
  • To Supplement or Not to Supplement, The Billio ...
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! Thanks everyone who participated in yesterday’s informal survey about supplementing. We got over 50 responses on the blog and our facebook page. It’s clear that many of you are supplementing, on t ...
  • Do You Supplement?
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! Happy Friday folks. Quick informal survey today. Do you take supplements? What led you to this decision? Would you prefer not to rely on supplements if you could? Shoot away in the comments below. Thanks. Get ...

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

  • 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 ...
  • Colin Firth launches campaign to save ‘Earth’s ...
    Colin Firth has appealed to save the Awá from extinction © Survival Oscar-winning film star Colin Firth today launched a major Survival International campaign to save ‘Earth’s most threatened tribe’ – the Awá of the Brazilian Amazon. The centerpiece of the campaign is a short film, featuri ...
  • Uncontacted tribe photographed in Colombian Amazon
    Previously uncontacted Nukak emerged from the forest in the 1980s after being forced from their land by violent armed groups © Gustavo Pollitis/Survival An uncontacted tribe has been photographed from the air for the first time in the Colombian Amazon. The Indians, thought to be members of ...
  • Innu man completes historic 4,000 km walk
    Giant (Michel Andrew), who aims to connect young Innu with 'nutshimit'. © Joanna Eede/Survival The Innu of north-eastern Canada are celebrating the completion of an historic 4,000 km walk through Nitassinan, their ancestral territory. The initiative of a young Innu man, Michel An ...
  • Brazil investigates death threats to Guarani a ...
    Guarani Indians. Tonico Benites is fighting for the Guarani's right to live on their land. © Joaó Ripper/Survival The Brazilian authorities are investigating death threats to Guarani anthropologist and activist Tonico Benites. Benites and his family were stopped by a man armed with tw ...

Greg Palast

  • 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 ...
  • Billionaire Ballot Bandits - I've caught'em
    Karl Rove has you by the ballots.  With a $200 million war chest from a coven of billionaires, don't count on getting your vote counted. There's only one thing to stop him:  A COMIC BOOK. If we can get just $10,190 in the next 14 days, the nation’s top elections-heist investigators can publish ...
  • Cops beat our cameraman ZD Roberts
    [New York 1 a.m Sunday]   Our photographer ZD Roberts was just beaten by cops @OWS. Thrown down, hair grabbed and slammed with nightsticks - while Zach yelling "I'm PRESS!" trying to show badge. Cops berserk. Zach following protest path tho I'm trying to get him to come in with film. He cannot b ...

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

  • Rep. Dan Burton Calls for Autism Hearings - Ta ...
    Rep. Dan Burton Calls for Autism Hearings Take Action! From Autism Action Network. Please Take Action to Support his Appeal Representative Dan Burton recently published the letter below in The Hill calling for Congressional hearings into the causes of autism...
  • At the Park with Ahmed
    Managing Editor's Note: Thank you to our friends at The Thinking Moms Revolution for sharing this post with us. Add their site to your favorites. By L.J. Goes This week my children were on spring break. As any autism parent...
  • Autism Barbie - She Rocks!
    By Ken R. Schaper Fashion icon Barbie is going bald next year, in a special doll for children suffering from hair loss or who are watching a loved one go through the process. Mattel will include accessories to provide girls...
  • NIMH's Insel Needs a Lesson on PANDAS, PANS, P ...
    In a recent NIMH Director's Blog, Dr. Thomas Insel gave yet another update on PANDAS and PANS. Both of those are names describing two similar medical conditions that can evolve from either Streptococcus bacteria for the former, and for the...
  • Jon Edwards Video Trailer: A Story of Hope and ...
    By John Stone Following the exoneration of John Walker-Smith in the High Court in March I wrote to the Lancet’s editor, Richard Horton, pleading with him to re-instate the Wakefield 1998 paper in the interests of children in the UK...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

Open Your Eyes News

  • USA: Home ownership rate drops to 15-year low
    Reuters – The share of privately-owned U.S. homes fell to a 15-year low in the first quarter as falling house prices and stringent lending conditions push younger Americans, in particular, into renting. The homeownership rate slipped to 65.4 percent, the lowest since the first quarter of 1 ...
  • Geert Wilders of the Netherlands reveals a res ...
    Washington Post — Europe’s most controversial politician lives in a government safe house fitted with a panic room and guarded round the clock. A self-avowed foe of Islam who compared the Koran to Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” and called for a ban on Muslim immigrants, he travels by bulletproof ca ...
  • Tymoshenko case: Europe pressure on Ukraine in ...
    BBC – Several European leaders have cancelled visits to Ukraine amid growing concern over alleged mistreatment of the jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko. Both EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding will boycott the Euro 2012 tournament in ...
  • Impaired recovery of Atlantic cod — fora ...
    PhysOrg – In a rapid communication just published in the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, biologist Douglas Swain of the Gulf Fisheries Centre and Robert Mohn, emeritus scientist, at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography present findings that suggest the delay in recover ...
  • Asian Arms Race: Increased U.S. military prese ...
    Star Advertiser – The squad from the U.S. Army’s 196th Infantry Brigade was moving quietly through the hills of Luzon Island when the staccato bursts of machine gun fire sent them into action. About a dozen soldiers fired into the surrounding mountains, while a small contingent broke away ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • 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 ...
  • Sierra Club targets Puget Sound Energy in Beyo ...
    The Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal campaign, working in concert with a number of environmental and energy activists and researchers in Washington and Montana, announced Thursday a new push to get Puget Sound Energy to stop buying power from coal-fired Colstrip Generating Station in Montana. A ...
  • Activists sue Obama, others over National Defe ...
    A coalition of well-known journalists, activists and civil libertarians have sued President Obama, Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. , Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and other members of the U.S. government  to push them to remove or rewrite this year’s defense appropriations bill, sayin ...

water.org

  • A safer walk for water in Ethiopia
    In most rural areas of Tigray, women and young girls fetch water from open wells, springs and other unprotected sources of water. These water sources are often located in distant areas and mostly contain some impurities in the form of suspended or dissolved matter. In many cases the water looks ...
  • A new start in haiti
    Immediately following the inauguration ceremony, this woman collects her first bucket of water from a new well.
  • A toilet provides freedom
    Before, Mrs. Bhuvaneswari's family had to spend time walking to find a place to go to the bathroom. Now they are able to use their own toilet and their time for better things.
  • Bringing joy with clean water
    "The pond water I was forced to get water from was very dirty and had a bad smell. Due to my distant walks to collect water, sometimes I was late to work. My daughters and I would also suffer from diarrhea, jaundice, dysentery and skin diseases because of the dirty pomd water. We are able to ge ...
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Before It's News


Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

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

Worldnews

  • Study: Most Kentuckians think child obesi ...
    The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky released a poll on Monday that said an overwhelming majority of Kentuckians think that child obesity is a problem. Respondents to the foundation's Kentucky Health Issues poll also said that the state should have a smoke-free law. The telephone poll was s ...
  • May Day midweek mayhem as Spain rocked by ...
    Normally, match-fixing allegations in Spain only come to light about two after the games have taken place and it’s far too late to do anything about them, not that there was ever any will to probe them in the first place. But ever since it became an actual banged-to-rights, ‘ello ‘ello’ ‘ell ...
  • US judge rules Strauss-Kahn case may proc ...
    A New York judge has said a hotel maid's lawsuit claiming that former International Monetary Fund chief, Dominique Strauss-Kahn sexually assaulted her can move forward to a trial. Douglas McKeon, Bronx Supreme Court Justice, on Tuesday rejected Strauss-Kahn's argument that he enjoyed diploma ...
  • Norway loses a sporting hero
    Norwegian world champion swimmer Alexander Dale Oen has died of a suspected heart attack in Arizona at the age of 26, the Norwegian Olympic Committee said on Tuesday. The 2011 world 100 metres breaststroke champion and one of Norway's best hopes for a medal at this year's London Olympics was ...
  • Modest sales for car-makers in April
    Leading automakers, including Maruti Suzuki, Mahindra & Mahindra and Hero MotorCorp, posted only modest growth in sales in April as high fuel cost and interest rates dampened an otherwise positive market sentiment. Maruti Suzuki, riding on the success of...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • FBI Sting Charges 5 with Planning to Bomb Brid ...
    Occupy Cleveland canceled a scheduled May Day rally Tuesday after a group of men connected to the organization were arrested by the FBI. In a news release, Occupy Cleveland said the five men arrested in a terror plot to blow up the Route 82 bridge in Brecksville were "in no way representing ...
  • Suspended for Civil Disobedience, Students Cre ...
    Students at one of Detroit's public high schools who were suspended after an act of civil disobedience to protest school closures and inadequate learning conditions created their own "freedom school" on Friday. “We need a voice in our school system,” said student protes ...
  • Report: Oakland Police Used 'Overwhelming Mili ...
    Oakland police used "an overwhelming military-type response" to disperse Occupy Oakland demonstrators and fired at a former Marine and Iraq war veteran who was critically injured in the clashes in October, according to a court ordered report released Monday. ...
  • Oakland Police Used 'Overwhelming Military-Typ ...
    Oakland police used "an overwhelming military-type response" to disperse Occupy Oakland demonstrators and fired at a former Marine and Iraq war veteran who was critically injured in the clashes in October, according to a court ordered report released Monday. ...
  • May Day Protests Across the Globe
    Hundreds of thousands of people across the globe have taken to the streets to mark May Day, also known as International Workers' Day. In Athens, Jakarta, Madrid, Tunis and beyond, protesters are refusing austerity and demanding decent wages and working conditions. Thousands of Turkish protes ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • Climate Change's Impact on International Arcti ...
    Today we released a new report today titled Climate Change & National Security: The Arctic as a Bellwether. The lead author of the report is Dr. Rob Huebert, Associate Director of the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies at the University of Calgary. Official military doctrine in t ...
  • Top EPA Official Steps Down amidst political c ...
    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) administrator in the South and Southwest region (Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Louisiana, and Arkansas), Al Armendariz, has resigned after Republicans took aim at comments he made two years ago regarding how the EPA would "crucify" corporation ...
  • Should Britain increase it's speed limit if it ...
    The Government is to take forward its proposal for increasing the motorway speed limit to 80 mph by trialling the new limit on selected managed motorways.
  • Should We Spend More Time Educating Utilities ...
    Do most Americans spend eight or more hours of their days thinking about electricity?  No.  They spend their days worrying about more important things, like how to convince their children to sensibly use various social media channels; saving enough for retirement; and securing help for ...
  • Competition heats up for DOE SMR funding
    Westinghouse gets support from Missouri for 225 MW reactor

