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Nuclear Calendar -- February 20, 2012 (FCNL)

Nuclear Calendar -- February 20, 2012 -- Friends Committee On National Legislation Feb. 18-26 House and Senate Presidents Day recess. Feb. 20 7:00 p.m., Trita Parsi, National Iranian American Council, book discussion of ASingle Roll of the Dice: Obama's Diplomacy with Iran. Politics ConnecticutAve., NW, Washington. Feb. 20 Presidents Day (federal holiday). Feb. 21 10...

PILLOW TALK: Green Screen Girls (Deborah Goodwin)

Yes, girls, I know that I am so lame, but you asked me when I would blog about you! Feb. 18, 2012 (ShapeShiftas) -- I have two beautiful, brilliant, fantastic daughters who are, thankfully, remar...
Nuclear Calendar -- February 13, 2012 (FCNL)

Nuclear Calendar -- February 13, 2012 -- Friends Committee On National Legislation Feb. 13 11:15 a.m., Office of Management and Budget releases the annual federal budget. Posted on the Governm...
Big Brother Internet (Gerald Calente)

Gerald Calente Jan. 30, 2012 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- Dear friends: I am pleased to bring to you Gerald Celente’s assessment of the threats posed to Internet freedom. Celente’s Trends Journal is one...
Nuclear Calendar -- November 26, 2011 (FCNL)

Nuclear Calendar -- November 26, 2011 Nov. 19-27 House and Senate Thanksgiving recess. (House recess is through Nov.28.) Nov. 26 20th anniversary of the last British nuclear weapon tes...
The Impermanence of Knowledge (Marcus Kracht)

Oct. 28, 2011 (domokos-kracht.eu) -- Abstract Knowledge is essential to our existence. Without knowledge life is almost impossible. So we need to care about what we know. In the recent past mankind...
Fraudulent Defense Contractors Paid $1 Trillion (Sen. Bernie Sanders)

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) Oct. 20, 2011 -- WASHINGTON (Information Clearing House) --Hundreds of defense contractors that defrauded the U.S. military received more than $1.1 trillion in Pentago...
Hungary Destroys All Monsanto GMO Corn Fields (Anthony Gucciardi)

Sept. 20, 2011 (NaturalSociety) -- Hungary has taken a bold stand against biotech giant Monsanto and genetic modification by destroying 1,000 acres of maize found to have been grown with genetically m...
BRADBLOG EXCLUSIVE: ES&S Attempts to Block PA County's Independent Audit of Failed Touch-Screens (Brad Friedman)

After no objections previously, the nation's largest e-voting company attempts to kibosh computer scientists' forensic examination in Venango County, PA Oct. 28, 2011 (BradBlog) --Despite f...
Nuclear Calendar -- October 25, 2011 (FCNL)

Nuclear Calendar -- Oct. 25, 2011 Oct. 3-Nov.1 U.N. General Assembly'sFirst Committee(Disarmament and International Security) meets. United Nations. Oct. 22-30 Senate recess. O...
America’s Secret Empire of Drone Bases: Its Full Extent Revealed for the First Time (Nick Turse)

Predator drone Oct. 17, 2011 (TomDispatch.com) --They increasingly dot the planet. There’s a facility outside Las Vegas where “pilots” work inclimate-controlledtrailers, another at a dusty camp...
Nuclear Calendar -- October 3, 2011 (FCNL)

Nuclear Calendar -- October 3, 2011 Oct. 1-8 Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, "Keep Space for Peace Week," with events in numerous cities. Oct. 3 8:30...
Is The War On Terror A Hoax? (Paul Craig Roberts)

Paul Craig Roberts Sept. 30, 2011 (Information Clearing House) --In the past decade, Washington has killed, maimed, dislocated, and made widows and orphans millions of Muslims in six countries, a...
Fukushima Desolation Worst Since Nagasaki as Residents Flee (Yuriy Humber, Yuji Okada and Stuart Biggs)

Sept. 27, 2011 (Bloomberg) -- Beyond the police roadblocks that mark the no-go zone aroundJapan’s wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, six-foot tall weeds invade rice paddies and vines gone wild strangle ...
Nuclear Calendar -- Sept. 26, 2011 (FCNL)

Nuclear Calendar-- Sept. 26, 2011 Sept. 24-Oct.2 House of Representatives Rosh Hashanah recess. However, the House may return to take up a Continuing Resolution on Sept.29. Sept. 26 5:30...
Nuclear Calendar -- September 19, 2011 (FCNL)

Nuclear Calendar -- Sept. 19, 2011 Sept. 17-19 International Campaign Against Nuclear Weaponsinternational conference. Geneva. Sept. 18-20 Women's Action for New Directions and Wome...
The Rainmakers (James Howard Kunstler)

James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Sept. 19, 2011 -- This much can be stated categorically about the USA these days: the more distressed our economy gets, the more delusional thinking you will...
Can We Stop the Next Fukushima Times 10,000? (Harvey Wasserman)

Sept. 13, 2011 (CommonDreams.org) --The horrible news from Japan continues to be ignored by the western corporate media. Fukushima's radioactive fallout continues to spread throughout the ar...
NASA's Cassini orbiter snaps unbelievable picture of Saturn (Mike Wehner)

Sometimes reality is just as stunning as science fiction Sept. 8, 2011 (tecca.com)-- Science fiction movies have spoiled us on high definition views of our planetary neighbors, but real-life phot...
Nuclear Calendar -- August 15, 2011 (FCNL)

Nuclear Calendar -- Friends Committee on National Legislation -- Aug. 15, 2011 May20-Aug.28 International Center of Photography, "Hiroshima: Ground Zero 1945&quo...
Record High Radiation at Crippled Japan Nuke Plant (Agence France-Presse)

Aug. 1, 2011 --TOKYO (Agence France-Presse) -- Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) said Monday it had monitored record high radiation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant crippled by the Marc...
House panel approves bill forcing ISPs to log users’ web history (Eric W. Dolan)

July 28, 2011 (Raw Story) -- The House Judiciary Committee approved legislation that would require Internet service providers (ISPs) to collect and retain records about Internet users' activity. ...
Scientists Create 'Hole In Space' In Demonstration Of Time Cloaking

'This approach is based on accelerating and slowing down the front and rear parts, respectively, of the probe beam to create a well-controlled temporal gap,' scientists write. July 14, ...
Nuclear Calendar -- July 11, 2011 (FCNL)

Nuclear Calendar -- July 11, 2011 July10-13 Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm.Mike Mullen meets with Chief of the General Staff of the Chinese Army Chen Bingde and other officials. Beijing. ...
Fukushima Spews, Los Alamos Burns, Vermont Rages and We’ve Almost Lost Nebraska (Harvey Wasserman)

June 29, 2011 (CommonDreams.org) --Humankind is now threatened by the simultaneous implosion, explosion, incineration, courtroom contempt and drowning of its most lethal industry. We know only tw...