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Friday, February 4, 2011

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CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Crisis in Egypt-Iran wins, Israel loses in tu ...
    Summary: Meanwhile, the entire US strategy to isolate Iran in its region by erecting a phalanx of "pro-West" Arab regimes plus Israel is withering away and Iran's influence as a regional power may touch a qualitatively new level. source: Asia Timesread more
  • How About a Clean Break – with Israel?
    Summary: Back in 1996, a group of leading neoconservatives led by Richard Perle drafted a memorandum for then (as now) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, recommending that Israel adopt a more aggressive and assertive policy towards its neighbors. They called it a "Clean Break" to su ...
  • Getting in line for a revolution
    Summary: What is interesting about the tsunamis of change cascading through the Middle East this past month is that the "dumb, undeserving-of-democracy" Arab masses have turned out to be magnificently saavy, efficient, focused and determined in flipping over longstanding dictatorships. sou ...
  • Threat of war will do nothing to improve human ...
    Summary: BlairNot content with the mass slaughter in Iraq, Tony Blair is now advocating an attack on Iran. To which MP Jeremy Corbyn responds, the human rights situation in Iran is dire, but the threat of war will merely exacerbate the isolation of the country and promote the most conservati ...
  • Iran looks over its shoulder
    Summary: Commemorating the 33rd anniversary of the Islamic revolution that toppled Iran's entrenched pro-United States monarchy, Iran's state-owned media have been broadcasting one of grand ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's speeches after his triumphant return to Iran in 1979, exhorting the Egyp ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • World’s Most Powerful Laser Reveals an Invisib ...
    In brilliant beams of light from the world’s most powerful X-ray laser -the Linac Coherent Light Source, physicists have taken snapshots of living viruses and see the 3-D shape of proteins frozen in nanometer-scale crystals. The technique and the images...
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  • Has Dark Matter Altered the Universe Beyond Re ...
    In the early Universe clumps of dark matter are thought to have attracted gas, which then coalesced into stars that eventually formed the galaxies we see today. In their efforts to understand galaxy formation and evolution, astronomers have spent a...
  • Will a New Object in Andromeda Predict Milky W ...
    A laser-like spot of light could predict the eventual collision of the Milky Way with the Andromeda Galaxy. Loránt Sjouwerman of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Socorro, New Mexico, and colleagues have glimpsed a bright, laser-like spot of microwave...
  • When Did Proto-Life Emerge in the Universe?
    Three of Europe's cosmologists believe that the key to understanding the origin of life lies in identifying the time onset and the conditions which prevailed in our universe when life was first fashioned. Based on recent cosmological measurements complex life...

Natural News

  • Dr Andrew Wakefield answers critics in video i ...
    (NaturalNews) In a video interview with NaturalNews, Dr Andrew Wakefield, the doctor accused by the British Medical Journal of falsifying the data in a study questioning the safety of MMR vaccines, asserts that the BMJ has been "hijacked" by a politically-motivated journalist making utterly fals ...
  • Nobel Prize Winner Luc Montagnier Supports Sci ...
    (NaturalNews) Dr. Luc Montagnier, the French virologist who won the Nobel Prize in 2008 for discovering the AIDS virus, has surprised the scientific community with his strong support for homeopathic medicine.In a remarkable interview published in Science magazine of December 24, 2010, (1) Profes ...
  • Popular infant juices loaded with toxic fluori ...
    (NaturalNews) A study to be presented at the March 17, 2011, annual meeting of the International Association for Dental Research in San Diego reveals that infant fruit juices of all types contain toxic fluoride, and many contain levels that far exceed federal guidelines. Infants and children tha ...
  • Sick Brains in Teens - Is There A Root Cause?
    (NaturalNews) It's been nearly a month since the nation's attention was focused on Tucson, where five were killed and 13 injured , including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, several other shootings missed the mainstream news. Violence seems to be erupting among youths everywhere, from Los Angel ...
  • Sherri Tenpenny warns parents about safety of ...
    (NaturalNews) Are vaccines really safe and effective? More and more credentialed health professionals are beginning to question that assumption, and what they're finding out about the lack of real science behind the assumed safety and efficacy of vaccines is actually quite shocking.Today, Dr She ...

Threat Level

  • Times Editor Alarmed By Prospect of WikiLeaks ...
    NEW YORK — New York Times executive editor Bill Keller may not regard Julian Assange as a journalistic peer, but he made clear Thursday that he doesn’t think the WikiLeaks founder should face criminal prosecution in the United States. Keller joined his counterpart from Britain’s Guardian newspap ...
  • No, Hackers Can’t Open Hoover Dam Floodgates
    The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation is shooting down a key legislative talking point: that the internet “kill-switch” legislation is needed to prevent cyberterrorists from opening the Hoover Dam’s floodgates. The brouhaha started last week, when legislative aides on the Homeland Security and Govern ...
  • British Border Agent Fired for Putting Wife on ...
    A UK border agent lost his job after authorities discovered he’d placed his wife on a terrorist watch list in an attempt to rid himself of her. The woman was left stranded in Pakistan for three years because she was unable to fly back to the UK after visiting relatives, according to the Daily M ...
  • Feds Tackle Sports-Streaming Pirate Sites
    The U.S. government seized 10 domains connected to broadcasting professional sports Wednesday as part of a widespread crackdown on internet piracy. The court-ordered seizures, as part of the government’s Operation in Our Sites, are aimed at web sites that sell counterfeited goods, as well as sit ...
  • Documents in Julian Assange Rape Investigation ...
    The ongoing rape-and-sexual-molestation investigation of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is taking another in a series of odd turns. A file containing 100 pages of interview transcripts, investigatory notes and other material in the case has appeared online, where it’s being eagerly dissected ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Darrell Issa's Freedom of Information Act
    In his new role as grand inquisitor of the Obama administration, Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA) is performing his own freedom of information act. That is, after eight years during which President Bush as a matter of policy by default rejected Freedom Information of Act (FOIA) requests, Issa no ...
  • Right-Wing Hoax Highlights GOP Redefinition of ...
    As TPM and others reported last week, Planned Parenthood had alerted the FBI that some of its clinics had likely been targeted by right-wing activists claiming to run an interstate sex trafficking ring that involves minors and illegal immigrants. So that the anti-abortion group Live Action and ...
  • Egyptians' Approval of U.S. Tripled After Obam ...
    While the Obama administration is grappling to find the right path forward in Egypt, Republicans are deeply divided. Fearful of the Muslim Brotherhood and fearful for Israel, some like John Bolton and Rep. Thaddeus McCotter have urged support for the authoritarian "devil we know." Others, like ...
  • London Calling
    Appearing on Fox News Sunday, House Speaker John Boehner insisted, "What we have to understand is cutting spending will in fact help create jobs in America." But across the pond in the UK, Boehner's conservative allies are learning a different lesson. While U.S. gross domestic product jumped b ...
  • Cantor Gives GOP Credit for Improving U.S. Eco ...
    This week, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) became the latest Republican to give his party credit for the improving U.S. economy. After the Commerce Department reported American gross domestic product (GDP) jumped by 3.2% in the fourth quarter of 2010, Cantor attributed the gains to the ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • The Great Tax Cut Debate - Myths and Facts
    In the lame-duck Congress agenda, perhaps the most substantive debate is over whether to continue tax breaks for the rich. President Obama and most Congressional Democrats want to extend the Bush tax cuts for 98 percent of Americans, everyone making under $250,000. Republicans want to extend the ...
  • What Landslide?: A Closer Look at the Midterm ...
    By now, everyone has heard of the conservative "tidal wave" that has overtaken Congress and most gubernatorial seats throughout the U.S. Indeed, anyone who has watched mainstream media coverage probably understands the midterm election results as a "rebuke of Obama's policies," with the "Tea Par ...
  • INS Targets Community Leaders, Not Criminals
    When people the world over think of Arizona nowadays, they generally think of Governor Jan Brewer, Sheriff Joe Arpaio or state representative Russell Pearce – the poster children of the state's move toward legalized discrimination and racial profiling. If they are closely following the politics ...
  • Dancing with Dynamite:How Citizens Can be More ...
    Two years ago, President Obama sailed into the White House on the winds of voters’ desire for widespread social change and their disgust with two wars and a massive recession associated with George W. Bush. Only two years into his presidency and the concurrent Democratic takeover of Congress, ho ...
  • Pope Says Condoms Acceptable 'In Certain Cases ...
    Until now, the Vatican had prohibited the use of any form of contraception -- other than abstinence -- even as a guard against sexually transmitted disease.

Consortium News

  • US-Israeli Strategy Crashes in Egypt
    The uprising in Egypt marks an end to a long U.S.-Israeli strategy of imposing "order" on the Middle East, says Gareth Porter. February 1, 2011
  • The Hope of Groundhog Day
    The classic movie "Groundhog Day" captured the human plight of struggling to learn from life's lessons, observes Winslow Myers. February 1, 2011
  • Reagan's Bargain/Charlie Wilson's War
    From the Archive: Pakistan's nuclear arsenal, now totaling 100 or so bombs, is another part of Ronald Reagan's legacy. By Peter W. Dickson
  • Lebanon Marks Another US Reversal
    U.S.-Israeli policies run into another reversal in Lebanon with the rise of the militant Shiite group, Hezbollah, notes Ivan Eland. February 1, 2011
  • Assailing Assange on '60 Minutes'
    "60 Minutes" reporter Steve Kroft takes the side of secrecy in duel with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, notes David Swanson. January 31, 2011

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

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Public Citizen in Texas

  • Rolling blackouts – who profits?
    Wednesday, State Rep. Lon Burnam and his staff got little in the way of a satisfactory answer from ERCOT as to why as many as 50 power plants were off line, and predicted that the issue will remain a hot topic especially in light of the fact that ERCOT is up for a sunset review [...]
  • EPA listening to stakeholders about their prop ...
    The Environmental Protection Agency will hold a series of “listening sessions” in the coming months in order to get input from stakeholders on the agency’s plans to implement new greenhouse gas standards on power plants and refineries. If  you cannot make it to the sessions, each session will b ...
  • Texas News Roundup Jan 31, 2011
    The Texas Progressive Alliance is ready to retire the phrase “blue norther” for another year as it brings you this week’s blog roundup. Off the Kuff took an early look at fundraising for 2011 city of Houston elections. The Big Gas Mafia says it’s impossible but hydraulic fracturing causes gas to ...
  • State of the Union (LOL)
    Check out the State of the Union address as seen through the eyes of editorial cartoonists.  Click here to get to MSNBC’s slideshow. Filed under: Good Government Tagged: Editorial Cartoonists, State of the Union
  • Where’s the Outrage? TCEQ Approves Las Brisas ...
    In a completely un-shocking and saddening display of administrative arrogance, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) commissioners Bryan Shaw and Buddy Garcia granted an air permit for the proposed Las Brisas coal plant. Commissioner Carlos Rubinstein abstained from voting due to ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Was the Mona Lisa really a man ?
    Italian researchers have discovered that the Mona Lisa could be Da Vinci's male apprentice. Recently researchers at a German university said they'd cr...
  • UFO spotted over Glasgow
    Paul Brown reported a strange glowing object floating across the skies over the Scottish city. "I watched for the lights of plane or helicopter but no...
  • Scientists strive for realistic 'cyberhug'
    Development is underway for a realistic "hug" system that can be physically felt over the internet. Scientists in both Singapore and Japan are working...
  • Kepler telescope finds over 1,200 planets
    It is believed that more than 50 of those discovered may be able to support life as we know it. Most extrasolar planets identified are too close to th...
  • Virgin Mary statue cries tears in library
    Visitors to a religious book lending library in Ohio believe a statue of the Virgin Mary is crying. "I believe it's true. They were there. I saw them....

Grassroots

  • Manifest Haiti: U.S. Food Aid and Monsanto
    4681874221_9aa39475ec_b.jpg Make no mistake; Haiti needs seeds and food. Following last January�s devastating earthquake, it�s been all hands on deck in the small island nation�but decision making on rebuilding�is very often�in all hands b ...
  • Man-made disasters need human solutions: Hondu ...
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  • One Year on in Haiti
    Previous Publication Info Previous publication:� Huffington Post Outside Link:� One Year on in Haiti oneyear.jpg ...
  • God Willing and the Creek Don’t Rise…
    Subheadline:� Planning for disaster is part of responsible development river-haiti.jpg Those living on the margins have very little wiggle room for survival even in good times. ...
  • Gaza: Stories of Strength amid Assault and Sie ...
    3407229255_9879b60da3_b.jpg �Year before last, I was sitting in the living room of my childhood home sharing a cup of morning coffee with my mother and musing over the holidays. We laughed over kitschy Christmas gifts from well-meaning rel ...

