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Women at British Army Auxiliaries - Stretcher Bearers (LOC) (Photo credit: The Library of Congress)

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WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 20: A U.S. Park Police sergeant gathers up a giant banner printed with the Preamble to the United States Constitution during a demonstration against the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling at the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall October 20, 2010 in Washington, DC. The rally at the memorial was organized by brothers Laird and Robin Monahan who spent the last five months walking from San Francisco, California, to Washington to protest the court decision, which overturned the provision of the McCain-Feingold law barring corporations and unions from paying for political ads made independently of candidate campaigns. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)

Paul Krugman at the 2010 Brooklyn Book Festival. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 20: Paulina Perez signs a giant banner printed with the Preamble to the United States Constitution during a demonstration against the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling at the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall October 20, 2010 in Washington, DC. The rally at the memorial was organized by brothers Laird and Robin Monahan who spent the last five months walking from San Francisco, California, to Washington to protest the court decision, which overturned the provision of the McCain-Feingold law barring corporations and unions from paying for political ads made independently of candidate campaigns. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)

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Scoop - NZ

• Krugman and Shiller: We’re In a Depression
  Paul Krugman released a new book yesterday called “End This Depression Now“. In the introduction, Krugman writes: The best way to think about this continued slump, I’d argue, is to accept that we’re in a depression …. It’s nonetheless essentially the same kind of situation that John Maynard K ...
• The Constitutional Crimes of Barack Obama
  * For starters, in vowing to “preserve, protect and defend the US Constitution of the United States,” President Obama, upon taking office, had a sacred obligation to prosecute the people who had gravely wounded that document prior to his assuming office. It was clear, as I wrote in my book The C ...
• The Meaning of “Austerity Measures”
  The eurozone is slipping into a recession that could have been avoided. Had policymakers provided fiscal support for stricken countries in the South and guarantees on their government bonds, (as the USG does for US Treasuries) then their economies could have continued to grow while the necessary ...
• Spanish jobless rate hits 20yr high
  Spain's unemployment rate has hit a 20-year high, with more than 5.6 million people out of work. In the first three months of this year close to 370,000 people lost their jobs and Spain's jobless rate is now at 24.4 per cent. The pain from the latest unemployment figures has been compounde ...
• Yemen: Popular Committees Take Control
  After multiple defeats suffered by the army at the hands of Ansar al-Sharia, local communities and tribes in Southern Yemen have been taking charge of their own security, and doing a much more effective job at maintaining it.

Independent - London

• British tourist survives attack by cheetahs
  A British tourist has spoken of her "nightmare" attack by two cheetahs when she tried to protect a young girl from the large cats.Related StoriesProsecution demands 80-year sentence for former Liberian president Charles TaylorAt least 34 people killed in attack on market town after failed cattle ...
• Two killed in Helmand mortar fire
  Two British soldiers have been killed by enemy mortar fire in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence said.Related Stories16 killed in Pakistan market bomb attackIn pictures: The bewildering face of ChinaUS university offers blind dissident way out of ChinaThe monks in the mist – and the festival o ...
• Fear spreads as Mexican journalists mourned
  Grieving, frightened journalists remembered three slain colleagues yesterday as young and energetic members of a press corps working under terrifying conditions in a state torn by a war between Mexico's two most powerful drug cartels.Related StoriesConrad Black released from prisonFather hikes ...
• Egypt sees street battles ahead of polls
  Egyptian troops blasted protesters with water cannons, tear gas and live ammunition, trying to prevent them from marching on the Defence Ministry in clashes that left one soldier dead and scores of people injured just three weeks ahead of presidential elections.Related StoriesProsecution demands ...
• Syrian forces kill teen in Aleppo protests
  Syrian forces have fired on thousands of protesters in Aleppo, killing a teenager, after a raid on dormitories at the city's main university the day before killed four students and enflamed tensions in a key bastion of support for the regime. Related StoriesStudents 'killed' after troops storm u ...

Rogue Government.com

• UK Energy bills ‘to double in five years’ as ...
  Energy bills are likely to double within five years as the Government drives a move to green power and building nuclear power stations, it is claimed.
• Government asks Jewish groups to join in anti ...
  For the first time, the federal government is expanding its community-based anti-terrorism campaign to a religious group — the Jewish community, victims of past attacks in the U.S.
• China aims high with space program ambitions
  As the U.S. winds down its space shuttle program, and with the International Space Station set to shut down in 2020, eyes are turning to China and its ambitious yet mysterious plans for the final frontier.
• Hackers claim they exposed Booz Allen Hamilto ...
  Hackers flying the AntiSec banner claimed today that they compromised a server at consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and have released internal data, including about 90,000 military e-mail addresses.
• Roman-era shipwreck reveals ancient medical s ...
  A wooden chest discovered on board the vessel contained pills made of ground-up vegetables, herbs and plants such as celery, onions, carrots, cabbage, alfalfa and chestnuts – all ingredients referred to in classical medical texts.

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

• Greek Voters Prepare for Key Election Amid Aus ...
  Athens, Greece - Voters in Greece prepared Saturday to take part in parliamentary elections, with wide uncertainty over what government will emerge from Sunday's vote and how it will handle the austerity crisis gripping the nation. No party is expected to win a majority of the vote, meaning a c ...
• Japan to Switch Off Final Nuclear Reactor (for ...
  The last working reactor in Japan is to be switched off Saturday, leaving the country without nuclear power just over a year after the world's worst atomic accident in a quarter of a century. As technicians ready to close down the No. 3 unit at Tomari in Hokkaido, the debate over whether Japan ...
• Dubai Plans Underwater Hotel Made of Submerged ...
  To say that the city of Dubai - located in the United Arab Emirates - is a playground for the wealthy would be a gross understatement. The urban wonderland is home to some of the most extravagant displays of affluence on Earth, so a new hotel popping up wouldn't normally make headlines. But ...
• Arizona Bans Funding to Planned Parenthood in ...
  US, Phoenix - Arizona Governor Jan Brewer on Friday signed into law a bill banning abortion providers like Planned Parenthood from receiving money through the state, her office said in a statement. The Republican-backed Whole Woman's Health Funding Priority Act cuts off funding for family plann ...
• Bush Torture Lawyer Granted Immunity From Padi ...
  John Yoo, a former Department of Justice attorney who crafted legal memos authorizing the Bush administration's notorious torture programs, will not have to face a lawsuit filed by Jose Padilla, an American citizen accused of terrorism who claims he was tortured while in U.S. military custody. ...

The Galloping Beaver

• Funny how that name keeps coming up
  Strange isn't it? (Emphasis all mine) The management and board of directors of SNC-Lavalin faced tough questions from shareholders Thursday as a probe into unauthorized payments at the company's North African operations widened. Chair Gwyn Morgan, interim CEO Ian Bourne and others disc ...
• OK RCAF, RNZAF or F-35?
  LGen Deschamps, should please just. stop. talking. He does not seem to get just how stupid and corrupted he and his mates are making the RCAF look. Lt-Gen. André Deschamps, who on Tuesday said the air force is preparing to acquire F-35s, told MPs that when DND was analysing options for ...
• Armed nutballs are OK by Harper
  In the logo used by the Canadian Institute for Legislative Action, Canada, geographically, figures less prominently than the other parts of the Americas. That seems to fit with the fact that they get a lot of help from foreigners. And yes, Americans belonging to the National Rifle Associatio ...
• Mr. Wright, I just don't believe you.
  Harper's chief of staff Nigel Wright, they tell us, is a boyscout who dutifully steps out of discussions about the F-35 because of an ethical wall. What F-35? You mean the one presently in an unrecoverable political flatspin that is causing the Harper regime no end of grief as its dirty laund ...
• Empathy . . .
  STEVIE AND THE CONS love punishing people. Rehabilitation is for wusses — God wants punishment! Well, Medicalxpress has an article that helps explain this nasty mind-set, "Highly religious people are less motivated by compassion than are non-believers". Yup, the God Squad just can't seem ...

Media Matters for America

• Fox Promotes Deceptive Ad Accusing Obama Of Ta ...
  Fox News figures are promoting an ad produced by Veterans for a Strong America that deceptively edited statements by President Obama to portray him as taking all the credit for the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. In fact, fuller context of the speeches that the ad excerpts makes clear that Ob ...
• Contrary To Claims On Fox, Obama Has Repeatedl ...
  Fox News figures celebrated the anniversary of the operation that killed Osama bin Laden by attacking President Obama for not giving the military personnel that carried out the mission "the credit that's due to them." But Obama has repeatedly praised and thanked the Navy SEALs and other militar ...
• Unlike The Right-Wing Media, General Petraeus ...
  Right-wing media are attacking the Obama administration for engaging in "direct discussions" with the Taliban over the future of Afghanistan. But General David Petraeus and other national security experts who have served in every administration since the presidency of Richard Nixon say that it ...
• PA Newspapers Miss Story On ALEC Defections
  Pennsylvania's five largest newspapers have generally failed to cover the mounting defections of lawmakers and corporations from the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a right-wing advocacy group whose membership and model legislation have had significant influence on Pennsylvania go ...
• "Not A Fit Person" To Lead: Rupert Murdoch's I ...
  A British government panel investigating the News Corp. phone-hacking scandal has released a report concluding that Rupert Murdoch is "not a fit person" to lead a major company, citing his "willful blindness" to unethical behavior. At Fox News, which is a division of News Corp., this indifferen ...

Global Research.ca

• The Globalization of War: The "Military Roadma ...
  The Pentagon’s global military design is one of world conquest. The military deployment of US-NATO forces is occurring in several regions of the world simultaneously.
• Bracing for Demographic Winter: The "Overpopul ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• US NATO Preparing for New Cold War
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• VIDEO: Kosovo Terror Training Camps Re-Open fo ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Alleged US Army doc: re-education camps and ps ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.

TPM Cafe

• Message to world government: Don't govern the ...
  You could think of the Aspen IDEA report published today as a letter to the head of the International Telecommunications Union, Hamadoun Touré, suggesting that he should reconsider his intent to put the "light touch" of government on the Internet's operations. M. Touré will be running a majo ...
• Obama and Romney on Foreign Policy - Drawing t ...
  The political battle lines are being drawn for the general election debate over foreign policy and national security, and you can't do much better than my fellow Democracy Arsenal blogger Michael Cohen for a guide. One key theme of Michael's latest column for ForeignPolicy.com is what a differen ...
• Will Yale's Alumni Save Liberal Education?
  Hoping to head off alumni resistance to the brand-new "Yale-National University of Singapore" college that the Yale Corporation has created somewhat stealthily in collaboration with the government of that authoritarian city-state, Association of Yale Alumni chairman Michael Madison has inadvert ...
• Neocons Celebrate: We Got MJ Rosenberg, We'll ...
  The right-wing "pro-Israel" lobby has taken off its mask. In the wake of my departure from Media Matters, it is in a celebratory mood. In one article and column after another, the Israel-is-always-right types cannot contain their feeling of triumph. There are dozens of these articles. Here i ...
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Institute for Middle East Understanding

• Palestinians Go Hungry to Make Their Voices He ...
  Each day since April 17, scores of Palestinian prisoners have joined a hunger strike that officials say now counts more than 1,500 participants. And on Thursday, the Palestinian Authority's minister of detainees said that if Israel did not yield to their demands for improved prison conditions, t ...
• Water access spurs resentment in West Bank (D ...
  The reminder of how plentiful water used to be in Auja has reignited resentment -- a feeling shared widely among Palestinians in the occupied territories. The World Bank and international charities accuse Israel of denying enough water to the Palestinians. Ironically, it's a situation made worse ...
• Israel denies withholding counsel from prisone ...
  Israel's Prison Service denies withholding counsel from Palestinian detainees but says the right to an attorney is conditional on getting out of bed, Israeli media reported Thursday. " ...
• Israeli court postpones hunger strike appeal d ...
  Israel's Supreme Court has postponed issuing a decision on appeals by hunger-striking prisoners to be released, a lawyer from the Palestinian Prisoners Society said Thursday. Jawad Boul ...
• UN 'appalled' by Israel treatment of hunger st ...
  A UN expert has said he is appalled by the "continuing human rights violations in Israeli prisons", as Palestinian inmates continue a mass hunger strike. Special Rapporteur Robert Falk said Israel had to treat hunger strikers in line with international standards. Israel's Prison Service says som ...

Water - AlterNet

• Gulf Coast Waters Closed to Shrimping
  State officials in Alabama have taken action, and other states need to take action to keep dangerous seafood from the Gulf off the dinner tables of Americans.
• ALEC and ExxonMobil Push Loopholes in Fracking ...
  In many states, the chemical make-up of fluid pumped into the ground while fracking is shielded from the public, thanks to laws promoted by ALEC and Exxon Mobil.
• Help for a Plastic Planet: New Report Focuses ...
  The report offers real solutions, in addition to an excellent scientific accounting of the threats posed by plastic pollution to the environment, wildlife, humans and economies.
• Billions in Fines Don't Matter -- Here's How B ...
  What is missing is a criminal prosecution that holds responsible the individuals who gambled with the lives of BP's contractors and the ecosystem of the Gulf of Mexico.
• One Family's Unconventional Solution to Save Water
  Self-composting toilets make a lot of sense when water is already a cause of national uprisings and covert wars.

Public Citizen in Texas

• The Game of Thrones (or Texas Politics)
  By Michael Tahmoressi, St. Edwards student and Public Citizen intern Texas can be characterized as a pay to play environment.  Politicians bend to their districts business interests and gubernatorial appointees seem to be selected based on the amounts they contribute to the governor. Contributio ...
• The answer my friend is blowin’ in the wind . . .
  The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the state grid operator and manager of the wholesale electric market, hit a new wind record of 7,599 MW on Wednesday, exceeding the previous record set the previous day by almost 200 megawatts (MW). At the time of Wednesday’s record, wind was su ...
• Your Land is My Land … A David and Goliath Sto ...
  According to the Fort Worth Weekly, the Keystone pipeline company wants to run roughshod over Texas landowners – and maybe Texas law. When someone from the Canandian company, TransCanada, asked the Crawford family in 2008 about an easement to lay pipeline across their farm on the Texas bank of t ...
• Harold Simmons, WCS and the every expanding at ...
  Harold Simmons built a West Texas dump for radioactive waste that is bigger than 1,000 football fields, paid out hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions and got a permit for it in Texas, and is now working to fill it. To turn it into a profitable enterprise, the Texas billiona ...
• A new scientific study for climate change deni ...
  MSNBC reports that a scientific paper published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature on Wednesday concluded that during the end of the last Ice Age (12,000 years ago), global temperatures rose after carbon dioxide levels started to rise.  This provides even more scientific evidence that there is ...

Unexplained Mysteries

• Dinosaurs plagued by ancient giant 'fleas'
  A species of giant flea-like insect would have fed on the blood of dinosaurs over 165 million years ago. As if modern fleas weren't bad enough, the pr...
• Is food dropped on the floor safe to eat?
  Scientists have recently studied whether or not food dropped on the floor is truly safe for consumption. We're all guilty of it: dropping a chip or a ...
• Human higher brain function gene found
  A crucial gene that would have lead to human speech and invention has been identified by scientists. The gene helps control the development of the par...
• Belief in a 'doomsday' is higher than ever
  A new poll has indicated that 15% of people worldwide believe the world will end during their lifetime. Similarly, 10% believe that it will not only e...
• Europe selects 'Juice' Jupiter mission
  The European Space Agency is to send a 1bn-Euro space probe to visit Jupiter and its icy moons. Nicknamed 'Juice', the new mission will launch in 2022...

Grassroots

• Insights Spring 2012 - Healthy food today, hea ...
  Put simply, agroecology recognizes that a crop lives in a complex neighborhood of pests,  aquifers, land and climate patterns, and economic pressures. That doesn't sound like a radical notion, but the truth is that if applied, it might just blow the roof off of current industrial agricultur ...
• Subsidy Buffet for Agribiz, Table Scraps for G ...
  Subheadline:  Analysis of the pending 2012 Farm Bill Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:  Kari Hamberschlag is Senior Food and Agriculture Analyst for the Environmental Working ...
• Thousands of Honduran workers occupy land
  alegria-small_pic.jpg By the Via CampesinaThousands of Honduran farm workers have launched a co-ordinated land occupation, squatting on some 12,000 hectares nationwide and fuelling new tensions over land rights, authorities said.read more
• Small-Scale Fishing Industry Washed Ashore in Gaza
  gaza_fishers.jpg The tiny motorboat’s engine coughs a couple of miles offshore and whirls to a stop. Gazing out over the aquamarine Mediterranean waters, I feel high from the fumes of cheap Egyptian diesel and the smell of sea salt. “Let’s ...
• Voices from International Women’s Day
  haiti-womens-march.jpg Waiting for my visa interview on a dusty embroidered couch at the Afghan Embassy in Cairo, minutes turned into hours. I had recently decided to spend International Women’s Day in the countryside outside of Kabul, to l ...

Climate

• Around the World on Solar Power
  (NYT Green) On Friday, if all goes well, a sleek spaceship-like catamaran, the world's largest solar-powered boast, will glide into Hercule Harbor in Monaco after a remarkable 19-month journey around the globe.
• European Climate Change to Hit Scandinavia and ...
  (AFP) Global warming in Europe this century will mostly affect Scandinavia and the Mediterranean basin, the European Environment Agency warned on Thursday.
• Greenland Losing Ice Fast, but Not Runaway Pace
  (AP ) Greenland's glaciers are hemorrhaging ice at an increasingly faster rate but not at the breakneck pace that scientists once feared, a new study says.
• First U.S. Green Bond Raises $500 Million
  (SustainableBusiness.com ) International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, raised $500 million in the first green bond in the U.S. market. The funds will be used for energy efficiency and renewable energ ...
• Morgan Stanley Brings $300 Million to Resident ...
  (Greentech Media) Fueling the rush into the residential solar leasing business, Morgan Stanley subsidiary MS Solar Solutions is partnering with Clean Power Finance to help fund up to $300 million in residential solar leases.

GreenBiz

• The resource crisis: Closer to the edge
  Over the past 10 years more corporations have realized that optimizing energy use is not only good for business, it's essential.
• Nike innovates its way to zero toxic discharges
  Nike’s new sustainability report highlights how the sporting goods giant is pushing innovation in both its products and supply chain
• New sustainability tools to calculate milk's c ...
  The Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy has released two tools to help companies calculate and cut emissions from processing plants and milk transportation.
• How Genzyme cut its energy bill by 13% last year
  The biotech firm made major savings in its $29 million annual energy spending through a combination of facility management practices and adoption of innovative technologies to reduce energy use.
• Why it's time for industrials to step up their ...
  With industrial and manufacturing companies guzzling nearly a third of U.S. energy, efficiency represents a big opportunity to improve their bottom lines. Unfortunately, most are behind the curve.

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

• They Made Us a Nation of Bedwetters
  I don't know anyone who is avidly anticipating or who plans to avidly follow the sham-trial of the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Comparing it to the O.J. Simpson trial is a sad joke. The sad truth is that the man most responsible for the carnage of 9/11 would probably ...
• Luntz Tells Dems How to Win
  Republican pollster Frank Luntz has come up with a list of five myths about Republicans. He's really talking about voters, not elected officials. Let's take a look at the list: 1. Conservatives care most about the size of government. 2. Conservatives want to deport all illegal immigrants. ...
• Today in Crazy
  Wow. Over at Roll Call, they've already written Dick Lugar's political obituary. I was under the impression that the race was still fairly close. It's hard for me to imagine a conservative party not only not valuing Sen. Lugar but actually throwing him out of office for being insufficiently s ...
• Serious Questions
  If you were going to design a Home page, what would you include in it? I'm talking about a page that would be the first thing you'd look at in the morning and the last thing you'd look at at night. It could have anything in it. RSS feeds, social media feeds, email notifications, blogrolls, ch ...
• Your Moment of Zen
  Finny reading the National Review this morning: Yes, they can be that stupid, son. Discuss

Environmental Graffiti

• Madagascar's Macabre Dance of the Dead
  Unlike most other countries, in Madagascar being buried isn't forever. Every seven years corpses are brought out of their tombs so that people can dance with the dead. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Deepwater Horizon: Two Years on, Gulf of Mexic ...
  Two years after the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the eyes of the world are gone, however, the damage lingers. Find out what all is amiss. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• The Strange Subterranean Landscape of Sicily's ...
  The underground salt mines of Sicily are not only among the largest in Europe; their strange, otherworldly atmosphere makes for some stunning photographs. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• When Street Art Reminds Us to Love
  Discover a new art project which uses the same language as negatively viewed hanging shoes to transmit a positive message and transform public spaces. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• How Mind Reading Robotic Prosthetics Could Tra ...
  Primates signal fertility and receptivity to potential mates. A new invention helps wearers broadcast their interest in others. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

• Ex-Qahdafi Flunkies Debate Claims He Gave Sark ...
  French President Nicholas Sarkozy is alleged to have maintained backdoor ties to the Libyan government from 2005 to 2011.
• The End of Austerity in Europe?
  A Hollande victory in France would tip the balance of power in Europe and put an end to the hegemony of the austerity paradigm.
• Okinawa: Small Step Forward?
  The U.S. military footprint on Okinawa is shrinking, but the impasse over bases remains.
• Iran: Why This Time Is Different
  If the West can provide Iran the space to compromise on its nuclear program, the upcoming Baghdad talks just might yield a breakthrough.
• Question of Iran Pits Israeli Intelligence Aga ...
  Shrill rhetoric on Iran divides Israel.

Global Elite

• Fear, Intimidation & Media Disinformation: U.K ...
  Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 20, 2009 An official UK government report –quoted extensively in Britain’s tabloid media– is warning the British public that there will b ...
• President European Commission Advocated World ...
  Jurriaan Maessen. Infowars. July 24th, 2009 On September 7, 1992, two term President of the European Commission Jacques Delors gave a speech to the Royal Institute of International A ...
• Billions of People Expected to Die Under Curre ...
  Barbara Minton, Natural News, July 21st, 2009 Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in th ...
• Bioweapons, Dangerous Vaccines, and Threats of ...
  Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 7th, 2009 Although international law prohibits the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons, America has had an active biological warfare pr ...
• Today we’re all prisoners in the USA
  Papers, Please! June 2, 2009 As of today, June 1, 2009, even U.S. citizens are officially prisoners in the USA, or exiles barred from entering our own country without the government’ ...

Al Jazeera

• 9/11 defendants in court at Guantanamo
  Five men, including alleged mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, appear before military judge at US base in Cuba.
• Palestinian hunger strikers in prison clinic
  Israel says 10 Palestinian prisoners participating in mass hunger strike have been placed under medical supervision.
• Deadly explosions target two Syrian cities
  At least five reported dead in Aleppo with further blast in capital, a day after Annan's spokesman said truce on track.
• Japan shuts down last nuclear reactor
  Last of country's 54 nuclear reactors goes offline for maintenance, prompting celebrations from anti-nuclear protesters.
• Tymoshenko to be treated at Ukrainian clinic
  Jailed ex-prime minister to be treated under supervision of German doctors in city where she is jailed, her lawyer says.

Green Inc. - NYT

• Answering Questions About Clouds and Climate
  A reporter responds to queries about climate change, scientific research, policy action or lack thereof, and a minority that firmly argues that clouds will protect the planet.
• Heartland Pulls Billboard on Global Warming
  The Heartland Institute deploys the personae of Ted Kaczynski, Osama bin Laden and Charles Manson as poster boys for global warming.
• A Recycling Czar for New York City
  An incoming deputy commissioner plans to focus on expanding the number of recycling receptacles on the streets and on curbside collection of food scraps for composting.
• Marine Ecosystem Pledges Unmet, Data Shows
  Despite a 10 percent goal for 2020, just 1.6 percent of marine areas have been set aside for protection.
• Interior Issues Softened Fracking Rule
  Companies will have to reveal the composition of fluids only after they start drilling on public lands, not before.

Dot Earth News

• The Short Hot Life of Heartland's Hateful Clim ...
  A group opposed to regulation of pollution plays, and then withdraws, the Unabomber card.
• A Student's Conversation With Michael Mann on ...
  A student journalist explores the career and book of a climate scientist.
• Secretary of Defense on Climate, Foresight and ...
  The secretary of defense explores the importance of environmental foresight in protecting the nation's interests.
• A Fresh Look at Clouds, and Heat, in the Green ...
  A closer look at research on the role of clouds in global warming
• Exploring How Communication Can Smooth the Hum ...
  An exploration of how communication innovations are aiding everything from long-distance stroke diagnosis to quake-safe school designs.

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

• MK Occupy Minnesota: Drugs & the DRE Program a ...
  Video documentation by local activists and independent media shows that police officers and county deputies from across Minnesota have been picking up young people near Peavey Plaza for a training program to recognize drug-impaired drivers. Multiple participants say officers gave them illicit dr ...
• #WhileWeWatch Occupy Wall Street documentary t ...
  It was a fun experience out at Zuccotti Park last October/November, and one late morning/early afternoon I gave an interview to Kevin Breslin, a gung ho director who pulled the OWS pieces together a 38-minute documentary called #whilewewatch on very little budget. It's been making the rounds and ...
• Wins in Minneapolis & Choppy seas indeed: Glow ...
  EU bankfail as everyone relishes Spain's 'successful auction' - American bankfail continues as homeless spirals, inflation & money velocity drift On the MN front, well the Occupy movement in Minneapolis really flushed out a lot of authoritarian over-reactions in the last couple weeks, starti ...
• Meet the new Boss in Town: ICE spawns... HSI H ...
  Now with moar National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center ... Security unit targets ‘worst’ in world crime - John Lantigua, Palm Beach Post, Nov 26 2011 HSI is a new directorate within the Immigration and Customs Enforcement service. Formed in September, its agents are responsible ...
• BREAKING: Minnesota Statute used to repress Oc ...
  We have word from downtown Minneapolis right now that the Minneapolis police are using something akin to a bomb scare to shut down the space around the relaunching Occupy Minneapolis space at Peavey Plaza. As usual the pseudo-war on terror lets those Constitutional rights get carved away one spa ...

Daily Censored

• Insider trading probe at University of Phoenix ...
  On April 19, 2012 Reuters news service reported the Securities and Exchange Commission was investigating certain Apollo Company share sales by company insiders. Apollo is the parent company of the for-profit college, University of Phoenix . The insiders being investigated were not named.... ...
• Want peace? Arrests of US War Criminals legal, ...
  US war law is crystal-clear in letter and intent: no nation can use their military in armed attack unless they are under attack by another nation’s government. This is the basic history and government lesson that all our families sacrificed to teach us through two world wars. The US is in obviou ...
• 2-minute video: Kucinich explains monetary ref ...
  Representative Dennis Kucinich rolled with statements from the AFL-CIO president for renewed infrastructure and jobs to explain in two minutes how monetary reform accomplishes both goals. Monetary reform is accomplished through H.R. 2990, a bill Dennis introduced to Congress in 2011. Monetary an ...
• “Scoundrel” Billionaire to Receive Honorary Do ...
  by Peter Phillips Sonoma State University has announced that philanthropists Joan and Sanford Weill will be recognized as the 2012 honorary degree recipients at SSU’s graduation ceremony May 12. The Weill’s recently have donated $12 million to the Green Music Center Fund. This donation enabled S ...
• Santa Monica College students fight privatizat ...
  picture of some of the signs students at Santa Monica College in Los Angeles made for their campout at the college on April 30th after facing administrative and police harrassment Community colleges across California are facing the wrath of privatization efforts by reactionary forces, most notab ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

• Drunken MLB Player Charged with Hate Crime
• Disgraced gun nut apologist John Lott: he's ba ...
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• CEOs Push Back Against Misinformation on CNBC
• House Passes Student Loan Bill That Would Cut ...

Institute for Policy Studies

• Okinawa: Small Step Forward?
  The U.S. military footprint on Okinawa is shrinking, but the impasse over bases remains.
• A Ditty on Newt Gingrich: The Apogee of a Woul ...
  We'll carry on with Barack and Mitt, but we lament that you called it quits.
• Chuck Collins on Marketplace
  The author of "99 to 1: How Wealth Inequality Is Wrecking the World and What We Can Do About It" talks about how the Obama administration deals with inequality, what social movements can do to make their voices heard, and what fellow 1% youth Mitt Romney was like.
• NATO vs. Rogues?
  Come November, someone's going to have to tell the next president the hard news: the emperor has no alliance.
• Was This The Last Time the U.S. Is Invited to ...
  Only the U.S. and Canada continue supporting the policy that keeps Cuba out of the Organization of American States summits. At the last meeting, Latin American leaders agreed: they do not need Washington to hold a meeting.

