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Scoop - NZ

• A Closer Look At The Secret Service
  Secret Service agents are one category of law enforcement whose agents typically get the glory treatment. Recent books by members of JFK’s secret service detail, almost devoid of revelations or candor, have nevertheless received lots of positive coverage. Meanwhile, legitimate questions about th ...
• GFC: Don’t mention the 'A' word
  despite “lax” monetary policy, fairly standard levels of indebtedness and a considerable export shock, Australian demand (and so income) did not collapse. Which meant debt remained manageable. Why? The simple answer is: because our central bank is not mad (unlike other central banks). The RBA ...
• Krugman and Shiller: We’re In a Depression
  Paul Krugman released a new book yesterday called “End This Depression Now“. In the introduction, Krugman writes: The best way to think about this continued slump, I’d argue, is to accept that we’re in a depression …. It’s nonetheless essentially the same kind of situation that John Maynard K ...
• The Constitutional Crimes of Barack Obama
  * For starters, in vowing to “preserve, protect and defend the US Constitution of the United States,” President Obama, upon taking office, had a sacred obligation to prosecute the people who had gravely wounded that document prior to his assuming office. It was clear, as I wrote in my book The C ...
• The Meaning of “Austerity Measures”
  The eurozone is slipping into a recession that could have been avoided. Had policymakers provided fiscal support for stricken countries in the South and guarantees on their government bonds, (as the USG does for US Treasuries) then their economies could have continued to grow while the necessary ...

Independent - London

• The main challenges facing Francois Hollande
   Related StoriesHundreds arrested as protests greet Vladimir Putin inaugurationNicolas Sarkozy wanted to fix France, but leaves a broken nationExtreme right leader Nikolaos Michaloliakos lashes Greece's 'traitors'Vladimir Putin sworn in as Russia's president amid protestsGreek election runner-u ...
• Al-Qa'ida kills 20 soldiers in Yemen attack
  Al-Qa'ida militants have staged a surprise attack on a Yemeni army base in the south, killing 20 soldiers and capturing 25 just hours after a US drone strike killed a senior figure in the terror network wanted in connection with the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen. Related StoriesSyrians t ...
• Greek election runner-up Alexis Tsipras reject ...
  The leader of the runner-up party in Greece's national election, the Radical Left Coalition's Alexis Tsipras, has rejected a coalition with the winning conservative party.Related StoriesHundreds arrested as protests greet Vladimir Putin inaugurationNicolas Sarkozy wanted to fix France, but leave ...
• Ex-death row Briton Ken Richey back in court
  A man released from prison four years ago after spending two decades on Ohio's death row will learn today whether he will be going go back to prison. Related StoriesRomney's former rivals become cheerleaders in bid to oust ObamaCalls for Yahoo chief to be fired over the degree that wasn'tHillary ...
• Israel moves for early elections
  The Israeli government today proposed that national elections be moved forward to September 4, putting in motion a brief campaign expected to propel Benjamin Netanyahu to another term as prime minister. Related StoriesSyrians to shun 'sham' electionAl-Qa'ida leader killed by drone strike in Yeme ...

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

• The War On Mankind And The Conspiracy To Creat ...
  Mankind Is Being Terminated. "We have become a plague upon [ourselves and upon] the Earth...Until such a time as Homo sapiens should decide to rejoin nature, some of us can only hope for the right virus to come along." - David M. Graber, Los Angeles Times, 22 October 1989. "Contemporar ...
• US Selling Combat Drones to Undisclosed Countries
  The unmanned aerial vehicle industry is expected to bring in billions for domestic drone makers over the next few years. Where are the robotic aircraft manufacturers sending their stealth spy plans though? They aren't saying. The American Independent reports that Texas' Vanguard Defense Industr ...
• Whence the Domestic Horse?
  Shards of pottery with traces of mare's milk, mass gravesites for horses, and drawings of horses with plows and chariots: These are some of the signs left by ancient people hinting at the importance of horses to their lives. But putting a place and date on the domestication of horses has been a ...
• Ron Paul Pleads with Supporters to Fight CISPA ...
  Presidential hopeful Ron Paul made a splash with supporters in California on Friday, and the impetus in a rowdy round of applause was something of serious concern with voters this election year: the Internet. Addressing an audience at the University of California, San Diego late last week, Texa ...
• Ghrelin Can Cause Some People To Reward Themse ...
  Ever notice how celebration and overeating often go hand-in hand? Americans celebrate holidays with formidable feasts and punctuate promotions and other happy news with plenty to eat; The proverbial fatted calf, if you will. Now, research shows our minds could be hard-wired to chemically reward ...

The Galloping Beaver

• Baird suggests Canada and Iran are the same on ...
  John Baird won't say, but the title of this post isn't wrong. "When they're enriching uranium to 20 per cent, when they've got the volume of materials. … When you're putting all the ingredients in front of you, it obviously wouldn't take long to make the decision to do it," he said. ...
• Kush considerations . . .
  INTER-PRESS-SERVICE is a quiet site that is devoted to “giving a voice to the voiceless”.  Since its inception, back in 1964, IPS proclaims that it has believed in the role of information as a precondition for lifting communities out of poverty and marginalization. Well, Carey L. Biron ha ...
• Robocon Guelph - the technical hypothesis
  #elxnfraud #Cdnpoli -  Zorpheous has done a great job of squeezing out the technical aspects of the Guelph Conservative election fraud scandal. If you haven't read it, go now. If you're in a rush, here's something very important: gnoring the other 199 ridings that are being inve ...
• Harmonica Players Suck (except when they blow)
  You've always wanted to play the blues, you know you have. Everyone should be able to make a little music, it's good for the soul.  There are a few three-chord wonders among the Inkstained Wretches and several more among our blogging fellow travellers who will testify to benefits of be ...
• Stupid, stupid Harperite Conservative moron
  #Cdnpoli - This is utter bullshit. Not because the idea is wrong-headed ... The Harper government is throwing its weight behind a private members' bill that would give police the power to arrest anyone hiding their identity during a riot or unlawful assembly. Conservative backben ...

Media Matters for America

• Journal Miffed By Bipartisan Support ...
  A Wall Street Journal editorial criticizes Republicans who support extending the federal Production Tax Credit, a key tax break supporting the U.S. wind power industry. The Journal suggests that wind energy will not become competitive with fossil fuels, but energy analysts say wind is approachi ...
• Fox's Flawed Solution To The Economy: What Wou ...
  Fox has attacked the economic recovery under President Obama by claiming that if Obama just adopted the policies of former President Ronald Reagan, there would be a stronger recovery. But as economists have pointed out, the Reagan recession ended not because of Reagan's fiscal policies but beca ...
• Fox Touts Failed Fiscal Austerity Measures
  Fox's Stuart Varney claimed that the result of the French presidential election showed that French voters "want to go backwards" because they are saying "no more austerity." But experts have said that European austerity measures have not improved the economic situation and have warned against s ...
• Fox Promotes Deceptive Ad Accusing Obama Of Ta ...
  Fox News figures are promoting an ad produced by Veterans for a Strong America that deceptively edited statements by President Obama to portray him as taking all the credit for the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. In fact, fuller context of the speeches that the ad excerpts makes clear that Ob ...
• Contrary To Claims On Fox, Obama Has Repeatedl ...
  Fox News figures celebrated the anniversary of the operation that killed Osama bin Laden by attacking President Obama for not giving the military personnel that carried out the mission "the credit that's due to them." But Obama has repeatedly praised and thanked the Navy SEALs and other militar ...

Global Research.ca

• Fukushima: A Nuclear War without a War: The Un ...
  The dumping of highly radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean constitutes a potential trigger to a process of global radioactive contamination... Eventually all major regions of the World will be affected.
• The Globalization of War: The "Military Roadma ...
  The Pentagon’s global military design is one of world conquest. The military deployment of US-NATO forces is occurring in several regions of the world simultaneously.
• SYRIA: NATO's Next "Humanitarian" War?
  ONLINE INTERACTIVE I-BOOK. The insurgency in Syria is based on the "Libya Model": it is integrated by mercenaries and Al Qaeda affiliated paramilitary brigades supported by British, French and Turkish Special Forces...
• FBI Entrapment Snares More Victims
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• ECONOMIC AUSTERITY IN AMERICA: The Portland Co ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.

TPM Cafe

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

• 'Undercover Israeli combatants threw stones at ...
  Undercover soldiers hurled stones in the "general direction" of IDF soldiers as part of their activity to counter weekly demonstrations in the Palestinian village of Bil'in, the command ...
• Women 'detained in Hebron after settlers raid ...
  A Palestinian woman was detained in the city of Hebron on Sunday after Israeli settlers raided her house, locals told Ma'an. A group of Israelis from a nearby settlement entered several ...
• The Wall, 10 years on, part 5: A new way of re ...
  I guess it's no coincidence that whenever I think of the beginning of the popular struggle against the wall I think of Gil Na'amati. The story of Na'amati, who was just out of the army ...
• Israel 'punishing' hunger strike action (Ma'a ...
  Israeli prison authorities have enacted a series of new procedures to punish hunger strike action by prisoners, Hamas-affiliated detainees told Ma'an on Saturday. Prison authorities hav ...
• Palestinian hunger strikers in prison clinic ...
  Ten Palestinian prisoners participating in a mass hunger strike in Israeli jails have been placed under medical supervision as their conditions worsen, officials said. The men are among ...

Water - AlterNet

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

Public Citizen in Texas

• Wild Fire Risk in Texas
  The wildfire season has started in Texas as two large fires rage in Jeff Davis County.  The Texas Forest Service, working with Texas A&M University, has developed a website that can provide some information about your area’s risk of wildfire and also tells you what you can do to dimini ...
• The Game of Thrones (or Texas Politics)
  By Michael Tahmoressi, St. Edwards student and Public Citizen intern Texas can be characterized as a pay to play environment.  Politicians bend to their districts business interests and gubernatorial appointees seem to be selected based on the amounts they contribute to the governor. Contributio ...
• The answer my friend is blowin’ in the wind . . .
  The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the state grid operator and manager of the wholesale electric market, hit a new wind record of 7,599 MW on Wednesday, exceeding the previous record set the previous day by almost 200 megawatts (MW). At the time of Wednesday’s record, wind was su ...
• Your Land is My Land … A David and Goliath Sto ...
  According to the Fort Worth Weekly, the Keystone pipeline company wants to run roughshod over Texas landowners – and maybe Texas law. When someone from the Canandian company, TransCanada, asked the Crawford family in 2008 about an easement to lay pipeline across their farm on the Texas bank of t ...
• Harold Simmons, WCS and the every expanding at ...
  Harold Simmons built a West Texas dump for radioactive waste that is bigger than 1,000 football fields, paid out hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions and got a permit for it in Texas, and is now working to fill it. To turn it into a profitable enterprise, the Texas billiona ...

Unexplained Mysteries

• Is planet hunting crucial to our survival ?
  Astronomers in Australia have emphasised the importance of seeking out other habitable planets. In the future the world's population is likely to incr...
• Giant dog-eating crocodile captured
  A huge crocodile that ate nine pet dogs within the last month has finally been caught in Australia. The 14.5ft reptile was caught south of Darwin afte...
• Did Mars rocks shelter ancient life ?
  New data from the Opportunity rover suggests that life forms may have once lived within rocks on mars. It might seem like a dry, cold and barren waste...
• Pyramid-like UFO sighted over Ontario
  A couple in Cambridge, Ontario photographed a strange object flying around cloud cover overhead. The encounter is detailed in testimony published by M...
• Was Egyptian folding chair design stolen ?
  New evidence suggests that the chair design could have been victim to an early form of espionage. The simple yet sophisticated design for a type of ea...

Grassroots

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

Climate

• More Grasslands, Less Tundra in Alaska's Futur ...
  (Reuters) Long-term climate shifts will mean the spread of prairie-like grasslands and the displacement of much of the tundra habitat in Alaska and neighboring parts of Canada, according to a report released by the University of Alaska ...
• Aspen Ski Area Hosts Ski Race without Snow to ...
  (AP) Aspen Ski Area hosted a ski race without snow Saturday to highlight the effect climate change has on the outdoor recreation industry.
• International Climate Negotiators Plot Difficu ...
  (BBC News) The European Union hosts this week what could be one of the most significant meetings of the year on climate change in Belgium.
• UN Peacekeepers Open New Fronts in War on Carbon
  (BusinessGreen) Using alternative energy, natural building materials, and water efficient technology has helped the UN tackle emissions from its sizeable peacekeeping operation, according to a major new report.
• U.S. Law Firm Urges Pension Funds to File Deep ...
  (Guardian) British pension schemes which held investments in BP during the Gulf disaster are being urged by a New York law firm to file claims against the oil company to recover "billions of dollars" in compensation.

GreenBiz

• Forget the paperless office: Here's how to get ...
  The paperless office remains a myth. But in the last five years, offices actually have started using less paper and reaping the savings. Here are some tips for creating an effective "less paper" strategy.
• The resource crisis: Closer to the edge
  Over the past 10 years more corporations have realized that optimizing energy use is not only good for business, it's essential.
• Nike innovates its way to zero toxic discharges
  Nike’s new sustainability report highlights how the sporting goods giant is pushing innovation in both its products and supply chain
• New sustainability tools to calculate milk's c ...
  The Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy has released two tools to help companies calculate and cut emissions from processing plants and milk transportation.
• How Genzyme cut its energy bill by 13% last year
  The biotech firm made major savings in its $29 million annual energy spending through a combination of facility management practices and adoption of innovative technologies to reduce energy use.

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

• Heartland Institute is a Terrorist Organization
  Guess who claimed that climate change scientists are just like Charles Manson, the Unabomber and Fidel Castro? Our good friends at the Heartland Institute, a notorious conservative think tank that promotes denial that man-made global warming is behind climate change: Here's one image of the bi ...
• Today in Stupid
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• Dear Joe Scarborough: When Cheney Endorsed Gay ...
  President Obama still isn't ready to endorse gay marriage, even after Vice President Biden gave his endorsement. You can see that as politically necessary caution, cravenness, or some combination of the two -- but please, Joe Scarborough, don't try to tell me that Dick Cheney was braver tha ...
• Am I Supposed to Like the Beastie Boys?
  I was never much of a Beastie Boy fan. I didn't even know any of their names until MCA died this past weekend. I never owned one of their albums or CD's and I frankly haven't thought much about them one way or the other. I listened to rap from Grandmaster Flash through Run DMC to KRS-One, NWA ...
• A Fair View of Jimmy Carter
  If you open up a can of worms, someone else might open up a can of whoopass: By contrast, the Obama ad's brief rebuke of Romney is at least factual and accurate: Not only did he say what the ad quotes, but he also said that he wouldn't go into Pakistan to get bin Laden, which is what the miss ...

Environmental Graffiti

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

Foreign Policy in Focus

• Annotate This: EU Response to Argentina's Nati ...
  Europe's crocodile tears for Argentina's economic development are all about the profits of European companies.
• Missile Defense: Ever the Fly in the Ointment ...
  Missile defense is a bottomless fund of misinformation between the United States and Russia.
• The Arms Race Was Fed by More Than Just the Ne ...
  Strange as it sounds, the decision to target weapons over cities only added to nuclear risk.
• Will Israeli Dissent Halt the March Towards War?
  War fever has broken -- temporarily anyway.
• Ex-Qahdafi Flunkies Debate Claims He Gave Sark ...
  French President Nicholas Sarkozy is alleged to have maintained backdoor ties to the Libyan government from 2005 to 2011.

Global Elite

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

Al Jazeera

• China expels Al Jazeera correspondent
  Channel closes Beijing bureau after authorities refuse to renew correspondent's press credentials and visa.
• Free Syrian Army 'regrouping'
  Opposition fighters tell Al Jazeera they are using the lull in fighting to amass arms.
• When dinosaurs warmed the Earth
  Flatulence emitted by dinosaurs during their reign could have heated the planet, a new study suggests.
• Netanyahu in surprise coalition with Kadima
  Deal effectively cancels moves by Israeli parliament to clear the way for early elections that the PM had wanted.
• Kidnap: US not to negotiate with al-Qaeda
  Officials refuse to negotiate over release of 70-year-old abducted in Pakistan after he warns his life is at stake.

Green Inc. - NYT

• On Our Radar: Myanmar's Ecosystems
  Investors descend on Myanmar, which up to now has been spared the worst ravages of economically booming societies in Asia.
• Sipping From the Garden Hose? Think Again.
  Potentially hazardous chemicals can lurk inside your garden tools, a study found.
• N.R.C. Skimps on Financial Oversight, Audit Says
  The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's estimate for decommissioning a power plant is sometimes far lower than the owner's, a study finds.
• Safeguarding Mammoth Trees, Champs of the Ecos ...
  Mammoth trees accounted for only 1 percent of trees in a research plot but stored half of the area's biomass, researchers in Yosemite National Park found.
• Answering Questions About Clouds and Climate
  A reporter responds to queries about climate change, scientific research, policy action or lack thereof, and a minority that firmly argues that clouds will protect the planet.

Dot Earth News

• From Bark to Bottle – a Cork Story
  Students chronicle efforts to sustain the age-old use of cork to seal wine bottles and thus sustain the forest source of this versatile material.
• The Short Hot Life of Heartland's Hateful Clim ...
  A group opposed to regulation of pollution plays, and then withdraws, the Unabomber card.
• A Student's Conversation With Michael Mann on ...
  A student journalist explores the career and book of a climate scientist.
• Secretary of Defense on Climate, Foresight and ...
  The secretary of defense explores the importance of environmental foresight in protecting the nation's interests.
• A Fresh Look at Clouds, and Heat, in the Green ...
  A closer look at research on the role of clouds in global warming

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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

Daily Censored

• America’s New Slavery
  By Elaine Leeder For the last fifteen years, I have been running self-help groups and classes for prisoners in a number of California and New York State prisons. When I first entered, I was struck by the glaring racial and ethnic disparity among inmates, with blacks and Latinos being the... ...
• Seven months of Dailycensored.com articles dis ...
  On Friday April 27, 2012  the article “Insider trading probe at University of Phoenix: Washington Post Company stock sales also seen as suspect”  was published on Dailycensored.com.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
• Citizens Must Demand Accountability of Governm ...
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• Paul Vallas, vassal and executioner of public ...
    Readers might remember the distasteful case of gun-for-hire, former Superintendent of the Philadelphia School District and New Orleans School District, Paul Vallas and his erstwhile dismantling of New Orleans’ school district after Hurricane Katrina.  Vallas was on hand to help fire the entire ...
• Insider trading probe at University of Phoenix ...
  On April 19, 2012 Reuters news service reported the Securities and Exchange Commission was investigating certain Apollo Company share sales by company insiders. Apollo is the parent company of the for-profit college, University of Phoenix . The insiders being investigated were not named.... ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

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Institute for Policy Studies

• The One Percent Deports Itself
  While millions await for an opportunity to adjust their legal immigration status, wealthy U.S. expatriates renounce their citizenship to dodge taxes.
• The Lineup: Week of May 7-13, 2012
  Sarah Anderson underscores the dangers posed by Wall Street's lightning-speed computerized trading.
• Wall Street's Speed Freaks
  The high-frequency trading that dominates the stock market could trigger another global financial crisis.
• Okinawa: Small Step Forward?
  The U.S. military footprint on Okinawa is shrinking, but the impasse over bases remains.
• A Ditty on Newt Gingrich: The Apogee of a Woul ...
  We'll carry on with Barack and Mitt, but we lament that you called it quits.

