20 March - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

There were homes here (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

House in ruins, Gaza Strip, April 2009 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Former Mosque, Gaza Strip, April 2009 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Watchtower, Rafah, Gaza Strip border with Egypt, April 2009. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Tent Camp, Gaza Strip (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Damaged housing, Gaza Strip, April 2009 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Smuggling Tunnel, Rafah, Gaza Strip (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Green Times

• Kangaroo cull
  Last week, members of animal welfare groups protested against kangaroo cull! ''A recent survey of 600 Canberrans by Territory and Municipal Services found 79 per cent were supportive of kangaroo culling under some circumstances and 70 per cent were supportive of culling for conservation of smal ...
• Environmental News 01/06/2012
  Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss Storms hit ahead of sunny long weekend The last day of autumn may have stolen winter’s thunder with a wet storm hitting the city yesterday afternoon. Dark skies covered the metropolitan area and much of the South West from mid-afternoon, with rain an ...
• Green Capital Australia
  Today is Green Capital Day in Australia. Do you know something about that? Well, Green capital was established in 2002 by The Total Environment Center (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t rct=j q=the%20total%20environment%20center source=web cd=1 ved=0CF4QFjAA url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tec.org.au%2F ei=G ...
• Environmental News 31/05/2012
  Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss Premier's park hunting backdown the price of power sale National parks in NSW will be opened up to recreational hunters as part of a deal between the Shooters and Fishers Party and the government to ensure passage of its electricity privatisation bill ...
• Giraffe: A delicate animal that requires speci ...
  Last week, The Age website (http://www.theage.com.au/environment/conservation/giraffes-die-of-shock-after-zoo-rampage-20120515-1ynlq.html) published an article about 2 Giraffes' death from stress after a zoo rampage in Poland. Here you have an extract from this moving article: « Giraffes are ex ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

• House cat the ‘size of a panther’ caught in NZ ...
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• Global warming stopped in 1997 – new study
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• Scientists dumbstruck: signs of intelligent de ...
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• Gay marriage bill passes second reading in NZ
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• Craig Ranapia – THIS is your ass
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Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

• Today in Jayyous
  A picture of tear gas being shot by the Israeli army on unarmed protesters in the Palestinian village of Jayyous, who are holding Friday demonstrations to protest their land being taken by Israel. Photo by Mohammed Othman. You can follow what’s happening in Jayyous here.
• Israeli Voters Upset with Bibi – But wil ...
  Over the past couple of months, there seems to have developed growing disconnect between most of Israel’s political analysts – and the actual dynamics of the campaign for Israel’s general elections, which will take place in only 3 days. In October when the election was announc ...
• Israeli Elections: Labor party leader pays ste ...
  As events in Egypt, Syria and Palestine heat up… …The nation-state in the middle of all this, Israel, has had its own share of high political drama. True, instead of blood, only tears and virtual ink were shed there. But as usual in Israel-Palestine, it makes for a good story. Earlie ...
• Gaza Ceasefire: Giving Thanks to President Obama
  There is a ceasefire in Gaza. It remains to be seen if and when the promise to open Gaza to normal civilian movement, laconically stated in the ceasefire agreement, will be fulfilled. On Friday, less than 48 hours after its enactment, the first bad sign appeared. In at least two locations near t ...
• Let’s Stop Bibi Netanyahu’s Sicken ...
  Part of expatriate life is worrying for the health of elderly overseas parents. My father-in-law’s health is bad enough to worry about, even without this recent crap. My wife’s parents live in Moshav Shahar, Israel, some 15km from the Gaza Strip as the missile flies. Their home has n ...

Politics in the Zeros

• Did anyone believe Democrats would fight for a ...
  Silly you, if you did.
• Reverse Grafitti – Removing grime to create art
  Welcome to the world of reverse graffiti, where the artist’s weapons are cleaning materials and where the enemy is the elements: wind, rain, pollution and decay. It’s an art form that removes dust or dirt rather than adding paint. Some find it intriguing, beguiling, beautiful and imaginative, w ...
• Mommy’s Little Monsters. Steubenville girls ar ...
  Is Steubenville so bereft of anything positive that the football team and their convicted felon rapists must be defended against everything? The girl threatened to kill the victim on Twitter, telling her “you ripped my family apart,” the attorney general’s office said. Actuall ...
• Cyprus to reject bankster imposed tax, the pea ...
  Eurozone finance ministers AKA banksters are so distant from the real world they were supposedly “stunned” by the backlash over their arrogant, greedy attempt to tax Cyprus bank accounts in order to siphon money to them and the big banks. The “bank holiday” was supposed ...
• Scoble dumps Apple for Android and Google Glas ...
  Uber-geek Robert Scoble is switching to Android and leaving Apple behind. The primary reason is Google Glass. He’ll be getting one shortly and it simply works better on Android. He says that while his new Motorola Android phone looks clunkier than an iPhone, it doesn’t matter. With ...

Coteret

• Yediot’s Plocker: Thank you Mossad for r ...
  On Sunday (January 9 2011), Yediot’s Itamar Eichner reported [emphasis mine; full translation here]: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is furious with outgoing Mossad Director Meir Dagan because of the briefing Dagan gave journalists last Thursday. In the course of that briefing, Dagan sha ...
• “Rejectionist front”: Maariv detai ...
  As Israel’s diplomatic position erodes and the Palestinian Authority’s campaign for the unilateral recognition of a state in the 1967 borders gains ground, the demand for “direct negotiations” has become a central talking point of  Israeli government spokespeople. Here&#8 ...
• New Yorker editor David Remnick to Yediot: &#8 ...
  On December 24 2010, Yediot’s Friday Political Supplement ran an interview with New Yorker editor David Remnick by Adi Gold. Most of the interview was dedicated to his new biography of Barack Obama. Gold did ask a political question on Israel and Reminck’s response was very blunt. No ...
• Breaking the Silence’s landmark new book ...
  Breaking the Silence has just published a landmark collection of soldier testimonies from the Occupied Territories spanning the period 2000-2010. The 432 page book can now be browsed, downloaded and embedded here. If you read nothing else, take the time to look over the first to pages of the int ...
• Following local pressure, Adidas reconsiders s ...
  This Maariv article [full translation below] from Friday is particularly badly written and repetitive, so I’ll summarize. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat decides to hold the first Jerusalem International Marathon in March 2011. He gets Adidas to sponsor the event. An Israeli runner registers an ...

Deadline Live

• The Jack Blood Show – March 19 2013
  TUESDAY March 19th 2013 – Hour 1: Jack Blood welcomes Texas activist and fellow talk host Phil Pepin (www.naturalnewsradio.com) to break down the sorid past, present, and future of GOP “Rock Star” Ted Cruz. Also…. the future of the Liberty Movement! (Phil was the campaign ...
• National ad agency to sue city, APD over SXSW ...
  YNN A New York-based advertising agency has plans to sue the Austin’s Code Compliance Department and the Austin Police after two of their workers were arrested during South by Southwest.The workers were arrested because they were projected an advertisement onto the side of a building, but ...
• This Day In History – March 20
  1602 – The Dutch East India Company is established. 1616 – Sir Walter Raleigh is freed from the Tower of London after 13 years of imprisonment. 1726 – Sir Isaac Newton, English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist and theologian (b. 1642) died. 1760 – The “G ...
• ASSASSINATION? Indigenous Truther, artist, and ...
  * Please – If someone tells you that I died from a slip and fall – don’t “fall” for it! Long Live my Friend and yours, Splitting the Sky! See you in the next life Mon Ami!  ~ jack Blood (Listen to our tribute to STS in our archives March 19th 2013) AKA: John Boncore ...
• The House Across From Westboro Baptist Is Gett ...
  By the end of today, the inhabitants of the Westboro Baptist Church compound in Topeka, Kansas, should have a new view out their windows, just past their FAG MARRIAGE DOOMS NATIONS sign: a new gay-rights center across the street, painted in brilliant rainbow colors, with a pride flag flying from ...

The Air Vent

• Real Dangers of Dissent
  Well folks, some of you were wondering why nobody touched the publication of that CG3 password, I have been contacted by a UEA law firm regarding the recently released Climategate password.  Some even asked for FOIA to come clean as to their identity.   I have pointed out repeatedly that an angr ...
• Loser of the Month — That’s all ...
  I have been enjoying climate blogs recently again.   Joe Romm provided a bit of entertainment on March 8 with his delightfully uncritical eye to the new Marcott, Shakun, Clark and Mix hockeystick.   The paper, which unfortunately was the wishful extension of a thesis (some pun intended), that wa ...
• Parsing Emails
  So I spent several hours today writing scripts which parse the emails.   I was hoping for continuations of some of the more interesting conversations we are familiar with but so far have found little more than a group of advocates for catastrophic climate change, doing what they do.  They fully ...
• Climategate 3.0
  The password for the remaining emails was sent to me and several other blogs last night.   Anthony Watts has the letter up and it should explain a little about what is going on.
• Sandwich Board Skeptics
  Steve McIntyre has a nice post up which I missed for 4 days.   He is very good.  Imagine the work it takes to go to AGU, sit through a Mann lecture expecting bad graphs to be used and be ready with a camera. Hell, even if I had the time, I sure as shit wouldn’t [...]

Focal Point

• Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...
  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 summ ...
• Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...
  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 ...
• Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...
  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 ...
• Bachmann's Anti-Vaccine Rhetoric is Bad Scienc ...
  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 ...
• Bachmann's Anti-Vaccine Rhetoric is Bad Scienc ...
  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 . ...

Inside Facebook

• Facebook announces global rollout of Lookalike ...
  Facebook today announced that its new “Lookalike Audiences” feature, which helps advertisers target users similar to those in their Custom Audience databases, will be rolled out globally to Power Editor accounts this week. Lookalike Audiences can be created after...
• Facebook announces winners of PMD Innovation C ...
  Facebook today announced the winners of its Preferred Marketing Developer Innovation Competition, which included Ampush taking the grand jury prize and six other companies being recognized for their projects. The competition was themed “The Era of...
• Option to mark items as spam less noticeable i ...
  Facebook today released a new version its iOS app to include a way for users to change their cover photo and a number of updates related to group messaging. A subtle but significant change not mentioned in...
• Lack of teen participation might always be a p ...
  A popular storyline lately is that Facebook is failing to capture interest from teens who are turning to Instagram, Snapchat or other services instead. The conclusion pundits are making — from primarily anecdotal evidence, it should...
• ‘Silent updates’ for Android download latest v ...
  Facebook is testing a new way for Android users to receive app updates without going through the Google Play store. Some Android users are now receiving “silent updates,” which download in the background while a user...

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ReDress News

• Has Israel groveller David Miliband changed hi ...
  Stuart Littlewood is surprised at the invitation by a pro-Palestinian medical charity to former UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband - a proven groveller to Israel - to speak at its annual fundraising gala.
• IMPORTANT: OUR WEBSITE IS CHANGING
  Redress Information & Analysis is moving to www.redressonline.com. From now on we will publish new articles on www.redressonline.com only and, in the meantime, we will transfer important long-shef-life articles from our old website to the new one.
• What might Netanyahu do if Romney's defeat bec ...
  Alan Hart examines whether Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is mad enough to order an attack on Iran in what remains of Obama’s first term without the president’s blessing and American participation.
• Israel's Salafi foot soldiers in the wake of a ...
  Nureddin Sabir argues that Israel must bear responsibility for creating the climate that gave rise to the anti-Islam film "Innocence of Muslims". But it is Israel's Salafi and Wahhabi foot soldiers behind the violent protests across the Arab and Muslim worlds who may eventually bring Arabs and M ...
• Anti-Islam film: free speech or inciting to riot?
  Lawrence Davidson argues that outage against the anti-Muhammad film "Innocence of Muslims" "has exposed the deep vein of anger against the United States that runs through the Muslim world", but doubts that American leaders would have the courage and foresight to re-examine the policies and behav ...

Amazon Rainforest

• Peru police clashes with illegal gold miners: ...
  Thousands of illegal gold miners battled police for control of a regional capital in the Amazon basin on Wednesday and at least three people were killed by gunfire.  Outnumbered riot police fired tear gas against miners who wielded clubs and rocks and tried to seize strategic facilities in Puert ...
• Brazil to Dilma: Fulfill campaign promise!
    The Forest Code is dwindling, and with it the Brazilian forests. Soon to be voted in the House, the text that distorts the country’s main environmental law was the target of a demonstration today in Brasilia, which brought together social movements and environmental groups, asking the Pr ...
• European energy corporation plans to flood Rai ...
  Spanish energy cooperation Endesa (subsidiary enterprise of the Italian Enel cooperation) is builiding a giant hydro-electric power plant next to the River Magdalena, Colombia- The construction work has started today- the protest camps of the local farmers and fishermen have been evacuated by fo ...
• Plastic eating Fungi discovered in Amazon Rain ...
  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 ...
• Justice for 8year girl burned alive by loggers ...
  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 ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- March 19 ...
  Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
• The EyeOpener- Putting the “B” in Brics: Brazi ...
  Oh what a difference a decade makes. Ten years ago, few had any inkling of the economic marvel that was about to befall Brazil. Since 2003, nearly 40 million Brazilians were lifted out of poverty, joining the ranks of the middle class and buying consumer items like televisions and cars for the f ...
• When Truth Is Suppressed Countries Die
  “The corrupt corporations, the corrupt media, and the corrupt US government have insulated the country from truth” Over a decade during which the US economy was decimated by jobs offshoring, economists and other PR shills for offshoring corporations said that the US did not need the millions of ...
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- March 18 ...
  Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
• The Mysterious Case of the Sulu Sultan
  “The Sultan Has No Legitimate Legal Claims over Sabah” Malaysia has been in the midst of an ongoing security crisis since early February, when a group of 235 rag-tag militiamen from the neighboring southern Philippines slipped into the eastern state of Sabah and began occupying several villages. ...

Afro Spear

• Shane Sullivan, Tennessee Police Chief, Using ...
  Greeting’s Everyone, A few current events have been sad to read lately. It was especially sad to hear about Marco …Continue reading »
• sat’day riddymz
• Julie Wangombe: A poetic reintroduction to Africa
  Julie Wangombe, 23 years old Nairobian and a student at Duke University, first discovered spoken word poetry at Slam Africa events. …Continue reading »
• Sunday Inspirations
  A Guinean mathematician solves 270-year-old conjecture Ibrahima Diallo Sambegou is the 1st African mathematician of the modern era to have developed …Continue reading »
• sat’day riddymz
  My favourite Biggie song ever! R.I.P. Christopher Wallace: May 21, 1972 – March 9, 1997

Tikun Olam

• Social TV Video on Exposure of Israeli Securty ...
  I just recorded a new video for Israel’s Social TV about the exposure of the secret identities of Nadav Argaman, deputy Shin Bet chief and Brig. Gen. Ori Oron, IAF commander of Israel’s nuclear arsenal. Because of Israeli censorship my editors preferred that I not name the officials. ...
• Israel’s New Government of Figureheads and Set ...
  Today brings the astonishing news that Likud MK Danny Danon as been appointed deputy defense minister.  This is something akin to appointing Sarah Palin assistant secretary of defense.  Not only do neither have any military experience (except for Danon’s IDF service), the only thing they b ...
• Naftali Bennet as The Joker
  Related PostsBibi Boom-BoomIsrael-U.S. Attack on Iran: Driving Off a CliffWanted: IDF Soldier for Gravely Wounding Unarmed Palestinan DemonstratorObama Tells Mubarak to Go in All But WordsZemanta
• Knesset Plans to Raise Election Threshhold, Ou ...
  In the past few days, Haaretz reported that all the major coalition partners in the incoming government have agreed that one of their orders of business will be to raise the threshold (related Hebrew article by a different reporter) necessary for a political party to enter the Knesset.  The curr ...
• Israel’s New Settler Government–Formed Just in ...
  The new Israeli cabinet announced today is a government of the settlers, by the settlers and for the settlers.  Of course, in the past government the settlers maintained dominance over all issues that concerned them.  But the new coalition will solidify such control.  Not only will there not now ...

If Americans Knew

• NPR Watch: Linda Gradstein Has Done It Again o ...
  NPR's reporter Linda Gradstein has done it again. She has managed to take a "must report" story on Israeli-Palestinian relations -- the new report by B'Tselem on the non-combatants, including children, killed by the Israeli military during the Israeli attack on Gaza -- and report it in a manner ...
• Documentary Video: Shooting the Messenger
  This documentary on the deliberate killing and intimidation of journalists in conflict zones, examines how international reporters became targets.
• Impressions of Israeli Executions in the West Bank
  Much planning had gone into our family vacation in Israel-Palestine. We could spare only the last two weeks of 2009, and so had developed an uncompromising itinerary for each day, allowing a mere half-day to recover from jet lag from our trip from California. After devoting most of the first wee ...
• Calling Bono: Your Palestinian Gandhis Exist . ...
  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 ...
• Noam Chomsky and the pro-Israel lobby: Fourtee ...
  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 ...

David J. Gregory

• Donation will give you ACCESS TO PRIVATE AREA!
  http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/06/16/donation-will-give-you-access-to-private-area/ As our private area grows with more and more data, it becomes more and more desirable. A donation will give you access to this area where not only will you ...
• BIG NEWS Obama Threatens VETO CISPA
  Big news. President Obama is threatening to veto CISPA, the bill that could give the government and big companies limitless powers to spy on us online. The President has folded on a lot of things in the past, but finally, yes finally, there is hope, the tide maybe changing, from the GOP Corporat ...
• The Eye On Citrus Show
  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 ...
• Jesse Ventura, 63 Documents the Government Doe ...
  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 ...
• What side are you on?
  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 ...

Unsuitable Blog

• The Unsuitablog Archive
  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 ...
• The Unsuitablog: Winding Down and Winding Up
  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 ...
• You’re Not Taking “Radical” ...
  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 ...
• Strikes vs Royal Weddings
  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 ...
• WWF Denies Palm Oil is the Problem, then Count ...
  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 ...

Subalternate Reality

• Forget The Wealthy. How Do We Tax The Lucky?
  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 ...
• Muslim-Baiters Don’t Want To Be Treated ...
  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 ...
• Keith Ellison’s Tears And Epistemic Closure
  Rep. Peter King’s hearings looking into the “radicalization” of the American Muslim community, and the suggestion that the community doesn’t cooperate with law enforcement, was largely a waste of time and tax dollars. The affair didn’t produce a single insight into the actual and urgent issue of ...
• Praying On Qasr al-Nil
  One of the more memorable scenes of the Egyptian revolution will surely be that of ordinary Egyptian’s praying on Cairo’s Qasr al-Nil Bridge as members of Egyptian state police direct their water cannons at them. Truly a remarkable sight. via Al Jazeera Filed under: Middle East Tagged: Al-Jazeer ...
• “I Support Democratization, But…&# ...
  The 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 ...