IntelNews

• News you may have missed #723
  Mossad officer claims compensation for 'breakdown'. US signs intel-sharing agreement with New Zealand. Secret files missing from US National Archives.
• Israel accused of spying on Turkish fighter-pi ...
  Authorities in Turkey have reportedly initiated a classified program to encrypt communications between Turkish fighter pilot trainees and their ground command centers, after it emerged that their conversations were being intercepted by Israeli intelligence.
• Lawyer alleges MI6 withheld data in spy’ ...
  A lawyer representing the family of an MI6 employee found dead in his London apartment in 2010, has accused the British intelligence agency of deliberately withholding evidence from police investigating his death.
• News you may have missed #722
  Vienna police say Libyan defector's death probably an accident. Canadian spymaster’s card found in Gaddafi’s intel complex. Ex-CIA official defends torture of terrorism detainees.
• ‘Treasure trove’ of al-Qaeda documents uncover ...
  German police have uncovered what appears to be the most significant collection of al-Qaeda planning documents to be acquired by Western intelligence since last year’s assassination of Osama bin Laden.

War is a Crime.org

• World Press Freedom Day
    World Press Freedom Day   by Stephen Lendman   America's First Amendment affirms it. So does Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.    read more
• Israel Toughens Prison Harshness
    Israel Toughens Prison Harshness   by Stephen Lendman   Palestinians throughout the Territories face daily state terror. Prisoners in Israel's gulag are worst off. Prison harshness just increased. More on that below.    read more
• War In Afghanistan for at Least 12 More Years
  Tuesday's highly secretive, midnight meeting between US President Obama and Afghan President Karzai was spun by the administration as somehow being about the end of US occupation of Afghanistan. The furtive, hurried, vague agreement signed by a deeply unpopular puppet government isolated inside ...
• Video: Medea Benjamin on Drones
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• Kucinich: NATO Missile Defense Program Provoke ...
  Washington D.C. (May 4, 2012) -- Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), a longtime opponent of the proposed European missile “defense” system, today made the following statement after Russia announced it would be prepared to use “destructive force preemptively” if the North Atlantic Treat ...

Grist - News

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

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Technorati - What's Hot in Blogs

• UK Prime Minster Looking to Block Porn from Se ...
  The UK Prime Minister calls for plans to block access to porn sites by default, with users opting in instead.
• Apple iPad Sends 95% of All Tablet Traffic
  Research reveals Apple send nearly 95% of all tablet based traffic to websites.
• Mazda Road to Indy Holds Second Annual Oval Clinic
  Firestone Indy Lights, Star Mazda and USF2000 drivers will receive training on the basics of oval racing.
• T-Mobile Prism Coming May 6th
  For all the budget minded customers out there that are looking to buy a low cost Android handset T-Mobile has a phone for you the T-Mobile Prism.
• Celebrating the Greatest Two Minutes in Sports
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Time - Top Stories

• DEA Holds Student for Days: This Is Your Polic ...
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• What You Need to Know About April's Jobs Numbers
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• Bad News for Obama: Democrats Have a Registrat ...
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Digg Green

• Too much happiness can make you unhappy, studi ...
  The happier you are, the better? Maybe not. Studies show that there is a darker side to feeling good.
• APOD: 2012 May 5 - Full Moonrise
  A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.
• Image of the Day: Moon & the Arc of the Milky ...
  ESO's Stéphane Guisard captured this stuning panorama from the site of ALMA, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, in the Chilean Andes. The 5000-metre-high and extremely dry Chajnantor plateau offers the perfect place for this state-of-the-art telescope, which studies the Universe i ...
• 30 Supernovas Per Second in the Observable Uni ...
  Supernovava 1987A, discovered in 1987, is the closest exploding star to Earth to be detected since 1604 and resides in the nearby Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy adjacent to our own Milky Way Galaxy. In addition to ejecting massive...
• Why does staying sober have to do with being c ...
  That first celibate year gives you a time to learn adult social skills and to reach the last stage in the first phase of recovery: accurate empathy for others.

Invisible Opportunity

• RNC might block entire Nevada delegation over ...
  By Justin Sink – 05/03/12 08:53 AM ET The Republican National Committee is warning the Nevada GOP that if supporters of Ron Paul are allowed to take too many slots for the national convention, the party may opt against seating the state’s entire delegation. “I believe it is hig ...
• Chemist declares fluoride to be ‘one of ...
  by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer (NaturalNews) Ingesting artificial fluoride chemicals does not prevent tooth decay, but rather destroys your insides and leads to the development of cancer and other illnesses. These are the disturbing findings of an assessment recently compiled by award-winning c ...
• The greatest (health) lie from medicine
  by: Jonathan Landsman (NaturalNews) Don’t worry – vaccines are safe and prevent disease. (yea, right!) The notion that toxic poisons injected into the body of humans can save lives has conventional medicine completely brainwashed into false realities. In truth, many health experts li ...
• The American Who Quit Money To Live In A Cave
  Daniel Suelo gave up on money in 2000. He walked into a phone booth, pulled out 30 dollars and left it. Twelve years later, Suelo still does not have a personal i.d. bank accounts, a modern home, does not take money, or live off of federal welfare. Suelo, lives in caves in the canyon lands [...]
• Eat Drink and be Wary
  By Les Visible All of the complexity of this world is a calculated effort to diminish the value of the few simple and truly important things that get lost in the shuffle, amidst all the plethora of useless and temporary things that surround us and on which the corporations depend on your routine ...

Global Insights

• Less Than a Week Away
  We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware.George Green will be a featured speaker.September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CAClick here for Tickets & Reservations 
• The Georgia Guidestones
  On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
• The Creation
  THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to pu ...
• The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...
  In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
• About George Green
  Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to fo ...

AlterNet - DrugReporter

• 6 Kinds of Pills Big Pharma Tries to Get You H ...
  Since direct-to-consumer drug advertising debuted in the late 1990s, the number of people on prescription drugs for life has ballooned.
• 5 Fascinating New Uses For Psychedelics
  Scientists are looking into various medical and psychiatric uses for psychedelics. Could the taboo be ending?
• How America Lost Its Collective Mind in the Dr ...
  By any measure; economically, morally, democratically, we are the worse for pot prohibition.
• Sending the Sick Into the Streets? How Drug Te ...
  New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's new policy will require drug screening for homeless people living with HIV/AIDS applying for shelter.
• #OpCannabis: Anonymous Hackers Take Up Marijua ...
  Hacktivist Anonymous began the "OpCannabis" to throw the collective's weight behind drug reform.

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

• Inhabitat Talks to Lisa Katayama About ‘We Are ...
  Read the rest of Inhabitat Talks to Lisa Katayama About ‘We Are All Radioactive’: a Crowdfunded Video Series About Surfers Rebuilding Japan Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: 3/11, Architecture for Humanity, crowdfunded, crowdfunded video series, Fukushima, ja ...
• PRODUCT REVIEW: We Test Out the LED Candle Lig ...
  Candles can transform nondescript spaces into soothing and romantic scenes, but they can also be a fire waiting to happen (considering 5% of all home fires are started by candles), and a smoky, waxy mess that lowers your indoor air quality. The LED candle light is a product that provides the war ...
• Volta Volaré Is an Electric Plane with a Backu ...
  “Range anxiety” is an emotion that’s common to people who own electric cars. It’s a term that describes the fear that EVs won’t have a strong enough charge to get you to your destination or back home before the battery runs out. But if running out of juice on the ro ...
• France’s Oldest Tree Sprouts Treehouse Chapels ...
  Read the rest of France’s Oldest Tree Sprouts Treehouse Chapels, Has Been Alive Since Louis IX Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Allouville-Bellefosse, Architecture, Botanical, carved tree, Chêne Chapelle, france, oak chapel, Treehouses
• Deep Ocean Technology Unveils Plans for Their ...
  Read the rest of Deep Ocean Technology Unveils Plans for Their Insane Underwater Discus Hotel in Dubai Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: artificial reef, deep ocean technology, drydocks world, Dubai Architecture, green hotel, hydropolis hotel, modular architecture, ocean ...

Pogue's Posts

• The Prius V and Its Entune System
  The Prius V is the first Toyota to incorporate a new electronics system, which a new owner found to be a boon.
• Zipping Through Airport Security
  David Pogue reviews the TSA PreCheck program, a streamlined security system that is being tested with three airlines (American, Delta and Alaska) at 12 airports.
• Tone-Deaf Lawyers Jeopardize the Draw Somethin ...
  O.K., software industry, you've been put on notice: Nowadays, there's more to it than design, features and marketing. Sometimes, the success of your app can ride on the wording and placement of a single dialog box.
• There Is a Lot of Big Tech News
  David Pogue expresses his thoughts on the flurry of tech news of the past week.
• Spec Obsession Disorder: The Incurable Techie ...
  Who on earth cares what processor is inside a phone-as long as the phone feels fast? And the Lumia 900 feels fast. It shouldn't matter if the phone has a Snapdragon, a dual core or a hamster wheel.

WIRED Magazine | Science

• Q&A: DIY Spacecraft Builder on Historic SpaceX ...
  In our fourth Q&A with spaceflight experts, Wired talks to do-it-yourself spacecraft builder Kristian von Bengston about the upcoming SpaceX launch.
• Brain Scans Give Glimpse of How Your Dog Thinks
  Brain scans of dogs could give researchers a new tool for studying what happens in the mind of man's best friend.
• Solar System’s Death Glimpsed in White Dwarf Stars
  Four dead planetary systems, each lit by the burned-out core of a star that once resembled the sun, provide a harrowing forecast for Earth's eventual demise.
• Q&A: Space Policy Analyst on Historic SpaceX F ...
  In our third Q&A with spaceflight experts, Wired talks to policy analyst Linda Billings about the upcoming SpaceX launch.
• Q&A: Explorer and Robotics Engineer on Histori ...
  Wired's Q&A with explorer and robotics engineer Bill Stone on the upcoming historic SpaceX flight.

PakAlert

• Masters Of The World: HAARP Wars
  Ask most scientists and they'll tell you that the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) is simply a scientific research station designed to study and interact with the Earth's ionosphere and determine new ways to propagate radio waves. But ask anyone who's knowlegeable about bri ...
• We Are Preparing For Massive Civil War, Says D ...
  Hagmann goes on to say that his sources tell him the concerns of the DHS stem from a collapse of the U.S. dollar and the hyperinflation a collapse in the value of the world’s primary reserve currency implies to a nation of 311 million Americans, who, for the significant portion of the population ...
• California Coastline 6.0 – 7.0 Magnitude Earth ...
  6.0 to 7.0 earthquake likely in San Clemente, Oceanside, Escondido, Encinitas, Julian, Borrego Springs, Salton Sea, Indio, Brawley.
• The Fastest Growing Religion In America Is Islam
  Do you know what the fastest growing religion in America is? It isn't Christianity. According to the latest U.S. Religion Census that was just released on May 1, 2012, the fastest growing religion in America is Islam. The data for the census was compiled by the Association of Statisticians of ...
• Why There Are No Jobs
  In fact, it was nearly a year before Lehman Brothers vanished from the face of the earth and black swans relentlessly descended upon the LIBOR like common ravens upon fresh Southern California road kill. If you recall, when the sky was falling in late 2008, spread movements that were statistica ...

Andy Worthington

• UK Elections: Huge Labour Gains, Huge Tory and ...
  As everyone expected, the Tories and the Liberal Democrats were largely humiliated in Thursday’s local council elections across England, Scotland and Wales, and Labour made huge gains. With all 181 councils having declared their results, Labour had taken over 32, to control 75 in total, wh ...
• US Company That Built Guantánamo Hopes to Win ...
  Yesterday, the Guardian reported the extraordinary story that KBR (Kellogg, Brown & Root), the Texas-based former subsidiary of the Halliburton corporation (of which former US Vice President Dick Cheney was the CEO), is part of a consortium that has made it through to the final shortlist for ...
• Six Years in Hell: Former Prisoner Omar Deghay ...
  Former Guantánamo prisoner Omar Deghayes (seized in Pakistan in May 2002 and released to the UK in December 2007) is a friend and colleague of mine, who featured in the documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo,” which I co-directed with filmmaker Polly Nash, and he ...
• The Permanent Injustice of Guantánamo
  Last summer, I wrote an article reviewing ten years of Guantánamo for the Future of Freedom Foundation, for whom I write a weekly column for their online Email Update. This article, however, was for their monthly magazine, Freedom Daily. It was published in the January 2012 issue, to coincide wi ...
• Photos: May Day Celebrations in London, Includ ...
  May 1, which is celebrated as International Workers’ Day in numerous countries worldwide, has long been marked by workers’ groups in the UK, and, before the great distraction of the “war on terror,” was a focal point for dissent during the international anti-globalization ...

Environment _ National Geographic

• British Columbia Rethinks Its Pioneering Carbo ...
  With none of its neighbors following British Columbia's lead in taxing to curb greenhouse gas emissions, the Canadian province reviews the economic impact.
• Yellowstone Supervolcano Eruptions More Freque ...
  The Yellowstone supervolcano may erupt more frequently, though may be a bit weaker, than thought, a new study says.
• Supercomputing Power Could Pave the Way to Ene ...
  Scientists believe that Titan, a massive upgrade in supercomputing power that the U.S. government is set to deploy this year, will help crack the code on energy-efficient engines.
• Everest Helicopter Rescue Saves National Geogr ...
  Despite "not flyable" conditions, an acutely ailing Nat Geo photographer was airlifted to safety Saturday in Nepal.
• Fish Glow Green After Genetic Engineering
  A genetically engineered fish that glows green from the inside out is helping illuminate what pollutants do inside the body.

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

• ‘Ex-Gay’ Group Cancels Conference ...
  One of the most prominent ex-gay organizations in the country, Exodus International, has been experiencing an exodus of a different sort, one it surely isn’t pleased to see. The group canceled its next Love Won Out (LWO) conference, which was scheduled for May 19 at Legacy Church in Albuqu ...
• Military Munitions Found at Scene of Arizona M ...
  Investigators examining the bloody scene near Phoenix where an anti-immigrant neo-Nazi murdered four people, including a 15-month-old baby girl, turned up “chemicals and military grade munitions,” authorities just announced. J.T. Ready, a 39-year-old former National Socialist Movement leader who ...
• Extremists React to Neo-Nazi’s Apparent Mass M ...
  Nativist extremists and white supremacists wasted little time responding with half-cocked conspiracy theories to the news that J.T. Ready, a neo-Nazi border vigilante, had died in an apparent murder-suicide outside Phoenix. For some, the blame lay with Mexican drug cartels. For others, it was th ...
• Animal Rights Activist Who Promotes Violence A ...
  Camille Marino, a radical animal liberation activist who advocates violence against scientists who use animals in their research, was arrested yesterday at Detroit’s Wayne State University after chaining herself to the school library in defiance of an order banning her from campus. Marino heads ...
• Arizona Tragedy: Former Senate President Has S ...
  Former Arizona Senate President Russell Pearce, the author of his state’s draconian anti-immigrant S.B. 1070 law, issued a statement last night denouncing “the local media” for attempting to tie him to J.T. Ready, the neo-Nazi who is believed to have murdered four people earlier in the day befor ...

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

• United Nations: US Must Return Stolen Land to ...
  In an investigation monitoring ongoing discrimination against Native Americans, the United Nations has requested that the US government return some of the stolen land back to Native Americans, as a necessary move towards combating systemic racial discrimination. ...
• Hundreds Held After Renewed Clashes in Cairo
  Military prosecutors have detained over 300 Egyptian protesters following a day of clashes in Cairo in one of the largest mass arrests since Egypt's uprising. The detainees, who include 18 women, are being interrogated by military prosecutors and could face military trials, Associated Press ...
• 'Broken Earth Day': Connecting Climate Change ...
  In New Mexico, firefighters stand in the remains of the Santa Fe Forest, which was burned last summer during the state’s worst wildfire in history. In Pakistan, a group of women hold dots in front of the makeshift shelter that became their home after the devastating floods in 2010 that dis ...
• New Fracking Rules Come Up Short Leaving Commu ...
  Today, the Obama administration proposed new rules on the fracking industry's procedures and oversight on public lands. Outdated fracking regulations have been replaced with out of touch fracking regulations, falling short of protecting communities from toxic pollution, according to environm ...
• Study: Biodiversity Loss Impacts as Great as ...
  Loss of biodiversity has as profound an effect as climate change, pollution and other major forms of environmental stress on ecosystems, according to a study released this week. "Loss of biological diversity due to species extinctions is going to have major effects on our planet, and we nee ...

Lifehacker

• This Week's Most Popular Posts: April 28 - May ...
  This week we started learning those skills we always tell ourselves we're going to tackle, sussed out our readers' favorite Android phones, learned a simple trick to look better in photos, compared BitTorrent to Usenet, and more. Here's a look ...
• Avoid Buying Expensive Coffee Creamer by Using ...
  If you like your coffee with cream, you might be wasting you money. As Redditor firstroundko108 points out, using milk with a flavored extract works just as well and comes with several advantages. First of all, it will cost you a lot less t ...
• How to Supercharge Your Dropbox or Google Driv ...
  Wouldn't it be awesome if you could just drop a PDF in a folder and it would automatically show up on your Kindle? Or if imported photos automatically scaled themselves down to a smaller size? Or if your PDF documents automatically signed th ...
• Keep in Touch with a Former Boss and Co-Worker ...
  Staying in touch with old bosses and co-workers is important for your career in case you need help with a future job search. But many of us don't do it because of few good reasons to get in contact. One way to stay in touch that isn't too awkw ...
• Mountain Lion Skin Pack Makes Your Windows Des ...
  Windows 7/8: If you like the look of OS X but don't want to give up all your games and programs—or if you just don't want to buy a Mac—the Mountain Lion Skin pack will bring all the great looks and great features of OS X to your Wi ...

Water Privatization

• Philippines erects wall to obscure view of slums
  Philippines erects wall to obscure view of slums A makeshift, temporary wall has been erected across a bridge on a road from the airport to downtown Manila that hides a sprawling slum along a garbage-strewn creek. Presidential spokesman Ricky Carandang defended the wall's installation, sayin ...
• Workers denounce Aquino business policy at ral ...
  Members of the Nagkaisa, a coalition of Philippine trade unions, held a lightning rally near the Philippine International Convention Center Friday to denounce the full-scale privatization program announced by President Benigno Aquino III at the Asian Development Bank meeting.
• ADB-funded water projects pushing farmers deep ...
  Saying the ADB's water-related projects 'have pushed smallholder farmers to deeper poverty and indebtedness,' farmer members of the Task Force Food Sovereignty protested Friday near the PICC, where the Asian Development Bank's 45th Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors was und ...
• Huffman's interest in preserving environme ...
  Editor's note: This is one of a series about candidates in the 2nd District congressional race.Assemblyman Jared Huffman served for 12 years on the board of the Marin Municipal Water District before seeking a seat in the state Legislature in 2006.
• Mangano selects United Water to take over Nass ...
  Calling it a way to protect taxpayers and the county’s waterways, Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano unveiled his plan for one of the largest sewer system privatization deals in the nation’s history. Mangano selected New Jersey-based United Water to take over the long-term operation and maintena ...

Guardian

• Bodies hung from bridge as 23 more die in Mexi ...
  Human heads dumped at Nuevo Laredo city hall as part of gruesome display of power by warring cartelThe bodies of 23 people have been found hanging from a bridge or decapitated and dumped near city hall in the Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo, where drug cartels are fighting a bloody and escal ...
• Drone strike in Pakistan kills up to nine
  American attack in North Waziristan province targeted suspected militants, say Pakistani officialsAn American drone has fired a volley of missiles into a house close to the Afghan border, killing up to nine suspected militants, according to Pakistani officials.Up to eight missiles were fired at ...
• Boris Johnson gives Tories a boost with London ...
  Johnson beats rival Ken Livingstone to secure second four-year term as London's mayorBoris Johnson gave the Conservatives a much needed boost as he secured a second London mayoral term after beating his Labour rival Ken Livingstone in a bitterly fought rematch.After weeks of intensive campaignin ...
• David Attenborough's 60-year career celebrated ...
  Wildlife presenter will review advances in science and return to the Borneo jungle in the three-part documentaryThe BBC is to broadcast a documentary series looking back over Sir David Attenborough's remarkable 60-year broadcasting career, including a return to the Borneo jungle, where he first ...
• Boris Johnson 'wins London mayoral election': ...
  Rolling coverage of the announcement of the result of the London mayoral election, where Boris Johnson is tipped to beat Ken Livingstone. • What happened earlier - all the action from the mayoral and local elections11.46pm: If you are fed up waiting, you could always watch Boris Johnson's victor ...

McClatchey

• Accused 9/11 conspirators don't want to make p ...
  When Khalid Sheik Mohammed and his four alleged 9/11 co-conspirators are brought before the war court Saturday to face arraignment, they'll have three ways to answer to the charges: Plead…Click to Continue »
• In voting Sunday, Greece and France are expect ...
  French and Greek leaders who backed the European Union?s severe austerity measures are likely to take a drubbing when both countries hold national elections on Sunday, raising pressures on EU…Click to Continue »
• Chen’s activism focuses on China&#x2019 ...
  At the crux of Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng?s activism is his country?s one-child policy that, with few exceptions, controls family planning in the country, imposing fines and forcing women into…Click to Continue »
• Would Sen. Marco Rubio appeal to all Hispanics ...
  Marco Rubio may have said it best himself, when talking about what he could bring to the ticket as one of Mitt Romney?s potential vice-presidential running mates: "Presidential campaigns are…Click to Continue »
• Rioting Egyptians at Defense Ministry say stre ...
  The Egyptian military, which has ruled this country by decree for 15 months, only responds to protests, Emad Behnessy, 38, a nutritionist, said Friday as protesters and security forces clashed…Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

• Afghan girl's torturers get 10 years jail
  KABUL (AFP) - The case of a tortured Afghan child bride whose treatment shocked the world has led to three members of her husband's family being jailed for 10 years, an official said on ...
• Ex-UK commander denounces Taliban poetry book ...
  A former commander of British forces in Afghanistan has denounced the UK publication of a collection of translated poems by members of the Afghan Taliban as 'enemy propaganda'.
• Roadside bomb kills 5 Afghan border police
  An Afghan official says a roadside bomb has killed five border police in an eastern province near the border with Pakistan. Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, who is a spokesman for the governor of Nangarhar ...
• Americans favor limited U.S. role in Afghanistan
  WASHINGTON, (Reuters) - Most Americans want U.S. troops out of Afghanistan and oppose a significant long-term commitment to support that nation's economy and security, a Reuters/Ipsos poll ...
• Americans ‘want to be done’ with A ...
  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 2014 withdrawal. Despite its many failures the ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

• Wal-Mart. Whistleblower. Whitewash. Talk Among ...
  By Guest Columnist: Donna Boehme Principal at Compliance Strategists LLC and editor of the weekly CS Newsflash (and former chief compliance and ethics officer at two leading multinationals) Holy Wal-Mart Whitewash, Batman!  Without a doubt, the unfolding Wal-Mart bribery scan ...
• This Week on Honesty Without Fear
  Tune in Tuesday at 1:00pm EDT to Honesty Without Fear on Progressive Radio Network. Guest Host Dr. David Lewis interviews fellow EPA whistleblower William Sanjour about his recent article "Designed to Fail: Why Regulatory Agencies Don't Work" in Independent Science News. Mr. Sanjour u ...
• DOJ Backs Ink Company Whistleblower
  Last week the U.S. Department of Justice announced that it has intervened in a whistleblower lawsuit brought against an ink manufacturer for skirting the payment of import duties. The case against Toyo Ink is still in its early stages, but government intervention is a significant victory fo ...
• MSPB holds it can address due process in secur ...
  In two landmark decisions last week, the federal Merit System Protection Board (MSPB) held that it does have the authority to enforce the procedural protections for federal employees who suffer adverse employment actions as a result of issues with their security clearances.  The MSPB recogn ...
• "Designed to Fail: Why Regulatory Agencies Don ...
  Today, Independent Science News published an article by William Sanjour, an EPA whistleblower and NWC Board Member. In “Designed to Fail: Why Regulatory Agencies Don’t Work,” Mr. Sanjour uses his 30 years of experience at the EPA to not only explain the problem, but also ...

Science Express

• Fermi maps an active galaxy's 'smokestack plumes'
  If our eyes could see radio waves, the nearby galaxy Centaurus A (Cen A) would be one of the biggest and brightest objects in the sky, nearly 20 times the apparent size of a full moon. What we can't see when looking at the galaxy in visible light is that it lies nestled between a pair of giant r ...
• After growth spurt, supermassive black holes s ...
  Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
• Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virus
  A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20 ...
• Lizard moms choose the right genes for the rig ...
  (PhysOrg.com) -- Two Dartmouth biologists have found that brown anole lizards make an interesting choice when deciding which males should father their offspring. The females of this species mate with several males, then produce more sons with sperm from large fathers, and more daughters with spe ...
• More than One: Long-Reigning Microbe Controlli ...
  (PhysOrg.com) -- Marine scientists long believed that a microbe called Trichodesmium, a member of a group called the cyanobacteria, reigned over the ocean's nitrogen budget.

TechDirt

• Dan Bull Shares His Thoughts On The Pirate Bay ...
  We recently noted that, in the same week that Dan Bull had his new single hit the music charts because he promoted it via The Pirate Bay, BPI had convinced a court to order UK ISPs to start blocking TPB. Earlier this year, Dan had already written a song, Bye, Bye BPI, for that organization's in ...
• Sometimes Photos Are Just Facts, And Copying I ...
  Scientific American photography blogger Alex Wild recently wrote about his experience in discovering that one of his photos had been copied by a (now deceased) artist for an illustration that ran in the L.A. Times. In many ways Wild's attitude is commendable: he recognizes that copying is a comp ...
• Ongoing Patent Fights Mean Startups Are Now Wa ...
  Last week, I had the chance to chat with the General Counsel of a well known internet company -- not a "giant" one, but one you've almost certainly heard of -- and we got to discussing Twitter's new patent assignment agreement with its employees, and whether or not other tech companies would sta ...
• DailyDirt: To Serve Man... Sushi
  More than anywhere else, Japanese researchers seem a bit obsessed with creating robots to do some wacky things. So why not create some sushi robots to eliminate some of the boring, repetitive work in sushi restaurants? Here are just a few examples that point towards a future of fully-automated s ...
• Yet Another Judge Slams Copyright Trolls; Warn ...
  Reminiscent of the Righthaven cases, where once judges realized what was really happening they quickly started dumping them, it seems that we're reaching the tipping point with porn companies playing the copyright trolling game as well. More and more of the attempts to seek expedited discovery ...

VacTruth

• Merck Consultants Try to Influence Your Doctor ...
  Doctors paid by Merck Pharmaceuticals offered "suggestions" for refuting three of the most common myths about child vaccine safety. You have to read this to believe it.
• Monkeys Get Autism-like Reactions to MMR & Oth ...
  A bombshell was probably dropped when the results of a completed macaque monkey (primates) study showed what happened to they were vaccinated. Here's why...
• Do Nurses Have It Right About Vaccinations?
  Why would nurses, who vaccinate infants and children, refuse to get vaccinations for themselves even when a directive went out that all nurses must be vaccinated against this disease?
• Doctors Change Names of Diseases When Vaccines ...
  The truth is that more and more vaccinated children are becoming sick with the diseases they have been vaccinated against. Research is revealing that doctors are devising clever ways to cover this up.
• Dr. Offit Revisited
  Dr. Offit clearly has a lot to gain from vaccines. Then we have the “false prophets” who also have something to gain. But what about the parents of children with autism? What do they have to gain by claiming that their kids developed autism after a vaccine?

BroadSnark

• Shame Redistribution
  A little while ago, I was watching this video of Michelle Alexander. In it, she talks about how struck she was by the silence within the communities most affected by mass incarceration. House after house in these neighborhoods had family members in prison. But people weren’t talking about ...
• Anti-Authoritarianism, Anti-Racism, and Avoidi ...
  In response to my Trayvon post, one of the commenters denied that police and prison guards killed black kids and brought up how many black people were killed by other black people. I responded to the comment, but I think there is a bit more to say. Within the black communities that are most affe ...
• Occupy the DOJ
• And…Not Either/Or
  Taibbi had an interesting post up a bit ago about the growing consensus about big banks. He talks about a report by the head of the Dallas fed’s research department who is calling for an end of “too big to fail” banks. Moreover, he talks about an inherent perversion of the syst ...
• Things You Might Have Missed
  Charles Davis is covering for Glenn Greenwald this week and wrote two really great posts. And I’m not just saying that because one of them relates to the campaign the criminal (in)justice committee is working on. Wells Fargo”s Prison Cash Cow The Liberal Betrayal of Bradley Manning I ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• Offshore Banking Centers Are British
  Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, April 27, 2012, Vol. 39, No. 17
• UN Drug Office: Dope Cash Rescued Banks
  By Antonio Maria Costa Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, April 27, 2012, Vol. 39, No. 17
• Antonio Maria Costa: Former UNODC Head Talks A ...
  Interview by Andrew Spannaus Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, April 27, 2012, Vol. 39, No. 17
• Lega Starts Mass Organizing for Glass-Steagall ...
  EIR News Service press release.
• LaRouche: Obama Threatens the Extermination of ...
  EIR News Service press release.

