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IPS - Inter Press Services

• TRADE: South Africa Losing Interest in SADC Cu ...
  A schism about the division of revenues in the world's oldest customs union threatens to derail the process of regional economic integration in Southern Africa.
• Elections Unlikely to Bring Change to Guatemal ...
  Guatemalans will go to the polls to elect a new government in September. But the failure to implement in-depth reforms in the political system, including a constituent assembly to rewrite the constitution, means structural changes that could improve the social and economic situation are unlike ...
• PAKISTAN: Mullahs Fight Math in Madrassas
  The government has launched a programme to modernize religious schools so that students get a basic education in such subjects as math, English and even computers.
• INDIA: Whistleblowers Pay With Their Lives
  On a winter evening this January, Amarnath Pandey was returning home through a low-lit alley of a suburban town in India's heartland state Uttar Pradesh when a motorcycle-riding gunman suddenly appeared and fired at him.
• But Who Now Speaks for Egypt
  In the aftermath of Egypt's recent uprising, which led to the ouster earlier this month of longstanding president Hosni Mubarak, a number of groups have emerged under the banner of what has come to be known as the 25 January Revolution. The sudden proliferation of these movements has rai ...

Scoop - NZ

• With oil and food costs rising - 2008 all over ...
  It was a significant year in terms of the global economy: social unrest around the world over a spike in the cost of staple foods, and the runaway price of oil that eventually triggered the worst global economic crash since the Great Depression. While there were undoubtedly other factors behind ...
• Bahrain killings bring turmoil to centre of wo ...
  Escalating violence in the oil states of the Persian Gulf and North Africa have pushed Brent crude prices to a 30-month high of $104 a barrel, and raised widespread concerns over the stability of global oil supplies for the first time since the Mid-East turmoil began.
• Taranaki tribes press for greater resource con ...
  Taranaki tribes are pressing for positions on district councils and for greater control over management of resources such as farmland, ironsands and windpower.
• Guttenberg Plagiarism Accusations Widen
  German Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg faces fresh accusations of plagiarism in his doctoral thesis. According to a report due to be published in SPIEGEL on Monday, he used the services of the parliament's research department for his dissertation, and didn't mention the author in his ...
• Matt Taibbi: Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail?
  Over drinks at a bar on a dreary, snowy night in Washington this past month, a former Senate investigator laughed as he polished off his beer. "Everything's fucked up, and nobody goes to jail," he said. "That's your whole story right there. Hell, you don't even have to write the rest of it. J ...

Independent - London

• Libya: Gaddafi vows to fight on
  Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi vowed to fight on to his "last drop of blood" and roared at his supporters to take to the streets against protesters demanding his resignation, shouting and pounding his fist in a furious speech today after two nights of a bloody crackdown in the capital trying to ...
• Four American hostages 'killed by pirates'
  Four Americans taken hostage by Somali pirates off East Africa were shot and killed by their captors today, the US military said, marking the first time US citizens have been killed in a wave of pirate attacks plaguing the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean for years.
• Libya: Gadhafi vows to fight on
  Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi vows to fight protesters demanding his resignation and to die a "martyr," shouting and pounding his fist in a furious speech on state TV.
• Briton missing after avalanche
  A British national is missing after he was caught in an avalanche in Spain's Sierra Nevada mountain range, the Foreign Office said.
• Spotify 'worth a billion dollars'
  More signs of a new dotcom boom emerged today after reports said music streaming website Spotify had secured a funding deal that valued it at one billion US dollars (£616 million).

Rogue Government.com

• Gov't shutdown threat looms over U.S. budget f ...
  Senior U.S. Senate Democrats slammed Republicans on Sunday for a "reckless" threat to shut down the government amid deepening political posturing on both sides over federal spending and the budget deficit.
• Designer says his car will soon fly
  The science fiction dream of a flying car will soon be realized, a designer is telling potential buyers and investors.
• Does the Air Force Already Have a Secret Steal ...
  Officially, the $3.7 billion set aside for the “Long Range Strike” program in the Pentagon’s 2012 budget is meant simply to draw up plans for a new, stealthy heavy bomber for the Air Force — a replacement for the Cold War era fleet of long range, strategic aircraft.
• Scientist finds Gulf bottom still oily, dead
  Oil from the BP spill� remains stuck on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, according to a top scientist's video and slides that she says demonstrate the oil isn't degrading as hoped and has decimated life on parts of the sea floor.
• Libyan Unrest Gets Oil Market's Attention
  After six weeks of protests, the Middle East turmoil has now spread to a major oil producer for the first time,

Innovation Canada

• The challenging spine, the adventurous mind
• What’s love got to do with it?
  Toni Tennille promised “Love Will Keep Us Together,” and while it may be true that she and Daryl “the Captain” Dragon have stayed together for 40 years, it’s unlikely love was the only glue. Lasting relationships require commitment, satisfaction and trust, says Lorne Campbell, a social psycholog ...
• Tackling the cancer conundrum
  Carol Cass has seen cancer from all sides. The internationally renowned cancer researcher has spent four decades pioneering the study of special proteins called nucleoside transporters that help cancer-fighting drugs work their way inside cancer cells. She has also been an administrator at resea ...
• Picturing Alzheimer’s
  The numbers tell a startling story.   According to a 2009 study by the Alzheimer Society of Canada, 500,000 Canadians are living with Alzheimer’s disease or a related dementia. Of those, more than 71,000 are under 65, and approximately 50,000 are under 60. And 72 percent are women. An estimated ...
• Quitting time
  Despite the best intentions of a 34-year-old National Non-Smoking Week, which starts on Jan. 16, one of the most disheartening things for anyone trying to quit smoking is the extremely high likelihood that his or her efforts will end in failure. “Even with proper treatment, around 70 to 80 perce ...

Signs of the times

• Kashmir: Snow, torrential rain lash Valley
  Torrential rains, gusty winds and snowfall on Monday wreaked havoc in several parts in Kashmir and left one BSF porter dead and three security forces personnel injured at a forward post in Gurez. The rain, which started on Sunday evening, triggered avalanches in several parts of the valley and r ...
• Australia: Tropical Cyclone Carlos hits mining ...
  A tropical cyclone lashing Australia's northwest mining coast Tuesday damaged dozens of homes and forced the closure of offshore oil rigs and ports handling iron-ore exports, officials said. Tropical Cyclone Carlos, measuring category two on a five-point scale, howled along Western Australia's P ...
• New Zealand earthquake causes ice to break off ...
  The earthquake that struck Christchurch has caused some 30 million tons of ice to break off from New Zealand's biggest glacier. Tour guides at the Tasman Glacier in the Southern Alps say the quake caused the ice to "calve" from the glacier, forming icebergs in the terminal lake. Tourists of Gl ...
• Ivory Coast crisis intensifies as internationa ...
  Banks with half of civil servants' accounts close down and cocoa farmers burn crop in protest against Laurent Gbagbo Ivory Coast's largest bank has shut down, joining other international banks pulling out as the country faces an international embargo over incumbent president Laurent Gbagbo's re ...
• Ivory Coast protesters killed as they call for ...
  Security forces react violently in support of loser of last election who will not cede power, as African leaders form a panel to try to broker peace Ivorian troops have killed at least six protesters who were calling on Laurent Gbagbo to step down as leader, witnesses say, as African presidents ...

The Galloping Beaver

• Perspectives . . .
  WASHINGTON'S BLOG declares: "The Founding Fathers Would Be Proud of the People of Egypt ... And Disgusted With the People of America". He's got a point, check out the rest of the article.America's founding fathers stood up for their freedom, winning it from the British (with the help of the Fren ...
• Intervening in Libya?
  What should the world do in the case of the Libyan and other Arab revolutions? At Dawg's there's discussion of the intervening under the legal concept of Responsibility to Protect (R2P). This would likely mean the intervention by the liberal West, given that much of the rest of world doesn't su ...
• The man who would be President
  Stephen Harper wants his own permanent prime ministerial widebody transport aircraft. This ain't no Challenger VIP but a dual use CC150 (Airbus), which can serve as a troop transport and as VIP aircraft.� "A member of the PCO staff has again asked if CC150001 can be designated a VIP-only AC ( ...
• Sunglasses in Parliament?
  All Odious Oda needs is a black Gibson 335 dot neck, and she's ready for Halloween . . .
• Future imperfect . . .
  MAKE ROOM! MAKE ROOM! is an SF novel by the American ex-pat, Harry Harrison, published in 1966, that became the SF classic flick, "Soylent Green", where the world is running out of food.Well, we might have a soylent future ahead of us. According to Alasdair Wilkins at io9, in an article, "Can hu ...

Media Matters for America

• Fox Says Anti-Union Bill Is Need To Balance OH ...
  Fox News'�Special Report�portrayed legislation that would restrict the collective bargaining rights of public workers in Ohio as "the only way" to balance the state's budget. However, even the State Senator who introduced the bill acknowledges that it will not "solve Ohio's immediate budget pro ...
• Beck Slams Planned Parenthood With "Bad Tree" ...
  In an episode dedicated to vilifying Planned Parenthood, Fox News' Glenn Beck highlighted the organization's historical ties to Margaret Sanger -- a proponent of some forms of eugenics -- and stated: "I believe one thing is true: A bad tree cannot bear good fruit. Period. You need to know the r ...
• In Hour-Long Attack On Planned Parenthood, Bec ...
  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 videos wer ...
• Beck Echoes Joel Richardson: Warns Of Antichri ...
  In addition to endorsing author and anti-Muslim activist Joel Richardson's attempts to link Islam to the Antichrist, Glenn Beck also echoed Richardson's views linking Turkey to a purported future Islamic caliphate.Beck Warns Of Sunni-Shiite Unification, New Islamic Empire Based In Turkey Beck: ...
• Who Is Raymond Ruddy, Lila Rose's Funder?
  Raymond Ruddy funded Live Action's latest videos maligning Planned Parenthood. Ruddy has previously smeared Obama as an infanticide supporter and promoted fringe views on birth control, sex-education and reproductive rights. He also maintained a cozy and profitable relationship with the Bush ad ...

Global Research.ca

• Bernie Madoff speaks out: Wall Street Complic ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Genetic Engineering: Scientists warn of link b ...
  Urges USDA to rescind approval of genetically engineered alfalfa: “In layman’s terms, it should be treated as an emergency.”
• U.S. Veto: Speaking With Forked-tongue.
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• On the Ethical Conduct of Warfare: Predator Dr ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• The Security Budget vs. the Necessities of Ame ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.

TPM Cafe

• The Coming Shutdowns and Showdowns: What's Rea ...
  Wisconsin is in a showdown. Washington is headed for a government shutdown. Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker won't budge. He insists on delivering a knockout blow to public unions in his state (except for those, like the police, who supported his election).In DC, House Republicans won't budge ...
• Bill Maher's Latest Hate Eruption
  Bill Maher just can't help himself. He hates Muslims and he will use every opportunity he has to express his feelings. Lucky for him, he has HBO. In this latest case, he is talking about Muslim misogyny. His point is that he cannot celebrate democratic revolutions in Muslim countries bec ...
• Common Ground with Republicans: Nix NSF Fundin ...
  One of the items on cut list for House Republicans is the National Science Foundation (NSF). They want to cut $150 million, or 2.2 percent, from its 2010 budget for the current fiscal year. This should be a place where progressives can find common ground with Republicans. Virtually no econom ...
• The Republican Strategy
  The Republican strategy is to split the vast middle and working class - pitting unionized workers against non-unionized, public-sector workers against non-public, older workers within sight of Medicare and Social Security against younger workers who don't believe these programs will be there for ...
• Eva Peron Wins: The Pretension of a "Savings L ...
  Peter Orszag, now a new vice-chairman of global banking at Citigroup and former US Office of Management and Budget under Barack Obama, has written a provocative and (with all due respect Peter) wrong-headed Financial Times oped proposing that the way to promote savings among America's low-incom ...

TruthOut

• Bill McKibben | Money Pollution: The US Chambe ...
  In Beijing, they celebrate when they have a “blue sky day,” when, that is, the haze clears long enough so that you can actually see the sun.  Many days, you can’t even make out the next block.read more
• Scores Killed in New Zealand Earthquake
  Sydney, Australia - Rescue workers spent a cold, rainy night searching through rubble for survivors of a powerful earthquake that struck New Zealand’s second-largest city, Christchurch, on Tuesday, killing at least 65 people. read more
• The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street
  The power has gone out in a typical American town. Wait -- it's not just the electricity. The phones don't work, either. Portable radios are dead. Cars won't start. But then lawn mowers and cars and lights inexplicably start and stop on their own. What's going on? A meteor? Sunspots? Or are the ...
• Mahlon Mitchell: Thrown into the Fire in Wisco ...
  More GRITtv read more
• Disgraced Former Tea Party Leader Calls On Rig ...
  National tea party groups like Americans for Prosperity have been bussing conservative activists to Madison, WI to confront protesters there standing up to Gov. Scott Walker’s (R) union busting.read more

Planetsave

• Earthquake in New Zealand (More Info)
  I’ve already covered the earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand from a human perspective, including sharing a number of photos from the disaster, and covered the tremendous 30 million tons of ice the earthquake knocked off Tasman Glacier, the country’s largest glacier. Now, here’s a little more ...
• Christchurch, New Zealand Quake Knocks 30 Mill ...
  In addition to the horrible human catastrophe that is currently unfolding from the 6.3 magnitude earthquake that just struck Christchurch, New Zealand earlier today, the quake has apparently caused 30 million tons of ice to fall off the Tasman Glacier, New Zealand’s largest glacier. Passengers o ...
• This Icy World Showcases Greenlands Glaciers
  Cambridge University has released another film in their ‘Cambridge Ideas’ series entitled ‘This Icy World’ shown below. The small film looks at the contribution of Greenland to global sea level change and the mapping of previous unkown basins and mountains beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet. Video ...
• Antarctica Growing as a Carbon Sink
  With the increase in carbon dioxide since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, our environment has had to work harder and harder to keep our climate cycle in balance. According to new research published in the journal Current Biology, Antarctica, and the South Pole as a whole, has been doing a ...
• New Zealand Earthquake Kills 65 or More [PICTU ...
  A horrible catastrophe has just struck New Zealand. A 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck New Zealand's 2nd-most-populated city, Christchurch. Striking in the middle of a busy weekday afternoon, at least 65 have been killed and many more trapped.

