Fair Use Note

WARNING for European visitors: European Union laws require you to give European Union visitors information about cookies used on your blog. In many cases, these laws also require you to obtain consent. As a courtesy, we have added a notice on your blog to explain Google's use of certain Blogger and Google cookies, including use of Google Analytics and AdSense cookies. You are responsible for confirming this notice actually works for your blog, and that it displays. If you employ other cookies, for example by adding third party features, this notice may not work for you. Learn more about this notice and your responsibilities.

Thomas Paine

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

Saturday, May 5, 2012

5 May - RSS SnapShot! Part II

IPS - Inter Press Services

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Surprises in the Israeli-Iranian Duel
    Summary: Although it is too early to make a judgement, it looks as if Israel’s Iran policy has back-fired and may result in a very different outcome from the one Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu has long sought. source: Agence Globalread more
  • Israeli Dissent May Create More Space for Iran ...
    Summary: The threat of a military attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities this year appears to have substantially subsided over the past several weeks as a result of several developments, including the biting criticisms voiced recently by former top national security figures of Israeli Prime Mini ...
  • IMF rejects call to cut ties with Iran
    Summary: The International Monetary Fund has rejected a call by a US-based anti-Iranian group to cut its ties with the Central Bank of Iran. source: PressTVread more
  • US Strikes A Military Pose for Iran
    Summary: For all the talk of the United States' long-standing hegemony in the oil-rich Persian Gulf, its military superiority is not without shortfalls that, in turn, show significant flaws in its ability to maintain a "credible military threat" against Iran, the stand that nowadays complemen ...
  • [Persian] Gulf States Provoke Iran With Milita ...
    Summary: The US-backed Sunni [Persian] Gulf states are really in competition with Iran for regional hegemony source: antiwar.comread more

The Daily Galaxy

Natural News

  • Learn about the amazing health benefits of jui ...
    Contrary to popular belief, the marijuana plant is a whole lot more than just a psychoactive drug that "stoners" use to get high. In raw form, marijuana leaves and buds are actually loaded with a non-psychoactive, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and anti-cancer nutrient...
  • You don't have an inner child - Now what?
    Of course you know there is not an actual child inside of you. No little version of yourself is physically stuck in there somewhere, whining, complaining and feeling hurt or afraid. The inner child movement merely suggests that you act as if this were true. If you choose...
  • Obesity - the epidemic Big Medical loves to hate
    (NaturalNews)Obesity in America is more than just an epidemic, it's the normal state of affairs. Today, 34 percent of Americans are obese (BMI of 30+), triple the 1960 percentage. The ranks of the 'morbidly obese,' or those with a BMI of 40 or more, has swelled to 6 percent, six...
  • Michigan proposes eliminating dietetic and nut ...
    Last summer, Michigan's Occupational Licensing Advisory Rules Committee (ARC) decided to evaluate every licensed occupation recognized by the state of Michigan to determine whether or not the current regulatory requirements for each one are appropriate. What the committee...
  • The anti-aging superfood avocado
    Foods that have an incredible array of health benefits that go well beyond just their nutrient value are considered superfoods. These foods are typically loaded with a combination of critical fatty acids, anti-oxidant phytonutrients and essential amino acids. Avocados...

Threat Level

  • Everyone Has Been Hacked. Now What?
    Hackers are everywhere and everyone has been hacked. So what's a company to do?
  • Sanctions, Legal Fees Piling Up for Man Claimi ...
    The man who is claiming a 50 percent stake in Facebook was ordered Thursday to pay the social-networking site's attorneys an additional $16,851, bringing to nearly $97,000 in sanctions and fees a federal judge has levied against Paul Ceglia in a bizarre lawsuit over the company's origins.
  • 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.
  • MI6 Codebreaker Attended U.S. Security Confere ...
    A top British codebreaker who died a mysterious death in his flat two years ago had just returned from attending a hacker conference in the U.S. prior to his demise, according to information disclosed during an inquest this week.
  • Feds Seized Hip-Hop Site for a Year, Waiting F ...
    Federal authorities seized a popular hip-hop music site based on the assertions from the Recording Industry Association of America that it was linking to four "pre-release" music tracks, and gave it back more than a year later without filing civil or criminal charges because of apparent recordin ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Mitt Romney is the Deadbeat Dad of Obamacare
    Discussing the Affordable Care Act with right-wing radio host Hugh Hewitt in March, Mitt Romney declared, "If I'm the godfather of this thing, then it gives me the right to kill it." But the former Massachusetts governor isn't merely promising to "kill it dead" at the national level. As it turn ...
  • Romney Sleeps Through 3 AM and 3 PM Phone Calls
    When it comes to showing leadership on American national security, the past week has been a very bad one indeed for Mitt Romney. As the nation marked the one year anniversary of the operation that killed Osama Bin Laden, voters were reminded that five years ago Romney not only opposed then cand ...
  • Sorry, Mitt: If You Want to Live Like a Repub ...
    Just days after telling college students to borrow money from their parents to start a business (advice his son Tagg took to the tune of $10 million), Mitt Romney offered voters another important lesson. As Romney explained in new video footage of a fundraiser held last month at the estate of p ...
  • Growing Dissent in Israel Poses Challenge for ...
    "We will not have an inch of difference," Mitt Romney declared in January, "between ourselves and our ally Israel." While that unprecedented pandering may have helped Romney slightly narrow the massive Democratic edge among Jewish voters, the cost of his blank check to his good friend Benjamin ...
  • Republicans Wouldn't, Couldn't, Shouldn't Get ...
    Here are two helpful reminders for apoplectic conservatives. Until Barack Obama shows up on a U.S. aircraft carrier in a flight suit and an over-sized cod piece, no GOP loyalist can criticize him for boasting about the operation that killed Osama Bin Laden. And no Republican can claim that "o ...

Blackspot News Feed

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • New Space Mission Will Look For Life On Jupite ...
    The European Space Agency(ESA) recently announced a new mission to explore Jupiter’s moons Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. The Jupiter Icy moons Explorer(JUICE) will study the moons, treating them as potential homes for life. Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto are all thought to have internal ...
  • NASA’s Observation Satellites Being Decommissi ...
      A new report from the National Research Council says that budget shortfalls, along with other factors, have led to a rapid decline in the nation’s earth-observing system and satellites. “The projected loss of observing capability will have profound consequences on science an ...
  • Connect the Dots on May 5
      Coming up on May 5 is a global day of action to connect the dots between extreme weather and global warming. You should get involved! Here’s more info from a post on sister site CleanTechnica: May 5: Connect the Dots Between Extreme Weather & [...]
  • Scientists Discover Nighttime Warming Undernea ...
      A new study has found that land surface temperatures underneath and around large wind farms in west-central Texas have increased as a result of the introduction of the wind farms, especially at nighttime. “This study indicates that land surface temperatures have warmed in the vicin ...
  • Earth Day Giveaway Winners
      If you participated in our Earth Day giveaway last week, perhaps you’ve been eagerly awaiting the results. The news is: all participants get the book, and Sheila Korman wins the grand prize of the Energy Saving Basket. Congratulations! To redeem your prizes, email: imarketing (at) ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Lots of Exciting News This Week in Venezuela! ...
    Venezuelan Embassy Opens its Doors May 5th for ‘Passport DC’ The Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to the U.S. will open its doors to the community tomorrow Saturday, May 5, to showcase Venezuelan culture and traditions as part of Passport DC, an annual event featuring glo ...
  • Venezuela: Pérez Pirela accused Orvex of treas ...
    Asking Obama to interfere in Venezuela   3 May 2012 - Orvex sent a letter to the American proxy, Barack Obama, in which it assures that there is an undeclared civil war in Venezuela, since supposedly the National Government has murdered thousands of people with the subterf ...
  • Extractive Capitalism and the Divisions in the ...
    Introduction: The leading agro-mineral exporting countries, including those engaged with the world’s leading mining and energy multi-national corporations(MNC) are also those characterized as having the most independent and progressive foreign policies. Apparently the primacy of “extractive capi ...
  • What you need to succeed is sincerity, and if ...
    "A few months ago I told the American people that I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions still tell me that is true, but the facts and evidence tell me it is not." — President Ronald Reagan, 1987 1 On April 23, speaking at...
  • “Friends of Syria”: Not Friends of the Syrian ...
    On 01 April 2012, the so-called “Friends of Syria” met in Istanbul to plan their agenda of fomenting civil war in Syria to destroy the country and oust the Syrian Government, using “human rights” as a pretext. They have agreed to provide finance and arms to outlawed groups attacking the...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    By BG & YD This doesn't lend credence to the military's claims that they will step down after the election. "At least one person has been killed and 373 others injured in the Egyptian capital, the health ministry says, after armed forces used water cannon, tear gas and rocks to disperse proteste ...
  • Missouri Town Hall Meta
    By @MBersin Meta. Here's a tip for folks in public life who are new to this Internets and blogging thing - if you did or said something that attracted a lot of attention, remember, you were the one who did or said it. Representative Vicky Hartzler (r) presented three town halls in Missouri's 4th ...
  • Missouri: our delusional paranoids are creativ ...
    Somewhat unfortunate placement on U.S. 65 north of Buffalo, Missouri: Location, location, location. Ah, family values. And we'll ferret out those Iranian terrorists by requiring participation in mandatory spelling bees... That would explain this.
  • 42 Years Ago Today
    By @KYYellowDog You protest an unjust war, you watch your unarmed friends shot down, and you go home to hear your parents say: "If you were there, you deserved to be shot."  
  • ...and a light goes dark
    By @BGinKC Adam MCA Yauch, 1964 - 2012 One of the lights that illuminates the world went out today when Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys lost the battle with throat cancer he had been waging for three years and slipped the bonds of this mortal coil. He really was one of the good guys, and the w ...

Care 2

  • ACTION ALERT: Support South Koreas Adoption o ...
    The country of South Korea has joined a host of other nations fighting the effects of climate change. By doing so, South Korea is the first country in Asia to pass climate change legislation, implementing cap-and-trade policies. Submitted by Simone D. to Green Lifestyle  |   Not ...
  • Dictator Obama Issues New Threat to Supreme Co ...
    In his latest display of his full USA federal government dictatorship over both the American people and the former co-branches of government, Dictator Obama is warning the Supreme Court to either rule in his favor or face severe consequences. Submitted by Carol Dreeszen to US Politics & Gov ...
  • RAISING AWARENESS ON POVERTY: Aussie takes 1 ...
    With the Live Below the Line poverty challenge beginning on Monday, Australian beach-volleyballer Johannah Rohkämper has signed up from Sweden and plans to raise money for charity by living off just 15 kronor a day but with soaring food costs in Stock Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Society &amp ...
  • Romney's Biggest Fib?
    Under Obama, the GOP candidate says, government will "control half the economy." Economic experts rate this scare tactic somewhere between "ridiculous" and "stupid." Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Taiwan: Form a Separate Animal Protections Age ...
    Please sign the petition to support Taipei animal rights activists in their mission to create an independent agency devoted to animal protection in Taiwan. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Yes Democrats, The Economy is Tanking
    Like the Titanic as it settled beneath the waves, the U.S. economy is underwater and headed for the bottom again. The jobs report today was not just “bad,” it was alarming. Unlike previous reports, the media, both written and electronic, have caught on and realize that sunny praise s ...
  • If I were planning things… (sung to the tune o ...
    This is a portion of a discussion I had with a couple of friends… it went in an interesting direction. Lyle See Economy Watch here . * It’s been said many times that the banks have much to gain and nothing to lose by foreclosing. So it is easy to see why they are strongly [...]
  • Barky Makes Me Barfy
    I have learned the hard way to always have a barf bag handy when reading the news.  After hurling recent meals in spontaneous reaction to reading about the glories of Super-O, I now know that having a sturdy disposable bag at the ready saves on some serious cleaning bills.  It has only moderatel ...
  • CNN’s Cooper Criticizes MoveOn.org’s Attacks o ...
    It was Cooper’s top story, and the evening’s KTH (Keeping Them Honest) critique. KTH: Are Republicans waging a war on women? “MoveOn.org insists House Republicans want to keep student loan rates low by waging war on women’s health. Keeping Them Honest, Anderson Cooper dig ...
  • Romney on Chinese Dissident Situation [Photo/N ...
    Far be it for me to have an insider’s knowledge. However. My gut reaction to the MSM version of events is that Chen Guangcheng, who’d endured 18 months of house arrest, beatings and more ordeals, injured his leg enroute to the U.S. embassy: He was NOT in good shape physically or ment ...

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • Lawsuit filed against Virginia-based A&G Coal ...
    Lawsuit filed against Virginia-based A&G Coal Co. over environmental issues TriCities.com ... for coal mines across Appalachia,” according to a written statement from the groups, “but [this] lawsuit represents the first such action to protect rivers and streams in Virginia from this harmful ...
  • BMFI Hosts First Tri-Co Film Festival - Patch.com
    BMFI Hosts First Tri-Co Film Festival Patch.com ... an impressionistic look back at a relationship directed by Swarthmore's Tayarisha Poe, to “Marchers on Blair Mountain” a documentary directed by Zein Nakhoda about a march organized to protect a West Virginia mountain from Mountain Top Remo ...
  • Protesters block train at Duke plant - Charlot ...
    Greenpeace International (blog) Protesters block train at Duke plant Charlotte Observer The train is carrying coal extracted from the mountains of Appalachia using the most destructive form of mining, mountain top removal. Mountaintop removal coal will be burned at the Marshall coal plant, sold ...
  • Here's some of the bills Tenn. lawmakers kille ...
    Here's some of the bills Tenn. lawmakers killed in 2012 session Kingsport Times News MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL: Banning mountaintop removal coal mining in Tennessee. SB0577. NURSES ASSAULT: Increasing penalties for assaults on health care workers . SB2658. ORAL CHEMOTHERAPY: Requiring insurers to ...
  • Gail Ewing: Offshore wind energy epitaph - Gaz ...
    Gail Ewing: Offshore wind energy epitaph Gazette.Net: Maryland Community News Online I put it in the same category as mountaintop removal for coal extraction. While I understand we all want and need the energy, the messing up of nature is counterintuitive. Why in the world should we infect the b ...

Memeorandum

  • Investigation, Lawsuit Expose Barbaric Conditi ...
    Booth Gunter / Investigation, Lawsuit Expose Barbaric Conditions …: Investigation, Lawsuit Expose Barbaric Conditions at For-Profit Youth Prison in Mississippi  —  Michael McIntosh couldn't believe what he was hearing.  He had come to visit his son at the Walnut Grov ...
  • Liz Cheney eyes the political stage (Jonathan ...
    Jonathan Martin / Politico: Liz Cheney eyes the political stage  —  Liz Cheney has been making the rounds at Wyoming political events this spring and her desire to move back to the state has Republicans from Cheyenne to Washington buzzing about a potential future campaign.  ...
  • The Life of Zachary - Imagining how the next g ...
    Nicole Gelinas / City Journal: The Life of Zachary  —  Imagining how the next generation will fare in the Obama administration's scenario  —  The Obama reelection campaign has created a fictional character, “Julia,” whose starring role in an online sl ...
  • Can Democrats retake the House in November? (R ...
    Rep. Tim Griffin / Politico: Can Democrats retake the House in November?  —  Interviewed by POLITICO's Andrea Drusch  —  We have to do the fundamentals: get the message out, raise money and organize at a grassroots level.  Assuming that we execute on all of ...
  • Former AG Michael Mukasey: Obama Officials Dra ...
    Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit: Former AG Michael Mukasey: Obama Officials Drafted Memo to Blame Military If OBL Mission Failed (Video)  —  Leadership: Obama Administration Drafted Memo to Blame Military if OBL Mission Failed  —  Former Attorney General Michael Mu ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

China Dialogue

  • Meat off menu for China’s Olympians
    Athletes are struggling to source safe pork and beef as fears grow over the impact of additives on doping test results. Jiang Xinjie, Zhang Luyan and Wang Jingyi report on China's latest food crisis.You might not expect a meat shortage to top the list of concerns at the Jiangsu Sports Bureau&rsq ...
  • Out of the coop
    Across America, cities are reversing laws against raising chickens, allowing covert hen-keepers to come clean and a new wave of backyard farming to begin. Jill Richardson reports.Adam Hiner is getting his chickens back. So is Philip Dunn. Both had been keeping the animals illegally in San Diego, ...
  • China’s big spend on green power
    As it aims to reduce fossil-fuel use, the country is investing heavily in wind and solar energy. Gansu province, once known for dirty mines and oil wells, is being revitalised, reports Jonathan Watts.The remote, wind-blasted desert of north-western Gansu could be the most unloved, environmentall ...
  • America’s new green financier
    Chinese investment in US clean energy is still small, but its growth could benefit both business and politics, write Linden J Ellis, Jennifer Turner and Devin Kleinfield-Hayes.The seven bilateral clean-energy agreements signed by Hu Jintao and Barack Obama in the autumn of 2009 focused on renewa ...
  • Qingdao’s new heroine
    An entertainment reporter in the Chinese coastal city has leapt to national fame after probing officials over a murky tree-planting programme. Chen Qian’er met her.Chinese civil society has a new golden girl. Pan Qi, 27, has made a name for herself in her home city of Qingdao – and b ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Armchair Warriors: Why Are Conservatives the B ...
    Conservatives in government have fetishized violence. Why?
  • #OpCannabis: Anonymous Hackers Take Up Marijua ...
    Hacktivist Anonymous began the "OpCannabis" to throw the collective's weight behind drug reform.
  • KONY 2012 Effort: “Crucial” Cash C ...
    “A-1 Self Storage was one of the original donors who helped the founders of Invisible Children travel to Uganda and make the documentary Invisible Children: The Rough Cut which led to the creation of Invisible Children, Inc the 510 C 3 non-profit organization… The contributions of A- ...
  • At Wits’ End: One Woman’s Story Hi ...
    Written by Andrea Grimes for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. The Medicaid Women’s Health Program in Texas was working wonderfully for Christina LuQuis and her family until January of this ...
  • Is Invisible Children/Kony 2012 Intentionally ...
    Invisible Children has an extensive history of funding and promotion by anti-gay rights entities. In light of this, the competition of the Kony 2012 events with the Day of Silence on April 20 may be more than just a coincidence. The annual Day of Silence,initiated in 1996, has been observed in ...

Threat Level

  • Everyone Has Been Hacked. Now What?
    Hackers are everywhere and everyone has been hacked. So what's a company to do?
  • Sanctions, Legal Fees Piling Up for Man Claimi ...
    The man who is claiming a 50 percent stake in Facebook was ordered Thursday to pay the social-networking site's attorneys an additional $16,851, bringing to nearly $97,000 in sanctions and fees a federal judge has levied against Paul Ceglia in a bizarre lawsuit over the company's origins.
  • 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.
  • MI6 Codebreaker Attended U.S. Security Confere ...
    A top British codebreaker who died a mysterious death in his flat two years ago had just returned from attending a hacker conference in the U.S. prior to his demise, according to information disclosed during an inquest this week.
  • Feds Seized Hip-Hop Site for a Year, Waiting F ...
    Federal authorities seized a popular hip-hop music site based on the assertions from the Recording Industry Association of America that it was linking to four "pre-release" music tracks, and gave it back more than a year later without filing civil or criminal charges because of apparent recordin ...

