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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.

Thursday, January 27, 2011

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • MIDEAST: In the Ring, It's Peaceful Attack
    The opening bell resounds through the bomb shelter turned boxing club located in the western part of the city. A Palestinian boxer swiftly jumps from his corner, moves across the ring, trades punches with his Israeli opponent.
  • VIETNAM: Communist Party Steps on Already Stifled ...
    A week after Vietnam's ruling Communist Party ended its pivotal congress of the country's political elite, there is little evidence in the state-controlled media of a possible return to the openness that once saw high-profile corruption scandals exposed in print here.
  • JAPAN: New Law May Protect Children from Abusive P ...
    For years, Toshikazu Takahashi, director of the sixty-year-old St. Francis Children's Home child care facility, has grappled with the difficult of issue of protecting battered children from their abusive parents.
  • SRI LANKA: East Reels Under Triple Whammy
    The name Mawilaru will be indelibly linked to the history of over 25 years of civil strife in Sri Lanka, especially its bloody end. It was here that the final phase of the war was triggered in June 2006.
  • Public Unrest Boils Over in Albania
    The Albanian opposition is set to hold another mass rally on Friday, even though three people were killed during an anti-government demonstration last week, allegedly by armed forces of the Ministry of Interior.

Scoop - NZ

  • Scoop Link: Introducing The Palestine Papers
    Over the last several months, Al Jazeera has been given unhindered access to the largest-ever leak of confidential documents related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. There are nearly 1,700 files, thousands of pages of diplomatic correspondence detailing ...
  • How the financial elite dismantled the US middle ...
    The U.S. economy is now operating like a finely tuned engine bent on dismantling the middle class and protecting the tiny elites in our nation that have learned to manipulate both political parties to their financial benefit.  This did not occur over night but started in the 1970s when the U.S. gove ...
  • Consumer Fraud Taskforce survey 2011
    The Australasian Consumer Fraud Taskforce was formed in March 2005 and comprises 20 government regulatory agencies and departments in Australia and New Zealand with responsibility for protecting consumers against frauds and scams. The aim of the Taskforce is to work together to reduce the incidence ...
  • Robert Fisk: A new truth dawns on the Arab world
    The Palestine Papers are as damning as the Balfour Declaration. The Palestinian "Authority" – one has to put this word in quotation marks – was prepared, and is prepared to give up the "right of return" of perhaps seven million refugees to what is now Israel for a "state" that may be only 10 per cen ...
  • Global Voices coverage of the Egypt Protests 2011 ...
    A round up of status updates, blogs, information, links, hashtags, images and videos from the first day of protests in Egypt, beginning 25 January 2011. #Jan25

Independent - London

  • Nelson Mandela in hospital for routine tests
    The former South African President Nelson Mandela is in hospital for routine medical tests, reigniting fears over the health of the frail 92-year-old anti-apartheid icon.
  • Australia imposes flood tax to aid recovery
    Australia imposed a temporary new tax today to help fund a multi-billion-dollar rebuilding programme after floods devastated infrastructure and ruined thousands of homes and businesses across the eastern seaboard over the past month.
  • Execution using UK drugs 'may have gone wrong'
    An American prisoner in Georgia was executed with British drugs despite testimony from defence lawyers and a medical expert that one of the chemicals might have been ineffective and beyond its shelf life.
  • Medvedev: Russia is open for business
    Dmitry Medvedev, the President of Russia, last night set out his country's stall in an attempt to attract international investment, vowing to fight to "eradicate the terrorism" his country has repeatedly suffered.
  • GM mosquitoes deployed to control Asia's dengue fe ...
    A genetically modified mosquito carrying an artificial fragment of DNA designed to curb the insect's fertility has been released for the first time in south-east Asia as part of an ambitious attempt to combat deadly dengue fever that affects up to 100 million people worldwide.

Rogue Government.com

Innovation Canada

  • 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 ...
  • The year in review
    Welcome to 2011! Before we launch into a new year of covering cutting-edge Canadian research, we’re going to rewind and look back at some of the success stories we featured on InnovationCanada.ca in 2010.  Some recurring themes in Canadian research this year were: biodiversity, aboriginal culture, a ...

Signs of the times

  • Now Walmart targets EIGHT-year-olds with a new ran ...
    Retail giant Walmart has added a new range of anti-aging make-up to its shelves - aimed at young children. The new 'Geo-Girl' beauty line is said to be aimed at the 'tween' market of 8-12 year olds, and will include blusher, mascara, face shimmer and lipstick that is 'mother approved', as well as a ...
  • Another Storm Batters Northeast
    For at least the fifth time this season, a major snowstorm crawled up the eastern seaboard and swept across the Northeast early Thursday, dumping fresh snow on top of streets already covered in icy slush and disrupting the commutes of millions of people. The powerful storm, appearing as a giant whi ...
  • Indonesia Mont Bromo volcano erupts
    Jakarta - Several international flights to and from the resort island of Bali were cancelled or diverted Thursday to avoid dangerous ash spewing from an Indonesian volcano, officials said. Ash from rumbling Mount Bromo, a popular attraction in East Java province, had spread to the island popular wi ...
  • Himalayan glaciers not melting because of climate ...
    Himalayan glaciers are actually advancing rather than retreating, claims the first major study since a controversial UN report said they would be melted within quarter of a century. Researchers have discovered that contrary to popular belief half of the ice flows in the Karakoram range of the mount ...
  • US: Pennsylvania House

The Galloping Beaver

  • Attention political strategists
    This is how a new media campaign is run. This is how you make a political point in a memorable way. I don't know who the brains are behind this. I'll be amazed if it is something that the provincial NDP came up with, since it lacks their usual earnestness, but if I were in charge of any of the media ...
  • 30 years of dictatorship...
    ...and all the Egyptian authorities manage to do in light of protests that really do seek to overthrow the government isto put 700 people in jail across the whole nation. In Canada, our goons round up and imprison more than a thousand for protesting a weekend meeting in one city.
  • Blog-flog: Orion Mind
    Orion Mind is the recently reinhabited cyberhome of my good friend Brian. Brian is an human* encyclopaedia on things environment, people, hunting, shooting, conservation, paddling, and Africa. He's writing his dissertation now so he should have lots of time to blog. Keep checking. *hypothesised, n ...
  • Hi fellas!
    House of Commons, via the crazyhouse. I wonder who's making a list?
  • Pet peeves...
    I have an issue with people who talk a big line, but when push comes to shove they cower and look away, make excuses, anything really, to avoid addressing the problem at hand in active terms.� A few years ago I encountered a young woman being beaten with a metal pole by another young woman, in b ...

Media Matters for America

  • Predictable: Right-Wing Media Find SOTU "Boring"
    Following President Obama's State of the Union address, right-wing media predictably declared his speech speech "boring," "dull," and "flat" -- terms they have consistently used to describe most speeches Obama has given in the past two years.Right-Wing Media Declare Obama's SOTU "Boring," Dull, ...
  • Beck: Progressives Are "Enemies Of God"
    Glenn Beck recently claimed that his show "hasn't been about hateful rhetoric." But on both his Fox News show and his radio program, Beck routinely goes far beyond criticizing the viewpoints of those who don't share his political ideology; unlike any other well-known political commentator, Beck act ...
  • Right-Wing Media Embrace Ryan's SOTU Response -- B ...
    Right-wing media have embraced Rep. Paul Ryan's GOP State of the Union response as a "candid, adult-like conversation with the American people" and a "Home Run." But economists have disagreed with several of the claims made by Ryan in his speech, including that the stimulus "failed" and that the he ...
  • Right-Wing Media Attack Obama Address By Taking " ...
    In his State of the Union address, President Obama called for a new era of innovation by saying "this is our Sputnik moment," referencing the 1960s-era space race that began after the Soviet Union launched the Sputnik�satellite. Right-wing media attacked Obama's remarks by�taking the metaphor l ...
  • Fox's Starnes Criticizes Obama For Sayin ...
    Fox News'�Todd Starnes�objected to�President Obama's words of�support for "the people of Tunisia" during the State of the Union address.�Starnes wrote�on his Twitter account:�"I thought this was the State of our Union?"�However, Presidents Reagan and George W. Bush�also�referenced�democratic mo ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Social Change Means Telling People What To Do
    Michael, thanks for asking me to do this and for kick starting what should be an interesting discussion about the origins and power of what you've termed "persecution politics" as practiced by the contemporary right in America. Something that really stuck with me from Blowing Smoke was the ta ...
  • The Seductive Power of Right-Wing Persecution Poli ...
    First, I'd like to thank Josh Marshall for inviting me to participate in TPM's Book Club and Versha Sharma for setting everything up. I've been a devoted reader of Talking Points Memo ever since the 2004 elections. Then in 2008, during the epic primary battle between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton ...
  • Presented By:
  • TPMCafe Book Club: Blowing Smoke
    The book club returns to TPMCafe this week with a special edition featuring the work of longtime blogger (and TPM reader) Michael Wolraich, Blowing Smoke: Why the Right Keeps Serving Up Whack-Job Fantasies about the Plot to Euthanize Grandma, Outlaw Christmas, and Turn Junior into a Raging Homos ...
  • Guardian Watch: More Reprehensible Journalism
    Just following up on the Guardian's distorted and inflammatory claims. The paper reports that Saeb Erekat recognized the principle of Israel "as a Jewish state," and that, correspondingly, Tzipi Livni pressed for the transfer of Israeli Arab citizens to Palestine, in effect, adopting the principle " ...

TruthOut

  • Jim Hightower | Obama Inc.
    Exciting news, folks. Obama and team say they're recalibrating, recasting, retooling and rebranding his presidency! And they've come up with a dandy new slogan to sum it all up and get America moving again. Ready? "Win the future." Takes your breath away, doesn't it? read more
  • Confidentiality Settlements Hide Dangerous Corpora ...
    When I began this Solutions column, I noted that we would be looking at all types of federal and state problems and solutions. We occasionally look at issues that seem small, but have a large impact on everyday life and need a small-slice solution to start the process of fixing the problem.read more
  • The Not-So-Neutral Net
    The FCC’s new rules on Net Neutrality open the Internet to corporate discrimination. But it’s not too late to preserve Internet freedom. The Internet was created as an “open” or “neutral” platform, and net neutrality is the principle that ensures that Internet providers can’t interfere with a user’ ...
  • News in Brief: Number of US Troop Casualties From ...
    Number of US Troop Casualties From Roadside Bombs in Afghanistan Soared in 2010read more
  • Egyptian President Mubarak Faces Historic Challeng ...
    Cairo - Egyptians have demonstrated in protests rare in size and ferocity against the three-decade rule of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. "Down, Down with Mubarak," thousands chanted in downtown Cairo Tuesday. "Mubarak, it is your turn after Ben Ali," they said referring to Zine El Abidine Ben A ...

Planetsave

  • Iron ‘Seeding’ of Ocean May Promote Toxic Plankton
    In the constant interplay between Humans and Nature, everything is a trade-off. As our scientists begin to consider an intervention approach to climate change and conducting large-scale experiments, this trade-off is coming into sharper resolution. Case in point: iron ocean fertilization (or “seedin ...
  • States take lead in efforts to fight climate chang ...
    Now that 2010 has gone down as one of history’s hottest years, many states are choosing not to wait for Congress to tackle global warming and are taking their own steps to slash greenhouse gas emissions. States are increasingly adopting stricter, energy-saving building codes, spending more money (pa ...
  • The Dreaded Stairs
    In a world which is running out of resources, taking the stairs may one day not be optional. In a world where the vast majority is getting fatter by the year, taking the stairs may one day not be optional. Why don’t you take the stairs today?
  • Protect Public from Gas Drilling Risks (Letter to ...
    In addition to the letter to Obama to protect the Clean Air Act, a number of leading environmental organizations wrote to Obama before his 2011 State of the Union address to encourage him to do something about environmentally harmful oil and natural gas drilling. While the speech has already been gi ...
  • $109 billion: Cost of Natural Disasters in 2010
    Who says climate change mitigation isn’t worth the cost? Of course, we can’t tie every natural disaster to climate change (we’ve had natural disasters since the beginning of time), but one of the key effects of climate change is an increase in natural disasters and in the scale of natural disasters. ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Harper's strange victory - Canada
    Canada was a fairly grim place before the Conservatives came to power, Stephen Harper informed us in his weekend speech celebrating five years as prime minister. Among the litany of troubles in those days before Conservatives brought light to a darkened land, Harper said on Sunday, was that "parents ...
  • US child appeals against being tried for murder as ...
    Jordan Brown, who was 11 when he allegedly killed his father's pregnant fiancee, could face life sentence with no parole Tuesday 25 January 2011 19.00 GMT     Judges are to rule on whether Jordan Brown, who has been charged with homicide, should be tried as an adult. Lawyers ...
  • Police join protests in Tunisia - Africa
    PM's pledge to quit politics after elections fails to pacify demonstrators demanding dissolution of interim government. Thousands of demonstrators, including police officers, lawyers and students, have taken to the streets of Tunisia's capital, Tunis, in another day of u ...
  • PLUNDER: THE CRIME OF OUR TIME - Economy
    'Plunder: The Crime of Our Time' is a hard-hitting investigative film by Danny Schechter. The "News Dissector" explores how the financial crisis was built on a foundation of criminal activity uncovering the connection be ...
  • Egyptian opposition warns of an “explosion of the ...
    24 January 2011 Since the beginning of the revolutionary turmoil in Tunisia, there have been continuous warnings in the media and by politicians of the danger that the protests could spread to other countries in the region or the entire Arab world. Above all, Egypt stands at the centre of...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    The NRA is an enemy of public health "In the wake of the shootings in Tucson, the familiar questions inevitably resurfaced: Are communities where more people carry guns safer or less safe? Does the availability of high-capacity magazines increase deaths? Do more rigorous background checks make a dif ...
  • SOTU Analogy of the Day
    h/t Steve Benen: "Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you'll feel the impact." --President Obama, 1/25/11
  • Nice Speech. So now what?
    I'm probably going to get hammered for this. �All I ask is that it be constructive hammering. �Anything else will be tuned out as soon as its portent becomes apparent. I suppose the whole thing in a nutshell for me is that I was mightily underwhelmed by his vision of the future. �What I saw last nig ...
  • State of the Union, Responses, Expose GOP Vulnerab ...
    The line-up of last night's dueling speeches was as good an illustration as any of why President Obama obviously chose to give a State of the Union Address that stressed themes of civility and cooperation while giving a heavy nod to such Republican-friendly obsessions as tort reform, corporate tax c ...
  • Obama Announces Confiscation of All Wealth Over $1 ...
    No, of course he didn't. But he could have. He should have. Blue Texan reminds us that rethuglicans use the SOTU to double-down on reich-wing insanity, even in the face of huge midterm losses. Smirky's 2007 SOTU was a giant Fuck You to the nation that had just voted to reject his entire administrat ...