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • American Methodists must be fearless about div ...
    Stuart Littlewood Chief Rabbi warned Brits of “reverberations” across the faith communities, so American Methodists must be fearless about divestment. Why is the United Methodist Church apparently making such heavy weather of voting for divestment from corporates – specific ...
  • Abdulhadi Alkhawaja Painfully Force-Fed
    by Stephen Lendman Abdulhadi AlkhawajaMay 1 marks his 83rd hunger striking day. At issue is justice denied him and all Bahrainis. One of the world's most ruthless dictatorships terrorizes them. They resist courageously. Abdulhadi inspires them. He's now painfully force-fed against his ...
  • New Orleans video: Chemtrails, GMOs & Transgenics
    http://www.activistpost.com/2012/04/chemtrails-gmos-and-transgenics.htmlBy Rady Ananda In this 10-minute entry into Alex Jones’ wildly popular video news contest, info-warriors gathered in New Orleans to give a brief background on chemtrails and genetically modified foods, bringing an upd ...
  • Washington and Israel Threaten Humanity
    by Stephen Lendman So does NATO. It's America's imperial tool. An alliance for war, not peace, enemies were invented post-Soviet Russia. Communism then was the alleged threat. Today it's terrorism. Strategically intervening under US control, world peace and humanity are threatened. ...
  • On Keeping the People Divided, Distracted and ...
    Larry Pinkney “And in the framework of the collectivity there were the differentiations, the stratification, and the bloodthirsty tensions fed by classes; and finally, on the immense scale of humanity, there were racial hatreds, slavery, exploitation, and above all the bloodless genocide ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • 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 ...
  • Nova Scotia should defend its health workers' ...
    While negotiations between Capital Health and its employees continue, health workers' rights are as prescient now as ever before.  Working people have the right to bargain collectively and withdraw their labour, or strike, if they feel they are being treated unfairly.  Healthcare worke ...
  • Can Wildrose remove its thorns?
    Is the Wildrose challenge to Tory supremacy in Alberta over? Or is it just beginning? Find out here.

World Wide Hippies

  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Wednesday
    Protesters hit streets for May Day rallies; violence flares in Oakland, Seattle By Miranda Leitsinger, msnbc.com Updated at 03:38 A.M. ET: Protesters across the world marched through the streets Tuesday toting signs, playing instruments and wearing costumes to rally against austerity measures, c ...
  • Piss off “The Man”, baby!
    We’re selling bumperstickers. These stickers are guaranteed to stick with you through thick and thin. They’re specially designed to piss off The Man, baby. Support Citizen Journalism – Support Worldwide Hippies These are really nice stickers. Made of 100% weather-proof, dog-pro ...
  • Hip Poetry: ‘Caught Jesus Smoking Weed&# ...
    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 ...
  • Geiger Counter-Wielding Fukushima Hipsters Mak ...
    BY ADRIAN CHEN,gawker - t’s been more than a year since the Japanese tusnami caused a meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear plant and the clean-upcontinues. But a bit of background radiation has not stopped a crew of Japanese hipsters from doing their hip business in the area. They’ve fo ...
  • Worldwide Hippies Digest Tueaday: F word, Hipp ...
    Feminism WTF - By lelalondon on April 29, 2012 | From lelalondon.com The F word. The worst one around. The one tied with unpleasantly preconceived notions of bra burning and man-hating. Recently, after overhearing an explosively sexist comment on a lunch break, I asked a friend, “Do you con ...

FourWinds10

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

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • 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 ...
  • The Hard Truth: Even Liberals are Big Fans of ...
    Survey Says… If you were to survey people and ask the question “Should we subsidize oil companies?” — the overwhelming majority would undoubtedly respond “No!” The notion that we are subsidizing oil companies generates outrage in many people, but in this artic ...
  • Natural Gas Prices & Canada’s Economy — R-Squa ...
    In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I talk about the impact of natural gas in the U.S., and the Canadian economy. Some of the topics discussed this week are: How I think natural gas prices will behave over the next 10 years Which industries will benefit the most from low natural ...
  • Cutting Through the Rhetoric on Speculators an ...
    Let’s Play ‘Blame the Speculators’ Most people would probably agree that speculation in the oil and gas markets is hurting American consumers. Consider the case of Aubrey McClendon. Mr. McClendon is the CEO of Chesapeake Energy, where he sells natural gas for a living. Natural ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • The #1 Thing You Should Do to Protect Your Heart
    Fish oil, check. Exercise, check. No red meat, check. You do everything our doctor tells you to protect yourself from heart disease. Then, you spritz a little air freshener in your home or light a scented candle and start to undo all your worthy efforts. According to a new study in Environment ...
  • The Brain-Damaging Chemical Lurking in Your Food
    Pregnant moms exposed to a common bug-killing insecticide used in farming could give birth to children who go on to develop brain damage years later, according to a new study published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The chemical in question is chlorpyrifos, an o ...
  • Ocean Pollution: Plastic, Plastic Everywhere
    Vast quantities of our plastic garbage end up far from the recycling facilities and landfills they were destined for. If you need any evidence of that, just search the Web for the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch," an area of the Pacific Ocean that's filled with plastic garbage, estimated ...
  • The Supplement Everyone Needs to Take
    Dirty air is bad for everyone. Linked to higher risks of heart attacks and strokes in adults, air pollution from highways, industrial factories, and wood smoke has even been found to cause behavioral problems in children born to mothers with high exposure. Most of the time, the only way to cou ...
  • The Food & Makeup Contaminant That Fuels Breas ...
    For the second time this spring, researchers are finding that the heavy metal cadmium promotes breast cancer. Generally considered a contaminant in cheap, imported kid's jewelry and toys, cadmium can also be found in the food supply, likely the result of chemical fertilizers, and also a contam ...

big think

  • The Automation of Rio: Smart City or Digital T ...
    What's the Big Idea? Around half of the world's population currently lives in urban settings, and it has been projected to increase to two-thirds, or 6 billion people, by 2050. The challenge of taking care of all these future city inhabitants will be enormous. Will we see the proliferati ...
  • Welcome to the Digital Neighborhood
    What’s the big idea? Anyone who doubts that the Internet has the potential to bring people together should take a closer look at Neighborgoods, a service that helps users share goods with people living nearby. At first blush, Neighborgoods sounds like it’s just a service for penny pinche ...
  • What’s the Most Mistress-Friendly Occupation i ...
    Warning: Don’t read this if your funny bone’s in traction, or if your tongue can’t be planted firmly in cheek…  On a talk show I heard an ex-agent describe the Secret Service as an “adultery-prone culture.” This got me thinking about what would actually make a work culture “adult ...
  • Why the Olympics Is About Sports and Art
    For everyone who loves their art and their sports, the upcoming 2012 Summer Olympics in London, England, and the accompanying London 2012 Cultural Olympiad seem a match made in heaven. Alas, for Jonathan Jones of The Guardian , it’s a match made in hell. In a blog post titled, “The Olympics ...
  • Obama 2012: The Most Micro-Targeted Campaign i ...
    In his 2010 book "The Audacity to Win," Obama 2008 campaign director David Plouffe explained that the goal of the campaign was not only to ensure high participation and turn out from the Democratic base but also to expand the size of the electorate by mobilizing first-time voters among young adu ...

Information Liberation

  • Key witness to RFK assassination says Sirhan S ...
    A key witness to the 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy has retracted her official statements in the case and now claims that convicted assassin Sirhan Sirhan did not act alone. Nina Rhodes-Hughes, 78, tells CNN that the FBI "twisted" her ori...
  • Ron Paul vs. Paul Krugman on Bloomberg TV - Ap ...
    Ron Paul educates Paul Krugman on why we cannot inflate our way out of the economic crisis....
  • How to Ruin a Kid's Life
    I was just down at the "feed and seed" buying two baby chicks to replace my female duck that was carried off by a bird of prey, leaving one lonely male duck behind. No one told me that ducks don't like chicks. The rest of the story is, well, let's ju...
  • Police Officer Fired Over Questionable Confron ...
    In the last couple years we've had a bunch of stories about people arrested for filming police. While it seems that more and more courts are recognizing that such filming is protected activity, there have been a few bizarre moments, including famed ...
  • CBS Runs Defense For 'Everyone's a Terrorist' ...
    Despite being the subject of online ridicule for months, flyers put out by the FBI under the *Communities Against Terrorism* program, which frame behavior including using cash to pay for a cup of coffee as a suspicious activity, have been characteriz...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • 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 ...
  • Neither A Soul To Damn, Nor A Body To Kick
    Today I’m having a look at an issue you might not generally associate with Libertarianism, but whose existence directly impacts on the liberty of us all, thousands of times every day: the company. Specifically, the limited-liability, joint stockholder corporation. Most … Continue rea ...