Climate

  • Amazon Drought Caused Huge Carbon Emissions, S ...
    Source:� Reuters A widespread drought in the Amazon rainforest last year was worse than the "once-in-a-century" dry spell in 2005 and may have a bigger impact on global warming than the U.S. does in a year.
  • Tar Sands 'More Polluting than Other Fuels'
    Source:� European Voice Average emissions from tar sands are 23 percent higher than oil from other fossil fuels, according to a leaked study produced for the European Commission.
  • Shell: No Beaufort Sea Drilling in Arctic for ...
    Source:� AP Shell Alaska has dropped plans to drill in the Arctic waters of the Beaufort Sea this year and will concentrate on obtaining permits for the 2012 season, company VP Pete Slaiby said. �
  • Obama Calls for Making Buildings More Efficien ...
    Source:� The Hill Pres. Obama laid out a plan Thurs. for making the country's commercial buildings more energy efficient, arguing that it will save businesses money, reduce emissions and create jobs.
  • Senate Bill Would Improve Pipeline Safety
    Source:� Reuters Two U.S. senators introduced legislation to boost pipeline safety in an effort to avoid the kind of accidents last year that destroyed homes, killed people and polluted the environment.

GreenBiz

  • How to Spur Behavior Change to Promote Sustain ...
    Despite the wide array of sustainability initiatives companies are undertaking on their own operations, perhaps the biggest challenge to scaling up global sustainability efforts is convincing end users to reduce their own impacts.
  • The Empire State Building Strikes Back at Ener ...
    The statistics on the greening of the Empire State Building are almost as dizzying as the 102-story New York City landmark. And the lessons that can be learned from the efforts by the project partners are numerous as well, Johnson Controls' Clay Nesler told the audience at the State of Green Bus ...
  • Enterprise Rent-A-Car Makes $150M Green Buildi ...
    The company has developed a new green building standard to guide its investment called the Enterprise Sustainable Construction Protocol (ESCP). Enterprise Rent-A-Car expects ESCP could rack up energy and water savings of up to 35 percent.
  • How the Chevy Volt Became the Heartbeat of GM
    The second part of an in-depth look at how GM took its electric vehicle from concept to prize-winning machine, and the seven steps the program's leader used to shepherd it across the finish line.
  • Best Practices for New Wave of Green Certifica ...
    More and more, non-manufacturing tech companies are seeking certification of their operations and products under the international standard for environmental management systems. Executives at Blue Coat Systems talk about how the firm's headquarters attained certification in half the time it usua ...

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Booman Tribune

  • Disagreeing With Ari Shavit
    A lot of people share Ari Shavit's worldview, and there is much in what he says to consider. But I believe that he's ultimately wrong. His column appears in the left-leaning Israeli newspaper Haaretz. Yet, he refers to the "Arab liberation revolution" we are witnessing as an "intifada of ...
  • Casual Observation
    I am a little concerned that President Obama is going to run for reelection on the slogan "Winning the Future," and discover that people take that slogan less seriously than Tim Pawlenty. I mean, the future is a long time. We're all gonna die. No one knows what the hell "winning" the future e ...
  • Metaphysics and Bill O'Reilly
    It's funny to watch Bill O'Reilly flail around in his attempt to prove the existence of God by reference to the tides, or the existence of the Sun and the Moon. But, what he's really doing is playing sloppily at an old philosophical game. Perhaps the biggest question in philosophy is "why does ...
  • Okay, Worry, But Be Happy
    Juan Cole sure is grumpy. I think he said more than one thing that you are not allowed to say and still remain in polite society. But I understand his frustration. On the other hand, when have we ever had a better lesson, that reached a bigger domestic audience, about the true costs of our po ...
  • It Shouldn't Be a Sucker Punch, But It Is
    I wonder if Anderson Cooper is surprised or confused that he was punched in the head ten times by a mob of pro-Mubarak thugs. All in all, it was fairly tame and harmless, but Cooper is a kind of proxy for all Americans. We always seem surprised when we discover that our government is unpopular ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

  • Personal Information: episode 24
    Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness! Share and Enjoy:Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness!
  • Arguments against life extension
    Via Michael Anissimov, here’s a spectacularly empty diatribe against “deathhackers” by TechCrunch‘s Paul Carr. Carr objects to the idea of radical life extension as advocated by transhumanists, which is fair enough, but as written here most of his objections seem to boil down to personal distate ...
  • Daddy, where does innovation come from?
    Plenty of folk have been linking to this excerpt from Matt Ridley’s new book The Rational Optimist, and with good reason – it’s a provocative piece that plays to advocates (and opponents) of free trade, open exchange, copyright reform and much more. The basic thesis? The one persistent factor th ...
  • Replacement arms: mechanical or biological?
    Prosthetic limbs are still in their infancy, but there’s a lot of progress being made: Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory is working with Darpa (who else?), and has a research grant for trying out their mind-controlled modular prosthetic arm on five test subjects over the next couple of ye ...
  • How to be a futurist
    The irrepressible Scott “Basic Instructions” Meyer has the lowdown if you’re thinking of a career in futurism: Click through for the whole thing. But take it from me, being a futurist is a lot of work for no money. Or maybe that’s just the way I do it… and I’ve never been featured in a [...]Foll ...

Therapy News

  • Changing the Culture of Alzheimer’s Care
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Compassion is a value exercised worldwide by good therapists and counselors, doctors and surgeons, nurses and dieticians. Health and wellness care is, in many cases, moving toward greater understanding of our holistic experience of health. But what about long-term ...
  • Dandelion Children vs. Orchid Children
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Flowers are a fitting metaphor for how different children respond to the environments they’re raised in, according to new research from the University of Arizona. “Dandelion children” can adapt to a variety of environments and do quite well, but “orchid children” ...
  • What is CBT?
    By Jenifer Garrido, MSW, LCSW, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Jenifer and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile As a Cognitive Behavioral Therapist (CBT), my goal is to teach people that a life free of depression, anxiety and other “negative emotions” is ...
  • The Presence of Peers Changes Self-Worth and B ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Peer pressure is cited as a driving factor (conscious or otherwise) behind any number of harmful choices: lying, cheating, stealing, binge drinking, reckless behavior, illicit drug use, and even bullying and violence. This isn’t isolated to adolescents: these behav ...
  • Nurses and Substance Abuse: Choosing Support o ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Medical nurses run a higher risk than the general public of suffering from substance abuse and addiction: some studies place the rate as high as 20%. Seeking to protect the safety and well-being of patients, many hospitals have a zero-tolerance policy. But new res ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Documentary about mountaintop removal premiers ...
    Treehugger Documentary about mountaintop removal premiers at Sundance Forbes (blog) ... tapped into the daily vibe of environmental news and issues, you've not doubt probably heard of or seen the devastation caused by mountaintop removal. ... EPA right to reject mountaintop removalCharlotte Obs ...
  • Tomblin, Capito vow to fight EPA for coal indu ...
    Charleston Gazette (blog) Tomblin, Capito vow to fight EPA for coal industry Charleston Gazette ... leaders on Thursday promised coal industry officials they would continue the fight to stop the Obama administration's crackdown on mountaintop removal. ... W.Va. political leaders vow to keep fig ...
  • Music and activism combine to fight mountainto ...
    Music and activism combine to fight mountaintop removal The Blue Banner Combining music and activism, the "We Love Mountains" tour aims to put an end to mountaintop removal in central and southern Appalachia. ...
  • Mammoth Spruce No 1 Mine Goes Forward Despite ...
    Mammoth Spruce No 1 Mine Goes Forward Despite EPA Veto CounterPunch In the struggle to end mountain top removal coal mining, we don't often have occasions to celebrate, so the December 18th announcement that ...
  • Joe Manchin takes on President Obama over EPA' ...
    Politico Joe Manchin takes on President Obama over EPA's coal veto Politico Manchin was livid in January when EPA pulled the plug on a massive mountaintop-removal coal mine in West Virginia that the George W. Bush administration had ... Manchin touts EPA bill in maiden Senate speechCharleston G ...

Memeorandum

  • Report: Political Correctness Prevented FBI, D ...
    John Sexton / Hot Air: Report: Political Correctness Prevented FBI, DoD from Stopping Maj. Hasan  —  Today the Senate Homeland Security Committee released an independent report on the Ft. Hood shootings.  The 91 page report is titled A Ticking Time Bomb: Counterterrorism Lessons from the US Gov ...
  • Obama's Approval Ratings More Polarized in Yea ...
    Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup: Obama's Approval Ratings More Polarized in Year 2 Than Year 1  —  Ranks as fourth-most-polarized year for a president since 1953  —  PRINCETON, NJ — President Barack Obama's job approval ratings were even more polarized during his second year in office than during his ...
  • Rand Paul: GOP Not 'Brave Enough' to Hit Defic ...
    Jonathan Karl / ABCNEWS: Rand Paul: GOP Not ‘Brave Enough’ to Hit Deficit  —  ‘True Believer’ Paul Wants All Foreign Aid Eliminated — Including Aid to Israel  —  In an exclusive interview with ABC News, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., took aim at the newly released House GOP budget, saying it falls far ...
  • 'Day of departure' rally in Egypt (BBC)
    BBC: ‘Day of departure’ rally in Egypt  —  The BBC's Jim Muir in Tahrir Square: “The sense of imminent attack has eased and people are relaxing”  —  Tens of thousands of Egyptians are taking part in a “day of departure” to try to oust President Hosni Mubarak.  —  There is an increased army pre ...
  • Gallup Finds U.S. Unemployment Up Slightly in ...
    Gallup: Gallup Finds U.S. Unemployment Up Slightly in January to 9.8%  —  Underemployment at 18.9%, compared with 19.0% at the end of December  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Unemployment, as measured by Gallup without seasonal adjustment, increased to 9.8% at the end of January — up from 9.6% at the end o ...

Energy & Environment News

  • Green: Revisiting an Oil Spill Mystery
    In the early weeks of the gulf spill, the flow rate -- the single most important piece of information needed in the response effort -- was badly off base. A researcher has a theory about how federal scientists erred, and the implications are haunting.
  • New Electricity Meters Stir Fears
    Opponents in Northern California say the smart meters, seen as a crucial step toward creating a “green grid,” are a threat to privacy and health.
  • After Move to Cut Subsidies, Bolivian Ire Chas ...
    Bolivia’s situation reflects those faced by governments in energy-rich countries: the drain fuel subsidies put on public finances, and the political risks involved in curtailing them.
  • Once Popular, Car Pools Go the Way of Hitchhik ...
    The percentage of workers who car-pool has dropped by almost half since 1980, according to data from the Census Bureau, confounding efforts by urban planners.
  • WORLD BRIEFING | THE AMERICAS: Colombia: Coal ...
    An explosion at a coal mine in northeastern Colombia killed as many as 20 miners and left six injured, according to a statement from the Colombian Institute of Geology and Mining.

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.7, Vanuatu
    Friday, February 4, 2011 14:21:00 UTCSaturday, February 5, 2011 01:21:00 AM at epicenterDepth: 40.60 km (25.23 mi)
  • M 6.4, Myanmar-India border region
    Friday, February 4, 2011 13:53:47 UTCFriday, February 4, 2011 08:23:47 PM at epicenterDepth: 88.80 km (55.18 mi)
  • M 5.2, offshore Sucre, Venezuela
    Friday, February 4, 2011 12:16:57 UTCFriday, February 4, 2011 12:16:57 PM at epicenterDepth: 172.50 km (107.19 mi)
  • M 5.6, Ryukyu Islands, Japan
    Friday, February 4, 2011 11:15:46 UTCFriday, February 4, 2011 08:15:46 PM at epicenterDepth: 45.20 km (28.09 mi)
  • M 5.3, Tonga
    Tuesday, February 1, 2011 17:50:36 UTCWednesday, February 2, 2011 06:50:36 AM at epicenterDepth: 196.60 km (122.16 mi)

China Dialogue

  • In Mali’s soil, anxiety grows
    Foreign companies are snapping up the best fertile land in the food-insecure country. Madeleine Bunting examines what this means for local subsistence farmers, who fear the loss of their fields, crops and water.A new complex of government offices on the banks of the river Niger in Bamako, Mali, ...
  • If money grew on trees
    Saving the world’s rain forests would be the cheapest way to stave off climate change. But, argues Fiona Harvey, without a business model that works, it is just a hopeless dream.Walking into the Amazon rain forest, the overwhelming impression is of the sheer abundance of its life. A savoury, sou ...
  • Drying up the Han
    China’s bold programme to divert water to its parched northern cities will come at a cost for the clear-running Han River and those who rely on its flow, says Wang Kunzuo.If you wanted to trace the roots of Chinese civilization, you would do well to take a trip along the banks of the Han River. ...
  • Moving the masses
    Struck by a spate of fatal landslides, Shaanxi plans to relocate 2.4 million people to safer ground. But will this ambitious programme work? Meng Dengke reports.On December 7, a hugely ambitious resettlement project planned for Shaanxi province in north China secured approval in principle from t ...
  • Lessons from the Tiger
    Rather than their cleaning up their own act in the Year of the Tiger, China’s environmental authorities have tried to shift the burden onto the public, writes Tang Hao. If one word could sum up China’s environmental events of the Year of the Tiger, it would be “leak”. At the beginning of 2010, a ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • Times Editor Alarmed By Prospect of WikiLeaks ...
    NEW YORK — New York Times executive editor Bill Keller may not regard Julian Assange as a journalistic peer, but he made clear Thursday that he doesn’t think the WikiLeaks founder should face criminal prosecution in the United States. Keller joined his counterpart from Britain’s Guardian newspap ...
  • No, Hackers Can’t Open Hoover Dam Floodgates
    The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation is shooting down a key legislative talking point: that the internet “kill-switch” legislation is needed to prevent cyberterrorists from opening the Hoover Dam’s floodgates. The brouhaha started last week, when legislative aides on the Homeland Security and Govern ...
  • British Border Agent Fired for Putting Wife on ...
    A UK border agent lost his job after authorities discovered he’d placed his wife on a terrorist watch list in an attempt to rid himself of her. The woman was left stranded in Pakistan for three years because she was unable to fly back to the UK after visiting relatives, according to the Daily M ...
  • Feds Tackle Sports-Streaming Pirate Sites
    The U.S. government seized 10 domains connected to broadcasting professional sports Wednesday as part of a widespread crackdown on internet piracy. The court-ordered seizures, as part of the government’s Operation in Our Sites, are aimed at web sites that sell counterfeited goods, as well as sit ...
  • Documents in Julian Assange Rape Investigation ...
    The ongoing rape-and-sexual-molestation investigation of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is taking another in a series of odd turns. A file containing 100 pages of interview transcripts, investigatory notes and other material in the case has appeared online, where it’s being eagerly dissected ...

