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Western intelligence sources reporting in real time found Saturday night, Feb. 11, that Bashar Assad's loyal military and security forces had by and large managed to subdue the rebellion against the regime. They are now purging the last pockets of resistance, especially in Syria's third largest ...

.. the Saudi One Percent have it pretty good. Except for Twitter. If Twitter were to become a powerful tool in the hands of ordinary Saudis, one can pretty quickly figure out the consequences. The royal family would have to scramble to their villas in the South of France or their Park Avenue aer ...

British and Qatari special operations units are operating with rebel forces under cover in the Syrian city of Homs just 162 kilometers from Damascus ..

Link to report below (pdf) .. to make the case for regime change in Syria, the League, currently chaired by Qatar and politically dominated by the US-aligned Gulf monarchies, had to terminate its own observer mission and squelch its report. The report was suppressed because the 166-member obse ...

In a case brought by the fascist Falange and the fascist trade union Clean Hands (Manos Limpais), Garzón is accused of abusing his judicial power by launching an investigation into the crimes committed during the Civil War (1936-1939) and the dictatorship that continued until Franco’s death in 1 ...

Lips locked at all times - including for bathroom breaks and meals - is the less than romantic challenge facing Thai couples trying for the kiss to blow away all kisses at a Valentine's Day marathon.

An explosion tore through an Israeli diplomat's car on the streets of New Delhi today, Israeli officials said. The driver and a diplomat's wife were injured, according to Indian officials.Related Stories'Demolition Man' who made the Bali bomb goes on trialAre we really going to abandon the PM's ...

Firefighters doused smoldering buildings and cleanup crews swept rubble from the streets of central Athens today following a night of rioting during which politicians approved harsh new austerity measures demanded by bailout creditors to save the nation from bankruptcy. Related StoriesGreek MPs ...

Apple's iPads have been banned from sale in part of China after a local firm claimed it had rights to the tablet computer's brand name.Related Stories'Demolition Man' who made the Bali bomb goes on trialAre we really going to abandon the PM's new best friend?Japanese emperor to have heart bypass ...

Syrian rebels have repelled a push by government tanks into a key central town held by forces fighting against President Bashar Assad's regime, an activist group said today.Related StoriesAl-Qa'ida chief urges outside help for Syria rebels Homs bloodshed spills over into LebanonSaudi journalist ...

Energy bills are likely to double within five years as the Government drives a move to green power and building nuclear power stations, it is claimed.

The acting head of ATF (the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) has seemingly blown the cover of both DEA and FBI informant operations in order to spare his own neck and to deflect blame away from a badly flawed operation undertaken by his own agency.

European Council President Herman Van Rompuy has called an emergency meeting of top officials dealing with the euro zone debt crisis for Monday morning, reflecting concern that the crisis could spread to Italy, the region's third largest economy.

For the first time, the federal government is expanding its community-based anti-terrorism campaign to a religious group — the Jewish community, victims of past attacks in the U.S.

Hackers flying the AntiSec banner claimed today that they compromised a server at consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and have released internal data, including about 90,000 military e-mail addresses.

If Canadian postal workers were to design the perfect winter boot, it would help them avoid slipping on icy walkways, stop them from missing their truck brakes while driving and keep them from getting their crampon spikes stuck in wooden porches.If the hearing impaired were looking for a hearing ...

Cancer, heart disease and stroke are leading causes of death among Canadians. As a medical doctor, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and a Canada Research Chair in Bioengineering and Biophotonics, Victor Yang has a unique perspective on these deadly diseases. Based at ...

For the first time this past winter, the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) launched the Emerging Science Journalists Award (ESJA). The award was created to support Canada’s talented young science writers. Below is one of the winning entries by Roslyn Dakin, doctoral candidate in the Departm ...

It’s been known for years that plants can take up and store trace amounts of hazardous metals like nickel, arsenic and cadmium from contaminated soil in a process called phytoremediation. Until recently, however, scientists assumed that plants weren’t capable of taking up a class of toxic chemic ...

Trudging through a dairy farm to collect manure samples isn’t exactly glamorous work, but the odorous task is starting to have a big impact on the health of dairy cattle in Atlantic Canada — and it will save the dairy industry millions of dollars each year. Technicians at the University of Princ ...

Yo, dawg, we heard you like wood-burning stoves... Europe is currently experiencing a pretty nasty cold snap. With plummeting temperatures, huge amounts of snow, and treacherous roads, it's hardly surprising that a number of people have lost their lives as a result of the bad weather. However, ...

Late Apple co-founder and CEO at one point held a Top Secret government clearance, was targeted for extortion in 1980s. Bob Orr reports then Charlie Rose speaks with the author of "Inside Apple," Adam Lashinsky.

It sounds like a plot fit for a disaster movie - but this is real life. Scientists say they have worked out a way to blast an asteroid into space dust using an atomic bomb. The plan has potentially world-saving consequences should an asteroid emerge on a collision course with Earth. And unlik ...

When they saw the house on El Dorado Drive in this Los Angeles suburb being painted a startling orange and green and giant billboards hung on the outside, Scott and Beth Hostetler's neighbors were initially angry and confused. Some even considered calling the police. But what they witnessed o ...

A man who used to be a woman has become Britain's first "male mother" by giving birth to a son. The man, who is believed to be in his 30s, was able to carry a child after taking female hormones to reverse the effects of his female-to-male sex change treatment. The Daily Telegraph understands ...

My friends and colleagues over at Tidal Station have taken the time to chop into the "marine plan" issued by Enbridge for their northern gateway pipeline transfer terminal at Kitimat. While most mariners would understand exactly what's being said, the point that is being made is that Enbridge, ...

BEE COLONY COLLAPSE is scary — without pollination, food becomes a problem. GRIST is concerned with how we live, proclaiming itself to be a "Beacon in the Smog". Well, there's a report by Tom Philpott that's rather disturbing, "Leaked document shows EPA allowed bee-toxic pesticide despite own sc ...

CRACKED IS DELIGHTFULLY IRREVERENT, which helps with these trying times. Danny Gallagher has an entertaining post, "The 5 Least Surprising Toy Recalls of All Time". #5. The Cabbage Patch Snacktime Kids Doll#4. Kinder Chocolate Eggs#3. Sky Dancers#2. The Easy Bake Oven#1. Lawn Darts or Jarts What ...

HOW WE SEE TIME depends on how we live. Professor Philip Zimbardo conveys how our individual perspectives of time affect our work, health and well-being. Time influences who we are as a person, how we view relationships and how we act in the world.

BE CREATIVE, AND HELP Jaimie Mantzel: he needs a name for his spider-toy. 

Right-wing media have responded to the $25 billion foreclosure settlement between banks and government authorities by attacking struggling homeowners who could potentially benefit from the deal -- calling it a "deadbeat bailout" -- and by whitewashing banks' alleged foreclosure malpractice. Thi ...

As automakers are starting to bring electric vehicle (EV) technology into the mainstream, conservative media outlets have repeatedly misled consumers about electric cars by trying to paint them as environmentally harmful and unsafe, among other false claims.CONSERVATIVE MEDIA OUTLETS ARE CAMPAI ...

New polls released this week indicate that a majority of Catholics believe that employers should provide health care plans that cover contraception. This further undermines right-wing media claims that President Obama has declared "war on Catholics" or a "war on religion" because of his adminis ...

Continuing a Fox News campaign to portray President Obama as anti-Christian, Sean Hannity claimed the administration's requirement that insurers cover contraception for women was part of a "war on religion." That criticism is undermined by the fact that a majority of Catholics believe insurance ...

As income disparities continue to increase, and the effective tax rate paid by the rich remains at historic lows, right-wing media figures work hard to make sure none of that changes. They routinely attack the poor and programs designed to assist them, while simultaneously extolling the rich an ...

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A recent post over at The Economist's Democracy in America blog says the Syria showdown at the UN between the US, Russia, and China demonstrates a crucial yet underappreciated success of Obama foreign policy: Ten years back, America often found itself isolated, struggling to pull together "co ...

For the past month or so there has been a series of coordinated attacks on me, my employer Media Matters and the Center for American Progress for labeling those who place the interests of Israel over the United States "Israel Firsters." This piece by Spencer Ackerman was accompanied by an illust ...

Although this column is about how Yale handled its star quarterback Patrick Witt's pass on a Rhodes Scholarship interview, it's really about what the business-corporatization of old American colleges has done to republican leadership training. It's about what former Harvard College Dean Harry Le ...

There are delicious ironies in "How to Win Female Votes: What Obama Can Learn From Elizabeth Warren," a terrific piece just posted by Paul Starobin in The New Republic. Starobin reflects on Warren's message in her U.S. Senate campaign against Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown, who took the la ...

A United Nations Special Rapporteur said Sunday that Israel is systematically implementing a discriminatory policy of housing and planning in Israel, East Jerusalem and the Occupied Wes ...

Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails have joined a fellow inmate on a hunger strike, after human rights groups reported the original protester's life was in danger. Khader ...

Border Police enter Issawiya in East Jerusalem; 3 injured, 2 arrestedIsraeli border police (Magav) injured three Palestinian residents of the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya tod ...

The Gaza Energy Authority said Saturday that the sole remaining power plant in the Gaza Strip would run out of fuel by the evening, causing a wide-scale blackout. Energy official Muhamm ...

We've won a temporary reprieve from the Keystone XL Pipeline, but there are still places greatly at risk in the country.

Here are the facts: The business models at the center of our economy are in the deepest possible conflict with physics and chemistry.

A new investigation shows the global chemical company spent millions spinning news coverage and tracking journalists as concern grew over potential health risks of atrazine.

For starters, the energy and environmental impacts of tar sands production are not limited to within the borders of Canada. But the trouble doesn't end there.

Fox talks with Democracy Now following his arrest Wednesday while trying to film a Congressional hearing.

While only 23 percent of Texas remains under “exceptional” drought, 90% of the state is still under some level of drought in spite of the recent rains many parts of the state have experienced.  But we can’t get cocky, as the U.S. seasonal drought outlook indicates most of Texas ...

Among the recommendations for managing the current stockpile of spent nuclear fuel — approximately 65,000 tons of waste stored at about 75 operating and shut-down reactor sites around the country — is a plan to move the waste to temporary storage sites. Public Citizen rejects this plan. In the a ...

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is reporting that a “small” amount of radioactive gas may have leaked at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in Southern California. The San Onofre plant is on the Pacific Ocean coast near San Clemente north of San Diego. It consists of two uni ...

Spicewood, Texas, a small community on Lake Travis, is precariously close to becoming the state’s first community to run out of drinking water during this historic drought.  On Monday, under dark clouds and with rain falling, Spicewood got its first delivery of 8,000-gallons of water after ...

Texas Coalition for Affordable Power’s (TCAP) report on electric deregulation in Texas says the industry has failed to deliver, while industry and agency critics find fault with the reports price and reliability comparisons. Texans have paid higher prices for power that is less reliable – ...

Footage of strange lights in the sky over London has generated great interest online this week. The video was uploaded to Youtube by a motorist who de...

Paramedic Kandi Gay suffers from a sleeping disorder that causes her to send text messages while asleep. Despite being unconscious Kandi is able to se...

NASA executives are to make significant cuts to its exploration of other planets in our solar system. Missions to Mars will be significantly impacted,...

A rooster on a small farm in China has made headlines after it mysteriously started to lay eggs. The bird's owner said that the rooster had started to...

The International UFO Congress will be taking place from 21st - 26th this month in the Phoenix area. The conference is the largest of its kind anywher...

639335205_b0a485eaf0_m.jpg Two years following the earthquake, community-based organizations in Haiti are still advocating for the same changes and considerations as they did last year, namely land and housing rights, respect for national s ...

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Subheadline:  How the industrial food system heats up the planet Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:  GRAIN is a small international non-profit organization that works to suppo ...

ethiopia_huts.jpg The issue of land grabs remains a critical threat to human rights, forcing millions of people off the land to make way for large-scale industrial farms. Land grabs in Ethiopia are not only threatening to dislocate farmers ...

(Guardian) Research showing that the Himalayas and nearby peaks have lost no ice in past 10 years has been met with relief and surprise – but scientists warn against jumping to simplistic conclusions

(The Hill) A green evangelical group won’t bow to conservative anti-abortion-rights leaders or Republicans who are pressuring them to stop casting support for new EPA pollution rules as a “pro-life” position.

(Yale Environment 360) A coalition of European companies Thursday opened a 367-megawatt wind farm off the British coast, a massive project that developers say will power as many as 320,000 households annually and is the world’s largest ...

(Bloomberg) Germany's biggest program of solar- and wind-power production has driven European coal prices below South Africa's for the first time in 10 months.

(Bloomberg) First Solar Inc. (FSLR), the world’s biggest maker of thin-film solar panels, plans to reduce production at its factory in Germany as declining subsidies reduce European demand.

New energy efficiency standards proposed by the Department of Energy this week would cut the vast amounts of energy wasted by appliances that aren't even in active use.

A relatlively large number of business leaders are shifting their firms to be ready for the new energy economy, but important questions remain, including how to measure success and how to convince others to join in the quest.

A new report shows that U.S. cities can save billions in costs -- while cleaning waterways and green neighborhoods -- by leveraging private investment in green infrastructure.

Just how much energy does the U.S. military use, what the costs in dollars and the risk to soldiers, and how can they all be reduced? The American Council On Renewable Energy and Advanced Energy Economy are working with the Defense Department to answer those questions.

Lauded for its green practices and curricula, the University of Vermont has developed a certificate program to enable other colleges to integrate sustainability into their operations.

Greeks smashing windows and setting fire to shops and banks in a fury of opposition to yet more austerity is gripping, but not unique. There are underlying elements than make such uprisings more common in Greece than elsewhere.

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After the NATO airstrikes, the political discourse within Pakistan is narrowing as religious nationalism gains ground

A short work of fiction about drones may tell us more about the way these are imagined than how they are experienced in Pakistan's tribal areas.

A strategic pact between India and Afghanistan has drawn muted response from Pakistan. If anything Islamabad has pressed on with peace moves with India.

Tucker Carlson's fishwrap should be ashamed of itself for putting out such low quality garbage. His reporters Alex Pappas and Will Rahn were supposed to do some research and come up with a hit piece on David Brock and Media Matters. All they came up with was some anonymous and possibly fabrica ...

There is a simple solution for this: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Obama's rule requiring employer-based healthcare plans even those sponsored by faith-based groups to cover contraception infringes on the religious freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution. The Kentucky Republic ...

I am troubled by stupid people: The share of benefits flowing to the least affluent households, the bottom fifth, has declined from 54 percent in 1979 to 36 percent in 2007, according to a Congressional Budget Office analysis published last year. And as more middle-class families like the ...

I want to remember her young, smiling, happy, and optimistic. I'll try to remember her like that. Goodbye, Whitney. Discuss

I hope you've had a chance to see Bruce Springsteen's newest single. Here's the video: Springsteen, it seems to me, is Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, and Johnny Cash all wrapped up into one. But he really isn't quite as anti-establishment as his mentors. That's probably why I love him the b ...

Wouldn't you check to see that this person is okay. Well, in fact it's a sculpture – one of a series that's been causing quite a stir... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

We're big fans of repurposing here at EG, so what better way to kick off this week's roundup than with the story of a train that's been converted into a cafe? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...

A strange sight greeted Londoners this week – one that was tied up with saving the critically-endangered western gray whale from a new and perilous threat... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...

Ten incredible airplane boneyards – the places where old military planes and airliners alike go to die... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

In the otherwordly sand dunes surrounding an ancient dry lake bed, prehistoric human remains have been found that challenge our understanding of human history. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Though failing to generate buzz, Angelina Jolie's film about Bosnia deserves to be widely viewed.

Al Qaeda never met a conflict it didn't like.

A nuclear holocaust: it is written.

The NDAA will only provide more legal cover for the executive branch to further undermine habeas corpus.

Rep. Edward Markey is sponsoring a bill calling for deep nuclear-weapons cuts.

Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 20, 2009 An official UK government report –quoted extensively in Britain’s tabloid media– is warning the British public that there will b ...

Jurriaan Maessen. Infowars. July 24th, 2009 On September 7, 1992, two term President of the European Commission Jacques Delors gave a speech to the Royal Institute of International A ...

Barbara Minton, Natural News, July 21st, 2009 Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in th ...

Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 7th, 2009 Although international law prohibits the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons, America has had an active biological warfare pr ...

Papers, Please! June 2, 2009 As of today, June 1, 2009, even U.S. citizens are officially prisoners in the USA, or exiles barred from entering our own country without the government’ ...

FM Sergei Lavrov calls for dialogue and says violence must end before any Arab League peacekeeping mission takes place.

Thousands of security forces deployed across the Gulf kingdom ahead of one-year anniversary of the Shia-led uprising.

Prime minister appears in country's top court to plead not guilty to charges that could cost him his job.

Umar Patek faces multiple charges, including premeditated murder, for deadly attacks that killed more than 200 people.

Artists honour Whitney Houston at Grammy music awards in Los Angeles, as mourners gather to mark US singer's death.

Eleven states argue that drafting new rules in vital to public health. But the Obama administration faces pressure from Republican critics who say that tighter air pollution rules could hurt the economy.

The Scottish government is on the outs with Donald Trump, having proposed an offshore wind farm in view of his luxury golf resort.

Genetic analysis of venom allows Indian investigators to determine whether it came from an endangered cobra, helping them to prosecute traffickers.

One of the biggest risks the Southern Company faces in embarking on a big nuclear project is that natural gas will remain far more affordable.

A researcher proposes that the distribution of personal carbon allowances and shorter working hours be embraced to reduce greenhouse gas emissions quickly and equitably.

The world's richest forest, in plant species, loses its animals to unchecked hunting and surrounding development.

President Obama welcomes dozens of young achievers in science and technology to the White House.

A look at the issues confronting teachers trying to explore climate science amid heated public debate.

A search for common ground among people deeply split over greenhouse-driven global warming.

A coal-backed group pushes for the cancellation of a lecture by a Pennsylvania climate scientist.

It has been a wild month in NYC. Our work in New York City to help bring you live footage from the Occupy movement, as well as help get other occupation livestream teams set up and rolling, would not have been possible but for generous small contributions from some folks that stepped up basicall ...

Heyo... so unexpectedly I've dedicated the vast majority of my time in the last 22 days to the Occupy Wall Street phenom and specifically editing the video stream for Global Revolution TV. For about a year until August, I worked at an Internet startup which abruptly laid me off, owing a bunch of ...

Our comradez in NYC are running live feeds and I am helping coordinate affairs. We are kickin on irc.indymedia.org #occupywallstreet and also you can hit that on http://chat.indymedia.org via webs. Here is the live video embed... you can use the Contact form above if you want to hit me up. It i ...

Ah so it's been a decade eh comrades? The skrewing over of emergency personnel has gone almost unnoticed. FDNY member on 9/11 Truth “I support you guys” | We Are Change -- some new stuff has been trickling out -- pretty solid stuff, at that. The glorious official narrative got its booster shot, ...

SPOILER ALERTS! -- Plagued man (lower left) staggers off bus at Lake & Lyndale; Paltrow croaks at Fairview University Medical Center; MDH painted as buffoons; Matt Damon defends saddest Minnesota XMas ever w/ shotgun & sweaters! Snagged advance tickets to Steven Soderbergh's A-List dis ...

Reuters and wanttoknow.info provide prima facie evidence that the US 1% runs Wall Street as rigged-casino gambling to transfer wealth from the 99% to themselves. The amount of money fraudulently gambled is not millions of dollars, not billions, not even tens of trillions, but over five hundred t ...

People may have noticed that the official narrative concerning Syria changes on a daily basis – except for continuing to heap contempt and scorn on the Russians and Chinese for their Security Council veto. To be frank, this veto makes more and more sense as events on the ground unmask US culpabi ...

“The problem by now is familiar to most. Politicians have expanded the safety net without a commensurate increase in revenues, a primary reason for the government’s annual deficits and mushrooming debt. In 2000, federal and state governments spent about 37 cents on the safety net from every doll ...

The Independent just announced that British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) would be running an apology worldwide for airing documentaries produced by a public relations firm.  The anticipated apology resulted from last year’s reporting in The Independent on this pecuiar BBC practice.  A sp ...

by S. Paul Forrest AmericaRevealed.org The phrase snake oil is as a derogatory term used to describe quackery; the promotion of fraudulent or unproven medical practices. The expression is also applied metaphorically to any product with questionable and/or unverifiable quality or benefit.  By ext ...

It may be difficult to face facts in an election year, but the fact is that Social Security retirement benefits are just too low.

Sam Pizzigati's Too Much newsletter highlighted by long-standing commentator.

The Senate Budget Committee held a hearing on Assessing Inequality, Mobility, and Opportunity, with the participation of Sarah Anderson, Director of our Global Economy Project.

"[W]e have transformed a highly divided nation into a more stable and equitable society before. We can certainly do it again," states Sarah Anderson, IPS Global Economy Project Director.

What would happen if we stopped playing games with Iran?

During the past four years, this blog has reported several incidents pointing to the increasing frequency with which spy agencies of various countries are utilizing social networking media as sources of tactical intelligence. But are we at a point where we can speak of a trend? In other words, i ...

Russia 'exposed 199 spies' last year. Germany expels four Syrian diplomats. Turkey summons spy chief over talks with Kurds.

The government of Germany has summoned the Syrian ambassador to Berlin after German counterintelligence officers arrested two Syrian nationals on espionage charges.

CIA silent on new drone casualties report. Romania spy chief nominated to replace Prime Minister. Lawsuits target Pakistan’s powerful ISI intelligence agency.

A European diplomat has quoted Pakistani officials as saying that Islamabad will retaliate in kind if the Israeli military attacks Iran.

  Eye in the Sky Spying on Americans   by Stephen Lendman   Money power runs America. So do lobbies representing all corporate and other interests.   The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) represents dozens of influential companies. read more

  BBC: Caught in the Act   by Stephen Lendman   On February 11, the London Independent headlined, "BBC to issue global apology for documentaries that broke rules," saying:   read more

From New York Daily News: Israeli Madonna fans are asking their country to give peace a chance — at least until after the Material Girl's late-spring concert there. They're rallying around, what else, a Facebook page, called "Bibi don't start a war with Iran until after Madonna's show on May 29. ...

450 Bases and It’s Not Over Yet By Nick Turse,   Tom Dispatch In late December, the lot was just a big blank: a few burgundy metal shipping containers sitting in an expanse of crushed eggshell-colored gravel inside a razor-wire-topped fence.  The American military in Afghanistan ...

By Prof. Michel Chossudovsky Global Research The Global Research's Online Interactive I-Book Reader, brings together, in the form of chapters, a collection of Global Research feature articles, including debate and analysis, on a broad theme or subject matter.  To consult our Online Interac ...

by Sarah Laskow. Before reading further in this post, ask yourself a question (and answer honestly): Which do you care about more, guiltless (if hungry) goats or the Galápagos Islands' giant tortoises? If you answered goats, this post will make you sad. Here was the ...

by Sarah Laskow. Orcas might be charismatic movie stars, but they are also killer whales. A family of beachgoers in New Zealand caught on film an orca fighting with a few sharks. One shark was so eager to get away from the whale that it beached itself in the shallow water. (That's t ...

by Jess Zimmerman. Stephen Colbert has officially thrown his hat in the ring for definitely possibly considering a run for president. He's already out-polling Jon Huntsman! So what kind of environmental policy platform could we expect from a President Colbert? Well, for starters, no ...

by Christopher Mims. Some chemists came up with a really clever way to observe the intermediate stage of an atmospheric chemical reaction, and then some PR flack got a hold of it and suddenly science has invented a brand-new molecule that will solve all our climate change woes! As usual, t ...

by Jess Zimmerman. We here at Grist mock a lot of people. But we don't always manage to mock some sense into them. Which is why we're pretty psyched about the response to Sarah Laskow's feature story revealing that congressional staffers were making deadly wildfires into a fun ...

The Jeremy Lin Sensation Continues

Grammy Awards Close With A Generational Jam Session

One of the most spectacular graphics/animation events of the year comes to the LA Convention Center, August 2012.

MMA Gets More Mainstream With Fighters on The Screen and Innovative Apps

There are plenty of ways to protect yourself from hackers, but which ones are the most reasonable to enforce?

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As the streets of Athens explode in anger, the Parliament passes the austerity measures that diminish the standard of living. But is there any other choice?

Ready to see drones flying over your house?

After a girl took to Facebook to complain about doing her chores, her father took to YouTube for an eight-minute response

Eat Like an Italian: How the Mediterranean Diet Is Under Threat

Actually, it IS different this time.

What scientists are beginning to understand about the cause of colony collapse could be a message for all of us.

Some otherwise habitable planets might have their water stripped away by gravity, scientists say.

As space exploration advances and we start to learn what's really on the surface of those distant worlds, it becomes increasingly clear that our imagination has no chance of competing with the jaw-dropping, pants-peeing craziness outer space is capable of cooking up.

The personal archive of the linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky will go to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries, the university announced today. Mr. Chomsky is an emeritus professor there. The collection includes his personal papers and portions of his library. It “will b ...

By Les Visible If you support these people then you might as well be holding the gun yourself. That’s how karma works. If you’re in the cheering section then you might as well be suited up and on the field. The cheerleaders have two duties as far as I know of. One is the work [...]

By Alexander Higgins Texas attorney general has filed charges against Big Pharma for bribing officials to implement an elaborate scheme to fraudulently diagnose and medicate teenagers for mental illness. According to a former Pennsylvania Inspector General’s Agent, a pharmaceutical industry-spon ...

Susan Jennings Activist Post As we delve deeper into world control, more information arises that helps us understand the current global situation. Many people are unaware of the interconnectedness between the largest global companies. Eighty percent of the world’s wealth appears to be earn ...

Daily Bell: Is the New World Order becoming a reality? David Icke: Yes, it is becoming a reality by the day, quite demonstrably. The projections of the plans that were in my books in the 1990s, like And the Truth will set you Free, which I wrote in 1994, are playing out on the television [...]

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 

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 (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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It will be moms who come to rescue their children from the deadly grip of prohibition, and police against the drug war are eagerly ready to support them in this quest.

A brief journey through time, from ancient Sumeria to modern New Jersey, uncovers the mysterious origins of the world's most beloved substances.

At the same time public support for marijuana legalization reached record highs, Obama shifted from one time medicinal cannabis sympathizer to White House weed-whacker.

The campaign was found to have an unusually high number of invalid signatures, and now has 15 days to collect enough valid signatures to cover the shortfall.

As we reflect on the great milestones the black community has reached, we cannot forget the drug war that continues to hold many back.

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 ...

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 ...

The rest of Joe Mohr’s cartoons, and cartoon updates and other green news on Twitter @GreenCartoons. Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoon) Eco-Snobbery Sucks: The Cartoon Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoo ...

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: Government’s Dietary Advice: Eat Less From Elephant Journal: ...

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 ...

Read the rest of LOOS.FM Creates Gigantic LEGO-Inspired Church Pavilion in the Netherlands Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: abondantus giganticus, dutch design, Eco Architecture, grenswerk festival, Legio blocks, Legioblocks, lego, lego architecture, Lego bricks, lego b ...

Looking for the right way to tell your special someone what you really think of them? Forget the store-bought Valentine’s Day cards and stationary, and make your own DIY V-Day card. Nothing says “I love you” like a personalized, hand-made card. Need a bit of inspiration for how ...

Assembly New York debuted its minimalist new womenswear collection in an understated venue in the Lower East Side at New York Fashion Week. The Fall/Winter 2012 collection, designed Greg Armas and Claire Lampert, features simple, androgynous looks with a mix of high-waisted pants, floor-length t ...

John Patrick of Organic never ceases to impress us with his take on eco-fashion. For his Fall/Winter 2012 collection presented at New York Fashion Week, he had a very specific inspiration, a photo by 19th century British photographer Julia Margaret Cameron,  “A Beautiful Vision, Julia Duck ...

What could possibly be cooler than living in a treehouse?  A warm and comfy treehouse bed in your very own room!  Not only does this make your child’s room feel magical, but lofted beds are a great use of space – store clothes or toys underneath! Check out our round-up of 6 amazing t ...

If consumers want cellphones and other gadgets to be made under decent working conditions, they will also have to reckon with higher prices.

David Pogue is amazed that people are still amazed at children's tech prowess. It's too bad there's no List of Things That Were Once Amazing, but Are Really Kind of Old News at This Point, he says. It would be a handy clip-and-save document that you could review, perhaps to avoid unwittingly emb ...

Tobii, a Swedish company, is demonstrating eye-tracking software that really rocked my world. Imagine reading a Web page or Word document on the screen and the page scrolls automatically, gracefully and effortlessly as you proceed through the article. The system knows where your eyes are and how ...

Casio's G-Shock GB6900 watch uses a new, low-power Bluetooth chip called Bluetooth Smart (or Bluetooth 4.0) to do amazing things with a PC or smartphone. Butt the watch doesn't work unless your phone also has Bluetooth 4.0 - and right now, only a couple of them do.

Not enough people have acknowledged that the opposition was arguing two totally different different points - the "you're going about it the wrong way" group and the "we want our illegal movies!" group. In the new world of Internet versus government, the system worked; the people spoke, governmen ...

While you're curled up comfy in your bed each night, the crew of the International Space Station is getting unrivaled views of our planet. For anyone wishing they could see what the astronauts see, here are recent videos of the Earth at night taken from space.

Thanks to a new 3-D map of the moon, earthbound viewers can see its landscape with a clarity that only Apollo's astronauts have previously enjoyed.

Astronomers are worried. It's not some new unexplained mystery of the universe or the upcoming launch of a space telescope that is unnerving them, though. The problems they currently face are much more down-to-Earth -- and the future of space exploration hangs in the balance.

Powered by nothing more than puffs of air, robots molded from paper and silicone rubber can bend, twist, grip and even lift more than 100 times their weight.

The supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy may be constantly snacking on asteroids. A new study finds that an asteroid at least 12 miles wide falling into the black hole would account for the regular bright x-ray flares seen through telescopes.

Germany’s Defense Minister has warned Tel Aviv against any military adventurism in Iran amid the escalating anti-Iran war rhetoric by the US and the Israeli regime.

The regretful passing of an American entertainment icon -- Whitney Houston -- marks yet another sad milestone in the devastating body count of the prescription drug industry. TMZ is now reporting that Whitney Houston was found not with illegal drugs, but prescription drugs that may have killed h ...

Researchers have discovered that Obama’s autobiographical books are little more than PR stunts, as they have little to do with the actual events of his life. The fact is we know less about President Obama than perhaps any other president in American history and much of this is due to actual effo ...

In an effort to help eradicate dengue fever and the mosquitos that spread it, the Florida Keys Mosquito Control District (FKMCD) is seeking federal and state approval to release hundreds of thousands of genetically-modified (GM) mosquitos designed to kill off the natural Aedes aegypti variety of ...

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, no it’s an unmanned drone. Now over the US too. Earlier this week the US Congress passed a bill that would send aviation in America to the next generation. Therefore making unmanned drone sightings more prevalent in the US.

“Despair has enveloped Greece. This weekend the bankrupt nation, for that is what it is, began negotiating the latest act of a drama that many fear will end in catastrophe — financially, socially and politically.” These are the opening words of an article for the Observer by He ...

Those of us who have been deeply troubled by the Tory-led government’s Health and Social Care Bill, since it first came under intense scrutiny a year ago, have sought nothing less than for the entire project to be scrapped. A thorough “top-down reorganisation,” despite a promis ...

During my ten-day US tour last month to mark the 10th anniversary of the opening of the “war on terror” prison at Guantánamo, all the events I took part in, and the TV and radio interviews I undertook, were worthwhile, enjoyable, and an opportunity to provide important information an ...

Last week, I wrote about the plight of Abdul Aziz Naji, an Algerian, held in Guantánamo for eight years, who had been cleared for release from Guantánamo by the US authorities, but was repatriated against his will in July 2010. Three weeks ago, Naji, who is also an amputee, and in ill health, wa ...

February 14 marks the 10th anniversary of the arrival at Guantánamo of Shaker Aamer, who is now the last British resident in the prison, but was once one of 15 British citizens and residents held at Guantánamo. Shaker’s story is one that I have told and retold over the years, including in ...

The shale boom centered in North Dakota lifts U.S. oil production, but the unexpected resurgence won't lessen petroleum's cost.

Russian scientists have confirmed that they have breached the subglacial Lake Vostok in Antarctica—a first.

A new relative of the "corpse flower" growing in Madagscar smells like rotting meat and feces, researchers say.

Oil and wind power companies are testing a novel technology—air bubbles—to shield marine mammals from the sound of their offshore operations.

Russian scientists at Lake Vostok are "very, very close" to being the first to penetrate an Antarctic subglacial lake, news reports say.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Stormfront.org, the largest white nationalist web forum in the world with a claimed 240,000 registered members, may have been hacked earlier this week. The website, run by former Alabama Klan leader Don Black out of his West Palm Beach, Fla., home, is up again today, but its look is much simplif ...

Last week, police made a startling announcement in their investigation of a fire that killed a father and son in their rural West Virginia mobile home in January. They revealed that David Hutzler, 56, and his 9-year-old son James, known as “Mack,” were each shot in the head before the trailer bu ...

The American Conservative Union’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) was dealt a blow last year when several organizations withdrew over the inclusion of a gay conservative group, GOProud, on its roster of sponsors. Having officially banished all gays who so much as make a peep abou ...

Anti-immigrant extremists are furious over a decision by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) to exclude Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS), a nativist organization masquerading as an environmental group, from its annual meeting. In a press release this we ...

Authorities in Kenosha County, Wis., are recommending criminal charges be filed against a 21-year-old University of Wisconsin-Parkside student who confessed to what initially appeared to be hate crimes. Khalilah N. Ford of Louisville, Ky., “confessed Friday evening when presented with evidence p ...

A haunting but ultimately uplifting story out of New Mexico has been making the rounds in newspapers and TV reports across the country. A 6-year-old girl in Albuquerque was abducted as she walked home on a suburban street. The kidnapper pulled her into his van, parked near a rock hiding packing ...

In late June, a vital bill to support rape survivors landed on New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's desk. The bill, which had strong bipartisan support in both legislative houses, was to bar rape survivors from being charged for their own rape kits -- collections of forensic evidence after a sex ...

The shock and grief over a young person's tragic death can be paralyzing. Not for Kimiko Nishitsuji. Her friend's sudden death last month after being hit by a car at an intersection long known to be dangerous for pedestrians instead spurred her to action and mobilized a community. Kimiko created ...

Wow. Just weeks ago, UCLA graduate and award-winning Dreamer David Cho posted a petition on Change.org commemorating the ten-year anniversary of the federal DREAM Act and asking President Obama and the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to do everything in their power to stop deporting tal ...

Robert Segwanyi was scheduled for deportation on August 18,  from the United Kingdom's Heathrow airport. The UK was sending Robert back to Uganda, where he was tortured with molten plastic and imprisoned for being gay. Robert was spared from deportation at the very last minute according to ...

Fires raged in Athens overnight with reports that more than 40 buildings had been set ablaze in a violent response to the Greek parliament's passage of an unpopular austerity package negotiated with its European creditors - the EU, ECB, and IMF - in exchange for a tranche of new bailout fund ...

Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) has said today that the temperature inside the No. 2 reactor in the Fukushima nuclear power plant had risen to 82C, a high since the reactor had attained a cold shutdown in December, raising concerns that the plant is no longer stable. Kyodo news reports: ...

As the Greek parliament debates the final austerity deal required by its creditors, thousands of riot police have been unleashed on protesters demanding an end to the harsh cuts pushing the country toward turmoil. The scenes both outside and inside the parliament building have turned fiery, with ...

Thousands of protesters have gathered across Europe to protest the controversial treaty known as ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. Thousands braved cold temperatures in rallies across European cities. Reuters reports: read more

Thousands of people are demonstrating today in Japan against nuclear power. The Associated Press reports that people are worried about the restarting of reactors that had stopped since the Fukushima disaster. Agence France-Presse reports on the protesters: ...

One of the nice built-in features on Mac's is the quick application switcher (Command+Tab), but by default, Finder is always included on the list. It ends up making switching between apps a little more cumbersome, but blogger Josh Dzielak foun ...

Have you ever gone to put on a collared shirt only to find the collar has lost its form and sags awkwardly around your neck? Reddit user PTKIRL noticed that by storing his shirts with only the top button clasped, the collar stays crisp, no iro ...

iOS: Crosswalk is part social network, part app discovery service. iPhone owners can join crosswalk to share the list of apps they have installed on their phones, get suggestions from the community for other apps they'd enjoy, and find out wh ...

Poaching an egg isn't terribly difficult on its own, but if you have trouble keeping your eggs in a neat little pouch when you crack them into your water, the secret may be twofold: first, make sure to swirl the water a bit before you crack t ...

Android: Last week, we discussed Circuit Playground for iOS, a comprehensive electronics reference manual. Android users can get in on the action with ElectroDroid, a collection of electronic reference information and tools available now in t ...

Who gets the water? The League of Women Voters will host a forum on a state study that could result in legislation stripping Asheville of its water system.

University of Alberta president Indira Samarasekera is facing heat for the decision to give an honorary degree to the CEO of controversial global food giant Nestle Corporation, the world's largest producer of bottled water and promoter of water privatization.

University of Alberta president Indira Samarasekera is facing heat for the decision to give an honorary degree to the CEO of controversial global food giant Nestle Corporation, the world's largest producer of bottled water and promoter of water privatization.

More water week programming and online features include The Agenda with Steve Paikin, the Canadian premiere of White Water, Black Gold documentary, and Allan Gregg in Conversation online Water Week mini ...

By Bill Cotterell Florida Capital Bureau -- Senate President Mike Haridopolos said Tuesday a hotly debated plan to privatize prisons in 18 South Florida counties would die in a tie vote, if he allowed a showdown on it now.

• EU condemns violence that struck Athens • Athens starts to clean up • Cabinet reshuffle expected soon • Greek elections to be held in April • Germany: parliamentary vote is just a step forward2.25pm: Should Greece default and return to the drachma?....Christopher Meyer, Britain's former ambass ...

• Damascus dismisses call for joint UN-Arab peacekeepers • Tanks bombard Homs overnight, say activists • UN General Assembly to meet to discuss ongoing crisis • Al-Qaida's Zawahiri calls on Muslims to topple Assad2.33pm: Britain will not provide troops for a peacekeeping mission in Syria foreign ...

Despite calls from his departure, Andrew Lansley vows to continue on with his reforms as they enter the House of Lords2.30pm: My colleague Juliette Jowit, who's joined our parliamentary team, emails with Lib Dem dissent. Liberal Democrat MP Andrew George, has repeated his call for the health bil ...

Meeting announced after talks between Salmond and Scottish secretary Michael Moore achieved 'modest progress'The prime minister, David Cameron, will travel to Scotland on Thursday for talks with Alex Salmond on the independence referendum.The date for the anticipated meeting was announced after ...

Defence Police Federation says government plans are costly, messy and could create a conflict of interestA government proposal to merge the UK's two nuclear police forces would be costly, messy and could create a conflict of interest between protecting British weapons and foreign-owned power sta ...

But for one life-saving difference, 8-year-old Matthew Reimer's after-school routine is similar to that of many boys his age. But in the middle of his routine, the third-grader will drink…Click to Continue »

In a macabre series of discoveries, authorities unearthed 300 human bone fragments Sunday in an abandoned well near Linden, marking the fourth consecutive day they have found possible victims of…Click to Continue »

Three weeks after abandoning his presidential campaign, Gov. Rick Perry is re-engaging as leader of the nation's second-largest state, eager to dispel the perception that his ill-fated bid for the…Click to Continue »

Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani was charged Monday with contempt of court in a case that could lead to him being disqualified from office if found guilty.Click to Continue »

CAIRO ? The Arab League voted Sunday to seek a joint U.N. peacekeeping force for Syria as regional diplomats met in Cairo to discuss their dwindling options for stopping the…Click to Continue »

At least six Taliban rebels, including a commander named Fida Mohammad, have been killed in a clash with security forces while 19 have surrendered in separate incidents in Afghanistan, officials said

KABUL (Reuters) - NATO-led forces in Afghanistan said on Monday they found the bodies of dead children after a coalition air strike that has enraged the Afghan government, and said their deaths may ...

NATO allies discuss Thursday US plans to end combat operations in Afghanistan in 2013 and shift to a training mission, as the alliance seeks to wind down a war that has dragged on for a decade. US ...

DUSHANBE, February 13 (Itar-Tass) -- A combat helicopter Mi-8, which crashed in the Afghan province of Zabol on February 11, belonged to the Air Force of Tajikistan, the press service of the Tajik ...

The Taliban's former defence minister died in a Pakistani jail in 2010, a spokesman for the insurgent group has said.Little had been heard of Obaidullah Akhund since he was arrested by ...

Last month I pondered the extent to which the Arab Spring and Occupy Everything are socially-driven acts of creative destruction. Creative destruction is defined as a “process of industrial mutation that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying ...

  The Problem It does not take a genius to realise that the world of video game reviewing is completely and utterly fucked. Their reputations sullied by an endless cavalcade of scandal and stupidity, video game reviewers routinely find themselves in the impossible position of having to bala ...

Most of my columns this year have been about change, from climate change to twitter. Well, this is a start-of-the-year post, and it seems appropriate to take on change in a big way as the year changes. We’re in an unstable moment. Climate change is here and it’s affecting us all. The economy is ...

My life is fairly crammed, and writing time is hard to come by. Today I got one of those precious blocks of time in which I could write for several hours almost without interruption, yet as I fired up the computer, I felt not excited about the prospect, but worried and on edge.  I also [...]Foll ...

Not over coffee and cakes, sadly, but you take what you can get in this crazy world, AMIRITEZ? So when I got the chance to email Eric Drexler – yup, the nanotech guy – with some follow-up questions responding to his inaugural lecture at Oxford Martin College last month, I jumped in w ...

Chalk up another top news story to the whistleblowers. Today, federal and state officials announced a $25 billion landmark settlement with the America's five largest mortgage servicers, an agreement that would not be possible without contributions from employees who first exposed the banks' wro ...

Tune in today at 1:00pm EDT to Honesty Without Fear on Progressive Radio Network. In the first half hour, Richard Renner and Lindsey Williams discuss the updates in the FDA whistleblower illegal surveillance case, including Senator Grassley’s biting letter to FDA Commissioner Hamburg dema ...

Amid this week’s media frenzy, Senator Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) has sent a scornful letter to FDA Commissioner Hamburg about the FDA’s targeted whistleblower surveillance program. If you missed the original story about the FDA’s illegal spy operation, you can catch up by r ...

TAKE ACTION! FDA Spy Program Documents Linked Here As reported in today's Washington Post, six current and former employees of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have filed a complaint against the FDA in U.S. District Court. The employees are seeking an injunction to stop the ag ...

This week, the U.S Office of Special Counsel (OSC) presented their report regarding the allegations made by four whistleblowers about retaliation at U.S Port Mortuary in Dover, Delaware's Air Force Base. The report reviewed events that occurred over a 17 months period in 2009 and 2010. It conclu ...

If our eyes could see radio waves, the nearby galaxy Centaurus A (Cen A) would be one of the biggest and brightest objects in the sky, nearly 20 times the apparent size of a full moon. What we can't see when looking at the galaxy in visible light is that it lies nestled between a pair of giant r ...

The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additional evidence of the ...

Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.

A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20 ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- Fossils may provide tantalizing clues to human history but they also lack some vital information, such as revealing which pieces of human DNA have been favored by evolution because they confer beneficial traits - resistance to infection or the ability to digest milk, for exampl ...

We've discussed, for years, how copyright maximalists have continually played with and twisted the language to make infringement sound much, much worse. For years, of course, they liked to just call it "piracy," though in the last few years, they've sometimes shied away from that word, complain ...

We wrote about the mass protests against ACTA over the weekend, but the open question is whether or not they did any good. At the very least, it appears to be waking up more politicians to the problems with ACTA. European Parliament president Martin Schulz has finally made a statement on the m ...

Despite freezing temperatures in parts of Europe, it appears that tons and tons of people turned up in person at the various anti-ACTA protests held all across Europe. The amount of people definitely exceeded most expectations. Some of the protests were especially impressive, such as those hel ...

Sometimes we have comments that win the funniest or most insightful race by wide margins, but usually there are a few clustered at the top. This week, the most insightful comment was so far above the rest of the pack that it may be the largest "lead" I've seen. And, the number two comment als ...

It's been a heck of a busy month or two for copyright. We've had SOPA and PIPA. We've had the organization of a grassroots campaign against them. We had a significant number of serious heavyweights of the Internet join in. And now we have nations around Europe bailing on ACTA over protests o ...

Mainstream media, supported by large pharmaceutical companies, label Dr. Andrew Wakefield a villain. Evidence shows the true story...

Formaldehyde in vaccines is injected into your child. Before you consider another vaccine for your child, consider this important information...

Big Pharma has stealth-like protection and freedom from legal and financial liabilities from harming anyone with vaccines, all while they keep making more vaccines with more mandates for their use.

The pharmaceutical industries are treating our children as little more than test tubes. They are adding as many potentially lethal chemicals, toxins and poisons as they can to see which ones cause the test tubes to explode.

Apparently PFCs are making vaccines ineffective... and another child dies from a hypersensitivity reaction to a vaccine. That and more with the top 5 stories for January.

Sorry I’ve been missing in action for a bit. Lots going on. I’ll fill you in soon. But if you are in the DC area, come out to Tivoli Square tomorrow for an anti-prison protest. I’ll be there. More info here

Loving the sign in that pic (courtesy of Watch DC). We definitely need those in DC. Have you seen the new Axe ad campaign featuring anarchists? Salon wrote about it here. Apparently, customers can go online and influence the story. I think we should hijack it. At least my landlord hasn’t r ...

Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote a post about Ron Paul the other day. He featured a clip of Paul talking about the civil war. In the clip, Tim Russert asks Paul about his statement that “Abe Lincoln should never have gone to war. There were better ways; there were better ways of getting rid of slave ...

I’m hearing various rumors that occupiers are planning to descend on the capital for national actions. I don’t want to belabor the points I made in my previous post about activism in DC, but I just have to plead with you. Please don’t come. For the first time since I have been ...

Just after I turned sixteen, I met this guy who would end up being my boyfriend for about a year. He was twenty-two. He didn’t think I was that young at first. I never lied to him, mind you. He just didn’t ask me the night we met. I regularly passed for older in clubs, buying cigaret ...

EIR News Service press release.

EIR News Service press release.

EIR News Service press release.

Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, February 3, 2012, Vol. 39, No. 5

Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, February 3, 2012, Vol. 39, No. 5

Have we reached a quite predictable moment where counter-terrorism needs redefining? In other words, that when car bombings initiated by one state-sponsor of terrorism provoke a counter-attack of the same kind, that we should call such an attack an act of counter-terrorism? Only last week there ...

Al Ayyam reports: Pro-Assad rallies. The epitome of a civilized rally. The balloons, the flags, the dancing everyone happy and singing their praises to a supreme leader, denouncing violence and sectarianism. It’s a utopia of free speech and unwavering support. It is the example the Assad regime ...

Sharmine Narwani shares an email she received from a former US diplomat with service experience in Syria who has asked to remain unnamed. The email appears to have been written a week ago. I have serious problems with all the talk about military intervention in Syria. Everyone, especially the me ...

The Guardian reports: On the roof of the world, Chinese paramilitaries are trying to snuff out Tibetan resistance to Beijing’s rule with spiked batons, semi-automatic weapons and fire extinguishers. Every 20 metres along the main road of Aba, the remote town on the Tibetan plateau in that ...

Katherine Stewart writes about the latest chapter in the campaign to keep Americans stupid — which is to say, efforts to guard fragile minds from the truth about evolution — and notes that there are “six bills aimed at undermining the teaching of evolution before state legislat ...

Guest post by Matti Vooro I fully support the findings of  Jan –Erik Soldheim , Kjell Stordahl and Ole Humlum and their very recent paper called The long sunspot cycle 23 predicts a significant temperature decrease in cycle 24  dated … Continue reading →

Quote of the Week: “…it is an established rule of the Society, to which they will always adhere, never to give their opinion as a Body upon any subject either of Nature or Art, that comes before them. The ‘advertisement’ … Continue reading →

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach It has been known for some time that the “Pacific Warm Pool”, the area just northeast of Australia, has a maximum temperature. It never gets much warmer than around 30 – 31°C. This has been … Continue reading →

I suppose if  I truly want to take the weekend off, I’ll have to ditch my smartphone. These photos from the Facebook page of the Panhandle Helicopter Service in Panama City Beach, Florida, have been making the rounds today, erroneously … Continue reading →

I’m taking a blog holiday this weekend. Right now I’m watching the History channel 2 (H2) while some off the rails eco-scientist explains to us why we are all going to die because of “what might happen if a gigantic … Continue reading →

“It’s sad for us; it’s the loss of another animal. It’s a death I still chalk up to poaching," said a team-member involved in the botched procedure.

"We struggle with the park service mission," said one Park official. "We know people like to see the monkeys, but we know they don't belong here."

Next up in our exclusive coverage of New York Fashion Week: A partnership with Aveda means artfully chaotic (and organic) hairstyles at fashion label Tibi's fall/winter 2012 runway show.

Inspired by both the beauty of the American West and the wares on sale in a tiny Parisian shop, Clôdie Francois turns discarded cardboard into colorful, playful pieces that look straight out of 'Alice in Wonderland.'

Name calling in the face of real danger holds little appeal for most voters.

RNA molecules have long been known for their role in translating genes to proteins inside a cell, but more recently, scientists have found large numbers of RNA molecules that don’t code for proteins but seem to have other cellular roles. Most research in mammals has focused on tiny RNA mol ...

An experimental pill to prevent blood clots exceeded already high expectations as a better therapy for millions of people with atrial fibrillation, according to final results of a worldwide study released Sunday. The study was featured at the European Society of Cardiology in Paris and simultane ...

A diet that incorporates cholesterol-lowering foods like soy, nuts, and plant sterols may work better at lowering cholesterol levels than a traditional low-fat diet. A new study shows that people with high cholesterol who followed the portfolio diet, which includes a combination of cholesterol-l ...

Researchers in Canada have shown that a special cholesterol-lowering diet works well – even with only two nutritional counseling sessions over six months. Making dietary changes like eating oat bran for breakfast, drinking soy milk instead of dairy, soy burgers in place of hamburgers, and fruit ...

Nine years after getting gene therapy for a rare, inherited immune system disorder often called “bubble boy disease,” 14 out of 16 children are doing well, researchers report. The children were born with severe combined immunodeficiency disease (SCID). They got an experimental gene t ...

Are we really losing one football field every minute?

