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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

April 26 - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

To Do

renewable recycling conservation
Fotowatio Breaks Ground on Webberville Solar Plant in Texas
Bloomberg
- Apr 26, 2011
- 2 hours ago
RES Americas Inc., a unit of UK-based Renewable Energy Systems Ltd., will build the Webberville Solar plant and provide maintenance services for five years, Fotowatio Renewable Ventures Inc., said today in a statement. Austin Energy agreed to purchase ...
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Boeing Has A Big New Solar Paneled Roof
EarthTechling
- Apr 26, 2011
- 2 hours ago
The utility will then supplement the solar energy with power from its system resources, coupled with renewable energy certificates from its renewable generating facility. Interestingly enough, some controversy surrounds Boeing's South Carolina assembly ...
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Google Servers Powered Increasingly by Wind
Reuters
- Apr 26, 2011
- 1 hour ago
By SustainableBusiness at Matter Network Google signed a second power purchase agreement (PPA) to increase the share of electricity it consumes in its data centers from renewable energy. Under a PPA, companies sign a 20 year agreement which locks in ...
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Can Renewable Energy Park really create 11000 jobs?
Tbo.com
- Apr 26, 2011
- 8 hours ago
This tract of land is the site of the Infinitus Renewable Energy Park off State Road 60 in Dover. By MICHAEL SASSO | The Tampa Tribune TAMPA - The proposed Infinitus Renewable Energy Park seems like a dream development for Dover, a rural area east of ...
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Human Habitat

ecology water energy
Cold case: Siberian hot springs reveal ancient ecology
Eureka! Science News
- Apr 26, 2011
- 30 minutes ago
Exotic bacteria that do not rely on oxygen may have played an important role in determining the composition of Earth's early atmosphere, according to a theory that UChicago researcher Albert Colman is testing in the scalding hot springs of a volcanic ...
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Ecology and Environment, Inc. Promotes Cheryl A. Karpowicz to Senior Vice ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)
- Apr 26, 2011
- 20 minutes ago
LANCASTER, NY -- (Marketwire) -- 04/26/11 -- Fueled by continuing global and domestic growth, Ecology and Environment, Inc. (E & E) (NASDAQ: EEI) is pleased to announce that Cheryl A. Karpowicz, AICP, has been promoted to Senior Vice President and ...
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Zipcar adds more vehicles in Santa Cruz
San Jose Mercury News
- Apr 25, 2011
- 18 hours ago
Monday, Ecology Action announced that three more cars are hitting the streets: two near Whole Foods on Soquel Avenue and another at Olive and Mission streets on Santa Cruz's Westside, bringing the total to nine. "(Zipcars) launch into a community and ...
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Topanga Earth Day Celebrates Community, Ecology and Music
Patch.com
- Apr 26, 2011
- 14 hours ago
The festival draws a large crowd and features a special appearance by a original member of the Grateful Dead in a grand finale performance. By Reza Gostar and Shawna Burreson | Email the authors | 7:14pm Among the throngs of people who descended upon ...
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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • U.N. Role Questioned in Camp Ashraf Massacre
    Two weeks after an attack by Iraqi security forces against Camp Ashraf, a base for Iranian exiles, killed 34 people and left over 300 injured, international and humanitarian law experts have urged the U.N. to conduct an impartial investigation regarding the role of Prime Minister Nouri ...
  • Friends or Foes, Syria's Neighbours Wary of As ...
    As Syria accelerates a violent crackdown on opposition demonstrators, the country's rising instability and uncertain future are already reverberating beyond its borders in Iran, Israel, Lebanon and the Arab states of the Persian Gulf.
  • Q&A: "Brazil Doesn't Need Poisons to Maintain ...
    Brazil could give up its dubious rank as the world's number one consumer of agrochemicals without decreasing the amount of food it produces for its own people, according to Jo�o Pedro St�dile, leader of the Landless Workers Movement (MST).
  • OP-ED: Maternal Meltdown From Chernobyl to Fuk ...
    On this day 25 years ago, a massive explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine released clouds of radioactive particles into the atmosphere across Russia and Europe. The catastrophe had lasting effects on people's health, particularly on women and their unborn children. On ...
  • MIDEAST: Israel Awaits Palestinian ‘Tsunami'
    A small rally by prominent Israeli left-wing intellectuals in support of Palestinian statehood revived the dormant debate about the morality and sustainability of Israel's 43-year occupation. Neither the choice of site nor timing was coincidental.

Scoop - NZ

  • Post-quake: Eco or Transition towns?
    It is essential to build back better after the tsunami and to create liveable, eco-friendly towns through the participation of the local people.
  • Libya: Mission Creak | Guardian Editorial
    There are now two options: digging in for the long haul in the expectation that the rebels will one day become a fighting force. This would mean that the steps we saw yesterday would not be the last, as Nato ratchets up its presence in the air and on the ground. The second option is to go back t ...
  • Arming Libyan Rebels: Illegal in International Law
    Barak Obama's call to remove Gadaffi is illegal under international law. International law has longstanding and tolerably clear rules on foreign intervention in internal conflicts. A state may, if invited, assist the government of another state to suppress a minor rebellion or domestic unrest ...
  • At-risk Cantabrians Face Stiff Winter | Stuff. ...
    Overcrowding, cold housing and increased unemployment may be creating a "perfect storm" for Canterbury health services. Cold weather and flu cases have officials scrambling to help Cantabrians stay warm and healthy this winter. Christchurch Hospital will be operating with about 40 fewer b ...
  • Beyond the Oil Spill, the Tragedy of an Ailing ...
    The continuing disastrous consequences of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico

Independent - London

  • Syria could face sanctions, says Hague
    Foreign Secretary William Hague warned that Syria was at a "fork in the road" tonight, amid widespread condemnation of the regime's bloody repression of protests.
  • Arrests and gunfire reported in Syrian crackdown
    Residents of the southern Syrian city of Daraa braved sniper fire today to pull the bullet-riddled bodies of the dead from the streets and hide them from security forces, a day after a brutal government crackdown on the popular revolt against President Bashar Assad, witnesses said.
  • Afghan forces recapture 71 Taliban prisoners
    The massive security breach that allowed the Taliban to spirit more than 480 Afghan inmates out southern Afghanistan's largest prison must have involved inside collaborators, the Justice Ministry said Tuesday, as security forces worked to recapture the escaped convicts.
  • Turkey wants Bosnia and Serbia to join Nato
    Turkey wants to help turn the war-ravaged Balkans into a region of cooperation with a joint future in the European Union and Nato, Turkish president said Today, as part of his country's increased involvement in the region where it has historic influence.
  • Taliban prison escape is 'a disaster'
    The escape of hundreds of Taliban prisoners from an Afghan jail is a "disaster", a Foreign Office minister said today.

Rogue Government.com

Innovation Canada

  • Manitoba gets physical
    Jonathan McGavock is unequivocal and unapologetic. He’s seriously worried about the next generation of Canadian kids. “Ninety percent are physically inactive, with 25 to 30 percent being overweight or obese,” says the University of Manitoba researcher. “Chronic medical conditions like type 2 dia ...
  • Designing consumers
    Jake Nickell and Jacob DeHart have made millions selling unique artistic T-shirts. The kicker is, they didn’t even design them. The duo owns Threadless, a profitable online community where users post T-shirt designs, vote on their favourites and then buy them. For coordinating the process, Inc. ...
  • Sharing culture
  • Targeting tumours
    Targeting a cancerous tumour with localized, high-concentration chemotherapy drugs can be an effective way of destroying a tumour, but surrounding healthy tissue often gets damaged in the process. Now, thanks to a world-first in remote-controlled delivery of anti-cancer drugs developed at École ...
  • Search for the stellar smoking gun
    When big stars go boom, they are like really, really big guns — they leave behind a telltale smoke signal and a path of destruction. Understanding the forensic evidence from just a puff of smoke might sound near impossible, but for Samar Safi-Harb, it’s just another day at the office. Originally ...

Signs of the times

  • Guantánamo Bay files: Children and senile ...
    Canadian Omar Khadr was 15 when captured and is still there after nearly nine years, while men as old as 89 have been held Footage from the interrogation of Omar Khadr, who was taken to Guant�namo Bay aged 15 The Guant�namo files reveal the often fragile physical and mental condition of Guan ...
  • What are IQ tests really measuring?
    When the average person thinks of an IQ test, they think of a measurement of intelligence. A test designed to find those of high intelligence who will go on to succeed in academics and employment. While the question has long been debated by researchers as to what exactly the IQ test measures, a ...
  • Seven injured, rooms destroyed: Mysterious bla ...
    At least seven policemen were wounded, two of them seriously, in a series of mysterious blasts inside Gulbahar police station on the main G.T. Road here on Monday, police said. They said that the explosions also destroyed two rooms on the first floor and smashed windowpanes of the entire buildi ...
  • Higher levels of social activity decrease the ...
    If you want to keep your brain healthy, it turns out that visiting friends, attending parties, and even going to church might be just as good for you as crossword puzzles. According to research conducted at Rush University Medical Center, frequent social activity may help to prevent or delay ...
  • Laying bare the not-so-sweet tale of a sugar a ...
    Scientists close in on molecular moves that let tumor cells act as stowaways in lymphatic system. Cancer has a mighty big bag of tricks that it uses to evade the body's natural defense mechanisms and proliferate. Among those tricks is one that allows tumor cells to turn the intricate and exten ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • What a way to go . . .
    The Euthanasia Coaster. “Euthanasia Coaster” is a hypothetical euthanasia machine in the form of a roller coaster engineered to humanely – with elegance and euphoria – take the life of a human being. Riding the coaster’s track, the rider is subjected to a series of intensive motion elements tha ...
  • Way cool . . .
    $5,800.00, unfortunately.
  • Stephen Harper might well be...
    ...the best thing ever to happen to the federal NDP. I believe this is called a boomerang effect.
  • Iggy gettin' it?
    "This not about me...this is not about Liberal Party of Canada" means sweet fuck all if Mr. Ignatieff isn't willing to compromise on a coalition with the other parties should the Conservatives find themselves with yet another minority win. If the Liberal leader (and the rest of them for that ...
  • Pillow talk, baby...
    Does anyone out there really think that what politicians say during an election isn't more than pillow talk? The NDP is presently being attacked for critically commenting on its own platform. Do you want the parties to promise you the stars, or tell you realistically what they might and might ...

Media Matters for America

  • Fox's Varney Falsely Claims "Virtually Nothing ...
    On The O'Reilly Factor, Fox Business host Stuart Varney claimed that subsidies for wind and solar power have resulted in "[v]irtually nothing." In fact, reports show that wind and solar power are rapidly growing sources of electric power in the United States.Stuart Varney Dismisses Benefits Of ...
  • "Let Them Default": Right-Wing Media Cheerlead ...
    Right-wing media figures have dismissed the consequences of defaulting on America's debt. Yet experts agree that if the U.S. were to default as a result of not raising the debt ceiling, it would have a catastrophic effect on the economic recovery.Right-Wing Media Figures Cheerlead For Default ...
  • Glenn Beck Versus Glenn Beck On Regulating Hed ...
    While demonizing George Soros, Glenn Beck has recently complained that hedge funds are unregulated. However, Beck�previously demagogued efforts to regulate hedge funds, claiming it was part of an effort to "expand the reach" of government.Beck�Astonished That Hedge Funds Are Unregulated Beck: ...
  • Irony: Hannity Special On "Liberal Bias" Featu ...
    Sean Hannity devoted an episode of his Fox News show to an hour-long special on what he claimed was the media's "liberal bias." However, several of the quotes he used as examples of this purported bias were deceptively cropped to leave out crucial context.Hannity Promises "Close-Up Look" At Med ...
  • Fox & Friends Cherry-Picks, Disto ...
    A Fox & Friends graphic purporting to show gas prices in selected states all over the country featured the seven states and areas with the country's highest average gas prices and displayed prices that were significantly above each state's respective average.Fox & Friends Displays "Soaring Gas ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Brilliant & Moving: Lawrence O'Donnell on The ...
    Last night on The Final Word, Lawrence O'Donnell conducted an interview with the Reverend Franklin Graham that made me grateful that I am not a Christian. Graham, one of the most influential ministers in the United States, is an ignoramus and a bigot. Although we Jews are cursed with plenty of ...
  • Deficit Fever: Loon Tune Time Among the Elite
    We already knew that the folks involved in debating and designing economic policy had a weak understanding of economics, that is why they couldn't see the $8 trillion housing bubble that wrecked the economy, but now it seems that they are breaking their ties to reality altogether. The country is ...
  • September
    I can't prove this, but I sense (forgive me) a paradigm shift among Israelis, a new way of talking to accommodate the anomalies emerging from the old puzzle pieces--you know, the puzzle that begins with "Zionism" and ends with "Iran." The biggest anomaly is "September." The reference, of cou ...
  • The Other Secret To Donald Trump's Rise
    It's pretty obvious that the main reason Donald Trump is doing so well in the polls (among Republicans) is that he is openly appealing to racism. Say what you will about the other GOP "hopefuls," none of them (not even Palin, Bachmann, or Santorum) is openly using the President's race as the ce ...
  • 1967 Borders: Disruptive Innovation
    Suddenly, it seems a forgone conclusion that the White House will be presenting a plan of some sort in advance of Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to a joint session of Congress in May. For those of us who have been advocating for something along these lines, this should be welcome news. But all of t ...

TruthOut

  • Congress Must Debate the Libya War
    The US is now at war in a third Muslim country, according to the "official tally" (that is, counting Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, but not Pakistan or Yemen, for example.) But Congress has never authorized or debated the US military intervention in Libya. (A sharply disputed claim holds that the ...
  • News in Brief: Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wrigh ...
    Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wright Among 30 Arrested for Protesting Against Abuse of Bradley Manningread more
  • In This Nuclear World, What Is the Meaning of ...
    In a nuclear crisis, life becomes a nightmare for those people trying to make sense of the uncertainties. Imaginably, the questions are endless. Radiation is invisible, how do you know when you are in danger? How long will this danger persist? How can you reduce the hazard to yourself and famil ...
  • Richard D. Wolff: "Personal Debts" (Video)
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  • Charmed Into Battle: How a Volunteering Vacati ...
    About to turn thirty, Conor Grennan planned a year-long trip around the world. He started his trip with a three-month stint volunteering in the Little Princes Orphanage in war-torn Nepal. What was supposed to be just a three-month experience changed Conor's life, and the lives of countless other ...

Planetsave

  • Earth Day Humor from someecards {11 cards}
    Oh, I seriously should have checked someecards for good Earth Day e-cards before Earth Day, but caught up in other things, I didn't think about it. Joe Romm of Climate Progress posted a bunch, though, and I'm going to re-share them and a few more here. Too good.
  • Mount St. Helens Rebirth [Photo of the Day]
    This utterly spectacular image was acquired by Landsat 7 and provided courtesy of NASA, showing Mount St. Helens. The image was actually taken on August 22, 1999, nearly 20 years after Mount St. Helens exploded, killing few but causing billions of property damage.
  • Eco-Friendly Options for the Deceased
    Yeah, the deceased don't do a lot of driving or use a lot of electricity, so they are pretty green as it goes. But a number of folks are choosing options that make them even greener. More and more are choosing to put ashes of the deceased in fully biodegradable, eco-friendly cremation urns.
  • Our Amazing Earth {BEAUTIFUL VIDEO}
    Here's a beautiful video of our wondrous Earth that my brother recently shared with me (I turned the volume off -- would have chosen a different soundtrack)
  • Feds to Monsanto: “F*ck yourself!” (cartoon)
    Cartoonist’s note: This is not how the conversation went–but a guy can dream. Read Tom Philpott’s article on Grist, for more information on Monsanto’s latest victory: USDA moves to let Monsanto perform its own environmental impact studies on GMOs Joe’s cartoon archive and twitter ramblings…

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Digesting Half-Truths: Dietary restrictions du ...
    Oscar-nominated director Tim Hetherington and Pulitzer finalist photojournalist Chris Hondros, both killed in Libya last week (4/20/11), were eulogized on the Democracy Now by show host Amy Goodman. Carroll Bogert of Human Rights Watch, who worked closely with Hetherington commissioning and diss ...
  • Capitalism and Class Struggle - Critical Analysis
    Introduction The class struggle continues to play a central role in the process of capitalist accumulation, albeit it takes different forms depending on the socio-economic context. In order to map out the unfolding of the class struggle it is necessary to specify key concepts related to the ( ...
  • Controversy in Venezuela over Arrest of Altern ...
    Mérida, April 25th 2011 – At the request of the Colombian government, the Venezuelan government has arrested and says it will soon deport a supposed ex-FARC leader and alternative journalist, Joaquin Perez Becerra, despite opposition to the deportation from many groups on the Venezuelan left. ...
  • 'US knew Guantanamo detainees were innocent' - ...
    The United States held hundreds of inmates who were either totally innocent or low-risk for years and released dozens of "high-risk" Guantanamo inmates, according to leaked classified files. The new leaks reveal that inmates were held without trial on the basis of often seriously flawed informat ...
  • 'No sign Gaddafi bombed Tripoli - NATO wages w ...
    ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Economic Desperation Erases Opposition to Indu ...
    For Kentucky's first two centuries, its number one crop was hemp. A renewable source of livestock feed, plus material for paper, rope, cloth, cosmetics and dozens of other products, hemp is a Kentucky native - a weed growing wild and needing virtually no maintenance. If you could grow just one c ...
  • Pat Robertson... What Can You Say?
    They say that the only two sure things in this world are death and taxes. �I propose we amend that to Death, Taxes and no matter what's going on in the world this wrinkled old wallaby scrotum is going to have some something totally incoherent or outrageously stupid... or both... to say about it. ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    Did we say "double down" yesterday? Then this is all-out. "Syrian troops backed by tanks and heavy armour have stormed the southern town of Deraa and also Douma, a suburb of the capital Damascus, resulting in many deaths and dozens of arrests. Security forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad, the countr ...
  • The Budget-Balancing Plan Everyone Is Ignoring
    Yes, it's Rachel Maddow Day here at They Gave Us A Republic ... - you got a problem with that? Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
  • Franklin Graham Interview Reminds Me: Maybe It ...
    Did I hear somebody mention the First Amendment after reading that title? Here's the text: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to as ...

Care 2

  • Kelowna man charged with animal cruelty for ab ...
    On March 14, a surveillance video shows a man in a black truck arriving at the shelter and dragging a dog by her leash that obviously could not walk, tied her to a post, and left. The SPCA staff arrived early in the morning and found the critically ill doSubmitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� ...
  • Help Preserve Our National Forests ! PLEASE TA ...
    The Obama Administration is updating the guides that US Forest Service officials use to manage our national forests. Recently, they released a draft guide. The draft is missing key components for environmentally friendly forest management.Submitted by Cher C. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �A ...
  • Resistance to Gas Drilling Rises on Unlikely Soil
    On Wednesday, several dozen protesters marched through downtown Fort Worth, waving signs and chanting anti-drilling slogans that reflected concern over air and water pollution. The anxiety centers on a recently expanded drilling method called hydrauliSubmitted by Norm C. to Environment ...
  • Deny convicted animal abuser Albert Colburn's ...
    Convicted of 11 counts of animal abuse in 2010 for the house of horrors found by investigators on his property, Albert Colburn of Middleton, NH is now trying to get around the order that he not own an animal for 3 years by attempting to apply for aSubmitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! � ...
  • Please save Fukushima farm animals ! PLEASE TA ...
    On April 24th the Fukushima government decided to euthanize farm animals who were severely ill, injured or in distress within a 20 km (12 mile) radius (the no go zone) of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • What’s the Big Stink About Trump?
    I find it odd that progressives and conservatives alike are so preoccupied with Donald Trump’s potential run for the Presidency while at the same time averring from the depths of their collective beings that he would have no merit as a candidate. Whether he would make a good or horrible presiden ...
  • Oh My, Obama’s Stern Words–Finger Wag Next?
    Teddy Roosevelt lives on in history as the guy who spoke softly but carried a big stick. You understand the concept, right? You don’t threaten, you don’t yell, you just do. Well, little Barry Obama is clearly no student of history and does not understand that he is now the laughingstock of the w ...
  • Great Morning Reads
    This is but a quick note to share with you two very different but fascinating finds on the ‘net. Most timely and critical is Pat Lang’s pithy essay today on the state of the struggle in Libya: “#Qathafi’s Army is an Armed Mob.” As most of you know, Larry Johnson and Pat Lang are friends, [...]
  • Finds & Comments + Open Thread
    Have you heard the term “Foreign Policy Birthers”? (exactly what that means is explained below) …McCain’s POV on Libya in an interview today … Wonk Alert: There’s a new important essay in Foreign Policy magazine by “Mr. Y,” a nod to Mr. X’s authorship of the famous 1946 essay that turned out to ...
  • Spring Time in DC
    DC/Maryland is a glorious place for about two months out of the year. The period from mid-April to mid-May is amazing. In light of Easter and Passover I thought some of you might enjoy these photos of what has bloomed or fallen to the ground around my house: The Red Bud is my favorite spring [...]

Environmental Graffiti

  • Are We At The Start Of A New Mass Extinction?
    With the decline of many different species, scientists fear we are in the middle of a new mass extinction read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Garden at Night: An Interview with Nightti ...
    An interview with nocturnal photographer Linda Rutenberg. Linda has spent most of her nights capturing the stunning beauty of the garden at night. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • How Reintroducing Once Eradicated Giant Tortoi ...
    Introducing a new species of tortoise to an area where they have gone extinct has helped germinate critically endangered ebony trees. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Akuntsu: The Tribe with Only 5 Individuals Lef ...
    Due to invasion by loggers and ranchers,today just 5 surviving individuals are left,who are representing the entire Akuntsu community,in the Brazilian rainforests. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the articl ...
  • How Cloning Vanilla Could Cut its Price
    Vanilla is popular but expensive, partly because this orchid often needs help to reproduce. Researchers in Malaysia hope to help this familiar spice. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Michigan's power to zap townships - the end of ...
    I found this writeup on the new Midwest 'financial martial law' system interesting enough to share. The crazy rationale for the horrible law in Michigan is that dissolved townships won't be burdened with debt? But what of the system of townships and property created in the Northwest Ordinance? W ...
  • Newest nightmare of the Federal Register: Priv ...
    Awesome bureaucratic frankenstein nightmare coverups down this fabulous path. Thank you USDA, your great work on GMOs so far – which involves a tiny fraction of the caution found in Europe for example – Anyway there is now a bypass in the works. The Federal Register is the Washington DC version ...
  • New 2008 Republican National Convention docume ...
    Posted originally at Twin Cities Indymedia By Dan Feidt for Twin Cities Indymedia -- A new documentary on the 2008 Republican National Convention, Better This World, screens at the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival on Sunday and next Wednesday, and on PBS POV nationwide on Sep ...
  • Alchemy and Debt Demons - FAIL DOT GOV sHuTdOw ...
    FEDERAL SHUTDOWN 2011: The Untold Story - long story short, our narrative ends with The Jesus giving everyone SHROOMS. Alchemy and accountants, the Shutdown revealed mysterious & esoteric truths underlying our post-masonic Nation. [ I had a couple folders sitting around with ...
  • LinkDump March 27 2011 - We looked into the fi ...
    The Silver Conspiracy xtranormal lolbears are back for Part V! Listening now to Lifeboat Hour with Michael Ruppert presently on ProgressiveRadioNetwork.com. Mostly about Japan so far. Lyric flagged from Ruppert's band New White Trash - "We looked into the fire and the fire looked b ...

Daily Censored

  • Pimping, Pushing, and the High Cost of Health ...
    Prescription data mining is allowing the pharmaceutical industry to discover what doctors are and are not selling their drugs.  Big Pharma spends $8 billion dollars just to send those cuties to your doctor’s offices to push their drugs.  You know the ones.  They are those young, very attractive ...
  • What The Hell Has Happened To Americans?
    Homophobes in D.C. are eager to spend $550/hour for an attorney to defend DOMA while 15,000 3- to 4- year olds in Ohio were dropped from Early Childhood Education, as ECE programs across the nation took a big hit.  I was going to cite some examples, but there are just too many big cuts to [...]
  • Shanta Driver of BAMN and the new Jim Crow
    Shanta Driver, a spokesperson for BAMN (By Any Means Necessary) appeared on the Thom Hartmann show and Russian TV today (Monday the 25th of April) to speak about the closing of public schools in Detroit.  You can see the interview with Shanta regarding the Cathy Ferguson Academy in Detroit and o ...
  • Kochtopus: Right-wing Network of Money, Power, ...
    Charles and David Koch might very well the greatest threat to America sense World War II.  Over the last fifty years, the bothers have been slowly developing, tweaking, and expanding a fascist political network designed to end American democracy as we know it. The many arms of the Koch brother’s ...
  • Why the TSA won’t improve its image anyt ...
    The DHS, TSA, and CBP want to improve its tarnished image. After the criticism that has befallen the TSA since last fall when they mass-introduced full body scanners, it’s no surprise that they are now universally hated. The problem, however, is that the TSA can never improve their image as long ...

