20 February - RSS SnapShot! Pt 3

food and water watch

• By: Rich's coworker
  In an effort to de-spin your story, the real reason there were no muffins or treats of any sort was because the bearer of treats was absent, and had been gone for the past few days. Perhaps if you "wish real hard" again, parabens can turn into magical antioxidants that are part of a complete ...
• By: Top 50 Global Food Security Blogs
  [...] Food and Water Watch: Food & Water Watch works to ensure the food, water and fish we consume is safe, accessible and sustainable. [...]
• By: Online Degree 30 Best Water Conservation B ...
  [...] Food & Water Watch: The Food & Water Watch site advocates strong conservation measures, promoting policies that'll result in quality drinking water for everyone. [...]
• By: Food and Water | Roland's Ramblings
  [...] would also like to suggest you go over to read the blog of Food & Water Watch. You should find that to be very [...]
• By: Ecocentric’s Best of the Ecoblogosph ...
  [...] Food and Water Watch: The latest info about food and agriculture policy from our favorite beltway insiders. [...]

treehugger

• Minnesota Moose Population Crash Possibly Corr ...
  The end is near. Image credit:Mark Lenarz. (excerpted from slide show) I recently was chided a bit for suggesting (without having providing a link to supporting scientific evidence) that the behavior of a central-Wisconsin black bear emerging from the den in early February might well be at ...
• Green Awards Celebrates Local Green Innovators
  Making a "giant" green difference in your community? The Green Awards Program is giving away more than $100,000 and is searching for people like you! Have a green program that's creative and is impacting your community, but you could use more funding? Make a short video (less than one min ...
• New York Fashion Week: Bodkin Presents Unusual ...
  Bodkin Fall 2011, New York Fashion Week. Photo: Emma Grady Next up in our on-site coverage of the best of green ready-to-wear at New York Fashion Week is mod eco-conscious label Bodkin. For Fall 2011, lead designer Eviana Hartman offers up well made--and slightly unusual--classics, from ...
• Can You Trademark Urban Homesteading?
  Photo Credit: Kristine Paulus via Flickr Creative Commons Attribution License. The Dervaes family of Pasadena is well-known for practicing self-sufficiency on their urban lot. They grow over 7000 pounds of food. They use very little power from the grid. They have been an inspiration to many ...
• Coal Plant Shutdown a Long-Awaited Step in the ...
  Photo credit: Mona Miri It is a step towards victory for Massachusetts—a top official at Dominion Energy publicly announced the Salem power plant is expected to shut down in the next 5 years. In 2005, I began my environmental series documenting the coal and oil power plant that was resp ...

Biosingularity

• Mutant Fish Safely Store Toxins in Fat
  Some fish in New York’s Hudson River have become resistant to several of the waterway’s more toxic pollutants. Instead of getting sick from dioxins and related compounds including some polychlorinated biphenyls, Atlantic tomcod harmlessly store these poisons in fat, a new study finds. But what’s ...
• Woman’s voice restored after larynx tran ...
  A woman in the US is able to speak for the first time in 11 years after a pioneering voicebox transplant.Brenda Jensen said the operation, which took place in California, was a miracle which had restored her life.Thirteen days after the surgery she said her first words: “Good morning, I want to ...
• Shingles Vaccine Cuts Disease Risk 55%
  The herpes zoster vaccine, better known as the shingles vaccine and recommended for adults 60 and older, cuts the risk of getting the painful disease by 55%, new research finds. “Compared to childhood vaccines, people would [probably] think 55% is not too impressive, because many childhood vacci ...
• Delivering a potent cancer drug with nanoparti ...
  Researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have shown that they can deliver the cancer drug cisplatin much more effectively and safely in a form that has been encapsulated in a nanoparticle targeted to prostate tumor cells and is activated once it reaches its target. Using the new parti ...
• The Deadliest Diets
  Two specific eating patterns increase the risk of death for older adults, a 10-year study finds. Compared to people who ate healthy foods, men and women in their 70s had a 40% higher risk of death if they got most of their calories from high-fat dairy foods or from sweets and desserts. Universit ...

CFACT

• Have the Greens finally trapped biotech crops?
  The world in 2040 will have perhaps 8 billion people demanding twice as much food and lots of high-quality protein. Either we produce that extra food on the land we already farm, or we watch the most massive loss of wild-lands in all history.
• Did the US ethanol mandate contribute to the E ...
  An analysis of recent commentary on ethanol production mandates in the United States and the riots in Egypt.
• Washington Post compares Climate Depot to Drud ...
  Marc Morano is CFACT's editor in chief of Climate Depot, and he has been garnering extensive coverage lately. Last week he was cited in the Washington Times. This week it's the Washington Post's Capital Weather Gang and Fox Nation.
• U.S. court deals smack-down to greens
  Two powerful, well-funded environmental groups suffered a smack-down at the hands of a rural Utah county when a U.S. court ruled the environmentalists couldn̢۪t challenge the county̢۪s ownership claims to dozens of roads on federal lands.
• CFACT's Morano exposes anti-American climate e ...
  The editor of CFACT's Climate Depot, Marc Morano, was recently cited in a Washington Times editorial.

Ria Novosti Online News

• Motor oil leak leaves thousands without drinki ...
• Cuba releases seven jailed opposition activist ...
  Cuban authorities released seven opposition activists sentenced to prison terms for "crimes against state security".
• Iraqi Kurds take to streets, at least 14 injur ...
  At least 14 people were injured during protests in Sulaimaniya, a city in Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region.
• Libyan protests death toll nears 100 as sniper ...
  At least 15 people were killed on Saturday when snipers reportedly opened fire at the crowd of mourners in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, bringing the overall death toll in six days of protests to 100.
• Afghan bank siege leaves 18 killed, dozens inj ...
  At least 18 people were killed and about 70 injured in an attack on a bank in Jalalabad, the capital of Afghanistan's the eastern Nangarhar province.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• Europe's ATV-2 space freighter heads to ISS
  The European Space Agency's said it launched a second Automated Transfer Vehicle, the Johannes Kepler, from the Kourou space center in French Guiana on Thursday.
• Russian cosmonauts complete spacewalk
  Two Russian cosmonauts on board the International Space Station completed their spacewalk one hour earlier than expected, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported from the mission control center.
• Mars mission participants walk on 'Red Planet'
  Participants in the simulation of a manned mission to Mars completed on Monday the first of three scheduled walks on a mock-up of the surface of the Red Planet.
• International Space Station
• Mars500 stimulated mission 'lands' on Red Plan ...
  The crew of the Mars500 stimulated mission on Saturday landed on the "surface" of the Red Planet.

Pruning Shears

• The Daily Jellyby
  So Freddie deBoer posts (via) a serious, well articulated plea for those on the warpath against Social Security and Medicare to think about the real world impact. Andrew Sullivan responds with majestic indifference by citing Megan McCardle, someone whose analysis is so consistently deceptive or ...
• Weekend wrapup
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post“6:09pm: No point any of our presenters trying to speak over the roar of Egyptians celebrating.”Combat operations have concluded for:Lance Cpl. Aaron M. SwansonSgt. Patrick R. CarrollCpl. Lucas T. PyeattSpec. Ryan A. Gartn ...
• Cairo puts popular opinion back on the map
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postAlmost a year ago - February 21, 2010 - I wrote “Our image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing Muslims.” Almost every week since, something like those words have been part of my Sunday posts. I eithe ...
• Patriot Act roll call review: can you do more ...
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post So a few provisions of the Patriot Act failed to get renewed because some Republicans voted against it. It looks like just a speed bump on the way to passage; the original vote was done on a fast track “no debate” schedule (wond ...
• This Week In Tyranny
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.There was some propaganda this week trumpeting the fabulous news that “drone strikes do appear to becoming less lethal for civilians as tim ...

Organic Consumers.org

• Twelve Things You Need to Know About the Upris ...
  What's happening in Wisconsin is not complicated. At the beginning of this year, the state was on course to end 2011 with a budget surplus of $120 million. As Ezra Klein explained, newly elected GOP Governor Scott Walker then " signed two business tax breaks and a conservative health-care policy ...
• Delusional CEO Says Doritos and Pepsi are Not ...
  PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi said on Fox Business Channel's American Icon program that "Doritos are not bad for you." She added that they are "nothing more than corn mashed up, fried up in oil, and flavored in the most delectable way."Click here to read this article
• The Dirty Little Secret Hidden in Soy-Based He ...
  In the early 1990's, soy and soy products exploded onto the supermarket scene with promises of bountiful health benefits. This "new miracle food," soy, was supposed to lower cholesterol, take the heat out of hot flashes, protect against breast and prostate cancer and offer a filling alternative ...
• Dear Obamas: Let's Move ... On Food Policy Ref ...
  Michelle Obama recently celebrated the first anniversary of her Let's Move campaign to inspire healthier eating. But as the popular face of the Obama administration's advocacy for healthy, nutritious food, the first lady has conveniently side-stepped several critical consumer food issues like or ...
• Chicken, Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria, and Re ...
  After my post Monday on aspartame's wild and wacky path from pharmaceutical-company lab to beverage sweetener for millions of people, I got into a back-and-forth on Twitter with star progressive bloggers Matt Yglesias and Adam Ozimek.Click here to read this article

fotoFrontera

• Volcanes, montañas y nevados VI (10 fotos inéd ...
  No se imaginan cuánto disfruté los paisajes nevados cuando estuve en Canadá. Por eso mismo y para darles una idea más clara, el día de hoy deseo compartir con ustedes 10 hermosas postales donde la nieve se puede apreciar con la máxima nitidez posible. No deje ir la oportunidad de explorar estas ...
• Fotografías de caballos VI (Equinos de Pura Sa ...
  Desde los 7 años, hasta los 13 -y mientras estudiaba la educación primaria-, fui pastor y vaquero en una pequeña comunidad rural del Estado de Veracruz. Desde entonces, mi admiración hacia las vacas, los borregos, las cabras y los caballos, ha sido imborrable. Por eso mismo, hoy les traigo ya la ...
• Guitarras eléctricas e instrumentos musicales ...
  ¿Saben cuántos instrumentos musicales, se tocar? ¡Ninguno! Sin embargo, eso no quiere decir que no me guste la música. ¡Me encanta!. Por si no lo sabían, soy un fan declarado de la música country. Mi artista favorito es Alan Jackson y pude asistir a uno de sus conciertos en la Ciudad de Nashvill ...
• Fotografías y wallpapers de los Grandes Lagos ...
  Hoy soñé que paseaba en bicicleta por grandes lagos de agua clara rodeados por el césped verde y bajo un cielo azul. Con el propósito de ilustrar mejor los lagos de mi sueño, les comparto a los más de 4,200 miembros de nuestra comunidad en Facebook y los más de 13,500 suscriptores, 11 bellísimas ...
• Animales increíbles IV (Fotomanipulaciones en ...
  Haz clic aquí o sobre las imágenes para ver todas las fotografíasPara ver más fotomontajes de animales en Photoshop, revise los siguientes números. [1][2][3][4][más] ATENCIÓN: Para ver todas las fotos de esta serie, navegue usted hacia abajo y haga click sobre las imágenes que más le gusten para ...

Center for a Livable Future

• The Cristo Rey/Amazing Grace Community Garden: ...
          Where there was once a block of run-down row homes in McElderry Park in East Baltimore, Maryland, there is now a burgeoning vegetable garden. The Amazing Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church started the garden to provide green space for the community and produce for the church’s foo ...
• Jackson touts 50-year plan to ‘perennialize’ l ...
  The Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture was celebrating its 20th annual conference Feb. 2-5, but it seems that keynote speaker Wes Jackson wasn’t there to celebrate. Instead, he was on a mission to gather allies for his proposal of a 50-year farm bill, which could supplement th ...
• Bills banning arsenic take shape in MD General ...
  Dr. Keeve Nachman, Director of the Farming for the Future Program at CLF, spoke at a press conference yesterday in the Maryland House of Delegates. The press conference was organized by Montgomery County Delegate Tom Hucker and Prince George’s County Senator Paul Pinsky.  Senator Pinsky and Del ...
• A Former Teacher’s Take on The New Dietary Gui ...
  Every five years, the United States Departments of Human Health Services and Agriculture jointly release the Dietary Guidelines for America in the hopes of encouraging every American to eat a healthy diet, however, chances are the average person will never set eyes on the report. As a former tea ...
• Oprah Enthusiastically Throws Her Support Behi ...
    Talk show host Oprah Winfrey may have just encouraged a large segment of her 30 million viewers to join the Meatless Monday movement following her latest show which gave us a rare glimpse into where some of our meat comes from. The Meatless Monday campaign’s national awareness has more t ...

Norwegianity

• Hard cheese
  Some think there could be as many as 70,000 protesters in Madison today, not counting outside agitators. I wonder where the Governor is hiding? Tim Rutten in the L.A. Times on stuff most blog readers already know: Wisconsin’s new Republican governor, Scott Walker, has caught the attention of GOP ...
• Cheeseheads R US
  Wisconsin: David Dayen, Naked Capitalism, Rachel Maddow [v], TBogg [v with music], Susie Madrak [v], Bob Collins, Nick Coleman [v], WINston [p], WINston [v], WINston [v], and some background from Rachel Maddow [v]. Also, Fox’s take. And from Lambert: I read John Hinderakerâs take on the even ...
• Janie’s got a gun (hidden in her rectum? ...
  So many questions, so few answers. Matt Taibbi would like to know Why Isn’t Wall Street in Jail? Excerpt: You want to win elections, you bang on the jailable class. You build prisons and fill them with people for selling dime bags and stealing CD players. But for stealing a billion dollars? For ...
• Punishing us for not giving them everything fa ...
  It takes a Villager to ignore a story that big…. - AP: Machines first out-calculated us in simple math. Then they replaced us on the assembly lines, explored places we couldn’t get to, even beat our champions at chess. Now a computer called Watson has bested our best at “Jeopardy!” And ye shall ...
• Convictions
  Well, that didn’t take long. Iowa Governor Terry Branstad just axed over 25% of his state’s nursing home inspectors. Iowa, per capita, is one of the oldest states in the union. I’m glad I left before I got old. Newsiness: Shawna Forde: guilty as all hell and death eligible [more] [more] If a job ...

Public News Service

• Health Advantages of Breastfeeding for Arizona ...
  Health Advantages of Breastfeeding for Arizona Moms and Babies Phoenix, AZ – Arizona mothers who want to shield their children from many childhood diseases should attempt to breastfeed their babies... and women looking for information and support on breastfeeding have a new friend in their corn ...
• “Birthright Citizenship” Bill Gets ...
  “Birthright Citizenship” Bill Gets First Hearing in AZ Senate Phoenix, AZ – A bill to deny citizenship to children of undocumented immigrants had its first hearing Monday in the Arizona Senate. Supporters say it would end the lure of birthright citizenship for immigrants. Opponents say the measu ...
• Organic 'Seed Money' Dries Up Soon
  Organic 'Seed Money' Dries Up Soon Phoenix, AZ - Arizona organic farmers, and those who want to be, have a few more weeks to apply for federal help to get them through the long transition process. The cut-off date for the Organic Initiative, part of the federal Environmental Quality Incentives P ...
• A Weighty Message for Arizonans: Obesity Linke ...
  A Weighty Message for Arizonans: Obesity Linked to Cancer Phoenix, AZ – Up to one-third of Arizona’s 11,000 annual cancer deaths could potentially linked to obesity, according to the American Cancer Society. During this week's National Healthy Weight Week, the ACS is encouraging people to manage ...
• AZ Food Banks: Demand Remains at Record Levels
  AZ Food Banks: Demand Remains at Record Levels Phoenix, AZ – 2010 saw another record increase in demand for emergency food boxes from the state’s food banks. But because of federal aid and generous donations, the food banks are mostly keeping up with that demand. Comments from Ginny Hildebrand ( ...

Center for Food Safety

• World’s First Genetically Engineered Biofuels ...
  Impacts on Human Health, Environment, and Farmers Not Fully Assessed DESPITE RISING GLOBAL FOOD PRICES, OBAMA ADMINISTRATION CONTINUES MISGUIDED BIOFUELS AGENDA The Center for Food Safety criticized an announcement today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) that it will approve the world ...
• Farmers And Conservationists Challenge Latest ...
  In defiance of earlier court ruling, USDA allows continued growing of controversial, illegally planted crop Today the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) issued a new decision to allow the U.S. sugar beet industry to continue growing Monsanto’s “Roundup Ready,” genetically ...
• Donate to CFS’s Legal Fund
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• Organic Industry Supports CFS in GE Sugar Beet ...
  Leading organic businesses and trade groups have filed a joint brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in support of the Center for Food Safety and opposed to Monsanto in the ongoing case regarding planting of Roundup Ready, genetically engineered sugar beets. Support from the o ...
• Fighting a Common Enemy on the GMO Battlefield
  Yesterday’s announcement by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) that it will once again allow unlimited, nation-wide commercial planting of Monsanto’s genetically-engineered (GE) Roundup Ready alfalfa, despite the many risks to organic and conventional farmers, is deeply disturbing, but no ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

• THE PLAGUE OF THE CENTURY � Desertpeace
  THE PLAGUE OF THE CENTURY � Desertpeace: "Throughout history mankind’s existence has been threatened by various plagues, usually in the form of infectious diseases. Modern times call for modern threats, not necessarily of the viral type, but as uber nationalism, zionism in particular. One of th ...
• Kiesha Crowther - The Once and Future Fraud by ...
  Kiesha Crowther - The Once and Future Fraud by Kathryn Price NicDh�na on BJ Tuininga's TwitWall: "Europeans and Euro-Americans know this myth: it's King Arthur pulling the sword from the stone, it's Harry Potter receiving the letter borne by an owl, it's the ancient European stories, once told a ...
• Glenn Morris: Still Lying After All These Year ...
  Still Lying After All These Years | Indian Country Today Media Network.com: "I wish that there were a more diplomatic way to say this, but the plain fact is that Obama, and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, lied to the Tribal Nations Summit Conference, and to the world, on Decem ...
• Uri Avnery: The Genie is out of the Bottle
  Home / World Wide / U.S.A. / The Genie is out of the Bottle - Media Monitors Network (MMN) "The Arab Awakening is not a matter of months or a few years. It may well be a prolonged struggle, with many failures and defeats, but the genie will not return to the bottle. The images of the 18 days in ...
• STUART LITTLEWOOD : Maybe Gaza should paddle i ...
  STUART LITTLEWOOD : Maybe Gaza should paddle its own canoe | My Catbird Seat: "The Convention establishes the responsibilities and obligations of Contracting States to provide for the free movement of international air transport services. “In terms of the right of passage for foreign aircraft th ...

Pensieve

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

Green Times

• GoGreen Man, a green hero to save our polluted ...
  It's official! The world's climate is changing. We are in a trouble now. Our polluted earth needs help… We need a new Green Hero!
• Little penguins swim
  Penguins are flightless aquatic birds. Although they are classified as birds they can’t fly and on the other hand can swim very well. The little penguin is part of Australia and New Zealand’s fauna. It is the smallest one of all penguins and is found only in southern Australia and New Zeala ...
• Shading Trees
  Today, the world consumes about 300 million tons of paper each year. According to paper manufacturer Boise Cascade, to produce 90,000 sheets of paper the manufacturer needs 128 cubic feet of wood! Recycling paper will help save water energy; it will reduce air pollution as well as saving tr ...
• Sydney Cycling - Sharing the road
  Sydney is one of the most hostile places for cycling! What are the myths and how can we create better understanding between drivers and cyclists?
• Environmental News 15/02/2011
  Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss

The Briefing Room | Investigate

• Free Movie tickets: CONVICTION
  The kind folk at 20th Century Fox have made available some double passes for our TBR, Twitter and Facebook readers to see the new movie CONVICTION, based on the true story of Betty Ann Waters who studied to become a...
• New-look Investigate magazine HIS and HERS goe ...
  As of Sunday...with more exclusive revelations about the Pike River disaster and police bungles in the rescue operation...and HERS features new poll results showing support for National is wide but shallow, and that a large number of voters want Winston...
• Investigate Political Poll 2011 - No1
  Investigate magazine's first big omnibus and political poll in more than five years is underway. If you want to fill in the survey form (takes less than two minutes on average) online, you'll find it here.
• BREAKING NEWS: Arizona shooter of Gabrielle Gi ...
  The young gunman who shot and killed six people, and left Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in critical condition, appears to have borne a grudge against Giffords after meeting her in 2007 at the age of 19. According to reports, former...
• New study says CO2 rise a result of warmer tem ...
  A new peer reviewed study supports another contention I raised in Air Con: that CO2 increase follows temperature increase, and that there appears to be no correlation between fossil fuel emissions and temperature. The paper is available in full in...

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

• 7 hours ago in Al Arakib
  By Yeela Raanan It seemed that there were “red lines” even for the police brutality against the Bedouins of the Israeli Negev – while destroying homes that had no possibility for acquiring building permits, arresting people on their village lands in order to make room for JNF trees, beating ac ...
• Please Help Rebuild 13 Water Cisterns Destroye ...
  crossposted from the Villages Group blog) The situation of the Palestinian cave-dwellers in South Hebron Hills continues to be difficult. They suffer from permanent harassment carried out by the military and settlers. This year, however, has been even more difficult, due to a severe drought. As ...
• Al Arakib update: Four consecutive days of dem ...
  From the Negev Coexistence Forum (NCF) Last week brought four consecutive days of demolitions in Al Arakib. For the first time on February 9 we witnessed bulldozers clearly marked as belonging to the Jewish National Fund (JNF-KKL), destroying tents that had been erected overnight by the resident ...
• Report from Sheikh Jarrah’s 65th weekly ...
  By David Shulman February 11, 2011 Sheikh Jarrah It took the Planning Committee of the Jerusalem City Council less than fifteen minutes to approve plans for the next wave of evictions in Sheikh Jarrah. We knew it was coming. Six large Palestinian familiesâsome fifty souls– are to be expelled f ...
• Videos of women protestors and other recommend ...
  One of my sources sends the following recommendation for on-the-ground reports from Egypt. Here are three of the many women of the Egyptian Revolution – that will counter some of those images of passive Muslim women. Change in the Middle East is being pushed forward by women like Mona, Asma, Sa ...

