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Thomas Paine

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

Monday, May 7, 2012

7 May - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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An artist's conception of a supermassive black...An artist's conception of a supermassive black hole and accretion disk. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) begins its se...The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) begins its separation from Space Shuttle Discovery following its release on mission STS-82. Svenska: Hubble i februari 1997, fotograferad av besättningen ombord på rymdfärjan Discovery. മലയാളം: ദൗത്യം എസ്.റ്റി.എസ്.-82-നു ശേഷം ഹബിൾ ബഹിരാകാശ ദൂരദർശിനി സ്പേസ് ഷട്ടിൽ ഡിസ്കവറിയിൽ നിന്ന് വിട്ട് മാറാൻ തുടങ്ങുന്നു. Español: El telescopio espacial Hubble comienza su separación del Transbordador espacial Discivery después de su lanzamiento en la misión STS-82. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Illegal and Brutal Detainment Lives on in Yemen
    "They made me drink my own urine," said one former detainee, Addam Ayedh al-Shayef, describing his experiences in detainment in Yemen. "When I refused to drink it, they electrocuted me. After I came home, I would dream I was still being tortured and I'd wake up screaming."
  • Mubarak Still Has His Billions
    More than a year since president Hosni Mubarak was removed from power, the money he allegedly syphoned from Egypt during his 29-year rule remains beyond the reach of authorities attempting to recover it.
  • Next Round of Pacific Trade Talks Pact to Be L ...
    On Tuesday, the latest round of negotiations begins on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), potentially the largest free trade agreement ever signed by the United States.
  • U.N. Fails to Finalise Rio+20 Plan on Sustaina ...
    After two weeks of closed door negotiations, a U.N. preparatory committee (PrepCom) has failed to reach consensus on a global plan of action, titled "The Future We Want," to be adopted by a summit meeting of world leaders mid-June in Brazil.
  • Small Island States Combining Forces In Prepar ...
    By the time small island developing states (SIDS) arrive at the Rio+20 conference in Brazil in June, they will have worked hard to co-ordinate their message to the rest of the world about the importance of sustainable development for their countries.

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Israel stokes the 'Iran threat'
    Summary: Germany's highly public delivery last week to Israel of its fourth nuclear-armed capable submarine has been accompanied by Israeli spin regarding its significance as a warning signal to Iran, thus raising the question of timing: why is Israel tacitly presenting the specter of a nucle ...
  • Israel and Iran: A Lesson from a “Dispute-Reso ...
    Summary: The professionals are implying that there is no justification, whether from a realistic threat perspective or under international law, for attacking Iran economically or militarily. source: LobeLogread more
  • Comment | Hollande Victory in France Lessens L ...
    Summary: Socialist Party lawmaker Jean-Louis Bianco, author of a 2008 parliamentary report on Iran, declared that economic sanctions against the Islamic Republic in response to its nuclear program have been productive and that "our line would be one of great firmness." Bianco, who was chief o ...
  • Iran hopes for socialist victory
    Summary: Tehran is abuzz with optimism that it may no longer have to deal with the hawkish and Islamophobic Nicolas Sarkozy, widely considered the staunchest pro-Israel French president ever, if he is voted out of office in run-off elections on Sunday and replaced by the comparatively more mo ...
  • Some Facts About Iran's Nuclear Activities
    Summary: Peace & Neutrality Alliance (PANA) calls for the immediate termination of the oil embargo and other sanctions on Iran, and the stopping of the drumbeat of war. PANA also call for the Irish government to show its commitment to diplomacy and the pacific settlement of this internat ...

The Daily Galaxy

Natural News

  • Days Gone By - part 2 (opinion)
    (NaturalNews)To all you peeps out there that survived the 30's, 40's 50's 60's and 70's; this is our entry into Ripley's history. First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from...
  • Iceland forgives mortgage debt to save its ec ...
    It's probably not a concept that most U.S. banks and lawmakers want to think about, but the fact is, Iceland's economy has grown by leaps and bounds since the government there implemented widespread debt forgiveness for many of its citizens. The initiative came about...
  • Vitamin E from diet shown to protect against m ...
    Cancer is a leading cause of death in many western cultures, second only to heart disease. A wide array of research bodies exist to provide solid evidence that this killer disease is largely promoted by poor lifestyle habits, especially diet. Medical researchers have...
  • Obesity is bankrupting America, disease costs soar
    Forget the budget battles in Washington, D.C., although those are important. Want to know what one of the biggest issues is - literally - behind the bankrupting of our country? Obesity. No, we're not kidding. In fact, new analyses of data surrounding obesity reveal...
  • Use these natural remedies to fight and overco ...
    Nearly half of the meat sold in the United States has been found to contain methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MSRA), a strain that causes a staph infection but is resistant to antibiotic drugs. Antibiotic resistance caused by overusing antibiotics in people...

Threat Level

  • Seized Hip-Hop Site Lashes Out At Feds, RIAA
    The hip-hop music site the authorities shuttered for more than a year without explanation lashed out Monday at the recording industry and the federal government, likening the taking of the site to a “digital Guantanamo.” “Seizing a blog for linking to four songs, even allegedly ...
  • Homeland Security Concedes Airport Body Scanne ...
    Federal investigators have "identified vulnerabilities in the screening process" at domestic airports, the Department of Homeland Security says in a classified report. An unclassified version of the report, unearthed Friday by the Electronic Information Privacy Center, may give credence to a rec ...
  • Americans’ Challenge to No-Fly List Gets Day i ...
    About a dozen U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents who cannot fly to or from the United States because they are on the so-called "no-fly list" will finally have their case heard by a federal appeals court Friday.
  • Minting the Digital Currency of the Future
    A few weeks ago the Royal Canadian Mint rolled out MintChip, a digital currency that is “better than cash.” It isn’t an alternative currency in that it’s a digital representation of the sovereign currency — the Canadian dollar. Nevertheless, digital money geeks are atwitter, especially with comp ...
  • Everyone Has Been Hacked. Now What?
    Hackers are everywhere and everyone has been hacked. So what's a company to do?

PERRspectives : Blog

  • The Life of Mitt
    Conservatives this week were quick to mock the Obama campaign's "The Life of Julia," an online slideshow highlighting how government investments in education, health care, small business and retirement security help enable the children of working families to climb the ladder of social mobility. ...
  • Infallible Bush Team Accuses Obama of Playing ...
    Desperate to deny President Obama any credit for the daring Bin Laden operation in Pakistan that George W. Bush, John McCain and Mitt Romney were on record as having opposed, veterans of Dubya's administration and their right-wing water carriers are trying a new and similarly despicable tactic. ...
  • 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 ...

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)
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  • Charmed Into Battle: How a Volunteering Vacati ...
    About to turn thirty, Conor Grennan planned a year-long trip around the world. He started his trip with a three-month stint volunteering in the Little Princes Orphanage in war-torn Nepal. What was supposed to be just a three-month experience changed Conor's life, and the lives of countless other ...

Planetsave

  • Bicycle Superhighway Opens
    Bikes and Northern Europeans — They Really Have It Going On   April 14, 2012 — the first part of a Bicycle Superhighway network opened. Copenhagenize brought us the story of new bike routes that will help Copenhagen to continue leading the way in this arena. Dreams are coming ...
  • Seeds of Change® Inspires: Donating Millions o ...
      Helpful Little Hands Filled with Organic Seeds   Sowing Millions, Growing Minds  is a program launched by Seeds of Change® April 24, 2012. What a blessing of a program this is for precious growing minds, helpful little hands who will now become conscious of health in food and commun ...
  • 8 Upcycling Craft Ideas for Families
      Spending time as a family is important. Finding something fun to do that costs little or nothing isn’t always so simple, however, especially when you have children who are easily distracted. It is what usually leads so many to spend a lot going out to theme parks and other expensiv ...
  • Massive Prehistoric Crocodile Discovered, Big ...
    Fossils of a prehistoric crocodile big enough to swallow humans have been discovered in East Africa. “It’s the largest known true crocodile,” says Christopher Brochu, associate professor of geoscience. “It may have exceeded 27 feet in length. By comparison, the largest recorded Nile croco ...
  • Second-Generation Biofuels — Cellulosic Ethanol
      The need to save the world from the abundance of environmental problems is increasing apace. The daily wave of Armageddon-type scenarios thrust upon us from the minute we switch on our electronica is so unnerving it requires a significant amount of denial to prevent constant anxiousness ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • US jobless toll—a failure of capitalism - Work ...
    7 May 2012 Friday’s US jobless report, the most dismal so far this year, demonstrates the complete failure of the capitalist system to provide jobs for the unemployed. Nearly five years after the official beginning of the recession, and nearly four years since the collapse of Lehman Brothers ...
  • "We do not want to die in the rubble of neolib ...
    Editor's Comment: We thank Siv O'Neall for translating Pierre Larrouturou's article below. It serves as an example of the theme that dominates the liberal response to the collapsing capitalist system and all that follows in its wake. The author's "solution" to "the situation of the global econom ...
  • Unmasked: Meet The FBI's Bridge Bomb Plot Snit ...
    The paid informant who helped orchestrate the FBI sting that resulted in the arrest of five anarchists for allegedly plotting to blow up an Ohio bridge is a convicted felon who was arrested on bad check and theft charges in the midst of his cooperation with federal investigators, The Smoking...
  • Financial markets reeling after France and Gre ...
    Election of anti-austerity François Hollande in France and hung parliament in Greece create uncertainty about eurozone debt crisis Asian stock markets have been pummelled by election results in France and Greece that have heightened uncertainty about Europe's ability to solve its debt cr ...
  • Socialists oust Sarkozy in French election - W ...
    Socialist Francois Hollande swept to victory in France’s presidential election on Sunday in a swing to the left at the heart of Europe and promised to start a pushback against German-led austerity policies. Hollande led conservative incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy by 51.3% to 48.7% with 83% o ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Songs to Fight the Plutocracy By: "House of th ...
    By @KYYellowDog Leadbelly's original Uploaded by sessionsinthedesert on Mar 8, 2008 there is a house in new orleans they call the rising sun it's been the ruin of a many a poor girl and me, oh god are one if i had listened like momma said i would not be here today but being so young and foo ...
  • Monday Morning Quad Shot
    By @BGinKC Well, that happened...I was only semi-connected from Friday night until this morning due to a wiring problem that AT&T had to send two different techs out to fix. The good news is, I'm now getting the service I've been paying for all this time. And this time when the internet went dow ...
  • The Source of Secularism
    By @KYYellowDog Freakazoids and repugs like to pretend that secularism was invented by American communists in the 1950s, if not by Bill Ayers while mentoring Barack Obama in the 1980s. Secularism in fact arose more than 300 years ago, during the - very appropriately named - Enlightenment. Alan C ...
  • Escape the WalMart Stable, Michelle
    By @KYYellowDog Among the many proofs that giant corporations own even the most populist, well-intentioned portions of our nation is the willingness of American leaders who presumably know better to promote and partner with egregious corporate criminal WalMart. Bruce A. Dixon at Black Agenda Rep ...
  • Obama Rally - Columbus Ohio
    Update below. Before I begin, after seeing Tom Bales first sentence of the 2nd graf let me just say: Fuck Chuck Todd.  I was present at the Obama Rally today.  The Schottenstein Center has a capacity of 18,809.  I would estimate that 3500 - 4000 seats in the upper deck were un-use ...

Care 2

  • British Company funds Worlds largest Foie Gras ...
    British company Creek Project Investments is investing millions of pounds to build the worlds largest foie gras production facility in Poyang Lake, China. As described on their website, over 200 hectares of land have been set aside, Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it! ...
  • 10 Energy-Saving Driving Tips
    Cut fuel consumption and air pollution by making these energy-saving changes to the way you drive Submitted by Cher C. to Green Lifestyle  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Bulldog Mama Loves Her Pup! VIDEO!
    Elvis the bulldog is getting in some good practice against momma bulldog! Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Waste Not, Want Not Tales From the Unexpected ...
    Kings Canyon Range in central Australia is kind of near Ayres Rock. Its actually 323 km from Alice Springs, but this is considered neighbouring in this vast desert. In 1994 when I was there, there were no hotels, no motorway services Submitted by Cher C. to Green Lifestyle  |   N ...
  • Found an Injured or Orphaned Animal?
    Learn how (and when) to help your wild animal neighbors Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Abandonment of Public Financing Only Leads to ...
    The New York Times’ Sunday editorial, An Idea Worth Saving, lamented the death of public financing in presidential elections, stating, “It was 36 years old, and was drowned by big money and starved by the disdain of politicians who should have known better”: From 1976 until 200 ...
  • Astounding Numbers Unearthed on Global War on ...
    Just watch this … soon enough, Fareed Zakaria gets into the stats that had my jaw dropping. Homeland Security now has a workforce of 240,000 people. There are 30,000 Homeland Security people whose sole function is to listen in on telephone calls within the United States. It goes on and on. ...
  • “Mitt Romney issues Ohio challenge to Presiden ...
    First things first: thank you, FlipFlopper (FF), for the linked excerpt of Romney’s op-ed, re-posted below. [Also below - HelenK alert! - an Update.] Romney’s May 4 op-ed at Cincinnati.com begins: Dear Mr. President, Welcome to Ohio. I have a simple question for you: Where are the jo ...
  • Where oh where are Obama’s Fey Julias?
    And where are the ‘bots” and their changelings? Have Obama’s trolls, birthed in 2007 and 2008, wandered off after discovering that their bonds with Obama’s dreams quickly have become frayed or mercilessly cut off, that their country has become more fractious, and that unh ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Quaker group, walking from Philadelphia to Pit ...
    PennLive.com Quaker group, walking from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh, protests in front of ... PennLive.com The group is walking from Philadelphia to PNC headquarters in Pittsburgh in an attempt to convince the bank to stop financing companies that practice mountain top removal mining. George Lake ...
  • Community Power vs. the Kochs - Huffington Post
    Community Power vs. the Kochs Huffington Post The choice between ever more invasive and insidious extraction techniques -- fracking in Marcellus, mountaintop removal in Appalachia and tar sand processing in Alberta -- controlled by mega corporations and the adoption of community-based wind, sola ...
  • Exports From Hell - NJ TODAY
    Exports From Hell NJ TODAY By Bruce Ferguson Anyone who has witnessed the coal extraction process known as mountaintop removal (MTR) has been shocked. The name is perfectly descriptive—tops of mountains are blasted away and bulldozed into valleys to expose underlying coal seams ... and more&nbs ...
  • Many worked hard to make Earth Day a success - ...
    Many worked hard to make Earth Day a success Marietta Times Members from the Appalachian Ohio Group Sierra Club shared information about their group's activities and had an excellent display of Mountain Top Removal. Harvest of Hope shared their message of rescuing food to help the hungry as ...
  • National View: US energy exports look more lik ...
    National View: US energy exports look more like Third World policy SouthCoastToday.com Anyone who has witnessed the coal extraction process known as mountaintop removal, or MTR, has been shocked. The name is perfectly descriptive — tops of mountains are blasted away and bulldozed into valleys to ...

