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Thomas Paine

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

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

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  • The Egyptian Revolution in Context | Winter Patrio ...
    Israel wants three things to come out of this conflict- A pipeline transporting water from the Nile to Israel for their swimming pools. Control of the Suez Canal, as it is a choke point for trade between Europe and Asia (read China) and The break up of Egypt to remove it as a military force and a ...
  • Woodward: Egyptians speak with one voice
    Dictators invariably see themselves as uber-nationalists — right to the point of seeing themselves as indivisible from the nation. Mubarak’s refusal to bow out swiftly means he has chosen chaos. The US and the rest of the world no longer have the luxury of meekly watching from afar.
  • Gillard unveils skills shortage plan
    Prime Minister Julia Gillard has unveiled her strategy to both strengthen economic reform and address a looming skills shortage by aiming to get as many as two million unemployed or underemployed Australians into the full-time workforce.
  • Why the FBI wants you to join Facebook
    authoritarian governments have immensely benefited from the web, and I point to three features. One of them is propaganda; one of them is new ways of censorship; and one of them is increased surveillance, more sophisticated surveillance.
  • BBC: Marching with the Alexandria protest
    Tens of thousands turned out to demonstrate against President Mubarak's regime in Alexandria. Wyre Davies spent the day with one group of protesters who marched on the city centre.

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Rogue Government.com

  • Egypt’s undercover police behind museum looting, g ...
    Egyptian security forces have been caught trying to loot priceless artifacts from the museum in Cairo and commit other acts of violence "in an attempt to stoke fear of instability," a rights group claimed Tuesday.
  • Five million hold protests in Egypt
    Over five million Egyptians have taken to the streets across the country to pressure President Hosni Mubarak and his government to step down.
  • Georgia Republican’s bill would do away with drive ...
    A Republican in Georgia's House of Representatives has introduced a bill to eliminate driver's licenses, arguing that the documents are an unnecessary infringement on personal freedom.
  • Egypt’s last working Web provider goes offline
    Egypt's last working Internet service provider, the Noor Group, went down on Monday, a US Web monitoring company said, leaving the crisis-torn country completely offline.
  • So how do you shut off a whole nation's Internet?
    According to David Clark, an MIT computer scientist whose research focuses on Internet architecture and development, a government's ability to control the Internet depends on its control of Internet Service Providers (ISPs), the private sector companies that grant Internet access to customers.

Innovation Canada

  • Tackling the cancer conundrum
    Carol Cass has seen cancer from all sides. The internationally renowned cancer researcher has spent four decades pioneering the study of special proteins called nucleoside transporters that help cancer-fighting drugs work their way inside cancer cells. She has also been an administrator at research ...
  • Picturing Alzheimer’s
    The numbers tell a startling story.   According to a 2009 study by the Alzheimer Society of Canada, 500,000 Canadians are living with Alzheimer’s disease or a related dementia. Of those, more than 71,000 are under 65, and approximately 50,000 are under 60. And 72 percent are women. An estimated 1.3 ...
  • Quitting time
    Despite the best intentions of a 34-year-old National Non-Smoking Week, which starts on Jan. 16, one of the most disheartening things for anyone trying to quit smoking is the extremely high likelihood that his or her efforts will end in failure. “Even with proper treatment, around 70 to 80 percent o ...
  • Discoveries of the deep
    Oceans cover more than 70 percent of the planet. Hidden beneath them is an entire world we know very little about, a world of undersea mountain ranges and ocean basins that play host to hundreds of thousands of underwater species. In the late 1990s, marine scientists expressed their concern with thi ...
  • Shakin' all over
    At the Royal Military College of Canada (RMC) in Kingston, Ont., Richard Bathurst is a mover and a shaker. Literally. Over the past 20 years, Bathurst, a civil engineering professor who is cross-appointed to Queen’s University, has become an internationally recognized authority on earthquake-resista ...

Signs of the times

  • US Mom admits strangling daughter at New York coll ...
    White Plains, New York -- A woman who said she strangled her 18-year-old daughter because she "pushed my last button" pleaded guilty Tuesday to first-degree manslaughter. Her husband, who discovered the body, wept during the court session. Stacy Pagli, 38, had been charged with murder in the Feb. ...
  • What Corruption and Force Have Wrought in Egypt
    The uprising in Egypt, although united around the nearly universal desire to rid the country of the military dictator Hosni Mubarak, also presages the inevitable shift within the Arab world away from secular regimes toward an embrace of Islamic rule. Don't be fooled by the glib sloganeering about de ...
  • Plastic pellet incident at Virginia school ends in ...
    Andrew Mikel II admits it was a stupid thing to do. In December, bored and craving attention, the 14-year-old used a plastic tube to blow small plastic pellets at fellow students in Spotsylvania High School. In one lunch period, he scored three hits. "They flinched. They looked annoyed," Mikel said ...
  • Living without money
    Former teacher Heidemarie Schwermer has lived without money in Germany for 13 years. Our writer finds out how she does it Twenty-two years ago Heidemarie Schwermer, a middle-aged secondary school teacher just emerging from a difficult marriage, moved with her two children from the village of Lueneb ...
  • IMF, warning of war, says ready to help Egypt
    The International Monetary Fund stands ready to help riot-torn Egypt rebuild its economy, the IMF chief said Tuesday as he warned governments to tackle unemployment and income inequality or risk war. Dominique Strauss-Kahn also said rising food prices could have "potentially devastating consequence ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Melissa's moment . . .
    WHILE EGYPT IS IN TURMOIL, the American dream trudges on. According to these reports from The Smoking Gun in the Home of the Brave and the Land of the Free:"Woman Utters Line Never Previously Recorded In A Police Report"That's Melissa, over on the right. She doesn't take "No" for an answer, apparent ...
  • Obama's moment
    What Obama does here will mark his legacy as an international president. Egypt has just gone web-dark. The ruler, a US backed dictator in power for 30 years, is facing mass and popular uprising. He has dissolved his government but so far shows no sign of accepting his fate and stepping down. He did ...
  • Kiribati and Alberta: dancing with the devil
    I happened across this item this afternoon on the UofA website. Kiribati is a small Pacific island state existentially threatened by rising sea levels due to climate change. Alberta is the tar sands, and thus a brutal climate change contributor. An island nation threatened by rising sea levels fro ...
  • Then there's hockey . . .
    ACCORDING TO BILL MAHER, football is socialist, baseball is not:Because football is built on an economic model of fairness and opportunity, and baseball is built on a model where the rich almost always win and the poor usually have no chance. The World Series is like Real Housewives of Beverly Hills ...
  • Fred's perspective . . .
    FRED REED CALLS 'EM THE WAY HE SEES 'EM. His article, "Darwin Was Right" is a pithy and concise description of the chronic inability of the US to get it right.Pondering Whither America, I reflected on a story, probably apocryphal but which I am going to believe because I like it, about catching monk ...

Media Matters for America

  • Who Is Mark Crutcher?
    Lila Rose, the conservative activist behind undercover videos targeting Planned Parenthood, has cited anti-abortion extremist Mark Crutcher as an inspiration. Crutcher, who has employed tactics similar to Rose's, has a history of pushing inflammatory rhetoric to rail against abortion and attack pro ...
  • Who Is Lila Rose?
    Conservative activist and Breitbart promoted videographer Lila Rose has presented heavily edited video she claims proves Planned Parenthood is engaging �in systemic criminal activities. Media Matters reviews her history with discredited right-wing activist James O'Keefe and her fringe political act ...
  • A Refresher Course On Andrew Breitbart's Dishonest ...
    Andrew Breitbart's website Big Government�is promoting�heavily edited videos�produced�by anti-abortion rights activist Lila Rose and�falsely�claiming�that the video�proves�that Planned Parenthood engages in�systemic�criminal activities. Below,�Media Matters�reviews the dishonest tactics used in the ...
  • Fox Again Hosts Sussman's Confused Climate Analysi ...
    Asserting that "there is no global warming," Brian Sussman, radio host and author of Climategate: A Veteran Meteorologist Exposes The Global Warming Scam, claimed on the Fox Business Network that the "hottest decade in history was the 1930s." In fact, Sussman's claim is based on outdated data for t ...
  • Beck Uncovers The Seventh "Archduke Ferdinand Mome ...
    Glenn Beck recently promoted the turmoil unfolding in Egypt as the "Archduke Ferdinand moment" he claims he has been warning about for years, warning that it could lead to a "Muslim caliphate" and a Marxist "insurrection." This is at least the seventh different "Archduke Ferdinand moment" Beck has ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Of Conservative Traitors and a Cure for Madness
    I'd like to thank Charles Johnson for his excellent essay, The New Tribalism. In my book, Blowing Smoke, I found myself searching for a word to describe the vague web of race, religion, culture, and politics that the right wing has used to construct and exploit a new collective identity. I called it ...
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  • Daniel Levy Gets Egypt/Israel Right
    Daniel Levy of the New America Foundation, one of the sharpest thinkers on all matters Middle Eastern, does not buy the idea that President Hosni Mubarak ever was a force for "stability" in the region. On the contrary, according to Levy's latest piece in Foreign Policy's Middle East Channel "Muba ...
  • The Amazing Self-Reinforcing Paranoid Rube Goldber ...
    First, I want to thank Michael for inviting me to participate in this book club, and for the kind words about me in Blowing Smoke. "Persecution politics" is an excellent way to frame what's happening in the GOP and the right wing these days, and I'd like to bring up another important factor that ...
  • How a Story Seduced the Right Wing
    The two other Michaels participating in this book club have offered two reasons for the growth of right-wing paranoia. Michael Maiello argued that economic frustration has led people to conclude that someone is stacking the decks against them, while Michael Orion Powell proposed that the decline of ...

TruthOut

  • American Tourist in Egypt Sees Parallels Between E ...
    When Madeline Murphy Rabb of Chicago arrived in Egypt on January 25 with the group Grannies on Safari and her sister, she did not plan to spend her birthday trip witnessing that country's uprising against its longtime leader, Hosni Murabak. But for the arts consultant and longtime civil rights activ ...
  • John Kerry: Mubarak Should Step Aside in Egypt
    Senator John Kerry says Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak must give up power because "the stability of his country hinges on his willingness to step aside gracefully." read more
  • Mubarak Says He Won't Run for President Again
    Cairo - President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt said he would not run for another term as president of Egypt. His decision came after President Obama told the embattled president of Egypt, that he should not run for another term in elections scheduled for the fall, effectively withdrawing American support ...
  • Democracy or Plutocracy? A Chart
    DEMOCRACY PLUTOCRACY We, the People Wealthy Few One Person One Vote One Dollar One Vote Government Limited Government ...
  • One Film to Open Minds
    The WMC blog is featuring Progressive Girls’ Voices in dispatches from the Sundance Film Festival, as our girl journalists attend feminist film screenings and interview notable leaders and directors.read more

Planetsave

  • Help Protect Arctic Polar Bears, Whales, Walruses, ...
    The following is an action alert I received from Oceana. I get a lot of action alerts like this and while I think they are important and I sign them, I don’t normally include them as posts on here. But from time to time I receive one that I think needs a full re-post. Like... Read More...
  • Climate Voices: People Seeing Global Warming Happe ...
    From the YouTube page: “The continuation of the GoodPlanet project “6 billion Others” about climate change shown during the Copenhagen Summit in December 2009. A project supported by ADEME, French Ministry of sustainable developement and United Nations. Join us on http://www.6billionothers.org“
  • Bison Lives Spared, Allowed to Migrate to Montana ...
    For the first time since the 1800s, a small group of wild bison was herded Wednesday through fresh-fallen snow to reach their historical grazing grounds north of Yellowstone National Park. As pronghorn antelope and mule deer scattered to avoid the procession, park employees and state livestock agent ...
  • ‘Fracking’ Violates Safe Drinking Water Act, Congr ...
    In what appears to be a major, positive stride for environmental quality preservation, congressional investigators submitted a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency charging that  hydraulic fracturing — known as ‘fracking’ — violates the Safe Drinking Water Act. Amassing data from a dozen s ...
  • Pennsylvania and Coal [Greenpeace Coal Free Future ...
    “1,359 people die each year, over three people per day, as a result of coal pollution in Pennsylvania? Coal plants in Pennsylvania emitted 101,690,275 tons of climate change fueling CO2, 600,918 tons of SO2 and 118,103 tons of NOx in 2009. SO2 and NOx contribute to asthma, smog, and acid rain?” Thos ...

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Axis of Logic

  • Ali Abdullah Saleh Of Yemen Will Not Seek Re-Elect ...
    Yemen's president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, promised not to seek re-election when his term expires in 2013, becoming the third Arab leader in the span of 24 hours to make major concessions in the face of some of the largest protests ever seen in the Middle East. "I present these concessions... ...
  • Jordan's King Kicks Out Government After Protests ...
    Editor's Comment: Readers have been sending e-mail messages and calling Axis of Logic on the telephone over the last 2 days asking for our humble thoughts about what may be happening with the unrest and uprisings of the people and in some cases with overthrown governments in Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan,. ...
  • Egypt: Millions fill Cairo street demanding Mubara ...
    Up to 2 million demonstrators jammed the centre of Cairo on Tuesday demanding that Egyptian Hosni Mubarak step down as president of the world's most populous Arab country, Al-Jazeera reported. Cairo, 1 Feb. (AKI) - Up to 2 million demonstrators jammed the centre of C ...
  • Are We Witnessing the Start of a Global Revolution ...
    Editorial note: AGM mentions 50,000 protesters in the streets of Cairo. The latest figure, however, is millions, according to Al Jazeera via IGN / Adnkronos. Also it is now a fact that "The President's son and family 'have fled to the UK'" (IGN / Adnkronos) "Gamal Mubarak, Egyptian president Hosn ...
  • 250 000 Rally in Egypt's Cairo Ahead of Million-St ...
    The unyielding civil protests demanding the resignation of Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak have continued with 250 000 rallying in downtown Cairo Monday night. Some 250 000 protesters gathered Monday in Tahrir Square in Cairo as Egypt entered its seventh day of protests, according to reports of ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The "You'll Fucking Die Without It" Campaign
    Recess is over. Time to bring a bazooka to this gun fight. The Rude Pundit explains: How to Save Health Care Reform Even If It's Overturned: If the Rude Pundit was some kind of strategist for Democrats right now, the first thing he'd do is smack West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin's rock-shaped head j ...
  • Nightowl Newswrap
    If he thinks the protesters will let him have seven months to wreak havoc and consolidate power, he's delusional. �"Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has said he will not stand for re-election in September, as protests against his rule grow. Speaking on state TV, Mr Mubarak promised constitutional re ...
  • A New Day in Egypt; A New Aljazeera Live Blog
    Here it is. 3:10am A blog post circulating on twitter, and blogosphere titled: "A Guide: How not to say stupid stuff about Egypt". �The post tries to demystify some of the stereotypes about Egypt as protests continue to make international headlines. One of the more vociferous arguments is the reject ...
  • Bring Marine's Father Home; Stop ICE Stupidity
    You think immigration law in Kentucky needs to be fixed? First, stop abominations like this: U.S. immigration authorities have deported a longtime Kentucky farm worker who had twice emigrated illegally from his native Guatemala - despite pleas for leniency from his son, a U.S. Marine preparing for d ...
  • Where is that famous right-wing message discipline ...
    Does anyone else get the feeling that the fright-wing in this country got caught with their pants down and playing with their peckers when Egypt blew up? On the one hand you have John McCain basically backing the President and stating publicly on CNN over the weekend that the president's response to ...

Care 2

  • Dog Sledding Slump Blamed For Animals' Slaughter
    One hundred dogs were shot dead over two days after an expected post-Olympics boon in the dog sledding business didn't pan out for an adventure company in British Columbia, Canada. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Tropical Cyclones Attacking Australia
    Tropical Cyclone Yasi, recently upgraded to a category 5, the highest level of threat, is bearing down on Queensland Australia and the Great Barrier Reef with wind speeds likely exceeding 175 mph. Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Too Many Babies Are Delivered Too Early: Hospitals ...
    Desire for convenience and an intolerance for the unpredictability of labor have resulted in thousands of babies being born too early, according to The Leapfrog Group, which tracks hospital quality... Submitted by Mary Patricia E. to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment ...
  • Brain development may be influenced by bacteria in ...
    A team of scientists from across the globe have found that gut bacteria may influence mammalian brain development and adult behavior.Submitted by Katie Miller to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • FDA declines to approve Orexigen diet drug
    The government on Tuesday unexpectedly rejected what appeared to be the most promising candidate among a class of new diet drugs, wiping out hopes for a new medication to fight obesity anytime soon. Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • “What Our Teenagers Are Seeing”
    Editor’s Note: Below Amy’s post is the press release from The New Agenda. : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : The New Agenda, presided over by the [...]
  • Grab a Box of Tissues! * Open Thread
    Editor’s Note: Reverend Amy’s post — “What Our Teenagers Are Seeing” — is the spot for discussion. The New Agenda press release is a backgrounder with great links (below). This is also a WIDE-OPEN THREAD. PRESS RELEASE: Before you press “play,” grab a box of tissues! The New Agenda presents Episode ...
  • Obama’s Sputnik Moment and Palin’s an Idiot?
    I originally was going to let this pass. Why pile on when a guy is in the process of setting himself on fire. Barack Obama’s recent State of the Union speech contained this curious phrase–our “Sputnik Moment:” Half a century ago, when the Soviets beat us into space with the launch of a satellite cal ...
  • Obama’s Press Conference on Egypt
    I’m tucking this open thread on Obama’s presser just below Larry’s post. Right now, it’s @ 5:35 p.m. ET, and any minute, Obama is leaving the SitRoom to tell us all what’s up. I can’t wait for his dollop of wisdom (snark) and his defensive litany of all the work he’s doing to make sure [...]
  • The right of women to protect themselves
    Women need to come together. We do. The strategy of getting us to hate ourselves and each other has worked for too long. It’s kept us from asserting our strength, and affirming our rights. The old saying “seen and not heard” doesn’t apply to women because we’re invisible. In all the discussions rega ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • Chocolate Vs Carob: Making an Environmental Choice
    We may substitute carob for chocolate or cocoa powder for reasons of health or taste. Here is the environmental background information for deciding which we should use. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the artic ...
  • A Note from the Future: What Living with Synthetic ...
    We've grown used to life with fossil fuels, with its positives and negatives. But what will life be like with the fuels of the future? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 13 Snapshots of the World's Rarest Birds
    Here are 13 amazing photographs of some of the rarest birds on the face of the earth. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Bianzhong Bells: The Eighth Wonder of the Anci ...
    More than 2000 years old, the Chinese musical instrument known as the Bianzhong is a miracle to archaeologists and the Eight Wonder of the Ancient World. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 5-ft Monitor Lizard Found Wandering the Streets of ...
    What if you find a 5-foot monitor lizard, hissing and walking like a king down the sidewalk near your house? Read more..... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Rock the Casbah
    Been watching somewhat in awe, a bit suspicious of the usual suspects & color revolution schemes, but with warmest regards to Egyptians fighting for their rights & giving their lives on the streets. One song says it all: Rock the Casbah This vid is probably the winner though the music is schmaltzy ...
  • The Kids Ain't All Right: FDA: Vitamin C illegal; ...
    “It’s like an epidemic, in the sense that they’re infected with these wrong ideas, and they’re spreading it to other researchers through journals.” -- Dr. John Ioannidis I can't recommend NaturalNews.com enough. For excellent info that has helped me quite a bit thru a still-dubious diet but now wit ...
  • Seize the Year!! It's ours!! Now with Fractal Ante ...
    The last piece of litter I noticed in 2010 was a Four Loko can by the Hiawatha Franklin station. Had a nice New Years roundabout. Basement foursquare. Bonsai tree, Heatbox. Cabooze. Loud basement jamming. Wookiefoot. Igorrr. Stranvisky Conducts Firebird And the new Fractal microwave cloaking dev ...
  • Russia & China not buying BIS Fractional Reserve G ...
    A bit of Xmas cheer pushin back against LA school district police brutality: How a Google Engineer (and Reddit) Got a Teenager Out of Jail for Christmas Fiddlesticks: It's Over: Jason Rosenbaum: BREAKING: FCC breaks Obama's promise, allows corporate censorship online with fake Net Neutrality Previou ...
  • Robert Erickson: Featured Pic for Top 10 Political ...
    Friend of mine says this is still a running gag at her office six months later! :-D My mom is happy the Christmas tablecloth went a bit viral! Star Tribune featured the penny drop as the most photogenic political moment in Minnesota politics for 2010! The boring 2010 campaign season featured one hi ...