Water Quality - WordPress

• Cities and Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Moving Fo ...
  Environment and Urbanization (online first article first published on January 10, 2011  | doi:10.117
• Daily brief (1/26): Top picks from the Springf ...
  Today will be partly sunny, with the beginning of a slight warmup. The high will be 42. Temperatures
• 2011 Weed Control Programme Update
  The Society has experienced some delays in its weed control programme principally due to weather con
• Is Lake Champlain on anyone's list?
  It ought to be, the writer of this essay explains in fine fashion. Many other localities with natura
• Traces of Prozac found in fish near Montreal
  Traces of Prozac and other antidepressants are showing up in fish in the Saint Lawrence Seaway. MAP

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• Egypt: Cue the Dirty Tricks, False Flags To Di ...
  Image via Wikipedia by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 30 January, 2011 The lootin
• Helena Norberg-Hodge: Localization: Developmen ...
  Image via Wikipedia by Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog Ci
• The “R” Word by Cindy Sheehan
  by Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbo
• Weimar Amerika - It Can’t Happen Here? by Phil ...
  by Philip A. Farruggio Featured Writer Dandelion Salad January 29, 2011 (Note: replaced text Jan. 31
• Egypt: Washington Has Finger on the Trigger fo ...
  by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 29 January, 2011 Image by Steve Rhodes via Flic

Axis of Logic

• Israeli settlements: US vetoes UNSC resolution ...
  The US has vetoed an Arab resolution at the UN Security Council condemning Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories as an obstacle to peace. All 14 other members of the Security Council backed the resolution, which had been endorsed by the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO). ...
• Britain's David Cameron Visits Military Junta ...
  Editor's Comment: What is Britain's PM, James Cameron, doing in Egypt? In the side note, James Landale, BBC's Deputy Political Editor, calls Cameron's visit to Egypt, "frankly astonishing." It's really not that astonishing at all. Cameron and other western politicians are quick to jump onto ...
• Spanish mother reunited with daughter she was ...
  Case is latest in growing scandal over babies allegedly stolen by doctors and sold for adoption over several decades A Spanish mother has been reunited with her daughter four decades after being told the child had died at birth. It is the first proven case in a growing scandal ove ...
• Gulf spill's effects 'may not be seen for a de ...
  In places the layer of oil and dead animals is 10cm thick The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill "devastated" life on and near the seafloor, a marine scientist has said. Studies using a submersible found a layer, as much as 10cm thick in places, of dead animals and oil, said...
• Why the U.S. Must Rape, er, help, Haiti - Edi ...
  Haiti's presidency is up for grabs, and here in the US, we need to do something about it!...

They Gave Us a Republic

• Why We Still Need Unions
  Yeah, yeah, unions brought us weekends and 8-hour days and sick days and vacations and decent pay and good benefits, but what have they done for us lately? Outlived their usefulness, haven't they? Only if you're obscenely wealthy or named Koch. Susie Madrak at Crooks and Liars quotes Krugman: In ...
• Wisconsin union standoff reveals "public" mean ...
  There is an unspoken assumption among union-busting conservatives like Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and Washington Post columnist George F. Will that because public sector wages and benefits have public consequences government workers should have no right to engage in politics on their own be ...
• Media Czech Slays the Ark Park Dineysores
  That wasn't even much of a challenge. Looks like the Flintstones Truthers are going down in the first round. Ken Ham and the good folks at Answers in Genesis are in full out damage control mode. Getting caught red-handed discriminating against what they perceived to be a gay couple, they now rea ...
• Libya's "Terrible Story" - Al Jazeera's Got It
  Like Egypt, Libya is seven hours ahead of eastern standard time. Liveblog here. February 22 1:26 pm Within the past half-hour, Al Jazeera's Jamal Elshayyal arrived at Sidi Barani, a town on the Egyptian side of the border with Libya, a little more than 500km east of �Benghazi, the site of some o ...
• Killing Public Education by Busting Unions
  Sara Jerving at The Nation: What has become clear to the protestors over the past week is that beyond an assault on unions; Walker's bill is part of a wider attack on working families and public education. "The second reason that this fight matters is the future of public education," The Nation' ...

Care 2

• TWO DOGS DINING
  These dogs are incredibly cute, and vastly patient. I love the way the big one rests his head on his hand, and the way he seems to prevent his head from doing a 360. I can�t believe they never dove into the food and snarfed it down.Submitted by Carol Dreeszen to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a ...
• It's All About Denying Power to the Majority
  Despite our principles, some of us are more equal than others. Billionaires field armies of lobbyists; they funnel cash to politicians (as the Koch brothers did for Mr. Walker). In reality, we�re more of an oligarchy, in which a handful of wealthy people Submitted by Norm C. to US Politics & Gov ...
• US Researchers Defend Animal Testing
  US researchers defended animal testing, telling a small group at one of the biggest science conferences in the United States that not doing animal research would be unethical and cost human lives. Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Crocodile Hunter's zoo battling to remain open
  Allegations of mismanagement since See Irwin's death.In a statement yesterday, the zoo acknowledged that it had been forced to cut costs, but said the job losses would have no impact on Irwin's legacySubmitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• CRIME: The 'Amish Madoff'
  A 77-year-old Mennonite is being compared to the famed Ponzi schemer after bilking millions from fellow church-membersSubmitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Business �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

• The Monsters Are Due on Maple Streets
• Unanswered Questions as Obama Anoints George H ...
• Greenspan's Incompetence Badgers Wisconsin's W ...
• MADISON: The Battle to Balance the State Budge ...
• Dear Washington DC: The Public Is Smarter Abo ...

Paul Krugman

• Opposition to Infrastructure Spending: The Ori ...
  Canals today; social upheaval tomorrow.
• Hoot-Smalley
  It wasn't the tariff that did it.
• Misguided Narratives
  Fiscalizing everything.
• Lone Star State of Mind
  But the malls look just the same.
• More on Defense
  Wasteful, but not at the heart of our trouble.

No Quarter

• First we laugh, and then it is time to dream
  Yes, I actually record Howie Kurtz’s Sunday CNN show, “Reliable Sources.” My wasted hour geeky viewing taste (or is it just politically inappropriate c-r-a-p) was rewarded on Sunday when the following occurred during Kurtz’s interview of The Onion’s news anchors (YES, indeed! The Onion has its o ...
• Matter of Libya Time (& Open Thread)
  UPDATE: LARRY JOHNSON AND PAT LANG ARE ON ABOUT LIBYA RIGHT NOW! (over at 10:46 p.m. – we will endeavor to get audio file fast.) ALSO: Batchelor reports NO validity to rumors that Gaddafi has fled for Caracas or Paris or elsewhere. Further, Lang and Johnson think there’s nowhere he can hide out ...
• “Brothers Won’t Work As Hard As Mexicans…”
  Oh, man – did SC State Senator Robert Ford (D) really say this? Talk about your classic “foot in mouth” disease. Needless to say, a whole bunch of people aren’t happy with him about his comment. Ford has been in the Senate since 1993. This isn’t the first time he has come out with something [... ...
• We Hardly Knew You, Scott Brown
  The complete video of Leslie Stahl’s interview is below the fold. You. You handsome, together man. Who tore out all of Massachusetts’ deep-rooted, old-fashioned liberal Kennedy roots, and with your victory stunned the political world — and I do mean world, because leaders around the world still ...
• Union Whining in Wisconsin
  The facts on this are quite simple–the current Wisconsin Governor, who was elected four months ago, campaigned and won on the platform he is currently pursuing. This is no sneak attack. He did not promise to protect unions and secure their collective bargaining rights. Nope, just the opposite. H ...

Environmental Graffiti

• Could Wounds Lead to Cancer?
  Can some wounds really lead to cancer? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• What Fingers and Toes Can Tell You About Your ...
  10 health clues your fingers and toes can give you read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Sperm Quality Related to Bone Health
  Bone cell injections may prove to be a successful and less invasive treatment for male sterility. This article explains why. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• When Quantum Physics Becomes Modern Art
  Incredible images at the fusion of art and various branches of science. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• 10 Incredible Animal Hybrids
  When two different species breed they can produce some truly bizarre offspring - here are ten of the strangest animal hybrids living on earth! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

• The OPEC of Outrage
  Here's a slogan to unite all populists: No Taxation without Demilitarization.
• Interview with Medea Benjamin
  Recently back from Egypt, Code Pink's Medea Benjamin talks about the reception of Americans in Tahrir Square, the future of revolution in the region, and how the U.S. government should react.
• Why Haven't the Burmese Joined the Recent Wave ...
  Despite Burma's ruling junta's history of brutality, a dissident leader calls out his people.
• Interview with Wendy Navarro
  Curator Wendy Navarro talks about art and its relationship to U.S.-Cuban relations, globalization, and political utopias.
• Where the Demonstrators Wave Black Flags: Alge ...
  The disillusionment which fueled the 1990s civil war in Algeria simmers beneath the surface because little has changed.

Global Elite

• Fear, Intimidation & Media Disinformation: U.K ...
  Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 20, 2009 An official UK government report –quoted extensively in Britain’s tabloid media– is warning the British public that there will ...
• President European Commission Advocated World ...
  Jurriaan Maessen. Infowars. July 24th, 2009 On September 7, 1992, two term President of the European Commission Jacques Delors gave a speech to the Royal Institute of International ...
• Billions of People Expected to Die Under Curre ...
  Barbara Minton, Natural News, July 21st, 2009 Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in t ...
• Bioweapons, Dangerous Vaccines, and Threats of ...
  Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 7th, 2009 Although international law prohibits the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons, America has had an active biological warfare p ...
• Today we’re all prisoners in the USA
  Papers, Please! June 2, 2009 As of today, June 1, 2009, even U.S. citizens are officially prisoners in the USA, or exiles barred from entering our own country without the government ...

Al Jazeera

• Libya's revolt scares oil traders
  "Nothing explodes like an oil refinery and rioters tend to like to burn things," analyst says.
• Americans on hijacked yacht killed
  US military's Central Command says four hostages found dead after forces boarded the vessel in the Arabian Sea.
• Demonstrations resume in Yemen
  Protesters take to the streets of Sanaa for 12th day but Saleh insists he will step down after serving his term.
• Dozens dead in Mali stampede
  At least 36 killed in a stampede as thousands gather in a stadium in Bamako to listen to a preacher.
• Fresh violence rages in Libya
  Protesters say security forces using warplanes and live ammunition "massacre" them, raising death toll to almost 300.

Green Inc. - NYT

• U.P.S. Finds a Substitute for Diesel: Natural ...
  One challenge will be developing a national infrastructure for refueling.
• 'Dirty' Energy Dwarfs Clean in China and India
  Talk of the countries' investments in solar and wind power may obscure the reality of an insatiable demand for coal and other fossil fuels.
• Speedy Evolution, Indeed
  In a matter of decades, a rare genetic mutation that allowed a small number of tomcod to tolerate PCB contamination in the Hudson River spread through the broader population, allowing the species to thrive, scientists suggest.
• Green Roof Collapses in Illinois
  Investigators are still trying to determine why a 700-by-50 foot section of a roof over a parking area buckled at a garden pond construction and supply company.
• Is Fashion Week Smoking?
  A video filmed on Jan. 31 as the fashion village was being noisily erected at Lincoln Center shows smoke spewing into the air as diesel generators are turned on.

Dot Earth News

• Breaking Things on a Path to Breakthroughs
  Can students in science and engineering learn the value of failure even as they are pushed to succeed?
• Location and Timing Contribute to Losses in Ne ...
  After a close call in an earthquake last fall, Christchurch, New Zealand, is badly damaged by a less potent, but closer, aftershock.
• A Budget Map Reveals a Troubled Future
  A map of the American budget reveals both unaddressed risks and missing solutions.
• Generation Hot Meets Generation Coal
  Dueling videos portray a familiar debate between climate campaigners and a defender of fossil fuels.
• On Storms, Warming, Caveats and the Front Page
  The tension between the need for accuracy and attention is revealed in a paper on heavy rain and warming.

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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

Daily Censored

• Open Class Struggle in Wisconsin
  While less than 10% of the private sector work force is in unions in the United States, these unions still represent a potentially massive force in US society, capable of mobilizing millions of workers and youth. This is in the process of being proven in Wisconsin, where the class struggle has.. ...
• Your World News’ Tribute to Malcolm X‏
  http://www.blogtalkradio.com/your-world-news/2011/02/22/our-tribute-to-malcolm-x-news-and-info-for-the-people Please join us this episode as we pay homage and tribute to the late great Malcolm X. Malcolm X was nothing short of a prophet whose human rights work and dedication toward the liberatio ...
• What can you do to help the workers and fight- ...
  We cannot let the capitalist class win in Wisconsin.  Teachers have agreed to return to work, due to Fox News and other corporate media outlets that have created the image in the minds of many that teachers are overpaid thugs who have abandoned their students when in fact they are currently givi ...
• KPFA, DEADHEADS, NPR and BLURRY LINES
  KPFA, DEADHEADS, NPR and BLURRY LINES By Mary Moore, Occidental CA This morning, February 20, as Philip Muldari was asking us to pledge to KPFA, he brought up, quite validly, the point that the Pacifica network unlike NPR and other public radio and TV outlets, has no corporate underwriting. Whil ...
• Wisconsin: Little known asset stripping provi ...
  Have you heard about 16.896?  From http://rortybomb.wordpress.com/ The fight in Wisconsin is over Governor Walker’s 144-page Budget Repair Bill. The parts everyone is focusing on have to do with the right to collectively bargain being stripped from public sector unions (except for the unions... ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

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Institute for Policy Studies

• The OPEC of Outrage
  Here's a slogan to unite all populists: No Taxation without Demilitarization.
• The Lineup: Week of February 21-27, 2011
  Michael B. Keegan expresses concern that Rep. Peter King's upcoming hearings on domestic terrorism will exploit widespread fears of Muslims in a newfangled version of McCarthyism.
• A Military Budget on the Wrong Side of History
  We should support the Egyptian miracle by cutting military aid and shifting it to support that will actually help Egyptians improve their standard of living.
• Sometimes a Veto Means Victory
  Bureaucratic defeat within the United Nations security council might lead to diplomatic victory for those seeking to end Israeli settlements in Palestinian territories.
• Global Solidarity is on the Rise for Mexican W ...
  Like Egyptians, Mexicans need international solidarity to help move to a real democracy.

Equality Trust

• The Wrong Cure - alternatives to the cuts
  The False Economy website is an excellent and still-developing resource exploring the alternatives to cuts. False Economy includes: a discussion of why the cuts are not progressive details of campaign actions a comprehensive further reading list ... and this short film [youtube:ynUCYo ...
• Why we need a Fairness Test of the cuts
  A group of charities, including the Equality Trust, Child Poverty Action Group, Barnardo's and the TUC are asking the coalition government to commit to a Fairness Test on any tax rises or spending cuts they introduce. Full details...
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  Please visit our new Media section for the latest details.
• VAT rise would hit the poorest
  Bill Wilson's VAT motion to the Scottish Parliament reads as follows: That the Parliament notes the warning issued by Save the Children in Scotland that raising VAT to 20% could mean a £31 a week bill for the poorest families in Scotland and that the poorest 10% of the population currently s ...