Care 2

  • Car Frozen in Place Is Chiseled Out With a Hammer. ...
    How cold and miserable is New York City these days? Behold, the Great Frozen Audi...subfreezing temperatures, passing cars splashing water and a busted underground pipe virtually encased a man's car in ice...Submitted by Mary Patricia E. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Murder in My Town-Bandit's Pathetic Justice
    This is my last news on puppy Bandit, murdered New Years Day at the age of 3 months old. I'm furious at Connor's excuse, and even more furious about the wimpy outcome! The details are a little graphic if you want to skip ahead. Thanks all for signing!!!!!Submitted by Kim O. to Animals �|� �Note-it! ...
  • Egypt Protests: Thousands Fill Streets To Protest ...
    Thousands of anti-government protesters, some hurling rocks and climbing atop an armored police truck, clashed with riot police Tuesday in the center of Cairo Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Dog & Bunny Share Carrot (video)
    Watch these two adorable friends share a healthy snack.Submitted by BarbCat Sunshine Lady to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • BLM TO REMOVE ANOTHER 1,726 MUSTANGS FROM NORTHEAS ...
    Please help Comments Needed to Oppose Triple B, Maverick Medicine Roundup Although it may seem tedious to keep responding to these calls for comments on roundups, please be assured that your emails matter!Submitted by Penelope Ryan to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • And Israel Was Worried About Iran?
    * Bumped Up * Man, not a good week for Israeli defense planners. On its northern border Hezbollah has taken control of the Government of Lebanon. And to the southwest? Egypt appears to be on the verge of coming apart. If that’s the case grab your bag of coal and head to Israel. You will [...]
  • Hump Day Open Thread
    Jennifer Rubin. Remember her? We’ve drawn on her smart posts many times in the past, and she used to be a frequent guest on Rob’s much-missed radio show. Well, Jennifer (as only she can) has hammered the Obama POV on Medicare in her latest post for the Washington Post’s Right Turn, “Rep. Paul Ryan 1 ...
  • Birthers! Truthers! Mama Grizzlies! Tea Partiers!
    (Or the more offensive, homophobic term for Tea Partiers.) Crosshairs! Targets! The list could go on of the labels attached to groups of people or concepts by the media when they want to discount, demean, belittle, discourage discussion, demonize a group, or frame the issue how they want it to be, r ...
  • And Israel Was Worried About Iran?
    Man, not a good week for Israeli defense planners. On its northern border Hezbollah has taken control of the Government of Lebanon. And to the southwest? Egypt appears to be on the verge of coming apart. If that’s the case grab your bag of coal and head to Israel. You will at least be able [...]
  • Sputnik Elect
    My remarks at the show close after SOTU, without much time to read and reflect on the speech but a fair summary of what my guests spoke to – Mary Kissel, Aaron Task, Dan Henninger, Rep.Thaddeus McCotter, Rep. Devin Nunes, Ben Zimmer, Gordon Chang, Malcolm Hoenlein, Bob Zimmerman — spending, governme ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • Kelburn Castle: The Medieval Scottish Home Painted ...
    A colorful and imaginative way to bring the graffiti culture to a heritage castle in Scotland. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Pompeii: Buried Sin City of the Roman Empire
    The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD completely destroyed Pompeii. The ruins people were preserved – turned to rock – but who knew what an erotic place Pompeii was? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the articl ...
  • Discovering the Largest Cave on Earth
    In an interview with Environmental Graffiti, National Geographic explorer Mark Jenkins shares his incredible experience of discovering the largest cave known to man. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • Could Water Offsetting Be a Solution to Water Shor ...
    Water is distributed unevenly around the planet. This creates major problems for water consumption. How can we move to address this problem? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Strange Beauty of the Glaucus Atlanticus Sea S ...
    What is the Glaucus-Atlanticus? Find out more about this unique sea creature which we call the Blue Dragon Sea Slug. 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

  • 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 ...
  • Metrodome collapse new video closeups panels rippi ...
    Is it Metrodome or Metropolis? No one was injured fortunately. New video closeups from the surveillance cameras posted - its a pretty clear sign of collapse eh? Part 1: Part 2 The damage could block DNC 2012, sure to cheer opponents of the convention. In a satirical press release Nature took credi ...

Daily Censored

  • False Media: Deconstructing Corporate Media
    http://www.blogtalkradio.com/your-world-news/2011/01/27/false-media-desconstructing-the-corporate-media-in-america If you cannot Listen Live you can always Listen on Archive by Clicking the Link Above Please join us this episode (Wednesday January 26th at 8:00 PM EST) as we pay particular attention ...
  • Sticks and Stones…
    By Will Shonbrun Despite the old adage it’s known by most that the impact of words – harsh, accusatory, judgmental or condemnatory – last and fester far longer than bodily bruises. Words matter. Ask the preacher or the politician or the pundit. Ask the dictator. First come the words, then the action ...
  • For Immediate Release: Detroit Federation of Teach ...
       “This isn’t Florida, and the DFT is Not a George Bush Union,” Declared the Real Winner, Steve Conn CONTACT:        Steve Conn                              (313) 645-9340 In a hotly contested runoff election for President of the Detroit Federation of Teachers, challenger Steve Conn of Defend Publi ...
  • CENSORED IN 1989: SOMETHING FOUL IN CHICKEN INDUST ...
    CENSORED IN 1989: SOMETHING FOUL IN THE CHICKEN INDUSTRY AND THE USDA The number of cases of salmonella has risen to 2.5 million a year and led to an estimated 500,000 hospitalizations and 9,000 deaths. This national epidemic was caused by a massive leap in consumer demand for the “healthier food” o ...
  • TOO MUCH
    I don’t know which is worse—That there are people who would pay $1,135 for a pair of sandals or that there is someone with enough hubris to think that her creation is worth that much.  Apparently, however, Chrissie Morris does, because here it is… “There’s a certain toughness, but the colors celebra ...

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Institute for Policy Studies

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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    Don't forget to sign up to our email newsletter to receive quarterly updates about our work and next week's response from Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett to questions about the Spirit Level analysis.
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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

  • 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 ...
  • Video: Peak Oil and a Changing Climate
    Cross-posted 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 ...
  • Peter B Collins: Final Podcast of 2010: Progress ...
    Listen to Podcast:  Click Here Prof. David Coates of Wake Forest University and Tim Carpenter of Progressive Democrats of America discuss the new political mix in Washington and offer advice on how to confront the challenges ...

Marler Blog

  • Senators Harkin, Klobuchar and Durbin and Congress ...
    In the middle of a late January D.C. snowstorm, Senators and Congress Members who were instrumental in pushing the Food Safety Modernization Act onto President Obama’s desk, honored victims, many my clients, of food poisoning events over the last two decades. I was glad to be there.
  • Congressman Dennis Kucinich Sues House Cafeteria f ...
    According to the website Gawker, Congressman Dennis Kucinich is suing Restaurant Associates and three other companies involved in running and supplying the Longworth cafeteria after Kucinich bought a sandwich in April 2008 and bit into it only to find an unpitted olive that cracked a tooth. Kucin ...
  • Dr. Elisabeth Hagen, Under Secretary for Food Safe ...
    With the time difference, traveling East always presents a problem waking up in time for early meetings. So, when I was walking into the Pew Charitable Trusts and Center for Science in the Public Interest conference, Dr. Hagen had already given her speck on STECs. Fortunately, FSIS put up her spee ...
  • Food Safety in the Age of Obama
    I waited for the call after Christmas to come to the signing ceremony after the passage of the Food Safety Modernization Act, but it did not come.  Frankly, it still seems odd that the President would miss an opportunity to showcase the first major piece of food safety legislation in over 50 years. ...
  • Foodborne Hazards of non-E. coli O157:H7 and Salmo ...
    In a few moments I have the opportunity to speak at the PEW Charitable Trust and Center for Science in the Public Interest Conference on “managing the risk of foodborne hazard: STECs and antibiotic-resistance pathogens.” Here is some of the data that I will present based on retail ground beef stud ...

AutoblogGreen

  • 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 ...
  • GM to double Volt production to 120,000 units in 2 ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Sedan, Plants/Manufacturing, Chevrolet, GM, Electric Was General Motors caught by surprise with the success of the Chevrolet Volt? According to two people "familiar with the matter" who spoke to Bloomberg, the number of Volts that GM wants to build in 2012 is now, wait for it ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 01.26.11
    Chevy Volt ads accidentally air on MTV's Skins; PTC calls reality show child porn That's what we call an "oops." Prediction: Tesla shares could hit $50 by 2014 All of a suddern, that T looks a bit like a bull. ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 01.25.11
    GM thinking of doubling Chevy Volt production to 120,000 units in 2012 Will demand last until the feds $7,500 runs out? Henrik Fisker: Plug-in vehicle sales will take off like iPhones, flat-screen TVs Why electric cars will go from too-ex ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 01.24.11
    Why criticize the Model S for having a battery that's too big? Just don't understand. EPA approves E15 for 2001-2006 Model Year vehicles Can't imagine who would have a problem with this. House Repulicans prop ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

  • No title
  • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so 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!

  • Sundance and the Art of Democracy
    PARK CITY, Utah—This small, alpine mountain town is transformed every winter during the Sundance Film Festival into a buzzing hive of the movie industry. While much of the attention is focused on the celebrities, Sundance has actually become a key intersection of art, film, politics and dissent. It ...
  • Part II...Fifty Years After Eisenhower’s Farewell ...
    This week marks the 50th anniversary of President Dwight D. Eisenhowerâs famous farewell speech to the nation, in which he warned against the rise of a "military-industrial complex." We speak with William Hartung, director of the Arms and Security Initiative at the New America Foundation, who trace ...
  • Tucson, Juarez and an Assault Weapons Ban
    The Glock 19 semiautomatic pistol that Jared Loughner is accused of using in his rampage in Tucson, Ariz., is, according to Glock’s website, “ideal for versatile use through reduced dimensions” and is “suitable for concealed carry.” The site continues, “Compact and subcompact Glock pistol model mag ...
  • Amy Goodman on CNN's John King USA
    Democracy Now!’s award-winning host Amy Goodman appears on CNN’s John King USA on Friday, January 14 at 7pm EST.
  • TONIGHT: Amy Goodman on CNN’s John King USA
    Democracy Now!’s award-winning host Amy Goodman will appear on CNN’s John King USA on Friday, January 14 at 7pm EST.

Digg Green

  • Study Shows Meditation Changes Brain Structur ...
    Participants in an 8 week meditation class experienced structural brain changes including increased grey-matter density in the hippocampus, known to be important for learning and memory, and in structures associated with self-awareness, compassion and introspection. This is the first research t ...
  • Hubble Peers 13.2 Billion Years Back in Time ...
    Hubble, Captured From STS-125 NASA While the astronomical community anxiously awaits the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, the Hubble Space Telescope keeps reminding us just how remarkable of an instrument it really is. Astronomers studying ultra-deep imagery from Hubble have located w ...
  • The world can be powered by alternative energ ...
    A new study – co-authored by Stanford researcher Mark Z. Jacobson and UC-Davis researcher Mark A. Delucchi – analyzing what is needed to convert the world's energy supplies to clean and sustainable sources says that it can be done with today's technology at costs roughly comparable to conventio ...
  • Big cities are not always biggest polluters ...
    Big cities like New York, London and Shanghai send less pollution into the atmosphere per capita than places like Denver and Rotterdam, said a study released Tuesday...
  • The Greek engineer who invented the steam eng ...
    Almost two millennia before the rest of humanity entered the industrial age, the Greek inventor Hero invented the steam engine, wind-powered machinery, and theories of light that couldn't be improved for centuries. And then he invented some really crazy stuff.