Idea Lab | Technology

• Ranking the Slowest-Loading News Sites and How ...
  I present your winner (or loser?) for slowest loading feature article, the Chicago Tribune, at 16.68 seconds, almost 6 megabytes of data, and with more than 300 requests for resources to display the page in question. In fact, the Tribune was the slowest out of the 15 sites tested three out of fi ...
• Reducing the Fear of Innovation (and Failure) ...
  Sam Jacoby, a master's student in the High-Low Tech research group at the MIT Media Lab, contributed to this report. "Our job is to get government used to the idea of failing." Nigel Jacobs' New Urban Mechanics team at Boston's City Hall has piloted several successful projects since it ...
• Lessons Learned From My Three-Day Social Media ...
  I realized recently that I had become way too attached to looking at social media on my phone and on my computer -- basically all the time. This is a phenomenon that we talk about a lot at the Reese News Lab. We know that there are spikes in activity on social media from desktops during l ...
• Public Lab's 'Spectral Challenge' Promotes Ope ...
  This post was co-written by Public Lab organizer Chris Fastie. During the BP oil spill in 2010, as aerial mappers walked coastlines and boated waterways to document environmental impacts, we encountered tarry clumps in the sand or reddish clayey masses floating around the boat. We often weren ...
• Pop Up Archive and PRX Launch Audio Archiving ...
  This post was co-written by Bailey Smith, co-creator of Pop Up Archive, with help from Jake Shapiro, CEO of Public Radio Exchange. We believe that archiving can be so easy it doesn't even feel like archiving -- and that an entire new generation of meaningful content is waiting to be created, ...

Cutting Edge News

• Broken Government - Government's Green Car Loa ...
  A Department of Energy loan program, infused with $25 billion to spur a wave of fuel-efficient vehicles, has not closed a loan in two years and is likely to leave two-thirds of the money unspent amid fallout over the Solyndra debacle and other factors. Those findings, revealed Friday in a U.S. G ...
• The Toxic Edge - How Industry Scientists Stall ...
  Ten days before Christmas 1965, Pacific Gas & Electric Co. station chief Richard Jacobs walked a half-block on a dusty road lined with scraggly creosote shrubs to check out a neighbor’s toilet. Jacobs carried with him a secret, something he referred to as the “chromate problem.�Startin ...
• Destination Detroit - Le Chef Bistro offers Gr ...
  Detroit is famous for Arabic restaurants but one can't really appreciate them unless you understand the different ethnic groups that make up the Arab and Mideastern peoples and their distinctive cuisines. Whereas in most cities an Arab or Mediterranean restaurant might well be a mishmash of vari ...
• The Dating Edge - Dating in Middle School Lead ...
  Students who date in middle school have significantly worse study skills, are four times more likely to drop out of school and report twice as much alcohol, tobacco and marijuana use than their single classmates, according to new research from the University of Georgia."Romantic relationships ar ...
• The Environmental Edge - Real Time Second Hand ...
  Making headway against a major public health threat, Dartmouth College researchers have invented the first ever secondhand tobacco smoke sensor that records data in real time.The researchers expect to soon convert the prototype, which is smaller and lighter than a cellphone, into a wearable, aff ...

High Country News

• Forest Service wields an uncommon mining law
  In Idaho the agency is challenging gold mining claims in an area once slated for hydropower
• Lost in translation
  What good are public meetings when neither the BLM nor the locals are being heard?
• Wyoming windsock you in the face!
  The Cowboy state makes an ambitious bid to get California in on its wind
• Energy geeks rejoice!
  Our quickie guide to trivial, extraction-related iPhone apps
• Our national parks need room to breathe
  As the 100th anniversary of the national parks approaches, more than ever we need to protect their open space.

CounterCurrents

• Iraq War's Legacy Of Cancer By Dahr Jamail
  Two US-led wars in Iraq have left behind hundreds of tonnes of depleted uranium munitions and other toxic wastes. Birth defects in Falljujah amounts to a rate more than 14 times the rate experienced by Hiroshima and Nagasaki
• War Without End By Kathy Kelly
  A civilized country would demand heartfelt reparations to the people of Iraq and cease to interfere in their internal affairs, would secure freedom and official praise for whistleblowers like Bradley Manning, and would rapidly begin to liberate itself from subservience to warlords and war profiteers
• Who Did You Rape In The War, Daddy? By Nick Turse
  Maybe it’s time to start asking questions of our veterans. Hard questions. They shouldn’t be the only ones with the knowledge of what goes on in armies and in war zones. They didn’t get to Vietnam (or Iraq or Afghanistan) on their own and they shouldn’t shoulder the blame or the truth alone and ...
• The Future Holds Ten Times More Hurricane Surg ...
  New research from the Niels Bohr Institute shows that there will be a tenfold increase in frequency if the climate becomes two degrees Celcius warmer
• Maintaining Mental Health In The Age Of Madnes ...
  We maintain our wholeness in the madness by joining with others to begin making the kind of world we want our children and the next seven generations to live in. If you yourself are a helping professional of any kind, embrace your deviance and commit to proliferating the deviance! The opportunit ...

Contagious Love Experiment

• Kill Team: The Bigger Picture
  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
• Kill Team: The Bigger Picture
  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
  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
  Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
• Practicing Peace in the New Year
  A friend, Frank Swift, that I met on my first journey has passed along some great practical steps towards peace for the new year. Frank has written a children’s book to help young people see an alternative to the competition and forcefulness that can too easily get instilled in our young p ...

Yid With Lid

• Analysis: Obama's Israel Trip is All About 201 ...
  Why Now?  That is one of the big questions surrounding Barack Obama's trip to Israel which began today.  After avoiding the Jewish State for the first four plus years of his presidency why is he going now, especially since the word coming from the administration is nothing ...
• GOP Senators- Don't Rush Through Gang of Eigh ...
  Six Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee have a message for Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont)--slow down sparky anything worth doing is worth doing correctly. The Senators sent a letter to Leahy (D-Vermont) asking him to allow more time for hearings on a comprehensive immig ...
• DESTINED TO FAIL: Obama's Vision of the Middl ...
  By Barry Rubin To put it plainly, the press briefing supposed to indicate how President Barack Obama thinks about Israel on the eve of his trip here, is a combination of fantasy and insult. It is likely that the Obama Administration made such statements for show, to persuade the Arabic ...
• Newsbusted: Rove on Romney's CPAC Speech "He S ...
  Here's another story the Mainstream Media missed. They were all over Sarah Palin for her pokes at Karl Rove during he speech at CPAC last Saturday, and of course they covered Rove's snarky response on Sunday.  But what they didn't cover was Rove's reaction to Mitt Romney's speech. The ...
• The GOP Establishment: CPAC's Biggest Losers
  GOP Strategist Karl Rove may have been the biggest "loser" at CPAC. Not only was he mocked by Sarah Palin, but the entire idea voter's ceding political power to the Washington DC political power brokers was attacked over and over throughout the conference. While the media has been playing it out ...

The Real Agenda

• Anthrax Vaccine to be tested on Children
  By SHARON BEGLEY | REUTERS | MARCH 19, 2013 A presidential ethics panel has opened the door to testing an anthrax vaccine on children as young as infants, bringing an angry response from critics who say the children would be guinea pigs in a study that would never help them and might h ...
• Syrians attacked with chemical weapons in Alep ...
  Both the Syrian government and the terrorists groups in charge of the conflict in Syria deny using chemical weapons By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | MARCH 19, 2013 The Syrian government accused rebel militias that vie for control of the country of using chemical weapons in an attack ...
• Baby Girl Dies Hours After Getting 5 Vaccinations
  By CHRISTINA ENGLAND | VACTRUTH | MARCH 19, 2013 On February 21, 2013, a one month-old baby girl died after receiving her first vaccinations. Baby Ayushi Gupta died at the Maltibai Hospital, Thane, West Mumbai in India just hours after receiving her vaccinations for Hepatitis B, DPT (d ...
• China practiced 330 million abortions between ...
  By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | MARCH 19, 2013 China carried out almost 330 million abortions between 1971 and 2010, according to figures made ​​public by its own Health Ministry before announcing a merger of their activities with those of the National Population and Family Plannin ...
• Proyecto de Intelligencia Estadounidense para ...
  POR PATRICE McSHERRY | GLOBAL RESEARCH | MARCH 13, 2013 El nuevo proyecto de supercomputadoras está a cargo de un organismo poco conocido, Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (Iarpa), que funciona bajo la orientación del director de Inteligencia Nacional de los EE.UU. El g ...

Wind Watch

• Kyoto wind farm turbine falls after pylon snaps
  A 38-ton wind turbine crashed 50 meters to the ground in Kyoto Prefecture after the steel column supporting it snapped, according to officials. The massive Dutch-made turbine, which sat atop a Japanese-made steel column, was part of a mountain wind farm. It was put up in 2001 with an expected li ...
• Voters blow away Reading Township wind project
  For now, wind power will stay out of Reading Township. That was the decision of residents of Reading, a township 11 miles southwest of Hillsdale, in a referendum on Feb. 26, the vote followed a long, fierce debate over Duke Energy’s proposed Hillsdale Windpower Project. Reading Township Supervis ...
• Newfound voters reject wind farms
  It’s town meeting season. Around Newfound Lake Several towns are contemplating non-binding resolutions to take the pulse of voters on the question of wind-farms. Grafton, Alexandria, and Groton – all towns that wind developers are courting – have warrant articles asking the town to support of op ...
• The price of green energy: is Germany killing ...
  The German government is carrying out a rapid expansion of renewable energies like wind, solar and biogas, yet the process is taking a toll on nature conservation. The issue is causing a rift in the environmental movement, pitting “green energy” supporters against ecologists. The Bag ...
• ‘Unprecedented’ plan needed to remove Fa ...
  FALMOUTH — The estimated cost to remove Falmouth’s two wind turbines ranges from $12-15 million, including existing debt, removal fees, legal fees, and consulting work. In addition, special legislation is required to both borrow money to pay removal costs and to potentially refinance tax-exempt ...

Tippers News

• Three men helped starve kids, court tol
  Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
  The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
  DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...
  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- ...
• About Us,,,You may want to lisent...interesting!
  Interesting Information that you may find interesting With Love... Evelyn (: Submitted by Evelyn J. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

The Freeman

• Human Trafficking: The Other Good Reason to Re ...
  Restrictive immigration policies have long been associated with a variety of economic problems. These include the diminished availability of foreign talent, the inability of businesses to fill low-skilled agricultural and service jobs typically scorned by legal residents, and reduced access to t ...
• Methodological Individualism
  I am just now rereading Ludwig von Mises’s magnum opus, Human Action.  What a joy it is to get reacquainted with this masterful work and to use it as a benchmark to gauge my own intellectual odyssey since first reading it more than 40 years ago. Early on the reader encounters the term “methodolo ...
• The Virtue of Market Inefficiency
  Markets are often rightly characterized as extraordinary problem solvers. Under the right rules of the game (including private property, free exchange, and the rule of law) people following their own self-interests can coordinate their plans with one another more or less successfully, generating ...
• The Entrepreneurial Spirit
  Dorothy Whipple’s almost entirely forgotten novel High Wages is one of the most compelling stories of personal initiative and entrepreneurship that I have read. Left alone in the world with only fifty-two pounds in a savings account, Jane Carter decides to look for work. By chance, she arrives i ...
• Austrian Economics: Ahead of its Time?
  So I’m a closet futurist. Being one, I sometimes find myself checking out sites like Transhumanity.net. I recently came across an article there that does a pretty good job of unpacking the difference between 20th century science and 21st century science. One of the things I noticed about 2 ...

Teaching Online Journalism

• Get started with Web coding. Part 4: Software ...
  This post deals with two common assumptions: You need to learn particular software programs (e.g. Dreamweaver) so you can make things for the Web. Journalists work inside corporate content management systems (CMSs), so there’s no need for them to know Web coding. Both of those are i ...
• Get started with Web coding. Part 3: The comma ...
  So there’s code, and then, there’s code. Code (with a capital C, italics, spinning pinwheels and possibly fireworks accompanying it) is what my roommate in college studied. She spent long nights in a lab with mostly guys, most with foreign accents, and earned a B.S. in computer scien ...
• Get started with Web coding. Part 2: JavaScrip ...
  I’ve been thinking for a long time about how to write this post. This is the second in a series about coding, for journalists. It’s taken a while to get to this second post because I’m still feeling conflicted about exactly what to say. In the first post, I wrote about HTML an ...
• Get started with Web coding. Part 1: HTML and CSS
  There's been a lot of talk about journalists learning to code, and that conversation mainly centers on programming. When we say programming, we mean the use of computer programming languages, which cause things to happen. Things happen because a user -- a member of the audience -- touches someth ...
• The future, and journalism education
  My university played host this weekend to several dozen journalism educators and some very wonderful working journalists. They all came to the Journalism Interactive conference to share what they know and learn new things about digital media and training the next generation of journalists. Most ...

Facing South

• FROM THE SOUTHERN EXPOSURE ARCHIVES: Women and ...
  A story in a 1977 issue of Southern Exposure reported on how in the midst of the Great Depression Jessie Daniel Ames organized a mass "revolt against chivalry" that linked the anti-lynching campaign with the struggle for sexual emancipation. We share it today in honor of International Women's Da ...
• INSTITUTE INDEX: Follow the drone money
  In the wake of U.S. Sen. Rand Paul's (R-Ky.) filibuster this week raising concerns about the Obama administration's policy on the domestic use of drones against U.S. civilians, we take a by-the-numbers look at U.S. drone use and drone makers' political clout. read more
• VOICES: Scarlet Letter licenses? Give me one, too.
  North Carolina will soon begin issuing driver's licenses to undocumented youth with a pink banner and bright red letters that say "NO LAWFUL STATUS" and "LIMITED TERM." Jeff Shaw with N.C. Policy Watch tells state transportation chief Tony Tata why he wants one, too. read more
• Lawsuit seeks withheld information about leaki ...
  Clean water advocates have filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the U.S. Coast Guard over its refusal to release public records about a chronic leak from Taylor Energy oil wells off the Louisiana coast. Caused by an underwater mudslide during Hurricane Ivan, the spill has been foul ...
• New battle over voter ID in the South
  Once again, Southern states are pushing to enact new voting restrictions including voter ID laws. But has the public debate changed? read more

Worldpress - Africa

• DR Congo's Silent Ordeal
  Brutal violence continues to ravage the Democratic Republic of Congo, but the massacres get very little coverage in Western media.
• U.S. Upgrades Its Relationship with Africa
  The Obama administration has unveiled a new strategy that intends to shift the focus of its relationship with Africa from aid to sustainable development.
• U.S. Upgrades Its Relationship with Africa
  The Obama administration has unveiled a new strategy that intends to shift the focus of its relationship with Africa from aid to sustainable development.
• Cheers for Hollande in Africa
  Many Africans were excited to see French President Nicolas Sarkozy voted out of office, hopeful that François Hollande will better represent their interests.
• Cheers for Hollande in Africa
  Many Africans were excited to see French President Nicolas Sarkozy voted out of office, hopeful that François Hollande will better represent their interests.

Telegraph UK - oil

• Why the world isn't running out of oil
  Decades ago, the world was told it was running on empty. Today, we have more oil than we need. What's fuelling the boom in black gold?
• Economic hopes rise as oil demand seen to grow ...
  The outlook for the global economy appeared to brighten as OPEC, the cartel of oil-producing nations, predicted the world will consume more oil this year than previously thought.
• Trillions of dollars worth of oil found in Aus ...
  Up to 233 billion barrels of oil has been discovered in the Australian outback that could be worth trillions of dollars, in a find that could turn the region into a new Saudi Arabia.
• Age UK: heating oil prices makes it uncertain ...
  An estimated 1.5 million elderly people in rural areas are facing a struggle to keep warm because of the rising cost of heating oil, a charity has warned.
• Cosalt shareholders could be left with nothing ...
  Shareholders in David Ross's oil services group Cosalt could be left empty-handed if sales of the company's operating businesses go ahead, it has emerged.

Ian Welsh

• Overruling NYC’s Ban on Large Sodas
  A judge has overruled this.  I’m not a lawyer, so I won’t comment on the legality, what I will say is that in this case, I actually support Bloomberg.  High doses of sugar and fructose contribute to obesity and the diabetes epidemic: they kill a lot of people.  A lot more people than ...
• Overruling NYC’s Ban on Large Pops
  A judge has overruled this.  I’m not a lawyer, so I won’t comment on the legality, what I will say is that in this case, I actually support Bloomberg.  High doses of sugar and fructose contribute to obesity and the diabetes epidemic: they kill a lot of people.  A lot more people than ...
• The Cassandra Complex
  The prophet Cassandra was blessed with the ability to foretell the future: but cursed that no one would believe her. Except that this is the way that prophecy works, if people believe a dire prophecy, it generally doesn’t come true.  My friend Stirling Newberry calls this a “self-unf ...
• The Cassandra Complex
  The prophet Cassandra was blessed with the ability to foretell the future: but cursed that no one would believe her. Except that this is the way that prophecy works, if people believe a dire prophecy, it generally doesn’t come true.  My friend Stirling Newberry calls this a “self-unf ...
• Rand Paul’s Filibuster
  Rand Paul, if you haven’t seen the news, is filibustering Brennan’s CIA nomination in order to get clarification from the President that American citizens can’t be killed without due process in the United States. I’m seeing a lot of “liberals” and “progr ...

Media Consortium

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• New Voices: What Works
• The Media Consortium » The Big Thaw

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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new geography

• America's Fastest- and Slowest-Growing Cities
  Since the housing crash of 2007, the decline of the Sun Belt and dispersed, low-density cities has been trumpeted by the national media and by pundits who believe America’s future lies in compact, crowded, mostly coastal and northern, cities. But apparently, most Americans have not gotte ...
• California Needs More Immigrants
  Southern California, just a few decades ago the fastest-growing region in the high-income world, is hitting a demographic tipping point. With a decade or more of domestic out-migration and a sharp fall in immigration, the region is morphing from a destination that attracts dreamers and b ...
• Is Hawaii the Bellwether for California?
  California used to consider itself the leading state and the bellwether for the entire country. Now that the entrepreneurial initiative has mostly switched to Texas and other such places, and Texas’s infrastructure has pulled ahead of California’s in its quality (I lived in Texas ...
• The Value of a Liberal Arts Education in Landi ...
  North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory made waves last week when he said on syndicated radio that he wants to encourage the funding of four-year programs that align with the job market — not those, like gender studies, that do little to help a graduate’s employment prospects. This was co ...
• Wall Street's Hollow Boom: With Small Business ...
  On Wall Street, even as layoffs mount, the upper echelons are clinking champagne glasses for good reason. The stock market is hitting new highs, propelled largely by Bernanke dollars and strong corporate profits. Big financial institutions like Wells Fargo and JPMorgan have announced record prof ...

GM Watch

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spiked

• Don’t blame Hacked Off for this crisis o ...
  Screeching at Hugh Grant is a displacement activity for intellectuals who can’t explain or reverse the historic corrosion of press freedom.
• Stop screwing around with the curriculum
  Instead of yet more sex education, young people need the freedom to explore and develop among themselves.
• Teaching students to think racially
  Race theory is dividing university students, with whites depicted as racist, and blacks as permanently oppressed.
• Porn: no longer a dirty little secret
  The normalisation of porn-use in the 21st-century West speaks to a serious crisis of values – one that censorship won't solve.
• The Audience: QEII as global brand
  Peter Morgan’s new play continues his genuflection to the monarch at the expense of the leaders we have elected.