IntelNews

• News you may have missed #724
  Aid group denies link to US intelligence in Pakistan. Is MI6 double spy's case linked with Gareth Williams' death? Fears of spying hinder US license for China Mobile.
• News you may have missed #723
  Mossad officer claims compensation for 'breakdown'. US signs intel-sharing agreement with New Zealand. Secret files missing from US National Archives.
• Israel accused of spying on Turkish fighter-pi ...
  Authorities in Turkey have reportedly initiated a classified program to encrypt communications between Turkish fighter pilot trainees and their ground command centers, after it emerged that their conversations were being intercepted by Israeli intelligence.
• Lawyer alleges MI6 withheld data in spy’ ...
  A lawyer representing the family of an MI6 employee found dead in his London apartment in 2010, has accused the British intelligence agency of deliberately withholding evidence from police investigating his death.
• News you may have missed #722
  Vienna police say Libyan defector's death probably an accident. Canadian spymaster’s card found in Gaddafi’s intel complex. Ex-CIA official defends torture of terrorism detainees.

War is a Crime.org

• The Nuclear Industry has Melted in Japan and F ...
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• Urgent Bulletin: There Is Still No Credible In ...
    By Charles M. Young   In journalism and in life, it is best to admit it when you’re wrong, and I was wrong last week. In my haste to write something timely about the triumphant return of Occupy Wall Street to the front lines of protest on May 1, I assumed that Fox Five New York and t ...
• What the Super Committee Couldn't Do, the Full ...
  http://www.c-span.org/Events/House-Budget-Cmte-Markup-of-Bills-to-Replace-Automatic-Budget-Cuts/10737430474/ House Budget Cmte. Markup of Bills to Replace Automatic Budget Cuts   House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) heads a markup hearing on a bill that will replace the automatic budget ...
• Protest John Yoo at UC Berkeley Law School Com ...
  Friday is the 2012 Commencement ceremony at UC Berkeley Law (Boalt Hall).  How time flies!  Yet another class of successful, proud graduates will celebrate Commencement having spent their entire law school career with a war criminal, as defined under international law and legal precede ...
• Washington Targets OWS
    Washington Targets OWS   by Stephen Lendman   Last October, Obama told ABC News:   read more

Grist - News

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

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Time - Top Stories

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Digg Green

• 'Milky-Way-Sized' Supermassive Black Hole Obse ...
  In May of 2010 a team of astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics spotted what appeared to be a flare from a previously inactive, Milky-Way-sized supermassive black hole in a galaxy about two billion light-years away. The CfA team led an aggressive follow-up campaign of ob ...
• This well-known Egyptian symbol is actually an ...
  Chances are you've seen this symbol before, because it's one of the most well-known Egyptian symbols. It's called the Eye of Horus. Some people think it's writing. Actually, it's math.
• Up to 90% of Asian Schoolchildren Are Nearsigh ...
  Scientists say that an epidemic of myopia, or nearsightedness, is sweeping through Asian children, and is likely due to students spending too much time indoors studying and not enough time outside in the sunlight.
• New Irrigation Technology Reduces Water Loss b ...
  The VRI technology being tested by the Flint partnership enables a farmer to ‘tell’ a computer where to supply more water, less water, or no water at all. That information is conveyed to the individual sprinkler nozzles arrayed along the center-pivot carriage. From early trials on more than 50 ...
• Dinosaur gases 'warmed the Earth'
  Giant dinosaurs could have warmed the planet with their flatulence, say scientists.

Invisible Opportunity

• The U.S. Internment Camp: Prison for a New Ame ...
  Ryan Cummings, Contributor Activist Post The topic of civilian internment camps in the United States has been largely dismissed as a paranoid “conspiracy theory” by the mainstream media. Recent legislation and newly uncovered government documents, however, reveal the sad truth: The United States ...
• Most polar ice ever recorded
  by Don Surber So much for an ice-free Arctic. Henry Hudson’s long-ago dream of a Northwest Passage that would link England to the Orient by sea will have to wait another century as Mother Earth gives him the cold shoulder. Again. From Real Science: “1979 was the peak year for Arctic ice, yet 201 ...
• Dinosaurs ‘gassed’ themselves into ...
  No, this is not an article from the ONION.  It is from “reputable” Fox News. If you believe this is “science.” I still have the Brooklyn Bridge on sale… LONDON – Dinosaurs may have farted themselves to extinction, according to a new study from British scientists. Th ...
• Chief executive of GAVI wants to ‘immuni ...
  by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer (NaturalNews) The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-backed group Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations (GAVI) is on a mission to forcibly vaccinate every single child on the planet against every single known “preventable disease.” And the gr ...
• Human race being terminated by ‘scientif ...
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Global Insights

• Less Than a Week Away
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• The Georgia Guidestones
  On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
• The Creation
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• The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...
  In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
• About George Green
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AlterNet - DrugReporter

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

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

• Lee Eunyeol’s Stunning LED Landscapes Light Up ...
  Read the rest of Lee Eunyeol’s Stunning LED Landscapes Light Up the Night Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: environmental photography, green art, landscape art, landscape photography, Lee Eunyeol, light installations, starry night
• Japan Could Tap Thermal Springs to Replace Nuc ...
  A lot has happened since the Fukushima nuclear disaster. In the 15 months since the power plant was damaged by a double-whammy of an earthquake and a tsunami, the nuclear state has been described as worse than Chernobyl and the country has shut down all its reactors. Now that the country is nucl ...
• HOW TO: Switch Your Bulbs to LEDs To Get Ready ...
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• Battery-Free Bosavi LED Headlamp Recharges Via USB
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• Tommaso Guerra Turns Teapots into Poetic Lamps ...
  Tommaso Guerra is an Italian-born designer with an eye for seeing poetry in everyday objects. Looking past the obvious function of a teapot, he created these fairytale-like Teapot Lamps. By keeping the original teapot intact, he honors the object while playing with our preconceptions about the e ...

Pogue's Posts

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

WIRED Magazine | Science

• Q&A: NASA Engineer on Historic SpaceX Launch
  A NASA engineer talks to Wired about SpaceX's upcoming launch to the International Space Station.
• Our View of Earth From Space Is in Danger
  The U.S. is in danger of losing its ability to monitor Earth from space. In this gallery we take a look at some of the amazing images and data that Earth-observing satellites have given us.
• Q&A: DIY Spacecraft Builder on Historic SpaceX ...
  In our fourth Q&A with spaceflight experts, Wired talks to do-it-yourself spacecraft builder Kristian von Bengston about the upcoming SpaceX launch.
• Brain Scans Give Glimpse of How Your Dog Thinks
  Brain scans of dogs could give researchers a new tool for studying what happens in the mind of man's best friend.
• Solar System’s Death Glimpsed in White Dwarf Stars
  Four dead planetary systems, each lit by the burned-out core of a star that once resembled the sun, provide a harrowing forecast for Earth's eventual demise.

PakAlert

• The US Military Wants To ‘Microchip’ Troops
  DARPA is at it again. This time, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has announced plans to create nanochips for monitoring troops health on the battlefield.
• Scientists Discover Solar Activity Directly Af ...
  Researchers have made a startling correlation between the rise and fall of solar activity and the human consciousness. Professor Raymond Wheeler of the University of Kansas has come to the same conclusions that Russian scientist Alexander Chizhevsky discovered in 1915.
• Senator: Fukushima Fuel Pool Is a National Sec ...
  Anti-nuclear physician Dr. Helen Caldicott says that if fuel pool 4 collapses, she will evacuate her family from Boston and move them to the Southern Hemisphere. This is an especially dramatic statement given that the West Coast is much more directly in the path of Fukushima radiation than the E ...
• Wave of black mobs brutalizing whites
  In a wave of black-on-white crime since the February Trayvon Martin slaying, reports are emerging of dozens of brutal assaults by black mobs and assailants against white victims – and some attackers are citing the revenge for the Martin slaying as reason for their aggression.
• Ron Paul Could Still Win Enough Delegates To D ...
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Andy Worthington

• How America Became A Torture Nation
  Since I began researching Guantánamo and the “war on terror” on a full-time basis over six years ago, my motive has been to pierce the lies told about the prisoners, falsely tarred as “the worst of the worst,” even though most of them were rounded up for money, or through ...
• Close Guantánamo: Washington Post Calls for La ...
  I wrote the following article for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us — just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our activit ...
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• US Company That Built Guantánamo Hopes to Win ...
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• Six Years in Hell: Former Prisoner Omar Deghay ...
  Former Guantánamo prisoner Omar Deghayes (seized in Pakistan in May 2002 and released to the UK in December 2007) is a friend and colleague of mine, who featured in the documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo,” which I co-directed with filmmaker Polly Nash, and he ...

Environment _ National Geographic

• Dinosaurs' Gaseous Emissions Warmed Earth?
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• British Columbia Rethinks Its Pioneering Carbo ...
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• Yellowstone Supervolcano Eruptions More Freque ...
  The Yellowstone supervolcano may erupt more frequently, though may be a bit weaker, than thought, a new study says.
• Supercomputing Power Could Pave the Way to Ene ...
  Scientists believe that Titan, a massive upgrade in supercomputing power that the U.S. government is set to deploy this year, will help crack the code on energy-efficient engines.
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• Don't Turn Your Back on the Bankers for Even a ...
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• Sarah Palin: Mayor of New Milford?
  Is this a parody or real life? You decide. Citizens of New Milford: I want you to know that I'm on the job 24/7. Twenty four hours a week, seven months a year. But even with this strict time commitment, I can't be expected to keep up with everything going on in this vast metropolis. That's why ...
• Much like the "conservative" GOP...
  The conservative Blue Dogs acted as Bush's domestic poodles, helping to move a dangerous right wing agenda. They were owned by the right wing and corporations and there is no big surprise why more than half of the Blue Dog caucus (28 of 54 members) were slaughtered in the 2010 elections. So f ...
• Stop Drinking and Start Doing, Dem Dumb Dumbs
  Sober up, Dems. You started sucking suds when you captured the Congress in 2006. Since 2008 you've been binge drinking with Congress and the Prez. You even nibbled on some hot wings and pub nuts. Burp! And now the bartender just cut your drunk, lazy, liberal, progressive, leftie ass off. Y ...
• The People Have Spoken. And Their Message Is ...
  So. What the heck happened last night? The GOP picked up 60 seats in the House, effectively reversing their losses there from 2006 and 2008, and returning control of that body to them. The GOP picked up some 6 seats in the Senate, but the Democratic Party retains control there. The GOP picked u ...

SPL Center

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

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

Common Dreams -News

• 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 ...

Lifehacker

• Metanota Is An Elegant, Cloud-Syncing, Simple ...
  OS X: Metanota is a beautiful syncing notes app that works with the wonderful Simplenote service. While it's far from the only option available, it offers excellent organizational features, a three-pane (widescreen-friendly) interface, and th ...
• NotifierPro Adds Prettier, More Informative Ba ...
  Android's notification system is awesome, but I sometimes wish I didn't have to look so closely at the menu bar to see the details of an incoming notification. NotifierPro adds large, customizable, detailed banner menus to Android so you can s ...
• Daily App Deals: Get DocAS for iPad for 99¢ in ...
  The Daily App Deals post is a round-up of the best app discounts of the day, as well as some notable mentions for ones that are on sale. More »
• A Better Queue Finds the Best Netflix Instant ...
  Finding great content on Netflix Instant Streaming can be tough if you're not sure what you're looking for, but a clever webapp called A Better Queue helps you find great movies in the genre(s) you desire. More » ...
• Turn Your Rare and Homemade Cassette Tapes Int ...
  Cassette Tapes aren't exactly the highest quality audio, but if you have a few rare tracks that you can't buy on CD (or a few homemade cassettes you want to back up for posterity), CNET shows us how to easily record them to an MP3 file with Au ...

Water Privatization

• Chicago's Loyola University to ban bottled ...
  School officials say bottled water will no longer be sold anywhere on campus starting in 2013. A referendum was passed by students last week to phase outbottled water sales and reduce the university's environmental footprint.
• Is Midway Airport privatization deal back in t ...
  Chicago aldermen signed off Monday on Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s plan to refinance $1.5 billion in Midway Airport debt — and got a strong sign that the $2.5 billion Midway privatization that collapsed for lack of financing may yet be cleared for takeoff. Lois Scott, City Hall’s chief financial officer ...
• Loyola University taking steps to ban sale of ...
  Loyola University is taking steps to save the environment by banning bottled water on campus.
• Loyola University eliminates sales of bottled ...
  CHICAGO — Loyola University Chicago is ridding its campus of bottled water.
• Loyola University eliminates bottled water sales
  Loyola University in Chicago is ridding its campus of bottled water.School officials say bottled water will no longer be sold anywhere on campus starting in 2013.A referendum was passed by students last ...

Guardian

• Eurozone crisis: Merkel tells Athens and Paris ...
  Efforts to save the euro under threat after EU leaders' strategies collide with the wishes of voters in Greece and FranceEurope's 30-month effort to save the euro by slashing spending and debt levels risks turning into a crisis of political legitimacy after EU leaders' strategies collided spect ...
• Cabinet in confusion over NHS risk register pu ...
  Ministers to decide whether to veto ruling that it should publish assessment of impact of the new Health and Social Care ActThe cabinet will decide on Tuesday whether the government wants to veto a ruling that it should publish a full and frank assessment of the impacts of its Health and Social ...
• CIA 'foiled al-Qaida bomb plot' around anniver ...
  Officials say al-Qaida affiliate in Yemen plotted to blow up US- bound jet using upgrade of 2009 underwear bomb, AP reportsThe CIA has thwarted a plot by al-Qaida's affiliate in Yemen to destroy a US-bound airliner using a bomb with a new design around the one-year anniversary of the killing of ...
• MPs to ask firms to explain how UK taxes helpe ...
  Among questionable ethical deals was £35m lent to Robert Mugabe and spent on BAE's Hawk fighter jetsBritain's arms industry and other companies are to be called before MPs to explain why taxpayer funds ended up helping Robert Mugabe to buy five Hawk fighter jets and 1,030 police Land Rovers whic ...
• Kneecapping of Italian nuclear power firm boss ...
  Shooting of Roberto Adinolfi has similarities with 1970s attacks by Italian Red BrigadesThe head of an Italian nuclear engineering company was kneecapped by a gunman on Monday, evoking fears of a return to Italy's violent "years of lead" in the 1970s as the country sinks deeper into recession.Ro ...

McClatchey

• Health care increasingly out of reach for mill ...
  More privately insured Americans delay treatment, while safety net programs cannot meet demand by under and uninsured.Click to Continue »
• Blind lawyer Chen says Chinese officials have ...
  American diplomats were not allowed to meet with blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng over the weekend, but Chinese authorities on Monday told him they will issue the documents he needs…Click to Continue »
• Kidnapped American, Warren Weinstein, pleads f ...
  An American aid worker kidnapped last year by al Qaida militants in Pakistan has made an impassioned video appeal to President Barack Obama to save his life.Click to Continue »
• In South Carolina, gas 22 cents cheaper than 2 ...
  The price for a gallon of gasoline in South Carolina decreased by 6.6 cents last week to average $3.49 per gallon on Sunday, which is 22 cents lower than the…Click to Continue »
• Ron Paul backers quietly seek to overturn Romn ...
  Ron Paul supporters backed the state GOPs new presidential caucus system. But theyre so disgusted with his third-place finish and the fact that Mitt Romney captured all 32 national delegates,Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

• U.S.-Afghan Pact Won't End War – Or ...
  WASHINGTON, May 2, 2012 (IPS) - The optics surrounding the Barack Obama administration's "Enduring Strategic Partnership" agreement with Afghanistan and the Memorandums of ...
• NATO to investigate Afghan civilian deaths
  Western authorities are investigating allegations a NATO-led airstrike in southern Afghanistan killed a mother and five children, officials said. The deaths came during heavy fighting between ...
• Karzai raises doubts over US pact
  Kabul - The strategic pact sealed by United States President Barack Obama last week in Afghanistan is at risk of becoming ';meaningless'; if Afghans do not feel safe, President Hamid ...
• What the End of Night Raids Means for Afghanistan
  Updated: April 11, 2012 at 1:15 a.m. EST Night raid. The phrase bears with it images of both daring and terror -; from a SEAL team taking down Osama bin Laden to a sinister midnight knock on the ...
• Hollande likely to stick with Sarkozy policies ...
  PARIS -- French President-elect Francois Hollande is likely to speed up the withdrawal of French troops from Afghanistan and won't support U.S. efforts to deploy a missile-defense system in ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

• Whistleblowers Spur $1.5 Billion Off-Label Mar ...
  Whistleblowers have succeeded in a $1.5 billion off-label marketing case against Abbott Laboratories Inc., the Department of Justice announced today. Combined, the $700 million criminal fines and $800 million civil fines are the second largest government recovery from a drug company in history. ...
• Wal-Mart. Whistleblower. Whitewash. Talk Among ...
  By Guest Columnist: Donna Boehme Principal at Compliance Strategists LLC and editor of the weekly CS Newsflash (and former chief compliance and ethics officer at two leading multinationals) Holy Wal-Mart Whitewash, Batman!  Without a doubt, the unfolding Wal-Mart bribery scan ...
• This Week on Honesty Without Fear
  Tune in Tuesday at 1:00pm EDT to Honesty Without Fear on Progressive Radio Network. Guest Host Dr. David Lewis interviews fellow EPA whistleblower William Sanjour about his recent article "Designed to Fail: Why Regulatory Agencies Don't Work" in Independent Science News. Mr. Sanjour u ...
• DOJ Backs Ink Company Whistleblower
  Last week the U.S. Department of Justice announced that it has intervened in a whistleblower lawsuit brought against an ink manufacturer for skirting the payment of import duties. The case against Toyo Ink is still in its early stages, but government intervention is a significant victory fo ...
• MSPB holds it can address due process in secur ...
  In two landmark decisions last week, the federal Merit System Protection Board (MSPB) held that it does have the authority to enforce the procedural protections for federal employees who suffer adverse employment actions as a result of issues with their security clearances.  The MSPB recogn ...