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • Salmonella Paratyphi B Found in Smiling Hara T ...
    The Buncombe County Department of Health received additional test results from the North Carolina Department of Public Health laboratory confirming that the bacteria found in the tempeh is a match to the Salmonella Paratyphi B that is making people sick in the current disease outbreak. Health of ...
  • Retail Pathogen Testing Works - How Random Tes ...
    Diamond Pet Foods still has some unanswered questions. The CDC announced yesterday that a total of 14 individuals infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Infantis have been reported from 9 states. The number of ill persons identified in each state is as follows: Alabama (1), Connecticut ...
  • Diamond Pet Food Linked to Salmonella Human Il ...
    14 Ill with Salmonella Infantis Linked to Diamond Pet Food The CDC reports a total of 14 individuals infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Infantis have been reported from 9 states. The number of ill persons identified in each state is as follows: Alabama (1), Connecticut (1 ...
  • Attila Lead Singer Sickened by Salmonella Sush ...
    And, yes, they were on the Sick Tour. According to the complaint (#cv-00794) filed in Oregon Federal District Court today, Chris Fronzak, lead singer for the heavy metal band Attila, consumed a spicy tuna roll containing Nakaochi Scrape at a Metairie, Louisiana restaurant while his band was on ...
  • CNN: Listeria Cantaloupe - "Most of these peop ...
    "Listeria is a really a nasty bug," said Marler. "Listeria gets into the bloodstream and it causes enormous problems. Most of these people who died, died very, very painful deaths. They had neurological symptoms, physiological symptoms, they suffered lots of pain, and in some cases it was like l ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Report: New CAFE rules and a stagnant gas tax ...
    Filed under: Government/Legal, Earnings/Financials Oh, the gas tax, always a contentious issue. We've covered it throughout the years but now the Congressional Budget Office is reminding us that the time has come to move well beyond simple discussion and politics: the Highway Trust Fund is no ...
  • Official: Toyota Prius plug-in sells 1,654 cop ...
    Filed under: Car Buying, Hybrid, Hatchback, Toyota, Electric The Toyota Prius, the most popular hybrid in the world, was also the most popular plug-in vehicle in U.S. last month. Compared to sales of the Chevrolet Volt and the Nissan Leaf, which sold 1,462 and 370 units, respectively, the ...
  • Official: 'All new' Toyota RAV4 EV coming to E ...
    There could not be a more bland teaser for the upcoming all-electric "all new" Toyota RAV4 EV than the one Toyota just released: silver sheetmetal with a badge that simply reads "Electric." To see the rest of the vehicle, we will have to wait until the Electric Vehicle Symposium (EVS) gets st ...
  • Report: Toyota looking for high-volume Prius a ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Plants/Manufacturing, Toyota Rumors that Toyota would some day build the Prius in the U.S. have bounced around for years, with a location in Mississippi often being cited as the most likely candidate. After that plan was officially scrapped in 2008, a new version of the s ...
  • Beijing: Toyota Dear Qin hatch, sedan foreshad ...
    Filed under: Concept Cars, Budget, Sedan, Hatchback, Toyota, Beijing Motor Show, Design/Style Details on the pair of Dear Qin concepts that Toyota unveiled at the Beijing Motor Show this week are sparse, but they do hint at something interesting coming to every market where the Japanese autom ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Letter Sent to Eric Holder Seeking Federal Pro ...
    Earlier today the attorneys for Kenneth Chamberlain’s family sent the following letter to Attorney General Eric Holder seeking a federal probe into his death. To see our full coverage of Chamberlain case click here Holder Ltr 050412 Via Facsimile–May 4, 2012 The Honorable E ...
  • The Real Mad Men: Following the Money Behind T ...
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan May Day, Murdoch and the murder of Milly Dowler. What do they have to do with the 2012 U.S. general election? This year’s election will undoubtedly be the most expensive in U.S. history, with some projections topping $5 billion. Not only has the amount of s ...
  • The Real Mad Men: Following the Money Behind T ...
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan May Day, Murdoch and the murder of Milly Dowler. What do they have to do with the 2012 U.S. general election? This year’s election will undoubtedly be the most expensive in U.S. history, with some projections topping $5 billion. Not only has the amount ...
  • Democracy Now! Interviews the (Tax) Dodgers: G ...
    At the May Day rally in New York City’s Union Square, Amy Goodman bumped into the Tax Dodgers — a baseball team on which all of the players share the same number: 1 percent. ALEC DICKMAN , TAX DODGER : We’re a baseball team, and we go to bat for the 1 percent, not t ...
  • Democracy Now! Interviews the (Tax) Dodgers: G ...
    At the May Day rally in New York City’s Union Square, Amy Goodman bumped into the Tax Dodgers — a baseball team on which all of the players share the same number: 1 percent. ALEC DICKMAN , TAX DODGER : We’re a baseball team, and we go to bat for the 1 percent, not th ...

Suzie-Q

  • The Endless Arrogance of Wall Street
    The American Prospect Jamelle Bouie May 2, 2012 The super wealthy apparently believe that they deserve constant deference. Greg Sargent is rightfully stunned by the entitled petulance of Wall Street bankers who are shocked—shocked—that President Obama would do anything other than praise their in ...
  • Obama’s Speech In Afghanistan – May 1, 2 ...
    The New York Times Published: May 1, 2012 Good evening from Bagram Air Base. This outpost is more than seven thousand miles from home, but for over a decade it has been close to our hearts. Because here, in Afghanistan, more than half a million of our sons and daughters have sacrificed to protec ...
  • How ‘Obamacare’ Is Saving Seniors Billions On Meds
    TPM Sahil Kapur May 1, 2012, 6:16 AM In the first two years after “Obamacare” was signed, Medicare reforms in the law saved seniors a total of $3.4 billion in prescription drug costs by bridging a coverage gap, according to official figures.Over 220,000 beneficiaries have saved an average of $83 ...
  • Swiss Bank Account (VIDEO)
    Published on May 1, 2012 by BarackObamadotcom Are you in? https://my.barackobama.com/swissbankad “Swiss Bank Account” highlights Mitt Romney’s belief that a strong economy is built on outsourcing, loopholes and risky financial deals. As a corporate CEO, he shipped American jobs ...
  • Has Team Romney Forgotten That The Bush Years ...
    TheWashingtonPost Posted by Ezra Klein at 09:09 AM ET, 05/01/2012 There’s not much in politics that allows me to say, “I’m old enough to remember when.” But here’s one: I’m old enough to remember when George W. Bush was president. It was, after all, only four short years ago. And it didn’t go so ...

Solari

  • The Super Moon of May 2012
    YouTube (9 March 12) Related reading: Supermoon From Wikipedia
  • Griefwalker
    “Not success.  Not growth.  Not happiness. The cradle of your love of life is death.” -Stephen Jenkinson   YouTube Continue reading the article . . .
  • Robot to Help Autistic Children Learn
      By Stephanie Baum A company has developed a robot to help autistic children learn social reference skills and is raising $1.25 million to produce more in a beta production run. The Popchilla robot conveys emotions such as anger, happiness and sadness as its ears and eye color changes ac ...
  • ZKB Boss Says Any U.S. Indictment Would Not Fe ...
    By Katharina Bart An indictment of Zuercher Kantonalbank by U.S. officials in an ongoing tax probe would not mean the state-backed bank’s demise, Chief Executive Martin Scholl said in an interview with Sunday’s edition of Sonntagszeitung. Scholl told the newspaper that the bank was ...
  • The Fate of the Eurozone Hangs on Sunday&#8217 ...
    By Martin Hutchinson It now looks as though Nicolas Sarkozy’s days are numbered. In the balance lies the fate of the Eurozone itself. It appears Socialist Francois Hollande will win the French election runoff on Sunday and that June’s legislative elections will give the Socialists ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Should we despair, giving up on America?
    Summary:  On this Sunday we’ll interrupt the FM website’s flow of information, insight, and exhortation for something different.  A moment of reflection on America, where we are and where we’re going.  The situation looks bleak, so it’s time to consult the pros. It’ ...
  • About the April jobs report – no new job ...
    Summary:  Most people focus on the month-to-month changes in the jobs report, which consists mostly of noise.  The year-to-date and 12-month changes are more revealing.  We remain in a slow recovery, somewhat faster than in 2010.  But it might be slowing!   We should enjoy it, as it was bought a ...
  • Pepe Escobar looks at the future, as we build ...
    Summary:  By now most people see that the world is changing, as the post-WWII era passes away. The only large group remaining blind to this: the American people. Here Pepe Escobar looks at today’s trends and extrapolates them into the future. America is at war, but with whom? Perhaps we&#8 ...
  • Are we following in the footsteps of Athens? ...
    Summary:  America can develop a sounds grand strategy, if only we clearly see the path we’re now on.  Perhaps an analogy from history can help. ‘What’s the point of having this superb military that you’re always talking about if we can’t use it? — Secretary of ...
  • Are we following in the footsteps of Athens? ...
    Summary:  America can develop a sounds grand strategy, if only we clearly see the path we’re now on.  Perhaps an analogy from history can help. ‘What’s the point of having this superb military that you’re always talking about if we can’t use it? — Secretary of ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

  • Former IDF Intelligence Head: Attacking Iran M ...
    Shlomo Gazit A growing number of current and former Israeli officials are voicing concern that attacking Iran may prove counterproductive in deterring Iran from pursuing a nuclear weapon. Last week, former Israeli internal security chief Yuval Diskin warned that attacking Iran may “encour ...
  • This Week In Threat-Mongering
    This has been a particularly busy week for the threat-mongering industry. It's the anniversary of the death of Osama bin Laden, which puts enormous pressure on threat mongers everywhere to inflate the potential threats from al Qaeda and jihadist terror groups in general. Last week we saw Seth ...
  • You Might Have Missed: Drones, Preterm Births ...
    AFP, “U.S.-Afghan Pact ‘Does Not Rule Out Drone Strikes,’” May 3, 2012. The pact between the United States and Afghanistan could leave the door open for continued drone strikes against insurgent targets in Pakistan after 2014, U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker indicated Wednesday. “There is not ...
  • Romney Adviser: Al Qaeda Is Stronger after Bin ...
    The past year has, according to most reputable sources, brought a series of setbacks for al Qaeda. While al Qaeda continues to pose a threat, the killing of Osama bin Laden and other top al Qeada leaders has severely diminished the network’s reach and its ability to stage attacks against t ...
  • Iran and al-Qaeda: More Enemies Than Allies
    Newly released correspondence from Osama bin Laden’s hideout in Pakistan contradicts US assertions that al-Qaeda has a close relationship with Iran. According to a US analysis of letters found in the Abbottabad compound when US Special Forces killed bin Laden a year ago, “the rel ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Motives, Principles, and Political Leadership
    Paul Waldman's post about the uselessness of motives in evaluating politicians reminds me of a question a student asked me this week when assessing the Johnson administration. To paraphrase, my student said that his impression was that while LBJ may have signed two important civil rights bills, ...
  • A Sad Day for Our Democracy
    Thanks to a sluggish economy, and restrictive voter identification laws from Republican lawmakers, voter registration is down for the first time in years. In particular, registration among African Americans and Latinos has taken a plunge: Together, the number of registered blacks and Hispanics ...
  • The Problem of Motive Questioning
    The questioning of motives is one of the most common and most pernicious of rhetorical habits in political debate. It's pernicious because it encourages people to conclude not that your opponents are wrong about whatever matter it is we're discussing, but that they're bad people. When you quest ...
  • Fear of a Black Polity
    Once the general election kicked into gear, and it was clear that Barack Obama would have the overwhelming support of African American voters, a meme picked up among some white voters. “They’re only voting for him because he’s black.” This, of course, was at odds with the facts. Black voters we ...
  • Friday Music Break
    Since Tuesday was May Day, I thought I'd give you a little Billy Bragg, with "World Turned Upside Down" from 1985. It sounds like he's singing about Occupy Wall Street, but the song is actually about a seventeenth-century agrarian socialist movement in England, which I'm guessing wasn't embrace ...

Buzzflash

  • In the State Trayvon Martin Was Shot In, GOP C ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Some days you wake up, rub the sleep dust out of your eyes, fire up the computer, and are convinced that you are reading "The Onion" instead of a mainstream corporate news site. That's the only response to an ABC News online headline, "Water Guns Bann ...
  • Words Matter: Why Go Right When the Right is W ...
    STEVEN JONAS, MD, MPH FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Central to the Presidential election are the issues of the role of the Federal government in our society and what should be the future of such Federal government programs as Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Central also is what the role of ...
  • A Party Osama bin Laden Could Posthomously Lov ...
    STEPHEN PIZZO FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT How rich is this? The GOP is all upset that Obama is "politicizing the killing of bin Laden." This from the party that spent almost seven years politicizing the 9/11 attacks that killed 3000 on American soil and then politicizing terrorism -- real and imag ...
  • Taking on the Banks and Preserving an Independ ...
    MARK VORPAHL FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT At the annual Wells Fargo Shareholders' meeting in San Francisco on Tuesday April 24, 2012, at least 150 "shareholders" were denied their lawful right to attend by means of the use of police force and barricades. True, none of them were big shareholders and ...
  • Teens Toking Marijuana on the Rise: Days of Pr ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Despite the vast lobbying force arrayed against the legalization of marijuana (as detailed in an article posted on Truthout.org), the days of wasting resources arresting and imprisoning pot smokers are numbered.read more

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • You really don’t know how to dry your hands pr ...
    In “rest rooms” everywhere there are millions of people trying to dry their hands, assuming they washed them after using the facilities. Most of them will grab 3, 4, maybe half a dozen squares of paper towel, assuming there isn’t an “hot” air electric dryer (that&#8 ...
  • How to become a medical writer
    I get a lot of emails from people hoping to break into the field of science writing (and medical and technical writing in general), whether as a journalist or in science communication. Often they’re fresh from university, or just writing up, and like me, didn’t fancy staying in the l ...
  • Mimicking mussels
    UV and NMR spectroscopy have been used to characterise a novel adhesive that functions in marine environments by mimicking the notoriously strong, natural glue used by mussels to cling to rocks and ships’ hulls. via Making unstickable adhesives: Mussel power – Ezine – spectrosc ...
  • 94 elemental takes on the human condition
    A short film that reveals the human stories behind the chemical elements and exposes the allegedly startling rate at which we are consuming these substances. Thanks to Joerg Heber for alerting me to a feature on this video in The Guardian. Related Posts:Kinect could help phantom limb pain A phan ...
  • This week’s Alchemist
    This week, The Alchemist takes another look at an old friend, aspirin, that most venerable of pharmaceuticals. He also sheds light on catalysts and a silicon version of the carbon allotrope graphene. In the physical arena, splitting the electron is on the cards and a DNA triple helix comes to th ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • The World “Connects the Dots” Between Extreme ...
    Striking images and video are streaming in from over 1,000 events in more than 100 countries where people are “connecting the dots” between climate change and extreme weather. The events are part of a global effort called “Climate Impacts Day” organized by the internation ...
  • List of ALEC Corporate Members Released
    The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has long been a secretive organization that does not disclose a full list of its corporate members and donors. Today, Common Cause and the Center for Media Democracy are posting the most up-to-date list of corporate members available, based on do ...
  • Jobs Numbers Underscore Why Pending Budget Vot ...
    The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released jobs numbers today revealing the nation's unemployment rate slightly declined to 8.1 percent in April and employers added 115,000 jobs. Following is a statement by SEIU President Mary Kay Henry.read more
  • BLM Proposal to Reduce Risks to Ground Water f ...
    The Bureau of Land Management today issued draft safeguards to reduce the risks to groundwater from hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) of oil and gas wells.  These new safeguards, once finalized, will apply to leasing of federal oil and gas reserves beneath BLM land, nationa ...
  • TransCanada Moves to Steamroll Application for ...
    The State Department today confirmed that Canadian pipeline firm TransCanada has submitted its re-application to the department for the transboundary, northern leg of the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline from Alberta, Canada to Steele City, Nebraska. Along its path, the pipeline would still cu ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Standing Up for the Planet and the Future
    Stephen Leahy What are you doing on Saturday? Peter Nix, a retiree, will be standing on a railway track on Canada's west coast blocking a coal train destined to ship U.S. and Canadian coal to Asia.High school students in Texas connectin ...
  • Walking to NATO Protest in Chicago
    Rebecca Kemble On Tuesday, six people set off from the state capitol in Madison, WI, on a 170-mile walk to Chicago to protest the NATO summit scheduled for May 20.read more
  • Social Security Is Not Going Broke
    David Cay Johnston Which federal program took in more than it spent last year, added $95 billion to its surplus and lifted 20 million Americans of all ages out of poverty? Why, Social Security, of course, which ended 2011 with a $2.7 trilli ...
  • The Jobs Stall Has Arrived
    Robert Reich The economy has stalled. Friday’s jobs report for April was even more disappointing than March. Employers added only 115,000 new jobs, down from March’s number (the Bureau of Labor Statistics revised the March numbe ...
  • End Student Debt!
    The student loan crisis finally reached center stage in Washington after the House GOP budget called for letting interest rates double on government-subsidized loans (and for deep cuts in Pell grants and other student support). If it passes, students who borrow the maximum will end up paying as ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

  • Three-Judge Panel Lifts Republican Judge&#8217 ...
    Earlier this week, Republican Fifth Circuit Judge Jerry Smith issued an unusual single-judge order staying another judge’s decision suspending a Texas law that cuts off funding for Planned Parenthood. Today, a three-judge panel of the same court, which includes Judge Smith, lifted Smith&#8 ...
  • Colorado House Finance Committee Advances Civi ...
    This afternoon, the Colorado House Finance Committee voted to pass the Civil Unions Act with a 7-6 vote. It now proceeds to the House Appropriations Committee, which must approve it in time to advance it to a full floor vote by Tuesday. The Republican leadership could still stall the bill so tha ...
  • Bryan Fischer: How Is Romney ‘Going To S ...
    American Family Association spokesman Bryan Fischer led the right-wing charge against Mitt Romney’s ousted foreign policy spokesman Ric Grennell, lambasting the presumed GOP nominee for hiring the openly-gay aide. When Grennell resigned under pressure from social conservatives this week, F ...
  • Bush SCOTUS Runner-Up Warns Conservative Lawye ...
    Fourth Circuit Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson, one of President George W. Bush’s five finalists for the Supreme Court seat that eventually went to Chief Justice Roberts, has emerged as one of the most outspoken conservative opponents of efforts to toss out the nearly 200 years of precedent esta ...
  • Protesters At Ryan Town Hall Slam His ‘S ...
    A small group of protesters gathered to protest the “shameful” budget authored by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) outside a town hall in Racine, Wisconsin this morning. About 10 protesters stood outside the townhall, where one of Ryan’s constituents, Kelly Gall ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • harpercon Usurpers Shit on Democracy Again
    I have no intention of accepting this illegitimate regime. This is the summer of discontent. But how long will the opposition MPs validate this garbage with their participation? OTTAWA - The Harper Conservatives are curbing debate on their massive budget implementation bill.The Tory majority has ...
  • One Year Anniversary of harper's Majority
    Just because the sky is still blue and harper's signature hasn't been found on a memo ordering the physical extermination of the First Nations, it doesn't mean he's been transformed into a respectable politician. It's very simple: Parliament is the place where we, the people of Canada, are said ...
  • A Few Things to Remember
    With regards to Iraq, the US-supported dictatorship of Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with 9-11, 2001. It did not possess WMDs. And democracy did not bust out all over and help usher in the "Arab Spring." It was a disaster, built on lies, and over a million people were killed and millions more ...
  • Hegemony ... it's the little things
    It's in this otherwise fine Toronto Star article about Vogue Magazine scrubbing their embarrassing gushing profile of Syrian mass-murderer Assad's wife:The 3,200-word article apparently proved so embarrassing to the magazine that it scrubbed it from its website, an almost unheard-of step for a ...
  • The Constitution of the United States of America
    Do you want to know what's really pathetic? Understand, Canada's Constitution and Charter of Rights and Freedoms is apparently a popular model for other countries when they write their constitutions. This is because it contains many positive freedoms. The United States Constitution, on the othe ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Will missing kids be discussed when Polish PM ...
    On May 12 Polish Prime Minister, Mr. Donald Tusk will arrive in Canada for the first time. Families with missing children located in Poland are hoping that Prime Minister Stephen Harper will work on their behalf with Tusk while he's in Ottawa.
  • The NBA should take notes from the NHL
    Although the NHL is still less popular than the NBA in North America, the NHL does a better job at structuring their league.
  • N. America's radiation threat another mainstre ...
    May 4, 2012 Odd that neither the Canadian, nor the American mainstream news, or any government agencies are speaking about the radiation that continues to flow into North America by way of the jet stream.
  • Race Card — CBC's Evan Solomon insults minorit ...
    CBC-TV's Evan Solomon explores the question: "Conrad Black can come back, what about Gary Freeman?" In the process, Mr. Solomon links the Gary Freeman case to the use of the so-called "race card".
  • NHL: Torres appeals 25 game suspension for Mar ...
    The National Hockey Leagues' Player's Assoc. (NHLPA) filed an appeal on behalf of Raffi Torres for his 25 game suspension for a round 1 hit on Chicago Blackhawks forward Marian Hossa. The NHLPA filed the appeal for the Phoenix Coyote forward May 3.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Cluster’s last stand
    The Harper government has introduced legislation that will have the effect of gutting Canadian support for the 2008 treaty banning cluster bombs.
  • “Small” nuclear war = global famine
    Even a "small" nuclear war involving 100 nuclear weapons could produce climate effects severe enough to threaten global famine, warns a new report by International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War and Physicians for Social Responsibility.
  • Troops to stay in Afghanistan past 2014?
    Prime Minister Harper has refused to rule out keeping Canadian special operations forces in Afghanistan past the scheduled 2014 end of the Canadian mission.
  • Former Air Force CF-18 Fleet Manager Opposed t ...
    “As an aerospace engineer and former manager of Canada’s fleet of CF-18s, when I see the term ‘development’ used in the F-35 procurement, I know the government is facing significant performance risks, headaches and much higher costs than anticipated,” said Colonel Paul Maillet (ret.)
  • Russia: Don’t leave Afghanistan!
    Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has criticized NATO's plan to withdraw from Afghanistan by 2014.