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IntelNews

  • Egypt intelligence highlights Congress-CIA ten ...
    A US Congressional hearing over a career CIA officialâs promotion turned into a heated exchange on Thursday, as Congress members accused Americaâs intelligence community of failing to provide forewarning of the political instability in Egypt. Continue reading →
  • News you may have missed #474
    Israel jails Arab activist for spying. Assange used disguise to evade surveillance new book reveals. US Congressman wants to know who wants to know. Continue reading →
  • News you may have missed #473
    Cyprus recognizes Palestine as independent nation. Top NZ intel scientist had falsified CV. Report uncovers widespread FBI intelligence violations. Continue reading →
  • Analysis: Spy Agencies Failed to Predict Egypt ...
    It is becoming increasingly clear that the ongoing popular uprising in Egypt represents the most important geopolitical development in the Middle East since the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran. In light of this, it is remarkable how unprepared foreign intelligence agencies have proven in forecas ...
  • Emirates authorities deny Oman spy ring allega ...
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    by Agence France-Presse. ROME -- Fish consumption reached record levels in 2010 and world stocks need to be urgently rebuilt, experts at the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said in a report Monday. "The contribution of fish to global diets has reached a record of almost 17 kil ...
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    by Agence France-Presse. BORDEAUX, France -- Two historical Bordeaux wine estates have gone green, breaking a long resistance to organic viticulture amongst the region's elite producers. "Still in 2011, there are people who do not trust in the fact that it is possible to grow organic in Bor ...
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    by Agence France-Presse. LONDON -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is shifting his focus away from involvement in international climate change talks and toward new areas in the fight against global warming. Ban is to redirect his efforts from trying to push forward the international clim ...
  • New Senate bill aims to avoid next oil spill
    by Agence France-Presse. WASHINGTON -- Senators plan to introduce in the coming weeks new legislation aiming to prevent another disastrous oil spill like last year's massive gusher in the Gulf of Mexico, Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) said Wednesday. A similar bill that would revise offshore ...
  • Big cities are not always the biggest polluter ...
    by Agence France-Presse. WASHINGTON -- Big cities like New York, London, and Shanghai send less pollution into the atmosphere per capita than places like Denver and Rotterdam, said a study released Tuesday. Researchers examined data from 100 cities in 33 nations for clues about which were ...

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    In Canada men make up 48.9 percent of the population but if you look towards the Arctic the men edge women out slightly at 50.1 percent of the population.
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    Toronto kids are shouting something unusual today: "Snow Day!" Both the Toronto District School Board and the Toronto Catholic District School Board have closed schools due to snow. It's the first time schools have been closed for a snow day since 1999.

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • New START agreement to enter into force Februa ...
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    Stephen Harper and Canada's big corporations want to integrate our security and military forces with the United States. Canadians stopped other border schemes, and we kept Canada out of the Star Wars missile defence scheme. Let's prevent Fortress North America.
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    U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is urging the Canadian government to move ahead with its planned purchase of 65 American F-35 Joint Strike Fighters.
  • F-35 purchase: What do Canadians think?
    The debate over the purchase of the F-35 continues, with Conservative and Liberal rhetoric on the issue growing increasingly heated. But does either party really care what Canadians think? An Ekos poll taken in November suggests that 54% of Canadians are opposed to the planned purchase. Other po ...
  • Activist coalition vows to oppose Obama as lon ...
    An American activist coalition, War is a Crime, is circulating a petition opposing President Obama’s renomination until he ends the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, reverses a number of draconian war policies, and drastically cuts military spending.  The list has grown to include the names of many ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 2-3-11
    Today, Kevin exposes the fraud that is Domino’s Pizza! Self Help: Make Your Dreams Come True       Clean Out The Toxins       Weather: Al Gore Blames 2011 Blizzard On Global Warming Everything Kevin: Become An Insider! Kevin is on YouTube! Sign Up For Kevin’s FREE Podcast Follow Kevin on Twitter ...
  • Are Routine Vaccines Dangerous for Children?
    February 3rd, 2011 Natural News By: Mike Adams Are routine vaccines dangerous for children? Dr Suzanne Humphries, a practicing nephrologist (kidney physician) says the vaccine industry isn’t giving people both sides of the story, and parents need to get informed before subjecting their children ...
  • Even Donald Trump Is Warning That An Economic ...
    February 3rd, 2011 The Economic Collapse In a shocking new interview, Donald Trump has gone farther than he ever has before in discussing a potential economic collapse in America. Using phrases such as “youâre going to pay $25 for a loaf of bread pretty soon” and “we could end up being another E ...
  • Easing Pain For Burns Victims Using Virtual Re ...
    February 3rd, 2011 BBC News Easing pain for burns victims using virtual reality Patients who played the game while having treatment experienced less pain Burn patients in the US are being helped to escape the pain of burn injuries by immersing them in the virtual reality of a computer game durin ...
  • Do Digiorno’s “Wyngz” Contai ...
    February 3rd, 2011 CalorieLab.com By: Marissa Brassfield Hot on the heels of the lawsuit over the Taco Bell “meat” filling is the latest fake-food branding move: the DiGiorno Pizza and Boneless “Wyngz” combo. The prepackaged combination mixes DiGiorno pizza with chocolate-chip cookies or what th ...

Pambazuka News

  • Southern Sudan: Sowing the seeds of agricultur ...
    After the sound of gunfire fell silent in Southern Sudan, marking the end of one of Africa's longest running civil wars, Pio Kowr Ding decided he would return home to the autonomous region to take up an agricultural research job with the government. ...
  • Ethiopia: Ethiopians to remember martyrs of th ...
    Ethiopians from various cities in the US, Canada, Europe and Australia held a conference on Saturday to discuss and coordinate plans for the upcoming 5th anniversary of the Ethiopian election massacre. The participants discussed and updated each othe...
  • March on Washington scheduled for November
    The Black is Back Coalition has announced a march and rally on the White House to take place November 13, 2010 beginning in Washington, DC’s historic Malcolm X Park. This will mark the second year in a row that this black coalition will be protestin...
  • USA: Black community activist faces possible 1 ...
    Diop Olugbala (aka Wali Rahman) will be sentenced on Wednesday, 13 October to a possible 10 years in prison for speaking out on behalf of the rights of the black community. A press conference and demonstration will be held prior to Olugbala’s sentenc...
  • Morocco: Expats returning home in greater numb ...
    Faced with the woes of the global economic crisis, an increasing number of Moroccan expatriates are coming back home. Meanwhile, the government is intensifying effort to aid the community abroad as well as help them maintain ties with their home coun...

War in Context

  • Washington’s newly shaped Mubarak-must-go-now ...
    Bloomberg reports: Senior members of the U.S. Congress are debating whether to halt foreign aid to Egypt as a way to hasten President Hosni Mubarak’s exit from power amid continuing protests against his three-decade rule. Senator Patrick Leahy, the chairman of the panel that controls foreign a ...
  • Mubarak holds Egypt hostage
    Michael Wahid Hanna writes: As evidence mounts that the violence in Tahrir Square is a regime-orchestrated attempt to crush dissent and peaceful protest, the manifest flaws in President Mubarak’s plan to remain in office are becoming clear. The Egyptian president, under pressure, committed not ...
  • Egypt’s torture victims describe beatings, ele ...
    ABC News reports: When Abdel Haleem Halim approached Hosni Mubarak at a 2002 conference to confront the Egyptian president about rampant unemployment, he says he received a familiar response. Like many of Egypt’s political dissidents, Halim says he was whisked away by the Mubarak regime’s domes ...
  • “Mubarak may be preparing for something which ...
    Reporters Without Borders is horrified by what appears to be an all-out witch-hunt against news media that are covering events in Egypt and is very concerned for all the journalists currently in Cairo, especially on the eve of a major demonstration planned by President Hosni Mubarak’s opponents ...
  • Mubarak’s hired thugs
    Now that so-called “pro-Mubarak supporters” have been unleashed to attack pro-democracy protesters in Cairo, Sarah Carr writes: The use of hired thugs is classic Mubarak. The regimeâs relationship with its people has always depended on intimidation and violence, which proved problematic with th ...

Watts Up With That?

  • RSS global temp drops, version change adjusts ...
    Remote Sensing Systems of Santa Rosa, CA has published the January 2011 global temperature anomaly. It is not far from zero, and dropped quickly much like Dr. Roy Spencer’s UAH data this month. But, there’s a surprise. RSS has changed … Continue reading →
  • The Temperature claims of 2010
    By Dr. David Whitehouse, The Global Warming Policy Foundation Now that the relevant data for the temperature of the Earthâs surface for the past year are available, it is instructive to examine the claims made by some that it was … Continue reading →
  • Has the BBC broken faith with the General Publ ...
    Guest Post by Barry Woods It is my opinion that the BBC in broadcasting the BBC 2 Horizon program ‘Science Under Attack’ did not treat the general public in the UK and at least one of the interviewees with the ’good faith’ that … Continue reading →
  • Obama administration ruled in contempt on dril ...
    Excerpt from Bloomberg: U.S. in Contempt Over Gulf Drill Ban, Judge Rules By Laurel Brubaker Calkins – Feb 3, 2011 11:53 AM PT The Obama Administration acted in contempt by continuing its deepwater-drilling moratorium after the policy was struck down, … Continue reading →
  • The Almost Friday Funny
    Josh from cartoonsbyjosh.com writes in that the emperor of the recent AMS convention has a new wardrobe… I assume the little people are deniers serfs.

Dandelion Salad

  • Robert Fisk: Obama Admin Has Been Gutless and ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Democracy Now! Feb. 3, 2011 Robert Fisk: Obama Administration Has Been Gutless and Cowardly in Dealing with the Mubarak Regime The renowned Middle East journalist speaks from Cairo on the historic uprising and how President Obama has lost an opportunity to ba ...
  • Kucinich: Does Treatment of Pfc. Bradley Manni ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich Washington Feb. 3, 2011 Questions Follow a Report that the Army Ignored Evidence of Mental Health Problems Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) yesterday wrote to Defense Secretary Robert Gates asking for information about repo ...
  • The Egyptian Tinderbox: How Banks and Investor ...
    by Ellen Brown Featured Writer Dandelion Salad webofdebt.com February 3, 2011 âWhat for a poor man is a crust, for a rich man is a securitized asset class.â — Futures trader Ann Berg, quoted in the UK Guardian Underlying the sudden, volatile uprising in Egypt and Tunisia is a growing global cris ...
  • A cautionary tale by William Blum
    by William Blum Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.killinghope.org 3 February, 2011 The Anti-Empire Report A cautionary tale In July of 1975 I went to Portugal because in April of the previous year a bloodless military coup had brought down the US-supported 48-year fascist regime of Portugal, t ...
  • “Following Orders” Never a Defense ...
    by Walter Brasch Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.walterbrasch.com February 3, 2011 A man who killed 100 sled dogs has received not a prison sentence but workers’ compensation from a British Columbia agency. The man successfully proved he suffered post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after ...

Your New Reality

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    Merry Christmas From Minsk
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    The Digital Nomad From the book Millennium: Winners and Losers in the Coming World Order :'(Electronic objects of leisure) like the laptop computer, are ubiquitous today, will help create a different human being. "'The memory card (ID card) will become the principal artificial li ...
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    See Robot. See Robot Run, at 1:24 : Not yet, but soon.
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    Riots Replace Protests A tense, compelling video from the heart of the recent London anti-austerity protest, otherwise known as DayX3 : Notice at about 1:50 a police paramedic, with a green cross on his should, can be seen also wielding a baton. The UK government, and London police, are so ...
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    Axis Of The Evil Dead How would NeoCons deal with the outbreak of a zombie uprising? Daniel W. Drezner at Foreign Policy takes a closer look : The neoconservative policy response to an undead uprising would be simple and direct. To paraphrase Robert Kagan, humans are from Earth, and zombies a ...