Daily Censored

  • Nominal DFT President Keith Johnson tries to cheat ...
    For Immediate Release:                      Johnson collaborates with DPS EFM Rob Bobb in dismantling public education in Detroit Contact: Steve Conn. 313-645-9340 Detroit Federation of Teachers (DFT) nominal president Keith Johnson has brought internal union charges against union activists Steve Co ...
  • Attorneys Attack Rights of Citizen Journalists
      The Florida Bar has proposed a new rule to eliminate coverage of court proceedings by citizen journalists. The Bar’s proposed rule prohibits anyone other than an employee of a traditional media outlet or an official court reporter from using any device which can make video or audio recording from ...
  • Open proposal for US revolution: expose parasitic ...
    source: Carl Herman, Examiner.com “Every day, I saw more evidence about the evils humankind will inflict on their fellow humans to gain or maintain power… What is more, those who choose not to empathize may enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collu ...
  • Injustice in Palestine: The Palestine Papers
    http://www.blogtalkradio.com/your-world-news/2011/02/01/injustice-in-palestine-the-palestine-papers Please join us this Monday January 31st at 7:00 PM EST. If you cannot listen LIVE you can listen on Archive This episode features an exclusive interview with Kathleen Christison who will be deconstruc ...
  • Save our Schools schedules rally!
    Grassroots âSave Our Schoolsâ March on Washington & National Call to Action on July 28-31 This grassroots movement of teachers, parents, students, community activists, and âeveryday working peopleâ has been endorsed by educational voices like Diane Ravitch, Deborah Meier, Alfie Kohn, Joel Spring, Re ...

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Equality Trust

  • The Wrong Cure - alternatives to the cuts
    The False Economy website is an excellent and still-developing resource exploring the alternatives to cuts. False Economy includes: a discussion of why the cuts are not progressive details of campaign actions a comprehensive further reading list ... and this short film [youtube:ynUCYohPsb ...
  • Why we need a Fairness Test of the cuts
    A group of charities, including the Equality Trust, Child Poverty Action Group, Barnardo's and the TUC are asking the coalition government to commit to a Fairness Test on any tax rises or spending cuts they introduce. Full details...
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  • VAT rise would hit the poorest
    Bill Wilson's VAT motion to the Scottish Parliament reads as follows: That the Parliament notes the warning issued by Save the Children in Scotland that raising VAT to 20% could mean a £31 a week bill for the poorest families in Scotland and that the poorest 10% of the population currently spend ...

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • Massachusetts joins the Raw Milk Parade
    I think I have them all - Washington, Oregon, Texas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, New Jersey and now Massachusetts, all have some interest in loosening raw milk regulations (Wyoming and Humboldt County in California killed Raw Milk Legislation this year).� In Massachusetts, an Act relative to the distribu ...
  • GMA Speech - Some Recent and Emerging Trends in Fo ...
    You have to give credit to the GMA Litigation group to pair me with the one lawyer who I would not like to face in a courtroom.� Any smooth taking, southern lawyer is an issue, but Alan Maxwell is the one that the male jurors want to have a beer with and the the women jurors, well, want to take home ...
  • I love making the Packer - "Law Firm Donates $10,0 ...
    I missed Mike Hornick’s (of the Packer) call today about the $10,000 donation from “product liability law firm Marler Clark to the International Sprout Growers Association,” but I like that the donation “will help speed implementation of a food safety audit for sprouts,” according to ISGA president ...
  • Heading to the Middle East
    No, not to join in the pro-democracy demonstrations, but to talk food safety in Dubai.� Perhaps not quite as exciting, and perhaps generally more risky.
  • Small vs. Large Producers of Cheese - What is Safe ...
    Bryan Buckalew of OPB News and I talked a few weeks ago: Listen Here - Audio Read the transcript below:Northwest artisan cheese makers say the F.D.A. just doesn’t get their craft. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has been getting tough on food companies after years of incidents like last Augu ...

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 02.02.11
    One million plug-in vehicles by 2015 How reasonable is Obama's goal? Newt Gingrich shows strong support for ethanol subsidies And the knives come out at the Wall Street Journal. Analyst: It's time for a Toyot ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 02.01.11
    Ford Focus Electric to launch without DC fast-charge capability Focus is on Level 2 charging. Report: 2012 Fiat 500 rated 30/38 mpg city/highway And that's only if you get the manual. Lansing man becomes Mich ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 01.31.11
    Fuel cell vehicles to cost no more than diesel hybrids by 2015 So says Daimler. Analyst: Chevy will sell 60,000 Volts by 2015 Nissan Leaf will trail slightly. DC 2011: Novozymes wonders how far you can drive ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 01.28.11
    GM on DOE loan withdrawal: "It says a lot about the financial health of the company." DC 2011: Ford Focus Electric wins Green Car Vision Award Follows in the tire treads of the Leaf and the Volt. Hertz rents f ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 01.27.11
    Obama: U.S. can reach 1 million plug-ins by 2015, will stop subsidizing "yesterday's energy" The State of the Union is alternatives. John McCain says ethanol is "a joke" In this, he's like Al Gore. Smart USA ...

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Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

Digg Green

  • Aerobic Exercise Can Increase Brain Size
    Researchers show that aerobic exercise increases the size of the hippocampus, a part of the brain known to shrink in late adulthood, leading to memory problems.
  • Fish That Can Regrow Heart Tissue Could Mend ...
    Zebrafish are tiny tropical fish with a super power: they can regenerate damaged cardiac tissue at an incredible rate. In just a week's time, a zebrafish can repair as much as 20 percent of its heart muscle. Now medical researchers working with the British Heart Foundation hope that insight int ...
  • Most Teachers Lukewarm At Best On Evolution ...
    Two political science professors claim a strong majority of US biology teachers either don't advocate the theory of evolution, or flat out promote either creationism or intelligent design.
  • The Midwest Blizzard, From Space (PIC)
    This visible image was captured by the GOES-13 satellite and shows the low pressure area bringing snowfall to the Midwest Jan. 31, 2011. Heavy snow is expected today in portions of northern Iowa, southern Minnesota and Wisconsin. Snowfall from the system extends from Michigan west to Montana, I ...
  • Brain Scan Can Tell if You'll Quit Smoking ...
    Did you plan to quit smoking this year? Are you really going to?

Invisible Opportunity

  • Quote of the Day – Diet, injections and inju ...
    Diet, injections and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible. Even if all are miserable, all will believe ...
  • Taco Bell beef faked? No more than the rest of the ...
    By Mike Adams The word spread like wildfire across the internet: An Alabama law firm had filed a class action lawsuit against Taco Bell in California, saying its meat fails to meet the definition of beef set forth by the U.S. government (and even that’s a pretty low hurdle, if you ask me). The lawsu ...
  • What Is Globalization?
    What is globalization? Well, if you ask 100 different Americans you will probably get 100 different answers. Many people view globalization as harmless or even as a good thing. Other Americans believe that the United States will never be integrated into a global economic and political system. Still ...
  • Police rule out suspect in Moscow airport bombing ...
    By Shaun Walker in Moscow The ethnic Russian man police believed could have been the suicide bomber at Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport has been cleared by DNA analysis, according to sources close to the investigation. On Thursday, the Kommersant newspaper named 32-year-old Vitaly Razdobudko as the prime ...
  • Climate Change Claims Melt Away
    Environment: In 2007, the U.N. said the Himalayan glaciers will be gone by 2035 due to man-made global warming. Yet four years later, some are advancing. What’s retreating is the global warming narrative. Global warming alarmists felt a tingle in their legs when the United Nations Intergovernmental ...

Global Insights

  • Less Than a Week Away
    We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware.George Green will be a featured speaker.September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CAClick here for Tickets & Reservations 
  • The Georgia Guidestones
    On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the Ame ...
  • The Creation
    THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to put an ...
  • The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catas ...
    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-openin ...
  • About George Green
    Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to focus ...

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

  • 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). Dear Mo ...
  • Official Release of “Zeitgeist: Moving Forward” by ...
    An important part of thinking about building a sustainable future for ourselves is considering that some of the premises and paradigms which brought us to this point need to be discarded. Maybe even most of them. But because we don’t talk about that, we can’t get out of the trap we find ourselves in ...
  • Ronald Reagan, Sarah Palin’s lifeguard
    Ronald Reagan killed the Fairness Doctrine, thus spawning the one-sided, fear-mongering, bs-fest that is Rush Limbaugh and inevitably, FOX News. Now I think I see why Palin called him “America’s lifeguard” (referring, of course, to Sarah Palin’s America). Wondering what the Fairness Doctrine has to ...
  • The Republican triple threat
    Look who’s behind the people you support… What to read From Grist: We canât beat China at cleantech as long as GOP keeps kissing fossil-fuel ass From Ecopolitology: Koch BrothersâTilting at Clean Energy From The Inspired Economist: Koch Industries Exploits Unemployment Rate to Support Big Oil Agenda ...
  • Chefs Alice Waters and Dan Barber Back Bluefin Tun ...
    Two of the United Statesâ leading chefs have joined the Center for Biological Diversityâs (CBD) campaign to save bluefin tuna, one of the worldâs most imperiled fish. Alice Waters, owner of Chez Panisse, in Berkeley, Calif., and Dan Barber, owner of Blue Hill in Manhattan, have signed a pledge not t ...

Inhabitat

  • New Machine Recycles Office Paper into Toilet Pape ...
    Japanese company Oriental invented a machine that recycles office paper into toilet paper right in your office.
  • Win a Sweet Recycled-Leather Biker Jacket (worth $ ...
    If you’re a firm believer that people who care about the planet and animals can be just as badass as the next guy (or gal, in this case), we think this sexy biker jacket from The Sway speaks right to your point. The edgy hand-patched jacket (worth $856) is made from offcuts and leftovers of [...]
  • Incredible Rooftop Treehouse In Amsterdam Made Fro ...
    Read the rest of Incredible Rooftop Treehouse In Amsterdam Made From Fruit & Veggie Crateshttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Amsterdam, eco-art, ...
  • Win $130 Worth of Cool Custom Kid’s Art from ModTo ...
    If you’ve been wanting to spruce up your little ones’ rooms with some bright, colorful wall art, we’ve got just the thing. We’re teaming up with ModTots to give away a custom, hand-painted, 12″ X 12″ piece (worth $130) to one lucky Inhabitat reader and it could be you! The winner (along with input f ...
  • 7-Eleven to Open 100 Green Stores in Japan
    7-Eleven Japan found success with an eco-friendly store prototype that they will now officially open in 100 different locations by the end of the month.

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Today’s Clean Tech Could Power the World By 2050
    Using existing technologies, the world could convert almost entirely to green power by mid-century — and it wouldn’t cost much more than people now spend on energy, says a new analysis of global energy use. The conclusions contradict the notion that green energy is still too small-scale, inefficien ...
  • China Takes Lead in Race for Clean Nuclear Power
    China has officially announced it will launch a program to develop a thorium-fueled molten-salt nuclear reactor, taking a crucial step towards shifting to nuclear power as a primary energy source. The project was unveiled at the annual Chinese Academy of Sciences conference in Shanghai last week, a ...
  • Satellite Shows Winter Megastorm Painting U.S. Whi ...
    A NASA photograph of the midwest megastorm gives profound visual truth to what it means for a snowstorm to blanket the United States. The image was captured Jan. 31 from space by the GOES 13 satellite, which regularly photographs the Eastern half of the planet from a distance of 22,000 miles above ...
  • Unknown, Uncontacted Tribe Photographed in Brazili ...
    See Also: Amazon Tribe Shakes Foundation of Modern Linguistics Yucatan Jungles Are Feral Maya Gardens Lost Tribes Used Clever Tricks to Turn Amazon Wasteland to Farms Images: Gleison Miranda-FUNAI/Survival International.
  • Vikings May Have Navigated Using Polarized Skyligh ...
    The Vikings may have used the ancient equivalent of polarized glass to navigate in cloudy weather, suggest new reports on a long-hypothesized but never-tested “sunstone compass.” Archaeologists know Vikings used sundials to steer between Norway and Greenland, but this method could only have worked ...

PakAlert

  • Video: More convincing video of Jerusalem UFO come ...
    On Saturday Pakalert Press reported on an incredible UFO sighting along with accompanying video clip. The event occurred in Jerusalem at 1am on the Saturday morning. A UFO descended to the level of the Dome of the Rock/Temple Mount before zooming off skywards. Since we broke the story the Internet h ...
  • Egypt: Setting the Stage for World War 3?
    In order to make sense of the day's headlines, we need to recall the big picture. Long ago, the London-based Masonic Jewish (Illuminati) central banking cartel realized that to enslave humanity, they needed to use guile. Their main strategy was to use their control of both sides to foment gratuitous ...
  • Monster Storm Hits One Third Of US
    A deadly winter storm is moving eastward, covering at least one-third of the country, and bringing with it a combination of heavy snow, ice, high winds and freezing temperatures.
  • Video: Most remarkable UFO sightings around the Wo ...
    20 Most remarkable UFO sightings around the World in January 2011
  • College education could possibly be the largest sc ...
    The National Inflation Association believes that the United States has a college education bubble that is set to burst beginning in mid-2011. This bursting bubble will have effects that are even more far-reaching than the bursting of the Real Estate bubble in 2006. College education could possibly b ...

Andy Worthington

  • Revolution in Egypt – and the Hypocrisy of t ...
    For the United States and other Western countries, the popular uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt (which threaten to spread to other countries, including Yemen and Algeria) are something of a nightmare. Just as the authorities in these countries are struggling — and failing — to cope with popular uprisi ...
  • Guantánamo and the Military Commissions: Revolutio ...
    Last Friday, Ken Ota of the newspaper Revolution asked me to do a phone interview to discuss the recent announcement that President Obama was planning a new series of trials by Military Commission at Guantánamo, to explain the significance of this announcement, and to run through the largely shambol ...
  • Andy Worthington Archived by the British Library&# ...
    I’m delighted to report that my website Andy Worthington has been chosen by the British Library as part of its UK Web Archive. As the curators explain: The UK Web Archive contains websites that publish research, that reflect the diversity of lives, interests and activities throughout the UK, and dem ...
  • Press Conference on Guantánamo and Poland’s ...
    Event: Press conference with Moazzam Begg, Andy Worthington and Bartlomiej Jankowski, lawyer for CIA “ghost prisoner” Abu Zubaydah. Time: Tuesday February 1, 15:00 hrs. Venue: Kino Muranów, ul. Gen. Andersa 1 (Plac Bankowy, metro âRatuszâ), 00-147, Warszawa. Last week, it was announced that, from ...
  • As Egyptians Call for Mubarak’s Fall, He App ...
    As the people of Egypt continue to show no willingness to tolerate any longer the 30-year dictatorship of President Hosni Mubarak, no one — least of all the Egyptian people — should be fooled into thinking that Mubarak’s response, appointing intelligence chief Omar Suleiman as his Vice President, co ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • G! E! T! S! (bud) GETS! (bud) GETS! (bud) GETS!
    (Oh, was that too soon, Jets fans? Suck it up. Love, The Patriots Nation.) Forget football, it’s budget season again! And even though we paid all those pesky teachers last year, they want money again this year. So, of course, it will be controversial. There are several things in play this year. ...
  • A Real Public Option In Connecticut?
    And so it would seem.The other day for an open thread at ePluribus Media I commented on "the intended public option that should be Sustinet in Connecticut," and it would seem that is to be the case if the Sustinet Health Partnership Board of Directors get their way according to the report they hande ...
  • Dan Malloy scores first in Danbury
    Dan Malloy jumping off of the bench of the Danbury Whalers shortly after scoring the first goal in Whalers' history. [update] I have an interview from after the game at TK's. Let me say, in advance, that he was a bit reluctunt to give it since I am a political blogger... But as a hockey fan I prom ...
  • Still All That I Want
    Something that gets lost in the news about the unemployed is the fact that much of what used to be the backbone of this nation's economic prowess, the middle class, is now the working poor: Imagine That: Working Poor On The Rise After the Republicans crashed to economy in 2008 one thing became imm ...
  • Choosing a New Police Chief: No Local Ties, Please ...
    Do you want your town to look like The Dukes of Hazzard? Then again, maybe New Milford has been run by Boss Hogg and Roscoe P. Coltrane for a while. If that's not your idea of how a quaint New England town should be run, then help make sure the next police chief has no local ties - political or fa ...

SPL Center

  • Would-Be Koran Burner Terry Jones Barred from the ...
    Controversial Florida pastor Terry Jones, who got worldwide attention last September because of his “International Burn a Koran Day,” has been denied entry into the United Kingdom. Jones, pastor at Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Fla., had been invited to speak and participate in a series ...
  • Expert: Political Rhetoric Likely a Factor in Ariz ...
    Editor’s Note: In a Jan. 19 letter published in The New York Times, Arizona political scientist James W. Clarke argued that it would be wrong to dismiss the idea that the toxic political environment was a factor in Jared L. Loughner’s attempted assassination of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, an attac ...
  • Hi, I’m a Sovereign Citizen! – Group to Write Lett ...
    They already have alternate identification cards and travel warrants. Now, all Tim Turner thinks he needs is an introduction to police and some good old-fashioned face time for his “Republic for the United States of America” to become a reality. That, at least, seems to be the prime motivation behin ...
  • Racist Author Supports School Board Member Who Bro ...
    Greeley, Colo., school board member Brett Reese doesnât understand why anyone would think him a racist just because he repeatedly broadcast a mean-spirited and one-sided text trashing the character of civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. â a presentation adored by white supremacists everywh ...
  • SPLC Responds to Attack by FRC, Conservative Repub ...
    This morning, 22 members of Congress and a large number of other conservatives signed on to a public statement attacking the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) for listing several anti-gay religious right organizations as hate groups.  Published in two Washington, D.C., newspapers as a full-page ad, ...

change: org.