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Extraterrestrial Life In Martian Lava Tubes?
    April 10, 2012 Open Minds By Jason McClellan “If you think Mars is a dead planet, think again.” –KTRN Photos taken by the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Mars Express spacecraft reveal rows of “pit-chains” lining the sides of volcanoes in the red planet’s Tharsis region. These pi ...
  • Superfoods and Their Health Benefits
    April 11, 2012 Food Matters By Food Matters “Eat superfoods – your body will love it.” –KTRN Superfoods are a special category of foods found in nature. By definition they are calorie sparse and nutrient dense meaning they pack a lot of punch for their weight as far as go ...
  • DHS Hires Hackers To Crack Video Game Consoles
    April 11, 2012 RT By RT “Next time you’re playing Call of Duty, the DHS might be listening.” –KTRN The US Department of Homeland Security might soon take the “joy” out of “joystick.” The country’s top counterterrorism unit has awarded a California company $177,235 to hack ...
  • American Enterprise In Gulf: Second Aircraft C ...
    April 11, 2012 RT By RT “It looks like war with Iran is inevitable. How sad.” –KTRN The USS Enterprise has been sent to the Persian Gulf, the US Navy said Monday as tensions rise over Iran’s nuclear program. It will be the fourth time in the last decade the US has had two aircr ...
  • Fast Food Chains In Cafeterias Put Hospitals I ...
    April 11, 2012 NPR By Elana Gordon “Before hospitals signed year long deals with fast food chains, why didn’t they realize then just how bad it would make them look? Or maybe they don’t care since they’re making money on the deal.” –KTRN On one side of a wall ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • We Need to Calm Down! It’s Information Overload
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comBy Tom ValentineFriday, May 4th, 2012 by Tom Valentine   The rant by Gordon Duff May 3, cobbled together most of the standard objections to institutional religion during the previous 18 centuries and surely did what ...
  • Watch live: News conference with Khalid Sheikh ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comVisit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy […]‘>Watch live: News conference with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s lawyers Exploding hydrogen balloons at Armenian political rally inj ...
  • Charlie Munger: “Gold Is For Pre-Holocaust Jew ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comZero Hedge Friday, May 4, 2012 While Becky Quick’s CNBC interview with the Charlie Munger has a little for everyone to love and hate (from Keynesian-doctrine to easy-living-Greeks and Bad-trading-robots), Buffett&# ...
  • TSA Reveals Passenger Complaints … Four Years ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comMichael Grabell ProPublica Friday, May 4, 2012 From intrusive pat-downs to body scans to perceived profiling, the Transportation Security Administration always seems to be the target of complaints. Here’s another o ...
  • Want peace? Arrests of US War Criminals legal, ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comWant peace? Arrests of US War Criminals legal, ethical best move By Carl Hermanwashingtonsblog.com US war law is crystal-clear in letter and intent: no nation can use their military in armed attack unless they are under ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Chris Hedges’ talk May Day at OWS: Overt ...
    with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad May 3, 2012 May 3, 2012 by yahshay Pulitzer Price winner Chris Hedges spoke on why the Occupy Movement is so important. PART 1 MAY DAY 2012 with CHRIS HEDGES * He gave reasons why they want to shut the Occupy Movement down. see May Day Protests A ...
  • Chris Hedges’ talk May Day at OWS: Overt ...
    with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad May 3, 2012 May 3, 2012 by yahshay Pulitzer Price winner Chris Hedges spoke on why the Occupy Movement is so important. PART 1 MAY DAY 2012 with CHRIS HEDGES * He gave reasons why they want to shut the Occupy Movement down. see May Day Protests A ...
  • U.S.-Afghan Pact Won’t End War – Or SOF ...
    by Gareth Porter Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted at ISP May 2, 2012 WASHINGTON, May 2, 2012 (IPS) – The optics surrounding the Barack Obama administration’s “Enduring Strategic Partnership” agreement with Afghanistan and the Memorandums of Understanding accomp ...
  • U.S.-Afghan Pact Won’t End War – Or SOF ...
    by Gareth Porter Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted at ISP May 2, 2012 WASHINGTON, May 2, 2012 (IPS) – The optics surrounding the Barack Obama administration’s “Enduring Strategic Partnership” agreement with Afghanistan and the Memorandums of Understanding accomp ...
  • NATO To Announce Activation Of European Missil ...
    Updated: added 2 videos by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO May 3, 2012 On April 30 the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen informed the Associated Press that the military bloc he leads will announce initial operational capability for ...

Your New Reality

  • No title
    Tupac Rises Well, fuck me.... From even a few dozen rows back, reportedly, the hologram of Tupac was utterly believable. How long before a Michael Jackson hologram culled from his greatest live performances is touring the world's stadiums? I've been waiting decades to see holographic tech ...
  • No title
    Hypnotic, grin-making. A house filled with interactive reproductions of classic art, coming soon: Starry Night (interactive animation) from Petros Vrellis on Vimeo.
  • No title
    Normal blogging output will return soon. Making some movies. In the meantime, enjoy :
  • No title
    Best. Christmas. Ever A Short Story By Darryl Mason "Is your father okay?" He waited for her to answer. He couldn't tell her what happened while she was away... "He's not getting better, if that's what you mean." How could he tell her, right now? She had more than enough on her mind alread ...
  • No title
    Britain Embraces Apocalyptic Doom It's grim, and getting grimmer, but as this UK Guardian story by Andy Beckett reveals Brits can't get enough of the end of the world : A sense of doom dominates recent films such as Melancholia, in which a vast unknown planet suddenly appears from behind the su ...

Wired - Science

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Amira Hass: For Israel, punishing Palestinians ...
    Israelis are not satisfied with the various measures to worsen [Palestinian] prison conditions. When it comes to Palestinians, punishment is not enough. Prison must also be never-ending revenge that... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • Gilbert Achcar: Never again
    In the name of ["Never again to us, the Jews"], they end up denying the humanity of the victims of Israel, the purported "State of the Jews", just as most oppressors throughout history have denied... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
  • IDF closes probe into Israeli air strike that ...
    Military prosecution says will take no legal steps against those responsible for deaths of Samouni family, killed in their home during Operation Cast Lead. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA w ...
  • Israeli left wing activists held indoors by po ...
    Members of the left wing organization Zochrot were attempting to distribute flyers containing the names of Palestinian villages that were evacuated or destroyed in 1948, when they were held indoors... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • East Jerusalem man, denied residency by Israel ...
    Amir Salima, 21, from the Old City of Jerusalem, has no legal status - not in Israel, not in the Palestinian Authority and not anywhere else. He has no identity card, no passport, he cannot register... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...

Ria Novosti - Military

  • Russian Plans New Aerospace University
    Russia is planning a new aerospace university to produce a new generation of professionals for the aviation and space industries, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Saturday.
  • 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
  • Russia to Set Up Military Maintenance Centers ...
    Russia is planning to establish maintenance centers for Russian arms and military equipment in service with the Kazakh Armed Forces in Kazakhstan, the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation said on Friday.
  • Iran, Pakistan, N. Korea May Pose Nuclear Thre ...
    A nuclear-armed Iran, Pakistan and North Korea could potentially trigger regional chain reactions that ultimately threaten Russia's security, the former director of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service, Vyacheslav Trubnikov, said.
  • Russia Offers Pyramid Radar for Missile Defense
    Russia could offer use of its massive Don-2NP radar system near Moscow as part of an agreement with NATO on a European missile defense plan to counter medium and long-range missiles, Russia's Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov said on Friday.

NewsWise

  • Higher Risk of Birth Defects From Assisted Rep ...
    A University of Adelaide study has identified the risk of major birth defects associated with different types of assisted reproductive technology.
  • UI Professor Identifies Largest Known Crocodile
    University of Iowa researcher Chris Brochu's paper on the discovery of a new crocodile species was just published in the May 3 issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
  • Scientists Measure Communication Between Stem ...
    In an effort to identify the underlying causes of neurological disorders that impair motor functions such as walking and breathing, UCLA researchers have developed a novel system to measure the communication between stem cell-derived motor neurons and muscle cells in a Petri dish.
  • New Technique Could Identify Drugs That Help F ...
    Results of a new study demonstrate the feasibility of a novel strategy in drug discovery: screening large numbers of existing drugs -- often already approved for other uses -- to see which ones activate genes that boost natural immunity.
  • Spring 2012 Commencement: Pomp, Circumstance ...
    The hundreds of students who will don the cap and gown for commencement bring varied experiences, struggles and interests to this important milestone.

Natural Health News

  • The REAL Reason Why Antiperspirants Can Radica ...
    New research examining parabens found in cancerous human breast tissue points another finger at antiperspirants for increasing your risk of breast cancer. The study, published in the Journal of Applied Toxicology, looked at where breast tumors were appearing, and determined that higher concentra ...
  • This Nightly Activity Can Have a Profound Infl ...
    A new study of 1800 pairs of twins found that even if you’re genetically predisposed to being overweight, there is one easy thing you can do to put yourself in control of how much weight you gain. According to CNN, researchers found that genes accounted for 70 percent of the differences in body ...
  • New Study Shows How Ignorant Experts Are about ...
    The growing obesity epidemic among American children has sparked another, unexpected chronic illness that 15 years ago was nearly unheard of in children. Type 2 diabetes has always been an adult disease. But now the numbers of children diagnosed with type 2 diabetes are not only startling, but t ...
  • This Government Endorsed Supplement Found Link ...
    It’s no secret that cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death worldwide. But how many people realize that a common product almost everyone uses every day is linked to heart disease? In a new study published in the journal Nuclear Medicine Communications, researchers found that fluorid ...
  • Does Chewing Gum Make You Dumb?
    A new study on the effect chewing gum has on your memory suggests that it can impair your recall abilities and make it harder for you to remember items in a list. This is the first study of short-term memory to demonstrate that chewing gum impairs both item order and item identity. Earlier stud ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Weekend Roundup: April 28 – May 4, 2012
    by An Hertogen by An Hertogen This week on Opinio Juris, Chen Guangcheng’s escape to the US Embassy in Beijing did not go unnoticed. In a first post, Julian Ku discussed how Chen would not get political asylum at the Embassy. Peter Spiro followed up with his thoughts on diplomatic asylum. Afte ...
  • Is Missouri v. Holland on a Near-Term Collisio ...
    by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro Quite possibly.  Here’s the Third Circuit’s merits opinion in United States v. Bond, involving a conviction under the Chemical Weapons Convention Implementation Act of 1998.  The court upheld the conviction against a Tenth Amendment attack, this after ...
  • Is Missouri v. Holland on a Near-Term Collisio ...
    by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro Quite possibly.  Here’s the Third Circuit’s merits opinion in United States v. Bond, involving a conviction under the Chemical Weapons Convention Implementation Act of 1998.  The court upheld the conviction against a Tenth Amendment attack, this after ...
  • Ian Hurd on Law and Diplomacy
    by Peter Spiro Ian Hurd has a very interesting essay on law and international relations, "Law and the Practice of Diplomacy," which I'd strongly recommend to anyone with an IR/IL bent. It's maybe the only piece of IR theory that I've read that really seems to get the dynamic element of interna ...
  • Ian Hurd on Law and Diplomacy
    by Peter Spiro Ian Hurd has a very interesting essay on law and international relations, "Law and the Practice of Diplomacy," which I'd strongly recommend to anyone with an IR/IL bent. It's maybe the only piece of IR theory that I've read that really seems to get the dynamic element of interna ...

Public News Service

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

Center for Food Safety

  • USDA Receives Over 365,000 Public Comments Opp ...
    143 Farm, Fisheries, Public Health, Consumer, and Environmental Groups Send Secretary Vilsack Joint-Letter on Potential Threats to Human Health, American Farms  Public Comment Period Ends Friday, April 27 Over 140 groups and more than 365,000 citizens from across the country are urging the U.S. ...
  • California Cows Unhappy About Mad Cow Disease
    Once again mad cow disease (bovine spongiform encephalopathy [BSE]) has surfaced in the U.S.  This week the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) confirmed BSE in a California dairy cow.  USDA has taken the position that milk from BSE-infected cattle is safe for human consumption.  Dair ...
  • FDA Announces Antibiotic Reduction Plan
    3 YEAR PHASE-OUT A WIN FOR CONSUMERS, FOOD SAFETY ADVOCATES, AND MEDICAL COMMUNITY; CONTINUED OVERSIGHT NEEDED The Center for Food Safety (CFS) applauds the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today for issuing industry guidance limiting the use of antibiotics in food-producing animals.  Ant ...
  • USDA To Decide Imminently On Novel “Agen ...
    The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is currently deciding whether or not to approve an application by Dow Chemical for its controversial genetically engineered (GE) corn crop that is resistant to the highly toxic herbicide 2,4-D, one of the main ingredients in Agent Orange. On February 22n ...
  • New Scientific Research Strengthens Link Betwe ...
    Center for Food Safety Calls on Congress, EPA to Take Action Three new studies released in the past two weeks, including one today by Harvard University, add to the growing body of evidence that implicate pesticides, specifically neonicotinoids—a class of pesticides used as a seed treatment in c ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • 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 ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • This Day In History – May 5
    1494 – Christopher Columbus lands on the island of Jamaica and claims it for Spain. 1809 – Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a U.S. patent, for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread. 1818 – Karl Marx, German political philosopher (d. 1883), was born. 1862 – Cinco de Mayo: tro ...
  • Adam Yauch, Activist, aka: MCA of Beastie Boys ...
    NYC cancer? Got the Ramones etc…. track to Asbestos in rehearsal spaces and clubs in the 70s – 90s. Also Adam was a big FREE TIBET guy. This is not to be done in this China centric world…. We’ll  miss ya buddy! RIP May 4, 2012, 4:14 PM EST RollingStone.com Adam Yauch, one ...
  • Chicago Police State for NATO “Summit&#8 ...
    This will be added to a total citywide lock-down, complete with Military Choppers, snipers, biometric face scanning technology, and checkpoints. Welcome Oceania Army?   CHICAGO (CBS) – Some stations on the Metra Electric Line and South Shore Line could be shut down during the upcoming NATO ...
  • UCSD student’s 5-day ordeal in DEA jail ...
      LA TIMES Elected officials are demanding answers after Daniel Chong, a 23-year-old UC San Diego student, was left unattended for five days in a Drug Enforcement Administration detention cell. Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) called on U.S. Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. asking for an “i ...
  • We Interrupt This Broadcast . . .(Part 1)
    PT 1 – in part two Jack will Announce to the world, the new home for “The jack Blood Show” and other news you are not suppossed to know about….

The Air Vent

  • Sea Ice – Because I Promised
    This post is in fairness to the sea ice doom mongers. Some have written that sea ice is the Achilles heel of the non-alarmist. The implication is that the melting is unequivocal and absolutely destructive to the skeptic argument. I’m not an idiot, so why keep posting on sea ice? Because my ...
  • Sea Ice – Because I Promised
    This post is in fairness to the sea ice doom mongers. Some have written that sea ice is the Achilles heel of the non-alarmist. The implication is that the melting is unequivocal and absolutely destructive to the skeptic argument. I’m not an idiot, so why keep posting on sea ice? Because my ...
  • No Time Part XX
    I’m going to try and do something soon but I have no time to blog at all.    tAV still has quite a few readers who stop by every day so if anyone would like to contribute, send me a Word doc by email. Jeff  
  • No Time Part XX
    I’m going to try and do something soon but I have no time to blog at all.    tAV still has quite a few readers who stop by every day so if anyone would like to contribute, send me a Word doc by email. Jeff  
  • Contest — Ten Ways to Celebrate Earth Day
    Earth day is here again.   Twice as many penguins as we thought, polar bear population is up, both Arctic and global sea ice extents are normal, what should we do to celebrate? Here are a few ideas I had: Fly penguins to the north pole to feed the polar bears. Fly polar bears south to [...]

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook makes another mobile acquisition: loc ...
    Facebook today closed a deal to acquire Glancee, an ambient mobile location app that alerts users when people with similar interests are nearby, according to an announcement on Glancee’s website. Co-founders of the San Francisco-based startup — Andrea Vaccari, Alberto … Continu ...
  • Facebook roundup: Messenger, Open Compute Proj ...
    iOS and Android Messenger app gets update - Facebook’s standalone mobile Messenger app got an update today so users can now see whether their messages were received and more quickly see the location from which a message was sent. Image … Continue reading →
  • Walkthrough of how to use Facebook’s updated s ...
    Facebook has been testing a new self-serve ad tool that frames ad creation in easier-to-understand terms and simplifies the steps to starting a new campaign. Now that we’ve had the opportunity to use the ad tool ourselves, we can see … Continue reading →
  • After 6-month run, page tab application no lon ...
    Static HTML: iFrame Tabs — a utility for page owners to customize their pages with landing tabs and applications — has fallen to No. 2 on the AppData chart for top applications by monthly active users after more than 6 … Continue reading →
  • Buggle, games, file sharing, Etsy, more on thi ...
    Games dominated our list of emerging Facebook applications by monthly active users this week. Among the other applications were a document sharing service, Ustream’s livestreaming app, the Etsy integration and a French music site. We define emerging applications as those … Continue r ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Israel's hawks in open revolt against war on Iran
    Uri Avnery looks at how a number of leading hardliners in Israel's military and security establishments have spoken out against the Israeli government's plans for an attack on Iran's nuclear installations and called into question the fitness for office of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and De ...
  • Intimidated, detained and tortured: false impr ...
    Graham Peebles calls on the international community, especially donor nations, to take action against the Meles Zenawi regime in Ethiopia, including freezing personal assets and imposing targeted sanctions, to force it to end its gross human rights violations.
  • The dysfunctional ideology of Jewishness
    Palestinian academic Mazin Qumsiyeh argues that Gilad Atzmon's book The Wandering Who? provides invaluable insight into the ideology of Jewishness - crucial for understanding Israeli behaviour and the conflict in the Middle East - and urges people to engage with the ideas laid out in the book ra ...
  • American Methodists must be fearless about div ...
    Stuart Littlewood calls on US Methodists to be courageous and ignore pressure from Christian Zionists by supporting divestment from companies that profiteer from the brutal Israeli occupation of Palestine, arguing that British Methodists had "blazed a trail through this minefield" nearly two yea ...
  • Israel propagandist David Horowitz and the art ...
    Lawrence Davidson examines the use of slander by US conservative writer David Horowitz to damn the boycott Israel campaign. He argues that Horowitz "displays the prejudice of a fanatic and tries to pass it off as reason” but that he “may well have overstepped and made himself the subject of crit ...