Politics in the Zeros

• War may be good for the economy but isn’t for ...
  Stuart Bramhall on the US war-based economy and the collapse of genuine democracy. It only became clear once I left the US the immense sacrifices Americans make for their cheap gasoline and consumer goods. The most obvious is a range of domestic programs that other developed countries take for g ...
• Backupify backs and restores Facebook, Twitter ...
  Backupify is the leading backup provider for cloud based data, offering an all-in-one archiving, search and restore service for the most popular online services including Google Apps, Facebook, Twitter and more. They have a free version that backups up five accounts.
• Will Jerry Brown get a special election on the ...
  The train wreck that is the California budget negotiation continues. If Gov. Brown doesn’t get the special election or the measures don’t pass, then things will get very dire indeed.Crossposted from CAIVN. The California legislature must agree by a two-thirds vote to hold the June 8 special elec ...
• Klepto kitty is a real cat burglar
  Link.
• For the Middle East protesters. People got to ...
  The Middle East protesters are heroic and inspiring. They are literally putting their lives on the line. I helped organize multiple anti-Iraq war protests. Sometimes they were huge. Sometimes it got really tense with LAPD. But I knew the authorities would not open fire on us with assault rifles ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

• Lies, War, the Patriot Act, and Tea Party Infi ...
  I don’t quite understand why so many prominent “conservatives” keep promoting war and a larger security/police state. I mean, I think I have an idea as to at least some of the reasons, but with public opposition growing to such policies I wonder if maybe (hopefully) they’re hurting their credibi ...
• Why would Anyone want the UN to take over the ...
  The UN has long been an organization of Social Engineering , Central planning, Eugenics, and Global Government. The UN plan is a collectivist one, that replaces rights with “privileges” – At this time the Web is FREE, but recent issues regarding copyrights, “security” / wikileaks, and details of ...
• It Started in Wisconsin – “Austeri ...
  Wisconsin Democrats (and rent a Mobs)Holding Taxpayers And Voters Hostage To Unions source In case you haven’t been paying attention to what is going on in Wisconsin, here are a few of the main issues in the bill proposed by Governor Scott Walker that has Union leaders’ heads about to explode: R ...
• George Soros & Egypt’s New Constitution
  For Egyptians, the nightmare is just beginning. by Tony Cartalucci The United States and its allies are still feigning surprise at the unfolding revolutionary conflagration consuming the Middle East. However, those aware of the West’s decades old network of NGOs and how their sole purpose is reo ...
• Making Fortune on Poverty: JP Morgan’s B ...
  While most Americans are struggling hard to overcome the hardships of the recession, the profits of national banks continue to rise. JP Morgan is among those cashing-in … and it’s a contract to process food stamp payments that’s helping it on its way. RT’s Maria Portnaya found out how the rich b ...

The Air Vent

• Spectator on O10
  Nic Lewis has co-written an article with the Spectator regarding S09. They used it for the cover story – click the image below for the magazine link. I have a copy, but haven’t read it in the published form myself.
• A Calmer Conversation with the Nail
  by – Ryan ODonnell   I had made a post concerning the sensitivity of the S09 reconstruction with respect to changes in trend for the underlying surface stations HERE [insert link].  That post was a bit rushed, and the level of explanation I provided was insufficient.  Bishop Hill did a better ...
• Liars and Knucklehead Reviewers
  When Steig went off the deep end the other day, I told people I wasn’t going to let it go.  Not after all that time work and abuse we took in getting this paper done.  He’s actually screaming that we are liars, and the reviewers that let our math pass are Knuckleheads.  Let’s see if [...]
• SI 1 Images
  There is a lot of silliness going on in the believer community about which reconstructions are correct. It should be rather obvious by now and Ryan has some more work on that soon, but this image was one of my favorite from the initial submission. Of course it’s about the only one I contributed ...
• Matters of Fact
  Ryan ODonnell Subsequent to my post on Feb 7, 2010 here, Steig informed me by email that he had not seen our Response to his Third Review, as I had previously assumed. I apologize for my misunderstanding on this point, which was, however, incidental to the major concerns expressed in my post. A ...

Focal Point

• House Votes to Defund Planned Parenthood, Titl ...
  The Party of Spite strikes again. The Republican-controlled House voted Friday to de-fund not only Planned Parenthood, but all Title X funds for clinics that perform abortions: If the resolution goes into law, the 95-year-old health care provider will lose funding from the federal governme ...
• Debunking Myths About Epidurals for Childbirh
  From a good post by Dr. Harriet Hall debunking various myths about epidural analgesia for childbirth: In my opinion, it is unconscionable to let patients suffering from severe pain go untreated unless there is compelling evidence that not treating pain results in improved health outcomes. ...
• World's Only Superpower Has 32 Legislators Liv ...
  Well, not everyone can live at C Street... Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) is demanding an investigation into reports that at least 32 members of Congress are living out of their D.C. offices, Jay Newton Small explains: Sure, most congressmen earn more than $10 ...
• A Former TSA Agent Speaks Out On Collective Ba ...
  Last week TSA Administrator John Pistole bestowed very limited collective bargaining rights on the nation's 40,000 Transportation Security Officers. Even if the TSOs vote to unionize, they will be barred from negotiating on basic issues like disciplinary standards, ostensibly in the interest of ...
• Heavier Kids: Blame Working Moms...or Lazy Dad ...
  A new study of 900 kids reports a correlation between the number of hours a woman works outside the home and the BMI* of her children. "For a third grader of average height, the increase in BMI was equivalent to an extra one and a half to two pounds over what that child would normally gain i ...

Inside Facebook

• Platform Update: Test Users, Timestamps, Displ ...
  This week’s Platform Update on the Facebook Developers Blog announced the newfound ability to determine all the applications owning a specific test user, a limit on the number of key/value pairs displayed in stream stories published through the API, timestamps on developer site pages, and a guid ...
• Highlights This Week From the Inside Network J ...
  The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities in the Facebook Platform and social gaming ecosystem. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at NaturalMotion, Meteor Games, Casual Collective, W3i,Badgevill ...
• Facebook Roundup: President Obama, Vitrue, Mes ...
  President Obama Meets with Zuckerberg - President Barack Obama made a trip to Silicon Valley this week to meet with leaders in the tech industry, including Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Apple CEO Steve Jobs. Vitrue Raises $17 million, Adds Murphy as Senior Advisor – Social media management se ...
• Facebook Adds New Relationship Status Types, b ...
  Facebook is rolling out the option for users to set their relationship status to “In a civil union” and “In a domestic partnership”. These types will allow gay couples to more accurately describe their relationship. However, advertisers don’t have the option to target users based on these types, ...
• Facebook Tests Ad Surveys Asking Users Which A ...
  Facebook is testing a new format for the sponsored ads section of the site’s right sidebar. Users experiencing the test are shown two ads, and then a survey question asking “which of the two ads above would you prefer to see more of in the future?” Facebook may be using the collected to data to ...

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ReDress News

• Turning against Mu'ammar Gaddafi of Libya
  Nureddin Sabir recounts a painful journey of hope, disappointment, betrayal, blood and murder that has seen him turn from loyal supporter to vehement opponent of Colonel Mu'ammar Gaddafi and his regime in Libya.
• Raymond A. Davis is not Raymond A. Davis: Amer ...
  Christopher King considers the case of "Raymond A. Davis", the US citizen who murdered two Pakistanis in Lahore. He argues that Washington’s insistence that "Davis" should get away with the murders derives from its fear that he would expose illegal, undercover US activities in Pakistan.
• Radicals for peace: anti-aggression domestic i ...
  William T. Hathaway profiles the activities of domestic insurgents in the USA who are trying to stop American aggression overseas by resorting to drastic but peaceful direct action.
• The desperate race to cobble together a Palest ...
  Stuart Littlewood views British Foreign Secretary William Hague's and EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton's protestations in favour of an Israeli-Palestinian settlement based on a return to the 1967 borders, against the background of their unwillingness to force Israel to implement UN Secur ...
• Maybe Gaza should paddle its own canoe
  As the prospects of a two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict vanishes thanks to Israel's land grabs and willful failure to honour agreements it has signed up to, Stuart Littlewood considers the possibility of what is to many Palestinians currently unthinkable: a Palestinian state ...

Amazon Rainforest

• BREAKING: Chevron Guilty of Amazon Rainforest ...
  Amazon Watch and Rainforest Action Network just announced a major victory for the Amazon rainforest. An Ecuadorean judge today found Chevron guilty of one of the largest environmental crimes in history and ordered the company to pay a whopping $8 billion to clean up its damage in the Amazon. Che ...
• First film footage of uncontacted Amazon Tribe
  The footage was filmed by the BBC’s Human Planet series shows a Tribe known as the Panoan, who live in virtual isolation from the outside world. The team needed too get footage of the Tribe as proof of their existence so as the government could protect them from illegal logging and mining operat ...
• Second rancher sentenced for contract kill of ...
  A second rancher has been sentenced for his role in the murder of Dorothy Stang, an American nun who was gunned down in 2005 for her efforts on behalf of poor farmers in the Amazon Rainforest. Regivaldo Galvao was sentenced to 30 years in prison by a jury in the city of Pará. Last month [...]
• Yasuni National Park- SAVED!
  President Raphael Correa now has approved an agreement to leave Ecuador’s largest oil reserves, amounting to some 900 million barrels, underground in Yasuni National Park in exchange for more than $3 billion. Under the unprecedented agreement, known as the Yasuni-ITT Initiative, the government o ...
• Amazon watchgroups SILENT over new Chevron oil ...
  In the space of a week, a Chevron technical team has discovered two fresh oil spills in Ecuador’s oil-producing Amazon region. One covers three hectares (7.4 acres) near state-owned oil company Petroecuador’s Guanta production station in the heart of Cofan indigenous country. The other impacts h ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• Jamiol Presents
• Breaking News: Ray McGovern Brutalized & Left ...
  To Those Who Second-Guess Our Police State Status: Shame on You! I just received the following news and I am way too upset to write a coherent piece on this. Ray McGovern is a good friend of mine. We live less than 10 miles apart. Together we have participated in many events and protests. He is ...
• Obama Administration’s Neocon Easter
  Resurrecting the Neocons: Marc Grossman in … Richard Perle & Douglas Feith in Queue Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has chosen a new special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan: a long-time controversial neocon, a man who has been famous for parading as a foreign agent in the lobby circuit, the ...
• Podcast Show #38
  The Boiling Frogs Presents Nick Merrill Nick (Nicholas) Merrill joins us to recount his ‘surreal’ experience as the first American to stand up and challenge the FBI’s National Security Letters, living under FBI gag orders for the past six years, and being identified only as ‘John Doe’ in court ...
• US Politics & the Myth of the Pendulum Swing
  Pacified & Lulled, Still Waiting for the Pendulum to Swing It was a rainy April day in 2004, and I was in the office of one of my professors at the university’s Public Policy Graduate Department. I was having one of those defeated and disillusioned moments that kept recurring during that time pe ...

Afro Spear

• An Obama Pre-quel
  His name is Juan Rafael Santos. He is no longer with us on the physical plane – as far as I know. But his words survive. There is more truth per line – about our (P)resident, about our world, our government, us – than in any piece of writing I’ve seen in years…perhaps ever. Read [...]
• Women of Color – Origins
  Via Victor Lee Lewis:
• K’Naan On The Politics of Somali Pirates
  In my recent post on rapper Chubb Rock, my blog brother Qwami Ade introduced me to a collaboration video between the Chubster himself and Somali-Canadian rapper K’Naan. Of course I was impressed! I decided that I would find out more about this young man’s music. So the time came for me to seek a ...
• Is South Saharan Africa reading Egypt’s ...
  Dramatic-cum-nicely-choreographed fall from grace of former Egyptian strong man, Muhammad Hosni Mubarak, was unprecedented though what happened in Tunisia tells it all. Defiant and arrogant as the tyrant has always been, nobody thought he would easily be toppled. Day-dreaming as it was seen in 1 ...
• “Trust for us” by Dr. B.B. Robinso ...
  Op-ed submission by Project 21 There is a lot of discussion of the black community’s problems: poverty, crime, high incarceration rates and high unemployment. But there isn’t much discussion of “trust.” An absence of focus on the trust deficit in the black community obscures an unfortunate cause ...

Expose the BNP

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

Sen4Earth

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

If Americans Knew

• Gabrielle Giffords, Tom Hurndall and Palestini ...
  Alison Weir, CounterPunch - There is something particularly horrifying when someone is shot in the head. Perhaps it's the gruesome image, the destruction of the brain, the clear intent to kill. The recent shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is made even more nightmarish by the l ...
• As Israel kills and maims, Outrage is directed ...
  Whenever Israel commits yet another atrocity, its defenders are quick to redirect public attention away from the grisly crime scene. Currently, there are headlines about allegedly anti-Semitic comments made by senior White House correspondent Helen Thomas. Pundits across the land evince outrage ...
• An Open Letter to the Southern Poverty Law Cli ...
  I am disturbed by an article that the Center published in the fall 2007 issue of "Intelligence Report"--the Center's magazine. The item "Navy Extremist Disciplined--But Not for Extremism" is on page 11. The article focuses on Navy officer John Sharpe Jr.
• NPR Watch: Linda Gradstein Has Done It Again o ...
  NPR's reporter Linda Gradstein has done it again. She has managed to take a "must report" story on Israeli-Palestinian relations -- the new report by B'Tselem on the non-combatants, including children, killed by the Israeli military during the Israeli attack on Gaza -- and report it in a manner ...
• The invisible government: Propaganda Disguised ...
  John Pilger: In a speech in Chicago, John Pilger describes how propaganda has become such a potent force in our lives and, in the words of one of its founders, represents 'an invisible government'.

David J. Gregory

• CUT PENTAGON BUDGET: ACT NOW
  Their current proposal includes cuts in domestic spending, diplomacy, development, and international assistance but allows the Pentagon budget to continue to rise.
• SAY NO to Patriot EXTENSIONS!
  Together, these provisions make a mockery of our civil liberties: They let government officials spy on whomever they want, for any reason, without ever letting them know or giving them a chance to challenge the order in court.
• Secretariat the Horse, the Movie
  To be witness to history from afar is one thing, to be up close is another, and to have the wisdom to know the difference is the icing on the cake, of course, I am referring to great moments in history, of excelling in any endeavor, being human, or otherwise, of the bright spots and not of man’s ...
• I understand and now you do, too!
  Why do they hate us? Is it really that hard to understand? 1st collector for I understand and now you do, too!Follow my videos on vodpod
• I understand, now you do too!
  A lot of people ask the question, why do they hate us so? This trailer from a new movie explains it in simple terms, it is a sociologist outlining the thinking that has emerge around the world in their views of the Empire. As with every Empire that has ever existed, conquered people will never [ ...

Unsuitable Blog

• 350.org say “Hello Business, Goodbye Gra ...
  For a while it wasn’t certain which side would blink first: the grassroots or the corporate loving heirarchy. Turns out that the grassroots blinked before the heirarchy had even been established. When, like 350.org you have a full time staff of just half a dozen people then you have a pretty eas ...
• Friends of the Earth, iPods and The Competitio ...
  It was a windy Thursday evening at the beginning of 2011. An office in north London buzzed with anticipation at the launch of something exciting; something that would appeal to a new breed of eco-conscious consumers who want that extra something to keep them feeling good about their fast-pased, ...
• A Story About Banks [Guest Post]
  A few weeks back I had a revelation. Many years ago I opened an account with the Midland Bank in Ipswich. Lots of the people that worked there used to come into the pub that I worked in at lunch-time and they all seemed very nice. Actually there was also a very affable man, a [...]
• Nature Conservancy Embrace Dow Chemical Busine ...
  Below is a long list of chemical compounds and elements. This is not just an ordinary list, for it is special in all sorts of ways – not least of all to anyone who is a supporter of our old friends The Nature Conservancy. The list contains just those substances that the US Environmental Protecti ...
• Sudden Oak Death – It’s News Becau ...
  It’s commonly called Sudden Oak Death, so why the picture of a stand of larch trees? That’s a question well worth asking, but a far more important question is: why has Phytophthora ramorum, the name of the fungus responsible, become such big news in the UK? Ever since P. ramorum started blowing ...

Subalternate Reality

• 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 ...
• Wealthy Far More Likely To Default On Mortgage ...
  crossposted at Political Correction For much of the past two years, Congressional Republicans have wasted few opportunities to blame poor and working class Americans for the financial meltdown and the subsequent recession. They’ve argued that through well-intentioned government initiatives, in ...

Idea Lab | Technology

• MIT's Civic Media Session Explores Data in Cit ...
  With a redoubled focus on the community in the civic media community, the Center for Future Civic Media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) launched a new series last week. These relaxed, informal conversations about civic media featured ground-level practitioners, activists, hack ...
• LocalWiki Tries "Open-From-The-Start" Developm ...
  It's time for another project update. We've been hard at work on the core of the software that will power LocalWiki. We've also been spending time running around meeting people passionate about local media and planning out many things to come. Basic groundwork laid Many of you know abo ...
• People of Color Must Innovate or Die in Digita ...
  In December in this space I asked about the lack of minorities at new media conferences -- both as participants and as speakers. The blog post generated a lot of comments; a Twitter discussion, and the start of a list of wonderful experts -- all persons of color -- who can help make your next ne ...
• 'Data and Cities' Conference Pushes Open Data, ...
  When I entered Stamen's offices in the Mission district of San Francisco, I saw four people gathered around a computer screen. What were they doing? Nothing less than "mapping the world" -- not as it appears in flat dimension, but how it reveals itself. And they weren't joking. Stamen, a data vi ...
• Knight, Mozilla Partner to Boost Tech-Journali ...
  I'm excited to announce the Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership, a Mozilla Drumbeat project supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation's Journalism Program. For the next three years, we will have the opportunity to engage a huge community, bring people together for trainin ...

Cutting Edge News

• Israel and Palestine - Obama Administration ve ...
  The U.S. vetoed a controversial Palestinian Authority resolution at the United Nations Security Council as pressure on the administration mounted in the House of Representatives. A letter urging Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to stand up against the resolution condemning Israel quickl ...
• Iran on Edge - Straight Talk in Support of Fre ...
  Democrats and Republicans showed admirable bipartisanship as President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton led the nation through the crisis in Egypt. It wasn’t exactly a return to an era when politics stopped at the water’s edge, but it was a fair-minded recognition that the administration had ...
• Islam on the Edge - Tunisia Breaks into Anti-J ...
  Demonstrators assembled at the Grand Synagogue of Tunis on February 17, shouting “Allahu-akbar,” and “Listen, Jews, the Armies of Mohammed are coming!” as noted in an unedited video posted on the web at YouTube. Viewers of the video can see clearly that the street in front of the synagogue was f ...
• Egypt After the Revolt - Egyptians Celebrate D ...
  A female journalist was sexually and brutally assaulted by a gang of 200 Egyptians in Tahrir Square. What does the terrible personal tragedy of Lara Logan tell us about “modern” Egypt and more broadly about the Arab culture?The most remarkable thing about the incident is that this was not the ma ...
• University of Wisconsin Press and Budget Cut P ...
  Way back when, I was a student in Wisconsin. I always thought then that the University of Wisconsin Press was unnecessary. Seeing what is going on just north of here, with virtually everything on the chopping block, I could not agree more with prior writers. Any funding or free rent for Universi ...

High Country News

• The latest "War on the West"
  Western jobs are under attack, according to the Western Caucus, but its members have an outdated view of the region's economy.
• Monsanto wins, for now
  The Agriculture Department approves the planting of genetically modified alfalfa seed.
• Make my state gun a popgun
  Now that Utah's aiming to designate an Official State Gun, what firearms will the other Western states decide to honor?
• Online dating in a small mountain town
  A not-quite-hopeless romantic in a small mountain town decides to try Internet dating.
• Consider slaughterhouses for unwanted wild hor ...
  With so many unwanted horses abandoned to starve these days, it’s time to reconsider slaughterhouses.

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

• Practicing Peace in the New Year
  A friend, Frank Swift, that I met on my first journey has passed along some great practical steps towards peace for the new year. Frank has written a children’s book to help young people see an alternative to the competition and forcefulness that can too easily get instilled in our young people. ...
• Sharing the writing of another Stieber
  My younger brother, Zack, has been fascinated by the Chinese practice of Falun Gong and is hoping that this post could be used to spark a further discussion about it. � Thoughts on Falun Gong by Zack Stieber � Most of us are aware that in China things work differently then here. The main thing o ...
• Article in FOR
  The following is the rough draft for an article I wrote, reflecting on the war in Iraq, that was published in the recent edition of the Fellowship of Reconciliation’s magazine. For more info on getting the full magazine, check out: http://forusa.org/fall-2010-renewing-movement   Rhetoric and Re ...
• Slate Interview: My Country Right or Wrong: Co ...
  Interview I did with a fascinating writer for SLATE whose special interest is on transformation and how people come to admit they’re wrong:   Address to article: http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/thewrongstuff/archive/2010/12/16/my-country-right-or-wrong-conscientious-objector-josh-stieber-on-bei ...
• Dangerous Activity Thwarted in Afghanistan!