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Equality Trust

  • Action for Happiness
    Action for Happiness is a new movement for positive social change, founded by Richard Layard, Geoff Mulgan and Anthony Seldon.   They aim to bring together people from all walks of life who want to play a part in creating a happier society for everyone. Their vision of a better future in ...
  • Traduction des preuves en Français
     Les preuves en Français Preuves à l’appui: une introduction Preuves à l’appui: la santé physique Preuves à l’appui: la santé mentale Preuves à l’appui: la toxicomanie Preuves à l’appui: l’éducation Preuves à l’appui: la population carcérale      
  • Response to criticism of The Spirit Level
      Find our full response to criticism of The Spirit Level here.  
  • The Wrong Cure - alternatives to the cuts
    The False Economy website is an excellent and still-developing resource exploring the alternatives to cuts. False Economy includes: a discussion of why the cuts are not progressive details of campaign actions a comprehensive further reading list ... and this short film [youtube:ynUCYo ...
  • Why we need a Fairness Test of the cuts
    A group of charities, including the Equality Trust, Child Poverty Action Group, Barnardo's and the TUC are asking the coalition government to commit to a Fairness Test on any tax rises or spending cuts they introduce. Full details...

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • FDA seeks permanent injunction against Pennsyl ...
    From and FDA Press Release: Rainbow Acres distributed raw milk in violation of federal law The Justice Department, at the request of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, has filed a complaint for permanent injunction against Daniel L. Allgyer, owner of the Rainbow Acres Farm, in Kinzers, Pa. ...
  • The Food Industry Will Never Solve the Poisoni ...
    I have always been a bit amazed at the meat industry and the USDA. In the 18 years of litigating E. coli O157:H7 (and other bacterial and viral) cases – mostly on behalf of children – I am tired (and a bit disgusted) by the constant din of blaming the consumer. Sometimes the industry goes so far ...
  • Vitor Belfort with Hepatitis A - "in two weeks ...
    According to press report, in a series of Twitter messages issued today, former UFC champion and recent contender Vitor Belfort (19-9 MMA, 8-4 UFC) revealed that he has contracted hepatitis A – a “moderately” serious infection caused by contaminated food or water that's often mistaken for the fl ...
  • Jonathan's Salmonella Sprout Recall Expanded t ...
    Jonathans Sprouts of Rochester, MA is upgrading its recall of conventional alfalfa sprout products with a specific sell-by date to include all of its alfalfa products, conventional and organic, with all sell-by dates, as a precaution, because it has the potential to be contaminated with Salmonel ...
  • Don't Kiss the Chicks - Or, the Ducklings - Th ...
    According to the CDC: Baby animals, including baby chicks and ducks, are sometimes given as gifts or put on display at this time. Because they are so soft and cute, many people do not realize the potential danger baby chicks and ducklings can be to small children. Young birds often carry harmfu ...

AutoblogGreen

  • New York 2011: Honda Civic Hybrid scores 44 mp ...
    Filed under: New York Auto Show, Hybrid, Sedan, Honda 2012 Honda Civic Hybrid - Click above for high-res image gallery It's not 50 miles per gallon (rest, easy Prius), but the mpg numbers for the 2012 Honda Civic Hybrid impress us nonetheless: 44/44/44. That's city/highway/combined, and it's ...
  • New York 2011: Mitsubishi sets price of all-el ...
    Filed under: New York Auto Show, Hatchback, Mitsubishi, Electric Mitsubishi i - Click above for high-res image gallery Some bits of good news come with a head scratcher. At the New York Auto Show today, Mitsubishi announced that the all-electric i will start at just $27,990 in the U.S. Once ...
  • New York 2011: Suzuki Kizashi EcoCharge Concep ...
    Filed under: New York Auto Show, Hybrid, Suzuki Suzuki Kizashi EcoCharge Concept - Click above for high-res image gallery For a car that doesn't exist - yet - the Suzuki Kizashi hybrid certainly rears its head an awful lot. The rumor had been that Suzuki wanted to release the car in 2011, b ...
  • New York 2011: 2012 Nissan Versa offers 33 mpg ...
    Filed under: New York Auto Show, Budget, Sedan, Nissan 2012 Nissan Versa - Click above for high-res image gallery Revealed "simultaneously" as the new Tiida in Shanghai, the 2012 Nissan Versa drove onto the stage here at the 2011 New York Auto Show spouting some impressive numbers: 33 miles ...
  • Toyota Plug-In Prius reservations start on Ear ...
    Filed under: Car Buying, Hybrid, Hatchback, Toyota, Electric Plug-in Prius - Click above for high-res image gallery If the idea of getting around 83 or 87 miles per gallon in a plug-in Toyota Prius suits your fancy, then get ready to give Toyota your pertinent details on Earth Day. That's t ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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  • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
  • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
  • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
  • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

Democracy Now!

  • Vandana & Mira Shiva on Corporate Malpractice ...
    On Earth Day, Democracy Now! revisits a 2010 conversation with world-renowned environmentalist Vandana Shiva and her sister, Dr. Mira Shiva, about multi-national malpractice in India, from the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal to Monsanto GMOs that are destroying biodiversity.
  • ‘Restrepo’ Director Tim Hetherington and Photo ...
    Photojournalist and filmmaker Tim Hetherington, director and producer of the documentary film “Restrepo,” and photojournalist Chris Hondros were killed in the Libyan city of Misurata on Wednesday when a group of four photojournalists were attacked. Photographer, Guy Martin, suffered severe inj ...
  • Amy Goodman's New Column: "Renewed Energy For ...
    More than 10,000 people converged in Washington, DC, this past week to discuss, organize, mobilize and protest around the issue of climate change. While tax day Tea Party gatherings of a few hundred scattered around the country made the news, this massive gathering, Power Shift 2011, was largel ...
  • Standing up to Big Pharma in Bangladesh: Right ...
    Democracy Now! talks to Dr. Zafrullah Chowdhury, co-founder of Bangladeshi charity Gonoshasthaya Kendra (GK, The People’s Health Center) which provides education, job opportunities and low-cost, locally-produced essential drugs to rural Bangladeshis. GK received the Right Livelihood Award ...
  • Environmental Activists Occupy Interior Dept. ...
    2:15pm EDT Tim DeChristopher , activist and founder of the environmental group Peaceful Uprising, called Democracy Now! with an update from the U.S. Department of Interior, where 300-400 people are outside protesting and another 50 people are inside and refusing to leave. The march c ...

Digg Green

Invisible Opportunity

  • The Extraordinary Inter-Dimensional Ship is La ...
    By Les Visible Let me tell you something right now that you can take to every bank of every kind of modality; nothing ventured, nothing gained. You want something specific, like I did? You will be tested. You can have the whole enchilada. It awaits you in beckoning repose. However, nobody gets t ...
  • The Power Of The Rothschilds
    By Fritz Springmeier Excerpt – Bloodlines of the Illuminati 8-12-7 CO-MASTERS OF THE WORLD –connections to JWs, Mormons, and Judaism It has been said all roads lead to Rome. For this book, it could be said all paths of investigation lead to the Rothschilds. Charles T. Russell, in a 1891 letter t ...
  • Wesley Snipes beats IRS Tax Fraud Rap
    In 2008, Wesley Snipes was accused of and tried for several income tax related violations. Specifically, he was charged with * One count Income Tax Fraud * One count of Conspiracy to Defraud the fed govt * Six counts of Willful Failure to File Snipes was found innocent of the two serious charges ...
  • Home schooling goes mainstream
    Over the last few years, more parents are choosing home school for the same reason as Barnes. From 2007 to 2010, the number of home-schooled children nationwide rose by about 25 percent to the current estimate of 2 million. There are a number of reasons why parents are choosing this option, but ...
  • DeVos/Koch/Scaife Plot To Destroy Public Education
    Voucher Advocate Betsy DeVos, Right-Wing Think Tanks Behind Koch-Style Attack on PA Public Schools Rachel Tabachnick print page Wed Apr 20, 2011 at 11:28:44 PM EST ………………. A new wave of school voucher bills is sweeping the nation, which would allow public education funds to be used in private or ...

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • Juliana Santacruz Herrera “Repairs” Paris Poth ...
    Read the rest of Juliana Santacruz Herrera “Repairs” Paris Potholes With Cheery Renegade Knittinghttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: eco desig ...
  • MIT Harnesses Viruses to Improve Solar Efficie ...
    Scientists are always looking for ways to increase the efficiency of renewable energy, and now researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are utilizing viruses to enhance the efficiency of solar cells at the microscopic level. In an article in the journal Nature Nanotechnology, the ...
  • 9 Green Essentials for the Eco Conscious Commuter
    If you choose to leave your car in the garage (or not have one at all) and make mass transit your main mode of transportation, we salute you. And since that means that your subway platform or a bus aisle becomes an everyday runway, we’ve got some hot picks to keep you looking sharp as [...]
  • El Cosmico: A Hipster Campground Featuring Eco ...
    Read the rest of El Cosmico: A Hipster Campground Featuring Eco Yurts, Teepees and Vintage Trailershttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: cosmico ...
  • New Self-Powered, Blood-Activated LED Sensor C ...
    Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have developed a tiny sensor — made from a 12-cent LED light, aluminum foil, gelatin, milk protein and a couple of other inexpensive materials — that could help prevent damage and save people’s lives by detecting acute pancreatitis. Pancreatitis i ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Iceland Volcano Ash Pics Vindicate Airspace Sh ...
    The most detailed visual study yet of volcanic ash from last year’s Icelandic eruption reveals just how sharp, abrasive and potentially dangerous the particles were. After Eyjafjallajökull erupted in April 2010, sending volcanic plumes high into the atmosphere, officials closed Europe’s air ...
  • Ant Rafts Repel Water Like Gore-Tex
                        runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience918350428001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); In the first serious study of the physics of fire-ant rafts, researchers have described how the insects form floating, waterproof islands. In nature, the rafts allow ...
  • Bacteria on the Radio: DNA Could Act as Antenna
    Theoretical physicists have proposed an explanation for how bacteria might transmit electromagnetic signals: Chromosomes could act like antennae, with electrons traveling gene circuits to produce species-specific wavelengths. It’s just a hypothesis, and the notion that bacteria can generate rad ...
  • Sneaky Orchids Fake Infection to Fool Flies
    An endangered slipper orchid in southwestern China fakes the look and smell of a fungal infection in order to attract one particular pollinator, the flat-footed fly. Black-brown spots mark the leaves of this orchid, mimicking the diseased look of a plant covered with fungus. The flowers even sm ...
  • Truffle-Hunting Dog Finds Jackpot in Unexpecte ...
    A specially trained dog may have discovered the latest refugee affected by climate change: Truffles. “Buffo” the truffle-hunting dog discovered his bounty while roaming the forests of southern Germany. That region is seeing milder winters and changing weather patterns, and isn’t known to grow ...

PakAlert

  • Video: Total Collapse – The Build up to World ...
    Even if we do make it through this summer which I highly doubt the crash of the dollar is inevitable just a matter of time it could happen tomorrow next week or next month .Main Stream Media will be the last news source to inform us we're on a sinking ship! The United States are going to collaps ...
  • Fukushima Radiation: A Soft-Kill Operation
    The Fukushima radiation leak is a soft-kill operation against the people and ecosystem of the Northern Hemisphere. The leaking reactors could be sealed in concrete and sand in a matter of days as they were at Chernobyl. However, it is now clear that TEPCO and the corporate-controlled Japanese ...
  • Even Ben Stein Is Warning That An Economic Col ...
    He sure has come a long way since "Ferris Bueller's Day Off". During a recent television segment for CBS, Ben Stein declared that "the tea leaves are ominous" and he warned that an economic collapse may be coming. In particular, Ben Stein is deeply concerned about inflation. During his recent ...
  • Al-Qaida terrorist worked for British and Cana ...
    An al-Qaida operative accused of bombing two Christian churches and a luxury hotel in Pakistan in 2002 was at the same time working for British intelligence, according to secret files on detainees who were shipped to the US military’s Guantánamo Bay prison camp. Adil Hadi al Jazairi Bin Hamlili, ...
  • Kabbalist Doctrine Explains World Events
    According to the Kabbalah, which is the secret doctrine of Judaism and Freemasonry, "Evil and catastrophe [are] endemic factors in the process of creation. Without evil there could be no good, without destruction, creation could not take place." (Kabbalah: An Introduction to Jewish Mysticism, by ...

Andy Worthington

  • Andy Worthington Discusses the Significance of ...
    On Monday afternoon, after almost no sleep, because of the rush release on Sunday night of WikiLeaks’ Guantánamo files, and after a busy morning of feedback and planning, a trip to central London for an interview on the BBC World Service’s Newshour, a quick cup of coffee and a muffin in the bla ...
  • WikiLeaks Reveals Secret Guantánamo Files, Exp ...
    Well, the cat is now out of the bag, and Guantánamo will, hopefully, be closer to closure — and the lies that powerful Americans tell about it will, hopefully, be closer to silence — as a result. For the last few weeks, I’ve been working as a media partner with WikiLeaks, along with the Washin ...
  • The Roots of Revolution in Syria: The Sad Tale ...
    Since protestors first braved the wrath of Syria’s security services five weeks ago, first on a “Day of Rage,” and then to demand the release of political prisoners, I have tried to keep a close eye on the Syrian people’s attempts to emulate their neighbors in Tunisia and Egypt, where the revolu ...
  • Former Guantánamo Prisoner Khaled Ben Mustapha ...
    I’m delighted to cross-post below an interview with Khaled Ben Mustapha, one of seven French citizens held at Guantánamo, who was released in March 2005, and who recently spoke to Arnaud Mafille, an intern for Cageprisoners. This is a fascinating interview for a number of reasons; primarily, be ...
  • More Judicial Interference on Guantánamo
    Last week, in my article, How the Supreme Court Gave Up on Guantánamo, I explained how, given the option of addressing complaints made by prisoners in Guantánamo regarding the basis of their ongoing detention, the Supreme Court chose not to, leaving the final decisions regarding the prisoners no ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • Don't Turn Your Back on the Bankers for Even a ...
    The ink on the legislation is still drying and, already, the mortgage mill industry is trying to gut the little things that might help to hold them accountable for their bit part in the complete economic collapse of this nation: Dodd-Frank requires that lenders retain five percent of every loan ...
  • Sarah Palin: Mayor of New Milford?
    Is this a parody or real life? You decide. Citizens of New Milford: I want you to know that I'm on the job 24/7. Twenty four hours a week, seven months a year. But even with this strict time commitment, I can't be expected to keep up with everything going on in this vast metropolis. That's why ...
  • Much like the "conservative" GOP...
    The conservative Blue Dogs acted as Bush's domestic poodles, helping to move a dangerous right wing agenda. They were owned by the right wing and corporations and there is no big surprise why more than half of the Blue Dog caucus (28 of 54 members) were slaughtered in the 2010 elections. So f ...
  • Stop Drinking and Start Doing, Dem Dumb Dumbs
    Sober up, Dems. You started sucking suds when you captured the Congress in 2006. Since 2008 you've been binge drinking with Congress and the Prez. You even nibbled on some hot wings and pub nuts. Burp! And now the bartender just cut your drunk, lazy, liberal, progressive, leftie ass off. Y ...
  • The People Have Spoken. And Their Message Is ...
    So. What the heck happened last night? The GOP picked up 60 seats in the House, effectively reversing their losses there from 2006 and 2008, and returning control of that body to them. The GOP picked up some 6 seats in the Senate, but the Democratic Party retains control there. The GOP picked u ...

SPL Center

  • FBI: Confessed California Planned Parenthood B ...
    The FBI on Thursday said Donny Eugene Mower, 37, has confessed to the September firebombing of a Planned Parenthood center in Madera, Calif. The FBI said Mower also was responsible for posting hostile signs at a Madera Islamic Center in late August. The FBI was already investigating the Islamic ...
  • Amazon Often Rejects Porn But Helps White Raci ...
    Fans of racist literature looking to get their hands on a copy of Kyle Bristowâs 2010 novel White Apocalypse need look no further than Amazon.com. Thanks to the online retail giantâs print-on-demand (POD) service, the bloodthirsty white nationalist fantasy â which Bristow self-published through ...
  • Black Extremists Blast Obama’s Decision to Wea ...
    President Obama’s decision to intervene militarily in Libya to cripple dictator Muammar Qaddafi’s ability to combat rebels trying to topple his regime didn’t sit well with two American black nationalist leaders who consider the long-time strongman a friend and ally. “Now you may laugh, but in a ...
  • Businessman at Center of Lesbian Custody Case ...
    A prominent Christian direct-mail guru â who for years helped conservative groups market themselves to subscribers of a blatantly anti-Semitic publication â has been implicated for harboring a woman who ran away with her biological daughter after losing custody to a former lesbian partner. Accor ...
  • FAIR Shares Founder’s Views
    The New York Times ran a good front-page story yesterday that detailed the racism of John Tanton, the architect of the modern anti-immigration movement, something we have been writing about since 2002 (here, here and here). But the Times’ story gave the organizations Tanton founded, including th ...

change: org.

  • Norwegian Labour Party Votes to Shut Down Fur ...
    In a major victory for animal lovers, members of the Norwegian Labour Party voted to�shut down Norway's fur industry. According to Views and News from Norway, Popular Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg "will be under marching orders from his party members to urge fur farmers into other lines of wor ...
  • King & Spalding: The Law Firm that Will Defend ...
    Imagine if years from now, history books had this to say about your business: when discrimination needed a champion, "x" business was there to make sure anti-gay laws were defended. The law firm of King & Spalding better be careful, or this is what folks will be saying about it a few years down ...
  • Progress! California's Ventura County Rescinds ...
    California's Ventura County almost let a cancer-causing neurotoxin onto its crop fields — almost. An Oxnard-area farmer recently applied for a permit to use methyl iodide, a fumigant pesticide so poisonous it's been linked to cancers, miscarriages, neurological disorders, and other health issues ...
  • Progress! NYC Council Member Agrees to Sponsor ...
    New York City's carriage horse industry would have you believe their horses lead the equine equivalent of a pampered Manhattan life, complete with a retirement plan to look forward to. In reality, we don't know what happens to the horses when their carriage-pulling days are over, since dispositi ...
  • Change.org Immigration Blogger Placed in Remov ...
    Last year during my first round of law school final exams, Congress was getting ready to vote on the federal DREAM Act, which would have given undocumented youth in the United States a pathway to citizenship. This year, during another set of final exams, President Obama has decided to send me a ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Vermont Senate Gives Initial Approval to Singl ...
    MONTPELIER — Sen. Peter Galbraith, D-Windham, ran for the state Senate to be able to support a bill setting Vermont on a course toward a more consolidated health care system guaranteeing coverage to every Vermonter, he said Monday. “This is a historic day,” Galbraith declared just before he join ...
  • Forced Removals Draw Fire in Rio de Janeiro
    RIO DE JANEIRO - Rita Bonfim Silva is trying her best to keep up her normal routine:�going out of her way to offer guests coffee, bread and butter. But her life is likely to dramatically change very soon. The one room she rents in a crumbing three-level brick house in Metro-Mangueira favela in R ...
  • The Right-Wing Network Behind the War on Unions
    From New Hampshire to Alaska, Republican lawmakers are waging war on organized labor. read more
  • Analysis: Banks Play Shell Game with Taxpayer ...
    BURLINGTON, VT - A study requested by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) found numerous instances during the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009 when banks took near zero-interest funds from the Federal Reserve and then loaned money back to the federal government on sweetheart terms for the banks. ...
  • Report: Climate Change Worsens Western Water Woes
    WASHINGTON — Climate change is likely to diminish already scarce water supplies in the Western United States, exacerbating problems for millions of water users in the West, according to a new government report. A report released Monday by the Interior Department said annual flows in three promin ...

Lifehacker

  • Temporarily Disable Your Mac's Login Items wit ...
    You can set Mac OS X to start certain programs when you log in, but sometimes you just want to get into your computer quickly without all that nonsense. With a simple keyboard shortcut, you can. More��
  • Weddar for iPhone
    The weather is easy to come by these days, what with mobile apps and desktop widgets and the windows in your wall and all that. But sometimes that dry meteorological data can be deceiving. Weddar tells you how it feels outside. More�� ...
  • A Table For Four: A Workspace Geared Towards I ...
    Today's featured workspace belongs to graphic designer Linda Gavin who has a single, centralized table for her team. While not the immaculately cable-free type of workspace we usually feature, it focuses on something different: easy acces ...
  • Diagramly Is a Quick Online Diagram, Mind Map, ...
    There are plenty of apps for creating flow charts, mind maps, and other types of diagrams, but Diagramly is ready to go the minute you visit the site. It's remarkably similar to Microsoft Visio, but it's accessible from pretty much any we ...
  • Look at Anger as an Opportunity for More Effec ...
    A new survey shows that UK citizens waste an average of three and a half years of their lives being angry. That's a lot of wasted time on frustrating customer service calls and cleaning dog poop off your shoe. Psychologist Guy Winch sugg ...

Water Privatization

  • Candidates answer readers' questions
    NORTHUMBERLAND -Earlier this month Northumberland Today invited readers to submit questions they would like the four local candidates in the May 2 federal election to answer. We chose five questions, which we e-mailed to the candidates, asking for answers up to 250 words in length.[...]
  • University Lectures | Activist highlights impo ...
    The difference was clear to Maude Barlow when a Mexican man presented two full water bottles during a World Water Council forum a few years ago. ...
  • Privatization Commission Board reconstituted
    ISLAMABAD: The Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani has reconstituted the Board of Privatization Commission with Syed Naveed Qamar Federal Minister for Privatization, Water and Power as its chairman.
  • Activist highlights importance of protecting c ...
    By: Breanne Van Nostrand The difference was clear to Maude Barlow when a Mexican man presented two full water bottles during a World Water Council forum a few years ago. ...
  • LETTER: Full public debate on water
    I am writing to respond to the open letter published in the Abbotsford News on March 31. The Canadian Union of Public Employees respectfully disagrees with Mayor Peary’s assertion that Mission and Abbotsford councils have no plan to privatize drinking water treatment.

Guardian

  • Call for close EU borders in wake of Arab protests
    Sarkozy and Berlusconi want passport-free travel within the EU suspended as north African migrants flee northFrance and Italy have thrown down the gauntlet over Europe's system of passport-free travel, saying a crisis of immigration sparked by the Arab spring was calling into question the border ...
  • Syria violence may incur sanctions
    Opposition activists report attacks in Deraa and mass arrests in Douma as Sarkozy and Berlusconi call for end to the violenceEuropean Union states are discussing imposing sanctions on Syria if the regime continues its violent suppression of pro-democracy protests.William Hague, Britain's foreign ...
  • Met warned just 36 over hacking
    Disclosure of formerly secret number exposes Met to complaint it breached agreement to warn potential victimsThe Metropolitan police has admitted that during the first four years of the phone-hacking affair it warned only 36 people they may have been targeted by the News of the World's private i ...
  • Labour: Say yes to AV to hurt Tories
    With polls pointing to win for no campaign at AV referendum, mobilising Labour vote seen as yes camp's last chanceLabour voters will be urged to kick Cameron not Clegg in the 5 May referendum on the Commons voting system, as the party's yes campaign steps up its drive to corral swing Labour vot ...
  • Police crack down on football threats
    Two Scottish men charged over sectarian statements, while in Northern Ireland police react to alleged BNP Facebook postTwo men have appeared in court charged with posting bigoted and sectarian statements on the internet relating to Glasgow's Rangers and Celtic football clubs.David Craig, 23, fro ...

McClatchey

  • Wikileaks: Dim view of Panama president Obama ...
    WASHINGTON — Ah, to be a fly on the Oval Office wall Thursday as President Barack Obama meets with Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli, the subject of a series of State Department cables that WikiLeaks obtained and passed to McClatchy.
  • As Sudan prepares to split, many still strande ...
    KHARTOUM, Sudan — Deng Wol Diang, who hails from Sudan's African south, has been living in an open field on the outskirts of the capital of Sudan's Arab north since Nov. 5. He'd like to go home, but he can't.
  • Washington state job market improving but stil ...
    The job market is showing some signs of getting better, but it's not even close to being healthy.
  • WikiLeaks: Just 8 at Gitmo gave evidence again ...
    WASHINGTON — U.S. military intelligence assessing the threat of nearly 800 men held at Guantanamo in many cases used information from a small group of captives whose accounts now appear to be questionable, according to a McClatchy analysis of a trove of secret documents from the facility.
  • Kentucky governor declares state of emergency ...
    In the wake of multiple storms during the weekend and with much more rainfall on the way, Gov. Steve Beshear declared a statewide state of emergency Monday.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • Giant tortoise brings slow salvation
    In a week when the introduction of species to islands has been under discussion for other reasons, news comes from Mauritius of a new inhabitant that is restoring a vital piece of long-extinct ecology. And it centres on a tortoise. � Several hundred years ago, settlers wiped out the big wildli ...
  • Re-homing nature: A step too far?
    Sir Richard Branson's plan to introduce lemurs to islands he owns in the Caribbean, which I reported on Saturday, has thrown into new light a real dilemma facing conservation scientists as they struggle to contain and reverse the loss of species and ecosystems across the world. The red-ruffed l ...
  • Exploring the 'oceans crisis'
    Just how .......d are the world's oceans? I've put the dots in that sentence so you can insert the word of your choice. According to a high-level seminar of experts in Oxford earlier this week, there's one word starting with the letter S that would fit quite well, a longer option beginning Kn - ...
  • Science and politics - a tale of two meetings
    More than 8,000km separate Vienna and Bangkok. That's roughly the distance that appeared to be separating the minds of people attending very different meetings that took place in the two capitals last week. In between bites of Sachertorte, scientists unveiled their latest research in many discip ...
  • Reflections on a fortnight in Fukushima
    Earth Watch posts have been in smaller supply than usual in recent days. For a week, your humble correspondent was virtually living inside the Fukushima nuclear power station, attempting to make sense of what we knew and what we didn't know as the situation unfolded. Now - almost two weeks after ...