Memeorandum

  • TPMMuckraker - Super PACs Already Spending Big ...
    Ryan J. Reilly / tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com: TPMMuckraker  —  Super PACs Already Spending Big On State Level Races  —  Six months ahead of the election, super PACs have already spend more than $12 million in congressional races, according to data compiled ...
  • Admin drafted memo to shield Obama if OBL raid ...
    Washington Free Beacon: Admin drafted memo to shield Obama if OBL raid failed  —  The Obama Administration drafted a “highly lawyered” memo to shield the president from blame if the mission to kill or capture Osama Bin Laden failed, former Attorney General Michael Mu ...
  • Paul Ryan Challenged By Town Hall Constituents ...
    Scott Keyes / ThinkProgress: Paul Ryan Challenged By Town Hall Constituents Over Previous Praise Of Ayn Rand  —  JANESVILLE, Wisconsin — Last month, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) disavowed his one-time political muse, Ayn Rand, because of her “atheist philosophy.”&nbsp ...
  • Paul Ryan Says He Wouldn't Close Corporate Tax ...
    Scott Keyes / ThinkProgress: Paul Ryan Says He Wouldn't Close Corporate Tax Loopholes To Prevent Student Loan Interest Hike  —  GREENDALE, Wisconsin — Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) told students at a town hall Friday that he would not support preventing a hike in their student loa ...
  • A Note to Readers - When we published Naomi Sc ...
    Liz McMillen / Brainstorm: A Note to Readers  —  When we published Naomi Schaefer Riley's blog posting on Brainstorm last week ("The Most Persuasive Case for Eliminating Black Studies?  Just Read the Dissertations"), several thousand of you spoke out in outrage and disappoi ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.3, Azerbaijan
    Monday, May 7, 2012 14:15:14 UTC Monday, May 7, 2012 07:15:14 PM at epicenterDepth: 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
  • M 5.6, Azerbaijan
    Monday, May 7, 2012 04:40:29 UTC Monday, May 7, 2012 09:40:29 AM at epicenterDepth: 23.30 km (14.48 mi)
  • M 5.0, central Peru
    Sunday, May 6, 2012 12:40:59 UTC Sunday, May 6, 2012 07:40:59 AM at epicenterDepth: 59.10 km (36.72 mi)
  • M 5.5, Tonga
    Saturday, May 5, 2012 20:23:31 UTC Sunday, May 6, 2012 09:23:31 AM at epicenterDepth: 3.90 km (2.42 mi)
  • M 5.2, near the east coast of Honshu, Japan
    Saturday, May 5, 2012 20:12:34 UTC Sunday, May 6, 2012 05:12:34 AM at epicenterDepth: 50.90 km (31.63 mi)

China Dialogue

  • Pipeline in the crossfire
    For months, the Burmese army and ethnic militias have been engaged in fierce fighting – raising concerns for the project due to carry oil and gas to China from next year. Yin Hongwei reports.Editor's note: since the suspension of the multibillion dollar, China-backed Myitsone dam last autu ...
  • Meat off menu for China’s Olympians
    Athletes are struggling to source safe pork and beef as fears grow over the impact of additives on doping test results. Jiang Xinjie, Zhang Luyan and Wang Jingyi report on China's latest food crisis.You might not expect a meat shortage to top the list of concerns at the Jiangsu Sports Bureau&rsq ...
  • 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 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • Seized Hip-Hop Site Lashes Out At Feds, RIAA
    The hip-hop music site the authorities shuttered for more than a year without explanation lashed out Monday at the recording industry and the federal government, likening the taking of the site to a “digital Guantanamo.” “Seizing a blog for linking to four songs, even allegedly ...
  • Homeland Security Concedes Airport Body Scanne ...
    Federal investigators have "identified vulnerabilities in the screening process" at domestic airports, the Department of Homeland Security says in a classified report. An unclassified version of the report, unearthed Friday by the Electronic Information Privacy Center, may give credence to a rec ...
  • Americans’ Challenge to No-Fly List Gets Day i ...
    About a dozen U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents who cannot fly to or from the United States because they are on the so-called "no-fly list" will finally have their case heard by a federal appeals court Friday.
  • Minting the Digital Currency of the Future
    A few weeks ago the Royal Canadian Mint rolled out MintChip, a digital currency that is “better than cash.” It isn’t an alternative currency in that it’s a digital representation of the sovereign currency — the Canadian dollar. Nevertheless, digital money geeks are atwitter, especially with comp ...
  • Everyone Has Been Hacked. Now What?
    Hackers are everywhere and everyone has been hacked. So what's a company to do?

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

  • Smiling Hara Tempeh Salmonella Paratyphi B cas ...
    Buncombe County reports today that the number of Salmonella Paratyphi B cases has risen from 46 to 60.  According the Health Officials, the rare type of Salmonella was traced to Asheville made Smiling Hara Tempeh, a fermented soy bean product. Smiling Hara Tempeh made in Candler was pulled ...
  • Diamond Pet Foods Salmonella Infantis Recall List
    Diamond Pet Foods has been linked to at least 14 cases of human Salmonella Infantis infections in nine states, according to a May 3, 2012 report from CDC.  Confirmed outbreak cases have been reported in Alabama (1), Connecticut (1), Michigan (1), Missouri (3), North Carolina (3), New J ...
  • Product Testing Saves Lives
    FunFresh Foods, Inc. of San Clemente, California in consultation with the FDA is voluntarily recalling a single lot of its 6 ounce packages of FunFresh Foods™ World Berries™ Organic “Cacao Nibs” because they may be contaminated with Escherichia coli O157:H7 bacteria (E. C ...
  • 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 ...

AutoblogGreen

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

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • 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

  • Romney Image Backed by Bush-Era Policy
    BloombergBusinessweek By  Lisa Lerer on May 07, 2012 Some of the choices are also driven by politics, a person close to the campaign said. Romney limited his proposed elimination of capital gains taxes to incomes up to $200,000. Some of his advisers think the ceiling is too low. In a primary deb ...
  • Obama 2012 Rallies Escalate Election Fight In ...
    By JULIE PACE 05/05/12 09:45 AM ET WASHINGTON — In campaign mode for months, President Barack Obama is making his quest for a second term official with rallies in Ohio and Virginia while casting Republican rival Mitt Romney as a flip-flopping protector of the rich. The events Saturday at t ...
  • 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 ...

Solari

  • A New Chapter of Pension Plan Woes
    By Eleanor Laise EDITOR’S NOTE: This article was originally published in the April 2012 issue of Kiplinger’s Retirement Report. Traditional pension plans are supposed to offer a predictable plot line: You work a certain number of years, and in the end, you get a specific monthly be ...
  • Precious Metals & 1st Quarter Wrap Up
      The test of activism both in 2012 is going to come down to two questions. Is it decentralizing? So does it serve the interest of decentralization, or does it serve the interests of centralization? And is it wealth-building or wealth-destroying? Because what we need is activism that is bo ...
  • Fred Wilson: 10 Ways to Be Your Own Boss
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  • The High Price of Tax Breaks
    Source: The Economist Like most sins, tax breaks are easier to condemn than to resist. Politicians regularly decry the inefficiency and complexity that tax breaks introduce to the overall tax system, while merrily adding to the pile. Continue reading the article . . .
  • Invergordon Mutiny
    British Atlantic Fleet on patrol in the late 1920s From Wikipedia The Invergordon Mutiny was an industrial action by around 1,000 sailors in the British Atlantic Fleet, that took place on 15–16 September 1931. For two days, ships of the Royal Navy at

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

  • Do we have a shortage of workers, or just chea ...
    Summary:  So much of our consensus thinking results from full-spectrum propaganda from well-paid shills working for our ruling elites, well-funded institutions of disinformation and propaganda. This is one reason why we’re losing, and the Republic dying. Here we examine one issue of import ...
  • Darkness slowly descends on the world (two exa ...
    Summary:  Recent events, such as the Greek election and the speeches of GOP congressmen, suggest it was premature to declare the “end of history”.  As the post-WWII era ends, each day brings forth new developments from the basement of humanity’s collective mind and soul.  We mu ...
  • Is a new tech cycle starting that gives barbar ...
    Summary:  We, like people throughout history, assume that our military advantages are God-given and permanent.  History suggests otherwise.  Today we take a brief look at the past, and speculate about ways technology both gives — and takes away — military superiority. Throughout our ...
  • Is a new tech cycle starting that gives barbar ...
    Summary:  We, like people throughout history, assume that our military advantages are God-given and permanent.  History suggests otherwise.  Today we take a brief look at the past, and speculate about ways technology both gives — and takes away — military superiority. Throughout our ...
  • 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’ ...

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

  • The Euro Problem
    One of the the important points made by Krugman in his analysis of the French election and its potential effects: One answer — an answer that makes more sense than almost anyone in Europe is willing to admit — would be to break up the euro, Europe’s common currency. Europe wouldn’t be in this fi ...
  • Is Barack Obama Taking Too Much Credit for the ...
    That is the difficult question with which former Attorney General Michael Mukasey grapples in the editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal. Surprisingly, he concludes that the answer is “yes.” His evidence for this proposition is a bit scanty. For example, he makes the extremely i ...
  • Obama’s Afghanistan Strategy: Signaling Intent
    Last week, President Obama flew to Kabul to meet with President Hamid Karzai and sign the Enduring Strategic Partnership Agreement (SPA) between the United States and Afghanistan. This aspirational document is a broad framework to guide U.S.-led nationbuilding efforts in Afghanistan through the ...
  • How the World Health Organization is Helping t ...
    (World Health Organization HQ, Geneva)  – H5N1 influenza is what keeps people here up at night.  The flu strain is deadly to humans on an order of magnitude greater than any other flu virus in history, including the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918.  It kills approximately 60% of the people it ...
  • 2012 Greek Parliamentary Elections
    The following post-election report on the 2012 Greek Parliamentary Elections is provided by Harris Mylonas, Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University and an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. (His pr ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Third Party Planning
    Did you hear? The Republican former governor—long anointed as the presumed candidate—officially gained the party's nomination over the weekend. No, I'm not talking about Mitt Romney. Come November, former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson will be on the ballot in all 50 states under the banner o ...
  • Dreams from My President
    Every president plays a symbolic, almost mythological role that’s hard to talk about, much less quantify—it’s like trying to grab a ball of mercury. I’m not referring to using the bully pulpit to shape the national agenda but to the way that the president, as America’s most inescapably powerful ...
  • No One Trust's Obama's Evolution
    Few people truly believe Barack Obama when he claims his position on same-sex marriage is "evolving." He first publicly endorsed marriage equality in 1996 while running for the Illinois state senate. At the time, just 27 percent of the population shared his views, according to a Gallup poll. No ...
  • Disillusioned on Wall Street
    I can't say I know much about the psychology of the typical stock analyst or bond trader, so I've been as bewildered as anyone when I see stories quoting denizens of Wall Street complaining about the Obama administration. Not about, say, the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau— ...
  • Would President Romney Support Stimulus?
    Republicans haven’t always been opposed to stimulus. In 2008, under George W. Bush, congressional Republicans joined with Democrats to pass the Economic Stimulus Act, a $152 billion package which gave tax cuts to individuals and married couples, tax breaks for businesses, and $40 billion in dir ...