Wired - Science

  • Spring-Loaded Heels Gave Extra Step to Early H ...
    Stone Age people, unlike their Neandertal contemporaries, had heel bones spring-loaded for long runs, a new study suggests. Neandertals weren’t left in the dust, though. The backs of their feet gave them a leg up on power walking, say anthropologist David Raichlen of the University of Arizon ...
  • Beautiful Spiral Galaxy Has Oddly Flat Center
    This stunner of a galaxy, called NGC 3621, may look like a run-of-the-mill spiral galaxy. But closer observation shows that it’s missing the characteristic central bulge that marks most spiral galaxies. NGC 3621 is a fairly bright galaxy, easily visible to medium-sized telescopes, that lies abo ...
  • Mars’ Shifty Sand Dunes Knocked Down by Dry Ic ...
    Thought to be encased in a frozen, static crust, the Martian north pole is actually a dynamic place, with sand dunes skidding and sliding in spring. The dunes were first observed in the 1970s, spotted at edge of Mars’s north polar cap. They appeared to be frozen in place. Scientists figured the ...
  • World’s Most Powerful X-Ray Laser Illuminates ...
    In brilliant bursts of light from the world’s most powerful X-ray laser, physicists have taken snapshots of living viruses and see the 3-D shape of proteins frozen in nanometer-scale crystals. The technique is described Feb. 3 in two Nature papers, and the images are the first biological subjec ...
  • No Link Between Flu Vaccine and Paralyzing Dis ...
    Any speculation drawing an ongoing link between flu vaccination and the risk of a rare, paralyzing neuromuscular disorder has been dashed by a huge study. An analysis of side effects recorded among nearly 90 million people in China who were vaccinated during the 2009–2010 flu season found t ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Noam Chomsky: “This is the most remarkable reg ...
    A Democracy Now! interview on events in Tunisia and Egypt, and their background: Mubarak, peace and stability, the history of US involvement in the Middle East, the US military industrial complex,... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
  • Robert Fisk on Egypt
    Amy Goodman interviews Robert Fisk, who is in Cairo, on Democracy Now! The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...
  • Juan Cole: Mubarak defies a humiliated America ...
    Mubarak is taking his cues for impudence from the far rightwing government of Israeli PM Binyamin Netanyahu, which began the Middle Eastern custom of humiliating President Barack Obama with impunity.... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Amira Hass: When Israel’s protective net of ty ...
    The Israeli-made machinery of [occupation] repression has learned how to manufacture a protective net in the form of the Palestinian Authority. It does all it can not to upset the order of things, so... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Bashir Abu-Manneh: What’s Happening in Egypt?
    IOA Advisory Board member Bashir Abu-Manneh speaks about current events in Egypt. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Children's BMI Found To Rise the Longer Their ...
    A new study by an American University professor in the January/February issue of the journal Child Development has found that children's BMI rose the more years their mothers worked over their children's lifetimes.
  • New Induced Stem Cells May Unmask Cancer at Ea ...
    By coaxing healthy and diseased human bone marrow to become embryonic-like stem cells, a team of Wisconsin scientists has laid the groundwork for observing the onset of the blood cancer leukemia in the laboratory dish.
  • Vanderbilt Experts Weigh in on Legal & Busines ...
    Larry Van Horn, associate professor of health care management and executive director of health affairs at Owen, co-teaches a course with U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Tenn., on health care policy. His current research interests include nonprofit conduct, governance and objectives in health care market ...
  • Landmark Initiative to Reduce Healthcare-Assoc ...
    Older Americans who were treated in Michigan intensive care units (ICUs) saw larger decreases in their likelihood of dying while hospitalized than similar ICU patients in other Midwestern hospitals.
  • Aching Back Sends More than 3 Million to Emerg ...
    Roughly 3.4 million emergency department visits - an average of 9,400 a day - were specifically for back problems at U.S. hospitals in 2008.

Natural Health News

  • Hong Kong Architect Turns Shoebox Apartment In ...
    This award-winning Hong Kong architect fit 24 rooms, including a home cinema and ''spa'', into 344 square feet of apartment space.
  • 12 Signs That the Worst Housing Collapse in U. ...
    U.S. housing prices have fallen further during the current economic downturn than they did during the Great Depression.� Right now there is a gigantic mountain of unsold homes in the United States, but demand for unsold homes is at extremely low levels. Whether prices go down any further or not, ...
  • EPA to Set Limits on Amount of Rocket Fuel in ...
    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to set a limit on the amount of the chemical perchlorate and other toxic contaminants in drinking water.� This will reverse a 2008 decision made the George W. Bush administration. Perchlorate is used in fireworks, road flares, and rocket fuel.� ...
  • Ludicrous New Vaccine Recommendation
    Boys aged between 9 and 18 may soon be receiving the�human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine as part of their routine vaccinations.� The vaccine has been listed on the American Academy of Pediatrics' 2011 schedule of recommended vaccines for immunizations for children and teens. Other new recommenda ...
  • Delusional Pepsi CEO Says Doritos are Not Bad ...
    PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi said on Fox Business Channel's American Icon program that �Doritos are not bad for you.� ��She added that they are �nothing more than corn mashed up, fried up in oil, and flavored in the most delectable way.� Of course, one bag of Doritos clocks in at 1,350 calories, wit ...

Antemedius

  • "The True Face of Hosni Mubarak" is Now Being ...
    Democracy Now! Reports Live from Downtown Cairo: Reporting that "Violent clashes continue in Egypt. The most recent reports out of Cairo show that seven demonstrators have been killed and more than a thousand injured. Many of the pro-Mubarak agitators have been shown to be undercover security ...
  • Wall Street's Hand in Causing the Food Crisis ...
    MSNBC's Ed Schultz walks viewers through how hedge fund managers and commodities speculators in Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street financial firms did their part in contributing to the riots we're seeing in Egypt and across much of Africa and the Middle East by causing dramatic food price hikes ...
  • The Week in the Wild
    Headlines from The Wild Wild Left...the last Island on the "LEFT" in a Sea of Wildly Wrong Rightness...a Harbour of Sanity for Liberals, Progressives and Radical Leftists - Get Wild, Get Left - JOIN IN! ~Fake consultant asks Social Security: Where's Our Tahrir Square? ~Rusty1776 adds his poe ...
  • Ugh - President Obama Attends The Family's "Na ...
    Pic courtesy of archeoeric, Via Flickr It is the first Thursday in February, which means that “The Family” or as they like to be known publicly The Fellowship Foundation is holding its National Prayer Breakfast. As has been the case since the 1980’s there will be a wide variety of leading polit ...
  • Tonight We are ALL Egyptians 20110202 (Ich bin ...
    I know that many, many featured writers and other contributors have written about this subject, but I think that I have a bit of a different take on this subject than most have. I know that there are real, difficult, important, and political implications in this entire affair. I know that the ...

Climategate

  • Dean of science…suggesting rising seas t…
    Dean of science…suggesting rising seas this next century of up to 100 metres, or Al Gore six metres. When I see things like that I know these are false. You mentioned the IPCC report; that suggests, at worst on best scenarios, 59 centimetres. http://www.google.com
  • ABC science presenter Robyn Williams seeks mor ...
    ABC science presenter Robyn Williams who in 2007 believed seas could rise 100 meters, seeks more truth from scientists after Climategate.
  • How to avoid your own Climategate scandal
    What are the lessons of Climategate? More honesty and transparency in science? Not according to attorney Alan Nelson in the Guardian UK today.  To him, the lesson is how not to get caught next time. So how do universities and academics ensure that their correspondence does not become the “smoki ...
  • What is the “likelihood” that the 2007 IPCC Re ...
    A very interesting analysis of the IPPC Assessment and has some important questions that invite others to help him answer. Please read his article and let him know what conclusions you draw.
  • Schools call for a “balanced teaching of globa ...
    USA Today reports that US schools are finally calling for both sides of global warming to be taught, because it is after all, a theory -- not a fact:

Opinio Juris

  • Ben Wittes’ New Book, ‘Detention a ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson OJ’s friend and frequent interlocutor, Ben Wittes (of Lawfare blog, the Brookings Institution, and member of the Hoover Task Force on National Security and Law), has a new book out of Brookings Institution Press, Detention and Denial: The Case for Cand ...
  • Even More States Follow Oklahoma’s Prohi ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku It turns out that Oklahoma’s anti-international law/ sharia law amendment has started a trend.  According to this report, six states – Alaska, Arkansas, Indiana, Nebraska, South Carolina and Wyoming- are considering similar legislation. The National Center on Stat ...
  • No Right to Same-Sex Marriage in France
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku My French is pretty rusty, but I think that is the upshot of this decision from the Conseil Constitutionnel, France’s highest body for reviewing questions under the French Constitution.  As Maggie Gallagher, a leading opponent of same-sex marriage in the U.S. notes, ...
  • 2009 Digest of U.S. Practice in International ...
    by Duncan Hollis by Duncan Hollis The State Department this week released the 2009 volume of its Digest on U.S. Practice in International Law.  Kudos to Elizabeth Wilcox for continuing the long tradition of making these sorts of materials publicly available; as I’ve noted previously, I find ...
  • Vatican Sovereignty
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports that the Vatican has refused service of process in a widely-followed priest child abuse case.  The Vatican has refused service of a federal lawsuit over its handling of the notorious sex offender Father Lawrence Mu ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • 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...
  • RIP Chris Carter, Investigate columnist
    It's an odd thing, finding out on the radio news that your magazine's longest serving opinion columnist has passed away. What turns out to be his last column only hit the newsstands yesterday in the latest Investigate magazine: Chris Carter...

My Care2 Picks

  • California Prisoners Sentenced to Death by Wat ...
    The water at Kern Valley State Prison contains twice the federally accepted level of arsenic, a known carcinogen. But the 4,800 men imprisoned at the "state-of-the-art" Central California facility have no choice: they have to drink it.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...
  • Tropical Cyclones Attacking Australia
    Tropical Cyclone Yasi, recently upgraded to a category 5, the highest level of threat, is bearing down on Queensland Australia and the Great Barrier Reef with wind speeds likely exceeding 175 mph. Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Alarming NOAA data, Rapid Pole Shift
    Since 1860, the magnetic pole shift has more than doubled every 50 years.During the past 10 years, the magnetic north pole has shifted nearly half of the total distance of the past 50 years! IOW, the pole shift has apparently sped up substantiallySubmitted by John Farnham to Offbeat �|� �Note-i ...
  • An Experiment in Futility
    Discount the futile partisan punditry: the iron fist of consistent foreign domination still shows through the clouds of obfuscationSubmitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • A Guide: How Not To Say Stupid Stuff About Egy ...
    a handy list to keep you from offending Egyptians, Arabs and the world when you discuss, blog or talk about Egypt The library is safe thanks to Egypt�s youth, whether they be the staff of the Library or the representatives of the demonstratorsSubmitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� ...

Angry Indian News

  • US hatches Mubarak exit strategy as Egypt deat ...
    US hatches Mubarak exit strategy as Egypt death toll mounts | World news | The GuardianThe Obama administration is working on a plan in which the Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak, would stand down... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Mubarak claims Obama 'does not understand Egyp ...
    Mubarak claims Obama 'does not understand Egyptian culture' | World news | The Guardian: "Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak refused yesterday to bow to pressure at home and abroad to stand down... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • CIA Official: Obama Was Briefed On Egypt Insta ...
    CIA Official: Obama Was Briefed On Egypt Instability Late Last Year | TPMDC: "The U.S. intelligence community warned President Obama about instability in Egypt late last year, according to a CIA... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Ngöbé-Buglé unite against Panamanian mining co ...
    Ng�b�-Bugl�unite against Panamanian mining code changes | Media Co-op: "The political situation of indigenous peoples in Panama has become increasingly tense as the government debates modifying the... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • El Enemigo Comun - URGENT: International Campa ...
    El Enemigo Comun - URGENT: International Campaign in Defense of Wirikuta – Sacred Site of the Huicholes: "The Canadian transnational First Majestic has already begun the exploitation of the sacred... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Mubarak's 'Day of Departure' begins
    ShareThisMubarak's 'Day of Departure' begins 04 Feb 2011 Protesters in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, are staging a "Day of Departure" for President Hosni Mubarak. The Egyptian anti-government protesters have started the eleventh consecutive day of their demonstrations across the country to force ...
  • Fox News Team Severely Beaten, Hospitalized In ...
    ShareThisFox News Team Severely Beaten, Hospitalized In Cairo 03 Feb 2011 FOX 'News' Channel's veteran foreign correspondent Greg Palkot and his camerman Olaf Wiig have suffered severe injuries in Cairo while covering the unrest in the Egypt capital. Palkot was badly beaten and Wiig has a possib ...
  • Son of Jeffrey Skilling found dead
    ShareThisSon of Jeffrey Skilling found dead --'There were bottles of prescription medications found next to the body, but no suicide note.' 03 Feb 2011 The 20-year-old son of former Enron President Jeffrey Skilling has been found dead of unknown causes at his apartment in Southern California, po ...
  • 20,000 military members, vets faced foreclosur ...
    ShareThis20,000 military members, vets faced foreclosure in 2010 03 Feb 2011 More than 20,000 veterans, active-duty troops and reservists who took out special government-backed mortgages lost their homes last year -- the highest number since 2003. The rate of foreclosure filings in 2010 among 16 ...
  • Judge says jail for Bush whistle-blower protec ...
    ShareThisJudge says jail for Bush whistle-blower protector 03 Feb 2011 The former head of a whistle-blower protection office under President George W. Bush must spend at least a month in jail, according to a ruling by a federal judge that could threaten to derail the ex-official's plea deal. Sco ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

  • 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...
  • RIP Chris Carter, Investigate columnist
    It's an odd thing, finding out on the radio news that your magazine's longest serving opinion columnist has passed away. What turns out to be his last column only hit the newsstands yesterday in the latest Investigate magazine: Chris Carter...