The Wonk Room

thwap's schoolyard

  • "Edgy Comedian" Guy Earle
    Altavista anything about the Guy Earle case, the self-professed extremely left-wing physicist/comedian, and you're bound to get a slew of hits to right-wing troglodytes (Steyn, Levant, Shaidle) for whom the man is a hero in the cause of free speech. Seems that back in 2008, two lesbian women we ...
  • cons, dippers, n' libs [finished!]
    Maybe we Canadians are going to get the government we deserve. Part of the reason for this, ... a very important reason for this, ... is because the habitual voting preferences of those Canadians who do vote, has revolved around two parties that have no interest in dismantling an electoral s ...
  • Is harper's the Democracy Our Soldiers Died For?
    Enough said?
  • Listen Liberals ...
    This ain't a dig. I'm working on something to explain partisan attitudes in Canada (it's currently in an incomplete form about two posts down). This is, rather, an important reason why the NDP might have a genuine surge in Quebec and why the Liberals are struggling. Chantel Hebert once decided ...
  • Do the RIGHT Thing Patrick Ross!
    I can't resist the pile-on! I will pay Patrick Ross the respect of saying that he can string together three sentences at a time that make a point. As such, he's probably treated as the second coming of Socrates among his shit-head, right-wing peers, and it went to his head. Ross had the unfortu ...

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Digital Journal

  • Canadian PM defends asbestos exports and pushe ...
    Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper spoke in Quebec Tuesday where he defended asbestos exports, despite the number of cancer risks. The Conservative leader earlier said he would push for reforms in Canada's Senate.
  • Toronto Heritage Walk schedule is out
    Just in time for the spring weather the Toronto Heritage Walks schedule has been released. For the 17th year the walks give Torontonians a chance to learn more about the city.
  • As war in Libya escalates, Russia says won't b ...
    As US military drones began operating in Libyan skies and NATO bombs struck Colonel Gaddafi's compound, Russia said that it will not support any additional UN resolutions that call for greater escalation in Libya.
  • Liberal, NDP leaders celebrate Sikh Khalsa Day ...
    As thousands of Canadian Sikhs celebrated Khalsa Day at Toronto's Queen's Park, Liberal and New Democratic Party leaders Michael Ignatieff and Jack Layton made a brief stop at the event. The two shook hands when their campaigns collided.
  • Genetic research turning Tilapia into a major ...
    Enhanced production through genetic improvement has converted Tilapia, also known as the “wonder fish”, in the second most cultured aquatic animal species in the world after carps, and a major internationally traded commodity.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Party platforms on peace issues
    With the notable and limited exception of the proposed F-35 purchase, the issues of war and peace have been almost entirely absent from the current federal election campaign, even though the country is now involved in two on-going wars. The major parties have all published election platform docu ...
  • F-35 documentary on CPAC
    F-35: The Politics of Procurement, a new documentary on the proposed F-35 purchase hosted by Scott Taylor, will air on CPAC on Thursday and Friday (it also aired on Wednesday). Showtimes: Thursday, April 21st at 7 PM ET / 4 PM PT Friday, April 22nd at 8 PM ET / 5 PM PT Information from [...]
  • Manson: Stop ranting!!!
    Retired General Paul Manson, former Canadian Chief of Defence Staff and (in his stealth mode) former Chairman of Lockheed Martin Canada, has slammed Winslow Wheeler’s critique of the planned purchase of the F-35 as a “low credibility rant” sponsored by the “farleft” Rideau Institute (Paul Manson ...
  • More military spending: or deliver aid and fig ...
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HacgnxcmUI
  • Use Military Spending for Human Needs: Sign th ...
    It's time to reduce military spending, and use the public resources to fund human needs.

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Skip the Doctor – Use ‘Grandma’s H ...
    April 22nd, 2011 Mercola.com By: Dr. Mercola When you look at the science, it turns out your grandmother wasn’t so far off on some of those home remedies she used to talk about. For example, it’s really true that olives can help stave off motion sickness â but only if you eat them when the [...]
  • Teen Builds Backyard Death Ray
    April 22nd, 2011 Geeky Gadgets By: Glenn Santos If 19 year-old Eric Jacqmain could travel back in time with his invention, why, he can change history. Holy Cow, that’s a Hollywood movie right there! You read it here first, boys and girl—we’re gonna start on the script ASAP. Also, James Cameron i ...
  • The 10 Most Counterfeited Products Sold in America
    April 22nd, 2011 DailyFinance By: Douglas McIntyre American consumers love bargains. But that zest for getting a coveted product at the lowest price also has an economic downside: It creates a giant opportunity for the scads of shady operators — especially from China — that specialize in pumping ...
  • Gasoline Prices Up 40% This Summer, U.S. Says
    April 22nd, 2011 Market Watch By: Ruth Mantell Retail prices for a gallon of regular-grade gasoline will average $3.86 from April through September, up from $2.76 for the comparable period last year, said the Energy Information Administration, the statistics arm of the Department of Energy. In s ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 4-20-11
    Today, Kevin gives you even more proof that inflation is already here and that your standard of living is declining rapidly because of it. Self Help: Uncontaminated Meat Further Your Education Manifest Your Every Desire The Only Answer To Cancer Drop-Dead Gorgeous Hair Without The Side Effects H ...

Pambazuka News

  • Haiti: Supporters in Haiti make ready for Aristide
    Supporters beat drums in the slums while workers spruced up his private villa as Haitians prepared on Tuesday for the possible return of Jean-Bertrand Aristide with feverish anticipation. 'Some people are cleaning the streets, others are getting the ...
  • 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...

War in Context

  • How Obama leads from behind
    Ryan Lizza writes: This spring, Obama officials often expressed impatience with questions about theory or about the elusive quest for an Obama doctrine. One senior Administration official reminded me what the former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan said when asked what was likely to set ...
  • McCoy and Reilly: an empire of failed states
    Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com Imperial powers hedge their bets.  The most striking recent example we have of this is in Egypt.  While the Pentagon was pouring money into the Egyptian military (approximately $40 billion since 1979), it turns out — thank you, WikiLeaks! — that th ...
  • News roundup — April 25
    Poll: Over half of Egypt wants end to Israel peace More than half of all Egyptians would like to see the 1979 peace treaty with Israel annulled, according to results of a poll conducted by the U.S.-based Pew Research Center released Monday. The poll highlights the deep unpopularity of the thre ...
  • The courage of ordinary people standing up to ...
    Chris McGreal, who is covering the war in Libya for The Guardian and who as the paper’s South Africa correspondent witnessed the end of the apartheid era, says: “Few revolutions have been more inspiring. After years of reporting uprisings and conflicts driven by ideology, factional interests or ...
  • The Gitmo Files
    On Sunday April 24, 2011 WikiLeaks began publishing 779 secret files from the notorious Guantanamo Bay prison camp. The details for every detainee will be released daily over the coming month. As acts of war or despair, suicides rattle a prison By October 2004, two years into his detention at ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Quote of the week – Note to UEA and CRU: ...
    You’d think that after all the pain and suffering caused by Climategate to the University of East Anglia and the Climate Research Unit, these guys would have a clue. You’d think that they’d want to get the monkey off their … Continue reading →
  • The Pseudonymous Poll Trailer
    Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Well, I have to say that I have learned a whole lot already in this project. In preparation for an upcoming poll on the use of names in posting, I’d asked for reasons why people … Continue reading →
  • Climate Craziness of the Week – greentab ...
    This ginormous marketing spam was left as a comment on WUWT on the thread: Stratospheric water vapor may have contributed about a third of the warming 1980-2000 but now is in decline Seeing as to how it was left on … Continue reading →
  • Ben Santer elected AGU fellow
    No mention if he threatened to “beat the crap out of” the judges /sarc Ben Santer From Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Ben Santer is a man with a lot of accolades under his belt: A recipient of the MacArthur “genius” … Continue reading →
  • Amphibian decline – climate change not t ...
    Like the recent smackdown of the “plankton are declining” nonsense, compare the new paper from OSU below to this reporting from 2008: From Oregon State University: Catastrophic amphibian declines have multiple causes, no simple solution CORVALLIS, Ore. â Amphibian declines … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • Exclusive: What is Christian Anarchism, and is ...
    by Rocket Kirchner Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Rocket Kirchner (blog) Rocket Kirchner (youtube channel) April 26, 2011 First off, Anarchism is not anarchy. It is simply people living together in Anarcho-syndicalist communities as in the examples of Spain and Mexico in the last century, with ...
  • Capitalism and Class Struggle by Prof. James P ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Prof. James Petras Global Research April 25, 2011 Introduction The class struggle continues to play a central role in the process of capitalist accumulation, albeit it takes different forms depending on the socio-economic context. In order to map out the u ...
  • WikiLeaks Reveals Secret Guantánamo Files, Exp ...
    by Andy Worthington Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.andyworthington.co.uk 25 April, 2011 Well, the cat is now out of the bag, and Guantánamo will, hopefully, be closer to closure — and the lies that powerful Americans tell about it will, hopefully, be closer to silence — as a result. For the ...
  • One Wedding and Unlimited Funerals by Cindy Sh ...
    by Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox April 25, 2011 I guess I must be a glutton for punishment because I just snapped off CiaNN in frustration and anger for about the 5000thtime. Yesterday, I was treated to Candy (“I never met a wa ...
  • Britain’s royal wedding and its dirty little s ...
    by Finian Cunningham Featured Writers Dandelion Salad April 25, 2011 The British royal wedding is turning swiftly into a public relations disaster, with news that Bahrain’s Crown Prince is respectfully turning down his invitation to the event because of the “situation reigning” in the Persian Gu ...

Your New Reality

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    A near perfect documentary sequence for spaceheads. No bullshit narration, actual facts & interesting details served over an ultra-slow motion view of the Saturn V rocket launch that carried Apollo 11 away from the Earth, and into history :
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    Without a doubt, one of the more effective pieces of US government propaganda at the start of World War 2, seen by tens of millions of Americans before the start of Saturday afternoon at the movies :
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    The United States Of Stoned Presidents If you've spent most of your life seeing only the classic black & white portrait of Abraham Lincoln, this coloured one from the WhiteHouseMuseum is startling : Abraham Lincoln : "Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of ...
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    George Carlin celebrates Earth Day :
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    Tens Of Millions Of Americans Are Now The Working Poor American families with both working mums & dads, living frugally, with the only American dream left being winning the lottery, are now finding it impossible to make ends meet : ...many of the jobs in retail, hospitality and home health car ...

Wired - Science

  • Iceland Volcano Ash Pics Vindicate Airspace Sh ...
    The most detailed visual study yet of volcanic ash from last year’s Icelandic eruption reveals just how sharp, abrasive and potentially dangerous the particles were. After Eyjafjallajökull erupted in April 2010, sending volcanic plumes high into the atmosphere, officials closed Europe’s air ...
  • Ant Rafts Repel Water Like Gore-Tex
                        runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience918350428001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); In the first serious study of the physics of fire-ant rafts, researchers have described how the insects form floating, waterproof islands. In nature, the rafts allow ...
  • Bacteria on the Radio: DNA Could Act as Antenna
    Theoretical physicists have proposed an explanation for how bacteria might transmit electromagnetic signals: Chromosomes could act like antennae, with electrons traveling gene circuits to produce species-specific wavelengths. It’s just a hypothesis, and the notion that bacteria can generate rad ...
  • Sneaky Orchids Fake Infection to Fool Flies
    An endangered slipper orchid in southwestern China fakes the look and smell of a fungal infection in order to attract one particular pollinator, the flat-footed fly. Black-brown spots mark the leaves of this orchid, mimicking the diseased look of a plant covered with fungus. The flowers even sm ...
  • Truffle-Hunting Dog Finds Jackpot in Unexpecte ...
    A specially trained dog may have discovered the latest refugee affected by climate change: Truffles. “Buffo” the truffle-hunting dog discovered his bounty while roaming the forests of southern Germany. That region is seeing milder winters and changing weather patterns, and isn’t known to grow ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Gary Younge: For Israelis and Palestinians, th ...
    To suggest that Palestinians are equally responsible for this state of affairs would suggest the two sides hold equal power to shape events. They don't. No matter how many rhetorical checkpoints get... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • Lamis Andoni: To Juliano and Vittorio with love
    Solidarity activists have traditionally been embraced, virtually adopted even, by their host communities. That they should be killed by those they were trying to defend generated shockwaves that... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Yossi Sarid: Israel does not have a monopoly o ...
    And no one is a human being without recognizing that the other is also one, and that it is important to get to know him, both his shortcomings and hopes. No one is born a murderer and no one is... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Oded Pilavsky: How I arrived to Matzpen
    Matzpen co-founder Oded ("Odik") Pilavsky died last week in Tel Aviv at the age of 79. Three years ago he wrote about how and why he had arrived to the left margin of the Israeli political spectrum.... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Gaza: Israel’s war and the Goldstone Report
    A panel discussion dedicated to examining the reality and consequences of Israel's war and siege of Gaza. The panelists are Norman Finkelstein, Rashid Khalidi, and Peter Weiss. Columbia... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Looks Do Matter, Particularly When It Comes to ...
    It's an unfamiliar neighborhood and you find yourself in the middle of a bunch of streets and buildings you've never seen before. Giving the environment a quick once-over, you make a snap decision about whether you're safe or not. And chances are, that first 'gut' call is the right one, say Bing ...
  • UCLA's 3-Year Kidney Transplant Survival Rate ...
    Patients who received kidney transplants through the UCLA Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Program had the highest three-year transplant survival rate among patients who underwent the procedure at U.S. centers that perform 80 or more transplants a year.
  • Student-Run EMC Production Company at MTSU Mea ...
    EMC Productions is an official student-run TV production company at MTSU that is turning out top-quality work and providing students with hands-on applied learning.
  • Study Finds Flame Retardants at High Levels in ...
    Indiana University scientists Marta Venier and Ronald Hites have found chemical flame retardants in the blood of pet dogs at concentrations five to 10 times higher than in humans, but lower than levels found in a previous study of cats.
  • Protein Inhibitor May Bring a Topical Treatmen ...
    Patients infected with cancer-causing HPV may someday have an alternative to surgical and harsh chemical treatments, thanks to research being done at Tufts University School of Medicine. In a study published online in The FASEB Journal, researchers report on the development of a protein-based in ...

Natural Health News

  • Simon’s Cat in 'Hop It'
    The famous cat encounters a bunny ...
  • Man Unveils Interactive Toothpick Sculpture of ...
    Scott Weaver's Rolling through the Bay from Learning Studio on Vimeo.Artist Scott Weaver’s “Rolling Through the Bay” is a toothpick Rube Goldberg machine of the Bay Area that took 35 years and over 100,000 toothpicks to create.
  • Sitting All Day: Worse For You Than You Might ...
    Even if you exercise regularly, it might not be enough to counteract the effects of too much sitting. Many people have sedentary jobs and also engage in sedentary leisure activities after work, with the result that a lot more time is spent sitting than moving. A study calculated how much time a ...
  • U.S. Government to Spend $1 Billion to Decreas ...
    The Obama administration plans to invest $1 billion in health system reform money. The money will be used to improve patient safety and prevent hospital-acquired conditions. The new federal initiative also has the stated goal of decreasing preventable hospital readmissions. Currently, 20 percen ...
  • Corporations Now Polluting Organic Baby Foods
    Replacing Mother: Imitating Breast Milk in the Laboratory from Downtown Dailies on Vimeo.The presence of Martek Biosciences’ DHA and ARA in “organic” infant formula has been linked to infant illness. Organic foods should be a safe haven from unsafe and untested synthetic ingredients!

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Center for a Livable Future

  • Study on Drug-Resistant Staph and Store-Bought ...
    According to a recently published nationwide study of grocery store meats, the next time you handle a piece of meat or poultry bought at your local supermarket there is nearly a 50 percent chance that it will be carrying drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (Staph). The Translational Genomics Re ...
  • U.S. Dept. of the Interior among 2,000 Sodexo ...
    The Meatless Monday campaign just gained America’s protector of natural resources and heritage as one of its latest supporters. The U.S. Department of the Interior is one of Sodexo’s more than 2,000 corporate and government clients, which the food service giant encouraged to adopt its Meatless M ...
  • Corn Panic
    By Dr. Dennis Keeney, Visiting Scholar, Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future The USDA 2011 Prospective Plantings Report was one of the most anticipated planting reports in several years. It came on the heels of a shocking Grain Stocks Report issued last month, which showed that corn stocks ...
  • Calling all Farmers: Baltimore Accepting Appl ...
    This spring, something new is sprouting up in Baltimore. In the coming months, small-scale farm plots will be allocated to local farmers —an initiative aimed at filling vacant city-owned lots, encouraging community development, improving neighborhoods and increasing access to healthy food. La ...
  • Will the U.S. Hog Industry Ever Kick Its Relia ...
    The editors of Scientific American recently encouraged U.S. hog farmers to “follow Denmark and stop giving farm animals low-dose antibiotics.” Sixteen years ago, in order to reduce the threat of increased development of antibiotic resistant bacteria in their food system and the environment, Denm ...

Norwegianity

  • Troy ounces: the Achilles heel of the right
    Still weening myself off my Google Reader RSS subs (again) and there are a few stories that amply illustrate why I can’t keep aggregating about fools and liars. You may remember Jerry Kane. He and his stepson shot it out with Arkansas cops last year, not that that had anything to do with militia ...
  • I’m back
    I’m back, but I’m not back. As it turns out, a couple weeks off was more than time enough to ween me off the intertubes. I wish I could say I lost my anger in the process, but today’s Toles explains why that’s not possible. The worst people in the world have doubled down on [...]
  • Merry Easter
  • What the clerk barfed up
    Very busy day today filled with client projects ranging from a resume to MBA editing for an ESL student with a gluten-free menu to design if time permits, so I’m taking the day off. I grabbed a number of links about this as the story developed, but it appears that Prosser’s won in Wisconsin. The ...
  • Kloppenburg trails after ballots found in the ...
    Didn’t really want to do a second post but new numbers from Winnebago County have put Prosser on top in Wisconsin. [more] No, they didn’t find any ballots in the trunk of anyone’s car but it’s still super close so a recall will be mandatory. Inevitable is the word I’d pick for the usual whining ...

Public News Service

  • It's Screen-Free Week – Dare You Look Away?
    It's Screen-Free Week – Dare You Look Away? Phoenix, AZ – Arizonans are being urged to turn off TVs, video games and hand-held devices this week in an effort to make families aware of how much time is spent with electronic entertainment instead of physical activity and face-to-face human interac ...
  • Sniffling Season in Arizona: Allergy or Cold?
    Sniffling Season in Arizona: Allergy or Cold? Phoenix, AZ – Is it a cold or seasonal allergies? That’s a question many Arizona parents face this time of year when their little ones are sniffling and sneezing. Experts say it’s crucial to know what you are dealing with in order to properly treat i ...
  • AZ Programs Boost Energy Efficiency; More Work ...
    AZ Programs Boost Energy Efficiency; More Work Remains Phoenix, AZ - A new study finds the United States falling behind in clean energy investments, just as Arizona is becoming a more energy-efficient state. Some say there's room for the Grand Canyon State to become more of a leader. Comments fr ...
  • AZ Kids and Toddlers Keep "Backseat View"
    AZ Kids and Toddlers Keep "Backseat View" Phoenix, AZ – New guidelines will change the way Arizona children ride in a car. The American Academy of Pediatrics is suggesting toddlers stay in rear-facing car seats until at least the age of two and all children remain in the backseat until age 13. ...
  • Seven Steps to a Healthier Heart
    Seven Steps to a Healthier Heart Phoenix, AZ – Sometimes there’s a big gap between perception and reality when judging your own health. According to a recent American Heart Association (AHA) survey, nearly 40 percent of Americans thought they were in ideal heart health, when in reality, less tha ...

Center for Food Safety

  • CFS and Deepak Chopra–Watch Live Today!
    Genetically engineered (GE) alfalfa has recently been approved by the USDA, even though significant questions remain concerning its effects on consumers and the environment, and the serious contamination risks it poses to non-GMO and organic farmers and to our food supply. In light of this decis ...
  • Join the Rally for the Right to Know! Send you ...
     Join our virtual rally and send your letter to Congress urging mandatory labeling of GE foods TODAY! Saturday, March 26th, from D.C. to Colorado Springs–and more than 20 cities in between–thousands of people will  join together for a Rally for the Right to Know, demanding labeling of GMO food ...
  • Join the Rally for the Right to Know!
    The United States may soon be the only country in the world that does not require labeling of genetically engineered food. In Spring 2000, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that labeling of GE foods would remain voluntary, even though there was no indication that any company would ...
  • Farmers and Consumer Groups File Lawsuit Chall ...
    “Roundup Ready” Alfalfa Will Increase Pesticide Use and Cause Grave Harm to Environment and Organic Industry USDA Failures Guarantee Transgenic Contamination, Creation of More Superweeds Today, attorneys for the Center for Food Safety (CFS) and Earthjustice filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Depar ...
  • Bi-Partisan Legislation Introduced To Ban Dang ...
    Sixty-Four Organizations, Fishing Associations and Retailers Endorse Legislation; Lawmakers Cite Serious Economic, Environmental and Human Health Threats The Center for Food Safety along with 63 other groups, businesses and retailers applaud Senators Mark Begich (D-Alaska) and Lisa Murkowski (R- ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • Invasive Notes: An Invasive Response to Mother ...
    Invasive Notes: An Invasive Response to Mother Nature’s Melting Pot A purposely emotion-ladened essay 'Mother Nature's Melting Pot' [New York Times April 2011] that purports to connect invasion biology to extreme political agenda was recently published by the New York Times in what must only be ...
  • Newark Man Denies Killing Malcolm X - Black Unity
    Newark Man Denies Killing Malcolm X - Black Unity Al-Mustafa Shabazz, above in this 2004 file photo, is named as the chief assassin of Malcolm X in the book "Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention" by Columbia University professor Manning Marable. A lawyer representing Al-Mustafa Shabazz today disp ...
  • Now That Rape Matters in Africa...
    Please Note: This editorial was written before Ms. al-Obeidi was released. Raw Replay has a brief story about her First on-camera interview who they describe as a 'Libyan rape victim' without the 'alleged' added as is done with Black African women and others not politically valuable to the inter ...
  • ei: Israel criminalizes commemoration of the Nakba
    ei: Israel criminalizes commemoration of the Nakba: "A bill was passed by the Israeli Knesset (parliament) last week which calls on the government to deny funding to any organization, institution or municipality that commemorates the founding of the Israeli state as a day of mourning. The bill h ...
  • Leonard Weinglass dies at 78 | Free Speech Rad ...
    Leonard Weinglass dies at 78 | Free Speech Radio News: "“People’s defense” lawyer Leonard Weinglass has died. Born in 1933, he spent decades championing civil rights and representing prominent activists including Mumia Abu Jamal, Angela Davis, Jane Fonda and Daniel Ellsberg.� Weinglass contin ...

