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Thomas Paine

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Friday, March 18, 2011

18 March - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

To Do

renewable recycling conservation
Japan crisis gives more wind to renewable energy demand
Indian Express
- Mar 17, 2011
- 13 hours ago
Following the atomic energy plant crisis in Japan and ahead of the global conference on wind-power in Chennai, there are fresh demands in the city to promote renewable energy by offering lower interest on loans to stakeholders in the renewable energy ...
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Germany govt to discuss paper on boosting renewables
Reuters Africa
- Mar 18, 2011
- 1 hour ago
BERLIN, March 18 (Reuters) - Germany's government will discuss plans to raise the size of its renewable energy fund to 1 billion euros from a current 300 million, according to a draft paper seen by Reuters on Friday. ...
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Media Advisory: Farmers to Show Support for Renewable Biodiesel
Marketwire (press release)
- Mar 18, 2011
- 31 minutes ago
LONDON, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - March 18, 2011) - At 11:00 am (EST) on Monday, March 21, at the Grain Farmers of Ontario March Classic Annual Meeting, the Canadian Renewable Fuels Association, The Grain Farmers of Ontario, Koch Farms and Koch Logistics, ...
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Feed in tariffs slashed
Building.co.uk
- Mar 18, 2011
- 51 minutes ago
Subsidies for renewable electricity have been dramatically cut by the government after fears that “solar panel farms” were growing out of control. Following an emergency review announced in February, the tariffs for medium and large scale solar panel ...
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Human Habitat

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Ecology and Environment Inc: Sustainable Value? (EEI)
GuruFocus.com
- Mar 18, 2011
- 2 hours ago
Ecology and Environment Inc (EEI) is an environmental consulting firm with 1100 employees worldwide. It has completed 50000 projects in 96 countries over the past forty years. Given the role that reputation plays in environmental and other consulting, ...
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Ecology investigating spill into Snake River
TheNewsTribune.com
- Mar 17, 2011
- 23 hours ago
By the Herald staff An oil spill into the Snake River reported Sunday at Lower Granite Dam apparently came from one of the dam's turbines, Washington Department of Ecology officials said. A park ranger for the recreation area downstream of the dam ...
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The First Earth Day Celebration of Cannabis, Health, and Ecology
PR Newswire (press release)
- Mar 17, 2011
- 23 hours ago
RICHMOND, Calif., March 17, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Deep Green, an entertaining day long celebration of the evolving convergence of cannabis, health and ecology will take place at the stunning Craneway Pavilion located at 1414 Harbour Way South ...
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Smarts Mill Teacher, Ecology Club Win Tolbert Award
Leesburg Today
- Mar 18, 2011
- 21 minutes ago
A Smart's Mill Middle school science teacher and the school's Ecology Club are the 2011 recipients of Leesburg's John W. Tolbert Jr. Environmental Achievement Award. The annual awards program, organized by the town Environmental Advisory Commission, ...
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Water Power

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Water cannons spray Fukushima nuclear plant
Telegraph.co.uk
- Mar 18, 2011
- 1 hour ago
As the severity level at Fukushima's Dai-ichi nuclear power station is raised from 4 to 5, water cannons fire jets of water onto the overheating reactors. Authorities at the plant 150 miles north of Tokyo have been dropping water from helicopters and ...
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Raw Video: Shooting Shuts Down Water Street
Today's TMJ4
- Mar 18, 2011
- 4 hours ago
Milwaukee Police had to push out hundreds of partiers as they tried to search the gunman and any evidence, and now they are asking for help from anyone who was on North Water Street between Highland Avenue and Juneau Street.
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Water bill review doesn't affix blame
Tampabay.com
- Mar 17, 2011
- 11 hours ago
By Tia Mitchell, Times Staff Writer TAMPA — Reacting to a flood of complaints about unusually high water bills, a review of the water department reported Thursday what some officials have contended all along — that the city alone is not at fault. ...
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10-Day Water Restrictions in Place for Altadena Starting Today
Patch.com
- Mar 18, 2011
- 1 hour ago
By Dan Abendschein and Laura Monteros | Email the authors | 6:00am For the next 10 days residents in the Pasadena area, including Altadena, are being asked to conserve water while a treatment plant is down for scheduled repairs. ...
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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Malawi Donor Funding Threatened by Rights, Gov ...
    Malawi is bracing itself for difficult economic times following a decision by the country's main donors to withhold financial aid amounting to $400 million. Donors say they are responding to a range of governance and human rights issues in the country.
  • U.S. Congress Weighs Aid Package to Post-Mubar ...
    As Egypt braces for Saturday's vote on constitutional amendments in its first referendum since the revolution, lawmakers here are seeking to address the North African country's economic situation in addition to immediate political developments, by introducing legislation that seeks t ...
  • U.N. Body Authorises Military Intervention in ...
    As Libyan leader Muammar el-Gaddafi's fighter planes and helicopters continue to mercilessly pound civilians and rebel groups inside Libya, the U.N.'s most powerful political body voted to militarily intervene in the besieged North African country in an attempt to prevent and neutralis ...
  • HAITI: Aristide Returns Ahead of Controversial ...
    Tensions are running high in Haiti as dueling campaigns for the presidency enter overdrive in their final days, and Jean- Bertrand Aristide, a popular former president, returns from a seven-year exile in South Africa.
  • BRAZIL-US: Obama Promises "Equal Partnership"
    The United States says its relations with Latin America must be "an equal partnership" - a new vision or, at least, a new discourse that will have a chance to take more concrete shape during U.S. President Barack Obama's visit to Brazil this weekend.

Scoop - NZ

  • Christchurch is Grumpy
    The thing that makes me feel particularly upset is the national memorial service in Hagley Park on Friday. Just who is this memorial service for? It's not for Christchurch. It's not for the families who lost loved ones in the February 22 quake. It's a grandiose, empty gesture starring so- ...
  • Oil markets brace for Saudi 'rage' as global s ...
    Those exhorting OPEC to boost output should be careful what they wish for. The cartel card can be played once only, and it risks exposing the fragility of the global energy system if the Gulf powers are seen struggling to deliver.
  • Thee Mile Island: People Died
    As the thirtieth anniversary of America's most infamous industrial accident approaches, we mourn the deaths that accompanied the biggest string of lies ever told in US industrial history. As news of the accident poured into the global media, the public was assured there were no radiation rele ...
  • Love Letters Foundation
    Launch of the Love Letters Foundation In March 2007 our daughter Frances was diagnosed with neuroblastoma cancer stage 4 and we were told that there was little chance of survival. Out of the blue, a wonderful woman called Sam befriended Frances and gave her something that all the medicine in ...
  • Injuries as protests hit Saudi city - Al Jazee ...
    Around 600-800 protesters, all Shia and including women, took to the streets of Qatif to demand the release of nine Shia prisoners, said a witness, requesting anonymity for fear of reprisal. Qatif has a large Shia community although Saudi Arabia is a Sunni-dominated kingdom. The shooting c ...

Independent - London

  • Foreign Office to start evacuation from Japan
    The Foreign Office (FCO) will begin evacuating Britons from disaster-struck Japan this evening as efforts continue to bring its nuclear emergency under control.
  • Afghanistan: 'If he is aware of our complaints ...
    Proper procedure would have been to detain and question the family he suspected of hosting Taliban insurgents but Azizullah did things differently, opening fire on their house with his men. Then they locked the survivors inside. And then they set the place ablaze.
  • Tripoli: Unreal sense of defiance in a capital ...
    The crowd of a few dozen watching the young men with their green bandanas gyrating their hips yesterday afternoon to the raucous strains of a nationalist song in Tripoli's Green Square was a little smaller than three days earlier.
  • Rebels: 'We must not let them in. We will figh ...
    The war comes closer to Benghazi, by the day, sometimes by the hour. It was at Zuwaytina at nightfall, now it is at Abdullah Athi, just 50 miles away. The rebel fighters are in turn defiant, or cowed and confused. On occasions they fight, but mostly it is one long retreat forced by pounding barr ...
  • Ousted Aristide's planned return lends extra d ...
    The former president of Haiti, Jean Bertrand Aristide, was due to fly home from a seven-year exile in South Africa last night, against the wishes of the US and only days before the election of a new leader of the country. The drama that usually attends the comings and goings of the priest-turne ...

Rogue Government.com

  • NASA Considers Shooting Space Junk With Lasers
    The growing cloud of space junk surrounding the Earth is a hazard to spaceflight, and will only get worse as large pieces of debris collide and fragment. NASA space scientists have hit on a new way to manage the mess: Use mid-powered lasers to nudge space junk off collision courses.
  • Magic mushrooms used 6,000 years ago
    Long before the modern hippy discovered them, magic mushrooms -- hallucinogenic fungi -- were used by ancient humans in religious ceremonies.
  • Scientists Project Path of Radiation Plume
    A United Nations forecast of the possible movement of the radioactive plume coming from crippled Japanese reactors shows it churning across the Pacific, and touching the Aleutian Islands on Thursday before hitting Southern California late Friday.
  • TSA now expected to testify at Chaffetz-chair ...
    After initially saying they wouldn’t show, Transportation Security Administration officials are now expected to testify today before a congressional hearing chaired by Rep. Jason Chaffetz, one of the agency’s biggest critics.
  • U.S. military blocks websites to help Japan r ...
    The U.S. military has blocked access to a range of popular commercial websites in order to free up bandwidth for use in Japan recovery efforts, according to an e-mail obtained by CNN and confirmed by a spokesman for U.S. Strategic Command.

Innovation Canada

  • Search for the stellar smoking gun
    When big stars go boom, they are like really, really big guns — they leave behind a telltale smoke signal and a path of destruction. Understanding the forensic evidence from just a puff of smoke might sound near impossible, but for Samar Safi-Harb, it’s just another day at the office. Originally ...
  • Women and science
    Five Canadian women. Five accomplished scientists. Five perspectives.
  • A recipe for failure
    By definition, perfectionists set very high standards for themselves. As a result, they are also setting themselves up to fail. And when they do, research is now showing that many perfectionists resort to binge eating to alleviate feelings of loneliness, sadness and inadequacy. “Perfectionists o ...
  • The challenging spine, the adventurous mind
  • What’s love got to do with it?
    Toni Tennille promised “Love Will Keep Us Together,” and while it may be true that she and Daryl “the Captain” Dragon have stayed together for 40 years, it’s unlikely love was the only glue. Lasting relationships require commitment, satisfaction and trust, says Lorne Campbell, a social psycholog ...

Signs of the times

  • Plutonium in troubled reactors, spent fuel pools
    The fuel rods at all six reactors at the stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi complex contain plutonium - better known as fuel for nuclear weapons. While plutonium is more toxic than uranium, other radioactive elements leaking out are likely to be of greater danger to the general public. Only six perc ...
  • Canada: Huge Toronto airport lineups 'unaccept ...
    Toronto's Pearson International Airport and the Canada Border Services Agency said Thursday that a new plan would resolve a serious overnight backlog at customs that forced thousands of travellers to wait in line up to three hours. Officials said that as of Thursday afternoon, crowds were und ...
  • English booze shocker: 3-year-old treated for ...
    Talk about underage drinking. Authorities in England say a 3-year-old there was recently treated for alcoholism. The unnamed child had been given alcohol regularly, a trust that runs three hospitals in central England confirmed on Tuesday. The case highlights a new low in Britain's struggle to ...
  • Sitting silent in their classroom, the 30 chil ...
    Reporters not allowed to speak to children to guard against false hope Ishinomaki confirms the huge number of its citizens missing North Eastern port town was hit by 20ft tsunami Fears that overall death toll has been terribly underestimated Even amid the carnage and ...
  • Japan quake survivors too shocked to contempla ...
    A week after their lives were turned upside down by the biggest recorded earthquake in Japan's history, many survivors are too shocked to contemplate the future. "My house does not exist anymore. Everything is gone, including money," said Tsukasa Sato, a 74-year-old barber with a heart condit ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • But where's Verkuktastan?
    RETHINKING SCHOOLS has a fine little game about all that North African geography which has been in the news as of late. Go visit and play: drag and drop Kyrgyzstan where it should be.
  • Purple Haze . . .
    THE CREATOR OF "OWSLEY PURPLE", Owsley Stanley (born Augustus Owsley Stanley III), has died, age 76. According to David Pescovitz at boingboing,Augustus Owsley Stanley III, AKA the "Bear," died in a car crash in his adopted home of Queensland, Australia today. He was 76. Between 1965 and 1967, S ...
  • Showtime!
    Just getting ready to host Virtually Speaking Sunday:Maple Syrup Edition by drinking a nice piping hot cup of maple syrup. Join Lindsay Stewart and I at 8 EST 5 Pacific
  • Multi-Kulti BS . . .
    Kanwar Mahfooz THE POLITICALLY-CORRECT ARE BECOMING TIRESOME, and the sooner we can slap some sense into their darling little minds, the better. According to Licia Corbella at The Calgary Herald, there is lunacy in Winnipeg. Apparently a number of Islamic families are upset and demanding change ...
  • Nasty bitch . . .
    MUAMMAR'S "GO-TO GAL", is a middle-aged matron by name of Huda Ben Amer, aka "Huda Al-Shannaga – Huda the executioner". No job too dirty or nasty. This bitch is a real piece of work. According to The Telegraph, she got her start in the regime when she grabbed the legs of a man being hanged, who ...

Media Matters for America

  • Beck Rehashes Old Myths To Falsely Portray Oba ...
    While painting President Obama as hostile to the Second Amendment, Glenn Beck repeated old falsehoods about Obama's record on gun issues. In reality, Obama has expressed support for the individual right to bear arms, and he has loosened gun restrictions as president.Beck: Obama Tries To Pay "Li ...
  • Right Wing Gins Up Hysteria Over Obama's Initi ...
    Right-wing media figures are demagoguing an Obama Administration initiative to combat bullying and harassment, likening it to "big brother" and "Facebook stalking" of students. In fact, the initiative is an effort to assist schools and parents in preventing and dealing with bullying and harassm ...
  • Limbaugh Laughs In The Face Of Human Suffering
    During a recent radio broadcast, Rush Limbaugh laughed at the fact that the fifth largest earthquake ever recorded struck Japan despite that nation's environmentally conscious record. However, this is part of a long pattern from Limbaugh of outrageous responses to human suffering.Limbaugh L ...
  • WSJ Badly Misrepresents EPA's Effort ...
    A Wall Street Journal editorial accused the EPA of subverting democracy to impose the greenhouse gas controls that Congress rejected. In fact, as the Bush administration's EPA privately acknowledged, a 2007 Supreme Court decision and the body of scientific evidence on climate change compel EPA ...
  • Right-Wing Media Aghast Obama Can Focus On Mor ...
    The right-wing media have attacked President Obama for supposedly not focusing on crises in Japan and Libya by instead honoring women's history month,�going�golfing, and filling out NCAA tournament brackets. Yet, Obama has engaged on both issues by making numerous public addresses and ordering ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • As the Global Economy Trembles, Our Nation's C ...
    Why isn't Washington responding? The world's third largest economy suffers a giant earthquake, tsunami, and radiation dangers. A civil war in Libya and tumult in the Middle East cause crude-oil prices to climb. Poor harvests around the world make food prices soar.All this means higher prices. ...
  • Rohrabacher Supporting Kucinich Afghanistan Ex ...
    I just hosted a media conference call for the Afghanistan Study Group with Republican California Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA-46) on his views about America's course in Afghanistan. I will be posting soon the audio clip from the short and fascinating call. One of the zingers, howev ...
  • US-Japan Friendship Dolls Then & How to Help Today
    In a heart-moving gesture a few years after the great Kanto earthquake of 1923 in Japan, American children made 12,000 blue-eyed dolls and sent them to Japanese children. After that, 58 highly ornate, beautifully crafted Japanese "Friendship Dolls" were sent by Japanese children to American chi ...
  • The Pimco Bond Run
    The deficit hawks are acting like they just got a shot of steroids. William Gross, the head of Pimco, sold off the government bond holdings of their largest investment fund at the start of this year. The deficit hawks are claiming this as evidence that the sky is now falling and that we have to ...
  • Safety On The Cheap
    Can we please agree that in the real world corporations exist for one purpose, and one purpose only -- to make as much money as possible, which means cutting costs as much as possible?The New York Times reports that G.E. marketed the Mark 1 boiling water reactors, used in TEPCO's Fukushima Daiic ...