Science Express

• Fermi maps an active galaxy's 'smokestack plumes'
  If our eyes could see radio waves, the nearby galaxy Centaurus A (Cen A) would be one of the biggest and brightest objects in the sky, nearly 20 times the apparent size of a full moon. What we can't see when looking at the galaxy in visible light is that it lies nestled between a pair of giant r ...
• Pollution from Asia Circles Globe at Stratosph ...
  (PhysOrg.com) -- The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additiona ...
• After growth spurt, supermassive black holes s ...
  Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
• Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virus
  A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20 ...
• Lizard moms choose the right genes for the rig ...
  (PhysOrg.com) -- Two Dartmouth biologists have found that brown anole lizards make an interesting choice when deciding which males should father their offspring. The females of this species mate with several males, then produce more sons with sperm from large fathers, and more daughters with spe ...

TechDirt

• DailyDirt: Fooling Some Of The People Some Of ...
  There's a sucker born every minute -- if you like to believe unverifiable statistics. Usually, if it's too good to be true, it ain't true. But as technology gets better, sometimes it's hard to distinguish sufficiently advanced algorithms from magic. Here are a few scams that successfully fooled ...
• Crowdfunding Projects: It Helps To Let Your Pe ...
  You may recall a few weeks back, we had a guest post from musician Erin McKeown about her reaction to finding out that a Sony Music artist had copied one of her songs without credit, and the copied song was now becoming a hit. That story kicked off quite a discussion. A few days later, I actua ...
• Pirate Party Wins Again In Germany
  It really appears that The Pirate Party is no fluke in Germany. After winning 9% of the vote in the Berlin parliament elections, and then 7.4% in Saarland, the party has now received 8.2% of the vote in Schleswig-Holstein. These are each local "state" elections, and there's another big one nex ...
• CISPA Sponsor Warns Bill Is Needed Because Chi ...
  While the focus on the cybersecurity debate shifts to the Senate, the supporters of CISPA are still loudly trumpeting that bill's supposed merits. Though the final legislation that will go before the President is undecided, and may not even be based on CISPA in the end, the details of the bill a ...
• Ebook Sales Of Harry Potter Lead To Increased ...
  For years, JK Rowling absolutely refused to offer an ebook version of the Harry Potter books, claiming that doing so would lead to piracy. As we pointed out at the time, that was ridiculous, because the books were already widely available in unauthorized forms online, and putting legitimate ver ...

VacTruth

• Olympic Vaccination Frenzy As Athletes Urged T ...
  Big Pharma is helping to sponsor the Olympic games being held in London. Is it by coincidence athletes and travelers to the games are being encouraged to get their shots?
• Merck Consultants Try to Influence Your Doctor ...
  Doctors paid by Merck Pharmaceuticals offered "suggestions" for refuting three of the most common myths about child vaccine safety. You have to read this to believe it.
• Monkeys Get Autism-like Reactions to MMR & Oth ...
  A bombshell was probably dropped when the results of a completed macaque monkey (primates) study showed what happened to they were vaccinated. Here's why...
• Do Nurses Have It Right About Vaccinations?
  Why would nurses, who vaccinate infants and children, refuse to get vaccinations for themselves even when a directive went out that all nurses must be vaccinated against this disease?
• Doctors Change Names of Diseases When Vaccines ...
  The truth is that more and more vaccinated children are becoming sick with the diseases they have been vaccinated against. Research is revealing that doctors are devising clever ways to cover this up.

BroadSnark

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

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• French and German Economists Call for Abandoni ...
  EIR News Service press release.
• The LaRouche Show, May 5, 2012
  Transforming Human History with the Strategic Defense of Earth
• Emergency Resolution: Glass-Steagall, National ...
  Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, April 27, 2012, Vol. 39, No. 17
• Obama in Flight-Forward: Thermonuclear War Dan ...
  By Jeffrey Steinberg Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, April 27, 2012, Vol. 39, No. 17
• Costa: Drug Legalization Is New Opium War
  By Antonio Maria Costa Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, April 27, 2012, Vol. 39, No. 17

War in Context

• The emperor has no clothes: Palestinians and t ...
  International Crisis Group, Middle East Report #122, executive summary: Does anybody still believe in the Middle East Peace Process? Nineteen years after Oslo and thirteen years after a final settlement was supposed to be reached, prospects for a two-state solution are as dim as ever. The intern ...
• Kashmir is killing India’s military and democracy
  Pankaj Mishra writes: In July 1995, an Islamic fundamentalist group called Al Faran kidnapped six foreign tourists, including two Americans, in Kashmir. For a few weeks, the world’s attention was fixed on the Himalayan valley as the allegedly Pakistan-backed militants negotiated with Indian secu ...
• The Pentagon’s addiction to failed wars
  From a national security perspective, failure in war is war with no victory or tangible accomplishments. From the commercial perspective of the military-industrial complex however, what has turned into the hidden success of the American way of war is that it can be made never-ending. In other wo ...
• U.S. has made war on terror a war without end
  Fareed Zacharia writes: Whatever you thought of President Obama’s recent speech on Afghanistan, it is now increasingly clear that the United States is winding down its massive military commitments to the two wars of the last decade. We are out of Iraq and we will soon be largely out of Afg ...
• What could become a fatal remedy for climate c ...
  Michael Specter writes: Late in the afternoon on April 2, 1991, Mt. Pinatubo, a volcano on the Philippine island of Luzon, began to rumble with a series of the powerful steam explosions that typically precede an eruption. Pinatubo had been dormant for more than four centuries, and in the volcano ...

Watts Up With That?

• Three questions for Andrew Revkin and Michael Mann
  UPDATE: 7:10PM PST Rather than answer the questions, I appear to have been blocked by Dr. Mann from viewing his twitter account. See below Earlier today, this tweet exchange took place. I found this curious. And it prompts me to … Continue reading →
• Climate Progress disappears their own climate ...
  When the Heartland billboard fiasco came about last week, I pointed to this as a previous example of how both sides have made missteps. Heartland blundered with the unabomber billboard, was summarily denounced by both sides and pulled it within … Continue reading →
• Trenberth takes on UAH satellite data in a new ...
  They create an adjustment for the way the Alabama scientists handled data from NOAA-9, a satellite that collected temperature data in the mid-1980s. From the University of Washington comes this press release: New research brings satellite measurements and global climate … Continue reading ...
• Climate craziness of the week – paleotoo ...
  I don’t have much comment on this, as the press worldwide has pretty much said it all. I await the coming comparisons between, ahem, human emissions, and dinosaur emissions. Click image for the story. It’s another modeling extrapolation. From the … Continue reading →
• Solar grand minima linked to cooling period in ...
  This is interesting. A quick cooling in Europe together with an increase in humidity and particularly in windiness was found to coincide with a long-term reduction in solar activity 2800 years ago during something called the “Homeric minimum”. The paper … Continue reading →

treehugger

• Dinosaur Farts Contributed to Global Warming, ...
  A British study has found that dinosaur flatulence could have produced 520 million tons of methane gas annually, contributing to a warm climate.
• Antarctic Octopus Genes Contain Clues About An ...
  If the West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapsed, it could raise seas by 16 feet (5 meters), which would be disastrous. Thankfully, we're not at that point yet, but if the Earth's climate keeps warming, we could eventually get there.
• 1,000 Rallies in 100 Countries 'Connect the Do ...
  From Pakistan to Colorado to Mongolia, concerned citizens gathered to 'Connect the Dots' in a series of creative protests last Saturday. The event yielded some amazing photos—take a look:
• Disturbing Gulf Spill Photos of Oiled Sea Turt ...
  NOAA kept dozens of photos of oiled sea turtles and dead wildlife out of the public eye during the height of the spill.
• London's Congestion Pricing Has Transformed Tr ...
  If anyone still doubted that congestion charging can nudge a city toward greener forms of transportation, these maps by ITO World should dispel those doubts.

Biosingularity

• Novartis Compound Spurs Cartilage in Arthritic ...
  Scientists at Novartis AG (NOVN) have discovered a compound that spurred cartilage growth from stem cells to fix damaged joints of mice, a finding that may point to a novel therapy for the arthritis that afflicts most elderly. Researchers tested 22,000 drug-like molecules using a robotic screen, ...
• Salk scientists find cellular switches for the ...
  The discovery of a major gear in the biological clock that tells the body when to sleep and metabolize food may lead to new drugs to treat sleep problems and metabolic disorders, including diabetes. Scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, led by Ronald M. Evans, a professor in S ...
• Nano-sized ‘factories’ churn out proteins
  Drugs made of protein have shown promise in treating cancer, but they are difficult to deliver because the body usually breaks down proteins before they reach their destination. To get around that obstacle, a team of MIT researchers has developed a new type of nanoparticle that can synthesize pr ...
• Eating flavonoids protects men against Parkins ...
  Men who eat flavonoid-rich foods such as berries, tea, apples and red wine significantly reduce their risk of developing Parkinson’s disease, according to new research by Harvard University and the University of East Anglia (UEA). Published today in the journal Neurology ®, the findings ad ...
• In Utero Surgery – More Common Today, But No L ...
  You might recall a particular photograph that caused quite a stir back in 1999. It was the photograph of Samuel Armas, then just a 21-week-old fetus, reaching his tiny hand out from inside the uterus to clasp onto the doctor’s finger during a surgical procedure to correct the birth defect spina ...

CFACT

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

Ria Novosti Online News

• Navalny, Udaltsov Detained in Moscow
  Police have detained opposition figureheads Alexei Navalny and Sergei Udaltsov in downtown Moscow
• Abbas Invites Hollande to Visit Palestinian Te ...
  Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has invited French President-elect Francois Hollande to visit Palestinian territories
• Navalny Urges Supporters to Attend ‘Promenade’ ...
  Opposition figurehead and blogger Alexei Navalny has urged his supporters to spend the night near the Kitai-Gorod subway station in downtown Moscow
• Main News of May 7
  A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours
• Ukrainian Activists Unveil Stalin Pis Monuments
  Activists from Ukraine’s nationalist party Bratstvo on Monday mocked Soviet Dictator Joseph Stalin by installing a Pissing Stalin Golden Monument in Kiev and in the western city Lvov

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

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

Pruning Shears

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

Organic Consumers.org

• Kellogg's Kashi Targeted as Web Food Fighting ...
  Kellogg's Kashi natural cereal uses some genetically modified ingredients. That was enough to convince an organic grocer in Portsmouth, Rhode Island to pull the brand from his store's shelves.Click here to read this article
• Can Geoengineering Solve Global Warming?
  Kellogg's Kashi natural cereal uses some genetically modified ingredients. That was enough to convince an organic grocer in Portsmouth, Rhode Island to pull the brand from his store's shelves.Click here to read this article
• Last Words to an America in Decline
  Thirty-five years later, it was still on my bookshelf in a little section on utopias (as well it should have been, being a modern classic). A friend had written his name inside the cover and even dated it: August 1976, the month I returned to New York City from years of R&R on the West Coast. C ...
• World's Faith Groups Agree that Climate Change ...
  Late last year, my mother asked me to make a collection of statements by various faith groups on the subject of climate change.Click here to read this article
• Monsanto's Minions in California
  Fresh from fights on behalf of the tobacco companies and big oil, Tom Hiltachk is now Monsanto's man in California. Hiltachk, a partner at the Sacramento-based lobbying firm Bell, McAndrews & Hiltachk, has formed a front group, the Coalition Against the Costly Food Labeling Proposition (CACFLP), ...

Center for a Livable Future

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

Investigate - Breaking News

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

My Care2 Picks

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

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

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

True/Slant Headline Grabs

• The stupidity of crowds helps kill a planet - ...
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• Sex, death, and the noble American toad - Scot ...
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• How to save a fishery: owning, renting, and ex ...
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• ‘Gossip Girl’ unethical because of threesome? ...
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Citizens for Legitimate Government

• OCFA: 'Nothing radioactive' in crash with truc ...
  ShareThisOCFA: 'Nothing radioactive' in crash with truck marked 'Radioactive Material' --1 dead, 1 injured 07 May 2012 (CA) A truck carrying containers marked as containing radioactive material crashed into a tree off the I-605 near Los Alamitos on Sunday night, killing one person and sending an ...
• Radiation scare after deadly OC pickup truck crash
  ShareThisRadiation scare after deadly OC pickup truck crash 07 May 2012 (CA) Containers marked 'Radioactive Material' caused a scare after a deadly Southern California freeway pickup truck crash. Orange County Fire Authority hazardous materials experts determined the containers were construction ...
• US: CIA thwarts new al-Qaida underwear bomb plot
  ShareThisUS: CIA thwarts new al-Qaida underwear bomb plot 07 May 2012 The Associated Press has learned the CIA thwarted a plot by al-Qaida's affiliate in Yemen to destroy a U.S.-bound airliner using a bomb with a new design around the one-year anniversary of the killing of 'Osama bin Laden.' U.S ...
• Olympics bomb scandal
  ShareThisLet the false flag previews begin! Olympics bomb scandal --Worker smuggles in fake explosive 06 May 2012 A terrifying flaw in London's Olympic Park security was exposed last night after a worker smuggled a fake BOMB inside. He sailed past TWO checkpoints without being stopped - just hou ...
• Tornado strikes close to Tokyo
  ShareThisTornado strikes close to Tokyo 07 May 2012 A deadly tornado has ripped through Japan, killing a 14-year-old boy. The dead boy was among others who were rushed to hospitals after high winds and storms ripped through the regions of Ibaraki and Tochigi, 60 kilometres north east of Tokyo. T ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

• New Helmet System
  06 May 2012 This helmet system could have many uses, such as for gunners in the hatch.  But as one of the most experienced and smartest vets I know told me this morning, most troops will not want to wear it until they see a buddy lose part of his face. (Note: I am not endorsing this syste ...
• Another Letter that Speaks for Itself (2 of 4)
  From a little bird 05 May 2012 To view the entire pdf please click here.
• A Letter that Speaks for Itself (1 of 4)
  Provided by a little bird 04 May 2012 To view the entire pdf please click here.
• Today’s Messages from Taliban about Today’s At ...
  02 May 2012 A message came to me about nine hours ago from the Taliban that Obama visited and so the Taliban had an attack underway.  They did in fact have an attack underway.  I published the message from Zabihullah Mujahid on Facebook. First message: A few minutes ago (about 082 ...
• Shot in the Dark: Blackhawk Down
  Afghan firing RPG in Urozgan 02 May 2012 On 19 April there was a suicide attack.  Numerous Afghans were killed and others were dying. The night was especially dark.  The weather was bad, and there were no city lights bouncing off of the clouds.  No stars.  No nothing.&nbsp ...

The Killing Train

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

treehugger

• Dinosaur Farts Contributed to Global Warming, ...
  A British study has found that dinosaur flatulence could have produced 520 million tons of methane gas annually, contributing to a warm climate.
• Antarctic Octopus Genes Contain Clues About An ...
  If the West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapsed, it could raise seas by 16 feet (5 meters), which would be disastrous. Thankfully, we're not at that point yet, but if the Earth's climate keeps warming, we could eventually get there.
• 1,000 Rallies in 100 Countries 'Connect the Do ...
  From Pakistan to Colorado to Mongolia, concerned citizens gathered to 'Connect the Dots' in a series of creative protests last Saturday. The event yielded some amazing photos—take a look:
• Disturbing Gulf Spill Photos of Oiled Sea Turt ...
  NOAA kept dozens of photos of oiled sea turtles and dead wildlife out of the public eye during the height of the spill.
• London's Congestion Pricing Has Transformed Tr ...
  If anyone still doubted that congestion charging can nudge a city toward greener forms of transportation, these maps by ITO World should dispel those doubts.

Democratic Voice of Burma

• Farmers demand compensation for land
  A group of farmers in Mandalay division are preparing to take legal action to recover land and compensation after they're land was confiscated by a state body and a corporation
• Teenager seeks protection after deserting army
  After deserting the Burmese army, a teenager is now looking to the International Labour Organisation to help prevent him from being tried in a military court
• Suu Kyi calls for ‘sustainable aid’
  Burmese parliamentarian Aung San Suu Kyi said that her country needs "sustainable, sound aid" as the country embarks on a tentative transition to democracy.
• Journal stands by controversial interview
  The editors at Hot News journal are standing by a controversial interview with Agriculture and Irrigation Minister Myint Hlaing after the official claimed his remarks were made off the record
• Journalists celebrate Press Freedom Day with e ...
  For the first time in its history, journalists and government officials in Rangoon and Mandalay observed World Press Freedom Day

Telegraph - Climate Change

• How climate change has got Worldwide Fund for ...
  WWF has travelled too far from its original aim, to protect endangered species, says Christopher Booker.
• African continent 'sitting on vast reservoir'
  The notoriously dry African continent is sitting on a vast reservoir of groundwater that will help it overcome the future challenges of climate change and population growth, according to British scientists.
• In the eyes of Nature, warming can't be natural
  , says Christopher Booker.
• Penguins in Antarctica: photographs by David C ...
  David C Schultz photographs the frozen landscape and its inhabitants.
• Grandmother vows to remain in cliff top home
  She is the last remaining resident, her home perched perilously close to the edge of a slowly eroding cliff top.

National Geographic | Environment

• Dinosaurs' Gaseous Emissions Warmed Earth?
  Giant plant-eaters known as sauropods may have heated the planet by releasing huge amounts of methane, a new study says.
• British Columbia Rethinks Its Pioneering Carbo ...
  With none of its neighbors following British Columbia's lead in taxing to curb greenhouse gas emissions, the Canadian province reviews the economic impact.
• Yellowstone Supervolcano Eruptions More Freque ...
  The Yellowstone supervolcano may erupt more frequently, though may be a bit weaker, than thought, a new study says.
• Supercomputing Power Could Pave the Way to Ene ...
  Scientists believe that Titan, a massive upgrade in supercomputing power that the U.S. government is set to deploy this year, will help crack the code on energy-efficient engines.
• Everest Helicopter Rescue Saves National Geogr ...
  Despite "not flyable" conditions, an acutely ailing Nat Geo photographer was airlifted to safety Saturday in Nepal.