War in Context

• Iran and al Qaeda: more enemies than allies
  Barbara Slavin writes: Newly released correspondence from Osama bin Laden’s hideout in Pakistan contradicts U.S. assertions that al-Qaeda has a close relationship with Iran. According to a U.S. analysis of letters found in the Abbottabad compound when U.S. Special Forces killed bin Laden a year ...
• The economics of digital sharecropping
  Nicholas Carr writes: With a reported 900 million active members, Facebook is, by far, the largest digital-sharecropping operation that the internet has yet produced. About one out of every eight people on the planet sharecrops for Facebook today – and their collective labor is expected to ...
• Inside Syria’s crackdown: ‘I found my boys bur ...
  Donatella Rovera, Amnesty International’s senior crisis adviser, was in Syria for 10 days during the second half of April. Rovera has worked at Amnesty International for 20 years and has extensive experience of working in conflict zones, including Libya, South Sudan, Ivory Coast and Gaza. ...
• FBI: We need wiretap-ready websites — now
  CNET reports: The FBI is asking Internet companies not to oppose a controversial proposal that would require the firms, including Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, and Google, to build in backdoors for government surveillance. In meetings with industry representatives, the White House, and U.S. senato ...
• How the CIA undermined humanitarian aid in Pak ...
  Declan Walsh reports: In the shadows of the American operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the fate of a small-town Pakistani doctor recruited by the C.I.A. to help track the Qaeda leader still looms between the two countries, a sore spot neither can leave untouched. Picked up by Pakistani inte ...

Watts Up With That?

• Lightning induced Schumann Resonance may help ...
  From the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Science nugget: Lightning signature could help reveal the solar system’s origins Every second, lightning flashes some 50 times on Earth. Together these discharges coalesce and get stronger, creating electromagnetic waves circling around Earth, to & ...
• How Green Was My Bankruptcy?
  Guest Post by David Middleton My apologies to the memories of the late Richard Llewellyn and late John Ford; but I just had to borrow their title for this post. This paragraph from a 2010 Telegraph article really says it … Continue reading →
• Scientists core into California’s Clear ...
  From the University of California – Berkeley Deep sediments are unparalleled record of biotic changes over past 200,000+ years University of California, Berkeley, scientists are drilling into ancient sediments at the bottom of Northern California’s Clear Lake for clues that … C ...
• Friday Funny – The Sceptic Isle
  Josh writes: With a certain amount of hysteria and hand wringing over the latest Heartland ads I thought a more pastoral cartoon might be a good idea. I will update the cartoon if people suggest improvements but my aim is … Continue reading →
• Heartland’s Billboards and Joe Romm&#821 ...
  UPDATE: I’ve added a simple poll at the bottom to gauge opinion on this issue. – Anthony There’s a disturbance in the farce. Tom Nelson captures these: Heartland Institute launches campaign linking terrorism, murder, and global warming belief – Capital … Continue re ...

treehugger

• 150 Years of Food Safety and the Challenges We ...
  The history of the USDA and FDA and the future challenges.
• Rooftop Fish Farm Ups the Ante for Urban Agric ...
  The prototype Globe/Hedron is a bamboo greenhouse designed to organically grow fish and vegetables on top of generic flat roofs. It uses aquaponic farming techniques so the fish's water nourishes the plants and plants clean the water for the fish.
• The Week in Clean Tech: E Ink Loses Money, a B ...
  Catch up on cleantech news from the week in 5 minutes.
• Modular Furniture Made from Recycled Materials ...
  A modular furniture unit can be set up as a bed, sofa, table, bookshelf and more.
• Occupy's May Day: Tens of Thousands Protest th ...
  May Day showed that the thirst for grassroots protest is still growing, and that public anger is aimed at banks, DC, and the polluting 1%. Can it be harnessed?

Biosingularity

• Memory Formation Triggered by Stem Cell Develo ...
  Researchers at the RIKEN-MIT Center for Neural Circuit Genetics have discovered an answer to the long-standing mystery of how brain cells can both remember new memories while also maintaining older ones. They found that specific neurons in a brain region called the dentate gyrus serve distinct r ...
• Iceman Was a Medical Mess
  Few of our ancestors have been so thoroughly poked and prodded as Neolithic Tyrolean Iceman “Ötzi,” discovered melting out of an Alpine glacier in 1991. Researchers have probed his stomach and bowels for traces of his last meal and analyzed his teeth for cavities. Now, an internation ...
• Medical Imaging
  Doctors struggle to keep squirming children still for long scans. Now, thanks to faster magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), they may no longer have to worry about keeping their patients still for so long. The above image of the blood flow through the heart of a 6-year-old with a congenital heart d ...
• How to Control a Prosthesis With Your Mind
  Imagine a piece of technology that would let you control an apparatus simply by thinking about it. Lots of people, it turns out, have dreamed of just such a system, which for decades has fired the imaginations of scientists, engineers, and science fiction authors. It’s easy to see why: By transf ...
• Phantoms In The Brain

CFACT

• The clear-cutting facts about the rainforest
  Are we really losing one football field every minute?
• New predictions of warming lack scientific basis
  Worst-case scenairos do not paint accurate picture of climate
• Cloudy days ahead for global climate models
  Computers still not reliable in predicting climate
• Corn dogs: A New Eco-Villain?
  Controversy is latest in biotech battle
• Examining China's emissions claims
  Evidence suggests China not cutting greenhouse emissions

Ria Novosti Online News

• TNK-BP to Join Rosneft’s Arctic Shelf Projects
• Rosneft, Statoil Sign Landmark Arctic Shelf Deal
  Russian state-run oil major Rosneft signed a multibillion dollar joint venture deal with Norway's Statoil energy firm on Saturday to jointly develop four offshore hydrocarbon deposits in Russia's Arctic, Rosneft said.
• Moscow Police Search for Suspect Dagestani Ter ...
  Russia’s law enforcement agencies are searching for a group of suspected suicide bombers in the Moscow Region after finding out a car containing suspects in two bomb attacks on May 3 in the Russian North Caucasus republic of Dagestan was near Moscow on April 28.
• Injured Russian Dreams of Return to National Team
  Russia defender Viktor Vasin is dreaming of a return to the national team after a 16-month injury layoff, he told RIA Novosti on Saturday.
• KHL Rejects Claims Belov's Doping Test Forged
  The KHL on Saturday dismissed claims that a positive doping test that ruled Avangard Omsk defenseman Anton Belov out of the last three games of the Gagarin Cup series may have been falsified.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• Russia Develops Revolutionary Ammonia Rocket E ...
  Power engineering manufacturer Energomash has started development of a new rocket engine which could vastly reduce the cost of rocket launches and avoid the need to produce hydrogen for fuel, the makers say.
• U.S. Launches Advanced Military Communications ...
  The United States Air Force has launched an advanced communications satellite, the second in a new satellite network designed to improve U.S. ability to control its military forces around the globe
• Europe’s ATV-3 Resupply Spacecraft to Raise IS ...
  Engines of European Space Agency’s ATV-3 resupply spacecraft will be switched on to readjust the International Space Station (ISS) orbit on Friday
• NASA Says Static Fire Tests of ISS-bound Drago ...
  Static fire tests of Dragon, the first private spacecraft to be launched to the International Space Station (ISS), has been successful
• Russian Progress M-14M Splashes Down in Pacific
  Russia's Progress M-14M cargo spacecraft has been sent on its final journey to the waters of the Pacific Ocean, Mission Control said on Saturday.

Pruning Shears

• Scott Walker’s “Jobs Plan” is Working
  A lot of folks have been jumping on the latest US Bureau of Labor Statistics report, which shows Wisconsin hemorrhaging jobs faster than any other state over the past 12 months.  Many have been quick to point out that these numbers prove that Walker’s plan is failing; that his “ ...
• Home rule goes up against the fracking industr ...
  The fight against fracking in Ohio comes at a time when the state is approving new wells at a rapid pace. Local activists are organizing in an environment where the ground is constantly shifting under their feet - sometimes literally.Anti-fracking activism has been influenced by developments bo ...
• Occupy Madison is a Home for the Homeless
  Since its beginning in October 2011, Occupy Madison has evolved from a symbolic occupation of public space to a social experiement that fills an important gap in the services that the city of Madison provides for the homeless.  The site of the encampment has moved from a public park on the ...
• Keeping 1 percent values out of a 99 percent m ...
  This was published with considerable feedback from affinis, JuliaWilliams, okanogen, and lambert. My sincere thanks to them for their help.The purge of livestreamers and other transparency advocates at Occupy Oakland has been largely successful, and last weekend produced one of its predictable ...
• How disorganization is damaging Occupy
  This was published with considerable feedback from affinis, Jasper, JuliaWilliams and lambert. My sincere thanks to them for their help.A few weeks ago Occupy Oakland (OO) began to emphasize secrecy (or security culture) over transparency, which resulted in livestreamers being attacked as snitc ...

Organic Consumers.org

• Subsidy Buffet for Agribiz, Table Scraps for G ...
  The farm bill draft released by the Senate Agriculture Committee last week (April 20) falls far short of providing farm and food policies Americans want. In a national poll last year, 78 percent said making nutritious and healthy foods more affordable and accessible should be a top priority in t ...
• A Warmer World and Weather Gone Wild: The Most ...
  The Williams River was so languid and lovely last Saturday morning that it was almost impossible to imagine the violence with which it must have been running on August 28, 2011. And yet the evidence was all around: sand piled high on its banks, trees still scattered as if by a giant's fist, and ...
• California Bid for Labeling of GE Foods Resona ...
  A veteran Greenpeace Canada campaigner sees hope in an effort in California to bring in mandatory labeling of genetically engineered food sold in grocery stores.Click here to read this article
• International Permaculture Day is May 6th!
  What does permaculture mean to you? Bill Mollison and David Holmgren first coined the term in their groundbreaking 1978 book Permaculture One. In essence, permaculture is a system of designing households and communities that are productive, sustaining and largely self-reliant, and have minimal i ...
• Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello on May ...
  For Tom Morello, the activist and guitarist best known for his work with Rage Against the Machine, May Day was a busy day. First there was a "battalion" of guitarists to lead through the streets of New York, and then an award to receive from Harry Belafonte, the legendary performer and activist ...

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 ...

Investigate - Breaking News

• Forget manuka, kiwi scientist discovers new ty ...
  Forget manuka, kiwi scientist discovers new type of superhoney. Forget manuka, kiwi scientist discovers new type of superhoney
• Wishart’s new treaty book rockets up bestselle ...
  Wishart’s new treaty book rockets up bestseller lists. Wishart’s new treaty book rockets up bestseller lists
• Reviews of Ian Wishart books
  Reviews of Ian Wishart books. First review of The Great Divide: The Story of New Zealand & Its Treaty
• New Treaty book blames Maori, Pakeha and Story ...
  New Treaty book blames Maori, Pakeha and Storytellers. New Treaty book blames Maori, Pakeha and Storytellers
• New book on history of New Zealand and Treaty ...
  New book on history of New Zealand and Treaty of Waitangi released. New book on history of New Zealand and Treaty of Waitangi released

My Care2 Picks

• NYTimes Realizes That The FBI Keeps Celebratin ...
  FBI and the Global War of Terror : entrapment and undercover subversion of popular protest movements Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• The Banned Doonesbury Abortion Cartoon
  Political commentary on legislation implementing Statutory Rape via required involuntary intrusive physical examination to establish no medically needed data Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• If I Was God
  I have come to despise religion. It didnt take long to realize how religion has taken everything good about god, and made it bad. I still very much believe in a just and sensible god. Let me present to you my version of IF I WAS GOD…, Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |&n ...
• Keeping Global Warming Within Limits
  Why would anybody want to calculate all of atmospheric absorption in the form of a greenhouse gas optical thickness parameter ? To uphold the very integrity of science against authoritarianism. Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |  &nb ...
• 2012″ and Electromagnetic Effects on Con ...
  excerpted from Revolution 2012 by Dieter Broers We are in the midst of a process involving the restructuring of our neuronal networks, and that the catalyst of this process is the high solar-geomagnetic activity Submitted by John Farnham to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |  &n ...

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

• New EO to Eliminate GMO Trade Barriers
  The USDA and Monsanto, using international Free Trade agreements as a club, have a penchant for attempting to force other countries under threat of penalty for creating a barrier to free trade, into accepting the unacceptable at their borders, in the form of genetically modified products (GMOs). ...
• Family Farmers – Remember! The USDA OWNS the “ ...
  In order to sell your home grown fruit at the now centrally planned "farmers market" you must submit a "crop plan" and have your Garden inspected by filling out a "farm schedule." After that's done you're more than welcome to sell your oranges once you fill out your various tax forms, sign the t ...
• Michigan Mutations from Fukushima Fallout?
  Investigators detailing vegetation mutations possibly from Fukushima.
• Seed Lady Network Goes Live!
  A seed sharing community site where people can share their personal seeds, seed saving tips and stories, as well as anything seed related.
• International Seed Day (ISD) on April 26
  To advocate for Patent-FREE seeds, biodiversity, food sovereignty and farmers rights.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

• The stupidity of crowds helps kill a planet - ...
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Citizens for Legitimate Government

• BP wins delay of Gulf spill trial until 2013
  ShareThisBP wins delay of Gulf spill trial until 2013 --US, Gulf Coast states sought summer 2012 trial 03 May 2012 A trial to assign blame and damages that could total tens of billions of dollars for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill has been put off until January, in a setback for the U.S. gove ...
• Russia's military threatens preemptive strike ...
  ShareThisRussia's military threatens preemptive strike if NATO goes ahead with missile plan 03 May 2012 Russia's top military officer has threatened to carry out a pre-emptive strike on U.S.-led NATO missile defense facilities in Eastern Europe if Washington goes ahead with its controversial pla ...
• Two British soldiers killed in southern Afghan ...
  ShareThisTwo British soldiers killed in southern Afghanistan 04 May 2012 Two British soldiers, from the Royal Logistic Corps, have died in southern Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed. The soldiers, who were attached to 1st Battalion The Royal Welsh Battlegroup, were killed in an ...
• Security Plan Shuts Down Roads, South Loop For ...
  ShareThisSecurity Plan Shuts Down Roads, South Loop For NATO Summit Weekend 04 May 2012 A large security zone around McCormick Place will be off limits to Chicagoans, and the Museum Campus, Lake Shore Drive and several major expressways and streets will be shut down before or during the NATO Sum ...
• Summit Could Mean Airport-Style Security on Me ...
  ShareThisSummit Could Mean Airport-Style Security on Metra Electric, South Shore Trains --Commuters would face patdowns, X-ray screenings, and long security lines at their stations before boarding trains. 03 May 2012 Some stations on the Metra Electric Line and South Shore Line could be shut dow ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

• A Letter that Speaks for Itself (1 of 4)
  Provided by a little bird 04 May 2012 To view the entire pdf please click here.
• Today’s Messages from Taliban about Today’s At ...
  02 May 2012 A message came to me about nine hours ago from the Taliban that Obama visited and so the Taliban had an attack underway.  They did in fact have an attack underway.  I published the message from Zabihullah Mujahid on Facebook. First message: A few minutes ago (about 082 ...
• Shot in the Dark: Blackhawk Down
  Afghan firing RPG in Urozgan 02 May 2012 On 19 April there was a suicide attack.  Numerous Afghans were killed and others were dying. The night was especially dark.  The weather was bad, and there were no city lights bouncing off of the clouds.  No stars.  No nothing.&nbsp ...
• Little Girl Revisited
  02 May 2012 This image was made seven years ago today.   There had been a great deal of combat.  It’s been said that the “Deuce Four” was the most decorated unit in the Iraq war.  I do not know if this is true, but if not, it is probably close. There had been a suicide car ...
• Drunken Monkeys, Milkooks, Military, and the Media
  US Army Master Sergeant and milblogger, CJ Grisham: known for spamming Wikipedia and other outlets with false information (This dispatch is intended for investigative journalists who may be interested in military propaganda targeting US citizens.  Much of the account is first person, the ...

The Killing Train

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

treehugger

• 150 Years of Food Safety and the Challenges We ...
  The history of the USDA and FDA and the future challenges.
• Rooftop Fish Farm Ups the Ante for Urban Agric ...
  The prototype Globe/Hedron is a bamboo greenhouse designed to organically grow fish and vegetables on top of generic flat roofs. It uses aquaponic farming techniques so the fish's water nourishes the plants and plants clean the water for the fish.
• The Week in Clean Tech: E Ink Loses Money, a B ...
  Catch up on cleantech news from the week in 5 minutes.
• Modular Furniture Made from Recycled Materials ...
  A modular furniture unit can be set up as a bed, sofa, table, bookshelf and more.
• Occupy's May Day: Tens of Thousands Protest th ...
  May Day showed that the thirst for grassroots protest is still growing, and that public anger is aimed at banks, DC, and the polluting 1%. Can it be harnessed?

Democratic Voice of Burma

• Journal stands by controversial interview
  The editors at Hot News journal are standing by a controversial interview with Agriculture and Irrigation Minister Myint Hlaing after the official claimed his remarks were made off the record
• Journalists celebrate Press Freedom Day with e ...
  For the first time in its history, journalists and government officials in Rangoon and Mandalay observed World Press Freedom Day
• Suu Kyi embraces new role and compromise
  In the wake of the oath crisis Aung San Suu Kyi and the NLD demonstrated this week that they're willing to compromise to stay politically viable
• Thai authorities warn of ‘threats’ from armed ...
  Thai authorities issued a warning to residents living in Tak province concerning an alleged threat made by the leader of the DKBA
• Army prepares for ‘major assault’ ...
  According to a spokesperson from the Kachin Independence Army, the Burmese military is positioning their troops for what appears to be a large-scale assault on a key KIA base

Telegraph - Climate Change

• African continent 'sitting on vast reservoir'
  The notoriously dry African continent is sitting on a vast reservoir of groundwater that will help it overcome the future challenges of climate change and population growth, according to British scientists.
• In the eyes of Nature, warming can't be natural
  , says Christopher Booker.
• Penguins in Antarctica: photographs by David C ...
  David C Schultz photographs the frozen landscape and its inhabitants.
• Grandmother vows to remain in cliff top home
  She is the last remaining resident, her home perched perilously close to the edge of a slowly eroding cliff top.
• Climate scientists are losing the public debat ...
  Green campaigners and climate scientists are losing the public debate over global warming, one of the movement's leading proponents has admitted.

National Geographic | Environment

• British Columbia Rethinks Its Pioneering Carbo ...
  With none of its neighbors following British Columbia's lead in taxing to curb greenhouse gas emissions, the Canadian province reviews the economic impact.
• Yellowstone Supervolcano Eruptions More Freque ...
  The Yellowstone supervolcano may erupt more frequently, though may be a bit weaker, than thought, a new study says.
• Supercomputing Power Could Pave the Way to Ene ...
  Scientists believe that Titan, a massive upgrade in supercomputing power that the U.S. government is set to deploy this year, will help crack the code on energy-efficient engines.
• Everest Helicopter Rescue Saves National Geogr ...
  Despite "not flyable" conditions, an acutely ailing Nat Geo photographer was airlifted to safety Saturday in Nepal.
• Fish Glow Green After Genetic Engineering
  A genetically engineered fish that glows green from the inside out is helping illuminate what pollutants do inside the body.

Jurist - Legal Research

• Iran criticized for harsh sentences against ri ...
  [JURIST] A group of UN human rights experts on Friday criticized the government of Iran [press release] for the detentions and harsh sentences of human rights defenders. The Special Rapporteurs on human rights defenders, the situation of human rights in Iran, and the independence of judges and l ...
• Russia gay activist first to be convicted unde ...
  [JURIST] Prominent Russian gay rights activist Nikolai Alekeyev became the first to be convicted Friday under a St. Petersburg city ordinance that prohibits the spreading "homosexual propaganda" to minors. Alekeyev was arrested last month [JURIST report] for picketing in front of city hall with ...
• Conrad Black released from prison
  [JURIST] Media magnate Conrad Black [CBC profile; JURIST news archive] was released from federal prison in Florida Friday but remains in US custody pending removal proceedings. It remains unclear [National Post report] how long Black will be held by US officials or where he will be deported. He ...
• Austria court rules laws not comforming with E ...
  [JURIST] The Austrian Constitutional Court [official website, in German] ruled [judgment, PDF, in German; press release, PDF, in German] Friday that the country's laws must not only conform to its own constitution but also to the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights [text] in order to be upheld as c ...
• Washington women sue state AG over health care ...
  [JURIST] More than 90 women filed suit [complaint, PDF] Thursday against Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna [official website] alleging that his opposition to the federal health care law is preventing women from having full access to medical care. The complaint claims McKenna's participatio ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

• A Twitter Torrent Against ... Congressional De ...
  Twitter is on fire, and Joe Lieberman merely the kindle. The Netroots left -- a variegated slice of the Democratic base -- is livid about health care reform.  The fire has been slow burning for months, expressing itself in frustration, firstly, with the congressional leadership, and secondl ...
• 2010: Exploring The Frustration Of Seniors
  Resurgent Republic, the GOP strategy/polling consortium, has been finding, in surveys, a trend among folks over 55 that quite concerns Democrats -- because they're seeing the same thing. Since April, older whites have not only been venting their frustration at Congress, they've been increasingly ...
• 2010: The Case Against Self-Funding
  Confirming rumors, California gubernatorial candidate Steve Poizner announced today he's donating $15 million to his own campaign because he wants to "communicate my message of bold 10% tax cuts, a 10% reduction in state spending, creating a $10 billion rainy day fund, and I will cut our welfare ...
• Why Lieberman Hates The Health Care Bill
  For progressives, with his latest Hamleting on health care reform, Sen. Joe Lieberman has officially transitioned from his status as the Senate's Lucy-Pulling-The-Ball-Away to a guy who, in the words of CAP's Matthew Yglesias, demonstrates "sociopathic indifference to the human cost" of his acti ...
• Administration Admits That Indefinite Detentio ...
  The Obama administration acknowledged Tuesday that it would be a violation of current law to transfer individuals from Guantanamo Bay in Cuba to its soon-to-be acquired Thomson prison in Illinois unless they are destined for a federal trial or military tribunal. In a conference call with reporte ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

• [COAT] WikiLeaks on Canada in Iraq War - coat
• [COAT] CANSEC Arms Bazaar Protest, June 1, Ott ...
• [COAT] Put a SNAG in CANSEC: Spring Nuremberg ...
• [COAT] WikiWeapons Cda Exposes 18,888 Export C ...
• [COAT] Latest on Cda's Arms Exports & CANSEC r ...

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

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• SKorea on alert after ship hit by mysterious b ...
• Obama administration may send U.S.-Russia arms ...
• Energy Secretary Steven Chu on the nation's en ...

Tikun Olam

• IDF Closes Book on al-Samouni Killings, Whitew ...
  TweetYesterday, the IDF informed B’Tselem that it intended to close the investigation of the massacre death of 21 members of the al-Samouni clan in Gaza during Operation Cast Lead.  You’ll recall this was one of the three most egregious incidents of the war which the Goldstone inquir ...
• Big Brother, Israeli Censor, to Monitor Journa ...
  TweetThe IDF military censor will be assuming even more ominous Big Brother-like prerogatives as it begins monitoring the social media accounts of Israeli journalists and bloggers for potential violation of censorship provisions.  At a conference on digital media, the censor, an IDF colonel, ann ...
• Obama National Security Chief Calls Drone Stri ...
  TweetAs we near the first anniversary of the assassination of Osama bin Laden (tomorrow) and the 2012 presidential election, the Obama administration is trying to prove how much hair it has on its chest regarding national security.  Possibly, Medea Benjamin’s Drone Summit has spooked them ...
• American Jewish Poll Finds Obama Strongly Supp ...
  TweetThe American Jewish Committee has released its 2012 survey of American Jewish opinion and, as expected it focuses on presidential politics.  There aren’t too many surprises.  The Republican Jewish Committee and Sheldon Adelson continue wasting their millions pounding away with the mes ...
• Meir Dagan Defends Diskin’s Attack on Netanyah ...
  TweetThe Jerusalem Post held its endlessly-flacked pro-Israel conference in New York, this weekend, and attendees got much more than they bargained for.  A junior cabinet member who no one’s ever heard of, took it upon himself to dress down one of Israel’s most decorated IDF officers ...

If Americans Knew

• Beware of the BBC
  Stuart Littlewood highlights the BBC's chronic pro-Israel bias, from allowing untruths about Israel's onslaught on Gaza in 2008-09 to go unchallenged, to its failure to provide accurate context about the Israeli township of Sderot, to its routine willingness to give disproportionate airtime to I ...
• Stealing Success Tel Aviv Style
  And there is another aspect of Israel's growing high tech sector that he understandably chose to ignore because it is extremely sleazy. That is the significant advantage that Israel has gained by systematically stealing American technology with both military and civilian applications. The US dev ...
• New Booklet: Stealing Success Tel Aviv Style
  International security and counterterrorism expert Philip Giraldi argues that Israel's flourishing high tech industry is built on widespread theft of American research. This has undermined American companies and endangered American security.
• How to Contact the US Government and Media
  Contact information for the U.S. government and media.
• Remember Rachel Corrie
  On March 16, 2003, Rachel Corrie was killed by Israeli soldiers driving a bulldozer. Please help us keep Rachel's memory and message alive! Order materials to distribute to your friends, family, neighbors, and community.

David J. Gregory

• BIG NEWS Obama Threatens VETO CISPA
  Big news. President Obama is threatening to veto CISPA, the bill that could give the government and big companies limitless powers to spy on us online. The President has folded on a lot of things in the past, but finally, yes finally, there is hope, the tide maybe changing, from the GOP Corporat ...
• The Eye On Citrus Show
  http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/the-eye-on-citrus-show/ Our latest radio show is up, talking about the GOP Forum held in Crystal River this past Saturday, Jan 14, 2010. The two non-fiction books relating the dark and illegal deeds of t ...
• Jesse Ventura, 63 Documents the Government Doe ...
  http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/01/07/jesse-ventura-63-documents-the-government-does-not-want-you-to-read/ EyeOnCitrus.com is proud to announce that Jesse Ventura, newest book, 63 Documents The Government Doesn’t Want you to read, is availab ...
• What side are you on?
  As a Thanksgiving deadline nears for action by the powerful congressional committee on deficit reduction, Bernie sounded an alarm over reports that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid may be cut. "The American people have been very clear. They understand how important Social Security, Med ...
• Listen to Art Bell’s Coast to Coast HAAR ...
  This is an (CLICK HERE FOR THE SHOW) encore presentation of a show that aired in 2005. It’s revealing because it discusses the secret facility in Alaska that manipulates the ionosphere with possible devastating results. Listen to scientists working on it then and their reluctance to speak about ...

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

• Jonathan Zittrain Takes the Stage at ROFLCon
  Today with MIT Civic Media Center's Matt Stempeck and Stephen Suen, I'm live-blogging ROFLCon, a conference for things and people who are famous on the Internet. The livenote index is here. Christina Xu, the event organizer, starts off ROFLCon to cheers. It's an amazingly packed venue. "One o ...
• How We Got Here: The Road to Public Lab's Map ...
  Last week, Public Laboratory announced that public domain maps are now starting to show up on Google Earth and Google Maps. But how did the projects get there? Here's a timeline of a Public Laboratory map project. Making a map Public Laboratory projects take a community-based approach to m ...
• Mobile Security Survival Guide Helps Journalis ...
  The Mobile Security Survival Guide for Journalists from SaferMobile helps reporters better understand the risks inherent in the use of mobile technology. The guide covers both local journalists and those on assignment in another country. As someone working with sensitive information, mobile ...
• How to Contribute to OpenStreetMap and Grow th ...
  Hundreds of delegates from government, civil society, and business gathered in Brasilia recently for the first Open Government Partnership meetings since the inception of this initiative. Transparency, accountability, and open data as fundamental building blocks of a new, open form of government ...
• At the International Journalism Festival: Can ...
  PERUGIA, Italy -- Here at the International Journalism Festival the launch of three large initiatives have generated a lot of the buzz around the topic of data journalism. The School of Data Journalism, organized by the European Journalism Centre and the Open Knowledge Foundation, is compose ...