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
    The Road to Revolution What is a Revolution? Is it desirable? How do we get there? Far from the idea of usurping power – whether violently or peacefully – or promoting a single politician to a position of power with the hope of “revolutionizing” society, a true revolution ...
  • Jamiol Presents
  • The “Worst Recovery in History?”
    Where to Blame the Crack-up in Jobs Growth? Last week, Edward Lazear wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal with the uplifting title “The Worst Economic Recovery in History.”  Lazear noted that many people have referred to our latest recession as the worst recession since the Great Depression ...
  • Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
    Black Power: From Harlem to Haiti and Hanoi What is Black Power? When, where, how, and why did it emerge? Taking a look at the Civil Rights movement in the broader context of a Black Liberation Movement, we must examine the concept of Black Power, and look to the revolutionary philosophers of ac ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- April 11 ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “By 1990, publishers of mass circulation daily newspapers will finally stop kidding themselves that they are in the newspaper business and admit that they are primarily in the business of carrying advertising messages.” – A. Roy Megary International Newsworthy ...

Afro Spear

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • President Obama: Kent State Letter from Alliso ...
    The U.S. Justice Department recently REFUSED to open an independent, impartial investigation into the May 4th Kent State Massacre. On the 42nd anniversary of the May 4th Kent State Massacre, Allison's family DEMANDS Truth & Justice for Kent State in our 5/1/12 letter to President Obama.
  • Real Change: Only from the Inside Out
    It is time that we move beyond being of this philosophy or that philosophy or even this religion or that religion. In Truth, Truth has no religion. Not of the denominational kind. But, it you know the origin of the term, religere, you realize that the term means "to connect". It is a verb, n ...
  • May Day Demonstration -- Prague 2012
    Approximately 2,000 people gathered at N--m--st-- Republiky for a May Day demonstration and march through Prague. Approximately 2,000 people gathered at N--m--st-- Republiky for a May Day demonstration and march through Prague.
  • He got Osama didn't he? Case closed
    Barack Obama killed Osama bin Laden and saved General Motors. That is incontrovertible. And important. (Unless you're a Republican.)
  • Celebrate Peace on World Labyrinth Day: May 5
    World Labyrinth Day is an annual global event celebrated each year on the first Saturday in May. The Labyrinth Society invites the world to "Walk As One at 1," an opportunity to share in a wave of peaceful energy encircling the planet.

Switchboard

  • A Partnership Restored: Environmental and Cons ...
    Ralph Cavanagh, Energy Program Co-Director, San Francisco, CA Although environmental and consumer advocates may sometimes differ over the best ways to increase energy efficiency, we share a strong common interest in ensuring that America pursues eve ...
  • 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 ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Old white sportswriter frightened and confused ...
    The wit and wisdom of Phil Mushnick: As long as the Nets are allowing Jay-Z to call their marketing shots — what a shock that he chose black and white as the new team colors to stress, as the Nets explained, their new “urban” home — why not have him apply the full Jay-Z treatment? [...]
  • Open Up Your Legs and Let the Government In
    I knew I liked Kate Beckinsale for a good reason. Republicans, Get In My Vagina! from Kate Beckinsale This is a zillion ways of awesome.
  • Nobody Could Have Predicted
    Another accusation of sexual assault against the unluckiest man in France is being investigated: French prosecutors are seeking to widen an investigation of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former chief of the International Monetary Fund, to look into accusations that he sexually assaulted a woman at ...
  • Wankers of the Day
    The Heartland Institute.
  • MCA
    R.I.P. …see also S F-J and Dargis.

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Greenland Glaciers Moving More Slowly Than Pr ...
    A new U.S. study says that Greenland’s glaciers are sliding into the sea more slowly than previously estimated, a finding that may indicate future sea level rise will not be as high as some projected worst-case scenarios. Using satellite data to track changes to 200 outlet glaciers from 2000 to ...
  • Japan Goes Nuclear-Free For the First Time in ...
    Japan will shut down its last working nuclear power station this weekend, culminating — at least for now — a national shift away from nuclear energy in the aftermath of last year’s Fukushima disaster. The shutdown of the No. 3 Tomari reactor in Hokkaido will leave the country w ...
  • Earth Observation Satellites Threatened by Bud ...
    Budget shortfalls, launch failures, and mission changes have caused a decline in U.S. earth observation satellites over the last five years, a trend that could undermine the nation’s ability to forecast weather and monitor natural disasters and climate change, according to a new report. The repo ...
  • Experiments Underestimate Plant Responses to G ...
    Studies designed to predict how plants and trees will react to rising temperatures have consistently underestimated those responses, with the actual flowering and leafing of plants advancing far more rapidly than most experiments forecast. That is the conclusion of new research by Canadian and U ...
  • Will Solar Windows Transform Buildings to Ener ...
    The vast amount of glass in skyscrapers and office buildings represents enormous potential for an emerging technology that turns windows into solar panels. But major questions remain as to whether solar windows can be sufficiently inexpensive and efficient to be widely adopted. BY DAVE LEVITAN

Red Ice Creations

  • Mitt Romney and Benjamin Netanyahu old Buddies
    The two young men had woefully little in common: one was a wealthy Mormon from Michigan, the other a middle-class Jew from Israel. But in 1976, the lives of Mitt Romney and Benjamin Netanyahu intersected, briefly but indelibly, in the 16th-floor offices of the Boston Consulting Group, where both ...
  • Obama Makes Free Speech A Felony
    And yet another ’bill’ signed into law in secret. HR 347. Obama does it again. This time the attack is against the First Amendment and free speech. This new law make ’No Free Speech" Zones wherever the Secret Service says so. Bye bye Protests. Bye bye Free Speech. Bye bye Constitution. Source: y ...
  • In the Shadow of Hermes - The Secrets of Commu ...
    The documentary In the Shadow of Hermes by Jüri Lina shows how freemasons, international bankers, and communists joined forces in an unholy alliance and through the Bolshevik Revolution of November 1917 established in Russia the most brutal and dehumanizing slave society the world has ever seen. ...
  • How will we build an artificial human brain?
    There’s an ongoing debate among neuroscientists, cognitive scientists, and even philosophers as to whether or not we could ever construct or reverse engineer the human brain. Some suggest it’s not possible, others argue about the best way to do it, and still others have already begun working on ...
  • Virus Epidemic Within Our Genome Revealed
    For years scientists have been struggling with the enigma that more than 90 percent of every mammal’s genome has no known function. A part of this ’dark matter’ of genetic material is known to harbour pieces of DNA from ancient viruses that infected our ancestors going back as far as the age of ...

Russia Today

  • Facebook Backdoor Interception: FBI wants P2P ...
    The US is preparing to face FBI-drafted legislation enabling it to monitor any personal communication activities in the web. It aims to use preset backdoors in social networks, online messaging, internet telephony and... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • ‘Supermoon’ to dominate night sky
    Stargazers will be treated to a rare glimpse of a “Supermoon” this weekend when our celestial neighbor strays closest to Earth. During the annual display, the moon appears to swell larger in size and wax in brightness. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • ‘On a razor’s edge’: Sarkozy lags on eve of el ...
    Socialist candidate Francois Hollande holds a narrow lead in the polls ahead of potential landmark elections. The dramatic campaign has been dogged by scandal and political mud-slinging as both candidates fight for the... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • 'US and Iran both need to make concessions'
    Tensions between Iran and the US keep rising with political posturing and aggressive rhetoric. Unless both sides are ready to make concessions there will be no solution to the crisis, Jamal Abdi from the National... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • UN warns of changing nature of global terrorism
    The UN Security Council has warned of “the changing nature and character” of international terrorism, with terror groups forging close ties with organized crime and using the Internet to incite and recruit sympathizers,... Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

  • Embarrassing “Bin Laden papers” fo ...
    Ignoring that a recent BBC investigation had determined that “al-Qaida” was an intelligence community fabrication, US media trots out bin Laden papers “seized during raid” for renewed Islam-bashing.
  • Bahrain- the Revolutionary Movement that the U ...
    This is the Revolutionary Movement the US, its ally Saudi Arabia, and the US corporate media do not want us to see or hear about… A huge rally in Bahrain. The US hates Iranian influence in the Middle East because it is anti US imperialist, and wants us all to forget about this Iranian supp ...
  • Only thing the rich ever wanted was everything ...
    Was it Utah Philips or Michael Parenti who said it, “the only thing the rich have ever wanted was EVERYTHING.” Do you wonder why Occupy’s demands have to be specific? To my mind, Occupy has a mandate that’s equally self-evident: EVERYTHING BACK.
  • May Day march was big unpermitted party! Occup ...
    OCCUPIED DENVER– If Occupiers accomplished one thing this May Day, in solidarity with global calls for a general strike, and in synch with more aggressive protests in Oakland and elsewhere, Occupy Denver had a great time. THAT WAS ALL IT HAD TO BE. The crowd was largely young, with the ene ...
  • “datniggytb” – the Real Geor ...
    All those racist George Zimmerman supporters, who simply love him because he shot that “datniggytb”. What’s racist about us and Mr. Cold Blooded Killer Zimmerman they ask? They even get all indignant when you call the stalker killer man, George Zimmerman a racist! They’ve ...

Debunking the Debunkers

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

Fooducate

  • Ten Fun Tequila Facts for Cinco De Mayo
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! Happy Cinco de Mayo folks! Tequila is probably the best recognized spirit of Mexico. Here are some interesting facts: 1. Tequila is the name of a city in Mexico where the alcohol was first produced 500 years ...
  • Some Inconvenient Facts on National Orange Jui ...
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! You gotta love these made up holidays marketers come up with to promote consumption of this or that product. Well, today is OJ day. We thought it would be a good opportunity to point out some inconvenient fac ...
  • Attention Trader Joe’s: Hire a Dietitian
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! A big thanks to Carol Harvey for taking these pictures at her local Trader Joe’s earlier this week. They have signs in the produce department pointing out the alleged nutritional benefits of various fru ...
  • NEW! Create Your healthy Shopping List with Fo ...
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! Howdy folks. Did you know that 3 out of 4 shoppers prepare some sort of shopping list before making a trip to the supermarket. Are you one of them? If you answered yes, we’ve got something cool for you ...
  • High Fat Food – Straight to Your Bloodstream
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! We know that greasy burgers and fries are no health food. But in this 2 minute ABC news clip from food coach Lori Corbin, you can actually see how all that saturated fat affects the bloodstream. In realtime. ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • 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 ...

Greg Palast

  • Sneak Peak: Why We Occupy Live! DVD
    Greg Palast from the oil soaked heart of America, Houston TX. Greg Palast live DVD - Coming Soon.
  • Arrest of BP Scapegoat:Real Killers Walk
    by Greg Palast – Special for Buzzflash at Truthout The Justice Department went big game hunting and bagged a teeny-weeny scapegoat.  More like a scape-kid, really. Today, Justice arrested former BP engineer Kurt Mix for destroying evidence in the Deepwater Horizon blow-out. I once ran a Jus ...
  • BP Cover-upPart 2: Bribery, George Bush and Wi ...
    by Greg Palast - Exclusive for EcoWatch.org Friday, 20. April, 2012 Evidence now implicates top BP executives as well as its partners Chevron and Exxon and the Bush Administration in the deadly cover-up –– which included falsifying a report to the Securities Exchange Commission. Yesterday, ...
  • BP Cover-up 'They Knew.'
    by Greg Palast – Exclusive for EcoWatch.org Thursday, 19. April, 2012 Two years before the Deepwater Horizon blow-out in the Gulf of Mexico, another BP off-shore rig suffered a nearly identical blow-out, but BP concealed the first one from the U.S. regulators and Congress. This week, EcoWatc ...
  • Billionaire Ballot Bandits - I've caught'em
    Karl Rove has you by the ballots.  With a $200 million war chest from a coven of billionaires, don't count on getting your vote counted. There's only one thing to stop him:  A COMIC BOOK. If we can get just $10,190 in the next 14 days, the nation’s top elections-heist investigators can publish ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle toilet seats?
    Apologies for the break in blogging – I’ve been super busy with other things over the last month. And in my absence, Recycle This had its sixth birthday! Happy Birthday website! :D Anyway, moving on: we’ve had an email from Stephanie about toilet seats: I just came into about 2 ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle empty bottled gas/p ...
    Lyndon has emailed to ask about reusing – or recycling – propane gas canisters (the ones for heating, barbecues or patio heaters etc): Trying to tidy up the yard at work, what can I do with some old gas bottles? If there is a company name on the bottles (like Calor Gas, Flo Gas or [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle large (catering siz ...
    Sam has emailed asking about large food cans: I have a number of large metal food cans, some zinc lined, which are called #10 size. They hold about 5 or 6 lbs (just under 3kg) of beans, or other foods. Now that they’re empty, they are open on one end, with no plastic lid to [...]
  • She recycled that! Upcycling novelty hats into ...
    Last September, Karen emailed us about the vast collection of novelty jester hats that her boyfriend had collected at various carnivals and festivals over the years. She wanted to know how she could reuse or recycle them as she hadn’t had much success giving them away. Lots of people made ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle wallpaper samples?
    Following on from the paint tester pots the other week, I’ve got some wallpaper samples that have served their purpose too. I really can’t wait for our renovations to be over! Like the paint, the samples were to check out ideas/colours/designs in-situ. Some of them were torn from rol ...

Age of Autism

  • Penn Prof. Paul Offit to GW Grad Student: “Get ...
    By Jake Crosby That's what millionaire vaccine industrialist Paul Offit said to me following a talk he gave at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is the Maurice R. Hilleman Professor of Vaccinology, endowed by Merck. But that was not...
  • Occupy the American Psychiatric Association In ...
    By Adriana Gamondes I’m writing this post for two reasons. First it’s to announce an event which autism families might take an interest in—a chance to protest the proposed changes to the “bible of psychiatry,” the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual...
  • AB2109: No Shots, No School, Not True in Calif ...
    By Marcella Terry This week VaxTruth's No Shots, No School... Not True!! billboards are on display in West Los Angeles. The non-profit has been raising funds for this project since August 2011. The decision to air the message in California...
  • Autism and the Antarctic Ozone Hole
    By Cynthia Nevison “If ozone hole scientists had adopted the approach of many in the autism research community … (they) would have concluded that the ozone hole occurs because Antarctica is cold.” A recent Associated Press report that 1 in...
  • Win Two Tickets to Laugh Now For Autism! A Per ...
    We have two tickets for Laugh Now For Autism on Sunday, May 13 at Gotham Comedy Club in New York City. What a great way to close out Mother's Day! Proceeds go to National Autism Association. Featuring comedians Zack Peter...

Global BDS Movement

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.

Open Your Eyes News

  • FBI: We need wiretap-ready Web sites – now
    CNET learns the FBI is quietly pushing its plan to force surveillance backdoors on social networks, VoIP, and Web e-mail providers, and that the bureau is asking Internet companies not to oppose a law making those backdoors mandatory. READ ARTICLE
  • USA: Immigration Attorneys File Civil Rights C ...
    Huffington Post – A Seattle-based immigrant advocacy nonprofit filed a formal civil rights complaint against the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, challenging the practice of local police departments calling in border patrol agents to act as interpret ...
  • Crest Defends Its Fluoride Toothpaste
    CRI English – U.S. toothpaste brand Crest stated on Wednesday that the fluoride toothpaste products it sells on the Chinese mainland meet the Chinese national standards, after netizens expressed concern regarding the ingredients in the products, China Network Television reports. A Chinese ...
  • Final Parliament Square war protester’s ...
    DailyMail – Police have begun removing the last anti-war protest tent outside the Houses of Parliament. The move came after the High Court lifted an injunction leaving Westminster Council free to clear the tent from Parliament Square. The injunction had been in place while veteran peace ca ...
  • Syria imported weapons worth $168m in 2010, sa ...
    Guardian – The Syrian government imported $167m-worth of air defence systems and missiles and a further $1m of small arms and ammunition in the months before it began a crackdown on opposition activists, a report claims. The charity Oxfam says the sale and transfer of munitions to Presiden ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • EV confab this weekend is about more than cars
    The electric car might not be enjoying a good moment as the Electric Vehicle Symposium, EVS26, powers up for its run this weekend at the Los Angeles Convention Center. GM stopped production for five weeks on the Chevy Volt, and sales of new all-electric cars such as the Volt or the Nissan Leaf a ...
  • Settlement may bring EV infrastructure to Cali ...
    In an unforeseen upside to the electric-power market crisis of 2001, a new proposed legal settlement between utility NRG and the California Public Utilities Commission would bring more than $100 million in new electric-vehicle charging infrastructure to the state.
  • 'Whale Wars'' Paul Watson on Faroes killing, ...
    The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, capitalizing on the tremendous success of their Animal Planet TV show, “ Whale Wars ,” has now taken on a new battle. With the Japanese fleet’s Antarctic hunt finished for the season, the skull-and-crossbones crew have turned their attenti ...
  • Activists urge Discovery to acknowledge climat ...
    Forecast the Facts, the activist group that first confronted GM about its support of climate change doubters the Heartland Institute, now plans to muster a public campaign targeting the Discovery Channel. The purpose: to get Discovery to acknowledge the scientific consensus on man-made climate c ...
  • Sierra Club targets Puget Sound Energy in Beyo ...
    The Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal campaign, working in concert with a number of environmental and energy activists and researchers in Washington and Montana, announced Thursday a new push to get Puget Sound Energy to stop buying power from coal-fired Colstrip Generating Station in Montana. A ...

water.org

  • Water is More Precious than Gold
    For the past eight years Mrs. Yashodha has diligently worked through the process to secure reliable water for her family and their household. After becoming a member of a locally organized self-help group she was able to save enough money to secure a loan for a household water connection.
  • A safer walk for water in Ethiopia
    In most rural areas of Tigray, women and young girls fetch water from open wells, springs and other unprotected sources of water. These water sources are often located in distant areas and mostly contain some impurities in the form of suspended or dissolved matter. In many cases the water looks ...
  • A new start in haiti
    Immediately following the inauguration ceremony, this woman collects her first bucket of water from a new well.
  • A toilet provides freedom
    Before, Mrs. Bhuvaneswari's family had to spend time walking to find a place to go to the bathroom. Now they are able to use their own toilet and their time for better things.
  • Bringing joy with clean water
    "The pond water I was forced to get water from was very dirty and had a bad smell. Due to my distant walks to collect water, sometimes I was late to work. My daughters and I would also suffer from diarrhea, jaundice, dysentery and skin diseases because of the dirty pomd water. We are able to ge ...