Pensieve

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

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    Using public transport, like this train, helps us to reduce pollution (glossary/categories/recycling-waste/pollution-reduction.html ). Read more about transport in the article Transport Evolution (technology/transport-evolution-the-new-black.html )Transport section (directory/categories/Transpo ...
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    No prizes for guessing who has got their Head in the Sand! See our images from the Climate Action Rally in Sydney on 2 April 2011…
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Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • RIP Vittorio, z”l
    I was scheduled to be interviewed by Ashley Bates, whose work we have reposted here. Instead she got word of the death of her friend, Italian peace activist Vittorio Arrigoni at the ends of self-proclaimed “Salafists,” an Islamist faction and rival to Hamas. While of course internationals’ death ...
  • Interview with BDS leader Omar Barghouti
    Democracy Now! shared this interview with a Palestinian leader of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, Omar Barghouti. Jewish Voice for Peace was part of an international campaign to get the U.S. State department to reverse the decision to deny him a visa. Thankfully, the campaign wa ...
  • Intolerance–Then and Now
    This post is a bit of a departure for the website.  While our focus is generally on what is happening in Israel and Palestine, we want to also occasionally draw the connections between the political culture here in the U.S. and in Israel and Palestine, and how they influence one another. Yest ...
  • Democracy Now! on Julian’s death
    Democracy Now? asked us to repost their interview with Nabeel Raee, director of the Acting School at the Jenin Freedom Theatre and Constancia “Dinky” Romilly. She is the founder and president of the board of the New York-based Friends of Jenin Freedom Theatre. They are speaking of the death o ...
  • Juliano Mer-Khamis, in his own words
    From filmmaker and activist Jen Marlowe: Dear friends, Many of you may have already heard about the murder of Juliano Mer-Khamis. The co-founder and director of the Freedom Theatre in Jenin Refugee Camp, he was gunned down (five bullets to the head) this afternoon outside the theatre by an unkno ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • World’s largest rooftop garden in Brooklyn
    A wide variety of organic produce is grown by Brooklyn Grange on a rooftop in Brooklyn, It’s nearly an acre in size. Inhabitat has the details. This is positively inspiring. What other abandoned and unused space in cities can we find useful new purposes for? The video features several urban gard ...
  • Electric VW-bodied dragster blows hubcaps off ...
    The Black Current is the first street-bodied all-electric dragster to reach the 9 second mark in the quarter mile.
  • Cheri Honkala’s Green campaign for Sheriff of ...
    [Originally posted at IndependentPoliticalReport.com, hence the somewhat dry tone about a campaign I actually have been slightly involved in.  The Green Party of Philadelphia will also be nominating candidates for other offices this Thursday, and we've been keeping busy with fracking protests, a ...
  • Terry Jones banned from protesting in front of ...
    Burning a Koran is front of a mosque is a deliberate incitement to violence. The US allows far more freedom of speech than most countries. Germany, for example, bans any favorable reference to Nazism. Even here in the US, there is not complete freedom of speech. You cannot threaten violence agai ...
  • Ouch, this makes my brain hurt
    A man was arrested on federal charges in Alaska after arranging with to have sex with a six year old boy who he would dress up in a Spiderman costume. Sounds like an especially deranged South Park episode, doesn’t it? Former UN weapons inspector and early Iraq War opponent Scott Ritter was recen ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • Wiki-Psy Ops: Al Qaeda Bomber was MI6 (MI6 was ...
    ED Note: We have been suspicious of “WikiLeaks” and their Soros connections since day one. So when a story jets out that we ourselves would emphasize, and connect to False Flag Terror (present and past) … We have to ask ourselves why? Qui Bono? What’s the angle here? 1) Soros wrecks sovereign na ...
  • Military patrols start Friday night in downtow ...
    COLUMBUS, Ga. – WRBL TV Starting at 10 o’clock Friday, two senior non-commissioned officers from Fort Benning (see below) will be walking the streets of Downtown Columbus, also known as, “Uptown.” The soldiers will be wearing arm bands that read, “Courtesy Patrol.” Fort Benning’s Commanding Gene ...
  • DEADLINE LIVE EXCLUSIVE: Mexican Drug Cartels ...
    By Mario Andrade DeadlineLive.info April 26, 2011 Last Sunday night, authorities in Brownsville, Texas, discovered an explosive device on Highway 77, just minutes from the Mexican border. The Brownsville Bomb Squad was dispatched to neutralize the explosive device. The local authorities and the ...
  • Putin – Libya coalition has no right to ...
    Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sharply criticised the Western coalition enforcing a no-fly zone over Libya on Tuesday and said it has no mandate to kill Muammar Gaddafi. Yahoo UK In a tirade against the West, Putin said the coalition had gone beyond the bounds of U.N. Security Council res ...
  • One Wedding and Unlimited Funerals – by ...
    Monday, April 25, 2011 Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox I guess I must be a glutton for punishment because I just snapped off CiaNN in frustration and anger for about the 5000th time. Yesterday, I was treated to Candy (âI never met a warmonger I didnât loveâ) Crowley fairly gushing with bloodlust over he ...

The Air Vent

  • How to reply?
    I received this email today, not sure how to reply.  Any suggestions? Hi Jeff, I wanted to email you in regards in any possible advertising opportunities you may have with your website…I am looking to promote the C40 Cities project (Climate Leadership Group) and the work that they and their par ...
  • Examination of the Climate Change Strategy
    By John F. Pittman There have been some excellent articles and discussion at Dr. Curry’s site and others over the renewed calls for anything from Climate Change SWAT teams, to reorganizing the educational direction of scientists and advocates to convince the public. On Dr. Pielke, Jr’s site is a ...
  • Reply to a Believer
    Kim Oyhus placed a YouTube video on line which Steve McIntyre highlighted a why climategate wasn’t a scandal repeating the excuses of the scientists involved which makes it somewhat interesting.  She quoted them claiming that using certain techniques was the problem in the data.  Of course she ...
  • Who is the Enemy of Whom
    A news article recently caught my attention. U.N. Prepares to Debate Whether ‘Mother Earth’ Deserves Human Rights Status I suppose this is the official step for conversion of the global warming science group to the status of religion. The dangers of this stupidity should be obvious but leave me ...
  • Ugh!
    I’ve got to let off a little steam.   Currently, in the US, we have a government overspending their income by a gigantic proportion.   Those in charge have no chance of feeling the result of their own policy (while in office) and those who lose office didn’t have the power anyway so — who ca ...

Focal Point

  • Fat as Class War in Arizona
    Is this some kind of sick April Fools Day spoof? Arizona's Republican governor reportedly has a bold new plan to pit fat Medicaid recipients against kidney-transplant candidates. Jan Brewer is proposing a $50 "fine" for overweight Medicaid patients who fail to slim down on doctors' orders: ...
  • Republicans: Putting the "Us" in "Uterus"
    Remember, ladies, there is no "I" in "uterus." The Republican speaker in the Florida state house has opened in new front in the GOP's war to control women's bodies. He has banned the mere discussion of generative lady parts on the House floor. A Democratic representative in Florida was rebuk ...
  • A Consulting Business in Indonesia...
    I heard he has an ex-wife in some place called Mayors Income, Tennessee And he used to have a consulting business in Indonesia But what's he building in there? He has no friends but he gets a lot of mail I bet he spent a little time in jail And what's that tune he's always whistl ...
  • Florida Governor Wants to Drug Test All State ...
    Florida's Republican governor has a creative way to demoralize and demonize public sector workers: mandatory drug testing for all state employees who answer to the governor and all prospective hires for executive branch agencies. Scott recently transferred a controlling interest in his multi . ...
  • Missing Bronx Zoo Cobra Is Tweeting
    @BronxZoosCobra has 12,165 twitter followers as of this writing.� We live in the digital age, communicating instantaneously across continents, but we're still just a bunch of primates chattering about where the hell that snake is. Hooray for traditional values! [Photo credit: teachingsagit ...

Inside Facebook

  • How Your Website Can Use the Facebook Send Button
    The following is an excerpt from the Facebook Marketing Bible, the comprehensive guide to marketing your company, app, brand, or website using Facebook. The full version of this article is available through a Facebook Marketing Bible subscription. Released yesterday, Facebook’s Send button socia ...
  • New Facebook Platform Industry Hires: Work4 La ...
    Work4 Labs, Vitrue, Involver, BranchOut and Wildfire hired sales executives, customer support, human resources workers, interns and communications staff this week. If your company is hiring new people or making a notable promotion, please let us know. Email mail (at) insidefacebook (dot) com, an ...
  • Facebook Deals Begins Testing Tomorrow, to Inc ...
    About a month ago, Facebook inserted a special story into the news feed and homepage ads asking users to sign up for a Deals service. The company instructed people to subscribe to get information about the service as it rolls out in five cities: San Francisco, San Diego, Dallas, Austin and Atlan ...
  • Facebook Picks Up Much of Dogpatch Labs Startu ...
    In another not-quite-a-talent-acquisition, most of the founding team of Dogpatch Labs-incubated startup Recrec is going to Facebook. Co-founder Natan “Okay” Zohar and Alina Libova are going to work under Jocelyn Goldfein on the product engineering team. Recrec was working on an interesting techn ...
  • Facebook Releases Updates to Groups, New “Send ...
    Facebook has just released several new updates for its Groups product, including photo album sharing and Questions publishing, in-Group search, and admin approval for new members. Facebook says that over 50 million Groups have been created since the product’s launch in October 2010. Some admins ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Lobbification of US politicians: betraying the ...
    Lawrence Davidson explains the process by which members of the United States Congress abandon the people and the national interest and instead become beholden to political lobbies or special interest groups, the most powerful of which is the Zionist lobby.
  • US weapons to Israel are disincentives to peace
    Against the background of Israel's contempt for international law and violations of Palestinian human rights, and as Washington now considers raising the debt ceiling and making even more substantial cuts to the 2012 budget, Josh Ruebner argues that "the moral, financial and political costs of a ...
  • Pro-Israel pressure on law conference threaten ...
    Cecilie Surasky highlights the threat to freedom of speech in the United States posed by mainstream Jewish organizations who are going all out to silence all criticism or debate of Israeli policies, even by Jews and Israelis.
  • Middle East peace process: dead as Monty Pytho ...
    Stuart Littlewood considers the possible scenarios open to the Palestinians in the coming months in view of the death - some would say the stillbirth - of the "peace process", from UN membership to the collapse of the Palestinian National Authority and "new openings and possibilities, a new logi ...
  • BBC governing body hails "pretentious propagan ...
    Richard Lightbown is surprised to learn from the BBC Trust - the governing body of Britain's state broadcaster - that it considered Panorama's "Death in the Med" documentary to have "performed a valuable public service".

Amazon Rainforest

  • Peru suffers an environmental tragedy!
    The rising price of gold has multiplied by six the pace of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in the Peruvian region of Madre de Dios in recent years.  Illegal gold searches using primitive techniques in the years 2003-9 led to the destruction of 7,000 hectares of virgin and extremely divers ...
  • Earth’s Living Treasure- Celebrating Forests f ...
    United Nations declared 2o11 as the International Year of Forests (Forests 2o11), and why Forests are the theme of the International Day for Biological Diversity on 22 May 2o11. In this special year, the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) are ...
  • Belo Monte hydroelectric dam construction work ...
    The company leading the dam project, Norte Energia, announced that infrastructure work on roads that will provide access to the region started on Monday morning. The £7bn Belo Monte dam on the Amazon’s Xingu river is scheduled to start producing energy on 31 December 2014 and would be the seco ...
  • Brazil judge blocks Amazon Belo Monte dam:
    Federal Brasilian judge Ronaldo Desterro has blocked plans to build a huge hydro-electric dam in the Amazon rainforest because of environmental concerns. Judge Desterro said environmental requirements to build the Belo Monte dam had not been met. He also barred the national development bank, BND ...
  • 1.ooo military forces end illegal gold mining ...
    The Peruvian military has cleared-out illegal gold mining along the country’s south-eastern Amazon region in a move aiming to protect the environment. The government sent about 1,000 security forces to the region of Madre de Dios to destroy the illegal operations, the state-funded BBC reported. ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Weekly Round Up for Sunday, April 24
    Police State Status, TSA Pornographers, the Ever-Lasting Anthrax Mystery, Drone-Mania, Israel &Colonialism, Our So-Called Ally-Azerbaijan & More! Hope you all had a nice week. I’ve been nursing my daughter who is recovering from her first strep throat: 103F fever, antibiotics, miserable cough, a ...
  • The Divine Rights of the US Federal Government
    Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost. – - Herbert Spencer Once upon a time there was âthe divine right of kings,â a political and religious doctrine of political legitimacy asserting that kings are subject to no earthly authority, deriving their right to r ...
  • Podcast Show #40
    The Boiling Frogs Presents Grant Smith Grant F. Smith joins us to discuss Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle, a 2009 Council on Foreign Relations book authored by Dan Senor and Saul Singer. He tells us about rarely discussed “massive non-market subsidies and distortions” d ...
  • On Your Warnings: “One if by Land, Two if by S ...
    I’m Every Woman & Here is How To my good friends and supporters who have been warning and preparing me for the ‘siege to come’ after writing my last post on the Israel Lobby: Here I am still standing, stronger than ever, after speaking the ‘unspeakable.’ Granted some of those warnings were anyth ...
  • The Court Case Against Generals Behind Turkey’ ...
    CIA: The Dark Force Behind the Bloodiest Takeover in Turkish History By ‘The Insider from Turkey’ It took some time, but now it won’t be long anymore before the lawsuit begins against the military junta behind the 12 September coup in 1980, the bloodiest takeover in Turkish history. For many yea ...

Afro Spear

  • A Haitian History Lesson, Or, Why I LOVE Randa ...
    I am reading Randall Robinson’s “Quitting America.” I’ve quit America, too, I just haven’t left this jive plantation yet. Its comin’!! Robinson is my new/old hero. I needed to share this brilliant, powerful black man with ya’ll. Its old history – if you’ve heard it at all – but its relevant. I l ...
  • “Africa’s Hidden Presidents?&#8221 ...
    What transpired in Ivory Coast recently, luckily, unearthed a great rot in our education system and upper echelons of power in Africa. Laurent Gbagbo, the professor of History, made a bad history for not understanding history. He mindlessly clung unto power so as to cause many deaths and many ca ...
  • easter riddymz
    “For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved, it is the power of God.” 1 Corinthians 1: 18 
  • Baldwin’s Prophecy
  • Cote d’Ivoire discussed – Africa & ...
    Cote d’Ivoire discussed – Africa – Al Jazeera English.

Expose the BNP

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

Sen4Earth

  • Ecofeminism: Book by Jytte Nhanenge
    Ecofeminism: Towards Integrating the Concerns of Women, Poor People, and Nature into Development Authored by Jytte Nhanenge Sustainability Education Network is doubly honored to announce and review the newly published work of author Jytte Nhanenge, and applauds University Press of America for it ...
  • Will the Grand Canyon Survive?
    Last week Change.org contacted us about the Worldwide Campaign to Save the Grand Canyon. Working together with environmental editor, Jess Leber, the petition housed on Change.org was updated with the current urgency in the need of signatures to make this campaign a successful one. With Change.or ...
  • Turtle Island: Our Earth Mother
    Japan in Crisis By Sheryl Goodwin, SEN Contributor and Honorary Advisor Kway. Hello. First off let me state what an Honor it is to be asked by my brother Gregory and sister Suzanne to join the team. What a privilege to be among such fine people listed on the biography page of Sustainability Educ ...
  • Memorial Tribute to Hugh MacDougall
    Memorial Tribute to Hugh MacDougall “We are sending the power of love, peace and compassion, which can change the world.” â Hugh MacDougall, Australia, SEN Honorary Advisor Hugh was more to Suzanne and I than SEN’s Honorary Spiritual Advisor. He was the beloved friend we called brother, and he w ...
  • No to Monsanto and GMO: Action Central
    "SEN is greatly concerned that Monsanto and GMO give rise to a threat that if unchecked could eventually prove as catastrophic to mankind and the sustainability of all life on earth as global warming. We must scream bloody murder, and do so with facts." -- Gregory Hilbert, Co-Founder Sustainabil ...

If Americans Knew

  • Denying Nazi-Zionist collusion: The Sacramento ...
    In an inversion of journalistic ethics, the Sacramento Bee reported on opposition to an event before and after it took place, but didn't cover the event itself. It featured an entire report on accusations against a flier, but didn't include a response from the flier's authors.
  • Media omissions on Itamar: Murdering babies is ...
    US media widely and repeatedly reported on the horrific March 11th murder of three small Israeli children and their parents. While no one yet knows who committed this grotesque act, reports presume that the murderers were Palestinian, and for this reason the incident is receiving major attention ...
  • Critical Connections: Egypt, the US, and the I ...
    Minimally explored in all the coverage of the momentous Egyptian uprising taking place over the last 10 days [Jan-Feb 2011] are the Israeli connections.
  • Gabrielle Giffords, Tom Hurndall and Palestini ...
    Alison Weir, CounterPunch - There is something particularly horrifying when someone is shot in the head. Perhaps it's the gruesome image, the destruction of the brain, the clear intent to kill. The recent shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is made even more nightmarish by the l ...
  • As Israel kills and maims, Outrage is directed ...
    Whenever Israel commits yet another atrocity, its defenders are quick to redirect public attention away from the grisly crime scene. Currently, there are headlines about allegedly anti-Semitic comments made by senior White House correspondent Helen Thomas. Pundits across the land evince outrage ...

David J. Gregory

  • PRIVATIZATION Eisenhower Warned Us About
    When President Eisenhower gave his farewell address in 1960 he warned the citizenry and future Presidents about the military-industrial complex and their influence. This group has been controlling everything since the end of his term, he saw and knew what they did, and his warnings were not heed ...
  • Dennis Kucinich talks with David Gregory
    Dennis was interviewed by David Gregory and again raises the question as to why do we have no money for the people and always plenty to fight wars and kill people?
  • Republican Cuts Devastate interests to THE PEOPLE
    Congress needs to hear from all of us right away, because the only chance we have to stop this budget is if Senate Democrats stand united against it. And the first vote could come today.1 Can you call Sen. Nelson and tell him to stand strong against Republicans‘ massive, devastating cuts? Senato ...
  • Rally to Save the American Dream
    In Wisconsin and around our country, the American Dream is under fierce attack. Instead of creating jobs, Republicans are giving tax breaks to corporations and the very rich—and then cutting funding for education, police, emergency response, and vital human services. On Saturday, February 26, a ...
  • RICK SCOTT MADE MILLIONS OFF HEALTH NOW CUTS I ...
    Whether it's a political stunt or the act of an extremist ideologue, Scott is hurting real Floridians in concrete ways, including millions of people with private health insurance or Medicare benefits. He's taking away a law that ends the worst insurance company abuses and frees families, senior ...

Unsuitable Blog

  • A Billion Acts of Greenwash
    Tomorrow is Earth Day – whoopee doo! It’s that time of year that all the environmental NGOs and countless businesses work towards in order to bring about a sudden upsurge in pointless symbolic actions and purchases of “green” things like (I’ll just have a look in my Deleted Items folder) LED can ...
  • Irony Alert! Red Tape Challenge a Breach of Na ...
    I’ve just come off the phone after speaking to a nice person at the UK Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. She sounded a little concerned, or maybe that was just bemusement, after I pointed out that the UK Government’s latest brain-busting measure – known, all chummily, as the Red Ta ...
  • 350.org on Facebook: Now You See It…Now ...
    Naomi Klein decided to join the board of 350.org. They are delighted, as you would be if one of the world’s most influential anti-capitalism writers joined your campaign. Obviously this puts Naomi Klein’s writings in a whole new focus – she’s happy to be part of an organisation that received its ...
  • Switch Your Lights ON for Earth Hour!
    Once upon a time there was just greenwash: corporations and governments went to great lengths to convince a concerned public that they were doing everything they could to help the natural environment return to its former glory. All the time they were filling their bank accounts and pumping up th ...
  • International Atomic Energy Agency Spinning Li ...
    In the light of the Japanese earthquake and subsequent tsumani, government and internation agencies are working like crazy to ensure no news remains good news regarding the Fukushima nuclear power plant. Yet from the BBC we hear the following: There are now problems at the number three reactor – ...

Subalternate Reality

  • Keith Ellison’s Tears And Epistemic Closure
    Rep. Peter King’s hearings looking into the “radicalization” of the American Muslim community, and the suggestion that the community doesn’t cooperate with law enforcement, was largely a waste of time and tax dollars. The affair didn’t produce a single insight into the actual and urgent issue of ...
  • Praying On Qasr al-Nil
    One of the more memorable scenes of the Egyptian revolution will surely be that of ordinary Egyptian’s praying on Cairo’s Qasr al-Nil Bridge as members of Egyptian state police direct their water cannons at them. Truly a remarkable sight. via Al Jazeera Filed under: Middle East Tagged: Al-Jazeer ...
  • “I Support Democratization, But…&# ...
    The Atlanticâs Jeffrey Goldberg â one of the key proponents of the disastrous invasion of Iraq â has some serious misgivings about the fledgling pro-democracy movement thatâs taken over the streets of Egypt. âI support democratization, but,â he cautions, âthe democratization we saw in Gaza (cour ...
  • All That Happens In The Middle East Can’ ...
    Uncertainly rules the day in Tunisia. Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the countryâs strong-armed and authoritarian ruler since 1987, is in Saudi Arabia while the interim government struggles to restore some semblance of order.  âConfusion, fear and horror in Tunisia as old regime’s militia carries on ...
  • Newt Comes Out As A Muslim-Baiter
    Early this week, disgraced former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich warned that “a commitment to religious freedom and God-given rights is being replaced by a secular oppression…”  Just hours after those words appeared on Human Events, Gingrich issued a statement forcefully opposing the constr ...

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Why Our Project (and the Country) Needs Cheap, ...
    Of all the challenges since November, when we began our Knight-funded project, hooking up the Internet was probably the least expected snag. Our project, Order in the Court 2.0, aims to modernize an old-school district courtroom and stream its proceedings live online. There was so much policy ...
  • R.I.P. Flip Cam: The Smartphone Did It (Not Cisco)
    Over the last three years, I've attended all three TEDx conferences on the idyllic campus of my old alma mater, the University of Southern California. And it's been my experience that TEDxUSC is where you go to be inspired, not have your dreams relegated to the heap bin of "what if..." But fo ...
  • How to Design Fast, Interactive Maps Without Flash
    Until recently if you wanted to create a fast interactive map to use on your website you had two main options - design it in Flash, or use Google. With the prevalence of mobile devices, for many users Flash isn't an option, leaving Google and a few competitors (like Bing). But we are developing ...
  • Why Are Newsrooms Resistant to Creating Newsgames?
    This past weekend a group of 25 game developers, academics and journalists gathered at the University of Minnesota’s Journalism Center to examine the state of newsgames. While it can be a slippery term to define, generally speaking newsgames covers a wide range of game-like experiences from puzz ...
  • Ushahidi's Online Toolbox Helps People Underst ...
    [Post written by Melissa Tully and Jennifer Chan. This post is the third in a series of blog posts documenting a 9-month Ushahidi evaluation project in partnership with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative supported by the Knight Foundation.] We have made great progress on the Ushahidi Kenya e ...

Cutting Edge News

  • The Peace of Easter Should be a Lesson for All ...
    Coming out of the cathedral after high mass this Easter I was filled with the spirit of peace fully within for myself�and for all humanity. It made me wonder if all religions emerge from their houses of worship with the same uplifting internal spirtual to create peace on earth. It would be a gif ...
  • American Jewish Committee Picks an Odd Time to ...
    I think the American Jewish Committee has picked an odd time to oppose efforts by right-thinking people to reduce anti-Jewish campus hatred behavior. Passover should be a time of celebration of freedom for the Jewish peoples and their return to Israel, their homeland, and the resulting democracy ...
  • The Obama Edge - White House Smacks Rev. Frank ...
    The White House slammed influential evangelical leader the Rev. Franklin Graham on Monday for questioning President Obama's birthplace.Graham, a son of the Rev. Billy Graham who has served as a spiritual adviser to several presidents with his father, said on ABC's "This Week" on Sunday that Obam ...
  • Russia on Edge - Chernobyl 25 Years Later
    April 26, marks the 25th anniversary of the worst nuclear accident on record, the explosion of the nuclear power plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine. The fate of 4,500 square kilometer exclusion zone around the old Soviet plant may give a glimpse into future of the area now banned for human habitation a ...
  • Edge of Debt - Deficit Spending is the Biggest ...
    All across Western Europe—the land of platinum-plated social benefits, the 35-hour work week, tony retirement plans and government-funded health care—countries are coming to the realization that they can no longer afford these luxuries amid skyrocketing deficits. Yet here in the United States, a ...

High Country News

  • Welcome, Todd; goodbye, Ellen
    High Country News welcomes new outreach director Todd Chamberlin and says goodbye to Ellen Kraus, our subscriber services staffer; writerly readers come to call; Tara Waters Lumpkin launches online magazine Izilwane.
  • This Earth Day, it's all about the air
    If you can take a nice deep breath and enjoy a clear blue sky, thank the Clean Air Act.
  • Journeys we take at home
    There’s nothing like an imaginative, lively 3-year-old boy to make a person slow down and remember how to play.
  • Covering the issues that matter
  • The SWOP letter
    The letter sent 20 years ago by the SouthWest Organizing Project sparked a reaction from the big greens, who have sought to partner with more diverse groups and include more people of color in their staffs, boards and membership.