Cutting Edge News

• The Race for Natural Gas - Embracing the Shale ...
  If there is one conclusion that should be drawn from the boom in U.S. natural gas production, it is that supplies are so abundant that it makes economic sense to export some of our gas to countries overseas. No one could have imagined that possibility even a few years ago when the United States ...
• The 2012 Vote - New Questions Raised Over Aaro ...
  Two $25,000 donations during the final days of a hotly contested Illinois primary are raising more questions about whether super PACs — the political committees that have seen a flood of money from millionaires and billionaires — are being used to circumvent campaign contribution limits. Bac ...
• Freedom Edge - Greeks Recall America's Contrib ...
  The Hellenic National Anthem, the longest in the world (158 stanzas – verses) says in verse 22:Cordially rejoicedand Washington’s land.And remembered the ironsin which she too was shackled.When in 1821, the Greeks revolted against the violent rule of the Ottoman Turks, waves of sympathy spre ...
• The 2012 Vote - Marco Rubio and the DREAM Act
  Marco Rubio, Florida Republicans’ golden politician, has served as the state’s Junior Republican Senator since November 2, 2010. Born into a Cuban immigrant family, Rubio himself has weighed in with his opinion on the immigration reform issue. On April 1, 2012, he was interviewed on Fox News ...
• The Edge of Terrorism - Latin America a Terror ...
  While President Barack Obama participated in last month's Summit of the Americas in Colombia, none of the nations' leaders even hinted about the influx of officials from Iran and their proxy warriors in the terrorist group Hezbollah. However, this week Israeli intelligence analysts are warning t ...

High Country News

• Micah True, born to run
  Remembering Micah True – known as “Caballo Blanco,” or the white horse – a gifted athlete who devoted his life to helping the Tarahumara, a remote tribe of long-distance runners in Mexico’s Copper Canyon.
• The hoof stops here
  A proposal to reopen slaughterhouses in the U.S. for old, unwanted, abandoned or wild horses is a cruel and foolish idea.
• How conservation works south of the border
  Maps, photos and text describe some of the federal and private, nonprofit work in Northwest Mexico to preserve imperiled landscapes and a rich diversity of plants and animals.
• Arizona's clean-election law is pruned, but no ...
  Clean-elections laws have a way of withering away, especially since the Supreme Court's controversial Citizens United ruling, but Arizona is still struggling to keep political campaigns fair.
• A final hats off to rancher Doc Hatfield
  With the help of his wife, Connie, and a bunch of determined fellow ranchers, the late Doc Hatfield helped change the face of public-lands ranching in the West.

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

• Occupy Wall Street Is a Disaster For Obama's R ...
  By Barry Rubin I want to keep this brief so I’m not going to present a lot of supporting information — I’ll leave that for my next book, Silent Revolution, about how the far left first hijacked liberalism and key institutions, then hijacked America — but I hope you’ll see why t ...
• Newsbusted Exclusive: EPA To Regulate 7Eleven ...
  Now this nanny-state-ism has gone way too far! It's one thing when Obama's EPA wants to screw up our economy, drive up energy costs, regulate our exhalation of CO2 and even the water in puddles, but this is outrageous even for them. In cased you missed this, last week there was a study clai ...
• EXCLUSIVE! The REAL Story of the REAL Julia
  I got a weird phone call this afternoon. It was from Zach NoPunim, he claimed to be the son of Julia, the woman whose life was described today on Barack Obama's campaign web-site.  Zach was very angry he claimed the President got his mother's story all wrong. Zach says Barack Obama ruined ...
• How Leftists Betray Western Civilization
  By Barry Rubin Over and over again I hear them: Egyptians who have lost hope that their country can be saved from Islamist dictatorship (this is what the people want, one says); the Lebanese who can no longer stand up to the threats of the Hizballah-dominated government; Turks disgusted ...
• Pelosi Continues to Lie About Approval of Wate ...
  In his new book, “Hard Measures” released earlier this week, former CIA counterterrorism chief Jose Rodriguez Rodriguez reveals that he personally briefed Nancy Pelosi in detail about the enhanced interrogation techniques, where the techniques being used to get information from al-Qae ...

The Real Agenda

• Bolivia’s Resources up to the Highest Bi ...
  UPI | MAY 4, 2012 As confusing signals go, Bolivia achieved a double whammy by seizing a  Spanish power generation company hours before welcoming Spanish energy giant  Repsol into the country. Bolivian President Evo  Morales went to some length to indicate that his order to the military to  ...
• 86 Million People Unemployed in the United States
  Last year, 86 million Americans were not counted in the labor force because they didn’t keep up a regular job search. Most of them were either under age 25 or over age 65. By ANNALYN CENSKY | CNNMONEY | MAY 4, 2012 There are far more jobless people in the United States than you m ...
• EU Bureaucrats to create super-powerful EU pre ...
  By  MACER HALL | EXPRESS.CO.UK | MAY 4, 2012 Senior Eurocrats are secretly plotting to create a super-powerful EU president to realise their dream of abolishing ­Britain and other nation states, the Daily Express can reveal. A covert group of EU foreign ministers has drawn up plans for ...
• Fear Sells: Studies on Mutant H5N1 Virus Final ...
  AFP | MAY 3, 2012 Scientists who created a mutant virus to explore a key aspect of influenza published their research Wednesday after a four-month storm that brewed fears of bioterrorism and accusations of censorship. The controversy began in December when teams in the United States and the ...
• The Cholesterol Myth that is Harming Your Health
  By DR. MERCOLA | MERCOLA.COM | MAY 3, 2012 Cholesterol could easily be described as the smoking gun of the last two decades. It’s been responsible for demonizing entire categories of foods (like eggs and saturated fats) and blamed for just about every case of heart disease in the ...

Wind Watch

• Scale of Goodhue County wind project questione ...
  Red Wing — A 78-megawatt wind-power project proposed for Goodhue County that has been trying to get a state permit since late 2008 has been stalled by organized and determined local residents who have spent six figures fighting it. State Rep. Tim Kelly, R-Red Wing, also has long maintained that ...
• Derby Select Board: no to commercial wind
  DERBY, VT – A special meeting was held Wednesday night to decide if the Derby Select Board would endorse a motion to direct attorney Richard Saudek to open “discussions” with Encore Redevelopment over the proposed construction of two 430 feet tall wind turbines in the town. The answer was ...
• Shelburne residents unanimously approve wind t ...
  Hundreds of Shelburne residents voted to approve petitions that will not allow any large, commercial scale wind turbines at their annual town meeting Tuesday night. They also unanimously approved the Wind Turbine Moratorium that says the town will not issue any wind turbines permits until June 3 ...
• Canadian mayor threatens to shut off water to ...
  DERBY, VT/STANSTEAD QC. – Mayor Philippe Dutil of Stanstead, Quebec, says he’ll shut off the water valves to Beebe Plains, VT, if the Town of Derby supports the proposed Derby Line Wind Project. The Canadians control the water that serves Beebe, a village in the Town of Derby, near the Can ...
• Viking Energy: the human impact
  When Donnie and Evelyn Morrison moved to South Setter in the Kergord valley almost 24 years ago they were looking for a quiet life away from the new housing development where they had been living in central Weisdale. They moved to the land Donnie’s grandfather had bought in 1917, but their plans ...

Tippers News

• Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
  The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
  DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• About Us,,,You may want to lisent...interesting!
  Interesting Information that you may find interesting With Love... Evelyn (: Submitted by Evelyn J. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Tiger killing 'a crime against nature'
  Three people have been sentenced to a total of eight and a half years in prison for trying to smuggle tiger skins and bones across the Russian border. And for the first time in this kind of case, a charge of 'ecological damage' might be brought for the Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals &nbsp ...
• Confused cat found wandering streets of of Lin ...
  This hungry kitty thought she was the cat that had got the cream when she found a half-full tin of pet food as she prowled for snacks in bins behind a supermarket. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

The Freeman

• Job Growth in April Anemic
  “The United States had another month of disappointing job growth in April, the Labor Department said Friday. The nation’s employers added 115,000 positions on net, after adding 154,000 in March. April’s job growth was less than what economists had been predicting. The unemployment rate tic ...
• Forgotten Critic of Corporatism
  "Communism is a hateful thing...; but the communism of combined wealth and capital ..., which insidiously undermines the justice and integrity of free institutions, is not less dangerous...."
• First-Quarter Productivity Slipped
  “Nonfarm productivity fell in the first quarter as companies hired more workers to maintain output, but a moderate rise in wages suggested little pressure on company profits and inflation.” (Reuters) New regulations must be kicking in. FEE Timely Classic “Regulation and Product ...
• Freddie Mac Needs More Taxpayer Money
  “Government-controlled mortgage giant Freddie Mac is requesting $19 million in additional federal aid after posting a loss for the first quarter of this year.” (Washington Post) Really, this story is getting old. FEE Timely Classic “Bailing Out Statism” by Sheldon Richman
• Free Markets Are a Woman’s Best Friend
  Although it rarely gets the credit, capitalism liberated women from centuries of second-class citizenship.

Teaching Online Journalism

• Programming and journalism students: A convers ...
  I think it’s pretty cool to use Storify to sort out the threads of a bunch of simultaneous conversations on Twitter: [View the story "Programming and journalism students: A conversation" on Storify] Please join in — on Twitter, on Facebook, or here.
• The courses a student wishes he had taken
  As he prepares to graduate, University of Oregon public relations student Sam Drake reflects on the courses he did not take: Computer science: “To be able to code in Java, HTML, C++ or Python is one skill that is going to be extremely important in the coming years.” Marketing cla ...
• The liberal arts portion of a journalism education
  Model Curricula for Journalism Education is a 150-page document produced by UNESCO and published in 2007. Its contents are based on work done in 2005 by an international group of journalism educators. While many details in the document (particularly the recommended books) are now quite out of d ...
• The liberal arts portion of a journalism education
  Model Curricula for Journalism Education is a 150-page document produced by UNESCO and published in 2007. Its contents are based on work done in 2005 by an international group of journalism educators. While many details in the document (particularly the recommended books) are now quite out of da ...
• Two online tools I use and recommend
  Just a quick post to pimp two products/tools/sites I use every day — neither of which is nearly as famous as some companies that announced a billion-dollar deal yesterday. Pinboard. This is NOT the famous Pinterest that everyone is talking about. It has a few minor similarities (a “ ...

Facing South

• Marco Rubio's DREAM Act: The new 'Don't Ask, D ...
  The U.S. Senator from Florida is about to release his own version of an immigration reform bill that would offer legal status to undocumented students -- but without a pathway to citizenship. ...
  
• On Passover week, a secret message to The Other
  This week, writers Scott Huler and June Spence discovered hate speech scrawled inside a closet under construction in the home they share with their two sons in Raleigh, N.C. They responded wi ...
  
• INSTITUTE INDEX: The push to block voter regis ...
  A by-the-numbers look at the effort underway in Florida and other states to set up roadblocks to voter registration drives.
  A by-the-numbers look at the effort u ...
  
• A trend toward anti-immigrant, anti-choice laws
  2011 saw a record number of laws restricting abortion in U.S. states. It also saw a record number of state anti-immigrant laws. Coincidence? Maybe not.
  2011 saw ...
  
• VOICES: Conservatives to the poor: "Move!"
  A new report on county health outcomes gets to the heart of the ideological debate.
  A new report on county health outcomes gets to the heart of the ideological d ...
  

Worldpress - Africa

• Blood Diamonds 2012
  Nine years after the Kimberley Process was formed to stop the trade in conflict diamonds and ensure that diamond purchases were not funding violence, the KP has refused to evolve and address the clear links between diamonds, violence and tyranny.
• Blood Diamonds 2012
  Nine years after the Kimberley Process was formed to stop the trade in conflict diamonds and ensure that diamond purchases were not funding violence, the KP has refused to evolve and address the clear links between diamonds, violence and tyranny.
• The Need to "De-Nairobify" Somali Affairs
  For quite some time, international players have been conducting operations related to Somalia from across the Kenyan border in Nairobi.
• The Need to "De-Nairobify" Somali Affairs
  For quite some time, international players have been conducting operations related to Somalia from across the Kenyan border in Nairobi.
• London Conference on Somalia
  Although it succeeded in shining an international light on Somalia's ongoing conflict, the London conference failed in some respects to address dangerous issues of tribalism.

Telegraph UK - oil

• European Parliament calls for sanctions agains ...
  The European Parliament passed a resolution condemning Argentina's nationalisation of YPF and called for a partial suspension of tariffs that benefit exports from the South American country to the EU.
• Argentina 'to negotiate' on YPF compensation
  Spain's Repsol, whose YPF unit was nationalised by Argentina, agreed in 2008 to buy back the Eskenazi family's shares in that oil company if it lost majority control.
• Repsol required to buy Eskenazi family YPF stake
  Spain's Repsol, whose YPF unit was nationalised by Argentina, agreed in 2008 to buy back the Eskenazi family's shares in that oil company if it lost majority control.
• SNP says English taxpayers should pay £30 bill ...
  Taxpayers in the remainder of the UK should pay the £30 billion cost of decommissioning Scottish oil rigs decades after independence, the SNP energy minister has told MPs.
• Carry on fracking
  Telegraph View: Britain's approach to the technology of extracting gas from shale rock is overly cautious.

Ian Welsh

• The US does not have justice or even the rule ...
  and whether the public approves or disapproves is irrelevant.  Black letter law, on the books, makes most of what the banks did leading up to the subprime crisis illegal.  It was fraud.  Black letter law makes the war on Iraq a war crime, and no one went to jail for that.  Black letter law does ...
• The police state of the future
  forget the problems of spy agencies, this is the stuff of pure police states.  The Stasi only wished they had it so good. When the revolution comes, if it comes, the first job is going to have to be to destroy all of this stuff, and to inculcate a visceral understanding that this and all [...]
• The police state of the future
  forget the problems of spy agencies, this is the stuff of pure police states.  The Stasi only wished they had it so good. When the revolution comes, if it comes, the first job is going to have to be to destroy all of this stuff, and to inculcate a visceral understanding that this and all [...]
• Is the individual mandate really the hill prog ...
  Really? The individual mandate is lousy policy.  It always was.  It is especially lousy policy without a large (100 million +) public option.  The health care plan is, for all intents and purposes, a 90′s Heritage plan. This?  This is what progressives want to fight for? BMaz has a good ar ...
• Is the individual mandate really the hill prog ...
  Really? The individual mandate is lousy policy.  It always was.  It is especially lousy policy without a large (100 million +) public option.  The health care plan is, for all intents and purposes, a 90′s Heritage plan. This?  This is what progressives want to fight for? BMaz has a good ar ...

Media Consortium

• New Voices: What Works
• The Media Consortium » The Big Thaw
• Corporations Are Not People -- In These Times
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Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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

new geography

• Australian Elections: A Comeback for Pro-growt ...
  The latest local government elections in Queensland, along with the by election for former Premier Anna Bligh’s state seat of South Brisbane, may point to a fundamental shift in popular mood back in favour of growth and development. After many years of anti-growth policy paranoia, it’s a refresh ...
• World Urban Areas Population and Density: A 20 ...
  The latest edition of Demographia World Urban Areas has just been released. The publication includes population estimates, urban land area estimates and urban densities for all nearly 850 identified urban areas in the world with a population of 500,000 or more. These urban areas account for a ...
• The Best Cities for Jobs 2012
  Throughout the brutal recession, one metropolitan area floated serenely above the carnage: Washington, D.C.  Buoyed by government spending, the local economy expanded 17% from 2007 to 2012. But for the first time in four years, the capital region has fallen out of the top 15 big cities in ou ...
• 2012 How We Pick the Best Cities For Job Growth
  Small Sized Cities Medium Sized Cities Large Sized Cities All Cities We seek to measure the robustness of a region’s growth both recently and over time. We look at all of the metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) for which the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports monthly employme ...
• Homebuilding Recovery: How CAD Stifles Solutions
  The Recovery Blueprint is a multipart series on homebuilding. Part II addresses how a reliance on CAD software and a lack of collaboration stifle sustainable land development solutions. The front cover of Engineering News-Record on March 12th, 2012 was about a technology survey conducted a few ...

GM Watch

• Europe sleep-walking into GM soy catastrophe
  1. GM wake-up call for commissioner 2.OPEN LETTER 3.References NOTE: This follows on from: GM soy linked to health damage in pigs - a Danish dossier http://www.gmwatch.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=13883 --- --- 1.GM wake-up call for commissioner Peter Crosskey Agricultural a ...
• Europe sleep-walking into GM soy catastrophe
  1. GM wake-up call for commissioner 2.OPEN LETTER 3.References NOTE: This follows on from: GM soy linked to health damage in pigs - a Danish dossier http://www.gmwatch.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=13883 --- --- 1.GM wake-up call for commissioner Peter Crosskey Agricultural a ...
• California public to vote on GMO food labels
  1.Groups push for vote on GMO food labels 2.California public to vote on GMO Label Act; Biotech lies begin --- --- 1.Groups push for vote on GMO food labels Carey Gillam Reuters, May 2 2012  http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/02/us-food-gmo-idUSBRE8411GT20120502 A California initiative to r ...
• California public to vote on GMO food labels
  1.Groups push for vote on GMO food labels 2.California public to vote on GMO Label Act; Biotech lies begin --- --- 1.Groups push for vote on GMO food labels Carey Gillam Reuters, May 2 2012  http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/02/us-food-gmo-idUSBRE8411GT20120502 A California initiative to r ...
• New GM crops could make superweeds even stronger
  New GM Crops Could Make Superweeds Even Stronger Brandon Keim Wired News, May 1 2012  http://m.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/05/new-superweed-evolution/all/1 Herbicide-resistant superweeds threaten to overgrow U.S. fields, so agriculture companies have genetically engineered a new generation of p ...

spiked

• Masses duped by greenwash? Get real!
  Eliane Glaser’s sceptical take on the world is frequently insightful. But it still takes too many fashionable ideas at face value.
• Roy Hodgson: the right man for England
  Ignore Harry Redknapp’s Fleet Street fan club. For once the Football Association has made a good decision.
• Getting by without a little help from Friends
  E4’s latest import, 2 Broke Girls, isn’t a patch on sadly-departed Friends. But its humour fits our times.
• Obama vs Romney: who do you hate least?
  Both Obama and Romney are now tossed between public enthusiasm and public disdain, showing just how volatile this campaign has become.
• ‘International justice’ is no just ...
  An international court's trial of ex-Liberian president Charles Taylor dents the democratic rights of West Africans.

Cryptogon

• New Humble Bundle Packed with Goods from Amani ...
  I like Amanita Design. An English dub version of Kooky, the children’s movie, is also part of this one. http://www.humblebundle.com/
• IBM’s Internal Plan to Grow Earnings-Per-Share ...
  Via: Cringely: The direct impetus for this column is IBM’s internal plan to grow earnings-per-share (EPS) to $20 by 2015. The primary method for accomplishing this feat, according to the plan, will be by reducing US employee head count by 78 percent in that time frame. Reducing employees by more ...
• U.S. Marines: Infantry Now Open to Women
  Anybody’s Son Will Do. Or daughter. Via: Marine Corps Times: The Marine Corps school that produces infantry combat officers will enroll its first-ever female students this year, Marine Corps Times has learned. As part of the service’s extensive research campaign to determine what additiona ...
• Hate To Break It To You, But Your Car Likely H ...
  Via: Forbes: The big news in the automotive privacy world this week is that Congress is on the verge of passing a transportation bill that will make “big brother” black boxes mandatory in all cars. … But the truth of the matter is that most Americans already have black boxes in their cars. ...
• Blamed for Bee Collapse, Monsanto Buys Leading ...
  Via: Natural Society: Monsanto, the massive biotechnology company being blamed for contributing to the dwindling bee population, has bought up one of the leading bee collapse research organizations. Recently banned from Poland with one of the primary reasons being that the company’s genetically ...

The Economic Collapse

• There Are 100 Million Working Age Americans Th ...
  The unemployment crisis in America is much worse than you are being told.  Did you know that there are 100 million working age Americans that do not get up in the morning and go to work?  No wonder why it seems like there are so many people that do not have jobs!  According to th ...
• Why New York Times Economist Paul Krugman Is P ...
  In recent days, New York Times economist Paul Krugman has been doing a whole bunch of interviews in which he has declared that the solution to our economic problems is very easy.  Krugman says that all we need to do to get the global economy going again is for the governments of ...
• 95 Percent Of The Jobs Lost During The Recessi ...
  Who is the biggest loser in the ongoing decline of the U.S. economy?  Is it the wealthy?  No, the stock market has been soaring lately and their incomes are actually going up.  Is it the poor?  Well, the poor are definitely hurting very badly, but when you don't have much to begi ...
• Class Warfare Is Being Used To Divide America ...
  At a time when America desperately needs to come together, we are becoming more divided than ever.  The mainstream media and most of our politicians love to pit us against one another in dozens of different ways, and right now class warfare has become one of their favorite tools ...
• 22 Signs That The Collapsing Spanish Economy I ...
  What happens when debt-fueled false prosperity disappears?  Just look at Spain.  The 4th largest economy in Europe was riding high during the boom years, but now the Spanish economy is collapsing with no end in sight.  When a debt bubble gets interrupted, the consequences can be ...

Desertification

• The focus has to be on conservation and increa ...
  Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_20490754/waters-demand-supply-gap-widening Nanda: Water’s demand-supply gap widening By Ved Nanda We in Colorado are accustomed to occasional droughts, scarcity of water, and water restraints. But several c ...
• Sustainable development goal on zero net land ...
  Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.asp?id=68575 UNCCD calls for sustainable development goal on land use at Rio+20 Source: XINHUA BONN, Germany, May 4 (Xinhua) — The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) ...
• BETTER USE OF WATER LEADING TO POSITIVE IMPACT ...
  New York, May  4 2012  6:05PM Sustainable water reforms are having a positive impact on countries’ development, according to the results of a United Nations survey released today. The survey reveals that countries that have implemented water reforms backed by … Continue reading →
• High Council to Combat Desertification in Iraq ...
  Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.dinarrumor.com/showthread.php?35685-Start-up-a-High-Council-to-Combat-Desertification Start-up a High Council to Combat Desertification Baghdad, April 26 / April (Rn) – The Iraqi Ministry of Agriculture Thursday to begin to form a h ...
• DESIRAS : efficient irrigation in agriculture ...
  Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.ewp.eu/3763/desiras-addressing-desertification-by-efficient-irrigation-in-agriculture/ DESIRAS – Addressing desertification by efficient irrigation in agriculture Project finalized, reaching water savings in irrigation in desertification- ...

The Paper Trail

• Reprisal outcome for whistleblower complaints: ...
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• Boxes of top secret documents go missing
  The Justice Department has been increasingly eager to prosecute officials for leaks of classified information, charging six individuals with disclosures that violate the Espionage Act just since the start of 2009. But at the same time, the government itself has lost track of hundr ...
• Los Angeles students protest school police cit ...
  Los Angeles public-school students rallied Thursday against the large volume of court citations they have been issued for seemingly minor infractions, including tardiness, having a marker or “tool” for graffiti and for acting disruptive.  The citations, issued by the Los Angeles Unified Sch ...
• Tell us: Can we cut military ground forces or ...
  Pro — We’re still at war in Afghanistan. Reducing ground forces now could limit our ability to fight that war and still respond on short notice to a new emergency elsewhere. This would overstretch our forces and put strains on troop morale. Further, a large ground force contributes to the milita ...
• State Integrity Investigation cited in Rhode I ...
  Rhode Island garnered a respectable ninth in the nation ranking from the State Integrity Investigation in late March, but that was before elimination of the state’s internal auditing agency was proposed as part of the governor’s  budget.  Rhode Island’s Chief Auditor, H. Chris Der Vart ...

backofthebook.ca

• U.K. assaults Pirate Bay — and digital r ...
  By Saskboy Children learn how to use computers and work around restrictions by experimentation and reading. So too must adults when they are confronted with restrictions. It’s a good idea to learn how to evade censorship before the flow of information is shut off — otherwise, working ...
• Jan Wong’s Globe and Mail blues
  OUT OF THE BLUE By Jan Wong Self-published by Jan Wong, distributed by Dundurn 264 pages, $21.99, paperback Reviewed by Brian Brennan Jan Wong was a star of The Globe and Mail newsroom, a driven, gutsy, award-winning reporter who observed the Tiananmen Square massacre at first hand, and tested t ...
• Oil spill near proposed Enbridge pipeline route
  A BoB short: The Gitga’at Nation of Hartley Bay, B.C. has reported an oil spill, between two and five miles long and 200 feet wide inside the Grenville Channel, not far from the proposed tanker route for the Enbridge Gateway pipeline. According to a media release, the spill, believed to be from ...
• Carbon capture: Opportunity cost; opportunity, ...
  By Saskboy One of the more ridiculous logical fallacies that climate change denialists use is that carbon dioxide can’t be pollution because it can also be breathed by plant life. It’s really sweet they care so much about plants’ respiration, but I’m a little more concerned with the survivabilit ...
• 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. ...

libcom

• May Day 2012 - discussion and updates
  MayDay.jpg May 1, International Workers Day. Please post your accounts and updates of workers' events today in the comments below. See this article for a short history of ...
• Detroit Highschool students walkout protesting ...
  Detroit students walk out against school budget cuts and in solidarity with a nearby school threatened with closure. Western International High School students talk about defending public education and opposing the charterization and ...
• Bread instead of games!
  10_banner.png In June and July 2012, Poland is going to host Euro2012, the European Football Championship. Coalition of Polish feminist, anarchist and worker activists is mobilising for a protest on 1 ...
• Mobilizing and Organizing from Below June 1st- ...
  431715_143387849116773_143387402450151_155120_881003796_n.jpg Mobilizing and Organizing from Below will be a gathering of activists and organizers, workers and parents, revolutionaries and militants a ...
• Honduras farm workers stage mass land occupations
  class traitors.jpg Thousands of rural workers in Honduras have occupied land as part of a dispute with large landowners and the government. The coordinated invasions took place ...

Free Range International

• One Year Later
  Last night I was coming back from the Lebanese Restaurant located in the Wazar Akbar Khan section of Kabul.  Back in the day it had a full bar and open patio with large crowds of expat customers, but not these days.  Now you have to walk through a long blast proof hallway through a series [...]
• Dalton Thomas Comes Home
  This is the first of what I hope is many posts from my friend Dalton Thomas.  He wanted me to stress that he is practicing his creative writing skills and his story is a fictional account of coming home after being gone a long long time. I went to the local family practice center for [...]
• Five Machineguns
  The other day The Bot and I were talking about Greg Mortenson (author of Three Cups of Tea).  Mortenson has been court ordered to fork over a million bucks for managing  donor money like a GSA mandarin.  He is also guilty of  fabricating tales of derring-do in his mission to build schools using ...
• All Clear
  At 0630 this morning, Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) in the form of the Kabul Critical Response Unit (CRU) finished off a crew of villains who had been fighting for the past 16 hours.  These guys, most likely HIG militants, had barricaded themselves in a building under construction next ...
• Storm Warning
  America is currently experiencing some monster tornados deep in the heartland.  As dawn breaks across the land, the scenes of devastation are dramatic, but the casualties so far, remarkably low.  Modern early warning systems have a lot to do with that.  When a sudden serious storm breaks in Kabu ...

The Story Behind the Story

• Why Homeland Security Needs 650 Million Bullet ...
  Because of the arch-enemy of humanity, one Osama bin Laden (aka Tim Osman – CIA) and the “terror” he supposedly inflicted on the entire free world Sept. 11, 2001, the United States military, most likely under orders from Israel, invaded and occupied Iraq and Afghanistan.   Unto ...
• The “Other” Israel – Built O ...
  This is a great older presentation by Ted Pike concerning the “Jews” and “Israel”. It is a good and basic PRIMER course, but is missing a few critical pieces of the overall puzzle: 1.  The infiltration of the Edomite bloodline into Rabbinical circles 200 years before the ...
• The “Other” Israel – Built O ...
  This is a great older presentation by Ted Pike concerning the “Jews” and “Israel”. It is a good and basic PRIMER course, but is missing a few critical pieces of the overall puzzle: 1.  The infiltration of the Edomite bloodline into Rabbinical circles 200 years before the ...
• Nobel Laureate Gunter Grass Writes a Poem &#82 ...
  He is 84 years old.  He was awarded a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1999.  He is a German named Gunter Grass.  Apparently, Herr Gunter also has a conscious, and is upset over the West’s hypocrisy over Israel’s “conflict” with Iran.  The hypocrisy to Herr Grass is simply:  ...
• Nobel Laureate Gunter Grass Writes a Poem &#82 ...
  He is 84 years old.  He was awarded a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1999.  He is a German named Gunter Grass.  Apparently, Herr Gunter also has a conscious, and is upset over the West’s hypocrisy over Israel’s “conflict” with Iran.  The hypocrisy to Herr Grass is simply:  ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

• Life in a carbon neutral world…
  There’s a great Story from the New York Times / International Herald and Tribune about a 28 year old product designer from Luxembourg attempting to live a carbon neutral life in Barcelona, Spain. Her story is at certainly inspiring, although sometimes uncomfortable to read about… who ...
• BPA, Phthalates, Toxic Plastic Bottles, Sippy ...
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• Food Miles – how far your food travels & ...
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• Getting real about energy production & reduction
  Here’s a great video from a Cambridge University Physicist David Mackay. He’s discussing practical ways of measuring domestic power consumption, ways of producing energy, and he debate about replacing traditional fossil fuels based methods of producing electricity with more sensible ...