TruthOut

  • Commentaries on the European Commission's Pact ...
    Three journalists for l’Humanité give their reactions to the European Commission’s plans for enforcing measures of austerity on the European nations, starting with those in the Euro Zone. The following are commentaries on the Commission’s paper, the full text (in English translation) being ava ...
  • How Japan Learned About "Nuclear Safety"
    Dr. Wittner is Professor of History emeritus at the State University of New York/Albany. His latest book is Confronting the Bomb: A Short History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement (Stanford University Press). Although people can be educated in a variety of ways, experience is a particul ...
  • Hate to Say It, But We Told You So!
    It seems rather silly now, doesn’t it, all the US concern about terrorism?read more
  • News in Brief: Japan Sends Soldiers on Emergen ...
    Japan Sends Soldiers on Emergency Mission at Crippled Reactorread more
  • Danger of Spent Fuel Outweighs Reactor Threat
    Years of procrastination in deciding on long-term disposal of highly radioactive fuel rods from nuclear reactors is now coming back to haunt Japanese authorities as they try to control fires and explosions at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. read more

Planetsave

  • New Grand Canyon Uranium Mines Get Pollution P ...
    Three proposed uranium mines near Grand Canyon have been issued with air and water pollution permits by the Arizona Department for Environmental Quality. However the permits appear to be dangerously unenforceable and contain no remediation measures should the permitted pollution be exceeded.
  • U.S. Nuke Industry’s ‘It Can’t Happen Here’ At ...
    In a forceful, March 16 statement on behalf of the Union of Concerned Scientist to the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Chief Scientist Dr. Edwin Lyman states: “The NRC and the industry cannot hide this time behind the ‘it can’t happen here’ excuse. We have 23 plants of the sa ...
  • Animated Sequence of Earthquakes
    The earthquake which has devastated Japan has been the focus of many this past week, not the least of which are the scientists who are studying the quake and its subsequent tsunami. Geophysicist Joachim Saul from the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences (Helmholtz Association) created an a ...
  • Listen to the Japanese Earthquake
    The Laboratory of Applied Bioacoustics (LAB), a unit of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), directed by Professor Michel André, recorded the sound of the earthquake that hit Japan on Friday, March 11, and that recording is now available online to listen to: it is, without a doubt, a ...
  • In Midst of Nuclear Disaster in Japan, Another ...
    Two months ago, I wrote a post on a survey of energy professionals and what energy policies they recommended. The results of the survey, which was conducted by Bloomberg Businessweek Research Services and funded by ABB, are worth coming back to in light of the horrible nuclear catastrophe occurr ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • UN Approves Military Action by U.S., Allies Ag ...
    Editor's Comment: We all knew it was coming. Blood and Oil Lust would have it no other way. Now come the guns, bombs and suffering of yet another population - the Libyans. Long live Qadaffi, Libya and the Libyan People! - Les Blough, Editor (Updates 11th paragraph with Obama telephone c ...
  • Julian Assange and others grill Prime Minister ...
    ...
  • President Chávez freezes Venezuela's nuclear p ...
    President Chávez has decided to freeze plans for developing a nuclear energy program in Venezuela. The government had plans to develop a nuclear plant over the next decade but a lesson is being taken from the current disaster in Japan. Anti-nuke organizations are applauding Chávez as once again, ...
  • California nuclear plants have no earthquake p ...
    US regulators insist American nuclear facilities can withstand major earthquakes, but the fact remains the plants are not required to include earthquakes in their emergency response plans. From Obama to government nuclear experts, everyone claimed US facilities are fully prepared i ...
  • Haiti ex-leader Jean-Bertrand Aristide 'return ...
    Editor's Comment: With their fingers in virtually every pie on the planet, the US is not about to allow real democracy to take place in Haiti. Today they continue their pattern of interference and manipulation forcing candidates of their choice on the Haitian people. Their clumsy attempt to prev ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Nightowl Newswrap
    Law and order in a teabagging paradise. "A man accused of kidnapping a 62-year-old woman and sexually assaulting her over a two-week period confessed to an investigator that he "strung her up" in his garage on a rack used for skinning deer and tortured her, a sheriff's investigator said. Jeffrey ...
  • I live in Tim Whatley's Apartment
    The title either brought a flash of fleeting jealousy or an immediate smile to the faces of Seinfeld fans, but for the handful of people who weren't glued to their sets every Thursday night throughout the nineties, Tim Whatley was a friend of Jerry and the gang who lived in a great apartment tha ...
  • Do We Dare Hope?
    I know that everything that can possibly be said about Sarah Palin has been said and probably better than I would have said it but this one is just too good not to share with you all. While I'm not one to be raising false hopes and/or putting a lot of faith in nonproductive and unsupported bulls ...
  • A Worm's Eye View Of "Fracking"
    I grew up living right on top of a huge natural gas field just to the north and east of the Lost Hills oilfields in California. �That was all basically desert country back then but the water table was only a few feet down and the local irrigation district had put in a system of wells and canals ...
  • Nightowl Newswrap
    No, Mr. Secretary-General: Gaddafi will not cease firing until all the rebels are dead, and no one will ever be held accountable. "Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, has called on both sides in the conflict in Libya to accept an "immediate ceasefire", even as deliberations began at the Unite ...

Care 2

  • Left Seeks to Outflank Deficit Hawks on Social ...
    In a move intended to put lawmakers on the record regarding the �third rail� of American politics, the liberal senators introduced a measure Tuesday to require a two-thirds majority in both chambers of Congress in order to pass any cuts to Social SecuritySubmitted by Norm C. to US Politics & Gov ...
  • Koch Brothers and US Chamber: Polluting Our Ea ...
    The Kochs are right up there now with the great plutocrats of American history, a 21st century version of the robber barons.Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Dog stuffed in box, rescued from recycling bin
    The box was taped shut and just sitting outside of a recycling bin. The Chihuahua inside was scared and helpless. She's now recovering from a foot infection- safe inside the confines of the shelter. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Support Obama's Mining Reforms ! PLEASE TAKE A ...
    It's time to stop the corporate giveaways to hardrock mining companies and make Obama's reforms a reality. Tell President Obama to make these changes in mining policy a top administrative priority! Submitted by Cher C. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Bipartisan backlash follows state rep's 'joke' ...
    -- A Kansas state lawmaker was silent Thursday regarding a controversial remark he made suggesting that unauthorized immigrants should be shotSubmitted by Cal Mendelsohn to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Libya, Too Little, Too Late?
    Score one for Hillary. This is not a victory for Barack Obama. The UN voted tonight to impose a no-fly zone on Libya. The huge surprise is that neither China nor Russia used their veto to quash the deal. Why do I say this ain’t a win for Barack? His idiot NSC advisor was quoted [...]
  • I Am Sickened
    I feel sick to my stomach. Literally. Sickened and mournfully furious with our so-called president. I am watching the DVR’d edition of today’s Special Report of Bret Baier. During the show, Baier kept a camera on the UN vote on authorizing a no-fly zone over Libya … the vote, of course, was over ...
  • Global Nukes (& Open Thread)
    From our friend John Batchelor whose show airs nightly, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. ET. Tsunami wave March 11-12, 2011. Update on the status of the four crisis units at Fukushima suggests that there is work to be done, but that the engineers are solving this and need the power line and reinforcements to en ...
  • National Popular Vote
    When a system works for a cause, the cause is good for the victors. When supporters of a cause lose, under a system, then the loser attacks the system. Controversy and History of Presidential Electors Now an Issue Should US Presidential elections be determined by popular vote or the will of the ...
  • Last Exit to Bahrain
    From YouTube [below the fold], and reported @AJELive #Bahrain, police shooting in Sitra this morning: what looks to be a handful of militia in a rough part of town, with graffiti on the walls, few cars, certainly not uniformed police authority, moving backward from unseen shouting. Two or more s ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • 10 Haunting Ghost Railway Stations
    Many ghost stations around the world lie abandoned and forgotten. See ten of the most incredible... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Untold History of African American Soldier ...
    Do you know the history of African American participation in the Civil war? Read on to learn all about it. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Why the North Pole is Moving
    The North Pole is a moving target that keeps on changing every minute. Read why we cannot put up a flag or a pole marked with 'North Pole' at one place. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Anthropocene: Have We Entered the Geologic ...
    Have we impacted on our planet so greatly that we are in the middle of a new geological epoch? Some suggest that we are now in the Age of Man, or the Anthropocene. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the articl ...
  • How Your Story Can Help Preserve the World's O ...
    The Ocean Story Boat: Messages & stories from around the world in the campaign for a new Race for the Oceans 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

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Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Libya = Gaddafi FAIL - fights for freedom - no ...
    The locals are ready to kick some ass in Libya! Straight up amazing. Things are moving fast these days! Wisconsin solidarity :-D This suddenly dawned on me just a few mins ago! Behold Gaddafi FAIL: I had to repost these videos of real significant, serious rebellion & a certain unmistakable ca ...
  • #Egypt! And now... Algeria? Battle of Algiers ...
    Stunning turns in Egypt - you have to hand it to the Egyptians, they filtered & neutralized all those underhanded thug provocateur tricks in a snap. Then unloaded their dictator - Old School Civilization like a boss ;-D Update - they just posted an arrest warrant in Pakistan for ex-Prime Minist ...
  • House Tea Party momentarily blocks "PATRIOT" A ...
    It's not all bad news out there. The slip-by-night extension of expiring Patriot Act measures got knocked down mainly by liberal Dems and some Tea Party Republicans (Bachmann of course sided with the corporatist centrist squad behind all of this)... Bi-Partisan Alliance Beats Back PATRIOT Act Sn ...
  • From the Internet Archives: My 2003 Interview ...
    Here's a nice find. In October 2003 I interviewed Rashid Khalidi for the Mac Weekly. It wound up on the website and eventually got deleted around 2006, but it was still in the Internet Archives Wayback Machine at http://web.archive.org/web/20060612202355/http://www.macalester.edu/week... Overall ...
  • 9/11 FBI warning from key informant of "Kamika ...
    Caught an interesting item on Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs Post about a team of FBI agents who had key clues into the 9/11 conspiracy, serious and specific prior warnings from an Iranian informant and ex-SAVAK officer who was himself a major handler with a deep network of informants around the P ...

Daily Censored

  • Catching Parent Revolution’s Linda Serra ...
    “[O]ther education providers to COMPETE with public schools for the opportunity to educate children.” — The Heartland Institute (Bigoted Reactionary Right Wing “Think Tank”) “There’s nothing the matter with teachers that a little less unionization and more COMPETITION couldn’t cure.” — Ann Coult ...
  • Did US secret weapons cause Japan’s eart ...
    Source: Carl Herman, Examiner.com US Intelligence Examiner, Fred Burks, wrote an excellent article documenting the history of some secret US weapons that caused tsunamis and could cause earthquakes, reprinted for wider public consideration below. Mr. Burks created www.wanttoknow.info, a wide-ran ...
  • CENSORED IN 1978: NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS–A ...
    CENSORED IN 1978: NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS — ATOMIC LEMONS The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), a national public interest group, has for years been trying to tell the story of nuclear hazards to the American public with little success. Last year, the UCS released a report titled âScientistsâ Gr ...
  • Karzai’s Police Force: While State Secur ...
    Karzai’s Police Force: While State Security Forces Across the Middle East Falter, in Afghanistan, NATO Continues to Build. Our perceptions of the future of the middle east and the ability of western states to influence events therein have shifted radically over the course of these historic fe ...
  • Revolt, Americans: War is illegal
    Source: Carl Herman, Examiner.com Because war law is so clear in letter and intent, and US “reasons” for current wars not even close to lawful and now uncontested as lies known to be lies as they were told, we can rationally and confidently conclude that “leadership” from both parties and corpor ...

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Equality Trust

  • Traduction des preuves en Français
     Les preuves en Français Preuves à l’appui: une introduction Preuves à l’appui: la santé physique Preuves à l’appui: la santé mentale Preuves à l’appui: la toxicomanie Preuves à l’appui: l’éducation Preuves à l’appui: la population carcérale      
  • Response to criticism of The Spirit Level
      Find our full response to criticism of The Spirit Level here.  
  • 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:ynUCYo ...
  • 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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PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas"
    Perhaps that has another meaning than what occurred tonight at Green Valley High School.� Several hundred students and parents came out in support of the Rivera family in their two-year battle against E. coli O157:H7.� I was proud and honored to be a part of the celebration and to donate $100,00 ...
  • FSIS Steps In to Lower Salmonella and Campylob ...
    The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) published a Federal Register Notice on May 14, 2010 (75 FR 27288) in which it announced the forthcoming implementation of new performance standards for the pathogenic micro-organisms Salmonella and Campylobacter for chilled carcasses in young chicken ...
  • When the WSJ reports on the overuse of antibio ...
    In 2005, despite many detractors, I was asked to give the keynote speech at the CDC PulseNet Conference held in Seattle. During and after my talk, the world did not stop revolving and the sun did come up the next day (although in Seattle it is always a bit hazy). I think those in attendance le ...
  • Some Food Producers Urge Congress NOT To Fund ...
    I was able to access a letter to Congress from the following PR hacks of some in the food industry: American Bakers Association, American Frozen Food Institute, American Meat Institute, Frozen Potato Products Institute, Independent Bakers Association, International Bottled Water Association, Na ...
  • Poisoned - The True Story of the Deadly E. col ...
    Coming to your favorite bookstore this spring is a well-written tale by author Jeff Benedict about the 1993 Jack in the Box E. coli Outbreak that rocked the fast food and beef industries and launched the career of one young trial lawyer. Although I lived through much of this (18 years ago), I l ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Smart ForSpeed concept revealed before Geneva ...
    Filed under: Concept Cars, Convertible, Geneva Motor Show, Smart, Electric Smart Forspeed - Click above for high-res image gallery Not every future Smart model is in trouble of vanishing - some will never see the light of production. To wit, Daimler's minicar maker is bringing an all-electr ...
  • Report: Some dealers price gouging Chevy Volt ...
    Filed under: Car Buying, Hybrid, Sedan, Chevrolet, GM, Electric 2011 Chevrolet Volt - Click above for high-res image gallery Even though some Chevrolet dealers were warned not to sell the Volt above the MSRP, there is a distinct trend around the country where some dealers are trying to make ...
  • Audi, Voith enter new carbon fiber partnership
    Filed under: Technology, Audi Audi Aluminum A5 Coupe Prototype - Click above for high-res image Audi has put carbon fiber to good use in concept vehicles like the e-tron show cars and a special lightweight A5, which has a carbon fiber hood and rear deck, and in some parts of the R8 and RS 3. ...
  • Report: $33M in EV tax credits went to buy unq ...
    Filed under: Car Buying, Government/Legal Is a bicycle an electric vehicle? How about a Hummer H3? These are some of the things that Americans claimed were hybrids, alternative-powered or plug-in electric vehicles on their tax forms, reports USA Today. What's more, the false claimants managed ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 02.04.11
    Top Gear host wants electric vehicles powered by bumper car technology Watch out! Italian designers envision amazing Solar Wind bridge It looks like the future, that's for sure. Agility Saietta electric m ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • LIVE BLOG: Democracy Now! Reports On Jean-Bert ...
    Amy Goodman is aboard the South African plane that is bringing Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s back to Haiti after seven years in exile. Sharif Abdel Kouddous is on the ground in Haiti. We will be posting updates here over the coming days. Friday 2:44 a.m. EDT EXCLUSIVE: Jean-Bert ...
  • Exclusive: Aboard Aristide's Airplane Ex-Haiti ...
    In defiance of the Obama administration, former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide is headed back to Haiti today for the first time since being ousted in a 2004 U.S.-backed coup. Hours ago, Aristide boarded a plane in South Africa bound for Port-Au-Prince. Joining him on the flight is his ...
  • LIVE BLOG: Amy Goodman Reports On Jean-Bertran ...
    Amy Goodman is reporting on former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s return to Haiti after seven years in exile. Aristide’s attorney Ira Kurzban said Aristide will arrive back in Haiti by noon on Friday. We will be posting updates here over the coming days. Thursday, 4:10 p.m. EDT T ...
  • Danny Glover in South Africa: "I'm Here to Acc ...
    Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide is preparing to return to Haiti after seven years in exile. Aristide has lived in South Africa since he was deposed in a 2004 U.S.-backed coup. Reporting from Johannesburg, Democracy Now! âs Amy Goodman speaks actor and activist Danny Glover as h ...
  • A Warning to the World
    A reporter, describing the devastation of one city in Japan, wrote: “It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it out of existence. I write these facts ... as a warning to the world.” The reporter was Wilfred Burchett, writing from Hiroshima, Japan, on Sept. 5, 1945. ...