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

• Reinstate Teacher Who Supported Trayvon Martin ...
  arget: Superintendent Jacqueline Cassell Goal: To reinstate Brooke Harris, an eighth grade teacher who was fired after supporting a fundraiser benefitting Trayvon Martins family. The Trayvon Martin case has already caused a storm of controversy, Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World &n ...
• "Ive Been Duped" - Reflections on Israel and P ...
  Do you know the frustration you feel when you believed in something strongly and then you realize that the information that made you believe was from a source with an agenda to deceive? Submitted by Ken D. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• What people will do for beauty: 8 Grossest Spa ...
  uh..the title says it all :) Submitted by Vicky P. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• White House sees more pain for Iran as it clea ...
  Aggressive war is illegal, immoral against nations that are no threat, is nonbelligerent & it is insane! Call your Reps. Tell your friends, rouse up the good folk in your church,mosque and synagouge. We must stop this exported violence or we are screwed. Submitted by michael hall to World &nbs ...
• Iran Bashing, Terrorism, and Who Chose the Cho ...
  Dedicated to the long-suffering Palestinians and Iranians who have been sidelined by the United Nations in favour of the Nuclear Apartheid State of Zionist Israel in the most blatant exercise in International Double Standards that our world has ever known Submitted by Ken D. to World  |&nb ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

• Abu Dhabi solar plant key to energy security
  Shams 1 uses 258,048 parabolic mirrors to collect sunlight and concentrate it onto oil that flows through a tubing at the center of the curved mirrors. This heated oil makes its way into a h ...
• Social Bankability, Solar Crowdfunders, & Emer ...
  If we are going to avoid the worst impacts of climate change we need disruptive innovations that fundamentally alter the broken systems that continue to build out inequitable, fossil fueled so ...
• New crowdsourcing platform gives hope to small ...
  Less than 24 hours after launching its online marketplace, Mosaic raised $313,000 to power read more
• “Black hole for light” drastically improves ef ...
  Researchers at Princeton University led by electrical engineer Stephen Chou, have developed what is being called a “nanostructure sandwich” to trap light and improve the efficiency of organic solar cells by 175%. A layer of metal mesh ...
• India’s solar mission, phase 2
  An Indian worker cleans solar arrays during the inauguration of a one-megawatt solar photovoltaic power plant near Gandhinagar, in 2011. The ground-mount photovoltaic power plant is the firs ...

News Blaze

• Palm Sunday Weekend: Major Storm Predicted
  AccuWeather.com reports another major storm will cross the nation from coast to coast with heavy snow, flooding rain and severe thunderstorms. The worst conditions with the storm may center over the Palm Sunday weekend.
• Andiamo's Brings Old Vegas To Downtown Las Vegas
  Andiamo's entrance is a brick entrance with a curved ceiling, where the bricks were imported from Detroit. This gives guests the feeling of a Speakeasy.
• Yemen Begins National Dialogue Over New Consti ...
  The talks was originally scheduled to start in mid-November. But due to boycott in some factions in the south of Yemen, the talk was delayed and resumes this week.
• Djibouti Concludes Football Tournament for Sch ...
  President Souleiman Hassan Waberi said Djibouti Football Federation was committed to encouraging women's football as the FDF wants to see expanded women's involvement in football.
• Albania Offers Asylum for Former Camp Ashraf R ...
  The government of Alabania is ready to accommodate in Albania for 210 members of the People's Mujahedeen of Iran' or the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK).

Worldnews

• Farm On Wheels (VIDEO)
  Many a school bus has been re-purposed, giving it a life well beyond that of carrying children back and forth from school each day. However, few have as surprising a new life as the 'Farm on Wheels' bus driving around Starkville, Mississippi. The 'Farm on Wheels' is just that - a farm on whe ...
• Syria accuses rebels of 'chemical weapon ...
  Syrian state media accused rebels of firing a chemical weapon for the first time today in the north of the country, killing 15 people. Rebels quickly denied the report and accused regime forces of firing the weapon. Neither of the accusations could immediately be verified. The Syrian state n ...
• Drs. Oz and Roizen: Learn how to identify ...
  DNA testing on 1,200 seafood samples in 21 states revealed that 87 percent of fish sold as “snapper” and 59 percent of fish labeled “tuna” just aren’t. Mislabeling fish isn’t just a scam, it’s a health hazard. Tilefish is served in place of re ...
• Here, Eat This: A Beginner's Guide to Ind ...
  Say you've decided to be spontaneous and embark on a new culinary adventure, sampling a brand new cuisine for the very first time. Good for you! You deserve a virtual high five. But what do you order? This is a common concern among people who've either decided to try something new or are out ...
• Anti-allergy genetically modified apples
  Peanut, egg and soy are more common food known to trigger an allergic reaction, a problem affecting around 8% of children in the EU. Intuitively, you might not list apples as causing allergic reactions. But in fact 75% of people allergic to birch pollen are also allergic to apples. This happ ...

Alex in Wonderland

• Report: Active-Duty Army PSYOPS Soldiers Embed ...
  To better manufacture consent, U.S. Army soldiers are embedded as intern and fellows at local TV affiliates, along with previously reported newspapers and national outlets.
• Military Welfare Budget Won’t Thin Any T ...
  Ivan Eland sat with RT to discuss the astronomical political clout held by the welfare queens of the military-industrial complex that will thwart any translation of the Pentagon's rhetoric into actual policy
• Afghan Elections Rigged on Video? (Video)
  Yes, people videotaped it and Al Jazeera broke the story.
• Fuckin’ Oil, Where Did It Went?
  With 90% of up to 4.4 million barrels of oil 'unaccounted for', it's now... still unaccounted for.
• U.S. Troops ‘Killing for Sport’ in Afghanistan ...
  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.

MY Daily Apple

• O HUI SUN SCIENCE IDEAL COVER SUNSCREEN BROAD ...
  Updated Date: Mar 18, 2013 EST
• Judge overturns Mo. law on birth control coverage
  A federal judge has struck down a Missouri law exempting moral objectors from mandatory birth control coverage because it conflicts with an insurance requirement under President Barrack Obama's health care law.
• Cancer Billing 'Operated by Satan,' Says Memoi ...
  The American healthcare system operates without any rhyme or reason when it comes to cost, and dying patients often receive expensive care that is unwarranted. Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
• Arkansas health plan for poor to add limited f ...
  LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (Reuters) - A cost analysis released on Monday shows that a state plan to move Medicaid-eligible low-income citizens into a "private option" under upcoming federal healthcare exchanges would result in little additional federal costs. (Source: Reuters: Health)
• New Structural Insight Into Neurodegenerative ...
  A research team from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) released their results on the structure and molecular details of the neurodegenerative disease-associated protein Ataxin-1. Mutations in Ataxin-1 cause the neurological disease, Spinocerebella Ataxia Type 1 (SCA1 ...

Common Dreams

• 'We Have a Right to Heal': Group Demands Justi ...
  A group of U.S. veterans of the Iraq war and two Iraqi organizations are "demanding the right to heal" from the war that has not ended, demanding reparations for trauma and health effects from the war, and demanding the U.S. be held "accountable for its violations of the rights to ...
• Ignoring First Amendment Attack, Judge Dismiss ...
  On Tuesday a federal judge threw out a lawsuit that challenged the constitutionality of the federal Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA), without addressing the central Freedom of Speech question in the case. read more
• NYPD Spent One Million Hours, 440,000 Arrests ...
  According to a shocking new report released Tuesday by the Drug Policy Alliance, in just over a decade the NYPD has used approximately 1,000,000 hours of police officer time to make 440,000 arrests for low-level misdemeanor marijuana possession, in what critics are calling "a frontline civi ...
• Cyprus Votes 'No' Against Austerity and 'the P ...
  As protesters cheered outside, Cyprus's parliament rejected a bailout proposal from the European financial 'troika' that would have levied individual savings accounts held in the state's banks. Though a small island country with relatively low impact on the wider European economy ...
• US-Backed, School of the Americas-Trained Form ...
  An historic trial begins in Guatemala on Tuesday for a former U.S.-backed, School of the Americas-trained dictator accused of acts genocide committed during his brutal regime. 86-year-old Efrain Rios Montt stands accused of killing over 1,700 Ixil Mayas during his 1982-1983 regime, which took pl ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

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

Examine Religion - Tweets

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Energy Collective

• Situational Awareness in Distribution Grid Hel ...
  Utilities are projected to invest $3 Billion per year by 2015 to upgrade their distribution grids to accommodate increased renewables and energy storage assets.
• Climate, Energy, and Dangers of Fear-Mongering
  Do wind farms make you sick? Not so, according to new research out of Australia. It's more likely that “wind farm syndrome” is caused not by the turning of wind turbines, but by scaremongering about wind turbines.
• Industrial Demand Response is Booming, Residen ...
  DR providers and utilities are targeting the commercial and industrial (C&I) sector specifically to assist in balancing demand on the electric grid in times of stress. But, is this the best strategy for demand response?
• Biofuels Suffering from High Corn Prices and D ...
  Nearly 10 percent of US ethanol plants have stopped production over the past year, the drought having pushed commodity prices so high that ethanol has become too expensive to produce.
• Japan's Methane Hydrates and the Future of Glo ...
  Countries including the U.S., Canada, Norway, and China are also interested in using hydrate deposits as an additional source of energy, since methane is a main component.

Green House - USA Today

• Climate change affects each U.S. state, Web to ...
  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 in your child's car seat? Study finds t ...
  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.
• U.S. cities require buildings to disclose ener ...
  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.
• Study: Climate change imperils Himalayan glaciers
  Two of three Himalayan glaciers -- both in humid areas of eastern Nepal -- could disappear if present climate change patterns continue, a study predicts.
• Environmentalists cheer Obama's fuel economy hike
  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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Peoples Voice

• The AIDS-like Disease Seldom Mentioned
  by Karen Lambert I have Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome (CFS/CFIDS/ME) and HIV-NEGATIVE AIDS, idiopathic CD lymphocytopenia. With these two clinical diagnoses, I believe that makes me living proof that the AIDS-like CFS/ME is transmissible, something that the medical establishment s ...
• AIPAC’s Anti-American Resolutions
  By Dr. Elias Akleh It is a well known fact to many that American Zionist Jewish groups especially AIPAC are the most influential political groups in the US. It members control the Federal Reserve and the majority of American banking and financial institutions, major American corporations especi ...
• Anniversary of Evil
  Philip A Farruggio Please forgive me for what I am about to say, but… each time I tune into a sports event lately and see the pomp and circumstance of our ‘ Brave Warriors ‘ it angers me greatly. As with other nation’s military personnel, I am sure that most of our young ...
• Leave the British Press Alone – No &#821 ...
  Michael Collins Great Britain's three political parties just made a deal to provide a degree of regulation for the British press. The deal produces a Royal Charter that establishes a press regulator at arms-length from the government plus a regulation regime that the major media companies ca ...
• Obama Heads to Israel
  by Stephen Lendman As now scheduled, he'll arrive March 20. He'll remain until March 23. It's his first presidential visit. He made several trips before. He's only the fifth US president to go. Others included Nixon, Carter, Clinton, and GW Bush. He waited until Israel's new government w ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

• More Harm Than Good: Austerity's Impact in Ontario
  This report shows that Ontario hasn't returned to pre-recession economic health. Austerity measures are compounding the problem, effectively slowing economic growth. Trish Hennessy and CAW economist Jim Stanford note that the province's deficit predictions were wildly overstated and that the emp ...
• Norway's Petro-Lessons for Canada: Bruce Campb ...
  Like Canada, Norway has considerable petro-wealth. However, unlike Canada, the Norwegian government has a hand in the development, allocation and sharing of this valuable resource. CCPA’s Executive Director, Bruce Campbell recently appeared on TVO’s The Agenda with Steve Paiken to talk ...
• CCPA releases Alternative Federal Budget 2013
  Today, the CCPA releases the Alternative Federal Budget 2013: Doing Better Together. This year's AFB shows how growth-killing austerity can be replaced by a plan that strengthens the economy, leads to a better quality of life for all Canadians, and eliminates the deficit by 2016.  Thi ...
• Great resource for labour researchers and acti ...
  If you haven’t run across the Citizen’s Press website yet, we recommend that you take a look. Citizen's Press is a Canadian online publication for progressive, union-oriented researchers, activists and organizers. There is also valuable information from the US. The site is organized into editor ...
• Alternative Federal Budget 2013: Coming soon!
  More than ever, Canada needs a budget that allows us to take back our fu­ture and to restore a sense of the public good — a sense that we can do bet­ter together rather than continuing on the dead-end path of austerity and market-driv­en “solutions” that don’t benefit the major­i ...

World Wide Hippies

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FourWinds10

• Obama Ignores Huge Dangers In Approving Arctic ...
  Sept. 1, 2012 The Obama administration today gave Shell Oil the initial approval to begin controversial and dangerous oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean off Alaska, despite the fact that a critical oil-spill containment vessel is still awaiting certification in Bellingham, Wash. Until now, the Arc ...
• Chinas Yangtze River 'Turns Blood Red': Reside ...
  Sept. 10, 2012 It is the last thing the residents of Chongqing would have expected to see. But the Yangtze river, which runs through the city in south-western China, turned a bright shade of orange-red yesterday. The waterway where the Yangtze met the Jialin River provided a fascinating contrast ...
• SAN DIEGO RESIDENTS FACE 6 YEARS IN PRISON FOR ...
  nOV. 13, 2012 San Diegans could face 6 years in prison and fines of $100,000 dollars a day for washing their car in the driveway or failing to pick up dog poop under new EPA-mandated environmental regulations related to water quality. Although residents of the city are forced to drink toxic wast ...
• BEIJING'S POLLUTION ALARMS NEIGHBORS
• Fracking Our Food Supply
  Dec. 1, 2012 Many fracking operations take place on food producing farms. (photo: Onearth) n a Brooklyn winery on a sultry July evening, an elegant crowd sips rosé and nibbles trout plucked from the gin-clear streams of upstate New York. The diners are here, with their checkbooks, to supp ...

Crisis Maven

• The End Game or: How the Dupes were Duped or: ...
  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& ...
• The End Game or: How the Dupes were Duped or: ...
  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& ...
• Neutrinos, Physics, Meteors and the Survival o ...
  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 ...
• Neutrinos, Physics, Meteors and the Survival o ...
  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 ...
• Archaeology, the Internet and Neutrinos
  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 ...

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

• First Commercial Cellulosic Ethanol Plant in U ...
  It will continue to be true that as long as the US government incentivizes these ventures, companies will continue to pursue them. But it is also true, says Robert Rapier, that every gallon of production they make will be produced at a significant per gallon loss.
• Why Environmentalists are Wrong on Keystone XL
  Bill McKibben and and other protestors are being naive in choosing this particular battle. They won't make any meaningful impact on climate change even if they manage to stop Keystone XL. The reason that is important is that they could be channeling their energy into things that could potentiall ...
• How Oil Can Improve Our Long Term Energy Situation
  Environmentalists are generally opposed to opening up areas to additional drilling, while on the other side are people who believe that underneath U.S. territory lies an ocean of oil, waiting to be tapped -- if environmentalists would only get out of the way.
• Exclusive: U.S. Air Force Report to Congress B ...
  A member of the Department of Strategy at the USAF Air War College takes on the Navy's biofuels program and the Great Green Fleet with a scathing report being sent to Congress and the nation's top military leaders.
• Book Review – Reinventing Fire
  While I disagree with Amory Lovins on many topics, the man is definitely a visionary. In his latest book Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era, Lovins and his coauthors make the case for retrofitting 120 million buildings, and for fundamentally changing our transportat ...

Discovery Educator Network

• Math in the Movies!
  Tags: math, moviesby: Carolyn Rains
• 3 Great Posters for Teaching Writing ~ Educati ...
  Tags: writing, posters, teachingby: Dean Mantz
• My favorite Top 10 #startup #ipad apps to #mle ...
  Comments:Many interesting startups at  South by Southwest (SXSW) Conferences & Festivals (March 8-17, 2013) - LUCIAN DUMATags: mlearning, sxsw, ipad, GlogsterEDUby: LUCIAN DUMA
• How Evernote Is Revolutionzing My Classroom | ...
  Tags: Evernote, ipad, classroomby: Carolyn Rains
• QuadBlogging – NAACE Global Partnership Award ...
  Comments:Connect with 4 different classrooms through blogging.  - amy musoneTags: blogging, quadblogging, collaborationby: amy musone

Rodale News

• New Attempts Made to Kick Antibiotics Out of F ...
  In an attempt to save modern-day medicine, a microbiologist who serves in Congress is reintroducing an updated version of her Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act (PAMTA). The legislation is a mouthful, but in essence it aims to curb the use of antibiotics in factory farm set ...
• Are Pesticides Making You Puke?
  Chemicals used in nonorganic farming are blamed for a lot of health problems. But pesticides and norovirus? It's true, chemical pesticide applications could actually promote the proliferation of germs that cause nasty gastrointestinal symptoms, according to a March 2013 study published in the j ...
• How Big Food Is Making You Fat
  What if it's the food—and not you—that's to blame for America's obesity epidemic? The national conversation surrounding this question has heated up with the publication of Michael Moss's new book Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us. But Moss isn't the first to make the case that the f ...
• 6 Sneaky Sources of Lead
  If you're eating an organic diet and trying to avoid pesticides and other nasty chemicals in your home, it's unnerving to learn that hidden contaminants, such as lead, could still threaten you with long-term health problems.  A recent study published in the journal Environmental Health Per ...
• 2013 Allergies: The Worst Year Ever?
  In a trend that may make your eyes water just thinking about it, seasonal allergy experts are confirming that 2013 allergies are going to start sooner—and last longer—in most parts of the country. The 2013 allergy season is expected to occur about 14 days earlier in many parts of the United St ...

big think

• A Trip Down Shepard Fairey's YouTube Rabbit Hole
  "As a creative person I’ve always wanted to surround myself with inspiring things," says Shepard Fairey, the artist and designer who is best known for his Obey Giant campaign and Obama Hope poster. "So I’ve collected books," Fairey says, and "wandered around the street and photographed hand-pain ...
• Hop on the WAAAAMBULANCE: In Defense of Whinin ...
  “Whining” is an insult that gets tossed around frequently and casually today, mostly between women. I rarely hear it leveled by men against women, women against men, or by men against men, except when NFL contracts are being negotiated. Then, athletes will occasionally be branded "whining babies ...
• Making A Case For Unlocking Everything, Not Ju ...
  What's the Latest Development? Now that Congress and the Obama administration have declared their support for cellphone unlocking, iFixit CEO and co-founder Kyle Wiens says the time has come to extend that privilege to any purchased object by making it easier to access information needed ...
• Vegetarianism as a Political (and Religious) Tool
  There’s a popular myth in the American yoga community that Indian vegetarianism began as a spiritual response to humanity’s place in the cosmos. The concept of ahimsa, or non-violence, is cited as the catalyst for widespread vegetarianism, used by some to propagate the message to an American ... ...
• Major Heart Study Will Get Its Data From Perso ...
  What's the Latest Development? Researchers are looking for up to one million people to enroll in the Health eHeart Study, which will monitor heart health in real time using smartphone apps, sensors, and other newly available devices. Information to be collected includes blood pressure, d ...