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • This week’s Alchemist
    This week, The Alchemist takes another look at an old friend, aspirin, that most venerable of pharmaceuticals. He also sheds light on catalysts and a silicon version of the carbon allotrope graphene. In the physical arena, splitting the electron is on the cards and a DNA triple helix comes to th ...
  • How to read and interpret a science news story
    Scientist Emily Willingham blogs about science at Double X Science. BoingBoing just alerted me to the existence of her site and the fact that she has come up with a handy, six-step guide for reading and interpreting science news stories (it applies equally well to press releases). The six rules ...
  • A chunk of Deceived Wisdom
    My new book, I filed the first chunk of my new solo book – Deceived Wisdom – with my publisher today. Looking forward to purely positive feedback and a minimal of virtual red ink on the virtual manuscript…oh and did I already say, Deceived Wisdom is on Amazon (with a 10% discou ...
  • A chunk of Deceived Wisdom
    My new book, I filed the first chunk of my new solo book – Deceived Wisdom – with my publisher today. Looking forward to purely positive feedback and a minimal of virtual red ink on the virtual manuscript…oh and did I already say, it’s on amazon (with a 10% discount right ...
  • Thinking, shredding and gardening
    An odd mix of books on my desk for review right now and just one of them with a strong scientific angle: Imagine: How creativity works by Jonah Lehrer, The Haynes Fender Stratocaster Manual by Paul Palmer and A Year in the Garden by “Mr Digwell”. Lehrer’s Imagine discusses the ...

RFF Library

  • After the Marshall Spill: Oil Pipelines in the ...
    National Wildlife Foundation  http://bit.ly/IjabW9 [From a blog post by the author] On July 25th, 2010, the Great Lakes region experienced one of the largest oil spills in Midwest history—and it was from a pipeline buried underneath the ground. Almost two years after the spill, the pressing ques ...
  • Carbon Capture and Sequestration: Research, De ...
    Congressional Research Service http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42496.pdf …Public concerns over hydraulic fracturing and deep-well injection of produced waters may spill over into concerns about deep-well injection of CO2. How successfully DOE is able to address these types of concerns as ...
  • Hydraulic Fracturing and the National Environm ...
    Congressional Research Service http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42502.pdf …This report provides an overview of two situations in which agencies are arguing that they do not need to conduct a comprehensive environmental review of hydraulic fracturing under NEPA… The Delaware River Bas ...
  • The Future of Fuels: An Analysis of Future Ene ...
    National Association of Convenience Stores www.nacsonline.com/futureoffuels [From a Greenwire article by Jason Plautz, sub. req'd] In a report released today, the National Association of Convenience Stores say the CAFE (corporate average fuel economy) standards and RFS cannot coexist without add ...
  • NEPAssist: a GIS Tool for Identifying Environm ...
    EPA | White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) http://134.67.99.123/nepassist/entry.aspx [Website] NEPAssist is a tool that facilitates the environmental review process and project planning in relation to environmental considerations. The web-based application draws environmental ...

Scientific American - News

  • Warming Ocean Current Might Create Coral Refuges
    Global warming is expected to have devastating effects on coral reefs, but recent research points to a few exceptions. [More]
  • New "Beauty Baryon" Particle Discovered at Lar ...
    A never-before-seen subatomic particle has popped into existence inside the world's largest atom smasher, bringing physicists a step closer to unraveling the mystery of how matter is put together in the universe. [More]
  • Is Global Warming Causing More Home Runs in Ba ...
    Fox baseball commentator Tim McCarver is a retired baseball catcher whose work as a TV analyst recently got him inducted into the announcers' wing of the Baseball Hall of Fame. He occupies the top TV perch in the sport, and fans either love him or hate him. [More]
  • A Q&A with Ian Hacking on Thomas Kuhn's Legacy ...
    Scientific American 's review of Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions in 1964 ended with the pat pronouncement that the book was "much ado about very little." The short piece, which appeared two years after the initial publication of Structure as a monogra ...
  • Certainty Principle: People Who Hold False Con ...
    Firm convictions dominate news headlines these days, but because of a phenomenon called the hypercorrection effect, strongly held ideas that turn out to be factually incorrect are actually easier to amend . Brain imaging is now shedding light on how people change their minds during hypercorrecti ...

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

  • May Day takes Toronto
    annual workers' rights celebration spills into streets throughout day, night One of the most successful May Day demonstrations in years took place earlier today, as large numbers filled the streets of Toronto in the annual festival of ...
  • May Day March Reclaims Halifax Streets
    Halifax - About 200 May Day marchers took to the streets of downtown Halifax today, meandering their way through a route that was part planned and part impromptu. The excitement of claiming, by sheer number of ...
  • Mayday Toronto
    Live Coverage from Mayday Events Watch this page for live coverage of Mayday events as they happen from the Toronto Media Co-op. Also watch our main twitter feed @TOmediacoop as well as our contributers twitter feeds @q ...
  • Kanonhstaton April 28 Speaker; Ruby Montour
  • Atlantic Canadians Agree: Inequality is a Publ ...
      Inequality has become a problem for all Canadians.  Nationwide, 3.8% of households control about 67% of total financial wealth.  The Conference Board of Canada recently addressed the issue, finding that, “High inequality can diminish economic growth if it me ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • 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 ...
  • From Rosa Parks to Barack Obama
    David Seaton's News LinksOne of the most significant political images in American history. "It did, in fact, give me cause to celebrate that in my own lifetime I saw an African American elected to the presidency." Mike HuckabeeI just didn't want to let this photo go by without comment.I was jus ...
  • Is progressive change in America possible? A p ...
    David Seaton's News Links How is progressive change to be effected within the American political system? First: are citizens asking the correct questions?Does anyone really believe that any topflight, professional, national politician, with what national campaigns cost these days, is ever goin ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Democrats Have Moved to the Right, Not the Left
    This morning I mentioned (and praised) Norm Ornstein and Thomas Mann's new book, It's Even Worse Than It Looks, which basically blames Republicans for the collapse of governance over the past couple of decades. The headline on the op-ed version of their book makes the point even more bluntly: " ...
  • No Room for Gays in the Republican Party
    Molly Ball on April 24, 2012: The recent hiring of Richard Grenell, Mitt Romney's openly gay foreign-policy spokesman, represents a breakthrough in the world of Republican presidential campaigns. Grenell isn't the first out gay person to serve as a high-level staffer to a GOP nominee, but as f ...
  • Building Better Kids: A Big Idea We Should Embrace
    Dana Goldstein says that if she could have her pick of one big idea to iniject into the presidential campaign, it would be universal pre-K schooling: Any radical rethinking of American public policy ought to start with a consideration of one of our most politically neglected populations: ...
  • There's a Whole Lot of Crazy People in America
    Years ago the political blogosphere became overwhelmed by the growing popularity of Outrage of the Day™ blogging. These days there are usually four or five of these stories each day, all of them covered by the usual suspects before they move on to the next day's outrages and all of them f ...
  • Clouds Are the Last Hope of the Climate Deniers
    The New York Times reports today that climate skeptics have pretty much run out of plausible pseudo-science to support their claim that global warming is a myth. Sunspots are a joke. Weather station innacuracy isn't an issue. Paleoclimate reconstructions seem to be fine. Urban heat islands aren ...

Insanity Report

  • 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:
  • IC 315: Ignorance is Bliss
    Topics: The Raid How to make an awesome action movie The Cabin in the Woods and almost ruining a movie with a trailer The Secret Service tries to get it in while in Columbia Snitching on your teacher for showing porn Fucking up your week: Kriss asks a question bound to fuck up everyone’s w ...
  • IC 314: She’s Cute for a Meth Head
    Topics: April Movie Preview Trolling the Avengers Kristen Stewart is not hot enough to play the hot chick Easter has the best candy Bacon Sundaes 600 lbs man gets stuck in his house Best crime spree EVER Trayvon Martin case updates Conservatives have no humanity Share with your friends:

Simple Climate

  • 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.
  • 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

  • Carnegie Mellon researchers create dynamic vie ...
    The millions of "check-ins" generated by foursquare, the location-based social networking site, can be used to create a dynamic view of a city's workings and character, Carnegie Mellon University researchers say. In contrast to static neighborhood boundaries and dated census figures, t ...
  • Jurassic pain: Giant 'flea-like' insects plagu ...
    It takes a gutsy insect to sneak up on a huge dinosaur while it sleeps, crawl onto its soft underbelly and give it a bite that might have felt like a needle going in -- but giant "flea-like" animals, possibly the oldest of their type ever discovered, probably did just that. read more
  • Spot a bot to stop a botnet
    Computer scientists in India have developed a two-pronged algorithm that can detect the presence of a botnet on a computer network and block its malicious activities before it causes too much harm. The team describes details of the system in a forthcoming issue of the International Journal of Wi ...
  • Inexpensive, abundant starch fibers could lead ...
    A process that spins starch into fine strands could take the sting out of removing bandages, as well as produce less expensive and more environmentally-friendly toilet paper, napkins and other products, according to Penn State food scientists. read more
  • Clean drinking water for everyone
    Nearly 80 percent of disease in developing countries is linked to bad water and sanitation. Now a scientist at Michigan Technological University has developed a simple, cheap way to make water safe to drink, even if it's muddy. read more

unEarthed

  • 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 ...
  • Coal -- The Earth's Food Poisoning
    Join more than 600,000 opposing industrial coal plant pollution 680,000 comments, being hand-delivered to the EPA. Earthjustice Legislative Representative Sarah Saylor (left) carries more t ...
  • Tr-Ash Talk: 'Stand Your Ground' Embraces Coal Ash
    Conservative group ALEC would weaken coal ash standards The 2008 coal ash spill in Kingston, TN, motivated the EPA to propose the first ever federal rules regarding safe disposal of coal as ...
  • Group Wins Chance to Protect Grand Canyon
    Court lets Earthjustice argue for wildlife and waters near iconic park The Grand Canyon. We’re in! Judge Martone of the U.S. District Court for the Dis ...

Brave New Climate

  • 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 ...
  • Off to Russia
    Well, I’m just about to hop on a plane to Russia to visit for a week — destination Moscow. This is part of my duties as a member of the International Awards Committee for the Global Energy Prize (see here for details). Whilst in the heart of the former Soviet Union, I’ll hook u ...
  • The Nuclear Energy Solution
    Guest Post by Bill Sacks and Greg Meyerson. Bill is a physicist and a radiologist, and wrote Lessons about nuclear energy from the Japanese quake and tsunami about a  month into the Fukushima crisis. Greg is an English professor with specialization in critical theory. Both are based in the U.S. ...