  • Let's Not Be Naïve on Sudan
    The referendum on independence for Southern Sudan has come off with minimal violence, and it seems that Sudan’s president Omar Hassan Al-Bashir will accept the inevitable outcome: Southern secession.  The Obama administration is rightfully pleased with how the referendum has been carried out, but t ...
  • Calling on Congress to Stand Up to Anti-LGBT Hate ...
    For more than 50 years, there's been an event in Washington during the first Thursday of February. It's called the National Prayer Breakfast, and it's organized by the religious network known as "The Family," a robust coalition of evangelical leaders with ties to political leaders and world power pl ...
  • GAP, JC Penny, Target, & More Give in to 65,000 De ...
    When over two dozen workers, most of them poor women, died in a Bangladesh factory fire last December, it quickly became clear that this tragedy could have been prevented with some basic safety practices — like not trapping the workers behind locked doors to prohibit them from taking breaks. And whi ...
  • San Francisco Debuts Landmark Ban on Unwanted Phon ...
    Every year, San Francisco's residents receive on their doorstep more than 1.5 million yellow page phone books. They did not ask for them. Most people who have high-speed Internet access (i.e. the overwhelming majority) do not want them. Yet, in San Francisco alone, this monumental amount of flimsy, ...
  • Food Fight: College Students Demand Cage-Free Eggs ...
    When I was in college, getting out of bed before noon was an accomplishment, but that isn't the case these days. Today's college students are working diligently to convince their campus dining services to switch to cage-free eggs — for animal welfare and public health reasons. Several of these compa ...

Common Dreams -News

  • WikiLeaks Among Nominees for Nobel Peace Prize
    by Wojciech MoskwaOSLO - Anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks has been nominated for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian politician behind the proposal said on Wednesday, a day after the deadline for nominations expired.The Norwegian Nobel Committee accepts nominations for what many consider as the ...
  • Scientists ask Congress to Put Aside Politics, Tak ...
    by Andrew RestucciaMore than a dozen scientists took aim at climate skeptics in a letter to members of Congress late last week, calling on lawmakers to put aside politics and focus on the science behind climate change.In the Jan. 28 letter, 18 scientists from various universities and research center ...
  • Amnesty Urges Help for WikiLeaks Suspect, Bradley ...
    LONDON – Amnesty International urged Britain to help ease the "harsh and punitive" detention conditions of Bradley Manning, the US soldier suspected of leaking information to WikiLeaks. The rights group put pressure on the British government Tuesday to ensure that the army private's detention ...
  • Will Cyclone Yasi Push Australia into Action on Cl ...
    by Damian Carrington With Cyclone Yasi bearing down on Queensland, the wind rising, the windows starting to rattle and the rain beginning to pelt, one can only imagine how those people holed up in their homes are feeling.read more
  • EPA to Limit Rocket Fuel Chemical in Tap Water
    WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency is setting the first federal drinking water standard for a toxic rocket fuel ingredient linked to thyroid problems in pregnant women and young children, the Obama administration announced on Wednesday.read more

Lifehacker

  • Google Shopper for iPhone Finds Cheaper Prices fro ...
    iOS: iPhone owners have more options for trying to discreetly scan items in stores, now that Google's Shopper smart and fast price comparison app has hit the App Store. Sure, there's already RedLaser, but Shopper goes beyond barcodes. More� ...
  • Turn Your iPod Touch Into an iPhone with its Plast ...
    We've shown you the software you need to turn your iPod touch into an iPhone, and reader Kevin has taken it a step further, modding the iPod's packing materials to turn it into a "phone" you can hold up to your ear. More�� ...
  • Google Art Project Walks Through Global Art Museum ...
    There's no substitute for up-close viewing of original works, but Google's offering a virtual tour, and close-up zooms, on art in the Met, Versailles, the Van Gogh, and other world art destinations with a free site powered by Street View. M ...
  • Liquid Damage May Not Kill Your Replacement Chance ...
    There's a small light-colored dot inside many gadgets, including iPods, that turns pink or red if the device's internals seem to have been exposed to water or significant moisture. Generally, they're put there so that a service technician can ...
  • How to Keep Your Facebook Secure (by Enabling HTTP ...
    Facebook recently announced that they're adding full HTTPS support for the site, to keep you protected from attacks like Firesheep. The feature's finally rolling out, and here's how you can turn it on. More��

Water Privatization

  • Lawmakers call for probe over water rate hike
    Protesting the “unjust” water rate increase scheduled this month, lawmakers on Wednesday called for an inquiry and an audit of the water concessionaires’ books to see if the hike is justified.
  • Water Focus of 'Week of Action'
    Canadian bestselling author and water activist Maude Barlow will speak on "The Global Water Crisis and the Fight for the Right to Water" Jan. 26 at 7 p.m. at War Memorial Hall. Barlow's free talk is part of the University of Guelph's annual Civic Imprints Week of Action promoting active civic engage ...
  • Water woes
    Global investment firm aims to buy Mountain Water by Jessica Mayrer The world's second largest private investment firm may soon control the water flowing through Missoula's taps. The Carlyle Group, which holds $97.7 billion worth of assets in countries across the globe, announced Dec. 22 that it int ...
  • Whitehorse bottling plant bid sparks water debate
    Whitehorse city councillors waded into the global issue of water ownership on Monday, when they were asked to rezone a local water bottling plant's property.
  • Rezoning spills concerns over bottled water
    The North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) worked its way into a city council rezoning decision on a water bottling plant.

Guardian

  • Mubarak supporters in standoff with protesters – ...
    �� Anger at Mubarak's refusal to stand down immediately �� Barack Obama calls for change to 'begin now' �� Protesters and Mubarak supporters clash �� Protesting in Egypt? Call +44 203 353 2959 to tell us your story �� Read a summary of today's events so far12.19pm: "There is a fight of some kind of ...
  • IFS backs Osborne staying course
    Green budget from Institute for Fiscal Studies argues chancellor cannot afford to ease Britain's fiscal painGeorge Osborne should resist the temptation to ease Britain's fiscal pain when the nation's public finances turn out to be better than expected this year, a leading thinktank said today.The In ...
  • Chilcot told of regime change paper
    Chilcot inquiry reveals that Straw said briefing by senior MI6 officer setting out 'route map for regime change' was very perceptive and sent a copy to 10 Downing StreetJack Straw recommended that Tony Blair should read an MI6 paper setting out a "route map for regime change" in Iraq, the inquiry in ...
  • Hospitals waste £500m a year
    National Audit Office report says parts of NHS are failing to use organisation's clout to get better pricesHospitals are wasting at least £500m a year of NHS funding because some are paying more than twice as much as others for basic supplies such as paper, gloves and medical devices.That is the con ...
  • Extra £18m to tackle knife crime
    Announcement comes as report by former EastEnders actor Brooke Kinsella calls for more action to tackle the problem, including anti-knife presentations in schoolsMore than £18m extra is to be spent on tackling knife crime and gun and gang culture over the next two years, the home secretary, Theresa ...

McClatchey

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • UN sticks with climate agenda - but what prospects ...
    Reports suggesting that UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is retiring from the climate change agenda have had commentators wondering a) what it means for prospects of a new global climate agreement and b) whether the UN remains committed to the issue. � What appears to be happening is that two real ...
  • Arctic canary looking sicker than ever
    If the Arctic really is the "canary in the coal mine" for climate change impacts, as it's often been labelled, then it's a canary about which we know a little more following a spate of scientific papers coming out over the last week or so. And looking at what they say, as well as readings from inst ...
  • Forests: REDD or dead?
    There's pretty strong criticism this week for the UN-backed initiative on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD) - criticism timed for the opening, in New York, of the UN Forum on Forests. Forest destruction is a major cause of biodiversity loss around the world Reduc ...
  • H for 'human': The missing climate link?
    As many commentators have pointed out down the years, virtually all the hopes expressed by governments in terms of reducing carbon emissions ultimately hang on technology. It stems from the famous IPAT equation: Impact = Population x Affluence x Technology ...sometimes expressed as... Impact = ...
  • Summit misses the 'C-word'
    Some fascinating threads on energy and climate change are swirling around the heads of Presidents Barack Obama and Hu Jintao as the two leaders convene in Washington DC. China's energy direction is assured - but is the US's? The "C-word" isn't being mentioned in despatches at all - but the E-word ...

The Wonk Room

thwap's schoolyard

  • Foreign Policy for Mark
    Mark (if I remember correctly) is an ex-pat Canadian who loathes his former countrymen. He works in IT somewhere in Florida and is firmly in the centre of the USA's political spectrum. He finds US-Americans to be significantly more open-minded, tolerant, less dogmatically ideological, less irritatin ...
  • Corporate Tax Cuts in the Budget = Election
    In the past, the harpercons have stated that every vote will be considered a confidence vote. As "Impolitical" infers, this was needless brinkmanship. She also condemns the NDP for cheering these games. She neglects to mention that the reason the harpercons and the NDP played these games was becaus ...
  • Neoliberals' "nirvana" - Us versus Them
    Where are we and where are we going? I might not have time to post anything else today so I thought that my reply to kev in the comments section to yesterday's post is important enough to broadcast here. kev advanced the notion that the government crackdown on dissent, such as we saw at the Toronto ...
  • Never Forget: Scum-bags Blair and McGuinty's Abuse ...
    We'll get over it? No. We won't get over it. Authoritarian scum. That's what they are.
  • Ever notice how elites are always asking us to be ...
    As their policies fail, elites tell us "un-serious" plebs to be patient. Zero inflation was going to make everything better (because restaurants would save money not having to update their menu prices all the time or something stupid like that), "free-trade" deals were going to make us all happy, .. ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Immigrant whistleblowers don't have to answer ques ...
    One of the most pernicious forms of exploitation today is the abuse of undocumented immigrant workers. It has been a long time since our immigration laws matched the aspiration of the Statue of Liberty, and millions of immigrant workers are forced into an undocumented status that leaves them vulnera ...
  • More interns working on whistleblower cases
    We are pleased to have even more interns joining us this semester. You can see our first group of interns (who are still with us) here. �Standing are Christopher, Jesse, David, David, Zach, Shane, Milan and Naoki. Seated are Sabeen, Karen, Ryan, Sabrina and Whitney. Thank you all for your dedica ...
  • Appeals Court to Rule Shortly on Constitutional At ...
    The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit is expected to rule shortly on the constitutionality of a key provision of America's most successful and powerful whistleblower protection law, the False Claims Act (FCA). ACLU v. Holder, Fourth Circuit Case No. 09-2086. The attack against th ...
  • DOL issues new final rules for environmental whist ...
    The U.S. Department of Labor has finally issued its responses to comments submitted in 2007 about its interim regulations for nuclear and environmental whistleblowers. Codified at 29 CFR Part 24, these regulations have been trendsetters for regulations affecting other whistleblower statutes. The Dep ...
  • Ninth Circuit protects social worker's court testi ...
    Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued an opinion holding that a social worker is protected from retaliation for his courtroom testimony about  a former client. The case is Clairmont v. Sound Mental Health and Wilson, No. 09-35856 (9th Cir. 2011). From 2005 to 2007, Sound ...

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 radio ...
  • Pollution from Asia circles globe at stratospheric ...
    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 additional evidence of the glo ...
  • After growth spurt, supermassive black holes spend ...
    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 20th c ...
  • New approach precisely tracks evolution's footprin ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Fossils may provide tantalizing clues to human history but they also lack some vital information, such as revealing which pieces of human DNA have been favored by evolution because they confer beneficial traits - resistance to infection or the ability to digest milk, for example. T ...

TechDirt

  • Native American Nation Shielded From Patent Infrin ...
    Joe Mullin points us to the news of how the Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma succeeded in having a patent infringement case against the tribe dismissed, due to the sovereign immunity of the Native American nation. The ruling (embedded below) is pretty straightforward. Basically, it notes that sovereign im ...
  • Rep. Issa Wants List Of Everyone Who's Filed FOIA ...
    Rep. Darrell Issa, the new head of the House Oversight Committee recently requested that all of the various federal agencies give him all sorts of data about everyone who's sent a Freedom of Information Act Request for the past five years. He claims that this is to review how the agencies respond t ...
  • Why Have We Let State AGs Become De Facto Internet ...
    For quite some time we've called attention to the fact that various state Attorneys General have taken it upon themselves to pressure internet companies to change their policies, often with little or no actual legal authority to do so. It usually takes the form of very public shaming and grandstand ...
  • But I Thought Newspapers Couldn't Be 'Free'?
    We keep hearing from legacy newspaper folks how "news can't be free," as they look to set up paywalls and other such barriers to folks actually participating in the news process. And yet, as has been discussed time and time again, for most people the news was already effectively free. Subscription ...
  • Crispin Glover Using Scarce Resources To Sell His ...
    richw alerts us to an excellent writeup he did about an interview Rich conducted with actor/filmmaker Crispin Glover. Glover's known as a bit of an oddball, but he is doing some interesting things. He's been making a "trilogy" of films, and focusing on selling "scarcities" around the films, focuse ...

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BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    According to the Bureau of Justice, 7,225,800 people were under some sort of “correctional supervision” at the end of 2009.  That means they were either incarcerated or on parole.  How depressing is that? The beginning of these videos on anarchist economics was interesting.  I’ll be looking for ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    First Tunisia and now Egypt.  Let’s hope this game of dominoes goes on for a while.  By the looks of it, the young people are feeling it. The Haiti news has been fascinating this last week.  Baby Doc has the nerve to return to Haiti.  Michele Montas (maybe you saw her in the Agronomist) is [...]
  • Borders, Scale and Mental Boxes
    Michael Lind recently put out a piece in Slate called Let’s Stop Pretending the Constitution is Sacred.  He won’t get any lip from me on that.  I don’t think anything is sacred.  But in making his argument, he ends up undermining one of the key understandings central to his argument.  And I’m ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Looks like Baby Doc got picked up by the police in Haiti today. Some people are wondering why he was allowed to fly in. Some people are wondering if they are really going to prosecute him. I’m wondering why the fuck that murdering bastard has been drinking wine and eating baguettes in France all thi ...
  • On Speech
    I can’t believe the number of articles I have seen about the violent rhetoric of the right and how it is responsible for the Safeway shooting.  (I’m not going to call it the Gifford shooting, because a hell of a lot of people got shot that day and they count too.)   And now rumor [...]

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

Armies of Liberation

  • The blockade of South Yemen follows tactics of Saa ...
    As Yemen’s blockade on southern Yemen enters its third week, stocks of food, medicine and oil have dwindled to dangerous levels. Prices have skyrocketed and already malnourished children bear the brunt of the military action. The blockade began 17 days ago when the Western Armored Division establish ...
  • بقلم الكاتبة الامريكية جين نوفاك : ثلاثة أسابيع من ...
    مع دخول الحصار اليمني على اليمن الجنوبي أسبوعه الثالث ، إنخفضت المخزونات من المواد الغذائية والدواء و المشتقات النفطية الى مستويات تنذر بالخطر. و ارتفعت الأسعار و أصبح الأطفال يعانون بالفعل من سوء التغذية تحت وطأة العمليات العسكرية. وبدأ الحصار قبل 17 يوما عندما قامت وحدات المنطقة الغربية المدرعة بإ ...
  • السلام مع الكرامة في اليمن: هل يمكن ايقاف دوامه ال ...
    اÙسÙام مع اÙÙرامة Ù٠اÙÙÙ…Ù: ÙÙ ÙÙ…Ù٠اÙÙا٠دÙام٠اÙØ­Ø±Ø¨Ø Ùتبت: جÙÙ ÙÙÙاÙ*- ÙصحÙÙØ© “إجسامÙÙر” ترجمة/ عبداÙÙ٠عبداÙÙÙاب ÙاجÙ- ترجمة خاصة بÙ: اÙمستشار Ùت Ù٠حرب م٠حرÙب صعدة اÙستة Ù٠اÙÙÙ…Ù ÙÙ Ùسخة Ù…Ùررة م٠ا ...
  • Peace with Dignity in Yemen, Can the Cycle of Endl ...
    Each of the six Sa’ada wars in Yemen was a photo copy of the one before, except the bombs got bigger, the children more frail and the jails more crowded. The Yemeni government systematically denied food, medicine and international aid to civilians in the northern Sa’ada province as a tactic of war s ...
  • Would Yemeni law find Anwar Awlaki guilty?
    Yemen’s Foreign Minister Abu Baker al Qirby urged Anwar Awlaki to turn himself to be tried under Yemeni law, vowing that no Yemeni citizen would be extradited to the US or any other country. The US announced last week that it had authorized Awlaki’s kill or capture, having determined he is an active ...

Dark Politricks

  • Establishment Exploits OKC Bombing Victims To Push ...
  • Knee-Jerk No Fly Ban Discredits Global Warming Ala ...
    Fearmongering by Met Office voodoo scientists about planes dropping out of the sky contradicted by numerous successful test flights Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Monday, April 19, 2010 With European governments coming under increasing pressure from airline groups to re-open airspace follow ...
  • Air France, Lufthansa Press for Airspace Re-Openin ...
    Gregory Viscusi and Brian Parkin Bloomberg April 19, 2010 Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Air France- KLM Group and industry groups pressed European governments to loosen the unprecedented closing of the region’s airspace from last week’s Icelandic volcanic eruption as losses from the grounding of aircraft p ...
  • NPR and CNN worry that Global Warming may have cau ...
    John Lott’s Website April 19, 2010 This is just too bizarre: Diana Rehm (NPR): We do wonder whether there’s human involvement in all of these eruptions, earthquakes, storms - Elise Labott (senior State Department producer for CNN): – and how much global warming has a role in it. You know we’ve seen ...
  • Poll: Americans’ distrust of federal government is ...
    Steven Thomma McClatchy Newspapers April 19, 2010 Already wary of the federal government, Americans have grown even more critical, less trusting and even fearful of Uncle Sam since President Barack Obama took office, according to an exhaustive new study being released Monday. The in-depth poll found ...

food and water watch

treehugger

  • Baked Apple Stuffed with Candied Ginger and Almond ...
    Photos by Jaymi Heimbuch This recipe was created exclusively to pair with a bottle of 2009 Frögenbeerenauslese from Frog's Leap winery. Don't worry, it's is a lot easier to drink than it is to say. On the nose you will find both hints of honey and pomme fruit. But for a dessert wine, it isn't hea ...
  • UK CO2 Emissions Dropped 8.7% in 2009
    Lloyd speculated before on 10 ways that recession can help the environment, while Mike offered a counterpoint on ways that an economic downturn can hinder progress toward sustainability. Now some official figgures coming out of the UK suggest, where short-term CO2 emissions are concerned at leas ...
  • Frog's Leap Winery: Saves 64,000 Gallons of Water ...
    The eco-renovated Red Barn from the 1880's. Photos by Jaymi Heimbuch Frog's Leap Winery is an organic and biodynamic vineyard located in the heart of Napa's Rutherford region. Back in 1975, owner John Williams was living in St. Helena on a property that was a frog farm during the 1800s. Yes, a fr ...
  • China Grants Permission for Megadam to be Built On ...
    Nu river; Photo by livepine via Flickr Creative Commons China's hydropower industry has earned a big win with power company Huadian gaining permission to build a 21.3GW dam on the Nu River. However, is the price too big? The dam is to be built in a world heritage site and will displace an estim ...
  • Renewables Sector Sees Massive Jobs Growth
    Image credit: twicepix, used under Creative Commons license. We've seen reports before that switching to renewables could create 2.7 million jobs, and might create a whole new wave of green-collar employment, but it's only now that nations around the world are getting serious about renewables t ...