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

• Ken Dryden, NHL Hall of Famer (Jan 7, 2012)
  Hockey and the hits: it's been a season where a lot has been said about headshots, concussions and suspensions. How much has the game really changed, and what is at stake for its future? One of the games great players of the past, one of its most passionate observers of the present, takes on tho ...
• Malcolm Gladwell (Dec 31, 2011)
  Renowned author wraps the critical events of 2011.
• The Mansbridge Conversations 2011
  Highlights of Peter's interviews of the year, including conversations with Jack Layton, Olivia Chow, Nicole Williamson, Malcolm Gladwell and others.
• NAGUIB SAWIRIS
  Peter sits down with Egyptian businessman and politician Naguib Sawiris ahead of the country's first free elections about his hopes for and disappoinment in Egypt's Arab Spring
• Shawn Atleo - National Chief of the Assembly o ...
  In the wake of the crisis in Attawapiskat First Nation, Shawn Atleo discusses the future of Canada's Abroiginal communities.

Scotts Contracting

• CAD Kitchen Drawings by Scotty-ScottsContracting
  CADD Kitchen Design 2 Island Cook Top and Exhaust Hood   SCOTTS CONTRACTING LATEST KITCHEN DESIGN CAD DRAWINGS by clicking on this Web Link or Following Photo you will be redirect to Google Picasa Web Albums for Scotts Contracting Existing Kitchen Floor Plan Related articles Kitchen Project Phot ...
• Ameren Meeting-HCR 35 Hearing-3 environmental ...
  The 3 environmental shareholder resolutions include: report on coal combustion waste report on coal-related costs and risks assessment and report on greenhouse gas and other air emissions reductions through customer energy efficiency and renewable energy programs Labadie Environmental Organizati ...
• Kitchen Project Photos
    Scotty Comments:  I am very pleased with the Design-Build Concept utilized in the Kitchen Make-Over.  After the Prior Contractor Dropped the Ball on the project.  Scotts Contracting was hired to finish the project.  We added: Accent Lighting, Insulation, Air Sealing, N ...
• Missouri Tell Your Senator to Vote NO SB 759
  Donate Now Become A Member Volunteer Forward to a Friend Follow us on: Like Us on Facebook Follow Us on Twitter Tell Missouri Senators: Stop SB 759 Senate Bill 759 would erode two laws supported by Missouri voters unless you help us stop it. The first law under attack currently makes it illegal ...
• I took the Energy Star Pledge Have You?
  Twitter <—- Find Me —> Facebook Web Site: http://stlouisrenewableenergy.com scottscontracting Job Site Photo Album Green Blog Related articles New Company Website for St Louis Renewable Energy (scottscontracting.wordpress.com) Do Squirrels and Rabbits Ravage Your Garden? (sco ...

The View From Abroad

• Chalk Up Another One for Gun Owners
  Last Thursday in Salt Lake City, Utah, a gun toting citizen single-handedly ended the stabbing spree of a knife wielding maniac.
• The Pot Calls the Kettle Black
  Department of Justice lawsuit against Apple and others is incredible hypocrisy.
• Keynesians Are Clueless
  Paul Krugman didn't see the Great Recession coming and he doesn't see the next crisis coming either.
• Bernanke’s Publicity Stunt
  Fed chairman Ben Bernanke defends corrupt banking cartel by criticizing gold standard.
• Just Who is a Threat to Whom?
  If you look beyond the war propaganda against Iran, it is clear who the real threat to peace is.

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

• Okinawa: Small Step Forward?
  The U.S. military footprint on Okinawa is shrinking, but the impasse over bases remains.
• Question of Iran Pits Israeli Intelligence Aga ...
  Shrill rhetoric on Iran divides Israel.
• Iran Errata: Encouraging Words Turn Out to Be ...
  Meanwhile, enriched uranium is Iran's coin of the international realm.
• Newseum Dishonors One of Its Own: Slain Spanis ...
  Nine years after being killed by U.S. troops in Iraq, the memory of Jose Couso continues to be defamed.
• The Accidental Experts
  Two new films introduce the world's premier experts on militarism (hint: you won't meet them in Washington).

Law.com

• Latest Chevron Outtake: 'They're All Corrupt!'
  Donziger muses 'The judicial system is so utterly weak' in Corporate Counsel's latest release of outtakes from the documentary Crude.
• Minus Kagan, Supreme Court Lets 'Don't Ask' Po ...
  In an order Friday, the Supreme Court denied a motion aimed at allowing a worldwide ban on enforcement of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays in the military to take effect.
• MGA Loses Effort to Stall Trial in Fee Fight W ...
  A Los Angeles judge issued a tentative ruling Friday denying toymaker MGA Entertainment's efforts to stay a lawsuit that was filed by its former lawyers at O'Melveny & Myers.
• Proskauer and English Firm End Their Merger Di ...
  Proskauer Rose and SJ Berwin said Friday they had decided against merging, putting to an end months of speculation about a possible trans-Atlantic tie-up between the two law firms. The firms in a joint statement said "we recognized that the timetable necessary to reach the agreements that would ...
• IRS Throws In Towel on Closely Watched Interna ...

Iranian.com

• Iran dismisses Western demand to close nuclear ...
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• VIDEO: Talking Movies: Persepolis director Sat ...
  Five years ago Iranian-born filmmaker Marjane Satrapi was in the limelight with the success of her Oscar-nominated animation Persepolis. read more
• Tunisia fines TV channel owner over controvers ...
  The owner of a Tunisian TV station is fined for showing a controversial and award-winning animated film, Persepolis.   read more
• رئیس سازمان بازرسی:پرونده تخلف بانکی۱۰۰میلیون ...
  مصطفی پورمحمدی، رئیس سازمان بازرسی ایران، تخلف بانکی یکصد میلیون یورویی را تائید کرده و گفته است که پرونده آن در حالی به دادگاه فرستاده شده است که شواهد و اسنادی از "زد و بند" و حمایت های غیرقانونی مقامات اجرایی در آن وجود دارد. read more
• شیوخ پولدار عرب جزایر یونان را می‌خرند
  نشریه ‌آلمانی «دی ولت» خبر از معاملات کلان در یونان می‌دهد، معاملاتی که در هیر و ویر اخبار و گزارش‌های مختلف کمتر کسی به‌ آن توجه کرده.   موضوع، حراج املاک و دارایی‌ها و حتی جزایر کوچک یونان است. یونانی‌ها که بدجوری در تنگنای مالی گیر کرده‌اند، به هر دری می‌زنند تا read more

Most Revolutionary Act

• Milwaukee Prepares for National Security Event ...
  Location of US Drone Bases Is there a secret plan to evacuate some residents of Chicago in the event of major trouble during the NATO summit next month? CBS 2 has uncovered some evidence that there is. It comes from the Milwaukee area branch of the American Red Cross. CBS 2 News has obtained ...
• The World Tomorrow - Assange as Chat Show Host
          Still under house arrest, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange discusses the experience of solitary confinement with the new president of Tunisia.  President Marzouki offers him asylum. Fascinating inte ...
• The World Tomorrow – Assange’s N ...
    Still under house arrest, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange discusses the experience of solitary confinement with the new president of Tunisia.  President Marzouki offers him asylum. Fascinating interview on RT: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/324005       &nbs ...
• MLK’s Campaign Against “Un-Chris ...
  A Renegade History of the United States by Thaddeus Russell 2010 Free Press Book Review (This book review is divided into three parts. Part III discusses Martin Luther King’s little publicized campaign to rid black people of “un-Christian” and “un-American” habit ...
• How Prostitutes and Ex-Slaves Challenged the P ...
  19th century prostitute A Renegade History of the United States by Thaddeus Russell 2010 Free Press Book Review (This book review is divided into three parts. The second part discusses the debt of gratitude Americans owe prostitutes and ex-slaves for many of the liberties we currently take for ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

• Former Top CIA Official Defends Waterboarding ...
  Jose Rodriguez, former Director of the National Clandestine Service at the Central Intelligence Agency, has written a new book called Hard Measures: How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives which defends the CIA's use of waterboarding after 9/11 and disputes that it amounted to ...
• New Occupy Crackdown Documents Just Obtained b ...
  NPS Production Documents: Click here to view the NPS Production (77 pages) Two days before the NYPD’s eviction of the Occupy Wall Street encampment from Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan, Brookfield Properties' security was in direct communications and sharing information with the ...
• 20-Year Veteran to Face Jail Time for Act of C ...
  PRESS ADVISORY 20-Year Veteran to Face Jail Time for Act of Civil Disobedience Disruption of Congressional “Super Committee” could result in 6-month sentence Retired Naval Commander Leah Bolger will appear in court Thursday, April 12th 2012 on charges stemming from her arrest on O ...
• Worker Ownership for the 99%: The United Steel ...
  For release:     March 26, 2012                                          &nb ...
• The End of Men
  Excerpted from Stupid White Men ...And Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation by Michael Moore EARLIER THIS YEAR, my wife and I attended the baptism of our new nephew, Anthony. Our teenage daughter had been asked to be his godmother, a job that would require her to be there for little ...

Salon

• Obama’s GI Bill fight
  The multiple incarnations of the GI Bill are widely considered some of the most effective pieces of social welfare legislation ever passed by the U.S. Congress. Since World War II, millions of veterans have been able to attend college and graduate school via direct tuition assistance from the fe ...
• Mitt: The real European
  An odd thing happened during Mitt Romney's victory-lap speech after Tuesday's Republican primaries: He didn't once mention the word "Europe."The absence was jarring, because Romney's claim that President Obama is dragging the United States toward a loathsome European-style "social welfare" futur ...
• Wal-Mart’s shame grows worse
  Bloomberg is reporting that Eduardo Castro-Wright, the Wal-Mart executive fingered by the New York Times as the man at the heart of a huge international bribery scandal, has stepped down from his position as a member of the board of directors at MetLife.One has to pity poor Bloomberg reporter An ...
• Will Arizona case help Obama?
  As the Supreme Court hears oral arguments today on the constitutionality of Arizona's hard-line immigration law, lawyers will revel in arcane discussions of "preemption" and "severability" and "harmonious regulation." Others will ponder the ever-elusive question of whether the eight sitting just ...
• What is Marco Rubio running for?
  Marco Rubio insists he isn't running for vice president in 2012, but he is running pretty hard for something. The question is what and when.The junior senator from Florida gave a proverbial "major foreign policy address" in Washington today, after publishing a Los Angeles Times op-ed calling for ...

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

• Montana should commute Canadian Ronald Smith’s ...
  In the case of Canadian killer Ronald Smith, Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer should temper justice with mercy.
• Don’t let the bedbugs bite: fund Toronto Publi ...
  Toronto had comprehensive approach to tackling bedbugs but now that the funding has dried up the program is being dismantled.
• NFL faces the toll of brain injuries to players
  Some NFL players suffering from multiple concussions are committing suicide
• Save lives in Ontario: register as an organ donor
  Ontarians will now be asked if they want to register as an organ donor when they renew their driver’s licence.
• Mayor Rob Ford needlessly confronts a Star rep ...
  Mayor Rob Ford needlessly confronts a Star reporter who was looking into a piece of public property he wants to buy.

Energy Collective

• Cars Vs. Climate: Eco-Driving Index Tells The ...
  Consumers have gotten used to evaluating an automobile’s fuel performance based upon the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s fuel economy rating system. But what about a rating system that measures a car’s impact on the environment?
• New Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline Permit Reje ...
  TransCanada’s latest Keystone XL tar sands pipeline plan filed with the U.S. State Department has done nothing to quell local Nebraska opposition to the controversial project to pipe tar sands oil all the way to the Gulf for export. Nebraska residents say the massive pipeline plan stil ...
• E15: A Fuel Before Its Time
  E15 – gasoline containing 15 percent ethanol that has EPA approval  – is one of those ideas that looks good on paper but seems headed for problems in the real world. API’s Bob Greco, director for downstream and industry operations, outlined some of them for reporters during a conference call:
• What's up with all the management reshuffling ...
  I noticed the blog has been receiving a lot of notices on personnel changes within the renewable chemicals sector this year and the most recent one is Amyris' top management team announced yesterday.
• Getting Things Done: What's at Stake for Congr ...
  Did you see this eye-catching opinion piece about the polarization in Congress drawn from a new book by a couple of authors who wrote The Broken Branch: How Congress is Failing America and How to Get it Back on Track (which is worth a read as well)?

EU Times

• Senator Rand Paul asks supporters to help abol ...
  Kentucky Senator Rand Paul is rallying once more to end the TSA, and this time he is attacking the federal government’s grabby airport screeners for encroaching on the liberty of American passengers. In a statement released this week, the Republican senator and son of a presidential hopeful, Tex ...
• Americans renounced their citizenship in recor ...
  If you think residing in America is taxing, just talk to one of the many expatriates who is contributing to a shocking statistic recently discovered: across the globe, people are renouncing their US citizenship in record numbers. At least 1,788 Americans officially threw away their US citizenshi ...
• World’s oldest blood cells found in ice mummy Otzi
  Italian and German scientists have extracted the World’s oldest known human blood cells from the body of the 5300-year-old ’Otzi’ iceman mummy. The discovery was made using an atomic force microscope that examined tissue sections of a wound in the body of the mummy and detected red blood c ...
• Army manual for re-education camps applies to ...
  After reporting this week on a Pentagon-created plan for interning activists at re-education camps, questions were asked about the US Army manual that allegedly outlines the resettling of US citizens. Can Americans be sent to propaganda prisons? Now as more and more news organizations are invest ...
• US Debt Suicide Warned Near As Japan Enters Gl ...
  A grim Ministry of Finance report circulating in the Kremlin today states that the shocking record rise this past week of the United States outstanding debt to $15.692 trillion (just $600 billion short of their debt ceiling) has pushed the world’s most powerful economy into a situation of its ou ...

Stonecipher News

• WPMU Dev - The WordPress Experts!
• Stay Value Neutral When Counseling Clients
  From Chris Stonecipher's http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifFactoidz page: It is important to be value neutral wihttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifth clients to avoid harm by mixing your own values and beliefs with clients that is potentially damaging to th ...
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• Video Games and Teen Violence Correlations
  With the rising increase in teen violence, much research has been directed to determine if video games, violent television shows and other electronic media is directly related. Gentile, D.A. & Anderson C.A (2003) has done extensive research in which supports the theory that video games lead to v ...

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

• Mariano Rivera tears ACL during batting practi ...
  Mariano Rivera tears ACL during batting practice, will miss season – Video | Source: Rickey.org | The X Factor | The Voice | American Idol New York Yankees closer Mariano Rivera tore his ACL during batting practice in Kansas City, Missouri yesterday. He will miss the season. This may also be th ...
• Quick Hits: Rivera, Yankees, Contracts
  Here's the latest from around the league, as Friday turns into Saturday... "Absolutely," said Yankees GM Brian Cashman to Marc Carig of The Star Ledger when asked if he'd welcome Mariano Rivera back next year ( Twitter link ). Rivera said today that he will pitch next year after tearing his ACL ...
• Floyd Mayweather vs. Miguel Cotto: Live Round- ...
  MMA Fighting has a Floyd Mayweather vs. Miguel Cotto live blog for round-by-round updates for one of the top boxing fights of the year. The main event will start a little after 11:30 p.m. ET. Check out our Mayweather vs. Cotto results page to find out what happened on the undercard. Check out t ...
• Harvard Law School Won’t Say If Elizabeth Warr ...
  Polisat It figures. Harvard Law School won’t say if Elizabeth Warren is their one Native American listed on its diversity census report. The Boston Herald reported, via Free Republic: Harvard Law School lists one lone Native American faculty member on its latest diversity census report â but sc ...
• Is Google Forcing Google+ Down Peopleâs Throats?
  Earlier this week, actor/Internet celebrity Wil Wheaton posted a pretty interesting rant about Google on his blog , and on his Tumblr . Specifically, it was about a feature he spotted on YouTube , which placed a Google+ like button in the spot where the YouTube thumbs up button would normally b ...

Groklaw

• Oracle asks judge to throw out Googles stronge ...
  Oracle has asked Judge William Alsup to throw out the entire testimony of Jonathan Schwartz in its ongoing (and drama-filled) trial with Google over Android....Much like Schwartz' other testimony, the post "seems to be part of a pattern of acquiescence or tolerance of what Google was doing," Al ...
• FBI Wants Backdoors in Facebook, Skype and Ins ...
  The FBI has been lobbying top internet companies like Yahoo and Google to support a proposal that would force them to provide backdoors for government surveillance, according to CNET. The Bureau has been quietly meeting with representatives of these companies, as well as Microsoft (which owns H ...
• More Oracle Visits to the Press Room
  A PR for Oracle's law firm, MoFo, was hanging around the press room here, without having ID'd herself as PR. She was asked nicely to leave..- James Niccolai, Twitter
• In memoriam: Microsofts previous strategic mob ...
  Microsoft's new "strategic partnership" with Nokia is not its first. For a decade the software company has courted and consummated relationships with a variety of companies in mobile and telecom. Here are the ones I can remember. - Horace Dediu, Asymco, Feb.11, 2011
• Judge Humor
  Bit of sarcasm from judge, asking who'll testify about patents: "Will Mr Ellison be returning to testify about the claim limitations?" - James Niccolai, Twitter

WideShut

• Dead Spy Inquest: MI6 Failed Missing Employee ...
  MI6 waited a week before reporting "spy found in a bag" Gareth Williams missing, says unnamed Witness F.
• UK Economy Officially In Double-Dip: But Perha ...
  UK falls back in to recession, but ignoring the political Punch & Judy show, didn't we all see this coming?
• Say Hello To Your Corporate Police
  Lincolnshire first to adopt G4S private police staff as cuts force privatization schemes across the country.
• The Global Fascist Neo-Feudal State
  Contributor Chris Morris' entry in to the Activist Post writing contest: Link will take you away from WideShut.
• Microchipping Dogs: Government Ignoring Common ...
  Forcing upstanding dog owners to microchip their pets will do nothing to prevent attacks by criminals and ignorant owners.

Politics in the Zeros

• DIRECTV “Don’t Have Your House Explode” commercial
• Pension funds less than 1% invested in energy ...
  Yet they’ll invest in dicey real estate and toxic slop derivatives. Makes no sense to me. People will always need energy, so why not invest in it?
• The lonesome death of Donny Young AKA Johnny P ...
  In the last years of his life, he managed to gain back some of his reputation, eventually becoming a member of the Opry in 1997. But when he died in 2003, the family had no money to cover the funeral expenses. Thank God for friends like George Jones.In the end, the Donny Young [...]
• The moving is completed
  The truck is unloaded, the coffee maker is plugged in, and the Internet is functioning in our new place in Silicon Valley. What more do we need?Huge thanks to Tim and Sandi for helping!
• Fast and Furious: Barack Obama’s Bloodiest Sca ...
  Katie Pavlich is a conservative journalist for Townhall. I agree with her about the Fast and Furious gunwalking scandal. It reeks of stupidity, coverups, and corruption. A US Border Patrol agent is dead because of this, as are many Mexican nationals. And none of it had to happen.The answers comi ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

• One dead in truck crash in Hawke's Bay
  One person is dead and another is in a serious condition after a truck accident tonight.
• Power cut to thousands in Christchurch after s ...
  Around 12,000 Christchurch households were plunged into darkness tonight.
• Gun held to employee's head in Wellington arme ...
  Wellington police are hunting two men who robbed an Indian restaurant and held a gun to an employee's head
• Aussies outraged after Kiwi tourist throws bri ...
  A New Zealand tourist almost killed a crocodile after he threw bricks into its enclosure at an Alice Springs reptile centre, the centre's owner says
• Dozens evacuated in Hawke's Bay as wild weathe ...
  Dozens of people have been evacuated as the North Island continues to be battered by strong winds and rain.

Just World News

• The vulnerability of Palestinian refugees, rev ...
  I'm looking forward to seeing my old friend-- and now Just World Books's latest author-- Jonathan Randal, who'll be flying in to DC from Paris on Saturday. We've arranged for a bunch of public and less-public events for him next week, in both DC and New York. You can find the schedule for the pu ...
• Tragedies of liberal interventionist thinking ...
  Where to start? Maybe with this piece by Le Monde Diplo's Alain Gresh today (or anyway, recently.) In it, he writes: The opposition cannot bring down the government, and the government cannot put down an uprising that has a surprising determination and courage... I was writing the exact same t ...
• JWB's fab titles--in C'ville Saturday, and glo ...
  For all JWN readers in the Greater Charlottesville area-- do come by the VaBook book fair that runs tomorrow, 9am-4pm, at the Omni Hotel. Tell your friends to come, as well! You can see and buy copies of all the fabulous titles published by my company, Just World Books, including the two latest: ...
• Powerful, intimate memoir from Israeli peace a ...
  The countdown clock is now ticking fast, toward the publication of Miko Peled's amazing and powerful memoir, The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine. The book traces Miko's journey from being born, in 1961, into a family that was part of the core of the Jewish-Israeli elite to, now ...
• Quick notes from Penn BDS conference
  The conference was an outstanding success! Everyone involved in organizing it-- and most of us who spoke at it-- have all been extremely busy; so I'm really sorry that we don't have much more, and richer, reporting on the events out already. But expect more great reporting of the conference to c ...

frogblog

• Regional councils launch new water website
  Check out a new website on water quality information launched this week. It’s a co-operative effort by regional and unitary councils to provide accessible water quality information for each of New Zealand‘s 16 regions in one place. A useful feature of the site is that it focuses on river catchme ...
• There’s no better time to invest in cycling
  There’s things going on all over the world at the moment that tell us that using bicycles for transport is more than just a fad – it’s a growing phenomenon that offers all sorts of solutions to our transport woes. Cycling is a win-win-win for transport. It reduces congestion. It reduces fuel use ...
• Green policies translated into NZ Sign Language
  In what is a first for a political party in New Zealand and possibly the world, I am thrilled that the Green Party has  marked New Zealand Sign Language week by getting parts of our website translated into New Zealand Sign Language ( NZSL). This step means Deaf New Zealanders can now learn more ...
• Government has its head down a mineshaft when ...
  Climate change is our most serious environmental issue, yet the Resource Management Act ignores it when coal mining companies seek permission to dig up millions of tonnes of coal because these companies only do the digging, not the inevitable burning. This week’s Environment Court decision that ...
• Have your say on the election…today!
  Submissions close TOMORROW (Friday 4 May) for the Select Committee Inquiry into last year’s General Election. Details on how to make a submission are available on the parliament website. While the inquiry will look into a number of areas (including the conduct of the MMP referendum and the ...

Patronus Analytical

• Greek aid worker kidnapped in Pakistan
• Aid worker killed in Iraq
• Update on kidnapped Greek aid worker
• NGO worker beaten to death in Dhaka
• Canadian aid worker murdered in Honduras

J Kozy

• Vendor ArithmeticUnderhanded Capitalism
  Why does the nation exist? The truth is revealed when one realizes that merchant theft is protected by the legal system whose justices have enshrined an economic bias into law, having subverted the Constitution from the goals the founding fathers wrote into it to the almost exclusive promoti ...
• Treacherous Treaties
  Is American imperialism a Bilderberger plot? Are the American bankers, diplomats, and members of the Council on Foreign Relations all traitors, having turned America into merely an instrument to carry out their Bilderberger maniacal aims? Does America as a sovereign nation even exist anymore ...
• Is Adam Smith's a Pickpocket
  Economists use the law of supply and demand merely to provide suppliers with an excuse for raising prices and picking consumer's pockets.
• Economic Models and the Apologetics of Greed
  Economists build models by subtracting from reality the characteristics they deem unessential to the economic situations they model. The result is a bare bones description consisting of what economists deem economically essential. Everything that is discarded (not taken into consideration in the ...
• The Crisis of Education in America: "How to Be ...
  Educational systems now train workers to fulfill the needs of companies. A society in which people exist for the sake of companies is a society enslaved. But there's a deep problem with the notion that education should equal vocational training. To paraphrase a very famous and renowned pers ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

• Courts Slaps FDA and FTC for Unjustified Attacks
  By Dr. Mercola Did you know it's currently illegal for a food or supplement producer to tell you about their products' scientifically proven health benefits? As unbelievable as it sounds, a person can be thrown in jail for telling you the walnuts they grow may slow down the growth of prostat ...
• Even if You Eat Organic Food, This Cooking Mis ...
  By Dr. Mercola The idea that high cholesterol causes heart disease is based on the premise that cholesterol is found in the plaque of people with coronary artery disease. But does that automatically mean that cholesterol itself is the root cause, and must be kept at a minimum to prevent pla ...
• The Root Cause of Anxiety and Depression That ...
  By Dr. Mercola When you think about strategies to achieve optimal brain performance, you may think about doing crossword puzzles or learning a new language... adding more sleep or even eating more omega-3 fats may also come to mind. Most people would not automatically think about their gut ...
• Massive Corruption Revealed to be at the Core ...
  By Dr. Mercola Every day millions of people take medications, both prescription and over-the-counter, trusting that they not only work, but are safe because they've been reviewed and approved by government agencies like the FDA. But now, yet another study has come out showing massive corrup ...
• Six Surprising Foods with More Sugar than a Tw ...
  By Dr. Mercola Of all the foods capable of inflicting damage in your body, sugar is one of the most damaging of all. Sugar, and the type of sugar known as fructose, in particular, is an extremely potent pro-inflammatory agent that creates advanced glycation end products (AGEs) and speeds up ...

JAMA

• About This Journal [About This Journal]
• Urinary Tract Infection [JAMA Patient Page]
• Lowinson and Ruiz's Substance Abuse: A Compreh ...
• Diagnostic Pediatric Hematopathology [Book and ...
• Characteristics of Clinical Trials Registered ...
  Context Recent reports highlight gaps between guidelines-based treatment recommendations and evidence from clinical trials that supports those recommendations. Strengthened reporting requirements for studies registered with ClinicalTrials.gov enable a comprehensive evaluation of the national tri ...

Survival - tribal peoples

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

Montreal Gazette

• Conrad Black: the man who took on a bad law, a ...
  Conrad Black left a U.S. federal prison Friday. For a moment, set aside whatever opinion you might have about Lord Black's business practices. There's no doubt about one point: businesspeople in the United States owe a very large debt of thanks to Black for his almost improbable challenge of the ...
• Bixi: a stroke of genius, but in need of some ...
  It's time for Montreal, which took Paris's Vélib' bicycle-sharing setup and turned it into its own innovative and wildly successful Bixi program, to do something sensible with its struggling and indebted stroke of genius.
• Student protests, pro and con
  "" I am reminded of a bumper sticker I once saw that read: "Hire a student while they still know everything."
• Bravo to the government's big step toward openness
  A task force exploring ways that open governance can be brought to public administration in Quebec has produced a welcome report that represents a step in the right direction.
• Unsafe streets for Montreal taxi drivers
  Nearly all of Montreal's taxi drivers have been stiffed for a fare.