Yid With Lid

• Senator Kerry Plays With Fire by Backing an Up ...
  By Barry Rubin Senator John Kerry, who when I worked in the Senate was regarded as...let's just say as not a great genius, is now chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.�Kerry regards himself as something of a shadow secretary of state. If he ever actually gets that job we're al ...
• Guaranteed Union Dues- Why Wisconsin Is So Imp ...
  John Fund wrote this in Today's WSJ which (at least for me) raised my understanding of why Wisconsin is such a major issue for the bosses of big labor. Labor historian Fred Siegel offers further reasons why unions are manning the barricades. Mr. Walker would require that public-employee uni ...
• Obama's Passive-Aggressive UN Israel Vote
  As expected, the United States vetoed a UN Security Council Resolution that would have condemned Israel for its "settlements" in the disputed territories of Judea, Samaria and East Jerusalem. This followed a week where the US tried to substitute a toned down resolution to be issued as a statemen ...
• Egypt Gets Its Khomeini: Qaradawi Returns in T ...
  By Barry Rubin Friday, February 18 may be a turning point in Egyptian history. On this day Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the best-known Muslim Brotherhood cleric in the world and one of the most famous Islamist thinkers, will address a mass rally in Cairo. It was 32 years ago almost to the day ...
• Newsbusted: Al Gores Latest Failure/ New Auto ...
  The global warming hoax is not Al Gore's only mistake,� there may be a new domestic automobile manufacturer created just to receive a government bailout, and President Obama may have picked up a new bad habit to help him quit smoking. These and other stories are included in today's Newsbusted, ...

The Real Agenda

• Israeli Settlements ‘Illegitimate’ ...
  ABC Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called Israeli settlements “illegitimate” shortly before the United States vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution condemning continued Israeli settlement expansion as illegal. In an exclusive interview with “This Week” anchor Christiane Amanpou ...
• Obama’s 2012 Budget: Tool Of Class War
  Paul Craig Roberts Friday, February 18, 2011 Obama’s new budget is a continuation of Wall Street’s class war against the poor and middle class. Wall Street wasn’t through with us when the banksters sold their fraudulent derivatives into our pension funds, wrecked Americans’ job prospects and ret ...
• FBI looking for ways to bypass privacy rules
  By Ryan Singel Wired.com February 17, 2011 The FBI pushed Thursday for more built-in backdoors for online communication, but beat a hasty retreat from its earlier proposal to require providers of encrypted communications services to include a backdoor for law enforcement wiretaps. FBI general co ...
• Google Chrome apresenta opção para bloquear co ...
  Em uma tentativa direta para facilitar o bloqueio de determinados conteúdos, Google oferece uma opção em seu navegador Chrome que permite aos usuários censurar conteúdos considerados “indesejáveis”. NYT Adaptação Luis R. Miranda Google tem enfrentado críticas sobre a qualidade dos seus ...
• Pesticidas agrícolas interrompem hormônios mas ...
  Scientific American Adaptação Luis R. Miranda Muitos pesticidas agrícolas – incluindo alguns já testados e comumente encontrados em alimentos – alteram os hormônios masculinos, de acordo com novos testes realizados por cientistas britânicos. No estudo, os cientistas recomendam que todos os ...

Wind Watch

• How many bats are being killed?
  The Laurel Mountain Preservation Association wants to know how many bats are being killed by the AES Laurel Mountain Wind Project. The two sides went before the state Public Service Commission Monday. LMPA attorney Brad Stephens says they’ve been trying to get some basic numbers from AES’s bat d ...
• Cape Cod Commission tackles regulating wind tu ...
  Draft regulations Setbacks: 3,000 feet for one-megawatt (or greater) turbines Regional review: Triggered if turbine is more than 65 feet tall Noise study: Required Shadow flicker study: Required Mitigation plans Noise, shadow flicker and decommission rules Building a wind turbine, even a small o ...
• Turbine neighbours gagged in buy-up
  Victorians who have endured health problems from a nearby wind farm have been gagged from talking in return for the sale of their land. Spanish multinational energy company Acciona has been quietly buying farms adjacent to its site at Waubra, near Ballarat, as an increasing number of residents i ...
• Wind farm fight heads to Supreme Court as comm ...
  The Supreme Court of South Australia will soon hear its first appeal against a proposed wind farm development. The appeal follows a landmark judgment by the Environment, Resources and Development Court late last year in favour of AGL’s Hallett 3 project at Mt Bryan – a decision hailed by develop ...
• We’ll fight the wind farms off the D-Day ...
  The view from the Normandy landing beaches is to be transformed â critics say “desecrated” â by an immense offshore wind farm. French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced this week that one of the most poignant sea and beachscapes in the world â the Calvados coast, between Juno and Omaha beaches ...

Not My Tribe

• “conservative” Pentagon budget inc ...
  No, really, the “Conservative” TeaPotty and Republitards have voted to continue funding sponsorship of NASCAR teams as part of their “Recruitment” budget. Yep, get the kids into the Murder Machine any way they can. So-Called conservatives don’t even care about their own kids. Much less anybody e ...
• Right of Way
  I just saw a blind man in the driver’s seat of a motorized chair. He was riding along the sidewalk at quite a clip, what looked like an elongated white cane thrust ahead like a jousting lance. Bearing down on the curb ramp, he showed no sign that he’d seen my turn signal, so I [...]
• Operation Chaos Backfired (also the TeaTard ac ...
  So, the DumFox leaders became so frightened of the hordes of non-white-anglo-saxons having the majority of the votes, if the representative districts were counted correctly, they thought of a brilliant (in their opinion) plan to skew the results of the census by getting the more ignorant of the ...
• Coppelia and the Viennese Hesitation
  If you are hardwired with a cultural affliction like mine –you find yourself with a compulsive affinity for the waltz– I’ll wager you will also be a sucker for what’s called the Viennese Hesitation. It was just such a hook that led me to a Slav melody that immersed me into a ballet called Coppé ...
• Warmonger Hillary says “Taliban made wro ...
  Part of the reason she wants Herod to serve up John Baptists errr Julians head on a silver charger. She was at the Asia Conference, telling the Taliban they must Bow before Her Imperial Majesty, or else… and that in 2001 they had made a “Wrong Choice” by “defying the international community and ...

Debunking the Debunkers

• Debunkers are Losing the Propaganda War ! Poll ...
  A recent poll in the german magazine "Welt der Wunder" conducted by the well known Emnid Institute results in astonishing 89% of the german respondents not believing the official line 9/11. The magazine in 2010 already published the story of NATOs "secret nuclear war", where the consequences of ...
• Jim Corr Omits Info about Roaring Fires in WTC ...
  Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog posted musician Jim Corr's recent interview today and states: It's a collection of talking points on WTC-7: 1. Three buildings, two planes 2. Freefall speed into its own footprint 3. Accounts of explosions (note that Corr fails to mention the firefighte ...
• Jim Corr & Lord Monckton on Irish TV
  Some great info about 9/11 from Jim Corr, including the nanothermite. He knows his stuff. Lord Monckton focused solely on the issue of climate sensitivity, which is the most important question in the climate change debate: How much does CO2 affect temperature? The two debunkers in the audienc ...
• How Pseudoskeptics hijack "Skepticism" to mean ...
  New article from DebunkingSkeptics.com. "Just look at us. Everything is backwards. Everything is upside down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroy information, and religion destroys spirituality." - ...
• Mike Adams on the invocation of 'Science' by d ...
  The downfall of science and the rise of intellectual tyranny (NaturalNews) The very reputation of so-called "science" has been irreparably damaged by the invocation of the term "science" by GMO lackeys, pesticide pushers, mercury advocates and fluoride poisoners who all claim to have science on ...

Fooducate

• Tap Congress to Get Off the Bottle
  A not for profit, Corporate Accountability International, recently released a report with a startling revelation: members of Congress over the course of a year spent nearly one million dollars on bottled water. That works out to about $2000 per member of congress, just on bottled water. Accordin ...
• The Truth About Special K & Dieting
  Hey guys! I was watching TV and enjoying my dinner when a silly Special K commercial came on. You know, the one where a woman is lugging her Christmas tree outside and a group of reindeer mistakes her for Santa Claus? That’s the one. We’re meant to take the mistaken identity as a horrible insult ...
• Spotted in a Shopping Cart – A Big Fat Lie
  We received this picture from Fooducate community member Tamar. The shopping carts are plastered with an advertisement. We can live with that, its a way for the grocer to make a few extra bucks. And if a snack is advertised, or a soda, so be it. It’s the American way. Bur what we really, absolut ...
• The V8 Health Halo
  For years, V8 was a quirky vegetable drink sold by the Campbell soup company. But in the past few years, the brand has greatly expanded its offering, and now even includes a tea blend. Today we’ll take a look at the V8 Fusion line, which combines the perceived health of veggies with the sweetnes ...
• Meet your Meat – Whole Foods Market’s 5-Step A ...
  Pushing the boundary on what foods are right to eat – from health, moral, and ecological perspectives – has been John Mackey’s mission since he opened the first Whole Foods Market over 30 years ago. Earlier this month, the grocery retailer took another step to encourage consumers – and suppliers ...

Traffikd

• 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.
• Blogging Event Ideas to Spice Up Your Blog
  If you've ever gone to an industry conference, film festival, grand opening, or author signing, then you can appreciate the energy such events can create. Industry conferences gather together the best and brightest minds in order to share ideas and plan for the future. Film festivals celebrate g ...
• Increasing Your Blog’s Interactivity: 10 Tips ...
  Guest post by Alexis Bonari Success in attracting and retaining readers is often influenced by a blog’s level of interactivity. Many readers are more active than passive and want to feel like they have a role in affecting a blog’s content, design, structure, and overall ongoing conversation. Po ...

Survival International

• Trial of Indian leader’s ‘assassins’ resumes
  Guarani leader Marcos Veron was killed in 2003. © Joaó Ripper/Survival The trial of three men accused of murdering renowned Guarani Indian leader Marcos Veron is set to resume on Monday in São Paulo, Brazil. â¨â¨Marcos Veron, an internationally respected Guarani Kaiowá leader, was beat ...
• Chevron found guilty of Amazon destruction
  Waorani man, Ecuador © © John Wright/Survival In a historic court ruling, US oil company Chevron has been fined $8.6 billion for polluting a huge area of the Ecuadorian Amazon. Seventeen years after the case was taken to the courts, Chevron has been charged with dumping 18.5 billion gall ...
• Bangladesh: Tribal people living in fear after ...
  The children of Ms Buddhapati Chakma,who was shot dead by soldiers, speak to local journalists after last year's attacks © Satrong Chakma This weekend marks the first anniversary of a vicious attack on Jumma tribal people by settlers and soldiers in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh. ...
• Alaskan mine site to be investigated following ...
  Open cast mines such as this one in West Papua have devastated local indigenous communities © Daniel Start/Survival A huge open-pit mine planned for Bristol Bay in south-west Alaska is to be investigated by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) following mass opposition from local i ...
• Uncontacted Amazon Indians face annihilation
  An Awá man stands amidst the burnt remains of his tribe's forest © Fiona Watson/Survival A shocking report obtained by Survival International reveals that the home of the nomadic Awá tribe suffered more deforestation than any other indigenous territory in the Amazon in 2009. Around 60 t ...

Greg Palast

• Chevron Runs from Judgmentin Ecuador
  by Greg Palast Chevron petroleum Corporation is attempting to slither out of an $8 billion judgment rendered yesterday by a trial court in Ecuador for cancer deaths, illnesses and destruction caused by its Texaco unit. I've been there, in Ecuador. I met the victims.  They didn't lose their sh ...
• Reagan: Killer, Coward, Con-man
  The Observer London by Greg Palast You're not going to like this. You shouldn't speak ill of the dead. But in this case, someone's got to. On the 100th Anniversary of Ronald Reagan's birth, as we suffer a week of Reagan-kitcheria and pukey peons, let us remember: Reagan was a con-man. Rea ...
• Shake your head and throw something at your TV
  from MoviesOnline.ca Bush Family Fortunes is a documentary that will make you shake your head and want to throw something at your TV. If even half of what BBC investigative reporter Greg Palast reveals is true and you happen to be an American you may or may not be calling for a revolution depen ...
• Peak Oil and a Changing Climate
  from The Nation The scientific community has long agreed that our dependence on fossil fuels inflicts massive damage on the environment and our health, while warming the globe in the process. But beyond the damage these fuels cause to us now, what will happen when the world's supply of oil ru ...
• Palast ArrestedBusted by BP in Azerbaijan
  by Greg Palast BP's Azeri police arresting Palast for filming BP oil rig - Baku, Azerbaijan, December 2010"Here in Azerbaijan we believe in human rights. PLEASE GIVE US YOUR FILM." Oh, no, no, not good. The enforcers here come in three colors:  the military police still wearing their old Rus ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

• What can I reuse or recycle to make seedling/p ...
  It might still be February but our 2011 growing season is already off and running here. In addition to the eight fruit trees John planted a couple of weeks ago, I planted out eight fruit bushes at the weekend and I started my first batch of cauliflower, greenhouse tomatoes and lettuce the weeken ...
• How can I reuse or recycle small scraps of yar ...
  We’ve had an email from Lauren: I’m a knitter but I can’t throw away the ends of yarn, not matter how small! I’ve got a carrier bag full of ball ends, some a couple of yards long, most less than a foot. Any ideas? The longer pieces could be used for the inner rings of [...]
• How can I reuse or recycle a lot of white yarn ...
  We’ve had another email from friend of Recycle This Petra: From my sister in law I inherited a lot of yarn, mostly small balls of the same. I know you covered the item about the short ends of yarn and what to do with it. My question is a bit related. A lot of the [...]
• How can I reuse or recycle hairdressers scisso ...
  We’ve had an email from Tasha: We are a hairdressing scissors company trying to find a charity we can send old hairdressing scissors too? If you know of any could you please let me know. I don’t know of any – does anyone else? What about charities that collect scrap metal in general? From what [ ...
• Reducing, reusing and recycling links round-up
  It’s been a while since I did a round-up of some of my favourite reducing, reusing and recycling links so without further ado… I’m often amazed what fab things people can make from old toilet roll tubes and these are no exception – fake wrought iron artwork. A great idea – I’m going to make [... ...

Age of Autism

• The New Normal Takes the Cake: American Childr ...
  By Judy Converse How many kids do you know who would turn down a birthday cake? Few, if any. But there are now millions of kids in the US who must, due to life threatening anaphylaxis from foods, dangerous food...
• The Next Really Big Lie About Autism
  By Anne Dachel In August 2006, I wrote a piece called, The Really Big Lie about Autism. (HERE) It was about the claim by the medical community, health officials, and a parade of reporters, that the epidemic of kids with...
• Best of Age of Autism: Dr. Ari Brown Plays Lia ...
  This post ran last spring. Dr. Brown was the "AAP autism expert" on Dr. Oz yesterday. By J.B. Handley Maybe doctors shouldn’t blog? Along with many other bloggers with apparently no interest in actually reading Karl Greenfeld’s article in Time...
• Is it Ethical to Kill Children to Save Childre ...
  NEW YORK, Feb. 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Should the government promote a medical intervention that undeniably causes death and serious injury to a minority in order to save the lives of the majority? Vaccines are credited with saving the lives...
• NJ Stands to Lose Freedom of Religious Exempti ...
  NJ, your right to a religious vaccine exemption is about to be denied. Which state is next? It’s time to make our voices heard at our elected legislative offices with a MASSIVE call-in/ write-in campaign. Contact info and details are...

Global BDS Movement

• French court reveals fraud committed by Carmel ...
  As a result of the French Coalition Against Agrexco's read more
• Commemorate Land Day 2011 by Joining the Globa ...
  � Commemorate Land Day 2011 by Joining the Global BDS Day of Action 30 March 2011 read more
• Adidas: Apartheid is not fair play, drop spons ...
  Occupied Palestine, 17 February 2011 – The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), the largest coalition of Palestinian civil society organizations and unions, calls on Adidas to withdraw its sponsorship of the first Jerusalem marathon to take place on March 25, 2 ...
• The "Palestine Papers": Grave Palestinian conc ...
  The "Palestine Papers": Grave Palestinian concessions met with utter Israeli rejectionism With revolutionary change across the Arab World eroding Israel's power in the region, BDS has become a key strategy of the Palestinian people for a global struggle to hold Israel accountable and assert ou ...
• JNF eBook 3 now available
  The third volume of the JNF eBook Series (http://jnfebook read more

Farm Wars

• Radio Liberty’s Dr. Stanley Monteith and Barb ...
  Catch me on Radio Liberty at 9:00pm Pacific Time tonight, February 17, with Dr. Stanley Monteith. We will be discussing GMOs. Radio Liberty: http://www.radioliberty.com/
• America’s Silent Killing Fields 2011
  We have systematically been inundated with GMOs at an alarming rate, with alfalfa, sugar beets, and corn for fuel being completely deregulated. It seems that the process of total genetic control of the planet is on the fast track.
• Truth Squad Radio: Eric Herm – Son of a Farmer
  Eric Herm joins us this Wednesday evening to discuss the ravages of commercial agriculture, including the GMO blight.
• Farmers Against Monsanto!
  Do you want to make a real difference in the fight against GMO alfalfa? If you do, then please download this poster and share it with farmers, feed stores, and anyone who might have an impact on alfalfa farmers' seed choices. It's time to take this to the streets.
• Playing the Global Warming Card
  The global warming myth is thriving internationally, on the federal level and in state and local governments.

Open Your Eyes News

• Islamists try to burn red light district
  ABC – Islamists have tried to set fire to a street of brothels in Tunis but were dispersed by police and the military using helicopters, a police official said.  “About an hour ago Islamists tried to get into Abdallah Guech Street to set it on fire,” the official said.  “Residents kept them ou ...
• Six dead, 15, 000 homeless in Madagascar cyclo ...
  Times Live – The Bingiza Cyclone which hit northern Madagascar earlier this week has claimed six lives and left one person missing, with more than 15,000 people homeless and 8,530 buildings ruined, authorities said Thursday.  The Indian Ocean island’s emergency office said the dead included fou ...
• Climate Fact Of The Day – Global Anthrop ...
  Worldwide sulfur emissions rose between 2000-2005, after decade of decline Mary Beckman, PNNL, (509) 375-3688 Manmade sulfur dioxide emissions by country show a decline by the historically large emitters – Europe and the US – but increases in growing economies up to 2005. A new analysis of sulfu ...
• Video Of The Week: You Have No Rights – ...
  As voted for by fans at our Facebook page. Have you yet joined the daily debates?
• Quotation Of The Week
  “The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference” - Bess Myerson As voted for by fans at our Facebook page. Have you yet joined the daily debates?

L.A. Times - Greenspace

• Deepwater drilling permits must move forward, ...
  Beyond dispute is that before the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, permit applications were resolved in some two weeks. Also clear is that the permit applications at issue here have experienced delays of four months, if not more."
• Rainwater Capture Act of 2011 could help quenc ...
  When it comes to water management, California Assemblyman Jose Solorio focuses on three C's: capture, conservation and conveyance. Of those, the state has been most successful with conservation, Solorio says, but it hasn't been nearly as adept at capturing rain...
• Greenest cars: natural gas Honda Civic GX, Nis ...
  For a list of the greenest 2011 model-year vehicles, there sure are a lot of traditional gasoline engines among the top 12 cars ranked by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy. The council's 14th annual ratings of the most...
• Oscar voters tackle gas 'fracking' controversy
  Add one more unlikely group to the list of people debating the controversial process of hydraulic fracturing or "fracking" -- Oscar voters. Energy in Depth, a group representing oil and natural gas producers, has sent a letter to the Academy...
• Ex-astronaut out as New Mexico Energy czar
  Former astronaut and state legislator Harrison Schmitt has withdrawn his nomination to become New Mexico's head of the department of Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department, the latest setback as the state's new Republican governor tries to reverse her Democratic...

water.org

• Water.org and KAMEKO partnership bring clean w ...
  Water.org has teamed up as a charity partner with the new pop/rock/soul artist KAMEKO and his “Tired of Being Broke” Musical Stimulus Gift Package Tour, which will kick off in Liberia March 19, 2011 at ATS stadium. This partnership will raise funds from the tour’s concert ticket sales and other ...
• Rita Marley, KAMEKO partners with Water.org (M ...
  Matt Damonâs Water.org Partners With Rita Marley And KAMEKO For âTired Of Being Brokeâ Tour (Mi2N) – Water.org, a non-profit organization co-founded by Oscar winning actor Matt Damon and executive director Gary White, has teamed up alongside music legend Rita Marley to support the new pop/rock/s ...
• Water.org powering microfinance for water (CFI ...
  Whatâs Matt Damon Got to Do With Microfinance? (Center for Financial Inclusion) – Reeta Roy, the president and CEO of The MasterCard Foundation, penned the post for the foundationâs blog many weeks ago. But the storyâs still fresh: an organization called Water.org is powering a âmarket-driven an ...
• Water.org ensuring the right to clean water (A ...
  Ensuring the Right to Clean Water, One Bottle at a Time: Matt Damon and water.org team up to end the global water crisis (ABC News) – Water.Org gives grants in 14 countries (with Haiti most recently added) utilizing the innovation of a micro-finance model called âwater creditâ. Using the power o ...
• Votes are in from Lowe’s Giving Campaign ...
  The Votes Are in: America Shows Its Love for National Parks, but Everyone Wins in Loweâs First Online Giving Campaign (Business Wire) MOORESVILLE, N.C. – Loweâs and the Loweâs Charitable and Educational Foundation are distributing grants totaling $1 million to the four charities that participate ...

Before It's News

• Wisconsin’s Governor’s Remarks On The Budget P ...
• LOST IN SPACE
• Blood runs in Jordan--protesters want free ele ...
• 5 Reasons Why the Christie Presidential Expres ...
• Ron Paul Announces Run for Presidency -- Indir ...