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

  • Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
    Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
  • Practicing Peace in the New Year
    A friend, Frank Swift, that I met on my first journey has passed along some great practical steps towards peace for the new year. Frank has written a children’s book to help young people see an alternative to the competition and forcefulness that can too easily get instilled in our young people. ...
  • Sharing the writing of another Stieber
    My younger brother, Zack, has been fascinated by the Chinese practice of Falun Gong and is hoping that this post could be used to spark a further discussion about it. � Thoughts on Falun Gong by Zack Stieber � Most of us are aware that in China things work differently then here. The main thing o ...
  • Article in FOR
    The following is the rough draft for an article I wrote, reflecting on the war in Iraq, that was published in the recent edition of the Fellowship of Reconciliation’s magazine. For more info on getting the full magazine, check out: http://forusa.org/fall-2010-renewing-movement   Rhetoric and Re ...
  • Slate Interview: My Country Right or Wrong: Co ...
    Interview I did with a fascinating writer for SLATE whose special interest is on transformation and how people come to admit they’re wrong:   Address to article: http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/thewrongstuff/archive/2010/12/16/my-country-right-or-wrong-conscientious-objector-josh-stieber-on-bei ...

Yid With Lid

  • The Anti-Democratic Super-Weapon: How The West ...
    By Barry Rubin I have long thought that we are experiencing what might be called the Middle Easternization of the West but never fully understood it until a friend asked me a question. Why is it, he asked, that when moderates in the Arab world are attacked they always react defen ...
  • New Research: States Face $1.26 Trillion Retir ...
    The Unions can bitch and protest all they want but it will not change the facts, state budgets are facing an increasingly large gap between what they owe in retirement benefits and what they can pay and unless something is done about it today these states will be heading toward bankruptcy and no ...
  • Electric Car Subsidies :Your Tax Dollars Down ...
    While we are looking for places to come up with savings in the federal budget, its time that we looked at cutting the federal subsidies for electric cars. Through its loan and subsidy program, the United States is creating a market for a product where the is no demand. The problem with buying de ...
  • Newsbusted: MSNBC Hires NEW Replacement For Ke ...
    Tired of continually low ratings, MSNBC has decided to hire a new replacement for its former showcase host Keith Olbermann, and the name will surprise you. The liberal media has its own idea about who was behind that horrific beating of a transgendered� person at McDonalds. Charlie Sheen's wife ...
  • Crazy Farrakhan Doubts 9/11: America Was Looki ...
    Now here is someone who needs one of those nice trench coats with the long sleeves tie into a knot around the back.� I am talking about the slug from the Nation of Islam, one of the biggest purveyors of hateful venom in the world, Louis Farrakhan.� The Muslim leader who was recently quoted as ...

The Real Agenda

  • Majority of Human Race Does Not See Global War ...
    CNSNews.com April 26, 2011 Most of the human race does not see global warming as a serious threat, according to a Gallup poll released last week that surveyed individuals in 111 countries. Respondents were asked: “How serious of a threat is global warming to you and your family?” They were given ...
  • U.S. Feds get warrants to mine Facebook accounts
    As if Facebook wasn’t already enough of a data mining operation, judges are allowing Feds to access account information such as addresses, telephone numbers, friends’ lists in order to… you guessed it: ‘fight crime’. By Robert Snell The Detroit News April 25, 2011 Federal investigators in Detroi ...
  • Pediatricians call for stricter laws for chemicals
    The U.S. is not doing enough to protect kids from exposure to potentially dangerous chemicals, pediatricians said in a new statement released today. Reuters April 25, 2011 The policy paper from the American Academy of Pediatrics explains that a law meant to inform the public about the risks of d ...
  • The Dark Side of Globalism
    by Tom DeWeese April 25, 2011 There are many faces of globalism, and it comes with many names, but in all cases, the goal of globalism is to erase national borders, eliminate national sovereignty, reduce national identities, and move toward global governance through the United Nations. The Europ ...
  • Apple’s legal council: We ‘must ha ...
    Guidelines for user spying are written under United States Telecommunications Act of 1996. International Business Times April 25, 2011 Security researchers unveiled this week that Apple’s iPhonewas actively logging the whereabouts of users, storing location data into an easily assessable file on ...

Wind Watch

  • Slew of bills target growing wind power industry
    AUGUSTA, Maine � Critics of industrial wind power in Maine are waging their most organized fight against the burgeoning industry, urging lawmakers to impose tougher siting standards or require developers to compensate neighbors when wind farms harm their property values. During the first of two ...
  • Resistance mounts to Germany’s ambitious ...
    The German government plans to replace nuclear reactors with thousands of wind turbines and thousands of kilometers of high-voltage “monster masts” in a move that will deface vast swathes of territory. Germans, though desperate to phase out atomic energy, are gearing up to protest against the gr ...
  • Wind-farm boom stirs up wildlife concerns
    The unregulated wind-energy industry is expanding rapidly across Oklahoma, causing concern among wildlife officials about the location of wind farms and towering turbines. Oklahoma is among several states with few or no regulations regarding wind-energy development, officials said. With hundreds ...
  • Fickle winds, intermittent sunshine start to s ...
    The growth of U.S. wind power has begun to create operating challenges for nuclear and coal plants that must be ramped up and down as wind speeds vary, panelists at a Massachusetts Institute of Technology energy conference reported last week. The MIT Energy Initiative symposium on integrating la ...
  • Major headwinds: Lawsuit leaves renewable ener ...
    This time last year, all appeared to be on track for a large-scale, $75-million installation of a dozen wind turbines on the Douglas-Webster town line. Testing had been done to prove there is enough wind to support the more than 300-foot towers. The Weymouth-based development firm pushing the pr ...

Not My Tribe

  • The man-purse for behind enemy lines
    A staple of army surplus stores since the days Banana Republic was the Starbucks of olive drab, the Israeli Paratrooper Bag was marketed as the Swiss Army Knife of handbags. Beside the ludicrous notion that an airborne assault fighter would shoulder a single-strapped man-purse, the red logo of a ...
  • Semper Fido Bitches
    COLO. SPRINGS– Tough crowd at this week’s antiwar bannering: the usual plentiful honks of support, but now intermittent servicemen heckling in crew-cutted indignation. And we haven’t yet inaugurated our WARMONGERS GO TO HELL banner. The best the driver of a white van-load of them could muster wa ...
  • Local cyclists shred Garden of the Gods
    COLORADO SPRINGS– Mountain bike thrillcraft eco-vandals Jason Memmelaar and Chris Heath weren’t apprehended by the El Paso County Sheriff or the CSPD, but interrupted by an off-duty park ranger Stephanie Stover, who saw them cutting tree limbs to expand an illegal downhill run. When she scattere ...
  • I’m slacking a bit, last week was the Bl ...
    97 years ago. A lot can happen in that time, yes? Unions finally getting some decent wage and safety laws going, public education, health care, pensions… Then people got complacent, and the Anti-Worker Greed Heads take back power, just enough to put us back almost to 1914. They say “Oh, but the ...
  • While their Political Servants are pushing Aus ...
    But not for their Political Backers, who bailed out their industry at public expense, a pair of Rich-Bitch Investment Bankers from New York took a joyride in a taxi to Las Vegas and Los Angeles“on a whim”. Take that, Peasants! We’re cutting off your grandma’s Social Security and your pension and ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • 5 No-planer Claims Refuted
    This is for anyone who still thinks the no-plane theories have any credibility. Please consider this my public statement about no-plane theories: They have no merit and are all wrong. Related Info: Debunking "September Clues" and "No Plane" Theories The plane does decelerate: Interpreting ...
  • Structural Aspects of Building 7’s Collapse: W ...
    Submitted by Radical Pragmatist at 911blogger.com. Related Info: The Physics of WTC 7 World Trade Center 7: An Engineered Collapse NIST's Admission of Freefall - Does It Matter? The Ultimate proof NIST is lying about WTC7 Re: NIST Report on WTC7 debunked and exposed! Scientists, Schola ...
  • What they've got planned for us next...
    The Projected Al Qaeda Use of Body Cavity Suicide Bombs Against High Value Targets http://www.groupintel.com/2011/04/11/the-projected-al-qaeda-use-of-body-cavity-suicide-bombs-against-high-value-targets/ Page 33: Ultimately, however, it is going to require some sort of reliable and medically sa ...
  • Foreknowledge of Building 7's Collapse : Dr. G ...
    Submitted by Radical Pragmatist at 911blogger.com. Related Info: Oh, How Typical ! Arch Debunker Pat Curley Grossly Misrepresents Firefighter Testimony and then Wrongly Accuses 911 Truthers of the Same Thing
  • Clinton told it like it is...
    I want to say to the Taoiseach how very grateful I am for his leadership and friendship. But I must say that I was somewhat ambivalent when we were up here giving our virtual signatures. Do you have any idea how much time I spend every day signing my name? I'm going to feel utterly useless if ...

Fooducate

  • 10 Things You Didn’t Know about Vitamin A [and ...
    This week we are excited to try out a new way of presenting helpful nutrition information with a tool called Prezi! Prezi takes boring slideshows to a whole new level and you will see the cool ways we used it to incorporate pictures, graphs and even YouTube videos so that this is NOT your typica ...
  • Airplane Food Gets Even More Revolting
    This is a guest blog post by Chef Rob Endelman. As if airline food isn’t awful enough, those still eating the carriers’ meals (when offered) now have unsanitary conditions on the aircraft themselves to worry about. The following is an excerpt from a warning letter the Food and Drug Administratio ...
  • About Those Colorful Easter Candies
    Easter, the holiday of spring and renewal, is also the holiday of brightly colored eggs and candies. Today, millions of kids will gorge on sweets. And some, as a result, will start bouncing off the walls. It could be the sugar, but perhaps a sensitivity to artificial food dyes is the trigger. Ye ...
  • Join Fooducate’s Easter Egg Hunt Today
    Happy Easter everyone! Join the Fooducate Easter Egg Hunt for a chance to win a $20 gift card. We’ve hidden 3 mystery products (Easter eggs) in our product database. Can you find them? Contest Details: Use your Fooducate iPhone App to scan products in your pantry or the supermarket Scanning a my ...
  • Does Your Microwave Have a “Heat Junk Food” Bu ...
    Appliance makers must be working with the food industry to make our lives as easy as, well, pushing a button. The microwave pictured above has a setting for “Chicken Nuggets” [conveniently to the left of the start button] . What can be simpler than picking up a bag of frozen fake food, tossing i ...

Traffikd

  • Four Pre-Writing Exercises for Inspired Bloggers
    Rebecca Chelsey's recent post on ways to spark our creativity got me thinking about the next step: how to take that creativity and turn it into meaningful sentences on the page. In other words, what we do with that spark of inspiration will determine the success or setbacks we face when we blog. ...
  • 8 Simple Sources of Creative Inspiration
    As a creative person, I've noticed that creativity and creative ideas tend to present themselves whenever they see fit, and rarely otherwise. This is an especially unfortunate habit for my creativity to have because I am in the field of design. Over the years I've researched and stumbled upon ei ...
  • Culture Vulture: Social Strategies for Differe ...
    Social media campaigns are becoming more integrated into the overall online marketing mix. And as with anything on the Web, you need to think global to succeed in the long term. To succeed with social media marketing for different cultures, you need to familiarise yourself with what’s happening ...
  • Internet Marketing and Social Media Degree Pro ...
    Guest post by Brian Jenkins Over a billion and a half people use the Internet, and this has created a plethora of opportunities for talented Internet marketers. Specialized knowledge in Internet marketing and social media is vital for many businesses. Yes, there are successful, self-taught Inte ...
  • How to Find Great Communities, Forums, and Blo ...
    To market your company effectively, you need to find out where your target audience is. In this post I’ll show you how you can do this. I like using examples, so in this case, I’ll assume you sell Star Wars merchandise.

Survival International

  • Wave of child deaths strikes indigenous commun ...
    Warao child and baby, Amacuro delta, Venezuela. © Fiona Watson/Survival Six children in one Warao indigenous community in Venezuela have reportedly died within the space of ten days in April, as a result of malnutrition, disease, and poor health care. Vomiting, diarrhea, fever, respiratory ...
  • Jumma villages burned to ashes
    Jummas, Bangladesh © Mark McEvoy/Survival Six indigenous Jumma villages have reportedly been burned to ashes and many Jumma people attacked by Bengali settlers in the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh. Violence erupted when Jumma landowners discovered settlers clearing their land and bu ...
  • Ross Thomas models for Survival
    Ross Thomas modeling Survival's T-Shirt by Richard Long. © Survival Hollywood actor Ross Thomas, whose new movie ‘Soul Surfer’ has just opened, models two new T-shirts for human rights organization Survival International. The two T-shirts are available from Survival’s online store. Richa ...
  • US human rights report shines spotlight on Pen ...
    Under Chief Minister Taib, the Penan's forests have been ravaged for 30 years. © Survival International A new US government human rights report has highlighted the Penan tribe’s battle to protect their rainforests in Sarawak, in Malaysian Borneo, from logging. The US State Department docum ...
  • Endangered uncontacted tribe to feature on Dis ...
    The photos reveal a thriving, healthy community with baskets full of manioc and papaya fresh from their gardens. © Gleison Miranda/FUNAI/Survival The Discovery Channel will show unique footage of an uncontacted tribe on Sunday, April 17 (9pm, ET and PT) in the Grasslands and Jungles episode ...

Greg Palast

  • BP's Secret Deepwater Blowout
    by Greg Palast exclusive for Truthout/Buzzflash Greg Palast investigating BP's blowout in the Caspian, Baku, Azerbaijan 2010. Only 17 months before BP's Deepwater Horizon rig suffered a deadly blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, another BP deepwater oil platform also blew out. You've heard and se ...
  • BP In Deep Water: The Making Of the Channel 4 ...
    FEATURES For two decades, investigator Greg Palast has been on BP's trail. In BP: In Deep Water, Palast takes Dispatches viewers along on his world-wide investigation of the oil giant. (Broadcast tonight, 8pm. UK only.) One year after BP's Deepwater Horizon rig blew apart and spewed 170 ...
  • Dispatches UK TVGreg Palast Drills Deep into BP
    One year after the Deepwater Horizon, Palast travels from the Gulf Coast to the Arctic Ocean to the Caspian Sea to drill deep into the heart of BP. Filth, polar bears and oil-crat police states. Catch it Monday night at 8pm GMT on Channel 4's DISPATCHES. Sorry: Only in Britain. Greg Palast ...
  • No BS Info on Japan NuclearObama invites Tokyo ...
    for Truthout/Buzzflash by Greg Palast What South Texas project could look like.(Image by NINA - Nuclear Innovation North America) I need to speak to you, not as a reporter, but in my former capacity as lead investigator in several government nuclear plant fraud and racketeering investigatio ...
  • Chevron Runs from Judgmentin Ecuador
    by Greg Palast Chevron petroleum Corporation is attempting to slither out of an $8 billion judgment rendered yesterday by a trial court in Ecuador for cancer deaths, illnesses and destruction caused by its Texaco unit. I've been there, in Ecuador. I met the victims.  They didn't lose their sh ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle baby sleeper suits/ ...
    We’ve already talked about baby clothes in general but CD, who writes the Canadian Doomer blog, has sent over such an excellent reuse idea for worn out baby sleepers/romper suits that I thought it was worth featuring these in particular: I just posted this on my blog, and one of my readers thoug ...
  • Upcycling clothing: how can I reuse or recycle ...
    Continuing on our impromptu upcycling clothing week here at Recycle This, I was wondering what could be done with long-sleeved/dress shirts — we’ve already talked about recycling or reusing the ties, so why not the shirt as well? The fabric is usually lighter than for t-shirts and the like, so t ...
  • How can I reduce my use of single serving milk ...
    We’ve had an email from Leann: I have to travel a lot to work and in a day can easily get through a dozen single serving milk pots – on the train, at meetings, at hotels etc. I’m not interested in recycling them, I want to stop needing to use them! Any ideas? Good question [...]
  • Upcycling clothing: what can I reuse, recycle ...
    After yesterday’s post about reusing or recycling old leather coats or jackets, I’ve realised there are a few other clothing related things I’d like to ask about so…. impromptu upcycling clothing week! ;) I’ve got some pretty printed slightly-stretchy cotton vest tops that have either lost their ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle waterproof clothing?
    The wonderful Alice in Blogland sent me an email last week: Thought of another recycle that I could use some help with! I’ve taken some waterproof trousers, jackets and cycling gear from someone who didn’t want to just dump them in landfill. I thought there would be loads of things I could make ...

Age of Autism

  • Did the Dominus Effect Begin with Seth Mnookin ...
    By Jake Crosby The saga of Seth Mnookin and his uncle, Robert Mnookin just gets weirder and weirder. First it has been revealed that Robert Mnookin is close colleagues with Linda Singer - the mother-in-law of pharma-funded wife, Alison Singer...
  • NuLife Foods Grandparent Packs for Autism One/ ...
    NuLife Foods "Grandparent Packs" Offer for the AutismOne/Generation Rescue Conference! For those parents who will be learning about ways to heal their children and help their families while the kids stay home, NuLife Foods is extending a generous and convenient...
  • Autism Becomes a Political Football
    By Kent Heckenlively, Esq. For many long years I've felt that those of us in the autism community resemble the African-Americans in the 1930s and 1940s who would go to movies filled with white faces and yearn for the moment...
  • Vote for SafeMinds Strategic Plan Ideas for Na ...
    Please VOTE for SafeMinds’ Ideas for the NIEHS Strategic Plan The National Institutes for Environmental Health Sciences are conducting an online survey to direct their strategic plan for research. SafeMinds has entered 12 ideas in the survey and would appreciate...
  • How Do you Say, "If you Can't Trust the Integr ...
    By Anne Dachel Dr. Max Wiznitzer: ‘If you can't trust the integrity of the researcher, you can't trust the research.’ (HERE) On April 4, Dr. Max Wiznitzer spoke at Marietta College in Marietta Ohio about autism and vaccines. Wiznitzer is...

Global BDS Movement

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    View Global BDS Day of Action 2011 in a larger map
  • BDS campaigners force Ahava shop to move
      The central London flagship store of Ahava, an Israeli cosmetics company whose products come from stolen Palestinian natural resources in the occupied West Bank, and are produced in the illegal settlement of Mitzpe Shalem, has been forced to move … Continue reading →
  • Rawabi remains settler-colonial sub-contractor
    Uri Davis writes on the ongoing links between the Rawabi project and the Jewish National Fund.
  • Stop the Wall release new report on Brazil’s m ...
    Notwithstanding its recent recognition of the Palestinian State and its long tradition of supporting Palestinian rights and upholding international law, the Brazilian government has signed contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars with Israel’s arms industry.
  • Trade Unions
    The global trade union movement has consistently demonstrated its courage and commitment to human rights by adopting concrete, ground-breaking labour-led sanctions against oppressive regimes in a show of effective solidarity with oppressed peoples around the world. Adopting BDS measures has … Co ...

Farm Wars

Open Your Eyes News

  • US backs effort to resolve Thai-Cambodian violence
    AP – The United States has thrown its support behind the efforts of Indonesia to mediate in the deadly border clashes between Thai and Cambodian forces. Read article
  • UK: City bonuses shrink – but basic salary ris ...
    Guardian – Workers in the City of London who have seen contentious bonus payouts shrink by 8% over the last 12 months have more than made up for their loss through a permanent 7% rise in basic salaries, according to a study published today. Bonuses paid to City workers fell from £7.3bn to £6.7 ...
  • China should cap forex reserves at 1.3 trillio ...
    Xinhua – China should reduce its excessive foreign exchange reserves and further diversify its holdings, Tang Shuangning, chairman of China Everbright Group, said on Saturday. The amount of foreign exchange reserves should be restricted to between 800 billion to 1.3 trillion U.S. dollars, Tang t ...
  • Sri Lanka: UN says shelling ‘killed civi ...
    BBC – A UN panel has said widespread shelling by the Sri Lankan government killed most of the tens of thousands of civilians it says died during the final phase of the 26-year-long war, in 2009. In a report on possible war crimes in the last months of the war, the panel also accuses Tamil [...]
  • Higher levels of social activity decrease the ...
    Medical Express – If you want to keep your brain healthy, it turns out that visiting friends, attending parties, and even going to church might be just as good for you as crossword puzzles. According to research conducted at Rush University Medical Center, frequent social activity may help to pr ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Los Angeles hikers and bikers mobilize to save ...
    For at least half a century, Angelenos have hiked and biked up the Hastain Trail, a wide path that winds through oak trees and wildflowers in Franklin Canyon to a promontory overlooking the city and the ocean. Today, three chain...
  • Biodegradable plastics: Plant symbol chosen as ...
    The bioplastics industry may have a new symbol to slap on its products and packaging – an abstract plant to denote plastics made without petroleum. More than 1,500 designers submitted entries into a contest seeking an icon to represent plastics...
  • Are Americans recycling more electronic waste ...
    Each year, Americans throw out 400 million units of high-tech trash – and they’re on track to toss another 50 billion over the next decade, according to a study released just before Earth Day. Constant upgrades caused by improving technology...
  • Confess your eco-sins on Earth Day!
    Admit it: You buy your lunch in foam takeout containers. A lot. You drive an 8-cylinder truck. Alone. You don't print on both sides of your copy paper. You left the computer on all night. You can't stand those compact...
  • Wasteful packaging: do consumers care?
    The number of consumers who think they should be responsible for recycling has declined, according to a study released Wednesday. In 2010, 38% of Americans said consumers should take responsibility for recycling product packaging, down from 42% in 2009. Consumers...

water.org

  • Water.org recognized by TIME 100 List (TIME)
    The 2011 TIME 100 – Matt Damon and Gary White (TIME) – Matt, 40, teamed up with Gary White, 48, a longtime expert in water-supply systems, in 2009 and created Water.org. Their message is one of hope; their solutions for providing access to clean water are simple and cost effective. And their wor ...
  • Hult Challenge – Solutions to water cris ...
    Hult Global Case Challenge: Solutions to the Water Crisis (Business Wire) – In partnership with the Clinton Global Initiative and the Hult International Business School, Water.org is participating in a global competition to discover the next best and brightest ideas to address the water and sani ...
  • High School senior raises money for Water.org (SR)
    Eastlake senior raises money so others can have water (Sammamish Review) – The idea that almost a billion people donât have access to safe drinking water first hit Kate Zopolos in her 10th-grade world history class at Eastlake High School. Overwhelmed and wondering how to help, Zopolos started g ...
  • BU team tops regional Hult water challenge (BU)
    GSM Team Tops Regional Hult Global Case Challenge (BU) – Hereâs a little challenge to tackle on the weekend: figure out, within five hours, how to deliver safe water and sanitation to 100 million people within five years. Thatâs the problem that Graduate School of Management students took on, as ...
  • Swanson speaks water at Indiana University (IDS)
    Water crisis affects millions (Indiana Daily Student) – Water.org member Erin Swanson spoke Wednesday in Chemistry 122 on the global problem of water and water sanitation. The event was presented by the University Coalition for Global health. Swanson discussed the issues of water sanitation and ...

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Poster calling to boycott stores where Arabs w ...
    "One of the biggest problems today is that Jewish employees at retail chains are assimilating with Arab employees," said Bentzi Gupstein, one of the anti-assimilation group's leaders. "Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Innocent tortured at Gitmo
    Recently leaked documents show that the US military knowingly held and totured hundreds of innocent people at the Guantanamo Bay prison for years. Secred files released by the WikiLeaks website indicated that the United States has released dozens...Submitted by Bohm Judith to World �|� �Note-it ...
  • Documents reveals new info on Gitmo detainees
    Secret documents about detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison reveal new information about some of the men that the United States believes to be terrorists, according to reports about the files released Sunday by several American and European newspapers. Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �No ...
  • PETITION U.N. Security Council to Establish "N ...
    ACTION ALERT PETITIONSubmitted by joan rodriguez to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • An Open Letter to Our Rabbinical Colleagues | ...
    However we cannot affirm that three billion dollars of annual and unconditional aid - mainly in the form of military aid - in any way fulfills the religious obligation of pursuing peace.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

  • E•BOOM CAPITAL: Wells Fargo Commits $120 milli ...
    SunEdison solar panels installed at a Walgreens in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC) and SunEdison LLC, a subsidiary of MEMC Electronic Materials, ...
  • Powertec Energy Places a $93.9 Million Order w ...
    Merrimack, New Hampshire-based GT Solar International, Inc. (NASDAQ: SOLR) continues to expand its share in the polysilicon production market. read more
  • BrightSource Energy Files $250 Million IPO
    BrightSource Energy, Inc. a utility-scale solar developer, has filed a US$250 million initial public offering (IPO).The California-based solar thermal developer has several intriguing qualities; however, these are saddled along wi ...
  • New Mexico Utility Adds Its First Solar Facility
    The Public Service Company of New Mexico (PNM) officially turned on its first large-scale solar plant and Albuquerque's largest solar installation. Comprised of 30,000 solar panels, the 2 MW photovoltaic solar plant will generate en ...
  • Florida: Solar Rebate Program Hits its Cap in ...
    Just 72 hours after Tampa Electric began taking reservations for its solar rebate program for new photovoltaic (PV) systems the US$1 million cap was reached. read more

News Blaze

  • Infant Found in Running Vehicle
    Investigators explained that no adults were in the area and the child was taken into police custody. Also, the baby was taken to Memorial Hospital for evaluation before being turned over to family members.
  • UN Deplores Attacks on Aid Workers in Southern ...
    A UN staff member was killed over the weekend. Ms. Amos urged the authorities in southern Sudan to ensure the safety of humanitarian personnel.
  • Libya Receives $47 Million for Humanitarian As ...
    The US $47 million worth of assistance to Libya comprised of the $13 million alloted to the International Organization of Migration to support the humanitarian air evacuation; $10 million to the World Food Program for various food operations; anothe
  • Whistle-Blowers Reveal Criminal Activity At UC ...
    A whistleblower from within the University of California (Davis) has disclosed dozens of unnecessary deaths due to negligence by lab staff, according to records obtained by research watchdog group SAEN. One primate at the lab who was found dead with
  • U.S. Voices Concern on Escalating Tensions Alo ...
    Ms. Clinton stated that the United States support the efforts of Indonesia in their role as chair of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) to work with both countries to reach a resolution.

