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- South African Farmers Set Up in Congo
In the hope of strengthening its agricultural production, the Republic of Congo has handed over 80,000 hectares of arable land to a company owned and operated by 14 South African farmers.
- New Yorkers Rage Against the Cuts
In the shadow of towering colonial-style office buildings of the world's most powerful financial district, a crowd over 5,000-strong amassed outside Manhattan's City Hall Thursday, chanting "The people united will never be defeated!"
- Heaviest Ever Floods in Northern Namibia
North-central Namibia is experiencing the heaviest floods ever recorded, but unlike in previous years, the area is fully prepared.
- ECUADOR: Catholics Demand Removal of Far-Right ...
The appointment of an ultra-conservative priest as apostolic administrator of the diocese of Sucumbíos, in northeastern Ecuador, triggered open rebellion among a large proportion of the area's Catholics, with the support of civil society organisations and even of President Rafael Correa himself.
- DR CONGO: Beauty of a Bean Wins Farmers' Hearts
Smallholder farmers in Bandundu Province are boosting their harvests with the help of the sweetly-named velvet bean.
- FLOTILLA : Stop Deep Sea Oil
The New Zealand Government is inviting foreign oil companies like Petrobras to drill for oil in some of New Zealand’s deepest coastal waters. East Cape iwi Te Whānau-ā-Apanui have called on the rest of New Zealand to join them in defending the spectacular East Cape from deep sea oil drilling. He ...
- 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 condemned
In 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 | STRATFOR
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. 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 ...
- Libyan rebels regain besieged city of Ajdabiya
Libyan rebels regained control of the eastern gateway city of Ajdabiya on Saturday after international airstrikes crippled Moammar Gaddafi's forces, in the first major turnaround for an uprising that a week ago appeared on the verge of defeat. In a western city the opposition lost to Gaddafi, ...
- Syrian authorities release 70 political prisoners
Syrian President Bashar Assad pulled back police and soldiers from a restive southern city and released dozens of political prisoners on Saturday in an attempt to appease demonstrators furious about a violent government crackdown on dissent that has left dozens dead.
- Pakistan to compensate victims of US strike
The Pakistani government will compensate the families of 39 people killed in a recent American missile attack close to the Afghan border, an official said today, one of first times authorities have announced such a move.
- Troops storm Syrian protest
Syrian security troops have stormed a protest sit-in near the capital Damascus, arresting about 200 people in the midnight raid, according to activists.
- Jesuits settle US abuse claims for $166 million
In one of the largest settlements in the Roman Catholic church's sweeping sex abuse scandal, an order of priests agreed yesterday to pay $166.1 million (£103m) to hundreds of Native Americans and Alaska Natives who were abused at the order's schools around the northwestern US.
- Israel ready to react with 'great force': Net ...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told US Defence Secretary Robert Gates on Friday that Israel is ready to act with "great force" in response to a spate of rocket fire by Gaza militants and a deadly bus bombing in Jerusalem.
- CBO: Taxing mileage a practical option for re ...
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) this week released a report that said taxing people based on how many miles they drive is a possible option for raising new revenues and that these taxes could be used to offset the costs of highway maintenance at a time when federal funds are short.
- Transgender New Yorkers sue over birth certif ...
A group of transgender residents filed a lawsuit against New York City over what they say are burdensome requirements for them to change the gender on their birth certificates.
- 6.8-magnitude quake strikes NE Myanmar
A powerful earthquake struck northeastern Myanmar on Thursday night, killing one woman and shaking buildings as far away as Bangkok. No tsunami was generated.
- Yemeni presidential guards clash with army
Presidential guards loyal to Yemen's president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, clashed in the town of Mukalla on Thursday with army units backing opposition groups who are demanding his removal.
- Search for the stellar smoking gun
When big stars go boom, they are like really, really big guns — they leave behind a telltale smoke signal and a path of destruction. Understanding the forensic evidence from just a puff of smoke might sound near impossible, but for Samar Safi-Harb, it’s just another day at the office. Originally ...
- Women and science
Five Canadian women. Five accomplished scientists. Five perspectives.
- A recipe for failure
By definition, perfectionists set very high standards for themselves. As a result, they are also setting themselves up to fail. And when they do, research is now showing that many perfectionists resort to binge eating to alleviate feelings of loneliness, sadness and inadequacy. “Perfectionists o ...
- The challenging spine, the adventurous mind
- What’s love got to do with it?
Toni Tennille promised “Love Will Keep Us Together,” and while it may be true that she and Daryl “the Captain” Dragon have stayed together for 40 years, it’s unlikely love was the only glue. Lasting relationships require commitment, satisfaction and trust, says Lorne Campbell, a social psycholog ...
- US: Colorado wildfire forces evacuation of 9,5 ...
A wind-whipped wildfire forced the evacuation of 9,500 homes southeast of Denver on Thursday just as firefighters were gaining the upper hand on a separate blaze that has burned stubbornly for five days west of the city. Deputy Michelle Rademacher of the Douglas County Sheriff's Office said the ...
- UK: London march may be the biggest in history
The TUC-organized March for the Alternative in London enjoys the potential to demonstrate unity and solidarity among every member of Britain's labor movement. Between 100,000 to 300,000 people are expected to turn out in the massive protests organized by the Trades Union Congress (TUC) today ...
- '114 Libyans killed in US-led strikes'
Libya says at least 114 people, including several civilians, have been killed and 445 others injured in a week-long campaign of US-led military airstrikes in the oil-rich country. "From March 20 to March 23, the attacks have killed 114 people and injured 445 people," the Libyan State TV quoted ...
- Ewe have got to be kidding! The 'puppy' born t ...
Vets say it's impossible - but to Chinese farmer Liu Naiying his birth is a miracle. For Mr Liu insists one of his sheep has given birth to a dog The 'puppy' has wool like a lamb but its mouth, nose, eyes, paws and tail look more like a dog's.
- US: Wisconsin Union Law Published Despite Cour ...
Wis. law taking away collective bargaining rights published; disagreement over taking effect Wisconsin officials couldn't agree Friday about whether an explosive law taking away nearly all public worker collective bargaining rights was about to take effect after a nonpartisan legislative bure ...
- The Crazy Years . . .
WHEREVER HE IS, Robert Heinlein must be ROTFL, because the Crazy Years must surely have arrived, as according to Gail Collins' article in the NYT, "School of Glock", there are disturbing things afoot:Well, in Florida, a state representative has introduced a bill that would impose fines of up to ...
- Syria becomes serious . . .
OL' BASHAR'S BASHING his citizens, who are fed up with some 40 years of single-party (the Ba'ath party) corruption and police state. According to The Guardian's Katherine Marsh, in Damascus, they're killing people. That's Bashar, below. He's used to causing pain.Last night there were reports tha ...
- Election call
Well, here we go. Finally. Unless of course the man formerly known as the prime minister decides simply to not go to the GG - you know he's probably considered it. Either way, the Harper Government(tm) is no more at least for the next few weeks, and perhaps even nevermore. After the vote, Speake ...
- Considering Libya
Some 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 ...
- Who Is G. Edward Griffin, Beck's Expert On The ...
On his Fox News show, Glenn Beck presented author G. Edward Griffin as a credible authority on the Federal Reserve. But Griffin has an extensive history of promoting wild conspiracy theories, including the notions that HIV does not exist and that cancer is a dietary deficiency that can be cured ...
- Limbaugh Smears Obama Administration For ...
Rush Limbaugh mocked the Obama administration for use of the term "kinetic" to describe military action in Libya, saying that the administration had "come up with the ludicrous term." In reality,�"kinetic" is a common military�term used by military�and civilian�leaders�under both Democratic and ...
- Fox Mocks DOJ For Bringing Lawsuit To Defend R ...
Bill O'Reilly, Jeanine Pirro, Gretchen Carlson are ridiculing and attacking the Justice Department for suing a school district for discrimination on behalf of a Muslim teacher who resigned after her request for time off to make hajj, a religious pilgrimage observant Muslims must take, was denie ...
- Hemmer Cherry Picks "Unscientific Poll"&n ...
Fox News' Bill Hemmer mischaracterized public opinion as strongly opposed to union rights, citing what he himself called an "unscientific poll." In fact, actual scientific polls - including a Fox News poll - have shown widespread public opposition to restricting collective bargaining rights for ...
- Right-Wing Media's Evidence-Free Attack That O ...
Following the president's military action, the right-wing media launched an evidence-free attack that Obama is lying when he claims that the United States will not deploy ground troops in Libya. Media conservatives have baselessly speculated that special operative troops may be operating in Lib ...
- Miral's Rula Jebreal: The Palestinian Woman wh ...
Rula Jebreal,�whose autobiographical novel inspired Julian Schnabel's film�Miral, condemns violence by Israelis and Palestinians, quotes Yitzhak Rabin, and is dedicated to peace. So why did the Israeli Government, the American Jewish Congress and the Anti-Defamation League try to�stop�the film's ...
- Culture Shock
I had a strange experience of culture shock in the last two weeks. During the University Spring Break, I journeyed down to a tiny group of islands of the coast of Venezuela called Los Rocques. There are no cars, no motorbikes. Dogs and children roam the sand pathways between houses with complete ...
- Why Gov. LePage Can't Erase History, And Why W ...
Maine Governor Paul LePage has ordered state workers to remove from the state labor department a 36-foot mural depicting the state's labor history. Among other things the mural illustrates the 1937 shoe mill strike in Auburn and Lewiston. It also features the iconic "Rosie the Riveter," who in r ...
- 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 Bahrain
In 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 ...
- Libya Conflict Highlights NATO's Imperialist M ...
Having launched its Libyan regime change war to oust the Qaddafi dictatorship from the United States' German-based Africa Command, the Obama administration this week arranged to continue its air war under cover of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) alliance. Long understood to be a re ...
- Qaddafi Forces Pull Back as Rebels Retake Key ...
Ajdabiya, Libya - Rebels seized Ajdabiya on Saturday, government and rebel forces said, succeeding in an effort to retake this key town in the east following another night of allied air strikes read more
- Just a Couple More Things About NPR
Like Jake LaMotta and his brother Joey in the bloody boxing classic "Raging Bull," we are gluttons for punishment. So, here we are again, third week in a row, defending NPR against the bare-knuckled assault of its critics.read more
- Continuing Colonialism: World Bank Funds Minin ...
The private finance sector arm of the World Bank Group announced last month that it would invest $300 million to promote mining in Africa.read more
- Farmers Sue USDA Over Monsanto Alfalfa - Again
A coalition of farmers and environmental groups filed a lawsuit against the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) on March 18 to challenge the agency's recent decision to fully deregulate Monsanto's Roundup Ready alfalfa. This is the second time the USDA has been sued over its approval of Roundup ...
- Radiation Infographic
Here's an interesting infographic for you -- all you wanted to know about radiation and more. A nice follow-up to the radiation dose chart I shared last week.
- Seventh Generation & EcoLogic Team Up to Creat ...
Seventh Generation liquid laundry detergent will soon have a new look. They are introducing a new bottle made of recycled cardboard and newspaper and 66% less plastic.
- Renewable Energy and Eco-Engineering Internshi ...
Are you looking for a clean tech summer internship? Are you an expert in cogen, biomass heaters or solar-thermal? Maybe you can help our project at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage....
- Returning Soldiers Have Opportunities in Organ ...
Several organic farming programs take in returning soldiers and teach them the basics of organic farming so that they can learn how to earn a living whilst integrating back into civilian life.
- Earth Hour 2011: Join The World Turn Off Our L ...
Earth Hour will be this Saturday, March 26th at 8:30 (local time). At this time everyone will switch off their lights around the globe for Earth Hour and people will commit to actions that go beyond the hour. So grab some candles and help in the biggest grass roots movement on the planet.
- Depleted Uranium: A Strange Way To Protect Lib ...
"[Depleted uranium tipped missiles] fit the description of a dirty bomb in every way... I would say that it is the perfect weapon for killing lots of people." ~ Marion Falk, chemical physicist (retd), Lawrence Livermore Lab, California, USA In the first 24 hours of the Libya ...
- US 'kill team' soldier who murdered unarmed Af ...
Editor's Note: Associated Press and the U.S. government use Jeremy Morlock to distinguish members of the U.S. "Kill Team" in their unconscionable war from "murderers." Axis of Logic makes no such distinction and regard every single killing by U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan as murder. Morlock's mur ...
- Thousands in Yemen march against Saleh - Wor ...
Tens of thousands of protesters are on the streets of Sanaa, Yemen's capital, to call for an end to Ali Abdullah Saleh's 32-year rule, as the embattled president said he would only hand over power "to capable, responsible hands". Addressing a large rally of his own supporters in a speech...
- Former First Lady Mildred Aristide on Her Hist ...
// // AMY GOODMAN: We turn now to Haiti’s former First Lady Mildred Aristide. She met President Aristide when she was an attorney in New York helping the President after the first U.S.-backed coup against him in 1991. We spoke just about an hour out of Haiti on that historic...
- Relatives sue banana firm over killings in Col ...
FAMILIES OF victims in Colombia’s civil war are suing the biggest banana importer in the United States for its role in funding illegal armed groups in the country’s conflict. Relatives of 931 people killed by left-wing guerrillas and right-wing paramilitaries want compensation after Chiquita ...
- Way Too Early to Use Words Like "Succeeding"
"Tthe United States should not-and cannot-intervene every time there's a crisis somewhere in the world. But I firmly believe that when innocent people are being brutalized; when someone like Qaddafi threatens a bloodbath that could destabilize an entire region; and when the international communi ...
- The Nightowl Newswrap
Syria murders protesters rather than negotiate. "Syrian security forces have opened fire on anti-government protesters in the city of Sanamin near Daraa, killing at least 20 people, according to one witness. "There are more than 20 martyrs .... they [security forces] opened fire haphazardly," th ...
- We All Know This But Has It Really Ever Sunk In?
GE isn't the only one doing it by a long shot. �An article a year or two ago stated that at least 80 of the top Fortune 500 companies pay no US taxes at all while dozens more pay percentage amounts far below what the average small business owner or head of household pays. �But GE is the acknowle ...
- Quote of the Day
The Rude Pundit: It's one thing for capitalism to be amoral. It's another for it to be immoral. While that immorality may not be so brazen nowadays, it is there in every cutback made by profitable companies, it is there in every job shipped overseas, it is there in every denial of health care f ...
- GOP Governor LePage aims to erase Maine's labo ...
This week's news brought clashing headlines that tell us much about the deranged state of American society today. On March 25, labor activists marked the 100th anniversary of a tragic fire at the nine-story Triangle Shirtwaist Company in Greenwich Village New York that claimed the lives of 146 p ...
- How Do We Love Polar Bears?
Humans desire to "love" and "admire" wild animals has caused the capture, breeding and brutalization of millions of animals throughout history. Knut's mother was a former circus bear. Let's honor them and leave them free!] Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Shelter Reform At Hempstead: Fire and Prosecut ...
KEEP THE PRESSURE ON~ CONTACT THEM ASAP: Please let them know we will NOT allow the senseless abusive treatment to continue, at ANY shelter. Pat Horan should be FIRED and PROSECUTED for her crimes against defenseless animals. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Prevent Oklahoma from Overturning Puppy Mill R ...
New rules were finalized December 22, 2010 to improve animal welfare standards for dog and cat breeders in Oklahoma. These rules are set to take effect on July 1, 2011. However, there is a bill passing through that will negate this whole process. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Not ...
- Radioactive substances and their impact on health
Countries around the world have either banned or stepped up tests on imports from quake-stricken Japan after radioactive substances were found in its food and water following blasts at a nuclear plant.Submitted by Suzane dsouza to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- 45 Australian Species Face Extinction in 20 Years
For decades, the remote Kimberley region of Northern Australia has stood as a stronghold for dozens of rare native species of mammals, birds, lizards and other vertebrates. Now, these species are under serious threat from encroaching invasive species and Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals � ...