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

• On a Mission
  South Park never attacks faith itself�it attacks hypocrisy, gullibility, and the ways organized religions use fear, power, and money to manipulate people. Submitted by Kit B. to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Scott Brown Discusses Childhood Abuse as Book ...
  According to background material issued by Brown�s office yesterday, Brown, when he was a state senator, advocated for bills at the State House to protect sexual abuse victims. Submitted by Kit B. to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Defunding the Democratic Party
  Protesters filled the rotunda of Wisconsin's capitol building in Madison this week to register their opposition to Gov. Scott Walker's plan to strip public employees of union bargaining rights.Submitted by Kit B. to Business �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Our Warmer, Wetter, Wilder World
  "The main hypotheses for why we have so much snow," he explained, "involve heat coming out of the now-open Arctic ocean in early winter. Once the ice cap freezes over temporarily, the wild weather calms down." Submitted by Kit B. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• The Other Secret Weapon of the Rich
  But whatever the reason, here's the takeaway: if you don't have a six-figure income, Congress doesn't much care about you. Sad but true. Submitted by Kit B. to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

• E•BOOM CAPITAL: Solar Companies Recapture Thei ...
  Experimental solar taxi using Q-Cells photovoltaic components Solar power component companies roared back to the top of the heap this week, with the EnergyBoom Solar S ...
• Arizona Public Service Moving Towards 100 MW O ...
  The Arizona Public Service Company (APS), Arizona's largest electric utility, is moving towards a goal of generating 100 megawatts of solar power by 2014. read more
• Forbes Names First Solar the Fastest-Growing T ...
  First Solar Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR) has topped the list of Forbes Magazine's "25 Fastest-Growing Technology Companies in America." read more
• relatio Orders 39 Solar Inverters for 19.5 MW ...
  Boston-based Satcon Technology Corp.(NCM: SATC) is one of the world leaders in bridging Utility-Scale solar installations to the power grid with their patented inverter technology. read more
• Hertz Continues Ambitious Sustainability Plans
  The Hertz Corporation (NYSE: HTZ), one of the world’s largest rental car companies in the world, announced that it will undertake its first phase of installing solar electric systems at its rental locations, starting with sixteen lo ...

News Blaze

• Women of The Americas: Catalyst for Change
  Women in the Americas are working to promote strong and vibrant democracies, advance the region's commitment to the rule of law, and uphold fundamental human rights and freedoms. They are cabinet officials and heads of government. They serve in exe
• U.S. Strongly Opposes Continued Israeli Settle ...
  The United States and our fellow Council members are also in full agreement about the urgent need to resolve the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, based on the two-state solution and an agreement that establishes a viable, independent, a
• Warm Up At NASA's Sun-Earth Day Tweetup; Regis ...
  Tweetup participants will be given a personalized tour of the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space museum in Washington. They will observe the sun - weather permitting - from the museum's public observatory and hear from Smithsonian ex
• Dr. Linda Ordiway Joins Ruffed Grouse Society ...
  Linda was part of a ground-breaking study that demonstrated the need for early successional habitat, or forest-openings resulting from timber cutting, by interior bird species like some of the thrushes and the scarlet tanager.
• Did Deadly Honey-Trap Kill a Whistle-Blowing S ...
  The woman, however, was arraigned at a Mombasa Magistrate's court today, Friday, and sent to remand prison until further investigations conclude.

  libcom

  • Demonstrations continue against attack on Wisc ...
    Wisconsin.jpg Update on the protests against wage cuts and the removal of collective bargaining for state workers in Wisconsin, with words of warning about the Democrats and unions from a local worke ...
  • Why Mubarak Fell - The (Sometimes) Incredible ...
    Tahrir Square - Egypt 2011 - protesters wait to hear Mubarek TV speech.jpg How the economic impact and rapidly accumulating losses caused by the recent (not always non-violent) Egyptian mass revolt ...
  • Australia: Construction workers strike over ex ...
    equus-strike.jpg Workers at a construction site in the centre of Perth, Western Australia, walked off in protest on Monday over the working conditions of workers on 457 migration visas. ...
  • 14 people hospitalised in latest repression of ...
    Section 22 of the Teacher's Union and the broader Oaxcan social movement take to the streets to protest the arrival of fraudulent President Calderon. Federal Police open fire with live rounds and tear gas grenades, resulting in at least 14 people wounded a ...
  • Indecorous and Free! Womyn's protests in Italy ...
    In this latest phase of widespread political and economic crisis, the subject of sexuality has become crucial. In this context the role of women is once again determined and exploited by those in power, within an old traditional ideological perspective. We ...

  Free Range International

  • Thugs, Mobs And Education
    The news this week has been dominated by the Lara Logan story.  Ms. Logan was the subject of  the most popular post in FRI history which can be found here.  Reactions to the news that Lara was subjected to “a brutal and sustained assault and beating” have cost at least one knucklehead his job ...
  • Naw Zad
    I just did something which would have been suicidal 10 months ago.  My colleague Little Mac and I, in the company of a Marine tank officer and Naval surface warfare officer (he’s a fires guy by trade) just strolled around the town of Naw Zad with no body armor, no helmets, no riflemen escorting ...
  • Ride For The Brand
    When I first started this blog I used to hammer away on a couple of themes which really bothered me.  The first was Provincial Reconstruction Teams which I maintain are, by design, unable to accomplish their assigned mission. The second theme had to do with the reason we remain in Afghanistan. O ...
  • Shifting Sands
    With most of the world’s attention focused unfolding events in the Mideast now is a good time to shed some light on the current ground-truth in Afghanistan.  Sami the Finn is always a good place to start and he provides interesting perspective on the suicide bombing at Kabul’s at  the Finest s ...
  • What Is the Problem Here?
    One of the Chim Chims’ has asked to put up a guest post on a topic near and dear to both our hearts for different reasons:  the continuing efforts of the New York Times to kill a program I doubt was that big of a deal to begin with.  Chim Chim is a member of [...]

  The Story Behind the Story

  • Updates on the Illuminati
    Food for thought from the incredible website: http://therr.posterous.com/real-meaning-of-666-that-no-one-ever-talks-ab “The Fallen Host came in the times of Jared before his son Enoch by hundreds of years… to mate with Human Women and Animals… and screw up the DNA all over… that is WHY Noah was ...
  • New Antiseptic – “Hydrogen Baracks ...
    Look what folks in Scotland think about our Usurper in Chief  ——
  • This Is as Bizarre as it Gets!! What’s ...
    My vote on this is that when the Chinese YUAN becomes the World’s Reserve Currency, millions of Chinese will suddenly become quite wealthy and can now afford “American-Style” luxuries.   They will become the “New Middle Class” while America’s middle class become the peasantry.  Imagine Robins ...
  • Illuminati “Mirror Image” = Itanim ...
    Want to see something freaky and very telling?  In witchcraft and demonology, spells are “cast” by means of “magic mirrors” – which are believed to be the entrance to other dimensions.  “Through the looking glass” is more than simply symbolic, and the Qabala mystery religions teach that “Lilit ...
  • QDDR — Comrade Clinton’s Globalist ...
    On Wednesday, February 2, 2011, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton convened the “first-ever” QDDR Meeting at Washington D.C.   This involved bringing in MOST of the 260 U.S. “Ambassadors” (now referred to as “Global Chiefs of Mission” by Clinton) at an unknown cost to taxpayers.  ...

  du la bab - Now is the Time

  • Downsizing – downscaling? See these tiny ...
    Here’s a great company doing inspiring work www.tumbleweedhouses.com The company creator, Jay Shafer started off making a super small mobile home for himself measuring  just 89 square feet! Their video is a testament to less being more – they’re now selling ready made mobile cabins and the plan ...
  • Air powered environmentally friendly car being ...
    Sounds a little strange right – an air powered car – why isn’t this big news I wonder… There’s a great company in France operated by a former Formula 1 engineer now producing cars running on compressed air. They’re not great to look at, super fast, or I’m guessing really comfortable, but they’re ...
  • Deforestation – environmental & human ef ...
    There are many types of forest in the world from Temperate Forest to Tropical forest. The one thing all forests have in common is that the trees in them act as the lungs to our planet converting CO2 to Oxygen.  In addition, forests provide a canopy or shading of the earth which helps maintain te ...
  • Could cancer be Fungus? If so, maybe here&#821 ...
    Recently I visited a dear friend who has been dealing with breast cancer for over ten years. After a long attempt to avoid surgery and medication, she was forced to have a double mastectomy. She has chosen to avoid the chemo treatments. This takes a lot of courage given that the standard thing t ...
  • Doctors Warn about GM Food Risks
    It’s barely been a week since I wrote about the dangers of genetically modified (GM) foods and now the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) has released a strongly-worded warning about the health dangers associated with Frankenfoods. Calling for a moratorium on GM foods, the AAEM sa ...

  Mansbridge One on One - CBC

  • Ed Clark, TD Bank President and CEO (Dec 11, 2 ...
    It's now one of the biggest, most powerful banks anywhere -- and it's Canadian. Leading it, a former Ottawa bureaucrat, who walks into the boardrooms of Bay Street and Wall Street with a confidence reserved for the world's most influential business leaders. Ed Clark is our guest this week - and ...
  • Pervez Musharraf, former President of Pakistan ...
    He's been a general and a president, leading Pakistan while wearing those both hats in the tense days following 9-11. Now Pervez Musharraf is out of office and exiled from his country. But that hasn't stopped him from wading into the debate about Pakistan, Afghanistan and how countries like C ...
  • Wayne Gretzky
    He is the Great One by name, by deed and by reputation. And when Canadians were asked who should be the final torchbearer in Vancouver, he was their first choice. And this week, he's ours. Hockey legend, Wayne Gretzky.
  • Mark Tremblay, Healthy Living and Obesity Expe ...
    How fit are we? Not very, if you buy into the steady stream of new studies that have been making the news. They paint a very bleak picture of the present, but an even worse future if current trends continue. This week, our guest tells us why.
  • Bruce McCulloch, Comedian (Jan 16, 2010)
    He was one of the creative geniuses behind the 1980's TV hit The Kids in the Hall, and now he, and they, are back. But what about those intervening years? What did he learn and how has it changed him? This week, we find out.

  Scotts Contracting

  • Glory Departs Feb 23 NASAs latest Climate Chan ...
    The NASA satellite Glory is set to launch into the Earths Atmosphere. The Glory Launch will further Climatologist study of Airborne Particles (Aerosols) and how they affect the the Earths Climate. They will be studying the ubiquitous particles (existing or … Continue reading →
  • CME-Solar Storm Web Resources-Q and A
    In a previous Article I reported: More Active Sun Means Nasty Solar Storms Ahead. In this post I added emphasis on the facts that: "The sun is waking up from a deep slumber, and in the next few years we … Continue reading →
  • Energy-Efficient Mortgages and Financing
    Energy-Efficient Mortgages and Financing The following Web sites offer information on energy-efficient financing programs, including mortgages, home improvement loans, refinancing, and home energy ratings.  Financing an Energy-Efficient Home This fact sheet from the Department of Energy features ...
  • Green Tax Breaks Available Thu 2016
    If you purchase an energy-efficient product or renewable energy system for your home, you may be eligible for a federal tax credit. Below you will find an overview of the federal tax credits for energy efficiency that are still available. … Continue reading →
  • Take Action Against Global Warming | Chevron T ...
    On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Take Action! at GreaterGood Network wrote: Content not displaying properly? View this message online: greatergood.com/emails/2011/pet-021711-enviro-solo-w.html Earlier this week, a court in Ecuador fined the Chevron Corporation $8 billion for their part … ...

  The View From Abroad

  • Drastic Cuts in Spending are Needed Now
    To avoid food riots spreading to the U.S., Washington must fix its fiscal and monetary problems.
  • Hypocrisy of U.S. Foreign Policy Produces Terr ...
    U.S. support of tyrants betrays our principles and contributes to terrorism.
  • Putting Things in Perspective
    The shooting in Tucson should make all Americans rethink our tragic War on Terror policies.
  • Last Words Worth Acting Upon
    Richard Holbrooke knew we should end the war in Afghanistan.
  • Logic, Not Emotions, Should Rule the Day
    Unemployment benefits meant to help the unemployed actually do more harm than good.

  Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

  • Israeli Military, President, and Intelligence ...
    The always lively debate within Israel over whether to attack Iran has turned bitter.
  • Review: Prophets of War
    William Hartung hammers Lockheed Martin and the military-industrial complex in his new book.
  • Interview with Phyllis Bennis
    In our special focus on Islamophobia, FPIF talks to Middle East specialist Phyllis Bennis.
  • Last Thing Washington Needs Is to Share Blame ...
    Should the United States keep its distance from developments in Egypt?
  • What Would End-Timers Do Without the Threat of ...
    Nuclear weapons are tailor-made for evangelicals who believe in the Rapture.

  Law.com

  • Latest Chevron Outtake: 'They're All Corrupt!'
    Donziger muses 'The judicial system is so utterly weak' in Corporate Counsel's latest release of outtakes from the documentary Crude.
  • Minus Kagan, Supreme Court Lets 'Don't Ask' Po ...
    In an order Friday, the Supreme Court denied a motion aimed at allowing a worldwide ban on enforcement of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays in the military to take effect.
  • MGA Loses Effort to Stall Trial in Fee Fight W ...
    A Los Angeles judge issued a tentative ruling Friday denying toymaker MGA Entertainment's efforts to stay a lawsuit that was filed by its former lawyers at O'Melveny & Myers.
  • Proskauer and English Firm End Their Merger Di ...
    Proskauer Rose and SJ Berwin said Friday they had decided against merging, putting to an end months of speculation about a possible trans-Atlantic tie-up between the two law firms. The firms in a joint statement said "we recognized that the timetable necessary to reach the agreements that would ...
  • IRS Throws In Towel on Closely Watched Interna ...

  Iranian.com

  • مشاور میرحسین: راهپیمایی فردا قطعی است به شایع ...
    سحام نیوز: مشاور میرحسین موسوی در گفتگو با شبکه تلویزیونی رسا ضمن تکذیب خبر لغو تظاهرات فردا گفت: ” راهپیمایی اول اسفند ماه جنبش سبز فردا تحت هر شرایط برگزار می شود و از مردم عزیز می خواهیم به شایعات توجه نکنند.”
  • Iran revokes prison sentences against German j ...
    (CNN) -- Two German journalists have been released from prison after being charged with espionage in Iran for interviewing the son and lawyer of a woman condemned to die by stoning, a spokesman for Germany's Foreign Ministry confirmed Saturday. Both men were in the northwestern city of Tabriz, a ...
  • TUNISIA: NO CONFIRMATION OF RUMOURS THAT BEN A ...
    (AGI) Paris - Ex president of Tunisia, Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, is rumoured to have died in hospital in Jeddah. Negotiations are said to be under way for his return home for burial. A number of unconfirmed sources have reported his death on the internet. Ben Ali fled abroad on 14 January after a ...
  • Facebook, not fighter jets, can topple Iran's ...
    The real revolution is in the awakening of the cybernetic power − Facebook, Twitter and Google
  • راهپیمایی طولانی زنهای جنوب
    تحرکاتی که در دههٔ ۸۰ به وسیلهٔ تجربیات ایرانیان، برگرفته از جنبشهای مذهبی- فمینیستی ایرانی، تا امروز شدیداً مورد بحث میباشد. لائیکها این تهمت را به فمینسیتهای مسلمان میزنند، که آنها آلت دست بنیادگرایان مذهبی شده اند.

  Most Revolutionary Act

  • The Chile of the Pacific
    An Early Laboratory for Neoliberal Reforms Overall I have enjoyed numerous lifestyle advantages living in New Zealand. There are a few notable exceptions, of course, beyond the emotional isolation of being separated from my family and American friends. Most relate, either directly or indirectly, ...
  • The Common Misfortunes of Capitalism
    Obviously there is both an upside and a downside to living in New Zealand. All developed and developing countries are forced to operate under the same global capitalist system, which is under near absolute control of multinational corporations, via the WTO, the Global Agreement on Tariff and Tra ...
  • Bernie Sanders’ Filibuster and the Secr ...
    For those who haven’t seen the YouTube coverage of Senator Bernie Sanders 8½ hour filibuster on December 10, 2010, I highly recommend it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXLJBaoz0Ew The whole speech is available on C-SPAN http://www.c-span.org/ Maria Gilardin, host of TUC Radio, has also record ...
  • Cheap Coffee vs Health Care
    It only became clear once I left the US the immense sacrifices Americans make for their cheap gasoline and consumer goods (see Feb 10 blog). The most obvious is a range of domestic programs that other developed countries take for granted. These include publicly financed universal health care (in ...
  • American Ambivalence Towards Empire
    It took moving overseas for it to sink in that Americans owe their high standard of living to US military domination of third world resources. I have always understood the theory of “economic imperialism” – that the US maintains a monopoly on cheap third world labor and resources via military su ...

  Doug's Darkworld

  • The Voynich Manuscript, Shady Kilograms, Shyst ...
    So much for the good Berkeley weather. We’ve had torrential rain. Hail. Lightning. Wind. More rain. The cats wanted to go out this morning and when I held the door open, the wind blew them right back inside. They wisely decided they had some sleep to catch up on and didn’t want to go outside [.. ...
  • One Million Hits and Thanks for all the Commen ...
    TUNISIA ââââââââââââââââ : 100% done EGYPT ââââââââââââââââ : 100% done ALGERIA ââââââââââââââââ: in progress YEMEN: ââââââââââââââââ: in progress PALESTINE: âââââââââââââ: VIRUS DETECTED   Well, I recently passed a million hits on Doug’s Darkworld. Kinda of a strange feeling. A million people h ...
  • Is it War Yet?
    I apologize for not being able to blog recently, there’s lots going on in the world, but alas, my Internet service as failed me miserably. We may very well be seeing the beginning of a world revolution on the streets of Cairo, and the only source of “news” I have most days is my television. [... ...
  • We Are All Egyptians Now
    Well, the uprising continues in Egypt. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, it’s very possible we are entering a watershed period in world history where all sorts of things are going to unravel in the next few years. There’s so much going on that it’s hard to even focus on what’s important ...
  • Tunisia, Lebanon, and now Egypt?
    As I type Egyptians are taking to the streets to demand reform and the end of the Mubarak regime. And they are continuing to do so in ever greater numbers despite ever more desperate measures to end the unrest, including a curfew, shutting down the Internet, and dismissing the entire upper gover ...

  FourWinds10

  • A Dot on the Map, Until the Earth Started Shak ...
    GUY, Ark. — Everybody around here is getting used to the earthquakes, and that does not sit well with Dirk DeTurck. He sent out 600 fliers and made, well, had to be around 100 phone calls, trying to attract people to his meeting on earthquake preparedness. And yet on a recent Tuesday night, he s ...
  • Unusual Black Oil Plume
    Indian Creek Eastpoint, Florida � John Hutchison and I have been traveling the beaches of the Gulf of Mexico, using his "special frequencies" to clean the polluted Gulf waters. I have joked with John about the radio frequencies becoming a "beacon" to "other enitites". � On January 28, 2011 "some ...
  • 3,000+ foot long mysterious black blob of kill ...
    Big blob of gunk found in the Gulf, From a distance the toxic goo looks like oil, but up close it smells like rotten eggs and wiggles like jelly. Scientists have no idea what it is or how it wound up in the northern Gulf of Mexico… [j]ust off the Florida Panhandle coastline, within site of Perdi ...
  • Naomi Klein: The Mystery of the Black Goo
    When The Nation's Naomi Klein traveled to the Gulf of Mexico in December to report on the aftermath of BP's Deepwater Horizon spill, she saw disturbing signs of the oil's destruction. But after she left, the research crew aboard the Weatherbird II encountered a slimy substance made up of dead pl ...
  • Mystery as greenish-yellow goo falls from the ...

  Crisis Maven

  • Economic Musings VI: Modern Economies – ...
    There is a great debate in the history of economics whether there can be under-consumption in any real historic moment of the state of an economy and if so, whether it has detrimental effects and if so, what is to be done about it. And modern economists seem to have found a magic wand with [...]
  • Blogs and Web Sites you may want to follow
    The following is a list of blogs and websites that CrisisMaven has followed and observed over the last few months and that readers may want to check out from time to time. Note: neither the sequence of how the blogs are listed here nor any comments by CrisisMaven are an endorsement nor criticism ...
  • Economic Musings VII: Marketing doesn’t ...
    Have you ever wondered if marketing and advertising are the same, if not, what’s the difference and which is the more important of the two? And why should you care? The most successful economic model is without doubt the market economy. It is the consequence of the wealth effects of the division ...
  • CrisisMaven’s Blog News 2010-03-07: Over 25,00 ...
    Yesterday around 16:37 GMT we passed the 25,000 threshold … - next report will probably be posted when we’re past the 50,000 mark. Thanks to all avid readers: on 2010-03-18 at around 19:25 GMT we went past our first 20,000 views on our blog in about eight weeks since we began publishing! After t ...
  • Economic Musings VIII: Is there a limit to eco ...
    Something which puzzles many thinkers and frightens many young people concerned about waste or the pillaging of our natural resources is the question: can “an economy” (whatever that is – we’ll come to that in a minute) grow indefinitely? How can there be unlimited economic growth if we’ve never ...

  Capital Flow Analysis

  • Stock buybacks are bad for investors: Further ...
    In the working paper “The Buyback Monitor - July 2009: Corporate Stock Buyback Profits of 273 Firms from 2000 into 2009“, published on the Social Sciences Research Network, M.A. Gumport, CFA, provides further evidence that stock buybacks are not as good for investors as often touted. The follo ...
  • Why Obama’s healthcare scheme portends stagfl ...
    The trillion-dollar Obama health care plan increases the odds that US economic recover will be delayed, and that unemployment and inflation will increase. The main thrust of the Obama plan is to increase taxes on individuals earning more than $250,000 a year, while forcing all but the tiniest ...
  • How long would it take to work off the US trad ...
    The rest of the world holds $16.8 trillion in US financial assets, according to Federal Reserve release Z.1, as of Q1 2009. [...]
  • Why Bernanke’s flawed “exit strategy” policy p ...
    In a lead op-ed editorial in the Wall Street Journal on July 21, 2009, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke revealed the Fed’s exit strategy with regards to the inflationary effects of the Obama “spending is stimulus” packages and other government measure to contain the current crisis. This ar ...
  • Stocks surge on spurious earnings reports: Q2 ...
    No one knows for sure the real earnings of American corporations. In Q1 2009, according to the Federal Reserve flow of funds table F.102, after-tax profits of US non-financial, non-farm corporations, on an annual basis, were about $589.9 billion. However, about 50% of these after-tax earnings ...