Digg Green

  • Saturn's Odd, Baffling Moon, Pan
    Strange flying-saucer-shaped moons embedded in Saturn's rings have baffled scientists studying images transmitted by the ESA's Cassini Spacecraft. New research suggests that the oddly shaped moons, Pan and Atlas, are born largely from clumps of icy particles in the rings...
  • Why we will probably never be able to pre ...
    In the wake of the massive 9.0-magnitude earthquake that has devastated Japan, an obvious question arises...why didn't we see it coming? The fact is that earthquake prediction has long baffled scientists, and the current consensus is that it's actually impossible.
  • What we know, and don't know, about Japan ...
    In response to the confusion, speculation and apprehension surrounding the rapidly unfolding events at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in the aftermath of last week’s earthquake and tsunami, a panel of MIT nuclear engineering, public health and risk assessment specialists conv ...
  • 1st permanent anti-fog coating developed
    Researchers have developed the very first permanent anti-fog coating. Dr. Laroche and his colleagues present in the online edition of Applied Materials and Interfaces the details of this innovation which could eliminate, once and for all, the fog on eyeglasses, windshields, goggles, camera ...
  • The EXTREME Planet: MESSENGER Spacecraft ...
    The MESSENGER spacecraft will orbit Mercury today starting at 8:45 pm Eastern Daylight Time culminating a six-and-a-half year journey to the innermost planet of our solar system to study the geologic history, the mysterious magnetic field, surface composition and other...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Everybody Hurts and Nobody Wins
    By Les Visible About a year ago… and I am assuming or presupposing most of what I say, because I donât have the curiosity to go check and I am in the land of vitamin intensives at the moment which is why this post may take a lot longer than the usual half hour of [...]
  • Japan nuclear crisis: Meltdown at Fukushima Da ...
    BY Richard Sisk and Helen Kennedy DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS Thursday, March 17th 2011, 4:00 AM Americans were told to flee a wide area around Japan’s failing nuclear plant on Wednesday as federal officials warned it might be too late to avoid meltdown. So much radiation may have leaked at the Fuk ...
  • Lone Star Watchdog: Let the Government Shut Do ...
    By realman2020 I love how these global elites call our elderly and handicapped people useless eaters.A drain on the system. For me I would like to say what about the useless eaters and dead weight in the bureaucracy?The SEC is downloading porn on government computers while Wall street loots peop ...
  • Thousands of union supporters at Capitol: &#82 ...
    LANSING — In their biggest show of force yet this year, about 3,000 union members and supporters are gathered at the Capitol today to protest anti-labor bills in the Legislature. “It’s beautiful,” said Joe Bowen, a retired automotive worker who traveled to the rally from Saginaw. “It sends a mes ...
  • US overdue for huge Pacific quake: experts
    The western United States is overdue for a huge earthquake and tsunami much like the one that devastated Japan last week, and is nowhere near ready to cope with the disaster, experts say. A volatile, horseshoe-shaped area known as the Pacific Ring of Fire has recently erupted with quakes in Chil ...

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 ...
  • 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 pu ...
  • The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...
    In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
  • About George Green
    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 fo ...

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Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • Zecc Architects Convert 1930s Water Tower Into ...
    Read the rest of Zecc Architects Convert 1930s Water Tower Into Sleek Nine Story Homehttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architec ...
  • VIDEO: Cameron Sinclair Talks About How Archit ...
    There’s a long road to recovery for the people of Japan, and much still needs to be done to quell the chaos from the earthquake and tsunami. Architecture For Humanity, which is now in 10th year of providing design assistance to victims of disasters, is already working on plans to help Japan. Cam ...
  • Beautiful Cork Dividers Are a Cheerful Alterna ...
    Architecture and general contracting firm, Tres Birds Workshop in Boulder, Colorado was given the task of mitigating sound for an open floor plan office. After researching sound attenuation, the decision was made to go cellular – resulting in these lovely cork dividers. Thousands of reclaimed co ...
  • fLume: Discarded Christmas Trees Transformed I ...
    While we like to think that Christmas trees go to a better place when they’re done filling us with the holiday spirit, the truth is that they either sit on sidewalks rotting or end up in the chipper (it’s not pretty). But there are a lucky, select group of trees that end up at the [...]
  • XL Hybrids Can Convert Your Gas-Guzzler Into a ...
    Many of us wish we could afford to buy a new hybrid or electric car, but until we get that promotion/new job/win the lottery, we’re stuck with our gas-guzzlers. Now a Massachusetts-based company called XL Hybrids has found a solution — they’ve developed an add-on kit that can transform any gas-g ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Seasonal Methane Rain Discovered on Titan
    Spring may bring methane showers to the deserts of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft recently saw a large, dark puddle appear in the wake of a storm cloud at the moon’s dune-filled equator. “It’s the only easy way to explain the observations,” said planetary scientist Eliz ...
  • Japan Quake Epicenter Was in Unexpected Location
    Japan has been expecting and preparing for the âbig oneâ for more than 30 years. But the magnitude-9.0 temblor that struck March 11 — the worldâs fourth biggest quake since 1900 — wasnât the catastrophe the island nation had in mind.  The epicenter of the quake was about 80 miles east [...]
  • Crop Tops: Strange Agricultural Landscapes See ...
    Agriculture is one of the oldest and most pervasive human impacts on the planet. Estimates of the land surface affected worldwide range up to 50 percent. But while driving through the seemingly endless monotony of wheat fields in Kansas may give you some insight into the magnitude of the change ...
  • Robot Nurses Are Less Weird When They Don’t Talk
    Medical patients would probably be OK with semi-autonomous robots tending to them, but only if the robots don’t talk to them first. Robotics researchers tested whether a verbal explanation from a robot would help people feel more comfortable with the robot administering care, but found that pre ...
  • Oldest Female Elephants Have Best Memory
    Not to cause dinner-table shouting or new excesses of political punditry, but in a test of a particular leadership skill among elephants, age and experience really did trump youth and beauty. Elephant matriarchs 60 years of age or older tended to assess threats in a simulated crisis more accu ...

PakAlert

  • Urgent: Surviving Radioactive Fallout
    Surviving Radioactive Fallout & Radiation Contamination from Japan, Iran or North Korea. Also, Mid-East, South Korea, Pakistan, India, China, Russia, Chernobyl, etc.
  • Do Not Donate to Illuminati Charities
    Over 350 years ago, the apparition of Our Lady of Good Success in Quito, Ecuador predicted that at the end of the 20th century, Satan would almost totally rule the world by means of Freemasonry. Does the Illuminati rule organizations like the Fabian Society and its offspring, the charity Oxfam, ...
  • The Dangers of Nuclear War
    Dr. Michel Chossudovsky on the issue of global survival and his conversations with Fidel Castro about nuclear war
  • Videos: Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Caused by ...
    A huge 8.9 Richter scale earthquake rocked Tokyo today resulting in a giant tsunami causing incredible amounts of damage, injuries and deaths. My first reaction was to check the University of Tokyo's HAARP induction magnetometer to see if HAARP was fired up around the time of the quake. Sure en ...
  • Saudi police open fire on demonstrators – Photos
    Saudi police opened fire Thursday to disperse a protest in the mainly Shiite east, leaving at least one man injured, as the government struggled to prevent a wave of unrest sweeping the Arab world from reaching the kingdom. The rare violence raised concern about a crackdown ahead of more planned ...

Andy Worthington

  • Andy Worthington’s YouTube Channel Is No ...
    Just to let you know that I’ve finally got my YouTube Channel up and running, featuring some of the various films, TV shows and events I’ve been involved in for the last six months, to which new material will be added as and when it happens — and original material, if I ever get round [...]
  • Revolution in the Middle East: Brave Protestor ...
    Yesterday, as the video below shows, hundreds of Syrians braved the retaliation of the forces of President Bashar al-Assad by marching in the streets of Damascus — and also, apparently, in Aleppo — calling on Allah, demanding peace and freedom, and asking why their fellow Syrians were not out on ...
  • BMA Emergency Meeting Calls on Government to D ...
    Yesterday, the British Medical Association (BMA), the union that represents 140,000 doctors in the UK, dealt a major blow to the coalition government’s plans for the biggest overhaul of the NHS since its foundation in 1948 by voting to tell the health minister Andrew Lansley to “call a halt to t ...
  • Jail Without Trial Forever: Andy Worthington D ...
    Last week, for our 24th Antiwar Radio interview (19 minutes, available here), the tireless Scott Horton and I discussed the latest bleak news from Guantánamo, which sets the seal on Barack Obama as the man who not only failed to close Guantánamo, but, in many crucial respects, deliberately conti ...
  • Save the NHS! Will the BMA Do the Right Thing, ...
    At the heart of the coalition government’s unprecedented plans to butcher the British state — under cover of the financial crisis caused by their chums in the City – and to privatize everything that has not been privatized over the last 30 years, there is so much bad news that it is hard to ke ...

Environment _ National Geographic

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  • HT Gives "Thumbs Up" to NM School Budget
    Here are a few snippets from the 2/4/11 editorial in The Housatonic Times. "...all those who assemble the proposed education budget went into the current process with new resolve to craft a package that met all the needs and would also be politically palatable. Better communication was establi ...
  • 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 y ...
  • 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 h ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...

SPL Center

  • New Leaders at Tanton’s Nativist Network, But ...
    The Social Contract magazine, the most overtly white nationalist organ of John Tanton’s network of anti-immigrant organizations, so outdid itself with its fall 2010 edition calling for a ban on Muslim immigration that even some of its readership reacted with distaste. The 68-page volume was pack ...
  • Ron Paul Invites Neo-Confederate Witness to Te ...
    This morning, U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) hosted his first hearing as chairman of the House subcommittee that oversees the Federal Reserve, the nation’s central bank. Paul wants to look at the institution’s impact on job creation and the unemployment rate. Paul, a vicious opponent of the Fed, i ...
  • The Screaming Hypocrisy of Congressman Peter King
    Yesterday, in the opening statement of his hearings on the radicalization of American Muslims, U.S. Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) claimed that his political dog-and-pony show was not Islamophobic because “not one terror-related case in the last two years involved neo-Nazis” or other domestic groups. ...
  • Alaska Militia Leader Arrested in Plot to Kill ...
    The Anchorage Daily News is reporting this morning that five people in the Fairbanks area were arrested yesterday on charges connected with a plot to kidnap or kill state troopers and a Fairbanks judge. They are accused of conspiring to commit murder, kidnapping, and arson, as well as weapons mi ...
  • Gingrich Said to Funnel $125K Via Hate Group t ...
    A nonprofit group led by former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich channeled $125,000 through a hard-line anti-gay organization to support a 2010 campaign to oust three Iowa Supreme Court justices who voted to legalize same-sex marriage in that state, The Associated Press (AP) reported Tuesd ...

change: org.

  • California Official Who Approved Toxic Methyl ...
    This week brought big progress for California's farmworkers, rural residents, and local environment: Mary-Ann Warmerdam, head of California's Department of Pesticide Registration (CDPR), resigned from her post. Now environmentalists across the U.S. are hoping (and wishing and praying) that Gov. ...
  • Crystal Cathedral Founder Disapproves of Anti- ...
    Earlier today we covered the story of Crystal Cathedral trying to make its choir members sign an anti-gay covenant. Evidently, it has upset more people than myself, many Change.org members, and a few Crystal Cathedral choir members. Robert Schuller, founder of the megachurch, contacted The Orang ...
  • You'll Poke Your Eye Out! New Jersey Gov't Nix ...
    Pam Carolan chose the Children's School in Moorestown, New Jersey for her daughter because of its rural setting and vast outdoor play area. So when her daughter heard that the state of New Jersey was making the school cut down all tree branches below 7 feet on their property, she was visibly ups ...
  • Kentucky Animal Care Reform: More Than Just a Name
    The Animal Legal Defense Fund is pushing Kentucky legislators to approve some much-needed animal care reform before the March 22 deadline for new legislation to be voted on. State Representatives Ron Crimm, Tom Riner, and Joni Jenkins introduced HB 277 last month, but with the legislative clock ...
  • Canadian Flower Shop Says No Flowers for Gay W ...
    What's a wedding without flowers, right? Flowers (hopefully fair trade ones!) are a staple at most every nuptial, whether they're held by a bride, on the lapel of a groom, or in a centerpiece at a reception table. But one Canadian florist is making clear that if your wedding is a same-sex weddin ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Democracy Now! Exclusive: Aboard Aristide’s Ai ...
    In defiance of the Obama administration, former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide is headed back to Haiti today for the first time since being ousted in a 2004 U.S.-backed coup. Hours ago, Aristide boarded a plane in South Africa bound for Port-Au-Prince. Joining him on the flight is his ...
  • Japan's Nuke-Plant Battle May Take Weeks, US Says
    YAMAGATA, Japan - Emergency workers seemed to try everything they could think of Thursday to douse one of Japan's dangerously overheated nuclear reactors: helicopters, heavy-duty fire trucks, even water cannons normally used to quell rioters. But they couldn't be sure any of it was easing the pe ...
  • UN Security Council Backs No-Fly Zone and Air ...
    British and French military aircraft are preparing to protect the Libyan rebel stronghold of Benghazi after the UN security council voted in favour of a no-fly zone and air strikes against Muammar Gaddafi's forces. read more
  • Kucinich Bill for Troop Exit Draws GOP Support ...
    As the House prepares to vote Thursday on a resolution to bring U.S. troops home from Afghanistan, the military is warning of calamitous effects if the measure passes. The resolution, sponsored by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), directs the president to remove all U.S. forces from Afghanistan. It ...
  • U.N. Reported Only a Fraction of Civilian Dea ...
    WASHINGTON/KABUL - The number of civilians killed in U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) raids last year was probably several times higher than the figure of 80 people cited in the U.N. report on civilian casualties in Afghanistan published last week, an IPS investigation has revealed. The repo ...

Lifehacker

  • From the Tips Box: Headphone Jacks, Bitter Dri ...
    Readers offer their best tips for making headphone jacks more visible in the dark, swallowing a bitter liquid, and blocking ads in Internet Explorer 9. More��
  • Firefox 4 Set for Release on March 22 [Confirm ...
    Great news, Firefox users: After the longest beta known to humankind, Firefox 4 may actually be released next Tuesday, March 22, according to Mozilla's Senior Director of Platform Engineering Damon Sicore. This update has been rife with delays, so we'll believe it when we see it ...
  • Workspace Organization Challenge: How Would Yo ...
    We all have our own brands of clutter because we all have different things we need to organize. Some of us are buried in technology, others in paper. My dad, however, seems to have chosen both. Here's a photo of his workspace. What met ...
  • How to Ditch Slow Wireless Speeds and Go Compl ...
    Wi-Fi provides a convenient way to connect the computers in your home without dealing with the hassle of wires, but Wi-Fi is also slow and unreliable compared to a wired connection. Wireless may be the way of the future, but here are some ...
  • How to Drive Away from a Tsunami [Elsewhere]
    Basically, you should never drive away from a tsunami; you'll be much better off climbing to higher ground and forgetting your car altogether. But if you were, our car-obsessed sibling site Jalopnik explains how you'd do it. [Jalopnik] More��

Water Privatization

  • Battle brewing in Franklin on proposed water-s ...
    SPARTA: Blessed Kateri Church is hosting its next blood and platelet drive from 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. John Franklin, interim head of the expanded United Way of Northern New Jersey, has been named chief...
  • How Singapore rank in water bill in America to ...
    How Singapore rank in water bill in America top 50 big-city water bills? Some Americans are exasperated in seeing astronomical sums in their recent water bills. And CNN had recently published a top 50 big-city water bills listing [http://edition.cnn.com/2011/US/03/01/water.bills.war/index.html]. ...
  • Water issues keep bubbling up
    World Water Day, a United Nations sponsored event on March 22 is fast approaching. Nationally, provincially, regionally and here in Campbell River water issues keep bubbling up.
  • Summit Series Films Continue
    KENT—Two more films remain in the 2011 Kent Environmental Summit film series. Feb. 15 brings “Blue Gold: World Water Wars,” which describes the privatization of water in an era when water is becoming more and more scarce.
  • New N.J. group cites pitfalls of privatization
    TRENTON - A coalition of labor, environmental, and community groups says the weak economy is stoking a rush to privatize operations and services traditionally performed by governments, despite some well-known potential pitfalls.

Guardian

  • Gaddafi defiant as UN air strikes loom
    �� UN backs no-fly zone and air strikes against Libya �� Arab countries to join operation �� Gaddafi denounces vote as 'flagrant colonisation' �� US and UK play down prospect of immediate strikes �� Read the Guardian's main news story on the crisis10.35am: Reuters has more on the "bombardment" o ...
  • Japan 'should give more information'
    Call comes as trucks douse reactor at Fukushima Daiichi facility with dozens of tonnes of water in renewed attempt to cool reactorThe head of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog has urged Japan to provide more information on its "extremely serious" crisis as the battle to regain control of a fa ...
  • Clegg pulls out of Yes to AV launch
    Deputy prime minister had been due to argue case for a change to 'new and better' voting system at Lib Dem yes to AV campaignNick Clegg has pulled out of the launch of the Liberal Democrats' yes to AV campaign launch to attend an emergency cabinet meeting on Libya.The deputy prime minister was p ...
  • Prince attends NZ quake memorial
    Prince tells New Zealanders to 'be strong' at memorial service for victims of last month's earthquakePrince William has urged the people of Christchurch to "be strong" as he addressed a crowd of tens of thousands at a memorial service for victims of last month's earthquake in New Zealand.The pri ...
  • Riots at Australian detention centre
    Asylum seekersprotest against delays in processing applications at Australian offshore detention centreMore than 200 rioters set fire to buildings in a bid to escape from a crowded Australian offshore detention centre, according to officials.Police fired non-lethal so-called bean bag rounds and ...