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

• London Grocery Store Chickens Risky
  The Tests - According to tests on 20 grocery store chickens, picking up a package of chicken in Asda, Morrisons, Marks & Spencer, Sainsbury’s and Tesco could put you at risk of food poisoning. E. coli was found on one of the chickens from Sainsbury’s. Staphylococcus aureus, an MRSA-related bact ...
• Everything you always wanted to know about foo ...
  With nearly two decades of foodborne illness litigation behind us, tens of thousand of clients and hundreds of experts involved in those cases, we have developed what I hope is a lot of good information about the state of food illness in the Untied States.� I hope you find this helpful. Bot ...
• The Ohio State - Consumers will pay more for f ...
  Now, that is a shock.  But, according to research supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; the University of Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station; the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center; and the Marvin and June Morrison Chair in Agribusiness at Ari ...
• Hello, I am your waiter and I should be home - ...
  I did get up a bit too early this morning, but just in time to see Elizabeth Cohen at CNN report - "US: Restaurant workers show up sick:" One out of eight restaurant workers has come to work at least twice in the past year while suffering from diarrhea or vomiting, according to a new survey of ...
• If Illinois Farmer's Markets and Cottage Indus ...
  I heard the fears of the small, local, sustainable, locavore regarding the Food Safety Modernization Act, which is why exclusions for on-farm sales and sales at farmer’s markets, and direct sales to grocery stores and restaurants were added, along with additional protections with the Tester/Hage ...

AutoblogGreen

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

Rafe's Radar

• Warning: Coupons make you spend more
  RetailMeNot CEO explains how coupons and deals are bumping up online shopping cart order sizes.
• Robobrain vs. humanity: Discuss
  Author Stephen Baker covered the creation of the 'Jeopardy'-playing Watson computer. On Friday, the Reporters' Roundtable podcast tackles a simple question: what is unique about the human mind? As I write this, IBM's Watson project is doing a respectable job on the game show "Jeopardy." W ...
• For better service, automate the waiters
  Storific lets you order food from your table, but the Paris-based start-up needs a more coherent sales strategy.
• Path changes course with comments, e-mail acce ...
  The weird little photo-sharing site, now flush with VC cash, begins to layer necessary features into its service. Is it enough?
• Backupify is more than a backup service
  Cloud backup service is much more than that. It can also be a smart, searchable tool for social-media discovery.

Camera Obscura

• No title
• Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Hayne ...
  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
• The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
• Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
• Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

Democracy Now!

• Juan Gonzalez Wins 2010 George Polk Award For ...
  Democracy Now’s own Juan Gonzalez has won a George Polk Award for his columns in the New York Daily News exposing the scandal behind Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s attempt to create a new computerized payroll system called CityTime. Juan’s reporting helped lead to the federal indictment of four consult ...
• WATCH: Amy Goodman on C-SPAN's Washington Jour ...
• "It’s Time to Push the Borders of Freedom": Eg ...
  Sanaa El Seif and Ziad Tareq are Egyptian students who are helping to publish a newspaper in defiance of laws requiring government permission. So far, the publication has focused on the voices of Tahrir Square. Senior Producer Sharif Abdel Kouddous shows one of the first printed copies to Demo ...
• WATCH: Amy Goodman on Al Jazeera English EMPIR ...
  Are social networks triggering social revolution? And where will the next domino fall? Empire finds out. Amy Goodman, the host and executive producer of Democracy Now! joins Marwan Bishara to discuss these issues along with: Carl Bernstein, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist; ...
• Noam Chomsky on Civil Rights, Obama, Latin Ame ...
  We continue our conversation with world-renowned public intellectual, MIT Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, Noam Chomsky. Watch the Part I of the Interview Democracy Uprising in the USA? here

Digg Green

• Science vs Jesus, the best rebuttal ever! ...
  Hmm, which makes more sense to you?
• 10 Everyday Foods That Can Affect You Lik ...
  Everybody knows there are certain natural substances that you can eat or smoke to feel awesome or weird, depending on your perspective. But what about ordinary foods that deliver these same mood-altering or even consciousness-warping effects? We've got ten foods that go straight to your hea ...
• A Pig on a Chair. (Because the Sofa Was O ...
• Why Mars is Losing Its Atmosphere -A Myst ...
  NASA has been making a lot of headlines the past couple of years with recent discoveries on Mars, and fans of the red planet are in for good news: they're going again, bigger and better than ever. There's the Mars...
• 10 Incredible Images of Black Holes
  Black holes are considered amongst the most powerful and mysterious objects in the universe, what is left behind after a star has collapsed. NASA has compiled several dramatic images of what are believed to be black holes in space. This is a Chandra X-Ray Observatory image of the nearby gal ...

Invisible Opportunity

• Tens of thousands join anti-government rally i ...
  Tens of thousands of people gathered on Friday (February 18th) in downtown Tirana for an anti-government demonstration. The rally, organised by the opposition Socialist Party, was held nearly a month after another big demonstration in the capital turned deadly, with four people killed in clashes ...
• Bill Maher and the Bipartisan Campaign to Marg ...
  by Scott Creighton Right now there are an estimated 2 million people in Tehrir Square celebrating their victory and announcing their solidarity with the 1.5 million Palestinians locked in what John Holmes, the United Nation’s humanitarian chief, called the world’s largest open air prison. The pe ...
• Wikileaks Is A Rothschild Operation: Wound Riv ...
  After being made famous, Julian Assange’s first task is to wound a rival bank of the Rothschild Bank in Switzerland. The rival is Bank Julius Baer, the top Swiss bank for centuries: the competing Rothschild Bank opened in Switzerland in 1968. On January 17, 2011, Assange held a press conference ...
• Bahrain – an uprising on the verge of revoluti ...
  By Robert Fisk Bahrain is not Egypt. Bahrain is not Tunisia. And Bahrain is not Libya or Algeria or Yemen. True, the tens of thousands gathering again yesterday at the Pearl roundabout – most of them Shia but some of them Sunni Muslims – dressed themselves in Bahraini flags, just as the Cairo mi ...
• Bloodbath Failed: Libya’s Pro-West Regime at a ...
  By Jason Ditz 42 years is a long time to rule as an absolute tyrant, and Moammar Gadhafi become quite adept over the years at navigating the world of global diplomacy, transforming Libya from a pariah state (thanks to his nationalization of US oil interests) to US foil to key US ally (thanks to ...

Global Insights

• Less Than a Week Away
  We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware.George Green will be a featured speaker.September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CAClick here for Tickets & Reservations 
• The Georgia Guidestones
  On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
• The Creation
  THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to pu ...
• The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...
  In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
• About George Green
  Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to fo ...

AlterNet - DrugReporter

• Birth Control for Men? 3 Promising Advances
  The joke in the male contraceptive field goes that we've always been five years away from male contraception being available.
• From Montgomery to Los Angeles and Beyond: For ...
  It's time to build a Civil and Human Rights Movement for the 21st Century. We hope you'll join us - in Alabama, Los Angeles, and beyond.
• California Is Broke -- You Still Have the Righ ...
  Santa Cruz just became the latest county to announce it would "end" treatment-instead-of-incarceration program for low-level drug offenses because of a lack of funding.
• Change We Can Believe In? Not for Medical Mari ...
  So much for the American Medical Association's demand for clinical cannabis research.
• Thousands of Rockefeller Drug Law Convictions ...
  Officials recently shut down part of the Nassau County Crime Lab because it was discovered that a half-dozen drug cases had been subjected to incorrect analyses.

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

• Solar-Powered Vaccine Refrigerator Keeps Medic ...
  True Energy just unveiled their Vaccine Refrigerator, a solar-powered fridge that is capable of keeping medicine cool and safe without a connection to the grid. This refrigerator would allow medical professionals to carry much-needed vaccines to communities in harsh climates and hard-to-reach lo ...
• Spiraling Superfuturistic Newport Station in W ...
  Read the rest of Spiraling Superfuturistic Newport Station in Wales Connects Two Sides Of The Cityhttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "energy ...
• Enormous Temple of Trash Made from 100 Tons of ...
  Read the rest of Enormous Temple of Trash Made from 100 Tons of Recycled Plastic Bottleshttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: eco design, garbag ...
• Massachusetts Town to Turn Landfill into Large ...
  Canton, Massachusetts officials decide to turn an old, capped town dump into the largest solar array in New England. The dump was capped twenty five years ago and was unused until last year when the town envisioned it as a green energy powerhouse. The array is expected to generate 5.6 megawatts ...
• Balmori & Associates’ Ultra Modern NYC Penthou ...
  Read the rest of Balmori & Associates’ Ultra Modern NYC Penthouse Boasts a Lush Stairway of Greenhttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: 684 broad ...

Pogue's Posts

• What Is President Obama Asking Tech Leaders?
  David Pogue's Twitter followers imagine what is being discussed among President Obama and Silicon Valley's tech leaders.
• The Ethics of Free Cellphone Calls
  There are a growing number of ways to avoid paying for calls -- some offered by carriers, others amounting to a hack.
• Page Numbers for Kindle Books an Imperfect Sol ...
  With electronic books, neither page numbers nor "location numbers" are the perfect solution.
• A Loophole in a Verizon iPhone Rule
  Because of a technical limitation, the Verizon iPhone will not let you talk and use the Internet at the same time -- unless you're on Wi-Fi.
• The Commuter Bike Redesigned and Electrified
  It's no Segway, but the new YikeBike has been designed for safety, ease of riding and it's foldable. The biggest problem: The price.

WIRED Magazine | Science

• Alan Turing’s Patterns in Nature, and Beyond
  See Also: Searching for Network Laws in Slime Hidden Fractals Suggest Answer to Ancient Math Problem Earth’s Most Stunning Natural Fractal Patterns Video: Mysterious Patterns Reveal Self-Organizing Muscle Fibers Baffling Patterns Form in Scientific Sandbox
• 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 wha ...
• Moon Race Brings 29 Teams to the Starting Line
  When a couple dozen companies sign contracts containing the words “moon” and “landing,” it’s a good indication that private lunar exploration is heating up. The X Prize Foundation on Thursday announced that 29 teams had signed contracts making them the official Google Lunar X Prize competitors, ...
• Helpful Mutations Didn’t Sweep Through Early H ...
  Humans probably didn’t get swept up in evolution. Scientists have favored a model of evolution in which beneficial gene mutations quickly and dramatically sweep through a population due to the evolutionary advantages they confer. Such mutations would become nearly universal in a population. But ...
• The Mystery of the Missing Moon Trees
  15 years after NASA astronomer David Williams started searching for them, hundreds of trees grown from space-faring seeds are still missing. The “moon trees,” whose seeds circled the moon 34 times in Apollo 14 astronaut Stuart Roosa’s pocket, were welcomed back to Earth with great fanfare in 19 ...

PakAlert

• Deadly Quake hits fragile New Zealand economy
  As rescue crews continued to search through the rubble for survivors of the deadly Christchurch earthquake, Tuesday's temblor already has shaken confidence in New Zealand's fragile economy. The New Zealand dollar, known as the kiwi, dropped about 2% in trading in the hours following the quake, w ...
• The Zionist hand behind Internet
  In the following document we will give an insight into the Zionist penetration of the Internet and also show the level of cooperation between leading Zionist Internet entrepreneurs and the racist Zionist Apartheid state of Israel. The Zionist - contrary to the "liberal" views they officially ...
• 6 Charts Which Prove That Central Banks All Ov ...
  If the U.S. dollar is being devalued so rapidly, then why does it sometimes increase in value against other global currencies? Well, it is because everybody is recklessly printing money now. The 6 charts which you are about to see below prove this. The truth is that it is not just the U.S. Fe ...
• Proof! Middle Eastern Uprisings Fueled By US
  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 to the tune of millions by the US National Endowment for ...
• The Middle East and Then the World
  Beginning in North Africa, now unfolding in the Middle East and Iran, and soon to spread to Eastern Europe and Asia, the globalist fueled color revolutions are attempting to profoundly transform entire regions of the planet in one sweeping move. It is an ambitious gambit, perhaps even one born o ...

Andy Worthington

• First US Film Festival Date: “Outside th ...
  I’m delighted to report that, on March 5, 2011, at 3 pm (venue to be announced), the documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (which I co-directed with filmmaker Polly Nash) will be shown at the D.C. Independent Film Festival, which runs from March 3 to 13 at various venues ...
• Revolution in Libya: Protestors Respond to Gad ...
  “Now people are dying we’ve got nothing else to live for. What needs to happen is for the killing to stop. But that won’t happen until he [Gaddafi] is out. We just want to be able to live like human beings. Nothing will happen until protests really kick off in Tripoli, the capital. It’s like [.. ...
• Ex-Guantánamo Prisoner David Hicks Gives His F ...
  I recently cross-posted a fascinating article by my friend and colleague Jason Leopold, explaining how he had approached former Guantánamo prisoner David Hicks for an interview, after reading his autobiography, Guantánamo: My Journey, and how the encounter had challenged and affected him deepl ...
• New London Date for “Outside the Law: St ...
  As part of my ongoing UK tour of the documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo,” which I co-directed with filmmaker Polly Nash, I’ll be attending a screening at LSE this Tuesday, February 22, after a last-minute request for me to come along as a speaker. Here are the details: ...
• Another Desperate Letter from Guantánamo by Ad ...
  Regular readers will know that the ongoing injustice at Guantánamo, where 172 men remain, is so severe that President Obama’s promise to close the prison has, instead, turned into a concession by defense secretary Robert Gates, speaking to the Senate Armed Services Committee last week, that “th ...

Environment _ National Geographic

• Cocaine to Blame for Rain Forest Loss, Study S ...
  Coca planting in Colombia has been linked to rising deforestation—and not all the damage is due to illegal activities, a new study says.
• Hudson River Fish Evolve Toxic PCB Immunity
  Bottom-feeding fish in the Hudson River have developed a gene that renders them immune to the toxic effects of PCBs, according to new evolution research.
• Extreme Storms and Floods Concretely Linked to ...
  New studies of severe storms and catastrophic floods provide more evidence that rising greenhouse gas levels actually do increase the odds of such extreme weather events—and perhaps make them stronger.
• Protecting Health and the Planet With Clean Co ...
  A small Ghana business is part of a wave of efforts to address the staggering global toll of death and disease from cooking smoke.
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drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

• HT Gives "Thumbs Up" to NM School Budget
  Here are a few snippets from the 2/4/11 editorial in The Housatonic Times. "...all those who assemble the proposed education budget went into the current process with new resolve to craft a package that met all the needs and would also be politically palatable. Better communication was establi ...
• G! E! T! S! (bud) GETS! (bud) GETS! (bud) GE ...
  (Oh, was that too soon, Jets fans? Suck it up. Love, The Patriots Nation.) Forget football, it’s budget season again! And even though we paid all those pesky teachers last year, they want money again this year. So, of course, it will be controversial. There are several things in play this y ...
• A Real Public Option In Connecticut?
  And so it would seem.The other day for an open thread at ePluribus Media I commented on "the intended public option that should be Sustinet in Connecticut," and it would seem that is to be the case if the Sustinet Health Partnership Board of Directors get their way according to the report they h ...
• Dan Malloy scores first in Danbury
  Dan Malloy jumping off of the bench of the Danbury Whalers shortly after scoring the first goal in Whalers' history. [update] I have an interview from after the game at TK's. Let me say, in advance, that he was a bit reluctunt to give it since I am a political blogger... But as a hockey fan I ...
• Still All That I Want
  Something that gets lost in the news about the unemployed is the fact that much of what used to be the backbone of this nation's economic prowess, the middle class, is now the working poor: Imagine That: Working Poor On The Rise After the Republicans crashed to economy in 2008 one thing became ...