Information Liberation

• Prison Profiteers
  One aspect of drug prohibition that gets far too little attention is the fact that the drug war is immensely profitable for prohibitionists. Ten former high-ranking officials of the Drug Enforcement Administration recently signed a letter to the S...
• 'Last American Man' facing shutdown from North ...
  A man who has dedicated nearly 30 years to building and living off of his 500-acre farm is facing having his entire way of life shut down by the state government. Eustace Conway, 51, who has been called *The Last Great American Man* for his rustic...
• None Dare Call It Theft
  The euro elites don*t call it theft or robbery or even a tax, much less an outright default by the banks of Cyprus. They are calling it a *stability levy,* a plan that could lead not to stability, but a domino-style collapse of the banking system in ...
• Hero NYPD Officer Testifies Against Corrupt De ...
  NYPD officer Adhyl Polanco takes the stand in defense of the Constitution and against Mayor Bloomberg's and Raymond Kelly's Stop and Frisk program. - Jim Hoffer reports....
• New York's 'stop-and-frisk' policy under fire
  The New York City police practice of stopping, questioning and frisking people on the street is about to face its biggest legal challenge. A civil rights group is taking police to court over claims that the so-called stop and frisk policy targets m...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

• Abandoning All Pretence
  Behold your future. Coming soon to a banking system near you. Last weekend’s announcement by Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades that, as a precondition of the acceptance of a €10 billion EU bailout, his country would impose an immediate “tax” of up … Continue reading &# ...
• Bogan Pride
  What on God’s green earth were her minders thinking? Gillard’s five-day foray into Sydney’s West, hanging out at the Rooty Hill RSL no less, was as pathetic an attempt to re-connect with Labor’s working-class origins as it was hopeless. The … Continue reading →
• The Thirty-Second Version
  That’s all the time I’ve got to compose this post… Sorry about the absence, but you all know why. In the meantime, I thought I’d share this with you, courtesy of Zero Hedge and the blogger known as Gannicus. Learned … Continue reading →
• Tales Of An Aussie Refugee
  Last Thursday week, the third of January, I was driving home from Hobart, south along the Arthur Highway. A pretty normal day, really. Christmas and New Year had been celebrated, the much-vaunted Mayan apocalypse hadn’t happened, and with Tasmania at … Continue reading →
• Early Exit For 2012
  If the Mayan calendar is correct, this is the final LibertyGibbert thread ever, so farewell. If it is wrong, then it’s simply the last thread for 2012. I’ve been so swamped with work lately, I need a month at least … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

• Can drinking green tea or coffee cut stroke risk?
  Probably not. A recent study from Japan was much hyped in the media earlier this week but as NHS Choices points out, the researchers themselves offered a number of limitations to their study: The information on illness, green tea and coffee consumption was all self-reported, which introduces the ...
• Whatever happened to acid rain?
  There’s a cute video montage currently doing the rounds in which a re-working of the Billy Joel song “We didn’t start the fire” reminisces about growing up in the 1970s and the 1980s and cites the countless games, toys, TV shows and other cultural references we had during ...
• Ante-papal smoke signals
  Philip Ball, writing on the BBC Future site discusses the carcinogens and poisons pumped into the Roman air every time the cardinals vote on a new Pope… But, he also reckons the The Vatican is missing a trick by being unimaginatively monochrome. “Why stop at a mere two-colour signall ...
• Animated rock art
  Some of the world’s oldest engravings of the human form – prehistoric rock art from the Italian Alps – have been brought to life. PITOTI is an innovative research project that applies insights from the new technologies of computer graphics to prehistoric pictures, specifically ...
• World Book Day Confusion
  It hadn’t occurred to me that there might be more than one World Book Day. Apparently (thanks Bob O’Hara) we Brits celebrate and promote literacy on 7th March to get around school holidays, which is why yesterday all the kids trotting up to school were dressed as characters from thei ...

RFF Library

• Assessment of In-Place Gas Hydrate Resources o ...
  Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management http://www.netl.doe.gov/technologies/oil-gas/publications/Hydrates/Newsletter/MHNews_2013_March.pdf [From an Energy Wire article by Margaret Kriz Hobson, sub. req'd] ,,,The report by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management estimated that met ...
• Climate Change as an Intergenerational Problem
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (March 19, 2013, v110 n12 p4435-4436) / by Carl Wunscha, Raymond W. Schmitt and D. James Baker http://www.pnas.org/content/110/12/4435.full.pdf+html Predicting climate change is a high priority for society, but such forecasts are notoriously uncert ...
• Transportation Energy Futures Series: Non-Cost ...
  US DOE, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy http://www1.eere.energy.gov/library/viewdetails.aspx?productid=6116 Consumer preferences are key to the adoption of new vehicle technologies. Barriers to consumer adoption include price and other obstacles, such as limited driving range an ...
• Transitions to Alternative Vehicles and Fuels
  National Research Council http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=18264 [Green Car Congress] Light-duty vehicles (LDVs) in the US may be able to reduce petroleum use by 50% by 2030, and by 80% by 2050; and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 80% by 2050, according to the newly published re ...
• DNA Net Earth
  Brookings Institution http://bit.ly/149zQPc Human activity has dramatically accelerated the extinction of species. Man-made habitat alteration has been the leading cause, in combination with direct exploitation. Now climate change threatens to increase extinction rates even more. Adaptation to c ...

Scientific American - News

• Flashing Fish Brains Filmed in Action
  At first glance, it looks like an oddly shaped campfire: smoky grey shapes light up with red sparks and flashes. But the video actually represents a different sort of crackle -- the activity of individual neurons across a larval fish brain. It is the first time that researchers have been able to ...
• Major Fuel and Emissions Savings Unlikely in A ...
  Efforts to drastically slash automobile emissions and fuel use within 40 years don't stand a chance without subsidies, technology improvements and more stringent government standards, according to a report by a panel of experts released Monday. [More]
• Will We Kill Off Today's Animals If We Revive ...
  WASHINGTON, D.C.--The rebirth of an extinct frog species may come from the freezer, not the stomach. The gastric brooding frog, when it existed on Earth, swallowed its eggs, transformed its stomach into a womb and vomited up its young once sufficiently grown. But the frog disappeared from the ...
• Deus ex Cicada: Are Predatory Bird Populations ...
  As the first day of spring approaches a scientific mystery will soon return with a roar-- the 2013 return of the east coast b rood of cicadas, or Brood II. Now a team of scientists hint they may have a solution as to why this brood and its fellows bizarrely emerge only after lulls more than a de ...
• Swallows May Be Evolving to Dodge Traffic
  Roadside-nesting cliff swallows have evolved shorter, more maneuverable wings, which may have helped them to make hasty retreats from oncoming vehicles, according to a study published in Current Biology . [More]

First Truths

• The Anarchist Lineage
   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. ...
• "Crisis of the State"
  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 ...
• "Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature"
  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 ...
• "Integrated Geographies"
  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 ...
• Colbert on Atheists
  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 ...

Media Co-Op

• Parliament to Vote on Rights of Trans Canadians
  How has similar legislation changed lives in Nova Scotia? On March 20, the House of Commons will vote on Bill C-279, known to supporters as the “gender identity bill,” an ...
• Le spectacle de la répression
    Dans la rue, il n’y a que les saisons qui changent. Les ennuis ne sont jamais loin. Les policiers non plus. D’année en année, au lendemain de la manifestation du 15 mars contre la brutalité policière, les commentateurs ...
• Idle No More, Defenders of Land Call for Inten ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 19, 2012 Media contacts: Clayton Thomas-Muller - 613.297.7515 Jess Gordon - idlenomoremedia@gmail.com Idle No More, Defenders of Land Call for Intensifying Actions through Spring, Summer Canada/- Idle No More’s founders and its chapters across the country ...
• Book Review: Tailings of Warren Peace
  Published By: Roseway, March 2013 Pages: 272 I didn't think I was up for another fictional social justice book with a white male hero who needs to descend into his shattered self to find the heroics necessary to save the so-called day. ...
• Assassinats et répression entourant une mine c ...
  « Choisir la vie au lieu de l'or » 18 mars 2013 à Québec Le jour avant les conférences à Québec, quatre personnes au Guatemala ont subi une attaque causant la mort d'une d&# ...

David Seaton's News Links

• What is the new Pope about?
  David Seaton's News Links His Holiness Pope FrancisFrancis is no liberal. He had no truck with liberation theology, the popular movement in Latin America and elsewhere which links the church’s work to radical social change, even though many of its supporters have been Jesuits. Not Francis: he ...
• Whither post-Chávez Venezuela
  To put the entire subject of Venezuela into perspective from a yanqui point of view, I suggest reading the following snippet by Matthew Yglesias.The late Hugo Chavez is controversial because of American aspirations to global military hegemony. People who vocally oppose those aspirations find t ...
• On the death of Hugo Chávez
  A little old lady interviewed by El País in a mourning crowd of Venezuelans gave the most insightful analysis of Hugo Chávez and his probable legacy: "He gave us an identity!". Latin America is filled with people like that old lady, they are the overwhelming majority: poor, brown, left ...
• Italy's elections and the Five Star Movement
  David Seaton's News LinksThe "Grillini": this time the revolution won't be televisedThe election that made Beppe Grillo, an anti-establishment blogger-comedian, leader of the largest parliamentary force in terms of votes cast was an election that passed a damning verdict on Italy’s corruption-in ...
• Capitalism: is we is or is we aint?
  David Seaton's News Links Read carefully the two quotes below as if they were a Zen koan on the order of "what is the sound of one hand clapping?" or "does a dog have Buddha nature?", and see if you notice the cognitive dissonance they produce.Consumer spending is not only the key to economic re ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

• Chart of the Day: Reducing the Federal Deficit
  Via Plain Blog, this is from a poll conducted by Emily Swanson and Mark Blumenthal: According to a new HuffPost/YouGov poll, 69 percent of Americans think that most of the federal budget deficit could be eliminated by cutting "waste and fraud." Um, what? More than two-thirds of Amer ...
• Economists Should Think a Little More About Po ...
  Henry Farrell is happy that Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson are now arguing that economists need to think harder about politics, because if they did they’d see why unions are often well worth any deadweight cost. Here are Acemoglu and Robinson: Faced with a trade union exercising ...
• Your Texts May Not Be As Private As You Think
  From Richard Littlehale of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, explaining why wireless providers should be required to maintain long-term storage of every text message sent by every one of their subscribers: Most cellular service providers do not retain stored text messages accessible ...
• The Latest Body Count From the Senate
  From the Washington Times yesterday: President Obama on Monday nominated civil rights attorney Thomas E. Perez to be the next labor secretary, immediately drawing Republican opposition and another contentious confirmation fight on Capitol Hill. Shortly after Mr. Obama made the announceme ...
• Chart of the Day: The Military-Industrial Comp ...
  Via Tyler Cowen, here's a chart from Sober Look that tracks the price of a basket of defense stocks—the iShares defense industry ETF—since the beginning of the year. The index underperformed the market for a bit during February, but it's fully caught up since then. "Just like the p ...

Insanity Report

• IC 387: Savages
  Topic: New Sith Council Assignment St. Patrick’s Day = White People Get Drunk Day Kriss & Kev don’t like the way GSP fights Greek Soccer Player gets what he deserves The Steubenville rape trial We’re too easy on rapists Men don’t need to be taught not to rape, those ...
• Best of the Insanity Check: The Co-Hosts
  The first “Best of the Insanity Check”. This focuses on the 3 co-hosts that have been a part of making the Insanity Check so funny & Ratchet: Ryce Juanton: Nothin But Pho, The Great Frosted Flakes Conspiracy of 86, Giant Stone Penises Dylan: Chicken Foot Soup, The Strawberry Let ...
• IC 386: I Don’t Work Here
  Topic: Guest Host: Karen from the Black Guy Who Tips Sith Council Assignments Emails Why we review movies? Weathermen suck Why black people won’t survive the zombie apocalypse? Bag fees New ads about Teen Pregnancy Share with your friends:
• IC 385: Sith Council
  Topic: Sith Council Forms: Kriss, Kev, Tye Diamond & Rodimus Prime Trolling Trolls When is it okay to talk about people? Tye goes on a date with Ebony from Catfish Calling 9 year olds cunts Epic Facebook Trolling Charlamagne “Gets Real”….stupid Dumb Nigga Logic Video Games ...
• IC 384: Horrible People
  Topic: Kriss is allergic to the office Nasty ass coworkers Kriss & Kev are horrible people Fantasia has a beef with JET Magazine Iron Man 3 Shailene Woodley as MJ EA says game prices will go up Share with your friends:

Simple Climate

• How cold hearts and ice ages kindled the scien ...
  In the 19th century, the newly-divorced Svante Arrhenius threw himself into epic calculations on how CO2 and water vapour could team to control Earth’s temperature, showing the forcing role of CO2 that underlies our understanding of climate change today.
• Projected warming set to exceed civilisation’s ...
  11,000 years during which human civilisation has emerged have not seen temperatures ‘even close’ to what model forecasts predict, a record built by Shaun Marcott from Oregon State University and his teammates shows.
• Evidence rethink puts CO2 and ancient warming ...
  A rise in temperatures that caused the last major global defrost has now been placed in the same 150-year window as an accompanying CO2 increase by Frédéric Parrenin from the French National Centre for Scientific Research and his teammates, rather than happening 800 years before the CO2 change a ...
• Cave deposits reveal permafrost concern
  Greenhouse gases currently trapped in the frozen soil risk release past a 1.5°C temperature threshold for melting at the permafrost boundary, found in a 500,000 year record collected by Anton Vaks from the University of Oxford, and his colleagues.
• Extra stations bolster warming-extreme rainfal ...
  A study calling on 8326 weather stations has confirmed that annual precipitation highs are intensifying by around 7% per 1°C warming, explains University of Adelaide’s Seth West

e!Science News

• Under the skin, a tiny laboratory
  Humans are veritable chemical factories -- we manufacture thousands of substances and transport them, via our blood, throughout our bodies. Some of these substances can be used as indicators of our health status. A team of EPFL scientists has developed a tiny device that can analyze the concentr ...
• Researchers devise hidden dune filters to trea ...
  When it rains, untreated stormwater can sweep pollutants into coastal waters, potentially endangering public health. Now researchers from North Carolina State University have developed low-cost filtration systems that are concealed beneath sand dunes and filter out most of the bacteria that can ...
• Transportation study reveals potential for dee ...
  The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) today announced the release of the Transportation Energy Futures (TEF) study, an assessment of avenues to reach deep cuts in petroleum use and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in ...
• University of Maryland researchers identify fi ...
  Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have identified a peptide, or protein, derived from Pacific cod that may inhibit prostate cancer and possibly other cancers from spreading, according to preclinical research published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy o ...
• More career options may explain why fewer wome ...
  Women may be less likely to pursue careers in science and math because they have more career choices, not because they have less ability, according to a new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. read more

unEarthed

• Senate Showdown Over Health, Environment
  Budget resolution tees up fight against harmful amendments The devastating Kingston Fossil Plant coal ash spill in 2008. (TVA) Arsenic-infused drinking water, ...
• Scope of Science: Regulating Oil, Gas Industries
  If gas is "natural," why is it exempt from the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts? A scarred landscape from fracking pads. (EcoFlight) The technological ...
• Stacking the Halls of Justice
  Politics have kept key federal court judgeships vacant Four of the D.C. Circuit Court's 11 seats have been left vacant due to congressional obstruction. (DOJ) ...
• Fracking Safeguard Bills Introduced
  House of Representatives legislation would protect air and water Over the past few decades—with the help of Congress—Big Oil and Gas successfully chi ...
• Rough Water Ahead for the Colorado River
  Drought highlights need for smart solutions to water demand in West Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River. The white bathtub ring will get bigger as water levels drop. (Photo: BuRec) ...

Brave New Climate

• 81,000 truckers for solar!
  Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. He has published a book on diet and science, CSIRO Perfidy. What’s a solar atlas? The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) recently released its World Solar Atlas report reckoning th ...
• Worrying about global tipping points distracts ...
  In a paper published last week in Trends in Ecology and Evolution, I (Barry Brook) and my colleagues argue against the idea of an ecological global-scale “tipping point”. Here, I outline the paper’s core argument, while Professor Corey Bradshaw (not an author on the study) explains what it means ...
• Two decades and counting…
  Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. He has published a book on diet and science, CSIRO Perfidy. While the French have been generating electricty for ~80 grams of CO2 per kWh for two decades, the Germans are still ...
• Energy Policy – substance wins over style
  There’s a gradual, but a rising tide of rational, enviro-progressive scientists out there who are committed to solving some of the world’s biggest problems. Many of these problems involve touchy subjects, including ways to reduce poverty while improving or maintaining high standards of living el ...
• Zero emission synfuel from seawater
  Guest post by John Morgan. John runs R&D programmes at a Sydney startup company. He has a PhD in physical chemistry, and research experience in chemical engineering in the US and at CSIRO. He is a regular commenter on BNC. You can follow John on Twitter @JohnDPMorgan ———&#8 ...

Indigenist Opinion

• REAL ESTATE MARKET CALIFORNIA
  California real estate market trends, while having their own changes periodically, tide, remain more in sync with the current market across the nation and many people might not even think to buy a house now given the real estate market and the state of california things to buy. California real ...
• LONDON PROPERTY AGENCIES
  If you are thinking of buying property in London is important to use all the resources available to you. Check out every Estate Agent in London as well as the local press for private property advertising. A search for "Estate Agents London" or "Agent Real London" on Google or MSN should prov ...
• Woodlands Water Heater
  Woodlands water heater area unit price effective alternatives to standard heaters, which need a considerable quantity of energy. Straightforward to put in, woodlands water heater don't need a vessel to produce plight. Woodlands water heater area unit best-known by completely different names like ...
• CHOOSE CARPET FOR DECORATING YOUR HOME
  Choosing a carpet for your home is no easy task. Regardless of whether you’re looking for a textured and more luxurious carpet or cut pile, Berber, frieze or patterned carpet, today’s  have a vast selection of all the styles and color choices you could need. Some companies will allow you t ...
• The Best Sources for Real Estate Listings
  Posting your home into some credible Real Estate Listings are the best way you can do if you want to sell your property right away. It is not expensive either to do real estate listing. Most of home sellers nowadays have got their property listed for a very minimal amount, and most of these sell ...

Republicans are a Disease

• Republicanism Is A Disease
  You didn’t hear it here first. “So Republicanism is a disease” from Daily Kos. - So Republicanism is a disease -
• Fuck You Bill O’Riley
  Hey Bill, suck my dick. Cut spending, cut spending, cut spending is all you rich bastards say. To hell with the poor, the elderly, and the struggling. Just cut services. Let them starve, or die from working themselves to death for an ever smaller paycheck. Billo spewed “It’s almost l ...
• Will Texas And Arizona Be Blue In 2016?
  According to a study done by The Center For American Progress - Study - between now and the 2016 elections 185,000 white voters will become eligible to vote in Texas, and 900,000 Latinos will also become eligible. Man, that is a lot of new Democrats in Texas. No wonder the Republicans are crappi ...
• Woodward Trying To Make Nice
  Bob Woodward will be remembered for two things. Watergate, and not reporting the identity of the Valerie Plame leakers before the 2004 election when he knew who they were. I am assuming “they” told Woodward who the leakers (traitors) were because they knew ‘ol Bob was a Bush su ...
• Ann Romney Happy To Blame Media Bias
  It appears that Ann Romney thinks the media was biased during the campaign, and treated President Obama better than her husband. Here is a transcript from a Fox Lies interview: “Do you think the media was in the tank for Barack Obama?” the Fox News host wondered. Ann’s response: “Anytime y ...