McClatchey

  • Safety of Japanese reactors questioned long ag ...
    WASHINGTON — Safety questions about the Mark I model nuclear reactors that are burning out of control in Japan were first raised years ago in the U.S., by the nation's top nuclear safety official and by the General Electric engineers who helped design them.
  • Safety of Japanese reactors questioned long ag ...
    WASHINGTON — Safety questions about the Mark I model nuclear reactors that are burning out of control in Japan were first raised years ago in the U.S., by the nation's top nuclear safety official and by the General Electric engineers who helped design them.
  • Government shutdown averted for 3 more weeks
    WASHINGTON — The Senate voted 87 to 13 Thursday to keep the government funded until April 8, assuring that there'll be no government shutdown for three weeks — a deadline that adds new, unpredictable urgency to resolve the budget stalemate dividing Republicans and Democrats.
  • Pakistan condemns U.S. over drone strike that ...
    ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Just one day after a CIA contractor was absolved by a Pakistani court of a double murder charge, Pakistan and U.S. relations were plunged into a new crisis Thursday over a CIA-directed drone missile strike that Pakistan said killed at least 36 civilians.
  • Graham: U.S. nuclear regulations are 'gold sta ...
    WASHINGTON — Sen. Lindsey Graham said Thursday that the Japanese crisis hasn't shaken his confidence in nuclear power and praised President Barack Obama for moving ahead with federal loan guarantees to build new plants.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • Bees: a sting in the tale
    � The United Nations Environment Programme (Unep) buzzes into the ongoing discussion of bee decline this week, with a report examining the global nature of the issue and some of the reasons behind it. Their top-line conclusions are that it's becoming a widespread, if not quite global, phenomen ...
  • Green tuna goes FAD-free
    Environmental group Greenpeace is claiming something of a victory with the news that the UK's biggest supplier of canned tuna, Princes, is going to source its fish from more sustainable supplies than previously. Greenpeace has been spearheading a campaign to get companies to adopt sustainable t ...
  • China and EU share climate vision
    China and the European Union are setting out plans for changing energy use and curbing carbon emissions within a space of a few days. As one of them is the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases while the other would be third in the global list if its emissions were tallied as a single enti ...
  • Refining the sixth great extinction
    Are we living through the sixth mass extinction of life in Earth history? That we are is something you'll often hear asserted in conservation circles - and you'll easily find dozens of news articles taking the notion at face value. It's even acquired a posh name - the Holocene extinction.   In ...
  • Discard bathwater, not baby
    More selective fishing tends to produce fewer discards Everybody wants to do it: nobody is entirely sure how that should be done. Discarding fish is, on one level, an outrageous practice; so surely stopping it is the right thing? A byproduct of measures to keep fishing within sustainable limit ...

The Wonk Room

thwap's schoolyard

  • Liberal - Tory - Same - Old - Story!!!
    SIGH. Yesterday, I wrote some commentary about stephen harper's revolting words about the significance of the recent Japanese earthquake tragedy as reported here. Now, that's a Liberal site, but I still found it ridiculous and outrageous that part of the response to an abomination emerging fro ...
  • harper's Japan Remarks: The banality of evil
    So, upon witnessing (along with the rest of us) the terrible devastation of the earthquake and the tsunami, and now, the deadly explosions of ill-prepared nuclear power stations in Japan, harper furrows his brow and tries to make a "teachable moment" out of the tragedy: “All of these things shou ...
  • What am I smoking?
    In the comments to this post from "The Galloping Beaver" about the Federal Court of Appeals decision against the harpercons on the "In-and-out" scandal, wherein I say that this is just one more nail in harper's political coffin and that he's toast, commentator Dana asks: Man alive, thwap, haven' ...
  • Oh Those Fucking Liberals (Part Whatever)
    I started this post this morning before taking a peek at "Progressive Bloggers" and reading about Jack Layton's worrying negotiations with stephen harper. Keep reading though ... Check out this video of Hillary ("hard-workin' white woman") giving some self-righteous lecture about other countrie ...
  • More Politicians Who Have Sunk Beyond Redemption
    Yesterday I wrote about how if Barack Obama hadn't already lowered himself beyond redemption he did when he forced P. J. Crowley to resign for his criticism of the torture of whistle-blower Bradley Manning. The Harvard constitutional lawyer, Barack Obama, has been "assured" by government lawyers ...

on Government Oversight

  • Morning Smoke: "If FOIA Is the Yardstick for O ...
    Where there's smoke, there's fire. POGO's Morning Smoke is a collection of the previous day's investigations, scoops, and opinions related to the world of government oversight. Have a story you'd like to see included? Contact POGO's blog editor. Administration falling...
  • Chart of the Day: Joint Strike Fighter Death S ...
    By Bryan Rahija A chart from a new study by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) neatly summarizes the sad trajectory of the Joint Strike Fighter program. Bottom line: taxpayers are paying more for less. Changes in Reported JSF Program Cost,...
  • Updates to POGO's Federal Contractor Misconduc ...
    By Bryan Rahija POGO has made the following updates to the Federal Contractor Misconduct Database (FCMD): Updated Misconduct Instance Case: Kabul Shooting Prosecutions Contractor: Blackwater USA Date: 01/06/2010 (Date of Indictment) Synopsis: Justin Cannon and Chris Drotleff were charged with...
  • Quote of the Day: Secretary of Defense Robert ...
    Secretary of Defense Robert Gates on the way forward: I am purposefully challenging institutional conventions to make a broader strategic point on what the nation and security environment will require of our military. However, I am concerned that part of...
  • Morning Smoke: House Committee Tackles FOIA, P ...
    Where there's smoke, there's fire. POGO's Morning Smoke is a collection of the previous day's investigations, scoops, and opinions related to the world of government oversight. Have a story you'd like to see included? Contact POGO's blog editor. Hearing: "The...

Digital Journal

  • Charlie Sheen lands in Toronto April 14th
    Charlie Sheen is going on tour, and he's making sure Canada is part of this as well, with one date in Toronto and one in Vancouver. His "My Violent Torpedo of Truth/Defeat is Not An Option Show" drops down in less than a month.
  • The Sunshine List in not what is seems
    Over the next few days the Government of Ontario will release the Sunshine List. This is the list of employees who earned over $100,000 last year.
  • World governments offering different assessmen ...
    While the Japanese government sought to calm its citizens and the business community domestically and worldwide, foreign governments offered more stark assessments of the nuclear radiation threat facing populations in Japan.
  • Funerals can be more personal with Tribute Caskets
    There's a new casket company in Canada hoping to be offering a one-of-a-kind coffin this summer. Tribute Caskets provide their clients a visual memory printed directly on the casket. From a photo montage to service related images each casket is unique.
  • Wolf who escaped wildlife park in Ontario kill ...
    When a full grown wolf escaped an Ontario wildlife park yesterday afternoon it quickly was seen going into a nearby farm. The farmer killed the animal in order to protect his cattle.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Why the F-35 stealth fighter is wrong for Canada
    Ploughshares Ottawa will host Steven Staples on Tuesday, 22 March 2011, at St.Thomas the Apostle Church, 2345 Alta Vista Drive (one block north of Heron Road) to discuss “Why the F-35 Stealth Fighter is Wrong for Canada”. The meeting begins at 7:30 PM. Light refreshments will be offered.
  • Canadian-made armoured vehicles enter Bahrain
    Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates sent troops into neighbouring Bahrain on Monday in an effort to shore up the Bahraini government, which has been facing escalating demands for democratic reform. An estimated 1200 soldiers from the Saudi National Guard and 800 from the UAE entered the co ...
  • Ottawa event: Facing off for social justice in ...
    Radiation and health, physicians in conflict zones, the social determinants of health, and many other topics will be discussed at this conference in Ottawa on March 25th and 26th. Speakers will include President of the Canadian Medical Association Dr. Jeff Turnbull; Dr. Helen Caldicott; and reno ...
  • Parliamentary Budget Office reports F-35 to co ...
    Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page has reported that the price tag for the F-35 stealth fighters that the Harper government wants to buy is likely to end up much higher than the government has been suggesting. Page’s report, which echoes concerns voiced by F-35 critics, warns that the real ...
  • CCPA report: Canadian military spending highes ...
    The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has published a new report on Canada’s military spending. Canadian Military Spending 2010-11, written by Ceasefire.ca editor Bill Robinson, shows that Canadian military spending is higher now than it has been at any other time since the end of the Seco ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 3-17-11
    Today, Kevin explains why HCG drops absolutely do not work and why certain steps will guarantee success in network marketing. Plus, Dr. Theresa Dale stops by to reveal the homoeopathic ways to protect yourself from radiation exposure and how to get your hands on homeopathic vaccines! Self Help: ...
  • Dr. Theresa Dale
    Click the picture or link below to hear Kevin’s interview with Dr. Theresa Dale and click here to learn more about hormone rebalancing, homeopathic vaccines, and her radiation kit. Dr. Theresa Dale on The Kevin Trudeau Show 3/17/11
  • Dr. Theresa Dale
    Tune in to the Kevin Trudeau Show TODAY at 12 PM CST to hear Dr. Theresa Dale talk about how she survived radiation exposure in Chernobyl, and why your hormones are controlling your life and making you age dramatically. You’ll also find out if Americans will be affected by the Japan nuclear thr ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 3-14-11
    Today, the all-seeing, Kevin Trudeau gives you his latest predictions about the economy. Find out how things are only getting worse and what you need to do to be prepared! Self Help: Protect Your Body Emergency Preparedness Nourishing Products Keep Your Pet Healthy! Health: TSA To Retest Airport ...
  • California Taxpayers Pay Record Amount In Bene ...
    March 14th, 2011 Examiner.com By: Dave Gibson Los Angeles Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich has just released data from the Department of Public Social Services which shows that in November 2010, $53 million in welfare benefits ($22 million CalWORKs and $31 million in Food Stamps) were given issu ...

Pambazuka News

  • Haiti: Government says Aristide can come home
    Haiti's government has said it was ready to issue a new passport to former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, which would allow him to return after almost seven years in exile in South Africa. 'The government will give assurances that as soon as it re...
  • Cuba: Cuban organisation fights for release of ...
    Enrique Roman, first vice-president of the Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), has underlined that the movement in solidarity with Cuba prioritises in 2011 the struggle for the release of the five Cuban antiterrorist heroes incarc...
  • Haiti: Returned ex-dictator Duvalier charged
    Haiti on Tuesday briefly detained former dictator Jean-Claude 'Baby Doc' Duvalier, back from exile in France, and charged him with corruption, theft and abuses of power allegedly committed during his 15-year rule. While a noisy crowd of his supporter...
  • Break the Silence Congo week
    The purpose of the Break the Silence Congo Week is to raise consciousness about the devastating situation in the Congo and mobilize support on behalf of the people of the Congo. Break the Silence Congo Week will take place from Sunday 17 October to S...
  • Morocco: Expats returning home in greater numbers
    Faced with the woes of the global economic crisis, an increasing number of Moroccan expatriates are coming back home. Meanwhile, the government is intensifying effort to aid the community abroad as well as help them maintain ties with their home coun...

War in Context

  • The fight for Libya
    Hana El-Gallal, a law professor from Benghazi, writes: The global community must act to stop Gaddafi and his forces reaching Benghazi. If he gets here, he will kill everyone. We in Benghazi, in what is left of Free Libya, have a very simple message for the Security Council. Please, do something ...
  • Intifada update
    Opposition leaders arrested in Bahrain as crackdown grows Bahrain arrested six opposition leaders on Thursday, kept the main hospital surrounded by troops and tanks and imposed a nighttime curfew on the center of its capital as it moved to the next stage of its crackdown on reform-seeking prote ...
  • US spy operation that manipulates social media
    The Guardian reports: The US military is developing software that will let it secretly manipulate social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter by using fake online personas to influence internet conversations and spread pro-American propaganda. A Californian corporation has been awarded a c ...
  • Bradley Manning’s military doctors accused ove ...
    The Guardian reports: A leading group of doctors in the US concerned with the ethical treatment of patients has questioned the role of military psychiatrists in Quantico, Virginia, where the suspected WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning is being subjected to harsh treatment that some call torture. ...
  • Tom Englelhardt: What U.S. air power actually does
    Taking the �war� out of air war By Tom Engelhardt When men first made war in the air, the imagery that accompanied them was of knights jousting in the sky.� Just check out movies like Wings, which won the first Oscar for Best Picture in 1927 (or any Peanuts cartoon in which Snoopy takes on [ ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Why a “Revenue Neutral” Energy Tax ...
    Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Over at her excellent blog, Judith Curry is hosting a discussion that in part is about “revenue-neutral” carbon (in reality energy) taxes. This is another example of where being a generalist is an advantage. I’ve … Continue reading →
  • The IPCC, 1990: “Detection of the Greenh ...
    I’m rather tired still from my trip, and so I don’t have the energy to get into a detailed read and analysis of this document which was posted up on the IPCC website just 14 hours ago. This is the … Continue reading →
  • Live real-time monitoring map of radiation cou ...
    As many know, I’m a big fan of citizen science. There’s much that can be contributed by the layman that the government often cannot or will not do. Since many people seem to be worried about nuclear fallout from Japan’s … Continue reading →
  • In light of radiation fears, I offer this repost
    Going bananas over radiation With all the worries over radiation leaks from Japan, and hoarding of Potassium Iodide tablets, I thought it valuable to repost a link to this story from last month which was very popular. Many people in the … Continue reading →
  • Not Evil, Just Destructive
    Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Well, the Joe Romm saga continues. He’s been discussing the paper “Evidence for super-exponentially accelerating atmospheric carbon dioxide growth“.  After I pointed out the problems with the paper’s ludicrous claims about population, Joe pulled his … Continue re ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Libya, Hypocrisy and Betrayal by the United Na ...
    by Felicity Arbuthnot Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 18 March, 2011 âIf you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.â – George Orwell. The bombing of Libya will begin on or nearly to the day, of the eighth anniversary of the beginning of the destruction ...
  • President Obama: MIA by Walter Brasch + Kucini ...
    by Walter Brasch Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.walterbrasch.com March 18, 2011 As expected, Michael Moore, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, and AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka were in Madison, Wisc., to support and rally the workers in their fight against the union-busting governor and Republican- ...
  • Barack-a-lujah! I Have Seen the Light! by Cind ...
    by Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox March 18, 2011 Thanks to the helpful feedback I have received over these past two, or so, years, I have seen the enormous error of my ways. I used to be against ALL wars and the use of violence, ...
  • Bahrain: Hospitals and health centres targeted ...
    by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted from Irish Times March 16, 2011 Manama used with permission photo by Darren Shanahan All rights reserved The Persian Gulf island of Bahrain was in shock last night after two days of an unrelenting military crackdown against the civ ...
  • Michael Hudson: Criminalization of the Economy
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ with Michael Hudson Bonnie Faulkner Guns and Butter www.kpfa.org March 16, 2011 Financial and fiscal austerity policies; the appeal of economic austerity to bankers; economic depression and war; post-WWII vs. post-cold war economic policy; government to gover ...

Your New Reality

  • No title
    C3PO : "I Must Have Some Booze! I Demand To Have Some Booze" If you're a fan of the movie WithNail & I, you'll love this. If you're a fan of Star Wars, but you've never heard of Withnail & I, you'll be confused, but laugh anyway. If you're a huge fan of both Star Wars and Withnail & I, well, y ...
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    You Know, This Street Smells Really Nice Since Those Quiet People With Blacked Out Windows Moved In Cannabis farms in apartments and units are increasingly popular in crumbling economies like the UK's because the return on investment is so high, the legal implications (compared to, say, armed r ...
  • No title
    How To Fuck With Artificial Intelligence By Darryl Mason The New York Times has an example of 'self-learning' artificial intelligence where you can pit your Rock Paper Scissors skills against a novice computer, just starting out and learning as it goes based on your choices in a series of game ...
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    How To Live To Be 125, Maybe According to a multi-billionaire who is aiming to live to be 125 years old, this is the diet of longevity : ...fruits and vegetables: he crams as many as 20 of them, including pulverized banana peels and the ground-up rinds of oranges, into the smoothies he drinks ...
  • No title
    When Earthquakes Come In Swarms An animation of earthquakes in Japan, primarily off the east coast, between March 9 and 14 follows. One second of animation equals one hour of real time. There is a pause, seven hours or so of seismological silence through the morning of March 11, as though the ...