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Reinstate Teacher Who Supported Trayvon Martin ...
    arget: Superintendent Jacqueline Cassell Goal: To reinstate Brooke Harris, an eighth grade teacher who was fired after supporting a fundraiser benefitting Trayvon Martins family. The Trayvon Martin case has already caused a storm of controversy, Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World &n ...
  • What people will do for beauty: 8 Grossest Spa ...
    uh..the title says it all :) Submitted by Vicky Pitchford to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • White House sees more pain for Iran as it clea ...
    Aggressive war is illegal, immoral against nations that are no threat, is nonbelligerent & it is insane! Call your Reps. Tell your friends, rouse up the good folk in your church,mosque and synagouge. We must stop this exported violence or we are screwed. Submitted by michael hall to World &nbs ...
  • Iran Bashing, Terrorism, and Who Chose the Cho ...
    Dedicated to the long-suffering Palestinians and Iranians who have been sidelined by the United Nations in favour of the Nuclear Apartheid State of Zionist Israel in the most blatant exercise in International Double Standards that our world has ever known Submitted by Ken D. to World  |&nb ...
  • Study: 400 Afghan women jailed for "moral crimes"
    In this Jan. 19, 2003 file photo, Zarghona, who is in prison because she left her first husband who abused her and forced her into prostitution, holds her seven-month-old son Balal and looks out through their cell window, at the Kabul Women's Prison in Submitted by Maria V. to World  |&nb ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

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

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • 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...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • 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 ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

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)?

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • The Nightshade Nightmare
    By John Roth I am a male over 60 and have [or had] a serious health problem that I tried to ignore for the last three years. I tried every holistic treatment, supplement, vitamin and herb under the sun. During that period my gastrointestinal tract quit working three times. I had a lot of troub ...
  • Israeli persecution forces Christians to emigrate
    By Khalid Amayreh Israeli ambassador to the United State Michael Oren recently tried to bully CBS to kill a story exposing Israeli persecution, harassment and mistreatment of Palestinian Christians, forcing many of them to emigrate. Oren, a Jewish supremacist, reportedly described the '60 Min ...
  • Another Watergate unfolding? The Lutfallah II ...
    by FRANKLIN LAMB Tripoli, Lebanon It would be an incautious stretch to suggest any sort of parity between Watergate and the unfolding Lutfallah II arms shipment-to-Syria drama, that each day brings more revelations. But some of what we are daily learning about the who, what and why of Lutfalla ...
  • Choice Not on Ballot in French Election
    by Stephen Lendman France replicates most Western societies. Elections give voters little choice at best. Most often there's none. Two dominant parties usually compete. In France, there's three. On April 22, first round presidential election voting took place. Three main parties competed ...
  • Whitewashing Mass Murder
    by Stephen Lendman Israel's 2008-09 Gaza war was one of history's great crimes. Missiles, bombs, shells, and illegal weapons were used against defenseless people. Mass slaughter and destruction followed. Brazen crimes of war and against humanity were committed. International protection w ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Lessons learned from the Climate Justice Proje ...
    CCPA-BC Director Seth Klein was recently invited to give a speech in Berlin at the annual meeting of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (an international gathering of leading economists). His 12-minute speech summarized some of the key lessons to date from our Climate Justice Project. Yo ...
  • CCPA Online Audience Survey: Tell us what you ...
    In an effort to better serve our supporters online and make more effective use of our social media channels and website, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is conducting a short survey. Your feedback is important to us! We want to know what is important to you, so that we can improve y ...
  • Study reveals secret Canadian bank bailout
    Throughout the 2008-2010 financial crisis, Canadian banks were touted by the federal government—and the banks themselves—as being much more stable than other countries’ big banks. Canadians we assured that our banks needed no bailout. However, CCPA’s latest study, The Big Banks’ Big Secret: Esti ...
  • Living Wage for Metro Vancouver rises to $19.14
    For families with young children, the costs of basic necessities like food, rent and child care quickly add up. Even with full-time work year round, both parents in a family of four must earn at least $19.14 to escape severe financial stress in Metro Vancouver. This is the Metro Vancouver li ...
  • Nova Scotia should defend its health workers' ...
    While negotiations between Capital Health and its employees continue, health workers' rights are as prescient now as ever before.  Working people have the right to bargain collectively and withdraw their labour, or strike, if they feel they are being treated unfairly.  Healthcare worke ...

World Wide Hippies

  • Be cool this Summer! And save some Cash too!
    Sale this Weekend! Save 33%  Cheap Tee’s this weekend  Reg. $15.00 Save 33% Now! We need your help! Check out our Store for other cool Hippie gear. When you do, you are showing your support for Citizen Journalism . You can also make a donation to Worldwide Hippies So we can keep up the &#8 ...
  • Hippie Trivia Question
    A new Trivia Question will be posted every Friday at 6:00 pm (EST). Trivia is open all week so enter often. You do not have to be correct, even a comment gets you in! Win a Worldwide Hippies Bumper Sticker. Post your answer in the comments section.     Answer to last question -Rick Dan ...
  • New Worries at Fukushima
    By Richard Schiffman - The story of Japan’s natural/nuclear disaster has faded from the headlines, but it is still relevant in the state of Alabama that has three reactors near the New Madrid fault line. In December, Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda declared that “a cold shutdown” had been ...
  • UN highlights role of press freedom as catalys ...
    Worldwidehippies,UN - United Nations top officials today highlighted the power of press freedom to spark social and political change and to hold governments accountable, stressing that this vital right must be ensured across the world by creating the conditions that allow journalists to perform ...
  • Worldwide Hippies Digest Friday: Hunter S. Th ...
    A gonzo look at the Derby, courtesy of Hunter S. Thompson  BY RICH COPLEY,rcopley@herald-leader.com -  Among recent new releases by Jason Mraz, Train and Birdy dropped this curiosity: The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved, a dramatizion of Hunter S. Thompson’s 1970 article that pione ...

FourWinds10

  • 'On The Beach'
    1950s hit novel disturbingly similar to radiation situation today — except for government lying   When I was in the 8th grade in 1958 and was just beginning to learn how to read for pleasure, Nevil Shute's apocalyptic novel "On The Beach" was the smash hit of the summer, ...
  • Bubbling sea signals severe coral damage this ...
    Findings from a "natural laboratory" in seas off Papua New Guinea suggest that acidifying oceans will severely hit coral reefs by the end of the century. Carbon dioxide bubbles into the water from the slopes of a dormant volcano here, making it slightly more acidic. Coral is badly affe ...
  • Nigerian author Helon Habila mixes oil and wat ...
    For all the public outrage directed at government agencies and BP over last year’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Americans and others across the world have largely remained silent when it comes to the environmental destruction wreaked by the oil industry in the Niger delta. The United State ...
  • California may ban takeout food in foam containers
    (06-02) 15:25 PDT Sacramento, Calif. (AP) -- Getting takeout food in foam containers would be a thing of the past under a bill approved by the state Senate. The bill by Democratic Sen. Alan Lowenthal of Long Beach prohibits vendors from providing prepared food in expanded polystyrene containers. ...
  • China gives bleak assessment of its battered e ...
    (Reuters) - More than half of China's cities are affected by acid rain and one-sixth of major rivers are so polluted the water is unfit even for farmland, a senior official said on Friday in a bleak assessment of the environmental price of the country's economic boom. The environmental d ...

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Rare Earth Elements and Pyrolysis Oil — R-Squa ...
    In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I talk about the significance of China’s dominance of rare earth element production, and the conversion of pyrolysis oil into fuel. The questions answered this week are: 1. Can you discuss the uses of ‘rare earth’ elements in ...
  • Why High Oil Prices are Here to Stay
    On May 3rd I will be delivering a talk called Moving Beyond Oil Dependence as a part of UC Santa Barbara’s Spring 2012 Chemical Engineering Seminar Series. The talk will roughly follow the outline of my book, and I have used several graphics from the book in the presentation. However, I cr ...
  • Discussing Peak Oil, Speculators, Oil Shale, a ...
    I am traveling some over the next two weeks, and did not have a chance to record my weekly video segment this week. However, last Friday I was a guest on Alan Colmes’ show on Fox News Radio, so I will share that this week instead. I had been a guest on his show last month to discuss whethe ...
  • The Hard Truth: Even Liberals are Big Fans of ...
    Survey Says… If you were to survey people and ask the question “Should we subsidize oil companies?” — the overwhelming majority would undoubtedly respond “No!” The notion that we are subsidizing oil companies generates outrage in many people, but in this artic ...
  • Natural Gas Prices & Canada’s Economy — R-Squa ...
    In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I talk about the impact of natural gas in the U.S., and the Canadian economy. Some of the topics discussed this week are: How I think natural gas prices will behave over the next 10 years Which industries will benefit the most from low natural ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • 4 Things Your Garbage Says about Your Health
    The average American is on track to create 102 tons of garbage in a lifetime—that's 7 pounds of trash a day! No other nation on the planet churns out more waste than America, and garbage is quickly becoming one of the nation's key exports. Our plastic trash alone outweighs the entire U.S. Navy, ...
  • The State That Could Save the Food System
    The chemical companies that created genetically engineered seeds haven't kept their promises. Once hailed as a solution to reduce pesticide use, genetically engineered seeds, also called genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, now require that nonorganic farmers spray chemicals on food crops m ...
  • Is Your Driveway Making You Fat?
    The very air you breathe could be packing on the pounds, say researchers from the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health. Their new study, published in the American Journal of Epidemiology, found that pregnant moms with high exposures to air pollutants called polycyclic aromatic hy ...
  • The Nickel Pincher: The Best Way to Start Your Day
    Gluten-free diets are all the rage these days. Even if you don't suffer from celiac disease (which is defined as an intolerance to wheat gluten), research is showing that cutting back on the amount of wheat you eat can do everything from easing inflammation to treating digestive ailments like a ...
  • 5 Healthy, Homemade Dog Treat Recipes
    More and more Americans are tuning in to the food system, trying to avoid nasty ingredients like artificial ingredients. And increasingly, people are looking harder at what's best for their four-legged family members, too. Healthy dog treats are a great starting point because you can easily wh ...

big think

  • How Video Games Help Doctors Diagnose Disease
    What's the Latest Development? A video game developed at UCLA allows non-professional volunteers to accurately diagnose the presence of malaria in patients' red blood cells, aiding medical professionals in this time consuming process. Players are presented with a six-by-eight grid of neu ...
  • Would Polygyny Create Army of Angry Sexless Cr ...
    A recent article suggests that allowing polygyny would increase violent crime to such a degree that it would stifle economic growth. This is a logical conclusion if you assume that polygyny leaves many men without wives. The modern economy, however, has already disenfranchised the majority of lo ...
  • What Money Can't Buy: Michael Sandel LIVE on B ...
    Michael J. Sandel is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard University, where he has taught political philosophy since 1980. His recent book, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?, relates the big questions of political philosophy to the most vexing issues of our time ...
  • Five Ways to Change the System from Within
    Editor's Note: In a recent interview with Big Think, Richard Tafel, founder of the Log Cabin Republicans and The Public Squared gave us his advice for transforming the system: create a super PAC for the people, by the people. Challenge intractable elected officials. Shake things up. Ensure that ...
  • "Party Crasher" Rich Tafel: What AIDS Activism ...
    What's the Big Idea?  Long-time political activist and self-proclaimed "party crasher" Richard Tafel believes that American democracy is under threat. The environmental, economic, healthcare, and political systems we've relied on for decades are breaking down, he says. But unlike ...

Information Liberation

  • Girl Tells School Teacher She Got Sunburn From ...
    Forgive me, but I can't help but notice the police state implications in even this admittedly hilarious viral video. This woman was arrested by police after her daughter allegedly told a teacher at school she got sunburned because she "went tann...
  • Killing Kids for Freedom
    "I want to make sure that people understand: actually, drones have not caused a huge number of civilian casualties [in Pakistan]. For the most part they have been very precise precision strikes against Al Qaeda and their affiliates." President Oba...
  • Treasure Hunter Fears Assassination Over Searc ...
    A California treasure hunter who believes he has located the spot where the U.S. Navy allegedly dumped the body of Osama Bin Laden says he wants to try and discover the corpse and subject it to DNA testing because he doesn*t believe the Obama adminis...
  • What It Looks Like When You Visit The Pirate B ...
    Click to enlarge Via Reddit. Here's The Pirate Bay's response to the UK's act of censorship: The Western countries of the world all complaints about the censorship in Iran, China, Saudi Arabia and so on. But they are really the worst culprit...
  • Man That Videoed Bird Strike That Forced Delta ...
    The FAA sure has their priorities straight. A man who videotaped some birds being sucked into an airplane's engine, forcing the plane to do an emergency landing, apparently got a letter from the FAA threatening him for not "turning off his electro...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • An Evening With James Delingpole
    Today’s LibertyGibbert thread comes to you from Sydney, Australia’s largest city, where this evening I had the great pleasure of listening to James Delingpole, climate warrior and God-Emperor of the blogosphere, speaking live to a packed house. James is clearly … Continue readi ...
  • Calling A Spade A Bloody Shovel
    The full text: If I wanted America to fail… To follow, not lead; to suffer, not prosper; to despair, not dream… I’d start with energy. I’d cut off America’s supply of cheap, abundant energy. I couldn’t take it by force. … Continue reading →
  • Our Traditions Are Worth Upholding
    On this day, the 97th Anzac Day, I have been wondering about the motives of some in our community who, by all appearances, seem to want to ditch our national traditions, in particular our annual remembrance of those soldiers who … Continue reading →
  • Copyright and Intellectual Property – A ...
    Two pieces of information I’ve received in the last 24 hours prompted me to open a discussion on Libertarianism and intellectual property rights. Firstly, the tragic death yesterday of Australian band Men At Work’s multi-instrumentalist Greg Ham, in his suburban … Continue read ...
  • Neither A Soul To Damn, Nor A Body To Kick
    Today I’m having a look at an issue you might not generally associate with Libertarianism, but whose existence directly impacts on the liberty of us all, thousands of times every day: the company. Specifically, the limited-liability, joint stockholder corporation. Most … Continue rea ...

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • You really don’t know how to dry your hands pr ...
    In “rest rooms” everywhere there are millions of people trying to dry their hands, assuming they washed them after using the facilities. Most of them will grab 3, 4, maybe half a dozen squares of paper towel, assuming there isn’t an “hot” air electric dryer (that&#8 ...
  • How to become a medical writer
    I get a lot of emails from people hoping to break into the field of science writing (and medical and technical writing in general), whether as a journalist or in science communication. Often they’re fresh from university, or just writing up, and like me, didn’t fancy staying in the l ...
  • Mimicking mussels
    UV and NMR spectroscopy have been used to characterise a novel adhesive that functions in marine environments by mimicking the notoriously strong, natural glue used by mussels to cling to rocks and ships’ hulls. via Making unstickable adhesives: Mussel power – Ezine – spectrosc ...
  • 94 elemental takes on the human condition
    A short film that reveals the human stories behind the chemical elements and exposes the allegedly startling rate at which we are consuming these substances. Thanks to Joerg Heber for alerting me to a feature on this video in The Guardian. Related Posts:Kinect could help phantom limb pain A phan ...
  • 94 elemental takes on the human condition
    A short film that reveals the human stories behind the chemical elements and exposes the allegedly startling rate at which we are consuming these substances. Thanks to Joerg Heber for alerting me to a feature on this video in The Guardian. Related Posts:Kinect could help phantom limb pain A phan ...

RFF Library

  • How Would Proposed Fuel Economy Standards Affe ...
    Congressional Budget Office http://1.usa.gov/KPNGwn [Green Car Congress]  In a new report, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) finds that the fuel economy standards proposed for model years 2017 through 2025 would eventually reduce revenues from the gasoline tax by 21% in 2040. The 21% reducti ...
  • Liquid Markets: Assessing the Case for U.S. Ex ...
    Brookings Institution, Energy Security Initiative / by Charles Ebinger, Kevin Massy and Govinda Avasarala http://bit.ly/IX8jFk [From the Executive Summary] …The study finds that U.S. LNG exports are likely to have a modest upward impact on domestic prices, and a limited impact on the compe ...
  • Analysis of the Clean Energy Standard Act of 2012
    US DOE, Energy Information Administration www.eia.gov/analysis/requests/bces12/pdf/appd.pdf [Energy News Watch] In response to a request by Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Chairman Jeff Bingaman, the U.S. Energy Information Administration has published an analysis of the Clean E ...
  • Potential Contaminant Pathways from Hydraulica ...
    Ground Water 2012 Apr 17. doi: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2012.00933.x. [Epub ahead of print -- subscribers only] / by Tom Myers http://bit.ly/JodTvK [Abstract] Hydraulic fracturing of deep shale beds to develop natural gas has caused concern regarding the potential for various forms of water pollution ...
  • Review of DRAFT: Investigation of Ground Water ...
    Tom Myers, Ph.D. for the NRDC, the Wyoming Outdoor Council, Sierra Club and the Oil and Gas Accountability Project and submitted to the US EPA as technical comments http://docs.nrdc.org/energy/files/ene_12050101a.pdf [From summary and conclusions]  After consideration of the evidence presented i ...