- Obama’s Libyan State of Delusion and Confusion
At least 12 times since March 3 Barack Obama has said that Muammar Qaddafi must go. Yet he does not mean what he says and that is not U.S. policy. The following CNN video is absolutely stunning: The zombie looking character spinning the bullshit in this clip is Denis McDonough, Obama’s Deputy Na ...
- Devastation American Style
War slaughters and maims people, and it also destroys the great monuments of a culture. We have seen the images from ancient times up to the present day of once-grand edifices reduced to rubble and debris due to the ravages of wars and decay. Look below the fold. Where do you think these photos ...
- Women’s History Month – Women and War
The summer after I graduated from the police academy I was asked to give a speech for our city’s July 4th celebration about women in service to our country. I was honored. Through my research I was amazed with the history of women fighting for the United States and serving our country. For Natio ...
- Hillary Clinton Statement on Libya / NATO
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s statement included this elegantly-stated “dig” at the endless punditry on cable and network news programming. (No Quarter has published numerous commentaries on the Libyan venture but given Secretary Clinton her due for her tireless efforts, particularly sinc ...
- Unled [& Open Thread * Update]
Bronwyn’s UPDATE: Check our Twitter account (@noquarterusa) for Larry’s frequent comments as well as announcements of NoQuarter’s major posts. Check out our Twitter “channel” in the right column, just below “Recent Comments.” The Obama administration is stuck with a coalition that is unled, ...
- Bizarre Animals on the Edge of Extinction
Many unique and wonderful creatures on the verge of extinction get little or no conservation attention. EDGE is a program aimed at highlighting the plight these species. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the ...
- Renewable Energy Use in the Developing World
Meeting the energy needs of the developing world with sustainable and ethical solutions. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- The Parthenon: The Ancient Greek Temple Atop A ...
Ravaged by the early Christians and the Turks, and looted by the British, the Parthenon nevertheless sits proudly on the hill of the Acropolis in Athens. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- 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
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- Libyan Blood Oil:An Illegal War of Hypocrisy a ...
Libyan Blood Oil:An Illegal War of Hypocrisy and Self Interest By: Solomon Comissiong On March 20th 2011 the US and NATO forces began an aggressive aerial assault on the North African nation of Libya under the disingenuous pretext that it was a humanitarian mission to save civilians from being k ...
- Michigan: The Shock Doctrine
 Michigan Schools facing bankruptcy: The Shock Doctrine at play More than 150 school districts and charter schools in Michigan are teetering on the edge of going broke, a situation that is likely to get worse under Governor Rick Snyder’s proposed budget cuts of $470 per pupil. These are the di ...
- They said it wasn’t Chernobyl and they lied!
Michael Collins According to an international scientific group monitoring radiation around the world, the Fukushima reactors are emitting nuclear toxins at levels approaching those seen in the “aftermath” of Chernobyl. The Chernobyl disaster began with an explosion, Fukushima is a smoldering cau ...
- The War in Libya is NOT for Humanitarian Reaso ...
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/your-world-news/2011/03/25/war-in-libya-is-not-for-humanitarian-reason Please Join us this episode as we break down and crumble the rubbish and lies being fed to the world by the US and NATO for their war of imperialism on yet another brown nation! US government offi ...
- The War on Libya (The US Media Banging the War ...
http://blip.tv/file/4927639 http://blip.tv/file/4927646 When the US and Nato forces decided to go to war with Libya under the disingenuous pretext of a humanitarian mission to save lives the US corporate media took it upon themselves to bang the drums of war just as their political partners aske ...
- Traduction des preuves en Français
Les preuves en Français Preuves à l’appui: une introduction Preuves à l’appui: la santé physique Preuves à l’appui: la santé mentale Preuves à l’appui: la toxicomanie Preuves à l’appui: l’éducation Preuves à l’appui: la population carcérale
- Response to criticism of The Spirit Level
Find our full response to criticism of The Spirit Level here.
- The Wrong Cure - alternatives to the cuts
The False Economy website is an excellent and still-developing resource exploring the alternatives to cuts. False Economy includes: a discussion of why the cuts are not progressive details of campaign actions a comprehensive further reading list ... and this short film [youtube:ynUCYo ...
- Why we need a Fairness Test of the cuts
A group of charities, including the Equality Trust, Child Poverty Action Group, Barnardo's and the TUC are asking the coalition government to commit to a Fairness Test on any tax rises or spending cuts they introduce. Full details...
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- Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Mon ...
Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Money Out of Politics By Carmen Yarrusso There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.â–Henry David Thoreau Clearly, our government ...
- IOT: Healthcare for All Jan Call
Call – Healthcare for All IOT Date – Jan 18, 2011 Agenda: 1. IntroductionsâDr. Bill Honigman, PDA Healthcare for All IOT coordinator and California State Coordinator 2. National Single Payer MovementâKatie Robbins, Healthcare-NOW! 3. States Single Payer Movement–Chuck Pennacchio, Healthcare ...
- PDA Weekly Field Report 1/7/2011 – 1/18/2011
Little Victories! Field Site: onenationpda.org California ADEM elections: Congratulations to all our PDA California friends and allies who completed a sweep up and down at the state at the recent CA Democratic Party Delegate elections. This will put the ...
- War is a Crime: Join In For Justice
WarIsACrime.org JOIN IN FOR JUSTICE! 1/17/11 Washington, D.C., and Quantico, Va. Protest of FBI Raids and Bradley Manning Imprisonment http://www.defendingdissent.org/action/Events.htm 1/18/11 Washington, D.C. Panel with Rep. Rush Holt, Emily Berman from the Brennan Center for Justice, Sha ...
- An American Suicide Terrorist
William John Cox The shooter of Congresswoman Gifford acted as a domestic suicide terrorist on the political “battleground” of American politics. His YouTube postings and “goodby” phone messages are ominously reminiscent of the traditional farewell videos ...
- Del Monte Salmonella Outbreak to Expand from O ...
On March 21, I raised the question – “Are we due for a Salmonella serotype Panama Cantaloupe Outbreak?” On March 22 Del Monte Fresh Produce N.A., Inc. (“Del Monte Fresh”) of Coral Gables, Florida recalled 4,992 cartons of cantaloupes, each containing 4 plastic mesh sleeves with 3 cantaloupes pe ...
- E. coli O157:H7 Bologna Linked to BJ's Wholesa ...
It is looking like a second dance with BJ’s is in the offing. The USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service just released the list of retail establishments that may have received E. coli contaminated bologna that has been recalled by Palmyra Bologna Company. The bad bologna, which has caused a ...
- Punitive Damages are in the Wright County Egg ...
This moring we got the news that the Federal Court will allow us to maintain a claim for punitive damages agaist Wright County Egg and its owner, Austin J. “Jack” DeCoster. For those you may have forgotten: According to the CDC, from May 1 to November 30, 2010, approximately 1,939 Salmonella E ...
- Walker Wedding from Hell - A Salmonella Cantal ...
Jamie Grey of KTVB Boise reported yesterday on what can be an “epidemiology learning moment.” According to Ms. Grey, around 5,000 cases of (about 60,000 fruit) Del Monte “cantaloupe sold at Costco stores in Idaho and other states in the west have been recalled because of possible Salmonella con ...
- 2011 Guiding Lights Weekend
Food safety attorney Bill Marler's presentation at the 2011 Guiding Lights Weekend in Seattle on how to lobby for the public interest in an era of divided government. How To Lobby in an Era of Divided Government with Bill Marler View more presentations from Bill Marler
- Volvo considering insanely high $2,100/month l ...
Filed under: Car Buying, Hatchback, Volvo, Electric Volvo C30 Electric - Click above for high-res image gallery A trial fleet of around 400 Volvo C30 Electrics is coming, and anyone who wants one had better have an awful big piggy bank. Speaking at a media launch near Indianapolis, IN today ...
- Smart ForSpeed concept revealed before Geneva ...
Filed under: Concept Cars, Convertible, Geneva Motor Show, Smart, Electric Smart Forspeed - Click above for high-res image gallery Not every future Smart model is in trouble of vanishing - some will never see the light of production. To wit, Daimler's minicar maker is bringing an all-electr ...
- Report: Some dealers price gouging Chevy Volt ...
Filed under: Car Buying, Hybrid, Sedan, Chevrolet, GM, Electric 2011 Chevrolet Volt - Click above for high-res image gallery Even though some Chevrolet dealers were warned not to sell the Volt above the MSRP, there is a distinct trend around the country where some dealers are trying to make ...
- Audi, Voith enter new carbon fiber partnership
Filed under: Technology, Audi Audi Aluminum A5 Coupe Prototype - Click above for high-res image Audi has put carbon fiber to good use in concept vehicles like the e-tron show cars and a special lightweight A5, which has a carbon fiber hood and rear deck, and in some parts of the R8 and RS 3. ...
- Report: $33M in EV tax credits went to buy unq ...
Filed under: Car Buying, Government/Legal Is a bicycle an electric vehicle? How about a Hummer H3? These are some of the things that Americans claimed were hybrids, alternative-powered or plug-in electric vehicles on their tax forms, reports USA Today. What's more, the false claimants managed ...
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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 ...
- 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 ...
- Hundreds of Invisible "X" Galaxies Predic ...
The outer edges of the Milky Way's appear to be orbited by innumerable invisible galaxies, one of which appears to be crashing into our own. Back in 2005 astronomers discovered the first evidence of mysterious dark galaxies with no starlight...
- Sex Increases Heart Attack Risk for Lazy ...
If you sit on your butt most of the time, this news may make you break out in a sweat: Sporadic bursts of sex or exercise can increase the risk of a heart attack.
- Hot dogs for better health? Actually, yes ...
If given the choice between eating a hot dog or enjoying some rotisserie chicken, you may want to consider the hot dog.
- The 'Eye of Sauron': NGC 4151
This composite image shows the central region of the spiral galaxy NGC 4151, dubbed the "Eye of Sauron" by astronomers for its similarity to the eye of the malevolent character in "The Lord of the Rings". In the "pupil" of the eye, X-rays (blue) from the Chandra X-ray Observatory are combin ...
- On 22nd Anniversary of Exxon Valdez, 10-Y ...
The Exxon Valdez oil spill has apparently not left much of a legacy other than the pollution that remains in the area, even as we mark 22 years since the accident, but there's a 10-year-old girl from the Sliammon First Nation in British Columbia who does know better and who understands the ...
- It’s time to Wake up and Smell the Bodie ...
By Les Visible A lot of things are missing from contemporary life of the moment. One of these things is manners. Oh how I miss that in the general flow of life. Another thing is ‘objective reasoning’. If you don’t possess it, you do not know how valuable it is. It’s a big help in [...]
- More than 2,000 vaccinated babies died: The co ...
By Neil Miller Earlier this month (March 2011), Japanese authorities ordered doctors to stop using pneumococcal and Hib vaccines because four children died after receiving the shots. However, the real news was never reported: more than 2,000 babies died in the United States after receiving vacci ...
- ALERT!!!!! BLOODBATH PREPARED IN BAHRAIN TOMORROW
by Finian Cunningham and Ralph Schoenman for RedactedNews | March 24, 2011 Far from being intimidated by the escalating violent rampage unleashed upon an unarmed population by Bahraini authorities and occupying troops, a large turnout is anticipated after Friday prayers tomorrow, March 25. Peopl ...
- Israel’s Fingerprints Are All Over 9/11 (And I ...
By Joshua Blakeney STAFF WRITER Over the last week or so I’ve engaged in some vibrant email exchanges with some of the most prominent movers and shakers in the 9/11 skeptics community, most of whom are reluctant to emphasize the Israeli dimension of 9/11. While I would not publish the private co ...
- Was Fukushima a victim of Stuxnet?
by jimfred As many of my readers likely know, there was an exceptionally brilliant piece of utterly evil computer code released on the world beginning in 2009. It was named Stuxnet. I urge you to read Vanity Fair’s April 2011 article about Stuxnet for a good understanding of what the virus does, ...
- Less Than a Week Away
We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware.George Green will be a featured speaker.September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CAClick here for Tickets & Reservations
- The Georgia Guidestones
On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
- The Creation
THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to pu ...
- The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...
In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
- About George Green
Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to fo ...
- Cartoon caption contest
Take a look at the cartoon below and enter your caption idea in the comment section (more ifo on prize, etc. below the cartoon). Eligible captions will be those posted on my site, Elephant Journal, Wend Magazine, PlanetSave, Eco-Snobbery Sucks, Ecolutionist, Ecopolitology, and Twilight Earth. Wi ...
- Exposed: Why the GOP wants to eliminate Clean ...
Whether we can believe this see-through-elephant-trunk footage or not, the possibility that elephants have a triple fitration system within their trunks has to have some credence. Otherwise, why on earth would leading Republicans try to make it easier for big polluters to further pollute the air ...
- Apples may lose trees [cartoon]
The rest of Joe Mohr’s cartoons, and cartoon updates and other green news on Twitter @GreenCartoons. Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets BeatâMay Lose Beets (cartoon) Eco-Snobbery Sucks: The Cartoon Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets BeatâMay Lose Beets (cartoon) Ec ...
- Mixed message from USDA chief Vilsack [cartoon]
US Ag Secretary, Tom Vilsack tells us to eat more natural foods a few days after fully deregulating GMO alfalfa…I’m confused. Confused as well? Read the links below and try to figure out this mess. From The New York Times: Governmentâs Dietary Advice: Eat Less From Elephant Journal: The USDA cav ...
- BREAKING: Deleted Monsanto cartoon panel, leaked!
Unlike the former Monsanto cartoon on this subject, this version shows a bit more clearly who surrendered the future of organic agriculture to Monsanto. There’s been a lot of talk from both sides (organic and biotech) about compromise. That is misleading and almost laughable (read: cryable). Dea ...
- Inhabitat is Looking for a Green Transportatio ...
Heads up clean tech writers! Are you a keen green writer who voraciously follows the field of sustainable transportation? If so then get in touch – Inhabitat is looking for a star transportation editor to join our morning news crew! Our ideal candidate will be able to scan the newswires througho ...
- Artist Samuel Price Creates Cool Pet Collage A ...
Artist Samuel Price is a collaging machine. He creates one of a kind dog portraits using hundreds of hand-cut recycled magazine squares on canvas, working (and he says the following are when he works conservatively) five days a week using at least 20 recycled magazines a day. That’s 100 magazine ...
- Elektra One Electric Plane Successfully Comple ...
We’re excited to announce that the Elektra One electric airplane has just successfully completed its first and second flights in Augsburg, Germany! Developed by Calin Gologan, the electric aircraft endured a 30 minute emission-free flight. The Elektra One climbed to a height of 1,640 feet at 400 ...
- Studio Meda Wins London’s Bankside Bike Shed D ...
Studio Meda recently won first place in The Architecture Foundation‘s international competition to design an improved bike storage shed for London’s Bankside district. In an effort to improve the city’s lack of secure bike parking and storage, Studio Meda unveiled an elegant and equally practica ...
- Mati Karmin’s Explosive Mine Furniture is the Bomb
Other furniture makers might say that their work is the bomb, but few can say that their creations are actually made from bombs. Estonian sculptor Mati Karmin is the exception – his mind-blowing furniture is crafted from recycled sea mines. Karmin reclaims the mines from the shores of Naissaar, ...
- From the NASA Archive: Life on Mars
Artists’ renderings of space can be pretty impressive, and sometimes hard to distinguish from the real thing when based on hard science. But sometimes renderings based on the absence of science are far more interesting. These three illustrations were made by an artist at the Jet Propulsion Labo ...
