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Bloomberg
- Mar 24, 2011
- 19 minutes ago
Chevron will drill in Keathley Canyon Block 736 in 6750 feet (2057 meters) of water, about 216 miles off the Louisiana coast, the US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement said today in a statement. While Chevron is the fifth ...
Los Angeles Times
- Mar 24, 2011
- 28 minutes ago
Two men are hospitalized after stepping into water contaminated by radiation at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The water seeps into their boots. By Thomas H. Maugh II, Los Angeles Times Two workers at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power ...
New York Daily News
- Mar 24, 2011
- 3 hours ago
BY Michael Preston A child looks at a bottle of mineral water distributed to a nursery in Tokyo Thursday, March 24, 2011. A day after government officials sparked fears of nuclear-tinged drinking water in Tokyo, the threat appeared to abate early ...
Houston Chronicle
- Mar 23, 2011
- 11 hours ago
By SHANNON TOMPKINS Enjoying a day on the water without having to compete with other anglers is one of the major attractions of fishing privately owned lakes. With Texas' almost 200 major public reservoirs and thousands of miles of rivers, ...
IPS - Inter Press Services
- ZIMBABWE: Fighting Past Fear to Treat TBIn the dusty streets of Bulawayo's densely populated townships, Susan Nkiwane is making house calls today. She is one of a group of twelve women who form a fragile web of support for TB sufferers in her community.
- Questions Abound Over Whether IBSA and BRICS C ...The IBSA Dialogue Forum, a South-South alliance of India, Brazil and South Africa, could be better suited to the needs of Southern Africa for South-South cooperation than the BRICS (Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa) loose alliance of emerging economies. But Southern Africa will hav ...
- Q&A: Studying Kenyan Farmers' Efforts to AdaptClimate change has become an important part of the development agenda. In Africa, farmers and consumers alike are feeling its effects on productivity and food security.
- KENYA: Women Hold the Key to Rural ProsperityJohn Kyalo Mulwa couldn't support his family from his six hectare farm, so he quit farming to open a bar. But he turned the land - and decision-making on it - over to his wife. Turns out she's a better farmer than he ever was.
- UGANDA: Bicycles At the Heart of Empowerment S ...The bicycle has become a symbol of hope for hundreds of women who have been trained in repairing one of life's favorite transport modes.
Scoop - NZ
- Fisk: Remember the victims of past 'Allied' bo ...How life past catches up with life present. The Americans killed Raafat al-Ghosain, pictured above, just after 2am on 15 April 1986. In the days that followed her death, United States officials claimed that Libyan anti-aircraft fire might have hit her home – watch out for similar American claim ...
- Japan: Nuclear privatisation condemnedIn light of the crisis at Japan’s Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant, the privatization of nuclear energy in the country has come under fire. Some question whether the accident could have been averted if the plant had been run by the state.
- Yemen in Crisis | STRATFORA standoff centered on the presidential palace is taking place between security forces in the capital city of Sanaa while embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh continues to resist stepping down, claiming that the “majority of Yemeni people” support him. While a Western-led military intervention ...
- US Reps Cut Tsunami Watch Budget « Climate Pr ..... the 2011 budget proposed by House Republicans — as well as the three-week continuing resolution they just passed — eliminates critical funding to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that will hamper the agency’s ability to track and respond to tsunamis. The agency said the cu ...
- Anatomy of a Nuclear Crisis: FukushimaThe world’s worst nuclear reactor mishap in 25 years was caused by a massive natural calamity but compounded by what appear to be surprising mistakes by Japanese engineers. The result has been a fast-moving disaster that has left officials careening from one emergency to the next.
Independent - London
- Two quakes rock BurmaTwo strong earthquakes have struck north-eastern Burma less than a minute apart.
- West strikes deep in LibyaWestern warplanes hit military targets deep inside Libya today but failed to prevent tanks reentering the western town of Misrata overnight and besieging its main hospital.
- British victim of Jerusalem blast is namedA British national killed after an explosion ripped through a bus stop in Jerusalem was named today as Mary Jean Gardner.
- Thousands call for freedom in SyriaThousands called for liberty today in the southern Syrian city of Daraa, defying a deadly government crackdown as they took to the streets in funeral marches for protesters killed by police gunfire, an activist said.
- Anxiety in Japan over radiation in tap waterSome shops across Tokyo began rationing goods — milk, toilet paper, rice and water — as a run on bottled water coupled with delivery disruptions left shelves bare today nearly two weeks after a devastating earthquake and tsunami.
Rogue Government.com
- US rescue chopper shoots 6 villagers welcomin ...Six Libyan villagers are recovering in hospital after being shot by American soldiers coming in to rescue the U.S. pilots whose plane crash-landed in a field.
- Operation Odyssey Dawn Is Another Ritualistic ...The globalists have historically been responsible for pulling off major events on days of important numerical or astrological significance. The current military operation against Libya involving missile strikes and air bombardments from U.S. and European allied forces dubbed Operation Odys ...
- Portugal braces for govt collapse over debt vote Portugal's government is on the verge of collapse after opposition parties withdrew their support for another round of austerity policies aimed at averting a financial bailout.
- Appeals Court Revives Lawsuit Challenging NSA ...It’s easy to forget these days, but former President George W. Bush’s illegal warrantless surveillance program was never halted by Congress, nor by the Obama administration.
- Ray McGovern Is A Jesuit Educated Tool Of The ...His antics are nothing more than staged political theatre and serve as convenient distractions for the alternative and conspiracy research communities to focus in on.
Innovation Canada
- Search for the stellar smoking gunWhen 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 scienceFive Canadian women. Five accomplished scientists. Five perspectives.
- A recipe for failureBy 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
- Could your saucepans bring on the menopause? C ...Gender-bending chemicals found in non-stick pans and food packaging are linked to early menopause, scientists say. A major study has shown that women with the highest levels of the substances in their bodies go through 'the change' sooner than women with low levels. PFCs, or perfluorocarbons ...
- Feeling angry? Say a prayer for another and th ...Saying a prayer may help many people feel less angry and behave less aggressively after someone has left them fuming, new research suggests. A series of studies showed that people who were provoked by insulting comments from a stranger showed less anger and aggression soon afterwards if they ...
- US: Death of the Motor City: Detroit's populat ...Hammered by the auto industry's slump, Detroit saw its population plummet 25 per cent over the past decade, according to census data released on Tuesday that reflects the severity of an economic downturn in the only state whose population declined since 2000. The statistics show that the Moto ...
- Canada: Poll rejects museum's plan to set Holo ...A poll sponsored by two organizations opposed to the exhibition plans of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights indicates Canadians wish to have "one exhibit which covers all genocides equally" rather than one zone devoted to "a particular genocide" such as the Holocaust and another dedicated to ...
- Obama rules out 'land invasion' in LibyaPresident Barack Obama Wednesday categorically ruled out a land invasion to oust Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi as coalition forces launched a fifth day of air strikes against government military targets in the North African nation. And Obama said the U.S. this week will be pulling back from it ...
The Galloping Beaver
- Considering LibyaSome things that come to mind when considering Libya. First, nothing is carved in stone, and despite narratives about moral obligations and the clearly detestable foe, Libya is in civil war. Gaddafi does have his supporters and some of them are clearly willing to die for the cause. As we've see ...
- After all, they might spend the cash on pitchf ...via Susie Madrak at Crooks and Liars we learn that the northern wingnuts of Minnesota will not be outdone by the dairyland wingnuts of Wisconsin. Wis. Gov. Scott Walker is trying to crush unions and take away the constitutional right of working people to freely associate - hah! what a piker! a m ...
- Airshow's moral dutyAirshow comes out with a stunner today. "We are compelled to intervene," MacKay said, both by a moral duty and a duty to the United Nations. "Canada's very fortunate to be in a position to respond."We're bombing Libya because we can. It is as about a clear cut case for immediate intervention ...
- WisconsinGovernor Walker and our Cons are the same species.� More after the live stream. Watch live streaming video from theuptake at livestream.com Sometimes I think the best description of 'capital' is that of a pathogen. It afflicts the compassion and empathy centres of the brain like an encephaliti ...
- Stephen HarperrealityYou know, I was thinking earlier today that Stephen Harper might be the Canadian prime minister to leave a legacy of election fraud and contempt motions. The contrast between the Stephen Harper in the video voice-over above, and the Stephen Harper, master of a den of liars, theives and chara ...
Media Matters for America
- Fox Uses Report Debunking Network's False Atta ...The Urban Institute recently published a report contradicting the claim often pushed by Fox News that the health care reform law will "kill jobs." But Fox's Bill Hemmer nevertheless used the institute's report to attack health care reform and its "effect on jobs."Fox Spins Report To Claim "Heal ...
- Right-Wing Media Mark Health Care Reform Anniv ...Right-wing media used the anniversary of the passage of the health care reform law to renew their misleading and false attacks on the legislation.Right Wing Claims Health Care Reform Is "Short On Action" Fox & Friends Claims Health Care Reform Is "Long On Words ... Short On Action," Then Reci ...
- Right-Wing Media Push Lunatic Theory That Obam ...As the United States participates in a multilateral effort to establish a no-fly zone over Libya, the conservative media fearmonger that the Obama administration may use the "Gadhafi Precedent" to use military force against Israel. However, Obama has said "[t]he United States is going to b ...
- Forbes Joins Fight Against Money-Saving Light ...In a column for Forbes magazine, Steve Forbes endorsed Republicans' proposal to repeal light bulb efficiency standards signed into law by President Bush in 2007 and attempted to debunk the fact that compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) save consumers money by using less energy. However, tests have ...
- HYPOCRISY: Beck Freaks Out About People Who Ad ...Glenn Beck has presented audio of a speaker at a conference as evidence of a plot to commit "economic terrorism" by "collaps[ing] the system." However, Beck himself has said that our economic "system" "needs to be taken down, and then we rebuild it back up," and that "this system will never wor ...
Global Research.ca
- Big Oil Versus The Dangers of Nuclear PowerFor more details, please click on the link to read the article.
- The Weight of Chains - MONTREAL PREMIERE, APRIL 1For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
- Partnership of Equals For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
- Amir Khadir: Conference on the boycott, dive ...For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
- The Inhumanity of WarFor more details, please click on the link to read the article.
TPM Cafe
- Jon Stewart: The ONLY Major Media Figure Not I ...For several years now Jon Stewart, host of The Daily Show has shown himself to be the only major media figure to fearlessly challenge the official "line" on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Repeatedly, he has slammed the occupation and has even mocked the pretensions of AIPAC which (along with ...
- The Bullets of BahrainIn a piece that ran last week on TomDispatch, Nick Turse has documented the extensive military ties that have developed between the U.S. and Bahrain over the past several decades. Washington has supplied everything from bullets to shoulder-fired missiles to fighter planes to Bahrain's armed ...
- Japan's Earthquake May Shake World EconomyThe world is witnessing a horrible tragedy in northern Japan, an earthquake followed by a tsunami and now the risk of a nuclear catastrophe. Even if the nuclear threat can be contained we will still see a humanitarian disaster, with more than 10,000 deaths and many more sick and injured. Many ...
- Rushed Phone Deregulation Bill Delayed by Advo ...Even as broadband has rolled out for many customers around the country, lower-income families still dependent on traditional phone service have faced the quiet threat of "deregulation" bills pushed around the country to raise landline rates and cut consumer protections. The latest round ...
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TruthOut
- Buried Provision in House GOP Bill Would Cut O ...All around the country, right-wing legislators are asking middle class Americans to pay for budget deficits caused mainly by a recession caused by Wall Street; they are attacking workers’ collective bargaining rights, which has provoked a huge Main Street Movement to fight back. Now, a group of ...
- Report Underscores Ticking Time Bomb of US Nuk ...A timely report from the Union of Concerned Scientists, based on data from the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), contains troubling news about the state of America's vast network of nuclear power plants. read more
- Who Controls the Nuclear Control Agencies?Uxbridge, Canada-As Japan struggles to confront a nuclear disaster that could be the worst in history, it seems clear that any discussion about the safety of nuclear energy should address the independence of regulatory agencies. On Apr. 26, 1986 a series of explosions and fires at the Chernobyl ...
- E.J. Dionne Jr. | Why the GOP Is Obsessed With ...Washington - Leaders do not operate in a vacuum. When they make strategic adjustments, their opponents do too. President Obama has prompted just such a pivot by Republicans. They're criticizing him not for the decisions he's made but for the ones he hasn't, and the ones he delayed. They are att ...
- The Green Justice Coalition, Helping Labor and ...According to Republican governors in places such as Wisconsin, Ohio and Indiana, our states are in crisis and the only solution is to squeeze middle-class employees. Unions, in their view, are part of the problem. And if you point out that their attempts to seize power in the name of balancing b ...
Planetsave
- “World’s Oldest Cyclist” Rid ...Most people would be lucky to live to 103. And even luckier to be able to ride a bike at that age. But, actually, riding a bike regularly would increase your chances of both things, since it is good for your health and extends your life expectancy. 103-year-old Octavio Orduño would recommend ...
- Tree Bombing [INFOGRAPHIC]Tree bombing to the rescue? Check out this infographic and see if it all adds up.
- How Green Are E-Books? [INFOGRAPHIC]How green are e-books? Take a look -- check out this great infographic.
- Volcanic Activity at KilaueaOne of Earth’s most active volcanoes, Kilauea, surged to life on March 5 of this year, spewing fresh flows of lava out the opening of a new fissure and starting off a forest fire that has burned for much of this month. NASA’s Advanced Land Imager (ALI) onboard the Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satell ...
- Concrete Answers Needed to Concrete’s Re ...There's no surprise that scientists would like to better understand what the current change of climate will do to concrete, immediately and over the long run.
Water Quality - WordPress
- Newsletter for the week of Feb 23 now available! Follow this link to read the Everglades Trust’s newsletter for the week of February 23!
- February 2011 monitoringFebruary 13 – the perfect day to be outside. It was 21 C (70 F), sunny and breezy. The water t
- January 2011 monitoringThe morning started out overcast – it had been raining for the last few days, about 1.25 inche
- The Case Against Felt...There’s been a lot of talk recently about banning felt-soled wading boots in Missouri streams.
- Cracking the PavementWhat happens when you “pave over paradise?” Well, you get a thick, solid, impermeable s
Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts
- "Whatcha Gonna Do?" by Philip A. Farruggioby Philip A. Farruggio Featured Writer Dandelion Salad February 26, 2011 ‘You poisoned my sweet wate
- Franklin Lamb Detainedhttp://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ http://radio786.co.za Friday, 25 February 2011 Franklin Lamb, t
- Profit Pathology and Disposable Planet by Mich ...by Michael Parenti Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.michaelparenti.org February 26, 2011 Image vi
- Payback: The price of colonialism by Gaither S ...by Gaither Stewart Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 26 February, 2011 Of all the uprisings in the Mag
- Saudi Arabia witnesses first signs of unrest a ...by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted from Irish Times February 26, 2011
Axis of Logic
- No Time for Poetry - Anti-War PoemsNo Time for Poetry Not many were fighting like when you erupted, You took cover behind those walls, The defunct enemy you were confronting. What’s the point of negotiation when all We receive is provocation upon provocation No! This is not going to make us fall! And now ...
- Instead of Bombing Dictators in Libya and Arou ...When all you have is bombs, everything starts to look like a target. And so after years of providing Libya’s dictator with the weapons he's been using against the people, all the international community – France, Britain and the United States – has to offer the people of Libya is...
- Buried Provision In House GOP Bill Would Cut O ...All around the country, right-wing legislators are asking middle class Americans to pay for budget deficits caused mainly by a recession caused by Wall Street; they are attacking workers’ collective bargaining rights, which has provoked a huge Main Street Movement to fight back. Now, a group ...
- Setbacks at Fukushima: Black Smoke, Evacuation ...The first photos of the so-called "Fukushima Fifty", the "anonymous band of lower and mid-level managers" (as described by the Daily Mail today in their photo essay) who stayed at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant last week, as the rest of the workers were evacuated when radiation had r ...
- Interview with Jean-Bertrand Aristide, by Nico ...Mr. President Aristide, thank you for having me today. My first question is about the earthquake that took place in Haiti in January of 2010. Can you tell me how and when you learned about the tragedy? It was morning here. I was at Witwatersrand University here in Johannesburg to...
They Gave Us a Republic
- Gingrich avoids "dithering" on Libya by taking ...To avoid ever dithering" when it comes to American foreign policy, it is apparently now standard operating procedure on the far right to either shoot first and ask questions later as George W. Bush did when he invaded Iraq on sketchy information at best, or to do what Newt Gingrich has now done ...