Worldnews

  • How to protect your dog against heartworm ...
    As the weather warms up, pet owners will need to protect their dogs from mosquitos. Not only are these insects a nuisance, but they also can carry heartworm: a disease that can potentially be life-threatening to your dog. Heartworms are dangerous parasites that commonly infest dogs. The dis ...
  • Coca-Cola profit misses on expenses, eart ...
    NEW YORK: Coca-Cola Co's quarterly profit missed Wall Street estimates by a penny, hurt by the Japan earthquake and the timing of marketing expenses, and its shares fell 1.7 percent in premarket trading. Coke, the world's largest soft-drink company, said on Tuesday that net income rose to $ ...
  • Hershey's profit climbs as sales rise
    NEW YORK-The Hershey Co. on Tuesday reported higher first-quarter net income as its sales increased thanks to new products and heavy advertising. The chocolate-making icon credited the launch of Hershey's Drops and Reese's Minis, its expansion outside the U.S....
  • Ford Income Jumps 22%
    By JEFF BENNETT Ford Motor Co. reported its largest first-quarter profit in 13 years on a recovery in the global economy, a larger portfolio of fuel-efficient vehicles and consumers buying a mix of pickup trucks and cars. The auto maker, the first of the Big Three to report earnings, also s ...
  • American Airlines flight diverted to SC a ...
    CHARLESTON — An American Airlines flight to Washington, D.C., from Miami was diverted to South Carolina after passengers reported...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • Calcium supplements: risks versus rewards
    If you take a calcium supplement, you might be wondering what to make of a new finding from the British Medical Journal suggesting that calcium supplements increase a woman’s risk of heart attack and stroke by about 20 percent. Should you keep taking your supplement, and how do the benefits comp ...
  • Lack Of Sleep Can Lead To Risk Taking
    If people do not get enough sleep, they can make overtly optimistic decisions and are also prone to risky gambling, a study by neuroscientists at two Duke University medical schools concluded. Their work represents the first study that focuses on the impact of sleep deprivation on the brain's ab ...
  • Esophageal cancer fastest-growing diagnosis
    Dr. Bruce Greenwald talks about causes and prevention Esophageal cancer has become the fastest-increasing cancer diagnosis in the country, up more than 400 percent in the past two decades, according to the Esophageal Cancer Awareness Network. The Baltimore-based group pushed for April to be ...
  • Bahrain crown prince turns down Prince William ...
    LONDON — Bahrain’s crown prince on Sunday declined an invitation to attend Prince William and Kate Middleton’s wedding, saying he did not want the Gulf nation’s unrest to tarnish the celebration. (Source: Wash Post Health)
  • Rep. Bill Posey Introduces 'Back To the Moon' Bill
    MarkWhittington writes "In an attempt to rationalize and give focus to NASA's human space flight program, Rep. Bill Posey, Republican of Florida, has introduced a bill that will direct the space agency to send astronauts back to the Moon with a goal of permanent habitation of Earth's nearest nei ...

Common Dreams

  • Vermont Senate Gives Initial Approval to Singl ...
    MONTPELIER — Sen. Peter Galbraith, D-Windham, ran for the state Senate to be able to support a bill setting Vermont on a course toward a more consolidated health care system guaranteeing coverage to every Vermonter, he said Monday. “This is a historic day,” Galbraith declared just before he join ...
  • Forced Removals Draw Fire in Rio de Janeiro
    RIO DE JANEIRO - Rita Bonfim Silva is trying her best to keep up her normal routine:�going out of her way to offer guests coffee, bread and butter. But her life is likely to dramatically change very soon. The one room she rents in a crumbing three-level brick house in Metro-Mangueira favela in R ...
  • The Right-Wing Network Behind the War on Unions
    From New Hampshire to Alaska, Republican lawmakers are waging war on organized labor. read more
  • Analysis: Banks Play Shell Game with Taxpayer ...
    BURLINGTON, VT - A study requested by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) found numerous instances during the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009 when banks took near zero-interest funds from the Federal Reserve and then loaned money back to the federal government on sweetheart terms for the banks. ...
  • Report: Climate Change Worsens Western Water Woes
    WASHINGTON — Climate change is likely to diminish already scarce water supplies in the Western United States, exacerbating problems for millions of water users in the West, according to a new government report. A report released Monday by the Interior Department said annual flows in three promin ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • BrightSource Energy Files $250 Million IPO
    BrightSource Energy, Inc. a utility-scale solar developer, has filed a US$250 million initial public offering (IPO).The California-based solar thermal developer has several intriguing qualities; however, these are saddled along with a few areas of concern.�
  • US Petroleum Imports by Country
    You can win bar bets with this one, �cause every American, almost without exception, knows that we import more oil from Saudi Arabia (or Libya) than from anywhere else. �
  • STUDY: California Homeowners Recoup Their Inve ...
    A study by�Ben Hoen, Ryan Wiser and Peter Cappers of�Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Mark Thayer at San Diego State University finds that, on average, the sales price of homes with PV systems is boosted enough to cover the homeowner�s own investment in the solar power system.
  • Will Fukushima Increase Interest In Small Modu ...
    The combined effects of the earthquake and tsunami illustrate the risks of putting all your eggs in one basket
  • “Chernobyl” – 25 Years As A Profitable Brand
    Twenty-five years ago today, the operators at unit 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear power station violated enough procedures and by-passed enough safety systems to cause their water-cooled, graphite-moderated reactor to suffer a nuclear power excursion large enough to cause a steam explosion. The forc ...

Green House - USA Today

  • On Earth Day, green light bulbs debut
    What's notable on Earth Day 2011? While technological changes are sweeping the U.S. economy, perhaps the biggest switch for homes comes in lighting. There's a plethora of new, more energy-efficient options.
  • Home energy upgrades get U.S.-backed loans
    Many U.S. homeowners are now eligible for up to $25,000 in federally-insured loans to make energy-efficient upgrades such as adding insulation, sealing ducts or replacing windows, the Obama adminitration announced Thursday.
  • Gallup: Fewer Americans see climate change as ...
    Fewer Americans and Europeans view climate change as a threat than did a few years ago, but more Latin Americans and sub-Saharan Africans see themselves at risk, according to Gallup surveys in 111 countries.
  • EBay pays for broken iPads, iPhones, iPods
    In celebration of Earth Month, online auctioneer eBay will pay consumers for small broken Apple electronics (up to $150 for iPads, $100 for iPhones, and $50 for iPods) until April 30.
  • Asian 'unicorn' gets nature reserve in Vietnam
    "The loveliest of all" animals, the late Shel Silverstein once wrote in a popular children's song, is the unicorn. He would probably have been pleased that a nature reserve has been set aside in central Vietnam for the critically endangered saola, also known as the Asian "unicorn."

Prior Art

  • Federal Circuit Hears Arguments in Myriad Case
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  • Cloudy Copyright Forecast for New Amazon Music ...
    By Andrew Goldberg Amazon's push to beat Google and Apple to the punch in unveiling its new "music locker" service this week could cause the company to face a combination of new copyright challenges. The e-commerce giant's new cloud-based music...
  • 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 ...

Peoples Voice

  • American Hellholes
    by Michael T. Snyder The U.S. economy is dying and we are heading for the next Great Depression. The talking heads in the mainstream media love to spin the economic numbers around and around and they love to make it sound like the economy is improving, but the truth is that it doesn't take a g ...
  • Capitalism and Class Struggle
    James Petras Introduction The class struggle continues to play a central role in the process of capitalist accumulation, albeit it takes different forms depending on the socio-economic context. In order to map out the unfolding of the class struggle it is necessary to specify key concepts rel ...
  • Politics -- Spinning Out of Control
    By Sheila Samples "The two parties have combined against us to nullify our power by a 'gentleman's agreement' of non-recognition, no matter how we vote ... May God write us down as asses if ever again we are found putting our trust in either the Republican or the Democratic Parties."~~W.E.B. D ...
  • Satisfying the Zionists: Obama's first priority
    Kourosh Ziabari When Barack Obama entered the oval office with his luminous and glowing slogan of "change" which appealed to millions of frustrated Americans who couldn't tolerate the hawkish and warmongering policies of George Bush anymore, it was hardly predictable that he would be going to s ...
  • Among Ciphers, Barn Burners and Confidence Art ...
    by Phil Rockstroh Like postmodernist architecture, in which the aesthetic criteria of a structure's exterior often possesses little correlation to its interior function, media age journalistic and political style exhibits a similar disparity between facade and content: The political content air ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Moving Medicare Forward
    Moving Medicare Forward presents the argument for an expanded, truly equitable public health system in Canada. Featuring Saskatchewan's own Roy Romanow, Rosalee Longmoore and Steven Lewis, along with public health advocates Michael Rachlis and Danielle Martin, this video offers us a positive vis ...
  • Corporate tax cuts not delivering on job creation
    A new CCPA study tracked 198 companies on the S&P/TSX composite from 2000 through 2009 and found those companies—Canada's largest corporations—are making 50% more profit and paying 20% less tax than they did a decade ago. But how have they done in terms of job creation? Not so well. In fact, th ...
  • Federal budget analysis
    Why analyze a budget that was a live option for all of 45 minutes? Budgets reveal government priorities — and this budget could have ramifications for Canadians for many years to come. Click here to read our analysis of the 45-minute budget, explaining why it wasn't worth supporting. Click ...
  • This or that: Which would you choose?
    Budgets are about choices, they reflect a government's values and priorities. With a $250 billion federal budget, the Harper Government could choose to invest in programs like universal child care or pharmacare... or spend that money on corporate tax cuts, prisons, and fighter jets. We've c ...
  • Federal budget tosses crumbs to Canadians, bre ...
    The CCPA’s leading economists find this year’s federal budget obscures the true cost of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s plan to balance the books while favouring Harper’s pet projects over Canadians’ priorities. “For every dollar the Harper budget allocates to Canadians’ priorities—such as help ...

World Wide Hippies

  • White House condemns WikiLeaks Guantanamo reve ...
    The US government said it was ‘unfortunate’ that news organisations had decided to publish classified information on detainees | Telegraph Whistle-blowing website Wikileaks published the information, mainly consisting of intelligence reports on the prisoners at the airbase in Cuba, to various ne ...
  • Trail of Government Intrigue Leads Back to Coc ...
    Mexican Narco-Trafficker’s Revelation Exposes Drug War’s Duplicity | The Narcosphere A high-level player with one of the most notorious narco-trafficking organizations in Mexico, the Sinaloa “cartel,” claims that he has been working with the U.S. government for years, according to pleadings file ...
  • Phoebe Snow: RIP
    Phoebe Snow, ‘Poetry Man’ Singer, Dies At 60 | NPR Phoebe Snow, a bluesy singer, guitarist and songwriter who had a defining hit of the 1970s with “Poetry Man” but then largely dropped out of the spotlight to care for her disabled daughter, has died. Snow, who was nominated for best new artist a ...
  • President Obama Makes a Fair Trial of Bradley ...
    The “Bradley Manning Exception to the Bill of Rights” Devastates the Credibility of the Military Justice System | Firedoglake The credibility of the military justice system is being undermined by the prosecution of Bradley Manning. His abusive punishment without trial violates his due process ri ...
  • Chernobyl’s Anniversary
    Chernobyl disaster 25th anniversary | Boston.com On April 26, 1986, reactor number four at the Chernobyl nuclear power facility in what is now Ukraine exploded. The largest civil nuclear disaster in history led to mass evacuations, and long-term health, agricultural, and economic distress. The n ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • FDR Speaks Out Against the Koch Brothers in 1936
    Franklin D. Roosevelt's speech at Madison Square Garden, October 31, 1936: ... ROOSEVELT: Only desperate men with their backs to the wall would descend so far below the level of decent citizenship as to foster the current pay-envelope campaign against America's working people. Only reckles ...
  • Rep. James Clyburn, Third-Ranking Democrat in ...
    From the Dylan Ratigan Show, Friday, April 8th: RATIGAN: What we haven’t received is any articulation as to where the actual cuts in the billions are. So people say, you give me a little information there in the categories, but no one seems to want to tell any of us what exact ...
  • The Cost of One F-15E Lost in Libya Is 563 Wis ...
    According to the New York Times, the U.S. fighter jet that just crashed in Libya was an F-15E Strike Eagle. The Air Force says each F-15E cost $31.1 million in 1998 dollars (not including fuel, pilot training or anything else). Adjusted for inflation, that's $42.23 million today. Wisconsin tea ...
  • Rick Snyder's "Shared Sacrifice": Michigan's W ...
    Michigan's tax system is already regressive -- meaning that poorer people pay a higher tax rate than the wealthy. But Governor Rick Snyder has decided that it's just not regressive enough. So in the name of "shared sacrifice," he wants to hike the tax rate on poor and working Michiganders, while ...
  • VIDEO: Bus leaves Kalamazoo to protest Gov. Sn ...
    People talk about why they are going to Lansing to take part in protests against Gov. Rick Snyder's proposals, including bills that would give emergency financial managers the power to terminate labor contracts, proposed cuts to education funding and tax policy changes.

Salon

  • Arkansas tornado all but wipes out town
    Emergency crews worked to account for dozens of people still missing Tuesday after a powerful storm battered Arkansas with floods, high winds and tornados, snapping utility poles, twisting one tractor-trailer like a wrung dish rag and leaving at least seven people dead.
  • Thank goodness Ron Paul is running
    Ron Paul has called a press conference for later today at which he apparently will announce the formation of a presidential exploratory committee.
  • Trig Trutherism: A response to Andrew Sullivan
    Last week we published a series of posts debunking Trig Trutherism, the idea that Sarah Palin is not the mother of the young Trig Palin.
  • Strong anti-American sentiment in Egypt
    One of the central promises of the Obama presidency was that it would "restore America's standing" -- both in the world generally and the Muslim world specifically. In 2008, Andrew Sullivan famously wrote that Obama's face, by itself, would transform how the world perceives of the U.S. for th ...
  • CNN takes a stand against... Donald Trump
    CNN -- the cable news network so addicted to the appearance of "balance" that it once presented a point-counterpoint on the Confederacy -- has finally found something it can take a stand against. While the channel prefers to define itself, these days, in opposition to the supposed excesses of ...

SMB News

  • Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits ...
    For SMB News Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits camps PURWOBINANGUN: Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano spewed more deadly heat clouds Wednesday as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono visited some of the 50,000 evacuees in shelters. Searing gas billowed from the crater of the 2,914-metr ...
  • Kasaba throws spit on the camera
    \Kasaba throws spit on cameraMUMBAI: Ajmal Kasaba webcam spit on Tuesday during a hearing in the Bombay High Court for confirmation of the death penalty, which led the court strictly tell him to behave properly. Judjes a warning when they Kasaba altercation with the police and spit at the camera ...
  • K’taka Speaker disqualifies 16 MLAs
    For SMB News KBANGALORE: Hours ahead of the trust vote for beleaguered Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa in the Assembly, Speaker K G Bopaiah disqualified sixteen rebel MLAs, including eleven from ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), legislative sources said on Monday. Bopaiah signed the ...
  • Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8
    For SMB News Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8 KARACHI: Eight people including two children were killed and over 65 others suffered injuries when two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Abdullah Shah Ghazi’s shrine in Clifton, official sources said here Thursday. Two heads, beli ...
  • Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistake
    For SMB News Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistakes’ LONDON: Former president Gen. (Retd.) Pervez Musharraf Friday admitted that political mistakes were committed in the twilight years of his regime and sought apology from Pakistani nation for the same. “These mistakes caused damage ...

Toronto Star - Editorials

  • Editorial: Not voting is a vote for Conservati ...
    With so many people feeling mistrustful, alienated and disengaged, there's a real prospect that discouraged voters will stay home next Monday.
  • Apathy is a default vote
    A striking number of Canadian voters are not happy with this election race. Just 33 per cent might be called “engaged and hopeful,” according to an Angus Reid/Toronto Star poll. They are split between the mobilized Tory base and hopeful mid-lef ...
  • Vandalism is no joke
    Conservative Leader Stephen Harper “condemns” the incidents, Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff calls them a “disgrace,” and New Democrat Olivia Chow says they are an “affront” to democracy.
  • Step up your game
    In keeping with the ultimate fighting sport he’s a fan of, Ontario’s Progressive Conservative Leader could well adopt the moniker Tim “Cheap Shot” Hudak.
  • Ford to citizens: Shut up
    Toronto city councillors, especially those taking pride in being independent, should fight to save citizen committees.

Energy Collective

  • BrightSource Energy Files $250 Million IPO
    BrightSource Energy, Inc. a utility-scale solar developer, has filed a US$250 million initial public offering (IPO).The California-based solar thermal developer has several intriguing qualities; however, these are saddled along with a few areas of concern.�
  • US Petroleum Imports by Country
    You can win bar bets with this one, �cause every American, almost without exception, knows that we import more oil from Saudi Arabia (or Libya) than from anywhere else. �
  • STUDY: California Homeowners Recoup Their Inve ...
    A study by�Ben Hoen, Ryan Wiser and Peter Cappers of�Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Mark Thayer at San Diego State University finds that, on average, the sales price of homes with PV systems is boosted enough to cover the homeowner�s own investment in the solar power system.
  • Will Fukushima Increase Interest In Small Modu ...
    The combined effects of the earthquake and tsunami illustrate the risks of putting all your eggs in one basket
  • “Chernobyl” – 25 Years As A Profitable Brand
    Twenty-five years ago today, the operators at unit 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear power station violated enough procedures and by-passed enough safety systems to cause their water-cooled, graphite-moderated reactor to suffer a nuclear power excursion large enough to cause a steam explosion. The forc ...

EU Times

  • France questions fundamental European principles
    France seems to have questioned one of the fundamental EU principles – freedom of movement within the EU. The possibility of revising the Schengen agreement by French was on the agenda in connection with the influx of refugees from North Africa, particularly from Tunisia. The discussion about a ...
  • IMF bombshell: Age of America nears end
    The International Monetary Fund has just dropped a bombshell, and nobody noticed. For the first time, the international organization has set a date for the moment when the “Age of America” will end and the U.S. economy will be overtaken by that of China. The Obama deficit tour The Wall Street Jo ...
  • Our sick society
    Here we are, at the gates of one of our temples of finance. It is the temple for worshipping profit and greed, where the value of each is determined by the ability to accumulate money and power at the expense of others, where rewrite, manipulate and disregard the laws are the order of the day, [...]
  • Child trafficking increasing in US
    Andrea Powell works directly with children who have been sold for sex in Washington, DC. Powell says most of the child victims she works with come from poor neighborhoods and broken families. According a recent FBI law enforcement bulletin 300,000 American children are at risk of becoming victim ...
  • Chernobyl’s sarcophagus falling apart
    Ukraine and Russia remember the Chernobyl disaster, which took place 25 years ago. In the meantime, the question of safety of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant still remains unsolved. A sarcophagus was built on the fourth reactor of the plant after the breakdown, but the sarcophagus has been fal ...

Stonecipher News

  • Linguistic Observations: Mendoza's Gang Girls ...
    Homegirls by Norma Mendoza Denton is a fascinating, and yet, perplexing, view of gangs in the San Francisco Bay area. Over the course of the next few weeks, I'll be providing you incites on the inner workings of the gangs, symbolism of certain material items, and other such related details. ...
  • Normal Structure and Function of the Musculosk ...
    Mr. Ghaz says: Muscular dystrophies refer to a group of more than 30 genetic diseases which are characterized by progressive weakness and degeneration of the skeletal muscles..Studies and estimation show that after sustaining a hip fracture (as a result of osteoporosis) 20% of patients die withi ...
  • Reasons to Donate Blood
    Have you ever donated blood? If you have why did you do it? It may have been for a loved one or a friend. It could have been for the free coupons and gift certificates blood centers provide for donations. Maybe you’re required to donate blood being that you’re in the medical field. In actua ...
  • Special Education High School Transition Services
    From my Factoidz page: 1414(d) and in Findings about “effective transition services to promote successful post-Students typically start transition services at the age 14 if educational services are still required as determined by the school district and the IEP team. However, Washington State’s ...
  • Don't Quit Your Day Job
    This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Ashworth College. All opinions are 100% mine. With approximately 4,000,000 students today, more than 20 percent of all students enrolled in higher education are taking at least one course online. Self paced online courses ...

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • New TweetDeck for iPhone app lands
    Twitter is one of the most widely used means to communicate with friends and other followers online today. With the raging popularity of the service it’s no surprise that there are all sorts of third party clients that are used by hoards of Twitter fanatics every day rather than using Twitter d ...
  • Now that CNN has dismantled Donald Trump's bir ...
    One of the biggest challenges in navigating mainstream society for a person of color, is spotting prejudice. We're a long way from the days when most racists would feel comfortable expressing those ideas in public. So learning who to trust and befriend can become a guessing game of sorts. And t ...
  • 2012 Update: Iowa Huckabee Ties Obama in Lates ...
    The latest Iowa Presidential poll by Public Policy Polling sees former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee tied with President Obama at 45% each , Mitt Romney is the next closest GOP âpossibleâ contender garnering 41% to Obamaâs 45%
  • Playing the Numbers in Afghanistan
    Earlier this month, Congress gave the greenlight to spend $11.6 billion more this year on training, equipping, housing and paying the Afghan army and police—which will be added to the $29 billion the American taxpayer has already spent trying to stand up a competent Afghan security apparatus. A ...
  • Latest dump from Wikileaks looks at Guantanamo Bay
    The Wikileaks Twitter feed notes that their latest set of cables is being interpreted rather differently by CNN than it is by other, more impartial, media outlets. The CNN spin - WikiLeaks reveals details about Guantanamo detainees . The documents shed light on the way detainees behaved while a ...