- Flawed Diamonds Could Store Quantum Data
DALLAS — Scientists have developed a new way to manipulate atoms inside diamond crystals so that they store information long enough to function as quantum memory, which encodes information not as the 0s and 1s crunched by conventional computers but in states that are both 0 and 1 at the sam ...
- At the Edge of Invasion, Possible New Rules fo ...
Just as Galapagos finches are icons of evolution by natural selection, Australia’s cane toads may someday be icons of “spatial sorting” — a dynamic that seems to exist at the edges of invasion, altering the standard rules of evolution. Cane toads have evolved in odd ways Down Under. Adaptations ...
- Recreating the First Human Spaceflight Experience
By Mark Brown, Wired UK A collaboration between ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli and filmmaker Christopher Riley hopes to show what Russian astronaut Yuri Gagarin — the first human to go into space and orbit the planet — saw on 12 April, 1961. 50 years ago, the world’s first cosmonaut took a 108 min ...
- Sleepwalkers Replay Day’s Learning
A video of what appears to be a sleeping woman doing a modified, slow-motion funky robot dance in bed may represent the most direct evidence yet that minds replay a day's learning during slumber.
- 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 Libya
Looks 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 NeoLibs
Ever 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 Time
The 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 ...
- Political Prisoners in Syria: An Urgent Crisis ...
On March 16, around 50 demonstrators — including human rights activists, former political prisoners and the families of curent political prisoners — were arrested in Damascus after a non-violent demonstration in which, as part of a group of about 150 protestors in total (a significant gathering ...
- Syria: Amazingly, The Next Crucible of Revolut ...
Last week I wrote an article about the unexpected awakening of popular unrest in Syria, when an unprecedented “Day of Rage” against the Ba’athist dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad was called by protestors in Damascus, and was followed the day after by another protest in which respected opposition ...
- 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 [...]
- 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 Dumbs
Sober up, Dems. You started sucking suds when you captured the Congress in 2006. Since 2008 you've been binge drinking with Congress and the Prez. You even nibbled on some hot wings and pub nuts. Burp! And now the bartender just cut your drunk, lazy, liberal, progressive, leftie ass off. Y ...
- The People Have Spoken. And Their Message Is ...
So. What the heck happened last night? The GOP picked up 60 seats in the House, effectively reversing their losses there from 2006 and 2008, and returning control of that body to them. The GOP picked up some 6 seats in the Senate, but the Democratic Party retains control there. The GOP picked u ...
- New SPLC Report Examines Extremist Views of St ...
Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center released a new report, “Attacking the Constitution: State Legislators for Legal Immigration and the Anti-Immigrant Movement.” It documents the radical beliefs of 12 leading members of a coalition called State Legislators for Legal Immigration (SLLI). The gr ...
- ‘Sovereign Citizen’ Couple Resigns from Alabam ...
A veteran homicide detective in Sarasota, Fla. – lured by the burgeoning appeal of “sovereign citizen” ideology – was fired last week after he had “seceded” from the jurisdiction of the federal government, an act he claims was intended to be a political protest more than any sort of act of extr ...
- After ‘Liberty Dollars’ Creator Convicted, Fed ...
The U.S. government wants ownership of $7 million worth of coins manufactured and sold by Bernard von NotHaus, a 67-year-old antigovernment icon who became a âhigh priestâ in his own marijuana-smoking church. A federal jury in Statesville, N.C., decided on March 18 that the âLiberty Dollarsâ and ...
- Grammy Award Given to Jamaican Singer of Anti- ...
Jamaican dancehall star Buju Banton’s poisonously anti-gay lyrics have made him a target for worldwide boycotts and protests by LGBT rights activists who say his songs encourage anti-gay violence, especially among fans on the heavily homophobic Caribbean island. Despite this history of hate, the ...
- Defending the Antebellum South, Neo-Confederat ...
This coming Saturday, the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) is holding a major event to honor the sesquicentennial, or 150th anniversary, of the beginning of the Civil War. The festivities will âcommemorateâ events that most Americans see as a terribly dark period in American history: âthe foun ...
- Save NYC's Canada Geese from the Gas Chamber
Last year, New Yorkers and animal advocates were horrified when nearly 400 Canada geese and goslings were rounded up from Prospect Park and gassed to death. Over the past two years, more than 2,800 Canada geese have met this cruel fate — netted during molting season when they're unable to fly aw ...
- Harvard Crimson Questions Conference Hosting A ...
As we noted last week, Harvard University is set to play host to a conference, "Social Transformation By the Power of God," featuring some of the most radical and fringe elements within the religious right. The event, to take place April 1-2, is sponsored by the Harvard University Extension Serv ...
- New Video Game Features "Babe-Slapping" Mode
What’s better than a good ol’ game of Capture the Flag? According to the makers of the video game Duke Nukem Forever, a misogynistic high tech version called Capture the Babe. The Duke is no stranger to controversy. The last version of the game, which came out in 1995, featured a button the play ...
- Success! Washington Coal Export Facility Appli ...
The clean air in Longview, Washington will remain that way, at least for now. Millennium Bulk Terminals, a subsidiary of Australian coal company Ambre Energy, withdrew its permit application to build the United States’ first West Coast coal export terminal last week. More than 300 Change.org a ...
- Oklahoma Supports Puppy Mills With Proposal to ...
The legislative process saw the passage of Oklahoma SB 1712 last spring. This bill, commonly known as the Oklahoma Commercial Pet Breeders Act, gave more regulations for dog and cat breeders in an effort to curb the deplorable conditions that are standard operating procedure in puppy mills acros ...
- Public Momentum Builds Against Nukes
UNITED NATIONS - Willing or not, the handful of nations armed with nuclear bombs will likely find it ever more difficult in the next few years to reject growing international opinion in support of complete abolition of nuclear weapons, anti-nukes activists and politicians say. At U.N. headquarte ...
- Canada Parliament Begins No-Confidence Debate
The Canadian parliament has begun debate on a no-confidence motion expected to topple the Conservative minority government. Liberal Party leader Michael Ignatieff said Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government "breaks the rules" and "does not deserve to remain in office". If the motion passes o ...
- Thousands in Yemen March Against Saleh
Tens of thousands of protesters are on the streets of Sanaa, Yemen's capital, to call for an end to Ali Abdullah Saleh's 32-year rule, as the embattled president said he would only hand over power "to capable, responsible hands". Addressing a large rally of his own supporters in a speech carried ...
- Leonard I. Weinglass, Lawyer, Dies at 77; Defe ...
Leonard I. Weinglass, perhaps the nation’s pre-eminent progressive defense lawyer, who represented political renegades, government opponents and notorious criminal defendants in a half century of controversial cases, including the Chicago Seven, the Pentagon Papers and the Hearst kidnapping, die ...
- Vt. House Passes Single-Payer Health Care Bill
MONTPELIER -- The Vermont House of Representatives passed a bill calling for a single-payer system Thursday afternoon, putting the state on a path to become the first in the nation to adopt universal access to health care. Lawmakers voted 92 to 49 after nearly two days of debate, including discu ...
- GLOBE at Night Helps Fight Light Pollution [As ...
Light pollution is a problem that in addition to being unpleasant to the star-gazer's eyes, has a greater impact on the environment that we do not yet totally understand. Therefore a group of scientists are trying to get a better idea as t ...
- Retrofit a Vintage Lens for Your DSLR Camera [DIY]
It's hard to deny that, lately, there's been a bit of an obsession with vintage photography. It's hard to find a smartphone photo these days that isn't using some sort of vintage filter. If you'd like to take it a bit further, grab your ...
- Maximize Your Odds of Getting What You Want by ...
Asking for things can be tough, because you pretty much get one chance at it and if you fail you don't get what you want. While that doesn't necessarily spell game over, it does make things a little bit more difficult. Here are a few tip ...
- A Comic Book Lover's Guide to Going Digital [F ...
Whether you've been a diehard comic book fan for years or you just want to see what they're all about, you may find reading them digitally a better experience than on paper. Here's how to get started with digital comics. More�� ...
- Your Future's So Bright in This Week's Open Th ...
Can you see it, just around the corner? Spring has technically sprung, as of last weekend, and the future's looking bright. Celebrate nature's reboot in this week's open thread. More��
- SC asked to halt Angat Dam sale
The Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC) and five co-petitioners have asked the Supreme Court (SC) to permanently ban the privatization of a 218-megawatt hydroelectric power plant in the Angat Dam in Bulacan.
- Union of Water Employees Against Privatization ...
By Ina Alleco R. Silverio Bulatlat.com While the public is continually bombarded with reminders to save water, Malacañang is pushing for the privatization of the water industry which, critics say, will lead to higher water rates. Rodrigo Aranjuez, Water System Employees Response (WATER) national ...
- Politics plague privatization
Greece’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 privatization
Greece’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 paramount
The 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.
- Huge turnout for anti-cuts march
�� More than 250,000 expected on march against coalition cuts �� Protesters gather in London in biggest demo for eight years �� Police warn against infiltration by extremists �� Read our latest news story on the protest2.53pm: Link to the Guardian's photo gallery of the demonstrations.2.50pm: To ...
- Libyan rebels recapture Ajdabiya
Anti-government fighters, backed by allied air strikes, push Muammar Gaddafi's forces out of strategic eastern townLibyan rebels backed by allied air strikes have recaptured the strategic eastern town of Ajdabiya, pushing out Muammar Gaddafi's forces.Anti-government fighters danced on tanks, wav ...
- The secret of happiness
What could be more delightful than kneeling in the mud, pulling out weeds, with the soft spring sunshine on your back? Novelist Julie Myerson explains the intense joy that gardening has brought her, while other keen amateurs share their passionI opened my eyes to gardening when I turned 39. More ...
- Canadian government collapses
Fourth election in seven years will take place in May after opposition parties bring down Stephen Harper governmentCanadian opposition parties have brought down the government of Stephen Harper in a vote of no confidence, triggering an election that polls suggest will reinstate the status quo of ...
- Portugal borrowing costs at new high
S&P cuts Portugal's debt rating two notches to BBB and keeps it on negative watchPortugal's efforts to avoid joining Ireland and Greece in accessing EU bailout funds appears doomed after investors sent the cost of Portuguese borrowing to a new record on the bond markets.The resignation of the co ...
- Commentary: West asserts its values in Libya fight
It may have looked like President Obamas trip to Latin America came at a bad time, what with a new war starting at almost exactly the moment when Air Force One went wheels up. But Obama was probably glad to get out of town. In fact, he might have preferred to go hide somewhere and wait until thi ...
- Commentary: U.S. protests over wars, collectiv ...
George W. Bush may have had it right after all when he dismissed protests against the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as a focus groups futile efforts.
- With Syria shooting at protesters, Assad may b ...
CAIRO — Syria's fledgling anti-government movement snowballed into a national protest Friday when thousands of marchers gathered in defiance of President Bashar Assad, whose security forces fired live ammunition, witnesses and human rights groups said.
- Fear and secrecy follow people out of Gadhafi' ...
RAS JEDIR, Tunisia — With six relatives and several suitcases crammed into a sagging, dirt-sprayed Mercedes van, a well-dressed Libyan man rode through the border crossing into Tunisia around midday Thursday. His forehead was creased with worry, but when asked why he'd left his country with what ...
- Armenian genocide museum case grinds on at gre ...
WASHINGTON — A legal fight over a proposed Armenian Genocide Museum and Memorial has now cost museum backers well more than $1 million, and the expenses keep rising.
- Reflections on a fortnight in Fukushima
Earth Watch posts have been in smaller supply than usual in recent days. For a week, your humble correspondent was virtually living inside the Fukushima nuclear power station, attempting to make sense of what we knew and what we didn't know as the situation unfolded. Now - almost two weeks after ...
- Bees: a sting in the tale
� The United Nations Environment Programme (Unep) buzzes into the ongoing discussion of bee decline this week, with a report examining the global nature of the issue and some of the reasons behind it. Their top-line conclusions are that it's becoming a widespread, if not quite global, phenomen ...
- Green tuna goes FAD-free
Environmental group Greenpeace is claiming something of a victory with the news that the UK's biggest supplier of canned tuna, Princes, is going to source its fish from more sustainable supplies than previously. Greenpeace has been spearheading a campaign to get companies to adopt sustainable t ...
- China and EU share climate vision
China and the European Union are setting out plans for changing energy use and curbing carbon emissions within a space of a few days. As one of them is the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases while the other would be third in the global list if its emissions were tallied as a single enti ...
- Refining the sixth great extinction
Are we living through the sixth mass extinction of life in Earth history? That we are is something you'll often hear asserted in conservation circles - and you'll easily find dozens of news articles taking the notion at face value. It's even acquired a posh name - the Holocene extinction. In ...
- Sen. Ben Nelson Isn’t Abandoning Individ ...
Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE) — who will likely face a tough re-election bid in 2012 — isn’t ready to endorse a specific alternative to the politically unpopular individual mandate, despite asking the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to study alternatives to the provision. In a press release comm ...
- Barbour Would Reinstate DADT To Prevent ‘ ...
Gov. Haley Barbour (R-MS) has joined fellow potential Republican presidential contenders Tim Pawlenty (R-MN) and Mike Huckabee (R-AR) in supporting the reinstatement of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, telling America Family Foundation’s Brian Fischer that he supports rolling back repeal out of fear that ...
- Gingrich’s Great Global Warming Flip-Flo ...
Newt Gingrich really doesn’t like it when Barack Obama takes his advice. It’s not just true of intervention with Libya — it’s also the case with fighting global warming pollution. In short, Newt was for carbon cap and trade, until Obama became president: February 15, 2007: “I think if you have m ...
- At Least Five Babies Have Died Since Nebraska ...
Yesterday, I wrote about Gov. Scott Walker’s (R-WI) proposal to deny pregnant undocumented women access to prenatal care assistance. I argued that Walker’s position runs counter to his vehemently “pro-life” crusade. In the post, I also mentioned that when the state of Nebraska debated a similar ...
- GOP Rep. Shrugs Off Head Start Cuts: ‘It ...
The spending cuts that House Republicans proposed for the remainder of the fiscal 2011 year would gut important federal investments in special education, K-12 education for low-income students, federal job training, environmental protection, community health centers, nuclear security, infrastruc ...
- Too Bad For you stephen harper!
Right now, his contemptibleness is reminding me of the giant, cockroach shaped aliens at the end of "Godzilla vs. Gigan." I watched that one with my first boy over and over when he was a wee tyke. The insect-alien's last words as it lies dying on the floor of its wrecked headquarters (from which ...
- Democracy: Familiarity Breeds Contempt?
I have some sympathy for politically aware people who say that none of the candidates or parties in this election does anything for them. I used to feel that way at times. When Bob Rae betrayed social-democratic values as premier of Ontario, I stayed that election out. I didn't know that mike ha ...
- Property Damage Versus Torture
It's interesting how fucked-up people can be. Well and truly fucked-up and even when you take them by the hair on the back of their head, shove their faces right up to their stupidity and then rub their noses in it, they still can't figure it out. On the intertubes somewhere I'm being taken to ...
- "Can a Slut be Raped?"
That was the title of a review (apparently in TIME Magazine) for Jodie Foster's "The Accused." That film was was based on a true story in which an intoxicated, single woman was gang-raped in a bar and the men who did it manage to plea-bargain down to "reckless endangerment." In all honestly, "A ...
- There HAS To Be Accountability
I 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 ...
- Did the Army Blow Off DCAA's Warnings About th ...
By Nick Schwellenbach The new issue of Rolling Stone magazine has a great inside look at how two South Florida stoners built an arms trading network—and how their illicit deals with the Defense Department delivering defective Eastern European and Chinese...
- FOIA Fridays: Army Audit Report on the Army's ...
By Nick Schwellenbach Every Friday, POGO will strive to make one document available that we or others have obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), especially documents that have not previously been posted online. Some of these documents will...