- The Nightowl NewswrapThe limits of air superiority. �"Libya's air force "no longer exists as a fighting force" following devastating air strikes by international coalition forces, a British military officer has claimed. The claim came as fierce fighting continued on the ground on Wednesday as forces loyal to embattl ...
- The Medicaid Disaster KY Rethuglicans WantFrom Leo Weekly, via Media Czech, the human reality of the tragedy rethuglican senate president and gubernatorial candidate David Williams is causing. I'm still not sure what the "True Leadership" of Williams is, but Kentucky is 8 days away from a Medicaid apocalypse. And it's been two days sinc ...
- Sly James: Mayor-elect of Kansas City - photosPreviously: Our long municipal nightmare is finally over Yesterday Kansas City held municipal elections for mayor, city council, and the retention of judges. Sly James was elected Mayor of Kansas City over his opponent Mike Burke in what can only be described as a classy campaign on the part of ...
- Our long municipal nightmare is finally overWhen Sly James announced two years ago that he was going to run for Mayor of Kansas City, no one believed that he could do it. Even his closest friends said "well, at least you'll have to change your name back to Sylvester." But he ignored the nay-sayers and he didn't go back to Sylvester. Inst ...
Care 2
- New, extended Civil War erupts, led by super r ...Yes, �there�s class warfare, all right,� warns Warren Buffett. �But it�s my class, the rich class, that�s making war, and we�re winning.� Submitted by Jason R. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Bonsai Apple Tree miracle of Nature!You can never understand the beauty of an apple bonsai tree unless you see it. There is no way you can ever imagine the beauty of its tiny apples hanging in its miniature branches. It is so beautiful that those who grow it keep it away from the eye of..Submitted by . to Green Lifestyle �|� �No ...
- Problems with HuskyHusky dogs are often called the best friends of people. Submitted by Draganescu Pavlovich to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Thieves stealing penguins for petsThe number of little penguins on the island -- which is located just off the coast 50 miles (80km) south of Adelaide -- has dropped from more than 1,500 birds 10 years ago to just 146 birds counted in last August's census, the Sunday Mail reported.Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-i ...
- Dogs In The Colors Of FlowersSpring has already arrived and with it, and all the colors that accompany it. All are born again and especially natureSubmitted by Ivana M. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
Smirking Chimp
- Are You Smarter Than Your Senators?
- Holding Pattern: Let's do the time warp again!
- The Imaginary World in Which Washington Lives
- Debit Card Sharps: The Fight Over Wall Street' ...
- Housing Market Freefall
Paul Krugman
- America's Superiority ComplexYou mean, Europe has modern medicine too?
- More BPEAsRelevant reads from the archive.
- It's Up to the RightRead my lips.
- The (Nature of) Shock DoctrineStocks, rates, and change.
- Brookings Papers Are Now Online!Wonk to your heart's content.
No Quarter
- Goodbye Elizabeth (and Open Thread)The amazing Elizabeth Taylor passed away today. Her incredible beauty, those violet eyes, the many fine films and the many husbands, her advocacy for AIDs patients, and her friendship with Michael Jackson. Sadly, she was ill for much of her life starting with the lifelong pain caused by falling ...
- GOP No. 2Tim Pawlenty launches his exploratory committee on Facebook, a cozy turn for the presidential season opener. Spoke John Avlon, CNN, who regards T-Paw as the perfect No. 2 choice. It is early, and there is the puzzle of why Pawlenty chose this crowded-hour news cycle to step into the arena. Specu ...
- We Can’t Win Without AirplanesDay four of the bombing campaign made clear to both Europe and the US audiences that there is no mission, no plan, no command and control, not exit plan, no victory measure. Am told that US Four-star General Carter Ham at Stuttgart, commanding Africom, understands his task as to protect Benghazi ...
- Why Obama is Fumbling LibyaBefore you do anything, please read in its entirety the UN Security Council Resolution passed last week authorizing the No Fly Zone, among other things, over Libya. (You can read it here.) Let’s start by exploding one myth. The resolution does not REPEAT not prohibit ground troops in Libya. The ...
- Barack Obama Shreds His Credibility [Updated w ...Barack Obama and his handlers (although based on their performance of late they should be labeled “mishandlers”) just do not understand that words matter. When you put the President out in front of the cameras to declare, “Qaddafi must go,” then you better know ahead of time that you are committ ...
Environmental Graffiti
- Antarctic Ghost Mountains Throw Light on Globa ...Large ice-sheet structures discovered beneath Antarctica, known as 'Ghost Mountains', help our understanding of the earth's changing climate. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- New Cause of Elephant Man's Death Revealed The famous Elephant Man, Joseph Merrick, did not die of suffocation as previously thought. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- The Periwinkle: America's Welcome Invasive PlantThe periwinkle plant, native to Eurasia, was introduced to North America for producing beautiful flowers. Folklore claims that the periwinkle has powers for good. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
- The Numbat: Australia's Cuddly Termite-Eating ...And odd little marsupial that only eats termites! Find out more about this cuddly little critter... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- 15 Incredible Creatures from Russia's White Se ...The incredible fauna that live beneath the White Sea, as seen in macro! 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
- AFRICOM's General Ham Waging War from Djibouti AFRICOM morphs from aid and diplomacy to militarizing U.S. foreign policy in the region.
- Postcard from...HenokoWhile the world's attention is focused on the aftermath of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami, the construction of a new U.S. military base gathers steam in Okinawa.
- Migrant Workers in Libya CNN and other media outlets are missing the real story about foreign laborers in Libya and elsewhere in the Middle East.
- Fukushima: Where Do Aliens Store Their Spent F ...As the Japanese nuclear crisis sheds light on nuclear safety, one issue, in particular, has been nudged into the spotlight.
- Arab League Walks a Tightrope With Libya Inter ...At the moment, stopping the unpredictable Gaddafi is seen as the best option by Arab leaders.
Global Elite
- Fear, Intimidation & Media Disinformation: U.K ...Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 20, 2009 An official UK government report –quoted extensively in Britain’s tabloid media– is warning the British public that there will ...
- President European Commission Advocated World ...Jurriaan Maessen. Infowars. July 24th, 2009 On September 7, 1992, two term President of the European Commission Jacques Delors gave a speech to the Royal Institute of International ...
- Billions of People Expected to Die Under Curre ...Barbara Minton, Natural News, July 21st, 2009 Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in t ...
- Bioweapons, Dangerous Vaccines, and Threats of ...Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 7th, 2009 Although international law prohibits the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons, America has had an active biological warfare p ...
- Today we’re all prisoners in the USA Papers, Please! June 2, 2009 As of today, June 1, 2009, even U.S. citizens are officially prisoners in the USA, or exiles barred from entering our own country without the government ...
Al Jazeera
- Anger in Syria over crackdownAround 20,000 people chanting freedom slogans march in funerals for protesters killed by security forces.
- Anxiety in Japan over radiation in tap waterBottled water running low in Tokyo and thousands of people in the northeast remained without access to drinking water.
- Pro-Saleh forces clash with Yemen army unitsForces loyal to the Yemeni president have clashed with regular army troops in the eastern town of Mukalla.
- Israeli planes raid GazaThe strikes targeted smuggling tunnels along the Gaza-Egypt border as well as a training camp run by Hamas.
- Airstrikes fail to deter Gaddafi forcesResidents say forces loyal to the Libyan leader shell area near Misurata hospital as explosions are heard in Tripoli.
Green Inc. - NYT
- On Our Radar: Climate Questions Follow 2012 Pr ...Tim Pawlenty now describes his past support for cap-and-trade as "stupid."
- Federal Lands in Wyoming Opened to Coal MiningEnvironmental groups criticize the lease sales, saying that the Interior Department failed to calculate the impact of coal mining on climate change and water and air quality.
- Fresh Kills, Past and FutureWhere 150 foot-high mounds of garbage sat 10 years ago, city officials envision biking, horseback riding, picnicking and concerts.
- California Judge Calls Time Out for Climate Ch ...Conservatives spent millions trying to derail California's global-warming law. Now it is on hold thanks to liberal activists.
- Chernobyl's Lessons Aid Russia's Nuclear MarketingThe state-owned company Rosatom markets its reactors as safe - not despite the Chernobyl disaster, but because of it.
Dot Earth News
- The 'Dread to Risk' Ratio on Radiation and Oth ...There is a wide gap between dread and risk on many radiation questions, and lots of evidence that more information doesn't matter much.
- Divergent Lessons from Japan's Calamity for Mc ...Leading environmentalists extract starkly different lessons from the earthquake and nuclear crisis in Japan.
- Bee Maven Wins Big Environmental PrizeA big prize goes to a student of the ever-evolving chemical warfare between plants and insects and hive troubles in bees.
- Crowd-Created Video Uses 'Poo' to Explain Japa ...A Japanese artist explains the nuclear emergency on Twitter using potty humor, and spawns a crowd-created video starring "Nuclear Boy."
- In a Fast-Forward World, a Pause to BreatheIn a world in overdrive, the merits of pausing to breathe.
Doug Feith : Hong Pong
- Wisconsin gets the FreedomWorks - Yoshimi beat ...We drove around Madison listening to the Flaming Lips -- that day, the evil robots won... Working for the city - she knows it's demanding to defeat those evil machines... ~~ Yoshimi was definitely a public employee in that song ~~ it all makes sense now ~~ Sometimes a press release sums up the a ...
- March 22 mega-link dump: ChernobyLinks & Middl ...A ton of the latest & greatest links to throw at ya, roughly themed out! First some Lols and things to check out: CIA's 'Facebook' Program Dramatically Cut Agency's Costs | Onion News Network Bloomberg's Winkler Discusses Fed Bank Loan Data Ruling - Video - Bloomberg Granbury woman run over, kil ...
- Feds take down Liberty Dollar with Extreme Pre ...[photo source] Mother Jones reports von NotHaus has founded the Free Marijuana Church of Honolulu – eat that, coppers! Full trial Blog @ LibertyDollarTrial. Ron Paul Coin Minter, Pot Priest, Faces 15 Years in Prison | Mother Jones A few crib notes on the late great Liberty Dollar, which worked ...
- Structural deterioration as Franklin Avenue br ...Took these pics over the weekend. Please feel free to reuse as you like // Creative Commons with Attribution if pozzible. The MN GOP is slashing transportation money while this is the state of infrastructure on the Mississippi -- and of course things and people blow up in Africa. Pass these phot ...
- Libyan Internet reporter Mohammed Nabbous kill ...Mohammad Nabbous, face of citizen journalism in Libya, is killed | World news | guardian.co.uk Mohamed Nabbous somehow got around every Internet blockade and dragged the news out of Benghazi, Libya, at great risk. His fear and determination to overcome it was unmistakeable when I first saw ...
Daily Censored
- Sacramento Co-Op Board Abandons Democratic Pri ...By Maggie Coulter What started out as a question of whether the Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op should stop carrying certain products based on human rights considerations has now become a matter affecting the Co-op’s very democracy. In an effort prevent the Co-op’s members from voting on this iss ...
- Here’s a thought…If we were not fighting three wars, perhaps we could offer significant tax rebates and/or other subsidies to assist people buying fuel efficient hybrid automobiles. Setting a goal for mileage would encourage efficiency, stimulate employment, and reduce our carbon footprint. What we do not nee ...
- No-Fly Zone Fallacy� This past weekend, under U.N. Security Council Resolution 1973, the United States and its allies began enforcing a �no fly zone� over much of Libya. One of the most frequent comparisons used to justify our actions has been that of the Bosnia-Herzegovia war. Recently, Mo Sacribey of the Europe ...
- Can we ever trust anything the US government s ...Source: Carl Herman, Examiner.com The 5-minute video on the left, along with the re-posted information from “AntiCorruption Society,” presents important considerations in understanding the oligarchies who have hijacked the US government. The presenter is Benjamin Fulford. What we know from the f ...
- Citizens United: Corporate free speech and wo ...The following is by Paul Moore: A few days over a year ago, or to be more precise on January 21, 20 Citizens United:10, the US Supreme Court handed over what little was left of this nation’s pretensions to democracy on a silver platter to the Big Banks and the US Chamber of Commerce. The ...
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Institute for Policy Studies
- Obama in Latin America: Another Missed OpportunityWhat might have been a high-profile trip heralding a new U.S. partnership with Latin America based on equity and mutual interests turned out to confirm the same old top-down approach to north-south relations.
- Stop Corporate Tax Dodging: Talking Points and ...Most of us pay more in taxes than many U.S. corporations, and corporate tax avoidance has increased dramatically in the last 50 years.
- The Story Behind the Intervention in LibyaPhyllis Bennis tells GRITtv the story behind the intervention in Libya, who the players are, why this matters, and whether we're in this one too for the long haul.
- Taxes and the Common GoodIt's time to reform our tax system -- to quit rewarding obscene wealth, Wall Street gambling, and corporate polluters.
- No-Fly Zone Enacted as U.S. and Allied Forces ...U.S. and allied forces have launched a second wave of air strikes on Libya to enforce a no-fly zone.
Equality Trust
- Traduction des preuves en FrançaisLes 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 LevelFind 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 cutsA 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 CallCall – 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 – 1/18/2011Little 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 JusticeWarIsACrime.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 TerroristWilliam 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
- Bill Marler Calls on Del Monte to Pay Medical ...Public health officials have identified cantaloupes sold by Del Monte Fresh Produce as the likely cause of a recent Salmonella Panama outbreak that has sickened at least 12 people in 7 western states. The Gables, Florida based company recently recalled nearly 60,000 c ...
- Del Monte Salmonella Cantaloupes (12 Ill) and ...The folks from CDC's Outbreak Response Team (a.k.a Outbreaknet) are having a busy few weeks. Salmonella Cantaloupes As of March 22, 2011, 12 persons infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Panama have been reported from Oregon (5 cases), Washington (4 cases), California (2 cases), and ...
- Don't Let Congress Threaten Your Health and (F ...On a morning with the news is Liz Taylor’s death, radiation in Tokyo’s drinking water and more bombing in Libya, thanks to the folks at Food and Water Watch for applying humor to a serious topic:
- Del Monte Has Recalled Salmonella Cantaloupe B ...In 2009 the California state department of public health warned consumers not to eat Del Monte brand whole cantaloupe sold between Oct. 5 and 16 at Northern California and Nevada Raley's, Bel Air, Nob Hill Foods and Food Sources stores. Dr. Mark Horton, the department's director, said these sto ...
- Del Monte Fresh Recalls Cantaloupes after a Do ...Del Monte Fresh Produce N.A., Inc. (“Del Monte Fresh”) of Coral Gables, Florida is voluntarily recalling 4,992 cartons of cantaloupes, each containing 4 plastic mesh sleeves with 3 cantaloupes per sleeve, because they have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella Panama, an organism whic ...
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 partnershipFiled 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 02.04.11Top 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
- Convofy brings Facebook-like features to businessSocial networking in business can work, as this new Air app shows. It brings real-time messaging to workgroups in a fresh way.
- Gadget review aggregator Retrevo opens own storeRetrevo's main function, to date, has been to provide tech buying advice to consumers. Its new service climbs over the ethical wall separating content from commerce. ...
- Crazy Zediva streams movies only out on DVDNew service exploits copyright loophole by playing DVDs on its own DVD players, and streaming you the output. Think of it as a wall of Slingboxes, available for rent. ...
- Plaxo re-focuses on address book maintenance, ...Two solid tools will clean up messy address books, but neither work well enough for this reviewer.
- Zoove--it would take a real doofus to screw it upA former CNET boss lands at a mobile phone infrastructure company that's already sitting on a gold mine.
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!
- Aristide’s Return to Haiti: A Long Night ...Late at night on March 17, former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide boarded a small plane with his family in Johannesburg. The following morning, he arrived in Haiti. It was just over seven years after he was kidnapped from his home in a U.S.-backed coup d’etat. Haiti has been ravaged by ...
- Uncut Interview with Former Haitian President ...Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and his family were flown on March 18, 2011 by the South African government back to their home in Haiti after seven years in exile in South Africa. Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman was the only reporter to join them on the journey. Here is the compl ...
- 21-Year-Old Libyan American Medical Student Mu ...Muhannad Bensadik was a 21-year-old Libyan American medical student in Benghazi who was born in North Carolina and whose family lives in Virginia. He participated in the Libyan uprising last month and then decided to join the armed struggle against Col. Muammar Gaddafi’s forces. Muhannad ...
- Libyan Citizen Journalist Mohammed Nabbous Kil ...Democracy Now! regrets to report that Mohammed Nabbous, a Libyan citizen journalist in Benghazi who founded Libya AlHurra TV to broadcast live online on Gaddafi violence, was shot and killed Saturday morning. Click to hear Democracy Now! correspondent Anjali Kamat’s Feb. 26 interview ...