Buzzflash

  • The Forgotten Murdered in Mexico and in the US ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR AT BUZZFLASH ON TRUTHOUT Given the ongoing Truthout on the Border Series covering US policy on Mexico, BuzzFlash receives many daily reports of the grim death toll south of our border. Over the weekend, NPR reported on the latest grisly deaths, this time in Nuevo Laredo, (jus ...
  • Why America's Rich People Are Better Than Ever ...
    PAUL BUCHHEIT FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT A remarkable story appeared in Newsweek recently, a celebration by author Daniel Gross of America's re-emergence as the strongest economy and best darn nation in the world. An underlying theme in the article, implicit in the grandiose descriptions of our p ...
  • Republicans Lead the Way in Ludicrous Politica ...
    Body Not a day passes that Republicans in Congress or on the campaign trail don't find some phony premise upon which to attack the administration. It is to be expected that philosophical differences among partisans would elicit contradictory responses aimed at diminishing the clout ...
  • 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 ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Exergy, existentialism and the environment
    Exergy is perhaps an unfamiliar concept. Energy we can fairly easily get to grips with, it’s a measure of the ability of a system to do work. Work is what causes a system to change its energy state…hmm…first law of thermodynamics. But, what is exergy and where does it fit into the en ...
  • The health benefits of giving, joining in and ...
    Helping others, joining in and having some kind of life plan or at least goals, aspirations and ambitions seem to make for enhanced mental health. Certainly, it’s a better strategy than popping supplements and introspection. There is even some scientific evidence that spending money on oth ...
  • 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 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Sanders: Austerity on the Defensive
    Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement today on Sunday's elections in France and elsewhere in Europe where voters rejected austerity measures unfairly shouldered by working families:read more
  • The BP Disaster Photos Big Oil and the White H ...
    Greenpeace today released shocking photos that show graphic evidence of the destruction done to endangered sea life in the Gulf by the 2010 BP oil disaster. The photos, just received via a Freedom of Information request filed in August 2010, appear to be part of the effort to collect evidence fo ...
  • Senate Confirms New FCC Commissioners Pai and ...
    On Monday, the Senate confirmed Ajit Pai and Jessica Rosenworcel as the newest members of the Federal Communications Commission. Free Press President and CEO Craig Aaron made the following statement:read more
  • New Paper Finds Jamaican Economy to Be Held Ba ...
    A new paper from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) finds that Jamaica’s unsustainable public debt burden continues to displace needed investments, preventing long-term growth.read more
  • Yemen: Detained, Tortured, and Disappeared
    Yemeni security forces have arbitrarily detained dozens of demonstrators and other perceived opponents of former president Ali Abdullah Saleh since anti-government protests began in February 2011, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch documented 37 cases in which security forces have ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • The Day After: Europe Rejects Austerity
    Maria Margaronis Supporters of France’s newly elected President François Hollande react after the early results during a victory rally at Place de la Bastille in Paris May 6, 2012. France voted in elections on Sunday and Hollande becomes th ...
  • The Most Powerful Company You've Never Heard o ...
    Elizabeth Parisian Think of powerful, multi-billion dollar corporations, and many come readily to mind. Wal-Mart. General Electric. Exxon Mobil. Bank of America. McDonald's. Apple. We recognize their logos, know what they sell and how t ...
  • Meanwhile, in the Land of the Free…
    Dan Gillmor In December 2010, the major payment systems used to buy goods and services online decided that Wikileaks was no longer an acceptable customer. Mastercard, Visa, and PayPal summarily cut off service, putting Wikileaks into deep f ...
  • How Private Bottling Companies Water-Down Educ ...
    Wenonah Hauter Joe Camel. Ronald McDonald. Tony the Tiger. Spuds McKenzie. Kid-friendly advertising tricks by corporations seeking to lure young consumers clutter the annals of marketing history.read more
  • How Private Bottling Companies Water-Down Educ ...
    Wenonah Hauter Joe Camel. Ronald McDonald. Tony the Tiger. Spuds McKenzie. Kid-friendly advertising tricks by corporations seeking to lure young consumers clutter the annals of marketing history.read more

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

  • CHARTS: Austerity In Europe Hasn’t Worked
    Francois Hollande yesterday successfully ousted Nicolas Sarkozy from the French presidency, winning a run-off election between the two by a vote of 52-48 percent. The Center for American Progress’ Matt Browne noted that Hollande “is a pragmatic progressive who realizes that austerity ...
  • Heritage Foundation Calls For Moving Families ...
    The Republican budget proposed by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) would dramatically reduce access to care for millions of Americans by repealing the Affordable Care Act, turning Medicare into a “premium support” system that could make costs skyrocket, and switch the current Medicaid payment p ...
  • New Research Meta-Analysis Makes Compelling Ca ...
    Our guest blogger is Crosby Burns, Research Associate for LGBT Progress. Today the Center for American Progress, the Human Rights Campaign, and the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law released a comprehensive database of research documenting the immediate need for federal policies that ...
  • The Slurpee Senator: Dick Lugar Gets Last Minu ...
    As well-funded super PACs, including the Club for Growth Action, FreedomWorks for America, and the National Rifle Association Political Victory Fund, poured millions of dollars into independent expenditures encouraging Indiana voters to support for State Treasurer Richard Mourdock (R) and agains ...
  • GOP Senate Candidate Rick Berg Doesn’t K ...
    When a voter recently asked Rep. Rick Berg (R-ND), who is running for Senate in the state, what the minimum wage is, it took the congressman and his staff several awkward moments to determine that they didn’t know. “Hmmm,” Berg says, before turning to someone else and saying, & ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • CBC Sides With Top 1%?
    It's funny. In response to the people's victories against neo-liberal austerity in Europe, the CBC comes out with headlines such as this: World markets rattled by European uncertaintyAthens exchange dives 8% after electionGreek election impasse heralds lengthy instabilityInvestors jittery about ...
  • Some Crimes are Forever
    I'm always big on the idea of redemption. And you know, even in the case of pedophiles, it's my understanding that a lot of them suffered horrific abuse as children which destroyed their ability to have normal lives. But even this sympathy only goes so far. No matter what, a convicted pedophile, ...
  • 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 ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

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

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

Kevin Trudeau Show

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

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • MAY MEMO: Top Ten False Flag Terror Targets
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comBy Captain Eric H. May, Ghost Troop CO   The most endangered false flag targets in the world are: #1: CHICAGO is mobilizing and militarizing in preparation for the May 20-21 NATO Summit, which it will host. Just aft ...
  • Would The Media Be Interested If Assad Set Up ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comCorporate press blacklists chilling revelations Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Monday, May 7, 2012 A couple of months ago, the mainstream media got all excited about leaked emails from Syrian President Bashar al-As ...
  • Romney Operatives Caught Handing Out Fake Ball ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comAttempts to divide and disrupt official Ron Paul delegate slates; Romney sends in lawyer that stole election for Bush in 2000 Steve Watson Prisonplanet.com May 7, 2012 Two separate incidents captured on video this weeken ...
  • Occupy Wall Street’s Act II
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comBy Stephen LendmanMonday, May 7th, 2012 New York City police officers watch as Occupy Wall Street activists march through the Lower East Side during May Day demonstrations on Tuesday. (Credit: Reuters/Andrew View the ori ...
  • THE FRAUD & THEFT WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE I ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comTHE FRAUD & THEFT WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES By JimQwashingtonsblog.com The BEA reported the latest figures for personal income, personal consumption expenditures and the savings rate last week. The governme ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Sibel Edmonds on Her Book, Classified Woman by ...
    with Sibel Edmonds Featured Writer Dandelion Salad May 4, 2012 by Peter B. Collins Peter B. Collins Show May 2 and 4, 2012 Sibel Edmonds explains why she wrote Classified Woman: The Sibel Edmonds Story and shares some anecdotes as she encountered corruption and espionage in the FBI’s Language Un ...
  • Rick Rozoff: NATO missile shield has potential ...
    by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO May 5, 2012 www.presstv.com “…the US/NATO missile shield, which is not to be construed as a defensive project whatsoever, ‎has the potential of being a first strike system that is able to knock out missiles that withstand ‎a potential firs ...
  • Chomsky Allstars feat. Prince Blanco: Know You ...
    Dandelion Salad Sent to DS from Martin J. Chomsky May 3, 2012 by chomskyallstars From the forthcoming ‘Spy Guy’ EP KNOW YOUR RIOTS This is a public service announcement – in a Molotov style Know your riots … insurrections, too many to mention 1791 – Birmingham, England, 1793 – New Yo ...
  • The People’s Bishop by Chris Hedges + 50 arres ...
    by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig May 7, 2012 Retired Episcopal Bishop George Packard was arrested in Vietnam Veterans Memorial Plaza in New York City on Tuesday night as he participated in the May 1 Occupy demonstrations. He and 15 other military veterans were taken into ...
  • Chris Hedges: Calling All Rebels
    by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig May 4, 2012 Chris Hedges joins Doug Bennett, host of “Unspun,” an experiment in truth telling, on KKRN community radio to discuss his “Calling All Rebels” speech listen via http://www.kkrn.org/unspun/Unspun1-21-12ChrisHedges-CallingAllRebe ...

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 ...
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    Hypnotic, grin-making. A house filled with interactive reproductions of classic art, coming soon: Starry Night (interactive animation) from Petros Vrellis on Vimeo.
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    Normal blogging output will return soon. Making some movies. In the meantime, enjoy :
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    Best. Christmas. Ever A Short Story By Darryl Mason "Is your father okay?" He waited for her to answer. He couldn't tell her what happened while she was away... "He's not getting better, if that's what you mean." How could he tell her, right now? She had more than enough on her mind alread ...
  • 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

  • Chris Hedges: Welcome to the asylum
    When civilizations start to die they go insane. Let the ice sheets in the Arctic melt. Let the temperatures rise. Let the air, soil and water be poisoned. Let the forests die. Let the seas be emptied... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Amira Hass: For Israel, punishing Palestinians ...
    Israelis are not satisfied with the various measures to worsen [Palestinian] prison conditions. When it comes to Palestinians, punishment is not enough. Prison must also be never-ending revenge that... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • 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 ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Largest Gathering of Food Professionals to Con ...
    Food professionals from all over the globe will be gathering together in Las Vegas for the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) 2012 Annual Meeting & Food Expo. This is the only annual event that brings together professionals involved in both the science and the business of food -- experts from ...
  • Heart Attack Survivors Living Close to Highway ...
    Living close to a major highway poses a significant risk to heart attack survivors, reinforcing the need to isolate housing developments from heavy traffic areas, a Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center study concludes.
  • Alcohol Regulation on the Internet Failing to ...
    Alcohol is far too attractive and easy to obtain for youth on the Internet, according to a commentary from the Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth (CAMY) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Published in Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, the commentary accompanie ...
  • Deep Brain Stimulation May Hold Promise for Mi ...
    A study on a handful of people with suspected mild Alzheimer's disease (AD) suggests that a device that sends continuous electrical impulses to specific "memory" regions of the brain appears to increase neuronal activity. Results of the study using deep brain stimulation, a therapy already used ...
  • Obesity Prevention Program for Girls Not Assoc ...
    An Australian school-based obesity prevention program for adolescent girls was not associated with statistically significant differences in body mass index (BMI) and other body composition measures, however the small changes may be related to clinically important health outcomes, according to a ...

Natural Health News

  • Definitive Study Rejects the Diagnosis of ‘Psy ...
    A new study published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) not only challenges the idea of who is at risk for having a psychotic episode and who isn’t, but highlights “unacceptably high false-positive rates” that incorrectly channel people into a psychosis prevention program. The findings show t ...
  • 5 Common Mistakes You’re Making at the Gym
    Before you hit the gym for your next workout, it might be good to check this list to make sure you’re not making some of the five most common mistakes in a workout routine. According to Time Healthland, those errors include: Neglecting to strengthen your body’s core while you’re doing exercises ...
  • U.S. Feds Announce Biggest-Ever Medicare Fraud ...
    In a bust to beat all the others they’ve made so far, federal agents have charged 197 people, including doctors and nurses, in schemes that cheated the Medicare system out of a record $452 million. The sweep included major cities such as Miami, Tampa, Chicago, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles and B ...
  • The First Drug Made by Genetically Modified Pl ...
    In a dramatic move that shows that the FDA is softening its stand on bio-pharmed treatments, the agency has approved the country’s first genetically modified plant intended for the treatment of a human disease. An Israeli firm grew human disease enzymes in carrot cells, and produced a treatment ...
  • Why Are 15 Million Babies Born Too Soon?
    A new report compiled by Save the Children shows that 15 million babies are born prematurely around the world—with the United States sitting near the top with the greatest numbers of babies born too soon. Sandwiched between Indonesia and Bangladesh, the U.S. ranks sixth in the world for preterm ...

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

  • You Know International Law Is Getting Some Tra ...
    by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro . . . your fourth-grader is being taught about the Convention on the Rights of the Child.  Mine had a class last week in which the class was divided into groups, each one given a provision of the treaty, about which they had to develop responses and questions.  Hi ...
  • Yoo, Cerone and Alford Debate Sovereignty in t ...
    by Roger Alford by Roger Alford The Liberty Forum has just posted a debate on sovereignty in the age of globalization between John Yoo, John Cerone, and yours truly. Here’s a taste of the exchange, which I encourage you to read in its entirety. From John Yoo’s post: Globalization h ...
  • Yoo, Cerone and Alford Debate Sovereignty in t ...
    by Roger Alford by Roger Alford The Liberty Forum has just posted a debate on sovereignty in the age of globalization between John Yoo, John Cerone, and yours truly. Here’s a taste of the exchange, which I encourage you to read in its entirety. From John Yoo’s post: Globalization h ...
  • The Trial
    by Deborah Pearlstein by Deborah Pearlstein Remarkably big news week last week in U.S. law and security matters – alas one that happened to coincide with the final week of our law school semester. So with apologies for belatedness, I wanted to catch up on a few things I missed, starting with t ...
  • The Trial
    by Deborah Pearlstein by Deborah Pearlstein Remarkably big news week last week in U.S. law and security matters – alas one that happened to coincide with the final week of our law school semester. So with apologies for belatedness, I wanted to catch up on a few things I missed, starting with t ...