- Morning Smoke: DoD Recovery Act Spending Repor ...
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. IG: Pentagon’s...
- Titans of Military Reform Go on the Record
By Bryan Rahija What happens when you bring together hors d'oeuvres, ice cold Tecate, and three titans of military reform? Answer: one heck of a panel discussion. Earlier this month, Tom Christie, Franklin Spinney, and Pierre Sprey convened before a...
- Morning Smoke: Obama Chief of Staff Recuses Hi ...
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. Daley recuses...
- 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 ...
- Canadian general to lead Libya mission
Canadian Lieutenant-General Charles Bouchard has been tapped to lead the no-fly and arms-embargo elements of the Libya intervention now that NATO has agreed to run those operations (Daniel Leblanc, “Canadian general to take command of NATO mission in Libya,” Globe and Mail, 25 March 2011). Howev ...
- Now not a good time to purchase F-35s: poll
According to the latest CTV/Globe/Nanos Poll, when asked about the Harper government’s plan to purchase F-35 jet fighters, 68% of Canadians believe that now is not the right time to purchase the aircraft. Canadians identified healthcare as their number one unprompted issue of concern. 29% of r ...
- Military budget growth set to continue
The 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 intervention
The 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 ...
- The Kevin Trudeau Show: 3-25-11
Today, Kevin explains how the government is secretly taking money from you and what could be done to prevent inflation from getting any higher! Self Help: KT on Tour Get Your Omega-3’s Protect Your Bank Account Get Rid of Diabetes Weight Loss Cure Video: The Youth of America Health: Carmel Color ...
- The Kevin Trudeau Show LIVE From Nashville!
The Kevin Trudeau Show is broadcasting from Nashville, Tennessee LIVE this April 17th from the stage of the Grand Ole Opry! Don’t miss out on the opportunity to see Kevin on one of the world’s most famous stages!
- The Kevin Trudeau Show: 3-24-11
Today, Kevin delves deep into the obesity epidemic in America. Plus, find out how Kevin Trudeau would run The United States of America if he were president! Self Help: Loss Weight Right! Emergency Preparedness Trace Minerals Health: The Worst Food In America Worker Dies at Cubicle, Found a Day L ...
- Spring Cleaning
Well, it’s officially Spring and you know what that means! Spring cleaning! Time to rid your life of clutter and dirt! However, that doesn’t just mean cleaning out your closets and cupboards. It should mean your body, as well. This should be a time to clean out the bad stuff and replace it with ...
- Eat to Beat Stress
Ice cream seems like a quick fix, but you’re better off making some wise stress-busting diet choices such as: Eating oatmeal, which provides more of all the B-Vitamins (except for pantothenic acid), than black beans, brown rice, or whole grain bread. Trying dried apricots to help keep blood suga ...
- Haiti: Government says Aristide can come home
Haiti's government has said it was ready to issue a new passport to former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, which would allow him to return after almost seven years in exile in South Africa. 'The government will give assurances that as soon as it re...
- Cuba: Cuban organisation fights for release of ...
Enrique Roman, first vice-president of the Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), has underlined that the movement in solidarity with Cuba prioritises in 2011 the struggle for the release of the five Cuban antiterrorist heroes incarc...
- Haiti: Returned ex-dictator Duvalier charged
Haiti on Tuesday briefly detained former dictator Jean-Claude 'Baby Doc' Duvalier, back from exile in France, and charged him with corruption, theft and abuses of power allegedly committed during his 15-year rule. While a noisy crowd of his supporter...
- Break the Silence Congo week
The purpose of the Break the Silence Congo Week is to raise consciousness about the devastating situation in the Congo and mobilize support on behalf of the people of the Congo. Break the Silence Congo Week will take place from Sunday 17 October to S...
- Morocco: Expats returning home in greater numbers
Faced with the woes of the global economic crisis, an increasing number of Moroccan expatriates are coming back home. Meanwhile, the government is intensifying effort to aid the community abroad as well as help them maintain ties with their home coun...
- Syria’s Day of Dignity
The Guardian reports: Demonstrations in the Syrian capital, Damascus, and elsewhere were met with force as security forces struggled to contain unrest that had begun in the southern city of Deraa a week ago. Thousands once again joined funeral processions in Deraa on Friday, chanting: “Deraa p ...
- What does social science tell us about interve ...
Stephen Walt writes: Before France, Britain, and the United States stumbled into its current attempt to dislodge Muammar al-Qaddafi from power in Libya — and let’s not kid ourselves, that’s what they are trying to do — did anyone bother to ask what recent social science tells us about the likel ...
- Riz Khan – The Arab Street
- The Saudi women revolution statement
[The following statement in English and Arabic (below) was written by Mona Kareem on Friday March 18th, 2011, and can be found on her personal blog.] After the recent importance of Social Media in creating change in our societies, a lot of Saudi women have been active on Twitter through the has ...
- The fight for Libya
The New York Times reports: NATO will assume leadership from the United States of patrolling the skies over Libya but the military alliance remains divided over who will command aggressive coalition air strikes on Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s ground troops, NATO and American officials said Thursda ...
- CO2 causes unchecked wetdry
This is important because scientists are concerned that unchecked global warming could cause already dry areas to get drier. (Global warming may also cause wet areas to get wetter.) Cao and Caldeira’s findings indicate that reducing atmospheric carbon dioxide could … Continue reading →
- Poll: what are you doing/did you do for Earth ...
UPDATE: Somebody in Toronto is going to really aggravate the greens, see below. Or more importantly, what will the United Nations do? The American Thinker points out the hypocrisy of the UN with the photo below. Does anyone live in … Continue reading →
- Now it’s climate change to be killing th ...
Study based on fossil sloth dung found in desert caves and packrat middens From the US Geological Survey, because doing mapping and boundary lines are sooo yesterday: Uncertain Future for Joshua Trees Projected with Climate Change FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. â Temperature … Continue reading →
- Friday Funny of the Millennium
Josh captures the essence of … See the story: Andrew Bolt scores the Quote of the Millennium
- ARGO-Era NODC Ocean Heat Content Data (0-700 M ...
Guest post by Bob Tisdale: NOTE: This post contains 5 .gif animations that total 10MB. (below the continue reading line) Have patience. They may take a while to load. This post is a follow-up to the recent post October to … Continue reading →
- Chris Hedges: Our Liberal Class failed us
by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad March 25, 2011 Chris Hedges, author of Death of the Liberal Class, talking with Ethical Culture Society of NY Leader Joe Chuman about how {blurb from publisher, The Nation: } “for decades the liberal class defended all Americans against the worst ...
- Libyan War And Control Of The Mediterranean by ...
by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism March 25, 2011 A year after assuming the post of president of the French Republic in 2007, and while his nation held the rotating European Union presidency, Nicolas Sarkozy invited the heads of sta ...
- The Nuclear Nightmare Continues – Helen ...
http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Alex Smith crossposted from http://www.ecoshock.info March 25, 2011 In this Radio Ecoshock program you get: #1 a major interview with world-famous anti-nuclear campaigner Dr. Helen Caldicott after the Fukushima Japan nuclear accident. Red hot. Covering nu ...
- Get Your (Tongue) Twist On With Noam Chomsky! ...
Dandelion Salad duffer2205 on Mar 20, 201 Frank Barat asks Noam Chomsky a question sent by well known Glaswegian, Paul Laverty. Filmed and Edited by Martin Ginestie. [...] Get Your (Tongue) Twist On With Noam Chomsky! *** by Frank Barat http://vimeo.com/21277024 Frank Barat asks Prof Noam Chomsk ...
- Kucinich Demands Immediate End to U.S. Role in ...
http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich Washington, Mar 24, 2011 Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today wrote to President Obama that it was improper to commit the United States to a military intervention in Libya without prior Congressional approval, clear objec ...
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Egyptian revolutionaries have stormed Torture HQ, the notorious office & prison cell complex of Egypt's only recently feared state security. They are seen carefully collecting paperwork and files for possible use as evidence in trials against officials in the former Mubarak regime. Later in the ...
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Ben Affleck & Matt Damon wrote the screenplay for Good Will Hunting in 1994. Talk about prescient :
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Feed 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 ...
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Germany's Transparent Car Factory. Brilliant, beautiful :
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"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 ...
- From the NASA Archive: Life on Mars
Artists’ renderings of space can be pretty impressive, and sometimes hard to distinguish from the real thing when based on hard science. But sometimes renderings based on the absence of science are far more interesting. These three illustrations were made by an artist at the Jet Propulsion Labo ...
- Flawed Diamonds Could Store Quantum Data
DALLAS — Scientists have developed a new way to manipulate atoms inside diamond crystals so that they store information long enough to function as quantum memory, which encodes information not as the 0s and 1s crunched by conventional computers but in states that are both 0 and 1 at the sam ...
- At the Edge of Invasion, Possible New Rules fo ...
Just as Galapagos finches are icons of evolution by natural selection, Australia’s cane toads may someday be icons of “spatial sorting” — a dynamic that seems to exist at the edges of invasion, altering the standard rules of evolution. Cane toads have evolved in odd ways Down Under. Adaptations ...
- Recreating the First Human Spaceflight Experience
By Mark Brown, Wired UK A collaboration between ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli and filmmaker Christopher Riley hopes to show what Russian astronaut Yuri Gagarin — the first human to go into space and orbit the planet — saw on 12 April, 1961. 50 years ago, the world’s first cosmonaut took a 108 min ...
- Sleepwalkers Replay Day’s Learning
A video of what appears to be a sleeping woman doing a modified, slow-motion funky robot dance in bed may represent the most direct evidence yet that minds replay a day's learning during slumber.
- Silence over Nakba Law encourages racism
[The Nakba Law is] the latest in a growing list of disgraceful legislation whose entire purpose is to discriminate against Israel's Arab citizens, intimidate them and deny them their rights... The... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
- Haneen Zoabi: Who are you calling feminist?
It is possible to sum up Israel's relations with its Palestinian citizens in one sentence: We are not only a minority that is discriminated against, we are a minority at risk. Over the past two... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
- Gideon Levy: Israel’s dissidents are saving th ...
As on previous occasions, a "spy" from the Israeli Embassy was sent to [my lecture] ... an Israeli student who was asked to write down what I said and convey it to the embassy. The embassy quickly... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
- 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, ...
- Susan Band Horwitz, Ph.D., Receives Eighth Ann ...
Susan Band Horwitz, Ph.D., will receive the Eighth Annual AACR Award for Lifetime Achievement in Cancer Research. Horwitz conducted pioneering research by discovering the mechanism of action of the chemotherapeutic drug paclitaxel (Taxol), which prompted the development of this drug as an import ...
- FDA Approves Ipilimumab, An Immunotherapy, To ...
Yervoy (ipilimumab), a monoclonal antibody, received FDA approval today to treat advanced melanoma. This first-in-class antibody drug may also significantly improve standard cancer treatments.
- New Technology at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbi ...
Breast cancer specialists at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center are offering patients new ways to detect early signs of lymphedema, a common side effect of breast cancer surgery that causes painful, debilitating and disfiguring swelling in the arms following removal ...
- Miss Delaware Kayla Martell on "The Doctors" T ...
2010 Miss Delaware Kayla Martell is scheduled to appear on "The Doctors" television show this Monday, March 28th. Kayla chose the National Alopecia Areata Foundation as her platform.
- Team Wins Heart-Healthy Product Development Co ...
The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) and CanolaInfo today announced the winner of the inaugural Heart-Healthy Product Development Competition at Wellness 11 held in Rosemont, Ill. The winning student team from the food science program at Louisiana State University (LSU) developed Ze-Ti, a s ...
- Preschool Thriller
The best-ever recreation of this classic video.
- World's Best Contact Juggler
Okotanpe, one of Japan’s most dextrous illusionists, is a man who really knows how to use his hands.
- Are New 'Healthier' Potato Chips Really Any Be ...
Frito-Lay, as part of a push to use natural ingredients in its chips, is adding beet juice, purple cabbage and carrots to the recipe. These natural vegetable dyes will replace ingredients such as FD&C Red 40. By the end of the year, Frito-Lay intends to make half its snacks sold in the U.S. wit ...
- Medical Marijuana Becoming Blockbuster Drug
Medical marijuana is now a $1.7 billion market in the U.S. This means that sales of medical marijuana rival the annual revenue generated by Viagra, a $1.9 billion business. What�s more the medical marijuana market is expected to nearly double in the next five years, and that�s just in the 15 U. ...
- Careful about Shopping at World’s Largest Store
Two recent price comparisons found that prices for many common articles at Target are lower than those at the number one retailer, Wal-Mart.� Wal-Mart has in the past typically maintained a 2 to 4 percent price advantage over Target, but they now appear to have slipped behind. According to ...
- Making Health the Default
A recent article featured in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation News Digest on Childhood Obesity highlights a simple strategy that can be implemented in restaurants and other venues to improve the food environment. The innovative new strategy is to change the offerings on children’s menus to hi ...
- 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, revisited
How can local food systems support a resilient and sustainable future food economy in the United States? That was the question of the day at a recent conference entitled, “Reviving the American Economy-One Heirloom Tomato at a Time.” But for some, the question isn’t so much how, but even can ...
- In Media, Big Ag Looms Large while Farmers Get ...
In September 1965, CBS broadcast its first episode of Green Acres, a mini-series documenting a family’s transition from an urban life of prestige and luxury, to one of mud, manure, and chaos on a farm in the fictional town of Hooterville. Green Acres took off, in part capitalizing on the popula ...
- The other white meathead (no, not that one, no ...
[Note: a little late this morning because I was enjoying myself way too much.] Carlos Lam. In an email from February 19, Indiana deputy prosecutor Carlos F. Lam told Walker the situation presented “a good opportunity for whatâs called a âfalse flagâ operation.” ….”If you could employ an associat ...
- God, the Devil and Liz
Two posts yesterday because there was a lot going on so, of course, today’s newspapers have got zip â unless you find it interesting that the L.A. Times gave Elizabeth Taylor’s passing triple the usual coverage. Online obits usually run in threes so my thought is that this isn’t a tribute, just ...
- 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 ...
- Libyaconsin
Whoops 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 ...
- Seven Steps to a Healthier Heart
Seven Steps to a Healthier Heart Phoenix, AZ – Sometimes there’s a big gap between perception and reality when judging your own health. According to a recent American Heart Association (AHA) survey, nearly 40 percent of Americans thought they were in ideal heart health, when in reality, less tha ...
- Triangle Fire Anniversary Today
Triangle Fire Anniversary Today Phoenix, AZ – Today (Friday) is the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, which killed 146 New York sweatshop workers and led to government-enforced workplace safety rules, as well as strengthening the growing labor movement of the time. Ther ...
- 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 ...
- Join the Rally for the Right to Know!
The United States may soon be the only country in the world that does not require labeling of genetically engineered food. In Spring 2000, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that labeling of GE foods would remain voluntary, even though there was no indication that any company would ...
- 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 ...
- Where is Dan Choi when a Gay Soldier really ne ...
By TheAngryindian These are indeed strange and dangerous times. Especially for those of us in the United States who value the principle of universal human rights. Speaking objectively as a citizen of the world, there can be little doubt that the national mythology of the United States of ...
- Charing Ball: Medical Testing on (non-White) H ...
Medical Testing on Humans | The Atlanta Post | African-American News, Business News & Black Politics By Charing Ball-We all have those friends and/or family members who can manage to turn just about any political or social issue into a massive conspiracy. There’s that cousin who tells you not ...
- Raul A. Reyes: Brisenia Flores Was a Victim of ...
Raul A. Reyes: Brisenia Flores Was a Victim of Border Vigilantes and Media Indifference [huffpo.com] - Compare Brisenia's tragedy to that of another nine-year-old in Arizona. When Christina Taylor Green was killed in the attack on Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, her death led to national soul- ...