- Aristide's First Day Back in Haiti After 7 Yea ...After a long day of traveling, Amy Goodman reports on the historic return of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to Haiti. Click here to listen to this report. “I am Amy Goodman in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. What a remarkable day and a remarkable journey this has been. The Aristides have ...
Digg Green
- New Laser Space Telescope to Search for I ...A new theory that revolutionizes the way we think about early universe cosmology says that the universe may have started out with fewer dimensions than the three we live in, and could still collapse down to one dimension at extremely...
- Coldest Failed Star Ever Discovered A brown dwarf found hiding 75 light-years from Earth is the coldest and dimmest ever discovered, a new study reports. It may represent a new class of failed stars straddling the division between stars and Jupiter-like planets.
- Serotonin-lacking male mice not picky abo ...Male mice that can't signal using serotonin seem to share their affection indifferently, showing little preference for mating with male or female mice.
- How Sports May Focus the Brain In a beguiling new experiment, student athletes were pitted against regular collegians in a test of traffic-dodging skill.
- Stuck Pipe Kept Shear Rams From Sealing B ...A section of pipe on BP Plc ’s Gulf of Mexico well became trapped and prevented blades from cutting the pipe to stop the flow of oil, triggering the biggest U.S. offshore spill, according to an Interior Department study .
Invisible Opportunity
- Israel; the Ace of Spades of EvilBy Les Visible Well, I do take requests. It’s nice to warm up because it’s been a while since I did any performing but that’s on the docket, coming up, so I hear. Speaking of requests, someone asked me to do a Profile of Evil on Monsanto (My Satan), which happens to be (don’t act [...]
- Bravo, Angela! Germany Pulls Out of NATO Opera ...Breaking: Germany has pulled out of NATO operations due to disagreements over the mission in Libya. To add to that, Germany did the unthinkable: it voted in favor of a UN Security Council resolution calling the Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territory illegal and demanding the immed ...
- Libya war: Germans pull forces out of NATO as ...Deep divisions between allied forces currently bombing Libya worsened today as the German military announced it was pulling forces out of NATO over continued disagreement on who will lead the campaign. A German military spokesman said it was recalling two frigates and AWACS surveillance plane cr ...
- A View of the NWO War Roomby Zen Gardner March 22nd, 2011 Nothing like a map to know where you’re going. In the case of the NWO, the world is like a chess game, where they move all the major pieces and just crush the pawns that get in the way. But if you want to know what’s coming, look how [...]
- Phytoremediation: Using Plants to Clean SoilOn the morning of April 26, 1986, a small town in the former Soviet Union was the site of a nuclear explosion that literally shook the earth. The historic accident at Chernobyl Nuclear Plant Reactor 4 in the Ukraine caused severe radioactive contamination. Families within a 30-km zone of the pow ...
Global Insights
- Less Than a Week AwayWe 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 GuidestonesOn 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 CreationTHE 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 GreenDear 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 ...
AlterNet - DrugReporter
- Busted for Growing Pot to Ease Suffering from ...A radical mastectomy, complications from chemotherapy, hemophilia and back syndrome amount to motives for this "crime," carried out by a harmless middle-aged couple.
- Busted for Growing Pot to Ease Suffering from ...A radical mastectomy, complications from chemotherapy, hemophilia and back syndrome amount to motives for this "crime," carried out by a harmless middle-aged couple.
- In Seattle Area, Vietnamese-Americans Getting ...Upper-tier organizers typically conduct business among tight-knit groups of similar ethnicities, rendering surveillance and other investigative methods virtually ineffective.
- Feds Push Banks to Spy On Legal Marijuana DealersThe government has forced banks and financial institutions to enlist as foot soldiers in the war on drugs.
- How Psychedelics Can Be a Path to TransformationAn exploration of psychedlics' potential to support personal, spiritual, and cultural transformation.
Twilight Earth
- Cartoon caption contestTake 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
- Sod Covered Viking Houses Recreate History at ...Read the rest of Sod Covered Viking Houses Recreate History at L’anse Aux Meadowshttp://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: eco architecture green ar ...
- Daffonchio Architects Gives Samios Heritage Ho ...Read the rest of Daffonchio Architects Gives Samios Heritage House a Green-Roofed Additionhttp://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: Daffonchio, gree ...
- Ken Salazar Announces More Public Land in Wyom ...With the abundance of alternative energy sources available at our fingertips, coal mining seems a little archaic. But Interior Secretary Ken Salazar disagrees — at a press conference on Tuesday he promoted the federal governmentâs recent approval of public land to be used for coal mining in Wyom ...
- Helmut Smits Transforms Ordinary Cans into Kit ...At first glance, this might look like an ordinary drum set to you, but take a closer look — the instruments are actually miniature works of eco art created using ordinary metal cans. Dutch artist Helmut Smits transforms mundane cans and other types of packaging into all types of grin-inducing ar ...
- Urban Zeal Planters Add Green Life to Boring WallsLiving walls have been exploding in popularity over the last couple of years, but if you’re baffled about how to create one of your own, Urban Zeal planters are like vertical gardens for dummies. Their planters come in all shapes and sizes and you can customize the look of your green wall with y ...
Pogue's Posts
- More on Over Exposing PhotosMore thoughts from a professional photographer on over exposure and details in photos.
- How to Circumvent DVD Region CodesA reader suggests a work-around for the DVD region codes that prevent a disc intended for a foreign market to work in a machine built for American discs.
- 'Chimping' and Other Photo-Taking TipsTips from a professional photographer.
- Verizon Clarifies iPad Activation FesVerizon confirms there is NO re-activation charge for the month-to-month iPad 2 cell service. There is an activation charge for those with Verizon's MiFi.
- 3 Software Programs That Add to the iPad 2's A ...In the end, software is why we buy hardware, and there are a few iPad programs worth mentioning.
WIRED Magazine | Science
- Amazon Seeds Spread Best by Fish PoopIn the Amazon, Johnny Appleseed may be a fish. When rivers in the Amazon Basin flood into surrounding forests and savannas, a fruit-eating fish called a tambaqui proves itself a champion at excreting seeds in distant new homes, says Jill T. Anderson of Duke University in Durham, North Carol ...
- Coldest Failed Star Ever DiscoveredA small failed star has taken the record for the coldest ever detected. The brown dwarf didn't have enough mass to ignite into a blaze and has a surface temperature comparable to a cup of tea.
- Tiny 3-D-Printed Insect Robots Take FlightA team of roboticists at Cornell University have created tiny flying robotic insects using 3-D printing.
- Pictured: One Sea Turtle’s Worth of PlasticJoining the Laysan albatross as icons of ocean plastic pollution are sea turtles, which consume bellyfuls of debris while swimming through Earth’s five great ocean garbage patches. Pictured above are the stomach contents of a juvenile sea turtle accidentally captured off the coast of Argentina. ...
- The Physics of The Flower’s BloomWhile wandering lonely as a cloud, William Wordsworth should have stopped to wonder how those daffodils bloomed. Not content to just watch flowers dance in the breeze, Harvard physicists have described for the first time how flowers generate the forces needed to curl open come springtime. In th ...
PakAlert
- Scientist: Japan nuke “accidents” are tectonic ...Independent scientist Leuren Moret, whose 2004 landmark article in the Japan Times unmasked lies and distortions by government and company officials that led to the construction of nuclear power plants in seismically dangerous areas, has declared in an exclusive 65-minute video interview with Al ...
- The Surprising PNAC Connection to LibyaLooks like the PNAC, or Project for A New American Century, agenda of 1997 is rolling along as planned. Just as has been outlined by other think tanks, Illuminati writers and social programmers But a blind world reels on the defensive when they could have known what was coming all along. Not ...
- A Gallery of Smirking NeoCons and NeoLibsEver notice the smug, smirky look of the Neocons, as well as the leading Neolibs? Cocky bunch. When I saw Bill Kristol on Fox calling for a troop invasion of Libya and spewing the same old Neocon Zionist propaganda, it just all came together. And don’t forget, they’re all on the same team, ri ...
- Occult Symbolism: Photos from 1972 Rothschild ...These elite figures truly enjoy walking around with serious faces wearing creepy costumes. You think Gaga is “original”? Nope, she’s making trendy what her masters have been doing for centuries.
- World War 3: One Nation at a TimeThe globalists are infiltrating, corrupting, and turning the entire planet, one nation at a time in a combined scientific-geopolitical dictatorship that will be effectively impossible to reverse once it is completed. The latest Western-fueled conflagration in the Arab world indicates an accelera ...
Andy Worthington
- Intimations of Mortality — And Why This ...Recently, as I began my 49th year on this earth, I was ambushed by questions of mortality that had not troubled me for nearly 20 years, when both my grandmothers died in swift succession, and I, as a generally chaotic twenty-something, had to grapple with loss, and with questions of old age and ...
- Guantánamo in America (Part Two): The Nation R ...Following a major feature on NPR, covering the little-known Communications Management Units (CMUs), located in Terre Haute, Indiana, and Marion, Illinois, where the inmates are mostly Muslims, who are subjected to surveillance 24 hours a day, have their mail monitored, and are prevented from hav ...
- Guantánamo in America (Part One): NPR Explains ...It has long been a regret of mine that I don’t have enough time to write about the domestic prison system in the US, because of the distressing scale of incarceration in the US (the highest per capita rate in the world, by far) and also because of the violence and brutality, and the use [...]
- 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 ...
Environment _ National Geographic
- Pictures - A Rare Look Inside Fukushima Daiich ...NonePhotographs from inside the Fukushima Daiichi power plant show workers as they struggle, amid peril, to stabilize the damaged reactors.
- Scientists to Drill Earth's Mantle, Retrieve F ...Scientists aim to drill Earth's mantle and get samples for the first time—a feat as important, and hard, as the Apollo program, they say.
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- Would a New Nuclear Plant Fare Better Than Fuk ...Only four of the 65 nuclear plants under construction worldwide are designs with integrated “passive safety” systems that could stave off overheating when power is lost.
- First North Pole Ozone Hole Forming?"Beautiful" clouds and cold temps are destroying protective Arctic ozone—and people as far south as New York could get burned, experts say.
drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )
- Don't Turn Your Back on the Bankers for Even a ...The ink on the legislation is still drying and, already, the mortgage mill industry is trying to gut the little things that might help to hold them accountable for their bit part in the complete economic collapse of this nation: Dodd-Frank requires that lenders retain five percent of every loan ...
- Sarah Palin: Mayor of New Milford?Is this a parody or real life? You decide. Citizens of New Milford: I want you to know that I'm on the job 24/7. Twenty four hours a week, seven months a year. But even with this strict time commitment, I can't be expected to keep up with everything going on in this vast metropolis. That's why ...
- Much like the "conservative" GOP...The conservative Blue Dogs acted as Bush's domestic poodles, helping to move a dangerous right wing agenda. They were owned by the right wing and corporations and there is no big surprise why more than half of the Blue Dog caucus (28 of 54 members) were slaughtered in the 2010 elections. So f ...
- Stop Drinking and Start Doing, Dem Dumb DumbsSober up, Dems. You started sucking suds when you captured the Congress in 2006. Since 2008 you've been binge drinking with Congress and the Prez. You even nibbled on some hot wings and pub nuts. Burp! And now the bartender just cut your drunk, lazy, liberal, progressive, leftie ass off. Y ...
- The People Have Spoken. And Their Message Is ...So. What the heck happened last night? The GOP picked up 60 seats in the House, effectively reversing their losses there from 2006 and 2008, and returning control of that body to them. The GOP picked up some 6 seats in the Senate, but the Democratic Party retains control there. The GOP picked u ...
SPL Center
- Justice Keeping Blanket of Secrecy Over MLK Bo ...The Justice Department is maintaining tight secrecy around its case against a 36-year-old white supremacist accused of planting a backpack bomb on the route of a Martin Luther King Jr. Day unity parade in Spokane, Wash. Kevin William Harpham, who has past ties to the neo-Nazi National Alliance a ...
- Bryan Fischer: American Indians Should Have ‘A ...Evidently, no amount of scorn is going to prevent Bryan Fischer, chief mouthpiece for the American Family Association (AFA), from asserting that the white European settlers of the New World and their descendants had the moral, Christian authority to conquer the natives of North America and appro ...
- The Screaming Hypocrisy of Congressman Peter KingYesterday, 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 ...
- Steve Emerson, Backing King Hearings, Pushes M ...The day before U.S. Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) convened the first round of his controversial hearings on the radicalization of American Muslims, the nonprofit Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) released what certainly seemed to be a sobering statistic. âMore than 80 percent of all conviction ...
change: org.
- Activists Ask Publix for Slave-Free Tomatoes o ...This weekend, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers will end their two-week tour with the Modern-Day Slavery Museum in Nashville, Tennessee. There, they'll deliver the signatures of over 30,000 Change.org members to Publix leadership, as yet another demonstration of the popular support for the basi ...
- San Francisco Protesters Return 1,500 Unwanted ...Almost 11,000 people around the country have said they don't want to receive a Yellow Pages unless they want one. Yesterday, a group of San Fransisco residents really hammered home that point. Evidence the photo to the left and the pile of 1,500 unwanted phone directories they returned to AT&Ts ...
- Premier of Ontario Weighs In On Debate Over GS ...The war against gay-straight alliances (GSAs) in Ontario's Catholic schools rages on. This week, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty said that he refuses to order Catholic school boards to allow GSAs. Critics say that it has much to do with the looming election, but the government says that it is n ...
- Progress! City Planners Block Nash County Poul ...For several months now, there has been a battle raging in Nash County, North Carolina over a proposed poultry processing plant. While many members of the community have fought the plant, the Nash County Board of Commissioners (NCBC) backs the plan, doggedly pursuing the promise of 1,100 jobs — d ...
- Victory! Target Joins "No Dirty Gold" Campaign ...After receiving letters from over 22,000 Change.org members, Target has signed Earthworks' “No Dirty Gold” campaign, which will help ensure the company sells gold jewelry mined under responsible conditions that respect the environment, human rights, and mining communities. The company's decisi ...
Common Dreams -News
- Gadhafi Attacks Continue Despite Coalition BombingCAIRO—Forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi resumed attacks on Libya’s third-largest city early Thursday despite aerial bombardments by Canadian and other coalition warplanes aimed at halting the violence. The barrage of coalition airstrikes, which involved four of Canada’s CF-18 air fighters, succeed ...
- Germany Set to Abandon Nuclear Power for GoodBERLIN -- Germany is determined to show the world how abandoning nuclear energy can be done. The world's fourth-largest economy stands alone among leading industrialized nations in its decision to stop using nuclear energy because of its inherent risks. It is betting billions on expanding the us ...
- Israel Warns of 'Aggressive' Response to Jerus ...The Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, has vowed to react "aggressively" after a suitcase bomb exploded in Jerusalem, killing a 60-year-old woman and injuring dozens of others. read more
- Dennis Kucinich: What Is Economic Democracy? Dennis Kucinich explains what he means by real economic democracy--full employment, national healthcare and education, and more. Watch the full conversation at http://grittv.org! Distributed by Tubemogul. read more
- Maine Governor LePage Orders Removal of Labor ...AUGUSTA — Gov. Paul LePage has ordered the removal of a 36-foot mural depicting Maine's labor history from the lobby of the Department of Labor. Worker advocates described the move as a "mean-spirited" provocation amid the administration's high-tension standoff with unions. Acting labor chief La ...
Lifehacker
- Android Faceoff: Which Browser Wins Out on Spe ...One of the many nice things about Android is that you can install your own essential apps, like a browser, as your better default option. But do third-party alternatives like Firefox, Opera, or Dolphin actually deliver a better browser? In ...
- Wikipedia Beautifier Kills Clutter, Makes the ...Chrome: The Wikipedia Beautifier extension cleans the cruft from Wikipedia to offer an easy-on-the-eyes reading experience on the popular online encyclopedia. More��
- Enable Your Laptop's Pinch-to-Zoom Gestures in ...If you have a multitouch trackpad, you may be used to zooming in and out of web pages in your browser. Unfortunately, Firefox 4 disables them by default. Here's how to get them back. More��
- Access Paywall-Free Content on Starbucks Wi-Fi ...There's been a lot of talk about hacking around' paywalls recently, but if you're looking to read paid publications like The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, or ESPN online, you don't have to do any hacking—just head to your nearest Sta ...
- Track Windows Phone 7 Updates as They Happen [ ...A new update for Windows Phone 7, with copy-and-paste implementation and better Marketplace performance, is due out ... at some point, depending on your carrier and phone. Microsoft is, however, posting updates on a schedule page, with three levels of delivery for each device. I ...