Invisible Opportunity

  • One More Litmus Test for the Strong, Silent Types
    By Les Visible I admire some people, not a lot of people to be sure, but some people have done their job with modesty, courage and consistency. One of those people is Webster Tarpley, who just wrote a fantastic article on Wiki-Sneaks. I communicated with Webster in the long ago and he showed himself ...
  • Abortion Stillbirth Events from Gardasil Far Excee ...
    According to a National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC – http://nvic.org) MedAlerts blog entry written in November 2010, the incidents of abortion and still birth events from the HPV4 vaccine, Gardasil supersedes the same event from all other vaccinations. The research and post was written by Stev ...
  • Cosmic rays contribute 40% to global warming: stud ...
    Priscilla Jebaraj A key belief of climate science theology — that a reduction in carbon emissions will take care of the bulk of global warming — has been questioned in a scientific paper released by the Environment Ministry on Monday. Physicist and the former ISRO chairman, U.R. Rao, has calculated ...
  • Yes, Virginia, A Climate Cover-Up
    Junk Science: Democrats in Virginia are trying to stop their attorney general from probing climate fraud carried out by university researchers at taxpayer expense. Are they afraid of finding the inconvenient truth? It’s not the crime, it’s the cover-up, as the saying goes. In the case of former Univ ...
  • In the Kingdom of the Hungry Ghosts
    By Les Visible The fact that it’s getting tough for so many people, about whom the media is blind or indifferent, only proves out how really sleazy that industry has become. The level of corruption throughout the web of temporal control is near total. There appears to be no bottom. The limbo bar is ...

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

  • 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 ...
  • The World According to Monsanto – Full Documentary
    The World According to Monsanto is an in-depth Documentary that looks at the domination of the agricultural industry. Related posts:Monsanto News Roundup – A Frankenfood Extravaganza of GMO News Articles Food Inc. – Full Documentary Stop Monsanto Again–GM Alfalfa Threatens to Contaminate Or ...
  • The Aging Activist
    Don’t ever lose your passion or desire to take action for what you believe in. The rest of Joe Mohr’s cartoons, and cartoon updates and other green news on Twitter @GreenCartoons. Related posts:Stop Monsanto Again–GM Alfalfa Threatens to Contaminate Organic Crops Eco-Snobbery Sucks: The Cartoon Bear ...

Inhabitat

  • BIG Unveils a Ski Slope Waste Incinerator for Cope ...
    Bjarke Ingels Group just announced their winning design for an entirely new kind of building — a waste to energy plant that doubles as a ski slopeand recreation center. Dubbed Amagerforbraending, the project is tucked between the industrial and residential sectors of Copenhagen and will act as a lin ...
  • 5 Tips to Green Your Home From Organic Architect E ...
    Greening your home can provide numerous financial, health and environmental benefits; from making your air healthier, to cutting down your energy bill, to lowering your carbon footprint. Most people like the idea of “greening” their home, but many are daunted by complex technical information and don ...
  • LILYPAD: Floating City for Climate Change Refugees
    There are very few urban design solutions that address housing the inevitable tide of displaced people that could arise as oceans swell under global warming. Certainly none are as spectacular as this one. The Lilypad, by Vincent Callebaut, is a concept for a completely self-sufficient floating city ...
  • Blender Lamp is the Perfect Mixture of Style and S ...
    Talk about the perfect blend of style and sustainable design. This clever hanging lamp by BootsNGus was upcycled from an old blender and provides a unique dose of green lighting to any kitchen. It already comes fitted with a cord and a fixture, and all you have to do to light it up is add [...]
  • Company Reclaims and Repurposes Over 5 Million Fee ...
    Centennial Woods reclaims wood from snow fences across Wyoming and sells the sustainable harvested wood for both interior and exterior applications. The wood is a stunning mixture of grays and browns in unique grain patterns that are characteristic of the windblown state of Wyoming. The company has ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Princess Leia Debuts Kinect-Powered 3-D Video Stre ...
    The Force is strong with holographic scientists these days. Researchers from MIT unveiled the fastest 3-D holographic video to date at a conference in San Francisco January 23, filming a graduate student dressed as Princess Leia and projecting her as a postcard-sized hologram in real time. The holo ...
  • Hubble Finds Galaxy Beyond Key Benchmark
    A candidate for the most-distant galaxy ever spotted has shown up in an image from the Hubble Space Telescope. The faint fuzzy blob, whose light reached Hubble from just 480 million years after the Big Bang, could be a landmark in galaxy detection. “Itâs amazing that we finally believe that we have ...
  • Carnivorous Plants Eat Poop From Tiny Bats
    By Mark Brown, Wired UK In a bizarre example of a symbiotic relationship, tiny bats in Borneo have been found using a carnivorous plant as a toilet, feeding the pitcher plant with their droppings, while they safely roost in the plant’s traps. Ulmar Grafe, an associate professor at the Universiti Br ...
  • First Earth-Orbiting Solar Sail Unexpectedly Unfur ...
    After a month and a half trapped in its mothership, NASA’s NanoSail-D spacecraft has finally unfurled the first solar sail to circle the Earth. Solar sails, gossamer-thin sheets that feel the pressure of the solar wind, have been suggested as a best hope for propelling spacecraft between the stars. ...
  • Legendary Dinosaur King Didn’t Survive on Fast Foo ...
    According to the latest installment in the ongoing saga over the king of dinosaurs’ dietary habits, Tyrannosaurus rex was not simply an oversize scavenger. By the time T. rex was lucky enough to find a carcass, smaller animals would have stripped it to the bone first, claims a new study of the gian ...

PakAlert

  • Video: Everything Obama has signed is NULL & VOID?
    It looks as though the end of the road for the Obama Administration is just around the corner. A recent video from AJ with special guests Webster Tarpley & Attorney Phil Berg has gone viral detailing the failure to produce a legal birth certificate, establishing his eligibility to be president even ...
  • Moscow Airport Bombing: Prime Suspects are Chechen ...
    Recent causes of US-UK animus towards Russia include the Khodorkhovsky verdict (the US position being that a finance oligarch that rich should of course be above the law), the inability of NATO to foment a gas crisis this winter, President Medvedev’s endorsement of a Palestinian state (re-affirming ...
  • Disinformation Fog Intensifies As Economic Turmoil ...
    In the past few years, the concept of economic globalism has revealed itself as quite the Trojan horse; once posing as the next step in the evolution of “free market” capitalism and the savior of third world nations striving for development status, now revealed as a fiscal plague spreading delirium ...
  • U.S. Military “Holy Crusade” Uncovered?
    The recent announcement by veteran reporter Seymour Hersh that a “holy crusade” is being carried out by members of secret orders in the military is a bombshell. Veteran investigative reporter Seymour Hersh has broken some massive stories in his day, but uncovering secret societies within the ...
  • FEMA Advising Australia Amid Takeover Of America?
    Special Comment From Alex Thomas In Regards To Cable TV covering FEMA Camps: Theories as to whether or not all this information has been released on purpose in order to scare the public have become all the more credible after the astonishing admissions of FEMA camps on cable TV. I think ALL alternat ...

Andy Worthington

  • First Major Student Protest of 2011 — in Lon ...
    Last November and December, three student days of action brought tens of thousands of students, schoolchldren, university staff, trade unionists and mobilized members of the general public onto the streets to demonstrate against the Tory-led coalition government’s horrendous plans to axe all funding ...
  • Ghailani Sentence Shows Federal Courts Work, Revea ...
    For those of us seeking a grown-up debate about Guantánamo in the two years since President Obama came into office, the most troubling development has been the retrenchment of Republican opposition to the closure of the prison, backed up by alarming support for the pro-Guantánamo position by membe ...
  • Obama’s Collapse: The Return of the Military ...
    For T. S. Eliot, April was the cruelest month, but for the prisoners at Guantánamo it is January — from the dashed hopes of January 2009, when President Obama swept into office issuing an executive order in which he promised to close the prison within a year, to January 2010, when, having failed to ...
  • Announcing the Polish Tour of “Outside the L ...
    From February 1 to 5, 2011, Moazzam Begg, former Guantánamo prisoner and director of the NGO Cageprisoners, and Andy Worthington, investigative journalist and author of The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison, will be visiting Poland for a tour of the doc ...
  • Aafia Siddiqui’s Lawyer: “She was Deta ...
    My thanks to an eagle-eyed supporter for pointing out that, on January 11, the Voice of the Cape radio station in South Africa interviewed Elaine Whitfield Sharp, the lawyer for Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, the Pakistani neuroscientist whose 86-year sentence in a New York courtroom last September — for alleg ...

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

  • Assessing Muslim Terrorism: Lies, Damn Lies and Gl ...
    Are you prepared to believe there are 157 million Muslim terrorists in the world? You have a choice: You can take Fox News commentator and radio host Glenn Beckâs word for it â or you can insist on proof. Pausing in the midst of a meandering condemnation of the mainstream mediaâs failure to take him ...
  • Rap-Loving Promoter Creates Whites-Only Facebook C ...
    It looks like Facebook. It apparently works like Facebook. But the Terms of Use, not to mention the name, might give you a clue that this definitely isnât Facebook. Meet AryansBook.com. âAryanBook [sic] is a racialist, WHITE ARYAN PRIDE Social Network for Whites Only! Niggers, Jews, Mexicans, and Mu ...
  • 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 ...

change: org.

  • Dallas Gym Says No Family Memberships for Same-Sex ...
    Everyone likes a workout partner, especially if that partner is the love of your life. After all, what better way is there to end the day than running on a treadmill next to your wife, husband, or partner, catching up on life while collectively getting in better shape? It's just a shame that one Dal ...
  • Tell Ohio Gov. John Kasich: Pardon Kelley Williams ...
    During his campaign, Ohio Governor John Kasich pledged to bring jobs into the state and help heal Ohio's distressed economy. How will he handle the situation of Kelley Williams-Bolar, an Akron woman who wanted the best for her children but is now in jail and may be prevented from having a job? More ...
  • Portland, Oregon Schools Still Serve Lunches on St ...
    Portland, Oregon's school board members got some unusual visitors during their meeting this past Monday night — a group of four students toting more than 1,000 Styrofoam trays. The students, who ranged from third to seventh graders, showed up to protest local schools' use of plastic silverware and S ...
  • Hachette Imprint Signs Anti-Gay Preacher Joel Oste ...
    Boycotts are an effective tool of mass resistance, one LGBT communities recently harnessed with great effect to counter Target's homophobic political donations. The non-violent tactic, however, is not always so straight-forward, a fact made clear by news that France-based Hachette Book Group just re ...
  • A Penny for Your Health? Vermont Soda Tax Could Cu ...
    Like the rest of the nation, Vermont faces an obesity problem with a disturbing upward trajectory: the number of Vermonters who are obese has more than doubled over the past two decades, and nearly tripled among youth. But state legislators and advocacy groups have come up with way to at least parti ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Protests in Cairo Forgotten by Obama
    by Laura FlandersIn the State of the Union speech, Barack Obama did get applause for saying that the US stands with the people of Tunisia. Now, he didn't mention the two decades of support the US had given the dictatorship.read more
  • Gaza War Report Was Stalled by Palestinian Authori ...
    by Seumas Milne and Ian BlackPalestinian Authority leaders co-operated with US officials in a bid to postpone the reference of the Goldstone report into war crimes in Gaza to the UN security council, leaked papers reveal. The PA, who have denied they made the decision under US pressure, later revers ...
  • Papers Reveal How Palestinian Leaders Gave Up Figh ...
    by Ian Black and Seumas Milne Palestinian negotiators privately agreed that only 10,000 refugees and their families – out of a total refugee population exceeding 5 million – could return to Israel as part of a peace settlement, leaked confidential documents reveal.read more
  • Shell, Slammed Over Human Rights and Environmental ...
    Environmental groups have accused oil giant Shell of abusing human rights and the environment in the Niger Delta at a Dutch parliamentary hearing.Amnesty International and environmental NGOs have accused the Anglo-Dutch company of failing to clean up oil spills and continuing the hazardous practice ...
  • Plans for Nato Withdrawal Could Be Hit by Base Con ...
    by Ben Farmer in IslamabadArnold Fields, the government inspector who oversees American contracts in the country, said hundreds of new Afghan outposts, barracks and garrisons are "seriously behind schedule, making it doubtful that the construction efforts would keep pace with recruitment and trainin ...

Lifehacker

  • Amazon Security Flaw May Make Your Old Password Ea ...
    It seems that if you haven't changed your Amazon.com password in awhile and it's more than eight characters, anything after the first eight characters doesn't matter so much. For example, if your password was password1234567890, someone could ...
  • Imo.im Offers Desktop Chat Notifications for Any I ...
    Imo.im is like Meebo and other chat webapps: it can log you into Skype, Gchat, AIM, and other services, all at once. But with its new look, mobile apps, and Chrome desktop notifications, it may be the slickest web chat client around. More�� ...
  • This is How to Silence Enemies, Apple Fanboys or J ...
    I've just discovered the Chrome extension Proxlet, and I swear it's going to change my life for the better. Now you can mute people, hashtags or Foursquare tweets from your feed—even if you're not actually following them. More » ...
  • Week Cal Is a Powerful, iCal-Like Replacement for ...
    The iPhone's Calendar app is handy, but it frankly leaves a bit to be desired. If you'd like a more powerful, iCal-like interface for your iPhone, Week Cal is a great calendar replacement app. More��
  • Facebook Experimenting with "Social Captchas& ...
    Most sites, when signing you up or verifying who you are after suspicious activity, ask you to answer a security question, or possibly read two out-of-focus words and type them into a box. Facebook is testing out a "social captcha", where pict ...