- 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 ...
- Pinkwatching Israel - Israel’s Gay Propaganda War
Pinkwatching Israel - Israel’s Gay Propaganda War: "One of the most remarkable features of the Brand Israel campaign is the marketing of a modern Israel as a gay-friendly Israel. Stand With US, a self-declared Zionist organisation, has been quoted in the Jerusalem Post as saying: “We decided to ...
- More on Egypt
Reading that now, a few days after the military pressured Mubarak to step down, the Egyptian parliament has been dissolved, and the Constitution invalidated by the Egyptian military. This fills me with fear. The mainstream media are treating these acts as a good thing, and the Egyptians they int ...
- Update: Mubarak Not Stepping Down Tonight
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- US involved in an Egyptian “military coup”?
Photo by adaptorplug A CNN news story says that Hofni Mubarak will likely relinquish power to the Egyptian military tonight. This is what their source, âa senior Egyptian officalâ is quoted by CNN as saying: He said the process — which included dialogue between the government and opposition repr ...
- President Llorens
I’ve reconsidered my position about posting Wikileaks articles. This article not only discusses classified material disclosed by Wikileaks, but actually quotes it. I know some of my readers work for the US government, thus the warning. I am not an enemy of the United States of America. I simply ...
- Magnificent
This movie brought me to tears. It is the story of a man whose lack of limbs from birth relegated him to life as a circus side-show freak. It tells of how he was recognized by the owner of a rival circus as “magnificent”. After overcoming his bitterness, the man transformed from freak to hero. [ ...
- What's on 21 March 2011
This week is dominated by two quite large and wide-ranging events: Earth Hour and NSW State Election. But let's not forget the other events on this week, like Wind Energy - A climate for change; State of Siege movie screening; Sustainable Home Seminars; Cooking Camp for Kids; World Water Day and ...
- Environmental News 21/03/2011
Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
- Sustainable Seafood Day
Sustainable Seafood Day! Sustainable Seafood Day, held on March 18, is your chance to celebrate fisheries that are fishing sustainably, and to play your part in transforming the seafood market, one meal at a time. Now into its fifth year, Sustainable Seafood Day invites cafes, restaurants ...
- What's on 14 March 2011
It's all about ACTION this week! The NSW Election is looming (26 March) and there's plenty of events highlighting the environmental issues this election will be fought on. This weekend also sees a Giant Swap Party taking place in Sydney - Out with the old, in with the (almost) new!!
- Flower in the night
Flowers are beautiful�� even at night! Some flowers only bloom in the dark, like this cactus and the moonflower, the evening primrose or the night phlox. The scent of these night blooming plants is often more intense as in the darkness insects cannot see their usual attractant: their colour ...
- How to lift the closure of Gaza in three easy ...
From Gisha’s Gaza Gateway, what it would actually take to end just the closure of Gaza, although not the entire Occupation. Israelâs Deputy Foreign Minister said last week that the continued smuggling of weapons into the Gaza Strip threatens further implementation of the âeasingâ of the closur ...
- Abdallah Abu Rahmah is free, may all Palestini ...
Great news on the heels of the horrible killings in Itamar settlement and Netanyahu’s exploitation of them. It’s good to have a hopeful example even if its freedom for a man who should have never been imprisoned. Indeed, the protests Abdallah Abu Rahmah helped organize are still going on after h ...
- Please report any unattended human rights
I read Neve Gordon’s piece a few months back about human rights websites being banned at Ben Gurion airport, and thought what a perfect microcosm of the front Israel is trying to put up to the world. While they wouldn’t think of banning such websites to their own population, I hope, internation ...
- Israeli solidarity activist interrogated by po ...
Sara Benninga, whose speech I reposted here on the blog, was interrogated by the police after speaking at the JStreet conference I attended. She provided one of the voices for a new direction for Jewish and Israeli activists working alongside Palestinians for justice. For this she rewarded with ...
- Eviatar: Three Dead Children
Guest Post by Aharan Eviatar The recent ghastly events in Arizona, especially the killing of Christina Greene, gunned down by a political lunatic at age nine, lead one to think of the phenomenon of political killing of children and what it implies for society. In particular, I would like to bri ...
- Offshore vertical axis wind turbines
“The Aerogenerator X design is half the height of an equivalent horizontal-axis turbine and its weight is concentrated at the base of the structure.” CleanTechnica has more on the development of this promising prototype.
- CalPERS releases disturbing report
In the wake of cratering pension fund returns and the filing of lawsuits against two former top employees, CalPERS, the giant California pension fund, commissioned a report by D.C. law firm Steptoe and Johnson. The report is scathing, saying former CalPERS CEO Federico Buenrostro steered investm ...
- Governmental derangement syndrome. #2
Napolitano: Border security ‘better than ever.’ Mexico border towns safe to do business in. What planet is Napolitano on? I suggest she take time out from her oh-so busy schedule of living inside the DC bubble and issuing bizarrely optimistic PR fluff and venture into the real world for a change ...
- Governmental derangement snydrome. #1
Japan PM says nuclear crisis not worse but advises wider evacuation. The real questions there are 1) Is the government in control or just a lackey of Tepco, and 2) Is Tepco more concerned with saving their investment in the plant rather than saving lives?
- Polizeros Radio. Derrick Crowe interview. Libya
Derrick Crowe is a Political Director at Brave New Foundation, a five-year veteran of Capitol Hill, and contribuor at Huffington Post, MichaelMoore.com and AlterNet. We spoke with him about the Libya war (and it is a war now) With Steve Hynd of Newshoggers, Josh Mull of Firedoglake and Rethink A ...
- 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 ...
- WTF
Do 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 It
Statpad – Roman M Two and a half PC’s.
- Update on Winds paper
Copied from comments on the other thread Anastassia Makarieva Some of the readers may still be interested the fate of our draft paper “Where do winds come from?” and our condensation theory as originally highlighted on The Air Vent here. A second referee was appointed –- many thanks to all of th ...
- Saving The World, One Progressive at a Time
Josh had this awesome depiction of Romm right where I see him. At least at the elevation of its nesting habitat, it is safe from the 5 feet of sea level rise. Although, there’s good news, the emerging species may now be able to nest a little lower. Hopefully we’ll know soon what this little [...]
- Another brick in the Wahl
Still no time for climate blogging. In fact if anything, time is shorter. If you have any interest in climate science and why the skeptics are winning the war of reason over ‘scientists’, read this post by Steve Mosher and Charles the moderator at WUWT. The recent CA article is also worth your ...
- All My American Prospect Links in One Place
Many 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 Tripe
Jason 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 Sex
Rolling 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-Shaming
In my latest post for TAPPED, I reply to fat activist Paul Campos who argues that Michelle Obama's "Let's Move!" program is the fat-hating equivalent of "ex-gay" ministries who purport to prevent or cure homosexuality. Trying to prevent childhood obesity at the population level by encouraging al ...
- "The Warmth of Other Suns" Wins National Book ...
Isabel Wilkerson's masterful history of the Great Migration won a National Book Critics Circle Award last week, a richly deserved honor. You can read my review of "The Warmth of Other Suns" at TAPPED. [Photo credit, image of a California sunrise: Gwyn Fisher, Creative Commons.]Read More
- Facebook Roundup: New Offices, Pages, Domain N ...
New Facebook Offices to Open in Israel, Amsterdam – Facebook opened an office in Amsterdam this week and reportedly plans to open one in Hertzilya, Israel that could grow to about 30 employees by the end of the year. Facebook Pursues 21 Domain Names – Facebook is fighting to own 21 domain names ...
- Facebook Hotkeys for the Home Page, Notificati ...
Facebook users can navigate several areas of the site using hotkey keyboard shortcuts rather than a mouse. As part of the recently expanded rollout of the light box photo viewing design, Facebook showed prompts announcing some hotkeys. These join the existing set that allow for rapid browsing of ...
- Facebook Partners with Seedcamp to Incubate Eu ...
Today at Facebook HACK: Berlin, Facebook announced that it has partnered with early stage micro seed investment and mentoring program Seedcamp to help European social startups build new social products. Facebook will become a platinum sponsor and offer Seedcamp startups product, design, and te ...
- How Pages Can Use the Relaunched Facebook Ques ...
The following is an excerpt from the Facebook Marketing Bible, the comprehensive guide to marketing your company, app, brand, or website using Facebook. The full version of this article, available through a Facebook Marketing Bible subscription, includes a walk-through for enabling Questions for ...
- Basketball, Video, Mobile, Turkey and Promotio ...
Basketball continued to be a big theme in our list of emerging Facebook applications this week by monthly active users, along with apps featuring videos, Facebook Page promotions, Facebook mobile, friends and Turkish clothing stores. The list of top 20 emerging apps was compiled based on AppData ...
- Mossad snatches Gaza's power plant boss in Ukraine
Jonathan Cook reports on the kidnapping of Dirar Abu Sisi, operations manager of Gaza's only power plant, by Israeli Mossad agents in Ukraine amid deep suspicions of official Ukrainian complicity.
- 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 dinosaurs
Yvonne 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 Crossing
Richard 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 McCarthyism
Paul 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.
- 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 ...
- 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 2
We Need Your Support to ‘Help Wake up the American public before the water gets too hot to climb out of the pot’ I want to thank those of you who have contributed to Boiling Frogs Post during our first week campaign. Thank You! Next, I want to briefly respond to a common inquiry I’ve received fr ...
- Sibel Edmonds’ Boiling Frogs Post: Year Two
We Need Your Support to Continue & Expand: Countdown Week 1 In October 2009 I launched Boiling Frogs Post with one purpose in mind: To establish a venue for investigative articles, editorials, analyses, discussions, and interviews on issues largely censored by the media. We are entering our sec ...
- Boiling Frogs Post Status & Update
Boiling Frogs Year Two-A Personal Note Next week I’ll be leaving for a business related trip, followed by relocation related travel where I’ll be checking housing, schooling for my daughter, work, among tons of other ‘life related’ details in a new hometown, and finalized by a short but straigh ...
- “What Can the Tea Party Do to Attract Mi ...
Op-ed submission by Project 21 As a tea party organizer and black man, I am often asked how a movement with the critical mission of saving and restoring our republic can attract minorities currently weak in numbers in tea party ranks. The mainstream media and civil rights lobbyists have perpetua ...
- “How Much Do We Need Greenhouse Gas Regu ...
Article submission from Nicholas Scott, a health, safety, and political advocate with a passion for environmental responsibility. He believes there should be a greater focus on the present risks of environmental toxins to urban communities with close proximity to dense areas of industry. With th ...
- West overzealous on Libya – Al Jazeera
West 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. ...
- Expose the BNP: activists’ meeting
Over the summer we have seen the extreme right enter parliament in Sweden and racist deportations of Roma people from France. Here at home the EDL have continued to target cities with Muslim communities, while the police are bringing trumped-up charges against anti-fascists. November 6 sees a na ...
- Rotherham fascist leads secret double life
A BNP activist is living a secret double life, desperate to prevent his employers from finding out about his extremist views – despite having stood as a candidate in last month’s election. Tom Holmes (25) received 715 votes in the recent elections for Rotherham Council but has managed to keep hi ...
- Nick Griffin humiliated in Barking defeat
The British National Party have suffered a humiliating defeat in the general election when Nick Griffin failed to gain a Westminster seat for the East London ward of Barking. Labour MP Margaret Hodge secured the seat with a 16,000 majority, with Griffin trailing third after the Conservative cand ...
- Ten questions that expose Nick Griffin
On the day that the BNP launches its election manifesto, Expose the BNP has researched 10 questions for journalists to put to the BNP leader, the answers to which reveal him to be a deeply racist, anti-Semitic Holocaust denier who boasts about his criminal past. 1. In which year did you stop den ...
- Workshy Griffin left his parents penniless
On yesterdayâs Today programme, BNP leader Nick Griffin told the Radio Four audience that âLiberal economics … have utterly bankrupted this country.â The truth is that Nick Griffin was himself declared bankrupt in 1991. Over several years thereafter he destroyed his parentsâ finances as well. Gr ...
- Turtle Island: Our Earth Mother
Japan 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 MacDougall
Memorial Tribute to Hugh MacDougall “We are sending the power of love, peace and compassion, which can change the world.” â Hugh MacDougall, Australia, SEN Honorary Advisor Hugh was more to Suzanne and I than SEN’s Honorary Spiritual Advisor. He was the beloved friend we called brother, and he w ...
- No to Monsanto and GMO: Action Central
"SEN is greatly concerned that Monsanto and GMO give rise to a threat that if unchecked could eventually prove as catastrophic to mankind and the sustainability of all life on earth as global warming. We must scream bloody murder, and do so with facts." -- Gregory Hilbert, Co-Founder Sustainabil ...
- Bill Gates On Climate Change & Energy: We Must ...
Whether you know a little or a lot about Climate Change (aka Global Warming), SEN urges you to watch this one-hour video, because you will learn a great deal either way. Gates lays out a sweeping set of ideas for reducing CO2 emmissions to zero. Gates is no fool when it comes to matters of [...]
- Week 2 – Worldwide Campaign to Save the ...
The Grand Canyon is one of the world's most pristine and majestic treasures. Mother Nature needs our help to save it. We all need to act to protect the Grand Canyon. Pledge to do your part. Help us by adding your signature to the petitions and ask everyone you know and who cares for earth to do ...
- Denying Nazi-Zionist collusion: The Sacramento ...
In an inversion of journalistic ethics, the Sacramento Bee reported on opposition to an event before and after it took place, but didn't cover the event itself. It featured an entire report on accusations against a flier, but didn't include a response from the flier's authors.
- Media omissions on Itamar: Murdering babies is ...
US media widely and repeatedly reported on the horrific March 11th murder of three small Israeli children and their parents. While no one yet knows who committed this grotesque act, reports presume that the murderers were Palestinian, and for this reason the incident is receiving major attention ...
- Critical Connections: Egypt, the US, and the I ...
Minimally explored in all the coverage of the momentous Egyptian uprising taking place over the last 10 days [Jan-Feb 2011] are the Israeli connections.
- 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 ...
- Dennis Kucinich talks with David Gregory
Dennis 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 PEOPLE
Congress needs to hear from all of us right away, because the only chance we have to stop this budget is if Senate Democrats stand united against it. And the first vote could come today.1 Can you call Sen. Nelson and tell him to stand strong against Republicans‘ massive, devastating cuts? Senato ...
- Rally to Save the American Dream
In Wisconsin and around our country, the American Dream is under fierce attack. Instead of creating jobs, Republicans are giving tax breaks to corporations and the very rich—and then cutting funding for education, police, emergency response, and vital human services. On Saturday, February 26, a ...
- RICK SCOTT MADE MILLIONS OFF HEALTH NOW CUTS I ...
Whether it's a political stunt or the act of an extremist ideologue, Scott is hurting real Floridians in concrete ways, including millions of people with private health insurance or Medicare benefits. He's taking away a law that ends the worst insurance company abuses and frees families, senior ...
- CUT PENTAGON BUDGET: ACT NOW
Their current proposal includes cuts in domestic spending, diplomacy, development, and international assistance but allows the Pentagon budget to continue to rise.
- 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 ...
- Keith Ellison’s Tears And Epistemic Closure
Rep. Peter King’s hearings looking into the “radicalization” of the American Muslim community, and the suggestion that the community doesn’t cooperate with law enforcement, was largely a waste of time and tax dollars. The affair didn’t produce a single insight into the actual and urgent issue of ...
- Praying On Qasr al-Nil
One of the more memorable scenes of the Egyptian revolution will surely be that of ordinary Egyptian’s praying on Cairo’s Qasr al-Nil Bridge as members of Egyptian state police direct their water cannons at them. Truly a remarkable sight. via Al Jazeera Filed under: Middle East Tagged: Al-Jazeer ...