Food World Order

• New EO to Eliminate GMO Trade Barriers
  from farmwars.info: The United States, inc., in collusion with the biotech industry, which is headed by none other than Monsanto et. al., is successfully conducting a food war with the nations around it. The USDA and Monsanto, using international Free Trade agreements as a club, have a pencha ...
• #Audio: Episode019 - Labor Flaws, Cereal Crimes
  On Thursday nights, Media Monarchy joins Corbett Report Radio live on Republic Broadcasting to go over all the latest stories from the world of food, environment and health. This week's menu features Labor Flaws, Cereal Crimes and more... Episode018: MP3/Feed Previous Audio: Epis ...
• #BingeAndPurge: Kashi, Monster, Windsor Hum an ...
  All Hail the Robotic Farmers of the Future* 10 Companies Control Enormous Number Of Consumer Brands* UK doctors blast Olympic fast food, drink sponsorship deals* The Green Grocer's viral photo sparks Kashi GMO controversy* Kashi Increases Commitment To Organic And Non-GMO Project ...
• Federal Government is Weak-Minded on CETA Deal
  from nfu.ca: The National Farmers Union wonders whether the Federal Ministers and Parliamentary Secretaries promoting the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement across Canada today have actually read the text of the agreement? Or did they simply memorize pre-digested talking points? The devi ...
• EPA official who compared enforcement to cruci ...
  from washingtonpost.com: A senior Environmental Protection Agency official resigned Sunday in an effort to end the furor over his remarks two years ago that the EPA should make examples of polluters the way Romans crucified people to quash rebellions. But it appeared unlikely that the departu ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

• There Are 100 Million Working Age Americans Th ...
  The unemployment crisis in America is much worse than you are being told.  Did you know that there are 100 million working age Americans that do not get up in the morning and go to work?  No wonder why it seems like there are so many people that do not have jobs!  According to th ...
• Why New York Times Economist Paul Krugman Is P ...
  In recent days, New York Times economist Paul Krugman has been doing a whole bunch of interviews in which he has declared that the solution to our economic problems is very easy.  Krugman says that all we need to do to get the global economy going again is for the governments of ...
• 95 Percent Of The Jobs Lost During The Recessi ...
  Who is the biggest loser in the ongoing decline of the U.S. economy?  Is it the wealthy?  No, the stock market has been soaring lately and their incomes are actually going up.  Is it the poor?  Well, the poor are definitely hurting very badly, but when you don't have much to begi ...
• Class Warfare Is Being Used To Divide America ...
  At a time when America desperately needs to come together, we are becoming more divided than ever.  The mainstream media and most of our politicians love to pit us against one another in dozens of different ways, and right now class warfare has become one of their favorite tools ...
• 22 Signs That The Collapsing Spanish Economy I ...
  What happens when debt-fueled false prosperity disappears?  Just look at Spain.  The 4th largest economy in Europe was riding high during the boom years, but now the Spanish economy is collapsing with no end in sight.  When a debt bubble gets interrupted, the consequences can be ...

CASSE

• Toward a New Bretton Woods and a Sustainable C ...
  Eric Zencey reports encouraging news from the United Nations, but he knows a sustainable economic system won't arise without concerted effort.
• Negative Externalities Are the Norm
  Here's a crazy but true fact: negative externalities are the norm -- not the exception -- in our current economic setup.
• Environmental Heroes Can Inspire Economic Refo ...
  Brent Blackwelder looks to this year's Goldman Environmental Prize winners for inspiration in the fight for a sustainable and fair economy.
• The Titanic Code
  The 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic gets Dave Gardner thinking about the speed at which economic growth is propelling us toward unseen icebergs.
• Limits to Growth – of Stuff, Value, and GDP
  Limits to growth apply to more than just "stuff," but you have to think clearly about "value" to get it.

The Talking Clock

• Reaction as UKIP poll best ever local election ...
  So, another set of elections are drawn to a close in what has been a very drawn-out and tiring twenty-four hours of slowly dripping results. Without doubt, the headline of the twenty-four hours for us has been the incredible breakthrough for UKIP up and down the country. ...
• If it's freedom and liberty you want, it's 'UK ...
  Tomorrow, there are local elections up and down the country. It will come as no surprise to regular readers to know that we are advocating that people should vote for UKIP. We are aware, of course, that people have - in the past - only seen a vote for UKIP as worthwhile at European elections; ...
• Police, tear gas, batons... no, not Greece thi ...
  Same pattern, all over the world. Taxpayers engage in peaceful democratic protest, out come the taxpayer funded police with tear gas and batons. This is not Greece and it is certainly not anywhere in the Middle East that William Hague has his designs on in the name of the "will of the peop ...
• Not just UKIP supporters... RT blows the whist ...
  Ken Clarke, Tony Blair, George Osborne, Peter Mandelson, Ed Balls, Rory Stewart (somewhat strangely)... which British political traitor will be attending the Bilderberg conference this year? Find out, name them, shame them... and never trust them an inch ever again.
• Spoil Mail
  Just back from the Post Office then where I found that what cost me £1.49p to send by air mail last week costs me, today, the sum of £2.70p. Almost double. That doesn't reflect itself in the size of anybody's pay packet now, does it? Same as everything else. Now, if I were a conspiracy ...

Facing South

• Marco Rubio's DREAM Act: The new 'Don't Ask, D ...
  The U.S. Senator from Florida is about to release his own version of an immigration reform bill that would offer legal status to undocumented students -- but without a pathway to citizenship. ...
  
• On Passover week, a secret message to The Other
  This week, writers Scott Huler and June Spence discovered hate speech scrawled inside a closet under construction in the home they share with their two sons in Raleigh, N.C. They responded wi ...
  
• INSTITUTE INDEX: The push to block voter regis ...
  A by-the-numbers look at the effort underway in Florida and other states to set up roadblocks to voter registration drives.
  A by-the-numbers look at the effort u ...
  
• A trend toward anti-immigrant, anti-choice laws
  2011 saw a record number of laws restricting abortion in U.S. states. It also saw a record number of state anti-immigrant laws. Coincidence? Maybe not.
  2011 saw ...
  
• VOICES: Conservatives to the poor: "Move!"
  A new report on county health outcomes gets to the heart of the ideological debate.
  A new report on county health outcomes gets to the heart of the ideological d ...
  

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

• Spinning space telescope's view of a pulsar
  See a psychedelic vision of the brightest gamma ray source in the sky, as seen by a space telescope tumbling around the Earth
• Today on New Scientist: 4 May 2012
  All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: Greenland glaciers on the move and Jesus bugs evolved hooks for grappling eyes
• Greenland glaciers on the move
  The latest measurements of Greenland's glaciers suggest that they're not accelerating as much as feared
• Today on New Scientist: 3 May 2012
  All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: how to cook like a caveman, the curse of Generation Me and solar power hits a tortoise roadblock
• Why Jupiter's moon Ganymede is an exciting des ...
  Ocean, oxygen and auroras are drawing the European Space Agency to the largest moon in our solar system

Tech Drive In

• [OT] I Just Got Married!
  You might have noticed a tremendous decrease in posting frequency over the past few months (especially during April 2012). I got married on April 30th 2012 to my college sweetheart, Suji John. Since Tech Drive-in is a one-man-effort for the most part, I was just not able to keep up. N ...
• Two Ways to Easily Upgrade to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ...
  Ubuntu 12.04 LTS has just been released. It is one of the most anticipated Ubuntu release ever. We will be doing a comprehensive review of Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin" very soon. Anyway, here is how you can easily upgrade to latest Ubuntu 12.04 from Ubuntu 11.10 and earlier version of Ubunt ...
• Upcoming Elementary OS Luna's New Notification ...
  Next version of Elementary OS codenamed "Luna" will be based on just released Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" and it is going to bring about a number of really interesting changes, new notification system being one of them. Video Demo of Elementary OS's New Notification S ...
• 3 Best Launchers for Android 4.0+ ICS
  With ICS becoming available for more and more smartphones and tablets, apps specifically designed for Android 4.0+ ICS is slowly gaining foothold. Story is no different as far as Android Launchers are concerned. Though a good number of highly regarded Android launchers have not been updat ...
• History of Ubuntu: Revisited & Updated
  Ubuntu has touched the lives of many among us in different ways. I can't speak for everyone here and hence I will share a few of my experiences with Ubuntu. For me, Ubuntu was the gateway to Linux and the whole open source way of thinking. Ubuntu taught me that computers are not all about Wind ...

Case About Bird Flu

• 29 cases of narcolepsy due to swine flu vaccin ...
   *Pandemrix swine flu vaccine linked to 29 cases of narcolepsy in Germany *Children and teenagers most affected *Researchers confirm narcolepsy is an autoimmune disease; immune response destroys brain cells which produce neurotransmitters regulating sleep *Genetic risk factor associated with nar ...
• Israel calls snap elections over Iran policy
  Israeli elections likely to push back any thoughts of an Iran nuclear strike Read more at: http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/week-s-end/israeli-elections-likely-push-back-any-thoughts-of-iran-nuclear-strike-1.428230
• Madeleine McCann could be living with abductor ...
  Madeleine McCann could be living with abductor, says Scotland Yard Yard releases image of how Madeleine may look five years on and asks Portuguese police to reopen inquiry Sandra Laville, The Guardian, April 25, 2012 Scotland Yard detectives released a picture of what Madeleine McCann may look l ...
• Germans and Austrians pressured to join in Isr ...
   *Israeli Prime Minister  hypes Iran threat in Germany  *Netanjahu attacks Gunter Grass in bid to drum up support for war *Chancellor Angela Merkel says sole purpose of German state is to serve Israeli war interests *Austrian-Israeli society pressures Austrian government to guarantee Israeli sec ...
• Germans and Austrians pressured to join in Isr ...
   *Israeli Prime Minister  hypes Iran threat in Germany  *Netanjahu attacks Gunter Grass in bid to drum up support for war *Chancellor Angela Merkel says sole purpose of German state is to serve Israeli war interests *Austrian-Israeli society pressures Austrian government to guarantee Israeli sec ...

Invisible Opportunity

• RNC might block entire Nevada delegation over ...
  By Justin Sink – 05/03/12 08:53 AM ET The Republican National Committee is warning the Nevada GOP that if supporters of Ron Paul are allowed to take too many slots for the national convention, the party may opt against seating the state’s entire delegation. “I believe it is hig ...
• Chemist declares fluoride to be ‘one of ...
  by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer (NaturalNews) Ingesting artificial fluoride chemicals does not prevent tooth decay, but rather destroys your insides and leads to the development of cancer and other illnesses. These are the disturbing findings of an assessment recently compiled by award-winning c ...
• The greatest (health) lie from medicine
  by: Jonathan Landsman (NaturalNews) Don’t worry – vaccines are safe and prevent disease. (yea, right!) The notion that toxic poisons injected into the body of humans can save lives has conventional medicine completely brainwashed into false realities. In truth, many health experts li ...
• The American Who Quit Money To Live In A Cave
  Daniel Suelo gave up on money in 2000. He walked into a phone booth, pulled out 30 dollars and left it. Twelve years later, Suelo still does not have a personal i.d. bank accounts, a modern home, does not take money, or live off of federal welfare. Suelo, lives in caves in the canyon lands [...]
• Eat Drink and be Wary
  By Les Visible All of the complexity of this world is a calculated effort to diminish the value of the few simple and truly important things that get lost in the shuffle, amidst all the plethora of useless and temporary things that surround us and on which the corporations depend on your routine ...

Veterans Today

• No title
    BBC News – How Goldman Sachs helped mask Greece’s debt                                       Cut lines: editing a multiclip with multitrack sound.(final cut pro tutorial) EventDV December 1, 2006 | ...
• Hitler and Antisemitism, a Worldwide Obsession
  Exploited or a Real Need for Re-examination?   By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor   Yesterday, Ingrid Zundel wrote an article on Germany guilt, excuse my oversimplification, and it went viral immediately.  Her writing is serious, certainly not sensational, she isn’t really that contro ...
• jim dean
  The War Comes to America – Psycho Politics By Clayton R. Douglas As a well known, controversial, publisher and broadcaster I have been demonized, labeled, libeled and slandered by a wide range of opposition. From the days of Rush Limbaugh mocking us as “Black Helicopter Types” and “Militia ...
• Why Hate Gilad Atzmon Pt. 2: "He's WRONG! (Or ...
  Why Hate Gilad Atzmon Pt. 2: “He’s WRONG! (Or Is He?)” Denver Nuggets visit NATO-led peacekeepers, disabled children in Bosnia AP Worldstream May 21, 2002 00-00-0000 Dateline: SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina Basketball players from the Denver Nuggets visited a Sarajevo school for ...
• Cartes and IDentification Paris, France
  Cartes & IDentification showed visitors new technologies and products for cashless payments and increased security protection for passports and credit and debit cards.

electric politics

• "Age of Ignorance"
  By any reasonable reckoning idiocy in America has reached alarming proportions. Or, in the words of former U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Simic, "[t]he ideal citizen of a politically corrupt state, such as the one we now have, is a gullible dolt unable to tell truth from bullshit." That's clear enou ...
• Honeybee Colony Collapse Disorder, Explained
  Here's an extra, in-between show, in-between our regular Friday shows. Two reasons for this: it's a very short conversation and the sound quality is less than optimal (from a cell phone on the street). Still, it's an extremely important subject, one we should all be aware of and well worth ponde ...
• Summa Economica
  According to Dr. Ha-Joon Chang, modern economics emulates the spirit and purpose of medieval scholasticism in upholding — above all else — the status quo. Nowhere is this more apparent, or more required, than in the ridiculous nostrum of "free trade," though if you look closely most ...
• The Virtue of Protectionism (and Class Warfare)
  It's a vicious circle. Financialization. Profit maximization. Offshoring. Political dysfunction. To start with the offshoring part, the American economy will wither and die without good industrial jobs. The numbers don't add up otherwise and the numbers don't lie. But thanks to money, corporatio ...
• Ocean Acidification
  Human beings start domesticating crops only 12,000 or so years ago. Written history begins about 5,000 years ago. The modern era dates from — when? — maybe 100-200 years ago. Perhaps it's no surprise, then, that we have some difficulty internalizing the idea that our burning carbon h ...

PR News

• Devine + Partners names Morley VP
  PHILADELPHIA: Devine + Partners has promoted Rebecca Morley to VP.
• Bank of America sticks with Weber, Emanate, Burson
  CHARLOTTE, NC: Bank of America will continue to work with PR agencies Weber Shandwick, Emanate, and Burson-Marsteller, despite switching its global advertising account from Omnicom's BBDO Worldwide to a dedicated team assembled by WPP.
• Centers for Disease Control looks for agency p ...
  ATLANTA: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is searching for agency support for three major projects, including its HIV/AIDS-prevention work.
• Agencies prize diversity in competitive race f ...
  With summer fast approaching, agencies, such as Edelman [pictured], and brands are ironing out the last details of their PR internship programs for this year.
• Sur La Table selects M Booth as first AOR
  SEATTLE: Kitchenware company Sur La Table has selected M Booth as AOR after an RFP.

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

• Oil and Democracy Speaker Series
  Community Service-Learning Parkland Institute It certainly is an interesting time for democracy in Alberta… Community Service-Learning's (CSL) Spring Immersion Course 'Oil and De ...
• Sage-Grouse Reintroduction: More Habitat Prote ...
  Alberta Wilderness Association 3 May 2012 Reports in yesterday’s news media reveal details on a program to import sage-grouse from Montana to Alberta. While this reintroduc ...
• IMPACT! Sustainability Champions Training
  The Natural Step Canada 20 Jun 2012 - 09:00 - 21 Jun 2012 - 17:00 Applications due May 14, 2012 The Co-operators and The Natural Step Canada are partnering to offer the IMPACT! Su ...
• Eco Solar Commercial Tour
  Eco Solar Tour 4 Jun 2012 - 11:00 - 8 Jun 2012 - 15:00 The capital cost of a commercial building is only 8% of the life cycle costs. Come and visit a new breed of commercial buil ...
• AEN Annual General Assembly 2012
  Alberta Environmental Network 25 May 2012 - 18:00 - 20:30 26 May 2012 - 08:00 - 14:00 You are invited to attend the 2012 Alberta Environme ...

Stop NATO

• British Defence Chief: NATO Absolves Germany O ...
  Stop NATO May 4, 2012 British Defence Chief: NATO Absolves Germany Of Nazi Past Rick Rozoff While British Defence Secretary Philip Hammond was in Berlin earlier this week touting global NATO ahead of the military alliance’s summit in Chicago two weeks from now, he urged Germany to overcome ...
• South China Sea: U.S.-Japan Strategies Put Reg ...
  Global Times May 4, 2012 US-Japanese strategies put region at risk By Zhou Yongsheng External forces’ intervention in the South China Sea disputes has gradually become a reality despite China’s opposition against the externalization of the disputes. Last week, the US and Japan reache ...
• Kosovo: Syrian Rebels Study Kosovo Liberation ...
  RT May 4, 2012 Syrian opposition studies terror tactics in Kosovo A delegation of Syrian rebels has made a deal with Pristina authorities to exchange experience on partisan warfare. The Syrian opposition is sending militants to Kosovo for adopting tactics and being trained to oust President Bash ...
• Interview on 21st century global NATO and Chic ...
  WORT FM (Madison, Wisconsin) May 3, 2012 A Public Affair Allen Ruff Interview with Rick Rozoff of Stop NATO Correction: Hans von Sponeck was the UN Assistant Secretary-General and UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq. Program has a four-minute lead-in. ==== Audio ====
• U.S. Anti-Missile Complexes Can Be Used As Ant ...
  Itar-Tass May 4, 2012 US antimissile complexes can be used as antispace weapons – opinion ==== “[V]iewing the creation of the missile defense system combined with the development of the concept of a global strike, hypersonic and aerospace craft, intercontinental ballistic missiles wi ...

Before It's News

• Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner: American ...
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• Arkansas Storms: Tornadoes Wreak Havoc Across ...
• Eats on Feets
• Introducing "Canadas Alex Jones", Dr. Judy Janzen

Intel Hub

• Obama Mentor Wanted Americans Put In Re-Educat ...
  Paul Joseph Watson | In light of a newly uncovered U.S. Army document that outlines plans for prisoners, including U.S. citizens, to be re-educated in detention camps, it’s worth reminding ourselves of the fact that Barack Obama’s political mentor, Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers, ...
• MK Ultra 2012 – Cops Caught Mass Drugging Teen ...
  Alexander Higgins | Police in Minnesota have been caught on video picking up teenagers, doing drug experiments on them, and then dropping them off at Occupy protests.
• “We Want A Room for the Bilderberg Confe ...
  theintelhub.com | Members of Occupy Bilderberg call the Westfield Marriot to book a room for the bilderberg conference and a front view of the globalist powers plotting their eventual plans for world government.
• A New Presidential Proclamation Ironically Dec ...
  Brent Daggett | On May 1, 2012 Barack Obama signed a proclamation stating that May 1 will now be reserved for “Loyalty Day.”
• Obama Invites African Leaders to G8 Summit
  VOA | The United States says it has provided more than $1.1 billion in humanitarian aid to the Horn.

FRS

• Clashes erupt at mass rally in Cairo
  Thousands protest against recent killing of demonstrators and demand that Egypt’s military leaders step down.  Al Jazeera’s Rawya Rageh reports on the latest clashes outside the Egyptian defense Ministry–May 4, 2012   Egyptian armed forces and protesters have clashed in Cairo,  ...
• Philippines: An alliance between CPP and the ...
  [Under the banner of "defending national interests" against China, the first steps toward an alliance between the US-comprador / puppet Philippine regime of  President Aquino, and the Communist Party of the Philippines are being given public expression.  See, below, news of the government respon ...
• Students in India fighting sexual harassment a ...
  20 April 2012 Fight to strengthen GSCASH by making it a PUNITIVE BODY! Every issue is a woman’s issue and no issue is a woman’s issue alone! Fight to strengthen GSCASH by making it a PUNITIVE BODY! Hold high the red banner of revolutionary women’s movement  against feudalism, patriarchy & st ...
• India: The struggle of the slum dwellers of N ...
  On the situation in Nonadanga – Pamphlet by Uchched Pratirodh Committee May 1, 2012 We Demand Proper Rehabilitation That is Fit for Human Survival for Slum Dwellers of Nonadanga as well as of Majdur Palli, Shramik Colony, Subhaspalli, Lakepalli, Bhai-Bhai Colony, Bastuhara Colony. We deman ...
• Ethnic Cleansing Bureau, Tree Cutting Division ...
  Tuesday, 01 May 2012 (AFP) – Israel said Tuesday it has ordered Palestinian villagers to uproot 1,000 olive trees planted in an area of the West Bank under Israeli control and declared a nature reserve. Israel’s Civil Administration, the military body that governs areas of the West B ...

Ken O'Keefe

• Interview with Mark Glenn on ‘The Ugly T ...
  We shall discuss this and more; “When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are to possess and casts out the many peoples living there, you shall then slaughter them all and utterly destroy them…You shall make no agreements with them nor show them any mercy…You shall destroy their alta ...
• Interview with Mark Glenn on ‘The Ugly T ...
  We shall discuss this and more; “When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are to possess and casts out the many peoples living there, you shall then slaughter them all and utterly destroy them…You shall make no agreements with them nor show them any mercy…You shall destroy their alta ...
• Enemies Within the Gate – Police Corruption &# ...
  Police Aiding & Abetting in the Theft of Trade Not Aid Vehicles, Donated Goods & Money Moving on, in August of last year I made a complaint to the police about the Trade Not Aid vehicles (18-ton Renault Truck Reg. #V97 DBA & Optare Metrorider Minibus Reg. # P420 VRG) being stolen by ...
• Enemies Within the Gate – Police Corruption &# ...
  Police Aiding & Abetting in the Theft of Trade Not Aid Vehicles, Donated Goods & Money Moving on, in August of last year I made a complaint to the police about the Trade Not Aid vehicles (18-ton Renault Truck Reg. #V97 DBA & Optare Metrorider Minibus Reg. # P420 VRG) being stolen by ...
• Tribute to my brother Vittorio (Vik) Arrigoni ...
  There simply cannot be enough praise for brother Vik, he was a man who exemplified what it is to be human, to be a loving, courageous, full fledged human being. I am blessed till the end of time for knowing him; I will love him to the day I die. And the greatest way to honour Vik is to never giv ...

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

• Secret Service Prostitution Scandal Allegation ...
  New allegations in the Secret Service prostitution scandal came to the surface Thursday, prompting an official inquiry by the agency. The newest incident concerns a 2011 presidential advance team to El Salvador.Contributor: Tamara McRill Published: Apr 27, 2012
• Apple Stock Soars After the Release of its Lat ...
  If an apple a day keeps the doctor away, what does an 8.9% increase in Apple's (AAPL), already sky high, stock price do for you? Its monumental push to the heavens was the company's biggest one day gain in three years, trading as high as $618 per share.Contributor: Adam McClure Published: Apr 27 ...
• George Zimmerman Will Not Go Before Grand Jury ...
  Trayvon Martin’s shooter will not be facing a grand jury indictment, but that does not mean that he will be off the hook just yet.Contributor: Kristin Watt Published: Apr 09, 2012
• South Korea Claims North Korea is Preparing a ...
  Will the continued rocket test in combination with the reported underground nuclear test create an unresolvable tension between North Korea and the international community?Contributor: Matt Benamy Published: Apr 09, 2012
• RMS Titanic Site Should Be Protected, Hallowed ...
  The final resting place of the RMS Titanic is being picked clean by people seeking to make money.Contributor: William Browning Published: Apr 08, 2012

Popsci - Science

• The Most Amazing Science Images of the Week, A ...
  This week's image roundup has a pink black hole, a monkey drinking from a straw, a catfish that detects earthquakes, and a curious item that washed all the way across the Pacific during the Japanese tsunami. It is a good one! Read it and look at it! Click to launch the gallery.
• The Most Amazing Science Images of the Week, A ...
• Curious Things That Fall From The Sky
  Rain and snow aren't the only things to fall from the sky. Throughout history rare occurrences have been recorded of other less expected and surprising forms of deluge. In 2001, parts of India were showered with mysterious red particles that were thought to contain alien microbes. Here are so ...
• Archive Gallery: Popular Science Plays Pranks
  Practical jokes from invisible ink to dangling a car off a bridge When scientists take a break from studying, researching or inventing to devise a practical joke, the stakes are sky-high, sometimes literally. Who else can dangle a car off a bridge, or pull out a monster mask on a space station? ...
• Archive Gallery: Popular Science Plays Pranks

Veterans Today

• No title
    BBC News – How Goldman Sachs helped mask Greece’s debt                                       Cut lines: editing a multiclip with multitrack sound.(final cut pro tutorial) EventDV December 1, 2006 | ...
• Hitler and Antisemitism, a Worldwide Obsession
  Exploited or a Real Need for Re-examination?   By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor   Yesterday, Ingrid Zundel wrote an article on Germany guilt, excuse my oversimplification, and it went viral immediately.  Her writing is serious, certainly not sensational, she isn’t really that contro ...
• jim dean
  The War Comes to America – Psycho Politics By Clayton R. Douglas As a well known, controversial, publisher and broadcaster I have been demonized, labeled, libeled and slandered by a wide range of opposition. From the days of Rush Limbaugh mocking us as “Black Helicopter Types” and “Militia ...
• Why Hate Gilad Atzmon Pt. 2: "He's WRONG! (Or ...
  Why Hate Gilad Atzmon Pt. 2: “He’s WRONG! (Or Is He?)” Denver Nuggets visit NATO-led peacekeepers, disabled children in Bosnia AP Worldstream May 21, 2002 00-00-0000 Dateline: SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina Basketball players from the Denver Nuggets visited a Sarajevo school for ...
• Cartes and IDentification Paris, France
  Cartes & IDentification showed visitors new technologies and products for cashless payments and increased security protection for passports and credit and debit cards.

War is Business

• State Lawmaker Accused Of Diverting Contract M ...
  Startling allegations against a conservative Oregon legislator who also runs a hot-zone aviation business and a military training range.
• “Surveillance Inc.”: Profit Makes ...
  Sell moral responsibility Sell moral responsibility • Read more at The Atlantic
• 2011 Not So Bad For U.S. Defense Contractors, ...
  Buy downturn insurance Buy downturn insurance • Read more at Govpro
• Americans In Afghanistan Likely Causing More C ...
  Even the most cash-strapped, podunk county prosecutor's office would be embarrassed by these numbers. Three audits completed. Two bribery convictions. Three million bribes a day.
• Obama To Sidestep Rules In Bahrain Arms Deal ( ...
  Sell formalities Sell formalities • Read more at Foreign Policy

Hudson's Weather & Climate

• Weakest solar cycle in 100yrs could intensify ...
  News from NASA this week that on-going weak solar activity will continue, leading to the weakest solar cycle in around 100 years, could have important implications for the UK's weather. Research over the last few years has pointed to a link between low solar activity, and incidences of 'blocki ...
• Wettest April on record - and more rain to come
  Church Fenton in North Yorkshire has become the first station to report record rainfall following last night's heavy rain. So far this month, 122mm (5 inches) has fallen, beating the previous record set in 2000 of 115mm. The station average for April is 49mm (2 inches). Other stations are al ...
• April could be wettest on record in drought-hi ...
  Low pressure will dominate the UK's weather for the rest of April, and possibly into early May, bringing further showers and longer spells of locally heavy rain. In Lincolnshire, where the drought situation is amongst the worst in the country, some of the highest rainfall totals have been reco ...
• Global and regional climate update
  Average global temperatures in March rose to +0.108C above the 30 year running mean, from -0.116C in February, based on the UAH satellite measurement shown on the graph below. Adjusted to the more standard 1961-1990 mean, global temperatures were approximately +0.361C above normal. Acro ...
• Drought order in parts of Yorkshire. Will it a ...
  The Environment Agency has today confirmed that some parts of Yorkshire are now officially in drought.   The drought order applies to some catchments of the Rivers Don, Rother, Hull and Derwent and has been issued because the agency is concerned about the effect of drought on the environme ...

Internat'l Political Economy

• Shariah Banking: Islamic Financial Services Board
  The Commonwealth news outlet Global Briefing has an interesting interview with Jaseem Ahmed, secretary-general of the Islamic Financial Services Board (IFSB). Although its history is not very long, there has been a veritable explosion of interest in shariah banking, especially given the renewed ...
• Strange Tales of Delta Air Buying an Oil Refinery
  With airlines being almost universally unprofitable these days--even Thai Airways is reportedly going to have an unprofitable 2012 or only its second unprofitable year in 51 years of operation--saying that costly aviation fuel is having negative effects on the airline industry is an understateme ...
• Bizarre Agropolitics Triangle: US, PRC & Phili ...
  Political science types--yours truly included--tend to think of nations as unitary actors when it's seldom the case: "What is China thinking?" or "What is American policy on this matter?" are but two examples. But, it is often the case that "reifying" nation-states or thinking of them as all but ...
• Globalizing Bad Taste in Cars, BRICS+Beckham Edn
  [A weekend feature! It's been such a long time, but rest assured that I still speak of political economy.] Way back when, anyone with a passing familiarity with the automobile business knew what the most important auto shows were: Detroit, Frankfurt, Geneva, Paris, Tokyo. The presence of marques ...
• Bad Habits Die Hard: On USAID "Relaxing" Tied Aid
  Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime - Chinese proverb Give LDCs subsidized American foodstuffs and you can feed them for a while, albeit with the risk of decimating unsubsidized local food production. Help develop their food self-suf ...