Appalachia Rising

• Donate to Appalachia Rising Legal Defense!
  Donate to Appalachia Rising Legal Defense On June 5th, 22 Appalachians were arrested in Washington DC, refusing to leave the offices of their Congresspeople until their representatives committed to taking steps toward ending mountaintop removal. You supported these men and … Continue readi ...
• Judge Says Quaker Pro-Mountain Demonstrators & ...
  PHILADELPHIA – Two Quakers, Vint Deming (78) and Gail Newbold (62), were found guilty on Thursday of Defiant Trespass and Conspiracy to Commit Trespass following their arrest and trial for a nonviolent religious witness at PNC Bank’s Center City headquarters … Continue reading →
• Donations Needed for Legal Support of 22 Arrested
  All 22 Mountain Heroes are out of jail as of late night on Wednesday. However, they will all be making a return trip to Washington DC in July for a court hearing. This trip will be expensive, as well as … Continue reading →
• Shaving Their Heads in Mourning and Protest
  On Memorial Day, nearly 20 people shaved their heads in mourning and protest of mountaintop removal. Today, 5 more people joined them. 1. Shaving their heads in an act of mourning and protest of mountaintop removal., 2. Shaving their heads … Continue reading →
• Video from Rep. Griffith (R-VA) Congressional ...
  West Virginian’s singing “Country Roads Take Me Home” as the police escort them out of Rep. Rahall’s office.

Amped Status

• ‘Another World Is Happening’ &#821 ...
  Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, interviews David DeGraw about the birth and evolution of Occupy Wall Street on its one year anniversary: "This is about empowering a new generation to be leaders, to be engaged.... We have millions of people engaged in creating change that were not engaged an ...
• As the 99% Movement Evolves, It’s Time t ...
  By David DeGraw “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” – Bob Dylan For those of us in the 99% Movement who started organizing Occupy in the spring of 2011, Flag Day June 14th marks the one-year anniversary since we first gathered in Zuccotti Park and 22 other loc ...
• The Evolution of the Butterfly
  Renowned cellular biologist, Dr. Bruce Lipton narrates the process of a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly over a milieu of imagery in "The Evolution of the Butterfly". The film combines first hand footage from the Occupy Wall Street movement with stylized portraits of the recent eco ...
• After Being Beaten and Arrested Several Times, ...
  This is Daniel Murphy @ Union Square on March 22nd:
• Fault Lines: History of an Occupation

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• WATCH: Samer Issawi – the stomach as a weapon
  Samer Issawi, 33 years old, from the village of Issawiya on the outskirts of Jerusalem, was released from Israeli prison as part of Shalit deal, but was arrested a few months ago on suspicion of violating the terms of his release. Samer is being held in administrative detention, without trial, a ...
• Giving the occupation an expiration date
  A way out of the diplomatic dead end. By Dahlia Scheindlin and Noam Sheizaf The Israeli-Palestinian negotiation process has reached a dead end. The two-state paradigm has been deemed unrealistic so many times, that mentioning it creates cynicism and bitterness in both societies. But a generally ...
• The less Obama does on this visit, the better
  Given the likely options, I’m glad Obama is coming here tomorrow to do nothing rather than to try to revive the peace process. Today, reviving the peace process, Obama-style, would mean coercing Mahmoud Abbas to enter negotiations with Netanyahu in return for nothing, or next to nothing, s ...
• Police ignores Palestinian complaint about set ...
  An attempt to kill a family in its sleep would force almost any police force to make an extra effort in catching the perpetrators. Not when the police is Israeli and the victims Palestinians. By Yesh Din, written by Yossi Gurvitz Late one night in May 2012, H., a resident of the West Bank villag ...
• Displaced Palestinians return to village after ...
  The third generation of the displaced community of Iqrit decided that they’d had enough of waiting for authorities to allow them to return to their village lands, taking matters into their own hands. Last August, they set up their base in a room adjacent to the old church and haven’t ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

• Strategic purchase program to offer options fo ...
  The Victorian and Commonwealth Governments have today announced a voluntary strategic purchase program for eligible irrigators under the Goulburn-Murray Water Connections Project.
• Marine Park Management Plans finalised
  The Gillard Government today tabled the management plans for the world's largest marine reserve network that will protect more than 2.7 million square kilometres of our precious ocean environment.
• Greater protection for water resources
  The Gillard Government is implementing greater environmental protection for water resources impacted by coal seam gas and large coal mining developments.
• 60,000 crown-of-thorns starfish culled to prot ...
  More than 60,000 crown-of-thorns starfish have been culled in a Gillard Government project to protect precious coral on the Great Barrier Reef.
• Great Keppel Island tourism and marina develop ...
  Federal environment minister Tony Burke today approved the Great Keppel Island tourism and marina development, subject to 96 strict conditions to minimise its potential environmental impact.

Matt Weidner Blog

• Foreclosure in Florida, 2013- When Judges All ...
  Oh Dear God, here comes that Weidner again….coming into a courtroom making all these arguments about The Law and what the banks did wrong and fraud and all that…blah, blah, blah…doesn’t he know….we’re all over it? That’s certainly what I think the intern ...
• Another Passionate Letter To Florida Senators: ...
  The passion from real people is so powerful.  And you know that there is no one on the other side of these bills who is reaching out in this way.  Only the monied special interests buying their way into Florida’s law books. How can our elected leaders ignore pleas likeRead the Rest...
• Florida’s Court System…Whithered, ...
  Remember what they told you about your government in school….you know that thing about the three branches of government being co-equal? Each one respecting the other one.  The people in each branch respecting the other one and ensuring that they respect the clear mandates of the Constituti ...
• URGENT CALL TO ACTION, FLORIDA SENATE TO VOTE ...
  This very bad bill is coming up…call senators this week…contact information here   The Foreclosure Reform Bills Ignore Mortgage Lender Admissions of Wrongdoing Banks have admitted to a broad range of crimes and improper practices in prosecuting mortgage foreclosures over an exte ...
• There is no Foreclosure “Crisis” i ...
  The press and many elected and appointed leaders in Tallahassee and across the country in fact continue to rattle on about a foreclosure “crisis” that they assert exists in this state.  It is well documented but still infuriating that the Florida Legislature continues to repeat a tot ...

abelard - news

• vertical lift bridge, the pont chaban-delmas, ...
  A brand new vertical bridge that is one of a selected few of this impressive construction in France.
• sarah palin on obama and a few other time-serv ...
  Sharp yet funny, a striking example of a politician who tells the truth, and with panache.
• deep intellectual errors of balls, obama, mili ...
  Overconfident socialists believe money grows on trees, and in the end will force this on non-believers.
• cathedral orientation | cathedrals and stained ...
  Are cahedrals really 'pointing' towards Jerusalem?
• cathedral plans, and facts | cathedrals and st ...
  a reference page, collating not just the plans of significant cathedrals, but also essential construction data. Illustrated by cathedral floor plans and town coat of arms.

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Vaccine Awakening

• Women, Vaccines & Bodily Integrity
  Posted 1/24/2013 By Barbara Loe Fisher   2013 was only a few days old when I saw a photo of 61-year old Ethel Hoover, a veteran hospital nurse, who had only missed 4 or 5 days of work in 22 years, she was fired from her job for declining to get a flu shot. Defending Freedom of Consc ...
• IOM Issues Report on Safety of the Child Vacci ...
  Posted on 1/16/2013 by Barbara Loe Fisher Yesterday, the Institute of Medicine issued a report The Childhood Immunization Schedule and Safety: Stakeholder Concerns, Scientific Evidence and Future Studies. The report was based on a 12-month evaluation by an IOM committee of the scientific evid ...
• Under Attack, NVIC Helps Americans Stand Up & ...
  Posted: 11/20/2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher In 2013, the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) enters our fourth decade of preventing vaccine injuries and deaths through public education and defending the legal right to make voluntary vaccination decisions in America.[1] Each year du ...
• Influenza Deaths: The Hype vs. The Evidence
  Posted: 10/3/2012 By Barbara Loe FisherIt's that time of the year again when drug companies, doctors, government officials and media conduct a national advertising campaign to sell flu shots to every American.1, 2, 3 You can't pass by a pharmacy,4enter a supermarket,5  ...
• Turning Vaccine Exemptions Into Class Warfare
  Posted 9/14/2012  by Barbara Loe Fisher   It is getting uglier and uglier out there, as angry, frustrated doctors inside and outside of government work overtime to foster fear and hatred of parents making conscious vaccine choices for their children. The latest political dirty tri ...

2020 Science

• The science of VidCon – Connecting with Scienc ...
  Where I cover science at this year’s VidCon YouTube convention, take a look at science and engineering more broadly on YouTube, and suggest that for next year’s VidCon the organizers should bring together some of the leading science projects on YouTube with grass-roots science-advoca ...
• Frying your brains on information overload: Ol ...
  Living online is changing our brains – at least according to Baroness Greenfield in an interview posted today by New Scientist. Leaving aside questions over the extent to which Greenfield’s concerns are driven by misapprehension or plausibility, the interview put me in mind of a rath ...
• Would You Lick Jam Off An Old Man’s Foot? and ...
  Would You Lick Jam Off An Old Man’s Foot Or Drink Toilet Water For An Hour? Can you explain how gravitons can escape a black hole?  Or do you have a good answer to the question “why are people annoying?” This is just a sampling of some of the more entertaining and challenging questio ...
• What was worrying us about nanotechnology safe ...
  In 2004, the first International Symposium on Occupational Health Implications of Nanomaterials was held in Buxton in the UK.  Seven years later, I’m preparing for a discussion panel at the fifth meeting in this very successful community-led series (being held this week in Boston MA), and ...
• Want to know about teens and social media from ...
  If you are a teen who uses YouTube (or know of one – maybe even your own teenager), please think seriously about posting a response to this video: (You can also watch it directly on YouTube here). Over on the Risk Science Blog, I’ve just posted a piece about Baroness Susan Greenfield ...

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War Resisters League

• Tipping Towards Iraq’s Squares: An Inter ...
  [Originally published on January 22nd, 2013 on Jadaliyya.] by Ali Issa  The Iraqi state releasing 335 detainees this past week? Prime Minster Nouri al-Maliki bussing in a few hundred paid “supporters” to rally? What gives? Signs point to the wave … Continue reading →
• U.S. Tear Gas Still on the Streets of Egypt: H ...
  Earlier last week, Egyptians poured out onto the streets across Egypt to protest President Morsi’s dictatorial decree overriding the power of the courts, attempting to keep a heavily Muslim Brotherhood-influenced constitutional assembly in tact, and granting himself seemingly unchecked authority ...
• منظمة مقوامة الحروب الامريكية تمنح للقيادية ال ...
  للنشر الفوري 11-26-2012   للاتصال: ali@warresisters.org علي عيسى – في نيو يورك 718-310-9968  اسماء محمد – في سويس, مصر012-680-9980 منظمة مقوامة الحروب الامريكية تمنح للقيادية العمالية, اسماء محمد محمد, التي قالت لا للغاز المسيل للدموع, جائزة سلام كان رفضها لتمرير … Continue reading →
• Egyptian Revolutionary Labor Leader, Asma Moha ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 26th, 2012 Contact:         Ali Issa, 718.310.9968, ali@warresisters .org, New York City, U.S.A. Asma Mohammed, 012-680-9980 – Suez, Egypt Egyptian Revolutionary Labor Leader, Asma Mohammed, Who Said No to Tear Gas, to be honored with War Resisters … Continue ...
• Celebrations, Resistance, and Us
  by Matt Meyer This week, a project six years in the making – and which many of us hope will have a significant positive impact on US movements for social change – finally shot off the presses. We Have Not … Continue reading →

Center for a Livable Future

• The CLF Week in Links: Rotting Pigs, Airport F ...
  Do ads cause obesity? Here’s a well-written critique of cross-sectional studies of factors associated with obesity that are interpreted to imply causation. To quote, “For every 10 percent increase in food advertisements, the odds of being obese increased by 5 percent.” The author correctly warns ...
• Immigration Reform, Agriculture and Public Health
  A group of industrial food animal production and processing companies have formed “The Food Manufacturers Immigration Coalition” to encourage comprehensive immigration reform.
• Links: Rice, Farmers, Drought, and the Fiscal ...
  Women are increasingly on the front lines of the fight to sustain family farms. But pervasive discrimination, gender stereotypes and women’s low social standing have frustrated these women’s rise out of poverty and hunger.
• The Art and Science of Grocery Shopping on a B ...
  Not surprisingly, people were most concerned about being able to provide sufficient quantity of food for their families and still stay within their budget. In other words, keeping hunger at bay was the Number One concern.
• Mislabeled Seafood: More than Overpaying for F ...
  Many people are interested in the study because consumers are being duped by fraudulent fish, but other impacts of mislabeled seafood are far more worrisome. Certain fish carry advisories, especially for pregnant women and young children, to limit or avoid due to contamination of heavy metals or ...

k2p blog

• Reading habits change as “newspapers of ...
  Compared to 30 years ago I probably spend 3 or 4 times as much time today on reading news. .... So this is my current list of my "sites of record" which are my regular ports of call. They are not as authoritative or as objective as "newspapers of record" were perceived to be, but together they a ...
• Is Facebook a forum for narcissists (and maybe ...
  "Using Facebook to look at old photos of yourself and wall posts that you have written could be as soothing as a walk in the park". But whereas the "researchers" find this beneficial, what they they seem to be describing is a sort of narcissistic - and not very healthy - behaviour. Narcissism is ...
• Facebook is a forum for narcissists (and maybe ...
  "Using Facebook to look at old photos of yourself and wall posts that you have written could be as soothing as a walk in the park". But whereas the "researchers" find this beneficial, what they they seem to be describing is a sort of narcissistic - and not very healthy - behaviour. Narcissism is ...
• Math and Reading gender differences are not af ...
  A new paper suggests that math and reading differences between genders persist regardless of a country's "gender equality" level. "Educational systems could be improved by acknowledging that, in general, boys and girls are different.”. "..... policy makers often take Sweden as an example of be ...
• Math and Reading gender differences are not af ...
  A new paper suggests that math and reading differences between genders persist regardless of a country's "gender equality" level. "Educational systems could be improved by acknowledging that, in general, boys and girls are different.”. "..... policy makers often take Sweden as an example of be ...

Left Foot Forward

• Live: Budget 2013
  Left Foot Forward will be covering George Osborne's budget live.
• Budget leaked by Evening Standard
  Budget leaked by Evening Standard
• Has stagnation caught up with the labour market?
  Today’s figures (covering November to January) have people wondering if the labour market may be running out of road. The key figure in today’s release is for pay. Average weekly earnings for regular pay (3 month average) in January were just 1.2 per cent higher than they had been a year earlier ...
• Budget 2013: The chancellor must build, build ...
  Housing development is a cost-effective way out of recession that doesn't suck in imports but tackles a number of problems.
• Unemployment up 7,000 to 2.52 million
  Unemployment rose by 7,000 between November 2012 and January 2013 to 2.52 million, but the unemployment rate stays at 7.8%, today’s labour market statistics reveal.

Consumerist

• The Boy Who Cried “Bingo” Banned F ...
  You know that whole thing about how you can’t run into a theater and shout “fire” if there’s nothing on fire? That same exception to the First Amendment’s right to free speech holds for interrupting a perfectly good bingo game by screaming “BINGO!” if yo ...
• Wait, Did Logitech Just Commandeer My Mouse An ...
  Kathryn bought and installed her new mouse, and she noticed something weird. Really weird. She saw a flurry of windows opening when she plugged it in, and assumed that it was some kind of installation function. Then she visited Facebook and noticed that she had “Liked” Logitech. She ...
• Natura Pet Recalls Four Brands Of Cat And Dog ...
  It seems like only a week ago that we last shared with you the news of a pet food recall––because it was. This week, a kibble sample from Natura Pet turned up with salmonella bacteria, and the company has recalled a wide variety of cat and dog kibbles sold under the California Natural, Evo, Heal ...
• Consumer Advocates To Senators: American Airli ...
  Today American Airlines and its betrothed, US Airways had to defend their proposed merger in front of a Senate hearing and several consumer advocates. Citing higher fares, reduced service to smaller communities in the U.S. and a loss of competition among carriers, opponents of the impending nupt ...
• Comcast Offers Broadband So Fast, The Promotio ...
  Where are six months and twelve months basically the same thing? At Comcast, of course. The cable company/ISP/overlords of all media want to show us all that they have a poor grasp on math. We can laugh it up all we want, but the joke’s really on reader Bubbicito. It doesn’t matter h ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

• Russia Ends Investigation Into Whistleblower's ...
  ABC News: Russia Ends Investigation of Whistleblower’s DeathRussian President Vladimir Putin Russia’s Investigative Committee has officially announced that it has found no criminal activity surrounding the death of whistleblower Sergei Magnitsky, who died while in prison on allegations of tax ...
• Stop CISPA "Week of Action" Begins Today: What ...
  This blog post was originally posted on the Daily Kos website here. A coalition of Internet advocacy organizations (including the ACLU, DailyKos, and my own, the Government Accountability Project) and individuals are launching a week of action to combat the CISPA, the Cyber Intelligence Shari ...
• Latest "Ag-Gag Undercover" Video Released!: Da ...
  BUTT … Should it be Illegal?   Today, GAP's Food Integrity Campaign released the second video in its new campaign series, "Ag Gag Undercover," which aims to raise awareness about the controversial anti-whistleblower bills. FireDogLake: NSA Whistleblower Thomas Drake on the US Secrecy S ...
• 'American Whistleblower Tour' Coming to IUPUI ...
  The Government Accountability Project (GAP) will bring its American Whistleblower Tour: Essential Voices for Accountability to Indiana University this month, with programs on March 27 at IUPUI and March 28 at IU Bloomington. The American Whistleblower Tour is aimed at educating the public – par ...
• Urging Support for Government Watchdogs: Daily ...
  Chronicle of Philanthropy: Foundations Must Step Up Giving to Government Watchdogs This op-ed piece examines the lack of foundational and political support being given to government watchdog agencies and other nonprofit grassroots organizations that have been holding our government accountabl ...

UK Progressive

• Op-Ed: Public to be Biggest Losers in a Politi ...
  by The Chartered Institute of Journalists MPs must consider the long-term effects on our democracy of beefed-up press regulation when voting on the issue, the CIoJ said.  It will be the public who will be the biggest losers in what is now a political game. In a free society, a press under state ...
• A Colorblind Constitution: What Abigail Fisher ...
  by Nikole Hannah-Jones ProPublica When the NAACP began challenging Jim Crow laws across the South, it knew that, in the battle for public opinion, the particular plaintiffs mattered as much as the facts of the case. The group meticulously selected the people who would elicit both sympathy and ou ...
• UN Think Tank Opening Office in Bahrain, with ...
  by Justin Elliott ProPublica As Bahrain enters the third year of a crisis sparked by Arab Spring protests in 2011, the government continues to bar many human rights advocates and journalists from entering the country. But one non-profit group is not only being welcomed into the tiny Gulf kingdom ...
• Beware Ides of Mad March: CPAC, Popes, Basketb ...
  This is The Monday Line by Denis G. Campbell It was a weekend so full of news, I couldn’t settle on one topic for the Monday Line. Each time the telly was on, something even more bizarre ocurred. Stories that did not make the headline cut included the Ohio football players convicted of raping a ...
• Inside Game: Creating PACs and then Spending T ...
  by Kim Barker ProPublica In August 2008, as the right wing of the Republican Party grew increasingly disenchanted with the party’s direction, the men from Russo, Marsh and Associates sensed opportunity: They created a political action committee, Our Country Deserves Better, and in time launched ...