Water Privatization

Guardian

  • NoW accused of phone hacking within last year
    Kelly Hoppen, Sienna Miller's stepmother, is suing the NoW for 'accessing or attempting to access her voicemail' Follow the latest developments in our live blogThe crisis at the News of the World intensified today with the release of new material which confirms that the paper is being accused of a ...
  • Pakistan 'facing humanitarian crisis'
    Unicef survey shows almost a quarter of children under five are malnourished in Sindh province, six months after floodsA "humanitarian crisis of epic proportions" is unfolding in flood-hit areas of southern Pakistan where malnutrition rates rival those of African countries affected by famine, accord ...
  • BSkyB spends £7m on News Corp bid
    Broadcaster sees profit rise 26% as customer base tops the 10 million markBSkyB has admitted that it has spent £7m in relation to News Corporation's bid to take full ownership, as the company hit its long-term target set by James Murdoch of passing the 10 million customer mark.The satellite TV group ...
  • Heads to get power to search pupils
    Education bill gives teachers right to search pupils for forbidden items such as phones or pornographyHeadteachers will be given greater powers to exclude violent and aggressive pupils in a series of major school reforms published today.The proposals, which make up an education bill starting its jou ...
  • Mandela in hospital in Johannesburg
    Ex-wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and senior party members due to visit, but ANC calls for calm over Madiba's healthNelson Mandela is spending his second day in hospital for what are described as "routine medical tests", raising fears over the health of South Africa's former president.Mandela was ad ...

McClatchey

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • 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 ...
  • Real world of climate: How scary?
    Earlier this week I posted on uncertainty in climate model projections, raising the question of whether lack of certainty made the future more or less "scary" - and what it should mean for policymaking. As would have been expected, I guess, your responses varied greatly - from Maurizio Maurabito's ...
  • Conservation and Schrodinger's cat
    � In Schrodinger's famous thought experiment involving an unsuspecting, limbo-bound feline, the mere act of observing something can change its state. In the real wild world, it's not supposed to happen - to cats or other animals. The very idea of ecological science as it's practised nowadays is ...

The Wonk Room

thwap's schoolyard

  • No blood for oil?
    In the comments section of the last post, the conversation has led commenter Mark to ask something that I was actually thinking about a couple of days ago. When I wrote (in agreement with Alan Greenspan) that the motivation to invade Iraq and cause untold suffering to millions of innocent people was ...
  • The First Election Since the First Prorogation!
    If so, it'll be the first opportunity to pay the asshole back for spitting on our democracy!
  • A Newspaper of Uneven Quality
    The Globe & Mail stinks. There's too much deluded, stupid crud. However, they also featured stellar reporting on Canada's torture scandal in Afghanistan. On that and other stories, the Globe makes you think it could have been a real newspaper. It's the same thing with the Toronto Star. The problem ...
  • "Wayne" - an example of a debased political cultur ...
    Blogger "Wayne" comes off as being one of the stupidest individuals on the fucking planet. I banned him a long time ago after a comment he left in this post but for reasons known only to himself, he has occasionally tried to post things in the three years since. His most recent offering was only las ...
  • Anonymous political blogging, civility, and me
    A days ago, Dr. Dawg wrote about Don Cherry's obnoxicity and went on to say a few more things about politics, blogging, and Canadian sensibilities: Canadians, even in 2010 after four years of rule by Stephen Harper, pride ourselves on our good manners. It’s one way we measure ourselves against Ame ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • 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 ...
  • Supreme Court protects whistleblower's family from ...
    Today the Supreme Court issued a landmark decision that prohibits employers from retaliating against a whistleblower's family members or other associates. The decision in Thompson v. North American Stainless LP is unanimous, and reverses an en banc decision of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in C ...
  • Cuccinelli's misuse of the FCA
    Today's Washington Post, Metro section, leads with a story by Rosalind Helderman called "Democrats try to curb Cuccinelli's powers." The story reports on an effort by some Virginia Commonwealth Senators to change state law so that the state Attorney General must get court approval before issuing a " ...
  • NELA to host webinar on new whistleblower remedies
    The National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA) has scheduled a webinar called Using New Developments In Whistleblower Laws To Your Client's Advantage.� It will be on March 10, 2011, 11:00 am Pacific, 2:00 pm Eastern. This 90-minute webinar will address new developments in whistleblower law, incl ...

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

  • More Patents That Have Touched Both Intellectual V ...
    Last year, we noted that more and more patents previously held by Intellectual Ventures were showing up in lawsuits -- with rumors swirling that IV still got a cut of money collected on at least some of those patents. Then, in December, IV finally filed its first patent infringement lawsuits direct ...
  • NY Times Creating Its Own Wikileaks?
    It's been funny watching critics of Wikileaks assume that if Julian Assange was somehow takendown, or that Wikileaks itself was somehow taken offline, that this concept of intermediaries to help publish leaked documents would somehow go away. In the past few months we've seen tons of new such opera ...
  • Kyiv Post Blocking Access From The UK To Protest U ...
    We've discussed at great length the problems with the UK's libel laws, which have put a chilling effect on free speech and public participation. The problem of libel tourism has even resulted in the US passing laws saying that it will not enforce any such judgments in the US. Glyn Moody points us ...
  • How Long Until A Lawsuit Is Filed Against eBook Tr ...
    We've already talked about how people are starting to freak out about "lending clubs" forming on Facebook to share Kindle ebooks, now that Amazon has launched a ridiculously limited "lending" feature. Not surprisingly, such efforts are quickly moving beyond Facebook as well, such as with the launc ...
  • DailyDirt: Modern Dentistry
    Not too many people enjoy going to the dentist -- which probably feeds into the urban legend that dentists have the highest suicide rates. But there may be a few dental developments that'll make going to the dentist a bit less scary. Being fastidious about flossing is a virtue, but for the rest of ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

  • 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 [...]
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    I feel like I should say something about the anniversary of the Haiti earthquake, but it is just a silent scream at this point.  Haitians are gathering all over Haiti to commemorate, grieve, and try to figure out what the hell to do.  I sincerely hope all white knights will get the hell out of the [ ...

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

  • 20-Year-Old Permaculture Forest Garden in the Moun ...
    Image credit: Perennial Solutions Whether it's an awesome tour of Mike Feingold's permaculture allotment, footage of the famous Greening the Desert project in Jordan, or the BBC's discovery of forest gardening, we have seen plenty of great videos about permaculture gardens. But exampl...Read th ...
  • 4 Surprising Places to Avoid Buying Seafood From
    Alternet has an interesting roundup of four places where you should avoid purchasing seafood if you want it to be sustainable. Find out why Costco, Legal Seafood, Nobu and H.E.B. should be on your no-shop list. For what seafood you can buy guilt-free, check out our sustainable seafood select ...
  • Genetic Architecture: When Buildings Think With Th ...
    Karl Chu knows he is a man way ahead of his time. It’s a time when, he posits, humans have transcended their bodies to exist on multiple planes, contribute to a global brain, and write apps with their genomes. But it’s the implications for architecture that are really exciting, says Chu. The ...
  • Sex Used By Police As Strategy to Disrupt Protests ...
    Many eco activists were shocked enough when a prominent protester came out as an undercover cop and expressed remorse for deceiving his activist comrades. But then came news of sexual liaisons with protesters, and another former undercover agent who even married one of his targets. Now Tamsin A ...
  • Massive Seed Swap Keeps Biodiversity Growing
    Image credit: Seedy Sunday I guess spring really is on its way. From collecting fruit tree scions to community-run seed libraries to seed libraries in libraries, biodiversity in the garden seems to be a hot topic right now. I've just come across a story about what might just be the mother of al ...

Biosingularity

  • 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 ...
  • Woman’s voice restored after larynx transpla ...
    A woman in the US is able to speak for the first time in 11 years after a pioneering voicebox transplant.Brenda Jensen said the operation, which took place in California, was a miracle which had restored her life.Thirteen days after the surgery she said her first words: “Good morning, I want to go h ...

CFACT

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Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

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: 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 ...
  • TAHITI BOY covers "Stay The Same" by The Shoes
    Free download over here.  No, I’m not turning this into a music blog; the Brockway compilation just hit the linking point yesterday, followed coincidentally by an email on Tahiti Boy’s latest.  Anyone who tops one of my “Best Music” lists gets lifetime free plugs on my site.
  • 2011 Brockway Entertainment Canadian Rap Future Su ...
    Troy at Brockway Entertainment has released his annual CD of new acts, and once again it’s really impressive.  It can be downloaded for free here, and I strongly recommend it.  Give it a few listens - even if you think you don’t like hip-hop.

Organic Consumers.org

  • Beware Venison Eaters: Mad Deer Disease (CWD) May ...
    Our results have far-reaching implications for human health, since they indicate that cervid PrPSc can trigger the conversion of human PrPC into PrPSc, suggesting that CWD might be infectious to humans. Interestingly our findings suggest that unstable strains from CWD affected animals might not be a ...
  • Fearless Food Policy
    Choosing to eat healthy and making sure our children have healthy food options is critical to our nation’s success. Overall wellness lowers our health care costs, improves education and economic productivity, and is vital to our planet. Our society depends on us getting involved in food policy and m ...
  • At Oregon Sugar Beet Seed Farms, It's Organic Agri ...
    The Cold War phrase "peaceful coexistence" has been revived in a new context: as a potential solution in the clash between organic agriculture and genetic engineering. Click here to read this article
  • Stop Buying Antibacterial Soaps, Handwipes and Cle ...
    Reading a recent issue of Public Citizen's excellent Health Letter titled "Know When Antibiotics Work," I recalled the recent tragic loss of a healthy history professor who was rushed to a fine urban hospital, with a leading infectious disease specialist by his side. No antibiotics could treat his m ...
  • With Food-System Reform Slowed to a Crawl, Local I ...
    I think we have seen the scope of the Obama administration's commitment to food-policy reform: things that don't cost real money or challenge the structure of the food industry. Click here to read this article

fotoFrontera

  • Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes XXXVI ...
    Si lo desea, puede revisar nuestras entregas anteriores sobre esta serie titulada 'Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas'. Sólo escoja un número a continuación y disfrute plenamente nuestro archivo con más de 1,000 fotografías gratis en alta resolución. [1][2][3][4][5]-[6]-[7][8][9] ...
  • Las mejores imágenes de paisajes naturales X (7 fo ...
    Para ver más imágenes y fotografías de Paisajes Naturales, escoja un número. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] 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 d ...
  • Flores del campo VI (7 beautiful colors flowers)
    Para ver más imágenes y fotografías de flores, escoja un número a continuación. Hasta ahora, tenemos más de 100 elementos. [1][2][3][4][5][6] 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 guardar ...
  • Animales increíbles III (Fotomanipulaciones en Pho ...
    Para ver más fotomonatjes, seleccione un número. [1][2][3][más] 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.
  • Viaje por el fondo del mar III (Animales Acuáticos ...
    Si lo desea, revise nuestras entregas anteriores sobre esta serie. (1)(2)(3) 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

  • 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 ...
  • Cuban Pesos: A Farmer’s Market Experience
    CLF’s Sr. Research Program Coordinators Jesse Kurtz-Nicholl and Sarah Rodman are visiting Cuba as part of a Natural Environmental Ecological Management delegation. Members of the group will see first hand large-scale Cuban infrastructure developed to support its 18-year-old, world-renowned sustainab ...
  • Conference Envisions a Very Different Future Harve ...
    Thirty years ago, Bruce Springsteen wrote the lyric “from small things, mama, big things one day come.” In a sense, that was part of the message of Fred Kirschenmann’s keynote address at the 12th annual conference of Future Harvest-Chesapeake Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture, although his addres ...

Norwegianity

  • Buttockicizing Michele
    No catchy hook to start the day, the Wolves having sucked that out of me last night. Newsie links: DC in the dark, jokes to follow Conoco demands tax cuts to go with record profits Kucinich sues cafeteria vendor (jokes already in progress, but had a GOoPer broken his tooth, I’m betting they would ha ...
  • Scammin D. Phish calling
    Checked the blog stats and saw about two dozen hits from some site I never heard of so I checked to see what scam they were hyping and got taken to this page: If you were totally blotto, I could see how you might get sucked in. Somehow they swiped the Safari browser’s log in [...]
  • The Maroon Chronicles
    I am a maroon. That or I have some rare syndrome the possession of which should make you feel sorry for me. Increasingly I’m assuming things and then forgetting to verify them. Buddy Mike emailed me that he was reading poetry at Trotter’s Cafe tonight. I looked at the address, thought, I bet I know ...
  • SOTU, STFU, let’s call the whole thing off
    No comment on the SOTU. Nothing Obama says or does is of any interest to me. I may have slipped back into my politic ways, but I do not intend to waste my time or yours with that which matters little, all having been settled in a boardroom  or club long before being debated in [...]
  • NPM for Tuesday
    More atrocities, mostly govt-inflicted: PW with a Bradley Manning update True the Vote: voter suppression just got catchier More on the Hatch-defying Bushies Illinois: fuck you for even thinking you have rights Because what former Sheriff Bob Fletcher really needed was more power [yes, this link is ...