Worst-case scenairos do not paint accurate picture of climate

Computers still not reliable in predicting climate

Controversy is latest in biotech battle

Evidence suggests China not cutting greenhouse emissions

Russia’s Natural Resource Minister Yury Trutnev on Friday handed Prime Minister Vladimir Putin a water sample from the pristine icebound Lake Vostok that had been hidden in the Antarctic for millions of years.

Russia is set to build the world’s most powerful dual-purpose laser station at the approximate cost of 45 billion rubles ($1.5 billion), a Russian nuclear official said on Thursday.

Two women from Russia’s Orenburg Region have sued the local maternity hospital where they were born in 1975 for allegedly swapping them at birth, a regional court said.

Russian scientists are planning to use robotic probes to reach water layers at the bottom of an ancient sub-glacial lake in Antarctica in 2013-2014, Russian astrobiologist Sergei Bulat said.

Russia may spend 346.5 billion rubles (almost $12 bln) on its Glonass satellite navigation system in 2012-2020, the Kommersant daily said on Wednesday.

This was published with considerable feedback from several bloggers at Corrente: DCblogger, affinis, lambert and okanogen. My sincere thanks to all of them for their help.The issue of violence at Occupy flared up last week when Chris Hedges used violent rhetoric to make the case for nonviolence ...

Economics is a closed system; internally it is perfectly logical, operating according to a consistent set of principles. Unfortunately, the same could be said of psychosis. What’s more, once having entered the closed system of the economist, you, like the psychotic, may have a hard time ge ...

No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims. This report (very graphic) on the effects of depleted uranium (DU) is absolutely horrifying. Reports on the effects of DU from other sou ...

Today is Blogroll Amnesty Day (BAD), the day where bloggers promote their lesser trafficked bretheren (and sisteren(?)). Here are my 2012 selections: Hannah’s Blog Under The LobsterScope The Adventures of Fat Cat and Everyman! The Confluence FALKLANDS Elle Varner - Conversational LushI&#8 ...

No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Combat operations have concluded for:Army 1st Lt. David A. Johnson, 24, of Horicon, WI.Marine Cpl. Christopher G. Singer, 23, of Temecula, ...

Darnell lives deep in the basement of a life sciences building at the University of California-Berkeley, in a plastic tub on a row of stainless steel shelves. He is an African clawed frog, Xenopus laevis, sometimes called the lab rat of amphibians. Like most of his species, he's hardy and long-l ...

Documents obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy, recently unsealed as part of a major lawsuit against Syngenta, reveal how the global chemical company's PR team investigated the press and spent millions to spin news coverage and public perceptions in the face of growing concerns about p ...

If we could see the world with a particularly illuminating set of spectacles, one of its most prominent features at the moment would be a giant carbon bubble, whose bursting someday will make the housing bubble of 2007 look like a lark. As yet - as we shall see - it's unfortunately largely invis ...

Prof. Chris Viljoen from the GMO Testing Laboratory at the University of the Free State in South Africa recently wrote a piece in BusinessDay countering false claims that mandatory labeling requirements for genetically-modified (GM) foods increase food costs. According to his analysis, mandatory ...

This has been a long time coming, but today the Coalition for Immokalee Workers, which has been working for the rights of farm workers, announced that Trader Joe's has agreed to take part in CIW's Fair Food Program to support the rights of Florida's tomato growers.Click here to read this article

Biofuels, particularly corn-based ethanol, offered the promise of large financial returns to both the farmer and to the rural community. How have the small-scale farmers fared against the land barons?

If someone is hungry, we must feed them before they can be receptive to spiritual food.

Ongoing research is advancing the efficiency of the use of cellulosic biomass for liquid fuels. It is doubtful if we willsee breakthroughs anytime soon though, as these types of innovations often come slowly.

The pesticides were euphemistically spoken of as “plant medicine.” Ms. López jokingly summed that her diminutive figure is a testimony that too little energy was left over for physical growth.

The ban, if enacted, would help to curb the ongoing problem of arsenical drug use by the poultry industry, and associated public health risks to poultry consumers.

Breaking News: NZ airport in health lockdown after flight from Japan. Breaking News: NZ airport in health lockdown after flight from Japan

Feminists plan pigtail protest over Prosser book. Feminists plan pigtail protest over Prosser book

Investigate magazine breaks Church vs State exclusive. Investigate magazine breaks Church vs State exclusive

BREAKING NEWS: Police dig up house in search of cold case bodies. BREAKING NEWS: Police dig up house in search of cold case bodies

St John’s Ambulance promotes award for alleged child sex offender. St John’s Ambulance promotes award for alleged child sex offender

American Airlines itself is the source for information that AA Flights 11 (North Tower) and 77 (Pentagon) did not fly on 911. ( Len Hart posts at OpEd News, guest blogs at Bluebloggin,: his own Existentialist Cowboy is filled with scholarly research ) Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics &am ...

Consequences of a dead economy when the government is wasting trillions of dollars in wars of naked aggression and in bailouts of fraudulent financial institutions is a government budget that can only be financed by printing money. Emperor has no cloths. Submitted by Michael Dewey to World &nbs ...

five-panel Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal decided that Bush and Blair committed genocide and crimes against humanity by leading the invasion of Iraq in 2003 Submitted by John Farnham to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Take a tour of Libya with me and see how things were before US/NATO intervention and tell me if they lived in the Dark Ages. Videos of how Libya was before the invasion Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Employees of the Food and Drug Administration have filed a complaint against the FDA in U.S. District Court. The employees are seeking an injunction to stop the agency from illegally spying on employees' private communications to Congress & other oversig Submitted by Barbara W. to US Politics &a ...

Revealed: Survival International alerted Andaman authorities to human safaris two years ago: The Andaman authorities were alerted to the existence of human safaris two years ago by Survival... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Afghans Condemn US Over Urination Video -- News from Antiwar.com: From Afghan President Hamid Karzai to tribal elders in the far southern Helmand Province, reaction is coming out from the leaked... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Spooks off the hook but torture fight continues / Britain / Home - Morning Star: Top government figures are still not off the hook for Britain's complicity in torture despite the Crown Prosecution... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Mujeres mapuche agredidas por Carabineros, presentan querella criminal Guillermina Painevilo with his daughter Susana Guzman, accompanied by members of their community, with the sponsorship of... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Kosovo Albanian protestors dispersed on Serbian border | Demotix.com: Police cordons blocked the road outside the northern town of Podujevo, some six kilometers (four miles) from the border with... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

It started out just like any other day. Birds singing, horses whinnying, children dancing, you get the picture. A nice day... until it happened.

Embarrassed Diebold officials apologized after one of their electronic voting machines prematurely revealed the winner of our upcoming sham election. Satire.

Due to a computer virus – System Check – I will be offline for the most part trying to repair my computer. This is a particularly nasty virus that takes out all anti-virus protection as well as malware and spyware protection. It also hides your files. Here is a bit about it: System C ...

Dave Hodges of the Common Sense Radio Show will join us to give an update on the Gulf Coast disaster, and fill us in on the massive corruption of UN Agenda 21's ICLEI local branches.

Fluoride “enhances the bio-availability of aluminum,” allowing it to cross the blood-brain barrier easier, thus making it more toxic.

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ShareThisJapan OKs fresh support for Fukushima nuclear plant operator Tepco 13 Feb 2012 Japan's trade minister approved nearly $9 billion in additional support for Tokyo Electric Power Co to help compensate victims of the Fukushima nuclear crisis on Monday, but said the government would not go a ...

ShareThisAir NZ flu flight scare 'an overreaction' --The Ministry of Health and Auckland Regional Public Health Service have refused to release information on the incident. 13 Feb 2012 Passengers are downplaying a health scare that sparked a major response from officials at Auckland Internationa ...

ShareThisMission accomplished! Now, on to Iran and Syria so US corpora-terrorists can continue to make a killing on the killing: Iraq begins pumping oil to new Gulf terminal 12 Feb 2012 Iraq began pumping oil on Sunday to the first of five floating terminals in the Gulf in a move that will incre ...

ShareThisGunmen assassinate provincial judge in Nangarhar 12 Feb 2012 According to local authorities in eastern Afghanistan, an Afghan judge was killed along with his niece in eastern Nangarhar province. Khogyani district chief Haji Mohammad Hassan said the incident took place on Saturday evenin ...

ShareThisKarachi rally condemns US policies 12 Feb 2012 Thousands have staged a demonstration in Pakistan's most populous city of Karachi to condemn the US policies and its non-UN-sanctioned assassination drone strikes in Pakistan's northwestern tribal belt. Sunday's rally was arranged by Defens ...

I like to read — a lot. I could make lists counting the hundreds of books that make great reads. Unfortunately, we don’t have the time and you may not have the attention span for that. To keep it short and sweet, here’s a list of five books that I feel add depth and meaning [...]

Victory Brewing Company opened up fifteen years ago in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, but only recently entered the Florida market.  With such beers as their highly touted Prima Pils and Storm King Stout, Victory has earned a rightful place among the respected craft brewers in the United States.  St ...

Tampa Bay took the series victory against the Chicago with the win, getting back to .500 and improving to 2 games back in the American League East division. Rays look for sweep tomorrow.

The Florida Dance Festival provides a springboard for raw talent and fresh ideas.

April is National Grilled Cheese Month: an entire four weeks devoted to the American classic. The following sandwich recipe is from cheese expert and author Laura Werlin’s book, Great Grilled Cheese.

We are currently entering the next phase in the Globalist plan to erode the bedrock of natural immunity amongst the general population, a race to gain complete control over our inherent right to self-determination of the body. Based on all my research thus [...]

The road-map leading to most neurological & neuro-developmental disorders traces back to the earliest vaccines administered to babies (HEP B, DTaP, PCV, RV, HIB, IPV, MMR). Timing is the key – a premature breach of the delicate, under-developed “electrical grid network” designed to prot ...

The Flu Vaccine deception ranks as one of the great cover-ups & swindles of the last century perpetrated against the general population. Not only has the public been systematically lied to by their elected Government for generations (in league with the World Health Organization & a Vacc ...

Article continued  from VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5A – Detoxification & Restoration of The Body Replenishing the vital mineral base We must look to children with Autism to determine the full extent of “vaccine toxicity” derived nutrient deficiencies incurred in th ...

Article intended to be read in conjunction with VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 4 – Primary Aspects of Vaccine Toxicity Affecting The Body The Long Road To Recovery There are unfortunately no shortcuts to restoring natural, optimal health levels in the body, no quick fix sol ...

A few weeks back we received our new high-efficiency front loading LG washer and dryer set and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed by them. The set was only around $1000 (on sale) but I felt like I'd gone from a Chevette to a Cadillac when compared to our old set.  A cute little luxur ...

Today a fellow from our natural gas company came by to install a new thermostat as part of the Peaksaver program that we signed up for. If you haven't heard of Peaksaver, basically what it does is allow the Ontario government electricity provider to turn off your central air conditi ...

After being shocked a few months ago with a water bill of over $240 I decided to do a few things to cut down on our water use We converted our main toilet to a dual-flush and installed a water saving device on the second (haven't switched it over to a dual yet). We also installed a new ...

Our family went strawberry picking this morning, it's a fun thing to do once in a while and I think it's a good way to help our 3-year old daughter realize where food comes from. While my wife picked berries with our oldest I went for a walk around the farm with our youngest in the stroller ...

I received a flyer from Pioneer Solar in the mail the other day which claims to help people get a solar system installed on their house, farm, or business for free. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, like most things there's good and bad points about it and what might be a good deal fo ...

11 February 2012 Going unarmed into combat is a bad idea.  Going unarmed while wearing a Red Cross to alert the enemy that you are defenseless is dumb.  A commander who forces his troops to do this without good cause is at best incompetent. US Army commanders do this every day in Afg ...

US Military Forges Ahead with Deadly Deceptions Dhaka, Bangladesh 05 February 2012 The US military is toying with American lawmakers. Based on two key documents submitted to individual Members of Congress and the House Armed Services Committee, by both the Joint Chiefs of Staff and US Army, ...

03 February 2012 Nobody crucifies common sense like the US Army.  During my morning search for anything MEDEVAC related, several new stories emerged, including one with these illustrative quotes from a Soldier returning from Iraq: “You have to land where you never had to land before,&nbsp ...

02 February 2012 An Army officer writes: The Army is not resisting Dustoff policy change because our leadership honestly believes the current policy is superior, but rather because of AMEDD's [Army Medical Department] protectionist attitude toward "their" Dustoff MEDEVAC helicopters. I'm an ac ...

The key moment in many revolutions comes when police and militaries refuse to fire on crowds. But what is difficult to explain about those moments is their infrequency. Soldiers and police come from the same society as the crowds. Why do they kill them? Why are elites and authorities able to res ...

[This article, by Shourideh Molavi and myself, was first published in The Bullet - version with links is there]. The regressive politics of the Iranian-Canadian Khevari petition Shourideh Molavi and Justin Podur November 11, 2011 On October 12, members of the Iranian-Canadian community sent a pe ...

Activist and comedian Jesse Owens interviewed me for the #occupyto.org website, way back in ancient occupy toronto history (ie., October 26). For posterity, I am also reproducing it here. Thanks Jesse... --- read more

I have some disagreements with Joel Olson's article, "Whiteness and the 99%", but I will start with some agreements. I agree that "biologically speaking, there's no such thing as race." read more

The Occupy Wall St. Movement and the Occupy Together movements that are inspired by it actually have a simple premise: society shouldn't be run for the unrestricted benefit of the wealthiest. The immediate grievance is the 2008 banking crisis, in which the US banks engaged in fraudulent and crim ...

“It’s sad for us; it’s the loss of another animal. It’s a death I still chalk up to poaching," said a team-member involved in the botched procedure.

"We struggle with the park service mission," said one Park official. "We know people like to see the monkeys, but we know they don't belong here."

Next up in our exclusive coverage of New York Fashion Week: A partnership with Aveda means artfully chaotic (and organic) hairstyles at fashion label Tibi's fall/winter 2012 runway show.

Inspired by both the beauty of the American West and the wares on sale in a tiny Parisian shop, Clôdie Francois turns discarded cardboard into colorful, playful pieces that look straight out of 'Alice in Wonderland.'

Name calling in the face of real danger holds little appeal for most voters.

Pitsuwan says investment boom could create greater inequality given lack of social and environmental laws governing business

All Burma Students’ Democratic Front says further ceasefire talks will be held in Rangoon after meeting takes place in Thailand

Officials acting on orders of head monk in Burma agree to reopen revered monastery that sheltered hundreds in the September 2007 uprising

Restrictions on the media are being loosened in tandem with a growing confidence within Burma's government. In the near future we can expect something approaching freedom of the press

President says participation of Burma's myriad ethnic groups in political process is 'sorely needed' to bring end to multiple conflicts

As the world's biggest windfarm opens off Cumbria, Christopher Middleton investigates the turbine boom.

How to be green and stay sane - why we must build to better standards.

Roger Scruton's new polemic sets out to reclaim the environmental agenda for the Right. Louise Gray is convinced.

Climate Change may have helped boost survival chances of endangered albatrosses, scientists believe.

Councils and other social landlords are being 'greenwashed' into spending large sums of money on technology to cut energy bills despite having little understanding of how it works, a study has found.

The shale boom centered in North Dakota lifts U.S. oil production, but the unexpected resurgence won't lessen petroleum's cost.

Russian scientists have confirmed that they have breached the subglacial Lake Vostok in Antarctica—a first.

A new relative of the "corpse flower" growing in Madagscar smells like rotting meat and feces, researchers say.

Oil and wind power companies are testing a novel technology—air bubbles—to shield marine mammals from the sound of their offshore operations.

Russian scientists at Lake Vostok are "very, very close" to being the first to penetrate an Antarctic subglacial lake, news reports say.

[JURIST] The Supreme Court of Pakistan [official website] charged Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] with contempt of court Monday for disobeying a court order to open corruption cases against President Asif Ali Zardari [official website]. Gilani appea ...

[JURIST] The UK High Court of Justice ruled Friday that the Bideford Town Council does not have authority to conduct prayers at the beginning of its official meetings. The judgment [opinion, PDF] followed a Judicial Review initiated by the National Secular Society (NSS) [advocacy website; press ...

[JURIST] Malaysian officials confirmed Sunday that a Saudi reporter facing a possible death penalty charge in his country was handed over to Saudi officials for deportation. Malaysia national spokesman Ramli Yoosuf announced that Hamza Kashgari, 23, was flown back to Saudi Arabia [AP report] und ...

[JURIST] Utah's Fourth Judicial District Court [official website] Wednesday granted a death row inmate's request to be put to death by firing squad. Michael Archuleta, 49, was convicted in 1989 of first-degree murder for the beating death of a college student, and is now set to be executed by fi ...

[JURIST] The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) [official website; press release] voted Thursday to issue the first US license for a new nuclear power plant in over 30 years. In a 4-1 vote the NRC approved an application by Southern Company [corporate website] for an issuance of two Combined Co ...

Although it was a signature issue for Sen. Obama during his campaign, President Obama won't get much political capital for following through on his promise. The leitmotif of Sen. Barack Obama's early presidential campaign was the inherent wrongness of the war in Iraq and how it represente ...

The drone that Iran claims to have shot down was a stealth RQ-170 "Sentinel" The RQ-170 "Sentinel," a stealth unmanned U.S. drone / Wikimedia Commons The super-secret drone that Iran claims to have recovered was on a CIA "Focal Point" mission, gathering intelligence and likely crash ...

A NATO attack kills 24 Pakistani soldiers and Pakistan responds by closing U.S. supply routes into Afghanistan. Is the relationship between Washington and Islamabad about to disintegrate? The relationship between Pakistan and the United States is, for both sides, like a raw nerve that keeps g ...

Judging by his latest barrage of criticism, the former Massachusetts governor is already running against the president -- sort of First there was the television advertisement in New Hampshire, which received widespread condemnation from the media elite for taking President Obama's wor ...

With his "humane" argument, the former House speaker has put the president's chief rival, Mitt Romney, in a difficult spot MORE FROM NATIONAL JOURNAL: The Return of Imperial Newt Did Gingrich Walk Into an Immigration Minefield? Presidential Debate Timeline Duri ...

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It is a truth universally acknowledged that the west’s oil embargo against Iran will bring that country to its knees.  Among other related truths: Iran’s economy derives much of its revenue from oil sales; oil sanctions will cripple Iran; all Iran’s previous customers will aban ...

Im Tirzu’s Ronen Shoval is one of the most litigous far-right activists in Israel.  He’ll sue anyone for anything.  He’s threatened Hebrew Wikipedia if they called the group “right-wing,” to which the editors unfortunately caved (here’s the Hebrew Wikipedia ar ...

Let it not be said that the IDF doesn’t learn from its mistakes and draw the proper conclusions.* The new deputy commander of Israel’s “depth command,” designed to take the battle to the enemy far from Israeli territory, is Brig. Gen. Gal Hirsch (Hebrew). In 2006, he comm ...

Will someone tell Pam Geller, Robert Spencer, David Yerushalmi, and Gates of Vienna they might as well close up shop.  A new study reported by the NY Times‘ Scott Shane confirms what most of us knew all along.  The alleged phenomenon of Muslim-American terror is largely concocted from thei ...

MSNBC finally confirms possibly one of the worst kept secrets of the war between Israel and Iran: that the Mossad has recruited, trained, equipped and directed a domestic terror campaign against Iran’s nuclear program using the personnel of the Mujahadeen al-Khalq (MEK): Two senior U.S. of ...

In your recent column in the New York Times, "Ten for the Next Ten," you wrote: "I'll place my hopes on the possibility -- however remote at the moment -- that...people in places filled with rage and despair, places like the Palestinian territories, will in the days ahead find among them their G ...

Eric Rozenman's Dec. 11 Op-Ed article, "Israeli settlements are more than legitimate," is legal nonsense that disregards history. He is correct in his observation that Article 6 of the Mandate for Palestine permitted "close settlement by Jews on the land, including state lands and waste lands no ...

Noam Chomsky has been called the US leading intellectual by pundits and even some sectors of the mass media. He has a large audience throughout the world especially in academic circles, in large part because of his vocal criticism of US foreign policy and many of the injustices resulting from t ...

Ethan Bronner is the New York Times Jerusalem bureau chief. As such, he is the editor responsible for all the news coming out of Israel-Palestine. It is his job to decide what gets reported and what doesn't; what goes in a story and what gets cut.

Stuart Littlewood highlights the BBC's chronic pro-Israel bias, from allowing untruths about Israel's onslaught on Gaza in 2008-09 to go unchallenged, to its failure to provide accurate context about the Israeli township of Sderot, to its routine willingness to give disproportionate airtime to I ...

http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/the-eye-on-citrus-show/ Our latest radio show is up, talking about the GOP Forum held in Crystal River this past Saturday, Jan 14, 2010. The two non-fiction books relating the dark and illegal deeds of t ...

http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/01/07/jesse-ventura-63-documents-the-government-does-not-want-you-to-read/ EyeOnCitrus.com is proud to announce that Jesse Ventura, newest book, 63 Documents The Government Doesn’t Want you to read, is availab ...

As a Thanksgiving deadline nears for action by the powerful congressional committee on deficit reduction, Bernie sounded an alarm over reports that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid may be cut. "The American people have been very clear. They understand how important Social Security, Med ...

This is an (CLICK HERE FOR THE SHOW) encore presentation of a show that aired in 2005. It’s revealing because it discusses the secret facility in Alaska that manipulates the ionosphere with possible devastating results. Listen to scientists working on it then and their reluctance to speak about ...

Government-supported effort to ‘encourage critical thinking’ actually encourages obedient regurgitation of lies Paul Joseph Watson Rest of Story on Prison Planet.com Tuesday, September 6, 2011 “We don’t need no education….we don’t need no thought control.” In a week where the establishment is de ...

The Unsuitablog contains a huge range of posts from simple criticism to investigation to downright in-your-face sabotage. It also has heaps of advice on how to recognise and expose greenwash and the entire series of Monthly Undermining Tasks which helped the book Underminers become a reality. To ...

Four years, and it feels like it. It would take a book to tell the story of The Unsuitablog: all the work that has gone into it; the sleepless nights wondering whether a stunt would come off or what the repercussions of an exposure would be; the arm-aching pixel manipulation in creating the hund ...

On Monday 5th December, 2011, Bill McKibben, author and figurehead-leader of 350.org wrote the following in the Daily Kos: You think OWS is radical? You think 350.org was radical for helping organize mass civil disobedience in DC in August against the Keystone Pipeline? We’re not radical. Radica ...

There is going to be a strike in Britain on Wednesday. The UK Government are condemning it. This is starting to appear all over Facebook: When the government decide we can have a day off for the royal wedding it doesn’t damage the economy, but when the workers decide to strike for a day it ...

It seems there is no depth to which the corporate world’s own favourite NGO, WWF, will not sink. An article in this week’s Guardian was happy to give WWF some free publicity, implying that the group actually give a stuff about the wildlife they were apparently set up to protect (or s ...

A few weeks ago, the Washington Post ran a lengthy, above-the-fold piece looking into what impact capital gains tax rates were having on wealth inequality in America. “Most of the richest Americans pay lower overall tax rates than middle-class Americans do,” the reporters noted, adding that duri ...

Over the weekend, I posted the following message on Twitter: “When a Muslim commits terror, every Muslim in the world somehow shares responsibility. When it’s a white Christian, he’s always a lone wolf.” I wasn’t commenting on the tendency of commentators to use different words to de ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg – one of the key proponents of the disastrous invasion of Iraq – has some serious misgivings about the fledgling pro-democracy movement that’s taken over the streets of Egypt. “I support democratization, but,” he cautions, “the democratization we saw in Gaza (cour ...

Change is awesome -- it's a necessary component to anything remaining vital and a required ingredient to facilitate organic growth. And so it's with real excitement that today I'm announcing changes to the Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership. Before we get to the changes, some quic ...

TileMill, the free and open-source design studio for creating beautiful web maps, is now available for download on Windows. With the latest release, the map-making tool is fully operational on the three leading operating systems: Windows, Mac, and Linux. With Windows still dominating the marketp ...

Last week, I sat in a conference room in Dorchester, Mass., with some of the great minds of public media to recommend which 10 producers and public media stations should be supported for year-long projects to transform the industry. Localore is a new $2 million national competition produced ...

When it comes to the mission of journalism, it's hard to imagine any function more fundamental than providing people with the information they need to choose their elected representatives. That's why the first major initiative of the Knight News Innovation Laboratory, announced this week, will f ...

There's a wonderful magic wand that every member of a digital newsroom wants to get their hands on. Take control and you can work wonders, untangle the world wide web of information, and even decrease your workload to fit in that extra cup of coffee. "What is this wand?" you ask, and "How can I ...

In the quiet after the storms, streets and cars had all but disappeared under piles of snow. The U.S. Postal Service suspended service for the first time in 30 years. Snow plows struggled to push the evidence off of major roads. Hundreds of thousands of Washington metropolitan residents grappled ...

Since its earliest days the “Hactivist collective” known as Anonymous has declared “we are legion.” After attacks on PayPal, Amazon, Sony, and various banks and US Government websites, as in Roman times, the power of the legion is again feared. According to some, Anon’s latest target is Israel, ...

The expected future leader of China lands in Washington on Monday for a week of high-profile meetings with top Obama administration officials and U.S. business leaders to discuss trade, human rights, and security issues.Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping, who is expected to take over leadership o ...

Kevin Miller spent a lot of time bowhunting this fall. Strapped in his tree stand, he watched flying squirrels play, napped, sat quietly as deer passed within three feet of his tree. He hasn't shot at anything yet. "I don't have to," he says, and you get the sense he's already found what he was ...

The political realities of Capitol Hill have recently gotten tossed head-over-heels. And a successful model for the future use of Internet-based “People Power” in Congress has emerged.The story begins with the average American feeling pretty disconnected from his or her government. Everyone know ...

Some backcountry skiers are triggering avalanches without regard for those who might be skiing below them.

When did human beings become slaves to their dogs, required to take them everywhere, even cross-country skiing?

If you want to run a successful oyster farm, you need to develop a taste for eating raw oysters.

A great nation needs a great postal system -- even if it doesn't quite pay for itself

The seasonal coat changes of snowshoe hares may provide wildlife biologists with clues about how wild animals evolve in response to climate change.

By Cynthia McKinney It is with great disappointment that I receive the news from foreign media publications and Libyan sources that our President now has 12,000 U.S. troops stationed in Malta and they are about to make their descent into Libya

By Franklin Lamb The signs from Libya are that this country remains volatile and that contrary to NATO claims that it put into place a new democratic Libya that the predictable next chapter is starting to unfold that may bring the end of the NTC before the coming June elections when it is sched ...

By Peter Symonds The Obama administration has reinforced the threat of American military strikes against Iran by doubling the number of US aircraft carrier groups in the region. The provocative decision heightens the danger of war in the Persian Gulf as the US moves aggressively to impose a de ...

By Toby ORyan Who, you might ask, is John C. Stennis? What are the boons and benefits for humanity accomplished by this John C. Stennis such that he came to have his name emblazoned on a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier?

By Cynthia McKinney Ken Ford, Jr. wrote an intelligence report on the Iraq War which contradicted the Administrations reason for going to war against Iraq

Sorry to have been slacking on the blog. Here’s an article I wrote and forget to post… better late than never!   Kill Team: The Bigger Picture http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/06-8

Sorry to have been slacking on the blog. Here’s an article I wrote and forget to post… better late than never!   Kill Team: The Bigger Picture http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/06-8

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 ...

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 ...

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 p ...

Last Wednesday I began my annual sojourn from the safety of Long Island to the most dangerous part of the country,  Washington DC. Many an honest person has entered the DC Beltway, only to return without their conscience, heart and/or memory of why they went there in the first place. I w ...

By Barry Rubin A reader asks: Why is Egypt keeping Americans who have been working with pro-democracy NGOs from leaving the country and threatening to put them on trial as criminals? Here’s the answer: 1. The military rulers want to show they cannot be pushed around by the Unit ...

Granted it's the PPP poll but there has to be some sort of connection, this blog endorses Rick Santorum on Thursday and Senator Santorum takes a 15% lead nationally on Saturday (for those of you who have never read this site before I am not serious), nevertheless it is big news. According ...

Arguably today's CPAC lineup was the best of the three day Conference,  all three conservative Presidential candidates addressed the CPAC Conference as did Ann Coulter telling us to vote for Romney, Laura Ingram telling us not to vote for Romney, Allen West once again demonstrating why I ca ...

In breaking news from Newsbusted Anchor Jodi Miller, word has leaked out that MSNBC's Chris Matthews is recovering from the 8-year-long coma he evidently suffered through  during the Bush Administration. Apparently he was roused from the Coma by a tingle down his leg. Other stories co ...

by Dr. Mercola Dr. Mercola.com February 11, 2012 Agent Orange, produced by both Monsanto and Dow Chemicals, was used to defoliate jungles during the Vietnam War. During that time, millions of gallons of the toxic chemical mixture were sprayed on trees and vegetation, and the aftermath left hundr ...

All that doctors can do at this point is speculate about the cause of thousands of unexplained deaths from a mystery disease. Associated Press February 11, 2012 Jesus Ignacio Flores started working when he was 16, laboring long hours on construction sites and in the fields of his country’s ...

Por Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda 11 de fevereiro de 2012 O Alto Comissariado do Paquistão na Grã-Bretanha reiterou o apoio do seu país à República Islâmica do Irã em caso de ataque do regime israelense. Wajid Shamsul Hasan, disse ao jornal britânico The Sun que “o Paquistão não tem outr ...

Por Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda 11 de fevereiro de 2012 O Corpo de Fuzileiros Navais na quinta-feira, mais uma vez intentó controlar o dano causado ​​por uma fotografia de uma equipe de franco-atiradores marinhos no Afeganistão posando na frente de um banner com o logotipo da polícia nazista ...

Agence France Presse February 11, 2012 More than 3,000 Bulgarians rallied in Sofia, kicking off a series of European protests on Saturday against a controversial anti-online piracy pact that critics say could curtail Internet freedom. Rallies were also beginning to get under way elsewhere across ...

The full extent of lobbying by Britain’s wind industry to preserve subsidies while getting thousands of new turbines built can be revealed. The intensive lobbying – both to construct wind farms and to maintain generous subsidies – comes amid growing unease over an industry adding to the bu ...

A thick fog has settled in on Green Mountain in Keyser, W.Va. “I can’t live with this. You can’t sleep.” All day, people keep pointing into the trees, telling us there’s something in the fog. “It’s just rumbling the whole mountain.” And then, just ...

Electricity generated by an Atlantic City offshore wind farm proposal would cost $11,237 per kilowatt hour, making it the most expensive offshore wind power in the world, according to a consultant’s report done for state regulators. The report by David E. Dismukes, associate director of Louisian ...

An Antrim wind project will be the tallest in the state and may power as many as 13,000 New Hampshire homes if a state committee determines it belongs on Tuttle Hill. Antrim Wind Energy LLC, part of Eolian Renewable Energy of Delaware, last week submitted its formal application to build a 30 meg ...

At 07:01 Blair County 911 alerted the Blue Knob VFD for a Wind Mill fire at the Allegheny Wind Farm in Juniata Township. Engine/Tanker 86-21, Tanker 86-22, Brush 86-71, Squad 86-41, and Special Unit 86-42 all responded on the call under the direction of Assistant Chief 86-04 (Walters). The burni ...

Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note- ...

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“President Barack Obama is sending Congress a new budget that seeks to achieve $4 trillion in deficit reduction over the next decade through cuts in government spending and higher taxes on the wealthy. At the same time, he wants to boost spending in key areas such as transportation and edu ...

“President Obama’s effort to accommodate the Catholic Church by altering his administration’s rule on birth control coverage has not appeased the church, congressional Republicans or GOP candidates trying to take his job next year.” (USA Today) Can he square the circle? F ...

President Obama tells us that through his “accommodation” on the contraception controversy he’s avoided “choos[ing] between individual liberty and basic fairness for all Americans.” How so? By ordering insurance companies to give away birth control pills.

An honest statist would just say: “Let’s have the government levy a tax on men to pay for women’s birth control.” The transfer program wouldn’t be buried in the employer-based insurance system. It would be open for all to see — which is why it’s not done ...

If Woman A pays for Woman B’s birth control and Woman B pays for Woman A’s birth control, does each get free birth control?

Even though the media world is smitten with Pinterest, the newest pretty thing, that old standard of social media — blogging — is far from dead and gone. Blogs are still used for all kinds of professional journalism, from breaking news updates to analysis and backgrounders. Blogs are ...

In the fall, when the new school year begins in the northern hemisphere, older posts on this blog find a new life. I’m so happy to see that people are finding useful things here! These are some of the top posts from the past week: How to shoot video interviews Getting started with Wor ...

For some people, “visual storytelling” means photographs. For others, it means film or video. An epic movie such as the Lord of the Rings trilogy may spring to mind — and few would disagree with that as a fine example of visual storytelling. In journalism writing classes, stud ...

Internships. Portfolio. Real work (not work assigned in a class). Not necessarily paid work — but journalism work that some respectable organization saw fit to publish, with your name on it. Lacking these, a new journalism graduate is behind the curve. There are not so many jobs out there ...

Sure, I’m no Andy Carvin (NPR’s social media guy), but I do feel a little thrill when the zeros turn over. The screen capture above is from yesterday, July 31, 2011. See my recent posts about Twitter and journalism.   Sure, I’m no Andy Carvin (NPR’s social media ...

<p>Last week&#39;s ruling that federal judges in Texas overstepped their bounds in drawing a minority-friendly set of interim maps for the 2012 elections was interpreted by some as a win for ...

<p>When South Carolina residents go to the polls on Jan. 21 to choose a Republican presidential candidate, they won&#39;t have to show photo ID thanks to the U.S. Department of Justice&# ...

<p>A new video from the Louisiana Environmental Action Network features first-hand accounts from mothers and grandmothers about the chronic health problems affecting an alarming number of childr ...

<p>More than three years after a disaster at a Tennessee power plant, the Obama administration still has not issued promised protections from coal ash hazards. Environmental groups plan to sue t ...

<p>The frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination speaks out against government dependency, but companies acquired by his Bain Capital firm sought taxpayer handouts in the form of su ...

The Global Fund has been fighting disease for a decade in 150 countries, but the time is ripe for reform and reassessment of its operations.

The Global Fund has been fighting disease for a decade in 150 countries, but the time is ripe for reform and reassessment of its operations.

International efforts are being made to address Africa's energy deficiencies by developing renewable energy sources on a grand scale.

International efforts are being made to address Africa's energy deficiencies by developing renewable energy sources on a grand scale.

With economic malaise in the West and a growing population of young people at home, Africa faces significant challenges and opportunities in the coming year.

The North Sea oil industry will be at greater risk of "unnecessary and harmful" interference by Europe if Scotland becomes independent, the Government has warned industry leaders.

The ayatollahs' armoury is dwarfed by the US. But attempts to close oil lanes could lead to conflict, says Con Coughlin.

China began the scramble for Afghanistan's untapped oil reserves yesterday by announcing an exploration contract with Kabul - the first such international agreement in decades.

Exhausted and a hundred miles from land, a migrating owl made a wise move - he landed on a North Sea gas rig.

Industrial scars: aerial photographs of pollution by J Henry Fair.

Ok, another austerity package just passed.  That’s the bad news, but amidst the bad news there is some good news.  More than 40 MPs were expelled from the PASOK and ND parties, two from LAOS—those MPs need to form a new, explicitly anti-austerity, pro-default government.  Odds are good the ...

Ok, another austerity package just passed.  That’s the bad news, but amidst the bad news there is some good news.  More than 40 MPs were expelled from the PASOK and ND parties, two from LAOS—those MPs need to form a new, explicitly anti-austerity, pro-default government.  Odds are good the ...

Ms. Feldt: Where have you been these last three years, Mr. President? Welcome back. He was doing what he believed in.  Now it’s an election year, and he’s pandering.  You, Ms. Feldt, are exactly why women are losing their abortion rights.  With leaders like you and Obama who needs en ...

Ms. Feldt: Where have you been these last three years, Mr. President? Welcome back. He was doing what he believed in.  Now it’s an election year, and he’s pandering.  You, Ms. Feldt, are exactly why women are losing their abortion rights.  With leaders like you and Obama who needs en ...

1) 2013 will be ugly.  If Obama wins he will stop pandering to progressives and liberals.  Since he never has to be reelected again, he will be even worse than he was 2009-2011.  If you want anything from Obama, anything, get it before the election, do not believe promises, do not accept promise ...

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My colleague Malak Behrouznami recently returned from Juarez Mexico where she grew up as a child. She as a wonderful heritage - her father is Iranian and her Mother is Mexican. She went Juarez for family and journalistic reasons. One of her objectives was to find out why Juarez has become a terr ...

A few months ago when shooting a documentary in the Middle East, we met Zeina, a 13-year-old Palestinian living in a Beirut refugee camp. She was traumatized as she watched the Israeli Gaza war on television. It changed her life. She now thinks of revenge and cannot understand the Israeli childr ...

I listened to Glen Becks "Restoring Honor" speech today hoping to find something of substance to write about. I found a stringing together of such empty phrases it does not bear discussion.  The more important issue is why a man whose megalomania seems to have no bounds can become ...

Ban Ki Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, says of the flooding in Pakistan "The world has never seen such a disaster. It's much beyond anybody's imagination". At least 20 million people have lost their homes, more than 1600 have died, and disease and hunger will c ...

Many economists and political analysts think the current recovery, as it's being called, is a rather temporary phenomenon. Many expect the recession to kick back in, and perhaps within a few years get much more serious. What does that mean in terms of the future of the world economy and worl ...

An ambitious project to log all genetic variations that cause human disease lunged forward this week with the launch of the Chinese “node” of the Human Variome Project (HVP). Scientists and clinicians in China meanwhile are hoping participation will spread genetic counseling and genetic medicine ...

Americans may soon be getting flu jabs made with cells and not eggs. The drug company Novartis opened a first-of-its kind facility in the US to produce influenza vaccines using mammalian cells, Novartis and US government officials announced 13 December. The approach is an alternative to conve ...

A National Science Foundation (NSF) task force has finalized its recommendations for tweaking the agency's two merit review criteria, 'intellectual merit' and 'broader impacts'. And central to that effort was a non-prescriptive, big-tent definition of broader impacts, says task force co-chair J ...

More than 200 million hectares of land in poor nations was sold by governments in land-grabbing deals with industry and investors between 2000 and 2010, a new study reports. This high global demand for land is likely to continue for the long term, concludes the study by the International Land ...

Forget Kennedy Space Center. How about launching massive rockets from the underbelly of the largest plane ever built? On Tuesday, Burt Rutan, of aerospace company Scaled Composites, and billionaire Paul Allen, a former Microsoft executive, announced Stratolaunch Systems -- a company that aims to ...

The world produces more than eight billion gallons of wine each year (including those Algerian reds that taste like lighter fluid). All fifty American states, including Alaska, have thriving local wine industries. The eastern end of Long Island now looks like the Médoc, and one reason that the ...

By all accounts both President Barack Obama and his likely challenger, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, are ideal family men, devoted to their spouses and their children. But support for the two men could not be more different in terms of the electorate’s marriage and family status. ...

The famous physicist, Albert Einstein, was noted for his powers of observation and rigorous observance of the scientific method. It was insanity, he once wrote, to repeat the same experiment over and over again, and to expect a different outcome. With that in mind, I wonder what Einstein wou ...

Forget about all the perceived problems with the American higher education system, and ponder these two numbers: 12.8 million and 3.4 million. The first is the estimate of Americans actively looking for work and unemployed. The second is the number of job openings in the U.S. as of the ...

One of the most frequently recurring justifications for densification policies (smart growth, growth management, livability, etc.) lies with the assumption that the automobile-based mobility system (Note 1) disadvantages lower income citizens. Much of the solution, according to advocates of ...

1.Argentina: Slavery in Monsanto's cornfield 2.Amyris, extreme GM biofuels firm, nosedives  --- --- 1.Argentina: Slavery in Monsanto's cornfields Richard Brenneman eats shoots n leaves, January 19 2012 http://richardbrenneman.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/argentina-slavery-in-monsantos-cornfields/ T ...

NOTE: Good video of the 'GM toxic soy is not responsible' protest here: http://t.co/X33VU2EA Updated press release below. --- --- Over 25.000 people tell Ahold: stop misleading consumers http://www.toxicsoy.org/toxicsoy/news/Artikelen/2012/2/9_Over_25.000_people_tell_Ahold__stop_misleading_consu ...

NOTE: Good video of the 'GM toxic soy is not responsible' protest here: http://t.co/X33VU2EA Updated press release below. --- --- Over 25.000 people tell Ahold: stop misleading consumers http://www.toxicsoy.org/toxicsoy/news/Artikelen/2012/2/9_Over_25.000_people_tell_Ahold__stop_misleading_consu ...

Monsanto's Great Expectations (and Not-So-Great Results) Elliott Negin Huffington Post, 10 February 2012  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elliott-negin/monsantos-great-expectati_b_1267494.html With apologies to Charles Dickens, whose 200th birthday was this week, it's the best of times and the w ...

Monsanto's Great Expectations (and Not-So-Great Results) Elliott Negin Huffington Post, 10 February 2012  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elliott-negin/monsantos-great-expectati_b_1267494.html With apologies to Charles Dickens, whose 200th birthday was this week, it's the best of times and the w ...

The father of a girl with Down syndrome talks to spiked about prejudice, liberty and Frankie Boyle.

Racism isn’t a big problem in British football anymore. But the thought-policing of players and fans is.

At long last, a TV documentary on how South Africans, not PC Western shoppers, ended Apartheid.

The paper-thin characters in Roman Polanski’s new film means this satire of middle-class mores quickly loses its bite.

The debate about Obama’s ruling on birth control in healthcare packages shows that many liberals are now worryingly sniffy about religious liberty.

Not The Onion: Check. Not April 1: Check. Via: Reuters: Tired of long waits at the hospital for medical tests? If Korean researchers have their way, your smartphone could one day eliminate that — and perhaps even tell you that you have cancer. A team of scientists at Korea Advanced Institu ...

Good idea. Via: Stuff: Hollywood movie mogul James Cameron is coming to live in Wairarapa – and he is bringing his family with him. The director of blockbuster films Titanic and Avatar has purchased two large plots of land along Western Lake Rd in south Wairarapa, where he is expected to a ...

Via: San Francisco Chronicle: Frequent travelers who use San Francisco International Airport once again will be able to get through security a little faster with the return of a fee-based pre-screening program approved by the Airport Commission Tuesday. The CLEAR program, operated by a private c ...

Via: Technology Review: Software mines security footage to help business owners see what people do once they’re inside the store. The huge success of online shopping and advertising—led by giants like Amazon and Google—is in no small part thanks to software that logs when you visit Web pag ...

Via: PLoS Biology: How the human auditory system extracts perceptually relevant acoustic features of speech is unknown. To address this question, we used intracranial recordings from nonprimary auditory cortex in the human superior temporal gyrus to determine what acoustic information in speech ...

In the United States today, unemployment among those age 18 to age 34 is at epidemic levels and the number of young adults that are now living at home with Mom and Dad is at an all-time high.  So why are so many of our young adults jobless?  Why are record numbers of them unable ...

Do you want to see what a 21st century economic depression looks like?  Just look at Greece.  Once upon a time, the Greek economy was thriving, the Greek government was borrowing money like there was no tomorrow and Greek citizens were thoroughly enjoying the bubble of false pros ...

What would happen if the Federal Reserve was shut down permanently?  That is a question that CNBC asked recently, but unfortunately most Americans don't really think about the Fed much. Most Americans are content with believing that the Federal Reserve is just another stuffy gove ...

If the global economy is not heading for a recession, then why is global shipping slowing down so dramatically?  Many economists believe that measures of global shipping such as the Baltic Dry Index are leading economic indicators.  In other words, they change before the overall ...

Did you see the Chrysler commercial featuring Clint Eastwood that aired during the Super Bowl the other night?  It was entitled "It's Halftime In America", and it was truly a great ad.  To me, it was the most memorable Super Bowl ad this year by far.  It conjured up images of the ...

Read at : http://www.africanagricultureblog.com/2012/02/africa-land-grabs-could-cause-conflict.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+africanagricultureblog%2FNaEx+%28African+Agriculture%29 Africa land grabs ‘could cause conflict’ The stampede by weal ...

Read at : http://www.africanagricultureblog.com/2012/02/senegal-peanut-harvest-falls-after-poor.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+africanagricultureblog%2FNaEx+%28African+Agriculture%29 Senegal peanut harvest falls after poor 2011 rains Senegal’s rain season ...

Read at : http://www.africanagricultureblog.com/2012/02/for-many-ethiopian-farmers-sustainable.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+africanagricultureblog%2FNaEx+%28African+Agriculture%29 For many Ethiopian farmers, sustainable farming more realistic, accessibl ...

Read at : http://www.africanagricultureblog.com/2012/02/alliance-for-green-revolution-in-africa.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+africanagricultureblog%2FNaEx+%28African+Agriculture%29 ‘Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa is a major assault on seed so ...

Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.citeulike.org/user/ckluss/tag/desertification ckluss’s desertification [47 articles] Recent papers added to ckluss’s library classified by the tag desertification. You can also see everyone’s desertification.  

As the Obama administration basked in the news that the unemployment rate in January dipped to a three-year low of 8.3 percent, Republicans Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich threw a wet blanket on the announcement.

All the attention paid to the debacle about coverage for contraceptives over the past several days obscured a broader, undisputed win for all consumers, including those who are pregnant or about to be pregnant.While the media was obsessing about the contraceptives controversy, the Department of ...

An outside consultant hired by the White House to assess the Department of Energy’s hot-button green energy loan program suggests the agency hire a “chief risk officer” to better track companies backed by taxpayer-funded loans.“To enhance the independence of the oversight function, DOE should cr ...

Anonymous political speech. Foreign money in U.S. elections. The proliferation of super PACs. How grave a threat do any of things pose to American democracy?

It’s made national headlines, and now the sordid story of alleged lewd and bizarre conduct by a Los Angeles teacher includes another sensitive dimension: immigration status.

A message from backofthebook.ca editor Frank Moher: Astute readers of backofthebook.ca will have noticed that our metabolism has slowed of late — we’ve been posting less often. This follows a deleriously busy spring and fall, when our traffic skyrocketed (especially for our pieces on ...

Continued from page 3 The end, when it came, was not pretty. Union bargainer Dave Coles met behind closed doors in June 2000 with senior company executives and came back with two offers from the employer that might have been drafted in Hades. The first involved continuing to bargain until all th ...

Continued from page 2 Local television and radio reporters gave the lockout plenty of coverage. So did the rival Calgary Sun, which distributed an edition of the paper wrapped in what appeared to be a Herald front page. “I always pray for opportunity,” said Sun publisher Les Pyette. The Herald o ...

Continued from page 1 After months of lunchtime discussions in the Herald cafeteria, the journalists made the first move. One employee talked to the Teamsters Union but was told the union had no interest in organizing the Herald newsroom without an assurance that at least 40 per cent of the 160 ...

The Calgary Herald told its striking workers they were about to” jump off a cliff.” By the end, the Herald had gone over the edge, too ~~ Excerpted from Leaving Dublin: Writing My Way From Dublin to Canada, by kind permission of Rocky Mountain Books By Brian Brennan I never envisaged ...

Coats sale all over the world.Greater part of us know what is all about. The problem arises why folks opt for rave clothing even if there are so many choices obtainable. The answer is Coats sale all over the world.Greater part of us ...

griffin white pride.jpg The far right make a hames of things. Again! Crivvens, Jings, and Help Ma Boab! Whit a mess! The Infidels and English Defence League demonstration agains ...

solnet.jpg Collective direct action against a letting agent succeeds in the full refund of an illegal administration fee. Glasgow Solidarity Network has demonstrated how direct ...

Hello Libcom! Here is text of solidarity with insurgents in Syria, Egypt, Tunisia and all over the world. Feel free to distribute, comment, critisize it. We ask for people who could translate it in Arabic language. Class Solidarity with insurgents... ...

On February 8th, 2012, there will be a renewed trial against four members of the Serbian Anarcho-Syndicalist Initiative (ASI), as well as two unaffiliated Belgrade anarchists, as part of the fabricated legal case of the Belgrade Six (BG6). ...

I’ve been trying to come up with a post for over a month now but don’t have any good pictures because I’m back in America, sans super cool Nikon which got blown up in the Helmand, and without good pictures I don’t seem to be able to write.  That camera cost over a thousand bucks [...]

Editors Note:  B is taking some time off from destroying Libtards on Thomas Ricks blog to vent on a topic few men will dare touch.  At the Foriegn Policy blog he’s been coming up with stuff like this: Personally, I am glad that while I had to worry about leaders who were more worried about ...

This is the second entry in the new “Paint Baba Tim’s White Fence” program.  The first was from my Dad and this one is from my good friend B.  Regular readers have probably guessed by now that B and I worked together in Afghanistan and know each other well.  As I deal with agen ...

Editors Note:  This post is the first (of what I hope to be many) posts from my father Major General J.D. Lynch Jr. USMC (Ret.) The Current Situation Forty years ago, the American military was held in great contempt by the public it served. The feeling was returned in roughly equal measure. We ...

During our last trip to Zaranj we had one more task to complete before we went home.  The after action report on the ambush of Haji Nematullah, reported they seized three large buckets of Home Made Explosives (HME) and three Explosively Formed Penetrator (EFP) mines.  EFP’s were a big prob ...

Be careful, Chuck and all Christians.  March 7-8 is the Edomite FESTIVAL OF PURIM – where they attack all enemies. True   Hello Friends, Especially those in Washington D.C. and surrounding, From Chuck Carlson I will be in Washington,  DC, March 2-6 with Tom Compton.  We will participa ...

Who is Robert Kagan PhD?  A most intriguing “America in Jeopardy” question-answer!  ” Surprise, Surprise, Surprise” says Goyim Gomer Pyle!  Robert Kagan is a bloodline Edomite “Jew” who co-founded the PNAC.  You know, the “Project for a New American Cent ...

There can be no doubt that this blog has upset the Edomite Jew overlords con-troll-ing Planet Earth.   I have been trolled and the world is being conned! A “Humanist Psycho-babbler” lackey named Mike Lewinsky has publicly accused me of plagiarism.  No, to be more exact, this sacrosan ...

What happens when an archeologist finds an artifact that disproves a widely accepted “scientific theory” such as evolution?   Simple, make the artifact disappear, and if the archeologist cries foul, black list him/her and teach them a lesson.  If the archeologist continues to spout o ...

Iran.  The hated and evil empire – the primal enemy of Edomite “Israel”.   What better time for Israel to attack Iran than their blessed festival of “Purim”. You see, the Edomite God Mammon has promised his people victory if the attack comes during “Purim&#822 ...