NewsAlert

• Houstonians' total tax burden, minus federal i ...
  The Houston Chronicle
• Retirement Crisis: Impoverished Seniors on the ...
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• Flashback: Tower Records' founder on its rise ...
• GOP needs a scientific revolution
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• S&P 500 Falls for Third Day as Euro Weakens on ...
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JoNova

• FOIA, Government-Funded Climate Science and Ho ...
  Here’s  a benefit FOIA probably didn’t imagine. Skeptical networks. For anyone who doesn’t know, Jennifer Marohasy has published one of the longest-running skeptical blogs in the world, and she’s one of the few other women on the front lines. I don’t know why we had ...
• The Cyprus Moment: Steal money from ex-KGB dep ...
  Remember how the EU was supposed to promote stability? Sooner or later a central fund managed by central bureaucrats is going to fail in a “central” way. This isn’t it, but we are getting closer to the center. Without competition between states on currency, Europe left itself ...
• Ocean plankton suck up twice the carbon we tho ...
  Hyperia | Credit Wikimedia Despite the fuss about CO2 emissions, on a global scale no one is quite sure where a lot of it ends up. Those mystery “sinks” draw in a large proportion of CO2. Here’s a big sink that just got twice as big. Science Daily  Mar. 17, 2013 — Models o ...
• Most of Earth covered with life powered with h ...
  File this under: What don’t we know?   You might have thought that photosynthetic life forms had the Earth covered, but according to some researchers the largest ecosystem on Earth was just discovered and announced last Thursday, and it’s powered by hydrogen, not photosynthesis ...
• Hottest summer record in Australia? Not so, sa ...
  There are probably only ten people in Australia who haven’t heard it was the Hottest Ever, Record Summer Downunder. And they were probably born yesterday. Summer here was so scorchingly awful it was Angry. But a funny thing happened on the orbit overhead. Check out the UAH satellite data o ...

ReNew America

• Obamacare, the Supremes, Dickens, and the bumb ...
  (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - No less a power than the highest court in the land has stumbled into the ultimate definition of Obamacare, and in the process has finally exposed the decades-long downslide of the political class's standards for honesty. It is up to us to try to reverse that...
• From preserving liberty to destroying it
  (Alan Keyes) - When the U.S. Supreme Court announced its Obamacare decision, many conservatives professed to be shocked, even stunned, to hear that G.W. Bush appointee John Roberts wrote the decision in which he and the Supreme Court's anti-constitutional leftists upheld the individual mandate p ...
• Building the free-market case against big business
  (Timothy P. Carney) - The most dangerous enemies of capitalism today are capitalists. This is becoming clearer every day to people committed to free markets. The conservative and libertarian grassroots came to deeply distrust big business after the Wall Street bailouts and Obama's stimulus and h ...
• New hope for life worldwide
  (Janice Shaw Crouse) - During discouraging times, pro-lifers remind themselves that William Wilberforce worked for two decades before he began to change hearts and minds and end 19th-century slavery in Great Britain. In efforts lasting twice as long, pro-life activists are just now beginning to ...
• Formal complaint seeks disbarment of Eric Hold ...
  (Daily Caller) - Attorney General Eric Holder could lose his license to practice law in the District of Columbia, or face some other penalty from the D.C. Bar, now that he has been found in criminal and civil contempt of Congress...

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2012 Blog

• Pope Francis: Not Peter, Not Roman…But
  The new Pope was not born with the name Peter, it isn’t his middle name, and he hasn’t taken Peter as his Papal name. Also, he is from Argentina, and doesn’t appear to have any connection with Rome except for visiting the Vatican. So, does that mean the Malachy prophecy has stu ...
• A River In Antarctica
  The Sahara desert used to be fertile – and that’s in modern history… Meanwhile camels used to live within the Arctic Circle, and hippos swam in English rivers. Not quite on the same scale of time (unless you believe in recent crustal displacements), but down at the South Pole t ...
• Solar Maximum Double-Peak, Later in 2013
  The current solar cycle was predicted by NASA etc to peak in late 2012, or early 2013. So far it has actually been very quiet. There are two possibilities as to where we are at in the cycle: 1. It actually peaked, albeit very weakly, back in 2011 2. It is going to have a double peak, with 2011 a ...
• Novel Coronavirus Human Transmitted?
  The third member of a UK family to contract the new virus, Novel Coronavirus, has died in hospital. It is similar to pneumonia, but substantially more deadly. So far 50% of twelve people infected worldwide have died. A patient diagnosed with the Sars-like coronavirus has died at Queen Elizabeth ...
• Another Expert Agrees With Dark Comet Theory
  Astronomer David Asher (from Armagh University) has agreed with Bill Napier and Janaki Wickramasinghe (Cardiff University) that “dark comets” are real and dangerous. The following quotes are from a paper by Napier and Asher published in Astronomy & Geophysics. http://star.arm.ac. ...

Facing South

• FROM THE SOUTHERN EXPOSURE ARCHIVES: Women and ...
  A story in a 1977 issue of Southern Exposure reported on how in the midst of the Great Depression Jessie Daniel Ames organized a mass "revolt against chivalry" that linked the anti-lynching campaign with the struggle for sexual emancipation. We share it today in honor of International Women's Da ...
• INSTITUTE INDEX: Follow the drone money
  In the wake of U.S. Sen. Rand Paul's (R-Ky.) filibuster this week raising concerns about the Obama administration's policy on the domestic use of drones against U.S. civilians, we take a by-the-numbers look at U.S. drone use and drone makers' political clout. read more
• VOICES: Scarlet Letter licenses? Give me one, too.
  North Carolina will soon begin issuing driver's licenses to undocumented youth with a pink banner and bright red letters that say "NO LAWFUL STATUS" and "LIMITED TERM." Jeff Shaw with N.C. Policy Watch tells state transportation chief Tony Tata why he wants one, too. read more
• Lawsuit seeks withheld information about leaki ...
  Clean water advocates have filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the U.S. Coast Guard over its refusal to release public records about a chronic leak from Taylor Energy oil wells off the Louisiana coast. Caused by an underwater mudslide during Hurricane Ivan, the spill has been foul ...
• New battle over voter ID in the South
  Once again, Southern states are pushing to enact new voting restrictions including voter ID laws. But has the public debate changed? read more

One News Page

• Apple to launch new versions of MacBook Pro an ...
  It seems that Apple is already working to release new improved version of the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro by June 2013. Reported by Firstpost 1 hour ago
• Kerala cops ask Facebook to remove fake photo ...
  N Vinayakumaran Nair, assistant commissioner of police, who heads the Hi-Tech Crime Enquiry Cell, said a probe had begun following a complaint from the parents of the woman whose picture was misused. Reported by Firstpost 1 hour ago
• Singapore court charges 4 Indians with compatr ...
  According to local media reports, they were drinking in Jurong Lake Park on the western industrial region of Singapore on New Year's Day Reported by DNA 1 hour ago
• Sajid Khan and Jacqueline Fernandez spotted ho ...
  The couple who has refrained from making any statements about their relationship so far finally decided to come out in the openAt the premiere of Marathi film Balak Palak held by Riteish Deshumukh last evening, his good friend Sajid Khan arrived arm-in-arm with girlfriend Jacqueline Fernandez, . ...
• Name anti-rape law after daughter: Delhi victi ...
  Asking the Centre to make amendments in law to name the proposed new anti-rape law after his daughter, father of the Delhi gang-rape victim on Thursday said it will be an honour to the girl and respect public sentiments. Reported by Rediff.com 1 hour ago

Global Research TV

• Sharia Shushed: Majority of Egypt against Musl ...
• North Korea Tests Nuclear Device, World Braces ...
• Western Imperialism Curbs Bahrainis Struggle f ...
• Obama's Proposals Fail to Prevent Gun Violence
• Fukushima USA? Inside San Onofre Nuclear Power ...

Daily Tech

• RIM Posts Another Questionable Video to YouTube
  Out of tune ad ballad draws few fans
• National Academy of Sciences to Obama: Push Ga ...
  Don't worry, the cars won't be required to fly as well
• 3/19/2013 Daily Hardware Reviews
  DailyTech's roundup of hardware reviews from around the web for Tuesday
• HTC One Delayed by Camera Supplier Snub, CEO M ...
  Somewhere Samsung is celebrating
• Researchers Map Neural Activity of Fish Brain ...
  It is the first to do so at the cellular resolution

Oriental Review

• Two Years After Launching Intervention
  March 19 is the date the NATO intervention against Libya was launched two years ago. This day in 2011 NATO started combat actions against the Arab Jamahiriya under the pretext of complying with the United Nations Security Council resolution N 1973. It was illegal for the resolution allowed  “to ...
• US’ Eurasian Objectives and the Afghan War
  Since 19th century, super powers have been ‘playing’ the Great Game in the region lying across Central, Southern and South-western Asia. During that ‘Game’ Afghanistan, which strategically connects these geographical segments of Asia, has historically been the heartland for British and Russian m ...
• The Return of Empires (VI)
  Part I Part II Part III Part IV Part V Modern-day empires in the West The rebirth of the imperial spirit in the West is moving along two sometimes converging, but in recent times increasingly diverging, lines. Looking at Europe’s relations with its neighbours, one can see that the European ...
• BRICS Take a Step Away From Dollar
  An invisible plot is being hatched on the geo-political front. The BRICS countries plan to establish their own development bank to give loans for infrastructure projects, bypassing the middleman in the form of the U.S. dollar. If we consider that the BRIC countries account for 14.6% of the world ...
• Back to the Rule of Force at Sea?
  Exactly one year and one month after committing the murder of two Indian fishermen off the coast of Kerala state, India, the buddy-pair of Italian marines has finally dodged the Indian judiciary to remain home in Rome. The collusion between the Indians and Italians to prevent the murderers from ...

BlogHer

• Burlap Bunny Bag
  [Editor's Note: Jessica from The Sewing Rabbit recently stopped by Craftaholics Anonymous and I am so glad she did. She shared a fun tutorial with readers about adding a snazzy metalic applique to a burlap tote bag. Just in time for Easter there is a fab version with a gold bunny. Ya know, ju ...
• Who Are All These Women and Why Are They Stand ...
  It could get crowded in my dining room with those three other women, the mothers of my adopted children. It made things tight bringing food out and clearing the table, struggling to inch past them, the skinny and stout, all with black hair and brown eyes, and the wide cheekbones that are the nat ...
• When to Follow Your Calling vs What's Expected
  When does it make sense to go with the flow and when does it make sense to break from the status quo and all comfort zones and enter a new turning point in your career? I personally have been fascinated by people's career journeys. As in "how did you end up where you are today?" It is very rare ...
• Welcome To My Sexless World
  Editor's Note: I'm an avid tweeter and often interact with women bloggers. I called for submissions on topics related to Love & Sex and encouraged women to join BlogHer and begin posting. The following is a fascinating perspective on being young and celibate, especially as a college student. ...
• Conserving Water for the Garden Season
  In preparation for growing fruits, vegetables and herbs this season, one gardener offers her thoughts on saving (and reusing) water for the cause:I got a catchment barrel on Freecycle that I'm excited to use, but I am waiting to use it until we have time and money to alter the gutters. I learned ...

Health Freedom Alliance

• Low Vitamin D Levels Linked to High Risk of Pr ...
  A prospective study led by researchers from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine has found that low serum vitamin D levels in the months preceding diagnosis may predict a high risk of ... Related posts:Reduced vitamin D levels associated with obesity  An ...
• Kiwi Orange Coconut Flu Busting Smoothie
  There’s little that tastes better than a fresh fruit smoothie in the morning. They do wonders for the immune system and if you pack them with the right ingredients, they can supercharge your ability to not ... Related posts:Turmeric Among Natural Cures for Sinus Infection Acco ...
• Regular Aspirin Use Linked to Increased Risk o ...
  Regular aspirin use appears to be associated with an increased risk of neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD), which is a leading cause of blindness in older people, and it appears to be independent of a ... Related posts:Reduced vitamin D levels associated with obe ...
• Cleaning products ‘linked to adult asthm ...
  People who work with cleaning products risk developing asthma, believe UK experts who have explored the link. Their study of more than 7,000 people suggests exposure to bleach and other chemicals is a factor in one ... Related posts:Eating Meat and Dairy Products Linked to Earl ...
• Farmers Join Hundreds to Protest Outside Monsa ...
  Protestors Near White House Also Call on President Obama to Halt Approval of Genetically Modified Crops and GMO Salmon Until Long Term Safety Tests Are Completed Nearly 300 family farmers, activists, and members of Food Democracy ... Related posts:Organic Farmers vs. Monsanto: ...

Live News Wire

• 2 Best Options to Download New Games For PSP
  It is beyond understandable for avid gamers to want to download new games for PSP. This is especially true when you are one of the many lucky gamers who own the latest Sony PlayStation Portable. A great thing about this video game console is the fact that you do not really have to purchase games ...
• 5 Best Upcoming Games of 2013
  2013 looks set to become one of the biggest year in gaming history with some big name titles already announced for the first half of the year. Below is a list of some of the best upcoming games of 2013: 1. The Last of Us: Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us is the most anticipated [...]
• How to Find the Best Hunting Games Online
  Line up the hairline and click the mouse button to shoot at the prey. A sound of despair escapes your lips as the hunted runs away to freedom as you miss the target. Well, there is no need to worry since more targets will be presented to you. By the time you have missed the [...]
• Leadership Commitment 2 of 7 – Create a New Game
  This is your life, and only you ultimately choose each and every step you take in any given direction. You’ve already made up the rules for the life you’re living right now. The question is did you design them consciously or did you allow fear and circumstance to control you? Choose ...
• 10 Best Arcade Games For Wii
  Some of the most fun and entertaining games available are arcade games. From traditional games like Skee Ball to more advanced pinball games, the entertaining activities created for arcade atmospheres have always been intriguing. Now, with some of the best Wii games for kids and adults ever crea ...

Coal Tattoo

• Friday roundup, March 15, 2013
  In this photo provided by China’s Xinhua News Agency, a relative of miners waits at the site of the accident in Shuicheng County, southwest China’s Guizhou Province, Wednesday, March 13, 2013. China said 21 coal miners have been killed and four more are missing following an accident ...
• Patriot Coal: Will industry have to pay its debts?
  Whenever there’s any sort of action by the government or by environmental or citizen groups that might somehow — no matter how remotely — curb any practice of the coal industry, I can almost always count on watching my inbox fill up with statements from coalfield politicians cr ...
• Report: More work needed on coal-mine rescue
  There’s a new report out today from the National Academy of Sciences’ National Research Council.  It’s called Improving Self-Escape from Underground Coal Mines, and here’s the conclusion: Although recent advances in mining research and practices have improved the safety a ...
• Another West Virginia coal miner dies on the job
  The bad news came in late last evening, as we reported in this morning’s Gazette: A miner was killed Wednesday evening at a Boone County coal operation, the fifth death in West Virginia’s coal industry in as many weeks. Details were sketchy, but a spokeswoman for the state Office of ...
• Update on Blacksville coal-mine fire
  There were some scary moments there yesterday, with some conflicting information about whether all of the workers at CONSOL Energy’s Blacksville No. 2 Mine had made it out in an evacuation ordered because of an underground fire. Luckily, the news turned out to be good, and all 121 employee ...

Daniel Miessler

• This Galaxy S4 Promo Video Shows What’s Wrong ...
  Doing way too much, and a lot of it not very well. Clutter. Lack of polish. Fail.Related Posts:On Failure and SuccessBike ParkourThe Onion Obliterates the “Idea Guy”Homebuilt Solar Death RayStellar Dance Routine
• The Death Star Was an Inside Job
  Seriously well done.Related Posts:Homebuilt Solar Death Ray‪Java TrailerCultivating Gratefulness | TEDMagnet Through Copper PipeThis Drummer is Into It
• More Support for Google Being a Pure Ad Company
  It wasn’t an easy decision to leave Google. During my time there I became fairly passionate about the company. I keynoted four Google Developer Day events, two Google Test Automation Conferences and was a prolific contributor to the Google testing blog. Recruiters often asked me to help sell hig ...
• The Simple Economic Reason I Prefer Apple to G ...
  The iOS/Apple vs. Android/Google debate has been explored for years by thousands of people. We know the arguments and they’re rather boring at this point. Preference is preference, and if you like something and it works for you, that’s pretty much all that matters. But there’s ...
• Three Types of Employees | Michael Church
  Typically, organizations tend toward a MacLeod hierarchy with three tiers: the Sociopaths, the Clueless, and the Losers, in that order from top to bottom. Sociopaths, who take an up-or-out strategy and either end up at the top or fired, are strategic and dedicated but not subordinate. They’ll ne ...

Fitwatch

• Vauxhall Squat Raids
  These pictures were taken during the eviction of squats in Vauxhall tonight. The eviction was resisted, and it took a reported eight and a half hours to finally clear squatters from the building and the roof. From what we have been told, the buildings are being torn down for redevelopment. There ...
• New Years Eve Prisoner Solidarity Demo
  Does exactly what it says on the tin. Lets be honest, this year has been a disheartening one. State and security forces have repositioned themselves with guns towards us (quite literally, in some cases) and scored significant victories against the dissenting population. Next year looks set to be ...
• Plain clothes cop at Fridays demo
  Cops turning up to demos in plain clothes seems to be a regular occurence these days. These pics were taken at the Fight for Sites demo on Friday. Although he appears to have forgotten his uniform, the man pictured is Constable Mark Stoddart. A number of cops in plain clothes have been pictured ...
• Stay Safe; Stay Anonymous! #5 – Block & ...
  Okay, so by now we should know all the basic preventative measures we can take to defend our anonymity. But there is one more thing we can be doing this October 20th to proactively assert our freedom to dissent without state repression. This is, of course, the classic FITwatch Direct Action tact ...
• Stay Safe; Stay Anonymous! #4 – Fashion ...
  Whilst what you wear on a demo is on one level (quite rightly) unimportant, it can be used as a great tool to disrupt intelligence gathering activities. When such a large part of political policing rests on the ability to profile, identify, isolate (and subsequently harass) individuals and group ...