Groklaw

  • Apple is not recording your moves, Urban Edi ...
    Now there may be individual points in your consolidated.db file that happen to be the exact same as your location at the time. I'm sure there are some in mine. But that is coincidental - the phone seems to be logging locations of nodes on the wireless cell network, and their presence in the fil ...
  • MySQL, State of the Ecosystem 2011
    So how is the ecosystem? It turns out it is pretty healthy....Oracle. I watch the MySQL trees, and I see that they are having an overall positive influence on the codebase. They are making good decisions, none of which appear to be malicious in nature. I hear from people who are using it, and I ...
  • Sony should pay 100 to man for OtherOS remova ...
    The CCB said that the removal of OtherOS crippled console features that were present at the time of purchase, and agreed that consumers should be compensated. It recommended that the manufacturer and seller of the console pay 100 jointly to compensate the man. The CCB does not have the power to ...
  • Dan Meyer: Math class needs a makeover
    Today's math curriculum is teaching students to expect -- and excel at -- paint-by-numbers classwork, robbing kids of a skill more important than solving problems: formulating them. At TEDxNYED, Dan Meyer shows classroom-tested math exercises that prompt students to stop and think. - TED Talks
  • Chade-Meng Tan: Everyday compassion at Googl ...
    Google's "Jolly Good Fellow," Chade-Meng Tan, talks about how the company practices compassion in its everyday business -- and its bold side projects. [PJ: If you listen to this talk, you will understand why Google isn't like Microsoft, and it never will be.] - TED Talks

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • World’s largest rooftop garden in Brooklyn
    A wide variety of organic produce is grown by Brooklyn Grange on a rooftop in Brooklyn, It’s nearly an acre in size. Inhabitat has the details. This is positively inspiring. What other abandoned and unused space in cities can we find useful new purposes for? The video features several urban gard ...
  • Electric VW-bodied dragster blows hubcaps off ...
    The Black Current is the first street-bodied all-electric dragster to reach the 9 second mark in the quarter mile.
  • Cheri Honkala’s Green campaign for Sheriff of ...
    [Originally posted at IndependentPoliticalReport.com, hence the somewhat dry tone about a campaign I actually have been slightly involved in.  The Green Party of Philadelphia will also be nominating candidates for other offices this Thursday, and we've been keeping busy with fracking protests, a ...
  • Terry Jones banned from protesting in front of ...
    Burning a Koran is front of a mosque is a deliberate incitement to violence. The US allows far more freedom of speech than most countries. Germany, for example, bans any favorable reference to Nazism. Even here in the US, there is not complete freedom of speech. You cannot threaten violence agai ...
  • Ouch, this makes my brain hurt
    A man was arrested on federal charges in Alaska after arranging with to have sex with a six year old boy who he would dress up in a Spiderman costume. Sounds like an especially deranged South Park episode, doesn’t it? Former UN weapons inspector and early Iraq War opponent Scott Ritter was
     
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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Ritter
    was the chief United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq from 1991 to 1998, and later became known for his criticism of United States foreign policy in the Middle East. Prior to the U.S. invasion of Iraq in March 2003, Ritter publicly argued that Iraq possessed no significant weapons of mass destruction (WMDs). He became a popular anti-war figure and talk show commentator as a result of his stance.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange
    He has published material about extrajudicial killings in Kenya, toxic waste dumping in Côte d’Ivoire, Church of Scientology manuals, Guantanamo Bay procedures, and banks such as Kaupthing and Julius Baer.[12] In 2010, he published Iraq War documents and Afghan War documents about American involvement in the wars, some of which was classified material. On 28 November 2010, WikiLeaks and its five international print media partners (Der Spiegel, The New York Times, Le Monde, The Guardian and El País) began publishing U.S. diplomatic cables.[13]
    Assange has appealed a February 2011 decision by English courts to extradite him to
    Sweden for questioning in relation to a sexual assault investigation.[15][16][17][18] He has said the allegations of wrongdoing are “without basis”.[19] A two-day High Court hearing is scheduled to start on 12 July; he remains on bail.[20]
    That extradition – which was denied by the Swedish prosecutors’ office…,so he was replaced…would give an opportunity for the U.S. to snatch him and place him in detention in the style of Bradley Manning.
    I recall when Saddam Hussein ‘had WMD.’ Just now the ruler of Libya is demonized as the country is attacked without provocation – protecting civilians by bombing them as Qadaffi’s forces have retreated to the cities to be safer from identified as targets for strafing.
    The ‘drug war’ is another example of systemic abuse of ‘due process”…just like Gitmo and Abu Ghraib. http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/studies/canadasenate/vol2/chapter14_entrapment_and_illegal_activity.htm
    It really might be time to brush up on the idea of ‘innocent until proven guilty’…especially in societies where Habeas Corpus is blatantly bypassed so that even the formality of a Kangaroo Court is not followed.

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • Reminder about the comments policy
    Every so often, over the eight-plus years I've been publishing this blog, waves of hostile forces come in and try to take over the comments boards with their hostility and their rantings. So back in January 2005, I crafted the 'Comments Policy' for the blog, and it has worked pretty well since t ...
  • My CSM oped on need for negotiated transition ...
    People with an interest in escalating tensions and sowing conflict within Middle Eastern countries always say "There is no time!" for diplomacy or negotiation.... and that "If lives are to be saved then we have to take military action..." In mid-March, I was stunned to see how rapidly those ar ...
  • Cordesman on the slippery slope of warmaking
    I generally have broad respect for the military assessments made by Anthony Cordesman, and his latest assessment of the situation in Samantha's War in Libya contains much excellent analysis. Including this opening paragraph: At some point in time, it will be critical to examine the historical ...
  • C.J. Chivers on Libyan rebels' violations of l ...
    Last week, the NYT's military-affairs writer C.J. Chivers was one of the first to do detailed reporting of the use by Libyan government forces of cluster bombs in the heavily populated port city of Misrata. Today, the NYT carries another piece of well researched reporting by him-- this time on ...
  • Applebaum warns Libyan war may weaken NATO
    Anne Applebaum, who is both a columnist for the WaPo and the spouse of the Foreign Minister f NATO member Poland, writes today that when Western leaders talk about the Libyan campaign as a “NATO operation” they are, at the very least, being economical with the truth. She notes that many NATO m ...

frogblog

  • Kayaking the Kaituna
    April 15, 2011 The Kaituna is internationally famous for white-water rafting and kayaking. And having just gone down it, I can see why. A deep gorge with trees overhead, fast flowing, lots of rapids, and a really big waterfall – 7 metres apparently. Iâd like to be able to tell you that I kayaked ...
  • Space Oddity – the David Farrar version
    This is ground control to Major Don, you’ve really made the grade And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear Now it’s time to leave the capsule if you dare If I was a member of the ACT Board, I would be asking why are all these National Party members trying to take [...]
  • Petrobras protest and the Maritime Rules
    I’m more accustomed to splashing around in a freshwater pond than being out on the high seas, but I do know enough about maritime navigation to know that a powered vessel that is underway is normally required to give way to a vessel that is fishing.   That principle is enshrined in both intern ...
  • General debate, April 24, 2011
  • Dunedin bus services: the community needs to b ...
    Like most Dunedin residents I too am shocked to see that the DCC is in the final stages of selling Citibus. Is it really that urgent that we the ratepayers of Dunedin find out on Thursday that a sale is mooted, and are informed now that there is a conditional deal? That the council is [...]

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • The Supreme Court, the Constitution and the Fi ...
    The Supreme Court's First Amendment opinions result not from interpreting the First Amendment but from deliberately and insidiously changing its diction in ways that make the Amendment unrecognizable. The Court's arguments in these opinions are pure cant and do nothing but turn the Justice ...
  • Liberty's Easy Slide into Tyranny
    Huge conspiracies aren't what destroys people's freedom, the accumulation of errors, failed policies, and little and big unfairnesses do. It happens because The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men/ Gang aft agley,/ An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain. The FED, CIA, Executive Privilege, The ...
  • What should be done with illegal immigrants?
    That this question is even being asked reveals something about ourselves. How would you answer it if you were an illegal immigrant? Perhaps you've never heard of the Golden Rule. The rule may not be the best guide to moral behavior but asking yourself how you'd answer the question if you wer ...
  • A Revolting World
    Many in many lands are demonstrating against their governments. Some claim that people everywhere are revolting and that a worldwide revolution is imminent. Even both the orthodox and heterodox presses are all atwitter. But it is far easier to bring about a successful revolution than it is t ...
  • Demented Democracy
    An addiction to opinion, each person being entitled to his own, and the unwarranted notion that those who fight for their beliefs are "principled" is the reason that democracies teeter between antagonistic belief systems and are unable to resolve any social problems. Each party strives to re ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • The Roots of White Rage
    Is tea party hostility toward Barack Obama racially motivated? Some of it probably is, but this is a famously difficult and fraught question to answer. So let's ask instead: regardless of how much racial animus the conservative base harbored toward Obama in the first place, are leading conse ...
  • And Now, the Case Against a Carbon Tax
    Speaking of carbon taxes, the best argument against them probably has nothing to do with either global warming or tax policy. The best argument is: why bother? The simple form of this argument is that world production of oil is near its peak and can increase only slowly in future years. Howe ...
  • Why Not Tax Carbon?
    If the price elasticity of oil is low, then people will cut back only modestly if the price goes up. Ryan Avent argues that (a) even a modest cut is better than nothing, and (b) higher oil prices are also a good way to spur development of alternative energy technologies. Jim Manzi isn't impr ...
  • No Gay Judges, Please
    The anti-gay dead-enders in California continue to argue that it's unpossible for a gay judge to rule objectively in a case about gay marriage: Attorneys for ProtectMarriage, the group that sponsored the 2008 ballot initiative, said in a legal motion that Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker, who ...
  • Krugman Then and Now
    Ben Wallace-Wells has a nice profile of Paul Krugman in New York magazine this month, and it's worth a read. For some reason, though, it prompted me to reread my interview of Krugman from back in 2003. Here's a snippet of our conversation that picks up at a point where we were talking about ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 243: Fucking Ninjas
    Topics: Kriss goes into a rant about maiming people Asians know how to fly The woman with the most cosmetic procedures Tyler Perry vs Spike Lee……again Steve Harvey has $10,000 stolen from him Share with your friends:
  • FacePalm of the Week: Let Steve Harvey ‘Locat ...
    So apparently Steve Harvey now has a dating website “Locate Your Love.” I’m not sure if he owns it but I do know he supports and promotes it.  On Wednesdays he even ties it into his radio show where he tries to set people up on dates. No. Just stop it. There’s a section on [...]
  • Activist “Denounce” Obama’s Environmental Inaction
    WASHINGTON — Thousands of young activists gathered at a rally in front of the White House on Monday to demand that the president protect the Clean Air Act, stop taking money from corporate polluters, and invest in a clean energy economy. The rally was the culmination of a three-day climate summi ...
  • IC 242: Fuck Freedom
    Topics: Rod from the ‘Black Guy Who Tips’ has a rough day People are so sensitive these days California GOP lady sends an email with a picture of the President as a monkey…but she’s not racist Successful men don’t like nor want successful women Steve Harvey’s book to be made into a movie Tyler P ...
  • IC 241: We Respect Females
    Topics: You shouldn’t have to announce that you respect “females” Steve Harvey and more dumbass advice for women Maybe he’s (she’s) just not that in to you Cops claim drunk woman consented to sex Cops pepper spray an 8 year old The deal to keep the government from shutting down Government is dys ...

Simple Climate

  • Retreating Arctic coasts show need for careful ...
    Historical records of a quarter of the Arctic coastline show that it is retreating more quickly on average, threatening industry, ecosystems and communities located there. However, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research's Hugues Lantuit emphasises the importance of getting data f ...
  • Climate forces penguin populations into a dive
    “Ice-avoiding” chinstrap penguins previously thought to be likely winners in comparison to “ice-loving” Adélie penguins as climate changes are actually set to be worse affected by declining food supply, George Watters, director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Antarctic E ...
  • Patagonian survey reveals tenfold glacier melt ...
    By reconstructing historical ice coverage in South America Neil Glasser from the University of Aberystwyth, UK, and colleagues discover current melt rates are ten times faster than the average since they reached their most recent maximum extent. Repeating the process in the Himalayas could help ...
  • Aeroplanes write their strongest climate impac ...
    Icy “contrails” produced by aircraft that become cirrus clouds heat the planet more than CO2 in their exhaust gases in the short term, find Ulrike Burkhardt and Bernd Kärcher from the German Aerospace Centre.
  • Pinning detailed climate impacts on people cou ...
    Trying to establish a water-tight case proving human-caused effects on plants and animals distracts from preserving biodiversity, say Camille Parmesan and Mike Singer from University of Texas, Austin, and colleagues.

e!Science News

  • NRL scientists focus on light ions for fast ig ...
    Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory Plasma Physics Division demonstrate significant progress in the efficiency and cost effectiveness of light ions in the fast ignition of fusion targets. Light ions such as lithium or carbon are easier to produce technologically and the ion beam properti ...
  • Chernobyl's radioactivity reduced the populati ...
    On April 26, 1986, history's greatest nuclear accident took place northwest of the Ukrainian city of Chernobyl. Despite the scale of the disaster, 25 years later, we still do not know its real effects. An international team of investigators has shown for the first time that the colour of birds ...
  • Study finds flame retardants at high levels in ...
    Indiana University scientists have found chemical flame retardants in the blood of pet dogs at concentrations five to 10 times higher than in humans, but lower than levels found in a previous study of cats. read more
  • Novel ash analysis validates volcano no-fly zones
    Planes were grounded all over Europe when the Eyjafjallajökull volcano erupted in Iceland last year. But no one knew if the no fly zone was really necessary. And the only way to find out would have been to fly a plane through the ash cloud - a potentially fatal experiment. Now a team of resear ...
  • Vitamin D may help explain racial differences ...
    High blood pressure, or hypertension, is more common and often more deadly in blacks than in whites, and a new University of Rochester study shows that low vitamin D levels among black people might be a powerful factor that contributes to the racial differences in hypertension. read more

unEarthed

Brave New Climate

  • Anti-nuclear cartoon book, 1978 – anythi ...
    A few weeks ago, Haydon Manning passed me an interesting book from the more dusty section of his shelf. It was called “Nuclear Power for Beginners“, and the edition I have was published in 1978. (If you do a bit of searching, you can still find old copies for purchase). If you’ve read this post ...
  • Fukushima Daiichi Open and Update Thread #5
    The problems at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant continue to be worked on, with no short-term resolution in sight. Here are eight recent notable happenings, compiled from various sources (see list below): 1. Reports indicate that some fuel melted and fell to the lower containment sectio ...
  • Energy debates in Wonderland
    My position on wind energy is quite ambivalent. I really do want it (and solar) to play an effective role in displacing fossil fuels, because to do this, we need every tool at our disposal (witness the Open Science project I kick started in 2009 [and found funding for], in order to investigate t ...
  • Helicopters, tall stories and fantasy journali ...
    Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. His recently published book is CSIRO Perfidy. His previous post on BNC was: Chernobyl and Fukushima – measuring our monsters in the midday sun. The biggest problem for people wh ...
  • Open Thread 15
    The Open Thread is a general discussion forum, where you can talk about whatever you like — there is nothing ‘off topic’ here — within reason (see Note below). So get up on your soap box! The standard commenting rules of courtesy apply, and at the very least your chat should relate to the genera ...

Indigenist Opinion

  • Invasive Notes: An Invasive Response to Mother ...
    Invasive Notes: An Invasive Response to Mother Nature’s Melting Pot A purposely emotion-ladened essay 'Mother Nature's Melting Pot' [New York Times April 2011] that purports to connect invasion biology to extreme political agenda was recently published by the New York Times in what must only be ...
  • Newark Man Denies Killing Malcolm X - Black Unity
    Newark Man Denies Killing Malcolm X - Black Unity Al-Mustafa Shabazz, above in this 2004 file photo, is named as the chief assassin of Malcolm X in the book "Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention" by Columbia University professor Manning Marable. A lawyer representing Al-Mustafa Shabazz today disp ...
  • Now That Rape Matters in Africa...
    Please Note: This editorial was written before Ms. al-Obeidi was released. Raw Replay has a brief story about her First on-camera interview who they describe as a 'Libyan rape victim' without the 'alleged' added as is done with Black African women and others not politically valuable to the inter ...
  • ei: Israel criminalizes commemoration of the Nakba
    ei: Israel criminalizes commemoration of the Nakba: "A bill was passed by the Israeli Knesset (parliament) last week which calls on the government to deny funding to any organization, institution or municipality that commemorates the founding of the Israeli state as a day of mourning. The bill h ...
  • Leonard Weinglass dies at 78 | Free Speech Rad ...
    Leonard Weinglass dies at 78 | Free Speech Radio News: "“People’s defense” lawyer Leonard Weinglass has died. Born in 1933, he spent decades championing civil rights and representing prominent activists including Mumia Abu Jamal, Angela Davis, Jane Fonda and Daniel Ellsberg.� Weinglass contin ...

Republicans are a Disease

  • Paul Ryan is Trying to Kill Us
    Get old. Get sick. Insurance company you bought insurance from with your “voucher” denies to pay for your treatment. You die. Pretty simple. So simple a tea bagger can even figure it out.
  • What Happens When Politifact Can’t Get I ...
    Ending Medicare has been a Republican dream for decades Politicrack. Voucherizing single payer is ending it you pro-death panel fake fact checker. I mean come on Politicrack. What could make Republicans more happy than knowing senior citizens are spending their golden years worrying about how th ...
  • 80% of Americans Want the Safety Net Left Alon ...
    Numbers don’t lie. Even the treasonous teabaggers don’t want their social security and medicare voucherized….
  • Republicans Plan to Kill Grandma
    Once grandma runs out of money the “new” medicare voucher system will not cover her treatment. Grandmother will die. Republicans plan on handing more $$ to the wealthy by killing grandma when she gets sick.
  • Dear Eric Cantor You Piece of Shit
    Dear Eric, Social Security, and Medicare will be there when I retire. What won’t be there will be today’s sick evil Republican Party of lying bastards. Once America finally figures out the only objective of your corporate controlled party is to help the rich and powerful steal everything the poo ...

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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  • A.B. Yehoshua and Zionism’s identity politics
    Acclaimed Israeli novelist uses identity politics as a way to absolve Israel of responsibility for its actions A.B. Yehoshua, the acclaimed Israeli fiction author, has an opinion piece in today’s Haaretz where he addresses a fundamental question: why has the Israeli-Palestinian conflict gone on ...
  • When a Palestinian child becomes an enemy
    Last summer I found myself wading around a swimming pool in the middle of the scorching desert on a Kibbutz in the Negev. I had come to this kibbutz to see an old friend from high school. Over the past 12 years we have developed and maintained a close friendship despite clear political differenc ...
  • Treading a fine line between Jaffa and Bat Yam
    Last night I posted one of my “Izzie in HolyLand” pieces. It was about the collective punishment Israel rewarded the West Bank village of Awarta, after the murder of the Fogel family from Itamar. In the post, I made Izzie have a nightmare about the same treatment Bat Yam would have had if a murd ...
  • Egypt: Soldiers planted flowers in Tahrir Square
    Tahrir Square has been cleaned up. One day last week soldiers laid new turf in the central traffic island, and the next day they planted flowers. A day after that they erected a huge banner that confirmed the army’s commitment to the goal of the revolution, but when I returned two days later [...]
  • Izzie in HolyLand – part 21: Hell freeze ...
    Izzie: Ruthie! Get me the minister of interior security in here! Ruthie: Yes Mam! Yitzhak Aharonovitz: Mam, you called for me? Izzie: Yeah. Sit down, Yitzhak. Aharonovitz: What can I do for you? Izzie: I just read about this brutal murder in Jaffa. Aharonovitz: Oh yeah, that. Five members of ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

Matt Weidner Blog

  • A Gut Wrenching Appellate Loss- Please Share Y ...
    This blog has been a great forum to discuss the occasional triumphs of justice and the victory of the rule of law over the fraud, the deceit and the abject criminality of the banks and their law firms.  It has also been an open forum for me to discuss the frustrations over a legal system [...]
  • THE ULTIMATE SELL OUT- THE BANKS AVOID ALL LIA ...
    We have become a disgusting, lawless and overtly corrupt nation where no rules or laws apply to the banks and institutions.  Dispense with all your naive notions of justice, fairness and law, because in this new era these concepts do not apply if your crimes and conspiracies are big enough. WASH ...
  • The Banks Can’t Count…
    Every single day we receive more and more evidence of the banks and their wrongdoing.  I long ago gave up on any government official to do anything about it and I never had any faith that any of the banks or the industry could self police  I had faith that our courts would do something, [...]
  • The LPS Sanctions Decision- Bankruptcy Court S ...
    The Federal judges are really stepping in and calling all this mess what it really is… Read the In Re Wilson, Order HERE Tweet this! Share and Enjoy: Scridb filter
  • Two Days/Two Summary Judgement Vacated/Two Sal ...
    It’s only Tuesday, but it has been a very good week already…I got two Summary Judgments vacated and two sales canceled! Now mind you, there was no way these two judgments should have been entered in first place, but that’s a whole other story.  The bottom line is we worked very hard, briefed th ...

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The Parallel Parliament

  • Campaign Insider – “Special Guest& ...
    “I want to come down to help,” Bob Rae said over the phone. And, of course, I was glad for his assistance. He knows London well and we share a number of mutual friends here. The visits of special guests is an important part to any campaign, raising the profile of the local candidate and [...]
  • What if …?
    “This is the craziest election I’ve ever witnessed.” I occasionally tell people that I’ve received quite an education in Ottawa, but my real schooling came from London. I learned a lot from 30 years of public service as a firefighter and cut my teeth on community involvement through difficult ye ...
  • A Facebook Message
    The following is a message sent to me on Facebook yesterday by someone I’ve never had the pleasure of meeting. It’s well-written and his own experience speaks volumes as to what Canada requires at this moment.  Thanks Timothy. This is an interesting site – My own riding of Oxford is deemed a sa ...
  • My Day
    For the first time since I was elected four years ago I will finally be home for the birthday of my twin daughters, Abuk and Achan. Both were products of slavery in Sudan and their African mother was killed in a raid when they were four months old. She was holding Abuk in her arms [...]
  • Campaign Insider – “Defining Human ...
    Another installment by Romeo Dallaire, this time on comparing the Rwandan tragedy as compared to the West’s response to the former Yugoslavia. “A human is a human,” he states, reminding us that we got to stop constructing a world in which some humans are more important than others. Some might wo ...

Vaccine Awakening

  • Forcing Flu Shots on Health Care Workers: Who ...
    By Barbara Loe Fisher Doctors at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia are ordering all employees to get a flu shot every year or be sent home for two weeks without pay to “think about it.” Anyone, who still refuses to get a flu shot after that, is fired.1 60 percent of all U.S. health care p ...
  • Doctors Denying Vaccine Risks: An American Tragedy
    by Barbara Loe Fisher It is a short 15 second public service message on the CBS Jumbotron on Times Square in New York City that encourages everyone to make informed vaccine choices. The message is sponsored by the nonprofit charity, the National Vaccine Information Center, and made possible ...
  • No Pharma Liability? No Vaccine Mandates.
    by Barbara Loe Fisher On February 22, 2011 the U.S. Supreme Court shielded drug companies from all liability for harm caused by vaccines mandated by government when companies could have made a safer vaccine. 1 From now on, drug companies selling vaccines in America will not be held accounta ...
  • WA State Vaccine Law Threatens Exemptions & Vi ...
    by Barbara Loe Fisher If you are a resident of Washington state, you should know that there is a bill quietly sailing through your state legislature that violates your privacy and threatens your right to make informed, voluntary decisions about vaccination. House Bill 1015 1 and Senate Bill ...
  • New Vaccine Science Can Help Bridge the Divide
    by Barbara Loe Fisher Fear of the unknown is what terrifies us the most, fear of being unable to have control over what the future holds. At the root of that fear is knowing that the choices we make today could have a profound impact on what happens tomorrow. 1 Fear is a strong emotion ...

2020 Science

  • Social media and science communication – the N ...
    Next Wednesday (April 27th) I’m kicking off a media140 gig in Brisbane (by Skype rather than in person sadly), exploring the impact of social technologies on science communication). When I was originally asked, it seemed a great idea – a chance to pontificate on my vast knowledge of social media ...
  • Why we don’t need a regulatory definition for ...
    I‘ve just posted a piece over on the Risk Science Blog on regulatory definitions of engineered nanomaterials.  What may come as a surprise to many readers given my comments over the years is the title – “Why we don’t need a regulatory definition for nanomaterials”!  Have I flipped, lost my sen ...
  • James Gleick’s Chaos – the enhanced edition
    In 1987 I got my Bachelors of Science in physics, Prozac was launched in the US, and James Gleick published Chaos.  I don’t think the middle one has any bearing on the other two.  But the first and last are tentatively linked because, despite being completely jazzed on physics, I didn’t read i ...
  • Larry Brilliant: Enabling sustainable humanity ...
    Cross-posted from the Risk Science Blog [Transcript] I’ve occasionally been accused of thinking big when it comes to Risk Science. So I was rather chuffed to hear former Executive Director of Google.org Larry Brilliant out-big me on every point as he delivered the 10th Peter M. Wege lecture here ...
  • Questions teens ask about risk – I’m A Scienti ...
    I’ve just posted this over on the Risk Science Blog, but deviously thought I would also disrupt 2020 Science readers’ day with it as well! For the past couple of years, a highly addictive and innovative on-line teen science engagement event has been run in the UK. I’m A Scientist, Get Me Out Of ...

Reader Supported News

  • Was FBI Too Quick to Judge Anthrax Suspect the ...
    The report begins: "Scouring the anthrax-laced mail that took five lives and terrorized the East Coast in 2001, laboratory scientists discovered a unique contaminant - a tiny scientific fingerprint that they hoped would help unmask the killer." FBI photographs of letters that contained anthra ...
  • Guantanamo Files: Massive Leak Reveals Innocen ...
    David Leigh, James Ball, Ian Cobain and Jason Burke report: "The US military dossiers, obtained by the New York Times and the Guardian, reveal how, alongside the so-called 'worst of the worst,' many prisoners were flown to the Guantanamo cages and held captive for years on the flimsiest grounds, ...
  • Fox News Goes Full Birther
    Intro: "Following Donald Trump's lead, Fox News figures have recently embraced or promoted aspects of the birther conspiracy theory by falsely claiming that President Obama has not produced his birth certificate, or by hosting birthers to hype their discredited theories unchallenged." Sarah P ...
  • 'No Humanity Left' in Syria
    Al Jazeera journalist Cal Perry begins: "Every other journalist is trying to get into Syria, but on Saturday I was trying to get out. The government had made it perfectly clear: My visa was expiring and unless I left on April 23, I would 'face the full force of the law.'" A man carries a chil ...
  • Obama Speaks on Manning and the Rule of Law
    Excerpt: "Obama said this when justifying Manning's treatment, 'We're a nation of laws. We don't let individuals make their own decisions about how the laws operate. He broke the law.' The impropriety of Obama's public pre-trial declaration of Manning's guilt ('He broke the law') is both gross a ...