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

  • 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- ...
  • Press Inquiries
    All media inquiries should be sent to Bo Webb webb.bo@gmail.com Set up interviews via email. Previous Press Releases and Media Public Launch Press Conference Report Back, with video Press Conference Held on June 15 Announces Appalachia Rising Video June 15 Appalachia Public Launch Press Conferen ...

Amped Status

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  • WATCH: Palestinians protest in support of hung ...
    Protesters demonstrated on Tuesday outside the Ofer Prison in the West Bank in support of some 2,000 Palestinian prisoners taking part in a mass hunger strike. At least two of those prisoners, Bilal Diab and Thaer Halahla, are considered at immediate risk of death. In the video below, a Palestin ...
  • Time for a referendum on annexing the West Ban ...
    By David Lehrer With Israeli elections on the horizon, one would expect progressive parties to recognize how dangerously close the Jewish state is to a complete democratic meltdown, and to put forward initiatives that have a realistic chance of stabilizing Israeli democracy.  An independent Jewi ...
  • Jerusalem Post op-ed calls New Yorker editor & ...
    By publishing an op-ed whose sole purpose is to demonize the editor of The New Yorker, the Jerusalem Post is positioning itself in direct odds with liberal values – not to mention  journalistic integrity. The Jerusalem Post ran an op-ed yesterday (Monday) by a writer and attorney from Wash ...
  • WATCH Right wing MK ruin Bob Marley tune in ca ...
    This has to be one of the most sacrilegious videos ever made.  Even before elections have been announced (no doubt they will), ultra-right winger MK Aryeh (aryeh = Lion in Hebrew) Eldad of the Hatikva party (part of the National Union party) took Bob Marley’s “Iron, Lion, Zion” ...
  • The late Benzion Netanyahu’s appalling v ...
    “The tendency toward conflict is in the essence of the Arab.” — Benzion Netanyahu, the prime minister’s father, who died Monday (from a 2009 interview). Below are excerpts from a lengthy April 3, 2009 interview in the Israeli daily Maariv conducted by Sari Makover Belikov ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

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 ...

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The Parallel Parliament

  • “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 »
  • A Hill to Die On
    It all ended so badly – the tone perhaps worse than the ultimate decision. Following 10 years of diligent effort …Continue reading »
  • “Idiots”
    All of this is becoming a little passé and perhaps irrelevant these days, but to read the ideals of democracy …Continue reading »
  • Canada’s Game of Thrones
    Game of Thrones – a popular book series now made into a television series. It’s about power and the never-ending …Continue reading »
  • For All Of It
    This weekend we celebrate the birthdays of our twin girls Abuk and Achan. I just can’t let that day go …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

Reader Supported News

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

War Resisters League

  • “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

  • 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 [...]
  • Colbert Talks Chicken Feed
    Last week, Stephen Colbert used his signature blend of mock-outrage and wit on a topic very familiar to those of us here at the CLF. In a segment called “Thought For Food,” Colbert commented on news reports that cited a recently published CLF study that found antibiotics (some of which have been ...

k2p blog

  • Victor Muller’s Spyker turns a profit af ...
    After Saab's bankruptcy has shown a shortfall of some €1 billion, its former owner Spyker has turned a profit of €16 million.
  • London is a disgrace compared to Delhi
    Immigration, security and customs procedures at London's Heathrow airport are less effective and a lot worse than at New Delhi.
  • Plagiarism one-upmanship – return your d ...
    A German politician has returned his plagiarised Doctorate to the University of Potsdam before he could be found out - this gaining political points with his fellows.
  • Back from assignment
    Deja vu. The fundamental drivers of behaviour are the same and are probably genetic. But perhaps some of the prejudices of 30 years ago - against women in the work place and against ethnic groups - while still present have reduced significantly. The prejudices against the young and the old still ...
  • The spirit of the Inquisition is alive and well
    I conclude that in our enlightened twenty-first century human behaviour is not so very different to that during the medieval period. Crusades and inquisitions are paralleled in today's world.

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • People Realize Chicken Thighs Taste Good, Now ...
    For too long, chicken thighs were the ignored child of the chicken meat family, relegated to bulk packs at ridiculously low prices. For people that knew what to do with the less-desired but more flavorful dark meat, it meant tasty meals that didn't break the bank. But the secret is now out, and ...
  • Is It A Good Or Weird Thing That Some Dollar G ...
    Just the words "dollar store" evoke images of aisle upon aisle of discount merchandise -- housewares, light bulbs, bright green flip flops -- but if Dollar General has anything to do with it, those words will also make you think of buying groceries. The Wall Street Journal says Dollar General ...
  • Man Arrested For Passing Not-Counterfeit $50 Bill
    If you've ever been stuck having to buy something with a $50 or $100 bill in the last decade, you have probably had to stand there while a store clerk performs the marker test to see if the note is legitimate. Unfortunately, that test doesn't work on older bills, and that's how a Tennessee man ...
  • How Many Minutes Should Store Employees Get To ...
    If you're walking down the aisle of a grocery store and a customer only a few feet in front of you accidentally drops a glass jar on the floor, you would have a hard time blaming the store if you got nicked by a piece of glass. But what if that shattered jar had been there for an hour? Thirty m ...
  • Fifth Third Bank Says It Doesn't Actually Have ...
    Consumerist reader Chris says he's been a customer of Fifth Third bank for around two decades, as well as the rest of his family in the Midwest. Heck, his grandfather even worked there. But he says he's now growing very disappointed with it, and a recent rash of overdraft fees isn't helping tha ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Defective Equipment Installed at Hanford, Agai ...
    Associated Press: Report – Hanford Vessels Fail to Meet Requirements In the latest alarming news from the Hanford Nuclear Site, a federal audit has found that the Department of Energy and a contractor "procured and installed tanks that did not always meet requirements of a quality assurance ...
  • BP Exec Suspended after Whistleblower Alleges ...
    Daily Telegraph (UK): BP Suspends Executive at Centre of Bribe Allegations Summary: A BP whistleblower has come forward with a number of bribery allegations against a chartering manager, who has since been put on a leave of absence. The whistleblower claims he has a five-year catalogue of brib ...
  • Prosecute Jose Rodriguez
    Prosecute Jose Rodriguez for violating the anti-torture statute (18 U.S.C. § 2340A). He did it.  Enjoyed doing it. And would do it again. Rodriguez admitted on 60 Minutes that he organized, ordered, and destroyed evidence of "enhanced interrogation techniques." Yesterday's& ...
  • Tears and Cheers: The 2012 Ridenhour Prizes
    Journalist John Seigenthaler presented the Ridenhour Courage Prize to Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.)Working in the nonprofit world can often be discouraging. So much to do, so little time. Not to mention fewer resources, less money, not enough people. Try to address one issue and five more take its pla ...
  • Judge Fails to Dismiss Charge Against Bradley ...
    Associated Press: Most Serious Charge Against Bradley Manning in WikiLeaks Case Stands Summary: A military judge refused yesterday to dismiss the most serious charge against Bradley Manning, the soldier accused of giving classified information to WikiLeaks. Manning’s attorneys had filed to dis ...

UK Progressive

  • Navy Claims Littoral Combat Ship Represents It ...
    By Aaron Mehta, iWatch News The raids should have been a gold star for the Navy. A trial run for a newly designed ship turned into a series of successful missions against cocaine smugglers, resulting in the capture of nine smugglers and over five tons of cocaine. But the early 2010 victories wer ...
  • They’ve Socialized Our Wombs: ‘In Arizona I’m ...
    This lovely video and song comes to us from Taylor Ferrara. I will be in Arizona tomorrow, driving through on my way to New York City. And I am “expecting” (get it?) to be legally pregnant for a couple of hours. When the law sees us as public incubators – adding a prequel to co ...
  • FCC-Required Political Ad Data Disclosures Won ...
    by Justin Elliott, ProPublica (4/27/12): This post has been updated. The Federal Communications Commission voted 2-1 this morning to require broadcasters to post political ad data on the Web, making it easier for the public to see howas much as $3.2 billion will be spent on TV advertising in thi ...
  • Is CISPA SOPA 2.0? We Explain the Cybersecurit ...
    by Megha Rajagopalan, ProPublica Update (4/26): An earlier version of this story said a proposed amendment by Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., had helped gain support for CISPA. Schiff’s amendment, which among other things would further define what’s considered a “cyber threat,” is no lon ...
  • Egypt’s Mismanaged Transition: Failing
    Last year, I argued on this blog that we need to know the rules of the game before holding any elections, basically calling for a new Constitution before elections. In fact, many intellectuals in Egypt and around the world were calling for the same thing. However, SCAF embarked on a different pa ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Murdoch tweets about money printing and inflat ...
    The game is up when everyone knows the only way out is printing money, because then everyone knows inflation is coming, and the bun-fight begins. Everyone wants the wage rise, the payment now, and to buy the commodities that they won’t be able to afford tomorrow. Price tags begin that risi ...
  • The spectacle that is the Australian Parliamen ...
    Even if you aren’t in Australia, you can’t help but find the  Australian Parliament the best reality TV show on the box anywhere. The background: Our Leftie Labor Government was elected with a roughly equal tally of seats as the right leaning coalition, in late 2010. It was such a kn ...
  • David Evans explains the skeptics case (Youtube)
    No, this isn’t footage from the documentary I can Change Your Mind — that’s a very large file, and we are trying to condense it so it can appear in a complete but manageable form. In the meantime, it just happens that thanks to Barry Corke (for the filming and editing) we have ...
  • ABC Biased. Scientist Matthew England, outrage ...
    Bottom line: On Q&A Nick Minchin said the IPCC predictions were wrong. Matthew England said “Not true” their 1990 prediction was “very accurate”. But the IPCC predicted 0.3C per decade, and we got at most 0.18C per decade. (Forster and Rahmsdorf 2011 ) How is is &#822 ...
  • The intellectual vacuum – alarmists are ...
    In response to the ABC doco I Can Change Your Mind, the believers of man-made global warming are out attacking with logical fallacies, cherry picking deceit, and the usual barking mad irrelevant lines about tobacco and AIDS.  Desperate eh? Never before in one day on one post have I enjoyed respo ...