Worldwide Hippies

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• Matt Ridley on the greening planet
  Many of us had serious doubts about the talk claiming that lots of cows will green the deserts. On the other hand, I have almost no doubts about the main points in this 19-minute talk: Via Bernhard Jordan The increased CO2 levels, higher efficiency of agriculture in general, and ...
• Michio Kaku's confusing Higgs remarks
  I partly but not quite agree with Sean Carroll's and Matt Strassler's criticisms of this CBS interview (HTML) with Michio Kaku, a co-father of string field theory and a sometimes excessively lively popularizer of physics, not to mention more general aspects of science fiction marketed as science ...
• Tyson vs Greene: a lesson in demagogy
  Someone sent me the following video. Indeed, it turned out to have a large capacity to make me upset. The exchange between Brian Greene and Neil deGrasse Tyson, a science communicator from a planetarium, took place at the 2011 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate (107 minutes) two years ago. ...
• Christian Doppler: an anniversary
  Irène Joliot-Curie died on March 17th, 1956. She was a member of a high-brow physics family who got her Nobel prize for artificial (alpha-radiation-induced) radioactivity. Christian Andreas Doppler was born in Salzburg in 1803 and died in Venice 160 years ago, on March 17th, 1853, aged 49. ...
• Georg Ohm: birthday
  Albert Einstein (born in Ulm on March 14th, 1879) is such a formidable personality that I gave up the idea to write a biography. The problem is that I know too many things about him and other people know even more things about Einstein etc. Ohm is an easier task. George Simon Ohm was born i ...

Tatumba 2.0

• Changing focus of this site. Effective immediately
  Today I learned something new about this ‘Great’ country Canada. We think we are a bunch of do-gooders. If you only knew the truth. We are not so great. In fact far from it. If we do not take our country back, we will not have one! This site is now going to focus on [...] Related ...
• Michael Valpy: Handicapping the papal contenders
  Might the next Bishop of Rome hail from a different part of the world? Michael Valpy looks at the strengths and weaknesses of 15 cardinals with the strongest shot at becoming the next pope. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Michael Valpy: The long odds against a Canadian pope Smart, ...
• Shaw broke employment law with contract workers
  Two former Shaw Communications employees are blowing the whistle on how the telecommunications giant broke employment law for years by underpaying them as independent contractors when they should have been paid as employees. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Unlimited internet offer ...
• Japan still cleaning up 2 years after tsunami
  As Japan marks the second anniversary of its earthquake, tsunami and nuclear catastrophe, more than 300,000 people are still displaced and virtually no rebuilding has begun. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Tsunami warning issued after major quake in South Pacific A powerful earthq ...
• Folk singer Rose Cousins wins 3 East Coast Mus ...
  Nova Scotia folk singer Rose Cousins was busy Sunday night as she not only co-hosted the East Coast Music Awards but also won three categories for her latest album We Have Made A Spark. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Canadian film, TV in spotlight for final Screen Awards gala The ...

Truth About Our World

• Notification
  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
• Trudell Documentary
• Occupy Wall Street “Beware The Zeitgeist ...
• The Dirty Fucking Hippies Were Right
• World War 3 (III,Three): September 11, 2001-20 ...

Bloomberg

• Can't Stop the Big Mo
  Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
• Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
  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
• Grading Back-to-School Stocks
  Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
• No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
  The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
• Merck: More Agony from Its Painkiller
  The costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either

Enviroblog

• Is Natural Gas Toxic in Water?
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• EWG’s FracFocus Principles
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• Finding a Water Filter that Works for You
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• Natural Gas Adds To Greenhouse Problem
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Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

• De Blasio and Thompson debate when to enact 'p ...
• How to run for Council by attacking a fringe c ...
• De Blasio deduces Quinn is up to something tri ...
• John Liu: I wanted to be mayor 'from the momen ...
• MSNBC's Steve Kornacki will take over Chris Ha ...

Views & News from Norway

• Amateur beats skiing stars
  A 24-year-old skier who hadn’t competed in a race since 2011 set a new world sprint record and crushed some of Norway’s fastest skiers including Petter Northug at a sprint show in Oslo Monday evening. Now a coach for the national ski team is opening the door for Ludvig Søgnen Jensen. ...
• Bomb threat forced NAV evacuation
  An office for the Norwegian state welfare agency NAV in the west coast city of Haugesund was evacuated on Tuesday after being the target of a bomb threat. Police had a suspect under arrest by early afternoon. The threat came in around 11am and armed police quickly surrounded the building in down ...
• Shots fired at residential building in Oslo
  Armed police used patrols on the ground and helicopters in the air to search through the night for a gunman who fired several shots at a residential building in Oslo’s Grønland district Monday night. At least one of the shots shattered a window in one of the building’s units. Police ...
• Sauce and soup mixed up
  Norwegian consumers who bought what they thought was a packet of carbonara pasta sauce mix under the Toro brand may be in for a surprise when they use it to make dinner. Around 4,000 so-called “economy-sized” packages of the carbonara mix got filled at the factory with asparagus soup ...
• Internet security ‘not good enough’
  Norway’s National Security Authority NSM (Nasjonal sikkerhetsmyndighet) released a report on Tuesday warning that neither government agencies nor companies are well enough secured against cyber attacks and industrial espionage via the Internet. NSM stressed that individuals working within ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

• Free Geoff Lawton Permaculture Videos
  We’re rolling out a series of free videos from Geoff Lawton. The first video is about how Geoff Lawton got started in Permaculture and how he used it to transform his burnt out farm to abundance and what a little permaculture knowledge can do for you. This first video has been a terrif ...
• Working With What You’ve Got: How Losing My Vi ...
  House front — before House front — after We all encounter rough spots in our lives. Fortunately, we get to choose how we handle them. For me, permaculture provided the perfect lens for placing hard times into a healing, long term context. So often today, we are taught to think o ...
• Worm Bin and Chicken Poop Compost Catch
  by Rick Pickett, Eco-Ola Rehabilitating degraded land in the Peruvian Amazon requires utilizing many tools in ecological agriculture’s arsenal. We use a mix of sea kelp, calcium solutions, organic fertilizers, and rock phosphate to add nutrients to our sacha inchi and mocambo polycultures ...
• 3-Book Special: Brad Landcaster’s Rainwater Ha ...
  Buy all three of these books at once and get 40% off the normal price. Click on the titles below to find out more about them. Note: Be sure to head to the special page when ready to order, as the discount only applies to this page. Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond – Volume I, ...
• It’s the Equinox! Do you Know Where your Sun is?
  March 20th is the vernal equinox here in the northern hemisphere and the autumnal equinox in the southern hemisphere. During the equinox, the sun crosses the plane of the equator, making night and day approximately equal in length. Why is the equinox important for permaculture? One of the fi ...

Pointman's

• Well, at least one of the bastards is behind bars.
  It’s been a very big week in the war against climate alarmism. FOIA revealed the password, which now gives access to all the emails contained in the CG2 release. Given that the archive contains something like 220,000 emails, you can expect a bit of a lull on the blogging front, simply beca ...
• Climategate, a crisis of conscience.
  Sometimes in a life, you have to look at where you are and what you’ve become a part of, through the very best and the most innocent of intentions, and you hate yourself. It’s not somewhere you ever wanted or intended to be, but it is what it is. That’s where you are. Everyone ...
• A species facing extinction.
  There are many reasons why a particular species may become extinct; a better adapted one elbows them out of their own ecological niche, the debilitating effect of a new disease they have no resistance against, over-predation or quite simply, their habitat disappearing completely. In general term ...
• Sleeping with the enemy.
  Carbon is the Great Satan of the environmental movement. They all worry about their carbon footprint, want to impose carbon taxes on it and even have schemes to capture the poor thing and imprison it down holes in the ground. Oh the humanity. For such a supposedly caring bunch, they can be so cr ...
• It’s 2.45 in the am and I’m reflecting on a lo ...
  I’m writing this up in real-time. There won’t be any rewrites, no polishes, no second thoughts. It’s all going to be first draft stream of consciousness stuff, whether either of us like it or not. If you’re sensitive about bad language, walk away right now because my emot ...

Journalists' Toolkit

• JavaScript Console in Chrome
  For testing things quickly in JavaScript, open the JavaScript Console in the Google Chrome browser. View menu > Developer > JavaScript Console. You’ll see the console at the bottom of the current page. The console gives you a command line so you can test short pieces of code to see ...
• Typography for the Web
  In your CSS, you can specify typefaces (font families) to be used for the headings, paragraphs, etc., in your HTML. However, what you see on your computer is not always going to be the same thing your audience sees. Why? Because different people have different fonts installed on their individual ...
• Good tutorial sites for HTML, HTML5, CSS, jQuery
  There are a zillion sites out there offering free tutorials, but many are pure junk. So here are a few that I recommend, in no particular order: Codecademy: Web Fundamentals Codecademy: HTML Fundamentals HTML5 Please (not actually a tutorial, but very helpful) Nettuts+: The Best Way to Learn Jav ...
• Baby Steps in Data Journalism
  This is a Tumblr blog that I started in early April 2012: Baby Steps in Data Journalism Its purpose is to collect links and other useful information related to learning about data journalism. To go directly to something you might be searching for, try these links: How I installed Python (April 2 ...
• The best video export options
  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 ...

Justice Roars - Louisiana

• New Orleans Film About James Booker Sets SXSW ...
  Bayou Maharajah Trailer from Lily Keber on Vimeo. New Orleans filmmaker Lily Keber's film Bayou Maharajah, about James Booker, "the best black, gay, one-eyed junkie piano genius New Orleans has ever produced," premiered this week at SXSW film festival in Austin Texas, and has already ...
• So, You Want to Collaborate in My Community? B ...
  Reprinted from our friends at Bridge The Gulf: When I started Coastal Women for Change, it wasn't my vision to run a nonprofit. If it had been, I would have done my research and learned how to manage one. I was thrown into this work after a devastation. I was a cosmetologist before Hurricane Ka ...
• Israeli Propaganda Event at UNO Fails Miserably
  On Thursday afternoon, an Israeli soldier spoke at an event at University of New Orleans to speak in support of Israeli military occupation and apartheid. According to reports from the event, the room was initially full. But, as the photo from the event shows, as soon as the soldier started spea ...
• Amnesty International Urges State of Louisiana ...
  From an Amnesty International news release: Amnesty International called on Louisiana Attorney General James Caldwell today not to appeal a federal court ruling overturning the conviction of Albert Woodfox of the ‘Angola 3’ for the second-degree murder of a prison guard in 1972. Amnesty Interna ...
• Angola Three Member Albert Woodfox Has Convict ...
  From the Angola Three News website: Today, February 26, District Court Judge Brady released a 34-page ruling that granted habeas to Albert Woodfox on the issue of racial discrimination in the selection of the grand jury foreperson for his 1998 retrial. This decision now overturns Albert’s convic ...

Information Underground

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TVNZ

• China's new diplomats signal thaw with Japan
  Chinese leader Xi Jinping's appointment of two top diplomats displays a desire to repair relations with Japan.
• Eighteen trapped at Polish mine due to earthquake
  Eighteen miners are trapped underground in a Polish copper mine after an earthquake caused a cave-in.
• Dozens killed in India bus crash
  A packed bus crashed through a guard rail and plunged off a bridge in western India killing at least 37 people.
• India step closer to introducing tougher laws ...
  Indian parliament has approved a bill which will ensure more severe punishments for rapists and other sexual offenders.
• Teen wears 'killer' t-shirt to shooting trial
  An Ohio teenager wearing a "killer" t-shirt is sentenced to life in prison for killing three students.

environment 360

• New Carbon Storage Method Reduces Earthquake R ...
  A team of researchers says it has demonstrated a method of underground carbon storage that reduces the risk of triggering earthquakes, a safety concern cited by some scientists about the emerging field of carbon capture and sequestration. While often cited as a potentially key option in reducing ...
• New Chinese Premier Vows to Tackle Pollution W ...
  China’s new premier, Li Keqiang, has vowed aggressive government action to curb the rampant pollution that has provoked growing public outrage, saying the country would phase out “backward production Getty Images facilities” that have contributed to dangerous health conditions in numerous regio ...
• Can a Divestment Campaign Move the Fossil Fuel ...
  U.S. climate activists have launched a movement to persuade universities, cities, and other groups to sell off their investments in fossil fuel companies. But while the financial impact of such divestment may be limited, the campaign could harm the companies in a critical sphere — public opinion ...
• Obama Unveils New Actions To Combat Climate Ch ...
  Making good on his promise to fight climate change more aggressively in his second term, President Obama is unveiling two major initiatives to reduce the U.S.’s reliance on fossil fuels, including a new $2 billion Energy Security Trust to fund the next generation of green vehicles, as well as n ...
• U.S. Grants Will Promote Small-Scale, Modular ...
  The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) this week announced a new series of cost-sharing grants to promote the development of small-scale, factory-made nuclear reactors, an emerging energy source that Obama administration officials say could help replace the coal-fired plants expected to cease opera ...

oldephartte/Diigo

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• A Modest Opinion – The House of Commons ...
  By Nathaniel Moher As most of you know, I’m still waiting for my appointment to the Canadian Senate (ever since giving up any hope that I’ll be appointed Governor General). That’s mainly because I want a job that lasts forever (even after I misuse tens of thousands of dollars in housing subsidie ...
• Steve’s soldierly pantomime
  By Montreal Simon Ever since he came to power Stephen Harper has tried to use the military for crass political purposes. First he wanted to use it to change his image from nerdy policy wonk to Great Warrior Leader. And when that failed miserably, for obvious reasons, he set out to change the mil ...
• Canadian Screen Awards: More Short -pipes, please
  By Rachelle Stein-Wotten If it wasn’t for host Martin Short, the Canadian Screen Awards last night would have been a real dud. This first year of the awards, aired on CBC, was partly a grand experiment. The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television combined the bereft-of-an-audience Genies and G ...
• Flanagan, Porter, Brazeau, et al.: The company ...
  By Alison@Creekside Notable how many of Steve’s patronage peeps are grifters, conmen, or alleged perps. Starting from the left . . . Dr. Arthur Porter, ”His Excellency, Ambassador Plenipotentiary, Republic of Sierra Leone,” also Harper-appointed chair of CSIS watchdog SIRC and ...
• Is Google making us less lituritt?
  By Rachelle Stein-Wotten Today is Family Literacy Day in Canada, an initiative organized by ABC Life Literacy Canada, which encourages families to incorporate reading and other literacy-related activities into their daily routines. There’s no question that developing literacy in children i ...

Daily Beast

• Back to School at Chloé
  Claire Waight Keller debuts a collection inspired by “night buses, independent spirit, and bare legs."
• Kenzo Livens Up Paris
  With a collection inspired by ancient temples in India and Nepal.
• Comme Des Garçon's "Infinity of Tailoring"
  And, in one look, Big Bird gone couture.
• Céline Gets Cozy for Fall
  Designer Phoebe Philo presented a cool collection of wooly outerwear and unexpected proportions.
• BREAKING: Queen To Hospital
  Aides tell the Royalist she will likely be in hospital for two days

Loonwatch

• Frenchman Convicted of Veil Assault
  A Frenchman who ripped a Muslim woman's veil off her face as she strolled in a fairground was Wednesday given a five-month suspended prison sentence and ordered to compensate his victim.
• Georgian Nationalists Protest Against New Mosque
  Let's say no to Turkish religious and economic expansion!" This was the main slogan of a protest rally organized by a group of Georgian nationalists outside the government's house.
• Pork-Filled Envelopes Sent to Mosques Across F ...
  An apparent concerted campaign to send pork packages to mosques.
• Pope Francis’ run-in with Benedict XVI over th ...
  In 2005, then Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio declared his "unhappiness" with Pope Benedict's statements regarding Islam.
• Stop saying targeted killings protect Muslim women
  A justification for targeted killings in the middle east was to shield women from violence. They’ve made it worse

Energy News

• Experts: Oil ‘blizzard’ in Gulf from BP disast ...
• New Flyover Footage Released: “Sinkhole has gr ...
• Crucial cooling systems restored, Tepco says — ...
• U.S. scientists find Fukushima cesium in turtl ...
• “We went into a ‘Code 3’” last week at giant s ...

Japan Times

• Microsoft to release pro version of tablet
  Microsoft says the pro version of its Surface tablet will be available to purchase Feb. 9 in the U.S. and Canada. Unlike the previous version that launched in October, the Surface Windows 8 Pro will use the full version of Windows 8, which is compatible with programs that run on earlier versions ...
• Shooting on Texas campus hurts three
  A fight between two people led to a shooting at a Texas community college Tuesday that left three people injured. The gunfire on the Lone Star College System campus about 30 km north of downtown Houston sent students fleeing for safety as officials placed the campus on lockdown, officials said. ...
• Japan bids to build S. Africa rail link
  Japan joined Germany, China and France Tuesday in bidding to build a 157 billion rand (¥1.6 trillion) high-speed rail link between South Africa’s eastern port city of Durban and Johannesburg, the country’s commercial hub. Funding models include partnerships between g ...
• Royal ‘slur’ nets Thai editor 10 years
  A prominent Thai labor rights activist and magazine editor was sentenced to a decade in prison Wednesday for violating much-debated laws designed to protect Thailand’s royal family. The verdict came despite repeated calls by rights groups to free Somyot Pruksakasemsuk, who has been jai ...
• Rail linkup to ease metro commute
  Railways in Tokyo announced Tuesday a new timetable set to come into effect March 16 when the Tokyu Toyoko Line and Tokyo Metro Fukutoshin Line are to be connected. According to Tokyu Corp. and Tokyo Metro Co., Tokyo’s Ikebukuro will be linked with Yokohama in 38 minutes at the fastest ...

Alexander Higgins

• Alexander Higgins House, Blog Destroyed Sandy ...
  Alexander Higgins House, Blog Destroyed By Sandy Flooding When I was 16 my “foster” parents through me out on the streets in the middle of the Blizzard of ’96 and I spent the next 8 years battling homelessness. I worked … Continue reading →
• Disaster: Massive Traffic Jams As 11 FT Hawaii ...
  Hawaii residents a stuck massive in an hour long traffic jams trying to flee an 11 foot Tsunami is less than 30 minutes from hitting the shore.
• ALERT: Update 11 FT Tsunami Heading Toward Haw ...
  A live Weather channel alert warns that a 7 foot Tsunami is heading directly toward Hawaii following a major 7.7 earthquake off the coast of Canada earlier.
• Seattle Police Given Approval To Deploy NDAA S ...
  The FAA has given Seattle police approval to start using NDAA surveillance drones for law enforcement spy operations on American citizens.
• Sandy Worst Storm In 100 Years: East Coast Awa ...
  A massive storm is expected to hit the East Coast during the days leading up to Halloween, which meteorologists anticipate will cost up to $5 billion in damages.