War Resisters League

  • The Broken Rifle in Kabul
    The above photograph, of Scott Schaeffer-Duffy from the Catholic Worker in Worcester, Massachusetts standing beside street art made by local Afghan youth, was taken in Kabul by WRL National Committee and Organizing Task Force member Jim Haber when he was on a recent delegation with Voices for Cr ...
  • WRL Organizers Hit the West Coast
    From February 25th to March 7th,WRL organizing coordinator Kimber Heinz and field organizer Ali Issa began a three-stop trip on the West Coast where they met with WRL locals and affiliates, as well as allied organizations working on GI resistance, civilian support for anti-war veteran organizing ...
  • Iraq/Wisconson Labor Solidarity: Two Statements
    In the wake of the threat posed to what remain of labor rights in Wisconsin, and the public’s powerful response, two Iraqi labor leaders, Hassan Jum’a and Faleh Abood, penned solidarity statements in late February on behalf the 26,000 member strong Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions, and the 15,000 ...
  • Stepping up the Resistance to U.S. Islamophobia
    As Peter King, the new chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, steps up the U.S. government attack against Muslims living in the U.S., saying that he will “rely on Muslims to make his case that American Muslim leaders have failed to cooperate with law enforcement officials in the effo ...
  • Mubarak Ousted! Two Down, Twenty To Go . . .
    “The people have brought down the regime!” was a cry heard around the world when on Friday, February 11th, 18 days of unrelenting non-violent protest finally forced the end of Hosni Mubarak’s 30 year, US backed rule over Egypt. Ecstatic jubilation filled Cairo’s Midan al-Tahrir (Liberation Squar ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • Study on Drug-Resistant Staph and Store-Bought ...
    According to a recently published nationwide study of grocery store meats, the next time you handle a piece of meat or poultry bought at your local supermarket there is nearly a 50 percent chance that it will be carrying drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (Staph). The Translational Genomics Re ...
  • U.S. Dept. of the Interior among 2,000 Sodexo ...
    The Meatless Monday campaign just gained America’s protector of natural resources and heritage as one of its latest supporters. The U.S. Department of the Interior is one of Sodexo’s more than 2,000 corporate and government clients, which the food service giant encouraged to adopt its Meatless M ...
  • Corn Panic
    By Dr. Dennis Keeney, Visiting Scholar, Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future The USDA 2011 Prospective Plantings Report was one of the most anticipated planting reports in several years. It came on the heels of a shocking Grain Stocks Report issued last month, which showed that corn stocks ...
  • Calling all Farmers: Baltimore Accepting Appl ...
    This spring, something new is sprouting up in Baltimore. In the coming months, small-scale farm plots will be allocated to local farmers —an initiative aimed at filling vacant city-owned lots, encouraging community development, improving neighborhoods and increasing access to healthy food. La ...
  • Will the U.S. Hog Industry Ever Kick Its Relia ...
    The editors of Scientific American recently encouraged U.S. hog farmers to “follow Denmark and stop giving farm animals low-dose antibiotics.” Sixteen years ago, in order to reduce the threat of increased development of antibiotic resistant bacteria in their food system and the environment, Denm ...

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Updates on Libyan war: April 26
    ==== NATO’s African War: Nearly 4,000 Sorties, Over 1,600 Strikes Economic War: NATO Invasion Of Libya Inevitable NATO Playing With Fire In Libya: Analyst NATO Intensifies Bombing Of Tripoli As Former Colonial Master Italy Enters War NATO Escalates Bombing Assault, Libyans Fear Protracted War Al ...
  • Stop NATO News: April 25, 2011
    ==== Updates on Libyan war: April 25 ==== U.S. Marines Bring Iraqi And Afghan War Combat Experience To Gulf Of Guinea “Made In USA”: Yemen Targeted By Predator Drone Missile Strikes Economic War: NATO Invasion Of Libya Inevitable Resurgence Of French Imperialism New Georgian Military Adventurism ...
  • Samuel Johnson on war
    Samuel Johnson Thoughts on the Late Transactions Respecting Falkland’s Islands (1771) Excerpts [W]ar is not the whole business of life; it happens but seldom, and every man, either good or wise, wishes that its frequency were still less. That conduct which betrays designs of future hostility, if ...
  • Updates on Libyan war: April 25
    ==== Libya: NATO Air Strike Level’s Presidential Residence, 45 Wounded Spokesperson: NATO Steps Up Bombing Raids In Libya NATO’s Air War In Libya: 3,725 Flights, 1,550 Air Strikes Russia Urges NATO To Stop Bombing Libyan Civilian Targets Kuwait To Pay Salaries Of Libyan “Transitional” Regime === ...
  • Stop NATO News: April 24, 2011
    ==== Updates on Libyan war: April 24 ==== Three NATO Soldiers Killed In Afghan Attacks 140 NATO Soldiers Killed In Afghanistan So Far This Year NATO Helicopter Goes Down In Afghanistan Pakistani Protesters Block NATO Troops’ Supply Line Over Drone Strikes NATO Attack Wounds Iranian Fishermen, Ki ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • Alert: Whistleblowers Are Disappearing…Again
    Before Its News By Zen Gardner April 26th, 2011 It’s been in the news a lot recently. It’s a pathetic statement of the state of affairs of today’s cryptocracy. It seems whistleblowers are not only being discouraged, and demonized, but disappeared. Actually, what’s new. Forcibly removing any “dan ...
  • Silver Shield: APMEX Implications
    Dont-tread-on.me By Silver Shield April 26th, 2011 Many of you have received an email from APMEX yesterday about buying gold and silver over spot price. This is the first time that I ever remember seeing a tactic like this from them. Now don’t get me wrong, I have had nothing but good things to ...
  • Fairewinds Calls for the NRC to Delay Licensin ...
    NotForSale2NWO April 25th, 2011 Arnie Gundersen calls for the NRC to stop licensing unsafe nuclear power plants. FaireWinds Associates http://fairewinds.com/ //
  • Professor Christopher Busby: Hydrogen Explosio ...
    The Intel Hub By Alex Thomas April 25th, 2011 Professor Christoper Busby, a leading critic of the Fukushima nuclear cover up, recently appeared on Russia Today with some startling information. Many witnessed the supposed hydrogen explosion in disbelief, wondering if they had just witnessed a sma ...
  • JB Campbell: Killing Pat Tillman
    Veterans Today By JB Campbell April 25th, 2011 Friday was the seventh anniversary of Pat Tillman’s assassination in Afghanistan. On April 22, 2004 Tillman and several other Army Rangers were given an odd order to split their motorized squad and proceed toward a village called Magarah. The origin ...

FRS

  • Egypt’s ElBaradei suggests war crimes pr ...
    (AP) â 4 days ago NEW YORK (AP) â Former chief U.N. nuclear inspector Mohamed ElBaradei suggests in a new memoir that Bush administration officials should face international criminal investigation for the “shame of a needless war” in Iraq. Freer to speak now than he was as an international civil ...
  • Delhi students investigate the mass struggle a ...
    Preliminary report of the DSU fact-finding visit to Narayanpatna, Odisha Democratic Students’ Union (DSU), Delhi PRESS RELEASE:  A REPORT FROM GROUND ZERO A team of students from DU, JNU and IGNOU belonging to the Democratic Students’ Union (DSU) visited Narayanpatna Block in the Koraput distri ...
  • The “Arab Spring” and How the Oppo ...
    Jordan’s New Opposition and the Traps of Identity and Ambiguity by Hisham Bustani, Jadaliyya Apr 20 2011 Protesters took the streets of Amman, Jordan, on Friday, calling for governmental and constitutional reforms.There are two major tribulations in Jordan from which all other issues stem. The f ...
  • Saudi counter-revolution cools Arab Spring
    Fueled by fear of rising oil prices, US deference is helping Saudi Arabia implement its agenda in the Gulf. Jim Lobe, al Jazeera 24 Apr 2011 – As the so-called Arab Spring enters its sixth month, it appears to have run into seriously wintry headwinds. While some observers here have blamed Saudi ...
  • Shanghai: Massive truckers strike highlights c ...
    Third day of Shanghai strike threatens China exports Fri, Apr 22 2011 By Melanie Lee and Royston Chan SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Striking truck drivers protested for a third day on Friday in Shanghai’s main harbour district amid heavy police presence and signs the action has already started to curb ex ...

Ken O'Keefe

  • NO FLY ZONE OVER PALESTINE
    On Thursday April 21st we shall make a human chain with the children of Gaza to spell out NO FLY ZONE OVER PALESTINE so as to tell the world that Israel’s bombings of Gaza must stop. We intend to remind the world how the children of Palestine are terrorized and murdered by Israeli air power [...]
  • Samouni Family Responds to Goldstone Backtrack ...
    During Operation Cast Lead Israel committed massive war crimes for all the world to see. Among these crimes the use of White Phosphorus in densely populated areas, use of Depleted Uranium, bombing civilian targets of all sorts without military necessity, destroying civilian infrastructure with ...
  • Samouni Family Community Centre & Classroom
    We are looking at sending at least one bus from the UK to Gaza, loaded with materials to set up the Samouni Family Community Centre/Classroom. We would like to do this in the next couple of weeks so we need many things to happen very fast if we are to meet such a deadline.
  • Response to “An Open Letter to Ken O&#82 ...
    We in the West do not even take care of our own people, multi-billionaires and deep poverty side by side, house foreclosures in concert with trillions of dollars being handed to the banksters. These bastard banksters are the ultimate rape and pillage machine, and they are salivating over Libya.
  • Tahrir4Gaza – Liberation for Gaza
    As the Arab people continue to exercise unarmed yet mighty power, there is one place above all others that remains at the heart of the struggle, Palestine. Despite all the money, propaganda, weapons, false imprisonment, ethnic cleansing, torture and mass-murder wielded against them, they have e ...

StillSmallVoice

  • What makes a bad job, bad?
    Well, according to this, a lack of union protection is a good place to start for a bad job. From there, things get complicated. Writes Michael Lind at Salon: ...it is much easier to reach a consensus on the definition of a bad job than to agree on what constitutes a good job. Reuters photo
  • Hold on with that God particle thing
    A leaked memo about scientists closing in on the Higgs boson ("God particle") is real, but the work is still fresh and unconfirmed, say officials at the Swiss collider where the work is being done. ("God particle" is a media construct. Turns out scientists prefer "the champagne bottle boson.") ...
  • As always, follow the money
    While the reverberations from Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's anti-union/anti-collective bargaining push continue,�the fabulous (and nonpartisan) MapLight.org has launched a website that follows the money in his state. By using information about campaign contributions, interesting group support an ...
  • This really happened...
    This weekend, I went to visit a friend in Bar Harbor, Maine. We met years ago through our sons, who played on the same baseball team when we both lived in Marlborough.� I go to baseball games to yell -- not harangue or hound, but yell.�There was precisely one other person in the stands who was y ...
  • There's more than one birther rumor out there
    And if you doubt that, read this, Bradford W. Scharlott's research paper on the rumors surrounding the birth of Sarah Palin's youngest child. And thanks, Cynical, for the link. Getty Images

Associated Content

  • Paul Ryan's Preaching of Ayn Rand's 'Gospel' F ...
    The "me first" philosophy of Ayn Rand isn't selling too well on Main Street once people see just how cruel it is for public policy.Contributor: Roy A. Barnes Published: Apr 21, 2011
  • Guantanamo Bay Leak Exposes Government Commitm ...
    An opinionated overview of the newest wave of releases by WikiLeaks on Guantanamo BayContributor: Brian Davis Published: Apr 25, 2011
  • New Terrorism Alert System: More Transparent, ...
    The Department of Homeland Security announced today that it will be implementing a new system effective April 26 of this month. What's different, and will it be effective?Contributor: JJ Parks Published: Apr 20, 2011
  • Tim Hetherington Becomes Casualty of Worldwide ...
    The number of casualties increases as fighting continues around the world. Innocent citizens and prominent figures are losing their lives in war-torn countries.Contributor: Connie Rudolph Published: Apr 21, 2011
  • First Person: Tornado Slams into St. Louis Airport
    It seemed like a normal, everyday evening for a flight. Things were relaxing and peaceful. The flight was slightly delayed, but nothing out of the ordinary. Then the tornado slammed into Concourse C and chaos ensued.Contributor: Dr. Melissa Kanzelberger Published: Apr 25, 2011

Popsci - Science

  • Video: They Sure Don't Make Pyrex Like They Us ...
    A change to heat-resistant glass has had explosive effects Most people probably don’t think of Corning as a crime fighting company, but when it sold its Pyrex brand to World Kitchen in 1998, the company accidentally made the illegal manufacture of crack cocaine more difficult—a fascinating exam ...
  • Study Shows How Bacteria Could Generate Radio ...
    The "do bacteria generate radio waves?" debate rages on It may not seem something to get bent out of shape over, but there’s a scientific controversy that’s been brewing over whether or not bacteria generate radio waves. Now a team at Northeastern University thinks they’ve figured out the mecha ...
  • New Fog-Harvesting Devices Could Provide Clean ...
    MIT engineer takes advantage of a mist opportunity Clean drinking water is arguably the most basic human necessity, yet in developing countries it’s a rare and precious resource — nearly 900 million people worldwide live without it, according to the World Health Organization. One MIT researcher ...
  • This Week in the Future, April 18-22, 2011
    We're not trying to be negative. We're just looking out for you when we tell you all the things you should think twice about consuming--whether it's leavened bread, human waste, or an excess of electronics. What you should do is read on--there's no other way to win this week's Baarbarian illust ...
  • In Thrilling Smashup, LHC Breaks Beam Luminosi ...
    The Large Hadron Collider is now officially the world's most powerful particle accelerator The LHC smashed a record-breaking number of particles at midnight Geneva time last night, setting a new standard for beam intensity. CERN replaced Fermilab’s former record of 4.024 × 1032cm-2s-1 with a s ...

Veterans Today

  • JB Campbell: URGENT 737 NG WARNING!
    Earlier this month a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 took off from Phoenix en route to Sacramento. A panel in the roof blew out and the plane made an emergency landing at Yuma.
  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News
    Veterans!  Hereâs your Top 10 News stories of the day compiled from the latest sources We encourage you to browse our list so that you can take what you want and keep what you need 1. Minnesota town duped by woman’s story of military service. 2. More Marines now eligible to receive Purple Hear ...
  • B. D. S. (Jackson 5) Chicago Flashmob
    Chicago Activists Mark Palestinian Land Day with Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Flash-Mob   madlittledebbie On March 30th at 5 pm, a group of social justice activists held a “flash-mob” in downtown Chicago. The demonstration was organized as one of hundreds of demonstrations held around the w ...
  • When in doubt, give a Middle East speech
    So let the speeches begin. Who knows? Maybe in some turn of phrase or dangling participle lurks the key to Middle East peace. Certainly, talking is a lot better than shooting. Aaron David Miller / FP The problem with all these initiatives is that none have a strategy to move from words to deeds. ...
  • Refusing to Raise U.S. Debt Is Not the End of ...
    The world as we now know is an effort to continue with a flawed systemic century old dynamic which is counter-intuitive to capitalism, free markets, sovereignty, freedom, and self- dignity. Operated by a defunct cadre or bankrupt syndicate. "In the absence of that which you are not, that which ...

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • Yorkshire Water confident of no hosepipe bans ...
    Yorkshire Water have told BBC Yorkshire that even if the rest of spring and summer turns out to be as dry as 1995, there will be no water restrictions in Yorkshire. 1995 was a disastrous year for the company. Reservoirs were full at the end of March, but a pipe network that was badly in need o ...
  • Will the warm sunshine last for Easter?
    We've had mixed fortunes at Easter over the years. Despite what we all might hope for, or think we remember, it is much more common for Easter weather to be poor rather than good. The last fine and warm Easter was in 2007. In fact April 2007 turned out to be the warmest on record - with April 20 ...
  • March global temperature update
    The global temperature anomaly for March according to NASA/GISS was 0.57c, up from 0.44c in February. Adjusted to the 1961-90 time period this is approx 0.46c compared to 0.33c last month. The Hadcrut3 global anomaly figure for March showed a smaller increase at 0.318c, up from 0.264c last mo ...
  • Coldest March globally for 17 years.
    Although locally we have been enjoying unusual warmth in the last few weeks, globally the opposite has been true. Indeed, at the end of last week Remote Sensing Systems, an organisation backed by NOAA, announced that March 2011 was the coldest March since 1994, according to their analysis of s ...
  • An exceptionally dry March
    High pressure has dominated our weather for much of this month, with exceptionally low rainfall totals across Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. At Coningsby in Lincolnshire only 4.8mm of rain fell, compared with the average which is 41mm. This makes it their driest March since records began at the R ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • American Hypocrisy on Libya & Int'l Criminal Court
    I read with no small amount of amusement the grandiosely titled op-ed "Libya's Pathway to Peace" by Barack Obama, David Cameron, and Nicolas Sarkozy. One way or another, none are free from hypocrisy to keep things lively. When the Libya mess erupted, Cameron was on a junket to the Middle East se ...
  • Like Greece & Ireland, IMF Shouldn't Help Portugal
    Now I'm hopping mad! I know that I'm beginning to sound like a broken record on this, but in the interest of fairness, I will fight the good fight even if no one else will do so. Bravely I must soldier on in this bleak and unbearable world. Previously, I have argued that the IMF should not have ...
  • Singapore Gets on the RMB Trading Bandwagon
    In case you missed it, here is more news of the internationalization of the yuan. Singapore and Hong Kong usually duke it out for bragging rights as the financial centre of East Asia. For some time now, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority has experimented with facilitating trade settlement with the ...
  • London Wants to Get on the RMB Trading Bandwagon
    To accompany today's other blog feature, may I just point out that it's not only the Asian crowd that wants to get on the RMB bandwagon. It may be confusing to my international readers, but to repeat, the Lord Mayor of London (Michael Bear) is different from the Mayor of London (Boris Johnson). ...
  • Mapping Chinese Investment in Africa
    Like in practically every other continent, China has made itself a force to reckon with in Africa. I have thus had a very long string of posts [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8] examining its role and the views other have of China investing there. These range from the helpful and benign ("South-South coop ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • American Hellholes
    The U.S. economy is dying and we are heading for the next Great Depression.  The talking heads in the mainstream media love to spin the economic numbers around and around and they love to make it sound like the economy is improving, but the truth is that it doesn't take a genius ...
  • Corrupted!: 5 Shocking Examples Of Government ...
    At times it really is breathtaking how corrupted the U.S. government has become.  Government corruption has become so endemic in our society that most people have just kind of accepted it as "normal".  But shouldn't we all get hopping mad when we learn that the Federal Reserve s ...
  • 65 Ways That Everything That You Think That Yo ...
    Everything that you own is slowly being taken away from you.  It is being done purposely and it is being done by design.  Many Americans like to think of themselves as "well off", but as will be demonstrated below, we don't "own" nearly as much as we think that we do.  The truth ...
  • Money Problems That Never Seem To End: 25 Reas ...
    It seems like wherever you turn there is bad news for the U.S. economy.  Unemployment is rampant, the cost of gasoline is going up, the cost of food is going up and American families are getting poorer.  Millions of jobs continue to leave the country and everyone is wondering wh ...
  • Shut It Down?
    If the U.S. government were to shut down for a while, would that really be such a bad thing?  Right now everyone in the mainstream media is freaking out as if the world is going to end, but the truth is that there have been government shutdowns before.  The apocalypse is not goi ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • France questions fundamental European principles
    France seems to have questioned one of the fundamental EU principles – freedom of movement within the EU. The possibility of revising the Schengen agreement by French was on the agenda in connection with the influx of refugees from North Africa, particularly from Tunisia. The discussion about a ...
  • IMF bombshell: Age of America nears end
    The International Monetary Fund has just dropped a bombshell, and nobody noticed. For the first time, the international organization has set a date for the moment when the “Age of America” will end and the U.S. economy will be overtaken by that of China. The Obama deficit tour The Wall Street Jo ...
  • Our sick society
    Here we are, at the gates of one of our temples of finance. It is the temple for worshipping profit and greed, where the value of each is determined by the ability to accumulate money and power at the expense of others, where rewrite, manipulate and disregard the laws are the order of the day, [...]
  • Child trafficking increasing in US
    Andrea Powell works directly with children who have been sold for sex in Washington, DC. Powell says most of the child victims she works with come from poor neighborhoods and broken families. According a recent FBI law enforcement bulletin 300,000 American children are at risk of becoming victim ...
  • Chernobyl’s sarcophagus falling apart
    Ukraine and Russia remember the Chernobyl disaster, which took place 25 years ago. In the meantime, the question of safety of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant still remains unsolved. A sarcophagus was built on the fourth reactor of the plant after the breakdown, but the sarcophagus has been fal ...

Voiceless Victim

  • Top 10 Catholic Lies About Child Rape
    The Catholic Church lies about child rape. Not occasionally. Not accidentally. But deliberately, and every time it’s representatives or apologists have anything to say on the subject.   The Catholic Church is not still learning about this issue. It has been “dealing” with child rape for the las ...
  • Speeding Up Production at Catholic Saint Facto ...
    As the date of JPII’s hasty beatification draws nearer, the Catholic Church hopes, by its faux scientific administrative mumbo jumbo, to transform an evil old man with a horrifyingly negative track record in many areas, especially in enabling child rape, into a political figurehead whose moralit ...
  • Victim Concludes From Personal Experience: Cat ...
    Since first speaking out in 2008 about my six years of child sexual abuse at the hands of a Brother from the Passionist Order, I have found a strength I never knew I had, discovered a voice that demands to be heard after being bullied into silence for so long, and have achieved so much [...]
  • Now Everyone Knows What It Takes To Get Rapist ...
    There has been so much happening in the Philadelphia diocese lately for those interested in justice and child safety to absorb. And, for once, much of it is good news for victims of Catholic Church sponsored child sexual abuse. Well, as good as it is possible to get for anyone who has survived e ...
  • Defending the Indefensible is a Lot Like Football
    Battling for truth, justice and child protection against the evil empire of His Greediness can get you down sometimes. Time for a little light relief. I came across this intelligent and articulate blogger just recently. This post from the Voice from the Desert blog is screamingly funny. And trag ...

WL Central

  • 2011-04-26 Wikileaks notes: David House: Wikil ...
    Tweet David House tweets Wikileaks grand jury subpoenas are being issued Bradley Manning friend and supporter David House tweeted Subpoenas are being issued in the WikiLeaks grand jury. Violations of Espionage Act. No further comment at this time. two hours after tweeting "Are you now, or have y ...
  • 2011-04-26 Wau Holland Foundation submits annu ...
    TweetOver the past year, the Wau Holland Foundation received roughly 1.3 million Euros in donations for Wikileaks. Around 400,000 Euros were paid out, the majority for the salaries of Wikileaks staff (ca. 100.000) and campaigns (ca. 140.000), and rather modest amounts for travel, legal assistanc ...
  • 2011-04-26 Wikileaks: Kozloduy NPP incident in ...
    TweetA report of the U.S. Ambassador John Beyrle from 19th May 2005, shared by Wikileaks with their media partner Bivol unveils new details about the incident in Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant that happened on 1st March 2006. Five years ago the Bulgarian society was kept in disinformation about t ...
  • 2011-04-26 Open Letter to Kevin Rudd: On Julia ...
    TweetKevin Rudd Minister Foreign Affairs PO Box 6022 House of Representatives Parliament House Canberra ACT 2600 AUSTRALIA Dear Minister 1) Julian Assange and Wikileaks. Firstly I would like to say that the international community who support Julian Assange would undoubtedly thank you for ...
  • 2011-04-26 Julian Assange says Rudolf Elmer is ...
    Tweet Julian Assange told the Times of India Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami, that the Swiss banking data that was handed to him on January 17 of this year has not been released because the source, Rudolf Elmer, gave the data to Assange publically and was immediately arrested pending a criminal i ...

U N News

  • Right to housing at risk as Brazil prepares fo ...
    An independent United Nations human rights expert today voiced concern about alleged displacement and evictions in various cities across Brazil as the country prepares to host the 2014 soccer World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games.
  • UN and partners congratulate Haiti&#39s presid ...
    The United Nations and its partners today congratulated Haiti's President-elect Michel Martelly on his poll victory, saying the world body looked forward to working closely with his administration once it is inaugurated on 14 May.
  • Haiti: UN-constructed temporary Parliament han ...
    The United Nations envoy for Haiti has handed over to the president of the country's senate a prefabricated building that will temporarily house the Parliament until the one destroyed by the earthquake in January last year is rebuilt.
  • UN housing expert voices concern about violent ...
    An independent United Nations human rights expert today voiced concern about the increasing rate of violent evictions taking place in Argentina and called for a comprehensive strategy to tackle the country's housing crisis.
  • General Assembly President meets with top offi ...
    Global governance has topped the agenda in talks between General Assembly President Joseph Deiss and senior officials from Panama during the President's visit to the Latin American country.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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