Jurist - Legal Research

• Federal jury reaches impasse in Google-Oracle ...
  [JURIST] A jury in the US District Court for the Northern District of California [official website] failed to reach a conclusion Monday in a copyright dispute between Oracle and Google [corporate websites]. Oracle has alleged that Google's use of Java in its Android OS violates Oracle's patents ...
• Iraq court dismisses charges against former US ...
  [JURIST] Ali Mussa Daqduq, a former detainee of the US with ties to Hezbollah [JURIST news archive], was cleared of all charges in an Iraqi court, his lawyer said [Reuters report] Monday. The US handed Daqduq over to Iraqi authorities [JURIST report] in December as part of the end of the Iraq Wa ...
• Israel Supreme Court declines to free Palestin ...
  [JURIST] The Israeli Supreme Court [official website] on Monday ruled against two Palestinian prisoners in their appeal seeking release from detention. Thaer Halahla and Bilal Diab have been placed in administrative detention, a legal method of incarcerating potentially dangerous individuals ind ...
• Bahrain authorities arrest prominent human rig ...
  [JURIST] Bahraini authorities on Monday arrested [BCHR press release] prominent human rights activist Nabeel Rajab, according to the country's Interior Ministry [official website, in Arabic]. According to his lawyer, Rajab was arrested for messages he posted on Twitter [website] criticizing the ...
• HRW urges Libya to revoke anti-propaganda law
  [JURIST] Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] on Monday urged [press release] the Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC) [official website] to immediately revoke a new law that criminalizes criticism of the Libya conflict [JURIST backgrounder] and prohibits glorification of former lea ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

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

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

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

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

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• Energy Secretary Steven Chu on the nation's en ...

Tikun Olam

• SCOOP: Israeli Border Police Names New Command ...
  TweetIsraeli military censorship prohibits revealing the identity of the new commander (Hebrew) of the Border Police’s elite counter-terror unit, Yamam (this post displays a priceless photo of Shimon Peres mugging with weapons with Yamam personnel).  Not only am I not under the jurisdictio ...
• State of Israel Dispossesses Negev Bedouin
  TweetNot content with dispossessing nearly 1 million Israeli Palestinians during the Nakba through exile and theft of their land, Israel is repeating this Original Sin against the Negev Bedouin, who’ve lived in their homes for decades.  The State now intends to expel the Bedouin from these ...
• Israeli Elections Accelerate Iran Strike
  TweetBibi Netanyahu has announced new national elections for September, which he hopes will further solidify what I call the permanent Israeli far-right majority.  A majority that portends a further erosion–or perhaps, final disintegration–of what little is left of democracy, civil l ...
• IDF Closes Book on al-Samouni Killings, Whitew ...
  TweetYesterday, the IDF informed B’Tselem that it intended to close the investigation of the massacre death of 21 members of the al-Samouni clan in Gaza during Operation Cast Lead.  You’ll recall this was one of the three most egregious incidents of the war which the Goldstone inquir ...
• Big Brother, Israeli Censor, to Monitor Journa ...
  TweetThe IDF military censor will be assuming even more ominous Big Brother-like prerogatives as it begins monitoring the social media accounts of Israeli journalists and bloggers for potential violation of censorship provisions.  At a conference on digital media, the censor, an IDF colonel, ann ...

If Americans Knew

• Documentary Video: Shooting the Messenger
  This documentary on the deliberate killing and intimidation of journalists in conflict zones, examines how international reporters became targets.
• Impressions of Israeli Executions in the West Bank
  Much planning had gone into our family vacation in Israel-Palestine. We could spare only the last two weeks of 2009, and so had developed an uncompromising itinerary for each day, allowing a mere half-day to recover from jet lag from our trip from California. After devoting most of the first wee ...
• Calling Bono: Your Palestinian Gandhis Exist . ...
  In your recent column in the New York Times, "Ten for the Next Ten," you wrote: "I'll place my hopes on the possibility -- however remote at the moment -- that...people in places filled with rage and despair, places like the Palestinian territories, will in the days ahead find among them their G ...
• International law is clear: Israeli settlement ...
  Eric Rozenman's Dec. 11 Op-Ed article, "Israeli settlements are more than legitimate," is legal nonsense that disregards history. He is correct in his observation that Article 6 of the Mandate for Palestine permitted "close settlement by Jews on the land, including state lands and waste lands no ...
• Noam Chomsky and the pro-Israel lobby: Fourtee ...
  Noam Chomsky has been called the US leading intellectual by pundits and even some sectors of the mass media. He has a large audience throughout the world especially in academic circles, in large part because of his vocal criticism of US foreign policy and many of the injustices resulting from t ...

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

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

Cutting Edge News

• The Edge of Climate Change - Increasing Speed ...
  Changes in the speed that ice travels in more than 200 outlet glaciers indicates that Greenland's contribution to rising sea level in the 21st century might be significantly less than the upper limits some scientists thought possible, a new study shows."So far, on average we're seeing about a 30 ...
• The Edge of Medicine - New Type of Cell With a ...
  For most people with asthma, a couple of puffs from an inhaler filled with steroids makes breathing easy. But if their lungs become resistant to the calming effect of that medicine, they live in fear of severe asthma attacks that could send them to the hospital – or worse. Now, new research fr ...
• The Edge of Health - A Place to Play: Research ...
  A Kansas State University graduate student is creating a schoolyard that can become a therapeutic landscape for children with autism. Chelsey King, master's student in landscape architecture, St. Peters, Mo., is working with Katie Kingery-Page, assistant professor of landscape architecture, to e ...
• The 2012 Vote - Unconscious Racial Attitudes P ...
  After the 2008 election of President Barack Obama, many proclaimed that the country had entered a post-racial era in which race was no longer an issue. However, a new large-scale study shows that racial attitudes have already played a substantial role in 2012, during the Republican primaries. Th ...
• The Edge of Space - Black Hole Caught in a Fee ...
  When it comes to scary things in the universe, it's hard to get much scarier than supermassive black holes. These gigantic, invisible menaces lurk in the centers of galaxies, hungrily vacuuming up everything within reach - or so we think. But the truth is more benign. Supermassive black holes sn ...

High Country News

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

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

• al Qaeda Releases Video of My Political Scienc ...
  I am not sure whether its good news or bad.  Seventy-year-old Warren Weinstein one of the people most responsible for tuning me into a political geek has been held by the al-Qaeda terrorists since mid-August.  Today they released a video, where he asks President Obama to give in to t ...
• Judging The NY Times Israel Coverage: What Com ...
  by Barry Rubin With the arrival of Jodi Rudoren as correspondent, New York Times coverage of Israel and related issues has now gone to a new level of ridiculous bias, especially after a predecessor who really did try to be fair. What is most impressive about Rudoren’s record so far is ...
• Handicapping The GOP Veepstakes: Possibilities ...
  Now that Mitt Romney has secured the GOP nomination political speculation has turned to whom he will pick as his running mate. In the overall scheme of things the selection of a running mate only really matters if the choice is a disaster--remember what Senator Eagleton did to McGovern’s ca ...
• U.S. Syrian Policy: A Disgrace in the Making
  Another monitoring mission, another set of people from all over the world making excuses, trying to explain the unexplainable and getting frustrated and fired upon to boot. When will the world follow a plan that makes sense. To the world we say: Give us what we need to g ...
• Occupy Wall Street Is a Disaster For Obama's R ...
  By Barry Rubin I want to keep this brief so I’m not going to present a lot of supporting information — I’ll leave that for my next book, Silent Revolution, about how the far left first hijacked liberalism and key institutions, then hijacked America — but I hope you’ll see why t ...

The Real Agenda

• Will the Global Political Shakedown be for the ...
  By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | MAY 7, 2012 All around the world there seems to be a wave of people kicking their leaders’ rear ends. The most recent examples of these manifestations of non-conformity with business as usual politics began in Spain, where Mariano Rajoy took ov ...
• Ron Paul Wins Most Maine Delegates
  AP | MAY 6, 2012 With Mitt Romney’s GOP presidential nomination all but decided, Ron Paul supporters took control of the Maine Republican Convention and elected a majority slate supporting the Texas congressman to the GOP national convention, party officials said. The results gave the ...
• Bolivia’s Resources up to the Highest Bi ...
  UPI | MAY 4, 2012 As confusing signals go, Bolivia achieved a double whammy by seizing a  Spanish power generation company hours before welcoming Spanish energy giant  Repsol into the country. Bolivian President Evo  Morales went to some length to indicate that his order to the military to  ...
• 86 Million People Unemployed in the United States
  Last year, 86 million Americans were not counted in the labor force because they didn’t keep up a regular job search. Most of them were either under age 25 or over age 65. By ANNALYN CENSKY | CNNMONEY | MAY 4, 2012 There are far more jobless people in the United States than you m ...
• EU Bureaucrats to create super-powerful EU pre ...
  By  MACER HALL | EXPRESS.CO.UK | MAY 4, 2012 Senior Eurocrats are secretly plotting to create a super-powerful EU president to realise their dream of abolishing ­Britain and other nation states, the Daily Express can reveal. A covert group of EU foreign ministers has drawn up plans for ...

Wind Watch

• Scale of Goodhue County wind project questione ...
  Red Wing — A 78-megawatt wind-power project proposed for Goodhue County that has been trying to get a state permit since late 2008 has been stalled by organized and determined local residents who have spent six figures fighting it. State Rep. Tim Kelly, R-Red Wing, also has long maintained that ...
• Derby Select Board: no to commercial wind
  DERBY, VT – A special meeting was held Wednesday night to decide if the Derby Select Board would endorse a motion to direct attorney Richard Saudek to open “discussions” with Encore Redevelopment over the proposed construction of two 430 feet tall wind turbines in the town. The answer was ...
• Lawsuit against wind energy project near Steen ...
  BURNS — In a green vs. green federal lawsuit, two environmental groups are challenging what they call an “industrial-scale” wind project on the north end of ruggedly beautiful Steens Mountain in southeastern Oregon. “Of all the places in Oregon’s high desert, this i ...
• Shelburne residents unanimously approve wind t ...
  Hundreds of Shelburne residents voted to approve petitions that will not allow any large, commercial scale wind turbines at their annual town meeting Tuesday night. They also unanimously approved the Wind Turbine Moratorium that says the town will not issue any wind turbines permits until June 3 ...
• Canadian mayor threatens to shut off water to ...
  DERBY, VT/STANSTEAD QC. – Mayor Philippe Dutil of Stanstead, Quebec, says he’ll shut off the water valves to Beebe Plains, VT, if the Town of Derby supports the proposed Derby Line Wind Project. The Canadians control the water that serves Beebe, a village in the Town of Derby, near the Can ...

Tippers News

• Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
  The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
  DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...
  Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note- ...
• About Us,,,You may want to lisent...interesting!
  Interesting Information that you may find interesting With Love... Evelyn (: Submitted by Evelyn J. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Tiger killing 'a crime against nature'
  Three people have been sentenced to a total of eight and a half years in prison for trying to smuggle tiger skins and bones across the Russian border. And for the first time in this kind of case, a charge of 'ecological damage' might be brought for the Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals &nbsp ...

The Freeman

• Budget Austerity the Loser at French, Greek Polls
  “Voters in France and Greece redrew Europe’s political map Sunday in a powerful backlash against the German-led cure for the region’s debt crisis: painful austerity.” (Washington Post) A preview of things to come here? FEE Timely Classic “Budget-Cutting Resistance” by She ...
• Record Lows for Mortgage Rates
  “Average U.S. rates for 30-year and 15-year fixed mortgages fell to fresh record lows this week, offering more incentive for Americans to buy or refinance homes. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday that the rate on the 30-year loan fell to 3.84 percent, the lowest since long-term mort ...
• Attack on Freedom of Association
  A necessary, but not sufficient, condition for a worker to have effective freedom of association is to be able to hear and consider both pro- and anti-unionization arguments.
• Job Growth in April Anemic
  “The United States had another month of disappointing job growth in April, the Labor Department said Friday. The nation’s employers added 115,000 positions on net, after adding 154,000 in March. April’s job growth was less than what economists had been predicting. The unemployment rate tic ...
• Forgotten Critic of Corporatism
  "Communism is a hateful thing...; but the communism of combined wealth and capital ..., which insidiously undermines the justice and integrity of free institutions, is not less dangerous...."

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

• 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

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

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

Ian Welsh

• Will a man on horseback come to rule America?
  I think the US will take longer, but a man-on-horseback can still happen in the US.   Remember that virtually the only trusted institution in America is the military.  The difference in America, as opposed to Europe, that the left isn’t going to get its chance, if at all, for quite some ti ...
• The left will have its chance in Europe
  So, in France Hollande has won, and in Greece, left wing parties have more of the vote than the center or the right (we’ll see if they can form a government, however.)  They will now have their chance.  If they fail, however, the right will sweep back in, and it will be the harder right, [...]
• The US does not have justice or even the rule ...
  and whether the public approves or disapproves is irrelevant.  Black letter law, on the books, makes most of what the banks did leading up to the subprime crisis illegal.  It was fraud.  Black letter law makes the war on Iraq a war crime, and no one went to jail for that.  Black letter law does ...
• The police state of the future
  forget the problems of spy agencies, this is the stuff of pure police states.  The Stasi only wished they had it so good. When the revolution comes, if it comes, the first job is going to have to be to destroy all of this stuff, and to inculcate a visceral understanding that this and all [...]
• The police state of the future
  forget the problems of spy agencies, this is the stuff of pure police states.  The Stasi only wished they had it so good. When the revolution comes, if it comes, the first job is going to have to be to destroy all of this stuff, and to inculcate a visceral understanding that this and all [...]

Media Consortium

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

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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

new geography

• The OECD Reviews Chicago
  “Although still high in absolute terms, GDP and labor productivity growth rates are sluggish – both by US and international standards. The Chicago Tri-State metro-region’s contribution to national growth has slowed over the past decade and the region does not stand out as a top knowledg ...
• Is Negative Population Growth Upon Us? Deaths ...
  Population change has short run and long run effects. Short run effects include changes in fertility rates that can result from economic fluctuations. For example, during a recession, couples may delay having children until economic conditions improve.  Once job growth has begun and expectati ...
• Australian Elections: A Comeback for Pro-growt ...
  The latest local government elections in Queensland, along with the by election for former Premier Anna Bligh’s state seat of South Brisbane, may point to a fundamental shift in popular mood back in favour of growth and development. After many years of anti-growth policy paranoia, it’s a refresh ...
• World Urban Areas Population and Density: A 20 ...
  The latest edition of Demographia World Urban Areas has just been released. The publication includes population estimates, urban land area estimates and urban densities for all nearly 850 identified urban areas in the world with a population of 500,000 or more. These urban areas account for a ...
• The Best Cities for Jobs 2012
  Throughout the brutal recession, one metropolitan area floated serenely above the carnage: Washington, D.C.  Buoyed by government spending, the local economy expanded 17% from 2007 to 2012. But for the first time in four years, the capital region has fallen out of the top 15 big cities in ou ...

GM Watch

• Monsanto in big trouble in Brazil
  NOTE: Monsanto could be ordered to pay back an estimated 6.2 billion Euros to Brazil's 5 million soya farmers. A judge in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul has already ordered the suspension of the payment of royalties on Monsanto's GM seeds this year. And the verdict envisages backdating ...
• Dark side to beta-carotene; implications for g ...
  NOTE: Turns out that beta-carotene (precursor to Vitamin A that's been engineered into golden rice) is processed into a number of compounds, not just Vitamin A.  Some of these compounds actually block the action of Vitamin A itself. The scientists who did this study say it may have implications ...
• Connecticut's GM food bill eviscerated
  NOTE: Listen to The Organic View Radio Show, as host, June Stoyer is joined by special guests Analiese Paik, Tara Cook-Littman co-founders of Right To Know Connecticut. Also joining the conversation is Jeffrey Smith of the Institute for Responsible Technology. http://www.theorganicview.com/envir ...
• Morrisons' GM muck up
  NOTE: Joanna Blythman is an award-winning investigative journalist, the author of six landmark books on food issues, and one of the most authoritative commentators on food in Britain. After reading her incisive article, why not go to Morrisons Facebbok page and let them know what you think: http ...
• Europe sleep-walking into GM soy catastrophe
  1. GM wake-up call for commissioner 2.OPEN LETTER 3.References NOTE: This follows on from: GM soy linked to health damage in pigs - a Danish dossier http://www.gmwatch.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=13883 --- --- 1.GM wake-up call for commissioner Peter Crosskey Agricultural a ...

spiked

• Masses duped by greenwash? Get real!
  Eliane Glaser’s sceptical take on the world is frequently insightful. But it still takes too many fashionable ideas at face value.
• Roy Hodgson: the right man for England
  Ignore Harry Redknapp’s Fleet Street fan club. For once the Football Association has made a good decision.
• Sticking up for scientific research
  The green plonkers intent on destroying research into aphid-resistant wheat crops view mankind as a blight on nature.
• A battle to save France from her non-existent foes
  Far from representing a return of left and right, the French presidential campaign confirms the ascendancy of the politics of fear.
• And the gold for defiance goes to…
  The potential return of sprinter Dwain Chambers is a brilliant blow against sport’s petty authoritarians.

Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

• The Countdown To The Break Up Of The Euro Has ...
  The results of the elections in France and Greece have made it abundantly clear that there is a tremendous backlash against the austerity approach that Germany has been pushing.  All over Europe, prominent politicians and incumbent political parties are being voted out.  In fact, ...
• Is Obama Negotiating A Treaty That Would Essen ...
  69 members of the U.S. House of Representatives have sent Barack Obama a letter expressing their concern that a new international treaty currently being negotiated would essentially ban all "Buy American" laws.  This new treaty is known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and it is ...
• There Are 100 Million Working Age Americans Th ...
  The unemployment crisis in America is much worse than you are being told.  Did you know that there are 100 million working age Americans that do not get up in the morning and go to work?  No wonder why it seems like there are so many people that do not have jobs!  According to th ...
• Why New York Times Economist Paul Krugman Is P ...
  In recent days, New York Times economist Paul Krugman has been doing a whole bunch of interviews in which he has declared that the solution to our economic problems is very easy.  Krugman says that all we need to do to get the global economy going again is for the governments of ...
• 95 Percent Of The Jobs Lost During The Recessi ...
  Who is the biggest loser in the ongoing decline of the U.S. economy?  Is it the wealthy?  No, the stock market has been soaring lately and their incomes are actually going up.  Is it the poor?  Well, the poor are definitely hurting very badly, but when you don't have much to begi ...