ReNew America

  • The subversive network taking over America
    (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - The time has long passed when we could afford to look the other way on the extent to which subversive influences -- communist and jihad-oriented Islamists -- have for years been worming their way into the high councils of our government...
  • Obama has held more re-election fundraisers th ...
    (London Daily Mail) - Barack Obama has already held more re-election fundraising events than every elected president since Richard Nixon combined, according to figures to be published in a new book. Obama is also the only president in the past 35 years to visit every electoral battleground state ...
  • Maybe no housing rebound for a generation
    (Reuters) - The Housing market is likely to remain weak and may take a generation or more to rebound, Yale economics professor Robert Shiller told Reuters Insider on Tuesday. Shiller, the co-creator of the Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller home price index, said a weak labor market, high gas prices ...
  • Debunking the racism myths
    (Thomas Sowell) - Around this time of year, I sometimes hear from parents who have been appalled to learn that the child they sent away to college to become educated has instead been indoctrinated with the creed of the Left. They often ask if I can suggest something to have their offspring read ...
  • Breitbart's coroner poisoned to death?
    (WorldNetDaily) - Medical examiners in Los Angeles are investigating the possible poisoning death of one of their own officials who may have worked on the case of Andrew Breitbart, the conservative firebrand who died March 1, the same day Sheriff Joe Arpaio announced probable cause for forgery i ...

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

  • Chiacgo Evacuation Plans: False Flag?
    Later this month (May 18-21), Chicago will be hosting a NATO Summit. Often such high-profile political meetings inspire riots and protests (like the 2004 NATO Summit in Turkey), yet strangely they keep choosing to have them in major cities (instead of somewhere less accessible). It’s almos ...
  • Magnetic Field & the GPS of Pigeons
    Certain neurons in pigeon brains encode the direction and intensity of Earth’s magnetic field, providing the common birds with an internal global positioning system, according to a new study. The findings in the study, published in the latest Science Express, likely apply to other birds as well ...
  • Survival Tips on YouTube
    I’m normally quite dismissive of YouTube when it comes to 2012 information. Although there are many thousands of videos about 2012, the majority are from faceless, nameless authors presenting unverifiable information – which only leads to more confusion on the topic. The other side o ...
  • Fukushima Radiation in the USA – Really?
    Just in case you were falling for the radiation scaremongering… you might have noticed that the mainstream media have not reported on this, and I can’t see how you could suggest it is a “conspiracy”. Reality… it’s a non-story, despite what you may read: Mut ...
  • Deaths and House Prices
    The peak-to-trough fall in house prices in the 1930s Depression was 31 per cent – and prices took 19 years to recover after that downturn. The current Global Financial Crisis has surpassed that decline, with a record 33%. But ultimately, whichever way you look at it, humans have collectively b ...

Facing South

One News Page

  • Obama attacked over Osama bin Laden boasts
    Mitt Romney said that 'even Jimmy Carter', the former Democratic president whose name is now a byword for weak US leadership, would have done the same. Reported by DNA 1 hour ago
  • Supreme Court allows conditional release of It ...
    The Enrica Lexie, an Italian merchant vessel will be allowed to leave Kerala and sail home. The Supreme Court today sanctioned the release of the ship which has been anchored at Kochi since two local ... Related Stories Reported by NDTV.com 1 hour ago
  • Giant screens across Kolkata for IPL's top draw
    * With all tickets for Saturday's game between Kolkata Knight Riders and Pune Warriors India sold out, plans are afoot to install 12 giant screens across the city so that enthusiasts can watch the action live even when on the move.* The giant screens would be put up by the Cricket ... Report ...
  • Kabul fighting over, all attackers killed
    At least 11 people, including five attackers, have been killed, according to Kabul police officials. Reported by Firstpost 1 hour ago
  • Anurag Kashyap’s ‘Gangs of Wasseypur’ to run r ...
    The director’s magnum opus will premiere at the London International Film Festival in JuneIt’s going to be the London riots all over again. Reported by Bollywood Life 2 hours ago

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • 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 ...
  • What Missiles Are Threatening Europe?
    The issue of creating missile defense boundaries in Europe is largely political in nature. The United States is developing the system more for ensuring national security — officially from Iran, but in reality from China and possibly Russia. Otherwise, it is difficult to understand its persistenc ...

BlogHer

  • The Validation Trap of an Online Life
    There's a line between telling a story and exorcising demons, and it's thin. It curves around the edges of the truth the way a tight dress hugs the hips. Suggesting, not revealing. Containing the words without saying too much. This line has been on my mind lately, snaking a path through my day. ...
  • Let's Be Honest with Moms: Breastfeeding Can Hurt!
    [Editor's Note: We recently talked about what breastfeeding advocates should stop saying, so the question remains: What should they be saying? Maryann at Raise Healthy Eaters shared about how she was absolutely determined to breastfeed. I mean, why not? Only when she was in the thick of it did ...
  • (PICS) Stuffed Animals Call Octomom's Bankrupt ...
    Octomom Nadya Suleman is back in the news, having declared bankruptcy even after posing nude in order to make money. This was no shocker to me: My daughter's stuffed animals got the skinny two years ago. Here's my pictoral coverage of the 2009 interview between the Octopony Mom and Dr. Phooh, in ...
  • What's Your Favorite Blogged Recipe?
    It is always the highlight of my work week to bring you bite-sized interviews with our speakers. With BlogHer Food '12 looming one month and one week away, I really wanted to take the time to ask a couple of our speakers a question that I always ask food bloggers: What's your favorite blogged r ...
  • Helping My 13-Year-Old Get Ready for Social Media
    As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I have an almost 13-year-old that is bringing the whole social media thing and her use of it to my forefront. I have several ideas running through my head on how to approach this, but I still have time. I don’t think I am in denial, I just like to procrastinate. ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Human Metabolism Negatively Impacted by High-F ...
    High-fructose corn syrup is just one food ingredient, among many others, that virtually every health advocate will tell you to avoid. The Corn Refiners Association (CRA), a large organization that represents the corn refining industry, continues to ...
  • The Hierarchy of Healthiness
    What is health?  What is healthiness?  There are a few definitions of health. Search anywhere for healthiness – and you will find yourself re-directed to ‘health’. What about Healthicine?  Medicine is well defined, but no dictionary defines healthicine. ...
  • Primary Causes of Illness
    Our current ‘health system’ tends to focus on symptoms and treatments. Disease is diagnosed through symptoms.  And we often treat the symptoms instead of the illness ignoring the cause.  Often we hear someone raising money ...
  • Fluoride Linked to #1 Cause of Death in New Re ...
    Groundbreaking new research has linked sodium fluoride to cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death worldwide. Researchers found that fluoride consumption directly stimulates the hardening of your arteries, a condition known as atherosclerosis that is highly correlated with the ...
  • The Link Between Autism and Low Levels of Vita ...
    Vitamin D Intake and Cognitive Performance If even some of the damage done by vitamin D deficiency during fetal development is reversible, we’d expect to find that vitamin D supplementation would help reduce autistic symptoms at ...

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

  • UMWA wins big decision in Peabody case
    Dave Thearle, a member of the United Mine Workers of America, waves an American Flag during a rally in Waynesburg, Pa., in April 2011. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic) Here’s the lead on this story, from the AP: A federal judge has rejected a coal company’s objections over a union election ...
  • ‘Severe weakness’ cited in U.S. co ...
    There’s interesting new on the coal business today in the earnings statement from Arch Coal, and this quote from John W. Eaves, Arch’s president and chief executive officer: The severe weakness in U.S. thermal coal markets impacted our first quarter results and, consequently, we are ...
  • Hollow: A different sort of coalfield film
    A coal truck drives out of downtown Welch, W.Va., Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2011. Coal brought a large population to the McDowell County in the 1940′s. Now the population is shrinking and the county suffers from unemployment and poverty. (AP Photo/Jon C. Hancock) My buddy Doug Imbrogno did a Gaze ...
  • Vandalism in coal country
    Photo by Antrim Caskey, Appalachia Watch There are two disturbing reports out of the coalfields of Southern West Virginia today, providing again more evidence of why political, industry, citizens and labor leaders (and the media) should tone down the “war on coal” rhetoric. First, th ...
  • Why doesn’t MSHA move faster on SCSR pha ...
    When the announcement came last week that the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health were finally doing something about CSE Corps.’s defective SR-100 emergency breathing devices, the talking point was pretty clear: The ag ...