Water Privatization
- Politics plague privatizationGreece’s privatization program, which is intended to provide the country with some relief as it tries to cope with its overwhelming burden of debt, is being held up by disagreements between ministers regarding the future of profitable public enterprises.
- Politics plague privatizationGreece’s privatization program, which is intended to provide the country with some relief as it tries to cope with its overwhelming burden of debt, is being held up by disagreements between ministers regarding the future of profitable public enterprises.
- MICHAEL PFEIFER: Protecting fresh water paramountThe United Nations first declared World Water Day, which was observed on Tuesday, in 1993 as a way to focus public attention on critical water issues around the world. World Water Day calls attention to how water crosses borders and links us together.
- Special Report: Water mismanagement in PH enda ...ANTIPOLO City, March 23, 2011—Water is for the people, not for profit. This was the statement of the environmental advocate group, Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment (KPNE) during the global celebration of World Water Day on March 22. read more
- Thousands Mark Canada's Second Bottled Water F ...OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - March 10, 2011) - Today, people across Canada and around the world are marking the second Bottled Water Free Day.
Guardian
- Police apology for failure to catch 'night sta ...�� Delroy Grant convicted of 29 crimes, including rape �� Met police admit they missed chance to catch him in 1999 �� 146 offences believed to have been committed since thenDelroy Grant committed at least 146 crimes � including 23 sexual offences � after police missed at least three chances to c ...
- Libyan jet 'shot down by French'�� Fifth night of air strikes on Libya as Gaddafi clings on �� Air strikes break siege of Misrata but battle continues �� Stalemate continues in Ajdabiya despite attacks Follow live updates3.10pm: Curiously, confirmation of the Libyan plane shot down by a French aircraft has come from the US rat ...
- Cameron hails fuel duty curbsPrime minister says moves to cut petrol tax and scrap fuel duty escalator were 'good, helpful steps' to help consumersDavid Cameron has insisted the government was doing all it could to help hard-pressed families � describing fuel-duty curbs in the budget as a "very big decision" representing a ...
- Japan nuclear workers in hospitalThree cable-layers at Fukushima power plant exposed to high levels of radiation after stepping into contaminated waterThree workers at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have been exposed to high levels of radiation after reportedly stepping into contaminated water as they battled to make ...
- Portugal teeters on brink of bailoutBailout request seen as 'inevitable' following prime minister's resignation after failure to push through austerity measuresCity experts fear Portugal will be soon be forced to apply for a bailout package worth up to ��70bn (£60bn), following the Lisbon government's failure to push through its a ...
McClatchey
- Commentary: GOP's non-economic stands could hu ...Republicans last fall stressed economic issues nationally and in many states, vowing to focus on jobs, curbing government spending and scrapping President Barack Obama's health plan.
- Guantanamo prosecutors apologize for comparing ...Pentagon prosecutors touched off a protest — and issued an apology this week — for likening the Seminole Indians in Spanish Florida to al Qaida in documents defending Guantánamos military commissions.
- Poll: Feinstein's support in California dips b ...WASHINGTON — Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein remains more popular among California voters than her colleague Barbara Boxer, a new Field Poll shows.
- Kansas illegal immigration bill may be deadTOPEKA — A major immigration bill similar to a controversial Arizona law suffered a potentially fatal blow Wednesday when the Kansas House refused to consider the measure.
- Voter ID bill passes in Texas state HouseAUSTIN — After more than 11 hours of debate, the Texas House voted 101-48 late Wednesday for a bill requiring voters to show photo ID at the polls, increasing the likelihood that the measure will take effect in time for the 2012 elections.
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-freeEnvironmental 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 visionChina 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 extinctionAre 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 babyMore 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
- REPORT: Likely GOP Presidential Field Full Of ...
- The WonkLine: March 24, 2011
- What Would Republicans Have To Cut To Keep The ...
- Despite High Unemployment, Several States Move ...
- Individual Mandate Was The Price For A Private ...
thwap's schoolyard
- There HAS To Be AccountabilityI still think that the election will return another harpercon minority. Regional factors, class interest, and the Bell Curve of intelligence, dictates that harper's hold on the West, reactionary moneyed interests, and stupid, ignorant people, will stand firm. [NOTE: I intend for those three labe ...
- 1848 and 2011 (again)It's true. What's going on across the Middle East, in Ireland, in Iceland, in Latin America, and the latest battle for hearts n' minds in Wisconsin, is party of a larger world struggle. A struggle that will be very protracted and difficult. "2011 is 1848 Redux. But Worse" Quote: Thi ...
- A Comment on Jim FlahertyIt is patently obvious that Flaherty dyes his hair. It's pretty rich that a dunce who didn't even see the great recession coming (even after it had already hit the USA), and whose "action plan" had to be forced out of him, can still present himself as a sober, steady hand on the economic tiller ...
- NDP (and the other guys) Reject harpercon BudgetHOOOORAY!!!! Fuck-head flaherty's clueless bromides budget has been rejected by all three opposition parties! Layton said he'd work with Paul Martin's minority government and he did, until Martin contemptuously rejected NDP demands to stop the privatization of health care. (You Liberal blogger ...
- thwap the Media WhoreWhat is it with David Bowie? I'm 44. I met my partner about, oh, I don't know, ... six or seven years ago? She's a fair bit younger than I am. A good friend of mine is in his mid-fifties and his partner is a couple of years older than he is. So, anyway, in an early holiday present avalanche, I ...
on Government Oversight
- Will New Open Government Websites Be Budget C ...By Joe Newman At a time when online innovation and technology are playing an increasing role in government accountability comes the disturbing news that funding in these areas could all but vanish in next year's budget. According to Daniel Schuman...
- Morning Smoke: Issa Steps Up Probe of Office 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. Issa threatens...
- Investigation Raises Questions about Governmen ...By Nick Schwellenbach The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS’s) only witness in a high-profile whistleblower retaliation case has been demoted twice within the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), according to a government spokesman who answered recent queries by POGO. The double...
- Morning Smoke: Fed to Release Emergency Loan DataWhere 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. Fed Will...
- Number of the Day: Taxpayers' Return on Invest ...By Bryan Rahija Your number of the day: $87, as in the financial benefit to the government for every $1 invested in the Government Accountability Office (GAO), according to, well, the GAO. From Thursday's testimony before the House Subcommittee on...
Digital Journal
- Canada's budget nixed by opposition, gov't cou ...The Conservative Government's attempt at a 2011 budget for Canada failed to pass the House of Commons today. This leaves the Government open to motions of non-confidence which may take place in the next few days, resulting in a spring election.
- Death rates from accidental death higher in No ...When it comes to accidental death the odds are stacked higher for Northern Canadians than for their neighbours in the southern area of the nation. The types of accidents are the same in Canada but those in the north tend to die more often from them.
- 'Yonge Street: Toronto Rock and Roll Stories' ...From hipsters to historians, all eyes will be focused on the television over the next three nights, just as if it were the pre-internet 1950’s and 60’s again, as Yonge Street: Toronto Rock and Roll Stories premieres on Bravo this evening.
- Porsche stolen on quiet county Ontario roadOn Friday night the driver of a silver 1999 Porsche 944 thought he was being asked to exit his car by a police officer instead found a car thief driving away into the night.
- Obama says Libya mission is 'focused,' militar ...In a brief address to the American public on Friday, President Obama sought to define US interests in entering the Libyan conflict, and hours later NATO leaders began drawing up military plans.
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
- Military budget growth set to continueThe new federal budget, presented on Tuesday by Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, confirms last year’s pledge of somewhat delayed, but continued, growth in Canada’s military spending. The chart above, drawn from last year’s budget documents, depicts the continued upward path of Canadian military sp ...
- Stop arms shipments to Saudi Arabia: Rideau In ...The Rideau Institute is calling on the Canadian government to prevent further shipments to Saudi Arabia of military vehicles made in Canada, and to institute an embargo on the export of all military goods to the region during the current political turmoil. On March 14, troops from Saudi Arabia a ...
- Canada sends CF-18s for Libya interventionThe Canadian government has sent six CF-18 fighters to take part in the Libya mission authorized by the UN Security Council on Thursday (Steven Chase, “Canada commits six fighter jets to help enforce Libyan no-fly zone,” Globe and Mail, 17 March 2011): The UN Security Council voted Thursday to i ...
- Why the F-35 stealth fighter is wrong for CanadaPloughshares 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 BahrainSaudi 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 ...
Kevin Trudeau Show
- Download Kevin’s Daily Podcasts!Do you want another way to be able to listen to the Kevin Trudeau Show? All you’ll have to do is subscribe to Kevin’s podcast by clicking the banner above! You’ll get the show delivered to you automatically every day, free of charge to your MP3 player! There is also a brand new piece of [...]
- The Kevin Trudeau Show: 3-22-11Today, Kevin gives you his advice on how to lower high blood pressure and what to do if you have bad body odor. Self Help: Weight Loss Cure Lose A Pound A Day! Natural Deodorant Oral Chelation Rid Your Body of Candida Get The Toxins Out Health: The Truth Behind Genetically Modified Food Garlic & ...
- US Backing For World Currency Stuns MarketsMarch 18th, 2011 The Telegraph By: Ambrose Evans-Pritchard The dollar plunged instantly against the euro, yen, and sterling as the comments flashed across trading screens. David Bloom, currency chief at HSBC, said the apparent policy shift amounts to an earthquake in geo-finance. “The mere fact ...
- WikiLeaks: Cables Show Japan Was Warned About ...March 18th, 2011 AOL News By: Theunis Bates The Japanese government has said it is doing all it can to contain the crisis at Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, which was critically damaged in last week’s earthquake. But according to U.S. diplomatic papers released by WikiLeaks, that atomic ...
- Bahrain Locks Down Kingdom as Uprising SurgesMarch 18th, 2011 AOL News By: Barbara Burk and Reem Khalifa Soldiers and riot police in Bahrain overran a protesters’ camp, imposed a 12-hour curfew and choked off movement nationwide Wednesday. Witnesses described helicopters firing on homes in a hunt for Shiites and attacking doctors treating ...
Pambazuka News
- Africa: Angola hosts 3rd African meeting on Cu ...The third African meeting on Solidarity with Cuba was held in Luanda, Angola, 11-12 September, to consolidate the friendship between the African and Cuban people and contribute to strengthening African solidarity towards the Caribbean island nation. ...
- Global: Afro-Colombian women fight prejudice b ...On an improvised stage “Bombón de chocolate” (Chocolate Candy) is being performed. The play, which narrates the story of an African-Colombian girl who feels rejected because of the colour of her skin, is one of the events at a special day on drug add...
- Global: May for the Cuban 5The month of May started with a great number of activities in support of the Cuban 5. On May 1st hundreds of thousands of Cubans marched on International Workers Day in Havana and other cities. They were joined by hundreds of internationalists in de...
- Haiti: Women demand role in reconstructionWomen's civil society groups were noticeable by their absence from the landmark Haiti donor conference on 31 March, which secured pledges of US$5.3 billion over the next two years to support the country’s post-quake recovery. Their lack of a presenc...
- African diplomats reject anti-Cuba resolution ...The ambassador of the Republic of Congo to Cuba, Pascal Onguemby, rejected the lies included in an anti-Cuba resolution recently approved by the European Parliament. Addressing participants in the inauguration of the Eleventh International Conference...
War in Context
- The fight for LibyaIn a Pentagon briefing, Rear Adm. Gerard Hueber, the chief of staff for the operational command, told reporters: As long as the regime’s forces are fighting in and around cities where the allies have ordered them to back off, he said, coalition attacks would continue. He said the allies are in ...
- Syrians have broken the fear barrierSome observers of the Libyan uprising, particularly those who now most vehemently oppose intervention, insist that Libya is a special case, really a civil war rather than a revolution — the implication being that if Gaddafi were to crush his opponents, then the wider Arab revolution would not su ...
- The internet in society: empowering or censori ...
- Top ten ways that Libya 2011 is not Iraq 2003Juan Cole writes: Here are the differences between George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the current United Nations action in Libya: 1. The action in Libya was authorized by the United Nations Security Council. That in Iraq was not. By the UN Charter, military action after 1945 should ...
- The fight for LibyaThe Guardian reports: Britain, France and the United States have agreed that Nato will take over the military command of the no-fly zone over Libya in a move which represents a setback for Nicolas Sarkozy, who had hoped to diminish the role of the alliance. Barack Obama agreed in separate phon ...
Watts Up With That?
- Show us your tests: Australian drought modelsGuest post by Dr. David Stockwell In Australia, the carbon-tax juggernaut rolls on, justified in part by fear of droughts, increasing in frequency and severity as CO2 increases. I have always found that checking one’s assumptions was good advice, and … Continue reading →
- The Earth’s biosphere is booming, data s ...I first ran a story with this title in 2008, with these graphics from SEAWIFS, showing a growing biosphere. Now a new study using a different methodology, Leaf Area Index (LAI), have determined that indeed, the LAI is on the … Continue reading →
- Energy sucking illuminated wind turbine may be ...Oh the irony… First, a flashback from June 18, 2010: I was in Newcastle, NSW AU on Wednesday night to give another lecture as part of the Australian speaking tour Iâm doing. I had the pleasure of following David Stockwell … Continue reading →
- No joke: Air Force actually creates supercompu ...We’ve routinely joked in the past about “playstation® Climatology”, a phrase coined by JunkScience.com a few years back in response to the constant barrage of model output from supercomputers worldwide that forecast doom and gloom ahead for the human condition … Continue reading →
- New paleo paper shows solar impact on past tem ...From C3 headlines – Scientists Say Norweigan Sea Research Confirms Large, Robust Solar Impact On Temperatures Read here. Map source here. (click on image to enlarge) There are multiple factors that affect both regional and global temperatures, but the most … Continue reading →
Dandelion Salad
- Cornel West: No Lie Can Live Forever!http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ EssentialDissent on Mar 23, 2011 See this & other Left Forum 2011 videos: http://essentialdissent.blogspot.com/search/label/Left%20Forum%202011 One of America’s most provocative public intellectuals, CORNEL WEST has been a champion for racial justice since c ...
- Time for a Prisoner Exchange by Jim Ryerson + ...by Jim Ryerson Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.youtube.com/user/tmanjdrjr (jim [at] travelingman [dot] net) Cuba Connections March 23, 2011 Now that “contractor” Allan Gross has been found guilty of spying and sentenced to prison in Cuba, itâs time to suck up our pride and exchange some pri ...
- Kosovo revisited (kind of) By William Bowlesby William Bowles Featured Writer Dandelion Salad williambowles.info March 23, 2011 No doubt much self-flagellation is currently taking place amongst the Western ‘left’, or at least it should be given their atrocious reading of the Libyan ‘revolution’. Right from the very beginning of ‘Operatio ...
- The Race for Space Solar Energy by William Joh ...by William John Cox Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.thevoters.org March 23, 2011 The failures of the General Electric nuclear reactors in Japan to safely shut down following the 9.0 Tahoku earthquake, following in the wake of the catastrophic Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico ...
- Husain Abdulla: U.S. Defends Bahrain Dictatorshipused with permission photo by Darren Shanahan All rights reserved� http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ TheRealNews on Mar 23, 2011 Husain Abdulla: Hypocrisy defending rebels in Libya but supporting regime in Bahrain U.S. Defends Bahrain Dictatorship see Bahrain protesters weakened by destructio ...
Your New Reality
- No titleFeed Your Brain By Darryl Mason So, plenty of interesting things I come across online I would have once blogged about here, or at least included in an infrequent collection of short news bits called Feed Your Brain, but I now post them on Twitter here instead, neglecting this blog. Then again ...
- No titleGermany's Transparent Car Factory. Brilliant, beautiful :
- No title"Stay Calm, Don't Panic....And God Bless America" "Women And Children First" - US Military Begins Evacuations From Japan Unprecedented : American Military Families Told To Leave Behind Pets, Pack For "3 To 5 Days" And Leave Japan "In An Orderly Fashion" By Darryl Mason The US government and ...
- No titleC3PO : "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 ...
- No titleYou 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 ...
Wired - Science
- Amazon Seeds Spread Best by Fish PoopIn the Amazon, Johnny Appleseed may be a fish. When rivers in the Amazon Basin flood into surrounding forests and savannas, a fruit-eating fish called a tambaqui proves itself a champion at excreting seeds in distant new homes, says Jill T. Anderson of Duke University in Durham, North Carol ...
- Coldest Failed Star Ever DiscoveredA small failed star has taken the record for the coldest ever detected. The brown dwarf didn't have enough mass to ignite into a blaze and has a surface temperature comparable to a cup of tea.
- Tiny 3-D-Printed Insect Robots Take FlightA team of roboticists at Cornell University have created tiny flying robotic insects using 3-D printing.