Desertification

• Intervention efforts have led to success in Et ...
  Read at : Google Alert – images of the Africa Drought http://somalilandpress.com/hunger-and-hope-in-ethiopia-28145 Hunger and hope in Ethiopia In parts of this vast country, fields are dry and people are without food. But it’s not like the 1980s, when hundreds of … Continue reading & ...
• Re-planting efforts in Zimbabwe (Google / The ...
  Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.thestandard.co.zw/component/content/article/67-environment/35185-lets-complement-re-planting-efforts.htmlLet’s complement re-planting effortsBy Chipo Masara With the wanton, thoughtless and indiscriminate cutting down of trees still very ...
• Blooming splendour (Willem Van Cotthem)
• UN OFFICIAL APPEALS FOR URGENT FUNDS TO ASSIST ...
  New York, May  6 2012  4:05PM Speaking from Niger, a top United Nations official on Sunday appealed to the international community to provide the resources needed to help millions in crisis in the Sahel region of West Africa, warning that … Continue reading →
• Desertification Week (Google / RTCC)
  Read at : http://www.rtcc.org/nature/comment-why-is-desertification-important/ Comment: Why is desertification important? By Tierney Smith It is estimated that around one third of the world’s surface is now suffering the effects of desertification, affecting around 1.5 billion people globally. E ...

The Paper Trail

• Pentagon failed to protect whistleblowers
  The Defense Department has inadequately protected from reprisals whistleblowers who have reported wrongdoing, according to an internal Pentagon report, and critics are calling for action to be taken against those who have been negligent.The report, dated May 2011, accuses the officials, who ...
• Reprisal outcome for whistleblower complaints: ...
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• Boxes of top secret documents go missing
  The Justice Department has been increasingly eager to prosecute officials for leaks of classified information, charging six individuals with disclosures that violate the Espionage Act just since the start of 2009. But at the same time, the government itself has lost track of hundr ...
• Los Angeles students protest school police cit ...
  Los Angeles public-school students rallied Thursday against the large volume of court citations they have been issued for seemingly minor infractions, including tardiness, having a marker or “tool” for graffiti and for acting disruptive.  The citations, issued by the Los Angeles Unified Sch ...
• Study: Super PACs aired more ads than candidates
  Outside groups, including super PACs, have sponsored nearly 60 percent of the ads aired on broadcast television and national cable so far this election cycle, more than the candidates themselves, according to a new study.During the same stretch in the 2008 election cycle, candidates were respons ...

backofthebook.ca

• 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 ...

libcom

• EDL In Luton
  The EDL in Luton was the usual drunken mess. The days when the EDL could gather 1,000s of supporters and create a media splash are long gone as yesterdays ‘national’ demo in Luton proved. Even with Tommy Robinson faking another attac ...
• On a Post-Capitalist Economics: communism and ...
  workers-unite-tag1.jpg In the battle for communism, we cannot avoid being radical. In the battle against capitalism, can we afford to be Utopian? read more
• May Day 2012 - discussion and updates
  MayDay.jpg May 1, International Workers Day. Please post your accounts and updates of workers' events today in the comments below. See this article for a short history of ...
• Detroit Highschool students walkout protesting ...
  Detroit students walk out against school budget cuts and in solidarity with a nearby school threatened with closure. Western International High School students talk about defending public education and opposing the charterization and ...
• Bread instead of games!
  10_banner.png In June and July 2012, Poland is going to host Euro2012, the European Football Championship. Coalition of Polish feminist, anarchist and worker activists is mobilising for a protest on 1 ...

Free Range International

• Calm Before the Storm
  Dalton Thomas posts the second  of I’m still not sure how many posts about coming home. I didn’t sleep well on my third night home.  I gave up trying around 0500, made coffee and sat outside to watch the sunrise.  Just after 0800 the county sheriffs prowler climbed up the long gravel driv ...
• One Year Later
  Last night I was coming back from the Lebanese Restaurant located in the Wazar Akbar Khan section of Kabul.  Back in the day it had a full bar and open patio with large crowds of expat customers, but not these days.  Now you have to walk through a long blast proof hallway through a series [...]
• Dalton Thomas Comes Home
  This is the first of what I hope is many posts from my friend Dalton Thomas.  He wanted me to stress that he is practicing his creative writing skills and his story is a fictional account of coming home after being gone a long long time. I went to the local family practice center for [...]
• Five Machineguns
  The other day The Bot and I were talking about Greg Mortenson (author of Three Cups of Tea).  Mortenson has been court ordered to fork over a million bucks for managing  donor money like a GSA mandarin.  He is also guilty of  fabricating tales of derring-do in his mission to build schools using ...
• All Clear
  At 0630 this morning, Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) in the form of the Kabul Critical Response Unit (CRU) finished off a crew of villains who had been fighting for the past 16 hours.  These guys, most likely HIG militants, had barricaded themselves in a building under construction next ...

The Story Behind the Story

• Remembering Rachel Corrie
  She was her Daddy’s “Little Girl” -   Her name, Rachel Corrie. Take a few minutes and remember her LIFE, and her tragic death in 2003, especially her speech as a tender 5th grader:  
• Why Homeland Security Needs 650 Million Bullet ...
  Because of the arch-enemy of humanity, one Osama bin Laden (aka Tim Osman – CIA) and the “terror” he supposedly inflicted on the entire free world Sept. 11, 2001, the United States military, most likely under orders from Israel, invaded and occupied Iraq and Afghanistan.   Unto ...
• The “Other” Israel – Built O ...
  This is a great older presentation by Ted Pike concerning the “Jews” and “Israel”. It is a good and basic PRIMER course, but is missing a few critical pieces of the overall puzzle: 1.  The infiltration of the Edomite bloodline into Rabbinical circles 200 years before the ...
• The “Other” Israel – Built O ...
  This is a great older presentation by Ted Pike concerning the “Jews” and “Israel”. It is a good and basic PRIMER course, but is missing a few critical pieces of the overall puzzle: 1.  The infiltration of the Edomite bloodline into Rabbinical circles 200 years before the ...
• Nobel Laureate Gunter Grass Writes a Poem &#82 ...
  He is 84 years old.  He was awarded a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1999.  He is a German named Gunter Grass.  Apparently, Herr Gunter also has a conscious, and is upset over the West’s hypocrisy over Israel’s “conflict” with Iran.  The hypocrisy to Herr Grass is simply:  ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

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

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

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

Scotts Contracting

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

The View From Abroad

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

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

• Missile Defense: Ever the Fly in the Ointment ...
  Missile defense is a bottomless fund of misinformation between the United States and Russia.
• The Arms Race Was Fed by More Than Just the Ne ...
  Strange as it sounds, the decision to target weapons over cities only added to nuclear risk.
• Will Israeli Dissent Halt the March Towards War?
  War fever has broken -- temporarily anyway.
• Okinawa: Small Step Forward?
  The U.S. military footprint on Okinawa is shrinking, but the impasse over bases remains.
• Question of Iran Pits Israeli Intelligence Aga ...
  Shrill rhetoric on Iran divides Israel.

Law.com

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

Iranian.com

• Ehud Barak: Iran or the Political Abyss
  Israel's Defence minister is facing an uncertain future. With the Israeli elections approaching, the only issue which gives him leverage is Iran, and almost nothing else. Now that Ahmadinejad is even weaker than before, what will Barak do? How can he justify his positions on Iran? This podcast f ...
• توضیحات متفاوت دولت و قوه قضائیه ایران در مورد ...
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• Iran hangs nine 'Christal' drug traffickers
  May 7 - Iran on Monday hanged nine men in a prison in Tehran after they were convicted of trafficking "christal", or methamphetamine, a statement from the Tehran prosecution office said. read more
• Iran dismisses Western demand to close nuclear ...
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• VIDEO: Talking Movies: Persepolis director Sat ...
  Five years ago Iranian-born filmmaker Marjane Satrapi was in the limelight with the success of her Oscar-nominated animation Persepolis. read more

Most Revolutionary Act

• Bank of America Turns Over a New Leaf
  Welcome to Your Bank of America (from http://www.yourbofa.com/) Dear Fellow American, Welcome to your Bank of America. Today, it’s time to acknowledge that our Bank isn’t working anymore—not just for the market, but for people, our real customers. We’ve paid $8.58 bill ...
• Milwaukee Prepares for National Security Event ...
  Location of US Drone Bases Is there a secret plan to evacuate some residents of Chicago in the event of major trouble during the NATO summit next month? CBS 2 has uncovered some evidence that there is. It comes from the Milwaukee area branch of the American Red Cross. CBS 2 News has obtained ...
• The World Tomorrow - Assange as Chat Show Host
          Still under house arrest, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange discusses the experience of solitary confinement with the new president of Tunisia.  President Marzouki offers him asylum. Fascinating inte ...
• The World Tomorrow – Assange’s N ...
    Still under house arrest, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange discusses the experience of solitary confinement with the new president of Tunisia.  President Marzouki offers him asylum. Fascinating interview on RT: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/324005       &nbs ...
• MLK’s Campaign Against “Un-Chris ...
  A Renegade History of the United States by Thaddeus Russell 2010 Free Press Book Review (This book review is divided into three parts. Part III discusses Martin Luther King’s little publicized campaign to rid black people of “un-Christian” and “un-American” habit ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

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

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

• Toronto food trucks and carts could soon serve ...
  A motion before Toronto City Council would overturn a rule stopping food trucks from renting space in parking lots.
• Toronto city council should back an Ontario lo ...
  Toronto city council is to vote on having Ontario maintain federal long-gun registry data. It’s a measure that deserves support.
• Montana should commute Canadian Ronald Smith’s ...
  In the case of Canadian killer Ronald Smith, Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer should temper justice with mercy.
• Don’t let the bedbugs bite: fund Toronto Publi ...
  Toronto had comprehensive approach to tackling bedbugs but now that the funding has dried up the program is being dismantled.
• NFL faces the toll of brain injuries to players
  Some NFL players suffering from multiple concussions are committing suicide

Energy Collective

• New IMF Working Paper Models Impact of Oil Lim ...
  The International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently issued a new working paper called “The Future of Oil: Geology versus Technology” (free PDF), which should be of interest to people who are following “peak oil” issues. This is a research paper that is being published to elicit comments and debate; i ...
• On Wind Turbine Noise and Air Pressure Pulses
  The von Trapp family came to Vermont, because it reminded them of Austria, where “the hills are alive with the sounds of music”. Those sounds will soon be replaced by the health-damaging infrasound and low frequency noise from 3 MW wind turbines on 2,000-ft high ridgelines, courtesy of GMP/Gaz-M ...
• Nuclear fission qualifies as “ultra low carbon ...
  
  
• Is An Electricity Négociant in our Future?
• Facts, Not Excuses, Should Guide Decision on R ...
  It’s good to hear that TransCanada has submitted its new application for a presidential permit to build the Keystone XL pipeline.

EU Times

• Putin nominates Medvedev for PM position
  Russia’s newly sworn-in President Vladimir Putin has submitted a bill to the State Duma, nominating Dmitry Medvedev as the new prime minister under a job swap agreement announced last year. The lower house of parliament’s speaker Sergei Naryshkin said Monday that Putin submitted the ...
• Canadian Government Moves to Outlaw Masks at Demos
  It may soon be a crime to wear a mask in Canada. The Harper government supports a bill proposed by Conservative backbencher Blake Richards that would slam protesters in prison for five years if they wear a mask during a demonstration. The legislation is supported by the Conservative majority and ...
• Ron Paul nabs Nevada delegates from Romney
  Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul trumped presumptive nominee Mitt Romney in Nevada’s national delegate count Sunday, but he will only be able to parlay those supporters into votes for his longshot bid at the national GOP convention if Romney fails to win the nomination in the first round ...
• Nationalists gain seats in Greek parliament fo ...
  Far-right political party Golden Dawn is set to enter the Greek Parliament for the first time after yesterday’s elections. Exit polls in Sunday’s election show the nationalist organization has won about 7% of the vote – well above the required three-per-cent threshold. ­This is the first t ...
• Euro hits new low after France, Greece elections
  The euro has dropped in value following the electoral defeat of ruling parties in France and Greece as new anxiety about the fate of EU austerity policies rattles financial markets. The currency sank to 1.29 dollars on Monday, its lowest level since January, after Socialist Francois Hollande bea ...

Stonecipher News

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

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

• 5 Reasons The Avengers Crushed Competition
  The Avengers broke box office records this past weekend with its astounding $207.1 million in three days. It smashed the previous best weekend opening record of $170 million, set by Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 . We here in Hollywood knew the Marvel Studios film would rock, but w ...
• CIA Foils New Al-Qaeda Underwear Bomb Plot For ...
  WASHINGTON (CBS/AP) — The CIA thwarted a plot by al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen to destroy a U.S.-bound airliner using a bomb with a new design around the one-year anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden, a U.S. counter-terrorism official tells CBS News. The plot was first reported by the ...
• CIA 'foils underwear bomb' plot by al-Qaeda in ...
  US intelligence officials say they have disrupted a plot by al-Qaeda in Yemen to detonate an upgraded version of the failed 2009 "underwear bomb", according to US media reports. The device is said to be in US custody, with the FBI reportedly examining the bomb, which was seized by CIA agents. R ...
• Biden: 'Will and Grace' Increased Acceptance o ...
  During an interview on yesterday's edition of 'Meet the Press,' Vice President Joe Biden stated that he is “absolutely comfortable” with same-sex marriage and praised a long-running situation comedy for “educating” the American public on homosexuality. However, Biden first had to defend his rec ...
• President 2012 Poll Watch: Obama and Romney in ...
  A new Presidential poll from Politico has the race between President Obama and Mitt Romney in a virtual dead heat. A new POLITICO/George Washington University Battleground Poll finds a dead heat in the presidential race six months before the election. Mitt Romney edged out President Barack Obam ...

Groklaw

• Could an Oracle Win Against Google Blow Up the ...
  The conventional wisdom in the coder community has been that it's fine to reproduce the interface of someone else's APIs, so long as you don't actually copy their software. So if the court finds that APIs are copyrightable, it could have major implications for any software that uses APIs without ...
• Video: Googles Peter Norvig on the modern stat ...
  Late last year, I sat down with Google's Peter Norvig to discuss the online artificial intelligence class he and Sebastian Thrun, a leading light in autonomous vehicles, were teaching together at Stanford. Our conversation, which I filmed, ventured beyond the class and into the philosophy of AI ...
• Oracle v. Google judge asks for comment on EU ...
  Some of Judge Alsup's comments in the courtroom in recent days suggested that he is skeptical of Oracle's position. "If someone were to give you an assignment and say, 'Go write a guide book on how to drive from San Francisco to Monterey,' and everybody could sit down and write their own two-pa ...
• Apple Rejecting Apps That Use Dropbox
  This is not a case of Apple wanting to channel users to their own cloud app, as opposed to that of a competitor -- Apple has no service even remotely equivalent to Dropbox's. Its iCloud offers only a comparitively limited form of syncing for particluar Apple-supplied apps. Apple's rejection is ...
• Jury instructions Grounds for Appeal in Oracle ...
  Sounds like grounds for appeal. Re @JamieXML @datachick jury told to assume #APIs are #copyrightable: http://zite.to/JP8IsS Oracle v Google - Wendy Seltzer, Twitter

WideShut

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

Politics in the Zeros

• 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?

TVNZ - Top Stories

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

Just World News

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

frogblog

• The cabbage boat rap
  Guess I’m a bit slow off the mark on this one, but here goes, for those who have not yet heard it: When you pay $50K, I guess you expect something in return. But when you are banged up in prison facing serious charges, I guess the payee don’t wanna know!
• A pig of a decision
  The High Court last week upheld MAF’s (now MPI’s)  decision-making processes for deciding on new import standards. This means that the import of untreated pig meat from countries infected with Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) will be allowed. This is a major issue for N ...
• General debate, May 6, 2012
• Regional councils launch new water website
  Check out a new website on water quality information launched this week. It’s a co-operative effort by regional and unitary councils to provide accessible water quality information for each of New Zealand‘s 16 regions in one place. A useful feature of the site is that it focuses on river catchme ...
• There’s no better time to invest in cycling
  There’s things going on all over the world at the moment that tell us that using bicycles for transport is more than just a fad – it’s a growing phenomenon that offers all sorts of solutions to our transport woes. Cycling is a win-win-win for transport. It reduces congestion. It reduces fuel use ...

Patronus Analytical

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

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

• Breast Cancer Survivor Jailed Over Accidental ...
  By Dr. Mercola If you think debtor's prison went by the wayside with the Dark Ages, think again. It's not only alive and well in the 21st century, it's very much a part of everyday debt collecting in a country where you'd never expect it: the United States. And if you think it'll never happen ...
• Attacks Your Liver Like Alcohol - Is This What ...
  By Dr. Mercola In the video above, part two of the excellent series "The Skinny on Obesity," Dr. Robert Lustig, Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology, and Elissa Epel with the Center for Obesity Assessment, Study and Treatment at the University of California, continue the d ...
• This Popular Drug Creates Over 60,000 New Diab ...
  By Dr. Mercola One in four Americans aged 45 and older take statin drugs to lower cholesterol and supposedly "prevent heart disease." That amounts to 32 million Americans or, as Peter Wehrwein pointed out in the Harvard Health Letter, the equivalent of the entire populations of Florida and ...
• Courts Slaps FDA and FTC for Unjustified Attacks
  By Dr. Mercola Did you know it's currently illegal for a food or supplement producer to tell you about their products' scientifically proven health benefits? As unbelievable as it sounds, a person can be thrown in jail for telling you the walnuts they grow may slow down the growth of prostat ...
• Even if You Eat Organic Food, This Cooking Mis ...
  By Dr. Mercola The idea that high cholesterol causes heart disease is based on the premise that cholesterol is found in the plaque of people with coronary artery disease. But does that automatically mean that cholesterol itself is the root cause, and must be kept at a minimum to prevent pla ...

JAMA

• Flu Protector [Lab Reports]
• Early Microbe Exposure [Lab Reports]
• Effects of ECT [Lab Reports]
• Guideline Tightens Transfusion Criteria [Medic ...
• "Doc Fix" Saves Medicare Payments Again But Ta ...