Public News Service

  • Report: Proposed Mine May Threaten Water Suppl ...
    Report: Proposed Mine May Threaten Water Supply SE of Tucson PHOENIX - A new open-pit copper mine proposed for 30 miles southeast of Tucson could dramatically lower the area's water table, by hundreds of feet. That's the key finding of a new report by Dr. Waite Osterkamp, a retired hydrologist w ...
  • What Makes a Child a Bully? It Usually Starts ...
    What Makes a Child a Bully? It Usually Starts at Home PHOENIX - School bullying continues to dominate the headlines locally and nationally. To prevent it, says clinical psychologist Alden Ramsey, we must first understand where the behavior is coming from. Ramsey says bullying typically is learn ...
  • Expansion Grants Come to AZ Community Health C ...
    Expansion Grants Come to AZ Community Health Centers PHOENIX - More Arizonans will be able to receive services from community health centers as the result of new funding from the Affordable Care Act. Four centers across the state will receive grants for expansion and improvements totaling nearl ...
  • Will Social Security Last for Gen X, Y, Z?
    Will Social Security Last for Gen X, Y, Z? PHOENIX - Social Security is going broke three years earlier than last year's projection, according to the annual report by the Social Security Board of Trustees. Some are sounding the alarm bell for major changes, while others say needed fixes are min ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Lawns: Do you still have one?
    I killed my lawn. Ask me how. (bumper sticker from Tree of Life Nursery, San Juan Capistrano, California)My good friend Bonnie (who has since moved to France where she doesn’t have a lawn to kill) had this on her bumper for years. She transformed her front yard and as soon as you got [...]
  • The left will have its chance in Europe
    Ian Welch sums up the Greece and French elections in his usual succinct manner. Basically, the left will have its chance to force major changes but if it fails, the hard right will do it for them. Either way, the oligarchs are doomed.Of course, some part of the elites will make a deal, and will ...
  • Saul Alinsky & Back of the Yards: A pivotal la ...
    Credit: public domainSaul Alinsky invented community organizing in Chicago in the 1930′s. Eastern European immigrants in the Back of the Yards area organized and went on strike against meatpacking plants. After pitched battles, both political and physical, the workers forced concessions an ...
  • TSA today, yesterday and four years ago
    A powerful play, The silver dagger, by Mark E. Swan, U.S. Lithograph Co., c1902. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. )Here’s what the TSA’s website tells us they found in the week between April 20th and 26th, 2012: Firearms: 31 - 29 loaded; 2 unloade ...
  • Golden Dawn
    Golden Dawn, the resurgent far-right Greek party, shares a name with an occult society heavily influenced by Aleister Crowley. Coincidence?

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

  • George Lindsey, Goober Pyle on ‘The Andy ...
    George Lindsey, who spent nearly 30 years as the grinning Goober on “The Andy Griffith Show” and “Hee Haw,” died May 6 in Nashville. He was 83. No cause of death was reported. Full Article
  • Obama Kills USS Cole bombing “Suspect&#8 ...
    That Osama thing already wearing off? Remember when some of the Cole “Bombers” were allowed to “escape” from a Yemeni Prison? We do.   USS Cole bombing suspect killed in Yemen raid (AFP) – ADEN — Yemeni Al-Qaeda leader Fahd al-Quso, who was wanted in connection with ...
  • New Police Strategy in New York – Sexual ...
      US experiencing militarization of its police by Ygurvitz for Flickr A few weeks ago I was with a few companions from Occupy Wall Street in Union Square when an old friend — I’ll call her Eileen — passed through, her hand in a cast.’What happened to you?’ I as ...
  • Goodbye NDAA, PATRIOT Act, Federal Reserve Act ...
      byRuth Hull OpEd News No other Republican Presidential candidate has ever received the enthusiastic popular support in the Republican Stronghold of Orange County that Ron Paul received in his visit to Cal State University, Fullerton, on May 3rd, 2012. 6000 enthusiastic fans crowded into t ...
  • U.S. military “developing” spychip ...
    How will the Robo cop / soldiers know you are a friendly? Yep. You have the chip. Government wants ‘health’ benefits from nanosensors WND     The U.S. military wants to plant nanosensors in soldiers to monitor health on future battlefields and immediately respond to needs, ...

The Air Vent

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

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

  • Data shows social readers have mixed results, ...
    Despite reports that social readers are “all collapsing,” an analysis of monthly and daily active users of Facebook-integrated social news applications shows no clear trends in growth or decline across the board. We looked at 12 media sites and apps … Continue reading →
  • How Glancee acquisition fits into Facebook’s s ...
    Facebook hasn’t shared its plans for Glancee, the location-based app it acquired on Friday, but the app fits well into the social network’s location strategy that now goes well beyond check-ins. “We’re looking at location from a past, present, future sort … Continue reading →
  • Viddy, Instagram, Pinterest, games, Metacafe, ...
    Video sharing apps Socialcam and Viddy remained popular on our list of growing Facebook applications by monthly active users this month. Interestingly, Instagram continues to slide down the list after being acquired by Facebook. Websites integrations were also very popular. … Continue read ...
  • This week’s headlines from across Inside Network
    A roundup of all the news Inside Network brought you between April 23 and 28. Inside Mobile Apps Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms and virtual goods. Monday, April 30 EA PopCap hops on the merchandising wagon Emerging … Continue reading →
  • New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: ...
    The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities across social and mobile application platforms. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at: Sociable Labs, Fiveonenine Games, SponsorPay,  Machine Zone, King. ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Zionist history: a short quiz
    Neve Gordon highlights the slide in Israeli political thought over the past 20 years with a quiz the answers to which "expose just how far right Israeli politics, as well as the public discourse informing it, have shifted".
  • Israel's hawks in open revolt against war on Iran
    Uri Avnery looks at how a number of leading hardliners in Israel's military and security establishments have spoken out against the Israeli government's plans for an attack on Iran's nuclear installations and called into question the fitness for office of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and De ...
  • Intimidated, detained and tortured: false impr ...
    Graham Peebles calls on the international community, especially donor nations, to take action against the Meles Zenawi regime in Ethiopia, including freezing personal assets and imposing targeted sanctions, to force it to end its gross human rights violations.
  • 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 ...

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

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

Afro Spear

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

  • Hollowed Out
    Turning now to our survey of households, both the unemployment rate, at 8.1 percent, and the number of unemployed persons, at 12.5 million, were little changed in April. Among the unemployed, 41.3 percent had been looking for work for 27 weeks or more.
  • Welcome to Amerika Chen Guangcheng
    This is just another propganda event staged by the Federal government to demonstrate out "American Exceptionalism". We have to demonstrate that we as a "people" will not tolerate the abuse of people in other nations unless of course if we are doing it. In that case "they deserve it".
  • Osama, Obama, and Us: A Shocking Display of Pr ...
    Why even offer this purported exclusive insight into the raid? Because it was nothing of the sort. Because it was propaganda to make these people look good, to quell reasonable doubts about what really happened that day, and to get the president and his team re-elected.
  • Tomgram: Bill McKibben, The Most Important Sto ...
    After a year with a record number of multi-billion dollar weather disasters, seven in ten Americans now believe that "global warming is affecting the weather." No less striking, 35% of the respondents reported that extreme weather had affected them personally in 2011.
  • Yet Another Tell All Hit on Obama
    The scramble to dig up any piece of salacious dirt, gossip, or innuendo about President Obama before he was President Obama is never ending. The latest in the long train of purported tell all exposes on Obama is no different. Due out in June, Barack Obama: The Story is a story, but like the ot ...

Switchboard

  • Kern County Water Agency Is Shocked, Shocked! ...
    Kate Poole, Senior Attorney, San Francisco It seems only yesterday that Westlands Water District briefly stormed away from the Bay Delta Conservation Plan table when they were told that the days of diverting more water than the Bay-Delta estuary cou ...
  • Whole Foods Stops Selling Unsustainable Seafood
    David Newman, Oceans Program Attorney, New York Whole Foods recently became the first major North American retailer to stop selling unsustainable, or red-listed, seafood.  The red listing, as determined by the Monterey Bay Aquarium and the Blue ...
  • How CBO Got it Wrong on Fuel Consumption and t ...
    Deron Lovaas, Federal Transportation Policy Director, Washington, D.C. The authors of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) study released last week must have been sniffing gas fumes when they drastically overestimated the effects of the proposed fu ...
  • The CPUC Should Accelerate, Not Derail, Energy ...
    Lara Ettenson, Director, California Energy Efficiency Policy, San Francisco Is your home or business wasting much of the energy you pay for every month? Probably.  Many older homes and apartments are leaky, poorly insulated, and have inefficien ...
  • NRDC in the News 5/7: New fracking rules, Keys ...
    NRDC News, NRDC News Team, NRDC Offices Worldwide Amy Mall commented in a USA Today piece on the Obama administration’s new set of rules for oil and gas drilling on public land, calling the decision a “critical first step” but warn ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Buh-Bye
    Looks like Naomi Schaefer Riley will have more time to spend on the wingnut welfare circuit, martyr division.
  • Heartland Institute Crash and Burn
    I’m really impressed with the Heartland Institute’s aggressive crash and burn policy. Six months ago, virtually no one had heard of this libertarian business front group. Then Peter Gleick got ahold of their internal documents and released them (a hero’s work), demonstrating th ...
  • Urban Planning
    Most of us would probably agree that we really screwed up our cities in the 1950s and 1960s. Between uncontrolled suburbanization, urban renewal, the destruction of public transportation, white flight, etc., the city became almost nightmarish by the 1980s. Maybe longtime residents and writers li ...
  • Green Walk for Jobs and Justice
    We don’t discuss specific activist campaigns much here and I need to do a better job of it. I’m particularly interested in smaller movements that are doing amazing work to create change. We can talk about Occupy (and I have from time to time) but the different groups that make up the ...
  • Coke Stevenson and Political Principle
    Last week, somebody asked me about Robert Caro’s response to the extensive criticism the second volume of his LBJ biography received for taking a Manichean view of the 1948 Texas Democratic Senate primary between LBJ and the ultra-reactionary Coke Stevenson in which Stevenson was the good ...

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.

  • Court budget woes could complicate Toyota liti ...
    Los Angeles judicial administrators' plan to close courtrooms and cut staff may make the sudden acceleration litigation against Toyota Motor Corp. more expensive for the attorneys involved.
  • Price-fixing suit against U-Haul can go forward
    The U.S. Court of Appeals for the first Circuit has revived a proposed class action claiming that U-Haul and its parent company attempted to engage in price fixing.
  • Conference examines Civil War's influence on law
    Albany Law School next month will convene a three-day discussion about the legal implications of the war and reconstruction, ranging from the Fugitive Slave Act and emancipation to the suspension of habeas corpus and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
  • Congress weighs big FCPA reforms
    Top U.S. Department of Justice officials are preparing to issue new guidance about the government's enforcement of foreign bribery laws, as members of Congress and business advocates press for sweeping changes of their own.
  • Introducing the NLJ 350
    This week marks the debut of our expanded NLJ law firm survey. The new NLJ 350 ranks 100 national and regional law firms that have been added to our annual list of the nation's largest firms by headcount.

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

  • Central Somalia People Enjoy Football as Al-Sh ...
    Beled-weyne district football team in the Hiiraan region defeated its Guri-el district rivals by 3-2 in a friendly match hosted in the district of Guri-el in the central Somali region of Galgadud over the weekend.
  • Animal Deaths in Peru Still a Mystery: El Nino?
    At least 1,200 birds, mostly pelicans, have been found dead in recent weeks along a stretch of Pacific coast in northern Peru, the Reuters website said on Sunday.
  • NDFB Militant Nabbed in Guwahati
    'Based on our intelligence report, we launched a search operation at Gorchuk area in the city and nabbed the militant from a rented house,' an official of Guwahati city police said.
  • 15 Million People Face Food Insecurity in Sahe ...
    In Mali, 3.5 million will be affected by severe food insecurity this year as insecurity displaced more than a quarter of a million people since the beginning of 2012.
  • Time to Take Down The Euro
    Sarkozy has been defeated in France. Greece, Italy, Spain and others are about to lurch to the political left as well. Germany will soon stand alone in the union against devaluation. They will have to give in to save the Euro. How can we make mo

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 ...
  • Solar Windows: Transforming Buildings Into Ene ...
    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

  • Putin’ on the skates and helmet …and heading t ...
    Just a few hours into his presidency, Vladimir Putin wasted no time in putting his skates on and swapping the political arena for the hockey rink. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • ‘Bye, bye, Merkozy': Will it be Merkollande?
    Germany has ruled out any possibility of renegotiating the EU's fiscal pact, which is seen by the bloc as a defense against default. Persuading Berlin and the union otherwise is now a major challenge for Hollande as it... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • US secretly frees high-level Afghan militants ...
    News has emerged that in order to reach a truce in the most restive Afghan provinces, the US has secretly released several dozen high-ranking Afghan militants. In exchange the US gets vague hopes that the militants will... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Putin sworn in as Russia’s new president (PHOT ...
    Vladimir Putin is officially back as the president of Russia. His inauguration ceremony lasted for about 40 minutes. RT takes a look at how the spectacular show unfolded. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Syria votes amid opposition boycott
    Syria is electing its 250-strong parliament on Monday in the first democratic election in decades. More than 7,000 candidates, including 710 women, are competing for the seats. However many opposition groups decided to... Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

  • Repulsive so-called ‘sex ed’ billb ...
    You may or not have had the experience of seeing these repulsive ‘I may be naughty…’ billboards designed by Boulder based, corporate designer 'Vermilion', but if you have, you probably were appalled by the style of the mixed up sick messaging. WTF probably was what yo ...
  • Most recent results of US-made drug warring ne ...
    Dead victims hanging from a Nuevo Laredo bridge.
  • ZOMBIE – Fela Kuti’s tribute to Mi ...
    I love this song. Zombie – by Fela Kuti …Fela Kuti is Africa’s greatest musical legend and this is his greatest song!       ZOMBIE Zombie o, zombie (Zombie o, zombie) Zombie o, zombie (Zombie o, zombie) Zombie no go go, unless you tell ‘em to go. (Zombie) Z ...
  • The challenge of stopping the nuclear power in ...
    Now that they have TEMPORARILY shut off production at all of Japan’s nuclear power plants is no time for Japanese environmentalists to become complacent, because the Japanese people can now expect a nonstop barrage of top government and corporate officials declaring that this is an untenab ...
  • Dirty Jobs, Get a Hippie!
    Denver activist Chad Duffy and the ultimate protester’s protest sign.