- Pictured: One Sea Turtle’s Worth of PlasticJoining the Laysan albatross as icons of ocean plastic pollution are sea turtles, which consume bellyfuls of debris while swimming through Earth’s five great ocean garbage patches. Pictured above are the stomach contents of a juvenile sea turtle accidentally captured off the coast of Argentina. ...
- The Physics of The Flower’s BloomWhile wandering lonely as a cloud, William Wordsworth should have stopped to wonder how those daffodils bloomed. Not content to just watch flowers dance in the breeze, Harvard physicists have described for the first time how flowers generate the forces needed to curl open come springtime. In th ...
Israeli Occupation Archive
- Gilbert Achcar: Libya – a legitimate and neces ...Can anyone claiming to belong to the left just ignore a popular movement's plea for protection, even by means of imperialist bandit-cops, when the type of protection requested is not one through... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
- The Case of G4s: Private Security Companies an ...A dramatic change is taking place in the form of Israeli control in the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt), whereby, in addition to soldiers and security officials, one begins to notice the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
- Jonathan Cook: Disappeared on a Ukraine trainIsrael admitted this week that it was behind the abduction of a Gazan engineer who went missing more than a month ago while travelling on a train in the Ukraine... Victor Kattan, an international... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
- Knesset passes ‘Nakba bill’MP Haneen Zoabi: "You are creating a monstrous state that will enter the thoughts and emotions of citizens. Is accepting my history considered incitement? ... The Nakba is a historic truth, not a... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
- Amira Hass: The sanctity of the soaring QassamSo for all those who demonstrated in support of the Gazans when they were trapped under Israeli fire, all those planners of past and future flotillas, this is your moment to raise your voices and say... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
Ria Novosti - Military
- Iran's nuclear program
- Libya's Soviet-made arms may fall into hands o ...Soviet-made man-portable air-defense missile systems that the Libyan military and rebels possess could fall into the hands of terrorists amid the unrest in the North African country, the head of Russia's Center for Analysis of World Arms Trade said on Thursday.
- Russian parliament urges ceasefire in LibyaThe lower house of the Russian parliament on Wednesday called for a ceasefire and an end to violence against civilians in Libya.
- Naval strike aircraft to be part of Russian Ai ...Naval strike aircraft will be reassigned to the Russian Air Force by the end of 2011, a high-ranking Navy source told RIA Novosti on Wednesday.
- Gates expects fighting in Libya to recede with ...U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Tuesday the significant military fighting going on in Libya now "should recede in the next few days."
NewsWise
- International TB Campaign Launches on World TB DayOn World TB Day, March 24th, a team of physician and researchers led by Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine's Tuberculosis Research Unit will nationally launch "I am TB," an international advocacy campaign aimed at reducing stigma among patients with TB and those at risk for the d ...
- Researchers Tie Parkinson's Drugs to Impulse C ...Mayo Clinic researchers found that dopamine agonists used in treating Parkinson's disease result in impulse control disorders in as many as 22 percent of patients.
- New Approach to Programming May Boost 'Green' ...Yu David Liu, a Binghamton University computer scientist with an interest in "green" software development, has received the National Science Foundation's most prestigious award for young researchers.
- Bird Embryo Provides Unique Insights into Deve ...Avian embryos could join the list of model organisms used to study a specific type of cell migration called epiboly, a developmental process involving mass movement of cells as a sheet that is linked with medical conditions that include wound healing and cancer.
- Mentholated Cigarettes No More Harmful Than No ...Individuals who smoke mentholated cigarettes are no more likely to develop lung cancer or to die from the disease than smokers of non-mentholated cigarettes, according to a new study led by William Blot, Ph.D., professor of Medicine, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC), Nashville, Tenn., and ...
Natural Health News
- Cat Bumps BabyThis baby is so loved it can barely move.
- For Killer Abs, Try Some ... Push-Ups?A push-up not only helps you to get a stronger upper body, but also a stronger midsection. It incorporates the stabilization muscles of your core, combining an upper-body pushing movement with a plank. It is, in fact, one of the best and most basic exercises for your midsection. According to Th ...
- Amazing LiquidHere’s what happens when you mix cornstarch, water, and science!
- Frightening Story Behind the Drug Companies' C ...This powerful video contains interviews with experts, parents and victims. It is the story of the high-income partnership between drug companies and psychiatry which has created an $80 billion profit from the peddling of psychotropic drugs to an unsuspecting public.� How did these drugs, with no ...
- New Study Shows Baldness Drug Leads to Sexual ...A new study seems to indicate that men who take the drug finasteride (sold as Propecia and Proscar) may report an on-going reduction in sex drive. �In some cases, they may experience prolonged periods of erectile dysfunction even after they stop using the drugs. Researchers conducted standardiz ...
fotoFrontera
- Los colores de nuestro planeta VI (12 paisajes)Explora nuestro archivo: (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6) ¿Ha usted observado con cuidado la enorme cantidad de matices de colores en un paisaje natural? Supongo que sí y estará usted de acuerdo conmigo en que existe una combinación infinita de contrastes. Por eso y mucho más, la serie 'Los colores de nu ...
- Tributo a la infancia VIII (fotos de niñas, fl ...Explora nuestro archivo: (1) (2) (3)(4) (5) (6) (7)(8) Hace algunos días, tuve la oportunidad de asistir al Desfile de la Primavera. Ahí pude ver la ternura, inocencia, belleza y magia de los niños. Tributo a la Infancia, es una serie que pretende rendir un merecido homenaje a estos peques ...
- Playas paradisiacas XIX (10 postales del mar)Explora: [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18] [19] Se acercan las vacaciones de Semana Santa y nosotros como siempre no paramos de ofrecerle a usted las mejores ideas sobre qué lugares visitar en estos días de azueto y descanso. ¿Cansados de la rutina en la ciudad? ...
- Flores de Primavera I (20 imágenes muy lindas)La Primavera ha llegado y con ella miles de hermosas flores. Todas las estaciones del año tienen su encanto, pero creo que la Primavera tiene algo tan especial que se ha convertido por tanto en una de nuestras estaciones preferidas. Hoy y a manera de tributo, deseo compartir con ustede ...
- 10 fondos o wallpapers de perritos para iPhone ...ATENCIÓN: No olvide usted hacer clic sobre las imágenes que más le gusten para ampliar su tamaño y guardarlas en su computadora, laptop, netbook o iPad si así lo desea.
Center for a Livable Future
- How much meat do we eat, anyway?Reading the new federal dietary guidelines made me want to look into this question. The guidelines, just released, say that Americans presently eat an average of 3.7 ounces daily of meat and poultry. But, the figures I typically see are double that, or more. So, why, in the brand-new guidelin ...
- 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, revisitedHow 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?” Â 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 ...
Norwegianity
- Being in charge means you get to do whatever y ...Another way you can tell the fake new Republicans, aka Southern Democrats, from real Republicans is that their budgets never add up. Lambert: To no one’s great surprise, the early take on the state GOP’s budget-cutting numbers … is that they don’t exactly add up. Tom Scheck of MPR files a report ...
- Springtime in MN, cont.Yes, it rained/sleeted/snowed last night. Life is good. And then you have to chisel the car doors open. - Libya: Libyan civilians immediately rushed to our downed plane to save the pilots . . . and our support aircraft strafed and bombed them WINston (and more on the developing Medvedev-Putin sp ...
- LibyaconsinWhoops there goes another $31 million F15e…. In other news: WTF do Republicans really want? Bill Kristol gets a war boner Crossdresser calls out post-op transgender clothes horse Mossad goes fishing in Ukraine MN’s top libertard advocates for federal aid and Detective Spotty figures out why (lib ...
- When the truth isn’t on your side, liePaul Krugman writes this morning about Elizabeth Warren and the politics of bearing false witness. You can use religious fervor to justify damned near anything but lying about others. There are loopholes for murder but not for fibbing. Why won’t our religious leaders condemn the serial lies told ...
- Counting teethIf it wasn’t for hypocrisy, Republicans wouldn’t have any values at all. Which doesn’t mean that Democrats can’t be total douchebags as well. I look forward to seeing the Powerwhiners explain how it came to pass that white supremacists from the National Socialist Movement were “invited” to march ...
Public News Service
- Report: Health Insurance Exchange Critical for ...Report: Health Insurance Exchange Critical for Rural Arizona, Small Biz Phoenix, AZ – A new report says small businesses and uninsured Arizonans living outside the state's metro areas have a huge stake in the one-year old Affordable Care Act. Comments from the report's author, Jon Bailey of the ...
- Plans Proceed for Northern AZ Shooting Range N ...Plans Proceed for Northern AZ Shooting Range Next to National Monument Flagstaff, AZ – Arizona Game and Fish Commissioners are moving forward with plans for a regional shooting range within hearing distance of Walnut Canyon National Monument outside Flagstaff. Opponents say the gunfire will dist ...
- A New Way for Arizonans to Report, Research Un ...A New Way for Arizonans to Report, Research Unsafe Products Phoenix, AZ - A new website promises open access to product safety information, including reports about potential problems and manufacturers' responses to them. It's www.SaferProducts.gov, launched last Friday (March 11) by the Consumer ...
- Arizona Receiving Toxic Strawberries from Cali ...Arizona Receiving Toxic Strawberries from California? Phoenix, AZ – Arizona gets most of its strawberries from California. Critics of a controversial pesticide used in that state's strawberry fields want methyl iodide to be banned. A coalition of California environmental and farmworker groups h ...
- Poll Finds Strong Public Support for Endangere ...Poll Finds Strong Public Support for Endangered Species Act…and Wolves Phoenix, AZ – A new poll on wildlife management, the Endangered Species Act and wolves shows strong public support for all three. U.S. House Republicans hope to remove ESA protections for wolves as part of a stopgap federal ...
Center for Food Safety
- Farmers and Consumer Groups File Lawsuit Chall ...“Roundup Ready” Alfalfa Will Increase Pesticide Use and Cause Grave Harm to Environment and Organic Industry USDA Failures Guarantee Transgenic Contamination, Creation of More Superweeds Today, attorneys for the Center for Food Safety (CFS) and Earthjustice filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Depar ...
- 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 ...
Angry Indian Op-Eds
- Murdered Jerusalem Man Subjected To Racism Eve ...Murdered Jerusalem Man Subjected To Racism Even In Death - International Middle East Media Center: "'He said directly to me, 'Your son died ...'' Rwidy paused, then continued. ''Your son died, and there are two people arrested.'' Twenty-four-year-old Hussam Rwidy was killed in the early morning ...
- In Haiti numberless abominable crimes have bee ...thepublicarchive.com: 1. Hanging of M. Cicéron Lacroix, execution of Léon Moricet, Téca, and other persons in October and November. 1918, by Lieut. Lang, acts denounced to the naval court of inquiry by M. Philocles Lacroix in his letter of October 20, 1920. 2. Execution of the Péralte brothers ...
- Ban Nuclear Energy and the Bomb, Time for True ...March 15, 2011 - Ban Nuclear Energy and the Bomb, Time for True Renewables Only [climateark.org] Background All existing nuclear energy plants, waste and weapons are accidents waiting to happen - vile deadly toxins to be dealt with for millenium. Japan is facing the worst nuclear crisis since t ...
- 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 ...
Pensieve
- More on EgyptReading 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 TonightRelated posts:Celestial Show Tonight Update on March Update, Perverse Justice
- 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 LlorensI’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 ...
- MagnificentThis 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
- Environmental News 24/03/2011Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
- Questioning CoalA controversial song about Australia's open-slather approach to mining that raises quite a few questions… Should we be accountable for the use of our coal? Can we really wash our hands once we ship it off our shores? And what about the open scars it leaves behind? Is this really the beautifu ...
- Environmental News 23/03/2011Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
- Environmental News 22/03/2011Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
- Earth Hour 2011At 8:30pm Saturday 26th March 2011, lights will switch off around the globe for Earth Hour and people will commit to actions that go beyond the hour. This year looks set to break all the previous records as people in thousands of cities in over 130 countries have committed to turn off their lig ...
The Briefing Room | Investigate
- Just a hint of what the next Investigate HIS/H ...On sale nationwide on Monday, or subscribe here
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- Free Movie tickets: CONVICTIONThe 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 - No1Investigate 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.
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 rightsI 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 ChildrenGuest 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
- Solar-powered desalination in a shipping containerIt’s ideal for disaster relief. Inhabitat has the details.
- Unemployment, Democrats vs RepublicansBut the Democrats feel our pain. That’s the difference. From Alas, A Blog
- Putting ecology firstI promised someone yesterday that I would address the question they raised in response to one of my tweets. Ecology loses when Greens first address creating a non-violent, just, democratic world. The question was that of why this would be true. We have a small rat terrier who is an escape artist ...
- Quagmire accomplished, Mr. PresidentGermans pull forces out of Operation Underpants Gnomes as Libya coalition falls apart. Well, that didn’t take long did it? Also: Jerusalem bombing, situation deteriorating says Israel Interior Minister. Make no mistake, Israel doesn’t screw around when it retaliates. Saudis prepare to abandon Ye ...
- Because people aren’t stupid. Most don’t belie ...“Edano’s words seemingly fell on deaf ears as Tokyo residents made a dash for bottled water.”
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:  ...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
- Deadline Live – March 23 2011
- Lindsey Graham Uses Lie About 9/11 Hijackers T ...
- This Day In History – March 241765 – The Kingdom of Great Britain passes the Quartering Act that requires the Thirteen Colonies to house British troops. 1832 – In Hiram, Ohio a group of men beat, tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith, Jr.. 1837 – Canada gives African Canadian men the right to vote. 1934 – U.S. Congress ...
- JAPANESE EARTHQUAKE 2011 – O.S.S SECRET ...
- Border agents catch “13″ illegal i ...Two Americans arrested with gang daily Mail Border Patrol agents have caught 13 illegal immigrants wearing U.S. Marine uniforms at a checkpoint near San Diego. The immigrants were in a van that was stopped along Interstate 8 on March 14. The van had a U.S. government licence plate with an altere ...
The Air Vent
- WTFDo you realize that America just bombed a country by authority of the president, killing people without a single US address as to the reason, intent, or expected involvement from the president? Sure there was a UN resolution – minimally discussed, but why are America and UK throwing billions ...
- In Case You Missed ItStatpad – Roman M Two and a half PC’s.
- Update on Winds paperCopied 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 TimeJosh 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 WahlStill 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 ...
Focal Point
- All My American Prospect Links in One PlaceMany thanks to the American Prospect for giving me the opportunity to guest blog at TAPPED last week. Thanks also to my friends, family, colleagues, and loyal readers who helped make this a big success by linking, tweeting, commenting, and generally promoting this content to the hilt. I am in ...
- Humanist Vegan Screed is TripeJason Torpy argues in the American Humanist Association e-zine that "vegan priorities are humanist priorities." His argument is a bait-and-switch--he sets you up for brie and leaves you with textured wheat gluten. Torpy argues that humanists should be concerned about animal welfare and ...Read ...
- The News Desk Says It's About Oral SexRolling Stone editor Neil Strauss shares some exchanges New York Times copy editors from his days as a rock critic, several years ago: Editing an article that quotes the Courtney Love lyric, “I’m eating you / I’m overfed” . . . COPYEDITOR: We have to remove that quote. NS: What’s wr ...
- Preventing Childhood Obesity is Not Fat-ShamingIn 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
Inside Facebook
- Spammers Can “Use Facebook as Page” to Like-Sp ...Facebook recently launched a “Use Facebook as Page” feature for Page administrators that allows them to assume the identity of their Page so they can Like, post, and comment around the site. However, this has enabled a new spamming technique, whereby Pages can Like the posts or comments of other ...
- Webtrends Apps’ New Conversion Funnel Tool Off ...Webtrends Apps has released a new tool for Facebook advertisers that allows them to sync an ad campaign, a Facebook app, and an in-app action to create a conversion funnel. However, advertisers can only track the correlation between ads and in-app actions, not causality. At this point, it’s more ...
- Highlights This Week from the Inside Network J ...The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities in the Facebook Platform and social gaming ecosystem. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at Zynga, RealNetworks, Inside Network, Games Cafe, NaturalMotio ...
- Facebook Redesigns Friend Request Email Notifi ...This week Facebook redesigned the email notifications users receive when they’re sent a friend request. These emails now show stats about the request sender, including their friend, photo, wall post, and Group count, helping users identify spammers since they usually have few friends and little ...
- Horoscopes, Phrases, Video, Basketball and iPa ...Horoscopes, phrases, videos and basketball made up the majority of our list of top 20 Facebook apps by daily active user this week. Dating, music, photos and security apps were also popular. Our list is compiled using AppData, our data tracking service covering traffic growth for apps on Faceboo ...