Survival - tribal peoples

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

Montreal Gazette

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

Food World Order

• Loblaws to remove artificial colours and flavours
  from theglobeandmail.com: Loblaws, Canada’s largest grocer, is banishing artificial colours and flavours from its signature President’s Choice line of products... Although it’s a challenging task, particularly when it comes to candy and other vibrantly-coloured confectionery items, the decisio ...
• 5 Special Interest Groups That Help Keep Marij ...
  from alternet.org: Last year, over 850,000 people in America were arrested for marijuana-related crimes. Despite public opinion, the medical community, and human rights experts all moving in favor of relaxing marijuana prohibition laws, little has changed in terms of policy. There have been m ...
• New EO to Eliminate GMO Trade Barriers
  from farmwars.info: The United States, inc., in collusion with the biotech industry, which is headed by none other than Monsanto et. al., is successfully conducting a food war with the nations around it. The USDA and Monsanto, using international Free Trade agreements as a club, have a pencha ...
• #Video: Episode019 - Labor Flaws, Cereal Crimes
  On Thursday nights, Media Monarchy joins Corbett Report Radio live on Republic Broadcasting to go over all the latest stories from the world of food, environment and health. This week's menu features Labor Flaws, Cereal Crimes and more... Episode019: MP3/Feed Previous Video Epis ...
• #Audio: Episode019 - Labor Flaws, Cereal Crimes
  On Thursday nights, Media Monarchy joins Corbett Report Radio live on Republic Broadcasting to go over all the latest stories from the world of food, environment and health. This week's menu features Labor Flaws, Cereal Crimes and more... Episode018: MP3/Feed Previous Audio: Epis ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

• The Countdown To The Break Up Of The Euro Has ...
  The results of the elections in France and Greece have made it abundantly clear that there is a tremendous backlash against the austerity approach that Germany has been pushing.  All over Europe, prominent politicians and incumbent political parties are being voted out.  In fact, ...
• Is Obama Negotiating A Treaty That Would Essen ...
  69 members of the U.S. House of Representatives have sent Barack Obama a letter expressing their concern that a new international treaty currently being negotiated would essentially ban all "Buy American" laws.  This new treaty is known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and it is ...
• There Are 100 Million Working Age Americans Th ...
  The unemployment crisis in America is much worse than you are being told.  Did you know that there are 100 million working age Americans that do not get up in the morning and go to work?  No wonder why it seems like there are so many people that do not have jobs!  According to th ...
• Why New York Times Economist Paul Krugman Is P ...
  In recent days, New York Times economist Paul Krugman has been doing a whole bunch of interviews in which he has declared that the solution to our economic problems is very easy.  Krugman says that all we need to do to get the global economy going again is for the governments of ...
• 95 Percent Of The Jobs Lost During The Recessi ...
  Who is the biggest loser in the ongoing decline of the U.S. economy?  Is it the wealthy?  No, the stock market has been soaring lately and their incomes are actually going up.  Is it the poor?  Well, the poor are definitely hurting very badly, but when you don't have much to begi ...

CASSE

• What Is the Limiting Factor?
  It is not for nothing that our system is called "capitalism" rather than "natural resource-ism."
• Toward a New Bretton Woods and a Sustainable C ...
  Eric Zencey reports encouraging news from the United Nations, but he knows a sustainable economic system won't arise without concerted effort.
• Negative Externalities Are the Norm
  Here's a crazy but true fact: negative externalities are the norm -- not the exception -- in our current economic setup.
• Environmental Heroes Can Inspire Economic Refo ...
  Brent Blackwelder looks to this year's Goldman Environmental Prize winners for inspiration in the fight for a sustainable and fair economy.
• The Titanic Code
  The 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic gets Dave Gardner thinking about the speed at which economic growth is propelling us toward unseen icebergs.

The Talking Clock

• Absolutely Unanimous: 100% Find Edward Heath ' ...
  Despite the best efforts of brilliant individuals such as former special constable Albert Burgess, not one politician in this country has yet been arrested for the high crime of treason - either at statute or common law - for their role in the collaboration with the European Union. Aware that ...
• Quote of the Day: "Ooh la la, Bilderberg!" Edition
  "Hollande is merely another creature of the establishment and an enthusiastic pro-European superstate globalist. He supported the 1992 Maastricht Treaty, the document which outlined the introduction of the euro single currency and was itself based on a 1955 Bilderberg blueprint. Hollande also su ...
• Farage on Cameron: He's "a bit like Blair, jus ...
  So, our glorious leader - Nigel Farage - interviewed on TV today. He has interesting observations on Cameron that few would find it difficult to disagree with; including many within th ...
• Reaction as UKIP poll best ever local election ...
  So, another set of elections are drawn to a close in what has been a very drawn-out and tiring twenty-four hours of slowly dripping results. Without doubt, the headline of the twenty-four hours for us has been the incredible breakthrough for UKIP up and down the country. ...
• If it's freedom and liberty you want, it's 'UK ...
  Tomorrow, there are local elections up and down the country. It will come as no surprise to regular readers to know that we are advocating that people should vote for UKIP. We are aware, of course, that people have - in the past - only seen a vote for UKIP as worthwhile at European elections; ...

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

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

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

Tech Drive In

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

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

• The U.S. Internment Camp: Prison for a New Ame ...
  Ryan Cummings, Contributor Activist Post The topic of civilian internment camps in the United States has been largely dismissed as a paranoid “conspiracy theory” by the mainstream media. Recent legislation and newly uncovered government documents, however, reveal the sad truth: The United States ...
• Most polar ice ever recorded
  by Don Surber So much for an ice-free Arctic. Henry Hudson’s long-ago dream of a Northwest Passage that would link England to the Orient by sea will have to wait another century as Mother Earth gives him the cold shoulder. Again. From Real Science: “1979 was the peak year for Arctic ice, yet 201 ...
• Dinosaurs ‘gassed’ themselves into ...
  No, this is not an article from the ONION.  It is from “reputable” Fox News. If you believe this is “science.” I still have the Brooklyn Bridge on sale… LONDON – Dinosaurs may have farted themselves to extinction, according to a new study from British scientists. Th ...
• Chief executive of GAVI wants to ‘immuni ...
  by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer (NaturalNews) The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-backed group Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations (GAVI) is on a mission to forcibly vaccinate every single child on the planet against every single known “preventable disease.” And the gr ...
• Human race being terminated by ‘scientif ...
  by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger (NaturalNews) This is, without question, the most important article I’ve ever penned, because it discusses the idea that the human race is being destroyed in the name of science. Stopping these “scientists” from destroying our world and our civi ...

Veterans Today

• Eligibility for the VA Home Loan Program
  Who’s Eligible for a VA-Backed Loan?   Veterans Active duty personnel Reservists/National Guard members Some surviving spouses Go to Eligibility Rules for detailed information.  You might also want to look at our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs).   How Do I Prove to the Lender t ...
• Georgia Opens First Jail Devoted to U.S. Veterans
  The problem of US military veterans falling into a life of crime after returning from Iraq and Afghanistan has reached such levels that a law enforcer in Georgia has opened what is believed to be America’s first county jail devoted to veteran inmates.
• “Black Bush” Barack? False Flag Fr ...
  In light of the current and well-founded anxiety that the Obama administration will conduct a false flag operation during the May 20-21 Chicago NATO summit, this article, although written in 2008, is crucial reading now.
• MAY MEMO: Top Ten False Flag Terror Targets
  By Captain Eric H. May, Ghost Troop CO   Note to readers:Veterans Today, no doubt eager to get the top 10 terror targets into public discussion, inadvertently published this article before I had finished it. I’ll remain on task until I’ve finished. Please help my cause by referr ...
• Occupy Wall Street’s Act II
  Grassroots activism takes time to grow. Broad-based participation is vital. Issues must be clearly defined. Leadership is needed. Major obstacles must be overcome.

electric politics

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

PR News

• Staples Advantage taps Text 100 as US AOR
  FRAMINGHAM, MA: Staples Advantage, the office supply retailer's b-to-b division, has hired Text 100 as its US AOR after a review.
• Burkhart joins Hoffman Agency as GM
  SAN JOSE, CA: The Hoffman Agency has appointed Steve Burkhart GM for North America. He was previously principal of the Burkhart Group.
• Coppola PR launches
  JACKSONVILLE, FL: Maria Coppola has launched Coppola Public Relations, an agency that will handle strategic reputation building, crisis planning and communications, and special event work for clients.
• Barkley spins off Crossroads PR unit
  KANSAS CITY, MO: Advertising agency Barkley has spun off its PR practice, previously known as Barkley PR/Cause, into a standalone unit called Crossroads.
• Guttman named Burson US tech practice leader
  NEW YORK: Burson-Marsteller has appointed Sabrina Guttman US technology practice chair.

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

• Environmental groups launch major campaign to ...
  Black Out Speak Out groups will darken websites nationwide in protest against efforts to silence Canadians Black Out Speak Out 7 May 2012 ...
• Oil and Democracy Speaker Series
  Community Service-Learning Parkland Institute It certainly is an interesting time for democracy in Alberta… Community Service-Learning's (CSL) Spring Immersion Course 'Oil and De ...
• Sage-Grouse Reintroduction: More Habitat Prote ...
  Alberta Wilderness Association 3 May 2012 Reports in yesterday’s news media reveal details on a program to import sage-grouse from Montana to Alberta. While this reintroduc ...
• IMPACT! Sustainability Champions Training
  The Natural Step Canada 20 Jun 2012 - 09:00 - 21 Jun 2012 - 17:00 Applications due May 14, 2012 The Co-operators and The Natural Step Canada are partnering to offer the IMPACT! Su ...
• Eco Solar Commercial Tour
  Eco Solar Tour 4 Jun 2012 - 11:00 - 8 Jun 2012 - 15:00 The capital cost of a commercial building is only 8% of the life cycle costs. Come and visit a new breed of commercial buil ...

Stop NATO

• Afghanistan: Five Children Among 20 Killed In ...
  Pajhwok Afghan News May 7, 2012 Children among 20 killed in ISAF air raids By Zainullah and Abdul Latif Ayubion LASHKARGAH/QALA-I-NAW: A mother and her five children were among 20 civilians killed in two separate airstrikes in the southern Helmand and northwestern Badghis provinces, officials sa ...
• Chicago: Why We’ll March
  Chicago Tribune May 3, 2012 Why we’ll march By Andy Thayer A serious attack on the civil rights of every person in Chicago is under way and should disgust every thinking Chicagoan for its brazenness. The run-up to the May 20-21 NATO summit has seen an effort by some to spread unnecessary f ...
• Democracy Suffers In NATO-Backed Syrian Violence
  Global Times May 6, 2012 Democracy suffers in NATO-backed Syrian fighting By M.D. Nalapat* Today, more than 14 million voters in Syria will have the chance to select among several thousand candidates for 250 parliamentary seats. Cities across the country are plastered with posters of the candida ...
• Pentagon: Wars Used To Train Global NATO Exped ...
  Stop NATO May 6, 2012 Pentagon: Wars Used To Train Global NATO Expeditionary Force Rick Rozoff Troops from the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan In the past seventeen years millions of troops from approximately 60 nations have served under NATO command in wars and post-war z ...
• U.S.-NATO Missile Shield: Trojan Horse To Be F ...
  Voice of Russia May 4, 2012 When NATO/US European ABM becomes a threat, it will be dealt with John Robles ==== The phased approach is important to note because what it calls for is a strengthening and improving of all of the elements of the system once they are in place; in other words, an [...]

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Intel Hub

• Romney Supporter Caught Handing Out Fake Ballo ...
  Eric Blair | Last week, GOP Chairman Michael McDonald threatened Nevada that if Ron Paul delegates take over national convention slots, they won't be invited to Tampa.
• Putain’s 3rd Term a Monopoly of Power
  Shepard Ambellas | Anti-Putin protestors took the streets in swarms to demonstrate the illegitimacy of Vladimir Putin as he made history as Russia's new supreme dictator with a bold move jumping through hoops to grasp any star possible.
• Is Obama Negotiating A Treaty That Would Essen ...
  The Economic Collapse Blog | 69 members of the House have sent Obama a letter expressing concern that a new treaty currently being negotiated would ban all "Buy American" laws.
• Identify Bilderberg as the Real “1%”
  J.G. Vibes | In recent weeks i have been spending a lot of time covering the Bilderberg conference and stating how turning our attention to this group could help to unify the diverse activist movements that exist throughout the country and throughout the world. The worlds wealth disparity ...
• Live Bacteria to be Released by Homeland Secur ...
  Alex Thomas | The Department of Homeland Security plans to release a literal live bio weapon on Boston area subways "sometime" this summer in what they have dubbed a "terror" test.

FRS

• Arab Uprisings: Progress, But Not Yet a Revolution
  [Article 2 of the series “One Year After the Arab Uprisings.”  Part One, "The Failure of the Arab 'State' and Its Opposition" originally appeared at  http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/failure-arab-state-and-its-opposition and was posted on revolutionary frontlines at http://revolutionaryfront ...
• Philippines: “Zamboanga protest vs Balik ...
  [While the US-PH war exercises ended in April 27, it will extend until June in Sarangani.   “We all know that US troops will not leave. The US is only using the feud between China and Philippines over the Spratlys to justify its continued presence here,” says Bai Indayla of Patriyotiko Mindanao] ...
• Clashes erupt at mass rally in Cairo
  Thousands protest against recent killing of demonstrators and demand that Egypt’s military leaders step down.  Al Jazeera’s Rawya Rageh reports on the latest clashes outside the Egyptian defense Ministry–May 4, 2012   Egyptian armed forces and protesters have clashed in Cairo,  ...
• Philippines: An alliance between CPP and the ...
  [Under the banner of "defending national interests" against China, the first steps toward an alliance between the US-comprador / puppet Philippine regime of  President Aquino, and the Communist Party of the Philippines are being given public expression.  See, below, news of the government respon ...
• Students in India fighting sexual harassment a ...
  20 April 2012 Fight to strengthen GSCASH by making it a PUNITIVE BODY! Every issue is a woman’s issue and no issue is a woman’s issue alone! Fight to strengthen GSCASH by making it a PUNITIVE BODY! Hold high the red banner of revolutionary women’s movement  against feudalism, patriarchy & st ...

Ken O'Keefe

• Coming soon – ‘The Age of Responsi ...
  'The Age of Responsibility' At what point do we as people take responsibility for the actions of the governments we outnumber tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands to one? At what point do we take responsibility for the governments we pay our blood money to in the form of taxes? At wh ...
• Interview with Mark Glenn on ‘The Ugly T ...
  We shall discuss this and more; “When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are to possess and casts out the many peoples living there, you shall then slaughter them all and utterly destroy them…You shall make no agreements with them nor show them any mercy…You shall destroy their alta ...
• Interview with Mark Glenn on ‘The Ugly T ...
  We shall discuss this and more; “When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are to possess and casts out the many peoples living there, you shall then slaughter them all and utterly destroy them…You shall make no agreements with them nor show them any mercy…You shall destroy their alta ...
• Enemies Within the Gate – Police Corruption &# ...
  Police Aiding & Abetting in the Theft of Trade Not Aid Vehicles, Donated Goods & Money Moving on, in August of last year I made a complaint to the police about the Trade Not Aid vehicles (18-ton Renault Truck Reg. #V97 DBA & Optare Metrorider Minibus Reg. # P420 VRG) being stolen by ...
• Enemies Within the Gate – Police Corruption &# ...
  Police Aiding & Abetting in the Theft of Trade Not Aid Vehicles, Donated Goods & Money Moving on, in August of last year I made a complaint to the police about the Trade Not Aid vehicles (18-ton Renault Truck Reg. #V97 DBA & Optare Metrorider Minibus Reg. # P420 VRG) being stolen by ...

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

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

Popsci - Science

• Nanocomposite Cavity Filler Reverses Decay, Ki ...
  Dentists may soon be getting a potent new weapons with which to wage the global fight against cavities. The University of Maryland has developed a novel new nanocomposite material that can be used not only as filling for cavities, but that will also kill any remaining bacteria in the tooth and r ...
• South Korea Targets Smuggled Capsules of Human ...
  South Korea is saying this morning that its customs officials are stepping up their inspections targeting smuggled capsules that contain the powdered flesh of dead human babies. How’s that for something to wash down with your third cup of coffee this morning? The capsules originate in northeaste ...
• Using Magnetic Bacteria to Construct the Bioco ...
  As computer components grow smaller and smaller it becomes more and more difficult to manufacture them by conventional means, meaning the nano-hard-drives of the future are going to come at a cost. So researchers from the University of Leeds in the UK and Tokyo University of Agriculture and Tech ...
• The Most Amazing Science Images of the Week, A ...
  This week's image roundup has a pink black hole, a monkey drinking from a straw, a catfish that detects earthquakes, and a curious item that washed all the way across the Pacific during the Japanese tsunami. It is a good one! Read it and look at it! Click to launch the gallery.
• The Most Amazing Science Images of the Week, A ...

Veterans Today

• Eligibility for the VA Home Loan Program
  Who’s Eligible for a VA-Backed Loan?   Veterans Active duty personnel Reservists/National Guard members Some surviving spouses Go to Eligibility Rules for detailed information.  You might also want to look at our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs).   How Do I Prove to the Lender t ...
• Georgia Opens First Jail Devoted to U.S. Veterans
  The problem of US military veterans falling into a life of crime after returning from Iraq and Afghanistan has reached such levels that a law enforcer in Georgia has opened what is believed to be America’s first county jail devoted to veteran inmates.
• “Black Bush” Barack? False Flag Fr ...
  In light of the current and well-founded anxiety that the Obama administration will conduct a false flag operation during the May 20-21 Chicago NATO summit, this article, although written in 2008, is crucial reading now.
• MAY MEMO: Top Ten False Flag Terror Targets
  By Captain Eric H. May, Ghost Troop CO   Note to readers:Veterans Today, no doubt eager to get the top 10 terror targets into public discussion, inadvertently published this article before I had finished it. I’ll remain on task until I’ve finished. Please help my cause by referr ...
• Occupy Wall Street’s Act II
  Grassroots activism takes time to grow. Broad-based participation is vital. Issues must be clearly defined. Leadership is needed. Major obstacles must be overcome.