Biosingularity

  • Diets Low In Omega-3 Linked to Depressive Behavior ...
    Although most people in developed countries get plenty of calories each day, their diets are often lacking in key nutrients that their bodies have evolved to expect. Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids, such as those found in fish and walnuts, are one category of crucial ingredients that the body ca ...
  • Melanoma Drug Prolonged Patients’ Lives in Clinica ...
    Advanced melanoma patients taking an experimental drug aimed at a particular mutation in their tumors lived longer than patients who did not receive the drug in a decisive clinical trial, the drugâs manufacturer, Roche, said Wednesday. via Melanoma Drug Prolonged Patientsâ Lives in Clinical Trial – ...
  • Anders Ynnerman: Visualizing the medical data expl ...
    � Anders Ynnerman: Visualizing the medical data explosion | Video on TED.com.
  • Strawberries, Blueberries May Ward Off High Blood ...
    Eating just 1 cup of strawberries or blueberries each week can reduce your risk of developing high blood pressure, a major risk factor for heart disease and stroke. The new findings appear in the February issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. The new study included 87,242 women who to ...
  • Putting up a struggle against cancer
    MIT scientists have discovered that cells lining the blood vessels secrete molecules that suppress tumor growth and keep cancer cells from invading other tissues, a finding that could lead to a new way to treat cancer. Elazer Edelman, professor in the MIT-Harvard Division of Health Sciences and Tech ...

CFACT

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Pruning Shears

  • This Week in Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Combat operations have concluded for these soldiers. I wonder how many US troops have to die in a single incident for it to receive saturation ...
  • Winter Break
    Getting away from it all.� Regular posting resumes this weekend.
  • This Week in Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Combat operations have concluded for: Spec. Jose A. Torre, Jr. Sgt. Michael P. Bartley Spec. Martin J. Lamar Sgt. Omar Aceves Spec. Jar ...
  • Yes, by all means - let's
    So a clip of Glenn Beck saying opponents have to be shot in the head has surfaced. Since this is precisely the kind of violent, eliminationist rhetoric that is almost exclusively the province of the right among prominent commentators and high ranking elected officials there has been an immediate fr ...
  • The government's subversion of Silicon Alley
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Prior to 9/11 the Bush administration had the National Security Agency (NSA) approach telecommunication giants and essentially coerce them into allowing the NSA to engage in warrantless surveillance. The one company - Qwest - that r ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Open Letters to Whole Foods Market from Some of Th ...
    Dear Whole Foods, I read your article entitled "Urgent Action Needed to Support Organics and Non-GE Crops" and subsequently the one on this page. I'm one of the people who question why you're endorsing the coexistence option. I don't think that other consumer groups have misunderstood you as you bel ...
  • OCA, Dr. Bronner’s Take Aim At Fair-Trade Certific ...
    In what threatens to be a version of the organic "fraud" feud all over again, the Organic Consumers Association and Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps have asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate what they say are deceptive advertising and labeling practices among "fair-tradecertified" personal-car ...
  • To Tell the Truth: Who Owns Fair Trade?
    When TransFair USA announced last fall that it was changing its name to Fair Trade USA, an immediate and on-going tsunami of outrage and indignation burst through the Fair Trade community. Alternative Trade Organizations, 100% Fair Trade roasters, student, religious, and consumer activists, and non- ...
  • UK's Soil Association Threatened with Libel Action ...
    On a muddy hill above a Wiltshire farmhouse, sows are giving birth. Hordes of newborn piglets scamper between the hutches, chased by their exhausted-looking mothers.Click here to read this article
  • Children's Pesticide Safeguards Advance
    TRENTON - A bill that would make New Jersey a national leader in limiting children's pesticide exposure was released with unanimous support of members of a Senate environment panel Monday.Click here to read this article

fotoFrontera

  • Imágenes .Gif para el Día del Amor - 14 de Febrero ...
    Estamos iniciando Febrero mes del amor y no queremos dejar pasar la oportunidad de ofrecerle a usted -como siempre- la mejor variedad de imágenes para esta fecha tan especial (14 de febrero - Día de San Valentín). Para empezar bien, le ofrecemos esta hermosa colección de imágenes .gif (imágenes con ...
  • Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes XXXIX
    Selecciones Especiales del Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas, es una serie fantástica que sintetiza lo mejor de nuestras fotografías. Por ello, le invito a usted con humildad y respeto a que explore todas las entregas anteriores donde encontrará cientos de imágenes realmente hermosas. [1][2][3][4][5]-[6]- ...
  • Las mejores imágenes de paisajes naturales XII (7 ...
    Si usted desea ver toda nuestra colección sobre las mejores imágenes y fotografías de paisajes naturales, por favor navegue a través de los siguientes números. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] ATENCIÓN: Para ver todas las fotos de esta serie, navegue usted hacia abajo y haga click sobre las i ...
  • Viaje por el fondo del mar V (5 fotos de animales ...
    Para ver más imágenes y fotografías gratuitas de peces, tortugas, focas, tiburones, corales, medusas y fondo marino, navegue entre los siguientes números. (1)(2)(3)(4)(5) ¡Son más de 100 imágenes muy lindas! ATENCIÓN: Para ver todas las fotos de esta serie, navegue usted hacia abajo y haga click sob ...
  • Imágenes, frescos y pinturas católicas IV (5 archi ...
    Para ver más imágenes católicas, escoja un número. (1)(2)(3)(4)ATENCIÓN: Para ver todas las fotos de esta serie, navegue usted hacia abajo y haga click sobre las imágenes que más le gusten para ampliar su tamaño y guardarlas en su computadora si así lo desea.

Center for a Livable Future

  • Understanding foodborne microbial hazards for smar ...
    One in six Americans contracts a foodborne illness each year (CDC). Such illness can mean an unpleasant day of vomiting, diarrhea, fever, and/or worseâ hospitalization or death in rare cases. âThere’s something that can be said about the problem of foodborne illness, that can’t be said of many other ...
  • Again Ethanol and Food are in Conflict
    Corn prices have risen dramatically in the last 6 months and now food prices are following. This may be driving revolutions world-wide. And it will affect your grocery shopping soon.
  • Shovel ready: Cuban urban agriculture as job creat ...
    Iâve just returned from eight days in Cuba studying their sustainable agricultural system — especially their urban agriculture sector — and I have several key take-aways. One of the biggest insights was the untapped potential of urban agriculture as a creator of good jobs. The Cuban system was re ...
  • New kit can help farmers reduce pesticide impact
    A Farmer Information Kit released recently by the Maryland Pesticide Network (MPN) seems to show that concern about the impacts of pesticides on our environment and health is becoming more widespread, judging by the organizations and disciplines that were part of the kit’s production. The kit is a ...
  • Leading U.S. Food Service Provider Introduces Meat ...
    The national non-profit Meatless Monday campaign is proving to be “The Little Engine That Could” in the environmental public health world. In just the last two years national awareness of Meatless Monday more than doubled. According to a commissioned survey by FGI Research more than 30 percent of Am ...

Norwegianity

  • Car thief congressman our new McCarthy?
    Former car thief turned Congressional committee chair Darrell Issa ramps up his fishing expedition into FOIA records. Mike Masnick explains what’s going on. It’s too bad he isn’t going after the EPA’s political masters instead, but I guess that doesn’t fit the narrative being pushed here (or here). ...
  • Scott Johnson does to the Hmong what Mirengoff did ...
    More on Egypt from Jonathan. - Resubscribing to Media Matters’ RSS feed is really hammering home to me how viciously political this country is. I recently linked to news accounts of how Planned Parenthood went straight to the FBI when their clinics started getting visits from some shit who was (amon ...
  • Some of the news once in a while
    Al-Jazeera is now on YouTube. Don’t worry, I’m sure Viacom or CNN or some news whores organization will figure out a way to put a stop to this. Americans aren’t entitled to timely, objective news. Ever. [Haaretz says 1,000,000 in the streets, but every American newspaper I read today showed one Cair ...
  • And then there were two (plus guest bloggers galor ...
    Paul “Deacon” Mirengoff has dumped his Power Line bloviation gig rather than lose his cushy partnership at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. Power Line lets their readers know that Paul is dead: As you probably know, Paul Mirengoff has taken a leave from blogging and has, for now anyway, resigned from ...
  • Spinning links
    Hillary’s not dumb. When she says the U.S. is not pushing for Mubarak’s ouster, that just encourages Egyptians to depose him. No sane people’s movement anywhere on this planet wants to do what the U.S. wants them to do. - Lost in the hubbub of Republican caterwauling over the budget, Gov. Moonbeam c ...

Public News Service

  • Project Pushes Adult Support ”Web” for ...
    Project Pushes Adult Support ”Web” for AZ Students Phoenix, AZ – Communities and adults across Arizona are being asked to take more responsibility for giving students the support they need to succeed. A year-long initiative from the Arizona School Boards Association will reach into every county in t ...
  • Western States Elk Hunters See Advantages to BLM " ...
    Western States Elk Hunters See Advantages to BLM "Wild Lands" Policy Phoenix, AZ – The U.S. Department of Interior's revised policy on wild lands is drawing mixed reactions - but at least one group of hunters sees it as a positive move. Comments from Jim Gonzales, spokesperson for the Rocky Mountain ...
  • Groundbreaking Progress in Helping MS Patients
    Groundbreaking Progress in Helping MS Patients Phoenix, AZ – It's being called 'promising research in neurological diseases' that may offer hope for multiple sclerosis patients in Arizona and across the nation. In research funded by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, scientists may have uncove ...
  • A Weighty Message for Arizonans: Obesity Linked to ...
    A Weighty Message for Arizonans: Obesity Linked to Cancer Phoenix, AZ – Up to one-third of Arizona’s 11,000 annual cancer deaths could potentially linked to obesity, according to the American Cancer Society. During this week's National Healthy Weight Week, the ACS is encouraging people to manage the ...
  • AZ Food Banks: Demand Remains at Record Levels
    AZ Food Banks: Demand Remains at Record Levels Phoenix, AZ – 2010 saw another record increase in demand for emergency food boxes from the state’s food banks. But because of federal aid and generous donations, the food banks are mostly keeping up with that demand. Comments from Ginny Hildebrand (HILL ...

Center for Food Safety

  • Organic Industry Supports CFS in GE Sugar Beets Ap ...
    Leading organic businesses and trade groups have filed a joint brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in support of the Center for Food Safety and opposed to Monsanto in the ongoing case regarding planting of Roundup Ready, genetically engineered sugar beets. Support from the organ ...
  • Fighting a Common Enemy on the GMO Battlefield
    Yesterday’s announcement by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) that it will once again allow unlimited, nation-wide commercial planting of Monsanto’s genetically-engineered (GE) Roundup Ready alfalfa, despite the many risks to organic and conventional farmers, is deeply disturbing, but not su ...
  • USDA Decision On GE Alfalfa Leaves Door Open For C ...
    ROGUE AGENCY CHOOSES “BUSINESS AS USUAL” OVER SOUND SCIENCE CENTER ANNOUNCES IMMEDIATE LEGAL CHALLENGE TO USDA’S FLAWED ASSESSMENT  The Center for Food Safety criticized the announcement today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) that it will once again allow unlimited, nation-wide commercia ...
  • Tell Sec. of Agriculture Vilsack to Adopt a Morato ...
    In a precedent-setting final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on the planting of Monsanto’s genetically engineered (GE) alfalfa, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) acknowledges for the first time that GE contamination of organic and conventionally grown crops presents a huge problem in the ...
  • Feds Yank GE Crops From All Northeast Refuges
    Settlement of Bombay Hook Suit Makes Southeast Refuges Next Legal Target    The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has agreed to stop planting genetically engineered (GE) crops on all its refuges within a dozen Northeastern states, according to a settlement agreement in a lawsuit brought by conservation a ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • Guest Editorial - Layla Anwar: Protesting...
    An Arab Woman Blues - Reflections in a sealed bottle...: Protesting... [FOTO-Source: صورة أيقونية ليوم الغضب الثاني ستصبح اشهر صورة لأبطال مصر #Jan25] So far I have seen no real indicators for more open democratic societies in the making. Leaving aside my own allergy to the word "democracy" and it ...
  • ei: Documents reveal PA-Israel collaboration to ta ...
    ei: Documents reveal PA-Israel collaboration to target resistance Details on the growing security cooperation between the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority, the United States and the United Kingdom were revealed yesterday, the third day of Al Jazeera network's release of more than 1,600 internal ...
  • The Jim Crow Guidebook | SocialistWorker.org
    The Jim Crow Guidebook | SocialistWorker.org: "WHERE DID Blacks use the bathroom, get a drink, safely stop for gas, and perform all the other quotidian acts of road-tripping under Jim Crow segregation? I had seen references to a "Negro" guidebook in the New York Times, but never actually read one un ...
  • Egypt is offline - is Google just cashing in? | Ra ...
    Egypt is offline - is Google just cashing in? | Radio Netherlands Worldwide Twitter and Google recently joined forces to help Egypt talk to the world. The Egyptian authorities last week decided to block most internet and SMS traffic, but the two companies combined efforts and came up with a way arou ...
  • All Eyes on Egypt, Daniel Pipes Looks to Iran � Lo ...
    All Eyes on Egypt, Daniel Pipes Looks to Iran � LobeLog.com: "It’s right there in the opinion section of the Washington Times, where even Frank Gaffney is zoomed in on the Muslim Brotherhood and has the decency not to mention Iran. (Gaffney’s piece is called “The Muslim Brotherhood is the Enemy“, an ...

Pensieve

  • President Llorens
    I’ve reconsidered my position about posting Wikileaks articles. This article not only discusses classified material disclosed by Wikileaks, but actually quotes it. I know some of my readers work for the US government, thus the warning. I am not an enemy of the United States of America. I simply love ...
  • Magnificent
    This movie brought me to tears. It is the story of a man whose lack of limbs from birth relegated him to life as a circus side-show freak. It tells of how he was recognized by the owner of a rival circus as “magnificent”. After overcoming his bitterness, the man transformed from freak to hero. [...] ...
  • Departure
    Photo by PeWu Iâm at the train station; no one knows Iâm there. Iâm standing in line, debating with myself. Should I buy a ticket or just walk away? Am I a coward for leaving? Is it brave to lie? I recognize the hurt that others are going through their lives crumbling to dust. Am [...] Related pos ...
  • Muddy Metaphor
    I went to the La Silla River this morning. A year ago It was once more of a swamp than a river, with brackish water and muddy banks. But, a few months ago, hurricane flooded it; many houses were filled with mud, and cars were swept away. But soon after the storm passed, the river [...] Related pos ...
  • Confused about the Amendments
    The constitutional amendments keep coming. It appears though that these still have to be ratified. The changes are only “initiatives”, and are not yet binding. The article I am using as a basis first said the “reform was approved”, but that it still needs to be “ratified” once the next legislature b ...

Green Times

  • Photovoltaic solar panels on a country house
    Rising energy prices and fossil fuels depletion mean home owners have to think of new sources of energy that will offer them independence and sustainability. Even tough our country provides many hours of sun and solar panels offer good return on investment, many people still hesitate to invest ...
  • Mobile Public Toilets
    Everyone needs to go to the toilet sooner or later... The topic becomes more unpleasant when it comes to temporary loos. In those mobile public toilets, chemicals like formaldehyde and tensides are used to stop the natural process of decay and prevent the smell. The use of these chemical makes those ...
  • Gorilla Eraser
    This huge gorilla eraser is not just a cool item to put on your desk... 2 % of the revenue generatedfrom the sale of each eraser will be donated to the centre of biological diversity (http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/ If you put an external link, make sure you tell them about it once its publishe ...
  • Globalisation
    1. DEFINITION Globalisation refers to the increasing connectivity and interdependence between the world’s markets and businesses. Globalisation got more important over the last decades as technologies, communication tools, infrastructures and transportation have improved. Those advances have ...
  • What's on 31 January 2011
    This week kicks off with a laid back Sydney Green Ups - the first for the year - bring your kids and your kid-friendly dogs! There's also workshops on worm farming and how to naurally detox your house. If it's green and on, you'll find it here!

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Canada rejects U.S. senator's visa idea
    ShareThisCanada rejects U.S. senator's visa idea 02 Feb 2011 The Harper government has flatly rejected the idea raised by an influential U.S. senator of requiring Canadians to obtain visas to enter the United States following the release of an "alarming" report about security along America's norther ...
  • Amazing reports about massive Midwest storm
    ShareThisAmazing reports about massive Midwest storm 01 Feb 2011 NASA is calling the storm exploding over in the Midwest "one of the largest winter storms since the 1950s." Here are some Twitter reports aggregated from a variety of sources, illustrating the power, severity and danger of this histori ...
  • WikiLeaks: FBI hunts the 9/11 gang that got away
    ShareThisWikiLeaks: FBI hunts the 9/11 gang that got away 01 Feb 2011 The FBI has launched a manhunt for a previously unknown team of men suspected to be part of the 9/11 attacks, the Daily Telegraph can disclose. Secret documents reveal that the three Qatari men conducted surveillance on the target ...
  • 'Al-Qaida on brink of using nuclear bomb'
    ShareThis'Al-Qaida on brink of using nuclear bomb' 01 Feb 2011 Al-Qaida [al-CIAduh] is on the verge of producing radioactive weapons after sourcing nuclear material and recruiting rogue scientists to build "dirty" bombs, according to leaked diplomatic documents. A leading atomic regulator has privat ...
  • FEMA mobilized as winter storms hit U.S.
    ShareThisFEMA mobilized as winter storms hit U.S. 01 Feb 2011 The federal government is sending workers and equipment to at least 11 states as a winter storm bears down on a wide swath of the country, the White House said Tuesday. With storm watches and blizzard warnings up over most of the continen ...

Daily Loaf

  • New Quinnipiac poll shows majority of Florida vote ...
    The major numbers to report: 35% of Florida voters approve of Scott, 22% disapprove, but the vast majority - 43%- aren't ready to field an opinion of any sort just yet.
  • City Council candidate forum in South Tampa a gent ...
    If Marco Rubio was all about championing American exceptionalism in his successful campaign for U.S. Senate last year, last night it was the night of Tampa exceptionalism, as several - perhaps a majority of the candidates discussed the challenges the city faces, but also indicated that it was the b ...
  • The story of love as told by hormones
    Helen Fisher of Rutgers University broke down love into three stages of neurological responses in her landmark paper, “Lust, Attraction, and Attachment in Mammalian Reproduction.” 1. LUST: Lust, sex drive, and libido, are defined as the craving for sexual gratification independent of a desire for ...
  • Chris Pureka, introspective indie folkie, performs ...
    New England introspective indie folkie Chris Pureka will perform at The Hideaway Cafe in St. Petersburg this Friday, February 4.
  • Lightning win 6th straight, beat Flyers 4-0
    The Philadelphia Flyers came into play as the best team in the Eastern Conference Tuesday night; the Tampa Bay Lightning didn’t seem to be impressed, as they beat the Flyers for the third-straight time this year, this time 4-0, earning goaltender Dwayne Roloson his fourth shutout in 11 games. The ...