Daniel Miessler

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Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Wednesday
    Protesters hit streets for May Day rallies; violence flares in Oakland, Seattle By Miranda Leitsinger, msnbc.com Updated at 03:38 A.M. ET: Protesters across the world marched through the streets Tuesday toting signs, playing instruments and wearing costumes to rally against austerity measures, c ...
  • Piss off “The Man”, baby!
    We’re selling bumperstickers. These stickers are guaranteed to stick with you through thick and thin. They’re specially designed to piss off The Man, baby. Support Citizen Journalism – Support Worldwide Hippies These are really nice stickers. Made of 100% weather-proof, dog-pro ...
  • Hip Poetry: ‘Caught Jesus Smoking Weed&# ...
    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 ...
  • Geiger Counter-Wielding Fukushima Hipsters Mak ...
    BY ADRIAN CHEN,gawker - t’s been more than a year since the Japanese tusnami caused a meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear plant and the clean-upcontinues. But a bit of background radiation has not stopped a crew of Japanese hipsters from doing their hip business in the area. They’ve fo ...
  • Worldwide Hippies Digest Tueaday: F word, Hipp ...
    Feminism WTF - By lelalondon on April 29, 2012 | From lelalondon.com The F word. The worst one around. The one tied with unpleasantly preconceived notions of bra burning and man-hating. Recently, after overhearing an explosively sexist comment on a lunch break, I asked a friend, “Do you con ...

reference frame

  • Eugene: Reds shifting and redshifting
    Guest blog by Eugene Seidel In 1986 Robert Nozick, professor of philosophy at Harvard and author of Anarchy, State and Utopia among numerous other works, published an essay titled Why Do Intellectuals Oppose Capitalism. (An abridged version of the essay appears at the Cato Institute webs ...
  • Lee Smolin on religion, philosophers, and revo ...
    On a notorious weblog run by his fellow crackpot, Lee Smolin got inspired by Lawrence Krauss' low-brow battle against philosophers and presented his opinions about the comparisons of science and religion or philosophy and the philosophers' impact on revolutions in physics. I would like t ...
  • EU subsidizes Caribbean rum
    We've been told that there are hundreds of examples of the European Union projects that look comical but it's always interesting to see particular examples. On Wednesday, April 18th, the European Union apparatchiks have approved a nice EUR 46.5 million project: BELGIUM: Caribbean ...
  • Habermann: a movie on the Sudetenland
    Last night I watched the Habermann Mill, a 2010 Czech-German-Austrian movie on the co-existence of Czechs and Germans in the Sudetenland. The film director, Mr Juraj Herz, is a Slovak-born Czech Jewish chap. Both Czech and German or Austrian actors were hired. I think that the m ...
  • Was the Universe past-eternal?
    Cosmic Variance and other blogs describe a clash between Lawrence Krauss, a self-described Star Trek physicist and a jerk, and some self-described modern philosophers whose names are too unimportant to occupy several bytes on TRF in the wake of the publication of Krauss' book, "A Universe fro ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • Boston Bruins Fans go on racist twitter attack ...
    Racism is alive and well in the good ole USA. Last night Washington Capitals forward, Joel Ward, scored the winning goal in overtime of game 7 thus eliminating last seasons Stanley Cup Champions, the Boston Bruins, from further play.   Within minutes of the game’s end a lot of Bruin f ...
  • If I wanted America to fail – Earth Day is Min ...
    With all of the Yuppies and Trendies running around shouting “save the planet from ourselves” the social engineers of the planet and global dictators must have huge shit-eating grins on their face at the little mindless Eco-Fascists that they have created. An entire generation of you ...
  • MAD APE PRESS RELEASE: Council on Foreign Rela ...
    MAD APE PRESS RELEASE We, the free people of the Planet Earth, who have broken through the false reality that you have helped create, know who you are and what you represent. Our duty, our life mission, is to expose your deceit, your global financial dictatorship, your theft of the human spirit, ...
  • God bless America. Without you we would not ha ...
    After decades of fluoridation, aspartame, high fructose corn syrup, GMO, growth hormones, antibiotics in the food, the US Education System, and mass media zombie programming, you end up with cross-dressing, feminized, obese rednecks. God bless America. Without you we would not have this: The pho ...
  • Planet X Arrives in Antarctica
    I tried to tell you guys that Planet X aka Nibiru was here (http://tatumba.com/blog/archives/7116). I photographed it and uploaded back in January 2012, when it was just coming into our visible frequency range. I was ridiculed, told it was Photoshopped, lens flare, etc. Well I just got back from ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

  • Can't Stop the Big Mo
    Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
  • 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

  • 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 ...
  • We've Been Slimed
    A guest post from Laura MacCleery Mom, attorney and blogger Last month, the New York Times published a story about my efforts when I was pregnant to rid my home of toxic chemicals. The story featured a photo of my... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other ...
  • Skin Deep and Healthy Home Tips Across the Web
    News coverage of EWG topics including cosmetics and household toxins appeared across the web from sites including the Los Angeles Times, Shine by Yahoo!, and Prevention. EWG released a statement on a finding from an independent science panel finding... [[ This is a content summary only. Vis ...
  • News Wrapup: Earthquakes, Nail Polish and Diabetes
    A summary of a U.S. Geological Survey finding associating earthquakes with the oil and gas drilling process was mentioned by The Atlantic, and re-printed in Yahoo! Finance and SFist. Bill Allayaud was interviewed twice by different Fox News programs,... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Norway mourns swimmer’s death
    Flags that were flying high on the Norwegian Labour Day holiday on Tuesday were lowered to half-mast following reports that Norway’s world champion swimmer Alexander Dale Oen had been found dead in his hotel room at a training camp in Flagstaff, Arizona. Oen, named Norway’s top athle ...
  • Political intrigue swirls around government’s ...
    NEWS ANALYSIS: The gloves have come off during the week that’s followed release of the government’s long-awaited report on how Norwegians are supposed to reduce carbon emissions. Not only has the opposition found bones to pick with the report, the government players behind it have be ...
  • ‘A place in my heart’ for children
    Norway’s new chief advocate for children was preparing this week for her new job that she’ll take over in June, and clearly looking forward to it. Dr Anne Lindboe, a pediatrician who’s worked extensively with children’s rights and cases of child abuse, is Norway’s f ...
  • Pressure builds on youngest minister
    Inga Marte Thorkildsen is the latest government official to land in trouble for allegedly abusing her political power. Just a month after taking over as cabinet minister in charge of family and equality issues, she’s under harsh criticism for involving herself in a specific case of suspect ...
  • Jens ready for a ‘different’ May 1st
    Jens Stoltenberg, Norway’s prime minister from the Labour Party who’s popularly known simply as “Jens,” was heading for Bergen on Tuesday to speak at this year’s May 1st Labour Day celebrations. Both the leader and deputy leader of Bergen’s chapter of Labour y ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • International Permaculture Day, Sunday the 6th ...
    Celebrates all things permaculture around the world. Get involved with International Permaculture Day! Permaculture in Ecuador The Permaculture Day concept is one that celebrates all things permaculture around the world on the same day or weekend, if possible. The events are hosted and funde ...
  • Meat Consumption in China Now Double that in t ...
    by Janet Larson, Earth Policy Institute More than a quarter of all the meat produced worldwide is now eaten in China, and the country’s 1.35 billion people are hungry for more. In 1978, China’s meat consumption of 8 million tons was one third the U.S. consumption of 24 million tons. ...
  • Permaculture on Bay FM – the Most Easterly Sta ...
    Bay FM Community Radio is a volunteer run, not for profit radio station committed to keeping the community informed on local and global issues, presenting music and information not available on other media in this area, and on creating and maintaining a positive spirit in the community. From M ...
  • When “Eww” Turns to “Ooh!”
    You’ve heard the Zaytuna Farm composting loo story before, but since this is the first time I’ve personally seen ‘the great chamber changeover’ take place myself, during one of my own visits, I thought I’d share the tale once more. The PRI’s Zaytuna Farm comp ...
  • PRI Australia International Permaculture Day E ...
    One of several Zaytuna Farm dams Photo © Craig Mackintosh People who will be in northern NSW, Australia, on International Permaculture Day (May 6), might want to avail themselves of one, or both, of the following two opportunities — and make a truly International Permaculture Day o ...

Pointman's

  • 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 ...
  • There’s a killer in your house.
    This year marks the final phase out of incandescent light bulbs in the EU, and their total replacement by what’s termed compact fluorescent lamps or CFLs. The reasons given for this move are that CFLs are more environmentally friendly, because they reduce CO2  emissions, and more energy-ef ...
  • The sun is setting on solar power, the money&# ...
    If you keep an eye on the financial world, which I do, and especially the green sectors, which I also do, it’s been an interesting time of late. Within the last few weeks, Solar Trust of America (STA), owner of the world’s largest solar plant, filed for bankruptcy protection under Ch ...
  • About writing.
    I do the thinking thing very well. For so much of my life and for so many things in it, I think very carefully before I leap and I’m good at it. Over the years, people have learnt to trust and depend on that and because I love them, that’s something special I can do … Read more
  • About writing.
    I do the thinking thing very well. For so much of my life and for so many things in it, I think very carefully before I leap and I’m good at it. Over the years, people have learnt to trust and depend on that and because I love them, that’s something special I can do … Read more

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 ...
    Google “39 Ways to Serve and Participate in Jihad,” and you’ll get more than 590,000 hits. You’ll find full-text English translations of this Arabic document on the Internet Archive, an e-library; on 4Shared Desktop, a file-sharing site; and on numerous Islamic sites. You will find it cited and ...
  • Social Engineering • White almost killed by a ...
    J-Tribe craziness let loose in the USA... keep'em cocked and loaded...--CSR ---------- A beating at Church and Brambleton Posted to: Michelle Washington Opinion Michelle Washington Editorial writer for The Virginian-Pilot By Michelle Washington The Virginian-Pilot © May 1, 2012 Wave after w ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    BY LORI COOLICAN, THE STARPHOENIX Editor's note: Some readers may find contents disturbing A 21-year-old Saskatchewan man is facing a penitentiary sentence in a child pornography case described by a veteran Crown prosecutor as possibly the most egregious in provincial history. Shane Dale Pa ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    duplicate postStatistics: Posted by Timothy_Fitzpatrick — Tue May 01, 2012 10:45 pm
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Yeah, Og. That blogspot has not been updated in a year. Look, Mark, I don't like Marrs' association with Alex Jones or any of the others you mentioned either. But I have not found an ounce of disinfo coming from Texe Marrs' material. I am sure Texe's reasons for not outing Jones are good ones. ...