War is Business

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

Hudson's Weather & Climate

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

Internat'l Political Economy

• Hopeless, Jobless America? Go East, Young Yank
  There are two interesting features in TIME on dealing with the generally jobless state of modern America. The first is a Job-like (biblical) lament about how unpaid internships are common Stateside when they should not be. As you'd expect, the article is accompanied by sob stories about young Am ...
• Shariah Banking: Islamic Financial Services Board
  The Commonwealth news outlet Global Briefing has an interesting interview with Jaseem Ahmed, secretary-general of the Islamic Financial Services Board (IFSB). Although its history is not very long, there has been a veritable explosion of interest in shariah banking, especially given the renewed ...
• Strange Tales of Delta Air Buying an Oil Refinery
  With airlines being almost universally unprofitable these days--even Thai Airways is reportedly going to have an unprofitable 2012 or only its second unprofitable year in 51 years of operation--saying that costly aviation fuel is having negative effects on the airline industry is an understateme ...
• Bizarre Agropolitics Triangle: US, PRC & Phili ...
  Political science types--yours truly included--tend to think of nations as unitary actors when it's seldom the case: "What is China thinking?" or "What is American policy on this matter?" are but two examples. But, it is often the case that "reifying" nation-states or thinking of them as all but ...
• Globalizing Bad Taste in Cars, BRICS+Beckham Edn
  [A weekend feature! It's been such a long time, but rest assured that I still speak of political economy.] Way back when, anyone with a passing familiarity with the automobile business knew what the most important auto shows were: Detroit, Frankfurt, Geneva, Paris, Tokyo. The presence of marques ...

Economic Collapse Blog

• The Countdown To The Break Up Of The Euro Has ...
  The results of the elections in France and Greece have made it abundantly clear that there is a tremendous backlash against the austerity approach that Germany has been pushing.  All over Europe, prominent politicians and incumbent political parties are being voted out.  In fact, ...
• Is Obama Negotiating A Treaty That Would Essen ...
  69 members of the U.S. House of Representatives have sent Barack Obama a letter expressing their concern that a new international treaty currently being negotiated would essentially ban all "Buy American" laws.  This new treaty is known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and it is ...
• There Are 100 Million Working Age Americans Th ...
  The unemployment crisis in America is much worse than you are being told.  Did you know that there are 100 million working age Americans that do not get up in the morning and go to work?  No wonder why it seems like there are so many people that do not have jobs!  According to th ...
• Why New York Times Economist Paul Krugman Is P ...
  In recent days, New York Times economist Paul Krugman has been doing a whole bunch of interviews in which he has declared that the solution to our economic problems is very easy.  Krugman says that all we need to do to get the global economy going again is for the governments of ...
• 95 Percent Of The Jobs Lost During The Recessi ...
  Who is the biggest loser in the ongoing decline of the U.S. economy?  Is it the wealthy?  No, the stock market has been soaring lately and their incomes are actually going up.  Is it the poor?  Well, the poor are definitely hurting very badly, but when you don't have much to begi ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

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

E U Times

• Putin nominates Medvedev for PM position
  Russia’s newly sworn-in President Vladimir Putin has submitted a bill to the State Duma, nominating Dmitry Medvedev as the new prime minister under a job swap agreement announced last year. The lower house of parliament’s speaker Sergei Naryshkin said Monday that Putin submitted the ...
• Canadian Government Moves to Outlaw Masks at Demos
  It may soon be a crime to wear a mask in Canada. The Harper government supports a bill proposed by Conservative backbencher Blake Richards that would slam protesters in prison for five years if they wear a mask during a demonstration. The legislation is supported by the Conservative majority and ...
• Ron Paul nabs Nevada delegates from Romney
  Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul trumped presumptive nominee Mitt Romney in Nevada’s national delegate count Sunday, but he will only be able to parlay those supporters into votes for his longshot bid at the national GOP convention if Romney fails to win the nomination in the first round ...
• Nationalists gain seats in Greek parliament fo ...
  Far-right political party Golden Dawn is set to enter the Greek Parliament for the first time after yesterday’s elections. Exit polls in Sunday’s election show the nationalist organization has won about 7% of the vote – well above the required three-per-cent threshold. ­This is the first t ...
• Euro hits new low after France, Greece elections
  The euro has dropped in value following the electoral defeat of ruling parties in France and Greece as new anxiety about the fate of EU austerity policies rattles financial markets. The currency sank to 1.29 dollars on Monday, its lowest level since January, after Socialist Francois Hollande bea ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

• 2012-05-07 Bahraini human rights activist Nabe ...
  Tweet This is Part Two in WL Central's continued coverage of the arrest of Bahraini human rights activist Nabeel Rajab. He was arrested on May 5 at the Bahraini International Airport, following the announcement of his upcoming appearance on Julian Assange's talk show "The World Tomorrow." A repr ...
• 2012-05-06 WikiLeaks News Update: Nabeel Rajab ...
  Tweet WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 519 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 516 days. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 713 days. A secret Grand Jury has been active in the U.S. without transparency for 599 days. ...
• 2012-05-05 [UPDATED] Bahraini human rights act ...
  Tweet Bahraini human rights activist Nabeel Rajab was arrested today by the order of the Bahraini public prosecution. This comes the day after WikiLeaks' press release that he, along with Egyptian activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah, will be the guests on next week's episode of Julian Assange's talk sho ...
• 2012-05-04 WikiLeaks News Update: Press Freedo ...
  Tweet WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 517 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 514 days. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 711 days. A secret Grand Jury has been active in the U.S. without transparency for 597 days. ...
• 2012-05-03 Former Polish President Aleksander ...
  TweetIn a recent interview with Gazeta Wyborcza, former Polish president Aleksander Kwaśniewski made the following statements: "... Q: But it was the Americans who revealed information that prisoners were held in Poland. A: Indeed, in a wave of critique against George Bush, when Barack Obama sa ...

U N News

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

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

• Is Asia Ready for a Great Transformation?
  • (http://twitter.com/share) ADB says maybe no, maybe yes. It’s up in the air
• China's Conspicuous Consumers
  • (http://twitter.com/share) You thought you knew. But just how conspicuous is surprising
• Flash Memory and Corporate Espionage
  • (http://twitter.com/share) A new gadget allows for the remote destruction of data
• Massive Drug Smuggling in Thailand
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Complex international racket may be too big for authorities to get a handle on
• Book Review: A Thai Prostitute's Depressing Story
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Only 13: The True Story of Lon by Julia Manzanares and Derek Kent. Bamboo Sinfonia Pulications, Bangkok, Thailand. ISBN 978-974-8418-01-8. Paperback, Available through Amazon

We Know the Lies

• You May Be 'Unintentionally' Poisoning Your He ...
    While you and your family may be eating high quality organic foods on a routine basis, a simple food preparation mistake may actually be poisoning the food you eat. What’s more, you may even be told it is safe by some medical and government leaders who are completely unaware of the r ...
• US Nationals... A People Without a Country
    There exists in the United States a segment of the general population that can trace their lineage to the colonies.  Once upon a time in America, all national lands, not allotted to Indian tribes through treaty, were the sole possession of these nationalists. ~ Henry Shivley&nbsp ...
• Nicolas Sarkozy Loses French Presidency to Fra ...
    France has elected Francois Hollande as its first Socialist president in nearly two decades, marking a shift to the left at the heart of Europe. ~ Related article read more
• Agenda 21... American Representative to the UN ...
    Roger Dittman, an emeritus professor of physics at California State University, believes that Agenda 21 policies should be implemented in the United States. Dittman is the American representative to the UN. Susanne Posel read more
• Royal Inbreeding
    When it comes to inbreds, Buckingham palace families beat the Ozark mountain families hands down. read more

Tarpley

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

Modern Survivalism

• Simple Antenna For Better Shortwave Radio Rece ...
  For those of you who have purchased a portable shortwave radio for either your own interests or for the sake of survival preparedness (gaining information about the disaster, after the disaster), you may be interested in getting the longest range reception as possible. The best way to achieve th ...
• Yard Carts And Wagons For Survival Preparedness
  As a followup to Tammy’s post, Don’t Forget To Stock Mobility Aids, I agree that some preppers may be overlooking the need for equipment that will assist in carting around ‘stuff’… equipment that is NOT motorized, but instead intended to be pedaled or pushed. Many f ...
• Don’t Forget To Stock Mobility Aids
  Guest post: by Tammy You may not need crutches or a wheelchair today, but……. If you have no access to doctors or hospitals, there are bound to be injuries that may diminish your mobility, or that of someone in your family or group. What are you going to do if you break a leg? Of [...]
• Pitch Black
  Most people won’t have a clue until they are plunged into pitch black darkness, when the next ‘Carrington Event’ will wipe much of humanity off the planet. Think about this… If we all had just boarded an airplane and the pilot came on the intercom and said, “Ladies ...
• Who Will Be The Enemy After The Collapse?
  “Know your enemy” (from the ancient Chinese military text “The Art of War”), is always good advice when strategizing security. In the context of a post collapse society, this is also true. Who will be your enemy? First of all, it will be ‘people’. In a wide sc ...

Fast Company

• Why You Should Start A Company In... Grand Rapids
  UX designer Joe Johnston and VC fund founder Rick DeVos share the top five reasons for coming up to Grand Rapids and getting down to business. UNITED STATES OF INNOVATION New Ideas, New Markets, New Insights It used to be, if you were serious about starting a tech company, you went to Sil ...
• The Truth About Facebook Advertising
  My daughter Vivi was born on May 24, 2007, the same day Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg launched the ability for companies to build applications inside Facebook’s site. Within days, I had conceived of my latest company, Buddy Media. And we have been helping advertisers succeed on Facebook, and t ...
• Bill Nguyen Announces Color's Partnership With ...
  The video-sharing firm improves its service by adding audio. Will it be enough to bring it back from the dead?Color, the much-hyped photo-sharing app created by serial entrepreneur Bill Nguyen that famously nabbed $41 million in funding then promptly flopped, is back with a scheme to tap the gia ...
• 5 Ways To Make Firing Someone Less Painful
  Time to cut someone loose? Even if it's long past time for them to go, firing an employee can be difficult. Follow these five tips and you'll be on the road to happiness again.Parting is such sweet sorrow--unless you're saying goodbye to an employee who should have been gone a long time ago. Her ...
• VeriFone Makes Most Decisive Move Yet To Chang ...
  VeriFone is going to announce tomorrow a whole new aspect to its business: A device to let iPhone and iPad users take credit card payments for a low fee. The idea may sound familiar. But unlike disruptive startup Square, Verifone has $10 billion in global transactions a year at its back--an ...

Jadaliyya

• How the Syrian Uprising Started, the "Rise" of ...
  On April 27th, around the Jadaliyya Co-Sponsored Conference at Lund University ("Contesting Narratives, Location Power"), I sat down for an extensive interview with Haytham Manna`, one of the icons of the independent Syrian opposition and a leading founder of the National Coordinating ...
• جدلية صعود أبو الفتوح وإمكانية استنساخ النموذج ...
  جاء الصعود السريع لحضور ودور أبو الفتوح في سباق الرئاسة المصرية ليعيد إلى الأذهان تجربة الصعود السياسي لأردوجان في تركيا في نهاية التسعينات وبداية القرن الحادي والعشرين. ولعل العودة إلى السنوات الخمس البارزة في تاريخ النظام السياسي التركي، خصوصا بين عامي 1997- 2002، تعين على فهم وتفسير عملي ...
• Egypt Media Roundup (May 7)
  [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Egypt and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Egypt Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to egypt@jadaliyya.com by Sund ...
• ثوار السعودية: مقابلة مع منظمي صفحة ”ثوار المن ...
  ما الذي يحدث في المنطقة الشرقية في الممكلة العربية السعودية؟ لقد نجحت الأمبراطورية الإعلامية التي تمتكلها المملكة، بالتعاون مع جهازها الأمني، في منع وصول أخبار التطورات في القطيف إلى العالم إلى حد بعيد. كما لجأ النظام السعودي إلى حملة مضادة للثورة متعددة الاتجاهات لقمع الانتفاضة في العام الما ...
• ميشيل كيلو: ثوري عتيد وموقف معقد
  - درج الحديث في الأوساط السياسية في العالم العربي عن ربيع عربي تقوده الجماهير من دون قيادة سياسية وفي نوع من القطيعة التاريخية مع الأحزاب الطليعية فهل توافق على ذلك؟ هل أن الشعوب الثائرة لم تعد بحاجة لقيادة تعمل في السياسة وكما يقول الشيخ امام في أغنيته "أنا الشعب ماشي و عارف طريقي"؟ ...

mediagazer

• Warren Buffett tells Omaha gathering he may bu ...
  Richard Blackden / Telegraph: Warren Buffett tells Omaha gathering he may buy more newspapers  —  Billionaire investor Warren Buffett said that he may buy more newspapers even though the profits they make will be “nothing like the old days.”  —  Warre ...
• A Closer Look At Chorus, The Next-Generation P ...
  Eric Eldon / TechCrunch: A Closer Look At Chorus, The Next-Generation Publishing Platform That Runs Vox Media  —  The modern online newsroom is a 24/7 operation.  It needs power tools to work efficiently, like modern carpenters need electric drills to build houses.  Th ...
• China Expels Al Jazeera English-Language Chann ...
  Michael Wines / New York Times: China Expels Al Jazeera English-Language Channel  —  BEIJING — Al Jazeera, the satellite broadcasting network, has been forced by the Chinese authorities to close its China news operations of its English-language channel on Monday, the first ...
• Decline Of Reader Apps Likely Due To News Feed ...
  Josh Constine / TechCrunch: Decline Of Reader Apps Likely Due To News Feed Changes, Shows Facebook Controls The Traffic Faucet  —  No, Facebook news reader apps aren't declining because users suddenly got fed up with auto-sharing.  The user loss is likely due to the transit ...
• Hulu To Users: Connect Your Facebook Account O ...
  Kashmir Hill / The Not-So Private Parts: Hulu To Users: Connect Your Facebook Account Or No Social For You  —  Some angry Hulu users created this logo to protest a push to integrate their accounts with Facebook  —  Last month, video provider Hulu made changes to ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

• 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 ...

no frakking consensus

• The World Wakes Up to the World Wildlife Fund
  Companies that cozy up to the WWF in order to enhance their public image may find that the plan backfires.
• Why I Won’t Be Speaking at the Heartland ...
  My reputation has been harmed by an odious ad campaign that equates climate concern with terrorists.
• Keeping the ‘No Pressure’ Video Alive
  It's no longer easy to locate the splattergate video on YouTube.
• The Environmental Defense Fund & the CIA
  Any group that's wining and dining the Secretary of Defense - who just happens to be the former director of the CIA - is no grassroots operation.
• The UN’s Environmental ‘Holocausts ...
  Since the 1970s UN officials have tried to frighten us. Repeatedly, their predictions have failed. Repeatedly, their time frames have been preposterously inaccurate.

Anna's News

• National Parks at Risk: Photos
  National parks represent our country's last stronghold of wilderness. But the large majority of parks are suffering, too.Ninety-five percent of parks assessed in a recent study have lost key species that once helped define them. Meanwhile, 91 percent .... Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals &nbs ...
• Suicide rates in Europe 'linked' to financial ...
  The financial crisis "almost certainly" led to an increase in suicides across Europe, health experts say.The analysis by US and UK researchers found a rise in suicides was recorded among working age people from 2007 to 2009 in nine of the 10 nations...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Well ...
• Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerela - Richest in ...
  For the past one week, the Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerela has been in the news because of the huge wealth found in its secret crypts.The Padmanabhaswamy Temple is the most famous Lord Vishnu temple in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerela. It is bel ............ Submitted by Anna Smith to World  |& ...
• South Sudan becomes an independent nation
  South Sudan has become the world's newest nation, the climax of a process made possible by the 2005 peace deal that ended a long and bloody civil war.Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon are among international dignitaries Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...
• News of the World staff shocked at closure
  Staff at the News of the World have reacted with shock to news that it will be closed after this Sunday's edition.The paper's political editor, David Wooding, said the closure came as a "bombshell". Submitted by Anna Smith to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Medical Marijuana

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

Truth About Our World

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

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

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

Beacon

• Yves Klein Auction to Benefit Oceana
  Tomorrow Christie’s International Auction House will host a Post War and Contemporary Arts evening sale, featuring Yves Klein’s FC 1, which is being sold on behalf of an anonymous collector. FC 1 is expected to achieve a record-breaking final sale price, a portion of which will be donated to Oce ...
• Searching for a More Responsible Way to Farm Fish
  A salmon farm in Chile. © Oceana/ Eduardo Sorensen Almost half of the world’s seafood now comes from fish farms, which can cause significant environmental harm if not responsibly managed. Because many fish are confined to a small area, aquaculture can lead to high levels of pollution an ...
• Oceana's Mike Hirshfield on Fish and the Law
  Earlier this year, the National Oceanic and At­mospheric Administration set catch limits under the 2006 Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act amendments for all covered species, a major triumph for fisheries management. The Environmental Forum asked the leading voices in fi ...
• Oceana and Fish Fraud on the Daily Show
  We have finally made it -- Last night Oceana’s new Los Angeles seafood fraud report was featured on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Ever-angry Lewis Black responded to the report: “Snapper, tilapia, who gives a S#@*? That’s what the ketchup’s for!” Well, not quite the message we were going for ...
• Video: Andy Sharpless on Fish and World Hunger
  Did you know that protecting our oceans could be an answer to world hunger? A few weeks ago our CEO Andy Sharpless gave a talk at TedxSF about how saving the oceans can help feed the world. We think it’s a fantastic, thought-provoking presentation, please watch and pass it on:

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

• Sergeant George Linsdsey, USAF, Played “ ...
  George Lindsey, 12/7/1935 to 5/6/2012 played Goober Beasley on Andy Griffith, and spent twenty years on Hee Haw. He also starred in comedies like Cannonball Run. Herbie the Love Bug, C.H.I.P.S., and did numerous voice overs as well.   Lindsey was born and raised in Alabama and lived in Nash ...
• George Vujnovich Dies At 96. This OSS Agent Sa ...
    This last week this Serbian born Pittsburgh native George Vujovich died at the age of 96. Whilst working in the CIA precursor organization the OSS, Vujnovich liberated 500 American airmen who were shot down over Yugoslavia and Romania targeting German oil facilities and held as POWs. &#16 ...
• Bobble Head Doll Of John Wilkes Booth Pulled F ...
    “Bobblehead dolls of the man who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln have been pulled from sale at the Gettysburg National Military Park visitors’ center bookstore. The dolls of John Wilkes Booth with a handgun were removed from shelves on Saturday, a day after a reporter f ...
• Satirical Tribute To The Brains Behind The Uni ...
• Wonderful Photos From World War II
                      Source: Lest We Forget

Taylor Marsh

• Queer Talk: Obama / Biden on Marriage Equality ...
  Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. Being “against against-marriage”, but not for marriage equality is not the stuff of fierce advocacy. What VP Biden said on Meet the Press Sunday, however, did sound a bit fierce, even evolved, and something like ...
• Obama’s Reelection Made Easier via the Elector ...
  MARK HALPERIN PROVIDES what he calls the “informal slogan” of Obama reelect: “be confident, but take nothing for granted.” From his TIME magazine piece, which lays out four problems for Mitt Romney, the view from the ultimate insider’s insider. First, in the view of ...
• Biggest Loser After Anti-Austerity Vote in Fra ...
  POOR JOE SCAROBOROUGH. You had to almost feel sorry for the irascible infotainment host this morning. The months and months of economic mumbo jumbo offered on “Morning Joe,” particularly by the host himself, which masquerades as financial analysis but is actually Paul Ryan austerity ...
• Arne Duncan Joins V.P. Biden, Comes Out in Sup ...
  Look, I am Vice President of the United States of America. The president sets the policy. I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women and heterosexual men marrying women are entitled to the same exact rights. All the civil rights, all the civil liberties ...
• SNL Spotlights ‘Tanning Mom’
  WHAT WAS this woman thinking? Patricia Krentcil is now an international punchline.