Public News Service

  • Arizona Facing Lawsuit Over Constitutional Amendme ...
    Arizona Facing Lawsuit Over Constitutional Amendment Phoenix, AZ – The State of Arizona is facing a lawsuit from the National Labor Relations Board over a constitutional amendment approved by voters last fall. Comments from Rebekah Friend, executive director, Arizona AFL-CIO.
  • Federal Laws May Help AZ Schools Deal With Bullies
    Federal Laws May Help AZ Schools Deal With Bullies Phoenix, AZ - Bullying remains a problem in many Arizona school districts and elsewhere. Some say more anti-bullying policies are needed, but others say federal laws already on the books may be enough to handle much of the problem. Comments from Jen ...
  • Will Medicaid Cuts Cripple Arizona’s Health ...
    Will Medicaid Cuts Cripple Arizona’s Health Care System? Phoenix, AZ – Arizona is expected to formally request a waiver from the federal government to drop 280-thousand people from the state’s Medicaid program known as AHCCCS (Access). If the waiver is granted, medical providers are worried the resu ...
  • Stalking Moving Into Cyber-space
    Stalking Moving Into Cyber-space Phoenix, AZ – January is National Stalking Awareness Month and new technology can play a big role in stalking cases. Comments from Cindy Southworth, founder of the Safety Net Technology Project at the National Network to End Domestic Violence, and Jeff Greipp (GRIPE) ...
  • New Report Confirms More Families Among Arizona Ho ...
    New Report Confirms More Families Among Arizona Homeless Phoenix, AZ – The face of homelessness is changing in Arizona. A new report shows fewer long-term homeless people on the streets, but more families. Comments from Joan Serviss (Service), executive director, Arizona Coalition to End Homelessnes ...

Center for Food Safety

  • 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 ...
  • In Wake Of Pending FDA Approval Of GE Salmon, Cali ...
    Bill Would Require Labels on All Genetically Engineered Salmon   Dissatisfied with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) current review of the first-ever proposed commercialization of genetically engineered (GE) salmon, today California State Assemblymember Jared Huffman introduced an Assemb ...
  • Obama to Sign Landmark Food Safety Legislation
    Center for Food safety Applauds New Powers for the FDA. Tester-Hagan Amendment a Win for Consumers and Small, Local Food Producers and Processors The Center for Food Safety (CFS) applauds the passage of the Food Safety Modernization Act (S. 510) by the United States Congress.  The bill which passed ...
  • USDA Releases Final Environmental Impact Statement ...
    AGENCY MAKES NO DECISION ON APPROVAL OF THE ROUNDUP READY CROP CITING HARM TO ORGANIC INDUSTRY AND PROLIFERATION OF SUPERWEEDS CFS URGES AGENCY TO CONTINUE BAN ON POTENTIALLY HARMFUL CROP The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced today the availability of the Final Environmental Impact Sta ...

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 its ...
  • 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 ...
  • Anishinaabekwe: Poem: We Don't Want to be in Your ...
    Anishinaabekwe: Poem: We Don't Want to be in Your Prayers: "According to 'God,' We are sinners, Because we are Native, What is 'God,' A rapist? A colonizer? A conquistador? Crusaders? We don't believe in your 'God,' Because 'God' benefits you, 'God' set up torture chambers, So by force you would ...
  • 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 ...
  • Capital of conservatism | SocialistWorker.org
    Capital of conservatism | SocialistWorker.org: "THE DOGMAS and delusions of conservatives and Corporate America are still dominating national politics--and their most effective advocate has turned out to be a Democratic president. That's the conclusion we drew from President Barack Obama's State of ...

Pensieve

  • 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 ...
  • More Constitutional Amendments!?
    The Honduran Congress has introduced more constitutional amendments last night, apparently to reform the judicial branch of government. I hope the Supreme Court declares them unconstitutional quickly; I suspect the reforms are “punishment” for the Supreme Court not bending to Manuel Zelaya’s will in ...
  • Charter Cities in Honduras?
    Paul Romer, speaking at a TED conference, proposed the creation of “charter cities” in poor countries as a way to develop them. His prime example, China, with Hong Kong, and the new special cities that China has set up under more capitalist rules. Mr. Romer recently visited Tegucigalpa, and has some ...

Green Times

  • Chinese New Year Celebration
      Australia’s Chinese inhabitants celebrate the Chinese New Year with various parades, markets and even a Dragon boat race. In 2011, the Year of the Rabbit, celebrations take place between the 28 January and 13 February.   Everyone, regardless of nationality, is invited to join in the publ ...
  • Slow Food – an antidote to fast food and fast life
    Slow Food, a network between grower and eater, agriculture and market, community and world…
  • Go Green – Reuse Coffee Grounds
    Green Tips on how to reuse those spent coffee grounds – you’ll be surprised at how many uses there are!
  • Environmental News 24/01/2011
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • Wave power generator
    Sea snake generates energy through wave power!   Scottish engineers found a solution to generate renewable (glossary/categories/energy/energy-solutions.html) energy through wave power (energy/hydro-energy.html), called the Pelamis system. Pelamis is the name for a huge, surface swimming, red se ...

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • DHS to Scrap Color Code Terror Alerts by April
    ShareThisDHS to Scrap Color Code Terror Alerts by April 26 Jan 2011 Tomorrow Homeland Secretary Janet Napolitano will announce that the much maligned color-code threat level, formally called the Homeland Security Advisory System, will be replaced with a more specific public alert system according to ...
  • Gaza war report was stalled by Palestinian Authori ...
    ShareThisGaza war report was stalled by Palestinian Authority on US request --Papers reveal PA held up Goldstone report from UN security council 26 Jan 2011 Palestinian Authority leaders co-operated with US officials in a bid to postpone the reference of the Goldstone report into war crimes in Gaza ...
  • Iraq Cabinet Approves Deal To Buy 18 F16 Fighters ...
    ShareThisIraq Cabinet Approves Deal To Buy 18 F16 Fighters From US -Spokesman 26 Jan 2011 The Iraqi government approved a deal to buy 18 F-16 multi-role fighters from the U.S., a government spokesman said Wednesday. "The cabinet has authorized Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki who is also the acting De ...
  • NATO not to leave Afghanistan after 2014 transitio ...
    ShareThisNATO not to leave Afghanistan after 2014 transition: official 26 Jan 2011 NATO and the countries participating in the operation in Afghanistan will not leave the country after 2014, when Afghan troops will have taken over the security responsibility, a senior NATO official said Tuesday. NAT ...
  • Poll in Germany: 89.5 doubt official version of 9/ ...
    ShareThisPoll in Germany: 89.5 doubt official version of 9/11 Posted by coop 21 Jan 2011 A recent poll in the german magazine "Welt der Wunder" conducted by the well known Emnid Institute results in astonishing 89% of the german respondents not believing the official line 9/11. The magazine in 2010 ...

Daily Loaf

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • 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 ...
  • Targetted professor stands up for human rights in ...
    By Jesse Bacon Neve Gordon, whose own academic freedom was threatened after his support for the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, writes in the Nation on the continued slide of human rights in Israel. This time at Ben Gurion Airport the site of much harassment of democracy activists as we ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Woman plans to marry corporation to honor corporat ...
    One year ago on January 21, 2010, the Supreme Court of the United States reaffirmed that corporations have the same constitutional rights as people (Citizens United v FEC). In commemoration of that decision there will commence a national search for the ideal corporate groom for a mere mortal, Ms. Sa ...
  • U.S. gives $650 million loan aid for biofuels from ...
    These loan guarantees are specifically for cellulosic ethanol not made from corn, and that’s a good thing. Instead the ethanol will be made from leftovers like woody biomass, animal fat, crop processing leftovers, and trash. Thus, they are turning a liability into an asset. This is way better than d ...
  • Utah lawmakers propose M1911 as official state gun
    I can already hear anti-gun proponents howling about how gun-crazy the West is. But the M1911 was invented by a Utahn, and is not only of historical interest, it’s still in use. Republican Rep. Carl Wimmer said the state should have the gun as one of its state symbols to honor John Browning, a Utah ...
  • Template for every awful Facebook discussion you’v ...
    Whoa, too true!
  • Where liberals go to feel good. Conferences!
    A fine rant by Chris Hedges The moral outrage of the liberal class, a specialty of MSNBC, groups such as Progressives for Obama and MoveOn.org, is built around the absurd language of personal narrative-as if Barack Obama ever wanted to or could defy the interests of Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase or ...

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

  • 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 ...
  • Commodities Trader Arrested for Threatening to Kil ...
    Former New York commodities trader Vincent McCrudden was charged in federal court this week with threatening to kill 47 current and former federal regulators from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), and other agencies. McCrudden ...Rea ...
  • It Gets Better, But Probably Not With a Boob Job
    Amanda of Pandagon points to a disturbing ABC News story about teens getting plastic surgery in a bid to escape bullying or, and/or to recover from the psychological scars of bullying. We meet Erica, who was mercilessly teased about her nose, became so distraught that she started skipping ...
  • Sarah Palin, Blood Libel, and Death Panels
    Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin claims she is the victim of "blood libel," a reference to the anti-Semitic claim that Jews sacrifice Christian children. A Jewish congresswoman got a bullet through her brain, but Sarah Palin is casting herself as the victim because some people have criticized her ...

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook Increases Application Requests Limit: Mor ...
    Facebook has updated its Requests Dialog with a few changes, including eliminating an unnecessary step, improving ease of implementation, and reducing the strictness of requests limit on users. Previously, users were sometimes limited to sending 20 or fewer requests or invites a day in order to prev ...
  • ISA 2011: Roundup of Press Coverage
    Our Inside Social Apps 2011 conference yesterday featured intense industry discussions around key issues like developer growth on Facebook, the expansion of Credits, the evolution of mobile social applications, and the roadmap for Android in 2011. Be sure to check out the coverage from the press in ...
  • Facebook Tests Voice Chat, Could the Facebook Phon ...
    Facebook has been spotted testing a new voice chat feature. There are few details at the time, but it appears users experiencing the test see a “Call” button next to options to Chat, Message, and Poke on the profiles of friends. When pressed, users see a “Calling [friend's name]” dialog pop up. The ...
  • Highlights This Week from the Inside Network Job B ...
    The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities in the Facebook Platform and social gaming ecosystem. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at Facebook and Meteor Games. Contract Technical Writer (Palo Alto, ...
  • Facebook Combats Image of Insecurity with HTTPS an ...
    Facebook officially launched two security features this morning. The new Secure Browsing (https) feature gives user the option of accessing Facebook over an encrypted, albeit slower connection that prevents others on the same network from eavesdropping. Developers can now set up a secure canvas URL ...

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ReDress News

  • Palestine Papers: Don't get mad, Palestinians. Get ...
    Stuart Littlewood reflects on the scandalous revelations of the leaked Palestine Papers, which exposed the willingness of the Palestinian National Authority to concede to Israel inalienable Palestinian rights. He says that what Palestinians need now are "incorruptible unity leadership, tactical cour ...
  • Stuttgart Declaration for a One-State Solution in ...
    Lawrence Davidson views the inexorable march of history which underlines the Stuttgart Declaration for a One-State Solution in Palestine and which, he believes, will eventually end in the demise of Zionism and racism in Israel and lead to its replacement by a secular democratic state of all its citi ...
  • Sleeping giant wakes up in the Arab world
    Yvonne Ridley argues that the tide has turned in the Arab world now that the people have breached the fear barrier, and predicts that oppressive and corrupt Arab regimes, which have been propped up by the US and its European allies, will begin to tumble like dominos.
  • The Palestine Papers: Israel’s peacemakers unmaske ...
    Jonathan Cook views some of the key revelations to emerge from the leaked confidential documents recording major, unreciprocated concessions made by Mahmoud Abbas's team in talks with Israel, including relinquishing Palestinian sovereignty over Muslim holy places, selling out the Palestinian refugee ...
  • US journalist says prison preferable to ditching h ...
    Maureen Murphy explains why she prefers to risk imprisonment than testify before a grand jury in Chicago, USA, insisting that she will not be forced to account to the government for exercising her constitutionally protected freedoms of speech and association.

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

  • 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 ...
  • The “Exceptionally “Redacted 9/11 Commission Inter ...
    Newly Released 9/11 Commission Files at Cryptome.Org Last week John Young’s information site Cryptome.Org began publishing documents related to the interviews conducted by the 9/11 Commission which were released for the first time. On January 3, Cryptome posted the 9/11 Commission’s report on my int ...

Afro Spear

  • 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 ...
  • Drapetomania…Catch it if you Can!
    “Diseases and Peculiarities of the Negro Race,” by Dr. Cartwright DRAPETOMANIA, OR THE DISEASE CAUSING NEGROES TO RUN AWAY. It is unknown to our medical authorities, although its diagnostic symptom, the absconding from service, is well known to our planters and overseers… In noticing a disease not h ...
  • Independent Woman? Really?
    I was at brother Spencer’s blog, The Warrior Poet, reading his Spencerism’s dated January 19, 2011.  He’s a Christian man who blogs about his opinion on a number of interesting subjects.  His post on Women and Independence was quite interesting to me and I wanted to share what he had to say about ...
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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

  • 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.
  • Petition for Global Warming Facts on Fox
    SEN's Co-Founder Gregory Hilbert told Huffington bloggers Mary Ellen Harte PhD and John Harte PhD of cooltheearth, "The Discovery Palin Alaska petition-condemnation-boycott campaigns by Defenders of Wildlife, Credo, Change.org, Center for Biodiversity, Care2 Petitioners, Facebook groups and SEN have ...