Truthout - Tweets
- truthout: Soldier Admits Killing Three Afghan ...truthout: Soldier Admits Killing Three Afghan Civilians http://bit.ly/eDAlGD #p2 #p2b #p21
- truthout: Jim Hightower | Rich Get Richer With ...truthout: Jim Hightower | Rich Get Richer With New Congress http://bit.ly/dMBQBv #p2 #p2b #p21
- truthout: Libyan Rebels Form "Interim Governme ...truthout: Libyan Rebels Form "Interim Government" http://bit.ly/evg8bO #p2 #p2b #p21
- truthout: Instead of Bombing Dictators, Stop S ...truthout: Instead of Bombing Dictators, Stop Selling Them Bombs http://bit.ly/fsyytm #p2 #p2b #p21
- truthout: America's Nuclear Entanglement, From ...truthout: America's Nuclear Entanglement, From Eisenhower to Obama: Cutting the Gordian Knot http://bit.ly/fWzW3C #p2 #p2b #p21
ReDress News
- Libya and the conspiratorial veil of Western r ...Gordon Duff views the unholy alliance of veiled racists, cranks, naive academics and Gaddafi propagandists who have lined up in opposition to the UN-authorized military intervention to protect the Libyan people from their dictator's murderous thugs and mercenaries.
- Playing the sectarian card: the Arab dinosaursYvonne Ridley argues that the desperate super-rich dinosaur rulers of Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere in the Arab world are prepared to go to any length, including fomenting sectarianism and discord, in order to maintain their grip on power.
- Playing politics at Gaza's Rafah CrossingRichard Lightbown explains what controls the opening of the Rafah Crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip and briefly considers if this might change in the future.
- Congressman Peter King and the new McCarthyismPaul J. Balles considers US Congressman Peter King's McCarthyist witch hunt against America's Muslim community in the context of the primitive need for scapegoating and witch hunting.
- The West is doing the right thing in LibyaNureddin Sabir argues that opposition by the left and the anti-imperialist and anti-war movements to the NATO military action in Libya is misplaced and deeply flawed and that these movements should instead look forward to post-Gaddafi Libya and ensure that Libyans are left alone to rebuild their ...
Amazon Rainforest
- Earth’s Living Treasure- Celebrating Forests f ...United Nations declared 2o11 as the International Year of Forests (Forests 2o11), and why Forests are the theme of the International Day for Biological Diversity on 22 May 2o11. In this special year, the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) are ...
- 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 ...
Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs
- Boiling Frogs Post Countdown-Week 4 & Still Co ...Updates On Our Annual Fundraising & A Few Notes on my relocation Journey Let me start with a big personal âthank youâ to all of you who have generously donated to keep this site alive – before my other brief updates, and before I run out of my pre-purchased internet minutes. As you know I [...]
- Jamiol Presents
- Boiling Frogs Post Countdown-Week 2We 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 TwoWe 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 & UpdateBoiling 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 ...
Afro Spear
- West overzealous on Libya – Al JazeeraWest overzealous on Libya – Opinion – Al Jazeera English. Now that the United Nations Security Council resolution for a no-fly zone has been passed, how will it be implemented?The UNSC Resolution 1973 has made it legal for the international community to protect the Libyan people from Muammar Gad ...
- Libya, Hypocrisy and Betrayal by the United Na ...By Felicity Arbuthnot “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.” George Orwell The bombing of Libya will begin on or nearly to the day, of the eighth anniversary of the beginning of the destruction of Iraq, 19th March, in Europe. Libya too will be [...]
- USAgain Clothing Donation Bins in Da ‘Ho ...Here’s a sad commentary. I have noticed that there have been clothing donation bins appearing all over Oakland, overnight it seems. What’s sad is that they are appearing in all the ‘hood areas. The poorer areas in Oakland, and other cities, I’ve learned, and I’m suspicious about it. That is sad. ...
- Ted Williams: Not So Shiny & NewWhen 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 ...
Expose the BNP
- Expose the BNP: activists’ meetingOver 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 lifeA 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 defeatThe 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 GriffinOn 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 pennilessOn 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
- Turtle Island: Our Earth MotherJapan in Crisis By Sheryl Goodwin, SEN Contributor and Honorary Advisor Kway. Hello. First off let me state what an Honor it is to be asked by my brother Gregory and sister Suzanne to join the team. What a privilege to be among such fine people listed on the biography page of Sustainability Educ ...
- Memorial Tribute to Hugh MacDougallMemorial 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 ...
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
- Dennis Kucinich talks with David GregoryDennis was interviewed by David Gregory and again raises the question as to why do we have no money for the people and always plenty to fight wars and kill people?
- Republican Cuts Devastate interests to THE PEOPLECongress 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 DreamIn 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 NOWTheir current proposal includes cuts in domestic spending, diplomacy, development, and international assistance but allows the Pentagon budget to continue to rise.
Unsuitable Blog
- Switch Your Lights ON for Earth Hour!Once upon a time there was just greenwash: corporations and governments went to great lengths to convince a concerned public that they were doing everything they could to help the natural environment return to its former glory. All the time they were filling their bank accounts and pumping up th ...
- 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 ...
Subalternate Reality
- Keith Ellison’s Tears And Epistemic ClosureRep. 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-NilOne 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-BaiterEarly 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
- How Grahamstown Now Combines Mobile Content, D ...Giving African newsrooms, particularly community media and non-profit organizations, the ability to leapfrog into the mobile era is at the core project of Iindaba Ziyafika's work in South Africa. As Anne-Ryan Heatwole reported last year on this site, our Knight-funded NIKA Content Management Sys ...
- Inside Shelbyville Multimedia's Ambitious Immi ...Shelbyville project kicks off with a series of "Welcoming" videos Chances are you haven't yet heard of Shelbyville, a small rural community in Tennessee. If not, then you're probably also unaware of the upcoming "Welcome to Shelbyville" documentary or the online project that is forging a ...
- 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 ...
Cutting Edge News
- The Battle for Yemen - Yemen Crisis Heading to ...A crisis in Yemen is rapidly escalating. A standoff centered on the presidential palace is taking place between security forces in the capital city of Sanaa while embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh continues to resist stepping down, claiming that the “majority of Yemeni people” support him. ...
- The Battle for Libya - Scope of US involvement ...American and European forces expanded their assault in Libya on Sunday, with airstrikes damaging the compound of Col. Muammar Gadhafi, as questions mounted about the scope and duration of U.S. involvement there.Late Sunday, a cruise missile badly damaged the Libyan leader’s compound in Tripoli. ...
- Japan After the Quake - Researchers Investigat ...In the wake of the devastating loss of life in Japan, the urgent question is where the next big earthquake will hit. To answer it, geologist Prof. Zvi Ben-Avraham and his doctoral student Gal Hartman of Tel Aviv University's Department of Physics and Planetary Sciences in the Raymond and Beverly ...
- The Race for Wind - Wind and Solar can Reliabl ...When combined with on-Oahu wind farms and solar energy, the Interisland Wind project planned to bring 400 megawatts (MW) of wind power from Molokai and Lanai to Oahu could reliably supply more than 25 percent�of Oahu's projected electricity demand, according to the Oahu Wind Integration Study (O ...
- Edge on Health Care - Death Panels—Fact and Fi ...“Death panels” are back in the news and Congress is turning its attention to them once again. The problem is, lawmakers are looking in all the wrong places.The House Energy and Commerce Committee, now headed by Republicans, sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius l ...
High Country News
- Botanical barbarians are waging the real “war ...The West may have lost the war against invasive weeds, but it’s not too late to strive for containment.
- Why bother cooking what nature failed to finish?A tar sands development proposed for Utah is insane on every level: economically, environmentally and just practically.
- The Tao of Pow: Learning to love winterA newcomer to Utah learns to love winter with the help of snowshoes.
- The dark corners of the heart: A review of VoltThe short stories in Alan Heathcock's collection, Volt, bring the troubled inhabitants of a small town vividly to life.
- Pacific chorus frogs make urban comeback
Pacific chorus frogs are making an unexpected resurgence in San Francisco, with a little help from human friends.
CounterCurrents
- Counterrevolution 101By 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 CairoBy 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 ParliamentBy 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 AntichristDear 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 YearA 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 StieberMy 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 FORThe 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:Â 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
- Jamie Gorelick "Helped to Bring us 9/11 AND Ho ...Barack Obama really knows how to pick them. It's not often that one person plays key roles in two -- count 'em, two -- trillion-dollar disasters but Jamie Gorelick is one. She helped to bring us 9/11 and the collapse of the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Ms. Gorelick is on the presidental short li ...
- Obama Can't Bring Himself To Console Israel Wi ...As part of the recent escalation of Palestinian Terrorism a bomb was set off today outside the main Jerusalem bus station, one person died and over thirty were injured. Our Commander-in-Chief free from the burden of having to manage the war he started in Libya without congressional approval or c ...
- Hillary's Friends Agree:There's No Excuse for ...By Barry Rubin Every analyst loves the day when policymakers and national leaders start echoing precisely what he's been writing for weeks, months, and years. In this case, unfortunately, it's about bad things happening. Read this article in the new mainstream, establishment�Interne ...
- Video: Joe Biden Called For Obama's Impeachmen ...Back in 2007 Joe Biden appeared on the Chris Matthews show and said that the president had no constitutional authority to launch an attack without congressional approval against a nation that hadn�t attacked or threatened imminent attack on the United States. Biden argued that doing so is an ...
- Started,The Third Intafada Has? Today's Jerusa ...TV footage showed a number of injured people being carried away from the scene on stretchers.� Meir Hagid, the driver of one of the damaged buses, said he heard a loud explosion as he drove by the site, near the main entrance to Jerusalem and its central bus station. "I heard the explosion in th ...
The Real Agenda
- Nuevo Orden Económico y Político Mundial a la ...George Soros tiene la intención de cooptar a los países del tercer mundo, llamando a la participación de los países en desarrollo como parte de la solución. La dirección del nuevo sistema, sin embargo, seguirá en manos de los globalistas como él y sus títeres elegidos en cada país. Business & Me ...
- Remaking the Entire Financial and Political OrderThe event is bringing together "more than 200 academic, business and government policy thought leaders' to repeat the famed 1944 Bretton Woods gathering that helped create the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. Soros wants a new 'multilateral system," or an economic system where America ...
- U.S. created Al-Qaida. Al-Qaeda supports rebel ...Al-Qaida, an American creation used to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan, has supported U.S. plans to destabilize Africa and the Middle East for years. JerusalemPost.com March 23, 2011 A senior member of al Qaida urged Libyan rebels to continue their fight againstMuammar Gaddafi and warned of the ...
- Extreme Weather and Earthquake Danger coming, ...WeatherAction.com The very active solar region which emerged from the SE limb of the sun on the morning of 21st March is crackling with dangerous activity including extreme UV radiation and up to 50Mev proton bursts and its appearance along with other active regions on the sun fits our WeatherAc ...
- Is NATO collapsing because of Libyan attack?German Military Forces Out of NATO MailOnline March 23, 2011 Deep divisions between allied forces currently bombing Libya worsened today as the German military announced it was pulling forces out of NATO over continued disagreement on who will lead the campaign. A German military spokesman said ...
Wind Watch
- Ill winds are blowingThirteen landholders in the Crookwell district are in shock after receiving letters from a wind farm developer giving them three months to sell out or live in the shadow of 73 giant wind turbines. The situation flows from a Land and Environment Court decision late last year giving the developer, ...
- Turbine issue lands with Court of AppealA challenge over how close wind turbines can be set up from homes may not be over. Prince Edward County resident Ian Hanna, who launched a court appeal on an Ontario decision requiring wind turbines be set back at least 550 metres from homes, is seeking leave to appeal an earlier court decision ...
- Hammond reacts to wind rulingHAMMOND – Iberdrola Renewables’ recent removal of the proposed Stone Church Wind Farm from a state list of potential energy projects could signal the beginning of the end for the project, but what happens next is really up to the town board, people on both sides of the issue said Wednesday. “I u ...
- Wind farm plan shocks boardMORRISON � Some Whiteside County Board members are upset that they hadn�t been informed about the possibility of wind energy development in the county. A couple of weeks ago, a county official told a board committee about a company�s plans for wind turbines north of the village of Deer Grove and ...
- High Court date set for ‘nuisance turbin ...All eyes will be on Deeping St Nicholas this summer when a landmark case on noise created by wind turbines reaches the High Court. A date has finally been set for Jane and Julian Davis to have their say on turbines which they claim have forced them out of their home. Their legal bid, which is th ...
Not My Tribe
- ‘call us when WE behead somebody’ ...So, what happens when we do WORSE than behead somebody? Say, for instance,Gut-shoot a third-world person knowing full well that the only place in town which can treat an abdominal wound is a hospital associated with whatever torture regime we’re propping up, or a US Military Hospital who will pa ...
- King Hamad effaces Pearl Roundabout monument t ...The prevailing talking point on Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa is that he’s a “good man.” So is his son the Crown Prince, apparently both “good men,” which stands at odds with the ongoing murderous repression of their fiefdom’s pro-Democracy demonstrators and the doctors trying to save ...
- In the struggle for Middle East land, Palestin ...Israel can build all the new settlement condominiums it wants, it only takes one horrific Tate-Labianca-like crime scene to curb the Zionist homecoming charade. Israel can terrorize Gaza to smithereens, Palestinians don’t have anywhere to flee. American Jews on the other hand, are not going to l ...
- Afghans mutilated by US kill teams are then di ...You’re shot up at random by a US kill team eager to engage Call Of Duty in the full-gore mode, who pose with you for a trophy pic, then when it sees the light of day, photo editors decide it best to shield your identity, they say to not dishonor your survivors, but likely to [...]
- The US-UN no-fly no-flee free-fire zoneForbidding flight is not a pun, but a cruel misnomer –a war crime too by the way– international law forbids shooting a fleeing adversary. Or does aerial flight apply to ground forces and naval vessels? So far enforcement of the Libyan No-Fly Zone extends to flight by tanks, ships, and Command & ...
Debunking the Debunkers
- History repeats right down to the day..."American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people, and to defend the world from grave danger." ~ George W. Bush, March 19, 2003 http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=9098447 "Today we are part of a broad coalition. We are an ...
- Obama on America Iran1:28 - "For two years there has been a campaign of intimidation and abuse..." 1:50 - "The world has watched these unjust actions with alarm ..." 2:17 - "These choices do not demonstrate strength, they show fear. For it's telling when a government is so afraid of its own citizens that it won' ...
- Debunking the DebunkersPermanent Top Post--Scroll Down for Newer Posts Comments are only open to blog contributors, but feel free to contact us here if you have a point of contention or some kind words you would like to share. Ad hominems will be ignored, but well-formed rebuttals may be addressed (and that is a sub ...
- Obama prosecutes his future self ..."The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation." ~ Senator Barack H. Obama, December 20, 2007 [Source] More: Clinton told it like it is...
- Firehouse 911 – The 9/11 video by Firefighter ...http://911tv.org exclusive! Your $20 donation gets you a copy and ensures 10 American Firehouses will also receive a copy! Our goal is to send this DVD to every Firehouse in America! International orders encouraged! Shipping always FREE! Go to http://911tv.org. Donate for as many copies as you ...
Fooducate
- Nutrition Impostor – SnackPack PuddingPudding. Yum. Everyone loves pudding. You can make it at home from scratch. You can buy a powder mix and prepare at home more easily. Or you can buy a ready-made pudding. SnackPack is one example of a ready-made pudding. From their website: Now you can pack the fun into your child’s lunch, witho ...
- The Beverage Industry is “Clear on Calories” – ...Have you seen the ridiculous commercial sponsored by the beverage industry? The one where Dr. Pepper, Coke, Pepsi, and SunnyD pat themselves on the back for having stopped deceptive labeling after 20 years? For years, you’d buy a 20 fl oz bottle from a vending machine and guzzle it down thinking ...
- Health 2.0 Starts with FoodWe’re posting today from San Diego, where Fooducate has been invited to demo our iPhone app at the Health 2.0 Conference. Borrowing the “2.0″ from “Web 2.0″, this conference and organization is all about web and mobile technologies empowering people to take charge of their health. The themes for ...
- Why 20 McNuggets for $4.99 is Actually a Bad D ...McDonald’s is aggressively pushing its Chicken McNuggets with a deal that prices each nugget at just one quarter. Sound good? What you need to know: A serving is 4 McNuggets, according to McDonalds. So this deal is supposed to feed 5 people. Yeah, right… Each “serving” is 190 calories, 10 gram ...