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

  • Enjoying Pink Slime? You’ll Love Meat Glue
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! Transglutaminase, also known as Meat Glue, is not something you’d expect to find in your steak. But it turns out that this animal derived additive is used, mostly in the dining industry. It allows chefs ...
  • My Kid Likes Junk Food. And That’s OK.
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! This is a guest blog post by Sally Kuzemchak, MS, RD When my son Henry was two years old, we were out with another mom and her child when Henry pointed to a vending machine and squealed, “Pepsi!” I was horrif ...
  • 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 ...

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

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • Birnam Wood Comes to Autism Land
    With thanks to John Stone. By Dan E. Burns Macbeth shall never vanquished be until Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane Hill Shall come against him. – Witches prophecy, Macbeth, IV.i I asked Ruth Christ Sullivan in a radio interview,...
  • S199 Defeated in Vermont Preserving Healthcare ...
    By John Gilmore Advocates for vaccine choice rights delivered a humiliating defeat to the vaccine industry in Vermont this week with the defeat of S 199, a bill that would have eliminated the right of Vermont parents to refuse mandatory...
  • The Thinking Moms' Declaration of Independence ...
    The Thinking Moms' Declaration of Independence from Medical Tyranny, Institutional Corruption, and Government Apathy When in the course of human healthcare it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to...
  • 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...

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

  • Premature Births Soar: U.S. On Par With Third- ...
    IBT – The number of premature births has skyrocketed, according to a new report published by the World Health Organization on Wednesday. Between 1995 and 2010 the number of premature births doubled from 3 percent of all births worldwide to 6 percent — an increase that requires swift ...
  • Greece election: Voters spurn Pasok and New De ...
    ND leader Antonis Samaras is set to meet President Karolos Papoulias, who will ask him to form a government. Mr Samaras will try to form a unity government to keep the country in the euro although he has promised to try to “amend” the bailout terms in order to boost growth. ND and th ...
  • Peru pelican and dolphin deaths prompt warning ...
    Reuters – Peru’s government has declared a health alert along its northern coastline and urged residents and tourists to stay away from long stretches of beach as it investigates the unexplained deaths of hundreds of dolphins and pelicans. At least 1,200 birds, mostly pelicans, have ...
  • How to Muddy Your Tracks on the Internet
    NY Times – Legal and technology researchers estimate that it would take about a month for Internet users to read the privacy policies of all the Web sites they visit in a year. So in the interest of time, here is the deal: You know that dream where you suddenly realize you’re stark naked? ...
  • Curry’s ability to fight cancer put to t ...
    BBC – A chemical found in curry is to be tested for its ability to kill bowel cancer tumours in patients. Curcumin, which is found in the spice turmeric, has been linked to a range of health benefits. Studies have already shown that it can beat cancer cells grown in a laboratory and benefi ...

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

  • One Mother's Story: Vandana
    Vandana's life was changed thanks to a small loan through our WaterCredit program - now she and the other women in her community have access to clean, healthy water right at their doorstep.
  • Water is More Precious than Gold
    For the past eight years Mrs. Yashodha has diligently worked through the process to secure reliable water for her family and their household. After becoming a member of a locally organized self-help group she was able to save enough money to secure a loan for a household water connection.
  • 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.

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

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

News Blaze

  • Central Somalia People Enjoy Football as Al-Sh ...
    Beled-weyne district football team in the Hiiraan region defeated its Guri-el district rivals by 3-2 in a friendly match hosted in the district of Guri-el in the central Somali region of Galgadud over the weekend.
  • Animal Deaths in Peru Still a Mystery: El Nino?
    At least 1,200 birds, mostly pelicans, have been found dead in recent weeks along a stretch of Pacific coast in northern Peru, the Reuters website said on Sunday.
  • NDFB Militant Nabbed in Guwahati
    'Based on our intelligence report, we launched a search operation at Gorchuk area in the city and nabbed the militant from a rented house,' an official of Guwahati city police said.
  • 15 Million People Face Food Insecurity in Sahe ...
    In Mali, 3.5 million will be affected by severe food insecurity this year as insecurity displaced more than a quarter of a million people since the beginning of 2012.
  • Time to Take Down The Euro
    Sarkozy has been defeated in France. Greece, Italy, Spain and others are about to lurch to the political left as well. Germany will soon stand alone in the union against devaluation. They will have to give in to save the Euro. How can we make mo

Worldnews

  • Edgar Wright Teases Ant-man on Twitter
    Writer-director Edgar Wright took to Twitter this weekend to tease his long-awaited adaptation of Marvel's Ant-Man.  Wright has been...
  • Megan Fox & Brian Austin Green Won't Conf ...
    Though multiple sources claim they can confirm actress Megan Fox is expecting her first child with husband of two years Brian Austin Green, the couple has yet to confirm the news. And in a new interview with People magazine, Green still wouldn't confirm that Fox is indeed pregnant. "They've ...
  • Djokovic wary of blue clay
    Madrid – Wary top seed Novak Djokovic said Monday he hoped that play this week on the untried blue clay laid down for the Madrid Masters will be injury-free as the controversial surface gets a test under battle conditions. The world number one also fired a shot across the bow of the AT ...
  • The Last Months of Osama bin Laden
    The story behind the tracking down and killing of Osama bin Laden remains a puzzle despite the torrent of documentaries and articles appearing on the anniversary of his death. An absurdly high number of American political leaders, generals, security officials and former CIA and FBI agents ha ...
  • New study examines what could predict chi ...
    The study focused on 167 fourth-and-fifth-grade elementary schoolchildren in the Midwest over a 24-hour reporting period. The authors found that snacking represented a large part of the children's daily calorie intake. Overall, the group reported consuming an average of approximately 300 cal ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • Need a little 'fitspiration'? Try TODAY tips
    Have your healthiest summer yet! Ease into the dreaded "swimsuit season" with healthy tips from TODAY experts. All throughout May, we'll offer smart do-it-yourself ways to look, eat and feel better. So stop stressing about that swimsuit, and read on.
  • Fresh hope of vaccine for killer meningitis B ...
    A team of scientists at the University of Western Australia believe they have come up with a jab to protect against deadly meningitis B, which could be widely available within five years.
  • Pictures Of The Supermoon, As The Whole World ...
    Well before night fell stateside on Saturday, the "supermoon" was already a star. Cameras from Tokyo to Athens gazed into its light, just a little bit brighter than usual. It was enough to inspire some beautiful photos, so we thought we'd share what we've found.
  • Diabetic retinopathy research could reduce scr ...
    Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Exeter, has concluded that it would be a safe and cost-effective strategy to screen people with Type 2 diabetes who have not yet developed diabetic retinopathy, for the disease once every two year
  • Saving baby
    How rescuing an orphan monkey can help safeguard a species

Common Dreams

  • Loyola University Chicago Ditches Bottled Water
    Loyola University Chicago announced its plan to ban the sale of bottled water on Thursday following a year-long student campaign. (photo: Myrtle Beach TheDigitel) read more
  • EPA Whistleblower on Dangers of 9/11 Toxic Dus ...
    A whistleblower in the EPA who had been fired for exposing the dangers of toxic Ground Zero dust in the days after 9/11 was reinstated to her job, with back pay, by a federal court today.(photo via Steve Wilson) read more
  • Greek, French Elections Sound Death Knell for ...
    BERLIN - The voting out of conservative governments in France and Greece this weekend heralds the end of harsh European austerity programs and ushers in an era of new economic, investment, and social policies aimed at restoring growth and employment across the continent. ...
  • Germany Rejects Fracking
    Germany has rejected the gas drilling practice known as fracking, Spiegel reports today. (photo: William Avery Hudson) read more
  • House Republican Plan: Slash Social Services, ...
    House Republicans are set to advance legislation this afternoon that would slash billions from safety net programs while protecting military spending from cuts. The proposal includes $35.8 billion in cuts to food stamps, and $17 billion in cuts to Social Services Block Grant to states, which sup ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • The Obscenity of Humanitarian Warfare
    By Peter Chamberlin “Humanitarian Bombs,” Anthony Freda Art America and NATO have done a very bad thing, a perplexing thing–they have blurred the lines between war and peace, by turning “humanitarian intervention” into a tool of aggression.  It is now l ...
  • The terror of a subverted ‘democracy’
    By Larry Pinkney “Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.”—Howard Zinn “Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.& ...
  • Occupy Wall Street's Act II
    by Stephen Lendman Grassroots activism takes time to grow. Broad-based participation is vital. Issues must be clearly defined. Leadership is needed. Major obstacles must be overcome. Avoiding being co-opted, diverted, divided, and/or subverted are key. So is staying the course because ma ...
  • World Press Freedom Day
    by Stephen Lendman America's First Amendment affirms it. So does Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It states "(e)veryone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Hippie TV News and Stuff w/the WWH News Team ( ...
    In Depth News with a Difference. A Little Truth From Winston Smith. Dr. Woody; Cookie Crumbs,Windy Star,Hippy Woman “Slightly Relevant” Today; Monsanto gets nitroed, Taking stock in Armageddon, What color are her eyes? The Doc is in.. Instant Karma files the Asshole of the week and m ...
  • US should return stolen land to Indian tribes, ...
    By Chris McGreal, guardian.co.uk - UN’s correspondent on indigenous peoples urges government to act to combat ‘racial discrimination’ felt by Native Americans A United Nations investigator probing discrimination against Native Americans has called on the US government to return ...
  • Bob Dylan lives up to his legend at historic C ...
    By David Boddiger,ticotimes.net - The famous folk-pop balladeer and Presidential Medal of Freedom winner wows a crowd of some 4,500 people in Heredia’s Palacio de los Deportes on May 5. Anticipation was high Saturday night for legendary singer Bob Dylan’s first appearance in Central America. Org ...
  • Real Patriotism – Then and Now – P ...
    By Cindi Silva,Worldwidehippies – President Kennedy was inaugurated January 20, 1961 35th President of the United States You can say what you want about Kennedy I was too young to remember anything about his presidency only know what I have read in the slanted history books but . . . I do ...
  • Revolution 99 Updates: All Revolutions are Loc ...
    Occupy Wall Street’s Act II by Stephen Lendman Grassroots activism takes time to grow. Broad-based participation is vital. Issues must be clearly defined. Leadership is needed. Major obstacles must be overcome. Avoiding being co-opted, diverted, divided, and/or subverted are key. So is sta ...

FourWinds10

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

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

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

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • The Truth About Your Natural Cereal
    When you eat "natural" food, you're probably not betting on biting into controversial genetically engineered ingredients and harmful pesticide residues. But all too often, "natural" cereal is anything but, and is loaded with toxic and untested ingredients that have been linked to a rising rates ...
  • The Best Reason to Eat Lunch Outside
    Stop dropping crumbs all over your keyboard and get outside to eat your lunch. In addition to serving as a serious stress reliever, the extra dose of sunlight will also be protecting your heart, according to a new study in the journal Nature Medicine. In the study, a group of mice was exposed t ...
  • 3 New Places You Can Find Local Food
    Local food is hot business these days, with surveys often showing that people prefer to buy local over organic. Though organic is often better than local (here's why), the expanding options for local food—even Walmart now offers local options in some of its stores—are great for people who can't ...
  • 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 ...

big think

  • China’s Gadfly: Chen Guangcheng and the Dissid ...
    The troubling chronicle of blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng has me thinking about the trial of another dissident who faced a life-changing dilemma of his own 2411 years ago in ancient Athens. Chen, like Socrates, is a gadfly on the hide of his polity. Where Socrates was condemned for .. ...
  • Dear Monsieur President: Don't Screw This Up
    What is the Big Idea? Dominique Moisi, a special advisor at the French Institute of International Relations, published a few words of advice for president-elect François Hollande in Los Echos. His first plea: Let's not waste the next five years. It has been a toug ...
  • A World Without Leadership: Ten Questions with ...
    Editor's Note: In  a previous post , Ali Wyne published the first part of his interview with Ian Bremmer about the main argument of Bremmer's new book,  Every Nation for Itself: Winners and Losers in a G-Zero World : namely, that no one can meet the challenges o ...
  • Breakthrough Dialogues: Myths About Societal I ...
    As I wrote last week, the Breakthrough Dialogues launched in 2011 as one of America's top new thought leader forums, in part because of the cross-cutting ideological discussion and mix of speakers and attendees that were featured at the inaugural "Modernizing Liberalism" event.  To highlight tho ...
  • How the 'Free Market' Is Consuming Our Values
    What's the Latest Development? Harvard professor and author Michael Sandel has written a book about the encroachment of economic thought into previously non-economic areas of life, such as education and health. Sandel gives the example of a Dallas school district that paid primary studen ...