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • What will you do?
    By Jesse Bacon My friend asked me, only half-jokingly “What if you have to change your name for your blog?” I wish a swift and durable success to the people’s movements in Cairo. I was just coming of age when the Berlin Wall fell (my “camp” was actually a nerdy kids Current Events class in June of 1 ...
  • No more cancer: Israeli Army admits Jawaher killed ...
    By Jesse Bacon I In a triumph of the obvious truth over incoherent lies, the Israeli Army now admits that Jawaher Abu Rahmah was indeed killed by tear gas at a demo, not as their anonymous speculation would have it by cancer or an honor killing. These tales violated basic plausibility, but they did ...
  • When and where will Israel’s Tucson be?
    By Jesse Bacon By rights it should have been in 1995, when Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated. But the man who took over for him as Prime Minister after appearing at a rally where he was depicted as a Nazi is Prime Minister again. And Rabin’s party was just split into its final tiny segments. And the cu ...
  • Exclusive Interview: JNF demolishes village for th ...
    By Jesse Bacon Bulldozes from the Jewish National Fund demolished the Bedouin village for Al-Arakib for the ninth time yesterday and today. They also demolished the village’s olive groves the week of Tu Bshvat, which celebrates the flowering of trees so they can grow a forest named after a Fundament ...
  • More precious than oil: help rebuild destroyed cis ...
    From Ta’ayush’s appeal to help rebuild cisterns destroyed by the Israeli military. Dear Friends and Supporters, The situation of the Palestinian cave-dwellers in South Hebron Hills continues to be difficult. They suffer from permanent harassment carried out by the military and settlers. This y ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • The Leftover Left and their obsession with newspap ...
    Harry’s Place lampoons the bizarre tendency of current day revolutionary socialist groups to use their party newspaper as a primary means of organizing. A standard method for recruitment, one that has remained unchanged since prior to the Russian Revolution in 1917, is that of publishing a newspaper ...
  • Navy milblogger blows gasket, says Google declared ...
    You just can’t make this stuff up. Galrhan at the US Naval Institute says Google doing voice2tweet from Egyptian protesters is somehow “declaring war” on the Egyptian government. Happily though, even some of those commenting on his post disagreed. You neglected to mention that Google-Saynow did this ...
  • Cyclone Yasi about to hit Australia
    Cyclone Yasi is now a Cat 5 and will go ashore during high tide. Hurricanes turn clockwise in the southern hemisphere. The SW quadrant of Yasi will be most dangerous as it hits land, where waves and wind move in same direction. People living in the massive impact zone, where winds are expected to re ...
  • Preparing California’s power grid for one-third re ...
    (My latest for CAIVN. While California is a leader on renewable energy, the same process of upgrading the grid is happening in most states) Renewable energy is variable in nature. Solar and wind power, the two primary ways of creating renewable energy, cannot be created on a steady, constant basis. ...
  • Voices from Egypt via Twitter
    @speak2tweet on Twitter has voice recordings from protesters inside Egypt and those supporting them worldwide Via email from Josh Mull. Small World News has (via crowdsourcing) been translating the Speak2Tweet messages from Egypt (primarily into English, but French, Spanish, and German translations ...

Coteret

  • Yediot’s Plocker: Thank you Mossad for remov ...
    On Sunday (January 9 2011), Yediot’s Itamar Eichner reported [emphasis mine; full translation here]: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is furious with outgoing Mossad Director Meir Dagan because of the briefing Dagan gave journalists last Thursday. In the course of that briefing, Dagan shared with t ...
  • “Rejectionist front”: Maariv details N ...
    As Israel’s diplomatic position erodes and the Palestinian Authority’s campaign for the unilateral recognition of a state in the 1967 borders gains ground, the demand for “direct negotiations” has become a central talking point of  Israeli government spokespeople. Here’s the latest example, from a ...
  • New Yorker editor David Remnick to Yediot: ‘ ...
    On December 24 2010, Yediot’s Friday Political Supplement ran an interview with New Yorker editor David Remnick by Adi Gold. Most of the interview was dedicated to his new biography of Barack Obama. Gold did ask a political question on Israel and Reminck’s response was very blunt. Note that this i ...
  • Breaking the Silence’s landmark new book, no ...
    Breaking the Silence has just published a landmark collection of soldier testimonies from the Occupied Territories spanning the period 2000-2010. The 432 page book can now be browsed, downloaded and embedded here. If you read nothing else, take the time to look over the first to pages of the introdu ...
  • Following local pressure, Adidas reconsiders spons ...
    This Maariv article [full translation below] from Friday is particularly badly written and repetitive, so I’ll summarize. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat decides to hold the first Jerusalem International Marathon in March 2011. He gets Adidas to sponsor the event. An Israeli runner registers and then di ...

Deadline Live

The Air Vent

  • Closed
    On the SOP thread we got into too heated a discussion.  I’ve had more than my fair share of the public lately and don’t know when tAV will be back. Of all the elements of the periodic table stupididium is the most abundant.  The idiots pushed me over  the edge tonight.   I’ve had well [...]
  • What Evidence for “Unprecedented Warming&#82 ...
    This is a new paper which takes a look at the statistical uncertainty of the long term warming trends by Pat Frank.  He looks at the uncertainty of the data including that created by non-stationary errors and comes to the reasonable conclusion that global trends for the length of the temp record are ...
  • SOP
    Today someone made a comment on the Cuccinelli vs Dr. Man thing which has me stirred up a bit.  I fully understand that some scientists may have the opinion that you don’t want Academics worrying about politics and there is some kind of problem with legal requests for emails.  What unfortunately h ...
  • Above the Law
    Most will notice that I’ve not been blogging this week. There really isn’t any time but Cuccinelli is now being given a new hurdle to uncover Mann’s emails. Virginia senators are considering changing law to prevent Mann’s private emails from being read.  First the university claims they don’t exist ...
  • A Superfund Story
    If you want to read the regs start with CERCLA, then SARA. After reading the first few pages you will probably want to come back here to read this because you will realize I would have to be practically brain dead to be as boring as reading regs. Superfund was set up with good intentions. [...]

Focal Point

  • Thomas Should Recuse Himself in HCR Case for Takin ...
    A judge in Florida ruled this week that the entire Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional. According to political scientist and Supreme court-watcher Scott Lemieux, that's probably not the end of the world for health care reform: "Despite this, this ruling is less important than the controvers ...
  • Of Course Ultimatums Are Okay
    Morning Gloria of Jezebel asks, "Is It Ever Okay To Make a Relationship Ultimatum?" My answer: You'd better believe it. Seriously, though. I have a hard time wrapping my mind around the question. Why wouldn't it be okay, at least sometimes? We issue ultimatums all the time: -Either you give ...
  • GOP: Party of Forced Teen Birth
    The House Republican majority is trying to redefine "rape" in order to deny a large percentage of rape and incest victims access to Medicaid-funded abortions, Nick Baumann reports: "With this legislation, which was introduced last week by Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.),�Republicans propose that th ...
  • Sorry, Kids, You Can't Get High on Bath Salts
    Some lessons in media literacy are more painful than others. Listen up, kids. Despite what you read in the papers, you cannot get high on bath salts or plant food. "Bath salts" and "plant food" are just euphemisms that internet head shops use to sell real drugs. These amphetamine-like designer ... ...
  • Steve Jobs Bought Human Liver Like Foie Gras
    Will Saletan accuses Apple CEO Steve Jobs of "gaming the system" to get a liver transplant: Jobs lives in Northern California, but he got his liver in Tennessee. Why? Different parts of the country have different waiting lists, and the wait in Northern California was three times longer than the ...

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook Page Management Company Acquisitions Coul ...
    Website creation service Webs has acquired Facebook Page tab builder Pagemodo in the lastest of a string of Page management company acquisitions. Established website and email marketing as well as web analytics companies are choosing to buy talent and technology rather than build internally in an ef ...
  • Lolapps and Zynga Add TrialPay’s Credits Shortcut, ...
    TrialPay is working with Lolapps and Zynga to make the option to earn Facebook Credits through offers more obvious. Lolapps has also implemented Facebook’s new “Frictionless Credits” payment system into its game Ravenwood Fair. Both of these new payment flows should help the developers better moneti ...
  • Gogo Inflight Internet Tempts Users to Pay by Offe ...
    Gogo Inflight Internet, which provides commercial airplanes with Wi-Fi hotspots, has announced it will provide Facebook access for free to passengers on seven major airlines during the month of February. By giving users access to a channel filled with links to interesting content posted by their fri ...
  • ISA 2011: Fireside Chat with Google’s Eric Chu on ...
    With a flood of devices, Android quickly emerged over the last year as a mobile platform to take seriously, alongside iOS. This year may be one when it becomes the top priority for many developers. What’s on Android’s roadmap that will help it become a robust environment for developers to create, di ...
  • Top 25 Facebook Games for February 2011
    Though last month displayed growth for the top Facebook applications, February appears to be singing a different tune. This time around, 16 of the top 25 Facebook games have experienced loses. Of those, however, half still managed to keep the monthly active user decline under 1 million players. Desp ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Crunch time coming for America in the Middle East?
    As the people's revolution unfolds in Egypt, Alan Hart argues that now is crunch time for Washington: to decide whether the USA's own real interests are best protected by the Arabs or Israel, whether to be on the right side of history or to open the door to the forces of violent extremism.
  • The Tunisian example and Britain
    Christopher King views the structurally-corrupt British political and financial systems. He argues that the upheavals in the Arab world should be instructive to British politicians and the British public because the "same factors underlying the desire for reform in the Arab world are operating in Br ...
  • Can the Palestinian Authority survive?
    Jonathan Cook considers the future of the Palestinian National Authority in the light of the revelations in the "Palestine Papers", leaked to the pan-Arab television channel Al-Jazeera, which show that the authority, under the leadership of Mahmoud Abbas, had been prepared to give away to Israel fun ...
  • US economy and the military-industrial complex
    Paul J. Balles views the growing dependence of the US economy on the military-industrial complex, including arms exports and foreign wars that feeds those exports.
  • US ammunition tells its own story in Egypt
    Yvonne Ridley reminds us that it is US support, and US politicians putting Israel's interests above those of their own country, that has allowed dictators such as Hosni Mubarak of Egypt to desecrate the Arab world with their existence for so long.

Amazon Rainforest

  • Second rancher sentenced for contract kill of Doro ...
    A second rancher has been sentenced for his role in the murder of Dorothy Stang, an American nun who was gunned down in 2005 for her efforts on behalf of poor farmers in the Amazon Rainforest. Regivaldo Galvao was sentenced to 30 years in prison by a jury in the city of Pará. Last month [...]
  • Yasuni National Park- SAVED!
    President Raphael Correa now has approved an agreement to leave Ecuador’s largest oil reserves, amounting to some 900 million barrels, underground in Yasuni National Park in exchange for more than $3 billion. Under the unprecedented agreement, known as the Yasuni-ITT Initiative, the government of Ec ...
  • Amazon watchgroups SILENT over new Chevron oil spi ...
    In the space of a week, a Chevron technical team has discovered two fresh oil spills in Ecuador’s oil-producing Amazon region. One covers three hectares (7.4 acres) near state-owned oil company Petroecuador’s Guanta production station in the heart of Cofan indigenous country. The other impacts half ...
  • Amazon River dolphin new stunning photos!
    The Amazon River dolphin (Bufeo, Bufeo Colorado, Boto, Boto Cor de Rosa, Boutu, Nay, Tonina) or Pink River Dolphin (Inia geoffrensis), is a freshwater River dolphin endemic to the Orinoco, Amazon and Araguaia/Tocantins River systems of Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela. These we ...
  • Belo Monte dam auction proceeds despite protests!
    Bidding for electricity generated by Brazil’s planned Belo Monte Dam in the Amazon rainforest has been marked by protests and legal confusion. A court injunction issued late Monday suspended the dam auction overnight, throwing the bidding process into a state of chaos. Just moments before the aucti ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • 9/11 Family Members Demand Answers from the 9/11 C ...
    The Witnessed & Documented “Kamikaze Pilots” Case In a public statement issued today (see below), members of the 9/11 Family Steering Committee demanded a prompt response from the former Chairman and Executive Director of the 9/11 Commission regarding Former FBI Language Specialist Behrooz Sarshar’ ...
  • The Dream Team: Paul-Nader?
    Maybe there is hope after all… Isn’t it good to see a joint focus on macro issues and real diseases? Even better, to see micro differences and lame sideshows put aside for the badly needed greater good? What do ‘you’ think? This site depends exclusively on readers’ support. Please help us continu ...
  • Podcast Show #37
    The Boiling Frogs Presents Corey Pein Corey Pein recounts the creation of the recently launched groundbreaking site warisbusiness.com, a nonpartisan site covering military contracting, the global arms trade and the lobby, and how he began the project with two assumptions: The first- a lot of peopl ...
  • Additional Omitted Points in CIA-Gulen coverage & ...
    Crucial Details Missing in the MSM Coverage of the Recent Intel Chief’s Exposé Last week I wrote about the Washington Post’s incomplete and one-sided coverage of the recently published memoir by former Turkish Intelligence Chief Osman Nuri Gundes exposing CIA Operations via an Islamic Group in Centr ...
  • Weekly Round Up for January 9
    Obama’s Whistleblower-Hunt, ‘Rent-A-Generals’ Industry, A Great Example of Intentionally Awful Journalism, One-Tip-Based Terror Watch List & More! A belated happy new year to all our readers and friends here at Boiling Frogs Post. As you can tell I am just coming up for air. The holiday season happe ...

Afro Spear

  • “Who is next after Mubarak?” by Nkwazi ...
    Looking at the way a new dawn is unfolding in Maghreb, one can comfortable assert that this is but the beginning of a new dawn for Africa and the Middle East. It kicked off from Tunisia where a 23 years dictator was impelled to flee. This guy, Zine Al-Abidine Ben Ali was a master of [...]
  • “DC a Sign of Our Nation’s Times&#8221 ...
    Op-ed submission by Project 21  Our nation’s capital exemplifies what America can become, but not in a good way. Results from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey finds abysmally high percentages of single-parent households in underprivileged neighborhoods. As the District of Columbia is a ...
  • Samuel Yette and The Choice: Black Survival in the ...
    From Black Agenda Report (BAR): Samuel Yette and The Choice: Black Survival in the United States. “Samuel Yette died last week and the choice he wrote of, a choice long ago reached by this country, is a choice weâve still not caught up to. It is a choice of this nation to more or less [...]
  • Jazzuloo: inner rhythms of the jazz melodies in my ...
    It’s time to return to blogging from a more personal perspective on a consistent basis, so I have a new blog home: Jazzuloo. It won’t be AfroSpear-lite, so there will be little cross-posting. Click on the image below and come visit from time to time.
  • “Things fall apart in Tanzania” by Nkw ...
    What transpired in Tanzania on 5th January tells it all. The “Peace-and-tranquillity” mantra that rulers have always sold is no more. It was reported that three people were killed by police when they were quashing a peaceful demonstration orchestrated by Chama cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo (CHADEMA) i ...

Expose the BNP

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

Sen4Earth

  • Memorial Tribute to Hugh MacDougall
    Memorial Tribute to Hugh MacDougall “We are sending the power of love, peace and compassion, which can change the world.” â Hugh MacDougall, Australia, SEN Honorary Advisor Hugh was more to Suzanne and I than SEN’s Honorary Spiritual Advisor. He was the beloved friend we called brother, and he was t ...
  • No to Monsanto and GMO: Action Central
    "SEN is greatly concerned that Monsanto and GMO give rise to a threat that if unchecked could eventually prove as catastrophic to mankind and the sustainability of all life on earth as global warming. We must scream bloody murder, and do so with facts." -- Gregory Hilbert, Co-Founder Sustainability ...
  • Bill Gates On Climate Change & Energy: We Must and ...
    Whether you know a little or a lot about Climate Change (aka Global Warming), SEN urges you to watch this one-hour video, because you will learn a great deal either way. Gates lays out a sweeping set of ideas for reducing CO2 emmissions to zero. Gates is no fool when it comes to matters of [...]
  • Week 2 – Worldwide Campaign to Save the Gran ...
    The Grand Canyon is one of the world's most pristine and majestic treasures. Mother Nature needs our help to save it. We all need to act to protect the Grand Canyon. Pledge to do your part. Help us by adding your signature to the petitions and ask everyone you know and who cares for earth to do the ...
  • Seize BP Demonstrations Nationwide
    SEN believes these demonstrations will help awaken politicians to outrage over inadequate regulation and control of international corporations, even if they do not succeed in gaining temporary seizure of BP on the basis of national emergency and evidence of criminal neglect and fraud by BP.

If Americans Knew

  • As Israel kills and maims, Outrage is directed at ...
    Whenever Israel commits yet another atrocity, its defenders are quick to redirect public attention away from the grisly crime scene. Currently, there are headlines about allegedly anti-Semitic comments made by senior White House correspondent Helen Thomas. Pundits across the land evince outrage at h ...
  • An Open Letter to the Southern Poverty Law Clinic: ...
    I am disturbed by an article that the Center published in the fall 2007 issue of "Intelligence Report"--the Center's magazine. The item "Navy Extremist Disciplined--But Not for Extremism" is on page 11. The article focuses on Navy officer John Sharpe Jr.
  • NPR Watch: Linda Gradstein Has Done It Again on Ga ...
    NPR's reporter Linda Gradstein has done it again. She has managed to take a "must report" story on Israeli-Palestinian relations -- the new report by B'Tselem on the non-combatants, including children, killed by the Israeli military during the Israeli attack on Gaza -- and report it in a manner whic ...
  • The invisible government: Propaganda Disguised as ...
    John Pilger: In a speech in Chicago, John Pilger describes how propaganda has become such a potent force in our lives and, in the words of one of its founders, represents 'an invisible government'.
  • A moment of truth: A word of faith, hope and love ...
    We, a group of Christian Palestinians, after prayer, reflection and an exchange of opinion, cry out from within the suffering in our country, under the Israeli occupation, with a cry of hope in the absence of all hope, a cry full of prayer and faith in a God ever vigilant, in God's divine providence ...

David J. Gregory

  • Secretariat the Horse, the Movie
    To be witness to history from afar is one thing, to be up close is another, and to have the wisdom to know the difference is the icing on the cake, of course, I am referring to great moments in history, of excelling in any endeavor, being human, or otherwise, of the bright spots and not of man’s dar ...
  • I understand and now you do, too!
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  • I understand, now you do too!
    A lot of people ask the question, why do they hate us so? This trailer from a new movie explains it in simple terms, it is a sociologist outlining the thinking that has emerge around the world in their views of the Empire. As with every Empire that has ever existed, conquered people will never [...]
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Unsuitable Blog

  • A Story About Banks [Guest Post]
    A few weeks back I had a revelation. Many years ago I opened an account with the Midland Bank in Ipswich. Lots of the people that worked there used to come into the pub that I worked in at lunch-time and they all seemed very nice. Actually there was also a very affable man, a [...]
  • Nature Conservancy Embrace Dow Chemical Business M ...
    Below is a long list of chemical compounds and elements. This is not just an ordinary list, for it is special in all sorts of ways – not least of all to anyone who is a supporter of our old friends The Nature Conservancy. The list contains just those substances that the US Environmental Protection [ ...
  • Sudden Oak Death – It’s News Because I ...
    It’s commonly called Sudden Oak Death, so why the picture of a stand of larch trees? That’s a question well worth asking, but a far more important question is: why has Phytophthora ramorum, the name of the fungus responsible, become such big news in the UK? Ever since P. ramorum started blowing its ...
  • Mother Nature Network: A Hypocritical Crock Of Shi ...
    I make no apologies for the title of this post: I have just spent a short while reading the biographies of the Mother Nature Network Team, and have ended up in the kind of moral position that Immanuel Kant might have struggled with if he had had the internet to contend with in his philosophical [... ...
  • The Unsuitablog’s Worst of 2010
    Taking a cue from all the awards and “looking back on”s going on at the moment, it seems like just the right time to pick the very worst ethical hypocrites of 2010. Taking the year as a whole, there is a huge selection to choose from even when just looking at the pages of The [...]