Mondoweiss

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Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: Dr. Wakefield’s Imminent Vindicatio ...
    Dr. Andrew Wakefield’s 1998 Study demonstrated “anti-myelin antibodies and digestive tract pathologies in children with autism after being given the Urabi strain triple live virus MMR vaccine. All 12 children in the Study had intestinal abnormalities (known as Inflammatory Bowel Disease), with c ...
  • VRM: A Concise Compendium The Problem With Vac ...
    The advent of cloned DNA vaccines & Synthetic Genomics, backed by proponents of the Trans-humanist & Bioethics movements (this is a post-Darwinian view, in which the species has the power to direct its own evolution), has opened a Pandora’s Box spelling the inevitable death of natural immunity. ...
  • VRM: Medical Industry Data Proves Influenza Va ...
    The Influenza virus itself is constantly mutating from year to year. While mainstream doctors are traditionally divided, several prominent Studies have come forward in recent years challenging the Status Quo on the efficacy of the sacrosanct Flu shot & awakened an increasingly distrustf ...
  • VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 3 – ...
    For centuries humankind has depended on an inherent natural immunity to survive; adapting to environmental changes while overcoming mutable diseases, viruses, bacterial or biological threats & inter-species cross contamination. With the 21st Century advancement of high-tech laboratory ...
  • VRM: GlaxosmithKline Implicated In Systemic Cl ...
    ‘A psychiatrist on the payroll of GlaxoSmithKline has been sentenced to 13 months in prison after pleading guilty to committing research fraud in clinical trials for antidepressant Paxil. Palazzo enrolled children who did not actually suffer from major depressive or obsessive compulsive diso ...

B.C. Preppers Network

  • You Know You're Getting Old When...
    A few weeks back we received our new high-efficiency front loading LG washer and dryer set and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed by them. The set was only around $1000 (on sale) but I felt like I'd gone from a Chevette to a Cadillac when compared to our old set.� A cute little luxury fe ...
  • Control Your Home Thermostat On the Internet!
    Today a fellow from our natural gas company came by to install a new thermostat as part of the Peaksaver program that we signed up for.�If you haven't heard of Peaksaver, basically what it does is allow the Ontario government electricity provider to turn off your central air conditioner ...
  • Happy Day!: The Water Bill Arrived!
    After being shocked a few months ago with a water bill of over $240 I decided to do a few things to cut down on our water use We converted our main toilet to a dual-flush and installed a water saving device on the second (haven't switched it over to a dual yet). We also installed a new ...
  • Strawberry Picking
    Our family went strawberry picking this morning, it's a fun thing to do once in a while and I think it's a good way to help our 3-year old daughter realize where food comes from. While my wife picked berries with our oldest I went for a walk around the farm with our youngest in the stroller ...
  • Pioneer Solar: PV System For Free?
    I received a flyer from Pioneer Solar in the mail the other day which claims to help people get a solar system installed on their house, farm, or business for free. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, like most things there's good and bad points about it and what might be a good deal f ...

Michael Yon

  • The River - Part II
    “It had become a place of darkness. But there was in it one river especially, a mighty big river, that you could see on the map, resembling an immense snake uncoiled, with its head in the sea, its body curving at rest afar over a vast country, and its tail lost in the depths of the land. ...
  • Sangin Then, and Now
    2 February 2011 During the summer of 2009, the British were fighting hard for Sangin.� They were always outnumbered by Taliban and terrain.� Casualties were high. Today, US Marines are paying in blood for the very same ground because, in part, they gave up a miniscule speck of Afghanistan, and ...
  • An Artery of Opium a Vein of Taliban
    27 July 2009 Sangin, Afghanistan {loadposition user8}
  • Did Mubarak Flee?
    High USG source just told me Mubarak may have fled.� USG working to confirm.� US evacuation now very high priority. {loadposition user8}
  • Egypt Eruption
    I asked General (ret.) Barry McCaffrey for his thoughts on the evolving situation in Egypt: Egypt is a few steps short of a disaster.� The corrupt, incompetent regime will not survive. Most likely outcome--- the Generals take charge, announce a reform government, start� the process of respon ...

The Killing Train

  • More such philanthrocapitalism we shall be utt ...
    Philanthrocapitalism, a book by Bishop and Edwards, argues that philanthropy will help the public accept a new age of plutocracy (the rule by wealth). The rich are giving their money away so effectively, they say, that the public won't mind increasing inequality. read more
  • I am not a gadget
    Jaron Lanier, author of "You are not a gadget", is very well-informed about what he is writing about, which is some of the social consequences of the internet, and some of the implicit ideologies that are built into the internet as we are living with it today. Lanier was one of the early minds b ...
  • Raj Patel's "Value of Nothing"
    For various reasons I found myself with several hours on public transit and with Raj Patel's fine book "The Value of Nothing" in hand. I really liked a few things about it. First, it's a very readable summary of a lot of economic theories (and ideologies) that guide policies today. For a more ma ...
  • A short video on Toronto Star's recent G20 cov ...
    Three minutes on technology and protests, focusing on the Toronto Star's recent G20 coverage, especially Rosie DiManno's articles.
  • Thoughts on Nicholas Carr's "The Shallows"
    After a couple of recommendations from a couple of different directions, I read Nicholas Carr's "The Shallows: What the internet is doing to our brains". It combines neuroplasticity research (which I read about in Norman Doidge's "The Brain that Changes Itself") with ideas about a literary, prin ...

treehugger

  • Fast Food Advertising is On the Rise -- With a ...
    Image: FastFoodHealth.org via Babble.com It's definitely not news that America's children have an obesity problem and that it's largely due to fast food and junk/snack foods—nor is it a surprise that fast food rest...Read the full story on TreeHugger
  • How to Make Compost Tea & Why You Should
    Compost tea and seedlings. Image credit: sleepynecko, used under Creative Commons license. When I posted a video on how to make compost extractions, and later on how to make compost tea it awakened my interest in this lesser-known subset of composting and organic gardening. I already knew t ...
  • "Death Of A Forest" Documentary Details The Ki ...
    Trees that were removed after being killed by mountain pine beetles; Photo by Forest Service - Northern Region via Flickr Creative Commons The mountain pine beetle infestations are spreading. As filmmaker Michael Pellegatti states, "To date millions of acres of forests and billions of trees ...
  • George Bernard Shaw's Early Passivhaus
    TreeHugger has shown George Bernard Shaw's wonderful rotating writing hut before, and a number of rotating houses that follow the sun. But Greg Denisiuk of An Honest Architecture (via shedworking) makes a very interesting point; perhaps designers interested in
  • Top Tips for Attracting Green Investors
    The recession has been tough for many. But given the news that ethical consumerism bucked the economic downturn, and that clean tech companies are seeing massive job growth, now might just be the time for green-minded entrepreneurs to realize their sustainable dreams. But to do so, usually, ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Federal court hears new Voting Rights Act chal ...
    A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] heard arguments Wednesday on a new challenge to the Voting Rights Act of Act of 1965 (VRA) [materials]. Arguing before Judge John Bates, officials representing Shelby County, Alabama, together with a corps of cons ...
  • UK terrorism expert criticizes European court ...
    [JURIST] The UK government's independent reviewer of terror laws on Thursday published a report [text, PDF] saying that rulings from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) [official website] made it difficult to remove foreign terror suspects from Britain. Control orders [Guardian backgrounde ...
  • Kenya high court rules judicial appointments u ...
    [JURIST] Kenya's High Court of Nairobi [official website] ruled Thursday that recent judicial nominations by President Mwai Kibaki [official profile; JURIST news archive] are unconstitutional, halting parliament's approval proceedings. Agreeing with an earlier pronouncement [JURIST report] by Pr ...
  • California, Countrywide settle predatory lendi ...
    [JURIST] The Superior Court of California County of Los Angeles [official website] on Wednesday approved [opinion, PDF] a $6.5 million settlement between the state of California and two former Countrywide Financial Corporation executives accused of predatory lending. The lawsuit alleged that Cou ...
  • Sixth Circuit rules against Ten Commandments i ...
    [JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit [official website] on Wednesday upheld [opinion, PDF] a lower court ruling barring the Ten Commandments [JURIST news archive] from being displayed in an Ohio courthouse. The display, called "Philosophies of Law in Conflict," includes two col ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Congress Killed Multiple Bills Criticizing Egy ...
    President Obama and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak at a public appearance. Photo credit: White House In the past two years, at least three lawmakers have introduced non-binding bills calling for political reform in Egypt. Each bill died in committee without a vote. The Cable's J ...
  • Can Jon Huntsman Shake His Mormon Label?
    The recent Jon Huntsman presidential boomlet has produced plenty of theories about what the former Utah governor is thinking. Here's mine. Most people think someone with Huntsman's moderate positions couldn't capture the Republican nomination, since all the energy in the party right now is on th ...
  • Fred Karger Hits New Hampshire
    One of the more endearing 2012 candidates for president, openly gay Republican strategist Fred Karger (see a previous post here) gets profile treatment from The Washington Post today. Fred, who's been raising money toward a $5 million goal--in the hopes of getting on stage at national debates in ...
  • The Ongoing Repeal Saga
    Despite their failure to repeal the Democratic health care law, congressional Republicans aren't done holding votes on the matter. The Senate voted last night on repeal, as an amendment attached to the Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization bill. As expected, it failed in a 51-47 vote ...
  • By Jingo, Obama Was Not Fear-Mongering in the ...
    by Andrew Sprung In my last post, I celebrated the contrast between the potentially world-ending U.S.--Soviet rivalry that JFK evoked in his inaugural address and  more sublimated economic competition to which President Obama called the nation in his State of the Union address last we ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • IDF Chief of Staff Ashkenazi Faces Criminal In ...
    The campaign over who will be the next IDF chief of staff, already odd and dysfunctional, has taken a new turn for the bizarre.  Everyone who reaches out for this rose seems to get pricked. Several months ago, defense minister Barak began considering who would become the next chief of staff.   ...
  • Links for 2010-06-05 [Digg]
    MV Rachel Corrie Forcibly Seized by Israeli Navy, Towed to A Malaysian NGO funding Rachel Corrie trip to Gaza reports she was seized a few mintues ago by Israeli navy and is being towed to Ashdod.
  • Israel’s Supreme Court Confirms IDF General’s ...
    When Ehud Barak designated IDF general Yair Naveh to be deputy chief of staff, Yesh Gvul filed a complaint seeking an injunction barring Naveh from taking the position because of his approval of targeted assassinations of unarmed Palestinian militants.  It claimed, based on reports by Uri Blau ...
  • Cut Off U.S. Aid to Egypt–Now!
    The Obama administration seemed determined Wednesday to put as much daylight as possible between Mr. Obama and Mr. Mubarak, once considered an unshakable American supporter in a tumultuous region, with Mr. Gibbs once again raising the specter of a cutoff of American aid to the Mubarak government ...
  • Jobs to Demolish Jackling House Next Week
    Architecture preservationists have lost a major battle to save an important part of California’s historic legacy.  Steve Jobs, owner of Woodside’s Jackling House, built at the turn of the century by George Washington Smith (who designed many of the distinctive buildings of Santa Barbara and was ...