Information Liberation

  • You Have Every Right to Photograph That Cop
    There*s been an uptick in protest activity this month around the country*May Day saw a resurgence in the Occupy movement, and further protests are expected around the NATO summit in Chicago, set for May 20th. It*s a safe bet that the vast majority of...
  • Cop in jail after 'sexually assaulting girl, 1 ...
    A Philadelphia police officer is in jail after allegedly having sex with a 14-year-old girl. Anthony Dattilo, 36, was arrested on Thursday over claims he abducted the teenager and had sex with her in a Bensalem Township motel room. Police foun...
  • Pokemon Theme Song Creator Creates Parody Re-M ...
    This song is pure brilliance. __ The Pokemon theme is a perfect song for the Ron Paul Revolution, as he racks up the delegates. Almost all the original lyrics fit as is. I Sang the original theme song in 1998 and thought this would be a great upd...
  • The Cult of the State: What The Kent State Mas ...
    (May 4, 2012) - Today is the*anniversary*of the Kent State shootings by the Ohio National Guard. *The shootings should serve as a reminder to us of what underlies all political processes: violence. *The political process should more aptly be named th...
  • Resembling the Pinochet Regime
    Let*s assume that an American critic of U.S. foreign policy goes abroad and travels around the Middle East delivering a series of lectures, speeches, and articles attacking the U.S. invasions and occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. He refuses to sup...

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

  • Exergy, existentialism and the environment
    Exergy is perhaps an unfamiliar concept. Energy we can fairly easily get to grips with, it’s a measure of the ability of a system to do work. Work is what causes a system to change its energy state…hmm…first law of thermodynamics. But, what is exergy and where does it fit into the en ...
  • The health benefits of giving, joining in and ...
    Helping others, joining in and having some kind of life plan or at least goals, aspirations and ambitions seem to make for enhanced mental health. Certainly, it’s a better strategy than popping supplements and introspection. There is even some scientific evidence that spending money on oth ...
  • 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 ...

RFF Library

  • Building International Climate Cooperation: Le ...
    World Resources Institute / edited by Ruth Greenspan Bell, Micah Ziegler, Barry Blechman, Brian Finlay and Thomas Cottier http://www.wri.org/publication/building-international-climate-cooperation [From WRI Insights] …Beyond verification, other important lessons include: Progress can be mad ...
  • BLM Draft Rule for Fracking
    Interior Dept. Bureau of Land Management http://www.doi.gov/news/pressreleases/loader.cfm?csModule=security/getfile&pageid=293916  The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) just released a draft [PDF] of its new rules for hydraulic fracturing on public lands. These rules require disclosure of the ...
  • Out of Sight, Out of Mind: New York’s Failure ...
    Environmental Advocates of New York http://www.eany.org/images/Reports/outofsight_finalweb.pdf [From a New York Times article] …Environmental Advocates of New York, a group based in Albany, plans to release a report on Friday asserting that the state does not adequately track where the was ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Media Say 3% Lead Is a Tie
    Grasping at stats to keep results "right" A recent opinion survey (April 26-30) showed the Federal NDP outpolling the Conservatives 33%-30%, yet it was reported widely as a tie. Canadian Press and Harris-Decima did the poll and sp ...
  • Riot police turn bus into Victoriaville jail cell
    Late on Friday evening Sûreté du Québec (SQ) sirens rang out in the night, the flashing lights of speeding patrol cars fast approaching our bus, transporting many teargas-soaked striking students, community activists and journalists from Victoriaville back to Montreal in the spring rain. After i ...
  • The Media Co-op is Hiring: Vancouver Local Editor
    We're looking for a local editor to co-ordinate coverage and work with contributors and Media Co-op members in Vancouver. The Media Co-op is hiring!   The Vancouver Local Editor will bottom-line development of content from Vancouv ...
  • Stop Coal!
    On Cinco de Mayo is the day when in 1862 the way-outnumbered Mexicans beat the best army of the world protecting their city Puebla from the colonizers. Today in the name o ...
  • 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 ...

David Seaton's News Links

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Venture Capital is Even More Broken Than We Th ...
    Back during the dotcom boom of the 90s, venture capital funds performed pretty strongly. Since then they've pretty much sucked. So what happened? Felix Salmon directs our attention today to a new report from the Kauffman Foundation that addresses this question in considerable detail. The basic ...
  • I Am an Idiot, Part 784
    I have owned my current car for eleven years. Today, for the first time, I noticed that there's a knob on the dashboard that controls the delay time for the windshield wiper. Discuss. 
  • Obama the Street Thug
    Vets For a Strong America has gotten a lot of attention for its recent video attacking President Obama for taking too much credit for the Osama bin Laden killing. Here at Mother Jones' southern regional headquarters, though, the most exciting part of the video was the fact that they used a headl ...
  • Is There Anything Left That Conservatives Won' ...
    A few days ago I tweeted: This post deserves an award of some kind. Nominations are open for type of award. ow.ly/azgix And what was the mysterious post I was promoting? It was a gobsmacking piece of pretzel bending from Ben Shapiro taking a triple bank shot off a sentence in a memo that ...
  • Fareed Zakaria on the Real Problem With Big Go ...
    Via Glenn Greenwald, here is reliable mainstream pundit Fareed Zakaria on America's ever burgeoning national police powers: The rise of this national security state has entailed a vast expansion in the government's powers that now touch every aspect of American life, even when seemingly unr ...

Insanity Report

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

Simple Climate

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

e!Science News

  • Endangered species, languages linked at high b ...
    Biodiversity hot spots -- the world's biologically richest and most threatened locations on Earth -- and high biodiversity wilderness areas -- biologically rich but less threatened -- are some of the most linguistically diverse regions on our planet, according to a team of conservationists. rea ...
  • Heart attack survivors living close to highway ...
    Living close to a major highway poses a significant risk to heart attack survivors, reinforcing the need to isolate housing developments from heavy traffic areas, a Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center study concludes. read more
  • Looking for Earths by looking for Jupiters
    In the search for Earth-like planets, it is helpful to look for clues and patterns that can help scientist narrow down the types of systems where potentially habitable planets are likely to be discovered. New research from a team including Carnegie's Alan Boss narrows down the search for Earth-l ...
  • New research brings satellite measurements and ...
    One popular climate record that shows a slower atmospheric warming trend than other studies contains a data calibration problem, and when the problem is corrected the results fall in line with other records and climate models, according to a new University of Washington study. read more
  • Study suggests mid-adolescence is peak risk fo ...
    Surveys of U.S. adolescents suggest that the estimated peak risk of using prescription pain relievers for extramedical use, such as to get high or for other unapproved indications, occurs in mid-adolescence, according to a report published Online First by Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent ...

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

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

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

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  • Israeli envoy to U.S. keynotes at gay rights f ...
    WASHINGTON – Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren delivered a keynote speech at the 20th Annual Equality Forum held over the weekend in the U.S. city of Philadelphia, but his selection as the featured guest angered some pro-Palestinian activists in the LGBT community. The forum is intended to c ...
  • Israel featured at gay rights forum, despite o ...
    WASHINGTON – Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren has delivered a keynote speech at the 20th Annual Equality Forum held over the weekend in the U.S. city of Philadelphia, but his selection as the featured guest angered some pro-Palestinian activists in the LGBT community. The forum is intended ...
  • The irony in arrest of conscientious objector ...
    Noam Gur is sitting in a military prison for refusing to be drafted. If she was willing to pretend to be an Orthodox woman, she’d be home scot-free. Noam Gur, a conscientious objector, was imprisoned twice so far since refusing to serve in the IDF. She is likely to be tried and jailed agai ...
  • Ambassador Oren boasts Israel’s record o ...
    Israeli Ambassador to the US Michael Oren claims “Israel fought for gay rights even before 1967.” Problem is, homosexuality was illegal until 1988. Michael Oren, the American Jew turned Israeli ambassador to the US, is apparently not content with embarrassing himself about Israel&#82 ...
  • Jewish National Fund resumes forestation proje ...
    After having their homes destroyed by the State over 30 times in the last two years, the residents of al-Arakib can do little else but watch as a forest is built on the ruins of their homes.  The Jewish National Fund resumed planting trees Monday morning in al-Arakib, an unrecognized Beduoin vil ...

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

  • The Language of Movement
    Peter Mansbridge came to town and for a few hours it was all people were talking about. Accustomed to presenting …Continue reading »
  • Democracy in Reverse
    The challenges were immense, but I took it on as a task of goodwill. We had been asked to assist …Continue reading »
  • “False Options”
    Responding to a recent newspaper article I wrote on citizen engagement, one Londoner said in her email: “I’m just growing …Continue reading »
  • 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 »

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

  • Dinosaur flatulence caused global warming
    Giant dinosaurs could have warmed the planet with their flatulence, say researchers.
  • New study shows solar minimum does cause clima ...
    New evidence shows that solar grand minima do cause cooling of the climate in Europe. Around 2800 years ago, one of these Grand Solar Minima, the Homeric Minimum, caused a distinct climatic change in less than a decade in Western Europe.The mechanisms still remain unclear but the evidence that s ...
  • More turmoil awaits Europe as Sarkozy loses an ...
    Sarkozy has lost in France according to Belgian and Swiss sources though the exit polls in France are not yet out. Hollande is expected to win by 5%. The exit polls in the Greek election indicate that the Greeks are voting massively against the Eurozone bailouts and the austerity packages they h ...
  • Supermoon today and a chance to observe the mo ...
    A supermoon occurs today and it could provide a good chance to observe the moon illusion.
  • Intimidation works – some blog posts deleted
    Following Cease and Desist notices and the subsequent removal of some blog posts at another site which I had linked to, I have also removed some blog posts from this site. Trying to reach those posts will probably give a 404 error. I suspect the posts themselves were largely accurate, but.. Inti ...

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • The Word "Used" Should Never Describe Sanitary ...
    Anyone can appreciate a good bargain on a used product that works just as well as when it was in brand new condition. Used cars? Great! Gently worn clothing? Sign me up. But perhaps when describing an item such as say, feminine hygiene products, such a term should not be attached. An eagle-ey ...
  • Small Brewer Says Budweiser Is Bullying Him Ab ...
    A small-time beer operation in Tennessee says it's the subject of some big-time hassling from Budweiser -- all of it over a bunch of old empty beer kegs. In a lengthy post on the Facebook page for Calfkiller Brewing Company, the company explains its side of the story, saying that -- like many ...
  • United Airlines' Phone System Is Just Being No ...
    The honeymoon may be over for recently wed United and Continental, and the merged company's phone system is already daydreaming about its days as a swinging single, when customers could just call it up and ask for a refund on 30,000 unused miles. See, back in March Consumerist reader Katie had ...
  • American Airlines Regrets That Whole Lifetime ...
    Back in the day, American Airlines thought it was a pretty good idea to sell unlimited first-class travel for a lifetime. For a few hundred thousand dollars, travelers could hop on a jet any time, and for an additional fee, so could a companion of their choice. Turns out that costs American a l ...
  • Report: Forced-Place Insurance Pushing Homeown ...
    If you've got a mortgage on your home, it needs to be insured. So if you stop paying that insurance premium, the bank will often go out and get insurance for you. Problem is, according to Bloomberg News, those policies cover less, cost more and will likely just end up putting you into foreclosu ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • James Bamford: State Department and Wikileaks ...
    James Risen of The New York Times, James Bamford, author of The Puzzle Palace: Inside the National Security Agency, America’s Most Secret Intelligence Organization and Matthew Miller, former spokesman for the Justice Department, discussed the Obama administration’s crusade against leak ...
  • DoD Has 'Systematic Disregard' for Whistleblow ...
    iWatch News: Pentagon Failed to Protect Whistleblowers Summary: According to an internal Pentagon report, the Department of Defense has failed to protect whistleblowers from reprisal. Officials in the DOD’s Office of Inspector General are accused of “persistent sloppiness and a systematic disr ...
  • 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 ...