SPL Center

• Militia Figure Shawna Forde Found Guilty of Ar ...
  Concluding a three-week trial that exposed the most unsavory side of Arizonaâs militant border vigilante movement, a jury on Monday found Shawna Forde guilty of two counts of first-degree murder for the May 2009 killings of Raul Flores, 29, and his 9-year-old daughter in the border town of Ariva ...
• Would-Be Koran Burner Terry Jones Barred from ...
  Controversial Florida pastor Terry Jones, who got worldwide attention last September because of his “International Burn a Koran Day,” has been denied entry into the United Kingdom. Jones, pastor at Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Fla., had been invited to speak and participate in a se ...
• Expert: Political Rhetoric Likely a Factor in ...
  Editor’s Note: In a Jan. 19 letter published in The New York Times, Arizona political scientist James W. Clarke argued that it would be wrong to dismiss the idea that the toxic political environment was a factor in Jared L. Loughner’s attempted assassination of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, an a ...
• Hi, I’m a Sovereign Citizen! – Group to Write ...
  They already have alternate identification cards and travel warrants. Now, all Tim Turner thinks he needs is an introduction to police and some good old-fashioned face time for his “Republic for the United States of America” to become a reality. That, at least, seems to be the prime motivation b ...
• ‘Burn a Koran Day’ Pastor Plans New Desecratio ...
  Terry Jones, the virulently Islamophobic pastor behind last fallâs barely averted âInternational Burn a Koran Day,â may have lost a battle or two, but his personal crusade is clearly still on. Having reluctantly canceled plans to burn Islamâs holy book last Sept. 11 â an idea that won him worldw ...

change: org.

• West Hollywood Promotes Truth in Fur Labeling, ...
  The race is on to make West Hollywood the most animal-friendly city in the United States. The city has already banned puppy mills, cosmetic testing on animals, the declawing of cats, and steel-jaw leghold traps. Last month, a group of animal activists announced their campaign to ban fur in West ...
• Dear Ontario Ministry of Education: Taxpayer D ...
  Can I start a blog with a sigh? No? Well, too late. I am exasperated by the news, unearthed by Canadian gay news source Xtra!, that all 29 Catholic School Boards in Ontario effectively ban the forming of Gay-Straight Alliances (GSA). And before the argument of religious freedom comes into play, ...
• Top 10 (Cringeworthy) Things You Didn't Know A ...
  Veterans, single moms and low-income parents -- all hustled by the Washington Post Company into signing up for college classes of questionable quality and a lifetime of debt. Shocking, but true. This tragic story happens again and again for students at Kaplan University, the chain of colleges ow ...
• Victory! Maroon 5 Ends Tobacco Promotion of In ...
  After receiving  letters from over 180 Change.org members concerned about tobacco sponsorship of an upcoming Indonesian concert, Maroon 5 and their management moved quickly to have the tobacco company's name removed from all posters and advertising. Maroon 5's management informed Change.org that ...
• A Roadtrip through Paradise or a Gas Drilling ...
  Without a doubt, the prettiest drive I have ever taken was on U.S. Highways 191 and 89, through the Bridger-Teton National Forest, a part of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. I’ve seen prettier five mile stretches, but nothing this spectacular stretching this far. For nearly two hours from Pine ...

Common Dreams -News

• In Search of an African Revolution
  Demonstrations are continuing across the Middle East, interrupted only by the call for prayer when protesters fall to their knees on cheap carpets and straw mats and the riot police take a tea break. Egypt, in particular, with its scenes of unrelenting protesters staying put in Tahrir Square, pl ...
• Wisconsin's Political Crisis Is A Good Deal Mo ...
  MADISON - Wisconsin’s Legislative Fiscal Bureau was created in 1968 by a Republican governor, Warren Knowles, and a Republican-controlled state legislature.   read more
• Plutocracy Now: What Wisconsin Is Really About
  In 2008, a liberal Democrat was elected president. Landslide votes gave Democrats huge congressional majorities. Eight years of war and scandal and George W. Bush had stigmatized the Republican Party almost beyond redemption. A global financial crisis had discredited the disciples of free-market ...
• Spike Reported in Number of Stillborn Dolphins ...
  GULFPORT -- Baby dolphins, some barely three feet in length, are washing up along the Mississippi and Alabama shorelines at about 10 times the normal number for the first two months of the year, researchers are finding. Seventeen young dolphins, either aborted before they reached maturity or dea ...
• Solving the Mystery of the Bizarre Deformed Fr ...
  For the last two decades, strange things have been happening to frogs. Some frog populations have high rates of limb deformities, while others have high incidences of what is known as "intersex" — traits associated with both males and females, such as male frogs whose testes contain eggs. ...

Lifehacker

• Hipmunk Flight Search Brings the Excellent Web ...
  We've taken a look at the Hipmunk webapp before and found it to be one of the most usable and agony-free flight searches on the web. Today they've brought that same search to iOS with some smart features. More��
• How Do You Protect Yourself from Accidentally ...
  We love our computers, but for many of us they house things we'd rather not share in public. That doesn't mean our computers will keep those files private when we accidentally click in the wrong place. How do you protect yourself from th ...
• What "Do Not Track" Is and Why It's ...
  What's so bad about ad tracking on the web, a.k.a. behavioral targeting? Nothing, if you don't mind being a living stereotype. No, seriously—that's what much of the fuss over "Do Not Track" browser options and opt-out options is about. Ad ...
• CueThat Adds Netflix Movies to Your Queue from ...
  All Browsers: Say you're reading an article, tweet or review of a movie online and want to add it to your Netflix queue. With CueThat, all you need to do is select the movie title and hit the bookmarklet or extension. More�� ...
• Attachments.me Searches Your Gmail Attachments ...
  Gmail has some pretty great advanced search features, but it can't search the content of any documents you may have floating around your email. Web service Attachments.me brings even more advanced searching to your Gmail inbox, and we've ...

Water Privatization

• Box Elder doubling down on water supply
  Ellsworth Air Force Base officials are preparing a major shift of the base's fence line sometime in July, pushing into Box Elder 828 homes that use about 67 million gallons of water a year.
• Water privatization bad move in Mount Olive
  A suicide bomber blew himself up at the entrance to an Afghan government office Monday, killing at... - 11:36 am West Milford emergency crews rescued four ATV riders who fell through the ice of Greenwood Lake in...
• USF Highlights Global Water Shortage at Film E ...
  The films showcase the importance of water and the growing crisis around the globe.
• Facilitator for Helping Districts to Make Thei ...
  1. Introduction: context of the Call for Candidates The “Water Supply and Sanitation Program in Binh Dinh Province” (WSSP) attempts to improve the quality of life and the environment of the inhabitants from several communes in 6 districts of Binh Dinh Province (Phu Cat, Phu My, Tuy Phuoc, Tay So ...
• Water’s Monopoly Game — Public? Private?
  Food and Water Watch, a group linked to Ralph Nader, opposes privatization of water. "You want to privatize my water? This isn’t Bolivia, Pal. We’re not going to let you thieve from us so you can get a seat on the board of directors of the winning firm. Take a leap Sanders.”

Guardian

• Gaddafi: I cannot leave, I will die a martyr
  �� Gaddafi: 'I cannot leave my country, I will die a martyr' �� Libyan leader makes rambling speech after days of unrest �� 'Anyone who undermines state will be punished by death' �� Hague: 'Structure of Libyan state is collapsing' �� Are you in Libya or have a comment on the situation there? Co ...
• New Zealand quake leaves 65 dead
  Crews work through night to free people after 6.3 magnitude quake, New Zealand's worst natural disaster in 80 yearsRescuers worked through the night to reach people trapped in shattered buildings after a powerful earthquake struck Christchurch, New Zealand, killing at least 65 people.The 6.3-mag ...
• Cameron defends UK's arms trade
  Prime minister says expecting small countries such as Kuwait to manufacture all their defence weapons is at odds with realityOpponents of Britain's arms trade are "completely at odds with reality", David Cameron said, as he hit out critics of his three-day visit to the Gulf.In a staunch defence ...
• Somali pirates kill four Americans
  US military says hostages shot on board Quest before navy rescue attemptFour Americans taken from their yacht in the Indian Ocean by Somali pirates have been shot dead, the US military has said.US naval forces on the way to try to rescue the Americans heard gunshots and on arrival found the four ...
• Disability test not ready, says expert
  Welfare reform expert Professor Paul Gregg says a rushed roll out of the work capability assessment will cause more anguishOne of the architects of the new sickness benefit system has warned that it would be a mistake to start introducing it nationwide from the end of this month because of serio ...

McClatchey

• Commentary: We all would lose in a trade war w ...
  Over the last several years, many in Congress have become frustrated with the large trade deficit with China. Some have threatened punitive tariffs if Beijing doesnt further open its markets or allow its currency to rise, making U.S. goods more attractive.
• Supreme Court refuses Kentucky Ten Commandment ...
  The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear more arguments in a case in which courts struck down displays of the Ten Commandments in the Pulaski and McCreary County courthouses, the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky announced Tuesday.
• Commentary: Venezuela's Chavez feeling heat fr ...
  With dictators toppling like dominoes across the Middle East, Venezuelas president-for-life, Hugo Ch�vez, is signaling worry about his own despotic rule.
• Commentary: Death knell for high-speed rail in ...
  Grab a shovel and get ready to place the flowers. California's first attempt to build a high-speed train system is nearing death on arrival.
• Commentary: Childhood obesity fight is worth t ...
  The immediate and long-term costs of childhood obesity, for individual kids and for society, deserve more attention from families, nonprofits and, yes, even government.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

• War and peace: Making sense of climate conflic ...
  It must have seemed a good idea at the time; to get a group of people together from "both sides of the climate debate", put them in a room for a few days, and see whether peace would spontaneously break out. It's worked with apparently thorny issues such as nuclear arms control, it's failed with ...
• Whaling: Beginning of the end?
  Is this the beginning of the end for Japanese whaling in the Antarctic? Clashes have been dramatic - enough to cause a U-turn? That is the biggest question arising from Wednesday's announcement in Tokyo that this season's whaling programme was being suspended. The Fisheries Agency (FAJ) hasn't ...
• Palm oil deal points to corporate greening
  This week's announcement of a new partnership aimed at curbing deforestation in Indonesia should give succour to anyone who thinks consumers and companies, rather than governments, hold the key to curbing environmental decline. � Essentially, the world's second biggest (and Indonesia's biggest ...
• Climate change: Contrary motion?
  � One issue, two reports, two different conclusions. In short, a recipe for confusion - at least, on the surface. Last week the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), the London-based think-tank, published a report suggesting that fears of mass migration caused by clim ...
• Oysters clear seas for local remedies
  This week saw formal scientific publication of a report that produces one of the starkest conclusions I've seen about humanity's relationship with the oceans. Globally, 85% of oyster beds have basically disappeared. The paper, in the journal BioScience (though not apparently on its website yet) ...

The Wonk Room

• Wisconsin Lt. Governor: Stripping Workers&#821 ...
• Marriage Equality Bill Introduced In Maryland ...
• The WonkLine: February 22, 2011
• AZ House Panel Approves Bill To Deny Violently ...
• Despite Accepting $2.9M From Health Law, Gov P ...

thwap's schoolyard

• Some Minor Details
  Just some sweeping up in the market place of ideas. In some of the mental gutters of the internet you'll find imbeciles mocking Obama for his evident confusion and hesitation with regards to the Egyptian Revolution while they contrast this with their delusions about bush II's steely resolve and ...
• [More] Blood on Obama's Hands?
  So, Obama sent Frank Wisner to talk with Mubarak ... If the long-term goal is Democracy, then that is all very well because it has to be sacrificed to the short-term, namely support for the kind of Pharonic State embodied by Mubarak. Nothing more is on offer. No wonder that a "Washington Midd ...
• Shorter Mubarak: "I know I've robbed and oppre ...
  "I know I've robbed and oppressed you for thirty years now, and I'm s... I understand. Now, go home, and I promise that I'll voluntarily leave power in nine months. Dictator's honour!" The Egyptian protesters would not only be naive to accept this insult, they'd be suicidal. Police and torture ...
• Contempt for Parliament = Contempt for US
  This is the problem with becoming inured to the revolting nature of Canada's political culture. 30% of the electorate is so ignorant, or so stupid, or so greedy, or so debased, that they think voting for stephen harper's party is a sane political option. And then pretty much everybody who matte ...
• What About Mexico?
  Just a quick thought about Mexico: Mexico is a relatively poor country that has become (like Canada) an appendage of the ailing US economy. The downturn in the US economy has obviously had a negative impact on the maquiladoras and sweat-shops that were created to serve US transnationals. But don ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

• Moral Courage in Organizations
  Editors Debra Comer and Gina Vega want to know why ethics education in business schools is not working. Years after business schools beefed up their ethics programs, half of employees still report seeing misconduct at work. They want employees to have both the motivation to discover and remedy m ...
• Tunis, Egypt and now ... Wisconsin
  With the popular revolutions of Tunis and Egypt sparking interest in the power of peaceful protest, the world is on watch for the next hot spot. Yemen, Iran or Bahrain? How about Wisconsin? Yesterday hundreds of public employees and their supporters held a "citizens filibuster" in the state capi ...
• DOL proposes increase in whistleblower protect ...
  The U.S. Department of Labor, for the first time, has proposed making its whistleblower protection program a separate line item. The Department released its proposed budget yesterday. It includes $21 million in a separate line for the whistleblower program. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis answe ...
• NWC Board Member Returns to Court Tomorrow
  Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, a member of the National Whistleblowers Center’s Board of Directors and founder and leader of the No FEAR Coalition, will be appearing before the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) tomorrow, February 9, 2011, objecting to her removal from the Environmental Protecti ...
• CNBC Airs Whistleblower Series "Bounty Hunters ...
  CNBC is airing a special series by Eamon Javers entitled "Bounty Hunters" this week. You can watch Mr. Javers' report on Tuesday, February 8 and Wednesday, February 9, on "Squawk Box", "Squawk On The Street", and "Power Lunch." On Thursday, February 10 and Friday, February 11, he will rep ...

Science Express

• Fermi maps an active galaxy's 'smokestack plum ...
  If our eyes could see radio waves, the nearby galaxy Centaurus A (Cen A) would be one of the biggest and brightest objects in the sky, nearly 20 times the apparent size of a full moon. What we can't see when looking at the galaxy in visible light is that it lies nestled between a pair of giant r ...
• Pollution from Asia circles globe at stratosph ...
  The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additional evidence of the ...
• After growth spurt, supermassive black holes s ...
  Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
• Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' v ...
  A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20 ...
• New approach precisely tracks evolution's foot ...
  (PhysOrg.com) -- Fossils may provide tantalizing clues to human history but they also lack some vital information, such as revealing which pieces of human DNA have been favored by evolution because they confer beneficial traits - resistance to infection or the ability to digest milk, for exampl ...