Scientific American - News

  • Triple Crown-Bound Horse Breeders Start to Loo ...
    When the Kentucky Derby winner crosses the finish line in front of 160,000 roaring spectators on May 5, there's a good chance it will have two copies of a gene that makes a horse a sprinter. [More]
  • Stonehenge Had Lecture Hall Acoustics
    The stone slabs of England's Stonehenge may have been more than just a spectacular sight to the ancient people who built the structure; they likely created an acoustic environment unlike anything they normally experienced, new research hints. [More]
  • Giant Flea-Like Pest Put the Bite on Dinosaurs
    Paleo-pests about 10 times bigger than today's fleas may have sneaked up on a huge dinosaur, crawled onto its soft underbelly and taken a bite, likely a painful one, say researchers who have discovered fossils of the flealike organisms. [More]
  • Rebirth Control: Lessons Learned from 90 Years ...
    KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia--There are macaques everywhere--climbing on the rocks, grooming one another as they sit on the forest floor. Others have babies on their backs as they trot along at a fair clip. The air is thick with humidity and it must be 35 degrees Celsius or more--the heavy gray clouds ...
  • How Biodiversity Keeps Earth Alive
    In 1994 biologists seeded patches of grassland in Cedar Creek, Minn. Some plots got as many as 16 species of grasses and other plants--and some as few as one. In the first few years plots with eight or more species fared about as well as those with fewer species, suggesting that a complex mix of ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • San José del Progreso Residents Plan Mine Occu ...
    Oaxacan groups promise to shut down Fortuna Silver's mine starting Monday OAXACA, MEXICO-Jorge Sánchez, representative of the villages in resistance in the Ocotlan Valley, announced the indefinite takeover of the mine in San José del P ...
  • Leftist community unite on May Day at VAG
      Despite the blowing winds on May Day, union leaders and activists chanted and waved their banners in front of the Vancouver Art Gallery on Tuesday.  They all had their own calls and campaigns, but there were also a common thread of the need for unity among the speeches. “You kn ...
  • Musqueam set up camp at condo site after infan ...
    MARPOLE - The Musqueam First Nation has vowed to shut down condo construction to protect a major ancient burial site at the Marpole Midden. Infant graves were unearthed by heavy excavating equipment at the Vancouver location this week.  More than 100 Musqu ...
  • May Day in Montreal
    You’ve probably heard that there is a massive mobilization happening throughout Quebec, which began about 12 weeks ago. But unless you’re keen, or francophone, you probably haven’t heard much about it. This short article is my attempt to share a bit of what I’ve learned a ...
  • Achuar Voices Part Two
    An Achuar Woman Speaks and Q&A   Achuar Voices Part 2 Transcript    Translated by Amazon Watch Peru Program Coordinator, Gregor MacLennan   Puwaanch Kintui Antich   Thank you. Good evening everybody, and thank y ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Steve Jobs: the metaphor
    David Seaton's News Links There is virtually no debate about the best treatment. “It has long been held that surgery can lead to very long-term survival,” says Kim. (...) Despite the expert consensus on the value of surgery, Jobs did not elect it right away. He reportedly spent nine months on “a ...
  • Obama vs. Romney: a message to would be leftists
    David Seaton's News Links There are many contradictions in the process of development of a complex thing, and one of them is necessarily the principal contradiction whose existence and development determine or influence the existence and development of the other contradictions. Mao Tse Tung ...
  • There are still important differences between ...
    David Seaton's News LinksA Sample of Tea Party Humor I'd like to reproduce a dialog between myself and a blogger I much respect, Wendy Davis, on a previous post of mine:Seaton: I think that all of those who were so ecstatic about Obama in 2008 (I wasn’t) should “stand by their man” and realiz ...
  • Another good reason to vote for Obama
    David Seaton's News LinksMitt's friend, BibiThe ties between Mr. Romney and Mr. Netanyahu stand out because there is little precedent for two politicians of their stature to have such a history together that predates their entry into government. And that history could well influence decision-mak ...
  • From Rosa Parks to Barack Obama
    David Seaton's News LinksOne of the most significant political images in American history. "It did, in fact, give me cause to celebrate that in my own lifetime I saw an African American elected to the presidency." Mike HuckabeeI just didn't want to let this photo go by without comment.I was jus ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Friday Cat Blogging - 4 May 2012
    Today we have cats flopped on the ground. On the left, Domino enjoys the sunshine while Marian does Sudoku on the porch. On the right, Inkblot looks majestic. As always. Enjoy the weekend, everyone!
  • Chart of the Day: The Obama Record on Jobs
    In case you're interested, here's the basic Obama jobs record. His first full month in office was February 2009, and employment bottomed out a year later. Since then, employment has increased steadily and is now above the February 2009 level. That's a pretty slow and disappointing level of emp ...
  • Russia Amps Up the Bluster over Missile Defense
    Here's the latest on stalled talks between NATO and Russia regarding a European missile defense system: Russian Chief of General Staff Nikolai Makarov, in a sign of the tension between Russia and the United States over the missile defense plans, said during an international conference that ...
  • Generational Armageddon Possibly Set for 2042
    Alex Tabarrok links this morning to a VoxEU piece that blames America's low savings rate on our growing level of transfers from young to old. In one way, this makes intuitive sense: the more confident you are that Social Security and Medicare will take care of you in your old age, the less mot ...
  • Another Anemic Jobs Report for April
    I was going to write a post last night promising not to make too big a deal out of today's job numbers, no matter what they turned out to be, but I forgot. But I promise anyway. As it happens, new jobs clocked in at 115,000 last month, only 25,000 above the number needed to keep up with popul ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 318: I Don’t Need Kids
    Topics: A lot of random topics including: The inevitable disappointment of Washington Sports teams Ronda Rousey, world’s most dangerous sexy woman Married men and bachelor parties Kid’s shoes or Xbox games? Scary Movie 5 Death by testicle crushing World’s Worse Mother Share wit ...
  • IC 317: Brian “Andy” McKnight
    Topics: UFC news Will Avengers be the best Comic Book EVER? An American Remake of The Raid? The shittiest crime spree of all time? Being a woman doesn’t give you the right to assault someone Prison is a consequence Brian McKnight wants to show ladies how to work their pussy Share with your ...
  • IC 316: 30 for 30
    Topics: Dick Clark dies You’re making me be an asshole 30 for 30 Secret Service got caught cause dude didn’t pay Don’t be THAT guy Dinochickens The basic chicks of Hollywood Warm Weather PSA Share with your friends:
  • IC 315: Ignorance is Bliss
    Topics: The Raid How to make an awesome action movie The Cabin in the Woods and almost ruining a movie with a trailer The Secret Service tries to get it in while in Columbia Snitching on your teacher for showing porn Fucking up your week: Kriss asks a question bound to fuck up everyone’s w ...
  • IC 314: She’s Cute for a Meth Head
    Topics: April Movie Preview Trolling the Avengers Kristen Stewart is not hot enough to play the hot chick Easter has the best candy Bacon Sundaes 600 lbs man gets stuck in his house Best crime spree EVER Trayvon Martin case updates Conservatives have no humanity Share with your friends:

Simple Climate

  • Warming world could send corn price popping
    Climate plays the largest role in how much US corn prices swing, say economist Tom Hertel from Purdue University and colleagues, though forcing ethanol from corn to be used in fuel makes matters worse.
  • N2O cuts are no laughing matter
    Drastic reductions in meat consumption unappetising to many must be paired with tough farming, industry and transport action to meet the most ambitious targets to control emissions of greenhouse gas nitrous oxide, which you might know as laughing gas, according to Eric Davidson from the Woods Ho ...
  • N2O cuts are no laughing matter
    Drastic reductions in meat consumption unappetising to many must be paired with tough farming, industry and transport action to meet the most ambitious targets to control emissions of greenhouse gas nitrous oxide, which you might know as laughing gas, according to Eric Davidson from the Woods Ho ...
  • Climate change threatens the carnival of the a ...
    From chipmunks to calves, Simple Climate has regularly reported on creatures pressured by global warming. This week I bring together their pictures as a reminder of which creatures are at risk, in the hope of providing more motivation to act to help them.
  • Climate change threatens the carnival of the a ...
    From chipmunks to calves, Simple Climate has regularly reported on creatures pressured by global warming. This week I bring together their pictures as a reminder of which creatures are at risk, in the hope of providing more motivation to act to help them.

e!Science News

  • Beehive extract shows potential as prostate ca ...
    An over-the-counter natural remedy derived from honeybee hives arrests the growth of prostate cancer cells and tumors in mice, according to a new paper from researchers at the University of Chicago Medicine. read more
  • Hubble to use moon as mirror to see Venus transit
    This mottled landscape showing the impact crater Tycho is among the most violent-looking places on our Moon. Astronomers didn't aim NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to study Tycho, however. The image was taken in preparation to observe the transit of Venus across the Sun's face on June 5-6. read more
  • Are educators showing a 'positive bias' to min ...
    Remember that teacher you grumbled about back in your school days, the really tough one who made you work so hard, insisted you could do better, and made you sweat for your A's? The one you didn't appreciate until after you graduated and realized how much you had learned? read more
  • Ancient volcanic blast provides more evidence ...
    The atmosphere of Mars is less than 1 percent the density of Earth's. It's one of the reasons liquid water covers much of our planet but cannot exist on the Red Planet. As more research points toward the possibility of water on early Mars, scientists have increased their studies on the density o ...
  • Different recipes for success in the world of ...
    In order to prevail against native plants, non-native plant species develop special strategies. These differ in part considerably from the propagation strategies of endemic plant species. Dr. Ingolf Kühn and Dr. Sonja Knapp of the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) reached th ...

unEarthed

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

Brave New Climate

  • What volume of synthetic hydrocarbon fuels can ...
    Guest Post by Chris Uhlik. Dr Uhlik did a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering at Stanford 1979–1990. He worked at Toyota in Japan, built robot controllers, cellular telephone systems, internet routers, and now does engineering management at Google. Among his 8 years of projects as an ...
  • The future of Brave New Climate
    Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.  ― Lao Tzu The Brave New Climate (BNC) blog has seen many changes in its almost 4 years of existence. I&#82 ...
  • IFR FaD 13 – cost comparison of IFR and therma ...
    This is the fourth and final part of the series of extracts from the book Plentiful Energy — The story of the Integral Fast Reactor by Chuck Till and Yoon Chang. Reproduced with permission of the authors, these sections describe and justify some of the key design choices that went into the makin ...
  • Off to Russia
    Well, I’m just about to hop on a plane to Russia to visit for a week — destination Moscow. This is part of my duties as a member of the International Awards Committee for the Global Energy Prize (see here for details). Whilst in the heart of the former Soviet Union, I’ll hook u ...
  • The Nuclear Energy Solution
    Guest Post by Bill Sacks and Greg Meyerson. Bill is a physicist and a radiologist, and wrote Lessons about nuclear energy from the Japanese quake and tsunami about a  month into the Fukushima crisis. Greg is an English professor with specialization in critical theory. Both are based in the U.S. ...

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

  • Activists Blockade Coal Train
    Activists set up a blockade to stop a coal train en route to Duke Energy’s Marshall coal plant in Terrell, North Carolina on May 3, 2012 and branded it with the Apple logo. The train is carrying coal extracted from … Continue reading →
  • May Day actions against UBS’ funding of ...
    Happy May Day, everybody! Today, Appalachians will demand that UBS stop funding and supporting mountaintop removal mining. Come out to our actions in: Asheville, NC 11 am at 138 Charlotte St. Knoxville, TN: 10 am at Market Square Chattanooga, 11 … Continue reading →
  • Welcome to Appalachia Rising!
    Welcome, friends and allies! Here is your home base for updates on this spring’s lineup of region-wide actions aimed at bringing an end to mountain top removal (MTR) coal mining in Appalachia. We hope you’ll stay tuned for stories and photos from … Continue reading →
  • Day of Action and Conference Vision Statements
    Appalachia Rising: Day of Action September 25 – 27, 2010, Washington DC Appalachia Rising is a mass mobilization in Washington DC on September 27, 2010 calling for the abolition of mountaintop removal and surface mining. It is a culmination of the national movement against surface mining and a f ...
  • Press Conference to be Held on June 15
    Thousands to March in DC Calling for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Press Conference June 15 in Charleston, WV Announces Mass Mobilization Appalachia Rising WHEN: June 15, 10:00 AM WHERE: WV State Capitol Back Steps Near Fountain, Charleston, WV CONTACTS: West Virginia Bo Webb – 304- ...

Amped Status

+972

  • Well-timed absentee voting bill – a blow ...
    By Issa Edward Boursheh In late March, just over a month before elections were announced, Cabinet Secretary Zvi Hauser revived an earlier effort to grant Israeli citizens abroad the right to vote. The argument in support of such a bill is that it could increase the level of overall voter partici ...
  • If gov’t had its way, Israel would right ...
    By Hagai El-Ad There is no factual basis for listing Israel alongside countries like Zimbabwe or Venezuela, but that is not thanks to the government’s efforts – which have fully pushed legislation against human rights NGOs; if the government actually had its way, then the recent condemnati ...
  • The writer who ended a 300-year long occupation
    I believe in literature, even more so than journalism. So I’m starting a writer’s workshop for local authors who work in English. Here’s why: It wasn’t the newspapers and journalists who freed the Filipino people from hundreds of years of Spanish colonialism. It was literature. ...
  • From Ofer to Ramle: Impressions of protests ac ...
    From the River to the Sea, Palestinians are prevented from protesting freely for their rights. Yesterday, I attended my first Palestinian demonstration across the Green Line, in front of Ramle Prison. Having been to many protests in the West Bank I was eager to assess the differences between the ...
  • Marginalized groups that Qatari PR would rathe ...
    The American network CBS – via itself flagship news magazine show, “60 Minutes” – gave the tiny peninsula Kingdom of Qatar a free ride in its report earlier this year exploring the small gulf nation. Correspondent Bob Simon, dubbed by the network itself as “the most ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

Matt Weidner Blog

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

abelard - news

The Parallel Parliament

  • Democracy in Reverse
    The challenges were immense, but I took it on as a task of goodwill. We had been asked to assist …Continue reading »
  • “False Options”
    Responding to a recent newspaper article I wrote on citizen engagement, one Londoner said in her email: “I’m just growing …Continue reading »
  • A Hill to Die On
    It all ended so badly – the tone perhaps worse than the ultimate decision. Following 10 years of diligent effort …Continue reading »
  • “Idiots”
    All of this is becoming a little passé and perhaps irrelevant these days, but to read the ideals of democracy …Continue reading »
  • Canada’s Game of Thrones
    Game of Thrones – a popular book series now made into a television series. It’s about power and the never-ending …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

Reader Supported News

  • Urgent Request for UN Intervention to Stabiliz ...
    Excerpt: "We Japanese civil organizations express our deepest concern that our government does not inform its citizens about the extent of risk of the Fukushima Daiichi Unit 4 spent nuclear fuel pool. It is imperative for the Japanese government and the international community to work together o ...
  • Urgent Request for UN Intervention to Stabiliz ...
    Excerpt: "We Japanese civil organizations express our deepest concern that our government does not inform its citizens about the extent of risk of the Fukushima Daiichi Unit 4 spent nuclear fuel pool. It is imperative for the Japanese government and the international community to work together o ...
  • FOCUS: Sneak Attacks
    Jane Mayer reports: "A new and highly aggressive multi-million-dollar anti-Obama ad campaign has started airing on television stations in eight key political swing states - but for now at least, the funders are staying hidden in the shadows." President Barack Obama is facing attack ads paid f ...
  • FOCUS: Sneak Attacks
    Jane Mayer reports: "A new and highly aggressive multi-million-dollar anti-Obama ad campaign has started airing on television stations in eight key political swing states - but for now at least, the funders are staying hidden in the shadows." President Barack Obama is facing attack ads paid f ...
  • NSA Building Foreign/Domestic Spying Supercent ...
    Excerpt: "A new expose in Wired Magazine reveals details about how the National Security Agency is quietly building the largest spy center in the country in Bluffdale, Utah, as part of a secret NSA surveillance program codenamed 'Stellar Wind.'" Wasatch Range in Bluffdale, Utah. (photo: Jesse ...

War Resisters League

  • “You Can’t Take What’s All o ...
    To mark the upcoming NATO summit to be held in May 2012 in Chicago and the simultaneous G8 summit to be held in Camp David, Maryland, War Resisters League and the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance release a new popular education … Continue reading →
  • كفى دموعا!
    كفى دموعا! بمناسبة يوم الارض الفلسطيني 2012, تُنشر النسخة العربية للكاريكاتير”كفى دموعا!” الذي يربط حركات للتغير حول العالم من خلال تحليل من ابرز الاسلحة التي تُستدخدم ضدها: الغاز المسيّل للدموع. بشكل سهل التناول, يسمّي “كفى دموعا!” الشركات التي تربح من … Continue r ...
  • A Story and a Book
    by Matt Meyer [This article was originally published on 'New Clear Vision' on February 15th, 2012.] On the Nature of Violence and Nonviolence Amidst a bombardment of Black Bloc commentary, questions about the militarized nature of tear-gas toting police, and … Continue reading →
  • “Exigent times call for very strenuous r ...
    [The WRL blog is excited to feature a film review by Jeanne Strole, co-director of the A.J. Muste Memorial Institute, with which the War Resisters League shares a long history, as well as the building at 339 Lafayette St. in … Continue reading →
  • More Deaths and Injuries from US Tear Gas in P ...
    [This piece by Adalah-NY: The New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel was originally published here on January 15th, 2012.] US-made tear gas, manufactured by companies like Combined Systems Inc. (CSI), Defense Technology, and NonLethal Technologies, continues to be … Continue reading & ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • SNAP and the Farm Bill Budget Visualizer
    Programs supported by the Farm Bill vary dramatically in size and scope from the $73 billion budgeted for SNAP to $5 million for Community Food Projects which aim to fight food insecurity through self-sufficiency and strengthening local food systems.
  • Ditching Meat One Day a Week: What, Exactly, I ...
    Not only did the Harvard researchers find that eating red meat was associated with an increased risk of death from all causes, but they also found a dose-response relationship with the risk of death increasing as the amount of meat consumed increased. Kind of scary, if you ask me; but the good n ...
  • Senators, let’s tie “soil insurance” to crop i ...
    The farm bill version that came out of the Senate Agriculture Committee on Thursday does not attach compliance to crop insurance, as no committee members offered such an amendment. However, with farm bill battles now shifting to the full Senate, there is still hope that an amendment could attach ...
  • Sustainable Food Systems for the 1 Percent
    Let me begin by saying I would love a mobile chicken coop in my backyard. In fact, I plan to build one this summer, hopefully for less than 100 dollars. I’m lucky enough that with an afternoon of work and a trip or three to the hardware store, I think I can accomplish this.  But [...]
  • Colbert Talks Chicken Feed
    Last week, Stephen Colbert used his signature blend of mock-outrage and wit on a topic very familiar to those of us here at the CLF. In a segment called “Thought For Food,” Colbert commented on news reports that cited a recently published CLF study that found antibiotics (some of which have been ...

k2p blog

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Spirit Decides It Doesn't Want To Be So Revile ...
    More than a week after a man with terminal cancer took his gripe with Spirit Airlines public -- and after several stern statements by Spirit that it would not, under any condition, bow to public pressure and refund the man his $197 -- the airline has bowed to public pressure and is refunding hi ...
  • Target, I'll Buy Three 4-Packs For Less Than T ...
    Target makes us giggle on a consistent basis. It's always trying so hard to offer customers a deal, but somehow, its resident mathematicians keep on failing at putting together a real discount. Consumerist reader Dane spotted the most recent pricing error and sent us a tip using our mobile tips ...
  • FBI To Internet Biggies: Pretty Please Give Us ...
    The FBI really wants to know why you won't just make it your Facebook friend or add it to your Google+ circle. That's why the bureau has reportedly been asking those companies, along with Microsoft, Yahoo and others, to not impede its proposal to require back doors that would give the feds easy ...
  • UK Checking To See If It Can Just Go Ahead And ...
    United Kingdom Internet users won't have to suddenly shut their eyes in shock when "accidentally" happening upon a pornographic web site, if the Prime Minister can figure out whether or not the government can just block all porn. For its citizens' sakes, of course. The Guardian says Prime Mini ...
  • Bank Of America Tells Family It Won't Foreclos ...
    For two years, a family in Washington state has been waiting for Bank of America to get its act together and finally figure out whether it's evicting them or whether it's going to adjust their mortgage. And it isn't a mere matter of backlogged paperwork that's holding things up. Rather, it's ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Jack Welch to Biz Leaders – 'You Can't Turn Yo ...
    Reuters: The Wal-Mart Mess: Everybody Does It (and we don’t mean bribery) Former GE Chairman and prominent businessman Jack Welch, along with his wife Suzy, have published an op-ed criticizing Wal-Mart for failing to heed the advice of whistleblowers in the wake of the Mexico/bribery scandal ...
  • BPA Whistleblower Vindicated: Daily Whistleblo ...
    Image courtesy of GJKendBangor Daily News: Maine to Pay $65K to Worker Demoted after Testing about BPA A Maine state employee was allegedly reassigned to a clerical job after she testified before a legislative committee about the dangers of BPA (a toxic chemical used in food packaging). In a ...
  • Jim Risen at the National Press Club: Democrac ...
    Last night, the National Press Club and Overseas Press Club of America hosted a prestigious panel discussion on Obama's war on whistleblowers. (Jake Tapper was set to moderate the discussion, but was called away for President Obama's "last year we got Bin Laden" speech). First to speak was New ...
  • Defective Equipment Installed at Hanford, Agai ...
    Associated Press: Report – Hanford Vessels Fail to Meet Requirements In the latest alarming news from the Hanford Nuclear Site, a federal audit has found that the Department of Energy and a contractor "procured and installed tanks that did not always meet requirements of a quality assurance ...
  • BP Exec Suspended after Whistleblower Alleges ...
    Daily Telegraph (UK): BP Suspends Executive at Centre of Bribe Allegations Summary: A BP whistleblower has come forward with a number of bribery allegations against a chartering manager, who has since been put on a leave of absence. The whistleblower claims he has a five-year catalogue of brib ...