- How to Enjoy Sardines? In a Salad [Professiona ...There was a lot of talk on the in the comment forum about Friday’s post on sardines. One of the comments came from Chef Dave Schy, who offered the following recipe for Sardine Salad. The following recipe, with more photos, originally appeared on his website Newtaste. Ingredients: 4Â Â Â Â Â Yuk ...
Traffikd
- Four Pre-Writing Exercises for Inspired BloggersRebecca 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 InspirationAs 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
- Borneo tribes: 30-year regime ‘has destroyed e ...Under Taib's rule the Penan have mounted countless blockades to stop their forest being destroyed. © Andy Rain/Nick Rain/Survival Tribespeople in Sarawak, in the Malaysian part of Borneo, say the 30-year rule of Chief Minister Taib Mahmud has ârapedâ their land, destroyed their rainforests ...
- World Water Day: Global outrage over Ethiopia ...The Kwegu are entirely dependent on the Omo river for their survival. © Survival Almost 400 organizations have signed a petition against Africa’s tallest dam, which will be delivered to Ethiopian embassies across Europe and the United States to mark World Water Day on Tuesday 22nd March. A ...
- 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 ...
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 Ecuadorby 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-manThe 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 TVfrom 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 Climatefrom 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 zip lock coffee bea ...I had one of those “it’s amazing how things mount up” moments the other day when I opened our tea & coffee cupboard and was confronted with this: They’re all empty, flattened out version of these: John likes his coffee. To be fair, he does prefer quality rather than quantity and these represents ...
- Upcycling leather jackets into shoes, pill bot ...Some more news/links from my inbox that I thought may interest you guys: Matt from Mes Footwork has been in touch to tell us about their new range of upcycled trainers: “We make shoes in Newcastle from recycled leather jackets (or any other item of clothing). The jackets are usually bought in ch ...
- Where can I source fabric production waste pro ...We’ve had an email from Karen which is a bit different from our normal “how can I recycle…” questions but a good question all the same: I’m a fashion student and I am interested in doing my final project/collection using waste products! I’ve been looking for things like parachute silk with fault ...
- Fantastic stuff made from fused plastic carrie ...I was going to write an article on different ways to reuse & recycle plastic carrier bags but then I started seeing such great pieces made from fusing the bags that I thought they deserved their own post — some really amazing stuff. I love, love, love Emily Grace and the Yellow Suitcase jeweller ...
- How can I reuse or recycle expired sunscreen/s ...We’ve had an email from Karen: I am new to your site and I really love it! I do have a suggestion though, I had been cleaning up the bathroom and found old sunscreen lotion bottles, still full. I heard you can’t use them more than a year, because they go bad and won’t work [...]
Age of Autism
- Danes charge CDC-linked Autism Researcher T ...By Ulla Danielsen In 2002 a Danish group of researchers headed by medical doctor Poul Thorsen, Aarhus University, repudiated a connection between MMR-vaccine and the occurrence of autism. The following year, 2003, Poul Thorsen’s team succeded in repudiating a connection...
- What Bruesewitz v. Wyeth Means for American Fa ...By Louise Kuo Habakus and Mary Holland, JD Imagine your child was hit by a reckless driver and catastrophically injured. Cognitive impairments, seizures, problems with walking, eating, talking – you name it. You find out who the driver was, and...
- The Bruising Reality of Autism and Lack of Pre ...Managing Editor's Note: We learned that Billy is back in the hospital, hobbled by his agonizing GI pain. Share your own story in the comments please. Or send us your submission to KimStagliano@gmail.com for review. By Julie Obradovic Over the...
- Seth Mnookin, Bob's Your Uncle!By Jake Crosby How did Seth Mnookin go from writing about baseball and rock n’ roll to defending the vaccine industry? He has become pharma’s media darling, parroting all the standard corporate fringe talking points in his widely publicized but...
- List of US Government Support for Vaccine-Auti ...Despite the hutesium et clamor from the media and industry, the autism vaccine scientific debate is not closed. FEDERAL SUPPORT FOR VACCINE-AUTISM STUDIES Office of Immunization Safety (OSI) US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ● Will study autism...
Global BDS Movement
- Students Against Israeli Apartheid at the Univ ...Sign the SAIA Toronto Divestment Petition � read more
- BNC thanks CUT Brazil for their public stateme ...Artur Henrique da Silva Santos - National President CUT Quintino Severo - General Secretary João Antonio Felicio - International Relations Secretary Dear comrades of the CUT Brazil, As the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), a wide coalition of Palestinian p ...
- French court reveals fraud committed by Carmel ...As a result of the French Coalition Against Agrexco's read more
- Commemorate Land Day 2011 by Joining the Globa ...� Commemorate Land Day 2011 by Joining the Global BDS Day of Action 30 March 2011 read more
- Adidas: Apartheid is not fair play, drop spons ...Occupied Palestine, 17 February 2011 – The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), the largest coalition of Palestinian civil society organizations and unions, calls on Adidas to withdraw its sponsorship of the first Jerusalem marathon to take place on March 25, 2 ...
Farm Wars
- Homegrown terrorism: the threat of Homeland Se ...Any agency who is unlawfully and actively spying on, data mining, intimidating or violating your Constitutional rights should be considered a radical extremist group and domestic terrorists.
- Big Ag Targets Exposers of Animal Abuse in CAFOsIf this isn't proof positive that Big Ag is intent on monopolizing our food and pushing CAFOs (Concentrated animal feeding operations) on us and eliminating humane, natural methods for raising animals, then I don't know what is.
- 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 EvilMany "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.
Open Your Eyes News
- Compound from Chinese Medicine Blocks Biofilm ...ScienceDaily (Mar. 22, 2011) — A compound that is an active ingredient in plants commonly used in Chinese medicine prevents biofilm formation on polystyrene and polycarbonate surfaces by Staphylococcus aureus. The research suggests that this compound, 1,2,3,4,6-Penta-O-galloyl-beta-D-glucopyrano ...
- New Treatment May Desensitize Kids With Milk A ...ScienceDaily â Some 3 million children in the United States have some form of food allergy, ranging in severity from mild to life-threatening. Milk allergy is the most common, affecting 2.5 percent of children under age 3. In a small clinical study, immunologists and allergists at Children’s Hos ...
- Malaysia DNA ruling overturned in blow for AnwarBBC – The judge hearing sodomy charges against the Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim has reversed an earlier ruling to now allow key DNA evidence. Read article
- U.S. agencies say Libya attack may awaken al QaedaReuters - Al Qaeda has not so far taken advantage of the upheavals in the Middle East but the militant Islamic group may do so if the U.S.-led campaign in Libya does not end quickly, U.S. intelligence agencies say. Public comments on the regional uprisings by al Qaeda figures like deputy leader ...
- Canada Stocks Retreat as Energy Shares, Canadi ...Bloomberg – Canadian stocks fell for the first time in four days as energy producers retreated and Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. (CP) declined after forecasting earnings below analyst estimates. Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. (CNQ), Canadaâs second-largest energy company by market value, droppe ...
L.A. Times - Greenspace
- A major expansion of coal mining planned in Wy ...Vast coal reserves in Wyoming will be auctioned over the next five months, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced Tuesday, despite the Obama administration's push to transition the nation's energy supply to cleaner, renewable sources. The U.S. relies on coal, the...
- L.A. charter school adopts green curriculumWhen the fifth- and sixth-graders at Stella Middle Charter Academy learn about Egypt this spring, part of the lessons will focus on the ancient civilization's views and treatment of the environment. It's part of a new green curriculum the West...
- Mistakes made, but no criminal or scientific m ...A federal review has cleared National Park Service employees of criminal violations or scientific misconduct regarding a commercial oyster operation at Point Reyes National Seashore, but concluded that park officials and scientists made mistakes that “may have contributed to an...
- Judge places California's global warming progr ...A San Francisco superior court judge has put California's sweeping plan to curb greenhouse gas pollution on hold, saying the state did not adequately evaluate alternatives to its cap-and-trade program. In a 35-page decision, Judge Ernest H. Goldsmith said the...
- Shell is on track to start new deepwater drill ...Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Monday announced a step toward approval of the first new deepwater oil and gas exploratory drilling plan in the Gulf of Mexico since the April 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster. The plan, submitted by Shell Offshore...
water.org
- Gramalaya’s World Water Day gift (The Hindu)Gramalaya’s World Water Day gift: technology park (The Hindu) TIRUCHI, India – A water technology park, established by Gramalaya, a voluntary organisation at its Institute of Water and Sanitation at Kolakudipatti near here, was declared open on Tuesday on the occasion of World Water Day. [Gramal ...
- 7 ways to celebrate World Water Day online (Ma ...7 Ways To Celebrate #WorldWaterDay 2011 Online (Mashable) – World Water Day hopes to raise awareness, as well as raise some funds for issues ranging from clean drinking water, to digging new wells, to basic sanitation and hygiene. If youâre looking to get involved and show your support for water ...
- On World Water Day, ways you can help (AOL)On World Water Day, Ways You Can Help (AOL) – On this, World Water Day, tips and suggestions about how to help the millions who can’t enjoy the luxury of a daily hot shower or a safe glass of water to drink are flowing freely. Here’s a sample of ways you can help and how [...]
- Water.org wins Hilton Foundation grant (HuffPost)World Water Day: Conrad Hilton Foundation Pledges $50 Million To Clean Water Initiatives (Huffington Post) – In honor of World Water Day, the Conrad Hilton Foundation announced a $50 million commitment to clean water initiatives in Sub-Saharan Africa, Mexico and India. The Hilton Foundation’s $5 ...
- Levi’s® Brand Teams Up with Water.org (P ...The Levi’s® Brand Teams Up with Water.org to ‘Unlock’ 200 Million Liters of Clean Water Worldwide (PR Newswire) – In celebration of World Water Day today, the Levi’s® brand and Water.org are partnering to raise awareness about vital water issues and bring clean drinking water to people around ...
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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
- Computer Chips Wired With Nerve CellsThis technology could pave the way for melding minds with machines.Nerve cell tendrils readily thread their way through tiny semiconductor tubes, researchers find, forming a crisscrossed network like vines twining towards the sun. Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...
- Tokyo says radiation in tap water above limitTokyo Water Bureau officials say levels of radioactive iodine in some city tap water is two times the recommended limit for infants.The officials told reporters Wednesday that a water treatment center in downtown Tokyo that supplies much of the city's tapSubmitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �No ...
- Is the Internet Destroying Privacy?In an interview with TechCrunch last year, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said sharing private information online with the faceless masses had become a "social norm."Today, oversharing has become typical of online social networking, with people publicizing Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �No ...
- 100 Awesome Art Lessons on YouTubeThere's a whole lifetime ahead to learn and numerous resources both in the classroom and outside of it for expanding your knowledge. One great place to seek out help with becoming a better artist is on YouTube. Submitted by Anna Smith to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Mathematical Budding Model Revealed in a Lily"Earth laughs in flowers," Ralph Waldo Emerson said, but flowers laugh in numbers, according to two Harvard mathematicians who have modeled the blossom song of the Asiatic lily. Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
Solar Energy / Energy Boom
- E•BOOM CAPITAL: No Utility-Scale Vanadium Redo ...Cellstrom GmbH, based in Vienna, Austria, says this electric vehicle recharging station installed at Perugia, Italy, consists of a solar photovoltaic power generator and a 10 KW DRFB. ...
- Spire Agrees to Construct 20 MW Solar Module P ...Spire Corporation (Nasdaq: SPIR) will be sending a 20-megawatt solar photovoltaic module production line to Tecnometal Equipamentos of San Paulo, Brazil. read more
- E•BOOM CAPITAL: Is Vanadium ‘the Next Big Thin ...This artist�s rendering of an upgraded vanadium redox battery shows how using both hydrochloric and sulfuric acids in the electrolyte significantly improves the battery�s performance. ...
- Record Growth Across the Board in Global Photo ...In its recently released Marketbuzz� 2011, Solarbuzz, an energy consulting firm, reports the global solar photovoltaic (PV) industry had a record year in 2010. read more
- Nevada Governor Praises New PV Solar PlantSempra Energy (NYSE: SRE), through its wholly owned subsidiary Sempra Generation, has officially celebrated the completion of the Copper Mountain Solar farm. read more
News Blaze
- Global Wheat Production Expected to Increase T ...Global wheat production rose by 3.4 per cent this year to 676 million tons, but the increase is still below the bumper harvests in 2008 and 2009.
- Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Still a Threat to ...Leaving MDR-TB - a form of TB that fails to respond to standard first-line drugs - untreated increases the risk of spread of drug-resistant strains of TB, according to a joint news release issued by WHO, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis a
- Terrorist Attack in Jerusalem Kills One, Injur ...A two to four pound bomb, that contained steel pellets, exploded in a Jerusalem bus station today. The bomb, hidden inside a bag, was placed next to a telephone kiosk. A 59-year-old woman was killed and approximately 35 others were injured.
- Systemic Corruption in Russia Subverts ReformsAmong other examples of recent abuses in Russia, the report cites the cases of Sergei Magnitsky, a 37-year-old lawyer who died in pretrial detention in November 2009 after exposing a multimillion-dollar fraud against Russian taxpayers, and Mikhail K
- Secretary Clinton Pledges to Support The Japan ...Secretary Clinton also expressed her deep sympathy to all who have lost their family members, loved ones, friends and colleagues.
Worldnews
- Elton John shakes the walls, offers tribu ...When word came Wednesday morning that Hollywood icon Elizabeth Taylor had died, those holding tickets for the show at Consol Energy Center were likely thinking two things: "That's really sad" and "Uh-oh, what's this going to do to Elton?!" Those concerns were put to rest when he arrived on ...
- Celine Dion: Breastfeeding helped me get ...Losing weight wasn't her priority after giving birth to twins, but the singer admits breastfeeding helped her shed the pounds. Have you seen the post-baby body on Celine Dion? Just five months after giving birth to twins, the singer is back in tip-top shape....
- Census mark: Hispanics to hit 50 million WASHINGTON - In a surprising show of growth, Hispanics accounted for more than half of the U.S. population increase over the last decade, exceeding estimates in most states. Pulled by migration to the Sun Belt, America's population center edged westward on a historic path to leave the Midwe ...
- What's next for nuclear power? The disaster at Fukushima is raising antinuclear sentiment around the world. But can society afford to live without this carbon-free energy source? Six experts weigh in. The human suffering in the Japanese disaster is obviously the overwhelming fact in the situation. Longer term, its effect ...
- Stocks set to continue advance Click the chart for more premarket data. March 24, 2011: 6:50 AM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- U.S. stocks were poised to climb Thursday, following European markets higher, ahead of data on jobless claims and corporate results in the tech sector. Dow Jones industrial average (INDU), S&P 500 (SP ...
Alex in Wonderland
- Report: Active-Duty Army PSYOPS Soldiers Embed ...To better manufacture consent, U.S. Army soldiers are embedded as intern and fellows at local TV affiliates, along with previously reported newspapers and national outlets.
- Daily Briefing—15th-16th Sept 2010News and views from around the web posted to the Wonderland Wire
- Report: U.S. Troops ‘Still Killing Civilians’ ...A U.S.-Iraqi night raid results in the deaths of eight civilians weeks after U.S. combat operations were announced as over.
- Military Welfare Budget Won’t Thin Any T ...Ivan Eland sat with RT to discuss the astronomical political clout held by the welfare queens of the military-industrial complex that will thwart any translation of the Pentagon's rhetoric into actual policy
- Because the System’s Not Rigged Enough for Cop ...Kevin Carson on the criminal injustice system 'shrills' pushing the narrative that the letter of the law aides criminals against so-called 'crime fighters'.
MY Daily Apple
- Diabetes Drug Actos May Also Help PrediabetesThe diabetes drug Actos, which increases insulin sensitivity, appears to dramatically lower diabetes risk in people with prediabetes, according to a new study.
- TRAMADOL HYDROCHLORIDEtablet [American Health ...Updated Date: Mar 23, 2011 EST
- ANTI-BACTERIAL DEEP CLEANSING HAND (Triclosan) ...Updated Date: Mar 23, 2011 EST
- Arthritis Drug Could Help Beat Melanoma Skin C ...A breakthrough discovery by the University of East Anglia (UEA) and Children's Hospital Boston promises an effective new treatment for one of the deadliest forms of cancer. Reporting today in the journal Nature, the researchers found that leflunomide - a drug commonly used to treat rheumatoid a ...
- DUAC (Clindamycin Phosphate And Benzoyl Peroxi ...Updated Date: Mar 21, 2011 EST
Common Dreams
- Gadhafi Attacks Continue Despite Coalition BombingCAIRO—Forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi resumed attacks on Libya’s third-largest city early Thursday despite aerial bombardments by Canadian and other coalition warplanes aimed at halting the violence. The barrage of coalition airstrikes, which involved four of Canada’s CF-18 air fighters, succeed ...