Wired - Science

  • Seasonal Methane Rain Discovered on Titan
    Spring may bring methane showers to the deserts of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft recently saw a large, dark puddle appear in the wake of a storm cloud at the moon’s dune-filled equator. “It’s the only easy way to explain the observations,” said planetary scientist Eliz ...
  • Japan Quake Epicenter Was in Unexpected Location
    Japan has been expecting and preparing for the âbig oneâ for more than 30 years. But the magnitude-9.0 temblor that struck March 11 — the worldâs fourth biggest quake since 1900 — wasnât the catastrophe the island nation had in mind.  The epicenter of the quake was about 80 miles east [...]
  • Crop Tops: Strange Agricultural Landscapes See ...
    Agriculture is one of the oldest and most pervasive human impacts on the planet. Estimates of the land surface affected worldwide range up to 50 percent. But while driving through the seemingly endless monotony of wheat fields in Kansas may give you some insight into the magnitude of the change ...
  • Robot Nurses Are Less Weird When They Don’t Talk
    Medical patients would probably be OK with semi-autonomous robots tending to them, but only if the robots don’t talk to them first. Robotics researchers tested whether a verbal explanation from a robot would help people feel more comfortable with the robot administering care, but found that pre ...
  • Oldest Female Elephants Have Best Memory
    Not to cause dinner-table shouting or new excesses of political punditry, but in a test of a particular leadership skill among elephants, age and experience really did trump youth and beauty. Elephant matriarchs 60 years of age or older tended to assess threats in a simulated crisis more accu ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Aharon Shabtai: I just wanted to look at Tanya
    I just wanted to look at Tanya -- how she stood tall in her coat at the end of the hall on her department's floor as I came out of the elevator; how she lit her cigarette at the entrance archway as... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palesti ...
  • Noam Chomsky on Middle East uprisings and fake ...
    Noam Chomsky speaking in Amsterdam (video) 13 March 2011. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...
  • Abdallah Abu Rahmah freed from jail, vows figh ...
    Abdallah Abu Rahmah was given a hero's welcome in the West Bank village of Bil'in after being released from Ofer Prison on Monday. He was greeted by over a hundred and fifty townsfolk who escorted... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Tel Aviv University operates undercover campus ...
    ecurity officials who heard of the volunteer detail said excessive motivation, weapons and the lack of an organized unit could lead to disaster in case of emergency. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to ...
  • Chris Hedges: Power concedes nothing without a ...
    "Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reforms," Frederick Douglass said in 1857. "The whole history of the progress of human history shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • LSRO Workshop on the Future of Prebiotics
    The Life Sciences Research Organization, Inc. (LSRO) organized a workshop Prebiotics and the Health Benefits of Fiber: Future Research and Goals that took place on February 10, 2011 on the FASEB Campus (9650 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20814).
  • Men Report Persistent Sexual Impairment After ...
    A new study by The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, that will be published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine, suggests men who take the drug finasteride, commonly marketed under the trademark names Propecia and Proscar, may report an on-going reduction in sex ...
  • Taking Diabetes Medication Helps Lower Medical ...
    Diabetes patients who take their medication more consistently have slightly lower health care costs.
  • Daily Home Dialysis Makes 'Restless Legs' Better
    For dialysis patients, performing daily dialysis at home can help alleviate sleep problems related to restless legs syndrome (RLS), according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (CJASN). RLS, a common and troublesome problem for ...
  • The Continuing Challenges of Disaster Response ...
    As the crisis in Japan continues to unfold, Andrew Rucks, Ph.D., associate professor of public health at UAB and investigator in the South Central Center for Public Health Preparedness at UAB and Tulane, says response management and coordination will be major issues for the Japanese government.

Natural Health News

  • Guerilla Gardeners
    There's a new kind of urban guerilla -- the kind that plants flowers.
  • Baby Scared When Mom Blows Her Nose
    A baby doesn’t know what to make of it when Mommy blows her nose!
  • Breakfast is Not So G-r-r-reat When Your Only ...
    In the U.S., a quarter of children go without breakfast each morning.� Last week, Kellogg started new project called Share Your Breakfast, which involves the company donating up to a million school breakfasts for children in need. But while this sounds philanthropic, feeding children highly-pro ...
  • Could British Children Soon be Forced to Get F ...
    The British House of Commons’ Science and Technology Committee has called on the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunization (JCVI) to consider immunizing all young children. About a year ago, the American equivalent of the JCVI, the Center for Disease Control's Advisory Committee on Immun ...
  • Kids' Jewelry May Pose Cadmium Poison Risk
    A new study finds that children can be exposed to more than 100 times the recommended limit of cadmium when they suck on or accidentally swallow common, inexpensive jewelry items. Cadmium is toxic even at fairly low doses, and has been linked to kidney, bone and liver disease. It is also a kno ...

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Center for a Livable Future

  • What’s Cookin’ in Your Soil Kitchen?
    What’s Cooking in your ‘Soil Kitchen’? There is probably lots cooking but you might not like all that’s on the menu. So if you are an urban agriculturalist in the mid-Atlantic (NYC-Philadelphia-Baltimore-DC) area scratching your head about all this talk of soil contamination, grab a soil sample ...
  • The Locavore debate, revisited
    How can local food systems support a resilient and sustainable future food economy in the United States? That was the question of the day at a recent conference entitled, “Reviving the American Economy-One Heirloom Tomato at a Time.”  But for some, the question isn’t so much how, but even can ...
  • In Media, Big Ag Looms Large while Farmers Get ...
    In September 1965, CBS broadcast its first episode of Green Acres, a mini-series documenting a family’s transition from an urban life of prestige and luxury, to one of mud, manure, and chaos on a farm in the fictional town of Hooterville. Green Acres took off, in part capitalizing on the popula ...
  • Organic Farming: What is Technology’s Role?
    A recent post entitled “Organic Farmers: Can They Be Tech Savvy?”  by Mr. Hunter Richards serves as a reminder of why one interested in sustainable farming mustn’t instinctively cringe at the thought of new technology and agriculture. As the blog states, organic food has taken off as an indust ...
  • Chicken, Ascendant
    Between now and April 3, the USDA is inviting comment on a just-completed, major research effort to reassess how much of the food in the United States actually makes its way into our mouths.  Its findings suggest that in the chicken-versus-beef rivalry, the popularity of boneless chicken is edgi ...

Norwegianity

  • Going Galt (not what you thought it meant)
    Jon Talton: I call the new age the Great Disruption. It is on display in Japan, where one of the most advanced nations in the world is struggling with a devastating earthquake and an unfolding nuclear disaster. The planet is at 6.8 billion people, at or beyond its carrying capacity. This will am ...
  • Foxprop
    It wasn’t until I squinted and saw the “Gadhafi” inscribed on the side of the plane that I realized this wasn’t a cartoon about Afghanistan. Actually, I still think this is a cartoon about Afghanistan. I also think Obama should be very concerned about the right’s recent embrace of Bradley Mannin ...
  • Debunking the lies as fascist they tell them
    Out and about early today but here’s a few links to tide you over. - If you’re a teabagger, you might believe: Anonymous attacked you with porn The least well informed candidates are the best candidates The media hates you Jesus only loves certain people (and the rest of y’all can go to hell, in ...
  • Overt and undercover Republicans team up to de ...
    You can take away the labels but city politics are emphatically partisan just the same. Former Deputy Mayor of L.A. Alfred J.R. Villalobos is an excellent case in point. The L.A. Times is all over his case this morning for his role in recently uncovered corruption at CalPERS, the 800-lb. gorilla ...
  • Japonsin
    Everything you need to know about Japan. - If you didn’t watch the Oscars, Inside Job was the Oscar-winning documentary on how the banksters screwed the rest of us to death. Paul Krugman reviews Inside Job today, as does Jonathan at Real Economics but the real “economic” news today is that your ...

Public News Service

  • Cancer Survivor: Get Tested, for Your Family's ...
    Cancer Survivor: Get Tested, for Your Family's Sake Phoenix, AZ – March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. The American Cancer Society is reporting some good news – colorectal cancer incidence and mortality rates have declined significantly over the past decade, because of early detection and ...
  • Lawmakers Assert AZ Authority to Regulate Clea ...
    Lawmakers Assert AZ Authority to Regulate Clean Air Phoenix, AZ – A bill awaiting action in the Arizona House would give the state the authority to regulate greenhouse gases and particulates. It’s titled the “Freedom to Breathe Act,” but opponents say it’s nothing but a license to pollute. Comme ...
  • Implosion Set for Coal Stack on AZ-NV Border Today
    Implosion Set for Coal Stack on AZ-NV Border Today Phoenix, AZ – It’s seen as a sign of the times, as well as Arizona's shift toward renewable energy – the 500-foot Mohave Generating Station smokestack is set to come down today (Friday). Green advocates say the Arizona's air is a lot healthier s ...
  • Family Planning Help for AZ’s Uninsured ...
    Family Planning Help for AZ’s Uninsured Women Phoenix, AZ – Because of a large private donation, Arizona women without health insurance may be able to get 12-years of birth control at about half the normal price. The private funding takes on added significance with the state ready to cut 175-tho ...
  • Report: Revenue Projection Errors Plague State ...
    Report: Revenue Projection Errors Plague States, AZ Not Immune Phoenix, AZ – A new report tracking state revenue projections shows errors have plagued states during the economic downturn, and the more severe economic times are, the more “off” the projections. The study shows Arizona's double-di ...

Center for Food Safety

  • Bi-Partisan Legislation Introduced To Ban Dang ...
    Sixty-Four Organizations, Fishing Associations and Retailers Endorse Legislation; Lawmakers Cite Serious Economic, Environmental and Human Health Threats The Center for Food Safety along with 63 other groups, businesses and retailers applaud Senators Mark Begich (D-Alaska) and Lisa Murkowski (R- ...
  • Nature Happens – Humans Can’t Cont ...
    By Lisa J. Bunin, Liana Hoodes, Michael Sligh Last week, USDA announced its decision to allow the planting of Monsanto’s Roundup Ready (RR) GM alfalfa without any ongoing monitoring or regulation whatsoever.  Despite widespread consumer, farmer, and food industry opposition and contrary scientif ...
  • World’s First Genetically Engineered Biofuels ...
    Impacts on Human Health, Environment, and Farmers Not Fully Assessed DESPITE RISING GLOBAL FOOD PRICES, OBAMA ADMINISTRATION CONTINUES MISGUIDED BIOFUELS AGENDA The Center for Food Safety criticized an announcement today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) that it will approve the world ...
  • Farmers And Conservationists Challenge Latest ...
    In defiance of earlier court ruling, USDA allows continued growing of controversial, illegally planted crop Today the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) issued a new decision to allow the U.S. sugar beet industry to continue growing Monsanto’s “Roundup Ready,” genetically ...
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Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • Libya, Getting it Right: A Revolutionary Pan-A ...
    Libya, Getting it Right: A Revolutionary Pan-African Perspective | Dissident Voice: "Thousands of Indians, Egyptians, Chinese, Filipinos, Turks, Germans, English, Italians, Malaysians, Koreans and a host of other nationalities are lining up at the borders and the airport to leave Libya. It begs ...
  • The facts about racism in Libya | SocialistWor ...
    The facts about racism in Libya | SocialistWorker.org: "THE UPRISING against the dictatorial regime of Col. Muammar Qaddafi, like the revolutionary upsurges in Tunisia and Egypt, has inspired people around the world who yearn for social change. If the people of Libya succeed in overthrowing a ru ...
  • Hullabaloo: How to force a false confession
    Hullabaloo: "I suppose we are supposed be grateful that they are only using this particular technique on an American soldier for seven hours a day instead of the weeks or days they routinely used on Al Qaeda members. Perhaps they learned through their long experience at Gitmo and Bagram that com ...
  • Tom is Moving in on Libya
    Even as I write here President Obama and his European allies are moving fast to invade Libya under the guise of a humanitarian mission. A "no-fly-zone" will most likely be declared soon and policed by Nato in the days ahead.� This tactic will allow Tom to essentially occupy Libya in a r ...
  • UNDERNEWS: Thomas Knapp, Anti-War
    UNDERNEWS: "The power to declare war — and thereby to legally categorize a group of persons (historically on, but not necessarily constrained to, the basis of their allegiance to a particular state) as 'the enemy' — is exclusively reserved, per the US Constitution, to Congress. Congress hasn’t e ...

Pensieve

  • More on Egypt
    Reading that now, a few days after the military pressured Mubarak to step down, the Egyptian parliament has been dissolved, and the Constitution invalidated by the Egyptian military. This fills me with fear. The mainstream media are treating these acts as a good thing, and the Egyptians they int ...
  • Update: Mubarak Not Stepping Down Tonight
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  • US involved in an Egyptian “military coup”?
    Photo by adaptorplug A CNN news story says that Hofni Mubarak will likely relinquish power to the Egyptian military tonight. This is what their source, âa senior Egyptian officalâ is quoted by CNN as saying: He said the process — which included dialogue between the government and opposition repr ...
  • President Llorens
    I’ve reconsidered my position about posting Wikileaks articles. This article not only discusses classified material disclosed by Wikileaks, but actually quotes it. I know some of my readers work for the US government, thus the warning. I am not an enemy of the United States of America. I simply ...
  • Magnificent
    This movie brought me to tears. It is the story of a man whose lack of limbs from birth relegated him to life as a circus side-show freak. It tells of how he was recognized by the owner of a rival circus as “magnificent”. After overcoming his bitterness, the man transformed from freak to hero. [ ...

Green Times

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  • Zebra eating hay
    The zebra's crazy stripes are one of the most fascinating skin colouration and patterns amongst all the African fauna (wildlife/fauna.html). Bicolour stripes help break up the outline of a zebra’s body, making them especially difficult to identify at twilight which is the preferred hunting ti ...
  • Colourful tuned car
    Many people are passionate about fast cars and car tuning. Loving the speed and style of those vehicles they often forget about the massive CO2 (glossary/categories/climate-change/carbon-dioxide.html) emissions linked to operating them and the terrible impact they have on the environment. Rea ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

  • Latest Investigate HIS HERS onsale
  • Free Movie tickets: CONVICTION
    The kind folk at 20th Century Fox have made available some double passes for our TBR, Twitter and Facebook readers to see the new movie CONVICTION, based on the true story of Betty Ann Waters who studied to become a...
  • New-look Investigate magazine HIS and HERS goe ...
    As of Sunday...with more exclusive revelations about the Pike River disaster and police bungles in the rescue operation...and HERS features new poll results showing support for National is wide but shallow, and that a large number of voters want Winston...
  • Investigate Political Poll 2011 - No1
    Investigate magazine's first big omnibus and political poll in more than five years is underway. If you want to fill in the survey form (takes less than two minutes on average) online, you'll find it here.
  • BREAKING NEWS: Arizona shooter of Gabrielle Gi ...
    The young gunman who shot and killed six people, and left Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in critical condition, appears to have borne a grudge against Giffords after meeting her in 2007 at the age of 19. According to reports, former...

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • How to lift the closure of Gaza in three easy ...
    From Gisha’s Gaza Gateway, what it would actually take to end just the closure of Gaza, although not the entire Occupation. Israelâs Deputy Foreign Minister said last week that the continued smuggling of weapons into the Gaza Strip threatens further implementation of the âeasingâ of the closur ...
  • Abdallah Abu Rahmah is free, may all Palestini ...
    Great news on the heels of the horrible killings in Itamar settlement and Netanyahu’s exploitation of them. It’s good to have a hopeful example even if its freedom for a man who should have never been imprisoned. Indeed, the protests Abdallah Abu Rahmah helped organize are still going on after h ...
  • Please report any unattended human rights
    I read Neve Gordon’s piece a few months back about human rights websites being banned at Ben Gurion airport, and thought what a perfect microcosm of the front Israel is trying to put up to the world. While they wouldn’t think of banning such websites to their own population, I hope, internation ...
  • Israeli solidarity activist interrogated by po ...
    Sara Benninga, whose speech I reposted here on the blog, was interrogated by the police after speaking at the JStreet conference I attended. She provided one of the voices for a new direction for Jewish and Israeli activists working alongside Palestinians for justice. For this she rewarded with ...
  • Eviatar: Three Dead Children
    Guest Post by Aharan Eviatar The recent ghastly events in Arizona, especially the killing of Christina Greene, gunned down by a political lunatic at age nine, lead one to think of the phenomenon of political killing of children and what it implies for society. In particular, I would like to bri ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Polizeros Radio. Libya. Underpants gnomes. Japan
    Tonight’s show was lively. Among the topics discussed: The Libya ‘no-fly zone’ is a full-scale attack from the air. But this is akin to the South Park underpants gnomes whose business plan was 1) collect underpants, 2) something happens, 3) make money. The invasion of Libya is 1) bomb Qadaffi, 2 ...
  • Tsunami-trashed house, but her cat survived
  • They’re sending in the big dogs. Benghazi cele ...
    I’m conflicted. Yes, Qaddafi is as repulsive and vicious as they come, his son is an elegant sociopath, and they are trying to exterminate their own populace. And imagine, if you will, how the beseiged rebels will feel when the first wave of fighter jets are seen streaking towards them in suppor ...
  • Japan hospitals almost out of water and food
    The BBC (live coverage) just spoke with a woman in a hospital in the quake area. She and her elderly mother were trapped in their home for three days with almost no food. Finally, she carried her mother on her back to a hospital. The hospital has patients in the floor in the lobby and [...]
  • Polizeros radio tonight. 8:30 PDT
    Japan and nuclear power, Petraeus’ testimony and “Why isn’t Bahrain like Libya, Interventionists?” Join us! The podcast is hosted on BlogTalkRadio. Call in to listen live at 626-414-3492 tonight at 8:30 PST, 9:30 MST, 10:30 CST, 11:30 EST. You can also download it or listen to the archive on Blo ...

Coteret

  • Yediot’s Plocker: Thank you Mossad for r ...
    On Sunday (January 9 2011), Yediot’s Itamar Eichner reported [emphasis mine; full translation here]: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is furious with outgoing Mossad Director Meir Dagan because of the briefing Dagan gave journalists last Thursday. In the course of that briefing, Dagan shared wi ...
  • “Rejectionist front”: Maariv detai ...
    As Israel’s diplomatic position erodes and the Palestinian Authority’s campaign for the unilateral recognition of a state in the 1967 borders gains ground, the demand for “direct negotiations” has become a central talking point of  Israeli government spokespeople. Here’s the latest example, fro ...
  • New Yorker editor David Remnick to Yediot: &#8 ...
    On December 24 2010, Yediot’s Friday Political Supplement ran an interview with New Yorker editor David Remnick by Adi Gold. Most of the interview was dedicated to his new biography of Barack Obama. Gold did ask a political question on Israel and Reminck’s response was very blunt. Note that th ...
  • Breaking the Silence’s landmark new book ...
    Breaking the Silence has just published a landmark collection of soldier testimonies from the Occupied Territories spanning the period 2000-2010. The 432 page book can now be browsed, downloaded and embedded here. If you read nothing else, take the time to look over the first to pages of the int ...
  • Following local pressure, Adidas reconsiders s ...
    This Maariv article [full translation below] from Friday is particularly badly written and repetitive, so I’ll summarize. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat decides to hold the first Jerusalem International Marathon in March 2011. He gets Adidas to sponsor the event. An Israeli runner registers and the ...