There’s a great Story from the New York Times / International Herald and Tribune about a 28 year old product designer from Luxembourg attempting to live a carbon neutral life in Barcelona, Spain. Her story is at certainly inspiring, although sometimes uncomfortable to read about… who ...

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Here’s a great video from a Cambridge University Physicist David Mackay. He’s discussing practical ways of measuring domestic power consumption, ways of producing energy, and he debate about replacing traditional fossil fuels based methods of producing electricity with more sensible ...

Hockey and the hits: it's been a season where a lot has been said about headshots, concussions and suspensions. How much has the game really changed, and what is at stake for its future? One of the games great players of the past, one of its most passionate observers of the present, takes on tho ...

Renowned author wraps the critical events of 2011.

Highlights of Peter's interviews of the year, including conversations with Jack Layton, Olivia Chow, Nicole Williamson, Malcolm Gladwell and others.

Peter sits down with Egyptian businessman and politician Naguib Sawiris ahead of the country's first free elections about his hopes for and disappoinment in Egypt's Arab Spring

In the wake of the crisis in Attawapiskat First Nation, Shawn Atleo discusses the future of Canada's Abroiginal communities.

Scotty-Scotts Contracting, St Louis Renewable Energy has just finished the New Web Site http://stlouisrenewableenergy.com, in partnership with the New Google Small Business Promotion. If you’re looking for high quality and personal service, you’ve come to the right place. At Scotts Contracting w ...

Europe has historically been a long way ahead of the USA, with over 45GW peak capacity as of 2011 compared to the USA’s figure of 2.6GW. Last week, the Solar Power Generation USA conference was held in Las Vegas, and Shayle Kann, director of research at Green Tech Media declared that the “U.S. s ...

Power Point Presentation of how Incorporating Green Building Practices can Add Curb Appeal and Save on Home Energy Use Both of which will Add Value to your Home in Comfort and Appraisal Value This Green Build Wrap Around Porch was Designed and Built by Scotty, Scotts Contracting View the Power P ...

Improving Your Sustainable Supply Chain – Life With Plastic, It’s Fantastic! Recycling is not just something that makes consumers feel good about being eco-friendly; it is also something that the earth requires. With limited resources, we must utilize materials to their highest potential. ...

Earlier this year I was asked to replace a leaking roof on a Patio of an Investment Property.  The job consisted of Removing the existing Mound City Clay Roof Tiles from the Porch Roof and replacing with Certain Teed 3 Tab-Shingles (Energy Star Rated). Rather than dispose of the Clay Roof Tiles ...

The president is playing politics with the high cost of college.

The Republican race for president is a two man contest between Romney and Paul.

It is crazy to extend the payroll tax cut at this time.

President Obama is right: it will take more than one president to fix our economy.

If I didn't know better I'd swear Washington is out to destroy Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.

A nuclear holocaust: it is written.

Rep. Edward Markey is sponsoring a bill calling for deep nuclear-weapons cuts.

How Drones, Special Operations Forces, and the U.S. Navy Plan to End National Sovereignty As We Know It

The United States levels the moral playing field by blasting it to pieces.

Evangelicals and Catholics have been known to conflate abortion and nuclear war.

Donziger muses 'The judicial system is so utterly weak' in Corporate Counsel's latest release of outtakes from the documentary Crude.

In an order Friday, the Supreme Court denied a motion aimed at allowing a worldwide ban on enforcement of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays in the military to take effect.

A Los Angeles judge issued a tentative ruling Friday denying toymaker MGA Entertainment's efforts to stay a lawsuit that was filed by its former lawyers at O'Melveny & Myers.

Proskauer Rose and SJ Berwin said Friday they had decided against merging, putting to an end months of speculation about a possible trans-Atlantic tie-up between the two law firms. The firms in a joint statement said "we recognized that the timetable necessary to reach the agreements that would ...

Why did they do it? This is the question that many in the Middle East are asking about Russia’s veto of a United Nations’ Security Council resolution on Syria. In itself, the veto is neither here nor there. The uprising in Syria is unlikely to end because of it. Even if President Bashar al-Assad ...

خبرگزاری آذربایجان،گزارش ویژه : ساعاتی پیش مطلع گشتیم  تعدادی از جوانان وطن پرست و وطن دوست ایرانی با حضور در مقابل سفارت جمهوری اسلامی در شهر لندن ضمن پائین کشیدن پرچم جمهوری اسلامی از سردر ورودی سفارتخانه پرچم ملی شیر و خورشید نشان کشورمان را بر بلندای  سردر  ورودی این سفارت خانه برافراشته اند.

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CNN's Fareed Zakaria breaks down how Syria impacts Iran and Russia and why he doesn't think rebel forces stand a chance.

When Thomas Erdbrink, The Washington Post’s correspondent in Tehran, logs on to the Internet in Iran, he never knows whether Gmail and Google Reader, The Post or Facebook will open for him. Increasingly, this is the error message he sees instead of the page he was trying to reach: read more

Club of Rome member David Korten (This is the final of four blogs about the Club of Rome, which along with Bilderberg, the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations, is an important think tank in the Round Table network of world elites. Bill Clinton’s mentor Carroll ...

Lyndon LaRouche (This is the third of four blogs about the Club of Rome, which along with Bilderberg, the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations, is an important think tank in the Round Table network of world elites. Bill Clinton’s mentor Carroll Quigley describes t ...

Famous Diagram from Limits to Growth (This is the second of four blogs about the Club of Rome, which along with Bilderberg, the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations, is an important think tank in the Round Table network of world elites. Bill Clinton’s mentor Carrol ...

Bethnal Green tenements in 1973 (This is the first of four blogs about the Club of Rome, which along with Bilderberg, the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations, is an important think tank in the Round Table network of world elites. Bill Clinton’s mentor Carroll Quigley ...

Wes Uhlman - Seattle Mayor 1969-1978 In my last post I wrote about the apparent defect in integrity and moral courage that plagues most American corporate and political leaders. This hasn’t always been the case. With the steady erosion of civil liberties and the Bill of Rights over the las ...

RNs to be joined by Occupy, Global Community Reps, Union Activists to Stop Demise; Speculation Tax is Starting Point to Address Economies in Demise, say Nurses and Allies   Nurses from across the U.S., joined by union, healthcare, Occupy Wall Street and other community activists, as well as ...

Excerpted from Here Comes Trouble: Stories From My Life by Michael Moore I knew nothing about making a movie, and I wish I could tell you some cool story about how I started shooting films when I was six on my dad's 8mm Bell & Howell, or that I went to NYU film school with Spike Lee, and th ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: David Goodner, 515.991.6357, david.a.goodner@gmail.com Occupy Des Moines trainer sentenced to 30 days in jail 6 people sentenced to time in jail after arrests at state capitol last night Des Moines, Iowa -- Frank Cordaro - a former Catholic priest and a longti ...

OccupyTheIowaCaucuses.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Sunday, January 01, 2012 Contact : Stephen Toothman 515-480-5682 stoothman@yahoo.com Democratic National Committee Chairwoman declines to hear everyday people Occupy the Caucus extended an invitation to Democratic National Committee Chairwoma ...

Americans are increasingly aware that the ideal of equal opportunity is a false promise, but neither party really seems to get it.Republicans barely admit the problem exists, or if they do, they think tax cuts are the answer. All facts point in the opposite direction. Despite various tax cuts ov ...

In the age of globalization, what does it mean, really, to be from one country and not another? We have some easy answers, along the lines of language, shared history, cultural references, and geography. I grew up cheering for the Red Sox, not the Hiroshima Carp, so that adds to my American-ness ...

Having dragged its feet for almost two full decades on letting openly gay citizens serve in the military, the Defense Department is now “evolving” on women in combat. Those sex roles move at a geological pace, don’t they?On Thursday, the Pentagon released a report allowing a trickle more of estr ...

The resolution to the contraception contretemps seems mainly designed to do one thing: mollify the Catholics who defied the U.S. Conference of Bishops to support the Affordable Care Act in 2010. Church leaders are unlikely to officially back this so-called accommodation – the White House isn't c ...

The two Americas came face to face briefly Friday afternoon at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C. While several thousand conservatives thronged the Wardman Park Marriott Hotel, several hundred progressive unionists marched up to the hotel's entrance, banging drums, ...

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 2,91 ...

\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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Light rail vs. subway? Ontario’s provincial government needs to stop waffling and support Toronto city council’s decision.

Toronto police need better training in how to avoid using lethal force on the mentally ill.

Is Canada’s OAS program “unsustainable?” Parliamentary budget officer Kevin Page doesn’t think so.

Mississauga council does the right thing and rejects a pay increase while Toronto politicians insist on keeping their options open.

Torture may be banned, but Minister Vic Toews says Canada’s spies can rely on the information they get from it.

Long term, therefore, the outlook for wind energy is good—as is the outlook for the electricity storage technology necessary to balance wind's inherently variable nature. As electricity costs begin to rise, power purchasers will find the long term, stable electricity prices that wind proje ...

Up in the frozen arctic, where polar bear rule over a biogem world, massive oil drilling plans threaten the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Shell, the oil behemoth that made $4.8 billion in profits last quarter, intends to boost those numbers by drilling in the Bea ...

Entergy’s Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant’s operating license would have expired on March 21, 2012, but the Nuclear Regulatory Commission extended the license to 2032. Vermont’s legislature and a vocal part of the state’s population don’t like the idea of Vermont Yankee’s continued ...

How much “new” nuclear and how soon? Those are the front-of-mind questions for nuclear and many cleaner energy advocates with today’s U.S. government approval of the construction and operation of two new nuclear power reactors by Southern Company in Georgia using the “AP1000″ design by Westingho ...

US gasoline prices are setting records for this time of the year, with the current price apparently the highest ever for February, at least in nominal dollars. In fact, the monthly average US retail price for unleaded regular has set new records every month since last October.

US singer and actress Whitney Houston has passed away at the age of 48 in Los Angeles. The cause of her death is as yet unclear. The singer was found in a hotel room in Beverly Hills, police spokesman Mark Rosen told reporters. “At 3:55 pm Whitney Houston was pronounced dead at the Beverly Hilto ...

One of the richest countries in Africa, Equatorial Guinea, is rapidly expanding its naval power. The fleet of the 600,000-strong country will be larger than that of 160 million-strong Nigeria. Is Africa preparing for a major war? In January of 2012, the Navy of Equatorial Guinea officially added ...

On Tuesday twelve members of the Buffalo’s firefighter squad were rewarded $2.7 million for emotional distress after a judge ruled that the city of Buffalo racially discriminated white men. According to the lawsuit filed back in 2007, the city overlooked the twelve individuals and promoted ...

He then addressed Darwinism’s inability to account for the all-or-nothing structure of cellular systems, including the human body. As a medical doctor, Kuhn not only knows the general arrangement of the human body’s visible parts, he also understands the interrelated biochemical syst ...

The US Congress has passed a bill which approves government’s deployment of up to 30,000 spy drones in the country’s airspace by 2020, raising serious concerns about the ensuing privacy infringement. The bill, which facilitates the government use of unmanned spy planes in US airspace, requires t ...

Diabetes Insipidus ( or DI ) is a health condition that is often distinguished by extreme thirst along with excessively diluted urination . DI is similar in characteristics to untreated Diabetes ( or Diabetes Mellitus) but without the onset of blood glucose elevation. One of the major differ ...

There are several health conditions that hinder many people’s lives and outlook everyday. Acne is a condition which can affect your self esteem and your life. I’ve known several friends and family members with terrible cases of acne. They would purchase expensive remedies prescribed by docto ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

Reuters Credit Suisse emerged in better shape than most rivals from the 2008 financial crisis, and has long touted its focus on boosting capital to meet more stringent regulatory demands as a strong point. So the Swiss bankâs unexpected CHF637 million ($700 million) fourth-quarter loss came as ...

AmfAR gala isn’t really a glam event but it has become traditional to make impressive appearances on its red carpet. Among the attendees at the charity gala in support of AIDS research were models, actresses, singers, designers and everyone who is ready to help to make this world better. Heidi ...

The Miami Heat didn't get their 6-game road trip off to a very good start last night, losing to the host Orlando Magic 102-89. The Heat fell behind by 17 in the first half, only to claw their way back into the game, trimming the lead down to 3 by halftime. After briefly trailing by 1 point, Mia ...

Hot on the heels of yesterday's news about an alleged back cover for the next iPad (call it iPad 2S, iPad 3, iPad HD, really) comes a report claiming that the processor which will be powering the tablet will not be a quad-core one, as previous rumors indicated. A "Retina" display of 2048x1536 r ...

Senate Democrats Say Obama ‘Reinforced’ His Stance on Contraception Mandate at Democratic Retreat ABC News Obama Promises Dems to Keep Boot on Neck of Catholic Church Barack Obama promised fellow democrats today in a closed door meeting that he would continue to keep his boot on the neck of the ...

If it seems like we're purposefully building a strong network of participation, that isn't accidental. One of our goals with Spark is (excuse the punning ...) to help light entrepreneurial fires and bring companies with a strong desire to work with open devices a place to congregate and work tog ...

The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology ... scheduled a hearing on Wednesday, February 8, 2012, at 9:30 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. [archived webcast] [PJ: Speaking of privacy, check out witness Phyllis Schneck, VP and CTO, Global Public Sector, at McAfee ...

The lawyers who pursued the case that led to the Supreme Court's controversial ruling in 2010 freeing corporations to spend heavily on political campaigns asked the Supreme Court on Friday to overturn a Montana Supreme Court ruling [PDF] that they argued defies the Court's decision. The state ...

I try to tread lightly with respect to blogging about cases I'm involved with, but there's not much question that the December 13, 2011 Eastern District of New York opinion in Ascentive, LLC v. Opinion Corp., 2011 WL 6181452 (E.D.N.Y. Dec. 13, 2011) - in which my firm represents defendants - is ...

In this issue there is a dedicated section to hardware. There has been no such section in the Community Updates mainly because after the 2008 launch of Neo FreeRunner, there hasn't been continuation to the Openmoko Inc's pioneering phone hardware with (mostly) CC-BY-SA schematics, 100% free soft ...

Unions speak out against Government policy that allows retail giants to employ jobseekers without paying them.

Greece's largest police Union send letters warning they'll arrest officials for eroding sovereignty.

Bank of England announces another round of its controversial Quantitative Easing strategy.

Breaking News: Israeli based intelligence group say MI6 and British Troops are already on the ground coordinating the Syrian Rebel gangs.

With the British public struggling to make ends meet, and democracy hating politicians sticking to the EU dream, what does the future really hold for the economy?

James Fallows of the Atlantic has a 12,000 word piece that takes a thoughtful look at Barack Obama as the end of his first term approaches, comparing and contrasting him with his predecessors and trying to assess his strengths and weaknesses.We judge presidents by the specific expectations they ...

The Daily Irrelevant“You’ve probably grasped the basic legalistic drawback to PreCrime methodology. We’re taking in individuals who have broken no law.” — John Anderton, outgoing Precrime Commissioner in Philip K. Dick’s short story, Minority ReportDick’s world of PreCrime surveillan ...

Donkey Mountain says there is no economic recovery and that times here echo Russia during Yeltsin, when everyone knew the system was broken and corrupt. Read the whole post. This is great writing and he speaks the truth too.You don’t have to be a comedian to get a laugh in my neighborhood. All y ...

Back in the 70′s I had a rock fanzine called Street Life and sold rare records by mail order. It went broke and I ended up with a crappy job fire-proofing wood shingles. It was a bad time. I gave up listening to music. Then I heard a song on the radio that so inspired [...]

If Germany can do it, the US can too. Renewable energy is now 20% of the power mix there.Germany produced more energy from renewable sources than from nuclear, hard-coal or gas-fired plants this year after boosting investments in projects from wind to biomass.Renewables accounted for a fifth of ...

One person is dead and another is in a serious condition after a truck accident tonight.

Around 12,000 Christchurch households were plunged into darkness tonight.

Wellington police are hunting two men who robbed an Indian restaurant and held a gun to an employee's head

A New Zealand tourist almost killed a crocodile after he threw bricks into its enclosure at an Alice Springs reptile centre, the centre's owner says

Dozens of people have been evacuated as the North Island continues to be battered by strong winds and rain.

The conference was an outstanding success! Everyone involved in organizing it-- and most of us who spoke at it-- have all been extremely busy; so I'm really sorry that we don't have much more, and richer, reporting on the events out already. But expect more great reporting of the conference to c ...

... is Just World Books's new webstore, which gives us global reach for distributing books from, as of now, three different print/distribute hubs... I am really excited about this development. I've been trying for a while to figure out a way to escape Amazon's large and greedy clutch, and I thi ...

It is almost amusing to see the lengths to which the pro-Israeli discourse suppressors here in the United States have been going to try to rebuild the long-crumbled "Bar-Lev Line" with which, over decades past, they sought to protect Israel from being the subject of any free, fair, and fact-base ...

Patrick Cockburn has an extremely important piece at the Independent today, in which he takes to task the major organs of the 'western' media-- including, crucially, today's Al-Jazeera-- for the extremely uncritical and often openly inflammatory use they make of unsubstantiated or highly exagger ...

I've been thinking a lot, recently, about the upcoming 30th anniversary of the September 1982 massacres at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Beirut. As some of you may know, my company, Just World Books, will soon be publishing a reissued version of former WaPo journo Jon Randal's classic 1 ...

In 2002, then US President George W Bush signed the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 into law. No Child Left Behind was the US equivalent of the National Standards that New Zealand’s National-led Government has imposed on primary and intermediate schools – in fact it was the model upon which Nat ...

In the first question time of the 50th Parliament I challenged the Foreign Minister about the NZG policy on the Syrian crisis.  He delivered the ‘bipartisan’ foreign mantra that the Government condemned the killings in Homs, regretted the Security Council veto, and supported a transition to a de ...

Two patsy questions by National MPs of Local Government Minister Nick Smith in Parliament this week (on increases in council debt and rates since the Local Government Act 2002) combined with Earthquake Recovery Minister, Gerry Brownlee’s recent overwrought criticism of Mayor Parker and Christchu ...

On Tuesday, Steven Joyce, Minister of Economic Development and Science and innovation, wrote about the ‘you cant’s’ of our country, in an opinion piece in the NZ Herald. Feeling that perhaps I am one of those people he criticises as ‘people who in the one breath chant "more jobs, more jobs" and ...

Educational systems now train workers to fulfill the needs of companies. A society in which people exist for the sake of companies is a society enslaved. But there's a deep problem with the notion that education should equal vocational training. To paraphrase a very famous and renowned pers ...

For a society to be well governed, it's laws must be just and moral. The Ancients knew that "Those who are rightly governed . . . do not fill their porticoes with written statutes but only cherish justice in their souls; for it is not by legislation, but by morals that states are well direct ...

The unfairness of American society is being recognized by many. Eighty-nine percent of Americans say they don't trust their government; Congress has a mere 9% approval rating; America's financial institutions are widely considered to be corrupt; the Occupy movement has emerged, some are seek ...

The Obama administration is intent on applying supply side principles to get the American economy out of the present recession, but supply side principles are based on the belief that if the government cuts taxes on the wealthy, they will invest their savings in new factories, that newly hired w ...

The Protestant ethic once defined the American character. It was held to be responsible for the success of Capitalism in Northern Europe and America by sociologists, but the Protestant ethic and Capitalism are incompatible, and Capitalism ultimately caused the Protestant ethic to be abandoned. A ...

By Dr. Mercola Agent Orange, produced by both Monsanto and Dow Chemicals, was used to defoliate jungles during the Vietnam War. During that time, millions of gallons of the toxic chemical mixture were sprayed on trees and vegetation, and the aftermath left hundreds of thousands of Vietnames ...

By Dr. Mercola Dr. Stephanie Seneff is a senior scientist at MIT where she's conducted research for over three decades, and has published hundreds of papers in the peer-reviewed scientific literature. She also has an undergraduate degree in biology from MIT, and a minor in food and nutritio ...

By Dr. Mercola The latest data on the leading causes of deathi in the United States has been released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The report, which is based on 2010 data, lists the 10 leading causes of death as follows: Diseases of the heart Can ...

By Dr. Mercola Travel can increase the stress on your immune system, even if it's for fun. If you're not careful, you may come home from your trip with an unwelcome memento - like a cold or flu. Some people even expect to get sick during a trip. But it doesn't have to be that way! It's ver ...

By Dr. Mercola When you take drugs for multiple sclerosis (MS), you may very well be trading MS for another set of health problems, including paying the ultimate price: death. Health agencies from multiple countries, including the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Medi ...

Context Chronic wounds (those that have not undergone orderly healing) are commonly encountered, but determining whether wounds are infected is often difficult. The current reference standard for the diagnosis of infection of a chronic wound is a deep tissue biopsy culture, which is an invasive ...

Context Current rotavirus vaccines were not associated with intussusception in large prelicensure trials. However, recent postlicensure data from international settings suggest the possibility of a low-level elevated risk, primarily in the first week after the first vaccine dose. Objective To ex ...

Guarani girls © Survival Judges in Brazil have allowed a Guarani community to stay on its ancestral land, which it reoccupied having been forced to live in a makeshift camp for over a year and a half. The judges have suspended an eviction order which threatened to force the Indians to leav ...

A Ngobe-Buglé boy is wounded after clashes with police in Panama © Survival A week-long protest ended violently on Sunday after police moved in on a group of Ngobe-Buglé Indians in the Chiriquí province of western Panama. Protestors had blockaded part of the Pan-American Highway, the main ...

Genivaldo Vera's mother next to his tomb. He was killed by gunmen in 2009. © Public Ministry, MS/ Survival Six men are being brought to trial for the murder of two Guarani Indians who were killed in Brazil’s Mato Grosso do Sul state in 2009. The case has been described as ‘an importan ...

Illegal logging threatens Peru's uncontacted Mashco-Piro.  © D.Cortijo/uncontactedtribes.org Peru has raided an illegal logging site in the Manú National Park, just days after the world caught its first detailed glimpse of the uncontacted Mashco-Piro tribe. The discovery followed Surv ...

Jarawa girls. Newly released videos show Jarawa women being ordered to dance. © Survival The ‘human safaris’ scandal in the Andaman Islands has reached the British Parliament, with MPs tabling a motion calling on India to close the illegal road that cuts through the Jarawa tribe’s reserve. ...

Golf is in my blood. I have been a fan for a long time. I have volunteered at almost every major golf event that has come to this province.

Robert Dutil, Quebec's publicsecurity minister, has called for a Sûreté du Québec investigation into the leak of information in the case of a retired Montreal police officer who attempted to peddle the force's list of informers to criminal elements.

With a minimum of grace and not a word of regret, the city of Montreal said this week that it would "respect the decision" of Quebec's access-to-information commission ordering it to retrieve long-secret financial records from the organizing committee of the World Aquatics Championships in 2005.

Viviane Namaste is a professor at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute at Concordia University. Gabrielle Bouchard is a student at the institute and a representative of Concordia's Women's Studies Students' Association.

A recent survey by a leading polling firm found that four out of five Quebecers are of the opinion that their province should be a continental, even global, leader in the fight against climate change.

from wsbt.com: Even though Schmucker's Produce Farm and Greenhouse has been in business since 1964, it doesn't have a sign on the property, something not uncommon among Amish-owned businesses. Many do little or no advertising, and a few don't have phones. But lately, more people have been findin ...

from thestar.com: In what is clearly the country’s most troubled period in modern times, a Food Stamp Nation-within-a-nation is swelling to proportions that seemed unthinkable five years ago. In 2006, there were 26.7 million people on food stamps in America. By September 2011, that number had gr ...

On Thursday nights, Media Monarchy joins Corbett Report Radio live on Republic Broadcasting to go over all the latest stories from the world of food, environment and health. This week James Evan Pilato guest hosts the show and covers Organics to You, seed catalogs, headlines, updates and more... ...

Wal-Mart's new labels tell shoppers what's "Great For You"* Gates and the millions funding geoengineering* Junk foods still plentiful at elementary schools* 20 Foods to Give you Energy & 30 Famous Food Quotes* Taco Bell Should Learn From Long History of Outbreaks* While govt d ...

from reuters: Global food prices rose in January for the first time in six months and may show another rise for February, as concern about bad weather in main growing regions boosted grain and vegetable oil values, the United Nations' food agency said on Thursday. January's increase was not expe ...

source:  Huffington Post, 8/24/2011 Michael Mungai Co-founder, Dagoretti 4 Kids I grew up in the hovels of Dagoretti, an impoverished suburb in the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya. Raised by an unemployed single mother, my two siblings and I would take turns missing school to babysit our ...

source:  Daijiworld, Aug 29, 2011 Puttur, Aug 29: Four persons, reportedly belonging to a Christian sect, were handed over to the police by the residents of Boodujal of Nedle village near Uppinangady on Sunday August 28. The locals, including some dalits, accused K J Kunhimonu (30) from Mun ...

source:  India today, July 1, 2011 A Christian priest has been arrested for raping a 16-year-old girl and setting her ablaze in his house at Nadendla village of Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh.

source:  Deccan chronicle, July 13, 2011 Its a well-documented fact that people adopt aspects of other cultures around them. The churches in Andhra Pradesh are following this custom and Indianising some of practices. At St Andrews Orthodox Church, West Marredpally, a Dwaja Stambam has been ...

source: Bangalore Mirror, June 17, 2011   In her police complaint, Priyalatha has charged Shantaraju, pastor of Bethel Church and Bethel Student Centre, with having sex with young girls and getting them to abort   S Shyam Prasad  

COTO Report and Megan ‘Verb’ Kargher are proud to present Vox Populi, Methods of Manipulation. It has become increasingly evident that large portions of the planet are descending with alarming speed into Orwellian police states. What is the New World Order and what are their plans fo ...

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“Wirral Council is taking Roger Hayes to Birkenhead county court for non-payment of council tax. Mr Hayes, chairman of The British Constitution Group, claims the council tax is illegal and imposed without his consent. His stand has won support from all over the country, and demonstrators t ...

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In the United States today, unemployment among those age 18 to age 34 is at epidemic levels and the number of young adults that are now living at home with Mom and Dad is at an all-time high.  So why are so many of our young adults jobless?  Why are record numbers of them unable ...

Do you want to see what a 21st century economic depression looks like?  Just look at Greece.  Once upon a time, the Greek economy was thriving, the Greek government was borrowing money like there was no tomorrow and Greek citizens were thoroughly enjoying the bubble of false pros ...

What would happen if the Federal Reserve was shut down permanently?  That is a question that CNBC asked recently, but unfortunately most Americans don't really think about the Fed much. Most Americans are content with believing that the Federal Reserve is just another stuffy gove ...

If the global economy is not heading for a recession, then why is global shipping slowing down so dramatically?  Many economists believe that measures of global shipping such as the Baltic Dry Index are leading economic indicators.  In other words, they change before the overall ...

Did you see the Chrysler commercial featuring Clint Eastwood that aired during the Super Bowl the other night?  It was entitled "It's Halftime In America", and it was truly a great ad.  To me, it was the most memorable Super Bowl ad this year by far.  It conjured up images of the ...

Is anyone else ready for some refreshing honesty from the President regarding economic growth and the environment?

Of course, it's better to be rich than poor, but the conventional approaches for making us rich -- GDP growth and free trade -- no longer apply.

Garrett Hardin seems to have made the some incorrect assumptions about human behavior -- assumptions familiar to students of economics.

Count Chocula (or at least the people who give him a voice) are working off an untested assumption.

Brian Czech explains the nuts and bolts of technological progress and why it won't solve the dilemma of growth.

There is a funny little chap, calls himself 'Foreign Secretary', who flies around the world imposing no-fly zones and regime change in the name of 'democracy' and 'the will of the people'. Despite repeatedly pushing him about this matter via Twitter (where he tends to ignore those of us who p ...

UKIP's Godfrey Bloom has repeatedly made calls for the architects of the great Eurozone misery to be arrested and flung into a jail cell where they belong. Many of us, meanwhile, have long lists of political Quislings and traitors who we would like to see pay the full judicial price for their ...

Go on... call English and British opponents of the (unlawful here) European Union names. Feel free. Call us racist, xenophobic, Little Englanders who have crawled out from under a rock. Go ahead. Water off a duck's back, these days. Only, whilst those of us who care about democracy and freedo ...

Quite hilariously from a political left-right perspective, an American court has thrown out a Californian ban on gay marriage ruling that the ban is unconstitutional. As a pro-constitution blogger and as a libertarian, we applaud the court for their verdict. However, we are quite aware tha ...

We recently posted a provocative opinion piece saying that politicians should shut (the f***) up if they were not prepared to do something about it. So we were heartened that one of our closest and dearest friends in the blogosphere - Witterings from Witney - seems to have come to a similar c ...

<p>Last week&#39;s ruling that federal judges in Texas overstepped their bounds in drawing a minority-friendly set of interim maps for the 2012 elections was interpreted by some as a win for ...

<p>When South Carolina residents go to the polls on Jan. 21 to choose a Republican presidential candidate, they won&#39;t have to show photo ID thanks to the U.S. Department of Justice&# ...

<p>A new video from the Louisiana Environmental Action Network features first-hand accounts from mothers and grandmothers about the chronic health problems affecting an alarming number of childr ...

<p>More than three years after a disaster at a Tennessee power plant, the Obama administration still has not issued promised protections from coal ash hazards. Environmental groups plan to sue t ...

<p>The frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination speaks out against government dependency, but companies acquired by his Bain Capital firm sought taxpayer handouts in the form of su ...

Karen Greenberg, executive director of NYU Law’s Center on Law and Security (CLS), announced she is leaving to pursue other career opportunities. Greenberg’s tenure as executive director began with the founding of the Center in 2003.  Under her stewardship, CLS … Continue reading →

Today’s Terrorism News post will be the last one for the summer. Along with the staff here at the Center on Law and Security, and with particular thanks to The Soufan Group for its generous support and to Carolyn O’Hara … Continue reading →

In Association with The Soufan Group At Radicalization Hearing, Rep. King Says al Shabab Poses Threat Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) held a third congressional hearing on Islamic radicalization in the United States Wednesday, this one focused on the threat of … Continue reading →

In Association with The Soufan Group Four Indicted for Drug Trafficking to Benefit Terrorism Federal prosecutors in New York unsealed indictments Tuesday against four men they say conspired to sell drugs and buy weapons for Hezbollah and the Taliban in … Continue reading →

In Association with The Soufan Group In Arkansas, Man Accused of Killing Soldier Strikes Plea Deal A man on trial for shooting two U.S. soldiers, one of whom was killed, outside of a military recruiting station in 2009 reached a … Continue reading →

All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: cancer drug reverses Alzheimer's in mice and first Neanderthal cave paintings discovered in Spain

A moving series of portraits of an elderly couple living with Alzheimer's disease in Argentina have won a 2012 World Press Photo award

All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: face-stealing robots, the latest Higgs revelations and how the zebra got its stripes

Photographer Sharon Beals creates an intimate portrait of birds' nests from across the US

Previous studies overestimated the amount of ice being lost by mountain glaciers. But sea-level rise esimates are barely affected

Unity redefined Ubuntu over the years. But big changes don't happen overnight and Unity still is a work in progress. Many features introduced in Unity, like Global Menu, is not really a popular functionality, especially among desktop users. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS is coming up and Canonical is doing ...

Good theme combinations are always nice to have. If ANewStart + AwOken GNOME Shell theme combination was a bit flamboyant, this one is more simpler, prefect for everyday use. Boomerang is a beautiful new GTK 3.0 theme made for GNOME 3.2 (Gnome Shell, Gnome Classic Fallback & Unity) an ...

Corning Incorporated may not be a familiar name to you, but Gorilla Glass should be. A good majority of today's high-end touch-screen smartphones comes with Gorilla Glass which acts as a scratch resistant and durable cover glass. Phones that comes with it include blockbusters like Samsung Gala ...

Most long term Ubuntu users here must have been familiar with the now defunct Nautilus-Elementary project. The project's lead, nicknamed ammonkey, is now working on a full blown Nautilus-Elementary inspired file browser for Linux called Marlin. Marlin is supposed to become the default file bro ...

We have featured quiet a huge cache of Unity mockups before but this one is quite unlike anything I have seen so far. This is perhaps the most comprehensive mockup of future Ubuntu Unity I have seen in a while. Without much ado, let's watch the video.  Unity in Ubuntu 12. ...

Please check this blog on Fridays for a  regular update from now on.

*GREEK POLICE SAY THEY WILL ARREST TROIKA FOR JEOPARDISING SURVIVAL OF GREEK PEOPLE AND UNDERMINING DEMOCRACY *WILDCAT STRIKES AND SIT INS IN PROTEST AT NEW AUSTERITY MEASURES *EU TRIES TO COMPEL ALL POLITICAL PARTIES TO SIGN UP BEFORE ELECTIONS: END OF DEMOCRACY The Greek police force is seekin ...

 Comment by Ray Weisling I read your posting about vitamins and other nutritional approaches to health care, citing the work of Lilly Gschwendtner. This is just the veritable tip of the iceberg. Many have travelled this path before and have suffered the fate of rigorous orthodox medical authorit ...

By Allan Hall, Daily Mail  The man who took Natascha Kampusch from a Vienna street when she was just a schoolgirl and kept her captive for nearly nine years in a secret dungeon – may have been murdered, it was claimed today. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2098857/Was-Natascha-Kamp ...

Medical experiments on people in Austria can still be carried out as long as a person with the authority of a guardian signs  permission, admits an expert in the ORF. http://tirol.orf.at/news/stories/2520523/

By Les Visible If you support these people then you might as well be holding the gun yourself. That’s how karma works. If you’re in the cheering section then you might as well be suited up and on the field. The cheerleaders have two duties as far as I know of. One is the work [...]

By Alexander Higgins Texas attorney general has filed charges against Big Pharma for bribing officials to implement an elaborate scheme to fraudulently diagnose and medicate teenagers for mental illness. According to a former Pennsylvania Inspector General’s Agent, a pharmaceutical industry-spon ...

Susan Jennings Activist Post As we delve deeper into world control, more information arises that helps us understand the current global situation. Many people are unaware of the interconnectedness between the largest global companies. Eighty percent of the world’s wealth appears to be earn ...

Daily Bell: Is the New World Order becoming a reality? David Icke: Yes, it is becoming a reality by the day, quite demonstrably. The projections of the plans that were in my books in the 1990s, like And the Truth will set you Free, which I wrote in 1994, are playing out on the television [...]

The pathetic attack on religious freedom and the sanctity of individual conscience is a shot heard round the planet. The social desecration that surrounds this immoral culture has a defamed religious czar, named Barack Hussein Obama. Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of Health and Human service is a ...

Rick Santorum is certainly representative of a politically active part of the U.S. population–a dangerous, intolerant, noisy, in-your-face part. If we let him and his followers get their way, the result will be ever greater divisiveness and decline at home, and war abroad. That is a choice for t ...

Greek as Athens burns ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece’s parliament approved a deeply unpopular austerity bill on Monday to secure a second bailout and avoid national bankruptcy, as buildings burned across central Athens and violence spread around the country. Cinemas, cafes, shops and bank ...

On March 24, Canada’s New Democratic Party will do more than elect a new leader; it will face a test of character.

February 11 marked the 33rd anniversary of Iran's 1979 revolution. It ended a generation of repressive rule under Washington's installed Reza Shah Pahlavi.

Like some predatory colonial power of the not-so-distant past the U.S. seems to think that war might solve our problems with Iran. But it couldn't. Instead, we need the imagination, and courage, to find a compromise. To help us make our way we're extraordinarily lucky then to have Ambassador Pet ...

The North Koreans aren't stupid. Nor are they brainwashed ideological zombies. Their main problem is that for the past sixty some years they've been at war with the U.S., a war the U.S. either doesn't want or know how to end. But might a changing of the guard in North Korea lead to an improvemen ...

Few people know more about nuclear power than a former Commissioner of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, especially the one who had the lead in responding to Three Mile Island. So when Dr. Victor Gilinsky suggests that it would be reasonable for the U.S. to phase out nuclear power, people shoul ...

As is typical of situations involving post-WWII imperial over-reach, U.S. distress with Iran is largely our own fault. If the CIA had not overthrown Mohammad Mosaddegh in 1953 — Operation Ajax — and if afterward the U.S. had not incessantly sought to get the Iranians to do what we wa ...

John Maynard Keynes understood that economics describes human beings, a fact that modern mainstream economics — the applied theory of "rational expectations" — effectively assumes away. Keynes' biographer, Lord Robert Skidelsky, reminds us that our economic priorities should extend b ...

NEW YORK: Ogilvy & Mather launched Social@Ogilvy, a global cross-discipline social media practice, on Monday. Managing director John Bell is leading the unit from New York.

NEW YORK: Spanish-language PSA campaigns perform nearly as well as English-language efforts, despite Hispanic-focused media outlets being underserved with PSAs, according to a study from WestGlen Communications.

HONG KONG: GolinHarris has promoted head of brand marketing Jeremy Walker to MD of the agency's Hong Kong office.

CHAPEL HILL, NC: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina has relaunched a controversial campaign that emphasized insurance companies are not the sole reason for increasing healthcare costs.

NEW YORK: Ruth Brands + Experiences, a marketing unit of Edelman, has appointed Frank Way to the newly created role of executive creative director.

Seven Afghanistan experts review the president's plans for ending the war.

American leaders are furious with Pakistan’s military in the wake of Osama bin Laden’s killing. But twisting arms will only backfire.

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?

In a fit of anger, Hamid Karzai axes his director of intelligence, Amrullah Saleh. But is there method to his madness?

The United States is hooked on privatized warfare in Afghanistan. And it's more costly than you think.

Alberta Wilderness Association Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative Bow Valley Naturalists 9 Feb 2012 ...

Position:  Conservation Volunteers Intern Organization:  The Nature Conservancy of Canada ...

Pembina Institute 3 Feb 2012 EDMONTON — Jennifer Grant, director of the Pembina Institute’s oilsands program, made the following statement in response to the n ...

Alberta Wilderness Association 3 Feb 2012 Today, forty five years after the first tar sands mines started, the federal government has finally taken steps to introduce credible monit ...

North Saskatchewan Riverkeeper Come celebrate our waters through the lens of a camera! Click here for all of the details. The North Saskatchewan Riverkeeper is launching our first "Water in Focus" Ph ...

Press TV February 13, 2012 Obama prepares Georgia for Iran war: Analyst “I don’t rule out that to retain the [presidential] chair Saakashvili may join a military campaign against Iran, which would become a catastrophe for our country.” Former Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze US Presi ...

Xinhua News Agency February 13, 2012 Escalating situation in Syria evokes fears of similar Iraqi fate ==== Syria’s private press reports have talked about a recent behind-closed-doors meeting held by U.S. President Barack Obama and the chief of the CIA, in the presence of Secretary of Stat ...

World Future Online February 12, 2012 Is The Philippines Really Seeking Peace With China? By Kazi Mahmood The Philippines called for more U.S. troops to land on its territory with the double aim of strengthening the U.S. presence in the country and to give a sign to China that it will not back d ...

End The Lie February 11, 2012 Could NATO get pulled into Syrian intervention by Turkey under the collective defense initiative? By Madison Ruppert One of the most fundamental principles of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is the principle of collective defense, wherein an armed atta ...

==== Pentagon Chief Uses NATO For Missiles, Global Hawks, Wars Poland: U.S. To Add Air Force Unit To Missiles Poland: U.S. Plans To Provide Missiles, Bombs For F-16s NATO-Georgia Commission Meets At Alliance’s Headquarters Guam: U.S. Holds Air Force Exercises With Japan, Australia U.S. Mil ...

GroundZeroMedia February 13, 2012 Clyde Lewis and NW Ghost recon are currently on their way out to Bray’s Point and Stonefield Beach to investigate mysterious boxes which have appeared along Oregon and California coasts. The report was originally file by Dave Masko at HULIQ and has now spread ar ...

Jurriaan Maessen Infowars.com February 11, 2012 In its 1984 World Development Report, the World Bank suggests using “sterilization vans” and “camps” to facilitate its sterilization policies for the third world. The report also threatens nations who are slow in implementing the bank’s population ...

Business Wire - Tonight the campaign of 2012 Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul sent an email to supporters regarding today’s caucus results from the state of Maine.

J.G Vibes - Any of us that grew up with government schooling were given a very inaccurate view of what bureaucracies are all about. This should not be so much of a surprise because the school system itself is a bureaucracy, so they have an obvious bias. The last place that we should expect to f ...

The Intel Hub - Around 100,000 (reported) Protestors took to the streets in an intense firebomb melee, angry over harsh austerity measures.

February 12, 2012 “The Political organization has the Central Role in Raising the Consciousness of People” by Buta Singh, Sanhati In America, and especially in Europe, the class consciousness of people has taken a downturn and this is the cause for domination of bourgeois ideology and in organiz ...

Greece approves spending cuts as protesters riot The legislation features about $4 billion in severe budget trims, including 15,000 job reductions this year alone. Furious crowds chant outside Parliament, and several Athens buildings are set on fire by Anthee Carassava, Los Angeles Times–R ...

[Imperialist wars and occupations always operate with absolute impunity for the war crimes committed against civilian victims.  Imperialist wars attempt to win allies and supporters by concealing their imperialist interests behind banners of "democracy" or "human rights" or "freedom" for the tar ...

 Baidya faction demands PM’s resignation by POST B BASNET, Republica KATHMANDU, Feb 10: The Maoist radical faction has demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai over the cabinet decision on Thursday to ditch the plan to legalize land transactions effected under the arbit ...

This is to the ZioNazi's at ZioBook. For all the good people posting the truth and getting their accounts deleted, go fuck yourself. For all the ZioTrolls coddled and sheltered in their Ziobook home, go fuck yourself again. A person should use Ziobook only as required, then treat it like a so ...

OFCOM HAS REVOKED Press TV Limited’s Television Licensable Content Service licence. It means that the British public can no longer watch Press TV on BSkyB’s Sky platform. Press TV International has released the following statement:

Ken O'Keefe has been named as having 'known links to Al Qaeda, Hamas, and other terrorist organizations' in US Congressional Bill now being processed through the traitorous US Congress. Here is the applicable paragraph; '(9) In 2010, IHH organized a flotilla that included the ship Mavi Marmara ...

Ken O'Keefe has been named as having 'known links to Al Qaeda, Hamas, and other terrorist organizations' in US Congressional Bill now being processed through the traitorous US Congress. Here is the applicable paragraph; '(9) In 2010, IHH organized a flotilla that included the ship Mavi Marmara ...

The traitors in the US Congress along with the Nobel Peace Prize winning President have committed yet another act of treason, passing the National Defence Authorisation Act with provisions that make indefinite detention of US citizens "legal".

And here is proof: The Courant's parent company, Tribune, is backing away from maintaining this particular blog format -- Movable Type -- in favor of another blog platform, one that is unworkable here. Namely, the new format allows blog comments to go online unapproved, and -- I say th ...

"Peer benchmarking" helps move compensation for CEOs ever higher. Perhaps one of the high-dollar bosses should take a page from Warren Buffett, who in August suggested in a New York Times essay that the rich don't carry their weight in taxes. Meanwhile, Buffett, himself, has refined his earlier ...

There's a growing movement that seeks to turn the pink ribbon upside down. You can read more here. Flickr photo

You can see more Mother Jones charts here. You can read about Hartford's budding Occupation here, with a planning meeting set for 8:30 a.m. Wednesday at Bushnell Park, and again at 5 p.m.

Yom Kippur starts at sundown on Friday and here's one man's take on it. Flickr photo

For the fourth year in a row President Obama will run a one Trillion dollar budget deficit according to the Congressional Budget Office. The CBO also predicts continued high unemployment and slow economic growth.Contributor: Matthew Smith Published: Jan 31, 2012

A new health care law forces employers to provide insurance that covers FDA-approved prescription contraceptives 100%. Some church-related organizations are outraged that they may have to pay for something the church itself condemns.Contributor: Angela Woods Published: Jan 31, 2012

While Newt Gingrich’s approach to space policy would be heavily weighted toward encouraging the private sector, space observers have been wondering how much the Mitt Romney approach, once it is formulated, will rely on commercial space.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Jan 29, 2012

Ron Paul may be missing in Florida, but Maine knows he's around. For 2 days, despite bad weather, huge crowds have turned out to listen to Paul. Can Maine give Paul a win?Contributor: Sherry Tomfeld Published: Jan 28, 2012

The Los Angeles Times released details of the confusion surrounding the Demi Moore 911 call, which resulted in a delayed response by paramedics. Looking back on the recent history of the Los Angeles 911 system, it may actually be a study in success.Contributor: Sylvia Cochran Published: Jan 28, 2012

We've been obsessed with fun this week. Ogling the most amazing and groundbreaking playgrounds we've ever seen, playing with great new videogame technology, learning about a Teutonic revolution in board games, and wasting time with the PopSci Flash Arcade (curated by our friends at Kill Screen). ...

There are lots of amazing images in this week's roundup; there's the likely discovery of a massive former ocean on Mars, there's a purple squirrel, there's an incredible augmented reality project, and lots more. But we can't stop looking at--and thinking about--the noble Cyber Woman With A Corn. ...

“Siri, how do I feel right now?” Apple’s automated assistant might not be so perceptive as to know, but your smartphone may soon be able to assess your mood and determine if you are suffering from symptoms of depression. Researchers at Northwestern University are creating a kind of virtual thera ...

Otavia antiqua could be the earliest human ancestor, predating the previous earliest known animal by tens of millions of years. Our earliest evolutionary ancestor may have been found in the form of microscopic sponge-like organisms recently discovered inside extremely ancient African rocks. If ...

The pathetic attack on religious freedom and the sanctity of individual conscience is a shot heard round the planet. The social desecration that surrounds this immoral culture has a defamed religious czar, named Barack Hussein Obama. Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of Health and Human service is a ...

Rick Santorum is certainly representative of a politically active part of the U.S. population–a dangerous, intolerant, noisy, in-your-face part. If we let him and his followers get their way, the result will be ever greater divisiveness and decline at home, and war abroad. That is a choice for t ...

Greek as Athens burns ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece’s parliament approved a deeply unpopular austerity bill on Monday to secure a second bailout and avoid national bankruptcy, as buildings burned across central Athens and violence spread around the country. Cinemas, cafes, shops and bank ...

On March 24, Canada’s New Democratic Party will do more than elect a new leader; it will face a test of character.

February 11 marked the 33rd anniversary of Iran's 1979 revolution. It ended a generation of repressive rule under Washington's installed Reza Shah Pahlavi.

Even the most cash-strapped, podunk county prosecutor's office would be embarrassed by these numbers. Three audits completed. Two bribery convictions. Three million bribes a day.

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Aren't nuclear weapons, after all, the constant preoccupation of all foreign and national security thought—not just within the U.S., but around the world?

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Global temperatures fell quite sharply in January, according to the UAH satellite measure. The anomaly of -0.093C below the 30 year running mean equates to approximately +0.16C above the more standard 1961-1990 time period. As regards 2011 as a whole, according to the Met Office, 2011 was ...

It's been a long time in coming, but there's been a remarkably consistent signal in the last couple of days that later on Saturday into Saturday night a large part of the UK will be affected by the first widespread fall of snow so far this winter. It's a classic meteorological battle between co ...

For the first time this winter, after a relentless spell of westerly winds, many areas are expected to see a general change to colder conditions as we head through the weekend and into next week. As the colder air becomes established it will be competing with milder air from the Atlantic. Wher ...

The Northern Lights, or Aurora Borealis, featured prominently across the skies of Northern Britain last night. The fabulous photograph below, taken at the Tan Hill Inn in North Yorkshire, is courtesy of North news and pictures. Auroras are caused by charged particles such as electrons and ...

As we head into the second half of winter, there's still no real indication of a change in the weather pattern that has so dominated the UK since winter began on 1st December. Despite one or two short lived cold snaps, which brought some snow mainly to the hills of Northern Britain, many parts ...

This coming week I am going to discuss European economic integration in class. As most of you can recite from memory, the European Union got its start as the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) back in 1952. However, the political logic of the ECSC is a bit more obscure. While you will appr ...

To say that I am ambivalent about still-controversial former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir bin Mohamad is an understatement. On one hand, his time in office was accompanied by economic gains that were among the best in our region of Southeast Asia. On the other hand, he has had a penchant fo ...

It appears that Robert "Americans are from Mars, Europeans are from Venus" Kagan is set to come out with yet another of these eminently dispensable books on why America remains the indispensable nation. (I partly blame deforestation on this cottage industry of delusional Americans thinking they ...

There is much discussion about an "EMU-lite" being the likely result of current crises in the Eurozone. When all is said and done, what will supposedly remain in the eurozone are traditionally strong economies that were among the earliest joiners such as Germany, Austria and the Netherlands. Yet ...

This WSJ headline is somewhat misleading: the US government would dearly love Japan to join its effort to expand the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and in the process create bandwagon effects to persuade others to follow. Yet, at the same time, many American manufacturers remain leery about Jap ...

In the United States today, unemployment among those age 18 to age 34 is at epidemic levels and the number of young adults that are now living at home with Mom and Dad is at an all-time high.  So why are so many of our young adults jobless?  Why are record numbers of them unable ...

Do you want to see what a 21st century economic depression looks like?  Just look at Greece.  Once upon a time, the Greek economy was thriving, the Greek government was borrowing money like there was no tomorrow and Greek citizens were thoroughly enjoying the bubble of false pros ...

What would happen if the Federal Reserve was shut down permanently?  That is a question that CNBC asked recently, but unfortunately most Americans don't really think about the Fed much. Most Americans are content with believing that the Federal Reserve is just another stuffy gove ...

If the global economy is not heading for a recession, then why is global shipping slowing down so dramatically?  Many economists believe that measures of global shipping such as the Baltic Dry Index are leading economic indicators.  In other words, they change before the overall ...

Did you see the Chrysler commercial featuring Clint Eastwood that aired during the Super Bowl the other night?  It was entitled "It's Halftime In America", and it was truly a great ad.  To me, it was the most memorable Super Bowl ad this year by far.  It conjured up images of the ...

When we set out to launch the online magazine The Precarious, we saw so many of us ...

KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 68, October 2011 has just been posted on the site. You can get to the contents or read the full p...

June last saw another massive Pride in Dublin with approximately 25,000 people taking part. While Pride has very much become more of a social an...

Freedom newspaper, the only regular anarchist newspaper published in the UK, has recently changed to a monthly publication, giving us the opport...

Welcome to Olympia SDS, we've been throwing down since 2006, played a pivotal role in Port Militarization Resistance, and occupied the offices o...

US singer and actress Whitney Houston has passed away at the age of 48 in Los Angeles. The cause of her death is as yet unclear. The singer was found in a hotel room in Beverly Hills, police spokesman Mark Rosen told reporters. “At 3:55 pm Whitney Houston was pronounced dead at the Beverly Hilto ...