TechDirt

• $2.3 Billion Lawsuit Against China For Copyrig ...
  Last year, we wrote about how the company behind CyberSitter was suing China and a bunch of computer companies, for China's "Green Dam Youth Escort" filtering/monitoring software. You may recall that a few years back China had mandated that all computers must contain this software, which result ...
• EU Follows US Steps, Signs 'Free Trade' Agreem ...
  It always seems amusing to us when various trade officials include stronger copyright and patent laws in so-called "free trade agreements." By their very nature, copyrights and patents are monopolies. They're protectionist policies and the very antithesis of true free trade. Yet, for a varie ...
• European Commission Chickens Out: Allows Hunga ...
  There was plenty of concern earlier this year, as Hungary took over the EU Presidency just at the same time it had passed a worrying new internet censorship law that lets the government fine any content provider that it judges to not be sufficiently "balanced." The European Commission apparentl ...
• China's President Wants Greater Internet Censo ...
  While some curmudgeons continue to insist that the internet has had nothing (nothing!) whatsoever to do with popular uprisings throughout the middle east, it certainly seems that various governments don't feel the same way. In nearly every case so far, the governments have sought to either crac ...
• DailyDirt: Extreme Origami
  Almost any hobby can be taken a bit too seriously, depending on how enthusiastic its practitioners really are. Origami has some extremely cool applications (eg. unfolding solar panels in space, trisecting angles), and it's being studied by mathematicians just for fun. Even if you've only folde ...

VacTruth

• Vaccines Can’t Claim What Nutritional Suppleme ...
  Healthcare choice issues are being attacked on all sides, it seems, with no let up until there probably will be no freedom of choice in taking care of your children’s or your health in the manner YOU want.Vactruth.com
• Catholics and Vaccines
  There apparently may be some misunderstanding that members of the Catholic faith are not bound to a specific religious belief about vaccines and vaccinations. Since many vaccines are grown on diploid cell media that resulted from aborted fetuses, the Catholic Church declares it a matter of consc ...
• What Do Vaccines & McCarthyism Have In Common?
  Why do the blacklist hearings of Senator Joe McCarthy in the 1950s remind me of what’s going on with vaccinations today? Vactruth.com
• Fact: Evidence in Vaccine Induced Injury Cases ...
  There has been reports that experts who give evidence in SBS cases are being sent home and discredited. This has been particularly evident in cases involving children with a vaccine injury. This total lack of regard is making a mockery of the legal justice system, giving parents and care givers ...
• Jared Lee Loughner: Psychotic or Vaccine Induc ...
  Dismissing Jared Loughner's bloody murders in Arizona as the work of a madman is easy; people like him clearly seem deranged. Yet, shouldn't we demand better answers? Vactruth.com

BroadSnark

• On Jewish “Success”
  It’s hard to have a reasonable conversation about the apparent “success” of the Jewish community. For one thing, we Jews have an understandably defensive gut reaction to accusations of success.  And they are often accusations.  To quote the Illinois Holocaust Museum, Adolf Hitler and the Nazis a ...
• Things You Might Have Missed
  So these people don’t have a chance in hell of pulling off a free school at Guy Ritchie’s house, but I do love them for trying. Apparently, it is attack women’s shelters week.  In Afghanistan, the state is trying to take them over. And in Canada, the border services/gestapo are now entering she ...
• On Facts and Truth
  Our book group just finished reading The Whites of Their Eyes by Jill Lepore. Lepore is a historian and spends a lot of time focusing on historical facts that contradict the tea party narrative. So the group spent some time discussing whether or not there is such a thing as verifiable fact, whet ...
• Things You Might Have Missed
  Guess what guys?  If some prison guard fucks you up the ass, the FBI says it ain’t rape. DC as a tax free zone? These Russian artists are ballsalicious and I am seriously afraid for them. These pics of makeshift helmets in Egypt are pure awesome.  This letter is pretty funny too.  And as long ...
• On Snow and Relationships
  We have had a couple good snows this winter.  That means that I’ve had to navigate snow and ice covered sidewalks without breaking my neck.  Bad enough for me, who is generally steady on her feet when sober, but others really just have to forget about going anywhere until the snow melts. It is ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• The LaRouche Show, February 19, 2011
  It's Not Just an 'Egypt Crisis'; The Solution Is a Global Glass-Steagall
• The LaRouche Show, February 12, 2011
  The Science of the Extended Sensorium: Creativity Per Se, Part II
• LaRouche: The Angelides Report Tells the Truth ...
  EIR News Service press release.
• GOP Steps Up Push or Deal with Obama To Carry ...
  EIR News Service press release.
• LaRouche: Obama's Targeting of Mubarak Will Bl ...
  EIR News Service press release.

Armies of Liberation

• Game changer in Yemen as protests swell
  In Egypt and Tunisia, the stance of the military was pivotal in the success of popular uprisings; in Yemen, it may be the tribes that are the determining factor. Anti-government protests across Yemen show no signs of abating. In Taiz, Yemen’s largest governorate, many who arrived last Friday are ...
• In Yemen, Many Protests, One Villain
  It was only sheer chance or serendipity perhaps that southern Yemen’s “Day of Rage” was scheduled for Friday, earning the #Feb11 hashtag on Twitter. The Southern Uprising Facebook page drew nearly two thousand members since its founding two weeks ago in a nation with 2 percent Internet penetrati ...
• Novak: The Southern Leaders Don’t Practi ...
  My interview with the Aden News Agency Jane Novak⦠a name that has become coupled with Yemen, not Yemen that is known as it is known by those who doesn’t know it, but Yemen as it known by its people, with all its sorrows and economical, political and humanitarian setbacks, that are recognized b ...
• Jane Novak Interview with Aden News Agency Ara ...
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• مُقارنة لمكافحة حركات التمرد في اليمن
  مُقارنة لمكافحة حركات التمرد في اليمن السبت, 02-أكتوبر-2010 شهارة نت- جين نوفاك* /تقرير - ترجمة: عبدالله عبدالوهاب ناجي، وجاسم محمد تعد اليمن من بين أكثر الدول فسادا وأقلها نموا في العالم، وهو ما يفسر الاستمرار الطويل للحرب في الشمال و انفجار حركة الاستقلال في الجنوب. ويتعامل الرئيس اليمني علي ع ...

Dark Politricks

• Establishment Exploits OKC Bombing Victims To ...
• Knee-Jerk No Fly Ban Discredits Global Warming ...
  Fearmongering by Met Office voodoo scientists about planes dropping out of the sky contradicted by numerous successful test flights Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Monday, April 19, 2010 With European governments coming under increasing pressure from airline groups to re-open airspace fo ...
• Air France, Lufthansa Press for Airspace Re-Op ...
  Gregory Viscusi and Brian Parkin Bloomberg April 19, 2010 Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Air France- KLM Group and industry groups pressed European governments to loosen the unprecedented closing of the region’s airspace from last week’s Icelandic volcanic eruption as losses from the grounding of aircra ...
• NPR and CNN worry that Global Warming may have ...
  John Lott’s Website April 19, 2010 This is just too bizarre: Diana Rehm (NPR): We do wonder whether there’s human involvement in all of these eruptions, earthquakes, storms - Elise Labott (senior State Department producer for CNN): – and how much global warming has a role in it. You know we’ve ...
• Poll: Americans’ distrust of federal governmen ...
  Steven Thomma McClatchy Newspapers April 19, 2010 Already wary of the federal government, Americans have grown even more critical, less trusting and even fearful of Uncle Sam since President Barack Obama took office, according to an exhaustive new study being released Monday. The in-depth poll f ...

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

• Climate Skeptic Threatened by Greens? Or Maybe ...
  Just as the hubub over climate skeptic James Delingpole's drubbing at the hands of Sir Paul Nurse begins to die down, another prominent UK skeptic appears to be having a hard time of it. Former childrens' TV presenter and climate skeptic Johnnie Ball was widely reported as receiving threats— ...
• A Mini Worm Composter Kit from Outer Space (Vi ...
  Image credit: BEECycle By now it is pretty common knowledge that I am obsessed with compost. Whether reflecting on compost as animal husbandry or learning how worm compost suppresses plant diseases, composting is a window in a miraculous and poorly understood world. It only stands to reason ...
• BMW Launches New Green Car Brand, Adds Option ...
  Image via BMW Range anxiety, that fear of going for a lovely country drive in your green electric vehicle, only to get stuck miles from home after the battery gives out, is being eased by BMW. The company is adding an internal combustion range extender to its Megacity EV, a concept car expe ...
• For Star Wars Fans, Recycled Computer Parts Tu ...
  Images via Gadjitz Creative craftster Sage Werbock has come up with a clever idea for recycling old computer parts and providing Star Wars fans something to lust over. It's an 18-inch tall, 15 lb At-At made from floppy drive housing, power supply boxes, power cords and other scrap metal. .. ...
• FARM:shop is a Farm Growing in a Store
  Photo: B. Alter You could call FARM:shop a legal grow-op: they are growing vegetables inside an abandoned house instead of dope. And some tilapia fish, not to mention basil and chickens on the roof. FARM:shop is, literally, a farm growing in a shop in London. A small eco-design group ...

Biosingularity

• More Fruit and Veggies Now, Better Arteries La ...
  Just in time for the holidays, here’s a new reason to get children to eat their veggies. Children who eat a lot of fruit and vegetables have healthier, less stiff arteries as young adults compared to children who don’t load up on fruit and veggies, according to a new study. Researchers say arter ...
• Using the body’s own defenses to combat cancer
  In the past 40 years, scientists have learned a great deal about how cells become cancerous. Some of that knowledge has translated to new treatments, but most of the time doctors are forced to rely on standard chemotherapy and radiation, which can do nearly as much damage to the patients as they ...
• Telomere Tweaks Reverse Aging in Mice
  By tweaking enzymes that prevent chromosome tips from unraveling, researchers have shown age-related tissue degeneration can be reversed in some mice. Medical breakthroughs involving mice must be taken with rock-sized grains of salt because, despite their genetic similarity, the rodents aren’t h ...
• Warfarin, Dietary Supplements a Risky Combo
  If you’re using the anticlotting drug warfarin, tell your doctor about any herbal or dietary supplements you may be taking. That’s the strong advice of researchers who say that nine of the 10 top-selling supplements can change the effectiveness of warfarin, potentially causing a dangerous bleed, ...
• A SNP Surprise
  Ellen Goode and her colleagues at the Mayo Clinic found a surprise while studying the human genome: four chromosomal locations with mutations that could lead to an increased risk of ovarian cancer. But the biggest surprise was a number of SNPs on chromosome 8 that seem to act through a different ...

CFACT

• CBS News covers CFACT's human hamster wheel at ...
  CFACT's Collegians brought a giant human-sized hamster wheel to CPAC to highlight the follies of renewable energy policies.
• India and the next green revolution
  Until recent decades, India was famous for its famines, not its computer industry. India̢۪s dense population and erratic monsoon rainfall put it constantly at food risk. Tomorrow, India̢۪s farmers will need another Green Revolution to feed India as it becomes the world̢۪s most populous cou ...
• Make your year-end contribution today!
  CFACT has become the preeminent organization presenting constructive alternatives to green radicalism that hold the left at bay. Your gift will have a direct impact on our educational programs and on our award-winning outreach.
• 'Cool it' with all the research dollars
  Preparation and adaptation for all climate change is the simple, common-sense, cost-effective and precautionary Plan B that all governments can - and should - support.
• End the ethanol subsidies
  Congressional inaction would save taxpayers $6 billion; lower beef, pork, poultry and egg prices; and save tens of thousands of gallons of water.

Ria Novosti Online News

• Libyan leader Gaddafi says 'will die a martyr'
  Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi said on Tuesday he does not hold a post he could resign from and said he would die a martyr in his home country.
• Georgian prosecutor to consider inquest into f ...
  The Georgian Parliamentary Interim Commission has concluded on Tuesday that Georgia's first president, Zviad Gamsakhurdia, could not have committed suicide.
• Women Talk: Sexual Harassment or Attention-see ...
  Last week, as the girls at the Marie Claire's Moscow office were making themselves pretty for the magazine's grand yearly soiree to take place later that evening, their male colleagues were busy throwing them compliments of sorts. Some of those comments were of a rather cheeky and fairly explici ...
• Protests against the "King of Kings" in Libya
  Clashes between protesters and the official regime in Libya escalated into urban warfare including military planes and artillery. International media are reporting the start of a crackdown in Libya’s largest cities, Tripoli, Benghazi and Az Zawiyah.
• Reductions in police force not to involve Russ ...
  Cutting the number of policemen under the police reform in Russia will not affect the Caucasus, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said during a meeting of the National Counterterrorist Committee on Tuesday.

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

• This Week In Tyranny
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postThe Raymond Davis case appears to be keeping (via) everything quiet on the drone front.A happy coda on Egypt from Mohammed Abdellah, of the former president’s National Democratic Party, on the largely peaceful resolution: “For all ...
• 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 ...

Organic Consumers.org

• Wisconsin: The First Stop in An American Upris ...
  The uprising that swept Tunisia, Egypt, and parts of Europe is showing signs of blossoming across the United States. Click here to read this article
• Join OCA in Grassroots Fight to Stop GMO Takeo ...
  The Obama Administration's landmark decision last month to overrule the ban on genetically-modified (GM) alfalfa will likely go down in the books as one of the administration's biggest betrayals of the natural health community. But a grassroots campaign currently underway by the Organic Consume ...
• Why Santa Barbara Is the Perfect Example of Ou ...
  Should you ever want to see firsthand how completely dysfunctional our modern food system is, I urge you to hop a flight to Santa Barbara, California. Click here to read this article
• Food Prices: Crisis Deepens as Biofuels Consum ...
  It's easy to miss amid the drama of Egypt - though the two stories are connected - but the world is in the grip of a full-blown food crisis. According to the U.N., world food prices hit a record high in January, meaning food is now more expensive than it has ever been in real terms since the U. ...
• Climate Change Drives Instability, U.N. Offici ...
  The United Nations' top climate change official said on Tuesday that food shortages and rising prices caused by climate disruptions were among the chief contributors to the civil unrest coursing through North Africa and the Middle East. Christiana Figueres, in white blouse, met with children in ...

fotoFrontera

• Las imágenes más bonitas de Internet III
  Hace unos días, nuestro blog hermano www.fotofrontera.com, inició una excelente colección titulada 'Las imágenes más bonitas de Internet'. El día de hoy, deseo compartir con ustedes aquí la tercera parte de esta interesante serie. Al igual que nuestra recopilación de Selecciones Especiales del B ...
• 135th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show en New ...
  Los días 13 y 14 de febrero de este año, se celebró en el Madison Square Garden de la ciudad de New York el 135 aniversario del Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show. Durante este evento, se pudo apreciar a una enorme cantidad de perros de diversas razas que animados por sus dueños, realizaban curios ...
• Fotografías increíbles de Alain Delorme
  Me acuerdo que una vez, iba yo en mi bicicleta y mi tía me pidió de favor que le llevara su televisión al servicio técnico. Para mi, fue toda una odisea. Sin embargo, hoy que descubro los trabajos del fotógrafo Alain Delorme, he quedado sorprendido ante la gran cantidad de objetos que las person ...
• Fotografías de corales y arrecifes en el fondo ...
  Tengo muchos sueños. Uno de ellos, es recorrer las profundidades del océano navegando despacio entre los corales y arrecifes del fondo marino. Mientras sigo soñando con los ojos abiertos, le invito a mirar con detalle esta nueva serie que describe la belleza de nuestros mares. A través de 10 fot ...
• 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 ...