Deadline Live

  • Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates so ...
    The US military is developing software that will let it secretly manipulate social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter by using fake online personas to influence internet conversations and spread pro-American propaganda. A Californian corporation has been awarded a contract with United Stat ...
  • Washington Post apologizes for plagiarized art ...
    The Washington Post apologized Wednesday for publishing two articles in March that “contained substantial material that was borrowed and duplicated, without attribution, from The Arizona Republic newspaper.” “This is the most serious kind of matter for a news organization,” executive editor Marc ...
  • Canada nuclear plant accident turns drinking w ...
  • This Day In History – March 18
    37 â The Roman Senate annuls Tiberius’s will and proclaims Caligula emperor. 1314 â Jacques DeMolay, Frankish noble, the 23rd Grand Master of the Knights Templar (b. 1244), died. 1766 â American Revolution: The British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act. 1834 â Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, D ...
  • Earthquakes, Earthworms and Earth Changes
    Before Its News By Zen Gardner March 16th, 2011 Make this go viral on Before Its News! Is The Big One About To Hit California? The tsunami that struck Japan was the third in a series of events that now put California at risk. There were reports via a radio interview at rense.com that a [...]

The Air Vent

  • In Case You Missed It
    Statpad – Roman M Two and a half PC’s.  
  • Update on Winds paper
    Copied from comments on the other thread Anastassia Makarieva Some of the readers may still be interested the fate of our draft paper “Where do winds come from?” and our condensation theory as originally highlighted on The Air Vent here. A second referee was appointed –- many thanks to all of th ...
  • Saving The World, One Progressive at a Time
    Josh had this awesome depiction of Romm right where I see him.  At least at the elevation of its nesting habitat, it is safe from the 5 feet of sea level rise. Although, there’s good news, the emerging species may now be able to nest a little lower.  Hopefully we’ll know soon what this little [...]
  • Another brick in the Wahl
    Still no time for climate blogging.  In fact if anything, time is shorter. If you have any interest in climate science and why the skeptics are winning the war of reason over ‘scientists’, read this post by Steve Mosher and Charles the moderator at WUWT. The recent CA article is also worth your ...
  • kgnd & Cross-Validation: PART II – Parti ...
    by Ryan O’Donnell kgnd & Cross-Validation: PART II (TTLS vs. Ridge Regression and Table S3) In his O’Donnellgate post, Steig makes the following observation: Itâs perhaps also worth pointing out that the *main* criticism I had of OâDonnellâs paper was never addressed. If youâre interested in thi ...

Focal Point

  • Preventing Childhood Obesity is Not Fat-Shaming
    In my latest post for TAPPED, I reply to fat activist Paul Campos who argues that Michelle Obama's "Let's Move!" program is the fat-hating equivalent of "ex-gay" ministries who purport to prevent or cure homosexuality. Trying to prevent childhood obesity at the population level by encouraging al ...
  • "The Warmth of Other Suns" Wins National Book ...
    Isabel Wilkerson's masterful history of the Great Migration won a National Book Critics Circle Award last week, a richly deserved honor. You can read my review of "The Warmth of Other Suns" at TAPPED. [Photo credit, image of a California sunrise: Gwyn Fisher, Creative Commons.]Read More
  • Guest Blogging at The American Prospect's Blog ...
    This week, I will be guest blogging at TAPPED, the group blog of the American Prospect. I've got big plans for the week ahead. Please join me. My first post is on right wing hoaxster James O'Keefe and the established media outlets who enable him. Two senior NPR executives lost their jobs befor ...
  • Fly of Newt: Gingrich Blames Adultery on Patri ...
    “There’s no question that at times in my life, partially driven by how passionately I felt about this country, that I worked far too hard and that things happened in my life that were not appropriate,” former House Speaker and serial adulterer Newt Gingrich told an interviewer for the Christia ...
  • Friends With Benefits: Why Private Sector Work ...
    The Republicans are trying to pit private sector workers against public sector workers. It's easy for a struggling private sector worker with low wages and no benefits to resent of private sector workers with job security, pensions, health care, and more--especially if that worker's state taxes ...

Inside Facebook

  • A Closer Look at Deals, Facebook’s News Feed-B ...
    On Tuesday, Facebook began signing up users for Deals, its answer to Groupon and other group-buying services. Subscribers will receive updates in their news feed and potentially by email about pre-paid coupons and experiences they can purchase. Businesses can work with Facebook’s Merchant Servic ...
  • Facebook’s New Growth in the Middle East: Do M ...
    When pressure from protesters helped bring down the Egyptian and Tunisian governments in recent months, Facebook was credited by many organizers and outside observers as being a key tool for the revolution. Why? Real-world friendships, and features like user profile walls, the news feed, Pages a ...
  • Facebook Careers Postings: Finance, Games, Lat ...
    Facebook added some interesting positions to its Careers Page this week, specifically in Latin America. The company advertised for a Director of Financial Planning and Analysis, Global Business Partnership based in Sao Paulo, Brazil. It’s also looking for a Product Marketing Manager for the Face ...
  • Facebook Hires and Departures: Marketing, IP, ...
    Facebook hired some positions in Palo Alto, Calif. and Austin, Texas this week, and also seems to have hired people in their Singapore and Dublin offices. Some of the more interesting positions now gone from Facebook’s Careers Page include a Global Product Marketing Manager of Facebook Platform ...
  • Groupon Signs Exclusively with AdParlor for Fa ...
    Groupon has signed an agreement to allow full service advertising services provider AdParlor to handle the local deals network’s entire Facebook advertising spend. The exclusive contracts represents tens of millions of dollars in spend, as Groupon uses Facebook ads extensively to drive email sig ...

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ReDress News

  • Zionist tales of "passionate longing" for Pale ...
    Stuart Littlewood analyses a recent document published by the Board of Deputies of British Jews which targets Christians and appears to be "little more than a propaganda exercise to soft-soap Christians into coming on-side for the continuing land-grab and the making of Israel’s occupation perman ...
  • US military using psychological warfare on Ame ...
    Paul J. Balles looks at how the US armed forces are now using psychological warfare not only to influence foreign foes, such as in Afghanistan and Iraq, but also in within the USA itself.
  • Clearing up myths and misconceptions about Gad ...
    Muhammad al-Arabi views some of the myths and misconceptions that are used by Libyan dictator Mu'ammar Gaddafi's backers to justify supporting his murderous regime. He argues that, far from being a progressive anti-imperialist, Gaddafi has not only played a destructive role among national liber ...
  • Consequences of Israeli weapons testing on Gaza
    Richard Lightbown argues that Israel's use of depleted uranium, white phosphorus and other toxic metals in its war on the people of the Gaza Strip has put the whole of the Strip’s population and its environment - air, soil, groundwater and possibly seawater - at risk of serious long-term injury ...
  • Netanyahu's illusory peace plan
    Jonathan Cook considers Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's imminent plan to buy time and fend off world pressure in the context of Israel's unprecedented and growing international isolation.

Amazon Rainforest

  • Belo Monte hydroelectric dam construction work ...
    The company leading the dam project, Norte Energia, announced that infrastructure work on roads that will provide access to the region started on Monday morning. The £7bn Belo Monte dam on the Amazon’s Xingu river is scheduled to start producing energy on 31 December 2014 and would be the seco ...
  • Brazil judge blocks Amazon Belo Monte dam:
    Federal Brasilian judge Ronaldo Desterro has blocked plans to build a huge hydro-electric dam in the Amazon rainforest because of environmental concerns. Judge Desterro said environmental requirements to build the Belo Monte dam had not been met. He also barred the national development bank, BND ...
  • 1.ooo military forces end illegal gold mining ...
    The Peruvian military has cleared-out illegal gold mining along the country’s south-eastern Amazon region in a move aiming to protect the environment. The government sent about 1,000 security forces to the region of Madre de Dios to destroy the illegal operations, the state-funded BBC reported. ...
  • BREAKING: Chevron Guilty of Amazon Rainforest ...
    Amazon Watch and Rainforest Action Network just announced a major victory for the Amazon rainforest. An Ecuadorean judge today found Chevron guilty of one of the largest environmental crimes in history and ordered the company to pay a whopping $8 billion to clean up its damage in the Amazon. Che ...
  • First film footage of uncontacted Amazon Tribe
    The footage was filmed by the BBC’s Human Planet series shows a Tribe known as the Panoan, who live in virtual isolation from the outside world. The team needed too get footage of the Tribe as proof of their existence so as the government could protect them from illegal logging and mining operat ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Jamiol Presents
  • Boiling Frogs Post Countdown-Week 2
    We Need Your Support to ‘Help Wake up the American public before the water gets too hot to climb out of the pot’ I want to thank those of you who have contributed to Boiling Frogs Post during our first week campaign. Thank You! Next, I want to briefly respond to a common inquiry I’ve received fr ...
  • Sibel Edmonds’ Boiling Frogs Post: Year Two
    We Need Your Support to Continue & Expand: Countdown Week 1 In October 2009 I launched Boiling Frogs Post  with one purpose in mind: To establish a venue for investigative articles, editorials, analyses, discussions, and interviews on issues largely censored by the media. We are entering our sec ...
  • Boiling Frogs Post Status & Update
    Boiling Frogs Year Two-A Personal Note Next week I’ll be leaving for a business related trip, followed by relocation related travel where I’ll be checking housing, schooling for my daughter, work,  among tons of other ‘life related’ details in a new hometown, and finalized by a short but straigh ...
  • Boiling Frogs Beltway Buzz: The Upcoming Bipar ...
    A Caucus to Combat Terrorism, Domestic Violence, Divorce & Job Dissatisfaction via ‘Happiness Pill’ According to our inside sources a new Bipartisan Congressional Caucus for Prozac will be launched before the end of the 112th Congress. The primary purpose of the Prozac Caucus will be to raise aw ...

Afro Spear

  • Ted Williams: Not So Shiny & New
    When things are shiny & new, everyone wants a piece. Iâm happy that Ted was “discovered” & Iâm VERY happy that he is in recovery now but it’s a shame how it all played out for him under the media pressure. Shame on Kraft, The Cavaliers & them other bitches who dropped Ted like a [...]
  • White or Black Led Urban Ministries…Who ...
    Recently I received my e-newsletter from UrbanFaith.com a well rounded online Christian website by parent company UMI (Urban Ministries Inc.), which reports on news, culture, world events and lifestyle to name a few. Urban Faith does this professionally, and with a uniquely Black Christian persp ...
  • “If Gadaffi is right “drug addicts ...
    Though it can be regarded as buffoonish, the idea that protesters in Libya are drugged young and jobless people sometimes makes sense. Even if this is not the case in Libya, there is a naked truth behind this. When Muamar Gadaffi was cornered, he employed mercenaries in duped or dumped cops from ...
  • Byts and Bytes
    1. Psyco-Slavery: Black Boys, White Female Teachers & the Rise of A.D.H.D.   2. How China has created a new slave empire in Africa 3. Afro-Futurism: The Marketing of Revolution
  • FREE WESLEY SNIPES!!!
    They gave Ron Isley three years. They gave Wesley Snipes three years. What did they give the CEO/CFO’s of Merrill Lynch, AIG, Goldmund Sachs?! I’ll tell you what they gave them: a handjob. They gave them record bonuses, the highest being almost half a billion dollars. They, meaning the people ch ...

Expose the BNP

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

Sen4Earth

  • Memorial Tribute to Hugh MacDougall
    Memorial Tribute to Hugh MacDougall “We are sending the power of love, peace and compassion, which can change the world.” â Hugh MacDougall, Australia, SEN Honorary Advisor Hugh was more to Suzanne and I than SEN’s Honorary Spiritual Advisor. He was the beloved friend we called brother, and he w ...
  • 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 Sustainabil ...
  • Bill Gates On Climate Change & Energy: We Must ...
    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 ...
    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 ...
  • Seize BP Demonstrations Nationwide
    SEN believes these demonstrations will help awaken politicians to outrage over inadequate regulation and control of international corporations, even if they do not succeed in gaining temporary seizure of BP on the basis of national emergency and evidence of criminal neglect and fraud by BP.

If Americans Knew

  • Gabrielle Giffords, Tom Hurndall and Palestini ...
    Alison Weir, CounterPunch - There is something particularly horrifying when someone is shot in the head. Perhaps it's the gruesome image, the destruction of the brain, the clear intent to kill. The recent shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is made even more nightmarish by the l ...
  • As Israel kills and maims, Outrage is directed ...
    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 ...
  • An Open Letter to the Southern Poverty Law Cli ...
    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 o ...
    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 ...
  • The invisible government: Propaganda Disguised ...
    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'.

David J. Gregory

  • Republican Cuts Devastate interests to THE PEOPLE
    Congress needs to hear from all of us right away, because the only chance we have to stop this budget is if Senate Democrats stand united against it. And the first vote could come today.1 Can you call Sen. Nelson and tell him to stand strong against Republicans‘ massive, devastating cuts? Senato ...
  • Rally to Save the American Dream
    In Wisconsin and around our country, the American Dream is under fierce attack. Instead of creating jobs, Republicans are giving tax breaks to corporations and the very rich—and then cutting funding for education, police, emergency response, and vital human services. On Saturday, February 26, a ...
  • RICK SCOTT MADE MILLIONS OFF HEALTH NOW CUTS I ...
    Whether it's a political stunt or the act of an extremist ideologue, Scott is hurting real Floridians in concrete ways, including millions of people with private health insurance or Medicare benefits. He's taking away a law that ends the worst insurance company abuses and frees families, senior ...
  • CUT PENTAGON BUDGET: ACT NOW
    Their current proposal includes cuts in domestic spending, diplomacy, development, and international assistance but allows the Pentagon budget to continue to rise.
  • SAY NO to Patriot EXTENSIONS!
    Together, these provisions make a mockery of our civil liberties: They let government officials spy on whomever they want, for any reason, without ever letting them know or giving them a chance to challenge the order in court.

Unsuitable Blog

  • International Atomic Energy Agency Spinning Li ...
    In the light of the Japanese earthquake and subsequent tsumani, government and internation agencies are working like crazy to ensure no news remains good news regarding the Fukushima nuclear power plant. Yet from the BBC we hear the following: There are now problems at the number three reactor – ...
  • ExxonMobil Biofuel Advert Officially Pronounce ...
    ASA Adjudication on ExxonMobil UK Ltd ExxonMobil UK Ltd ExxonMobil House Ermyn Way Leatherhead Surrey KT22 8UX Date: 9 March 2011 Media: Television Sector: Utilities Number of complaints: 1 Agency: Euro RSCG London Ltd Complaint Ref: 141542 Ad A TV ad for ExxonMobil UK Ltd (ExxonMobil) featured ...
  • UK Census 2011: Why I Will Be Breaking The Law ...
    On Sunday March 27, 2011 I will be breaking the law. If you live in England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland then I would also like you to break the law. We can do it together, and I know for a fact that an awful lot of people will be doing the same. The UK [...]
  • Interview With Bill McKibben, Winner of Puffin ...
    Climate reality writer and activist Gregory Vickrey. (L) ( Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Founder of 350.org, writer and environmentalist Bill McKibben. (R) (Photo: Nancie Battaglia / 350.org) Bill McKibben, Schumann distinguished scholar at Middlebury College, is the author of a dozen boo ...
  • An Open Letter to Journalists From Gasland Dir ...
    With the recent Oscar nomination of my documentary film GASLAND, Big Gas and their PR attack machine hit a new low in its blatant disregard for the truth. In an unprecedented move, an oil and gas industry front group sent a letter to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences saying that th ...

Subalternate Reality

  • Keith Ellison’s Tears And Epistemic Closure
    Rep. Peter King’s hearings looking into the “radicalization” of the American Muslim community, and the suggestion that the community doesn’t cooperate with law enforcement, was largely a waste of time and tax dollars. The affair didn’t produce a single insight into the actual and urgent issue of ...
  • Praying On Qasr al-Nil
    One of the more memorable scenes of the Egyptian revolution will surely be that of ordinary Egyptian’s praying on Cairo’s Qasr al-Nil Bridge as members of Egyptian state police direct their water cannons at them. Truly a remarkable sight. via Al Jazeera Filed under: Middle East Tagged: Al-Jazeer ...
  • “I Support Democratization, But…&# ...
    The Atlanticâs Jeffrey Goldberg â one of the key proponents of the disastrous invasion of Iraq â has some serious misgivings about the fledgling pro-democracy movement thatâs taken over the streets of Egypt. âI support democratization, but,â he cautions, âthe democratization we saw in Gaza (cour ...
  • All That Happens In The Middle East Can’ ...
    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 ...
  • 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 constr ...