One of the richest countries in Africa, Equatorial Guinea, is rapidly expanding its naval power. The fleet of the 600,000-strong country will be larger than that of 160 million-strong Nigeria. Is Africa preparing for a major war? In January of 2012, the Navy of Equatorial Guinea officially added ...

On Tuesday twelve members of the Buffalo’s firefighter squad were rewarded $2.7 million for emotional distress after a judge ruled that the city of Buffalo racially discriminated white men. According to the lawsuit filed back in 2007, the city overlooked the twelve individuals and promoted ...

He then addressed Darwinism’s inability to account for the all-or-nothing structure of cellular systems, including the human body. As a medical doctor, Kuhn not only knows the general arrangement of the human body’s visible parts, he also understands the interrelated biochemical syst ...

The US Congress has passed a bill which approves government’s deployment of up to 30,000 spy drones in the country’s airspace by 2020, raising serious concerns about the ensuing privacy infringement. The bill, which facilitates the government use of unmanned spy planes in US airspace, requires t ...

Are the media actually picking on the catholic church over child sexual abuse, as petulantly claimed by the Vatican’s propaganda machine? Or are catholic church leaders truly the last people in the world any responsible parent would want to have anything to do with their children? Last yea ...

Vatican PR is in overdrive again, trying to ensure there is no possibility of any unauthorised commentary of the so-called “Global Summit on Sexual Abuse” this week, other than their own carefully manipulated spin. Surprisingly, Vatican PR has finally realised how little credibility ...

This poem is dedicated to all the apologists, enablers and paedophile protectors of the catholic church. But particularly to the founder of the Passionist family group movement who introduced a monster into family homes. He then let this criminal have even more unsupervised access to his favouri ...

The Netherlands has recently been added to the growing list of countries or local authorities to have conducted official investigations into the catholic church’s cover up of widespread child rape. Just like those in the US and Ireland, Dutch authorities found the actions, or lack of actio ...

The Catholic Church hierarchy used to be able to manipulate and hoodwink their local populace by speaking, writing, singing, praying and conducting business in Latin. A simple but very effective means to disempower a local populace, especially when coupled with the impossibility of any but the r ...

TweetChemical structure of BPA A host of manufactured chemicals in the food and water supply is wreaking havoc on our health. One common characteristic among the effects of many of these substances is a decrease in fertility, accompanied by a rise in afflictions affecting the reproductive sys ...

Tweet Authored by Nikolas Kozloff As the Venezuelan presidential election approaches in October, Washington is undoubtedly hoping that Hugo Chávez will go down to stinging electoral defeat and that the populist leader’s geopolitical alliance will crumble and come to an ignominious end. Of partic ...

TweetDuring the second and final day of the U.K. Supreme Court's hearings on Julian Assange's extradition, Matrix Chambers attorney Clare Montgomery offered her rebuttal to arguments made yesterday by Assange's counsel. (Dinah Rose is representing Assange in his fight against extradition to Swed ...

TweetAuthored by Joe B. Today I received another large stack of LEGAL from the Privy Council Office regarding WikiLeaks. Back in July of 2011, I wrote about the DFAIT WTF, where I got the e-mails from the various diplomats who headed the WikiLeaks Task Force in Canada. Unlike the PCO, DFAIT gave ...

Tweet At Day 1 of the Julian Assange extradition hearing On the night before the hearing began, one dedicated Assange supporter in London told me that she planned to arrive at Court by 6 a.m., ahead of the throngs that she expected based on the turnout at Assange's hearing last November. No doub ...

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today voiced hope that Argentina and the United Kingdom can avoid escalating their dispute over the Falkland Islands (Malvinas) and resolve their differences through dialogue.

A senior United Nations human rights official has voiced concern over a wave of violence inside prisons in South America, where at least eight inmates have been killed in the past two weeks in four separate countries.

Haiti has made some progress in restoring the rule of law, the United Nations independent expert on the human rights situation in the Caribbean country said today, citing as examples the appointment of the president of the highest appellate court and the upcoming establishment of the supreme cou ...

An increasing crime rate is threatening economies and livelihoods in Caribbean countries, states a new United Nations report that calls for the right mix of policies and programmes to tackle the problem.

A United Nations-backed census has been launched in the Dominican Republic to improve to the lives of hundreds of refugees and asylum-seekers.

Hemp growing doesn't need any weed killing, no pesticide. Its raw material grows naturally and it doesn't need chemical intervention.

Blood coltan still exists. I'm holding a mobile phone. And I know that the microprocessor it contains uses coltan. And if this coltan has been obtained at the massacre of 10 or 20 villagers through slave labor, the suffering of children forced to work in the mines by the armed militia. This is i ...

Some state governments passed measures to forcibly quarantine residents, incarcerate those who refuse to be vaccinated, and to forcibly vaccinate your children. Legislation like this passed during the much hyped H1N1 flu outbreak.

Not only was debris from many UFO crashes allegedly shipped to the base, but from the late 1940s until the end of the late 1960s, all reports regarding UFOs were conducted at Wright-Patterson for the military's official UFO investigation Project Blue Book.

You might be surprised at all of the constructive uses HAARP could be used for, but will be even more surprised by its focus on weapons and military applications, such as weather modification, geological disruption such as triggering earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, and perhaps most controver ...

NASA – NASA Finds 2011 Ninth-Warmest Year on Record.

This issue made the news last fall, but we thought it would be good to keep the topic active and to remind our readers to look around for real and potential hazards to our wild friends. Bird Death Pipes “Hollow metal and plastic (PVC) pipes and posts are found throughout the world and serv ...

Seven science colleagues present tributes to Paul S. Martin, 1928 – 2010: Jim King, Geoff Spaulding, Gary Haynes, Alberto Burquez, Tom Van Devender, David Burney, and Connie Barlow (plus, Paul’s son, Tom Martin). The outdoor memorial service was held on the University of Arizona&#821 ...

Ten years ago at the end of a three-week trip in Argentinean Patagonia and the rain-soaked, glacier-whittled southern Chilean coast, I took a nasty fall.   After flying home to New Mexico, my back, which had never bothered me before, grew steadily worse over the coming months.  I soon had to sto ...

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  GOP Presidential candidate Rick Santorum has a freedom problem. He says there is too much freedom on the Internet and it should be regulated. He was the only candidate that did not take a strong stand against SOPA and PIPA and called for regulating the Internet and said freedom shoul ...

  It is with troubling concern that we report today that the Western Nations have announced this week that the ancient German city of Meerholz, Germany has now become the ‘Heart’ of the European Union with the inclusion of the former Soviet block nations of Bulgaria and Romania. ~ May ...

  Justice in this country is a seething cauldron of deceit and corruption working to promote all that is diametrically opposed to good... ~ Jerry McConnell read more

  The stated mission of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is to protect and promote public health through the regulation of everything from food products to pharmaceutical drugs. ~ Anthony Gucciardi read more

  While much has been made recently of the President's unconstitutional appointment of Richard Cordray to be director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), lost in the hubbub has been any discussion of the unconstitutionality of, or the need for, the CFPB itself. ~ Ron Pa ...

Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV February 6, 2012 [download video] [download audio] The United States is faced with anti-war protesters who also condemn the assassinations of Iran’s high profile nuclear scientists. An analyst believes that warmongering groups in Wall Street provoke wars in the ...

Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net February 5, 2012 Webster Tarpley reporting from Tehran, Iran [download audio]

Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV January 29, 2012 [download video] The United States and the European Union have recently slapped unilateral sanctions against Iran’s oil and banking sectors based on the unsubstantiated claim that Iran is trying to acquire a military nuclear technology. T ...

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Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV January 17, 2012 recorded on January 15, 2012 [download video] [download audio] The United States is working hard to persuade other countries to obey its domestic law on sanctioning the Iranian Oil industry. Many experts believe that the US will face strong res ...

image: TVnz A passenger on a flight from Japan to New Zealand commented to the flight crew of noticing other passengers with flu-like symptoms, sounding the alarm and prompting a quarantine when the flight landed some hours later. As it turns out, there were approximately 70 Japanese ‘home ...

In today’ economy we are often hearing from readers that are having trouble ‘prepping’. They are trying to make ends meet and can’t figure out a way to stock up and become prepared with their own supplies. Over the years, I have found that many people simply do not know h ...

As the International Space Station zooms across the planet at 17,227 miles per hour at an altitude of 200 miles, it captures amazing images of our planet from a perspective rarely comprehended by most people living on the surface. The imagery shown in the video below was stitched together from p ...

So many times when I talk to people, be they friends or family or someone I just met, I am sometimes complimented on something I made, and they almost always follow with a , “Oh, I could never do that.” or “Oh, I don’t know how to do that.” For example, someone may ...

Evacuate – Are you ready? The knock comes at your front door. A fireman tells you that you have 20 minutes to evacuate. The wild fire has been burning for several hours now and is headed your way. Panic sets in. What should you take with you? Fires, floods, hurricanes, the list goes on. At ...

Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day.Samsung Announces Galaxy Tab 2. Samsung's just announced a new tablet, the 7-incher Galaxy Tab 2 (7.0). It's Samsung's first tablet to run Google's latest OS, Android 4.0 or the Ice Cream Sandwich, right away. Outifitted thus, ...

Alpha Dog: Goes "Hi Ho," Romps Over HillsIf you're any sort of fan of robotics, you'll know about Boston Dynamics' Big Dog and Alpha Dog--research prototype robots that will be used to inform the design of a genuine military support quadruped robot. Now DARPA has just taken Alpha Dog out into th ...

Two thousand years before smartphones, Plato suggested that excessive democracy would lead directly to tyranny, because sooner or later the majority will choose to trample the rights of the minority. One indication of the wisdom of Plato’s teachings is that all Western “democratic” governme ...

Social is one of the hottest trends in enterprise software, and many companies are considering rolling out products and services that make it easier for employees to share information with each other and communicate with customers and suppliers. Social software covers a lot of ground, but in ...

How do you create technology to recommend new channels to users? And when does a person need to step in to curate these recommendations? In this extended version of the conversation from our latest issue, we chat with Shiva Rajaraman, Group Product Manager for YouTube."On YouTube, our top querie ...

This is Part 2 of a two-part interview in which Asli Bali discusses Turkey's foreign policy interests and objectives with regards to the Middle East. In this second part of the interview, Asli discusses Turkey’s foreign policy in the face of the Arab uprisings, with particular ...

In the halls of the United Nations (UN) in New York, “Libya” hangs like an ellipse. For some, the word connotes a successful agenda for humanitarian intervention. For others, it suggests a disaster. Impending wars in West Asia remain spurred on, or haunted, by “Libya.” Oil traders downp ...

The vision document produced by the organizers of last year’s “Israeli Summer” demonstrations laments how, “for a number of decades, the various governments of Israel have opted for an economic policy of privatization that leaves the free market without reins,” and calls for “ending priv ...

As a well disciplined anthropologist I have learned to be weary of the word “culture.” In fact, it is difficult for me to write the word without using scare quotes. But after Lebanese BDS activists scored an important victory last month, the word has been everywhere in my online universe ...

PNN/ Policy Analysis Unit- ACRPS Israel's stake in what takes place in Syria stems from geographic proximity, the ongoing official state of war between the two countries, Syria's demands to recover the Golan, and Israel's fear that events in Syria could lead to the collapse of the ...

John Plunkett / Guardian: Interview: Tom Curley, Associated Press chief, on driving news faster  —  Stepping down after nine years, the AP boss talks battles with Google, getting paid for content, and effects of phone hacking  —  When he was a cub reporter in the ...

David Carr / New York Times: Twitter Is All in Good Fun, Until It Isn't  —  I was going to tweet about Roland Martin's suspension from CNN, but I decided to write a column about it instead.  It's safer this way.  —  Let me explain.  —  Big me ...

Felix Salmon: Quality vs quantity online  —  At about the same time that Michael Kinsley's hilarious response to a blog post of mine hit the web, The Atlantic also uploaded to its website Kathleen McAuliffe's excellent story about how parasites shape our behavior.  —& ...

Samantha Murphy / Mashable!: Twitter Breaks News of Whitney Houston Death 27 Minutes Before Press  —  Twenty-seven minutes before mainstream media broke the news of Whitney Houston's death on Saturday night, the story was on Twitter, reported by a man who tweeted the news out to ...

Adam Liptak / New York Times: A High-Tech War on Leaks  —  BACK in 2006, before the Obama administration made leak prosecutions routine, a panel of three federal appeals court judges in New York struggled to decide whether a prosecutor should be allowed to see the phone records ...

I suspected it of being a Chemtrail and therefore pulled out the video camera to film it. Many planes went by during the shooting, more than any other time I have ... https://chemtrailsnorthnz.wordpress.com/.../chemtrail-and-ufo-...

Maui residents craft legislation to ban geo-engineering 'chemtrails' www.naturalnews.com/033691_chemtrails_Maui.html

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Headlines ChemTrail Pilot Admits to 'Domestic Terrorism'! ... Chemtrails: The Consequences of Toxic Metals and Chemical Aerosols on Human Health · Heavy ... www.davidicke.com/.../53899-chemtrail-pilot-admits-to-dome...

Chemtrails caused rainbow....no rain. ... I have several (which I think are ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcOyMeW0xpU

TEHRAN - Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei on Sunday warned the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas against any "compromise" in its fight against Tehran's nemesis Israel, his official website reported. "Always be wary of infiltration by the compromisers in a resistance organization, which w ...

In January, Michel Chossudovsky reported British media confirming UK/CIA/MI6 operatives in Syria training anti-Assad Western-backed insurgents. They're also supplying them with arms, ammunition, and equipment. "These reports confirm unequivocally [they're illegally] interfer[ing] in the affa ...

NEW YORK -- Investors thinking of buying a piece of Facebook after it goes public are hoping it will perform like Google, whose stock has risen 500 percent since its debut seven and a half years ago. But they may want to spare a thought for companies slightly less exciting - a truck leasing ...

He was the man who sent her on the path to stardom. But amid mourning the untimely passing of his protege Whitney Houston, Clive Davis braved a public appearance at his annual Grammys party Saturday night. The 79-year-old music mogul is seen here being consoled by RnB star Alicia Keys - outs ...

Iran has further restricted access to the Internet and blocked popular email services for the past few days, in a move a top lawmaker said could "cost the regime...

A Dutch professor has examined a draft of the upcoming IPCC report. He says it has been written by people who start from the assumption that dangerous, human-caused global warming has been proven.

In recent years the world's oldest science academy has been taken for a joyride. Three centuries of neutrality have been impulsively abandoned - in the name of fighting climate change.

Is it any wonder that young climate scientists behave badly? Their elders set the example - by hurling insults at dissenters.

A climate debate that includes Al Gore’s climate ideas - but not Bob Carter’s - is no debate at all.

Many jurisdictions frown on advertising that is aimed at children. But UNESCO says nursery schools should teach kids about sustainable development.

Hollywood is converting blockbuster films into 4-D because cinemagoers are shunning pricey multi-dimensional 3-D versionsBut the experience has left some fans feeling sick, damp and pummeled after watching movies like Kung Fu Panda 2 and the latest ...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & ...

Rory McIlroy's Tiger-esque performance at Congressional has many golf fans wondering what the 22-year-old has in store for Royal St. George's, one of the most difficult courses in the Open Championship rotation. Past winners Walter Hagen, Sandy Lyle and.. Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...

Snails are able to survive intact after being eaten by birds, according to scientists.Japanese white-eyes on the island of Hahajima, Japan feast on tiny land snails. Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

How high will the oceans rise in response to our warming global climate, and how fast will it happen?Climate scientists have been unable to answer these basic questions with any confidence, mainly because they can't really tell how the ice caps at the.... Submitted by Anna Smith to Environment ...

Haji Ali Dargah in Mumbai is a popular pilgrimage destination for devotees of all faith. Many devotees visit Dargah from different walks of life. It is situated 500 yards off shore in the middle of Worli Bay in Mumbai. The mosque was built in 1431 by a... Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...

2012election.procon.org - Candidate Finances –The five remaining Republican candidates (Gingrich, Paul, Roemer, Romney, and Santorum) have raised $98,252,290 cumulatively, while Democratic President Barack Obama has raised $128,353,560 million, and Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson has raise ...

sportsanddrugs.procon.org - Lance Armstrong Cleared and Alberto Contador Found Guilty - A two-year investigation into seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong ended on Feb. 3, 2012 with no charges filed by federal prosecutors. On Feb. 6 ...

2012election.procon.org - Did You Know? Little Known Facts about US Presidential Elections - Did you know that a presidential candidate has won the election despite losing the popular vote four times in US history, or that every US President since 1852 has been either a Republican or a Democrat? ...

medicalmarijuana.procon.org - NEW: 16 States with Pending Legislation to Legalize Medical Marijuana - Bills that would legalize medical marijuana are being considered in 16 states. Ten bills carried over from 2011 in states that have two-year legislative sessions. One state, Delaware, passed m ...

2012election.procon.org - 2012 Presidential Candidate Summary Chart - See Gary Johnson (Libertarian), the five remaining Republican candidates (Gingrich, Paul, Roemer, Romney, and Santorum), and Barack Obama's positions on 30 different issues in our side-by-side candidate summary chart.

This blogs entries have been moved to http://worldtruthtoday.wordpress.com/ I will no longer post anything here, although site will remain open for a while. Thanks Grace

Why Are Men So Violent? Jesse J. Prinz It will not have gone unnoticed that men are more violent than women. Men perpetrate about 90 percent of the world’s homicides and start all of the wars. But why? A recent article in a prominent science journal contends that evolution has shaped men t ...

Why caring for my aging father has me wishing he would die Sandra Tsing Loh Recently, a colleague at my radio station asked me, in the most cursory way, as we were waiting for the coffee to finish brewing, how I was. To my surprise, in a motion as automatic as the reflex of a … Read&# ...

Isaac Chotiner … a Mumbai garbage-sorter takes the witness stand to defend the honor of his dead wife. A trial is being held to determine whether the defendant beat, and drove to suicide by self-immolation, the woman everyone in Annawadi calls The One Leg. After an argument with her neighb ...

All patriotic Americans ought to stand up and say enough is enough. We need a law to put a stop to this literally-abuse. A. Barton Hinkle … Literally? Yikes. The last time a Cat-5 hurricane made landfall in the United States was seven years ago, when Katrina slammed into New Orleans. Tuesd ...

A peculiar experiment inspired by the Enlightenment sheds light on the age-old question of what makes us human. Max Byrd Once or twice a year France’s National Museum of Technology, on the nondescript rue Vaucanson in Paris, announces a special demonstration. On the second floor, at the en ...

 The Royal Society has launched the final report of the Brain Waves series, which investigate developments in neuroscience and their implications for society and policy.  Brain Waves 3: Neuroscience, conflict and security examines the potential applications of neuroscience in a military and law ...

This week marks the first anniversary of the popular uprising in Egypt that resulted in the overthrow of the then president, Hosni Mubarak. Yesterday, as new rounds of demonstrations were taking place in Egypt, I attended the launch of an Institute of Development Studies bulletin on The Pulse of ...

In what might be described as the science policy Christmas lecture, former Royal Society President Lord Rees offered a tour de force of recurrent issues in science policy. Speaking at the Cambridge Centre for Science and Policy, Rees navigated issues from energy supply to food security, with a n ...

FROM CLAIRE COPE IN THE SCIENCE POLICY CENTRE Scientists collect data; analyse it; try to make sense of it all; and publish their findings in a scientific journal. Right? Well yes, but it’s not always as simple as that. The way in which science is conducted has changed dramatically over the past ...

The Index on Censorship held a debate asking if transparency is bad for science on Tuesday evening. Two of the Royal Society’s ‘Science as a Public Enterprise’ working group were on the panel: Sir Mark Walport FRS and Baroness Onora O’Neill FRS. Onora mentioned a useful  report by Kieron O’Hara ...

Regardless of whether this particular agreement bears fruit for those seeking to bring the two countries into a closer union, or whether it is just another waypoint on the road of a much longer and more detailed process, the very real concerns about the erosion of national sovereignty implicit i ...

"On Tuesday December 13th the Minister of the Environment Peter Kent announced that Canada is removing itself from the Kyoto Protocol. Kent is pushing for a more unified agreement that would unite all nation's on a global scale."

"Any deal which gives the Department of Homeland Security more personal information poses a serious risk to privacy rights"

We knew that there was nothing “new” at all to be found in this "new border vision"

By: Press For Truth (http://www.pressfortruth.ca) Release Date: 11/9/11 The agenda for a North American Union is underway and a new security perimeter deal will blur the lines at the border and further erode the sovereignty of Canadians and Americans. On November 13th Stephen Harper, Barack Ob ...

WASHINGTON - Who says hairbrush can only be used to comb locks? Scientists have made a hairbrush like device that would be able to monitor mental activity. One of the main techniques for measuring and monitoring mental activity, called functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), can often b ...

LONDON - Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has told key striker Wayne Rooney that he must respect the club and its traditions if he wants to stay on. Commenting on reports that suggest that the star player wants to leave Manchester United for another club - either Manchester City or ...

SYDNEY - Google Street View has spotted a god-like figure floating midair above a lake in Quarten, Switzerland. Although the image, discovered by the Gawker blog, is apparently the result of some sort of light distortion or lens flare, blogger Max Read has questioned whether it might have more ...

WASHINGTON - Dogs-apart from being man’s best friend-have a special role to play in the lives of children with special needs. A new study by the Universite de Montreal has suggested that specifically trained service dogs can help reduce the anxiety and enhance the socialization skills of ...

WASHINGTON - A new study has revealed human sex hormones influence the structure and function of the right ventricle (RV) of the heart. The researchers found that in women receiving hormone therapy, higher estrogen levels were associated with higher RV ejection fraction and lower RV end-systol ...

Manny Badillo (right) with fellow 9/11 victim family member Bob McIlvane at Ground Zero It's our great pleasure today to have Manny Badillo joining us via skype from New York. Manny is one of the architects of the extremely effective Remember Building 7 campaign and was also instrumental in ...

Most Americans are astonished to discover that right up to 9/11, the CIA was developing a "Real Politik" vision of Iraq that recognized the fast approaching collapse of U.N. Sanctions. The CIA was preparing for Peace---with a ruthless determination that the United States would capture the lion's ...

Tonight I am joined by lawyer and human rights advocate Rochelle Macredie. In the show we take a look at some of the major breaking stories in the news and Rochelle gives her analysis of what is required to roll back the march towards war and tyranny which we see unfolding across the world rig ...

Obama signing the National Defense Appropriations Act Tonight we look at a variety of local and international stories, with a focus on the ominous passing of the National Defense Appropriations Act (NDAA). The Act allows for the military detention of American citizens without due process, abou ...

Tonight I am joined by psychologist Karla Cryer as we look forward to the coming "Year of the Dragon" and try to anticipate what is likely to unfold on the world stage. Some topics we address include the  familiar, such as the looming attack on Iran, global financial collapse and the Nann ...

Happy Friday, all! We just wanted to remind you about the The Economist's fast-approaching World Oceans Summit where 200 global leaders, including our CEO Andy Sharpless, will discuss the future of our oceans. The summit, which takes place in Singapore from Feb. 22-24, will offer a robust ex ...

This stonefish is far scarier than your average shark. If you think that sharks are the scariest creatures in the sea, this post may surprise you. As we've discussed in the past, the majority of shark attacks are caused by only three species (white, tiger, and bull), yet there are more than ...

© Oceana/Juan Cuetos Plastic is one of the most common pollutants that end up in the ocean, but the properties that make it ideal for shopping make it deadly to marine life. Plastics are durable and do not decompose easily, which means they can stay in the ocean for decades. And because ...

Oregon's Otter Rock. © Oceana/Will Race Today the Oregon Senate passed Senate Bill 1510, which brings Oregon’s first network of marine reserves and marine protected areas off the Oregon coast one step closer to implementation. An ecologically significant network of marine reserves and protec ...

© Oceana/Jesus Renedo More than 100 dolphins have beached themselves in Cape Cod, Massachusetts this winter, and no one knows why. In the northeastern United States, it’s normal for about 230 animals to beach themselves over the course of a year. But this year, 129 common dolphins have been ...

Eberhard von Breitenbuch was a cavalry officer cast in the die of Prussian horse handlers who achieved the rank of Rittmeister, or cavalry master in the Wehrmacht. He served on the Russian front in Army Group Center. He was a subordinate and admirer of General Geunter Fluge and Field Marshall Er ...

In 1937, Axel von dem Bussche was 18 but after proper schooling entered the German Army as an officer. During those lean times, it was a logical choice. Nazis had resources and jobs when others were still suffering. He joined enthusiastically but secretly was aghast at the activities of the Nazi ...

  The Sanger Silverbird was a revolutionary design for a jet powered super sonic plane that could deliver a nuclear bomb to America from stratospheric altitudes. Upwards of 80,000 feet. It had an engine cooling system that circulated the jets own fuel to keep temperatures down. The plane wa ...

South Sudan split from Sudan on November 9th, 2011. It is recognized by the United Nations and represents the further splitting of countries that has gone on unabated since World War II. The Capitol city is Juba. To the south is Ethiopia, and Kenya, and Uganda. The Congo and the Central African ...

      Ryan engineers knew the Fireball had a thrust to weight ratio of 1, and so wondered whether it would fly if it was launched in a configuration as a tail sitter. The X-13 Ryan Vertijet flew once properly vertical, hovered and landed.     The French developed their o ...

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Not satisfied with President Obama’s new religious accommodation, Republicans will move forward with legislation by Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO) that permits any employer to deny birth control coverage in their health insurance p ...

But the reality of life here is that Mr. Gulbranson and many of his neighbors continue to take as much help from the government as they can get. When pressed to choose between paying more and taking less, many people interviewed here hemmed and hawed and said they could not decide. Some were red ...

Pres. Obama’s $26 billion mortgage settlement with the nation’s five largest banks is a paltry sum. However, next to the tobacco settlement, it’s the biggest in history. If you read on the subject, let alone watch Dylan Ratigan who talks about a $13 trillion hole, this seems not even ...

Whitney Houston has died at the age of 48. HuffPost, which is particularly good with celebrity items, is updating with details. What a voice she once had. It’s always a tragedy when someone dies young. But to those who have been given so much, dying young seems even worse, especially when ...

Mitt Romney won the CPAC presidential straw poll with 38 percent of the vote, finishing with a single-digit lead over runner-up Rick Santorum, who pulled 31 percent support. Newt Gingrich was a distant third, with 15 percent, followed by Ron Paul, with 12 percent. [...] For the first time, CPAC ...

Facing growing criticism over lack of reforms and transparency, Jordan's King Abdullah has announced an unprecedented crackdown on corruption, sending a number of his former top government officials to prison. But the clampdown has only increased the

Forwarded email: "We have news from Hamza's lawyer that the Malaysian government is hesitant to deport Hamza because of the international pressure. Earlier today, his lawyer has informed us that he is being prepared for extradition to Saudi and a plane

Discrimination, prejudice, bigotry, intolerance, persecution, racism, and xenophobia have existed in all historical eras and in all countries in some form. However, there is something altogether distinctive in the extraordinary persistence of

A newly-released study from the British organization Student Rights exposes a problem of which the moderate British Muslim community has been aware for years: the advance of radical ideology among young Muslims, through videos and direct preaching. A

The National Intelligence Organization, or MİT, rejected Thursday an Istanbul prosecutor's invitation for its head to answer questions in an ongoing judicial process as the government lent its full support to the chief in an effort to avert the deepening

“OMG, what’s he off on now?” you’re wondering as you contemplate another week on the treadmill at work.  Oh…err…just trying to find the right bit from my past that sets a mental framework for assembling all the days seemingly disjointed … Continue r ...

Well, well, well…seems another one of those news items predicted by the “rickety time machine” is about to fall into our laps.  A reader sends this: “Happy Monday, George! Whilst the bread and circus of the Grammy show was being … Continue reading →

Yeah, I know, you thought Limbo was in the Caribbean, or on cruise ships, but it’s late in the week, and creativity burns low, so go with me on this.  The reason for the limbo label is that violence is … Continue reading →

Yesterday I was complaining about the (create employment, pander to fear) planes to launch up to 30,000 drones over the USA in the next seven years but this morning we’ve come across a report about how the Los Angeles Police … Continue reading →

Word that a national settlement is near on the recent – years long – problems in the mortgage industry can be taken with a grain of salt, I’m afraid.  While it’s perhaps a good thing that New York and California … Continue reading →

Gerald Celente - A Vote Against Ron Paul Is A Vote FOR War

Gerald Celente - A Vote Against Ron Paul Is A Vote FOR War

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Once you have been to ‘one’ Nigerian party in your life it is safe to say that you will always know the menu. It is an unwritten rule that you can be as exotic as you like, but if your party lacks certain fundamental items, it really isn’t a party. There ‘must’ be J ...

I once attended a wild party where I had an unusual encounter. It came in the form of a one night stand. I was a twenty-two year old student, sent to the US to get my MBA so I could take over my father’s thriving business someday. My girlfriend whom I’d whimsically thought would become [...]

This topic is for you, yes, you! I want to know your opinion on this matter. What do you think? A 12 year old has a baby, should she be allowed to keep it? On a biological level this is perhaps not a very common scenario, but for some reason, Amy is 12 years old [...]

It’s one of the biggest issues facing sexual relationships today and the demise of most relationships can usually be traced back to it. But what exactly is cheating? The dictionary defines it rather unhelpfully as “marital disloyalty; adultery”. I find this definition almost insulting. Where do ...

Spending Christmas in hospital was not how Yinka envisioned her holidays. Hospitals were places where she received bad news: “I’m sorry your aunt is dead”; “I’m sorry you can’t concieve children naturally “; and so on. She and her husband, Tunde had worked hard all year, deferring all their annu ...

Much to do here even as the semester winds down in Boston and Cambridge. On Monday, science writer Carl Zimmer meets Terry Gilliam, so to speak. Zimmer will be the speaker at the Coolidge Corner Theatre's "Science and Screen" airing of Gillam's 12 Monkeys. In a future world devastated by di ...

Artist Brian Knep has a lab on Longwood Avenue -- not a studio. He's not a scientists; he's the Harvard Medical School artist-in-residence. Knep says he looks to science for "metaphors about life, about change, about healing." So, when he led group through the Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge ...

When new drug development company H3 decided to throw a party to launch the opening of Kendall Square labs and offices, organizers didn't have to go very far. They took the elevator downstairs. Last week, local researchers, bio boosters and lots of men in dark suits from the Japanese drug comp ...

Massachusetts environmental regulator recognized that there is a big difference between TB and Ebola. So, last week, they granted Boston University permission to begin using their new biolab to work on bio safety level-2 materials. From the Globe: For years, the National Emerging Infectious ...

Most of Harvard's Science and Cooking Lectures are first come, first served, so to speak. But, you needed a ticket for Tuesday's return of superstar Spanish chef and modernist Ferran Adrià of elBulli, who talked about "The New Culinary Think Tank - el bulli 2.0." And they were scooped up a few d ...

Josh Mogerman, Deputy Director, National Media, Chicago I take the CTA’s Green Line trains to work most days. Yeah, that is the line dissed by “Stuff Chicagoans Say” recently… It is the oldest line in the system, including ...

Jennifer Sass, Senior Scientist, Washington, D.C. Today, I am pleased to have a guest blogger, Dr. Barry Castleman, a world-renowned asbestos public health expert, report from Italy on this historic criminal trial. Here's his report: Tomo ...

Pierre Bull, Policy Analyst, Air & Energy, New York City Documentaries present stories and dilemmas that use a variety of available media and first-hand interviews from real-life events. The recently released documentary, "Windfall," gives "us a fir ...

Deron Lovaas, Federal Transportation Policy Director, Washington, D.C. "I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a whol ...

Bobby McEnaney, Land Policy Analyst, DC CBO Scores Oil Shale Revenues at Zero As Congress heads to a vote on Speaker Boehner’s proposal to fund the nation’s transportation and infrastructure needs by generating revenues via increased oi ...

Here are the 20 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Friday, February 10, 2012: Culpepper VA cop’s version of why he shot unarmed 54yr-old female motorist to death contradicted by witness [4] on.wusa9.com/ye2thV 6 Philadelphia PA cops su ...

Someone sent me an email telling me about the above video which I thought was very well made, taking our “If you see something, film something” idea and keeping it moving forward. I’m impressed. Here are the 15 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Miscon ...

Here are the 15 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Wednesday, February 9, 2012: Memphis TN cop gets 8 years for shooting himself in a bid to get the attention of an underage girl he liked then falsely accusing the teen’s relative of sh ...

Sorry this daily recap is a bit late, we had another site outage last night that occurred before I was ready to publish the update. Anyway, here are the 18 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Tuesday, February 8, 2012: 2 Mason OH cops are the ...

Here are the 18 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Monday, February 6, 2012: Cincinnati OH cop who refused to give a statement to investigators about why he shot an unarmed man to death is now the subject of a lawsuit over that shooting inci ...

The Israel embassies in India and Georgia have been targeted by bomb attacks, with one bomb going off in New Delhi and injuring two people, and the second device in Tbilisi defused. In New Delhi, the wife of an Israeli diplomat was injured when an embassy car exploded. The woman succeeded in get ...

The Arab League has drafted a resolution on Syria that calls on the United Nations Security Council to send an “international peacekeeping force” into the country. Source.

Iran has cut off access to the Internet, leaving millions of people without access to email and social networks. A source inside the country confirmed this morning that Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo email are no longer available. Ditto for Facebook. So far, the government has not made any announceme ...

Without specifying which nations he is accusing, Moscow’s deputy FM says Western countries are arming and advising rebels, says Russia will take “drastic measures” if West keeps pushing issue at UN Security Council. Russia said on Friday that the West was stoking the conflict i ...

Once again, another shocking story that threatens the personal privacy of US citizens has been kept from us by our politicians and the mainstream media. Did you know that a bill, HR 658, the FAA Air Transportation Modernization and Safety Improvement Act, has just passed both the House and the S ...

Pinterest is accused of spamming users’ friends, Google’s Motorola Mobility deal looks set to be approved, and Apple is busy picking apps to demonstrate when it launches the iPad 3....

Google’s cloud file storage called Drive appears to be launching soon. Samsung avoided a German shutdown of sales on its reformed Galaxy 10.1N tablet. It looks like the the iPad...

Path uploads your address book to its servers without permission, Flickr shuts down an app that’s trying to poach its users, and Sky News imposes strict rules on tweeting journalists....

We get some potential details about the forthcoming Apple iTV. Brazil is suing Twitter and India is going after Google and Facebook. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday...

Netflix releases its first original content, the Super Bowl smashes a Twitter record and one Russian mobile operator has encouraged its customers to compete to be the ultimate 3G data...

Watch an average Australian house transform into a zero-carbon, low-energy, high-performance home before your eyes! Based on the Zero Carbon Australia Buildings Plan, due for release in May 2012.   Date: Sunday 19 Feb 2012 Time: 1 - 2.30pm Place: BMW Edge, Federation Square, VIC Cost: Free

Matthew Wright Fortunately for the Federal Government, it can use a “Leaf” to hide its growing embarrassment at being exposed for suppressing its own report warning of sharp declines in global oil production in five years time. In 2009, Transport Minister Anthony Albanese’s Bureau of In ...

Unconventional gas emissions up to seventy times worse than industry claims - immediate moratorium a must Real time air sampling of gas fields in the US has shown leakage rates of up to over seventy times greater than the rates assumed by industry and accepted by government in Australia. The stu ...

From ABC Radio National Drive Listen Here [Waleed Aly] 19 minutes past the hour, your're on RN Drive, Waleed Aly with you, its time for our Wednesday Panel. Do you have Solar Power at home? Lots of Australian homes now do have rooftop solar panels now, thanks partly due to government subsidies ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 09 Feb 2012 Beyond Zero Emissions is calling for a complete cessation of CSG mining and exploration activities across NSW and QLD following the verified leak of toxic chemicals into the environment at a NSW CSG field owned by SANTOS. "All CSG activities must stop to protect ...

Researchers have discovered a new species of lizard in the Peruvian Andes, whose males sport beautiful colors, according to a paper in ZooKeys. The highest-dwelling known species of the genus Potamites, the new lizard, dubbed Potamites montanicola, was found in forest streams at 1,500 to 2,000 m ...

Drilling in the Arctic waters of the U.S. may become as contested an issue as the Keystone Pipeline XL in up-coming months. Scientists, congress members, and ordinary Americans have all come out in large numbers against the Obama Administration's leases for exploratory drilling in the Beaufort S ...

Three environmental groups have submitted a letter to British Columbia Premier, Christy Clark, to ask the government to speed up the process of implementing the Great Bear Rainforest Agreement, which is meant to ensure 70 percent of old-growth forest is maintained.

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Program (WFP) have warned that South Sudan is facing a food crisis and that immediate action is needed to stave off a disaster. Currently 4.7 million people do not have enough to eat in South Sudan, while one million of these face se ...

More companies are reporting on the impact of their operations on global forests, finds a new report. Eighty-seven global corporations disclosed their "forest footprint" in 2011, according to the third Forest Footprint Disclosure (FFD), which asks companies to report on their impact on forests b ...

The police are currently investigating nurses working at the Princess Christiana Maternity Hospital (PCMH) also known as ‘Cottage’ for theft of a boy child. Miatta Bangura, a pregnant woman, Thursday 2nd was at the Cottage Hospital where she gave birth to a boy.  Lahai Bundu (brother of Miatta a ...

Abdul Aziz Bangura, a US citizen and former footballer for Eastend Lions and Old Edwardians football clubs Thursday 2nd, February was refused bail, sent to the central maximum prison for allegedly stealing travelling luggage of one Saidu Sesay at Lungi airport.  (US suspect Abdul Aziz Bangura in ...

The Army Chief of Defence Staff Brigadier General Yirah Koroma (in photo), Thursday 9th refers as ‘baseless and unfounded’ a press release recently put out by the main opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP). At the usual information press briefing, Brigadier Yirra told sections of the med ...

Residents of Jones Street and Salmon Street in Kissy east of Freetown lauded the degree of security coordination between them and management of Kissy Mess Mess Police Station. They also gave kudos to the Kissy Police Station local partnership board chairman, Mohamed Kamara aka Med. K for his for ...

“Work in Moyamba town appears slow due to the unavailability of funds.  Five roads should be reconstructed here, and Siaka Stevens Street, located in the central part of the township is major to us,” residents say. Residents say they appreciate the road reconstruction strides as to them it helps ...

Dairy farming cooperative Fonterra will use the NZX to operate the Fonterra shareholders' market as part of Trading Among Farmers (TAF) scheme, NZX said today.The market will be a platform where Fonterra farmer shareholders will...

Parliament's commerce committee has decided to re-adopt an inquiry into the price of milk that will stretch from the farm gate to the retailer. Last year the committee, then chaired by Lianne Dalziel, launched a broad-based inquiry...

Dairy co-operative Fonterra is recommending a change to its plans for share trading in a bid to allay concerns from its farmer owners.Fonterra is planning a capital structure change - given 89.85 per cent support by farmers - aimed...

The boutique grocery store that dropped the price of its milk to make a point has sold thousands of bottles at $1 a litre - and is now promising to keep milk cheaper than in supermarkets for the rest of the year.Nosh Food Market...

NZ dairy company Fonterra is at risk of being outclassed on its own home turf if it doesn't rapidly develop a strategy to launch high-quality New Zealand brands into the fast-growing Chinese markets.It's hard to credit why Fonterra...

From the Hanover Evening Sun: “As we sat down here to write, we were all ready to pour ourselves a nice tall, cold one. A big glass of raw milk. Surely, something that nutritious and natural couldn’t really be harmful. … Continue reading →

From Powell’s Books.com “What if you cant afford nine-dollar tomatoes? That was the question award-winning journalist Tracie McMillan couldnt escape as she watched the debate about Americas meals unfold, one that urges us to pay foods true cost—which is to … Continue reading &# ...

From Edward Miller, on Civil Eats, where it’s  titled “The Empire Strikes Back”: “On December 2, 2011, two of Wall Street’s top lobby groups launched an assault on a newly reinstated “position limits” regulation, which aims to curb speculation in … Continue reading ...

From Tracey Richardson in the Owen Sound Sun Times: “Durham-area raw milk producer Michael Schmidt’s case will have a hearing in the Ontario Court of Appeal in April. Lawyer Karen Selick said a hearing has been granted in Toronto on … Continue reading →

This just in from Karen Selick, Michael’s lawyer: I have been getting Google Alerts today saying that Bayshore Broadcasting and the Winnipeg Free Press have published info saying that Michael’s date for leave to appeal to the Ontario Court of … Continue reading →

Coverage of the chaos in Greece is now everywhere I look. Here is a sampling of stories: The Guardian Greek protesters fight with police as parliament agrees cuts deal As more than 40 buildings went up in flames, including two historic cinemas and several banks, Athens city centre was l ...

The Financial Times reports Athens passes demanded austerity bill. Greek lawmakers on Thursday approved a tough austerity package aimed at averting a default, but the vote was overshadowed by violent street protests in central Athens and dozens of arson attacks against shops and banks. ...

A few years ago local Chinese municipalities had little debt. Today they have a $1.7 trillion mountain of it, nearly all of it financing economically non-viable projects in the name of "stimulus". The proposed "solution" of course is to roll the debt over, while adding still more to the de ...

Inquiring minds are reading Obama budget seeks to boost trade enforcement, ratchet pressure on ChinaPresident Barack Obama's new budget proposal will ask Congress to devote millions of dollars for a new trade enforcement center and more U.S. inspectors in China as the administration takes aim at ...

It's interesting to watch some of the terms bandied about in headline news. For example, the LA Times headline reads S&P says student loan debt could be next financial bubble. Next? Could Be? What with the word "next"? Also what's with the words "could be"? Without a doubt student ...

How the Advertised Cure Can Actually Cause the Disease Last Friday, the House of Representatives passed its version of new legislation (the STOCK Act) restricting ‘insider’ trading by government workers. The STOCK acronym stands for Stop Trading On Congressional Knowledge.  Members of Congress ( ...

To-Be-NATO Ally Azerbaijan Proves its NATO-Worthiness Today Iran’s foreign ministry summoned Azerbaijan’s ambassador to rebuke him for Azerbaijan’s alleged link to Mossad operations against the Iranian government. Earlier today, the London Times reported that Israel’s Mossad ha ...

Waiting For The Signal These pages that bring us together are the fire in the cave above the stream, no dream we move in and out of, faceless, expendable, waiting for a burst of wings to spill our pooled bones like coins over the chilled and silent ground we fell in love with so long [...]

Curtis Mayfield This week’s music pick, Diamond in the Back, is from the incredible Curtis Mayfield. This song was remembered more for its “Gangsta Lean” line and it’s cool funky rhythm. It was, however, an anthem for being thankful for what you’ve got. That said, i ...

BFP Nightly Quote “Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that numbers of people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience. . . ...

The debt deal is yet another sign that hope and change has been a fiction from the start: Like many, I was extremely hopeful when Obama won in 2008.  And like many I’ve become totally disillusioned with the president and … Continue reading →

Good politifact piece on how Social Security functions and its solvency How the state is revoking our civil liberties by imprisoning people, in some cases for up to 15 years, for recording police brutality with smart phones Economist Dean Baker … Continue reading →

For those who read this on Splice, be sure to re-read the unedited version… Why are we trying to prop up a broken system?: Do you realize how badly you’re being screwed by the health insurance corporations?  Let me give … Continue reading →

Politifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →

Politifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →

Saluting, 7 April 1919: While awaiting the arrival from Europe of his father, Admiral William S. Sims, who was en route on the SS Mauretania. Note his small-scale Sailor’s suit, [...]

Nice work by Andreas Storebø on DOF Subsea’s Skandi Vega. Background on the Skandi Vega… The Skandi Vega is an Anchor Handling Tug Supply Vessel (AHTS) designed for deepwater anchor handling.  Built [...]

I had heard rumors in the past that some ships had outfitted their rec rooms with pool tables, but I never quite believed it.  Why the heck would you put [...]

Milaha, previously known as Qatar Navigation, today announced that its fully-owned subsidiary, Qatar Shipping Company, has signed an agreement to increase its stake in two LNG carriers. Qatar Shipping Company, [...]

RIO DE JANEIRO (Dow Jones)–Fresh from winning one of the world’s single-largest orders for drilling rigs, investment company Sete Brasil plans to spend $27 billion over the next eight years [...]

The Obama administration has recently adopted a very narrow definition of religious exclusions in the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare. The effect of this is that ostensibly religious institutions such as Catholic hospitals and universities would be required, along with everyo ...

"Scores of labour activists and seniors started occupying the offices of Conservative MPs in Ontario Thursday afternoon to protest possible changes in the retirement income system. Supporters of a so-called “Blue-Grey” Alliance entered and stayed in the constituency offices of 20 MPs in the pro ...

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Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird Right now, we have one sovereign United Nations member making explicit overtures about launching a unilateral military attack on another sovereign United Nations member. It isn't just rhetoric, there is a nontrivial possibility that this might actually occu ...

Al-Qaeda’s number one, Ayman al-Zawahiri, has called on anti-government elements in Syria to push for regime change in the country as the Arab League (AL) vows to boost support for the Syrian opposition.

The UN says Israel is dispossessing the Palestinians in the Tel Aviv-occupied territories as well as the members of its Arab minority of their residences through a ‘strategy of Judaization.’

Saudi protesters have held a demonstration in the Qatif region of the Eastern Province to call for an end to the rule of the Al Saud family, Press TV reports.

The Arab League has drafted a resolution on Syria that calls on the United Nations Security Council to send a joint UN-Arab League force into the country.

Israel has significantly increased human rights violations against the Palestinian residents in the West Bank city of al-Khalil, a new report says.

Hi everyone, my name is Coy. The year 2011 was a year of opportunities, challenges, and new experiences. My first semester as a CUNY SPS student greatly expanded my perspectives as I found myself introduced to the vast amount of resources we – students, workers, and citizens of a digital world – ...

2011 is behind us and now we’ve embarked on a new year, 2012. Last year was a pretty good year, especially for me in academia.  As many students can attest, the beginning of a new semester can bring with it, new challenges, fresh perspectives and even elevated stresses. In my experience, as a mo ...

I had a different blog post almost completely written, but then a friend of mine forwarded an email to me entitled, “WHERE ARE ALL THE GIRLFRIENDS OF OBAMA?”. I replied, “Are you serious?” and thus began yet another crisis in our friendship since high school and my scrapp ...

One of the liveliest Discussion Boards this semester in my ECO course was “What about all my stuff?” It concerned supply and demand, why we buy goods and services, the satisfaction derived from those goods and services and whether the owner of the greatest amount of stuff is the winner. Is happi ...

Back in the 60′s, the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions were exciting and we all watched Walter Cronkite or Huntley and Brinkley report all the details from launch to splash down. Beginning with Alan Shepard’s 15 minute sub-orbital flight in 1961 and culminating with the Apollo 11 ...

Would it be easier to create a sustainable global economy if the world more closely resembled the demographics and geography of Iceland — a volcanic island with a manageably small population and a unique abundance of renewable energy? This was among the many questions raised during a panel ...

Those expert in the field of human rights lead charmed and dangerous lives.  Sometimes, they also find themselves in the dock, grilled for their efforts and persecuted for their inclinations.  In the case of the famed human rights warrior, the Spanish High Court Judge Baltasar Garzón, a dramatic ...

Writer Don DeLillo once wrote that reading poetry makes us conscious of breathing. I can’t imagine a better way to put it. The first time I fell in love, really fell in love, it was not with a girl or a woman. It was with a smattering of words here and there on a page. [...]

The United Nations has just released a report, “Resilient People, Resilient Planet: a Future Worth Choosing.” Authored by the High-level Panel on Global Sustainability, it states that the planet is on the brink, devastated, thanks to unchecked exploitation. To avert environmental, economic, soci ...

Some years ago the American writer Jack Hitt made a clever, off-beat observation.  He suggested that if African Americans seriously wished to defuse or neutralize the remaining iconic influence of the confederate flag (which not only is still found throughout the Deep South, but is proudly displ ...

Some big news this morning from the front lines of the debate over how to regulate online piracy. Germany, which had said it would follow along with the rest of the European Union in support of ACTA, (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement), has decided not sign the treaty, according to an Aremnian ...

Rating agency Standard & Poor’s downgraded 34 Italian banks on Friday, including heavyweights UniCredit (CRDI.MI) and Intesa Sanpaolo (ISP.MI), citing a reduced ability to roll over their wholesale debt and expected weak profitability. The move follows S&P’s downgrade of Italy’s sover ...

List of Actions or Beliefs Which May Get You Labeled a Terrorist Grows Daily Every American could – literally – be labeled a suspected terrorist under current governmental criteria. Specifically, the following actions may get a U.S. citizen labeled as a suspected terrorist today: Sp ...

Protests are spreading across central Athens, amid anger over austerity measures being debated by parliament. Protesters threw stones and petrol bombs, and several buildings were set on fire. Police fired tear gas. MPs are discussing a bill to introduce the measures, which are being demand ...

The mood was grim at Paul’s election night party here Saturday when it was announced that the former Massachusetts governor had won the state’s non-binding caucuses. The crowd booed, then went eerily silent, when the results were revealed. “Liar!” shouted one supporter when state GOP Chair ...

Two years ago, a Nigerian asylum seeker died during a forced deportation attempt from Switzerland. Now, the prosecution has dismissed the case, leaving nobody responsible for the young man's death. Instead of re-assessing the deportation system, Swiss authorities prefer ignorance.

The world's two worst polio-affected countries, Pakistan and Afghanistan, have exhausted themselves in failed attempts to wipe out the crippling ailment.

When a group of about 100 mostly Bangladeshi migrant workers went on strike at a construction site over unpaid wages this month, it created ripples in this affluent and orderly island republic.

As the Senate debates the merits of the Canadian government's newly-passed omnibus crime bill, organisations across the country have raised serious issues with the legislation, particularly when it comes to amendments relating to the treatment of young offenders.

The short, one-minute video is grainy but the poor picture quality makes the scene no less chilling. Shot from a balcony, it shows the recently ousted Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed walking out of a building, pleading with military officers to stop rioting police.

Summary: Interview with Peter Jenkins, the former British Ambassador to IAEA. source: irdiplomacy.irread more

Summary: On January 11, 2012, Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, an Iranian nuclear scientist was killed in a blast in Tehran. Two assassins on a motorcycle were seen placing a bomb on his vehicle. Ahmadi Roshan was the latest victim in the series of attacks against scientists working with the Iranian nu ...

Summary: Two schools of thought dominate Iran's foreign policy-making; the first holds that Iran and the United States can reach a compromise through negotiations, the second that Washington is not a reliable partner. By pushing new sanctions and reneging on engagement, Washington has proved ...