UK Progressive

  • AIDS Healthcare Foundation Turns 25
    On Sunday, April 28, AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the nation’s largest HIV/AIDS medical provider, celebrated it’s 25th anniversary in Los Angeles at the Wilshire Ebell. Headed by Michael Weinstein, AHF is a formidable force within the HIV/AIDS world community due to his vision, intelligence ...
  • Dems’ War FOR Women
    Word on the street is Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Senate Democrats will launch a major battle supporting pay equity for the women of America that could be a defining moment in the 2012 campaign. Republican leaders complain about the phrase war against women that has been used, in my ...
  • Study: Super PACs Aired More Ads Than Candidates
    Negative advertising dominated airwaves By Michael Beckel Outside groups, including super PACs, have sponsored nearly 60 percent of the ads aired on broadcast television and national cable so far this election cycle, more than the candidates themselves, according to a new study. During the same ...
  • Op-Ed: Losing Web Privacy: How Many Pairs of G ...
    A month ago, I bought two pairs of glasses from GlassesDirect.co.uk. I also searched the web two days ago for a Dell wireless mouse. Now? EVERY website I visit (INCLUDING MY OWN WEBSITE USING GOOGLE ADSENSE!), places a banner advert urging me to buy the frames currently sitting on my face and/or ...
  • Romney’s Gay Fall Guy Grenell
    The presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, likes to play it safe. Romney avoids controversy, by any means necessary—even if he has to lie, flip-flop for, or somersault. When the news hit on the evening of April 19th that Richard Grenell, an openly gay Republican, was appointed ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Has CO2 warmed the planet at all in the last 5 ...
    Joint Post: Jo Nova and Tony Cox Even most skeptics agree that the world has been warming during the last 50 years, but there is apparently no significant underlying warming trend in 46 out of 47 years of data. Something decidedly unusual happened to the world in 1977 and we don’t know for ...
  • Tim Flannery in Parramatta will be happy to an ...
    Tim Flannery is paid to help you understand why Australia is getting a Carbon Tax in eight weeks time. If you can’t fathom why the nation which emits just 1.3% of all man-made CO2 is going to pay three times the current market rate to reduce world temperatures by 0.00 degrees C, I’m ...
  • Pathological exaggerators caught on death thre ...
    Here’s a character test on climate scientists and some of the media. It tells us much how concerned they are about truth, and how willing they are to be gullible fools, to have manners, decency, to milk even the most vaporous wisp of evidence into a national headline. Credit to Simon Turni ...
  • The IPCC 1990 FAR predictions were wrong
    Have the 1990 IPCC predictions been proved completely, unarguably and utterly wrong? Yes. They predicted that if our emissions stayed the same, temperatures would rise by 0.3 C per decade, and would be at the very least 0.2, and the most 0.5. Even by the most generous rehash of the data, the hig ...
  • Murdoch tweets about money printing and inflat ...
    The game is up when everyone knows the only way out is printing money, because then everyone knows inflation is coming, and the bun-fight begins. Everyone wants the wage rise, the payment now, and to buy the commodities that they won’t be able to afford tomorrow. Price tags begin that risi ...

ReNew America

  • No free nation without Representation
    (Alan Keyes) - A significant number of America's voters still believe in government of, by, and for the people. They still believe in the moral premises the American people first articulated in order to justify and explain their decision to separate and withdraw themselves from the dominion of t ...
  • The false worldview of liberal progressives
    (Fred Hutchison, RA analyst) - This essay begins with a recap and commentary on Thomas Sowell's brilliant critique of the old liberal obsession with "change" and with seeking socioeconomic "root-causes" for all social problems...
  • Obama's midnight madness
    (Washington Times) - Americans witnessed a bizarre made-for-TV event Tuesday night. President Obama travelled 14,000 miles to Afghanistan to engage in a midnight marathon of election-year photo-ops. Never has U.S. national security been so twisted to fit a personal political agenda...
  • Obamacare's big secret
    (Emily Miller) - Thanks to Obamacare, more people will find themselves without health insurance. It turns out President Obama's signature accomplishment was so badly drafted that businesses are likely to find it more cost-effective to pay a government penalty than provide insurance to their empl ...
  • Muslim, Mormon growth spurts found
    (Washington Times) - Mormonism and Islam are among the fastest growing religions in America, while just over half of all Americans are unaffiliated with any denomination, according to a major census of the country's religious congregations published Wednesday. The decennial census, released by t ...

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

  • Dec 21, 2012: The Darkest Day
    What if the end date of the ancient Mayan Long Count calendar was not meant to be taken literally? The first question you need to ask is this: Dec 21 is also the Winter Solstice (in the northern hemisphere) – the darkest day of the year, so it is a coincidence or deliberate? The second q ...
  • 2012 Solar Predictions from Patrick Geryl
    Patrick Geryl has shared with me his predictions for the remainder of 2012. They revolve around planetary alignments with the Sun. For example: October 13, 2012: Conjunction Mercury – Mars and the Sun Opposition Venus – Pluto across the Sun (weak) October 13 -14, 2012: Triple Line Up: P ...
  • Chiacgo Evacuation Plans: False Flag?
    Later this month (May 18-21), Chicago will be hosting a NATO Summit. Often such high-profile political meetings inspire riots and protests (like the 2004 NATO Summit in Turkey), yet strangely they keep choosing to have them in major cities (instead of somewhere less accessible). It’s almos ...
  • Magnetic Field & the GPS of Pigeons
    Certain neurons in pigeon brains encode the direction and intensity of Earth’s magnetic field, providing the common birds with an internal global positioning system, according to a new study. The findings in the study, published in the latest Science Express, likely apply to other birds as well ...
  • Survival Tips on YouTube
    I’m normally quite dismissive of YouTube when it comes to 2012 information. Although there are many thousands of videos about 2012, the majority are from faceless, nameless authors presenting unverifiable information – which only leads to more confusion on the topic. The other side o ...

Facing South

One News Page

  • Will social media break the next scam, trumpin ...
    The Singhvi video and the Pratibha Patil land grabs were social media events. Will an RTI-enabled social media break the next major scandal? Reported by Firstpost 55 minutes ago
  • Mumbai, Chennai to square off in a keen contest
    As the race to grab the top four spots heats up, fancied outfits CSK and MI will clash in what promises to be a riveting contest between the two IPL heavyweights. Reported by DNA 1 hour ago
  • American filmmaker opens up about China's recl ...
    The elusive mountain monks of China are gradually allowing foreigners to visit their shrines and learn about their harsh religious practices, says American filmmaker Edward A. Burger, the new face of global filmmaking. Reported by IndiaVision 2 hours ago
  • PHOTOS: Watch SUPERMOON this Sunday!
    The moon will be closest to the earth on Sunday than it will be on any other night in 2012 and will appear significantly larger. The phenomenon, called supermoon, this year coincides with `Buddha Purnima'. Reported by Rediff.com 2 hours ago
  • Spot-fixing is a closed chapter in my life: Asif
    Banned Pakistan pacer Mohammed Asif believes that with the completion of his jail sentence for spot-fixing, one of the most difficult phases of his life has hopefully come to an end. Reported by Rediff.com 2 hours ago

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • An Open Government Wrapped in the Internet
    On April 17-18, 2012 the First Annual High-Level Summit of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) will be held in Brazil. According to the dedicated page on the US State Department web-site, the OGP is ‘aimed at securing concrete commitments from governments to promote transparency, increase civi ...
  • Soros’s Virus Sneaking Into the Open Gov ...
    The first annual conference of the Open Government Partnership, an international group set up in New York by the US, UK,  Canada, Norway, Brazil, Mexico, Indonesia, the Philippines, and South Africa in September, 2011, will open in Brazil on April 17, 2012. Over the past six months, the partners ...
  • Who Are To Stand Up In the International Crimi ...
    Not long ago the International Criminal Court (ICC) handed down a noteworthy ruling. Formally it was related to two African states – Malawi and Chad visited by president of Sudan Omar al-Bashir. Their fault was not so much receiving him but rather not putting him under arrest. The warrant was is ...
  • Amnesty International Propaganda Targets Russi ...
    The Amnesty International “infographic” titled, “Shocking Facts About Who’s Arming Human Rights Abusers,” portraying Russia’s arming of Syria as “fueling the most bloodshed” is not “shocking” at all when one realizes the disingenuous human ri ...
  • What Missiles Are Threatening Europe?
    The issue of creating missile defense boundaries in Europe is largely political in nature. The United States is developing the system more for ensuring national security — officially from Iran, but in reality from China and possibly Russia. Otherwise, it is difficult to understand its persistenc ...

BlogHer

  • Cinco de Mayo: The Wise Latina Club at the Whi ...
    In five and a-half years of living and reporting in Washington, DC I had only been to the White House twice, once to shoot a stand up for a news story and the other time as a guest of a friend from grad school who was working for the Bush Administration and offered a tour.  In one month, I ...
  • Suing Southwest: Blogger Takes Customer of Siz ...
    Last year, Kenlie at All the Weigh wrote about how she was humiliated by a Southwest Airlines representative regarding her weight and their customer of size policy. Allegedly she has been asked to buy two tickets sometimes, but not others, and the situation seems to be determined by a gate agent ...
  • Nie Asks: What Do Your Kids Always Ask You to Do?
    What do your children always ask you to do for them? My girls ask me to paint their nails a different color almost every day. Your turn: Tell me or leave a link to a picture in the comments!
  • Initia-tainment: The Eco-Celebrity Campaign
    A Fortune 500 scion, a fimmaker and a minor celebrity walk into a bar...and they decide to change the world.   Bill Ford, Chairman of Ford Motor Company, strives to make his cars more earth-huggable. Peter Glatzer documents eccentric, intellectual environmentalists to serve as models f ...
  • Great Storybook Apps Beyond the Usual Suspects
    Karen Robertson at Digital Kid's Author has some top 10 lists of great kids apps, including some especially good storybook suggestions that are not the usual Disney and Dora stories. She writes, With the tens of thousands of storybook apps in the App Store, it’s no wonder the Top 50 list is usu ...

Health Freedom Alliance

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

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Friday roundup, May 4, 2012
    Pakistani Ghull Mohammed, 69, breaks coal as part of his daily work in a brick factory, during May Day, on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Tuesday, May 1, 2012. May Day is being marked across the world Tuesday. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen) The last word I had from China was: Five workers r ...
  • Coal ash update: What in the world are Sen. Ro ...
    This file handout photo provided by the Tennessee Valley Authority shows the massive ash spill at the Kingston Fossil Plant in Kingston, Tenn., on Dec. 23, 2008, the day following the spill.  (AP Photo/TVA, File) Folks over at the Daily Mail continue their somewhat unusual fascination with the t ...
  • Alpha reports $29 million loss in first quarte ...
    Here’s the latest, just out this morning from Alpha Natural Resources: Alpha Natural Resources, Inc., a leading U.S. coal producer, reported a first quarter net loss of $29.1 million or $0.13 per diluted share compared to net income of $49.8 million or $0.41 per diluted share last year. Ex ...
  • Citizens get win over Gov. Beshear in Ky. coal ...
    This just in from the Herald-Leader in Lexington, Ky.: In a unanimous rebuff of the Beshear administration’s environmental cabinet, the Kentucky Supreme Court has upheld citizens’ rights to be heard in clean water enforcement actions. “Federal law encourages the states to permi ...
  • UMWA wins big decision in Peabody case
    Dave Thearle, a member of the United Mine Workers of America, waves an American Flag during a rally in Waynesburg, Pa., in April 2011. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic) Here’s the lead on this story, from the AP: A federal judge has rejected a coal company’s objections over a union election ...

Daniel Miessler

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

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Saturday
    Arizona bans funding to Planned Parenthood in abortion fight Governor: ‘I stand with majority of Americans who oppose taxpayer funds for abortion’ Arizona Governor Jan Brewer on Friday signed into law a bill banning abortion providers like Planned Parenthood from receiving money thro ...
  • Be cool this Summer! And save some Cash too!
    Sale this Weekend! Save 33%  Cheap Tee’s this weekend  Reg. $15.00 Save 33% Now! We need your help! Check out our Store for other cool Hippie gear. When you do, you are showing your support for Citizen Journalism . You can also make a donation to Worldwide Hippies So we can keep up the &#8 ...
  • Hippie Trivia Question
    A new Trivia Question will be posted every Friday at 6:00 pm (EST). Trivia is open all week so enter often. You do not have to be correct, even a comment gets you in! Win a Worldwide Hippies Bumper Sticker. Post your answer in the comments section.     Answer to last question -Rick Dan ...
  • New Worries at Fukushima
    By Richard Schiffman - The story of Japan’s natural/nuclear disaster has faded from the headlines, but it is still relevant in the state of Alabama that has three reactors near the New Madrid fault line. In December, Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda declared that “a cold shutdown” had been ...
  • UN highlights role of press freedom as catalys ...
    Worldwidehippies,UN - United Nations top officials today highlighted the power of press freedom to spark social and political change and to hold governments accountable, stressing that this vital right must be ensured across the world by creating the conditions that allow journalists to perform ...

reference frame

  • Kaczynski Heartland billboard wasn't a blunder
    On Thursday, the Heartland Institute placed a playful digital billboard to the suburbs of Chicago. They also wrote down an explanation. People such as Ross McKitrick protested and the billboard was removed within 24 hours. Was the billboard right when it comes to the truth of ...
  • Klaus for CNN: Europe needs reforms like Czech ...
    Richard Quest of CNN has interviewed our president: Europe needs a fundamental change of the paradigm. Even the Maastricht upper limit on the budget deficit, 3%, is too high simply because we know that even during the good economic weather, nations don't make the nece ...
  • A menace called Francois Hollande
    Oil has lost 4.5 percent today, Dow Jones is losing 1.3 percent at this point. You may be looking for a culprit. What is his name? In May 2012, the main threat for the prosperity of the world isn't an asteroid or a global warming but a man who is as dangerous as 500 global warming ...
  • When experimental mathematics fails
    Interesting web technicality: Google has localized motls.blogspot.cz in many more smaller countries including Czechia, Slovakia, Denmark, and others. Many of you have surely shared the following attitude of mine. Since I was a kid, I had a pragmatical and "physical" attitude to the truth in ...
  • Bell denial: Scott Aaronson vs Joy Christian
    In March, I discussed Joy Christian's jihad against Bell's theorem. Now you may buy a book he was allowed to publish; if you do so, you will be among a dozen of people in the world who have "invested" their assets in this way. In the text a month ago, I explained that Bell's theore ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • André Faust exposes Fat Cats Occupying the Fre ...
    The Fat Cats of Fredericton have their own Occupy Movement: It appears that some citizens have occupied the Planning Advisory Committee so they can vote for development projects that they will own and will profit from. Yeah that is how the greasy wheels of Fat Fred City turn. Where is the Mayor ...
  • Ground Zero for Fascism in the USA: The Utah D ...
    The Utah Data Center is another sign we are heading towards a full blown dictatorship in America. Think Romney will make a difference, wait and see who he has brought on board as “advisors” Reporter PKG for Infowars reporter contest on the Utah Data Center, a 1-million square foot NS ...
  • Play Russian Baseball
    The Boys of Summer are back but I bet that you have never seen baseball played like this! Video Rating: 4 / 5 This post is courtesy of Robbie the Robot M-16 Lights and Sounds Machine Gun M16 MACHINE GUN 26″ Battery Operated L.E.D Lights Electronic Sound This M-16 Lights & Sounds Machi ...
  • FPS Russia: Prototype Quadrotor with Machine Gun!
      CLICK TO TWEET: http://clicktotweet.com/H73f8 FPSRussia Shirts: http://fpsrussia.spreadshirt.com/-C94489 Twitter: http://twitter.com/THEFPSHOW FaceBook: http://www.facebook.com/FPSRUSSIA Explosive Targets: http://redtargets.com/ Video Rating: 4 / 5 This post is courtesy of Robbie the Robo ...
  • Bob Tuskin Speaks with Andrew Basiago: Time Tr ...
    Andrew Basiago shares his story of time travel and Project Pegasus with activist and radio host Bob Tuskin. Very interesting info. What do you think? We’d like to get your opinions on this info. Real or Disinfo? Sorry for audio issues this was an impromptu recording by a third party. http: ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

  • Can't Stop the Big Mo
    Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
  • Grading Back-to-School Stocks
    Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
  • Merck: More Agony from Its Painkiller
    The costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either
  • At Motorola, "a Hop in Everybody's Step"
    CEO Ed Zander admits he hasn't checked every box on his to-do list. But he's happy to take credit for kick-starting innovation
  • Why Qualcomm Has Its Wallet Out
    The Elata and Flarion acquisitions reflect the outfit's need to keep abreast of tech's latest trends. Expect more of the same

Enviroblog

  • "Environmental Working Group (EWG) to the rescue."
    As we change gears from the Hall of Shame and begin to focus on the upcoming annual EWG Sunscreen Database, EWG research was mentioned in a number of consumer health stories. The Washington Post ran a story on preserving the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full li ...
  • New York Times' Kristof Lays Out the Case Agai ...
    In recent years, the incidence of hypospadias, a congenital malformation of the penis, has doubled. Leading health experts blame this surge on a family of toxic chemicals called endocrine disruptors, which attack the hormone system. Nicholas Kristof, a... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
  • Baby, Meet Frog; Frog, Meet Baby
    Renowned researcher and professor Tyrone Hayes has been studying the effects of the common herbicide atrazine for more than a decade. His findings contributed to the European Union's decision to ban this toxic endocrine disrupter. Much of his research... [[ This is a content summary only. V ...
  • Ryan Gosling and Dirty Cleaners
    The "Hall of Shame" of the dirtiest cleaners from our upcoming EWG Cleaners Database was released Monday evening to our email list and selective media outlets. EWG supporter feedback was impressive - the two posts to our Facebook fans received... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my ...
  • We've Been Slimed
    A guest post from Laura MacCleery Mom, attorney and blogger Last month, the New York Times published a story about my efforts when I was pregnant to rid my home of toxic chemicals. The story featured a photo of my... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Oslo tentatively OKs pursuing ‘OL’
    Both Norwegian athletic organizations and the Oslo City Council have approved moving forward with plans to apply for the Winter Olympics in Oslo in 2022. Many think they’re simply playing with Olympic fire. If so, it’s an expensive game. The preliminary planning process alone is expe ...
  • Sudan finally allows meeting with jailed aid w ...
    Norway’s ambassador to Sudan, Jen-Petter Kjemprud, was finally allowed to meet with jailed Norwegian aid worker John Sörbö, five days after he was arrested while on a mine-clearing mission along the disputed border between Sudan and South Sudan. Sörbö, who was working for Norsk Folkehjelp ...
  • Disability claims rise
    One out of every 10 Norwegian workers is off on disability leave, according to new figures from state welfare agency NAV. A total of 311,200 persons were receiving disability payments at the end of March. That’s up by 8,800 persons from the same time last year, and amounts to an increase o ...
  • Norway cool to bailing out SAS
    Norway’s government minister in charge of business and trade doesn’t seem inclined to infuse Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) with more capital, after the airline reported more heavy losses this week. Norwegian Trade Minister Trond Giske called SAS’ financial situation “worris ...
  • Troubled ministry under probe
    Norway’s Justice Ministry, badly hit by last summer’s terrorist attacks and suffering from low morale, now has another problem to deal with: Police have been called in to investigate how a long-time bureaucrat allegedly allocated more than NOK 4 million to various organizations throu ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Food Forests, Part 3: Closing the Loop
    Local legend around here has it that at some point in the past a guy by the colourful name of the “bush bandit” removed most of the topsoil from the land hereabouts and sold it off to householders in Melbourne for their gardens and lawns. Whether this story is true or not, I can only ...
  • APC11 Presentation: Albert Bates on Biochar (V ...
    Albert Bates talks about biochar at APC11 (Turangi, New Zealand) Photo © Craig Mackintosh I’m personally unsure about biochar. This is not because I have anything significant to say against it (at the small, localised scale, at least), but rather just because I find it hard to promo ...
  • International Permaculture Day, Sunday the 6th ...
    Celebrates all things permaculture around the world. Get involved with International Permaculture Day! Permaculture in Ecuador The Permaculture Day concept is one that celebrates all things permaculture around the world on the same day or weekend, if possible. The events are hosted and funde ...
  • Meat Consumption in China Now Double that in t ...
    by Janet Larson, Earth Policy Institute More than a quarter of all the meat produced worldwide is now eaten in China, and the country’s 1.35 billion people are hungry for more. In 1978, China’s meat consumption of 8 million tons was one third the U.S. consumption of 24 million tons. ...
  • Permaculture on Bay FM – the Most Easterly Sta ...
    Bay FM Community Radio is a volunteer run, not for profit radio station committed to keeping the community informed on local and global issues, presenting music and information not available on other media in this area, and on creating and maintaining a positive spirit in the community. From M ...

