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Forging his way through the predictable UK media censorship: Dr Andrew Wakefield Responds to Measles Outbreak in Swansea
March 18, 2011 Canada must limit large-scale industrial activity in its boreal forest, the world's largest intact timberland, to preserve millions of lakes and rivers critical to forming Arctic sea ice, a new report said Wednesday.
Print Article | Permalink | tagged Pew Environment Group, nature, wetlands | in Environment, Science March 18, 2011 The recent cluster of huge quakes around the Pacific Ocean has fuelled speculation that they are seismically linked. New Scientist examines the evidence
March 17, 2011 Ben White
3/16/11
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0311/51451.html
NEW YORK—The unfolding crisis in Japan has begun to have an impact on the fragile recovery of the U.S. economy despite assurances by Obama administration officials and many analysts that it does not pose a significant threat to economic growth here or across the globe.
Stocks plunged again on Wednesday, whipsawed by rampant fear that the one of Japan’s nuclear plants damaged by last week’s massive earthquake was spiraling into an uncontrollable meltdown. Despite a modest late day recovery, Wall Street’s three major indices have been falling for nearly a week, wiping out most of their gains for the year after rising sharply on hopes for a robust U.S. economic rebound..
March 17, 2011
March 16th, 2011
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/03/16/white-house-backs-online-privacy-bill-of-rights/
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The White House urged Congress on Wednesday to approve a "consumer privacy bill of rights" that would regulate the collection and use of personal data on the Internet.
Assistant Commerce Secretary Lawrence Strickling called for the legislation at a hearing on online privacy held by the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation.
"The administration urges Congress to enact a 'consumer privacy bill of rights' to provide baseline consumer data privacy protections," he said.
Strickling said authority to enforce privacy protections should be given to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which has been advocating a "Do Not Track" mechanism that would allow Internet users to opt out of having their activities monitored.
March 17, 2011 http://www.grist.org/article/2011-03-16-epas-mercury-and-air-toxics-rule-bottom-lines-and-background
Today, the EPA announced the most important actions to clean up air pollution from dirty coal-burning power plants since the Clean Air Act was last updated in 1990.
EPA's proposed mercury and air toxics standards for power plants that burn coal and oil are projected to save as many as 17,000 American lives [PDF] every year by 2015. These standards also will prevent up to 120,000 cases of childhood asthma symptoms and there will be 11,000 fewer cases of acute bronchitis among children every year.
The standards also will avoid more than 12,000 emergency room and hospital visits and prevent 850,000 lost work days every year.
March 17, 2011 http://thinkprogress.org/2011/03/16/kasich-fracking-state-parks/
At the behest of then-Vice President Dick Cheney, an exemption was inserted into a 2005 energy bill — dubbed the “Haliburton loophole” — which stripped the EPA of its power to regulate a natural gas drilling technique called hydraulic fracturing. This method, called fracking, entails drilling a L-shaped well deep into shale and pumping millions of gallons of water laced with industrial chemicals — chemicals which the energy companies are not legally bound to disclose. The poisonous fluid fractures the shale and releases natural gas deposits for collection.
March 17, 2011 http://thinkprogress.org/2011/03/16/newt-gingrich-anti-gay-hate/
Last year, former Speaker Newt Gingrich offered his vocal support for the ultimately successful campaign to oust three of the nine Iowa Supreme Court justices who had unanimously ruled in favor of marriage equality. As Gingrich courts social conservatives while exploring a possible presidential bid, new disclosures from his camp indicate that he and his associates bankrolled more than one-third of the $850,000 campaign to remove the Iowa justices.
ThinkProgress previously reported on $200,000 that Gingrich funneled from an anonymous donor to the anti-marriage equality group Iowa for Freedom, which was also being funded by AFA Action, the political arm of the virulently anti-gay American Family Association. The Associated Press revealed yesterday that one of the cogs in Gingrich’s vast network of business enterprises and front groups, ReAL Action, provided $125,000 to AFA Action. The Des Moines Register reported this morning that ReAL Action also contributed $25,000 to yet another Iowa anti-LGBT group, the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition.
March 17, 2011 House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) has insisted that Republicans “do not want to raise taxes on anyone” because the American people demanded: “stop tax hikes.” Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) has said that, in a time when the government is trying to spur private businesses to create jobes, Republicans “don’t believe that tax rates should go up” at all. However, as the Wonk Room’s Pat Garofalo notes, “House Republicans are evidently getting over their allergy for tax increases, at least when it helps them restrict a woman’s right to choose.”
March 17, 2011 Relaxnews
Wednesday, 16 March 2011
The results of a study by nonprofit organizations Joan Ganz Cooney Center and Sesame Workshop, released March 14, found that 80 percent of under fives in the US use the internet on a regular basis.
The study was based on seven other previous studies conducted before 2010 and does not include internet usage through mediums such as tablet computers or smartphones.
The report found that 80 percent of children aged between 0-5 in the United States used the internet on at least a weekly basis.
March 17, 2011 Jeremy Laurance
Wednesday, 16 March 2011
Doctors' leaders yesterday stopped short of a vote of no confidence in Health Secretary Andrew Lansley but demanded that he halt his plans to reform the NHS and condemned his failure to act on their concerns.
In what is turning out to be a torrid week for the Health Secretary, the British Medical Association (BMA) called on him to withdraw the Health and Social Care Bill, now going through Parliament, and warned that it would lead to the "fragmentation" and "privatisation" of the NHS.