Summary: Muhammad Sahimi, Professor of Chemical Engineering and political columnist on Iran issues, discusses the latest anti-Iran talking point from World Net Daily and serial propagandist Reza Kahlili (“Ayatollah: Kill all Jews, annihilate Israel“); what Alireza Forghani, the blogger in que ...

Summary: Anti-war organizations from across the United States and 6 other countries came together on Saturday, Feb. 4, to protest the rising crescendo of threats against Iran. In more than 30 states and 80 cities, large and small, groups joined forces to raise four key demands. "No war, no sa ...

"I believe that an advanced species would probably try to dominate the cosmos. I also believe that advanced intelligence would be AI, and their ability to obtain energy and mass would be far greater than any biological system. In addition,...

Russian scientists opened a frontier miles under the Antarctic ice, after drilling down and finally reaching the surface of 20-million-year-old Lake Vostok, an achievement the mission chief likened to placing a man on the moon. The gigantic buried freshwater reservoir...

NASA and ESA researchers have been debating whether Saturn's tiny moon, Enceladus, harbors a vast underground ocean. New evidence suggests that Enceladus has an ocean that is probably seltzer-like and could be friendly to microbial life. In 2005 NASA's Cassini...

The Milky Way's ancient stars once belonged to other galaxies instead of being the earliest stars born inside the galaxy when it began to form about 10 billion years ago. Many of the Milky Way's ancient stars are remnants of...

"There is much we could do to make even 7 billion sustainable on the planet, and the main obstacle are corporations and networks of power and capital which are benefiting mightily from the status quo and are not going to...

One thing's for sure, life for Fitchburg, Mass., resident Judy Sanchez and her three-year-old daughter will never be quite the same, thanks to appallingly bad intelligence - and judgment - used recently by a team of FBI agents. In late January, a team of agents launched...

Men carrying certain sexually transmitted infections may actually smell worse to women than men without such infections, according to a study conducted by researchers from the Institute of Cytology and Genetics in Novosibirsk, Russia and published in the Journal of Sexual...

Acid reflux is the condition where food and stomach acids regurgitate back into the esophagus, causing burning pain in the lower chest accompanied by a host of other symptoms such as bloating, belching, sore throats, snoring, difficulty breathing and ulcers. The early...

For many months now, Alaskan ringed seals, Pacific walruses, and various other arctic mammals have reportedly been turning up with a mystery disease that manifests itself in the form of oozing skin sores, patchy hair loss, and damaged organs, according to the Alaska...

Age-related macular degeneration is a progressive eye condition, leading to the deterioration of the center of the retina, called the macula. It is the leading cause of blindness in the elderly. The result of a study published in the journal Free Radical Biology and...

Peter Sunde, one of the co-founders of the infamous The Pirate Bay file-sharing search engine, argues that Big Content should start innovating and stop trying to use the courts and the law to put the genie back in the bottle.

After months of tolerating and even defending Occupy DC, park police swept in with a SWAT team and bulldozer. Wired's Quinn Norton was on the ground - literally - as the police evicted a camp that was full of life.

The Supreme Court may soon have its own YouTube channel if the Senate gets its way. The Senate Judiciary Committee approved legislation Thursday that would require the Supreme Court to televise its proceedings.

After threatening web companies for more than a decade, Michael Doyle and his patent-holding company Eolas -- named after the Irish word for knowledge -- may be finished.

The fate of the openness of the interactive web is now in the hands of a jury in Texas, weighing testimony from the Web's early pioneers about the validity of a patent claim on features such as embedded video. A loss means that nearly every major U.S. website could owe thousands to millions of d ...

The American social safety net is back in the news, and not just because Mitt Romney acknowledged, "I'm not concerned about the very poor." This week, the libertarian Mercatus Center at George Mason University revealed that a third of Americans now receive Medicaid, food stamps or other means-b ...

A new study this week from the Commonwealth Fund confirmed the shocking gap between lower and higher income Americans when it comes to health insurance coverage. While only 12 percent of families making $89,400 a year (or four times the federal poverty rate for a family of four) was uninsured a ...

This week, the Virginia House of Delegates passed a "Tebow bill" allowing home-schooled children to participate in sports and other activities at public schools. For the Republican presidential candidates, the Tebow bill is a two-fer that lets them score points with evangelical voters while rid ...

Back in 1992, President George H.W. Bush tried to counter to the growing perception that he was an aloof, out-of touch patrician utterly detached from the economic struggles of the American people. But his laughably awkward pronouncement to voters, "Message: I care," only served to confirm thei ...

For decades, the conservative Heritage Foundation has provided a thin academic veneer to the Republican project of dismantling the post-New Deal social safety net. Last year, for example, Rep. Paul Ryan tried to sell his draconian budget plan by citing a comically flawed Heritage analysis decla ...

A remix/reinvention of Brooks’ MUSIC FOR DIETER RAMS, a radiophonic marvel in which every single note and sound was sourced from the Dieter Rams-designed Braun AB-30 alarm clock.  It was a fascinating bit of work, but RECONSTRUCTIONS is more my speed – reconfiguring the original piece as a ...

Planck mission steps closer to the cosmic blueprint"It comes from the region surrounding the galactic centre and looks like a form of energy called synchrotron emission"(tags:space )

On Saturday, Bahrain arrested and detained two American citizens, Huwaida Arraf and Radhika Sainath, for their role in recent protests. They were deported Sunday and returned to New York last night. Both Arraf and Sainath are human rights activists and members of the Witness Bahrain initiative, ...

Dozens of musicians demonstrated outside the Grammy Awards on Sunday protesting the Recording Academy's decision to eliminate dozens of of ethnic music award categories, including Hawaiian, Haitian, Cajun, Latin jazz, contemporary blues and regional Mexican. Some protesters see racial bias in th ...

Whitney Houston is just the latest cultural icon to pass away during this year's Black History month. On February 1, “Soul Train” host Don Cornelius was found dead at his home in Los Angeles, in what appeared to be a suicide. Cornelius brought black music and culture into America’s living rooms ...

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 ...

Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wright Among 30 Arrested for Protesting Against Abuse of Bradley Manningread more

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 ...

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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 ...

The winter of 2009-10 on the East Coast of the U.S. was dubbed Snowmagedon due to the massive 54.9 inches of snow that fell on the Baltimore-Washington area between December and February. NASA scientists quickly set out to discover what set of conditions allowed for such an unprecedented winter. ...

The Toronto Zoo has a baby polar bear! And possibly even more exciting news is that you can help to name it! Isn’t that cool? There’s a simple form to submit your idea for a name on a Toronto Zoo page for the polar bear cub.

A bicycle bus! I have to admit, I didn’t see one of these when I lived in the Netherlands! (For a bunch of photos of the cool things I did see, however, check out this bicycle photo tour of Groningen.) The Dutch company De Café Racer developed this fun bicycle-bus, a good [...]

Really, I’m not sure why bike companies don’t invest more money in bicycle infrastructure—it’s advertising gone wild! Communities can easily value and trust bike companies that do so, and the companies can even stick permanent advertising along the routes! Well, I don&#8 ...

The most comprehensive map of bike-sharing programs in the world (and it is comprehensive!) hit 2 million total views this last week. After taking a few years to reach its first 1 million, it got to 2 million in just another 11 months. Screenshot of the map above. The person behind [...]

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This morning, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to allow filing of an amicus brief in the Sackett v. EPA

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Caterpillar is moving to newly "Right-To-Work" Indiana, offering rock-bottom wages and searching for anti-union managers. Is the US the new source for cheap labor? Caterpillar announced Friday it would close its London, Ontario, locomotive plant after 465 workers there refused to grant conc ...

Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to the U.S. Political parties in Venezuela are preparing for an intense electoral calendar in 2012 and 2013. On February 12, for the first time in history, several of the parties opposed to the current government will hold primaries to choose ca ...

“What a rag-bag of singular happenings! But surely the most valuable hunting-ground that ever was given to a student of the unusual!” - Sherlock Holmes Far more disconcerting than the recent closings of big chain bookstores is the wave of destruction and censorship of books and informat ...

In addition to sanctions and a series of state-sponsored acts of terrorism and sabotage directed against the people and the nation of Iran, the U.S. and Israel are threating Iran with unprovoked aggression. Iran is unfairly accused of having an “ambition” to develop nuclear weapons and posin ...

Israel to the US: 'We'll Give You the War, You Give Us the Cannon Fodder" In meeting rooms in London, Tel Aviv and Washington the dice have been thrown: snake eyes. Flashback, 1963: When John F. Kennedy decided not to escalate the soon-to-be disastrous ...

By @KYYellowDog Cited in a letter to The Nation: Omaha, essay in the Daily Nebraskan Sometimes I think they can tell. "They" meaning everyone, meaning you probably. "They" meaning professors and friends and prospective employers. Sometimes I think it shows in everything I do and say. In the way ...

By @MBersin Previously: Teresa Hensley (D) to challenge Vicky Hartzler (r) in the 4th Congressional District (January 19, 2012) Teresa Hensley (D) - 4th Congressional District: the paperwork is in, and it's on (January 30, 2012) Campaign Finance: Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r) - FEC January 31 Year-End ...

By @KYYellowDog You may have seen this young man interviewed on Countdown; here is the original article that led to that interview. Derek McGee in The Nation: In late September 2001, I was living in a tent in Lower Manhattan with the 2nd Battalion, 25th Marines, a reserve unit just outside the c ...

By @KYYellowDog In the course of a week, birth control has gone from a non-issue as acceptably mainstream as rock'n'roll to An Existential Threat to Our Most Basic Liberties. And not by accident. David Atkins asks When Will They Ever Learn?: From the "nobody could have predicted" files: The nati ...

By @BGinKC The Law of Unintended Consequences is a term that is thrown around a lot, but it is rarely defined, since it isn't a black-letter law but a "natural" one, so let's start by giving it a working definition. In a nutshell, it states that the actions of people and groups, and especially t ...

Local cat rescue group Four Legs Good has spent years successfully spaying, neutering, vaccinating & monitoring a feral colony in West Haverstraw NY. They recently learned that a few residents who live near the colony have complained to the town... Submitted by Lindsey Williams to Animals &nbsp ...

Greece's parliament approved a deeply unpopular austerity bill on Monday to secure a second EU/IMF bailout and avoid national bankruptcy, as buildings burned across central Athens and violence spread around the country. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Business  |   Note-it! &nbsp ...

After a long hard fight, new legislation has just passed in Greece to protect the animals there, especially from abuse, crush, torture and bestiality. This is a huge step! Now, to get other countries to follow suit! Victory at last! Please note and send!! Submitted by Kim O. to Animals  |& ...

"People Wasn't Made to Burn" by journalist Joe Allen reads like a lively, creative work of fiction with its abundance of larger-than-life characters and a seemingly overdramatized backstory of shocking events awaiting one black family escaping rural--> Submitted by Kit B. to Society & Cultur ...

Petition by the Kids Army Sweden. Not long ago, 40 dolphins where slaughtered in Taiji. Everyone who's watched The Cove Movie, knows how horrible the slaughter is. The dolphins are stabbed with sharp metal harpoons, which hurts them badly. Submitted by Lindsey Williams to Animals  |&n ...

Construction is not the only suffering sector.

Open shirts and bad calls.

Who did I steal from?

The latest in fallacies.

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Hamza Kashgari, a Saudi citizen, faces a death sentence for the audacious act of questioning his own belief in the Prophet Muhammed and Allah. The Herald Sun, among others, reports the story: MALAYSIAN authorities have deported a young Saudi journalist accused of insulting the Prophet Muhammad o ...

What is not obvious is how this scale of extravagant consumption translates into the political conversation. The Anthony Pritzker fortune (LA pile below) that contributes to the LA home that appears as a New Age institute in the video, that includes a bowling alley and a toy store, what is the p ...

This video reminds us of Whitney Houston’s extraordinary ability to sing a song that professional artists agree is a daunting challenge. Thank god, these days, we can watch a video recorded in 1991, seven or more years before the necessary technical breakthroughs. This video transports us ...

Would a supporter of Rick Santorum please stand up and explain why we should take this guy seriously? I do not get it. Yes, Rick is a nice guy (as long as you are not a homosexual), but he has been a creature of Washington, DC for more than 20 years and, despite giving lip [...]

The Obama re-elect has energy, talent, great visuals from 2008 (this mash-up [SEE VIDEO BELOW] is a treat of before the crash of 2008), and the incumbency — and that is plenty to overwhelm a fractured and disconsolate GOP. The Romney campaign crack-up is undeniable even to those in the par ...

Last month I pondered the extent to which the Arab Spring and Occupy Everything are socially-driven acts of creative destruction. Creative destruction is defined as a “process of industrial mutation that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying ...

  The Problem It does not take a genius to realise that the world of video game reviewing is completely and utterly fucked. Their reputations sullied by an endless cavalcade of scandal and stupidity, video game reviewers routinely find themselves in the impossible position of having to bala ...

Most of my columns this year have been about change, from climate change to twitter. Well, this is a start-of-the-year post, and it seems appropriate to take on change in a big way as the year changes. We’re in an unstable moment. Climate change is here and it’s affecting us all. The economy is ...

My life is fairly crammed, and writing time is hard to come by. Today I got one of those precious blocks of time in which I could write for several hours almost without interruption, yet as I fired up the computer, I felt not excited about the prospect, but worried and on edge.  I also [...]Foll ...

Not over coffee and cakes, sadly, but you take what you can get in this crazy world, AMIRITEZ? So when I got the chance to email Eric Drexler – yup, the nanotech guy – with some follow-up questions responding to his inaugural lecture at Oxford Martin College last month, I jumped in w ...

When someone is asked to predict their emotional reaction to a future, hypothetical event, they usually underestimate how they will respond, according to previous research. However, a new study, led by Heather C. Lench of the Department of Psychology at Texas A&M University, suggests otherwi ...

One of the primary reasons people neglect to seek treatment for their mental health problems is because they are concerned about the external and internal stigmas associated with mental illness. Public stigma is the external belief that one is defective if they receive therapy for their problems ...

November 23, 2011 – As we approach Thanksgiving, the day that reminds us to be thankful for those around us, we present Ghandi’s belief in the unity of all living things. Keep this in mind as you care for your loved ones this weekend and for those who are less fortunate. Happy Thanks ...

Engaged couples form patterns of positive and negative behavior that can predict their marital satisfaction. “Serious marital dissatisfaction predicts increased risk for a major depressive episode, even when controlling for history of depression,” said Rebecca E. Osterhout of the New Mexico Vete ...

Panic attacks are usually initiated by a triggering thought or collection of thoughts that are anxiety-provoking in nature. These thoughts then cause an overly exaggerated anxiety response in the body (choking sensations, dizziness, tightness, tingling, etc). These physical sensations are then o ...

Mountaintop removal affects all Huntington Herald Dispatch Mountaintop removal isn't just about pretty mountains. It's about peoples' lives. It's about poisoned water and air. It's about children with cancer and working people dying prematurely. Whether you live in Huntington ...

Coal River Tree-sitter Sentenced To 7 Days In Jail It's Getting Hot In Here She stood up to King Coal to defend the mountain and stop mountaintop removal. Last summer, she sat, along with Becks Collins, in the tree to stop the blasting for a month before coming down. Their banners read “Stop Str ...

A look at Griffith's record TriCities.com Morgan Griffith has voted; to remove spending to ensure the safety of water from mountain top removal; against setting limits on the amount of sewer pollutants put into the Chesapeake Bay (refused to fund); to ban government websites for children abo ...

Accused tree sitter pleads no contest Beckley Register-Herald s Bee Tree Surface Mine in August 2011 to protest the practice of mountaintop removal coal mining. Marfork Coal is a subsidiary of Alpha Natural Resources. Conspiracy charges against MacDougal were dropped, and she was remanded to the ...

Protesters rally against mountaintop mining WDRB (WDRB) -- Protesters frustrated by the lack of action in Frankfort to stop mountaintop removal gathered in the state Capitol Rotunda Thursday. They protested the devastation they claim is caused by the removal of coal from the tops of mountains in ...

Paul Krugman / New York Times: Severe Conservative Syndrome  —  Mitt Romney has a gift for words — self-destructive words.  On Friday he did it again, telling the Conservative Political Action Conference that he was a “severely conservative governor.”&nbsp ...

John Hinderaker / Power Line: Cronyism 101  —  I wrote about my participation in the Koch brothers' semi-annual seminar in Palm Springs two weekends ago here.  Along with Peter Schweizer, I did a presentation on cronyism.  My speech focused on corporate cronyism, while ...

John Bresnahan / Politico: Ethics issues tarnish congressional image  —  The 112th Congress is the most unpopular ever, but is it the most corrupt?  —  The dire headlines about bad behavior by members of Congress are everywhere: At least a dozen House members are ...

Reuters: Greek lawmakers approve austerity bill as Athens burns  —  (Reuters) - The Greek parliament approved a deeply unpopular austerity bill to secure a second EU/IMF bailout and avoid national bankruptcy, as buildings burned across central Athens and violence spread around t ...

Tucker Carlson / The Daily Caller: Inside Media Matters: Sources, memos reveal erratic behavior, close coordination with White House and news organizations  —  This is the first in a Daily Caller investigative series on Media Matters For America.  Daily Caller reporters Ale ...

The coal-fired State Line Power Station, on the Illinois-Indiana border, is closing in March. That is bad news for its employees and the local economy, and raises questions about pollution’s effects.

Fishermen and federal officials are grappling with bleak prospects in the cod industry.

Stricter supervision and standards would help the Energy Department’s loan guarantee program avoid a Solyndra repeat, a government report said.

Building the oil pipeline is not going to lead to apocalypse.

Eleven states argue that drafting new rules in vital to public health. But the Obama administration faces pressure from Republican critics who say that tighter air pollution rules could hurt the economy.

Monday, February 13, 2012 00:49:31 UTC Monday, February 13, 2012 02:49:31 AM at epicenterDepth: 10.80 km (6.71 mi)

Sunday, February 12, 2012 18:09:21 UTC Sunday, February 12, 2012 05:09:21 PM at epicenterDepth: 9.80 km (6.09 mi)

Saturday, February 11, 2012 15:23:07 UTC Sunday, February 12, 2012 02:23:07 AM at epicenterDepth: 39.30 km (24.42 mi)

Saturday, February 11, 2012 07:06:47 UTC Saturday, February 11, 2012 04:06:47 PM at epicenterDepth: 13.10 km (8.14 mi)

Saturday, February 11, 2012 05:10:47 UTC Saturday, February 11, 2012 06:10:47 PM at epicenterDepth: 169.90 km (105.57 mi)

Bleak new statistics on pollution in China’s richest city show government efforts have failed to attack the most serious threats to public health. There is a better way forward, writes Mike Kilburn.The last few days of the Year of the Rabbit marked a watershed in Hong Kong’s ongoing ...

With this tale of loss, narrated through a series of drawings, Tashi Sange explores people’s relationship with nature in the shifting climate of China’s far western plateau.Tashi Sange is a Buddhist khenpo (scholar) at Baiyu Monastery in Golog, Qinghai, and the founder and head of t ...

Tibetan herders are struggling to adjust to sedentary life on the edge of the city of Golmud. Xia Liwei visited one family and listened to their story.Fifty-eight-year-old Sonka never dreamed he might one day leave his ancestral village of Cuochi, on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau, and move to the ou ...

As China seeks to protect a delicate corner of Qinghai, 50,000 herders have been moved off the grasslands. Ill-prepared for urban life, they face a bleak future, write Guan Guixia and Suonan Wangjie.The Sanjiangyuan – or “Three Rivers Source” – region of Qinghai, western ...

As global warming and economic development alter landscapes and lives in western China, Hashi Tashidorjee has been out with his camera. Here he shows chinadialogue the results, kicking off a special series of articles on the region.The Sanjiangyuan region of the Qinghai–Tibet plateau conta ...

Caterpillar is moving to newly "Right-To-Work" Indiana, offering rock-bottom wages and searching for anti-union managers. Is the US the new source for cheap labor?

The super-secure facility at the massive air base in Kandahar is just one of many building projects the U.S. military currently has planned or underway in Afghanistan.

California's state deficit led to furloughs for already-crunched workers--two of them share their stories of how anti-worker propaganda causes real problems.

We lead R-rated lives. So why are so many cities -- even New York -- declaring war on adult entertainment?

In the Constitution, "security" means protection from our law enforcers, not by them.

Peter Sunde, one of the co-founders of the infamous The Pirate Bay file-sharing search engine, argues that Big Content should start innovating and stop trying to use the courts and the law to put the genie back in the bottle.

After months of tolerating and even defending Occupy DC, park police swept in with a SWAT team and bulldozer. Wired's Quinn Norton was on the ground - literally - as the police evicted a camp that was full of life.

The Supreme Court may soon have its own YouTube channel if the Senate gets its way. The Senate Judiciary Committee approved legislation Thursday that would require the Supreme Court to televise its proceedings.

After threatening web companies for more than a decade, Michael Doyle and his patent-holding company Eolas -- named after the Irish word for knowledge -- may be finished.

The fate of the openness of the interactive web is now in the hands of a jury in Texas, weighing testimony from the Web's early pioneers about the validity of a patent claim on features such as embedded video. A loss means that nearly every major U.S. website could owe thousands to millions of d ...

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Visit the website of One Society which works in partnership with The Equality Trust. One Society draws on a wealth of research which shows that large divides in income at the top and bottom of society – beyond ‘proportional rewards’ – are damaging to our economy and society, not just for those ...

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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.”–Henry David Thoreau Clearly, our government ...

Call – Healthcare for All IOT Date – Jan 18, 2011 Agenda: 1. Introductions—Dr. Bill Honigman, PDA Healthcare for All IOT coordinator and California State Coordinator 2. National Single Payer Movement—Katie Robbins, Healthcare-NOW! 3. States Single Payer Movement–Chuck Pennacchi ...

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 ...

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, Shah ...

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 ...

After Food Safety News broke the story that Taco Bell was the mysterious "Restaurant Chain A" linked to a Salmonella outbreak that sickened 68 people in 10 states, ABC Evening News praised Food Safety News for shining light on this story and the issue of the government's lack of transparency whe ...

Yesterday it was a Boise, Idaho Cheesecake Factory restaurant that had an employee test positive for Hepatitis A while he or she worked, presenting a risk of infection to restaurant customers.  The Boise employee apparently was not involved in food preparation however, so the risk of infect ...

An employee at the Cheesecake Factory on Milwaukee Avenue in Boise Idaho may have exposed some diners at the restaurant to Hepatitis A between December 13, 2011 and January 22, 2012 according to the Central District Health Department. The employee who was confirmed to have Hepatitis A wasn't in ...

According to the Pennsylvania Department of Health, the total number of Campylobacter cases linked to raw milk produced Edwin Shank’s Family Cow Dairy has hit 60 total cases. The per State breakdown is: 51 in Pennsylvania 4 in Maryland 2 in New Jersey 3 in West Virginia

Thanks to the Bug Lady for outing another time where the FDA seems to think that we do not need to know.  As she said, leading the list of Class 1 Food recalls in the Enforcement Report for February 8, 2012 is the following item: PRODUCT:  Robert’s S 1 cut leaf spinach; “C ...

Filed under: Hybrid, Hatchback, Toyota, First DrivesBaby Of The Family Will Play A Big Role Toyota's new 2012 Prius C doesn't look like a math problem, but that's what it is. Hidden behind its attractive hatchback body and Toyota Synergy Drive hybrid powertrain, the Prius C is just a b ...

Filed under: SUV, Tesla, Electric Here it is, the Tesla Model X, the CUV prototype version of the Model S. We'll have more details live from California soon, but here's what we know at the moment. The Model X can hit 0-60 in 4.4 seconds, will cost around the same as the Model S, and it has ...

Filed under: Hybrid, Toyota During the Detroit Auto Show, Toyota said the new Prius C would start at under $19,000. Today, we learn that this is like a lesson from Obi-Wan: what Toyota told us was true, from a certain point of view. The base level Prius C One's MSRP is indeed $18,950, but ...

Filed under: Hybrid, Government/Legal, Hatchback, Chevrolet, GM, Electric In the wake of last week's bruising hearing on Capitol Hill about the safety of the Chevrolet Volt (which itself followed an investigation by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that concluded plug-in veh ...

Filed under: Car Buying, Hatchback, Nissan, Electric What's up with the sales, orders and reservations of the Nissan Leaf? The Japanese automaker loudly trumpeted the 20,000 reservations it originally collected back in September, 2010 and Nissan's Mark Perry recently told AutoblogGreen that, ...

New challenge-based recruiting site will help you find smart kids to solve your vexing problems. ...

This week's failure to communicate, from Path, was hardly a unique event. Companies--especially fast-moving startups--screw up all the time. The issue is how they react to their errors. Can Path recover, as Facebook and Google have from their privacy flaps, or will this flub hurt the compan ...

Does LinkedIn have a strategic weakness? BranchOut's CEO thinks it does, and is basing his whole company on it. ...

The free, crowd-source navigation and traffic app Waze layers in rudimentary voice controls. ...

Does a 2010 e-mail from Path's CEO show how the company betrayed users' trust? ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan The leadership of the Catholic Church has launched what amounts to a holy war against President Barack Obama. Archbishop Timothy Dolan appealed to church members, “Let your elected leaders know that you want religious liberty and rights of conscience restor ...

Michael Ratner and Michael Steven Smith are the co-authors of a new book about the U.S. role in the killing of Cuban revolutionary, Ernesto “Che” Guevara. Born in Argentina in 1928, Che rose to international prominence as one of the key leaders of the 1959 Cuban Revolution that overthrew U.S.-b ...

Democracy Now! Host Amy Goodman joined a 2-hour panel of journalists, analysts and academics on MSNBC’s "Up w/ Chris Hayes" to discuss topics of the day, ranging from the Susan G. Komen Foundation’s Planned Parenthood reversal to the Republican Primaries. From the &qu ...

Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman will appear on MSNBC’s Up with Chris Hayes on Sunday, February 5th from 8 -10am EST .

By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan Although Mitt Romney has yet to win a majority in a Republican primary, he won big in Florida. After he and the pro-Romney super PACs flooded the airwaves with millions of dollars’ worth of ads in a state where nearly half the homeowners are underwater, he ...

Huff Post- First Posted: 02/12/2012 11:26 am Updated: 02/12/2012 12:44 pm By- Sam Stein Mitt Romney scored two minor but symbolically important victories on Saturday — a first-place finish in the CPAC Straw poll and a win in the Maine caucus — each of which set off accusations of fou ...

Huff Post – Posted: 2/11/12  |  Updated: 2/11/12 Mitt Romney won this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) straw poll. Rick Santorum came in second, with Newt Gingrich in third place and Ron Paul in fourth. Here’s a breakdown of the results for the presid ...

Huff Post- First Posted: 02/10/2012  4:35 pm Updated: 02/10/2012  4:57 pm By- Max Blumenthal WASHINGTON — On Thursday, the Gallup Daily tracking poll marked a symbolic milestone. For the first time in more than a month and only the third time since last July, Gallup reported an approval ra ...

The Daily News looks back at her remarkable life and career. Here, she performs at Madison Square Garden on September 1987. Related reading: Whitney Houston Wikipedia Whitney Houston – I Will Always Love You (Bodyguard Film Music) YouTube (4 April 11)

By Reuters Greece’s largest police union has threatened to issue arrest warrants for officials from the country’s European Union and International Monetary Fund lenders for demanding deeply unpopular austerity measures. In a letter obtained by Reuters Friday, the Federation of Greek ...

By Charles Hugh Smith Gasoline deliveries reflect recession and growth. The recent drop in retail gasoline deliveries is signalling a sharp contraction ahead. Mish recently posted some intriguing charts depicting a significant decline in gasoline consumption (additional charts here). Then corres ...

The Petrodollar, Iran, and Gold—What You Need to Know Financial Sense (24 Jan 12) Hudson, Keiser on 2012 Imperialism Michae Hhudson (29 Jan 12)

What’s Crazier Than Creationism and Gold? It’s in Your Wallet GATA (11 Feb 12)

ISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job ...

Stepping up University at Buffalo The Spectrum The president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the Taliban. ... and more »

BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in AfghanistanSri L ...

Officials: Campus blasts perplexing United Press International ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique Pakistani institution ... and more »

Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing GMA news.tv An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the border between ... and more »

These companies figured out that support for marriage equality is good for business. When will labor rights be good for business?

In the Constitution, "security" means protection from our law enforcers, not by them.

Republicans would have had no opportunity to raise this issue if America had a single-payer healthcare system instead of the current employer-based structure.

In a unanimous ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld for the first time a “ministerial exception†limiting the rights of employees under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Despite the devastating consequences of state immigration laws in Alabama and Arizona, legislators in other states have introduced similar enforcement bills this year.

The Guardian Newspaper and Franny Armstrong, through the Guardian 10:10 campaign, challenge organisations and individuals to cut their carbon footprint by 10%.

Families in the UK are increasingly likely to be nagged about doing eco-chores, a new study conducted on behalf of the Energy Saving Trust has revealed.

Getting married in a luscious rainforest has never been easier or more eco-friendly, according to the Eden Project.

The European Recycling Platform (ERP) reports that while only a third of households at present recycle batteries, four out of five said they would do so if it was made easier.

By taking green steps at home, you can save money and make life easier. Being smart about waste, consumption and resources won't only win you the thanks of forthcoming generations: you'll feel the financial benefit immediately. 1. Make money from old electronics As your electronic goods become o ...

Summary:  How can one determine the reliability of a correspondent whom one does not know?  Here are some guidelines, drawing on my experience replying to the majority of the 19 thousand comments on the FM website, plus many hundreds of long email discussions about its contents.  Please post in ...

Summary:  Rolling Stone has posted the not-yet-declassified report by Daniel L. Davis (Lt Colonel, US Army).  It deserves your attention. (1)  The Rolling Stone article “The Afghanistan Report the Pentagon Doesn’t Want You to Read“, 10 February 2012 — Excerpt: Davis last month submitted th ...

Summary:  Innovations in military technology are central to the US way of war, and has been since WWII.   Such innovations have a had a fascinating history.  Such as the HMS Warrior, making obsolete much of the skills and traditions of the UK navy — and so fiercely resisted by its officers ...

Summary:  Skeptic websites are agog with confident statements that solar cycles drive much of the decadal variation in Earth’s climate.  Not only is there no clear physical mechanism, but recent analysis suggests that the historical correlation might not exist as well.  Both questions lie ...

Summary:  This is a review of the climate science literature, giving a perspective different than that shown us by the news media.  This is just a selection from the vast, rapidly growing body of research on the frontiers of knowledge about this vital subject.  This is the fifth in a series of p ...

Press TV – About 150 Roma gypsies were barred from participating in the Easter vigil of the basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls on Sunday, after temporarily taking shelter there on Good Friday, The Telegraph reported.  Local and foreign pilgrims, who had gathered to attend the vigil, ...

Breitbart – The euro struck a 16-month high against the dollar and the Swiss franc notched a record high versus the US unit Tuesday amid heightened investor nerves over this week’s busy economic calendar. The European single currency hit $1.4653 in morning trade, the highest point si ...

PressTV – A new survey shows that the value of money in the UK has dropped by 94 percent over the past 50 years, which means an 18-time increase in retail prices. The survey carried out by BM Savings has found that almost £1,800 is needed to match the buying power of £100 in 1960, [...]

IOL – 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, a study published on Tuesday said. Illegal gold searches using primitive techniques in the years 2003-9 led to the destruction of ...

Daily Mail – Every new pet dog will be microchipped under sweeping Government regulations to combat dangerous animals. Each puppy born and dog sold will have an electronic chip implanted under the skin. Details will then be placed on a national database accessible by police and the RSPCA. ...

The Economist‘s proposal for Syria shows just how powerless the international community is: “Far better to attack Mr Assad’s regime where it is vulnerable—by peeling away his support, both at home among Syria’s minorities and abroad, especially in Russia, its chief defender on the UN ...

Last week was another roller coaster ride for international politics. Violence in Egypt; looming civil war in Syria; and threats and counter-threats over Iran's nuclear intentions reverberated around the international security community intensifying the gathering sense of impending disaster. rea ...

Mitt Romney’s foreign policy platform rests on the notion that he will ensure another “American century,” and he has criticized Obama by saying the president “fundamentally believes that this next century is the post-American century.” That formulation has drawn a sharp response over the last ...

Yesterday, Marcy Wheeler wrote a post pointing out that two of the six Americans confirmed killed by drone strikes were servicemen, a pair of Marines killed during a close air support mission (the other four are Anwar al Awlaki, targeted directly for assassination in a drone strike, and three ot ...

Earlier this month, I spent a week at NATO with eight other bloggers, attending briefings on issues as varied as the mission in Afghanistan and cyber security. Unfortunately, most of those briefings –the interesting ones in particular– were on background only, but here’s a round-up o ...

(Jamelle Bouie/The American Prospect) For a while now, I’ve been convinced of Mitt Romney’s eventual triumph in the Republican presidential primary. It’s not that he was the most well-liked or conservative candidate—we have years of evidence to show that neither is true—but that he was ...

Each Friday—well at least most Fridays—I'm going to sum up the big news happening in states around the country. To make it more interesting, I'm naming a State of the Week where the biggest news came from. See something that's missing? Tell me: arapoport@prospect.org or on Twitter @RaRapoport. ...

You have to imagine that Mitt Romney gave himself quite the pep talk this morning before his big Conservative Political Action Conference speech in Washington. Where his address at the 2008 CPAC signaled the end of his campaign, this afternoon he needed to jumpstart his 2012 run, especially sin ...

Following up on this and this, Paul Gronke writes: There is a fairly active literature on attitudes of military personnel. The bulk of the literature has come out of sociology, much of it inspired by the pioneering work of Morris Janowitz (Chicago) and Charles Moskos (Northwestern, passed awa ...

Somehow Madonna pulled off an amazing feat during the Super Bowl: bringing gay culture and aggressive female sexuality into the heart of masculinity’s holiest of days without anyone seeming to care. While the cheerleading segment was embarrassingly silly, I otherwise have to disagree with Tom C ...

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  ANN DAVIDOW FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT There must be a way for decent behavior and intelligent thought to prevail rather than mindless hate-inducing political matches. The worst kind of vitriol and arrogance was in full cry at CPAC's claque these past several days. Seizing upon every poss ...

MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT It's been said that if men got pregnant - instead of women - the Congress would have long ago made abortion legal and contraceptives plentiful and diverse. As BuzzFlash at Truthout noted yesterday, sex is no crime: "Just because some Americans hav ...

MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT When it comes to sex, there is a Plan B. In a surge of recent moves that appear to accommodate the realities of living in a contemporary world - and not the mythical Ozzie and Harriet past (that was really just a Hollywood television fantasy) - th ...

STEVEN JONAS MD, MPH FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Rick Santorum had a "good day" on February 7, 2012. He won three non-binding "primaries" in two caucus states, Minnesota and Colorado, and what is described as a "beauty contest" in Missouri. While he got close to 140,000 votes in the latter, his ...

Muslims continue to be targeted for prosecution for expressing political views the government dislikes

A series of accidental events led to the publication of 251,000 diplomatic cables in unredacted form

A new Frontline from PBS features a "revelation" that is anything but, though it offers an important added detail

Reports about thankful citizens are being used to justify a pro-war argument -- but we've seen this before

The nation's watchdog news outlets deploy to cover a Wednesday vs. Thursday scheduling conflict

Real-life action hero Felix Baumgartner plans to take a balloon up to the edge of space and then to jump out. In freefall he hopes to break the speed record for a human travelling without a machine, the needle, as it were, reaching speeds in excess of the speed of sound. In the BBC newsclip [... ...

A phantom limb is the perception that an amputated or missing limb or other body part is still attached to the body. The sensations, by most accounts, are unpleasant and commonly painful. Mirror therapy has been used to help alleviate some of the problems experienced by veterans, accident victim ...

UK government minister, Lord McNally, responded for the government declining to pardon Turing: The question of granting a posthumous pardon to Mr Turing was considered by the previous Government in 2009. As a result of the previous campaign, the then Prime Minister Gordon Brown issued an unequiv ...

A team in the US has created a boron compound that has the highest coordination number of any planar species, squeezing 10 spoke-like bonds from a central metal hub to 10 boron atoms equally spaced around a nanoscopic wheel. I asked theoretical chemist Pekka Pyykkö of the University of Helsinki, ...

Graphene is perhaps the thinnest material known. Essentially it is a single, isolated layer of the carbon allotrope graphite. In SpectroscopyNOW this week I discuss new research into how a single layer of graphene is transparent to water molecules in the sense that the water can “see&#8221 ...

As the Israeli-led blockade of Gaza continues, hundreds of Palestinians were evicted from their homes and their houses were destroyed this week.  Barbara Lubin, Founder and Director of the Middle East Children's Alliance (MECA), and Dr.read more

The federal Environmental Protection Agency has declared tetrachloroethylene, or PERC, a chemical used by many dry cleaners, a “likely human carcinogen.” "The evidence against this ubiquitous dry cleaning chemical piled up for years, like dirty laundry in the corner of the room, ...

The federal Environmental Protection Agency has declared tetrachloroethylene, or PERC, a chemical used by many dry cleaners, a “likely human carcinogen.” "The evidence against this ubiquitous dry cleaning chemical piled up for years, like dirty laundry in the corner of the room, ...

AP is reporting: “Tens of thousands of anti-government protesters in Bahrain are streaming toward a site they seek to occupy for the one-year anniversary of their uprising in the Gulf kingdom.” The Bahrani regime has been denying visas to media and human rights workers ahead of the a ...

AP is reporting: “Tens of thousands of anti-government protesters in Bahrain are streaming toward a site they seek to occupy for the one-year anniversary of their uprising in the Gulf kingdom.” The Bahrani regime has been denying visas to media and human rights workers ahead of the a ...

Erik Hoffner This year promises to be another historic year of people calling for change worldwide. Citizens took to the streets for a wide variety of reasons, from the Wisconsin Capitol to D.C., which hosted many actions last year includin ...

Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez I was not raised in any religion, nor do I follow any religious practices now.  I don’t believe in God as a benevolent white man in the sky, nor do I believe that one needs to sit in a particular buil ...

Gareth Porter An analysis by Lt. Col. Daniel Davis, which the U.S. Army has not approved for public release but has leaked to Rolling Stone magazine, provides the most authoritative refutation thus far of the official military narrative of ...

Miranda Spencer When it comes to natural gas extraction via “fracking,” TV journalism has some serious competition: energy industry commercials. Like ads for political candidates that run concurrently with broadcast news coverag ...

Marian Wright Edelman “There were some times where, you know, we wouldn't have that much food, and I would tell my mom, ‘I'm not hungry, don't worry about it,’ and I lost a lot of weight. I remember I used to b ...

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VANG VIENG — The idea is captivating. People are driven two miles upriver, then float down the Nam Song on inflated inner tubes, stopping to party hard along the way. But the reality differs. read more

The Topanga Community Club (TCC), built and maintained for 50 years by a crew of dedicated volunteers, is one of the oldest organizations in the Canyon that has united this community for many years.

BLIND PILOT: Mr. Smalls, Fri. 8 p.m. $13.50-$16; 1-866-468-3401. MR. GREENGENES: Altar Bar, Fri. $15-$20; 1-877-435-9849. OLD BABY: 31st Street Pub, Fri. 10 p.m. $6; 412-391-8334.

Groton - Avalonia Land Conservancy and the Groton Public Library have organized a five-part series of programs over the next four months to highlight the importance of water and water protection.

Springville — Last Thursday “Friends of Big Canoe Creek” hosted Mitch Reid from the Alabama Rivers Alliance (ARA) to speak about the growing need for a comprehensive water plan in the state of Alabama.

For a while now, I’ve been following ACTA, or, the “Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement

@ninjanthropus: Must read article via @carolmusyoka on free market forces and arbitrage http://bit.l

@ninjanthropus: Must read article via @carolmusyoka on free market forces and arbitrage http://bit.l

SEAWEED BIOFUELS, WHAT’S YOUR TAKE? Erle Frayne D. Argonza Kelp off the coast of Chile is being deve

Found this thing at Alan Caruba, and I found some interesting thoughts there. For example, if he now

Bekah Wolf 9 February 2012 Popular resistance leader Mousa Abu Maria shared an Israeli prison cell with Khader Adnan, now completing his 55th day of hunger strike. Abu Maria recalls Adnan’s leadership in organizing and educating prisoners in this interview for The Electronic Intifada. ...

Maureen Clare Murphy 9 February 2012 In Selma Dabbagh’s debut novel Out of It, 27-year-old twin misfits Iman and Rashid Mujahed try to find belonging in a contemporary Gaza groaning under Israeli siege and air strikes, and street battles between competing political factions.

Hilary Aked London 8 February 2012 Students at the London School of Economics protest the university’s ties to the Technion — Israel’s Institute of Technology — which has inextricable links to Israel’s weapons industry.

Rami Almeghari Gaza Strip 7 February 2012 Seventeen-year-old Haneen Abu Jalala died last month at an Israeli hospital from what her family says were complications from white phosphorous fired at their home three years ago.

Charlotte Silver Ramallah 7 February 2012 Israel’s illegal acts of resource pillaging in the occupied West Bank are “benefitting” the Palestinian population, according to the Israeli high court.

8:02: Bruce Springsteen is probably the only man in America in his sixties who can get late-in-life dual ear piercings and not have it be labeled a midlife crisis. 8:01: The Boss wants to know if America is alive out there. This is probably the wrong live crowd to be asking that, but an interest ...

This week, the U.S. Senate is considering whether to add language forcing approval of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline to major transportation legislation. In a C-SPAN interview on Friday, Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), the chair of the Senate energy committee, indicated his support for the constr ...

The most vindicated climate scientist in America, Michael Mann, has published an excellent new book.  So of course the climate science disinformers have launched an attack on the book and on the positive reviews on Amazon.com. So here are 3 things you can do for Mann: Buy and read his book, The ...

The U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops almost immediately rejected a compromise on requiring contraception coverage that the Obama administration announced on Friday, and Republicans have continued to attack the accommodation. Under the compromise, religious institutions will not be required to ...

Our guest blogger is Ed Dolan, an economist and author of TANSTAAFL (There Ain’t No Such Thing as a Free Lunch), a book that outlines the libertarian case for a cleaner environment. Joe Nocera replies to his Keystone XL critics in “The Politics of Keystone, Take 2” in Saturday’s New York Times. ...

Hah! Both the Toronto Star and the stephen harper-endorsing joke of a newspaper, the Glib & Stale have articles about the working poor this weekend! Here's the story on a Metcalfe Foundation study on Toronto's working poor by Laurie Monsebraaten in The Star: The legions of Toronto area work ...

It isn't like stopping a war, or housing the homeless, or anything like that. But I have to credit TTC Chair Karen Stintz and Toronto City Council for standing up to the imbecilic coward Rob Ford and his stupid "plan" to bury the Eglinton LRT line. For posterity's sake I'll describe it simply: ...

Seriously you cowardly, stupid fuck! You LOST! It's over. Shut the fuck up. No. No. No. It's over. You lost. And it feels good to say that.

Yes. Yesterday i was waxing patriotically about Canada's vastly superior pro-woman culture by pointing to the (perhaps criminal) lack of resources devoted to finding a mass murderer of women in downtown Vancouver. I neglected to mention two further examples of our pro-ogynist culture that were ...

Man oh man. When I think about repressive, anti-female cultures, ... like the patriarchal nonsense of Afghanistan, that made a creep like Mohammad Shafia think that his daughters' and his first wife's lives are worth less than his trumped-up "honour." Or those sickos, the man and his family memb ...

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Perhaps DeMar DeRozan’s father put it best when he walked past the Los Angeles Lakers dressing room moments after the Toronto Raptors suffered a heartbreaking 94-92 loss at the hands of Kobe Bryant.

Summer is a great season for enjoyment of the beaches and outdoor activities, but also an excellent opportunity for domestic and international visitors to attend various artistic and cultural activities in the Chilean resort city of Viña del Mar.

You may not be quite ready to walk around in public wearing a cape and a cowl, but who doesn’t dream of being a superhero?

Gone are the days we have been used to: mild temperatures, no snow on the ground and moments of sunshine. Old man winter returned to the Greater Toronto Area this weekend with a blast of snow and freezing cold temperatures.

A win is a win. In a season like the one the Toronto Raptors are currently mired in, the team needs to pick up W’s any way it can. Especially, since the team is without its leading scorer Andrea Bargnani and now guard Jerryd Bayless.

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 an ...

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 ...

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 100 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Big-ticket items such as the planned F-35 purchase tend to get the headlines, but smaller examples of wasteful military spending are also important.

Steven Staples of the Rideau Institute testified before the House of Commons Standing Committee on National Defence on Thursday, 9 February 2012 on the subject of Canadian defence policy and military spending.

Michael Byers and Stewart Webb argue that the Harper government should consider alternatives to the planned F-35 fighter-bomber purchase.

When the Balanced Refugee Reform Act came up for discussion in parliament in 2010, the then-minority Harper government was forced to compromise with the opposition parties in order to get the legislation passed. But that was then. It looks like those compromises may be about to be revisited.

More happy-talk about the war in Afghanistan.

January 26, 2012 Activist Post By AP After TIME recently named “The Protester” 2011′s person of the year, Reporters Without Borders said “Crackdown was the word of the year in 2011.” Following a year of violent crackdowns on peaceful protests around the country, the ...

January 26, 2012 CBS News What if it felt like there were tiny bugs crawling all over your body, causing oozing sores and mysterious fibers sprouting from your skin? That’s how many people described their symptoms to government doctors several years ago, with health officials sometimes rec ...

January 26, 2012 Reuters By Philip Pullella “Thou Shalt Not …” –KTRN The Vatican was shaken by a corruption scandal Thursday after an Italian television investigation said a former top official had been transferred against his will after complaining about irregularities i ...

January 25, 2012 By Ryan Jaslow CBS News Can microwave popcorn mess with childhood vaccinations? The two may seem completely unrelated, but a new study suggests chemicals that are widely used for making popcorn bags and lots of other products may counter the immune system benefits from vaccines ...

January 26, 2012 Reuters By Jan Harvey Gold rose 1 percent to 6-1/2-week highs on Thursday as stock markets, commodities and the euro all rallied after the Federal Reserve said it planned to keep interest rates at rock bottom for some years and hinted at further economic stimulus. The gain exten ...

The Yemeni Air Force bombed the al Samaa Republican Guard garrison in the Arhab district of Sanaa today, deliberately killing 240 guardsmen. The attack came after the troops refused to attack pro-revolution tribesmen with artillery. “The government did not stand quiet when the guards refused ord ...

In a direct rebuke to the terror group, residents of Taiz held a major protest against al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) on Thursday evening after prayers. Protesters held signs denouncing AQAP that said, “Your racism will do nothing but make us stronger.” Taiz is the largest city in Yeme ...

My article from PJM at al Mostakela: اوباما يفقد السيطرة على اليمن تخاطر الولايات المتحدة بتمكين القاعدة في اليمن وتنفير الشعب اليمني عن طريق إحباط تغيير النظام هناك كتبت – جين نوفاك يعتبر اليمن بلد معقد، فقد ظل يرزح تحت وطأة اضطرابات كبيرة، كما أن فهم اليمن يخبرنا الشيء الكثير عن الشرق ال ...

After Yemen’s Republican Guard killed and dismembered tribal prisoners Thursday, Arhab tribesmen issued a statement Friday demanding the immediate arrest and prosecution of General Ahmed Saleh as a war criminal. Ahmed Saleh heads the Republican Guard containing US funded counter-terror units and ...

Protesters in Yemen announced a boycott today of US and Saudi products, a largely symbolic move in light of Yemen’s grave humanitarian crisis. Protesters allege that the Obama administration has thwarted their efforts for regime change. Millions across Yemen have demanded the end to the 33 year ...

Microsoft said on Monday it was investigating an attack by hackers on its Indian retail website, reportedly carried out by a Chinese group called the “Evil Shadow Team.” The team struck at www.microsoftstore.co.in late Sunday, stealing login IDs and passwords of people who had used the website f ...

Russia Todayyoutube.com The U.S. says it’s just a matter of time before the Syrian government collapses, while the Pentagon says it’s weighing up ‘theoretical’ military action. Although Russia and China are adamant they won’t allow foreign intervention in Syria via ...

Russia Todayyoutube.com What does slash public spending mean for the economy? Is recession the right time for tightening the belts? Where does the growth come from if everybody is cutting down? Many say that low levels of government spending make the economy grow faster. It may be true, but peop ...

Slams mainstream media, suggests Romney may have had a hand in canceling key county caucuses Steve Watson Prisonplanet.com February 13, 2012 The Ron Paul 2012 campaign has pointed to anomalies in Saturday’s announcement of the Maine caucuses results, as Mitt Romney was declared the winner ...

By Dr. Larry DavidsonMonday, February 13th, 2012 Rick Santorum featured in Time magazine’s 25 most influential evangelists list in 2005 Rick Santorum is certainly representative of a politically active part of the U.S. population a dangerous, intolerant, noisy, in-your-face part. If we let ...

by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig Feb. 13, 2012 There is a recipe for breaking popular movements. I watched it play out over five years in the war in El Salvador. I now see these familiar patterns in the assault against the Occupy movement. It goes like this. Physically er ...

Dandelion Salad stimulator on Feb 11, 2012 http://submedia.tv This week: 1. #stim4prez 2. The Egytian revolutions is not over 3. Brazil pigs attack the poor 4. Syrian resistance gets shelled 5. Shields up 6. Molotovs in Bahrain 7. Anonymous VS the pigs 8. Film the police 9. The original Occupy m ...

by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Ethiopia 9 February 2012 It’s an intrigue befitting the machinations of classical colonialism in past centuries, such as the Sykes-Picot carve-up of the Middle Eastern Levant territories, or the betrayal of the Arabs after World War I, or the ...

with Gareth Porter Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Feb. 10, 2012 RussiaToday on Feb 10, 2012 Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai has accused NATO of killing eight children in an air strike on the country’s territory. The incident adds to the already strained relationship between Afg ...

by Andrew Gavin Marshall Featured Writer Dandelion Salad http://andrewgavinmarshall.com February 7, 2012 I have had a number of debates and discussions recently, largely through various social media networks and similar avenues, on some issues that are of major concern to those who seek to confr ...

Normal blogging output will return soon. Making some movies. In the meantime, enjoy :

Best. Christmas. Ever A Short Story By Darryl Mason "Is your father okay?" He waited for her to answer. He couldn't tell her what happened while she was away... "He's not getting better, if that's what you mean." How could he tell her, right now? She had more than enough on her mind alread ...