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!
    Why do they hate us? Is it really that hard to understand? 1st collector for I understand and now you do, too!Follow my videos on vodpod
  • 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

  • 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 [...]
  • Undermining in 2010: How Did I Do?
    There is something very human in looking back over a specific period of time and reflecting on what you have achieved, failed in or could just have done a bit better. It’s part of the learning process that civilization discourages, because if we really did look back and reflect upon what really matt ...

Subalternate Reality

  • 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 ...
  • Ex-Muslim Ergun Caner Is A Fraud
    Ergun Caner is one of the most prominent figures in the evangelical movement. He is also one of the most deceptive. A self-professed Muslim convert to Christianity, Caner plays an important, and arguably dangerous, role in the community. After the 9/11 attacks, when many Americans were searching for ...

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

  • Italian-Americans on Edge - Reflecting on Italian- ...
    Like many others of Italian-American heritage, I experienced some discomfort when in 1951 Senator Estes Kefauver, a Democrat from Tennessee, launched his highly publicized investigation into the organized rackets, uncovering scores of thugs with Italian surnames. Subsequent decades produced an endle ...
  • Lebanon on Edge - How Hezbollah Will Carry the Day ...
    The seemingly never-ending story of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, which was established by the U.N. Security Council to prosecute the killers of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, reached a landmark this week when the court's prosecutor submitted his indictment to pretrial judge Daniel ...
  • Ivory Coast on Edge - West African Regional Bank P ...
    West African leaders have replaced the head of the region's central bank in a move to further isolate the incumbent president of Ivory Coast who is refusing to give up power to the internationally-recognized winner of November's vote.West Africa's central bank in December 2010 announced it would sev ...
  • Economic Recovery on Edge - A Half Century Later, ...
    Fifty years ago this month, Dwight D. Eisenhower gave his farewell address as President that famously warned the nation about the “unwarranted influence … by the military industrial complex.” But history has mostly overlooked a second caution in that Jan. 17, 1961 speech that has even greater releva ...
  • Authors on the Road - Edwin Black Speaks on Farhud ...
    Author Edwin Black, author of the recently released bestseller The Farhud: Roots of The Arab-Nazi Alliance�in�the Holocaust, will present his findings directly to the Sephardic community of New York in a much-anticipated appearance before the American Sephardi Federation at 6:30�p.m. on January 31, ...

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

  • We Need To Stop This Culture Before It Kills The P ...
    By Mickey Z. & Derrick JensenAs you begin reading this interview, take a look at the nearest clock. Now, dig this: Since yesterday at the same exact time, 200,000 acres of rainforest have been destroyed, over 100 plant and animal species have gone extinct , 13 million tons of toxic chemicals were ...
  • Driving Straight Into Catastrophe
    By Julio Godoy Despite repeated warnings by environmental and climate experts that reduction of fossil fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions is fundamental to forestalling global warming, disaster appears imminent. According to the latest statistics, unprecedented climate change has Earth h ...
  • The Year Of Living Dangerously
    By Michael T. Klare Rising commodity prices and extreme weather events threaten global stability
  • Where Liberals Go To Feel Good
    By Chris Hedges If the liberal class remains gullible and weak, if it continues to speak to itself and others in meaningless platitudes, it will remain as responsible for our enslavement as those it pompously denounces
  • The Illusion Of Money
    By David Korten Real wealth or phantom assets? David Korten explores the difference between the kind of wealth that makes life better and the phantom wealth created by financial speculation

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

  • Coming Soon, From Those Wonderful People Who Broug ...
    By Barry Rubin "Avtalyon would say: Scholars, be careful with your words. For you may be exiled to a place inhabited by evil elements who will distort your words to achieve their bad goals. Those who come after you will then drink of these evil waters and be destroyed...." Pirkei Avot, Chapt ...
  • Chief Medicare Actuary Rips Obamacare In House Bu ...
    Richard Foster, the the chief actuary of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (the guy in charge of crunching the Medicare's numbers) testified before the House Budget committee this morning . Foster reconfirmed his earlier reports which said that Obamacare would not suppress healthcare c ...
  • Sister Organization of Council on American-Islami ...
    Two years ago, the word GUILTY was read in a Dallas court room a total of 108 times, as a jury convicted the Holy Land foundation and each of the associated defendants of raising money to fund Hamas terrorism. Implicated along with those convicted was supposed civil rights organization CAIR, the ...
  • The Drive For $1.5 CBO Raises Estimate For 2011 De ...
    As if it was a thinly hidden message to President Obama, today the Congressional Budget Office raised its projection for the United States budget deficit in the present fiscal year: For 2011, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that if current laws remain unchanged, the federal b ...
  • Wash D.C. Court To Alan Grayson: That Was A Stupid ...
    Alan Grayson, the nastiest man who used to be in Congress is not done with Washington DC yet, although Washington DC may be done with him. Yesterday DC's highest court threw a Grayson led nuisance suit out onto the street. Grayson, whose two years in congress would surely be called more o ...

The Real Agenda

  • Mental Illness is ‘impossible to define&#821 ...
    Failure to disclose business relationships, badly performed tests and invented illness carried psychiatry to the edge of the cliff. By Gary Greenberg Wired.com Every so often Al Frances says something that seems to surprise even him. Just now, for instance, in the predawn darkness of his comfortable ...
  • Malaysia releases genetically modified Mosquitos
    12,000 mosquitos spark fears of uncontrollable new species Mail Online Malaysia has released 6,000 genetically modified mosquitoes into a forest in the first experiment of its kind in Asia aimed at curbing dengue fever. The field test is meant to pave the way for the official use of genetically engi ...
  • U.S. Military Men members of Knights of Malta
    By Stephen C. Webster January 21st, 2011 Veteran investigative reporter Seymour Hersh has broken some massive stories in his day, but uncovering secret societies within the highest echelons of America’s military would probably be the biggest of his career. Well, get ready for the media storm, becaus ...
  • U.S. NSA – Google ‘cozy’ relatio ...
    Pc World January 26, 2011 Consumer Watchdog, an advocacy group largely focused in recent years on Google’s privacy practices, has called on a congressional investigation into the Internet giant’s “cozy” relationship with U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration. In a letter sent Monday, Consumer ...
  • Running for President? Born in the U.S.? Show me t ...
    In light of Hawaii’s incapacity to produce Barack Obama’s birth certificate several states presented legislation to make it mandatory for presidential candidates to present their birth certificate before running. WND January 26, 2011 It could be a game-changer. A plan in Arizona to require president ...

Wind Watch

  • Windfarm would pose threat to rare bird, warns exp ...
    One of the UK�s rarest birds could be in jeopardy if a major windfarm development in a picturesque part of Inverness-shire is given the go-ahead, a public meeting has heard. About 150 people attended a meeting at Kiltarlity Village Hall to discuss proposals for a 28-turbine windfarm on land between ...
  • Customers face huge bill for wind farms that don&# ...
    The failure of Britain�s wind farms to produce electricity in the extreme cold will cost billions of pounds, create an economic crisis and lead to blackouts, leading industrialists have warned. To cover up the ineffectiveness of wind farms the Government will be forced to build emergency back-up pow ...
  • Wind turbines divide Dutch
    Residents of a small fishing village in The Netherlands are protesting a plan for building wind turbines that they believe would radically change the look of the community. The Dutch government has given permission for building 86 wind turbines on towers near the scenic village of Urk that would con ...
  • Marin wind power test site gets blowback from envi ...
    The proposal was for two thin towers, 197 feet tall and 10 inches in diameter at their base, on two remote west Marin ridgelines, a mile and a half apart and northeast of Dillon Beach. With meteorological testing gear, digital transmitters and a small solar panel mounted to each tower, the temporary ...
  • Noise complaints draw opposition to wind farms
    Mike Eaton and his wife live in northeastern Oregon for the peace and quiet. But ever since wind turbines arrived on the ridge above their home two years ago, the Eatons� slice of heaven has been a nightmare. �It makes me seasick and nauseous,� said Eaton, who carries a cane. �I take medication for ...

Not My Tribe

  • Peewee Herman pimps ride for Sturgis
    Fat tires, custom motor, matte black frame and a wasp tail gas tank.
  • They never vote themselves off the lifeboat… ...
    There’s a Psych101 example that just about everybody who experiences college in America would find familiar, the Lifeboat Question. Setup for it is, you’re on a lifeboat, with absolutely no hope of rescue, You have passengers on board whose needs exceed the supply of fresh water and food. You have a ...
  • Protest of police state interests police
    COLORADO SPRINGS- Outnumbered! Though we comprised a perfectly respectable half-dozen on the hastily organized protest of FBI tactics meant to intimidate, scouting the city blocks which formed our periphery revealed motorcycle cops poised unseen behind corners. Is that merely obligatory, post-9/11, ...
  • There ARE some things you can blame on Mr Obama&#8 ...
    But this ain’t one of them. I mean, Gitmo is still open, torture is still happening, the murderous God-damned wars for profit are still happening…. and he hasn’t managed to fix 30 years worth of pure destructive “trickle down free market” economic policies which favor only people willing and able to ...
  • Now the shitkicker is on the other foot, will Bush ...
    This story is from the Yakima Herald. “YAKIMA, Wash. — Wyatt McNulty was listening to country music and waiting for a friend in the parking lot of the Social Security Administration building Monday morning when the magazine popped out of the gun concealed in his waistband.” OK, that’s the setup. For ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • F U Brian Deer, Steven Novella, David Gorski, PZ M ...
    Sometimes it just needs to be said. :) Truth On Alleged Fraud In The Study Of Autism Cases Revealed These libelous accusations are based on the flimsiest possible construct. Deer claims fraud on the basis of differences between the case histories in the Lancet study and the children’s private med ...
  • If X Then Y
    Pat Curley has commented on Chandler and Bursill's discussion. I haven't actually listened to that discussion coz I've been busy, but I will coment on this: 4. Bursill and Chandler decry the "If X then Y" nature of the CIT theories, where X is "the plane flew north of the Citgo" and Y is "then Fligh ...
  • A threat much greater than terrorism ...
    "I know you have seen countless horrors in your lifetime, Mr Bin Laden, and that you have witnessed the very worst of mankind, well now I ask you to watch this..." Hahahaaa!! The UK government recently announced plans to pressure ISPs into censoring 'pornography' to 'combat the early sexualizati ...
  • Debunkers are Losing the Propaganda War ! Poll in ...
    A recent poll in the german magazine "Welt der Wunder" conducted by the well known Emnid Institute results in astonishing 89% of the german respondents not believing the official line 9/11. The magazine in 2010 already published the story of NATOs "secret nuclear war", where the consequences of the ...
  • Jim Corr Omits Info about Roaring Fires in WTC 7
    Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog posted musician Jim Corr's recent interview today and states: It's a collection of talking points on WTC-7: 1. Three buildings, two planes 2. Freefall speed into its own footprint 3. Accounts of explosions (note that Corr fails to mention the firefighters w ...

Fooducate

  • How Fooducate Grades Products
    If you’ve been using the Fooducate iPhone App you may be wondering how products are graded. We’ve received inquiries on this matter from consumers, food manufacturers, and nutrition professionals. Fooducate’s philosophy is relatively simple, but the actual algorithmic implementation is quite complex ...
  • Oh No! Yet Another Front-of-Pack Nutrition Label t ...
    In a brash and preemptive move against the FDA and the Institute of Medicine (IOM), the 2 largest trade organizations representing the food industry have announced a new front-of-package label – Nutrition Keys. Here’s the pitch from the Grocery Manufacturers Association: In 2010, First Lady Michelle ...
  • Coming Soon? Nutrition Labels on Wine and Booze
    Do you know how many calories are in that glass of 2008 Pinot Noir you’ve paired with your appetizer? Or how many carbs are in that Bud-Light? Truth be told, many of us are clueless when it comes to alcoholic beverages, simply because there is no nutrition labeling on them. Alcohol is regulated by t ...
  • Starbucks: Super Size & Other News
    Lots of things happening at Starbucks lately. 1. The company is revamping its logo. after several decades of text plus mermaid, the new logo is all graphics. 2. In response to challenges from McDonald’s and other, a new super-size TRENTA will be introduced this May for select cold beverages. Why go ...
  • How Can 100% Nectar Contain Added Water and Sugars ...
    Here’s an email (and picture) we got from Tracy: A couple of months ago I bought an attractive two liter of Jumex Mango Juice for my boys.  It said “100% Nectar”!  Well, it was anything but.  I looked at the label when I got home and found it was juice concentrates, high fructose corn syrup, [... ...

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

  • Victory for Kalahari Bushmen as court grants right ...
    The ruling means that the Bushmen can finally use a vital well. © Survival In a momentous decision, Botswanaâs Court of Appeal today quashed a ruling that denied the Kalahari Bushmen access to water on their ancestral lands. With support from Survival, the Bushmen appealed a 2010 High Court j ...
  • Bushman arrested while helping tribe’s lawyer visi ...
    The Bushmen's lawyer Gordon Bennett also represented them during their 2006 High Court victory. © Survival The high profile Bushman activist Jumanda Gakelebone was arrested and held overnight while travelling through his homeland in Botswana’s Central Kalahari Game Reserve over the weekend. The ...
  • Derisory sentences for torture video soldiers
    Footage of the torture was released on the internet in October. © Survival Three Indonesian soldiers who were captured on video torturing two Papuan villagers last May, were sentenced on Monday to between eight and ten months in prison. Human rights organizations have condemned the short senten ...
  • One year after extinction of Bo, Andaman tribe in ...
    Boa Sr was the last member of the Bo tribe. © Alok Das One year after the death of the last member of the Bo tribe of the Andaman Islands (January 26), Survival has warned that the neighbouring Jarawa tribe is also in danger. Boa Sr, the last of the Bo, died last January aged around 85. The J ...
  • Palm oil expansion threatens Palawan tribe
    Palm oil plantation, Peru. Much of the land used to grow biofuels such as palm oil is the ancestral land of tribal peoples. © Thomas Quirynen/Survival The Philippine government’s push to expand palm oil plantations is threatening the members of the Palawan tribe living in the lowlands of Palaw ...