Ode Magazine

  • Harness a vocabulary of intention
    By: Nazia Mallick Are you using diminishing language in your speech and writing? The law of diminishing returns is defined as: "A point beyond which the application of additional sources yield less than proportional increases in output." In the same wa ...
  • A sustainable solution to unsafe drinking wate ...
    By: efriend For centuries, the town of Thimi, just outside of Kathmandu, Nepal, has been renowned for its pottery. Here, you will find family after family with the surname "Prajapati," identifying them with the traditional pottery-producing caste that ...
  • Lessons learned from war
    By: Charlie_Badenhop I have many fond memories of sitting in a small room in my wife’s grandmother’s house, sipping tea, and giving oba-chan the space to say whatever was on her mind. When I asked her about World War II, here’s what she had to say: ...
  • Kites for peace above Cairo
    By: Adriaan Wagenaar A Dutch journalist spotted kites in the sky above Cairo. After the fighter jets flying over Cairo last weekend to intimidate the protesting crowds, some protesters throwed their kites into the air above Cairo. Kites for peace. It reminded me to th ...
  • How to let your own light shine
    By: moneville There’s the real you, and your mistress - the work you. Sure, some folks are lucky enough to have manifested a real passion into their daily work lives; claiming no desire to tip toe around town in a wig and glasses, pretending to be s ...

OpEd News

  • Global Climate Change: Missing in Action
    Despite the fact that 2010 tied for the warmest year on record, President Obama made no mention of Global Climate Change in his January 25th State-of-the-Union remarks. Last summer an attempt to fashion a bi partisan Climate Change bill floundered in the Senate and since then prospects for Cong ...
  • A Bad Deal for Georgia's At-Risk Children
    Foster care for at-risk children is a vital need in America, but is sadly underfunded in the State of Georgia. The consequences include a severe lack of families willing and able to take on this challenging task. Future tragedies are likely to be the result.
  • Lawless FBI Intelligence Gathering Practices
    Ongoing government civil liberty violations
  • After Mubarak: What's Next?
    Real people power for change may in the end become betrayal.
  • Congressman Kucinich Calls for Unequivocal Sta ...
    Washington D.C. (February 1, 2011) As millions of peaceful protesters call for democratic reforms in the streets of Cairo, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today called for unequivocal solidarity with the Egyptian people.

Switchboard

  • LA's First Bus-Only Lane Hits Some Roadblocks
    There is no doubt that we need to start prioritizing public transit over cars, and quick.  In addition to emitting greenhouse gases, cars also emit ozone.  Ozone is an invisible gas that combines with oxygen and sunlight to form that icky brown stuff on the horizon that LA resident ...
  • The Economic Case for Better Transportation Po ...
    Yesterday I spoke to business entrepreneurs across the country�at a webinar for Environmental Entrepreneurs, alongside Aaron Klein, a Deputy Assistant Secretary at the Treasury Department. The topic? The economic benefits of renewed federal transportation policy. The presentations ...
  • Appliance Standards Create Jobs While Saving Y ...
    Last week, the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy and the Appliance Standards Awareness Project published a great report on the jobs created by national appliance energy efficiency standards. The report found that 340,000 jobs have been created to date by standards, w ...
  • Senator Turns Polluted Beach Vacation into a B ...
    Last summer, Florida State Senator Eleanor Sobel rented a house along the Florida coast to host visiting relatives. Her family was looking forward to a nice beach vacation, but when they went down to the water, they learned that local health officials had posted an advisory against ...
  • Leading Health Groups Oppose Upton's Proposal ...
    House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Fred Upton is ignoring Americans' support for the health protections from pollution and pushing a proposal that would allow power plants and other big plants to dump unlimited amounts of dangerous carbon pollution into our air. As I mention ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Palate Cleanser
    Well, had I known that a quickie post would lead to an infestation of trolls whose arguments make Althouse’s C+ junior high school civics class essays about the “marketplace of ideas” (in which there are immediate winners and losers!  Like voting day on American Idol!)  look like Mill, I would ...
  • Let’s Get Our Pecking Order Right, Peopl ...
    It is indeed well-known that Robert Wright and I are among the most powerful people in American politics, with the power to “suppress” someone’s free speech by suggesting that a credible news organization wouldn’t hire him (or, in my case, by not saying anything at all about him!)   However, a ...
  • Ann Althouse and the paranoid style
    One big problem in America today is that people like Glenn Beck are spouting a lot of bizarre conspiratorial paranoid nonsense in “respectable” high-profile media settings, because their employers have found that encouraging crazy people to regale millions of Americans with pernicious lunacy on ...
  • More on What “Free Speech” Means
    Since we seem to be getting some Althouse defenders in comments here, I suppose I should expand on a couple points: There are, indeed, “free speech” principles that go beyond simple government censorship.  When people are fired for expressing political views or having political associations th ...
  • Attempt to Define Some Rape As Not-Rape Remove ...
    Obviously, it’s a good thing that the particularly appalling language has been excised, but it shouldn’t be forgotten that the “arbitrarily deny poor women access to essential health care” bill is still a really, really bad one. And whether or not the language ends up being included, the attem ...

Desert Research Institute

  • 2010 DRI Annual Report
    The 2010 annual report is now available for download. This issue includes an interview with Executive Vice President for Research Dr. Terry Surles, our involvement with a large NSF grant to study climate change, an overview of the work in our divisions and centers, select researcher profiles, an ...
  • Tracking the Air Quality at Lake Tahoe
    In order to better understand the pollutant sources that are affecting Lake’s Tahoe’s water quality, Research Professor Hampden Kuhns, began studying Lake Tahoe in 2003 when he assembled the areas first emissions inventory. The inventory included local measurements using his TRAKER road ...
  • Building Concepts for Clarity
    Todd Mihevc has a knack for finding the right tools for the job, but he’s no handyman for hire. For 25 years, Mihevc, an Assistant Research Hydrogeologist at DRI, has been instrumental in developing equipment that surveys, studies, and samples water systems in Nevada. His latest research concern ...
  • Top Cited Article in the Journal of Human Evol ...
    Dr. Glenn Berger is lead author in top-cited article in Journal of Human Evolution. The article "Luminescence chronology of cave sediments at the Atapuerca paleoanthropological site, Spain" was the top-cited article published in the Journal of Human Evolution for the period of 2008 to 2010.
  • DRI Researcher Published in Nature Geoscience
    The atmosphere over the Dead Sea, researchers have found, is laden with oxidized mercury. Some of the highest levels of oxidized mercury ever observed outside the polar regions exist there.

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Obama's diverse bench
    Obama's successful nominees for district and circuit courts make up the most diverse group ever along racial, ethnic and gender lines, according to an analysis of Federal Judicial Center data.
  • The death knell for capital punishment?
    Death penalty opponents are allowing themselves to contemplate that a major Midwestern state, not known as light on crime, is about to take a dramatic stand against the death penalty.
  • LABOR & EMPLOYMENT: Courts split over calculat ...
    At issue is whether to divide by total hours or first 40; a petition is pending before the high court.
  • Judge rules oil spill compensation fund must t ...
    The plaintiffs' steering committee in the Gulf spill MDL won its second big win in a week when a judge ruled that a $20 billion fund set up for spill victims must tell claimants it is acting on behalf of BP.
  • Countrywide settles predatory lending case for ...
    California Attorney General Kamala Harris has settled a predatory lending case against two former senior executives of Countrywide Financial Corp. for $6.5 million.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • Groups File Federal Gas Drilling Lawsuit again ...
    Delaware River Basin Commission Served Notice Trenton, New Jersey —The Delaware Riverkeeper Network and Damascus Citizens for Sustainability have joined forces in filing a federal lawsuit against the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) in federal district court in Trenton, NJ. Complaints were ...
  • Oil and Gas Companies Illegally Using Diesel i ...
    By Adam Federman, Earth Island Journal Posted on February 1, 2011 The 2005 Bush-Cheney Energy Policy Act famously exempted hydraulic fracturing from the Safe Drinking Water Act. But it made one small exception: diesel fuel. The Policy Act states that the term “underground injection,” as it relat ...
  • PA DEP Fines Pennsylvania General Energy Co. L ...
    COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA Dept. of Environmental Protection Commonwealth News Bureau Room 308, Main Capitol Building Harrisburg PA., 17120 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 02/2/2011 CONTACT: Daniel T. Spadoni, Department of Environmental Protection North-central Regional Office 570-327-3659 DEP Fines Pe ...
  • Trout Unlimited to hold training session for M ...
    The following Trout Unlimited-sponsored training session is for those interested in learning about the signs and symptoms of trouble in the Marcellus Shale drilling areas, and to learn what’s normal when such activity is on-going. When: February 26, 2011 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM Where: Citizen’s ...
  • Changes Made to DEP’s Website
    FYI -  DEP has made a change to their website, making it a little harder to find violations of Oil & Gas drillers. From the DEP main page, you now have to click on “Latest News” tab - Violations are listed there now, along with the production data. Not hidden, just moved. You can also go ther ...

News Blaze

  • Cancer and Death: Are We Asking The Right Ques ...
    Professor Bruno Morgan, of the Department of Cancer Studies and Molecular Medicine, will discuss: 'Cancer and death: are we asking the right questions?'
  • CECAFA Secretary General Lauds Football Activi ...
    In a letter sent to Somali Football Federation on Thursday, Mr. Nicholas Musonye said that he appreciated the daily updates of football activities of Somalia.
  • Global Food Prices Rise to New Highs
    According to the FAO, its latest Food Price Index, a commodity basket that tracks monthly changes in global food prices, averaged 231 points in January and was up 3.4 per cent from December last year - the highest level since the age
  • Cancer and Death: Are We Asking The Right Ques ...
    Professor Bruno Morgan, of the Department of Cancer Studies and Molecular Medicine, will discuss: 'Cancer and death: are we asking the right questions?'
  • Ban Urges Implementation of 'Responsibility to ...
    Mr. Ban has made the 'responsibility to protect' a hallmark of his tenure, most recently telling a seminar on genocide prevention in December that prevention is a global responsibility - when States fail to protect their populations, the internati

environment 360

  • Photos of Isolated Tribe As Illegal Logging Cl ...
    The Brazilian government and the group Survival International have released photos of a so-called “uncontacted” tribe in the Brazilian Amazon that is threatened by the spread of illegal logging from nearby Click to enlarge Gleison Miranda/ FUNAI/SurvivalAn “uncontacted” tribe Western Brazil ...
  • Rapid Destruction of Peat Forests Documented b ...
    Using satellite images and other data, two conservation groups have documented the rapid destruction of peat forests and rainforests in Malaysia for the expansion of oil palm plantations. Wetlands International and the Netherlands-based remote sensing group, Sarvision, say Click to enlarge We ...
  • Mass Ocean Fertilization Unlikely to Significa ...
    The first comprehensive survey of plans to remove CO2 from the atmosphere by seeding the oceans with iron or other nutrients shows that even widespread fertilization would remove only modest amounts of CO2 from the air over the next century. The summary of existing studies said ocean fertilizati ...
  • New Map of CO2 Emissions Shows Rapid Growth in ...
    The Guardian has produced a new graphic showing the relative size of CO2 emissions by nation, with China and India experiencing significant growth in 2009, while emissions dropped in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Russia. With its CO2 emissions rising 13.3 percent Click to enlarge Mark McCorm ...
  • In Novel Approach to Fisheries, Fishermen Mana ...
    An increasingly productive way of restoring fisheries is based on the counter-intuitive concept of allowing fishermen to take charge of their own catch. But the success of this growing movement depends heavily on a strong leader who will look out not only for the fishermen, but for the resource ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Birds use quantum theory to literally 'see' Ea ...
    Birds may be able to ‘see’ the Earth’s electromagnetic field as they fly through the sky, scientists have suggested. Many creatures, including all birds, navigate by sensing the direction of the magnetic forces around our planet to guide them. But now researchers have found that different reacti ...
  • Live Coverage of the Egypt Riots - Al Jazeera ...
    The 2011 Egyptian protests or the Youth Revolution, are a series of street demonstrations, protests, and civil disobedience acts that have taken place in Egypt since 25 January 2011, with organisers counting on the Tunisian uprising to inspire the crowds to mobilize. The demonstrations and riots ...
  • Lightning and fire: Japan on alert after volca ...
    A one-mile cordon has been established around a volcano on Mount Kirishima after it erupted scattering rocks and ash across southern Japan and sending smoke billowing 5,000ft into the air.A small evacuation center was set up overnight in the town of Takaharu’People told us their windows were rat ...
  • Egypt unplugs Internet as protests loom; "unpr ...
    About a half-hour past midnight Friday morning in Egypt, the Internet went dead. Almost simultaneously, the handful of companies that pipe the Internet into and out of Egypt went dark as protesters were gearing up for a fresh round of demonstrations calling for the end of President Hosni Mubarak ...
  • Police trained that FEMA camps are perfectly n ...
    Picture it: You are sound asleep next to your spouse. Your children are safely tucked away in their bedrooms. Despite the chaos in the world which surrounds you -- the riots, the food shortages, the deadly pandemic, the nationwide power outage, and the apparent societal collapse -- you are safe ...