UK Progressive

  • Drone Attacks: The Latest Aspect of Growing US ...
    Although President Obama’s top counter-terrorism adviser says caution is exercised when making drone attacks, official U.S. announcements often state that suspects are killed. This very word betrays the fact that every drone attack is a crime because it is illegal in any civilized society to kil ...
  • The Stall Has Arrived
    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 number upward to 154,000, but that’s still abysmal relative to what’s needed). We need ...
  • Road Trip: Into The Belly Of The Beast
    The Monday Line is missing today, replaced by yesterday’s editorial. We’re off on a big road trip to those 24 square miles of fantasy surrounded by reality also known as Washington, DC. We’ll bring you a chance to see the election season madness up close and personal. (Press cr ...
  • Shaky Ground – For God’s Sake!
    In our national saga of “lusting for money” a new phenomenon is creeping into America’s life, one that could really ruin our society – AGAIN. “Home Real Estate Rental Corporations” are making a big, but quiet incursion on the American stage. At first glance th ...
  • Editorial: Kent State 42-Years Later – Could I ...
    04 May 1970 saw four students die and nine wounded when National Guard troops opened fire at Kent State University. “One week later six black men in Georgia were shot by police in the back and two days later two black students were killed at Jackson State by Mississippi Highway Patrol Officers,” ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

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

ReNew America

  • Book Review: 1948: Harry Truman's Improbable V ...
    (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - It has been 64 years since President Harry S. Truman pulled the upset victory of the 20th Century, and historians still can't get enough of it. Now comes a new volume brimming with fresh and detailed information...
  • Obama's China fumble
    (Gary Bauer) - Last Wednesday, President Obama was "spiking the football" in Afghanistan over his role in last year's dispatching of Osama bin Laden. By week's end his administration was performing the diplomatic equivalent of a fumbled snap in the case of blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng...
  • A problem with the truth?
    (Joseph Farah) - Two stories this week illustrate how the Maoist concept of "political correctness" has become so pervasive and insidious in American society that truth and accurate reporting have become the victims. As WND reported Tuesday, dozens of black teenagers attacked two white reporters ...
  • The Dohrn connection
    (Robert VerBruggen) - Bernardine Dohrn has a history with the Justice Department. More specifically, in the early 1970s, she was one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives because of her actions with the Weather Underground, a violent radical organization...
  • Boehner protects Eric Holder from contempt of ...
    (Western Journalism) - Three months ago, conservatives were jubilant over reports that Congressman Darrell Issa would offer a Contempt of Congress complaint against Eric Holder. After all, the Attorney General had openly refused to honor House Oversight Committee subpoenas for an estimated 80,00 ...

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

  • The Bunker of Dead Survivalist Peter Keller
    Peter Keller had been preparing for “the end of the world” since 2004, when he began constructing his North Bend, WA bunker. It is located deep in steep, wooded terrain. And he was very cautious and careful so that it would not be found: - he used so many different paths to reach hi ...
  • Dec 21, 2012: The Darkest Day
    What if the end date of the ancient Mayan Long Count calendar was not meant to be taken literally? The first question you need to ask is this: Dec 21 is also the Winter Solstice (in the northern hemisphere) – the darkest day of the year, so it is a coincidence or deliberate? The second q ...
  • 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 ...

Facing South

  • Wal-Mart and Watergate
    Wal-Mart has been accused of bribery in Mexico, but its behavior is far from unique: Many major corporations have been charged under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, a U.S. law passed in response to an oft-forgotten aspect of the Watergate scandal of the 1970s. read more
  • Fighting the good fight for immigrant workers ...
    The Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance has stopped anti-immigrant legislation in one of the most conservative states by bringing together African Americans, immigrants and labor. read more
  • Feds file first criminal charges related to BP ...
    The U.S. Department of Justice alleges that a BP engineer deleted messages he sent to company executives suggesting the amount of oil gushing from the Deepwater Horizon site was much greater than they were telling the public. read more
  • What does plummeting immigration from Mexico m ...
    Over the last decade, the South's Latino communities have grown faster than anywhere else in the country. But new studies show that immigration from Mexico has plummetted -- and is likely in net decline. read more
  • New survey details BP oil spill's human health ...
    A health survey conducted in Gulf Coast communities by the Louisiana Environmental Action Network finds widespread and frequent illnesses among people exposed to pollution from the disaster. read more

One News Page

  • Anti-austerity ballot backlash rattles euro zone
    ATHENS/PARIS (Reuters) - An anti-austerity backlash by voters in Greece and France shook the euro zone on Monday, causing jitters for the euro currency and stock markets amid deepening doubts about whether Greece has a future in the single currency. Reported by Reuters India 1 hour ago
  • Strong Lokpal, Lokayukta needed to root out gr ...
    The office of Lokayukta in Maharashtra should be provided with adequate resources to root out corruption, Anna said addressing a public meeting here in Beed district of Marathwada region. Reported by DNA 2 hours ago
  • Asia to overtake Europe as global solar power ...
    VERONA, Italy (Reuters) - The world's solar power generating capacity will grow by between 200 and 400 percent over the next five years, with Asia and other emerging markets overtaking leadership from Europe, a European industry association said on Monday. 'Europe has dominated the global ... R ...
  • Andhra Pradesh CM attacks Jagan
    Stepping up his attack on Reddy, Andhra Pradesh CM N Kiran Kumar Reddy asked how can a person living in a palatial palace empathise with the poor. Reported by Zee News 2 hours ago
  • Attempt to form Greece government fails after ...
    ATHENS (Reuters) - A first attempt to form a new Greek government collapsed in less than a day on Monday after a shock election which left gaping questions over the country's ability to avert bankruptcy and stay in the euro. Reported by Firstpost 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

  • DIY Yarn Wrapped Letters
    [Editor's Note: When it comes to yarn letters – no pain no gain. What? You didn’t know crafting sometimes hurt. Well wait until you start wrapping wooden letters in yarn and your fingertips are burnt to a crafty little crisp. Cranny + B has posted a great tutorial about creating your own set of ...
  • GOP PRIMARY | Romney the Great White House Hope
    If we're all just little people inside big peoples' bodies, then there's a lot of Republicans too chicken to fight Barack Obama after school.Primary after primary, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney delivers wins and yet, he's still at odds with leadership within his own party. But it's high ...
  • What Entrepreneurs Can Learn from Caine's Arcade
    Not sure if you noticed all the buzz about Caine's Arcade but I personally didn't give it much thought at first. That is, until, I read this excellent post by Carol Roth about the unexpected business lessons from this story. This is a great marketing and business building lesson for entrepreneu ...
  • Dear North Carolina Parents Who Wish To Ban Ga ...
    Tomorrow, May 8, voters in North Carolina will decide on Amendment 1:The measure would define marriage in the state constitution as between one man and one woman, and would ban any other type of "domestic legal union" such as civil unions and domestic partnerships. Same-sex marriage is alre ...
  • How to Become the Fun Mama
    [Editor's Note: My kids think that Daddy is much more fun than Mommy. It's not that he doesn't make them adhere to the rules; he does. He's just naturally more happy-go-lucky than me. I struggle with being the Fun Mom, just like Jamie at See Jamie Blog. I loved her post about becoming the Fun Ma ...

Health Freedom Alliance

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

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • OSMRE threatens takeover of Ky. bonding program
    Here’s an important story out today from Greenwire (subscription required) about problems with Kentucky’s strip-mining reclamation program: The Office of Surface Mining, the federal government’s top coal mining regulator, is threatening a partial takeover of Kentucky’s re ...
  • McAteer to retire from Wheeling Jesuit post
    Here’s the latest from Vicki Smith over at the AP: An international expert on mine safety will retire from his current post as a vice president of Wheeling Jesuit University amid an investigation into how he and the school handled federal dollars. Wheeling Jesuit President Rick Beyer sent ...
  • Post-Gazette whiffs with puff piece on CSE Corp.
    CSE Corp. president Scott Shearer, talks about the demand for the emergency air packs CSE pioneered for coal mining while in the corporate offices in Monroeville, Pa.,Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2007. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic) While many U.S. coal miners might be waiting until the end of 2013 for replac ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Hippie TV News and Stuff w/the WWH News Team ( ...
    In Depth News with a Difference. A Little Truth From Winston Smith. Dr. Woody; Cookie Crumbs,Windy Star,Hippy Woman “Slightly Relevant” Today; Monsanto gets nitroed, Taking stock in Armageddon, What color are her eyes? The Doc is in.. Instant Karma files the Asshole of the week and m ...
  • US should return stolen land to Indian tribes, ...
    By Chris McGreal, guardian.co.uk - UN’s correspondent on indigenous peoples urges government to act to combat ‘racial discrimination’ felt by Native Americans A United Nations investigator probing discrimination against Native Americans has called on the US government to return ...
  • Bob Dylan lives up to his legend at historic C ...
    By David Boddiger,ticotimes.net - The famous folk-pop balladeer and Presidential Medal of Freedom winner wows a crowd of some 4,500 people in Heredia’s Palacio de los Deportes on May 5. Anticipation was high Saturday night for legendary singer Bob Dylan’s first appearance in Central America. Org ...
  • Real Patriotism – Then and Now – P ...
    By Cindi Silva,Worldwidehippies – President Kennedy was inaugurated January 20, 1961 35th President of the United States You can say what you want about Kennedy I was too young to remember anything about his presidency only know what I have read in the slanted history books but . . . I do ...
  • Revolution 99 Updates: All Revolutions are Loc ...
    Occupy Wall Street’s Act II by Stephen Lendman Grassroots activism takes time to grow. Broad-based participation is vital. Issues must be clearly defined. Leadership is needed. Major obstacles must be overcome. Avoiding being co-opted, diverted, divided, and/or subverted are key. So is sta ...

reference frame

  • A confirmation of the 130 GeV dark matter-like ...
    Three weeks ago, I discussed Christoph Weniger's finding that the Fermi satellite seems to show an excess of photons whose energy is close to 130 GeV in several regions of the sky. A photograph of our galaxy using 120-140 GeV photons is on the left (with the location of the bubbles ...
  • Wrong log corrections to BH entropy exclude LQ ...
    Ashoke Sen's new research is much more interesting when it comes to positive claims The correct value of the black hole entropy is an important litmus test for assessing the consistency of candidate theories of quantum gravity. In the 1970s, Jacob Bekenstein decided that black holes ...
  • String predictions in particle physics
    In the previous posting, I linked to Andrew Strominger's recent talk at Berkeley. So it's fair to link to a talk by his colleague Cumrun Vafa of Harvard. ;-) One may say that it's somewhat ironic that the focus of Cumrun's recent research was much more phenomenological, experiment-oriented th ...
  • Black holes: harmonic oscillators of the 21st ...
    I think that my ex-colleague Andy Strominger is not only a top physicist but also a captivating speaker. This talk he gave at Berkeley in March 2012 confirms it. Abstract is here... Click the picture above to try to play the MOV video. You may need to install QuickTim ...
  • 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 ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • Putting Students at the Center of a Maelstrom. ...
    Editors Note: Today’s posting is from Jane of the Jungle, a person with firsthand knowledge of the ineffectiveness of the David Alward Government when it comes to Education in New Brunswick. Between Premier David Alward and Minister of Education and Early Childhood Development Jody Carr, t ...
  • FPS Russia – THE MINIGUN
    I have one of these on order. Can’t wait to try it out at Harvey Lake and on the Green!   We’re looking for a female model 18+ to model some of out products, you’d be featured wearing them in the outro of a video. If you’re interested send your resume and photos to F ...
  • Keiser Report 283: Mafia vs OWS feturing Geral ...
    In this episode, Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert discuss Treasury Secretary Secretary Timothy Geithner is like a monkey who sees no evil, hears no evil, speaks no evil while Wall Street ‘elks’ are protected by the police from protestor ‘wolves.’ In the second half o ...
  • 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 ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

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

  • Conservatives back ban on begging
    The leader of Norway’s Conservatives didn’t like it, but Erna Solberg’s party members voted at their annual national meeting over the weekend to promote a ban on begging. Solberg otherwise enjoyed re-election as she rallied her troops in a drive to seize government power next p ...
  • Jens lowers ‘moon landing’ gear
    It wasn’t exactly a small step for Norway, and not yet a giant leap for Norwegian industry  either, but Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg could finally welcome visitors to the formal opening of the country’s expensive technology center at Statoil’s Mongstad power plant on Monday. ...
  • Foreign minister in the hot seat
    Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre has consistently ranked as one of the most highly respected members of the government, sometimes getting higher scores among voters than his boss, Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg. That made it all the more noteworthy when Støre suddenly was being accus ...
  • Parents face new tough week in court
    Nearly all the parents of young Labour Party members killed in a terrorist’s massacre on the island of Utøya were opting to appear in court in Oslo this week, to be there when the autopsy reports of their murdered children were to be examined. “This is all about showing opposition to ...
  • Oslo keen to launch English schools
    Politicians at City Hall in Oslo plan to apply for state permission to open two new international schools in the Norwegian capital where all teaching would be carried out in English. They cite rising demand for a more international education in an increasingly global society. Newspaper Aftenpost ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • International Permaculture (May)Day
    Terania Creek, next to PRI Australia’s Zaytuna Farm Photos © Craig Mackintosh The inaugural International Permaculture Day — today — appropriately falls on the first Sunday of May, often known as ‘Mayday’. Permaculture, and its appropriate and holistic design s ...
  • 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. ...