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Fresh from SXSWi: 6 Ways to Integrate Hacking ...
    Going over my notes from the South by Southwest Interactive Festival, the panel that was definitely the most valuable to my work on the Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership was Hacking the News: Applying Computer Science to Journalism. What we're doing The Knight-Mozilla Partners ...
  • SeedSpeak Launches, Uses Geotags to Solve Loca ...
    One of the joys of living in Phoenix, besides the winters, is the local airport. Sky Harbor bills itself as the nation's friendliest airport and, while I won't go that far, I love the fact that you can get in and out with minimal hassle. Even with construction to build a tram system linking the ...
  • MIT Produces a String of Civic Media Success S ...
    As we wind the way toward the end of our four year grant, I thought it would be nice to describe some of what we've learned at MIT's Center for Future Civic Media (C4). In the coming weeks, I will call on a few of our researchers to offer similar blog reflections on our unique blend of communiti ...
  • Lost in Boston: REALTIME
    For the last several months, we have been testing a system called Lost in Boston: REALTIME with a variety of community partners. This video describes a bit about the project. Rick Borovoy loves Boston, but he hates how hard it is to figure out where one is. Boston is tough to navigate, ...
  • Junkyard Jumbotron
    Rick Borovoy just released the Junkyard Jumbotron project, which allows laptops or phones in close proximity to be ganged together to form a large display. The Junkyard Jumbotron requires no special software; it is simply a web page that receives real-time updates from our server, allowing sc ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Japan Quake Show Oil Dependence a Shakey Propo ...
    The massive earthquake in Japan has rocked more than nuclear plants. It has also threatened the oil refineries and pipelines. The same can happen in America after a tornado, tsunami, or earthquake. Or terrorism. We are not prepared for any such calamity especially since even the Strategic Petrol ...
  • Tuskeegee Redux - Guatemalans Seek US Compensa ...
    Attorneys in Washington and Guatemala are seeking legal compensation for victims of experiments by U.S. doctors in Guatemala in the 1940s that involved the deliberate infection of around 700 people with syphilis. U.S. officials have already denounced the experiments and apologized to the victims ...
  • Malawai on Edge - Malawi University Lecturers ...
    In Malawi, lecturers at Chancellor College, a constituent college of the University of Malawi, have defied a directive by President Bingu wa Mutharika to return to class Monday.The lecturers have not been teaching for nearly four weeks protesting what they call “interference in their academic fr ...
  • The 2012 Vote - The Primaries Favor Palin
    It is difficult to believe, but the first election for the next president of the United States is less than a year away.The New Hampshire primary is alive and well and headed toward a date of Valentine’s Day next year, but it will probably occur earlier, perhaps even on Jan. 3. That’s not a long ...
  • Book Review - Religion in America as Bridge—an ...
    Robert D. Putnam and David E. Campbell. American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites�Us. Simon & Schuster, 2010. 688pp.Harvard University political scientist Robert D. Putnam�s 2000 book Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community was one of those books�like David Riesman�s ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • Counterrevolution 101
    By Dave Fryett The wretched of the Earth have seen what is possible. Power has been shown to be powerless in the face of determined mass opposition. And in every corner of our world the immiserated rejoice, because they know the day of liberation draws near
  • No One Curious What CIA Is Working On At The ...
    By Jay Janson What does the CIA have in store for Egypt? What chores will it assign its agents both American and Egyptian? American socialists and progressives are overly cooperative with mainstream media and Congress in hardly ever asking after our secret CIA shadow government
  • Lessons Learned In The Streets Of Cairo
    By William A. CookIf the streets of Cairo have taught us anything, they have demonstrated that vigilance against those who would control out of arrogance, oppress with indifference, deceive with impunity, and humiliate without feeling, have abandoned all natural sympathies and become , in fact ...
  • What Is True Sustainability?
    By Matthew SteinIf we are to develop an effective plan and roadmap for creating a sustainable world, we must first have a clear idea of what it truly means to be sustainable
  • Egypts Army Dissolves Parliament
    By Al Jazeera Military rulers say they will remain in charge for six months until elections are held as some protesters vow to remain

Contagious Love Experiment

  • Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
    Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
  • Practicing Peace in the New Year
    A friend, Frank Swift, that I met on my first journey has passed along some great practical steps towards peace for the new year. Frank has written a children’s book to help young people see an alternative to the competition and forcefulness that can too easily get instilled in our young people. ...
  • 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 o ...
  • 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 Re ...
  • Slate Interview: My Country Right or Wrong: Co ...
    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-bei ...

Yid With Lid

  • WARNING! Egyptian Politics Getting Dangerousl ...
    By Barry Rubin Well, what do you know? The two leading politicians in Egypt have decided�though they haven�t quite admitted it straight out�that the biggest threat to the country is��the Muslim Brotherhood gaining power. After we�ve been told by virtually every Western government officia ...
  • FRAUD!!! Michigan Democratic Officials Arreste ...
    During this past mid-term election there were many examples of Democratic Party leaders enticing people to run� campaigns under a bogus "Tea Party" banner one of which, for example was Peg Dunmire whose candidacy was funded by Alan Grayson.� The object of this exercise is to siphon off enough co ...
  • Joy Behar Proves She is Dumber Than Plant Life
    It is kind of hard not to criticize Joy Behar, especially when you realize that her I.Q. is lower than co-Host Barbara Walter's age.��It is a wonder that someone this stupid is let out of the house without wearing a helmet, and she is on two different TV shows. Its like everyone else in the worl ...
  • Crisis and Civil War in Libya: A Self-Interview
    Much of what you read in the paper or see on TV about what is going on in Libya is wrong.� This must be making my friend and teacher Barry Rubin go a little bit crazy. Because as you can see below, he is talking to himself.� But even when Barry talks to himself, especially about the Middle East, ...
  • FREE THE AMERICAN SLAVES!! (The NFL Players)
    In 1863 President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation freeing all of the African slaves in the south. Two years later, the 13th Amendment was passed and slavery was finally outlawed in the United States, or so we thought. Apparently slavery is alive and well, but unlike Ame ...

The Real Agenda

  • U.N. okays military action on Libya
    Military action could come within hours Reuters The United Nations authorised military action to curb Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on Thursday, hours after he threatened to storm the rebel bastion of Benghazi overnight, showing “no mercy, no pity.” “We will come, zenga, zenga. House by house, r ...
  • U.S. military begins evacuations of families i ...
    Examiner March 17, 2011 As officials struggle to contain leaking radiation from the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan, the US military has begun to evacuate families from the disaster-stricken island. Efforts to cool the reactors have seen little success since last Friday’s earthqua ...
  • Protocol for Nuclear Contamination: Iodine, Gl ...
    By Mark Sircus, AC, OMD March 17, 2011 The protocol: Iodine – Glutathione – Natural Chelation – Clay – Baking Soda. On Sunday, when I first released this protocol I said that it is too early to call everyone in North America to prepare for a radiation cloud streaming down radioactive particles f ...
  • Japanese radiation to hit U.S. Southwest on Friday
    The plume is heading into Southern California and the American Southwest, including Nevada, Utah and Arizona NYT March 17, 2011 A United Nations forecast of the possible movement of the radioactive plume coming from crippled Japanese reactors shows it churning across the Pacific, and touching th ...
  • Radioactive snow in Japan?
    Emergency workers are taken out of the power plants as high radiation levels stop cooling efforts Reuters Japan‘s nuclear crisis appeared to be spinning out of control on Wednesday after workers withdrew briefly from a stricken power plant because of surging radiation levels and a helicopter fai ...

Wind Watch

  • Wind farms causing problems in Bureau County
    Wind energy keeps growing in popularity as a renewable energy source. But for a group of people in the Bureau County town of Ohio,Ill., itâs growing into a major problem. “It sounds like an airport at my house and I live in the country,” Al Harris, an Ohio resident for eight years, said. “You ca ...
  • Wind farms and deadly skies: Turbines on Texas ...
    SARITA â The 260-foot-tall wind turbines of the Kenedy Ranch stand like a steel forest along the edge of the Laguna Madre and pump out hundreds of megawatts of emission-free electricity. The spinning blades, alongside some of the most important habitat in Texas and one of North America’s largest ...
  • Doubt over green energy’s clean bill of ...
    Wind turbines are closing in on four generations of the Quinn family who still live at Mt Bryan in South Australia’s picturesque and productive Mt Lofty Ranges. Rosemary Quinn, 74, says she spends her nights locked inside the 1900s stone house she has occupied for 55 years. She shuts the windows ...
  • Wind farm plan nixed in Brimfield
    BRIMFIELD – Boston-based First Wind has withdrawn a proposal to build a wind farm on top of West Mountain, a move that has pleased its opponents. “West Mountain was not the place for eight to 10 wind turbines, and I’m happy that they’re leaving. I’m calling everybody that I can think of,” Select ...
  • Questions of costs, jobs and influence surroun ...
    Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley on Thursday will ask lawmakers to support a proposal to raise almost every state resident’s electric bill for the next 20 years to underwrite a plan for Maryland to generate some of the nation’s first offshore wind power. O’Malley’s legislation runs counter to a cam ...

Not My Tribe

  • Yahoo empire blinks on Libya!
    Stepping up from its covert participation in the Libyan rebellion against bogeyman Gaddafi might be the US misstep which the Arab movement has been looking for. It’s not enough that Barack Obama’s active suppression of public uprisings in Bahrain and Yemen unmasked his administration as anti-Dem ...
  • It’s official. We’re screwed.
    I didn’t want to post anything about this, not here, guess it’s my Irish part of my heritage not wanting to speak the name of the devil. But the reactors in Japan are now officially out of control. What makes it official is that Obama made an official emergency statement that there was no offici ...
  • THEY can’t afford feudal serfdom any mor ...
    Meaning the Corporates. Like Bush and Walker. They’ve sunk their assets and their asses into the credit economy deep. They broke it and expect US to make all the concessions so they can salvage enough of the system to support their luxury lifestyle. It’s gone,gone gone… They’ll have real estate ...
  • The Pope has a facebook page… just not B ...
    John Paul 2nd. Yep. Here’s my deal… After I’ve been gone for 6 years… don’t try to contact me. No prayers, no seances, nothing like that. If I’m in heaven where i hope, you’ll just piss me all the way off. ESPECIALLY I ain’t going to be reading any emails, tweets or Friend requests. I [...]
  • So here’s what vote suppression looks li ...
    Even with the literally untold billions of dollars spent on the hate-mail attack ads, and the “don’t vote ’cause they’ll screw you anyway” campaign, we squeaked out of a massive TeaTard RepubliKlan regime such as the one of Scott Walker of Wisconsin. Tossed workers rights back to the beginning o ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • This perfectly encapsulates how I feel when tr ...
  • Three Responses to Bill Moyers Attack on 9/11 ...
    Response to Bill Moyers on 9/11 Truth February 16, 2011 Author: Jon Gold Source: 9/11 Truth News Category: HIT PIECES I’d first like to say that I respect both Bill Moyers and Robert Parry, even though I thoroughly disagree with them about their stance on the cover-up of 9/11. Bill Moyers docu ...
  • Richard Gage and Chris Mohr Debate WTC Collapse
    Uploaded by AllWeNeedIsAHero on Mar 12, 2011 I added a song at the beginning but that was it, this is the full unedited debate between Richard Gage & Chris Mohr The audio can be downloaded here. Related Info: 9/11 Controversy Strikes Again at UC Boulder Face-Off 2/25/11 Answers from NIST ...
  • 2/25/11 Answers from NIST to Questions by Chri ...
    (Comments by me have been added to this article in red) The following written answers were provided to Chris Mohr, Investigative journalist, by NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) on 2/25/11 in preparation for the debate that Mohr had with AE911Truth in Boulder, CO on 3/6/11. ...
  • How Pseudoskeptics hijack "Skepticism" to mean ...
    New article from DebunkingSkeptics.com. "Just look at us. Everything is backwards. Everything is upside down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroy information, and religion destroys spirituality." - ...

Fooducate

  • Praise for Sardines
    There’s a consensus among the nutrition community that people should be eating less meat and more fish. For most people, this means salmon or canned tuna. These are indeed very popular and nutritious choices. However there are several problems with tuna and salmon. Both are very large fish that ...
  • The Health Benefits of Guinness Beer [Happy St ...
    Guinness is Good for You. That’s what marketing claims said about the Irish stout in the 1920’s. Research was based on asking people how they felt after drinking a pint. Most answered that they felt better. Hence the campaign. No doubt, scientific rigor at its best. Guinness went on to recommend ...
  • 7 Things to Know about Aspartame, Phenylalanin ...
    Fooducate community member Skyler asks about a warning she saw on a pack of gum - “Phenylketonurics – contains phenylalanine” What is this? And what does it have to do with chewing gum? Or diet soda? What you need to know: 1. Phenylalanine is an amino acid. Amino acids sounds scary, but they are ...
  • HFCS or Any Other Name
    This is a guest blog post by Kiyah Duffey, PhD. In a petition to the FDA last September, the Corn Refiners Association urged the regulatory agency to consider an alternative name for use on product labels: allowing the use of “corn sugar”, it argued, as opposed to HFCS would help consumers under ...
  • Today is National Potato Chip Day. 10 Things Y ...
    1. Potato Chips date back to 1853. An unhappy customer at a restaurant in Saratoga Springs, NY kept returning his fried potatoes to the chef, requesting they be prepared much thinner. The chef sliced them so thin that they could not be eaten with a fork. Thus was born the potato chip. 2. It wasn ...

Traffikd

  • Four Pre-Writing Exercises for Inspired Bloggers
    Rebecca Chelsey's recent post on ways to spark our creativity got me thinking about the next step: how to take that creativity and turn it into meaningful sentences on the page. In other words, what we do with that spark of inspiration will determine the success or setbacks we face when we blog. ...
  • 8 Simple Sources of Creative Inspiration
    As a creative person, I've noticed that creativity and creative ideas tend to present themselves whenever they see fit, and rarely otherwise. This is an especially unfortunate habit for my creativity to have because I am in the field of design. Over the years I've researched and stumbled upon ei ...
  • Culture Vulture: Social Strategies for Differe ...
    Social media campaigns are becoming more integrated into the overall online marketing mix. And as with anything on the Web, you need to think global to succeed in the long term. To succeed with social media marketing for different cultures, you need to familiarise yourself with what’s happening ...
  • Internet Marketing and Social Media Degree Pro ...
    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 Inte ...
  • How to Find Great Communities, Forums, and Blo ...
    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.

Survival International

  • Obama urged to support Guarani Indians during ...
    Guarani mother and child. The sugarcane boom is threatening the lives of the Guarani. © João Ripper/Survival Survival International has appealed to US President Barack Obama to support the Guarani Indians of Brazil, whose lives are threatened by the booming sugarcane industry. Survival h ...
  • Horrific treatment of Amazon Indians exposed 1 ...
    Thousands of Indians were enslaved and killed during the rubber boom. © W Hardenburg 30,000 Amazon Indians were enslaved, tortured, raped and starved in just 12 years during the rubber boom, according to a historic report submitted by Irish investigator Roger Casement, 100 years ago today. ...
  • Back to court for Vedanta Resources’ controver ...
    Vedanta has appealed the decision of India's Environment Minister to block their mine on the Dongria Kondh's ancestral land. © Survival India’s Supreme Court is to consider a new bid to green-light FTSE 100 Vedanta Resources’ infamous bauxite mine in Orissa state, east India. The mine was ...
  • Land clearing begins for destructive Amazon dam
    Amazon Indians are calling for the Belo Monte dam to be halted © M. Cowan/ Survival Construction workers have begun to bulldoze land in the Brazilian Amazon to make way for the controversial Belo Monte mega-dam. Earlier this week, Norte Energia, the company building the dam, sent its worke ...
  • Success: Peru acts to save uncontacted tribes
    Global coverage of the newly-released photos has pushed the Peruvian government into action © Gleison Miranda/FUNAI/Survival Peruâs authorities have announced that they will work together with Brazil to stop loggers entering isolated Indiansâ territory along the two countriesâ joint border ...

Greg Palast

  • No BS Info on Japan NuclearObama invites Tokyo ...
    for Truthout/Buzzflash by Greg Palast What South Texas project could look like.(Image by NINA - Nuclear Innovation North America) I need to speak to you, not as a reporter, but in my former capacity as lead investigator in several government nuclear plant fraud and racketeering investigatio ...
  • Chevron Runs from Judgmentin Ecuador
    by Greg Palast Chevron petroleum Corporation is attempting to slither out of an $8 billion judgment rendered yesterday by a trial court in Ecuador for cancer deaths, illnesses and destruction caused by its Texaco unit. I've been there, in Ecuador. I met the victims.  They didn't lose their sh ...
  • Reagan: Killer, Coward, Con-man
    The Observer London by Greg Palast You're not going to like this. You shouldn't speak ill of the dead. But in this case, someone's got to. On the 100th Anniversary of Ronald Reagan's birth, as we suffer a week of Reagan-kitcheria and pukey peons, let us remember: Reagan was a con-man. Rea ...
  • 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 depen ...
  • 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 ru ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle the metal frame fro ...
    Over on the “suggest an item” page, the bookstorebabe said: Broken umbrellas were done a few years back, but most of the suggestions were reuses for the umbrella fabric. How about specifically the metal frame, as is or taken apart? Any clever ideas, anyone? Over on the old umbrella page, Pamela ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle a futon?
    We’ve had an email from Nicki: How can I recycle a futon? I think I’ve got a friend who will take the frame but she doesn’t want the mattress. What can I do with that? I suspect, like all mattresses, they won’t be too not too popular secondhand as they’re hard to clean, especially if [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle roofing felt?
    We’ve had an email from Daniel: Can I recycle roofing felt? I have a lot of small pieces to get rid of. I’ve not heard of it being recyclable and looking into it, it seems unlikely because it’s several hard/impossible to recycle materials all squished together. The better option would be to use ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle excess sterilising ...
    We’ve covered a wide range of things during our cleaning themed week here on Recycle This – bleach bottles, plug-in air fresheners, making dishcloth & pot scrubbers, and yesterday’s very interesting discussion on reducing plastic waste from cleaning – so I feel it’s fine for me to go off on a bi ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle a Cillit Bang spray ...
    Shelagh emailed to ask: How can I reuse a Cillit Bang spray? It seems impossible to remove the nozzle to fill with a product. I’ve never used it so I don’t know what the bottle is like – but I’m going out to the shops in a few minutes so I’ll have a good look [...]