TVNZ

  • Clinton heads to China and into dissident drama
    Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is set to begin a high-stakes trip to Beijing, where a blind dissident is reportedly holed up in the US embassy as China and the United States try to work out a solution before high-level talks
  • US May Day protests draw police
    Occupy Wall Street protesters smashed windows, fled police on scooters and clashed with officers in May Day protests.
  • New York man convicted in subway suicide bomb plot
    A Bosnian-born US citizen has been convicted of plotting coordinated suicide bombings of New York subways in what federal authorities called one of the biggest terrorism threats to America since the September 11 attacks
  • Obama in Afghanistan on anniversary of bin Lad ...
    US President Barack Obama arrived in Afghanistan to conclude an agreement charting future relations with the country, making the unannounced trip in darkness on the first anniversary of the killing of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden
  • Rupert Murdoch 'unfit' to lead News Corp - MPs
    A damning report says Rupert Murdoch is responsible for misleading the public and MP's over the phone-hacking scandal.  

environment 360

  • Oil and Gas Companies See Offshore Wind Potent ...
    An increasing number of oil service companies are working with renewable energy companies to develop offshore wind projects in the North Sea as the region’s fossil fuel resources dwindle and demand for clean energy rises. According to a report by Bloomberg News, companies such as Technip and Sub ...
  • Fukushima Begins Restoration of Forests Destro ...
    Fukushima Prefecture will soon begin a nine-year restoration of coastal forests devastated by last year’s tsunami, including the planting of 4.6 million seedlings over a 90-mile stretch of coastline. With the financial assistance of other prefectures, the Fukushima government will begin collecti ...
  • Leaf-Mimicking Design Boosts Output of Solar P ...
    By adding microscopic folds onto the surface of photovoltaic materials, a design variation borrowed from a natural leaf, researchers say they have been able to boost the solar output of flexible plastic solar cells by 47 percent. According to the scientists, who published their Frank Wojciech ...
  • Australia Lists Koala As Threatened Species fo ...
    The Australian government has added the koala to the list of threatened species in parts of the country for the first time, saying the iconic species is under threat from habitat loss, urban expansion, disease, and climate change. Following a three-year study, Environment Minister Tony Burke an ...
  • China’s Looming Conflict Between Energy and Water
    In its quest to find new sources of energy, China is increasingly looking to its western provinces. But the nation’s push to develop fossil fuel and alternative sources has so far ignored a basic fact — western China simply lacks the water resources needed to support major new energy development ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • Montreal: Not just about tuition fees
    By Montreal Simon It’s reached a point where I almost can’t bear to read or watch any MSM coverage of the Quebec student strike. Because all I usually see is a bunch of kooky old right-wing pundits flapping their gums, or hissing like kettles. Like the grotesque Con dwarf Rex Murphy. ...
  • The Inside Read: “Crossing the Continent ...
    We’re pleased to unveil backofthebook.ca’s Inside Read, in which we’ll introduce you to new Canadian books with an excerpt that we think will whet your appetite for more. In this passage from Michel Tremblay’s new novel Crossing the Continent, translated by Sheila Fischma ...
  • Woodworth’s motion aborted
    By Montreal Simon Gawd. What a horrible way to begin my day. All I could think of was Stephen “Woody” Woodworth polishing his big teeth, and preparing for his big day. Even my egg started to look like him, and I hardly dared boil it, in case it should hatch. For who knows when life [...]
  • Robocalls: The seven deadly ridings
    By Allison@Creekside As a follow up to my earlier chart showing Steve’s Margin of Victory in ridings with the closest vote margins, I’ve adjusted it to include only the seven being contested in court for voter fraud and added two columns of polling data from an EKOS research paper ba ...
  • Alberta election’s biggest loser: Stephe ...
    By Frank Moher I’ll leave it to others to dissect why the PC’s ended up trouncing Wildrose in Alberta, despite all the polls and predictions. What interests me is what this portends for Stephen Harper and company. Danielle Smith is, whether by happenstance or design, a near-clone of ...

Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Matsui finalizes deal with Rays
    Hideki Matsui has signed a minor league contract with the Tampa Bay Rays, and the two-time AL All-Star will report Wednesday to extended spring training in Port Charlotte. Tampa Bay wants to add depth in the outfield and at designated hitter. The 37-year-old has played nine seasons in the majo ...
  • Cool Biz effort starts month early
    Government and parliamentary staff ditched their ties Tuesday as Japan began its Cool Biz summertime casual wear campaign aimed at saving power by reducing the use of air conditioning. The government moved up the start of the campaign by a month as it did last year amid the nuclear crisis at t ...
  • Heat grab 2-0 lead on Knicks; Amare injured af ...
    Drops of blood stained the carpet leading up to the back entrance of the New York Knicks' locker room. The glass portion of a nearby fire-extinguisher case was quickly replaced. And Amare Stoudemire needed doctors and paramedics to treat a postgame cut on his left hand.
  • Getting weary of austerity
    The results of the first round on April 22 of the French presidential election underlined that France's economic stagnation caused by the 2008 Lehman Brothers shock and the eurozone sovereign debt crisis was an important factor. They point to people's strong dissatisfaction with the austerity po ...
  • Obama, Noda seek close ties amid skepticism ov ...
    With concerns growing over China's military buildup and strains on the Korean Peninsula, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda became the country's first leader to formally meet U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House since the Democratic Party of Japan swept to power in 2009. Noda, who arrived ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Canadian Mining and Manufacturing Stumble
    Statistics Canada reported today that the economy shrank in February, driven by declines in resource extraction and manufacturing. Oil and gas extraction as well as hard-rock mining decreased due to temporary shutdowns. However, the most dramatic decline was in potash production, down 19% due to ...
  • Canada’s Secret Bank Bailout
    The conventional narrative about the performance Canada’s big banks during the financial crisis goes as follows: while American banks bet heavily on sub-prime real estate and had extensive shadow bank holdings, Canadian banks did not. However, the details of exactly how much each Canadian bank r ...
  • Tax Day’s Birthday Presence
    This year, once again, I’ll celebrate my birthday as Canadians file their tax returns. I was born on April 30th. And considering my line of work, that coincidence might be ironic. Or perhaps just particularly appropriate. I know, I know. Taxes, right? But the thing is, I’ve never been one ...
  • Climate change will shape BC in 2035, one way ...
    I have an oped in today’s Vancouver Sun as part of its BC in 2035 series. Climate change will shape BC in 2035, one way or another We live on a different planet from the one our parents grew up on, says environmentalist Bill McKibben. Climate change from our rampant combustion of fossil fu ...
  • The Opacity of Tory Transparency
    “The time for accountability has arrived.” These were the first words written by Stephen Harper in the Conservatives’ 2006 Election Platform, “Stand Up for Canada.” Indeed, if there is an animating theme in what would become the Conservative’s winning election message in 2006, it was the T ...

ReDress

  • American Methodists must be fearless about div ...
    Stuart Littlewood calls on US Methodists to be courageous and ignore pressure from Christian Zionists by supporting divestment from companies that profiteer from the brutal Israeli occupation of Palestine, arguing that British Methodists had "blazed a trail through this minefield" nearly two yea ...
  • Israel propagandist David Horowitz and the art ...
    Lawrence Davidson examines the use of slander by US conservative writer David Horowitz to damn the boycott Israel campaign. He argues that Horowitz "displays the prejudice of a fanatic and tries to pass it off as reason” but that he “may well have overstepped and made himself the subject of crit ...
  • US liberals and their situational ethics
    Lawrence Davidson argues that the ethical standards of American liberals are more malleable than they would admit: In practice they "do not oppose the violation of civil or human rights, be they those of Americans, Iraqis or anybody else. What they do consider unacceptable are violations carried ...
  • Disempowerment and suppression of freedoms in ...
    Graham Peebles looks at how the increasingly paranoid regime of Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi is systematically tightening its monopoly over information, suppressing free speech and suffocating media freedom. "Disempowerment is the aim, and the means are well known, crude and unimaginati ...
  • Israel's settler-officers in the glare of publ ...
    Uri Avnery examines the incident in which an Israeli skullcap-wearing officer, Lt-Col Shalom Eisner, launched an unprovoked and brutal attack on a young Danish peace activist, and argues that Eisner, a deputy brigade commander, is not just the quintessential army officer but the quintessential I ...

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

  • America is Not Immune to the Water Crisis
    “In the U.S., we tend to think of “the water crisis” as a problem for other countries, but as we show in Last Call, we are not immune. By the interconnected nature of the resource, the crisis is global, its impacts domino-like. We shouldn’t feel insulated just because wat ...
  • Energy industry works to recycle hydro-frackin ...
    “Energy executives fear that without addressing environmental concerns, fracking could be headed for a rapid demise. “France and Belgium have permanently banned it,” says Chris Faulkner, CEO of Breitling Oil & Gas, an independent exploration and production company located in Irving, Te ...
  • INDONESIA: Living with dirty water
    “Heavy pollution of river water by household and industrial waste in the Indonesian province of West Java is threatening the health of at least five million people living on the riverbanks, say government officials and water experts. Poor sanitation and hygiene cause 50,000 deaths annually ...
  • NV Energy’s coal-burning plant fires up ...
    “Paiutes tell stories of the plant’s impact over four decades. On windy days, coal-ash particles from the plant’s landfill fell like snowflakes on houses at the reservation where about half the tribe lives. On stagnant mornings, yellow-brown clouds hovered over the reservation ...
  • Elwha sediment not just mud, it’s nouris ...
    “The sediment loads in the Elwha River are spiking because the reservoir behind former Elwha Dam is now completely gone. That means the settling of fines that used to occur in the lake is no longer happening so all that material is pouring into the river, and heading on down to the Strait ...

D. Kucinich

  • How to Fund the Massive Infrastructure Investm ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today offered the following solution after AFL-CIO President Richard L. Trumka called for massive infrastructure investment at the Building & Construction Trades Department's 2012 Legislative Conference. ...
  • Kucinich Votes Against H.R. 4628, the Interest ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement after voting against  H.R. 4628, the Interest Rate Reduction Act. “Congress has a unique opportunity to prevent the scheduled doubling of student loan interest rates before July.  Our failure to act will have de ...
  • Kucinich Stands with T-Mobile Workers
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), who has been one of the most consistent supporters for workers in Congress, today released the following statement and video in support of workers who object to a decision by T-Mobile to close seven call centers in the United States. ...
  • Kucinich: Nuclear Loan Guarantees – Bad Inves ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following video discussing why nuclear loan guarantees are a bad investment. The Department of Energy is expected to soon guarantee $8.3 billion of loans to the Southern Company. Cli ...
  • Market Manipulation Drives Gas Prices Higher; ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today proposed an amendment in the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform to exempt the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) from legislation meant to prevent the federal government from taking “significant regulatory actions.” “The CFTC’s job i ...