  R-Squared Energy Blog

  • The Media’s Role in the Range Fuels Fiasco
    Join the forum discussion on this post Now that it seems that the mainstream media has finally caught on to the fact that something went terribly awry at Range Fuels, it is time for me to close the book on them. This will be my last Range Fuels story, but I think there is a [...]
  • Butanol Q&A With Cobalt Technologies CEO Rick ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post In the previous story — Butanol 101 — I provided readers some background on the production of butanol, including my own background on working with butanol. This story is about one company’s efforts to commercialize bio-butanol. The interview originated fr ...
  • Reintroducing Butanol
    Join the forum discussion on this post This story was initially intended to cover a recent interview that I did with Cobalt Technologies CEO Rick Wilson. However, the introduction and background on butanol became long enough that I felt it was a standalone story. The interview with Rick Wilson ...
  • The Natural Gas Debate
    Join the forum discussion on this post The Economist just finished hosting an online debate on natural gas. The resolution was an interesting one: This house believes that natural gas will do more than renewables to limit the world’s carbon emissions. At first glance, the statement may seem pre ...
  • The World’s Most Fuel Efficient Car
    Join the forum discussion on this post This likely blows previous fuel efficiency records out of the water: VW to roll out 313mpg car in Germany and UK Last week at the Qatar Motor Show saw the world debut of Volkswagen’s XL1, a diesel-electric hybrid two-seater that can do 313mpg (0.9 l/100 ...

  Discovery Educator Network

  • Art Project, powered by Google
    Tags: google, museum, Arts, interactive, museums, education, painting, projectby: Doug Butchy
  • Official Google Blog: Explore our U.S. Preside ...
    Tags: google, interactive, educationby: Doug Butchy
  • Little Bird Tales - Home
    Tags: digitalstorytelling, storytelling, elementary, writing, web2.0, tales, birdby: Dean Mantz
  • Storyboard Interactive » eLearning Learning
    Tags: learning, storyboard, interactive, digitalstorytellingby: Dean Mantz
  • Blogging About The Web 2.0 Connected Classroom ...
    Comments:Great blog post reflection on events in Egypt  - Dean MantzTags: web, blogging, socialnetworking, socialmedia, web20classroom, StevenAndersonby: Dean Mantz

  Rodale News

  • Breastfeeding: It's Now Tax Deductible!
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Good news for new moms: Breastfeeding just became tax deductible. The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced last week that it's going to be providing its own form of breastfeeding help to struggling moms by making breast pumps and related supplies a tax write-off ...
  • Protect Babies, Families by Banning Mothballs
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PAâIn 2008, the European Union banned the sale of mothballs containing the volatile chemical that gives them their classic smellânaphthalene. But here in the U.S., and in other parts of the world, the compoundâclassified as a possible human carcinogenâis still an insecticid ...
  • Protect Your Home Garden from New GMO Threats
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—The recent barrage of approvals allowing genetically engineered ingredients to infiltrate our coffee, milk, ice cream, and even apple pie is enough to persuade some health-conscious consumers to rip out the front lawn and start producing their own food free of geneticall ...
  • The Nickel Pincher: Save Money, Spare the Plas ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Buying whole organic chickens at the supermarket or, even better, local pastured chickens at a farm or farmer's market, is a great way to save money and cut down on the amount of plastic you have to deal with in the meat department. In some stores, an entire frozen organ ...
  • How Video Games Benefit Dads and Daughters
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Video games draw a lot of criticism, and it's undeniable that too much time in front of the TV or computer screen contributes to childhood obesity. But the games are likely here to stay and, if used thoughtfully, they may even provide some benefits. An example of this wa ...

  big think

  • Is Saudia Arabia Intervening In Bahrain?
    Britain's former Ambassador to Bahrain, Robin Lamb,�yesterday penned this short report for the highly influential MEC Analytical Group, and I hope they will not mind me reprising in part what he had to report: "I write this on Friday 18 February soon after reports of live firing at the Pear ...
  • Vanity Fair and the Irish Paper Tiger: Expert ...
    At� this month's Vanity Fair, best-selling author Michael Lewis chronicles Ireland's collapse into the deepest recession of any European Union country.� In a guest post today, my American University colleague Declan Fahy considers the role of the Irish financial press in the collapse.� A profe ...
  • Q: Who are the Thugs in Yemen?
    A: Soldiers dressed in civilian clothes, who were ordered into the street.� Most people have assumed that many of the thugs beating back protesters every day in Sanaa have been paid agents of the ruling party, but as members of the ruling party continue to deny this international reporters are ...
  • Saturday in Yemen: Abandoning Ship
    The day started off bad in Sanaa when students managed to beat GPC-paid thugs* to the area outside of Sanaa University.� (Michelle Shephard details the day in an excellent report for the Toronto star.)� After that things got worse.� In addition to the usual stick-wielding thugs, some of the men ...
  • Friday Protests
    Brilliance in the morning: The New York Times had an absolutely wonderful op-ed today (some of you may have noticed that I have been strongly disagreeing with Victoria Clark's piece for some time) but this one by Ali al-Muqri was, in my opinion, spot-on.� Seriously, if you read Waq al-waq and yo ...

  Information Liberation

  • How to Win an Election
    In his superb analysis of democracy, Hans-Hermann Hoppe observes that "prime ministers and presidents are selected for their proven efficiency as morally uninhibited demagogues. Thus, democracy virtually assures that only bad and dangerous m...
  • Tailgating Tax-Feeder Is Injured, Mundane May ...
    Last June, Brian Hitchcock was rear-ended by a police motorcycle driven by Officer Anthony Parente of the Hermosa Beach, California Police Department. Parente had pulled behind Hitchcock at a stoplight; when the light changed, he pulled in even tight...
  • Rapists with a Badge
    According to the 3rd Quarter Report of The National Police Misconduct Statistics and Reporting Project, police officers were accused of sexual assault at a rate of 79 per 100,000 law enforcement personal. That is over two times the rate in the genera...
  • Cop witnesses cop commit sexual assault, gets ...
    Sosnovik said a fellow officer inappropriately touched a woman who was riding in a police car. Sosnovik claims when the complaint was mention to Police Major Charles Pines, Pines acting as police chief, did nothing about it. [...] *He told me, ...
  • As Hillary Touts Free Speech, Police Brutalize ...
    From David Swanson: As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday about the failures of foreign leaders to respect people*s freedoms, a 71-year-old U.S. veteran Army officer, a man who spent 27 years in the CIA and ...

  Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Ozboy’s Bar And Grill Is Closed For Repa ...
    It’s only temporary. A couple of weeks. But the recent shenanigans round here have forced me to do some thinking about how LibertyGibbert can run better in the future. I’ve spoken to a couple of you about this today, to … Continue reading →
  • The Dragon’s Dissent Part III: Naked Nat ...
    The emergence of China as the world’s new superpower has raised many questions in the international community and across the blogosphere regarding the longer-range agenda of the Middle Kingdom. In a recent discussion on this forum, the question of Chinese … Continue reading →
  • U.S. Elections: Will Liberty Win?
    Well today’s the day. As just about every other blog in the sphere is covering the elections today, I thought I’d throw the forum open, and we can discuss the results as they come in, in real time. If as … Continue reading →
  • Libertarianism And Drug Liberalization
    G’day everyone, Just arrived back home safe and sound. Sorry there hasn’t been a new post in several days, but just at the moment my family needs me more than the Bar and Grill does. Dr. Dave has graciously stepped … Continue reading →
  • Stealing Democracy?
    G’day everyone, Ozboy here. The United States mid-term elections are just one week away, and the mounting resentment many Americans feel about the way their country is being governed appears certain to be made clear at the polls. One of … Continue reading →

  Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Five picks from the science news
    Fix your H, increase citations and get more grant money – Citations have become the currency of science, which is used to reward scientists and scientific institutions. Small variations in citation scores can make millions of pounds difference in the financial outcomes of national Research Asses ...
  • Can we count on journal metrics?
    How do you rank science, how do you rate scientists, what kudos do you give their papers and what metrics do you attach to the impact of a paper? They’re questions as old as the scientific literature itself. But, no one has resolved them. Independent organisations and publishers have attempted w ...
  • The perils of ranking
    Today, I discovered I was listed on a Top 100 of UK Twitter users by The Independent newspaper based on the algorithm from PeerIndex. I was #47, since you ask, same as Armando Iannucci. It’s not that long since I made it on to a similar PeerIndex list published elsewhere. It’s all very flatterin ...
  • Heptastic science news
    The full list: The Twitter 100 – Its 200 million users share 110 million messages a day – and if you don't know who rules the twittersphere, you don't understand the 21st-century world. This guide is a definitive who's who of the UK's tweet elite. Although for some reason they included me on the ...
  • Count envy, satisfaction and achievement
    A friend of mine, András Paszternák, runs a thriving online nanotech community called Nanopaprika (he’s in Hungary, hence the name). He started the community (for which I am a Scientific & Advisory Board member) when he was doing his PhD and it has grown rapidly into one of the most targeted n ...

  RFF Library

  • Energy Emergence: Rebound & Backfire as Emerge ...
    Breakthrough Institute / by Jesse Jenkins, Ted Nordhaus, and Michael Shellenberger http://thebreakthrough.org/blog/Energy_Emergence.pdf [Summary] Energy efficiency is widely viewed as an inexpensive way to reduce aggregate energy consumption and thus greenhouse gas emissions. Many national gover ...
  • Draft Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissio ...
    US EPA http://tinyurl.com/467rcez [From Executive Summary] An emissions inventory that identifies and quantifies a country’s primary anthropogenic sources and sinks of greenhouse gases is essential for addressing climate change. This inventory adheres to both 1) a comprehensive and detailed set ...
  • Asia Green City Index
    Economist Intelligence Unit http://tinyurl.com/6g6gv94 [Yale Environment 360] Singapore has emerged as Asia’s greenest city thanks to a host of ambitious environmental programs and green initiatives, according to a new report. The Asia Green City Index — conducted by the Economist Intelligence U ...
  • National Land Cover Database Updated
    US Geological Survey http://tinyurl.com/4am4l3o The latest edition of the National Land Cover Database (NLCD 2006) is now publicly available. This massive database updates our knowledge of the Nation’s land cover and documents precisely where land cover change has occurred between 2001 and 2006. ...
  • Quarterly Food-at-Home Price Database
    USDA Economic Research Service http://www.ers.usda.gov/Data/QFAHPD/#2011-2-16 The Quarterly Food-at-Home Price Database (QFAHPD) provides food price data to support research on the economic determinants of food consumption, diet quality, and health outcomes. The QFAHPD database was constructed f ...

  Scientific American - News

  • Beam Bagged: "Reverse Laser" Functions as Near ...
    Since they were invented 50 years ago, lasers have become extraordinarily commonplace. Anyone with a few dollars to spare can get themselves a laser pointer, and every CD, DVD or Blu-ray player uses a laser to read the bits encoded on discs. (It goes without saying that the same is true of those ...
  • Mouse Study Reveals Mechanism behind Diabetes ...
    It is well known that diabetes wreaks havoc on the vascular system. In fact, vascular complications arising from diabetes are the leading cause of blindness, kidney failure and cardiovascular problems in the U.S. And yet, the physiological mechanisms that link diabetes, which afflicts 26 million ...
  • Defective Growth Gene in Rare Dwarfism Disorde ...
    For the past 22 years Jaime Guevara-Aguirre has served as the de facto physician for a truly unique community in Ecuador. His patients stand on average 1.2 meters tall, a result of a rare genetic disorder known as Laron syndrome . Of the approximately 300 people in the world known to have the c ...
  • Are Greenhouse Gases Upping the Risks of Flood ...
    In autumn 2000 devastating floods swept through England and Wales, inundating homes, swamping roads and rail lines, and requiring the evacuation of more than 11,000 people. That fall was the wettest in the region since records began in 1766, and the subsequent flooding caused billions of dollars ...
  • Is a U.S. Nuclear Revival Finally Underway?
    The first new nuclear reactor ordered in the U.S. in roughly three decades is beginning to take shape in the red clay near Augusta, Ga. Southern Co. and its partners have dug 27.5 meters down into that soil to reach bedrock and are now filling up the hole to provide a stable foundation for what ...

    frogblog

    • Outsourcing our opposition to whaling
      It’s fantastic the now finished Japanese whaling season was dismal failure but in typical right-wing fashion our Government has outsourced doing something about stopping whaling to the activists and Australians. As whaling season 2010/11 finishes I’m hopeful we’re making progress to it being the ...
    • General debate, February 19, 2011
    • Climate change, lignite, and Solid Energy: Sea ...
      Matters are coming to a head, on the lignite saga in Southland. As climate change intensifies around the world and not least here in New Zealand, our national responsibility to respond proportionate to our size and liability increases commensurately. The UN has prescribed a national emission red ...
    • Thoughts from the Big Gay Out
      I am the gayest man in Parliament. Everybody knows. So it was a bit galling to get essentially upstaged by John Key and Phil Goff. Perhaps I’m just a bit self-absorbed, but this strikes me as suggesting a weird prism through which at least some straight people see this queer event. Let’s review: ...
    • National Standards race to nowhere
      Yesterday, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard visited our Parliament and promoted free trade agreements with all the fervour of the faithful. This position was predictable, but less well known is her stance on education. Julia is the leader who imposed the Australian version of National Sta ...

    Patronus Analytical

    • Greek aid worker kidnapped in Pakistan
    • Aid worker killed in Iraq
    • Update on kidnapped Greek aid worker
    • NGO worker beaten to death in Dhaka
    • Canadian aid worker murdered in Honduras

    J Kozy

    • 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 ...
    • Pity the Poor Economists
      The first thing a judicious reader notices is how much disagreement exists among economists on almost every, perhaps every, matter. Then it becomes clear that much of this disagreement is acrimonious. Some of these people appear to hate each other. Now ask yourselves, how likely would it hav ...
    • Can America Be Changed?
      If the American people ever hope to take back their country, they need to understand America's political economy so the parts of it that are morally offensive and economically ineffective can be repudiated. Only then will Americans be able to make the changes that are needed to make Lincoln' ...
    • The Media in America: Selling Views, Calling i ...
      America's journalists are not "newshounds" They are nothing more than salesclerks, hocking the products their employers want to sell. The pretty faces that now function as most television news anchors are no different than the pretty models used to sell other products. The American "free" pr ...

    MoJo - Kevin Drum

    • How Big Are Wisconsin's Problems?
      So how big is Wisconsin's budget problem? And did Gov. Scott Walker help create it? Politifact takes a look at the numbers here and tells us. Nickel version: the projections from the legislative analyst are necessarily subject to a bit of guesswork, but he estimates that Wisconsin will prob ...
    • Teaching Art
      Michael O'Hare weighs in today on the value of public funding for the arts, and although I think we're still talking past each other to some extent, he concludes with a passage that I thoroughly endorse: Probably the most costly program of government support for the arts, and in my view the m ...
    • Friday Cat Blogging - 18 February 2011
      I'd like to be able to say that Inkblot and Domino are firm supporters of the labor action currently unfolding in Wisconsin, but I'm afraid that would be a bit of a stretch. As you can see, they've already negotiated a pretty good deal for themselves, and collective action isn't really in th ...
    • Wisconsin and the Bigger Picture
      Speaking of my upcoming piece for the magazine, one of its major themes is the postwar decline of private-sector unions in America, culminating in the annus horribilis of 1978, which one business historian called "Waterloo" for organized labor. (Why? You'll have to read the story to learn mo ...
    • Keeping it Short
      Paul Krugman writes today about one of the difficulties of being a columnist: One of the hardest things about writing the column, as opposed to blogging, is the length constraint. It’s really, really hard to say something meaningful in a limited space. And yet, that constraint has its virtues ...

    Insanity Report

    • IC 229: Taking Shit Too Far
      Topics for the show: Maybe Kriss went too far with the ‘Go Fuck Yourself’ Even if you have a PhD, you can’t just make stuff up Sharks are God’s way of telling us we ain’t shit Fantasia sounds like a Wookie You know, Unions are made up of real people. Someone tell the GOP Share [...]
    • Iraqi Informant Proud of Lies about WMDs
      LONDON — An Iraqi man whose testimony the United States used as a key evidence to build a case for war in Iraq says he is proud that he lied about his country developing mobile biological warfare labs. The Guardian newspaper published an interview Wednesday with Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, who ...
    • IC 228: Black Twitter & the Idiots Who Write ...
      Topics for the show: Slandering Olive Garden Lady Gaga and her attention whoring Tyrese writes a book and Jesus wept Black Twitter and the ignorant dumbasses who write about it The genders aren’t equal so just man the fuck up Allen West and other idiotic black republicans Share with your friends ...
    • Are Parents Really This Clueless?
      From the UKDailyMail: A desperate mother has condemned Microsoft after her 11-year-old son racked up a £1,000 debt on her debit card – through his Xbox. Brendan Jordan racked up a bill of £1,082.52 on his Xbox without realising all the purchases were being charged to his mum Dawn Matthews’ car ...
    • Dumbass of the Year Contender
      There’s several different levels of stupid. There’s the first level which is just random forgetfulness and absent mindedness.  You know, you accidentally put your hand on a hot stove or salt in your tea.  Or maybe you have a brain fart and you forget the name of a friend.  This is the everyday l ...

    Simple Climate

    • Evidence of humans’ role in deluges starts to ...
      Scientists find the first evidence that humans are causing extreme rainfall, while the identification that greenhouse gas emissions increased the odds of 2000’s record rainfall in the UK are set to open the flood gates for telling whether humans have influenced extreme weather events.
    • Atlantic cold tongue tells of humans’ cl ...
      Aerosol emissions are more responsible than global warming for weakened trade winds, but pollution controls look set to show how government rules can reverse changes we have caused.
    • Climate researchers warn of food and forest ti ...
      With food prices reaching record highs, worsening droughts in east Africa will add to agricultural problems, while a parched Amazon could speed rather than fight global warming.
    • 2,000 year water temperature high underlines A ...
      Average temperatures of water flowing into the Arctic since 1890 are 2ºC higher than they have been on average in the previous two millennia, Robert Spielhagen and colleagues show.
    • Rain-soaked plants trudge downhill
      Surveys separated by 70 years show how climate change in Northern California has increased rainfall, causing plants to move to generally warmer, drier, lower altitude habitats.

    e!Science News

    • 'Universal standards' for research integrity m ...
      The global scientific community is capable of policing its own behavior and should resist creation of a central oversight body to enforce 'universal standards' that may have unintended consequences, a renowned physicist and director of the Energy Institute at the University of Texas at Austin sa ...
    • Plants that can move inspire new adaptive stru ...
      The Mimosa plant, which folds its leaves when they're touched, is inspiring a new class of adaptive structures designed to twist, bend, stiffen and even heal themselves. University of Michigan researchers are leading their development. read more
    • Misguided public perception on what Tommy John ...
      Despite known risks and outcomes of the common elbow procedure known as Tommy John surgery, parents, coaches and players still have incorrect assumptions regarding player performance, say researchers presenting their study at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's Specialty Day i ...
    • Turning to nature for inspiration
      To build the next generation of sensors – with applications ranging from medical devices to robotics to new consumer goods – Chang Liu looks to biology. read more
    • Super-sharp radio 'eye' remeasuring the univer ...
      Using the super-sharp radio "vision" of astronomy's most precise telescope, scientists have extended a directly-measured "yardstick" three times farther into the cosmos than ever before, an achievement with important implications for numerous areas of astrophysics, including determining the natu ...

    unEarthed

    • House Approves Anti-Environment Spending Bill
      House leaders give industry handouts and cut public health protections  It’s a shame that it took the House days and many late night and early morning hours to come up with a budget plan like this. And during the wee hours of 4: ...
    • House Majority Approves Anti-Environment Spend ...
      House leaders give industry handouts and cut public health protections  It’s a shame that it took the House days and many late night and early morning hours to come up with a budget plan like this. And during the wee hours of 4: ...
    • Congress v. The Environment: The House Is On F ...
      House lawmakers continue to slash essential protections for the American public As I write this, members of the House of Representatives continue to debate and ...
    • Letter and Op-Ed Take House to Task For Enviro ...
      Raleigh News & Observer supportive of cement kiln rules Cement kiln. Photo courtesy Sierra Club This month, Earthjustice endured many attacks on clean air, ...
    • House Votes to Undo Cement Kiln Protections
      House majority environmental attacks continue today The EPA is a main target of Republicans Here is a quick update on the spending bill nonsense taking plac ...

    Brave New Climate

    • Safeguarding the nuclear fuel cycle
      Guest Post by Dr. William Hannum. A member of the Science Council for Global Initiatives, Bill worked for more than 40 years in nuclear power development, stretching from design and analysis of the Shippingport reactor to the Integral Fast Reactor. He earned his BA in physics at Princeton and hi ...
    • Gas aplenty, but UAE opts for nuclear – ...
      Dr Ziggy Switkowski (former CEO of Telstra, Optus and Kodak, recently retired Chairman of ANSTO, and now Chancellor of RMIT University) recently had an excellent article published in the Australian Financial Review. Unfortunately, there is no online version available, so for those who missed the ...
    • Climate Change – it’s complicated, but i ...
      I was recently invited to provide a response to an opinion article on climate change that was offered to “The Punch” website. The lead article can be read here: Itâs just too hard to understand climate change. My response, reproduced below (original here), should be read with this context in mi ...
    • ABC Counterpoint radio on nuclear costs, and n ...
      Many have seen/listened to this already, but for completeness, here are the details of my recent interview with the ABC Radio program Counterpoint on the cost of nuclear energy. It is based on a discussion of the recent Energy peer-reviewed paper authored by Nicholson, Biegler & Brook. Should Au ...
    • Keeping solid information on nuclear energy on ...
      Guest Post by Luke Weston. Luke is a Melbourne-based physicist and occasional freelance electronic engineer, with a strong interest in educating the community about nuclear energy and related issues. Just this week, Martin Ferguson has been actively stepping up his efforts to keep nuclear energ ...