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

  • Egypt, Revolutions and Food
    Zero Hedge notes something interesting about food prices post-Tunisia: Dow Jones reports that wheat futures just hit a 29-month highs on “strong global demand.” Per the newswire, Algeria bought 800,000 tons of milling wheat, with traders estimating the nation’s purchases for January at about 1.8M. T ...
  • Ian is Optimistic
    When Ian is optimistic.  Earlier in the week, Ian was optimistic, and that is seldom a good thing: The RNC is asking for 2.5 trillion in spending cuts over 10 years. Assume Obama and Dems split the difference (remember, Obama wanted a freeze already, anyway). 1.25 trillion. The initial counter-offer ...
  • Ireland: With left wing parties like these, who ne ...
    Betrayal is ash in the mouth: This followed successful negotiations this evening in Dublin between Ireland‘s finance minister Brian Lenihan and the finance spokespersons of the opposition parties to pass the finance bill by Saturday. They agreed to a timetable to pass the crucial finance bill that w ...
  • Carl Safina’s “View From Lazy Point”: Expanding th ...
    There is a life lived within the rhythm of the seasons and the embrace of the land.  A life where cry of the chickadee announces a new season, a world where the return of salmon, silver in the whitewater, is celebrated as much, or more, than any holiday.  In this life, the sheltered bend of [...]
  • Independents Return to Obama…
    … now that the election is over.  And I’m going to agree with Mandos, some people really do want “bipartisanship” of the sort Obama is now offering.  Or, more accurately, they like Obama now that he is moderating the governing party (the Republicans, who are actually driving policy now.) The probl ...

Age of Autism

  • Lauer, Cooper and Stephanopoulos Adopt Skeptic Com ...
    Managing Editor's Note: Below is an excerpt from Ginger Taylor's Adventures in Autism. A year and a half ago, my patience ran out with those in this debate pretending to be earnest seekers of truth, but whose words and actions...
  • The Bad Business of Autism, Part I
    Managing Editor's Note: Contains grown up language. By Adriana Gamondes At a barbeque a few years before the economic crash, my husband and I were sitting with a few other couples discussing business and ethics in the US and, of...
  • Dissecting the Autism Science Foundation’s Use of ...
    By J.B. Handley Control Group (kən′trōl ′grüp) A sample in which a factor whose effect is being estimated is absent or is held constant, in order to provide a comparison. Look, I’m sorry, O.K.? I know it’s early and I’m...
  • Call Me Irresponsible
    By Norm Roberts I had pertussis as an infant. It had no lasting impact on me but it traumatized my parents. For the rest of his life my dad talked about pacing the floor with me in his arms while...
  • Dr. Andrew Wakefield Defends Himself on Fox News
    Dr. Andrew Wakefield was on Fox New this weekend. Here is the direct link HERE.

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

  • Truth Squad Radio: Hydrolic Fracture Mining and th ...
    People are getting sick, and are having to walk away from their homes because property values have plummeted due to environmental poisoning from these operations.
  • Food Freedom Betrayal!
    Organic Consumers Association Funded by Big Pharma! Our food supply is in jeopardy. Not only from outside forces such as poisons from China, but from within. The very people that we look to for guidance seem to be working together to lead us straight into global food governance in the form of Codex ...
  • Truth Squad Radio: No Child Left Behind?
    JS Rugg joins the show to discuss the sad state of education in this country. When third world countries produce children who are better educated than our children....we need to ask "why?" No Child Left Behind has been a disaster for the nation and our children are paying the price.
  • “Trusted” Activist Groups Try to Regulate Silver a ...
    Not all groups supposedly fighting for our food freedom are who we think they are. If you really want an eye-opener, read the following article, and check out this link, which notes organizations on the Merck Pharmaceuticals dole.
  • How the Food Safety Modernization Act will destroy ...
    It has made us start to totally re-look at our business plans and how we're going to sell our food. We're no longer going to sell wholesale, no longer going to sell to chefs or restaurants, it's consumer direct only.

Open Your Eyes News

  • Bombs targeting Iraqi officials kill 3 in Baghdad
    AP — A series of roadside bombs aimed at Iraqi troops and an electricity official missed their targets but killed three other people on Thursday, officials said. The blasts follow a particularly deadly week in Iraq, raising concerns about an uptick in violence as the U.S. military prepares to withdr ...
  • E-mails Suggest Bear Stearns Cheated Clients Out o ...
    Atlantic – Former Bear Stearns mortgage executives who now run mortgage divisions of Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, and Ally Financial have been accused of cheating and defrauding investors through the mortgage securities they created and sold while at Bear. According to e-mails and internal audits ...
  • Wall Street Partying in Davos as Crisis Angst Fade ...
    Bloomberg – As Wall Street chief executive officers flock to the World Economic Forum, theyâll be breathing a sigh of relief along with the Swiss mountain air: There are no panels on compensation or redesigning financial regulation. After spending much of last yearâs meeting defending the industry a ...
  • Financial Crisis Was Avoidable, Inquiry Finds
    NY Times – The 2008 financial crisis was an âavoidableâ disaster caused by widespread failures in government regulation, corporate mismanagement and heedless risk-taking by Wall Street, according to the conclusions of a federal inquiry. The commission that investigated the crisis casts a wide net of ...
  • Scientists identify how to spot a future criminal ...
    Daily Mail – It’s worrying news for any parent who’s struggled with a headstrong young child. But scientists claim that children who have low levels of self-control at three are more likely to have health and money problems and a criminal record by the age of 32, regardless of background and IQ. Res ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

water.org

  • 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 ...
  • Matt Damon receives Joel Siegel Award (VH1)
    Joel Siegel Award – Matt Damon (VH1) – Video of Matt Damon receiving the Joel Siegel Critics Choice Movie Award. Video Link. Critics’ Choice |Movie Awards |Critics’ Choice Video |Celebrity News
  • Matt Damon, Gary White talk to Katie Couric (Glamo ...
    Matt Damon Talks to Katie Couric About His Clean Water Crusade (Glamour) – He may be an ex-Sexiest Man Alive, but Matt Damon and his Water.org partner Gary White, are on a crusade: clean drinking water everywhere. Glamour columnist Katie Couric learns why water is a womenâs issue. When Matt gets inv ...
  • Bill Clinton keynote speaker for Hult Challenge (P ...
    President Bill Clinton to Deliver Keynote at Hult International Business School’s 2nd Annual Global Case Challenge (PR Newswire) BOSTON – Hult International Business School announced today that President Clinton will serve as this year’s keynote speaker and personally present awards to the winning t ...

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

  • Researcher projects 5,000 will die in Ciudad Juare ...
    An artificial-intelligence model generated by a university researcher in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, projects that 5,000 people will be killed in the violent border city this year. The same model projected at the start of 2010 that 3,000 would be killed in theSubmitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World �|� �No ...
  • Tucson Hero Daniel Hernandez: This Is What a Progr ...
    Daniel Hernandez' heroism in the Tucson shootings has its roots in his progressive values. Will the right celebrate this gay Latino hero?Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • ECUADOR: Seven Foreign Oil Companies to Pull Out
    Seven of the 16 foreign oil companies operating in Ecuador have decided to pull out of the country in disagreement with a reformed oil law that turned the firms into providers of services to which the government will pay a fixed tariff for operating the fSubmitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Business �|� ...
  • INDIA: One year after extinction of Bo, Andaman t ...
    Now an illegal road cuts through the Jarawa�s rainforest, and poachers and tourists invade their land. Poachers steal the animals the Jarawa need to survive and, like the tourists, risk introducing diseases to which the tribe have no immunitySubmitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Society & Culture �|� �Not ...
  • The army never misses an opportunity to miss an op ...
    �This is a historical event, there was no tear gas in Bil�in!� Exactly as he said those words to me, the gate to the barrier opened behind us and 30 soldiers entered and began chasing the demonstrators. Suddenly, there was tear gas in every direction...Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

  • Somaliland Editor Sentenced to Three Years in Pris ...
    Mohamud Abdi Jama, the editor of the private daily Waheen, guilty on charges of defamation and 'spreading false news,' local journalists told CPJ. The judge who issued the ruling on Saturday also fined Jama six million shillings (US$900).
  • UN Agency Promotes Women's Rights and Full Partici ...
    Ms. Bachelet said UN Women would focus on five core principles: enhancing implementation of international accords by national partners; backing intergovernmental processes to strengthen the global framework on gender equality; advocating gender equa
  • Israel Encourages Drug Use Among Arabs in Jerusale ...
    At a seminar in Bethlehem, Dr. As'ad Al-Ramlawi, Director of the PA Health Ministry's department of First Aid and Chairman of the Palestinian National Council to Fight AIDS, accused Israel of encouraging drug use among Palestinians in Jerusalem.
  • The New START Treaty Between The United States and ...
    I warmly welcome the ratification by the Russian Parliament of the new START Treaty between the United States and the Russian Federation.
  • NASA's Hubble Finds Most Distant Galaxy Candidate ...
    The new research offers surprising evidence that the rate of star birth in the early universe grew dramatically, increasing by about a factor of 10 from 480 million years to 650 million years after the big bang.

Historical Notes

libcom

  • Go Slow Strike at FagorMastercook (Mondragon capit ...
    Workers fight for wage increase. A work-to-rule strike in underway in Wroclaw's FagorMastercook factory. Despite exceptionally good output, increased exports and a healthy profit, most workers are still taking home a meager 350 euros a m ...
  • Student struggle in the Netherlands
    Last Friday, January 21, the Netherlands saw student action on a massive scale. Fifteen thousand students and sympathisers, maybe more, came together for a protest rally on the Malieveld in The Hague, the city in which the Dutch government is located. The acti ...
  • Rebels in the Maghreb… who they are?
    Rebels in the Maghreb… who they are? The State and its enlightened commentators were first selling us that it was about: • a little obstacle in the smooth running of business, to get round as soon as possible; • an expression of brutality peculiar to countries not well civilized; read more
  • Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Colonial and Post ...
    Announcement of new book that develops a truly global history of the anarchist movement. Book Announcement: Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Colonial and Postcolonial World, 1870-1940 URL: http://labourhistory.net/news/i1012_6.php "Anar ...
  • Insurrection in North Africa: the story so far
    Tunisia-protests-007.jpg In the latest development in the rapidly escalating situation in North Africa, the Tunisian President has been forced out of power, a new government formed and a state of emergen ...

Free Range International

  • What Is the Problem Here?
    One of the Chim Chims’ has asked to put up a guest post on a topic near and dear to both our hearts for different reasons:  the continuing efforts of the New York Times to kill a program I doubt was that big of a deal to begin with.  Chim Chim is a member of [...]
  • The Start of a Long Year
    A few weeks back home we’re a blessing and also a time to partake in my favorite thing to do which is doing nothing.  I’m an expert.  While I was away a few articles caught my attention and they serve as a useful point of departure to evaluate where we are at the start of [...]
  • You Can’t Handle the Truth
    The efforts of the international community to bring aid to Afghanistan, help develop the infrastructure with the goal of allowing Afghanistan a chance at self sufficiency are failing dismally.  That should not be a surprise to anyone with more than a passing knowledge of the international aid racket ...
  • Afghanistan’s Forgotten Province
    There are a couple of recent articles in the flood of coverage about Afghanistan which caught my eye last week.  The first is factually wrong but I understand what the author was saying and he is, in a sense correct.  The second is factually correct, I understand what that reporter was saying too an ...
  • Rules of Engagement
    I have written in the past about night raids and aggressive ISAF convoy tactics causing unnecessary civilian casualties.  I have also written on the importance of not allowing enemy fighters who attack ISAF units to live and fight another day.  Counterinsurgency requires adaptation and my annoyance ...