Pointman's

  • For Nicholas, a birth poem.
      Against the odds, you were a boy, Confounding sages of such things, From bump to boy, with Marie’s help, We loved your baby screams.   Your limbs they are so smooth and straight, Your bones so hard and pointy, Your chubby cheeks and cupid lips, Your back so warm and downy.   In sleep&#16 ...
  • For Nicholas, a birth poem.
      Against the odds, you were a boy, Confounding sages of such things, From bump to boy, with Marie’s help, We loved your baby screams.   Your limbs they are so smooth and straight, Your bones so hard and pointy, Your chubby cheeks and cupid lips, Your back so warm and downy.   In sleep&#16 ...
  • Lies, damn lies and polls.
    Some time ago and in the context of climategate, I put forward the opinion that it would eventually produce two big losers and one big winner. The two losers were going to be climate science and the mainstream media (MSM), while the big winner was going to be the blogosphere. Climategate, import ...
  • Lies, damn lies and polls.
    Some time ago and in the context of climategate, I put forward the opinion that it would eventually produce two big losers and one big winner. The two losers were going to be climate science and the mainstream media (MSM), while the big winner was going to be the blogosphere. Climategate, import ...
  • There’s a killer in your house.
    This year marks the final phase out of incandescent light bulbs in the EU, and their total replacement by what’s termed compact fluorescent lamps or CFLs. The reasons given for this move are that CFLs are more environmentally friendly, because they reduce CO2  emissions, and more energy-ef ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

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

Information Underground

  • Economics, Money/Banking, Investments, Profite ...
    Catalogs the endless Jew Scams around the J-Tribe Housing Bubble: iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMTym4rM2ZcStatistics: Posted by CrackSmokeRepublican — Sat May 05, 2012 1:47 am
  • Social Engineering • Jewish Supremacists Push ...
    Jewish Supremacists Push Mixed Marriages for Everyone—Except Jews Administrator Apr 30, 2012 | Jewish Supremacist organizations are the first to attack any group (such as European Americans or the Nation of Islam) who support diversity and the maintenance of individual cultures and peoples ...
  • Technology, Energy, Genetically Modified or En ...
    Israeli military to keep tabs on Facebook, Twitter http://rt.com/news/israel-censor-social-media-515/ email story to a friend print version Published: 03 May, 2012, 18:14 Israeli military to keep tabs on Facebook, Twitter Israel is the latest country to turn your Facebook posts and Twit ...
  • Crimes of Israel, IDF, Zionists, Mossad or &qu ...
    Fleeing the disgusting and illegal jewiish settlements by Econ_ on 29.04.2012 [11:52 ] This is how the jews manipulate the functional illiterates in America. Americans only get the "What" and never the "WHY". Broadcast television is for lazy and feeble minded Americans wh ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Hi Michelle, Thanks for your courteous response. My apologizes for linking those two sites to Texe Marrs (again I don't follow Mr. Marrs very closely). I do have a question for you about Mike Stathis though. I have followed Mike's work for a couple of years now (he too has no paid advertiser ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Greenland Glaciers Moving More Slowly Than Pr ...
    A new U.S. study says that Greenland’s glaciers are sliding into the sea more slowly than previously estimated, a finding that may indicate future sea level rise will not be as high as some projected worst-case scenarios. Using satellite data to track changes to 200 outlet glaciers from 2000 to ...
  • Japan Goes Nuclear-Free For the First Time in ...
    Japan will shut down its last working nuclear power station this weekend, culminating — at least for now — a national shift away from nuclear energy in the aftermath of last year’s Fukushima disaster. The shutdown of the No. 3 Tomari reactor in Hokkaido will leave the country w ...
  • Earth Observation Satellites Threatened by Bud ...
    Budget shortfalls, launch failures, and mission changes have caused a decline in U.S. earth observation satellites over the last five years, a trend that could undermine the nation’s ability to forecast weather and monitor natural disasters and climate change, according to a new report. The repo ...
  • Experiments Underestimate Plant Responses to G ...
    Studies designed to predict how plants and trees will react to rising temperatures have consistently underestimated those responses, with the actual flowering and leafing of plants advancing far more rapidly than most experiments forecast. That is the conclusion of new research by Canadian and U ...
  • Will Solar Windows Transform Buildings to Ener ...
    The vast amount of glass in skyscrapers and office buildings represents enormous potential for an emerging technology that turns windows into solar panels. But major questions remain as to whether solar windows can be sufficiently inexpensive and efficient to be widely adopted. BY DAVE LEVITAN

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • 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. ...

Daily Beast

  • How Hillary Got Shafted
    To protect the president, the White House is letting Hillary Clinton take the heat on the Chen Guangcheng affair.
  • Nobel Peace Prize For Gay Rights?
    The message of gay rights may have gone global for young people, but for their elders it’s often lost in translation, writes Jay Michaelson.
  • Life After Sports
    The transition from sports star to retirement shouldn’t be a prison sentence. By Doug Glanville.
  • Models vs. Militants
    A riveting new documentary follows a Miss India hopeful and a Hindu fundamentalist. By Abigail Pesta.
  • Can Tony Blair Make a Comeback?
    Tony Blair plainly misses the power of Downing Street, but just how he expects to regain his former power is hard to fathom.

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Heat blast Knicks, eye sweep
    LeBron James alternated fouls and fumbles, the crowd howling in delight with every one of his mistakes. Finally forced to sit for most of the third quarter, James wasn't mad, and the Miami Heat weren't worried.
  • NPA to poll public about letting 18-, 20-year- ...
    The National Police Agency will survey the public about whether the legal age for drinking and smoking should be lowered from the current 20 years old, Jiji Press learned Friday. With the government discussing whether to cut the statutory age of adulthood from 20 to 18 in line with recent move ...
  • Kings on brink of ousting Blues as playoff run ...
    When captain Dustin Brown crunched Alex Pietrangelo with a hit along the boards in the opening minutes, the Los Angeles Kings knew they hadn't lost whatever fire has driven them deep into the playoffs. The eighth-seeded Kings are a team transformed, executing against St. Louis with all the pre ...
  • Tokyo, Beijing plan nuke safety dialogue
    Visiting Environment Minister Goshi Hosono and his Chinese counterpart have confirmed that Tokyo and Beijing will exchange information and views on nuclear safety regulations. Hosono and Zhou Shengxian, China's minister of environmental protection, agreed Thursday to create a framework for dia ...
  • Seau suicide highlights brain injuries
    Dave Duerson made it easy to understand why he was ending his tortured life. Before the former Chicago Bears star fired a bullet into his chest last year, he left word with his family to have his brain examined for damage he believed was caused by repeated blows to the head from his hell-bent ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Opting Out of Union Dues
    Murray Mandryk’s excellent column today saves me the trouble of writing a lengthy blog post on the Saskatchewan government’s recent musings about labour legislation. From an economic perspective, it’s worth noting that enabling unionized workers to opt out of paying union dues would create a cla ...
  • While You Were Sleeping: Fed Policies Make It ...
     A shorter version of this article appeared today in the Globe and Mail’s Economy Lab Have you noticed how common it has become to talk about replacing workers with even cheaper workers? If you’re looking over your shoulder, you’re not paranoid; you’re paying attention. T ...
  • Meilinomics II: Income from Within
    The following is another excerpt from Dr. Ryan Meili’s new book, A Healthy Society: How a Focus on Health Can Revive Canadian Democracy, which fellow blogger Greg Fingas has been discussing. The road to Tevele is red sand and sloppy in the rainy season. The pick- up truck bounces in and out of r ...
  • Educated Analysis or Cappuccino Logic: Respond ...
    It was bound to happen. After almost three months, Margaret Wente finally got wind of this kerfuffle in Quebec about students refusing to buy into the whole “but it’s just the cost of a cappuccino a day!” rationale for why a 75% increase in tuition fees over five (maybe seven) years is, like, th ...
  • The Federal Budget and Women
    (This post is from my colleague Angella MacEwen.) The only mention of either men or women in the 400-odd page 2012 Budget Implementation Bill is with regards to the appropriate use of donated sperm and ova. In analysis and discussions of the proposed omnibus bill, differential impacts for women, ...

ReDress

  • Israel's hawks in open revolt against war on Iran
    Uri Avnery looks at how a number of leading hardliners in Israel's military and security establishments have spoken out against the Israeli government's plans for an attack on Iran's nuclear installations and called into question the fitness for office of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and De ...
  • Intimidated, detained and tortured: false impr ...
    Graham Peebles calls on the international community, especially donor nations, to take action against the Meles Zenawi regime in Ethiopia, including freezing personal assets and imposing targeted sanctions, to force it to end its gross human rights violations.
  • The dysfunctional ideology of Jewishness
    Palestinian academic Mazin Qumsiyeh argues that Gilad Atzmon's book The Wandering Who? provides invaluable insight into the ideology of Jewishness - crucial for understanding Israeli behaviour and the conflict in the Middle East - and urges people to engage with the ideas laid out in the book ra ...
  • American Methodists must be fearless about div ...
    Stuart Littlewood calls on US Methodists to be courageous and ignore pressure from Christian Zionists by supporting divestment from companies that profiteer from the brutal Israeli occupation of Palestine, arguing that British Methodists had "blazed a trail through this minefield" nearly two yea ...
  • Israel propagandist David Horowitz and the art ...
    Lawrence Davidson examines the use of slander by US conservative writer David Horowitz to damn the boycott Israel campaign. He argues that Horowitz "displays the prejudice of a fanatic and tries to pass it off as reason” but that he “may well have overstepped and made himself the subject of crit ...

Physics Today

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

Revolutionary Politics

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

Peakwater

  • It’s Raining, Again: Britain Endures Dam ...
    “Sodden fields. Deep puddles. Flash floods. This is what drought looks like in Britain. Last month, water authorities banned 20 million U.K. homeowners from using hoses to water their lawns or wash their cars, saying two exceptionally dry winters had plunged much of Britain into drought. S ...
  • Fishermen Fire Shot in California Water Wars
    “California fishermen and crabbers call the federal decision to divert water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta “a charade devoid of any effective environmental review,” in Federal Court. The Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations and the San Franci ...
  • Drinking Water Under Threat: New Study Predict ...
      “Scientists have theorized that impermeable layers of rock would keep the fluid, which contains benzene and other dangerous chemicals, safely locked nearly a mile below water supplies. This view of the earth’s underground geology is a cornerstone of the industry’s argume ...
  • Big Changes in Ocean Salinity Intensifying Wat ...
    “A paper in Science today finds rapidly changing ocean salinities as a result of a warming atmosphere have intensified the global water cycle (evaporation and precipitation) by an incredible 4 percent between 1950 and 2000. That’s twice the rate predicted by models. These same models ...
  • Belo Monte Insurer Dropped from Sustainability ...
    “The construction of the Belo Monte dam in the Amazon region of Brazil has come under heavy criticism because of the impact the dam may have on the environment and local residents. Experts anticipate that it will have adverse effects on the Amazon rainforest, particularly on species divers ...

D. Kucinich

  • Kucinich: NATO Missile Defense Program Provoke ...
    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 Treaty Organization (at the behest of the United ...
  • Congressman Kucinich Announces Winners of 2012 ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today announced the winners of the 2012 10th Congressional District Art Contest. The Congressional Art Contest is sponsored by Members of Congress throughout the country annually for public and private high school students.  The winning entry will be sent ...
  • Kucinich: Latest Drop in “Official” Unemployme ...
    “How Long Can We Stand Idly By? There is a Path to Full Employment.” Washington, May 4, 2012 -Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today made the following statement after the Department of Labor issued new employment data showing that 115,000 private-sector jobs were added in the month of April ...
  • Kucinich: Forty Two Years after the Shootings ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement in remembrance of the Kent State tragedy which occurred 42 years ago today on May 4, 1970. Kucinich also called upon the Department of Justice (DOJ) to release the full analysis of an audiotape of the shooting. Kucinich ha ...
  • Kucinich Welcomes NRC Hearing to Examine Davis ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement welcoming a decision by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to hear oral arguments before the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board on May 18, 2012 in Port Clinton, Ohio. The arguments will concern whether cracks in the Davis-Be ...

Authentically Wired

  • all declared BP thoroughly cleaned
    …Why, EPA … USDA … FDA … all declared BP thoroughly cleaned up the Gulf following their catastrophic oil spill and dispersal of 800,000 gallons of the toxic chemical COREXIT® 9500 into the ocean …   Gulf Coast Waters Closed to Shrimping   State officials in Alabama have taken ...
  • really can’t be true
    …This really can’t be true as corporate owned EPA …Oil/Gas Institute … Oil/Gas Sanctioned Academic studies all swear and declare FRACKING is $afe…!   Independent Test Results Show Fracking Flowback Emissions Are Dangerous Toxic Chemicals   By- Earthworks…Posted on April 28, 2012, Print ...
  • Water issues you may not be aware of
    … Water issues you may not be aware of … Recognising Customary Rights: Pastoralist communities have developed livestock breeds that are invaluable assets. They are critical to conserving bio-diversity, adapting to climate change and for food security in harsh, arid environments. This video expla ...
  • Stuff Falling Apart
      Is Your Stuff Falling Apart? Thank Wal-Mart     By Stacy Mitchell, Grist.org…Posted on May 1, 2012, Printed on May 2, 2012… http://www.alternet.org/story/155238/is_your_stuff_falling_apart_thank_wal-mart My friend Tony’s closet is as good a place as any to begin an investigation ...
  • Most Americans are not aware of … Posse ...
      …Most Americans are not aware of …  Posse Comitatus Act  … is the United States federal law (18 U.S.C. § 1385, original at 20 Stat. 152) that was passed on June 18, 1878, after the end of Reconstruction. Its intent (in concert with the Insurrection ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

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

Science - NZ Herald

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

The Bovine

  • Shropshire sheep killed, were found not diseas ...
    No other story in the nearly three year history of the Bovine blog has generated the kind of ongoing heated debate that we’ve seen around the Montana Jones Shropshire sheep saga. Here is the latest: **CFIA Sheep/Scrapie NEWS UPDATE ** … Continue reading →
  • Karen Selick’s letter to the Globe and M ...
    From Karen Selick in the Globe and Mail letters section: It’s important to put the recent scrapie incident in perspective (Eradicating Scrapie – letter, May 1). The neurodegenerative disease has been around for at least 280 years; the Canadian Food … Continue reading →
  • The robot lawnmowers of Sweden and the future ...
    When I was visiting family friends in Sweden a few years ago, I was intrigued to see that the man in the house next door had a robot lawnmower cutting his grass. We don’t see that so much in North … Continue reading →
  • Vermont legislature may revoke exemption for c ...
    From the Alliance for Natural Health: “The philosophical exemption will likely be revoked if we don’t take action. As we reported in March, a bill threatening a parent’s right to refuse vaccination for their child using a philosophical exemption was … Continue reading →
  • The Shropshires and a loss of common sense &#8 ...
    Commentary from raw milk farmer Michael Schmidt: Are we at War? As the news spreads fast about the latest assault on a small farm in Eastern Ontario I ask myself if we are entering into a new and dangerous face of … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Payroll Disaster: Nonfarm Payroll +115,000 Est ...
    Quick Notes About the Unemployment Rate US Unemployment Rate fell .01 to 8.1%   In the last year, the civilian population rose by 3,638,000. Yet the labor force only rose by 945,000. Those not in the labor force rose by 2,693,000.   The Civilian Labor Force fell by 34 ...
  • Spotlight Australia: Collapse in Service Secto ...
    Australia in in grim shape. Retailers are going under, home prices are sinking, and there is no an enormous collapse in the entire service sector. Collapse in Service Sector Markit reports Australia Services Sector Slumps in April KEY FINDINGS The latest seasonally adjusted ...
  • California has 12% of US Population, 33% of We ...
    Chief Executive’s eighth annual survey of best states to do business shows Another Triumph for Texas In Chief Executive’s eighth annual survey of CEO opinion of Best and Worst States in which to do business, Texas easily clinched the No. 1 rank, the eighth successive time it has done so. Ca ...
  • Comments from Brazil on Brazil and China: Nonp ...
    This morning I received an email from Otavio who lives in Brazil. Otavio writes ... Hi Mish, Hello from Brazil. Much of what we both expected has begun to occur in Brazil since we exchanged emails last year. The economy has slowed down greatly. We are on the brink of a recession here, i ...
  • When All Else Fails, Hope For More Stimulus
    Eurozone Markit Final Manufacturing PMI numbers were released yesterday. The results, as I warned months in advance, were decidedly not pretty. Final Markit Eurozone Manufacturing PMI at 34-month low of 45.9  Production declines across big-four economies for first time in the year ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

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

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

Press TV

  • China rents tanker to carry Iran oil
    China's state-owned Zhuhai Zhenrong Co. has provisionally leased an oil tanker to carry fuel oil from the Islamic Republic despite the Western sanctions imposed on the Iranian oil sector.
  • UK seeks partners for military campaigns
    The British Defense Secretary’s recent visit to Berlin has revealed London’s thirst for more devastating wars and its desperate efforts to persuade other countries to pay for its military adventurism.
  • ‘Iran talks may lead to breakthrough’
    The chairwoman of the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has supported the upcoming talks between Tehran and the P5+1 over Iran's nuclear energy program, saying they "may lead to a breakthrough".
  • 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.
  • ACLU wants 9/11‘terrorists’ statements
    The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has officially requested public access to statements made by alleged conspirators of the September 11 attacks.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

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

Nick Turse

  • Bahraini Shiite Muslim women take part in a La ...
    Bahraini Shiite Muslim women take part in a Labour Day pro-democracy protest in the Manama suburb of Sanabis on May 1, 2012. Hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets of Shiite villages in Bahrain to demand being reinstated in jobs from which they were fired during last year’s uprising, wit ...
  • An Israeli soldier restrains a Palestinian pro ...
    An Israeli soldier restrains a Palestinian protester, grimacing after being hit by ‘skunk’ liquid after she was forced down from atop an Israeli military vehicle where she stood waving her national flag, during a protest by some 300 people outside Ofer military prison near the West Bank city of ...
  • A female protester associated with the Occupy ...
    A female protester associated with the Occupy Wall Street movement is arrested while marching through traffic in lower Manhattan on May 1, 2012 in New York City. May 1st, Labor Day, is a traditional day of global protest in sympathy with union and leftist politics. Getty
  • A demonstrator grimaces after she was pepper s ...
    A demonstrator grimaces after she was pepper sprayed by Israeli troops during a protest calling for the release prisoners jailed in Israel outside the Ofer military prison, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, Tuesday May 1, 2012. (Majdi Mohammed)
  • A demonstrator grimaces after she was pepper s ...
    A demonstrator grimaces after she was pepper sprayed by Israeli troops during a protest calling for the release prisoners jailed in Israel outside the Ofer military prison, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, Tuesday May 1, 2012. (Majdi Mohammed)
Related articles
Enhanced by Zemanta
Posted by opit at 9:37 AM

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)