    Indigenist Opinion

    • THE PLAGUE OF THE CENTURY � Desertpeace
      THE PLAGUE OF THE CENTURY � Desertpeace: "Throughout history mankind’s existence has been threatened by various plagues, usually in the form of infectious diseases. Modern times call for modern threats, not necessarily of the viral type, but as uber nationalism, zionism in particular. One of th ...
    • Kiesha Crowther - The Once and Future Fraud by ...
      Kiesha Crowther - The Once and Future Fraud by Kathryn Price NicDh�na on BJ Tuininga's TwitWall: "Europeans and Euro-Americans know this myth: it's King Arthur pulling the sword from the stone, it's Harry Potter receiving the letter borne by an owl, it's the ancient European stories, once told a ...
    • Glenn Morris: Still Lying After All These Year ...
      Still Lying After All These Years | Indian Country Today Media Network.com: "I wish that there were a more diplomatic way to say this, but the plain fact is that Obama, and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, lied to the Tribal Nations Summit Conference, and to the world, on Decem ...
    • Uri Avnery: The Genie is out of the Bottle
      Home / World Wide / U.S.A. / The Genie is out of the Bottle - Media Monitors Network (MMN) "The Arab Awakening is not a matter of months or a few years. It may well be a prolonged struggle, with many failures and defeats, but the genie will not return to the bottle. The images of the 18 days in ...
    • STUART LITTLEWOOD : Maybe Gaza should paddle i ...
      STUART LITTLEWOOD : Maybe Gaza should paddle its own canoe | My Catbird Seat: "The Convention establishes the responsibilities and obligations of Contracting States to provide for the free movement of international air transport services. “In terms of the right of passage for foreign aircraft th ...

    Republicans are a Disease

    • Wisconsin Concessions
      So the governator of Wisconsin believes the union folks have to make concessions. What concessions is he asking the filthy rich, and large corporations to make in his state? Oh, that’s right. They get handouts…. On the backs of the working folks.
    • Tea Baggers Wanted
      If you are a tea bagger the bus is leaving! Git on down to Virginia and climb aboard. If you are an idiot easily influenced by people that lie to you, you will fit right in. If you think giving billionaires tax cuts while cutting home heating oil subsidies is good for freezing senior citizens, [ ...
    • Fight to the Death
      It seems like Republicans would fight to the death protecting tax cuts for billionaires. If some state needs to balance their budget, they have to get the money by screwing the union employees. Help the rich, and screw the rest. Today’s GOP.
    • Fox News
      The more you watch, the less you know…
    • CPAC Wraps Up
      What a great week for conservatives who attended CPAC. We got to listen to one “conservative” nut job after another describe their “plan” for America. The sad truth is if America tried to implement any of their “ideas” our country would fail even faster than it is now failing. They all seem to w ...

    Appalachia Rising

    • Day of Action and Conference Vision Statements
      Appalachia Rising: Day of Action September 25 – 27, 2010, Washington DC Appalachia Rising is a mass mobilization in Washington DC on September 27, 2010 calling for the abolition of mountaintop removal and surface mining. It is a culmination of the national movement against surface mining and a f ...
    • Press Conference to be Held on June 15
      Thousands to March in DC Calling for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Press Conference June 15 in Charleston, WV Announces Mass Mobilization Appalachia Rising WHEN: June 15, 10:00 AM WHERE: WV State Capitol Back Steps Near Fountain, Charleston, WV CONTACTS: West Virginia Bo Webb – 304-237-26 ...
    • Press Inquiries
      All media inquiries should be sent to Bo Webb webb.bo@gmail.com Set up interviews via email. Previous Press Releases and Media Public Launch Press Conference Report Back, with video Press Conference Held on June 15 Announces Appalachia Rising Video June 15 Appalachia Public Launch Press Conferen ...
    • New Flier for Appalachia Rising
    • Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalac ...
      Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalachians, and Scientists for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Ashley Judd, Woody Harrelson, Gloria Reuben, Kyra Sedgewick, Kevin Bacon, Ed Begley Jr., Kathy Mattea, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, James Hansen, and Darryl Hannah rallying behind co ...

    Amped Status

    • Welcome to the New AmpedStatus.com
      We're back with a redesigned site and three new features! Introducing the AmpedStatus Social Network and two new Amped Coverage wires.
    • Time to Fight Back! Join The Movement
      As a broad-based network representing people across the political spectrum, we are working together to reach common ground and fight for pivotal political reforms. As long as the economy and government are rigged in favor of the top economic 0.1%, we will all lose.
    • Horrific Arizona Massacre Is A Sign of Tragedi ...
      Let This Tragedy Be A Wake Up Call. Given Socio-Political Conditions, Many More Violent Acts On the Way.
    • AmpedStatus.com Hit By Mass DoS Attacks
      As you may have noticed, for most of the day yesterday AmpedStatus.com was down. Shortly after posting our new report we were hit with a heavy barrage of DoS attacks...
    • Obama Renews Commitment to Complete Destructio ...
      Obama has just doubled down on the side of the financial terrorists. Meet Bill Daley and Gene Sperling - another JP Morgan-Goldman Sachs attack. Let's dig deep into their past and reveal everything that you need to know.

    +972

    • It’s official: America’s role in the Mideast i ...
      The latest U.S. veto – the first of the Obama administration – proves that the U.S. is incapable of bringing peace to this region Theyâre not âillegalâ. Theyâre âillegitimateâ. Thatâs the excuse that the worldâs most powerful nation, a beacon of freedom and democracy, came up with to explain wh ...
    • Israeli activists protest US veto in front of ...
      Roughly 70 Israelis gathered in front of the US embassy in Tel Aviv to protest the recent American veto of a UN resolution confirming the illegality of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. The activists rallied under a banner declaring that the âUS is fully complicit in Israel’s occu ...
    • NY Congressman demands better security for Eas ...
      Democratic Congressman Jerry Nadler, of the 8th district of New York, wrote a letter to Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren on Friday about his concern over vandalism of the Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. I am writing regarding Har HaZeitim (the Mount of Olives) the sacred site ...
    • Knesset goes after artists who didn’t se ...
      Whatâs wrong with the “shirker” bill? Well, just about everything The Ministerial Legislation Committee is scheduled to debate tomorrow (Sunday) a bill by MK Moshe Matalon (Yisrael Beitenu), which prohibits government support of âshirkerâ (Mishtamtim, in Hebrew) artists. In explaining why the b ...
    • The war against women
      Crimes against women – such as domestic abuse, sexual assault and sexual harassment – are extraordinarily widespread. Statistics say that the majority of women, quite possibly the vast majority of them, fall victim to at least one of these crimes. Their prevalence is so high, that the cumulative ...

    Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

    • New approach to water recovery in the Murray ...
      The Gillard Government today announced a new approach to water recovery in the Murray Darling Basin that will further assist communities to plan for the future with confidence.
    • Impacts of Coal Seam Gas Activities on Water ...
      Environment Minister, Tony Burke, has today released an independent expert report into recently approved coal seam gas operations in South East Queensland.
    • Winners of the Australia's World Heritage Pla ...
      Tony Burke, Minister for the Environment, today announced Larrakeyah Primary from Darwin and William Ross High School in Aitkenvale, Queensland as the winners of Australia's World Heritage Places competition.
    • A new celebration of our national heritage
      Federal Heritage Minister, Tony Burke, is urging all Australians to get involved in celebrating our nation's unique heritage by taking part in Australian Heritage Week, which will be held for the first time in 2011.
    • Round Two for On-farm Irrigation Efficiency
      Irrigators in the southern Murray-Darling Basin will benefit from Government investment under the On-Farm Irrigation Efficiency program.

    Matt Weidner Blog

    • The David Stern Chaos Is Costing Taxpayers Mil ...
      There is absolute chaos in courtrooms all across the state of Florida.  Last week in Lee County, an attorney for David Stern’s office begged for leniency (and got it time and time again) by arguing that they were withdrawing from 150,000 cases across the State of Florida.  Maybe if Mr. Stern w ...
    • Pro Se Homeowner Wins Appeal On Post Dated Ass ...
      WOW! What an inspiration; there are probably tens of thousands of cases filed across this country before the Plaintiff managed to get the Assignment of Mortgage executed (or faked), and yet such post-filing assignments form the basis for foreclosure judgments. Great job to this Pro Se Warrior, f ...
    • 2nd DCA SMACKDOWN- Attorney’s Fees Due i ...
      Florida’s Second District Court of Appeals continues to hammer away at the foreclosure mills…..read on….. At oral argument, the bank’s attorney tried to justify this improper filing due to the vast volume of foreclosure cases in the judicial system. While this court is well aware of the volume o ...
    • I believe that banking institutions are more d ...
      “I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will depri ...
    • The Law Offices Of David J Stern…Still C ...
      One of my biggest objections to the handling of Stern’s withdraw from 150,000 foreclosure cases in courts across the state is the way the firm just walked out…no substitution of a new law firm to handle the cases before hand….just out the door.  This is causing chaos all across the state and ul ...

    abelard - news

    • motorway aires: Poitou-Charente, A10 - the hea ...
      Near Niort in west France, a large and busy motorway rest area that is the window on this region's arts and crafts. Photo-illustrated.
    • outline of cameron's reform of dole systems | ...
      Outline of radical welfare reforms. Looks very similar to a citzen's wage under another name.
    • destruction of jobs by the minimum wage | poli ...
      The fallacious myth that the minimum wage ensures jobs is unpicked.
    • chinese know those perfidious brits are lying ...
      How paranoia and projection leads to the wrong conclusion.
    • the breakaway - cycling tactics | France zone ...
      Why a rider breaks away from the main pack in a cycle road race.

    The Parallel Parliament

    • Lighting the Kindling
      With all the hyper attention being paid to the unfolding drama of the CIDA minister this week, it’s important to remember that far greater issues are at stake. A couple of days ago I posted about the threat to the Canadian International Development Agency that comes with a scandal of this magnit ...
    • The Two Welcomes
      Marshall McLuhan saw modern media and the pursuit of images as a restless machine, exciting us in so many ways but wearing us down in others. One of the dangers of so many things assaulting our senses at the same time, he believed, was that they could slowly erode our ability to remember. “We li ...
    • Those Things That Outlast Us
      Lyndon Johnson was a master politician, especially in comprehending the Congress and its inner workings. He was quoted later in life as saying, “It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility o ...
    • The Tub Unplugged
      We don’t consider the private lives of journalists much – a good thing because it’s called “private” for a reason. I’ve been fortunate enough, however, to know many in the media who apply their limited spare time to many charitable causes. Brian Lilley, senior correspondent for Sun Media is one ...
    • Knick Knacks
      You bring your life with you – at least parts of it. MPs and Senators almost universally experience loneliness and a sense of detachment from those parts of their lives they possessed before coming to Ottawa. We compensate by filling our offices with memories and mementos from home or travel. Fo ...

    Vaccine Awakening

    • WA State Vaccine Law Threatens Exemptions & Vi ...
      by Barbara Loe Fisher If you are a resident of Washington state, you should know that there is a bill quietly sailing through your state legislature that violates your privacy and threatens your right to make informed, voluntary decisions about vaccination. House Bill 1015 1 and Senate Bill ...
    • New Vaccine Science Can Help Bridge the Divide
      by Barbara Loe Fisher Fear of the unknown is what terrifies us the most, fear of being unable to have control over what the future holds. At the root of that fear is knowing that the choices we make today could have a profound impact on what happens tomorrow. 1 Fear is a strong emotion ...
    • Counting Blessings, Remembering the Children
      by Barbara Loe Fisher Every Christmas and New Year, when I give thanks for the people who have blessed my life, I remember the mothers and fathers of severely vaccine injured children, who have taught me the most about love and courage. I know that my son, Chris, who developed brain inflamma ...
    • Thousands Of Americans Register for NVIC's New ...
      by Barbara Loe Fisher Thousands of Americans living in all 50 states took action and registered for the new NVIC Advocacy Portal at www.NVICadvocacy.org during Vaccine Awareness Week (Nov. 1-6, 2010) co-sponsored by the National Vaccine Informati ...
    • Vaccine Science: A Search for Truth
      by Barbara Loe Fisher February 2009 turned out to be a month when vaccine science was put on trial in the U.S. Court of Claims in Washington, D.C., in mainstream media and on the internet, in the British Medical Journal and in vaccine safety research initiatives by the U.S. Department of Health ...

    2020 Science

    • International Handbook on Regulating Nanotechn ...
      Here’s an offer I’m sure you won’t be able to resist: The opportunity to read the first and last chapters of the just-published International Handbook on Regulating Nanotechnologies – for free! Due to the farsightedness of my co-editors, the publishers have agreed to let authors post their chapt ...
    • The New Toxicology of Sophisticated Materials: ...
      Cross-posted from The Risk Science Blog Several months ago, I was asked by a colleague if I fancied co-authoring a review on nanotoxicology for a copy of Toxicological Sciences celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Society of Toxicology (coming out later this year). Fool that I am, I agreed.  ...
    • Nanotechnology – Unplugged
      Next Tuesday, we’ll be launching a new series of occasional discussions on contemporary public health risk issues at the University of Michigan Risk Science Center.  And the first topic is – no surprises – nanotechnology. Under the tagline “No PowerPoint, no script; just stimulating conversatio ...
    • Small gods and the art of technology innovatio ...
      There’s something rather liberating about being asked to give a no-holds talk on your perspective on life, the universe and everything.  So when the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center asked if I would speak as part of their “Where do we go from here?” series, I jumped at it. No holds barred is ...
    • Lost in the Maize
      As you’ll have gathered from last week’s Lost in the Maize, I’ve been on the road this week.  In fact, I am writing this on the plane back to Detroit, looking forward to a quick wash, shave, sleep, and catch-up with family, before heading off to the Society for Risk Analysis annual meeting in Sa ...

    Reader Supported News

    • Glenn Beck Falsely Links Planned Parenthood to ...
      Intro: "Glenn Beck devoted the February 18 edition of his Fox News show to promoting the false claim that Live Action's undercover videos showed Planned Parenthood abetting the sex trafficking of underage girls. Beck did not mention once during his hour-long show that, before any of the hoax vid ...
    • Scott Walker Runs on Koch Money
      Intro: "A new investigation by the Center for Media and Democracy documents the big money funneled by one of the richest men in America and one of the richest corporations in the world to put controversial Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker in office." Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker speaks at a pre ...
    • Government Shutdown Is Likely, Pelosi Aide Say ...
      Intro: "A high-ranking aide to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told chiefs of staff of Democratic lawmakers that a government shutdown is more likely than not, according to attendees. Speaking at a regular meeting of the top aides to House Democrats, Pelosi's floor director, Jerry ...
    • GOP-Led House Slashes Domestic Programs
      Intro: "The House has approved a sweeping package of budget cuts that, if enacted, would shrink the federal government's role in American life, curtailing its involvement in healthcare, social services, environmental regulation, child care and research." House Speaker John Boehner returns to ...
    • Wisconsin Protests Spread to Other States
      Intro: "The unrest in Wisconsin this week over Gov. Scott Walker's plan to cut the bargaining rights and benefits of public workers is spreading to other states. Already, protests erupted in Ohio this week, where another newly elected Republican governor, John Kasich, has been seeking to take aw ...

    War Resisters League

    • Stepping up the Resistance to U.S. Islamophobi ...
      As Peter King, the new chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, steps up the U.S. government attack against Muslims living in the U.S., saying that he will “rely on Muslims to make his case that American Muslim leaders have failed to cooperate with law enforcement officials in the effo ...
    • Mubarak Ousted! Two Down, Twenty To Go . . .
      “The people have brought down the regime!” was a cry heard around the world when on Friday, February 11th, 18 days of unrelenting non-violent protest finally forced the end of Hosni Mubarak’s 30 year, US backed rule over Egypt. Ecstatic jubilation filled Cairo’s Midan al-Tahrir (Liberation Squar ...
    • The Egyptian Revolution and Police Tools &#821 ...
      As of this writing, the Egyptian revolution has entered its 16th day and is gaining ground and momentum: spreading to new regions, evolving into strikes and civil disobedience and clarifying its demands. What started as an impressive series of demonstrations on January 25th’s ‘Day of Wrath’ has ...
    • Anti-war Activists to Grand Jury: “We will not ...
      Tuesday, January 25th was the day that 23 anti-war and Palestine solidarity activists were made to appear before a Federal Grand Jury in Chicago. It was also the day that all of them refused to testify. In solidarity with those targeted by government repression, several rallies were held in citi ...
    • The other “Afghanistan Report”
      Whose stories are we telling about the war in Afghanistan? On the day following the White House report on the war in Afghanistan that names the war as a qualified success and calls for the U.S. to “stay the course,” we must lift up the alternative stories and reports of this near-decade of occup ...

    Center for a Livable Future

    • The Cristo Rey/Amazing Grace Community Garden: ...
              Where there was once a block of run-down row homes in McElderry Park in East Baltimore, Maryland, there is now a burgeoning vegetable garden. The Amazing Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church started the garden to provide green space for the community and produce for the church’s foo ...
    • Jackson touts 50-year plan to ‘perennialize’ l ...
      The Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture was celebrating its 20th annual conference Feb. 2-5, but it seems that keynote speaker Wes Jackson wasn’t there to celebrate. Instead, he was on a mission to gather allies for his proposal of a 50-year farm bill, which could supplement th ...
    • Bills banning arsenic take shape in MD General ...
      Dr. Keeve Nachman, Director of the Farming for the Future Program at CLF, spoke at a press conference yesterday in the Maryland House of Delegates. The press conference was organized by Montgomery County Delegate Tom Hucker and Prince George’s County Senator Paul Pinsky.  Senator Pinsky and Del ...
    • A Former Teacher’s Take on The New Dietary Gui ...
      Every five years, the United States Departments of Human Health Services and Agriculture jointly release the Dietary Guidelines for America in the hopes of encouraging every American to eat a healthy diet, however, chances are the average person will never set eyes on the report. As a former tea ...
    • Oprah Enthusiastically Throws Her Support Behi ...
        Talk show host Oprah Winfrey may have just encouraged a large segment of her 30 million viewers to join the Meatless Monday movement following her latest show which gave us a rare glimpse into where some of our meat comes from. The Meatless Monday campaign’s national awareness has more t ...

    A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

    • The FP Salon: Peter Bergen's The Longest War
      An FP round-table discussion on counterterrorism expert Peter Bergen's latest book. A decade after 9/11, is the war on terrorism a war we can win?
    • Crazy Like a Fox
      In a fit of anger, Hamid Karzai axes his director of intelligence, Amrullah Saleh. But is there method to his madness?
    • Addicted to Contractors
      The United States is hooked on privatized warfare in Afghanistan. And it's more costly than you think.
    • How to Whip the Afghan Army Into Shape
      Much of President Barack Obama's strategy rests on the creation of a new, more competent Afghan military. Here's what he'll need to know to get the job done.
    • Obama's Indecent Interval
      Despite the U.S. president's pleas to the contrary, the war in Afghanistan looks more like Vietnam than ever.

    Field Notes - Alberta Environment

    • Western Alberta Transmission Line Project Info ...
      Alberta Utilities Commission In anticipation of receiving an application for the Western Alberta Transmission Line (WATL),�the Alberta Utilities Commission (AUC) is holding a series of information sessions�in which "it will explain how i ...
    • Deadline for Submissions: Heartland Transmissi ...
      Organization:  Alberta Utilities Commission Initiative:  Heartland Transmission Project Public Hearing ...
    • RCEN e-Bulletin: February 16, 2011 Edition
      Canadian Environmental Network (RCEN) The Canadian Environmental Network has posted the February 16, 2011 edition of the RCEN e-Bulletin on their�website. Source: Canadian Environmental Network ...
    • Public Dialogue: The path to a Canadian clean, ...
      23 Feb 2011 - 19:30 Edmonton Linda Duncan NDP 23 Feb 2011 - 19:30 Linda Duncan, MP, Edmonton-Strathcona�invites you to a Public�Dialogue: Linda has invited three knowledgeable g ...
    • Solar Seminar: Cultivating Community – The Inv ...
      23 Feb 2011 - 19:00 Edmonton Solar Energy Society of Alberta 23 Feb 2011 - 19:00 An evening presentation by Bill Swan – Greenman Sustainable Solutions In response to the growing ...

    Stop NATO

    • Africa: Global NATO Seeks To Recruit 50 New Mi ...
      Stop NATO February 20, 2011 Africa: Global NATO Seeks To Recruit 50 New Military Partners Rick Rozoff A recent article in Kenya’s Africa Review cited sources in the African Union (AU) disclosing that the 28-member North Atlantic Treaty Organization is preparing to sign a military partnership tre ...
    • NATO Surrenders Europe To U.S. Global Missile ...
      Stop NATO February 5, 2011 NATO Surrenders Europe To U.S. Global Missile Shield Project Rick Rozoff On January 27 the North Atlantic Treaty Organization took the most decisive step yet toward the implementation of the decades-old project first proposed by the Ronald Reagan administration for a S ...
    • Egypt: Will U.S. And NATO Launch Second Suez I ...
      Stop NATO February 2, 2011 Egypt: Will U.S. And NATO Launch Second Suez Intervention? Rick Rozoff On February 1 General James Mattis, commander of United States Central Command whose area of responsibility includes Egypt on its western end, stated that Washington currently has no plans to reinfo ...
    • Washington Intensifies Push Into Central Asia
      Stop NATO January 29, 2011 Washington Intensifies Push Into Central Asia Rick Rozoff A recent editorial on the website of Voice of America reflected on last year being one in which the United States solidified relations with the five former Soviet republics in Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzsta ...
    • Afghanistan: War Without End In A World Withou ...
      Stop NATO January 27, 2011 Afghanistan: War Without End In A World Without Conscience Rick Rozoff The largest foreign military force ever deployed in Afghanistan is now well into the tenth year of the longest and what has become the deadliest war of the 21st century. Some 154,000 occupation troo ...