Authentically Wired

  • employees for the new world order …
    … CCA is striving with Arizona Governor Jan Brewer’s assistance to become Arizona’s largest employer and provider of employees for the new world order …   Buying Prisons Is Big Business For Corporate Slave Traders 04-27-2012  •  http://govtslaves.info, Glen Ford The nation’s ...
  • “we” allow our US Congre$$ to lock ...
          … Why not Wells Fargo … “we” allow our US Congre$$ to lock us out and it is “us” who are afraid to force their hand … Why…?     Wells Fargo, Terrified to Face Victims of Its Foreclosure Fraud and Predatory Lending, Locks Shareholders Out of Annual Meeting &#1 ...
  • owned by America’s food industry
      …As … USDA … FDA … Congre$$ are owned by America’s food industry … where can “we” go to get the truth …?   The food industry is waging war on your cells with these 10 toxic ingredients 04-25-2012  •  http://www.naturalnews.com, by: S. D. Wells Preservatives and synthe ...
  • Your call
    … Whether cities which track your personal data are sentient is not answered by this article … whether “tracking” one’s personal data is a something any city ought to do is not answered … Your call …   Sentience is the ability to feel, perceive or be conscious, or t ...
  • liberties and courtesies were extended to
    … Actually many reported “W” Bush  … AWOL … but if you need to give Dan Rather the credit OK …  I suspect a great many liberties and courtesies were extended to “W” because of the influence of “daddy” George Herbert Walker Bush …   Dan Rather Got it Right: George W. Bush DID ...

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 )

  • Does the Tasmanian tiger exist? Is the saola e ...
    The use of remote camera traps, which photograph animals as they pass, has revolutionized research on endangered and cryptic species. The tool has even allowed scientists to document animals new to science or feared extinct. But as important as camera traps have become, they are still prohibitiv ...
  • Photos: Uncontacted Amazon tribes documented f ...
    Aerial surveys of a remote area of rainforest along the Colombia-Brazil border have produced the first photographic evidence of uncontacted tribes, according to a conservation group that works to safeguard indigenous territories and culture. The photos, released by the Amazon Conservation Team ( ...
  • How a crippled rhino may save a species
    On December 18th, 2011, a female Sumatran rhino took a sudden plunge. Falling into a manmade pit trap, the rhino may have feared momentarily that her end had come, but vegetation cushioned her fall and the men that found her were keen on saving her, not killing her. Little did she know that cons ...
  • Our success in transforming commodity markets ...
    The success of governments and big corporations in eliminating environmental degradation from the products we consume will play a critical role in determining the fate of the world's remaining wild places, said a group of experts speaking at a panel during the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepr ...
  • Some toilet paper production destroys Indonesi ...
    American consumers are unwittingly contributing to the destruction of endangered rainforests in Sumatra by purchasing certain brands of toilet paper, asserts a new report published by the environmental group WWF. The report, Don't Flush Tiger Forests: Toilet Paper, U.S. Supermarkets, and the Des ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • 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...
  • Big Bang Theory - surgeon claims to have found ...
    The bottom line is men and women have erogenous zones all over their body. Sex therapist Robyn Salisbury An American surgeon claims to have confirmed the existence of the so-called "G-spot", an elusive female pleasure zone.Academic...

The Bovine

  • The Shropshires and a loss of common sense &#8 ...
    Commentary from raw milk farmer Michael Schmidt: Are we at War? As the news spreads fast about the latest assault on a small farm in Eastern Ontario I ask myself if we are entering into a new and dangerous face of … Continue reading →
  • Raw milk is the topic on America’s Test ...
    “This time on America’s Test Kitchen, we delve into the heated debate surrounding raw milk. Is it safe to drink? Should you have the right to buy it in the first place?…” Listen here
  • Genetic purity for Michigan pork?
    From David E. Gumpert, on the Complete Patient blog: “…Big Ag’s Michigan Pork Producers Association similarly denies it is trying to stamp out small producers: “Since the DNR began enforcement, opponents of the ISO have stepped up their efforts and … Continue readin ...
  • Rawsome founder responds to the New Yorker art ...
    Thanks to Marilyn Gang for the news tip. From Aajonus Vonderplanitz’ “We Want to Live” blog: “The New Yorker magazines RAW DEAL article was so far more favorable to our right to have the foods we want in a major … Continue reading →
  • North Carolina threatens to shut down blogger ...
    Just another entry in the annals of state follies? A blogger who was too much “in their face”? Nevertheless, it’s disquieting that the coercive power of the state would be deployed to enforce dogmas around nutritional advice. I wonder if … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • China Manufacturing "Expands" at Faster Pace; ...
    China manufacturing is reported to be in contraction and expansion simultaneously. The Chinese government reports expansion. The HBSC PMI says China is in contraction for the 6th consecutive month. Obviously this is impossible, so the question is "who to believe?" China Manufacturing ...
  • Contrary Indicator Alert: Greenspan Says U.S. ...
    Bloomberg authors By Steve Matthews and Tom Keene report Greenspan Says U.S. Stocks ‘Very Cheap,’ Likely to Rise Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said U.S. stocks offer good value and are likely to rise as corporate earnings increase over time. “Stocks are very cheap,” Gre ...
  • Bank of Spain Confirms Foreigners Dump Spanish ...
    Anyone with a clue is dumping Spanish bonds, and the investment community in Germany, France, and Italy is doing just that, as Spanish banks foolishly lever up on risk. Via Google Translate, please consider Bank of Spain confirmed that foreign capital flees Spanish bonds The weight of f ...
  • I'm Swapping Some Gold for Silver
    Roughly one year ago (April 27, 2011 to be precise) I wrote Taking Silver Profits - Swapping Silver for Gold I have held physical silver and gold investments continuously for 5 years, and on and off before that. Today I cashed out of silver, trading it for an equal dollar value of gold. ...
  • Ron Paul vs. Paul Krugman: Fed ‘Reckless’ to A ...
    I listened to the debate today on Bloomberg between Ron Paul and Paul Krugman. Link if video does not play: Krugman Says Fed ‘Reckless’ to Allow High Jobless Rate I do not feel Ron Paul did a very good job at making his points, and I certainly wish Ron Paul was a more charismati ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- May 1, 2012
    BFP Nightly Quote “In your reaction to an imagined attack on your country or an insult to its government, you draw closer to the herd for protection, you conform in word and deed, and you insist vehemently that everybody else shall think, speak, and act together. And you fix your adoring g ...
  • The EyeOpener- Fahrenheit 2012: Suppressing D ...
    In this episode of our EyeOpener Report James Corbett looks at the book publishing industry controlled by a few media moguls, examines how the ease with which political and governmental bodies have been able to block the publication of books that are uncomfortable to the Washington elite has gre ...
  • Classified Woman: The Sibel Edmonds Story
    In this startling new memoir, Sibel Edmonds—the most classified woman in U.S. history—takes us on a surreal journey that begins with the secretive FBI and down the dark halls of a feckless Congress to a stonewalling judiciary and finally, to the national security whistleblowers movement she spea ...
  • China’s Land Bridge to Turkey Creates New Eura ...
    Brzezinski Geopolitical Notion Remains US Foreign Policy Today By William Engdahl The prospect of an unparalleled Eurasian economic boom lasting into the next Century and beyond is at hand. The first steps binding the vast economic space are being constructed with a number of little-publicized r ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- April 30 ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.” – Douglas MacArthur International Newsworthy US Strikes a Military Pose for Iran US Amasses Stealth-J ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

Press TV

  • Iran to hold Reuters case 2nd trial
    The second trial session of the Reuters bureau chief in Iran will be held next week over an earlier report by the London-based news agency that branded a group of female Iranian martial arts students as “assassins.”
  • Iraq violence death toll climbs in April
    Official figures show that the death toll of violence in Iraq increased in April from the previous month when the toll was down at its lowest level since the 2003 US-led invasion.
  • UK Queen to act in James Bond film
    The British Queen is to act in the next James Bond film as part of her Diamond Jubilee agenda amid speculations that the decision has to do with the history of the series.
  • Argentina slams blast outside EU office
    The Argentine foreign ministry has condemned an explosion that rocked the headquarters of the European Union delegation in the capital, Buenos Aires.
  • Eurozone joblessness rises to 10.9
    Unemployment rate in the eurozone has hit a record high level in March, rising to 10.9 percent for the first time for 15 years, according to official figures.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

  • 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

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    “In The Hunger Games, kids in poor families take out extra chances in their District lottery...
  • The following series of photos was taken by Pa ...
    The following series of photos was taken by Paul Weiskel at the Boston Commons on April 15, 2012.  The photos depict a Boston Police Department patrolman identified as Vaden Scantlebury who grabs a protester by the neck and then becomes angry at the photographer for attempting to take his pictu ...
  • An Afghan woman holds up a poster during a pro ...
    An Afghan woman holds up a poster during a protest in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, April 14, 2012. A group of Afghan women protested against domestic violence. The poster reads: “Where is justice”. (Musadeq Sadeq)
  • "At home, on issues of domestic importance, Ob ...
    “At home, on issues of domestic importance, Obama is a hamstrung, hogtied president,...
  • Afghan Young Women for Change (YWC) activists, ...
    Afghan Young Women for Change (YWC) activists, holding placards which read ‘where is justice?’, take part in a protest denouncing violence against women in Afghanistan in Kabul on April 14, 2012. Some 30 Afghan women took to the streets of the capital Kabul against the killing of five Afghan wo ...
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