Russia Today

  • EU denies entry to dead Belarusian
    Belarusian media reports are full of sarcasm after a dead man’s name was found on the list of officials banned from entry to the European Union.
  • Flying donkey dies in Moscow
    A Donkey named Anapka, who received worldwide attention in July 2010 after a parasail ride over an Azov Sea beach, has died of old age at plush stables in Moscow.
  • Perception of past: Nazi collaborators divide ...
    The Ukrainian government’s top priority is to root out extremism throughout the country, but Ukrainian nationalists are going to great lengths to make their voices heard, even through the deliberate desecration of a...
  • Egypt protests enter ‘Final Friday’
    Egypt is braced for another day of turmoil as the opposition is calling for its supporters to go out on the streets in the latest attempt to force President Hosni Mubarak out of office.
  • This is how democracy happens – the West on Eg ...
    The US is reportedly in talks with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak about him resigning immediately. It follows numerous statements from American and European officials calling for the transition of power to begin now.

Dad2059′s Webzine of Science Fiction, Science Fact and Esoterica

  • Even Gary Bekkum is skeptical
    Gary Bekkum’s  STARpod.org’s site is usually replete with government conspiracies, psychic spies, hamsters, Bigelow’s Skinwalker Ranch, Laura Eisenhower’s Mars Colony and other wondrous esoteric oddities that it’s hard to believe that Gary could be skeptical of anything. But he is. He is very s ...
  • More Paracast: George Filer
    Yeah I know I’ve been lazy lately (or so it seems), but trust me on this one. You won’t be disappointed with this interview Gene Steinberg and co-host Chris O’Brien of the Paracast had with Eastern MUFON Director George Filer, who also has the website Filer’s Files (which caters to guess what? Y ...
  • The Paracast: Clifford Clift of MUFON
    This week’s Paracast with Gene Steinberg and Chris O’Brien is a conversation with MUFON International’s Clifford Clift. Subjects range from the nuts and bolts aspects of UFOs to the possible paranormal links with ghosts, angels, demons and Sasquatch. This was a down to earth and civil interview, ...
  • Bizarre Beachcoming: Review of the Codex Serap ...
    Dr. Beachcoming, that eccentric collector of all things of an exotic historical nature, reviews The Codex Seraphinianus,  a book written by Luigi Serafini that is purportedly about an alien world complete with language, customs, architecture, flora and fauna. Luigi Serafini, Codex Seraphinianus ...
  • Quantum DNA
    It’s been written that photosynthesis might be a quantum process. Now a paper appears that claims DNA itself is a quantum process: A Nobel Prize winning biologist has ignited controversy after publishing details of an experiment in which a fragment of DNA appeared to ‘teleport’ or imprint itsel ...

Tippers News

  • DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
    DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Three men helped starve kids, court tol
    Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
    The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • The real terrorist was me - US Soldier -
    The Truth from a American Soldier who fought in an Unjust WAR in Iraq; thankfully his conscience willed him to admit that it was just a war for the rich elite few to get richer and had nothing to do with Patriosm or Security of Americans.He is a True HeroSubmitted by Mary P. to US Politics & Gov ...
  • BRUTAL TRUTH Of IRAQ WAR
    'War' on any country is a 'Terrorist Act.' How can it be anything else?? People sit in their cosy homes; happy and Falsely believing that the soldiers are in a Patriotic War; Well see for yourself and ask Whats Patriotic about Suffering of Human Beings?Submitted by Mary P. to US Politics & Gov' ...

The Freeman

  • Wrong Lesson from Egypt
    One wrong conclusion to be drawn from the popular uprising against the dictatorship in Egypt is that the American government could ignore such things if we were “energy independent.”
  • Reed Op-ed in The Christian Science Monitor
    FEE President Lawrence W. Reed’s op-ed “The Deficit Americans Should Think about Most: Personal Character” is online at the The Christian Science Monitor. Here’s a teaser: [T]he deficit that matters most is not denominated in dollars at all. Its currency is of the heart and mind. It’s a manifest ...
  • Obamacare May Mandate Free Contraception
    “The Obama administration is examining whether the new health care law can be used to require insurance plans to offer contraceptives and other family planning services to women free of charge.” (New York Times) In political-speak, âfreeâ means âhidden costs imposed on everyone.â FEE Timely Clas ...
  • In Pentagon Contracting, Fraud Pays
    “Sen. Bernard Sanders says the Defense Department paid $285 billion over a three-year span to hundreds of military contractors who defrauded the Pentagon during the same period.” (Washington Times) Par for the course. FEE Timely Classic “Most Outrageous Government Waste” by Thomas A. Schatz
  • Cornfield Socialism
    If a key part of a genuine market economy is the full force of profit and loss, then subsidizing ethanol is anti-market.

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Web literacy: Should be required
    A student calls me on the phone. “Professor McAdams, I wonder if you could help me. I’ve never taken a class with you, but …” “Yes, what can I do for you?” I reply. “I bought my own website, but I’m not sure how to get my Web pages there.” From past experience, I know what I need to ask now. ...
  • Can journalism education rise to the challenge ...
    Most journalism programs face the same challenges: How to find, employ and retain faculty who are comfortable teaching new skills and techniques. How to provide equipment and software to students (especially with shrinking budgets). How to keep up with a rapidly changing field. Perhaps mos ...
  • HTML and CSS Resources for Teaching
    Every year around this time, I update the resources I use in teaching my advanced online design class. I know there are a million lists like these online. I try to keep mine short, simple and current. Also, I’m not teaching programmers or graphic design majors. My students are journalists. C ...
  • Visual narratives: Empirical data
    From a research study by two scholars at Stanford: In this paper, we investigate the design of narrative visualizations and identify techniques for telling stories with data graphics. We take an empirical approach, analyzing visualizations from online journalism, blogs, instructional videos, an ...
  • Teaching HTML and CSS to journalism students
    I’ve been looking at the open-source course materials for Web Design 1, from the WaSP InterACT curriculum project. I think these materials can easily be adapted for use in a journalism curriculum. The idea is to acquaint our students with the building blocks of the Web they use every day. For s ...

Facing South

  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The partisan fight over healt ...
    Date on which President Obama signed into law the Affordable Care Act implementing comprehensive health care reform: 3/23/2010 Date when a group of state attorneys general filed a lawsuit seeking to have the law declared unconstitutional in part because of its mandate that all Americans buy ins ...
  • Hexavalent chromium pollution linked to coal a ...
    The landmark $333 million court settlement that propelled legal researcher Erin Brockovich to environmental stardom involved the contamination of a California town's groundwater with hexavalent chromium, a toxic compound known to cause cancer. Now the same dangerous heavy metal, usual ...
  • Report: Voter ID laws 'unaffordable' for North ...
    Today, Facing South and the Institute for Southern Studies released an analysis [pdf] showing that a voter ID bill proposed by North Carolina Republicans could cost the state $20 million or more over the next three years, exacerbating the state's $3.7 billion budget gap. Drawing on data from ot ...
  • Machinists sue South Carolina governor for ant ...
    By Jenny Brown, Labor NotesAnti-union rhetoric and threats are emanating from new governors in several states, including Wisconsin, Ohio, and Florida. But none has been so explicit as South Carolina, where incoming Governor Nikki Haley has announced her determination to specifically ...
  • U.S. defense contractors with the most at stak ...
    Egypt -- where a popular uprising that began last week seeks the end to President Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule -- is the second-largest recipient of U.S. foreign aid after Israel. The Egyptian government receives about $2 billion a year from the United States, with most of that assist ...

Worldpress - Africa

Canadian Encyclopedia

  • Canadian Pacific Railway
    Commencement of a transcontinental railway within 2 years and completion within 10 years were conditions of British Columbia's entry into Confederation in 1871 (seeRAILWAY HISTORY). Competition for the lucrative contract for the
  • Group of Seven
    The Group of Seven was founded in 1920 as an organization of self-proclaimed modern artists. The original members - Franklin CARMICHAEL, Lawren HARRIS, A.Y. JACKSON, Franz JOHNSTON, Arthur LISMER, J.E.H. MACDONALD and F.H. VARLEY
  • War of 1812
    The war of 1812 was a military conflict between the United States and Great Britain. As a colony of Great Britain, Canada was swept up in the War of 1812 and was invaded a number of times by the Americans. The process of naming
  • Winnipeg General Strike
    The Winnipeg General Strike, 15 May-25 June 1919, was Canada's best-known general strike. Massive unemployment and inflation, the success of the Russian Revolution (1917), a wave of strikes across Canada and rising
  • Hydroelectricity
    Hydroelectricity is obtained from the ENERGY contained in falling water; it is a renewable, comparatively nonpolluting energy source and Canada's largest source of ELECTRIC-POWER GENERATION . In N America in the 1850s the

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle small scraps of yar ...
    We’ve had an email from Lauren: I’m a knitter but I can’t throw away the ends of yarn, not matter how small! I’ve got a carrier bag full of ball ends, some a couple of yards long, most less than a foot. Any ideas? The longer pieces could be used for the inner rings of [...]
  • Reducing, reusing and recycling links round-up
    It’s been a while since I did a round-up of some of my favourite reducing, reusing and recycling links so without further ado… I’m often amazed what fab things people can make from old toilet roll tubes and these are no exception – fake wrought iron artwork. A great idea – I’m going to make [... ...
  • Reducing waste after Christmas – our top ...
    So the big day is nearly upon us again. Hopefully you’ve already been busy upcycling random stuff into Christmas presents and recycled Christmas decorations – it’s easy to keep the green theme going after Christmas too. Give away unwanted gifts & replaced items Don’t wait until you spring clean ...
  • How can I freshen up a tired winter coat?
    A couple of weeks ago, I spotted an article someone was promoting on Twitter about “sprucing up your tired winter coat“. Ooh! I thought, I like sprucing! It’s a great way to upcycle & reduce after all — but when I clicked over to the article, I found the sprucing involved the addition of various ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle old brooms, brushes ...
    Following on from last week’s plastic dustbins and Monday’s broken ironing boards, Philip also suggested Brooms and rakes. I don’t know why, but people often throw out orphaned handles and heads of various garden tools. I simply play match maker. You can’t have too many garden tools on a farm. R ...

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Reality Asserts Itself

  • Drug Wars in Juarez Fuels Boom in El Paso
    My colleague Malak Behrouznami recently returned from Juarez Mexico where she grew up as a child. She as a wonderful heritage - her father is Iranian and her Mother is Mexican. She went Juarez for family and journalistic reasons. One of her objectives was to find out why Juarez has become a terr ...
  • PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI NEGOTIATIONS TO NOWHERE NO ...
    A few months ago when shooting a documentary in the Middle East, we met Zeina, a 13-year-old Palestinian living in a Beirut refugee camp. She was traumatized as she watched the Israeli Gaza war on television. It changed her life. She now thinks of revenge and cannot understand the Israeli childr ...
  • FROM JOE McCARTHY TO GLEN BECK – TIME TO END F ...
    I listened to Glen Becks "Restoring Honor" speech today hoping to find something of substance to write about. I found a stringing together of such empty phrases it does not bear discussion.  The more important issue is why a man whose megalomania seems to have no bounds can become such a phenome ...
  • PAKISTAN FLOODS AND A FAILED POLICY - UN Sec. ...
    Ban Ki Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, says of the flooding in Pakistan "The world has never seen such a disaster. It's much beyond anybody's imagination". At least 20 million people have lost their homes, more than 1600 have died, and disease and hunger will claim many, many mo ...
  • China and the end of the end of history
    Many economists and political analysts think the current recovery, as it's being called, is a rather temporary phenomenon. Many expect the recession to kick back in, and perhaps within a few years get much more serious. What does that mean in terms of the future of the world economy and world po ...

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • Tough cuts proposed for US science
    By Adam Mann When Republicans took control of the US House of Representatives at the beginning of this year, they promised to make cutting what they saw as an inflated federal budget their priority. True to their word, on 3 February Republican legislators released a miserly budget that includ ...
  • NIH launches elite programme for clinical rese ...
    The decline of a once-common species - the physician-scientist - has for decades been a subject of concern for those charged with steering the biomedical research enterprise. Now, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is announcing a new programme that will handsomely finance a small, select ...
  • Citizen scientists beat Kepler team to candida ...
    Amateur scientists combing through data released by NASA’s planet-finder, Kepler, may have discovered as many as 47 new candidates, says Debra Fischer, an astronomer at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, who is involved with the citizen science project at Planethunters.org. The site asks ...
  • Record droughts raise alarm over the Amazon
    The drought last year in the Amazon basin was even more widespread and intense than the supposedly once-in-a-century dry spell in 2005. The second extreme drought to have hit the region in five years raises concerns that world’s largest rain forest – a major sink for atmospheric carbon dioxid ...
  • US stem cell research harmed by uncertainty
    The legal tangle over the status of human embryonic stem cell research in the United States has slowed stem cell research as a whole, reports a survey released today in Cell Stem Cell. Aaron Levine, an analyst at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, asked 370 US scientists how ong ...

new geography

  • The Social Side of the Internet
    Is success in social networking measured by the number of �Friends� you have on Facebook, or �Followers� you have on Twitter, or �Connections� you make on LinkedIn?  The jury is still out on how social media and social networking will ultimately play out, but new research shows real benefit ...
  • The Death of Earmarks
    Record deficit spending in Washington has many faces: Defense, Medicare, Social Security. But none has received more criticism in recent months than the infamous and notorious earmark. Conjuring up images of “Bridges to Nowhere” or “Teapot Museums”, earmarks, or Congressionally Directed Funding, ...
  • The Midwest: Coming Back?
    Oh my name it is nothing My age it is less The country I come from Is called the Midwest �Bob Dylan, �With God on Our Side,� 1964 For nearly a half century since the Minnesota-raised Robert Zimmerman wrote those lines, the American Midwest has widely been seen as a �loser� region�a plac ...
  • Regional Exchange Rates: The Cost of Living in ...
    International travelers and expatriates have long known that currency exchange rates are not reliable indicators of purchasing power. For example, a traveler to France or Germany will notice that the dollar equivalent in Euros cannot buy as much as at home. Conversely, the traveler to China w ...
  • Why Most Americans are Both Liberal and Conser ...
    American politics is consumed by a bitter, at times violent, debate about the overall role of government and specific governmental programs. Pundits often frame this divide in terms of geography (red states versus blue states), ethnicity (Hispanics and blacks versus whites), class (rich versus ...