Britain Embraces Apocalyptic Doom It's grim, and getting grimmer, but as this UK Guardian story by Andy Beckett reveals Brits can't get enough of the end of the world : A sense of doom dominates recent films such as Melancholia, in which a vast unknown planet suddenly appears from behind the su ...

A journey to see the black hole claimed to be at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy : I love these cosmological photo-montage animations. They're even better than the ones I saw in my head as a kid, when we could only look at drawings of star-fields in science books and have to imagine such a ...

Official : Predator Drones Now Flying American Skies By Darryl Mason When I first started writing here 5 years ago about how unarmed and armed drones (or Flying Killer Robots) were being tested in warzones for later deployment in the skies above the United States, it was Crazy Conspiracy Theor ...

While you're curled up comfy in your bed each night, the crew of the International Space Station is getting unrivaled views of our planet. For anyone wishing they could see what the astronauts see, here are recent videos of the Earth at night taken from space.

Thanks to a new 3-D map of the moon, earthbound viewers can see its landscape with a clarity that only Apollo's astronauts have previously enjoyed.

Astronomers are worried. It's not some new unexplained mystery of the universe or the upcoming launch of a space telescope that is unnerving them, though. The problems they currently face are much more down-to-Earth -- and the future of space exploration hangs in the balance.

Powered by nothing more than puffs of air, robots molded from paper and silicone rubber can bend, twist, grip and even lift more than 100 times their weight.

The supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy may be constantly snacking on asteroids. A new study finds that an asteroid at least 12 miles wide falling into the black hole would account for the regular bright x-ray flares seen through telescopes.

We managed to delete Mount Hermon's original, Syrian name as if it had never existed. Precious few Israelis have ever heard the name, or are aware of the 200 towns and villages that were obliterated... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...

Sarah Leah Whitson: "Israel should end, today, before it's too late, its almost two-month-long refusal to inform [Khader] Adnan of any criminal charge or evidence against him." The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth de ...

American politicians appear to be using precious little long-term thinking when it comes to Israel and Palestinians. Falsehoods declared on national television about textbooks are debunked by no one... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...

One thing is beyond any doubt: a major aim of Israel’s foreign policy is the overthrow of the Iranian regime. What is not generally understood are the motives behind this aim, and the present Israeli... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...

Michael Sfard: “It’s the first report of its kind which, looking from a bird’s-eye view, sees not just demolitions, not just loss of residency, and not just discrimination between Jewish and... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, no ...

A newspaper report claims nuclear weapons were on board a docked Russian nuclear submarine which was hit by a massive fire in December.

The number of Russia's Sukhoi T-50 5th generation fighters involved in test flights will be increased to 14 from three by 2015, Russian Air Force Commander Col. Gen. Alexander Zelin told RIA Novosti on Monday.

Finland’s Defense Minister Stefan Wallin will pay an official visit to Moscow on Monday, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

Russian Pacific Fleet's task force led by the Admiral Panteleyev destroyer arrives on Sunday in the Far Eastern port of Vladivostok after a successful anti-piracy mission off the Somali coast

The Iranian Navy has commissioned two Ghadir class diesel-electric submarines to boost Iran’s naval capability, official IRNA news agency reported.

Physicians at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJ) and UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School are among the first in the nation to offer a groundbreaking aortic valve replacement technique that provides new treatment options and hope for patients diagnosed with severe aortic valve dis ...

Electric cars have been heralded as environmentally friendly, but findings from University of Tennessee, Knoxville, researchers show that electric cars in China have an overall impact on pollution that could be more harmful to health than gasoline vehicles.

A work-focused, telephone counseling program for depressed employees not only improves depression but also leads to increased productivity and decreased costs, reports a study in the February Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, official publication of the American College of Occu ...

Q & A on teen dating violence.

/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Elbow position alone appeared to not affect injury rates and performance in college-level, male pitchers say researchers presenting at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's Specialty Day in San Francisco, CA.

If there were any doubt left that U.S. vaccine recommendations are excessive, officials are now promoting universal HPV vaccination for boys in order to prevent genital warts.  The efficacy, safety and duration of the vaccine are all unknown, and the warts only have serious effects on about ...

U.S. farmers have been subsidized in one form or another for more than 200 years.   In 1862, the practice was expanded when congress passed the Homestead Act, known as the Morrill Act, which granted 160 acres of government land to those who wanted to begin farming or ranching. Between ...

Fructose can activate taste cells found on your pancreas, a reaction that can increase your body’s secretion of insulin.  This could be a concern for people prone to diabetes. Experiments showed that fructose activates the same proteins in pancreatic cells that your tongue uses to taste sw ...

Dr. Robet Lustig, arguably the number one enemy of the sugar lobby, has published a well written article in the prestigious scientific journal Nature arguing that sugar is a poison.  He believes that the negative health effects of sugar consumption can no longer be ignored, any more th ...

A number of parents whose children developed narcolepsy following swine flu vaccination say the children are now beginning to fall behind at school.  The children developed the condition after vaccination with pandemrix in 2009 and 2010. Narcolepsy is a disabling neurological disorder char ...

Dean of science…suggesting rising seas this next century of up to 100 metres, or Al Gore six metres. When I see things like that I know these are false. You mentioned the IPCC report; that suggests, at worst on best scenarios, 59 centimetres. http://www.google.com

ABC science presenter Robyn Williams who in 2007 believed seas could rise 100 meters, seeks more truth from scientists after Climategate.

What are the lessons of Climategate? More honesty and transparency in science? Not according to attorney Alan Nelson in the Guardian UK today.  To him, the lesson is how not to get caught next time. So how do universities and academics ensure that their correspondence does not become the “ ...

A very interesting analysis of the IPPC Assessment and has some important questions that invite others to help him answer. Please read his article and let him know what conclusions you draw.

USA Today reports that US schools are finally calling for both sides of global warming to be taught, because it is after all, a theory -- not a fact:

by Kevin Jon Heller My friend Dapo Akande takes me to task today at EJIL: Talk! for my position on drone strikes directed at combatants attending a funeral or helping the wounded.  I will address his curious reluctance to address the text of the Rome Statute in Part II of my response; in th ...

by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller That’s the conclusion drawn in this blockbuster report — which, precisely because it is a blockbuster that makes Israel and the MEK’s vast number of Democratic and Republican supporters in the U.S. look bad, has been basically ignored i ...

by Jens Ohlin by Jens Ohlin Cross-posted at LieberCode. It is becoming increasingly likely that Russia and China are going to block just about any resolution on Syria coming out of the Security Council, regardless of whether it is meaningful or not.  They aren’t going to support a resolution t ...

by Roger Alford by Roger Alford Harold Koh’s keynote address today at the University of Virginia conference did a nice job surveying the legal landscape from the Legal Adviser’s perspective. He divided the conflicts into four categories: non-conflicts, soft conflicts, hard conflicts, and harde ...

by Kevin Jon Heller The case involves Luis Moreno-Ocampo's decision to remove Ekkehard Witkopf, then a Senior Trial Lawyer with the OTP, from Lubanga.  The following paragraphs from the ILO's judgment best summarize what happened: On 15 December 2008 the Deputy Prosecutor informed  the  com ...

Report Shows Super-Rich are Giving More PHOENIX - "The super rich grew more charitable last year, as public opinion of them became less so," according to a report compiling the donations of the nation's wealthiest givers. The Chronicle of Philanthropy's annual list shows the top 50 most generou ...

Is a Bank of America Break-up Inevitable? PHOENIX - A petition from consumer group Public Citizen says Bank of America is so big and frail that regulators should dismantle it before its problems provoke a crisis. The economists, law professors and former regulators behind the call say there is ...

Endangered Wolf Population Continues to Grow in Arizona and New Mexico PHOENIX - The number of endangered Mexican gray wolves in Arizona and New Mexico continued to rise last year. State and federal biologists found at least 58 wolves in their latest count, up from 50 the previous year and 42 in ...

Representantes de pequeños negocios a D.C. para proteger la cuenca del Río Colorado PHOENIX – Esta semana una delegación de representantes de pequeños negocios que dependen del Río Colorado para sostener empleos relacionados con el turismo y la recreación via ...

Small Business Reps Travel to DC to Protect Colorado River Flows PHOENIX - Small-business people who depend on the Colorado River to support tourism- and recreation-related jobs traveled to Washington this week, promoting ideas to fix the imbalance between water supply and demand in the seven-st ...

In the U.S., we pride ourselves on having choices and making informed decisions. Under current FDA regulations, we don’t have that choice when it comes to GE ingredients in the foods we purchase and feed our families.  This led the Center for Food Safety to submit a legal petition to the F ...

Groups say fish couldn’t pass proper review Today consumer groups Food & Water Watch, Consumers Union, and the Center for Food Safety submitted a formal petition asking the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to classify and evaluate AquaBounty’s “AquAdvantage” genetically engineered (GE) sal ...

Much Needed Inventory Would Identify Animal Factories’ Locations and Manure Management Practices, Allowing EPA To Begin Assessing Scope of National Threat To Water and Food Supplies The Center for Food Safety (CFS) submitted comments strongly criticizing the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EP ...

The Center for Food Safety Pushes Back Against Gates Foundation “Feed the World” Propaganda The Center for Food Safety (CFS) pushed back today against longtime biotech crop supporter, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, over its announcement that it has invested nearly $2 billion ...

AB 88—the California bill which would have required that all genetically engineered (GE) fish sold in California contain clear and prominent labeling—failed in the Assembly Appropriations Committee today by a vote of 9-7. AB 88 was stalled in Appropriations last year, and was held-over for reint ...

.:Middle East Online::The State of Journalism and Media in the New Libya:.: Journalism and media witnessed huge expansion in Libya since the first spark in the February 17 revolution. There are now around 200 printed newspapers in Tripoli and Benghazi alone, and around 18 satellite channels thro ...

GUEST POST by @jazminchavez and @juliagrob: “Latinos: Turn Off Your TV, Co�o!”: GUEST POST BY Jazmin Chavez & Julia Ahumada Grob of "East WillyB" By the time of this publication, we should all be familiar with the recent controversy regarding ABC sitcom, “Work It,” in which Puerto Rican act ...

China must abandon censorship | APNS Article 35 of China's constitution as adopted in 1982 clearly states that: "Citizens of the People's Republic of China enjoy freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly, of association, of procession and of demonstration." For 28 years this article has stood ...

The Republican Candidates' Race Card Strategy [Black Star News Editorial] Republican presidential candidates Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and front-runner Mitt Romney have all played the race-card to varying degrees in this election cycle, while Ron Paul's campaign is weighed down by the race b ...

The Billanthrope: Why I Wrote Koontown: Black people are inherently inferior. This is not something you would often hear anybody say outright—if at all. That would be racist, and we live in a time when even devout racists get offended if you actually call them “racist.” The closest we tend to ge ...

I think the rights of copyright holders to protect their interests should not infringe on our rights to be considered innocent until proven guilty. By demanding the unilateral right to take down any website without due process, the media lobbyists are infringing the rights of all internet users. ...

Jean-Yves Blondeau, a daredevil inventor, has created a suit that allows the wearer to skate downhill while lying flat on the pavement. His suit has been featured in Jim Carrey and Zooey Deschanel’s comedy, “Yes Man“. This looks immensely fun, and quite a bit less dangerous the ...

With ever clever illustrations and motor-mouth skills that an auction salesman would admire, the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce creates impressive and inspiring videos, very worthy of our time. Related posts: Dumbledore what???? Time Magazine ran an articl ...

Should I move Pensieve to Google’s Blogger platform again? Google has recently refreshed it’s blogging platform, and added Google+ integration. Pensieve began on Google’s blogger platform. My earlier blogs were hand coded, which made a hassle out of blogging, but also made each ...

Imagine talking to your TV, and having it answer you. Such a scenario is what the editors at the MacRumors website are suggesting Apple will soon unleash to the world. In this article, they say the Siri, the iPhone 4S virtual assistant, will be coming to television soon. Once Apple enters the Sm ...

This curled up plant is slowly unfurling and waking up. If you go for a walk in one of Australia's National Parks (glossary/wildlife/national-park.html) you will be surrounded by plants and flowers.   Photo by: Alexandra Meusel  

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Tips to take a moment for yourself This a great video for everyone who feels like they have no time to meditate. All you need is a 'moment', if you know what to do.Watch and try it for yourself! Video found on the Padre Ralph blog.   

Last week, landowners from communities across the Liverpool Plains literally blocked the CSG Project!

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Feminists plan pigtail protest over Prosser book. Feminists plan pigtail protest over Prosser book

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Miyaser Al-Hatheleen is a 45-year-old woman living in Umm al-Kheir, South Hebron Hills. Her house was first demolished by the Israeli Occupation authorities in October 2008, together with other dwellings belonging to her relatives (see our original 2008 report about these demolitions). In July ...

Newt Gingrich’s South Carolina primary victory has brought onto the spotlight his campaign’s main benefactor, Sheldon Adelson. Relatively to his wealth and the manner in which he has acquired it, Adelson has managed to stay away from the limelight – despite his quoted bragging ...

Reprinted with permission from Mondoweiss. Written by Udi Aloni, member of the Jewish Voice for Peace advisory board. There has been a flood of new laws, practices and rules of apartheid in Israel. Sometimes many of us feel paralyzed because of the racist manifestations in the judiciary, legisl ...

The first part of this post, an account of Salem’s music center 2011 end-of-year concert held recently in the village municipality building, was written by Ikhlas (Yasmin) Gebara, the young poet from Salem (a village just outside of Nablus). Ikhlas is sitting to the left of Erella and Ehud ...

As reported here, during home demolitions in the cave-dweller village of Mufakarah, two young women who resisted nonviolently were arrested and charged with “assaulting soldiers” under the Israeli Occupation’s draconian martial law. The older of the two, Sausan Hamamdeh, reache ...

James Fallows of the Atlantic has a 12,000 word piece that takes a thoughtful look at Barack Obama as the end of his first term approaches, comparing and contrasting him with his predecessors and trying to assess his strengths and weaknesses.We judge presidents by the specific expectations they ...

The Daily Irrelevant“You’ve probably grasped the basic legalistic drawback to PreCrime methodology. We’re taking in individuals who have broken no law.” — John Anderton, outgoing Precrime Commissioner in Philip K. Dick’s short story, Minority ReportDick’s world of PreCrime surveillan ...

Donkey Mountain says there is no economic recovery and that times here echo Russia during Yeltsin, when everyone knew the system was broken and corrupt. Read the whole post. This is great writing and he speaks the truth too.You don’t have to be a comedian to get a laugh in my neighborhood. All y ...

Back in the 70′s I had a rock fanzine called Street Life and sold rare records by mail order. It went broke and I ended up with a crappy job fire-proofing wood shingles. It was a bad time. I gave up listening to music. Then I heard a song on the radio that so inspired [...]

If Germany can do it, the US can too. Renewable energy is now 20% of the power mix there.Germany produced more energy from renewable sources than from nuclear, hard-coal or gas-fired plants this year after boosting investments in projects from wind to biomass.Renewables accounted for a fifth of ...

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 sha ...

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&#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. No ...

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 ...

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 an ...

DAVID ICKE (davidicke.com) 1st Interview of 2012. How deep does the rabbit hole go? David discusses his new book” “Remember who you are”, reflecting on his 2011 world tour, occupy movement.  What is Consciousness, fear based mind control?  //  Self imposed thought camps…n ...

NEW YORK (WABC) — New York City’s police union is demanding more information about the effects of toxic debris from the 9/11 attacks. The Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association called on the city to release all data about officers who suffered cancer after responding at the World T ...

The hacker group “Anonymous” released a video Friday threatening to begin a ‘reign of terror’ against Israel, in the latest round of cyber warfare between pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli hackers. The video, which was posted on YouTube in the early hours of the morning, blamed Israel for committi ...

Greece’s parliament has passed a controversial package of austerity measures, demanded by the eurozone and IMF in return for a 130bn-euro ($170bn; £110bn) bailout to avoid default. Coalition parties expelled over 40 deputies for failing to back the bill. The vote came amid some of the wors ...

We have often discussed the motives of government employed Climate Scientists™ and the biases which sort their views.   The blog is called noconsensus after all.   However, we have not spent time discussing motives of skeptics – which appropriately have little consensus.  One of the main c ...

A US based attorney has written in to the Blackboard on the basics of Copyright law as it pertains to the continuing releases of IPCC drafts.  It is unclear to me who could claim damages from the release but this gives some idea of how the process would proceed legally were the IPCC silly enough ...

I wrote recently that I wanted to check local regions of inland lakes to look for bias in the sea ice satellite record.   Satellites are not long lived creatures.  They are built of lightweight materials very carefully constructed to survive in incredibly harsh environments.  The result is desig ...

We have been looking at sea ice trends below the arctic circle at the request of Anthony Watts.  It is a curiosity of his that he’s been asking Walt Meier of the NSIDC to consider for some time.   I am a fan of the NSIDC because their data access is excellent and they answer questions [...]

We have been looking at sea ice trends below the arctic circle at the request of Anthony Watts.  It is a curiosity of his that he’s been asking Walt Meier of the NSIDC to consider for some time.   I am a fan of the NSIDC because their data access is excellent and they answer questions [...]

Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summer ...

Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summer ...

Hey, Michele Bachmann, you know who was really, really pro-vaccination? The Founding Fathers. Read all about it in my new article at The Nation. George Washington argued for mandatory inoculation of citizens against smallpox and mandated the inoculation of the Continental Army, under the . ...

Hey, Michele Bachmann, you know who was really, really pro-vaccination? The Founding Fathers. Read all about it in my new article at The Nation. George Washington argued for mandatory inoculation of citizens against smallpox and mandated the inoculation of the Continental Army, under the .. ...

Neuroscientist James Fallon is fascinated by the brains of murderers, especially in light of his own family history. His father's side of the family was full of notorious murderers. So, he compared his family's PET scans to those of known psychopathic killers: "And I took a look at ...

A roundup of all the news Inside Network brought you from Feb. 6 to Feb. 12. Inside Mobile Apps Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms and virtual goods. Monday, Feb. 6 Emerging paid iOS apps: Tank Hero, The … Continue reading →

The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities across social and mobile application platforms. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at Atari, Spooky Cool Labs, Lolgames, GREE International, Inc., King.c ...

Facebook to release C++ library – ZDNet reported that Facebook may open source one of its C++ libraries, the code is used heavily on the platform’s back-end systems. Facebook, Calif. teacher pension fund at odds – Because of Facebook’s corporate … Continue reading →

There is a $100 million discrepancy between what Facebook earned in payments revenue and what it paid out to developers, according to revenue figures in its IPO filing last week. In the filing it says, “In 2011, our Platform developers … Continue reading →

Some users are seeing an “Add to Map” button in the top corner of Facebook pages associated with an address. The feature encourages users to make a post that will show on their map and Timeline. Users can set indicate … Continue reading →

truthout: Liars for Yahweh! How the Tikun Olam Charter School Got a $600,000 Federal Grant http://t.co/QIyaKwNl

truthout: Even Critics of Safety Net Increasingly Depend on It http://t.co/pXXR7JsU #OWS

truthout: Occupy Movement Regroups, Preparing for Its Next Phase http://t.co/m8nvwtg8 #OWS #OccupyTogether

truthout: Thirty Queer Writers Explore What Divides LGBTQ Communities http://t.co/lJWQbXKd

truthout: Army Officer's Leaked Report Rips Afghan War Success Story http://t.co/tKBjeXZk

Lawrence Davidson argues that Rick Santorum, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, represents "a dangerous, intolerant, noisy, in-your-face" trend in US politics and that if he and his followers are allowed to win, "the result will be ever greater divisiveness and decline at ho ...

Stuart Littlewood exposes British Water's complicity with the Israeli occupation authorities who are not only stealing Palestinian water, but also overseeing the flooding of Palestinian fields and villages with untreated sewage from hilltop Jewish settlements.

Alan Hart views US and British hypocrisy in condemning Russia's and China's veto of the Security Council resolution to end the killing in Syria while at the same time supporting "Israel right or wrong - unending occupation, ongoing ethnic cleansing and all".

Lawrence Davidson argues that Israel is intent on ethnically cleansing its own Arab citizens and that, to prevent this, it is imperative to intensify the international boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign against the Zionist state and, equally, to redouble popular pressure in the United St ...

Nureddin Sabir argues that the reaction of a large section of the so-called "left" and "anti-imperialist" camp to the uprisings in Libya and Syria are motivated not by some high-minded principle or anything to do with progressive ideology but by cynicism, petty personal agendas and ignorance.

The group of students, part of Yale’s annual Rainforest Expedition and Laboratory with molecular biochemistry professor Scott Strobel, ventured to the jungles of Ecuador. The mission was to allow “students to experience the scientific inquiry process in a comprehensive and creative way.&#8 ...

Loggers in Brazil captured an eight-year-old girl from one of the Amazon’s last uncontacted tribes and burned her alive as part of a ‘campaign’ to force the indigenous population from its land! Sign Petition and share: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/813/288/541/ The ...

The world’s largest meat processor has agreed to stop buying beef from ranches associated with slave labor and illegal deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, according to the public prosecutor’s office in the state of Acre. The deal absolves JBS-Friboi from 2 billion reals ($1.3 bill ...

The world’s largest meat processor has agreed to stop buying beef from ranches associated with slave labor and illegal deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, according to the public prosecutor’s office in the state of Acre. The deal absolves JBS-Friboi from 2 billion reals ($1.3 bill ...

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 ...

BFP Nightly Quote “Under what concealment has this power lain hidden, which now for the first time comes forth, with a tremendous and baleful aspect, to trample down and destroy the dearest right of personal liberty? Who will show me any Constitutional injunction which makes it the duty of ...

 What’s in the Store for the 5th Largest Supplier of Oil to the United States? By William Engdahl Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation and its largest oil producer, is from all evidence being systematically thrown into chaos and a state of civil war. The recent surprise decision by the governm ...

Israel’s Shimon Peres Salutes Azerbaijan while the Story-Line Keeps Getting Murkier Last week Boiling Frogs Post broke the newly brewing story-line in the war propaganda against Iran involving an alleged Iranian terror plot in Azerbaijan. Yesterday we had a follow up on the emerging ‘alleged’ de ...

BFP Nightly Quote “The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.” – Tacitus International Newsworthy Iranian Energy Poses Asian Dilemma Iran Banned from Trading Gold & Silver Saakashvili & Obama Plotting Attack on Iran US Sees Iran’s Neighbor Azerbaijan ...

BFP Nightly Quote “A good soldier is a blind, heartless, soulless, murderous machine. He is not a man. His is not a brute, for brutes kill only in self defense. All that is human in him, all that is divine in him, all that constitutes the man has been sworn away when he took the [...]

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Op-ed submission by Project 21 There were reports of babies out in the cold for hours in Houston. In Indianapolis, two dozen police officers used pepper spray to control an unruly crowd that pried shopping center doors off their hinges. These were just a few of the scenes caught on video across ...

His Story: An Anointing Message To Fathers for 2012 Black America Always Invests in the WRONG People The Invisible Black Men How Brothers and Sisters in the Black Community Can Help the Invisible Black Men

“The above outlines the root cause of things in Nigeria and I am sure there is not much difference in other countries.  So, at this juncture, are we, black people of the westen hemisphere, truly obligated to step in and do for Africa what it appears that many Africans won’t do for Africa?  ...

I’ve been following the news events about Nigeria’s supposedly Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram. However, something doesn’t sit right with me in the way the whole situation is being reported. Of course, western media as usual simplifies all conflicts into 2 opposing sides&#8 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On yesterday’s Today programme, BNP leader Nick Griffin told the Radio Four audience that “Liberal economics … have utterly bankrupted this country.” The truth is that Nick Griffin was himself declared bankrupt in 1991. Over several years thereafter he destroyed his parents’ finances as we ...

A search for the healing power of sound I’m lying in A bed that’s as hard as nails with a series of strings along the sides and two gongs above my head. It’s known as a gong bath, and Gwen de Jong, a practitioner of sound healing at Spirit Connection in Amsterdam ...

What my father’s recipe for pasta marinara says about the future of capitalism As the daughter of a Neapolitan, I grew up eating pasta with marinara sauce. My father didn’t always make it from scratch, but he did so often enough for me to follow his recipe through memories. Fr ...

In the prosperous West, we generally only get worked up about clean water and electricity when the bill arrives in the mail, and we discover that once again, we’ve been showering too long and leaving the lights on too often. But in many parts of the world, people can only dream ...

Mosquitoes are so difficult to elude because they pursue us via the CO2 exhaled in our breath. That’s annoying when we’re relaxing outside on a summer evening, but it’s devastating for the 200 to 300 million people who contract malaria annually. More than 1 millio ...

Celebrating the return of the bald eagle In the Iowa winter, as the poet Robert Hass wrote, “a farmer’s dreams are narrow,” and autumn can inspire me with a kind of dread as I work in the garden that will soon be buried under snow. But this coming winter, as the ...

Occupy Cal is back in the news.

The Catholic Church has gone overboard and demonstrated its own irrelevance by its strict stance on birth control. 98% of Catholic women have used artificial contraception at some point in their lives. There are no good reasons to constrain a woman's right to choose. Americans are entitled to m ...

Driven Away by War, Stalked by Winter's Cold headlined above a photo of children huddled around a fire in the open. Frigid Temperatures Claim Lives of Children in Kabul, NY Times, 2/4/2012.OEN published an article citing many newspapers reporting children freezing to death two years ago - going ...

Today OP-ED News will test a collaboration between our on-site coverage of the CPAC Occupation and the added bonus of live video.

Manchurian candidates have been characterized as plants, put into positions of power, so they can do their work for the entity that plants them many years earlier. In some ways, I am feeling like some of the many Catholics in government now have blossomed as Manchurian plants, particularly when ...

Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC     London (photo by Chuck Wolfe)  There is a reason that romantic movies and novels are set in cities such as Paris, Rome, Prague, San Francisco, and New York. &nbsp ...

Josh Mogerman, Deputy Director, National Media, Chicago I take the CTA’s Green Line trains to work most days. Yeah, that is the line dissed by “Stuff Chicagoans Say” recently… It is the oldest line in the system, including ...

Jennifer Sass, Senior Scientist, Washington, D.C. Today, I am pleased to have a guest blogger, Dr. Barry Castleman, a world-renowned asbestos public health expert, report from Italy on this historic criminal trial. Here's his report: Tomo ...

Pierre Bull, Policy Analyst, Air & Energy, New York City Documentaries present stories and dilemmas that use a variety of available media and first-hand interviews from real-life events. The recently released documentary, "Windfall," gives "us a fir ...

Deron Lovaas, Federal Transportation Policy Director, Washington, D.C. "I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a whol ...

You know the dilemma, which we may call the Polanski Problem — what do you do when you find out that a gifted artist who has done a lot of a great work you admire is a terrible person?   My answer, in general, is to not deny oneself the art while also not exonerating the [...]

This post serves as introduction for a new series of posts: Seapower in Culture. Inspired in part by Alyssa Rosenberg’s work at the Center for American Progress, but also by a recent David Sirota column attacking my beloved Top Gun and by the imminent arrival of this horror, Seapower ...

(Since everyone’s complaining about Rob’s Whitney Houston post, I thought I’d write a proper one.) Whitney Houston burst onto the music scene in 1985 with her self-titled LP which had four number one hit singles on it, including “The Greatest Love of All,” “Yo ...

I was doing some rather pointless research on Chester A. Arthur this morning. On his Wikipedia page, I found this: William Arthur’s frequent moves would later form the basis for accusations that Chester Arthur was not a native-born citizen of the United States. After Arthur was nominated f ...

This ain’t good: A few years ago, hog farmers throughout the Midwest noticed foam building on top of their manure pits. Soon after, barns began exploding, killing thousands of hogs while farmers lost millions of dollars. And you thought Santorum was gross. But seriously, what gives? First, ...

DRI secured a new Technical Research, Engineering, and Development Services contract with the U.S. Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration. The contract extends until October 31, 2016 and has a ceiling value of $35,926,593. DRI supports the nationally important missions of ...

The February Edition of Scientific American features the work of DRI’s Joseph McConnell, Ph.D. The article includes interviews with several scientists whose research examines how dust influences climate and cloud formation—and the fertilization of oceans and rain forests.

What began as a scientific collaboration turned into so much more when Prashant Gargava, Ph.D. applied to work with his colleague Judith Chow, Sc.D. through the Fulbright Scholarship Program.

Dr. Hans Moosmüller is busy, always thinking about his next invention. This is evident as he currently holds five patents and has four more pending. His most recent patent offers a simple way to help quantify the aerosol contribution to climate change.

Gamma radiation levels in the southern Nevada area will soon be accessible around the world at the touch of a finger. Makers of the cell phone application EcoData: Radiation are expanding their global network of radiation monitoring stations to include up-to-date readings from the Community Envi ...

Ocean Power Technologies' autonomous PowerBuoy successfully powers offshore security and monitoring equipment, even when the New Jersey sea goes calm.

The House of Marley's Bag of Rhythm boasts high quality sound, convenient portability and philanthropy, all in one sustainably-sourced package.

A survey by Consumer Reports finds that as cars that plug in enter the market, 87 percent of consumers have some concern about them, led by range anxiety.

The KidWind Project is seeking educators for a training seminar in Bar Harbor, Maine, that will give them the tools to bring wind education into the classroom.

In Santa Clara County, Calif., three photovoltaic parking canopies are providing the transit agency 2.1 megawatts of power, with big costs savings expected.

With storm clouds in Europe and political uncertainty in the U.S., which Washington practices will flourish and which will fail this year? We asked three D.C. managing partners.

Carlyle Group withdrew a mandatory arbitration provision in an IPO registration statement, but the issue will rise again.

Illinois AG has sued S&P, alleging it misrepresented its analysis as objective, independent.

The former FBI director is playing a leading role in the resolution of two prominent organization dramas this year — Penn State and MF Global.

A compendium of both will help law departments understand and make better decisions about them.

I thought I’d highlight a few of the items that I find horrifying that passed with house bill 1950 during yesterdays vote. Municipalities will no longer be safe from drilling and the acceptable distances of drilling pads and compressor stations from homes or public spaces, such as schools, ...

From the DCNR website: In recent years there has been a marked increase in natural gas activity in state forests in north central Pennsylvania . Visitor experiences and road usage can be impacted by this activity. Loyalsock State Forest Bodine Mountain Road: Heavy gas activity is to be expected ...

Responsible Drilling Alliance Newsletter Fooled Again Februrary 2nd, 2012  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dear RDA Members,   Minus a last minute miracle, an incredible shift in the course of the future of Pennsylvania is about to occur. With the Governor set to unveil his vers ...

I heard this piece from State Impact PA (WITF/NPR) this morning on my drive to work. Corbett wants to make decisions about gas drilling based on facts, not emotional…and then his administration goes and cuts the funding for research that provides just the sort of facts he is talking about. ...

This video documents Simona Perry’s research on the emotional and traumatic effects of the natural gas drilling, specifically in Bradford County, PA. http://mediasite.cidde.pitt.edu/mediasite/SilverlightPlayer/Default.aspx?peid=689293c50f404f12b8c628b8f2285780

PA TV: 'The prisoners' program is meant for humanitarian contact' PMW: The official PA TV program glorifies terrorists and presents murderers as role models

Whitney Houston, the great American icon and one of the greatest voices on Earth is remembered here by Bruce Edwin of The Hollywood Sentinel.

To help spread the word about ICE KEYTAGS, the company partners with businesses all across the United States. In exchange for making these tags available in the local community, ICE KEYTAGS allows businesses to market themselves.

Cornelius stepped down as host of Soul Train in 1993, but the Train kept going for 13 more years with Mystro Clark, Shemar Moore, and Dorian Gregory.

The 23-year-old from Providence went to Hernandez' (30-11, 17 KOs) body in the opening round and then opened-up in the second, dropping Angel once and then again for good at 1:39 as referee Steve Smoger waved off the count and declared the outcome

A coalition of European companies today opened a 367-megawatt wind farm off the British coast, a massive project that developers say will power as many as 320,000 households annually and is the world’s largest offshore wind project to date. The Walney Wind Farm, located nine miles (15 kilometers ...

Twenty years ago, an historic environmental summit in Rio de Janeiro produced groundbreaking treaties and high hopes that pressing issues would be addressed. But as organizers prepare for the Rio+20 conference in June, there is little on the agenda to suggest any substantive action will be taken ...

A new analysis of global satellite data has found that the world’s glaciers and ice caps — excluding Antarctica and Greenland — lost about 150 billion tons of ice per year between 2003 and 2010, adding about 0.4 millimeters to global sea rise annually. Using data from the twin Gravity Recovery a ...

Russian researchers say they have drilled through more than 2 miles of ice on Antarctica’s polar plateau and reached an ancient subglacial lake that has been sealed off for as many as 15 million years. Reaching the lake caps a two-decade drilling effort at Russia’s Vostok Station in Antarctica, ...

With the passage last month of strict new auto emission and air pollution standards, California once again demonstrated its role as the U.S.’s environmental pacesetter. The driving force behind these new “clean ARB Mary Nichols car” rules — which require that 15 percent of all new cars ...

The general image of a retirement age at 65 is problematic according to Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt. In an interview with the daily Dagens Nyheter, (see article here) Reinfeldt argues that a working life could as well continue until an age of 75. This in order to uphold the desireble pensio ...

February 1 2012 the entire parliamentary group of The Movement of the Icelandic Parliament nominated Private Bradley Manning for the Nobel Peace Prize. Following is the reasoning we sent to the committee explaining why we felt compelled to nominate Private Bradley Manning for this important reco ...

Fear the reaper? Most of us do. But there’s help! Since January 2011, a ’death insider’ has been breaking down the mysterious world of death, dying, and what happens to our bodies and remains once we’ve shuffled off this mortal coil. The business of funerary rites and procedures, dating back as ...

Navigant Consulting says the Port Authority is a dysfunctional organization that has let the World Trade Centre rebuilding project’s costs get out of control. The estimated cost has gone from $US11 billion in 2008 to $US14.8 billion now. NY Governor Cuomo and NJ Governor Christie ordered the rev ...

Three years after the issue first came to light, it appears photos on Facebook that users have deleted aren’t actually off the server, a website has learned. Writers at the technology blog Ars Technica found that even when they deleted photos, the image file stayed on Facebook’s server and was s ...

Ready to stand up and stand out for justice despite severe frosts, FEMEN activists have staged a new provocative stunt against the yoke of Russia’s gas giant.

Al-Qaeda’s presence in Syria is bringing tensions to boiling point in the tumultuous country, given their interests coincide with those of the West, this could lead to a marriage of convenience for the seemingly...

The Israeli prime minister has accused Iran of being behind car bombings in India and Georgia. Explosive devices were attached to cars belonging to the Israeli embassies in Tbilisi and New Delhi.

An explosion has destroyed an Israeli diplomat’s car in New Delhi, reportedly injuring two people. A bomb targeting the Israeli embassy in Tbilisi has also been defused.

Reports about hundreds of dead and wounded coming from Syria on a daily basis has become commonplace in Western media, while the sources of such information often are not verified properly, investigative journalist Asa...

Liberal Hypocrisy on Obama Vs Bush – Poll

Why is the US trying to overthrow both Iran and Syria’s governments? And so is al-Qaida evidently, as the Associated Press reports here- In complicating move, al-Qaida backs Syrian revolt… That makes the US government and al-Qaida once again allies in their manipulations against Russ ...

‘Whoever lives it is the one enjoys it’ (Quien lo vive, es quien lo goza) is the introduction to the Caribbean/Gulf of Mexico region’s greatest celebration of Carnaval. See Mardi Gras in Barranquilla and be sure to click on where the website tells you to! I wish I was in Colomb ...

From a commentary by Paul Street- ‘A generation before, American working class organizers did something similar. They worked carefully and patiently through existing labor, neighborhood, ethnic, and workplace structures and networks to develop operational tactics and strategies – shop-stew ...

Here is a building engulfed in fire. And here is a building covered in dust and smoke due to negative air pressure. Now, which one looks more like WTC7 on 9/11? Related Info: Jim Corr Omits Info about Roaring Fires in WTC 7

Video description: At the launch of the UK Don't Attack Iran Campaign on 28 January 2012, held at a rally outside the US Embassy in London, actor Roger Lloyd Pack gave a powerful reading of Strange Meeting by First World War poet Wilfred Owen, one of the most famous anti-war poems ever written. ...

Howard Cohen of Actors and Artists for 9/11 Truth discusses his forthcoming feature film, "A Violation of Trust." Set to star veteran Hollywood actors Ed Asner, Woody Harrelson, Daniel Sunjata, Michele Phillips, and more, "A Violation of Trust" dramatizes the first day of a new presidential inve ...

Add Cancer To The James Zadroga 9/11 Health & Compensation Act Video by Jon Gold, author of "The Facts Speak for Themselves." Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog has suggested that the health problems of the first responders might just be another "Gulf War Syndrome." Nope Pat, the ...

Just when you thought the everything bacon trend was over, fast food chain Jack in the Box is introducing the Bacon Milkshake. For a limited time only, of course. Yes, it’s for real. Not the bacon, the shake. Well, the bacon shake, but it has nor real bacon, even though you’d be incl ...

This is a guest post by Lisa Cain, PhD, a.k.a Snack-Girl So, you like to bake – but you have a problem. Yes, I know that problem well. You bake a couple dozen cookies and then they stare at you from wherever you have put them. Haunting you…… Just one more, you say, as you eat [...]

The CDC released a study showing that the level of trans-fatty acids in the blood of white adults has decreased 58% between the years 2000 and 2009. The CDC’s National Biomonitoring Program measures the presence of 450 different chemicals in human blood. Trans-Fat is just one of them. This ...

Another lawsuit filed against a food manufacturer for bogus health claims ended recently with in a settlement. Vita Coco, a brand of coconut water that is supposedly “super hydrating,” ”nutrient packed” and “super water”, could not support these claims scienti ...

Yesterday, Walmart announced the launch of its new nutrition labeling system called “Great for You”. Starting this spring, a small selection of Walmart’s private label products – Great Value – will be decorated with this healthy seal of approval. This is not the fir ...

Twitter management can be a daunting task. There are a lot of articles telling you the do's and don'ts of Twitter, however it can still be difficult to pin down exactly what you should be doing each day step by step. If you are having a hard time getting organized and keeping up with everything ...

When was the last time you thought about your site beyond adding content? It is probably time to take a look at how things are organized. When you started the site you had certain goals, ideas and experiences, now as time has passed it is a good idea to take another look at those goals [...]

Every day millions of searches are performed on the internet and all of those search terms are saved and provided to us to peruse at our discretion. Unfortunately, on the other hand, there are millions of searches performed every day on the internet and ALL that data is saved and provided to us ...

So you took the first step and signed yourself up for some social media sites and started marketing yourself and now you're waiting for the traffic to start rolling in. You've done your research about social media marketing and everyone tells you to find followers, engage them and turn them into ...

Twitter recently made claims that they had reached 100 million users. A fairly impressive feat to be sure, and that is reflected in the pull people give to twitter as a social media outlet. Great tweets can make you a star as fast bad ones can kill your image. Most of the time tweets just pass ...

Guarani girls © Survival Judges in Brazil have allowed a Guarani community to stay on its ancestral land, which it reoccupied having been forced to live in a makeshift camp for over a year and a half. The judges have suspended an eviction order which threatened to force the Indians to leav ...

A Ngobe-Buglé boy is wounded after clashes with police in Panama © Survival A week-long protest ended violently on Sunday after police moved in on a group of Ngobe-Buglé Indians in the Chiriquí province of western Panama. Protestors had blockaded part of the Pan-American Highway, the main ...

Genivaldo Vera's mother next to his tomb. He was killed by gunmen in 2009. © Public Ministry, MS/ Survival Six men are being brought to trial for the murder of two Guarani Indians who were killed in Brazil’s Mato Grosso do Sul state in 2009. The case has been described as ‘an importan ...

Illegal logging threatens Peru's uncontacted Mashco-Piro.  © D.Cortijo/uncontactedtribes.org Peru has raided an illegal logging site in the Manú National Park, just days after the world caught its first detailed glimpse of the uncontacted Mashco-Piro tribe. The discovery followed Surv ...

Jarawa girls. Newly released videos show Jarawa women being ordered to dance. © Survival The ‘human safaris’ scandal in the Andaman Islands has reached the British Parliament, with MPs tabling a motion calling on India to close the illegal road that cuts through the Jarawa tribe’s reserve. ...

by: Greg Palast, Truthout | Op-Ed The Plan is working. Mitt Romney's biggest backer didn't want him to win. We know that Paul "The Vulture" Singer, Romney's Daddy Warbucks, organized the "grassroots" campaign to replace Romney with Gov. Chris Christie back in September. That flopped, ...

by Greg Palast for The Huffington Post I arrived into this world at the Queen of Angels hospital in Los Angeles into the hands of Dr. Sidney Kolodny. Queen of Angels, judging by the number of nun-nurses running about, is a Catholic hospital. Dr. Kolodny was Jewish. Last night, I heard Sena ...

The untold story of the sources of the loot controlled by Paul "The Vulture" Singer and why he needs to buy the White House by Greg Palast for TruthOut/Buzzflash - update Greg Palast has been investigating Singer and other finance vultures for BBC Television's Newsnight. His new book is Vultur ...

by Greg Palast for Truthout/Buzzflash - update Palast is the author of Vultures' Picnic: in Pursuit of Petroleum Pigs, Power Pirates and High-Finance Carnivores. The call came in to BBC Television Centre, London, from the office of Mitt Romney's billionaire backer and "advisor" Paul Singer. ...

Check out CSPAN TV schedule listings here. From CSPAN- Greg Palast presents his investigation of the BP oil spill and talks about the corruption he says permeates the oil industry, the financial sector, and government. This event, held at the Silver Spring Civic Building in Maryland, is hosted ...

Yesterday, I posted a question from James, asking for ways to reuse or recycle a whole kitchen, because he’s getting a new one. Thanks to everyone that has commented about that! At the bottom, I mentioned reducing is the most important part of the recycling triangle. James already seems qu ...

I’m back post-lurgy and I thought I’d post this great question from James – asking how to recycle a whole kitchen: We shall be replacing our kitchen in the next few months. The present one is 15 years old and is perfectly serviceable. I don’t want to “skip” it ...

Whitney has emailed us, asking about margarine tub lids: i’m trying to do my part and make sure that i recycle everything that i can, or at least find a way to reuse it. i recycle my #5 containers of cream cheese, margarine, etc, but have nothing to do with the lids, which even if [...]

I mentioned in passing on my simple/frugal living blog that we’re having our kitchen ceiling replastered at the moment. Ahead of the plasterer starting on Monday, we had to tidy off all the work surfaces and tops of cupboards – quite a challenge for hoarders like us with many, many c ...

Ages and ages ago on the Suggest An Item page, Carolyn asked about reusing handicap parking tags – but I missed it until Raynor recently comment last week. Sorry – not sure how it slipped by me! Anyway, better late than never, Carolyn asked: Every two years my husband’s blue handicap ...

Today Professor John Walker-Smith begins his appeal against the General Medical Council's (GMC's) determination that he is guilty of serious professional misconduct and that he should lose his license to practice. The case is heard by Justice Mitting in Court...

By Cathy Jameson How well do you know the people in the autism community? How much do you think they do for their child? I invite you to come take a peek at what might be going on just a...

Managing Editor's Note: As far as we've come with overall autism awareness, the reality for day to day living for our loved ones as they grow older is grim. Ben (in the story below) has Asperger's syndrome. My children have...

Managing Editor's Note: Last week we ran a post from a police officer who is also an autism Dad on autism and police interaction with those on the spectrum. Here's a pressing question asked by a blog site called Naked...

On Monday the appeal begins of Prof John Walker-Smith against the decisions of the GMC as one of the three doctors in the Wakefield case. It should be stressed that Prof Walker-Smith’s appeal is purely on his own behalf and...

The BDS Global Day of Action on 30 March coincides with Palestinian Land Day

BDS National Committee S. on Dipity.

As 2012 begins, a French activist looks at the short history of the French BDS movement, which mobilized in the wake of the Israeli assalt on Gaza, Operation Cast Lead

Coming together to push forward an inclusive movement that supports nonviolent action to promote the human rights of the Palestinian people, because only full respect for these rights can lead to peace.

The Jewish National Fund has designated Sunday 5th February as ‘Green Sunday’, when it encourages people to donate money to ‘plant trees in Israel’.

It started out just like any other day. Birds singing, horses whinnying, children dancing, you get the picture. A nice day... until it happened.

Embarrassed Diebold officials apologized after one of their electronic voting machines prematurely revealed the winner of our upcoming sham election. Satire.

Due to a computer virus – System Check – I will be offline for the most part trying to repair my computer. This is a particularly nasty virus that takes out all anti-virus protection as well as malware and spyware protection. It also hides your files. Here is a bit about it: System C ...

Dave Hodges of the Common Sense Radio Show will join us to give an update on the Gulf Coast disaster, and fill us in on the massive corruption of UN Agenda 21's ICLEI local branches.

Fluoride “enhances the bio-availability of aluminum,” allowing it to cross the blood-brain barrier easier, thus making it more toxic.

BBC – Fancy kicking your day off with a bang? Well Europe’s most active volcano has been at it again. Mount Etna has been rumbling away on the Italian island of Sicily, firing lava and volcanic ash in to the sky. Officials closed the nearby airport, trapping Italian football side Rom ...

Physorg – Iran has further restricted access to the Internet and blocked popular email services for the past few days, in a move a top lawmaker said could “cost the regime dearly,” media reports said on Sunday. Millions of Iranians have been unable to log onto their accounts on ...

Alaska Beat – Alaska’s Cleveland volcano keeps grumbling away, with a lava dome continuing to grow, and the alert level remaining at “watch,” according to the Alaska Volcano Observatory. A status update on Saturday said that the volcano continued to show activity, but tha ...

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Guardian – Nat Rothschild has lost his libel action against the Daily Mail over being portrayed as a “puppet-master” who brought together Lord Mandelson and Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska. Rothschild, the Swiss-based financier, had asked for very substantial damages from Daily ...

A new map published today by the Natural Resources Defense Council makes it plain that extreme weather attributable to climate change isn’t something that only happens in other parts of the world. Chances are, you’ve had your own Hurricane Irene, or drought, or something like it, in your own bac ...

Activists in the Cook Islands in the South Pacific are proposing a huge new shark sanctuary in the face of fishing pressures and the continued massive drop in shark numbers over the last decade worldwide. The Pacific Islands Conservation Initiative, or PICI, is working with local fisheries autho ...

A three-judge panel of the 3rd District Court of Appeal overturned a 2010 ruling by a Sacramento Superior Court judge that the deal was improper because the Legislature had essentially signed blank-check to repair damage done to the Salton Sea.

Senator Barbara Boxer stepped up today to deliver an appeal for action at the mostly lackluster UN Climate Change Conference, which wraps up this week in Durban, South Africa. Her speech was delivered to an almost-empty Senate TV/Radio gallery, which is indicative of the low priority given ongoi ...

Independent photojournalists Will Rose and Kajsa Sjölander were on Alaska’s North Slope in November to document traditional whaling by the native Inupiat people, and found themselves at the height of a highly charged mayoral election season, with whaling and a gargantuan new Shell oil drilling p ...

With the encouragement of a local self help group, Mrs. Laxmi has gained the confidence to take out a loan for a water connection. Little did she know how much her whole family would benefit.

Managing without access to personal sanitation is humiliating to say the least, but for people living with disabilities, it brings a whole cascade of problems. Now, one courageous family has improved their situation, and their new household toilet brings dignity and health.

A stream full of worms, leeches and waterborne disease was their only option. But thanks to your generosity, the community of Mezegaguf recently got a new well! Today, moms like Akberet Naizgi no longer have to worry about their kids getting sick from the water.

Sudha, her husband, and three kids are happy with their new ecosan toilet. They no longer have to use the restroom out in the open, and instead have the safety, health, privacy, and dignity that a toilet brings.

Today, Selvi is extremely pleased with the construction of the water tap at her home! Now, she collects enough water for her family without any difficulty.

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 ...

Two bills have been introduced to amend the NDAA to make it clear that Americans cannot be detained indefinitely and denied their Constitutional Rights. HR 3676 has 54 co-sponsors and HR 3785 has 3. Submitted by Norm C. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |  ...

JERUSALEM -- For the first time in nearly two decades of escalating tensions over Iran's nuclear program, world leaders are genuinely concerned that an Israeli military attack on the Islamic Republic could be imminent -- an action that many fear might tri Submitted by O O O O to World  |&n ...

Israel once again proves that it is a true democracy, whose courts guarantee Palestinian rights, even in the face of a terrorist threat that no other country on earth must endure. Submitted by Fred H. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

In January Tasmania Police conducted a drug raid in a Hobart house. The police strip searched a 12 y.o.girl. For reasons that have not been explained, they then strip-searched the girl a second time... Submitted by Thubten Chokyi to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a C ...

Two Swedish journalists, 29-year-old Johan Persson and 31-year-old Martin Schibbye, were arrested and sentenced to 11 years in prison in Ethiopia while reporting on human rights issues according to The Guardian, a leading British newspaper. Submitted by Ola H. to World  |   Note- ...

California-based solar developer SolarReserve has completed construction on a solar power tower at its flagship solar farm in Nevada, the company said Thursday. read more

Thin-film solar array at Dimbach, Germany For the second time in as many months, a solar manufacturer is announcing record conversion efficiencies for its solar energy-h ...

Fluor Corporation, the nation's largest publicly traded engineering and construction company, said this week that it has been selected by a subsidiary of electricity generator LS Power Group to build a 125-megawatt solar plant in Ariz ...

National Solar Power (NSP) has entered into a solar farm development agreement with Liberty County in Florida. read more

FirstEnergy Corporation plans to grow its renewable energy portfolio by adding Solar Renewable Energy Credits (SRECs). read more

PA TV: 'The prisoners' program is meant for humanitarian contact' PMW: The official PA TV program glorifies terrorists and presents murderers as role models

Whitney Houston, the great American icon and one of the greatest voices on Earth is remembered here by Bruce Edwin of The Hollywood Sentinel.

To help spread the word about ICE KEYTAGS, the company partners with businesses all across the United States. In exchange for making these tags available in the local community, ICE KEYTAGS allows businesses to market themselves.

Cornelius stepped down as host of Soul Train in 1993, but the Train kept going for 13 more years with Mystro Clark, Shemar Moore, and Dorian Gregory.

The 23-year-old from Providence went to Hernandez' (30-11, 17 KOs) body in the opening round and then opened-up in the second, dropping Angel once and then again for good at 1:39 as referee Steve Smoger waved off the count and declared the outcome

TEHRAN - Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei on Sunday warned the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas against any "compromise" in its fight against Tehran's nemesis Israel, his official website reported. "Always be wary of infiltration by the compromisers in a resistance organization, which w ...