Subalternate Reality

  • “I Support Democratization, But…&#8221 ...
    The Atlanticâs Jeffrey Goldberg â one of the key proponents of the disastrous invasion of Iraq â has some serious misgivings about the fledgling pro-democracy movement thatâs taken over the streets of Egypt. âI support democratization, but,â he cautions, âthe democratization we saw in Gaza (courtesy ...
  • All That Happens In The Middle East Can’t Be ...
    Uncertainly rules the day in Tunisia. Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the countryâs strong-armed and authoritarian ruler since 1987, is in Saudi Arabia while the interim government struggles to restore some semblance of order.  âConfusion, fear and horror in Tunisia as old regime’s militia carries on the ...
  • Newt Comes Out As A Muslim-Baiter
    Early this week, disgraced former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich warned that “a commitment to religious freedom and God-given rights is being replaced by a secular oppression…”  Just hours after those words appeared on Human Events, Gingrich issued a statement forcefully opposing the constructi ...
  • Wealthy Far More Likely To Default On Mortgages
    crossposted at Political Correction For much of the past two years, Congressional Republicans have wasted few opportunities to blame poor and working class Americans for the financial meltdown and the subsequent recession. They’ve argued that through well-intentioned government initiatives, includ ...
  • GOP House Candidate: Mosque Near Ground Zero Is A ...
    Conservative activists and the Muslim-baiters among them are furious about a proposed Islamic community center to be built near Ground Zero.  The debate has become entirely unhinged and some of the more hateful folks are using the controversy as a rallying cry to oppose the construction of all futur ...

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Turning the iPad into an Open, Offline Mapping Pla ...
    We've talked here before about TileMill, an open source tool for creating your own custom map tiles (the individual pieces that make up a full map of a city, country, and so on). But what sorts of things can you do with these map tiles? One area we wanted to explore was using them on Apple's latest ...
  • Dotspotting Expands to Track Homicides, Food Vendo ...
    Since my last post, we've been busily working on extending the functionality of Dotspotting, the first project in our larger Citytracking project aimed at helping people tell stories about cities. It's still, as my colleague Aaron puts it, very much in a "super alpha-beta-disco-ball" state -- which ...
  • How Can We 'Gamify' the News Experience?
    One of the biggest emerging conversations over the past year in Silicon Valley is around "gamification." Simply put, this is the idea of applying game mechanics, particularly those found in videogames, to all sorts of non-game experiences. After following this conversation for many months, I've c ...
  • LocalWiki: Laying the Groundwork
    A few of you have been wondering what we've been up to since our Kickstarter pledge drive ended, so we want to give you a quick update on our Knight-funded project, LocalWiki. For those of you who are more technically inclined, we hope to also provide an insight into these early stages of our proces ...
  • NPR's Project Argo Creates National Content at the ...
    Jason and the Argonauts were the mythological Greek heroes who set off on a quest for the Golden Fleece. Like its namesake, NPR's Project Argo is off on another noble quest -- to strengthen local journalism, particularly on digital platforms. Project Argo is a partnership between NPR and member sta ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Pakistan on Edge - 50,000 Gather in Karachi in Sup ...
    Shouting anti-government slogans, thousands of people marched here in Pakistan’s financial capital to oppose any amendments in the controversial blasphemy laws and praised the man charged with killing Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer, who had dubbed it “black law.”The massive rally, organized by relig ...
  • Islam's War Against Christianity - Ethiopian Musli ...
    According to a news release from International Christian Concern (ICC) , Christians in the Ethiopian city of Besheno are being harassed and physically abused after Muslims posted notices on the doors of Christian homes warning them to convert, leave the city, or face death. Three Christian leaders w ...
  • The Arab Revolts - Is King Abdullah of Jordan Next ...
    Initial and hopeful analysis stemming from the deadly riots that toppled Tunisia’s dictator, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali—who had been relatively friendly to US and EU interests—are growing more cautious as news comes of violent disturbances in Egypt, Yemen, and Jordan. Elliot Abrams, a former National S ...
  • The Edge of Terrorism - The Truth Left Behind: Bai ...
    On September 11, 2001, as hijacked jetliners slammed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Daniel Pearl was 7,500 miles away in Bihar, India. Pearl, South Asia bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal, was horrified as he watched replays of the attacks flash on his hotel television.The next ...
  • Economic Recovery on Edge - Customers Close Accoun ...
    The death blow for Michael Dalrymple’s Phoenix eco-friendly building supply company was the credit freeze that paralyzed the banking system and the nation in the fall of 2008. “Once the economy melted down, 70 percent of my business evaporated overnight,” Dalrymple said. “Customers who would use a h ...

High Country News

  • War on The West: The sequel
    Life is going get even harder for Interior Secretary Ken Salazar as modern-day Sagebrush Rebels try to re-ignite a “War on the West.”
  • A marketing tune-up
    High Country News gets advice on marketing; holiday visitors; Lisa Song gets reporting job and Michelle Nijhuis wins grant; farewell, Bill Freudenburg.
  • The latest: Wyoming Range
    PXP will be allowed to develop 136 gas natural gas wells in the Wyoming Range.
  • The latest: Northern spotted owl
    According to scientific reviewers, Obama's new draft for managing the northern spotted owl is better than Bush's plan but still flawed.
  • Decades of drilling
    A graphic shows how Western states stack up against Texas and the Eastern U.S. when it comes to oil and gas drilling.

CounterCurrents

  • A Manifesto For Change In Egypt
    By Mohamed ElBaradei In Egypt, as in Tunisia, there are other forces than just the president and the people. The army has been quite neutral so far, and I would expect it to remain that way. The soldiers and officers are part of the Egyptian people. They know the frustrations. They want to protect ...
  • Egyptian Youth And New Dawn Hopes
    By Firas Al-AtraqchiFor young Egyptians, long-dormant patriotism and pride have been finally awakened
  • A People Defies Its Dictator, And A Nations Future ...
    By Robert FiskIt might be the end. It is certainly the beginning of the end. Across Egypt, tens of thousands of Arabs braved tear gas, water cannons, stun grenades and live fire yesterday to demand the removal of Hosni Mubarak after more than 30 years of dictatorship
  • Middle East Intifadas
    By Stephen Lendman Initially in Tunisia, popular revolt spread regionally across North Africa and the Middle East, erupting in Algeria, Jordan, Egypt and Yemen
  • Worsening Food Crisis Is Leading To Political Uphe ...
    By Devinder SharmaIn the midst of the chaos being witnessed across the Arab world -- Tunisia, Algeria and now Egypt -- what is being missed out is the role food inflation has played in triggering these protests

Contagious Love Experiment

  • 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 people. Che ...
  • Sharing the writing of another Stieber
    My younger brother, Zack, has been fascinated by the Chinese practice of Falun Gong and is hoping that this post could be used to spark a further discussion about it. � Thoughts on Falun Gong by Zack Stieber � Most of us are aware that in China things work differently then here. The main thing our [ ...
  • Article in FOR
    The following is the rough draft for an article I wrote, reflecting on the war in Iraq, that was published in the recent edition of the Fellowship of Reconciliation’s magazine. For more info on getting the full magazine, check out: http://forusa.org/fall-2010-renewing-movement   Rhetoric and Realit ...
  • Slate Interview: My Country Right or Wrong: Consci ...
    Interview I did with a fascinating writer for SLATE whose special interest is on transformation and how people come to admit they’re wrong:   Address to article: http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/thewrongstuff/archive/2010/12/16/my-country-right-or-wrong-conscientious-objector-josh-stieber-on-being-w ...
  • Dangerous Activity Thwarted in Afghanistan!

Yid With Lid

  • Daniel Pearl Was Killed Nine Years Ago Today- Cele ...
    Next to 9/11, my most horrible memory of this war on Islamofascist terror was Daniel Pearl looking in to the Camera and saying, "My father is Jewish, my mother is Jewish, I am Jewish." just before Khalid Sheikh Mohammed hacked his head off in front of the whole world. It was truly the definition of ...
  • If ElBaradei Can't Tell the Truth About the Muslim ...
    By Barry Rubin Muhammad ElBaradei blatantly lied to CNN. Naturally, the reporter neither called him on it or followed up to ascertain the truth. ELBARADEI: "This is a myth that was sold by the Mubarak regime, that it's either us, the ruthless dictators, or above�them the al-Qa ...
  • Obama Channeled the Wrong Reagan-Newsbusted
    Time magazine writes that President Obama has been "channeling" former President Ronald Reagan as he tries to pivot to the right.� However according to today's Newsbusted the President may be channeling the wrong Reagan. Other important stories covered in the latest edition is Dumb-Dumb Dennis Kucin ...
  • El Baradei Was/Is No Friend of the US But Still a ...
    If one is to believe the mainstream media, opposition leader Mohamed El Baradei is the moderate choice to take over for Hosni Mubarak as the leader of the key US ally Egypt. However a look at his history shows that he would most likely not be friendly to the United States and even worse be controlle ...
  • Harry Reid Announces "Social Security is Off The T ...
    As the country sinks deeper into debt our leaders must make the difficult decisions to protect our solvency.� One big chunk of cash that could be trimmed is Social Security.� Originally the system was developed as a fail safe to help seniors in the last years of their life.� However, as US lifespans ...

The Real Agenda

  • Al Gore Blames Massive Snow Storms on “the w ...
    Giant snow storm hits third of United States Kevin Roth The Weather Channel Feb. 2, 2011 Another day, another major winter storm plows through the region with snow, ice and rain today. All snow is expected in Upstate New York and northern New England with accumulations of 8 to 18 inches. When combin ...
  • Perros detectan con precisión el cáncer de intesti ...
    Esto abriría la posibilidad de desarrollar pruebas para detectar la enfermedad antes de que se extienda EFE A juzgar por sus investigaciones, los autores del citado estudio indicaron que existen componentes químicos correspondientes a tipos de cáncer específicos que circulan por el cuerpo humano y q ...
  • 11 Percent of U.S. Houses Vacant
    CNBC I usually find the quarterly homeowner vacancy and homeownership report from Census pretty lackluster, but the latest one released this morning was anything but. America’s home ownership rate, after holding steady for a while, took a pretty big plunge in Q4, from 66.9 percent to 66.5 percent. T ...
  • International Medical Council: Vaccines pose a sig ...
    NaturalNews.com February 1, 2011 To hear it from proponents of the vaccine industry, vaccines are based on rock-solid science that proves them to be completely safe and widely effective. These beliefs, however, are not factually based on real science but rather a persistent vaccine mythology that ha ...
  • The Little Ice Age (1300 A.D. to the 20th century)
    None of these changes could have been caused by changes in atmospheric CO2 because they predate the large CO2 emissions that began about 1945.

Wind Watch

  • Waubra gets vocal in the US
    Two senior US health industry executives this week conducted video interviews with more than a dozen Waubra residents, detailing health problems associated with living near wind turbines. Mr Preston Ribnick and his wife, Lilli-Ann Green, said their visit was part of a campaign to communicate informa ...
  • Groups fear damage to land by Lanai, Molokai wind ...
    The damage that proposed wind farms on Lanai and Molokai could do to the islands’ natural beauty and cultural sites outweighs the benefits they might have by helping the state reach energy self-sufficiency. That was the message from several community groups that testified at a legislative hearing ye ...
  • Wind turbines must be moved
    The developers of a proposed $60-million wind farm near Hampton in Annapolis County “must go back to the drawing board” and relocate four turbines that are considered to be too close to cottages, says an Environment Department official. Toronto-based Sprott Power Corp. was given provincial environme ...
  • Wind turbines need to be farther apart, suggests s ...
    A new formula has been devised to help wind farm owners generate energy more cost efficiently. Charles Meneveau, a Johns Hopkins University (JHU) fluid mechanics and turbulence expert, working with a colleague in Belgium, has devised the new precept through which the optimal spacing for a large arra ...
  • Birders look for allies to fight wind turbines
    OAK HARBOR, Ohio — Birders said Tuesday they are seeking people from all walks of life who share their concerns about the proper siting of wind turbines in the ecologically fragile western Lake Erie region. At a brainstorming session in the Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge’s visitor center, Kenn and ...

Not My Tribe

  • Liberating Egypt over Hosni Mubarak’s dead b ...
    Besieged Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak refuses to step down. He told the 2 1/2 million strong demonstration in Tahrir Square that he intends to die in Egypt. If the protesters likewise promised to accede only over their dead bodies, I’m certain the Western press would report it as a provocation an ...
  • Bolton (reportedly) renews call to Bomb Iran.
    As ChickenHawk Supreme, he’s done so many times in the past… Called for OTHER people to do the deed. My suggestion for all these “kill in the name of God” Religious Terrorists like Bolton, Bush, Prince, Cheney, Palin etc… strap some dynamite vests on and parachute out over Teheran and do it your Own ...
  • Steve Bach, mayoral candidate…
    “anti-establishment” but being heavily funded by the Real Estate thieves who make up the Establishment here in Colorado Springs. The Real Estate Thieves who were willing accomplices to the Mortgage Scam which broke our local economy, that of Colorado, that of the United States and of the entire worl ...
  • Drone targeting data… is it as flawed as THI ...
    It’s not just in the middle east, it’s what “we” do here too… The brutality is endemic to the system, every action of Cop Meets Citizen, here, or abroad, is taken under the assumption that the Citizen is the enemy, and must be subdued, brought under “our” control. Whether a citizen in his home or [. ...
  • Walk Like an Egyptian, you can wish
    Western pyramid-gawkers since Napoleon have denigrated modern Egypt for the backwater it had become, its great civilization long extinguished. But it was a US dictator-imposed facade, with contemporary Egyptians dismissed as oil-less lackeys of the Euro-Zionist enterprise. How does the past week of ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Skeptics eating up Big Pharma crucifixion of Dr. A ...
    The British Medical Journal has published a report by journalist Brian Deer and accused Dr. Andrew Wakefield, the doctor who in 1998 published a study suggesting a link between the MMR vaccine and autism, of fraud. Over the last 12 years there has been considerable media misrepresentation of Andr ...
  • If Big Pharma drugs can turn you into a gay sex ad ...
    Man claims Glaxo drug made him ‘gay sex addict’ http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/man-claims-glaxo-drug-gay-sex-addict/ ... can they also make you agree to help rig 267 storeys with explosives and then lose all memory until you succumb to the 'side effects' and die? And people say there's no way ...
  • The Reading Comprehension of Debunkers...
    ...never ceases to amaze me. Youtuber "TheSkepticalIdealist" recently commented on my video "Demolition Expert Debunks the Debunkers" and tried to misrepresent the expertise of Tom Sullivan. I pointed out to him that Sullivan's position at CDI was not just a photographer, but also a Powder Carrie ...
  • More predictive programming...
    Remember the 2001 Lone Gunmen pilot episode that predicted 9/11? Remember the 2004 BBC Panorama program that predicted 7/7? Remember the 2005 TV docudrama Oil Storm that predicted Hurricane Katrina and the flooding of New Orleans? Remember the 2009 Nicholas Cage movie Knowing that predicted the G ...
  • Eight NWO minions spouting the same twenty-year-ol ...

Fooducate

  • Coming Soon: More Food, Everywhere
    AS if we don’t have enough opportunities to buy and eat food during the day. Now retailers that never sold food, are devoting entire sections to edible groceries. Reflecting a major shift in the way Americans shop for food, retailers better known for selling clothes or aspirin, including Walgreens, ...
  • Where Fooducate Gets its Product Information
    We’ve been asked by several readers and users of the Fooducate iPhone App about the source of our product information. Some also wanted to know how we ensure data accuracy. First let’s explain what data we use and compile. In order to analyze and grade products, Fooducate keeps a record of individua ...
  • USDA Announces 2010 Dietary Guidelines. (Yes, we k ...
    The USDA is announcing today, the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2010. A bit overdue, once every 5 years the Department of Agriculture modifies its recommendations based on new scientific evidence (and heavy lobbying too). It would seem that the Department of Health and Human Services should be c ...
  • The Anatomy of a Dorito, Part 2
    Last week we talked about Cool Ranch Doritos and how with 34 ingredients, you can’t expect a healthy snack. Yesterday we got an email from Lindsey, who pointed out a discrepancy in another Doritos product – Nacho Cheese: How can the package say “0 Trans Fat” when the ingredient list contains partial ...
  • M & M’s Deconstructed
    If you’ve visited New York’s Times Square lately, you may have encountered M&M’s World. It’s a three floor temple celebrating all things small, round, chocolaty, and brightly colored. The brand, owned by Mars, has been around since the early 1940’s and has become part of our childhood and popular cu ...

Traffikd

  • Internet Marketing and Social Media Degree Program ...
    Guest post by Brian Jenkins Over a billion and a half people use the Internet, and this has created a plethora of opportunities for talented Internet marketers. Specialized knowledge in Internet marketing and social media is vital for many businesses. Yes, there are successful, self-taught Internet ...
  • How to Find Great Communities, Forums, and Blogs i ...
    To market your company effectively, you need to find out where your target audience is. In this post I’ll show you how you can do this. I like using examples, so in this case, I’ll assume you sell Star Wars merchandise.
  • Blogging Event Ideas to Spice Up Your Blog
    If you've ever gone to an industry conference, film festival, grand opening, or author signing, then you can appreciate the energy such events can create. Industry conferences gather together the best and brightest minds in order to share ideas and plan for the future. Film festivals celebrate great ...
  • Increasing Your Blog’s Interactivity: 10 Tips for ...
    Guest post by Alexis Bonari Success in attracting and retaining readers is often influenced by a blog’s level of interactivity. Many readers are more active than passive and want to feel like they have a role in affecting a blog’s content, design, structure, and overall ongoing conversation. Posts ...
  • 5 Facebook Apps That Really Make Money
    Guest post by Alexis Bonari If you aren't on Facebook by now, you are probably the only one who isn't. My grandmother has a Facebook page and anyone who can type, is able to start their own page with no problem. Most everyone uses Facebook as a social meeting place, but did you know that you coul ...

Survival International

  • Outrage as construction of Belo Monte dam illegall ...
    Indians protesting against the Belo Monte dam © Verena Glass Brazil’s environmental agency, IBAMA, has issued a ‘partial’ installation licence for the Belo Monte dam, to be built on the Xingu River in the Amazon. The licence allows the initial stages of construction, including the clearing of ...
  • Vedanta fights back over Indian hill tribe’s sacre ...
    Vedanta is still trying to get back into the Dongria Kondh's Niyamgiri Hills. © Survival International FTSE 100 mining giant Vedanta is challenging a ban on mining the sacred mountain of India’s Dongria Kondh tribe. The Orissa High Court will hear the case on Wednesday 2 February.
 The Dongria ...
  • Unique new photos of uncontacted Brazilian Indians
    The photos reveal a thriving, healthy community with baskets full of manioc and papaya fresh from their gardens. © Gleison Miranda/FUNAI/Survival New photos obtained by Survival show uncontacted Indians in never-seen-before detail. The Indians are living in Brazil, near the Peruvian border, an ...
  • Anti-mining activist shot dead in Philippines
    Nickel mining threatens to devastate the Palawan tribe's land. © Dario Novellino An anti-mining activist has been murdered in the Philippines. Dr Gerry Ortega was shot dead four days ago on Palawan island. Local mayor Edward Hagedorn told journalists, ‘From the initial findings, we know that t ...
  • Cartoon book satirizing ‘development’ launched in ...
    Survival's 'There you go!' can be read in two minutes. © Oren Ginzburg/Survival Survival has launched in the United States a biting critique of how tribal peoples are being destroyed in the name of âdevelopmentâ. The critique is presented in a cartoon book called âThere you go!â that can be re ...