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  • U.S. Discussing Transition Plan with Egyptians
    The U.S. is the master of meet the new boss, same as the old boss, so watch as âdemocracyâ goes on to be basically Mubarak by other means… —Egypt Protests: Americaâs Secret Backing for Rebel Leaders Behind Uprising? Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm hmmmmmmmmmmmm. Via: Reuters: U.S. officials said on Thursday they ...
  • Vodafone Colluded with Egyptian Regime’s ...
    Via: AP: Egyptian authorities forced Vodafone to broadcast pro-government text messages during the protests that have rocked the country, the U.K.-based mobile company said Thursday. Micro-blogging site Twitter has been buzzing with screen grabs from Vodafone’s Egyptian customers showing text me ...
  • Free Pool of IPv4 Address Space Depleted
    Via: Number Resource Organization Press Release: The Number Resource Organization (NRO) announced today that the free pool of available IPv4 addresses is now fully depleted. On Monday, January 31, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) allocated two blocks of IPv4 address space to APNIC, ...
  • Blocking Internet Cost Egypt At Least $90M, Sa ...
    Via: Network World: The Egyptian government’s five-day block of Internet services cost the national economy at least US$90 million, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said Thursday. The Paris-based organization said telecommunications and Internet services account f ...
  • Egyptian Army Starts Rounding Up Journalists
    Via: AP: The Egyptian military rounded up journalists on Thursday after they came under attack from supporters of President Hosni Mubarak who have been assaulting anti-government protesters. The U.S. State Department condemned what it called a “concerted campaign to intimidate” foreign journalis ...

The Economic Collapse

  • Pissed Off!: 67 Percent Of Americans Are Dissa ...
    The American people are becoming increasingly angry about the extraordinary amount of power and influence that corporations have in the United States today.  A new Gallup poll found that 67 percent of Americans are dissatisfied with the size and influence of major corporations i ...
  • The More Americans That Go On Food Stamps The ...
    JP Morgan is the largest processor of food stamp benefits in the United States.  JP Morgan has contracted to provide food stamp debit cards in 26 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.  JP Morgan is paid for each case that it handles, so that means that the more Americans tha ...
  • Precious Metals: 10 Things To Know Before Jump ...
    As the global economy became increasingly unstable during 2010, investors all over the world flocked to precious metals such as gold, silver, copper and platinum.  The price of gold set an all-time record high last year, and gold investors were euphoric.  Many analysts are proje ...
  • Even Donald Trump Is Warning That An Economic ...
    In a shocking new interview, Donald Trump has gone farther than he ever has before in discussing a potential economic collapse in America.  Using phrases such as "you’re going to pay $25 for a loaf of bread pretty soon" and "we could end up being another Egypt", Trump explained ...
  • Nothing Is Stable Anymore
    The world is becoming a very unstable place, and the pace at which things are changing all around us has become absolutely mind-numbing.  In fact, change has become one of the only constants in today's world.  Once upon a time, people in the United States could actually make 20 ...

Desertification

  • Permaculture (Maddy HARLAND)
    A message from Maddy HARLAND on Facebook : “The new baby is born today !”  
  • The Man Who Stopped the Desert (Google / Clima ...
    Read at :  Google Alert – desertification http://www.climatefarming.com/page9.php The Man Who Stopped the Desert – trailer 1 Narrated by Hugh Quarshie www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dzah_5y65AU From a harsh, uncompromising land comes a story of hope… Yacouba Sawadogo, a peasant farmer from Africa has ...
  • A vast sandstone ‘habitable wall’, ...
    Read at : http://designstudies-ham12.blogspot.com/2011/02/sand-dune-architecture.html Sand Dune Architecture Swedish architect Magnus Larsson, and been working on and developing a simple idea that could prevent desertification, and improve the quality of life for those living in dry areas. He ha ...
  • Programmes to transform farming and develop it ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://thenationonlineng.net/web3/business/agriculture/26820.html Agro business opportunities in Zamfara (Nigeria) With vast arable land, Zamfara State prides itself as the “home of agriculture”. Nearly four million hectares of land are cultivated. This r ...
  • Remote sensing and geomatics will help prevent ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/Scientists-fuel-green-dreams-in-Rajs-deserts/articleshow/7421004.cms Scientists fuel green dreams in Raj’s deserts AJMER: A group of top scientists of the country are pooling in their minds here to help the s ...

The Paper Trail

  • Multiple Safety Failures Identified in Chemica ...
    A new report on a 2008 explosion at a West Virginia pesticide factory offers a chilling account that raises questions about safeguards at the plant.
  • Federal Judge with Medical Industry Investment ...
    U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson, who ruled Monday that the health care reform law is unconstitutional, holds financial investments in health and medicine worth as much as $75,000.
  • Newsmaker Interview:  Warren Says Congres ...
    Elizabeth Warren, the government’s top advocate on consumer financial issues, says that Congress needs to hold auto dealers to the same basic rules of fairness that apply to other financial institutions.
  • Potential 2012 GOP Slow to Enlist Big-Dollar L ...
    One strong sign of a politician’s interest in the presidential race is always the amount of early money raised. New rules for identifying lobbyist-bundlers show just two potential GOP candidates for the 2012 nomination reporting large bundled contributions from registered lobbyists in the 2009-2 ...
  • WikiLeaks More Effective Than SEC, Says Enron ...
    A former Enron accountant who blew the whistle on fraud at the energy giant says she doesn't trust the Securities and Exchange Commission to handle tips from company insiders, even though the agency plans to offer a generous new bounty for information about fraud.

backofthebook.ca

  • Clement leads anti-UBB forces down slippery sl ...
    By Frank Moher So, all you digerati who are celebrating this morning because the Conservatives have told the CRTC to rescind its decision on user based internet billing, or else: do you really want the federal government calling the shots on this? The Tories especially? One can't help but ...
  • Final Total for F-35?
    by Eric Pettifor When buying an SLR camera, the price of the unit is not the entire cost. Will you need additional lenses? Tripod? Camera case/bag? Filters? Additional media? Apparently it's the same thing when buying fighter jets. You can't just buy 65 ...
  • Bad Jokes are Good PR
    by Rachel Krueger Amy Chua is terrible at jokes.  She told one in early January about forcing her 7-year-old daughter to practice piano ‘right through dinner into the night’ with no breaks, and no one laughed.  Guys, the punchline is that the daughter got good at piano.  Honestly.   An ex ...
  • Stelmach resignation leaves old-school media i ...
    By Brian Brennan Can the mainstream print media successfully reinvent itself to become as relevant to news consumers in the digital age as it used to be back in the days when readers looked to their morning newspapers for authoritative coverage of the previous day's events? The question a ...
  • Mike Farnworth: gay matters
    By Dave Brindle Is BC ready for a story asking if it's ready for a gay leader? It's the story that Mike Farnworth, a leading contender to replace the deposed Carole James as leader of BC’s NDP, knew would be told before he announced his candidacy. A story that I, along with ...

Worldnews

  • HART SURPRISED BY CRITICISM
    Joe Hart insists there is no problem with his concentration level. The Manchester City goalkeeper has come under fire in recent weeks after mistakes have started to creep into his game. Hart was blamed for Birmingham's first equaliser in their 2-2 draw with City on Wednesday night which man ...
  • Hunger stunts Philippine children
    MANILA - A third of Philippine school children are stunted because poverty has forced them to eat too little food for years, according to a government study released this week. The latest findings of a rolling survey carried out for decades by the government's Food and Nutrition Research In ...
  • Anti-Mubarak activists call for another m ...
    CAIRO - Organizers of Egyptian protesters trying to topple the regime of President Hosni Mubarak have called on their supporters to fill every square in the capital on Friday, in the wake of two days of street battles between the pro- and anti-government camps that marked an ugly turn in th ...
  • Homeless People Without Enough To Eat Are ...
    Posted on: Friday, 4 February 2011, 00:32 CST Mass. General study is first to document association between food, use of health services Homeless people who do not get enough to eat use hospitals and emergency rooms at very high rates, according to a new study. One in four respondents to a n ...
  • Gisele Bundchen slammed for describing su ...
    �Gisele Bundchen Cancer experts have criticized Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen for describing sun lotion as "poison". Despite having previously starred in an advertising...

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Common Dreams

  • US 'Orderly Transition' in Egypt Really 'Busin ...
    by Asli Bali and Aziz RanaAs the Mubarak regime turns to violence in a vain attempt to repress the peaceful protests that have swept Egypt's streets for over ten days, the risks associated with current U.S. strategy for Egypt and the wider region continue to grow. In its response to the event ...
  • Mass Tree Deaths Prompt Fears of Amazon 'Clima ...
    by Damian CarringtonBillions of trees died in the record drought that struck the Amazon in 2010, raising fears that the vast forest is on the verge of a tipping point, where it will stop absorbing greenhouse gas emissions and instead increase them.read more
  • Egypt's 'Final Push' Protests Begin
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  • Supporters of Hosni Mubarak Attack Foreign Jou ...
    by Mark TranSupporters of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak beat up several journalists after going on the offensive today.read more
  • Egypt: Litany of Abuses Fueled Protesters' Fur ...
    by Jasmin Ramsey and Aprille Muscara WASHINGTON - In Egypt, where protestors continued to demonstrate Tuesday for the eighth day in a row, the use of torture by law enforcement officials over the past two decades has contributed to the growing unrest, rights groups say. ...

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Energy Collective

Green House - USA Today

  • NASA research center goes ultragreen
    Ceiling panels that cool the air? Windows and shades that open automatically? A constant LCD display of energy use? These are some of the nifty features in NASA's new lunar-shaped office building that opens this spring in Moffett Field, Calif.
  • EPA to limit rocket fuel chemical in tap water
    The Obama administration announced Wednesday that it will develop first drinking water standard for a toxic rocket fuel ingredient linked to thyroid problems in pregnant women and young children.
  • Yellow Pages offers opt-out website for phone ...
    Don't want thick phone books delivered to your house anymore? The Yellow Pages industry is now offering an upgraded, user-friendly website to make it easier for consumers to opt-out or limit deliveries.
  • Could you live with six pairs of shoes? Mom sp ...
    Be honest -- how many pairs of shoes do you have? How many do you actually wear? Several Green House readers expressed shock that a California mom who, in an effort to simplify her life, has only six pairs of shoes.
  • U.S. companies take bold greening efforts in 2 ...
    In a dramatic shift, U.S. companies are making b0lder and longer-term commitments to green their businesses despite a challenging economy, says a report Tuesday.

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

  • Egyptians Ready, Americans Unready
    Joel S. Hirschhorn As I am glued to cable stations showing the street battles in Egypt all I keep thinking about is how Egyptians have mustered the courage to fight their government’s tyranny while Americans remain unready to revolt against the peculiar American brand of tyranny. Of course, th ...
  • Lawless FBI Intelligence Gathering Practices
    by Stephen Lendman A new Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) report titled, "Patterns of Misconduct: FBI Intelligence Violations from 2001 - 2008" based its findings on nearly 2,500 FOIA-obtained document pages, revealing "alarming (lawless) trends...." They suggest far more frequent ci ...
  • Netanyahu & Co. must be proud of Mubarak and h ...
    by Alan Hart For many years I believed that Israel’s leaders have no equals in the business of saying one thing and doing another. But Mubarak has proved me wrong. He went on television to tell Egyptians that he would be staying on for some months because only he could restore stability and s ...
  • After Mubarak: What's Next?
    by Stephen Lendman The line from Gilbert & Sullivan's HMS Pinafore relates well to what's going on in Egypt, perhaps elsewhere in the region as well, saying: "Things are seldom as they seem. Skim milk masquerades as cream." Visceral street anger is real. What's orchestrating it, however, ...
  • Wake Up Call for U.S. Empire, Egypt an Opportu ...
    By Kevin Zeese Egypt is an alarm that highlights the urgent need for change in U.S. foreign policy. It provides President Obama an opportunity to transform a foreign policy that has often had the opposite effect that was sought and is undermining U.S. economic and national security. The list ...

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