In January, Michel Chossudovsky reported British media confirming UK/CIA/MI6 operatives in Syria training anti-Assad Western-backed insurgents. They're also supplying them with arms, ammunition, and equipment. "These reports confirm unequivocally [they're illegally] interfer[ing] in the affa ...

NEW YORK -- Investors thinking of buying a piece of Facebook after it goes public are hoping it will perform like Google, whose stock has risen 500 percent since its debut seven and a half years ago. But they may want to spare a thought for companies slightly less exciting - a truck leasing ...

He was the man who sent her on the path to stardom. But amid mourning the untimely passing of his protege Whitney Houston, Clive Davis braved a public appearance at his annual Grammys party Saturday night. The 79-year-old music mogul is seen here being consoled by RnB star Alicia Keys - outs ...

Iran has further restricted access to the Internet and blocked popular email services for the past few days, in a move a top lawmaker said could "cost the regime...

To better manufacture consent, U.S. Army soldiers are embedded as intern and fellows at local TV affiliates, along with previously reported newspapers and national outlets.

Ivan Eland sat with RT to discuss the astronomical political clout held by the welfare queens of the military-industrial complex that will thwart any translation of the Pentagon's rhetoric into actual policy

Yes, people videotaped it and Al Jazeera broke the story.

With 90% of up to 4.4 million barrels of oil 'unaccounted for', it's now... still unaccounted for.

Taped interrogations of four soldiers charged in theatrically slaying numerous Afghan civilians were obtained by CNN and ABC. CNN's report includes the soldiers' rampant drug abuse and a before unreported case of staging the murder of an Afghan civilian.

Although the process of mitotic cell division has been studied intensely for more than 50 years, researchers have only now solved the mystery of how cells correctly align their chromosomes during symmetric mitosis.

The new strategy for technology companies is to build a device, sell it to consumers and then sell them the content to play on it — and maybe some ads too.

WEIFANG, China, Feb. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- Shengtai Pharmaceutical Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: SGTI) ("Shengtai" or "the Company" or "We" or "Us"), a manufacturer and distributor in China of glucose and starch as pharmaceutical raw materials and other starch and glucose...

President Obama's newly revised mandate on birth control coverage for all fails Catholic leadership's moral, constitutional objections.

Walmart recalled its eight-count packages of Cruller bakery pastries because the common name of milk was not listed following sodium caseinate, a milk derivative, on the ingredient label. People who have milk allergies that do not recognize sodium caseinate as a milk derivative run the risk of s ...

Fires raged in Athens overnight with reports that more than 40 buildings had been set ablaze in a violent response to the Greek parliament's passage of an unpopular austerity package negotiated with its European creditors - the EU, ECB, and IMF - in exchange for a tranche of new bailout fund ...

Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) has said today that the temperature inside the No. 2 reactor in the Fukushima nuclear power plant had risen to 82C, a high since the reactor had attained a cold shutdown in December, raising concerns that the plant is no longer stable. Kyodo news reports: ...

As the Greek parliament debates the final austerity deal required by its creditors, thousands of riot police have been unleashed on protesters demanding an end to the harsh cuts pushing the country toward turmoil. The scenes both outside and inside the parliament building have turned fiery, with ...

Thousands of protesters have gathered across Europe to protest the controversial treaty known as ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. Thousands braved cold temperatures in rallies across European cities. Reuters reports: read more

Thousands of people are demonstrating today in Japan against nuclear power. The Associated Press reports that people are worried about the restarting of reactors that had stopped since the Fukushima disaster. Agence France-Presse reports on the protesters: ...

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Long term, therefore, the outlook for wind energy is good—as is the outlook for the electricity storage technology necessary to balance wind's inherently variable nature. As electricity costs begin to rise, power purchasers will find the long term, stable electricity prices that wind proje ...

Up in the frozen arctic, where polar bear rule over a biogem world, massive oil drilling plans threaten the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Shell, the oil behemoth that made $4.8 billion in profits last quarter, intends to boost those numbers by drilling in the Bea ...

Entergy’s Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant’s operating license would have expired on March 21, 2012, but the Nuclear Regulatory Commission extended the license to 2032. Vermont’s legislature and a vocal part of the state’s population don’t like the idea of Vermont Yankee’s continued ...

How much “new” nuclear and how soon? Those are the front-of-mind questions for nuclear and many cleaner energy advocates with today’s U.S. government approval of the construction and operation of two new nuclear power reactors by Southern Company in Georgia using the “AP1000″ design by Westingho ...

US gasoline prices are setting records for this time of the year, with the current price apparently the highest ever for February, at least in nominal dollars. In fact, the monthly average US retail price for unleaded regular has set new records every month since last October.

How badly is climate change affecting your state? A new Web tool allows users to see how vulnerable their area has been to drought, flooding and heat extremes as well as the health problems that go along with them.

What's a parent to do? You buy a car seat to keep your child safe but then find out, as a new study reports, that 60% of these products contain dangerous chemicals. The good news: some seats were found to be almost toxic-free.

Worried that the apartment you like could be an energy hog? Help is on the way as U.S. states and cities begin this year to require that commercial buildings measure and disclose their energy use.

Two of three Himalayan glaciers -- both in humid areas of eastern Nepal -- could disappear if present climate change patterns continue, a study predicts.

President Obama's plan to double fuel efficiency standards for cars and light-duty trucks by 2025 received applause from environmentalists who had pressed for such action.

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by Stephen Lendman US and Israeli agendas need enemies. Both pursue rogue state policies. They defy international laws and conventions, applying rule of law standards to others, not themselves. Their interests alone matter, no matter the toll on others. When enemies don't exist, they're inven ...

by Stephen Lendman Wolfgang Borchert: German, author, playwright, poet. His experience under Hitler and Wehrmacht service changed his life. Never a Nazi supporter, he deplored compulsory Hitler Youth time. Finally he got out. In 1940, the Gestapo arrested, then released him. His Wehrmacht ...

by Stephen Lendman Official government data are manipulated. Credibility's entirely lacking. Reported good news is hype. Grim underlying reality is suppressed. The monthly Labor Department jobs report is typical. Progressive Radio News Hour regular economist Jack Rasmus calls the latest ...

The Independent just announced that British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) would be running an apology worldwide for airing documentaries produced by a public relations firm. The anticipated apology resulted from last year's reporting in The Independent on this pecuiar BBC practice. A special ...

Or How Wordpress Doesn’t Make Money “WordPress is web software you can use to create a beautiful website or blog. We like to say that WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.” Matt Mullenweg Click here to watch a video about the inventor with the cherubic face of ...

As part of the consultations undertaken in preparation of our forthcoming Alternative Federal Budget, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives hosted an economic roundtable, The Global Economic Crisis: Can Canada Escape a Lost Decade? on January 26, 2012. The event brought together sever ...

Old Age Security (OAS) is the basic building block of Canada’s retirement income system. Canadians build on that foundation, saving for their retirement with benefits from the Canada or Quebec Pension Plan, a workplace pension if they’re lucky enough to have one, and private savings. But now Pr ...

Saskatchewan's labour movement won a significant victory yesterday as Justice Dennis Ball ruled that Bill 5, The Public Service Essential Services Act (PSES) violated the constitutional right to strike and bargain collectively as upheld in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.  ...

Electro-Motive/Caterpillar's decision to lock out its London, Ontario workers on January 1st, demanding workers accept a 50% pay cut or lose the plant altogether, brings into focus a theme that is unfolding in 2012: The crackdown on middle class work in Canada. The CCPA's Trish Hennessy has wri ...

The speed and breadth of technological change and how it plays out in education is creating many battles. The Winter 2012 issue of Our Schools/Our Selves -- Every Tool Shapes the Task identifies some of these areas of conflict and how they play out in schools and for students and teach ...

Greeks clean up after riots against austerity vote ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Firefighters doused smoldering buildings and cleanup crews swept rubble from the streets of central Athens on Monday following a night of rioting during which lawmakers approved harsh new austerity measures demanded by bail ...

From the blog susanohanian.org -By Marion Brady Imagine the present corporately promoted education reform effort as a truck, its tires nearly flat from the weight of the many unexamined assumptions it carries. On board: An assumption that punishment and rewards effectively motivate; that machine ...

========================================================================= To see more of Boris Rasin work visit; http://www.flickr.com/photos/58551403@N06/ or just click on an Image. Boris Rasin is a Brooklyn-based multimedia artist. He has shown his paintings, drawings, installations and public ...

I don’t get it. People are more concerned with who is sleeping with whom than about the food that they put in their mouth. Monsanto has been pushing their GMO food on the world for a long time. On Facebook, in emails, and elsewhere, people have been made aware of the concerns regarding these cro ...

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  (NaturalNews.com) - It's been called the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history, and rightfully so, if for no other reason than because, one year later, the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is like the nightmare gift that keeps on giving, some experts are saying. The Deepwater ...

1950s hit novel disturbingly similar to radiation situation today — except for government lying   When I was in the 8th grade in 1958 and was just beginning to learn how to read for pleasure, Nevil Shute's apocalyptic novel "On The Beach" was the smash hit of the summer, ...

The Euro was probably the most hyped-in currency the world may have ever known. That fact alone should have been reason for suspicion. In this article we contrast some of the eulogies heaped on the Euro back in around 2001/2002 when it was introduced as a tangible currency with these past weeks& ...

As you may have noticed, CrisisMaven recently dabbled in speculative thought about the role of a universe-wide encyclopedia cum news service. The reason this came about was that recently at the Large Hadron Collider around Geneva/Switzerland and crossing under the French border a team of scienti ...

Or: Space and the Universe are a Palimpsest . Most recently Israeli archaeologists unearthed a crusader’s inscription believed to be around 800 years old and, which is why it makes headlines, written in Arabic. For those who have followed archaelogical progress over several decades (and re ...

We have updated our References section and, for the first time, also published our References ordered by Subjects – probably the most comprehensive trove on Statistical, Economic, Monetary and Historical Data etc. … References by Subject References – General and Applied Statistics Re ...

When you put a pot on the hot plate on your stove and switch on the heat – do you not expect the pot to get hot? When you add energy on the earth’s surface to what the sun and geothermal influences already provide would you not expect the earth respectively the atmosphere to get [...]

In the working paper “The Buyback Monitor - July 2009: Corporate Stock Buyback Profits of 273 Firms from 2000 into 2009“, published on the Social Sciences Research Network, M.A. Gumport, CFA, provides further evidence that stock buybacks are not as good for investors as often touted ...

The trillion-dollar Obama health care plan increases the odds that US economic recover will be delayed, and that unemployment and inflation will increase. The main thrust of the Obama plan is to increase taxes on individuals earning more than $250,000 a year, while forcing all but the tiniest ...

The rest of the world holds $16.8 trillion in US financial assets, according to Federal Reserve release Z.1, as of Q1 2009. [...]

In a lead op-ed editorial in the Wall Street Journal on July 21, 2009, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke revealed the Fed’s exit strategy with regards to the inflationary effects of the Obama “spending is stimulus” packages and other government measure to contain the curren ...

No one knows for sure the real earnings of American corporations. In Q1 2009, according to the Federal Reserve flow of funds table F.102, after-tax profits of US non-financial, non-farm corporations, on an annual basis, were about $589.9 billion. However, about 50% of these after-tax earnings ...

Join the forum discussion on this post In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer questions on about peak oil and carbon trading markets. Some of the topics discussed are: Whether peak oil has been discredited Recent media headlines on peak oil (or lack thereof) Why I t ...

Join the forum discussion on this post When I recently solicited feedback for topics to cover for my upcoming book, several people requested that I discuss the difference between energy and power. Just two weeks ago Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., who is on the House Committee on Scienc ...

Join the forum discussion on this post In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer questions on the future of electric cars, and the global population, which many feel is the root of so many problems. Some of the topics discussed are: When electric cars might be expected t ...

Join the forum discussion on this post Refinery Closures and the Keystone Pipeline There have been several announcements in recent months of refinery closures that will likely impact gasoline supplies (and prices) on the East Coast. Some of those closures have been on the East Coast. Others &# ...

Join the forum discussion on this post In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer questions on palm oil and hydraulic fracturing (fracking). Some of the topics discussed are: The EPA decision to exclude palm oil from qualifying as renewable biomass under RFS2 The Chinese ...

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We're a good month or so away from spring—and spring flowers and fresh spring air. If you're anything like me, your house is starting to take on all the smells of a winter full of cooked dinners, soggy boots, and a few too many people cooped up inside for far too long. Rather than pull out the ...

If you've been reading health magazines and websites for any length of time, you've read a litany of reasons why soda is bad for you. It's nothing but sugar water. It's devoid of any nutritional value. It leads to obesity and diabetes. But we've dug up nine other disturbing facts about what sod ...

The next time you reach for that stick of roll-on deodorant, consider this: A recent study in the Journal of Applied Toxicology found that chemicals commonly used in deodorants were showing up in breast-cancer tumors, leading the authors to suspect that they may play some role in the developmen ...

The local food movement is on fire, and farmers and innovative small businesses are making it easier than ever to feed your family without even setting foot in a box store or supermarket. (By staying out of places crammed with packaged foods, you'll be more likely to avoid toxic food additives. ...

When you think air pollution, you probably think smokestacks in remote countries—not the furniture in your office, right? Well, get this: Thirty Boston office workers in buildings that were new, recently renovated, or had no recent construction, had perfluorinated chemicals, or PFCs—toxic chemi ...

Last time, in the introductory post, I suggested that evidence is more important than outrage. Outrage indicates how outraged individuals want the world to be; evidence tells everyone how the world is. Too often, we let outrage guide us; for too long, we let positions with negative socia ...

What is the Big Idea? In a recent trip to a Costco in Manhattan, shoppers were seen pushing around large shopping carts filled with items like family-sized jars of mayonnaise and bulging packs of fluffy, colorful tube socks. Moms navigated congested aisles with their screaming children and ...

What is the Big Idea? The backlash against U.S. Senate candidate Pete Hoekstra’s political attack ad is coming from all sides, including those in his own party. For those who missed it, the ad slams incumbent Senator Debbie Stabenow’s foreign economic policies and depicts a you ...

“If you want to replenish your visual thinking, you have to go back to nature,” David Hockney says in Bruno Wollheim’s film David Hockney: A Bigger Picture , “because there’s the infinite there, meaning you can’t think it up.” That film captures Hockney painting many of the amazing landscap ...

What's the Latest Development? First, stop searching for the creativity formula. When Steve Jobs was designing Pixar's office space, the computer graphics company he founded between gigs at Apple, he wanted to locate the building's only bathrooms in a center atrium, forcing people to int ...

The Communist Chinese government has demanded some 250 million users of the Twitter-style micro-blogging platform Weibo provide their real names, addresses and identity numbers, marking a new era of Internet censorship and one that the likes of Joe L...

Washington has made tremendous preparations for a military assault on Iran. There is speculation that Washington has called off its two longest running wars * Iraq and Afghanistan * in order to deploy forces against Iran. Two of Washington*s ...

Though there is often much focus on the richest private individuals in the United States, the U.S. Congress actually has far more economic power. In this video, economist Robert Lawson compares the economic power of the 535 most wealthy private ...

Lew Rockwell interviewed by Alex Jones. Part 2, Part 3...

Democracy, which I consider to be the first step or beginning of socialism, thrives on propaganda, and uses this propaganda to indoctrinate the people. Once this indoctrination is complete, totalitarianism is the end result, and then propaganda i...

I’m currently looking at GE’s recent thread at the DT, lamenting the rise of the Welfare State and the normalization of welfare dependency, helplessness, and self-righteous mendicancy; a subject LibertyGibbert has previously visited in detail. The general tone of the comments … ...

This isn’t the thread I had planned to write. Actually, I had planned to put out an essay last Thursday—Australia Day, commemorating the 224th anniversary of the arrival of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove. I had planned to tell … Continue reading →

What if a journalist had asked JFK this sort of question in 1960? Or Clinton in 1992? Of course, none would have. The press pack half a century ago was fully aware of Kennedy’s proclivities; but he allowed them such … Continue reading →

A very happy New Year to you all. Well, it seems the world is still here: Europe hasn’t imploded (yet), America is not yet (completely) certain of getting another four years of Obama; North Korea hasn’t deployed nuclear missiles (or … Continue reading →

G’day folks, I had planned a new post out today. Unfortunately, Santa’s main present for me at Christmas was a recurrence of this damn chest infection that laid me low in 2010. So I’m getting some rest, and I hope … Continue reading →

Real-life action hero Felix Baumgartner plans to take a balloon up to the edge of space and then to jump out. In freefall he hopes to break the speed record for a human travelling without a machine, the needle, as it were, reaching speeds in excess of the speed of sound. In the BBC newsclip [... ...

A phantom limb is the perception that an amputated or missing limb or other body part is still attached to the body. The sensations, by most accounts, are unpleasant and commonly painful. Mirror therapy has been used to help alleviate some of the problems experienced by veterans, accident victim ...

UK government minister, Lord McNally, responded for the government declining to pardon Turing: The question of granting a posthumous pardon to Mr Turing was considered by the previous Government in 2009. As a result of the previous campaign, the then Prime Minister Gordon Brown issued an unequiv ...

A team in the US has created a boron compound that has the highest coordination number of any planar species, squeezing 10 spoke-like bonds from a central metal hub to 10 boron atoms equally spaced around a nanoscopic wheel. I asked theoretical chemist Pekka Pyykkö of the University of Helsinki, ...

Graphene is perhaps the thinnest material known. Essentially it is a single, isolated layer of the carbon allotrope graphite. In SpectroscopyNOW this week I discuss new research into how a single layer of graphene is transparent to water molecules in the sense that the water can “see&#8221 ...

US EPA http://www.epa.gov/tri/NationalAnalysis/index.htm [From Press Release]  …The 2010 TRI data show that 3.93 billion pounds of toxic chemicals were released into the environment nationwide, a 16 percent increase from 2009. The increase is mainly due to changes in the metal mining secto ...

US DOE http://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/DOE_CMS_2011.pdf [From a Climate Wire story by Joel Kirkland] “In general, global (rare earths) material supply has been slow to respond to the rise in demand over the past decade due to a lack of available capital, long lead times, trade policies ...

US EPA Office of the Inspector General http://www.epa.gov/oig/reports/2012/20121229-12-P-0162.pdf [From a Greenwire story by Jeremy Jacobs]  U.S. EPA lacks an effective program to collect information and monitor the possible health risks posed by nanomaterials, according to a new report by the a ...

Chesapeake Bay Foundation http://www.cbf.org/document.doc?id=1023 [From a story in the Suffolk News-Herald] Extensive government regulation of Chesapeake Bay pollution would create jobs, rather than kill them, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation claims in a new report… In December 2010, the U.S. ...

Eastern Interconnection Planning Collaborative (EIPC) for DOE http://www.eipconline.com/uploads/Phase_1_Report_Final_12-15-2011.pdf [From an E&E Daily story by Paul Behr]  Utility executives and state regulators from 39 states will study three widely different scenarios for the future of the ...

In the eyes of many planetary scientists, the surface of Mars's northern hemisphere has long looked like it once contained an ocean. Now it is "sounding" that way, too. [More]

It's been a long day at work. You walk in the door, drop your bag and turn on your computer. You start a playlist on Spotify. Bon Jovi roars, "It's my life, it's now or never ..."  Facebook pops up, "Would you like to share this song with your friends?" You c ...

It’s a heavy metal. It’s linked to learning problems in school children. And every child is exposed. [More]

Years of shifting and smoothing Georgia red clay paid off today, as the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) voted to allow construction of two new nuclear reactors  (pdf) at the Plant Vogtle nuclear power station near Augusta. Atlanta–based utility giant Southern Co. will soon ...

A nearly 13-year-old skin cancer drug rapidly alleviates molecular signs of Alzheimer's diseas e and improves brain function, according to the results of a new mouse study being hailed as extremely promising. Early-stage human clinical trials could begin within months. [More] ...

 Interesting passage from Samuel Clark's Living Without Domination: The Possibility of an Anarchist Utopia. I would wonder what the anarchists I know think of the various lists referenced here: This account of anarchism as a permanent human tendency has been attacked by a number of authors. ...

From Simon Clark's Keynesianism, Monetarism, and the Crisis of the State: However this structural crisis was not the result of the changing functional requirements of changes in the labour process, but of the tendency for capital accumulation to take the form of the overaccumulation and uneven d ...

Interesting and thought-provoking passage from Samuel Hollander's Economics and Ideology: Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature (1979): It was Marx's position, as we have mentioned, that while the labor writers of the 1820s drew upon Ricardo's value theory to reach their conclusion regarding ...

From Anthony Ince's Whither Anarchist Geography?:It has been said that anarchism combines a socialist critique of liberalism and a liberal critique of socialism. Its refusal to focus merely on "economics" or "freedom" or "culture," and so on, means that anarchism is inherently multifaceted and a ...

I enjoyed this passage from Stephen Colbert's I Am America (And So Can You!): AtheistsThese No-goodnik no-Godniks are growing in numbers and power in America. It makes me wonder how a God could exist Who'd allow people to piss me off so much.Luckily, a recent survey published in the American Soc ...

As City Buys Anti-Striker Ads, ATU Prez Suggests Arbitration Halifax - With ATU local 508 out on strike, and CUPE 227, representing the Halifax Regional Water Commission employees, in a legal strike position, a solidarity rally wa ...

Interview with Ezra Nepon Ezra Nepon is a Philadelphia-based activist and author who is currently raising money to publish a popular history book of the New Jewish Agenda. New Jewish Agenda was a national organization that existed in the Un ...

Pictou County Watershed Coalition gets conflicting stories as to final resting place of Boat Harbour dredge Pictou, Nova Scotia – The Abercrombie Point Pulp and Paper Mill in Pictou, Nova Scotia, has woven itself a tangled web indeed. ...

For immediate release 9 February 2012 HALIFAX—Sustainable seafood advocates were disappointed by yesterday’s decision to allow the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) to eco-certify the Canadian longline swordfish fishery that is responsible for high bycatch of sharks and endangered sea ...

The Harper govenments ammendment states that "5.2 (1) An air carrier shall not transport a passenger if … (c) the passenger does not appear to be of the gender indicated on the identification he or she presents" The Harper governm ...

ex-judge, Baltasar GarzónTerrible crimes were committed during and after Spain’s 1936-39 civil war that no court has yet examined or judged. No one knows how many people were taken away, tortured and murdered. Now, one of Spain’s top investigating magistrates, Baltasar Garzón, is on trial for da ...

"Oppressed beneath the weight of their own corruption and of military violence, they for a long while preserved the sentiments, or at least the ideas of their free-born ancestors." Edward Gibbon, "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"David Seaton's News LinksUnder Richard Nixo ...

If the United States and/or Israel finally do attack Iran, as it now appears inevitable, they may end up falling into a trap laid by Russia and China. "Garden Airplane Trap" Max Ernst - Art Institute of Chicago The Americans know Iran did not bring the RQ-170 down because their intelligence agen ...

David Seaton's News Linksphoto credit to जरा खाजवा की डोक For me this image is pure poetry, it suggests so many things about our world and even about our human nature: the smile of the driver, the people riding snug and dry in the cab, the no nonsense expression on the little bullock's face. ...

David Seaton's News LinksIn the past, workers with average skills, doing an average job, could earn an average lifestyle. But, today, average is officially over. Being average just won’t earn you what it used to. Thomas Friedman - NYT In older factories and, before them, on the farm, there were ...

LA Times columnist Steve Lopez visits a living room full of conservatives in California's Central Valley: Obama is a socialist, said Ray Vercammen. He may be faking his so-called Christianity, said Sam Ackerman. And he wouldn't be much of a public speaker if not for TelePrompTers, said Lo ...

Today, both cats grace the same frame, one looking in and the other looking out. In this photo, the cats are a metaphor for Man's ineluctable failure to appreciate his place in the world. One's nature wants to be in, the other's nature wants to be out. In five minutes, their roles will reverse ...

Well, we now have the details of the "accommodation" that President Obama has made over the contraception issue. Institutions affiliated with the Catholic church will be able to opt out of contraceptive coverage completely, so the bishops are said to be completely satisfied. The LA Times ...

Paul Krugman says that although the employment picture is looking up, it still has a ways to go. To illustrate this, he displays a chart showing the employment-population ratio for prime age workers age 25-54: I agree that this is a telling statistic. It really does indicate that we haven't ...

As you may recall, I think one of the most important questions you should ask yourself when you ponder public policy is, "Compared to what?" Michael O'Hare asks this question regarding drone attacks: I think our emotional reaction to stuff like this depends a lot on what alternatives we ins ...

Topics: Whitney Houston’s death Live Tweeting grief The fan guilt Uncouth niggas in the movie theaters Madonna’s geriatric Super Bowl Show Roland Martin gets himself into trouble Share with your friends:

Roland Martin is an ass.  He’s brash and flat out annoying.  Even worse, he’s woefully unqualified for his job as a political pundit on CNN and because of that, very bad at his job.  I mean the man has a Master’s Degree in Christian Communication at a non-accredited school yet he’s on CNN weighi ...

Topics: George Romero’s birthday Fast Zombies are cheating Eddie Long is a “King” The pedophile burrito Juanita Bynum & the $5000 pen Fuck your murderous family member Roseanne Barr is running for President Share with your friends:

Topics: Its Black History Month and Kriss & Kev don”t care Don Cornelius goes to the big soul train in the sky Kriss realizes he may be a sociopath February movie rundown Every role for a young black actor comes to Bow Wow first Arizona wants to allow guns on campus Drake apologizes t ...

Topics: *There were issues with saving the show so audio quality is lower than normal* Kriss, Kev & Karen list out different people and things that they want to Sparta Kick The list include: George Lucas Nurses People who don’t tip Tyler Perry Wire Bras and many more Share with your f ...

Sudden cooling caused by volcanoes stopped trees growing, introducing error into tree ring temperature records, find Michael Mann from Pennsylvania State University and his colleagues, which could impact estimates of how sensitive the world's temperature is to CO2 emissions.

Emma Tompkins from the University of Southampton, UK, and Hallie Eakin from Arizona State University have found examples where people and organisations are helping their communities adapt to climate change without financial support. They hope to discover how more of us can be encouraged to follo ...

While scientists reported 2011 as being the warmest La Niña year yet in recent weeks, changes in where plants can grow in the US and when they grow in China have perhaps demonstrated warming even more clearly.

Seattle, Washington based “stand-up economist” Yoram Bauman says that using local carbon taxes to cut personal and corporate income taxes can fight climate change more effectively than the Kyoto Protocol – and he's not joking.

After surveying mountains across Europe, Harald Pauli at the University of Vienna, Austria, and scientists in the GLORIA network find a surprising increase in the amount of warmer temperature plants competing with colder-adapted plants, who therefore face a battle to avoid extinction.

There is an ever-increasing need for advanced batteries for portable electronics, such as phones, cameras, and music players, but also to power electric vehicles and to facilitate the distribution and storage of energy derived from renewable energy sources. But, once a battery fails, there are n ...

To solve a mystery, sometimes a great detective need only study the clues in front of him. Like Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot and Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, Tomomi Kiyomitsu used his keen powers of observation to solve a puzzle that had mystified researchers for years: in a cell un ...

For roughly two thousand years, Chinese herbalists have treated Malaria using a root extract, commonly known as Chang Shan, from a type of hydrangea that grows in Tibet and Nepal. More recent studies suggest that halofuginone, a compound derived from this extract's bioactive ingredient, could be ...

A protein that protects some of our immune cells from the most common and virulent form of HIV works by starving the virus of the molecular building blocks that it needs to replicate, according to research published online in Nature Immunology. read more

There is an ever-increasing need for advanced batteries for portable electronics, such as phones, cameras, and music players, but also to power electric vehicles and to facilitate the distribution and storage of energy derived from renewable energy sources. But, once a battery fails, there are n ...

One town’s Tr-“ash” is no one’s treasure The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been sitting on a proposed coal ash standard for nearly 15 months. Without environmental standards for protection from this toxic waste, 54 re ...

Chemical list limbo, idle air pollution laws, green coup Photo courtesy of Calgary Reviews. McDonald’s takes pink slime goop out of burgers It’s ...

President may be open to Shell promises it can clean up oil spill On backing down, backing away, and backing into a corner . . . President Obama’s stateme ...

Last year saw many extreme events, and there's much more to come I'm going to stand back and just give you a taste of a report from the Earth Policy Institu ...

Ignores the fundamental problems with the pipeline project Pipes for Keystone. Courtesy ecowatch.org The New York Times describes Joe Nocera as a business col ...

Download the printable 33-page PDF (includes two appendices, on scenario assumptions and transmission cost estimates) HERE. For an Excel workbook that includes all calculations (and can be used for sensitivity analysis), click HERE. By Peter Lang. Peter is a retired geologist and engineer with 4 ...

The previous Open Thread has gone past is off the BNC front page, so it’s time for a fresh palette. The Open Thread is a general discussion forum, where you can talk about whatever you like — there is nothing ‘off topic’ here — within reason. So get up on your soap box! The standard [...]

Guest Post by Elaine Hirsch. Elaine is kind of a jack-of-all-interests, from education to technology to public policy, so she is currently working as a writer for various education-related sites. Currently, she writes for an online school resource. Black Swan Theory, as explained by Nassim Nicho ...

Ben Heard of DecarboniseSA asked if I’d like to reproduce his recent post, to give it exposure to the BNC audience. Given that I’m still in Spain and will be for a while, I’m happy to oblige. I think it’s an excellent piece — as I’ve come to expect from Ben &# ...

I haven’t published an energy or climate-related article on BNC for almost a week, for a good reason: Yes, I am enjoying myself (but working too!). We (me, and some colleagues from University of Adelaide: Corey Bradshaw, Damien Fordham and Salvador Herrando-Perez) are visiting a research c ...

.:Middle East Online::The State of Journalism and Media in the New Libya:.: Journalism and media witnessed huge expansion in Libya since the first spark in the February 17 revolution. There are now around 200 printed newspapers in Tripoli and Benghazi alone, and around 18 satellite channels thro ...

GUEST POST by @jazminchavez and @juliagrob: “Latinos: Turn Off Your TV, Co�o!”: GUEST POST BY Jazmin Chavez & Julia Ahumada Grob of "East WillyB" By the time of this publication, we should all be familiar with the recent controversy regarding ABC sitcom, “Work It,” in which Puerto Rican act ...

China must abandon censorship | APNS Article 35 of China's constitution as adopted in 1982 clearly states that: "Citizens of the People's Republic of China enjoy freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly, of association, of procession and of demonstration." For 28 years this article has stood ...

The Republican Candidates' Race Card Strategy [Black Star News Editorial] Republican presidential candidates Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and front-runner Mitt Romney have all played the race-card to varying degrees in this election cycle, while Ron Paul's campaign is weighed down by the race b ...

The Billanthrope: Why I Wrote Koontown: Black people are inherently inferior. This is not something you would often hear anybody say outright—if at all. That would be racist, and we live in a time when even devout racists get offended if you actually call them “racist.” The closest we tend to ge ...

Man, I watched clips of the freak show at this year’s CPAC. Why don’t they just call it the Obama hatefest? Where is Politifact anyway? I don’t think one single fake conservative said one single thing that was true from all the coverage I watched. Man, what a bunch of lying cry ...

Mitt Romney may have a good reason to not release his 2008, and 2009 tax returns. He may have made millions and paid zero income, or capital gains tax. Isn’t being filthy rich great! ‘Ol Mittens claimed in a Univision interview he gives 15% to “charity” too. You mean you ...

How did they pull it off? Getting Smeagol all taped up to give the response. I am sure it was Smeagol. All the things he was talking about any orc would love, and any Hobbit would hate. Giving the rich and corporations they own more tax cuts while cutting services for the poor. More of [...]

Parked in downtown Seattle, a gentleman in a nice shiny Cadillac saw the “Republicans Are A Disease” sign in the back of my car, and the 99% sticker on my coat, and yelled at me to wash my car. My car wasn’t really dirty…. He went on to tell me that Obama has been a [...]

No, I am not kidding. America is a rich country and can easily solve most major problems. The main  problem is simply the fact that most of America’s  wealth and power is in the hands of a few individuals. The system is currently set up to where only they profit from “our” labo ...

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 ...

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- ...

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 ...

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 ...

Apologies for the lack of updates lately. We are currently busy working on a new website specifically dedicated to aggregating and producing news reports on the OWS 99% movement. The site will not be announced for another few days, but you can check it out here: http://OWSnews.org/. An amazing ...

By Ken Knabb This seven-minute video gives a pretty good brief impression of what happened in Oakland yesterday, following the police destruction of the Occupy Oakland encampment at Frank Ogawa Plaza. Among other things, I call your attention to a poignant interaction around 4:45 where a ...

Marine Scott Olsen made it through two tours in Iraq without an injury, but back home in the United States he was critically wounded by a police riot. Heavily-armed police injured Olsen and other unarmed citizens on Oct. 25 when they attacked the non-violent Occupy Oakland. Olsen, 24, had his sk ...

Defiant Occupy Oakland protesters vow to return to plaza On Tuesday night and into Wednesday, police clashed with hundreds of protesters whom they’d dislodged from an encampment outside City Hall. More than 100 people were arrested, police said, as officers used tear ...

SourceURL:file://localhost/Users/robertlenkinski/Documents/train%20strike%20blog.doc Lately, I have become sickeningly addicted to playing Monopoly. I don’t know what form of capitalist virus has invaded my brain but it has made me feverish for the game. (The iPad application is pretty impressiv ...

Imagine: Israel is cranked up to bomb a country that likely has chemical and biological weapons to go with its missiles. Imagine: It is planning a future of one such ‘pre-emptive’ war after another.  I’ve been preoccupied for several years with the prospect that Israel would bo ...

Israeli border police (Magav) injured three Palestinian residents of the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya today, according to village sources. Magav also arrested two Palestinian residents of Issawiya, including lawyer Shireen al Issawi.  For reasons that were not immediately clear, borde ...

In a meeting with reserve soldiers under his command, Brigadier General Aharon Haliva, the commander of a reserve division, said that the summer tent protest has hurt the army’s ability to conduct training. According to a report in Israel Defense, Haliva said: Because you went out to prote ...

Joining other West Bank villages such as  Bil’in, Ni’ilin, Ma’asara, Nabi Saleh, Beit Umar and Walajeh – where demonstrations have become part of daily life –  the residents of A-Dik invited Israeli activists to join them in first unarmed, popular, demonstration aga ...

Tony Burke, Minister for the Environment, today welcomed the tabling of a Senate Committee inquiry into the Koala.

The Gillard and Giddings governments today announced the make-up of the Independent Expert Group to verify the high conservation values of native forests nominated under the Tasmanian Forests Intergovernmental Agreement and their compatibility with sustainable wood supply requirements for industry.

Water Minister Tony Burke today announced three new water purchasing tenders in the northern Murray Darling Basin.

The national education centre for the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park has scooped a prestigious international award for its outstanding educational services.

Environment Minister Tony Burke today released the 2011 list of priority native species, ecological communities and threatening processes to be considered for protection under national law.

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Ah Greece, the cradle of democracy.  Say have you seen the streets burning?  Have you seen hundreds of thousands of Greeks out rioting in the streets?  Of course not, because Amerika has The Grammys! And We’ve got our Attorney General Settlement and “we’re” electing a pre ...

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For those of us that have been fighting the banks and all their lies, forgery, fraud, surrogate signing, ghost signing, notary fraud, the AG settlement chaos is a rather fitting “end” to this whole stinking saga. The mighty AGs themselves are now victims of the very conduct we’ ...

From Naked Capitalizm: You know it’s bad when banks are the most truthful guys in the room. Remember that historical mortgage settlement deal that was the lead news story on Thursday? It has been widely depicted as a done deal. The various AGs who had been holdouts said their concerns had been s ...

The USA goes to the only power source that can produce enough energy for future demands in all weather conditions.

Front runners drumming up support from their political base. Which one could beat Obama?

Another part of the legacy of 13 years of Labour/socialist misrule.

The euro temple is trembling, and, how much Greek pain will it take to satisfy the German debt collectors?

What to do when EU rules try to force a terrorist to walk free in England.

Progressive democracy has been perhaps the most stable of political systems in world history. It has guided and empowered the …Continue reading »

Sometimes communities aren’t ready for the changes being thrust upon them. Stuck in the traditional way of doing things, they …Continue reading »

What began as a brief comment ended up as a unique citizen exercise. Ed Jackman (look for him in the …Continue reading »

Being with the ElectroMotive workers on Saturday, the day following the announcement of that plant’s official closing, had an odd …Continue reading »

Well, it’s over. Tears filled our eyes this morning as my wife and I heard that Caterpillar had finally made …Continue reading »

by Barbara Loe Fisher Every mother has had the nightmare. We dream our child, who we love more than we thought we could love anyone, has been taken away by strangers and cannot be found. The cold fear rises up from our stomach into our throats as we search, endlessly, to find the child we would ...

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” – Abraham Lincoln by Barbara Loe Fisher In America today, there is an unprecedented assault on the human right to exercise informed consent to medical risk-taking ...

by Barbara Loe Fisher Today, pediatricians give American babies as many as 33 doses of 13 different vaccines by 12 months of age.1, 2 Now, federal public health officials are considering recommending that doctors give four more doses of a new vaccine – meningococcal vaccine – to babies between ...

by Barbara Loe Fisher My country, ’tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing:
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims’ pride,
From every mountain side,
Let freedom ring.[1] What is liberty? Webster’s Dictionary defines Liberty as “the quality or state of being free,” ...

by Barbara Loe Fisher Memorial Day is for remembering those, who have fought and died to defend America and preserve our civil liberties, including freedom of thought, speech, religious belief and conscience. So every Memorial Day I remember the children, who have died after receiving state man ...

Just thought I’d circulate this on the 2020 Science network – please feel free to pass on the information to anyone who might be interested. We have finally started the process of looking for two junior faculty to join the Risk Science Center at the University of Michigan School of P ...

Dan Sarewitz has a rather provocative commentary in Nature this morning, where he suggests that proposals to increase basic research may be good politics, but questionable policy. The headline alone is probably enough to get some science-advocates’ blood boiling, whether they go on to read ...

Next week I am being “installed” here at the University of Michigan.  Not in the sense of installing a carpet – as one friend suggested – but in the sense of being installed as an endowed professor.  The Charles and Rita Gelman Risk Science Professor to be precise. To mar ...

Friends of the Earth have just released a new report challenging claims that nanotechnology will lead to greener, more energy-efficient technologies, lower-impact technologies. I’ve only had the chance to skim through the report so far, and so don’t have detailed comments on it.  But ...

Here’s something that keeps me awake at night (seriously): why, in this age of super-slick graphics and innovative multimedia resources, is it nearly impossible to give presentation that looks as good as they should? How come I can guarantee that when I give a presentation, the slides will ...

Chen reports: "In many industrialized countries around the world, taking time off from work to deal with a medical issue isn't just a benefit; it's considered an entitlement, as much as an eight-hour day. But in the world's richest nation, a worker who claims that right has had to appeal to the ...

Chen reports: "In many industrialized countries around the world, taking time off from work to deal with a medical issue isn't just a benefit; it's considered an entitlement, as much as an eight-hour day. But in the world's richest nation, a worker who claims that right has had to appeal to the ...

Excerpt: "Senate Democrats have released a new plan that puts Michigan students ahead of wealthy corporations.... Michigan's high school graduates will be eligible for free tuition at one of Michigan's community colleges or universities. ... The program will be funded entirely by eliminating $3. ...

Excerpt: "Senate Democrats have released a new plan that puts Michigan students ahead of wealthy corporations.... Michigan's high school graduates will be eligible for free tuition at one of Michigan's community colleges or universities. ... The program will be funded entirely by eliminating $3. ...

Excerpt: "Of particular concern is a group of pesticides, chemically similar to nicotine, called neonicotinoids (neonics for short), and one in particular called clothianidin. Instead of being sprayed, neonics are used to treat seeds, so that they're absorbed by the plant's vascular system, and ...

[The WRL blog is excited to feature a film review by Jeanne Strole, co-director of the A.J. Muste Memorial Institute, with which the War Resisters League shares a long history, as well as the building at 339 Lafayette St. in … Continue reading →

[This piece by Adalah-NY: The New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel was originally published here on January 15th, 2012.] US-made tear gas, manufactured by companies like Combined Systems Inc. (CSI), Defense Technology, and NonLethal Technologies, continues to be … Continue reading & ...

by Esther Wang [This piece first appeared on December 22nd as a note on Esther Wang's Facebook page.] In October, news broke that 19-year-old Danny Chen – a US Army private who was born and raised in Chinatown – had … Continue reading →

As the US military withdrawal from Iraq approaches its deadline of December 31st, 2011, the Popular Movement to Save Iraq‘s Uday al-Zaidi, released a statement calling for celebration, vigilance, and a new front “to resist the second face of the … Continue reading →

 [The following statement originated from activists in the San Fransisco Bay Area. For further information, contact: bay2egypt@gmail.com ] As 2011 gives way to 2012, people’s movements for justice are met with unprecedented global militarization. From Oakland to Egypt, people are demanding &#823 ...

Biofuels, particularly corn-based ethanol, offered the promise of large financial returns to both the farmer and to the rural community. How have the small-scale farmers fared against the land barons?

If someone is hungry, we must feed them before they can be receptive to spiritual food.

Ongoing research is advancing the efficiency of the use of cellulosic biomass for liquid fuels. It is doubtful if we willsee breakthroughs anytime soon though, as these types of innovations often come slowly.

The pesticides were euphemistically spoken of as “plant medicine.” Ms. López jokingly summed that her diminutive figure is a testimony that too little energy was left over for physical growth.

The ban, if enacted, would help to curb the ongoing problem of arsenical drug use by the poultry industry, and associated public health risks to poultry consumers.

After its success in the Indian MMRCA competition, Dassult's Rafale is tipped to also win the Brazilian contract for 36 aircraft against the Swedish Gripen and the US F18.

Al-Qaeda has come out in strong support of the Syrian opposition and becomes a strange bedfellow for the US and Western European nations who have aligned themselves more agains President Assad than for anybody in particular. Just how the US and France and UK and others will now be reconciled wit ...

Vice-President Neelie Kroes of the European Commission has invited the plagiarist Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, who was exposed by internet activism to be a special advisor to the Commission on internet activism. Stupid is as stupid does.

Dassault's Rafale aircraft were evaluated to be cheaper than the Eurofighter typhoon by about $5 billion in the 126 aircraft Indian MMRCA competition.

Ice loss from the high mountains of Asia "is not significantly different from zero."

Alex Hern reports on the CBI's (rather optimistic) predictions for growth in 2012

Alex Hern asks why the government's crackdown on rewards for failure isn't extending to firms which work almost entirely for the government - like A4e

Will Straw writes on Vince Cable's attempt to reclaim the comparative advantage of British industry.

Ed Jacobs looks at what can be done to solve Northern Ireland's footballing exodus - if it's even a problem

International evidence suggests that the NHS is efficent by global standards and this morning's news that the NHS made productivity gains over the last decade just confirms that

Whatever Bank of America says must be true, right? Which is rough news for one man who just found out he's been dead since 2009, according to the bank. They also reported the sad news to the three major credit rating agencies, and that really put a kink in his request for a bank loan for his ne ...

Apple could have a pretty major problem, to the tune of $38 million in fines and a huge hit to sales, as claims by another company that they registered the name iPad for use in mainland China in 2001 gain momentum. One report says officials were seizing iPads from store shelves as a result of t ...

It can be depressing to calculate the amount of time you spend working to pay for your car. Your ride siphons money from you in an overwhelming amount of ways, including your monthly payment, gas, insurance, registration fees, maintenance and repair. If you want to start living more frugally, y ...

Due out Feb. 22, Sony's PlayStation Vita handheld can't play physical games from its predecessor, the PSP, because the Vita lacks a disc drive. But many of the PSP's downloadable games will work on the Vita, and you can transfer them over via a relatively simple -- if time-consuming -- practice ...

The process of applying for student loans, using them and eventually paying them back can be a decades-long class that teaches you a plethora of difficult lessons about personal finance. One of your first quizzes is something of a vocabulary test when you're trying to wrap your head around what ...

Thomas Drake and Jesselyn Radack at the Ridenhour AwardsThis coming Monday, February 13, GAP National Security & Human Rights Director Jesselyn Radack and National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Tom Drake will speak at Americans Who Tell the Truth: Ethics, Integrity and the Law, a “Foun ...

Government Executive: IRS Settles Whistleblower Suit, Special Counsel Reports Summary: The IRS has settled a whistleblower case that accused an agency contractor of mismanagement. The case could impact future cases “involving the rights of employees to use government email to report problems.” ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has admitted to monitoring the personal e-mail accounts of whistleblowers communicating with Congress. The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday that it monitored the personal e-mails of employees who had concerns about unsafe medical d ...

According to reliable (whistleblowing) sources, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has a long history of shielding major Argentine firms from public exposure for corrupt or fraudulent practices in Bank operations. Take the case of a Pricewaterhouse Coopers chapters in the US (PwC US) and ...

State Department whistleblower Peter Van Buren writes in TomDispatch today about the escalating retaliation taken against him since he wrote a book about massive reconstruction fraud in Iraq: We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds ...

Murdoch’s not concerned with spf block, rather a series of arrests by Scotland Yard that could place his ownership and operation of flagship tabloid newspaper The Sun and, perhaps, US-based FOX News in dire jeopardy. Having already lost The News of the World (NotW) tabloid last summer, we wrote ...

It took the USA 11 years from 1776 to their constitution being written and enacted in 1787. Egypt has had one year and there have many highs and lows over that period.  Wael Ghonim has written a book I highly recommend Revolution 2.0 which is a compliment to this work. We pick up the action [...]

Earlier this week, I received an email from a reader who seemed filled with a sense of duty to set me and my “environmental agenda” straight. Mr. “X”, wrote: “Dear Ms. Fills, I am not surprised, that there are people like you, who for their own personal benefits, love to spread doomsday predicti ...

by Lena Groeger, ProPublica Fracking has only recently become a household word, but government involvement with the drilling technique goes back decades. President Obama haschampioned the potential of natural gas drilling combined with more regulation. While there has been mounting evidence of w ...

For each day during this nearly three week long anniversary, an excerpt of the Book “Egypt Unshackled” will provide you with the historical and social media highlights from each day of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. Friday, 11 February 2011 Tweet of the Day: @Ghonim Welcome back Egypt #Jan25 The ...

The CEO of Caterpillar Doug Oberhelman, takes to the pages of The Chicago Tribune, to explain why job creators don't like the Blue state of Illinois:Despite the fact that we announced plans for dozens of new factories in the last few years and our United States workforce increased by more than 1 ...

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The Chicago Sun-Times reports:This circle is indisputably dominated by campaign guru and former White House colleague David Axelrod, whose 30-year friendship with Emanuel makes him a combination father, older brother and campaign manager who serves as the mayor’s external political gut check. Ax ...

The Daily Caller reports:Founded by Brock in 2004 as a liberal counterweight to “conservative misinformation” in the press, Media Matters has in less than a decade become a powerful player in Democratic politics. The group operates in regular coordination with the highest levels of the Obama Whi ...

This is disturbing news. What if eating undercooked meat, gardening, or having a cat could give you an infection which stayed with you for life, nested in cysts in your brain? Worse, those cysts somehow affected your personality, possibly putting you at increased risk of suicide, schizophrenia, ...

It’s your chance to guide the internet traffic to your favourite sites. Don’t miss it! Look out for Tallbloke, Australian Climate Madness, Watts Up (x 2), Climate Audit as well as JoNova.Click here to find out how it works. Click here to go straight to the voting page which closes o ...

The collapse of the Man-Made Myth continues apace. You may not read headlines as such (at least not in major dailies) but all the signs are there. People who we never would have imagined speaking against the Big Scare Campaign are now doing so. Key glaciers are not melting and corals are happy. ...

For forty years people have tried to get Solar to work, now the worst possible thing for the industry has occurred: The Left are serious about trying to help it. The Large Scale Solar Subsidies are bountifully generous on an unprecedented scale that involve taxing everything else that moves, but ...

Thank you GetUp! Australians are finally talking about how they can get more media competition and how we can lift media standards. Read on to see Moncktons reply, and the call for interest Spot those afraid of free speech. ... Gina Rinehart merely buys 13% of  Fairfax, and the GetUp-union-funde ...

(Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - The candidacy of Rick Santorum for the Republican presidential nomination is scoring big time as I write. (Who knows if that will be the case by the time you read this?) The book on the former Pennsylvania senator, we are repeatedly informed by the media, is that he is ...

(The Hill) - Rick Santorum has taken the lead nationally in the Republican presidential race for the first time, a new poll showed. Less than a week after besting Romney in primary contests in three states, Rick Santorum has a 15-point lead on the former Massachusetts governor, according to a na ...

(Washington Times) - Is America sliding toward autocratic rule? This is the essential question of Barack Obama's presidency. Mr. Obama vowed to "fundamentally transform" the United States. Despite his incompetence and economic failure, the president is making good on his central promise: the des ...

(Michelle Malkin) - If you aren't creeped out by the No Birth Control Left Behind rhetoric of the White House and Planned Parenthood, you aren't listening closely enough. The anesthetic of progressive benevolence always dulls the senses. Wake up...

(Dr. Milton R. Wolf) - Conservative voters have a message for the Republican establishment: Not so fast. The Washington-knows-best GOP insiders who gave us John McCain, George W. Bush, Bob Dole and George H.W. Bush are now pushing Mitt Romney. Conservative voters are pushing back. Hard...

Here are some of today's top shock headlines: "Army of hackers targets the Swedish government, Sarah Palin and credit card giants in WikiLeaks 'Operation: Payback'" - The Daily Mail "Hackers Rise for WikiLeaks" - Wall Street Journal "WikiLeaks backers hit MasterCard and Visa in cyberstrike" - R ...

In the world of liberty lovers and food freedom fighters, there's been a ton of attention lately on Senate bill S.510 -- the deceitfully-named, "Food Safety Modernization Act [1]." But in the mainstream media, there's been but a whimper; a pathetic trickle of occasional, fleeting and understated ...

At TruthOffering.com, we've written much about what's known as the Liberty to Tyranny cycle. The reason we've focused so much attention on this cycle is that we believe in it completely. That is to say, since every civilization has followed this cycle's projection, it's reasonable to suspect the ...

John D. Rockefeller, Sr. / Wilhelm WundtSince reading "the deliberate dumbing down of america" by Charlotte Iserbyt, I've been trying to find other people out there who have also noticed the ruining of education in the United States. To be honest, it's hard to find information on this subject ou ...