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

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    MarkDarragh wrote: 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 ...
  • Social Engineering • Re: White almost killed b ...
    The way they behave is very poor and cowardly, the blacks claiming they are getting revenge because of what Zimmerman did thou Zimmerman is not white, he is Mexican/jewish or something. Prothink had a show on it which was interesting, I'm not sure if he recorded the whole show thou.Statistics: P ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    SPECTEC wrote: Thanks, Tim...Although, it was the rabbit that called MSMD a plagiarist. This is an amazing article. Im currently posting from my phone but please visit the link for all the images the author is addressing. This article is published on the internet only. This is the version of F ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Thanks, Tim...Although, it was the rabbit that called MSMD a plagiarist. This is an amazing article. Im currently posting from my phone but please visit the link for all the images the author is addressing. This article is published on the internet only. This is the version of February, 2012. ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    SPECTEC wrote: iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4758sBZLC5k Yes, I know this is from The History Channel but how is National SOCIALISM not considered LEFT WING? Is it not clearly hatched from the "oppressed" working class of a society? Just saying. The side by side comparis ...

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 ...
  • Solar Windows: Transforming Buildings Into Ene ...
    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

  • Fort McMurray’s Keyano College sends art ...
    By Frank Moher The sacking of four instructors in the Visual and Performing Arts Department at Keyano College in Fort McMurray is creating an uproar well beyond the city better known for its resource extraction talents. Artists, of course, are well aware that their masters — whether they b ...
  • 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 ...

Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • The best of Views from the Street
    << CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 SH: What do you know about Japanese superstitions?
  • Doolittle's Raiders recall daring wartime mission
    Three of Doolittle's Raiders, who helped boost American morale during the early days of World War II, recalled the dangers of their bold bombing attack on the Japanese mainland. Airman Edward Saylor didn't expect to come back alive when his B-25 set off on the 1942 mission. "Some of the group ...
  • Diet session may be extended: Jojima
    Koriki Jojima, Diet affairs chief of the Democratic Party of Japan, has indicated the ruling party may decide in early June to extend the ongoing 150-day regular session of the Diet that is currently scheduled to end June 21. If a Lower House special committee for the bills convenes every busi ...
  • The best of Views from the Street
    A pick of some of best —and the rest — of the vox pops over the years, in chronological order: Melanie Burton: What was your impression of Japan before you got here?
  • Fowler finally wins on PGA Tour
    Rickie Fowler has never been afraid to put it all on the line. The thrill-seeking passion for motocross as a teenager. The head-turning clothing he brought to the PGA Tour as a rookie, such as the bright orange ensemble from head-to-toe on Sundays. With a chance to finally break through for hi ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Corak in Context
    Professor Miles Corak had a post on The Globe and Mail’s Economy Lab yesterday comparing measures of unemployment in Canada and the U.S. I remember learning in Economics 100 that the official Canadian and American unemployment rates are not directly comparable, in part because Statistics Canada ...
  • Opting Out of Union Dues
    Murray Mandryk’s excellent column today saves me the trouble of writing a lengthy blog post on the Saskatchewan government’s recent musings about labour legislation. From an economic perspective, it’s worth noting that enabling unionized workers to opt out of paying union dues would create a cla ...
  • While You Were Sleeping: Fed Policies Make It ...
     A shorter version of this article appeared today in the Globe and Mail’s Economy Lab Have you noticed how common it has become to talk about replacing workers with even cheaper workers? If you’re looking over your shoulder, you’re not paranoid; you’re paying attention. T ...
  • Meilinomics II: Income from Within
    The following is another excerpt from Dr. Ryan Meili’s new book, A Healthy Society: How a Focus on Health Can Revive Canadian Democracy, which fellow blogger Greg Fingas has been discussing. The road to Tevele is red sand and sloppy in the rainy season. The pick- up truck bounces in and out of r ...
  • 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 ...

ReDress

  • Zionist history: a short quiz
    Neve Gordon highlights the slide in Israeli political thought over the past 20 years with a quiz the answers to which "expose just how far right Israeli politics, as well as the public discourse informing it, have shifted".
  • Israel's hawks in open revolt against war on Iran
    Uri Avnery looks at how a number of leading hardliners in Israel's military and security establishments have spoken out against the Israeli government's plans for an attack on Iran's nuclear installations and called into question the fitness for office of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and De ...
  • Intimidated, detained and tortured: false impr ...
    Graham Peebles calls on the international community, especially donor nations, to take action against the Meles Zenawi regime in Ethiopia, including freezing personal assets and imposing targeted sanctions, to force it to end its gross human rights violations.
  • 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 ...

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

  • Amid Brazil’s Rush to Develop, Workers Resist
    “JACI PARANÁ, Brazil — The revolt here on the banks of the Madeira River, the Amazon’s largest tributary, flared after sunset. At the simmering end of a 26-day strike by 17,000 workers last month, a faction of laborers who were furious over wages and living conditions began setting fire to ...
  • MENA Changing Drastically & NASA Has The Pictu ...
    “Lake shrinkage in Iran Left: August 1985. Right: August 2010. Iran’s Lake Oroumeih (also spelled Urmia) is the largest lake in the Middle East and the third largest saltwater lake on Earth. But dams on feeder streams, expanded use of ground water, and a decades-long drought have reduced i ...
  • Beckoning war on water
    “India’s feverish pursuit of building dams on the rivers allocated to Pakistan under the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) has received the attention of the International Crisis Group (ICG) whose objective is to evaluate the consequences of a developing situation for peace in the world and give ea ...
  • Valley water agencies look at farming contamin ...
    “California failed to protect the San Joaquin Valley from fertilizer, dairy and septic contamination now threatening drinking water from thousands of wells, says the leader of the responsible state agency. “But Pamela Creedon, executive officer of the Central Valley Regional Water Co ...
  • Water Shortage Pushing Leopards Into ‘Ma ...
    “Explaining the reason behind leopards abandoning their natural habitat and encroaching upon ‘man’s territory,’ Vijay Hinge, district forest officer (planning), says the Western Ghats — where Nashik is located — are surrounded by dams and water bodies. The ample supply of water in the 4km- ...

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

  • YES indeed the days of “war on drug$&#82 ...
    …YES indeed the days of “war on drug$” are numbered and that number is small …   Teens Toking Marijuana on the Rise: Days of Prohibition Are Numbered Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: "Despite the vast lobbying force arrayed against the legalization of marijuana (as detailed in an art ...
  • We just can’t have runny mascara drippin ...
    …We just can’t have runny mascara dripping pancake makeup on live TV …  but blood and brutality … bring it on… Water Guns Banned, Handguns Allowed at GOP Convention Read the Article at ABC News   Filed under: Blogroll
  • I can assure you
    … Growing up less than 100 miles from ground-zero of America’s atomic/nuclear bomb testing site I can assure you that our government’s legacy is to experiment on its citizen without their knowledge or permission …     DHS To Release Bacteria In Boston Subway System 05-02-2012  •&# ...
  • you can’t demonstrate for anything that ...
    …HELLO … what don’t you get … you can’t demonstrate for anything that benefits YOU … you can only demonstrate for that which benefits corporation$ … who own the Congre$$ that makes the laws and rules which extract rights given to us by our Constitution… "Tuition Fees are Class War!" CUNY ...
  • you can’t demonstrate for anything that ...
    …HELLO … what don’t you get … you can’t demonstrate for anything that benefits YOU … you can only demonstrate for that which benefits corporation$ … who own the Congre$$ that makes the laws and rules which extract rights given to us by our Constitution… "Tuition Fees are Class War!" CUNY ...

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,...
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    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...
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    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

  • The honeybees are still vanishing
    From Hannah Nordhaus on Boing Boing: The eerie mystery of the vanishing honeybees has not been put to rest. In the last few weeks, three separate studies explored the effect of insecticides on honeybee and pollinator health. One paper linked … Continue reading →
  • Health blogger under fire in N. Carolina
    From Raine Saunders on Agriculture Society: “Today I’m expressing my opposition to what’s going on in the State of North Carolina. A blogger named Steve Cooksey of Diabetes Warrior maintains a chronicle of his health journey, detailing how how he’s managed his … Continue reading →
  • Albuquerque ends water fluoridation
    From End All Disease.com “Fluoride is no longer being added to Albuquerque’s drinking water. City officials argued supplemental fluoride is not necessary to meet current standards, but a local dentist said they should think twice. “It is virtually indisputable that … Continue reading ...
  • Genetic research and livestock origins
    From The Pig Site.com “GLOBAL – Modern cattle are descended from a small herd domesticated in the Middle East about 10,500 years ago, according to recent genetics research. Researchers extracted DNA from domestic cattle bones found at archeological sites. By … Continue reading ...
  • Montana Jones on the Shropshire sheep
    From shepherd Montana Jones:  My main goal in this ongoing Shropshire saga has been for Minister of Agriculture Gerry Ritz to implement a Heritage Breed Exemption to the current Scrapie Protocol, which would protect and conserve the genetic diversity of … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • No Deal: SYRIZA and Greece's Democratic Left P ...
    Odds of a lasting coalition are slim given the massive vote against the austerity coalition. Fotis Kouvelis, SYRIZA party leader and second place finisher in the elections repeated his position that cooperation with New Democracy and PASOK was not in his intentions. Moreover, Greece's Demo ...
  • “We Embittered the People to Protect the Futur ...
    If you want to understand the reason PASOK went down in flames in a crushing defeat in Greek elections, simply look at the arrogance and gall of party leader Evangelos Venizelos in a statement following the election. “We embittered the people so we could protect the future of the nation", ...
  • Voters Punish New Democracy and Pasok; New Ele ...
    Assuming no defects in Pasok or the New Democracy parties, the pro-austerity may just scrape together enough votes to barely piece together a ruling coalition. How long the coalition lasts is another matter as Pasok was humiliated with a third place showing. Reuters reports Angry Greek ...
  • Splintering of Greece: Will Anyone Rule? Exit ...
    Preliminary exit polls are not good for the pro-austerity, keep Greece in the Eurozone at any cost coalition as 3 parties vie for top post An exit poll commissioned by Greek media shows three parties are vying for the top spot in the country's critical parliamentary elections, with no defini ...
  • New American Dream is Renting; Reflections on ...
    Housing has now gone full circle. President Bush's "Ownership Society" has morphed into the "Rentership Society". The attitude applies to more than houses as noted in the Wall Street Journal article Renting Prosperity by Daniel Gross. Americans are getting used to the idea of renting the g ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Fleetwood Mac Fleetwood Mac was one of the most celebrated bands of all time. Stevie Nicks’ voice, choice of music and persona took the band to unheard of levels. Nicks is still out there singing and performing with various younger artists. This performance, back in 1976, of Rhiannon is pr ...
  • Jamiol Presents
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    Watch the Preview Here: Watch the Full Video Report Here (Subscribers Only): *The Transcript for this video is available at Corbett Report: Click Here This site depends exclusively on readers’ support. Please help us continue by SUBSCRIBING, and by ordering our EXCLUSIVE BFP DVD .
  • Updates on ‘Classified Woman’ & BFP
    Calm before a Storm? You got the news on my coming book, and some of you already have a copy. Then, you got the press release from NWC, and after that the video clip of my attorney’s interview with RT. I know many of you are wondering: what’s going on?! What  next?! Trust me, I [...]
  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Solomon Burke This week’s BFP Jamiol music pick has 2 things going for it. First off, it’s a request from Sibel and secondly it’s a song performed by Solomon Burke aka “King Solomon.” Burke also earned the title “the Muhammad Ali of soul” for his ability ...

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 →

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Press TV

  • ‘Halt civilian deaths or pact with US off’
    Afghan President Hamid Karzai says the strategic pact signed by Kabul and Washington will be at risk if US-led forces continue to kill Afghan civilians.
  • Bahrain king opposes reforms
    Bahraini security forces have arrested a human rights activist in the country Nabeel Rajab with the interior ministry giving no particular reason for the act.
  • 'US bad policy makes Taliban stronger'
    This statement is directly contrary to statements made by US President Obama during this election year campaign that the Taliban's momentum is broken.
  • ‘Syria needs Assad for peaceful solution’
    The May 7 parliamentary elections in Syria are scheduled to be held at a time when UN observers are monitoring a ceasefire that took effect on April 12.
  • Greek Conservatives in gridlock
    Greek conservative leader Antonis Samaras has failed in talks on forming a unity government after being shunned by anti-austerity parties who made strong gains in a recent parliamentary election.

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

  • Eyes vote no to space travel
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Nick Turse

  • A Bangladeshi veiled woman participates in a m ...
    A Bangladeshi veiled woman participates in a march to celebrate May Day in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tuesday, May 1, 2012. May Day moved beyond its roots as an international workers’ holiday to a day of international protest Tuesday, with rallies throughout Asia demanding wage increases and marches pl ...
  • In this photograph taken by AP Images for AIDS ...
    In this photograph taken by AP Images for AIDS Healthcare Foundation, AIDS Healthcare Foundation, National Guestworkers Alliance, Act Up Philadelphia and Metropolitan Community Church of Philadelphia protest outside of the Hershey’s annual shareholder meeting on Tuesday, May 1, 2012, in Hershey ...
  • Kashmiri Muslim woman workers of Accredited So ...
    Kashmiri Muslim woman workers of Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) shouts slogans against the government on May Day in Srinagar India, Tuesday, May 1, 2012. May Day moved beyond its roots as an international workers’ holiday to a day of international protest Tuesday, with rallies through ...
  • A Bahraini anti-government protester runs from ...
    A Bahraini anti-government protester runs from riot police dispersing a Labor Day demonstration in support of people fired from their jobs for political activity Tuesday, May 1, 2012, in Sitra, Bahrain, southeast of the capital of Manama. Also on Tuesday, a jailed Bahraini rights activist will ...
  • 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 ...
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