Age of Autism

  • Online Comments Lead to BMJ's Disclosure of "C ...
    From The American Assoociation of Healthcare Journalists, a nice feather in the cap of our own John Stone. Read the full post at HERE. Mar. 15th, 2011 by Andrew Van Dam Filed under: Conflicts of interest, Health journalism In BMJ,...
  • Text for a Complaint to the United Kingdom Gen ...
    Age of Autism invites readers to submit a complaint to the General Medical Council regarding Dr Marcovitch. The email address for making a complaint to the GMC is practise@gmc-uk.org. Dear Sir/Madam, I would like to express concern about Dr Harvey...
  • Keep Americans with Autism Safe from Wandering ...
    "Please support a wandering medical code for at-risk individuals by signing this petition. You can also send a personal or organizational letter of support via email to Donna Pickett, Co-Chair of the ICD-9-CM Coordination and Maintenance Committee, at DPickett@cdc.gov ....
  • Trading Chicken Pox for Shingles? Vax Induced ...
    By Teresa Conrick I usually write about my daughter, Megan, and her many medical issues related to her vaccine injuries. I am detouring you all briefly to describe a recent bout of Shingles that I have been dealing with as...
  • IACC Meeting Conference Call on SAFETY Open Now
    Note: There is a push to make sure wandering is NOT addressed as a concern in autism among some of the IACC members, including the ASAN member. Wandering and death is a real problem in our community and we can...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

  • Truth Squad Radio: Biotechnology and Human Dis ...
    It is known that plant diseases of plants do in fact cross over and infect humans!
  • Truth Squad Radio: Monsanto’s GMO Threat!
    This Wednesday we will discuss the future of organics, the recent discovery of a huge threat from agrobacterium, and the Monsanto seed contracts which hold the farmer liable for all damages caused by the aggressive spread of GMO contaminated crops.
  • Foundations of Evil
    Many "philanthropic" foundations have been used in America as a tax dodge to protect family fortunes, to polish tarnished images of robber barons and worst of all, to make the public fund depopulation and other detrimental policies that benefit the controlling elite.
  • Is Your Favorite Charity Infiltrated?
    Before you write a check, sign a petition or declare your unwavering support for foundations or "nonprofit" organizations (NPOs), you may wish to investigate their agendas by using this step-by-step guide.
  • Scientists Under Attack For Speaking Out About ...
    Statements made by scientists themselves prove that 95% of the research in the area of genetic engineering is paid by the industry. Only 5% of the research is independent. The big danger for freedom of science and our democracy is evident. Can the public -- we all -- still trust our scientists?

Open Your Eyes News

  • US: Consumer prices turn higher, economy gains ...
    Reuters – Consumer prices increased at their fastest pace in more than 1-1/2 years in February as fresh data showed growth was accelerating, but underlying inflation pressures remained generally contained. Some economists expressed concern that the deepening crisis in Japan could hurt U.S. growt ...
  • US overdue, under-prepared for huge Pacific quake
    AFP – The western United States is overdue for a huge earthquake and tsunami much like the one that devastated Japan last week, and is nowhere near ready to cope with the disaster, experts say. A volatile, horseshoe-shaped area known as the Pacific Ring of Fire has recently erupted with quakes i ...
  • Gene Therapy Reverses Symptoms of Parkinson&#8 ...
    ScienceDaily â A gene therapy called NLX-P101 dramatically reduces movement impairment in Parkinson’s patients, according to results of a Phase 2 study published today in the journal Lancet Neurology. The approach introduces a gene into the brain to normalize chemical signaling. The study is the ...
  • Gaddafi funded Sarkozy’s election bid
    PressTV – The son of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi claims Tripoli funded the election campaign of French President Nicolas Sarkozy in 2007. Saif al-Islam Gaddafi says the Libyan regime has details of the 2007 transfer. “We funded it and we have all the details and are ready to reveal everythin ...
  • Depleted Uranium Babies In Fallujah, Iraq

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Report outlines problems at Diablo Canyon nucl ...
    The reactor at Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant in San Luis Obispo operated for a year and a half with some emergency systems disabled, according to a 2010 safety review by the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The incident was one...
  • Cosmetic industry review critiques Brazilian b ...
    Hair-straightening treatments, commonly known as Brazilian Blowouts, may emit unsafe levels of formaldehyde and methylene glycol, according to a preliminary report released last week by the Cosmetic Ingredient Review Expert Panel. The first acknowledgment by the cosmetics industry that Brazilian...
  • Fight continues over West Coast coal exports t ...
    Plans for a major West Coast coal export facility-- the subject of an intense fight over greenhouse gases and U.S. coal supplies to Asia--took a new turn when Millennium Bulk Terminals Inc. announced it was withdrawing its permit for the...
  • U.S. will do new studies on Keystone XL tar sa ...
    The U.S. State Department is going to require additional environmental studies before granting a permit for the 1,660-mile Keystone XL pipeline, proposed to carry oil from the tar sands of northern Canada through the U.S. heartland and on to south...
  • Flat-tailed horned lizard won't be listed as a ...
    In its fourth withdrawal of a proposal to list the flat-tailed horned lizard since 1993, the federal wildlife agency determined that threats to the lizard including urban and agricultural development, off-road vehicles, military exercises, sand and gravel mining, alternative energy projects and ...

water.org

  • Profile of Gary White, Co-Founder Water.org (N ...
    World Water Day Profile: Co-Founder, Gary White of Water.org (Newsvine) – It’s been noted that nearly one billion people lack access to safe water and someone who has seen the affects of the water crisis firsthand is Gary White, co-founder of Water.org. Whiteâs become a leader in his own right, ...
  • Water on the brain (Shanghai Daily)
    Water on the brain (Shanghai Daily) – Representatives of Water.org, a nonprofit organization cofounded by Oscar-winning actor Matt Damon, arrived in Shanghai last weekend to help raise awareness. “The big problem is not an issue that awaits a remedial breakthrough or a technological breakthrough ...
  • Regional winners of Hult Global Case Challenge ...
    Hult International Business School announces the five regional winning teams of its 2nd Annual Hult Global Case Challenge (PR-USA.net) - Boston University School of Management, Stanford University Graduate School of Business, University of Belgrade Faculty of Organizational Sciences, SDA Bocconi ...
  • April Rinne selected WEF Young Global Leader (WEF)
    World Economic Forum Announces Young Global Leaders 2011 (North America) (World Economic Forum) – The World Economic Forum has announced its Young Global Leaders (YGLs) for 2011. The honour, bestowed each year by the Forum, recognizes up to 200 outstanding young leaders from around the world for ...
  • WASH Advocacy Initiative calls for safe water ...
    W.A.S.H. Advocacy Initiative is launched and celebrates International Women’s Day with a call for safe water, sanitation and hygiene for all (The Cypress Times) WASHINGTON, DC â On International Womenâs Day, the WASH Advocacy Initiative calls on U.S. policy makers, corporate and philanthropic le ...

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Europe's Leaders Fear Libya Could Become Next ...
    The Europeans and Americans would like to help the rebels in Libya, but the lessons of Iraq and Afghanistan have spurred fears of a military interventionSubmitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Palestinians handcuffed, detained for picking ...
    The Palestinians are prohibited from picking thistles that have been part of their diet for generations, because a foreign occupier has forbidden them to, naturally without bothering to consult them. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Mid East women fight uphill battle in patriarc ...
    Women face enormous obstacles, ranging from sexual harassment and honor killings to ingrained patriarchal attitudes that belittle their intelligence and value. It was so uplifting to watch the women of Tahrir Square take a leading role in the revolution..Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� ...
  • A conservative defense for Apartheid & colonialism
    It�s the old �our blacks are better off than in their own countries� argument ...And yes, Israeli occupation might be �better� than the colonization of Australia or the Armenian genocide, but this is hardly a reason to support it, no?Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a ...
  • The activist Left must condemn the murder of t ...
    Apart from these two voices, and a quite a few individual activists expressing shock and dismay at the killings, much of Israel�s famously vibrant, undoubtedly committed activist Left remained silent.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • Scientists say Haiti cholera cases undere ...
    BOSTON, USA (CMC) — A new study by researchers at Harvard School of Public Health here suggests that United Nations' agencies have underestimated the number of cholera cases in Haiti. In an article published in the British medical journal, The Lancet, the authors of the study reveal that th ...
  • Danny Glover arrives in South Africa to e ...
    JOHANNESBURG - The lawyer of Haiti's Jean-Bertrand Aristide says actor Danny Glover has arrived in South Africa to escort the exiled former president home. Miami lawyer Ira Kurzban flew to Johannesburg Wednesday on the same mission amid unexplained delays as the United States called for Ari ...
  • First Annual Motorcycle fundraiser suppor ...
    Bikers from various clubs around the island revved up their engines to come out to support the Oahu SPCA at a fundraiser recently held by a local motorcycle club, Kahu O Na Holoholona (Guardian of the Animals). Bacardi and Geico were also sponsors of the event with proceeds benefitting...
  • MTSU braced for state budget cuts
    individual: 9 numChar :2095 -->TOTAL ELEMENTS IN ARRAY: 21 TOTAL CHARACTERS IN ARRAY: 4012 TOTAL CHARACTERS IN PAGES: 2095 LAST PAGE CONTAINS: 1917 -->MURFREESBORO MTSU officials said Wednesday that they expected a reduction in state appropriations beyond federal stimulus dollars that will ...
  • Worried Chinese panic-buy salt, iodine
    Beijing - Supermarkets in Beijing and other Chinese cities ran out of salt on Thursday as shoppers bought up supplies, apparently fuelled by rumours that future shipments of sea salt could be contaminated by radiation from Japan. Several supermarkets in the southern province of Guangdong ha ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • Risk To Seniors Of Multi-Tasking On The Street
    Older adults may put themselves at risk by talking on cell phones while crossing the street, researchers report in a new study. The researchers found that adults aged 59 to 81 took significantly longer than college students to cross a simulated street while talking on a mobile phone, and their h ...
  • [Editorial] Physicians as guardians of genetic ...
    The genetic revolution in medicine, envisaged since the completion of the draft sequence of the human genome over a decade ago, is moving forward at a painfully slow pace. Although truly personalised care is, perhaps, still decades away, private companies have been quick to exploit the genetic i ...
  • Infant and toddler health
    Infant and toddler health — from baby care and developmental milestones to child safety.
  • [Comment] Cardiovascular safety and diabetes d ...
    Recent innovations in the pharmacotherapy of type 2 diabetes are important, in view of the epidemic of type 2 diabetes and the individual and global economic costs of the disease. Although overall control of the disease has improved, more than 40% of patients on current therapies do not reach gl ...
  • Marshall Stoneham (1940–2011)
    Theoretician who contributed widely to condensed-matter physics.

Common Dreams

  • Democracy Now! Exclusive: Aboard Aristide’s Ai ...
    In defiance of the Obama administration, former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide is headed back to Haiti today for the first time since being ousted in a 2004 U.S.-backed coup. Hours ago, Aristide boarded a plane in South Africa bound for Port-Au-Prince. Joining him on the flight is his ...
  • Japan's Nuke-Plant Battle May Take Weeks, US Says
    YAMAGATA, Japan - Emergency workers seemed to try everything they could think of Thursday to douse one of Japan's dangerously overheated nuclear reactors: helicopters, heavy-duty fire trucks, even water cannons normally used to quell rioters. But they couldn't be sure any of it was easing the pe ...
  • UN Security Council Backs No-Fly Zone and Air ...
    British and French military aircraft are preparing to protect the Libyan rebel stronghold of Benghazi after the UN security council voted in favour of a no-fly zone and air strikes against Muammar Gaddafi's forces. read more
  • Kucinich Bill for Troop Exit Draws GOP Support ...
    As the House prepares to vote Thursday on a resolution to bring U.S. troops home from Afghanistan, the military is warning of calamitous effects if the measure passes. The resolution, sponsored by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), directs the president to remove all U.S. forces from Afghanistan. It ...
  • U.N. Reported Only a Fraction of Civilian Dea ...
    WASHINGTON/KABUL - The number of civilians killed in U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) raids last year was probably several times higher than the figure of 80 people cited in the U.N. report on civilian casualties in Afghanistan published last week, an IPS investigation has revealed. The repo ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

  • Recent Patent Litigation Weekly Columns
    Much of the patent news that was published on this blog has been moved to the IP Insider section of the Corporate Counsel website. Here's a list of the last several Patent Litigation Weekly columns— Oct. 25, 2010: Big Patent-Licensing...
  • Paul Allen v. The Internet
    Former Microsoft executive and billionaire Paul Allen sued several major Internet companies and three large retailers for patent infringement today, asserting that four patents originating at Interval Research, Allen's dot-com era think tank, cover basic web browsing and e-commerce technologies....
  • Citing Possible Bias, ACLU Asks Rader to Recus ...
    With the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit set to consider a landmark case over the validity of human gene patents, attorneys for the plaintiffs in the suit are asking the court's chief judge to recuse himself from the matter—before the panel that will hear it has even been s ...
  • Law360 Calls Lawyer-Owned Shell Company a "Pub ...
    seems to have a pretty flexible definition of that term. Last month, it included . Who is so concerned about such fairness? That would be , the Texas law firm that owns Americans for Fair Patent Use, which is a limited liability company set up to prosecute a false marking lawsuit filed ...
  • Eben Moglen on Bilski, software patents, and b ...
    Moglen's position on the subject of software patents—that they should be banned—is, to say the least, outside the mainstream in legal circles. It has, however, garnered support among software developers and other techies, especially those who work in the world of open-source and free s ...

Peoples Voice

  • President Obama Step In to Protect the Constit ...
    The Quantico Command Has Shown It Does Not Respect the Constitution Now They Are Denying Our Freedom of Speech By Kevin Zeese As one of the organizers of the non-violent event this Sunday at Quantico in support of Bradley Manning I have been negotiating in good faith with the Marines at Quanti ...
  • Torturing Bradley Manning
    by Stephen Lendman A previous article discussed him in detail, accessed through the following link: http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2010/08/bradley-manning-american-hero.html Another discussed torture as official US policy, institutionalized under Bush II, continued under Obama, prac ...
  • Full Core Meltdown in Japan?
    by Stephen Lendman Possibly it's ongoing and concealed. All along, Japanese and Tokyo Electric (TEPCO) officials downplayed or lied about the severity of the crisis. Virtually nothing they say can be believed. Nor from the Obama administration, budgeting loan guarantees for new reactor ...
  • Armageddon Scenario in Japan
    by Stephen Lendman Japan's deepening disaster affects everyone. Atmospheric radiation will spread globally, mostly affecting the northern hemisphere. Everyone to some extent will be affected, those in Japan and nearby the most. An unprecedented catastrophe is unfolding. You'd hardly kno ...
  • POSSIBLE RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT CLOSE AT HAND / P ...
    Allen L Roland Wishful thinking is no longer appropriate regarding the nuclear meltdown at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi plant. With yesterday’s startling announcement that the plant may be at level six with seven being a Chernobyl event ~ precautionary measures should be taken.Read more »Origina ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Ben Parfitt on the dangers of fracking in toda ...
    The Vancouver Sun today published Ben Parfitt's op ed on the dangers of "fracking" in Northern BC. (Fracking is hydraulic fracturing: a method of extracting gas by injecting fluid and sand into cracks in rock formations to force them further open.) A group of citizens in the Peace Region — Pea ...
  • Celebrating International Women's Day
    Fun fact: Did you know 69 per cent of the staff at the CCPA are women? In the past year the CCPA has been proud to publish two major books that focus on women's knowledge and empowerment.� In Speaking Truth to Power: A reader on Canadian women's inequality, the book's authors celebrate gains m ...
  • Things about a changing Canada that 'You Ought ...
    The CCPA has launched a graphics-based series aimed at highlighting poignant facts and figures distilled from the many reports and studies that we publish every year. The series is called You Oughta Know, and uses a graphic to feature one interesting piece of information about the state of a c ...
  • Five reasons to stop the corporate tax cut
    CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan gives us five strong reasons to say no to more corporate tax cuts in this short video.
  • Carbon pricing explained, in words and images
    Today the CCPA-BC published a new study on carbon pricing, and we created a "zooming presentation" to go with it, using a web-based software called Prezi. Watch the presentation below and share the link with your contacts. And download the report or summary here: Fair and Effective Carbon Pricin ...
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