Economic Collapse Blog

• There Are 100 Million Working Age Americans Th ...
  The unemployment crisis in America is much worse than you are being told.  Did you know that there are 100 million working age Americans that do not get up in the morning and go to work?  No wonder why it seems like there are so many people that do not have jobs!  According to th ...
• Why New York Times Economist Paul Krugman Is P ...
  In recent days, New York Times economist Paul Krugman has been doing a whole bunch of interviews in which he has declared that the solution to our economic problems is very easy.  Krugman says that all we need to do to get the global economy going again is for the governments of ...
• 95 Percent Of The Jobs Lost During The Recessi ...
  Who is the biggest loser in the ongoing decline of the U.S. economy?  Is it the wealthy?  No, the stock market has been soaring lately and their incomes are actually going up.  Is it the poor?  Well, the poor are definitely hurting very badly, but when you don't have much to begi ...
• Class Warfare Is Being Used To Divide America ...
  At a time when America desperately needs to come together, we are becoming more divided than ever.  The mainstream media and most of our politicians love to pit us against one another in dozens of different ways, and right now class warfare has become one of their favorite tools ...
• 22 Signs That The Collapsing Spanish Economy I ...
  What happens when debt-fueled false prosperity disappears?  Just look at Spain.  The 4th largest economy in Europe was riding high during the boom years, but now the Spanish economy is collapsing with no end in sight.  When a debt bubble gets interrupted, the consequences can be ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

• New Film: Roses on My Table
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• CrimethInc. Presents VORTEXT and TERROR INCOGNITA
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• A Las Barricadas: A Boardgame of Social War
  A Las Barricadas is a boardgame about conflict between two opposing social forces, namely that of the state and of anti-authori...
• Left Bank Books again publishes pamphlets and ...
  After several years of publishing silence, Left Bank Books Collective is pleased to announce the restart of its publishing project. We will be p...
• American Section of the Situationist Internati ...
  The French publishing house Collectif des Métiers De l’Édition (CMDE) has just published, under the rubric “Les reveil...

E U Times

• Senator Rand Paul asks supporters to help abol ...
  Kentucky Senator Rand Paul is rallying once more to end the TSA, and this time he is attacking the federal government’s grabby airport screeners for encroaching on the liberty of American passengers. In a statement released this week, the Republican senator and son of a presidential hopeful, Tex ...
• Americans renounced their citizenship in recor ...
  If you think residing in America is taxing, just talk to one of the many expatriates who is contributing to a shocking statistic recently discovered: across the globe, people are renouncing their US citizenship in record numbers. At least 1,788 Americans officially threw away their US citizenshi ...
• World’s oldest blood cells found in ice mummy Otzi
  Italian and German scientists have extracted the World’s oldest known human blood cells from the body of the 5300-year-old ’Otzi’ iceman mummy. The discovery was made using an atomic force microscope that examined tissue sections of a wound in the body of the mummy and detected red blood c ...
• Army manual for re-education camps applies to ...
  After reporting this week on a Pentagon-created plan for interning activists at re-education camps, questions were asked about the US Army manual that allegedly outlines the resettling of US citizens. Can Americans be sent to propaganda prisons? Now as more and more news organizations are invest ...
• US Debt Suicide Warned Near As Japan Enters Gl ...
  A grim Ministry of Finance report circulating in the Kremlin today states that the shocking record rise this past week of the United States outstanding debt to $15.692 trillion (just $600 billion short of their debt ceiling) has pushed the world’s most powerful economy into a situation of its ou ...

Voiceless Victim

• Anything Less Than A Royal Commission Is Just ...
  For far too long Australians have been happy to turn their backs on the untold suffering of thousands of victims of church-enabled sexual predators. But ignoring the problem simply ensures it continues, and gives rapists the message that they have a right to destroy as many innocent lives as the ...
• Historic Inquiry to Provide First Taste of Jus ...
  I have just received notification that in a few minutes the first official investigation into the Australian catholic church’s enabling and coverup of widespread child sexual assault will be announced. I congratulate the Victorian state government on being the first government in Australia ...
• Why does the catholic church continue to abuse ...
  Every now and then I come across a summary of the catholic church’s exploitation and abandonment of children that pulls it all together so accurately, or captures the horror of honest, ordinary people at the atrocities committed by the Church of Child Rape. When I respond to a piece of wri ...
• Just Like in Hunger Games the Church is killin ...
  The catholic church, when faced with the choice of protecting itself or preventing children from being raped, has consistently chosen to sacrifice the children. Usually without a second thought. This is not a claim without evidence. There is ample proof. In recent years there have been official, ...
• Rare Opportunity for the Real Truth to be Told
  It was less than edifying this easter when the feeble monarch of the Church of Child Rape pronounced from his viciously defended high moral ground atop St Peter’s Square, tottering under the weight of pathetically opulent gold encrusted vestments and symbols of status, that ‘Life is ...

WL Central

• 2012-05-04 WikiLeaks News Update: Press Freedo ...
  Tweet WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 517 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 514 days. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 711 days. A secret Grand Jury has been active in the U.S. without transparency for 597 days. ...
• 2012-05-03 Former Polish President Aleksander ...
  TweetIn a recent interview with Gazeta Wyborcza, former Polish president Aleksander Kwaśniewski made the following statements: "... Q: But it was the Americans who revealed information that prisoners were held in Poland. A: Indeed, in a wave of critique against George Bush, when Barack Obama sa ...
• 2012-05-02 #WikiLeaks News Update: Latin Ameri ...
  Tweet WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 515 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 512 days. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 708 days. A secret Grand Jury has been active in the U.S. without transparency for 594 days. ...
• 2012-04-29 #WikiLeaks News Update: #IJF12, "Wo ...
  Tweet WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 512 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 509 days. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 705 days. A secret Grand Jury has been active in the U.S. without transparency for 591 days. ...
• 2012-04-26 #WikiLeaks News Update: Major devel ...
  Tweet WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 509 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 506 days. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 703 days. A secret Grand Jury has been active in the U.S. without transparency for 589 days. ...

U N News

• Senior UN official alarmed at recent murders o ...
  The head of the United Nations agency tasked with defending press freedom today voiced alarm and anger over the murders of three Mexican journalists in the state of Veracruz in less than a week.
• UN concerned over Venezuela's possible withdra ...
  The United Nations today voiced concern over Venezuela's announcement that it is establishing a committee to evaluate the possibility of withdrawing from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).
• UN expert urges US to take more robust measure ...
  The United States needs to adopt more robust measures to address the issues affecting its indigenous peoples, an independent United Nations expert said today, stressing that such policies must be developed in partnership with Native American, Alaskan Native and Hawaiian peoples in the country.
• Haiti: UN envoy welcomes parliament's confirma ...
  The head of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti today welcomed the confirmation by parliament of the appointment of the country's Prime Minister designate, Laurent Lamothe, a move that paves the way for him to assume office.
• Noting disturbing trend' in Mexico, UN rights ...
  The United Nations human rights office today voiced alarm over the killing of a journalist in Mexico this past weekend, and condemned what it said is a "disturbing trend" of media professionals being murdered in the country, where more than 70 have been killed over the past 12 years.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

• Grand Canyon Wildlands Council Springs Assessm ...
  Please join the Grand Canyon Wildlands Council in a volunteer training for springs field assessments, preparing volunteers for 2012 springs trips this summer in the Coconino and Kaibab National Forests. The workshop will be held on Saturday 5 May, 9am-4pm at Pearson Hall on the Museum of Norther ...
• An interview with Dave Foreman
  Roger Wendell and Dave Foreman enjoyed a lively conversation on “Connections”, which aired Friday morning March 30,2012 on KGNU Community Radio (Denver/Boulder). Listen: audioarchives-Connections-2012-Connections_2012-03-30 or stream from KGNU.
• Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – A Root o ...
  Life is good. Many-fold, tangled life is better. Many-fold, tangled life not hobbled by Man’s will is best. What do I mean? By “life is good,” I am not writing a television commercial about sitting with your buddies in front of a widescreen TV for a Superbowl party with Budweiser while wives and ...
• Don’t Flush Tiger Forests
  The toilet paper on your grocery store shelves may have a direct impact on the 400 Sumatran tigers left in the wild. Learn more about how you can help through World Wildlife Fund and make a pledge to never buy paper products linked to rain forest and tiger habitat destruction.    
• NASA – NASA Finds 2011 Ninth-Warmest Year on R ...
  NASA – NASA Finds 2011 Ninth-Warmest Year on Record.

Asia Sentinel

• Massive Drug Smuggling in Thailand
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Complex international racket may be too big for authorities to get a handle on
• Book Review: A Thai Prostitute's Depressing Story
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Only 13: The True Story of Lon by Julia Manzanares and Derek Kent. Bamboo Sinfonia Pulications, Bangkok, Thailand. ISBN 978-974-8418-01-8. Paperback, Available through Amazon
• A Plague on All Houses
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Dysfunctional governments in China, India and the US trigger dangerous populism and inequality
• Najib Further Linked to Sub Scandal
  • (http://twitter.com/share) New documents appear to tie him to demands for kickbacks
• Teenagers and Sex in India
  • (http://twitter.com/share) A controversial bill seeks to criminalize sex between consenting minors

We Know the Lies

• Exposed... Military Internment/Resettlement Manual
    Exposing contents of Internment or Resettlement Manual. Everyone needs to hear this chilling information. These camps are for US citizens! ~ Madison Ruppert - Video read more
• Does the Re-Education Camp Manual Apply Dome ...
    A shocking U.S. Army manual that describes how political activists in prison camps will be indoctrinated by specially assigned psychological operations officers contains numerous clear references to the fact that the policies do apply domestically to U.S. citizens. ~ Paul Joseph ...
• Why Men and Women Are So Different...
    A prevalent understanding, particularly in the 1980s, was that boys and girls are born cognitively the same. It was the way parents and society treated them that made them different. ~ Robin Nixon read more
• Debunking 'The Story of the Buck Act'
    No one likes paying taxes of any kind, and Federal income taxes are liked perhaps the least of all. I know of no one, apart from the U.S. Treasury Department1 , that has any love for the IRS. ~ Roger M Wilcox read more
• Zip Codes Use Invokes Federal Jurisdiction
    Use of the ZIP Code is voluntary. See Domestic Mail Services Regulations, Section 122.32. You should also know that the Postal service can not discriminate against the non-use of the ZIP Code. ~ See related articles  read more

Tarpley

• Romney Allied to Netanyahu, Ron Paul Allied to ...
  Webster G. Tarpley on the Jeff Rense Program rense.com May 3, 2012 [download audio]
• Tarpley on Coast to Coast AM Tonight 2am to 5a ...
  Coast to Coast AM May 2, 2012 Coast to Coast AM Tonight 2am to 5am Eastern Time Webster Tarpley on the Fraud of the Arab Spring and Wall Street’s War on Franklin D. Roosevelt
• NATO’s Assault on Syria Cloned Off Hitle ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV April 30, 2012 [download video] [download audio] Press TV has conducted an interview with Webster Griffin Tarpley, an author and historian from Washington, to further explore the issue. What follows is an approximate transcription if the interview. Press TV: Ma ...
• Debate on “9/11, False Flags, and Black ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. C-SPAN April 26, 2012 with David Frum, Jonathan Kay, and Webster Tarpley C-SPAN 2, Saturday, April 28th at 8pm (EDT) [download video] [download audio] Tarpley onstage at the International Spy Museum in Washington DC with two leading neocons, both from Canada. This deba ...
• World Crisis Radio
  New programs posted weekly on Saturday evenings Select the appropriate file and listen now or download to your mp3 player. World Crisis Radio Ad-Free RSS Feed! Select Year 2012 2011 2010 Select Program April 28, 2012 April 21, 2012 April 14, 2012 April 7, 2012 March 31, 2012 March 24, 2012 Mar ...

Modern Survivalism

• Best Rechargeable Batteries
  As a survivalist/prepper, having the best rechargeable battery will assure you an advantage of reliable radio communications, longevity of battery life, and the highest number of recharge cycles throughout the timeline of a disaster. Communications is a top priority during all phases of a disast ...
• The Post Disaster Security Timeline
  It is an important thing to realize that there is a security timeline of events following a disaster, and how human behavior can be predictably used to your advantage in the hours, days and weeks into a disaster. The post-disaster security timeline can be split into five segments of time (the ev ...
• We Are Going To Be Nuked
  …says Joel Skousen interviewed recently by John Wells on Coast-to-Coast-AM. Joel, a political scientist specializing in the philosophy of law and Constitutional theory, has been an expert in the field for decades, and believes we still have time before the inevitable day when the major cit ...
• First Aid: How To Stop A Bloody Nose
  People are sometimes misinformed about the best way to stop a nosebleed. The correct way to help someone with a nosebleed is to follow these steps… 1. Press both sides of the nostrils while the person sits and leans forward. 2. Place constant pressure on both sides of the nostrils for a fe ...
• Home Remedies for Allergies
  It is unfortunate, but when the SHTF, manufacturing and/or distribution of medical supplies and medications may become completely disrupted, if not stopped all together. People with health problems that used to be easily treatable with pharmaceuticals prior to the SHTF catastrophe, will now be i ...

Fast Company

• This Week In Bots: Will Your Kids Give Robots ...
  Bot Vid: Hug-A-BotRoboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro, already famous for trying to broaden our emotional interactions with robots through innovations like the life-like Geminoid series, has another innovation in the spotlight now: Hugvie. It's the sort of robot you'd get if you crossed Jim Henson's Cre ...
• Hey Microsoft, Google, Apple: Where Are Our Sm ...
  This week's release of an operating system for your home by Microsoft has thrown a spotlight on a near-future where our homes are more like live-in computers. Microsoft has definite ideas, but Google and Apple have also been long looking at smarthome tech ... and it seems like living in each typ ...
• Facebook Joins GNI, Declines Human Rights Auditing
  News updates all day from your Fast Company editors.Under pressure from lawmakers, Facebook has joined the Global Network Initiative (GNI) as an observer. The GNI is a mixed consortium of public, private, educational, and religious institutions that monitor Internet firms on free speech- and hum ...
• Do Good, Don't Just Do Well With Your Business
  Salmon Cove founder Owen Schnaper talks about the business case for generosity, which he believes is more than a tool for building market share. [twistage 3dd93bed09a1f]For more bite-sized bits of wisdom on leadership and strategies for success, explore our ongoing video series at 30 Second ...
• Microsoft's New NYC Lab To Boost Data-Driven S ...
  Microsoft Research is opening a new lab in New York City, headed by ex-Yahoo senior scientists. The star crop of researchers includes sociologist and network theorist Duncan Watts, computational scientist David Pennock, and machine learning expert John Langford. "I would place a bet, that someth ...

Jadaliyya

• Video: ONTV's Reem Maged on Egyptian Media and ...
  Meet the Media with ONTV's Reem Maged The Kamal Adham Center for Television and Digital Journalism hosted its second Meet the Media discussion of the semester on Wednesday, March 28, 2012. The discussion featured Reem Maged, host of ONTV’s Baladna Bel Masry. The discussion was titled “The ...
• Image Fever: Arab Photography Now
  Rose Issa and Michket Krifa (eds.), Arab Photography Now. Kehrer: Heidelberg & Berlin, 2011. [This review is forthcoming in Goethe Institut's publication Fikrun Wa Fann.] Rose Issa and Michket Krifa, curators of art from the Arab world, recently published a collection of photographs by Ara ...
• مصر وأكاذيب الديمقراطية السياسية
  "إنه عرس الديمقراطية الأكبر"…ترددت هذه العبارة في كل المناسبات التي أعلن فيها عن القيام بإجراء أو أكثر من إجراءات ما يسمى بـ " عملية الانتقال الديمقراطي في مصر "، في الاستفتاء على التعديلات الدستورية ، وفي انتخابات مجلسي الشعب والشورى ، وفي الإعلان عن البدء في إجراءات ...
• Which is Scarier? Terrorists or Superheroes?
  If you've caught the news lately, you will have noticed a terrorist plot was recently exposed in Greater Cleveland. Most of the community that is giving these five misguided self-proclaimed anarchists a second thought is wondering what on earth was motivating them and whether we should ...
• الشيوعي العتيق إسحاق الشيخ يعقوب
   الطريق إلى الشيوعية عبر النفط... أصدر الكاتب إسحاق الشيخ يعقوب (مواليد 1927) من أدب السجون كتاب"المساءلة"(دار الفارابي، 2011) بعد أن أصدر سيرته الذاتية في عمل موسع بمجلدين "إني أشم رائحة مريم"(2002/2010).هذه المقالة تقدم بورتريه مناضل سعودي. إن مسيرة أي عربي شيوعي ...

mediagazer

• Leaving the Newsroom to Launch Online Startups ...
  Carl Straumsheim / American Journalism Review: Leaving the Newsroom to Launch Online Startups  —  Journalists embracing the entrepreneurial spirit.  Weds., May 2, 2012.  —  Editorial assistant Carl Straumsheim (@cfstraumsheim, cstraumsheim@ajr.umd.edu) is a ...
• Juan Williams rethinks NPR (Jim Romenesko)
  Jim Romenesko: Juan Williams rethinks NPR  —  Juan Williams was quick to accept a few million bucks from Roger Ailes and jump to Fox News after NPR gave him the boot.  He then went on a non-stop NPR-bashing tour, accusing the radio network of being “elitist and white. ...
• Google News Adds Realtime Coverage, Google Plu ...
  Michael Nunez / International Business Times: Google News Adds Realtime Coverage, Google Plus Discussion: Is The Information Provided Actually Relevant?  —  Google News has added features that will give readers realtime data surrounding news stories, but the company has failed t ...
• Discovery's Oprah Problem (Business Week)
  Business Week: Discovery's Oprah Problem  —  Oprah Winfrey stood before advertisers and media executives in New York last month and offered a humble assessment of her effort to create OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network.  Despite her popularity, the new cable channel attracts less t ...
• Does AOL need HuffPo more than HuffPo needs AO ...
  Mathew Ingram / GigaOM: Does AOL need HuffPo more than HuffPo needs AOL?  —  The plot seems to be thickening at AOL, at least when it comes to Arianna Huffington's role at the former portal.  She confirmed to the Wall Street Journal that her role within the company has been ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

• Planned Parenthood to present petitions a ...
  COLUMBUS—Planned Parenthood of Central Ohio representatives are gathering starting at 8 a.m. Saturday outside the Shottenstein Center, 555 Borror Drive, on The Ohio State University’s campus to gather signatures on petitions and hand out materials. Staff and volunteers are encouraged to meet ...
• US military orders troops to 'fall in lin ...
  Defense Secretary Leon Panetta called on US troops to tighten up discipline and display "integrity" after a series of public relations disasters that he said could play into the hands of America's enemies. Panetta, echoing a message from Army and Marine Corps leaders, on Friday said the misc ...
• Drink pomegranate juice daily to boost se ...
  Want to boost your sex drive? Forget pills. Just drink a glass of pomegranate juice daily -- at least for 15 days, says a new study. Researchers at Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh have found that men and women who...
• Pranab Mukherjee elected Chair of ADB Gov ...
  Tweet MANILA: Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee was elected today as Chair of the ADB's Board of Governors and the country will host the 46th annual meeting of the Asian Development Bank in New Delhi...
• Three Diggers wounded in Afghanistan
  Three Australian soldiers have been wounded by a roadside bomb in southwest Afghanistan during a mission where troops discovered narcotics and a drug-making facility. The special operations soldiers were wounded by an...

no frakking consensus

• Keeping the ‘No Pressure’ Video Alive
  It's no longer easy to locate the splattergate video on YouTube.
• The Environmental Defense Fund & the CIA
  Any group that's wining and dining the Secretary of Defense - who just happens to be the former director of the CIA - is no grassroots operation.
• The UN’s Environmental ‘Holocausts ...
  Since the 1970s UN officials have tried to frighten us. Repeatedly, their predictions have failed. Repeatedly, their time frames have been preposterously inaccurate.
• Naked Intolerance in the Media
  Why does climate change elicit so much partisan sneering on the part of the media?
• Get ‘em While They’re Young
  The World Wildlife Fund thinks its corporate logo should be plastered on children's flesh.

Anna's News

• Now it's 4D film: The high-tech cinemas which ...
  Hollywood is converting blockbuster films into 4-D because cinemagoers are shunning pricey multi-dimensional 3-D versionsBut the experience has left some fans feeling sick, damp and pummeled after watching movies like Kung Fu Panda 2 and the latest ...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & ...
• 10 Best British Open Performances
  Rory McIlroy's Tiger-esque performance at Congressional has many golf fans wondering what the 22-year-old has in store for Royal St. George's, one of the most difficult courses in the Open Championship rotation. Past winners Walter Hagen, Sandy Lyle and.. Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...
• Tiny snails survive digestion by birds
  Snails are able to survive intact after being eaten by birds, according to scientists.Japanese white-eyes on the island of Hahajima, Japan feast on tiny land snails. Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Polar Shifts on Rising Seas
  How high will the oceans rise in response to our warming global climate, and how fast will it happen?Climate scientists have been unable to answer these basic questions with any confidence, mainly because they can't really tell how the ice caps at the.... Submitted by Anna Smith to Environment ...
• Haji Ali: A Popular Pilgrimage for all Faith
  Haji Ali Dargah in Mumbai is a popular pilgrimage destination for devotees of all faith. Many devotees visit Dargah from different walks of life. It is situated 500 yards off shore in the middle of Worli Bay in Mumbai. The mosque was built in 1431 by a... Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...

Medical Marijuana

• 4/27/12 - "Obamacare" in the Supreme Court
  healthcarereform.procon.org - "Obamacare" in the Supreme Court - See our new resource about the Supreme Court hearings on the constitutionality of Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).  Read a summary, a timeline of how the case made it to t ...
• 4/27/12 - "Obamacare" in the Supreme Court
  healthcarereform.procon.org - "Obamacare" in the Supreme Court - See our new resource about the Supreme Court hearings on the constitutionality of Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).  Read a summary, a timeline of how the case made it to t ...
• 4/26/12 - Is nuclear power safe for humans and ...
  alternativeenergy.procon.org - Is nuclear power safe for humans and the environment? – Read statements, including post-Fukushima quotes, from experts such as John Hutton, Chairman of the Nuclear Industry Association (pro), Helen Caldicott, President of the Nuclear Policy Research Institute ( ...
• 4/26/12 - Is nuclear power safe for humans and ...
  alternativeenergy.procon.org - Is nuclear power safe for humans and the environment? – Read statements, including post-Fukushima quotes, from experts such as John Hutton, Chairman of the Nuclear Industry Association (pro), Helen Caldicott, President of the Nuclear Policy Research Institute ( ...
• 4/25/12 - Candidate Finances
  2012election.procon.org - Candidate Finances - According to the Federal Election Commission, the three remaining Republican candidates (Gingrich, Paul, and Romney) have raised $148,098,413 cumulatively, while Democratic President Barack Obama has raised $196,610,770. See how much money each cand ...

Truth About Our World

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

Gyrovague's Raves

• Origins of the Arts
  Sociobiologist E.O. Wilson on the evolution of culture Edward O. Wilson RICH AND SEEMINGLY BOUNDLESS as the creative arts seem to be, each is filtered through the narrow biological channels of human cognition. Our sensory world, what we can learn unaided about reality external to our bodies, is ...
• Grass’s Poem
  Jeffrey Goldberg “What Must Be Said” is interesting for what it says about the mind of Guenter Grass, but it is more interesting for what it says about the manner in which some intellectuals think about Israel and Iran. By extracting the self-pity, self-aggrandizement and guilt-expiation from “W ...
• What’s the big idea?
  Dostoevsky tackled free will, Tolstoy the meaning of life – but is it still possible to write philosophical novels? Jennie Erdal At St Andrews University in the early 1970s, philosophy was still a required subject for entry into an honours course. To leave the way clear for reading modern langua ...
• Rise of the Fictional Lecherous Prof.
  Stephanie Bernhard He’s crusty, grumpy, aging, and set in his outdated ways. He’s a he. Mortality is on his mind, and his will to bed women a fraction of his age increases in direct proportion to his fear of aging and death. He is, of course, the Humanities Professor archetype, and he is everywh ...
• Writers Replying to Reviewers?
  Arthur Krystal Many writers, especially younger ones, regard other people’s books as an opportunity to enhance their own reputations. What better way to show off one’s own wit, erudition, and verbal artistry than to debunk someone else’s? And if you can look good at some poor w ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

• Kiwi keeper McCullum set for move down batting ...
  WELLINGTON - New Zealand cricket captain Daniel Vettori and batting coach Mark Greatbatch have reportedly decided to push batsman-wicketkeeper Brendon McCullum down the order to change the fortunes of the team after its 4-0 loss to Bangladesh in a one-day international series. McCullum is expe ...
• Katie Holmes
  more images Katie Holmes shelters underneath an umbrella as she returns to her trailer wrapped in a white dressing gown on the set of latest movie ?Jack And Jill?. Los Angeles, California. .... Source  : Gaea News Network.
• Ava Sambora Walks The Runway
  more images LOS ANGELES (GaeaTimes.com)- It seems that the celebrity children are making headlines now a days. Just few days back Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith’s daughter Willow Smith’s “Whip My Hair” went viral online, its time for Ava Sambora, the 13 year old daugh ...
• Tylenol Recall Ghost Haunts Johnson & Johnson
  more images FORT WASHINGTON (GaeaTimes.com)- Johnson & Johnson the diversified pharmaceutical and health care company is back in news though for the wrong reasons. Tylenol is a product made by the company that is being recalled now in USA and Puerto Rico. This is not the first time that the ...
• VHP seers meet in Ayodhya to decide on road ahead
  AYODHYA - The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has convened a meeting of leading seers here Wednesday to decide on the road ahead after the verdict on the Ramjanmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute. The 41-member central committee of seers will assemble at the Karsewak Puram camp. Amongst those participat ...

TruthNews Australia

• Professor Bob Carter on climate change - Part 2
  Part 2 of Professor Bob Carter on climate change
• Professor Bob Carter on climate change - Part 1
  My guest today for the second hour is Prof. Bob Carter: Professor Bob Carter is an adjunct Research Fellow at James Cook University (Queensland). He is a palaeontologist, stratigrapher, marine geologist and environmental scientist with more than 40 years professional experience, and holds d ...
• Join our mailing list and get our latest podca ...
  You are cordially invited to join the Truth News Australia mailing list. Podcast heaven is just one click away! CLICK HERE to sign up now! If you change your mind later you can easily unsubscribe, and it's FREE!
• Thomson quits, Slipper stands down
  Breaking News Embattled Thomson quits Labor party PM moves on Thomson and Slipper, saying a 'line has been crossed' Whether or not you believe in our representative democracy, I hope you can see that we need an election now, and that, if this occurs (as it should from the numbers against th ...
• What would a world without government look lik ...
  Throughout the last century, it has been estimated that governments around the world have been responsible for approximately 250 million murders. On the contrary, it is estimated that only nine million non-governmental, or domestic cases of homicide, have been perpetrated within the same time fr ...

Beacon

• Searching for a More Responsible Way to Farm Fish
  A salmon farm in Chile. © Oceana/ Eduardo Sorensen Almost half of the world’s seafood now comes from fish farms, which can cause significant environmental harm if not responsibly managed. Because many fish are confined to a small area, aquaculture can lead to high levels of pollution an ...
• Oceana's Mike Hirshfield on Fish and the Law
  Earlier this year, the National Oceanic and At­mospheric Administration set catch limits under the 2006 Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act amendments for all covered species, a major triumph for fisheries management. The Environmental Forum asked the leading voices in fi ...
• Oceana and Fish Fraud on the Daily Show
  We have finally made it -- Last night Oceana’s new Los Angeles seafood fraud report was featured on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Ever-angry Lewis Black responded to the report: “Snapper, tilapia, who gives a S#@*? That’s what the ketchup’s for!” Well, not quite the message we were going for ...
• Video: Andy Sharpless on Fish and World Hunger
  Did you know that protecting our oceans could be an answer to world hunger? A few weeks ago our CEO Andy Sharpless gave a talk at TedxSF about how saving the oceans can help feed the world. We think it’s a fantastic, thought-provoking presentation, please watch and pass it on:
• Maya Lin Asks 'What is Missing'?
  We got an email recently from artist Maya Lin about her new project, What is Missing, and it is spectacular. Maya created a monument to the disappearing creatures and places on our planet, and put it on the internet to grow and evolve. Her project is a powerful interactive website that showca ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

• Bobble Head Doll Of John Wilkes Booth Pulled F ...
    “Bobblehead dolls of the man who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln have been pulled from sale at the Gettysburg National Military Park visitors’ center bookstore. The dolls of John Wilkes Booth with a handgun were removed from shelves on Saturday, a day after a reporter f ...
• Satirical Tribute To The Brains Behind The Uni ...
• Wonderful Photos From World War II
                      Source: Lest We Forget
• Quarterstaff. Stick Fighting Created In The Mi ...
    I’ve written about this many times here, but martial arts did not originate in the orient. Every single civilization and culture created some form of self defense with and without arms. The English were among the most prolific with Boxing and Quarterstaff.  The Quarterstaff was a shaft of ...
• Wonderful World War II Photos From The US Nati ...
                    Sources: Fold3

Taylor Marsh

• Jon Stewart Calls Out Brian Schweitzer, Lawren ...
  “I hate Barack Obama more than I love Jesus.” – Jon Stewart on religious conservative bigotry over Mitt’s Mormonism What a target rich environment. In the first video below, Stewart uses Schweitzer, O’Donnell and Bashir for target practice, after they make fools of ...
• The Never Ending Sexual Saga of Dominique Stra ...
  SOME PIECE OF WORK Strauss-Kahn is turning out to be, with the latest headlines screaming… Dominique Strauss-Kahn could face gang rape charges after US hotel orgy I’m still wondering who at Huffington Post will get the Anne Sinclair interview? Sinclair is Strauss-Kahn’s wife, a ...
• Queer Talk: Right Winger Says Romney is ‘Maneu ...
  Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. Team Romney is still fairly new to the general campaigning mode. Missteps are inevitable. The Richard Grenell story shows that. First, they seemed to think putting an “openly gay” man in a high profile position (forei ...
• Jobs Numbers Reveal 24.9% Unemployment Among Teens
  In April, teenagers had a 24.9 percent unemployment rate, compared with a 7.5 percent for adult men and 7.4 percent among adult women. – ABC News PARTISANS, start your engines, though no one can spin the teen unemployment numbers, which are disastrous. The unemployment rate is down to 8.1% ...
• Ben Bradlee Questions Deep Throat and Red Flag ...
  Did that potted [plant] incident ever happen? … and meeting in some garage. One meeting in the garage? Fifty meetings in the garage? I don’t know how many meetings in the garage … There’s a residual fear in my soul that that isn’t quite straight. – from “Yours in Truth: A Personal Po ...