Center for a Livable Future

• Antibacterial soap: Poses environmental health ...
  To protect yourself from harmful germs wash your hands, for at least 20 seconds, with plain old soap and water. That simple advice might be the take-away message from last week’s Food and Water Watch-sponsored congressional briefing on triclosan, an antibacterial agent found in hundreds of anti ...
• 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 ...

Norwegianity

• The links less read
  From today’s online front page of the Star Tribune: So fucking deep into the tea they can’t call “red meat” politics by name, and instead substitute “meat and potatoes” even though the article makes it damned clear they’re talking about red meat, as in “throwing red meat” to the ravenous hard r ...
• Economic justice not everyone’s cup of t ...
  Paul Krugman: Representative Paul Ryan made an unintentionally apt comparison: “It’s like Cairo has moved to Madison.” It wasn’t the smartest thing for Mr. Ryan to say, since he probably didn’t mean to compare Mr. Walker, a fellow Republican, to Hosni Mubarak. Or maybe he did — after all, quite ...
• He saiding/she saiding the revolution
  WINston smITh has pix and comments at his blog, Lost Continents. More stories at The Cap Times, but the other two statewide newspapers fucked the pooch on this one, insisting that both sides showed up and that there’s two sides to every story. Or, if you’re the Washington Post, one side: Funny, ...
• 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 ...

Public News Service

• Grand Canyon Mining Ban in the Works
  Grand Canyon Mining Ban in the Works Phoenix, AZ – U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is seeking public comment on a proposal that could impose a 20-year uranium mining ban on one-million acres around the Grand Canyon. The comment period runs through early April, and includes a series of public ...
• 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 ...
• Groundbreaking Progress in Helping MS Patients
  Groundbreaking Progress in Helping MS Patients Phoenix, AZ – It's being called 'promising research in neurological diseases' that may offer hope for multiple sclerosis patients in Arizona and across the nation. In research funded by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, scientists may have un ...

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

• Sins of the Fathers: A Three Part Series Exami ...
  Sins of the Fathers: A Three Part Series Examining Black Victims of Sexual Abuse by Catholic Priests: CHICAGO (FinalCall.com) - David Nolan, now 42, said his sordid tale of sexual abuse by a Catholic priest began when he was 13 years old. He said the priest used his position of authority and pow ...
• *The Confessions Of Nat Turner- Novelist Willi ...
  AMERICAN LEFT HISTORY: "Directly below is a review (January 29,2007)of William Styron's book (originally written in 1967) 'The Confessions Of Nat Turner', an imaginative literary treatment (for the most part) of the justly famous 1831 slave rebellion led by the heroic Turner and his band of fell ...
• Khalid Muhammad on Donahue
  Editor's Note: Being this is ‘Black History’ month in the US, I felt it was appropriate to mention Bro. Min. Khalid Muhammad as his day of emergence was on Feb. 17th and whether you loved him, hated him or feared him, he spoke from the heart and with sincere love and dedication to his own people ...
• Recy Taylor: A Symbol of Jim Crow's Forgotten ...
  Recy Taylor: A Symbol of Jim Crow's Forgotten Horror: [theroot.com] "Days after the brutal attack, Taylor's story traveled through word of mouth, catching the attention of a Montgomery NAACP activist named Rosa Parks. A seasoned anti-rape crusader, who focused on the sexual assaults of black wom ...
• 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 ...

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

• Catamaran in the harbour
  Boat trips can be really nice and relaxing... in particular when sailing! Engine ran water vehicles need a lot of fuel and are far from eco friendly. Sailing boats on the other hand, especially the light and fast sailing catamarans, make use of wind energy (glossary/categories/energy/wind-energ ...
• Plastic state of mind parody
      This music clip, made by passionate volunteers on a super tiny budget, parodies a serious issue of our today’s consumer society. It was created on behalf of Green Sanga (http://greensangha.org/plastics-campaign/), a non profit organisation who is dedicated to saving our earth by awakening ...
• What's on 21 February 2011
  Renting in Sydney? Explore low cost, moveable options available to make renting more eco-friendly. The Watershed's FREE Urban Sustainability Workshop Series empowers you with the knowledge and skills to make practical changes toward sustainable living.
• Environmental News 22/02/2011
  Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
• Lazy panda
  The giant panda is becoming an endangered species (wildlife/endangered-species.html) because of deforestation (glossary/categories/climate-change/deforestation.html). In fact, Chinese bamboo forests which are the giant panda's habitat (glossary/wildlife/habitat.html) are being destroyed. Furt ...

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?

• Second School Year Opens at Salem’s Musi ...
  On Saturday February 19 we visited the Salem Music Center. We were accompanied by three professionals – Fuad, a music teacher from Tel Aviv-Yaffa, Ram – principal of Tel Aviv’s art high school, and Ruti – head of that school’s music department. The occasion was the opening of a second school yea ...
• 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 ...

Politics in the Zeros

• Vallejo makes ‘dying cities’ and ‘most miserab ...
  They say no publicity is bad publicity, but doubtless Vallejo doesn’t feel that way after being ranked by two national magazines as a deeply undesirable place to live. Newsweek ranked Vallejo the #2 dying city due to its overall population decline between 2000 and 2009 and its decline in residen ...
• Largest sloping green roof in North America co ...
  An ice dam on the roof apparently blocked water from melting snow from draining properly. The roof was 250,000 sq ft and was a “virtual prarie meadow in the sky.” This was almost certainly not directly to the roof having plants on it but much more because of the huge amounts of snow this year. [ ...
• Qualifying Green Candidates
  I want to thank Bob for giving me the opportunity to post some of my writings here. This is the first time I have do so. I would like to introduce my self to those who don’t know me by referring you to another blog that I have written of the past few years… California [...]
• How to stop Norton Internet Security from runn ...
  I like Norton Internet Security. But sometimes it’ll be using 50% of CPU time on my laptop, which means the fan is whirring constantly. (You can check this by clicking Performance on the main screen.) After some poking around I discovered much of this background activity is Norton optimizing the ...
• Who would have ever thought Gaddifi’s regime w ...
  But it is. Protesters aided by defecting members of the army now control several cities in Libya. Police and army stations have been looted for weapons. The remaining thugs who rule Middle East countries are probably getting real nervous now. It would be delighful to see the corrupt House of Sau ...

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

• Palestinians plan ‘day of rage’ af ...
  Palestinians are planning a “day of rage” on Friday in response to the US wielding its veto against a UN security council resolution condemning Israeli settlements. The US decision to use its veto has sparked a furious reaction in the West Bank and Gaza. Anti-US rallies took place in the West Ba ...
• GPS Units Track Students Who Skip School
  One California school district volunteered for a six-week program that tracks students with unexcused absences using GPS devices While riding on a parade float singing “Twist and Shout” sounds like a better time than going to school, students might want to rethink their plans for a Ferris Buelle ...
• Penn. judge convicted in ‘for profit&#82 ...
  (CNN) — A Pennsylvania judge recently convicted for putting juveniles into “for profit” detention centers is being sued, a civil rights attorney said Monday. The class-action civil lawsuit was originally filed in 2009. It names several defendents, including Mark Ciavarella, whose alleged illegal ...
• Deadline Live – February 21 2011
  News and commentary on this 21st day of February 2011 from Our Narrator and Radio Gun, Jack Blood
• This Day In History – February 22
  1732 – George Washington, First President of the United States (d. 1799), was born. 1819 – By the Adams-Onís Treaty, Spain sells Florida to the United States for five million U.S. dollars. 1847 – Mexican-American War: The Battle of Buena Vista – 5,000 American troops drive off 15,000 Mexicans 18 ...

The Air Vent

• Josh – Summing it up
• 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 ...

Focal Point

• Mudcat Saunders to Wisconsin Dems: Surrender f ...
  Sam Stein asks, "Would The Democrats Have Been Better Off Letting Walker's Bill Pass?" Better off how? If Wisconsin's Democratic legislators had sat still and let the bill pass, the majority of public employees in Wisconsin would have lost their collective bargaining rights without a fight. ...
• 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 ...

Inside Facebook

• Featured Facebook Campaigns: Zynga, Oreo, NBA, ...
  A few bold marketing moves were on our Featured Facebook Campaigns this week, Zynga and the NBA in particular, although Oreo also tried to get a world record of Facebook marketing. All told there was everything from in-game advertising to NBA team building, Justin Bieber and pizza, digital avata ...
• Heartbroker Facebook Dating App Recruits Frien ...
  Heartbroker is a new Facebook dating app that launched February 8 from a startup by the same name based in Seattle, Washington. The company’s goal is to change the way online dating is done, bringing a more human approach to the scene by involving friends, CEO Craig Robinson tells us — the way p ...
• Badoo Tops Leading Facebook App Gainers by MAU ...
  Badoo topped our list of Top 20 Facebook Apps by monthly active users this week by far, although there were several apps for Connect, profile banners, sending hearts or cards to friends, apps in Turkish, video chat, daily horoscope and games. We gather this information from AppData, our tracking ...
• This Week’s Headlines From Across Inside Netwo ...
  Here are all the latest headlines from around Inside Network. Inside Mobile Apps Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms, and virtual goods. Sunday, February 13th, 2011 Motorola Scoops Up Stealth Mobile Enterprise Startup 3LM Well Before Launch Monday, February 14th, 2011 Micro ...
• 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 ...

Truthout - Tweets

• truthout: Bill McKibben | Money Pollution: The ...
  truthout: Bill McKibben | Money Pollution: The US Chamber of Commerce Darkens the Skies http://bit.ly/e1G1vu #p2 #p2b #p21
• truthout: The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street ...
  truthout: The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street http://bit.ly/fMZOKq #p2 #p2b #p21
• truthout: Mahlon Mitchell: Thrown into the Fir ...
  truthout: Mahlon Mitchell: Thrown into the Fire in Wisconsin (Video) http://bit.ly/hAciNj #p2 #p2b #p21
• truthout: Disgraced Former Tea Party Leader Ca ...
  truthout: Disgraced Former Tea Party Leader Calls On Right-Wing Activists To Pose As SEIU Organizers http://bit.ly/h1etUw #p2 #p2b #p21
• truthout: US Understated Abuses of Bahrain's R ...
  truthout: US Understated Abuses of Bahrain's Royal Family, Say Rights Advocates http://bit.ly/hxddBl #p2 #p2b #p21

ReDress News

• Craven US veto costs Washington its last shred ...
  Stuart Littlewood argues that the latest US veto of a draft UN Security Council resolution condemning Israel's squatter colonies in the occupied Palestinian territories "has finally lifted the scales from the eyes of all those who unwisely invested high hopes" in President Obama.
• Israeli media "fears" the new Egypt
  Neve Gordon describes how Israel's media has been presenting Egyptian democracy as a threat, with one commentator lamenting the end of colonialism.
• The veto and the case for impeaching President ...
  Alan Hart argues that the United States’s veto on 18 February of a UN Security Council resolution condemning Israel's colonization of the occupied West Bank undermines US national interests and amounts to high treason for which President Obama ought to be impeached.
• Mind-sets and revolutions
  Paul J. Balles considers the problem of mind-set in politics, arguing that "we need to understand that our beliefs do influence our ability to deal with facts that may not support our beliefs" and that we "need to look more closely at the facts that don’t support our beliefs".
• 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.

Amazon Rainforest

• 1.ooo military forces end illegal gold mining ...
  The Peruvian military has cleared-out illegal gold mining along the country’s south-eastern Amazon region in a move aiming to protect the environment. The government sent about 1,000 security forces to the region of Madre de Dios to destroy the illegal operations, the state-funded BBC reported. ...
• BREAKING: Chevron Guilty of Amazon Rainforest ...
  Amazon Watch and Rainforest Action Network just announced a major victory for the Amazon rainforest. An Ecuadorean judge today found Chevron guilty of one of the largest environmental crimes in history and ordered the company to pay a whopping $8 billion to clean up its damage in the Amazon. Che ...
• First film footage of uncontacted Amazon Tribe
  The footage was filmed by the BBC’s Human Planet series shows a Tribe known as the Panoan, who live in virtual isolation from the outside world. The team needed too get footage of the Tribe as proof of their existence so as the government could protect them from illegal logging and mining operat ...
• 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 ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• Hillary Clinton: Beware of the Mini Pharaoh in ...
  “Speaking Fee” is the New Name for Political Donation Laundering-Rechanneling (PDLR) Political donation laundering-rechanneling (PDLR) is a business in its own right, whether it is for pre-election donations or post-election maintenance contributions.  In most cases, PDLR requires savvy strategi ...
• Jamiol Presents
• 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 ...

Afro Spear

• The Ballot or the Bullet
  46 years ago today, El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, aka Malcolm X, was assassinated. His wisdom is timeless.
• American Exceptionalism
  I saw this over at brotherpeacemaker:
• “The Gaddaffi we did not know” by ...
  No doubt that what is unfolding in Libya has left many shocked. Nobody would risk thinking that Libyan strong man Muamar Gadaffi would easily been cowered as it happened. Two days after disgruntled Libyans took to the street, Gadaffi was nowhere to be seen or heard. Who would believe that Gadaff ...
• 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:

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

• An Open Letter to Journalists From Gasland Dir ...
  With the recent Oscar nomination of my documentary film GASLAND, Big Gas and their PR attack machine hit a new low in its blatant disregard for the truth. In an unprecedented move, an oil and gas industry front group sent a letter to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences saying that th ...
• 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 ...