Macleans - Central

• Tweeting the #Iraq War—10 years later
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• The definitive guide to the budget
  Everything you could possibly ever hope to know
• Politics on TV: Inmates, the budget, and protests
  The three things you need to see
• The Commons: Keystone XL and Peter Penashue ar ...
  Stephen Harper champions a pipeline and the former MP for Labrador
• We need to see more of our border guards in ac ...
  CBSA deal to film immigration raids allows feds to stage-manage a serious issue, writes Charlie Gillis

Making It Count - CCPA

• Budget 2013: Time for a real action plan, not ...
  It’s hard to get excited about Thursday’s federal budget. All signs point to an “austerity” budget, even though that approach has failed so spectacularly wherever it has been tried. Austerity is one of those zombie ideas that cannot be killed, roaming rampantly across the ...
• AFB 2013: Doing better together
  Time flies and our Alternative Federal Budget is now in its 19th year.  Year after year it has shown that we can have a Canada where we all do better together. This year the AFB is more inclusive than ever with 27 chapters written by over 90 contributors each laying out progressive policy ideas ...
• Women On Top, By The Numbers
  On the occasion of International Women’s Day, we ask: Are more women making it to the top in Canada? And what does that mean for the 100 per cent? The 2013 edition, by the numbers. (All data are most recently available statistics.) 1 out of 5: 21 per cent of the people in the top [...] Related ...
• Why gender equality will make you rich and popular
  Closing the gender gap would transform the world we live in–for men, for women, for the better. Just imagine a world in which you have more time to spend doing the things you love, with the people you love. Imagine a world in which you have secure, decent work in an economy that is growing ...
• Boost the Minimum Wage, Boost the Economy, fro ...
  A version of this article appeared today in the Globe and Mail’s Economy Lab. (This version includes references to the debate plus charts and graphs from data specially tabulated from Statistics Canada’s Labour Force Survey. The data don’t include the self-employed.) President Obama put the idea ...

ReDress

• Has Israel groveller David Miliband changed hi ...
  Stuart Littlewood is surprised at the invitation by a pro-Palestinian medical charity to former UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband - a proven groveller to Israel - to speak at its annual fundraising gala.
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• What might Netanyahu do if Romney's defeat bec ...
  Alan Hart examines whether Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is mad enough to order an attack on Iran in what remains of Obama’s first term without the president’s blessing and American participation.
• Israel's Salafi foot soldiers in the wake of a ...
  Nureddin Sabir argues that Israel must bear responsibility for creating the climate that gave rise to the anti-Islam film "Innocence of Muslims". But it is Israel's Salafi and Wahhabi foot soldiers behind the violent protests across the Arab and Muslim worlds who may eventually bring Arabs and M ...
• Anti-Islam film: free speech or inciting to riot?
  Lawrence Davidson argues that outage against the anti-Muhammad film "Innocence of Muslims" "has exposed the deep vein of anger against the United States that runs through the Muslim world", but doubts that American leaders would have the courage and foresight to re-examine the policies and behav ...

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Peakwater

• Desal or Not?- Big Meets Small in the Nexus wi ...
    Desal or Not?- Big Meets Small in the Nexus with the Future Up for Grabs by Miles Ten Brinke Miles, Peak Water columnist and avowed Hydrophilic energy-head, has found his way to Britain where he’s lost his California perma-tan and is studying an Energy Policy MSc at the University of Exet ...
• California may start huge water project before ...
  “One thing stood out in the pile of documents released Thursday detailing state plans to replumb California’s water hub: Construction could start on the massive project before water managers know whether it will work as intended. “The still-evolving proposal, backed by Gov. Jer ...
• Will Plans for Massive Tunnels to Pipe Norther ...
  “The oil industry, represented by Catherine Reheis-Boyd, President of the Western States Petroleum Association (WSPA) and former Chair of the Marine Life Life Protection Act (MLPA) Initiative Task Force for the South Coast, is pushing for increased “fracking” in California. Fra ...
• Construction of Disputed Turkish Dam Continues
  “About 1,450 workers are laboring around the clock to complete the Ilisu Dam, one of the most controversial public works projects in recent history, by the middle of next year. That would be exactly five years after European lenders pulled out of the €1.1 billion, or $1.5 billion, project ...
• Activism and the Nexus: Shaping Policy
  Retrieved from GRIID.org Activism & the Nexus: Shaping Policy by Miles Ten Brinke Miles, Peak Water columnist and avowed Hydrophilic energy-head, has found his way to Britain where he’s lost his California perma-tan and is studying an Energy Policy MSc at the University of Exeter on a Fulbri ...

D. Kucinich

• The NDAA: More War Abroad and More Austerity H ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today spoke on the House floor in strong opposition to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). See video here. “In this discussion over the NDAA, we arrive at a moment where we meet the moral consequences of our nation’s choices over the past decade. W ...
• Kucinich: NO to #CatFoodChristmas
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today strongly objected to a proposal to cut Social Security benefits. The White House suggested a reduction in Social Security to cut costs as part of the so-called “fiscal cliff” negotiations.  The proposal called the “Chained Consumer Price Index” would ...
• Kucinich: Report on Benghazi Not the Full Story
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today took to the House floor to remind colleagues that while a supposedly independent investigation faulted the State Department for security failures in Benghazi, Libya it was the Administration that took us to war and created the chaos in Libya. See video h ...
• Kucinich: Diplomacy Over Provocation
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement regarding H.R. 3783, Countering Iran in the Western Hemisphere Act of 2012. “In the developing relationship between Iran and the United States, there are many important issues to be addressed. We should address them throu ...
• Kucinich Calls for Organized Approach to Peace:
  Washington D.C. (December 17, 2012) – Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today took to the House floor to call for an “organized, structured approach” to peace in the wake of the horrible tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut. On Friday, Congressman Kucinich offered words of condolences to the familie ...

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• YOU CAN BET THE FARM THERE QUICKLY WILL BE ART ...
  … YOU CAN BET THE FARM THERE QUICKLY WILL BE ARTICLES IN CORPORATE PRESS REFUTING THIS ARTICLE YOU DON’T THINK “BIG-PHARMA” WILL PERMIT YOU AND I DISCOVERNG … TRUTH …? 25 disturbing facts about psych drugs, soldiers and suicides 03-14-2013  •  naturalnews.com We are living in a ...
• “Yippee-ki-yay”
  … “Yippee-ki-yay” …  Arizona claim to fame … test center for America’s “killing-field” drones … didn’t we see this played in in Star Wars … Attack of the Clones … what t hey … Arizona is home to SB1070 … so why not “killing machines” … China& ...
• WHEN DO WE PUT OUR FOOT DOWN AND SAY ENOUGH
  … WHEN DO WE PUT OUR FOOT DOWN AND SAY ENOUGH … New ‘Monsanto Protection Act’ Gives Monsanto Power Over US Government Anthony Gucciardi  …  Prison Planet.com  …March 14, 2013  … http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/130345-2013-03-14-new-monsanto-protection-act-gives- ...
• that’s just ain’t going to happen … unless
  … What you expect our government will allow you to sue them and then provide you with an attorney … that’s just ain’t going to happen … unless you are a Bank$ter or Wall Street mogul … Filed under: Blogroll
• are you telling me “W” lied …?
  … Wait … I swear I saw “W” Bush stand triumphantly on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier … safely off the deadly coast of San Diego, California and declare war was over in Iraq and he freed Iraq and saved its citizens from ravages of WMD of that mean guy … Saddam ...

Popular Technology

• The 1970's Global Cooling Alarmism
  During the 1970s the media promoted global cooling alarmism with dire threats of a new ice age. Extreme weather events were hyped as signs of the coming apocalypse and man-made pollution was blamed as the cause. Environmental extremists called for everything from outlawing the internal combusti ...
• Skeptical Science: From Al Gore to Al Jazeera
  In March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums "hacked" and the contents posted online. In a forum thread titled, "From Al Gore to Al Jazeera" John Cook proudly posted, "Al Jazeera want to feature SkS as the Site of the Week... Am sending them some info and pi ...
• Hurricane Sandy Relief Fund: Please Donate!
  Hurricane Sandy ravaged the New Jersey coast and while it may not be in the news anymore, many people are still suffering. Flooding damage to the barrier islands was severe and FEMA is not providing anywhere near the funds people need to repair their homes or replace their cars. Popular Technol ...
• The Truth about Skeptical Science
  Skeptical Science is a climate alarmist website created by a self-employed cartoonist, John Cook. It is moderated by zealots who ruthlessly censor any and all form of dissent from their alarmist position. This way they can pretend to win arguments, when in reality they have all been refuted. The ...
• 2016: Obama's America
  2016 Obama's America takes audiences on a gripping visual journey into the heart of the world’s most powerful office to reveal the struggle of whether one man's past will redefine America over the next four years. The film examines the question, "If Obama wins a second term, where will we be in ...

Monga Bay ( Articles )

• Into the unknown mountains of Cambodia: rare b ...
  Ringed with forested mountains forming the borders with Laos and Vietnam, the northeast corner of Cambodia has been an intriguing blank spot among my extensive travels through the country. Nestled up against this frontier is Virachey National Park, created in 1993. I began searching for a way to ...
• Seeing the forest through the elephants: slaug ...
  Elephants are vanishing. The booming illegal ivory trade is decimating the world's largest land animal, but no place has been harder hit than the Congo basin and its forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis). The numbers are staggering: a single park in Gabon, Minkebe National Park, has seen 11,100 ...
• Forests under fire: Australia's imperiled sout ...
  In the far southwestern corner of Western Australia, beyond the famed wineries in the shadow of the Margaret River, lies an ecosystem like no other, the South West ecoregion. This part of Australia has been identified as one of 34 global biodiversity hotspots, home to rare endemic flora and faun ...
• Jaguars, tapirs, oh my!: Amazon explorer films ...
  Watching a new video by Amazon explorer, Paul Rosolie, one feels transported into a hidden world of stalking jaguars, heavyweight tapirs, and daylight-wandering giant armadillos. This is the Amazon as one imagines it as a child: still full of wild things. In just four weeks at a single colpa (or ...
• Extinction warning: racing to save the little ...
  Sometime in the late 1600s the world's last dodo perished on the island of Mauritius. No one knows how it spent its final moments—rather in the grip of some invasive predator or simply fading away from loneliness—but with its passing came an icon of extinction, that final breath pass ...

Science - NZ Herald

• Brendan Schollum: Time to solve big maths problem
  Results from international tests which placed our Year 9 students at the bottom of the developed world in mathematics make for depressing reading.Here are some suggestions for parents, our minister, her officials and those involved...
• George Lim: Why Asian kids succeed
  Have you ever wondered why Asians kids are doing so well in maths and science at schools?In many schools in the United States, Canada, Australia or New Zealand, Asian students dominate the academic space, particularly in maths and...
• More droughts and bush fires tipped for future
  Goodbye frosts, hello droughts and bush fires.That's among the less frightening ramifications that a rise of up to 3C in our average climate by the next century would hold for New Zealand, according to Victoria University climate...
• Collapse of antibiotics 'colossal threat'
  One of New Zealand's top clinical microbiologists has joined the warning of Britain's chief doctor that the growing resistance to antibiotics poses catastrophic threats to human health and receives too little attention internationally."It...
• Bad weather delaying return from space
  Bad weather is delaying the return of three astronauts from the International Space Station.The astronauts were scheduled to land in a Soyuz capsule in central Kazakhstan early Friday morning. But fog and freezing rain prevented...

The Bovine

• Raw milk on Daytime TV in Ottawa
  Thanks to the Canadian Raw Milk Consumer Advocacy Group for publishing this first. Here’s a bit about who they are, from their blog: “We are a group of Canadian consumers working to regain the legal right to provide our families with … Continue reading →
• Vernon Herschberger goes to court over religio ...
  Photos, story and captions by Rosanne Lindsay. Update from Vernon Herschberger via Liz Reitzig. Monday’s hearing focused on Vernon’s right to defend himself using a defense of Freedom of Religion in responding to an order from DATCP that was understood to … Continue reading →
• The surest way to get raw milk regularly
  What’s it like starting out from scratch to take care of a cow on your own?  From the Promised Land Farm blog: “We welcomed our first family milk cow to our farm in 2010. We had never ever milked a cow before… … Continue reading →
• Michael Schmidt, Alice Jongerden, Mark McAfee ...
  Fresh Milk, Food Politics, a one day conference, will take place on Saturday, April 6, 2013 8:45am -5:00pm at the Ukrainian Cathedral in Vancouver, British Columbia. Speakers and exhibits will cover a wide range of food issues. Speakers include: Mark … Continue reading →
• Talking raw milk to the legislators
  From Raw Milk Consumer.ca: “Call to Action – within Ontario Those of you in Ontario probably remember that past Premier Dalton McGuinty told Michael Schmidt, at the end of his hunger strike, that he could speak to caucus.  None of … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

• Fraudulent Guarantees; Fictional Reserve Lendi ...
  Reader "MB" who lives in New Zealand is concerned about confiscation of deposits. He writes ... Hi Mish Apparently articles are appearing in a NZ newspaper editorials saying that the NZ government has the same policy of confiscation as that being used on Cyprus by the EU. In the event ...
• Cyprus Conservative Opposition Parliamentary M ...
  Marios Mavrides, a conservative opposition member of the Cyprus parliament just chimed in with his viewpoint "If No Solution Soon, Print Cyprus Pound and Abandon the Euro". The conservative opposition parliamentarian of Cyprus, Marios Mavrides, said Wednesday that if his country can not fi ...
• Flash and Fantasy; Miami Condo Boom is Back, F ...
  Diana Olick has an interesting article called Defying Gravity: Miami Condos Soar Again During the height of the housing boom, some likened the feverish flipping game in Miami's condominium market to a circus. The circus is back, and more high-flying than ever. At a recent party to lau ...
• "Not Me!"; Capital Controls Placed, Banks Clos ...
  Banks Closed Until Tuesday I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today seems to be the message from this tweet from DJ FX Trader "Cyprus Banks Could Stay Closed Until Tuesday March 26". Capital Controls Bloomberg confirms in a story EU Said to Discuss Cyprus Capital Cont ...
• EU Blinks Already? Staged Vote? Cyprus Finance ...
  Staged Vote? In spite of the 1-Not Present, 36-No, 19-abstentions vote in the Cypriot parliament, one really has to wonder if this was a staged vote to show solidarity with Cypriot citizens, with some sort of face-saving deal already approved for tomorrow (in which the Cypriot parliament vo ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- March 19 ...
  Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
• The EyeOpener- Putting the “B” in Brics: Brazi ...
  Oh what a difference a decade makes. Ten years ago, few had any inkling of the economic marvel that was about to befall Brazil. Since 2003, nearly 40 million Brazilians were lifted out of poverty, joining the ranks of the middle class and buying consumer items like televisions and cars for the f ...
• When Truth Is Suppressed Countries Die
  “The corrupt corporations, the corrupt media, and the corrupt US government have insulated the country from truth” Over a decade during which the US economy was decimated by jobs offshoring, economists and other PR shills for offshoring corporations said that the US did not need the millions of ...
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- March 18 ...
  Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
• The Mysterious Case of the Sulu Sultan
  “The Sultan Has No Legitimate Legal Claims over Sabah” Malaysia has been in the midst of an ongoing security crisis since early February, when a group of 235 rag-tag militiamen from the neighboring southern Philippines slipped into the eastern state of Sabah and began occupying several villages. ...

bloody crossroads

• Is Obama a Fraud?
  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 →
• Today’s Stories
  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 →
• The Tyranny of American Healthcare
  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 →
• Today’s Stories
  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 →
• Today’s Stories
  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 →

gCaptain

• Carnival Cancels More Cruises as Fleet Review ...
  Carnival Cruise Lines said Tuesday that it is moving forward with the first implementation phase of a fleetwide operational review in wake of the Carnival Triumph incident in the Gulf [...]
• Euronav Adds to 2012 Losses
  Euronav said Tuesday that it has added an additional $32 million to its 2012 losses from the sale of its newbuild Suezmax tanker, the 157,648 dwt Cap Isabella, for $54 [...]
• Nigerian Boat With 166 People On Board Sinks
  CALABAR, Nigeria, March 19 (Reuters) – At least 45 people died when a wooden boat carrying 166 people from southeastern Nigeria capsized off the coast, a doctor said on Tuesday. [...]
• Transocean CEO: Deepwater Horizon Crew “Should ...
  By Allen Johnson Jr. and Margaret Cronin Fisk (Bloomberg) — Transocean Ltd. crew on the Deepwater Horizon “should have done more” to prevent the rig’s explosion in the Gulf of [...]
• Five-Ship Containership Order Cancelled at Samsung
  Israeli container shipping line, ZIM, said Tuesday that it has reached an agreement with Samsung Heavy Industries of South Korea to cancel five newbuildings with options to cancel even more. [...]

Press TV

• Dying vet to Bush: Day of Reckoning near
  I write this letter on the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War on behalf of my fellow Iraq War veterans. I write this letter on behalf of the 4,488 soldiers and Marines who died in Iraq.
• Germany's Lufthansa workers plan strike
  Workers at Germany's largest airline, Lufthansa, are set to stage another one-day strike over pay and working conditions.
• NATO reveals Syria intervention plans
  NATO’s supreme commander says the alliance is drawing up contingency plans for a possible military intervention in Syria.
• Iranians celebrate Persian New Year
  Iranians are celebrating the beginning of their New Year, Nowruz, as the nation remains determined to overcome the illegal Western sanctions.
• China willing to mediate Korean conflict
  China says it is willing to help a ‘reconciliation and cooperation’ process between North Korea and South Korea, amid rising tension in the Korean Peninsula.

SciDev.net

• EU's new research mechanism 'complex and narrow'
  The EU's Horizon 2020 mechanism risks alienating developing countries with its complex procedures and lack of capacity building, say critics.
• The Red-Dead water conveyer can avoid a dead end
  The Red-Dead canal could take a small step forward in light of projected environmental impacts and other constraints, says Batir Wardam.
• Global team urges cancer R&D collaboration
  Scientists from leading cancer centres are calling for the exchange of research findings as one recommendation for cutting cancer deaths.
• India to improve nutrition with biofortified crops
  Nutritional deficiency among Indians can be tackled by introducing biofortified varieties of staples like wheat and rice, say experts.
• Islam Analysis: The 'women in science' movemen ...
  The number of female researchers in the Islamic world is above average, but this does not translate to the quality of their participation, says Athar Osama.

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

• The United States is Experiencing the Longest ...
  The rate of unemployment in the United States has exceeded 8 percent since February 2009, making the past three years the longest stretch of high unemployment in this country since the Great Depression. CBO projects that the unemployment rate will remain above 8 percent until 2014. The share of ...
• Models Used by the Military Services to Develo ...
  The military services—the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps—use modeling techniques to inform parts of their annual budget requests. As directed by the Congress in the 2011 National Defense Authorization Act, today’s CBO study provides information on the models used ...
• Treatment of PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury b ...
  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 ...
• Presentation to the National Economists Club
  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 ...
• Federal Budget Deficit Totaled $349 Billion fo ...
  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 ...

Naked Scientists - News

• Reason for rooster crowing clocked
  Roosters' dawn crowing is driven by their body clocks rather than just dawn breaking, scientists in Japan have shown. By housing groups of roosters in either a 12 hour cycle of light and dark, or co...
• 4000 year-old arterial disease diagnoses
  Mummies dating back over 4000 years have confirmed that arterial disease was equally prevalent among our ancestors as it is today, a study of over 130 mummified remains has revealed. Using CT scan d...
• Sleep deprivation makes you eat more
  Lack of sleep makes us eat more, scientists in America have discovered. It's known that people who sleep for longer are paradoxically less likely to gain weight, but why and how this occurs, and to ...
• Ancient mummies had clogged arteries
  Many people think that life was better in the good old days - but what about the good old, old days back in ancient Egypt? According to research published this week by an international team of scienti...
• Clock-a-doodle-doo
  Scientists in Japan have discovered that the dawn crowing of a rooster is controlled by their internal body clocks, not just by the rising of the sun.A crowing cock signals the imminent sunrise and th...

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