Greg Palast

  • Shake your head and throw something at your TV
    from MoviesOnline.ca Bush Family Fortunes is a documentary that will make you shake your head and want to throw something at your TV. If even half of what BBC investigative reporter Greg Palast reveals is true and you happen to be an American you may or may not be calling for a revolution depending ...
  • Peak Oil and a Changing Climate
    from The Nation The scientific community has long agreed that our dependence on fossil fuels inflicts massive damage on the environment and our health, while warming the globe in the process. But beyond the damage these fuels cause to us now, what will happen when the world's supply of oil runs o ...
  • Palast ArrestedBusted by BP in Azerbaijan
    by Greg Palast BP's Azeri police arresting Palast for filming BP oil rig - Baku, Azerbaijan, December 2010"Here in Azerbaijan we believe in human rights. PLEASE GIVE US YOUR FILM." Oh, no, no, not good. The enforcers here come in three colors:  the military police still wearing their old Russian ...
  • The Real Wiki Hero
    by Marta Steele from OpEdNews with a Surprise P.S. from Greg Palast Is it not ironic that the same country that contributed Rupert Murdoch to the world has more recently donated Julian Assange, editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks since 2007, when it was founded to "report on and publish important informat ...
  • WIKI-CREEP ASSANGE, THE SCAMPPvt. Bradley, the Cha ...
    by Greg Palast for Truthout/Buzzflash I'm a "hero" and it makes me want to puke.  This week I was voted a "Hero of the Media" in one of those fairly harmless polls that are little more than thermometers of face time on the idiot box. But this Nation Magazine gong is shared with Julian Assange, imp ...

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Andrew Cuomo: Evil or Stupid?
    I hear from people who know him he’s actually quite bright.  Which means that he probably understand the consequences of this: In a surprise move, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has submitted his proposal to limit local property taxes to the State Senate for a vote on Monday, a tactic that seems designed to ...
  • Isolate and concentrate costs
    Time Magazine has a piece that is analytically bizarre on the recent suicide bombing in a Kabul supermarket that is primarily used by Westerners and Afghans who are part of the small technocratic/bureaucratic class that could conceivably govern the nation in a quasi-Western manner: A suicide bomber ...
  • Some Points About Egypt
    1) the timing for Davos of both revolutions is… interesting.  One might think a message is being sent. 2) the Iranians have been putting money into the rural areas of Egypt.  Specifically into clinics.  Since the Egyptians are American clients, they can’t break drug patent laws, the Iranians are ...
  • Isolate and concentrate costs
    Time Magazine has a piece that is analytically bizarre on the recent suicide bombing in a Kabul supermarket that is primarily used by Westerners and Afghans who are part of the small technocratic/bureaucratic class that could conceivably govern the nation in a quasi-Western manner: A suicide bomber ...
  • Some Points About Egypt
    1) the timing for Davos of both revolutions is… interesting.  One might think a message is being sent. 2) the Iranians have been putting money into the rural areas of Egypt.  Specifically into clinics.  Since the Egyptians are American clients, they can’t break drug patent laws, the Iranians are ...

Age of Autism

  • Brian Deer’s Only Award Based on Faulty Premise
    By Jake Crosby While CNN’s Anderson Cooper was shouting down Dr. Andrew Wakefield when he was responding to Brian Deer’s first charges against him that were published in the British Medical Journal on January 5, 2011, Cooper claimed Deer was...
  • Katie Wright Reports on the IACC Meeting: Common S ...
    By Katie Wright Sorry everyone that this IACC post is so late. I honestly had a tough time getting through all 6 hours. At the previous IACC meeting Lori MacIlwain and Wendy Fournier of the NAA made a devastating presentation...
  • NYT Reports on Study: Pneumonia Bacterium Dodges V ...
    With Sleight of DNA, Pneumonia Bacterium Dodges Vaccines By SINDYA N. BHANOO NYT HERE Researchers from seven countries have collaborated to analyze how a single strain of Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteria has morphed over 30 years and spread across the world,...
  • Is That Paul Offit with a Casserole?
    By Teresa Conrick In 1995 when Megan was diagnosed with PDD-NOS, I thought all would be ok. It wasn't the "AUTISM" word and the neurologist who gave her that diagnosis was famous, and old, so he had to be an...
  • Molecular Psychiatry Medscape: Mitochondrial Dysfu ...
    Have your children been tested for mitochondrial disorder? My girls have had tens of thousands of dollars worth of genetics tests ordered by pediatricians and neurologists. I have a photocopy of Mia's chromosomes at age 3. It wasn't until years...

Global BDS Movement

  • Palestinian Civil Society Statement on the draft ...
    Professor John Ruggie, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General (SRSG) on transnational corporations and other Business enterprises is currently preparing his final report to the UN Human Rights Council, due in June 2011. The report will include Guiding Principles for the implementatio ...
  • On the Second Anniversary of Israel’s Bloodbath in ...
    Occupied Palestine, 27 December 2010 – On the morning of 27 December 2008 Israeli forces initiated a 23-day military offensive against the occupied and besieged Gaza Strip killing more than 1400 and injuring over 5000 Palestinians, predominantly civilians and refugees since 1948. read more
  • Palestinian Civil Society reiterates call for a fu ...
    Occupied Palestine, 22 December 2010 - We, the undersigned Palestinian civil society organizations, including farmers’ unions, agricultural organizations and popular committees, reiterate the call of the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) for a full boycott of Carmel-Agrexco due to its complic ...
  • Derail Israel's Unlawful A1 Train Project– End Int ...
    Occupied Palestinian Territory, 16 December 2010 - Israel’s A1 high-speed train project designed to connect Jerusalem and Tel Aviv violates international humanitarian law and human rights law. The A1 rail project forms a component of Israel’s ongoing plans to cement its regime of occupation, colonia ...
  • Australian BDS Movement Begins to Emerge
    By Phil Monsour read more

Farm Wars

Open Your Eyes News

  • USS Abraham Lincoln provides air support to Afghan ...
    BBC - When British troops in Helmand need air support, it doesn’t only come from airfields within Afghanistan itself – it may come from a floating runway 500 miles away. That runway is a US Navy aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea, currently the massive USS Abraham Lincoln. Over the last few months ...
  • US: Study finds red light cameras cut fatal crashe ...
    AP — Red light cameras are helping drivers remember that red means stop and are saving lives, according to a new study out Tuesday by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. The study concludes that the cameras have reduced the rate of fatal crashes by 24 percent in 14 large cities that introduc ...
  • USA: Mortgage Finance Overhaul to Raise Costs, Red ...
    Bloomberg – In spite of differences between Democrats and Republicans on reforming housing finance, both sides back proposals that would make mortgages more expensive and difficult to obtain. Government officials and lawmakers want to make the market less vulnerable to another credit crisis, and all ...
  • AAA Rating Is Tough to Defend as U.S. Debt Soars: ...
    Bloomberg – Last week, Standard & Poorâs lowered Japanâs bond rating to AA-, the fourth-highest level. By that standard, the U.S. got away with a slap on the wrist from Moodyâs Investors Service, which warned merely that âthe probability of assigning a negative outlook in the coming two years is ris ...
  • Get Internet Access When Your Government Shuts It ...
    PC World – These days, no popular movement goes without an Internet presence of some kind, whether it’s organizing on Facebook or spreading the word through Twitter. And as we’ve seen in Egypt, that means that your Internet connection can be the first to go. Whether you’re trying to check in with yo ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • L.A. seeks to boost recycling, while U.S. lags
    In Los Angeles 65% of the trash gets diverted from landfills, and the goal is 70% by 2013, according to city officials. That puts L.A. at the top of big-city efforts. Nationally, Americans generated about 250 million tons of trash...
  • Living plastic-free in February: Online group atte ...
    February is traditionally noteworthy for one thing: Valentine's Day. But the website Rodale.com may change that with its Plastic-Free Challenge, kicking off today and running throughout the month. For each of the month's four weeks, a different blogger will attempt...
  • Toxic chemical rules are on Brown's agenda
    As Congress struggles to reform the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act, California in the next few months is expected to issue the nation's first comprehensive rules curbing chemicals in consumer products such as toys, cosmetics and plastics. On Thursday, U.S....
  • Caltech's Frances Arnold wins Draper Prize for bio ...
    Frances H. Arnold, a California Institute of Technology researcher, has won the 2011 Draper Prize, often described as the Nobel Prize for engineering, for her pioneering work on “directed evolution.” The technique, a way to use evolution to engineer biology,...
  • Polar bear makes marathon swim 426 miles across Ar ...
    A polar bear in Alaska swam nine days across the Beaufort Sea before finding a piece of ice to haul out on, scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the University of Wyoming have learned....

water.org

  • Water.org powering microfinance for water (CFI)
    Whatâs Matt Damon Got to Do With Microfinance? (Center for Financial Inclusion) – Reeta Roy, the president and CEO of The MasterCard Foundation, penned the post for the foundationâs blog many weeks ago. But the storyâs still fresh: an organization called Water.org is powering a âmarket-driven and su ...
  • Water.org ensuring the right to clean water (ABC)
    Ensuring the Right to Clean Water, One Bottle at a Time: Matt Damon and water.org team up to end the global water crisis (ABC News) – Water.Org gives grants in 14 countries (with Haiti most recently added) utilizing the innovation of a micro-finance model called âwater creditâ. Using the power of th ...
  • Votes are in from Lowe’s Giving Campaign (Bu ...
    The Votes Are in: America Shows Its Love for National Parks, but Everyone Wins in Loweâs First Online Giving Campaign (Business Wire) MOORESVILLE, N.C. – Loweâs and the Loweâs Charitable and Educational Foundation are distributing grants totaling $1 million to the four charities that participated in ...
  • Hult Global Case Challenge video (Hult)
    Official Hult Global Case Challenge video 2011 (Hult) - The Hult Global Case Challenge is an international case competition that is open to all university and college students from around the world. On March 5th 2011 in partnership with Water.org, we will hold Regional events in five major cities ac ...
  • Matt Damon recognized for Water.org (MTV)
    Matt Damon Recognized At Critics’ Choice Awards For Water.org Charity (MTV) – Damon was given the fourth annual Joel Siegel Award for Service to the Community. While Kimmel provided comic relief, joking that the Oscar winner is “the greatest guy in the world,” the actor received serious accolades fo ...

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Thousands Converge on Koch Brothers Billionaire's ...
    Protest organizers, which included the California Courage Campaign, CREDO, MoveOn.org, 350.org, the California Nurses Association, United Domestic Workers of America and the main sponsor, the good-government group Common Cause. Submitted by Kit B. to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comme ...
  • Chapter One: Bring My Job Home!
    So what happened? Why didn�t America know that the $787 billion legislation represented one of the largest middle-class tax cuts in American history, that it had demonstrably created or preserved between 1.5 million and 3 million jobs, and that it had,->Submitted by Kit B. to Society & Culture �|� ...
  • Ethos: New Documentary Calls for Consumers to Recl ...
    �The real revolution will be an evolution. No bloodshed, just common sense, people learning the facts and then acting accordingly. Not as romantic, but effective and sustainable.� Submitted by Kit B. to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Trapped by myth
    Call it the myth of national security - or, more accurately, national insecurity, since it always tells us who and what to fear. It's been a mighty (and mighty effective) myth exactly because it lays out with such clarity not just what Americans -->Submitted by Kit B. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �No ...
  • The Egyptian revolution threatens an American-impo ...
    The danger to America and Israel is that the Egyptian revolution will destroy this false choice of secular dictator-or-crazy Islamists by showing that Arabs are smart articulate people who can handle real democracy if they get to make it themselves. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-i ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

  • IKEA Continues to Grow Solar
    Furniture manufacturing giant IKEA is known for providing affordable furnishing. Its global presence has been marked by big blue warehouse sized stores with yellow trim. The Swedish company is working to also be known for its sustainabl ...
  • Second Largest Solar PV Installation On U.S. East ...
    Fifteen months after signing a power purchase agreement with Duke Energy Corp., in August 2009, SunEdison LLC began construction on a photovoltaic (PV) solar farm in Davidson County, North Carolina. read more
  • U.S. DOE Campus Going Solar
    Over the last two weeks the United States Department of Energy (DOE) has been busy dolling out loan guarantees for renewable energy projects including its most recent loan guarantee offer of US$967 million for what will be the largest p ...
  • E•BOOM CAPITAL: Solar Stocks Continue to Leave Bro ...
    Solar tech company GT Solar International, Inc. (NASDAQ: SOLR) Solar power technology companies continued this week to lead the overall green indices and ETFs as well as t ...
  • U.S. Government Backs Largest PV Solar Installatio ...
    Last month NRG Energy Inc. (NYSE: NRG) conditionally agreed to acquire the Aqua Caliente Solar project in Arizona from First Solar Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR). read more

News Blaze

  • Gortat Tears Up Boston
    Against the powerhouse Boston Celtics and the New Orleans Hornets, the 7' 0' center from Poland erupted for two quality games. The Hornets had recently won 10 games in a row.
  • Is Governor Brown Really Open to New Ideas?
    Gov. Brown asks for ideas, but Green Party wants to know if he'll listen to 2 ideas to save the state: Oil severance tax and fixing 3-Strikes law.
  • Anti-Malaria Alliance Saves Thousands of Lives Acr ...
    The anti-malaria alliance was able to save thousands of lives across the continent. What's even more important is that the success it has currently achieved now serves as a good model for tackling other social ills.
  • Somali League: Elman Crashes Supper Shell By 4-1
    Elman celebrated its first goal when the popular striker Abdi Aziz Mohamed Ali scored during the 25th minute of the 1st half. The same striker scored the second goal for Elman FC.
  • UN Officials Urge Egyptian Authorities to Heed Cal ...
    Ms. Pillay deplored the rising number of casualties, saying unconfirmed reports suggests that as many as 300 people may have been killed so far, over 3,000 injured and hundreds arrested. She urged authorities to ensure police and other security forc

To Do

renewable recycling conservation
EMPSi Receives Award for Renewable Energy Development
PR Newswire (press release)
- Feb 02, 2011
- 3 hours ago
The project's objective is to foster environmentally responsible production of renewable energy. "We are proud to be partnering with the BLM on such an ...
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A Sputnik Moment For Renewable Energy Or Another Failed Launch?
RenewableEnergyWorld.com (blog)
- Feb 02, 2011
- 1 hour ago
By David De Bruin | 2011-02-01 15:24:00.0 | 0 Comments In his State of the Union address last week, President Obama characterized this moment in history as ...
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Intel leads way with renewable energy commitment
Energy Efficiency News
- Feb 02, 2011
- 4 hours ago
Chipmaker Intel confirmed its intentions yesterday to increase its renewable energy purchase commitment to cover 85% of its estimated US usage. ...
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Largest Renewable Energy Projects of 2010
companiesandmarkets.com
- Feb 02, 2011
- 2 hours ago
Largest Renewable Energy Projects of 2010 - With the growing demands of energy around the world, renewable energy has carved an important place for itself ...
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Human Habitat

ecology water energy
State Ecology OKs most of Jefferson County shoreline plan
Peninsula Daily
- Feb 02, 2011
- 8 hours ago
By Charlie Bermant PORT TOWNSEND -- The state Department of Ecology has issued conditional approval of Jefferson County's updated shoreline master program ...
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Cleanup continues at derelict barge leaking oil, PCBs in Columbia River near ...
Los Angeles Times
- Jan 31, 2011
- Jan 31, 2011
More than 50 responders from agencies that include the Washington Department of Ecology and the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality are on the scene. ...
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Unified Command Works to Contain Sheen From Derelict Vessel Near Camas
Newstalk 1450 KBKW
- Feb 01, 2011
- Feb 01, 2011
A Unified Command, consisting of Coast Guard, Washington Dept. of Ecology and Oregon Dept. of Environmental Quality was established Jan. ...
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UCD prof will buy his own beer after he finds butterfly
Daily Democrat
- Feb 02, 2011
- 6 hours ago
By KATHY KEATLEY GARVEY/Special to The Democrat Chalk up another win for butterfly expert Art Shapiro, professor of evolution and ecology at UC Davis. ...
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Water Power

water floods pollution
EPA Plans Strict Limits on Toxic Chemicals in Drinking Water
New York Times (blog)
- Feb 02, 2011
- 46 minutes ago
By JOHN M. BRODER The Obama administration announced on Wednesday that it planned to regulate toxic substances in drinking water more strictly and would ...
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Western Springs official dies in apparent fall from water tower
Los Angeles Times
- Feb 02, 2011
- 4 minutes ago
By AP WESTERN SPRINGS, Ill. (AP) — An official in suburban Chicago has died after an apparent fall from a water tower in the village where he worked. ...
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Water rates to increase 8.9% in suburbs, 9.3% in Detroit
Detroit Free Press
- Feb 02, 2011
- 19 minutes ago
Lamar Smith, R-Texas, chairman of the US- 10:38 pm By JOHN WISELY Under siege in the courts and Legislature by angry suburban customers, the Detroit Water ...
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Ahead of the Bell: Mueller Water Products
Bloomberg
- Feb 02, 2011
- 2 hours ago
By AP NEW YORK (AP) — Shares of Mueller Water Products slumped 8 percent before the market opened Tuesday on lackluster first-quarter earnings and a ...
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Tuesday, February 1, 2011

1 February - Late Links

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Just A Dream by Nelly Sam Tsui & Christina Grimmie 

( I subscribed to  KurtHugoSchneider's channel )

Perfect Day - Susan Boyle

Tropical Cyclones Attacking Australia: Big Pic

Tropical Cyclone Yasi, recently upgraded to a category 5, the highest level of threat, is bearing down on Queensland Australia and the Great Barrier Reef with wind speeds likely exceeding 175 mph. Heavy precipitation resulting from a combination of Tropical Storm Tasha in late 2010, monsoon rains, and the strongest La Niña to hit the planet in 35 years – have inundated the region with floods deep enough for sharks to visit. 

The Surrender of Economic Policy  

To accept a balanced budget and the unchallenged monetary judgment of the Federal Reserve is, by definition, to remove macroeconomics from the political sphere.
Macroeconomics, not microeconomics, is the active center of power. Practical conservatives understand this. It is no accident that conservatives always seek to control the high ground of deficit and interest rate policy, nor any surprise that liberals defeat themselves from the beginning when they concede it.
Yet, the economics behind this consensus is both reactionary and deeply implausible. It springs from a never-never-land of abstract theory concocted over 25 years by the disciples of Milton Friedman and purveyed through them to the whole profession. Liberals--and anyone else concerned with economic prosperity--should now reject this way of looking at the world.
The conservative macroeconomic creed is built on three basic elements. They are, first, monetarism--the idea that the Federal Reserve's monetary policy controls inflation, but has little effect on output and employment except perhaps in the very short run. Second, there is rational expectations, which is the idea, for which Robert Lucas just won the Nobel Prize, that individual economic agents are so clever, so well informed, and so well educated in economics that they do not make systematic errors in their economic decisions, especially the all-important choices of labor supply. And third, there is market clearing: the idea that all transactions, including the hiring and firing of workers, occur at prices that equate the elemental forces of supply and demand.  
No part of present inflationary pressure, such as it is, stems from wages. Wage compensation, two-thirds of all costs, remains flat. The whole of today's modest inflation stems from a boom in profits and investment income, and from the effects of this boom on commodity prices and other incidentals of the inflation process.