- “I Support Democratization, But…&# ...
The Atlanticâs Jeffrey Goldberg â one of the key proponents of the disastrous invasion of Iraq â has some serious misgivings about the fledgling pro-democracy movement thatâs taken over the streets of Egypt. âI support democratization, but,â he cautions, âthe democratization we saw in Gaza (cour ...
- All That Happens In The Middle East Can’ ...
Uncertainly rules the day in Tunisia. Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the countryâs strong-armed and authoritarian ruler since 1987, is in Saudi Arabia while the interim government struggles to restore some semblance of order. âConfusion, fear and horror in Tunisia as old regime’s militia carries on ...
- Newt Comes Out As A Muslim-Baiter
Early this week, disgraced former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich warned that “a commitment to religious freedom and God-given rights is being replaced by a secular oppression…” Just hours after those words appeared on Human Events, Gingrich issued a statement forcefully opposing the constr ...
- Using Technology to Aid Disaster Relief for Ja ...
The March 11 earthquake in Japan triggered a flurry of concern in the Media Lab community at MIT. The natural desire to help was amplified by the fact that the disaster had hit many of our friends close to home in a very literal sense. Most messages suggested donations to support relief organiza ...
- 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 ...
- The Obama Edge - Problems Remain for the Colom ...
On April 7, 2008, President George W. Bush delivered the American Colombian Free Trade Agreement (FTA) to Congress with hopes that it would receive timely approval. Bush lamented that trade restrictions with Colombia were so asymmetrical that “our markets are open to Colombian products, but barr ...
- The Obama Edge - Much Ado About Nothing: The C ...
President Obama will touch down in Chile on March 21 to commence the second leg of his Latin American trip. Inevitably, this segment of Obama’s journey will suffer in relative importance by being compared to his earlier visit to Brazil, where he is scheduled to spend two full days as opposed to ...
- The Fogel Massacre - Why They Celebrate Murder ...
The commentary overflows.Since five members of the Fogel family were murdered in their Itamar home, thinkers have been trying to grapple with the implications.For this was not just a random murder. Members of the Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade, the armed wing of “moderate“ Mahmoud Abbas’s party, enter ...
- The Race for More Oil - Obama Administration A ...
The Interior Department announced on March 18 it has approved a third permit for deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico for the type of project that was subject to a months-long moratorium in response to the BP oil spill.The pace of deepwater permitting since the formal ban was lifted in Octob ...
- Palestine on Edge - Only Palestinians Are Not ...
It appears that members of the American-trained Palestinian Security Force on the West Bank abetted the Itamar terrorists, prompting outrage over the fact that American military personnel are training Palestinian Security Forces in the first place. The outrage looks through the back end of the m ...
- Counterrevolution 101
By Dave Fryett The wretched of the Earth have seen what is possible. Power has been shown to be powerless in the face of determined mass opposition. And in every corner of our world the immiserated rejoice, because they know the day of liberation draws near
- No One Curious What CIA Is Working On At The ...
By Jay Janson What does the CIA have in store for Egypt? What chores will it assign its agents both American and Egyptian? American socialists and progressives are overly cooperative with mainstream media and Congress in hardly ever asking after our secret CIA shadow government
- Lessons Learned In The Streets Of Cairo
By William A. CookIf the streets of Cairo have taught us anything, they have demonstrated that vigilance against those who would control out of arrogance, oppress with indifference, deceive with impunity, and humiliate without feeling, have abandoned all natural sympathies and become , in fact ...
- What Is True Sustainability?
By Matthew SteinIf we are to develop an effective plan and roadmap for creating a sustainable world, we must first have a clear idea of what it truly means to be sustainable
- Egypts Army Dissolves Parliament
By Al Jazeera Military rulers say they will remain in charge for six months until elections are held as some protesters vow to remain
- Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
- Practicing Peace in the New Year
A friend, Frank Swift, that I met on my first journey has passed along some great practical steps towards peace for the new year. Frank has written a children’s book to help young people see an alternative to the competition and forcefulness that can too easily get instilled in our young people. ...
- Sharing the writing of another Stieber
My younger brother, Zack, has been fascinated by the Chinese practice of Falun Gong and is hoping that this post could be used to spark a further discussion about it. � Thoughts on Falun Gong by Zack Stieber � Most of us are aware that in China things work differently then here. The main thing o ...
- Article in FOR
The following is the rough draft for an article I wrote, reflecting on the war in Iraq, that was published in the recent edition of the Fellowship of Reconciliation’s magazine. For more info on getting the full magazine, check out: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 ...
- Senator Barack Obama in 2007, "Americans ‘Hav ...
As we complete one full week of the American action in Libya, there are still so many questions surrounding the action. President Obama has committed American forces and possible our blood to go on a mission with vague goals not understanding the unintended consequences. What is our objec ...
- Obama Does Not Have the Guts To Confront Pales ...
Wednesday's terrorist bombing outside the main bus terminal in Jerusalem was not an isolated incident, it was part of a ramp-up of terrorist acts by the Palestinians during the month of March: March 6: A sanitation worker from the Jerusalem Municipality lost his hand on Sunday when a garbag ...
- Mainstream Media Discovers Egyptian Revolution ...
By Barry Rubin It seems�mere days ago that every reporter and�expert on all television channels and newspapers was preaching that Egypt's revolution was a great thing, run by Facebook-savvy liberals, inspired by President Barack Obama and "universal values." Those silly, paranoid Isr ...
- Newsbusted: New Al Qaeda Magazine to Have "Pla ...
Yes its true the al Queda magazine will have something not normally seen in Islamist magazine, a "Playboy- Like" Centerfold, and wait till you hear just who the model is. The life expectancy of the average American is up, but there is still a bad side of that medical announcement. Those stories ...
- Secretary of Defense Robert Gates Urges Syria ...
By Barry Rubin As I�ve reported, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is horrified by White House policies in the Middle East. Indeed, he has an extra reason for being upset since it is his military forces that have to manage the Libyan mess while simultaneously fighting wars in Iraq an ...
- MOX Plutonium leaking from Japanese reactor
Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com March 25, 2011 While the mass media has all but dropped its interest in the Fukushima crisis to focus on Libya and meaningless side-issues like the death of Elizabeth Taylor, the nuclear nightmare only worsens, as Japanese authorities admit that reactor number 3, ...
- Nova Ordem Econômica e Política Mundial à Vista
George Soros tem a intenção de cooptar os países do terceiro mundo, apelando para a participação dos países em desenvolvimento como parte da solução. O controle do novo sistema, no entanto, permanecera nas mãos dos globalistas como ele e seus fantoches eleitos em cada país. Business & Media Inst ...
- 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 Order
The 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 ...
- Woodstock wind project opponents appeal to Sup ...
Opponents of the Spruce Mountain wind project in Woodstock last week filed an appeal with the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, leaving an offer from the developer to donate money to the town’s elementary school in limbo. Attorney Rufus Brown, representing Friends of Spruce Mountain and other aggrie ...
- Huge eastern Oregon wind farm raises big quest ...
The gravel haulers start rolling down Oregon 74 before dawn, their air brakes bellowing under the heavy loads they ferry into the neighboring hills. Just over the rimrock of Willow Creek Valley, hard-hatted contractors scramble to pour the base pads and lay electrical cable for 338 wind turbines ...
- Lawmakers renew push to speed turbine construction
BOSTON � Gov. Deval Patrick and allied lawmakers are renewing a push to reduce the legal hurdles that have stalled some wind-power projects in Massachusetts. Their efforts were thwarted last session by lawmakers from wind-rich areas in the Western part of the state, who say the bill would erode ...
- Commonwealth Court upholds revocation of Butle ...
Butler Township had the right to revoke a zoning permit issued to the developer of a wind turbine project along Ashland Mountain, a three-judge Commonwealth Court panel has ruled. In an 18-page opinion and order filed Tuesday in Pottsville, the panel upheld county Judge Charles M. Miller’s rulin ...
- Hancock County towns grapple with wind turbine ...
PENOBSCOT, Maine � While plans for a major wind farm project in northern Hancock County work their way through the review and permitting process, towns in the western part of the county are developing ordinances that would locally regulate the construction of both wind turbines and communication ...
- Fox puts $ where mouth is, admits phone whore ...
In one of their many late night commercials which seem to have a lot to do with sex products. It’s a recruiting ad for women to do “phone valet” work in the “telecommunications industry”. Other ads, not as spicy, but just as hideously depressing “Yo Name TOBY, boy!” that show your destination to ...
- Two years ago they said the dude was murdered
To silence him, of course. Now the Murdoch-owned (maybe just affiliated) tabloid The Globe reports that “Obama’s gay lover tries to commit suicide”. Call the Pope! it’s a Miracle! Man dead for two years tries to commit suicide! Other headlines in this bizarre series, “Oprah Gay!” “Obama has affa ...
- Shaken, stirred, and Fukushima’d
I’ll bet it will come to mean the same word in English as in Japanese. Although now apparently “meltdown” no longer means apocalyptic, “radiation” no longer means toxic, and exceeding safe levels no longer means posing a health risk. Curious. This is because, I suppose, you can’t cry REACTOR FIR ...
- ‘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 ...
- 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 Iran
1:28 - "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 Debunkers
Permanent 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 ...
- 4 Year Old’s Teeth Ravaged By Juice and Soda [ ...
We received this picture in an email from Veronika, a pediatric dentist from the SF Bay Area, after she read our post on the soft drink calorie commercial. Here is the accompanying text: Hi Fooducate, Attached is a picture of the mouth of a 4 year old kid !!!!!!! He used to “love” sodas and [...]
- When Will the Fooducate App be Available Outsi ...
Since launching the Fooducate iPhone App, we’ve been inundated with requests to make the app available worldwide. Our neighbors to the north in Canada are especially anxious to start using it. But right now, you can only download the app from the US iTunes Store. The reason is quite simple – we ...
- Lots of Goodies on version 1.2 of the Fooducat ...
Product Update. Yesterday afternoon we launched version 1.2 of the Fooducate iPhone app. We’ve made changes both on the iPhone side and on the server side to provide you with a better service. Here are the details. Messaging – We’ve added a messaging feature that notifies you about products requ ...
- Nutrition Impostor – SnackPack Pudding
Pudding. 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 ...
- Four Pre-Writing Exercises for Inspired Bloggers
Rebecca Chelsey's recent post on ways to spark our creativity got me thinking about the next step: how to take that creativity and turn it into meaningful sentences on the page. In other words, what we do with that spark of inspiration will determine the success or setbacks we face when we blog. ...
- 8 Simple Sources of Creative Inspiration
As a creative person, I've noticed that creativity and creative ideas tend to present themselves whenever they see fit, and rarely otherwise. This is an especially unfortunate habit for my creativity to have because I am in the field of design. Over the years I've researched and stumbled upon ei ...
- Culture Vulture: Social Strategies for Differe ...
Social media campaigns are becoming more integrated into the overall online marketing mix. And as with anything on the Web, you need to think global to succeed in the long term. To succeed with social media marketing for different cultures, you need to familiarise yourself with what’s happening ...
- Internet Marketing and Social Media Degree Pro ...
Guest post by Brian Jenkins Over a billion and a half people use the Internet, and this has created a plethora of opportunities for talented Internet marketers. Specialized knowledge in Internet marketing and social media is vital for many businesses. Yes, there are successful, self-taught Inte ...
- How to Find Great Communities, Forums, and Blo ...
To market your company effectively, you need to find out where your target audience is. In this post I’ll show you how you can do this. I like using examples, so in this case, I’ll assume you sell Star Wars merchandise.
- Guerrillas kill Colombian Indian boy, 16
An Awá woman at a vigil for the twelve Awá massacred on 26 August 2009. © ONIC A sixteen-year-old Awá boy has been killed by left-wing guerrillas in the south-west Colombian town of Barbacoas. The death of Humberto Pai Taicus is the latest in a long line of attacks against the indigenous A ...
- Violent protests delay destructive Amazon dams
The small Pirahã tribe will be affected by the Madeira river dams. © Clive W. Dennis/Survival The construction of the Madeira dams in the Brazilian Amazon has been delayed, following violent protests at the Jirau dam site last week. Construction workers reportedly set fire to buildings and ...
- 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 ...
- Dispatches UK TVGreg Palast Drills Deep into BP
One year after the Deepwater Horizon, Palast travels from the Gulf Coast to the Arctic Ocean to the Caspian Sea to drill deep into the heart of BP. Filth, polar bears and oil-crat police states. Catch it Monday night at 8pm GMT on Channel 4's DISPATCHES. Sorry: Only in Britain. Greg Palast ...
- No BS Info on Japan NuclearObama invites Tokyo ...
for Truthout/Buzzflash by Greg Palast What South Texas project could look like.(Image by NINA - Nuclear Innovation North America) I need to speak to you, not as a reporter, but in my former capacity as lead investigator in several government nuclear plant fraud and racketeering investigatio ...
- Chevron Runs from Judgmentin Ecuador
by Greg Palast Chevron petroleum Corporation is attempting to slither out of an $8 billion judgment rendered yesterday by a trial court in Ecuador for cancer deaths, illnesses and destruction caused by its Texaco unit. I've been there, in Ecuador. I met the victims. They didn't lose their sh ...
- Reagan: Killer, Coward, Con-man
The Observer London by Greg Palast You're not going to like this. You shouldn't speak ill of the dead. But in this case, someone's got to. On the 100th Anniversary of Ronald Reagan's birth, as we suffer a week of Reagan-kitcheria and pukey peons, let us remember: Reagan was a con-man. Rea ...
- Shake your head and throw something at your TV
from MoviesOnline.ca Bush Family Fortunes is a documentary that will make you shake your head and want to throw something at your TV. If even half of what BBC investigative reporter Greg Palast reveals is true and you happen to be an American you may or may not be calling for a revolution depen ...
- How can I reuse or recycle hairdressers/beauty ...
Jeri left a question on the Suggest an Item page: I work at a beauty salon and we just got new aprons so I collected all the old black ones and all the old polyester smocks that they were going to throw away. They were just putting them in the trash so I rescued them [...]
- How can I reuse or recycle storage heater bricks?
Carole sent an email asking about storage heater bricks: does anyone know what to do with old storage heater bricks? Just had 4 old heaters taken out and I suspect the plumbers will just take the lot to the dump so want to see if I can save them and reuse them or find somewhere [...]
- How can I reuse or recycle a decorative colour ...
We’re in the middle of having our bathroom replaced. It’s been a nightmare, never again etc etc – but it has had some upsides. For example, after I mentioned to the main plumber that I’d reuse the side of the old shower enclosure to make a cold frame or something, he brought me six old [...]
- Plastic-free and aerosol-free cleaning – ...
This week, we’ve had a vaguely spring cleaning inspired week here on Recycle This and looked at a few cleaning related questions – so far, reusing/recycling bleach bottles, making homemade dishcloths/pot scrubbers, and reusing/recycling air fresheners. Today though, I’d like to hear your tips an ...
- How can I reuse or recycle Keurig coffee K-cups?
From one coffee-related post to another. We’ve had an email from Rose about “K-cups”: I love drinking the various flavors of Keurig coffee, but hate wasting the cups since they can’t be recycled I need suggestions on what to do. Kids crafts would be great since I have 2 little ones. I hadn’t hea ...
- Free Virtual Autism Conference Features Temple ...
Free! From home! Temple Grandin! What else do we need to do to entice you, bring you a piece of chocolate cake and a glass of wine? Check this out from the wonderful Chantal Sicile Kira. For information and to...
- Vaccination News Reports: 90 Peer Reviewed Stu ...