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

• The Battle for Libya - Libyan Revolution Makes ...
  Unlike energy produced in most African states, nearly all of Libya’s oil and natural gas is produced onshore. This reduces development costs but increases the chances that political instability could impact output — and Libya has been anything but stable of late.Libya’s 1.8 million barrels per d ...
• Pakistan on Edge - Revelations Seek to Link Di ...
  As US newspapers lifted a self-imposed gag on the CIA links of Raymond Davis, in place at the request of the US administration, according to�intelligence sources, the alleged killer of two Pakistanis had close links to the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) terrorist organization.The New York Time ...
• Edge on Islands - Resurrection of Nativism Stu ...
  Hidden away in the Pacific Ocean, more than 2,000 miles from the Chilean coastline, the non-violent protests staged by Easter Island’s Hito family reached a critical climax on Sunday February 6, 2011. Fifty armed members of the Chilean national police force (los Carabineros) mounted an illegal r ...
• The Edge of Terrorism - The Truth Left Behind: ...
  As dusk fell on the evening of Wednesday, January 23, the Karachi streets swelled with people bustling to get home. Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl stood in front of the Village Restaurant, waiting for a 7 p.m. meeting.Pearl thought he was about to have an interview like so many he had ...
• Border War - Mexican Human Rights Advocates an ...
  The sister of a murdered woman from Ciudad Juarez is the latest activist in the border city to suffer an agression against her person or property.On the evening of February 16, armed men set fire to the house of Malu Garcia Andrade, while she was attending a hunger strike/protest encampment in s ...

High Country News

• Arizona's Fossil Creek gets restored -- and lo ...
  Arizona's Fossil Creek, dramatically brought back to life, is now endangered by the hordes of people who love it.
• Jeff Rice collects nature's noises
  Jeff Rice records the natural sounds of the West.
• Western wildlife commissions on the chopping b ...
  In Washington and New Mexico, state wildlife commissions could become a thing of the past.
• How my thoughts on wolves have changed
  An Alaskan who loves wolves has come to believe that aggressive predator control is often necessary.
• Let me tell you about a real winter
  A Wyoming rancher remembers the winter of 1979 -- what it was like tending cattle at 52 below zero.

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

• Wave of Middle East Revolts Will Drive US into ...
  While many people are cheering the revolts going on throughout the Middle East and shudder at the horrible violence few people are discussing the possible effect that these revolts will have on the world/US Economy.� Should these revolts continue to spike up the cost of oil, the world will be th ...
• Adventures with NPR: A First-hand Account of H ...
  By Barry Rubin Here�s an experience that I think is very revealing. I was asked by an NPR program to be interviewed on the situation in Egypt. I agreed and they telephoned me for a 12-minute taped interview. Just before we began they told me that I would be on with Professor Fawaz Gerges ...
• NOAA Says Al Gore's Claim About Snow and Globa ...
  If you listen to Al Gore, King of the Global Warming Moonbats and Master of His Own Second Chakra,� all this snow we've been getting this winter is caused by man made global warming. �In fact, scientists have been warning for at least two decades that global warming could make snowstorms more ...
• George Soros Accuses Fox News of Nazi Tactics- ...
  Uh-Oh Media Matters is going to be upset. Jewish Funds For Justice will have to stand outside in the snow to protest,� and those 400 progressive Rabbis--well lets just say it's time for them to run another advertisement and it is not going to be pretty.� These are just some of the groups who hav ...
• Appeasement 1938 vs. 2011
  By Israeli Girl: On the streets of Tehran brave people are fighting for their freedom. Despite the rain, despite the tear gas, despite a stultifying security presence of police forces arresting protesters - the Iranians are not giving up. World powers should support the frail call for ...

The Real Agenda

• Ron Paul: The Time Magazine Interview
  By Luis R. Miranda Texas representative Ron Paul is virtually tied with current president Barack Obama, according to the latest Rasmussen poll. A national Rasmussen survey (1,000 LVs, 4/12-13, MoE +/- 3%) pits Texas Rep. Ron Paul (R) against President Obama in a hypothetical 2012 matchup. The re ...
• New Zealand shaken by magniture 6.3 quake
  ‘Dead bodies lying around’ NZHerald.com Residents are reporting bodies lying in the streets of Christchurch following this afternoon’s magnitude 6.3 earthquake. Police said fatalities had been reported at several locations and that two buses had been crushed by falling buildings. Christchurch ma ...
• 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 ...

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

• US wants its CIA assassin Raymond Davis afford ...
  The NYT, AP, Reuters, everybody loves Raymond. Even Denver’s 9NEWS kept quiet about knowing the accused American was a CIA-Blackwater shooter, while the USG continued to pretend that Raymond Davis was protected by Diplomatic Immunity as a consular employee. President Obama even called Davis “our ...
• In light of the Pan-Arabian Revolution, US act ...
  So-called respected activists in the West are weighing in on what’s next for the pro-Palestinian struggle. Based on their informal survey of comments and tweets of unknown provenance, the conclusion being reached is that Egypt needs a breather, that Egypt’s new Junta needs time to show its hand, ...
• Surprise! GenMod “oil-munching” Ba ...
  And killing other sea life. Can someone say “Andromeda Strain”? Omega Man. Dr Frankestein. Anybody? Bueller? Anybody? Some of it is happening, apparently, because of the amounts of Corexant applied. But of course a powerful solvent which will make oil and water mix couldn’t possibly make mutatio ...
• The Jews-killed-Jesus slur may be anti- Semiti ...
  I’m mocking the mother of all anti-Semitisms, the original Christian dead horse, that Jews killed Jesus. So let’s be very clear, it was the Zionists who killed Harry Potter. And I didn’t bring it up. Israeli tourism promoters have found another attraction to lure Western visitors, this time RK R ...
• Egyptians support Wisconsin workers
  I’ll rally to support the Wisconsin unions, AND let’s hope they too can rise above what immediately threats them to see that the oppressed of the world have a common enemy.

Debunking the Debunkers

• This perfectly encapsulates how I feel when tr ...
• 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." - ...

Fooducate

• The “Comeback” of Ancient Grains
  How many of you have heard of the following grains? Spelt, Amaranth, Quinoa, Millet, Einkorn, Triticale, Emmer, or Teff If you haven’t, you soon will. An interesting article in the LA Times last week covered the growing trend of using Ancient Grains in breads and other baked goods. Buoyed by rec ...
• Another Reason to Quit Cola [Caramel Coloring]
  Last week, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) petitioned the FDA to ban certain types of caramel coloring because their production process creates carcinogenic chemicals: In contrast to the caramel one might make at home by melting sugar in a saucepan, the artificial brown colo ...
• Before You Bite into Your Sunday Morning Bagel ...
  This is a guest blog post by Carol Harvey, director of nutrition labeling at Palate Works. This is segment #2 of “Eating Habits Weâve Learned from Food Industry and Friends” Spread-ing (too much) Love Does you feel like you’ve just won a backstage pass when you get an extra side of blue cheese d ...
• 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 ...

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

• Amazon Indians in London to stop dams that wil ...
  Bishop Erwin Kräutler marches against the Belo Monte dam © Prelazia do Xingu Three Amazon Indians have begun a journey through Europe to protest against dams which threaten to destroy the lands and lives of thousands of tribal people. Ruth Buendia Mestoquiari, an Ashaninka Indian from Pe ...
• Cartoon satire of ‘development’ launched in In ...
  Survival's 'There you go!' can be read in two minutes. © Oren Ginzburg/Survival Survival has today launched in India a cartoon book satirizing the destruction of tribal peoples in the name of ‘development’. The book, ‘There you go!’, designed to be read in two minutes, is being sent to Pri ...
• 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. ...

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 a large wi ...
  Long-time Recycle This friend Alice has emailed to ask about making a large wine rack: I make loads of home brew wine and beer, and I could really do with a very big wine rack. Any ideas on how I could make one out of recycled stuff? It’d need to hold at least 36 wine [...]
• How can I reuse or recycle lemon juice (Jif) p ...
  For some reason, our local supermarket has stopped selling lemon juice in sensible containers and only sells it in plastic lemon-shaped bottles now. (Not actually Jif lemons but similar, with a flat bottom.) We had to buy a couple of those annoying plastic lemons to tide us over until we can get ...
• How can I reuse or recycle electric toothbrush ...
  We’ve had an email from Georgina: Where can i recycle electric toothbrushes? What about the replaced brushes? Electric toothbrushes are covered under Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Regulations so should be recycled in designated WEEE bins at tips etc. The replacement heads almo ...
• How can I reuse or recycle Strepsils “ha ...
  Hey team. Apologies for the lack of a post on Friday – I was ill with my second cold of 2011 (which, given it was only the 7th of Jan, I thought was pretty good/bad going. I’m in the constant coughing stage now, such fun.) I spent the whole day in bed wishing I could [...]
• How can I reuse or recycle old glazed doors?
  We’ve had an email from Sandra: We’ve replaced some old fashioned doors with glass in them. What can we do with them now? I’ve got an eBay saved search which looks for cheap big used home/garden stuff in my local area – and there are always doors on there. Most don’t sell for a lot [...]

Age of Autism

• Where are the Clowns?
  By Norm Roberts The onslaught has begun and we are very poorly prepared. The 1990 birth cohort turns twenty one this year. They are over four million strong in the US and we can expect 20,000 to 40,000 of them...
• Bob and Suzanne Wright, Why Won’t Autism Speak ...
  By John Stone Dear Bob and Suzanne, How can it be that the organization which you founded cannot discuss publicly the vaccination issue? Year after year you sit there silently as executive members and nothing ever happens to stem the...
• Autism Speaks: Silent on the One Key Vax-Unvax ...
  By Anne Dachel As some of you may know, the advocacy organization Autism Speaks was asked to participate in the Dr. Oz Show on the cause of autism on February 17. (HERE) On that broadcast, Dr. Oz called autism a...
• Adventures In Autism on Autism Speaks Vaccine ...
  The following is an excerpt from Ginger Taylor's post at Adventures in Autism. The Edie Brickell song is our addtion, "I quit, I give up.." seemed an appropriate lyric, assuming Dr. Dawson can sing. So to catch up on the...
• Vaccine Epidemic Book Launch Event
  Vaccines are credited with saving the lives of millions of people from many diseases, but they have also taken lives. In Vaccine Epidemic: How Corporate Greed, Biased Science, and Coercive Government Threaten Our Human Rights, Our Health, and Our Children,...

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

• Monsanto Shifts ALL Liability to Farmers
  Monsanto does not accept liability for damages from genetically modified crops, shifts liability to farmers, and creates a condition on the sale of a farmer's land requiring the purchaser to sign a Monsanto Technology Use Agreement.
• Hay Now — It’s Boycott Time: Land O’Lakes, Thi ...
  To produce its Round-Up Ready Alfalfa seeds, Monsanto partnered with a company called Forage Genetics International, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Land O'Lakes dairy co-op. That's right, Land O'Lakes stands to make a fortune from polluting our food supply with untested and unlabeled GMOs ...
• 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.

Open Your Eyes News

• Japan’s credit outlook is cut to negativ ...
  BBC – Moody’s Investor Services has cut its outlook on Japan’s credit rating to “negative” from “stable” citing concerns about debt levels. Moody’s currently rates Japan’s government debt at an Aa2 level. In January, rival rating agency Standard & Poor’s downgraded Japan’s credit rating from AA ...
• Congolese Army Colonel Kibibi Mutware jailed f ...
  The Times – Four officers of the Congolese Army have been found guilty of crimes against humanity and sentenced to 20 years for leading the rape of 60 women in the town of Fizi on New Year’s Day. The convictions, which included lesser sentences for five lower-ranked officers, marked a breakthrou ...
• Bahrain king orders release of political priso ...
  Associated Press – Bahrain’s king ordered the release of some political prisoners Tuesday, conceding to another opposition demand as the embattled monarchy tries to engage protesters in talks aimed at ending an uprising that has entered its second week. The king’s decree â which covers several S ...
• In Yemen, Leader Says He’ll Talk, but Not Quit
  NYTimes – SANA, Yemen â President Ali Abdullah Saleh, looking shaken at a news conference here on Monday, said he would not give in to the demands of protesters who have sought his ouster during 10 days of sustained demonstrations around Yemen. âWhy do they want to return to chaos?â he said, ...
• Yemen’s President Offers Reforms in Bid ...
  Voanews – Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh is vowing to undertake political and constitutional reforms, in a bid to calm protests that have been shaking the country for more than ten days. Read article

L.A. Times - Greenspace

• Global warming: The United Nations courts Tins ...
  The United Nations has long courted celebrities for its peace-keeping and anti-poverty efforts, from Mia Farrow and Ricky Martin to George Clooney and Angelina Jolie. It is a mutually beneficial arrangement. Hollywood stars grasp at gravitas; the U.N. pushes for...
• 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...

water.org

• Damons work as team for Water.org (Boston Glob ...
  Damons work as team (Boston Globe) – Kyle Damon and his famous brother make a formidable philanthropic duo. First, Matt Damon cofounded Water.org to call attention to the lack of clean drinking water around the world. Now, his big brother, an artist and ironman triathlete, has created Team Water ...
• 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 ...

Before It's News

• Canada’s immigration: displacing Canadians out ...
• Unrest and Libyas Energy Industry
• Meet the New Recession Catalyst
• Space Storms Could Bring Society to Standstill ...
• Spartanburg County Council votes to NOT expand ...

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

• Exposing the Republicans' 3-Part Strategy to T ...
  GOP forces are trying to deflect attention from the growing wealth transfer to the richest 1 percent while the jobs and wages of everyone else languish.Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Obama and the GOP's Spending Cuts: Where's the ...
  Why the president's walking a fine line on the Republicans' slash-and-burn budget proposals.Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to US Politics & Gov't �|� �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
• Thawing Permafrost Likely Will Accelerate Glob ...
  "If we want to hit a target carbon dioxide concentration, then we have to reduce fossil fuel emissions that much lower than previously thought to account for this additional carbon from the permafrost," Submitted by Kit B. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

• Nanogen's Solar Power Plant Fits in a Box
  Nanogen Power Systems, LLC has developed a technology which distills large-scale concentrating solar power (CSP) systems so they can fit into a steel cargo container. read more
• 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

News Blaze

• Partnership Between UN and Member States Key t ...
  There are currently 121,000 military, police and civilian personnel serving on 14 peacekeeping operations and one special political mission, all led by the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO).
• Hindus Upset With Goddess Lakshmi's Image on ' ...
  Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada today, said that it is disturbing to see goddess Lakshmi who was highly revered in Hinduism on the bottle of a potion which some of its retailers claimed to increase 'intensity of orgasms.' Laksh
• UN Calls for Probe Into Allegations of Human O ...
  In his report, Mr. Ban notes that political developments in Kosovo over the past three months, in particular the 12 December Assembly elections, slowed down momentum generated by the European Union's declared readiness to facilitate dialogue. 'It
• U.S. Calls on Libya to Stop The Unacceptable B ...
  Now is the time to stop this unacceptable bloodshed. We are working urgently with friends and partners around the world to convey this message to the Libyan government.
• Somali Government Condemns Terrorist Attack in ...
  Seven people lost their lives in the attack and 35 others were wounded. Fifteen of the injured were discharged from hospital after receiving mild treatment. While 20 of them are still in the hospital. The dead include two children aged 10 and 11 who

Worldnews

• Justin Bieber To Donate Chopped Locks To ...
  Teen superstar Justin Bieber is donating his famous locks to charity after undergoing a makeover. The Baby hit-maker is...
• 'Kate Plus 8': Kate Gosselin shares 'drea ...
  After spending months and months trying to get her to appear on his show, "Kate Plus 8" star Kate Gosselin finally gave in Monday night and appeared on "Lopez Tonight." So how was the interview? More than anything, it was simply entertaining. First of all, Lopez actually gave Kate permissio ...
• Kiefer Sutherland officially signs on for ...
  It is official. After rumors surfaced that Kiefer Sutherland might be returning to television, there is word today that he has officially signed on to star in the new Fox drama, "Touch" which will air on Fox Channel 10 in Tempe in the fall. According...
• Kevin Costner interview: I had to stop ma ...
  Kevin Costner hasn't worked for four years because he became a father - three times over. He talks to John Hiscock about the pressures of parenthood and his new movie. 560 315 TelegraphPlayer-8317724 There are several very good reasons why Kevin Costner hasn't made a film for four years. Du ...
• Lady Gaga @ Madison Square Garden, 2.22.1 ...
  It's nice to see that Lady Gaga can still let loose. Though her “Monster Ball” show is tightly scripted and has been essentially the same for more than a year, she still managed some new moments at last night's performance at Madison Square Garden. For the New York native, playing for the h ...