Hudson New York

• What the Palestinians Want
  No matter how much the US tries to help the Palestinians, it will always be viewed by many of them as an enemy. Last week, President Barack Obama gave $147 million to the Palestinians. A few days later, Palestinians demonstrated in Ramallah against the
• Women's Rights in Egypt
  Islamist Members of Parliament in Egypt are trying to deprive Egyptian women of their basic rights by introducing several controversial draft laws that, if passed, will bring Egypt back to the Middle Ages: -- The website Ahram Online reports that
• How The Palestinian Authority Fights Corruption
  Jamal Abu Rihan is a Palestinian blogger and activist who is being held in a Palestinian Authority prison in the West Bank. Security forces belonging to the Palestinian Authority government arrested Abu Rihan after he created a Facebook group called "The
• What if a Rational Iran Says, "Yes"?
  LTG Benny Ganz, Israel's Chief of Staff, turned heads when he told the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz that the Iranians are rational and, in his view, have not taken a decision about moving from nuclear capability to nuclear weapons. The second is supposed
• Elections in France, a Country in Sharp Decline
  An observer from North America trying to analyze the French presidential elections would probably be bewildered to discover that among the 10 candidates in the first round, three were Trotskyites advocating a Leninist revolution ; a disciple of Lyndon La

Urban Survival

• Job Numbers Out – Yuck
  (Macon, GA)  This morning’s column will be very short since the whole top half of the report was eaten by my computer with only 25 minutes till press time.  The only portion saved was a first draft of the “Coping” … Continue reading →
• Coping: With QR Code Disease
  (Macon, GA)  This morning’s column will be perhaps shorter than usual and, since I’m in the company of highly esteemed columnists it may be proof-read as well.  Don’t get your hopes up that such formalities will become a permanent fixture … Continue reading →
• A Curious Spread to Watch
  (Macon, GA) In the last decent downward move of the markets, Robin Landry was noticing that although some indices (like the Dow) were going down toward target levels, the S&P was still not getting anywhere near its target range of … Continue reading →
• Coping: With One I Missed
  OK, I don’t know everything…but I only admit to that on Thursdays, and only in May and….. Point is that SurvivalWoman has an article on antioxidants and prepping which – truth be told here – I would never have thought … Continue reading →
• May Day! May Day!
  I can’t think of a more auspicious date to head off on a round of travel (more later on in the column) since May Day is, depending on where you live, roughly the time of Beltane (spring festival) and half … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

• Peter Schiff Blog: Peter Schiff : April Jobs ...
• Peter Schiff : April Jobs Report is a Disaste ...
  Peter Schiff : April Jobs Report is a Disaster
• Peter Schiff Blog: Peter Schiff : April Jobs ...
• Hypocrisy, and Lies of the New World Order | ...
• Hypocrisy, and Lies of the New World Order | ...

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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

NRDC Switchboard

• Latin America Climate, Energy and Environment ...
  Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC Chile Endesa and Colbún, the corporate owners of HydroAysén are revisiting the issue of economic feasibility. Last week, Electrobas, a Brazilian state owned power company expresse ...
• Big news today: Department of the Interior rel ...
  Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. Earlier today the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), part of the Department of the Interior, issued a draft rule that would govern fracking under federal oil and gas leases. Many people have not h ...
• Connecting the Climate Change Dots
  Kim Knowlton, Senior Scientist, New York Though I’m a scientist, accustomed to statistics and hard facts, I’m increasingly unsettled by the extreme weather events we experience so much these days. The increases in heavy rainstorms, flood ...
• NRDC in the News 5/4: Stronger fracking rules ...
  NRDC News, NRDC News Team, NRDC Offices Worldwide Following the administration’s release of proposed federal rules for fracking on public lands, the Wall Street Journal quoted Amy Mall commending the administration for reducing the potent ...
• Water Scarcity Takes Center Stage
  David Beckman, Senior Attorney & Director, Water Program, Los Angeles I spent part of this week at the Milken Institute's 15th Annual Global Conference, billed by some as “Davos with Palm trees,” this year featuring a keynote by former P ...

Injustice Everywhere

• Suspended until further notice
  Due to the voting fiasco I am suspending the project until further notice while I take some time to figure out what to do.
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 15 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misonduct News Feed for this Wednesday, April 11, 2012: Jonesville MI police chief accused of hitting cuffed autistic 8yr-old who left school with a baton in the back of a police car after he left school while it was in ...
• Candidates for Ownership of the NPMSRP
  As discussed this weekend, I’ve decided that the best way to hand this project over to some other person or group would be to let the readers, who have supported this project so much through the years, make the decision on who they feel most comfortable with running it from now on. Accordi ...
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 13 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Tuesday, April 10, 2012 Washington DC police sued by mom of teen fataly shot in back, cops say he had BB gun, witnesses contradict [3] http://bit.ly/Ipxihs Chicago IL & 4 cops lose $1.15 ...
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 14 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Monday, April 9, 2012: Beloit WI settles suit for $265k to teen injured by cop when thrown against cop car then strip searched in public [0] http://bit.ly/HvCFg7 Minneapolis Park MN cop sent ...

Total Collapse

• Faber: ‘Massive Wealth Destruction’ Coming, We ...
  The critical question over the next decade isn’t “where will my returns be highest?” but “where will I lose the least money?” That, according to economist and investor Marc Faber, is the scenario facing investors today. As the author of the Gloom, Boom, and Doom Report, Marc Faber is a well-know ...
• Russia Warns of ‘Dead End’ in U.S. Missile Talks
  Russia said Thursday its dispute with the United States over missile defense was near a “dead end” and warned it might have to deploy new rockets in Europe to take out elements of the controversial shield. “We have not been able to find mutually-acceptable solutions at this poi ...
• China and Russia hold joint naval exercises in ...
  China and Russia are conducting a major joint naval exercise in the Yellow Sea from April 22 to 27. The drills are a response by the two countries to their growing concerns about the Obama administration’s aggressive “pivot” to Asia that includes a military build-up and the strengthening of US a ...
• Obama Outlaws All Protests In US Ahead Of Hist ...
  A chilling Ministry of Finance report circulating in the Kremlin today states that the Obama Regime has begun instituting what can only be described as one of the most brutal assaults of human rights and freedoms after it effectively banned all protests against the US government under penalty of ...
• U.S. Amasses Stealth Jet Armada Near Iran
  2012 Raytheon Award Video from Jersey on Vimeo. The U.S. Air Force is quietly assembling the world’s most powerful air-to-air fighting team at bases near Iran. Stealthy F-22 Raptors on their first front-line deployment have joined a potent mix of active-duty and Air National Guard F-15 Eagles, i ...

Daily Dose

• TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
  LinkedIn acquires SlideShare for $119 million. Microsoft cuts Windows Media Center out of Windows 8. The EU is in no hurry to decide of Google is violating antitrust provisions. You...
• TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
  Rdio comes to France and the UK. Zynga is selling keywords within Draw Something. Millions in the US don’t use Facebook’s privacy controls. You can catch The Daily Dose every...
• TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
  Spotify finally launches its iPad app, Foursquare’s Tristan Walker leaves the company, and Facebook looks set to launch its IPO on 18 May. It’s all in today’s Daily Dose You...
• TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
  Digg may be in for a rough ride as the Washington Post buys its staff. Hulu could be a subscriber-only feature of cable and satellite soon. The Pirate Bay gets...
• TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
  Microsoft and Barnes & Noble partner to take on Amazon and Apple in the e-book wars, Angry Birds Space hits 50m downloads in 35 days, and Pepsi partners with Twitter...

Beyond Zero Emissions

• Repowering Port Augusta report now available
  To download the report click here. This ground breaking report makes the environmental, social and economic case for the replacement of Port Augusta’s existing brown coal-fired power stations with baseload solar thermal and wind power. As with all our work, this blueprint is technically det ...
• AGL's war on solar
  It is deeply troubling that AGL continues to suggest low income households, such as pensioners, are now paying more for their electricity to enable Australians to get solar. This is simply not true. If we rewind, to a bit over two years ago, before AGL tried to deflate the solar PV industry, ...
• Clean fossils of the future? How about ready r ...
  There’s a lot of discussion and political jostling around energy options, decarbonisation, low-carbon or zero-carbon transition. Looking at the options, let’s begin with today’s dominant player, conventional coal. It’s fate is easy to summarise, we burn it now in old, outdated power stations, ...
• The minister for tourism signs tourism industr ...
  Martin Ferguson, the Federal Minister for Resources Energy and Tourism and previous head of the ACTU, today signalled that the mining industry will take precedence over tourism and manufacturing, despite the enormous damage it is doing to these industries. In a speech in Brisbane today, Mr ...
• The merit order effect – actually, it’s a good ...
  The Merit Order Effect, put simply, means lower electricity bills for consumers. That’s because it means lower-cost electricity in the wholesale market when additional renewables are introduced into the mix. The effect has been demonstrated in Germany, where they have very significant deploym ...

Monga Bay ( News )

• Assassinated forest activist Chut Wutty: 'I wa ...
  Chut Wutty, a dedicated Cambodian activist, was shot dead at an illegal logging site by military police, last Thursday. At the time Wutty was driving with two journalists, who wrote a shocking eye-witness account of his death, revealing that he was physically and verbally abused, then shot whil ...
• Exploring Asia's lost world
  Abandoned by NGOs and the World Bank, carved out for rubber plantations and mining by the Cambodian government, spiraling into a chaos of poaching and illegal logging, and full of endangered species and never-explored places, Virachey National Park may be the world's greatest park that has been ...
• New video documents nearly all the world's rem ...
  Nearly all the world's remaining Javan rhino have been documented on video via camera traps in Indonesia's Ujung Kulon National Park, according to a montage put together by park authorities.
• 115 mining companies operating illegally in fo ...
  More than 100 mining companies are operating without licenses in forest areas across 471,000 hectares in Indonesia, reports The Jakarta Post.
• Thousands worldwide to "connect the dots" betw ...
  On Saturday, May 5th vulnerable populations from the United States to Bangladesh will "connect the dots" between devastating extreme weather and climate change in a global day of action organized by 350.org. The nearly 1,000 events occurring in over half of the world's nations are meant to highl ...

Sierra Express

• SLBC is neutral – Thomas P. Sowa
  Mr. Thomas P. Sowa, Director of Administration and Human Resource has told Sierra Express that the Sierra Leone Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC) is neutral and that it was established as an Act of Parliament on April 1, 2010 to among other things execute, provide, and give best of services to the ...
• Sierra Leone Mission in China and the desire t ...
  The role of the People’s Republic of China in Africa’s development has been tremendous.  In January of this year, the AU commissioned a $124 million AU headquarters built single-handedly by China for the African continent. This is a clear manifestation of the depth that Sino-Africa relations hav ...
• Disable International boss speaks on Lantern P ...
  The independence anniversary celebrations were a watershed event for members of the disabled community in Sierra Leone as they showcased for the first time a lantern they carved on their own. It could be recalled that in the years gone by, persons with disabilities are hardly partaking in the la ...
• SLBC’s Gbanabome blasts KPMG
  Director General of the Sierra Leone Broadcasting Corporation, (SLBC) Elvis Gbanabome Hallowell derided claims of massive corruption at the SLBC calling their accusers, cheap blackmailers. Gbanabome reacted on an alleged document said to have been leaked by the auditing firm, KPMG The DG said lo ...
• ‘Ogoogoo dae dans na bigman palar’
  Wonders will never cease; we have an integrity club that has no integrity.  The very basic practices known as equal opportunities practice for employment is not followed by our all powerful Anti Corruption boss.  All employment should be advertised, short listed and interviews conducted to selec ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

• Export commodities tumble in worst fall for tw ...
  Export commodity prices lurched lower last month, ANZ's commodity price index recording its steepest drop for more than two years.In world price terms the ANZ index fell 4.5 per cent to an 18-month low.The exchange rate provided...
• Cheaper dairy prices in store as auction falls
  Shoppers could see the cost of dairy products fall as strong supplies and concerns about global growth cut into international prices.The average price for a basket of products in dairy company Fonterra's latest online auction yesterday...
• NZ commodity prices fall to 18-month low i ...
  New Zealand commodity prices fell to an 18 month low in April, led by a decline in the price of sheep meat.The ANZ Commodity Price Index slipped 4.5 per cent to 267.5 in April, to the lowest since December 2009, in what was the...
• Dairy prices slide 2.4pc in overnight auction
  Prices of dairy products extended their slide in Fonterra's latest GlobalDairyTrade auction, reaching the lowest since August 2009.The GDT-TWI Price Index fell 2.4 per cent compared to the last sale two weeks ago. The average winning...
• $3b less predicted at the end of the export ra ...
  Lower international commodity prices and less favourable weather could help cut exports by $3 billion in the year ahead, according to BNZ.A research note by BNZ economist Doug Steel said four external factors of weather, world product...

Hit & Run | Reason

• It's Johnson vs Wrights in the LP debate
  Las Vegas – Tonight’s pivotal Libertarian Party presidential debate will feature Gary Johnson and Lee Wrights. Here’s quick primer on the candidates: Gary Johnson New Mexico A former two-term Republican governor of New Mexico with a background in the construction industry, ent ...
• Ron Paul Roundup: The World Gazes on His Deleg ...
  Lots of folk have had lots to say about Ron Paul's slow racking up of delegates and supporter influence in the Republican Party in the past couple of days. A sampling: *Jon Ward at Huffington Post says some Iowan GOPers are peeved and distressed at the Paulian success in their stat ...
• Netanyahu Calling Early Elections for Possible ...
  A leading Israeli TV commentator suggests Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could be calling elections nearly a full year ahead of schedule in order to open a window for a military campaign against Iran’s nuclear program in October, while President Obama is in the heat of his re-el ...
• FBI Pushes Legislation to Make It Easier to Wi ...
  The FBI wants web developers to build fed-friendly backdoors in all their applications in order to make domestic spying easier, reports CNET's Declan McCullagh: In meetings with industry representatives, the White House, and U.S. senators, senior FBI officials argue the dramatic ...
• Lucy Steigerwald on How the U.S. Has it Both W ...
  It's been one year since that strange evening in May 2011 when President Barack Obama reported that Al-Qaeda head Osama Bin Laden, so long mysteriously absent from the world stage, had been found and killed by U.S. forces. One year later and the U.S. government still refuses to rel ...

Mercury Rising

• Pinch the boob or, why police officers who eng ...
  (an updated version of an old favorite; lyrics) David Graeber, Truthout: A few weeks ago I was with a few companions from Occupy Wall Street in Union Square when an old friend — I’ll call her Eileen — passed through, her hand in a cast. “What happened to you?” I asked. “Oh, this?” she held [...]
• Excerpts of How to Speak Republican
  This is a Jimmy Kimmel schtick (no link) written by Jonathan Bines, although it may also constitute entries in the next Merriam-Webster dictionary: Capitalism: A system of economic organization that has never been attempted. Christmas: A holiday commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, now rarel ...
• Excerpts of How to Speak Republican
  This is a Jimmy Kimmel schtick (no link) written by Jonathan Bines, although it may also constitute entries in the next Merriam-Webster dictionary: Capitalism: A system of economic organization that has never been attempted. Christmas: A holiday commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, now rarel ...
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Reality Sandwich

• Kubrick Tops Psychedelic Top 50
    Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey has won the first place in a list of the 50 greatest psychedelic videos of all time. The last half hour of the movie is what earned it its top slot. It's an intense visual experience that people would drop acid to watch in theaters, and be led ...
• Global Truths on the Pacific Northwest
    Join Darrin Drda as he talks about the potential for change during this cataclysmic and transformational time in human history through the framework of the Buddha's Four Noble Truths. His book 'The Four Global Truths' addresses the reality of global suffering while seeking t ...
• That Voodoo That You Do
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• Nothing and Everything
  RUBIN MUSEUM OF ART In association with EVOLVER presents Nothing & Everything Ellen Pearlman in conversation with Vincent Katz to mark the publication of Pearlman’s examination of the influence of Buddhism on the American Avant Garde: 1942 - 1962 Wednesday, May 16 7:00 PM $15* 150 W ...
• Transformer: An Interview with Richard Dolan
    This article originally appeared in Dazed and Confused.    read more

Desertification

• Will Climate Refugees Get Promised Aid?
  With extreme weather pounding countries across a wide arc in the Asia-Pacific region, questions hover over entitlements for millions of people displaced by climate change, pledged under the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and other sources.
• Treat Illegal Logging Like Organised Crime, Ur ...
  With illegal loggers clearing the equivalent of a football field of the world's most valuable forests every two seconds, local and international law enforcement systems should target the criminal operations that profit most from the trade, according to a new report released here Tuesday ...
• Rio+20 Summit: A Moment That Must Be Seized
  The upcoming Rio+20 conference has to be the moment in human history when the nations of the world come together to find ways to ensure the very survival of humanity, many science and environmental experts believe.
• ARGENTINA: Three-Quarters of "Breadbasket" Is ...
  How has Argentina managed to maintain its image as one of the world's breadbaskets when a full three-fourths of its territory consists of drylands? This was one of the questions raised by the scientists who decided to create the National Observatory on Land Degradation and Desertification this year.
• MAURITANIA: Ravaged by Drought - the Number of ...
  Mariem Mint Ahmedou sits cross-legged on a worn-out carpet in a basic tent built with mud bricks and layers of sewn-together fabric. Her eight-month-old twins, Hussein and Hassan, lie weakly against her body. Both of them have been malnourished since birth, because Beydar, undernourished h ...

Blogging Canadians

• How Martin Luther King would have felt about, ...
  In a sketch that Art Spiegelman proposed during George W. Bush's first  term, King's dream becomes a nightmrare as black leaders like Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice provide cover for George W. Bush. A proposed cover which The New Yorker did not publish. See more here.
• In Brad Wall's 'Saskatchewan' ... Workers Are ...
   REGINA -- The Saskatchewan Federation of Labour is raising concerns about the treatment of temporary foreign workers after three Mexican men say their experience has soured their view of Canada. Ivan Estrada came to the Regina area in late February with dreams of providing for his wife an ...
• Facebook has serious problems
  Facebook dilemma. An Exile from the Kingdom of Me -Thomas Beller Whenever I try to sign into my Facebook account it asks me for my phone number and then a government-issued I.D. What is this – airport security? I have given up on the Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg grow up. There are many uns ...
• “The Jet That Ate the Pentagon”
  Interesting headline on the front page of The Huffington Post about F-35. “Claimed to be near invisible to radar and able to dominate any future battlefield, the F-35 will replace most of the air-combat aircraft in the inventories of the U.S. Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, and at least nine ...
• Jimmy Kimmel called Allen West a jackass at th ...
  Jimmy Kimmel was not kidding. Allen West is a jackass. Remember when he said that 78 to 80 House Democrats were Communists. Here are some other nuggets from Allen West: “I must confess, when I see anyone with an Obama 2012 bumper sticker, I recognize them as a threat to the ge ...

Press TV - Middle East

• Syrians brace for parliamentary polls
  Millions of Syrians are set to head for parliamentary polls on Monday in the country's first multi-party elections under a new constitution.
• Hamas warns Israel over hunger strikers
  The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has warned that the Tel Aviv regime would face "unexpected" consequences if any of the Palestinian hunger strikers die in Israeli jails.
• ‘Palestinian hunger strikers in hospital’
  Palestine's envoy to the UN says ten Palestinian hunger strikers held in an Israeli jail have now been moved to a hospital due to their deteriorating health conditions.
• Yemenis hold anti-US, anti-Saudi demo
  Yemenis have staged a demonstration in Sa’ada to condemn US and Saudi meddling in their country, Press TV reports.
• Hashemi challenges Iraqi judiciary
  Iraq’s fugitive Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi, who has been accused of running a death squad, accuses the Iraqi judiciary system of lacking the principles of justice.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

• SPS Governing Council Representative Nominatio ...
  We are accepting nominations for students to join the School of Professional Studies Governing Council.  The Governing Council considers proposals for new courses, degrees, certificates and programs that will be offered by the School.  Two students and an alternate are needed to serve on the Cou ...
• Follow-Back: The Power of Twitter
  Twitter, a social micro-blogging website has burst onto the scene and become embedded into the fabric of society and more importantly has become one of society’s methods of staying ‘in touch.’ Twitter has attracted users from all walks of life, be they mainstream corporations, governmental organ ...
• Solicitation of Nominations for SPS Governing ...
  We are now accepting nominations for students to join the School of Professional Studies Governing Council.  The Governing Council considers proposals for new courses, degrees, certificates and programs that will be offered by the School.  Two students and two alternates are needed to serve on t ...
• Smarmy Prince, Contemptible Hypocrite, Ayatoll ...
  What a group. What a choice. The remaining field of Republican presidential candidates is one of the weakest in history. It is not just the liberal media that thinks so. Former Republican Congressman and current MSNBC host Joe Scarborough believes it and right wing pundit Charles Krauthammer cal ...
• Silently Waiting
  The ruthless brutality which humankind has been known to unleash upon their fellow humans throughout history seems unrelenting and in fact almost unbelievable when considered in hindsight. For example, the Holocaust, the Trail of Tears, the Middle Passage, and the Great Purge – all events of his ...

Dissident Voice

• The Last of the Rickshaw Pullers
  When the Communists came to power in China, one of their first acts was to abolish the hand-pulled rickshaw. What an irony that in the second decade of the 21st century, the Communist leaders in West Bengal wait for the remaining rickshaw-pullers to die! – A.J. Philip1 The Esplanade distri ...
• CC FBI
  As the FBI gutterpunk division entraps Five guys with crude haircuts, anarchists Supposedly, because anarchists are always Guilty of everything, going back to Haymarket, And beyond, we need a concrete poetry For the true criminals to bite on. Eat this. Or how about a poem that will explode In th ...
• There Is a Plague Loose Upon the Land
  Most states in the union have laws against “gouging.”  Broadly speaking, gouging is defined as the practice of arbitrarily raising prices on necessary goods, such as milk, bottled water, baby food, baby formula, bread, etc., in response to civil emergencies (riots, martial law) or natural disast ...
• California Public to Vote on GMO Label Act
  Stroller-pushing mothers delivered nearly a million signatures in Sacramento on Wednesday for an initiative to put to populist vote The California Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act. The ten-week signature drive collected nearly double the amount needed to put the R2K Act on the Novem ...
• Of Conspiracies, Critics, and the Crisis: Refl ...
   Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves. — Hebert Marcuse1 [A potential solution to the financial crisis is] a global neo-Keynesianism… to save capitalism from itself and from potential radical challenges from below. — William I. Robinson2 Ice Cream and Social Change ...

Destructionist

• Forgotten Student Abandoned in Jail Cell for 5 ...
  A 23-year-old college student is asking the US Drug Enforcement Agency to compensate him with $20 million after federal agents abandoned him in an empty jail cell for nearly five days without food or water — and without filing charges. Daniel Chong from the University of California, San Diego ...
• Forgotten Student Abandoned in Jail Cell for 5 ...
  A 23-year-old college student is asking the US Drug Enforcement Agency to compensate him with $20 million after federal agents abandoned him in an empty jail cell for nearly five days without food or water — and without filing charges. Daniel Chong from the University of California, San Diego ...
• Corporate Media Lies About Attendance at Ron P ...
  The establishment is desperate to downplay attendance figures at Ron Paul’s rallies. In order to do this, it enlists the help of the corporate media, including local media. The first video below reports that more than 5,000 people attended a rally at UC Davis rally, but a local television sta ...
• Corporate Media Lies About Attendance at Ron P ...
  The establishment is desperate to downplay attendance figures at Ron Paul’s rallies. In order to do this, it enlists the help of the corporate media, including local media. The first video below reports that more than 5,000 people attended a rally at UC Davis rally, but a local television sta ...
• Russia Threatens Preemptive Strike on NATO Fac ...
  Russia will take out NATO’s missile defense system in Eastern Europe if the U.S. implements a missile shield, Chief of General Staff Nikolai Makarov warned on Thursday. “A decision to use destructive force pre-emptively will be taken if the situation worsens,” he said at an international conf ...

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EU green power needs market access to thrive-draft

Reuters

* China also asked for technology flexibility * Grid urgently needs updating * 100 bln euros needed for power transmission lines By Barbara Lewis PARIS, May 4 (Reuters) - Free access to emerging renewable energy markets such as Brazil, China and India ...

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Crisis-hit Japan mulls shift to renewable energy

BusinessWeek

That $100 million-plus a day extra cost, worries over the risks of nuclear power and concern over carbon emissions are leading many decisionmakers to view renewable energy such as solar, hydro and wind more positively. Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda has ...

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Final energy bill passes, minus renewable portfolio standard

vtdigger.org

by Alan Panebaker | May 4, 2012 The original version of the bill would have required utilities to purchase set amounts of renewable energy through a “renewable portfolio standard.” A few closed-door meetings later, the Senate version stripped that ...

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Market Report: Renewable Energy Industry Battles Stiff Headwinds

Area Development Online

Renewable energy sources represent a large and growing force in the energy industry. True, the sector isn't likely to usurp fossil fuels such as coal, natural gas, and oil as the dominant power source. But, renewable energy is expected to be the ...

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Ecology seeks public comment on city of Camas shoreline program update

Access Washington

OLYMPIA – The Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) seeks public comment on the city of Camas's recently updated shoreline master program. The updated shoreline master program will guide construction and development along the city's nearly 26 ...

Ecology Center warns of chemical-laden garden tools

Royal Oak Daily Tribune

“Even if you are an organic gardener, doing everything you can to avoid pesticides and fertilizers, you still may be introducing hazardous substances into your soil by using these products,” said Jeff Gearhart, research director at the Ecology Center.

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Country Ecology: Mourning dove

Conway Daily Sun

Dave Eastman also broadcasts "Country Ecology" four times weekly over WMWV 93.5 fm. As Vice President of the Lakes Region Chapter/ASNH, he welcomes you to monthly programs at the Loon Center in Moultonborough. Contact him at: This email address is ...

Senior Lecturer in Theoretical Ecology

Scientific American

Senior Lecturer in Theoretical Ecology The Department of Ecology and Environmental Science has 150 members from 20 different countries including 50 PhD students and 15 professors (for more information see the department's homepage: ...

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Clean water shrinking in "Last Call at the Oasis"

Reuters

By Jordan Riefe | LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - If you thought only Third World countries have water crises, a new documentary asks you to think again. Increasingly, problems are rising to the surface in the United States. Filmmaker Jessica Yu harnesses the ...

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California American Water Observes "National Drinking Water Week" By ...

MarketWatch (press release)

CORONADO, Calif., May 04, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- California American Water today announced its nationwide participation in National Drinking Water Week, May 6-12, 2012. Throughout the week, California American Water will be raising awareness about ...

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Middlesex Water Company Announces First Quarter Results

MarketWatch (press release)

ISELIN, NJ, May 04, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Middlesex Water Company (the "Company") (NASDAQ:MSEX) , a provider of water and wastewater and related services primarily in New Jersey and Delaware, today announced operating revenues for the quarter ...

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Water Pik, Inc. Announces Product Exchange Program

MarketWatch (press release)

FORT COLLINS, Colo., May 04, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Water Pik, Inc., a leading developer, manufacturer and marketer of innovative personal healthcare products, will replace certain SinuSense(TM) Water Pulsator nasal irrigation devices it manufactured ...

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