By John Stone These links show that at least 90 published peer review studies already condemn the medical use of the organic mercury compound thimerosal manufactured by Eli Lilly, which is still given in the United States to infants, children...
- Unbroken
By Kent Heckenlively, Esq. I recently finished reading the book Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand and couldn't help thinking how relevant its message is to so many communities. For those unfamilar with the book, it tells the story of Louis Zamperini,...
- British Medical Journal Remains Ethically Chal ...
By John Stone Once again BMJ and its editor Fiona Godlee have demonstrated their high-handedness and double standards by refusing to allow full discussion of their non-disclosure of affiliations in the Wakefield affair. At least two letters responding to Godlee’s...
- 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...
- Codex Alimentarius and Food Irradiation in the ...
Essentially, the food becomes mutated by this exposure, a condition which does not occur in nature, and is the cause for many forms of cancer and genetic modification. Yet, Codex pushes irradiation as if it were a great tool of disinfection with no adverse side effects at all.
- 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 CAFOs
If 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.
- Clashes break out at Jordan anti-government pr ...
BBC - Reports say supporters of the king threw stones at the hundreds of protesters camped in Gamal Abdel Nasser Square, injuring a number of them. The protesters were demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Marouf al-Bakhit, reforms to parliament and for corrupt officials to stand trial. Re ...
- Japan’s PM says nuke situation dire
ABC – Japan’s prime minister says the situation at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant remains grave and he cannot be optimistic. A new shadow has been cast over efforts to control the radiation leak at the plant and the government says it is worried highly radioactive water is leaking from rea ...
- West targets Libyan forces in bid to end stalemate
Reuters – Western warplanes bombed Muammar Gaddafi’s tanks and artillery in eastern Libya to try to break a battlefield stalemate and help rebels take the strategic town of Ajdabiyah. Rebels said they had entered Ajdabiyah from the east on Friday, Al Jazeera reported, while Gaddafi’s forces held ...
- Climate Fact Of The Day – Evidence for d ...
Nature 408, 698-701 (7 December 2000) | doi:10.1038/35047044; Received 7 July 2000; Accepted 2 October 2000 Evidence for decoupling of atmospheric CO2 and global climate during the Phanerozoic eon Ján Veizer1, Yves Godderis2 & Louis M. François2 1.Institut für Geologie, Mineralogie und Geophysik ...
- A Little Victim’s Plight Has the Wheel of Just ...
WSJ — Jean-Paul Burget, an animal-rights activist, has risked his life posing as an ivory dealer to catch elephant poachers in Africa. But the quest closest to his heart is saving the Great Hamster of Alsace, which has forever roamed these pretty hills but whose population in the wild here has d ...
- California clean energy: "No on 23" is back
Former Secretary of State George Shultz and San Francisco hedge fund manager Thomas Steyer are resurrecting the successful alliance between clean-tech businesses and environmental groups that defeated Proposition 23 last November. The new non-partisan group, calling itself “Californians for Clean...
- Appeals Court upholds delta smelt protections
A federal appeals court has upheld the constitutionality of Endangered Species Act protections for the Delta smelt, rejecting claims by a conservative legal organization. In an opinion released Friday, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling...
- Ethanol will power NASCAR races in Fontana thi ...
But when the green flag drops at the sport's premier Sprint Cup Series at the Auto Club Speedway in Fontana this weekend, it will be emblazoned with a logo that says, "American ethanol" -- and every race car and truck will be fueled by a 15% ethanol blend known as Sunoco Green E-15.
- Japan's nuclear crisis: An opportunity for geo ...
Japan is sitting on enough untapped geothermal power to replace all its planned nuclear stations over the next decade. But with plans to build 13 more nuclear power stations, it has yet to consider harnessing its estimated 23.5 gigawatts in...
- 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...
- Microloans potential to bring water to million ...
Just Add Water: Simplicity of Microloans Has the Potential to Bring Clean Water to Millions in Need (Women Deliver) – During this World Water Day, I would like to celebrate the innovative and integrated approach that Water.org is using to expand access to safe drinking water, basic sanitation, a ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- When Israel Becomes A Source Of Embarrassment ...
Most American Jews want to feel proud of the Jewish State, not frustrated or ashamed. It doesn't help when they read of continued settlement growth, the flotilla debacle, Foreign Minister Lieberman's hard-line comments about Israeli Arabs and other issuesSubmitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� ...
- The new self-hating Jew
"In holding hearings on whether a voluntary American Jewish organization is indeed a pro-Israel lobby, the Knesset committee has interfered in an entirely inappropriate way in the internal affairs of the American Jewish community." Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a ...
- Strenger than Fiction-Israel News - Haaretz Is ...
Maybe for the first time in their tragic, complex history, political wisdom and foresight. Instead of using violence, they have been busy with state-building; instead of squandering resources, they have built schools and a viable security force. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it ...
- Israels problem is the settlements, not J Street
Israel�s problem is not J Street. The problem is that an ever greater proportion of U.S. Jews feel that they are forced to choose between their values and their involvement with Israel.Their identities are defined by the idea of universal human rights...Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� ...
- The private side of a public tragedy
You are not a symbol or a national event, your life bore a purpose unto itself and we must not let your terrible death become a tool, no matter what for." Submitted by Margaret Mayer to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Escalating Violence Leads to Vast Displacement ...
The agency has sent two convoys with medical supplies to the rebel-held city of Benghazi through the Egyptian Red Crescent and the Libyan Red Crescent, as well as thousands of blankets, sleeping mats and other relief items.
- Member States Need to Step Up Legal Protection ...
Stephen Kisambira, the President of the UN Staff Union, echoed the Secretary-General's call to Member States, adding that countries should not only 'ratify those agreements, but take determined steps to implement them.'
- Another 'Extremely Harsh' Sentencing Handed Do ...
Ms. Pillay also noted a 'worrying' increase in imprisonments, house arrests and other restrictions on lawyers and human rights defenders in China over the past 18 months.
- Journalist Killed During Yemen Protests
Mr. Al-Sharabi was covering the demonstration for the Al-Masdar independent newspaper.
- Devastating Quake Hits Myanmar
The quake had its epicentre in Shan state, close to the border with Laos and Thailand, and struck just before 8:30 p.m. local time yesterday. The official death toll has reached 73 and is expected to climb further.
- RA.One' will change the genre of films: S ...
Mumbai, March 26: Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan says his upcoming sci-fi superhero film "RA.One" is an attempt to create something that will change the genre of Indian films. "It's an indigenously made film and it's made in VFX studios in India and is trying to create something which w ...
- Actress Emma Roberts bags role in 'Adult ...
Losangeles, March 26: Actress Emma Roberts is set to take the lead role in coming-of-age drama “Adult World”. Emma, who is Julia Roberts’ niece, beat off strong competition from contemporaries Carey Mulligan, Rooney Mara, Emily Browning, Juno Temple and...
- Real estate: Respect the buyer
The days when real estate developers used to sell each and everything are gone. Now, to earn respect and a name in the market, buyers need to be shown and given respect. Buyers are no longer ill-informed and instead do their homework before visiting project sites. They read all about the pr ...
- Ganguly is 'The warrior Prince' in new do ...
Former teammates such as Sachin Tendulkar and known rivals, including Australian skipper Ricky Ponting, will open up on the enigma called Sourav Ganguly in a docu-feature on the ex-India cricket captain titled 'The Warrior Prince'. ESPN/STAR Sports network, the official...
- Jackman, Aishwarya bag top honours at FIC ...
Hollywood star Hugh Jackman and Bollywood's international face Aishwarya Rai-Bachchan have bagged the top honours at the FICCI Frames Awards here. Jackman, known for his role as 'Wolverine' in the popular 'X Men' series, received FICCI Frames Excellence...
- Advancing Frontier Of Brain Repair
Neuroscientists and engineers at UCSF and UC Berkeley have joined forces to help pioneer a new frontier of brain repair - the development of devices that would allow patients with such conditions as stroke, spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury and Lou Gehrig's disease to control prosthetic ...
- TIMELINE: A Nuclear Crisis Unfolds In Japan
A timeline of the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant, which has leaked radiation since it was damaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
- Health Communicator of the Year: Health commun ...
- Robots For Search-And-Rescue Operations In Dif ...
An intelligent, reconfigurable modular robot invented by a UC Davis alumnus and a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering is headed for commercial development with the help of a grant from the National Science Foundation. Graham Ryland and Professor Harry Cheng hope their "iMobot" will ...
- Road Traffic Pollution Doubles Risk Of Rejecti ...
Lung transplant patients have double the risk of organ rejection and death within five years of the procedure if they live near a main road, indicates research published online in Thorax. The Belgian researchers tracked the health of 281 patients who had undergone a lung transplant or retranspla ...
- Public Momentum Builds Against Nukes
UNITED NATIONS - Willing or not, the handful of nations armed with nuclear bombs will likely find it ever more difficult in the next few years to reject growing international opinion in support of complete abolition of nuclear weapons, anti-nukes activists and politicians say. At U.N. headquarte ...
- Canada Parliament Begins No-Confidence Debate
The Canadian parliament has begun debate on a no-confidence motion expected to topple the Conservative minority government. Liberal Party leader Michael Ignatieff said Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government "breaks the rules" and "does not deserve to remain in office". If the motion passes o ...
- Thousands in Yemen March Against Saleh
Tens of thousands of protesters are on the streets of Sanaa, Yemen's capital, to call for an end to Ali Abdullah Saleh's 32-year rule, as the embattled president said he would only hand over power "to capable, responsible hands". Addressing a large rally of his own supporters in a speech carried ...
- Leonard I. Weinglass, Lawyer, Dies at 77; Defe ...
Leonard I. Weinglass, perhaps the nation’s pre-eminent progressive defense lawyer, who represented political renegades, government opponents and notorious criminal defendants in a half century of controversial cases, including the Chicago Seven, the Pentagon Papers and the Hearst kidnapping, die ...
- Vt. House Passes Single-Payer Health Care Bill
MONTPELIER -- The Vermont House of Representatives passed a bill calling for a single-payer system Thursday afternoon, putting the state on a path to become the first in the nation to adopt universal access to health care. Lawmakers voted 92 to 49 after nearly two days of debate, including discu ...
- Audio Archive: The eMobility Challenge
Electric vehicles offer a major opportunity for more energy-efficient transportation, as well as reduced dependency on carbon-producing fuels. However, the cars themselves are only half the solution. We must create a new charging infrastructure to get those cars the power they need. In this w ...
- Japan’s Nuclear Crisis Far from Over
Headlines about Japan�s stricken nuclear power plant are becoming rare. But that says more about fickle nature of the media than it does about the tremulous state of affairs at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi plant (FDI). Despite progress in restoring electricity to some areas of FDI, a� member of th ...
- Nuclear Accidents and Public Perception Of Nuc ...
Nuclear safety is both about public perception, the viewpoint of the enemies of nuclear power, and about actual industrial design and practice. Relative to other industries the safety practices of the nuclear industry are very good. This assessment can be made even though the nuclear industry ...
- Decisions In A Civilized World
I had an experience in the last few days that I thought highlighted some interesting and vexing aspects of our current public dialog about energy and climate issues. I would be interested in hearing what others do in such situations or what you think of my handling of it.
- Renewable Energy: Horses for Courses
It has become nearly impossible to keep track of all the major wind and solar projects underway at any point in time. Considering that I can recall when a month's worth of project announcements could be counted on the fingers of one hand, that's a sign of the tremendous progress in renewable ene ...
- Recent Patent Litigation Weekly Columns
Much of the patent news that was published on this blog has been moved to the IP Insider section of the Corporate Counsel website. Here's a list of the last several Patent Litigation Weekly columns— Oct. 25, 2010: Big Patent-Licensing...
- Paul Allen v. The Internet
Former Microsoft executive and billionaire Paul Allen sued several major Internet companies and three large retailers for patent infringement today, asserting that four patents originating at Interval Research, Allen's dot-com era think tank, cover basic web browsing and e-commerce technologies....
- Citing Possible Bias, ACLU Asks Rader to Recus ...
With the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit set to consider a landmark case over the validity of human gene patents, attorneys for the plaintiffs in the suit are asking the court's chief judge to recuse himself from the matter—before the panel that will hear it has even been s ...
- Law360 Calls Lawyer-Owned Shell Company a "Pub ...
seems to have a pretty flexible definition of that term. Last month, it included . Who is so concerned about such fairness? That would be , the Texas law firm that owns Americans for Fair Patent Use, which is a limited liability company set up to prosecute a false marking lawsuit filed ...
- Eben Moglen on Bilski, software patents, and b ...
Moglen's position on the subject of software patents—that they should be banned—is, to say the least, outside the mainstream in legal circles. It has, however, garnered support among software developers and other techies, especially those who work in the world of open-source and free s ...
- The Race for Space Solar Energy
William John Cox The failures of the General Electric nuclear reactors in Japan to safely shut down during the 9.0 Tahoku earthquake, following in the wake of the catastrophic Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the deadly methane gas explosion in Massey’s West Virginia coal m ...
- Military officer’s 9/11 case against Bus ...
Edited by Rady Ananda From info provided by Center for 9/11 Justice A Top Secret Military Specialist, who was injured in the Pentagon explosion on September 11, 2001 and who sued Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Air Force General Richard Myers for conspiracy, terrorism, constitutional violatio ...
- They said it wasn't like Cernobyl and they wer ...
Michael Collins According to an international scientific group monitoring radiation around the world, the Fukushima reactors are emitting nuclear toxins at levels approaching those seen in the "aftermath" of Chernobyl. The Chernobyl disaster began with an explosion, Fukushima is a smolderi ...
- Target Israel, not Libya
by Stephen Lendman On April 9, 1986, Ronald Reagan called Muammar el Gaddafi the "mad dog of the Middle East." Today, after an imposed no-fly zone, war rages to remove him. For decades, he ruled despotically, punishing enemies, rewarding friends. His days may now be numbered. Washington won't ...
- Resist a Larger War Into Libya
The Attack on Libya is Not Merely a No Fly Zone—But an Intervention Into Libya By Kevin Zeese It was hard for some peace activists to look at the planned attack by Col. Gadhafi on Libyan rebels and oppose the no fly zone approved by the U.N. Col. Gadhafi is a vicious leader who promised ...
- Will the middle class have to learn to do with ...
That's the question journalist and author Linda McQuaig addresses in her column about greed, the assault on middle class dreams, and the "looming conflict" between Canada's elite and the "aspirations of millions of Canadians". Read the column here.
- Living Wage 2011: how much does a family need ...
CCPA-BC has just published Working for a Living Wage 2011, which shows that the living wage for Vancouver in 2011 is $18.81 an hour, up from $18.17 last year, and far higher than the $10.25 minimum wage planned for next year. A living wage enables families to pay for necessities, support the h ...
- So you think you can budget
From corporate tax cuts to seniors benefits, everyone on Parliament Hill seems to think they know what should be in the budget. But can you do better? What if you were finance minister for a day, what would be in your budget? We've developed an interactive budget tool based on our Alternative F ...
- Canada's military spending higher now than any ...
A new CCPA study finds Canadian military spending is higher now than at any time since the end of the Second World War, thanks to twelve years of budget increases. Canada is the 13th largest military spender in the world and the 6th largest within the 26-member NATO alliance. The study points o ...
- Federal outsourcing creating a shadow public s ...
If the federal government wants to get serious about spending controls, it needs to look critically at its ballooning outsourcing costs. The Shadow Public Service, a new CCPA�study, finds that over the past five years, personnel outsourcing costs have risen 79%. While federal departments have ...
- “When the most powerful country ever to ...
Losing Our Way | The New York Times So here we are pouring shiploads of cash into yet another war, this time in Libya, while simultaneously demolishing school budgets, closing libraries, laying off teachers and police officers, and generally letting the bottom fall out of the quality of life her ...