Have a listen to Matt Gordon from TruthOffering.com chatting with Hip-hop connoisseur, D-Bracks, on LA Talk Live. Topics range from economics and politics to international banksters and chemtrails. Be sure to drop a comment and let us know what you think of Matt's perspective:

Epigenetics is the study of heritable changes in gene expression or cellular phenotype caused by mechanisms other than changes in the underlying DNA sequence (more at Wikipedia). There is a lot of evidence that epigenetic modifications ...Epigenetics Update / Supervolcano Alert is a post from: ...

I’ve mentioned previously how survivalists could show up on government radar if store owners decide that buying supplies with cash is suspicious – the purchaser could be a terrorist! As it happens, there are 25 ...USA Govt: Mega Snitch List is a post from: 2012 Blog Related po ...

At the heart of every galaxy there is thought to be a supermassive black hole. Our black hole is known as Sagittarius A*, and as far as these go, it is very quiet. But that ...Galactic Centre to Erupt in 2013 is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:Our Galactic Centre: “enormous ene ...

The long term trend is obvious to any Sci-Fi fan – one day all transactions will be cashless. We might even have a universal currency known as credits! There are some indications in Europe that the ...What If Money Goes 100% Digital? is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:Power Gr ...

There’s an interesting article over at Fox News, although I’m not sure “cashing in” is fair – Americans are heading south for 2012, and businesses are accommodating them.  Perhaps it is Fox who are cashing ...Fox: Cashing in on 2012 is a post from: 2012 Blog ...

<p>Last week&#39;s ruling that federal judges in Texas overstepped their bounds in drawing a minority-friendly set of interim maps for the 2012 elections was interpreted by some as a win for ...

<p>When South Carolina residents go to the polls on Jan. 21 to choose a Republican presidential candidate, they won&#39;t have to show photo ID thanks to the U.S. Department of Justice&# ...

<p>A new video from the Louisiana Environmental Action Network features first-hand accounts from mothers and grandmothers about the chronic health problems affecting an alarming number of childr ...

<p>More than three years after a disaster at a Tennessee power plant, the Obama administration still has not issued promised protections from coal ash hazards. Environmental groups plan to sue t ...

<p>The frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination speaks out against government dependency, but companies acquired by his Bain Capital firm sought taxpayer handouts in the form of su ...

NATO-led forces said they had mistakenly killed a group of children in an air strike that has enraged the government. Reported by Zee News 1 hour ago

A cook working at the house of a Deputy Superintendent of Police was found dead in Indira Nagar locality. Reported by Zee News 2 hours ago

Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch is facing a revolt from staff at The Sun, over the arrest of five senior colleagues on charges of inappropriate payments to police. Reported by IndiaVision 2 hours ago

The Special Investigation Team (SIT), appointed by the Supreme Court to probe the 2002 post-Godhra riots in Gujarat, has refused to share its report on the Gulbarg Housing Society massacre with the pe... Related Stories Reported by NDTV.com 3 hours ago

The Special Investigation Team (SIT) Monday objected to a plea by social activist Teesta Setalvad and Mukul Sinha seeking a copy of SIT’s final report in the Gulberg society case. Reported by Zee News 3 hours ago

Chipmaker only receives a financial slap on the wrist for alleged threats and kickbacks

AT&T will make no new friends with its latest fee change

DailyTech's roundup of hardware reviews from around the web for Friday

Loss is setback, but Motorola's hopes of forcing licensing under threat of a ban are still alive

A model was created to to analyze shape-memory alloys, which could be used in structures for stress distribution

As tensions between the US and Iran heat up, author Michael T. Winter believes the main reason behind America’s harsh stance is Tehran’s move to seek an alternative to the dollar as an oil currency. Economic sanctions, spearheaded by the US and, less willingly, the EU could have a disastrous eff ...

For a month, Moscow was bracing itself for the February 4 Rally. It was pre-planned and prepared by the anti-Putin pro-Western liberal opposition. Despite sub-zero Fahrenheit (minus 20 degrees Centigrade) arctic frost, the organizers hoped to break their pre-Christmas record and gather a huge cr ...

Buenos-Aires and other cities of Argentina have many monuments dedicated to the officers and men, who died on the Malvinas Islands. Hundreds of shields along the Argentinean roads carry a single line: Las Malvinas son Argentinas (Las Malvinas belong to Argentina). All the participants of that wa ...

On Monday January 30, 2012 a leading Russian TV channel showed an unexpectedly significant interview with Michael McFaul, the recently appointed US Ambassador to Russia. Why ‘unexpectedly’? Because the host of the show was Vladimir Pozner, patriarch of the Soviet/Russian television widely known ...

The Taliban spokesman’s announcement that the Taliban are prepared to open an office in Doha Qatar and to hold talks with the Americans at that site has been the headline story in the international media for the last few days. The fact that this very spokesman, commenting on the disgusting video ...

I am constantly on a quest for low sugar treats. My purpose is partly to fool myself into thinking that I am eating something healthy (they ARE healthier than a processed or full-sugar/butter-laden treat, but they are STILL treats) and partly to train all of our taste buds into appreciating food ...

A couple of days ago, I received an e-mail about a new holiday that wants in on our calendars called Manentine's Day, an effort to flip the attention given to women on Valentine's Day onto the men in their lives. Per the press release I received: Manentine's Day is on March 14th and is like Vale ...

This Valentine’s Day, take some time out to show some TLC to the most important person in your life — you!Schedule a relaxing massage, sleep in, or try a new look. Whether you’re staying in for a romantic evening or heading out for a night on the town, Valentine’s Day is the perfect time to pamp ...

Welcome to part three of "Be Smart, Secure and Safe. A Guide to Managing Your Online Privacy."As bloggers, entrepreneurs, social media and online marketers it's often we connect to public Wi-Fi to get work done, catch-up on Twitter and other things. Free Wi-Fi hotspots are more common these days ...

It's tax season and your mind is probably on how much you've earned and how much you owe from your blogging endeavours, but have you ever taken a moment to work out how much you spend in order to write? Book bloggers have to purchase books, entertainment bloggers take themselves to the movies, ...

Collecting rainwater is now illegal in many states as the Government claims ownership over our water sources. Yes even rain water. ~ Health Freedoms Many of the freedoms we enjoy here in the U.S. are quickly ...

A total of 37 communities vote to end artificial water fluoridation in 2011. Is your community on that list? With all the toxins in today’s drinking water it should be. ~ Health Freedoms The year 2011 ...

Did you know that most breads you eat have been derived from human hair? It’s true! ~ Health Freedoms If you read the ingredients label on a loaf of bread, you will usually find an ingredient ...

Why has the FDA ignored the fact that mercury, an element that is highly toxic in all forms, was found in a large number of brand-name processed foods? Specifically, the mercury content was found to ...

Ever wonder why you go all day munching on fat-free pretzels and granola yet never seem to lose any weight? Why your tasty yogurt with fruit is leaving you feeling blah and your ...

Those who criticized the reaction of the crowd at Wednesday night's memorial have it ingrained that a perfect memorial is one with candles, flowers and tears. The citizens of Tucson and the American people have mourned for five days. Wednesday's event was not a time to mourn some more. It was a ...

The Tucson, Arizona family home of 22-year-old Jared Loughner had been visited by authorities before the shooting of a congresswoman and 18 others last Saturday, new information by the New York Times revealed Wednesday. It's unclear what the visits were about or what prompted the call to author ...

Newly-released court documents offer a glimpse into the motive behind Jared Loughner's attempted assassination of Tucson Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords on Saturday. Recovered from Loughner's home was a letter addressed to Jared Loughner from Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Giffords mailed a ...

At least fifteen gunshots rang out shortly after 10:10am Arizona Time Saturday, bullets fatally striking a Federal Judge and injuring a prominent Congresswoman. Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) of Arizona's Eighth District was wounded at a public meet-and-greet event outside a grocery s ...

The worst floods in 50 years to hit Queensland, Australia are being described as nothing short of Biblical. More than 1,000 people have been evacuated, though officials say as the floodwaters get worse, as many as 4,000 residents could be asked to vacate their homes and businesses later this we ...

It’s really no wonder that so many West Virginia political leaders won’t confront the coming crisis in our state’s coalfields. That’s especially so if you just look at the media coverage these issues generally get from most of the state’s newspapers, television stat ...

On Sunday, we published a lengthy story in the Gazette-Mail that examined the two coal-mining deaths that Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin is citing as evidence to support making a mandatory drug-testing requirement the centerpiece of his legislative follow-up to the worst coal-mining disaster in nearly 40 ...

In this photo taken on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012, and provided by China’s Xinhua News Agency, workers load coal onto a train in Jiujiang, east China’s Jiangxi Province. The Nanchang Railway Administration and Shanghai International Port (Group) Company have given priority to coal trans ...

We all know that the official federal investigation of the Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster didn’t fine that drugs or alcohol had anything to do with the April 5, 2010, explosion that killed 29 West Virginia coal miners. And it’s clear that separate reports by independent investigator ...

It’s fascinating — but also terribly depressing — to watch the taxpayer-funded publicists in West Virginia government promote the state’s energy industries. Their statements often have such little connection to reality. Take this morning … there I was, innocently ch ...

They were investigating mild cognitive impairment (MCI), which can be an early sign of dementia. Research, presented at a conference, claimed a high calorie diet was linked to having twice the risk of MCI, compared with a low calorie diet. via bbc.co.uk So poor memory means less working memory, ...

There’s some phenomenal password research here from clarkson.edu that talks about common passwords found during Internet attacks. I’ve taken those entries and put them into a single list here on Github, and I will soon be adding the abridged rockyou list (once I get their permission) ...

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Dirbuster is a tool used to help discover content on a target website during an assessment. It does so by making a massive number of requests for directories to a given site and documenting the responses. Here are a few options I like to set when using the tool: Enable the following of redirects ...

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The remarkable ambivalence with which the police treat right wing groups was clearly evident in the policing of the EDL demonstration this week in Leicester. Leicestershire constabulary were clearly happy with facilitating the EDL demonstration, while being equally clearly committed to clamping ...

Well, we always knew HMIC’s ludicrously named ‘review of national police units which provide intelligence on criminality associated with protest’ was going to be a farce, and we haven’t been disappointed. The 48 page report published today fails to address any of the concerns addressed by activi ...

London students who occupied a space in the run-up to the November 30th public sector strike were under the jurisdiction of the Met's SO15 Counter Terrorism Command, FITwatch have learned today. Bloomsbury Social Centre - which aimed to be a "hub of organising for students, workers and residents ...

Fitwatch regularly get asked what happened to the cops who assaulted members of the group during Kingsnorth climate camp. The case received a large amount of publicity when it was front page of the Guardian in June 2009, and many thousands of people viewed the footage of officers using excessive ...

More plainclothes cops were spotted during the public sector protests on November 30th. The ones pictured here were all identified during the kettle in Panton Street, and all admitted to being cops when challenged. Plainclothes cops outed on 30th November were surrounded by protesters, derided a ...

An Occupy protester’s story: ‘an idea cannot be evicted’ Tammy Samede arrived at St Paul’s last October as the protests began. Angry at police treatment, she has been there ever since. Flanked by a QC and a crowd of protesters, 33-year-old Tammy Samede strode from the Roy ...

Greeks clean up after riots against austerity vote ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Firefighters doused smoldering buildings and cleanup crews swept rubble from the streets of central Athens on Monday following a night of rioting during which lawmakers approved harsh new austerity measures demanded by bail ...

From the blog susanohanian.org -By Marion Brady Imagine the present corporately promoted education reform effort as a truck, its tires nearly flat from the weight of the many unexamined assumptions it carries. On board: An assumption that punishment and rewards effectively motivate; that machine ...

========================================================================= To see more of Boris Rasin work visit; http://www.flickr.com/photos/58551403@N06/ or just click on an Image. Boris Rasin is a Brooklyn-based multimedia artist. He has shown his paintings, drawings, installations and public ...

I don’t get it. People are more concerned with who is sleeping with whom than about the food that they put in their mouth. Monsanto has been pushing their GMO food on the world for a long time. On Facebook, in emails, and elsewhere, people have been made aware of the concerns regarding these cro ...

On Thursday, March 22nd, the CERN Colloquium between 4:30 pm and 5:30 pm will be dedicated to a very, very unusual topic: cold fusion. The title is Overview of Theoretical and Experimental Progress in Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENR): click for descriptionand the talk will be presented b ...

Just ten days ago, you could have read about Friedrich Dürrenmatt's "The Physicists". Because this is another blog entry about a play in the Pilsner Chamber Theater, you must start to think that I am the ultimate theater addict. In order to preserve this generous and precious belief of yours, ...

If you have 16 minutes, you may watch Murray Gell-Mann who was interviewed by CERN's Paolo Catapano on January 23rd. Click here if you see no video above. Gell-Mann talks about the likelihood of the Higgs mechanism, importance of beauty in physics, the role of it in knowing th ...

Jason Mraz is an American singer and songwriter. The music isn't quite my cup of tea but I think it's good. This YouTube video with his song (which I've heard before) has attracted 120 million viewers: that's quite something. I don't remember seeing a number over 100 million for quite some ti ...

In recent years, Greece has been a major source of negative energy in the world's markets. Greece became a textbook example of the pernicious influence of any left-wing ideology, a proof of an inevitable outcome of any policies that codify well-being as a human right and put it above the prin ...

The Greek Situation is precarious to say the least. There is an unelected global banker, as leader, dictating to the Greek people how their day-to-day lives will change, for the worse, at the hands of austerity. Can you really blame them for this? There is no mandate for the Greek fire sale, thu ...

Live from the Greek front in the Global Insurrection Against Banker Occupation (GIABO) the city of Athens is on fire thanks to the corporate coup of Greek sovereignty. What you are witnessing WILL be coming to North America as austerity measures are enforced on us. Watch live streaming video fro ...

Pre-VEVO play count: 22581204 Music video by The Verve performing Bitter Sweet Symphony. Video Rating: 4 / 5 ‘Cause it’s a bittersweet symphony, this life Trying to make ends meet You’re a slave to money then you die I’ll take you down the only road I’ve ever been d ...

  I sometimes feel like an alien creature for which there is no earthly explanation. Sure I have human form walking erect and opposing digits, but my mind is upside down. I feel like a run-on sentence in a punctuation crazy world. And I see the world around me like a mad collective dream. A ...

After visiting the hospital last night I have come to the conclusion that anyone profiting from the production, distribution, and sale of tobacco are part of Big Tobacco and are murdering scum. Why do I think this? Big tobacco murdered my father Big tobacco murdered my Grampy George Big tobacco ...

This blogs entries have been moved to http://worldtruthtoday.wordpress.com/ I will no longer post anything here, although site will remain open for a while. Thanks Grace

Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio

Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence

The costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either

The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley

The Web outfit has drawn a huge, male-dominated following and has an IPO in the works. But will a big Net player come calling?

By Alex Formuzis, Vice President for Media Relations Since she assumed the position of administrator of the federal Environmental Protection Agency early in 2009, Lisa P. Jackson has done more than any previous EPA chief to reform how the government... [[ This is a content summary only. Vis ...

By Alex Formuzis, Vice President for Media Relations Many parents who don't smoke - and have raised their kids to do the same - might be surprised to learn that their offspring could be secondhand-smoking a pack a week. Roughly... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full ...

By Alex Formuzis, EWG V-P for Media Relations In an interview last week (Jan. 16) at the pesticide lobby's D.C. headquarters, Washington State University Environmental Toxicology Professor Allan Felsot told Energy and Environment News (subscription... [[ This is a content summary only. Visi ...

By Alex Rindler, Policy Associate According to a Huffington Post article published today, U.S. Marine Corps officials have urged federal health experts not to release complete information about an ongoing federal water assessment at Marine Corps Base... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...

Guest Post by Robyn O'Brien and Angie Nordstrum We've all seen (or at least heard of) the movie "Erin Brockovich" in which a bold and fiercely determined mom takes on a chemical company for exposing a small town and the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, ...

The neoliberal wetdream coming to fruition. From Fast Company: Districts all over are experimenting with teacher-less computer labs and green-lighting entire classrooms of adult-supervised children exploring the Internet--an Android powered tablet designed specifically for students. Teachers' u ...

MANILA/MILAN (Reuters) - World food prices hit a record in January and recent catastrophic weather around the globe could put yet more pressure on the cost of food, an issue that has already helped spark protests across the Middle East. Up for the seventh month in a row, the closely watched Food ...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/busi...   The Guardian in Britain says calmly:Shell stoked up the heated debate about the high cost of fuel on the forecourt today after reporting it made profits of nearly £1.6m an hour over the last three months.A leading member of the road lobby said moto ...

Wellbeing in Egypt and Tunisia decreased significantly over the past few years, even as GDP increased. In Egypt, where demonstrations have prompted President Hosni Mubarak to give up power after elections this fall, the percentage of people "thriving" fell by 18 percentage points since 2005. In ...

The Grand Nagus speaks! At Tom Dispatch.com.

Police in Rogaland, western Norway, were getting help from expert mountain climbers as they investigated the deaths of two highly-experienced mountaineers who were making a trek along the famously steep side of Kjerag east of Stavanger. Some now believe a large chunk of the mountainside came loo ...

Norway’s Princess Astrid celebrated her 80th birthday on Sunday and her younger brother, King Harald, invited family and friends for what officials called a “private” dinner party at the Royal Palace in Oslo. Crown Princess Mette-Marit and Crown Prince Haakon were among those e ...

A young man whose family came to Norway as refugees from Iran, won an overwhelming victory at the annual Norwegian national song contest Melodi Grand Prix on Saturday night. Tooji Keshtkar will now represent Norway at the Eurovision Song Contest in May. The singer, who performs simply as “ ...

The Oslo City Court (Tingrett) ordered confessed terrorist Anders Behring Breivik to submit to a new psychiatric examination on Friday. Meanwhile, police sought the removal of a court-appointed attorney in the case, for allegedly leaking confidential information to the media. Breivik had refused ...

Norway’s biggest bank, DNB, reported more strong profits this week and analysts were unusually enthusiastic. Reactions like “Buy!,” “Home run!” and “Very strong!” were among those quoted by newspaper Dagens Næringsliv (DN) on Friday. Investors also react ...

Andy Goldring, the Coordinator/CEO of the Permaculture Association (Britain) attended the International Permaculture Convergence 10 (IPC10) in Jordan. He was there alongside hundreds of others, including Permaculture’s founding father Bill Mollison. Andy reviews an event which is acknowled ...

I have seen a possibility and a lot of factors that are working in favor of this possibility, so it has motivated me to start working on my idea. It’s about collaboratively re-occupying and regenerating abandoned rural land, starting here, where I am in Portugal. Since I know of no other c ...

Learn the concepts of sustainable living and improved self-reliance through foodwatershelter’s Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) Course. Join USA based instructor Steve Whitman and a team of local teachers in Arusha, Tanzania between the 4th to 15th June 2012 for this incredible opp ...

Editor’s Note: As well as the course below, I should mention, in case you missed it, that Warren Brush will also be teaching at the PRI’s Zaytuna Farm in NSW, Australia in July. Find out more here. Quail Springs Permaculture launches Permaculture Design Certification Course for In ...

I have seen a possibility and a lot of factors that are working in favor of this possibility, so it has motivated me to start working on my idea. It’s about collaboratively re-occupying and regenerating abandoned rural land, starting here, where I am in Portugal. Since I know of no other c ...

We all have this need to fit in. It’s natural and it’s a good thing. We’re encouraged to do it from the year dot. Nobody wants the “doesn’t play well with other kids” label, so you sort of go along with the thing and anyway, you get to play a few games of football if … Read more

Political policy changes constantly in a democracy. It does so primarily in response to the changing concerns of its electorate, because by addressing these concerns, politicians hoping to gain office naturally expect to attract votes by catering to these concerns. When the economy is prosperous ...

Can you imagine if a group set up a website to name people, with their place of work, who did not believe Allah is the one true god? Not only that, the site actively encourages its visitors to supply it with more names of other people who don’t believe in Allah either. Would such a … ...

I’ve been following the various investigations into the hacking of voice mail and other criminal activities by elements of the mainstream media (MSM) in the UK. They longer they go on, the more varied and widespread the abuses are being found to be; email break ins, computer break ins and ...

If you live in Western Europe, then politically there are only two countries you have to keep an eye on; England and Germany. The reality is the rest just make noises while the former two make prosperity or give you fair warning of how many notches you should be tightening your belt. Angela Merk ...

How do you choose the best settings for exporting your video, after you have edited it? I remember how confusing this was for me when I started working with Web video several years ago. With the slower computers we had back then, I would wait for what seemed like forever while exporting a small ...

The new Video Resources page has been added to this site. This is a carefully curated page with links to good tutorials for video editing software, video shooting tips, and the like. It’s intended for beginners, particularly journalism students and journalism educators who are teaching vid ...

I have been hard at work updating the Flash Journalism website. New tutorials for ActionScript 3.0 and for working on the Timeline in CS4 and CS5 have been added. The old pages from the original site (created to support the book I wrote about Flash journalism in 2004) are still online, and all t ...

As an aid to a journalism training session I agreed to give, I created a short PowerPoint that is aimed at journalism students. Windows Live Movie Maker Tutorial Windows Live Movie Maker is quite different from its predecessor — Windows Movie Maker (not “live”). It is less vers ...

Switch Sound File Converter is a free program from NCH Software. You can download it here (Mac or Windows). I have been using this program and recommending it widely for about two years. It’s easy to use, and it’s especially useful for converting WMA format files to WAV so that we ca ...

On May 10, 1994 former political prisoner Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was elected the first Black President of South Africa. I remember seeing a newspaper photograph of three elderly South African women. Two of them struggled as they carried the third woman between them by her arm pits, for ...

Three men, aged 21 - 25, were sentenced today in an incident in which they sought to intimidate African American children away from attending a school in Morehouse Parish, LA. The school had recently seen increased enrollment by Black students because of a new busing policy. In other news, the ...

“Corporations are people, my friend.” - Mitt Romney at Iowa State Fair Corporations are obviously not people. But Romney is accurate in the sense that corporations have hijacked most of the rights of people while evading the responsibilities. An important part of the social justice agenda i ...

Last week, New Orleans rapper Big Freedia made her national television debut on the Jimmy Kimmel Show. Freedia, who has been quickly taking the nation by storm, performed two songs "Excuse," and "Na Who Mad." Although the network appearance was Freedia's national television debut, she showe ...

Note: See below for quiz answers. Question One. The combined pay of the 299 highest paid CEOs in the US is enough to support how many median salary jobs? 45,000? 83,000? 102,325? Question Two. The median net worth of black households in the US is $2,200. What is the median net worth of wh ...

Noel, when it comes to what is happening to our world, the jewish population are not the only zionists that are INTIMATELY-INVOLVED in all of this shit; the zionist Christians must also be added to the equation, and then it is understandable how all of this came-to-be. LINDSEY NB: The number ...

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2 ... live-.aspx Mark Zuckerberg $28.4 billion 27 $120,074 Carlos Slim $74 billion 72 $117,326 Bill Gates $56 billion 56 $114,155 Bernard Arnault $41 billion 62 $75,490 Warren Buffett $50 billion 81 $70,466 Larry Ellison $39.5 billion 67 $67,300 E ...

I'm calling bullshit on that video Seems to be made by an East European National Socialist Anonymous pick sides? Whites? me no think so I monitor these guys via their twitter feeds and I'd be surprised if the collective knew anything about the protocols Time will tellStatistics: Posted by O ...

http://www.europarussia.com/posts/2904 Pope Wojtyla’s statue unveiled in Moscow. A new statue of the Pope John Paul II was unveiled in Moscow on Friday. “This is an extraordinary gesture by the Russian authorities for all Christians living in Russia,” Fr Jozef Zaniewski, rector of Mos ...

In what appears to be a case of some sort of kike Fatwa, a New York man was set on fire by a brainwashed teenage Hasidic Jew over his attempt to break free of the mind control of the Synagogue both had once attended. The man, Aron Rottenberg alleged in his court case that this had occurred at t ...

The Syrian army has resumed its bombardment of Homs.

Greek riot police have struggled to pin down anti-austerity protesters.

Pressure is piling on Rupert Murdoch's media empire.

Salvagers have started to pump fuel from the capsized Costa Concordia.

Greek riot police have struggled to pin down anti-austerity protesters.

A coalition of European companies today opened a 367-megawatt wind farm off the British coast, a massive project that developers say will power as many as 320,000 households annually and is the world’s largest offshore wind project to date. The Walney Wind Farm, located nine miles (15 kilometers ...

Twenty years ago, an historic environmental summit in Rio de Janeiro produced groundbreaking treaties and high hopes that pressing issues would be addressed. But as organizers prepare for the Rio+20 conference in June, there is little on the agenda to suggest any substantive action will be taken ...

A new analysis of global satellite data has found that the world’s glaciers and ice caps — excluding Antarctica and Greenland — lost about 150 billion tons of ice per year between 2003 and 2010, adding about 0.4 millimeters to global sea rise annually. Using data from the twin Gravity Recovery a ...

Russian researchers say they have drilled through more than 2 miles of ice on Antarctica’s polar plateau and reached an ancient subglacial lake that has been sealed off for as many as 15 million years. Reaching the lake caps a two-decade drilling effort at Russia’s Vostok Station in Antarctica, ...

With the passage last month of strict new auto emission and air pollution standards, California once again demonstrated its role as the U.S.’s environmental pacesetter. The driving force behind these new “clean ARB Mary Nichols car” rules — which require that 15 percent of all new cars ...

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A message from backofthebook.ca editor Frank Moher: Astute readers of backofthebook.ca will have noticed that our metabolism has slowed of late — we’ve been posting less often. This follows a deleriously busy spring and fall, when our traffic skyrocketed (especially for our pieces on ...

Continued from page 3 The end, when it came, was not pretty. Union bargainer Dave Coles met behind closed doors in June 2000 with senior company executives and came back with two offers from the employer that might have been drafted in Hades. The first involved continuing to bargain until all th ...

Continued from page 2 Local television and radio reporters gave the lockout plenty of coverage. So did the rival Calgary Sun, which distributed an edition of the paper wrapped in what appeared to be a Herald front page. “I always pray for opportunity,” said Sun publisher Les Pyette. The Herald o ...

Continued from page 1 After months of lunchtime discussions in the Herald cafeteria, the journalists made the first move. One employee talked to the Teamsters Union but was told the union had no interest in organizing the Herald newsroom without an assurance that at least 40 per cent of the 160 ...

The Calgary Herald told its striking workers they were about to” jump off a cliff.” By the end, the Herald had gone over the edge, too ~~ Excerpted from Leaving Dublin: Writing My Way From Dublin to Canada, by kind permission of Rocky Mountain Books By Brian Brennan I never envisaged ...

Before her marriage, Houston was dogged by questions about her relationship with her female assistant.

A sweep for Adele, touching tributes to Whitney Houston, and a bizarre Nicki Minaj exorcism. WATCH VIDEO.

Allison Samuels, who interviewed Houston many times, was at the Beverly Hilton, where the troubled singer was found.

Santorum won’t compromise on contraception, Palin isn’t wowed by Romney, McConnell reaches across the aisle & more.

Watch video of the legendary singer’s chart toppers, from ‘Saving All My Love for You’ to ‘Exhale.’

A Hasidic Jewish man from New York state pleaded guilty to assault on Tuesday for setting a neighbor on fire because he wasn't praying with the rest of the community

James Lafferty of the Virginia Anti-Sharia Task Force was “proud to say” that most of the mosques attacked in the US were in the South.

Israel is financing, training and arming a "designated terrorist" group to kill Iranians.

To these Marines all Afghans are probably "Sand N*****s" and so they have no issue with posing with a Nazi symbol.

The image has religious "almost Biblical" overtones and is noted for its resemblance in composition to Michelangelo's Pieta.

The economy contracted a faster-than-expected real 2.3 percent in annualized terms during the last three months of 2011 on slowing exports, affected by the massive flooding in Thailand and gloomier prospects for the world economy amid the sovereign debt crisis in Europe, the government said Mond ...

Japan's Sara Takanashi tied a personal World Cup best in finishing second at a meet in Slovenia on Saturday. The Winter Universiade gold medalist landed jumps of 82.5 and 82 meters on the normal hill in Ljubno to score 245.2 points. American Sarah Hendrickson claimed her fifth win of the seaso ...

A 39-year-old mother in Kobe was arrested Sunday for allegedly trying to strangle her 5-month-old son, who was confirmed dead after being taken to hospital, police said. Yoriko Sugino, a flight attendant, was initially suspected of attempted murder but police changed the charge to murder due t ...

KDDI Corp., the operator of au mobile phone services, said Sunday the data communication disruption the previous night has affected up to 6.15 million cellphones and smartphones. The incident, in which the proprietary ezweb e-mail service was disrupted from around 8:35 p.m. Saturday until befo ...

Tax authorities claim that about 40 corporate groups running pachinko parlors across Japan failed to declare over ¥100 billion in total taxable income with back taxes amounting to several billion yen, sources close to the matter said Sunday. The authorities found out the income disparity ...

Ron Paul needs his supporters to activate in PA immediately to gather enough delegate signatures or there will be NO RON PAUL, it is as simple as that.

Egypt sends the U.S. an official indictment of over 100 pages charging arrested NGO workers with illegally funneling funds to rig elections, incite unrest, and overthrow the government.

Iran has hits their internet kill switch, cutting access to millions of people, in an effort to prevent a psychological warfare campaign ahead of an imminent U.S. invasion.

Texas attorney general has filed charges against Big Pharma for bribing officials to implement an elaborate scheme to fraudulently diagnose and medicate teenagers for mental illness.

A CCHR reports finds that over 20 million kids & adolescents have been labeled with “mental disorders” that are based solely on a checklist of behaviors. See Also: Texas AG: Big Pharma Bribes Forced Teens To Be Fraudulently Medicated CCHR: Psychiatry—Labeling Kids with Bogus &#82 ...

Craig Forcese considers Vic Toews’ directive to CSIS. All of this is to say...

Nobody saw this one coming. Doris Layton, mother of the late NDP leader Jack...

I mentioned this on a message board the other day, but I thought it...

“The Unbearable Blindness of Laying” (airdate: December 21, 1997) Written by Paul Lieberstein Directed...

The Topp campaign announces the endorsement of Jack Layton’s mother, Doris Layton. “I support...

This table displays the mining taxes and royalties paid for minerals – including coal, but excluding oil and gas – to Canada’s major mining jurisdictions in 2010. The ideal would be to compare these charges with economic rent, which varies by mine and is difficult to calculate. Howev ...

With the spotlight on the federal government’s aggressive push to export tar sands bitumen via the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline to Kitimat, and from there by tanker on to China, the BC government reclaimed some attention on the energy file when it released its Natural Gas Strategy la ...

On CTV yesterday, human resources minister Diane Finley said (45 seconds into this interview): “As we go forward, we’re going to have three times the expense in Old Age Security as we do now, but we’re only going to have half the population to pay for it.” That sounds pretty scary. If the total ...

It is argued that eligibility for OAS/GIS discourages older Canadians from remaining in the workforce, and that we need to keep them working to avoid labour shortages and a sharp rise in the so-called dependency ratio. But the fact of the matter is that 65 is not the trigger for retirement that ...

We treated them like royalty. We rolled out the tax cut red carpet. In fact our Prime Minister made a special stop at the London, Ontario Electro-Motive (EMT) plant in 2008, touting the $5 million in tax cuts we gave EMT. It was all part of the ‘tax cuts create jobs’ rhetoric that Ca ...

Lawrence Davidson argues that Rick Santorum, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, represents "a dangerous, intolerant, noisy, in-your-face" trend in US politics and that if he and his followers are allowed to win, "the result will be ever greater divisiveness and decline at ho ...

Stuart Littlewood exposes British Water's complicity with the Israeli occupation authorities who are not only stealing Palestinian water, but also overseeing the flooding of Palestinian fields and villages with untreated sewage from hilltop Jewish settlements.

Alan Hart views US and British hypocrisy in condemning Russia's and China's veto of the Security Council resolution to end the killing in Syria while at the same time supporting "Israel right or wrong - unending occupation, ongoing ethnic cleansing and all".

Lawrence Davidson argues that Israel is intent on ethnically cleansing its own Arab citizens and that, to prevent this, it is imperative to intensify the international boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign against the Zionist state and, equally, to redouble popular pressure in the United St ...

Nureddin Sabir argues that the reaction of a large section of the so-called "left" and "anti-imperialist" camp to the uprisings in Libya and Syria are motivated not by some high-minded principle or anything to do with progressive ideology but by cynicism, petty personal agendas and ignorance.

Chronicle of Higher Education: Despite greater insights into how people learn, old habits still govern a great deal of college and university instruction. Part of the problem, according to Carl Wieman, a Nobel physicist and associate director of the White House Office of Science and Technology ...

Science: The US Coast Guard icebreaker Healy, which works most of the year for the scientific community, was about to head to dry dock at the end of its 2011 run when it was called back into action. A freak storm in November left the Alaska settlement of Nome icebound, and the Healy helped break ...

BBC: Nanoscale lasers that operate at room temperature and in the IR waveband have been built by Mercedeh Khajavikhan of the University of California, San Diego, and her colleagues. Almost all lasers need a certain amount of energy input—the threshold—before the light waves they prod ...

Nature: Research universities in Japan are starting to look to the West and its philanthropic tradition to help ease their monetary difficulties. Although funded by the government, Japan's universities have become cash starved, writes David Cyranoski for Nature. Recently, Japan's internationall ...

Physics Today: Today the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission voted in favor of granting a construction license for two nuclear reactors to be built in Georgia. As reported in the New York Times yesterday, the license will be the first to be issued since the Three Mile Island accident in 1978. In an ...

by mick123 (Posted Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:23:34 GMT) Obsolescence is the state of being which occurs when an object, service or practice is no longer wanted even though it may still be in good working order. Obsolescence frequently occurs because a replacement has become available that is superior ...

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“Every morning at sunrise, Sutas Kom Sri casts his net into the river out of faith. As the fog unveils the horizon, the Mekong River looms before him, luring him into the richness of its waters. But like other fishermen in this part  of   the  Mekong   in north east Thailand, his daily cat ...

“Coca-Cola is a $156 billion nonalcoholic-beverage kingpin that sold more than $46 billion worth of drinks around the world in 2011. As if it needs underscoring, that’shuge. So when it comes to the future for Coca-Cola, is growth still possible? “If you tuned into Coke’s ...

“U.S. regulators on Thursday approved plans to build the first new nuclear power plant in more than 30 years, despite objections of the panel’s chairman who cited safety concerns stemming from Japan’s 2011 Fukushima disaster. “The Nuclear Regulatory Commission voted 4-1 t ...

“At least 300,000 people died and almost three million were displaced by the Darfur conflict in Sudan. Egyptian-American geologist Farouk El-Baz believes that limited access to water is one of the root causes of this conflict. Doctor El-Baz is director of Boston University’s center for rem ...

“Gov. Jerry Brown declared the “drought” over in 2011. Yet water rates have risen anyway across the state as a result of the bogus “drought.” In the Feb. 6 issue of the San Francisco Chronicle, NRDC attorney Doug Obegi said there are three “facts” and three “myths” about the Sacramento Del ...

Cleveland, Ohio (February 10, 2012) – The City of Cleveland can continue to receive $1.1-1.5 million in federal funding to remove lead paint from homes if it meets performance benchmarks, thanks to Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH). Kucinich discussed the need and circumstances personally with ...

Congressman Steve LaTourette (R-OH) and Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) were joined this morning by Mayor Frank Jackson and Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) Director Jerry Wray to announce a possible solution to get the second part of the Inner Belt Bridge back on track.  ODOT announced la ...

Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement after the Department of Labor announced the Final Rule reforming the H-2B Guestworker system in the United States. “Today, after a three-year investigation and three Congressional hearings, American workers will no lo ...

Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) issued the following statement in response to news reports that a $25 billion settlement between the government and mortgage servicers over the banks’ and servicers’ widespread mortgage foreclosure-related fraud has been finalized. “For millions of Americans ...

Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) joined Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) this morning to organize and unite the Ohio delegation to protect Ohio’s  military and civilian Defense personnel in the forthcoming Base Realignment and Closure process.  Ohio has 42,950 direct jobs at major installa ...

… The results may surprise you … Here are some surprising results of a new study on the health impacts of smoking cannabis that were just published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Video:   …. U. of Alabama: Health Impacts of Cannabis Smoke Filed under: Blogroll

… Before you drink this “kool-aid” just skip to the bottom of and note who wrote this article … Yes there are charlatans in the personal growth field … Five lies personal growth gurus love to tell Friday, February 10, 2012 by: Mike Bundrant  …  Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/034926_perso ...

… This is not anything that FoxyNew$ and corporate interest$ want you to be aware of … be afraid … be very afraid … Introducing the government’s newest unpaid spy: YOU 02-09-2012  •  www.sovereignman.com/Simon One of the most terrifying aspects of George Orwell’s seminal work 1984 was his descri ...

… TRIBLER … what is it … ? Internet pirates winning the war on SOPA with “Tribler” Published: 10 February, 2012, 00:30 Download - Tribler  …  www.tribler.org/       Filed under: Blogroll

… SOUNDS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE … IS IT … Boosts Your Youth Hormone by 771% in Just 20 Minutes Posted by: Dr. Mercola | February 10 2012 .. http://fitness.mercola.com/sites/fitness/archive/2012/02/10/phil-campbell-interview.aspx?e_cid=20120210_FNL_art_1 WATCH VIDEO HERE … http://www.youtube.co ...

As a veteran online searcher, data miner, researcher, and computer scientist, I have in the past shied away from using in-browser search bars... instead preferring to use the search tools available on individual sites. This is for practical and functional purposes, as: [1] in-site searches t ...

SourceWatch is a propaganda site funded by an extreme left-wing, anti-capitalist and anti-corporate organization, the Center for Media and Democracy. Just like the untrustworthy Wikipedia the content can be written and edited by ordinary web users. Users who all conveniently share an extreme lef ...

A frequent source of contention in the global warming debate is the existence of skeptical peer-reviewed papers. These have been overwhelmingly proven to exist. Once confronted with this inconvenient truth, alarmists have desperately tried to discredit the journals that dare publish these papers ...

There are various myths floating around online about where the Popular Technology.net peer-reviewed paper list originated, falsely giving credit to people who copied earlier versions of my list and published it as their own. The following is a brief history,Back in February 2007 I began compilin ...

WARNING: Do not accept any criticisms of this list without reading the notes or emailing, populartechnology (at) gmail (dot) comRead: The following papers support skepticism of AGW or AGW Alarm defined as, "concern relating to a negative environmental or socio-economic effect of AGW, usually exa ...

2011 was designated as "Year of the Forests" by the United Nations. While there was relatively little progress on intergovernmental forest protection programs during the year, a lot happened elsewhere. Below is a look at some of the biggest tropical forest-related news stories for 2011. We at mo ...

My reporting for mongabay.com took me to six continents in 2011 and I managed to take photos on many of the trips. Overall I added more than 10,000 new photos to the travel section of the site. Below are some of my favorite pictures from 2011. Thank you for reading mongabay.com in 2011 and I wi ...

Brazil, which last week moved to reform its Forest Code, may find lessons in Russia's revision of its forest law in 2007, say a pair of Russian scientists. The Brazilian Senate last week passed a bill that would relax some of forest provisions imposed on landowners. Environmentalists blasted th ...

Researchers have garnered further evidence for a smoking gun behind the fall of the great Maya civilization: deforestation. At the American Geophysical Union (AGU) conference, climatologist Ben Cook presented recent research showing how the destruction of rainforests by the Mayan ultimately led ...

Two Indonesian plantation companies have signed an agreement to train workers not to kill or injure orangutans and other protected species. The agreement was brokered by the Indonesian government between Orangutan Foundation International (OFI), a non-profit with operations in Central Kalimantan ...

People who drink more than half a litre of fizzy drink a day are also more likely to have asthma or serious lung conditions - especially if they are smokers as well, a major study has found.University of Adelaide researchers found...

Man's best friend could also be his smartest after scientists concluded dogs can outsmart chimpanzees.With their human-like brains, chimps have long been rated high on the intelligence scale, but German experts found dogs were better...

Earthquake prediction will be a step closer if New Zealand wins a bid for the largest radio telescope ever built.A joint New Zealand and Australian consortium is bidding against a southern African group for the right to host the...

The bioterrorism expert responsible for censoring scientific research which could lead to the creation of a devastating pandemic has admitted the information "is going to get out" eventually.Professor Paul Keim, chairman of the...

New Zealand scientists have shown how infections trigger the development of new blood stem cells, a breakthrough that could lead to the development of drugs to treat cancer and infections.The Auckland University research, published...

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  http://www.blogtalkradio.com/universaltruthevolution/2011/07/07/a-special-announcement-by-aaron-mccollum-on-ute Exist Free…. Thank you Aaron Filed under: Black Projects, Common Purpose, Current Events, Dis-Information, Economic Collapse, Elite, Extraterrestrial, Festival of Enlighte ...

  This Thursday I will be the guest on Universal Truth Evolution Radio to discuss some extremely important information and make a special announcement. I ask that everyone who takes the information provided on Truth Survival tune in to this … Continue reading →

Simply put…The celebration of a holiday that we see as now dead is pointless. Think of this what you will but can YOU honestly say that the people of this country are still truly free? Should we as a nation … Continue reading →

Report written by Roma AKA A2B           The Elite want to disarm us, they don’t want us to use our tools and weapons against their tyrannical selves. How about turning the tables… we disarm them, what … Continue reading →

That's Jack Lew, White House chief of staff, talking to David Gregory of Meet the Press. Despite years of growing spending and growing deficits, this ain't the time to cut spending, says Lew, who offers up the hope that "Congress should take long-term deficit reduction seriously." ...

President Obama to propose another budget, pray that it passes.  Romney never objected to contraception mandates before.   Athens burns as one in five employees of the Greek government learn they will have to find real jobs.  Mitt Romney wins (absolutely meaningless) CPA ...

The prevailing wisdom among policymakers on Iran bears an eerie resemblance to the Iraq consensus of 2002. We and the Israelis allegedly faced an intolerable peril from a rogue state with weapons of mass destruction and a lust for aggression. Fortunately, we were told, it was nothing ...

Boulder City, Nevada has found a new way to pay off its debt: solar power. The city is home to not only Hoover Dam, but two of the largest solar power plants in the United States, Copper Mountain Solar I (58 megawatts) and Nevada Solar One (65MW). Both solar facilities are leased on ...

Pop star Whitney Houston is dead at the age of 48. While the official cause of death has not yet been announced, she had a long history of drug problems and was in and out of rehab over the years and it's likely that substance abuse played some role. As USA Today reminds us [In ...

(Cartoon from Dave Brown, the London Independent) Ed Pilkington, The Guardian: The latest Operation Elveden arrests sharply increase the danger to News Corporation of potential multimillion dollar fines by US authorities as part of the continuing investigation into alleged bribery of public offi ...

Here’s some of what the GOP-allied US branch of the world’s largest organized group of pedophile enablers doesn’t want you to know: There’s this: Catholic health group says it backs Obama compromise on birth control policy (That would be the Catholic Health Organization, ...

David Batty, Damien Pierce, and agencies; The Guardian The Sun has been plunged into crisis following the arrest of five of its most senior journalists, including the deputy editor, over allegations of inappropriate payments to police and public officials. The five Sun journalists are understood ...

Once upon a time there were parties that called themselves fascist. One of those was the government of General Francisco Franco. After they had won the war, they killed over 100,000 people in cowardly ways. Mass executions. The Catholic Church was complicit with the regime (see here and here). I ...

In this playful clip from the film, "Prague Gnosis", Ram Dass and the late Terence McKenna have a conversation about the evolution of consciousness, psychedelic revelations, the future as an "archaic recursion", the "lineage of miracles" and the benefits of existing ...

Robert Lustig, Laura Schmidt, and Claire Brindis, the authors of "Public Health: The Toxic Truth About Sugar," have proposed that sugar should be regulated in the same manner that alcohol and tobacco are, due to its various health risks.   read more

  The following is an interview with Joseph Marshall, author of The Lakota Way of Strength and Courage: Lessons in Resilience from the Bow and Arrow, available from Sounds True.   read more

Luv Songs is an intimate evening of poetry and music featuring original works by LuvAmp artists, plus special guests reading Rumi's mystical love poems.  Artists include Miranda Rondeau, Lili De La Mora, Tony Moss, Dylan James Nyrne, Sunny Solwind, Sam Babayan, Christo Pellani, and Daniel ...

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Mariem Mint Ahmedou sits cross-legged on a worn-out carpet in a basic tent built with mud bricks and layers of sewn-together fabric. Her eight-month-old twins, Hussein and Hassan, lie weakly against her body. Both of them have been malnourished since birth, because Beydar, undernourished h ...

As half of Mexico endures one of the most severe droughts in its history, cloud seeding appears to be a promising way to bring desperately needed rain, although it remains a source of controversy.

The global average temperature in 2011 was 14.52 degrees Celsius (58.14 degrees Fahrenheit). According to NASA scientists, this was the ninth warmest year in 132 years of recordkeeping, despite the cooling influence of the La Niña atmospheric and oceanic circulation pattern and rela ...

The low humidity in Argentina's most agriculturally productive region has already caused a decline in grain yield - in particular corn and soybean - with ensuing losses for producers and the government.

Thousands of people in the northwest Argentine province of La Rioja are mobilising to stop an open-cast gold mining project in the Nevados de Famatina, a snowy peak that is the semi-arid area's sole source of drinking water.

At around 6 PM EST, Sunday, February 5, The Automatic Earth will move to its new site, TheAutomaticEarth.orgThe Blogger site, where you are right now, will eventually be closed. The comments section will be closed immediately.After 4 years at Blogger, we feel it's high time for us to widen our s ...

Unknown Dreaming of great fortunes 1858California gold miner joining the British Columbia goldrush Ashvin Pandurangi: After the Fed’s latest announcement on January 25, in which the central bank said very little more than the obvious ("exceptionally low" fed funds rate at least through late 201 ...

Jack Delano Hot Sugar January 1942Guanica, Puerto Rico. "Burning a sugar cane field. This process destroys the leaves and makes the cane easier to harvest" Ilargi: No, I’m not talking about the fact that Germany and Holland want to take over as the de facto government in Greece, as Noah Barkin ...

Dorothea Lange PlantationJune 1937"Wife and child of tractor driver. Aldridge Plantation, Mississippi" Ilargi: For today’s global financial problems, there are no solutions that are favorable to either incumbent politicians or wannabe leaders (unless they’re extremists, perhaps), let alone to t ...

Tyne & Wear Archives and Museums Just watch me June 9 1902Fron album of prisoners brought before the North Shields Police Court in England between 1902 and 1916. Time has stopped before us The sky cannot ignore us No one can separate us For we are all that is left The echo bounces off me Th ...

A plane crash in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has killed five people, including President Joseph Kabila’s close aide, and seriously injured the country's finance minister.

Al-Qaeda’s number one, Ayman al-Zawahiri, has called on anti-government elements in Syria to push for regime change in the country as the Arab League (AL) vows to boost support for the Syrian opposition.

More than 200,000 families could lose almost £4,000 a year because of UK government changes to the working tax credit system coming into force in April, warns the MP for Leeds West.

Britain’s transport staff are to hold demonstrations on Tuesday against the coalition government plans to close all 39 Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) regional offices.

The Greek parliament has approved a controversial bill, which includes a new round of austerity cuts, despite days of protests against the prospect.

Tribal people in the hills of Tamil Nadu have better knowledge of millet varieties than taxonomists, a study shows.

A new intergovernmental panel would not be the best way of tackling the multifaceted challenges of sustainable development.

Critics have questioned the methods of a study claiming that the WHO has greatly underestimated the number of malaria fatalities.

R&D funds levied on business must build organisations that offer short-term benefits through a clear strategy, says Athar Osama.

Tropical cyclone damage costs are set to increase dramatically because of climate change, and population and economic growth, says a study.

More than 2 million service members have deployed in support of overseas contingency operations (OCO) in Iraq and Afghanistan since October 2001. Two combat-related conditions that affect some OCO veterans and that have generated widespread concern among policymakers are post-traumatic stress di ...

Yesterday I spoke to the National Economists Club on our recently released Budget and Economic Outlook. My remarks reiterated much of what I said in several of last week’s blog posts: CBO Releases the Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2012 to 2022 Fundamental Fiscal Challenge How ...

The federal government accumulated a budget deficit of $349 billion for the first four months of fiscal year 2012, CBO estimates in its latest Monthly Budget Review, $70 billion less than the shortfall recorded for the same period last year. Without shifts in the timing of certain payments, howe ...

Do you receive a tax deduction for the interest paid on your mortgage or for the taxes you pay to your state and local governments? Would you think about those deductions in the same way if instead of seeing a reduction in taxes for those items the federal government instead simply sent you a ch ...

This morning I testified before the Senate Budget Committee on our annual Budget and Economic Outlook, which was released on Tuesday. As I did in my testimony before the House Budget Committee, I highlighted many of the points that were included in Tuesday’s blog post. In today’s pos ...

The biggest study so far into cancer risk factors confirms our understanding of the lifestyle choices that may lead to cancer... Kat - For my day job I work for Cancer Research UK and we put o...

Writing in this week's Science, University of Witwatersrand palaeontologist Professor Lyn Wadley and her colleagues describe an excavation they have carried out in a cave site called Sibudu in South A...

The world's oldest tackle, together with evidence of deep-sea fishing 40,000 years ago, has been unearthed in East Timor. Early human migrants, including those who first set foot in Australia 50,000...

A way to boost the effectiveness of radiotherapy and protect patients and even astronauts fromthe effects of radiation exposure has been discovered by scientists at Oslo University. Radiothera...

Over 32, 000 neuroscientists, from around the world, converged in Washington, DC, this week for the 2011 Society for Neuroscience Conference, which included over 16,000 presentations! Here are just a...

Required reading: An important piece by Eric Schmittt, Mark Mazzetti and Thom Shanker in today’s New York Times on the push to give America’s elite Special Operations forces a larger role around the world. “It would…,” the trio write, “allow the Special Operations forces to expand their presen ...

How many military bases in Afghanistan? Back in early 2010, I got the military to count up its whole inventory of bases in Afghanistan and was floored by the total — nearly 400!  With talk by the Obama administration of drawdowns, withdrawals, and shifting the fight to special operations forces ...

www.ionacraig.com: Journalists beware: Washington's wrath: ionacraig: Although the Bureau of...

cjchivers: QUOTE OF THE DAY From Graham Bowley’s reminder of the fate of an empire’s ambitions for Afghanistan, in today’s NYT. “The Soviets came in believing they could re-engineer other people’s societies, releasing Afghans from their medieval backwardness,” said Sir Rodric Braithwaite, ...

rferl: The outcome is seen as unsurprising in the autocratic Central Asian nation, where...