The Story Behind the Story

  • The Story Behind the Story of Chinese Delegation&# ...
    Good Morning Friends: I submit this is exactly what Comrade Clinton promised Comrade Ju in her visit back in January 2009.  REMEMBER??  (She was literally hours into her Secretary of State position, when Hillary heads to Bejing!!!) I absolutely love what Donald Trump had to say to CNN’s Wolf Blitz ...
  • Activity on the “New Madrid Fault”.
    Connecting the dots, folks, is what I try to do. Remember the “Swine Flu Pandemic” last winter?  Is that event somehow connected in any way with the Gulf oil spill and the dueterium laser attack on Deepwater Horizon?  Are the dead birds and animals in Arkansas and Kentucky connected as well?  I t ...
  • Will the REAL “Jared Lee Loughner” Ple ...
  • Is A. True Ott “Sorcha Faal”? Not Eve ...
    I have recently had a dozen or so people e-mail me concerning what I believe to have been an honest mistake — a patriot blog identified me, A. True Ott, with being “Sorcha Faal”.  The author even posted my picture.  He quickly apologized to me for his error, claiming that his “information” came fr ...
  • Top 30 Hidden FACTS about “America”
    In order to understand what is REALLY going on covertly, “behind the curtain” in America – one needs to internalize and understand the following 30 basic facts about “The Powers That Be”.  (TPTB). Thirty Little Known Facts about America 1. The IRS is NOT a U.S. Government Agency.  It is an Agency ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

  • Downsizing – downscaling? See these tiny hou ...
    Here’s a great company doing inspiring work www.tumbleweedhouses.com The company creator, Jay Shafer started off making a super small mobile home for himself measuring  just 89 square feet! Their video is a testament to less being more – they’re now selling ready made mobile cabins and the plans fo ...
  • Air powered environmentally friendly car being pro ...
    Sounds a little strange right – an air powered car – why isn’t this big news I wonder… There’s a great company in France operated by a former Formula 1 engineer now producing cars running on compressed air. They’re not great to look at, super fast, or I’m guessing really comfortable, but they’re in ...
  • Deforestation – environmental & human effect ...
    There are many types of forest in the world from Temperate Forest to Tropical forest. The one thing all forests have in common is that the trees in them act as the lungs to our planet converting CO2 to Oxygen.  In addition, forests provide a canopy or shading of the earth which helps maintain temper ...
  • Could cancer be Fungus? If so, maybe here’s ...
    Recently I visited a dear friend who has been dealing with breast cancer for over ten years. After a long attempt to avoid surgery and medication, she was forced to have a double mastectomy. She has chosen to avoid the chemo treatments. This takes a lot of courage given that the standard thing to do ...
  • Doctors Warn about GM Food Risks
    It’s barely been a week since I wrote about the dangers of genetically modified (GM) foods and now the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) has released a strongly-worded warning about the health dangers associated with Frankenfoods. Calling for a moratorium on GM foods, the AAEM says t ...

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

  • Governor General David Johnston (Oct 9, 2010)
    Peter talks about the role of the GG -- plus technology and hockey -- in Johnston's first interview as the Queen's representative in Canada
  • James Cameron, Director and Activist (Oct 2, 2010)
    He's one of Hollywood's most powerful figures, and, he's been one of the oil sands most vocal critics. That combination had the oil industry on edge when Avatar director, Canadian James Cameron visited Alberta.
  • Margaret Bloodworth, Retired Senior Bureaucrat and ...
    She was at the front lines of Canada's response to 9-11, just part of a distinguished three decade long public service career. Margaret Bloodworth has now retired, but her thoughts on the country's safety, and the role of a senior public servant make her this week's guest.
  • Tony Blair, former British PM (Sept 11, 2010)
    He was British prime minister for a decade of change and controversy. This week, as his book "A Journey" hits shelves around the world, Tony Blair is our guest.
  • Anne Murray, Singer and Author, "All of Me" (Oct 2 ...
    She will always be Canada's Snowbird - the girl next door who sang her way to international stardom. It all looked so easy. But as her new book reveals, it was nothing like that. This week she tells us all about it.

Scotts Contracting

  • Appliance and Equipment Standards Are a Money Make ...
    NEWS RELEASE-Appliance and Equipment Standards Are a Money Maker and Job Creator Washington, D.C. (January 26, 2010): National appliance energy efficiency standards for common household and business products generated about 340,000 jobs in 2010, or 0.2% of the nation’s jobs, … Continue reading →
  • State of the Solar Union – Tonight at 9pm!
    On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Michael Rader, SEIA wrote: President Obama, what’s your solar story? Scotts Contracting, Itâs that time of year again. Time for President Obama to deliver his annual State of the Union. What … Continue reading →
  • Solar Energy ETFs
    2010 brought terror to the energy sector, as the year started off with the Deepwater Horizon spill, sending energy equities across the board into a free-fall. Despite this tragedy, some analysts felt that the vast amounts of oil that had … Continue reading →
  • Green News from Chesterfield MO- Solar Water Heate ...
    In other related news, Arctic Solar Engineering announced that within a few weeks it will complete the installation of the largest Solar Thermal alternative energy system in the Midwest. The Company said the Solar Thermal System installed at the City … Continue reading →
  • Free shipping on PV kits to East or West Coast!
    On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 9:26 PM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 9:25 PM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: Photovoltaic Energy Production Create Clean Green Energy Readily available are our high quality kits Kits include … Continue reading →

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

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Iranian.com

  • خامنه‌ای در بن‌بست!
    هرچه از کودتای انتخاباتی ۲۲خرداد دورتر می شويم، بحران نظام حاکم حادتر، شکاف ميان طيف حکومتگران ژرفتر و بن بست رهبر کودتا آشکارتر می شود.read more
  • Stoning case steals focus from other imprisoned di ...
    TEHRAN - A sentence of death by stoning has propelled an illiterate Iranian woman convicted of adultery to international fame, with Hollywood stars, French intellectuals and Western governments calling for her release. But inside the Islamic Republic, many government critics, activists and artis ...
  • به دنبال مرگ چند کارگر،ایران خودرو تعطیل است
    یکی از کارگران ایران خودرو داستان این حادثه را برای یک سایت کارگری چنین تشریح کرده است: "از ساعت ۱۲ دیشب تا ۵ صبح امروز بین کارگران ایران خودرو و حراست کارخانه درگیری بوده است. واقعه به این صورت روی داده است که یکی از کارگران شرکتی شیفت شب را، که در قسمت حمل و نقل داخل کارخانه کار می کند، با وجود ب ...
  • Palestinian distrust of Iran revealed in leaked pa ...
    The Guardian has established from Iranian opposition sources that the approach was made by Iranians seeking to exploit old contacts with the PLO, but failed.
  • ديوان عالی کشور و بازپس گيری شروط ضمن عقد
    ديوان عالی کشور می‌گويد اگر عدم تمکين زن اثبات شود حق طلاق او هم منتفی خواهد شد. حق طلاق البته حقی نيست که در مجموعه قوانين خانواده در ايران به صورت برابر برای زن و مرد در نظر گرفته شده باشد بلکه تنها در هنگام جاری شدن عقد ازدواج است که اگر زنی «بداند» و «بخواهد» می‌تواند شروط معروف به ضمن عقد از جم ...

Most Revolutionary Act

  • CO2 Emissions Affect Company Stock Values
    According to a recent study by Professor Paul Griffin (University of California-Davis), Associate Professor David Lont (University of Otago, New Zealand) and Yuan Sun (University of California-Berkeley), the amount of greenhouse gasses a company produces has a significant effect on its stock price ...
  • Electrosmog
    In the US, it appears that the cellphone and wireless industry is working hard to shut down research about EMR health risks. Scientists like Dr Henry Lai at the University of Washington risk having their careers destroyed by publishing studies about the health hazards of cellphones, cellphone towers ...
  • The Cellphone Controversy
    I guess I shouldn’t be surprised the FDA, acting under pressure from the cellphone and wireless industry, has declared cellphones, Wi-Fi and cellphone towers safe. Nor that industry sponsored research of the health effects of EMR (electromagnetic radiation) comes up with very different results than ...
  • You Can’t Argue With Success
    Much of the work that went into the Voluntary Simplicity and Y2K movements (see prior blogs) has been incorporated into Transition Towns and other sustainability-related movements. There are now literally millions of groups worldwide focused on some aspect of bioregional sustainability. The most vis ...
  • Sustainability: Choosing the Right Crisis
    I think Heinberg and Hopkins are right (see previous blog):  sustainability activists should focus on resource scarcity, rather than climate change. It’s just too damned hard to persuade large numbers of people to undertake major lifestyle changes around something they can’t directly experience. Ex ...

Doug's Darkworld

  • What is outside the Universe revisited: “The ...
    One of the side effects of trying to write thought provoking blog posts is that often they provoke a lot of thoughts, expressed in the form of comments. And unfortunately I often do not or cannot take the time to address them all properly. Hell, I could write a book on my responses to the [...]
  • The 1977 Lawndale Illinois Thunderbird Attack
    In 1977 a giant bird attacked and tried to carry away a ten year old boy in central Illinois in front of multiple witnesses. Actually, two giant birds attacked, but only one tried to carry the kid away. The mother witnessed the attack and chased after the bird yelling, the bird released the boy and ...
  • And the War Rages Ever On
    The war. The one war. The only war. The war that has been raging since at least 1492, when Spanish shock troops first waded ashore in the new world. In some senses a war that has been raging since the crusades in the seventh century. A war that has roots going back to the Greeks [...]
  • Sticks and stones may break my bones (but words wi ...
    I’m sure almost every English speaking person heard that in their childhood, a mantra someone uses when someone has called them names. Of course if it was actually true, there would be no need to say so, the mere fact that such idioms exist is proof positive that words can most definitely hurt. Word ...
  • WHERE THE HELL WAS HOMELAND SECURITY?
    Nearly ten years after 9/11, and ten years of staggering spending on security,  ever expanding powers of government search and surveillance, terror alerts and terror warnings, ever more humiliating and intrusive searches to go on a  plane  (and coming soon searches in buses, malls, and train stat ...

FourWinds10

Crisis Maven

  • Economic Musings VI: Modern Economies – Dyin ...
    There is a great debate in the history of economics whether there can be under-consumption in any real historic moment of the state of an economy and if so, whether it has detrimental effects and if so, what is to be done about it. And modern economists seem to have found a magic wand with [...]
  • Blogs and Web Sites you may want to follow
    The following is a list of blogs and websites that CrisisMaven has followed and observed over the last few months and that readers may want to check out from time to time. Note: neither the sequence of how the blogs are listed here nor any comments by CrisisMaven are an endorsement nor criticism of ...
  • Economic Musings VII: Marketing doesn’t adve ...
    Have you ever wondered if marketing and advertising are the same, if not, what’s the difference and which is the more important of the two? And why should you care? The most successful economic model is without doubt the market economy. It is the consequence of the wealth effects of the division of ...
  • CrisisMaven’s Blog News 2010-03-07: Over 25,000 We ...
    Yesterday around 16:37 GMT we passed the 25,000 threshold … - next report will probably be posted when we’re past the 50,000 mark. Thanks to all avid readers: on 2010-03-18 at around 19:25 GMT we went past our first 20,000 views on our blog in about eight weeks since we began publishing! After that, ...
  • Economic Musings VIII: Is there a limit to economi ...
    Something which puzzles many thinkers and frightens many young people concerned about waste or the pillaging of our natural resources is the question: can “an economy” (whatever that is – we’ll come to that in a minute) grow indefinitely? How can there be unlimited economic growth if we’ve never hea ...


To Do

renewable recycling conservation
Former Senator is Biofuels Convert
Domestic Fuel
- Jan 26, 2011
- 4 hours ago
Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania was never a believer in ethanol, biodiesel and other forms of renewable energy until one devastating day in American history. ...
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It's time to harness renewable energy
Daily Times
- Jan 26, 2011
- 7 hours ago
However, for Pakistan, it is the time to get serious about renewable energy sources. It would not only help solve our chronic power crisis but also help ...
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Renewable Energy a Priority in President Obama's State of the Union Address
Energy Digital
- Jan 26, 2011
- 8 hours ago
US President Barack Obama has been adamant about research and investment in renewable energy throughout his term in office. ...
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Collins Stewart cuts JA Solar; shares fall
Reuters
- Jan 26, 2011
- 13 hours ago
JA Solar shares had gained in pre-market on its announcement on Wednesday about a 29 megawatts supply pact with an Italian renewable energy firm. ...
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Human Habitat

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Ecology and Coast Guard looking into cause of listing ship in Tacoma
Access Washington
- Jan 26, 2011
- 5 hours ago
BELLINGHAM – The state Department of Ecology and US Coast Guard continue to look into what caused a 560-foot ship at a log dock in Tacoma's Hylebos Waterway ...
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Public can weigh in on Ecology permit for carbon storage project
Access Washington
- Jan 26, 2011
- 5 hours ago
To conduct this study, Battelle needs a state waste discharge permit from the Department of Ecology (Ecology). This permit would replace the temporary ...
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Why the ecology crisis poses a threat to business as usual
The Guardian
- Jan 26, 2011
- 13 hours ago
However, there is as yet no sign that most of those who attend really appreciate the significance of the ecology crisis and why it poses a threat to both ...
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Lawmakers, Ecology look for water solutions
Yakima Herald-Republic
- Jan 26, 2011
- 22 hours ago
The Washington state Department of Ecology plans to have a bill introduced today at its request that would emphasize mitigation (or offsets), ...
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Water Power

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WSSC delays results of first water test
Washington Post
- Jan 26, 2011
- 5 hours ago
By Katherine Shaver The Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission received results Wednesday on the first tests done to determine whether tap water is safe to ...
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Some US cities have added fluoride to water for 65 years, but Los Altos and ...
Peninsula Press
- Jan 26, 2011
- 21 minutes ago
By Kelsey Williams | 26 Jan 2011 Los Altos and other cities in Santa Clara County are considering whehter to fluoridate their water. ...
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Norman groups study chromium-6 in water
NewsOK.com
- Jan 26, 2011
- 3 minutes ago
BY JANE GLENN CANNON Leave a comment NORMAN — Two groups have been formed to monitor and study chromium-6 levels in Norman's water supply. ...
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DNR board approves new water transfer rule
Atlanta Journal Constitution
- Jan 26, 2011
- 8 hours ago
The swapping of water between basins, known as interbasin transfers, is key to the way many existing reservoirs operate. Restricting such transfers would ...
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