- Tommy Lee Jones For Texas State Senate!
Now this is an election I reckon I could get behind. Draft Tommy Lee Jones for Senate | tljforsentae.com Texas’ conservative voters aren’t about to send just any Democrat to the Senate in 2012. Hell, it’s been seventeen years since a Democrat has won any statewide race here. That’s quite a recor ...
- Stop giving handouts to big business
End Corporate Welfare | Reason In America today, the biggest recipients of handouts are not poor people. They’re corporations. General Electric CEO Jeffrey R. Immelt is super-close to President Obama. The president named Immelt chairman of his Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. Before that, Im ...
- Pledge Of Allegiance Back In School After Pare ...
gothamist.- Last month little Brianna Fischer of Cobble Hill was watching a television program in which children recited the Pledge of Allegiance in a classroom. What was this mysterious jingoistic incantation, Brianna asked her parents, who were shocked to learn that their 8-year-old daughter w ...
- US Uncut Plans Nationwide Protests For Tomorrow
US Uncut Says Two-Tier America Has To Go | The Nation On March 26, US Uncut has protests planned across the country in almost forty different cities, including cosmopolitan hotspots like New York, Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco, and also smaller rural areas in Ohio, Pennsylvania ...
- 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 Else
According 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 ...
- Top Bush-era GITMO and Abu Ghraib psychologist ...
One of the most intense scandals the field of psychology has faced over the last decade is the involvement of several of its members in enabling Bush's worldwide torture regime.� Numerous health professionals worked for the U.S. government to help understand how best to mentally degrade and b ...
- Opposition topples Canadian government
TORONTO (AP) -- Opposition parties toppled Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government in a no confidence vote, triggering Canada's fourth election in seven years.
- Michele Bachmann has hilarious William F. Buck ...
What a treat. Michele Bachmann, Minnesota congresswoman and Mirror Universe America's next president, has an amazing 28-year-old son named Lucas who apparently emulates the late William F. Buckley. And he is one of her "closest advisers."
- Trump's White House con began 24 years ago
First, a reminder: If you haven't yet entered our� $184.27 Donald J. Trump Challenge, it's not too late -- we'll be accepting entries through next week.
- What the right means when it calls NPR "liberal"
Like Jake LaMotta and his brother Joey in the bloody boxing classic "Raging Bull," we are gluttons for punishment. So here we are again, third week in a row, defending NPR against the bare-knuckled assault of its critics.
- 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 MLAs
For SMB News KBANGALORE: Hours ahead of the trust vote for beleaguered Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa in the Assembly, Speaker K G Bopaiah disqualified sixteen rebel MLAs, including eleven from ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), legislative sources said on Monday. Bopaiah signed the ...
- Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8
For SMB News Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8 KARACHI: Eight people including two children were killed and over 65 others suffered injuries when two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Abdullah Shah Ghazi’s shrine in Clifton, official sources said here Thursday. Two heads, beli ...
- Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistake
For SMB News Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistakes’ LONDON: Former president Gen. (Retd.) Pervez Musharraf Friday admitted that political mistakes were committed in the twilight years of his regime and sought apology from Pakistani nation for the same. “These mistakes caused damage ...
- Audio Archive: The eMobility Challenge
Electric vehicles offer a major opportunity for more energy-efficient transportation, as well as reduced dependency on carbon-producing fuels. However, the cars themselves are only half the solution. We must create a new charging infrastructure to get those cars the power they need. In this w ...
- Japan’s Nuclear Crisis Far from Over
Headlines about Japan�s stricken nuclear power plant are becoming rare. But that says more about fickle nature of the media than it does about the tremulous state of affairs at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi plant (FDI). Despite progress in restoring electricity to some areas of FDI, a� member of th ...
- Nuclear Accidents and Public Perception Of Nuc ...
Nuclear safety is both about public perception, the viewpoint of the enemies of nuclear power, and about actual industrial design and practice. Relative to other industries the safety practices of the nuclear industry are very good. This assessment can be made even though the nuclear industry ...
- Decisions In A Civilized World
I had an experience in the last few days that I thought highlighted some interesting and vexing aspects of our current public dialog about energy and climate issues. I would be interested in hearing what others do in such situations or what you think of my handling of it.
- Renewable Energy: Horses for Courses
It has become nearly impossible to keep track of all the major wind and solar projects underway at any point in time. Considering that I can recall when a month's worth of project announcements could be counted on the fingers of one hand, that's a sign of the tremendous progress in renewable ene ...
- Russia Reports France Threat Against Obama Bro ...
A shocking report written by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the meetings held between President Medvedev and US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates this past week says that America’s war on Libya was “forced” onto it after French President Nicolas Sarkozy [photo top right with Libyan l ...
- Obama administration reviewing ways to shrink ...
The Obama administration has begun examining whether it can make cuts to its nuclear weapons stockpiles that go beyond those outlined in a recent treaty with Russia. The classified review is not expected to be completed until late this year, but some Republicans already are worried that it will ...
- Alleged Genocide Leader Mudahinyuka Deported F ...
A man going by the name of Thierry Rugamba reportedly immigrated to the United States in 2000, as a victim of the 1994 Rwandan genocide. He settled in Bolingbrook, Illinois, where he worked at an African grocery. But all was not as it seemed with Thierry Rugamba, according to Immigrations and Cu ...
- Military indoctrinated on gays kissing, behavior
Four branches of the military have begun sending training material to 2.2 million active and reserve troops as a prelude to opening the ranks to gays, with instructions on, for example, what to do if an officer sees two male Marines kissing in a shopping mall. Key themes are that sexual orientat ...
- Simmons blasts Israel music boycott
Kiss’ Israeli-born singer-musician Gene Simmons is shouting out loud at the string of musicians who refuse to perform in his homeland. “They’re fools,” the legendary bassist said in an interview on his first return to Israel since leaving the country as a child more than 50 years ago. Simmons de ...
- 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 Blood
Have 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 Services
From 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 Job
This 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, Too
Source: 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 ...
- Five quick takes: So this is how the rest of t ...
During a record-breaking run in the franchise’s fastest start in history, the Spurs have had almost universal good fortune throughout the season. It all started to unravel in the first quarter of the Spurs’ victory over Golden State Monday night when their captain and inside cog Tim Duncan was ...
- U.S. commander: Successes, challenges in Libya
CNN Wire Staff Tripoli, Libya (CNN) - NATO has agreed in principle to take the lead in protecting Libyan civilians and will work out details this weekend, said the top commander of a U.S. mission that already is enforcing a no-fly zone in the war-torn country. Gen. Carter Ham, commander of U.S
- LIBYA: Thousands fleeing every day, U.N. refug ...
Thousands of people are fleeing the violence in Libya every day, the U.N. refugee agency says. Tunisia is receiving about 2,000 arrivals daily, most of them Sudanese and Bangladeshi, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said in a statement Friday. Between 1,500 and 2,000 others are crossing ...
- NCAA Tournament Open Thread: Friday Night Swee ...
* #2 North Carolina vs. #11 Marquette; 6:15pm; CBS; Jim Nantz, Clark Kellogg * #1 Kansas vs. #12 Richmond; 6:27pm; TBS; Marv Albert, Steve Kerr * #1 Ohio State vs. #4 Kentucky; 8:45pm; CBS; Jim Nantz, Clark Kellogg * #10 Florida State vs
- Dozens of Syrians reported killed in Daraa
CNN Wire Staff (CNN) - Violent protests erupted Friday in Syria, with dozens of people people killed in and around the restive city of Daraa and a boy slain in the coastal town of Latakia, reports said. "The situation in Syria has worsened considerably over the past week, with the use of live a ...
- Fixing Firefox 4s Mac multi-touch woes
It turns out that Firefox's developers, for reasons beyond me, had simply disabled multi-touch functionality. You can bring "pinching" back by getting under Firefox hood by typing: "about:config in the address bar. About.config lists Firefox's application settings (aka preferences) which sit ins ...
- Righthaven loses second fair use ruling over c ...
An Oregon nonprofit did not infringe on copyrights when it posted without authorization an entire Las Vegas Review-Journal story on its website, a judge ruled Friday. U.S. District Judge James Mahan said during a hearing he planned to dismiss, on fair use grounds, a copyright infringement lawsu ...
- Union Opposition To Patent Reform Legislation ...
Pat Choate, noted political economist, filed a breach of contract lawsuit earlier this week against Intellectual Ventures, a patent aggregator, owner of approximately 30,000 patents, and plaintiff in numerous patent infringement lawsuits. According to a copy of the complaint obtained by Gametim ...
- OASIS ODF 1.2 Committee Specification Approved
First, just last week the OASIS ODF TC approved the ODF 1.2 Committee Specification. This is the highest level of approval we can give to the specification in the technical committee.... And speaking of maintenance, we have two ballots related to IS 26300 underway in ISO/IEC JTC1: - A DCOR ...
- Ask the Author: Interview with Ross Guberman
Ross Guberman, the President of Legal Writing Pro, discusses his new book, Point Made: How to Write Like the Nation's Top Advocates.Oxford University Press recently released Ross Guberman's new book, Point Made. Through an empirical approach that draws heavily on the writings of the country's f ...
- Offshore vertical axis wind turbines
“The Aerogenerator X design is half the height of an equivalent horizontal-axis turbine and its weight is concentrated at the base of the structure.” CleanTechnica has more on the development of this promising prototype.
- CalPERS releases disturbing report
In the wake of cratering pension fund returns and the filing of lawsuits against two former top employees, CalPERS, the giant California pension fund, commissioned a report by D.C. law firm Steptoe and Johnson. The report is scathing, saying former CalPERS CEO Federico Buenrostro steered investm ...
- Governmental derangement syndrome. #2
Napolitano: Border security ‘better than ever.’ Mexico border towns safe to do business in. What planet is Napolitano on? I suggest she take time out from her oh-so busy schedule of living inside the DC bubble and issuing bizarrely optimistic PR fluff and venture into the real world for a change ...
- Governmental derangement snydrome. #1
Japan PM says nuclear crisis not worse but advises wider evacuation. The real questions there are 1) Is the government in control or just a lackey of Tepco, and 2) Is Tepco more concerned with saving their investment in the plant rather than saving lives?
- Polizeros Radio. Derrick Crowe interview. Libya
Derrick Crowe is a Political Director at Brave New Foundation, a five-year veteran of Capitol Hill, and contribuor at Huffington Post, MichaelMoore.com and AlterNet. We spoke with him about the Libya war (and it is a war now) With Steve Hynd of Newshoggers, Josh Mull of Firedoglake and Rethink A ...
- Israeli vice-premier, accused of war crimes, w ...
On March 9, I received the following invitation: The Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Middle East Forum of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson Center present (sic) A Conversation with Moshe Yaalon Vice Premier, Minister of Strategic Affairs and Likud Knesset Member Moderated by Aaron ...
- This is what good statecraft looks like
Norwegian foreign minister Jonas Gahr Store has a terrific piece titled "Why We Must Talk" in a recent issue of the NY Review of Books. In it, he makes a strong argument why "we"-- in this case, I think, western advocates of democracy-- need to start talking seriously to, among other, the Musli ...
- Tripartite attack on Libya hits geopolitical o ...
It is extremely unclear what the political outcome inside Libya of the tripartite (western) assault against the country will be. It is unclear, too, what political outcome the leaders of the three countries are aiming at in Libya. In my experience, all wars are anti-humane and anti-humanitar ...
- Arab tragedies and role of the "west"
Today is the eighth anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq, and today the US is preparing to once again join a military action against an Arab country, Libya. I wonder how many of Pres. Obama's advisers have ever even heard the term "Tripartite Aggression"? That is the way Arabs refer to t ...
- Interview with R. Visser at 8th anniversary of ...
(I first became acquainted with (and came to admire) Reidar Visser's work when he started posting comments here on JWN during and after Iraq's December 2005 election... Last fall, he was one of the four authors in Just World Books's inaugural list. So now, as the eighth anniversary of the U.S. i ...
- The Welfare Working Group and its distinctly u ...
At page 60 of its report the Welfare Working Group suggests: "From the modelling reported in Chapter 10, we are of the view that the evidence from welfare reform in New Zealand and overseas indicates that a reduction of around 100,000 people [in receipt of working age benefits] is very ambitious ...
- Disability and paying carers who are family
This week I hosted a forum at Parliament for a very challenging campaign. I invited all MPs, but only the Green MPs supported it. Maybe the others were all very busy, but many from Labour and National seem to find it hard to meet the families who have called for their help in vain for [...]
- Saved from recession by the Christchurch quake?
Yesterday, Statistics New Zealand released numbers showing the economy grew by 0.2 per cent in the three months ended December 31, having contracted by 0.2 per cent in the third quarter last year. So we’ve avoided recession, but only by our fingertips. Or have we?
- Children on the margins
A report released this week (PDF) by the Childrenâs Commissioner calls for quality childcare services, especially for under two-year-olds. It will take more than a report to convince the current Government – whose cost-cutting includes undermining the goal of 100% fully qualified staff in early ...
- Hypocrisy reigns over Libya
Many people were conned into supporting the Western military involvement on the basis that it was just creating a “no-fly zone”. Now we find that it is a comprehensive air war against all of Gaddafi’s armed forces
- The Supreme Court, the Constitution and the Fi ...
The Supreme Court's First Amendment opinions result not from interpreting the First Amendment but from deliberately and insidiously changing its diction in ways that make the Amendment unrecognizable. The Court's arguments in these opinions are pure cant and do nothing but turn the Justice ...
- Liberty's Easy Slide into Tyranny
Huge conspiracies aren't what destroys people's freedom, the accumulation of errors, failed policies, and little and big unfairnesses do. It happens because The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men/ Gang aft agley,/ An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain. The FED, CIA, Executive Privilege, The ...
- What should be done with illegal immigrants?
That this question is even being asked reveals something about ourselves. How would you answer it if you were an illegal immigrant? Perhaps you've never heard of the Golden Rule. The rule may not be the best guide to moral behavior but asking yourself how you'd answer the question if you wer ...
- A Revolting World
Many in many lands are demonstrating against their governments. Some claim that people everywhere are revolting and that a worldwide revolution is imminent. Even both the orthodox and heterodox presses are all atwitter. But it is far easier to bring about a successful revolution than it is t ...
- Demented Democracy
An addiction to opinion, each person being entitled to his own, and the unwarranted notion that those who fight for their beliefs are "principled" is the reason that democracies teeter between antagonistic belief systems and are unable to resolve any social problems. Each party strives to re ...
- Friday Cat Blogging - 25 March 2011
On the left, we have a cat and his shadow. On the right, we have a cat and her garden. Who do you think has the better deal? Comments | Post Comment����
- The Return of John Lott
Hey, John Lott is back in the news! Remember him? Chris Brown of Media Matters catches him retroactively changing a blog post and then complaining that he was misquoted. Luckily, Chris kept a screen shot of the original, always a useful precaution when dealing with Lott. For what it's worth, L ...
- Obama's Gamble in Libya
Jonah Goldberg is dumbfounded at Barack Obama's desire for the United States to let others take the lead in the Libya operation. But that's not what really ticks him off: What’s most infuriating is that if this ends “well” — say Qaddafi is killed by one of his own men in the next couple days ...
- Can California Still Afford the Death Penalty?
The "hanging judge of Orange County" writes today that he's had a change of heart: I watch today as Gov. Brown wrestles with the massive debt that is suffocating our state and hear him say he doesn't want to "play games." But I cringe when I learn that not playing games amounts to cuts to kin ...
- Leaving the Workforce
The Congressional Budget Office has a new study out suggesting that labor force participation is declining not so much because of our current recession, but because of long-term demographic trends: The downward trend since 2000 can be attributed largely to the aging and retirement of the ...
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