How Egypt Is Gypped By The West

The solutions for the world financial crisis that the CEOs and Big Pols are massaging in a posh conference center in snowy Davos, Switzerland have turned into a global economic catastrophe in the streets of Cairo, the current ground zero of a certain-to-spread wave of international unrest.

Yes, the tens of thousands in the streets demanding the ouster of the cruel Mubarak regime are there now pressing for their right to make a political choice but they are being driven by an economic disaster that has sent unemployment skyrocketing and food prices climbing.
People are out in the streets not just to meet but by their need to eat.
As Nouriel Roubini (who was among the first to predict the financial crisis while others were pooh-poohing him as  “Dr Doom”) says, don’t just look at the crowds in Cairo but what is motivating them now, after years of silence and repression.
He says that the dramatic rise in energy and food prices has become a major global threat and a leading factor that has gone largely unreported in the coverage of events in Egypt.
“What has happened in Tunisia, is happening right now in Egypt, but also riots in Morocco, Algeria and Pakistan, are related not only to high unemployment rates and to income and wealth inequality, but also to this very sharp rise in food and commodity prices,” Roubini said.
Prices in Egypt are up 17% because of a worldwide surge in commodity prices that has many factors but speculation on Wall Street and big banks is a key one.

 Here’s a key fact buried in a CNN Money report—the kind intended for investors, not the public at large: “About 40% of Egypt’s citizens live off less than $2 a day, so any price increase hurts.”

Egypt is central to U.S. interests in the Middle East as a moderate state and a key player in both counterterrorism operations and regional peace negotiations, said Helima L. Croft, a geopolitical analyst at Barclays Capital.
If street protests were to end President Hosni Mubarak’s nearly 30-year hold on power, “I think there would be a fear that you could see radicalism sweeping across the Middle East,” Croft said, adding that the fear might be unfounded.
Beyond its political significance, Egypt controls the Suez Canal, an important shipping lane.”
Suddenly, there are worries about Egypt being able to pay off its debt, it suddenly was pronounced riskier than Iraq, according to Asia Times:
“The cost of protecting Egyptian debt against default for five years with the contracts jumped 69 basis points, or 0.69 percentage points, this week to 375 today, compared with 328 for Iraq, according to prices from CMA, a data provider in London. Just last week, Iraqi swaps cost 19 basis points more than Egypt’s, and in June, an average 240 basis points more, as Iraq recovered from the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.
The unrest, inspired by the revolt that toppled Tunisia’s leader, “does raise political risks,” said Eric Fine, a portfolio manager in New York who helps Van Eck Associates Corp. oversee $3 billion in emerging-market assets. “If this is a revolution, the price of risk for Egypt could go much higher, and if it’s a failed one” the cost will drop to 300 basis points and probably 250, Fine said in a phone interview.”
While most of the increases in food prices are due to droughts and floods, US policy contributed to it mightily, argues Mike “Mish” Shedlock on his Global economic blog, revealing a reality the media has missed:
“Bernanke’s “Quantitative Easing” policies combined with rampant credit growth in China and India has led to increased speculation in commodities. That speculation has forced up food prices.
Please note that speculation in commodities is not a cause of anything. Rather commodity speculation is a result of piss poor monetary policies not only the Fed, but central bankers worldwide.”
Michael Fitzsimmons says that US energy policy is also contributing to the problems in Egypt, but agrees that monetary policy is a prime culprit. He writes, “ to sum things up: Ben Bernanke’s implementation of “QE2″ has directly led to food inflation across the world. In many developing and poor countries (i.e. Egypt and elsewhere) food makes up a much larger percentage of an individual’s income and is felt much more severely than in the U.S.
Why have most media outlets ignored this? The financiers schmoozing at the World Economic Forum in Davos know all about it and are worried as well as Bloomberg News reported.
“This protest won’t end in North Africa; it will spread in many countries because of high unemployment and increasing food prices,” Hamza Alkholi, chairman and chief executive of Saudi Alkholi Group, a holding company investing in industrials and real estate, said in an interview in Davos, Switzerland.
In an age of globalization, a hike in global prices will spread unrest globally. Egypt had its own “bread riot” in l977 when prices went up suddenly on the orders of the World Bank so it is no stranger to the need to fight back.
The question is why aren’t Americans up in arms too as inflation at the pump and the grocery store drives princes higher here. Part of the reason is that they don’t know that the US has worse economic inequality according to a scientific measure: The Gini Coefficent

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Our Angel of Death 

They sent a solid Princeton man to tell Hosni Mubarak that the jig is up. Who better to play the role of Grim Reaper of the Great American Empire than the son of Frank Wisner? For the uninitiated, Frank Wisner Sr. cut his teeth as the OSS liaison to the Gehlen Organisation in post-war Germany. He then became the first Director of the Office of Policy Coordination, a precursor of the CIA's Directorate of Plans. He and/or Richard Helms headed up the CIA's dirty tricks operations during the worst periods of CIA abuse (later chronicled in the Church Committee reports).

Wisner is most famous for launching Operation Mockingbird, and coining the term "Mighty Wurlitzer" to describe how he played the media like an instrument.
 

Bush, the Great Democratizer 

It's kind of understandable that conservatives are remembering that George W. Bush talked about a democracy agenda for the Middle East, are seeing a movement towards democracy in Tunisia and Egypt, and are drawing the conclusion that Bush is responsible for the present crises in the Arab world. Of course, this is supposed to be a good thing.

It should be remembered that the elections that took place during the Bush era were not exactly successful. The elections in Iraq brought to power a bloc of pro-Iranian, religiously conservative Shi'ites, much to the alarm of the rest of the Sunni-dominated Arab world. The Sunnis in Iraq initially boycotted the elections, making the problem even worse and leading to massive ethnic cleansing with dozens of headless bodies littering the streets of Baghdad each morning.
Elections in Lebanon led to increased power for Hizbollah and, ultimately, a destabilization of the central government. Within a year, Israel would invade Lebanon and essentially lose in their battle to disarm Hizbollah. This was hardly the outcome the neo-cons were looking for.
In Palestine, the elections were won by Hamas. When Israel refused to accept such an outcome and began arresting Palestine's newly-elected officials, the U.S. went along with them. Within a year, Hamas took over the Gaza Strip and threw Fatah officials out. Then we witnessed the Battle of Gaza. Hamas remains in control of Gaza today.
The elections in Egypt and Afghanistan were rigged. The municipal elections in Saudi Arabia didn't amount to much.
The one thing we can say is that the Middle East is experiencing a lot more democracy than ever before. We may not have liked the outcome, but Iraq, Lebanon, and Palestine did have relatively fair elections. Maybe Tunisia and Egypt will soon be able to say the same thing. I don't think Bush deserves much credit for this, except, perhaps, in an unintentional and ironic way. But I never opposed or disagreed with Bush when he said that the Middle East needs more democracy. I just thought he was a fool for thinking it would lead to any short-term advantage for Israel or the United States.
( Who would seriously think that the PNAC plans were 'short term'..except apologists. The U.S. builds bases. Giving them up.. someday after the 12th of Never  )

Anger in Egypt

As violence erupted, thousands of inmates, including political prisoners, escaped from jail. 
Palestinians from the Gaza Strip among those who manage to escape. 

California Prisoners Sentenced to Death by Water

The water at Kern Valley State Prison contains twice the federally accepted level of arsenic, a known carcinogen. But the 4,800 men imprisoned at the “state-of-the-art” Central California facility have no choice: they have to drink it.

And it's not as if prison officials just learned about the issue last week. In fact, tests on the water discovered the problem soon after the prison opened in 2005. The powers that be have just chosen to do nothing about it.

An Experiment in Futility 

The president is going after fossil fuel subsidies for the third straight year. He probably won't have any more success this time. 


WAR? APPARENTLY GOOD FOR THE MENTAL HEALTH INDUSTRY

We should probably try to remember, now that we may have a few moments to think about it, that multiple deployments are ruining the lives of many Americans.  Next time you voice support for the effort, think about who is paying the price.
http://archpsyc.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/67/6/614

Alarming NOAA data, Rapid Pole Shift

Since 1860, the magnetic pole shift has more than doubled every 50 years. That is pretty significant. In geological terms, that seems to be pretty ‘rapid’.

Here is another very interesting fact…
During the past 150 years, the pole shift has been in the same direction.
The following fact is even more astonishing…
During the past 10 years, the magnetic north pole has shifted nearly half of the total distance of the past 50 years! In other words, the pole shift has apparently sped up substantially.

 

Land-lifting at the edge of west Sumatra and south Java on Earth Changes and the Pole Shift
Data of sea level measured at Sibolga, Padang and Cilacap stations in Indonesia show that the sea level has lowered in those points, suggesting that the edge of west of Sumatra and the edge of south of Java are lifted. http://www.ioc-sealevelmonitoring.org/index.php
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1February - Morning News

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Reverse internet billing decision

Many smaller internet service providers rent network access from large ISPs such as Bell and use it to create retail internet service packages to sell to their own customers.
Until now, some of those packages have included unlimited internet access — something that isn't offered by Bell, Rogers or Shaw to their retail customers. Others have offered much higher download limits than Bell, allowing their customers to stream more video or other services that use a lot of bandwidth.
Large ISPs like Bell and Rogers said usage-based caps are necessary to prevent heavy internet users from hogging too much bandwidth and causing congestion.
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission agreed that usage-based billing addresses the problem.
The new usage-based billing should be implemented starting March 1.
As of Monday, 160,000 Canadians had signed an online petition created by the open communications advocacy group OpenMedia.ca, calling for the government to "Stop the Meter."
Last Thursday, a Montreal man filed a petition to the federal government, asking it to reverse the CRTC decision. Small business, students, people trying to set up online businesses — they're getting hammered.
Angus :  large ISPs are "wearing way too many hats on this file."

Severe Weather due to Monster Winter Storm to bring Snow based on NWS Weather Forecast


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Chilean-born Montreal busker facing deportation despite 32 years in Canada

( Hm. In practice, how much different from exile ? ) 

Immigration scam unveiled in a California university

-based Tri-valley University a sham, alleging that the institution was merely a facade used by the authorities to run a racket that facilitated illegal student immigration status for foreign nationals and authorized them to remain in the United States.Subscribe to The Economic Monitor to get the day's most relevant news, data and anlaysis .has reported that the Tri-Valley University founded by Susan... Source : International Business Times

US Visa fraud: Indian students face threat of deportation

Duped by the authorities of Tri-Valley University, which has now been shut down, hundreds of Indian students, mostly from Andhra Pradesh, faced the threat of being deported back home after having lost their student visa status. 

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US defends use of ankle monitors on students

The US embassy in New Delhi has defended the use of ankle monitors on Indian students who were duped by the California-based Tri-Valley University in the US.
In a statement it said: “Use of ankle monitors is widespread across the United States and standard procedure for a variety of investigations, and does not necessarily imply guilt or suspicion of criminal activity.”
It explained that an ankle monitor sends a radio frequency signal containing location and other information to a receiver and it allows for freedom of movement and “is a positive alternative to confinement during a pending investigation”.
The US embassy statement came the day after the Indian government said that the use of ankle monitors is “inhuman and unacceptable”, and they should be removed from the person of all the Indian students.
Speaking to journalists in Bengaluru, external affairs minister S.M. Krishna said on Sunday that the US government should take action against its officials responsible for putting the Indian students through hardship.
“There are one lakh Indian students in the US. It must realise the tremendous stakes involved for both the countries in higher education and interaction,” Mr Krishna had added when asked for his reaction to the matter. The US embassy statement went on to state that a legitimate student who is a fraud victim should have little trouble re-applying and enrolling in a different, fully-accredited educational institution.
It further said that the department of state is following this case closely and is in regular communication with Indian officials.

 (   10-4 : use of slavery procedures to provide update on status of demockracy  in farcial 'Land of the Free'  : Police State 101.  Let's encourage foreign students. )
Australia Owes Millions to Indian Students
Indian School of BusinessImage via WikipediaIndian Consulate to the Rescue of Indian Students 

The Real 'Palestine Papers' Scandal

The same editorial instructs us that the only way forward is for the U.S. to recognize the terror organization Hamas, which is sworn to Israel's destruction and incorporates the most primitive anti-Semitism in its founding charter. By presenting the Palestinian Authority's compromises as nothing less than treasonous, the Guardian has helped to undermine Palestinian moderates and bolster the extremists.

 ( Defending the role of the imperial authorities in arbiting 'fair treatment' for the people who were driven from their homes - and starved and deprived of water... the weapons makers arming the oppressor. Oh! The sincerity ! )

Some weekend work that will (hopefully) enable more Egyptians to be heard
Anyone can tweet by simply leaving a voicemail on one of these international phone numbers (+16504194196 or +390662207294 or +97316199855) and the service will instantly tweet the message using the hashtag #egypt. No Internet connection is required. People can listen to the messages by dialing the same phone numbers or going to twitter.com/speak2tweet.

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Report From Cairo

A Guide: How Not To Say Stupid Stuff About Egypt

I have heard so many stupid things from friends, blogs, pundits, correspondents, politicians, experts, writers that I want to pull my hair.  So, I will not beat around the bush, I will be really blunt and give you a handy list to keep you from offending Egyptians, Arabs and the world when you discuss, blog or talk about Egypt.  Honestly, I would think most Progressives would know these things, but let’s get to it.

Why Are Americans Blocked From Watching Al Jazeera English?

Canadian television viewers looking for the most thorough and in-depth coverage of the uprising in Egypt have the option of tuning into Al Jazeera English, whose on-the-ground coverage of the turmoil is unmatched by any other outlet. American viewers, meanwhile, have little choice but to wait until one of the U.S. cable-company-approved networks broadcasts footage from AJE, which the company makes publicly available. What they can't do is watch the network directly.    Read more

Income Inequality In The U.S. Is Worse Than In Egypt

Protests in Egypt continued for a seventh day today, and pro-democracy demonstrators are organizing a “march of millions” to take place tomorrow. As financial markets dip across the Middle East, financial prognosticators are trying to divine what continued unrest will mean for the economies of the Middle East and the price of oil.
One of the driving factors behind the protests is the decades-long stagnation of the Egyptian economy and a growing sense of inequality. “They’re all protesting about growing inequalities, they’re all protesting against growing nepotism. The top of the pyramid was getting richer and richer,” said Emile Hokayem of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in the Middle East.    Read more

By Pat Garofalo | ThinkProgress


Egypt Preparing for Mega Protests, ElBaradei Dispels Myth of An Anti-American Muslim Brotherhood

On the seventh day of protest in Egypt, organizers planned for a 'mega-march' in Cairo tomorrow, which would involve rolling general strikes and over a million people marching in the streets, reports Al-Jazeera. President Hosni Mubarak swore in his new cabinet today; it includes three senior officials from the last cabinet. Protesters all over Egypt have declared they will not stop until Mubarak steps down or is forced out.
The White House apparently believes regime change is imminent, and is taking steps to prepare for the next phase. Hillary Clinton has called for 'an orderly transition,' and an anonymous government source spoke to the LA Times about the delicate diplomatic nature of the situation:    Read more

By Julianne Escobedo Shepherd | AlterNet

Factbox: Omar Suleiman, new Egyptian vice-president

Suleiman was  in charge of the country's most important political security files, and was the mastermind behind the fragmentation of Islamist groups who led the uprising against the state in the 1990s.

Protesters have already said they won't accept Suleiman, even for a transitional period. 

Torture in Egypt rampant amid impunity for security forces

 ( What would  New Rome know about 'Human Rights' violations ? Oh, right. They instigate them.)

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Former CIA Officials Admit To Faking Bin Laden Video

 New Bin Laden "Confession" Tape: Fake Like The Rest?

Creeping sickness: Our epidemic of diagnosis

As definitions of diseases broaden, so do the risks to healthy people

Hypochondriacs have never had it so good - or should I say, so bad? Medical diagnostics have advanced to the stage where if you look for a disease you will find it.

 


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Of cognitive dissonance and having it both ways

Let me get this out of the way first and say this about yesterday's ruling by Judge Vinson in Florida in which he declared the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional: "Good! Bring on the Medicare Part E!" Now, do I think that will happen? No.

That is because I have read the ruling, and it's a mess. I actually had to sleep on it and come back to it this morning in order to even attempt to post about it. I can't imagine any of the Romans on the high court, save that smug little prick Alito, casting their vote to uphold it. It's a ruling that begs for evaluation by a mental health professional, embracing as it does, at various turns, the "tea party" and diametrically opposed viewpoints that are mutually exclusive to a healthy mind.
Here is the bit I read and reread over and over, trying to reconcile the striking disconnect, but I just couldn't, because in my mind, words have set meanings, not Humpty Dumpty "words mean exactly what I say they mean, nothing more and nothing less" meanings.
"... the mere status of being without health insurance, in and of itself, has absolutely no impact whatsoever on interstate commerce (not 'slight,' 'trivial,' or 'indirect,' but no impact whatsoever) -- at least not any more so than the status of being without any particular good or service. If impact on interstate commerce were to be expressed and calculated mathematically, the status of being uninsured would necessarily be represented by zero. Of course, any other figure multiplied by zero is also zero. Consequently, the impact must be zero, and of no effect on interstate commerce."
That's just nuts.
Does his ruling strike down EMTALA as well?
Before 1986, when Reagan signed the act into law, there was no mandate that a hospital treat you if you were injured, ill or in labor if you could not prove you had the ability to pay. If you showed up in the ER of a private or for-profit hospital, they could dump you off to a public facility -- or just "street" you -- and if you suffered irreversible harm or disability, tough. Now, the second that a facility takes one penny of federal money, be it research grants or Medicare assignments, they have to comply with EMTALA.
Older readers might remember that before 1986, we used to hear a lot more news stories about babies born along the side of the road as the parents were rushing to the hospital. That happens a lot less now because any facility has to admit a woman who shows up in active labor, they can't just send her down the road to the nearest charity hospital.
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That care rendered in Emergency Rooms, under the threat of losing all federal monies if it is not, affects interstate commerce by driving up the cost of healthcare for the rest of you. And this is why the republicans embraced the individual mandate for health coverage and no one questioned the constitutionality of it -- right up until the moment that President Obama embraced it.
Then it was a threat to freedom and liberty and it was downright fascist and tyrannical.
Or something.
Last night, after I read the ruling the first time, I looked at my husband and said "this looks to me like he had his mind made up before he ever heard the first word of argument, he just shoehorned in whatever he could come up with to rationalize his pre-drawn conclusion."
After I slept on it, I will say that out loud, and in public. What we say yesterday come out of Vinson's courtroom was the most blatant act of partisan, judicial activism that we have ever seen in this country. Bar none.

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China's big hydro wins permission for 21.3GW dam in world heritage site

Hydroelectric power company Huadian will build a cascade of 13 dams in the spectacular "Grand Canyon of the Orient"
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