    Before It's News

    • Wisconsin’s Governor’s Remarks On The Budget P ...
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    Intel Hub

    • CIA Coup-College
      Tony Cartalucci, Contributing Writer February 19th, 2011 First noted by geopolitical analyst and historian Dr. Webster Tarpley, some suspicious similarities could be seen between the Egyptian unrest and another, known US-backed uprising in Serbia. Serbia’s Otpor, or the “resistance,” was funded ...
    • Army Wants Rapid-Fire Rubber Bullets For Crowd ...
      NewScientist by David Hambling February 19th, 2011 THE US army is planning to field “rubber bullets” for machine guns. Military officials claim the ammunition will allow them to more effectively quell violent protests without loss of life, but human rights campaigners are alarmed by the new weap ...
    • Revealed: Air Force Ordered Software to Manage ...
      Editors Note From The Intel Hub’s Alex Thomas: It is clear that many of these “fake” people are operating within the truth movement. The infighting that takes place on forums and Youtube can be directly attributed to the fact that certain elements of our government and military are employing peo ...
    • CBS Atlanta – Chemtrail Pictures Come in ...
      February 19th, 2011 This aired 2/13/2011 and was the second part in a series by CBS Atlanta that outlined the so called conspiracy theory “Chemtrails” Related Posts: ABC, CBS, CNN, FOX, NBC All Want Your Chemtrail Photos GeoEngineering Our Destruction â Mitakuye Oyasin Chemtrails Halted for Navy ...
    • WeAreChange LA Interrupts Bill Maher Again
      wearechange February 18th, 2011 Jeremy Rothe-Kushel of WeAreChangeLA was just beaten and arrested for interrupting a live broadcast of the Real Time with Bill Maher television show. Video from the live broadcast clearly shows Jeremy screaming “That’s Battery! If you ask me to leave, I will leave ...

    FRS

    • Discount for Dictators
    • Algeria braces for more protests
      Oil-rich country on high alert as opposition groups mobilise for weekend of rallies and gatherings calling for democracy Angelique Chrisafis guardian.co.uk Friday 18 February 2011 Protesters against Algeria‘s military regime are to hold further pro-democracy demonstrations on Saturday, despite t ...
    • Hundreds protest police violence in Syria
      Feb 18, 2011, Beirut – Hundreds of Syrians protested police violence after traffic wardens reportedly beat up a young man in Damascus, a Syrian opposition website reported Friday. The Dubai-based all4Syria.info also posted a video of the protest, which it said took place on Thursday. The crowd c ...
    • Yemen: Protesters can topple Saleh: Yemeni an ...
      February 17, 2011 euronews spoke with Abdullah Al Fakih, a political science professor at Sanaa University, who believes Yemen’s anti-government protesters could topple President Saleh. Al Fakih described the demonstrations as “a popular youth movement.”  “It began with protests calling for the ...
    • Bahrain troops shoot at protesters: ex MP
      Thousands attend Bahrain protest funerals February 18, 2011 Thousands of people have attended the funerals of those killed in yesterday’s security crackdown in Bahrain. At least four people died and more than 230 others were wounded when riot police drove activists from a makeshift camp in Pearl ...

    Ken O'Keefe

    • The Egyptian Blockade of Gaza – February 26, 2 ...
      Is there any sane, right-minded person who supports the blatant and brutal collective punishment of the people of Gaza? So why would it carry on? There is only one reason, because we allow it. I say we carry on with what the people of Egypt started, they got rid of the dictator, let us, people ...
    • Global Revolution 2011
      I believe the time has come to unite, those of us who are sane, who can see that the masses are comprised of so many cultures and vastly different ways of life, yet we all demand essentially the same things. We demand to be treated with respect. We demand the right to a decent way of life. We ...
    • Revolutions & Manipulations
      While millions of Egyptians are in the streets, in one of the most dramatic spontaneous uprisings in recent years, in an attempt to overthrow 30 years of Mubarak rule, a regime propped up by Israel and the United States, an undercurrent of opportunist plots threaten to turn this hopeful situatio ...
    • Rise People Rise – The Global Revolution ...
      Let us realize once and for all, that we the people are one, that we are human, that our most precious gift is that of our humanity. Let us never sacrifice it again. Together we are unstoppable. We are the sleeping giant, we are the waking lion, we are fierce and we are fearless.
    • The Samouni Family Children – Survivors ...
      January 12, 2011 is a day I will never forget, visiting the Samouni family could not possibly be anything but a life-changing event.  Words simply cannot describe the devastation wrought upon this family by a marauding band of Israeli psychopaths, otherwise known as the Givati Brigade of the Isr ...

    StillSmallVoice

    • Rabia Chaudry and a live chat. What could be b ...
      Rabia Chaudry, president of the Muslim Coalition of Connecticut, will participate in a live web chat at 11 a.m. Monday. You can participate by going here. Chaudry is also on the board of directors for the Madina Academy Islamic school, and she serves on the racial justice advisory committee fo ...
    • The push against unions
      All eyes are on Wisconsin as that state's governor, Scott Walker, has been pushing a budget that includes sharply limiting�collective bargaining�for public employees. In response, Democrats left�in protest on Thursday. Pres. Obama called the budget plan�an "assault on unions." Here are some Wis ...
    • What happened during Sec. Clinton's Internet f ...
      While Sec. of State Hillary Clinton extolled freedom in a speech on Tuesday at George Washington University, a 71-year old former CIA analyst who'd been standing with his back to her in protest was dragged out of the auditorium, roughed up, and detained. You can read Ray McGovern's account here. ...
    • Join Rabia Chaudry for a live chat
      Rabia Chaudry, president of the Muslim Coalition of Connecticut, will participate in a live web chat at 11 a.m. Monday. You can participate by going here. Chaudry is also on the board of directors for the Madina Academy Islamic school, and she serves on the racial justice advisory committee fo ...
    • Male high school wrestling star refused to wre ...
      On Thursday, Joel Northrup, an Iowa high school wrestling champion, refused to wrestle Cassy Herkelman, who won the state championship by default. Northrup cited his religious beliefs, and his belief that boys and girls shouldn't compete against one another in wrestling. This is a tough call - ...

    Associated Content

    • Wisconsin Protests Set to Expand This Weekend
      After an assembly vote over the controversial Wisconsin budget was delayed, the protestors are hunkering down for a whole weekend of action. But this time, the Tea Party and supporters of Governor Walker are responding with counter-rallies.Contributor: Robert Dougherty Published: Feb 19, 2011
    • Kardashian Sisters Earned $65 Million in 2010, ...
      Kardashian Inc. earned $65 million in 2010 alone. One can only imagine how much money Ryan Seacrest made of of this.Contributor: Ryan Christopher DeVault Published: Feb 19, 2011
    • 2011 Dunk Contest Pits Blake Griffin Against D ...
      The 2011 Dunk Contest comes to All Star weekend Saturday. The 2011 Sprite Slam Dunk Contest seems to favor Blake Griffin to win.Contributor: Ryan Christopher DeVault Published: Feb 19, 2011
    • New Radiohead Digital-Only Album Drops Day Ear ...
      Acclaimed British band Radiohead released its newest album, "The King of Limbs," Friday, Feb. 18, and the reception is overwhelming. This digital-only release comes a day earlier than its expected drop date.Contributor: Jeanne Rose Published: Feb 18, 2011
    • Tea Party to Rally in Madison, Wis., in Suppor ...
      The Tea Party is planning to join the fight in what has become known as "The Battle of Mad Town," in Madison, Wis., over a bill that would strip public sector unions of some of their collective bargaining power.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Feb 18, 2011

    Popsci - Science

    • This Week in the Future, February 14-18, 2011
      We've made it through another week, which means it's time to look back at the past five days of science and tech before we move forward into the next. As always, this also means you've got a chance to win a t-shirt with Baarbarian's fantastic PopSci-inspired design. This week, that design inclu ...
    • FYI: If I Fell Through The Earth, What Would H ...
      Just getting to the center of the Earth and surviving is impossible. The Earth’s core is about 9,000°F—as hot as the sun’s surface—and would instantly roast anyone who found himself there. Then there’s the pressure, which can reach roughly three million times that on the Earth’s surface and wou ...
    • Implant Micro-Worms Under Your Skin To Monitor ...
      New nanotube “microworms” could lead to new types of linktextembeddable biological sensors or drug-delivery systems, according to researchers in Boston. The tubes’ length keeps them well anchored in the body, where they can monitor chemical conditions or slowly leak medicine into targeted areas ...
    • Yale Scientists Create the World's First Anti- ...
      Ever want to cancel out a laser beam? Now you can There are aspects of science that lend the subject its reputation, at least among schoolchildren, for being “boring” (Punnett squares come to mind). Then there are things like lasers that are completely awesome, regardless of whether you’re eigh ...
    • The Best Images from the 2010 International Sc ...
      We’re always suckers for a good art/science mashup, so perhaps it’s no surprise that we’re feeling pretty good about today’s release of the 2010 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge winners. This year’s winning entries included the most detailed 3-D model of the HIV vi ...

    Veterans Today

    • KHODR : Israelophobia in America—Israelophilia ...
      BREAKING SURPRISE NEWS: Mohamed Khodr / Veterans Today The United States Vetoes a Palestinian Draft Resolution calling Israeli Settlements “Illegal” in the U.N. Security Council.   The Vote was 14 – 1. This is Obama’s first veto, a veto that gives Israel the impunity to further steal Palestinian ...
    • EXCLUSIVE: Monsanto Agrees Clean-Up of Toxic B ...
      Monsanto has agreed to help clean-up a quarry in South Wales it is accused of polluting with a cocktail of toxic substances despite consistently refusing to accept liability, the Ecologist can reveal. But the taxpayer could still end up meeting the estimated £2 million clean-up bill.
    • WILLIAM COOK : “We the Forgotten People of the ...
      Let’s admit it, the country has been stolen. William A. Cook / STAFF WRITER We thought we had used the democratic process to rid our country of George W. Bush by the peaceful election of a man who told Americans he would right the wrongs of that Zionist Cabal. Instead we have a houseboy doing [. ...
    • EGYPT: Placebos, Protests and Precious Metal B ...
      We are constantly being advised that the Egyptian Military has the situation under control. As the situation develops it is becoming increasingly apparent that there is something wrong with this picture. The military and the media assures us that the morganatic wedding between the Generals and t ...
    • Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s Tale O ...
      Faced with a budget out of control, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker decided to make a sucker's choice of either/or, and has gotten himself into a huge mess. Is he able to be a true leader of all the citizens in his state, and sit down at the table and come to an agreement with those he has alie ...

    War is Business

    • What Will Bring Security To Pakistan: Drones O ...
      RT @truthout: Pakistan Sinking Into Water Crisis http://bit.ly/gkvFkx #p2 #p2b #p21
    • Congressional UAV boosters collected nearly $1 ...
      In the 2010 election cycle alone, UAV-related political-action committees donate more than $1.7 million to the Caucus' 42 members.
    • Congressional UAV boosters collected nearly $1 ...
      Being split into parties isn’t enough for some members of Congress, so often they establish formal caucuses to support or study specific key issues close to their hearts and districts. There’s the Diabetes Caucus. The Friend of Animals Caucus. The Public Broadcasting Caucus. And then there’s the ...
    • Nine-Hour Stage Production Of ‘The Great ...
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    • Contractors Pay Congressmen To Fund Programs T ...
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    Hudson's Weather & Climate

    • Can the government be trusted on solar subsidi ...
      The government have announced that they are to look at subsidies payable to large scale solar power farms that have started to spring up across the country. The so called 'feed in tariffs' are the cash subsidies given to anyone who generates electricity by putting solar panels on their roof, a ...
    • Lowest January Arctic ice on satellite record
      One of the questions that I'm often asked is how can global temperatures have reached near-record levels, when here in the UK we have had record breaking cold? It's an issue that many people have great difficulty in accepting. Of course the answer is that the UK represents a tiny fraction of t ...
    • A wild start to February - back to square one ...
      Severe gales and heavy rain have battered Yorkshire in the last few days. The highest wind speed was recorded at Fylingdales on the North York Moors with 70mph on Friday. Pennine areas have had a month's worth of rain since Thursday. 79.2mm of rain was measured at Bingley in West Yorkshire sinc ...
    • Global temperatures continue to fall.
      The January Global temperature, according to UAH satellite data, was 0.009C below the 1981-2010 average. The previous month, December 2010, was 0.181C above average A year ago, in January 2010, the global temperature was 0.542C above the 1981-2010 average. If the more standard 196 ...
    • February: Westerlies come roaring back
      January 2011 turned out to be drier and colder than average. The provisional Central England Temperature (CET) mean for the month was 3.7C, compared with the average of 4.2C. It was a month again dominated by high pressure, with north and east winds more frequent than normal. Rainfall was ther ...

    Internat'l Political Economy

    • Bahrain GP in Jeopardy: F1 and Authoritarianis ...
      In olden days a glimpse of stocking Was looked on as something shocking But now, heaven knows - anything goes It's weekend feature time. I suppose that hosting a Formula One grand prix is, above all else, a vanity project. In the same way that hosting the World Cup or the Winter or Summer Olymp ...
    • Behavioural Economics? Try Biological Economic ...
      By now, all and sundry should be familiar with behavioural economics. In contrast to homo economicus or rational economic man, real humans are subject to all sorts of foibles during decision-making processes. This body of work was most memorably crystallized in Kahneman and Tversky's prospect th ...
    • From Davos to Doha: WTO Round Done in 2011?
      Running over the same old ground What have we found? The same old fears Wish you were here And now for some postcards from Davos. Sometime ago, I had a self-parodying feature of T-shirts being sold at the WTO headquarters gift shop in Geneva depicting how trade talks to conclude the Doha Develo ...
    • 'Tiger Mom' Amy Chua More American Than Chines ...
      Oh, to be rid of this riff-raff once and for all. Let's face it: there are certain popular authors social science academics find cringeworthy. Reading the output of such writers usually reveals obvious shortcomings. Dambisa Moyo combines regurgitation of others' ideas with simple factual errors. ...
    • Of Sexy Russian Spies and 'Erotic Capital'
      Lest you think I've become an econodullard obsessed with discount rates and multiplier effects--it's easy enough to find plenty enough of those without looking hard--here's funner stuff that showcases the diversity which the best IPE encompasses. Freakonomics-style dweebery doesn't count by the ...

    Economic Collapse Blog

    • Are The Wild Teacher Protests In Wisconsin A P ...
      Have you seen video of the teacher protests that are going on in Wisconsin?  We haven't seen anything like this in America in quite some time.  If you haven't seen video of the protests yet, some very good raw footage is posted below.  On the one hand it is good to see Americans ...
    • Barack Obama’s Budget For 2012: A Comple ...
      Is Barack Obama trying to play a joke on all of us?  The budget that the Obama administration has submitted for fiscal 2012 is so out of touch with reality that it may as well be a budget for "Narnia", "Fantasy Island", "Atlantis" or some other mythical land.  You can view the h ...
    • 21 Signs That The Once Great U.S. Economy Is B ...
      Once upon a time, the United States was the greatest industrial powerhouse that the world has ever seen.  Our immense economic machinery was the envy of the rest of the globe and it provided the foundation for the largest and most vibrant middle class in the history of the world ...
    • Is Ben Bernanke A Liar, A Lunatic Or Is He Jus ...
      Did you see Ben Bernanke's testimony before the House Budget Committee on Wednesday? It was quite a show. Bernanke seems to believe that if he just keeps on repeating the same mantras over and over that somehow they will become true. Bernanke insists that the economy is getti ...
    • 10 Reasons Why It Has Become So Soul-Crushingl ...
      Have you been unemployed lately?  If so, then you probably know how frustrating it is to try to find a job in the United States today. It now takes the average unemployed worker about 33 weeks to find a job.  There are millions of Americans that have not been able to find a full ...

    Infoshop - Alt Media

    • New Radical Distributor Based in Denver
      P&L Press, the new publishing and distribution arm of the thirty year old worker-owned union job shop P&L Printing, is now fully operati...
    • Call Out for Submissions for Fire to the Priso ...
      We are currently beginning to compile issue 11 of Fire to the Prisons magazine. If you are not familiar with this project you can check out pre...
    • "No Tears for the Fallen" -- flyer f ...
      This text is transcribed from a leaflet found in Central Indiana, presumably regarding recent events. Last August a drunken policeman, respo...
    • California: Announcing a monthly anarchist sou ...
      TCN Radio is a new montly anarchist sound event from the East Bay of California. It features commentary, interviews and performance. The first...
    • Philadelphia: Seeking submissions for defenest ...
      It's cold! A good time to stay in and write that piece you keep meaning to for Philly's radical paper of optimism and refusal defenestrator. Our...

    E U Times

    • Libya protests: 84 killed in growing unrest, s ...
      The number of people killed in three days of protests in Libya has risen to 84, according to the New York-based group Human Rights Watch. The main focus of the demonstrations against Col Muammar Gaddafi’s 42-year rule has been the second city Benghazi, where security forces are said to have atta ...
    • Curveball doubts were shared with CIA, says ex ...
      Joschka Fischer accuses former CIA chief George Tenet over his knowledge of Iraqi defector’s sketchy background. Germany’s former foreign minister Joschka Fischer has accused the former head of the CIA George Tenet of making implausible claims about the handling of the Curveball case by the US. ...
    • Russia Urges Israel to Stop Settlement Constru ...
      Russia urges Israel’s government to freeze construction of settlements in the West Bank, which violates international law and hinders Palestinian-Israeli talks, Russia’s permanent representative at the United Nations Vitaly Churkin told a UN Security Council session on Friday. According to Russi ...
    • CBS News Correspondent Assaulted During Egypt ...
      On Friday, Feb. 11, the day Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down, CBS chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan was covering the jubilation in Tahrir Square for a “60 Minutes” story when she and her team and their security were surrounded by a dangerous element amidst the celebration. It w ...
    • China calls US veto of UN resolution a ‘double ...
      The United States has vetoed a draft UN resolution condemning the expansion of Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory, turning a deaf ear to international calls and Palestinian appeals for an immediate stop. The totally unjustified but foreseeable veto was another example of t ...

    Voiceless Victim

    • Why Is Anyone Still A Catholic?
      On the day the Egyptian people succeeded in ousting an oppressive and controlling  regime noted for abuse of power and human rights abuses, it is worthwhile to evaluate the refusal of ordinary Catholics to consider the consequences of their own selfish, mindless and cowardly support for the paed ...
    • The Pope Calling The Berlusconi Black
      I’ve heard some pretty obvious cases of the pot calling the kettle black, but the recent controversy over the Pope ticking off Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi for child sexual exploitation shows how complete is the lack of self-awareness demonstrated by the psychopaths who surround and ...
    • Let The Pope Try and Claim This Letter Was Mis ...
      Since the recent emergence of a secret letter from the Papal Nuncio to Ireland written to the Irish Catholic Bishops Conference, which squashes any attempt by Irish Bishops to report child sexual abuse to the local police, the Vatican has predictably whined about the letter being  “misunderstoo ...
    • How Much More Evidence Do You Need Before You ...
      Documentary evidence was revealed in Ireland this week proving that Catholic officials do not report sex crimes against children to the police, and that this is official Church policy originating from Rome. Such disclosures should have been answered with judicial inquiries, charges being laid, a ...
    • Bill Zeller and others must not die in vain
      The tragedy of Bill Zeller’s lifetime of suffering from the effects of childhood sexual and physical abuse, which finally resulted in his recent suicide has touched people around the world. Bill was obviously a very special person and a great loss to those who knew him, and the rest of the world ...

    WL Central

    • 2011-01-07 EFF: The Best of Cablegate: Instanc ...
      TweetEFF has chosen the cables they feel have "been critical to understanding and evaluating controversial events." Their choices: “Dancing Boy” Scandal Alleges Child Prostitution, Possible Drug Use among U.S. Private Contractors Pfizer Allegedly Sought to Blackmail Nigerian Regulator to Stop L ...
    • Twitter Details & Messages of Birgitta Jónsdót ...
      TweetThe US Department of Justice has issued a subpoena on Twitter for material related to Birgitta Jónsdóttir, including her personal details and, it can be assumed, all her private direct messages. Ms Jónsdóttir twittered thus: department of justice are requesting twitter to provide the info ...
    • 2011-01-08: Peter King: Zeal of Hypocrites
      TweetA month ago, on the 7th of December, a week after Peter King made his controversial Wikileaks Is Terrorism" comments, I posted this rather lengthy article to my blog, and linked to it from WL Central, documenting both King's hypocrisy and the possible motives he might have for taking such a ...
    • 2011-01-08: U.S. DOJ Twitter Subpoena Updates
      TweetShortly after news of the subpoena issued to Twitter by the The U.S. Department of Justice emerged, an electronic copy of the subpoena surfaced and was, of course, circulated via Twitter. (A copy of the subpoena can be found here in pdf format.) Birgitta Jónsdóttir, one of 63 members of Ice ...
    • 2011-01-08: Twitter on censorship: No censorsh ...
      TweetIt was December 14 when Twitter first received the sealed order to turn over information on several of its users. Twitter could simply have provided the information requested, instead of acting, on January 5, to have the order unsealed. The unsealing of the subpoena allowed the Twitter user ...