Alex in Wonderland

• Report: Active-Duty Army PSYOPS Soldiers Embed ...
  To better manufacture consent, U.S. Army soldiers are embedded as intern and fellows at local TV affiliates, along with previously reported newspapers and national outlets.
• Daily Briefing—15th-16th Sept 2010
  News and views from around the web posted to the Wonderland Wire
• Report: U.S. Troops ‘Still Killing Civilians’ ...
  A U.S.-Iraqi night raid results in the deaths of eight civilians weeks after U.S. combat operations were announced as over.
• Military Welfare Budget Won’t Thin Any T ...
  Ivan Eland sat with RT to discuss the astronomical political clout held by the welfare queens of the military-industrial complex that will thwart any translation of the Pentagon's rhetoric into actual policy
• Because the System’s Not Rigged Enough for Cop ...
  Kevin Carson on the criminal injustice system 'shrills' pushing the narrative that the letter of the law aides criminals against so-called 'crime fighters'.

MY Daily Apple

• [Articles] Pre-dementia clinical stages in pre ...
  Clinical deterioration can be detected as measurable cognitive impairment around two decades before dementia onset in PSEN1 E280A carriers. Onset and progression of pre-dementia stages should be considered in the investigation and use of therapeutic interventions for familial AD.
• The impact of a jointly staffed clinic on the ...
• CDC Estimates Half of New HIV Infections Occur ...
  HIV/AIDS Clinical Care: "CDC researchers analyzed data on new HIV diagnoses from 2005 through 2008 in 37 states that had longstanding HIV surveillance systems. Although blacks made up only 14% of the population in these states, they accounted for half of the new HIV diagnoses made. Forty-five pe ...
• [In Context] Huntington's disease: the crossro ...
  “Hey hey Woody Guthrie I wrote you a songAbout a funny old world that's coming alongSeems sick and it's hungry, it's tired and it's tornIt looks like it's dying and it's hardly been born.”
• Callous-unemotional traits, conduct problems i ...
  Researchers stress the importance of callous-unemotional traits in identifying children at risk of antisocial behavior and other adjustment problems.

Common Dreams

• In Search of an African Revolution
  Demonstrations are continuing across the Middle East, interrupted only by the call for prayer when protesters fall to their knees on cheap carpets and straw mats and the riot police take a tea break. Egypt, in particular, with its scenes of unrelenting protesters staying put in Tahrir Square, pl ...
• Wisconsin's Political Crisis Is A Good Deal Mo ...
  MADISON - Wisconsin’s Legislative Fiscal Bureau was created in 1968 by a Republican governor, Warren Knowles, and a Republican-controlled state legislature.   read more
• Plutocracy Now: What Wisconsin Is Really About
  In 2008, a liberal Democrat was elected president. Landslide votes gave Democrats huge congressional majorities. Eight years of war and scandal and George W. Bush had stigmatized the Republican Party almost beyond redemption. A global financial crisis had discredited the disciples of free-market ...
• Spike Reported in Number of Stillborn Dolphins ...
  GULFPORT -- Baby dolphins, some barely three feet in length, are washing up along the Mississippi and Alabama shorelines at about 10 times the normal number for the first two months of the year, researchers are finding. Seventeen young dolphins, either aborted before they reached maturity or dea ...
• Solving the Mystery of the Bizarre Deformed Fr ...
  For the last two decades, strange things have been happening to frogs. Some frog populations have high rates of limb deformities, while others have high incidences of what is known as "intersex" — traits associated with both males and females, such as male frogs whose testes contain eggs. ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

• James Moore
• Neill Blomkamp
• Sarah Polley
• Jay Baruchel
• David Suzuki

Examine Religion - Tweets

• ExamineReligion: There are lots of doubts abou ...
  ExamineReligion: There are lots of doubts about the book BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT http://exm.nr/gTqpAo
• ExamineReligion: How do church leaders count s ...
  ExamineReligion: How do church leaders count success? http://exm.nr/hottHW
• ExamineReligion: Romans 14:13 - Don't judge, b ...
  ExamineReligion: Romans 14:13 - Don't judge, be kind http://exm.nr/eljaec
• ExamineReligion: Eddie Long Begins Late Night ...
  ExamineReligion: Eddie Long Begins Late Night Men's Prayer Meetings To Bring About A Revolution ! http://exm.nr/exBpZ3
• ExamineReligion: Three Fold Nature of the Gosp ...
  ExamineReligion: Three Fold Nature of the Gospel - Part One http://exm.nr/hsvKoM

Energy Collective

• Study Shows Benefits of Jatropha Plant Oil for ...
  SG Biofuels and Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) today released results of a study revealing the performance and emissions benefits of using Jatropha oil as a drop-in replacement for diesel fuel in industrial furnaces used for electric power generation and industrial heating.
• The Impact of Closing Vermont Yankee Nuclear P ...
  Rebecca and Mark, "Impact of Closing Vermont Yankee Nuclear Plant" is a topic of interest to many people in New England and the US. Please be so kind to post it on THE ENERGY COLLECTIVE website. The recently posted Dutch Renewables..... and Electric Vehicle............. articles have over ...
• Top Energy Efficient Tax Credits
  Improve the energy efficiency of your home and tax money at the same time with these energy efficiency tax credits: 1. Fuel Cells
• The Tragedy of the Commons: Reflecting on a Ce ...
  As the first decade of the twenty-first century comes to a close, the problem of the commons is more important to our lives – and more central to economics – than a century ago when the first issue of the American Economic Review appeared, with an examination by Professor Katharine Coman of Well ...
• Winning Our Energy Future with $15 billion for ...
  Today, we have an op-ed published in the Presidents' Day edition of The Plain Dealer, the largest newspaper in Ohio.

Green House - USA Today

• Study: Hayfever linked to global warming
  Is your hayfever getting worse each year? Researcher report a link between global warming and a lengthening in North America's ragweed pollen season that may be affecting million of allergy sufferers.
• Does my green house meet the passive standard?
  Just how tough is the passive house standard that's starting to catch on in the United States? I put my own new green house to the test.
• Passive houses aggressively reduce energy
  Heat your home by throwing a dinner party? This concept may sound bizarre, but it's feasible in cutting-edge green homes that are so well-insulated, they don't need a furnace or boiler. They'll stay warm simply with body heat. A hairdryer might also suffice. Such passive homes, popularized in Eu ...
• Poll: Americans OK with newer light bulbs
  Most Americans support the U.S. law that begins phasing out traditional light bulbs next year and, despite some consumer grumbling, say they're satisfied with more efficient alternatives, according to a USA TODAY poll.
• World Bank: High food prices impoverishes 44 m ...
  Rising food prices have pushed about 44 million people into poverty in developing countries since last June as food costs near peak 2008 levels, the World Bank warns in a new report.

Prior Art

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

Peoples Voice

• The Security Budget vs. the Necessities of Ame ...
  By Kevin Zeese President Obama and the Congress have taken 66% of discretionary spending in the federal budget off the table – the Security Budget – while proposing a freeze to the rest of the budget and deep cuts to some programs that provide necessities for the American people. His budget cry ...
• WORLD WAR III / A CLASS WAR BETWEEN THE PEOPLE ...
  Allen L Roland World War III has already started. It is not a military war but instead an economic class war by the people against the corporate global elite whose puppet spoke person is President Obama. The economically oppressed masses of people in Egypt realized they could literally shut do ...
• Egypt Wins Freedom
  Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. “Tyranny begins where reason ends.” Egypt is people, nation, culture, history and civilization, the progressive and conscious combination unparallel in human history. Not too many knew in the modern world that Egypt can generate a momentous history of freedom from man ...
• Silvio Berlusconi Underneath the Arches of Rub ...
  By Gaither Stewart Noemi Letizia, one of Berlusconi’s scandals with a teenager, and protagonist of “Noemi Gate”.Not too improbably, what may have kept Berlusconi afloat is that he’s “all too human” in the eyes of many Italians. His penchant for nubile girls is certainly proof of that. (Rom ...
• "Want fries with that budget crisis?" (OpEdNew ...
  By Robert Singer Click here to read why “this article is not currently available” at OpEdNews. Want fries with that budget crisis? Instead of cutting jobs and services to solve California’s budget crisis, why not eliminate the state water subsidies that allow McDonalds and Colonel Sanders to m ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

• Canada’s immigration policy: Who is on the gue ...
  Immigrants are Canada’s ticket to economic growth in the coming years, as the Minister of Immigration and Citizenship rightly stated this week. But CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan lays out the untold story of the troubling shift in immigration policy towards “guest” workers in this Globe ...
• Get the facts: Child care isn't there to force ...
  In spring 2009 we dedicated an entire issue of�Our Schools / Our Selves�to the topic of child care in Canada, and over a year later�Beyond Child�s Play: Caring for and educating young children in Canada�remains one of the most detailed, up-to-date and thorough publications on the subject. It bri ...
• Gap between rich and poor: 8th Wonder of the W ...
  That's the tongue-in-cheek conclusion of the satiristic news source, The Onion, which names the growing gap between the rich and poor the 8th natural wonder of the world, calling the divide the "most colossal and enduring of mankind's creations." Said Committee Chariman Henri Jean-Baptiste: Of ...
• Income inequality: A defining public issue in ...
  Picking through the wreckage of the global recession, former Privy Council Clerk Alex Himelfarb takes stock of what happened and points to two trends he predicts might shape politics and policy in 2011: the "extraordinary resilience of neoliberal ideology" and the "reemergence of inequality as a ...
• Health Canada putting profit before health in ...
  Health Canada is holding its final consultations on proposals to “modernize” standards on prescription drugs this week. A new CCPA study by Dr. Joel Lexchin examines Health Canada’s harmonizing initiatives to date, part of the modernization initiative, and finds they have been putting private pr ...

 

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Renewable Energy Investors: All Eyes on Crude and China

Seeking Alpha

- Feb 22, 2011

- 3 hours ago

In the coming two weeks, we are going to see new development to impact renewable energy industry: rising crude price and China. Over the weekend, crude jumped 6% to over $91 as tensions escalate in northern Africa. Investors are betting on short term ...

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Israel Minister Urges Goverment to Seek Renewable Energy Amid Unrest

Bloomberg

- Feb 22, 2011

- 6 hours ago

“Now is the time to accelerate the development of renewable energy.” Shalom spoke to a renewable energy conference as oil prices surged to the highest in more than two years and Middle East protests that have spread to Libya left hundreds dead. ...

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California PUC staff question economics of utility renewable deals

Platts

- Feb 22, 2011

- 3 hours ago

In its zeal to satisfy California's renewable portfolio standard, the state's Public Utilities Commission has approved nearly every renewable power supply contract filed by investor-owned utilities, even when the contracts are not economic, ...

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Ethanol Sunset in Arizona

AgWired

- Feb 22, 2011

- 3 hours ago

We have been covering the 16th annual conference, which also marks the 30th anniversary of the Renewable Fuels Association, on our sister website DomesticFuel.com. This is the fifth year we have covered the conference and we enjoy it more every year!

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LACEY: Comments welcome on shoreline proposal

TheNewsTribune.comImage by Getty Images via @daylife

- Feb 22, 2011

- 12 hours ago

The Department of Ecology is currently reviewing the City of Lacey's updated shoreline master program and is taking public comment through March 1. The Department of Ecology is currently reviewing the City of Lacey's updated shoreline master program ...

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Green Mountain College Announces For-Credit Summer Agriculture Program

PR Newswire (press release)

- Feb 22, 2011

- 5 hours ago

The 12-credit summer intensive program Farm Life Ecology: A Field and Table Intensive, runs for 13 weeks from May 23-August 19, with a July 4th break July 2-5. For the first time the College is also offering half-sessions for 6 credits from May 23-July ...

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Ecology updates treatment permit

Mid Columbia Tri City Herald

- Feb 21, 2011

- Feb 21, 2011

By the Herald staff OLYMPIA -- The state Department of Ecology has updated a permit that allows the use of products to control aquatic plants and algae in fresh waters. Licensed applicators and other authorized entities must have coverage by the ...

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Ecology Proves Selling Makeup Is About More Than Beauty

Patch.com

- Feb 22, 2011

- 6 hours ago

For sisters-in-law Marla Shapiro and Carra Stoller, co-owners of Ecology, Birmingham's new organic skin care shop at 239 S. Old Woodward, it's about something much more. At first glance, opening a store like Ecology was a surprising move for Shapiro or ...

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Time Out Theater Review: "Thinner Than Water"

NY1

- Feb 22, 2011

- 37 minutes ago

“Thinner Than Water” is a new family drama compliments of the off-Broadway LAByrinth Theater Company. NY1 Contributing Critic David Cote of Time Out New York filed the following review. Do you go to a LAByrinth Theater Company show for political drama? ...

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EPA Reverses Itself on Fluoride

Fox News

- Feb 22, 2011

- 4 hours ago

Beginning in the late 1940s, aided by mass industry lead lobbying campaigns, the government encouraged municipal water authorities to add fluoride to their community's drinking water. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), approximately 70 ...

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Kraft Whets Appetites for Flavored Water with Facebook Freebies (and a Sassy ...

brandchannel.com

- Feb 22, 2011

- 1 hour ago

One of Kraft's biggest-ever product rollouts may seem like a whole lot of nothing — flavor drops for water. Yet MiO is Kraft's newest attempt to grab its share of flavored water, a category that accounts for about $1 billion in sales. ...

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Testing the water

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- Feb 22, 2011

- 5 hours ago

By Jonathan Marcus BBC Diplomatic Correspondent The passage of two Iranian naval vessels through the Suez Canal represents yet another clear sign of Tehran's widening strategic horizons. This is the first time the Iranian navy has made such a ...

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