Hudson New York

• Antisemitism on the Rise in Europe
  The virus of antisemitism persists in haunting Europe. In recent months, antisemitism has been exhibited all too often in European countries, not just in theory but in practice. France has been the scene for the murder of Jewish schoolchildren in
• What the Palestinians Want
  No matter how much the US tries to help the Palestinians, it will always be viewed by many of them as an enemy. Last week, President Barack Obama gave $147 million to the Palestinians. A few days later, Palestinians demonstrated in Ramallah against the
• Women's Rights in Egypt
  Islamist Members of Parliament in Egypt are trying to deprive Egyptian women of their basic rights by introducing several controversial draft laws that, if passed, will bring Egypt back to the Middle Ages: -- The website Ahram Online reports that
• How The Palestinian Authority Fights Corruption
  Jamal Abu Rihan is a Palestinian blogger and activist who is being held in a Palestinian Authority prison in the West Bank. Security forces belonging to the Palestinian Authority government arrested Abu Rihan after he created a Facebook group called "The
• What if a Rational Iran Says, "Yes"?
  LTG Benny Ganz, Israel's Chief of Staff, turned heads when he told the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz that the Iranians are rational and, in his view, have not taken a decision about moving from nuclear capability to nuclear weapons. The second is supposed

Urban Survival

• Deteriorating Quickly?
    (Vicksburg, MS)  A week or so back, when the market was in the throes of shaking off an intermediate decline and was poking its head up over the Dow 13,200 area – and looking for a time like it … Continue reading →
• Coping: Left Behind by the Information Age?
    Apparently I’m not the only one who is eyeing the QR Code frenzy (disease) with some suspicion.  A reader sends this:   “In the bay area your QR disease is beyond rampant because little code squares are  showing up … Continue reading →
• Job Numbers Out – Yuck
  (Macon, GA)  This morning’s column will be very short since the whole top half of the report was eaten by my computer with only 25 minutes till press time.  The only portion saved was a first draft of the “Coping” … Continue reading →
• Coping: With QR Code Disease
  (Macon, GA)  This morning’s column will be perhaps shorter than usual and, since I’m in the company of highly esteemed columnists it may be proof-read as well.  Don’t get your hopes up that such formalities will become a permanent fixture … Continue reading →
• A Curious Spread to Watch
  (Macon, GA) In the last decent downward move of the markets, Robin Landry was noticing that although some indices (like the Dow) were going down toward target levels, the S&P was still not getting anywhere near its target range of … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

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Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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

NRDC Switchboard

• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• Barrier Broken? Asian carp electric barrier lo ...
  Henry Henderson, Director, Midwest Program NRDC, Chicago, Illinois I got a call over the weekend looking for my take on news that the electric barrier, billed as a “success” and the best tool to keep the invasive Asian carp away from L ...

Injustice Everywhere

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

Total Collapse

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

Daily Dose

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

Beyond Zero Emissions

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

Monga Bay ( News )

• 13 arrested for blockading coal train, includi ...
  Thirteen Canadians were peacefully arrested this weekend for blockading Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) Railway train tracks in order to prevent the passage of coal stemming from the United States and destined to be burned in Asia. Among those arrested was Mark Jaccard, an economics professo ...
• Cambodia suspends economic land concessions
  Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen announced today that Cambodia would be temporarily suspending new economic land concessions and would revoke any concessions from companies involved in illegal logging, the evictions of locals or land-grabbing. The announcement comes two week after the high-profi ...
• Fallout for Heartland Institute after it liken ...
  According to the Heartland Institute, a conservative think tank, those who accept the science of climate change are "on the radical fringe" with the movements most "prominent advocates" being "murderers, tyrants, and madmen." The Heartland Institute's statements came as it launched a billboard c ...
• Organizations target rhino horn consumption in ...
  Last year nearly 450 rhinos were killed for their horns in South Africa, which has become the epicenter for the global rhino poaching epidemic. Rhinos are dying to feed rising demand for rhino horn in Asia, which is ground up and sold as traditional Chinese medicine, even though scientific studi ...
• Pictures of the day: activists highlight perso ...
  On Saturday, people around the world gathered to highlight the varied impacts of climate change on their lives. Organized by 350.org, the global day of action was a call to "connect the dots" between a warming Earth and extreme weather events, such as droughts, floods, and fires among other impa ...

Sierra Express

• Government to lift HANCI ban soon
  Reports have intimated to Sierra Express that the government has seen the need to lift the temporal ban it recently placed on the activities of the NGO, Help A Needy Child International (HANCI).  A State House source said government has realised that the NGO is working and complementing efforts ...
• Making issues out of filth
  Sierra Express Media is displeased with the tolerable filth engulfing the city of Freetown. These days the gutters of the main streets in the capital are filled with garbage comprising of industrial polythene, mango waste, and above all street trading is abetting the dismal filth adorning the ci ...
• Front Page – Corrigendum
  We genuinely made a mistake in our previous lead story headlined SLBC’s Gbanabome Blasts KPMG – a story we reported following an interview we did with SLBC’s DG Elvis Gbanabome Hallowell (in photo). In that story we did claim that the contractor trans-tech received a part payment of US $400,000 ...
• Another fuel shortage to hit Freetown
  Sierra Express Media understands that a fuel shortage will soon hit the capital of Freetown. We are informed that today (Monday) is going to witness yet another queuing as the last stock made available to the fuel stations was a borrowed consignment from TOTAL, which the National Petroleum Compa ...
• Sierra Leone advance to next round African Und ...
  Sierra Leone came from behind to beat Chad on Sunday to advance to the next round of qualifying for the 2013 African Under-20 Championship. The Shooting Stars won 2-1, to make it 5-3 on aggregate, and puts them through to face Cameroon in the next stage. The other teams to secure progress over t ...

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

Hit & Run | Reason

• Oh, Were We Supposed to be Outraged That Romne ...
  For your entertainment and momentary outrage: the most recent in a long line of some weirdo in a crowd yelled something or said something to a candidate or politician and that candidate or politician didn't respond in the appropriate non-crazy fashion (or, to be fair to Joh ...
• Ira Stoll on Six Lessons Americans Can Learn F ...
  There was a moment, not all that long ago, when a Europe facing a financial crisis would look to America for leadership, or even a rescue. For better or worse, those days are past, writes Ira Stoll. This is just one lesson Americans can learn from the election of Francois Hollande, a ...
• Tim Cavanaugh Talks Tasers, Deaths in Custody ...
  Reason.com managing editor Tim Cavanaugh appeared on Russia Today recently to discuss the Amnesty International report on Taser-related deaths, along with policing issues. The appearance was in late April. It is now seasoned to juicy perfection.  Here is the Amnesty report.  ...
• 60 Minutes Latest to Discover F-22 Ra ...
  Was there a wide consensus in favor of the F-22 Raptor fighter jet before 60 Minutes reported on the plane's tendency to deprive its pilots of oxygen and become disoriented? This strange framing introduces last night's otherwise excellent interview with two Air Force Raptor pilo ...
• Vikings Raid Minnesota for Money, Putin Lords ...
  Minnesota legislators are debating all day (and possibly into the night) whether to pay $398 million of the $975 million for a new stadium for the Vikings (2011 record: 3-13). Live discussion from the Capitol is streaming at the Star Tribune. The story is sadly lacking any crit ...

Mercury Rising

• First Joe Biden, Now Arne Duncan Backs Marriag ...
  Looks like Joe Biden forced a few hands this weekend — because I don’t think this would be coming out today if not for him: Just one day after Vice President Biden spoke in favor of the freedom to marry on Sunday’s “Meet the Press,” Arne Duncan, the U.S. Secret ...
• Wise Words on John Edwards
  Scott Horton: The Edwards prosecutors may well win their case, but not because any crime was involved. Rather, they’re likely to win because John Edwards is one of the most reviled politicians in the United States, and so a choice target. No doubt his affair, undertaken while his heroic wife was ...
• Look out below, Asia edition?
  Hong Kong and Japan down 2.5% (Shanghai amazingly not so bad0. US futures look like maybe -1.5%. Financial press seems to ascribe it to gridlock in Europe thanks to the collapse of the center/center right in Greece/France plus the US jobs data. So it could just be the normal correlation move aft ...
• Diageo does a very good thing. Will Microsoft ...
  Leo Hickman, The Guardian: Diageo, one of the world’s largest drinks companies, has announced it will no longer fund the Heartland Institute, a rightwing US thinktank which briefly ran a billboard campaign this week comparing people concerned about climate change to mass murderers and terr ...
• Pinch the boob or, why police officers who eng ...
  (an updated version of an old favorite; lyrics) David Graeber, Truthout: A few weeks ago I was with a few companions from Occupy Wall Street in Union Square when an old friend — I’ll call her Eileen — passed through, her hand in a cast. “What happened to you?” I asked. “Oh, this?” she held [...]

Reality Sandwich

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• Invoking Ireland
    The late Irish philosopher, poet and shaman John Moriarty was a Jungian figure and although he hardly mentioned the Swiss psychologist in his writings he constantly drew upon archetypes to illustrate his themes.
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• Kubrick Tops Psychedelic Top 50
    Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey has won the first place in a list of the 50 greatest psychedelic videos of all time. The last half hour of the movie is what earned it its top slot. It's an intense visual experience that people would drop acid to watch in theaters, and be led ...
• Global Truths on the Pacific Northwest
    Join Darrin Drda as he talks about the potential for change during this cataclysmic and transformational time in human history through the framework of the Buddha's Four Noble Truths. His book 'The Four Global Truths' addresses the reality of global suffering while seeking t ...

Desertification

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

Blogging Canadians

• What is in a name?
  The lady in the picture above has changed her name. Her new name is: Red Wacky League Antlez Broke the Stereo Neon Tide Bring Back Honesty Coalition Feedback Hand of Aces Keep Going Captain Let's Pretend Lost State of Dance Paper Taxis Lunar Road Up Down Strange All and I Neon Sheep E ...
• Video: Ta’Kaiya Blaney and her anthem for thos ...
  One of the youngest passengers on the Yinka Dene Alliance Freedom Train is Ta’Kaiya Blaney, 11, of Sliammon First Nation in British Columbia. I don’t believe I have seen a more articulate, self-possessed, and inspiring child in my life. She spoke in Winnipeg last night, at the Circle ...
• From Paul S. Graham’s blog about natives’ rights
  Videos from Paul S. Graham’s blog re: Natives’ rights. Canada needs to pay attention to the plight of natives in Canada before we preach to the rest of the world about human rights. Here is another video:
• Troubled World!
  I wrote an earlier post on the troubled world. Now see the headlines on one of the online news site The Huffington Post Canada. Does that cheer you up? Maybe one should not read news. QUEBEC PROTESTS Protester Suffers Life-Threatening Injuries In Violent Police Standoff Prot ...
• How to say vacuum?
  This little girl in the video knows how. Maybe she was thinking of certain Con politicians.

Press TV - Middle East

• Hamas urges release of jailed activists
  Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh calls on Israel to release Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike to protest their detention, Press TV reports.
• Rifts intensifying in Israeli regime
  Former Israeli Defense Forces intelligence chief Amos Yadlin has criticized the remarks made by other former Tel Aviv officials against a military attack on Iran over its nuclear energy program.
• Iraq to free jailed Hezbollah commander
  An Iraqi court has cleared a Hezbollah commander of charges of involvement to the killing of five US soldiers in the country in 2007 and ordered his release.
• Appeal of Palestinian inmates rejected
  Israel's Supreme Court has turned down an appeal requesting the release of two Palestinian prisoners, who have been on hunger strike for more than two months.
• Arab bloc meets on Palestinian inmates
  Arab League permanent representatives have held an urgent meeting in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, to discuss the critical situation of Palestinian prisoners and hunger-strikers in Israeli jails Press TV reports.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

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

Dissident Voice

• Life under Constant Watch
  The surveillance state expands. Since 9-11, our phones are subject to warrantless wiretaps. Our email and internet transactions leave a trail for some to follow. The police can access our GPS location data through our smart phones, also without a warrant. Retailers record our purchasing habits w ...
• Day of Shame on Sonoma State University
  A recently organized coalition of Sonoma State faculty, students and local Occupy activists is calling for a public demonstration of outrage in response to the announcement that former Citigroup CEO Sanford Weill will receive an honorary degree at SSU’s graduation ceremony this year. People all ...
• The European Elections: The Assault on Austerity
  The answer, even though they see over and over again that austerity leads to collapse of the economy, the answer over and over [from politicians] is more austerity. — Joseph Stiglitz, Asian Financial Forum, January 17, 2012 It has been a busy weekend. France finds itself with a new president, it ...
• Rules Are Rules as Any Fool Can See
  I remember the very first time I saw the Wikileaks-released video filmed from a US gunship showing the murder of a dozen unarmed civilians including two journalists. The video proved the true brutality of the US occupation of Iraq and the distressing disregard for human life common among US sold ...
• George Carlin, Muse of the 99%
  George Carlin was one of America's most beloved standup comedians. Even after his death, his great performances have lived on in the memories of many. There is now a whole new generation discovering his work on the cyber-stage. Some recorded performances have become hits on YouTube with wave ...

Destructionist

• Watch what you type! Surveillance cameras so s ...
  Surveillance cameras are now so powerful they are able to zoom in and read your text messages - leading to fears of further privacy intrusion by a 'Big Brother' style state. As well as being advanced enough to close in on an individual’s phone screen, security cameras will soon be able to pic ...
• 5,000 seats at Obama’s Ohio State Univer ...
  President Obama had a rally this past Saturday and was expecting an overflow crowd. What he received however, was less than stellar. The venue, which was held at the Ohio State University Oval was able to seat 20,000 people, yet more than 5,000 seats went unfilled that day. Just four years ag ...
• Thousands of pills filled with powdered human ...
  Thousands of capsules filled with powdered human flesh have been discovered by customs officials in South Korea, it was revealed today. They are believed to have emanated from China and it looks as though the bodies of dead babies have been chopped into tiny pieces which were then dried in ov ...
• Thousands of pills filled with powdered human ...
  Thousands of capsules filled with powdered human flesh have been discovered by customs officials in South Korea, it was revealed today. The are believed to have emanated from China and it looks as though the bodies of dead babies have been chopped into tiny pieces which were then dried in ove ...
• Ron Paul Is Going to the Republican National C ...
  On Wednesday, the Washington Post talliedRon Paul’s gains in various states: At Massachusetts’ state convention less than half of Romney’s 27 chosen delegates won tickets to Tampa. Paul supporters were chosen instead. While all of the state’s delegates are committed to vote for Romney, th ...
  
  

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  Renewable Sales' Newest Contribution to the Solar Community - All Cape Solar!

  San Francisco Chronicle (press release)

  All Cape Solar is being launched by Kevin Price, CEO of Renewable Sales based in Holliston MA. He and his family have enjoyed working, living and vacationing on the Cape for generations. Kevin's first solar company, Renewable Sales, has provided ...

  Salem conducting acoustic testing to determine impact of proposed wind turbine ...

  Boston.com

  After a tour of eight potential wind turbine sites in Salem by UMass Renewable Energy Research Laboratory (RERL) last year - including the Salem Willows and Forest River Park - Mayor Kim Driscoll endorsed the idea of putting one on Winter Island.

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  Brookfield Renewable Announces 2012 First Quarter Results

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  Investors, analysts and other interested parties can access Brookfield Renewable's 2012 first quarter results as well as the Letter to Unitholders and Supplemental Information on the web site under the Investor Relations section at ...

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  Renewable energy ballot proposal stalls

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  An effort to require Missouri utilities to increase reliance on renewable energy has fallen short. Renew Missouri, a Columbia-based advocacy group, didn't collect enough signatures by Sunday's deadline to put a measure on the ballot this fall that ...

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  Ecology and Double H Farms LP settle penalty

  Access Washington

  YAKIMA – Double H Farms LP has agreed to pay $90000 to the Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) to settle all penalties and legal disputes related to alleged violations of Ecology's dangerous waste regulations on the farm near Grandview, Wash.

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  Ecology awards $18.8 million in grants to local governments to manage solid ...

  Access Washington

  OLYMPIA – The state Department of Ecology (Ecology) recently awarded more than $18.8 million in grant funding to 95 city and county government agencies to support waste reduction and recycling and solid waste enforcement in Washington.

  Ecological harbor under development seaside at Shenzhen

  China Daily

  Starting trial operations last August, the development includes a vacation resort, shopping center, a cluster of restaurants, sightseeing attractions, a locale for festivals and a base for ecology education. The combination of traditional business, ...

  Norwayne ecology students lend a hand at The Wilderness Center

  Wooster Daily Record

  Photo By Submitted On April 26 a group of Norwayne students, including Dustin Grier (left, top photo) and Riley Cantrell from ecology and geology classes, traveled to the Wilderness Center to complete volunteer work of removing garlic mustard, ...

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  Loyola to ban sale of bottled water on campus

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  Loyola University Chicago began encouraging students to drink tap water by giving all freshmen reusable bottles last fall and installing more refill stations around campus throughout this past year. Now it's planning to ban the sale of bottled water ...

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  Water bottle ban proposed at London Olympics

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  Olympic organizers, fearing the use of “liquid bombs” at this summer's games in London, are reportedly banning spectators from carrying outside water bottles to events. It's part of an exhaustive list of items attendees will be barred from bringing ...

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  Most water companies not required to cut leaks before 2015 despite drought

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  More than half of water companies will not be required to cut their huge leakages by a single drop before 2015, despite the worst drought in 25 years. Data obtained by the Guardian from the regulator Ofwat also shows the entire water industry will cut ...

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  California Water Service Group Announces First Quarter 2012 Results

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  SAN JOSE, CA, May 07, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- California Water Service Group (NYSE:CWT) today announced net income of $1.1 million and earnings per share of $0.03 for the first quarter of 2012, compared to net income of $2.7 million and ...

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