    U N News

    • UN chief heads to Los Angeles to discuss globa ...
      Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will be in Los Angeles next week as part of the United Nations initiative that aims to raise the profile of critical global issues in partnership with the international film and television industries.
    • Steps taken to prevent repeat of fraud in Hait ...
      Measures are being taken at the 1,500 voting centres for Haiti's presidential run-off election next month to prevent a repetition of fraud that marred the first round last November, a senior United Nations official said today.
    • Late US diplomat Holbrooke a shining example o ...
      Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today held up veteran United States diplomat Richard Holbrooke, who died in December, as a steadfast friend of the United Nations and a shining example of what the Organization can aspire to be.
    • UN official urges Latin American nations to ca ...
      The United Nations climate change chief today called on Latin American nations to fully capitalize on opportunities to take climate change action to the next level, building on the achievements reached at last year's conference in Cancún, Mexico.
    • UN special envoy calls for overhaul of Haitian ...
      The Special Envoy of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) for Haiti is calling for an urgent overhaul of the country's education system, which she says is the cornerstone of the impoverished nation's future prosperity.

    Conspiracy Reality TV

    • Mystery Missile Launch, Big Pharma Begins Micr ...
      Once activated by stomach acid, the embedded microchip begins sensing its environment and broadcasting data to a receiver worn by the patient. This receiver is also a transmitter that can send the data over the internet to a doctor.
    • 7/7: Seeds of Deconstruction
      The British Government's story of what happened, how, and why is contained in three reports comprising just over 200 pages. There is virtually no forensic physical evidence in the public domain. The first two reports were published simultaneously in 2006, ten months after 7/7. One was a home off ...
    • The Absurdity Of Starting A Small Business In ...
      In the 1950s only about 1 in 20 Americans needed the government blessing to do their job. Today, that number is more than 1 in 3. And government puts all kinds of requirements on would be entrepreneurs making it harder for these entrepreneurs to start and grow small businesses.
    • CIA Whistleblower: “Heart Attack Gun”
      Senator: Does this pistol fire the dart? CIA Dir: Yes, it does, Mr. Chairman, and a special one was developed which potentially would be able to enter the target without perception.
    • Naked Truth Behind Body Scanners
      He's abusing his relationship with the public by pretending to be a public servant and talking about how these back-scatter scanners are going to make us safer? He stands to benefit because he's getting payed by the manufacturing companies to go all over the networks saying that these scanners a ...

    Rewilding Institute

    • Victory in the Southern Ocean Day for the Whal ...
      From Captain Paul Watson It’s official – The Japanese whaling fleet has called it quits in the Southern Ocean. At least for this season. If they return next season the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society will be ready to resume our efforts to obstruct and disable Japanese whaling operations. “Th ...
    • Conservation News Brief
      Captain Paul Watson to arrive in Australia for final preparations for Operation Musashi Friday Harbor, WA – Just days after reaffirming that they will head to the Southern Oceans alone to defend the whales in the Antarctic Whale Sanctuary, even after Greenpeace and the Australian government h ...
    • Whaling Opponents Collide at Sea
      On board the Steve Irwin in the Ross Sea –February 6th, 2009, 0800 Hours (Sydney Time)  February 5th, 2009 1300 Hours (PST), 75 Degrees 44 Minutes South and 165 Degrees 39 Minutes West The Sea Shepherd ship Steve Irwin collided with the Yushin Maru No.2 this morning in the Ross Sea as the harpo ...
    • Dave Foreman’s Recent Speech At Nebraska Wesle ...
      Here’s a great speech Dave did in Nebraska recently. Fetzer Lecture Rewilding North America THURSDAY, MARCH 26 Click Here To Listen In!
    • New Website All About Mexican Gray Wolves!
      There are only 52 Mexican gray wolves in the wilds of Arizona and New Mexico. The Rewilding Institute has joined with local, regional, and national conservation, scientific, and sportsmen’s organizations, and concerned citizens in launching a new website, mexicanwolves.org, to help save this hig ...

    Asia Sentinel

    • Tweeting with Uncle Sam
      The US adopts the Internet as a propaganda weapon
    • Best Must-Have Wines of the 2010 Lunar New Yea ...
      The Wandering Palate twists the tail of the Tiger to squeeze out his favourite wines
    • The Philippines' Tentative President
      A welcome change from the predecessor, but is timorous better than corrupt?
    • Book Review: A Look at the World's Most Notori ...
      Book Review: A Look at the World's Most Notorious Terrorist
    • The Strange Case of Raymond Davis
      A shadowy US official, jailed in Lahore, embodies the tensions in US-Pakistani relations

    We Know the Lies

    • U.S. Food Shortage Was PLANNED and CREATED
      �   While the planned withholding of food is escalated around the world, the US is being set up for staged shortages the like of which most of us can�t imagine.  The attacks on our food production and supply coming from our own government have set the plan in motion. ~ Marti Oakley  read m ...
    • F A C T!... Fluoride is a Deadly Killer!... A ...
      � Exposure to fluoride often results in dental fluorosis. Large numbers of U.S. young people � estimated up to 80 percent in some cities � now have dental fluorosis, the first visible sign of excessive fluoride exposure. ~ Video  (Looking back to March 13, 2010) read more
    • Internet Freedom?... A Trickery of Words in ' ...
      A Senate proposal that has become known as the Internet "kill switch" bill was reintroduced this week, with a tweak its backers say eliminates the possibility of an Egypt-style disconnection happening in the United States. ~ Declan McCullagh read more
    • Chemtrail Photos Wanted... by ABC, CBS, CNN, ...
      � This alert is meant for the entire world, not just those living in the U.S. It is of the utmost importance that we flood the U.S. media with an awareness that a heinous crime is being committed against humanity and our precious planet in the skies around the globe.  ~ Brian Andrews  ( ...
    • China Shipping Weapon Components Illegally
      Chinese firms Zibo Chemet and Dalian Liaosin Trading Company were fined for illegal exports according to a April 3rd, 2008 cable sent from the American Embassy. The same message also outlined the concerns related to the shipment of ingredients to start the synthesis of Biological Agents to the ...

    Tatumba 2.0

    • The VIEW FROM MOUNT FIAT – Your cost to cover ...
      North Americans, as a whole, are stupid. If you have not been following this blog or other Anti Anti-Truth sites, you are dumber than dirt and standing on the precipice of a cliff higher than Mount Everest. You are standing ON THE EDGE of Mount Fiat. If you think for that what you saw in [...] ...
    • Message to HBGary From Anonymous
      TRANSCRIPT OF ANONYMOUS MESSAGE TO HBGARY: Greetings HBGary (a computer “security” company), Your recent claims of “infiltrating” Anonymous amuse us, and so do your attempts at using Anonymous as a means to garner press attention for yourself. How’s this for attention? You brought this upon your ...
    • A Wikileaks for the Federal Reserve?
      12/02/2010 Please like, share, subscribe & comment! www.RonPaul.com Ron Paul comments on the recent revelations about the Fed’s emergency loans and muses about a potential “Wikileaks for the Federal Reserve”. — –Ron Paul is America’s leading voice for limited, constitutional government, low taxe ...
    • Obama/Cheney – Policy differences or high crim ...
      More at therealnews.com Swanson: Obama allowing Cheney to play offense; constitution demands prosecution This post is courtesy of Robbie the Robot Please recycle. Don't throw away your peels Related posts:Alex Jones:The Fall of the Republic The Presidency of Barack H. Obama (High Quality) Full A ...
    • The crisis of neoliberalism
      Dumenil: Neoliberalism imposed a new discipline on worker, cutting the progress of purchasing power. Watch Pt.2 of this story at www.youtube.com Video Rating: 0 / 5 This post is courtesy of Robbie the Robot Please recycle. Don't throw away your peels Related posts:The Broker Who Warned of the Cr ...

    Truth About Our World

    • Insider Report: US Government Will Confiscate ...
      Author: Mac Slavo It’s no secret that the US government is broke, the US dollar is crashing and losing credibility globally, and the IMF, China, France and others have publicly stated their desire to eliminate the dollar as the world’s primary reserve currency. The IMF, for example, recently iss ...
    • Sex, Lies, Iran, Israel and WikiLeaks
    • Sociocide: Iraq Is No More
      War Is A Crime, February 17, 2011 As we approach the 8th anniversary of a U.S. invasion of Iraq, and having just passed the 20th anniversary of another, it’s worth reflecting on what’s been accomplished through two wars and the intervening sanctions that former Secretary of State Madeleine Albri ...
    • 72 students not allowed into school
      Here’s another example of how unfree we really are.  Forced vaccinations.   “Well , it’s for the good of the other kids”. Really? Because if the other kids are vaccinated, then they won’t catch anything from the non-vaccinated, no?  It’s our bodies, and our kids, we have the right to choose w ...
    • 60 Lab Studies Now Confirm Cancer Link to a Va ...
      Dr. Maurice Hilleman made astounding revelations in an interview that was cut from The Health Century — the admission that Merck drug company vaccines had been injecting dangerous viruses into people worldwide. Bear in mind that Dr. Hilleman was the developer of Merck’s vaccine program. He devel ...

    Bloomberg

    • At Motorola, "a Hop in Everybody's Step"
      CEO Ed Zander admits he hasn't checked every box on his to-do list. But he's happy to take credit for kick-starting innovation
    • HP: Exiting from Network Gear?
      The computer maker may soon sell its ProCurve unit to one or more private-equity firms as part of an ongoing refocusing effort
    • HP's New and Steady Hand
      The computer maker's latest results underscore CEO Mark Hurd's emphasis on execution -- and an apparent return to basics
    • Google Buys Android for Its Mobile Arsenal
      The search giant quietly acquires the startup, netting possibly a key player in its push into wireless, "the next frontier in search"
    • S&P Keeps Hold on Google
      Analyst Scott Kessler says he is surprised by Google's filing to sell more shares. Plus: Hot Topic, Six Flags, and more

    Enviroblog

    • Borax: Not the green alternative it's cracked ...
      By Rebecca Sutton, PhD, EWG Senior Scientist I'm just going to start with the bad news, OK? Borax is not a green cleaning ingredient, as many have been led to believe. Yes, the 20-mule team laundry booster box has a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, othe ...
    • Bottled Water Industry to EWG: Shut Up!
      By Alex Formuzis, EWG VP for Media Relations When the head of a public interest group (like, say, EWG) receives a threatening letter from one of the nation's top industry lobbyists, it generally means he's done something right. On January... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my websi ...
    • What's Inside: Clorox Shares a Little
      By Rebecca Sutton, EWG Senior Scientist Last week (Feb. 9), Clorox surprised me when it took a small step along the path to complete disclosure - and real consumer empowerment - by releasing a list of all the fragrance ingredients... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for f ...
    • Stewart to Pickens: "Is it horribly unsafe, is ...
      By Emily Ion, Dusty Horwitt, and Elaine ShannonOn a recent episode of Jon Stewart's "The Daily Show,"  Texas oil and gas executive T. Boone Pickens, proudly declared, "I have fracked 3,000 wells in my life.  I have never seen... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website ...
    • Plastic Pollution Is Everywhere. Including Yo ...
      By Lisa Frack, EWG Social Media Manager Unless you've been living under a rock, you're aware that plastic creates pollution. And if you've been paying any attention at all to the state of our planet, you've heard of the Great... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full l ...

    Quick Hits

    • More Teachers Being Replaced By Technology
      The neoliberal wetdream coming to fruition. From Fast Company: Districts all over are experimenting with teacher-less computer labs and green-lighting entire classrooms of adult-supervised children exploring the Internet--an Android powered tablet designed specifically for students. Teachers' u ...
    • Food costs at record levels, likely to go high ...
      MANILA/MILAN (Reuters) - World food prices hit a record in January and recent catastrophic weather around the globe could put yet more pressure on the cost of food, an issue that has already helped spark protests across the Middle East. Up for the seventh month in a row, the closely watched Food ...
    • Shell makes $2,208,480 (£1.6m) an hour, [Clue ...
      http://www.guardian.co.uk/busi...   The Guardian in Britain says calmly:Shell stoked up the heated debate about the high cost of fuel on the forecourt today after reporting it made profits of nearly £1.6m an hour over the last three months.A leading member of the road lobby said motorists would ...
    • Gallup Helps Explain Egyptian/Tunisia Uprising ...
      Wellbeing in Egypt and Tunisia decreased significantly over the past few years, even as GDP increased. In Egypt, where demonstrations have prompted President Hosni Mubarak to give up power after elections this fall, the percentage of people "thriving" fell by 18 percentage points since 2005. In ...
    • Wallace Shawn: Are You Smarter Than Thomas Jef ...
      The Grand Nagus speaks! At Tom Dispatch.com.

    Capital - NYC

    • Criminals, real and imagined; music gets polit ...
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    • Remember when everyone thought Al Pacino was a ...
      Fair or not, Al Pacino has come to be known late in his career for performances of little substance and lots of brio. He’s no longer thought of for the range of his performances, but for their levels of bombast. Even his work in Scarface and Scent of a Woma ...
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      IBM�s plans to open a high school for 100 aspiring information-technologists in Crown Heights, Brooklyn can seem innovative or desperate, depending on how you look at it.�It might be�both. More
    • Bloomberg, Palin, Morris: Maybe too much to ch ...
      Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More

    Views & News from Norway

    • Plane crash victims found
      Divers found the bodies of two Norwegians killed in the crash of a small plane off the east coast of Florida last week, along with the sunken Cessna they were flying. Police identified the victims as 28-year-old William Bloch of Ã…lesund on Norway’s northwest coast and 21-year-old Gustav Granhol ...
    • New central banker: Too much debt
      Norway’s new central banker made his formal debut this week, delivering his first annual address on the economy as head of Norges Bank. His audience was the traditional “who’s who” in business and government, and they were told Norwegians have too much debt. The prime minister, most of his cabin ...
    • New conductor greeted with glee
      Russian Vasily Petrenko has been named the new conductor of the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra from Spring 2013 – and has already laid out his hopes to make the orchestra one of the best in the world. Petrenko’s appointment has been greeted with praise by those who wish to see a conductor who combi ...
    • Parents appeal lengthy sentences for assaultin ...
      A judge in Hedmark County who’s been overseeing what’s been dubbed as Norway’s worst-ever case of sexual abuse against children sentenced all five defendants to relatively long prison terms by Norwegian standards on Friday. Four of the five filed immediate appeals. The main defendants, the 46-y ...
    • Oslo to restrict winter car use
      Oslo’s City Council has agreed to implement so-called “datokjøring,” meaning that half of the city’s cars must not be driven on particular winter days during times of high air pollution. The resolution will be implemented from next winter, and will designate which cars can drive on certain days ...

    Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

    • Update on the Jordan Valley Permaculture Proje ...
      I felt fully prepared leaving for Jordan three weeks ago. Equipped with a 55ltr backpack laden with books, a compost thermometer, a dumpy level as hand luggage and a few well chosen words of advice from former patrons of the land: "Leave all expectations behind". In fact, as i remember correctl ...
    • Stripped Bare
      Shocking new financial manouevres by the British government show who it’s really working for. by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist, United Kingdom You think you’ve seen the worst of it; you haven’t. Last week I wrote about how the British ...
    • Community Gardens Visited and Observed: Veggie ...
      Community gardens are a very valuable demonstration of how a community can grow its own food, provide its own power, harvest its own water from roofs and build appropriate buildings and infrastructure. They are a wonderful element in the community and permaculture people all over the world shou ...
    • We’re All in This Together?
      Courtesy: Marc Roberts Digg this! Share this on Reddit Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon Share this on del.icio.us Share this on Facebook Post this to MySpace Add this to Google Bookmarks Post this on D ...
    • Climate Belief Forensics II
      Editor’s Note: This is part II of a series. If you haven’t already, read Part I first. Considering the Latin root of the word, "forensics" is about bringing something before the forum the public perhaps should know about. And certainly, exploring the question where influential beliefs about th ...

    Telecrap Urinal

    • US Soldier Waterboards His 4-Year Old Daughter
      Can you believe this? A US soldier, upset that his 4-year old daughter could not recite the alphabet, waterboarded her. He knew that she was afraid of water and that is why he chose this form of punishment. Related posts:Cops Bust Up Frail 84-Year Old Woman With Alzheimers Local Blogger Catche ...
    • Fish Hat Pope – Wake Up Soon
      Studio version of Fish Hat Pope' song 'Wake Up Soon' (altered lyrics to sunny afternoon by The Kinks!) Fish Hat Pope performed this live at the British Constitution Group meeting in London on Oct 31st 2009. Related posts:A little sniff for the dog mate? – Everything is OK Whistle Blowers W ...
    • US Government: Why we let the Underwear Bomber ...
      The US Government now admits that they allowed the Underwear Bomber to board the Christmas Flight from Amsterdam to Detroit. Related posts:BREAKING NEWS: US Government Admits It Helped Underwear Bomber Board Plane Extensive Interview with Kurt Haskell – Witness to Underwear Bomber Flight 253: ...
    • United Breaks Guitars – Don’t mess ...
      Well the United Airlines baggage handlers broke the guitar in to two pieces. Then Mr. Carroll complained to United and it fell on deaf ears. Because of that he vowed to write three songs about their callous disregard and uncaring attitude. Related posts:United We Fall – Canada is a figment of ...
    • Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth by Ric ...
      9/11 was an inside job. Nano thermite and thermate were used to pulverize these buildings, and in the process murdered thousands of innocent people. Related posts:Nigerian Man is a Al-CIA-Duh Terrorist – USA Caught in False-Flag Terror Plot National Security Alert from the CIT Climategate Scan ...

    Anna's News

    • 70 Excellent Links for Dyslexia Support
      Living as a dyslexic can be a difficult experience, especially when it comes to college courses. However, you should know that you�re not alone in your journey. With these helpful links, you can find resources including learning tools, communities,Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Wellness �| ...
    • King Tut Statues Stolen From Egypt Museum
      Sad news was announced about some of the treasures kept at the Egyptian National Museum just after Hosni Mubarak stepped down as Egypt's president. Submitted by Anna Smith to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
    • 60 Best Blogs in the Restaurant Industry
      There are countless blogs that keep up with the industry, from disgruntled waiters to marketing experts. Read on to find 60 of the best blogs you'll find in the restaurant business. These blogs share up to date resources and more for the restaurant ......Submitted by Anna Smith to Business �|� ...
    • Secret life of the Amazon Indians: Incredible ...
      Heads garlanded in feathers and bands of plumes laced around their triceps, Amazon Indians demonstrate their skills with bows and arrows.The men are some of the last remaining members of the Awá tribe, a nomadic group who live deep in the heart of the....Submitted by Anna Smith to Society & Cult ...
    • The Fascinating Origins of 10 Famous American ...
      You might take for granted that big name schools like Yale and Stanford have always been around. While they do have histories that go back hundreds of years, they each had to start somewhere.Here are just a few stories to educate you on how some of the...Submitted by Anna Smith to Society & Cult ...

    Medical Marijuana

    • 2/14/11 - Health Care Reform Opinion Polls/Sur ...
      healthcarereform.procon.org - NEW: Health Care Reform Opinion Polls/Surveys - A Jan. 15-19, 2011 poll by CBS and the New York Times found that 40% of Americans want to repeal the March 2010 health care law while 48% want to let it stand. A Dec. 14-15 FOX News poll found that 59% of respondents ...
    • 2/14/11 - Help ProCon.org Win $5,000
      www.procon.org - Help ProCon.org Win $5,000: Write a short review of ProCon.org by Feb. 28 for a contest at GreatNonprofits.org. The most-reviewed nonprofit wins, so please take a few minutes and help us compete for the prize!
    • 1/06/11 - Are the new health care reform laws ...
      healthcareform.procon.org - UPDATED: Are the new health care reform laws constitutional? - A Virginia federal court ruled on Dec. 13, 2010 that the mandatory insurance provision was unconstitutional. At least 24 other legal challenges to the laws have emerged. Read pro and con statements about ...
    • 1/07/11 - Percentage of Men (by Country) Who P ...
      prostitution.procon.org - NEW: Percentage of Men (by Country) Who Paid for Sex at Least Once: The Johns Chart - Studies have found that 80% of men in Cambodia, 45% in Italy, and 15-20% in the United States have paid for sex at least once in their lifetimes. Results from 15 countries are availabl ...
    • 1/11/11 - 23 Constitutional Challenges to the ...
      healthcarereform.procon.org - NEW: 23 Constitutional Challenges to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) - The individual insurance mandate of the PPACA has been judged constitutional twice and unconstitutional once. Read the date filed, case name, PDF of the case itself, distri ...

    Progressives United - Russ Feingold

    • My new group: Progressives United
      Today, I am proud to announce that progressives -- demanding change and demanding action -- have come together to help me launch a new group:�Progressives United � read more

    Information Underground

    • Crimes of Israel, IDF, Zionists, Mossad or &qu ...
      Bin Laden Not Wanted for 9/11 The 'FBI has no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11'. Vice President Cheney says, 'We've never made the case, or argued the case, that somehow Osama Bin Laden was directly involved in 9/11.' The FBI's "Most Wanted Terrorists" web page does not state that ...
    • Crimes of Israel, IDF, Zionists, Mossad or &qu ...
      Mossad ran 9/11 Arab "hijacker" terrorist operation By Wayne Madsen British intelligence reported in February 2002 that the Israeli Mossad ran the Arab hijacker cells that were later blamed by the U.S. government's 9/11 Commission for carrying out the aerial attacks on the World Trade Center ...
    • Law, Security, and Other Lies to Endslave Us • ...
      DoD Talks Up Plans to Deploy Cybercommandos By Richard Adhikari TechNewsWorld 02/16/11 5:00 AM PT "Cyber 3.0" is the name of the new strategy described by U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn at the RSA security conference Tuesday. It's a five-part plan that will involve equipping mil ...
    • Historical Events • TX Internment camp - 1000s ...
      This was largely due to Soviet influenced-Commie Jews in FDR's Government...--CSR --------- Preserving dark place in TX history Friday, February 18, 2011 Adela Uchida CRYSTAL CITY, TX (KTRK) -- Saturday marks a dark anniversary for the Japanese American community. Just months after the at ...
    • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
      mchawe wrote: CjB's ego is a direct match to that other scumbag in France Please explain. I have no idea what you mean. CJB attacked Ognir in a couple of articles. Guilt by association. He thinks DBS and Rafeeq are rats...so he lumped Ognir in with them. The Three Stooges, "Rupert the Bea ...

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