- Germany Set to Abandon Nuclear Power for GoodBERLIN -- Germany is determined to show the world how abandoning nuclear energy can be done. The world's fourth-largest economy stands alone among leading industrialized nations in its decision to stop using nuclear energy because of its inherent risks. It is betting billions on expanding the us ...
- Israel Warns of 'Aggressive' Response to Jerus ...The Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, has vowed to react "aggressively" after a suitcase bomb exploded in Jerusalem, killing a 60-year-old woman and injuring dozens of others. read more
- Dennis Kucinich: What Is Economic Democracy? Dennis Kucinich explains what he means by real economic democracy--full employment, national healthcare and education, and more. Watch the full conversation at http://grittv.org! Distributed by Tubemogul. read more
- Maine Governor LePage Orders Removal of Labor ...AUGUSTA — Gov. Paul LePage has ordered the removal of a 36-foot mural depicting Maine's labor history from the lobby of the Department of Labor. Worker advocates described the move as a "mean-spirited" provocation amid the administration's high-tension standoff with unions. Acting labor chief La ...
The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos
Examine Religion - Tweets
- ExamineReligion: Fat and Happy - A Devotion ht ...ExamineReligion: Fat and Happy - A Devotion http://exm.nr/ibavqw
- ExamineReligion: Catholicism is melting down e ...ExamineReligion: Catholicism is melting down even as Catholics become more liberal http://exm.nr/fKwQzo
- ExamineReligion: Read the Bible in one year: M ...ExamineReligion: Read the Bible in one year: March 24 (Beatitudes, Misty Edwards videos) http://exm.nr/hVnefR
- ExamineReligion: Portugal Prime Minister resig ...ExamineReligion: Portugal Prime Minister resigns as Portugal forced to seek EU bailout http://exm.nr/gAufEh
- ExamineReligion: New ghost hunting resource fo ...ExamineReligion: New ghost hunting resource for Nashville http://exm.nr/dQyjrt
Energy Collective
- Connecting The Dots on SmartGridThe Smart Grid is a revolutionary, multi-disciplinary and complicated engineering challenge that today feels a lot like a connect-the-dots puzzle. � Most of the technologies that will deliver the Smart Grid�s historic envisioned benefits already exist today. The challenge is seamlessly linking t ...
- Would a ‘Pennsylvania Power Authority’ be good ...Also in the Spring 2011 issue of Regulation magazine is Andrew Kleit’s article on a proposed Pennsylvania Power Authority. In the course of explaining why such a state power agency would be a bad idea, Kleit explains a lot about how the wholesale power market works in Pennsylvania (and elsewhere).
- Fukushima’s Silver LiningIf the triple catastrophe in Japan has any silver lining, it’s the boost to non-nuclear renewables such as wind and solar energy. Japan faces immediate power shortages in the wake of the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown, and as Geoffrey Styles observes:
- Social Media, Old Media and FukushimaAs expected it ignored reality to provide its own version of events
- Uber-batteries: Storage Technology Advancing S ...There’s been an intriguing, and possibly even useful, advancement in batteries thanks to researchers at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign:
Green House - USA Today
- KB Home makes solar panels a standard featureAs homebuilders seek to stand out in a struggling housing market, more are including green features such as energy-efficient lights, appliances and windows in their standard packages. Now, there's a push to add solar panels.
- U.S.-Canada tar sands pipeline fuels debateDavid Daniel? found his piece of paradise on 20 acres in east Texas, complete with a hardwood forest of oak, hickory and elm and three spring-fed creeks that burble year-round.
- Calif.'s plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions ...California's plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions by giving incentives to the state's largest polluters has been temporarily halted by a court ruling.
- Poll: U.S. loses nuclear support after Japan quakeAs Japan's nuclear crisis continues, fewer than half of Americans now support the construction of new U.S. nuclear power reactors and most prefer renewable energy and energy efficiency, a new survey Tuesday reveals.
- It's World Water Day! How clean is your water ...Today is the United Nation's World Water Day, and people are marking the occasion in various way. But first: Do you know where your water comes from? If you're like most Americans, you're clueless.
Prior Art
- Recent Patent Litigation Weekly ColumnsMuch 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 InternetFormer 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
- Cheerleading for Warby Stephen Lendman When America goes to war, managed news goes with it spreading rumors, half-truths, misinformation, and willful deception about targeted nations, regimes and leaders, whether despots or democrats. Whoever first said it, the first casualty of war is truth, and then some as J ...
- Billionaires Flourish, Inequalities Deepen as ...James Petras Introduction The bailouts of banks, speculators and manufacturers served their real purposes: the multi-millionaires became billionaires and the later became multi-billionaires. According to the annual report of the business magazine Forbes there are 1,210 individuals – and in ...
- I SAW THE MOONBy Gaither Stewart French President Nicolas Sarkozy, a Bushite figure, with his former model wife and renowned salopette, Carla Bruni. Always glad to play useful foil to America's designs, but harboring ambitions of his own. (Rome) Last Saturday night I saw the Supermoon. The same March 19 nig ...
- Nuclear vs Oil: The devil we knowEric Walberg As oil prices soar and countries think twice about expanding nuclear power, we should be careful about where to point the finger. Japan’s trauma following the partial meltdown of nuclear reactors in Fukushima has once again brought to the world’s attention the dangers of nuclear ...
- Revolt Against American MilitarismBy Timothy V. Gatto When will the American people demand accountability from their government? When will Americans realize that there is no “clear and present danger” that could conceivably be used to invoke the war powers act? Where is it written that America is the conscience of the planet ...
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
- Federal budget analysisWhy analyze a budget that was a live option for all of 45 minutes? Budgets reveal government priorities — and this budget could have ramifications for Canadians for many years to come. Click here to read our analysis of the 45-minute budget, explaining why it wasn't worth supporting. Click ...
- This or that: Which would you choose?Budgets are about choices, they reflect a government's values and priorities. With a $250 billion federal budget, the Harper Government could choose to invest in programs like universal child care or pharmacare... or spend that money on corporate tax cuts, prisons, and fighter jets. We've c ...
- Federal budget tosses crumbs to Canadians, bre ...The CCPA’s leading economists find this year’s federal budget obscures the true cost of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s plan to balance the books while favouring Harper’s pet projects over Canadians’ priorities. “For every dollar the Harper budget allocates to Canadians’ priorities—such as help ...
- International Day for the Elimination of Racia ...Despite an increasingly diverse population, a new report co-produced by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and the Wellesley Institute on Canada�s racialized income gap shows a colour code is still at work in Canada�s labour market. �We found that during the heyday of Canada�s pre-rece ...
- 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 ...
World Wide Hippies
- Medical Marijuana is Big BusinessMedical marijuana now a $1.7 billion market | Raw Story The first ever investor-grade analysis report of the medical marijuana market in the United States found that it will soon rival the market for Viagra. The report, released Wednesday by the independent financial analysis firm See Change Str ...
- Airport Fire Causes DelaysFire at Miami airport could cause delays | CNN An enormous blaze sent fire crews to Miami International Airport overnight and may delay flights Thursday, officials said. The fire started Wednesday night in an area where fuel is kept after a tank caught fire, Miami-Dade fire officials said. It se ...
- Support Elizabeth WarrenBarney Frank: Obama might not have stomach for fight over Elizabeth Warren | The Hill President Obama may not be willing to endure the ideological battle that would result from nominating Elizabeth Warren to head the new consumer protection agency, a top Democrat said Monday. Rep. Barney Frank ( ...
- Centuries old Nepal banishment ritual endanger ...By Nilima Raut with Shubhi Tandon | WWN – The centuries old practice of chhaupadi in Nepal can cause prolonged depression in girls and women. In extreme cases it can also cause death. Chhaupadi pratha, or ritual practice, places Nepali women and girls in a limbo of isolation. In history it is a ...
- Bahrain: It’s All About The OilOil interests muted Bahrain criticism: Analysts | The Vancouver Sun Saudi Arabia’s massive oil wealth and Sunni solidarity against Shiite Iran is the main reason Arab states remained muted over repression in Bahrain, while loudly protesting over the crushing of a popular revolt in Libya, analyst ...
Michael Moore - Must Read
- The Cost of One F-15E Lost in Libya Is 563 Wis ...According to the New York Times, the U.S. fighter jet that just crashed in Libya was an F-15E Strike Eagle. The Air Force says each F-15E cost $31.1 million in 1998 dollars (not including fuel, pilot training or anything else). Adjusted for inflation, that's $42.23 million today. Wisconsin tea ...
- Rick Snyder's "Shared Sacrifice": Michigan's W ...Michigan's tax system is already regressive -- meaning that poorer people pay a higher tax rate than the wealthy. But Governor Rick Snyder has decided that it's just not regressive enough. So in the name of "shared sacrifice," he wants to hike the tax rate on poor and working Michiganders, while ...
- VIDEO: Bus leaves Kalamazoo to protest Gov. Sn ...People talk about why they are going to Lansing to take part in protests against Gov. Rick Snyder's proposals, including bills that would give emergency financial managers the power to terminate labor contracts, proposed cuts to education funding and tax policy changes.
- The Forbes 400 vs. Everybody ElseAccording to the most recent information, the Forbes 400 now have a greater net worth than the bottom 50% of U.S. households combined. In 2009, the total net worth of the Forbes 400 was $1.27 trillion. The best information now available shows that in 2009 the bottom 60% (yes, now it's 60%, n ...
- Cairo in Wisconsin The call reportedly arrived from Cairo. Pizza for the protesters, the voice said. It was Saturday, February 20th, and by then Ian's Pizza on State Street in Madison, Wisconsin, was overwhelmed. One employee had been assigned the sole task of answering the phone and taking down orders. An ...
Salon
- Miranda is Obama's latest victimOne of the central pledges of Barack Obama's campaign was that -- as he put it early in his presidency -- the Bush administration had gone wildly wrong because it "established an ad hoc legal approach for fighting terrorism that was neither effective nor sustainable -- a framework that failed ...
- Obama rolls back Miranda rightsThe Obama administration has created a new interrogation policy in which investigators may waive the Miranda warning if they think it necessary to get timely intelligence from a terrorism suspect, the Wall Street Journal reports.
- Newt Gingrich's next two weeks of policy state ...Two weeks ago, Newt Gingrich said this is what he would do about Libya, if he were president:
- French strike deep in Libya, targeting arms flowFrench airstrikes hit an air base deep inside Libya in an effort to stop possible traffic of arms or the flow of mercenaries into Libya, a military official said Thursday.
- Japan concerned about radiation in tap waterShops across Tokyo began rationing goods -- milk, toilet paper, rice and water -- as a run on bottled water coupled with delivery disruptions left shelves bare Thursday nearly two weeks after the earthquake and tsunami to the north.
SMB News
- Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits ...For SMB News Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits camps PURWOBINANGUN: Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano spewed more deadly heat clouds Wednesday as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono visited some of the 50,000 evacuees in shelters. Searing gas billowed from the crater of the 2,914-metr ...
- Kasaba throws spit on the camera\Kasaba throws spit on cameraMUMBAI: Ajmal Kasaba webcam spit on Tuesday during a hearing in the Bombay High Court for confirmation of the death penalty, which led the court strictly tell him to behave properly. Judjes a warning when they Kasaba altercation with the police and spit at the camera ...
- K’taka Speaker disqualifies 16 MLAsFor SMB News KBANGALORE: Hours ahead of the trust vote for beleaguered Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa in the Assembly, Speaker K G Bopaiah disqualified sixteen rebel MLAs, including eleven from ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), legislative sources said on Monday. Bopaiah signed the ...
- Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8For SMB News Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8 KARACHI: Eight people including two children were killed and over 65 others suffered injuries when two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Abdullah Shah Ghazi’s shrine in Clifton, official sources said here Thursday. Two heads, beli ...
- Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistakeFor SMB News Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistakes’ LONDON: Former president Gen. (Retd.) Pervez Musharraf Friday admitted that political mistakes were committed in the twilight years of his regime and sought apology from Pakistani nation for the same. “These mistakes caused damage ...
Toronto Star - Editorials
- Hunger on the riseMonthly visits to food banks have jumped 28 per cent since the economic downturn in 2008.
- Listening is Job One The TTC's customer service czar faces a hard ride ahead, but Toronto is counting on him to deliver a new attitude and restored trust.
- Budget fails nation’s needsA budget whose transparent political purpose is to undercut the opposition parties.
- Allies need a clear strategy So far, so good. Now what? The United States and its allies have moved with heartening speed to shield Libyans from Moammar Gadhafi’s savagery, impose a no-fly zone over Libya, bomb his mercenaries and pound his Tripoli command centre. Canadian ...
- Time to track jury duty scofflawsIt would be useful to find out how many Ontarians are ignoring the law and skipping jury duty.
Energy Collective
- Connecting The Dots on SmartGridThe Smart Grid is a revolutionary, multi-disciplinary and complicated engineering challenge that today feels a lot like a connect-the-dots puzzle. � Most of the technologies that will deliver the Smart Grid�s historic envisioned benefits already exist today. The challenge is seamlessly linking t ...
- Would a ‘Pennsylvania Power Authority’ be good ...Also in the Spring 2011 issue of Regulation magazine is Andrew Kleit’s article on a proposed Pennsylvania Power Authority. In the course of explaining why such a state power agency would be a bad idea, Kleit explains a lot about how the wholesale power market works in Pennsylvania (and elsewhere).
- Fukushima’s Silver LiningIf the triple catastrophe in Japan has any silver lining, it’s the boost to non-nuclear renewables such as wind and solar energy. Japan faces immediate power shortages in the wake of the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown, and as Geoffrey Styles observes:
- Social Media, Old Media and FukushimaAs expected it ignored reality to provide its own version of events
- Uber-batteries: Storage Technology Advancing S ...There’s been an intriguing, and possibly even useful, advancement in batteries thanks to researchers at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign:
EU Times
- America is going broke Federal Reserve officia ...A senior Federal Reserve official warned today that America is going broke as fears grow the Libyan bombardment could cost more than $1 billion. With the U.S. now fighting three wars, the massive new military drain on the budget could not have come at a worse time as the nation is trying to claw ...
- Actress Elizabeth Taylor dies at 79Legendary actress Elizabeth Taylor, a two-time Oscar winner and Hollywood beauty whose screen success was sometimes overshadowed by her tumultuous personal life, died on Wednesday at age 79. She died after a long battle with congestive heart failure at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles surrou ...
- Russia leads nations’ protest over air raids i ...Some countries Monday blasted the ongoing West-led military operation against Libya government forces, saying the air raids went beyond the UN resolution and must be scrapped immediately. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin severely criticized the U.S. role in the “Odyssey Dawn” operation agai ...
- Germans pull forces out of NATO as Libyan coal ...* Tensions with Britain as Gates rebukes UK government over suggestion Gaddafi could be assassinated * French propose a new political ‘committee’ to oversee operations * Germany pulls equipment out of NATO coalition over disagreement over campaign’s direction * Italians accuse French of backing ...
- US chopper shoots 6 villagers who welcomed Air ...Six Libyan villagers are recovering in hospital after being shot by American soldiers coming in to rescue the U.S. pilots whose plane crash-landed in a field. The helicopter strafed the ground as it landed in a field outside Benghazi beside the downed U.S. Air Force F-15E Eagle which ran into tr ...
Stonecipher News
- Normal Structure and Function of the Musculosk ...Mr. Ghaz says: Muscular dystrophies refer to a group of more than 30 genetic diseases which are characterized by progressive weakness and degeneration of the skeletal muscles..Studies and estimation show that after sustaining a hip fracture (as a result of osteoporosis) 20% of patients die withi ...
- Reasons to Donate BloodHave you ever donated blood? If you have why did you do it? It may have been for a loved one or a friend. It could have been for the free coupons and gift certificates blood centers provide for donations. Maybe you’re required to donate blood being that you’re in the medical field. In actua ...
- Special Education High School Transition ServicesFrom my Factoidz page: 1414(d) and in Findings about “effective transition services to promote successful post-Students typically start transition services at the age 14 if educational services are still required as determined by the school district and the IEP team. However, Washington State’s ...
- Don't Quit Your Day JobThis is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Ashworth College. All opinions are 100% mine. With approximately 4,000,000 students today, more than 20 percent of all students enrolled in higher education are taking at least one course online. Self paced online courses ...
- Breast Cancer Gene May Raise Men’s Risk, TooSource: HealthDay News: "A faulty gene that greatly increases a woman’s risk of breast cancer also boosts a man’s risk for the disease, a new study finds. While most people think of breast cancer as a woman’s illness, in rare cases men can develop breast tumors as well. The new study found tha ...
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